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 I’ve heard so many people say he’s 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 the… 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 — 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 — Wprost
Poland's decision not to import Ukrainian grain outraged the Ukrainian prime minister. “This is an unfriendly and populist move that will hit global food security and Ukraine’s economy hard,” 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 21… 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 “The 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," the… 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.
starmer’s 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 Airborne…
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
Rommel in fact died on 14 October 1944, but his death was connected with the attempted putsch on and subsequent to 20 July 1944, signalled by the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on the same day, 79 years ago.
The motivations of the plotters were varied and, in some cases, complex. Some (including Canaris, Rommel etc) acted at least partly out of noble motivation. Treason is often thus.
For the majority of degrees someone would be better equipped for the workplace and less indebted if they just did three years work experience.
— Peter McLovin 🏴☠️ (@PeterMcCormack) July 17, 2023
Failing miserably so….most students' critical thinking skills sadly lacking these days, in an era where everything is reduced to 10 second exposure to information via Instagram etc…academic model very ill-equipped.
Valid points, the least valid being that of freelance scribbler and talking head, Marina Purkiss, though her comment is in tune with the attitude of many, who think that all that matters is “how people did” in life (i.e. whether they became wealthy and/or famous), and that temporary worldly “success” validates, eg, a nonsensical “degree”, and/or falling standards made “OK” by award inflation.
Incidentally, Marina Purkiss thinks that “alright” is how one spells “all right“. Her “degree” in “marketing” from the University of Portsmouth seems to have failed to correct that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Purkiss.
It may be that the time has come to revisit the whole mediaeval “degree” concept: first “degree”, “Master’s degree”, “Doctorate”, which designations align with the mediaeval guild idea— apprentice, journeyman, master craftsman (also later imported into freemasonry, of course).
Universities should promote both learning and research, and least of all be what they mostly now are, degree mills (of varying quality) where mainly young people get a piece of paper entitling them to at least try to make a living in various ways.
In the United States, they try to make people who are aiming at becoming medical doctors, or lawyers, less narrow by making them take a so-called “undergraduate degree” (lasting four years rather than the usual English three years) before even embarking on their professionally-focussed medical or legal studies.
The result of that is of doubtful utility (I having met numerous American lawyers, though not many doctors). It also means that the cost of becoming a doctor or lawyer in the USA, especially at the more prestigious institutions, is prohibitive. 7+ years of expense.
The cost, including subsistence, of going to somewhere like Harvard Medical School is at least USD $100,000 a year (about 3x an equivalent British example).
"It's a very strange supposition that you can't win an election because you promised to try and do something about child poverty. Poor people have votes as well, you know" @jeremycorbyn tells #Pestonpic.twitter.com/2U7DgUeKus
Jeremy Corbyn discusses the insidiousness of suspending and expelling members. Some who have been members for 30 or 40 years, based on spurious retrospective grounds, for even LIKING a tweet from years ago.
I am and always was far from being a supporter of Corbyn, but he makes some good points at times.
#Peston: "What is the argument for keeping the water industry in private ownership?"
Liz Kendall doesn't bother trying to make the case for the private ownership of water. How could she, there isn't one. Instead, she tells us that ideals without power is just dreaming. pic.twitter.com/QrQPmzyzu1
Liz Kendall, yet another Labour Friends of Israel MP-drone (and I think part-Jewish). Labour has nothing to say, nothing at all. Its trump card, though, is that it is not, nominally, the Conservative Party. Just that. Nothing more.
Labour MPs think that the Labour Party not being the Conservative Party (though pretty much espousing similar policies, or even the very same policies) will be enough to clinch the expected 2024 General Election. They may even be correct in that, but the fat lady has not yet sung.
You could see @leicesterliz’s face harden perceptibly when #Peston was interviewing Jeremy Corbyn. She still hasn’t forgiven him for wiping the floor with her in the 2015 leadership contest. Listening to Corbyn talk sense must have been absolute torture for her.
According to Liz Kendall and the fictitious constituent she spoke to, Labour are "back of the right track", by doing absolutely fuck all except bringing back the legacies of Iain Duncan Smith. #Peston
Bloomberg: Turkey denied Ukraine protection of grain carriers in the Black Sea after Russia withdrew from the agreement
So far, there has been no official confirmation of this information. But if this is true, then this is good news for Russian grain producers. pic.twitter.com/ATdZcvk9dD
Financial Times: Armed forces of Ukraine complain that Russian minefields undermine the morale of Zahisniks “Ukraine's progress is painfully slow. Soldiers on the front lines largely blame it on Russia's minefields, a veiled threat that has become a psychological torment pic.twitter.com/dsuYopPnhF
The latest report is here, come get your coverage on the Odessa port strikes and wider implications. Manually type the link in the image below or click the link in my profile.#war#russia#ukrainepic.twitter.com/vbwInFMJWE
The patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" of the Black Sea Fleet, performing tasks in the southwestern part of the Black Sea, 180 km northeast of the Bosphorus Strait, discovered a derailed drifting Ukrainian mine.
An attack by the Russian Federation on July 19 severely damaged the grain export infrastructure at the port of Chernomorsk, resulting in the destruction of 60,000 tons of grain.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, it will take at least a year to…
The result of the July 16 rocket attack on the Osnova railway junction in Kharkiv. The blow definitely fell on the composition of the forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/tt6hqGy9XP
In connection with the suspension of the Black Sea Initiative and the cancellation of the maritime humanitarian corridor, from 00:00 Moscow time on July 20, 2023, all ships on the way to Ukrainian ports in Black Sea waters will be considered potential carriers of military forces.…
Well-judged words from MP @nicolafrichards: “The answer to the question Bev poses in her tweet is that no self-respecting publisher or broadcaster would share this antisemitic conspiratorial fantasy, and neither should she.” https://t.co/oVJYgoot5U
Prolific anti-national tweeter Matthew Sweet praises Jewish MP Nicola Richards.
Nicola Richards: prior to being selected/elected as MP at the early age of 24, Nicola Richards worked for the “Holocaust Educational Trust” and “Jewish Leadership Council”. She has been MP for West Bromwich East since 2019.
Nicola Richards succeeded “Labour” expenses cheat and freeloader Tom Watson as MP. Watson was/is, of course, a complete puppet of the Jew-Zionist lobby, apart from his other defaults.
I see now that Nicola Richards was appointed PPS to Penny Mordaunt in 2022, which makes me wonder whether Ms. Mordaunt agrees with the Zionist views of Nicola Richards.
Nicola Richards was also appointed, in 2022, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism.
Nicola Richards has argued for the UK to proscribe Wagner Group [PMC Wagner].
Oh well, she will be gone after the next General Election. Good,.
Incidentally, National Front executive Martin Webster stood as candidate in that constituency in February 1974, scoring 7% of the vote (placed third after Labour and Conservative). I myself met Webster a couple of times in 1975, once at the NF HQ in some featureless part of South London in or near Thornton Heath, and once at Chelsea Old Town Hall. A controversial figure; hard to read.
SIS/MI6: I suspect, another organization or body in the UK (along with Parliament, the police, the FCO, the Church of England, the Bar, the NHS, Oxford and Cambridge universities, the BBC, and others) living off its hump, with little real content inside the shell.
In any case, what Britain, what England is SIS/MI6, MI5, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force really trying to “defend”, these days? Look around you. The migration invasion continues, with 20% of the UK population now non-white, and with most births now being non-white. The British people have been abandoned to forces of raceless and cultureless finance-capitalist globalism.
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It is inconceivable that Biden will serve another term.
Look at the price of a counteroffensive. See? Tower, there is a "Leopard", and there is another in the bushes, – the officer sums up the results of the counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/noejwQjs6P
I did not understand part of that, but I think that it was not polite at the end…
The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that on the night of July 20, the RF Armed Forces continued to deliver retaliatory strikes with high-precision weapons at production shops and storage sites for unmanned boats in the regions of Odessa and Ilyichevsk, Odessa region
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that all ships going to Russian ports in the Black Sea, as well as to ports in the new territories of the Russian Federation, will be considered as carrying military cargo – " with all the associated risks"
Not a single cargo ship will enter Ukraine's ports on the Black Sea after the termination of the grain deal, admitted Mihail Podolyak, adviser to the chief of staff of the President of Ukraine.
"No country will dare to send its ships [to Ukrainian ports]. And this is not a…
…and none of those 440,000 cars will be produced in the UK, USA, or EU. So tell me again— who is hurting most because of economic sanctions on Russia?
Incidentally, the car shown is a 4.4 litre engine luxury car made in Russia in small numbers (100-200 per year); the Senat, under the Aurus marque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurus_Senat
Tobias Ellwood has always been the worst Tory MP. A fanatical remainer who loves the EU over Britain & now is a Taliban apologist rt@DavidJoBrexit https://t.co/JGjkuC5aSK
We live in a 2 tire justice system where ethnic minorities get much lighter sentences than whites. Whites would also be humiliated on National MSM channels. No prison for this lovely chap who also called white people ‘filth’ https://t.co/gcnTVtFMXf
— 🇬🇧 National Housing Party U.K. 🏴 (@NHPUKOfficial) July 20, 2023
My quarrel with the “intervention” in Afghanistan is not that it happened, but that the “West” (NWO/ZOG) had no intention to rule the country, nor to improve it. What the “West” should have done was to ignore all local political and paramilitary leaders, eliminate them if they refused to knuckle down, destroy all armed elements within the country (including all individuals carrying arms more than 500 yards from their own homes), then rule the country directly and, if necessary, forcefully. Allow their Islamic religion but eliminate those using it as a cloak to attack modern European-origined civilization. Educate children, including girls.
Alexander the Great took over many countries, but then also ruled them, as did, in their day, the Romans, the British and other European peoples, the Soviet Union etc.
Seizing a country is just the first step. Establishing a lasting imperium is also essential. Napoleon understood that. He remade Europe in his own preferred image.
Afghanistan was too tough a nut in the end for Alexander’s successors, for the Mughals, and also the British, but the British of the 19thC did not have helicopters and drones.
There was an attempt, in and after 1979, by Soviet forces, to rule Afghanistan, to turn it into a semi-Soviet country. That failed partly, perhaps mainly, because the USA funnelled arms, ammunition, and money to the mujaheddin (including Osama bin Laden). The Americans interfered, and without that interference, the Soviet forces may well have prevailed.
The Americans (and Brits etc), never tried to properly rule Afghanistan or found a new society there (not outside parts of Kabul, at least), and never tried to fully suppress rebellion.
British TikTok Menace Mizzy Gets Arrested and handcuffed then moments later released while telling police “do you know who I am?”
This is what happens when the msm validates cretins of that sort. It emboldens them.
Late today but no jokes. Late because I was fighting to protect our local hedgerows from being illegally cut. The National Parks and Wildlife Service in this country is a fucking farce & not fit for purpose. I’ll expand on this tomorrow when I’ve calmed down.#nationalpretencehttps://t.co/kRRIKZiRF9
Jesus H. Christ! He’s getting worse…If this continues, that stupid Kamala Harris creature might actually have to take over as President. We really are in uncharted waters from that moment.
The White House claims that Kiev uses cluster munitions in an "acceptable manner". pic.twitter.com/ivzsrRE2Ua
‼️Ukrainian air defence is not able to shoot down Russian Onyx missiles, which attacked Odessa and Nikolaev tonight – speaker of the Armed forces of the Ukraine, Yuri Ignat.
— Matreshka 🌺 🇷🇺🇰🇿🇨🇦 VVP 2024 (@MatreshkaRF) July 20, 2023
Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor: "Now there are only Poles left fighting in Ukrainian uniforms and only a few units that are ready to launch a new attack" pic.twitter.com/i9CCIq7D4p
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 155…
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: “The biggest issue is ULEZ. I’ve retired from the NHS after 49 years. What about the carers who can’t make visits any more?”
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: “If I had my time again I’d do the same job again. I love my job.” As she walks round Uxbridge she is often greeted by her former patients.
How will she vote in the by-election? “Up until Jeremy Corbyn I was a Labour person,” she said. “Labour looked after the schools, the hospitals and the elderly.
“But the party has changed now and I’m afraid I have no confidence in them. Keir Starmer wouldn’t come out and actually go against Sadiq Khan [on ULEZ] in a television interview, when he was asked about him.“
“‘It can’t be any worse’: In Boris Johnson’s back yard, Britons are desperate for a change.
Uxbridge, like Britain, is in a rut.
The town is where the capital’s 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 – rated “inadequate” by the sector’s 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 – 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. “You can see the national polls, just like I can see, but these are real votes,” Steve Reed, the party’s shadow justice secretary tasked with running the local campaign, told CNN on a hot afternoon on the high street. He predicts a “tighter race” than some media have suggested.
A handful of media outlets, including CNN, were denied the chance to interview Labour’s candidate or join a canvassing session, an unusually skittish move from a party tipped to win a by-election.
“People are not stupid. People understand the challenges facing the country,”
Some voters are more blunt. “They’re basically saying we’ll carry on business as normal,” says Mick, 61, who runs a food stall near Uxbridge station and has voted Labour his entire life. “So why are we voting?”
“I’d like to think [Labour would] like to do more for the working people,” Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. “But I can’t help thinking it’s two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,” she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the party’s worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursday’s 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.
“I’d like to think they’d like to do more for the working people,” Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. “But I can’t help thinking it’s two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,” she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the party’s worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursday’s 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 can… 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 she’d 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 – £40 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 how the funds are being spent," Musk wrote on Twitter, commenting on the news that the US is preparing to announce a new…
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 of… 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.…
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 – sustained by far bigger subsidies than British Rail ever got – 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 £14 billion.
Under one of its recent owners, a foreign bank, £2.7 billion was taken out of the company in dividends, while debts rose from £3.4 billion to £10.8 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 “total clearout” of Tory MPs ahead of the next election, as party sources cited the experience of Boris Johnson’s 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 – 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 “lots more” 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. “There are loads more to come, there will be a total clearout,” 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 £30 million a day or £11 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 you’re crazy and say, “sorry, no idea what you’re talking about 🤷♀️”.
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 – खुद के पैर मैं कुलाड़ी मारना 😂 Means – kick yourself in the foot 🦶😂is what France did nd now they are Fu¢ked Up 🤣 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 it’s 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 he’ll 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
Another bloody “Conservative” fake. Apply an Army boot to his rear. Raus!
‘Allies 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 abuse’
…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]…
“We don’t 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 #LestWeForget🇬🇧🇮🇱 (@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.
(but what is now happening in Rostov and elsewhere right now strikes me as more like the rebellion of the Streltsy in the 17thC than the opening of a second Russian Civil War; we shall see). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streltsy_uprising.
Well, this week brings another victory over political journal John Rentoul. I scored 7/10 as against his 4/10. I did not know the answers to question 5 (actually, I “hit the post” with the name), or questions 6 and 9, and I pretty much guessed numbers 3 and 7, if truth be known.
“The Home Office is planning to house hundreds of migrants in marquees across the country.
The government’s plans come as today it was revealed that the number of Channel crossings by people in small boats so far this month is now higher than the number for June last year.
According to official figures, 312 asylum seekers were intercepted in eight boats by UK officials yesterday.
[“Intercepted“? You mean “ferried to the UK”].
This brings the official number of migrant crossings this month to 3,303 in 68 boats – an average of 49 people crammed into each inflatable dinghy or other small craft.
More people thought to be migrants arrived in Dover earlier today as people smugglers took advantage of the weather of low winds and no rainfall.
Border Force vessel Ranger was spotted this afternoon patrolling the 21-mile Dover Straits after dropping a group of migrants at the port.“
[Daily Mail]
Get that— the “Border Farce” vessel (taxi service for migrant invaders) dropped off a group of invaders at Dover, then went out looking for more “customers”…
“Iceland suspends annual whale hunt in move that likely spells end to controversial practice.
Decision comes after a government report found the hunt does not comply with Iceland’s Animal Welfare Act.
Iceland’s government has said it is suspending this year’s whale hunt until the end of August due to animal welfare concerns, a move that is likely to bring the controversial practice to an end.
Animal rights groups and environmentalists hailed the decision, with the Humane Society International calling it “a major milestone in compassionate whale conservation”.
Shocking video clips broadcast by the veterinary authority showed a whale’s agony as it was hunted for five hours.
The country has only one remaining whaling company, Hvalur, and its licence to hunt fin whales expires in 2023. Another company stopped for good in 2020, saying it was no longer profitable.
Iceland’s whaling season runs from mid-June to mid-September, and it is doubtful Hvalur would head out to sea that late in the season.
Annual quotas authorise the killing of 209 fin whales – the second-longest marine mammal after the blue whale – and 217 minke whales, one of the smallest species. But catches have fallen drastically in recent years due to a dwindling market for whale meat.
…but why call her (“Jack Monroe”, alias Melissa Hadjicostas) “they“? It’s not “their silence” but “her silence”. Proper English.
Jack Monroe is an out and out fraud.
Russian insurgent forces are spreading in all directions. Volgograd, Krasnodar, Moscow, you name it. No serious resistance is reported.#Russia#Couppic.twitter.com/5lCy7HA6Rt
Is that so? Truth or speculation? I do not know at present.
Thinking ahead, what happens if the present Russian Government is toppled? What replaces it? Would that be one willing to (in effect) surrender to the NWO/ZOG cabals, or one willing to really take the fight to Zelensky in Kiev?
Nothing firm is known as yet.
🚨 Russian aviation is conducting strikes on Wagner PMC columns moving toward Moscow on the M4 highway. pic.twitter.com/JNGK5Uu2uC
Truth is, of course, the first casualty. Speculation abounds, and of course the “usual suspects” are stirring everything, as are other pro-Zelensky tweeters.
I imagine that even the Russian overseas diplomatic missions do not know what is going on, not even the SVR and GRU.
🚨LATEST COUP UPDATES: PUTIN SPEAKS, PRIGOZHIN RESPONDS, HEAVY CLASHES BEGIN NEAR MOSCOW
– Putin FINALLY made a speech in which he mentioned “treason” and “mutiny” twice, talked about Russia “fighting hard for its future”, labelled the events as an “internal mutiny” and a “stab… pic.twitter.com/dXVeG72cw6
"We will only move towards Moscow. We ask the Armed Forces not to resist us" – Wagner PMC pic.twitter.com/2ZodCwkdMY
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2023
Again, who he? I have no idea. Is he a Wagner operator, or merely someone pretending to be one? If it is true (as claimed by many on Twitter) that official checkpoints are merely waving Wagner units through without check or opposition, then that mirrors what happened in previous Russian upheavals, from the Yeltsin and Gorbachev eras right back to the two Russian revolutions of 1917.
A huge Wagner / renegade Russian army convoy is in Voronezh oblast and on the way Moscow. I counted no less than 72 vehicles and the camera was several times not pointing at the road. Could be 100 or more.#Coup#Russia#Voronezh#Moscowpic.twitter.com/rbjHg9H5TE
Reportedly, Medvedev was evacuated from Moscow region together with his family and assistants.
Previously there was information that a helicopter allegedly with Putin on board left for Valday. pic.twitter.com/hixuuqtXfn
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2023
What now? Is there time (and the requisite high-level military support) for Putin to order a massive and unrestrained strategic missile attack (a last-ditch and bitter action to achieve battlefield victory) on Kiev, regardless of the Wagner Group situation? We have to just sit and wait to see.
Navigation on the Moskva river, which runs through the Russian 🇷🇺 capital Moscow, was temporarily suspended on Saturday amid a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group, the state TASS news agency TASS reported, citing the authoritieshttps://t.co/Qg18KzpHCohttps://t.co/tcL4MsKyqF
Well, if Prigozhin actually topples Putin, then he follows in the tradition of Russian revolutionary leaders (and others) having (in the Russian word) “sat” in prison. Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky etc. They were there mainly for political crimes, though, whereas Prigozhin was imprisoned for crimes of acquisition: fraud, theft, robbery, burglary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#Early_life. He did 9 years altogether.
Also, the conditions of confinement for the Bolshevik leaders were comfortable, once they arrived in Siberian exile. Houses in remote villages, not much restraint on their liberty, and Lenin was even allowed a hunting rifle with ammunition, as was, I think, Stalin!
Prigozhin’s 9 years of Soviet-era prison must have been far less easy. He’s a tough ex-con, among other things.
At any rate, it looks at present as if PMC Wagner is the Praetorian Guard of Russia now. Tomorrow? Maybe, maybe not— “tomorrow is another day“…
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Sadly not as she has a Patreon and gigs about once a month and a tipjar still rattling and royalties truckling in. She relies on passive income. Time was when we had to work through the night battling FMs. Now crickets. She can't come on here even to talk about ice cream flavours
(the “FMs” refers to “flying monkeys“, the term used by “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe” for her fanatical supporters, many of which have mental problems).
Average £11pcm per rage nan so still £4,500pcm for lying in bed stoned.
https://t.co/1OlfSsQwzn She survived the siege in part cause her family were theater set designers and always had plenty of carpenter’s glue lying around. During the worst times they smeared it on bread and ate it like jelly. Someone tell #JackMonroe.
Ha. If “Jack Monroe” were to eat glue, at least she might be unable to utter more lies. Well, it’s a thought…
All & any of which would equally testify as to my legitimacy & my intentions in the ongoing quest to expose Jack Monroe for the thief, liar & fraud that she is. I am sure that i can count on @frugally_minded to confirm that she knows my real name 4/.
“Jack Monroe” is still, as of today, being sent between £3.50 and £44 a month by each of 414 utter mugs. Thousands of pounds being sent to her monthly, in cash, and for absolutely nothing.
I cannot see Reeves successfully running a bath or even a corner shop, given the depth of financial competence & judgment needed to plan, run & rescue the sliding post-Tory Bexshit UK capitalist economy so it works sustainably again for the many as well as the few. So. GIGO.🇵🇸🇺🇦
If the opinion polls are correct, Labour may form the next government, but when people vote “Labour”, they are actually getting pro-Israel careerists and money-grubbers such as Rachel Reeves, who is little different, though possibly better-educated, than the likes of Iain Duncan Dunce Smith.
Labour is now just a label; some of its own MPs have said as much.
Early this morning, #Trantifa clashed with protesters of a children’s drag event at the Honor Oak Pub in south London. One of the #Antifa hit a woman on the head with a stick. Antifa are furious police weren’t there to protect them at around 6 am. pic.twitter.com/3z5DfOV09d
Seldom have I seen anything this surreal. Tanks on streets, snipers kneeling waiting for the imminent arrival of the Chechen units in what may be one hell of a battle.
And the people of #Rostov seem to be blissfully unaware or determined not to move from their front row seats! pic.twitter.com/GQKJMx9EAi
Slightly reminiscent of the staged “popular uprising” against Ceausescu in 1989. Not that it was not popular in the sense of many, probably most, Romanians liking it, but it was not popular in the sense that the “plebs” took an active part. It was a stage-managed thing, and many of those on the streets were aware of that. They knew that they were just “spear-carriers” in a show put on for the overseas and domestic TV audience.
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Don't think I've ever seen Jack as "positive". All I see from her are snark, bullying and threats.
Poor people know more about cooking on a budget than a scrounging middle class grifter such as Jack Monroe. Poor people don't need condescending advice, they need money. Jack is called out for missing charity money, unfulfilled patreon subscriptions, and missing legal funds
It really is incredible how many people (at least on Twitter) think that saying “effing Tories” and making the right noises about the cost of living under them (with the assumption that fake “Labour” would be much much better, of course) constitutes something massive. As for those “recipes”, have you seen them? I should prefer bread and cheese, or just bread…
“Jack Monroe” is not the only one making a fairly good living out of Twitter “activism” of that sort. There are a number of others, e.g. “@supertanskiii”. Completely useless pseudo-activists who are basically “grifters” (at best).
That useless NIgerian parasite, “@FemiSorry”, is another one.
Her recipes are frequently debunked as inedible, unworkable or nutritionally devoid.
Its all an act from Jack Monroe, her entire back story falls apart at the lightest scrutiny, and she's been caught lying and grifting too many times to be credible.https://t.co/zM5NRDPC8P
The lack of real ideology (going beyond vague nationalism and fawning over replicas of pre-1917 Russianism such as the Orthodox Church) in Putin’s Russia worked only so long as there was relative peace and prosperity. Now, the peace and much of the prosperity has gone or is going, and hope with it, and that leaves a vacuum. Russians need more than bread alone.
As regular readers will know, I am now, once again, the target of a malicious and politically-motivated attack, this time a prosecution, instigated by the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a very small but well-funded group of fanatical Zionist Jews.
I now see that there have been a couple of tweets inaccurately stating that I am to be tried this month. Not so. Any trial (if one is actually held at all) will be held in November or December 2023, or possibly even in 2024. In the interim period, there will be at least one brief and purely procedural hearing.
A nuisance, of course, but since the latest malicious attempt was publicized (by the “CAA” goblins themselves, on Twitter and on their website), there has been an increase in the readership of this blog. Silver lining?
Nadine Dorries and the Mid-Bedfordshire constituency
A safe Conservative Party seat, which she has represented since 2005, and which has been good to her— good salary, hugely-inflated expenses, time out to appear on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here for a very large fee, and to write about a dozen cheap novels.
She was able to employ at least two of her three daughters on very inflated salaries (via MP expenses) and has been investigated several times by the police. On at least one occasion, the file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration for prosecution. However, she has wriggled out of trouble every time.
Now, having announced her immediate resignation [see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65910896], Nadine Dorries has not in fact done what is necessary, i.e. to apply, notionally, for “an office of profit under the Crown“, usually either “Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds” or “Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead”.
The delay is plainly because Nadine Dorries was, or so she claims, offered a peerage by the former Prime Minister, Johnson, which offer is now worthless. That she was offered a peerage was apparently the case; her nomination for a peerage was one of those deleted from the list, supposedly by decision of Rishi Sunak.
It seems clear to me that Nadine Dorries announced her “resignation” because she was sure of getting a well-paid sinecure as a “baroness” in the Lords— ~£350 a day without any need even to pretend to do anything for it, plus well-subsidized and palatial surroundings in which to meet people, network etc.
In theory, Nadine Dorries could hang on as MP until the next General Election, getting the salary, the expenses etc, while doing nothing. Perhaps she will.
Nadine Dorries was only too happy to jettison the loyal —and possibly stupid— voters of Mid-Bedfordshire. Unsurprising. As soon as her then-husband and father of her children developed multiple sclerosis, she (in effect) abandoned him, after 23 years of marriage: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries#Personal_life.
Hastings’ biography includes Sandhurst, and WW2 action with the Scots Guards, the early SAS, and the shambolic but certainly sometimes courageous SOE, later followed by 12 years with SIS/MI6.
Naturally, Hastings was born with a silver spoon compared to Nadine Dorries. No argument. Eton, Sandhurst, the expectation and inheritance of several large, or arguably even great estates. Financially, and in terms of useful connections, he had it far easier than Nadine Dorries, born into relative poverty in Liverpool.
All the same, which of the two really would be better as MP?
Again, one was born into affluence, indeed into riches, and never had to struggle financially, but the point is which of the two was the more fitted to be an MP and political leader.
Incidentally, I noticed that Stephen Hastings wrote an autobiography, Drums of Memory. I have just ordered a used copy, and for the knockdown price of £1.75 plus a couple of pounds postage. Pretty good value for a hardback book in apparently almost new condition. Will look forward to reading that, assuming it actually arrives (my last purchase, Anna Karenina in Russian, has been refunded by Amazon because of some problem with distribution).
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This is Nadine Dorries, part-time MP and Johnson super fan. Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about her not getting a peerage and hardly any of those words question if she deserves one in the first place. 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/opd5OOnLXA
— The90%. No to Charter Cities (@90percenters) June 14, 2023
There are people in her constituency worried about losing their home or putting food on the table. Dorries however appears more concerned about her peerage or lack thereof. She is selfish, shameless and undeserving of any honour, let alone a peerage! https://t.co/xc2HhsIT6D
Money thrown at the feet of the Kiev regime. Meanwhile, in Britain, people cannot get medical treatment or decent housing, and the roads are falling to pieces.
At night, the RF Armed Forces worked on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with long-range missiles and UAVs.
Arrivals were recorded in Kharkov, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog, Sumy region.
The loss of Western heavy equipment was an unfortunate surprise for Kyiv – French general “The current losses were a bad surprise. After all, everything is not going the way the West planned, ” said General Olivier Kempf in an interview with Figaro. He added that a large number… pic.twitter.com/QMDL0bOIhk
That would require a modicum of contrition on her part and Jack Monroe, like most narcissists, simply refuse to accept they are ever in the wrong in any meaningful way.
If “Jack Monroe” did that, she might trigger an avalanche of similar claims, together with even more negative publicity.
The unwavering support of Jack Monroe tells you all you need to know about her social status. If Jack was a single mum off a council estate she firstly wouldn’t have a platform and secondly wouldn’t be enabled by the virtue signalling middle class to carry on stealing from folk.
Going to be interesting to see how Jack Monroe bootstrapcook responds to the huge pushback against her attempt to skew the narrative re: her failure to attend court yesterday. Seems more & more people are seeing through her lies. I think she knows it's over for her TBH.
Her pseudo-celebrity supporters are ebbing away. Weak waste of space Alice Beer is the latest. Jay Rayner cut “Jack Monroe” loose nearly a year ago now, and Nigella Lawson later followed suit.
None will denounce her, but will just show her the cold shoulder.
I suppose that “Jack Monroe” will try to leverage whatever she can to stay in the public eye to some extent, as with her unexplained appearance on BBC Question Time recently, and she needs that public exposure, if only to keep onside the hard core of donor-mugs who are each sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month via Patreon— 411 utter mugs as of today.
Dominic Grieve – "We know Boris Johnson is a serial liar… & he lied through his back teeth about the circumstances relating to the breaches of the rules in No.10…. I hope he's gone for good, as the country is much better off without him."#KayBurleypic.twitter.com/KWViL309MU
Britain 2023, where Max Hastings looks like the most principled journalist imaginable…a measure of either how Hastings has grown since he covered the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, or of how far British public life has slid into the mire in more recent decades.
You've got to hand it to Boris Johnson. To be the worst Prime Minister we ever had when we've also had Liz Truss is quite the achievement
Sushil Wadhwani responding to Kirsty Walk mentioning Allister Heath's opinion that the coming mortgage catastrophe "will prove Liz Truss right"#Newsnightpic.twitter.com/vlR2li7K70
If mortgage rates continue to rise, there will be a rather British non-violent political upheaval. There must be millions of people who do not really “own their own home” as they think they do, because they have a mortgage on the property.
I have just seen a statistic which claims that nearly 28% of the UK population are homeowners without a mortgage or loan against the property, while nearly 38% are “homeowners” but with a mortgage or other loan against the property (I presume that the remaining ~34% are either renters or are too young to take title to real property).
38%. That means, in theory, 38% of the voters, too.
People may not like or trust the Labour Party or the LibDems (or others), but the Conservative Party has been in power since 2010. If mortgage rates continue to rise, there will be a backlash against the Conservative Party not seen even in 1997.
As a point of fact, I was a Master, not the Head Master of Eton, nor has humility always been my most obvious virtue.
— WWIII. #EndTheGenocide (@NWO_Covid_WW3) June 15, 2023
Another, and this time not very inventive “Jack Monroe” lie, that reporters and stray peasants are besieging her home. She must have lifted that from the life of van Gogh.
Simple question Jack. How much money was donated to fight the libel case against me that never happened? I'm sure Twitter would like to know.https://t.co/VHsnnCpkRJ
— WWIII. #EndTheGenocide (@NWO_Covid_WW3) June 15, 2023
“Jack Monroe” works on the —often-true— assumption that the public cannot check up on the veracity of her stories (mostly a pack of lies) and that most “journalists” (scribblers) are too lazy to check.
Jack Monroe is happy to share personal messages to reveal private information of others yet she won't show receipts here. She's very selective about what she keeps behind the curtain
The Armed Forces of Ukraine made several unsuccessful attempts to attack in the Makarovka-Pushilin area
According to him, one of the hottest areas on the front is the junction between the Zaporozhye region and the DPR, where the Ukrainian army is trying to carry out active…
New Kakhovka: shooting into the sky and a powerful bombing strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on enemy targets on the right bank of the Dnieper A massive fire broke out at the site of the bombings. pic.twitter.com/DVDLOgIkae
This morning, Russian airborne units launched counterattacks on the trenches of the Ukrainian army in the Kremnaya forests, and managed to penetrate deep into the forests. pic.twitter.com/GosAOJnpTc
Right now, a shooting battle is going on near Nova Kakhovka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, presumably, repulse an attempted landing by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the correspondent of "Izvestia" Emil Timashev. Shooting is also heard in Tavriysk… pic.twitter.com/iqcbKuT4o8
Footage of the detonation of the ammunition depot of the nationalists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the artillery strike of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction. pic.twitter.com/hKHSIn8l6f
The Americans know that even a limited Russian nuclear strike on the US mainland would send their whole society into freefall. Many of their cities are already powder kegs ready to blow. Racial and social war is just below the surface.
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10, whereas I managed 8/10. I did not know the answer to question 2, and I could not think of the answer to question 3 even though I “really” knew it.
Some woman called Charlotte Owen, apparently once “assistant” to Boris Johnson, is to be likewise elevated, at the early age of 29. Does that reward merit, or supine mediocrity (or worse)? I wonder.
I notice that Ben Houchen, once seen as a potential political star, has likewise been elevated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Houchen. A consolation prize, I suppose, for losing out on a Parliamentary seat now that the fortunes of the Conservative Party are diving in the opinion polls. The same would have been true of Alok Sharma and, possibly, Nadine Dorries, had their peerages not been blocked. Sharma and Houchen would certainly not have been re-elected or elected, respectively.
Cartoon of the day?
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It’s a sad day for Britain when Boris Johnson’s hairdresser is one of the most competent people on the honours list.
— Kate O’Pfehilighbh (@kmontaguekate) June 9, 2023
It is significant that despite the flood of the Dnieper, there are many more fires on the Russian coast, which refutes the version of the Ukrainian side about Russian shelling of the Kherson region pic.twitter.com/IJVsprMoiK
Offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Orehov sector of the Zaporizhzhya Front: 4th day in short – failed, destructive pic.twitter.com/ED3aNFM8S7
One cannot expect loyalty or even basic decency from most people. When I was disbarred (wrongfully and actually unlawfully) in 2016, some 8 years after I had ceased Bar practice, and by reason of a malicious and contrived complaint by a pack of Jews, not one member of the Bar spoke up either to support me or to defend the principles of free speech and freedom of expression. The days of the free and fearless independent Bar of England have long gone. All that remains is a mass of craven careerists, fearful that “the authorities” (suborned by the Jew/Israel lobby) will look unfavourably upon them, and/or that Jewish solicitors will blackball them in terms of giving them work.
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
This war is testing the artefacts of 21stC warfare, and reshaping what warfare is. The use of drones is only one example.
In 1953 Britain looked to a young woman, for a new age. In 2023 Britain was renewed in the face and body of an old man. Both, perhaps, felt quite fitting, for the moment.
The 1953 Coronation still had something somehow sacred about it, even if perhaps not 100% genuine. Compare that to the Coronation of the new Charles III. He looked uncertain, like someone —to use the current phrase— “cosplaying” the role; an actor in a poor production, an actor slightly miscast.
The bizarre thing about this is that all it can do is wound Sunak and the party overall. Resigning reduces the prospect of Sunak’s removal. There are fewer MPs to write letters. There’s no alternative candidate. No clear alternative strategy. Apparently, just bloodlust.
“No clear alternative strategy“? That has been the leitmotif of “Conservative” governments for at least 8 years now, arguably longer, so why not of “Boris”-idiot and his cohorts not in government?
The West's accusations of aggressiveness against Russia are an attempt to cover up an unwillingness to listen to Moscow's concerns," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on statements by Biden and other Western leaders that "if Putin is allowed to win, then after… pic.twitter.com/L0HKLkIVm4
The Kakhovka reservoir has become shallow. The water has almost completely left the territory of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region, which was flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the city authorities said. pic.twitter.com/cS6LlFClx2
“Remember how Ursula von der Leyen announced to the whole world that due to Western sanctions, Russia would have to produce weapons from refrigerator parts? Watch how these refrigerator parts destroy the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russia is making the entire NATO alliance… pic.twitter.com/mTj6TlwEX9
NEWS UPDATE INFOWAR SWEDEN EVENING JUNE 10 Another example of how MSM in the West distorts the truth are from Sweden's largest liberal tabloid Expressen. What do they say about the offensive? First of all they confirmed that there is an offensiv, but not until Zelensky also…
— Mikael Valtersson (@MikaelValterss1) June 10, 2023
Readers of this blog who spend time on Twitter may have noticed comment triggered by the tweet below, tweeted recently by the small but well-funded (and malicious) Jew-Zionist org known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”:
🇬🇧 Following action from CAA, former barrister Ian Millard to be prosecuted for five offences contrary to Communications Acthttps://t.co/jDZGVdyBwn
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) May 25, 2023
In fact, that report is not entirely accurate.
I was intending not to blog at all about the above-misdescribed matter.
For one thing, the whole thing is an absurd abuse of the law, and I was intending to simply ignore it, so far as the blog is concerned.
Secondly, though the matter is in the magistrates’ court, and so involves no jury (and is under the conduct of a single District Judge), I am very aware of the need to avoid publishing anything which might be taken to be a contempt of court.
Having said that (and contrary to what can already be found, misleadingly, on Twitter), I can say, for the record:
that I am presently charged with five counts under the Communications Act 2003, s.127, i.e. it is alleged that 5 of the (so far) over 1,500 blog posts published on this website contained material that was “grossly offensive“;
that the allegations relate to five alleged blog posts dating from 2021 and 2022;
that the complainant is, nominally, expressed as “The State“, i.e. not the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, nor any individual;
that I have not been, at any time, actually arrested in relation to the present matter (a couple of Jews on Twitter have tweeted, falsely, that I was arrested); nor was I ever under arrest in relation to the equally-malicious and false claims made against me by the “CAA” (and/or its poundland inquisitors) in previous years, notably in 2017 and 2021;
that in fact, and in relation to the present matter, I was simply summonsed by post, a couple of months ago, to appear at the magistrates’ court at Southampton on 23 May 2023;
that I did appear on 23 May 2023, for half an hour;
that I have pleaded Not Guilty to all charges;
that, in relation to the present matter, I have never been interviewed by the police; in fact the police did not speak to me at all about the allegations wherewith I am now charged;
that any trial of the matter (if there is a trial at all in the end) will not take place until much later in the year, possibly November or December 2023, or even later, on some date in 2024; the learned District Judge has not yet made any order as to date of trial;
that the present matter, depending on whether a trial actually takes place at all, and on whether at any such trial I am found guilty on any or all charges, and on whether (if found guilty on any of the charges), I then choose to appeal any conviction and/or sentence, may only determine in 2024, or even 2025;
that there will be one or more preliminary (procedural) hearings;
that, in the meantime, I remain (since 23 May 2023) on unconditional bail; and
that this blog will continue to be published both before and after any such trial.
I regret that, for reasons to do with avoidance of any contempt of court, I cannot at present go into detail about a number of related facts which I daresay the readers of this blog would find interesting.
Eventually, meaning after the final determination of this legal case, I shall blog about it all.
In the meantime, I doubt whether I shall blog further about the matter at all, not until after any trial.
Finally, I have to say that that “CAA” website report itself does seem to come close to the line on contempt: see https://www.gov.uk/contempt-of-court, and some tweets by Jews supportive of the “CAA” have certainly crossed that line.
Incidentally, readers may be aware that, with the advent of an “Online Safety Act” (as yet only the Online Safety Bill, but expected to become law by late 2023 or early 2024), the very concept of “grossly offensive” online posting will have been superseded by a very different legal framework based around “harm done”.
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Anyone of or over State Pension age who votes Labour-label now is a turkey voting for Christmas, not because the fake “Conservatives” are somehow kinder, but because the Con Party desperately needs the pensioner vote, and will therefore continue to pay for it!
Without the votes of the over-65s, the Conservative Party would only have about 50 MPs, maybe even fewer. Call it a “devil’s contract”, if you like: the Triple Lock will continue only so long as there is a Conservative Party government but, conversely, the Conservative Party in government will only continue so long as the over-65s stay on board, and that means only so long as the Triple Lock stays in place.
If the “Conservative” Party loses the pensioner vote, that vote may not go to Labour, but mere mass abstention (or a LibDem protest vote) would be enough to sink the Con Party electorally, and possibly permanently.
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Ukraine has lost almost all Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Business Insider reports citing Samuel Bendett, an expert at the American Center for Naval Analysis.
I never had much time for Trump, and for various reasons, not least the fact that, as President, he seemed to be a squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by a troop of Jew-Zionists, but at least he, if re-elected, would not escalate the Ukraine war and would probably take away Zelensky’s ricebowl (arms, ammunition, other aid, cash bungs). That would effectively end the war.
At night, the Russian Armed Forces carried out an artillery strike on the parking lot of equipment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the industrial zone of the city of Kherson
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to: 14 dead military, 10 were…
Artillery strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on a Ukrainian stronghold near the village of Zhelezny Most, Chernihiv region. As a result of the defeat, the ammunition depot was destroyed. pic.twitter.com/tLahKrptux
For the infantry, warfare is changing fast, and becoming even more dangerous.
Electricity prices reached negative levels in a number of European countries over the weekend due to the contribution of renewable sources pic.twitter.com/O8FBgAsdrt
Look at that. The UK in the worst position, except for Poland.
Retired US Colonel Douglas McGregor: In the event of a violent war, the US military will lose its entire stock of missiles and military equipment in just 7 days, thanks to the significant support we have provided to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/fWH6h6xrmd
"Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) is completely under the control of the Russians, the front line is already several kilometers away from it," ex-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, who is in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on British TV's Channel 5.
“Britain’s Police Federation today blasted a Met officer who allowed a suspected sweet thief to drag a female cop by her hair and throw her into a wall in an attack that sparked ridicule on social media.
The video saw a female officer swung around by her ponytail by an enraged 26-year-old woman in Willesden, north-east London – while her male colleague repeatedly pleaded ‘madam’ in a futile attempt to calm her.
Chiefs say it is evidence of officers being too afraid of repercussions to use the force needed to apprehend violent criminals.“
[Daily Mail]
The SS might have machinegunned not only the “suspect” but those standing around and cheering-on the untermensch…
Incidentally, I have heard little of late about or from Greta Nut (thank God). I suppose that she is now yesterday’s news. Maybe she has served most of her purpose now.
A few tweets seen about Greta Nut:
Luisa-Marie Neubauer, Greta Thunberg's handler, is a Rothschild. She changed her surname after returning to Frankfurt Germany to take over her father's business. pic.twitter.com/oTA1wjCISe
Greta Thunberg lying piece of trash. Confused the simple minded with hateful metaphors. pic.twitter.com/P4bEGp6jPY
— ⛔️ The Red Pill Patriot ⛔️ (@StuMP1963) May 22, 2023
Greta Nut is but one of the monkeys put forward for msm use; look more closely at the organ-grinders behind her.
Greta Thunberg misleads public in tweet and photo about an "overcrowded" German train showing she was seated on the floor. Deutsche Bahn has responded, saying she and her team had first class seating. https://t.co/xwdllW0y1P
Note the “help me” (i.e. “send money to me“) gormless expression, similar to that employed by, eg, “Jack Monroe” (when extracting more money from mugs some years ago by pretending to have cancer).
Greta Nut is a total fake, a kind of promoted Schauspiel for the easily-fooled.
“Vladimir Putin is facing a growing threat of a coup from the fearsome Wagner mercenary army and anti-Kremlin rebellions on the border regions of Russia, the despot’s former supporters have said.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is acting with unidentified figures within Putin’s circle in a bid to oust the dictator, war analyst Igor Strelkov, ex-defence minister of Donetsk People’s Republic, claimed.“
[Daily Mail].
I do not know. It is true, though, that the central power of the Russian state has rarely been so weak.
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This is the person who should be interviewing Steve Barclay. Not Kuenssberg or Phillips. She wouldn't stand for the smarmy twats shite.#ridge#BBCLauraKpic.twitter.com/By04WcJ9o5
— Land of Tope & Dory 🐀 (@lookeyhere4) May 28, 2023
Climate cultists thought they had sabotaged another beautiful event — then the cameraman had his revenge.
Interesting. I can recall having a few anxious landings but only as a passenger. In fact, I was once on the flight deck of a commercial aircraft as it landed at Heathrow (in good weather), but very long ago; as we all know, security concerns and regulations would make that impossible today. Really very interesting for me.
Late tweets seen
The consequences of a Russian strike on the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/foWdbFCa6o
Russian Wagner units publish a fictional clip of the most powerful strikes they directed against the Ukrainian army and mercenaries, and how they crushed them and grind their mechanisms, in and around Bakhmut! pic.twitter.com/wV2R6WV7ex
A typical Kiev-regime thug. He speaks as if Russia were not a nuclear power, and a major one.
Putin and Erdogan talked on the phone.
Putin congratulated Erdogan by phone on his victory in the elections, an agreement was reached on the development of relations, the office of the Turkish President said.
Russia cannot “lose”, though admittedly that is, to some extent, a question of definition.
The former commander of the Australian special forces, Ricardo Bosi, made a sensational statement: “Ukraine has been the center of globalists for decades … The CIA has been working in Ukraine for 70 years” pic.twitter.com/i5brJS2t3i
Very true. Very timely, too. However, the biggest single threat to free speech in the UK is the aggressive Jew-Zionist lobby, epitomized by the evil and malicious little (((but well-funded))) “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, which has suborned not a few police personnel, from Commissioner level down to ordinary careerist PC Plods.
Talking point
All in countries other than the UK (Austria, Germany, France, and Ireland). All EU states. In the UK, neither “antisemitism” (aka “anti-Semitism”), nor “holocaust” “denial” (historical revisionism) are crimes, points reinforced during the Alison Chabloz trials of recent years, and specifically noted both at magistrates’ court level (by the District Judge) and in Crown Court (by a Circuit Judge).
Tweets seen
Whoa! Dr Louise Raw's batshit-crazy crowdfunder to prosecute Jeremy Clarkson & The Sun is up and running again. They just need to get Meghan Markle to join a group action.
And if that doesn't fly they'll use what's left of the money to erect a statue of Meghan. Or something. pic.twitter.com/vPF0jbe9Et
Don’t call her “Dr.“, just because she has—or claims to have— some worthless Ph.D. from a degree mill somewhere (she is remarkably reticent about from where she was awarded said “doctorate”, and never gives details).
In any case, Twitter is full of people vulgarly calling themselves “Dr” this-or-that (despite not being medics, persons in holy orders, or recognized academics).
Louise Raw is a fraud. Grifting and chasing clout on the back of a Black woman, who has not sued herself despite having the means. After enabling and taking part in a horrific campaign of racist harassment. https://t.co/kY1wwUoGmK
Did not know about the “racist harassment”; is that true?
I suppose by “Black woman” is meant Meghan Mulatta, who is at least 50% white European by origin. In fact, “MM” herself describes herself as “mixed race”: “She identifies as mixed race, often answering questions about her background with “My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. I’m half black and half white.” [Wikipedia].
Louise Raw has locked replies on her thread promoting her performative "anti-racist" campaign. https://t.co/KFnHYkkFrO
There are so many deluded people on Twitter who will donate money to doomed “legal actions” (that never happen), or to “performative” “grifters” who just make a living out of it.
“Antifa” cheerleaders Mike Stuchbery and Roanna Carleton-Taylor raised about £12,000 “to sue Tommy Robinson“. Never happened (and what happened to the £12,000?).
Twitter “grifter” woman, “Supertanskiii”, who simply rants and swears at “the Tories”, offering no real analysis (or knowledge).
A Jew in Essex called “Man Behaving Dadly”, who is said to make a living out of his tweets etc (seems to offer similar content to “Supertanskiii”).
Then of course we have “Jack Monroe”, who is almost in a league of her own as “grifter” and near(?)-fraud.
All those are but the tip of the iceberg.
Tommy Robinson News, Met police are an absolute disgrace.
Standing by as posh entitled crusty leftists prevent struggling working class people from working to provide for their families.
And when they react as any normal person would, they arrest the working class man! pic.twitter.com/zRLH0oPKyZ
@KeithWoodsYT@joeldavisx Sven Longshanks (one of out guys) that hosts Radio Albion with people like Matthew Raphael Johnson (whom Keith had as a guest) could be JAILED soon. It would be appreciated if the support link for him could get retweeted. https://t.co/neV0pBrEwG
Meanwhile, the Russian Volunteer Corps fighters said "hello" to the Belgorod governor. "And with regard to dozens of MaxxPro personally destroyed by Governor Gladkov. Well, you understand," — the RDK noted, posting a video with the military equipment pic.twitter.com/FT8wKJ8lQA
— ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) May 24, 2023
“Ukrainian” military transport and weapons platforms, now destroyed or captured. What a waste of the taxpayer pounds, dollars and Euros of the West…
Those Ukrainian (?) bandits are, in the old term used in international law, francs-tireurs, liable to be shot on sight, or executed in the field.
The spokesperson for a geopolitical EU:
– Borrell: I don't know what happened in Belgrade – Journalist: In Belgorod; it is in Russia – Borrell: Belgrof? I have no idea what happened in Belgrade or Belgrof. I can't comment on something I don't know.pic.twitter.com/B8JYrbiHEE
Cretins like that really seem to believe that they are part of some kind of EU “elite”. Just bureaucratic rubberstamps, careerists, and freeloaders. I saw such people myself a few times in the 1990s (mainly).
Horrible subhuman was already in breach of a court order. So what was the penalty? A £200 fine (which either he will never pay, or will pay at £5 a week).
The courts bend over backward for the untermenschen. Contrast that with “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch), who got 2.5 years a week or so ago because a few fanatical Jew-Zionists instigated (as they do) a police investigation into his entirely peaceful activity (commentary on podcasts).
When will the courts judge appropriately, and when will the police stop being either social workers or a poundland KGB?
“Altogether, 82% of those who voted Labour in 2019 say they would vote Labour again, while 69% of those who voted Liberal Democrat say they would vote for the party at the next election.
60% of 2019 Conservative voters now say they would vote Conservative again if a General Election were held tomorrow. 13% say they would vote for Labour, 8% would switch to Reform UK, and 2% would support the Liberal Democrats.“
So 17% of 2019 Conservative Party voters would either not vote at all, or would favour small parties.
Marx's handwriting was very small & almost illegible. After his death, Engels had to train Kautsky & Bernstein to decipher it. This was the beginning of a long work (still going on) that made possible the publication of an imposing mass of unpublished manuscripts left by Marx 2/2 pic.twitter.com/Yg96muSSVE
If that is heard in the corridors of power across the West, a lot of people will be sitting up and taking notice.
Ron DeSantis cannot win the elections, or pass the nominations, because he voted to undermine social security, even wanting to raise the age limit to 70 years or even more, former US President Donald Trump said. pic.twitter.com/DviQXUwx6K
Ian Robert Millard 