“The Home Secretary has scolded a police force for sending five officers to a family-owned pub to seize a collection of golliwog dolls, it was revealed yesterday.
An anonymous complaint was made about the White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex, and 15 dolls were seized because their presence was a suspected ‘hate crime‘.”
[Daily Mail]
The same Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, who is married to a Jew, and recently appeared at the Jewish-Zionist snoop and strongarm squad, “Community Security Trust” [“CST”], vowing to crack down on any (free?) speech that mentions Jews or Jewish behaviour…
“Jewish communities are to be better protected from vile antisemitic attacks with a £1 million funding boost and a new dedicated police taskforce.”
Note the vituperative and not very “official” language.
“The new funding will bring the total amount allocated through the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant to £122 million since 2015.”
The simple and harmless pleasures of the past, such as the 1960s Black and White Minstrels (not my usual kind of entertainment but that is not the point), are now the target of brainwashed and joyless “wokes”, some of whom inhabit the remnants of the (?) all-but-useless police forces.
head of the DPR Denis Pushilin visited Artemovsk/Bakhmut “The city is being liberated by the Wagners, the enemy spares neither the city nor his own,” said Pushilin. pic.twitter.com/4yHBN3LKRf
Wenn diese Derivatenblase platzt dann ist Deutschland und die Europäische Union am Ende, gefolgt vom Rest der Welt. Dies könnte die Supernova sein, die das gesamte globale Finanzsystem detoniert. Dann sind eure Einlagen auch nicht sicher. pic.twitter.com/MmHL4lXzFX
The whole Western finance-capital model, as it has existed since the late 1980s, is a house of cards ready to collapse.
Since Ashley Biden’s diary is now confirmed as authentic, we can safely conclude that Joe Biden is something very close to an incestuous pedophile. Or is there another way to look at it? pic.twitter.com/PGxc4N5kjE
The Macron visit to Beijing has been wildly misrepresented in the Western media. The Ukraine lobbying was always going to be a dead letter and the French knew that. The real purpose of the trip was to position Europe for the new multipolar world. https://t.co/UYzyU03Int
I would love to see warmongering one-time soldier Ellwood [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Ellwood] removed from Parliament. An unpleasant character altogether, and one who not only seems to want war between the UK and both Russia and China but also has a Reserve role in the notorious online propaganda outfit, the 77th Brigade, in the rank of Colonel or at least Lt.Col., rather higher than the rank he held as a Regular officer (Captain). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom).
His parents’ origins and work overseas seem to be slightly mysterious; he himself was born in New York City, and was educated in both Bonn and Vienna, at the time (1970s/1980s) both major centres for Cold War intelligence and espionage activity.
Looks as if that “grifter”, Amanda Solloway, may have to return to working in Sainsbury’s or somewhere. Incredible that someone like that could even be an MP; she even made it briefly —for a couple of months— onto the lowest rung of the Government ladder as a PUS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Solloway] under that clown, “Boris” Johnson.
Amanda Solloway’s Wikipedia entry has been heavily massaged over the years to delete damaging material. I see that any mention of her “controversial” husband (maybe now ex-husband or “partner”…I forget) has been expunged. Other material about Amanda Solloway herself has been removed.
— UK Polling Report (@PollingReportUK) April 8, 2023
Looks as though former Labour MP (and total ignoramus), Claudia Webbe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Webbe] will also be heading to shelfstacking or the dole queue…
So both Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwarteng) seem likely to stay on as MPs. There really is no justice in this world.
Of course, his every action shows that Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer would (probably will) make a rotten Prime Minister, but then look at the last half-dozen.
Russia has taken Bakhmut. When the admin centre (town hall) is taken the town has fallen.
Right now we have a mop-up exercise against stiff resistance.
To get the town back, Ukraine has to conquer the town hall again.
— Make Peace Now; alternative news (@AlternatNews) April 10, 2023
Simplistic, but it is clear that the Russian forces, spearheaded by the Wagner Group, are now very much in the ascendant in the Bakhmut/Artyomovsk sector of the overall south-eastern front.
More than 75% of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) is under the control of Russian units as stated by the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin. 🇷🇺
— Польский Казак 'Z.O.V' 🇵🇱❤️🇷🇺 ☭ (@pktr_Ruski) April 10, 2023
A Russian🇷🇺 Lancet loitering ammunition hits another US🇺🇸 155mm M777 howitzer heading towards Bakhmut. Ukrainians 🇺🇦 flee upon realizing the fate of the Howitzer. pic.twitter.com/5KIvvfAxFd
Well, this week brings me another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 7, and 9, and thought at first that I had got question 1 right, only to discover shortly afterwards that I had selected the wrong group of 17thC activists, dissenters or dissidents. So 6/10 it is this week.
Now imagine the disaster that will happen when the remaining UKR soldiers in Western Bakhmut try to retreat, clogging the road due to all the destroyed/stuck vehiclec. Becoming easy prey for the Musicians https://t.co/57CoS6j9oc
Since you've hitched your wagon to the Ukraine flag, when are you picking up arms & going over to help them? Haven't you heard the latest? Russia forces have reached the centre of key city, Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/POFzmoGyg7
In the well-known words of Marx, “first time— tragedy, second time— farce” and, while it seems wrong to call an event as bloody and terrible as Bakhmut/Artyomovsk “farcical”, one has to compare it to Stalingrad, which at least was genuinely strategic. War is hell, and is often not even logical.
Ukraine's key supply route in Bakhmut the 0506 road west of the city, is likely severely threatened, according to the UK intelligence.https://t.co/FQij4KpFVT
Looking beyond the Bakhmut/Artyomovsk situation, we see that the Kiev regime has a problem of recruitment to its armed forces, made worse by the fact that about 20% of the Ukraine population has fled beyond the borders, and that includes many families with teenage children who will now not be conscripted.
If (I do not know) Russia is recruiting and training new “levies”, then it may be that, after the losses suffered by the Kiev-regime forces recently, the Russian armed forces may be able to advance steadily for the first time in quite a while.
As to arms and ammunition, the NWO/ZOG supplies to the Kiev regime are enormous but possibly (I do not know) inadequate as compared to the usage and/or attritional rate. We shall see.
More tweets
One frontbencher says a current online video of Starmer’s flip-flops is a taste of things to come.
"The general election campaign is going to be full of videos of Keir, ‘he said this, now he’s says that’.”pic.twitter.com/BK0IO7DkRC
Other notable elections due in 2024 include presidential elections in Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Indonesia, general election in India and the European Parliament election
— Tomorrows Papers Today (@TmorrowsPapers) April 7, 2023
Not sure what Labour thinks that it is achieving by these attacks on Indian money-juggler Sunak. After all, Labour has for some time been far far ahead in the opinion polls, the present Sunak government seems headless at times (as did its predecessors), and people generally know that Sunak is, firstly, very very wealthy and, secondly, non-white (both of which tend to make him an unpopular PM). So why make these absurd “sex crime” attacks on him?
What makes the absurd attacks even more absurd is that there is no shred of evidence that Sunak himself is sympathetic to any form of child abuse or other sex offence(s), let alone any evidence that he himself is some kind of sex criminal. So why do it?
It may be that Starmer has tripped over his own shoelaces here.
GM. Remember to be kind to animals today. God gave YOU dominion, which means to be a good lord and protector of your charges. pic.twitter.com/Cw2B90nNBt
I never listened to Radio Albion and cannot comment in detail about it but what I can say is this man has been persecuted not prosecuted. Non-whites incite racist attacks on white people frequently, not one prosecution. White man speaks out, prison it is!https://t.co/nTYe7QYG6G
After my wrongful (and indeed actually unlawful) disbarment in 2016 (see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/), I was invited not only to speak to several members of the msm Press (a Daily Mail slug even came to my door) but also to talk on, or be interviewed on, various online “radio stations”. I declined all, mainly because I doubted that my contribution would have much effect on the “big scheme of things”. I believe that Radio Albion was one of those.
The present repression, driven entirely by the fanatical Jew-Zionist element, is destroying what little free speech and freedom of expression still exists in this country.
If you get burgled or robbed, be sure to mention Golliwogs and / or pronouns for a swift response https://t.co/KSThDIepw9
“This is the bizarre moment police stormed a couple’s pub and seized their golliwog dolls – saying the toys were a suspected ‘hate crime‘.
Benice Ryley, 61, was quizzed by six officers after police received an anonymous complaint about The White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex.
She and husband Chris, 64, who is currently abroad, had displayed their collection of 15 dolls after receiving them as gifts from customers over the years.
On Tuesday, Essex Police raided the pub and confiscated the dolls, saying they were investigating a ‘hate crime’. They also took a book about the history of golliwogs.
Branding the incident a ‘waste of taxpayers’ money’, she continued: ‘When the police officers came, I pointed to the dolls and said they haven’t done anything.
‘The gollies all went quietly – none of them resisted arrest at all. I think the racist people are the ones who complain – it’s their problem, not us.
Mrs Ryley is demanding the dolls are immediately returned and has vowed to put them back behind the bar.
She fumed: ‘It is unreal – we haven’t broken the law and there is no legal stuff that says I can’t display them. It’s just silly.’
A spokesman for Essex Police said: ‘We are investigating an allegation of hate crime in Grays reported to us on 24 February.“
[Daily Mail].
So who made the anonymous and timewasting complaint? A spiteful golliwog? Or one of “the usual suspects”, as in my case of 2017? We do not know.
Incidentally, look at the comments of the Daily Mail online readers. Others have voted about 12,000 against the police action for every half-dozen in favour.
Migrant boys raped in 'Calais Jungle' camp so violently they needed surgery https://t.co/wEzgcMp4MP@Care4Calais Can you understand why the people of the UK do not want the perpetrators any where near our shores?
I looked up that weird young or young-ish woman. A failed journalist or, rather, online scribbler, from Canada (what is wrong with Canada?), and who cannot keep her tendentious and ignorant views out of even her Linked-In profile. Sacked a month ago from her most recent job (at “Global News”, which I think is linked loosely to the BBC’s commercial arm).
Probably unemployable as a journalist, looking at her near-hysteria.
One of her other tweets said “You’re supposed to have the right to freedom of opinion. But what if misinformation and disinformation is making that right hard to actually enjoy?” She simply misses the point. “Freedom of opinion” is self-standing. It does not exist simply so that she can “enjoy” it…
I urge anyone with a Twitter account (I do not have one— a pack of Jews conspired to have me expelled in 2018 and I now see little point in returning) to follow tweeter “@Nature_and_Race”.
Russian Lancet hitting three Ukrainian self-propelled howitzers and a tank in the area of the city of Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/MCwt4DCSLd
The compassionate face of elite soldiering— I like that. The bearded man, though, introduced himself to the remarkably resilient old lady not as a soldier but as “a correspondent…from Russia.”
Scott Ritter:“Bakhmut has fallen. Ukraine has lost the war.“
This is the quintessential turning point of the war. Yes, the fighting will continue and it will be bloody and messy but this was the case for 2 horrible years after Gettysburg & Kursk as well.pic.twitter.com/pl2LEF99ab
The head of the IMF issued an alarming warning about the global economy
The world economic system is in a vulnerable situation due to the attempts of the world's central banks to fight inflation, said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
First, the whole crazy finance-capitalist system of speculation going haywire, then the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, then the economic sanctions against Russia, and now the unwarranted and almost unlimited support for the Jewish-Zionist regime in Kiev. The whole house of cards of the Western world is quite likely not far from collapse.
The Kremlin responds to the leak of NATO's "secret" war plan
Russia was aware of the West's involvement in Ukraine even before the documents were leaked on the Internet, Dmitry Peskov repeated pic.twitter.com/sLAKwyTPlJ
Maybe the SVR is not as incompetent as I had surmised. On the other hand, the NWO/ZOG gameplan re. Russian and its “near-abroad” has been obvious for years. I have been blogging and, before 2018, tweeting about it for a decade or so. In fact, I was aware of the overall strategy as long ago as 1990, when the Soviet Union was still officially still in existence.
French demonstrators attacked banks during the protests.
The unrest in France is gaining wider proportions every day. Bank attacks are a new dimension to the protests because they see it as a symbol of ruthless capitalism. pic.twitter.com/mfTFGe6nkS
A tendentious, probably brainless (and also —probably— atheistic) Church of England clergyman, and a plainly uneducated and also unintelligent fellow (or possibly someone with a mental health problem), both of whom favour migration-invasion by backward hordes into what is left of our country.
Truly, both stupidity and (in the lay sense) treason come in a variety of guises.
Beyond that, it is remarkable how little Question Time and Twitter reflect the popular mood. In fact, you could say that the popular mood in the UK is usually the precise opposite to whatever the Question Time audience and the main UK Twitter mob are saying.
73% of Conservatives & 67% of Leavers say they support the gvt's approach on small boats. Among all voters more support than oppose (YouGov). This will not be news to readers of my Substack.
My own approach would be rather different, certainly harsher, certainly more effective in destroying the migration-invasion, “but that’s just me“…
*New Substack* The Red Wall Reality Check:
-60% Red Wallers say "do whatever is necessary to stop small boats" -59% say don't let appeal removal -59% say don't put migrants in hotels -58% say lower acceptance rate -More say leave ECHR than stay https://t.co/aoCjfMwVQIpic.twitter.com/BtNuo4vzsz
On question time, Emily Thornberry says that older people are practicing 'generational discrimination' because older people have houses & young people can not afford to buy homes. So I worked hard, bought my house & that makes me bad.
Emily Thornberry (aka Lady Nugee) and her half-Jew husband, however, have about 7 or 8 buy-to-let and other properties. It might be said that they are profiting from the squeeze on housing.
Emily Thornberry never seems to wonder what the effect on housing availability might be of importing many millions of immigrants (mainly non-white, at that) over several decades, immigrants who have been breeding prolifically.
Yes, I am sure that Labour will, indeed, “clear the backlog” of migrant-invaders of all sorts. How? By approving almost all applications, and prioritizing the invaders above British people for housing (and all other services), then by setting up some kind of quick rubberstamp process in France, and even in the countries of origin of the invaders. That way, Britain will actually get swamped even more, but the bad public relations of the invading cross-Channel boats shown on TV and social media will be mostly avoided.
The USA is not working for most of its people. There again, who are we in the UK to talk?…
The old elite derived their status from wealth, titles, estates, & leisure time. The new elite increasingly derive their sense of status and moral righteousness by embracing radical "woke" progressivismhttps://t.co/LfAbV0sySLpic.twitter.com/zRIBUQ8ooN
The “trans” nonsense is everywhere now, but we must be clear: it has not emerged by accident. It is one of several attacks upon white Western civilization and culture, planned and incubated by forces of Evil embedded in our society, often in leading positions.
"Why has British politics come apart? My argument is it's driven by millions of people who want to push back against the rise of a new dominant class -a new elite- and a revolution they've been imposing on the rest of the country"
Good to talk with @Iromg about the rise of a new elite who no longer share many people's values, no longer give them a voice in the institutions, and look down on them as an underclass of ignorant racistshttps://t.co/1QRfbxojAopic.twitter.com/vND84oUK4H
"Radical progressives who are 15% of Britain are building a new 'moral hierarchy' in society. White straight men are inferior oppressors to be stripped of status, esteem & worth. Liberal women, minorities & elite 'allies' are righteous, superior, virtuous" https://t.co/VOCIC9DAMC
I spent a lot of my life studying the populist right but I now think the radical woke left poses as much of a challenge to liberal democracy Grab the book here https://t.co/Z2XrWotUP8pic.twitter.com/WXncy0oTe5
“Finnish politics could dramatically shift to the far-Right on Sunday as an anti-immigration party aims to replace Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats Party.
The ‘rock star’ prime minister, who took office in 2019 as the world’s youngest PM at 34, is Finland’s most popular leader this century, polls show.
However, latest figures put the mother-of-one’s centre-Left SDP in third place behind the anti-immigration and nationalist Finns Party and the centre-Right National Coalition Party, which held on to a thin lead.“
Sadly Jack Monroe has been exposed as a fraud. She even recently admitted to spending tens of thousands of pounds of donations/undelivered patreon subscriptions on luxury goods for herself. She was also part of a Tory think tank, and did paid work for the express – Tory defenders
Once more, a naive “Jack Monroe” supporter who, looking at her other tweets, is obviously entirely unaware that many “recipes” of “Jack Monroe” make food containing only a few hundred calories per person (some are around 200). So not “nutritious“. As for “thrifty“, anyone can buy cheapest pasta, mix in some fish paste and/or some tinned tomato pulp, then heat it in the microwave.
Colourised photo of a scene in the old town of Biskra, Algeria, 1899. 📷 Detroit Photographic Company. pic.twitter.com/U1j15dhElw
Not too far removed from the Berber/Arab oasis of Siwa, where I spent a month (out of a 3-month visit to Egypt) in late 1997 and early 1998.
[the citadel of Shali, Siwa oasis, Egypt]
Honestly, you leave prepping the container garden for 5 minutes and these little pests start digging a marching camp 🙄. Still, they left a nice planting trench for the geraniums.#RomanFortThursday#sorrynotsorrypic.twitter.com/vftvCch2uc
Brilliant 👏 And fair play to @LegalGengar for not just going down the easy route here, but forcing Jack Monroe bootstrapcook to reveal her finances under oath in court. Hopefully this fully exposes her decade long con & finishes it once & for all. https://t.co/GBeMT7D8r2
That should wake up at least a few of the somnolent “woke”…
I had a long discussion with some Berber Arabs who were selling ammonites in the Cairo marketplace (looong ago), and they told me that ammonites were plentiful throughout the Sahara, from Egypt to Morocco. A Google search shows a *lot* of Sahara ammonites available.
Only just beat political journalist John Rentoul this week. He scored “5 and a half“, he says, while I managed 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 7, and 10. In fact, I had read about no.7 a while ago but forgot about it, and also should really have guessed no.10.
The destruction of beauty, and the creeping growth of housing
Earlier this week, I blogged about the horrible destruction of trees in Armada Way, Plymouth by a corrupt local council. Now, while reading a report about the recent suicide of a headmistress of a school attended by me 60 years ago, I saw something equally unpleasant about Emmer Green, just north of Reading.
Northwest and north of Reading, across the Thames, there are two basically suburban areas abutting the open woods and fields of Oxfordshire: Caversham Heights (where I lived at times as a child) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caversham_Heights], and Emmer Green [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmer_Green]. About two or three miles of more or less open country separates the two. Within that couple of miles there was, inter alia, a golf course, Reading Golf Club, which in the 1960s and 1970s was the only golf course on that side of the Thames and that close to Reading.
I myself was a junior member of Reading Golf Club for a year or so around 1972, when I was 15-16. My golfing equipment was old and rudimentary, given to me by family friends, I think: one or two woods (drivers), an oddly-short no.3 iron, an ancient and wood-shafted mashie niblick (no.7 iron)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_golf_clubs#20th_century_wood-shafted_irons], and a putter (also wood-shafted). Out of date even then.
That golf course was rather beautiful, I thought, with plenty of majestic trees framing the fairways of the 18 holes, and even a very small valley, from which one drove from the tee on one side to the hole on the other. A very unusual par as well— 2 par, if I recall aright.
That hole must have been some kind of anomaly, because 3-par is the lowest par usually designated: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(score). Maybe I just remembered wrongly, and it was 3-par; no matter.
I managed (by luck, really) to get a hole-in-one on that, though it hardly counts, arguably, not being a more typical sort of hole.
Be that as it may, I was discomfited to read yesterday that not only has that golf course now closed (and been subsumed, as a club, into a new golf club with a course a few miles away) but the area of the old course has been designated for housing— 223 new houses. There is strong local opposition from nearby residents calling their protest group Keep Emmer Green: https://www.keepemmergreen.org/.
[the old Reading Golf Club, Emmer Green, more or less as I remember it]
We see this all the time now, especially in southern England: “infilling” of green areas around or in towns and cities, usually so that housing can be built for profit. Mass immigration, births to existing UK residents, the collapse of the traditional family. Overall result— pressure to build more housing.
In the end, will there actually be an England worth saving or defending? A question members of the armed forces, and the intelligence and security services, might pose to themselves in a lucid moment.
Incidentally, since the early 1970s, I have rarely played golf, and own no golf clubs (both my younger brothers are keen players, though).
“Covid” “panicdemic” nonsense, migration-invasion nonsense (fake “refugees” put up in hotels etc), general “Ukraine” nonsense (arms, ammunition, medical supplies, and hard cash, all being funnelled to the corrupt and dictatorial regime of the Jew Zelensky). Etc.
NEW Pre-Budget Westminster Voting Intention.
LAB 48% (+3) CON 32% (+3) LD 8% (-2) GRE 2% (-1) SNP 3% (nc) REF 3% (-1) Others 5% (-1)
Prediction of the result of a general election not due to be held for possibly 20 months is a fool’s game, of course, but at present it certainly looks like a shoo-in for Labour, and most policy announced by the “Conservatives” seems to play into Labour’s hands despite Labour itself being so lacklustre.
Seems to be useful public health advice. I myself have no liver problem, but am posting those tweets as a general warning to anyone who, or who knows someone who, is in that situation.
Wow! What a nice little earner. £71,410 per annum to sit at home tweeting (playing) whilst publishing the odd blog. Money for nothing really?! Kudos to Craig for publishing the amount his grift garners, though. Unlike Jack Monroe. https://t.co/WObazrfOuO
Better pay than being “His Excellency” the Ambassador to [somewhere]. While a few British ambassadors get nearly £150,000, most are below £100,000, and some receive as little as £60,000, though they do get reasonably-nice, sometimes very nice, ambassadorial residences, and there are a number of perks. Also, diplomatic immunity. I should have appreciated that a few times myself, when working overseas. Very convenient.
I believe that Murray was appointed to Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in 2002.
Murray seems to be someone highly principled (according to his own lights), and a bit awkward, like one or two Quakers I encountered several decades ago. The Diplomatic Service was almost certainly the wrong career for him.
Labour never polled in local elections as high as its GE opinion polls even in the Blair era (if it gets 40%+ in May I will be impressed), but the year's seat gain trends are pretty clear https://t.co/xOBPSEavEB
Your going back to 2022 try looking at the last few weeks . It looks like the greens or independents are taking the majority . If this continues labours lead isn't 20 points
We survived one of the most sophisticated psyops in the history of the world. pic.twitter.com/4LWbbbSUWB
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 18, 2023
From where I sit, it appears Vladimir Putin is the one man standing between what’s left of a “free” world, and a totalitarian, tyrannical, murderous one-world government body.
Social security benefits in the US are on track to be reduced by 20%, which will hit the elderly and the vulnerable the hardest.
But there's always money for war. And there's always money for Zelensky.
Hopefully, by now, you can see that the people in power hate you.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
God… and most of those people have so little anyway, and amid such wealth. The USA in some ways is “the Great Satan“, as the Islamic crazies sometimes claim. Not in every way, but in some. I myself have experienced a little of both the more comfortable and less comfortable sides of American life. The USA needs radical reform.
So much for “Biden the great humanitarian”. Not that he has invented such hypocrisy— Clinton was there first.
Incidentally, the (typically labyrinthine) American bureaucracy pays out to people in need (those that can get it at all), a very modest amount, in many cases just a few hundred dollars a month: see https://en.as.com/en/2022/01/22/latest_news/1642820139_262174.html.
(that’s cash; other programmes exist in parallel, such as Medicare, Medicaid etc).
I get messages from young people daily thanking me for speaking out. No matter how much I get attacked, insulted, defamed, I will never be intimidated. Because this isn't about me – It's about the truth. They fear a great awakening, especially among the young. We won't back down.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
Of course, tweeting (or blogging, or vlogging, or writing articles, or even launching doomed public law claims) does not frighten MPs. What does? Well, I am not going to say anything, but think back over the past decade…
This was the House of Commons today during a debate about the harms caused by the mRNA gene therapies. I counted less than 20 MPs present out of a total of 650.
$128 billion in military aid to Ukraine (more than double the entire Russian budget) & their soldiers are using 19th Century gatling guns in the defence of Bakhmut. Astonishingly, or perhaps not, no western journalist has asked the obvious question…https://t.co/ebwY8oGbY9
Ukrainian troops using M113 and YPR-765. Footage allegedly from the Bakhmut region. Imagine that as a Russian cannon fodder soldier you have to run against this.
True. Brutal. However, it seems that some fighters on both sides might be termed “cannon-fodder“. In fact, we in the West, subjected to the usual msm lies and spin, are not getting the true measure of the Ukrainian/Kiev-regime losses. Massive.
#Ukranian soldiers asked Zelensky and Zaluzhny to return him. The Armed Forces also confirm Dome's statements in an interview with the Washington Post about sending untrained replacements to the army and about heavy losses in the brigade. Slavyangrad
In the interview with WP, he complained about lack of ammo on the front, fresh recruits being sent to the front without proper training, some even don't know how to shoot a weapon. After a year of war, the unit had roughly 100 KIA and 400 WIA.https://t.co/5jevIm2XSf
A maverick officer, too honest for his notional superiors. Every army has a few. General Lebed, a Soviet and, later, Russian Army commander, was like that. He would have made a good President of the Russian Federation but, like others before him and since, he died in an apparent “accident” (in his case, a helicopter crash). Maybe it was an accident. Maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebed; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebed#Political_views.
Volunteer Mykhailo Storoznuk evacuates animals from the most dangerous frontline regions, including Bakhmut.
Volunteer Anastasia Tykha cares for them, treats their injuries and makes them feel safe.
There must be room for compassion and active help for the animals in war zones. None of them volunteered for this.
Late tweets seen
⚡️Ukrainian reinforcements reportedly in the Bakhmut direction.
Why?
The only military reason for it would be that the defensive lines after Bakhmut are not capable of holding back Z forces and thus are at risk of getting captured easier. pic.twitter.com/UI6YOLdp6o
I knew there was a strong correlation between attitudes/policies on Covid and Ukraine. Anybody can sense it even in intraparty debates within the libertarian and right-wing bubbles. But this is remarkable. https://t.co/Jfsmb6dCTe
A black man was arrested for allegedly spraying neo-Nazi, lynching & anti-gay graffiti on a black Atlanta church. James McIntyre was quickly released without bail. Some people online blamed white supremacy & white people for the hateful messages. #HateHoaxhttps://t.co/C1kufoP3Om
Of course, over the years quite a few Jews have actually been exposed and/or arrested for attacking Jewish graveyards, with the aim of inciting other Jews (via newspaper reports) to get excited about “antisemitism”, as well as the aim of goading the authorities to crack down on so-called “far right” (social-national) people or parties and groups, as well as repressing freedom of expression.
I have never understood why any social-national people would attack Jewish or any other graveyards. What is the aim? To kill dead Jews? Very strange.
What's even more Clown World is that Hitler never intended to harm UK
Germany only ever attacked as we declared war on them, attacked them & refused all peace offers
“The best laid plans of mice and men...”, as Burns wrote. Events confound both strategists and speculators…
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🇸🇾 Syrian Ministry of Defense: At 7:15 am, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with bursts of missiles from northern Lebanon, targeting some points in the countryside of Tartous and Hama.
The aggression resulted in the injury of three soldiers and some material losses. pic.twitter.com/QjWnKuYOcz
Almost certainly —at the very least— CIA involvement.
Armored train of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation guarding the borders of the liberated regions
The combat vehicle is equipped with anti-aircraft guns, an electronic warfare installation. In one of the parts of the composition there is a barracks for fighters, a… pic.twitter.com/y6lsXFQV0Q
Reminiscent of the armoured trains of the Russian Civil War [1918-1921].
🇨🇳 General Li Shangfu, who has been under US sanctions since 2018 for military cooperation with Russia, has been appointed Chinese Defense Minister. pic.twitter.com/prihw06nYT
In the present international situation, with huge tension between China and the USA, Chinese assistance to Russia is almost a given. Having said that, Russian leaders may be wondering whether China also wants to spread its influence and, maybe, some of its population, across Siberia, as far west as the Urals.
I rather like some quiz shows, though most have been hugely dumbed down, presumably to fit the current audience profile. My favourites are or were University Challenge (slightly dumbed-down but mostly still OK, and I shall miss Jeremy Paxman when he goes), Mastermind (now very dumbed-down and with a non-white presenter), Eggheads, and The Chase (despite many of the questions being either absurdly easy or on topics of which I admit I know little, notably popular music, football, and sitcoms).
A couple of shows recently astonished me without surprising me, if you understand me. The first was a Celebrity Mastermind.
It goes without saying that “celebrity” shows are usually replete with the incredibly ignorant (one of the few exceptions being any that feature Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, who is is relatively well-educated), and this show was no exception.
Four contestants, only two of whom were white. The winner was a rather odd Irishman, a stand-up comedian (apparently). As with most of such “celebrity” shows, I had never heard of any of the “celebrities”.
The oddest of the four was a TV and radio presenter (apparently) called Jayne Middlemiss [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Middlemiss]. Entirely innocent of any general knowledge. Her manner was very peculiar, she wore a strange pink sweater with a large “Communist”(style) 5-pointed red star on it, and I have to say that I wondered whether she might be on drugs of some sort. Either that, or she has a mental or personality problem.
Jayne Middlemiss shared the booby-prize honour of total ignorance with two others, especially one Harpreet Kaur, a winner of the show The Apprentice, fronted by the Jewish businessman Alan Sugar.
As to the winner, the Irish comedian, he was better than the others, yes, but almost all the questions were embarrassingly easy. I may cross Mastermind off my list soon.
The other recent show that left me shaking my head was an episode of Eggheads, which saw a team of British Army officers fail to place correctly both Stockholm (the officer on the spot thought that it was in Denmark) and Bimini (between the Bahamas and Florida, in fact technically part of the Bahamas); I cannot recall where that second Army officer thought Bimini was. Somewhere ridiculous, anyway.
I do not expect military officers, most of them, to be great minds, but surely a knowledge of basic geography would be useful, nicht wahr?
I suppose that there are more important things to worry about in the world, just as there are more important issues than whether a self-important TV football pundit, one Lineker, should be allowed both to “blag” £2M a year from the BBC and, at the same time, make (stupid, ignorant) “refugees welcome” pronouncements on Twitter. Oh well, there it is.
Since I started tweeting about inappropriate sex lessons in school, teachers have privately sent me their stories and resources from across the country.
All too scared to publish, lest they be recognised and targeted.
I had no idea just how bad things are in schools.😱😳
Britain continues to decline in every way. There are differences between Britain 2023 and the decadent Weimar Republic in 1923 or 1928, but there are also similarities.
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Why is Bakhmut so Important? Russia will be able to occupy a huge territory after the liberation of Bakhmut. Bakhmut holds the Ukrainian defense, and after it falls, it will be easier for Russia to take more territories, and Russia also has resources to hold them. pic.twitter.com/GzcZtMZ6rO
Not the side of the Ukrainian Army (Kiev-regime forces) that the msm will show you…
Jeffrey Sachs on Ukraine
https://t.co/GKdPURrOVS "We are 90 secs away from a Nuclear exchange and the complete annihilation of the World"🌍 "The Western Governments are not sharing the Truth 👁️ about the Ukraine War with its citizens" Prof Jeffrey Sachs 👍
Everyone should watch/listen to that 33-min video.
It will be an academic question if a nuclear war should occur, but the “blame” for any such war will or would not be exclusively on Russia or Putin. It will be also, and indeed more, upon the NWO (the rulers of USA, UK, France etc) and the secret cabals and the ruling circles of the West.
Blame would also fall upon all those stupid idiots in the Western msm who have been cheerleading for war, more war, harsher war, and in favour of the corrupt and shambolic Jew kleptocracy in Kiev. The msm is also reporting only from the “Ukrainian” (Kiev regime) side, and not even trying to ask awkward questions of the Kiev regime (such as about its forces executing some prisoners in the field, or about how others are treated in captivity)
Other persons too are guilty of cheerleading war in Ukraine, and therefore quite possibly across Europe. Talking heads on TV are joined by thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of unthinking Twitter nobodies. All the cretins with Ukrainian flags on their Twitter accounts.
We, as broadly social-national people, should be preparing for after any such war, as far as we can. I wish that I had the means of a Dyson or a Gates; needless to say, I do not. In that event, I could then create the kernel of a new society in some south-western part of the UK, or elsewhere.
As it is, I live only 15-20 miles (nearer 15 as the crow flies) from the port of Southampton, and even nearer to the military port at Hythe, on the Solent in Hampshire; both ports would be major targets.
In other words, even a “limited” NATO-Russia nuclear exchange would probably see the end of me. The only “comfort” (and cold indeed) would be that the “cabal” (((aka “them”))) that would laugh at my demise are mostly (there are a few exceptions) in and around London, so would probably precede or at least accompany me into nuclear annihilation.
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Banks are fine.
Property values will fall as rates rise, but fundamental supply/demand imbalance remains (needs a lot more housebuilding and/or negative net immigration for years).
Ukraine war is bad, but effect on UK appears limited.
“Effect on UK appears limited“? In what world is that? One where people do not get heating and lighting bills, for one thing. Anyway, refer to the Jeffrey Sachs vlog interview above. The UK, small but with many target sites, might simply cease to exist if it were the target of a nuclear attack.
The Great Retirement strikes the BBC: Alan Shearer (age 52), Gary Lineker (62), Ian Wright (59). Will they do a Clarkson and defect to Amazon? Where could the BBC possibly find new talent to spout nonsense about football, except in every pub across the land?
Quite. In fact, the BBC could save itself £100M a year by just sacking 100-200 of its often-useless talking heads and drones.
He is right: jobs in America pay significantly more than in the UK (except at minimum wage). But New York is grubbier; and arguably less friendly too. https://t.co/AS1vz4yNhr
There are other factors too, as I know, having lived in both NY/NJ and London (though not in the past 25 years). For anyone living in either place for more than a few months, or who has a family in tow, there are the extra costs of American life: medical and dental care (i.e. insurance), and the costs of going to university (for anyone with children of that age).
True, many people in the UK pay privately for medical, dental, and secondary/tertiary education, but in the USA you pretty much have to.
Still, the commentator speaking there is right. London is now “not for white man”, unless wealthy.
The big thing to come out of the Matt Hancock story is how simple government is. There’s no conspiracy, no grand strategy; just ordinary mortals texting bland ideas to each other.
If you believe that, you will believe anything, though obviously even the best conspiracy operates through fallible humans. Still, it makes me wonder whether the released WhatsApp messages were released precisely to make people think that only a few mediocre idiots like Matt Hancock were responsible (across the world?). No WEF, no Schwab, no Bill Gates, no “Great Reset” etc. “Nothing to see here“…(really?).
Every now and again it occurs to me I'm accused of wearing a tin hat, which I don't, by people who wore paper face masks against a virus.
Was really great to speak to @thecoastguy@GBNEWS about ‘15 & 20 minute neighbourhoods’ & the lack of democratic accountability as well as harms of LTNs
British people used as guinea-pigs. Fake democracy. Useless local pseudo-democratic drones, who are but a small version of the better-known ones in the Westminster monkeyhouse.
Where were the Piers Morgan (etc) “free speech” protests when I was persecuted (disbarred, expelled from Twitter, questioned by police) for tweeting and then blogging the truth about Jews and/or MPs (etc)? Where were they when Alison Chabloz was imprisoned for singing songs and tweeting cartoons? Where were they when Jez Turner, of the London Forum, was imprisoned for making the suggestion, in a brief speech, that Jews should be expelled from the UK? Nowhere.
Recently, Laura Towler, her husband Sam Melia, and Mark Collett, all of Patriotic Alternative, have been again barred from Twitter. They also had their personal bank accounts closed down a year or two ago because of their political views. Where was Piers Morgan then (or the dishonest Toby Young “Free Speech Union”, for that matter)?
'Our so-called leaders knowingly talked nonsense that destroyed lives and turned society upside down and inside out. The people responsible are wildly exposed and cannot convincingly deny any of it. Why I ask, would anyone trust them about anything else?'@TheCoastGuypic.twitter.com/CgLQ3SUEwC
Watched the last episode of Endeavour, which was pretty good, but again succumbed to the “blacks with everything” nonsense. Numerous blacks (including an officiating Anglican priest, and undertakers looking like Baron Samedi), as well as Chinese and other non-whites. In Oxford, and in what I thought was meant to be mid/late 1960s, but must (?) have been set in the early 1970s, featuring as it did Elton John’s pop song, Rocket Man (released 1972). There just were not very many ethnic minority people around in the Thames Valley in the early 1970s, let alone the mid-1960s.
My wife thought that the clothing worn indicated mid/late 1960s, though, rather than 1972.
Still, I thought it all well put together as a detective story, au fond.
"Unless liberals accept the necessity of limits, they lose any claim to realism, because the reality is that we would be overwhelmed". Lots of good points in here https://t.co/gmh6Zm3Xrn
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I myself scored 8/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 1 and 9 (in fact, I did “really” know the answer to question 9, but could not bring the name to mind, so did not award myself that one. #MoralHighGround…).
“Ensuring lockdown and quarantine rules were stringently enforced became something of an obsession for Matt Hancock and the rest of the Cabinet as Covid cases continued to spiral throughout 2021.
Leaked messages from his WhatsApp account show the Health Secretary, Boris Johnson and Priti Patel reacting to examples of police down on rulebreakers with almost childlike glee – hailing the cases as ‘brilliant’ and ‘superb’.
Hancock, Priti Patel, and that useless nerd Simon Case, all deserve a good kicking at the very least. The same is true of all ministers and MPs involved in the “panicdemic” nonsense.
One of the comments of the Daily Mail readers says it all:
“Emily1848, Birmingham, United Kingdom, moments ago
So now we see the contempt and actual joy with which Hancock, Patel and others felt and acted as they destroyed our freedoms and futures. All this mockery of the populations suffering at their hands, and yet they couldn’t even do their bloody jobs competently either!“
[Readers’ Comments, Daily Mail].
Lenin was right: “a revolution without firing squads is not worth much“.
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RT (Russia Today) was banned from all mainstream social media platforms because of its ties to the Russian Government.
If these people had a single shred of credibility, the CIA-funded corporate press outlets would face the same fate.
But they won’t, because they only want you…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 4, 2023
Just so we’re clear, the Ukraine war truly started in 2014 when the CIA funded and armed a rebel group that went on to overthrow the then president who was working to strengthen ties with Moscow.
If you only get your news from the corporate media, you probably didn’t know that.…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 4, 2023
Until recently, Russian people did not think of Ukraine, or Belorussia (now Belarus), or the Baltic states (the “pribaltika“), or other areas such as Kazakhstan (where I myself once lived for a year) as “foreign“, but rather as (during Soviet times) part of the same country as Russia, and/or as (since 1991) “the near-abroad“.
Western civilizations are only built by Westernkind. Nonwhites do not build Western civilizations whether they're born in them or not. Western civilizations only exist because White people exist.
It goes further than that. Non-whites not only could never build our white European culture and civilization, nor its American, Australasian and other offshoots, but also are unable even to maintain what our peoples have already built.
That is the point of importance at present, as our white European and European-origined countries are swamped by non-whites. As the proportion of non-whites in the population increases, the level of the culture and civilization not only will not rise, but will start to fall; disastrously so.
You can see that everywhere now: in the UK, in Scandinavia, in the USA etc.
I have entered one of my paintings in a contest for a scholarship. Medical school is expensive & winning this would mean the 🌎 to me. You may vote once a day. It is a lot to ask of total strangers, but just think of all the good karma you will earn💜🩺 https://t.co/m2F8wAkH5F
— Gwen of the North Ice, ⭐️ 🐭 Bureau of Akabol (@GwenNorth14) February 15, 2023
Humza Yousaf, the man who wants to be Scotland’s New Leader of the Scottish “Nationalist Party” thinks that there are too many White people in Scotland.
This is what happens when you empower foreigners, they move to eradicate citizens from their home land. pic.twitter.com/5mtBOQjf1a
Presumably meant to write “being“, not “not being“.
Would it matter if 99.99% of the UK population were to disappear, so long as the remainder (about 7,000) were both white English/British and on a decent cultural and behavioural level? I say not.
Can those figures be accurate? They seem remarkably modest.
Most of the World refuse to buy Western propaganda promoting #US#NATO Proxy War. Argument for continuing to pour arms into the conflict is based on Ukraine winning the War -The only winner will be NATO + Arms Industry, while more+more poor Ukrainians die + country is destroyed.. pic.twitter.com/llCQrgH7wK
The Irish labelled far right from the media and politicians for simply opposing mass unregulated immigration.
Vast swathes of Western Europe is now unrecognisable, crime soaring, all because of the same thing, it's common sense to oppose! pic.twitter.com/sCFthMn0c4
— Phil – Retired of Guildford (@surreycorner) March 3, 2023
Brave and brilliant actions. The most obvious enemies of the British people (apart from a few particular ethnic groups) are many “journalists” (scribblers), most TV talking heads, some lawyers, and most MPs.
That characterization of the 1980s is only, at best, a half-truth, I think, though I personally was not involved in ordinary (even radical) politics in that decade.
I knew people in the mid/late 1970s who belonged to the National Front and the League of St. George. Mostly very reasonable English (and a few Irish and Scottish, or other) people. The “knuckle-dragging” “skinheads” (etc) did exist (elsewhere), yes, but were a small minority.
Many of these demonstrators are NOT 'far-right', that is abuse. They are concerned parents who don't want their daughters raped by your pals! https://t.co/yeTWgxFuQV
— D. William Norris – Contra Tyrannos (@dwilliam9940) March 4, 2023
“Far right” is, anyway, just a meaningless label. “Social-national” is more accurate.
Israel’s finance minister just called for a Palestinian town “to be erased.” This disgusting rhetoric will get more innocent people killed. The extreme, right-wing Israeli government is creating the conditions for more violence and undermining democracy.https://t.co/n0CEi3V6Qf
The Israeli state was born, in the late 1940s, out of ethnic cleansing, murder, torture, intimidation, theft of land and housing, in fact every kind of criminality, all carried out by Jews who were the sweepings of the ghettos, criminal gangs, prisons, and concentration camps of Europe.
The Israelis covered up much of that, and spread the largely fake “holocaust” farrago around the world to create sympathy for the Jews in Israel and elsewhere. Now the ingrained evil is coming out very obviously, to such an extent that even some Jews (Sanders being one) cannot bear what is happening.
Emily Thornberry, aka “Lady Nugee”, a porcine freeloader who has a property portfolio (with her part-Jew husband) worth £5-10 Million, and who “earns” money from renting out houses etc, in addition to the MP salary, the generous Parliamentary expenses etc.
Emily Thornberry personifies much of the problem people have with Starmer-Labour. Not just the Jewish and Israeli connections, but the overall impression (I think accurate) that so many of these Labour MPs are people not far distant in lifestyle, money, and views from the “Conservative” MPs they claim to “oppose”.
cf. Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Jess Phillips etc.
In fact, or in my opinion, the only reason Emily Thornberry joined Labour in the first place is because she had a massive chip on her shoulder from her father having abandoned his wife (her mother) and Emily Thornberry herself, and the mother and daughter then having had to live for some years in a council house (and in what is generally an affluent town, Guildford , in Surrey, which must have stung even more). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Thornberry#Early_life.
I think that that mixture of snobbery, reverse snobbery, chip-on-shoulder resentment, and hypocrisy comes out in her pronouncements at times, such as her notorious “white van man” and “St. George’s flag” comments.
Like many people, I want the Conservative Party to be annihilated, certainly electorally (it’s a start, anyway) but, in our rigged binary electoral system, that does mean a massive Labour landslide, an “elected” Starmer-Labour dictatorship that might make that of Blair-Brown look mild.
There is no way out of this. We, the British people, have to grasp the nettle. The Conservative Party, destroyed, will lead, eventually, to the destruction also of the Labour Party, perhaps via the uprising of a new social-national party not yet in existence.
I had thought that a hung Parliament might be the best result in 2024 (if that is when the next general election comes), but now I think that the only way is to kill off 90% of the Conservative Party seats, even if at the expense of a huge Labour Party majority in the Commons.
That might also lead to extra-Parliamentary action.
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Jack Monroe has ripped off patreon members for almost 3 years – if she doesn't want grief from people complaining she should close it down, and refund every penny she's taken.
Interesting because she hasn’t tweeted in two weeks and even then it was nonsense about pens. But you keep defending somebody who begs for money under false pretences 👍🏻
Whether she is also a lesbian or “non-binary”, as “Jack Monroe” has claimed to be at various times (when convenient or lucrative), I have no idea.
“Dr” Moffett (not a medical doctor, nor a working academic) lives in Africa, so I suppose it is not inappropriate that she emulates the ostrich of legend, and buries her head in the sand, not wanting to see the truth…
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#Ukraine's former Prosecutor General has launched an astonishing attack on President Zelenskyy after being forced to retreat from #Bakhmut
Yuriy Lutsenko, with the Territorial Defence, says he and other troops are angry at the lack of drones and air defence. pic.twitter.com/8HM6TNnHYh
The Russian commanders asked Zelensky to allow civilians and others to leave, but their offers were ignored.
If Ukraine had accepted the Russian peace proposal in Ankara last year, https://t.co/NCfBr69XW1, They would not be the smoking ruin they are today. So who has benefited from this war? US arms manufacturers and no one else, just like the Pharma companies and the Covid disaster.
— Micheal McConville (@reasonoverfear) March 4, 2023
That is all that Russia wanted from the start— an end to NATO encirclement.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Col. Doug MacGregor Reacts to Zelensky Saying America May Need to Send Their Children to Fight in Ukraine
This man is not fit to be mayor of London, he does not respect the views of the public and he smears anyone who does not share his authoritarian views. Basically he does not care what the people affected by his policies think. https://t.co/MBpFeuvwQ2
James has asked me to promote this clip from our interview, it demonstrates how he has been suppressed on social media. I am happy to do so, please listen. https://t.co/i38NPRyN1c
Nadine Dorries is another corrupt ex-minister (and expenses cheat/fraudster) who deserves a good kicking.
I had a meeting yesterday with a constituent who has had his life ruined by the vaccine and now has less than 5 years to live. When will we investigate the massive ongoing damage done to our people by the experimental ‘vaccines’? https://t.co/ah9aHIne7l
UK births dropped in 2021 as they have in all heavily vaccinated countries. Why would anyone want a booster? Why did the government want to roll out the experimental vaccine to children? https://t.co/sPKei5ilyZ
You realise you’re getting older when… the MI5 Director General looks like a geeky 6th former bunking off school for the afternoon. ☹️🤷🏼♂️#MI5pic.twitter.com/2AQI2SVh5U
Just because the Country we live in has armed Ukraine, it doesnt mean we agree with any of it and back Ukraine either. I personally only know about 1 person that actually wants to get involved in the Ukraine mess and his IQ isnt very high to put it politely
Russian Forces are slowing closing the Cauldron on Ukrainian Forces still in Bakhmut, there are reports Defenders in the City have begun to Withdraw but there is now less than 2 Miles separating the Russian Positions with all Roads in and out of the City under Artillery Fire. pic.twitter.com/z7sk9SLE7z
With time, especially in view of the spike of Russophobia in the West last year, it has become apparent that the #Salisbury events were just a trial run for a more systematic information and psychological operations campaign aimed at demonising Russia.
are climate fanatics, transgenderists, "refugees first & open borders" fanatics, globalists, in fact the entire NGO class not all ultimately sentimentalists? https://t.co/ZBIoRbs5vy
The quotation directly above expresses a fact which many prefer to ignore. Note— not “disagree with”, but ignore. They do not want the truth, but comforting (?) lies.
The UK is almost open-borders now. The “British” Government (packed with Jews, Indians, you name it) has basically given up the struggle to defend our borders. In that circumstance, how long can even the semblance of a “Welfare State” be maintained?
What seems to have been happening in Britain is that the outward forms have been and are being maintained but, at the same time, the content has been, and is being, hollowed out.
Not just Welfare State services such as State benefit levels, but allied aspects of society: the NHS is one. The NHS still exists, but underfunding and mass immigration is testing it to the limit. NHS dentistry is disappearing, in fact has almost disappeared. The GP service is now a skeleton of what it was only a few years ago.
Of course, “Covid”, or “the Covid crisis”, or “the pandemic” is a very useful excuse as to why standards cannot be maintained. You (apparently, supposedly) cannot see a GP or a dentist “because of” the “panicdemic” of 2020-2021.
That has become the contemporary version of the 1940s British excuse for non-availability of goods and services, as when, in the film of The Cruel Sea, senior Royal Navy Reserve officer Jack Hawkins calls over a steward at (?) the Trocadero in London to complain about dust in the decanter of water on his table, only to be told “I’m very sorry, Sir, it’s the war, you know…“, to which Hawkins replies, wryly, “well, in that case, I should not want to make too much of it” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruel_Sea_(1953_film)].
The same has been the case in very many areas of British life. When I was reading for the Bar in 1987, there was discussion about whether wigs and gowns would still be worn by barristers in the future. A wise old barrister replied that “they will get rid of everything else before they get rid of wigs in court“.
That turned out to be right. The Bar has changed radically since the 1980s, in a few respects for the better but in most respects for the worse, but those wigs are still there, at least in the Crown Court (though now more rare in civil cases, in both the High Court and in the County Court).
Look at the armed forces. The outward forms are still there, but the few remaining ships are merely like stumps sticking out of drought-hit fields. A couple of aircraft carriers without planes (!), and the officers and crews of warships (as seen on “reality TV”) seem pretty poor quality, at least from what is shown.
In fact, so useless are our armed forces now that “Boris” idiot recently suggested giving our remaining planes and tanks to the Jew Zelensky in Kiev, because the UK has no use for them! Johnson was derided, of course, but actually (while I would not want to support the Kiev regime) Johnson had a point.
The Navy now does little but ferry migrant invaders to the UK (!) and interdict drug smugglers (the only way to really stop the drug problem, though, is to hit the consumers in the UK, and hit them really hard).
Why do we even bother having a navy in those circumstances?
As to the Army’s tanks, they seem to be of no use at all here, and are only used for exercises and for occasional foreign misadventures such as Iraq, and that was decades ago.
The Royal Air Force? Most of its bases have been closed down, and most of the rest are really semi-disguised USAF bases.
Is there, likewise, much reality in the Monarchy? I think not. Not only The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta. Not only Prince Andrew, that useless and unpleasant freeloader. Not only the rest of them, but also their actual role. What are they for, really? Does their existence as “royals” really serve any purpose now?
The migration-invasion, and the general mass immigration into the UK, has ripped the stuffing out of this country. The original 1950s to 1970s immigration from former colonies turned Commonwealth countries was bad enough, but in the past ~40 years, and especially since about 1989, there has been a flood even from countries which which the UK has historically had few if any ties. That increased during and after Blair’s evil regime, i.e. post-1997.
The old idea was that immigrants, even non-whites, would just blend in with British people and their way of life. That was only a half-truth even half a century or more ago. Now, it is just not so; the numbers have become too great. Britain may be majority non-white as early as 2050, and even many of the European people here now are not British in any real sense; many are the rejected dross from the poorer parts on the continent.
It makes me laugh when I read in newspapers about how the UK is being “defended” by the armed forces, and by the security and intelligence bureaucrats. What are they now “defending”? Not the British people or their way of life, that’s for sure. That is being destroyed from within. Mass immigration. Births to non-whites. Corruption at Westminster. Cultural trash on TV , radio and elsewhere. Cheap hee-hawing by Jew comedians and others. All of that.
I tremble to think of what Britain might look like by 2050, let alone 2100, if we cannot reverse the process, or take the country in a new direction. I myself (b. 1956) will not be on Earth by then, but it may be that, before then, Fate will enable me to join with the best of my fellow Brits to change the mood music in the next 20 years. We shall see.
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Jack Monroe's involvement was debunked with a FoI request. She's since admitted it never happened.
Amazing how many quite educated and/or intelligent-seeming people, including well-known journalists, MPs etc have been so easily bamboozled by “Jack Monroe” and her tissue of lies.
#navycapital : The U.S. is considering the release of intelligence it believes shows that China is weighing whether to supply weapons to support Russia’s war in Ukraine https://t.co/NcFxlnnWdR
– Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would disappear if it lost its war in Ukraine. “If Russia stops the special military operation without winning, there will be no Russia; it will be torn apart,” he wrote on Wednesday. /8
I was of the view that Labour’s open door immigration policy (the real policy, not the “horseshit” fed to the public via the msm) would put voters off from voting Labour-label, but the “Conservatives”, under Indian money-juggler Sunak, are plainly bent on importing more millions, and have done nothing at all even to slightly reduce mass immigration, including the cross-Channel migration-invasion, so many people will just want to punish the Con Party even if knowing in their hearts that Labour will be no better in most respects— and worse in some.
Incidentally, that YouGov poll, if reflective of actual voting at the next general election, would give Labour the biggest Commons majority in history— a Commons majority of 430 [Labour 540, Con 20, LibDem 19, SNP 47, others 24 (inc. Northern Irish seats)].
Demonstrators disrupted traffic in London to paint a huge Ukraine flag on the road in front of the Russian embassy on the eve of the Ukraine war's first anniversary pic.twitter.com/xlSmf4DCms
That is what at any rate used to be the Consulate, the Embassy itself being nearby.
I remember standing in a long, slow line outside one of the gates in early 1993, the first time I needed a Russian visa.
In fact I had already been there once, in the 1980s, when I queued on behalf of my then girlfriend’s mother, who apart from being too aged to wait in line for hours, always seemed to have trouble there because she was born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg in or about 1908, and had insisted that her British passport reflect that and not (as per the silly Passport Office rule) Leningrad (the Passport Office staff always prefer to change places of birth to the latest name of the location, so “Tanganyika” is changed to “Tanzania” even if the latter was not in existence at the date of birth).
Of course, that 1980s visa for the old lady mentioned was a Soviet one, not a Russian one as such..
Incidentally, the fall of socialism in and after 1989, and the official end of the Soviet Union in 1991, brought a change in the way that the consulate treated its visitors. In the 1980s, an unwelcoming ambience and the strange little holes in the glass screen above the reception desk, as at old railway stations, the holes too low to speak through without stooping (they are —or used to be— everywhere in Russia, even at the Kremlin ticket office); in 1993, a new reception desk and no screen with little holes (in fact no screen at all, I seem to remember), and girls who actually smiled and were pleasant, unlike the sullen factotums of yesteryear.
The last two times I needed a Russian visa, in 1996 and 2007, I did not need to queue or to go there; commercial organizations will do it for you, at a price. I ended up going to Moscow again in 2007, but not in 1996, that visit having been called off at short notice, the very day before I was due to travel.
🇬🇧 Four arrests at London's Russian embassy as protesters paint massive Ukraine flag on road https://t.co/NOyPXSCQIU (Sky News UK)
My two closest friends are Ukrainians; one is ethnically from its western part, the other is from Chernihiv. One is w/ Western education. Both live in Ru. Both have relatives all over Ukr. Both consider our countries undivided and are really suffering from what is going on.
To all those who try to lecture me about Ukrainians (esp Westerners, who don’t know Ukr/Ru, have no clue about history, have never seen an Ukr in real life; whose knowledge is limited to what the mainstream says), just don’t do that. I just ban not to waste my time & nerves.
Someone on here (and detailed further on Kiwifarms) has successfully won in Small Claims Court against Jack Monroe bootstrapcook and is now progressing it to CCJ as she's failed to respond/refusing to pay.
I'd say it's almost certain that Jack Monroe is refusing to pay because in her nasty, narc head, she thinks she can do what she likes. She'd have to tell a lot of lies under oath to make it look like she can't rather than won't pay. Well done for getting thus far already 👏👏
As of today, the 502 hard-core mugs on Patreon are still sending “Jack Monroe” several thousand pounds each month.
It pleases me that every time I log onto twitter its either an Owen Jones binfire, a Jack Monroe binfire or trans rights activism is being shown the fucking door. It really does.
People of Britain: you know who your enemies are, and they are not the Russian people, not Putin, and not the so-called “far right” (social nationalists, who are fighting your fight)…
As far as ordinary System politics is concerned, the best result of any general election now is that the misnamed Conservative Party be simply wiped out, even at the cost of a Labour Party “elected dictatorship”. Once one half of the binary political scam has gone, sooner or later the whole rotten system will fall.
Meanwhile, the British people face high prices and shortages. Online repression means that I cannot suggest how to punish the freeloaders…
Actually, a friend of mine used to lunch quite often at the House of Lords in the 1980s and 1990s. Similar prices, or even cheaper, adjusted for inflation. Smoked salmon for pennies, main courses a couple of pounds.
Main square of local town. Stake. Blindfold. Firing squad.
In a better world…
In fact the tweet is mistaken, and the local newspaper report misleading. One untermensch was imprisoned for 12 years, the other for 10, meaning that, in fact, they will be out in 6 and 5 years respectively.
Odd though. How was the woman “lured” to the locus of the attack, a flat? Are we getting the full story here? I think not.
A little judicious “racism” might save many women and girls in the UK. Fact.
Even leaving aside the crime(s), what use are untermenschen of that type to the UK? They are nothing but a millstone round the collective neck. Useless humanoids. Get rid of them.
As said in relation to other matters, people know in their hearts what will eventually have to happen.
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to @AndrewMarr9 and @LBCNews: #NATO countries, with #UK among the leaders, are getting deeper and deeper into the #Ukraine conflict. This only prolongs it.
Why is the UK run like a 3rd world country? Why can Norway out perform us on every metric that counts? Why are we so poor? Why do we have lowest pensions at highest retirement age? Why are people waiting years to receive health care? What happened to the country I grew up in? 😭
As blogged previously, I do not necessarily oppose “Independence” for Scotland, but it seems that many Scots are adamantly opposed, and that either there is no majority for it or only a very small majority.
I suspect that many Scots think “what Independence?” when Scotland would probably still be in NATO (i.e. under de facto American/NWO control), still in the EU (i.e.under EU control), still subject to the diktats of international finance-capitalism, and overall almost certainly poorer per capita.
Still, if a significant majority of the Scots were to clamour for “Independence”, I would say “so go…“, but it really would have to be 60% at a bare minimum; in reality, to make it work, 75% or more.
Speaking personally, for me the SNP is fake “nationalism”, having little to do with race and culture.
I do not think that the SNP will fall back to where it was before 2015. It has an electoral niche, which is a kind of social-democracy in policy terms, but underpinned by the faux-“nationalism” which sets it apart, superficially, from the other System parties “up there” (I am on the southern coast of England). The SNP of course is a System party. You only have to look at the lip-service it pays to the Jewish lobby/Israel lobby.
The SNP has also been even more repressive in terms of free speech than the Westminster regimes of recent years; Police Scotland has embraced its Poundland Stasi role with unseemly alacrity.
I imagine that many Scots, perhaps a majority, will prefer to stick with the UK rather than become poorer outside it. Whisky, tourism, and financial services cannot provide income enough to support an “independent” Scottish state, and North Sea oil/gas, even if partly under control of Edinburgh, is (arguably) a declining or depreciating asset, especially if supposedly “green” policies are pursued.
In terms of Westminster governments, though, the 59 Scottish seats are important. Without them, the UK Labour Party will find it difficult to form a government (even with SNP support), unless the presently-forecast huge landslide actually happens; such a landslide may happen this year or next but, if so, will not be repeated.
ВВС – #Ben_Wallace, the #UK defense secretary, said he does not think the UK will transfer fighter jets to #Ukraine within the next few months or even years. Together with the fighters, 200 British troops must be provided. #War_in_Ukrainepic.twitter.com/qVwEqJ90xW
— #War_in_Ukraine #Facts #Opinions #Trends #Kharkiv (@HarZizn) February 15, 2023
Why are healthy young #Ukrainians living and now working in the #UK as young #Brits travel to #Ukraine to help their country in the war with #Russia.
The trigger for the resignation may have been the SNP’s crazed promotion of the trans nonsense, but Sturgeon was “too big for her boots” in other ways as well, pretending that she was (sort-of) a world statesman and leader of a (sort-of) state.
Nicola Sturgeon has often been compared (approvingly or not) to the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who resigned not long ago. A lazy comparison though, arguably; after all, New Zealand is over 103,000 square miles in area, has over 5,000,000 people, and is a recognized state.
Scotland, though also having over 5,000,000 people, is only 30,000 square miles in area and, though a distinct country historically and to some extent culturally, is not a state, and has not been since 1707.
There is, though, no reason why Scotland cannot be a state again, so long as its people are willing to pay the price in various ways. It is clear, surely, that about half are not.
She tried to gaslight women into accepting less rights – she forced kids to wear masks for months and months longer than the rest of Britain – she behaved like a dictator during covid
Good riddance sturgeon is gone – she sure won’t be missed
Good riddance to wee Jimmy Krankie aka Nicola Sturgeon. She is a pro immigration globalist and a EU sycophant remoaner and not a Scottish nationalist. #jeremyvinepic.twitter.com/jw9GZJb5ae
— lieutenant Colonel Kojak Slaphead The 3rd (@Scarfer13) February 15, 2023
Any politician who tells you that a man can magically become a woman is stupid, insane or a liar.
Goodbye @NicolaSturgeon and good riddance. And the same to every other politician who claims the same thing. You are a danger to women and girls. We will not tolerate it. #TerfPowerhttps://t.co/MvGXgX9P4n
Good riddance to Sturgeon. Her gender reforms may have done it for her in the end, but they also illuminated all that has long been rotten with her SNP: a faux-progressive authoritarian party that, despite the Braveheart routine, holds ordinary Scots and their values in contempt
One of the best ever Jack Monroe tall tales is her celebrity protection squad who check on her welfare and security, unprompted no less…@EssexPoliceUK confirmed that this too was a lie. pic.twitter.com/9WBu8qVq0s
The most egregious lie of “Jack Monroe” must be that, when Grenfell Tower was still burning, she went there (why? 60 miles from Southend where she lives), was “waved through the police cordon” (how? why?), and pretty much took charge (why? She did at one time, long before, have a job atthe Essex fire brigade, but only answering the telephone). She also claims to have had the building plans of Grenfell Tower (how? why?).
Incidentally, while (as of today) 502 utter mugs are still each sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 each month via Patreon, her recent book has bombed. According to Amazon, it is selling about 268 copies per month at present, and secondhand hardback copies are up for sale for as little as £7, only a month after publication.
“An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published Wednesday.
Following the latest revelations, Israel might also face increased pressure to rein in its cutting-edge cyberware and technology sector which was spotlighted in another media investigation led by Forbidden Stories in 2021.
Tommorow my book “Casting The Runes The Letters of M R James” is published, you can get it on Amazon or any good bookshop also @unbounders or if like most of us right now the cost of living is biting you in the arse please ask your librarian to order it pic.twitter.com/4dw8kz5a2W
Get real. Putin isn't going to lose. Russia is a powerhouse militarily compared to Ukraine. Not to mention the quantity of ammunition and nukes Russia has. Anyone escalating this war is all in on starting WW3.
Throughout the years it was staged around the world, from NYC to Tokyo. Simple yet timeless plot about hope & shattered dreams remains as relevant as ever. Have you seen it? Or perhaps read? pic.twitter.com/WVBalSYRvt
🛍️ #OTD in 1901, the legendary #Eliseevsky grocery store opened doors in Moscow!
👉 Your regular Russian supermarket – in a palace & a palace! 👉 Best wines, delicacies & luxurious interior. 👉 No 1 shopping mall in Europe of its time. With a theatre no less. pic.twitter.com/5Ovcx6TXx3
I along with lots of others thought Jack Monroe was a genuine force for good. Then it started to become clear that poverty cosplaying and campaigning is very lucrative and allows you to brag in the Guardian about spaffing other peoples money on booze and furniture.
Jack Monroe was taking money from people on less than £70 per week while taking in over £2K per month through patreon plus charging £10k for public appearances. You know what you’re getting with a Tory, Jack conned the vulnerable into thinking she was one of them.
Two fakes. A “Conservative” fake, Lee Anderson, who wants to say that State benefits are OK or even too generous, and a “poverty expert” fake, “Jack Monroe”, who is making money (as the first fake truly remarked about her on GB News last year) “off the backs of the poor“, and cheating people in several ways.
Ann, it is indeed a pretty disgraceful thing to say, the man is odious. However, let's not forget that JM herself says you can make a meal on much less than the 30p he claimed. I won't repeat the other responses you've had, but JM has made £££ saying the poor can't budget or cook
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) February 9, 2023
Please don't take it personally. She enrages a lot of people, me included. Do bear in mind that her alternate index still doesn't exist, despite her saying it was 'the work of a weekend'. I'm sorry you got caught up in all this though.
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) February 9, 2023
Anger is never an either/or situation though, is it? I can be angry about the war in Ukraine, Climate Change, eco-issues AND Jack Monroe taking money from people for Patreon / legal fees but not bothering to provide promised goods or going ahead with legal action, surely?
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) February 10, 2023
“Jack Monroe”, the grift that keeps on giving…oh, no, wait… I meant to say “taking”…
…and, yes, 498 mugs are still each sending her between £3.50 and £44 (!) via Patreon every single month. One of the most successful grey-area “near”-frauds I have ever seen.
The by-election was caused by the standing-down of incumbent MP Rosie Cooper, a poor MP in my opinion, who at one point wanted England and Wales to institute no-jury trials (“Diplock courts”, as used in Northern Ireland) for defendants accused of politically-motivated crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Cooper. She was also, at one time, vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
The reason why Rosie Cooper stood down (at the age of 72) was because she will now be getting two or three times her MP salary, as head of an NHS Trust.
As to the inevitable Labour victory in the by-election, no surprise. Labour’s vote share of 62.3% compares to 52.1% in 2019.
The other candidates did not shine. Reform UK got 4.4%, but there again, its predecessor Farage-vehicle, Brexit Party, scored 4.3% in 2019. The Greens and Libdems ended up more or less where they had been at the 2019 election; both lost their deposits, as did Reform UK (and the Monster Raving Loony).
What can we take away from this? That Labour remains fairly solid in at least some historically-Labour areas, that the Conservative Party is going nowhere in such areas, and that the two main System parties face no threat from Reform UK, the LibDems, or the Greens.
The most interesting fact about the by-election is that the turnout was only 31.4%; well over two-thirds of the eligible electorate could not be bothered to vote. If a party were to exist that could energize the remaining 68.6%, it might be a different story.
Incidentally, the new MP is one Ashley Dalton, about 52-53 years old, a widow who “identifies as LBGT [and as] a gay woman” [Wikipedia: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Dalton].
Turbulence in global #food markets is primarily related to the short-sighted policies of Western countries, who pumped up national financial systems with cheap money in order to mitigate the consequences of #COVID19 pandemic, thereby unbalancing global markets, incl food markets. pic.twitter.com/kBkOAtCX6m
💬#Zakharova: On February 13-15, 1945, the UK & US forces waged the infamous barbaric air bombings of Dresden.
◾️ It was the most devastating bombing attack in Europe during #WWII. Different estimates of the death toll vary from 25,000-50,000 to over 135,000 people#NeverForgetpic.twitter.com/CXQvTeSspH
.@thecoastguy’s reputation will shine brightly and brilliantly for years to come, long after the reputation of The Guardian has been self-soiled into insignificance.
Russia demands those responsible for Nord Stream blasts must be named and punished after investigative reporter claims Joe Biden ordered US navy to destroy the gas pipehttps://t.co/JxqXNncRkD
'We cannot be told what to do by Government. That truth is final and can only be denied by those who either don’t know it … or who do know it and are lying.'
That idiot is such a hypocrite that he probably does not know that he is a hypocrite.
Incidentally, reading Clooney’s entry in Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clooney], I realized that I have seen not one film or TV series featuring him. That must be why I was puzzled, many years ago, when I kept hearing things about him on the TV; I was thinking “George Clooney? Who’s that?“.
He has good taste in domestic property, though. His house on a river island at Sonning, Berkshire, is very classic (Georgian), and in a beautiful location across the Thames from some of the grounds of the school I unwillingly attended in the nearly 4 years 1970-1973; and his house on Lake Como, in the Italian Lakes region, is also beautiful and in a beautiful place.
Trust in science is plummeting. While major disagreements lead to major discoveries, science is degenerating into dogma by calling any disagreement as "misinformation." A revolution of sorts by courageous citizens can revive the science: https://t.co/vW3aIRTvao
— Dr. (Prof) Amitav Banerjee, Epidemiologist (@amitavb1) February 5, 2023
The evil and yet idiotic “SAGE” “scientists”, msm “me too” groupthinkers, and UK “health” bureaucrats would have been right at home in early Renaissance Italy, insisting that the Sun goes around the Earth and describing the truth as “heresy”.
'They invited us in to watch our mum die. We didn't even know she was ill.'
Tony Stowell shares his story of losing his mother after she was put in end-of-life care in a care home 'without his family's consent' during the Covid pandemic. pic.twitter.com/hRBSmOfoMh
State “quiet killing” of hundreds of thousands of elderly people thought of, by the State, by ministers and by most MPs, as simply “surplus to requirements”.
'There's been some fun and games going on behind the scenes. It is not good for a political power to have a citizenry that is properly aware of its constitutional powers.'
The Brits are fighting back. No to LTN,s. We don't want to live in controlled Zones with fines for those who dare to leave watched by CCTV cameras. Its time for free people to fight back and say No More. We also demand #FreedomOfSpeech#Resist No to this Dystopian Nightmare. pic.twitter.com/Oq2xM9iEzn
This is beyond the pale. And all because this woman had the temerity to criticise Jack Monroe, and share alternative cost-saving methods that she had found effective. https://t.co/Lbmuju6W21
— con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) (@racheledini1) February 5, 2023
“Jack Monroe” attracts the very worst supporters on Twitter, perhaps even worse than the “FBPE” loonies. Her core “constituency” is not “the poor”, but the unpleasant and/or mentally-disturbed.
Snap, is it a sock? Is it a sock showing how absolutely vile Jack Monroe can truly be under the guise of anonymity? @frugally_minded please take no heed of this twat. It says more about their mindset than anything else.
I think that there are at least half a dozen regular “Jack Monroe” Twitter “sock accounts” regularly posting while she pretends to be “taking (another) rest from Twitter”.
She has over half a million followers, her compulsive spending is funded by the public,and she is someone who made her name by giving advice to others about managing their budgets. Yet it turns out she cannot manage her own finances, let alone 'big Maths' or 'forensic detail'.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) February 5, 2023
It took me a while to realize the extent of it, but my opinion now is that “Jack Monroe” is, or has become, an outright fraud.
Incidentally, the new book by “Jack Monroe”, Thrifty Kitchen (which seems to consist, judging from what one reads in the msm and on Twitter, of recipes from the BBC and other sources already available for free online), is not selling.
At present, according to the Amazon Book Sales Calculator, only a few dozen copies a day, if that (about 600 per month) are being sold on Amazon (which must be the major outlet). In fact, nearly new copies (the book was only released a few weeks ago) are available on Amazon for as little as £7.
I was interested to see the reviews on Amazon. The 5* ones (about 70%), may or may not be genuine, and have only a handful of up-votes each, suspiciously, whereas the 20% of reviews awarding only 1* (with some wishing that they could award zero stars) have hundreds of up-votes: 400, 500, or more. Telling.
All the same, 498 utter mugs are still signed up on Patreon to send her a total of between £1,743 and £21,912 per month (probably in the region of about £5,000, realistically). The very silly, or outright loonies, I should imagine.
That composer, of whom I had never heard until today, seems to have been one of the millions displaced by the large-scale disruptions and dislocations of the 20th Century.
Stray thought about the NHS
I suppose that, as usual, I have to preface my remarks by repeating that I do favour the core principle of the NHS, i.e. that it should be free at point of use.
Beyond that, I was just trying to think of any other service or product which is defended mainly on the ground that it is free or cheap. Air travel using “low-cost” rubbish airlines, such as Ryanair? I suppose that that is one.
I understand that what people do is pay a ludicrously-small amount (eg £50, £20, or even £10) each way for the flight, but then have to accept that everything usually provided gratis is charged for, and that the flight will land a long way from where you really want to go, such as “Paris Beauvais” airport (Beauvais is 55 miles from Paris) or, I think in the past, even “Paris Amiens” airport (Amiens is 160 miles from Paris by road or rail).
Still, I see the point. Hard to complain about £10 each way London (Stansted) to/from La Rochelle, even if the service etc is near rock-bottom (though I concede that I myself have never used Ryanair). Incidentally, La Rochelle Airport is right by the city.
What else do people accept almost purely on the basis that it costs little? Not much, I think. State primary and secondary education? Possibly.
Still, Ryanair flights do arrive as promised, much of the time. Can the same be said of the NHS? I fear not, or often not, these days.
No-one (except perhaps the ultra-wealthy) wants to swap the NHS for an American-style system, but there are alternative systems that might be examined. What is not helpful is for people to shout out meaningless slogans about “our NHS” etc, to refuse to see what a poor service it is often —not always— offering now, and to refuse to think about how (beyond simply funding it better) the NHS might be improved.
Interesting. Is that a ploy to get “Boris”-idiot back? Or maybe some of them want sinister “let’s bomb Russia” candidate Tobias Ellwood as PM. That would solve all our problems— permanently…
Fascinating watching the Tories destroy themselves with no outside help. It is not as if the opposition are particularly popular with the general public.
While it is true that Labour are only popular by default, in a basically unfree and binary system, they are still well ahead at present.
I am not so sure that the Conservative Party might not be electorally better-off ditching the Indian money-juggler, and even going back to “Boris”-idiot, but better not that latter; they really need someone relatively untainted, and someone British/English, i.e. not non-white. That might not save them completely re. the next general election, but it might be enough to produce a hung Parliament.
I sense that Labour is, even in these conditions of shambolic incompetence in government, not truly “popular”, but many people are becoming desperate for something. If only there were a proper social-national party, credible and organized, but there is none.
A new Conservative Party leader would mean yet another unmandated or unvalidated PM, the fourth since 2015 (or fifth, if you include the first two years of “Boris”-idiot). What price “democracy”?
Not going to lie, am fascinated by the @bootstrapcook thing. I noticed her because of the @AsdaServiceTeam PR lies, but its actually staggering the level of batshit and fraudulent she got away with. Her sock puppet use is mental. Utterly batshit.