Category Archives: Party Politics

Diary Blog, 28 February 2025

Morning music

[Beaulieu River, New Forest]

Talking point

[George Buchanan (1506-1582); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan]

George Buchanan (Scottish Gaelic: Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was “the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced.” His ideology of resistance to royal usurpation gained widespread acceptance during the Scottish Reformation. Brown says the ease with which King James VII was deposed in 1689 shows the power of Buchananite ideas.[1]

His treatise De Jure Regni apud Scotos, published in 1579, discussed the doctrine that the source of all political power is the people, and that the king is bound by those conditions under which the supreme power was first committed to his hands, and that it is lawful to resist, even to punish, tyrants. The importance of Buchanan’s writings is shown by the suppression of his work by James VI and the British legislatures in the century following their publication. It was condemned by act of parliament in 1584, and burned by the University of Oxford in 1664 and 1683.[2]

[Wikipedia]

“The limits of the law”?

Salus populi suprema lex esto [Cicero]; the welfare of the people is the highest law.

Tweets seen

There is a gap in the political “market”, to put it vulgarly. Social nationalism, in principle, could fill that gap.

I have been saying that on the blog for a long long time.

More music

More tweets

After that— load UP!

More music

More tweets

Talking point

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-562064/Oh-lovely-war-The-dazzling-photos-innocent-Parisian-fun-make-French-ashamed.html#StartComments

Three girls enjoy the sunshine in the latest a la mode sunglasses.

Shoppers meander through a market piled high with fruit and veg. There is barely a seat to be had at the fashionable Cafe des Deux Magots in the chi-chi Paris quarter of Saint-Germain-de-Pres.

At Longchamps, France’s smartest racecourse, the It-girls of the day are parading in dazzling hats.

According to received wisdom among the French, the Occupation was a time of unspeakable deprivation and cruelty.

That is the story France has been repeating to itself for 64 years [as of 2008], ever since General de Gaulle turned up in a Paris newly-liberated by the Americans and praised a “martyred” capital for bravely freeing itself.

But it is not exactly the story which leaps out of these pictures.

[Daily Mail, 2008]

[“Does he look under threat? A lone unarmed German soldier walks down the Metro steps as Parisians get on with the hustle and bustle of their daily lives” —Daily Mail]
[“Shortages, what shortages? Shoppers stroll along the Rue de Belleville (during the German Occupation of the early 1940s)”— Daily Mail]
[“Rose-tinted view? Three fashionable young female students model the latest eyewear in Luxembourg Gardens, Paris 1942“— Daily Mail]

As I said to the trial judge during my 2023 free speech trial (as to which, see below) there is history itself, then there are differing views of history, or what is supposed to have happened, after the event(s).

More tweets

[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Starmer and his cabal are tyrants. What, historically, often happens to tyrants?

“I’m lovin’ it!

Trump, of course, as an American businessman, a businessman involved with real estate in, inter alia, New York City, at that, has been dealing with the American Jewish business element for his whole life, pretty much. He understands Zelensky’s negotiating style, and is unwilling to be bamboozled by it.

It looks increasingly likely that Russian tanks will be at the gates of Kiev before very long, probably in 2026 if not later in 2025.

It is actually laughable that “little Britons” such as Dan Hodges, among many, think in terms of the supposed importance of royal invitations etc, and how “crushing” to such as Trump (and, notionally, Putin etc) being disinvited to some visit or meeting must be. They really are living in a little parochial Westminster Bubble. I love the (now long-defunct) British Empire, but that was then. The world has now moved to a different place.

Dan Hodges, Rory Stewart, all that type, think that the UK can “take a stand” against Trump (and the USA), after having been “America’s poodle” for at least 35 years if not 85 years.

Ha ha! Forget it. Even if there is some pointless protest, they will not be serving drinks.

So Trump and Vance are “very small people”, according to one Alex Massie, a real “Little Briton”, it seems [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Massie_(journalist)].

I love that all these enemies of Britain’s better future, and Europe’s better future, are being put in their place by proxy. Most if not all of them are pro-Israel, pro-Jewish Lobby etc (I do not know whether Massie is such, but he writes or has written for Murdoch’s Times, Sunday Times etc, so… prima facie?…).

I suppose I can concede that there is an unmistakeable whiff of The Beverly Hillbillies about the Trump White House. Not so much Trump himself, but some of the entourage.

A long way from the sophistication of the Kennedy years of “American Camelot”…

The main thing, though, is that the international agenda, and indeed the post-1945 international order, is being reset. Britain is not involved, not as a player. It is, at most, an object, as are the other western and central European states.

This is the down-the-line result of Europe’s defeat in the Second World War. Europe was defeated, in big-picture terms, by western oligarchy (the USA) and eastern despotism (the Soviet Union), mainly. The UK started to be a vassal-state of the USA.

Now, the USA finds that it does not really need the UK even as “America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier” as someone (F.D. Roosevelt?) once called it. Result? Vassal-state UK has been dismissed by Trump’s USA, as has Starmer.

Historical note

https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb62.htm

[Dr. Goebbels]

Late tweets

Not just Labour. All System parties. All System MPs. All System “journalist” scribblers and talking heads.

Note the (((all-too-typical))) hand gesturing…

All very positive.

Late music

Diary Blog, 26 February 2025

[please note that the previously-encountered problem, of tweets not embedding properly, is back; to read the tweets, click on the links. I have no idea whether this is merely a technical problem with Twitter/X or WordPress, or whether it is some form of sabotage]

Morning music

[photomontage of Adolf Hitler and Unity Mitford]

Tweets seen

It takes courage —or desperation— to vote for something revolutionary, or even anything really radical. Germany is, even now, not ready for national revolution; neither is Britain.

Germany and Britain are both nearly ready to support something fairly radical— AfD in Germany, Reform UK in Britain (leaving aside the fact that Reform, at least, is basically “controlled opposition”), and we shall see what happens in the next 4 years. After that, social nationalism will be the only way to go. Either that, or complete collapse of the societies, followed by some form of authoritarian multikulti near-Communism.

We have not only to “drain the swamp” but clear the swamp…

https://www.oswaldmosley.net/origins-of-the-buf.php

Talking point

More tweets seen

Wow, Putin was right. Macron, Starmer, Zelensky, the President of Poland, Duda even waited 1,5hr outside the oval office for a 10min talk with Trump.”]

[“I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. We’re going to have Europe do that,” President Trump says regarding the potential Ukraine deal.“]

I think that we can now take it as read that, barring accidents, Russia and the USA will not be getting into a nuclear war. Whatever one may think of Trump, in that respect God must be with him, to put it in conventional terms.

That leaves the European powers. The only ones of significance are the UK and France (mainly because of their nuclear weapons), Poland, and Germany (Poland because of the size of its army and its probable morale, Germany because of its large amount of up-to-date transport, armament etc).

The UK and France would be mad to try to threaten the use of or, a fortiori, deploy in combat nuclear weapons. Any nuclear response by Russia would destroy Britain utterly. As for France, the same applies, except that France is nearly 2.5x the size of the UK.

I think that what we are looking at (unless there is a real armistice Russia-Ukraine, which is unlikely) is a continuation of the war, with the UK, France, Germany supplying even more arms, armament, and money to the Kiev regime, but probably failing to plug the gap left by withdrawal of most American assistance.

If the Americans also withdraw their intelligence aid to the Kiev regime, Russian forces will find their progress in the war easier.

The Kiev-regime side is now very short of actual “boots on the ground”. It is even thinking of extending the draft to those aged 18-24, so far immune from conscription.

I cannot see the Kiev regime lasting much beyond 2026.

[“British MPs have taken down another picture of Nelson, the greatest naval commander in history, a man who died for his country, and put up a picture of Yvette Cooper who cannot even control our borders. It is a powerful symbol of all that is wrong with Britain.”]

If I were an MP, I should put my boot through Cooper’s portrait.

Diary Blog, 25 February 2025

Morning music

[Elstead Old Bridge, Surrey, constructed c.1300; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elstead]

Tweets seen

“TFW” both the person posing as Prime Minister and the head of your foreign intelligence service present themselves as little more than a couple of idiots with no strategic sense.

I just happened to notice that Richard Moore has also tweeted in support of the “holocaust” narrative farrago.

Pitiful.

Of course, the real threats to the UK come from quite other directions— the continuing migration invasion, the falling apart of British society via mass immigration, drug and alcohol abuse, administrative incompetence, and the cultural sickness largely mediated by “the usual suspects” (((“them”))).

Russia is not the old Soviet Union (“Sovyetsky Soyuz”) or “Soviet Onion”, as the Soviet Union was sometimes called (also, disparagingly, “Upper Volta with rockets”); it has no interest in invading Western (or even Eastern) Europe, though it does wish to protect itself from NWO/ZOG NATO encroachment (hence the war in Ukraine and the tensions in the Baltic region or “pribaltika” etc, those regions which Russians call the “near-abroad”).

That Moore person strikes me as a bit of a twit, despite his high rank, career background etc.

Come to think of it, the current Director-General of MI5 also strikes me as a bit of a twit. I suppose that, if the UK is falling to pieces in some respects, the security and intelligence services cannot be immune from it all.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McCallum; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Moore_(diplomat)

Dirty democratic politicians” [Adolf Hitler]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14431403/Labours-Jonathan-Reynolds-apologises-describing-solicitor-Business-Secretary-says-doesnt-think-claims-huge-deal.html

The Business Secretary has apologised for describing himself as a solicitor despite having never finished his training.

Speaking for the first time since the solicitor’s watchdog said it would look into complaints against him, Jonathan Reynolds said he was sorry if people had ‘misunderstood’.

In an interview with the Mail in New Delhi where he is holding talks on a trade deal with India, he said that he had repeatedly referred to himself as a trainee solicitor.”

[Daily Mail]

Yet another smug useless nobody who has managed to blag his way into being an MP, and indeed Cabinet minister. Another Labour Friends of Israel member, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Reynolds#Early_life_and_career

More from the wonderfully “diverse” Britain of 2025

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14430873/Met-Police-sacked-football-hooliganism-Arsenal.html

Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked after throwing a firework into the crowd during Arsenal’s defeat to Bayern Munich in Germany.

Detective Constable Gordon Irikefe was found to have committed gross misconduct in acts of ‘unacceptable’ football hooliganism at Arsenal games between October 2022 and April last year.

[Daily Mail]

Nigerian origin, but you would search in vain for that information in the Daily Mail report (musn’t upset the “diversity”, of course… a few Daily Mail readers have cottoned-on, though, looking at the comments section).

More from the migration-invasion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14431149/India-demands-UK-visas-price-free-trade-deal-Britain-Business-Secretary-says-agreement-speed-not-haste.html

India has said that more business visas for its workers will be the price of a free trade deal with the UK.

Minister of Commerce Piyush Goyal said that allowing British companies access to India’s services sector would require greater access for its staff.

Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi alongside Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, he refused to put a timeframe on a deal but said it would be done with ‘speed but not haste’.

But he made clear that business mobility visas for Indian workers – a sticking point that derailed the last round of talks – would be part of any agreement.

So even more Indians will now be arriving in the UK, many together with “family members”. After a while, many will have children, who will then be officially (if not in reality) “British”, with full legal rights to live here, eventually bring in fiancees, spouses etc…

More tweets seen

Talking point

Under a Labour government we would freeze energy bills. We wouldn’t allow them to go up.” ~ Keir Starmer Snake oil salesmanship. UK domestic energy prices are to rise by 6.4% in April to £1,849 a year on average.”

If Britain could form a loose alliance with Russia, the British people would get oil and gas at cost.

[“Foreign aid wouldn’t be my first choice when finding extra cash for defence. The state pension triple lock would be my first choice. (But I don’t have to win elections.)“]

I suppose that the Massie tweeter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Massie_(journalist)] represents, apart from himself, some strand of Conservative Party thinking, he being the Scotland Editor of the Spectator. Thus we see how the Con Party has no chance, in my view, of revival; willing to impoverish one of the most important voting blocs, those of pensionable age, in order to waste money on “defence” (i.e. the misconceived aggressiveness towards Russia, as well as support for the Israeli Jews’ war machine).

Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor—latest

[“My next post about Mark Lewis and Patron Law is with their lawyers to see if they object. Some great stuff about Lewis in this one. Like when he claimed to be “loaded with hallucinogenic drugs” for an MRI scan and this caused him to abuse people online. Sign up link in bio“]

James Wilson was the successful claimant in the fairly recent libel case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor.

It looks very much as if the self-publicizing Jewish solicitor Mark Lewis once again gave advice that was both professionally negligent and dishonest. As a result, one of the two surviving Jewish defendants, Cantor, will probably be losing his family home in order to satisfy the costs of the successful claimant, Wilson.

Newbon was a vituperative social media troll and Israel fanatic. If I have understood the matter correctly, he was also misled by Lewis and other Jews, and killed himself during the currency of the legal case, and after his wife, kept in the dark up to that point, discovered that his actions might mean the loss of their family home.

As to the egregious Lewis, I have written quite a lot about him in the past: see

That blog post contains links to other relevant posts.

As to Lewis’s claim that he was only aggressive on social media by reason of short-term use of drugs for medical purposes circa 2015/2016, well…he was abusing me on Twitter as early as 2011, together with, at first, his then wife, Caroline Feraday, a very minor London radio/TV wannabee “celebrity” of the late 1990s (they relocated to California, but were divorced after a year by reason of his abusive behaviour towards her etc. Lewis then returned to the Golders Green area of London but now lives much of the time in Israel).

See those blog posts for further details.

Lewis continued to conspire with other Jews (all connected with the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, and/or “UK Lawyers for Israel” or “UKLFI”) to have me disbarred, questioned by police, even —ultimately— prosecuted. An obsessive campaign that has continued for about 15 years, so far.

See also:

Late tweets

In the end, they will probably have to be sorted out in the same way that the Freikorps sorted out similar elements in Germany and the Baltic regions in the early 1920s.

Late music

Diary Blog, 22 February 2025, with a few thoughts about flying boats

Morning music

[Eurasian lynx]

Saturday quiz

Well, slightly to my surprise, I defeated political journalist John Rentoul once again this week. Rentoul scored 4/10, but I trumped that, scoring 6/10 (admittedly, was unsure about question 8). I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 4, and 5.

Journalistic accuracy

Never accept, without checking, whatever a journalistic scribbler may say. I was just reading a not-uninteresting piece in The Oldie magazine, and about the Metropolitan Police in the 1970s, which article was written in 2023 by Duncan Campbell, a well-known journalist and author who was, arguably, better-known in the 1980s than he now is.

https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/partners-in-crime

Duncan Campbell is over 80 now, and married to that striking actress, Julie Christie. Their political views are, I think, quite similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(journalist,_born_1944)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Christie

Reading Campbell’s nicely-written piece, I notice that he says (in 2023) of the famous or infamous ex-cat burglar, Peter Scott, that “Scott now lives in a council flat in King’s Cross, the proceeds from the odd Vermeer and Sophia Loren’s diamonds long gone.

In fact, Scott died in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scott_(thief)

As a matter of fact, I reviewed Scott’s memoirs on Amazon UK many years ago now.

My Amazon book reviews are now unavailable— the usual pack of Jews had me “cancelled” about 15 years ago, around 2010, from reviewing books both on Amazon UK (where I was one of the top book reviewers) and Amazon USA. A Jew formerly resident in the
UK but now living in Ra’anana (a suburb-town in the Tel Aviv area of Israel/Occupied Palestine) was the main instigator.

Scott lived, in his heyday, in the less-prestigious outer part of Maida Vale, whereas I lived at one time in Little Venice (also part of Maida Vale):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Venice

My (intermittent, from 1976 to 1996) times in Little Venice overlapped with Scott’s time in the area (he used the tiny “gangster pub”, the Windsor Castle, in Lanark Place, a pub at one time supposedly owned by Barbara Windsor, who was tied up with all sorts of gangsters and other criminals).

[The old Windsor Castle pub, in Lanark Place W.9., not to be confused with another and much larger pub with the same name in the outer regions of Maida Vale by Harrow Road; I believe both are now permanently closed, the Little Venice one (above) now trading as a Korean food outlet. Sign of the times…]

I occasionally had a drink there. One morning, waiting for the no.6 bus to take me to the High Court (I was appearing as Counsel), I observed the aftermath of a police raid there; about 3 or 4 police cars blocking Lanark Place. God knows why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Windsor

I enjoyed Campbell’s Oldie article, even though I already knew most of the facts noted in it.

Always check the accuracy of anything that anyone in and of the msm says.

Talking points

She is rather a loonie, but that is more in her manner than in the main substance of what she says, which is often, though not always, correct.

Tweets seen

A flying boat capable of going nearly 6,000 miles without refuelling, at a cruising speed of 360 mph; maximum speed 380 mph.

The 105 passengers were carried in First and Tourist cabins.

As with the 1930s German airships, the Empire flying boats made in the UK were in some respects superior to the flying machines of today. As Francis Bacon observed, just because a thing is superseded by another thing does not mean that the latter is superior.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon].

See also: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-5191131/Inside-glamorous-world-luxury-flying-boats.html.

[Dornier Do X flying boat; prototype on test near Berlin, 1929; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_X]
[Dornier Do X in flight]

The Dornier Do X could carry over 150 passengers and was the largest plane in the world at the time.

Unlike the British and American flying boats, though, the Dornier never went into regular service.

[boy and girl amuse themselves aboard the Pan Am Clipper]
[dining area aboard the Dornier Do X]

More tweets seen

[“The Russian military struck Ukrainian infrastructure over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cIPYtl“— TASS]

“Boris Johnson is no threat. He is the architect of all the decline & chaos you see around you today, all the mass uncontrolled immigration. If an architect destroyed your home you would never invite him back.”

[Matt Goodwin]

The only “threat” is that a huge number of dummies have still, after everything, not yet awoken to the utter uselessness of “Boris” Johnson.

I think that I can claim to have been one of the first not personally acquainted with Johnson to have realized that he was not only unfit morally to be MP, minister, and then Prime Minister, but actually intellectually incapable of doing any of those jobs.

I expressed my views first on Amazon book reviews from about 2002 (but was “cancelled” by Jewish lobby pressure sometime around 2010 or 2011); then on Twitter from 2010 until Jews again brought pressure on Twitter to “cancel” me (in 2018). Also, on the blog from 2017 to present.

Having said that, there are still a huge number of idiots, mainly Conservative Party members and voters, still willing to support “Boris”, so it is not inconceivable that he could return to Parliament, get Carpetbagger Kemi binned, then take over the “Conservative” Party again. I doubt, though, that that would propel the Cons to victory over Lab; it might save some existing Con Party seats, however.

If the Cons were set to lose about 80 seats, the loss might be reduced by half. Most of Reform’s likely victories henceforth, though, will be in seats presently held by Labour, not by the Con Party.

Late music

[All Souls, Oxford]

Diary Blog, 19 February 2025, including the opposition to Spanish octopus farms, and thoughts about Ukraine and a negotiated peace

Afternoon music

[Borovsk, Kaluzhkaya Oblast]

Tweets seen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher

Aristotle, apparently, called the octopus “a stupid creature“. Aristotle was wrong. It seems that he said that because an octopus will approach a man’s hand in water. We now know that that is because the octopus wants to be friendly, and is sometimes willing to take the risk that the man may not be. Aristotle can now be both understood and corrected.

That would result in Reform UK having 189 MPs (Lab 181, Con 162, LibDem 58, Greens 4). A hung Parliament requiring a Reform-Con agreement of some kind.

The forces of the Russian Federation are now advancing daily in all sectors of the front.

Talking point

Zelensky is a dictator, or at least the figurehead of a dictatorship. That is a fact. Elections “delayed” and not expected to be held for years, if ever. Dissidents arrested, with some imprisoned, some even shot. Trade unions banned. Opposition parties, opposed to the war, or favourable to negotiation with Russia, banned. Military recruits simply seized off the streets and brutally pressganged.

That’s before you even start with the pervasive corruption, which is worse the higher you get in the Ukrainian fake state. Every kind of international gangsterism and moneylaundering is there.

Zelensky and his cabal is now sidelined as a near-irrelevance. Why? Because the Kiev regime is not a real player in the war. Stop the arms and ammunition (and vast amounts of US, EU, and UK taxpayer monies) going to the Kiev regime, and the war will stop within weeks. The war juggernaut cannot run without that fuel.

There are only two real players in the war, Russia and the USA, and now, thank God, they are both interested seriously in a negotiated peace, or at least a negotiated armistice.

The EU states and the UK are not serious players because the amount of arms, ammunition, and money they are wasting on the Kiev regime is less than half of the total spend. If the USA stops funding the Kiev regime but the EU and UK continue, the war will continue for a while until, before very long, Russian forces prevail and the Zelensky dictatorship collapses (in 2025 or 2026).

Ukraine is not a proper state, and was not even when it was established, in the 1990s. I have heard tales of corruption and degeneracy that would make your hair stand up on end. Now, even basic State functions are only carried out because of the Western money being funneled to the regime.

Trump may not be a particularly likeable man or leader, but I seriously think that, to put it in traditional terms, “God is on his side” in trying to close down this terrible war; in other respects as well.

Russia has been partly to blame. I blame the leadership (from high to low) of the Russian Army, air force, SVR, and also the political leadership, for not having conducted a swift and unstoppable coup de main and coup d’etat in early 2022.

I have written about this previously on the blog. Something akin to the way in which the Afghan government was removed in 1979.

Swift. Relentless. Remorseless.

Had that been done, civilian casualties and environmental damage would have been minimal. The whole thing would have been over in a few days.

Going from the sublime to the ridiculous, the minor would-be players, such as Starmer, and (if the idiot is worth even mentioning) David Lammy, are just making themselves look ridiculous. They talk about “British boots on the ground in Ukraine“, when only between 5,000 and (at very most) 10,000 troops could be sent, and they would be irrelevant in such a situation, quite apart from quite likely sparking a major Russia-NATO war.

Little lawyer Starmer is out of his depth. He should leave Ukraine alone and start to do something (if he even wants to, and if he is capable of doing anything useful) about the invasion of Britain by blacks and browns.

Late tweets

As said, Zelensky can be regarded as a dictator or, perhaps more accurately, the figurehead of a dictatorial cabal of thieves, those thieves posing as a legitimate government.

Late thoughts about Ukraine, NATO etc

People in the Western msm, and System politics, are now waking up to what I have been presuming for some time, namely that, if a European NATO state calls upon the “mutual aid” Article 5 of the NATO treaty, regarding a situation arising from the Ukraine situation, and if that state wants other NATO states to weigh in against Russia, the USA (all the more so now Trump is President) might well say “no” in respect of US forces, or nuclear weapons, getting involved.

NATO has outlived its usefulness.

The idea that Russia wants to occupy central and western Europe, or even most of eastern Europe (Poland, the Baltic states), is ridiculous anyway. Those EU states and others throwing money at the Zelensky “government” in Kiev are a joke. Wasting money which should be going to improve the lives of their own citizens, whose taxes are being stolen, in effect.

Britain should be ready to normalize relations with Russia now. In fact, that is the only way that Brexit can work properly. We can form a mutually-beneficial trading and strategic connection with Russia. The rest of Europe (within or without the EU) should do the same.

Late music

[Alma-Tadema, Silver Favourites]

Diary Blog, 18 February 2025, including thoughts on Conservative and Labour voters moving to Reform UK, about migration and remigration, about Rory Stewart and Elon Musk, and about notorious online “grifters”

Morning music

[under the Chapel, Lincoln’s Inn]

Talking point

Tweets seen

At a general election, that would translate to about 221 Reform UK seats (Lab 181, Con 121, LibDem 66 etc), so a Reform UK minority government, presumably reliant on Con

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

The more I think about it, the less I believe that any but a few will vote for the Con Party, especially now that it is headed by a Nigerian carpetbagger. Kemi Badenoch, “Carpetbagger Kemi”.

Most people, even after decades of brainwashing in schools, the msm etc, still want the UK Prime Minister to be properly British, i.e. white Northern European.

Seems that the “Conservatives” learned nothing from having been ruled by the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak.

Also, where do “Conservative” policies markedly differ from those of Starmer-Labour?

In any case, Britain, Europe, needs quality, not quantity.

…and tweeter “Elizabeth Chandler” should learn to spell before she tries to use big words to appear well-informed! (it’s “exponentially“, not “expidentialy“…).

See also:

Tweeter “J Kash MAGA Queen” does not know the half of it! See:

If under £100,000 p.a. I should be surprised.

Pseudo-“Conservative” greaseball Fraser Nelson is another total finance-capitalist, globalist, multikulti, puppet. One of the worst influences (and/or influencers) in the UK’s corrupt political and journalistic milieux.

Pro-Israel; pro-Jewish lobby as well.

Very interesting. The situation is far worse than I had thought. California— only 19%! Incredible.

See also:

I had not seen anything from that grifting loonie for a couple of years, as far as I can remember. She tweeted, earlier today, that anyone in the UK who did not (her word) “hate” Elon Musk had an IQ below room temperature. Well, while I myself do not agree with everything Musk says or does, I probably agree more than disagree, and my IQ was once (admittedly 40 years ago) measured at 156— I think that it probably stacks up well enough even today against that of grifting political idiot “Supertanskiii” (though one can almost admire someone who has made a living for years doing little but swearing online at “the Tories“, albeit that she has also been able to get State monies via the benefits system).

I have not heard so much from that kind of online pseudo-political “grifter” recently.

Fraudulent fake “cook”, “Jack Monroe”, has been comprehensively exposed and become obscure (I doubt that her rubbish ever appears in newspapers or major magazines any more); that Jewish fraud from Essex calling himself “Man Behaving Dadly”, Simon-something (Harris?), has apparently disappeared too, he having conned naive Essex County Council out of over £600,000.

Others have also seen their brief time of influence ebb away, such as non-practising medical doctor and facemask purveyor, Julia Grace Patterson. That one has now, it seems, almost given up trying to make money out of online “grifting”, and has not tweeted since November 2024, though she remains on the pathetic “Blue Sky” site, and has most recently (late 2024) been flogging Christmas cards online (while still pretending to be an active NHS doctor and health “activist”).

As I predicted a year ago, those sort of pseudo-political fake “activists” have found that their modus operandi of pretending to be tribunes of the people against the (admittedly) wicked “Tories” cuts little ice now that the said “Tories” have been replaced by a fake “Labour” government as bad as, or worse than, the “Conservatives” they replaced.

More tweets seen

The British Tory party’s ‘realignment’, in 2019, was based on having 75% of Brexit/culturally conservative voters. Today? They only have 29%. This is what matters when you ignore your own voters. The Tories are dying –as I said they would.”

[Matt Goodwin]

The tipping point may have been reached for Reform UK, and also for the once-great Conservative Party. Only time will tell. It is natural for people to assume that large political organizations, states, religions etc go on for ever. Not so.

Having seen a bit of what happened in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when socialism died across Europe and elsewhere, I know that large structures can indeed collapse rather unexpectedly, albeit after long periods of slow preparatory weakness.

When you look at who votes or intends to vote Conservative now, you are really looking, mainly looking, at retired people or people close to retirement.

People who have seen Britain, certainly British cities and towns, turn from being white (i.e. British) to being largely black and brown (etc).

People who have seen large social and economic enterprises (water supply, railways, telephone system, bus network, Royal Mail etc), whatever faults they had, become often unresponsive and failing private-profit bodies.

People who have seen the great institutions of the State fail, and continue to fail, badly— police, courts, judges, legal system, prisons, NHS, border control, immigration control, Army, Navy, Air Force. Civil Service. Royal Family too. All useless, or rapidly becoming so.

What is the rotting head of that failure? The political system, Parliament, MPs, and the now-ludicrous House of Lords.

So when those people go to vote, how will they vote, those disenchanted, angry, let-down people, especially those aged 50+? Not for Labour, which (as I said on the blog for years) has become mainly the party of the “blacks and browns” and in general those dependent on the State for money and/or employment. Only the naive and fairly comfortably-off, in certain places, vote LibDem.

Conservative MPs mismanaged the UK for 14 years 2010-2025. Huge immigration, including the continuing “small boats” invasion. NHS failures. The “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic. Much else besides.

The only reason many older people stuck with the Conservative Party was the State Pension “triple lock”. Then the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak, reneged on that (for one year), though he reinstated it the following year. I think that that badly damaged trust.

In my judgment, things are now so bad in the UK and, importantly, seen to be getting worse, and rapidly, that many are willing to leave their old habits and loyalties behind, and to vote Reform. By no means only former Con Party voters. Labour ones too. Look at the case of Lee Anderson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Anderson_(British_politician).

So who is really going to vote “Conservative” in 2028 or 2029? I should say mainly those who are old or very old, who are set in their ways and in their habitual loyalties and, of those, who are fairly comfortably-off in their retirement, and whose local areas have not (yet) been badly-affected by migration-invasion etc.

I do not think that msm commentators have quite factored-in the significance of the Con Party now having a non-white leader. Yes, not the first one, but then look at Sunak’s electoral meltdown.

I would have put that middle-aged/elderly Con-voting group, and or with others willing to vote Con, as adding up to somewhere around 20% of the voting population (General Election 2024— 23.7%) but now I am inclined to think that, by 2028/2029, it may be as low as 15%. On that basis, the Conservative Party may be at the end of the line.

Using Electoral Calculus, and with Con 15%, Labour 25%, LibDem 15%, Greens 10%, and Reform UK 30% (its likely maximum), that would result in a House of Commons with 330 Reform MPs, 163 Lab, 72 LibDem, 20 Con, 4 Green (etc). Reform Commons majority.

Were Reform to get a lesser vote (25%), the result would change to Reform 220, Lab 208, LibDem 76, Con 49 (etc). Still no comfort for the Con Party; only fourth party in Commons.

The Conservatives would have to get 20% overall even to stay where they now are (121 seats). I doubt they will do it.

More tweets

“At a record low of -54, the Labour government’s approval rating is virtually identical to the final approval rating of Rishi Sunak’s government, which was -56. Just before Sunak left office, 15% approved of his government. Currently, 14% approve of Labour. (Source: @YouGov)”

Late tweets seen

That tweeter is the ex-wife of an MP removed last year by the voters. For over three decades, she herself worked for him at Westminster, generously paid out of his Parliamentary expenses. She seems to be pro-immigration, pro-Israel, and anti-Russian, inter alia. Seems to be rather bitter in several ways. She is also wrong in most of her (evidently strongly-held) political judgments.

Certainly, so far as the Ukraine situation is concerned, Russia will not accept NATO forces there, even if under “peacekeeping” auspices. Anyway, contrary to that tweeter’s assertion, Russia need not accept any such forces. Russia is, slowly, winning, advancing daily in most parts of eastern Ukraine.

The war will conclude once Russia has occupied all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper. Why then would Russia accept “peacekeepers” who would be NATO troops under another label? Not the USA? Not the very weak UK. Not Germany. Once Macron stops trying to grandstand as a latter-day Napoleon, not France, either.

I do agree, overall, with the tweeter mentioned, though, about the CCHQ tweet below:

“Culture” or society does matter, in my view, but very few will look at Kemi Badenoch and think “now that’s the kind of person who should be Prime Minister“…

As mentioned on the blog earlier today, I can see the Conservative Party ending up with 10, 20, 30 MPs a few years down the line.

Senator van Hollen obviously has no idea how Roosevelt ripped off the British Empire in various ways, not least by turning the Caribbean, at the time (pre-1941) pretty much a British lake, into what it later became and still is, basically an American sphere of influence, albeit nominally in co-operation with the UK.

The USA also took over, steadily, but after WW2, much of British industry and commerce internationally.

Interesting. That is not the old Soviet Embassy in Washington. They must have moved at some point since 1991.

Late music

Diary Blog, 14 February 2025

Morning music

[Constable, Cottage in a Field]

Tweets seen

In the early 1940s, Jewish scientists created the atom bomb, with the idea of using it in Europe, especially on German cities. There was a possibility, theoretically, that the first test detonation would set Earth’s atmosphere on fire. They took the risk because to them, as Jews, killing the world’s only National Socialist state took priority over the survival of all life on Earth. See the kind of thinking they had? Zelensky is no different.

To me, provisionally, this Chernobyl attack looks very much like a “false flag”, trying to stop Trump and/or the EU leaders talking to Putin.

The fact is that Zelensky is not really a player . Without American or EU arms, ammunition, money, and other aid, “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) cannot continue to prosecute this drawn-out and agonizing war. Cut off the supply, and Zelensky’s regime implodes within days, certainly within weeks. He is a man of straw.

Does anyone really watch BBC Question Time these days? I would guess a small tranche of the population, 55+ or 65+ in years, mostly. People who fail to see that it is just a rigged system propaganda show.

Looking at tweets, seems that one panellist was ignorant Labour-label expenses cheat Jacqui Smith [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Smith], who is basically a fraudster (she even claimed on her expenses for her husband’s TV porn-watching!) A total fraud. Member of Labour Friends of Israel, of course. Also, entirely without any intelligent or cultural mentality of any use. Chucked out of Parliament by the voters, only to be given a fake title of “Baroness” and put into the discredited “House of Lords”.

Oh, and the Jew scribbler George Monbiot was yet another System-approved guest last night, it seems, droning on about “appeasement” and saying that “Ukraine” (the Jewish/Zionist regime in Kiev) should be given “whatever it wants“.

Fiona Bruce, presenter, had asked about how Ukraine might “defeat Russia“. Of course Monbiot could not answer, and just waffled, because “Ukraine” cannotdefeat Russia“, a proper state (unlike “Ukraine), and with a population several times that of Ukraine, with a proper army, its own supplies of arms, ammunition, money, food, oil and gas etc, and a territory many times that of Ukraine (even on the pre-2014 borders).

The way things are going, Israel may be living on borrowed time. If Iran develops nuclear warheads, half the Jews in the world (those in Israel/Occupied Palestine) may go up in smoke.

Starmer is either a political idiot (maybe an idiot anyway, for all his “KC” and former “DPP” ranks…), or a puppet of “the usual suspects”; maybe both. I think both, really.

Imagine betting other people’s, the British people’s, money and future on a one-trick-pony like Zelensky, who has already lost.

Those tweets refer to the dishonest and/or negligent legal advice given to at least two of the three losing defendants in the libel case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased) and Cantor.

See also:

I would not usually retweet the fanatical former Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, but truth is truth, as they say…

See also:

…and who could blame them? A fake “state” headed by a drug-fuelled Jew-Zionist former comedian who is, at best, a loose cannon.

Is it only now that Zelensky realized that “Ukraine” was never going to join NATO? Yet stupid Starmer still pretends that the contrary is the case…

I think that that says more about Starmer’s lack of geopolitical grasp than anything. There again, Starmer is just an Israel-lobby puppet anyway.

Entry of a candidate-state into NATO (under its own rules) has to be approved by all NATO member-states. Several are now against even pretending that “Ukraine” can join or will join. The USA is the most important but others too. Hungary, Germany (though the Germans may pretend otherwise); I think a few others as well.

The pretence seems to be “not this year”, and not next year; maybe in or around 2030. Maybe. Maybe not. I think never. The fake “Ukraine” state may not even exist by 2030, or even 2026.

How long can NATO even exist? 2028? Were the USA to pull out of NATO, about two-thirds of its overall funding (funding including the funding of national forces and their arms and armament etc) would disappear.

Likewise, were the USA to take over Greenland (thus provoking Denmark, a full NATO member), the alliance would probably fall to pieces one way or the other.

It even occurs to me that Trump’s recent statements about taking over both Greenland (territory of Denmark) and Canada (a full NATO member) were actually designed to weaken NATO. I have no doubt that Putin and his circle welcomed (secretly) Trump’s outbursts. Is that too “conspiracy theory”? Maybe. Unsure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO#Membership

Total insanity. After already giving £101 MILLION to refurbish a removal centre to detain illegal migrants, Labour is now offering a £110 MILLION contract to cover welfare & health services for 130 migrants. Leave the ECHR. Put in deterrent. Stop the boats.

[Matt Goodwin]

Absolutely mad.

Yvette Cooper should be [REDACTED]. Not only an anti-British would-be dictator and expenses fraudster, and also yet another member of Labour Friends of Israel, but totally incompetent as well.

…and all pro-Israel expenses cheat “Baroness” Jacqui Smith can do is bleat the same old and anyway untrue s**t about how Labour is “tackling the gangs“…

Sickening.

When will the people do what is necessary?

Talking point

Many MPs have lied on their CVs. Not just overblown their academic and work backgrounds, but lied outright. Iain Dunce “Duncan Smith” is but one. Rachel Reeves is far from being the only defaulter. She is, however, also egregiously hopeless at her job, which is even more relevant. Incidentally, yet another Labour Friends of Israel member.

Late tweets

Late music

Diary Blog, 13 February 2025

Afternoon music

[painting by Volegov]

Tweets seen

Interesting to hear Patrick O’Flynn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Flynn], former UKIP MEP and journalist, use the term “System” as I do on the blog (as when he says, there, “System people“). Is he one of the politicians and commentators who peruse my views, or is that simple co-incidence?

Unpleasantness ran and runs right though “New Labour”, and Starmer-Labour is just a pointless, meaningless offshoot of Blair-Brown “New Labour”.

Bastani is right, of course, about the appallingly-low quality of MPs. Since 1997 and, particularly, 2010 (and as often said by me on the blog), that fact is inescapable. Not just in fake Labour though; also true of the fake “Conservative” Party, and fake “Liberal Democrat” Party (remember Jo Swinson?).

Reform UK is “controlled opposition”, of course, but is moving the Overton Window. When that has moved far enough, social nationalism can enter the arena.

Blast from the past: the “Mrs Duffy” moment in 2010

Mrs Duffy, uneducated, “ignorant” etc, knew far more than “educated” fake “big brain”, globalist puppet Gordon Brown. In the past 15 years, her superior understanding of the mass immigration crisis (if not put in a very polished way, so be it) still resonates —in fact, more than even in 2010— whereas Gordon Brown is just a washed-up System politician now exposed as far from the great mind he (and his tendentious wife/carer/psychiatric nurse) thought.

Aaron Bastani is far from my position, ideologically. Having said that, he often speaks the truth as he sees it.

Both Lab and Con parties, the main two System parties, are losing all credibility; the LibDems, as “dustbin” or “default alternative” party, never had much to lose.

Trump, and Trump’s White House

Of course, it is easy to see the Trump White House as a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, looking at recent tweets etc (see below)

Looks as though Musk should have a word with the child’s nanny. The child seems short on good manners. (I have to admit that it made me laugh, though; look at Trump’s expression!).

Very odd. Where did the child hear that, to regurgitate it?

That scene really does seem mad, disorderly.

On the other hand, until Trump took over, the international situation, and several regional issues, seemed stuck in glacial mud. He has disrupted that pattern. As psychologists say, a “pattern-interrupt”.

It may seem absurd to want to buy Greenland, annex Canada, and turn the Jew-Zionist-devastated Gazan hellscape into a Mediterranean beach resort, but all of those ideas have at least made people think about alternative realities.

To compare Trump’s disruptive ideas to the campaigns of Alexander the Great may seem to stretch “first time tragedy, second time farce“, in the famous comment of Marx, to breaking point, but history is sometimes moved by ideas that seemed absurd.

Look at the state of Israel itself. When Herzl and others first came up with the idea of Israel as a state, they were just a few Jews in the lower strata of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. Their ideas seemed crazed, and they themselves had no genuine ancestral link to Palestine, which was then one of the poorer provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Also, the Ottoman Empire might have been “the sick man of Europe” but it sat there, apparently immovable in its vast power.

Is Trump trying to make his Gaza plan (“Club Trump?) seem more credible by hiding it among even crazier-seeming plans? One thinks of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and E.W. Hornung.

Where do you hide a pebble? On a beach. Where do you hide a murder? Among other apparently-similar murders. Where do you, as a fugitive person, hide? Not in isolated places but in a big city. So where do you hide your plan to seize Gaza? Among other apparently-mad plans.

A paranoid analysis, possibly; also, though, possibly, accurate.

Trump cannot realistically seize Canada. He cannot, either, seize Greenland, not without smashing NATO to pieces. He could, however, take over Gaza. The Israelis (quelle surprise) seem open to the idea. After all, from where would come most if not all inhabitants of the proposed Club Trump, Club Gaza? Israel, of course, or Jew-Zionist settlers from places such as New York City.

“Greater Israel”, in some form, seems more than a mere “conspiracy theory”.

When Trump was serving out his first term, this blog described him as “a loudly-squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by a phalanx of Jews“, and that remains broadly the case, but perhaps less so in this second term. Trump no longer needs the Jewish lobby or Israel lobby for political purposes, though he would not want to make an enemy of them either, whether for political or business reasons.

Trump may be thinking in terms of “legacy”, especially after the assassination attempt(s).

Looks as though Trump is also determined to bring an end to the war in and around Ukraine. He must know that the quickest way to do that is to restrict or stop money, arms, and ammunition flowing to the Kiev regime.

More tweets seen

That “charity” was set up by Rory Stewart himself. His wife was an employee of his prior to their marriage. I believe that she was married or engaged to someone else at the time. She is half-Jewish, I believe. See also:

My assessment of Stewart, published in 2019 and updated over the years, has proven to be fairly popular with readers. He himself is part-Jew, incidentally, a fact of which I admit I was unaware until an alert blog reader sent information (read the published assessment).

As for Stewart’s wife and that “artwork” etc, funny how “they” are always around when degenerate influences are promoted.

Also, Paddington was a lone bear, i.e. not an army of tens of millions, quite apart from the fact that he was a work of fantasy children’s fiction.

Stella Creasy is one of the more evil MPs. Member of Labour Friends of Israel, of course.

Creasy’s partner is Dan Fox, a former director of Labour Friends of Israel.[76]

[Wikipedia]

See also: https://www.thejc.com/news/stella-creasy-lashes-out-at-al-jazeera-over-smear-of-jewish-partner-qe5gkauy.

Zelensky is living on borrowed time. How long before tidal waves of tanks roll into Kiev?

As soon as the money/arms/ammunition tap is shut off, or the flow reduced to a trickle, the Kiev regime will just implode. “Ukraine” is not a real state at all.

It always looks ludicrous when “British” politicians of today try to play the “war leader and statesman” card, even when they have some underwhelming “military experience”; neither Sunak nor Starmer have any at all. Neither, of course, has Maria Eagle, a former solicitor best known as MP for having been an expenses cheat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Eagle#Expenses_controversy].

Maria Eagle is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, of course.

Look and learn. When “they” have power, as in Russia/Soviet Union after the Bolshevik “Revolution” (coup d’etat).

If some of the Palestinian Arabs sometimes do monstrous things, as on the day or two before the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2023, it is because they have been made monstrous by, mainly, Jewish/Israeli behaviour.

As with Reform UK in this country, not really my preference in an ideal world, but better than all the other main choices at present.

More tweets seen

That might translate into a Commons with 276 Reform UK MPs! Also, according to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] 139 Lab, 108 Con, 59 LibDem, 4 green, 40 SNP; 24 others.

Still no majority (50 short), but I imagine that, under those circumstances, some Con MPs would defect, and others support ad hoc.

Were Reform to be able to get even one extra point, to 30%, then, even with other figures unchanged, its MP cadre would be around 298 (Lab 129, Con 95, LibDem 60).

Were Reform on 30% and Cons a point lower than in the opinion poll, i.e. on 20%, Reform would have 318 MPs, 8 short of a majority but with very close to a working majority. The Cons, though would have only 75 MPs.

For the long-established Conservative Party, effectively terminal. Not even the official Opposition. Maybe not even the third party.

Tim Montgomerie has recently opined that the Conservative Party might be expiring; for once, I agree with him. Or does he, belatedly, agree with me?

Fake “Labour” will decline but not so far or so fast, because about 20%, maybe more, of the electorate is now black/brown, and that percentage will increase inexorably, because few white/British children are being born. Virtually all the births now are from the ethnic minorities (who, within half a century, will certainly be the majority, unless action is taken to prevent that). They all vote Labour; at least 90% of them do.

Opinion polls suggest that among those aged 18-24, only about 5%, if that, vote Conservative; about 80% vote Labour. Who are those young voters? Largely, the non-whites.

As the Dad’s Army character used to say (about inserting cold steel into the fuzzie-wuzzies) “they don’t like it up them!

Rory Stewart, as “Conservative” Party MP, voted for all the mean-spirited social-security/”welfare” cuts of the 2010-2015 Cameron-Levita misgovernment. Now his (or his wife’s, which is effectively the same) far more generous “welfare” has been cut back, it’s all unfair and wrong, apparently.

Ha ha…

Can that be true? £840,000 a year for such rubbish? Unpleasant Alastair Campbell presumably getting even more. For that? Doesn’t seem possible.

In this country, in these times, anything is possible, I suppose. If so, though, who or what is really funding it all?

Late tweets

Idiot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Hoare

Diversity is our strength“, say brainwashed idiots.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14394069/Afghan-criminal-drove-car-crowd-Munich-deported-asylum-application-rejected.html

An Afghan criminal whose asylum application was rejected drove a car into a crowd of demonstrators after reportedly posting a slew of Islamist rants online.

Farhad N., 24, injured at least 28 people, including a child after ploughing his Mini Cooper through a demonstration in Munich on Thursday. The child’s life is said to be in danger.

The Afghan asylum seeker, born in Kabul in 2001, was arrested at the scene after cops fired gunshots at his vehicle this morning.

[Daily Mail]

Late music

[“You see, my son, here Time turns into Space“…]

Diary Blog, 11 February 2025

[regret that, once again, not all tweets are embedding; click on link to read]

Afternoon music

[Arnold Bocklin, Triton and Nereid]

Tweets seen

According to Electoral Calculus, that equates to about the following Commons seats: Reform 201, Labour 189, Con 131, LibDems 67, Greens 4. The only possible governments would be Reform as a weak minority one, or Reform backed up by the Conservatives, or a “Grand Coalition” of System parties— LibLabCon.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”

See also:

Talking point

https://substack.com/@chadcrowley/p-156638843

Sent to me by a reader of the blog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto

More tweets

Aux armes, citoyens!

Billions for IRA terrorists, billions for shambolic black/brown “states” unable to rule themselves, billions for the Jew-Zionist dictatorship in Ukraine, billions for all sorts of total rubbish in the UK, but no money for our pensioners, our sick and disabled, our unemployed, our young people etc.

So why shouldn’t extremely bad and extremely controversial laws be pushed through by thick-as-two-short-planks MPs who, having been previously only “LGBTQXYZ” personal trainers, were gifted their Commons seats in very odd circumstances? Oh, wait a minute…

Talking point

Myerson— just another lying “you-know-who”…

Incidentally, he may have been allowed to present his 2024 dismissal from his part-time job as a Recorder as “resignation” but it was basically a sacking, as when a badly-behaved schoolboy or officer is “asked to leave” his college or regiment.

Late music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Leshchenko]
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 9 February 2025, including remembrance of the Norfolk farmer, Tony Martin

Morning music

[the “dreaming spires” of Oxford]

Tony Martin (1944-2025)

I missed the reports of the recent death of farmer Tony Martin, imprisoned in 1999 for having shot some “travellers” (Irish tinkers) who had targeted his rundown farmhouse by night.

Incidentally, the Wikipedia entry about those events and the aftermath omits the “traveller” aspect entirely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer); so does the local news outlet Nottingham Post (the “traveller” criminals in the case having come from the Nottingham area): see https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottinghamshire-burglar-shot-farmer-tony-9930047.

Martin was eventually released after having spent 3 years in prison, his initial conviction for murder having been downgraded on appeal to manslaughter. There had been a huge public outcry supporting Martin. I myself recall having posted a supportive postcard to him from Turkey when he was still sitting in prison. 2001. I wonder whether he ever received it.

I was unaware in 1999 and 2001 that Martin had (probably in the 1970s) supported the National Front [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_(UK)], and was related by marriage to Andrew Fountaine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fountaine, an interesting if slightly alarming character whom I once saw, and heard speak (at Chelsea Old Town Hall in London in 1975, when I was aged 18-19).

After his release, Martin supported, so says Wikipedia, both UKIP and the group Traditional Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Britain_Group.

Martin should never have been prosecuted or even questioned (except pro-forma).

Hero.

Tweets seen

Jack Lopresti, former Italian ice-cream salesman and sometime TA (part-time) private soldier [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lopresti] and MP (2010-2024) is in fact notfighting” in Ukraine. He is sitting at a desk in Kiev.

Both Lopresti and his ex-wife, Andrea Jenkyns, lost their Commons seats in 2024. They were both members of Conservative Friends of Israel.

Andrea Jenkyns has abandoned the Conservative Party for Reform UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Jenkyns.

Lopresti seems rather unintelligent, and obviously has little idea of geopolitics, history, or anything else much. I expect he is being paid for his present role, and paid more than the peanuts pay, paid in local rubbish-money, that the Ukrainian soldiers get (when paid at all).

Incidentally, nearly 6 years ago, I penned an assessment of Andrea Jenkyns:

There are two (or three) main arguments against mass non-European immigration into the UK. One is both racial and cultural, meaning also societal, the other is economic. For me, the economic argument is not the primary one, but it is (obviously) hugely significant. The swamping of this country by non-whites is making us poorer and, until stopped and reversed, will continue to make us poorer as a country, as a population and, particularly as British individuals.

Carpetbagger Kemi should scuttle back either to the USA or to Nigeria, where she came from.

You still see stupid British scribblers, TV talking heads, MPs etc, spouting about how “Ukraine” (the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev) is fighting for European culture, democracy, civil rights etc. In reality, the shambolic and corrupt Kiev regime is a brutal dictatorship.

The Jew Zelensky rules as the figurehead of a cabal of dictators. Elections should have been held a year or two ago and now never will be. Trade unions are banned. Dissidents are arrested already; a few have even been shot or otherwise “eliminated”. Recruitment to the armed forces is now largely by press-gang— people simply seized off the streets by militia goons.

At a protest against Trump’s executive orders targeting child mutilation procedures on minors, Actress Cynthia Nixon reveals that: -Her daughter is transgender -Her niece is transgender -Her best friend’s child is transgender -Her daughter’s best friend is transgender -Her life is filled with transgender people, “young and old, but especially young.” President Trump is saving American children from one of the most destructive social contagions in human history.

Trans nonsense. See also:

Late music