As long as illegal immigrants are warm and well fed in winter pensioners who have paid their taxes and National insurance can be cold and stave in winter what a bloody government we have
Rachel Reeves has no “plan”, just a tick-box idea of “balancing the books”. cf. David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne.
Look at what she herself has decided to do, along with her boss, fellow Labour Friends of Israel member Starmer.
Infrastructure investment slashed, which is the worst-possible choice (though some projects are useless, notably HS2). More money for the subsistence of unwanted migrant-invaders. Pensioners to lose a lifeline. No new hospitals. Yet pay rises of 22.3% (over 2 years) for junior hospital doctors most of whom are useless, and most if not all of whom will be on far higher levels of income within a few years of seniority.
That last reminded me of a major league baseball players’ strike when I lived in the USA over 30 years ago. The strike was bitter and crowned with success eventually. The demand was that all major league baseball players should get $100,000 a year minimum (I suppose you could at least double the value today). Not unreasonable, arguably, though it was several times the average pay of Americans as a whole. The joke was that only 1% of all major league baseball players at that time received pay of less than $100,000 anyway. Most were in the several hundreds of thousands a year, with a substantial minority getting over a million a year.
🚨Breaking 🚨
The High Court has just ruled that the emergency ban on puberty blockers introduced by the last UK government was lawful.
This is seismic.
We must never allow children to be irreversibly harmed in the name of an ideology again.
Labour leaders like @bphillipsonMP believe that campus culture wars are a right-wing myth because that’s what their nice friends in the N. London and Oxbridge professoriat have told them.
Therefore, put a stop to HEFOSA and – presto – the campus culture wars will end. https://t.co/BIdFDHtwpZ
‘What starts as student union squabbling easily becomes the ruthless policing of the curriculum, the content of lectures and even academics’ published research.
This culture is inconsistent with the very purpose of a university.’ https://t.co/8uamEJ7vyD
Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Even the IPCC admits our extreme weather is not man made, says Mark Ellse; a Muslim cleric raises over £3 million for a Scottish Islamic homeland (Mullah Kintyre); and Claire Fox on Labour's betrayal of the young https://t.co/P8mKXn4RM2pic.twitter.com/AvOyh59KeO
The “trans” nonsense has become utterly ridiculous. Having said that, women should not be boxing anyway.
Yes, @Fox_Claire speaks from a bloodied mouth about @UKLabour's contempt not just for the sanctity of academic freedom and free speech but for the democratic process itself.https://t.co/smyvDBMDPc
— Charlie Bentley-Astor (@astor_charlie) July 29, 2024
Less than a month since GE 2024, and Starmer-Labour is already the “elected” dictatorship I predicted. I say “elected“, of course, because only 4 out of every 12 voters who voted, voted Labour (only 4 out of 20 of all eligible voters— 8 out of 20 did not vote at all).
At least Zelensky will have cocaine this Christmas whilst our elderly freeze
So you’re cutting billions of pounds of public services but Ukraine will still get their £3 billion a year right? https://t.co/jQ8DOUXAxq
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 29, 2024
We are not ruled by “Labour” or “Conservative” labels, but by NWO/ZOG puppets. There is no substantial difference between the “two main parties”.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Tommy Robinson has been on Israel’s payroll for some time. pic.twitter.com/KRAjJ1KrvB
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 29, 2024
…and there are “alternative” NWO/ZOG puppets, less important ones, too: “Tommy Robinson”, Reform UK, Farage, Tice etc.
Day 4 of 56. Mark Lewis and Patron Law have not yet paid my costs.
In his disciplinary case, Lewis tried to withdraw his admission to sending abusive messages. He first said he was justified in sending them, but then that he might have been hacked or the messages forged.
Mark Lewis has followed me. If there’s anything you disagree with Mark, please post it and I’ll re-post it. I want to give you a right of reply! Just so long as you don’t go off with your “£19Wilson” or “Oh f**k off you stupid c**t” material. pic.twitter.com/O8j6TUeF2h
Owen Jones is a disgraceful champagne Labourite, privileged prick, who never grew up like he says he did he's a fool. Starmer is the same,.. Dad was a tool maker.. It's all bullshit. https://t.co/DFT9leNsxJ
Almost everything is fake and/or utterly screwed in contemporary Britain: Labour, Conservative, “Captain Tom” charity, “Jack Monroe” the “Bootstrap Cook”, SIS, the Foreign Office, the Bar, the Church of England— you name it…
Rubbish. Millions of pensioners, far from wealthy, rely on the winter fuel payment to help them heat their homes in the winter. Scrapping the winter fuel payment will cost lives.
What has been absent from comment is the sheer malice of the recent announcement. I see Rachel Reeves as an extremely malicious person, and she will be well aware of the fact that few people aged 65+ vote Labour.
Zelensky: We will discuss the issue of Ukraine's borders with the respective countries
PROMISED TO DEVELOP A "PEACE ESTABLISHMENT PLAN" BY THE END OF NOVEMBER
Kyiv-based political scientist Andrei ZOLOTARYOV believes that Zelensky is "preparing to sell the truce to the… pic.twitter.com/7BqpCzP7dD
“Zelensky: We will discuss the issue of Ukraine’s borders with the respective countries.
PROMISED TO DEVELOP A “PEACE ESTABLISHMENT PLAN” BY THE END OF NOVEMBER
Kyiv-based political scientist Andrei ZOLOTARYOV believes that Zelensky is “preparing to sell the truce to the Ukrainians as a victory.”
Washington Post: Armed forces of Ukraine exhausted, a critical situation is emerging for the Ukrainian army on the front with elements of “serious chaos”.”
Surely, if the Kiev-regime forces are exhausted, this is the moment for a general advance of Russian armour and infantry across eastern Ukraine, not for a truce, from the Russian point of view?
The US allowed the use of nuclear weapons because of Ukraine
The United States may use nuclear weapons because of the desperate situation in Ukraine, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern said in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue works.
“The US allowed the use of nuclear weapons because of Ukraine The United States may use nuclear weapons because of the desperate situation in Ukraine, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern said in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue works. “The situation in Ukraine now is that the Russians have virtually defeated Ukraine, and so the United States has a choice between a humiliating defeat and perhaps dropping one of these low-yield nuclear weapons,” he said.“
If the USA uses nuclear weapons on Russian forces, it can kiss goodbye to the top 50 American cities, including Washington DC, New York, LA, Philadelphia, Houston, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston.
Don’t instigate nuclear war. It could put humanity back thousands of years.
“The chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission has rejected calls from the justice secretary to resign after a report on its handling of the Andrew Malkinson case laid bare “a catalogue of failures”.
The new justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said Pitcher was “unfit to fulfil her duties” and that she was seeking her removal in light of the findings. It is understood that she made her position clear to Pitcher on Thursday morning in the hope that she would resign.
But Pitcher said she was the “best person” for the job and that she had no intention of standing down.
James Burley, who led Appeal’s investigation into Malkinson’s case, said the report was “utterly damning” and detailed “a catalogue of failures by the CCRC”.
He said: “No one can doubt now that the CCRC is a broken safety net which sets the bar unreasonably high for innocent prisoners trying to clear their names. The CCRC must be completely overhauled.”
“Helen Pitcher OBE Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission talked to Bhini Phagura from Raydens solicitors about her career.
Tell us about your career progression which led to your appointment as the Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission:
“I studied law at QMC London and used this degree as a basis for a career in commerce, where I rapidly progressed up the ranks to become an Executive and Divisional Director in Grand Metropolitan. I retained a footprint in the law in various roles related to Standards, Fairness, Equity and Diversity.“
Well…wouldn’t you just know it?
There’s more:
“The first role I held in parallel to my Commercial career was as a lay representative of the Professional Conduct and Complaints Committee of the Bar Council.” [now split into the Bar Standards Board and the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal].
Yes, there is usually at least one useless woman of this sort sitting (well-paid, too), but doing nothing, when a Bar Disciplinary Tribunal sits. In 5-person tribunal cases (as mine was, in fact wrongly— it should have been a 3-person tribunal, which has no power to disbar) there are usually two such women (they always seem to be women, as on benches of lay magistrates), invariably a pair of unsmiling and stupid “bookends”. Useless box-tickers. See also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.
“I also became a lay representative on the Employment Appeal Tribunal and still hold this office.
I then joined the Queens Counsel (as it was then) Selection Panel and rapidly became its chair. Whilst there we improved the Diversity Statistics.“
Again the “diversity statistics“… Why am I not at all surprised?
“I held this role for 9 years. On stepping down, I decided not to apply for another role as I also had a burgeoning Consultancy and Portfolio Career. About 18 months later, however, an advertisement for the role of the Chair of the CCRC (Criminal Cases Review Commission) was brought to my attention.
Last year the role of Chairman at the JAC (Judicial Appointments Commission) became available. A Headhunter contacted me having uncovered my background on LinkedIn. I checked with the MoJ that there was no conflict of interest and submitted my application. On December 31st following a Justice Select Committee earlier in the month, I was appointed and took up the post on January 16th [2023].”
My role as chair involves leading the Board, ensuring appropriate oversight on governance and providing appropriate challenge and support to the executive. I am also involved in some of the most senior appointments.
I have rationalised my portfolio (which was a Commitment I gave to the JSC) in order to ensure I have the appropriate amount of time to devote to this key role.
You are holding this role for 3 years from January 2023, what are your aims/goals?
The strategic aims were already set, however they are due for a refresh as the period they covered draws to a close. These aims, which are developed in conjunction with the Board and executive, are on our website and thus in the public domain.
Our primary purpose set out by statute is to recruit on merit, our secondary (and no less important role) is to assist the rest of the judicial system to increase the diversity pool. It is for this reason that I also chair the Judicial Diversity Forum, which has a clear action plan to achieve its aims.”
So the secondary role is as important as the primary one? How muddled and wrongheaded is the stupid woman?
[Legal Women (online-only) magazine]
The interview is rather badly written, unfortunately, with superfluous upper-case here and there; as can be seen, it is the product of an Indian woman.
Well, there we have it. That greedy and plainly incompetent Pitcher woman has made a whole career, and no doubt a very lucrative one, out of “diversity”, tokenism etc. First of all, in her own person, by being a “token woman”, or one token woman, on commercial and quango boards. Secondly, by being a Trojan horse for more “diversity” and “inclusion” (etc) in important public offices.
Helen Pitcher, who seems to me to be a useless “diversity” box-ticker, has, inter alia, sat in the seat of judgment over employment appeal cases, over the cases of supposedly defaulting barristers etc, and has even been (and apparently still is) the head of the body which appoints judges, including those at the highest level.
Helen Pitcher is, at time of writing, doing, and of course getting paid for doing, several different jobs simultaneously. She is probably making between half a million and a million pounds a year. For what? Ruining various bodies? Ticking various “diversity” and “anti-racism” boxes? Shoving our society further into the mire?
Look at how Helen Pitcher is clinging on to her CCRC role, presumably in order to maximize the money she gets before she is forced out. At least, that seems to me to be her motivation. Very telling, if so.
This latest scandal, including Helen Pitcher’s “march through the institutions”, is so typical of the way in which things generally have been allowed to develop in the UK in the past 30+ years.
You can see the way the UK is going, at least partly because of stupid and over-promoted women such as Helen Pitcher (and, yes, also men, not infrequently)— straight down.
God knows what state this country will be in in 2029 or 2034, let alone 2054 (which last I shall not have to witness, thank God, not from the Earth plane anyway).
Andrew Malkinson has called the former head of the miscarriage of justice watchdog “shameless” as she resigned from the job saying she had been “scapegoated for entirely legitimate decisions” taken over his case.
Helen Pitcher handed in her resignation as chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) on Tuesday afternoon after learning that an independent panel had concluded by a majority of two to one that she was no longer fit to be chair.
In a letter to the justice secretary she said she felt that she had been chosen as a “scapegoat at an early stage” for the Malkinson case and that “a head had to roll and I was chosen for that role”.
Malkinson said: “Helen Pitcher’s attempt to portray herself as the victim here is shameless.
The Guardian revealed thatPitcher had been in Montenegro promoting her property business in the weeks after Malkinson’s conviction was overturned and the organisation was in crisis after its failure to apologise to him.“
[Guardian]].
“Her property business” (as well as all the rest)?
Helen Pitcher thus managed to blag another 6-7 months’ pay and expenses, and pension contributions, when she should have resigned in mid or early 2024.
“Shameless” indeed, the horrible and avaricious old hag.
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Summary of the Israeli strike according to what is known so far:
– Approximately 25 F-15 and F-35 aircraft, accompanied by refueling planes, flew about 2000 kilometers toward the city of Hodeidah in Yemen.
“Summary of the Israeli strike according to what is known so far: – Approximately 25 F-15 and F-35 aircraft, accompanied by refueling planes, flew about 2000 kilometers toward the city of Hodeidah in Yemen.
– The strike was carried out in 8 waves.
-The attack destroyed fuel depots, inflicted damage on the port, and destroyed a power station north of the port.
– The fire is still burning and is expected to continue for several more days.
– There is a power outage across the entire region.
– The message of the strike is clear: this is not a strike on military targets (which has been done by the coalition over the past 9 months) but an attack on the already struggling Yemeni economy, causing significant economic damage.
– The attack on the port is a direct response to the damage Yemenis have caused to the port of Eilat.
– The message to the rest of the Middle East is also clear: the Bandar Abbas port and the Kharg Island, from where most of Iran’s oil is exported, are in Israel’s sights, as well as the port of Beirut.
– Israel has decided to take off the gloves; this is not a minor strike like those in Iran.
– The Houthis are threatening to retaliate, but it is unclear what the threat entails, as they have already attacked Israel 200 times.”
[Open Source Intel]
Middle East, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Far East. All now under threat of major regional wars.
Even worse, those maniacs are actually considering Hillary Clinton. Direct war with Russia will then be a certainty.
There are too many egos at stake, and too many sunk costs. What this means is that the pro-Ukrainian true believers won't concede anything has collapsed until Kiev is under Russia's control.
“Ukraine lines are collapsing. After 380 billions of aid pledged to Ukraine since the war begin; 118 billion are direct military aid; many countries literally emptied out entire inventory countless military units to give their weapons to Ukraine. Ukraine is STILL losing grounds everyday. Lost 5 towns in the past 48hrs. The fortress city of Krasnohorivka is falling as we speak; Russia threatens cut the Oskil Frontlines in half with the likely capture of Pishchane. Still not collapsing? This is not collapse of frontlines, then what is?“
I'm no military man, but from a purely common sense perspective, assessing the saleability in terms of effective manpower Ukraine has left, disregarding poorly trained conscripts thrown uselessly into the meat grinder, then the rubber and road meeting indeed appears to draw near.
If anyone has something cheery to say let me know 😅😔. But honestly, it just feels like the baddies keep winning. I really don’t know where this is all heading.
“Back to the UK tomorrow. I’ve never had such dread about Britain. Coming back to London and knowing how unpleasant it’ll be. The demographic changes and feeling that [the UK] is most against Brits. The lack of functional media. The feeling something big has to happen to restore order.“
London is turning into an unaffordable shit-hole with the "enjoyable" parts closed off to an elite minority. Everybody who lives there can see it even if liberal progressives will never accept it bc to do so would shatter their worldview. Charlotte is just saying out loud what we… https://t.co/sqNOr5KBhR
I have not been to London since that brief visit in 2022, and am glad of it. I no longer have the Rolex watches I had 25+ years ago (or want them, or need them, or can afford them) but, if I did, I think that they would not stay on my wrist very long in the London of 2024.
Why can people who should know better not accept the truth that is in front of their eyes? In a word, deluded.
One aspect of London that seems to have radically improved in recent years, though, is the public transport network. New lines, new trains, new ways of travelling around the conurbation. Crossrail/Elizabeth Line for one. I do not speak, however, from personal experience of the new lines, just from what I have read online.
Universities are the Home Office basically, and their policy is open borders – often with taxpayer funds. https://t.co/AxJRdv9XFd
Well over 20 years ago, in 2000, I happened to meet and get to know (somewhat), in Bournemouth, a young blonde woman (20 or so) I first encountered in a photography shop, and who was very proud of her father, vice-Chancellor of (if I remember aright) Lancaster University. She talked about him rather a lot, and thus I learned that (again, if I remember aright) his salary was over £200,000 a year, which would be pretty good even today, by most people’s standards. In fact, the Bank of England online calculator shows that you could almost double that in today’s money. So today— maybe £400,000.
The tertiary educational sector in the UK has been a kind of “rotten borough” for a long time. At least 30 years.
Matt Goodwin
I notice that the “alt-Right” (?) academic and commentator, Matt Goodwin, has retweeted a tweet about the UNRWA by the malicious and publicity-seeking Jew-Zionist org, “Campaign Against Antisemitism”. Foolish. The credibility of that malicious cabal is shot; even most pro-Israel Jews are against its activities and behaviour. By retweeting the “CAA”, Goodwin risks his own credibility too.
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According to Danish news @DRNyheder#paulWatson will be heard at the court in Greenland, and that the decision of whether to hand Mr. Watson over to the Japanese authorities will be taken by the Ministry of Justice, @justitsdkhttps://t.co/DXeiZVGH4u
The Japanese only have one new whaling ship, though…
And where is our Home Secretary Yvette cooper. West Yorkshire mayor? Thought they were going to support the police? How can a person stand on a British street and scream at a British policeman numerous times, Fuck off, you are bastards? Any white English man would be arrested!
I agree with that. Michelle Obama? Maybe not so easily defeated. All the blacks would vote for her, for a start.
If anyone other than Trump takes on the U.S. Presidency, the Americans will be staring civil war in the face. The rest of the world (as well as the USA) will be staring at, quite likely, a world war, starting (like the first two “world” wars) in Europe.
In anticipation of the Yemeni attack on Tel Aviv, the settlers reported that they saw a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles in the sky, which later turned out to be a flock of birds 😂 pic.twitter.com/GrjGmK4Tzh
“Keir Starmer is looking into plans to process asylum seekers outside the UK as part of a rethink of the government’s immigration policies, even as a returns agreement with the EU appears more distant than ever.
The prime minister said on Thursday he was open to the idea of Britain processing claims offshore, after a day spent discussing illegal migration with fellow European leaders at Blenheim Palace. Those talks, as part of the European Political Community summit, included a meeting with Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, whose country processes asylum claims on behalf of Italy.
But he said a deal to return refused asylum seekers to the EU was low on his list of priorities, as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned his country was not willing to shoulder the additional burden.
“But look, I’m a practical person. I’m a pragmatist. And I’ve always said we’ll look at what works and where cases can be processed closer to origin, then that is something which of course ought to be looked at.”
[The Guardian]
As I have been predicting for many months on the blog, Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” migration invasion, meaning get it off the TV news agenda, by simply “processing” the applications of the invaders long before they reach the UK, whether that be in France, in Albania, in Italy, or even in Africa.
“Processing” will mean, in this context, rubberstamping 90% or more of the applications. Probably more, looking at how about 80% of the applications of the present wave of invaders are eventually approved once they land in the UK (and the rest not deported anyway).
What about those, the small minority no doubt, who apply for asylum in those extra-territorial processing centres or offices but are refused? Is Starmer pretending that they will be content to stay in, or return to, their native countries? Of course they will not. They will simply make their way to the English Channel and then try to cross it.
What I can say is that – if the messages between the defendants in my case are right – the advice of Mark Lewis of Patron Law was terrible. He appears not to have understood fundamental aspects of my claim. @MLewisLawyerhttps://t.co/NznpEQpOTfpic.twitter.com/SVwBbdsngA
Only one thing can save Western culture and civilization, and the root-stock on which they both depend— social nationalism, and a consequent “revaluation of all values”.
Happened to see the above photo of the Thames just below Benson Lock, Oxfordshire. My mind at once returned to the summer of 1971, when I was there, aged 14, rowing my inflatable yellow neoprene boat downstream.
53 years ago. Over half a century. Does not seem possible, in a sense.
At least that little corner of England has not yet been trashed, or built upon.
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So the Ukrainian parliament just passed for further proceeding a law that would de facto legalize corruption under the guise of fighting corruption. And this came from Zelenskyy’s support party. This is beyond absurd. Should this become law expect an exodus of Western… https://t.co/OHz6MiJLMZ
“Ukraine” (Kiev regime)— a shambolic, corrupt and brutal dictatorship masquerading as a “democracy” that values civil rights etc.
Moscow does not rule out deploying nuclear missiles in response to the deployment of long-range US missiles in Germany, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters:https://t.co/U3h6IiWbv7pic.twitter.com/drRDoD671m
Russian troops destroyed a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system of the Ukrainian army by a Lancet loitering munition in the Kherson area, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://t.co/8OqWFq5YxV
Behind Donald Trump, entirely different forces are at play. He represents an alternative to Biden and globalisation, diverging significantly from the policies of both Democratic and Republican forerunners.
I often worry that I may be too old to take a leading part in the national revolution by the time it happens, at least to take an active leading part; I am already 67 (68 in September). Damn.
I can understand some people often make a steeple with their hands but this is simply an unnatural thing to do, especially when sitting down. This is no real IT 'outage', the prep is being done for more lockdowns.
— cognitivedissonanceeverywhere (@Vercovicium) July 19, 2024
Mirabile dictu! Former-MP and Israel-puppet Largan has said something with which I can agree.
I have noted in the past on the blog the inadequacy of so many post-1945 public buildings in the UK, for example the court buildings in both London and the provinces. Some are OK, or even impressive, but more are not. Compare them to most of the American court buildings, such as the Federal court building in Trenton, New Jersey, where I was, several times, over 30 years ago:
So ugly, one is prompted to speculate, “Britischer Architekt?” Still, quite large and impressive at least.
I see that that 1980s building is named after a former Governor of the state, who was also at one time Chief Justice of New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Hughes_Justice_Complex#Dedication. I was very slightly acquainted with one of his sons, who himself became a Federal magistrate in 1991, a year or two after I was introduced to him; I met him again, en passant, a few times, in the years 1989-1991: https://www.pli.edu/faculty/hon.-john-j.-hughes-i1305491. He was all right, but not the most social person in the world, to be frank. Not sure that I would have liked to have been a defendant in his court…
It seems, just now, To be happening so very fast; Despite all the land left free For the first time I feel somehow That it isn't going to last https://t.co/hoGQ84EsYt
Well, amazing. A second tweet of Largan that I like. Two in one day. Amazing.
If those poetic lines are original, from Largan himself, then he has a poetic sophistication, though not unflawed, at which I should not have guessed, to be frank.
Huge crowds marching to the Gardaí station in Collock.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Cheers from the Irish tonight as the building that was to be used to house unvetted migrant men in Coolock catches fire again 🤷🏻♂️ bloody climate change eh? pic.twitter.com/KR8ikRXqTW
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Surprise surprise. When it comes to claims linking a ban on puberty blockers to increased suicide Jolyon Maugham & other activist lawyers have been talking total bollocks https://t.co/iLQhUifqzV
Even if that were not so, the ban is obviously the right thing to do, whatever the collateral damage.
"While the British Tories have lost their way, failing to grasp how the tectonic plates of politics are on the move, Team Trump have doubled down on and expanded the post-2016 political realignment"https://t.co/V5XZ2cc81p
The United States may stop providing aid to Ukraine in the future, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a fireside chat at the 2024 Aspen Security Forum:https://t.co/G9NOsXzQz7pic.twitter.com/6WxrHJBRVm
#Volgarev: The countries to "West of Vienna" also have alarming trends and long-standing systemic problems. While their representatives have been busy for many years imposing narratives on others and ignoring problems "at home" pic.twitter.com/IY4GKzJqyM
Back in the mid-1980s, I sometimes enjoyed Spitting Image [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image]. The sort of real cutting satire that would simply not be allowed today, much of it. In any case, with the sort of events we now see (eg Biden’s funny but also sad descent into the fog), any similar show today would have to fight hard to compete with what is actually happening in front of our eyes.
True, Reagan was not the most-obviously intelligent world leader, but the satirical treatment of him was deliberately “over the top”; whatever his flaws, he was not in the grip of a dementia-related condition plainly visible whenever he spoke in public.
I have not seen the more recently remade Spitting Image but I doubt that it pokes fun at the kind of non-political targets the 1980s original did, e.g. black “rap” performers. I admit that I am guessing, though. The remake is not broadcast on mainstream TV.
Zelenskyy Calls on NATO Allies to Remove Restrictions on Strikes Into Russiahttps://t.co/DikGEKi0oX
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The regime of that evil little bastard has only one main chance— to drag NATO into the war. That might mean a slide into a nuclear confrontation before very long.
If the Kiev regime starts to attack Russian cities far from the front line, the response might be that Ukrainian cities in the western part of Ukraine, west of the Dnieper, might be attacked and even destroyed.
So far, Russia has not launched all-out attack on Kiev, partly because of its role in Russian history, but if major Russian cities start to be bombarded, that may change.
I predicted, a couple of years ago, on the blog, that Russia would start to degrade the electrical production and distribution network across Ukraine. That is now being intensified, and is a far more intelligent way of waging war than the more brutal and harsh —and less effective— choice of attacking directly the homes and neighbourhoods of the Ukrainian civilians.
If the Kiev regime starts to badly damage Russian cities away from the front line —especially Moscow, Petersburg and surrounding territories— the Russian response could be devastating enough to bring NATO into the war on some pretext such as Poland suffering damage. Were that to happen, all of us would be but a step away from a Russia-NATO war, which is being pushed by secret circles within the West. Such a war, which would quite likely go nuclear within weeks, would change Europe and the world forever.
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If your landlord lets a bunch of stray dogs into your apartment when you're at work do you blame the dogs or the landlord?
Incredible, when you think of the historical hardships of the Irish people. Now, unwanted non-European migrant-invaders demand this, that, and the other…
The Conservative Party needs a bold offering to make it easier to start and raise a family.@NBC789 outlines our proposal below 👇 pic.twitter.com/GnS7API2PR
Starmer-Labour has surprised even me by its evident ineptitude. We are only one week into what looks like being a disastrous 5 years.
Talking point
I do not follow football at all, but it seems to me that both domestic and international matches are now, in effect, a situation where people put “national” or team labels on a group of players and say to each other: “my blacks can beat your blacks“.
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What is going on??
Astonishing how quickly Patrick Vallance is pontificating on all this
attacks Brexit – doesn’t rule out Free Movement as part of a rapprochement with the EU – argues that liberalisation of visa rules is important
Another example of the undemocratic and quasi-dictatorial nature of the Starmer-Labour government. 411 MPs from whom to choose, yet Starmer is appointing ministers at will from outside the Commons, elevating them to the Lords first.
Must admit I certainly worry for my kids. The future does not look that great given Labours decisions over the last week.
I was just looking at Twitter/X, which is alive today with Twitter-twits attacking Reform UK and, particularly, belittling Reform for, as it were, pretending to be a serious political party when it “only” has 5 MPs.
As recently as June 2024, the LibDems only had 11 MPs, and had only 8 from 2015 until 2017.
As for the SNP, from its foundation in the early 1930s and until 1970, about 37 years (!), the SNP had no MPs at all; in 1970, the SNP managed to have elected 1 MP. The MP-cadre of the SNP then varied from 2 to (1974 to 1979) 11 MPs in the years 1974 to 2015, but mostly stuck at 2 or 3 MPs until 1997, when the SNP bloc increased its numbers, this time to 6 MPs. When the FPTP tipping-point was reached in 2015, the SNP mushroomed from 6 MPs to 56 (out of 59 Scottish MPs) overnight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.
Apart from those comparisons, the Twitter-twits might like to consider what this blog has been saying for the past week, as have some others (though not enough) even in the msm: Labour did not win by some kind of popular “landslide”, but only in terms of seats conferred by a totally unfit-for-purpose electoral system.
As noted on the blog in past days, at GE 2024 the Conservative Party only got (just over) 1.5x the number/percentage of votes of Reform UK, and even Labour only got (below) 2.5x the Reform UK vote-share.
As put on the blog the other day, out of every 20 eligible voters, only 12 even voted.
In very rough terms, out of that eligible 20 voters, 8 voters abstained, 4 voters voted Lab, 3 voters voted Con, 2 voters voted Reform, 2 voters voted LibDem, and 1 voter voted Green.
Not exactly, and “other parties were available”, but 90.29% of UK voters voted for one of those 5 parties. In England specifically, about 97% of voters voted Lab, Con, Reform, LibDem or Green.
The Twitter-Twits tweeting about Reform UK are mostly Labour supporters who belittle Reform because only 2 out of every 12 voters who voted voted for it, yet only 4 out of 12 (4 out of 20 if you count the abstainers) voted Labour.
I happened to notice one particular Twitter/X account, one “@RobBaron10”, who today (as of 1430) has already managed to put out about 29 Twitter/X “replies”, almost all angrily insulting, and all or almost all completely brainless. I have to say that I am loath to give much credence to someone whose Twitter/X profile says “Retired lecturer in philosophy trying to live a low-impact lifestyle. Despises the far-right and social injustice. Responds in the tone responded to.” Especially when said “retired lecturer in philosophy” thinks that “toe the line” is spelled “tow the line“…
More seriously, if Starmer-Labour MPs and supporters think that the absurd result of GE 2024 gives Starmer the right to impose a “woke”, and also Israel-lobby, tyranny on the people of the UK, he and they are very much mistaken.
Remember those figures— only 4 out of 12 who voted (<34%) voted Labour; only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters (~20%) voted Labour.
American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed… pic.twitter.com/dJtIeBBYuW
— AZ 🇺🇸 PATRIOT • Steve Emery (@SteveEmery0003) July 12, 2024
“American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed with the illegal covert bio weapons laboratory facility’s doing gain of function. Ukraine is the most corruption country in Europe, a money laundering hub, a child trafficking hub and a live organ black market dealing hub. Fuck Ukraine and punk ass Zelensky!“
In which Dido Harding reveals her confusion of public with ‘customer’ service. Test and Trace belongs in the same pile as “Tesco and Sainsbury’s” and “buying your broadband from Talk Talk” and they’ve all, she hopes, given her “a little bit of wisdom”. 😂 https://t.co/iLcUjG4luf
We now have a Labour government. Please can they be ‘Labour’ & renationalise our water ASAP Privatising water was another Tory disaster. #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas
Also most railways, most electricity, and most other energy production and distribution.
#JustChangeItBackToHowItWas when you could tell someone they are wrong and they could tell you to fuck off. Then go about your day with no offense currency and hounding out of jobs
— Why is everyone insane? (@Joyfulkumquat) July 12, 2024
…and no professional pretend-“offended” nuisances, such as the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal.
Every woke historical drama made now seems to be a ‘reinvention’ of history, in putting minorities and women in roles that wouldn’t have been possible in those days and scrapping any racism and sexism that would have existed back then. Rubbish. #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas
Washington is putting pressure on the new UK government to continue challenging the ICC decision in favor of Israel
The previous Tory government filed a request to challenge the ICC's jurisdiction to try Netanyahu and his gang for war crimes in Gaza pic.twitter.com/5ikwLKmbHl
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
🇮🇱 Haaretz : Former Prime Minister Exud Olmert says Israel will eventually face arrest warrants and prosecution for crimes against Palestinians cev on the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/Wi3o5i3b0V
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The main square of the city of Bani Suheila, the southern part of the Gaza Strip, before and after Israeli aggression. pic.twitter.com/lqw49OKwVn
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
Mossad director advocates continued attacks on Gaza after prisoner exchange
Increased attacks on Gaza have had a 'positive impact' on prisoner exchange talks – David Barnea pic.twitter.com/eATbzeaTv0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
That visage puts me in mind of some kind of lizard.
A rose forged from the steel of a Western missile launched on Donetsk was delivered to the State Department for the former US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, said the deputy leader of the DNR Jan Gagin.
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
“Along with the “gift”, he also sent an accompanying written appeal, in which he called on American politicians to stop supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with weapons and money in order to stop the bloodshed and the escalation of the conflict.“
Putin called the West’s big mistake the lack of reaction to direct strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant:
“This is their big mistake, we will remember this again, we will talk about this more than once.” pic.twitter.com/qPtzdxCf0H
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
🌋 Video from the crater of Mount Etna Voragin, which has been erupting for more than a week pic.twitter.com/vvYwOf0Xqt
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The new government is going to do the BASICS OF THEIR JOB and run an asylum system 🥳
Processing people’s claims & helping rebuild lives instead of warehousing people in limbo forever as a pantomime of cruelty as Tories did is the bare minimum. #r4todaypic.twitter.com/PeIxmfcNKX
Pro-migration-invasion “@zoejardiniere” (Zoe Gardner) with her usual pro-mass migration nonsense.
The 100,000 figure refers to invaders (often “illegals”) who are in the UK without having been granted leave to remain.
Still, her tweet featuring the Daily Telegraph story does confirm what I have repeatedly said on the blog would be the Labour policy: “stop the boats” by allowing almost all “asylum” applicants to stay. Those already on UK territory to be “processed” (rubberstamped) and allowed to stay (and so to work, and/or —more likely— claim benefits, apply for social housing, get a State Pension eventually etc). Those in France or elsewhere to be “processed” (rubberstamped) there, with 95% allowed to come to the UK.
This is the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan. Of course, it will mean social and economic disaster not far down the line. Political upheaval too.
There is also the point that the “small boats” invasion is but 5% of the total of all migration to the UK. We are talking about a million, give or take, every year. Even if you use the “net migration” figure, meaning excluding those leaving every year (most of them Brits desperately emigrating to Australasia etc), we are still talking about well over half a million a year, maybe three quarters of a million, in bald numbers.
Zoe Gardner talks about “rebuilding lives”, but what is really happening is that lives, British lives, are being destroyed via mass immigration: impossibility of house purchase for most, impossibility even of renting properties without having to share with strangers or wasting most of a person’s pay on rent; crowded railways and roads; crowded State schools; ever-declining health services; a society in which real British people have to share space and life with persons of totally different race and culture.
Of course, those promoting all of that, whether “@ZoeJardiniere” or Yvette Cooper, will not themselves be subject to such cheapening of their lives. They, most of such pro-migration people, live far from those alien madding crowds.
Twitter/X idiocy
I see that one of those silly Twitter/X “news” accounts (with a mere 113 “followers”) has decided to tweet what is displayed below:
A disbarred barrister who posted grossly offensive #antisemitic material online has been sentenced.
Between May 2021 and April 2022, Ian Robert Millard persistently posted about his hatred of #Jewish people online, while claiming he was simply exercising his freedom of speech.… pic.twitter.com/OKjza5c2lq
— Q.I.B.L.A.H uncensored news (@QUNproductions) July 9, 2024
“@QUNproductions” is only 4 months late with that “news” (and copied its tweet verbatim from the BBC News tweet from 4 months ago). Why do people set up these ridiculous “news” Twitter/X accounts, copied from real news organizations? Maybe as an alternative to trainspotting or other hobbies; God knows.
For the true picture about my trial and sentence, see below:
NEW POST. This is the ONE issue that will derail the new Labour government. How the public mood on one big issue is starting to movehttps://t.co/1Z4tNem2r8
“Starmer’s spokesman, too, has already indicated the Labour government will allow more than 100,000 illegal migrants who are already in the country to apply for asylum, thereby, in my view, creating a huge incentive for many more to come.
Labour’s new Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, who just watched Nigel Farage’s Reform party finish second in her own northern seat, has also refused to say the Labour government is committed to Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats”.
And the Labour government is already pressing ahead with its proposed ‘solution’ to the illegal migration crisis by establishing a ‘new UK Border Security Command’ to ‘tackle the gangs’ —a move which for reasons I’ve already outlined (see here and here) is unlikely to stop the gangs or the small boat invasion at all. In fact, I’ve yet to meet a single expert who thinks Labour’s plan on illegal migration will work.“
[Matt Goodwin]
"The man tipped to be in charge of stopping the small boats has said he is "proud to be woke", compared Suella Braverman to Enoch Powell, praised Black Lives Matter & openly opposed a ‘No Deal’ Brexit. Is this the man to restore trust?"https://t.co/1Z4tNem2r8
“Furthermore, the very man tipped to be appointed by Labour to tackle the small boats, Neil Basu, has previously said he is “proud to be woke”, compared Suella Braverman to Enoch Powell, has suggested diversity and inclusion are the most important things in policing, spoken positively about the revolutionary group Black Lives Matter (BLM), and openly opposed a ‘No Deal’ Brexit.“
[Matt Goodwin]
Neil Basu was one of the most senior policeman, and was always shouting about the “danger” from the so-called “far right” (despite migration invasion happening all around him); he seems, all of the time, to have supported the interests of the non-white population as against those of the real British people. That was certainly my perception.
Picture a remote Arctic island 10,000 years ago, where a handful of woolly mammoths became stranded by rising sea levels. Despite the risks of inbreeding, they survived for millennia to become the last known mammoths on Earth. https://t.co/tcWpfzLOcb
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 9, 2024
Reminds me of one of the few times I ever played a kind of video game. It was in a South London pub, sometime in the 1980s. I was early for a rendezvous not far away. I went into the pub, bought a beer, and played a game machine; one had to rescue hostages and kill terrorists. Result: all terrorists killed, but about half the hostages also killed.
NATO is heading towards the abyss amid bravura speeches from officials – Foreign Policy
After years of false alarms, the Western military alliance is finally truly heading towards the abyss, writes FP. Donald Trump is well-positioned to return to the US presidency in 2025, the… pic.twitter.com/rjCVikzoxb
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 9, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 9, 2024
Penguins in Argentina are walking around town
The temperature on the islands of Tierra del Fuego does not exceed 2 degrees from June, which makes it an ideal place for wandering birds that do not fly in search of food. pic.twitter.com/rIRFLJ8UZ0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 9, 2024
Well, this week brings 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 1, 5, and 8, and was unsure about question 6, so also did not award myself a point for that even though I knew it was one of two particular architects.
GE 2024
Something pretty big is missing from Labour's historic landslide: voters. Keir Starmer is set to win 64 per cent of the seats but on only 33.8 per cent of the votes, the smallest vote share of any modern PM https://t.co/kD6RBa8VaR
Not only that, but Starmer-Labour’s vote-share of 33.8% was, of course, 33.8% of those that bothered to vote. Turnout was only 60%, so Starmer-Labour’s share of the entire eligible electorate was only 20.28%. That’s before you even take into account those too young to vote.
So active support for Starmer-Labour is, at best, little more than 20%, one in five of the eligible electorate. Even then, one has to consider that —as I have blogged since a long time prior to the General Election— the main motivation for all voters, except the quite small minority that actually voted Conservative, was to get rid of the Conservative government and, if possible, party, not to install a Starmer-Labour government.
It is quite likely that only about 10%-15% of the population really support Starmer-Labour.
Of course, it is worse for the Conservative Party. On the above bases and premises, real support for the Conservatives, in the country as a whole, is somewhere between 5% and 14%. Much worse than their headline 23.7% vote-share.
Nearly 60% of voters, of the 60% who voted, voted for one of the three main System parties, but if you factor in the non-voting eligible voters, that means that a minority (well below 40%) of all eligible voters voted for a System party . Then factor in younger people unable to vote, and the true “support” figure for the System, let alone the Starmer-Labour part of it, reduces to somewhere abound 20% (with Labour having maybe 15%, as already noted).
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Nigel Farage In His First Day As Clacton On Sea MP Does A Shift On The Local Coastguard Station 😆 pic.twitter.com/XyZLqVoGvr
NEW. The Tories are on LIFE SUPPORT, Reform is SURGING, the battle begins. Crunching the numbers on the 2024 general election resultshttps://t.co/qQqBhLZX9H
Both Starmer & Lammy have already resorted to crude identity politics. Expect lots more of this, from Racial Equality Act to teaching. Tories hapless on this. Enormous open goal for Farage + Reformhttps://t.co/ohKIsJJ5uB
Maybe liberalism’s children are starting to realise that multiculturalism has been a disastrous social experiment that no one wanted and that will destroy every society it’s forced upon. https://t.co/9qRLKK25TC
Jess Phillips saying that “Birmingham Yardley has given my family everything..”!
Ain’t that the truth?!
“Since 2019, Phillips has received the second highest income on top of her MP’s salary amongst Labour Party MPs.[5]” [Wikipedia]
A freeloading grifting opportunist. Labour Friends of Israel member. It is unfortunate that Jess Phillips was re-elected; by only 693 votes too, ahead of a candidate from Galloway’s “Workers’ Party”.
I doubt that Jess Phillips will be MP after 2029. No doubt she will be using the next 4-5 years to coin as much money as she can for herself and her family.
“Maybe liberalism’s children are starting to realise that multiculturalism has been a disastrous social experiment that no one wanted and that will destroy every society it’s forced upon.” [tweeter “@jtworr”/James Orr]
Talking point
Why has the UK (msm and, therefore, public) adopted the Americanism of describing every former soldier, even if his (or her) service consisted of 3 years in a completely safe UK-based and/or non-combatant unit, as a “veteran“?
Puts my teeth on edge.
More tweets
"Reform achieved a 14% vote share but 1% of seats while the Lib Dems achieved a 12% vote share, half a million votes LESS than Reform but 11% of seats. Reform got 5 MPs; the Lib Dems 71" – John Curtice
Her son literally sells his wife Only Fans, and she has no experience outside of being a trade Union representative, is she remotely qualified or experienced enough to hold the office she has? These are valid questions.
— Captain Benjamin 🐺 (@BenjaminDeRebel) July 6, 2024
“Her son literally sells his wife Only Fans, and she has no experience outside of being a trade Union representative, is she remotely qualified or experienced enough to hold the office she has? These are valid questions. But we could ask this of the entire cabinet? Literally none of them have experience of my distinction outside of playing politics. Look at the business Secretary, he has literally never owned or even worked in a business? What knowledge can he possibly bring to the role? These are important questions, that can’t simply be brushed aside with a few slurs.“
Interesting.
Look at thick-as-two-short-planks David Lammy, now Foreign Secretary.
Admittedly, recent years have seen quite a few deadhead appointees to Cabinet anyway (including, as Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss and “Boris”-idiot), but look at this!
The only way this undeserved huge-majority Starmer-Labour government will not crash and burn within 1-2 years will be if it can stop mass immigration into the UK (I doubt that it will even try), and stop the cross-Channel “small boats” migration invasion (Starmer will probably simply set up “processing centres” in France, then rubberstamp 95% of applicants).
Starmer will also have to reconcile the “need” (caused mainly by mass immigration) to build huge numbers of new and really affordable houses and flats, meaning council or other social housing, and at the same time not trash the —mainly— English countryside, including Green Belt land.
Starmer-Labour will probably not have the money to build millions of dwelling units, so will turn to private housebuilding carpetbaggers, and so will probably let them loose on what should be protected countryside. Starmer will all but demolish planning controls answerable to local people.
I can see even worse bullying of the sick, disabled, and unemployed. Look at Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall. Do you really see any compassion (or any particularly high intellect, or any willingness to think outside the box) there? I don’t.
Looks also as if the UK will continue to throw support, including money and weapons, to both “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) and Israel.
I see no higher (indeed, lower) living standards in prospect. Mass immigration inevitably means lower pay (whatever some Twitter-twits may think), and also higher taxes (because most of the immigrants are, at best, parasitic overall, and many are prolifically criminal as well).
The fabric of society will continue to fray, both by reason of the importation of about a million non-Europeans each year and because of cultural and administrative factors.
In short, this new pseudo-landslide government will almost certainly fail the British people, and fail quickly. After the people wake up to that, anything is possible.
10/13 Britain has also chosen to keep an overvalued pound to favour financialisation, which has helped crush their native industry by making their exports unaffordable. pic.twitter.com/BY5pdhV3Oe
12/13 It's becoming more common for big US firms like Blackrock to acquire British companies.
The UK economy is becoming more subservient to Wall Street, while the new financialised economy engages in a great asset-stripping of the rest of the country. How long can this last? pic.twitter.com/9XXBS5oDmS
Fascinating article, although parts of it wouldn't be out of place in The National, a left-wing newspaper that supports Scottish independence, or a George Monbiot critique of neoliberalism
The Tory/Boomer right and the dissident right are on different planets at this point pic.twitter.com/pKZwPCkCgz
💵 The boss of Britain’s biggest transport company is being awarded an £800,000 bonus – nearly double the size of his salary – even as train cancellations soar, The Telegraph can reveal https://t.co/aHTbIupzGR
I recall reading a Russian-language book about Dzerzhinsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky], sometime around 1982. When he was, in the early 1920s, and amid his other responsibilities, head of the rail industry, he discovered considerable inefficiency, corruption etc. He had some executives and other people shot. Apparently, his methods, harsh though they certainly were, checked the problem sufficiently until systemic improvements were implemented: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky#Director_of_Cheka.
Just a thought.
🗣️ Labour will renationalise Britain’s railways “as soon as possible”, Louise Haigh, the new Transport Secretary, has said
Some industries are, in the contemporary era, better under public ownership. Rail. Domestic water supply. Most electricity. Most if not all gas.
Braverman: ‘No announcements’ on Tory leadership race
The former home secretary is expected to throw her hat into the ring in the contest to replace Rishi Sunak, who said he would quit as leader once formal arrangements were in place to select his successor pic.twitter.com/XflYqpavE1
Oh, right…let’s have a “bas-class” Mauritian Indian and pro-Israel puppet as “Conservative” leader and, later, potential (will never happen, though) Prime Minister…
Nigel Farage’s plan to be prime minister in five years’ time may seem far-fetched, but it would take fewer than 340,000 voters to switch to Reform UK for the party to overtake the Tories and become the official opposition, a Telegraph analysis shows
I always said that the reason why British people, most of them, have not turned to social nationalism over my lifetime [b.1956] is because not enough of them were hurting enough. Not enough of them hurting enough and not enough of them knowing where to place the blame and, also, not enough of them knowing where to place their trust.
The situation at present, as I see it, is that living standards are now falling (and have been for some time), that social and civic standards are in most respects at an all-time low, and still sliding, and that the background and intellectual level of MPs is at an all-time low, as is public trust in, and respect for, them.
All those above factors are getting worse, more pronounced. At the same time (and connected to the above), mass immigration is totally out of control. Not just the cross-Channel “illegals”, but the “legals” coming in on student visas, work visas, “family and friends” visas, “fiancee” visas, tourist visas (the “tourists” then disappearing or claiming asylum) and the rest. A million a year, give or take.
That whole situation has been the background for the loss of confidence in the Conservative Party, and is also the reason why Starmer-Labour is also actually quite unpopular, despite its “landslide by default”.
The happy cheers from TV studios and from System journalists such as John Rentoul are not echoed by the British people.
The situation on the ground is why Reform UK, despite its semi-“libertarian” bias, and its often underwhelming candidates, has managed to get 5 MPs and (arguably as important) over 4 million votes.
When Starmer-Labour falters, in 2025 or 2026, the British people may be ready for a much more radical movement of the “Overton Window”, policies well beyond those of Farage’s Reform UK.
Sir Patrick Vallance appointed to Starmer’s #WEF Cabinet.
Jaywick's been like this for at least half a Century. The people who live there have a right to feel ignored and forgotten. Idiots like this just prove their point. https://t.co/mzAy8fKjLn
Regular readers of the blog will know that I have never favoured the Rwanda plan, for several reasons (impracticability, cost, probability of political instability in Rwanda, numbers etc), but of course the cancellation will encourage the migrant-invaders (even more).
Woke is not "being nìce". Woke is embracing a radical ideology that consistently prioritises minorities above the majority, is hostile toward truth & free speech, & seeks to deconstruct Western societieshttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRYhttps://t.co/4g1hMZKd1B
It is alarming to see (though Twitter is not at all typical of the mass of the public) how many idiots of the “Janet Cobb” type there are in the UK. Unwitting (?) gravediggers of our people’s future. Take a look at her Twitter/X timeline. Incredible wilful stupidity.
Disgraced former New Labour MP Jacqui Smith voted for the Iraq War, claimed £2,500 on expenses for her husband's porn collection, and is an apologist for genocide.
So, naturally, Starmer has given her a peerage and a ministerial job.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) July 6, 2024
Now we see how Starmer intends to run his “elected” dictatorship. As a dictatorship. A Zionist-influenced or controlled tyranny. We are only on day 2 so far…
Jacqui Smith. Expenses cheat and freeloader, but that’s OK because she has the imprimatur from Israel…
It’s a truly precious thing to live in a country where people decide who should serve in government and when you should go. And that those in positions of power accept that with grace.
…and then, after those who stole and grifted for years get chucked out in elections, those same cheats and freeloaders (such as Jacqui Smith) get invited back into government, given a peerage (no need for silly elections, oh no…), and a ministerial portfolio! How wonderful “democracy” is!
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 6, 2024
Rains and floods in Saudi Arabia, which have become common since the beginning of the year , continue Video shows flooding after extremely heavy rain in Al Dhayer. pic.twitter.com/LuzWHmqXIv
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 6, 2024
Late music
[Tunis in the rain. I last trod that pavement about 39 years ago.]
[1938— Adolf Hitler enters Vienna to popular acclaim after the overwhelming vote of the Austrian people to join with National Socialist Germany in the new German Reich]
Talking point
[comment from a report in an American news magazine]
The Conservative Party misgovernment is more or less at an end now. The next battle will soon start, the battle against the overall “woke” nonsense going to be spearheaded by the Labour Party in government: “trans” nonsense, multikulti nonsense, migration-invasion, Israel/Jewish lobbyism and, encompassing all of those and more, the attack on free speech and freedom of expression.
Tweets seen
Blowback is a great podcast on the Iraq War.
“The invasion of Iraq in 2003 constitutes the greatest crime of the 21st century. The war killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and the country plunged into a cycle of violence and misery that endures today.”…
A reminder that, in international affairs, there is sometimes no “good” option but only “bad” or “worse” options. Sometimes the “least worst” option is also the (relative) “best” at that particular time.
In the example, leaving a terrible tyrant like Saddam Hussein in place might be “bad” (arguably) but deposing him, destroying Iraq, and further destabilizing the region, thus also causing millions to flee westward, might be described as “worse” or even “worst”.
Well they have been for some time
— Sue🐱🐴🐔🍃💚🍃 🏴 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 (@sw18780774) June 29, 2024
🚨DOVER INVASION UPDATE🚨
Over 300 illegals in the last 3 days have crossed the channel in dinghies
Saturday: 77 illegals in 1 boat Sunday: 217 illegals in 4 boats Monday: 85 illegals in 2 boats
13,574 migrants in 272 dinghies have so far crossed the channel this year, an 18%… pic.twitter.com/uBHagV2n43
Most Britons are willing to at least give a Starmer government the benefit of the doubt
Have high hopes and think they will do a good job: 21% Do not have high hopes, but willing to give the benefit of the doubt: 35% No not have high hopes and think they will do a bad job: 33%… pic.twitter.com/9JQTZgNzBd
So we are asked to believe that two Reform UK GE 2024 candidates have only just discovered, in the latest case two days before the General Election, that they disagree with their Reform UK colleagues or ex-colleagues?
To me this looks like a set-up, maybe co-ordinated, maybe not.
The latest defector is one Georgie David. I wonder what her provenance might be. She does not look very European in the Sky News photo.
If those two candidates really are against the UK being mainly white Northern European etc, how stupid must they be to have joined with Reform UK in the first place? I might add that the pair are, obviously, though in a minor sense, “traitor” types by nature, to defect like that only days before the “off” (to put it in racing terms).
I doubt that the defections will have any effect on the General Election. In fact, I doubt that the barrage of anti-Reform propaganda being put out by the Conservative Party will do more than perhaps dent a little the Reform UK vote. Even if it did, it would not help the Con Party; any Reform-leaning voters in doubt would not vote Con anyway, but more likely abstain.
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I remember Obama visiting downing street just a couple of days before he announced the election. I think sunak was ordered by the Davos lot to hold an election, get there man starmer in so we can have a war in Ukraine. The chess pieces are being moved into their final position.
Likewise, I happened to be in Qatar for a few days in early 2001. On leaving from the old (now replaced) Doha Airport, I was just being driven to the steps of my plane in a limousine when I noticed that Air Force Two (with Colin Powell on board, as I later discovered, though probably not aboard at that exact moment), was parked right next to it. In retrospect, part of the diplomatic build-up to the invasion of Iraq which occurred 2 years later.
There are always small events, and there is always chatter, before larger events occur. One reason why it is so suspicious that the Israelis claim that the events near Gaza in early October 2023 came as a complete surprise to them.
Labour policies in a nutshell…
🚨 Trans rights over women’s rights 🚨 Immigrants first, Britons last 🚨 Net Zero & higher bills for all 🚨 War first, peace last 🚨 LGBTQIAP+ gender ideology 4 all kids 🚨 Davos first, Britain last
Rachel Reeves. Labour Friends of Israel. Poses as “competent”. Ran up very large (interest-free) debt on her House of Commons credit card, then refused for years to repay. Freeloader and cheat.
Shut these sick events down , we the ordinary public have had enough of this nonce shit https://t.co/u0xpR2pvhf
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 1, 2024
Tommy Robinson. Even a stopped clock is right once or twice per day.
From Sept 2020 @GuidoFawkes reported that in a 1988 edition of Socialist Lawyer magazine, the words of Sir @Keir_Starmer.
All main System parties are signed up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan (nb. the “usual suspects” habitually vandalize Wikipedia, so bear that in mind).
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— 🇬🇧#VoteREFORMUK🇬🇧 I want my country back! 🇬🇧 (@ItParachute) June 27, 2024
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 1, 2024
My own experiences have been both worse and far more significant (because my own free speech struggles have been over serious socio-political postings, not silly “dog gives Hitler salute” video clips): see below
I don't think he can live. But you have rescued him and that was the best that you could do. I think you must have reassured him that he was not lost in some dark mysterious place, causing him pain. Às a pet cat he would have looked to humans for help.
Mark Lewis left Britain because antisemitism meant he did not feel safe?
But he returned to spend a week in court representing people who joke about the Protocols, being Nazis, and fleeing to Argentina?https://t.co/oq8y9GCyCA
The old adage about how investigators should “always follow the money” applies a fortiori to the egregious Lewis.
Nina Power is bankrupt after losing a defamation case. Her co-claimant Daniel Miller is already bankrupt. Both defendants in my case are heading for bankruptcy. They are all former clients of Mark Lewis who decided to take cases to trial and lost. @MLewisLawyerpic.twitter.com/LVJ4tmvbv9
As I have said on the blog previously, I pity anyone who instructs Lewis as solicitor (at least anyone who does not have a rather simple and easily-won, indeed “open-and-shut”, case).
— Damian Lyons Lowe (@DamianSurvation) July 2, 2024
The only two where the range is relatively unimportant are Labour, which is (however unmeritoriously) on track for a massive win, it seems, and the LibDems, who seem likely to do modestly well or quite well purely by default, by being the “dustbin” or “tactical vote” choice.
All the rest? Either getting a bloc of significance, or almost nothing. Even the Con result will be very different on 34 MPs (a near wipeout) compared to 99 MPs (very poor but still just about in the game).
Last week Starmer said, “Handouts offer less dignity to people than earning a living through work.” The same Starmer has accepted £76,000 of handouts including concerts, parties, sport games, hotel stays and clothing. https://t.co/oNsXDQWteY
Starmer and his cabal are a collective waste of space, but this time next week they will constitute the “politburo” of an “elected” dictatorship.
Nebenzja: Residents of Gaza on the brink of starvation
" The situation on the ground is not only worsening, but it is bringing the people of Gaza to the brink of starvation. This is a sad reality, which is directly indicated by the estimates of the UN World Food Program, which… pic.twitter.com/N2ac9COlcD
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 2, 2024
Everything that was published about the terrible conditions was true. I have already proposed a much simpler solution – the introduction of the death penalty "
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir commented on reports of concentration camps for Palestinian… pic.twitter.com/jNX10O5MIU
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 2, 2024
“Everything that was published about the terrible conditions was true. I have already proposed a much simpler solution – the introduction of the death penalty “.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir commented on reports of concentration camps for Palestinian detention, where Israeli soldiers tortured, deprived of food Palestinians.”
[Israeli Jew, and government minister, Ben-Gvir]
Ecce “the simulacrum of the human“…
A Palestinian youth made a video documenting his life in Gaza before and after the war. pic.twitter.com/1hOldX1BGZ
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 2, 2024
Interesting poll tonight from Reuters/Ipsos: Trump with 39%, Michelle Obama with 50%.
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 2, 2024
The latest trick of the Deep State “war party”…
Donald Trump, if he wins the elections, could abandon the expansion of NATO to the east , especially to Ukraine and Georgia, writes "Politico".
▪️Trump is also thinking about an agreement with Vladimir Putin on which countries will be able to join NATO in the future.… pic.twitter.com/q6PDsY9Vyq
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 2, 2024
Makes me wonder whether the “war party” is somehow drugging Biden to make him seem even more demented, with the idea that he will be pressured to step down in favour of a candidate more likely to be able to defeat Trump.
[“Moskva” swimming pool, Kropotkinskaya, in 1980. At the time (it is no longer in existence) the largest swimming pool in the world, capable of hosting thousands of swimmers. I myself swam there daily when I was in Moscow in 1993 but, at that time, a year before its permanent closure, there were only about a dozen or so swimmers when I would visit (quite early in the morning): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_Pool]
Well, this week I scored 5/10, the same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 9. I could not quite bring to mind the answers to questions 1 and 8, and had no idea about questions 4, 7, and 10.
My feeling, with a mere 5 days to go before Election Day, is that, firstly and obviously, the Conservative Party has reached the end of its road.
What does it even pretend to stand for now? It has embraced every sort of “woke” nonsense over the past 14 years, and even tried to hit Reform UK yesterday with the accusation that a Reform UK activist criticized a police car flying a “Pride” (LGBTQXYZ) flag. How is such criticism even controversial? The police should not be flying socially or politically contentious flags.
The Conservative Party has also presided over the migration invasion, trying to manage the influx of millions of non-Europeans (over a million a year now) but never seriously trying to stop it; indeed, encouraging “legal” migration, which is 95% of all migration-invasion. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
As for living standards, straight down, and set to continue, under Labour plunging ever-lower. That may give social-nationalism an opening quite soon (but there has to be a movement to capture the sentiment).
My view about Reform UK is that many of those who favour it have already voted, via the postal ballot. Most of the rest who are leaning to Reform UK will not be put off by the contrived scandal in Clacton; some may even like the outspoken comments aired on Channel 4.
There is also the point that maybe 20% of eligible voters are either not going to vote, or are still uncertain. Few will vote Con. They —in my opinion— will not, most of them, vote Lab either. So either Reform UK, LibDem, or Green. I should say that Reform UK will get more than the LibDems, maybe more than the LibDems and Greens combined. Even if that only boosts Reform UK’s vote-share by 2 or 3 points, so from ?18% or ?20% to 21% or maybe as high as 24%, that would be mega in terms of the ultimate results.
If, as seems, anything from 5% to 20% of voters are only going to decide in the last days of the campaign, or even on the day, that means that there is still much to play for.
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Many White House employees were so devastated by Biden's debate failure that they did not go to work on Friday and stayed home telecommuting, CNN reports.
In group chats, sad jokes were made about updating a resume to look for a new job elsewhere, one of the officials told the… pic.twitter.com/cTJa71LCjI
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 28, 2024
Donald Trump said China, Russia and North Korea will not be enemies if he is re-elected pic.twitter.com/hTQU28nRgv
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 28, 2024
Hopefully, when/if Trump becomes President again, American support for the Kiev regime will be scaled back and maybe stopped altogether. Other NATO states, and other states yet, will then and consequently rethink their pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev regime) stances.
The war will then grind to a halt within, at most, a few weeks. Zelensky and his cabal will flee, or be captured, or killed, and Russia will be able to redraw the map in suitable fashion, ruling the “Russian” part east of the Dnieper and along the coasts of the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, as well as Crimea; the rest of Ukraine can be an independent or autonomous state or territory centred on Lvov, peacefully and unthreateningly ruling its own lands and population. About half of Ukrainian territory as it was pre-2022.
As for Zelensky, if he survives, he and his wife can go to one of his villas in the Americas (Gulf Coast Florida, and/or the Caribbean), or to Israel, there to live off his stolen billions.
Massive looting occurs in Nairobi, Kenya following recent protests against President Ruto's initiatives pic.twitter.com/fSCbfUG2pp
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 28, 2024
Thick-as-two-short-planks David Lammy, arguably the most high-profile useless “diversity hire” in the UK.
That ridiculous creature may soon be Foreign Secretary. Looks like James Cleverly’s status as most ludicrous (ever?) Foreign Secretary will have been as brief as those of Liz Truss and “Boris” Johnson…
See also:
No wonder Starmer has locked Lammy in a cupboard till the election is over. Otherwise the electorate may suss Dave is as thick as pig shit. Has anyone seen Lammy? Maybe should report him missing. https://t.co/MvkPKhsQaD
— The Philosopher's Monkey (@Dunnylad1) June 29, 2024
The Conservative Party deserves to disappear, but Starmer, the Israel and NWO/ZOG puppet, will lead an “elected” dictatorship, which will intensify the attack on free speech and the future of the British people.
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🚨Bombshell🚨
More tomorrow, Andrew Parker, the actor who used profane racial language has worked for Channel4 before and boasts one of his skills is "secret filming". pic.twitter.com/wG3evT7Ali
LOOK: Andrew Parker lists “secret filming” as one of his “special skills.” Another coincidence? Perhaps. But they really are starting to pile up…. pic.twitter.com/UxkIwFLtYa
I see the mounting evidence of a possible stitch up over actor Andrew Parker's "racist remarks" in Clacton is not being covered by anyone apart from us on social media.
The System parties want even something as semi-System as Reform UK to be squashed flat by propaganda lies and by State repression (and electoral trickery). Is this really “democracy”?
Simon Myerson’s unwavering confidence in his views, despite compelling evidence he is obviously wrong, puzzles me.
He posted to accuse Assange of causing deaths. It’s an allegation of the utmost seriousness for a judge and KC to make?
“Simon Myerson’s unwavering confidence in his views, despite compelling evidence he is obviously wrong, puzzles me. He posted to accuse Assange of causing deaths. It’s an allegation of the utmost seriousness for a judge and KC to make? But the court judgments make it clear Myerson is wrong. And Assange’s sentencing judge has now confirmed nobody suffered physical harm. Will Myerson delete his false allegation about Assange? No chance.”
[James Wilson]
Myerson’s status as Recorder (p/t judge) should be reviewed by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office. He is plainly unfit to sit in judgment on others.
Then mix that with being a zionist.
— Mark 🌹 Disabled as defined the Equality Act 2010 (@RacistToriesOUT) June 26, 2024
🚨 POLITICAL INTERFERENCE ALERT 🚨
It comes as no surprise that that the #BBCQT audience last night was rigged.
These were not ordinary members of the public.
They hand-picked a prominent pro-Palestine activist & even a BBC TV Director to attack me. pic.twitter.com/AbEqoAgOHS
Breaking: Soap Star Link To Farage C4 Sting: Reform Party Chairman Richard Tice has alleged that @Channel4 bought undercover film from specialist firm called Lee Morrell Media. According to Companies House UK Govt website, Lee Sorrell, the Director of Lee Sorrell Media, is also… pic.twitter.com/QjZby2OsBY
— Herd Immunity News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) June 29, 2024
“Breaking: Soap Star Link To Farage C4 Sting: Reform Party Chairman Richard Tice has alleged that @Channel4 bought undercover film from specialist firm called Lee Morrell Media. According to Companies House UK Govt website, Lee Sorrell, the Director of Lee Sorrell Media, is also Director of another company named COCO MOCHA FILMS LTD. Another named person as a ‘director’ of COCO MOCHA FILMS LTD is former Emmerdale Farm actor Neil Lennon. We’re not sure to what extent Mr Lennon is linked to the apparent ‘stage managed hit piece on the @reformparty_uk and @Nigel_Farage in Clacton? WTF is going on here? Undercover media firms based in Barnsley, ITV rejected soap stars, leftist filmmakers working for @Channel4, all heading over to Clacton to destroy the Reform vote there.”
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[Berlin 1945]
[1960s— couple look over Berlin Wall from western side to eastern side]
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And that will be England gone, The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, The guildhalls, the carved choirs. There'll be books; it will linger on In galleries; but all that remains For us will be concrete and tyres.
“A 12-year-old schoolboy has been investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there ‘are only two genders’.
The child made a video, posted online, in which he also stated: ‘There’s no such thing as non-binary’.
And in response to school bullies who mistakenly believed he supported transgender ideology, he said: ‘[I’m] gay not queer.’
Originally a homophobic slur, trans activists claim the word ‘queer’ now describes people who don’t adhere to ideas of sex or gender.
But the school told the boy’s mother they would refer him to Prevent, the Home Office programme that attempts to stop people becoming terrorists, amid fears he could be at risk of being radicalised by the far-right.”
Same here in the Colne Valley. Out candidate Stuart Hale is not a politician. He's a normal working guy who's passionate about changing politics and bringing power back to the people, not the blob.
Give him a follow here and let's spread the word… @Colnevalleyref
— Make Albion Great Again 🇬🇧 (@ReclaimAlbion) June 29, 2024
The whole Johnson family are arrogant ignorant sociopaths believing they and they alone have the right to dictate to the rest of us. No wonder @BorisJohnson is as he is!
‘Stanley Johnson caused our flight to be cancelled’ say BA passengers https://t.co/fhYHrco68F
GB News's Sir Philip Davies MP wagered he will not hold his Shipley constituency (6,242 majority.)
Last night he said he “fully expected to lose” the West Yorkshire marginal but insisted he had not done anything illegal. He is married to minister of Common Sense Esther McVey pic.twitter.com/Q4aU9aqbFd
Good grief. The “Conservative” MPs really are “filling their boots” on the way out…
Rishi Sunak banging on about integrity, meanwhile simultaneously CCHQ have changed their handle to Tax Check UK and are posting misinformation………the fucking state of it.#BBCDebatepic.twitter.com/yy7mHPhsTI
— Land of Tope & Dory 🐀 (@lookeyhere4) June 26, 2024
Incredible. In the Christian Weltanschauung we are all “sinners”, it is said, but the Conservative Party is rapidly being exposed as a cabal of corrupt and ethics-free outright criminals and spivs.
Can you imagine a low trick of that sort being pulled in 1956 (the year of my birth), 1974 (when, aged 18, I voted for the first and only time—my candidate came last out of four…), or even 20 years ago? No. It would not, could not, have happened.
It is as if there has been a complete and shameless moral collapse on the part of the Conservative Party’s MPs and staff. Betting on the election date while having inside knowledge, masquerading as a fictional “Tax Check” organization (as above), masquerading as a candidate for any party other than Conservative (the unpleasant little Israel puppet, Robert Largan, at High Peak) etc.
Just unbelievable.
As for Philip Davies, he has, in a sense, every right to bet against himself, especially as he would certainly prefer to be, and make more profit were he to be, re-elected as MP for Shipley. Yes. No argument as far as that is concerned, but it just looks wrong, and so, bearing in mind the status and public position of an MP —as Davies was until the prorogation of Parliament— it is wrong.
“Migrant shipwreck survivor is arrested in Italy amid claims he strangled Iraqi girl, 16, to death in front of her mother on sinking yacht in the Med after watching his wife and daughter drown“
[Daily Mail]
Look at the type of untermenschen coming to mainland Europe, many then travelling on to the UK.
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A heartfelt message from David (Robbie’s husband) to all of Woodfield’s supporters who have sent such kind messages since Robbie’s passing last Thursday 💔https://t.co/4KVJbB9mLypic.twitter.com/4nRCj8Y2au
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) June 24, 2024
However, we can only do this with your continued support. Thank you to all who have donated, rest assured as always you money will be used to care for the animals that Robbie loved so much https://t.co/4KVJbB8OW0
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) June 25, 2024
Apropos of nothing, I wonder how many of my regular blog readers know that the Russian word for a railway station of medium to large size is a “voksaal” [воксал], which comes from, yes, “Vauxhall”.
The reason is that Vauxhall was apparently one of the first places to have a functioning steam train, or at least a well-known one, at a time (early 19thC) when Vauxhall was a “pleasure garden”. Possibly. A similar but distinct explanation is that other pleasure gardens, in Poland and Russia, were later referred to as “vauxhalls” and were in the vicinity of railway stations: anyway, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Gardens#Cultural_significance.
I think that a few of my regular readers already knew that, though I admit that I am guessing…
Pathetic, Paul. The legitimate concerns of women on this matter – expressed by women from the Right *and the Left* – are not to be falsely dismissed as a Tory plot.
Paul Mason, would-be Labour MP, becomes ever more pathetic politically. One feels that, given another 10 years, he will be found wandering the streets and swearing randomly.
Russian forces destroyed 12 drone control centers in the zone of responsibility of the Battlegroup West, spokesman for the battlegroup Ivan Birma said:https://t.co/M1SP6gqzAbpic.twitter.com/Rt4oJiVcMp
Russia’s navy is receiving more and more warships and boats year by year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on shipbuilding, citing year-on-year statistics:https://t.co/Pgzc6MjQn5pic.twitter.com/GnTJq5tyZ4
Good sense and Realpolitik breaking out in Berlin?
One INSANE thing about Johannesburg is how low trust it is.
Most people have houses with security guards for their gated community, high walls, electrified wire, CCTV. Nobody parks their car in the open at night Everyone seems to be in fear.
— Lord Miles Official (@real_lord_miles) June 24, 2024
If mass immigration, meaning net surplus immigration, were ended, then there would be no need for such building on the Green Belt. England's green and pleasant land is worth defending.
Enthusiasts for assisted suicide might not like to read this extract from a letter in today’s .@Guardian, fromProf David Albert Jones pic.twitter.com/VilROO32uU
It is coming now to the point at which we might ask, “which event will destroy our present civilization? A collapse in insect life, plant life and then animal and human life? A nuclear war? A “pandemic” (a real one, not one like the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic)?“
I live in the UK. 20 years ago if we drove 50 miles in the spring/summer our windscreens would be plastered with insects. Now I can drive 200 miles and there might be a couple. Don’t even need to use windscreen washers. Ask anyone here.
20 years is even less than a flash in historical times yet the number of UK insects has declined by around 75% in this time. It's similar in many other European countries where constant measurement has been taking place using standardized methods. https://t.co/SqsgjW7fFl!
The tide is turning. Reform UK is the first really significant movement of the “Overton Window” in mainstream UK politics. Later, social-nationalism can take hold, once there is a suitable movement as a vehicle for it. Then, a few accounts may be settled.
🇵🇸 Dozens of Palestinians rush towards a humanitarian aid truck in the Gaza Strip due to severe shortages of clean water and food. pic.twitter.com/E44lIruuVr
Their evil is palpable when they feel thwarted. A similar incident happened in London a couple of months ago, with the Metropolitan Police as the immediate targets of the filmed propaganda.
According to my use of Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], that might result in a House of Commons with 441 Labour MPs (overall majority 232), LibDems 82, Cons 55, Reform UK 22, Greens 4, SNP 23 (etc).
Nearly 600,000 AFU troops have been lost and 4 oblasts, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson because Volodymyr Zelenskyy provoked a war, threatening to host nuclear weapons, attacking Donbass, threatening Crimea and insisting Ukraine could join NATO. Biden encouraged this.
— Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) June 27, 2024
Far right: the belief that British culture and civilisation is worth preserving.
Well, this week brought only 5/10, same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 8, and 10; was a few years out on question 7, could not bring to mind the answer to question 4, and had no idea about questions 5, 6, and 9.
I am a market researcher. I spoke to Sunak about Polls at the leadership hustings. I don't think he believes them and to some extent he is right to do so. But we've been out campaigning in Bexhill and Battle and have yet to meet anyone whose said they'll vote Tory in a 26k…
— The Good Statistician aka Nigel Jacklin (@TheGoodStatsMan) June 20, 2024
“I am a market researcher. I spoke to Sunak about Polls at the leadership hustings. I don’t think he believes them and to some extent he is right to do so. But we’ve been out campaigning in Bexhill and Battle and have yet to meet anyone whose said they’ll vote Tory in a 26k majority seat.”
We read newspapers, watch TV commentary, see opinion polls, look at (often biased) Twitter/X comment. All contribute to our belief as to what might happen on Election Day. Beyond that, there is mere personal experience of one’s own local area; anecdotal, subjective.
I myself live in an area of coastal Hampshire known for being traditionally “safe” Conservative. The local MP is someone with some of whose views (eg on the Covid scamdemic/panicdemic) I can agree, but with whom I would not agree on other topics. He is also a very poor constituency MP— lazy, uncaring, and totally useless in fact, as a few people have told me after not having received help or even a polite acknowledgment from him.
In previous general elections, I have seen almost exclusively Conservative Party posters around, and one huge banner on a house in the nearby small town. This time, I think only one Conservative poster, and three or four LibDem ones. Unscientific, but is that a straw in the wind? Hard to say, but interesting all the same.
The incumbent MP has been there since the constituency was created in 1997. He has never scored below 50%, and received well over 60% in both 2017 and 2019. Labour usually come third (second in 2017) here, and the LibDems (usually second-placed, though fourth behind Con, UKIP and Labour in 2015) had their best result in 1997 (27.8%).
In other words, it would take a political earthquake, maybe a political meteorite strike, to displace the Conservative here…and yet…and yet…
I may be reading too much into the presence or otherwise of political posters put up locally, but it occurred to me that the Conservative Party in the constituency has (perhaps) few volunteers now. The average age of Con Party members in this constituency must be around 80 if not 90. Does the presence of a few LibDem posters indicate a local upsurge, or just a single diligent volunteer?
How big the Reform UK vote here will be on 4 July 2024 is uncertain. UKIP scored 16.9% in 2015, though far less prior to that. Since 2015, there has been no broadly “national” party standing, and no social-national party has ever stood here.
💥#Breaking Three former Prime Minister's Office employees have been awarded $240,000 for abuse akin to "modern slavery" at the hands of Benjamin & Sara Netanyahu. Jerusalem District Court rules in the case of Chef Joe Korson & household employees Aharon Naor & Yair Itzhaki. pic.twitter.com/itPGXPwxMR
If the staff had been Palestinian Arabs, they would have stood no chance. Having said that, Arabs would probably not have been employed anyway, for reasons of security.
I hope not. That would leave me politically homeless again. A vote for Conservative is a vote for Labour because they’ve shown themselves to be one globalist uniparty. I need a party that i can trust to rid government of WEF influence.
Farage and Reform UK to merge with the Cons within 14 days? That sounds ludicrous. If it were to happen, in the 12 days left, it would just be a replay of 2019, when Farage stabbed his own party in the back; with one big difference, though— in 2019, Farage’s back-stab meant that instead of a likely hung Parliament, “Boris”-idiot was able to get an 80-seat Commons majority. In this General Election, the surrounding situation is very different.
Were the predicted merger to occur, and if Farage then urged voters to vote Con in many constituencies, all that would happen would be that Labour would still win overall, but with a majority of maybe 100+ instead of maybe 300. Of course, that would save perhaps 100 or 150 Con Party seats. It would also destroy whatever credibility Farage still seems to have with many people.
After any such merger, I suppose that the idea would be that Sunak would lose the election, resign, disappear from view, and that a leadership election would then anoint Farage as leader of the Con/Reform party.
Not totally impossible, arguably, but very unlikely. Reform UK is on a roll. Brexit Party had all wind taken out of its sails by Farage’s treachery in 2019. The same would happen today. It might even help Labour more than Reform UK fighting on as at present. After all, all the Reform UK candidates are now on the ballot papers.
The only way the predicted merger would work would be if Sunak and Farage were to announce a list of which seats would be “gifted” to Reform UK, but the candidates would still have to remain nominally in place.
That prediction to me sounds like nonsense. After the election might be a different story, were Reform UK to have 5-10 MPs in the Commons, and the Cons 50-100. However, once Reform UK merged with the Cons, and after (if it were to happen) Farage were elected to lead the merged parties, then what? The surviving Con MPs would be not a good match with the new Reform UK MPs; apple and orange. What could they offer the public? Con Party policies but with more emphasis on immigration? Sounds underwhelming.
Never say never, but I cannot see it as likely. If, however, it were to happen, it might yet open the door, on the flank, to real social-national people. “Always look on the bright side of life“.
As to that Gewolb individual’s views on UK interest rates, I do not have the economic background to assess them.
American merchant banker, UK resident since 1999, now aged 80.
The Conservative Party is dying on its feet right in front of us. I really cannot see Farage wanting to ally himself with a party that, in another metaphor, is sinking below the waves. Not even after the election.
I notice that the Sky News “Chief Political Correspondent”, one Jon Craig, has been wheeled out to write a piece on the Sky News website about how “vile” Farage was to speak the truth about the Ukraine situation, i.e. that NATO has steadily advanced across Eastern Europe since the 1990s, thus destabilizing the NATO-Russia status quo.
Interesting language…”vile“— reminiscent of the language used by “the usual suspects” (((them)))…
The System may be getting or feeling seriously threatened by Reform UK, and is trying to use attack propaganda to weaken Farage’s appeal.
Craig claims that most “Britons” support “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime). I doubt it. Look at the comments section of the Daily Mail.
There is something going on here, with System scribblers, talking heads, and both “Labour” and “Conservative” Friends of Israel MPs all attacking Farage.
I have just heard the news on my car radio. Farage’s comments about the Ukraine situation were prominently displayed. I wonder, though, whether the Kiev regime is as popular with the people as it is with pseudo-“elite” deadheads such as Ben Wallace (former Con MP) and the Labour Friends of Israel drones. I think not.
In any case, few if any will now decide not to vote for Reform UK just because of a few comments about NATO.
Using, as always, Electoral Calculus, I make that a House of Commons with 468 Labour MPs —overall majority of 286, Con 67, LibDem 63, SNP 20, Reform UK 6, Plaid 4, Greens 2 (etc). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
If you're from England this hits you on multiple levels. Very well done.
I agree, in principle, with the vast majority of that, about 90%. Only social nationalism will actually “do de job”, though. Reform UK is too finance-capitalistic, too pro-Israel, not quite what I would ever support as a destination (rather than as a means to an end).
Today is the UK msm “hit Farage” day, it seems. “Ukraine”, NHS etc etc. Anything to get the Reform UK vote down. I doubt that it will work.
Your so right, this guy Cleverly is a parasite, hasn’t done anything remotely worthwhile, Cleverly and Sunak have done irreparable damage to this once great country, now its in decline thanks to masses of migrants, many clearly unfit to even be in the U.K.
Even in an election the Tory civil war on immigration continues. Armed Forces Minister slams James Cleverly for lying. Cleverly promised illegals would not be placed in new flats only to change his mind 1 day before election purdah rules started.More lies https://t.co/Lf0y6WFliL
I used to watch Yes Minister and Yes Prine Minister. Very witty and cleverly written. Gone are the days when most households get a daily newspaper. Reform UK is doing extremely well on social media, and they definitely are getting my vote. https://t.co/lUnJu5aCOG
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) June 22, 2024
I have blogged once or twice in the past about how, in the mid-1990s, I visited the biological research base at Porton Down, accompanying the then Ukrainian Ambassador. Those posts can be found via the search box on the blog. Here is one, anyway: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/03/06/diary-blog-6-march-2022/
Good grief. He is only 5 years older than me; looks like an extra from Lord of the Rings, perhaps (first picture) someone with an incurable affliction or someone cursed by a wizard, or (second picture) a dishonest peasant or itinerant tinker. Still moneygrasping at age 72. Part-Jew. I never liked what I saw of him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Geldof.
Kharkiv will remember today for the rocketing of Belgorod. FAB arrives every few minutes on average. pic.twitter.com/MV5CrQTifX
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
Polls from Emerson College and The Hill show Trump leading Biden in key states: Arizona (43-47%), Georgia (41-45%), Michigan (45-46%), Nevada (46, 43-43%), Pennsylvania (45–47%) and Wisconsin (44–47%).
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
Israeli police attack Israeli demonstrators demanding the overthrow of Netanyahu's government. pic.twitter.com/PTvHT4fLj0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
Left to itself, the world’s only Jewish state would collapse into a kind of civil war, but the money and armament provided by the Jewish “communities” both directly and indirectly (via governments) in the USA, UK, France etc keep the whole project going, so far.
The Ukrainian people are signaling to the world that they need help to get rid of Zelensky. Yesterday, at a football match with Slovakia, Ukrainians carried out a banner with the inscription “Give us back the elections.” pic.twitter.com/IeiTEnuVTx
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) June 22, 2024
Zelensky is a Jewish tyrant, who has suspended elections, banned most political parties, banned trade unions, and arrested or killed political opponents.
A hot summer awaits us in Ukraine "A major military event will take place in August or September." pic.twitter.com/k3qVVqTupW
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
Perhaps a general Russian advance.
“Germany is no longer the same” – Orban chastised Berlin for the failure of migration policy
Before his visit to Berlin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticized modern Germany. He said that the country had even lost its former smell, clearly making fun of its problem… pic.twitter.com/rcBskHWP8C
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
“Germany is no longer the same” – Orban chastised Berlin for the failure of migration policy.
Before his visit to Berlin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticized modern Germany. He said that the country had even lost its former smell, clearly making fun of its problem with migration, writes The Daily Telegraph. “Germany no longer has the taste it used to have. She doesn’t smell like she used to anymore. This whole Germany is no longer the Germany that our grandparents and parents set as an example for us,” the politician said in an interview before a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Orbán also said that Germany was once a country of “order,” “well-organized work” and “hard-working people.” But now, he noted, citing the German newspaper Die Welt, Germany is a “colorful, changed, multicultural world” where migrants are “no longer guests.” “This is a very big change,” summed up the head of the Hungarian government.“
Late thoughts about GE 2024
If reports are to be believed, 20% of voters have either not made up their minds as to how they will vote, or have not decided whether they will vote at all.
The 20% equates to thousands of eligible voters in every constituency.
It is also reported that as many as 175 seats are in very close contest now, more than a quarter of all seats.
I have speculated previously whether there is, or is not, a bloc of “secret Reform UK voters”, people who may not admit to leaning towards Reform UK if asked. I do not know the answer to that, and neither do I know its size if it exists, but if that bloc does exist, and if it mostly votes Reform UK on the day, then all bets are off, because there just might be a political meteorite strike on the 4th of July…
Ian Robert Millard 