The demographics favour the Democrats and Biden, but I would not necessarily write off Trump, whose own “virus” experience obviously bolsters his own views on the Coronavirus generally. It might be objected that everyone is different etc, but fact is, Trump is 74, in a poor state of health and fitness, yet has recovered in days and having had only minor treatment.
Most people are predicting a win for Biden, and for all I know they may be right, but I wonder whether that really will be the result. Still, whichever candidate wins, (((they))) will win…
John Tyler was already 46 years old when the Battle of The Alamo occurred, in 1836. He became U.S. President at the age of 50, in 1841.
Imagine that…someone whose grandfather was born in 1790, during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and only months after the French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille, has only just died! To me, it’s almost incredible. My own (maternal) grandfather was born in 1901.
For all that, in some respects the USA gives an old impression, one lacking in youthfulness. Its personification, after all, is an old man, “Uncle Sam”.
BBC World Service
I occasionally remind people, who perhaps never heard the BBC World Service in its 1970s/1980s heyday, how good it was, and how rubbish it now is. Last night, they had some spiteful-sounding black girl talking rubbish about the 1977 “battle” in Lewisham, London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewisham
Biased throughout, the 15-30 minute piece never attempted to give a balanced view, or any perspective. There was one main interviewee, a black man who was an “antifascist” activist at the time. Poor.
Never go back
They say “never go back“. Usually that is good advice. It can be disturbing to see again places once known, and even loved, changed. That can be so even when the changes have improved the place in question. All the same, there is a strange fascination in seeing again places you once knew well. Google Earth can be addictive in this regard. It is a peculiar feeling to see just how quickly the world changes. In 20, 30, 40, 50 years, an area can change out of all recognition. Fascinating but unsettling.
Tweets seen
Never mind Brexit, we need a referendum on the #TheGreatReset. No one voted for it in 2019 yet Johnson is already implementing it. Let’s get the campaign started now!
Poverty can be reduced by giving people money to improve their lives with; it’s been proven time and time again. But this solution is constantly resisted because it doesn’t uphold the oppressive notion that poor people naturally make bad choices and don’t “deserve” to be secure. https://t.co/cDItsMGKmF
Allegra Stratton might usefully take note of the above tweets.
The government is employing 1,114 consultants from Deloitte to work on Test and Trace alone, @SkyNews reports. @PrivateEyeNews reveals rates typically charged by Deloitte £1,450 per day per partner £290 per Deloitte intern (Wonder how much of that the interns see)
Another real medical expert slams the elite's #rona obsession and its apocalyptic impact on health happiness, society and the economy. Johnson & his collaborators are serial killers.https://t.co/AsuL9unK85
Official figures for Covid hospital admissions include those who tested positive in hospital *after* admission. Worth remembering when looking at admission figures. pic.twitter.com/F0HIEuyhKi
Yes, and don't forget that the government has to get this money from somewhere. How many actual taxpayers are there left after six months of Rishinomics? https://t.co/Ll2DEc08O7
– Police allow people to riot, attack them and deface monuments – We lose our civil liberties at an unprecedented rate – Met investigate an interviewer for something his guest said for which the guest has apologised
'State of alarm' is a good way of describing these irresponsible, ill-informed and useless state-sponsored panics which have wrecked lives and livelihoods across the world. Note in this case it was done against the wishes of local govt. https://t.co/nigFCDLOZ0
The problem with UK politics is the tribalism. People believe the Tories are conservative and Labour represents the working class. As you have pointed out for years, Mr H, they couldn't be more wrong.
1/3 @atjaardstra. You are mistaken. I point out that Japan did not strangle its economy, yet had many fewer deaths than us, so challenging the connection the ill-informed assume exists between shutdowns and saving lives. https://t.co/ynShblGIRy
2/3 @atjaardstra. Your second error is your equally lazy assumption that mask wearing in Japan is the proven cause of lower deaths in a country where old people happen to a lot healthier than they are in N. America or W.Europe. https://t.co/ynShblGIRy
Well, isn’t that interesting? No doubt a…co-incidence(?). All the same, it would tend to support the idea that “Covid-19” was created for a purpose, a purpose connected with the “Great Reset”…
With even the #WHO trying (or pretending) to leave the sinking ship Lockdown, Boris and all the other politicians who've broken our world with this nonsense are way out on a limb – and still sawing away between them and the trunk.#fairtrials & short ropeshttps://t.co/6rB6js492C
I should think so @Francis_Hoar. Since it turned into an establishment rag and dumped its decent radical past, the Guardian has become quite a distressing spectacle. https://t.co/HNuLDsN8Pi
The BBC too. Its output is now of incredibly low quality, something most obvious on the BBC News on television. Endless “interviews” on Skype with boring and usually non-white persons, very little foreign news and that mostly of little depth, or even casual interest. Without the “licence fee” (enforced tax), the BBC would just go out of business. The “licence fee” protects it, enables it to pay ex-footballers a million or two a year, newsreaders half a million a year and many others £300,000, £200,000 or whatever. No wonder most are unwilling to rock the boat by standing up for the future of European humanity!
I doubt it very much @johnwil57255704. Listen to our supposed leaders talk, and you see shallow banality and unconscious ignorance, always on display. https://t.co/JjlDIhwm02
Every time you see some liberal journalist spouting poison about Russia and #Putin, remember this. It's not the only reason for this epidemic of #Russophobic propaganda, but it's an important one in a West now twinned with Sodom & Gomorrah.#SundayServicehttps://t.co/9fa824KeFu
Salmon pens match oil wells, wave machines in the Channel to stop migrant boats, gender fluidity in primary schools, letting cancer rip to try to stop a virus – the political elite has lost all touch with reality.#strongdelusionshttps://t.co/qb2SPHrzV8
In a sense, it is incredible how a people as traditionally (though maybe not so much now) educated and intelligent as the Scots can take petty dictator Sturgeon and her unpleasant little SNP pack seriously. I suppose that the blame lies with the (other, older) System parties: “Labour”, “Conservative”, “Liberal Democrat” (all very much misnamed).
The Labour Party lost all credibility in Scotland, finally grinding to a halt under System drone, Jewish lobby mouthpiece (and now Tony Blair-salaried “gopher”), Jim Murphy, a man who spent 13 years as a university student without even getting a degree! Not forgetting Kezia Dugdale, another “never had a job” drone, idiot (and now newspaper-scribbling lesbian).
The Conservative Party is making minor inroads in Scotland by default, i.e. because they are neither Labour nor SNP (nor LibDem), but I cannot see that getting far, bearing in mind the Boris-idiot government in London and the upcoming economic tsunami triggered by government policy around “the virus”, as well as by badly-mishandled Brexit.
The SNP is only “faux”-nationalist, tolerant of mass immigration (perhaps because Scotland has as yet not been affected as much by it as has been England) and very much in the pocket of the Jewish lobby. Indeed, what sort of “Independence” would it be, if Scotland were still in the EU, NATO, and under the international conspiracy-consensus (NWO, ZOG, Bilderberg etc)?
Still, if Scotland wants “Independence”, let it go its own way, by all means. The rest of Britain can then turn to real social-nationalism.
Here is my own assessment, from last year, of Mike Stuchbery: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/. He keeps tweeting that he has been “libelled” by me and various others (including some Danes, apparently), and that he is “keeping track of all the libel“. He often tweets about how anyone exposing him better get good lawyers and/or that he will “clean out” anyone who tweets or writes about him.
Well, here is a piece of totally free legal advice from an ex-barrister: Stuchbery now has exactly 16 days in which he might start legal proceedings against me in libel in relation to my blog post about him. I am not quaking…
How does beggaring the rest of the defence budget to build two vast floating car parks achieve that @drchrisparry? Our size and location cannot be changed. If we are to cease to be broke, then we are going to have to learn how to spend our money more wisely. https://t.co/IZBcZVA8uU
I hope that that tweeter, “@DrChrisParry”, knows more about defence than he seems to know about UK strategy more generally. His view seems to be that the UK having a couple of aircraft carriers will push the UK to the top of the tree in terms of world power. Well, the U.S. Navy has 11 aircraft carriers; China has 2 (building another at present, with 6 planned in all); Russia has 2, with 2 more in the pipeline; Italy has 2; France has 1; and so on.
The tweeter noted seems to think that spending money in vast quantities on an aircraft carrier or two will arrest the relative decline of Britain, which has been a fact since 1918 and especially since 1945. This is hardly worth arguing… As for “resisting the power of totalitarian regimes“, the only power constantly intimidating Britain and its corrupt politicians is the USA, our supposed ally… and American military-destructive power dwarfs that of the UK.
Ah, I see that tweeter “@DrChrisParry” does indeed know about defence, at least in its tactical aspects, he having been an admiral and a commander of ships in actual warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Parry_(Royal_Navy_officer). Sadly, it remains true that, just as the environment cannot be left to farmers (because of both self-interest and blinkered viewpoints), defence strategy cannot be left to the generals and admirals, however distinguished.
Oh, the sheer pleasure of being able to slowly advance in that vehicle, watching the horror slowly dawn on the bitch’s face as she realises that she is going down. Would she try to run or jump away in the last split-second, or would she just utter a last scream as the “tank” rolls over her?
Stanley Johnson. Part-Jew, part-Turk, but “sanctified” as a True Blue Brit and “gentleman” by reason of having attended Sherborne School and Oxford…
Blood is destiny. Look at Stanley Johnson’s offspring: Boris-idiot, public entertainer, scribbler of rubbish, and poseur, presently doing a tragi-comic reprise (in miniature) of Winston Churchill; Jo Johnson, politician and former newspaper scribbler specializing in finance; Rachel Johnson, scribbler, editor and TV talking head; Leo Johnson, who is described by Wikipedia as “entrepreneur and film-maker“. Need one say (((more)))?
Tomorrow is often unexpected
I happened to see this:
When I visited the DDR (East Germany) briefly in 1988, the impression I received was that it was more like a stage set of a state than a real one, but I had no idea that, as little as a year or so later, that state would not exist.
Who knows, really, how long any state, even one as longlasting as the UK, will last?
Why did the DDR collapse? Why did the Soviet Union collapse? Many causes, but overall because they decayed internally. That was the number one cause.
Now look at the UK. It may continue for decades, or even centuries. More likely, it will pass into history within a few years from today.
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Late tweets
Yes, it seems as if most of the media are providing a sort of smokescreen for the government, preventing proper scrutiny where it actually matters – the policies themselves, not the way in which they're administered.
Grotesque, unconscionable, cruel and unbelievable. These are the horrible things people do when they think they are doing good. I really do not know why we put up with this. Where is the Opposition? Where is Parliament? Where are the BBC? Where are the courts? https://t.co/fZmL8QMBDe
Peter Hitchens still (perhaps) thinks that the UK as a “nation” (no, it is not really a nation any more) exists and that its old and now ramshackle institutions (courts, judges, Parliament, “free” Press, BBC) still have value. “Where are they?“, asks Hitchens, despairingly. They are now but “whited sepulchres”, almost-ruins.
Once again, a nice, well-behaved, civilized English person who thinks that we need “debate”. I think that we need something quite different (though true facts are always useful).
Peter Hitchens is right. The Conservative party hates its voters and is the opposite of conservatism.
The “Conservative” Party does hate most of its voters. Look at the Parliamentary Party, the Cabinet, the [person posing as] Prime Minister! What do we see? Jews, Mischlingen, wealthy Indians, token blacks and half-castes like Cleverly. As for the white English and Welsh “Conservative” MPs, most are either greedy speculators like Jacob Rees-Mogg, idiot backwoodsmen in it for the pay and expenses (like Peter Bone), or lobby fodder —and (((lobby))) fodder— without an original thought in all their heads combined.
Don;t pretend to be naive @76dart1. When you're trying to panic Parliament into renewing a despotic law the claim of hospital admissions 'doubling every 8 days' cranks up fear and wins headlines. 'Going up a bit', by contrast, does not. https://t.co/GdYioxFQ9D
'The secret of good government is to let men alone'. Governments that make normal ligfe illegal will destroy freedom. My latest conversation with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio https://t.co/3wLdbGdX04
'The conservative, patriotic people of this country are entirely unrepresented by our existing political parties. The Tory Party has no fundamental political beliefs at all.' My latest conversation with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio https://t.co/3wLdbGdX04
Tripe marinated in bilge @marperrodr. People are entitled to choose what risks they take. Even if HMG’s figures were not wild exaggerations and misrepresentations, which they are, many of us feel that some things are more important than total safety:Live in a cocoon if you wish. https://t.co/8NNiMRy2Ef
Trump: whatever one’s general view of him, he has proven his point. He is 74, overweight, has a poor diet (we are told), has contracted “the virus”, yet has spent only a few days in hospital (and mainly out of his doctors’ caution). His wife, also infected, has just been resting at home.
Conclusion: this is not the plague, most people are not even aware that they have “the virus”; few die from it (in relation to those infected or the population as a whole).
The UK “panicdemic”: the government is simply afraid to tell people “we got it wrong; this is nowhere as bad as we have been saying for 6 months“.
UK finances: now it is becoming clear that either there will be even more public spending cuts, reducing the UK to the backward status of a third-rate power (complete with “diverse” population), or there will have to be steep tax rises for the majority of the population.
A kind of semi-dictatorship, hard to define but somewhere between an oligarchy and what someone wittily termed a “wallygarchy”, is being put into place, not overnight but in Lilliputian steps; many small binding ties. The unnecessary fear the “government of clowns” has injected into the population makes that process much easier…but destroys almost everything else.
Like so many “democratically-elected” MPs (in fact, first selected, and by a very exclusionary selection process, and only then “elected” in what amounts to a rigged public show), Jess Phillips is a bad joke who should be binned.
The whole Western world needs a cultural revolution and a cultural purge.
West Wales MOD estate of 350 families being evicted to make way for even more #illegals – This time Haverfordwest – hundreds & thousands now pouring in wholesale with blessing of Home Office Patel! https://t.co/Og9b3zZdPT
If people disagree with what is happening they should do as Peter Hitchens has suggested and write to their MP politely and briefly letting them know that they will lose their support if they continue to allow the government to act in this way
Quite. Please see my suggested text for an e-mail to your MP, on my timeline. This isnurgent. The Commons must decide this Wednesday (30th) whether to renew or bin the oppressive Coronavirus Act. https://t.co/pQr0yJKfCB
Well-intentioned, but writing letters and sending emails (or even blogging) only has limited influential effect in a corrupt system riven with Evil. Most MPs are willing collaborators with the forces destroying Britain and all Europe.
When Britain has a real government, it must launch a real inquiry (not the usual toothless “judge-led” or other PR exercise) into the decadence and subversion riddling our society and particularly the msm, which baleful influence has been growing for decades, and which has intensified recently (because 2022 is approaching). Something akin to the Star Chamber, or —for a limited time— the “troikas” of Stalin’s time.
We are presently being subjected to social mass conditioning on the grand scale: the “lockdown(s)”, the facemask muzzling of the population, the attempt to create a forest of fear from an acorn of reality. It is connected with “the Great Reset” and “the Great Replacement”. Look at TV ads, soaps, dramas on TV etc. All part of the evil conspiracy.
Quite so, @silveer_bug68 and the surrender of liberty is often actually popular at the time. It is only later that people ask 'How did we end up like this? Well, this is how . https://t.co/kOgdlIWs9r
Are you sure about that @peterwh44633307? What is your evidence? MPs are employed and paid by us. If they don't do the job we hired them for, and continue to draw large wages, a little brusqueness is quite justified. It would be in any other workplace. https://t.co/FAeEp41ZEF
What tweeter “@Sputnik71” means, I think, is that if MPs were “dense idiots”, they…well…would never be MPs at all! Ha ha! No doubt kind and well-meaning, but has he ever seen these idiots?! I refer him to my “Deadhead MPs” series for a small selection. A few names might give “Sputnik71” pause: Diane Abbott, Fiona Onasanya, Scott Mann, Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, Jess Phillips; and many more. See the Jess Phillips profile above in today’s blog; or another, such as this one about Kate Osamor: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/troop-cartload-barrel-or-family/
It is human nature to suppose that an MP or political leader must be extremely intelligent or at least quite intelligent, educated etc; otherwise he (or she) would not be there. Likewise, that a very wealthy person must be pretty aware and skilled to have their money. Sadly, no.
Many politicians have had both help and luck (though they do need ambition), while most (I concede not all) of the very wealthy simply inherited the loot. Zac Goldsmith. Where would he be, otherwise? An office bod, at best. Or look at Boris-idiot…
Likewise again, when the public are scared witless by “fake news” about a (real) virus being a kind of plague, it is human nature to comply with the “advice” (in the UK backed by fake “law”) and regulation laid down by “the authorities”.
The truth is that, unpleasant though “Covid-19” Coronavirus is for a relative few who both get it and also cannot fight off the symptoms, it has actually killed (even on officially-inflated statistics) under 50,000 people in the UK, out of over 70,000,000, roughly 1 person in 1,500, and most of the deaths were of the very elderly not expected to live long anyway. That is sad, but simply reality. Like life itself, arguably…
As for the world as a whole, a million deaths out of 8 thousand million people! One death for every 8,000 people living.
There is more behind this. The “virus” may have been deliberately created and/or deliberately released. Whatever the truth of that, it is being used to create a robot-society across much of the world.
It is amazing what people will do if they are told by authority that it is beneficial. I am wondering what is next, after mask-wearing has become commonplace and stopped alarming people. Perhaps 'I shaved my head to protect you' . Happened in China. https://t.co/UMXx4plj39
Nor is there any sign that this will ever end. The government's objective appears to be the complete suppression of the virus. Fanatical utopianism. I am reminded of 'We had to destroy the village in order to save it' and 'The operation was a success but the patient died'. https://t.co/nfu3S3BdyZ
Pfeffel reminds me increasingly of the US Army officer in Vietnam who explained amid the ruins 'We had to destroy the village in order to save it', and of the hospital spokesman who said 'The operation was a success but the patient died'.
“Pfeffel” of course being “Boris” (Boris Johnson, Boris-idiot).
When I lived in Almaty (former Alma-Ata), Kazakhstan (this was in 1996-1997), I once saw, from a car, on the road to the former Olympic skating facility in the mountains (I myself occasionally skated there), a quite large number of Kazakh people bathing naked, or wearing only swimming clothing, in a shallow stream or small river fed by mountain snow and flowing through a wooded glade. This was in October and the temperature in the foothills of the mountains was rather low. Such streams are very cold even in Summer (I know— I tried one once!).
[the ice-skating stadium, Medeo, Kazakhstan]
I later asked what the people were doing there and was told that Nazarbaeva, the wife of the President, had recommended bathing in that place as a cure (for almost anything). She claimed to have done so herself. Those brainless Kazakhs were bathing there because they believed her, and they believed her because she was the wife of the President.
Meanwhile, the formerly quite good Soviet medical facilities in the city (Alma-Ata was something of a showplace) were degrading because of funding being diverted from such spending to the offshore bank accounts of the few at the top of the new post-Soviet society in Kazakhstan. Who needs hospitals and medicines etc when a dip in a cold stream will cure you?…
You may say, “well, what do you expect?”, and I agree, but look at British people all going to Waitrose muzzled, and mainly out of both social conformity and because they have been fed a pack of rubbish by clowns posing as “Government” ministers or “Government experts”.
Some silly rabbits can even be seen walking outside, muzzled even though alone and with strong winds blowing!
Apparently, “Boris” was making £800,000 a year before he became PM, from book royalties (about £10,000), scribbling rubbish for newspapers, from after-dinner speeches and from TV appearances. Unbelievable.
It seems that he is whining about only getting £150,000 as PM. Admittedly, that is parsimonious, but at the end of the day, he volunteered, he wanted to show off by being PM (for he has no programme, no ideology, no real ideas), and he can always resign. Why not? He is useless anyway.
In fact, while the report claims that his ex-wife “cleaned him out”, they had two houses worth, together, some £5 million.
It seems that the house “Boris” owns with his present “ho” is now worth over £1.5M. Apparently, he still uses it from time to time. If they are short of money, they could sell it.
If “Boris” complains about the cost of having friends as guests at Chequers (£75 a head), the answer is simple: don’t do it. Also, I doubt that many “ordinary citizens” will feel sorry for him that his Downing Street flat has only a cleaner and no housekeeper, or that it costs him £7,000 a year out of his £150,000 (gross) salary.
In fact, if “Boris” was making £800,000 p.a. (gross) until 2018, did he not manage to put aside any of it?!
Reports of this sort from the “friends of Boris” are more likely to intensify public unease and dislike of the clown.
I suspect that that Daily Mail piece was written, not to create sympathy for the clown posing as Prime Minister but to provoke the opposite. The Conservative Party is ruthless. It stabs underperforming leaders in the back. The latter-day Mrs. Thatcher, Major, Hague, Dunce Duncan Smith, “Howard”. “Boris” is simply not up to the job. It’s a wrong fit for him, something many (including me) realized years ago, but is now apparent to almost everyone across the political spectrum.
My theory is that those influential in the Conservative Party are now thinking how to dump “Boris” and then blame the nonsense of the past 6+ months especially on him. The coming fallout, too.
More tweets seen
Cascading climate disasters are no longer features of some dystopian future. They are the here and now, worsening for the next generation and perhaps longer, depending on humanity’s willingness to take action. https://t.co/b3sh2eVage
Whatever one may say about causation, it is fairly clear that big things are happening climatically. In my view, the only thing that can prevent the Earth becoming a shrivelled husk of what it should be is a gigantic population decrease, and that means a gigantic decrease in the non-white population(s), because white Northern Europeans are now only a tiny percentage of the world population.
I'm really tired of people still fawning over 'blue'. The UK ones at least are overwhelmingly college-overeducated, LGBTQ-obsessed, brainwashed, cowardly bullies. When did you last see one of them, just one, take the straight/white/Christian/male side?#chocolateteapotcopspic.twitter.com/8KxZGo7N8w
Ha. I take Griffin’s point, but am not sure that I agree about any sort of “over-education” in the police, not in the ones I have “met” in recent years!
While the #covidcops lash out, you can see they're scared of the crowd & unsure of themselves, while public anger and confidence is growing Cowardly wankcops! If enough people push the #covidtyranny it WILL fall.#nolockdown2https://t.co/DqTVHOvuU8
Remember this footage when the WHO doom propaganda machines at the BBC & Sky either ignore this or say it was 'several thousand conspiracy theorists' this evening. The #lockdownrebellion is only just beginning.#nomasks#NoNewNormalhttps://t.co/w6tj5IN3UP
“Surgeons and operating room personnel are well trained, experienced, and meticulous about maintaining sterility. We only wear fresh sterile masks. We don the mask in a sterile fashion. We wear the mask for short periods of time and change it out at the first signs of the excessive moisture build up that we know degrades mask effectiveness and increases their negative effects. Surgeons NEVER re-use surgical masks, nor do we ever wear cloth masks.“
“The public is being told to wear masks for which they have not been trained in the proper techniques. As a result, they are mishandling, frequently touching, and constantly reusing masks in a way that increase contamination and are more likely than not to increase transmission of disease.” [Dr. Jim Meehan M.D.]
📺 WATCH: Four decades of production at the Ford site in Bridgend will come to a close this afternoon.
I want to pay tribute to all the workers and the unions for all their hard work and I will continue to lobby both the UK and Welsh Governments for further investment in Wales. pic.twitter.com/E62h2PmQSO
I’m no supporter of the Trafalgar Square protestors. But can someone please explain what public gatherings are and aren’t allowed, because it now seems totally arbitrary.
You'll come round @Iromg – probably when the bill finally needs to be paid and you find yourself paying it (really big news yesterday was that Rishi Sunak did not *dare* produce a budget, as it would have been so unpopular and miserable). https://t.co/7ijDP9ofkm
So far, the msm is promoting Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak for his largesse with public funds and his schemes to somehow keep large parts of the poisoned economy alive. In fact, it is telling that several Conservative Party MPs have coyly implied that Sunak would be better at being PM than irrelevant poseur Boris-idiot.
“Boris” is like a faded entertainer whose jokes are now falling flat and who, having been a major draw, is reduced to treading the boards in the provinces. While Sunak was expounding his rather underwhelming ideas and new policies in the Commons, “Boris” was inspecting police recruits at some place in East Anglia.
''Propaganda is not there to make you agree with it. It is there to tell you that you are powerless against it''@ClarkeMicah living still with the consequences of the worst evil, which is communism, the words of Peter Hitchens are very clear.https://t.co/JulyqHpggO
Not so sure about the “great“, but the article in question is important at this time, and Hitchens himself is at least willing to see what is happening, as many in the msm either turn a blind eye or fall in behind the System.
Maybe so, but Pfeffffel keeps copying Nicola. Whenever she announces something especially mean and spiteful, he does it too, within a few days. https://t.co/giRHMIyf6H
The SNP is a phenomenon. A faux-“nationalist” party which has succeeded in gaining power not because of its own merits but because there was nothing much opposing it.
The SNP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party] was founded in 1934, but only had its first MP elected in 1967. It increased representation to 7, then 11, in the febrile political conditions of 1974 (also the time when North Sea Oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil came to the forefront of public attention). [it’s different now: the cost of production is higher than the price of the oil produced in 2020].
The Scottish public was sold the idea that much of Britain’s North Sea oil was really Scotland’s North Sea oil…a doubtful (though not completely implausible) proposition, looking at the geography and the Law of the Sea as it applies to Exclusive Economic Zones [EEZs]:
The Scottish seats at Westminster then numbered 71, later increased to 72 but reduced from 2005 to 59. The SNP’s 11 MPs in 1974 remained the high-water mark until the SNP’s huge breakthrough in 2015, when the SNP under Nicola Sturgeon suddenly had 56 out of those 59. In 2010, the SNP had had elected only 6 MPs.
After decline to 35 MPs in 2017, the SNP (as I predicted) surged again to 48 MPs in 2019.
In fact, the apparent landslide does not reflect the views of the public very well. FPTP voting distortion. Even in 2015, when the SNP got 56 out of 59 Westminster seats, its vote-share was no more than 50%. In 2019, that was only 45%, yet the SNP has 48 out of 59 seats.
The SNP rose up for several reasons. Firstly because “it was there”; it existed. People cannot vote for a party that does not exist.
Secondly, the Scottish Labour Party, so long dominant, collapsed after years of complacency and corruption. The name that comes to mind is that of Jim Murphy, a complete System puppet. He got his first “real job”(sort-of…working for Scottish Labour!) at the age of 30! He had been a student for 12-13 years without even managing to get a degree!
The Murphy fiasco was symptomatic of a party totally out of touch. It had thrown away “socialism” in stages after 1990; by the time Murphy became leader in 2014, Scottish Labour stood for almost nothing but the Union with England, as well as a continuation of a failed society and economy.
Scottish Labour has had three more leaders since 2015, none of which has troubled national attention.
Scottish Labour (until 1994 simply part of the —UK— Labour Party) had been first-placed in Scotland in all general elections from 1922. The party was only placed second in 2015, third in 2017 and fourth in 2019. A stunning collapse. The popular vote share fell from 42% in 2010 to 18.6% in 2019. 41 MPs out of 59 in 2010, 1 MP in 2015, briefly 7 MPs in 2017, only to fall back to 1 MP in 2019.
It might be objected that Scottish Labour can still come back. I cannot see how. Recent surveys indicate that, as with Conservative Party support in England, Scottish Labour Party voters are mostly elderly people. A diminishing asset.
In the Scottish Parliament too, Scottish Labour has steadily declined, from 56 seats out of 129 in 1999 to 24 in 2016. The SNP currently has 63 MSPs.
What about the other Scottish parties? The Scottish LibDems now have 4 Westminster MPs out of 59 (11 in 2019, and 1 in 2015); in the Scottish Parliament, another steady decline, 17 out of 129 in 1999, 5 out of 129 now (2016 election).
The Scottish Conservatives declined steadily from 1955 to 1997 (no MPs at all were elected in 1997, and the party then had only one until 2017, when 13 were elected); presently, the Conservatives hold 6 Westminster seats out of 59. The Scottish Conservatives have increased their Holyrood representation: 18 MSPs in 1999, 15 in 2011, but 31 out of 129 in 2016.
The pattern is clear overall. The SNP came up in the 2010-2015 period because the other main parties were seen as declining entities with little to offer. The SNP may now be a fake “nationalist” elected dictatorship North of the Border, and rather incompetent to boot, but there is no obvious sign of challenge as far as Westminster elections are concerned.
In England, we see that Labour has floundered, that the Conservative Party is disastrous (too) and “won” in 2019 by default, with the LibDems on their last legs, but what does not exist in England (or Wales) is any semblance of a new or insurgent and upcoming party.
In Wales, Plaid Cymru is hampered not only because it is not really “nationalist”, but because Wales would be a very very poor little land had it to pay for itself as an “independent” state. Indeed, there is every chance that the Welsh economy will submerge further in 2020 and 2021.
In England proper, there is no real social-national party at all. If one were to exist, the next few years, as the economy crashes, as Brexit is mishandled and ruined, and as mass immigration continues, could be the years of triumph.
Thank you @geidelberg. I most of all welcome support from those who do not wholly agree with me. Scepticism about the government's Covid policy needs to move into the mainstream. https://t.co/fhpSAKGVZ7
In fact, others did speak out, but they were, like me, not msm-approved scribblers and talking heads. I do not even have a Twitter account (a pack of Jews had Twitter expel me in 2018).
Jemima Lewis in the Telegraph is dead right. This is a beautifully-written explanation of why the economy is not a cold machine, but a living organism which sustains life, and depends on it. pic.twitter.com/Ewp77KIiAZ
Generally speaking, the higher the proportion of European or European-ancestry people that exists in any given country, the better, overall, that country is.
MSM Wall of Lies over covid is crumbling. The editors know public opinion is shifting & the more articles like this sppear the faster it's happening. A virtuous spiral that will break Johnson's rotten regime. The harder we push, the faster it will fall!https://t.co/Au3fXokP1O
Just spoken to my son who is a student in Scotland. They are now not allowed to visit each other’s flats, banned from going to pubs & all tuition is online. So they’re getting in debt paying huge amounts of rent & fees to stay imprisoned in their rooms. This can’t be right
Don’t think people fully appreciate the scale of anger and despair amongst cabinet ministers and Tory MPs over the perceived lack of leadership within No.10. Boris has a serious political problem now.
Oh, what a surprise. Not. I have been raging against Boris-idiot for about 10 or more years, on Twitter since 2011 and in this blog since late 2016. My influence as yet is small, and it has felt at times like a hopeless struggle against the msm talking heads and scribblers, who have been pushing this completely unfitted vanity machine for about two decades. In fact, the unmerited “triumph” of “Boris” shows how powerful msm propaganda is when it comes to “the moronic masses”…(cf. facemasks and “Coronavirus” fear propaganda in general).
The Labour MP has joined forces with Conservative rebels to demand a Commons vote on any future national lockdown plans https://t.co/XQ6FZSTJ2B
Overwhelming support for the new lockdown measures hasn't improved the government's approval rating. Currently it scores a net -35 on its handling of COVID-19, a slight drop from last weekhttps://t.co/4nO3Jrs2Skpic.twitter.com/Bke3lG6EjA
Talking of “the moronic masses”…here we have a British population which, faced with an epidemic that, in the UK, has killed about 1 in 2,000 of the population (and worldwide, about 1 in 8,000), has allowed itself to be scared to death. The majority, or at least about half, of the population seem to want to be locked in their homes, forced to wear facemask muzzles, prevented from going out or going anywhere much, so long as the State funnels some more money their way. As Shakespeare might say, “ay, there’s the rub“, for that money is, ultimately, the resource available by reason of a functioning economy.
No economy = no money. Not immediately. The Government can borrow, and is borrowing. At present, at advantageous rates. Borrowing to invest in people and projects is often good as a policy; to borrow merely to sustain a failing range of industries and companies, or to pay people’s bills, is not a good policy, and will be disastrous in the end.
Heading home. Didn’t appreciate the significance till tonight. 10.00 PM rule has killed London. It’s about to become a dead city.
Go take a look at last years DAVOS meeting and next years scheduled meeting title and the WEF’s website and then you can come back to me. If you like I can make it easy for you and drop some links here?
“We are able to confirm that the Metropolitan Police Service has closed its investigation due to jurisdictional issues and that we have instructed lawyers abroad to pursue this matter. When antisemites incite hatred against Jews, we will pursue them, including across borders.”
Ha ha! Fanatical UK-based Jews think that they can hound their critics worldwide! In most countries, the repressive laws of the UK are not replicated, and in some (eg USA) there are safeguards for free speech.
Many complain about the Jewish lobby bias on some topics covered in Wikipedia. This is why— Jews recruited to censor articles and distort both current events and history:
Can you edit @Wikipedia pages? We need your help to keep information about #antisemitism accurate and up to date!
Expect Wikipedia to be even more pro-Zionist from now on, its pages on many socio-political topics contaminated and distorted.
Incidentally, do not be misled: the bias goes far beyond “information about #antisemitism“, as claimed. Pages on modern and ancient history, religion, geography, biography, political organizations etc.
Wikipedia should be aware also of the fact that, in the notice above, Jews are specifically asked whether they are able to edit Wikipedia; in other words via their own private Wikipedia accounts. Wikipedia will have no idea whether an edit is honest or whether it is part of this co-ordinated campaign by a very malicious group of Zionist Jews.
Burley on Sky saying poll results show more than half want a stronger lockdown. (The poll results were released about 2hrs after new restrictions were announced.) Probably a Sky poll of a few hundred targeted customers..
Little Matt Hancock tries to joke his way out of one of the many absurdities of what now passes for “policy” under this toytown tyranny of an “elected” dictatorship.
Sunak accused of 'disrespect' after Kate Forbes learns budget scrapped on Twitter. @alisonthewliss adds Sunak's announcement does nothing for 3million people: "freelancers, PAYE, women on maternity have had not one penny piece from this govt for 6 months" https://t.co/6JdB9ufATE
I hope that the poor saps who criticize me occasionally on Twitter are noting how often I have been proven right since I started writing this blog nearly 4 years ago. I was blogging over a year ago, maybe longer, about how almost everyone, misled by the msm, was thinking of Boris Johnson as a strong leader-type, when his whole history shows the reverse, a weak man without ideas, principles or resilience, untrustworthy, incompetent and without leadership qualities.
Yes, now trhat the National Trust has moved into Trotskyism, I am thinking of setting up a body called the Workers' Revolutionary Front whose aim will be to buy up and preserve stately homes, and to offer tea and walnut cake in chintzy cafes to visitors. https://t.co/vLBwIZAufb
Thank you @parkessiddique . Please encourage others. This is time-sensitive, as the major vote on the Coronavirus Act takes place on Wednesday 30th. https://t.co/8MK6sbp5C1
@micolajane50. Why was 'lockdown' a mistake? Because it destroyed the economy, led to many needless deaths, gravely damaged liberty and achieved precisely nothing. More detail available on application. https://t.co/u81ZO5NW1S
Incredible that there are people who apparently need to ask “why was ‘lockdown’ a mistake?“, but there again, if you are fairly comfortably off, do not need (for whatever reason) to work for money, perhaps live in the country or outer suburbs and have little social life, you may not have been affected much if at all by the stupid “lockdown” imposition.
Indeed, you may have enjoyed the sense of peace and quiet as society all but shut down, as Nature reasserted itself. If you are or were in that position, your life was not much strained, assuming that you have at least some income. Deliveries of food and drink, ordered online; other shopping ordered online; books, DVDs etc. For those with higher incomes and better properties, there was always the swimming pool and tennis court in which to while away the days…and so on.
Such people can selfishly (not necessarily consciously selfishly) turn blind eyes to the shutdown of industry and commerce, to the terrible shortages affecting charities such as animal charities, among others, and to the socio-economic disaster created but which has not yet arrived (that will be in 2021-2022). They can also, perhaps, ignore the cost in pain and death of the semi-closure of the NHS, which has affected those with non-Coronavirus conditions.
1/2 Great that Tory MPs are awaking from their six-month slumbers. https://t.co/v0Dg7VvaA6 . But not good enough. Write nwo to your MP briefly, politely, acidly: 'You are not representing me. You are not scrutinising government. You are not earning your large salary'
Well, writing a letter or email may have some limited effect. I can only think of one fairly recent event that got the MPs off their chairs pretty excitedly, but having no wish to be bored by police nuisances at my door (again, it having happened a few times in 2017-2018), I do not think that I shall cite that event here.
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Memory Lane
I hope that the readers of my blog do not object to the inclusion of some personal reminiscences. Having Saturn in Scorpio, I do tend to think back rather a lot. As the Germans say, “Ruckshau“.
I was just recalling former times, triggered by an email from someone.
Many many years ago, I had a —now-deceased— friend, a lecturer at the language centre of the University of Westminster, who lived in the London Borough of Barnet (I think he was within that borough— North Finchley). A good fellow, a noted translator of Dostoyevsky, called Ig Avsey: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/09/ignat-avsey-obituary
In the late 1980s, I occasionally stayed overnight there (on a very uncomfortable and ancient leather sofa in the drawing room, a cold room decorated with Ig’s collection of massive railway clocks). When Ig remarried in 2000 (a very unsuitable match, to a youngish Russian woman resident in Latvia), the couple came and stayed overnight at the large country house of which my wife and I had a lease, in Cornwall. That was in 2002, I think. Once was enough, to be frank! Sadly, “there’s no fool like an old fool” when it comes to women…
Ig lived in a small close called Wolstonbury, which backed onto a golf course or land near a golf course. A strange menage. For a while, a fellow we both called “Uncle John” lived there too, a former student of Ig’s and an Oxford grad, but middle-aged and, like Ig, divorced. They always reminded me of “The Odd Couple“:
“Uncle John” was a very English person, who was still under the thumb of his ex-wife, Alla Figoff, a Leningrader by origin, and who was in fact another of my occasional teachers (Russian Conversation, I think). Alla lived in their former marital home, an apartment in Devonshire Place (in the West End), while Uncle John was living in one room at Ig’s place…and their two children were both at expensive schools paid for by Uncle John (Marlborough, I think; maybe also Bedales or Benenden, I cannot now remember).
Alla was killed, years later, in a fall from her balcony when she was full of whisky. Uncle John then met and married a very wealthy woman and resumed his place among the palatially-housed.
Ig was a good fellow, whose translations of Dostoyevsky were much-praised (one or two had, amazingly, never been translated previously, such as In the Village of Stepanchikovo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_of_Stepanchikovo).
Ig had been born in Latvia, his family having fled Russia during the Revolution and Civil War of 1917-1922. Fleeing Soviet forces again during the Second World War, he spent time in Germany before ending up in Britain when aged about 14, sometime around 1952.
Ig Avsey was the kind of Russian (or part-Russian: he was always rather secretive about his family) who is able to work at a project devotedly for years, without pay or plaudit; one thinks of Mitrokhin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Mitrokhin.
Ig took a year’s sabbatical in order to translate The Brothers Karamazov for Penguin Classics. A decision which brought honour but was financially pretty disastrous. The year, taken on full pay with the blessing of the University, became a second year in which the University reduced his salary to half-pay, then a third on no pay at all. The money paid by the publishers did not begin to make up the shortfall. Ig was a perfectionist who wanted to get it right. For him, Dostoyevsky was the greatest of the Russian writers, I think. He would not compromise.
At the same time as Ig was translating Karamazov, at least two other translations came out, but they were little more than potboilers, produced carelessly because the market seemed to be hopeful. One even used Americanisms such as “district attorney” and “chief of police”! In pre-revolutionary Russia! In fact, Ig did consult me about a couple of odd things (to do with such designations).
The University eventually had enough of the endless absence and Ig was more or less forced into retirement. I do not think that his Penguin contract was very generous either. He was only getting pennies for each volume sold; how many pennies, I cannot recall.
Society needs people like that.
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A stupid argument, @p___m___b I know as much as Matt Hancock and 'Boris' Johnson do about viruses. Why does *their* lack of specialist nowledge not trouble you, when they have destroyed the economy, whereas mine does, when I seek only to prevent further damage? https://t.co/Kkxo6pvtBT
So the BBC is now trying to make heroes out of the Jew thugs, gangsters and terrorists known as the “62 Group”…
The BBC is infested, contaminated.
#Labour doing what is does best: putting foreign interests before the British people.#KeirStarmer repays the lobby that shoved him to the top of the greasy pole. pic.twitter.com/CllGMs4QE3
Saw Doctor Zhivago for the first time in a few years; on BBC Four, the only good BBC TV station. Still a magnificent film, despite the relatively few flaws which could easily have been remedied by better pre-filming research, e.g. Communists calling non-Communists “Comrade“, which is erroneous (it would have been just by name or via the title “Citizen“).
This really is becoming ridiculous. “Local lockdowns”, a threatened second national “lockdown”, the population scared out of their stupid skin by deliberate Government action, people forced to wear facemasks and muzzles (enforced by busybodies and nuisances, including toytown police and “Covid marshals”, meaning retired or unemployable pests wearing yellow jackets and carrying clipboards).
The economy is in a far worse state than most want to admit. Huge numbers of people are losing their jobs, their small businesses etc; the NHS has abandoned vast numbers of non-Coronavirus patients; dentists are mostly still not working; young people leaving school and university have very little chance of a job, let alone a decent job.
The Government has so far bought off dissent and opposition: doctors and some other NHS staff have been chucked 4% pay rises even though most are working far less than they were 6 months ago. Business has received some financial help. Employees not able to “work from home” have been furloughed on 80% pay in many cases. Some are even better off, in real terms, than when they were working! This is madness.
The part-Jew public entertainer posing as Prime Minister is a deflated balloon now, and he (andhis mostly Jewish and Indian joke-Cabinet) plainly have no idea what to do except to keep the “Coronavirus” fear propaganda going.
I wonder whether the Government will choose the easy path in November and continue “furlough” payments, or not? “Boris” (Boris-idiot) usually chooses the easy way out, so it may be that payments will continue. If not…
There never should have been a “lockdown” (shutdown) of the economy and society. Only pubs, nightclubs, Tube trains, buses (and those not indefinitel), combined with control of inward flights.
The Government should have concentrated on getting people to behave reasonably (eg by not going to crowded hot venues), washing hands frequently, and so on. Self-help, helped by official advice, not fake “laws” and bullying.
I bet that, once the economy really tanks, the same people who are the greatest zealots for “lockdowns”, facemask muzzles and not opening schools etc will be the most vociferous in wanting more money spent on this, that and the other, money that will not exist thanks to the shutdown of the economy for months (or years?).
I decided to offer the Law Commission my views on that very bad law, so very badly-drafted and so open to abuse (nb. the paragraph-format has been removed):
“Re. Consultation on Communications Act 2003, s.127.
I have just read the following article by a Professor Tettenborn: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/16/we-need-an-overhaul-of-section-127/. I do not know Professor Tettenborn as such, though I did sit as a “Lord Justice of Appeal” with him in 2002, when judging an Exeter University student moot held at the historic Guildhall in Exeter. I was at the time a barrister in chambers in Exeter. Please find below links to my blog pages detailing my own experiences around the notorious “bad law” Communications Act 2003, s.127. While the attached articles are self-explanatory, I should like to make the point that this bad law, poorly drafted, has exercized what I believe a justice of the Court of Appeal once described as “a chilling effect” on legitimate freedom of expression in the UK (one —apparently now-ignored— provision of the 2003 Act even purports to criminalize anything posted online which is deemed “false”!). This law has been used (misused) by, in particular, the pro-Israel “Zionist lobby” or “Jewish lobby”, to attack those with whom it disagrees. A brief search on the Internet will throw up numerous open admissions to that effect, i.e. that Zionist Jews in the UK and USA have been and are using what is sometimes termed “lawfare” against British people in the UK, meaning the making of politically-motivated attacks on people, complaints to police, social media organizations, professional regulatory bodies. Two of the most active abuser-organizations of the law in question are “UK Lawyers for Israel” and the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, which overlap in terms of membership. Key individuals engaged in such “lawfare”: Mark Lewis (solicitor, now resident in Israel), Stephen Silverman (resident in South Essex),Gideon Falter (resident in London and elsewhere), and Joe Glasman (resident in London area). There are others, almost all Jewish (there are odd exceptions), as are the three persons just mentioned here. I myself have been a victim of lawfare, partly detailed in the two articles appended. As a result, I have been disbarred (2016), questioned under caution by police (2017) and expelled from Twitter (2018). The organizations above now perch like vultures waiting for selected victims to post something online that they can claim is “grossly offensive”. This is political interference, by a special-interest lobby, with the rights of the citizen. The Communications Act 2003, s.127 is an entirely tyrannical (and badly-drafted) piece of legislation. Free speech must be protected now. By “free speech” I mean speech, and other communication and publication, on socio-political, historical and religious subjects. Thank you for your attention. Please note that I require no reply. Ian Millard These are the articles mentioned above: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/; and https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/
I hope that the Law Commission finds my articles and views of interest. At least someone is willing to speak the truth. If no-one else does, I have to…
Professor Tettenborn finishes his article thus: “Nevertheless, this is a proposal that undoubtedly takes the law in the way it should be going, and increases freedom of speech. It may not go as far as you wish, but it is better than nothing. Even better, it is merely a proposal, and the Law Commission welcomes comments on it. This is your chance. You have until 18 December. Any comments should go to online-comms@lawcommission.gov.uk or to Online Communications Team, Law Commission, 1st Floor, Tower, 52 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, SW1H 9AG. Feel free.”
So do it…
I might add that the Professor, though he mentions silly “Count Dankula” and his saluting dog, overlooks victims such as Jez Turner, Alison Chabloz, and me, among others. Still, better half a pint than no pint.
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Do you include songs too? What is your stance on Alison Chabloz?
The greatest cost of the mania for erratic wind power won't just be higher bills, but regular blackouts. Westminster crooks preparing to punish us all for ANOTHER of their catastrophic fuck ups!#HouseOfTreasonhttps://t.co/K3tdfRv3gJ
Must read piece that destroys the #Lockdown2 lies. Unless one is old and already in bad health, wearing a mask is selfish and helping a criminally incompetent (at best) regime turn a health challenge into a health, economic, social and cultural disaster.https://t.co/ANVNdGHvlP
Fascinated by the clairvoyant power of Imperial College. These guys are so brilliant, as we acknowledge, but how do they *know* that 98.75% of covid deaths in Damascus have gone unreported? https://t.co/1e4x5ZKrpk
Interesting. I suspect a lot of people are admitted to hsopital for other reasons, are given covid tests and produce positives (and we know what that means) . I think we're going to have to be very careful over accepting 'hospitalisation' as an objectve figure from now on. https://t.co/jXiF9eTkgq
True before the ink dried. Truer with every minute. Who would have thought the Rule of Clowns would be so horribly unfunny? Johnson and Hancock burn down the house to deal with a wasps’ nest. pic.twitter.com/nEJBnB87d7
Under the Belfast Agreement, Article 5 Annex XVII, cartoonists in UK newspapers are no longer allowed to depict the soveriegn territory of the Irish state. Same applies to weather maps. @mrjamesob can fill you in with the other provisions, @allisonmorris1https://t.co/MoxwwIhr2L
No, @tykeabroad, as J.Sumption has pointed out,these powers are invented, based on Public Health Act of 1984 which allows *magistrates* highly limited powers to quarantine the *sick* . Other laws could be used, but they require proper Parliamentary scrutiny, which Hancock fears. https://t.co/hZkFpRw0Zh
There could be a place for someone with such skills…
These people should be on our side…and want to be.
For all their toughness, some of these Russian airborne troops are very decent people. I knew several former members of the Soviet VDV (Air Descent Contingent) when I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1996-1997. Very solid people.
Their parachuting skills are certainly in a different league from mine! My report card from my first jump (over Salisbury Plain in, I think, 1977, maybe 1978), made out by a former sergeant of the Parachute Regiment, said “exit slow, no position, no count, no effort; landing OK.”! The slow exit referred to was me having to climb out of the small cabin of a Cessna and halfway along the wing, while gripping at a strut, before casting off into the void (backwards…); you were then supposed to get into a certain body configuration in the air, while shouting out a count of 1-10. This is not easy! After that, floating peacefully thousands of feet down to Salisbury Plain was “a doddle”. Do people really do it for fun?!
And now it’s happening * again* Rosemary’s Baby and Groundhog Day rolled into one mad, repetitive disaster movie, in which * we* are the victims and bunch of drongoes with PPE degrees are in charge. https://t.co/JX3OId0ZEh
That last one’s a killer! “...and how black people have to work harder than white people“! Since when? Maybe on a Boer farm in 1930, thanks to a few blows with a sjambok! Otherwise not.
Some of the replies to the original tweet are so “English” that they should be put in a glass case and exhibited alongside a copy of a Miss Marple book and photographs of England when it was a civilized white country. “You should write to the school“, opines one naive lady; “complain, with other parents“, writes another no doubt well-meaning lady…
When are these people going to realize that we, the white Northern peoples of the world, are in an existential war with the racially and culturally inferior?! The (((ones))) behind it all are sitting in North London gated communities, in Manhattan townhouses, on megayachts etc, manipulating the stupid (“Black Lives Matter” activists, “antifa” dupes etc) to do their bidding.
Members of the teaching “profession” are often prime examples of the rank and file of the brainwashed foot-soldiers of this war against us.
Writing polite letters, complaining to school staff, or to (often packed with enemies of British and European culture) boards of school governors etc will not “do de bizniz”.
Because freedom of expression is now so repressed in the UK, I am effectively barred from writing what I want to write about what should be done. My readers will just have to read between the lines, as has always been the case in unfree countries.
I like some of what Monbiot has to say about environmental matters, and even some of the cited article is not entirely misguided, but the taking of the cretinous “Extinction Rebellion” vandals as a positive example shows a very poor grasp on reality.
If the present form of representative Parliamentary democracy is very unrepresentative, which it is, than how much less representative is the idea of “citizen’s assemblies” etc?
Extinction Rebellion has tried to get people elected once or twice (as Independents, because “XR” is not registered as a political party). Its “co-founder”, Roger Hallam, presently sitting in prison awaiting trial (unless out on bail) stood for election in the 2019 European Elections (for the London constituency). He achieved a vote of 0.04%, 924 votes out of nearly a quarter of a million votes cast.
History shows that “citizen’s assemblies” are always just brief episodes between one state imperium and another: Paris 1789, St. Petersburg and Moscow 1917, Berlin and Munich 1918 etc.
“Citizen’s assemblies” are either chaotic or have to be regularized, which makes them into rough and ready parliaments. As Stalin realized (maybe Trotsky too, thinking of Kronstadt), what then matters is who controls the secretariat behind the assembly…
Monbiot is right, though, in thinking that the present political and electoral system is broken. The UK needs not only a proportional form of voting, but (as mentioned in Monbiot’s article) something that ties taxation and spending closer to the people as a whole. Perhaps a proportion of government spending, whether 10% or 5% (or whatever) left to popular decision and meshed into the taxation system.
The Threefold Social Order concept has never been consciously tried, albeit that it is developing slowly anyway and has been since the Renaissance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding.
He would never post a picture of a non-white family to make this point. Environmentalism is often a thin veil for antiwhite hatred. https://t.co/4xphNcQIA9
Quite right. The proportion of white Northern Europeans in the world is declining fast. It is already a tiny fraction of what it was a century ago; yet white Northern Europeans are the only hope for positive future evolution of humanity.
It will never end at this rate @aither_a . Until the whole logic of the Official State of Panic is questioned, these sorts of measures will continue indefinitely. https://t.co/KWdRAZAKxk
I think there was still quite a lot of hangover from the busybody state of the Attlee era, but by comparison with now it was quite mild. @jprnyct https://t.co/L3y2ZxliUH
It occurs to me @D1Bluebird that if this sort of over-reaction becomes commonplace the schools will effectively be closed again before too long. You either end the Panic for good, or you keep panicking for ever. https://t.co/gXRAJjvupj
More confirmation that "Lockdown" was monumental folly, placing us in a vortex of fear & socioeconomic carnage from which there's no escape unless a critical mass of people admit it was disproportionate nonsense.
The @FT, Britain's grandest, vainest newspaper, finally notices that the Tory Party is not in fact conservative. Let us have some Champagne. What will they notice next? That Lord Sumption has a better grasp of policy and fact than Matt Hancock? Too much to hope for. https://t.co/skzqv5Ji1F
Not sure I agree. The remains might well have been flattened or incorporated into a modern structure if this had not been done. Much of ancient Coventry survived the bombs but was destroyed anyway by planners. https://t.co/rPqsprJcDP
I myself do not really know Coventry. I have only been there twice.
I first went to Coventry (to the famous rebuilt modern Cathedral) in 1964, perhaps, at the age of 7 or so. I recall the (literally?) “iconic” metal sculpture of Archangel Michael spearing the Devil (a false memory, I now see, because the Devil, though bound, is not actually speared).
I also recall going into a snack bar (something my family hardly ever did) somewhere near that cathedral, and also visiting a large park which contained quite a few (I think) Indians talking in groups (there were then no Indians, Pakistanis —or blacks, for that matter— in Berkshire or Oxfordshire, at least I had never seen any, with the exception of an NHS consultant ENT doctor from the Caribbean who saw me a few times when aged about 6 or 7 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital).
I made a second visit to Coventry about 15 years ago. I stayed overnight in some Holiday Inn Express (I think). I did not see the better parts of Coventry (if any).
Musical interlude
How long before people really start to chafe?
Increasingly, nothing works in the UK, whether at central government level, local government level, or simply in the retail sphere, e.g. large companies such as Boots. The simplest things are either not done properly or not done at all.
I was just listening to the stupid woman Boris-idiot appointed to run the “Coronavirus” track-and-trace service (which is a total waste of time and money anyway, but let’s leave that aside). One Lady Dido Harding, who has apparently made a career of messing up one high-level job after another, but always getting another one by reason of connections.
Then we have Chris “Failing” Grayling, just appointed to a £100,000 a year job, which may not seem hugely overpaid (though it is several times what most people receive) until you realize that the salary will remunerate Grayling for “about 7 hours per week”. A day a week, and £100K a year… Nearly £300 per hour, or over £2,000 for a 7-hour week. On top of his MP salary (and expenses) and whatever else he is dragging down.
What does one expect of a country that has a useless c**t like Boris-idiot at its helm? I notice that even a deadhead like Toby Young has now woken up:
Yesterday, I blogged that Boris-idiot seemed crushed, in fact flattened, at PMQs. I do not entirely attribute that to Angela Rayner’s fairly brutal putdown. As I blogged, it seems to me that, for the first time, “Boris” has now himself woken up to the fact that his heart is not in the job of being a Prime Minister; perhaps also to the fact that he is useless at it.
It is about 10 years since I last flew BA (and in the past several years I have had no reason and no money to travel anyway or at all). To me, BA seems symptomatic of so many British companies. It has become just a globalist label, something for rootless cosmopolitans to invest in or speculate in.
You may say, “so what?“, but this is one example of a pattern: globalism, cosmopolitanism, the ripping-out of the heart of a business and replacement of that heart with money. Again, it may be objected that business is all about money. I should say, rather, that business is about money, but not all about money.
We have seen so many parts of the British socio-economic landscape disappear or get trashed in the past 20-30 years. To take a few examples, Cadbury’s chocolate, various other confectionery brands, Thomas Cook, some airlines, familiar shop chains such as Woolworth’s (yes, American in origin, but really Anglo-American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Group#History).
Those old businesses had provenance, history, heart. They formed part of the British popular mental landscape.Look at Cadbury’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury.
Founded 1824. Part of British history. A trading and manufacturing entity, yes, but also one which developed a social ethos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury.
The model village for employees, Bournville [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournville], was an inspiration for similar settlements across Britain and quite possibly elsewhere, such as in the Soviet Union, where it was commonplace for large enterprises to operate hospitals, clinics, schools, entertainment facilities etc in towns where most people worked in one factory or plant, and which were far from other centres of population.
In recent decades, that whole ethos has been lost in the UK, not only at (to use its new name) Cadbury, but at many companies. Employee loyalty was not valued, brand loyalty was (mistakenly) relied upon. The British public started to boycott Cadbury chocolate once the company was taken over after 2008 by American Jews, who sacked British workers, and even changed the recipe of Cadbury products (as well as shortchanging the public on weight): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Rosenfeld; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury#2017_%22Easter%22_controversy.
“My job in the audit department was to make sure Cadbury was meeting its commitments on promoting its products ethically, manufacturing them sustainably and looking after its own employees. From the factory in Bucharest to the office in Lima, all my colleagues around the world felt immense pride in what our company was doing to build a better world – as well as giving us the chocolate we loved.”
“That all changed in January 2010, when we learned that Cadbury was to be taken over by Kraft.”
The Jewess from America and her satraps did that. Ruined a once-great British company. Why should it surprise? Look at “sir” Philip Green and his activities; and many other examples. Look at, on a yet larger canvas, Boris-idiot’s basically Jewish (Jew-Zionist) “government” of nasty clowns.
The same pattern is seen over and over again, with various factors intertwined but almost always present: finance-capitalism, globalism, lack of honesty, lack of decency, multiculturalism, Jewish financial power.
The public have no affection for these globalized trading and manufacturing entities. Only a new form of society as a whole can heal this: the Threefold Social Order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding.
Reverting to the airline industry, BA was set up in 1972 from the merger ofBOAC (founded 1939) and BEA (founded 1946) and later took over independent airlines such as British Caledonian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Caledonian, which many business travellers thought superior from a passenger perspective) and Dan Air: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan-Air).
It is noteworthy, en passant, that even after WW2, quite a few airlines began as small operators, sometimes with only one or two planes: “Dan-Air (Dan Air Services Limited) was an airline based in the United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of Londonshipbroking firm Davies and Newman. It was started in 1953 with a single aircraft. Initially, it operated cargo and passenger charter flights from Southend (1953–1955) and Blackbushe airports (1955–1960) using a variety of piston-engined aircraft.” [Wikipedia]; Freddy Laker’s airlines too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker.
British Airways is but one large UK-based company facing ruin as a result not so much of “Coronavirus” but because of the over-reaction of the UK government to that virus. People will now only travel (subject to intrusive testing, facemask muzzles, pipsqueak “marshals” and even quarantine requirements), if they really have little choice.
We keep seeing msm obfuscation, talking about how the USA, India etc have “millions of cases”, when per head of population, other countries have far worse death outcomes; Spain, for example, a country with extremely strict facemask and lockdown measures. Is anyone listening? https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
When the toytown police state becomes a real police state…
Poland signed a Non-Aggression Treaty with Germany in 1934, and Ribbentrop wooed Joszef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, with every appearance of sincerity in 1938 and early 1939. Poland took a chunk of Czechoslovakia after Munich, with German encouragement. @sandraweedenhttps://t.co/5PeLTPYOuL
Liberty survives as long as people are willing to fight for it, in the media,the courts,Parliament & the academy;You don't need Brownshirts to stamp out liberty if it has no defenders.This cld be the first free society to perish because nobody cld be bothered to save it @rbinleehttps://t.co/5TxvKMgxiC
Hitchens’ use of “Brownshirts” is of course mistaken. Liberty only existed incidentally in Weimar Republic Germany. The SA was created to protect NSDAP meetings from Communist/Jew attack. The NSDAP was constantly repressed in pre-1933 Germany, but triumphed in the end because its policies were necessary and its victory divinely ordained.
Stalin's many left-liberal admirers., such as the Webbs, happily overlooked his tyranny because they thought he was on their side. I think your amusement at the Indonesian govt's forcing dissenters to dig graves, because you share that govt's views, is a parallel @peterjukeshttps://t.co/PM3gadc46I
All the same, does anyone really care what are the views of someone like Peter Jukes? I dare say that the vast majority of British people have never heard of him.
Musical interlude
More tweets seen
No answer to this so far (after three hours) from the normally verbose @PeterJukes, the human-rights-loving liberal intellectual who thinks it is funny when a despotic state forces dissidents to dig graves. https://t.co/Odr6tEoZ5o
There is also the major danger that an eagle 🦅 will drop a tortoise 🐢 on your head while you are in a park. Control the tortoise.🐢. I wear my tortoise helmet 👨🚀 to protect you. https://t.co/I98fTlTdqX
The UK has gone so mad that one has to look twice before being sure that a spoof “government” poster is really a spoof.
Below, a typical 2020 UK “Homo Sovieticus” (at first glance) who wants people to “shut up and do as they are told”…but in fact he was just trying to make a joke. An Irishman somewhat lacking in Irish humour. Trouble is, there are untold thousands who would tweet the same and be deadly serious (in their own little minds):
Oh, do shut up with your stupid questions and just do what you're told.
To kill someone by meeting up in a park, a chain of events would be required, each with a probability figure. 1) You have the virus and are infectious (1/1000) 2) You pass it on (1/100) 3) They pass it on leading to death (1/10,000) Multiply to find the risk: about 1 in a billion
https://t.co/lSKoD61XKG 'Hanging out in parks could kill' , says HMG. @MichaelGove please tell us what the mathematical risk is that this will happen, and what the research is on which you base the claim.
That question is presumably rhetorical, unless you think that pro-Jew, pro-Israel expenses cheat and cocaine-abuser, Michael Gove, has any idea at all of what he is doing.
Here (below) is the little bastard drunk or drugged in the House of Commons:
Sadly, “someone” has had the better YouTube footage of the same incident removed. The Jew-Zionist lobby, again, no doubt.
Once again The Times’ previously Johnson’s sycophantic ‘Pravda’ publishes important dissent. Matthew Parris writes:’Sweden was right to put two fingers up to us.’ https://t.co/FJPRPAr8Wx
Hearing very disturbing rumours that barrister MPs have been receiving calls from heads of chambers and senior legal bods saying they’ll never work in the law again if they support the Internal Market Bill.
The French were ahead of the British etc in deciding, quite mistakenly, that you could import blacks and browns, teach them all a load of stuff about citizenship and equality etc, and they would wake up one fine day as (in the French case) Frenchmen! Never happened. Never will happen.
I do not have much time for Angela Rayner, or indeed Labour generally, but this is crushing. Boris-idiot just sits there looking flattened. My sense is that he does not really want to be Prime Minister now that it involves “blood, sweat and tears”, including his own. So long as being Prime Minister meant posing as “World King” and having everyone around him telling him what a fine fellow he was, yes; now, increasingly (?), no.
For the first time, I wonder whether “Boris” will serve out all or even the bulk of his allotted term as PM. He looks defeated.
Hugh Johnson’s Vintage
I used to have this entire series on video. Superb. These extracts are shorter and fewer than the 1980s originals (a number of programmes, each about 25 minutes long), but are still well worth seeing. Erudite and interesting.
“Wouldn’t it be better to focus on shielding the vulnerable, instead of shackling the entire population? And above all, the six-million-dollar question: is this insistent nannystatism really the only way?
A few weeks ago I wrote in these pages about my recent visit to Sweden. Right from the start, the Swedes had no lockdown, no masks and no curfews. When I visited, I found the restaurants and bars packed.
The shops were a little quieter than usual, but still busy enough. Life, in other words, was going on. Mere anecdotal evidence, some people said. And it’s true that back in the spring, the Swedes made a complete mess of shielding their care homes, which drove up their fatality rates.
Even so, just look at the facts. Without imposing sweeping restrictions, and by trusting people to behave responsibly, the Swedes have avoided a second surge. Their figures for Covid deaths in the last three days were 2, 1 and 4 respectively.”
“They’ve also avoided the worst of the economic damage. According to figures released this week, the Swedes actually made a £4bn budget surplus last month. By contrast, our most recently monthly figure was a deficit of £27bn.”[Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Mail]
Now it appears that Boris-idiot is intending to spend £100 BILLION or more on useless testing. This is going beyond mere incompetence. It is getting to the point where Boris-idiot and the Cabinet of Clowns can be regarded collectively (with the “scientific advisers, as well) as an existential danger to the British people. They should be put down, pro bono publico, starting with Boris-idiot.
I sincerely hope that those busybodies get a good kicking.
Ha ha! Was just reading some of the Daily Mail readers’ comments, and I predict that the new toothless Handmaid’s Tale militia busybodies will face resistance. One reader said that they might end up upended in a wheelie bin! That, in turn reminded me of a incident from the mid-1980s.
When one of the Soviet ballet or dance ensembles visited the UK in the 1980s (I forget which one it was, out of several tours with which I had peripheral contact at the time via people I knew), the large group visited a number of Northern cities.
One day, a few of the main dancers were in, I think, Liverpool, along with their interpreter and their “Ministry of Culture” (KGB) minder. At one point, local “youths” decided to push over some wheelie bins and dustbins. Observing this, the KGB man asked an English person also there, “may I pliss do something about zis?” and, with that, approached the main youth, who was initially truculent until lifted up bodily and smashed into some more bins, with much clattering. End of the nuisance…
These new “marshals” remind me of the “PCSO” “police” (who are not actually police but sort-of look like them, and get paid about half as much). When the Jewish pack were trying to get me into trouble one way or the other, several years ago (in fact, I think that this particular incident happened in 2014 or 2015), the police were pressed into service, and a PCSO actually appeared at my now-humble home. A blonde woman from somewhere like Yorkshire transplanted to Hampshire, she had clearly not only failed to become a real policewoman but also dropped out of the Charm School.
The woman claimed that the Metropolitan Police wanted to speak to me and that my telephone number was required. I gave it to her. She wrote it down. I was told that the Metropolitan Police officer would be calling me at a certain time late that afternoon. In fact, there was no call.
The PCSO waste of space reappeared the following day, furious that I had (deliberately, she alleged!) “given her the wrong number” (I had not), and she said that if necessary she would call for a (real) police officer to come. I reiterated that she had been given the right number. I repeated it. The thick bitch checked. She had written down two repeated digits, but the right number had three repeated digits. The charmless bitch had written down the number wrongly but preferred to pretend that I had deliberately misled her.
The “Metropolitan Police officer” never did call me. There was a kind of ending to the story, though. I saw the aforesaid bitch in Waitrose some weeks later, buying some kind of “free-from” health food snack bars. I stood there until she turned around and saw me. She jumped! Ha ha! She maybe thought that I was about to assault her or worse. Let’s hope so…
I feigned amiability and said hello. She replied, dully. The woman actually then had the effrontery to ask me whether “anything happened” in relation to her visit to me. I thus had the opportunity to reply, “No; never heard anything. I expect that the police must have made a mistake.” Touché…
I did see the bitch once more, again some weeks later, after hours of heavy rain had just stopped. She was “walking the beat” down a side-road in the nearby town. Right next to her was a large and deep puddle, about 20 feet long. I had an unholy desire to drive and indeed roar past her, depositing a tsunami of rainwater all over her, but good sense prevailed (sadly…but she would either have recognized me or got my number). I took another way around.
In the following months, the Hampshire Police made most if not all of the PCSOs in my part of the county redundant for costs reasons, so she was probably chucked onto the dole. I hope that she was. Power-mad bitches like that should not be irritating and harassing members of the public and trying to intimidate them. Maybe she will apply to become one of Boris-idiot’s “Covid marshals”. If so, I hope that I see her patrolling after another cloudburst. I am less patient these days.
This is all getting a bit Berlin 1945. Boris in his bunker fantasising about wonder weapons and phantom armies of covid traffic wardens.#nomasksnovaccineshttps://t.co/4plhwb4afU
‘A society in which you have to ask a Minister of the Crown whether it is OK to hug your grandchildren is a society that has gone seriously wrong’ . Former Supreme Court judge Lord (Jonathan) Sumption. pic.twitter.com/59rRapc4m7
I have, and at 23 minutes Jonathan Sumption delivers a tremendous blow to the legal foundation of the government's actions. The sooner this is tested in the courts, the better. https://t.co/hGgG0KGFPQ
Not only Peter Hitchens! He, however, has a platform on the msm.
A new and nasty example of the self-righteous groupthink encouraged by the Muzzle Decree: BBC News – Coronavirus: Man with chronic asthma 'forced' to wear mask on plane https://t.co/8SayxOKxHR
1/2 @FraiseAdam you said an hour ago ‘The ITUs in Birmingham are filling up with cases. Elective surgery being cancelled again to cope with the workload.’ …'
2/2 @FraiseAdam @TomEast71037686 replied ‘10th September, ref NHS Trust:The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has the largest single Critical Care Unit in Europe, with 100 bed spaces. To date 75 of these are open. 25 beds in use, not described as Covid related.' Please advise.
…and that is precisely why a “Conservative” Prime Minister can elevate a former Revolutionary Communist Party member, and defender of IRA terror bombing, to the House of Lords. Power above principle (or even decency).
Free speech going out of the window. You don't have to agree (not sure if I ever have) with David Vance and Katie Hopkins. This is a worrying trend. https://t.co/i7xBBqY5kk
I never had much time for David Vance, the minor politico from Northern Ireland, who has now been “suspended” from Twitter (probably expelled in reality, like me, Katie Hopkins and thousands of others).
Vance is an unpleasant man who was rude to me on at least two occasions. Probably a minor freemason, certainly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby. A typical Northern Irish/Scottish “kosher nationalist” or Unionist, in short.
These “kosher nationalists” never seem to see that, no matter how much they proclaim their misguided devotion to Jewry and Israel, the Jewish element hates them anyway, as do those dupes of the Jews known as “antifa” (who often, and risibly, tend to be both pro-Jew and anti-Israel!).
Having said that, Vance’s expulsion is the latest attack on free speech on Twitter.
The funny thing is that the anti-free speech types on Twitter (Jews, “antifa” etc) fail to see that their tweeting accomplishes nothing in the real socio-political world. Not only are tweets ephemeral but people tweet in little bubbles or, as often said, “echo-chambers”. I see the same people tweeting pretty much the same things to each other that I have seen for a decade.
I repost tweets on my blog because it is a quick way of making points or taking the pulse, but tweets have no real weight, politically.
[Update, 2 February 2022: Well, “Dave Spart”/Dave Monk has himself now been “deplatformed”! Point proven, I think. The Twitter wannabee revolution has devoured (another of) its own children. “I’m lovin’ it!“]
That “@TheRealGrumpDad” idiot, above, like many of the same sort, fails to see that his formula “you have free speech but not freedom from the consequences of that speech” could be said of, say, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China etc. Yes, you can say whatever you like, but say the wrong thing and there will be “consequences” (imprisonment, even execution).
“GrumpDad” is not alone in his defective reasoning. A law lecturer from East Anglia, one Paul Bernal (a descendant of the part-Jew Marxist scientist J.D. Bernal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Bernal), often tweets in similar vein. Pathetic.
Those who rub their hands in glee as dissenting voices are censored or expelled from, eg, Twitter, seem not to realize that, if all peaceful means are taken away, people will turn to less peaceful means. In other words, there are “consequences” to actions as well.
Brexit
As I have said previously, I favour exit from the EU and have done so for a long time, well over a decade, but the fact is that several prime ministers of the UK have messed it up. That applies especially to Theresa May and Boris-idiot.
I may have been mistaken on one point: I thought that the UK would in reality stay under the EU’s rule even if the UK left the EU formally. Some kind of “agreement”, so little change on the ground (akin to the past year). To my surprise, it now seems that the UK might really leave, and under conditions of chaos and confusion. We read of government contingency plans involving the use of troops to contain urban discontent if there are shortages of medicine and even food.
In the immortal words of that little moneygrubbing MP, Johnny Mercer, this is shaping up to be be a complete “shitshow”.
Add to the above Brexit confusion the “virus” absurdities of this government, the continuing migration-invasion, and the general economic slide (including the slide in confidence and currency) and you have the basic conditions for a situation in a year or two which is, in principle, very favourable for social nationalism.
Asset-buying
The very wealthy are buying assets. Confidence in the pound sterling is waning. Gold continues to appreciate in value, and I have noticed that, compared to 10 or even 5 years ago, large estates are not readily available now for any money. For example, Rightmove had numerous large Scottish estates for sale at any one moment during the years 2010-2018 or 2019, but now there are few. Any that come onto the market go quickly.
The same is true of England. Valuable real estate is being bought up now, as a hedge. For example, one place, a house with 40 acres and a sea view, and only a mile from my own humble home, has just sold for £8.5 million, having been up for sale for weeks only. Another, about 5 miles away, seems to have sold for about £6 million.
These otherwise unremarkable incidents are all signs of a lack of confidence in both cash and equities.
Meanwhile, we are in the hands of people whose incompetence is boundless, led by a total idiot who has somehow been elevated to the position and rank of a prime minister, but who is incapable of fulfilling that role with even modest competence.
Boris-idiot is now planning to spend £100 BILLION (!) on entirely useless daily or weekly testing of the entire population! For a disease or condition which is now killing only 1 person out of thousand upon thousand of the population! It is madness. As said before, is this just total incompetence, or is it a form of conspiracy and treason?
BREAKING: Latest figures show there have been no covid-related deaths, recorded by hospital trusts in the West Midlands, for a week. It's the first time this has happened since the start of the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/VWZWEhB0To
Still more Muzzle Fanaticism. Collective punishment. https://t.co/nfxQxXeDbN Like all such repressive rules, an endless opportunity for jobsworths, busybodies and 'computer says no' merchants to make life that bit more miserable. And for what end?
TheExtinction Rebellion activities bring matters of free speech to the fore
“What we are facing here are fanatics: members of an apocalyptic, end-times cult. A cult dedicated to immiserating our society and intimidating anybody who stands in their way. It is high time that they were stopped. It is time that the police move in to arrest them and disrupt their activities. It is time for our politicians and public figures to unite in deprecating their actions. And it is time that we unify again around a core principle: that open debate is the best way to have any difficult question out, and that ceding control to radicals of any stripe is not just where debate stops. It is where a free society ends.” [Douglas Murray, Daily Telegraph]
I suppose that Douglas Murray was collecting his money from the Henry Jackson Society or other NWO/ZOG organizations when he might have been defending my free speech rights. On the other hand, Murray would not want his lucrative media career to finish. One word from “them” and it would be the end of Murray as go-to talking head…
I notice that Murray seems to be very favourable to Israel-based solicitor Mark Lewis, and Murray has defended on Twitter Lewis’s “free speech rights” (when Lewis was fined and censured by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority in 2018). Lewis was one of the main Jewish plotters against me from about 2012 until the present time. See: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/.
I also never saw or heard Douglas Murray defend the free speech rights of Jez Turner (of the now-destroyed London Forum), who was imprisoned for making a speech in Whitehall; or for that matter, those of Alison Chabloz, prosecuted for posting online her satirical songs.
Both Jez Turner and Alison Chabloz were targets of the malicious Jew-Zionist pressure group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], as also I was and remain.
The same is true of the Charlie Hebdo events. The System politicians from all over the EU defended the magazine when it attacked Islam and was then attacked by Islamists, but it rarely attacks the Jew-Zionists who more or less rule France now. As for those political drones, they are in the pocket of of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby and try to censor any criticism of Jews or their behaviour.
What kind of country takes the knee to #BlackLivesMatter – a ragbag of anti-British revolutionaries who want to actively abolish the police – then puts the boot into its veterans, who fought for their flag?
“They” —aka (((they)))— happened to Britain, basically, Monsieur Daubney. “They” are at the root of it all, and it is because would-be politicians from “controlled opposition” fake parties such as UKIP and Brexit Party would not and will not acknowledge the centrality of the European struggle against “them” that we are on the brink of socio-political meltdown.
Lunacy posing as protest
A strange cult posing as the answer to the problems of the world.
Tempus fugit, and similar truisms…I recall seeing, en passant, the now-deceased lady who wrote the first two of those pieces, when I was sitting in the library of the GB-USSR Association in the early 1980s; about 1983.
The GB-USSR Association was a cultural and para-diplomatic organization mainly funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Lubrication for diplomatic/cultural interchange in the Cold War, if you like. A parallel body existed in Moscow.
The London HQ of the UK body had a rather nice set-up in Grosvenor Place, overlooking the gardens of Buckingham Palace. It had a Director (a rather unwelcoming fellow called John Roberts, I think about 50 or so, who had fluent Russian, learned in the 1950s during National Service and at Cambridge, where he was sent during part of his service), and two full-time librarians (paid Civil Service rates). I believe that I heard at some much later time that the younger of the two librarians eventually, in the 1990s, became the main librarian at the new, and now famous, Thames-side HQ of SIS/MI6. Perhaps.
The said Roberts was very well-connected and, in those days when your “occupation” had to be written in your passport (based on what the applicant wrote on the application form), had —I heard on good authority— “Diplomat” written in his passport, even though he was not one, at least in the accepted sense. In those days, I had a far less plausible occupation written in my own passport.
The GB-USSR had a good library which I often used, and it put on interesting occasional talks, though I missed the best of the lot (I was told), which was given by “John le Carre” (David Cornwell) one evening.
I remember a very attractive tall blonde woman who looked about 29 (if that) coming in with at least two and maybe three small dogs on leads, and going into the office of the Director. I later discovered that that was his new wife. I was unaware until yesterday that she was at the time already about 40.
In the TV series, the main character, Magnus Pym, is brilliantly played (as adult) by Peter Egan; the wife of the SIS officer in Switzerland was, I think, one Felicity, played by actress Fiona Mollison.
Now that the GB-USSR lady is deceased (as is Roberts, her husband), I can say without seeming too rude that the intervening years were not kind to her (the same might be said of many of us!), looking at the photos. To be frank, I should not have recognized her from the photos I have just seen in the past day. There again, few would recognize me from the photograph of me aged 35…
[above: me, when aged 35]
I was struck some time ago by the changes seen a few years ago, in a BBC provincial news report and on a website, about people I met when volunteering on an organic farm in Wales about 40 years ago. The farmer was still recognizable, but his wife, whom I recall as a pretty sexy and shapely lady of about 35 (albeit very moody, to the point of being a real pain in the neck), was now almost spherical, in fact like a snowman without the snow: a small sphere sitting atop a large sphere.
These apparently random thoughts and reminiscences are in fact just my way of underlining how transitory is our time on this Earth in any one incarnation. We must do what we can to create a current of positive effect which will influence the course of history.
For a couple of reasons I've been spending time in the city of Pforzheim lately. Here's a rather unassuming view that I've been taking in with my coffee. It's also a view that is the result of twenty awful minutes in 1945. /1 pic.twitter.com/6ugda84d4r
Actually @peterbentkey34, we do know. There is absolutely no congruence between death rates and severity of shutdown. Countries which have imposed muzzle wearing, such as Spain, likewise can offer no evidence that it has been effective. https://t.co/53v5velwGR
This is a genuinely frightening revelation . The distinguished Oxford Epidemiologst Sunetra Gupta, a critic of the Whitehall/Ferguson line, now has trouble getting published. A horrible marshmallow totalitaranism is growing around us: https://t.co/z7x5MJeDpw
Our Parliament is a Dead Parrot. Write now and ask your MPs what they are being paid for, since they are not doing their jobs – Mail Online – Peter Hitchens blog https://t.co/brAW8Pm5nZ
Above, a typical example of nice, polite, English protest…Write to “your” MP, ask for an explanation as to why…blah blah blah. I have a different view of what should be done, but if I blog about it here, I shall probably have the toytown police and the poundland KGB here tomorrow morning…
It is amazing how panic zealots attack powerless government critics for lacking scientific qualifications, but cheerfully now down to the decrees and edicts of a government of undistinguished drongoes, with barely a scientific qualification among them. https://t.co/hCYYIcU4IN
Twitter shouldn't have censored the Tweet from one of the British leaders of BLM saying she wanted to enslave white people. In a free society, we should be able to see the views of political activists so we can make an informed decision about whether to support them or not.
In reality, a black or even mixed population will never be able to enslave even a far smaller-in-number European/”white” population; the whites will either triumph over the blacks and rule them, or leave to be rid of the blacks and their inability to maintain a civilized society (in the absence of white skills and thinking patterns…), as has largely happened in South Africa: even the craven whites who opposed apartheid and emigrated have no wish to return to be ruled by the increasingly anti-white blacks in a society where whites are increasingly seen as enemies and, indeed, prey.
Below, a photograph of wha is said to be the same Jew (presumably recently), toting what looks superficially like a silenced submachinegun, but which is in fact (I think) an “airsoft gun” used in games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft_gun
What made me laugh about that Jewish Chronicle piece was that the other Jew mentioned, a business operator, was driven out of the UK, it seems; at any rate, he left…
Ian Robert Millard 