Chekhov had a point. It might be argued that in contemporary Britain, and in North America, there is at least no “premature old age“, but maybe there is: true, people are living longer in years, but at the same time a strange double-aspect is seen.
The young today are careful, cautious, scared of what they are indoctrinated into being scared of, meaning “the virus”, “racism”, “sexism” etc; even taking any risk at all. In short, they often seem to exhibit traits of caution and even fearfulness, traditionally the preserve of the middleaged and, indeed, the elderly.
The other aspect seen would be a kind of juvenile attitude to life, seen in the adult, even in the middleaged. The obsessive interest in (in the UK) soccer football and (in the USA) American football. The playing of video games, computer games by those aged 30, 40, even 50+.
Other symptoms? The whole “dating app” culture. The middleaged women, often divorced, who feverishly pretend to a lifestyle more appropriate (if at all) to girls of 18 or 20. The male equivalent, as well. Also, the lack of interest in anything of a serious nature, even in those who (via entitlement more than via merit, often) are in the highest positions.
Examples? It became notorious, during the disastrous years of the David Cameron-Levita governments of 2010-2015, that the Prime Minister of the UK spent what his own civil servants called “a frightening amount of time” playing games on his mobile telephone. If I recall aright, his favourite was one called Angry Birds.
Others in that evil yet stupid 2010-2015 government had similar tastes. One was the useless Ed Vaizey (like David Cameron-Levita, a part-Jew).
Now we have “Boris” Johnson, another part-Jew, and another with puerile tastes and behavioural patterns. Someone just posing as Prime Minister, as did Cameron-Levita.
The above may explain why it is hard to form a serious non-System political party worth anything. The young are more interested in complying with whatever they are told by the msm , or in whatever is said about them or their friends on various social media platforms. The older (25+) people are not much better, and the middleaged are mainly engaged in pursuits which are extensions of juvenalia.
Politics, especially radical/revolutionary politics, requires other traits: risk-taking, commitment to ideals and to a cause, a certain selflessness, a willingness by the individual to join with others for a noble cause, as well as anger at the way things are, and a determination to struggle to a better future.
The National Socialists of 1919-1945 had that; the Bolsheviks and other Communists had that; the milder socialists and social-democrats too. Without that drive and belief, everything just trundles on as it is, or perhaps gradually getting worse.
Ha. When living in Kazakhstan (1996-97), I used to travel up to the mountains with friends in their Lada Niva. I even drove it for short distances once or twice myself. In the UK, a few years ago, I thought of buying a secondhand one, but few were available and, crucially, the Niva only comes in standard shift, not automatic, and my present (UK) driving licence only allows me to drive automatics. Quite a good budget option for off-road, though.
And why not? Decapitating a baby at birth is absolutely the same as a perfectly legal 'termination'. But believing that sex is obvious and fixed at birth it grotesquely bigoted. Plus, any complaint here would be both racist and sexist. So there's nothing to see here, move along! pic.twitter.com/5uP4q4u9QX
Lying press at their cover up deceit yet again. Refusing to tell you that all Bellfield's victims were blondes, because he is a Roma supremacist who despises non gypsies and especially hates blonde women.#racismcutsbothwayshttps://t.co/ziRs3kj9zk
I generally disapprove of capital punishment, as such (for spiritual-religious reasons, and because justice must be tempered with mercy), but there may be situations where a public hanging might do much to repress those who should be repressed.
1/3 @jimezsmoots. Pedantry is about small unimportant differences. The two were quite distinct. During WW2, for example, French Jews were much safer in the Italian occupation zone of France than in the unoccupied Vichy zone… https://t.co/4vdcUfN0Uq
I agree @andersinvienna. . It is painful to admit that Prague was far more beautiful when I first saw it in 1978, filthy from pollution, crumbling, oppressed, poor – and empty. It is a metaphor for the failure of post-Soviet freedom to fulfil its promises. https://t.co/9VqfCKGxme
Ha ha! That reminds me when a Soviet citizen visiting London in the late 1980s saw the BBC TV News, presented by Moira Stuart [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moira_Stuart], and said to me, “not only a black woman, but one with a speech impediment!“…
What would he have thought of Britain in 2021?
Something a little different today: a message from our Director, Rachel on who we are, what we do and why we do it.
Tweeted by a barrister, one of them, so I suppose that younger people reading think it “must be right”. In fact, while it is true that women (and others) could be refused service in a pub, that almost never happened simply because a woman wanted a drink. The same was true of blacks. As for “being gay was imprisonable“…no, it never was, not in the UK, though there were offences committed if actual gay sex was indulged in.
As ever, the devil is in the detail, and in the words “legal right“…
Those tweets give a false picture.
I myself was once refused service in a bar, for having entered the saloon bar of a country pub, in Surrey, while wearing muddy Wellingtons. I, and the young lady accompanying me, had to move to the (equally empty) public bar, where the floor consisted of stone flags instead of carpet. That was in 1984.
Dictatorial “lockdown”, mishandled Brexit, continuing mass immigration (though slowed by some voluntary repatriation over past months), collapsing real economy, sliding real estate values in London. Mass unemployment. Huge divides opening up, socially, culturally and politically.
There is no “revolutionary situation” in the UK. Not yet. By 2022, there may be, or at least the start of one.
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Can we just go full 1940 and lock these 5th Columnists up already? Bored to tears with their fluffing for fascism https://t.co/pUVZMuUwgr
“Dr” Louise Raw, prolific “antifascist” tweeter, fantasizing about being able to arrest, have arrested, or see being arrested, those with whom she disagrees socially or politically. Not “just” those she and her type label “fascist”, “Nazi”, “neo-Nazi” etc, but also persons such as American alt-Right journalist Andrew Ngo, or London radio loudmouth Julia Hartley-Brewer.
On the other hand, to compare “Dr” Raw or her like to Trotsky or Stalin (or Dzerzhinsky for that matter) would be even more silly than her labelling of others. As Marx commented in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, the “first time tragedy, second time, farce“. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte.
As I have often noted in this blog, “socialism” died around 1989 and has been replaced by the grotesqueries of “Black Lives Matter”, LGBTQXYZ nonsense, “trans” nonsense, “antiracism” nonsense and all the other socio-political absurdities we now see around the self-describing “Left”.
Silly people such as “Dr” Raw tweet about locking people up for their views, but she at least seems (?) to have enough awareness to realize that she and her cohorts cannot actually do that. She and they are reduced to bleating that the State, or someone, or anyone, should take such measures.
The self-describing UK “Left” is now the haunt not of the scoundrel, not solely anyway, but of those in a comfortable, unthinking, and mutually-supporting niche, who want to be told what to think, say or do by the EU, official bodies, “Covid marshals” etc. Thus they love Twitter, and their greatest joy is to see someone of whom they disapprove expelled from Twitter. They put forward no programme, have no political traction, and are basically irrelevant.
I might add, “ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee“…
Incidentally, Kim Philby [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby] was a great admirer of Eighteenth Brumaire. I expect that he would have known the fact noted below:
“In the preface to the second edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx stated that the purpose of this essay was to “demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part.”[1]” [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte. [my bold emphasis].
Is that how Philby secretly viewed himself? As a “grotesque mediocrity” nonetheless able to play a role arguably (in Philby’s mind?) “heroic”? Was that one reason why Philby drank so much, that dissonance?
I suppose that we shall never know. In any event, I myself am sceptical of the (supposed) importance or significance of Philby, despite the books which continue to be churned out about him, mostly in the UK.
As a matter of fact, I once (in fact more than once; several times) met someone who had once met Philby, or at least had heard him give a lecture. I should have been more curious and asked about that person’s impression of the “great spy” and/or “great traitor”.
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This thread should terrify anybody who cares about liberty or democracy. The government is killing off legal aid criminal law solicitors. Without them, the rule of law crumbles. https://t.co/9G9JXuy1Up
One of the most telling ways in which the Jew-Zionist lobby has poisoned the UK is in the “denial” label. First there was “holocaust” “denial”, aimed at anyone, whether professional historian or not, questioning the “holocaust” narrative in whole or part (even the ludicrous “gas chambers” nonsense).
After that came climate change “denial”, a term aimed at anyone questioning the causes or effects of what was originally termed “global warming”. As with “holocaust” “denial”, it turns out that the “deniers” have at least the preponderance of fact on their side: Prince Charles and others were wrong when they said, in 2009, that humanity had 3, then 5, then 7 years “to save the planet”.
It turned out that the “experts” were not only wrong but actively mendacious in saying that the Himalayan glaciers would soon melt completely, resulting in the Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra all running dry.
‘Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 2003 issue of Nature magazine, “Although it’s tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think deforestation of the mountain’s foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests’ humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine.”‘ “
Well, now we have “Covid-19” “denial”! Anyone questioning the origins of “the virus”, anyone saying that the World Economic Forum and others are using the virus as a means for a “Great Reset”, anyone questioning the utility of repressive government measures such as facemask-mandating, “lockdowns” etc is a “denier”, a kind of heretic, probably a criminal or even a murderer…
This is that happens when it becomes a heresy to question officially-supported fact-narratives. Beware.
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Well, @djflatwhite, in free countries, you have to win debates if you wish to right wrongs. Its a necessary, though not a sufficient, condition. https://t.co/2pYIGflXQ0
Peter Hitchens still regards the UK as sort-of “free”. Debatable?
The U.K. had a perfectly good plan for a pandemic, 70 pages of experience, knowledge and common sense, drawn up in 2011 – and ditched in the great panic of March 2020 pic.twitter.com/ngbj5MN2sy
Easily @plasfron@johnrentoul. Pol Pot's policy was unhinged, Mao's Great Leap Forward was unhinged, Hitler's massacre of Europoean Jews was unhinged. Burning down your house to get rid of a wasps' nest is unhinged.Problem is to know it, and be able to point it out, at the time. https://t.co/6KSngk1xUA
Hitler’s policy was resettlement of Jews. Millions did leave Germany, millions left Europe, in the 1930s and early 1940s. USA, UK, Australia, Palestine, and other places too.
What was “unhinged” was the UK and France offering Poland a “guarantee” in 1939 which was not worth the paper on which it was written. That spurious “guarantee” triggered WW2 as surely as the mass mobilizations of 1914 had triggered WW1.
More accurately, the “guarantee” to Poland, when not just ignored by the UK and France on the fateful days of 1-3 September 1939, triggered that disastrous war.
Why is nationalism okay for Jewish people, for black people, and for indigenous Americans but not for ethnic British people and whites in general?
HnH is yet another unaccountable anti-white group that blacklists books and supervises our speech. It has no place in our society. pic.twitter.com/zzpCYlcq0C
I lived in Cornwall for two years or so (and another two on the Devon side of the Tamar), having from 2002 to 2004 a lease of one of the largest country houses in North Cornwall (seen below in a 1940s photograph):
[above: same house in a more recent photograph]
The immediately above photograph shows me standing by the ballroom carriage entrance. Incidentally, I am not giving a “Hitler” or “Roman” salute, but merely trying to pose “casually” for the picture, as if resting my hand on the stonework. I am not (it goes without saying) a natural photographic subject…
Cornwall offers few people well-paid work; small businesses such as the Cornish Cheese Company (I am not a shareholder, by the way!) need encouragement to succeed or even survive. The geographical location of Cornwall, its relative isolation, increases shipping costs, and so on.
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Dismayed to read the reports from Bristol. The Labour Party under Keir Starmer is becoming an increasingly inept, anti-democratic, and frankly corrupt political machine.
I have no idea what shenanigans are going on in the Bristol Labour Party, but what might have been expected from Keir Starmer? It amuses me to see the parallels between him and that little pissant, “Conservative” Party Cabinet minister, Robert Jenrick: both completely in the pocket of the Jewish lobby, both married to Jewish wives (both of whom are property lawyers), both having children all being brought up as Jewish (eg celebrating the Jewish supremacist religious holidays etc).
Surprising court judgment
Kids Company judgment is out!! RUPERT BUTLER (acting through Leverets) and Natasha Jackson (instructed by Leverets) successfully defend Camila Batmanghelidjh in the 10-week directors disqualification trial before Falk J.
It is not for me to say whether or not that peculiar woman, Camila Batmanghelidjh, was in some measure a fraud, or whether what she did was in any measure fraudulent. All that can be said was that very large amounts of State funding were spent and probably wasted on a “motley crew” of inner city London ferals. She was in charge (supposedly).
All one can say for sure is that the government of the part-Jew, David Cameron-Levita, was a complete mess.
@johnrentoul. Sweden messed up its care homes (especially in Stockholm) , much as we did. The other Nordic countries did not. The interesting thing about Sweden and the UK is that their outcomes have been so *similar* , despite diverging approaches. https://t.co/Ghb28ZQTnW
3,250 have now commented on the Great Lockdown Debate between me and @dpjhodges and more than 100,000 have watched it. See the comments, watch it and make your own contribution here https://t.co/QKniy0dZK7
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Seeing as @BBC are putting up their license fee it’s definitely about time the corporation was more interactive. For example we could press the red button to show our dislike of certain programmes and personalities. The centrist luvie revolving door is why the corp is so crap
Hitler and the NSDAP were not Zionists; Zionists were not National Socialists. Having said that, there was a community of interest insofar as Hitler wanted Jews out of Germany and out of Europe, while the transnational Jew-Zionist lobby wanted as many Jews as possible to go to British Mandate Palestine in order to gradually colonize the territory and be able to confront the existing Arab inhabitants (and then to dispossess them).
The Zionists therefore treated with the 1933-1945 German Government and particularly (though not exclusively) the SS. Something that both sides prefer to forget these days. The SS and NSDAP no longer exist in their original form, but the Zionists and their post-1948 government, in what is now Israel, certainly do exist. For them, such history is better concealed or buried (or banned under the fake “international definition” of “antisemitism”).
How did England go from being a world power to arresting people for saying mean things on the Internet? lmao
Very true. Look at the self-described “Left” on Twitter etc. It puts forward no socialist or even social programme, no socialist policies to speak of, just “black lives matter” nonsense, “LGBTQXYZ” nonsense, pro-facemask and pro-lockdown nonsense.
What a contrast with the years 1917-1956, or 1956-1989!
The self-describing “Left” now has, as a main aim, “deplatforming” nationalist and other “influencers” on social media etc. In that world, getting someone expelled from Twitter (as happened to me in 2018, the expulsion procured by Jews, but applauded by the Twitter pseudo-socialists) counts as a major victory.
The “nationalist” and allied side of the house is little better. For the “alt-Right” and “Alt-lite” purported nationalists (in the UK), the UKIP/Brexit Party types, what matters is changing a red passport for a blue one, or fishing rights in the Channel, or at least pretending to support free speech. For many of the more solid nationalists, even social nationalists, what matters is trying to fight the social media “deplatforming” by complaining (mainly), or tweeting, blogging (yes, I do not exclude my own efforts), or vlogging.
What should matter to us is having a solid social-national programme; after which, having a solid socio-political movement; after which, having “boots on the ground”…
This is not a “debate”. This is not a “disagreement”. This is the precursor to a civil war or (perhaps more accurately described) social war. Before the American Civil War started, in 1861, the cannon at Fort Sumter, South Carolina (in the harbour at Charleston, a lovely city which I myself, long ago, visited several times) opened fire. That signalled the conflict about to start.
[Fort Sumter]
Likewise, in 1917, a naval gun on the cruiser Aurora opened fire, signalling the start of the Bolshevik seizure of power in revolutionary Petrograd, and the effective start of the Russian Civil War.
[the cruiser Aurora, St. Petersburg]
What we see now, on social media, is the equivalent.
"Asthma drug cuts need to send Covid patients to hospital by 90%". Another day, another common & proven drug found to stop covid in its tracks. But STILL the elite press on with society-crushing lockdown. Anyone woud think they want to 'de-develop' us…https://t.co/ZFEFc8IIF4
Today’s belated Diary Blog will be truncated by reason of a national, possibly international, attack of some sort on Internet provision; the blog will therefore consist mainly of tweets that struck my attention today. There will be relatively little analysis.
I have also been musing today about how so many who try to do bad things to me, or who have written or said bad things about me, suffer severe hits themselves one way or another. A number have even died from various causes, though not directly through any agency of mine, I should add.
The Scottish press (whose owners probably aren't Scottish at all) has developed a really virulent mutant strain of ethno-masochist insanity!#hundredhanderspic.twitter.com/SYVgT48NzN
I have noticed over the past decade how tied in with the Jew-Zionist lobby is the “Scottish” Daily Record.
Leaked Ministry of Defence report reveals the shocking state of the #BritishArmy "But honour & dominion, Are not maintain-ed so. They're only got by sword & shot – and this the ******* know". Kipling was right as always. 'Be the most neglected'.https://t.co/iTokQQZvvN
The Army, Royal Marines etc are finding it hard to recruit suitable, or any sufficient number of personnel now. The population has changed and is still changing.
Roundton Hill, Montgomeryshire, a small Iron Age hillfort on the Shropshire border. Although it's on a footpath, the light patch on the rock isn't paint, it's lichen, which shows how clean the air is. pic.twitter.com/POVk5zdR3N
Fascinating revelation by Jonathan Sumption in today’s Mail on Sunday. Panicking ministers ditched a far more rational (and long-planned) pandemic strategy at the last minute, choosing instead to copy Maoist China. pic.twitter.com/cWDpkEkkK9
Today is a day I shall always remember – the day I was attacked on Twitter for 'picking fights'; by committing the heinous crime of *asking for evidence*. Worse yet, people approvingly retweeted and liked this attack. Yeah, the sheer nerve! Asking for evidence. Whatever next?
You wanted to see what the emergent UK ZOG/NWO police state looks like in an ordinary little street somewhere? Look no further…
Gosh, yeah,@authorgerald, how shocking, a journalist asking for *evidence* for the facts to back up public statements? The nerve of it! Why don't we groundlings just accept what we're told, and shut up? Because it's the road to Chernobyl, Thalidomide & the Iraq war, that's why. https://t.co/Gda3p3pxrH
1/2 @Nicklezard As recently as June 24, in official pamphlets for reopening shops and services, the Department for Business and Enterprise said repeatedly: ‘The evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak and the effect is likely to be small.’
Last night watched the brilliant new film 'Dear Comrades' about the Soviet massacre of protesting workers in Novocherkassk 1962. A much-needed reminder that the USSR *was* an evil empire, and of the consequences of leftist utopianism: https://t.co/8GF5jfmpHn
Naturally, films, TV shows, books too, about the evils of Sovietism are, and will be (until the causes are eliminated), outnumbered a thousand to one by films, TV shows, books etc about the supposed evils of the Third Reich, for the simple reason that Zionist Jews control the film industry, TV companies (including the BBC) and publishing empires across the Western world.
JONATHAN SUMPTION: Zero Covid is a mirage – the virus is here to stay . Includes fascinating revelation about last-minute UK govt decision to drop carefully-prepared plans and instead adopt untried Maoist lockdown policy https://t.co/ExP31E9fam via @MailOnline
“A large part of the problem is the personality of Boris Johnson – a public relations artist, not a policy-maker. He is guided by what he thinks public opinion will want. He is a follower, not a leader.“
Nice to see a former Lord of Appeal echo what I have been writing for years. A part-Jew clown posing as Prime Minister. The results were predictable.
This, by @MichaelPSenger in 'Tablet' is fascinating:“trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science … The lockdown of 11 million people is unprecedented in public health history, so it is certainly not a recommendation the WHO has made.” https://t.co/ZKiwdUXMRl
No. I am contacted daily by followers whose accounts have been entered and altered without their knowledge or permission.@Alfiebengal. If followers genuinely unfollow, they don’t do so in the small hours in batches of 300. https://t.co/dPoaWXRtGb
No, @jordag99. Every day several followers tell me their accounts have been entered and altered without their knowledge or permission. Don’t be so complacent and gullible. The facts contradict your belief. https://t.co/yjheObdjTQ
It seems I am not permitted to rise above 155,000 followers. 300 of my followers were cancelled in the night. Based on past experience, at least some of their accounts were entered and altered by unknown persons without their permission or knowledge . Were you one of them?
More Twitter shenanigans. I noticed an interview with Twitter’s former head of European affairs. Seemed to be a Jew. What a surprise.
In fact, when I was expelled from Twitter in 2018 (after a small pack of Jews targeted me), I had just on 3,000 “followers”, which I suppose equates to about 6,000 in 2021 (the “follower” count increases for most accounts over time almost automatically). The funny thing was that the level was kept (apparently artificially) just below 3,000; had been for some time. Obviously manipulated.
I don’t doubt it @daviet10. But as yet no counterpoise to the SNP exists or is being created, just as England has no anti-Blairite political formation. So you are borne away on the current, alas. https://t.co/Ssimu9lXEo
Columnist Peter Hitchens says a second Scottish independence referendum is now inevitable: "Let them go if they want to".@Iromg | @ClarkeMicah | @talkRADIO pic.twitter.com/mPKLjoCuFr
I have blogged about these matter previously. While I usually steer clear of Scottish politics, not having much studied the subject (and having never even visited the country), the overall effect on Westminster is a different matter.
If the presently-ruling SNP, as Scottish Government, holds some form of referendum and decides to leave the UK, as Hitchens seems to be saying, the Westminster government would have a choice: to repress that, as the Madrid government has done in Catalonia, or to say “au revoir” and “see you again“… I do not think that out and out repression would be the right response.
I do not see any need to remove the “Saltire” —St. Andrew’s Cross— from the Union flag even if Scotland declares “Independence”. The Union flag, now, reflects the historical position or record, nothing more.
The effect on Westminster politics of Scotland leaving the UK would be nuclear, however. I have examined this previously in detail, but in essence the position would be that 59 Scottish Westminster seats would go, 47-48 of them (1 SNP MP had whip removed) at present being SNP seats, only 6 Scottish Conservative seats.
It can be seen that that would leave Labour, in England and Wales, up that well-known creek without a paddle. It would be almost impossible for Labour even to form a minority government at Westminster (though I concede that “never say never” in UK politics).
On 2019 General Election results, that would mean that there would be 591 seats in the House of Commons, of which 364 would be Conservative, 201 Labour, 7 LibDem, 4 Plaid Cymru, and 1 Green (leaving 19 others aside).
On 2017 General Election results, the situation would be Conservative 316, Labour 256, LibDem 8, Plaid 4, Green 1 (leaving 18 others aside).
It can be seen the the Conservative Party would have a 60-seat overall majority on 2019 figures, and a 29-seat overall majority even on 2017 figures. Bearing in mind that the Speaker does not usually vote, and that Sinn Fein never take their seats, those majorities in practical terms increase by about 16 in both scenarii. So either a 76-seat majority or one of 45. Unassailable.
On the strategic level, I imagine that the Kremlin would regard Scottish withdrawal from the UK as a windfall of huge proportions, fracturing the NATO alliance and removing, probably, UK/NATO military, naval, and air deployments from Scottish territory.
On the UK domestic political level, it would mean that a Labour vote might be a wasted vote, and that there would be an embedded Conservative elected dictatorship anchored in Southern England. Labour as we now know it would retreat even more into being the party of the “blacks and browns” and/or public service employees, and there would be a far greater chance for social nationalism to go mainstream. On that basis, then, bring it on!
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The legal profession no longer allows differences of opinion. Barrister @jonholb has been expelled from his chambers and reported to the Bar Standards Board over a tweet criticising the Equality Act. This says more about the Bar than him, says @seatradelawhttps://t.co/qkiYGCxaEF
The Bar has renounced its proud and long-established tradition of being a collection of independent self-employed professionals entitled to voice their beliefs.
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) February 1, 2021
Professor Tettenborn, no less. I do not claim acquaintance with him, though I did sit with him and another person as a “Lord Justice of Appeal” at a student moot organized by Exeter University in 2002, and which was held at the historic Guildhall in the centre of Exeter.
[The Guildhall, Exeter]
That was my one and only time sitting as if in the seat of legal judgment. My loss, or society’s?
Near the Mercury Fountain of The Royal Alcazar, Seville by Vladimir Volegov, b1957 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Volegov now lives in Spain. pic.twitter.com/bGqkDnVeo9
Seems that the UK Government is proposing to do away with anonymity on Twitter and other social media platforms. Oddly, some of the Jew-Zionist element have been pressing for this, which is ironic in that (alongside others) I (who always tweeted from one Twitter account in my own name) was trolled relentlessly by (mainly) Jews, many of whom affected anonymity, though some were eventually exposed in court in cases involving others.
A couple of the several guilty (almost all connected with the fake charity known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) were Stephen Silverman of South Essex, who trolled under a number of pseudonyms until found out (now using the main account “@ssilvuk”), and Stephen Applebaum of Watford/Edgware, who also used a number of accounts (contrary to Twitter rules…) but who now mainly tweets as “@grubstreetsteve” and “@rattus2384”. Both of those named were exposed by the CAA’s own lawyer during a preliminary hearing in one of the Alison Chabloz private prosecutions (persecutions).
Neither Silverman nor Applebaum were ever charged with any offence for such activities. Silverman was supposed to be interviewed by police but weaselled out of attending, helped by “CAA” lawyers.
I have no great objection to the proposed new social media rules or laws on identity. I myself have never been a “troll”, indeed have been the target for trolls. As I say, mainly Jews and/or “antifascist” deadheads.
In a way, I look forward to the exposure of the identities of certain trolls presently anonymous or pseudonymous. A few of them must have fear in their hearts. Rightly so.
“The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese saying].
The only shame here is that this lying, nation-wrecking puppet of the #greatreset global elite is put on the spot by some sort of immigrant and not by native Brits. If the young chap who did what they should do cares to get in touch, I'll buy him a pint.https://t.co/6Jeceq6k8Y
There he is. Chris Whitty. One of the most prominent UK officials during the past year of disinformation, scam, lies, weaponizing of illness, and the Great Reset conspiracy. Not quite as bad, arguably, as Ferguson, but part of the same lot of narrowly-focussed technocrats.
The worst thing that any nation (assuming for the moment that the UK still is a “nation”) can do is put specialized scientists, numbers crunchers, and administrative medics in charge. The misnamed “SAGE” lot are halfway through destroying Britain’s short-term and medium-term future.
"Petition to put cis white dudes on a barge and float them out to sea" 🙄 The following conversation is unfortunately real. On the upside the main woman responding is past middle aged and does not have children! pic.twitter.com/Ko4M74clhL
Well, I think that we know what we shall have to do, maybe not so far into the future. It will be hard, and will scar not only us but also our descendants, for generations, but it will have to be done.
I like what little I have heard of these “hundred-handers”. They are, it seems, akin to the samizdat (self-publishing) dissidents in the Soviet Union during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. When lies are all the public see, whether in mass media, from the churches, the schools and universities, the police, the corrupt political class, ONE SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH pierces the darkness.
If I had to name one single person who personifies almost everything nasty and disgusting about the British society of, say, 1975-2020, it would have to be Branson.
"Like their neighbors in Britain, the Irish imported an American-style race problem and imposed it on themselves. There was no need to do so; wise men argued against their doing so; their descendants will curse them for it."https://t.co/OYg84PPqRppic.twitter.com/pi7ZKXvhEs
I'm reluctant to dismiss Leftists as nuts–everyone involved in politics is odd to some degree–but Lance Welton has assembled an archive drawn from technical literature demonstrating that it's really truehttps://t.co/0UI0qf2XaLpic.twitter.com/fdLP7jAuu7
I think that we know that this nonsense is not going to be eliminated by tweets, blogs or debates, at the end of the day.
More tweets
Not as much as Johnson laughed when the ‘Corbyn Out’ lot sabotaged their own party & ensured the Tories won the last election. And it scarcely matters what socialists say, Starmer is tanking in the polls by his own efforts anyway.
Well, “Dr.” Raw does have a point. True, Labour is closer behind the Conservative Party than was the case at the 2019 General Election, but that is mainly because the Jewish press (both msm and otherwise) has almost stopped demonizing Labour now that Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is leader.
Still, looking at the incompetence and nonsense of the present ZOG/NWO regime at Downing Street, it might have been expected that Labour would be miles ahead. It might be, were it a real Opposition, but Starmer just supports everything that “Boris”-idiot is doing, but says that it should be done more! Lockdown, the facemask nonsense, you name it. On immigration, Labour cannot attack the Government’s poor record, because Labour still favours mass immigration…
An elderly lady I once knew used to say, in the 1980s, if a picture of Brittan came up on TV, “doesn’t that snout just need kicking?!“
When you wake up tomorrow, it will be February. But it will feel remarkably similar to January. As will March. Unless you #UseYourVoice and speak out to get our country back to normal. There will always be another demand for another week or month of lockdown. So speak out. Now.
The first tweeter has a “prison” mentality: obey the “rules”, denounce “rulebreakers”, and maybe the “authorities” will “allow” you a period of outside exercise every day…
Ironic…if I am not mistaken, that “antifascist” tweeter, “@jdpoc” (who in the past has tweeted against me) was quite recently tweeting something online about his own “issues”…
Par for the course, it seems.
‘The woke seek to deploy, not the jackboot of totalitarianism, but the cancel culture of intolerance. In the name of democracy they must not succeed.’
I explain here why I was expelled from my Chambers for challenging the mainstream discourse on race.https://t.co/SlyBK3c0SZ
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) January 31, 2021
What's your point, Guardian?
The Judge concluded the claimant (failed asylum seeker) had brought a claim that misled the court. See 24-27: https://t.co/lhMbbggP5v
It's a bad day for justice if only Guardian approved barristers can act for councils.https://t.co/ekSNXJT2aE
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) February 1, 2021
I could write a book about the immigration cases I did in the early 1990s; I appeared before immigration tribunals at first instance, in the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, and also in the High Court (on judicial review applications).
Some cases were run of the mill, involving marriages etc, others involved fugitive members of foreign secret services, and yet others alleged members of extremist or “terrorist” groups (mostly Kurdish).
Check out the comments beneath this article. Cancel culture is:
If only Holbrook and other members of the Bar had broken cover and spoken up clearly (or at all) when a pack of malicious Jews instigated my disbarment in 2016, he might not be where he now is…
This is what happens when one challenges the woke: others attempt to cancel you, as has happened to @JonHolb. Their loss, our gain: his (shamefully disproportionate) expulsion now makes him a seriously important asset to the campaign for free speech.https://t.co/sl4rBlfsIa
Oh, really, “@KathyConWom”? Where were you and Conservative Woman etc in 2016, after I was disbarred (and then pilloried in the “free” Press)?
I have also not heard a word or seen a word in support of persecuted satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz from such “free speech” advocates…in fact she is still facing both persecution and actual prosecution.
[Alison Chabloz]
This is what the tyranny of woke does to young minds. A survey of students found:
• over 25% censored their own views on politics or ethical matters,
• 40% believed their careers would be harmed if they expressed their true thoughts. https://t.co/by0FrK8MjF
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) February 1, 2021
This is the tweet that has resulted in my expulsion from my chambers.
Cancel culture means that the mainstream can proselytise but that when populists present a counter-narrative they must be driven out of mainstream society.
MSM going mad about Russian police and their rough tactics. The Russian police are rough at times. Russia is a rough country. So what is the excuse of the Dutch police, who on the weekend were using mounted police, water cannon, and rubber bullets on pensioners and young women (among others) protesting about the “lockdown” repression? The Dutch mounted police were filmed cracking open the heads of fleeing protestors with heavy clubs.
Strangely enough, the UK msm went mad today about Russia, but forgot to mention the Netherlands. BBC propaganda was blatant. All very (((odd))).
Late music
Below, same orchestra, same conductor (the composer) but a different recording of Hanson’s Romantic Symphony , with far better sound quality:
Oh, God. Apparently, it is some kind of “holocaust” commemoration today, and Radio 4 steps up yet again, with the ubiquitous Jewish rabbi Julia Neuberger on Prayer for the Day, the early morning “god slot”. Talks about how Soviet General Petrenko was “appalled” at the supposed crimes of the “Nazis”. Well, of course he would have been “appalled”, being a high-ranking Stalinist! Oh, no, wait…
Have Radio 4 producers or editors never heard of the “GULAG Archipelago“? The Yezhovshchina? The Ukrainian famine? The other purges? The tortures?
More to the point, when and how did the BBC, and especially Radio 4, and especially the once-magisterial Today Programme and its offshoot bits and pieces, get so completely taken over? Jews are only 0.5% of the UK population, if that, but have colonized not only Radio 4 Today Programme but much of the msm over the past decades, and especially since, about, 1989.
As for the Today Programme generally, it has, like PM and other shows, become almost unlistenable. I switch off after a short while.
Keir Starmer is a Jewish-lobby puppet. He is more “competent” than Boris-idiot, but then almost anyone would be. “Competence” is necessary (or should be) in an administrator; in a political leader, “the vision thing” mentioned by George Bush snr. is, well, the “thing”. Boris-idiot has no vision. Neither has Keir Starmer. That is part of Labour’s problem.
Corbyn had a kind of vision, a kind of backward-looking vision of Britain. Not Britain as it ever was, but a sort of cartoon British history based on “Teach Yourself Marxism” meets “Wokeness”: undifferentiated “feudalism” from ancient times, leading up to some time around the English Civil War, and focussing on Levellers etc. Then the era of the Luddites and later Chartists. The Tolpuddle Martyrs. The founding of the trade unions, and the Labour Party.
Corbyn’s cartoon history of the UK would then take in the 1926 General Strike, the Jarrow March, the “Battle of Cable Street”, a few foreign aspects such as the Front Populaire, and Trotskyism, a risibly black-and-white version of the Second World War, then the NHS, social housing, new towns; the good ship Windrush and Commonwealth immigration (thought of by Corbyn as something good!). Finally, Thatcherism, the Miners’ Strike, Blairism and the betrayal of socialist principle, followed by 2010-2019 “Tory Austerity”.
Not that that view of British and European history is exactly or wholly “wrong”, in that those events were all aspects of it. The problem is that such a tableau contains no nuance and only a minute fraction of the real events and trends.
As for Corbyn’s vision of Britain’s future, it would be a compendium consisting of happy smiling workers of various races advancing to a radiant multikulti future, a Britain where trade unions worked with “socialist” “anti-racist” Labour politicians to eliminate “racism”, “sexism” and any form of inequality, in a Britain where borders were open to all, social services excellent and open freely to anyone just off the boat, where there was to be no conflict, magic money funding high pay and benefits, as well as quality public housing and transport (despite mass immigration), a Britain with no dissent except in how to move forward the socialist agenda, and no “fascism” or —God forbid!— “neo-Nazi” tendency.
The above Corbynist agenda and vision, of course, had as little reality as a Superman cartoon. In a way, it was the Jewish element that was the stumbling-block. Not that Corbyn was particularly “anti-Semitic” from my point of view (and after all, I ought to know!). It was more that Jews, with their “tribal” loyalty and clannishness, their materialism, their pushiness, their interest in financial advancement etc, not to mention their pragmatism, got in the way of that idealized and completely unworkable vision of an ideal post-Marxist “socialist” Britain and world.
Where would the Jews have fitted into that “Corbynist” vision? Nowhere. Corbyn knew it. His advisers, such as Seumas Milne, knew it. The Jews themselves knew it. Thus was set the stage for the conflict between the Jews and Jewish lobby against Corbyn and the Labour Party.
The Jews won. Corbyn and Labour lost. The tweets below make the point:
So you’re not going to condem CAA’s Joe Glasman Supremacist rant just because he’s a Zionist Jew? https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
That is where Labour now is: it is a battlefield after the “mother of all battles”, a battlefield strewn with the bodies of the fallen, Corbyn among them.
Labour stopped being “socialist”, even in theory, sometime around 1990-ish. Clause 4 was deleted, nationalization scrapped. Under Blair and Brown, it is hard to see Labour even as having been social-democratic.
The expenses scandal that rocked the end of the 1997-2010 Labour period was driven not only by criminal greed (on the part of both Labour and Conservative MPs) but by the wish on the part of Labour MPs (too) to live a rather affluent “bourgeois” life. Not only by cheating and freeloading on expenses, but by getting as much outside “work” as possible.
Thus we saw, for example, Tom Watson raking in a regular £500 per month expenses (extra, on top of salary and general expenses) for food alone; we saw outright fraud; we saw Patricia Hewitt and others selling influence for hard cash. And so on…
Labour MPs and officials married affluent people, often those with profitable businesses. Corbyn Labour as well as “centrist” Labour:
“[Seamus] Milne married Cristina Montanari, an Italian-born director of an advertising firm, in 1992. The couple have two now-adult children, a son and daughter, who were educated at selective grammar schools in Kingston upon Thames.” [Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seumas_Milne].
Diane Abbott, another Corbyn supporter, educated her own children privately, while insisting that only State schools would exist in the future…
Even the “hardline socialists” of Corbyn-Labour were basically a bunch of fakes (I refer to the MPs and officials, not the bamboozled mugs at rank-and-file level).
Keir Starmer is now effectively in charge of a party which is a wasteland. It stands for nothing, offers nothing, looks forward to nothing.
Where does that leave Labour, electorally? In fact, in a slightly better position than where it was under Corbyn.
For one thing, the Jewish Press (and I refer to the msm outlets as well as the specifically “Jewish” Press such as the Jewish Chronicle) stopped attacking Labour as soon as Zionist puppet Starmer became leader. In a country as manipulated as the UK, that must have an effect.
There again, the Conservative Party has little support among under-30s. The “virus” is killing old people, mainly. That must play to Labour’s advantage, in that only a tiny number of people of 70 years of age or greater now vote Labour.
Also, the blacks and browns are breeding fast, and they mostly vote Labour.
Having said that, the only way, at present, that Labour could form a government, would be with SNP help. If Scotland chooses Independence (however fake), that removes 50-60 Commons votes from any coalition or alliance.
All three main or System parties are failing, but Labour is, arguably, failing fastest, not least because it is not “opposing”, and because it can have no vision.
Please show one case where mandating masks made a positive difference. Either on the timeline within one population/territory or between different populations/territories with contrasting mask policies.
Meanwhile government wants to stop £20 #universalcredit top up Banks are not helping those in debt Nurses going to #foodbanks So many lost jobs here, it's shameful #philipgreen is a disgrace & government needs to shut loopholes https://t.co/EqaETrB3dO
Another Jew exploiter and fraudster. Remember “Robert Maxwell”? At least that bastard only had one yacht bought with stolen money. The Green pack have three megayachts.
#PhilipGreen buys a company with someone else’s money for £850m. 3 years later pays his wife a £1.2billion bonus. She pockets it in tax haven Monaco. Now we find it was a house of cards with £750m plus owed, 13000 jobs gone & a banjaxed pension fund. #Prisonhttps://t.co/O5ACCflRlK
Gosh, you are a champion at missing the point @mrrbourne. Bowman (who has feebly blocked me rather than attempt to defend himself) backs a website which classifies *dissent* as a menace to public health. While he makes excuses for Big Tobacco. https://t.co/FvkJOhnAdf
"This isn't really the bad bit. It's only when we're allowed back into society that we'll truly see the desolation lockdown has caused. That's when the real reckoning will come."@ClarkeMicah on The Brendan O'Neill Show: https://t.co/jyyS4M3QTUpic.twitter.com/2b5qcxQNX8
…and if that presenter woman is not Jewish, I’ll eat my hat.
Always. Every. Single. Time.
Facebook, “Doomsday Machine”
An article attacking Facebook, from the editor of an msm outlet. In fact, just another attempt to shut Pandora’s box. There is a huge campaign now by NWO/ZOG to shut down even the limited free speech that exists.
In a time when the news is overwhelmingly gloomy, there's a ray of sunshine this morning: "Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale, 29, 'is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus'. https://t.co/mL0eYf164X
What is the phrase? Something like “a waste of oxygen“… We Europeans, especially perhaps we British, are in general and by nature more compassionate than Africans, North Africans, Orientals, Muslims generally, but that does mean that, sometimes, the unworthy benefit.
Yes , @golbadockdan, as D.H.Lawrence (of all people) warned nearly 100 years ago. https://t.co/1hXTLklx9F
1/2 D.H Lawrence , in his essay ‘Apropos Lady Chatterley’ quoted in the chapter ‘Difficulties with Girls’ in my 1999 book ‘The Abolition of Britain’. pic.twitter.com/TbtSnHXfgv
The truth of that was made manifest in the survival of decency and culture within families even in the terrible milieu of Jewish Bolshevism, and later Stalinism, in the Soviet Union of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s,1950s, and on to the collapse of socialism around 1989. I suppose that the worst time for secrecy plus denunciation was the 1930s, especially the Yezhovshchina of 1937-1939, and then the late 1940s.
@davidknopfler 'Robbie Fox, the great 20th century editor of the Lancet, who was no admirer of peer review, wondered whether anybody would notice if he were to swap the piles marked `publish' and `reject'. https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
@davidknopfler ' In addition to being poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless for detecting fraud it is slow, expensive, profligate of academic time, highly subjective, something of a lottery, prone to bias, and easily abused.' https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
This statue of Pavlik Morozov,the mythical martyred boy who denounced his parents,who Soviet children were taught to revere,still in Moscow when I lived there in 1990. Vanished without trace when Commiunism fell in 1991. Perhaps now on its way to London? https://t.co/wKVTXr6AHp
Here he is, the prototype of the child asked to spy on his parents for the state ( as now proposed by HMG) , Comrade Pavlik Morozov: https://t.co/cSz96bdLWX
New law being determinedly pushed by ‘Conservative’ govt says children should spy on their parents only in ‘exceptional circumstances’ . So that’s all right then. (Daily Telegraph report). pic.twitter.com/cS06CNGlvO
The Covert Human Intelligence Source Bill will allow 22 state agencies, including the likes of HMRC and local councils, as well as the intelligence services and police, to recruit children as “covert human intelligence sources”… https://t.co/n3gjO5MZrO
In fact, the “Conservative” government “child spies” campaign or proposal is merely the logical consequence of what has gone before (in recent years); it is a continuation of what already exists.
In and after 2010, we saw part-Jew Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, call upon curtain-twitching pleb-Cons to “report” their neighbours who were unemployed and/or disabled, and who might be sleeping late rather than hurrying and scurrying to “seek work” (often unobtainable anyway) in the (((finance-capitalist))) economy.
For years we have seen the authorities demand that neighbours, families, churches, mosques, schoolteachers, even Church of England priests (if there are any left who are not arse-faced lesbians), report or denounce their own families, and friends, acquaintainces, pupils, parishioners etc; not only for “terrorism”, by the way, but also for supporting animal welfare, for opposing mass immigration (migration-invasion) etc. The government even established “Morozovist” organizations, such as “Prevent” and “Channel”, in order to facilitate it all.
More recently, we have see government attempts to get people to denounce neighbours, friends, family who might have exceeded the arbitrary “Rule of Six” invented by Boris-idiot, or who might actually have invited family members to visit at Christmas.
Over the years, we have seen the users of Twitter etc delight in “reporting” “wrong thinking” and “wrong speaking” people to Twitter, or to police, or to others who might punish the dissident. Employers, academic institutions etc. As always, the Jewish element was in the forefront in “reporting” people, though others joined in, particularly the “antifa” idiot-crowd, and the allied self-describing “Left”.
Now this.
I wonder whether Jewish lobby puppet Keir Starmer will go along (yet again) with what this government is going and proposing?
The real agenda lies behind the supposed reasons for the “reporting” campaigns; to create a serf or slave society somewhere down the line.
Final thought (for today) on all that: remember what happened to Pavel Morozov. After all, if you play by Moscow Rules…
I wonder where the blacks, browns, even Orientals would be, had our white European civilization, especially that developed since about 1400 AD, never existed? Oh, no, wait…
I’ve absolutely had enough of people saying ‘This is not a proper lockdown’ when so many are struggling to cope with it. What do these lockdown zealots want? For us all to be welded inside our own homes till the summer? I’m genuinely shocked by the authoritarianism we’re seeing.
What we are seeing is not exactly “authoritarianism” but the infantilism of, mostly, the self-describing “Left”, who just want to be told what to do by the Big Brother State. Those types are the core of the lockdown and facemask zealotry. A chance for them to see people bullied and bossed around, while retaining a figleaf of “caring sharing” fakery at the same time.
EXCLUSIVE: Boohoo is set to acquire the Debenhams brand in a deal that will resemble the online retailer's previous swoops on Karen Millen and Oasis
Does not include the stores, sad but probably not surprising news for the 10,000+ people who still work there
Just what I was blogging about recently. I shall be laughing when the UK and connected “antifascist” Twitter-twits are expelled. They have little or nothing else.
A now-deceased friend of mine, acquainted with both Mosley and his wife Diana in the 1950s, always said that Mosley’s mistake was to accentuate the “Man of Action” and military aspect of his character (genuine though that was: WW1 officer of both the Army and the Royal Flying Corps; wounded in action), while playing down his more intellectual side (which my friend thought reflected his overall character more, though in the late 1950s Mosley was, of course, over 60).
UK quarantine
Unless the Government simply props up airlines and travel companies (pointlessly), they are finished. Who on Earth will book a foreign holiday from the UK when that tourist (and family, if any) will now quite likely have to spend 10-14 days quarantined in a guarded hotel, and even have to pay for their own incarceration?! Forget it.
In fact, the country where the tourist is booked may also impose some such requirement, and at short notice…
In short, the travel and tourism sector, both domestic and overseas, is totally screwed, as are its huge number of employees.
Incidentally, the whole travel and tourism sector in the UK employs a total of 3.8 million people, about 11% of the entire UK workforce.
Let's help him out. Here is Czechia. It closed its borders, locked down and introduced compulsory masking outside of residence *before* the UK went into Lockdown.
Yet although once hailed as a "Covid success story", it is now 4th worst in the world for deaths/million. pic.twitter.com/Z7gDanOXer
Good to give the movement some exposure today and continue the discussion. Thanks to @bwebster135 for the article and to @AliDriverUK for the connections. Love it. Hope I haven’t angered the local farmers quite as much as the headline suggests! pic.twitter.com/0NusjlDGAM
Sir Simon Stevens says he expects lockdown to be eased gradually in Spring / summer: "It is not going to be the case that on Valentines Day with one band we are free. But equally we wont have to want until the autumn. Somewhere in the middle will be true." #Marr
Kate Ferguson, who is apparently Westminster Correspondent at the Sun “newspaper”, and who apparently does not know that the phrase she is trying to use is a variant of “…and with one bound he was free”… I mean, this is not some ignorant pleb tweeting. Oh, no…wait…
Yet another unintended comment on the state of British “journalism” and “journalists” today.
It says it all about how small the British establishment is that the NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens was involved, as an undergraduate, helping Boris Johnson get elected as President of the Oxford Union. 35 years later and they are playing the same games. pic.twitter.com/zYxcXiHTxI
The various Government measures to mitigate, not the virus but the Government’s own policies in relation to it (“lockdowns”, “tiers”, quarantining, etc) bought off real popular opposition last year. The Government took a leaf from the book of Aneurin Bevan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan], who said that he had bought off opposition from medical doctors to the establishment of the NHS by having “stuffed their mouths with gold” (i.e. allowing senior doctors (“consultants”) to take on private work as well as receiving relatively high NHS pay).
“Furlough” payments ensured that, in 2020, many received effectively the same pay as before, but for no work (“furlough” was capped at 80% of net pay to a maximum of £2,500 p.c.m., but that was close to 100% for most, when the costs of just having a job are factored in: travel, snacks, drinks, clothes etc).
Many others were able to “work from home”, which might have had disadvantages for some but many advantages for others: no travel costs; a saving of (?) 1-5 hours of travel on the day, depending on the commute; the possibility to organize the day to suit the employee; no “boss” people supervizing the employee directly, or able to see what the employee is doing during the working day.
Naturally, the higher-paid working from home would have been, and are, in a better position than the lower-paid: perhaps large detached houses, perhaps also with swimming pools, tennis courts, large gardens in which to relax etc. One could imagine some, working in between swimming, and perhaps drinking Chardonnay ordered online and delivered to the door (I seem to remember that, even nearly 20 years ago, Sainsbury’s would not only deliver my wife’s orders, but actually take the stuff into the kitchen for her).
Also, companies started to demand Government help. Even those run by tax exiles such as Richard Branson. Some help was given.
Not everyone was taken care of by Government largesse. The self-employed, thhose running the smaller and one-man companies etc. The majority of the population, though, was shut up in both senses by Government order and Government money. Even the unemployed (etc) on Universal Credit, got a £20 a week increase.
Now, however, after much to-ing and fro-ing, we find ourselves back in “lockdown”.
Once again, the furlough is extended. Once again, failing businesses are, in some cases, being propped up, smaller airports among them. For how long, though?
Today, we heard that Newquay Airport (which I myself used a few times in the past) will be given money. I do not know whether other airports I used to use, e.g. Exeter and Southampton, are in a similar position.
Let us examine what might happen. Let us say that “the virus”, whether because of natural decline, the vaccine(s), whatever, disappears some time in 2021 from the UK. Air travel will take a long long time to recover, especially if countries are to insist on quarantines and “virus-free” certification. Will UK airports, airlines, ground services etc need or demand propping-up for years? Is that even possible?
We read that the UK Government can borrow money at very low, almost zero, interest at present. Good, but for how long?
We now read that the Government wants to reduce Universal Credit by £20 a week, while chucking those currently on it £500 in cash. There may be a revolt by Conservative MPs, and a possible Government defeat in the coming days.
The argument over UC payments presages coming disputes. No matter how much can currently be borrowed by the UK Government, eventually that will become unsustainable. What then? Already, State benefits paid to the unemployed are at their lowest since 1992 and, according to other calculation, overall benefits were not this low in real terms since the 1960s, which however was a era of, effectively, full employment.
The present government cannot simply, say, raise the State Pension (“Old Age Pension”, as was) entitlement age from 66, where it will be from 2022, to he age of 67, or 68, or 70, not without a massive backlash from voters aged over 65, and they are a half of all Conservative supporters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-47909281. They are also far more likely to vote.
In other words, if the present government hits the pensioners or those looking at shortly becoming pensioners, it is toast.
The Government is looking at the unemployed and others as targets because they are less significant electorally, though at the same time, 40% of UC claimants are actually not unemployed but are in low-paid work.
Unsurprisingly, Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak is not going to introduce a windfall wealth tax. He wants to extract money from the poor or poor-ish, while not dooming his party electorally.
What about demand in the economy? Already low. The poor spend all or almost all of what they have; they have no choice. The rich, given extra money, invest it, often in hedging assets: property, savings accounts, gold etc. It makes sense to give more to the poor and less to the rich (however defined).
Once the various mitigation measures tail off, unemployment —and discontent—– will soar.
One can see storms coming. God grant social-nationalism the way in which to take advantage of them for the good of the people. “For the good of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
Meanwhile, the USA has concentration camps today, both at Guantanamo and elsewhere, including secret ones. The inmates are in many cases treated as badly or worse than were those in WW2 Germany, or even the Soviet Union’s GULAG operation. The American concentration camps have doctors too, as does the CIA.
Despite all the restrictions placed upon them a number of great women left their mark on Merovingian politics and society. Learn about these great female figures in today's episode. https://t.co/F4PeKon2xfpic.twitter.com/yy4pWgQHkX
With Trump’s term ending, "a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees,” report @nytmike and @kenvogel in New York Times:https://t.co/aBrfMW73VE
Trump! While you still can, PARDON the Capitol Stormers, PARDON all social-national and allied prisoners in Federal custody or incarceration, PARDON Snowden, PARDON Assange!
So Andrew, can you tell us what exactly is wrong with being, German, male, white, middle aged, and religious. Anyone would think you were Xenophobic, homophobic, ageist, and having a religiophobic agenda. There again you have probably sold your soul along with the rest of the MSM
Surprising, perhaps, that Andrew Neil put it that way, but then again he is very much pro-Jew and pro-Israel, and ranted a few times on TV (on his now-defunct late-night BBC2 show) about “Nazis”, “racists” etc. Demeaning (to him); it takes the gloss off his being the best political interviewer in the UK.
Tories plan to 'turn Britain into the Singapore of Europe'. The sort of dodgy deal where you need to pay VERY close attention to the small print: Mass Chinese immigration. 1984-style monitoring & control. Mass Asian immigration. Thanks but no thanks!https://t.co/5Zy6kXYY2w
Yes, I have many times had similar sensations, @adamgarriereal. But after about 1995, I began to feel it was no longer quite so reassuring, and in recent years , not really reassuring at all. https://t.co/PR16J4q8Hi
The East Wing of Rhodes House in Oxford also now vanished. I wonder if the building will keep its name. Fury against the dead British Empire a bit futile as China’s Empire grows in power and repressive fervour. pic.twitter.com/tHjnNbI3gq
The century-old West Wing of Rhodes House in Oxford now completely flattened as the building is prepared for its post-revolutionary transformation. Odd how little fuss there is about this. pic.twitter.com/j7co5Kj4gj
Can anyone help me? Mention of this study https://t.co/VXNU0sovTd is extraordinarily hard to find on the web. A link to the study itself is *impossible* to find (for me, anyway). .
Peter Hitchens makes, once again, a good point, but fails to point out that the present Kiev regime, posing as the legitimate overnment of the Ukraine, is a complete Jewish-Zionist sham. All the top ministers are Jewish, and at least one is actually an Israeli!
A Judge's political lecture to a defendant goes against all the rules of British justice. Here we are tried for what we do, not for what we think. But is this still true? https://t.co/OPChZQinof
“The whole point of the law is its cool impartiality, its judgment of the facts by a jury, and of the law by an impartial, dispassionate judge. If judges are going to start offering politico-medical lectures from the bench, it changes us into a completely different kind of country. In effect, a defendant in such cases is on trial for his opinions, not his actions.
Does Judge Matthews desire such a state of affairs? I doubt it. In that case she should not do this again. But I fear someone else will. Much that we used to know and trust about this country is vanishing with amazing speed.” [Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail].
All very true. Part of the problem is that “District Judges” (the old stipendiary magistrates) are not, in the traditional sense, real “judges”. Mostly solicitors who have applied for these rather simple jobs, which however pay quite well (I think that a full-time DJ gets about £110,000 p.a. now).
UK set to ban all travellers from South America – but by the time the Govt do it the latest 'new strain' will already be here, giving them the excuse for weeks more lockdown dictatorship.https://t.co/FU1xai10hQ
Dorset. Police arrest a woman strolling along the beachfront with an elderly companion and, nearby, another woman sitting on a bench looking out to sea. If this doesn’t make you uneasy about what is going on in our country, nothing will. pic.twitter.com/ZCLuRkP5tm
Still think that you are living in (what people long ago called) “a free country”? Police state.
Yes, at present only a “toytown” police state, but steadily becoming a real one. Tyrannical government, no real Opposition in Parliament (quite the reverse, in fact), the Press, TV, radio almost entirely pumping out System propaganda, the police becoming a Stasi-lite, the law corrupted or ignored, Government wishes (sub nom “guidance” and “advice”, or made-up “rules”) treated by the police as if “law”, while the courts are silent or craven.
At present it is “iron fist in velvet glove”, but for how long?
A debate which has been around for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years. On the one hand, cities are the fount of organized culture and science, along with other desirable things; on the other hand, cities are sinks of dirt, corruption, decadence and evil.
Marx referred to “rural idiocy”, a point of view arguably typically Jewish; the Jews have long been associated with urban life, though not exclusively: there were once plenty of rural Jews in the Pale of Settlement (Western Russia and what is now Belarus), and also in Poland and Ukraine.
On the other hand, writers, poets and thinkers have always existed who were ready to extol the country life, and even life in the wilderness. Virgil, Rousseau and Thoreau among many others.
Perhaps the best way to look upon these questions of urbanization and rurality is to say that there can be decent and aesthetically-pleasing cities, and there can be a rural life with high cultural and living standards. There must be the will to create both.
Hodges @dpjhodges seems actually to have *forgotten' that he said : 'And there isn't a shred of epidemiological evidence their incarceration will prove effective.' He claims his misgivings were about sustainability. https://t.co/sn9gmLFZ8X
Inquiries now show that the mysterious disappearance of followers on Twitter (often against their will) is *not* limited to conservatives. So that obviously changes things a lot. But it is still plainly wrong. I'd ask *everyone* affected to unite against it. @thecarolemalone
Dyson is but one example of very wealthy persons buying lands in huge quantity in England and also Scotland at present. I myself have noticed how few large estates are on sale for long before being bought. I am sure that it is partly by reason of a drive for security. London is becoming a zoo. Who knows how long it will be safe for the wealthy? Also, in circumstances of socio-economic and/or socio-political meltdown—which may develop— rural estates are safer than London houses.
There is also the point that land is a hedging asset in a way that cash and equities (shares) are not. The pound must be sliding from now. Not just the “panicdemic”, but mishandled Brexit/Brino as well. We have just been told that the UK economy contracted by nearly 3% recently. Yes, the Government can borrow to distribute largesse— for a while. Not indefinitely, though.
I was just reading some American anti-Gates Twitter accounts talking about these issues. One fellow said that he has bought 1 acre and intends to build his own home on it and grow things. Fine, though an acre is very little, but, while that may be straightforward in parts of the USA, in Western Europe there are so many factors etc to overcome. God help the man who buys an acre of Devon or Dorset and just builds his own home on it without planning permission etc.
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Below, “Antifa” cheerleader (always from a very safe distance) and serial grifter, Mike Stuchbery, attacks the memory of Ashli Babbitt, an American woman who, though unarmed, was shot dead at the US Capitol building recently:
She was a violent thug who attacked a federal facility with the intent of harming elected officials, @PatrioticTalk14. She died a traitor's death. No wonder you Patriotic Alternative lemons are trying to turn her into Horstina Wessel. pic.twitter.com/YpEas8tybY
Stuchbery, who used to pose as “historian” and “journalist” (in fact, he was briefly a “supply” —i.e. temporary— teacher, who was sacked for reasons unclear) is now living off German welfare payments in Stuttgart (he also seems to scribble a bit for politically-tendentious online websites). I have blogged about him previously (he later sent, a couple of times, puerile and would-be threatening messages to me as a result): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/
Quite funny. First of all, and despite her extensive education (her father was a wealthy timber merchant, of the sort mentioned in Russian literature of the 19thC), Rosa Luxemburg was an idiot. She died before she was able to see most of the devastation wrought by Soviet socialism. Her own ideas were, arguably, typically Jewish, tending to protest, dissolution, revolution and chaos. Even had she been gifted power, she would have been unable to do anything positive with it.
Incidentally, her Wikipedia entry initially describes her as “Polish”, rather than “Jewish”, because of her having been born in Poland [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg]! The (((influence))) is very obvious in parts of Wikipedia.
Sad. Give the bird a chance. It can always be prevented from mating, if that is the problem. There’s no do-gooder “conservationist” as extreme as an Australian one (unless it’s a German one).
Ironic, though. A poor pigeon makes an epic journey to Australia and will be killed, but the idiots in Australia have let in every kind of ethnic riff-raff, and those idiots in Canberra and elsewhere pat themselves on the back for being so “hospitable” and “diverse”!
[update: it turns out that the pigeon was probably not from the USA, and so will not now be killed].
Thank you @theblogmire. In this @dpjhodges says he tried to buy an imitation gun because he was so scared by the Covid crisis. And yet he cannot grasp that the same fear kept thousands away from doctors and hospitals, so that they missed key scans, referrals and treatments. https://t.co/8ihDZhG4Qw
Yes, it is @dpjhodges . Talks to ministers, Goes on about it as if it's a big deal consorting with nonentities. Doesn't know people are finding it hard to get medical treatment all over the country he lives in. https://t.co/cfx3UUNKlV
This is the problem not only in relation to the “panicdemic” but also in relation to other issues which scarcely impact on the very wealthy, and only peripherally on the merely very affluent Westminster denizens, whether politicians or msm drones. Immigration. Poor roads. Poor public transport. Crime (mostly committed by immigrants and/or their offspring). Declining quality of the NHS. Poor pay for most. Poor education.
In fact, the very wealthy don’t necessarily care much about most of those issues. Immigration? No problem (cheap labour inc. domestic help; and no immigrant “communities” live anywhere near them or in the same buildings). Poor rail and roads? No problem (private planes and helicopters, supplemented by chauffeur-driven or other Range-Rovers and other expensive cars). Crime? No problem (private security, expensive alarms etc). NHS problems? No problem (private healthcare, money for medicines unavailable on NHS…). Poor pay? No problem (inherited or other wealth). Poor education? No problem (anyone with wealth can pay for expensive schools and/or private tutors).
Ian Robert Millard 