I predict you will be the most ineffective Home Secretary in the history of British political history. Although if uttering the words “shocked and appalled” after every incident and then doing fuck all about it were a measure of success, you’d be way out in front…
How much of all that, though, has been caused or made far worse by the invasion of the UK by “migrants” (migrant-invaders)? An invasion which, by the way, has been fully supported and encouraged by Jewish-lobby puppet Yvette Cooper.
Her predecessors as Home Secretary were no better, as seen below— weird Israel fanatic Sajid Javid:
Day 3 of 56. Mark Lewis and Patron Law have not yet paid my costs.
At Lewis’ disciplinary case it came to light he had been sending lots of highly offensive messages on social media. He messaged a Jewish man “Oh f**k off you stupid c**t”, said he hoped the man would die and said… https://t.co/gbMr5TUJfxpic.twitter.com/3kdhRqVxGP
Living conditions in 1940s Paris were certainly austere at times, at least for some, but life went on, e.g. under German military occupation:
[Paris in 1941: an unarmed Wehrmacht soldier relaxedly chats with a stylish Parisienne on the terrace by the Trocadero Gardens, beneath the Palais de Chaillot, and across the river from the Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower]
[Palais de Chaillot and Jardins du Trocadero, Paris 16-ieme]
I’ve spoken to many many Americans and other people from outside of Europe who simply don’t travel to Paris anymore because they know it’s too dangerous now. And they’re right.
It’s an absolute disgrace what’s become of Europe. We need mass deportations. Now. https://t.co/J5t8Ncq302
In 1970, and 1971, Paris was distinctively not only French but also specifically Parisian. By the 1980s, and especially 1990s, I noticed that it had become less so, more a “convergence” Euro-metropolis. Now? God knows. From what I hear and read, a multikulti nightmare, at least in part and in parts.
"Labour is only moving to squash the Free Speech Act before of pressure from radical trade unionists who themselves refused to condemn the shocking treatment of academics like Kathleen Stock. Labour is eroding, not upholding, free speech in Britain"https://t.co/UTOoSOiZbc
Not many voted them though so ‘I told you so’ isn’t helping. The people had no choice. The system was already in place over the many years that slowly it has been building. Our basic laws are being changed so that we will live in a large mousetrap.
Regular readers will know that I have blogged recently about the fact that Starmer-Labour has no real mandate. The electoral system of the UK has been broken beyond easy repair.
At GE 2024, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, and in very rough terms, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.
That is Starmer’s and Labour’s mandate— 4 out of 20. For pedants, arguably, 4 out of 12. Not much of a mandate either way.
Tell that to the academics who have been recently suspended or dismissed due to the content of a taught course or of writings in their field. I know of at least one case at the University of Cambridge and one at University College London.
I rather think we are there already. I commend the media on their assiduous efforts to find reasons why we are not. The ‘everything is fine’ scam.
— Gas Lighting Services 🇷🇺 (@TauntonHeat) July 25, 2024
CASE UPDATE: the Court has approved a costs order in my case. The court has awarded me 90% of my costs of c£140k. I am grateful to the Defendants for agreeing undertakings.
“CASE UPDATE: the Court has approved a costs order in my case. The court has awarded me 90% of my costs of c£140k. I am grateful to the Defendants for agreeing undertakings. The question now is whether the Defendants’ former solicitor Mark Lewis (@MLewisLawyer) helps the Defendants. If the messages between the Defendants are right, it seems Lewis advised that my claim “would be dismissed swiftly” and my strategy was “laughable”. If that was the advice, it was extremely poor and very costly. My view is that Lewis should do the decent thing and help pay my costs.“
[James Wilson]
Ha ha! Lewis “doing the right thing“? Very unlikely… I expect that the surviving defendants, Cantor and Mendelsohn, will eventually have to take action against Lewis (and the small law firm with which he is associated in London) in professional negligence or otherwise. The matter may also result, eventually, in Lewis appearing (again) before the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal. We shall see.
My hope is that won’t be necessary. I think Mark Lewis and Patron Law know what the honourable thing to do is. And I am confident they will do it.
Incidentally, it has been repeatedly stated, from the Bench, in English courts that “antisemitism”, as such, is not a crime in England (neither, by the way, is so-called “holocaust” “denial”, meaning historical revision or revisionism).
It is a mystery why my case has been ignored by the media since the judgment. Maybe the result was not newsworthy? Not the sort of thing that people would be interested in reading about?
On the other hand, there seems to be lots of public interest in it on here.
The same msm “lack of interest” was around when, for example, Lewis was found guilty in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal about 6 years ago. There was a cloak of silence in the mass media about Lewis even having been prosecuted in the matter, and that continued after he was found guilty. The “usual” (((influence))) in the “British” Press, of course.
“Israel-based solicitor Mark Lewis has been heavily criticised by Mr Justice Nicklin in a recent High Court judgement.
Lewis is known for acting for Rachel Riley against Mike Sivier and Laura Murray, and for John Ware against Jewish Voice for Labour and Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi.
In the recent case, Lewis came unstuck when he was acting for Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates, a lettings and leasehold management firm. Lewis was seeking a court order requiring Google to disclose the identities of people with gmail addresses who had left negative reviews about ABC Estates on Trustpilot. The evidence in support of the court order was two witness statement by Lewis. The judge described Lewis’ evidence in general as “nothing more than assertion” and “perfunctory, even desultory” and “simply not good enough” to justify making the court order.
Things then got much worse for Lewis. He had stated that the Trustpilot reviews were “false, fabricated statements which Unknown person(s) know are untrue”. The judge conducted some online research himself and found that one of the reviews was true and based on the findings of another court. The judge said it was:
a matter of very real concern that the Claimants put evidence before the Court, on an ex parte application, that was not true.
The judge did not require Lewis to provide an explanation for the evidence that was “seriously in error” and accepted that Lewis would not have knowingly misled the court. The judge’s explained Lewis’ evidence as being:
because he had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take adequate instructions from his clients.
The judge also stated that there had been a “significant failure” by Lewis to comply with the general obligation of full and frank disclosure. The judge refused all the applications and the escapade is likely to have costs Lewis’ clients tens of thousands of pounds. Perhaps Lewis’ claim against Michael Rosen would have ended in the same way?
Mr Justice Nicklin’s full judgment is available here, with comments about Lewis’s contribution from paragraph 84 onwards.
Mark Lewis is a former director of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) until his emigration to Israel and was involved in the relaunch of right-wing pro-Israel group Herut UK. UKLFI locked access to a YouTube video in which a panel discussed Lewis’s “very handy way of bankrupting organisations” the group considered to have done ‘wrong’. However, a transcript of the discussion is still available.
In 2018, Lewis was fined by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority for abusive speech on social media toward a young Labour-supporting critic and others. He responded to the judgment by accusing the SRA that:
faced with a choice between Holocaust denying neo-Nazis and a Jewish lawyer… It chose to side with the neo-Nazis.”
[Skwawkbox]
That was about yet another matter in which the often (and laughably-) described “top libel lawyer” behaved in an egregiously unprofessional matter.
The “Dr. Pete Newbon” mentioned in that piece was the third defendant in James Wilson’s case against the Jews Mendelsohn and Cantor. Newbon, a persistent and vicious social media troll, who had been disciplined by his employing university a number of times for his online and offline behaviour, committed suicide during the James Wilson legal case, having apparently deceived his, Newbon’s, wife about the fact that he was being sued, and about the reasons for that.
The funny thing is that, for years, the “British” mass media were quite content to puff Lewis (ludicrously inaccurately) as a so-called “top lawyer“, but I saw nothing in the mainstream Press about how, after having been found guilty in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018, Lewis’s own Counsel begged for mercy for him in terms of the fine to be imposed, because, he said, Lewis had no assets at all except for his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter!
Even Lewis’s own specially-adapted car (driven by him until he had an accident in early 2018, caused by his physical and mental incapacity) had been supplied free of charge to him by the DWP, via the Motability scheme.
“Top lawyer“… My view has always been that Lewis is just a self-promoting chancer.
Yes. Something about the judge being a f***ing moron? An unfortunate choice of language. And definitely not true. While I don’t agree with every aspect of his decision, he was thoughtful and careful, and had obviously got to grips with the issues.
What’s been disappointing is that I got all sorts of grief, from all sorts of people on here. Some really awful things were said about me, and not one person – nobody – has had the dignity to apologise.
And it’s definitely possible because both Defendants have apologised!
Wilson being “too nice” again. Those two Jews (the defendants) were only too happy to look forward to Wilson losing his family home if he lost the case. He did not lose his case. Now they cringe and cry and “apologise”, because they are, to put it in the language of the New Testament, “in the same condemnation“. It’s all so (((typical))).
Incidentally, I think that Mr. Justice Nicklin also was “too nice”, in saying that he was sure that Lewis had not intended to mislead the court in that 2023 High Court ex parte injunction application.
Having said that, the learned High Court judge did (though in other, and far more diplomatic, words) characterize Lewis as (in my words) a lazy, negligent bastard.
No word directly to me from Lewis. Except he accidentally copied me into an email to his own solicitor last week where he said I was floundering. I thought it was a bit steep to say I was out of my depth given what seems to have been his advice to Dr Newbon.
More can be found using the search box on the blog.
In Wilson’s case, a number of Jews gave purported “evidence” for the defence, which testimony however the judge dismissed in polite but firm terms. They are all named and shamed on one of my previous blog posts.
One of that pack was the vituperative Jew-Zionist barrister and (until he was kicked off the Bench very recently) Recorder (p/t judge) Simon Myerson. His testimony was, to put it politely, given little weight by the learned judge.
Indeed, Myerson now seems again to be in trouble. He now not being on the Bench, the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office is not involved (this time— last time, he was given “words of advice”, i.e. mildly admonished); the Bar Standards Board, though, now seems, belatedly, to be taking an interest:
I shall watch any further developments with interest.
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More than a few of them blocked me after being tagged in. I can only hope that they blocked me and then emailed Mark Lewis and Patron Law to suggest they cough up to stop the defendants going bankrupt or losing their homes! @MLewisLawyer
Britain is descending into an angry, lawless nightmare. The speed at which this is happening is utterly terrifying. In one week alone: mass riots; attempted murder of a solder; violent thuggery at an airport; Muslim mobs outside police stations. Shocking.
Twitter-twits have responded angrily, blaming Isabel Oakeshott or her personal partner, Tice, of Reform UK, or Farage, for the gradual descent of Britain into the swamp. A woman journalist, and two fairly minor politicians…
No, the major cause is the half century and more of mass immigration, which over the past 25 years has become a full migration invasion. Millions of mostly quite, or very, backward non-Europeans. That, and the decline of real culture and society in the UK. I know where I place the blame for most of that (the bit not caused by migration-invasion)… The “you-know-who” element.
I don't care that jailed Just Stop Oil protestor Jemima is going to miss her brother's wedding. Boo hoo. When she blocked the M25, she stopped thousands of other people getting to family events. SUCK IT UP.
"The truth is that illegal immigration in Britain is now so widespread – with 1.2 million living among us, more than anywhere else in Europe – that a few more raids on nail bars & car washes will change nothing"https://t.co/NmI46Tw5k8
‘Their deaths don’t matter do they? Because they weren’t killed by Jews. But somehow, again, it’s all the Jews’@TomTugendhat was asked at a Tonbridge hustings before the election how he would resolve the Gaza crisis
The Labour government does not care about free speech and free expression in our universities. They are enabling the woke takeover of higher education by repealing the Higher Education (Free Speech) Act.
Goodwin is right, but he fails to note that the primary group (or cabal, if you like) trying to repress freedom of expression in UK universities and elsewhere, including online, is the Jew-Zionist element, most egregiously seen, arguably, in the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.
Patriotic Alternative
I happened to see the following statement put out by Patriotic Alternative, which I partly republish out of a spirit of comity, and despite not being a member of PA:
“This week we received the SHOCKING news that Sam Melia had been DENIED early release by the prison service! At a time when prisons are overflowing and the judiciary are routinely handing out suspended sentences to convicted sex offenders – Sam Melia, a man who published LAWFUL stickers, has been denied early release!
This is the latest in a string of miscarriages of justice aimed at breaking the spirit of Sam and his family. At this point, only one conclusion can be drawn: this is politically motivated persecution which is aimed at Sam due to his system of philosophical beliefs – a protected characteristic under European Human Rights legislation!“
[Patriotic Alternative]
It will be recalled that Sam Melia was imprisoned for a notional 2 years in March of this year, meaning that he could expect release around 1 March 2025. However, earlier release, which has been granted to all sorts of hooligans and thieves etc by reason of prison overcrowding, has been denied to Melia.
Very unjust, bearing in mind the essentially trivial “crime” for which he was imprisoned; also, he has a wife and two small children (one only born this year and since Melia’s incarceration).
First of all, the full facts, in detail, are not publicly known; I certainly do not know them.
Having said that, a few things do occur to me. The most forceful policeman in the now-infamous video clip plainly went far beyond what was necessary. His prisoner or opponent was lying face down, hands apparently bound. He was apparently not moving at all. The policeman kicked him in the head, a hard kick which might have killed the prisoner. The policeman then stamped down hard —he was wearing boots— another assault that might also have killed the prisoner.
Secondly, the context is not on film; allegedly, an immediately-earlier assault by the Muslim family on a policewoman and another. I suppose that that policewoman was the young woman running around like a headless chicken in the video. Useless.
Thirdly, I noticed in the later video that another totally useless policewoman was there, doing nothing but being a useless extra body. There should probably be a rethink about the utility of policewomen in uniformed front-line roles, as UK society becomes ever-more violent.
Fourthly, the comment of Richard Tice MP of Reform UK, applauding the (apparent) over-reaction by one or two of the policemen, was predictably brainless.
Fifthly, the cartoon below is increasingly relevant in the UK:
Actually, another point also occurred to me as I watched a few minutes of TV news coverage: how many of the passengers seen in the background were non-European.
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Wolves and crows have a special relationship.
In the wild, crows will often lead wolves to prey in return for meat.
Crows have been seen playing with wolf pups, bringing them sticks and feathers as gifts, then reuniting with them as adults to continue the hunt.
NEW POST. Why the UK's illegal migration crisis is about to get a LOT worse. My thoughts on Labour's latest moves including the unserious plan to increase international aid https://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
"Labour's plan to spend £100 million on aid, hoping it will stop illegal migration, makes no sense. Serious studies show aid has little effect on migration flows while some even find it encourages further migration"https://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
Not unlike the Tories in 2001 convincing themselves that the country was screaming out for “a quiet man”. IDS was gone in two years https://t.co/RCoHLQrkLu
Trump is, obviously, a very flawed individual, but it is hard to imagine what kind of American would rather vote for Kamala Harris, a useless box-ticking careerist and know-nothing.
I suppose that the Democrats hope that she will capture the votes of the “blacks and browns” (etc), a simple racially-based preference based on the fact that she is mixed-race [father Jamaican, mother Indian Tamil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris#Early_life_and_education].
Forbes: A major war in the Middle East is inevitable.
"The likelihood of a major war between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran is increasing. Such a conflict could quickly spiral out of control with the participation of the US and Russia. It could even force China to take a more… pic.twitter.com/VBL7pHtp0g
A third “world war” would be devastating, probably on a scale exceeding even that of the 1939-45 conflict. We can only hope that humanity, i.e. those individuals and groups with real power, pull back from the brink. If not, Europe, and quite likely Asia and North America as well, may face near-wipeout.
Nadine Dorries, pretty brainless freeloader though she is, is right about the semi-gangster milieu that has grown up, over two decades or more, in the centre of the “Conservative” Party. Given my head, I should know how to get rid of nuisances of that sort, but I am “not allowed” to detail that, in our “free” and supposedly liberal country.
Green MP calls for commons overhaul, with electronic voting and electoral reformhttps://t.co/LYC0HWq9vB
The most important reform would be to the electoral system. As frequently recently noted on the blog, at the recent General Election and out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 decided not to vote, a clear repudiation of the political system, the voting system, and the “main parties”.
Of the remaining (12) voters who did vote, a mere 4 voted Labour, 3 Conservative, 2 each for Reform UK and LibDem (though Reform got far more votes), and 1 (not quite) voted Green.
That is Starmer-Labour’s mandate and support-base— 4 people out of every 20.
A brilliant imperative from the greatest charity on the planet. Please give them your support for #TravelWithKindness please join me and sign the petition below. https://t.co/igFDgi5bAY
Animal rights activist Peter Egan thinks dressage "should be banned" from the Olympics, after a video emerged of Charlotte Dujardin repeatedly whipping a horse.@TVKev | @PeterEgan6pic.twitter.com/mDn9lZ91FJ
"I deeply regret riding an elephant on holiday. This year we should all make the ethical choice" @ChrisGPackham writes for @guardian on his journey toward more ethical travel choices and urges everyone to support Animals Asia's #TravelWithKindness campaign https://t.co/gb0u5XIoGV
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 25, 2024
If you aren’t disturbed by a foreign leader receiving dozens of standing ovations from our Congress as he demands more of our money, you are not a Loyal American.
[The bridge over the Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. I was at school, in the early 1970s, only a half-mile away, and the grounds of the school went down to the Thames (on which I rowed when aged 13/14) only a short distance from that bridge]
Talking point
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Russell Brand breaks down Canada's Orwellian Bill C-63:
"The legislation authorizes house arrest and electronic tagging for a person likely to commit a future crime… if a judge believes there are reasonable grounds to 'fear' a future hate crime."
— Canadian Refusenik 🍁 (@cdnrefusenik) July 23, 2024
How long before Starmer-Labour introduces similar measures in the UK? The justification will be something similar to that in the cartoon below.
The two aspects mentioned are a convenient “go-to”.
Those who question the System narrative, or suggest an alternative and/or better way forward for society, are often already “criminalized”, usually at the behest of the “usual suspects” (((“them”))).
A Labour Party which suspends MPs for voting to take children out of poverty has no right to call itself a Labour Party.
“Labour” is now just a label, as is “Conservative”, “Liberal Democrat”, and “Green”.
Israel has lost this war and Israelis have no idea how badly they have lost. The war of revenge that Israel is fighting in Gaza has crossed every moral red-line that is imaginable…Israelis cannot imagine the despair that has become the overriding emotion of our neighbors.…
"There is a listlessness among my peers & I. We are neither the ‘Somewheres’ nor ‘Anywheres’ @David_Goodhart writes about. We have neither the means to join Somewheres by putting down roots nor desire to join the hyper-liberal Anywheres. We are nowhere"https://t.co/N0T3LUfNnz
Well, this week I scored the same as political journalist John Rentoul— 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 6, 7, and 8 (in fact I had read about the last, but had forgotten it).
Historical note
On this day, 80 years ago, backstabbers attempted to kill Adolf Hitler and then to seize power in Berlin and over the Third Reich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot.
Classical Hochverrat [“high treason”].
I am willing to accept that some of the conspirators acted out of a sense of higher duty, and with the idea of bringing a halt to the war on the Western Front, and so also bringing a halt to the devastating aerial bombing of Germany (which eventually killed as many as 800,000 people). However, to attempt the assassination of the head of both state and government at such a time of crisis can only be seen as treason, if the term has any meaning [see also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/01/08/treason-is-a-matter-of-timing/].
The conspirators wanted to call a halt, via armistice or truce, on the Western Front but continue to fight Stalin’s Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. They seem to have believed that the Americans and British would have accepted that. Not impossible, but very unlikely. Roosevelt and Churchill, at the Casablanca Conference in early 1943 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_Conference] had jointly called for the war against the German Reich to be fought until the latter declared unconditional surrender.
I cannot but feel some understanding of the motives of the 20 July 1944 conspirators, despite their treason, and despite their attempt to kill Hitler. They wanted to keep Germany, and all Central Europe, from being completely obliterated. They were unaware at the time of the progress being made by Jewish scientists in the USA towards the development of an atomic bomb (originally planned to be used against Germany, not —primarily— Japan); had they known of it, they would perhaps have felt doubly justified.
The 20 July plotters gambled for the highest stakes, and lost.
I do not “condone” the actions of the plotters; neither do I “condemn” them (and my views make no difference either way). Let history judge. Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht [“the history of the world is the judgment of the world”— Schiller].
[Dresden 1945, after Allied, mainly British, bombing]
[“We are fighting for the future of our children!“]
[Reichskanzlei —Reich Chancellery— Berlin, 1945, after the devastating defeat of the Reich]
[Berlin 1945: Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag]
Let us hope that creatures of evil such as Ursula von der Leyen do not succeed in provoking or instigating another such regional or world war, which would be, this time, even more devastating for Germany, all of Europe, and the world as a whole.
When this woman is released, we need to get behind her & support her in any way necessary. She's a woman of immense bravery standing up to a violent crowd that size only for the cowards @WestYorksPolice to arrest her. We need more people like her! pic.twitter.com/lxvP3DMFsW
“Inside the Roma community ‘persecuted’ by police: How violent Leeds riots were the latest act of lawlessness to hit a deprived suburb where ‘a problem for one is a problem for all‘.
Many have large families, and around 5,000 Roma are now believed to live in the deprived neighbourhood, attracted by its spacious three-story terraces and low house prices.
Harehills has long been one of the most ethnically diverse areas of Leeds.“
[Daily Mail]
Even that Daily Mail report, if you read it in full, bends over backwards to be “nice” and “liberal” towards the Roma Gypsy “community”.
If I comment here about the bastards, no doubt the “usual suspects” will make yet another malicious complaint to the police (our new poundland Stasi) about me, which would be (again) a bore and a nuisance, so I shall allow the readers of the blog to read between the lines, as in other police states.
Nice chart. The real winner at the 2024 general election was not Labour but "none of the above". A total rejection of the two big parties. Source: Toby James pic.twitter.com/6VabeY1s6F
“Keir Starmer is looking into plans to process asylum seekers outside the UK as part of a rethink of the government’s immigration policies, even as a returns agreement with the EU appears more distant than ever.
The prime minister said on Thursday he was open to the idea of Britain processing claims offshore, after a day spent discussing illegal migration with fellow European leaders at Blenheim Palace. Those talks, as part of the European Political Community summit, included a meeting with Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, whose country processes asylum claims on behalf of Italy.
But he said a deal to return refused asylum seekers to the EU was low on his list of priorities, as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned his country was not willing to shoulder the additional burden.
“But look, I’m a practical person. I’m a pragmatist. And I’ve always said we’ll look at what works and where cases can be processed closer to origin, then that is something which of course ought to be looked at.”
[The Guardian]
As I have been predicting for many months on the blog, Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” migration invasion, meaning get it off the TV news agenda, by simply “processing” the applications of the invaders long before they reach the UK, whether that be in France, in Albania, in Italy, or even in Africa.
“Processing” will mean, in this context, rubberstamping 90% or more of the applications. Probably more, looking at how about 80% of the applications of the present wave of invaders are eventually approved once they land in the UK (and the rest not deported anyway).
What about those, the small minority no doubt, who apply for asylum in those extra-territorial processing centres or offices but are refused? Is Starmer pretending that they will be content to stay in, or return to, their native countries? Of course they will not. They will simply make their way to the English Channel and then try to cross it.
What I can say is that – if the messages between the defendants in my case are right – the advice of Mark Lewis of Patron Law was terrible. He appears not to have understood fundamental aspects of my claim. @MLewisLawyerhttps://t.co/NznpEQpOTfpic.twitter.com/SVwBbdsngA
Only one thing can save Western culture and civilization, and the root-stock on which they both depend— social nationalism, and a consequent “revaluation of all values”.
Happened to see the above photo of the Thames just below Benson Lock, Oxfordshire. My mind at once returned to the summer of 1971, when I was there, aged 14, rowing my inflatable yellow neoprene boat downstream.
53 years ago. Over half a century. Does not seem possible, in a sense.
At least that little corner of England has not yet been trashed, or built upon.
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So the Ukrainian parliament just passed for further proceeding a law that would de facto legalize corruption under the guise of fighting corruption. And this came from Zelenskyy’s support party. This is beyond absurd. Should this become law expect an exodus of Western… https://t.co/OHz6MiJLMZ
“Ukraine” (Kiev regime)— a shambolic, corrupt and brutal dictatorship masquerading as a “democracy” that values civil rights etc.
Moscow does not rule out deploying nuclear missiles in response to the deployment of long-range US missiles in Germany, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters:https://t.co/U3h6IiWbv7pic.twitter.com/drRDoD671m
Russian troops destroyed a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system of the Ukrainian army by a Lancet loitering munition in the Kherson area, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://t.co/8OqWFq5YxV
Behind Donald Trump, entirely different forces are at play. He represents an alternative to Biden and globalisation, diverging significantly from the policies of both Democratic and Republican forerunners.
I often worry that I may be too old to take a leading part in the national revolution by the time it happens, at least to take an active leading part; I am already 67 (68 in September). Damn.
I can understand some people often make a steeple with their hands but this is simply an unnatural thing to do, especially when sitting down. This is no real IT 'outage', the prep is being done for more lockdowns.
— cognitivedissonanceeverywhere (@Vercovicium) July 19, 2024
Mirabile dictu! Former-MP and Israel-puppet Largan has said something with which I can agree.
I have noted in the past on the blog the inadequacy of so many post-1945 public buildings in the UK, for example the court buildings in both London and the provinces. Some are OK, or even impressive, but more are not. Compare them to most of the American court buildings, such as the Federal court building in Trenton, New Jersey, where I was, several times, over 30 years ago:
So ugly, one is prompted to speculate, “Britischer Architekt?” Still, quite large and impressive at least.
I see that that 1980s building is named after a former Governor of the state, who was also at one time Chief Justice of New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Hughes_Justice_Complex#Dedication. I was very slightly acquainted with one of his sons, who himself became a Federal magistrate in 1991, a year or two after I was introduced to him; I met him again, en passant, a few times, in the years 1989-1991: https://www.pli.edu/faculty/hon.-john-j.-hughes-i1305491. He was all right, but not the most social person in the world, to be frank. Not sure that I would have liked to have been a defendant in his court…
It seems, just now, To be happening so very fast; Despite all the land left free For the first time I feel somehow That it isn't going to last https://t.co/hoGQ84EsYt
Well, amazing. A second tweet of Largan that I like. Two in one day. Amazing.
If those poetic lines are original, from Largan himself, then he has a poetic sophistication, though not unflawed, at which I should not have guessed, to be frank.
Huge crowds marching to the Gardaí station in Collock.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Cheers from the Irish tonight as the building that was to be used to house unvetted migrant men in Coolock catches fire again 🤷🏻♂️ bloody climate change eh? pic.twitter.com/KR8ikRXqTW
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Surprise surprise. When it comes to claims linking a ban on puberty blockers to increased suicide Jolyon Maugham & other activist lawyers have been talking total bollocks https://t.co/iLQhUifqzV
Even if that were not so, the ban is obviously the right thing to do, whatever the collateral damage.
"While the British Tories have lost their way, failing to grasp how the tectonic plates of politics are on the move, Team Trump have doubled down on and expanded the post-2016 political realignment"https://t.co/V5XZ2cc81p
The United States may stop providing aid to Ukraine in the future, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a fireside chat at the 2024 Aspen Security Forum:https://t.co/G9NOsXzQz7pic.twitter.com/6WxrHJBRVm
“Two asylum seekers who targeted a reveller for his £25,000 Rolex in London’s West End walked free from court today.
Egyptian Yousef Garef and Algerian Amin Abdelkadar were both spared jail and handed community orders on Wednesday. Both admitted to robbery.
The pair, attacked Kris Smith at around 2am in Soho, London on July 21 last year, seizing his gold Rolex Day Date watch.“
[Daily Mail]
Is comment even necessary?
This country is so screwed it is actually almost unbelievable. Not only because of migration invasion, but that, together with a “multicultural” population, is the cause of much of the overall problem.
Starmer-Labour will not “fix” the problems of the UK. Au contraire—Labour’s fake “landslide” regime will worsen them. Starmer-Labour is wedded to “diversity”, “anti-racism” (except against white English people) etc.
“Germany plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine in 2025, to €4bn, despite concerns over continued US support, according to a draft budget seen by Reuters. Instead the German government hopes Ukraine will be able to meet the bulk of its military needs with $50bn in loans from proceeds of frozen Russian assets approved by the G7, and that funds earmarked for armaments will not be fully used.”
There is no “Ukraine” as such now, just the Kiev regime, which can either be regarded as a “failed state” or a non-state.
Since 1997 over 12million immigrants have entered Britain. 80% remain dependent on Welfare. Total cost is £50k per person pa. This is a staggering amount of money. Close to £500billion. It's destroying our economy.
This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million. pic.twitter.com/CcUmjLmqFJ
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 16, 2024
What an amazing creature.
Starmer asked is any Israel 🇮🇱 crime in Gaza 🇵🇸 unacceptable for him:
Starmer says that the event of 7 October 2023 was the worst attack on Israel since “the holocaust”. Israel did not exist as a state until 1948.
Leaving that aside, Starmer is a total puppet of the Israeli state and the UK Israel lobby.
Look at the demonic grin on this monsters face as he relishes the opportunity to finally deliver his digital prison.
Tony Blair has been plugging away at digital ID for our banking overlords for decades, and it looks like, in Starmer, they finally have the tool needed to finish… pic.twitter.com/2nVV1HZp8D
“A single mother-of-two, who framed an innocent woman when she drove a pick-up truck and towed a trailer illegally, has dodged jail after revealing her personal woes.
Juliann Quilligan, 27, from Skelmersdale, Lincolnshire falsely told police her name was Rebecca Williams when she was pulled over for illegally towing a trailer on the M62.
The mother was driving her Mitsubishi L200 without being insured and kept quiet as police added eight points to the unaware woman’s licence.
She argued that she became ‘panicked’ and ‘frightened’ when dealing with police due to mental health issues exacerbated by her estrangement from the travelling community which she fled in 2019 so her children could go to school.
The victim – Miss Williams – only discovered she had been wrongly convicted in her absence when she attempted to renew the insurance policy on her own car.“
[Daily Mail]
Egregious. Also, leaving aside the sheer injustice of it all, note the absence of proper journalism and sub-editing of that report. “Skelmersdale, Lincolnshire“, writes the Daily Mail scribbler, one Shannon McGuigan, when surely a “journalist” should know that Skelmersdale is in Lancashire…
Again, the Daily Mail report is really quite poorly-written, something which is now almost the norm in most newspapers.
Proper journalism is another thing that has just faded away and died in the UK.
You can call me what you like, I'm not going to stop exposing what's really going on with immigration and the industrial scale abuse of our benefits system. I've only just got started with the racket in Boston…. https://t.co/o3U3i1ECvH
Too many people in this country believe it is Britain's role to take responsibility for the feck-ups of foreign governments. I believe the UK should, largely, be only letting in people who the govt believes it is in our direct strategic interest to do so.
— Martin in Monmouthshire (@MartinMonmouth1) July 18, 2024
“Immigration laws, said Thomas Sowell, are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. By allowing 100,000 illegal migrants to stay in Britain we are incentivising others to break the law while treating British people, who want strong borders & play by the rules, with contempt https://telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/17/labour-fast-track-asylum-claims-90000-migrants-rwanda-uk/“
[Matt Goodwin]
MATT GOODWIN: "It's already obvious the new Labour government has no serious plan for (or even interest in) curtailing immigration". Latest in the Mailhttps://t.co/Z182zHTRKb
This is spot on. You can have available & affordable housing for our young people & British families. Or you can have an immigration-fuelled population explosion.
The backlash from the people has grown, in the UK, in Ireland, and also across mainland Europe. In the UK, it drove the upsurge of voters for the actually rather mild Reform UK at the General Election of 2024 (over 4 million voters voted Reform UK. The Conservative Party only had about 6 million voters, and victorious Labour about 9 million).
The Conservative Party was dumped mainly because of both the invasion itself and also its down-the-line consequences, though sheer incompetence generally was also a major factor.
Late tweets
Not a policeman in sight in Leeds. This is the reality of multiculturalism, it ruins everything it touches. pic.twitter.com/6n7eRTO1qs
Leeds tonight showed the world the consequences of mass immigration. You give them a home, you give them benefits, you give them safety and they give you hell. Ungrateful scroungers. pic.twitter.com/HsQULVSUwK
Riots have erupted in Harehills, Leeds tonight after Social Services took children away from a Roma Gypsy family, with a police car overturned and a bus now set on fire.
Britain needs to stop importing people with an alien culture and value system. Enough is enough. pic.twitter.com/QJ4NKPaEUy
Breaking: Police were chased away and the Fire and Rescue service are nowhere to be seen. Fires are burning unchecked in Leeds tonight.#Leeds#Riotspic.twitter.com/fOuvVKcAur
We can reform all the planning laws in the world but unless we also control demand we will never fix our housing crisis. You can have affordable & available housing. Or you can have mass immigration. You can't have both.https://t.co/ERDM5mO3yN
The “unwanted truth”. The Twitter-twits and similar people will close their ears. They want to believe that mass immigration has nothing at all to do with the housing crisis, or low pay, restricted State benefits, crowded schools, hospitals, trains etc, even water shortages.
They also prefer to believe that you can import half a million or a million persons per year, mostly from very backward parts of the planet, to the UK, without any effect on public safety, a decent life, standards in all areas, you name it.
As Hitler said of the people of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“.
[The “4 million immigrants” (since 1997) of several years ago are now nearly 7 million, or more]
Palestinians are trying to repair parts of their destroyed houses in Gaza City in order to somehow live in them. pic.twitter.com/DKA7zL439I
Trump leads Biden in seven swing states 🇺🇸 The former US president is superior to his opponent in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, The Times reports, citing YouGov poll data. pic.twitter.com/5hZLtCdp7C
To this day I can’t believe people actually buy Bitcoin. It’s just numbers on a screen!
What we should really be doing is trusting the Government to print worthless paper notes out of thin air, then depositing those notes at the banks so they can keep them safe for us!
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 17, 2024
“Terrible news for Ukraine” – European experts on Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance
Donald Trump's choice of J.D. Vance as his candidate for the post of vice president of the United States has again raised fears in Europe that the former American leader will take a businesslike… pic.twitter.com/0PHueudqoW
“Terrible news for Ukraine” – European experts on Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance as his candidate for the post of vice president of the United States has again raised fears in Europe that the former American leader will take a businesslike approach to foreign policy and will pursue it based on the principle of “America First,” writes The Guardian.
This, as the article notes, could lead to the United States insisting that Kyiv give in to Vladimir Putin and ask for peace with Russia. “It’s bad for us and it’s terrible news for Ukraine,” said one senior European diplomat in Washington. “Vance is not our ally.”
Foreign diplomats and observers often call Trump’s current policies a “black box,” saying it is impossible to know for sure what the unpredictable leader will do once in power. Some are comforting themselves by suggesting that leadership candidates such as former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien will maintain the status quo on foreign policy while Trump focuses on domestic affairs. But the would-be US president now has a much more energetic deputy who will stoke Trump’s skepticism about Ukraine and Europe while urging the party to pursue aggressive trade and foreign policies in other parts of the world.“
The former deputy mayor of Kiryat Shmona is considering buying an apartment in Greece due to the war and missiles from Lebanon.
The journalist asked him: Do you feel that the state is falling apart? He replied: There is no state. Everything is paralyzed. pic.twitter.com/qJIBgjGXcj
“Last week I made the decision to cancel my Conservative Party membership after nearly a decade. The party has failed to set out a positive vision on housing, the environment and investment, as well as a pragmatic stance on Brexit. It has also drifted from the values of inclusivity and aspiration which drew me to the party under Lord Cameron. This isn’t me leaving the Conservative party, it’s the Conservative party that has left me. Read my interview with the Telegraph on why for the first time I am politically homeless.”
Next time the Welsh Government complain they aren’t getting enough money from London, remember they spent almost £40 million on changing the speed limits to 20mph, only to change them back following backlash, once again costing millions.
And no one will be held accountable.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 17, 2024
Record level data on doses, dates and deaths in relation to ten million people from the Czech Rrepublic has now been released by @stkirsch. It shows that the Moderna vaccine is 50% more deadly than the Pfizer. Steve's full analysis here: https://t.co/DWLwMWeMGYpic.twitter.com/tssOHNN5zp
The main theses from Sergey Lavrov's press conferences after the UN Security Council meeting:
◻️ The solution to the crisis in Ukraine must take into account the reality on the ground, but the West needs to stop pumping Kiev with weapons and then the conflict will end;
Labour's plans in King's Speech –as I wrote months ago–will further erode democracy by doubling down on Quangocracy –rule by unelected & largely unaccountable "expert" bodies removed from the peoplehttps://t.co/UA2ukmAI16
Once again, I refer readers to what Khrushchev said about Malenkov, namely that the “filing clerk” type should never be given power. That’s Starmer, in essence, a would-be dictator but in the guise of a careful, over-controlled lawyer.
Trump looking presidential, in a way that he rarely did even when he was President before.
If he can survive the campaign and get re-elected, his personal history, and his personal flaws, can take a back seat. He can stop funding Zelensky and the whole Kiev regime. That can be his first task.
Trump may be in a position, if or when re-elected, to call a halt to the rush to world war. That is the issue of primary importance.
“An arrest warrant has been issued for an asylum seeker who tried to bring cannabis onto the Bibby Stockholm barge and then bit a police officer when he was being arrested.
Kenson Noel, aged 29, pleaded guilty at Weymouth Magistrates Court on June 7 to possession of a class B drug and assault by beating of Portland Port Police officer Christopher Grant.
The charges relate to an incident on May 16, 2024.
He was due to be sentenced today at Poole Magistrates Court but did not appear.
This triggered a warrant for his arrest to be issued by the court.
The court previously heard that Noel, whose address was given as a hotel in Bournemouth, is an asylum seeker who fled Trinidad and Tobago after being threatened by gangs.“
“Protesters hurled bricks and fireworks at riot police near a Dublin factory set to house asylum seekers today, with officers spraying activists with pepper spray.
Gardai clashed with hundreds of people gathered at the former Crown Paints factory in Coolock as fighting exploded throughout the day.“
[Daily Mail]
People on both sides of the Irish Sea are getting very angry, and that can only continue and intensify as more millions of migrant-invaders arrive in 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 etc.
“Archaeologists have finally traced a lost alphabet that puzzled scholars for decades back to a 3,000 year-old civilization of Biblical significance.
Since 1964, archaeologists have found 15 different tablets with strange carvings at the site of an ancient settlement in Jordan.
Thanks to new analysis, archaeologists have found that they were likely made by the Canaanites, an indigenous group who thrived in the Middle East until the second half of the 13th century BC.
The Canaanites resided in ‘the Promised Land’ from 3500BC until 1200BC before they were conquered by Israeli tribes following their Exodus from Egypt.
“Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump in a bombshell ruling less than 48 hours after the former president was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Trump was accused of taking highly sensitive national security documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate when he left the White House, and FBI agents seized a trove of material during a search of his Florida home in August 2022.
Judge Cannon threw the case out based on ‘violations’ of the Constitution’s Appointments and Appropriations clauses.
In her ruling, she found that the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional.
The decision has an enormous impact on Trump’s legal battles, and he now faces just two criminal trials in Georgia and the federal court in Washington D.C.
A year ago, Trump’s classified documents case appeared to be his most serious legal threat: perhaps easier to prove than Trump’s January 6 case, which relied on public statements, tweets and complex schemes involving electors around the country to charge a complex conspiracy to overturn the election.“
[Daily Mail]
Everything’s going Trump’s way, it seems…
Tweets seen
Fuck it. I’m just gonna come out and say it.
After a lot of thought, I am now 100% behind Donald Trump for President. Let me explain my reasoning…
Trump fell short in many ways in his first term. He was weaker than he should have been on the border. He appointed people to his…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 16, 2024
“Fuck it. I’m just gonna come out and say it. After a lot of thought, I am now 100% behind Donald Trump for President. Let me explain my reasoning…
Trump fell short in many ways in his first term. He was weaker than he should have been on the border. He appointed people to his cabinet that frankly stained his image and sunk his reputation. He let us down with the vaccines and Operation Warp Speed. But it’s about more than Donald Trump. It’s always been about more than Trump.
He has awakened the sleeping giant in America and across the world. People have hit breaking point. And they are sick to the back teeth of the status quo. For all my reservations, I do believe at heart his intentions are mostly good. Compare and contrast him to a demented old man who doesn’t remember what he had for breakfast.
What happened on Saturday night pushed me over the edge. They have tried everything to stop this man. Impeachment, election rigging, lawfare and now an attempted assassination in broad daylight. It’s not about trying to stop Trump. It’s about trying to stop a populist uprising.
In these times we can’t be picky. Trump isn’t going to fix all our problems. Trump isn’t going to save the world. We are living through a time of pure evil, the likes of which only God can protect us from. But we have to rebuild, we have to reorganise. We all have differences of opinion on various issues but ultimately we all see the evil in this world and we all want to make a change. And I believe the best start to that work is to get behind Donald Trump and use our influence to push for the change we want to see.”
[David Morgan]
NEW POST. Britain's population explosion. SHOCKING new data. The latest data on how the country is being completely transformedhttps://t.co/ERDM5mO3yN
"The British people are currently living through the largest increase in their population since 1948, when British soldiers returned from World War Two and there was a baby boom. The difference today? It's because of mass immigration"https://t.co/5XqFFHeTm0
“There has simply never been a nation-state in history that has endured the sheer scale and speed of demographic change that is currently unfolding around us and remained a healthy, socially cohesive, prosperous, high-trust society.“
"Last year, our population only increased by 400 people through 'natural change' (births minus deaths among people already here). It's the lowest figure since 1978. In sharp contrast, immigration added 622,000 people, one of the highest stats on record"https://t.co/ERDM5mO3yN
…and virtually all the children now being born in the UK, and particularly in England, are non-white (including mixed-race). Demographic disaster.
Israel executed a FAMILY. Look. A little girl with her backpack. Monstrous war crimes. https://t.co/AbMX0JTsJd
— AnnaChetConcreteisland (@Concreteisland2) July 16, 2024
Vaughan Gething jumped to stop more dirt coming out but it's not worked. Expect revelations.
Gethin's native Zambia thoroughly corrupt, like all of sub-Saharan Africa, and African standards of probity don't go down well in the UK. We expect better.
Let’s bin all “diversity hires”, starting with David Lammy, presently and ludicrously posing as Foreign Secretary.
Ha ha…yes, but the joke is on us…
The System promotes idiots like that, making sure that they can wave a few bits of paper (tick-box degrees, diplomas etc) if challenged, as a way of accelerating the destruction of European civilization.
⚠️“Britain has reached its immigration breaking point,” @dampierguy warns in @Telegraph.
“Instead of the promised economic boom, we’ve seen GDP per capita fall, meaning that even if the economy is technically growing, individually we are getting poorer.”https://t.co/6k0B6swR4O
Even the System msm cannot ignore the migration invasion completely, because the public has started to awaken and, indeed, become fearful of what is happening, and what might and probably will happen not so far down the road.
The Twitter-twits, and the System politicians, have been laughing at the Reform UK result at GE 2024 (“only 5 MPs” etc), but the underlying reality is that, out of nearly 29M actual votes, Reform UK got over 4.1M, the Conservative Party only 6.8M, and victorious Labour 9.8M.
Labour received under 10M votes, and has 411 MPs, despite only getting about (indeed, less than) two-and-a-half times the number of votes cast for Reform UK, fobbed off with merely 5 MPs.
As noted in previous blog posts, for every 20 people who were eligible to vote at GE 2024, a plurality, 8 people, did not bother to vote, probably because they were disenchanted with the whole set-up.
Out of that group of 20 people, only 4 actually voted Labour.
Another 3 out of the 20 voted Conservative; 2 voted Reform UK. 2 also voted LibDem (which however received only 3.5M votes as against Reform’s 4.1M). (Almost) 1 notional voter out of the 20 voted Green, which party received 1.8M votes.
The point is that Reform UK is, at least in part, “controlled opposition” but, notwithstanding that, over 4 million people decided to register their anger by voting for it. Another 19.6 million did not vote.
It is possible that, were a credible social-national movement to exist, a substantial part of the 19.6M non-voting bloc, as well as a large part of Reform UK’s 4.1M bloc, might vote for, or otherwise support it.
Remember, out of every 20 adult people in the UK, only 4 voted for Starmer-Labour.
Starmer-Labour has no real mandate from the people.
Salus populi suprema lex
[“the welfare of the people is the highest law“— Cicero]
More tweets
Park Lane.
One of the most prestigious addresses in London.
One of the most expensive places on the Monopoly board.
It’s a disgrace wherever it is, not because it’s #Park#Lane. I feel we are lost as a #nation & because the vast majority have sold their souls & have no #morals with true meaning. https://t.co/fLaIEjq0gP
Europe can only be saved when its peoples, including the British, rise up against the tidal wave of migration invasion.
MIGRANTS SET UP CAMP IN PARK LANE
If the UK were a serious country, immigration officers would rock up there arrest and detain all the foreigners. The process of repatriating them back to their native lands starts
All you really need to know about the real view taken by both Starmer-Labour and the now-binned Sunak misgovernment is that virtually all government ministers (of either main System party) were and are signed up, in reality, to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. Mass immigration into Europe, with the aim of destroying European culture and civilization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
Talking point
Happened to see part of one of those fly-on-the-wall cop shows, called Police Interceptors. The bit I saw concerned a raid on a house where a man was thought to be trading in drugs.
The police arrived in force, were ready to bust open the front door but found it unlocked, so went in and took control of the property. The man named on the warrant was not at home, but his wife/girlfriend/whatever was, along with her small and terrified children.
In the kitchen, the police found large bags stuffed with herbal cannabis, apparently harvested from the marijuana farm in the attic, which the police also found. They also found little plastic bags used for retail sales of the drug.
The woman was arrested only because the wanted man refused to give himself up, but was in touch with the woman by telephone, under police guard, and was apparently nearby. He gave himself up a few days later.
What interested me was that I should have thought that there was ample evidence to prosecute them both for “possession with intent to supply”, but in the end the woman was released (I was distracted so missed the exact outcome, I think an official caution), and her husband/boyfriend/co-habitee was apparently not charged with anything!
A big raid, the police all dressed up in the paramilitary style to which they have become accustomed, warrants obtained, searches made, drugs found, arrests made and, in the end…nothing.
The police and CPS need to start dealing with (real) crime, rather than snooping on tweets and blog posts and generally behaving like a poundland Stasi.
This country is now pretty close to running on empty.
Well, 7/10 this week, thus beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 7, and 10, though I was at least in the right area re. question 7.
That idea, that the online pseudo-political “grifters” (“Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii”, “Man Behaving Dadly”, Julia Grace Patterson etc) will have to nuance their begging appeals now that the hated “Tories” have switched places with the supposedly better but actually quite similar (in policy terms) Starmer-Labour, had occurred to me.
I doubt that the online fraudsters need to worry too much, though. Their target audience is almost begging to be cheated, and will accept as true almost any variation in the “facts” put forward. You only have to look at the lies of “Jack Monroe” over the years. Stunningly unbelievable. Like something from a book of fairy stories. Yet the “useful idiots” believe…and continue to send money to her.
NEW POST: The Tory Elite Class is in CLOUD CUCKOO LAND. They need to wake up and smell the coffeehttps://t.co/tnTPO0GwyI
There is a belief around that “mainstream” political parties must aim to be in the non-existent or notional “centre”.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I effectively never use the descriptors “right”, “left”, “centre” etc in that way.
What matters is policy, and what matters to the people is the overall effect of policy on their lives. The Conservative Party failed the people in terms of how their confused policy offering actually affected or changed, or failed to change, the lives and lifestyles of the people. Labour is about to follow suit, in my opinion.
Not that Churchill himself wanted to finish off the British Empire. He wanted, in an ideal world, to destroy National Socialist Germany and, at the same time, the Soviet Union.
Churchill’s strategic ineptitude (seen in numerous examples throughout his career) led not only to the destruction of the German Reich, followed by the division of mainland Europe into a Stalinist sector in the East, and a basically American, or notionally Anglo-American, sector in the West, but also to the destruction of all the European empires, and thus their generally civilizing influence over Asia, Africa (including North Africa) etc
The same basic division in Europe (though into 4 national sectors) was carried out in much of Germany and Austria for several years after WW2, with the capital cities (Berlin and Vienna) likewise divided.
Vienna was divided until 1955, Berlin until 1989, and France was, as a notional Western ally, given one sector despite having been defeated in 1940, partly occupied the same year, and fully-occupied in November 1942 (and having not participated in the defeat of the German Reich).
The end of WW2 led directly to the collapse of European rule across the world. The colonies of Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands etc were decolonized, some almost immediately, some much later. Thus began the environmental degradation and loss of wildlife across Asia, Africa, the Pacific etc, which situation continues even today, as do the wars, civil wars, corruptions and tyrannies of the formerly colonial territories.
Churchill, an educated and erudite man who was also completely wrong in his political judgment(s) was, so to speak, “the wrong man at the wrong time”, though the accepted System/msm narrative says the opposite, of course.
As Barnett points out in one or two of those books, after WW2 Britain would have been able to do one of three things well, possibly even two of those things: maintain its status as a great power; regenerate its economy; create a Welfare State. Britain tried to accomplish all three, but was unable to do so satisfactorily. Britain had been beggared by its war against the German Reich.
These three aims or tasks (or problems) are still with us, in some or another form, today.
Britain today is the “also ran” in respect of its military power, its society (Welfare State, NHS, State education etc), and economy.
As far as Barnett is concerned, I should say that he was right far more often than he was wrong.
Incidentally, Barnett was probably denied a knighthood, a life peerage, and other official honours (he did get a CBE) by reason of his having spoken, or strongly implied, the unsayable— that Britain should never have declared war on the German Reich or, having declared war in September 1939, should have concluded an armistice sometime after Dunkirk, in mid to late 1940, before too much hurt and damage had been done in western and central Europe.
Reform UK
"The blunt reality is that more 2019 Conservatives switched to Reform than the number who switched to Labour and the Liberal Democrats combined. Nigel Farage is the primary threat to the Conservative Party"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
"the Tory elite class have never understood where the real centre in British politics lies, or if they have known then they’ve considered it too grubby, too parochial, too insular, too working-class, too low-status for high-status elites like them"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
"Farage is very quickly building a serious & sustainable electorate —socially distinctive, geographically efficient, culturally coherent, conservative in outlook, and very hacked off with the Tory elite class"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
Reform UK’s vote suffers from being wide, indeed nationwide (though not so strong in Scotland), but shallow. 14.29% across the board could easily have meant zero seats anywhere, rather than the 5 Reform actually captured.
The LibDem vote, only 12.22% nationally, was nonetheless concentrated here and there. Result— 72 MPs.
In the East of England, Reform UK scored 17.5% of the vote; in the East Midlands, 18.9%.
Indeed, though Reform won no GE 2024 seats in the West Midlands or North-East England, its vote was still high— 18.1% in the former, and 19.9% in the latter (less than half a point behind the Conservative Party). Reform was also not very far behind the Conservative Party in the West Midlands.
Reform UK came second in 98 constituencies, of which 89 were won or held by Labour.
It is not impossible to surmise that, if the Conservative Party vote were to collapse further in those 98 seats, Reform UK might capture some, many, or even all of them.
That would be even more likely, arguende, if Starmer-Labour in government disappoints the mass of the people, as I believe it will.
Late tweets seen
“They’re carrying on like a cross between Pravda and Smash Hits.”
I am glad that I am not alone in having noticed the sickening sycophancy of the “occupied” UK msm towards Starmer-Labour (though would anyway be unconcerned were I the only one).
Today, on Sky News, I caught literally seconds of the end of a piece by some sports journalist woman. Her take was that, with “England” in the final game of some football contest, and a new Labour (New Labour?) government in power, it feels (she claimed) like the dawning of a new era. I believe that was the brainless and derivative way in which she put it.
Of course, Starmer-Labour will probably be in power until 2029, so the msm drones naturally want to curry favour, but I think that the said sycophancy goes beyond even that. I think that many in the msm seriously believe that Starmer-Labour is wonderful and will bring about some minor “golden age”.
I see no real connected thinking in the msm about what happens when the UK is importing literally a million invaders every single year, about what happens when a Labour government is harder on workers, the unemployed, the sick, the disabled than has been the past 14 years of “Conservative” government (etc).
What happens when the lights go out? What happens when lawlessness finally overwhelms a fairly civilized court and legal system which evolved over long periods but which is now already swamped?
Also, with a deadhead like Lammy as Foreign Secretary, what happens to Britain’s already-tattered international standing?
What interests me is what will be happening 2025-2029 under the surface of the Labour Party pseudo-landslide Commons majority.
“Labourites have exposed their arrogance by declaring an ‘end’ to the culture war. What they really mean is that they’re in the driving seat now. That they will accelerate woke, whether we like it or not.”
Ed Miliband lives in an eco-fantasy land. He really thinks that banning North Sea drilling will be good for the UK, creating jobs and boosting energy security. With just one week in power, Labour has already lost its grip on reality:https://t.co/A0Mf7aVnng
Who can forget Ed Miliband at Copenhagen in 2005, bleating outside the UN conference (so badly-organized that he was not allowed in at first) about the fake “3/5/7/whatever years to save the world” narrative? I also recall that little monkey, who was the President of the Maldives, jumping up and down and clapping once he realized that his country might receive millions in “climate aid” in case the Maldives sank below the waves (nearly 20 years later, though, it is still there).
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the warped priorities of the new Labour government, Joe Biden’s leadership crisis, the madness of the French left and the truth about Lucy Letby.
Ian Robert Millard 