Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I trumped that with 9/10. The question I did not get was number 8, but when I looked it up I realised that I did know it after all, in the back of my mind. Never mind.
Most Read on the Stack this week. What happened to me in Hungary? They asked some questions that tell us a lot about the dire state of Britain https://t.co/MkJjaO1yzc
As of this morning —a total of 9,099 migrants have crossed the Channel in 162 boats this year, 45 % more than this time last year and 81% more than 2023. There have been 2,246 crossings this month alone
The US and other Kiev's allies intend to approve a plan for a complete ceasefire in Ukraine at a meeting in London next week, the New York Post reported, citing a Washington administration official:https://t.co/vF8VsDrM3kpic.twitter.com/wrAvCXOT54
Washington’s threats to walk away from the negotiation process on Ukraine are directed against the Kiev regime rather than Moscow, the Axios portal said, citing European officials:https://t.co/puZSgv5edDpic.twitter.com/HbuIiN0FdV
For the first time in its history, Russia showcased its Gerani-2 suicide drones, mounted on launch pads inside Kamaz trucks, during the Victory Parade in Red Square. pic.twitter.com/veRDiTpJBf
Drones have changed the face of warfare; land-roving robots and AI will change it even more.
The EU is falling apart due to growing disagreements, and along with Europe and NATO, said former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter pic.twitter.com/lIDoJQiJUm
Israeli media reported that clashes between resistance fighters and Israeli army forces in eastern Gaza City have resulted in numerous casualties among the Israeli forces, and Israeli helicopters are currently evacuating the dead and wounded. pic.twitter.com/3mLotFnh3l
Why is the supposedly cash-strapped NHS spanking £40 million on “diversity officers”? Why is it training senior staff in “white allyship”? Why is it restricting leadership programmes to minorities? Why is it two-tier? https://t.co/tOvO7pNhet
Look at what’s happening in Runcorn. Nobody voted for this. Nobody wants this. Nobody deserves this. Send Westminster a message on May 1st 🇬🇧👊 pic.twitter.com/PKtGsvvP4n
Goodwin should, arguably, have been the Reform candidate at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. I have a feeling that he is seeking out a potentially safer seat, maybe somewhere in the East or North-East of England.
Here’s the incredibly brave father, Sep van Lier, giving a heroic address at the municipality of Maashorst to fight for justice for his daughter.
Eventually, the peoples of Europe will rise up and put paid to both the alien predators and to the System politicians and others who have imported them and are protecting them.
The IMF just CONFIRMED what the elites denied for years:
Mass immigration is driving down living standards.
Wages squeezed.
Housing pressure exploding.
Social cohesion eroding. For years, they told you it was “enriching.” They told you it was “necessary.” They called you a bigot for asking questions. Now? Even the IMF admits it’s hurting you.
This isn’t mismanagement — it’s betrayal by design.
And it’s time to hold every liar, every enabler, and every policymaker ACCOUNTABLE.“]
I agree.
See also: Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
All Western European states, Scandinavia, parts of Central Europe too, are riddled with traitors, many in positions of power and influence in politics, the civil service, the legal professions and judiciary, the mainstream media, the police, academia etc.
Israeli strikes on Gaza in the last 48 hours have killed more than 90 people, Palestinian health officials in the enclave said. pic.twitter.com/kPtyMEeHm5
Ukraine will not become part of NATO; the issue of Kiev's accession to the alliance is not under discussion, according to Keith Kellogg, the US presidential special envoy for Ukraine and Russia:https://t.co/BIIgCA32Jwpic.twitter.com/YEw7twzjct
If the worst happens, this is the team who make the declaration as to whether the UK mainland is under a missile attack
🔴 In a rare tour of the early-warning radar at RAF Fylingdales, @robhastings witnesses the crew complete a very realistic training exercise pic.twitter.com/ft50cJJn9e
In any case, were there ever a real military attack from (presumably) Russia (a conflict with which would be mad from the UK point of view— it would finish this country forever, probably), one of the first places to be attacked and eliminated (possibly by Spetsnaz attack, prior to the launch of any missile) would be Fylingdales itself.
On the wider aspects, while those working in such establishments may be fed the line that they are protecting the UK from attack and/or invasion, the reality is that the UK society those soldiers think they are protecting is decaying from within, and being invaded daily by literally thousands of migrant-invaders, both “legally” and “illegally”, and by births to non-white mothers within the UK.
UK society is changing, and being poisoned, before our very eyes.
Translation: what, really, are they protecting?
The euro is above 1.14, trading at its highest level in over three years. The dollar has lost 5.5% of its value against the euro since Liberation Day. That means buying European imports will now cost Americans 15.5% more. 10% for the tariffs and 5.5% due to dollar depreciation.
…meaning that only the wealthier Americans will be buying imports from the EU (that is largely the case anyway, of course).
In response to the protectionist measures of the US administration, China is boosting duties on US goods from 84% to 125% starting April 12, the Tariff Committee of the State Council of China announced:https://t.co/Ttzj07CVAqpic.twitter.com/VrBCNMrTPc
Europe must begin injecting gas into its underground storage facilities as soon as possible and ensure sufficiently large supplies of LNG to the region in order to avoid depleting its reserves by next winter, according to a report by the ENTSOG:https://t.co/iuKJw3kXdQpic.twitter.com/2DIxbaFqME
More than 6,000 illegal migrants have entered Britain this year on the small boats. Guess how many have been convicted of illegally piloting the small boats?
We need a great deal more than that but, in our emergent police state, I am “not allowed” to spell out what is needed.
Is immigration good for Britain? Next month I’m debating pro-immigration fanatic Jonathan Portes and campaigner Zoe Gardner at this How to Academy debate. I’ve just sent a discount code to our subscribershttps://t.co/n6o7EFXHUW
What is the point in “debating” with the enemies of the British people? Portes is of course a “(((youknowwho)))”, and I suspect (but concede that I do not know) that Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere on Twitter/X) is similar.
Translator's reaction when Trump said: "The US and Italy have been allies since Ancient Rome (four thousand years ago)"! pic.twitter.com/gFOeeTkVpX
The usual pathetic “honours” nonsense. Deadhead MPs, or ex-MPs, cronies and political donors, and a few sports people I have never even heard of, the latter to keep the plebs happy while society implodes around their little Sky Sports bubble.
I'm old enough to remember Michael Gove turning up at work to vote completely off his face.
Conservative Friends of Israel drone Gove, drunk and on cocaine at Westminster. A total enemy of the people; he should be punished, not rewarded.
One of the 5 tweets that (after the Jewish lobby pushed for it) got me disbarred in 2016 was that calling Gove a snivelling expenses cheat in hock to the Jewish/Israel lobby. True facts. I (like most people) was unaware at that time (around 2012) that Gove was also both a drunk and a cocaine abuser.
Another of those 5 tweets was that calling Nicolas Sarkozy a corrupt little Jew. I was partly wrong there (he is only a half-Jew). Sarkozy has of course now been found guilty in a French court of corruption, alongside other Jews.
All my famous or (according to the Jewish lobby) infamous “5 tweets” (posted online between 2010 and 2014) have now been proven to have been true in almost every particular.
Incidentally, in more recent years, the Bar Standards Board wrote to me inviting me to have the disbarment annulled and a “rehearing” take place, mainly because I should never have been tried by a 5-person panel but only by a 3-person panel (which would have had no power to disbar), but I declined, partly because I was already well over 60 and unlikely to resume Bar practice, partly to show my contempt for the Bar (which is now a craven, multikulti dustbin afraid of its own shadow and especially the shadow of the Jewish/Israel lobby).
In other words, had I taken up that suggestion, I should by now have been reinstated as both barrister and —perhaps more useful to me— as a member of Lincoln’s Inn (a pleasant place for a lunch or dinner when in London). Still, I have no regrets, none of importance anyway.
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Fucked up the numbers with Cleverly didn’t he and thank GOD. What on earth was he doing backing a man whose catastrophic choices cost him and so many of us jobs.
No need to be puzzled. Gove— Israel lobby servant; Shapps, a Jew-Zionist also totally tied in with the Israel lobby. Probably the rest too. Join the dots.
First casualty in the Ukrainian military program "18–24"
The first confirmed death has been recorded among those who signed up for Ukraine's controversial "18-24" program, which allows young adults to enlist in the military. pic.twitter.com/RnPclXYmuY
Veronika, a 22/23-y-o Ukrainian woman. What was she doing anywhere near the frontlines of a harsh and bitter war? This is uncivilized.
Also, baselines used to be about losing life, liberty or other equally important parameters – stress, comfort, and inconvenience being used as legitimate excuses debunks and demeans the entire system.
Britain is now the first Western country to have a white minority in its major cities: London is 37% white
A story by British Reform Party leader Farage is going viral in France, which, along with Sweden, is vying to soon become the second such Western country. pic.twitter.com/53qYTZInqZ
It follows that, to maintain white Northern European civilization, the notion of “one man one vote” pseudo-democracy has to be abandoned until such time as Europe is once again fully European.
Voting alone, ordinary political activity alone, cannot now save us.
European countries have already allocated more than 23 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine this year. pic.twitter.com/36nYtT5PgE
Starmer-stein has just today sent another £450M of British people’s money to the Jew-Zionist dictatorship in Kiev, monies that should be spent on British hospitals, schools, roads, rail services etc.
Verhovna RADA will continue mobilization and state of emergency in Ukraine – Stefanchuk pic.twitter.com/AuUcRa3bCZ
The death toll from Israel’s strike on the Shujaiya neighborhood on the outskirts of Gaza City has risen to 35, with dozens reported missing, the Qatari-based Al Jazeera television channel reported:https://t.co/V8xXmfrBv8pic.twitter.com/AP6omKDOrB
Not (yet) quite the view I have been putting on the blog for the past three years, i.e. Russia to take all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper, as well as a wide coastal strip from the Dnieper as far as a point west of Odessa. Kiev and Odessa to be free cities (either autonomous or jointly-controlled). The rest of Ukraine west of the Dnieper to be ruled by a Ukrainian administration based in Lvov.
I think that the above formulation by me would be fair, and could form the basis for a lasting, if not very friendly, peace.
The Kellogg plan is frankly not as good as mine. It involves British and French forces effectively working with those of the Kiev regime on the ground, and has every likelihood of entangling the Western forces in conflict with Russia, directly.
Russia will never accept that plan anyway.
In any case, from the British point of view, why should we be involved at all? Ukraine has only been a supposed state for 34 years, and Britain has no historical connection with Ukraine, nor any national interest in getting directly involved.
The bottom line, though, is that Russia will never accept such a plan.
“Britain has still to make the decision as to whether it wants to be an advanced, European-race, high-IQ, high-tech, environmentally-aware country, or a multikulti black-brown and mixed-race mess, a “Congo-North” if you like, with ever-declining standards, pay, “welfare”, environment and culture.”
“Thousands of people left in limbo since plans to deport them to Rwanda were axed will now have their asylum claims processed in the UK, Labour has confirmed.
More than 5,000 asylum seekers were on an initial list drawn up by the previous government to be sent to Rwanda under a deal between the two countries.
One of the first acts of the Labour government was to scrap the Rwanda scheme, resulting in many of the 5,700 people the Kigali administration had agreed to accept having their claims processed in the UK asylum system. Some subsequently received decisions on their claims but it is estimated that thousands have remained in limbo.”
[Guardian]
As predicted on this blog, the Keir Starmer-stein “Labour” (Labour Friends of Israel) misgovernment is “solving” the problem by simply rubberstamping the applications of the migrant invaders.
Even under the fake “Conservatives”, at least 80% of the applications were “processed” leading to acceptance. In other words, over 80% were being allowed to stay, meaning that they then get rights to housing, social security/”welfare” payments, and all other benefits available to the actual British population.
This latest news is, of course, the tip of the iceberg. It is probably correct to say that over 90% of migrant-invaders are now being allowed to stay in the UK, with most of the rest also in effect allowed to stay by reason of not being removed from this country. In fact, the few actually leaving are almost all doing so voluntarily, and there are very few of them.
The next step will be, as I also predicted, “processing” invaders before they even get on those rubber boats. They will then enter the UK superficially “legally”, along with the enormous number of other “legal” migrants (migrant-invaders). Between half a million and one and a half million a year.
[from 2020, during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic]
“Businessman Simon Dolan is trying to block the government enforcing new restrictions. His lawyer tells the High Court: Deaths are 2-3% of total, considerably lower than the flu. The gov prioritises only suppression of the virus. It has an obligation to weigh all harms...”
[online news report from 2020]
Pity that, at that time, the courts (and the Government, and the news media, especially idiots such as Piers Morgan) were driven by panic and by “me-too” thinking or non-thinking.
As I predicted on the blog, the stupid shutdown of the economy and society because of a virus which was actually killing almost no-one would damage the UK for many years, and so it has transpired.
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Amazing spring day at Pompeii. If you don’t already know, Dr. Sophie Hay @pompei79 is the one to follow for all the latest news and finds pic.twitter.com/PpqvpGEdI5
A chance encounter this evening with a herd of 7 fallow deer near Oakworth Station. I've seen them around quite a bit when I'm out and about but not usually as many as this and not as close-up. 😊 pic.twitter.com/Pp2Jg0EEuh
— Brontë Country Landscapes (@AFowlerPhoto) April 9, 2025
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]
Did you know that bees sleep between 5-8 hours a day, sometimes in flowers? Also, they like to sleep with other bees and hold each other’s feet.
Shut up. New York City is a hellhole. Admittedly, I have not been there for 32 years, but I knew it fairly well and am still, nominally, a member of the New York Bar.
Some thoughts around the Trump tariffs etc
Assuming that the tariff wars continue and even escalate, what will result?
To my mind, the basic or overarching result will be that trade between the USA and the worst-hit other states will fall away, fall off, and then become trade among those tariff-hit states. China will deal more with Russia, India, Japan, European (including EU) states etc.
It is said that diplomacy has three main branches: classical or straight diplomacy (diplomats, intergovernmental contacts, military pacts etc), economic “diplomacy” (trade and trading incidents, eg tariffs, sanctions etc), and cultural “diplomacy” (such as that which used to exist between the Soviet Union and the West, via such bodies as the UK Foreign Office-funded G.B.-U.S.S.R. Association, to which I myself belonged in the 1980s).
Already, we can see that Russia is gradually forming a trade axis with a core group (China, North Korea, Iran) and a wider outer group (India, and numerous other states across the world). Now, the American or Trump tariffs will create a different bloc of tariff-hit states trading inter se and interpenetrating that first bloc. A kind of Venn diagram.
I can only assume that those advising Trump have it in mind to rebuild American industry and commerce by choking off the supply of foreign goods and maybe also services entering the United States, thus stimulating domestic production. That might work, though at the cost of driving up prices in many cases. However, there would obviously be consequential effects, in that retaliatory tariffs would hit American industry and commerce. China is leading the way in that regard.
The ultimate effects are still unknown. Of course, economic warfare can result in real warfare, and that has been seen time and again, as with the US-Japan situation prior to 1941.
It is not unlikely that the next major war will be between the USA and China.
The World Trade Organization forecasts the contraction of the trade turnover between the US and China by 80% due to mutual duties against each other:https://t.co/pDSAxhxvHbpic.twitter.com/XmouleDGCA
[“One of the UK’s biggest police forces has just temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to “boost diversity”. This is ‘positive discrimination’ or some might say ‘anti-white racism’ that could well be lawful. It will also fuel claims of a two-tier justice system.”]
Many of the ethnic “minority” recruits are later dismissed, often after having committed serious crimes.
The death toll from Israel’s strike on the Shujaiya neighborhood on the outskirts of Gaza City has risen to 35, with dozens reported missing, the Qatari-based Al Jazeera television channel reported:https://t.co/V8xXmfrBv8pic.twitter.com/AP6omKDOrB
How many Hamas tunnels are still active? Israeli Channel 12 TV reported, citing security officials, that since the beginning of genocide in Gaza, the Israeli army has only been able to destroy about 25% of Hamas tunnels in the strip. pic.twitter.com/RYYo0LxMjD
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 9, 2025
I do not know why the Hamas organization decided to attack Israel eighteen months ago. I have no idea why they did not wait until they had constructed much deeper and much longer tunnels, perhaps reaching as far as the Tel Aviv area.
The day after West Yorkshire Police advertised jobs overtly excluding whites we get this about trusting the police. Something sinister is going on from top to bottom of British society. I feel threatened @DouglasKMurray@RupertLowe10https://t.co/r1LaIZeJX6
I rang the West Yorkshire Police 6 years ago & told them 5 Asians had spit at me & said they would rape my daughter if I went in the betting shop I was again , they're response ? Find a different betting shop !
This is like bio-Leninism. Putting the people that hate the indigenous population in charge. This will increase the ferocity and willingness to oppress and dismiss the concerns of the indigenous white population.
The free speech video platform Bitchute has had to totally discontinue its service in the UK due to the draconian "Online Safety Act"
The EU is following a similar course of clamping down on social media platforms that allow free speech. Europe is heading for a dark future. pic.twitter.com/wJzRJEKCDd
The Russian Federal Security Service recorded a video of Arthur Petrov onboard a Russian plane after swapping him for US national Ksenia Karelina, where he said he is very eager to return home:https://t.co/1pLV5icO6Ypic.twitter.com/xasl2jRxyq
Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield, missile and artillery depots over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/DaDsUG0Ohdpic.twitter.com/xvAlvQ1WyU
The scamdemic/panicdemic is still accepted by many as something real, rather than a massive hoax which basically temporarily reclassified influenza as “Covid”, and then pretended that a kind of Black Death was stalking Europe, thus opening up (as the WEF —World Economic Forum— crowed at the time) an opportunity for a “Great Reset” of society, including strict controls on free speech, travel etc.
The propaganda around “Covid” bit deep. I still see, years later, the odd loonie wearing the useless cloth facemasks once mandated by ill-intentioned bureaucrats and plotters (such as the infamous Professor Ferguson).
In fact, in the past few weeks, I have seen four such facemask loonies, one a pink-haired, fat, and youngish (twenties/thirties?) woman employee at a Tesco supermarket about 5 miles from my home, a second one also a Tesco employee, though without the coloured hair; the others two very elderly women shopping at the same store.
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China has begun to devalue. Moves are still small, but this is clearly a signal to Washington. After all, the Dollar has been falling, so – if anything – the Yuan should be rising against the Dollar to remain stable in trade-weighted terms. But it's falling and that's a signal… pic.twitter.com/txgaMaiuaX
The price of futures contracts of Brent crude oil for June 2025 delivery has dropped below $64 per barrel on London's ICE for the first time since April 26, 2021, according to trading data:https://t.co/ak5iYVf2hNpic.twitter.com/RpAAflS7Ia
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 6, 2025
An official representative of the Ukrainian Air Force said that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to intercept Russian missiles and drones, as they are constantly being modernized. pic.twitter.com/vXUimByho5
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 6, 2025
Dmitriev: It is possible that the American deep state is attempting a color revolution against Trump
AROUND 1,200 ANTI-TRUMP DEMONSTRATIONS IN ALL 50 AMERICAN STATES
The protests were organized under the slogan "Hands Off" and were directed against Trump's "comprehensive… pic.twitter.com/XAP598lulJ
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 6, 2025
Some but not all of the preconditions for a second American civil war are in place.
Kemi Badenoch's defence of Israel's shameful detention and deportation of British MPs is just the latest example of a politician whose real loyalties lie elsewherehttps://t.co/PvSUGRFwkt
Kemi Badenoch may have a British passport but is not really British; she is a Nigerian. Her mother deliberately had her in London so that she, Kemi, would be “entitled” to a British passport (and have the “right” of residence in the UK). Kemi Badenoch was brought up in the USA and Nigeria and did not return to the UK until she was at least 16.
Kemi Badenoch is an African with very shallow roots in the UK, is a puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby, and believes that only those with significant money should have any rights. Bin her.
Not my opinion alone (though it would not concern me if it were). Opinion polls now have the “Conservative” Party around 20%, which (as far as I know) is the lowest level of support ever.
There is every chance that, in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election (1 May 2025), the Con Party will end up in 3rd, possibly 4th, or even 5th place (after Reform UK, Labour, LibDem, and possibly Greens).
Of course the two MPs deported from Israel are also not really British…
ECONOMY – A tale of 2 countries.
▪️India hits 1 billion tons of coal production. GDP growth: 6.5%.
The problem British voters have is that all three main System parties (LibLabCon) are basically enemies of the people, all complicit.
The dog, sensing that her owner is about to have an epileptic seizure, first makes her owner sit on the floor, then gets water from the cupboard, finds her medicine and gives it to her, then makes her owner lie on the floor.❤️ pic.twitter.com/B1vrwe4uHQ
The situation on the global oil market is extremely turbulent, which is related to the US’ decision to impose tariffs on the majority of countries, Dmitry Peskov said, adding that the Russian authorities are keeping a close eye on it:https://t.co/5ozgpWG2vupic.twitter.com/YBptNlaD2G
The Russian economy is demonstrating solid growth rates, being attractive to investors, especially Western ones, Russian Economic Development Minister Maksim Reshetnikov said:https://t.co/Cos0jIqiBtpic.twitter.com/AwescPkuyq
Trump calls for Europe to pay reparations to the US: "We put a big tariff on Europe. They are coming to the table. They want to talk, but there's no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis number one for present but also for past." pic.twitter.com/q1f3N5ebMz
Still, this may be the chance Europe needs. If Europe as a whole forms a better and more friendly relationship with Russia, and distances the USA (and China) somewhat, it would be to the advantage of both Europe and Russia.
Sometimes things are seen more clearly from outside, from a distance.
Good evening. We are 71% of the way to our £5,000 target. Again, I intend to seek a vexatious litigant order against Stephanie Hayden which, if granted, should stop him suing anyone else in the future. My legal team tell me there's a high chance of getting one.…
Not sure of the facts of that matter, but “Legal Gengar” has done sterling work exposing fraudulent “grifters” such as “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas) and the Jew, Simon Harris (aka “Man Behaving Dadly” etc).
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“For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness.”
[1 Corinthians 1:22-23, King James Authorized Version]
EXCL: One of the Tories’ biggest donors has stopped funding the party in a move insiders believe will result in the closure of its northern HQ – @elenicourea reveals https://t.co/0vAx5zFOjc
Until now Populism has been a primarily right-wing phenomenon. But after the insanity of the past couple of months a door is now being opened for left-wing populism. Trump is destroying the settled capitalist consensus. And it’s not going to take much for someone to fill the gap.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 7, 2025
You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years
Back from extinction
using ancient DNA from fossils up to 72,000 years old, Colossal reconstructed a full genome , through precise CRISPR edits, and brought this species to life pic.twitter.com/jMVtnKtT9m
The fear that Rachel Reeves is putting on disabled people and those that already suffer from conditions is horrific. I would never have voted Labour at the last election if I had known about their disgusting plans. They are no better than the Tories.
It only takes one individual to stand up, step up, and send a message that will never be forgotten.
Rachel Reeves has no credibility. She had a company credit card taken away because of misuse, she had her parliamentary credit card suspended because of misuse, she falsified her CV,and her recently published book was riddled with plagiarism. The chancellor is a fraudster #Fraudpic.twitter.com/iAJjUGOo3n
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts https://t.co/4NxN5nL5KZ Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday
I am sure that the migrant-invaders and other non-Brits will appreciate the free housing. Then they can start (or continue) to breed.
More of the green countryside lost to featureless sprawl.
Is this a pic of Rachel Reeves? This homeless looking crack slag doesn't look like a gov't bigshot. She looks like she really needs a shower, a shampoo and some deodorant. Eww! https://t.co/RALSio7ein
About time that the British people awoke to the fact that most of those purporting to rule over them are their enemies.
"Take a good look at Labour’s roll call of benefits scrounges: Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell, and Anas Sarwar—each one a master of mooching off the system they claim to fix. Starmer’s hauled in £107,145 since…
[“Take a good look at Labour’s roll call of benefits scrounges: Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell, and Anas Sarwar—each one a master of mooching off the system they claim to fix. Starmer’s hauled in £107,145 since 2019—£20,437 for a lord’s flat, £16,200 in suits, £2,435 for glasses, and £18,000+ in football tickets while fans queue for crumbs. Rayner’s £3,550 wardrobe and £1,250 New York getaway, courtesy of Lord Waheed Alli, scream entitlement—she can’t even dress herself on £150,000 a year. Reeves, our tight-fisted Chancellor, snatched £7,500 in outfits, while Streeting grabbed £1,160 Taylor Swift tickets as the NHS staggers. Phillipson’s £14,000 ‘event’ cash from Alli—birthday bash, anyone?—pairs with her concert freebies, and Powell’s £40,289 since 2019 marks her as a seasoned scrounger. Sarwar’s £10,117 in Scottish perks tops his MSP rivals. Together, they’ve gorged on £220,000 in shadow cabinet handouts—£700,000 across all MPs in a year—preaching equality while pocketing privilege. Hypocrisy doesn’t just drip from this lot; it pours, a rancid flood of greed proving they think rules are for us plebs and benefits are their divine right. Utterly revolting!“]
Dear Rachel Reeves MPs claimed over £200 million in expenses over the last 3 years. Why is it their electricity, gas, council tax, and contents insurance for second homes is paid for by us, the taxpayers? #GMB#BBCBreakfast
Delegations from Russia and the US have conducted technical consultations in Riyadh and sent reports to their respective leaders; the talks’ results will not be published, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/LcsV1esmZ4pic.twitter.com/cmt6GgmWHF
A widely circulated video shows secondary detonations at a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot in Sumy Oblast after an Iskander missile strike pic.twitter.com/GCDA9QtAnc
Ukraine continues attacks on Russia's civilian energy infrastructure amid the Moscow-Washington consultations in Riyadh, the Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled the main information on the Ukrainian attacks:https://t.co/20sDdznUpWpic.twitter.com/mCNJVWJR0s
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/jyPEVoOAJRpic.twitter.com/Jdt0qhbmzI
The more that I think about the upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election, the more I think that Reform are going to smash it.
No matter that I could imagine Reform with a better candidate (someone such as Matt Goodwin), though the Reform candidate seems voter-acceptable, anyway. The important thing, surely, is the hatred so many people now feel for the main System parties and even more —because of the feeling of betrayal— from Labour (in fact much more than for the Conservatives who, despite their appalling record 2010-2024, are now seen as near-irrelevant, finished, washed-up).
That’s before you even factor-in the fact that the Conservative Party is now led by a Nigerian woman who also seems totally clueless. Also, Kemi Badenoch’s thunder (on social security, tax, spending cuts etc) has been stolen by Labour. Labour is just a label now, and is even less social, let alone socialist, than the Conservative Party.
For me, it is telling that the Labour candidate for the by-election is trying to ape Reform, demanding the closure of hotels occupied by migrant-invaders etc. It is clear that Labour considers Reform to be its main rival, and not only at Runcorn and Helsby.
In the past nearly 9 months, the Labour “brand” has been totally trashed. The whole population, I should have thought, has turned away from Labour. Pensioners, the young, anyone receiving any State benefit at all, anyone anti-migration invasion, anyone with any genuine feeling for the English countryside, will not be voting Labour.
The petty corruption and sleaze of the Labour Cabinet may be dwarfed by the corruption of the past years of “Con Party” misgovernment, but the point, I think, is that people, especially in the North of England, somehow expected Labour to be somehow better.
The sheer “we are the masters now” arrogance and callousness exhibited by Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Starmer-stein, and their lesser followers such as Torsten Bell, has disgusted millions.
People now, after only 9 months, see this Labour-label regime as being quite as bad, and in fact worse in every way, than those of 14 years of Conservative misgovernment.
I do not think that Labour’s appalling handling of foreign affairs (by thick “diversity-hire” Lammy, as well as by Starmer-stein himself) will count for much at the by-election, either way, but people can surely see that Starmer has made a fool of himself by threatening to send (almost non-existent) troops to Ukraine etc. That is so even for people who support the Kiev regime.
I think that important factors at the by-election will include the continuing migration-invasion, the petty sleaze and corruption of Labour’s top echelon, the hypocrisy of the same, the sense of Britain as a country sliding to chaos and even civil war (albeit not this year), the behaviour of the former Labour MP, the wish to give Labour a real kick and, perhaps most important, the sense of total betrayal by Labour.
At present, both polling orgs and bookmakers predict a modest or narrow win for Reform.
I may be wrong, but I think we could be looking at a huge win by Reform. A win in the region of as much as 50% or even 60% of the vote-share. Labour? Maybe 20%-30%. Cons? 10% or below; maybe even a lost deposit.
This might turn out to be a very significant by-election result. If Reform can win it, the win might pave the way for dozens of others in this Parliament.
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The shocking sense of unfairness that now pervades British life —millions of hardworking, tax paying, law-abiding Brits now feel they’re being taken for a ride by a political class that puts immigrants first https://t.co/KaihWoYU3i
Wrong. The “political class” in the UK puts itself first, then its cronies and bribe-makers, and only then the migrant-invaders etc, with most British people last in line.
Only 11% of Brits think Rachel from Accounts is doing a 'good job' –YouGov, today
[“A British school scrapping Easter to celebrate “refugee week” & “diversity” is not a trivial story It reflects something which unites today’s ruling elite –a belief in “asymmetrical multiculturalism”. And what’s that? It is the belief you must celebrate every identity, culture & people except your own I wrote about this and the attack on who we are here https://mattgoodwin.org/p/the-war-against-our-past-inside-the“]
[Philby on a 5-kopeck late-Soviet commemorative postage stamp, and described as “Soviet Razvedchik“, a term which might be translated as “intelligencer”, rather than the grubbier-sounding “spy” (in Russian, “shpion”); “razvedchik” is a more polite or dignified term]
“Secret surveillance of Britain’s notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.
In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.
They said he gave “no outward sign of being either nervous or on the alert, but your well trained man should not do so; every movement is natural – again as it should be”
[Guardian]
The whole Philby thing has always been hugely overblown. Philby himself has been over-rated, too. Superficially well-educated, yes, but really a rather dogmatic Marxist-Leninist who, under other formative circumstances, might have been like some of the other basically mediocre professional-level bourgeois Englishmen I have met in my life, and who were not in secret-intelligence work but, variously, Roman Catholic converts, and/or military officers or barristers or other activity.
Philby was certainly no great mind, though he evidently thought himself very clever. Likewise, he was a bit of a plodder ideologically.
I recall that Philby wrote in his supposed memoirs (possibly part-ghosted by KGB helpers), My Silent War, or elsewhere, that “you choose your side and stick with it“, i.e. rather as others do to the Labour or Conservative parties, or to (the contemporary British obsession) football clubs. Unthinking loyalty. Stick-in-the-mud loyalty.
The puffing of Philby as the “masterspy”, or even “spymaster”, suited both sides in the Cold War: the Soviet side getting the gloss of having not only suborned Philby and other “Establishment” Englishmen to the Marxist/Soviet cause, but also having outplayed Western intelligence agencies in the spy game.
As for the British part of the Western side, Philby’s prominence could be presented as an example of why pervasive “security” (and the whole Cold War stance) was necessary. Also, his supposed “brilliance” in a way bolstered the reputation of institutions such as the more expensive English schools (Philby was at Westminster School) and, of course, the supposedly elite universities, in particular Cambridge.
The whole “Cambridge spies” story tends to puff the reputation of SIS and MI5 (despite their having been outplayed) by making their role seem terribly important. One scribbler even penned a well-known book called Philby— The Spy Who Betrayed A Generation, as if the Cambridge Spies were pretty much the centrepiece of British history since the 1930s, rather than an obscure footnote to it.
In the 1930s (when Philby started to work for Soviet organizations), there was (in the first half of the decade) the Great Depression, and the initial triumph of National Socialism in Germany. In the middle of the 1930s to 1939, the Spanish Civil War, while in Britain itself, the economy was recovering and society changing .
Then, in the early/mid 1940s, there was the titanic Second World War (in the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War).
In Britain, after 1945, there were the great social changes of the 1950s and 1960s. By that time, the “Cambridge Spies” were mostly not even in the UK. Maclean and Burgess had fled in 1951, and Philby was in journalistic exile in the Middle East. The economic and social changes in the UK were the main events, together with the start of the disastrous migration-invasion of non-whites into the UK, and Britain’s retreat from Empire.
The “Cambridge Spies” were not even footnotes to much of that. Near-irrelevant, despite the obsessions of the Westminster Bubblers and newspaper scribblers.
What damaged Britain in the 1940s through to the 1960s, and then on to today, was not a few spies passing on information to the Soviet Union, but the abandonment of Empire, the importation of blacks and browns in vast numbers, the cultural decadence etc.
You often see Philby and his fellow Cambridge spies described as “upper-class” or even “aristocratic”. In fact, not one was of “aristocratic” background, though all (except Cairncross) were affluent or wealthy. Philby’s own father was from an affluent government-connected family [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Philby] but a fact generally ignored or covered-up is that Philby’s mother, Dora, was half-Indian, a so-called “chi-chi” (pron. “shi-shi”), which may have subtly affected his loyalties.
General Kalugin, in his memoirs, describes how his superiors had the idea of using Philby, then in Moscow, as a kind of lure for potential agents in the West, by showing that he was respected, had a good life etc. His first meeting with the shambling drunken Philby makes a memorable picture.
Incidentally, Philby never learned to speak or read Russian beyond a rudimentary level, and had English-language books supplied to him via the KGB (presumably via people at the London embassy, and the diplomatic bag).
In the early 1990s, sometime around 1994, I was slightly acquainted with a Russian businessman living in London, and with an office in Regent Street, who had some legal business (I was a barrister at the time). We had lunch at least once at my Inn (of Court), Lincoln’s Inn. I recall that the Spanish waitress was very taken with “Ed” [Edvard] and his rather Scandinavian looks (he was from the Baltic regions) and even asked me later if I might effect an introduction for her (that never happened).
“Ed” was quite open about the fact that, prior to his taking to capitalist business activity, he had been in the KGB, though that would only have been, at a guess, for a relatively few years. He recalled having been at a lecture or two given by Philby in Moscow (he said that that had been at the Lubyanka).
Incidentally, those comments in the Guardian from the MI5 surveillance directorate in 1951 do tend to beg the question; after all, if a surveillance target is acting naturally, then either he is not guilty, or is literally acting (and/or has been trained to act) naturally, so in fact may be guilty. If, though, the target looks nervous, looks for reflections in shop windows etc, does that mean that he is guilty, or is he just a nervous wreck and/or afraid of being thought guilty? Wilderness of mirrors.
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This is getting obscene now. How do you give people greater dignity by removing their ability to wash below the waist and get in and out of the shower. https://t.co/Htcx53yS2A
The sheer hypocrisy of the Labour Friends of Israel “Labour” government is simply unbelievable. Surely Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Torsten Bell, Starmer-stein etc can see that? Or are they so removed from truth and decency that they cannot see it? That might be even more alarming.
A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters | Reform UK | The Guardian https://t.co/EgBKUoNgaE
I should imagine that even Labour-inclined voters will be voting Reform UK (or staying home) at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, in order to send a message (and/or a kick) to this horrifyingly callous and irredeemably incompetent misgovernment.
As to Conservative Party loyalists in the area, I should say that the Cons have no chance— so vote Reform in order to stick it to fake Labour.
From “tepid bath of managed decline” (really offensive) to blood bath. On top of 30,000 NHS England jobs. We are the party of work, it’s in our name, says Starmer! I don’t think you are. What a disgrace and totally counterproductive in an already struggling economy. https://t.co/HNL1ZdmhUP
“Given that there is a lot of talk about changes to special educational needs provision and reform plans for the NHS, we should worry about what the government might focus on next. Equally alarming, it seems to me, is a belief in Downing Street that reviving the UK demands embracing the wonders of artificial intelligence, which Keir Starmer believes will have an almost magical effect on everything from social work to education, and realise his new dream of “totally rewiring government”. Because this is an administration so lacking in everyday humanity, that is a much more scary prospect than he and his colleagues seem to realise.“
[John Harris in The Guardian]
I should not be surprised to find (if I am still around) that, somewhere down the line, in 5+ years’ time, the members of the present Cabinet will find themselves up against a wall.
A super piece. I simply don't take Kemi Badenoch seriously. She will never be Prime Minister. I rate her 1/10. Keir Starmer, who I rate 3/10, surely can't believe his luck. Even so, tangentially, I increasingly wonder how much longer Starmer is PM? He'll be gone well before 2029.
Russia and the US have a long way to go to resolve the situation in Ukraine, and there is no point in deceiving ourselves about imminent prospects, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov pic.twitter.com/SmBOg59npJ
Sumy Oblast or region is in NE Ukraine. Sumy city is NNW of Kharkov; about 150 miles from Kharkov by road but only about 90 miles as the crow flies. About 200 miles east of Kiev.
So Russian forces are in Sumy Oblast now. There seem to be Russian advances in all material parts of the overall front. Kiev-regime forces are falling back.
I don't think people properly understand the extent to which Labour is now the party of the rich. In 1997 the Tories led Labour by 10 points amongst the most affluent AB social class. But Labour led the Tories by 23 points amongst C2s, and 38 points amongst DEs. In 2024 Labour…
Why do many think it impossible that “the lion will lie down with the lamb” in a future age? All things are possible.
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Instead of addressing the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict, Europe is only exacerbating them by increasing military spending and considering the deployment of its troops in Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/g3iz7sEnq1pic.twitter.com/JlZGOa4D4b
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If you want the full story about Beth Grossman of Doughty Street, Mark Lewis of Patron Law, and Daniel Berke of 3D Solicitors, here it is:https://t.co/02BP64b6sl
I think it was Daniel Berke’s firm 3D Solicitors who acted for Pete Newbon in relation to Northumbria. Maybe it was them who advised him not to make the agreed apology?
As to why they gave that advice, my theory is that the plan was to sue Michael Rosen and making the apology…
For those who are unaware of the outline of James Wilson’s (now-successful) libel case against three defendants (all Jews; in one case, possibly only a part-Jew), the defendants were advised and/or represented by Jewish solicitors and barristers who seem to have been, all or variously, professionally negligent and/or incompetent.
Mark Lewis and Daniel Berke were the main solicitors for the defendants, Beth Grossman of Doughty Street Chambers was the barrister (possibly the only barrister; I do not know, and only heard of her recently, via Wilson’s Twitter/X account and Substack blog).
Are people reading your Substack blogs?
— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 (@MichaelRosenYes) March 21, 2025
I get about 900 views per piece on average. And the daily visits keep going up so far.
I definitely have some very committed readers in the legal field.
I expect they know Mark Lewis professionally and are keen to see his antics finally exposed?
“Lewis’s reputation“? Ha ha! Only ignorant fools think that that is worth more than a plugged nickel. I have blogged many times about him, over many years; he has never once threatened to sue me (no doubt partly by reason of my impecuniosity, but truth as defence –or other defences— may also have much to do with it).
Feel free to republish any of my blog posts. After all, I was a barrister until a pack of Jews procured my wrongful and, it turned out later, actually unlawful disbarment (in 2016): see
Success and failure are never certain. The great Stephen Sedley tells a funny story about when he started as a barrister doing work for North Kensington Law Centre. pic.twitter.com/TC4nydR6P6
Ha. Amusing. As a matter of fact, I myself appeared as Counsel in the High Court several times before Sedley, a High Court judge at the time (early 1990s), notably in a case involving a former member of the Angolan Secret Service.
I doubt that there are many barristers who have never suffered excruciating embarrassment in open court. For example…
As for Goodwin, I recently flagged the possibility, no more, that he might be on the following trajectory— win a by-election (Runcorn & Helsby?) as a Reform UK candidate, take over from Farage the leadership of Reform (with Farage’s support), and then (once Reform has become the largest party in the Commons after the next general election ) become Prime Minister.
It might just happen.
However, as that tweeter “Serena Brown” notes, either the UK becomes again a homogenous society, or it does not. There would be no point in a Reform UK government if it were unwilling to take the steps necessary.
This is not merely about immigration, and certainly not only about that relatively small part of immigration which comes in via the infamous “small boats”. It is about the non-whites already here, who are breeding much faster than the English/British, who themselves are not even reproducing their own numbers.
When we see Reform, we notice that it is ideologically in hock to the Jew-Zionist lobby, and pathetically adherent to Israel and Israeli interests.
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Shabana Mahood's justice system . Look how it's going is this fair is this justice …… https://t.co/EVlYYjgiFC
I have blogged previously about the bad joke that is Shabana Mahmood as “Lord Chancellor” and Secretary of State for Justice— a Pakistani woman whose total legal experience has been a 12-month Bar pupillage (decades ago), followed by a year as a salaried “gopher” at a firm of solicitors. Use the search box on the blog to find out more.
I polled a nationally representative sample of the public to test for attitudes to deportations, beginning with violent criminals, far from being a ‘very online’ fringe, it has overwhelming popular support: — 83% of all voters and 100% of reform voters https://t.co/QP2yY5oGPTpic.twitter.com/eeIY340YJc
Sexual offences – similar popular support. And notably not just with the general public but near unanimous support from reform voters — 84% of all voters and 100% reform voters would support removing migrant sexual offenders pic.twitter.com/zVdEYsXzw0
I cannot comprehend how *any* MP can believe that lowering the (relatively modest) rate of LCWRA is going to incentivize a measurable number toward employment.
The idea of 'mitigations' doesn't cut it either; the entire group is 'severely disabled.'https://t.co/6affz0ut1D
Starmer-stein is not a Labour prime minister (even of the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown type); he is a Labour Friends of Israel prime minister, and that applies, mutatis mutandis, to virtually his entire Cabinet.
Starmer-stein and his Cabinet should face real resistance from the British people.
Meanwhile, Starmer-stein continues to try to play the “world statesman” and would-be war leader, and looks ever-more pathetic as he makes that attempt.
NEW POST. NHS Insider — We should train more British young people to become doctors instead of importing less well qualified doctors from abroadhttps://t.co/ZJggUPTtLI
When simply noting the totally obvious sounds radical…
That influx of non-white doctors has another consequence: by reason of the high pay received by doctors in the UK, any offspring are automatically given a better life-chance than most white English/British children. The knock-on result is that more non-whites are going to be placed into the higher socio-economic groups in the UK, thus further weakening our civilized European culture and society.
“Last year, the General Medical Council registered 9,285 doctors who had been trained here in the UK and … get this … 19,279 doctors who had trained abroad” https://t.co/xN9e92K0JR
Yes we know… but what will @reformparty_uk actually do about it? All I hear is watered down rhetoric, political impossibilities…. Where is the solution – isn’t that how you win? Give us a credible solution, not garner votes out of the good British publics desperation.
Exactly. Reform is the last hope of many, but it is also the last chance for the System itself to survive. If Reform is squashed or disappears, we are looking at quite likely civil war, or social war, and the national revolution, down the line. However, if Reform manages to be either the largest or second-largest party after 2028 or 2029, or even in government with a Commons majority, but then fails to take the steps necessary, we shall also be looking at not-unlikely civil/social war.
We must not forget that the Jew-Zionist element is embedded in Reform. One only has to look at the pronouncements of Farage, Tice, and now Goodwin.
Still, at present, Reform UK is the only game in town:
Phenomenal growth for Reform in just 8 months:
-14% to 26% in national polls -160,000 members (220k total) -465 branches set up -30 events across country -will stand in ALL local seats
Hopefully, that little bully will be found and prosecuted, but of course his punishment, if any, will be slight, in the present society.
When the law ceases to be respected, or enforced (by reason of weak and/or politicized police, prosecutors, courts), such lawlessness leads, in the end, to the public taking the law into their own hands, and meting out more condign punishment to evildoers.
Not for nothing has “the Bailey” (Central Criminal Court, London) the following inscription on its facade: “Punish the evildoer, and protect the children of the poor“…
A deeply unpopular left wing prime minister or a man propped up as the anti-immigration right wing candidate by the same media that pretends to oppose him. Voters like Farage because they are told he is on their side, but what they want and who he actually is could not be further… https://t.co/xv0zF75ukM
It will be recalled how warmly Starmer-stein welcomed Farage into the chamber of the House of Commons for the first time.
Look at Canada. Similar story in UK. Mass immigration imposed while productivity flat lining. Why? Bc as I wrote here mass immigration is bad economics and pushing us into “population trap”. Economists were wrong https://t.co/KPXX4VnTqTpic.twitter.com/yTTHkO2ytX
The Council of the European Union has approved the payment of 3.5 billion euros to Ukraine under a macrofinancial assistance program, according to a statement:https://t.co/OrgTP4YbSopic.twitter.com/XbLFdcp8zP
The conversation between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin scheduled for March 18 is indeed being prepared, Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing in response to a TASS question:https://t.co/RXmzAXunMHpic.twitter.com/kCNZN8pbKt
Russian forces fully liberated the community of Stepovoye in the Zaporozhye Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday:https://t.co/zHeKGo2sgApic.twitter.com/pQbyH8kaw4
What? Apparently the incoming President of the International Olympic Committee Sebastian Coe visited Epstein’s Island 11 times!! pic.twitter.com/HebCwV40u5
'State pension is a benefit not entitlement – what you get is up to Starmer' https://t.co/TmQ2ELIFtJ I worked from 16 to 65 and never missed a payment as did my wife you piece of shit . Whilst you piss money up the wall on Ukraine and you lunatic green policies
Over £7.5bn in universal credit is spent on foreigners as more than one million non-Britons claiming benefits. Also when given leave to remain, they also qualify for state pension!
There is your savings @RachelReevesMP NOT the sick, disabled and vulnerable UK nationals !!
These penguins were stuck in a dip and were freezing to death, so this BBC Crew broke the rules stating they can't interfere to save them pic.twitter.com/jjicLNeq8o
Who makes up stupid rules like that anyway? Small-minded people who think that the natural world is not connected with humanity. Glad that those BBC people broke the “rules” laid down.
I often break rules, and feel good about doing so.
If the most significant event in my life was an extramarital affair with Britain's least successful prime minister, I would simply not write an autobiography. pic.twitter.com/t3vvxxRj8W
Runcorn & Helsby is the 144th most 'Reform-friendly' seat in the country.
If Reform can win there it can make enormous inroads across Labour-held territory in northern England, Yorkshire and the Midlands https://t.co/BhN57QraEs
“The government says it wants to make significant savings on welfare payments to the disabled and help the disabled into work. The point, say all ministers – led Sir Keir Starmer – is not to harm the disabled, but to free them from a life of dependency. That, they claim, is why this is a truly “Labour” reform — and not just brutal cuts engineered by Rachel Reeves because she needs billions in savings so as not to breach arbitrary, self-imposed fiscal rules on the assessment date of 26 March. Is any of this plausible?
The first thing to say is the point of fiscal rules should be to help focus minds in government about how best to share scarce resources between different important resources. They should not set hard deadlines for making decisions with potentially profound consequences for the lives of millions of people.
We’ve already seen an example of the political dangers of trying to rush through changes to personal independence payments (PIP) and the health related elements of universal credit – because one element that was particularly upsetting to Labour MPs has already been dropped, namely a one year freeze on PIP payments.
But as my colleague Anushka Asthana has been exclusively disclosing for the last ten days, this was only one part of the welfare reform package. The other elements were to restrict entitlement to personal independence payments, while cutting the health-related universal credit payments and recycling those UC savings into an increase in the standard rate of UC. You can see in this the simple story and perhaps simplistic story about welfare payments to the disabled that the government believes and is trying to tell.
First, that hundreds of thousands of people receive cash to help with their living and mobility costs, but don’t “deserve” it.
Second, that the structure of UC payments provides too great an incentive to disabled people to sign themselves off work to get the health-related benefits top up.
Starmer will doubtless take comfort from the fact that – according to polling by the Good Growth Foundation – 60% believe the system provides too much support to people who don’t want to work and 39% think that it’s too easy for people to get benefits who don’t need them. But popular belief does not make it true. And before going further into the nitty gritty, it is worth doing a quick economic reality check. It is a fact that the proportion of British people in employment has fallen since Covid and, unlike many other rich economies, has not recovered to 2019 levels. But the proportion of British people who are working remains high by international standards. According to the OECD, in the third quarter of 2023 the UK ranked fifth in the world, with an employment rate of 74.9%, well ahead of the US for example, and behind only Iceland, the Netherlands, Japan and Germany
Even if it is a laudible ambition to encourage more people into work. The UK’s is not an economy whose failure is that too few people are working. The grotesque failure of the British economy is hardly a mystery.
It is that living standards for those in work have barely increased for more than 15 years and too many of those in work receive too little to pay even for food, energy and other essentials.
Pretty much every competitor country whose employment rate has recovered to pre-covid levels has higher productivity and higher wages than the UK. Which might tell you that Britain’s problem is not that its benefit system is skewiff but that it’s the labour market itself that is broken, that remunerated toil in Britain delivers inadequate incentives. And by the way, we don’t have a benefit system in the UK that is remotely generous or lavish by international standards.
Research published only last week by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research showed that we spend less on welfare as a share of GDP than the average for developed nations.
Also when it comes to the so-called replacement rate – what any unemployed person receives as a proportion of earnings from employment – only the unemployed in Australia and the US receive less.
Unemployment payments are significantly higher everywhere else in Europe, for example.
And another thing. As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has shown, standard universal credit does not cover the costs of basics and essentials, for families or single people. “Ah ha!” you may exclaim, especially if you are the PM or chancellor. Surely this proves that there is a unhealthy incentive in the UC system for any claimant to prove that he or she has “limited capacity for work or work related activity” – to be diagnosed as unfit for work – so that their UC entitlements would go (for a single person) from £400 to £823, a month. But is an extra £106 a week the kind of incentive that would persuade a vulnerable person to permanently shut down their availability for work?
And if it were cut and partly offset by a rise in standard universal credit – which is what Starmer plans – would that persuade the vulnerable person to look for jobs?
That doesn’t feel compelling as an argument – especially in a world where most employers are reluctant to employ disabled people, let alone retain them on their books.
So another concern about the timing of these welfare changes is they come well before the findings of an equally important government review, that by former John Lewis boss Charlie Mayfield about how employers can be helped to retain and hire disabled people. Later this week he will publish his “discovery” document, about why employers struggle to keep in employment those who start to feel unwell, especially those suffering from mental ill-health. However Mayfield is still months away from recommendations.
In other words, it feels cart-before-horse to take cash from the disabled before a new support system is in place for employers to keep on their books those who are struggling.
As for the proposal to increase the threshold for those claiming the PIP, this will have an impact both on new claimants and those in receipt who are subject to review. How many disabled people could see their PIP payments reduced or withdrawn altogether?
Very large numbers indeed, according to the Resolution Foundation if it remains the Treasury’s aim to find net savings of up to £6bn by 2029-30. Louise Murphy of the Foundation estimates that more than 600,000 people, most on low incomes, would lose £675 a month on average.
Obviously this is all still hypothetical. Proper judgement awaits publication of the Liz Kendall’s policy paper tomorrow. But a change in entitlement on that magnitude will generate massive anxieties in those who both receive PIP and may need it in future.
None of this is to argue that any government should ignore the forecast that on current trends the cost of PIP is set to rise by £15bn by 2029 or that large numbers of especially young people are being excluded by disability from the world of work too young. It is to suggest that reforms that could reduce benefit bills in the long run will require large expenditure in the short term on mental health provision, skills, rewiring coaching and job search at the DWP, occupational health support for companies and so on.
A rational approach would see the costs of supporting the disabled rise in the short term. It would be an investment programme, not a cuts programme. With the supposedly all-important fiscal assessment looming, we’ll see if that’s what Starmer , Kendall and Reeves unveil. 2/2“
[Robert Peston]
A long comment, but important.
For me, the answer to all this a a “basic income” system, whereby all citizens (note, citizens, not any African or Afghan or similar just off the boat) get some modest amount of income regardless of any factor such as contribution, need, or “deservedness”.
That would also save vast amounts by enabling the shutdown of 95% of the DWP bureaucracy.
Late music
[“Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow“]
Starmer-stein is out of his depth. Useless in every way. Personally, I do not care whether Trump comes to the UK or not, but (as with Tony Blair and others) it is just pathetic to see what poodles British prime ministers are when it comes to the USA (and Israel).
What a piece of work Rachel Reeves is. The UK economic contraction was for January when markets were still riding high and before Trump’s trade war even started. She’s pinning the blame elsewhere when it lies firmly with her and Labour’s catastrophic economic policies. Worse, her… pic.twitter.com/pz3GGOvAsV
[“No, wait! I voted Labour in 2024!” cried the poor mug as Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, and Keir Starmer-stein ordered the execution by stealth of the old, sick, and disabled]
The UK economy tanked from 0.4% to 0.1% at the start of the year. We are going backwards. This is what happens when you cling to a Big State, Big Tax, Big Debt, Big Net Zero, Big Immigration model that is stifling growth and prosperity.
Not sure I agree with all of that, but certainly agree about the net zero and mass immigration aspects. I wonder whether Matt Goodwin is positioning himself to become leader of Reform UK and, therefore, potentially, Prime Minister by 2028 or 2029?
As to the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, it is now surely Reform UK’s to lose, looking at the utterly disastrous Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment. I have already covered the by-election on the blog:
Incidentally, Lord Ashcroft or his employees should learn to spell: “likelihood” is not spelled “likelyhood“.
That opinion poll is interesting, though. Labour support in the constituency seems to have almost halved since the 2024 General Election. In a way, however, the fact that a third of Runcorn and Helsby voters are still inclined to stick with fake “Labour” despite both the thuggishness of the former MP and the actions of Starmer-stein’s useless and unpleasant government says something, arguende, about the intelligence or nous of the average voter!
The fact is that the Conservative Party has no chance in that constituency anyway, so the way for Con or former Con supporters to stick it to Labour and/or Starmer-stein is to vote Reform.
As for disenchanted Labour or former Labour voters, they can protest against Starmer-stein’s and Rachel Reeves’ (and Liz Kendall’s) utter betrayal of everything for which “Labour” used to stand by voting Reform or, failing that, or if they cannot countenance that, by just staying home, abstaining from voting.
Talking point
“A revolution without firing squads is not worth much” [Lenin]
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Ukrainian soldiers are suffering heavy losses in their attempts to evacuate damaged NATO equipment near Sudzha in the Kursk Region on orders from their military commanders, a source in Russian defense circles told TASS: https://t.co/CJtYn6l8Okpic.twitter.com/9EDqyW3On9
Incidentally, I just saw a Daily Mirror report about Kiev-regime drone strikes on Moscow yesterday or overnight. It included the classic error that one Ukrainian drone had hit an oil refinery near Moscow, “only 55 miles” from Putin’s palace on the Black Sea. Well, the nearest place —let alone palace— on the Black Sea from Moscow is about 865 miles away. The “British” msm is just full of absolute bs.
Only unexpected if you're called Rachel Reeves & are a disciple of this traitorous government. Anyone else saw it coming a mile off. Rachel from Accounts is not up to the job. She's in "good" company, though, because from #2TierKier down, none of them are. #StopLabour
I agree with that tweet, but I also agree with this:
At present, the UK is importing about a million so-called “legal” immigrants every year, as well as 50,000-100,000 illegal ones. There is no indication that Starmer-stein, “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves, or Liz Kendall see any of that as the existential peril for our society that it is.
As for Rachel Reeves’ idea of building millions of hutches for people (many of them migrant-invaders): first of all, who will build those “houses”, in a situation where even poorly-trained artisans are in short supply? Secondly, few will be able to afford to buy or even rent the dwellings. Most will be subsidized. How will that save government money, or much stimulate the general economy?
More pathetic System-drone bs, in other words.
In my latest piece, I analyse whether Mark Lewis of Patron Law knowingly misled the High Court with his evidence in my case.
I think it is possible that his conduct amounts to contempt of court.
If you follow the link in my bio, you will see my latest on Mark Lewis of Patron Law.
Something to bear in mind when you are reading it: this is his signed statement of truth on his witness statement dated 16 December 2022. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/rWQ2ZEaChj
The above half-dozen tweets all relate to the libel action won by the tweeter, James Wilson, an academic from the North East of England, who won against a swamp of dishonest Jew-Zionist lawyers and perjuring or “unreliable” witnesses (every last one a Jew-Zionist).
Simon Myerson was a witness for the defence in that case. Myerson, a barrister based in Leeds, was later sacked as a part-time judge for other reasons, at least officially (his malicious and vituperative tweets and other social media comments). In the case in question here, Myerson’s testimony was given very little, if any, weight by the trial judge.
As for the defendants, one, a vicious pro-Israel social media troll called Pete Newbon, committed suicide before the trial had ended, he having failed to inform his wife that the libel case was happening, and that their family home might be on the line.
Another defendant, one Cantor, was (as it appears) either negligently or, quite likely, deliberately misled by the Jew-Zionist solicitor and Israel-lobby political fanatic Mark Lewis. It seems that Cantor will now lose his family home by reason of Lewis’s default(s), in order to satisfy the court-ordered legal costs of the successful claimant, Wilson. Not that I personally have the slightest sympathy for Cantor or any similar individual.
I do not know, but it seems not unlikely that, the defendants or surviving defendants having now a legal obligation to pay Wilson’s costs (though they are but a fraction of those that would have been claimed by the lawyers of the defendants, had they succeeded at trial), those surviving defendants will almost certainly end up suing Lewis and probably also Patron Law, the mainly Jewish law firm (based in a mews side-street in Notting Hill, West London), which is Lewis’s legal foothold in England (he is now, and has been since 2018, an Israeli citizen supposedly living in Eilat, Israel).
Good grief! Can you imagine that drunken and/or drugged and/or crazed shambles negotiating with Putin, or Zelensky, or Netanyahu?
There really is something wrong with the allegedly “democratic” process, both in the USA and the UK, when some creature like Kamala Harris can become Vice-President, and nearly become President, of the USA. In the UK, look at David Lammy, Angela Rayner, and most of the rest of Starmer-stein’s Cabinet.
Everybody’s to blame except the people who are actually in charge of the economy 🙄 pic.twitter.com/tIZgBCSVlr
Even after the past 15 years of chaotic mismanagement, the government of Starmer-stein is something else…Look at them! “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves, Liz Kendall, Angela Rayner (!), David Lammy (!), Yvette Cooper etc. Starmer-stein himself. What a crowd of cretins!
This is interesting.
The top issue for ALL voters in Runcorn & Helsby, not only Reform voters, is immigration and asylum.
As frequently said on this blog, immigration affects everything when it is on the present Biblical scale— housing, pay, benefits, pensions, traffic, rail travel, crime, the environment, culture. You name it.
A convicted Ghanaian criminal deported from Britain 12 years ago, has been allowed to return under human rights laws because he is DEPRESSED…
Can you imagine?! That is a “judge”, according to the UN! “Lydia Mugambe”…
We cannot afford to be too complacent, though. How long before we get something similar here, sitting in judgment over native Brits? When we look at the Bar, the lower ranks, and some at higher level, are in part already like that…
Population of snow leopards increases from 10 to 87 in Russia over ten years, reported the Chairman of the general meeting of the interregional association "Irbis", Ali Uzdenov:https://t.co/mScdPM35Dqpic.twitter.com/xADb2h0jQn
There are some enterprises, some kinds of economic enterprise, that should be in public ownership: water companies, major rail services, large-scale electricity production and distribution, large-scale domestic-use gas production and distribution; some other activities.
Some other things, relating to the State and/or wider society, should also be run by the State itself, or by a quasi-State authority: Royal Mail, prisons, National Lottery; some others as well.
Talking point— a “free speech” thread on Twitter
Free speech is free speech, Alex.
You can’t complain about it by shutting it down.
‘The left’ are not outraged. Normal folk are not comfortable with outward displays of Nazism.
What the fuck does that sign have to do with Jewish communities? Disgraceful to bring them into this. Defamation needs to be untrue – Musk literally did a Nazi Salute and then supported a Nazi like party in Germany the AFD.
Have any UK-based Jewish-Zionist organisations complained? – They're habitually the most litigious when it comes to being "grossly offended" over e.g. satirical songs.
By the way, have any of these same NGOs complained about Tory Lord Hamilton "Jews have lots of money" remarks?
GB News, looking at its output, is very obviously permeated by “the usual suspects” (((“them”))) and paid puppets.
Also, I only noticed today that reply by what purports to be a Twitter/X account of persecuted satirist and singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz. If so, good to see her back on Twitter/X.
Alert regular readers of the blog may have noted that it is exactly a year (14 March 2024) since I was sentenced as a result of my free speech trial in November 2023.
Amazing. A whole year has elapsed since the sentence, and about 16 months since the trial itself. I repost my accounts of the trial, sentence, and aftermath here below:
I was able to continue blogging right through the process, and am still blogging almost every day, about 25-30 times per month.
As previously explained, I am under no greater legal constraint now than I was in 2024, 2023, 2022 (etc).
I have no doubt that the malicious Jew-Zionist element will continue to try to destroy the freedom of speech and expression not only of me but also of all British and other people. However, one must stand up for free speech and expression.
As far as I am concerned, “one human soul is a big audience“.
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The Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region will be ruthlessly destroyed, if they refuse to lay down their arms, said Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council:https://t.co/KET8kbZoB8pic.twitter.com/vJvgHkBUln
I recall my own visit to the Kremlin in 1993. A tourist visit to the Kremlin, in effect, though I was in Moscow on business. Most of my time, though, was my own.
I paid my few roubles early one summer morning, after having swum, as usual, at the Moskva swimming pool at Kropotkinskaya. I would have been the first visitor that morning, had I not gone to sleep in the sun while sitting on a low wall by the little ticket kiosk (now replaced by a modern visitor centre); a Russian family thus bought their tickets ahead of me. In fact, it was their arguing with the ticket lady that woke me up.
My komplekt of tickets entitled me to visit all parts of the Kremlin open to paying visitors (other areas are closed off for the exclusive use of the Russian Government; the Kremlin is more or less like Whitehall, but inside a walled fortification). I visited the Kremlin churches (I was the only visitor, in fact, at that hour). I also wandered around other parts and saw, from above, the green Land Rover of the British Ambassador arriving, Union Jack bravely flying in the slight breeze.
[“On this day of Covid reflection I reflect on how there was no pandemic, Covid was a hoax and the lies of the state inflicted uncounted numbers of deaths and injuries upon the world.“— Neil Oliver]
You still see a few facemask loonies about, here and there.
There is still a disinclination to understand that the “scamdemic” or “panicdemic” was a massive psy-op right across the world. So many people still believe that there was a genuine and deadly “global pandemic”…
Now there is a real public health danger, as millions fall victim by reason of the “vaccines” having caused serious medical problems, especially heart problems. Huge numbers of people, often healthy young people, worldwide have just dropped dead.
One aspect of the years 2020-2022 was the way in which a combination of repressive pseudo-public-health “measures” (invalid laws, regulations made superficially under those laws, and State propaganda, amplified by very well-paid “useful idiots” such as Piers Morgan, James O’Brien etc), enforced compliance.
Any dissidents were labelled, in the Press, on radio etc, “Covidiots” for saying (as I did, on the blog) that people camping on deserted Welsh hills, or walking in the Peak District, or taking a spin on the empty roads on their motorbikes or in their own cars, were not thereby “killing people” etc.
Some people even got prosecuted and convicted for such terrible crimes as having a picnic, though most of such convictions were later overturned when the hysteria had somewhat abated.
The police were particularly stupid during the “Covid” panic. In fact, I should say that the present contempt for the police in the UK, though it had been developing for a number of years, is mainly a reaction to the memory of police shouting from helicopters at elderly couples walking on hills, and examining people’s shopping to adjudge whether purchases were “reasonable” or not (!), which is and was not the job of the police; neither are they authorized by law to do that.
The reach of the State has extended, partly by reason of the craven response of most of the public to the dictatorial measures imposed during the scamdemic/panicdemic. For example, you can now not only be arrested, charged, indeed imprisoned, for owning a copy (hard copy or online copy) of such a work as the 1970s Anarchist’s Cookbook, but also even for simply owning a machete or the like, even if kept in your own home. Some such laws that existed prior to 2020 (eg about supposed “terrorist materials”) are now seemingly used more often, indeed often against young people (sometimes still at school). Socio-political hysteria.
Just as well that the Rhodesian Army panga (a kind of machete), in a handsome light-tan thick leather sheath, which I brought back from my visit to Rhodesia in 1977, was later stolen by the staff of the Kazakh removals company which moved my personal possessions (at least, the ones they did not steal) from Almaty to London 20+ years later.
Well, the “panicdemic” is now history, though attempts are still made to revive it, and with it the control-State of 2020-2022, but new panics have been substituted. At present, the panic all over the mass media is around the non-existent threat of Russian invasion of Western Europe, including the UK. It’s rubbish, of course, but the unthinking part, maybe a majority, of the public seem ready to believe that “we” “have to” fight Russia quite soon.
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A former BBC executive & head of BBC News said this today:
"Entrenched in the BBC is a liberal view of the world, now acknowledged by its chairman: a well-meaning metropolitan air which is inescapable in its dramas but lurks within the news division too.
[“A former BBC executive & head of BBC News said this today: “Entrenched in the BBC is a liberal view of the world, now acknowledged by its chairman: a well-meaning metropolitan air which is inescapable in its dramas but lurks within the news division too. Hence the lack of comprehension of Leave voters in the EU referendum, and the continuing tendency to treat Reform supporters as an exotic and dodgy species different in their being to the people who vote for Emily Thornberry in Islington South” (the Telegraph). He’s not wrong. I wrote about what happened to the UK media class, not just the BBC, here: https://mattgoodwin.org/p/the-media-class-doesnt-represent“— Matt Goodwin]
From the Pakistani paedophile who used the ECHR to claim his "right to a family life" in the UK to a Caribbean lady who claimed her husband might not like "tropical food" if she was deported, our immigration system, backed by the ECHR, has become a joke https://t.co/QCJ6lkZZb5
[“From the Pakistani paedophile who used the ECHR to claim his “right to a family life” in the UK to a Caribbean lady who claimed her husband might not like “tropical food” if she was deported, our immigration system, backed by the ECHR, has become a joke.“— Matt Goodwin]
So according to now-sacked p/t judge, and barrister, Simon Myerson, a fanatical Jew-Zionist, out of 13 million Jews worldwide, all but about 100,000 support not only the existence but also the evil behaviour of the Israeli state? Well, there it is, from the horse’s mouth…
Russian forces struck Ukrainian manpower and military hardware in more than 150 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/rEncOpPFB0pic.twitter.com/6kybm5mBCZ
[“Russian forces struck Ukrainian manpower and military hardware in more than 150 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cJyaIU“— TASS]
[“#politicslive some women have large families but we vilify them for this. Seems to me they are birth rate heroes and should be treated as such. Stop the talk of ‘don’t have children if you can’t afford them’, acknowledge the reality & support these families to succeed“]
If ever the UK had a Prime Minister incredibly out of touch, it is Starmer-stein.
Starmer thinks that his pathetic attempts to play the world statesman resonate in this country. No, they do not. Why? Partly because his foreign affairs activities only underline how weak and divided are the European states, partly because Starmer has no credibility at all as a statesman, partly because everything is falling apart in this country. It seems that only Starmer and his Labour Friends of Israel cabal are unaware of how bad things are getting. Policing, NHS, the ever-more-mean benefits system, falling real take-home disposable income, the courts, prisons and, above all, the continuing migration-invasion (1,000-2,000 illegals every week, and also tens of thousands of “legal” immigrants, every week).
Late thoughts about Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and their Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment
Looking at the words of Starmer, Reeves, and various other nonentities now in Cabinet, particularly about their threatened cuts to the State benefits of the disabled, sick and others, can it really be said that the present fake “Labour” government is different in any way at all from the “Conservative” governments of 2010-2024 and, especially, that of 2010-2015? I see no difference at all.
This “Labour” (Labour Friends of Israel) government offers the British people nothing, nothing at all. Both evil and stupid.
Thoughts about Reform UK— where does it go from here?
Reform UK peaked (at least so far) recently at about 28% in the opinion polls; the latest shows Reform around 25%. Not bad, all the same, when the Cons are around 21% and Labour between 25% and 28%. What now, though?
We have been here, more or less, before, with Brexit Party. That deflated for various reasons, not least because voters saw it, not wrongly, as a kind of (real?) Conservative Party. Arguable either way. Farage then stabbed his party in the back so that “Boris”-idiot’s Con Party could “win” the 2019 General Election.
This time around, I think that Farage at least, and maybe the other 4 Reform MPs, want to succeed. After all, they have every chance now that the fake Labour (Friends of Israel) Government is proving even less popular than it was when elected (by the votes of only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters, and out of every 12 actual voters).
At present, we do not have a Labour government, but a Labour Friends of Israel government.
The Conservative Party, equally fake, is still only around 21% in the polls, and few see it as having much chance under the Nigerian woman.
Reform has now hit a reef. Rupert Lowe has been binned, and so will stay on as only an independent MP, unless he either re-enters Reform, defects to the Con Party, or steps down (thus precipitating a by-election).
Reform is a System party in embryonic or fledgling form. Not social-national. However, it has (still) the potential to raise awareness among the people, to shift the “Overton Window”, thus facilitating social national organizations, including political parties, to rise up.
The System would like to revert to the old tweedledum/tweedledee Lab/Con binary (with LibDems as the “alternative” System “dustbin” in the middle). Failing that, to turn Reform into a kind of deeper blue Con Party.
Which way will Reform go?
It has to go for more social-national policies. I see that Matt Goodwin, arguably Reform’s best propagandist (though he may or may not be a member) is now saying that the State should not support the unemployed, sick, disabled etc (so much). This is a rehash of not only the failed and nasty policies of Dunce Duncan Smith, the Jew “lord” Freud etc (2010-2015) but also those being put forward by both Con and Lab at present. Beggar the pensioners, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, so that money can be thrown at the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, or wasted on more useless “defence” spending, or wasted aiding the Jew-Zionist regime in “Israel”/Occupied Palestine.
Reform UK needs to go outside its comfort zone of discontented former Con voters. 8 out of every 20 eligible voters did not vote. Go for their votes.
At present, Reform seems to have a ceiling of 30% support. It needs to nail down some of the truly disenchanted votes. If it can reach 30%, then stretch to 35% by the time of the next general election, it can change British politics forever, and then, if it fades, usher in a truly social-national movement.
Also, the present disunity repels voters. In unity is strength.
If it can weather the storms, Reform can form the next government, but it needs to present an attractive and, above all, powerful image. If it cannot, then the whole thing may just fall to pieces.
Whatever happens with Reform, though, social nationalism is starting to get moving, under the surface of events.
[“New. Freedom of Information requests reveal 10,500 foreign prisoners are costing UK taxpayers more than £1.3 million a day -Ministry of Justice/Telegraph.”]
So about 9%-10% of prisoners in UK prisons are foreign.
Further to that, if you took out all non-white and non-Brit prisoners, inc. those born here, the prisons would not even be half-full. Fact. That despite the fact that non-whites are still a minority (about 20%) of the whole UK population.
I have not been a barrister for a number of years, but even 30 years ago, the proportion of non-whites in UK prisons (and defendants in English courts) was huge.
[me as barrister in London, circa 1992]
The latest immigration numbers in Britain are insane. Nobody voted for this. And nobody wants this.https://t.co/jbWvPsJOMo
[“There are no words to describe how disturbing UK policing has become: ‘If we protest for Palestine, Sudan, Congo we can’t stay. If we protest for Israel we can stay?’ ‘Yes’ Just what instructions and from whom, are being given to British police.“]
[Cressida Dick, when Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, in “cocktail party” conversation with Gideon Falter of the malicious ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ fake charity (pressure group) at a Jewish police event held at Scotland Yard]
The police are under constant pressure from the Jew-Zionist lobby and/or Israel lobby, of which the “CAA” is but a minor part.
This is a Labour Friends of Israel government, not a Labour government. Note how fake “Labour” is saying more or less the same as “Conservative” parrots such as Chris Philp, and even Reform UK publicist (by any other name), Matt Goodwin.
There is a general push, again, towards finance-capitalist police-state dystopia in the UK, towards lower living standards, lower pay, lower State benefits and pensions, and towards the replacement of British people by the blacks, browns, and others. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
Note the biased and tendentious pro-spending cuts attitude of Laura Kuenssberg, who is paid hundreds of thousands of pounds per year (£325,000 in 2023-24; presumably more now). She seems seriously angered that some people are getting £100 per week in disability payments… That’s what she spends on lunch in a single day (except that that money probably comes from her BBC expense account anyway.
Laura Kuenssberg is of partly-Jewish and partly-German origins, incidentally.
[“The liberation of the Lebedevka settlement in the Kursk Region brings the Russian army close to Sudzha, with slightly over 10 km remaining to it, a source in the Russian security agencies told TASS: https://vk.cc/cJvzZk“— TASS]
[“Russia’s armed forces have liberated Konstantinopol in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said: https://vk.cc/cJvNEb“— TASS]
[“You have a moral duty to care for them. Most cannot save any more than they are already in a biting cost of living crisis. This isn’t the way to help them back in to work, they will sink. Labour MPs insist on ‘moral duty’ to get long-term sick into work.“]
For once, I agree with her.
Once again, the Starmer-Labour, or Labour Friends of Israel, government is shown to have no ideals and actually no ideas at all. This latest nasty nonsense is just taken wholesale from theCameron-Levita, dunce Duncan Smith, Osborne, “lord” Freud playbook of 2010-2015.
It is an interesting question as to why Mark Lewis has not threatened to sue me.
I suspect he knows from the litigation that his threats don’t work on me.
Lewis has never sued me, either, and I have blogged about him a number of times. Admittedly, I have no money anyway, but my main defence is truth itself…
Ian Robert Millard 