“A charity shop in North Yorkshire has caused a stir amongst local residents after putting a golliwog doll up for sale in its window for £4.50.
The teddy, considered by many to be a racist caricature of black people, was first spotted by shoppers in the window of Preloved, in Skipton, on Wednesday.
It was removed on the following Friday, as some residents labelled the display as ‘disgusting’ and vile’.
However, it is still understood to be for sale for £4.50 inside the store, which raises money for Cancer Support Yorkshire.
Resident Anne, a retired carer, said: ‘I was tempted to buy it just to remove it.
In February 2023, police seized a collection of golliwog dolls from The White Hart Inn in Essex, following reports of a ‘suspected hate crime’.
A month later, the pub was forced to close its doors, after Heineken and Carlsberg told the owners to stop serving their beer.
A maintenance firm also refused to work on site.”
[Daily Mail]
The hysterical “anti-racist” nonsense continues, though I expect that it is confined to a relatively small if not very small minority. “Retired carer Anne” in that report, if she exists at all, is obviously a malicious old ideologue; she even went into the charity shop to harangue the staff. “Was tempted to buy it just to remove it” but…did not do so. “ I think I might go back and buy it just to stop it being displayed.” Yeah, right… Loony “anti-racist” cretin.
There is, in fact, nothing wrong with the golliwog as a mascot or toy; it was not meant to be anti-black or anything; golliwogs are or were (I supposed all but banned now) akin to teddy bears— beloved toys or “inanimate” companions for young children, as seen in the image below (said to be from the 1950s, though it may be earlier):
There is a madness abroad in this country, a kind of witch-hunt mentality, promoted by “the usual suspects”, the idiotic “antifa” dupes and, ultimately, by those behind the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
Incidentally, if anyone wants to donate to the crowdfunder set up to defray the costs of my recent free speech trial, the link is here: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J. Otherwise, please share the link.
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Breitbart was founded in Israel and run by an Israeli intelligence officer
John Fetterman takes hundreds of thousands of dollars directly from Israel
NEW POST. Call it what it was — child abuse. Key findings from Britain's landmark Cass Review and why people are right to be sceptical about the expert class https://t.co/6BMZ4ogwk2
One of the most shocking things about this was how many experts (/radical gender ideologues) refused to even cooperate with the research. Like all religions, the woke downplay or ignore research which does not fit the narrative https://t.co/3Zrz247bKt
We have seen this many times before: “global warming”/”climate change”, “Covid” “pandemic” (scamdemic/panicdemic), not to mention (virtually non-existent) “far-right” “terrorism” “danger” etc. The self-interested, ideologically-biased, often very very peculiar “experts” in this field or that.
When I heard someone in the media say 'Prime minister Liz Truss' I snort-laughed. Then realised it wasn't a joke. Then lost my home of 7 years, then lost a year of my life to terrible health thanks to moving. Because of your head-girl-seeking-approval incompetence. I loathe you.
Liz Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng) should be punished, but I think I had better not suggest anything too specific on the blog, now that (as my recent trial indicated) free speech in the UK is all but dead, killed off by… shall I say… “them”…
Golliwogs are not the only victims of the new UK poundland police state (which will no doubt become even more insanely Stasi-like under Yvette Cooper and Starmer, the post-2024 Labour Friends of Israel tyrants); free speech is another victim, as is general freedom of expression.
Incidentally, my crowdfunder is still open for any donations to defray the costs of that trial. Thank you, and thanks for sharing the link: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
Israeli military admits its inability to confront Iran without American support pic.twitter.com/9NrNm1NvC3
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 15, 2024
Indicative intelligence sign: the Israeli army chief of staff became the first senior Israeli official to publicly declare Israel's readiness to respond to an Iranian attack pic.twitter.com/4IMCMtReNV
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 15, 2024
Iran's armed forces had predicted and planned Israel's response to Iran's attack, and it is fully prepared for this issue, and a crushing response will be given immediately after Israel's attack. pic.twitter.com/0Vw6e7MHzd
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 15, 2024
Late tweets
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said America would not help Ukraine shoot down aerial targets in the same way as Israel. pic.twitter.com/wX6DXSLSp6
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 15, 2024
The Kiev regime is learning where it stands in the NWO/ZOG pecking order…
Footage of the TOS-1A crew working to defend the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a forest area in the Avdeevsky direction. pic.twitter.com/UEju4siiHV
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 15, 2024
Aren't we always being told by the US and Israel that only terrorist set up command centers in the middle of highly populated cities so they can hide behind civilians? I mean wasn’t that the whole Israels Hamas spiel for why it was OK for Israel to bomb neighborhoods, hospitals,… https://t.co/iGVri5fZ95
— Jacqueline Anne Thompson (@ThatsJacqueline) April 14, 2024
Tel Aviv, other cities, and some thoughts about “new” cities
The events in Israel/Palestine have sparked a few thoughts.
Not very beautiful, but it is impressive all the same, when one thinks that, 150 years ago, there was very little if any urbanization, though the port of Jaffa, the original town in part of the location, has existed for 1,800 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa.
“In 1906, a group of Jews, among them residents of Jaffa, followed the initiative of Akiva Aryeh Weiss and banded together to form the Ahuzat Bayit (lit. “homestead”) society. One of the society’s goals was to form a “Hebrew urban centre in a healthy environment, planned according to the rules of aesthetics and modern hygiene”.[32] The urban planning for the new city was influenced by the garden city movement.[33] The first 60 plots were purchased in Kerem Djebali near Jaffa by Jacobus Kann, a Dutch citizen, who registered them in his name to circumvent the Turkish prohibition on Jewish land acquisition.[34]Meir Dizengoff, later Tel Aviv’s first mayor, also joined the Ahuzat Bayit society.[35][36] His vision for Tel Aviv involved peaceful co-existence with Arabs.[37][unreliable source]
On 11 April 1909, 66 Jewish families gathered on a desolate sand dune to parcel out the land by lottery using seashells. This gathering is considered the official date of the establishment of Tel Aviv. The lottery was organised by Akiva Aryeh Weiss, president of the building society.[38][39] Weiss collected 120 sea shells on the beach, half of them white and half of them grey. The members’ names were written on the white shells and the plot numbers on the grey shells. A boy drew names from one box of shells and a girl drew plot numbers from the second box. A photographer, Abraham Soskin (b. 1881 in Russia, made aliyah 1906[40]), documented the event. The first water well was later dug at this site, located on what is today Rothschild Boulevard, across from Dizengoff House.[41] Within a year, Herzl, Ahad Ha’am, Yehuda Halevi, Lilienblum, and Rothschild streets were built; a water system was installed; and 66 houses (including some on six subdivided plots) were completed.”
Note, though, how even those first steps by the Jews were accompanied by the acquisition of land by subterfuge: “Jacobus Kann, a Dutch citizen, who registered them in his name to circumvent the Turkish prohibition on Jewish land acquisition“… [Wikipedia].
[Jaffa]
[Jaffa in foreground, with Tel Aviv in background]
The city of Tel Aviv grew rapidly as Jewish immigration increased in the 1920s and 1930s:
[Shadal Street, Tel Aviv, 1926]
[Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv, late 1930s]
[Allenby Street, Tel Aviv, 1940]
It could be argued that, like so much of the world, Israel/Palestine would have been better had it stayed under European, in this case British, rule (the British having conquered the region during WW1, and then administered it under League of Nations mandate).
I have seen other “instant” cities, at least cities which have been founded from effectively nothing and then have mushroomed quite quickly (in historical terms). Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) for one.
Incidentally, “Harare” was, pre-1980, the name of an African “township” (poor suburb outside the city).
[Jameson Avenue, Salisbury —now Samora Machel Avenue, Harare— in 1970]
[jacaranda trees in Salisbury, Rhodesia, now Harare, Zimbabwe]
I remember well how struck I was when I saw the flowering trees and bushes almost everywhere in the central and near-central parts of Salisbury. I have never been able to discover what were the quite large dark-green trees with football-sized spherical orange flowers that I saw quite often in 1977. Very beautiful.
[Monomatapa Hotel, Salisbury, Rhodesia, built 1974. I recall having a couple of beers there in 1977; someone abseiled down it for charity the same year; incidentally, that building project was completed despite UN sanctions]
In a way, a city such as Salisbury (now Harare) was even more impressive as a testament to human enterprise than somewhere such as Tel Aviv, which after all grew upon an existing port, Jaffa (or Yafa; the Jews call it Yafo). The location of Salisbury was almost terra nullius; only a few African tribesmen were in the area at the time of its foundation as a fort in 1890.
Population increases are always key. The present Harare has over 2M inhabitants; Tel Aviv (including autonomous suburbs etc) about 4M.
Another city, where I lived for a full year [1996-1997] is Almaty, Kazakhstan, founded (like Salisbury) as a fortified stockade in the late 19thC and called, by its Russian founders, Verny. Now, a city of over 2M inhabitants.
[part of Almaty, Kazakhstan]
[part of Almaty]
I find rather fascinating cities —and whole states and societies— which grow from almost nothing in a relatively short space of time. One, which I saw in its construction phase, was Milton Keynes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes]. I knew it for a few months in early 1977; on returning a few times about 30 years later, the difference was incredible. Whole suburbs where only fields were before; a railway station where none existed before; a population of over 250,000 (in 1977, only a few thousand); bus services (in 1977, effectively non-existent); filling stations; large modern hotels.
I appeared as Counsel a couple of times in the years 2002-2007 at Milton Keynes County Court; in 1977, there was no such court; neither was there the whole Central Milton Keynes district where the Court and the railway station etc are now located.
I saw Doha, Qatar, in 2001. A sleepy and not unpleasant city. When I returned in 2008, Doha was already unrecognizable, a city of concrete and skyscrapers. Since then, a further transformation along the same lines. A kind of Manhattan-look in the desert, and on the Red Sea.
One thing I can say which is positive about the Israelis is that much —not all— of their town planning is pretty good, from what I have seen from photos etc. Many of their suburbs and towns seem well-planned, with trees, parks and leisure facilities.
Of course, the foundation and sometimes fast development of cities has a flip side: cities can sometimes disappear quickly as well.
Last year UK government spending on refugees, asylum seekers & illegal migrants rose by £600 million to £4.3 billion — equivalent to 28% of the foreign aid budget (The Times)https://t.co/m5XM4gD08f
This government of Sunak (with those of his predecessors) is a disaster. There is every chance that the Israel-lobby Starmer-Labour replacement will be as bad, or even worse.
🇮🇷 Note that the Iranian army did not participate in the strikes. They have their own arsenal of various drones and missiles, which is different from that of the IRGC. pic.twitter.com/pxZXAlLDk5
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 14, 2024
Saudi Arabia🇸🇦 and Jordan🇯🇴 cooperated with the United States' surveillance & intervention efforts to protect Israel🇮🇱 from Iranian attack. pic.twitter.com/EsJNtzGYiX
Saudi Arabia is a useless, corrupt, decadent and hypocritical pseudo-theocracy.
Djibouti is host to more foreign military bases than any other country in the world. The US, China, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, France, and Italy all have troops there. How did this happen? Why are the world’s largest imperialist powers so interested in this tiny… pic.twitter.com/pzfA7Unxu8
— Kevin – WE THE PEOPLE❤️ – DAD🦁 🐉 🔥 (@bambkb) April 14, 2024
“Retired General Wesley Clark speaks about the USA’s plan to DESTROY 7 countries within 5 years in the Middle-East.
“Did you know that the USA wanted us to completely destabilize the middle-east and turn it upside down? Did anyone ever tell you this? Has there been any public dialogue about this? Did Senators or congress denounce these plans!? NO, they have not!!” “They told me that they were invading Iraq and I asked, WHY!? They said, ‘sir, it’s much worse than that, we’re going to destroy 7 countries in 5 years’ : We’re going to start in Iraq, then Syria, then Lebanon, then Libya, then Somalia, then Sudan and we’re gonna finish with Iran.
The USA and allies already destroyed and demolished every country on this list except Iran – Who are the real terrorists that are terrorizing the entire planet? How can you hear this and not immediately think : Who the fuck is controlling the USA military and what is their real purpose? Who do they work for?
If you can’t use your critical thinking skills then you really don’t stand a chance at figuring shit out. The mainstream media creates your perception of reality on behalf of the globalists. The media is their strongest weapon of deception. Please STOP letting others shape your view of the world. Use your own brain and understand that we are up against a group of people/cult that runs and controls our world in secret. It’s OBVIOUSLY not easy to see through their deceit or else they wouldn’t have been in control of our planet for 100s, if not 1000s of years.“
Most of which is effectively as said by me on Twitter (until the Jewish lobby had me expelled in 2018), and on this blog since late 2016. NWO/ZOG.
Palestinians could be seen tearing down the separation wall in West Bank, following Iran’s attack on Israel. The wall was built to prevent Palestinians from entering into Israel, according to Israel’s Defence Ministry. pic.twitter.com/Rta05DB9cJ
Just a reminder. I support neither side because neither side supports White Europeans. Let them redact each other. Hail Victory⚡️⚡️ pic.twitter.com/OyGoxPbEue
I did quite like Calvin Robinson, until it emerged that his 'traditionalism' stops at the point the convicted conman Cyrus Scofield popularised the Christian-Zionist heresy.
Another day, another climate change lie exposed. 👇
“The sea level rise experienced in recent decades was supposed to lead to shrinking shorelines and inundated coasts. Instead, satellite observations reveal the globe’s island coasts expanded seaward (net) by 402 km² (155 mi²)… pic.twitter.com/sh8DkQAAgj
— Senator Gerard Rennick (@SenatorRennick) April 12, 2024
Interesting. White women who date blacks statistically have lower IQs than black women who date Whites. pic.twitter.com/9u27BH08Wx
Al-Jazeera showed a video showing a triangular-shaped object launching/intercepting missiles over northern Israel
The most popular versions are that the video shows the secret development of the US Army TR3B or TR-6 Telos. pic.twitter.com/mmVaKtLQ3h
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 14, 2024
The state of California, after the closure of borders by Texas, becomes the main destination in the United States for illegal migrants from Mexico pic.twitter.com/bJ0bqnNszf
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 14, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 14, 2024
It seems that the vast majority of cruise missiles and drones (though 99% seems very high) were destroyed in the air either by Israeli forces or by US, UK, French, Jordanian and Saudi aircraft. Such cruise missiles and drones are quite slow. If, however, the Iranians were to use the hypersonic missiles they are said to possess, then it might be a very different story.
Well, this week I scored 6/10, thus again trumping political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, 7, and 9 (though I should have got no. 9, had I thought about it).
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“Whoever supplies weapons wants war,” AfD leader in Thuringia against arming Kyiv
Three-quarters of the residents of East German Thuringia oppose arms supplies to Ukraine; the right-wing Alternative for Germany may win the land elections in this land for the first time. The head… pic.twitter.com/Axt7PQMEAS
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“Whoever supplies weapons wants war,” AfD leader in Thuringia against arming Kyiv.
Three-quarters of the residents of East German Thuringia oppose arms supplies to Ukraine; the right-wing Alternative for Germany may win the land elections in this land for the first time. The head of the regional branch of the AfD, Bjorn Höcke, demanded that Germany stop supplying weapons to Kyiv and organize negotiations.
“My grandparents told me what war is, so I say that this war must be ended as quickly as possible and at any cost,” Höcke said on Die Welt. He accused his opponent’s party, the CDU, of inciting the conflict. “The war rhetoric of the CDU will not lead to real progress,” “we need Germany as a peacekeeping power.”
He pointed out that Russia did not shy away from negotiations, results were achieved in Istanbul in 2022, but the West and Germany did not want them, and chose military supplies rather than diplomacy. “Whoever supplies the weapons does not want peace, he wants war,” Höcke concluded.”
As many as 82 percent of Germans do not believe that Ukraine can defeat Russia with the support of the West
IN AUGUST 2023, 70 PERCENT DOUBTED THE POSITIVE OUTCOME OF THE CONFLICT FOR KYIV
ONLY eight percent of Germans believe that Ukraine can win a confrontation with Russia… pic.twitter.com/FfoLLA5jQu
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“As many as 82 percent of Germans do not believe that Ukraine can defeat Russia with the support of the West.
IN AUGUST 2023, 70 PERCENT DOUBTED THE POSITIVE OUTCOME OF THE CONFLICT FOR KYIV.
ONLY eight percent of Germans believe that Ukraine can win a confrontation with Russia thanks to Western weapons. This was shown by a survey commissioned by the German television station ZDF. Also: that 82 percent of respondents are skeptical about the possibility of Ukraine winning the conflict with the Russian Federation. ZDF indicated that in August of last year, the share of skeptics in Germany was 70 percent, and those who believed in a positive outcome for Kyiv were 21 percent.
The same survey showed that 42% of Germans surveyed believe that the West should provide more [humanitarian] aid to Ukraine.“
The UN published shocking footage from the destroyed city of Khan Yunus
A UN aid team conducted an assessment mission in Khan Yunus following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from that part of Gaza. In the published footage, most of the buildings are damaged, and all asphalt… pic.twitter.com/H8K8owSbK2
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
🇺🇦 Kiev and the West are tired of war and of each other
What a small group of objective, but long-maligned observers in the West warned about for a long time, is now happening: Ukraine and the West are losing the war against Russia. The strategy of using Ukraine to either… pic.twitter.com/SCsTIzisky
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“Kiev and the West are tired of war and of each other.
What a small group of objective, but long-maligned observers in the West warned about for a long time, is now happening: Ukraine and the West are losing the war against Russia.
The strategy of using Ukraine to either isolate and slowly suffocate Russia or to defeat and degrade it in a proxy war is approaching its predictable disastrous end.”
As I have been saying on the blog (for the past 18 months) would happen.
Javier Milei met Elon Musk l. In the meeting participated Gerardo Werthein and rabbi Simón Wahnish. Both from the Jewish community. Werthein took Milei to meet Bill Clinton in his first trip to the USA pic.twitter.com/ksgNdNM51U
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
That Milei character is quite obviously mentally disordered, and “they” are taking advantage of his mental state.
Allegedly,the first photo from the seizure of the container ship Aries by Iranian forces pic.twitter.com/1RgfFvlwW8
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 13, 2024
Footage shows the moment an "Israeli"-linked ship, MSC Aries, has been captured near the strait of Hormuz by Iranian special forces pic.twitter.com/MaQ2tnd6Qu
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 13, 2024
The price of a barrel of oil reached $92, its highest level since October, amid news of Iran's response to Israel
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 13, 2024
Good news for Russia (and Iran), inter alia; bad news for the major economies of the West, and perhaps for China.
Ms Truss should cross her fingers and hope she never finds herself as sole 24/7 carer to a member of her family, with zero back-up and zero time off. Poor little soul!
Liz Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng) as Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom. What does that say about where this poor country now is? (the replacement of Liz Truss by Sunak, the little Indian money-juggler, makes only a cosmetic difference). I know what I think.
A Home Office Islamic Network aims to recruit Muslim staff and "influence policymakers" to support "Muslim needs", a GB News investigation reveals.
Leaked documents show the group of over 700 civil servants say they aim to "promote the recruitment, retention and progression of… pic.twitter.com/wyTTOR0BAU
“A Home Office Islamic Network aims to recruit Muslim staff and “influence policymakers” to support “Muslim needs”, a GB News investigation reveals. Leaked documents show the group of over 700 civil servants say they aim to “promote the recruitment, retention and progression of Muslim staff in the Home Office” and “influence policymakers so that policy is more inclusive of Muslim needs”. THE WHOLE CIVIL SERVICE ARE THE ENEMY WITHIN.”
To adapt and substitute the supposed words of Boris Savinkov re. non-Russians in the “Russian” Revolution, “Muslims, Jews…where are the English?!“
Look at most of the “alt-right” msm and/or social media “controlled opposition” types, the so-called “populists”, including those who make money, or try to make money, out of being pseudo-national and/or anti-Islam or anti-Islamist: the academic, Matt Goodwin, is a rising star of that tendency; others include the notorious Douglas Murray, Katie Hopkins, “Tommy Robinson”, Paul Golding and most of the “Britain First” crowd, and Anne Marie Waters of the now-defunct “For Britain” group. Then you have Farage, Tice, and their UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform UK parties.
They vary. Some are national figures with considerable public support, and are welcomed on msm platforms (e.g. Farage, and Matt Goodwin); others are marginal (e.g. Paul Golding of “Britain First”, Laurence Fox and his tiny Reclaim Party, and others). All, however, speak in favour of Israel, in favour of the UK Jewish lobby, and against any enemies (especially Islamist enemies) of Israel.
Most are also vehemently hostile to what they are pleased to call the “far right” (anyone social-national).
As for me, I stand for the British people, for European humanity, and for European culture and civilization. I oppose any enemies of European culture and civilization.
One can see, though, which tendency or interest-group is constantly trying to get European Christendom to fight the Islamic world (and not just Islamism).
“Alexandra Lesley Phillips (born 26 December 1983) is a British journalist and former politician. She served as a Brexit Partymember of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South East England constituency from 2019 to 2020. She was the second candidate on the party’s list for the constituency after party leader Nigel Farage.[1] Phillips was previously head of media at the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which she left in September 2016. She was a GB News presenter between June 2021 and September 2022. In February 2023, Phillips joined Reform UK.
Alexandra Lesley Phillips was born on 26 December 1983 in Gloucester.[2] She has an older brother. She is Jewish.
On 2 August 2019, Phillips was selected as the Brexit Party’s prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for Southampton Itchen.[15] However, on 11 November 2019, the Brexit Party announced that it would not stand in incumbent Conservative seats.[16] The following day, Phillips announced that she would not be voting in the general election as she had been “disenfranchised” by her party.[17] Her term as MEP ended in January 2020 when the UK withdrew from the EU.[18] In February 2023, she joined Reform UK (successor to the Brexit Party) as a policy adviser to party leader Richard Tice.[19]
Prior to joining UKIP, Phillips had worked as a local journalist for ITV, and later BBC Wales.[5]
Phillips presented a twice-weekly show on talkRADIO and is a contributor to The Daily Telegraph.[20] She co-hosted an afternoon programme on GB News with Simon McCoy between June and August 2021.[21][22] After McCoy moved to the breakfast show, she was given her own show, The Afternoon Agenda, in August 2021.[23] She left GB News in September 2022 after her show was cancelled.[24] In July 2023 Alex began presenting a Saturday afternoon programme on TalkTV. She now co hosts a show with Kevin O’Sullivan on talk tv daily.”
[Wikipedia]
Look at that one profile: UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform UK, ITV, BBC Wales, TalkRadio, GB News, Talk TV, and the Daily Telegraph.
The only reason a slight majority think that life is better now than in the 1960s and 1970s is because a constant drip-feed of propaganda tells them so. Most of the respondents would have been born after 1980 or 1975, of course.
The 1970s in the UK were a lot better than most people today will believe, despite some (actually quite limited) industrial unrest etc.
As for the 1960s, I remember them well, having been born in 1956. Fairly OK in most respects (I should add that I spent the last three years of that decade in Australia (Mosman/Cremorne, in Sydney), and that was another world then, though the devil is always in the detail: those were —and are— among the better suburbs of the city.
Looking at the above tracker graph, the Labour intended vote has been fairly stable (within parameters) for about a year or so, whereas the Conservative Party intended vote has steadily declined for what seems to have been most of the past year. They’re toast…
Were the Con percentage to decline even one point, to 18%, even without an increase in any of the other numbers, the number of Con MPs would reduce to only 28.
When you see that, and factor in the political intentions of those under 40, and under 30, and the fact that the Con core vote consists largely of the retired, indeed of those over 70, over 80, you can see that this really could spell the end of the Conservative Party.
In fact, even were the Conservative Party to retain 100, even 150, MPs, it would be all but irrelevant in a Commons with 450+ Labour MPs, and a Labour majority of maybe 300 or more. That would hit Con Party funding and ability to come back from the debacle.
I was just musing on such ideas as I carefully drove a few miles this morning on a rural A-road, its surfacing poor and dotted with troughs and potholes which one had to navigate around, as in some areas of Russia and Ukraine (or, in pre-EU-membership days, in Bulgaria, as I recall from 2001). The decline of Britain is seen even in mundane areas such as road maintenance.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 13, 2024
How strange. The little Indian money-juggler did not see fit to “condemn” the slaughter, by the Israeli forces, of tens of thousands of women an d children in Gaza, nor the unprovoked attack by Israel on the diplomatic and consular offices of Iran in Syria, an attack on two sovereign states.
Like 90% of “British” politicians, if you want to call him that, Sunak is bought and paid for…
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
The Russian Ministry of Defense received the first batch of new Su-35S fighters this year pic.twitter.com/6zxSefJmID
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
American naval group in the Middle East on the eve of Iran's attack on Israel pic.twitter.com/8X9XxAEmmg
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Ukrainian failure will be “worse than Vietnam” for the West, Johnson predicts
If Russia takes control of Kyiv, it will become a disaster for “American leadership on the world stage” that is much greater than the outcome of the Vietnam War, Boris Johnson is sounding the alarm.… pic.twitter.com/uvlNUNyXJp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“Ukrainian failure will be “worse than Vietnam” for the West, Johnson predicts.
If Russia takes control of Kyiv, it will become a disaster for “American leadership on the world stage” that is much greater than the outcome of the Vietnam War. Boris Johnson is sounding the alarm.
He also said he was “praying” that congressional Republicans would end the roughly $60 billion blockade of funding to Ukraine, adding: “The situation is grim and the delay is appalling.”
The British politician also said that the chaotic flight from Afghanistan in 2021 is “nothing compared to a possible Russian victory in Ukraine.”
There are exciting possibilities opening up, potentially affecting not only the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, but also Central and Western Europe, including the UK.
You’re the Senator for Arkansas, not Israel.
America has no business meddling in the Middle East, let alone when it’s already $34 trillion in debt, you warmongering scumbag. https://t.co/GzGkZqk3EN
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 11, 2024
Promising to hear that the US is considering dropping charges against Julian Assange, but there is no undoing the irreversible psychological and physical damage that has been done to Julian and his health.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 10, 2024
The USA lost any right to claim the “moral high ground” post-Cold War when it engaged in torture and/or depraved humiliation of captives and/or the innocent at Guantanamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib etc.
As for the UK, the old term “America’s poodle” covers it well enough (or “Israel’s poodle“, as far as the Westminster monkeyhouse is concerned).
Why did every single institution of western Governments apply as much force as possible to ensuring everybody got at least three doses? We’re are just now starting to find out https://t.co/re2euaoZkL
After the senseless murder of. Pensioner,by a migrants. Weak inferior Westminster MPs ignore the heartfelt plea from Hartlepool MP, as she has constituents coming to her offices on a daily basis TERRIFIED of asylum seekers pic.twitter.com/hbB3FDPvqT
“my office…is besieged by asylum-seekers. Most of them are young men, illegal migrants, who should be expelled“.
Bravo!
Truth (for once) in the Westminster monkeyhouse.
Royal Navy recruits no longer need to be swimmers A source says there is concern about the change to entry requirements, which means there will no longer be a 30-minute swim test prior to being recruited, and brands the move "a sign of true desperation to increase recruitment… pic.twitter.com/WiwmSZYCFW
Very few choose to join any of the armed forces now, because the services have no prestige, a poor career structure (certainly for “other ranks”), poor housing and, at the end, after 3, 5, 10, 22 or however many years, are just dumped into civilian life, in many cases without non-military skills, without accommodation, and without much money.
Another point is that some potential recruits are being forced to wait for months, even a year or more, before being approved by the rotten private contractor, Serco.
Back in 1975, I was told by someone in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army that some people were desperate to join immediately because they had no roof over their heads, and literally no money. The Corps would stretch a point, and allow them to come in even before the paperwork had been completed, and before any binding commitments had been made.
Such recruits would be given accommodation (at Templer Barracks, Ashford, Kent, now turned into a housing development like everything else in England), would eat in the NCO’s mess (there are no private soldiers in that Corps), and something would be found for them to do for a few days or a week while the necessary box-ticking was being done.
If accepted, they would join the next recruit squad; if not, they might go elsewhere in the Army or, at worst, leave having had a week of food and shelter; no harm done. Not now.
Apparently, the various military units at Ashford (the Intelligence Corps at Templer Barracks, and also the much larger ordinary Army base which surrounded the guarded Intelligence Corps centre) have long since been moved on, and the area, redeveloped as housing, is now known as Repton Park, though I have just seen that there is a small reserve Army military presence nearby even today.
“George Henderson had to sell his home to repay nearly £20,000, years after ticking wrong box on carer’s allowance form.
A carer who says he was “dragged through the courts” and had to sell his home to pay back almost £20,000 in benefit overpayments is fighting to clear his name after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) acknowledged he made an innocent mistake.
George Henderson, 64, said he made a gain of just 30p a week while claiming carer’s allowance for his son John, who has learning difficulties and is addicted to heroin. He now costs the Treasury £1,000 a month more in benefits, having become homeless and too unwell to work.”
[The Guardian]
Really absolutely disgusting. Britain in 2024.
Also, look at the sentence imposed by a Crown Court judge in respect of the matter:
“He protested his innocence but was found guilty. In 2018, a judge at Preston crown court gave him a 32-week suspended sentence and ordered him to wear an electronic tag for 16 weeks.
Henderson is one of a number of carers the Guardian has spoken to after exposing how people looking after disabled, frail or ill relatives are being forced to repay huge sums to the government and threatened with criminal prosecution after unwittingly breaching earnings rules by just a few pounds a week.”
“In the high street of Crookes, a leafy hillside suburb of Sheffield with a large student population, there were plenty of people saying they would vote Labour at the next general election – but most weren’t too happy about it.
“It feels like the lesser of two evils – it’s definitely better than going back to what we’ve got,” said Amy Pattison, a 24-year-old occupational therapy student at Sheffield Hallam university. “All I know is I won’t be voting Tory. And whatever I do vote will be tactical.“
Most people said they would vote Labour for one simple reason – to get the Conservatives out of power.
“I’ll be voting for Labour. But I’m more anti-Conservative than I am pro-Labour,” said Chris Macdonald, a 30-year-old teacher. “If our voting system was different I would be tempted by other parties, but it feels like it’s Labour or Tories, and I want them out.“
[The Guardian]
That chimes with my feeling about overall voter sentiment. Few people really like the Starmer version of the Labour Party, but almost everyone wants the Conservative Party to go down (and preferably never get up again).
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
25 years ago, on April 12, 1999, on the second day of Easter, around 11:40 a.m., NATO bombers fired rockets and burned international passenger train 393 on the route Belgrade – Nis – Skopje, full of passengers, in the Grdelica Gorge, while it was crossing the Bistrica Bridge over… pic.twitter.com/xO1RT6SDaS
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Another twist in the ‘hate incident’ shambles: @PoliceScotland say complaints against @HumzaYousaf did not ‘meet threshold to be recorded as hate incidents’. But this contradicts their own policy. And different from approach in my case. https://t.co/mgW05ttCFv
Exactly the sort of double standards now entrenched in England as well, where the Jewish/Zionist lobby has suborned the police and Clown Prosecution “Service”, “the usual suspects” never really facing the sort of nonsense “investigations” etc social-national people such as myself do.
Late tweets
The US military transferred 12 F-15 fighter jets from the UK to the Middle East pic.twitter.com/T1P4YlgahD
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are ordering their citizens to leave Israel and Iran immediately.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Their true nature, some might say. Others might claim only a minority are that bad.
As the report notes, Israeli security and police were investigating the matter, if only because it showed the Israeli Jews and state in an even worse light.
I suppose that, also, the dangers facing the Israeli state are only partly from outside its borders. A civil/racial/ideological war inside its borders is by no means unthinkable. Such a civil war might be triggered by such atrocities.
I do not know whether anything happened afterward, or whether any of the Jews were punished; I doubt any were, at least not much.
The post-Mao transformation of China crept up on me; I was not fully aware of it (though I started to sense it in the early 1980s) even after I made my last visit to Hong Kong (I also went to Macau) in 2006. Since then, I have tried to see and learn more.
Sometime in the early 1980s, a couple of friends took on the “opportunity” of delivering telephone directories in SE London, using their private car. I think only Yellow Pages. I recall visiting their house not long afterwards, and seeing the whole place packed with the thick directories. Floor to ceiling. Thousands of them. Feeling sorry for them, I foolishly offered to help them for a day. Good grief! Katorga (hard hard work, like being a galley slave).
I especially recall visiting Greenwich with them. In those days, very mixed. The elegant 18thC house of a Lady or Countess Somebody or other (I noticed a grand piano in her drawing room; glimpsed through a window) but, only one street away, 1930s council flats, very dilapidated-looking.
Out of one such flat emerged a fat black woman without shoes, barefooted on the dirty concrete floor of a communal balcony, and she demanded two directories (God knows why; maybe to use as doorstops?).
BREAKING:
🇮🇷 Iranian MP says if Israel strikes Iran's nuclear facilities then we will strike Israel's Dimona nuclear facility in 400 seconds@IranObserver0pic.twitter.com/CkI7xlJagj
Really dismal numbers for the Tories and Rishi Sunak. 2.3 million Brits were on hospital waiting lists in 2010. Now 7.5 million! pic.twitter.com/Q6PzjOsjDI
Terrible. I recall (as repeated observer) from maybe 2011/2012 how bad much of the NHS hospital service was then (not all, though). God knows how much worse it is in 2024. I pity anyone having to endure one of the maladministered, dirty hospitals run by the NHS, even though I support the “free at point of use” principle, and recognize that some of the doctors and nurses are stellar.
Unless something (but what?) changes very soon, the Conservative Party is going to be pretty much wiped out at the upcoming General Election.
Angara A5 rocket launched for the first time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome
The "Angara A5" launch vehicle with the "Orion" upper stage and a test payload was launched from platform 1A of the "Vostochny" cosmodrome exactly at noon Russian time. pic.twitter.com/nnncRkajQH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“I think we should prepare for a possible Russian attack on Europe, but I think it’s unlikely,” Finnish President
"I'm a little worried about this rather bellicose talk that Russia is going to test Article 5(?) and that Europe is next in line…
European states must become more…
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“European states must become more Finnish. In other words, more prepared. You have to prepare for the worst to avoid it,” Stubb said. Alexander Stubb also said Kyiv’s support in the coming months is paramount as Putin “feels very confident and is targeting a window of opportunity to break through Ukraine’s defenses between now and September.””
Finns are not known for their brainpower, speaking generally, but this takes the biscuit, notwithstanding Stubb’s paper qualifications. Does this Stubb really think that there would be anything left of Finland were a major war to occur?
I see now that Stubb is from the Swedish minority in Finland (traditionally more affluent and better-educated than the majority Finnish population): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stubb. Obviously plugged-in to the transnational NWO agenda.
Journalistic standards (fall ever-lower)
The standards of literacy in both online and “real” newspapers slide ever-lower. Look at this, from the online platform of a long-established local newspaper chain:
“Police hunt after men try to rob teen’s expensive coat, police say” [headline]
How do you “rob a coat“? Did the coat fight back at all?
“Police have launched an appeal after masked men with knives are said to have tried to get robbed a teen’s expensive coat” [first line of the report].
Where does one even start? Jesus H. Christ! To think that that “journalist” (semi-literate scribbler) probably has a degree, maybe/probably a degree in journalism. What can one say?
More tweets
New polling from YouGov:
The majority of Americans think Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
No matter how much Lloyd Austin wishes to lie before committee hearings, along with Israel’s failed PR, the truth is clear for all to see. pic.twitter.com/1NpQZHUqJ6
Unless I have missed out some part of the graphic, that is a plurality, not a “majority“; still, significant, bearing in mind the “usual” (((usual))) bias of the American mainstream media.
That means that at least 32% of the people of the UK have no idea at all how unutterably terrible and nasty would be life in the UK after even a limited nuclear attack (if that were the cause of the collapse).
That terrible and nasty existence might (for the survivors) continue for decades; maybe even longer, depending on the level of destruction, how widespread it were, and the level of radiation.
Other causes of a civilizational collapse might lead to quicker recovery (eg were the poles to shift), but a decent level of living might not be resumed (or created), for many decades, all the same.
A useless fag-end of a government, most of whose MPs will be looking for other employment by early 2025, if not earlier.
Even in the darkest of times, fragments of happiness can be found. It is not always easy to see, but it is there, quietly waiting to be discovered amidst the shadows & rubble. We have so much to learn from the Children of Palestine ♥️🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/MnRNytgW56
Macron: We continue to work on missiles that will allow us to strike Russian forces and capabilities that are causing such serious damage to Ukraine
"We cannot give up on Ukraine because it is 1,500 kilometers away from us. In other words, this is our own security. This is a… pic.twitter.com/j2eGQiPw5w
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Macron— a complete idiot, and a puppet of the NWO/ZOG transnational conspiracy.
United States Embassy in the Israeli asked its employees and American citizens not to leave the central areas and absolutely not to move towards the northern areas, especially Haifa.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Spokesperson of the Israeli army: An attack by Iran will prove Iran's intention to escalate the situation in the Middle East. We have a proven defensive ability, but the defense is never unbearable. pic.twitter.com/yy6h8yxYLw
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Does that mean “unbeatable“? As for “escalation“, what was the destruction of Iran’s embassy in Damascus? An attack on not one but two sovereign neighbouring states, simultaneously.
Retired Israeli general:
The attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus was a bad gamble that opened the doors of hell for us 🔥 pic.twitter.com/FD3CMRGhPh
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
If all the Arab states, plus Iran, and plus the Palestinian Arabs in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, turned on Israel at the same time, the Israeli state would be finished. The Arabs, and also non-Arab Muslims in the region, however, have always been disunited.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
The Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, American General Christopher Cavoli, stated that the size of the Russian army has increased during the conflict with Ukraine, and that Russia will soon be able to fire ten times more artillery shells than the Kiev forces.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“The Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, American General Christopher Cavoli, stated that the size of the Russian army has increased during the conflict with Ukraine, and that Russia will soon be able to fire ten times more artillery shells than the Kiev forces.
“The [Russian] military is actually 15 percent larger now than when Special Military Operations began”, Cavoli said during a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee. – “All in all, Russia is on its way to commanding the largest army on the continent,” Cavoli said and added that, “regardless of the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine, Russia will be bigger, deadlier and angrier at the West than before the escalation of the conflict.”
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Russia is winning and growing stronger despite the efforts of the West – Indian analyst
Many countries receive information about the Ukrainian conflict through the prism of Western propaganda. It contains many myths that need to be debunked, writes former UN Office for the… pic.twitter.com/FEggRbEAmF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“Russia is winning and growing stronger despite the efforts of the West— Indian analyst.
Many countries receive information about the Ukrainian conflict through the prism of Western propaganda. It contains many myths that need to be debunked, writes former UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs official Arjun Katoch in an article for The Print.
In particular, according to the analyst, contrary to the claims of Western media, Moscow is winning the confrontation with Kiev and its overseas sponsors.
After the “impressive failure” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ summer campaign and the liberation of Avdievka, the Russians are advancing along the entire front line, even in the current mud season.
“The Ukrainian army is being destroyed, and no amount of help can save it,” the author of the article emphasizes. “Russia will win this war; the only question now is how far west its troops will advance,” he adds.
The journalist also debunks the idea that the conflict is weakening Russia. Sanctions forced the country to focus on developing its own industry and reorient itself to the east. But as a result, its economy has outpaced the EU’s in growth, and defense production has grown exponentially, allowing Moscow to supply its troops with modern weapons and ammunition much faster than the West can supply the Ukrainians.
“Russia will emerge from this war with a battle-tested, most well-equipped and combat-ready army in Europe. So it’s certainly not getting weaker,” Katoch notes.“
Late music
[Victor Ostrovsky, The House]
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Senator Tommy Tuberville: The United States has already spent $300 billion on the needs of Kiev since 2014 and sends $80 thousand to Ukraine every second pic.twitter.com/3vBNiSpRjj
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
In the Haaretz newspaper, Israeli journalist Chaim Levinson wrote:
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
Exactly the same as the outskirts of Sofia (Bulgaria) seen, en passant, by me in 2001.
According to the Israeli Channel 12, since the start of the war in Gaza, 10,000 Israeli soldiers have suffered from mental disorders pic.twitter.com/DZXcx4G7S0
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
The Pentagon chief announced a threat to global energy due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russian oil refineries . Lloyd Austin announced this at a hearing in the US Senate.
“ Certainly these attacks could have a knock-on effect on the global energy situation ,” he… pic.twitter.com/9H5eqMWAJn
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
“The Pentagon chief announced a threat to global energy due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russian oil refineries.
Lloyd Austin announced this at a hearing in the US Senate. “ Certainly these attacks could have a knock-on effect on the global energy situation ,” he said.
At the same time, the head of the American defense department spoke in favor of Kiev stopping such actions. According to him, Ukraine “is better off pursuing tactical and operational goals that can directly affect current battles.”
Ukrainian drones have attacked several Russian oil refineries since the beginning of March. Among them are factories in the Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ryazan regions, and Krasnodar Territory.“
The West, particularly the USA, is shooting itself in the foot. It gives money, arms, and ammunition to the Kiev regime, which uses part of that to attack oil refineries in Russia. Result— the world price of oil increases, Russia makes even more surplus from the many refineries still operating normally, and the West, including the USA, pays through the nose even more for oil, making its citizens poorer and its industries less competitive.
“A trans woman who threatened to kill, blind and break the backs of woman’s rights campaigners Kellie-Jay Keen – known as Posie Parker – and Helen Joyce has been spared jail.
Layla Le Fey, 44, was handed a suspended jail sentence after the court heard she had been struggling with her mental health when she made the treats of extreme violence and arson towards the activists.
One post from Le Fey said: ‘I’m a trans woman and I’m not ashamed to admit I’d be happy to physically kick the s*** out of you and pull your eyes out and break your spine’.
In another post, Le Fey wrote: ‘If you want to prove your point that some trans people are extremely violent, I’m game’, while a third she said she wanted to burn Mrs Keen – founder of the group Standing for Women.
In a victim statement, Mrs Keen said she wanted to make clear the threats against her were made by a man.
‘A violent man committed a crime,’ she said. The violent threats had far greater impact on my husband and children than me. They are very worried for my safety.
‘Terrorising women into silence was the intent of this man. I want to make it clear, this crime was committed by a man.’
“She added: ‘This is what happens when women speak up. I didn’t want to elevate this person’s comments, so I did not respond. These tweets disturbed me and I’ve no doubt given the opportunity this person would have carried out these threats.”She added: ‘This is what happens when women speak up. I didn’t want to elevate this person’s comments, so I did not respond. These tweets disturbed me and I’ve no doubt given the opportunity this person would have carried out these threats.”
[Daily Mail]
It really is about time that “we” or, more accurately, the msm, stopped referring to these individuals as “trans women“. If they need be referred to at all, “trans persons” would be more accurate and so more suitable.
Import the population, import also that population’s behavioural patterns, and its political attitudes as well.
The UK government is not just complicit with Israel's killing of three British aid workers in Gaza.
Through providing Israel with British bombs, bullets and diplomatic cover for six months, the Sunak government has made Britain an accomplice to Israel's murderous destruction. pic.twitter.com/10rM0oxI3M
🇩🇪🇮🇱 Helen Fares, the host of the MixTalk program in Germany, who called for a boycott of Israeli products, was fired.
Fares said: "The German government is trying to silence voices speaking out in defense of Palestine. So we will speak pic.twitter.com/gPb8h1RRHL
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 10, 2024
“Nicht kaufen bei [REDACTED]”…
Following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Khan Yunis, Palestinian civil defense units search for bodies under the rubble of destroyed houses. pic.twitter.com/A7paAJAAlk
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 10, 2024
Israel, our closest ally? The reason why we bendover backwards for Israel is because they control our system through bribery, espionage, and corruption. They have nothing to offer us!
— Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) April 8, 2024
…and that applies double or treble to the UK’s relationship with the Israeli state.
There is no excuse for this. How easy would it be to triangulate the phones of these journalist and just bomb the building. Israel made the Pegasus spyware exactly for this purpose. https://t.co/hcX5BYpYpe
It would be interesting to know what proportion of the Jewish population in the UK has another passport and/or another nationality; particularly, what proportion carries an Israeli passport.
Exactly nobody should be scared to be called an antisemite.
In fact, Tim Montgomerie is too mild. Abortion at a late stage is closer to murder than infanticide. Infanticide is usually done by a mother not long after birth; there are usually compelling extenuations of psychology and physiology. Abortion as we know it today is a planned and organized process, coldly executed, and often involving considerable profit.
A point made by me on the blog in the past, several times. Idiotic Gordon Brown, who thought himself so very clever was, I believe, the “brains” behind “working tax credits”, i.e. a system whereby employers could pay scheiss wages to their employees, who then had their pay topped-up by the State. “Welfare” for poor-paying employers. Madness.
Terrible. I am glad to say that I have never been on “Universal Credit”, but were I not exempt by reason of age I just might have been, especially since the Jewish lobby (sub nom “UK Lawyers for Israel”) had the Bar Standards Board contrive a case to have me disbarred in 2016.
We hear much about the “epidemic of shoplifting” and other crime, but I am wondering how much of that is driven by the fact that the social security/”welfare” system now does not really provide a sufficient safety net for those without paid work or private means. Not all crime is driven by real need, of course, but much is.
The Tories are now on their lowest score of this Parliament across six areas for our 'best party to handle [x] issue' question 👇
Housing: 9% say Tories are best party NHS: 10%* Education: 12%* Immigration: 14%* Brexit: 15%* Unemployment: 16% Law & order: 18%* Tax: 18% Economy:… pic.twitter.com/oRrzd8J3CG
War with Russia would be mad, both in the ordinary sense and in the sense of mutually assured destruction, though not equally assured: Russia has 6,000+ nuclear weapons, and a handful of those would be enough to finish a small country such as ours.
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— Londoner in Colchester City 🇪🇺 (@colchlondoner) April 5, 2024
At an educated guess, a substantial minority, if not a high majority, of the electorate think the same, in my opinion.
Former commander of US troops in Europe, General Ben Hodges, says that Washington is losing allies because of Ukraine:
"It's a shame. Our allies are losing trust in the United States. And if they lose trust in us, we are losing influence over them. Yes, of course, our European… pic.twitter.com/RQcmHisuwL
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 10, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
The US and its allies face a $10 trillion reckoning in the race for rearmament. Leaders are just beginning to come to terms with the huge increase in defense spending needed to counterbalance the militaries of Russia and China – Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/z6bs4aaYLP
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
By the time any of that comes on stream, assuming it is even authorized, any confrontation will have ended, bar the shouting.
Highlights from last night:
🇺🇦 Ukraine will lose the war if the US Congress does not unblock the aid package – Zelensky
🇺🇦 Ukraine’s accession to NATO can only take place after the end of the current conflict, – US State Department pic.twitter.com/4g1xjiHNgT
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose this war.
Turkey: we will limit the export of dozens of goods to Israel until there is a ceasefire in Gaza
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
CNN quoting American intelligence: Iran's response to the Damascus attack may be this week.
Iran's response will not be from Iran's soil, but through proxies
Iran does not want to give America and Israel an excuse for direct bombing.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 7, 2024
A medical mercenary; he is far from being the only one.
Meet Humza Yousef, First Minister of Scotland.
Humza introduced a new “hate speech” law that can lead to up to 7 years imprisonment for racism.
Humza now finds himself the single most-reported person under the new law, for his anti-white racist speech in Parliament. pic.twitter.com/AS2Gd3Jz2X
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 5, 2024
“Scotland has better education than England” (they said). “Scottish people are both better-educated and shrewder than the English” (they said). So why have the Scots voted into government a bad-joke pseudo-nationalist or fake nationalist party headed now by a Pakistani clown? Why is Scottish Labour the same or similar? (“but answer came there none“)…
During the Covid lockdowns, the Welsh Government spent millions of pounds turning the Principality Stadium into a temporary hospital for “Covid” patients.
“A Lady asked an old street vendor: “How much do you sell your eggs for?” The old man replied “0.50¢ an egg, madam.” The Lady responded, “I’ll take 6 eggs for $2.00 or I’m leaving.” The old salesman replied, “Buy them at the price you want, Madam. This is a good start for me because I haven’t sold a single egg today and I need this to live.” She bought her eggs at a bargain price and left with the feeling that she had won.
She got into her fancy car and went to a fancy restaurant with her friend. She and her friend ordered what they wanted. They ate a little and left a lot of what they had asked for. So they paid the bill, which was $150. The ladies gave $200 and told the fancy restaurant owner to keep the change as a tip.
This story might seem quite normal to the owner of the fancy restaurant, but very unfair to the egg seller. The question it raises is; Why do we always need to show that we have power when we buy from the needy? And why are we generous to those who don’t even need our generosity?
We once read somewhere that a father used to buy goods from poor people at a high price, even though he didn’t need the things. Sometimes he paid more for them. His children were amazed. One day they asked him “why are you doing this dad?” The father replied: “It’s charity wrapped in dignity.”
I know that most of you will not share this message, but if you are one of the people who have taken the time to read this far… Then this message of attempted “humanisation” will have gone one step further in the right direction.“
Blinken says that Ukraine will be joining NATO. Under Article 5, this means that an attack on Ukraine will be considered an attack on the United States. If you want World War 3, vote Biden in November. pic.twitter.com/kv0fyv5zdf
I despair at the proto-Tory Rachel Reeves. Supply side economist? I think not. She’s George Osborne in a bob and a fringe. More austerity, more powers to the HMRC, kitchen table economics, fewer/lower benefits with the middle & the poor brought to book.
The cartoon needs only to replace “Osborne” with “Reeves” (and, though not expressed, Conservative Friends of Israel changed to Labour Friends of Israel).
Talking point
More tweets
The anti-Brexit New European mag points out just 2% of UK visas were issues to high-skill, high-achieving migrants. This is correct. The Tories did it. But it could still be done very differently -if we wanted tohttps://t.co/9mY88fZaM7
The UK needs, and the British people want, no immigration of any sort at all. The UK must start actually educating and training people properly to fulfil occupations requiring great skill and knowledge, and pay them properly as well.
🇫🇷🇮🇱 French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejournet proposed introducing sanctions against Israel in order to open checkpoints for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
Zelensky asks his military leadership for maximum defense of Kharkiv, Ritter is convinced that he will soon lose it
HAS ASKED HIS OWNERS TO FORCE THE PRODUCTION OF DRONES WHICH HE THINKS WILL PLAY A MAJOR ROLE
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
“Zelensky asks his military leadership for maximum defense of Kharkiv. Ritter is convinced that he will soon lose it HAS ASKED HIS OWNERS TO FORCE THE PRODUCTION OF DRONES WHICH HE THINKS WILL PLAY A MAJOR ROLE.
Scott RITTER: Now Russia is destroying military targets in Kharkiv on a daily basis, as the Ukrainian armed forces do not have enough ammunition for air defense systems. Soon the Russian army will surround that city, and Kiev will have to cede it. Such a future awaits any city in Ukraine that Russia decides to occupy, because the Ukrainian army cannot provide their sustainable defense.”
The British newspaper The Times estimated that the Russian army, if it succeeds in liberating Kharkiv, will surround the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.”
I am expecting a general advance of Russian armour and infantry, supported by air power, in 2024 and/or 2025. The Kiev-regime forces do not have the manpower to resist, or will soon not have. They are all now in purely defensive mode, despite the occasional missile or drone provocation attacking Russia itself.
It may be that that general advance will move west and north-west until most of Eastern Ukraine (i.e. east of the Dnieper) is occupied by Russian forces.
Kiev itself has been heavily fortified in defensive layers, including massive minefields. It may be that there will not be an attempt to storm Kiev until much later, in late 2025, or 2026.
The Kiev regime is draining armed forces personnel, arms, ammunition at a fairly rapid rate now. There may be some kind of palace revolution in Kiev, with the Jewish dictator, Zelensky, removed and forced into exile, along with his cabal and their stolen billions. At that point, peace talks may well occur and result in an armistice, even if no final or formal result or peace is possible.
Ironic. That Jewish woman once, quite a few years ago, tweeted openly to another one that I (together with some other person, entirely unknown to me) should be given a glass of strychnine to drink…
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Israel fear of Iranian attack
Israeli Radio Editor:
The Israeli people are very concerned about the Iranian attack. An even worse situation awaits us and people are afraid of it.
Iran will finally take revenge, and Israel still has many difficult days ahead. People are… pic.twitter.com/1O7ADMKYzG
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
“Israel fear of Iranian attack.
Israeli Radio Editor: The Israeli people are very concerned about the Iranian attack. An even worse situation awaits us and people are afraid of it. Iran will finally take revenge, and Israel still has many difficult days ahead. People are unhappy, the authorities are afraid of an Iranian attack on power plants and blackouts throughout the country.“
Iranian Foreign Minister: From Damascus I loudly declare that Israel will be punished. pic.twitter.com/8y34TIEEpO
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
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I asked the British people who they trust to STOP THE BOATS. A Sunak-led Conservative Gvt? A Starmer-led Labour Gvt? Nope. The most popular answer was NONE OF THEM. Public confidence has completely collapsed.https://t.co/lEgeuOQ5wCpic.twitter.com/mFuGSpcExP
…and the same applies to the —ten or even twenty times greater— “legal” migration invasion.
Incidentally, those opinion poll statistics add up to only 77% of voters asked. Is most of the remaining 23% a group of people who might support something perhaps not on the question-paper, such as a social nationalist movement as yet not in existence?
At GE 2024, such figures might result in the Conservative Party being left with as few as 30 MPs, as noted on yesterday’s blog post.
NEW. More Brits SUPPORT leaving the ECHR than staying if it means they control their own borders. And two-thirds of conservatives think so. They are right to think this way. We MUST put the security of the British people above illegal migrantshttps://t.co/lEgeuOQ5wCpic.twitter.com/9FLF3GkSsp
A country which has no control over its borders, no control who has civil rights within borders, no right to expel non-citizens for default or at will, is not a nation but just a territory open to all, and not far from chaos or civil war, a place where disparate tribes occupy space for a time; or a kind of “Hotel California”…
🇨🇦🇺🇦 Ukranian refugee wonders how people live in Canada?
Says he’s working for 3 weeks and has to give all his money away to pay bills.
If I had to guess, I should say that embezzling fake Zelensky will be gone within a year or so, either into exile and to his several multimillion-dollar houses in Florida and elsewhere or, well, just gone…
One wonders what the “persecuted” Maureen Lipman would say about Mohammed. Would she even recognise that he’s just a child; that wants to play on his bike? https://t.co/eUUkPMcWC6
“It’s now a week since Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act became law and 8,000 hate complaints have been logged with the police —about one a minute. Police union bosses described the law as ‘a disaster’ and claimed officers are already ‘swamped under a deluge of complaints’. Senior officers also warned that police will be forced to make cuts to frontline crimefighting to deal with the deluge and face a big overtime bill which the Scottish taxpayer will need to pick up — or the police will cut back elsewhere.”
Scotland, a region where a bunch of pseudo-nationalist clowns and foreign ideologues have taken power over the past 9 years, and where the white Scottish majority population is a hated and reviled group, despite numerical and other superiority.
Not just the SNP under Pakistani “First Minister” Humza Yousaf. “Scottish” Labour under Anas Sarwar, another Pakistani, is no better. I was always told that Scottish education was better than English, and Scottish people shrewd. What happened?
Free speech is now all but dead in the UK, so I cannot comment as I should like…
For those unaware of the term, aliyah is a Hebrew term meaning, in everyday usage, “immigration“, and usually refers to immigration to Israel/occupied Palestine by Jews living elsewhere in the world; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah.
“In February 2002, Charlie Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree sent a letter to Defra declaring their intent ‘to establish a biodiverse wilderness area in the Low Weald of Sussex’. Twenty years later, their rewilding project on the 3,500-acre Knepp estate is a huge success story – a pioneering project that has inspired dozens of similar enterprises around the UK.”
[House and Garden magazine]
Rewilding. Worth reading.
The UK needs a “wildlife grid”, perhaps one partly under private ownership but with a central state office to offer help and advice, and to co-ordinate useful initiatives.
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"We will give Israel a response they have never seen before."
Israeli war crimes. Ethnic cleansing. Slaughter of women and children. Clearing Gaza of its Arab population so that, later, it can be settled by Israeli Jews. For a small country like Israel, even a region as small as Gaza represents what one might call Lebensraum [“living space”]. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum.
⚠️Zionist terrorists post themselves stealing the money of the Palesinians they murdered and rummaging through their belongings while mocking them.
…and see how actually reverential they look as they count the money…
It's absolutely bananas Britain does NOT collect/release data on how immigration impacts the economy, welfare & crime (as @NeilDotObrien notes). I polled Brits & found a majority want this data made available. They want a serious debate about immigrationhttps://t.co/lEgeuOQ5wC
I do not want “a debate“. I want an end to this invasion. So do the British people.
Also, it is quite clear why such information remains secret or unavailable, which is because public release of the statistical evidence would underline how hugely negative mass immigration has been to this country. A conspiracy by secret cabals embedded in the body politic to import non-whites into the UK (and the rest of Europe).
The New York City subway, according to the city's mayor, is "the best and safest in the world." Whatever you want, I believe him. pic.twitter.com/3k0jZtLdhF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
Residents of Ukraine must realize that none of them will be able to sit out during the mobilization, since there are not enough people in the troops.”
This was stated by the Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Pavlyuk. pic.twitter.com/SaHqb3cshF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
Even the press-gangs have not brought in enough people to become cannon-fodder for the incompetent Ukrainian high command. Now they want to press into service the old, the extremely young, women, even disabled people.
In the end, I think that many Ukrainian people will be glad to welcome the Russian armies as they advance.
The Sunday Times reports that among the residents of Ukraine there are no people left willing to fight, and a breakthrough of Russian troops to Kyiv is quite real
“The front line is 480 km away, but to nervous young people from Podol, a Kyiv district famous for its nightclubs… pic.twitter.com/6wdMSnEL7s
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
“The Sunday Times reports that among the residents of Ukraine there are no people left willing to fight, and a breakthrough of Russian troops to Kyiv is quite real “The front line is 480 km away, but to nervous young people from Podol, a Kyiv district famous for its nightclubs and cafes, the war suddenly seems much closer. “I’m afraid,” the publication quotes 31-year-old Dima as saying, specifying that he is a “heavy smoker.” Main points of the article:
Ukrainian generals said that there is no alternative to mass mobilization to stop Russia’s offensive. Zelensky warned allies to expect more territorial losses and called on Ukrainian men who fled abroad to return and serve their country.
But under the bright spring sun of Kyiv, the answers to questions about Zelensky’s desire to mobilize are clear. The video producer, who wished to remain anonymous, said that he travels between Ukrainian cities only at night to avoid being drafted into the army.
Western partners hesitant about arms supplies face brutal calculations: the population of the remaining Ukraine is approximately 31 million, compared with 144 million in Russia. The longer the military conflict continues, the greater the fear that the numbers will prevail.
Ukraine, suffering from the lowest birth rate in the world, tried to save young people from the horrors of war. But now, when the average age of a Ukrainian soldier is 43 years old, the desire to protect the country’s future prevails.
In the capital of Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people are browsing Telegram channels in search of advice on how to avoid conscription into the army. The messages are encrypted: “They just dumped a lot of snow on one person near the Polytechnic Institute station,” “It’s very cloudy on the street near the Festivalny shopping center now.”
People are accustomed to the idea that the front line is far away, that it is unshakable. But the truth is that the Russians could break through at any moment. We can fight for Kyiv again. People don’t understand the threat,” says military medic Boris.“
Regular readers of the blog will note that many of the above points have featured on the blog over the past 1-2 years.
Russia cannot lose this war. Russia will not lose this war.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian:
“Israel has crossed all red lines and we have informed everyone (all states) that its punishment will definitely follow.” pic.twitter.com/lzv8pNpBEv
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
“What goes around comes around“, in the American saying…
That photo, showing President Assad, reminds me of when little William Hague, about 12 years ago, said that Assad was finished and would be on a plane out to exile somewhere or other within days, if not hours. Ha ha! The UK is ruled by clowns of the William Hague sort— or even worse in fact, now. No wonder that 80% of the electorate want to stamp on the Conservative Party, and stamp and stamp…
Not that fake Labour, entirely controlled at top level by the Israel-lobby cabal, will be any better, looking at thick and ignorant “diversity hire”, Lammy.
Whilst there is no serious deterrent, it will get worse. No politician of either colour has the balls to do what is needed. It is out of control.
Well, you people, most of you “Conservative” and “Labour” voters, never supported those who tried to warn of the likely consequences of the mass immigration invasion of the UK —from the 1950s through to today—, meaning Enoch Powell, the National Front, the BNP, social-national thinkers etc.
Many tried to get a public hearing, but were ignored, or persecuted, or even prosecuted. You people kept voting for System parties and their corrupt and/or stupid MPs. Even now, you vote for a System party. Now see the results…
Forget about knives. Knives are just a peripheral symptom. Look at and then deal with the causes. Those who carry the knives. They are probably already breeding the next generation of knife-carriers and stabbers.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 7, 2024
On a very low cultural level.
JP Morgan Investment Bank President James Dimon: “The ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East could get much worse and spread in unpredictable ways. Most importantly, nuclear weapons, which are perhaps still the greatest threat to humanity, are out with a final verdict, and… pic.twitter.com/YwgyvJMSuL
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
Yedioth Ahronot: According to information received, Iran will strike 5 points in Israel.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
Iranian air traffic control is urgently rerouting all civilian flights and making clear skies!!! pic.twitter.com/dG5XzwArAw
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
Israeli newspaper: Israel defeated and isolated
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronot wrote in its report that the Israeli regime was defeated in the war against the Gaza Strip and is in severe isolation.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
Israeli Channel 10: Israel will be attacked in the coming hours! Israeli media: Soon there will be a missile attack on Tel Aviv.🤦🤦🤦 pic.twitter.com/ONSOrb1FdB
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 8, 2024
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So, an MP was sending pics of his bits to a stranger on Grindr. The person (feasibly a Russian agent) then blackmailed him into revealing sensitive information. The MP won’t resign, not even lose the whip, we’re just told he’s brave for admitting it. THIS is how far we’ve fallen.
Compare that to the Profumo affair of the early 1960s. A Cabinet minister resigned merely for having had a secret girlfriend who happened to be also involved with the Soviet Naval Attache, and having lied about the affair.
Standards in public life have always fallen, at times and in regard to this or that individual, from the strictest level, but what we now see is a general collapse of decent behaviour.
We heard this Fiesta in #Botley before we saw it… The driver told us the tyre had not long gone Flat! Our professional judgement suggested this wasn't really the case.
It came as no surprise when a positive drugwipe followed.
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) April 6, 2024
A good example of stolid English police humour.
Maureen Lipman and that coterie of right wing luvvies that includes David Baddiel, Stephen Fry, Simon Schama, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tracey Ann Oberman, Tony Robinson and the like are insufferable, fascist Zionists who couldn’t take a day of what they happily condemn Palestinians to.
Maureen Lipman thinks that no-one has a “right to return” (except, of course, Jews, who have a “Right of Return” law in Israel/Occupied Palestine, which allows any Jew to settle in Israel/Palestine, even those whose DNA shows that their ancestors were from Khazaria or elsewhere, and never anywhere near Israel/Palestine…).
The game is not…quite… at an end. There is still the possibility that a very small minority of Europeans (“Aryans” or, more accurately, post-Aryans) can take control sufficiently to vanquish evil and then create the basis for a new society which, eventually, over a long period of time, can become the foundation for an even later super-race.
[the Swastika, or Hakenkreuz, symbol of the positive evolution of consciousness]
Sadly, after two brutal, internecine world wars, Europeans have made themselves violence averse pacifists. They have been taught not to fight and not to fight back. They consequently don't have the strength of will to repel the Muslim migrants' encroachment, and their political…
As so often, people tweet or otherwise comment about the Muslim encroachment, and I have no argument about that, but they all too often ignore the fact of the far more powerful “Zionist” lobby, so embedded now in UK System politics, law, finance and business (obviously), and in the mainstream media and elsewhere.
Look at that cartoon. Islamic flags, but no Star of David or Israeli flags; yet which bloc or lobby is taking away freedom of expression in the UK? 90%+ of the repression is being co-ordinated by Jewish/Zionist and/or pro-Israel groups, such as the small but well-funded and very malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” kruzhok, which has attacked and tried to prosecute not only me but also such as Alison Chabloz, Al-Jazeera TV, David Icke, the Jewish —but anti-Israel— jazz musician Gilad Atzmon, and numerous others.
As far as my own situation is concerned, the “CAA” has engaged in a decade-long campaign against me (which fact the CAA admits, though saying it has been 7+ years-long). They also admit using the very peculiar Israel-lobby-owned “lord”, former MP Ian Austin, to pressure officials of the Crown (Clown) Prosecution Service, right up to the level of the Director of Public Prosecutions himself, to prosecute me on any basis that could be contrived.
The “CAA” (and their suborned dupes, the “Clown” Prosecution Service) were crowing online, including on Twitter/X, about having managed to get me convicted in November 2023, using the Communications Act 2003, s.127, a law so badly-drafted and unjust that the Law Commission has formally recommended its repeal, but the “CAA” has not tweeted at all about the sentence handed down in March 2024— 15 “rehabilitation” meetings with or via the Probation Service, and a costs order of £734 in all.
[I now, today, have just seen that the “CAA” website has published a long whining complaint that the sentence given to me was “scandalously lenient“. The “CAA” has nothing to complain about— its so-called “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” made a totally false allegation in 2021 that I had “racially abused” him. There was no evidence at all for that complaint, yet the individual has never been prosecuted, not yet anyway, for a quite plain attempted perversion of the course of justice].
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So far, £235 has been raised, about a third of the minimum payment required, and I have agreed with the payment office of the Court to pay £91.75 per month (for 8 months).
The history of my decade of persecution by the “CAA” and the other involved group, “UK Lawyers for Israel” ([UKLFI”] (both presently to be seen supporting the slaughter in Gaza, and the latter responsible for the complaint against me that resulted, after 2+ years, in my getting disbarred in 2016) can be found, in part, here below:
I have little doubt that that “CAA” cabal will be trying to contrive another malicious complaint against me now that their 2021-2024 ones have fallen flat; fallen flat despite my 2023 conviction and 2024 sentence, because the sentence was fairly lenient (though I had hoped for an even-lighter sentence, a conditional discharge and/or small fine), and because the (rather fair-minded, in my opinion) sentencing judge refused to grant the pathetic —and pathetically-poorly drafted— Clown Crown Prosecution Service application to restrict what I say or publish on the blog.
Also, there was no suspended sentence of imprisonment— my written Defendant’s Argument on Sentence put paid to any idea of that sort, and Prosecution Counsel, to be fair, was not foolish enough to ask for one once the trial judge had effectively ruled that out at end of trial (let alone actual imprisonment).
Anyway, what that means is that, should the “CAA” and/or police and Clown Prosecution Service want to prosecute me again, i.e. for what has been posted on the blog since mid-November 2023, or what is being currently posted on the blog, they will have to start all over again, and if they were to do that (pointlessly wasting yet more tens of thousands of pounds of public money), the matter would probably not conclude until some time in 2025, or even later, were I to appeal any conviction and sentence (and, were I to be convicted again, an appeal might be more likely than it was in the 2023/2024 matter).
I should robustly defend any further attempt to prosecute me for anything, of course.
Actually, while I dispute that any of the material in respect of which I was recently convicted and sentenced was “grossly offensive” anyway, regular readers will have noted that the blog has, in the past months, taken on a more diplomatic and more thoughtful tone, while remaining staunch and steadfast in principle and ideology.
Incidentally, readers may like to know that no Prosecution application was made to the Court at trial or after sentence that any material should be removed from the blog. All the (5) blog posts (out of 1,800 posted since 2016) which were the subject-matter of the trial remain extant and, while naturally it is the wiser course for me not to link to them, browsing readers interested in seeing what nonsense the prosecution was can see all of those blog posts via the search box or otherwise.
Indeed, the Clown Prosecution Service and “CAA”, as well as the few mass media outlets that reported my conviction and/or sentence, have themselves republished most of the supposedly “grossly offensive” remarks about Jews allegedly first posted by me, thus spreading those remarks far and wide. Thank you, clowns!
My legal position now, in respect of the blog, is what it was this time last year, or indeed in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016 (when the blog started). The blog remains, all previous posts remain in place, and I continue to blog, despite the inevitably chilling effect on freedom of expression of the past year’s repressive legal process.
I have little time for any of the three (Julia-Hartley-Brewer, Andrew Tate, Greta Nut), but I agree (for once) with radio loudmouth Julia Hartley-Brewer (about Greta Nut).
“British soldiers training in Kenya have carried out initiation ceremonies in which younger recruits are forced into having unprotected sex with prostitutes, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Senior soldiers allegedly toss a coin to determine whether the squaddie wears a condom, to prove how ‘brave’ they are.
The claims have alarmed defence chiefs because of the high rates of HIV/Aids in Kenya, where it affects one in 20 people.“
[Daily Mail]
Rassenschande…
Wait until Spetsnaz commandos burst into your base; prove how “brave” you and your officers are then…
More seriously, are any of the UK armed forces worth a plugged nickel these days?
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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future” [Oscar Wilde].
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]
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Orban called Pellegrini's election in Slovakia a big victory for peace advocates throughout Europe.
Let us remind you that Peter Pellegrini opposes the supply of weapons to Ukraine and for a speedy end to the conflict. pic.twitter.com/se3mO4tpaN
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 7, 2024
The Economist writes that Russia wants to make Kharkov a “gray zone” that is unsuitable for human life . pic.twitter.com/m6P23QJF04
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 7, 2024
Overdue Zelensky: The situation in Kharkov is very tough. We are looking for opportunities to give Kharkov more sky protection.
The city may begin forced evacuation of families with children, said the head of the Kharkov Regional Police Department, Sinegubov. pic.twitter.com/sCraq02Jhs
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 7, 2024
Reisner: The Russians are now exhausting the Ukrainian troops, and as soon as the land dries up – they will launch a major offensive
THE AUSTRIAN COLONEL IS THE CHIEF EXPERT ON THE WAR IN UKRAINE IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING AREA
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 7, 2024
Johnson: Ukraine will face a sudden collapse, not a slow capitulation
FORMER CIA ANALYST COMPARED THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE WITH A SHIP CRASHING INTO A BRIDGE IN BALTIMORE
FORMER CIA analyst Larry Johnson estimated that Ukraine will face a sudden collapse, not a slow… pic.twitter.com/BaxdjG1Hwc
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 7, 2024
“Since there is no way out of the war, Zelensky’s options look bad or even terrible” : The Americans continue to drown Zelensky – his plans to fight Russia are openly called unrealistic, and the future – terrible.
Well, I managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul again, despite scoring only 5/10 (had 2 near-misses as well). Rentoul awarded himself 2/10, plus two half-points, this week. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8.
“Hundreds of thousands of dementia patients in England face being denied access to revolutionary new drugs because the diagnostic capacity of the NHS lags behind every other G7 country, according to a damning report.
After decades of research to find a cure for the condition projected to affect 153 million people worldwide by 2050, scientists have successfully developed the first treatments to tackle the underlying causes rather than only relieve the symptoms. Two new drugs could get the green light for use on the NHS within weeks.
However, their effectiveness depends on prompt and early diagnosis of patients. The report, obtained by the Guardian, says the NHS lacks the diagnostic capacity to accurately identify those eligible in time.
The analysis reveals England is unprepared for the rollout of new treatments, with “large gaps in diagnostic capacity” for dementia. It also warns of a £14bn funding black hole that must be plugged if England is to diagnose dementia as quickly as the other G7 countries, the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.“
I have to say that the few Palestinians I have met (mostly in Qatar and around) have impressed me in that way, and far more favourably than the arrogant and stupid Gulf Arabs (Qataris and Kuwaitis) also met.
Sometime in the 1970s, I think probably in late 1977, I met the PLO representative in London, Said Hammami, who was based at the Arab League offices in Mayfair, and he was rather dismissive, but in retrospect I suppose that he had things on his mind, and probably little time in which to speak to a young person (21-y-o) with his head in the clouds in some ways…
I do not remember much about the discussion; mostly that the PLO man wore a rather filthy sheepskin coat in his little office, and that a young and rather stylish Arab woman in the outer office smoked a kind of long brown cigarette called More; I remember asking her what they were [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_(cigarette)].
Unfortunately, that PLO fellow was shot dead in the same office only (as far as I can recall) a few weeks later. The matter was never solved by the police. Either MOSSAD, or a different Palestinian faction to his own (he belonged to Fatah, I think). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hammami. Apparently he was in favour of talking to the Israelis; that may have been the reason behind the assassination.
A senior #Tory MP sends intimate images to a total stranger and the numbers of 12 of his colleagues, two of them also then send images. These types of scandal used to bring down Governments but in a post Boris Johnson era it doesn't even become the lead news story #WilliamWraggpic.twitter.com/kak51SjSMB
— The Man of Hidden Shallows (@Richiemuso) April 5, 2024
Voters of Britain: whatever your ideology, whatever you support or dislike, when GE 2024 arrives vote any way you like except “Conservative”, or do not vote at all. Crush and exterminate this useless party. Equally-bad “Labour” can fall later, but first things first.
I don't see why this chap is attracting so much sympathy from the journalism trade. I don't have an issue with him being duped into sending pictures, it's that he then betrayed his colleagues – leaving them open to blackmail attempts too.
The whole Westminster monkeyhouse should be done away with.
Latest from @PeoplePolling, which tends to give biggest Lab leads, 4 Apr Lab 45% -1 Con 19% +1 Reform 14% +1 Lib Dem 9% -1 Green 8% +1 (Changes since 7 Mar)
How would flooding the country with foreigners and bulldozing down the last of the forests and meadows for low-cost housing be better for the environment? Does the British losing their homeland excite you or something? pic.twitter.com/7XuwGnAb1K
A senior US CIA official stated: If Iran attacks Israeli territory, it will target military or intelligence installations inside Israel. pic.twitter.com/Oiyi5SAL6a
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
The Israelis await events— will they be attacked soon or not? Just as the people in Gaza have awaited attacks from Israel for decades. “What goes around comes around“…
A police robot in Nanjing, China, stops at a police station and politely asks, “Please open the door. I need to recharge. Thank you". pic.twitter.com/fwUUyE71uJ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
Not so much a sign of the times as the shape of things to come.
Weasel words from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar who voted for Scotland’s new Hate Crime Law, won’t repeal it and says the problem has been the manner of its implementation. Not good enough.
An example of how Labour, after GE 2024, intends to be an “elected” (by default) tyranny.
Meanwhile, thick “diversity hire”, David Lammy, has been on TV saying that Churchill replaced Chamberlain “a few days before” the outbreak of war with Germany. In fact, it was 8 months after the declaration of war on Germany by Britain and France.
🇮🇱 Protest in Tel Aviv on the eve of half a year after the war in Gaza
▪️Demonstrators are demanding early elections, the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and an urgent agreement on the release of hostages.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
Near-hysteria. Imagine what would happen if Israel were to be invaded.
A war with Russia can only lead to the complete destruction of France , said the leader of the French left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He also called to find a way to talk about peace. pic.twitter.com/bCMeHwIBSF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
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