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).
Tweets seen
“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…
“The UK is trapped in a cycle of political, social and financial turmoil. But there is a way out.
If there is any consensus in our otherwise fractured, toxic national debate it is that we cannot go on like this. Our economy is in crisis, exemplified by an annual £100bn shortfall in public and private investment, which must be lifted decisively for Britain to break out of today’s triple whammy of stagnant growth, productivity and living standards.
Society reels from alarming gaps in the provision of crucial public services and the yawning unfairness in the distribution of income, wealth and opportunity.
Our democracy and state seem incapable of acknowledging the full extent of these deformities, let alone adequately responding to them.
Our international standing has plummeted at a time of geopolitical peril. A transformative response is an imperative.
My new book, This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain, tries to address the origins of this interlinked crisis – and offer a feasible way out. Nothing is immutable. We are agents of our own destiny.
The heart of the problem is a misconception about how capitalism and society work. Capitalism must be managed and regulated to work for the common good, just as society has to be curated to provide fairness and opportunity for all. Crucially, the vitality of the two are interdependent. Capitalism must be organised so it provides economic ladders that every individual can climb while a social contract must offer a floor below which they cannot fall. Britain’s problem is that the Conservative party, in power for all but 13 of the last 45 years, does not accept these truths or interdependencies. Worse, even if it did, neither the dominant culture and practise of our capitalism, nor the structure of our democracy, state and media would have made it easy to fashion the necessary responses.
Conservative ideology has been in thrall to the contrary proposition that markets will self-organise to produce the best economic and social outcomes propelled by individual energy and ambition alone. The British state confers near-continual unfettered power to the Conservatives, and so in their view needs no reform. Yet the reality is that capitalism’s unchecked rollercoaster rhythms create instability, inequity and monopoly and so must be managed and counteracted. Nor can capitalism be relied upon to best organise how firms are governed and ownership responsibilities discharged; how workers are properly trained and paid; or to ensure that fair dealing is the norm between firms and their customers. Of necessity enter the state, much better designed than at present.
The UK has its back against the wall to a degree unparalleled in its peacetime history, facing economic problems more acute than the successive sterling crises of the 20th century or the trade union militancy that prompted the general strike of 1926 or winter of discontent in 1979. The level of our national debt has climbed alarmingly over the past quarter of a century, with no compensating increase in public assets, so that the net worth of the public sector – assets less liabilities – is more dangerously in the red than any other country bar Portugal. Similarly, more than 20 years of imports of goods and services exceeding exports has meant our international debts have climbed by £1.5tn, so that our balance sheet – positive for centuries as a result of empire and as pioneer of the Industrial Revolution – is now dangerously negative. Fifty companies that could have been in the FTSE 100 were sold abroad between 1997 and 2017; we are running out of assets to sell. At the same time almost every metric on the economic and social dashboard – whether social mobility or the number of new companies launching on the London stock market – is flashing amber or red.
Rightwing ideological maxims, initiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and continued by her imitators, have led to a sequence of policy disasters – monetarism, wholesale financial deregulation, austerity and then Brexit. Far from launching a renaissance, Thatcher was the author of pernicious decline. The doctrine is that the private “I” is morally superior to anything public, that the state’s “coercive” proclivities must be reined in to promote a “free” market, that regulation and taxation stifle enterprise, that unless ferociously means-tested and minimalist, welfare creates a huge underclass of undeserving “shirkers”, and that good public services follow from a successful economy rather than being integral to it.
Little of the policy that flows from this jumble of ideology and prejudice has any evidence base. As the totality of the failure has unfolded, so the Conservative party’s unity has fragmented into the blind alleys of libertarianism and the debacle of the Truss government, ongoing phobia about all things European and the temptations of anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner, anti-woke populism. It has become an ungovernable federation of cults.
In the 1980s, monetarism did not contain inflation as billed, but rather prompted mass unemployment, hollowed out much of our productive economy – manufacturing employment nearly halved in a decade – and eviscerated public investment. The areas so scarred by the experience would, 30 years later, vote for Brexit. Financial deregulation led to the fastest rise in private indebtedness in our history, propelling illusory economic growth buoyed not by investment and innovation but a flood of credit. It could only end in tears. Writing The State We’re In in the mid-1990s, to warn of an impending tragedy without a change of course, I did not anticipate the great financial crisis of 2007/8, felt most acutely in Britain, although it was obvious the whole rickety structure could only fail in some way. Nor did I imagine that Britain would repeat the failures with the economically illiterate budgetary tightening of austerity and then torch the one successful economic policy asset it had remaining, EU membership, which had boosted GDP by 10%. Yet such was the grip of the right on the Tory party that their bad ideas, once unthinkable, became our lived reality.
And Britain’s liberal left cannot absolve itself of blame. If Conservatism has over-emphasised the “I”, the left has not yet found an electorally attractive way of making the case for “We” – or, better still, blending it with the “I” to create a political philosophy, and attractive policies that flow from it, that would appeal to the majority. My proposition is that the “We” should be built on fusing an ethic of socialism grounded in profound human attachment to fellowship, mutuality and co-operation with the ethic of progressive or new liberalism that emerged 150 years ago as a challenge to classic liberalism. Essentially, liberal thinkers such as Thomas Hill Green and Leonard Hobhouse (forerunners of progressive liberals Keynes and Beveridge) argued that individuals and society were in a constant iterative relationship. Individuals shape society, society shapes individuals, and each and everyone has an obligation to make the social whole as strong as possible, which they are obliged to recognise even while they pursue their own ambitions and interests. Green called this the politics of obligation, which not only the great reforming 1905-15 Liberal government would follow, but later the Keynesian economic revolution and Beveridge’s welfare state.
Labour, as Tony Crosland diagnosed in the 1950s in The Future of Socialism, was founded on being all things leftist to everyone to encourage as big a membership as possible. It was a coalition of Marxists to gradualist Fabians – so laying the foundation for more than 100 years of feuding. Only the ethic of socialism, which has deep roots in western philosophy, the great religions and the Enlightenment, stands the test of time. It was Aristotle who declared that those who deny the primacy of a healthy society to their individual wellbeing are either “a beast or a gods”, while the father of British empiricism, Francis Bacon, would write “wealth is like muck. It is not much good but if it be spread.”
Progressive liberalism and an ethic of socialism are not incompatible value systems: they are complementary. Progressive liberalism leans into the individualism that propels capitalism while accepting social obligations; an ethic of socialism leans into the foundation of a social contract and infrastructure of justice that underpin the sinews of a good society. Ideological socialism’s hostility to capital and liberalism’s association with the upper class and upper middle class initially made a rapprochement between the two impossible. Today those obstacles have faded. It was Tony Blair who saw the opportunity that could be grasped, and perhaps his best contribution to progressive politics was his rewriting of Labour’s infamous high socialist clause IV to articulate the fusion. New Labour may have shrunk from the full implications; it will fall to successors to make it live.
The vision is of a “we society” – a high investment economy populated by companies that take their social responsibilities seriously, underpinned by a rejuvenated social contract in which health, housing, education, justice, welfare and the labour market all combine to offer every individual the chance fully to participate in work, social and civic life. No more lost Einsteins and Marie Curies.
The starting point must be to raise public investment decisively and so “crowd in” private investment radically to lift productivity and real wages (wages adjusted for inflation). Three targets select themselves – the vital need to close the disgraceful gap in productivity, infrastructure and economic performance between London and the regions; the commitment to achieve net zero by 2050 given the alarming rise in global temperatures; and the need to lift research and development spending dramatically. To move the dial in all these areas will require public borrowing for such investment to rise by at least 1% of GDP, or between £25bn– £30bn, with fiscal rules organised around real-world, rather than accounting, goals. The financial markets will be reassured if they know that the investment they are supporting is strategic and thought through. Britain can break out of its low growth trap without financial mishap.
Shibboleths about taxation need to be put to one side. Taxation represents the “we”, and as long as the demands on all sections of society are reasonable – involving at present a greater contribution by the wealthy, whose assets in relation to GDP have doubled since 1980 – there is no evidence that tax receipts at today’s level or even marginally higher will damage growth. What matters is that Britain does what it must to lift its growth rate. A “growth commission” should establish rolling targets for public investment and be held to account to achieving them – the means to vitally needed change.
Importantly, the savings and investment system must be reshaped to drive credit and equity investment to support the financial needs of the companies big and small that we need to feed off the surge in public investment. Two young institutions – the UK Infrastructure Bank and British Business Bank – must be turbocharged so they can operate at the multibillion-pound scale necessary. Banks must be incentivised to supply business loans on much less onerous and flexible terms, and the pension system must be boosted and organised to invest in fast-growing companies based on frontier new technologies. A big multibillion private sector wealth fund – already mooted by some in the City – must work in concert with a public sector wealth fund to invest in what will be the great companies of tomorrow, ensuring they stay British-owned to anchor our economy.
The law needs to ensure that companies make their prime objective the achievement of great social purposes rather than short-term self-enrichment. This should especially apply to all our regulated utilities. The best in British business and our utilities have already begun to move in this direction, putting achievement of great purpose at their heart: it needs to become the general rule. Competition policy must be stepped up so that there is much less incentive and capacity to rig prices in monopoly or quasi monopoly positions. This is particularly important for those businesses and sectors whose business models depend on strength in “intangibles” – intellectual property, human skills, data and digital advantages, research – whose growth has been cramped by so many financial and regulatory biases that favour incumbents. British capitalism, in short, needs to be repurposed both to grow and to work for the common good.
No less essential is to repair the threadbare social contract. The new risks and inequalities that every citizen will confront in an ever faster moving environment, along with new centres of prosperity, need to be mitigated and managed to ensure the new economic world is underwritten by great education, health and housing – and income support when for any reason people find it impossible to work. The workplace needs to be reconfigured so employees are conferred dignity and voice, with trade unions as active partners of purposeful companies. There must be a proper system of social care. We cannot have children going hungry in their millions, with schools, training institutions and further education colleges allowed to decay. And lastly, housing must be restored as a central pillar of the good society. Council tax, the mortgage market, social housing and the system of tenure all require a major overhaul. It would all be integral to a British-style New Deal.
The British state that perforce must catalyse and lead all this must be reformed and recast. It needs the capacity to act strategically, but with far stronger mechanisms for being held accountable for what it does. Parliament must recover its capacity to deliberate and scrutinise along with making law. The reduction of MPs to mere lobby-fodder ciphers to service the transient whims of an unprecedented churn of ministers is surely one reason why nearly 100 this parliament – a record – have been sanctioned for gross lapses in their behaviour. Our second chamber, the Lords, must be democratised. Ethical standards, from conduct in office to political donations, need to be respected and enforced. Boris Johnson’s abuses cannot be allowed again. The independence of the judiciary must be better entrenched. The tone and content of our national conversation, framed by a dominant and frequently hysterically biased rightwing media magnified by social media, needs to be hosed down – a revival in public service broadcasting and regulation of content is a necessity.
Britain has the potential to become an envied European economic and social model. Indeed to re-engage with the European Union is another indispensable part of recovery. The case is not only economic, recovering lost markets, increasing trade intensity, and stimulating falling inward investment that are costing a lost 5% of GDP every year (and growing) but geopolitical. Britain must be “in the room” where the great decisions on Ukraine, defence, security, energy, climate emergency, and the regulatory standards are taken that will configure our continent. Empire and Commonwealth have gone; the 21st century will be shaped by three great blocs – the US, China and the EU. To be alone to assert a meaningless “sovereignty” to assuage the fantasies of rightwing populists is madness.
The emerging rightwing nexus of libertarian tax-cutters and immigration-phobes, so ready to put achieving those aims above the rule of law and respect for human rights, is unfit to govern. At the next election Britain needs a government that will sure-footedly reshape our capitalism and society to promote growth, enfranchisement and a country at ease with itself – respecting rather than deifying its past better to build the future. We can act to shape our destiny. This time no mistakes.“
[Will Hutton, in The Guardian]
I disagree with some of that; agree with more.
The most glaring near-omission is that Hutton scarcely mentions the fact that a million non-whites a year are entering the UK. Most of them are —at best— useless, and most of them are staying, and breeding. That alone would destroy any hope of his carefully-constructed “better-society” blueprint.
Hutton prefers just to look down his nose at what he terms “immigration-phobes“. That may cut it with dinner-party attendees wherever Hutton lives (Hampstead? Richmond? Blackheath? Muswell Hill?), but not with the British people. Things are too serious for that, and impact them directly as well as indirectly.
Hutton seems to think that the importation into the UK of a million persons per year, mostly from backward areas of the world, mostly unskilled, often not even speaking English, is either unimportant or actually desirable. He ignores the fact that few are really useful, many (most) parasitic, and not a few actively hostile and/or criminal.
Hutton also uses the term “rightwing“, which is both anachronistic and imprecise; almost meaningless. Disappointing in a former Master of Hertford College, Oxford.
Hutton is a dyed-in-the-wool EU-remainer. He cannot see any alternative to the UK being just a province of an EU bloc. There is at least one alternative which might fly, but he has obviously not considered it (joining with Russia in loose alliance, while keeping amiable relations with the European Union states and even with the USA etc).
The third problem I have with Hutton’s view is that he lays out broadly what he thinks should happen, but without saying how it might happen. How do we get from here to there?
People crying and seething in London because they've seen a few Swastika symbols.
Best stay away from Vivianne Westwood. Upminster Train Station, St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry and Essex County Council building, then.#Culture#Easterpic.twitter.com/ZQhrgWaQEj
two foreign jewish women berating a British policeman and calling for censorship & the enforcement of hate speech laws – and it's conservatives cheering them on https://t.co/WZTYS0TK2b
— White Lives Matter California (@WLMCalifornia) October 2, 2023
An interesting Twitter/X account not seen previously by me.
Washington Post: We Had to Destroy the Democracy to Save It.
The Post reports on how in Europe, the secret police are putting under surveillance political parties that are growing by advocating policies popular with voters.
The tweeter’s reference is to Germany (inter alia). Nearly 80 years after the disastrous end of the Second World War, Germany is still, to some extent, an occupied country.
Around 5,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year – which represents an increase of almost a third on the first quarter last year. pic.twitter.com/twc9IJvBpe
5,000 in the three months of the year which have the roughest seas in the Channel. That probably means anything up to 50,000, maybe even more, by the end of 2024.
That figure is, however, dwarfed by the total of so-called “legal” migration: “high-skilled workers” (Indians who can work a computer), “fiances/fiancees”, “family members”, “students”, and the rest.
The two figures together will almost certainly top a million in 2024 alone. Totally unsustainable. British society will come apart by reason of the continuing migration invasion.
The most terrifying thing about Scotland’s hate speech laws are that they appear to have been written by a 5 year old
Or perhaps suggesting they use the word “incitement” would be deemed hate speech pic.twitter.com/iBBBHTE1PZ
The SNP’s cartoon brand of Scottish “nationalism” has no problem with the leaders of two of the three main parties “up there” being of Pakistani origin, has no problem with a future “independent” Scotland (which will probably never exist anyway) being part of the EU and so largely ruled and regulated by that supranational body, no problem (in reality) with Scotland continuing to be a part of NATO (and so not “independent” in terms of military or naval strategy), and no problem with the Scots being slowly or not so slowly replaced in their own land by hordes of “blacks and browns”.
In short, the SNP is both a fake and a political bad joke. Its two previous leaders have faced, or are facing, criminal charges, and its brief time in the sun (from 2015 to 2024) looks set to descend into night.
We have just got new vicar, we haven’t had permanent vicar for two years. Church is giving away our money on slavery repatriation when it won’t give one penny to fix our church buildings, while our congregations struggle to raise 10s of thousands to fix grade 2 listed buildings
She's more of a Conservative than you & your one nation mates sadly. Never has a party been so disconnected & out of touch with its electorate & never has a govt failed its voters so miserably.
I am angry about what you and other MPs have done to our country. You let us down. You did not listen to us. All you care about is yourself. You left us, not the other way around. Be ashamed
Nobody cares, Esther. So greatly have the arrogant Tories betrayed their base that vengeance, which is imminent, will be sweet. https://t.co/peYGruuup8
#R4today ask why we keep trying to get both parents into work when there is a shortage of jobs AND why is it so difficult to live on one wage while rearing the kids when it used to be easy?#NurseryPlaces#CostOfLivingCrisis#BrokenBritain
Nobody cares anymore after social media screened Israel genocide on Palestinian people! Maybe talk about that!!! You can’t go and murder 12 thousand children and then cry that someone offended you by displaying swastika and cop is right it depends on context!
— Paulina Zielinska (@PaulinaZielins9) April 1, 2024
Just imagine— after GE 2024, that thick Israel-puppet, Lammy, is set to be the new Foreign Secretary. Unglaublich…
Transgenderism gains additional protections because it is a male sexual rights movement campaigning for epistemological abolitionism and cultural nihilism – but “hate speech” laws are illiberal, censorious and designed to chill any discourse and must be repealed in full.
Mirabile dictu…I find myself in agreement with both J.K. Rowling and once-well-known tweeter Robbie Travers… and on the same day.
This is best rebuttal I've read yet to the absurd bien-pensant notion that because Scotland’s new hate crime law is vague and the guidance around it is contradictory, it probably won't do much. No: this vagueness is the biggest problem https://t.co/chOgWvPBWQ
Vagueness is the enemy of a “society under law”. I myself was convicted in November 2023 of breaching the Communications Act 2003, s.127, a law so unjust and poorly-drafted that the Law Commission has formally recommended its repeal.
I was supposed to have published, on this blog, a number of remarks, comments, and cartoons that were “grossly offensive“, and mostly, it was said, about Jewish behaviour.
Truth was irrelevant. Harm was also irrelevant (the Prosecution and the trial judge both accepted from the start that there was no “victim” in the case, and that no actual “harm” had been done to anyone at all).
The prosecution was procured (God knows how…) by the malicious cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a very small but very well-funded Jewish-Zionist group that has admitted, both on Twitter/X and its own website, that it has been trying to have me prosecuted on various bases for 7+ years; I think closer to 10 years.
In fact, the “CAA” has had only a notional victory.
Yes, the “CAA” managed to apply political pressure sufficient to make compliant police box-tickers annoy me with pointless and supposedly “voluntary” interviews in 2017 and 2021 (after the “CAA” made completely false accusations against me); yes, the “CAA” also managed to have political pressure applied to the Crown Prosecution Service so that I was eventually prosecuted (in 2023); yes, I have been inconvenienced by the whole process (though never arrested) and, yes, I was later convicted in the magistrates’ court, having defended myself alone and unaided from all those manifestations of Britain’s new poundland police state.
Having said that, the “CAA” has obviously been disappointed at the ultimate result. My sentence (15 days or part-days of so-called “rehabilitation” under the Probation Service, and a costs order amounting to £734) was clearly less severe than they wanted. It is a nuisance, and one that inconveniences me, yes, but no more.
The “CAA” has been so miffed at the sentence passed upon me that it and its Jewish supporters have not even tweeted about how I have been sentenced (they did tweet when I was convicted last year). Not one tweet from the “CAA” itself about me since the sentence was handed down, and only a couple (I saw 2 or 3 tweets) from stray frustrated “CAA” supporters saying how “derisory” was my sentence. I myself would not say that: the sentence was and is a nuisance, and has caused minor inconvenience, but not excessive inconvenience.
I suppose that the “CAA” will continue to push the police and CPS (when will the office bods of those two organizations realize that they are being “played”?), but I doubt that the “CAA” will get very far; we shall see.
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I have already had a few meetings with the rather charming ladies of the Probation Service.
As for the supposedly “grossly offensive” blog posts which founded the November 2023 conviction, they are still extant and capable of being seen. I think that I shall not provide a link to them, in the circumstances, but they are all (all 5 of them) still on the blog, and will remain there indefinitely.
The blog continues to be published daily or near-daily and, while the conviction will, in effect, require me to be more cautious in terms of tone, the material covered will remain much the same, except that I hope to present more from the world of ideas and policy, and perhaps slightly less in terms of mere comment.
The sentencing district judge (on 14 March 2024) refused the Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me (which might have restricted my free speech on the blog even further), because it would have been pointless, and because it was so badly-drafted; pathetically poorly, in fact.
I am now under no greater onus, from the strictly legal point of view, than I was when this whole legal and juridical circus started in early 2023.
So there it is…
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These fucking lunatic israelis just bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus
Unbelievable violation of the Vienna convention and Syria and Iran's sovereignty.
Laurence Fox is ideologically incorrect all the same. We have a right to be Europeans in a European ethnostate. Don’t use the language (e.g. “racist scum“) of the enemy.
Laurence Fox is also pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby. Sadly misguided.
Laurence Fox has nothing of interest to say; he should retire from politics (insofar as he is in politics in the first place) as gracefully as possible and as soon as possible.
🔶 The Israeli Parliament passes new law that will ban the Qatari Wahhabist state TV channel Al Jazeera from broadcasting in Israel.
The White House in Washington D.C. has voiced its concern regarding the impact the new Israeli law proposal will have on freedom of speech. pic.twitter.com/PpsoahKLkT
The speech of the Easter white bunny at the White House in Washington seemed to many Republicans more meaningful than press conferences and speeches by representatives of the Joe Biden administration and the American president himself pic.twitter.com/5qQvWe3PZz
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
The situation in one of the deserts of Saudi Arabia against the backdrop of abnormal hail and rains that have continued in the region since the beginning of winter pic.twitter.com/8CC5iebpGO
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
"Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia:
“Israel's attack on the Iranian embassy could lead to war.”"
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
Israel wants to provoke a situation in which the USA will back up Israel and maybe destroy Iran for the Israelis. Tail wags dog…
From today, in Scotland, it is a crime to use what others perceive to be “threatening or abusive” behaviour which stirs up hatred on the basis of "protected characteristics", incl. what's said in your own home & which will go on your criminal record. This is not an April Fools.
I hope that there are Scottish people who will not only oppose these police-state measures but who will also identify the most guilty behind the new repression.
"Labour should give British citizenship to millions of EU migrants", says pro-Labour think tank. This is just one of several plans to upend Britain's democracy in Labour's favour, as I wrote about last month …https://t.co/UA2ukmAaby
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored, he says, “4.5/10”. I managed 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 7.
“A dispute over a 97-year-old woman feeding birds in her back garden has escalated with the ‘bullying’ council now threatening a £2,500 fine or even court action to force her and her son out of their privately-owned home.
Retired music teacher Anne Seago enjoys the simple pleasure of watching from her conservatory as sparrows and robins feed off seeds on her bird table.
A complaint from a neighbour that she was attracting pigeons and seagulls prompted the council to issue a ‘written warning’ last November and threaten a £100 fine if the ‘anti-social behaviour’ doesn’t cease.
Now, amid claims the birds are still being fed, Fylde Council has issued her son Alan, 77, who lives with her, with another written warning. This time he is being threatened with a Community Protection Notice (CPN) and a potential fine of £2,500 for ‘non-compliance’ if the ‘anti-social behaviour’ doesn’t stop immediately.
And in a further threat the council’s environmental health department has warned it could take legal action for a ‘Civil Injunction and/or a Premises Closure Order’, that if granted by magistrates could ultimately force them out of their house in Staining, near Blackpool, for up to three months.
The officers even instructed the Seagos to take down the ‘I love’ birds notice on their window (above) in case it upset the neighbour.“
“Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk said: ‘I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past. It’s real and it started over two years ago. We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War‘.”
[Daily Mail]
Tusk is a brainless drone, a complete puppet of NWO/ZOG. A year ago, he was predicting that Ukraine (the Kiev regime) would “defeat Russia“, and then go on to join both NATO and the EU. How is that going?…
As for war with Russia, certain powerful groups or cabals in the West are really pushing for it; the drift to war is almost entirely being driven by those groups, not by Putin, not by Russia.
An almighty war would be disastrous for Europe and the European peoples. Maybe that is why the “usual suspects” and their puppets keep pushing for one…
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Britons increasingly believe Russia has the advantage in Ukraine
Despite 2 years of false reporting by the UK/US msm, the truth is slowly dawning: Russia must and will win this war. Ukraine (the Kiev regime) is a fake state and a failed state, and is fast running out of arms, ammunition and, most of all, soldiers.
— Biker Gary, Far Right Gammon Thug 🇬🇧 (@BikerGary17) March 28, 2024
Another System-party clown…
First Matthew Parris wants to crack down on disability benefits. Now he addresses assisted dying saying old & frail people are a burden on society. Until social care & palliative care are available to everybody at a certain level, insensitive talk like this is really frightening. pic.twitter.com/GeqA5FuJe5
People say that it does not matter what a person’s private life, sexuality, even beliefs etc may be. Only their specific ideas matter. Easy to agree with that, superficially, but it is facile in more ways than one.
Matthew Parris is typical, in a way, of the faux-“caring sharing” “Cameroon” fake “Conservatism” of the past few decades; post-Thatcherite, espousing a neo-Spartanism for the poorer part of society, and a freedom-from-responsibility ethos for the affluent and wealthy, all disguised by the said fake “caring”.
Often, though certainly not always, publicized in newspapers, and in magazines such as the Spectator, and often by affluent metropolitan gays such as Parris himself.
That kind of “Conservatism” is the polar opposite of the paternalism which characterized at least part of the old and now long-gone Conservatism.
Mrs Thatcher may now be thought of as the standard-bearer of the new pseudo-libertarian “Conservatism”, but she herself, in office, was more a product of the old order, and vacillated between the two camps, for all her expressed adherence to Hayek etc.
The tweeter cited above is right. Parris is shown, not for the first time, as someone who basically knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. His notorious column about “left-behind” areas, such as Clacton, set the tone.
Not that I disagree with all that Parris has written, such as when his column opined thus: “In May 2021, Parris called for the removal of ethnic minority status from Gypsy, Roma and Travellers, describing them “not a race, but a doomed mindset” and called for “a gradual but relentless squeeze on anyone who tries without permission to park their home on public property or the property of others” [Wikipedia].
I agree with those words, though the Irish “travellers” are not the same actual group as the various kinds of ethnic “gypsies” in the UK and mainland Europe (etc). “Travellers” of Irish origin are not an ethnic minority; the Roma, Sinta etc are.
I also agree with his view of sinister clown “Boris” Johnson: “In June 2020 Parris wrote an excoriating article on Boris Johnson saying, “He never had any judgment or strategic vision. Mr Johnson was only ever a shallow opportunist with a minor talent to amuse” [Wikipedia].
What I find disturbing about, not only Parris but also that whole strain of post-Thatcherite “Conservatism”, discounting its pseudo-“caring” camouflage, is its un-Christian, un-spiritual “throwing under a bus” of those (the old, sick, and poor) who cannot keep pace with his preferred metro-affluent new order. It reminds me, more than anything, of Stalinism, in terms of its arrogant brutality. There is something dystopian about it all. Parris himself is an atheist.
In 1984 Matthew Parris said £26 a week in benefits was ample. He tried it, the wimp ended up crying on his bed in his Newcastle bedsit unable to cope. Why doesn't "£100,000 pa. Isn't a huge salary" HUNT try the same thing. Odious twat. pic.twitter.com/cjR8EJQQnR
— Martin Docherty #FBPE🇪🇺 (@MartinDochert12) March 24, 2024
If you don't believe in a God who sanctifies human life, writes Matthew Parris, there are no good arguments against pressuring sick people into assisted suicide. A hell of a piece for Good Friday. NB—he's an atheist, and thinks pressuring sick people to kill themselves is good. pic.twitter.com/xjdXeRfdjU
“This is the ‘racially aggravated’ banner they are trying to lock me away for, potentially for up to 7 years for holding it up outside RAF SCAMPTON The officer in charge has rebailed us while we await a CPS decision listen to her she HASN’T got a clue EVERY FACE on that banner came here as a refugee and went on to commit the most serious sexual offences against women and children You may try lock me up but you will NEVER STOP ME telling the public REFUGEE’S ARE RAPING HERE.”
If a multicultural and diverse liberal society requires an authoritarian police state to function then it isn’t worth having to begin with.
Deportions and repatriation aren't enough, there's a substantial white population that should be permanently exiled to Africa to benefit from diversity there.
Historical facts not much noted by the general public include the largely Jewish character of the second, Marxist-Leninist, “Russian” Revolution (coup d’etat) of 1917, the largely Jewish nature of the Soviet security apparat from 1917 through to the late 1940s, but also the pushback against that in the Soviet Union itself, starting in the Second World War but particularly from time of the postwar purge of 1948-49 and on to 1953-1956, after the death of Stalin.
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The rating of the German far right has risen again to 20%. In January-February, a series of thousands of demonstrations against right-wing radicalism swept across Germany. Against this background, the ratings of the far-right Alternative for Germany fell below 20% for the first… pic.twitter.com/z3s1vdTPeZ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 30, 2024
“The rating of the German far right has risen again to 20%.
In January-February, a series of thousands of demonstrations against right-wing radicalism swept across Germany. Against this background, the ratings of the far-right Alternative for Germany fell below 20% for the first time in eight months.
Now it has begun to grow again and for the first time in a month and a half has returned to the 20% mark. These are the results of a survey by the sociological institute INSA.”
Germans, particularly modern Germans, most of them, are conformist. The hostile demonstrations, backed by Germany’s NWO/ZOG state apparat, were enough to dent AfD support, but only temporarily.
Ian Millard's recent sentence for blogging has highlighted political persecution and political prosecution by the 'Israel lobby' in the UK.https://t.co/Br9DeSSuKq
If you would like to help towards Ian's court costs you can donate below.https://t.co/wPyeEnRZaQ
I have no idea as to the identity of tweeter “Wren Cobb”, but all donations are gratefully received, as are any shares of the link to my crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
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Footage showing the extent of destruction in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli bombing. pic.twitter.com/WYxrme0vt4
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 30, 2024
What goes around comes around, as they say.
Gaza 2024, Tel Aviv 2034, or earlier, possibly/probably.
At least 6 TU-95MS missile carriers of the Russian Aerospace Forces are heading to the launch zone
Previously, one and a half dozen Geran-2 UAVs worked on targets in Ukraine.
One of the strikes in the Odessa area led to a large-scale power outage in the city (on video). pic.twitter.com/pOEUhJ0i5y
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 30, 2024
A convincing drubbing of political journalist John Rentoul this week. He scored a modest 4/10, which I trumped with 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 7, 8, and 9 (and admit that my correct answer to question 5 was an educated guess).
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England's beauty is organic. It is not as titanic as the Alps or as brooding as the Germanic forests but it is gentle, crafted and sublime. It is not hammer forged by the gods, it was grown from the soil by the Englishmen who have loved it. pic.twitter.com/xBuDzOuvbq
This is the result of decades of open borders and left-wing anti-American indoctrination. The future of America doesn’t look good, if there even is one.
Ha ha! Many of them actually think like that. The 2,000-3,000 years (or more) of European history and culture are, for most of them, a closed book; they know almost literally nothing about it, and so about us.
The ski slopes are no longer safe. It’s unfortunate that wherever they go, that place turns into a violent spot. pic.twitter.com/OR9s6RVftt
Meanwhile, in London, the zoo is no longer that place in Regent’s Park.
They remove Thomas Jefferson statues because it’s “offensive” but will happily erect statues of George Floyd who was a career criminal and drug addict.
Alex Kotlowitz…99% of that sort of propaganda comes from “them” (((them))).
Britain doesn’t look very British anymore. The native population has been replaced in every major city. Is it too late to turn things around? If nothing happens the entire country will soon look like this. pic.twitter.com/laD4AHOt3K
…but say so, and (((someone))) will make a contrived complaint to the otherwise all but inactive police, and you may find yourself in court as a defendant…
Gee, I wonder why the numbers are so low… Why would you want to fight for a regime that hates you with every fiber of their being and is turning your country into a third world shithole? pic.twitter.com/BfqiRyMPQx
…and that is what it would be like in France under Marine le Pen, in Germany under the AfD, and in the UK under Farage or Reform UK. Controlled opposition. The touchstone is what any political group says about Israel, the Jew-Zionist lobby, and generally the “JQ”. If they are ideologically unsound on that, you can chuck them in the bin.
It is, apparently, “antisemitic” for non-Jews to play Jewish roles such as Robert Oppenheimer (the nuclear physicist) in a recent TV series, but Jews play white European roles all the time. Apparently, that’s OK (and, no doubt, to prevent that or even complain about it would be —you guessed it— “antisemitic“).
Blacks too, can play any European role (however absurdly), but I have yet to see a European actor playing Nelson Mandela or Muhammad Ali… That will never happen; if it did, our cities would burn to the ground (be burned to the ground).
As noted many times on this blog, the propaganda is not aimed at the adult audience, primarily; the main target is the under-18 demographic, especially children, and the aim is to normalize the existence, and prominence, of non-whites in every part of our society, even when (as in almost any European historical setting) there were no blacks at all. Also, to normalize mixed-race breeding.
Why would you want to die for a country that literally hates you? Let your immigrants fight your wars. pic.twitter.com/yMHKuD4o6P
It’s almost funny…just as the Soviet Union and the whole “East bloc” (and almost all Western observers) pretended, during the 1980s, that its system, way of life etc would go on pretty much forever (only to find that all that collapsed almost, not quite, overnight in various socialist states in 1989, 1990, 1991), the UK ruling groups are themselves pretty much stuck in a bubble of belief not unalike that Soviet/socialist mindset.
I saw the “East bloc” a few times in the late 1980s, and had a lot of contact with Soviet and ex-Soviet people all through that decade. I get a similar feeling looking at our UK society. The facade is still there, but it is held together with string and glue…
Look at this latest “conscript the British public to fight Russia” nonsense. To some extent, it may be an attempt to prevent the wipe-out of the Conservative Party at GE 2024, but it goes much wider than that. Similar nonsense has come out of Washington, Brussels, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Finland in the past 2 weeks.
In the UK, there seem to be Army top brass, as well as many members of the public, who believe that not only should the UK “fight Russia” but that “we” can (also, note the illusion that the UK is still a “nation”…). Also, that the projected (promoted?) Third World War (against Russia) will be somewhat like a conflation of WW1 and WW2. The usual mistake— “fighting the last war”.
I have as yet seen no colourful graphics from the Daily Mail, Express etc describing vividly what the blasted and irradiated remnant of the UK might be like after a nuclear war…
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John Rentoul listing a decade of improvements to British life is fucking insane. pic.twitter.com/BNu2RgtRfH
Sounds desperate. Maybe, though, that is how John Rentoul and the other Westminster Bubble people really think— that the past 10-20 years in the UK has been really great… maybe life has been, for them and, overall, about 5% of the population…
US President Joe Biden assures Netanyahu that he will not support a year-long war in the Gaza Strip.https://t.co/BIREVVfEZK
The United States does not rule out the possibility of an armed conflict between South Korea and North Korea in the coming months, writes the "New York Times", citing American officials. pic.twitter.com/UQTm3Jd0On
So a general heating of the political/military atmosphere of the world this year.
#BillyBraggIsAWanker… I'm more interested in why the Battle of the Bulge is trending. I met some Waffen SS veterans in the early 80s. A couple of them fought in it with Kampfgruppe Peiper
Hitler Jugend division, mostly 17 year olds, but officered by Liebestandarte veterans and commanded by Fritz Witt, Kurt "Panzer" Meyer (also captured at Falaise) and Wilhelm Mohnke. Fearsome soldiers. Your dad was lucky
Always interesting to see the areas where such events took place. En route back across Europe by car (Turkey to UK) in the summer 2001, my wife and I stumbled upon a small family-run hotel in the Ardennes.
On its own, with no houses nearby, and on a minor road. All around, the country was heavily-wooded, and the hotel (a large 19thC house with a pleasant garden) had had a small restaurant extension added circa 1960 (I think), looking like —and furnished in— the style of some of the scenes in the film North by Northwest.
As we dined, initially alone in the restaurant (later, one other couple appeared, but I think that we were the only other hotel guests), we were told by the waitress (a young woman, one of the owning family) that during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, that house had been the headquarters (or one such) for the American commander, Patton, and that we were occupying the room that Patton himself had used as a bedroom during part of those times (either during or after the actual battle; the exact details were not specified).
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨 @TheSun can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
The norm in the past has been for the opinion polls to narrow as a general election approaches. This time, with only 10 months to go, and possibly only 8 months, the polls are widening. Why?
For me it is clear that the widening is not because the voters love fake (and Zionist-ruled) “Labour”, and/or wishy-washy bureaucrat-dictator Starmer, but because they —including many former Con voters— actually now hate —and I do mean hate— this incompetent and hopeless “Conservative” government, and want to stamp on it until it dies. They want to kill off (politically) as many Con Party MPs as possible.
No point in going again through all the reasons, but part of, or added to, that long list would obviously be the endless pseudo-“tough” talk on immigration combined with no action whatsoever. Also, now, the craven “support” given to the evil Israeli regime and the UK Jewish lobby; also now the billions (more) being wasted on “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime), together with the suggestion that the UK should be placed on a war footing (notionally against Russia), with whatever civil rights still existing removed (eg the fast-disappearing free speech rights). Even the reintroduction of conscription or “National Service”. Madness.
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5-month-old baby Jamal Al Kafarna died of starvation in the Gaza Strip.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the number of famine victims in Gaza is rising, particularly among infants, children and the elderly.
Rain, sleet, and no shelter or any food for many. Meanwhile, the Jews (both in and out of Israel) claim that their ancestors had it worse in early/mid 1940s Poland, and that their actions in Gaza are legitimate “self-defence”…
That should be the stance taken by all European political leaders.
🇩🇪 Pistorius: I currently see no threat from a Russian "attack" on NATO territory
▪️However, the "principle of containment" of Russia, modeled on the one that operated during the Cold War, is necessary, said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. pic.twitter.com/tfFp0X8dBn
“Containment” is not at all necessary, because Russia in 2024 has no ideology that would make expansion in any way its national goal, as contrasted with pre-1990s Soviet Marxism-Leninism.
After the unsuccessful counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the US administration is developing a new strategy for them that does not foresee the return of lost territories , writes the "Washington Post". pic.twitter.com/jjspOGLUuB
“Three in ten troops from across the Armed Forces are not fully fit for combat, official figures have revealed.“
[Daily Mail]
The MOD still claims that up to 50,000 Army people are fit for actual combat. Others say that 30,000 is a more realistic figure; some say as few as 20,000. Are they seriously suggesting taking on Russia, China and others simultaneously with that puny and probably ineffective force?
“A former leader of the Shin Bet domestic security force has said Israel will not have security until Palestinians have their own state, and Israeli authorities should release Marwan Barghouti, jailed leader of the second intifada, to direct negotiations to create one.
Ami Ayalon, a retired admiral who also commanded Israel’s navy and was wounded in battle and decorated for his service, also said destroying Hamas was not a realistic military goal, and the current operation in Gaza risked entrenching support for the group.
He came relatively late to his current views, after leaving the military where the enemy is just a target to be killed, he said. His position at Shin Bet required him to regularly meet Palestinians, including visiting PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
He made Palestinian friends, among them PA security chief Jibril Rajoub and Sari Nusseibeh, a philosophy professor from Jerusalem who can trace his family’s presence there back to the 7th century. “So can I tell him, OK, this land is mine and you are a visitor here? It is nonsense.”
[Guardian]
Interesting but, as the report says, he is in a minority. As for the historical, and nuanced social, views, he may think like that, but he would be wasting his time trying to make some ignorant American-Jew settler from the slums of Brooklyn, who got off the boat yesterday, understand.
“World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer.
Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase.
The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% – almost 5 billion people – have lost money.”
[Guardian]
It may be that, in a century or so, historians will look back on the early 21st Century and say “that was the time just before the last great wave of revolution and war, when everything changed forever“…
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This is a lie. I have never been investigated by the police for anything, yet alone 'racist hate crime'. I will be taking legal action if this lie is not retracted.
The Lib Dems are trying to silence me – it's no wonder sub-postmasters couldn't get justice from Ed. https://t.co/oOYwwoC4Ze
As previously noted on the blog from time to time, the LibDems are a total waste of space.
Russian RIA Novosti Agency:
Russia has become the largest exporter of uranium fuel to the United States, with the Americans paying $96 million to Russia in just several months. pic.twitter.com/AT6vCVqlDs
AfD is of course not social-national, but its existence and growing strength moves the “Overton Window”, just as (to some extent) does Reform UK in Britain, despite RF being also “controlled opposition”. These matters are not straightforward.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Andrzej Scheina said that the Poles need to be prepared for the front in Ukraine to shift to the west and for an even greater influx of Ukrainian refugees.
Eventually, Russia will rule all Ukraine to the east of the Dnieper, and that is how it should be.
According to an ABC News poll, only 28% of US citizens believe that Biden is still sane enough to be re-elected president for a second term, and 69% believe that his grandfather is no longer sane.
Trump should “double and triple the guard”…the Deep State may try to kill him.
Same story in UK. Wrote a counter cultural book (Values, Voice, Virtue) which was No.2 national bestseller. How many literary festival invites? Zero. I genuinely don't mind missing a weekend in Chipping Norton but it does tell you something about how insular the publishing world… https://t.co/OqaXJhNweW
The above idiot-tweeter either has not considered the fact that literally hundreds of millions might have (under the present outdated rules) a “well-founded” or “valid” claim to remain in the UK once here… or does not care.
Not hyperbole. Fact. Hundreds of millions. All they have to do is set foot on UK shores.
Surely even tweeters such as the above (who probably thinks himself very clever) might think twice once a hundred million, or more, invade the UK? Or maybe such bien-pensants prefer not to think what kind of UK is already being created by migration-invasion? Or are such people out-and-out traitors, doing —or wanting to have done— more damage than old-style terrorists or spies could ever do?
Incidentally, and ironically, the above-noted tweeter reposted the tweet below, but seems unable to connect the housing crisis with the mass immigration of the past 20+ years. Not the only factor, I concede, but probably the main one.
NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.
The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in … 1876. pic.twitter.com/M6WbXKE1SL
[washed-up political loony Sajid Javid was another one unable to join the dots…]
The israelis aren’t just mass murdering an entire population, they are committing genocide with intent, enjoyment, glee & pride @palinfoenpic.twitter.com/Brx7cxaEfq
Satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz tried to make some of those points in a humorous manner (mostly via songs and cartoons) on Twitter several years ago, but “the usual suspects” managed to have her prosecuted and actually convicted for doing so. Just as “Brexit” is more than Brexit, so “Israel” is more than Israel…
Man behaving Dadly has done a runner 😂 oh the irony of the melt!!! Bet your kids are well proud of you Harris??? pic.twitter.com/SRx8rfhG6m
— Paul Harding 🏴 Enough Is Enough (@Paul_Patriot12) January 11, 2024
The latest “grifter” to have been exposed more widely (he has been mentioned occasionally over the last few years on this blog— “read it here first”…). He thus joins other frauds and thieves such as “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas), “Supertanskiii” (surely the least interesting of the lot, socio-politically— entirely derivative and unoriginal), and others who have found a happy hunting ground or grift-mine on Twitter/X and other online sites.
Don’t you remember? He was as cringe as that Russ in Cheshire. Always fundraising and went by the name as man behaving dadly. Cringe account that’s now been outted as a grifter too.
I had forgotten about “Russ in Cheshire” (who seems in fact to be yet another one actually in or from Essex, unless I am mistaken). Russ-in-Cheshire is on a similar page to the others, but poses mainly as social or political commentator on the fringe of humour, and has written a book about politics or society. He even appeared on at least one TV quiz show (The Chase? Not sure; maybe it was Eggheads, now that I think about it). I think that his team even won some money.
The key to successful UK online “grifting” seems to be to avoid simply begging for money. The more cunning “grifter” pretends to be a kind of charity worker or philanthropic type, raising money for others and giving —what at least is presented as— good advice.
Thus “Bootstrap Cook” and her dog’s dinner “recipes”, “Man Behaving Dadly” and his charity stuff (with rather a lot of the proceeds shaven off for his own shekel-store) and so on. Not forgetting Julia Grace Patterson, with her “NHS champion” grifting, while taking in donations and selling facemasks etc. In her case, the USP is that she is actually a medical doctor (though she only worked as such for a couple of years).
I presume that that other prominent “grifter”, “Supertanskiii”, lacks the ability to produce any tangible output or activity, so restricts herself to swearing at “the Tories”. Amazingly, some people are satisfied with that alone, and are willing to send her money just for that! Utter mugs.
Going through the YouGov MRP data to add some tactical squeezing. If just one third of Lab-LD-Grn voters in England and Wales vote tactically for the strongest party, the result changes to: Con 69 (-100 on MRP) Lab 463 (+78) LD 70 (+22) Nat 28 Grn 1
I predict that tactical voting will play a big part in the 2024 General Election. What will weaken it, though, is that it is clear to more and more people that none of those Lib-Lab-Con System parties is worth a plugged nickel.
Also, there are those who will always vote for one System party rather than another, even when, in that particular constituency, the loyal voter’s own party has never come first, or even second.
Still, I think that, now that even former Conservative Party voters want rid of the Con Party in government, tactical voting for the least-objectionable alternative will be widespread.
That may mean, as the tweet implies, that the utterly unmeritorious LibDems may be able to gather in a pretty considerable number of MPs. I was thinking 30, maybe at peak 45, but the tweet above says 70 (they have 15 at present). If so, remarkable, looking at the untrustworthy rabble that the LibDems are.
You are going to be in for a very big surprise when Labour hardly shifts from the current policies being undertaken.
Again, quite so. The faces will change but not (much) the policies. Like Soviet chocolate boxes (the chocolates in the box usually having had a range of shapes, but the filling identical in all of them).
Her name for this country is right…and becomes more accurate with every passing day.
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Yet another report (-> https://t.co/TKux7xkKK4) finds hundreds of mainly white working-class girls were sexually abused by mainly Muslim men while police + authorities did next to nothing. I've summarised evidence from all reports here:https://t.co/2XFSjqnEnW
A “democracy” in which the population is so badly-informed becomes merely a volatile mess and, in the end, a dictatorship. Oh, wait…
In fact, the level of immigration is even higher than Goodwin says, because those leaving the UK are mainly white (i.e. real) British people desperately seeking a haven in, usually, what used to be the White Dominions: Australia, New Zealand, Canada.
'The largest number of them have not gone to Labour or Reform, they've gone into apathy.'@GoodwinMJ says the Government needs to return to core Conservative values to win back 2019 Boris Johnson voters.
What many many people want, often unconsciously, is social-nationalism, but even if aware of their true wish, they are usually too embarrassed to say so.
A North Korean copy of the US RK-4 Global Hawk drone. The Americans suspect that the Koreans were able to assemble their copy using technical information from the Iranians, who gained access to the wreckage of the Global Hawk they shot down. pic.twitter.com/htI4gDs1tf
Currently, the following targets are known to have been hit by IRGC missiles:
— American base at Erbil airport; — US Consulate in Erbil; — Local headquarters of the Kurdish security service; — Private residence of a local businessman associated with the Mossad pic.twitter.com/CBYJTH5dkm
A Jew who stalked me online for years lives in that place. One can but hope…
Iranian intelligence sources: The Revolutionary Guard targeted a fortified room belonging to the Israeli "Mossad" in Erbil with Fateh-110 missiles. pic.twitter.com/E4mroeuqau
“Former defence secretary Ben Wallace has warned Israel that it risks undermining the legal basis for its action in the Gaza Strip, adding to growing international pressure over the escalating conflict.
Writing in the Telegraph, the senior Tory warned against a ‘killing rage’ and said Israel’s ‘original legal authority of self-defence is being undermined by its own actions’.
The intervention by Mr Wallace, who left office earlier this year, is the latest warning to Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration amid deepening concern over the scale of civilian casualties.”
[Daily Mail]
Even pro-Israel drones such as Wallace are now trying to distance themselves from Israel’s “massacre of (mainly) the innocents” in Gaza.
The Israelis and other Jews may not be (mainly) descended from the original Israelites of thousands of years ago (the Jews of today being descended mainly from Black Sea or other Khazars), but the former model their actions on the Israelites’ genocidal wars as recounted in the Old Testament.
“Jack Monroe”
Certainly overdue for a reckoning on this one. She seems to have gone silent which is a good thing in terms of her dangerously misguided "campaigning" but can't help wondering why none of the celebrities that defended her have nothing to say now. #JackMonroe
I do think she wrongly perpetuated the idea that one could feed a family healthily for £20/week. Which was a lie. And contributed to some terrible stereotyping of pple in poverty. Aided austerity, rather than challenging it.
You're right. The lack of due diligence in fact-checking #JackMonroe backstory or whether any of her claims actually held any weight is a shocking indictment on the press.
Rufus Hound blocked me for suggesting that Jack Monroe was not as squeaky clean as people believed. @RalfLittle was also quick to defend the patreon. @Nigella_Lawson was taken in by the lies and, in turn, earned Monroe over £10.000 in a single month. Where are they now? pic.twitter.com/pLyp48i2EU
The above details only “Jack Monroe’s” Patreon “grift”. In addition, the “grifting” fraud also got money from stray donations direct to her, from newspaper interviews, radio, and TV shows and interviews, from “consultancy” “work” for major supermarkets, from well-paid appearances at various festivals and other events, and from book royalties, as well as from fake appeals for money based on non-existent legal actions against Lee Anderson MP and others (monies which “Jack Monroe” then pocketed for her own use). A total of tens of thousands of pounds a month at peak.
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🇮🇱Zionist infiltration of our government and institutions is the ONE thing we’re NOT allowed to talk about.
If you do, you risk (in the UK) being prosecuted at the behest of the Jew-Zionist lobby, eg the malicious cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”. They have corrupted or otherwise suborned the police and CPS. I myself was recently convicted in the magistrates’ courts by reason of such a prosecution, as regular readers of the blog will know (I may appeal; we shall see).
Incredibly, there are millions of poor saps who believe loonies and/or liars of that sort. If you are told constantly, for example, from age 5 or 7 or 10, or 14, and from all manner of “authoritative” msm and other sources, that millions of Jews were killed during 1941-1944 in “gas chambers” by German SS personnel in Poland, then that idea becomes embedded in your psyche, and stays there until you are, so to speak, “cured” in —usually— later life, whether that be at age 21, 28, 35, 42 or whenever.
They sit there in their armchairs, calling for genocide, while fellow-Jews smile and laugh in the TV studio or elsewhere, yet if anyone in the West posts a comment about them, or a satirical cartoon, they are —or pretend to be— horrified, and equate that to “terrorism”…
Will Esther McVey investigate the Tory MP who claimed £8,750 in expenses for her own personal photographer, while sanctioning 1,000's of disabled people for being a few minutes late for their benefit appointments? Esther?
Esther McVey is merely one of hundreds of “deadhead MPs”. The fact that so many clowns can become MPs and even Cabinet ministers proves, in my judgment, that the whole system is rotten.
Wanting to lower immigration, stop the boats, defend free speech, and defend kids from woke ideology is not "extremist". It's what must people in this country supporthttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/A2xyXtQcVs
Goodwin is right on those points, but goes very far wrong in persisting in his support for the Israel lobby, aka Jew-Zionist lobby, the very pack that is closing down free speech in the UK, not to mention supporting the migration invasion.
Adam Fleming: Is Rishi Sunak right to say that illegal migration is a risk to the country & we could be overwhelmed?
Stupid “Conservative” drone thinks that about 50,000 migrant-invaders crossing the Channel every year is “not a huge amount“. 1,000 each week. Where does the Government intend to park 1,000 new arrivals each and every week until the year dot (or until the UK explodes)?
While Zelensky is buying luxury yachts and foreign mansions with laundered US taxpayer funds, his people are going without food. pic.twitter.com/am0IxjD9pO
In 2013, The Wall Street Journal discovered a cache of files that revealed that the U.S. government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and occasionally homosexuality. pic.twitter.com/9cCZo82NJs
“It is not in US interests to see German, European let’s say, European industrialism & technology united with Russian natural resources. This is not what US grand strategy really wants to see happen.”
Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now @CNN’s @clarissaward, @scottycnn and @BrentSwailsCNN managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report. pic.twitter.com/JLioOfXf12
Yet another breakthrough for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), this time winning a mayoralty on outskirts of Dresden ahead of crunch state elections next year. None of this will surprise our regular subscribers who were again ahead of the curve https://t.co/1BOBz9pmiz
Just caught the last bit of Channel 5 news.Stephen Fry will give alternative christmas message,talking about the rise of anti semitism. I think,I'll give it a miss this year as long as he is happy in supporting Netanyahu and the genocide of the Palestinians.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Metropolitan Kirill's speech in Kiev in 2008, it's only been 14 years since this video, but watching Kiev today, someone could thing a century have past.
Ukraine along with Russia were then celebrating the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia.
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) December 18, 2023
“Metropolitan Kyrill of Smolensk addressed the crowd of thousands in Kiev: “What was Russia baptised for? For us to be happy. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus – this is Holy Russia! Holy Russia is not an empire, it is not a union: former or some future one. Holy Russia is an ideal of love, goodness and truth. We are all with you, one Holy Russia! Remain who you are and nothing will shake our unity.“”
I myself once met a Metropolitan of Kiev (the second-ranking dignity in the Russian Orthodox Church). At breakfast. My then girlfriend was looking after him that day (he spoke no English).
I think that that was at the de Vere Hotel by Kensington High Street, and in the early/mid-1980s. Maybe 1983 or 1984. He gave me some of his kefir (the first time I had tried it) and, at the same time, deftly fielded a question from me about his view of Tolstoy. Later that morning, at the empty Russian Orthodox Cathedral (also in Kensington), he gave me a bottle of Moskovskaya vodka.
Owen Jones' young interlocutor could have cited the social science, which shows that multiculturalism does indeed have its downsides. pic.twitter.com/uc0D2nrpdm
That was Owen Jones joining in the Jew-Zionist-led msm attack on me 7 years ago, immediately after my wrongful and (as it now transpires) unlawful disbarment. He also colluded with depressive sex pest John Woodcock MP (now, and risibly, “Lord Walney”) to get me blocked by people on Twitter.
Woodcock/”Walney” was at one time the Chair of Labour Friends of Israel; Jones is part-Jew (either quarter or half: see my assessment of him above).
If conservatives and libertarians desire liberty, their priority should be opposing diversity.
Multicultural societies are the least free: with diversity comes more violent crime, terrorism and gang activity, requiring greater surveillance and restrictions on liberty.… pic.twitter.com/pmbHC96LpE
I double dare you to watch this video and then repost it👊. You know how YOU KNOW THIS DOCTOR IS ON TO SOMETHING🤔? They yanked his medical license for finding this out😳. Now YOU know👍 pic.twitter.com/D6wVkmkCKE
This is what happens if you try to give political representation to opposition to mass immigration in a white country: smeared, debanked, excommunicated, establishment media campaign to ban your party, and if none of that is successful, someone might just try and assassinate you. https://t.co/nf5yqChxnR
The SNP crashed from 44.2% in 2019 to 27.5%. To what extent that reflects hostility to the former MP, to the “nationalist” SNP having a Pakistani leader, to the Sturgeon scandal, and/or to the SNP’s failing record in government, is hard to say. Whether the result also reflects disenchantment with the idea of breaking away from the UK is also hard to say. Maybe a mixture of all of the foregoing.
For me, the fall in Conservative Party support from 15% to 3.9% is significant. The previous lowest point had been in 2005 (8.4%). A straw in the wind re. the 2024 General Election. At present, it looks as if only the safest Conservative seats (in England) will be held next year.
Turnout was only 37.2%, scarcely more than half of that in 2019. People are aware that the electoral system is just a rigged con-trick most of the time.
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🇩🇪 This week @elonmusk brought attention to the fact that the German government is supporting NGO's transporting thousands of migrants from the Mediterranean to Germany.
The head of one of these NGO's openly says his activism is motivated by a desire to wipe out white people. pic.twitter.com/vKSVI8uirt
🇬🇧 According to a poll from King's College London, one in three British people believe the great replacement is happening.
By the standards of liberal discourse, this means one third of the British public are far-right extremists, holding a view that is never represented in… pic.twitter.com/RKFkuLs6Pf
“According to a poll from King’s College London, one in three British people believe the great replacement is happening. By the standards of liberal discourse, this means one third of the British public are far-right extremists, holding a view that is never represented in mainstream media and censored off most social media. Despite the heavy censorship and vilification of people who hold this view, people see the reality of rapidly changing demographics in their homelands.“
Almost half the people polled disagreed. Are they blind, or just stupid?!
🇸🇪 This week, the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson addressed the nation on the "unprecedented" rise in gang-related violence, calling on the military to assist the police in a situation that is increasingly out of control.
“This week, the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson addressed the nation on the “unprecedented” rise in gang-related violence, calling on the military to assist the police in a situation that is increasingly out of control. Kristersson blamed “irresponsible immigration policy” and “failed integration” for this worsening crisis, stating: “Political naivety and cluelessness have brought us to this point. Irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration have brought us to this point.
Exclusion and parallel societies feed the criminal gangs, providing space for them to ruthlessly recruit children and train future killers.”
11 people were shot dead last month alone in Sweden, the second highest ever recorded in a single month.
Sweden’s upsurge in violent crime coincided with a large rise in inward migration in the 2010s. Sexual assault also rose under the previous self-labelled “feminist government”. A report in 2018 found that 8 in 10 ‘stranger’ rapes were carried out by migrants.”
“@LozzaFox is restricted on what he can and cannot say on twitter by his bail conditions. The police are using their powers to control what is said on social media. When they release a rapist on bail, are they restricting them from going near anyone else? This is deep state control of free speech, it’s dangerous, it’s unacceptable, and the police need to be reigned in on this before it goes any further.“
Alison Chabloz was likewise gagged. I myself am on unconditional bail, and so am restricted only by the need to avoid any perceived contempt of court prior to my expected trial in about 6 weeks’ time.
I think that we can be 99% sure what (((interests))) are pulling the strings of “controlled opposition” GB News, while hiding behind a maze of corporate mechanisms.
🇺🇦 A video with Ukrainian military commissars discussing prices for draft dodgers was leaked to the Internet pic.twitter.com/caAON4UTgu
Understandably, few Ukrainians now want to join, or be compelled to join, the failing Kiev-regime military effort.
Switzerland will pay Ukrainian refugees to leave – SwissInfo.
The government concluded that it would be cheaper for the state to encourage refugees to leave the country voluntarily than to continue paying them benefits and delaying departure after the expiration of temporary… pic.twitter.com/zrRSWW9Q4A
The German government has forecast an economic decline for the country of 0.4 percent. The Russian economy is expected to grow by 2.8% by the end of the year. Keep it up, Scholz, Burbok and company!" Medvedev pic.twitter.com/t8diI5tdZH
All decisions on the admission of new countries to the EU will be made only on the basis of merit, there will be no concessions — said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. pic.twitter.com/2iRw0Th0kO
The Kremlin is establishing “deep and strong” cooperation with countries that are hostile to the West, including China, North Korea, Iran – Foreign Affairs
Western analysts believe that portraying Russia as a “rogue state” is a failed strategy, since this makes the Russian… pic.twitter.com/agb5OLur96
“The Kremlin is establishing “deep and strong” cooperation with countries that are hostile to the West, including China, North Korea, Iran – Foreign Affairs [magazine].
Western analysts believe that portraying Russia as a “rogue state” is a failed strategy, since this makes the Russian Federation a valuable partner for countries that were previously “undecided” on which side to take, and also strengthened relations with former allies.“
Ukraine's $24 billion aid package no longer safe – The Washington Post
Due to the chaos caused by the removal of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Biden administration is now deciding whether to seek a large sum for Kiev or to implement a smaller, short-term package of… pic.twitter.com/NvGoHcMLY0
“Ukraine’s $24 billion aid package no longer safe – The Washington Post Due to the chaos caused by the removal of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Biden administration is now deciding whether to seek a large sum for Kiev or to implement a smaller, short-term package of measures, according to the Washington Post.
According to the high-ranking official, the new strategy of supporting Ukraine will largely depend on who will become the next speaker and what kind of agreement they will be able to make with him, the article states.
Earlier this week, while announcing a new $5.3 billion aid package to Kiev, EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell said the bloc was unable to compensate Ukraine for the amount of aid the United States had suspended.”
The President of the Russian Federation announced yesterday that the Burevestnik rocket had been successfully tested. This is a nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile. A rocket like no other in the world. Russian scientists and constructors, who started working back in… pic.twitter.com/cCvPEq9NeR
“The President of the Russian Federation announced yesterday that the Burevestnik rocket had been successfully tested. This is a nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile. A rocket like no other in the world. Russian scientists and constructors, who started working back in Soviet times, made another step forward.”
Many a true word spoken in jest…I remember a visitor from the Soviet Union, one Alex (not the MP above, of course), joking with me during a similar prison accommodation crisis (in 1987, I think, and seen on Channel 4 News) that the British Government should make a deal with the Soviet Government to house Brit convicts. Alex said that he could guarantee that the Soviet Government would turn a profit on it.
He ought to have known, he himself having been arrested and convicted, on entirely invented evidence, of having been a spy for a number of secret services. He had been about 18 at the time, and the arrest came in 1948, the peak of the postwar purge. He had then spent 5 years in a camp in the region of Archangel in Northern Russia. Stalin’s death in 1953 had saved him, and millions of others, from longer or worse.
“Where did it all go wrong for John Lewis? How Britain’s favourite High Street giant hired boss with NO retail experience whose disastrous reign saw stores shuttered, staff bonuses axed, £234m losses and decline of its famed customer service.”
[Daily Mail]
[“Where did it all go wrong for John Lewis?” Oh, no, wait a minute…]
Incidentally, her basic salary at John Lewis has been £990,000 p.a., nearly three times her previous salary (for 4 years) as head of OFCOM.
She has other revenue streams as well.
Incidentally, I myself often use Waitrose, which is part of the John Lewis Group. The decline , particularly since 2020, has been sad to see. The range and also quality of fruit and vegetables is much reduced, the formerly stellar customer service has almost gone, and there have been other disagreeable changes, while the prices have soared.
Hard to know where to place the blame, though, in circumstances where we have seen Brexit, the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, the pathetic anti-Covid “measures” put in place, staff shortages locally, and general inflation.
The other day, I bought a small bottle of (40%/Vol) Kirsch. About £9.50. A few years ago, the price was £6.50 or £7. Hardly a typical everyday purchase, even for me, but not dissimilar to other items in its increased cost.
It is incredible how, in the Britain of 2023, to state the plain truth, the obvious truth that is staring us in the face, is actually controversial. Sign of a slowly (?) collapsing society.
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We need to stop all immigration regardless if it's legal or illegal immigration or asylum seekers or refugees and mass deportations and repatriations of immigrants already here. If you import the 3rd world you become the 3rd world. Enoch Powell was 100% correct. pic.twitter.com/fnF67aKxeK
— lieutenant colonel Kojak slaphead the 3rd. (@Scarfer13) September 25, 2023
In Ukraine, they are preparing to recruit people to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine without age restrictions
Bill 10084 was registered in Rada, which should enable the mobilization of men over the age of 60. The age limit for privates is raised from 60 to 65, and for senior… pic.twitter.com/BiaaJ0XAsF
No wonder most Ukrainians are trying to avoid or evade being used as cannon-fodder.
A Ukrainian saboteur captured in Crimea stated that the group consisted of 16 people and was supposed to film materials about the “entry” to the peninsula.
For the second day in a row, the German Bild informs its readers that all is lost – despair reigns in Kiev, the situation is critical, and Western supporters are inclined to negotiate.
“Collapsed support: a major failure?” For the second day in a row, the German Bild informs its readers that all is lost – despair reigns in Kiev, the situation is critical, and Western supporters are inclined to negotiate. “Soldier fatigue” is one of the biggest dangers.
At the same time, it is absolutely obvious: the situation for Ukraine has not become any less, but even more threatening! The counteroffensive is going less successfully than the Ukrainians and the West would like. The number of victims is extremely high. There is no necessary support in arms from the West. And Russia can produce more per day than the West, despite the sanctions.”
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[“Russia has no borders; it is wherever there are Russians“]
A very bad organization of a bad state, but few things in modern history are entirely black and white…
Conservative Party Conference
Saw a few minutes of Sunak’s speech. Pretty pathetic. The HS2 fiasco has become symbolic. Not that I was ever anything other than opposed to the ridiculous vanity project anyway, but now we have massive cost, massive environmental damage etc, but no useful train line at all, just a line that goes to or from Birmingham but only to an outer suburb of London, thus losing its purpose altogether. As said, pathetic.
It seems that Sunak is trying to portray himself as a Prime Minister, when the whole country knows that his popularity (as was that of even more useless Liz Truss) has never been tested via General Election. The longer Sunak holds on, and the longer he puts off a General Election, the worse his position is likely to become. However, if a general election were to be held this year, the result would almost certainly be a disaster for the Conservative Party, and the number of its MPs likely be reduced to around 100, maybe only 50 or so. Therefore, the circus will have to continue into 2024, maybe until December 2024.
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Six Police Officers have turned up and searched @LozzaFox house. He is now being arrested for ‘conspiracy to commit criminal damage’.
Another great example of how the media and police are showing you all to your faces the rot that’s within. @LozzaFox has a squad of police raiding his house for comments made in jest about removing dystopian ULEZ cameras which DO NOT benefit anyone other than the ‘elites’.
Once my own trial is over in late November, I shall (unless gagged) blog about my own fairly recent experiences.
They knew Laurence would film this encounter
They knew that this would not intimidate him
This was a show of force for the cameras: to deter those watching, who don't have Laurence's reach/resources, from challenging Woke Progressivism and its superspreaders — like Sadiq Khan https://t.co/V1U5p50G6D
I'm sorry. But it seems the algo has been lifted? I am shocked that 1M people read these words spoken to me yesterday by my friend. He's going to freak when I tell him. 1,000,000 views? What the? @elonmuskpic.twitter.com/zfMQljfjqy
As the misinformation and disinformation bill looms over Australia, here's a flashback to my interview with @thecoastguy
"We are getting to this point with censorship and freedom of speech where we are almost being handed laminated cards with what we are 'allowed' to say. In a… pic.twitter.com/6Lb1LPg89f
The Russian Army repelled a powerful enemy attack near Orekhov on the Zaporozhye Front: Storm Shadow and HIMARS were shot down pic.twitter.com/87njR2bxq3
The wife of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Elena, spent more than $1 million on Cartier jewelry in New York – The Nation write.
At this time, Zelensky made his first personal appeal to the UN General Assembly, demanding help and arms supplies from the West. pic.twitter.com/BacPCPJOKL
In Germany, politicians are forced to put up with the pro-Russian “Alternative for Germany”
For the main parties in Germany and the CDU in particular, the main question has recently become how to cope with the growing influence of the Alternative for Germany party, which many… pic.twitter.com/lqjt0aa7Dj
Damn. For the second time recently, political journalist John Rentoul beat my score (which has happened only very rarely over the past several years). This week, he scored 8/10 as against my 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 6, and 10.
As not infrequently noted on the blog, Ukraine now has few domestic volunteers willing to go to near-certain death or serious injury at the front. Likewise, few foreign adventurers are now willing to risk it, whether for misguided idealism, for thrills, or for —relatively paltry— money.
Many Ukrainians are trying to evade conscription, and/or to get across the borders of Ukraine (forbidden to most men 18+ in age). Meanwhile, Kiev-regime press-gangs are now scouring the streets trying to find draft-dodgers. The wealthier evaders are willing to pay plenty for an exemption document, which might also allow them to escape the country.
“Ukraine and Russia have engaged in tit-for-tat drone and missile attacks as their war of attrition intensifies.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is increasingly taking the war to Russia, with fresh strikes on Moscow yesterday.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian drones damaged government offices in the capital, and on Thursday Russia said it downed two drones headed for Moscow, a day after two others were destroyed on approach. Targets yesterday included the west of the capital near the Karamyshinsky hydroelectric power station.
The attacks led to the closure of airspace over Moscow’s Vnukovo international airport and Kaluga city, 125 miles to the south west.
At least two drones were reported, with one filmed buzzing the Russian capital. A drone was said to have been shot down by Russia. There were also reports of an explosion in Krasnogorsk in north-west Moscow.“
[Daily Mail]
Should the Russian leadership so decide, Kiev and all other Ukrainian cities can be razed to the ground, either via nuclear attack or via conventional missiles, bombs etc. That would be a terrible thing, and bitter for both sides, but the Kiev regime is playing with fire.
After the 2020-2022 years of police-state “lockdowns”, stupid “anti-virus” measures such as the facemask nonsense and the ludicrous “Rule of Six”, and the NHS leaving millions to “die on the vine” without medical or dental services, not many will feel sorry for doctors who, even the junior ones, get paid more than most British people. Many of the doctors are also from affluent backgrounds, as is the one featured in that Daily Mail report.
You only have to look at the bitch in question (one Pamela Mattinson, of Bolton, Lancashire): dressed in exercise clothing even at court, and a grandmother at the age of 48 (though looking 70 years old)… a “chavscum” grandmother.
Oh…and of course (needless to add) she has “issues” with alcoholism and her “mental health”…drinking vodka in the middle of the day…
Look at her with (I presume) her equally “chavscum” daughter, smirking on the steps of the court.
Rhetorically, one might ask why her sentence was suspended, but these days, in England, you rarely get a prison sentence unless you murder someone, or publish something that the Jewish lobby does not like.
Britain now has millions of feral and useless persons of that sort. The country needs to be cleansed.
At least the kitten recovered and was rehomed, but the bitch who tried to kill it has not been suitably punished, not at all.
This is not simply a report about an abused kitten, nor even about one wicked woman and her probably-equally-unpleasant family, but also the context of a whole stratum of society that should be straightened out or eliminated.
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Jack Monroe doesn't tweet much anymore. She was found to be someone who tricks honest leftwing people out of money for court cases and uses the money for her own purposes. She abuses the goodwill of her supporters and flounced away when people started asking her to be honest
That first tweeter, “Mariken”, is very typical of many naive “Jack Monroe” supporters. Even after the past year or more of gradually-intensifying exposure of the “grift” and outright fraud by “Jack Monroe” (one or two mild assessments were even published in the Guardian and Daily Mail), “Mariken” obviously has no idea at all. Amusingly, her Twitter profile says “Animal lover. Hate corruption and liars“, yet here she is lauding psycho liar “Jack Monroe”, who also killed at least one or two domestic animals by wilful neglect or worse.
You could hardly make it up— the silly woman thinks that “Jack Monroe” is “a great role model“! What part of constant lying, “grift”, theft, fraud, and the harassment of both critics and disenchanted donors (etc) does “Mariken” fail to understand? Not to mention alcohol and drug abuse, and the profligate spending of other people’s money (etc).
Over the course of the past year I’ve had the privilege of working in collaboration with Soloviev Live! to bring important Russian voices to an American/Western audience through “The Scott Ritter Show.” Today YouTube cancelled the channel used to air the show, calling it “hate…
When it rains, it pours. The same day that YouTube deplatformed “The Scott Ritter Show”, they deplatformed “Ask The Inspector.” This is a targeted effort by YouTube to remove/minimize my voice, and those of my guests and the people who took the time to ask probing questions about…
Also confirms Starmer didn’t intend to create a big story on keeping the 2-child benefits limit: “The leadership had about as much control over events as a carrier bag caught in a gust of wind”
Yes. Starmer stands for nothing, basically, except of course being even more of an Israel/Jewish-lobby puppet than (inter alia) David Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, Liz Truss, or “Boris” idiot. As previously said on the blog, Labour also now stands for absolutely nothing, unless it is the parody “we can run workhouses better” (etc).
As against that, the present “Conservative” government has taken “Boris”-idiot’s “omnishambles” to a whole new level. Even its own MPs are now loud in condemnation of its total incompetence. The Con MPs hoping to stay on as MPs, that is; many others are already in the lifeboats as the Con ship sinks in the opinion polls.
My assessment at present is that there is no enthusiasm for Labour (beyond the usual Twitter drones). Labour is up because the Con Party and its misgovernment are down, purely that.
On the above premises, while the Sunak government is obviously doomed, it may not be quite as doomed as presently appears. If the economy (the real economy, for the average Joe) improves a little, if inflation falls at the same time, i.e. over the next 6-9 months, and if that average Joe, and Josephine, feel apathetic or so-so rather than actually angry about the present government, then they may just stick with Con rather than defect to LibDem or Lab.
If enough of them do that, in marginal seats, then the prospect of a 1997-style Labour landslide (seats, not the popular vote) may just disappear like a mirage. We may then be back in hung Parliament territory.
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Big question about today's "major incident" 4 miles off the French coast, with a dinghy get into trouble is: why did British vessels perform a search & rescue mission so deep into French waters – then ferry illegals not to Calais, but back to Dover? https://t.co/uQa9PJEN1Y
No mystery. Just part of the implementation of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: ferry blacks and browns etc from Africa and Asia to Europe, get the white Europeans to mix with them, thus over time creating a coffee-coloured population, then that population to be ruled over by Jews and part-Jews (eg Rothschilds, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, David Cameron-Levita, Zac Goldsmith etc, to name but a few).
I'm a single white male, a pensioner and a disabled veteran. I've applied to various councils, estate/letting agents and others responsible for letting out property. I don't even get the courtesy of a "Thanks but no thanks".
"It will be a hard autumn" : chapter The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that calls for peace talks with Russia are increasingly heard in the world
“We will do everything within the framework of international law and criminal law to ensure that these voices fade away,” said… pic.twitter.com/gLSP0TYoBU
The sooner the brutal, shambolic, and corrupt Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev is crushed, the better.
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next. What they have done to our children over the past few years is absolutely disgusting – on so many levels.
When enough people realise they've been had, all their lives, by corrupt, lying, politicians and captured institutions bought and paid for by criminal, unelected, unaccountable transnational entities … what then?
As regular readers of the blog will know, yesterday afternoon I was at the Magistrates’ Court at Southampton for a while, at a case management hearing in relation to the prosecution of me instigated by the evil and malicious pack known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (any trial will not be until November or December 2023, or possibly even on a date in 2024).
Later, in mid-afternoon, I was driving out through the nearby suburbs of Southampton. I happened to pass a pharmacy or, as people used to say, a chemist’s shop, on a mini-roundabout: the Bassett Pharmacy.
The Bassett Pharmacy, which I recognized from having seen a picture in the newspapers a couple of years ago, was called the Sunak Pharmacy at one time, and was owned until 2014 by the mother of Rishi Sunak, the Indian money-juggler presently posing as Prime Minister.
The Bassett Pharmacy sits on the corner of the road, next to a dentist’s surgery; there are a couple of other shops, one called, amusingly, “Talons— hair and nails”. Round the corner, a scruffy small area with cars parked, then, around another, similar, corner, an Indian-Bangladeshi restaurant, a cafe, and several more shops.
What struck me was not that a prime minister might have come from such humble circumstances —that is not so unusual, thinking of Mrs. Thatcher, John Major and others— but that Sunak should have originated there (I think that his family lived in a house not far away) and yet now is almost suffused with great wealth by reason of his own finance-business activities and also marriage into one of India’s richest families. What a contrast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak.
I wonder whether the money-juggler will still be Prime Minister this time next year. The opinion polls say no, but these things rarely work out as expected. I have no completely fixed view, despite the evident incompetence of the present government.
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This shows what kind of person LG is and how different he is to Jack Monroe.
Thank you for all you did, I hope you get your money and some peace now x https://t.co/8dUvF0ALCg
ANALYSIS UKRAINIAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE JUNE 22 How is the Ukrainian counteroffensive faring, after 19 days? It's stuck, like the Ukrainian T-64 in the video below. The least surprised are probably Russian military leadership and planners. Most disappointed are probably Ukraine's… pic.twitter.com/1TDBKDDpcA
— Mikael Valtersson (@MikaelValterss1) June 22, 2023
Warning: The Ukrainian counter-offensive failed miserably. The US needs a massive false flag to keep the war going. Something that affects NATO countries directly, like a cloud of nuclear radiation. They will blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and blame it on Russia ☢️
Acc the commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky, the Challenger 2 tanks provided by the UK were used in the exercises, but are in reserve. pic.twitter.com/7P02tQkWOL
Forbes reports on several brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that were worn out during the offensive, in particular, the 117th Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 37th Marine Brigade of the new formationhttps://t.co/79uEzafYtj
In the event of an armed conflict with the Russian Federation, Poland will become a lifeless desert
The Polish army is frantically transferring weapons to the borders with Belarus in order to ensure a quick rotation with the participation of NATO troops in Poland and the Baltic… pic.twitter.com/eXbXYUiFTg
Traffic on the Chongarsky bridge between the Kherson region and Crimea will not be opened for 15-20 days, the damage was serious, said Acting Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo pic.twitter.com/Si6WiBfZid
The Alternative for Germany party continued its rating growth and overtook all parties of the ruling coalition, taking second place, behind the opposition CDU/CSU, in the regular monthly "Deutschland Trend" survey. According to this survey, if elections were held in Germany now,…
A WIN for #WHALES! 🐳The Icelandic Minister suspended fin whaling due to animal welfare violations. IFAW hopes this will be the final curtain call for commercial whaling in Iceland and applauds the bold action of the Icelandic government. 👏👏https://t.co/qRZ1UttWEw
"Wagner PMC commanders remain loyal to the most promising politician and will follow any order he gives them. Neither the Federal Security Service nor Surovikin will be able to stop what has begun." pic.twitter.com/JoRHC6wVOM
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 23, 2023
Will there be some kind of second Civil War in Russia somewhere down the line? Maybe.
Russian General Sergey Surovikin appealed to the commanders of Wagner PMC and urged them to obey the orders of the President of the Russian Federation.
"I urge you to stop, the enemy is just waiting for the internal political situation to worsen in our country – you can’t give… pic.twitter.com/dUuIPNanP7
Russian channel DONTSTOPWAR reports that a 50km long Wagner-column has crossed the Novoshakhtinskaya border checkpoint into Russia reportedly heading for Novocherkassk (towards Rostov-on-Don).
BREAKING: Prigozhi and the private military company, Wagner group are apparently declaring war on the Russian Ministry of Defence. They say that there was a Russian rocket strike on Wagner's mercenaries.
🚨OMON Riot police have surrounded Wagner PMC headquarters in Molkino. Wagner troops have taken defensive positions. Helicopter armed with gatling guns dispatched to the area. This base is shared with GRU 10th Separate Special Purpose Brigade. Guess which side they're on. pic.twitter.com/sG4BBURJox
Ian Robert Millard 