“Labour‘s plan to smash the small boat gangs ‘won’t work’, Home Office insiders have claimed.
Civil servants at the department are said to be ‘underwhelmed’ by the Government’s proposals to tackling Channel crossings and reducing illegal migration to the UK.
It comes as nine different boats carrying 572 migrants were intercepted crossing the Channel on Saturday.“
[Daily Mail]
572. In a single day.
As previously noted, the hordes of unwanted migrant-invaders (both on “small boats” and otherwise, thousands daily) will collapse our society. When exactly that will happen is uncertain, but we see signs of it all around us now.
Talking point
I still see people on Twitter/X shouting loudly for “Scottish Independence”, but it is pretty clear that the wish to break away from the UK, i.e. from England, is waning north of the border.
I do not purport to know Scottish politics in detail but, to me, there was always something very odd about the “Indy” noise. For a start, how could Scotland really be “independent” in any meaningful way while (as the SNP and Alba parties wanted) it remained in, or returned to, the EU, maybe NATO too, and would still be under the Western finance-capital blanket (IMF, World Bank and the rest)? What does “independence” really mean, or look like?
The SNP/Alba idea of Independence always seemed to me rather old-fashioned somehow, a bit like Irish Home Rule and “Independence” in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Then there is the SNP and Alba idea that to be “Scottish” you either have to be born there, or maybe even just live there, like the black/brown immigrants they “welcomed” and continue to encourage. So they are saying that a Pakistani who was born in, or maybe just arrived in, Scotland, is closer to the (real) Scots than an Englishman in London (or even Berwick-upon-Tweed)? Mad.
The SNP is now going to plateau electorally, at best, after the Sturgeon financial scandals etc. Flash in the pan. A handful of Commons seats until 2015, a massive upsurge that year (56 out of 59), then a slight decline until the disaster of 2024 (9 out of 57). In local councils, the SNP has (from 2022) 453 out of 1,223. About a third. Not overly impressive. What will 2027 bring? I do not know, but I am guessing a significant fall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party.
As for Alba, it failed from the off, really. Even Alex Salmond could not propel it to escape velocity. Maybe his acquittal on sex charges (surely a perverse verdict, and probably obtained via Nat-supporters on the jury) still left stigma. Now that Salmond has died, Alba will just fade away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_Party.
Tweets seen
Israel's Channel 12, citing security sources: Netanyahu holds his meetings in a fortified place in the basement of his office, fearing another assassination attempt.
Since the drone attack on his residence in Caesarea, Netanyahu has been holding his meetings in a fortified place… pic.twitter.com/50c4rbrWnP
Macron and Starmer are pushing Biden to approve the use of French-British Storm Shadow missiles, capable of striking deep into Russian territory before Biden’s term ends pic.twitter.com/a4xtKF0ED9
Ukrainian realities. Advertisements for transplant-ready body parts have flooded the dark web, with organs being sold at high prices and delivered quickly to European surgeons. This ad sells a man's heart. If to judge upon the last sentence, it belonged to a German mercenary. pic.twitter.com/kL5LnMFYFy
When I had a discussion with the BBC’s Nick Robinson he said the claim people were trying to redefine the British countryside as “racist” was “nonsense” https://t.co/sQ5a10Y0aipic.twitter.com/wbkuiZeM9f
Even the countryside, it has been decided, cannot be free of the ever-increasing numbers of blacks and browns…the real British people have to welcome those invaders and interlopers into every hitherto safe space.
“IDF Air Force destroyed a hotel where Ivan Bunin, Charles De Gaulle and Albert Einstein stayed The Palmyra Hotel in Belbek is listed as one of Lebanon’s major historical sites. It was built in 1874. Besides Bunin, De Gaulle and Einstein, Winston Churchill and Pablo Picasso were also among the guests.“
Please tell us how people who live with families can contribute to household costs with vouchers? Every day this government move further and further away from reality. How about we pay their ridiculous expenses with vouchers?
"PIP benefit is thousands of £££ a month" says Mel Stride. NO, IT ISN'T! He's lying to whip up hate against disabled people https://t.co/bGu5YJPFNP
— Deb | PEACE & JUSTICE 😷💙☮️🏳️🌈🦎♿ (@Heygabagaba1) April 29, 2024
Mel Stride's an abject liar, if you only needed a "grabrail" you wouldn't qualify for a penny under PIP Even at the highest rate, for the most severely disabled needing help for every aspect of daily living it's only £180 per week Perhaps he should be the spokesman for Israel ! https://t.co/UVnFdnOgor
— Uncle Klaus #End Our Fake & Corrupt Democracy #BDS (@KlausUncle) April 29, 2024
As one of the 80% or more of Conservative Party MPs who belong to Conservative Friends of Israel, Mel Stride is a spokesman for Israel.
‘Rishi Sunak has accused some benefits claimants of “trying to game the system” – As campaigners accused ministers of a “reckless assault on disabled people”, Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, shrugged off such attacks’ https://t.co/jpHPPA7Y0Kpic.twitter.com/caesvFOiwa
As to the renewed attack on disability benefits, desperate clutching at straws by a government trying to appeal to people who know nothing, read the Sun, Star etc, and who might be persuaded to vote Conservative as a result of all this kefuffle.
I doubt whether it will work. People in all sorts of conditions of life want rid of this government and its venal, ignorant MPs, and are just waiting for the opportunity to put their “X” in any box but the one marked “Conservative Party”.
This contrived storm around disability benefits is also designed to deflect attention from the renewed slaughter in Gaza.
While there is a section of the UK electorate easily fooled by rhetoric against State benefits generally, those voters are mainly those already intending to vote Con at GE 2024; probably already within the Con “core vote” bloc which is about 20% of the entire electorate. That 20% can probably be characterized broadly as “over 65, retired, owner-occupiers, living in Southern England”.
Using the Electoral Calculus website, the most recent opinion polling indicates that, after GE 2024, the number of Con Party MPs might well be below 50. This contrived storm is a desperate attempt to seize back the initiative; I doubt that it will work.
Disabled people have already got the rough end of the stick when it comes to day-to-day living
And now the government is trying to dictate how those people are “supposed to” live their lives by proposing vouchers that will effectively control where the money goes
— Rach Supports the Strikes 🕊✌🏻💜 (@rachyrachmc) April 29, 2024
@UKLabour I can't see anything from you about the disgusting proposal from the #Toryscum regarding the #PIP vouchers instead of cash. Why is that? Are you planning the same thing? Please prove me wrong!?
“Ay, there’s the rub“… “Labour”-label is no real alternative, just a different set of freeloading, “Friends of Israel” puppets.
Mel Stride is the latest in a long line of smug, entitled yet completely ignorant MPs pronouncing on such questions.
A few tweets, or a blog post, will not wipe the smug and self-satisfied smile off the mug of a creature of his sort, and the state of free speech is such that I cannot really say what might.
I happened to see an old Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee vampire film yesterday. When it comes to most MPs, certainly most MPs on the “Conservative” benches, my feeling is similar to that of Peter Cushing and others “driving the point home” in such a film…
I myself do not receive any disability benefits, but understand the issues. How is it that a Cabinet minister with specific responsibility for those issues seems to be so lacking, both in knowledge of them, and in both reason and compassion?
Huge numbers of people (in my opinion, far greater than the number who favour Labour-label) want to stamp on and wipe out the “Conservative” Party. I am one of them.
Only 14% of Brits want the Tories to win the looming general election while a larger number want them to "completely disappear"https://t.co/JhQen5sO9l
If only 14% of the voters were actually to vote that way at GE 2024 (with Labour on a notional 45%, LibDems 10%, Reform UK 15% and Greens 7%), the result would be the Cons left with just 7 MPs! (Labour 541, LibDems 53, SNP 26, Greens 2). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
🚨🇮🇪 Ireland Rises
Over the weekend in the small Irish Town of Newtownmountkennedy The Irish People unite against Globalism & the complete destruction of their Local communities through mass unchecked unwanted illegal migration. pic.twitter.com/RMOtvROVy4
Interesting. I think that those figures need nuance here and there, though: for example, the supposed “Serbians” in Germany may well really be not Serbs but Gypsies from Serbia. The same goes for supposed “Romanians” in that table.
BREAKING: Israel is now dropping bombs on Palestinian civilians hiding in tents in Rafah, the last place of shelter in Gaza.
Read that again: Families seeking refuge in tents are under attack.
🇮🇱 ISRAEL BOMBED his house. 🇮🇱 ISRAEL left behind canned goods lined with explosives. 🇮🇱 ISRAEL robbed him of his hands and legs. pic.twitter.com/6jDDg0wV7W
I believe that military people refer to such methods (boobytrapping cans of food etc with explosives or poison) as “technical attack”.
When dealing with such as the IRA in the 1970s, or the ZANLA terrorists in the Rhodesia of the same period, it might have been justified (in rural areas where arms dumps or support stores were found), but surely not when applied as a form of terrorism on an urbanized civilian population.
We’ve spent months warning that Israel is bombing areas it told Palestinians were “safe.” Unfortunately, it takes an investigation by mainstream US outlets to legitimize the truth.
The coming months/years will see countless investigations that confirm what we’ve known all along. pic.twitter.com/bj745b42pH
I have seen the usual Jew-Zionist lawyers arguing narrow legalistic points about whether what the Israeli Jews are doing in Palestine and particularly in Gaza is “genocide” or not. The reality is that this is at least a quasi-genocide. If it falls slightly short of a fully-delineated, legally-rubberstamped “genocide”, that is really only of academic interest.
Incidentally, Jews wanted to destroy the German people in the 1940s. That was why the atomic scientists, almost all of whom were Jews, developed the first atom bomb. They did so despite there having been a small theoretical possibility that the first full test would set alight Earth’s atmosphere and destroy all life on Earth.
The atom bombs were designed to be dropped on Berlin and other German cities, not Japanese ones. Those working on them were willing to accept that much of Central Europe might be devastated and irradiated.
Ironically, the terrible and devastating defeat of the German Reich in the Spring of 1945 saved Germany and much of Central Europe generally from atomic devastation.
Yes, he did. I once knew a woman in the private security industry, and she told me (about 5 years after the event) that people directly involved in the case had told her that Madeley certainly did it. Hearsay twice over, admittedly, but plausible all the same.
(I should add that, actually, Madeley never denied having taken the Champagne; he denied that he had any dishonest intent).
There are many cases where a famous person, famous as an individual or because a member of a famous family, has been acquitted in circumstances where a not-famous person would have been convicted. One, remembered from my time in the USA was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kennedy_Smith. Guilty, in my opinion. but acquitted.
Retired US Army Colonel: I'm ashamed of the United States
Retired US Army Colonel Anne Wright said she is ashamed of the United States and its role in supporting the Israeli regime, as the blockade of Gaza has led to a humanitarian catastrophe and caused untold suffering. pic.twitter.com/k4mcW2o0Bn
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 29, 2024
[“that which the Israelis are doing is ethnic cleansing”]
Anyone who supports Israeli war crimes, or the Jewish-Zionist lobby in the West, should be ashamed. That especially applies to those in official positions at all levels.
But here is the truth from the lips of a former Israeli army soldier telling how they terrorized Palestinian civilians. pic.twitter.com/uAhYf43ZxI
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 29, 2024
" Israel has made 'measurable progress' in distributing aid to Gaza," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. pic.twitter.com/CcreaHMyEm
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 29, 2024
⚡️‼️⚡️“It’s OVER For Ukraine & Zelensky Will Be GONE Within 60 Days.” Col. Douglas MacGregor
📑So we are now in a different situation. We're looking at Ukraine. Russia, in the last two and a half years has built up an… pic.twitter.com/zbOmhfe35W
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) April 29, 2024
“So we are now in a different situation. We’re looking at Ukraine. Russia, in the last two and a half years has built up an enormously powerful and successful force. This is battle hardened, well-equipped, well-led, well-trained, highly disciplined.
The Ukrainian force has been annihilated. They’ve lost over 600,000 dead on the battlefield. There’s nothing left. The place is falling apart. And most of the money you were talking about will never get there. It’s simply sent through the washing machine over to defense and then to the defense industries, and then the donations flow back to the hill. So it doesn’t, you know, it’s not a question that we’re sending 60 billion and putting it into Zelensky’s hands now.
Now Zelensky and his friends will profit, no doubt about it. Let’s not kid ourselves. They’ll get some of it. How much? Who knows? I mean, this is the most corrupt country in the world. This is a country that has missing children, probably at this point in the hundreds of thousands. Prostitution, out of control. I mean, you’re talking about criminality on a scale that we in the west can’t even begin to imagine. It’s a tragedy. It’s the worst of all possible outcomes. The Ukrainian nation has been destroyed. Why? Because it’s mortgaged to our vanity.
In the west, Russia must be taught a lesson. Russia must be destroyed. Putin must be removed. Really? Why? Well, because we’ve decided that we want to strip Russia of its resources. So we turned Ukraine into a battering ram designed to stab Russia in the heart. The Russians woke up, not completely, but at the last minute, and decided, well, we probably should intervene here and stop what’s happening and signal just how serious this is, in our estimation. So they did, and they found out it’s much worse than we thought.
The force is much larger, much better trained. It has much more equipment. This is a far more serious problem. And as a result, they had to step back, establish a defense, build up their forces, and now they’re moving, and they’re going to finish the job.
Finish the job means everything from Odessa up to Kharkov is back in Russian hands. And those areas are originally Russian anyway, as has been pointed out. Your question is, what happens to the rest of the country that is west of the Dnieper River, this rump, Ukraine, and I think it’s going to become a giant demilitarized zone, a DMZ, similar to what we have between north and South Korea. There will be nothing there. There won’t be any fighting forces of any kind. And the Ukrainians can live there. And they may have some form of administration, but they’re not going to be permitted to ever again present a direct threat to Russia.
You pointed to the CIA stations and laboratories inside Ukraine. The Russians have overrun those. They know what’s there. They know what we’ve been trying to do. They know that we’ve been experimenting biologically with various weapons that could be used against them. This is insanity. And it was never necessary.
No one in the United States supported that. No one in the United States was consulted. So what do they do? They lie. They create a narrative. Russia is a revanchist nation. Russia is the Soviet Union reborn. We must stop it and defend democracy. That’s all crap. That’s nothing to do with any of it. And of course, Kiev is not a democratic state. Zelensky is not a democratic leader. He makes Stalin look good. So he’s going to go out of business. He’s going to vanish here over the next 30 to 60 days.
Whether he succumbs to whatever the Ukrainians decide to do with him on the ground, I don’t know. I’m sure that his foreign mercenaries that are surrounding him, special ops types from the United States and Britain and other countries, will do everything they can to keep him alive. But at some point, even they may abandon him. But the narrative persists because the media is an arm of the government.
This is very similar to what Noam Chomsky wrote about during Vietnam. Manufactured consent creates the illusion that this is something we all want. No, we didn’t want it. We didn’t ask anybody to open the borders. We did not ask for millions of people that we don’t know and know nothing about to come into the United States. And what do we do with millions of people who can’t find work? Especially if we go into the serious financial crisis that every sane person on the planet is predicting is coming.
What else can we say? I wish I could paint a positive picture.“
[Colonel Douglas MacGregor].
I agree with most of that. The Colonel has repeated pretty much what I have said on the blog, for 2 years, should happen.
The SNP has just elected Humza Yousaf, the most useless Scottish politician of his generation to succeed Scheming Sturgeon. The death spiral of separatism started in the final days of Queen Nic will now continue at pace. This is a great day for the UNITED KINGDOM! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/njKeQPHjBd
Humza Yousaf new SNP Leader: That means more gender ID/trans madness, free speech clampdowns, Net Zero zealotry, no chance of independence/EU membership. He's the perfect choice to sink the SNP! pic.twitter.com/gsyhteCpgV
All that and Paki-stani/Punjabi as well. I suspect that the Humza Yousaf election will wake up quite a few Scottish voters to the pointlessness of faux-“Independence” and fake “Scottish nationalism”.
After all, what does “Independence” mean when Scotland would effectively still belong to NATO (and still have submarine and air bases likely to be targeted in any war), when it would apply to rejoin the EU, when it would be still tied-in to the international banking system, and to the UN matrix (eg WHO)? Also, when Scotland would not only continue to be invaded (by migrant-invaders) but also when that would probably only be intensified under an avowedly anti-white, and non-Scot, First Minister (or, by then, “Prime Minister”?) of Scotland?
I see that the latest opinion polls, from a week or so ago, show that support for “Independence”, once not far short of 50%, dropped to 38% after Sturgeon’s resignation. I wonder what the figure will be soon, now that the SNP has a non-white leader, and one who is basically anti-white, and so anti-Scottish (in any real sense)?
As blogged in the past, the SNP, founded in 1934, only had its first MP elected to Westminster in 1967. The SNP contingent in the Commons then varied between 2 and 11 until 2015 (out of Scottish seats numbering between 59 and 72).
Only in 2015 did the First Past The Post tipping-point result in the SNP getting 56 (out of 59) seats, a figure that fell to 35 in 2017 but recovered to 48 in 2019. Next time (2023/2024)?
In the Scottish Parliament, the SNP cadre consists of 64 out of 129 seats, but in local councils in Scotland only 453 out of 1,226 seats.
I think that the SNP is going to take a pretty big hit from the Humza Yousaf election, though how much is hard to say.
The SNP has certainly had problems with its leaders: Alex Salmond, who was very “lucky in his jury” when acquitted of sexual assault and attempted rape; then Sturgeon and all the fraud and cronyism allegations; now this…
What may save the SNP from an even bigger hit than would otherwise be the case is the sheer uselessness of both the Conservative Party government and the Labour Party official opposition at Westminster.
Note also, in those tweets above, that neither of the two “controlled opposition” talking heads dared to mention that Humza Yousaf is not, in any real sense, “Scottish” to start with…
I do not have enough information to assess whether this is the beginning of the end for the Israeli state, but it may be. States usually end as a result of internal dissent and/or decadence. One of the “lessons of history”.
This was the scene in Israel last night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the defense minister, who had called for a stop to the government’s divisive planned judicial overhaul. On Monday, Netanyahu said he would delay the plan. https://t.co/DnUknoMPM0pic.twitter.com/YvFNQr6w1m
I am not so much interested in Israel as a state, more in its role as a hub for worldwide Jewish power-grabs, propaganda, fraud, and general leeching. As a state, Israel is no worse than any of the Arab or other Muslim states in the Middle East.
Daily Reminder: The United States has the biggest Jewish population outside of Israel. pic.twitter.com/6hmXXJCMhT
Barry Gardiner shames Therese Coffey for not knowing her job and not doing her job, repeatedly.
This is a long video but it's worth watching as a reminder of the utter incompetence of people appointed to positions they are't qualified for. pic.twitter.com/jaTWsd4751
“Jack Monroe”, aka “Bootstrap Cook”, is not so much a “liar” as someone to whom truth and falsehood do not really exist, i.e. someone to whom both lies and statements of truth are interchangeable, and their use dictated solely by their immediate utility to her and various aspects of her fake “poverty” narrative.
This is probably the most disgusting thing Jack Monroe has done
As blogged before, “Jack Monroe”, whose sole experience of fires (apart from starting them in her own kitchen while drunk or drugged) was as someone who, for a short while, answered the telephone at the fire brigade in Essex. “Grenfell Tower” was, for her, just another attempt to ride on whatever was currently in the news, for her own financial benefit.
“Jack Monroe” does that, or has done that, in various ways: “LGBTQXYZ”, “single mother”, “struggling mother”, “poor person made good”, “cancer patient”, “ME patient”, “fibromyalgia patient” (etc), “recovering but sober alcoholic”, “victim” generally (especially of “trolls”, meaning those who put forward evidence of her fraudulent claims and behaviours).
I wonder how many “mugs” actually believed the “Jack Monroe” Grenfell Tower fantasy? The real fire happened in West London, 60+ miles from where (non-driver) “Jack Monroe” lives (in the Southend, Essex area). How would a policeman guarding the fire scene even know (or care) who “Jack Monroe” is (I suppose that she thinks, or seems to want to believe, that she is a “celebrity” known to the nation)? Why would a policeman “wave her through” the security cordon? It’s ludicrous, as was or is her claim to have had the plans of the building (how? why?).
What, in any case, could a drunken or drugged young woman without real experience, and who had no reason or locus standi to even be there, be able to contribute? Nothing.
Not only lies, but very obvious lies.
That being so, why did actual “celebrities” of sorts, such as the Jewish TV cook, Nigella Lawson, and the Jewish restaurant critic, Jay Rayner, promote “Jack Monroe” for years after that? In fact until early this year. Also, why did various charities and msm outlets keep promoting “Jack Monroe” until very recently? There’s a kind of semi-conspiratorial “Jimmy Savile” feel about it all.
Ian Robert Millard 