A wild donkey in the Arizona desert will dig a well six feet deep with its front hooves, and for half a century the United States government has been shooting it as a threat to the desert.
August on a dry wash in the Sonoran. The creek has been gone since May. The sand is hot… pic.twitter.com/L1aMSEzf46
[“A wild donkey in the Arizona desert will dig a well six feet deep with its front hooves, and for half a century the United States government has been shooting it as a threat to the desert.
August on a dry wash in the Sonoran. The creek has been gone since May. The sand is hot enough to cook on and every animal for miles is standing in what shade it can find, waiting for a rain that is not coming. A burro walks down the wash, stops at a bend for no reason anyone else can see, puts its head down and smells. Then it starts digging. Front feet, one after the other, like a dog after a bone, until it is in up to its shoulders and the bottom of the hole goes dark and wet.
It drinks and walks off.
Within the hour there is a queue. Mule deer. Javelina. A bobcat. A scrub jay standing on the rim. In 2021 a biologist called Erick Lundgren published the count in Science: 59 species of vertebrate drinking at donkey wells, 64% more species than at the dry stretches of the same streams, and in the driest months the donkeys were raising the amount of open water in the desert by 300% on average and by up to 1,450%. When the wells were abandoned, cottonwood and willow seedlings came up in them. The donkey had been planting the riverbank.
Asked about his methodology, the donkey had another drink and left.
When a beaver builds a pond, a film crew is sent. When a donkey digs a well, the Park Service sends a marksman. The burros came up from Mexico with the Spanish and the prospectors, carried the ore out of every mine in the West, and were turned loose when the mines closed. Then they were reclassified. In 1979 the National Park Service planned to shoot all 577 in the Grand Canyon. A writer called Cleveland Amory raised more than $500,000 and lifted 582 of them out by helicopter, slung underneath, the most expensive taxi ride a donkey has ever taken. Death Valley shot 400 between 1987 and 1994.
Lundgren said that when he started, people did not think a donkey digging a hole was worthy of scientific attention.
The animal was listed as a threat to the desert’s water.
It was the one bringing the water up.
Fifty-nine species knew.
The ones with the rifles had never sat by the hole.”]
Never-before-seen figures reveal there are 20,000 foreign offenders living free in Britain despite being subject to deportation orders, with return rates for some countries so low that fewer than one in 20 can expect to be deported -The Times.
Chagos. Slavery reparations. Foreign aid. Soft-on-Islamists. Why does Britain keep selling out? Because, as a deeply experienced government insider has just argued, Whitehall is now completely dominated by a deeply damaging worldview. https://t.co/0pyQw2l9SI
Huckabee is an agent of influence for the Israeli state.
Christians can’t stand by as Israel bombs churches and murders thousands of children. Next weekend, John Kiriakou headlines the Not In Christ’s Name rally outside Washington. pic.twitter.com/9DDFFniVmp
Arakchi: The people of our region are just as tired of Israel's deception as the Americans.
The Iranian Foreign Minister stated:
⚪ The President of the United States has now clearly realized that the vast majority of Americans have a very negative view of Israel. However, it… pic.twitter.com/ywdDCeNIKB
[“Arakchi: The people of our region are just as tired of Israel’s deception as the Americans. The Iranian Foreign Minister stated:
The President of the United States has now clearly realized that the vast majority of Americans have a very negative view of Israel. However, it is noteworthy that he still seems not to understand the reasons for this.
It is clear that Americans are tired of Israel deceiving American administrations and dragging them into endless wars. Their patience has run out. The patience of the people in our region has also run out.”]
I wonder whether Trump will pardon Ghislaine Maxwell at the end of his term. Not unlikely, in my opinion.
Always back the openly anti-Zionist candidate that is standing in an election – regardless of what political party they are in.
Conscription is the biggest immediate threat to our people right now and we need people to kick up a stink about it in Parliament.
Lab 31% (+1) Reform 24% (-1) Con 20% (-3) Lib Dem 9% (+2) Green 8% (=) New Fieldwork: 6th – 9th November 2026 New Sample: 2,023 GB Adults pic.twitter.com/NV866Wp50O
Translates to a Commons with maybe 369 Labour MPs (considerable majority), 100 Reform (huge increase), 76 Cons (huge decrease), 57 LibDems (smallish decrease), 24 SNP (considerable decrease).
May not be quite accurate, in that the Restore vote, even if only a few percent overall, will eat into Reform’s vote in highly marginal seats.
Apart from that, Burnham’s pigeons (inflation, migration invasion, NHS, adult social care etc) will start to come home to roost by late 2027, so the main polling will change a great deal after that. He may therefore decide to hold a general election next year.
Reading is how a civilisation remembers what it is and that’s why this matters.
So pleased to be working with @WyvernFellows to put books like The Camp of the Saints in front of people who might not otherwise find them. Credit to the amazing Ethan of @VaubanBooks, who… https://t.co/w0oUHUs4a4
Hi everyone, this is Joe Mason, founder of Wyvern.
Recently, Sky News doxxed me, turned up at my house, and published my name and face in a video now viewed by hundreds of thousands of people-all because I said something I believe we should all be: a nationalist. I believe that…
[“Hi everyone, this is Joe Mason, founder of Wyvern.
Recently, Sky News doxxed me, turned up at my house, and published my name and face in a video now viewed by hundreds of thousands of people-all because I said something I believe we should all be: a nationalist. I believe that the English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh have a right to self-determination and to exist as a majority in their own homeland(s).
When I started this, I knew I would face attacks from the press. I am not a victim. I am in this fight until the end, and we all have to put ourselves on the line. There are so many people that my co-directors at Wyvern and I start to work with who pull out at the last minute because they fear their job and/or reputation being affected. Whilst I understand that fear, if we do not organise now as a collective, our 9-5s will be the last thing we’re worrying about in ten years.
It’s time for us all to plant our flag in the ground. Tell the world your views loudly and proudly, and stop caring about what our enemies call us.
If you’ve got this far, please have a look at our website and join us. Your country needs you.”]
"Like the individual, the nation is the outcome of a long past of efforts, sacrifices, and devotions. Of all forms of worship, that of the ancestors is the most legitimate; our ancestors have made us what we are." – Ernest Renan, What Is a Nation https://t.co/kZbWeYRf7T
While Jews were fighting to overturn the White Australia policy and flood the country with third worlders, they were also trying to stop Germans (who would easily fit in) from moving to Australia.
Anti-white animus is the impetus behind all the policies they support. https://t.co/u2seyLUGrK
Time and again, we see the “conservation” bureaucracy behaving in a heartless way. In the UK, in Germany, and elsewhere.
Just imagine, those conservation bureaucrats would rather have Harriet the Badger killed than let her stay with her rescuer as a companion animal.
Are young people not prepared to fight?🤔
The First Sea Lord is placing his faith behind Britain's next generation of soldiers, believing they will 'do what is needed when it is required' pic.twitter.com/JHbYGWziZB
Slightly alarming that the First Sea Lord [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwyn_Jenkins] thinks that people should simply accept that whatever “the authorities” say should be done should get them running about under orders of people like him and his dimwitted political superiors.
Further, his example of proper public behaviour, i.e. the rabbit-like scared obedience of much of the population during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic of 2020-2022, does not inspire me with much confidence in his powers of judgment —despite his background and career— frankly.
The British state is both becoming more incompetent and controlling at the same time.
It is what Sam Francis predicted in 1994 — Anarcho-Tyranny.
The people are forced to live with anarchy (small boats, early release, etc.) while the state becomes ever more tyrannical. pic.twitter.com/ipuptKM3So
Moscow condemns the efforts of EU and NATO countries to prepare for a war against Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in a video address to participants in an OSCE-hosted roundtable on the militarization of Europe.
EU leadership is actively looking for ways to compensate for the Ukrainian army’s catastrophic losses and plans to force Ukrainians back to their homeland by any means, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service press bureau said in a statement.
I am in two minds about that. I do not want the Kiev regime to get more cannon-fodder for its crumbling front-lines but, on the other hand, most Ukrainians outside the Ukraine (e.g. in the UK) are complete wastes of space.
Russian troops liberated the community of Vasilkovoye in the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/d0Fgjym0X8
[swimming pool “Moskva”, pictured in the late 1970s. At the time, it was the largest swimming pool in the world. I myself swam there later, in the early summer of 1993. In or about 1994, it was closed, and a replica of the 19thC Russian Orthodox cathedral that had once stood on the site was then built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_Pool; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Christ_the_Saviour]
I was glad when Trump was first elected, and then later re-elected, and for one reason only, i.e. that he would probably not trigger or launch a nuclear war with Russia. To that extent, my “choice” (notional only, because I am not, nor ever have been, a U.S. citizen, though I was once a “resident alien” issued with a Green Card) has been validated by events. However, much of what is happening in the USA now is somewhere between tragedy and farce.
In fact, it is said that that particular video, above, is yet another AI production. Not unlikely, but my point still stands.
On a related topic, how long before a “long-lost piece of AGFA film” is “found”, and will appear to “prove” that German labour prison/labour camps in Poland in the early 1940s “really did” have “gas chambers”?
I wonder…
[many many years ago, a supposed blueprint plan of the Auschwitz camp was supposedly “found” in a Berlin attic. It had “GAS CHAMBER” marked in big capital letters, in case the point was missed by anyone (nothing else on the supposed plan was so marked). It was a one-day-wonder as a news story, and I have heard nothing of it since, I presume because the fakery was a little too obvious]
So 16,500 (in the civil war in Iran) is “genocide“, but 50,000-100,000 (in the Israeli-Jew “war” on mainly unarmed Arab civilians in Gaza) is supposedly not “genocide”. What a world.
This week, an 11 year old girl was raped in Hale, Altrincham, by an illegal migrant staying at the ‘Ashley Hotel’. Yesterday, the attacker was remanded in prison. Today, Britain First protested outside the hotel OCS #BritainFirstpic.twitter.com/1hJxOCilG6
Air defense systems destroyed and intercepted 63 Ukrainian UAVs overnight over Russian regions and the Sea of Azov, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/INpLF1MUrupic.twitter.com/vTgGE6x9sw
The European Union may resort to economic sanctions, the introduction of trade tariffs, or the threat of eliminating US military bases on its territory to pressure the US over the future of Greenland, The Economist wrote:https://t.co/3D1EVETWLopic.twitter.com/EXteNBf18k
Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s president special Representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, said that the European Union should not anger US President Donald Trump and return the military personnel sent to Greenland:https://t.co/nKOTRDGasKpic.twitter.com/vBacasKDX8
This evening, with sorrow, I have decided to resign from my position as an Opposition Shadow Minister and as a member of the Conservative & Unionist Party.
Since joining the Conservative Party at the age of 14, I have been a loyal and committed supporter of the principles… pic.twitter.com/hbOSPRezCw
— Andrew Rosindell MP 🇬🇧🏴 (@AndrewRosindell) January 18, 2026
[“This evening, with sorrow, I have decided to resign from my position as an Opposition Shadow Minister and as a member of the Conservative & Unionist Party. Since joining the Conservative Party at the age of 14, I have been a loyal and committed supporter of the principles advocated by Margaret Thatcher that have always underpinned my own political beliefs. However, the time has come to put country before party. The failure of the Conservative Party both when in government and more recently in opposition to actively hold the government to account on the issue of Chagossian self-determination and the defence of British sovereignty, represents a clear red line for me. Since entering Parliament in 2001, I have consistently argued, both from the backbenches and the frontbench, that the right of self-determination of the Chagossian people is sacrosanct, and that they alone should decide the future sovereignty of the Chagos Islands. Regrettably, these concerns have fallen on deaf ears. Both the government and the opposition have been complicit in the surrender of this sovereign British territory to a foreign power. This was made abundantly clear by the failure of Conservative peers to vote down the British Indian Ocean Territory Bill at third reading earlier this month, following direction from the top of the party. Sadly, I now believe that the Conservative Party is irreparably bound to the mistakes of previous governments and unwilling to take meaningful accountability for the poor decisions made over so many issues. Moreover, the views and concerns of constituents such as mine in Romford have been consistently ignored for far too long. Following a conversation earlier this evening with Nigel Farage M.P., I have therefore agreed to join Reform U.K. as its seventh Member of Parliament. It is clear to me that Reform U.K. is now the only political movement that is genuinely willing to fight for the best interests of the United Kingdom. The views and concerns of the majority of the British people must no longer be sidelined. Our country has endured a generation of managed decline. Radical action is now required to reverse the damaging decisions of the past and to forge a new course for Britain – one that firmly places the interests of the British people first.”]
Another not-very-impressive Con Party MP defects to Reform UK. An expenses cheat, who has accepted freebie trips to Israel with Conservative Friends of Israel.
I agree with some of Rosindell’s views, but not with most.
So Yvette Cooper, the would-be dictator, Labour Friends of Israel puppet, and expenses fraudster, currently posing as Home Secretary, will probably ban Palestine Action. Pretty silly.
For one thing, this seems to have been decided not because a couple of activists vandalized RAF planes by daubing graffiti, but because they have made the RAF, the woman “commander” of that base, SERCO (who apparently provided the outsourced and in fact non-existent “security”, no doubt at a high price), and the Government, look very very silly.
Had there been even one dozy military policeman on duty and doing his duty, the protesters could have been told to get lost, or been arrested before they got anywhere near those planes.
This was not “terrorism” but fairly standard protest of the “action directe” type. The action that makes sense would be to actually have proper security on Britain’s few remaining RAF bases, and not to label a small protest group “terrorist”; which will, in any case, only drive the situation underground, I should imagine.
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Tucker Carlson: “If I were Putin, I would offer free first class trips to Moscow so they could see that Moscow was so much nicer than any place in Great Britain. It's like not even close…It's just weird that they're mad at Putin. Why aren't they mad at Keir Starmer?” pic.twitter.com/EKWOTfffNA
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 21, 2025
In the 1930s, both the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany allowed tourism, in the case of Germany free individual travel as well as group tours, in the Soviet Union mostly escorted and tightly-monitored group travel. Where they differed more was in the reverse situation: the German authorities were happy to let their citizens travel, knowing that few if any countries in the world would eclipse Germany under Hitler in terms of lifestyle, facilities etc. In the Soviet Union, of course, only the approved few were allowed out to tour foreign countries.
Only an immediate start of constructive negotiations with Russia can save Ukraine from total disaster, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said:https://t.co/dn3p9UvuYcpic.twitter.com/vFT4eJlaDj
Footage shows Iran’s strike on Tel Aviv, early on 21 June 2025. A building in Holon, south of Tel Aviv, was hit by rocket shrapnel from Iran’s latest missile launch. pic.twitter.com/HiseLdvsnu
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 21, 2025
Sardonic?
Israeli media quoted an Israeli officer: — When you enter Ramat Gan, you feel as if you are in Khan Yunis or Beit Hanoun because of the destruction.
It is noteworthy that Iranian missiles turned the area into a ghost town after the great destruction it caused. pic.twitter.com/xGVTfMeO0s
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 21, 2025
This is a comprehensive take down of pro-immigration zealots such as Jonathan Portes, Rob Ford, Sunder Katwala who have consistently claimed mass uncontrolled immigration is good for Britain.
British/English people, most of them, are not having children. Those that do have children are restricting the number to one or two, for the most part. Not enough. Below replacement-level.
We need to have a bloc, however small, of English ethno-national people, even if most of them are “non-political”— that does not really matter, in the big scheme of things. A basis for the foundation of a later people who in turn can be a foundation for a super-race, a quantum-leap in human evolution.
"White Britons will become a minority in this country in the year 2063, just 38 years from now, while among the under-40s, the tipping point will come much sooner, as early as 2050." 👇👇👇https://t.co/AjgzjjcjC6pic.twitter.com/GHMB3RjE44
freedom in cultural life (art, science, religion, education, the media), and
uncoerced cooperation in a freely contractual economic life.”
[Wikipedia].
A template for a civilized society.
The society, though, must be European.
Talking point
“It is not, for me, a question of “hating” non-whites, but of providing a platform for the evolution of consciousness, for the eventual development of what might be called a “super-race”, in the sense of a people whose capacities would be seen by us, today, as “superhuman”.
Only the European people, speaking ethnically, can provide that platform and foundation for the later development. That is why we must oppose importation of non-whites into Europe, not because we “hate” them as such but because, primarily, their presence in Europe makes more likely a mixed-race population, which would make further evolution impossible.”
[from a blog post of early 2024, citing one published years earlier yet]
“Seventeen councils are accommodating up to 10 times more asylum seekers than homeless people, analysis suggests.
The biggest disparity was seemingly in Pendle, a borough inside Reform’s newly-gained Lancashire authority.
Latest Government data shows 453 asylum seekers are being housed in Pendle. In contrast, only nine homeless households are in temporary accommodation.“
[Daily Mail]
One wonders how long Britain can accept 500-1,000 migrant-invaders every single day without either civil/social/race/culture war breaking out, or society just gradually (or perhaps suddenly) collapsing.
We need national revolution.
Late tweets seen
Hot? The birds are feeling it too! ☀️🥵
A simple bird bath can help them stay cool and hydrated.
Beautiful badger eating some blueberry flapjacks I couldn’t finish in the heat. Happy #SummerSolstice! And that’s why no food is ever wasted. He/she beat the foxes to it. Never seen one this close. Magical. 🦡 🌅 pic.twitter.com/0EfoatZeAP
When I lived in Devon and Cornwall (both, first in a large country house in Cornwall, then in a farmhouse in Devon), I would see badgers at night quite often; sometimes, on the Devon side of the Tamar, I would drive down an almost unused single-track lane at night which was a back-lane off a back-lane. Badgers would be there, unafraid of the car because they rarely saw one, and would mass ahead of the car, about ten at a time. I would have to wait until they deigned to move aside. Lovely creatures. I cannot understand why backward cruel people sometimes hunt and kill them, but then Marx did talk about “rural idiocy“…
NEW: US evacuates embassy staff in Israel.
— Dominic Michael Tripi (@DMichaelTripi) June 21, 2025
Am I just showing my age being so picky but surely a National newsreader should be aware of correct pronunciation. Just heard 'Grievious' twice from an ITV newsreader. The word is Grievous. The other error is Mischievious – it's Mischievous – 3 syllables not 4.🥲🥲
Exactly right, as I have blogged both recently and in the past. We know that that will not happen, though.
The Iranian army announced that the losses of the Israeli air defense system are growing, and Israel is facing serious difficulties, and is therefore seeking assistance.
It also stated that any ship or aircraft heading from any country in the region to support Israel would be… pic.twitter.com/7F6N5kBBac
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 21, 2025
Douglas McGregor, former adviser to the US Department of Defense:
Don't be fooled – the situation in Israel is much worse than most people think. About one third of Tel Aviv was damaged or destroyed. As for the military infrastructure, I was told that many Israeli planes were… pic.twitter.com/maeH0n8XOG
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 21, 2025
As usual, the (Israeli) Jews thought they were so clever making that sneak attack on Iran, but now look— not only have they not (yet?) subdued Iran, but Tel Aviv, their “window on the world” and second-largest city, lies in ruins, much of it anyway. Tourism is dead, investment is dead, trade and commerce is all but dead, and Iran still has thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of missiles, and untold numbers of drones, while Israel is running out of defensive missiles, we are told.
The damage is so bad that anyone photographing it, or posting photos online, is subject to arrest.
Meanwhile, those Jews who can, are fleeing.
🇮🇷 IRGC announces 19th wave of attacks on Israel, deploying combat and kamikaze drones targeting strategic locations nationwide. Operations aim to overwhelm Israeli defenses and will continue.#IranIsraelConflict#Iran#Israelpic.twitter.com/a7Huy9HzX5
— Iran VS USA War Monitor (@ResistEye) June 21, 2025
“Reform UK is now only a single percentage point behind Labour – putting their leader Nigel Farage within touching distance of Number 10 at the next election.
New polling data from YouGov, commissioned by Sky News, puts Reform on 24 per cent and Labour on 25 per cent – down a whopping 9 percentage points from their winning vote share at the 2024 UK election.
With the Conservatives on 22 per cent, the UK electorate may be about to usher in a new epoch of three-way party politics.
The new research puts Labour on 26 per cent, Reform UK on 25 per cent, the Torieson 22 per cent, the Lib Dems on 14 per cent and the Greens on 8 per cent.
In general the assessment of Sir Keir’s first six months in office is damning, with only 10 per cent of voters judging that he has been successful and an overwhelming majortity (60 per cent) saying he has been unsuccessful.
Labour insiders are also worried at how the party is hemorrhaging voters to other parties across the political spectrum.
The new data found that they have retained only 54 per cent of supporters from the general election – while 7 percent have defected to the Lib Dems, 6 per cent to the Green Party, 5 per cent to Reform UK and 4 per cent to the Tories.
Meanwhile almost a quarter of those who voted Labour in the polls (23 per cent) either did not say, weren’t sure or had decided not to vote at all.
Labour also faces a problem with elderly voters in light of policies like the removal of the winter fuel allowance, with only 14 per cent of OAPs now saying they would cast their vote for Labour – down eight percentage points from the election.“
Naturally, Reform UK is not very close to me, ideologically. Pro Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, and (relatively) anti-welfare state; pro-finance capitalism.
Still, Reform UK has its uses. To move the “Overton Window”, particularly on issues of immigration, migration-invasion, free speech etc. Above all, to break up the LibLabCon “three main parties” scam which has been in place during my lifetime.
It may well be that all party politics will crumble to dust by reason of some existential catastrophe in the world, such as nuclear war, but that is another matter, arguably.
According to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], the figures given, if replicated at a general election, might result in a House of Commons with Labour holding 287 seats, Conservative Party 128, Reform UK 107, LibDems 77, Green Party 4. That would indicate a Lab-LibDem coalition, or some lesser concordat, Labour being about 37 short of an overall majority on those figures.
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Speaking on behalf of Zimbabweans, we want our whites back to safeguard our food production and to revitalize our industries pic.twitter.com/v6eFY9SMbW
This is the norm with the black government in Africa. During the Rhodesia government, our parents had decent jobs, and no one risked life crossing borders for better living. Zimbabwe needs a white government, and zanu pf has failed . pic.twitter.com/eggQtI7yET
When I was about 21-y-o, I wanted to get rid of hundreds of unwanted books, mostly paperback novels (spy stories and crime thrillers etc). I gave them to the Royal Marsden because I was then living at Reigate Hill in Surrey, only about 8 or 9 miles away from the hospital’s site at Sutton (though the distance seems more because the two areas are so different). I dropped them off at the hospital reception. I hope they at least passed the time for some of the in-patients. I suppose that must have been 1977 or 1978.
It looks, though, as if the lady tweeter noted attends not the Sutton site of the hospital but rather its other and older location, in Kensington (which would make more sense, because she lives not far from my old shooting club, the Kensington Rifle and Pistol Club, now all but defunct and no longer —since the 1990s, if not earlier—in West Kensington). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marsden_Hospital.
“My annual mammo is the best focus group of one you’ll get. Delightful radiographer tells me she’s never voted, they’re all as bad as each other and don’t listen to the NHS.
Furious about the social care plan delay not just as a healthcare worker but as the mother of a special needs adult who needs it. Her daughter volunteers in a food bank when she can, bless her.
3 disgraces in this story alone – underpaid NHS worker (my words not hers), crap & ludicrously expensive social care, food banks. I say I might have an offer you like and care passionately about fixing social care. And the rest. I also think doctors would run the NHS better, pen-pushers and deadbeat hospital CEOs, often from industry or politics, should be blocked off.“
All right. Some good points, but was she saying all that when she was married to a Conservative MP and Whip (until a decade ago)? I do not know, but I doubt it. She was (and still is? I wonder…) a passionate supporter of the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George (Gideon) Osborne, whose government of nasty nonsense, 2010-2015, imposed so-called “austerity” (for the poor) and spending cuts which permanently crippled this country in every way.
As for “food banks”, they scarcely existed until 2010. Only on a tiny scale, anyway. Another result of “Conservative” Party policies 2010-2015.
The Fiona Syms tweeter should think about why the Conservative Party presently stands at 22% in the opinion polls, 2 points lower than at GE 2024, despite the evident hopeless incompetence and unpleasantness of the “Labour” government of “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer and his little Labour Friends of Israel cabal.
People have not forgotten the 14 years of truly bad “Conservative” government 2010-2024, finishing off with the government of the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak; and now the “Conservatives” are “led” by a political joke (again), a Nigerian woman who only came to the UK at age 16, albeit that she spent a day or two here after her birth (in London).
Having said that, it is clear that Labour (too) is finished. After a week or two of Starmer-Labour misgovernment, I blogged as much, at which time the msm were sycophantically applauding Starmer (some stupid woman scribbler in, I think, the Guardian, even said that she found herself attracted to Starmer sexually!— Well, Henry Kissinger did say that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac“…).
What stands out there for me is how only among those 65+ years of age is voting Conservative anywhere near the level required to ground a Conservative Party government. 35%. Not very impressive anyway, but dropping to only 25% among those 50-64 y o, and to only 16% among those aged 25-49 before almost disappearing among those aged 18-24.
It might be argued that those aged below 65 y o might well change their views when they age further (just as it was said by Soviet anti-Christian propagandists in the pre-1989 period that “only old women now attend Russian Orthodox churches“, but that was countered by those who noted that there seemed always to be another generation of old women at church…).
Yes, those now aged below 65 may well be more inclined to vote Conservative when they reach 65+, but in my opinion the numbers will never be higher, or even as high, as they now are.
If the percentage of those 65+ voting Conservative is now 35% or so, by 2029 that might easily decline to 30%, and lower thereafter. The same slide might also be seen, and probably will be seen, lower down the age scale. If the present 18-24 y o generation only vote Conservative Party at around 5%, that will almost certainly increase, but maybe only slightly, over the years to come. To what extent is hard to pinpoint, but maybe by only about 5 points in each coming generation, so at age 65+ maybe to about 20%.
Admittedly speculative.
That is assuming that the present voting and political system will still be here in 2060, 2040, or even 2030. Or the present world as we know it…
No 10 blocks beaver release plan, officials view it as Tory legacy https://t.co/Dn9KlwOqgb via @yahooNewsUK Beavers/Nature/Natural. Yet another useless spiteful gov idea that will help protect OUR river banks from flooding. They will do anything to destroy the UK. Libour OUT
Hey Labour, know what else is a Tory Legacy? The useless and viciously cruel badger cull. Why don’t you end that vile legacy and leave badgers and beavers alone? https://t.co/Qi1pMyRIZU
Until 6 months ago, though I already predicted on the blog that Starmer-Labour would be useless, I did not think that this government would or even could equal in infamy the totally s**t governments of 2010-2024. Well, I was wrong in that last. Starmer and his crew are as bad as, or worse than, any of the “Conservative” governments of 2010-2024.
I think that this comes within the category “shocking but not surprising”…
"I lost my job for supporting a mainstream political party."
FSU member Saba Poursaeedi's fight for workplace free speech is closing in on £20,000 — but we still need your help to reach our £28,000 stretch target.
Yes. All true. However…where was Toby Young, and where was the “Free Speech Union”, when I was wrongfully (and, as it later turned out, unlawfully) disbarred in 2016, as a result of a concerted campaign by the Jew-Zionist lobby, specifically the overlapping “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”] and “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”]?
“A law student is suing Cambridge University for discrimination after he failed his PhD and delayed his career working as a barrister.
Jacob Meagher is seeking ‘substantial damages’ from the world famous institution, alleging he was the subject of disability discrimination and victimisation following the failure of his law PhD.
Mr Meagher also claimed that his oral ‘viva voce’ interview, where he was questioned about his thesis by two examiners, caused ‘significant damage’ to his health.
He ended up failing the examination, meaning he missed out on a opportunity to take up a tenancy at a ‘particular set of chambers’ and therefore ‘suffered a substantial loss of anticipated earnings’.
Outlining the claim, the judge said: ‘Mr Meagher…is a student at the University of Cambridge…undertaking a PhD in law.
‘[He] did not successfully pass his final viva voce examination of his doctoral thesis.
Court documents also stated that the University’s Disability Resource Centre had recommended that at the viva, examiners follow a set of guidelines, produced as part of a Student Support Document (SSD), to help him.
These included asking specific rather than general questions, using the active, rather than the passive, voice and allowing him pauses and breaks after questions…to allow him to ‘mentally retrieve the words or information that he needed in order to answer’.“
[Daily Mail]
How on Earth does that litigant think he is going to survive at the Bar (unless he does no court work at all) if he cannot endure being verbally challenged, and needs time “to mentally retrieve the words or information that he [needs] in order to answer“?
You need a thick skin at the Bar. I should know. I was a practising barrister, in court almost daily, from 1993-1996 in London (often at the High Court, as well as in County Courts and both “the mags” and, less often, Crown Courts), and during 2002-2008 based in Exeter (though travelling widely across the UK and beyond).
Being put on the spot by a judge, especially a High Court judge (I was never at the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court), can be a chastening experience even if the judge is (as most High Court judges are) reasonably courteous.
Woe betide the barrister who is unprepared, or whose instructing solicitors have fallen down on their job. I usually managed to put up a good show, or at least a good front, but I have seen other barristers fall silent, unable to say a word, or flounder helplessly; even, in one case (in Camberwell Magistrates’ Court, before a particularly severe Stipendiary Magistrate —the people called District Judges now—) actually whimper and almost burst into tears (it was a man, too…).
At one time, a barrister who was disabled, even physically, was at a huge disadvantage in trying to get into any chambers. Now, it is arguable that things have gone to the other extreme.
When I was in provincial chambers in Exeter, from 2002-2008 , there was a girl Bar pupil from Northern Ireland. She seemed pleasant and was afterwards offered a tenancy (after which she became markedly less pleasant). The point, though, was that she had a bad speech impediment. In my opinion, the Northern Irish accent is hard enough to understand, let alone when the speaker has a speech impediment. She did get some criminal and family work, though; low-level stuff.
In the end, that Northern Irish person gave up the Bar entirely (I was told) and returned to her native Ulster. At least there they were, presumably, able to understand what she said.
[my old chambers in Colleton Crescent, Exeter, from where I practised law at the Bar during the years 2002-2008]
What a ridiculous monkeyhouse Westminster is! Look at thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves (“Rachel from Accounts”) etc, all making noise, exchanging remarks, and laughing like badly-behaved schoolchildren. Then there is stupid Liz Kendall, sitting there like a nodding dog, and about as credible.
Instead of sending people who question mass immigration to live in the Middle East, why not send pro-immigration middle-class zealots to live for one whole month in Harehills, Ealing, Barking & Dagenham, Leicester, or Tower Hamlets pic.twitter.com/ENxHoK8wSS
The mainstream media milieu is a cesspit. I was just reading about some person whose name, though I had seen it somewhere, in the back of my mind, conveyed little to me. A few years younger than me (I am now 68), he has died, and even years ago was looking at least a decade or more older than me, looking at photos in the newspapers. In fact, make that 20+ years older.
Apparently, that person had, at one time, in the 1990s, been spending £4,000 a week on cocaine, and drinking 4-5 bottles of vodka every day!
You could double or treble that sum to get the same value in the money of 2025.
That tells me that such System-approved msm types are both hugely over-remunerated and totally decadent. Britain needs a thoroughgoing cultural purge even more than it needs a political purge. Hitler-level. Stalin-level. Biblical-level.
A few days ago, an American commentator tweeted:
“I don’t think the normies are getting this yet.
In the UK, the birthplace of Magna Carta, English Common Law, and the cradle nation of the USA …
In the latest effort to deny reality, the Leftist German word police have announced that a standard term for ethnic German is "racist and antidemocratic". Can we no longer even acknowledge our existence, asks Eugyppius. https://t.co/CWPNmB92cu
Well, there it is. Switzerland has officially lost its senses.
Didn’t Rudolf Steiner say something about how the Goetheanum (near Basel) would be devastated by war? Cannot quite remember. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetheanum.
Ben Gurion Airport is packed as people rush to leave Israel amid flight cancellations and rescheduling, driven by escalating tensions with Hezbollah and Iran. The conflict escalated sharply last night, with a barrage of rockets and drones exchanged… pic.twitter.com/8HkiBjoHVD
The @metpoliceuk keep apprehending X and Facebook 2024 Natives’ Revolt posters, as stabbings continue unimpeded at the #NottingHillCarnival. Barry Shitpeas, 47, is expected to appear at Horseferry Road Magistrates, Tuesday, for allegedly saying “Huh, my country feels different.” https://t.co/plJTtWnLFr
This amount of crime in the ‘family day’ of an event. The desperation of the police, the mayor and others to make it sound wonderful despite the stabbing and brutality are all getting a bit “very good people on both sides”. https://t.co/HzNaSCF6wb
Were I given the power, I would shut it down permanently, as a start.
I saw a few minutes of the dancing groups etc on Sky News. About 1% of the Rio Carnival, in all respects.
I have used Telegram for a number of years and have never once come across a single instance of illegal content. Telegram is moderated. Illegal content is removed. They're coming after it because Telegram doesn't censor free speech. That's the truth.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 25, 2024
Bears repeating – the extent to which the US is shitting all over the Kursk invasion is unprecedented and it means something is afoot. Meanwhile, the British want to use the effort to promote greater Western involvement. There is *clearly* a split here.https://t.co/sVrBfzyXegpic.twitter.com/03Dizlqf6c
Oh yeah. Somewhat evokes me being met on the tarmac by counterterror police last year. Weren't risking me slipping through. Never heard of someone being stopped on the runway in the UK like that before, only ever border control. And now they've done the same to @richimedhurst.
Israel and the Jew-Zionists in every country are almost always the ones clamouring for a shutdown of free speech. As regular readers know, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] has been demanding my prosecution for about 10 years.
The “CAA” finally got their wish in 2023, after having applied improper pressure on the “Clown” Prosecution Service, but their “victory” soon proved to be Pyrrhic:
Of course, Israel was largely founded on Jewish terrorism:
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PAID: Forget the £10bn a year the UK is spending on asylum accommodation.
There are also countless examples of taxpayer-funded projects on "Decolonising Fashion… with Refugee Communities", "Refugees' Socio-cultural Resilience" and "diasporic dance":https://t.co/0kysVVuJY3pic.twitter.com/jcQEAouYMI
Left wing logic would mean that if 10 people tried to fit in a single bed, and someone pointed out one is the max and no more should try to fit it in, you'd be "BLAMING PEOPLE!"
Imagine a city of between 500,000 and 1,500,000 in the UK, somewhere such as Birmingham (nearly 1M population), Liverpool (nearly 900,000 population), Nottingham (730,000), Sheffield (635,000), Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leicester, and others.
Well, each of those cities have a roughly equivalent population to the influx into the UK of mostly non-Europeans every year. Many have smaller populations.
Only a lunatic, or someone completely brainwashed by System multikulti propaganda, could think that such a situation is in any way sustainable in a country the size of the UK. Housing, pay, State benefits (including pensions), rail, roads, education, public order, even water supply.
This is our economic model: 1) Spend more on "public services" – aka make way for more Night Czars and people who will spend your money on rainbow kayaking/ drag queen life drawing classes (real life examples of council spending). 2) Do nothing about factors increasing demand on…
1) Spend more on “public services” – aka make way for more Night Czars and people who will spend your money on rainbow kayaking/ drag queen life drawing classes (real life examples of council spending).
2) Do nothing about factors increasing demand on services – eg migration (legal and illegal) – while building nothing and rarely expanding infrastructure. Then act surprised when prices increase (“rent controls now!”), as well as demonising anyone who points out that migration is a form of demand. They must be a bigot, after all, for worrying about the UK spending approximately £10 billion a year on accommodation for asylum seekers – paired with runaway demand. Rich people can pay for it, or something; anyway, doesn’t demand just vanish into thin air?!
3) Allow eco loons to impose anti-car measures on some of the most economically productive and in-demand workers; eg plumbers, builders and others with practical skills who need a car for their job. Ensure that they lose jobs from sitting in traffic and are subject to punitive measures for not being able to cycle a new bath tab to a client. Add red tape as much as possible to everything. Get a small business to prove its commitment to environment and diversity before it’s actually broken-even.
4) Hire for every state sector job through the primary prism of immutable characteristics.
5) Ignore what jobs are in demand – eg. practical/ technology – and continue sending droves of young people to university to do subjects that bear no relation to what skills employers need. Remember, young people should be able to “follow their dreams” – all of them! – and anyone who says don’t do a degree in decolonising dinosaurs is anti working-class. Besides, if Brits won’t do jobs, we’ll just hire from abroad, so that demand for housing can increase, and with it rental costs – which young people will then blame landlords/ lack of rent controls for.
And voila = growth!“
I agree with pretty much all of that.
Please can someone explain this to me. Why do (most) Left wingers seem oblivious to supply and demand? It genuinely baffles me. Housing is the most obvious example. How can advocates of rent controls not see these would further limit supply or how migration is a type of "demand"?
Most people “think” via their feeling, i.e. via emotion, or via undisciplined will. They want to believe, so they do believe. Someone of the Zoe Gardner (near) “open borders” type is a typical example.
Most MPs now are enemies of the people. All of the present Cabinet are enemies of the people.
Left wing economics makes 0 sense. How can grown adults think that endlessly paying for “public services” – aka the likes of Amy Lame and eco loons making sure no one can drive to work (plumbers/ builders can surely cycle!) – means growth.https://t.co/kJ4UxC5jvk
People like Amy Lamé (a crazed American lesbian appointed —God knows why— as London “Nightlife Tsar” or something similar) are just a waste of space. She should be sacked and made to dig turnips, plant trees, or the like.
Incidentally, I seem to recall she tweeted unpleasantly to me about 8 years ago, when I still had a Twitter account.
“Public services” I support wholeheartedly, if they are useful. I am talking about (proper) police, fire brigades, public health workers (real ones, not “Covid crazies”), parks and park wardens, litter sweepers, public swimming pools, water supplies etc.
“In 2024, Amy Lamé was awarded her fourth pay rise a few days after the 2024 London Mayor Election, in which her pay for her 3 days a week role was increased to £132,846.[27]
Her role and the ability for the London Assembly to hold her to account has been a source of confusion, given that she is classed as a GLA member of staff[28] and therefore cannot be scrutinised by the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives or the Greens in the London Assembly.”
[Wikipedia]
That useless waste of space gets £133,000 each year for a 3-day week…
I have never been there, but if I were to go there, I would prioritize the famous garden created by the Argentinian wife/widow of William Walton, and filmed for a Monty Don show:
— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) August 25, 2024
Ha. I appreciate that, though I was prosecuted without having been arrested (via postal requisition).
Banana Boat
I first saw this amusing short documentary on American public TV in 1991 or 1992 (it was released in 1991). About a group of passengers on one of the Geest “banana boats” that (I think still) take cars and other items out from the UK to the West Indies, and then return with millions of bananas.
Such ships carry passengers because the income is a welcome extra, but they cannot carry more than (I think) 12, because any greater number would require the ship to have a doctor on board.
A very good film, and nicely presented by one Nigel Farrell, who —I just now see— must have been 37 or 38 at the time, and who (I have just read) died in 2011, 20 years after the film was made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farrell.
How short our lives are.
I might add that the BBC once made charming, interesting little films like that, about 40 or 50 years ago, but no longer.
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Come on, Downing Street: didn't you watch Dr. Brian May's documentary? Your chancellor is wasting our taxpayers' money on killing our #wildlife ~ & you're wasting a lot of our goodwill! Kindly desist with the 'definitely/maybe' Truss-type dithering & #stopthecull#badgermonday 🦡 https://t.co/3We2NGz9bP
I like everyone in Reform. But voting for them was a strategic disaster. We punished Tories but ourselves more. Anyone looking could already see what Labour were like. We had Sadiq Khan, Welsh Labour and them running things (terribly) elsewhere. https://t.co/RmdmVNnWrF
“This was supposed to be ‘family day’… We are tired of saying the same words every year. We are tired of telling families that their loved ones are seriously injured, or worse. We are tired of seeing crime scenes at Carnival." https://t.co/GUpIj7ZEhApic.twitter.com/u2zpodzUJh
The Kiev regime just keeps pushing and pushing. This will not end well for the Ukrainian civilians living under Zelensky’s Jew-Zionist dictatorship.
Trump says we could "find ourselves in World War III" as Ukrainian troops invade Russia. pic.twitter.com/UFCuSCN2wK
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) August 26, 2024
The prime aim of statesmen should be to stop that, but there are secretive cabals and ruling circles across the West pushing for war with Russia.
In Kyiv tomorrow 50-70% of consumers will simultaneously be left without electricity, – CEO of the energy company Yasno Kovalenko pic.twitter.com/7UHGEUPaxq
[F.B.I. special agent, 1930s, practising at the range, probably at Quantico, Virginia, and using the famous Thompson sub-machine gun, probably the 50-round drum magazine version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Academy#History]
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Watched The Cranes Are Flying (1957) for the first time last night and still thinking about the astonishing cinematography. How did they do this shot? pic.twitter.com/RZfdJpqXIw
Dan Hodges seems to have forgotten (assuming that he ever knew) that, in the Soviet Union, in Stalin’s day and even afterward, ordinary criminals were often treated better than “politicals”.
In any case, the “police state” aspect in question is not Hodges’ “early release” red herring but the incarceration of people for minor disorder, or for tweeting comments etc.
The present UK situation is similar (don’t forget Starmer’s extreme pseudo-socialist ideological background): the real criminals are being released after having served only 40% —with other measures in place, as little as 20%— of their headline sentences, but —by any other name— political, or treated as political, prisoners are being swiftly incarcerated, and are being more harshly sentenced as well.
Incidentally, not only those convicted following the recent protests and/or “riots” (nb. I myself do not consider saying “boo!” to a police riot squad operative, pushing at his plastic shield, looting a sausage-roll shop, or even overturning the odd police car, a “riot” nor indeed a “political protest” as such).
A while ago, I read that a young man had served his entire headline sentence (6 years, I think), having been convicted on one of those trumped-up bs pseudo-“terrorism” charges the UK police and Clown Prosecution Service seem to love today (they often involve an accusation that the accused shared some or another “terrorist” material online, and at the same time owned completely lawful objects such as copies of Mein Kampf or a picture of Hitler; random pieces of circumstantial “evidence” put in to bamboozle a typical low-IQ rubber-stamp “British” jury).
More broadly, the lack of real knowledge of history is widespread now. As G.K. Chesterton said, he feared the uneducated less than he feared the badly-educated.
The “Chaser”, Jenny Ryan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Ryan], fluffed the question “which of these three was first to be named as Time magazine Man of the Year in 1923?“, the three being Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin.
I thought Mussolini (because of the October 1922 March on Rome, after which Mussolini became Prime Minister), and that turned out to be the correct answer. However, it occurred to me that there was at least a possibility that the correct answer would be Hitler (because of the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923).
However, Jenny Ryan, “the Vixen”, thought that Stalin was the right answer, afterwards commenting that she had “thought that Stalin was a much bigger figure back then“, thus showing ignorance of the history of all three countries concerned (Stalin’s more or less supreme power in the Soviet Union only dated from about 1928, though it increased from 1924; in 1923, Lenin was still alive, and the leadership still somewhat collegial). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#1924%E2%80%931927:_Succeeding_Lenin.
“The Vixen” later made another mistake on the same show, in failing to choose Offa as the answer to a question on Anglo-Saxon history; she chose “Cnut” (Canute), but he was not even an Anglo-Saxon king (though admittedly a king during the Anglo-Saxon period). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa_of_Mercia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut.
That’s the problem with such quiz shows, esp. The Chase. The “Chasers” and others have memorized lists, and (some) facts, but generally have no real in-depth background. I have noticed that with other Chasers, such as “The Beast”, Mark Labett.
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing“, especially in political journalism.
Au contraire. Starmer and his pack (Yvette Cooper etc) do care about free speech— about shutting it down, that is.
This government response to a letter from over 500 academics concerned about the repeal of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act is disappointingly partisan and ill-informed. https://t.co/ingyVTTbaWpic.twitter.com/9GqW8udVrO
In the end, though, the Starmer-Labour government, for all its “massive majority” triumphalism, only got the votes of 4 people out of every 20 (eligible), 4 out of every 12 people (that voted). Quite a number of even the voters that voted Labour only did so to make sure that the Conservative Party lost the election.
The real support for Labour is about 10% of the population. The real support for the attack on free speech etc is even smaller, only a few percent of the whole population.
Starmer and Labour have no legitimate mandate.
Israeli media is scrambling to remove the “Hamas beat me” references 💨 Screenshots and the internet archive are forever 🥲 pic.twitter.com/u0Cx5LKzlK
The “British” mass media is utterly infested, of course. The UK msm routinely parrots Israeli and UK Jewish/Zionist lobby propaganda.
As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader.
The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be covered—no hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law. pic.twitter.com/GmqupXlJms
Being one of these pretend Deputy Mayors has to be the best jobs in Britain.
A total doddle, spending your time going on jollies, taking home six figure. Truly the modern aristocracy. Don’t pretend you aren’t jealous. https://t.co/C3lrODx1mB
“Storming a plane, arresting someone, & sentencing them to prison for 20months…For being ‘among a group of people’ & ‘throwing a single item’… Then Police making a social media boast video, complete with music, about it (while turning comments off). http://What.On.Earth ?! Did I fall asleep & wake up in China or something.
Meanwhile… A) You can literally be filmed (allegedly) battering police officers in an airport & be released on bail to do press conferences etc, whilst still weeks later remaining uncharged. B) You can sexually assault children in the sea and go without even being described in the press. Tho people are supposed to be ‘helping look for you’. C) You can be a convicted child rapist and avoid jail if you break your license terms ‘because there is no space’.
This country is becoming a complete basket case. Shame on anyone who celebrates this situation.”
I agree.
The police and Clown Prosecution Service love the “performative” stuff such as “storming” a plane to arrest someone (rather than waiting until the passengers disembark and go through immigration in the normal way, then quietly detaining the suspect).
It’s all part of the Starmer-Labour poundland police state and TV/Press show for the masses. Pretending that throwing a plastic bollard or a wheelie bin is “terrorism” etc.
A Muslim guy hit a waitress in the face with a plate in Nando's in front of his wife and child. What a wonderful example of an integrated community. The police have done nothing because they couldn't find evidence of right-wing opinions. https://t.co/lp20EubGjr
— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) August 23, 2024
Import them, and you also import their behavioural patterns.
Didn’t have this on my 2024 bingo card, but here we go…
Chris Cuomo actually speaks the truth, exposes Democrats/Republican Uniparty swamp. 👏 pic.twitter.com/deE7HhrhnE
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 23, 2024
If you are struggling to put food on the table, take comfort in knowing over the last two years we’ve given Ukraine $2.3 trillion.
— Kamala Harris Press Release (Parody) (@joebldenpress) August 18, 2024
If ever you needed confirmation that Lily Allen is a truly awful human being it’s her getting rid of her dog because her own stupidity meant she left passports in a place that the dog could get to them https://t.co/97M5QPM5iM
I know (and want to know) little about Lily Allen, but everything that I have heard or read about her makes me despise her.
*MUST LISTEN* Lily Allen adopts puppy from a shelter. Creates an insta for the puppy to get likes. Leaves passports within puppies reach, when puppy chews the passports she returns puppy to the shelter, then laughs about it on a podcast whilst discussing getting a new puppy. pic.twitter.com/wa3Kkg9FTp
Let us hope that something unpleasant happens to Lily Allen.
I shall be hoping that bad luck strikes her.
cosplay council estate accent ✅ blamed her kids for cancelling a tour ✅ evicted a family in time for Xmas ✅ not-so-secret-anymore Tory doner ✅ and now she mistreats animals too ✅
is there a worse female celebrity anywhere on earth?
That whole area of complex-sounding but meaningless bs is its own “industry” of nothingness now. It has ballooned over the past half-century, mostly in quiet corners of academia and the civil service. People may call me “biased”, but I should like to bet that much of it (if not all) started with “the usual suspects” (((them))). (cf. Freudian psychoanalysis).
Talking point
“Them”…
Condemned out of their own mouths.
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Keir Starmer’s failure to protect public safety while targeting social media critics is disgraceful, especially given his long tenure as a prosecutor. His problem is he’s a prosecutor trying to play PM with a lock-'em-up attitude, betraying public trust.
Who would have thought it? Still, no doubt (in the tiny little minds of Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and ludicrous “lord chancellor” Shabana Mahmood) that real criminals doing real crime is the better option, as compared to middle-aged housewives and others being released and then making socio-political remarks on Facebook or Twitter.
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‼️ Brian May documentary shows Government and its agencies are letting everyone down on bTB
Government departments are not fit for purpose and need a complete overhaul to end misinformation and confusion about bovine TB crisis for farmers
#Panorama skewering the government on #immigration numbers, showing that the govt encouraged care workers & students to come to the U.K. with their dependents. The numbers are absurd. Add that to small boats, Afghans & Syrians & you have a disaster. pic.twitter.com/oT2qQvANEQ
Trump, today, now leads Biden by an average 1.7 in national polls & 4.7 in the key battleground states. Reboot my piece: why Trump is stronger than in 2016 https://t.co/yfG6h66bgr
Budanov is a legitimate target for Russian troops , said FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. pic.twitter.com/NCczVykMnK
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
All high-ranking members of the Kiev regime are legitimate targets, most of all Zelensky himself, and Danilov.
Jordanian attempt to attack the Israeli embassy
Last night, hundreds of Jordanians once again gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman and, according to the media, they were planning to attack the embassy, but the security forces dispersed them with tear gas. pic.twitter.com/rMiQCGTJKp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
Israeli embassies worldwide are not normal diplomatic buildings but centres for every kind of subversion and snooping, even compared to some others which mix diplomacy with an illegitimate amount of espionage and other activity.
London court postpones Assange's extradition to the US
Julian Assange has been granted a reprieve in his fight against extradition to America. London's Supreme Court has ruled that the WikiLeaks founder can take his case to an appeal hearing if the UK and US fail to meet certain… pic.twitter.com/axITft07dc
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
“London court postpones Assange’s extradition to the US Julian Assange has been granted a reprieve in his fight against extradition to America.
London’s Supreme Court has ruled that the WikiLeaks founder can take his case to an appeal hearing if the UK and US fail to meet certain conditions, The Guardian writes.
The court demands that the United States allow Assange to invoke the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech. They must also ensure that his Australian citizenship will not affect the proceedings, and that the death penalty will not be taken against the whistleblower, the publication explains.
If the court does not receive such guarantees by April 16, the defense will be able to appeal. However, even if assurances are provided, the parties will be able to file a motion before a final decision is made to file an appeal, the article emphasizes. If Assange is denied permission to appeal, he could be sent to the United States within days to face espionage charges.
His lawyers insist that the charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of secret and diplomatic documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are politically motivated and the extradition request is illegal.“
A purely political and malicious attempt to silence a truthteller. On a smaller stage, the same happened to me, most recently in 2023-2014.
This now seriously ill man is being tortured before our eyes by a system both sides of the Atlantic that is deeply sick and satanically evil. pic.twitter.com/J7jjwvUMz9
The Tories have pledged to keep the state pension triple lock in place if they win the next election – 72% of Britons think the triple lock should remain in place (including a majority across all generations)https://t.co/Cy60U7qpqgpic.twitter.com/g4WuDEXnLg
NEW. A judge granted asylum to chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi despite concluding he had told a "litany of lies" about his life (The Times). As I wrote at the time, we are being led by foolshttps://t.co/Jbqi7cF4cd
At what point does that sort of thing stop being foolishness (or idiocy) and start to become a form of deliberate treason?
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl made an interesting statement:
“The entire political system in large European countries like France and Germany has collapsed. The one who destroyed the political landscape was French President Emmanuel Macron.” pic.twitter.com/oPtimDlSjH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
McGregor believes that the Ukrainian president, because he has no solution on the battlefield, is ready to take desperately dangerous steps in order to confront Russia in some way. pic.twitter.com/PM0vaNYuvW
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
That seems to be a reference to American ex-officer Macgregor: see
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Well, this week an easy victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, whereas I managed 7/10, and might have scored 9/10 had I been able to bring to mind the answers to questions 1 and 7 (which I basically knew). The only question on which I had no idea at all was no. 3.
After languishing in the world’s smallest orca tank for 53 years, Lolita the orca died at @MiamiSeaquarium just before her impending transfer to a seaside sanctuary and the possible reunion with her mother. pic.twitter.com/PHFnnpKv9S
We are so deeply saddened by the heartbreaking news that the world's loneliest orca, Lolita, has died in captivity 53 years after she was captured from her home. A plan was underway to return her to the ocean. However, it was too little too late for Lolita, who was denied her… pic.twitter.com/gdIqEoHMHJ
Slava! All the same, that central westward thrust from Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk) to Vinnitsa looks to me unnecessary and possibly counterproductive.
Russia needs to secure all territory east of the Dnieper, and also the coastal littoral of the Black Sea (including Odessa) but, above all, Kiev itself. Confine the Zelensky regime to a rump inland “state” based on Lvov.
The map shows, supposedly, something akin to the original scheme, but it probably is still the overall strategy.
The Bürgerbräukeller, Munich, in or about 1923, shown above presumably before rather than after the “Beer Hall Putsch” (8-9 November 1923 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch).
The photo shows a meeting of the NSDAP. All those shown in the photo were members or supporters of the NSDAP.
What interests me is that, at that time, the NSDAP was a relatively minor party even in its hub, Bavaria (in early 1923, the national membership was about 6,000, and by the Autumn of 1923 about 20,000).
In May 1924, i.e. after the failure of the “Beer Hall Putsch” (aka “Munich Putsch” or “Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch), the NSDAP (banned, so using the name “National Socialist Freedom Movement”) scored only 6.5% in the federal (national) elections, and only 3% in December 1924.
In 1923-1924, the NSDAP had the sort of minor public support that, in the UK of the 21st Century, UKIP was enjoying about a decade ago, and that the BNP had about 15 years ago.
All the same, look at that photograph of the NSDAP meeting in 1923. Many hundreds of people, at the least. All looking decently-dressed.
One cannot but help compare that to the tiny so-called “far-right” (national and social-national) parties of today’s Britain.
The main difference politically between Germany in 1923 and Britain in 2023 is, that in 1923 Germany, there were large numbers of Germans of all social and income groups who supported the idea of national renewal. The NSDAP may only have had a few thousand or tens of thousands of members, but other volkisch parties and groups, such as, and primarily, the Stahlhelm, had the same or more, in some cases hundreds of thousands: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Stahlhelm,_Bund_der_Frontsoldaten.
Look now at Britain in 2023. The degenerate strata of higher-income and high-social-status groups do not, generally, support national renewal, but are (metaphorically) signed up to the trends which are destroying our society (and now destroying it quite rapidly).
What that means is that, should social-nationalism, by a political miracle (which I do not rule out) take power in this country, it will have to start its mission by removing surgically, and by drastic surgery, large sections of degenerate society, at all income and social-status levels.
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Politics Explained: Another Starmer retreat from a policy that made him Labour leader https://t.co/rOBz2XiUHS
Ha ha! “Councillor Birgit Miller”. What a total mug. Typical “Jack Monroe” supporter (middle-aged, apparently fairly affluent, and unable to distinguish “grifting” deception and pointless tweeting from genuine campaigning).
As for the other mugs mentioned in the tweet, apart from Jewish TV cook Nigella Lawson, we have “Charron Pugsley-Hill, artist and hypnotherapist“, whose full Twitter profile says “Artist/Environmentalist Paintings of Nature/flower Paintings prints for sale. Solution Focused psychologist and hypnotherapist. Happier world together.” Another pretty typical “Jack Monroe” supporter-mug. Oh, and I have just seen that she is a facemask loonie as well. At least she is apparently an animal-lover.
I actually saw two facemask loonies today, one a supermarket cashier, the other a customer at the same place.
Maybe reality is seeping in. Anything even slightly looking like defeat for Russia in the Ukraine battlefield space might trigger a nuclear attack on the West. Don’t go there.
the US stops funding, then Ukraine will disappear in a couple of weeks
Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson said that the Ukrainian army will not be able to continue military operations without the support of NATO
Exactly. That has been the case for at least a year now.
Ukraine must mobilize 10 thousand people every month to at least hold the front, – Ukrainian Military Pages
“Only in order to compensate for the losses in the dead and wounded, as well as to replace the military, dismissed from service for health reasons, age and family… pic.twitter.com/bChe3HNFP2
“A primary school worker and her boyfriend encouraged a two-year-old to kill badgers and foxes during a barbaric family day out, a court heard.
Paris Jade Carding, 28, of Fawley Grove, Wythenshawe, appeared in 32 video clips showing ‘shocking and horrendous’ incidents of animal cruelty.”
Her boyfriend, Grant Leigh Jnr, 30, of the same address, was also found guilty, reports Manchester Evening News.
“Inquiries revealed she had been joined on the barbaric family expedition by her boyfriend and his ex-huntsman father, Grant Leigh Snr, 52, of Marler Road in Hyde, Tameside.”
I believe that a 6-month maximum still applies unless the dogs were injured (which raises the maximum to 5 years, the crimes having happened before 2021).
I would not be surprised if the bitch featured in the report gets off lightly because of the mere fact that she has children (who may well grow up to be as bad as the rest of the “family”).
The courts cannot at present punish this sort of depraved and scarcely-human trash with sufficient severity. The prospect of being sentenced soon does not seem to have wiped the smirk off the evil woman defendant’s face…
I think that the newspaper should have published the exact addresses of the defendants in this case.
The above-reported-on is a very nasty series of crimes despite the fact that the government itself, in the past decade, has wrongfully killed untold thousands of badgers in order to placate the farming lobby.
I am not at all a “flogger and hanger” but the misplaced leniency shown in that report is just a bad joke. Where is the justice for the victim? I bet that someone who, for example, said something mildly “anti-Semitic”, would get a far heavier sentence (which, after all, would hardly be difficult).
Incidentally, the Daily Mail really ought to employ competent sub-editors, or at least a few literate reporters (I note that the semi-literate scribbler who penned the above report is one “Danyal Hussain”, which may explain the poor English).
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The oligarchy's vision for humanity in the new millennium – a constantly monitored and managed bio-hazard. It is the most base and broken vision ever manifest.
Without his unmerited titles and monies, “Prince” Harry would be merely a mildly mentally-disturbed nobody. He has nothing useful to say (let alone to do). Shut up.
Other pollsters are broadly in the same area at present, with a slight decrease in the Labour lead over the past couple of weeks.
It is fairly clear to me that, if the misnamed Conservative Party can ditch “Boris”, and if they can then find someone not immediately obviously an idiot to replace him, the two main System parties will be near parity before very long; that suits Con rather than Lab in terms of potential Westminster seats.
Recent local council by-elections continue to show a decrease in the Labour vote-share (with a few exceptions) even where Labour has won the seat in question.
The British (especially English) dilemma remains: if, as voter, you dislike, distrust or despise both main System parties, where do you go? What can you do?
My own political stance is rather different, both in terms of orientation and strategy. I cannot see a way forward as things stand. There has to be a breakdown of both the political system and the economy before a real social-national movement can arise.
Hard to see where Starmer-Labour has any edge over the Cons. Its policies remain similar to those of the Cons, and apart from a sluggish feel to Lab under Starmer, there is the perception, surely correct, that Labour has become a would-be technocratic or “managerial” “we can run workhouses better” party, which I would suggest is not immediately attractive to most voters.
Looking at the near-meltdown of the “Conservatives” (Liz Truss as Foreign Secretary! Nadine Dorries actually in Cabinet! etc) in recent months —indeed, over the past 2 years—, it is amazing that Labour and Starmer are not higher in the polls than they are.
Were a new Con Party leader to come in and sweep away the Truss, Dorries, Priti Patel (etc) detritus, Labour would be dead in the water (again). Corbyn was “Marmite” to many, but Labour was doing better under Corbyn in real elections than it has done under Starmer, so far at least.
Starmer’s trump card, he thinks, is managerial efficiency, and that is certainly the Cons’ weak suit, but Starmer and Labour may find that that is not quite enough. Also, I should imagine that the voters, even if unaware of the Labour Friends of Israel aspect, look at Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc, and see (rightly, in my estimation) would-be tyrants, full of political correctness and hatred for free speech.
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And coincidentally the COVID measures have massively increased instances of 'mental disorders'…🤔
Little Matt Hancock, once “health tsar”, now totally washed-up and irrelevant, wishes the Prince of Wales “recovery” from an “illness” of which said notable would be completely unaware were it not for a “test”!
This whole “Covid” thing, whether you call it “panicdemic”, “scamdemic” or whatever, has just become utterly ludicrous. I think that the public perception of that (albeit that it took the public 2 years to wake up to it) is behind the swift abandonment of restrictions such as the facemask nonsense.
“Boris” may be an idiot, but he has a general cunning re. the public mood. He needs a boost, and getting rid of the restrictions will give him one, even if not as much of a boost as he needs.
As the narrative is being rolled back, they're all testing positive for the DEADLY VIRUS with no symptoms. https://t.co/qb3IUTWFrR
Incidentally, I went to Waitrose about 5 days ago. Not very crowded (early evening). As I entered the store, I saw a number of people, all at least 80, all wearing facemasks. About 6-8 of them. My heart sank that the sheep had still not awoken from the brainwashing. However, on going further into Waitrose, I saw that almost all the remaining shoppers (of all ages) were not still wearing the useless bits of cloth or plastic. Thank God for that.
Police move in to remove peaceful demonstrators outside the New Zealand parliament.
It is thought the Ardern regime was concerned scenes like Ottawa may be repeated there and they took brutal action to suppress this. pic.twitter.com/5AOQsK7s2F
Russia must take Eastern Ukraine, Kiev, and the Black Sea littoral soon, or lose the golden moment. Waiting a few weeks might or might not be OK. Waiting a year would be disastrous. The New World Order will by then have built up Ukraine into, if not a NATO state (NATO rules disallow a country to join if its territory is partly-occupied), then a quasi-NATO ZOG puppet state.
A lot depends on weather, as with Barbarossa in 1941. If the mud gets worse, it might impede even the armoured vehicles of 2022, and the mud will not go until the late spring, or summer.
Everything favours the Russian forces…so far. Russia’s air power is overwhelming, its armour also very strong. Russia also has superiority in the numbers, equipment, and training of its ground troops.
A simultaneous seizure of the whole east of Ukraine, of Odessa (with Black Sea coast and the littoral stretching a few miles beyond that coast), and of Kiev, would mean that all major cities of Ukraine except Lvov would be in Russian hands. The capture of Kiev would decapitate the regime of the Jewish clown now posing as President, and there would be no immediate need to seize the half to two-thirds of Ukraine west of the Dnieper and inland.
Admittedly, that might leave considerable anti-Russia forces in the west of Ukraine, and a rump government based on Lvov. However, that rump government would have few sources of funding, be unable to import or export by sea, and would have limited credibility. Russian air power would be able to eliminate any large concentrations of armour left, and the air force of Ukraine is very weak; it would probably by then have more or less ceased to exist.
It is tragic that two peoples closely bound together for so long (over a thousand years) should battle in this way, but Russia has little choice now. For the sake of the whole civilian population of Ukraine, it must strike both swiftly and overwhelmingly. A Blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy, if you like.
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While driving, I listened to BBC Radio 4 PM (old and bad habits die hard). Liz Truss in Moscow. Bloody hell! What an embarrassment this whole Cabinet is! The presenter said that Liz Truss was “talking tough” to the Russians… Talk about a hollow threat! Little Liz Truss, “talking tough” but with literally nothing to back her up.
The British Army, supposedly about 70,000 strong, but (if what I read is correct) with only about 11,000 active front-line troops altogether. Around Ukraine alone, Russia is said to have massed over 100,000.
It would have been better for Liz Truss to have said nothing than to have uttered, as she did, scarcely-veiled threats, when the Russians know that she has nothing in her arsenal with which to speak louder.
Talking about useless people, I also heard Cressida Dick yapping about how she is going to root out police personnel engaged in “racist, homophobic or misogynistic” language. How about the police actually doing their main job instead of doing the bidding of malicious Jew-Zionist agitators such as those in the tiny group of troublemakers called “Campaign Against Anti-Semitism”?
[Cressida Dick, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, talking at New Scotland Yard with Gideon Falter, “Chief Executive” of the tiny “Campaign Against Antisemitism” group]
The police seem all too ready to play the role of “poundland KGB”. There have been thousands of recent examples of police exceeding their powers, and going well beyond what the law actually says (repressive as it anyway now is). There again, Cressida Dick is a Common Purpose drone, and their arrogant motto is “leading beyond authority“, a major reason why idiots like Mizz Dick have been promoted beyond their competence, and why public administration is now beginning to break down.
Meanwhile, I notice that, in Winchester, a statue has now been unveiled to honour a mediaeval Jewish moneylender woman! Comment is superfluous…
It can only be a matter of time before Odessa is taken.
Dame Cressida Dick says it is "quite clear" London mayor Sadiq Khan "no longer has sufficient confidence" in her leadership of the Metropolitan Policehttps://t.co/xOlNqX2ggapic.twitter.com/mIgWgJKJCw
This presser has not gone well. Sergey Lavrov has just briskly walked off, leaving @trussliz on her own at the podium. He said talking to her was ‘like talking to a deaf person’ & said what Russia does in its own territory is ‘not her business.’ She’s now got lunch with him… pic.twitter.com/7w3xORhUdw
So Lavrov, Foreign Minister of a country 72x the size of the UK, with several times the population, and armed forces about 20x as numerous and powerful, got bored listening to the shrill grandstanding of Liz Truss, who carries no weight whatsoever, either militarily, politically, or intellectually. For the UK, this is embarrassingly poor.
Lavrov: “Do you recognize the sovereignty of Russia over the Rostov and Voronezh regions?”
Truss: “Great Britain will never recognize Russian sovereignty over these regions,”
UK Ambassador to Russia then explained to #Truss both are Russian regions.
Sad news, though not unexpected. I used to use Flybe sometimes, in those long ago days before 2010 when I actually used to go places…I have flown Flybe (or partner airlines) out of its Exeter base, as well as to/from Southampton, Brest (Finistere), Newcastle, Norwich, Doncaster, Manchester, as well as a few other destinations. Quite good. Hard to see how Southampton and Exeter airports will be able to continue if, as reported, Flybe provided up to 95% of the throughput (BBC says 90% for Southampton and 80% for Exeter). Journeys such as Exeter to Newcastle or Norwich are hell by car, even at 100+ mph. I think that the Newcastle route, taken a couple of times, took about 40 mins actually in the air. Pretty good. Car? About 5-6 hours, depending on M5/M6 (etc) traffic.
Bad news for those employed too, both at Flybe and in other connected or supplying organizations. It may be, acc. to reports, that BA, or the appalling (one hears) Ryanair, may take over some routes, so all may not be lost.
Coronavirus
So far, the public “panic” is muted in the UK. There is a groundswell of unease, though. Over the past 2 days, I have noticed that the (only) local supermarket, a Waitrose, has run out of (nearly £20 a jar) Mauka honey, the cheaper and larger-pack loo paper, antiseptic handwash etc. Also, far fewer than usual number of shoppers.
The response of Boris-idiot’s government to the “Corvid-19” situation has been feeble. As I noted here a few days ago, my Australian niece (early 20s) returned a week or so ago from the (in the event, largely-cancelled) Venice carnival to a Heathrow Airport sans any checks or questioning. When I visited Macau from Hong Kong in 2006, the bird flu was around and my almost deserted return hydrofoil docked in Hong Kong to a reception of white-garbed and masked medical personnel, who pointed a kind of thermometer gun as I and the few other passengers passed by. Notices warned that anyone could be taken into quarantine if their body temperature was “too high”. Alarming.
I have no confidence in the ability of the NHS to handle a large-scale epidemic. Its administration is not very efficient, the UK has fewer beds per 1,000 population than any other “advanced” state —far fewer than France, for example— and its staff and facilities have been hit by years of “austerity” cuts and government mismanagement.
For no particular reason, The Black Bear:
Despite being part-Scottish somewhere in the mists of time (from my surname, which is believed to be Franco-Scottish in origin…a former girlfriend once visited a chateau in Normandy owned since it was built, hundreds of years ago, by a Templar-connected family called de Millard), I have never actually visited Scotland. Maybe some day.
If any portion of this is because of the influence of Boris-idiot’s fiancee, then I salute her.
For far too long, the organized farming lobby has had a disproportionate influence in Westminster. The only industry to be still subsidized to the hilt. Ecologically, generally very negative. I must blog about all that again soon.
Judicial leniency
The woman in the report below should have been imprisoned. Too many use the fact that they have popped out a couple of children as a reason for not getting a well-merited prison term, even in cases (as here) where the woman in question was cruel as well as neglectful.
Why was the younger one “spared jail”? An airline captain on duty attacked, kicked, struck, blood drawn…What do you have to do in England today to be given a custodial sentence? (say something about the behaviour of Jews, probably…). As for the District Judge finding that the older woman was acting in “self-defence”, that is just a joke. Idiotic woman (I mean the “judge”). Finally, why are these semi-savages in the UK or any part of Europe?
When I still had a Twitter account, I did a series of tweets re. “Save the Children” and also the fake charity called the “Jo Cox Foundation”. The former paid and still pays its top few people hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. No-oneexpects the heads of such a charity to work for nothing, but the largesse extended to the few at the top has a degree of obscenity about it, especially when contrasted with the TV ads showing starving children etc.
The sex pest and near (if not actual) rapist, Brendan Cox (husband of the assassinated virtue-signalling MP, Jo Cox), was paid, certainly by average standards, a huge salary and very generous expenses to be one of the main executives. That despite a very mediocre academic and work background.
He was finally brought down by sexual assault claims which, eventually, had to be admitted. I doubt whether his basic attitude has changed much. He now still is involved in some way with the Jo Cox “charity”.
I discovered, about 3 years ago, that the Jo Cox “charity” had officially-published aims and purposes which were ludicrously wide— they could mean almost anything, and —more significantly– purported to allow the “charity” to do anything, pretty much. I also discovered that the “Jo Cox Foundation” had never filed accounts. It has now, and its documents have been amended to fit within UK charities legislation:
The disgraced expenses cheat and former Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is now “Chair” of “Jo Cox Foundation”, which apparently spent about £400,000 last year, despite having an income from donations and “trading” of only £300,000. I should get an accountant like that myself!
I have to say that the whole set-up seems very dodgy to me, even now. I do not think that the whole Jo Cox/Brendan Cox story has been uncovered; it certainly has not been told.
