How can you support Israel? How can you sleep at night knowing this is what Palestinian go through? How are you silent about it and not comfortable sharing when its the least you can do? #GazzaUnderAttack#freepalastinepic.twitter.com/wQc0aFn9ly
Meanwhile “our” MPs in the UK (almost all bought by the Jewish/Israel lobby) yap about “holocaust” “denial”, and hate the idea of any questioning of the largely-faked WW2 “holocaust” farrago…
Israel loves all that. It provides wonderful cover for the Israeli state.
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Largely thanks to Russell Pasha , who ( as Muggeridge described in Vol 1 of his autobiography) was appalled by marijuana’s effects in Egypt. The League of Nations of Nations then listed it as dangerous. https://t.co/6sFMOVdMzh
And yet the first steps toward making international trafficking of marijuana illegal were taken at the League of Nations' 1925 Opium Convention, on the urging of Egypt. https://t.co/T0LoH7I4DS
Though I tend instinctively to be against at least excessive regulation and prohibition, the fact is that marijuana has had very deleterious effects on a number of modern and earlier societies.
@cinziaspina77 I know of no instance of anyone becoming pemanently mentally ill following the consumption of doughnuts, or of them committing severe acts of violence afterwards. If this becomes widespread, then perhaps a law prohibitng possession of doughnuts *would* make sense. https://t.co/WsNCgkLNdv
Every now and then, I experience what might be called a “Victor Meldrew” feeling, meaning a feeling (actually knowing) that, increasingly, nothing in the UK works as it should, or indeed at all. Meaning commercial companies, NHS, local and central government, police, the legal system…you name it…
I never saw the One Foot in the Grave TV series, and was only told of it long after it finished. Now I am wondering whether it might not have been prophetic as much as characteristic…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Foot_in_the_Grave].
Look at our politics. A part-Jew chancer and incompetent as (posing as) Prime Minister, and a colourless careerist nobody (and puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby) posing as Leader of the Opposition, a Opposition that does not oppose. I saw this about Starmer:
John Kay broke stories. Keir Starmer broke him. Why this story matters for the Labour Party now. My column in the @EveningStandard today.https://t.co/DRiUsr0Nlw
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Heartbreaking scenes from Gaza shows a Palestinian man sobs after Israeli airstrikes killed his 4 children. He still can't believe that he lost them.“ 4 children have gone” he said.
Meanwhile, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme allowed the Chief Pharisee to drone on this morning, on its Thought for the Day slot, about the latest upcoming Jewish supremacist religious festival. The Chief Pharisee talked about “our nation”, referring to the UK, when he was born in South Africa and spent most of his life in Israel! Talk about “cultural appropriation”! I call it theft. Simply that. Theft. Theft of a nation. Theft of a culture.
One of the most striking things about the above clip is the number of typical Jewish facial types that can be seen. Straight from the pages of Der Sturmer, circa 1935. “Gene types”, if you like.
Heute wurde als Zeichen der Solidarität mit #Israel die israelische Flagge am Dach des Bundeskanzleramtes gehisst. Die terroristischen Angriffe auf Israel sind auf das Schärfste zu verurteilen! Gemeinsam stehen wir an der Seite Israels. pic.twitter.com/FR42K3iA4z
Austria, a craven little nation now entirely in the pocket of NWO, the Jews and Israel. “Echt-ZOG”. The Austrian Chancellor is now Sebastian Kurz, a university drop-out, finance-capitalist puppet and globalist.
He’s serious! Actually, it did occur to me some time ago that Blair might try to head Labour again, and it also occurred to me that that might be one reason why he did not enter the House of Lords (now a bad joke anyway, like the Commons).
I doubt that Blair would make the Labour Party more electable, but he could scarcely do worse than Starmer, I suppose. Both are puppets of NWO and Israel, so no difference there.
UPDATE: At least 31 schools attended by 24,000 children and a health facility in Gaza have been damaged by Israeli air raids, according to Save the Children.
If only the Arabs had not been not so disunited and corrupt after (and before) 1956. They might have eliminated Israel or subdued it before it became the evil monster that it now is— armed to the teeth, and possessing nuclear, biological and other weapons of mass destruction. Before, also, it had managed to corrupt the political leaders of so many nations.
A blow for her lawyers too: do I detect the sound of a mobility scooter being revved up for the trip back to Eilat?
I have blogged rather extensively in the past few years about “no win- no fee” solicitor, “Mark Lewis Lawyer” (mostly “no win”: when he fled to Israel in late 2018 after having been found guilty by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority of abusing people online, his sole assets were described as being some cheap clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and…a mobility scooter!).
Lewis has been plotting against me (with other Zionist Jews) for years; since at least 2012 (see my old blog posts below for details).
In responding to the grandeur of the stars, the only answer is awe.
Where will people turn when the time comes?
I caught the last 5-10 mins of Radio 4 Today Programme. Some fellow whose voice betrayed his smug certainty of knowing “the truth”…That person managed to get away with several meaningless statements such as “populism is Right Wing” (“rightwing” stopped being a useful descriptor decades if not centuries ago), finishing up with the assertion that “populists” were trying to “latch on to anti-lockdown protests” but that would not help the “populists” because it put them in the same place as “the nutters who think that the virus is caused by 5G“.
Well, I don’t think that many imagine that “the virus” is or was caused by 5G, though there seems to be at least some evidence that 5G has deleterious health effects. After all, the public were told for decades that high-tension power lines caused no health problems. Now?
Not understanding why something happens is not the same as something not happening.
Moving back to “populism”, I think that it is true that mere populism is usually short-lived, built as it is on the shifting sands of public opinion. Without ideological structure, a populist protest movement is a jellybag and cannot create anything lasting. I noted that in previous blog posts about the EDL and the “Football Lads’ Alliance”: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/10/09/football-lads-alliance-march/
The sine qua non is ideology. After that, structure and organization. Numbers come later.
In the UK, stormy times lie ahead. The necessity is for an ideologically-sound advance guard, leading a tightly-controlled party. Once that exists, numbers will come and the people will respond, in the right external circumstances.
What group or tendency opposes the existing System in the UK? Not the self-describing “Left”, meaning the ragbag of Jews, other anti-whites, pseudo-socialists, “refugees welcome” dimwits, and “antifascists” (etc). They, indeed, are more loyal to the System even than “normie” “conservatives”! You only have to look at their favourite echo-chamber, Twitter. They want stricter “lockdown” “rules”, more censorship, arrests of dissidents (sometimes even those who themselves are self-describing “Left”-oriented). They support the “rights” of transnational exploitative companies such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and mostly want to “deplatform” those of whose views they disapprove (if they cannot have them arrested or attacked), while themselves retaining the Twitter accounts which are their main focus in life.
The above types are almost invariably in the pocket, in effect, of the Jewish lobby, despite the fact that that lobby despises them. You only have to look at Corbyn, McDonnell and other Labour Party idiots. They were still singing the praises of the Jews, and supporting the “holocaust” farrago, even as the Zionists toppled them and stamped on them! Political masochism.
The weakness of the pseudo-socialists (etc) is made manifest when they want to attack, eg social-nationalists. They appeal to authority in the shape of the officials of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or the police. Just like the Jewish lobby, in fact…
The strength or, rather, weakness of the self-describing “Left” was exposed in the 2019 General Election. Weak as weak could be.
The self-describing “Left” has pretty much given up on trying to create a better society or a “revolution”. Its main aim now is negative: to “defeat” those it opposes by having them “deplatformed” or, in their wildest dreams, arrested by the System police and convicted eventually of some so-called “hate crime”. The obvious example is that of Alison Chabloz (convicted of satirizing “holocaust” fakery in song), but there are several others.
[Alison Chabloz]
There is every chance that, if a credible social-national party can emerge and survive for a while, circumstances and events might propel it to power far faster than most imagine. There is no real opposition to that except the System itself; the other would-be contenders (the pseudo-socialists etc) are just a wall of noisy squawking on Twitter. They have no power.
COVID and the left’s overreach have accelerated a push for decentralization. While things will be tough for conservative dissidents in the short term, trends have been put into motion which will grant us a bright future! Get whitepilled! THREAD: pic.twitter.com/nvO6azQnwO
Goodnight adults, everywhere, and please check that you are still following me in the morning, because someone still seems to be trying to decide this for you. My view is that you should make the decision whether to follow me or not, , rather than some unseen hand on the switch.
Even more or less mainstream journalists such as Peter Hitchens are now being shadowbanned, censored, even deplatformed. First they came for the…”Nazis”?...
You can see what is happening. The international conspiracy first censored and “deplatformed” social-national people such as me (the Jews had me chucked off Twitter in 2018), and anything likely to make people think twice about whether Hitler was “evil” (hence the banning on YouTube of almost all 1930s or “Third Reich” material).
Then came the turn of the “alt-Right”, such as Katie Hopkins, Tommy Robinson etc; and also those with interesting dissident views. David Icke, for example.
Now, we see that the caravan has moved on. Mainstream journalists are being censored and banned. YouTube even took off, for a while, the channel of talkRadio, a major UK radio station, and I believe that some material is still banned.
This is all in preparation for 2022 and “the Great Reset”.
It is remarkable how *illiberal* ,in the classic sense, the Guardian has become ( as well as being the Warmongers' Gazette ). I fear it shows that the 1960s left only questioned authority when it didn't have any, and was only against war when it wasn't starting wars it liked. https://t.co/4CUBDdUH18
https://t.co/Yvo6t6GLML 'Your opponent has to be granted the freedom to say what he wishes to say, heard courteously and listened to. Governments without serious oppositions are invariably bad governments'.
https://t.co/Yvo6t6GLML This suppression of debate by slandering is disgusting behaviour. It is poisoning the wells. They are saying 'I would rather slander you than argue with you'
https://t.co/Yvo6t6GLML 'All the brakes on on utopian fantasies have gone. There is no safeguard in this country against someone who wants to exercise power on a utopian basis'
https://t.co/Yvo6t6GLML This isn't really the bad bit… when this is over and we are allowed back to a semblance of our former state and we see the desolation that has taken place, what are people going to make of it when the jobs and businesses are not there any more.
That, then, will be the chance for social-national rebirth. Then, we shall be able to say, “we’re back!“
60. Europeans were never asked if they agreed with this agenda or not, for obvious reasons
The only chance for people to be able to defend themselves from this forced demographic replacement is raising awareness online and elsewhere, while it is still possible to do so.
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
57. That last war propaganda is applied since early age to generate a certain conditioning, so that people are unable to objectively criticize the group of people doing this
This group of people is behind efforts to disarm populations that still have gun rights like Americans
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
54. So, to summarize, you are witnessing an attack on European populations in Europe and elsewhere
This attack is referred to with the euphemism "multiculturalism"
The main motivation behind this agenda is a 2000-year-old ethnic/religious conflict between Jews and Europeans
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
51. This propaganda is constantly placed in movies or TV series either explicitly or implicitly
World War 2 movies are the most obvious example, but it is placed everywhere
An entire lifetime of this propaganda has made people unable to look at what's happening objectively pic.twitter.com/61Alq2mDjX
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
48. The average person's understanding of World War 2 has been reduced to "Germans wanted to take over the world and the biggest victims of this were Jews"
Analyzing or criticizing any details from the official story has been conveniently made illegal in several countries. pic.twitter.com/WiEB9ARwwk
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
46. This is deliberate and has been installed through decades of propaganda
This propaganda is key, in that it has made criticism of them extremely politically incorrect
People are fed this propaganda since childhood and criticizing it has been made illegal in several countries
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
39. Regardless if you believe all these things that are happening are deliberate or not, the undeniable fact is that European countries are being flooded with non-European populations with much higher birthrates
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
This is no co-incidence. Look at that map. Look where the dividing line is. Think back to where the Western cabals allowed the Marxist-Leninist control to extend westward: in their plans, to the Rhine, but Sovietism did not get quite that far. Now, with Russia and Eastern Europe resisting, the new plan, in part, is to eliminate at least White European Christendom in the Central and Western parts of Europe.
34. These are simply excuses to flood European countries with large populations of non-European men
This is not exactly a secret agenda either. The founder of the European Union stated in his book Practical Idealism:
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
24. Motivations aside, the fact is that the "multicultural" agenda is a Jewish agenda
This is the very simple explanation to why there is no multicultural agenda in non-Western countries pic.twitter.com/4MWsQ9JFnd
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
22. What are their motivations for doing all this?
Jews have a long history of conflict with the European Christian populations of the countries in which they have lived
Given their history, they believe a fully white Christian country is not an ideal place to live in pic.twitter.com/9FGv8TeMvl
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
Incidentally, observe the “smiling when there is no obvious reason to smile” in the very sinister Barbara Lerner Spectre: a kind of erratic rictus, like a malfunctioning back light. Very much a Jewish characteristic, and often seen on TV interviews.
17. The main thing in common between the people working to multiculturalize Western countries and the people who control Western media is that they are Jewish
It is not a coincidence that the countries becoming multicultural are also countries with significant Jewish populations pic.twitter.com/nSAsvi8kER
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
13. In several countries like Germany or Britain they have made it illegal for people to talk about what is happening by promoting laws to ban "hate speech"
The real purpose of these laws is not to prevent "hate" but to silence anyone who wants to oppose the multicultural agenda
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
14. You will not hear about this explanation in your TV or newspaper
Meanwhile, countries that were historically white will keep becoming more and more "diverse" and "multicultural" until white people are minorities in their own homelands pic.twitter.com/LDr9eCc6xs
— In Memoriam of the Amphibious Wave (@AmphibianMemory) January 10, 2019
10. Logically, they do not call it "ethnic cleansing" or "genocide"
They refer to it using pretty and happy words like:
Imagine living in world where media would spot & decode symbolism of Banks, powerful corporations, elite families, religious groups, micro-states, wealthy NGOs & go after those who actually hold power & influence. Instead of attacking those whose designated a threat by the elite. https://t.co/CryCvfUZdZ
“Capacity to think for one’s self is, however, the real boon. And that always was and always will be the privilege of a minority, once recognised as a natural élite and respected.”
Savitri was a proponent of a synthesis of Hinduism and Nazism, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been sent by Providence, much like an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.[5] She believed Hitler was a sacrifice for humanity which would lead to the end of the Kali Yuga induced by the Jews, who she felt were the powers of evil.[3]
Her writings have influenced neo-Nazism and Nazi occultism,[6] and more contemporaneously, she has influenced the alt-right.[7] Rejecting Judeo-Christianity, she believed in a form of pantheisticmonism; a single cosmos of nature composed of divine energy-matter.[8] Within neo-Nazism, she promoted occultism, ecology,[9] and the New Age movement. She also influenced the Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano. In 1982, Franco Freda published a German translation of her work Gold in the Furnace, and the fourth volume of his annual review, Risguardo (1980–), was devoted to Savitri Devi as the “missionary of Aryan Paganism“.[1]“
“Devi was a pioneer in animal rights activism, and was a vegetarian from a young age and held ecologist views in her works. She wrote The Impeachment of Man in 1959 in India[3] in which she declared her views on animal rights and nature. According to her, human beings do not stand above the animals; but in her ecologist views, humans are rather a part of the ecosystem and should respect all life, including animals and the whole of nature.
She always held radical views on vegetarianism[3] and supported the death penalty for those who did not “respect nature or animals”. She once broke into laboratories and took animals being held there, releasing them from being used in experiments.[citation needed] She believed that vivisection, circuses, slaughter and fur industries among others do not belong in a civilized society.”
“Begun in 1948, completed in 1956, and first published in 1958 in Calcutta, she said it “could be described as a personal answer to the events of 1945 and of the following years.” It is dedicated “To the god-like Individual of our times; the Man against Time; the greatest European of all times; both Sun and Lightning: Adolf Hitler, as a tribute of unfailing love and loyalty, for ever and ever.”[3][5] It opens with quotations from The Bhagavad Gita and Rudolf Hess.” [Wikipedia]
In the face of mounting income insecurity, precarious work, wage theft, and underemployment, Basic Income beats minimum wage. It gives the power to say YES or NO to work of your choice without risking poverty. pic.twitter.com/e7Us0qoTfJ
All of the top firms have predicted huge unemployment from automation, artificial intelligence and robots. The headlines roll in right before our eyes, but our leaders ignore them. We have to build a new economy for ourselves. Let's pass #BasicIncomepic.twitter.com/ggZ9kGjGBq
How does Sweden no longer get any airtime, as we look again they with far less draconian measures are not out of control in deaths per million and with this will have fewer mental health issues and a stronger economy as the year progresses
Claims that lockdown 'worked' are just that. No causal evidence is produced. Antarctica, St Helena, Ascension, Pitcairn and Tristan da Cunha benefited from the same thing that left Australia and NZ as outlyers: geography. None of them had Jacinda Ardern or Dan Andrews. https://t.co/dj7ziQcXjS
Recently, information (secondhand, but thought reliable) about the state of the NHS. Dire. Not “because of COVID”, though made worse by the extra admissions, perhaps. It is just maladministered, and also has attitudinal problems, not universal, that are reducing it to a “Soviet” level in some respects. There is also the effect of mass immigration, which has increased the UK population from about 56 million in the 1960s to about 66 million today. Huge increase, huge extra demand.
Trump and Presidential pardons
Trump has once again been proven a huge disappointment. Had the chance to pardon Snowden, Assange, and especially the social-national prisoners in Federal prisons. Result? A big fat zero.
I started reading Private Eye in 1965, when school heads confiscated it on sight, Smiths refused to stock it and you had to hunt it down in small back street newsagents. It had style and courage and was fun. Now I buy it out of habit and am usually disappointed. DavidOs31814060 https://t.co/cZnIxTx7iL
Private Eye was worth reading, long ago (30+ years ago), though it always had the seeds of its own decadence and destruction within it. Its creators and readers were largely the kind of people who would like Monty Python, those better at poking fun from a comfortable perch than anything else. The sort of people who probably really like Michael Palin’s smug travel shows.
I had been aware of the decline of @privateeyenews into a Blairite lapdog for some time @volvogirl1974 . I think its transformation became obvious to many more after the EU referendum. Satire is not about attacking dissent. It just isn't. https://t.co/MhUv0BHZ5S
Silly @triptothemoon. I don't mind them attacking me (or I wouldn't tweet the attack, would I?) , I mind the fact that the attack is bilge, and that it comes from a magazine I bought for years in my teens and twenties because it attacked authority:Now it gargles in the govt choir https://t.co/KTJH0NkkLn
Like (the now long-defunct) Soviet humour mag, Krokodil. Like HIGNFY. In other words, “approved humour”, fronted by some boring drone like Paul Merton.
In fact, political correctness and “wokeness” has pretty much killed off satirical humour. God help any humorist now who laughs at (inter alia) Jews, “holocaust” fakery and/or hoaxes, the blacks, “Black Lives Matter”, facemask-wearing rabbits etc…
UK slides to insolvency
“Britain’s airlines, airports and aviation manufacturers pleaded for immediate financial support from the government and a longer-term recovery plan after COVID-19 stopped travel and new testing requirements dashed bounce-back hopes.” [Reuters].
Hello? “The virus” did not stop travel, though it may have slightly discouraged it. The governments of panicked Europe and elsewhere stopped it!
BBC Radio 4 Today Programme: interviewee Nadhim Zahawi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadhim_Zahawi; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadhim_Zahawi#Expenses] said that the Government is expecting 85% of the England-resident population to agree to be vaccinated in the next few months. Asked about whether it might become compulsory to be vaccinated, Zahawi (born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents, only came to the UK aged 9) said “we are not that kind of country“.
To me, the telling point is that the subject of compulsion has been raised at all. I cannot recall any previous time when it has been. What is the real agenda, bearing in mind that well over 99% of people who are infected with “Coronavirus”/”Covid-19” actually recover, most without serious ongoing problems (as far as can be seen so far)?
Another piece of news today was that there are some indications that some variants of “the virus” have mutated to the point where the vaccine(s) become ineffective. There would then have to be, presumably, further or other vaccine(s).
One asks again, what is really behind all this? The “Great Reset”? If so, how does it all play out?
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BBC's Laura Kuenssberg used the the word "generous" while describing universal credit. This an opinion and not evidence-based journalism. It gives the distinct impression people receiving the payment, should be "grateful" @BBCr4today
Laura Kuenssberg has become steadily worse over several years; completely partisan. She is, basically, a government mouthpiece. A few years ago, I was sent information about her: part-Jew. I was unaware. I knew that she is part-German (echt German, not Jew), but it turned out that (like many UK-based journalists) she is also part-Jew.
Bim Afolami sadly demonstrating how out of touch Tory MPs are talking about people getting on the "work ladder" instead of Universal Credit on Westminster Hour.
2.2m recipients of UC are *working* & 70% of children in poverty are in working families. The problem is poverty pay.
If you have one ounce of decency in you (doubtful I know ) and you are a Tory Mp I beg you please do not vote to cut Universal credit payments by £20 tomorrow. You earn £1500 per week minimum , please try and understand what living on £75 per week is like .
As I have previously blogged, the whole idea of topping-up poor pay by means of State benefits is an error, completely wrongheaded. What it means is that employers can pay poverty wages, wages insufficient to live upon, and the employees paid those inadequate monies have to apply for Universal Credit merely to survive on a quite basic level.
Moreover, it means that the employers, and their profits, are being subsidised by the State, meaning by all citizens, including even those receiving State benefits! This is so because even those not paying income tax still pay other taxes: those working full-time (and many working part-time) are paying National Insurance [https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance], which is a tax by any other name; all are also paying VAT on most purchases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax_in_the_United_Kingdom.
What that all means is, inter alia, that those receiving Universal Credit are actually partly paying for that themselves, because most are paying not only VAT but also National Insurance.
The answer is twofold: firstly, the State should pay a measure of Basic Income to all persons whose income falls below a certain level. How much? Hard to say off the cuff, but about £100 per week seems right, as a minimum.
Secondly, there must be a higher minimum wage set. How high? Again, hard to say exactly, but £10 a hour seems about right.
Enforcement of the minimum wage also needs to be stepped up.
The devil is very much in the detail in such matters, of course. Housing Benefit is another can of worms. It may be that Housing Benefit should be eliminated, and the slack taken up by a much higher Basic Income. Expensive? Yes, but so is the whole “welfare” sector, with its “assessments”, snooping, intricate administration etc; of that, not the least pertains to Housing Benefit.
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This bloke spent £300 on vets fees and X-rays and it turned out nothing was wrong with the dog, was just copying him out of sympathy 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/CJ8pPqxJqH
Archaeologists in France have uncovered the remains of a Roman-era child. The child was buried with a pet dog who was wearing a collar fitted with a little copper bell.
This exceptional discovery is a very moving reminder of family life in the past. https://t.co/vCBDdSi31M
So what @peterbale? The question is, should forerign politicians openly side with partisan mobs against lawful govts in other people's countries? Yes or no? And was Ukraine's lawful govt overthrown by a violent mob? Yes or no. https://t.co/NNKmbrNtuV
[Ashkenazi Jews in Jerusalem, c.1885; The Independent]
Columnist Peter Hitchens says he is “appalled” by politicians accusing the public of ignoring Covid rules: “The government is preparing its excuse and it’s get out for the failure of its third useless lockdown”
Shameful. Ironic though, that so many of the Twitter-twits have reposted the above graphic while at the same time arguing for even more immigrants to enter the UK, thus depressing pay further, thus straining public services further. The self-described “Left” have nothing to offer, any more than have the finance-capitalists (who also want more immigration). Only social-national policies can beat and cut a path out of the jungle.
It is not fair to the manatees that the human community of Florida was built up around them. That this could happen to those gentle creatures challenges the notion of a loving god. https://t.co/hb22sf8w5g
Shows what weapons they use on the occupied population…
“History…first time, tragedy; second time, farce” [Marx]
Everything said by the MSM about what happened on that day is a lie. This video shows Viking Man walking to the Speaker’s Podium accompanied by a friendly and helpful policeman. https://t.co/oKjPgH2Yue
I like it when the uniformed attendant calls that “the sacredest place“! Where the freemasons, puppets of Israel, and fraudsters sit and spout? Sacred? Ha ha!
That mayor was once egregiously rude and insolent to me when I still had a Twitter account. Who’s next? “I have a little list“…—but in view of the encroaching police state, only in my head. Nothing stains like ink (adjust quotation for online version…).
The fury over a bloke with dodgy tattoos on a woodwork show on Sky History shows how ridiculous “anti-fascism” has become. These time-rich tweeters really think they are the heirs to the heroes of Cable Street. They need to grow up, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/ZPuAnXpWdE
I must have missed that particular storm in a Twitter teacup. Typical, though. The self-described “Left” (a term which, like “Right”, I never use), or (pseudo-) “socialist” element has nohing much to say.
In 1989, socialism died, all over the world. That was as true of British socialism or social democracy as it was of Soviet socialism (which just expired and evaporated within a couple of years, being replaced by “oligarchic” kleptocracy), and Chinese socialism (which kept the names and forms of socialism while transforming into complete cut-throat capitalism under overall State supervision).
In Britain, the Labour Party changed from a social-democratic party with socialist roots and pretensions into a basically finance-capitalist party with social-democratic pretensions. Clause 4 (nationalization) was ditched; within a few years it was uncontroversial for the half-Jew Mandelson, Tony Blair’s most important ally, to say that he was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich“. Imagine Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson or, say, James Callaghan saying that (in public)!
As Labour became a non-socialist party in the 1990s, the more socialist-oriented element in it became infected more and more with the peripheral politics of identity.
As a frequent browser in Collet’s London Bookshop in Charing Cross Road in 1976 (aged 19), I saw that they had shelves devoted to books and magazines about “sexual politics” and the like, as well as what became known as “multiculturalism”. I was social-national even then, and thought that those areas were, even in the context of Marxist/post-Marxist ideology, sideshows at best. I was right then, but wrong down the line, because it was exactly that sort of stuff that eventually took over, not the Labour Party as such, but the more “socialist”-leaning element within it.
What are the concerns of those “socialists” on, say, Twitter? “Refugees” (most of whom are bogus anyway); “LGBT” etc; supporting all the “Covid-19” nonsense (facemasks, lockdowns etc); “black lives matter”. After all those, maybe poverty too, but the real old-style socialists focussed on relief of poverty as of prime importance, together with the whole socio-economic pattern of society. Also, those old-style activists had a idea of how to achieve their objectives. The post-Marxists have exchanged that for what amounts to a virtue-signalling whine.
The Twitterati who think themselves “socialist” (there are exceptions), especially the “antifa” element and the Jew-Zionists, find their greatest pleasure and victory when someone with whom they disagree (usually unthinkingly) is expelled from Twitter. Most interesting tweeters (like me, if I immodestly say so) are now gone from increasingly dull Twitter.
Also, the Twitterati are often found complacently reciting that xyz (like me) have rightly been expelled from Twitter because “Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc are commercial companies and can expel or deny service to anyone”. Pretty pathetic. A surrender to the marketplace, and a quasi-monopolistic marketplace at that. No thought as to the rights of the citizen qua citizen (eg free speech rights) going beyond mere contractual rights.
One might add that Twitter is the main playground of such people. Not the real world where real events happen and where questions of politics, questions of importance, are decided.
Whining on Twitter (“slacktivism”) becomes the substitute for real political or social action.
You can see all of that in the Corbyn saga of recent years. Corbyn Labour was not without its virtues, though Corbyn was really a surviving example of an old-style socialist surrounded by those new-style pseudo-socialist virtue-signallers; political coelacanth [“Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago, but were rediscovered in 1938…The coelacanth was long considered a “living fossil““— Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth].
The result of the obsession with peripheral matters (perhaps the most bizarre and off-piste is re. “transphobia”) has been that Labour itself (and the so-called “Left” in general) has become politically almost irrelevant, despite the Labour Party being the only major “opposition” to a Conservative Party government of surpassing incompetence.
Matters of wide public concern: mass immigration and migration-invasion; education; NHS services; a future for the young; security for the old; the environment; housing; pay and benefits.
There are really only two groups now vying for ideological supremacy under the superficial show of politics: the System of “ZOG”, “NWO” etc, and social nationalism. The so-called “Left”, though vocal, is an irrelevance on the wider stage.
The year 2022, 33 years on from the last “reset” of world politics in and after 1989, will be of prime importance. Large-scale change.
If I was reverting to referencing benefits in response to every question & concern about poverty, unemployment & hungry children, I'd make an effort to fix the travesty of Universal Credit which is knowingly & deliberately pushing the most vulnerable into poverty, @BorisJohnson.
Yes but during the holidays 100% of state schools are closed. And it is no secret that universal credit is not enough for a family to live on and not quick or easy to get on if you have recently lost your job. Children are going to go hungry. How can you justify that?
As you’re such an expert on “many benefits”, please tell us how much money parents will get from Universal Credit, after loosing their incomes due to covid??? And then tell us how you’d pay your bills and “budget” on that??? Tories and their supporters are horrible people.
NEW: "The threat of sanctions is causing huge anxiety for people claiming Universal Credit who are shielding".@SeemaMalhotra1 says the continued threat of benefit sanctions when the government has lost control of the virus is completely untenablehttps://t.co/GKvBMptCVi
Imagine being so blindly loyal to a failing bunch of incompetent liars that you would read a pre-prepared statement advocating against providing school meals for children.
Brendan Clarke-Smith is Tory Scum. A pathetic, spinless little worm. https://t.co/iTXZadu82i
I had not previously heard of this backwoods MP. Seems that he was a teacher, somewhere; where? Only a (brief?) stint as headmaster of an unspecified school in Romania is noted. I suspect that he is yet another chancer and freeloader in the Commons. A Romanian wife who is a doctor in Bassetlaw, wherever that is (actually, Nottinghamshire). A prime candidate for my “Deadhead MPs” series. Watch this space.
Perhaps Clarke-Smith might think about how real pay and the real level of State benefits have declined over the years, placing many —even many who are in full-time work— in poverty. He himself has presumably been able to live off his wife’s earnings (at least to a large extent) for years.
Has anyone yet identified this superb citizen of Barnsley, who in a few clear phrases speaks more sense than you could hear in a month from the chattering classes in Parliament or on the disgraceful BBC? https://t.co/gDEogTqrzV
to vote against feeding poor children during a pandemic where parents are being denied universal credit, made redundant, unable to find new jobs bc the state of the economy, increasing costs EVERYWHERE etc just wow. but a pay rise for mp’s is apparently a necessity..?
Look at this despicable+seriously overweight man, claiming that "so much has been done for Universal Credit etc" completely ignoring the fact that a) UC is an utter shambles and b) hungry children can NOT wait for the months-long struggles to get food into their tummies🤬 https://t.co/7DlNtlg1eU
Sack this furlough & Universal Credit Shite. We need a Universal Basic Income. Minimum £1000 per month. This would still be less than minimum wage,more than the state pension,but liveable. Whether this is per person or household is debatable. This is affordable. 🙏😷🏴🏴🏴👍
Tory MPs blaming parents for children going hungry should really take a look at themselves. 10years of austerity, cuts to the system as well punitive universal credit measures has not helped people. Child poverty and homelessness has rocketed on their watch!
The idea that evil hypocrites such as Dunce Duncan Smith, the jew “lord” Freud, Esther McVey and Therese Coffey want to “help” people is naive, to say the least.
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
I would recommend that you inject some realism into your life. And what risks are you actually referring to? The selfish ones are those that are not bothering to look into what is really happening and are just lazily watching the TV and repeating what the 'paid for' puppets say pic.twitter.com/NM108ukNP3
1/2 Yes, but Professor Gupta is *also* more qualified than her (or you) to judge (and more qualified than Johnson, come to that) and *she* disagrees with Whitty. Experts aren't an excuse for ceasing to think . Intelligent people grasp that @jtwentyman. https://t.co/Wi53DEKAFi
2/2 @jtwentyman. But the BBC can be proud of you. Amazingly, you have managed to get through the past six months *wholly* unaware of the existence of scientific controversy (among experts!) about the wisdom of shutdown policies. Gosh. https://t.co/Wi53DEKAFi
The facemask zealots all pretend to be following The Science, but in reality their zealotry goes far deeper and has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with some strange wish to conform.
@DFlatwhite. You miss the point. Whatever people say in exalted moments, they support the NHS (and boy, do they, through heavy taxation) because they expect it to be there for them and their families when they need it. https://t.co/2MdBl9QlUO
The demographics favour the Democrats and Biden, but I would not necessarily write off Trump, whose own “virus” experience obviously bolsters his own views on the Coronavirus generally. It might be objected that everyone is different etc, but fact is, Trump is 74, in a poor state of health and fitness, yet has recovered in days and having had only minor treatment.
Most people are predicting a win for Biden, and for all I know they may be right, but I wonder whether that really will be the result. Still, whichever candidate wins, (((they))) will win…
John Tyler was already 46 years old when the Battle of The Alamo occurred, in 1836. He became U.S. President at the age of 50, in 1841.
Imagine that…someone whose grandfather was born in 1790, during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and only months after the French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille, has only just died! To me, it’s almost incredible. My own (maternal) grandfather was born in 1901.
For all that, in some respects the USA gives an old impression, one lacking in youthfulness. Its personification, after all, is an old man, “Uncle Sam”.
BBC World Service
I occasionally remind people, who perhaps never heard the BBC World Service in its 1970s/1980s heyday, how good it was, and how rubbish it now is. Last night, they had some spiteful-sounding black girl talking rubbish about the 1977 “battle” in Lewisham, London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewisham
Biased throughout, the 15-30 minute piece never attempted to give a balanced view, or any perspective. There was one main interviewee, a black man who was an “antifascist” activist at the time. Poor.
Never go back
They say “never go back“. Usually that is good advice. It can be disturbing to see again places once known, and even loved, changed. That can be so even when the changes have improved the place in question. All the same, there is a strange fascination in seeing again places you once knew well. Google Earth can be addictive in this regard. It is a peculiar feeling to see just how quickly the world changes. In 20, 30, 40, 50 years, an area can change out of all recognition. Fascinating but unsettling.
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Never mind Brexit, we need a referendum on the #TheGreatReset. No one voted for it in 2019 yet Johnson is already implementing it. Let’s get the campaign started now!
Poverty can be reduced by giving people money to improve their lives with; it’s been proven time and time again. But this solution is constantly resisted because it doesn’t uphold the oppressive notion that poor people naturally make bad choices and don’t “deserve” to be secure. https://t.co/cDItsMGKmF
Allegra Stratton might usefully take note of the above tweets.
The government is employing 1,114 consultants from Deloitte to work on Test and Trace alone, @SkyNews reports. @PrivateEyeNews reveals rates typically charged by Deloitte £1,450 per day per partner £290 per Deloitte intern (Wonder how much of that the interns see)
Another real medical expert slams the elite's #rona obsession and its apocalyptic impact on health happiness, society and the economy. Johnson & his collaborators are serial killers.https://t.co/AsuL9unK85
Official figures for Covid hospital admissions include those who tested positive in hospital *after* admission. Worth remembering when looking at admission figures. pic.twitter.com/F0HIEuyhKi
Yes, and don't forget that the government has to get this money from somewhere. How many actual taxpayers are there left after six months of Rishinomics? https://t.co/Ll2DEc08O7
– Police allow people to riot, attack them and deface monuments – We lose our civil liberties at an unprecedented rate – Met investigate an interviewer for something his guest said for which the guest has apologised
'State of alarm' is a good way of describing these irresponsible, ill-informed and useless state-sponsored panics which have wrecked lives and livelihoods across the world. Note in this case it was done against the wishes of local govt. https://t.co/nigFCDLOZ0
The problem with UK politics is the tribalism. People believe the Tories are conservative and Labour represents the working class. As you have pointed out for years, Mr H, they couldn't be more wrong.
1/3 @atjaardstra. You are mistaken. I point out that Japan did not strangle its economy, yet had many fewer deaths than us, so challenging the connection the ill-informed assume exists between shutdowns and saving lives. https://t.co/ynShblGIRy
2/3 @atjaardstra. Your second error is your equally lazy assumption that mask wearing in Japan is the proven cause of lower deaths in a country where old people happen to a lot healthier than they are in N. America or W.Europe. https://t.co/ynShblGIRy
Well, isn’t that interesting? No doubt a…co-incidence(?). All the same, it would tend to support the idea that “Covid-19” was created for a purpose, a purpose connected with the “Great Reset”…
With even the #WHO trying (or pretending) to leave the sinking ship Lockdown, Boris and all the other politicians who've broken our world with this nonsense are way out on a limb – and still sawing away between them and the trunk.#fairtrials & short ropeshttps://t.co/6rB6js492C
I should think so @Francis_Hoar. Since it turned into an establishment rag and dumped its decent radical past, the Guardian has become quite a distressing spectacle. https://t.co/HNuLDsN8Pi
The BBC too. Its output is now of incredibly low quality, something most obvious on the BBC News on television. Endless “interviews” on Skype with boring and usually non-white persons, very little foreign news and that mostly of little depth, or even casual interest. Without the “licence fee” (enforced tax), the BBC would just go out of business. The “licence fee” protects it, enables it to pay ex-footballers a million or two a year, newsreaders half a million a year and many others £300,000, £200,000 or whatever. No wonder most are unwilling to rock the boat by standing up for the future of European humanity!
I doubt it very much @johnwil57255704. Listen to our supposed leaders talk, and you see shallow banality and unconscious ignorance, always on display. https://t.co/JjlDIhwm02
Britain’s new and proliferating toytown police state
“An actor was stopped in the street by a police officer because she was wearing a strongly worded t-shirt.”
Leaving aside the absurd contemporary affectation by which all actresses are supposed to be referred to as “actors” (and leaving aside the woman’s obviously ridiculous and anti-white views), this is yet another example of the British police acting as a poundland KGB.
So go, if you do not want to stay part of the UK! I am not stopping you. Just remember that, from now on (after Independence), Scotland pays for everything it wants or needs without English help. State spending per head is presently higher in Scotland than it is in England.
I hope that all those Scots pro-Independence voters realize that they will be far poorer after such “Independence”. They will, of course, only be “independent” from the UK, not from the international banking set-up, the transnational companies, the UN, NATO and, perhaps most directly, the EU.
Still, that poll gives me the opportunity to repost the “SNP dim tweet of the day” (which I do not, in fact, post every day). Today, two for the price of one:
Aye maybe there is something else going on that WM don’t want us to know
The social security or “welfare” system is supposed to provide basic subsistence for those without sufficient income. It is not supposed to be a State-run insurance scheme (even though parts of it started like that).
The main problem with public acceptance is that people see migrant-invaders straight off the boat (often a rubber boat landed on a Kent pebble beach) getting more help than the British people do, despite the latter having paid in all their lives.
Not everyone can pay in, but the monies going to invaders who should not even be here are a, maybe the, major problem.
Basic Income must come, but should be available only to British people (and I do mean real British people).
Looking at the latest Labour nonsense (see above), one can see that Labour is going back to a kind of Blairism without Blair, or Gordon Brown-ism without Brown. You have Keir Starmer, with Jewish wife (a lawyer) and whose children are being brought up as Jewish. You have these rather tired or outdated anti-“welfare” statements being made (this is 2020, not 2010). Above all, you have Boris-idiot, not much respected by the public, but sitting there, and sitting on his 80-seat majority which nothing is going to dislodge for at least 2 years.
I had not previously heard of that MP, Jonathan Reynolds.
One or two good points noted, such as support for Basic Income and proportional representation. A few bad marks too, such as the fact that he is a vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. That is very bad.
Reynolds is also one of the many “never had a real job” MPs, really, though he did some (unspecified and probably very minor) work for the local council as well as 4 years’ work for his mentor, the Blairite MP and now BBC bigwig, James Purnell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purnell , a horrible little bastard and one-time Chair of Labour Friends of Israel (also a noted expenses cheat).
Reynolds became a solicitor before being elected as MP, but has never practised.
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Will this one day seem as odd as those 1939-45 ‘Is your journey really necessary’ posters? Or is this the future forever, muzzled and permanently frightened? pic.twitter.com/igYdpWZjQ5
Unembarrassed, apparently unconscious of any possibility that their message might be mistaken or disproportionate, bossy notices telling us life is more inconvenient for our own good are everywhere on the rail network. pic.twitter.com/F8y4waouzj
Sweet of you to care @allthatchas, but as there are almost no passengers, there was no queue for the single available stall. If you want to wander lonely as a cloud, go by train. Al Johnson Ratnerised the rail network on May 10 https://t.co/wBaXFjms6nhttps://t.co/jJFDSVq6RA
The attempted Shadow Banning of this interview https://t.co/vfJLz1TP3J failed (thanks to some tough resistance) and as a result it has now had more than 73,000 views. Please watch it, if only to defy the censors.
If you want to wander lonely as a cloud, go by train. The government has Ratnerised the rail network and refilled the roads by persuading everyone that trains are dangerous places where you must wear a muzzle to survive. pic.twitter.com/eWZmbUS5pZ
Yes, @Richard93111191 but how long is this sustainable, as government-induced panic scares passengers away from the trains now running empty on colossal, unaffordable subsidies with no fare income? Once again, only an admission that the whole thing was a mistake will cure it. https://t.co/VtWGSpWbKp
I'm much of your opinion. I am not surprised to hear that the wearing of muzzles is popular. There could be no better symbol of our decline as a people. Perhaps at the Last Night of the Proms a muzzled crowd can bang spoons on pans instead of singing obsolete patriotic songs. https://t.co/3UEXDodRnr
The Last Night of the Proms is of course anachronistic, in that only about three-quarters or so of the inhabitants of the UK are even white/European now! (officially about 85%, but is that a statistic or a mere “damn lie”?).
There are two ways, beyond face value, of looking at the Last Night of the Proms: either it is a reactionary insult to “BAME people” and should be banned, or it is a way of pretending to the remaining British population that Britain is a real country with real patriotic people, when it in fact no longer is…
Yes, the only 'criticism' permitted is one that says the government did not follow its mad policy efficiently or quickly enough. As in the USSR, where tame media could rail against failures to fulfil fictional 5-year plans . https://t.co/ShUAH9mqLI
In 2004 I wrote : ' …the rise and rise of officers such as Brian Paddick and Cressida Dick, politically correct and right-on, is not accidental. After the purge of the police following the Macpherson Report, this is the future of law enforcement in this country. ' https://t.co/9gFYW9V8IE
As Hitchens perhaps implies here, there is only incidentally law enforcement now in Britain. What has taken its place is a kind of politically correct, politically approved enforcement of multikulti society norms, using the law as a ploy, by a police “service” which is on the one hand brainwashed and on the other hand a poundland KGB.
Funny the way pro-Virus Panic media *didn't* notice Norway's Public Health Chief Camilla Stoltenberg saying Norway could have brought the coronavirus pandemic under control without a lockdown: https://t.co/FAHOVt3GYL
Two more studies – one by the main body of Britain's GPs – conclude that lockdown was pointless.#BorisJohnson regime & Keir Starmer oppo alike have been criminally negligent.
There must eventually come a parting of the ways. The bulk of the world’s population, even the majority of the white European-origined population, cannot travel into the future in their present form(s).
I expect a huge amount of System propaganda today about the 75th anniverssary of VE-Day. BBC Radio 4 Today is going full Soviet Radio. It is like living in a parallel universe. In the BBC/Sky/msm universe, Britain “fought for freedom and won” in 1939-45, and today the Queen will “lead the nation” in a 2-minute silence. There will be speeches, RAF fly-pasts etc.
To a large extent, it is the Jewish lobby that now promotes all these contrived anniversaries. The 75th or 80th or 85th anniversary of whatever. It gives “them” the opportunity to yet again talk about “holocaust” etc. The line of travel is anniversary/WW2/Hitler/”holocaust”.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the UK government of fools has put almost the entire nation under house arrest, even calling it “lockdown”, a term previously used mainly in American and other prisons.
Leaving that aside, only on State-mouthpiece BBC (and the other System msm) will “the nation” (which scarcely exists now, as such) be waiting agog for the Queen’s speech, or taking part in any “2-minute silence”. In reality, hardly anyone will listen, let alone stand silent, though no doubt the msm can be relied upon to produce suitable photos or film clips.
That graph says it all. The virus wave, in reality, peaked in February, a month before the “lockdown” nonsense was imposed. The biggest fall was when the “wash hands” propaganda was launched in early March. That propaganda or advice was the best and in fact the only useful advice offered to the public. The “stay at home” advice/threat was and is all but useless (as of course is the “protect NHS/save lives” stuff, and the weekly social coercion of the “clapathon”).
@BorisJohnson is clearly absolutely terrified by the media. He is crippled with fear and will just keep lockdown for months and months. People need to get with the picture.
She is right. Boris-idiot is to a large extent a creation of a decadent and “tolerant” mass media. Inside the onion rings of rote-learned Latin and Greek, the Eton and Oxford polish, the public speaking skill etc is…nothing. There is nothing in the middle. Boris-idiot has no real programme that he wishes to implement. All he wanted to do was become Prime Minister, because it is the highest office the UK can bestow. Now he has achieved that, and so has nowhere to go, nothing to do.
So we have been under lockdown and they didn’t even protect the care homes in the end. My colleague @KathyConWom predicted this at the very beginning.https://t.co/Q5RCgAEmab
The facile answer to that tweet would be “well, no-one knew that a virus emergency would emerge”; but that simply begs the question as to whether these measures were necessary and/or proportionate. I think not.
Once more for slow learners, epidemiologists often try to baffle you by describing their work as ‘stochastic’ . Sounds serious, huh? But as the Oxford Shorter English Dictionary shows here, it means ‘guess’ . Pseudoscience works by dressing guesswork in a crisp white lab coat. pic.twitter.com/beNHaDeFuB
Government advice. Their so far unchallenged use of the 1984 Act to enforce this, scores of fines and arrests, police officiousness. Seems persuasive to me. If I go out, I have to explain my reasons to a state militiaman. This is not the country I grew up in. @brian_in_dorsethttps://t.co/JTSvVFXgV8
Guesswork, you mean. Proper science is about objective testing, repeatable, falsifiable, predictive. That is why we pay attention to it. Guesswork dressed up in a lab coat is still guesswork. https://t.co/AYWNfTfGGu
It is medically futile and economically disastrous. But it is politically useful to Dear Leader Kim Jong Al, too weak and indecisive to act just now, and hoping something will turn up. https://t.co/UeNJvQjCp5
Boris-idiot, posing as PM, has messed up the Coronavirus situation in every possible way. Those to whom he delegated power, notably the half-Jew Raab, and little Matt Hancock, have also messed up. “Boris” can use his supposed Coronavirus illness to escape some of the consequences on an alibi basis (“I was in hospital and not in charge at the time”) though that hardly washes, in view of the fact that most of the big decisions were taken by Boris Johnson and before he became unwell.
He is now back at No.10 and still will not admit that he was wrong or wrongly advised; he will still not drop the “lockdown”, because it would mean losing face. He is being supported by the Twitter mob, much of it, and by the Gadarene swine of the msm.
Result? Well, even the Bank of England is now predicting a situation not far short of economic collapse, at least in the short term. That is not caused by “Coronavirus”, but by government policies.
Basic Income
I have supported “Basic Income” for years. In fact, I first conceived the idea in the 1980s, when thinking about the future direction of society. Others, with more appropriate letters after their names, were working on it at the same time or later, it seems. Now, it may be that Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, or will come soon:
Most tweets seen by me were, as expected, replete with ignorance. Stuff about how “evil” National Socialism was, and how good were not only the Western Allies but the Soviet forces, including the Red Army pillagers and rapists. Such is the ignorance shown (especially on Twitter) that I would not bother to argue with it even had I still a Twitter account (the Jew lobby had me expelled in 2018).
I do not think that I shall bother to repost many ignorant tweets even to laugh at them, but here’s one, anyway:
The ignorant young woman above has, on her Twitter profile, “#law Graduate #LLM#LPC student #Lawyer wannabe. #feminist ~Ally ~ writer sometimes ~cynical always. #eurovision fan ~ Wine aficionado – Coffee Freak“.
So a trainee solicitor or barrister…good grief!
She thinks that “The only reason why WW2 was a success is because it was a European and common effort against the Nazis’ 3rd Reich.” Where does one start? Even leaving aside the evils of the Soviet Union under Stalin, there is the fact that much of Europe was either on the German side or neutral.
On the German side, inter alia (and taking only Europe into account), were Austria, Hungary, the Baltic states, Finland, former Yugoslav state Croatia, ex-Czechoslovak Slovakia, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and, in effect, Vichy France. Neutral were Spain, Portugal, Eire (Ireland), Switzerland, Sweden, and small states such as Liechtenstein (and the Vatican).
Individuals from all over Europe, including the states ranged against Germany, and including small numbers from the UK, fought on the German side. Members of the Legion of St. George, from the UK, were among the last few valiant defenders of Berlin in 1945, as the rapists and pillagers of the Red Army broke through the last lines of defence.
The Jewish element has poisoned the minds of many, especially in the past few decades, via msm, fake-history feature films, the whole “holocaust industry” in publishing, wrongheaded and/or biased teaching in academia (secondary and tertiary education).
Relatively few see the Third Reich or National Socialism straight. However, only political Twitter, with dissidents removed, really cares much about it all. Tomorrow, it will all be forgotten again, until the (((msm))) finds another anniversary or event for the “useful idiots” to emote about…
Finally, the young woman tweeting above thinks (because told so) that “WW2 was a success“. Well, if you think that the deaths of 80 million people, the smashing down of much of Europe, the misery caused by the war, the post-1945 collapse of European rule in much of Africa and Asia (with consequent wars, civil wars, wildlife destruction, environmental disaster etc) was “a success”. That’s even leaving aside the drab 44 years of Soviet rule, in effect, across Eastern and Central Europe, which lasted until 1989.
I don’t expect much now from most British people in the way of independent thought, reflection, even basic knowledge or logic. That way, I don’t get too disappointed. Usually.
A few pictures from that Third Reich that that young woman is sure had to go…
[above: a woman talks to a German soldier —unarmed soldier, off-duty— in occupied Paris in 1940 or 1941]
[above: a gendarme salutes a German officer by the Arc de Triomphe]
[above: SS man, with others (one probably Latvian), plays with a kitten]
[above: Dresden 1945, destroyed, together with much of the civilian population, by British bombers. American fighters, flying low the next day, strafed defenceless civilians, including women with children]…
[above: devastated Berlin, 1945. The photo shows the central Unter den Linden area]
More “words of wisdom” from tweeter “Em”:
Whatever the government says (and because I do not take it as valuable or worthy guideline or rules) I will not end lockdown.#IDontWantToDie
That is the semi-literate level of someone in Britain, in 2020, someone with a law degree, a Master’s degree (joke though that usually is) and reading for either the solicitors’ profession or the Bar…It is not a matter of shaking one’s head at one individual but of noting one person as typical of literally thousands of others.
Tweeter “Em” has the excuse of relative youth. What is the excuse of such as James O’Brien?
Here below, Peter Hitchens deplores the outbreak of war in 1914:
Well, was I right to be pessimistic about the future last New Year's Eve? https://t.co/puIL0vAyEz
He does not think that the outbreak of war in 1939, and in particular the declaration of war on Germany by Britain and France, was wrong. He is wrong.
Ah, here is faux-revolutionary fake Owen Jones (part-Jew, btw, for those unaware):
75 years on, here's to the courageous fighters who crushed Nazism and fascism at such cost and sacrifice, and to the millions murdered by a genocidal creed. #VEDaypic.twitter.com/CrurxEUmli
Vic, staying strong, on #VEDay. 75 years ago he celebrated the end of the War in Europe. Like others his age, he's so modest about the part he played in defeating Nazism. Whenever I ask him about the War, he simply says 'I can't remember'. To be fair he was two when it finished. pic.twitter.com/CAMzvlZ0Yt
1945 is now 75 years distant. Scarcely anyone who actually fought in it or was an adult civilian at the time is still alive. In Britain, “the War” still overshadows everything. Even the problems with a virus are referred back to “the War”! They are fighting on the beaches…against Coronavirus! How incredibly puerile… What they should be doing is fighting the migration-invasion, which is indeed, in part, quite literally “on the beaches”, mainly of Kent and Sussex. About 200 invaders a day now…idiotic Priti Patel is very quiet, for once. Useless.
Yes, sweetie, we have heard this, but since the govt has stopped publishing figures for ICU bed occupation, the only measures we have of Covid-19's actual power to lay people low and *put* them in ICUs are the death stats. And they suggest that the alleged threat never emerged. https://t.co/DCVeF16WxK
Peter Hitchens is basically an intellectual. He thinks or perhaps hopes that presenting facts, logic, statistics will convince people that the “lockdown” is a disastrous mistake that should be ended at once. The problem is that most people, including many who think themselves very clever, have only a thin veneer of intellect over the seething mass of emotion and will. The “lockdown” was accompanied by propaganda designed to affect the public on the emotional level, and by using emotional hooks, in particular that of fear. As Hitchens himself notes, the government of fools now finds that its own present desire to end “lockdown” (before the economy is destroyed almost totally) is thwarted by the same fear that the government itself has engendered!
The public, or about half of the public, are not willing to leave their houses because they are afraid despite the fact that there is actually no reason for at least 80%-90% of the public to be afraid! Most people, even if infected, show no symptoms, or few, and require no professional medical intervention. So far, fatalities have been, at highest, 1 in every 2,000 people in the UK.
There are other reasons why the public is not more keen to end “lockdown”. Some people live in pleasant large houses, with grounds or gardens. Some have swimming pools and tennis courts. I daresay that that description fits many of the houses of those droning dully every day on the BBC, Sky News, ITV News etc. For people in that position, and with no shortage of money (the msm is still paying 100% of pay; the same goes for MPs…), the situation is a kind of Oxfordian “Long Vac”. In fact, these days, for the affluent, with the Internet and its possibility to order food, wine, whatever, and to have almost anything delivered easily, life can seem like an endless Summer, albeit slightly restricted.
For others, not so fortunate as the above, there are other incentives: “furlough” pay at 80% of pay (with £2,500 per month cap). Many only make that much, or less, anyway, and the 20% cut is offset by the lack of need to pay for commute transport etc.
Only a small proportion worry about the civil rights aspect (the government dictating that the people stay in house arrest until further order, the antics of the toytown police and so on). That parallels all dictatorships. Only the few are dissidents. The dissidents are harassed, even imprisoned or killed (not yet in the UK, but who can say what it might be like in later years?), but if they survive they can become the next leadership cadre, as happened after socialism fell across Europe in and after 1989.
Amusing exchange…
If you say so. @paulhoo579937. But I struggle to think of an occasion when theoretical physics was used as a pretext for throttling the economy, wrecking small business and mass house arrest. https://t.co/l2NAobxc9m
I see that Dusty Springfield is trending on Twitter. She had an unforgettable voice, and was of course famous during my 1960s childhood.
The criminal Bar seems to have hit rock bottom…
(at least in the lower ranks)
Having encouraged the “fat cat” criminal barrister myth and spread lies about legal aid over the past decade, the government is now leaving junior criminal barristers destitute. https://t.co/kZGtH1kBvl
— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) May 8, 2020
Magistrates’ courts work never paid large amounts, but I can recall getting £5,000 for a week in City of London Magistrates’ Court in 1993. It could not happen now, partly because “old-style” committals (extended committal proceedings for trial in the Crown Court, in that case at the Old Bailey) no longer exist and because all criminal legal aid amounts have declined greatly in real terms.
Fees like that were rare (for me, at least) even in 1993 (part of why I remember it!).
Another great singer
A peaceful tomorrow may be an optimistic thought, but who knows?
It will be seen from the above chart that the UK is in 4th place for death from Coronavirus, expressed in proportion to population. Belgium, Spain and Italy, all of which had strict “lockdown” regimes, have fared worse than has the UK. Some countries which have implemented only light regulation, such as Sweden, have fared better than the UK.
There are many variables, based on lifestyles, the way deaths are counted, when the virus really emerged in a particular country etc, so people can argue endlessly over which country has the worst or best record and why. However, it seems clear that whether a country has strict “lockdown”, less strict, or none at all, is almost irrelevant to the spread and effect of the Coronavirus, taken over a couple of months.
It will be seen, also, that Coronavirus has killed (taking the statistics as provided) about 500 people for every million in the UK. One out of every 2,000. That is unfortunate, but is hardly the Black Death (which is said to have killed about 1 out of 3 people across Europe, in other words about 700x the rate of Coronavirus in the UK (so far).
I notice that the political Twitterati have not disappointed me. They always get it wrong. They are on the wrong side of pretty much any argument. They predict every election or referendum inaccurately. In this case, they (most of them) want an extension of the UK “lockdown” nonsense; many want it even more strictly enforced, and with even fewer services and facilities open for business.
You cannot really talk or debate (not that I wish to) with that unthinking and self-righteous Twitter mob. They are the bookburners, the proponents of heresy laws etc.
As things stand, people in the UK are under loose house arrest, en bloc. It seems that some restrictions are going to be eased next week. All the same, and more importantly, the British people cannot do all manner of normal things at present, some of which are very necessary. Examples include accessing dental services, getting hair cut, sending their children to school.
This farce has to end. The cost is enormous. Vast numbers of people (at last count, over —uh-oh, that number again!— six million) were “furloughed” on 80% pay (capped at £2,500 per month). I have to admit that a wry smile may have been seen on my face at the sight of those who, many of them, cheered on Dunce Duncan Smith and others from both main System parties as they marginalized and demonized the poor and especially the not-employed poor, now themselves staring down the barrel of destitution.
Apart from that, the fact is that the “lockdown” is killing people every day in various ways: deferred consultations, cancelled operations etc.
At some point soon, all the “emergency” measures will have to end. Many prefer to stay away from boring jobs for a while, given that they are “furloughed” on 80% of their pay (and when you take off costs such as transport, it might even add up to 100% of net pay in reality). However, this will not be sustainable for much longer.
Having scared the people out of their skins, the government of fools is now preparing to crack the whip to get those same people out of their houses, by reducing the furlough cap to (probably) £2,000 from £2,500, by reducing the amount anyone can get to 60% of pay rather than 80%.
I wonder what the unemployment figure will be by Christmas. 3 million? 5 million?
Latest news (only 1 hour old at time of writing):
Debenhams is to shut five stores after failing to reach agreement with its landlords over rent, resulting in 1,000 job losses https://t.co/414K3gDR57
Those calling for “lockdown” to continue almost indefinitely, and certainly for months more, have no interest in or understanding of the effects on the UK economy. They seem to think that people can be subsidized indefinitely to stay in their homes while commerce and industry die on the vine.
As usual, the Twitter mob, all but irrelevant to the real course of events, rant at those (in this case) calling for an end to the “lockdown” nonsense, calling them “stupid” etc. Those Twitter drones have evidently not thought through all the implications of a continuing “lockdown”. Apart from which, it occurs to me that the present times are characterized, at least in part, by unthinking selfishness disguised as concern for society.
I favour Basic Income, but that can only work where society (and the economy) is open for business. If not, then the monies expended are merely dead outflows, fuelling inflation eventually.
Notting Hill Carnival
The Notting Hill Carnival has been cancelled, a rare bonus from the Coronavirus situation. The blacks may or may not riot as a consequence in August, when the heat builds and the tom-toms drum incessantly in the darkening (urban) jungle. For the local population, this will come as a blessed relief.
Notting Hill was already being gentrified when the Carnival (the white would-be ethnics drop the “the”) started to become a really major event in the 1970s, having started in 1966. In the 1960s and 1950s, Notting Hill had been known as an “edgy” neighbourhood wedged among other, more expensive, areas (Kensington, Holland Park etc).
I myself was familiar with Notting Hill in the 1980s. I would fairly often visit the wonderful art-nouveau Electric Cinema in Portobello Road, which sometimes showed Soviet films such as Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears; I was trying to improve my Russian at the time.
The Soviet diplomatic presence was not far away, near Notting Hill Gate (Consulate) and Kensington Palace Gardens (Embassy). The Czech Consulate was also at Notting Hill Gate.
Some of the films were very odd at first sight:
Other films (especially the ones from the Caucasus) seemed almost impenetrable. I remember this one, which I think was shown with Russian subtitles:
I visited the actual Portobello Road Market, specifically, a few times in the 1980s and early 1990s. It sold everything from apples to antiques and expensive fur coats (some valued at thousands of pounds, with provenance doubtful).
As for the Carnival, I did go once, out of curiosity. That would have been mid-1980s. Ghastly. Non-stop drumming “music”, dubious palm wine bought from an African in the street, fried plantains (not unpleasant but very over-priced) and, everywhere, huge numbers of people (by no means all non-whites, though blacks were by far the majority, as I suppose they soon will be in all of London, if they are not already). A hot day, too. I stayed for an hour or so. To return to real London was not easy. All Underground stations in the vicinity were closed because of the crush. I ended up walking all the way home, in the hot sun, to Little Venice, which was blessedly quiet and leafy by comparison with the streets of “Carnival”.
The present-day residents of Notting Hill (where houses now sell for millions) mostly barricade themselves in for a few days, or lock their houses up as securely as they can, and then go away for a few days. I imagine that they must be (secretly?) celebrating the cancellation this year.
Errrrr…Vitamin D deficiency anyone? Not exactly cutting edge science, but surely worth a mention, BBC? Don’t worry, no-one sane will think you’re being anything-ist. https://t.co/DivDMA6Toh
I start with one, the poster of which evidently imagines itself very clever:
#Iceland are doing brilliantly vs #CoronaVirus, confirming no new #COVID19 cases. Currently, just 3 patients hospitalised. It's only suffered 10 fatalities
Or…just maybe…because Iceland, unlike the UK, is not a multikulti, globalized, overcrowded dustbin of peoples…
Something better:
I think the best way of describing Dear Leader Kim Jong Al's approach to the Covid-19 epidemic is that he is like a man who sets fire to his own pyjamas to cure himself of the hiccoughs. And then says it worked because, lo, the hiccoughs have gone.
Much worse than that @emilyjanecrews. Champagne Trotskyist. Almost nobody can cope with the undoubted facts in this article, so everyone ignores it: https://t.co/ZlYmwTZQeHhttps://t.co/7hxeC6qr2g
Hitchens of course glosses over the fact that most important Communists in the UK, from the 1920s up to the effective end of the socialist/Communist movement in 1989, were Jews.
In fact, Hitchens’ own Daily Mail article (an inset of) refers to Karl Marx simply as “German“, and not the more correct “Jew“, presumably because Marx was born in Germany and spoke German as well as other languages. If I had been born in China, would I be Chinese? Of course not (though some of the madder Twitterati would probably and defiantly answer in the affirmative!).
Thank you @ben_crocket , l hope so. I think the shift is among people working for themselves who really cannot afford to stay at home any longer. https://t.co/ZLsCOh3AZs
I disagree @jayfab69. I think the dangers of Covid-19 to healthy people of any age are gravely exaggerated by a government which wishes to distil fear into power. https://t.co/RytrTjvWTo
I'm sorry @steventomboots. I don't regard testing as a practical or useful response to the prob. The only thing that really needs to be tested is the intelligence of the government, a test they'd fail if properly applied, so requiring them to hand over to somebody sensible. https://t.co/FjGkOQY9xN
Deaths peaked on 8th April. French scientists have found evidence that Covid-19 was in Europe in December. Imperial College's modelling, which caused this panic, is increasingly under question. Expect – and demand – a major rethink soon. https://t.co/XFymlyxqGN
2/2 @johnnyclithero As a result I think the level of fear spread by government propaganda is wholly disproportionate to the problem, as is the policy of throttling the economy and mass house arrest, which do not seem to me to be effective. Happy to discuss further, if you wish. https://t.co/dGUWhKLKyA
Heard one whilst out on my bike Tuesday; can't remember the last time I heard one before then.
— Lee E Collins | Could do better (@Lee_E_Collins) May 7, 2020
Quite, it has been ages, 30 years, I'd guess, since before I went to live in Moscow in 1990. I have put it down the chemical warfare known as modern farming which has led to many British birds moving to the suburbs to find food. https://t.co/KDYr9rijGo
I cannot recall when I last heard a cuckoo. Perhaps in a deeply-wooded part of Surrey, c.1985, aged about 28, when I would go trekking every week for several hours with a well-organized group of elderly persons (all 70+), some of whom, like my parents’ then neighbour, Edward, had been officers of Special Operations Executive (SOE) and/or other organizations during the Second World War.
They would trek on a pre-planned route along rural footpaths (very rural— we never met another soul), wooded, with ferns pressing in at time, and always ending up at the country pub where we had started (and where a ploughman’s lunch and a pint of beer would await). Those old people were resilient! I myself, 50 years their junior (and at the time a student of Taekwando, who also could swim 2 miles or more) always fell asleep on the way home in Edward’s car! That was a tough generation.
More tweets:
This,ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of thing complete strangers,such as @taggio72 here, feel entitled to say to me because I dissent from the official view(this tweet is part of a larger mob troll attack).I regard it with contempt, but others might be scared from speaking out. https://t.co/IVMNX09iHW
I am rather surprised that Hitchens even bothers with Twitter, let alone little twerps such as his “interlocutor” there, “@taggio72″. I myself am banned from Twitter anyway, because a group of Jews organized a campaign of complaints against me in 2018. I do not know whether my 3,000 followers miss my tweets. I followed only about 50 accounts, I believe, and most of those were organizations.
Twitter is basically a waste of time. I do read tweets from a few people (Hitchens being one), but Twitter is basically an echo-chamber and outrage-chamber where the agenda changes almost daily. When you add to that the fact that the more interesting tweeters (like me) have been systematically removed over the last few years, the net result is that Twitter is almost useless, though it is a way of identifying some “enemies of the people”. The bias in Twitter is such that it is almost useless as a way of gauging public opinion. Maybe if you see the Twitter mood, the best idea is to then take the reverse view as being the view of most people.
More tweets
The government have done something that weak, incompetent and insecure rulers often do. They sought to distil power from fear. In this case the spirit is too strong. The fear is so great they are trapped by it. https://t.co/fgR0bw95HD
Failure to protect care homes, plus very loose definitions of who died from rather than of the virus, which have enlarged the figures. https://t.co/4RGDGcgN22
Nope @F59man Powell was a fastidious man of great intellect and education. He knew that terms such as 'grinning piccaninnies' and 'whip hand' were the weapons of the rabble rouser. yet he deliberately used them in a speech calculated to boost his political 'career'. No excuse. https://t.co/U0yOznlyV7
Hitchens is against Powell on various bases, including Powell’s alliance with what is now called “racism” (before about 1989, most people would have used the word “racialist”, though that was not so often heard. The politically-correct mob had not yet quite stormed the citadel (under their paramount chief, Blair).
My own view about Powell is that he was a Conservative, so I am not on the same page as him. When he made his famous or “infamous” speech, I was only 11 and living in Australia.
The ITV News piece below is of course multikulti-biased; still…
The fact is that, overall, Enoch Powell was right. Is the Tiber “foaming with much blood”? Not in the cartoon sense, but look at the violent crime in the large cities, the knife crime, the gangs etc. Look at the direction of travel. It is getting worse.
As to Powell himself, one of the true stars of postwar British politics. He was a Conservative, which I am not. He hunted the fox, which I deplore. Still, a real mind amid, even then, the mediocrity. Look at that clip again. Both of the other MPs featured are very slight as compared to Powell.
The first, Paul Uppal, a Sikh, was Conservative Party MP for Powell’s old seat, though only from 2010-2015. Prior to that, supposedly “ran his own business”, the nature of which was not disclosed even on his own website, except that it apparently had no employees other than himself… (#bullshitklaxon…)
As for Ian Austin, MP for Dudley North 2005-2019, he was a press officer in the Labour Party prior to becoming an MP. A total mediocrity, as well as being one of the worst expenses cheats in the Commons and a doormat for the Jewish lobby and Israel.
Austin was finally removed from Parliament in 2019, having stepped down to avoid losing his seat. He was not popular, and caused scandal by apparently wanting the law against pornography featuring bestiality to be repealed. He too has now been given a government sinecure. He is unmarried (I do not know whether he has a pet or companion animal; I hope not!).
Powell, a former Professor of Ancient Greek (Sydney University), who had been born into very modest circumstances in the UK, was multilingual, an academic star student who, after leaving his Sydney academic post, joined the British Army as a private soldier in 1939. He ended the war in 1945 as a brigadier.
I imagine that Powell would have been appalled at the MPs now sitting in the Westminster monkeyhouse. As for Twitter, I cannot see him having an account or bothering with the tidal wave of ignorance, though the brevity taught by his mastery of Greek epigrams and proverbs might have assisted him, if he were to have a Twitter account.
I oppose Powell in that he was very pro war with Germany, even before Hitler took power! Also, he did not say much about black and brown immigration into the UK until the late 1960s. To that extent, Hitchens is right. Powell did try to, as people now say, “weaponize” the race issue for his own political benefit. However, that resonated with millions of British people who even then suspected that the System was betraying them.
Why did Powell never really get anywhere politically after 1968? My view is that, as someone who was basically a Conservative and reactionary, he could not see himself as “national revolutionary”, leading a social-national party.
“A February 1969 Gallup poll showed Powell the “most admired person” in British public opinion.” [Wikipedia]
Had Powell started his own party, even if Conservative-nationalist, he probably would have won several seats and perhaps attracted a few Conservative Party MPs too. It has to be borne in mind that, in the 1970 General Election, over 97% of the votes went to LibLabCon, just under 90% to Labour and Conservative. Powell probably simply thought that new parties fail…
So it was that, in 1974, Powell abandoned the Conservative Party and joined the Ulster Unionists. Why? Again, my own view is that Powell had in mind the bloc of Irish MPs (I think about 90) that Parnell had once led, in the 19thC, though Powell was not the leader of the UUP (which was also few in number at Westminster, I think about 11 MPs).
It may be that, in the end, Powell over-valued Parliament, Parliamentary procedures etc. It was alien to him to start a new party, despite his surely knowing that he had all the talents necessary to lead one: public profile, public support (up to a point), a fine mind, public speaking skills of a high order, administrative skills etc.
Imagine if Powell had had the initiative to start a new party immediately after the “Rivers of Blood” speech. He could have recruited thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands. He might have been able to get a bloc of MPs and, from there, who knows?
As for Hitchens, where I part company with him is that he is a kind of “small-c” conservative or quasi-conservative. The race question is as nothing to him, the Jewish Question is as nothing to him. As a result, he inevitably gets things wrong at times even when, often, he is on the right track.
Why are they not dealing with that gorilla, even if it requires a taser (or a Glock)? I have no idea what the situation was, though. The black may simply have been sunbathing. God knows.
A tweet about the pathetic Question Time rubbish now fronted, poorly, by ludicrously-overpaid BBC face Fiona Bruce:
People who are “conservative” nationialists can never see that the UK is not being flooded by non-whites by some kind of accident! Question Time, The Pledge etc are not full of ignorant blacks such as Afua Hirsch or “Femi” by “accident“! Au contraire. This is part of the Great Replacement. It is not a “conspiracy theory”. It is real and it is all around you. Just open your eyes.
Well, that’s enough for today. I may not like the Chinese attitude to animals, but they can put on a parade!
End of the day…
Afterthought: the officially-mandated “clap” nonsense, which has been conspicuous by near-absence around where I live, was briefly in evidence this evening, at 2000 hrs. Some fireworks went off in the distance, then I heard one person loudly clapping, unseen but not far away. Maybe a drunk.
I think 3 of my neighbours clapped for 30 seconds this week! 😂😂#NHSclap When it started almost the entire street was out. They have to stop this nonsense.
If anyone wonders why so many of the tweets here, and in recent days on this blog, are those of the scribbler Peter Hitchens, it is because, as far as the “Coronavirus” situation is concerned, he has been (and still is) one of the few well-known people to speak up publicly against the UK “lockdown” nonsense, the mad thinking behind it, and about the likely results of it.
Also, against the extraordinary power grab by the organs of the State (especially the police) and the supine response of most British people at being turned into serfs confined to their dwellings or shouted at —for inoffensive and completely harmless acts such as taking walks, driving a car, or sitting on a beach— all at the whim of police “officers” and/or “democratic” (incompetent and idiotic) politicians such as little Matt Hancock.
For those interested, I have previously blogged about Hitchens himself:
A small point, which illustrates how gullible people can be. Normally, government and NHS would strive to keep media and TV crews out of ICUs, especially during the NHS's regular winter crises. Now coverage appears to be actively welcome. Why would that be? https://t.co/gCsGejljXS
Oh, I don't know at @hijacked222. If you read of a mediaeval king who forced his subjects to stay in their homes and forbade them to work, forcing them to become his debtors while their crops rotted in the fields, you'd think he was a tyrant. https://t.co/D8n5SAGS97
2/2 Am I right to guess you are or were a police officer @fitchandy? Your contemptuous, abusive attitude towards me is certainly all too typical of that formerly-respected profession, as we have all seen over the past few weeks. They have forgotten who and what they serve. https://t.co/1yyW9XQLoc
1/2 On the contrary, @fitchandy, a prat like me is utterly uninterested in response time. A police officer(unless he or she can do first aid) can do little for you *after* a crime.HYe can't unburgle, unmug or unstab you. His job is to prevent crime through visible presence. https://t.co/1yyW9XQLoc
Puzzled as to why a political elite that can't get schools to teach children to read (after 30 years of trying) or get the police to do preventive foot patrols( after 40 years of promising 'more bobbies on the beat') thinks it can control a *virus*. Or why anyone thinks it could.
Eloquent, reasoned, persuasive and packed with thought and consideration, like so much from the pro 'smash the economy, strangle liberty' side of the argument. https://t.co/2r1WlfSAcO
Have you actually considered how you trace the contacts of a bus or suburban train commuter, especially when there appears to be no reliable test? All this testing stuff is a diversion from the real issue: Is it worth wrecking our prosperity and stifling our freedom? https://t.co/ursp03YNVr
Interested to know what measures you would support, @DrMMcDermott: Compulsory Detention of suspected carriers? Armed militia patrols? House searches? Active encouragement of neighbour denunciation with rewards? Public humiliation of offenders? https://t.co/KsfP1Vr71Y
Interested to know what measures you would support, @DrMMcDermott: Compulsory Detention of suspected carriers? Armed militia patrols? House searches? Active encouragement of neighbour denunciation with rewards? Public humiliation of offenders? https://t.co/KsfP1Vr71Y
'Good-sized regions from Utah to Sweden to much of East Asia have avoided harsh lockdowns without being overrun by Covid-19'. Interesting research undermining the near-universal presumption that shutdowns are effective: https://t.co/TAgl3LWBdT
Getting things in proportion. Some careful, thoughtful consideration of current Covid-19 statistics, set against past experience and events in other countries – the only way to make sense of them : https://t.co/fdusp3eULW
Oh, good heavens, yes @murdo_mcghie , I think these measures are grossly disproportionate to the problem, dangerous to civilisation and freedom – and will in time kill many, many thousands who would otherwise have remained heathy and happy. https://t.co/QVFv7TIZ1r
1/2 In general, yes, though I suspect the disease has almost certainly *done* most of its spreading (hence the current deaths) and find it a struggle to believe I take much risk by passing within less than six feet of a person on a street or in a park. https://t.co/qXsR61o6hk
The reason why I have republished these tweets, mostly from Hitchens, is because these are the cogent points which have not been seen in the msm. The “British” TV, radio, Press have mostly been engaged in an exercise of scaring the bejesus out of the British people, aka (as shown all too clearly during this “crisis”) a mob of frightened rabbit-like plebs.
In fact, looking at the way in which the British people have meekly complied with, not only the new repressive “Coronavirus” law but also the expressed wishes of mostly pretty stupid government ministers (little Matt Hancock and others), which wishes are not law, it is clear that most British people do not want to be “free” or anything like it. That is why the British people have stood still while mass immigration trashed their society, land and culture. That is why there were so few protests when Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, the jew “lord” Freud and others trashed much of the Welfare State, and that is why few cared much as even the sainted NHS was cut back (and maladministered) for a decade or more.
Napoleon said that the English were “a nation of shopkeepers”. A lot of truth in that, psychologically, but today the shops are almost all shut by government decree (advised so by “experts” who at first predicted 500,000 Coronavirus deaths, then 250,000, then 5,000, and now whatever seems plausible on the basis of a few days’ massaged “statistics”).
Today, the English, Scots, Welsh are, visibly, nations of scared unthinking rabbits. Plebs. In fact, to call any of them “nations” seems rather to stretch it…
So we see that the rabbits believe almost everything the msm tells them about the (almost non-existent) “danger” of walking in parks, or on beaches, or on Welsh or Peak District hills. The same rabbits, many of them, will all be out at a certain hour today (I believe) and “clapping for the NHS”, a meaningless and State-encouraged “loyalty show” akin to something from the now-defunct (except in North Korea) socialist world.
In fact, those most keen to do as the Government of fools wishes (and who want ever-stricter “lockdown”) are precisely the pseudo-socialists, as seen on Twitter.
Clapathon
I thought that the latest State-mandated “clap fest” was this evening. Maybe not. At any rate, there was no clapping, or banging frying pans, around here. Maybe the idea has petered out.
Basic income
The SNP has called for Basic Income, something that I have favoured for years. An idea whose time has come.
I want to step back from the immediacy of this global crisis around Coronavirus, to examine political, social and economic possibilities down the line.
How long will the immediate crisis last in the UK?
If he is correct, this might be over by early Summer.
Professor Levitt points to Wuhan itself, where, amazingly, only 3% of the population became infected; he also mentions the quarantined ship Diamond Princess. Even on that ship, the infected proportion of all those aboard was only 20% by the end of its journey. More people than expected may have natural —full or partial— immunity.
The professor distinguishes Italy on the basis of its communal social life, tradition of physical contact in everyday life and its very high proportion of elderly people.
Vital expert corrective to state-sponsored panic : Coronavirus may have infected half of UK population — Oxford study https://t.co/X9DemF8vL5
The bottom line, as far as the UK is concerned, is that the country may be out of the purely medical emergency by July or even June.
China
As said, global crisis. China is, it seems, emerging from the immediate medical crisis in the Wuhan city and surrounding province, and much of China has not seen large-scale infection. That, however, does not mean that China can return to pre-Coronavirus normal.
China has, since the 1980s, based its economy on exports. If the rest of the world is in recession and stops buying Chinese goods, the Chinese economy falls off a cliff. Is that a serious problem for China or for the West? Both, I suppose.
Even in my own lifetime, i.e. since 1956, the world has seen China go from Soviet ally with typical Soviet-style economic policies, to the misconceived Great Leap Forward and then, in the 1960s, the Cultural Revolution which set China back for decades.
The death of Mao in 1976 was followed by more internecine conflict, personified by the Gang of Four and characterized by the migration of millions of starving peasants to the cities. Even after all of that, and after China started to rise industrially, the attempts of a relatively few students to force the Communist Party to give in to their demand for Western-style democracy led to the late 1980s crackdown.
China, though still socially-backward, has made huge strides economically and technically. If the rest of the world stops buying Chinese goods, that progress may stop. China then will have to either restart large-scale exports or re-orientate its economy to a domestic consumption model. That would be a very hard thing to do.
If China becomes unstable, almost anything could happen. Pressure from the huge Chinese populations on the thinly-populated Far East of Siberia (former Soviet Far East) would become unstoppable. Even now, there has been a gradual and permitted infiltration into Russian Siberia by Chinese farmers, businessmen etc.
On the international stage, China is now somewhere between a regional player and a superpower. Its navy has not far short of 900 large ships (the UK equivalent is about 20), for example.
Russia and USA
Putin’s Russia is famously dependent on hydrocarbon sales. If the world slips into recession, demand for oil and gas reduces. At the same time, the price of oil and gas is already at a low level. Russia’s economy will buckle. That will lead to domestic retrenchment and political instability. The likely outcome is a more aggressive stance in terms of foreign policy. In recent years,the Russian military machine has, like that of China, been significantly upgraded.
The Soviet Union was often derided by foreign diplomats as “Upper Volta with rockets” [for younger readers, Upper Volta was the “state” now known as Burkina Faso]. The point was often taken to be “the Soviet Union is like Upper Volta”, a bit of a joke in other words, whereas the point often missed was “with rockets“. The Soviet Union had the capacity to obliterate most if not all of Western Europe and, indeed, most if not all of the USA. All the military targets and urban centres of importance, for sure. That still applies.
We often think that it matters that the USA has 2x, 5x (or whatever) the nuclear-destructive power of Russia. In fact, in real terms, all that matters is that Russia can land quite a number of missiles on the USA should it see the necessity. Yes, an equal and probably greater number would hit and hit harder the lands of Russia, launched from US bases or submarines, but that fact would not help the unfortunates of New York, Philadelphia, Washington, LA, Houston, Chicago etc.
From the nuclear deterrence point of view, the only important distinction is between states capable of launching an effective targeted long-range (another important distinction) nuclear missile and those without such capability. That is why the USA is desperately trying to stop or at least delay the missile programmes of Iran and North Korea.
Military men tend to think in military terms. In that sense, a few nuclear missiles landing on various cities in North America may not be seen as strategically determinative, whereas in the real world of human society, let us say in the USA, a missile landing on New York City, one on Washington DC and one on Los Angeles collapses the society, pretty much.
We saw what happened during Hurricane Katrina. The USA was unable to deal with a situation in part of one city. Could the USA deal with the destruction of its hundred most important towns and cities? I think not.
UK
As I write, the UK is approaching its most testing time for about 80 years. The Government has mandated the closure of effectively the whole of the economy apart from supermarkets and other parts of the food sector.
At the same time, the Government has decided to support the pay of “furloughed” employees, up to 80% of what had been their pay (I presume net pay), at least for now, and up to a maximum of £2,500 a month. The scheme will last for 3 months, so until the end of June, but may be and probably will be extended. Other support (loans and tax breaks) is targeted at businesses themselves.
The self-employed are so far left out in the cold, though it seems clear that the Government will offer something to them. Whether that help reaches even to the £2,500 per month cap applicable to employees on PAYE is unclear. Probably not.
In any event, it seems that no-one, whether PAYE or self-employed, will get anything at all until sometime in April.
Coronavirus: Around 7.5m UK people have no savings to fall back on. The earliest help for employees will arrive at the end of April; little for the self-employed. Food, rent, rates, gas, electricity, water bills won't wait. Govt policy being made on the hoof, lacking detail.
They could relatively easily institute a UBI scheme. No assessments needed just issue the money! Radical times require radical solutions! https://t.co/H9NUrnvLhC
Who are these self employed people making more money out of lockdown? I suppose a few who play the stock market exploiting crashes. Anyone else? My feed is 100 % people who have lost all /most of their business. https://t.co/xeOSnIFyFj
“Austerity” is dead. The emergency package rolled out by Rishi Sunak proves beyond all doubt that what the critics of the “austerity” nonsense said was correct: that “austerity” was a purely political choice by the Conservative Party, and particularly by the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne. The whole scam has been exploded by the opening of financial floodgates by Rishi Sunak. The Universal Credit minimum is going to be £20 a week more, thus increasing cash income of many by about 30% at a stroke.
The huge economic stimulus now made available should have been tried back in 2010 or 2012. Countries that stimulated their economies rode out the downturn far better than Britain did under the idiotic Cameron-Osborne “austerity” policies.
Has Sunak’s giveaway been motivated mainly by a fear that simply to let the economy collapse would be to invite public disorder? Is that why Sunak arbitrarily (?) put the Universal Credit minimum weekly stipend up to £95? A kind of Danegeld?
What has happened is that the real economy has now been put into deep freeze for a period the duration of which is unknown but may last for several months. Economic activity is all but zero outside the food sector (and to some extent within it, eg the restaurant and takeaway industries). At the same time, the revenues of both central and local government have been hit by the dropoff in tax revenues: income tax, VAT, business rates etc.
The unspoken reality is that government revenue reservoirs are now not being replenished by the taxes and imposts paid during normal times by those persons and enterprises active in the economy. The governmental apparat and everything done by government is now running purely from “borrowing”, though at historically-very-low interest rates. Bar that, the State is running on empty.
The shutdown of almost everything will wipe out a huge number of businesses in the UK. In fact, that was already happening even before the Coronavirus situation, which then made the situation far worse: Laura Ashley, Primark, Toys R Us, HMV, House of Fraser, Mothercare, Wrightbus, Thomas Cook, Debenhams, to name only the best known. Most of those I have known since childhood. Many others have also become insolvent, such as Jamie’s Italian (restaurants) and Patisserie Valerie. Incidentally, it might be thought that a company such as Patisserie Valerie employed relatively few people. It depends what you mean by “relatively few”, though (900 in the case of Patisserie Valerie).
We see now that the entire “High Street” economy is closed. Much of it will not reopen. The same may be true of much of the rest of the economy.
I think that we can see now why the “emergency measures” in the Coronavirus Bill or Act are drafted to last for (so far) 2 years, not for a few months. We also see why that Bill contains “national security” clauses. The System is afraid.
I wonder how many small or even larger businesses will “furlough” their employees? Many will simply lay them off permanently or sack them. Not every big businessman is as disgusting as Tim Martin of Wetherspoon’s pubs, but many, and especially the smaller businesses, will simply become, in short order, unviable and so insolvent.
In my view, the correct answer would have been to offer former employees, the “self-employed” and others a Basic Income, but not to guarantee 80% of the income of furloughed employees and certainly not to throw money at businesses. Better to give what money there is to give at
individuals, via Basic Income;
real infrastructure projects on a vast scale (once the medical emergency has passed).
New businesses would then start, fuelled by the money the population would have via Basic Income.
Politically?
Discontent will grow if this situation is not resolved within weeks or, at most, a couple of months. We already see both ex-employees and insolvent “self-employed” (many of whom are not in business but simply doing what would once have been an employed job but now on a “self-employed” basis) crying because they are being asked to live on £95 (cash income) per week. Many of these were Conservative Party voters in 2019, 2017, even 2015 and 2010. They thought that the unemployed and disabled did not “deserve” even £95 per week (or even £75…). Well, “what goes around comes around”.
Basic Income is the right thing for the UK, and I note that that horrible bastard Iain Dunce Duncan Smith opposes it on the basis (the incorrect basis) that it acts as “a disincentive to work”. So says a part-Jap freeloader who has never done a day’s work in his miserable life!
One can see that confidence in the Conservatives is low, but confidence in Labour is even lower! This must open the ground for social nationalism soon.
There must emerge a proper social-national movement. The time is, even now, not yet right, but it may well be by the end of this year.
Er, yes. It is afrightening read, though surprisingly quiet on the Babylonian effects of the death of money, espcially in Berlin. I have litle doubt that the German money catastrophe, by demoralising the former middle classes, brought Nazism intio being. https://t.co/qbMlhdXYGS
Ian Robert Millard 