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Diary Blog, 14 August 2026

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[“Britain is the only Western country where the police will turn up at your door for a tweet, but somehow never seem to find the time when actual criminals are running the streets. Say something mildly offensive online? Instant investigation. Actual violence, knife crime, shoplifting epidemics? “Community impact assessments” and soft justice. They’ll lecture you about “hate speech” while the establishment destroys the country’s energy security with Net Zero virtue-signalling that makes your bills higher and industry uncompetitive. The message is clear: your opinions are the real threat. Everything else is just background noise. Two-tier justice isn’t a theory. It’s the operating system. #UK #Britain #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfSpeech #FreeExpression #UKPolitics #BritishPolitics #TwoTierJustice #FreeSpeechMatters #Police #UKPolice #JusticeSystem #LawAndOrder #KnifeCrime #Crime #NetZero #EnergySecurity #CostOfLiving #PoliticalAccountability #BritishPublic #SpeakFreely #PoliticalDebate #WesternCivilisation #UKNews“]

Public water supply, on the large scale, has to be in public ownership.

Yet many people, brainwashed by the System msm, will still vote System (Con, Lab, or the joke LibDems), in the belief that the longstanding System parties are more credible than others, even though that flies in the face of decades of their own lived experience.

If only the initial 2022 invasion by Russian forces had been planned and executed properly, in the Soviet fashion. A blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy.

Dan Hodges is not really a journalist in the traditional sense, more a tendentious and obsessed talking-head and scribbler.

Not very polite, but more or less what Hodges deserves…

I have little time for Farage, ideologically. His pro-Jew, pro-Israel stances, if nothing else, ensure that. His globalist and mindless “libertarianism” too.

Having said that, the “stunt” at Clacton was surely the stupid and meaningless “Count Binface” stunt, which was expressly backed by so many of the tired “woke” types on Twitter/X and in the msm (including Hodges).

The fact is that the old System parties, the LibLabCon-men (and women) are still running scared of Reform UK and, potentially, even more so of what can be seen coming down the tracks after Reform: maybe Restore Britain and, then, after that, real social nationalism.

The traditional System parties ran scared of Farage and Reform at Clacton. Had any of them thought they had a chance, they would have stood candidates. None did. They knew that Farage would beat them easily.

The “Binface” stunt showed, actually, how meaningless the Parliamentary circus is. More than 9,000 cretins (or disenchanted) voted for the “Binface” stunt nitwit. I suppose that, had the System parties stood, Lab and LibDem would have lost their deposits or nearly so (as happened in 2024), and that the Con candidate would have received a few thousand votes and probably come second.

Unable to say more about the actual result (i.e. Farage and Reform getting 63.34% of the vote, as against 46.2% in 2024), the msm scribblers have decided that the big story is that Farage did not turn up for the official declaration…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_(constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

All the traditional churches (and their offshoot organizations) have fallen into decadence and evil.

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[The Wicker Man (1973 British film)]

Latest vlog from Bealtaine Cottage

Some of her comments show an (inchoate) understanding of the encroaching evil in the world, evil using bureaucracy —and endless laws and regulations— as a cloak. She also realizes that that has increased and encroached more since the “Covid” scamdemic of 2020-2022.

Another recent Bealtaine Cottage vlog

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As blogged yesterday, Burnham is out of his depth. Not as obviously evil as his predecessor, Starmer-stein, but so far pretty obviously without real ideas, and anyway without the means or references to radically improve things in the UK.

Anyone caught deliberately setting fires at the present time (as allegedly happened in the Stourbridge case) should be executed in the field, no matter whether they are 50 years old, 20, or (as implied) about 15.

Another commentator addicted to the “we did this” idea. No, “we” did not do this; a few malicious little bastards did it (it seems), and they should be caught and executed in the field. No need for a trial. Executive action.

In fact, that tweeter really knows that “we” are not doing it: see

I have already stated my view. A couple of field executions, and the deliberate fire-raising would stop.

[“NEW: Labour MP Rachael Maskell, who once said that it doesn’t matter if mass migration causes longer NHS waiting times in working class areas, has attacked plans to house more migrants near her 90% white constituency of York Central.

She has described the plans as “unsuitable”, claiming it will cause a strain on local resources.

Funny how that works.”]

So it begins…

Rachael Maskell is an idiot (and clearly a hypocrite), but no worse than most MPs now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Maskell.

Those who want more migration (invasion) into the UK, or think it not a big issue, are either traitors to the future of the British people, or totally deluded. Mass immigration impacts almost everything: housing, road and rail capacity, education, pay, State benefits (including pensions), social services, NHS services, policing, even water supply.

Don’t forget the “Conservative” (((Conservative))) Party, which presided over massive migration-invasion from 2010-2024.

[“PRIME MINISTER ANDY BURNHAM — COME TO PIDDINGTON. @andyburnham See what Whitehall sees only on a map. A village of 350 people. 46 children. No shop. No pub. No substantial infrastructure. Drive the fast rural roads — stretches with no pavement and no safe pedestrian route to the nearest town, six miles away. Now consider the proposal: accommodation for up to 1,250 male asylum seekers on the edge of our village. More than three times our entire population. Explain to our 46 children and their families how a development of this scale will work safely. Tell us where the infrastructure is. Tell us what the policing plan is — because when we asked, none was provided. Cherwell District Council has stated there was no prior engagement or consultation before the announcement. Explain why. You have spoken about giving places outside Westminster a voice. Ours is clear. 96% of those voting supported a referendum on our future. We are not asking you to read another letter. We are asking you to come here. Walk the village. Meet the residents. See the roads. Answer the questions. Do not make decisions about Piddington from Whitehall. 350 people. 46 children. One village that refuses to be ignored. We are Piddington. THE VILLAGE THAT ROARED“]

System MPs, ministers, and prime ministers take no notice of letters, petitions, tweets, or blog posts for that matter. Only one thing really scares them, and I cannot specify what that is, because the UK is nowhere near a “free country” these days. Just read between the lines, as people living under unfree governments have always done.

Now, listen— those migrant-invader bastards are not welcome in these islands. They must be, to put it plainly, concentrated in guarded camps in remote parts of the UK until they can be either deported or eliminated.

Millions are on their way. Stop them, using whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.

Oh, and if the Navy or others refuse to do their duty, dismiss them all, and recruit new personnel.

The cartoonists have picked up on it:

Refers, of course, not only to the migration invasion but also to the ludicrous propaganda being pumped out on msm about how Putin and Russia want to invade Western or Central Europe and even the UK (which they could never do anyway, and would never want to do).

Taking the propaganda at its face, I should far rather be invaded by a million or more Russians (who are, overall, as a people, basically cultured, quite often of high IQ, and of European-origin for the most part) than —as now— invaded by millions of black/brown, low-IQ, low —or no— culture (sometimes subhuman) migrant invaders, many of whom have a predisposition to sex crime (in fact, do not even regard rape etc as crimes, as can be seen in criminal court reports daily now).

As far as 99% of the migrant-invaders are concerned (not just the small-boat invaders), the best that we can expect is that they will be merely an army of parasites, living off the British people. In reality, many are also involved in one or another type of crime. A few (or maybe more than a few) are also motivated by support for out-and-out terrorism. In fact, many of the invaders hate us, despite the fact that our misguided or malicious governments have been giving them shelter, food, and spending money.

We have to stop this whole invasion, get rid of the invaders already here, and make the UK, overall, an ethnostate.

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I have driven past there once or twice, in more abundant days circa 2004, when the reservoir was full.

It cannot be defended. Evacuate the European population, and leave both enclaves (Ceuta and Melilla) to the invaders, but then shoot to kill any who arrive on Spanish shores, on the shores of sacred Europe.

Israel must be regarded as a pariah-state, not to be traded with, or even spoken to, by civilized Europe (Christendom, if you like).

Its “fifth columns” within Europe must be dealt with.

Bolton, a pro-“intervention” (pro-war) policy hawk (who himself however managed to avoid having to see action in Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton#Vietnam_War) is associated with all the usual pro-war causes (pro-Israel, pro-“Ukraine” etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton#Israel.

In short, a horrible old bastard.

The Kiev regime continues to hit purely civilian targets.

I think that the Russian side will soon get very tired of trying to very slowly advance in Eastern Ukraine, and may be wondering whether it really needs to keep Kiev and other major centres in existence.

I hope that the great city of Kiev will not be devastated or destroyed (again) but the way things are going look stormy. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war.

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[panorama of Kiev, Pecherskaya Lavra, Motherland statue, and river Dnieper]

Diary Blog, 31 July 2026

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[The Motherland Calls, Volgograd (Russia)]

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Incredible but not unbelievable, paradoxically…

Europe has not even started to defend itself against the migration invasion that might well kill it.

Kiev, not “Kyiv” or (as the BBS prefers) “Keeev”…

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad“…

Forget legalisms. This is an invasion, and will have to be dealt with by military or para-military methods.

Please refer to previous comment.

Presumably a kind of gallows-humour reference to the Israeli/Palestinian situation.

Forty thousand of the bastards…

A horrible individual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George#2007_false_imprisonment_and_assault_of_escort.

Readers are invited to use the search box on the blog, where they can find many references and assessments of Lewis, who usually takes on high-profile but open-and-shut cases which give him easy money and tend to boost his unmerited reputation (puffed by sympathetic Jewish/Zionist scribblers in the msm). In difficult cases, his record is poor; fundamentally, he is both negligent and dishonest.

Monkey-on-a-stick.

We…” nothing! It is the Jewish lobby, aka Israel lobby, that is behind 99% of the anti-free-speech tendency, and laws, and cases, in this country. The same lobby that Andrew Neil almost always supports.

The Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.

This is probably an attempt to repeat the success of the fake “people’s march” to invade the then Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1975. Franco would have shot them down, but he was on his deathbed at the time. The rest is history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Sahara; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_March.

Amazing. I have been there quite a few times over the past 16 years. I agree with that tweeter.

Looks like I was right to see that incursion as a form of gun-boat diplomacy without the gun-boats by Morocco.

Why does Spain want to keep those two tiny enclaves anyway? Chuck them (and the black migrant-invaders who arrive) to Morocco, and give the Moroccans the problem.

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[painting by Vicente Romero Redondo]

Diary Blog, 30 July 2026

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[Serge Marshennikov, Dream]

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Kiev, not “Kyiv”…

For once, I agree with ex-MP Largan.

I have not seen the judgment, even in part, and I have not been in Bar practice for a very long time, but my first thought is that such [an apparent] decision must surely be appealable, if only on grounds of public policy.

Instead of monkeying around with legalities and “targets”, it would be more practical to help farmers construct private dams for irrigation, of which many already exist, but many more are needed. However, they cost up to £2M each, and £1M is a quite common cost. I do not necessarily say that the money need be an out and out grant, but some kind of financial incentive is necessary.

Lvov, not “Lviv”…

The Russian side is looking for a gamechanger that will collapse the shambolic and corrupt Kiev regime.

Boris-idiot is just a tool of the NWO/ZOG cabals. A monkey, not an organ-grinder.

Coudenhove-Kalergi conspiracy.

In any case, “small boat” and similar arrivals are only 5% of all the migration invasion. “Legal” immigration is flooding this country with useless and parasitic blacks and browns. Then we have, also, births to non-white mothers, and to stupid white women impregnated by non -whites.

The MP-monkeys perform as directed by the (((organ-grinders))). Never forget that.

Terrible, of course, but I am more concerned about the situation in the UK. The truth about land ownership should be far easier to uncover than it is. Let’s find out who —and what— own land, especially building land, in the UK.

Historical note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocard_Sewell

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/apr/04/guardianobituaries

I once had the memoirs of Brocard Sewell in my library (when I had a library). Very interesting.

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A very high proportion of both offenders and prisoners is non-white, contrary to the photo used there. In fact, recreating a white European population in this country would improve our society in many ways.

Migration invasion.

The fact is that it would be far better to be invaded by 1940s German, 1970s late-Soviet or, indeed, 2020s Russian Federation invaders, than by the mobs of non-white untermenschen now arriving literally by the million, when taken over time.

See also: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/30/thousands-of-migrants-swim-to-spain/?recomm_id=4f6ac16f-8bc0-42e5-b84f-36d727a6574f

Translates to a Commons with about 219 Labour MPs (minority government, 107 short of a majority), 187 Reform UK (official Opposition), 93 Cons, 72 LibDems, 34 SNP, 20 Greens [etc].

On those figures, Labour would need the support of all the LibDems, all the SNP, and a couple of Greens to get anything through.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Distraction]

Diary Blog, 14 July 2026

Afternoon music for Bastille Day

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Britain has many problems but one particular policy (which I cannot specify here) would get rid of one enormous obstacle to the progress of this country.

[“This is who lobbied the British government to ban the IRGC:

  • Jewish Leadership Council (JLC)
    -Board of Deputies of British Jews
  • Campaign Against Antisemitism(CAA)
  • We Believe Alliance (merging We Believe in Israel and National Jewish Assembly)
  • Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
  • Conservative & Labour Friends of ‘israel’

The British public voted for none of these subversive foreign agents.“]

I myself do try to keep to the maxim de mortuis nihil nisi bonum (“of the dead, nothing if not good“), but historical truth must come first. Graham was a total puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby worldwide.

The Downing Street “Nudge Unit”, collaborating with the Army’s 77 Brigade. That bastard Tobias Ellwood, the former MP for Bournemouth North, is one of its key Reserves officers (Lt. Col.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)

I am expecting (((Josh Simons))) to get a fake peerage sometime in the near future.

First of all Trump/U.S. said that the Iranians should not close the Strait or charge transit fees, but now the Americans are purporting to do exactly the same thing!

Trump will, by the end of his term, have achieved precisely nothing, mainly because his word cannot be relied upon from one day to the next.

Our animal friends.

Our animal friends.

I used to love the little hummingbird which came every morning, as soon as dawn broke, to the bushes on the terrace while I breakfasted (on a Caribbean island where I lived and worked for a little while nearly three decades ago).

I would eat my toast and scrambled egg in the relative cool of the early morning, drink a black coffee, and muse on the state of the world.

Someone once described “them” as “the simulacrum of the human“. I have never heard a better description of them.

Russian-operated Iranian-manufactured drones attacking Kiev-regime shipping in the Black Sea.

The weather does seem to be going mad but, in my opinion, this is not primarily by reason of the use of fossil fuels. In fact, even if it were by reason of fossil fuel use, it would change nothing for the UK to reduce such use (the “Net Zero” craziness); that would be so even were the UK to disappear entirely, because the UK only creates 1% of “emissions” caused by such fuels. Other countries create 99%. India and China are still building coal-fired power stations. I believe the Chinese construct one per week, incredibly enough.

Horrible…but Russia must have such weapons-platforms asap, for use against the forces of the Kiev regime.

[“It’s not fair to ask the Boriswave to leave Britain”, say the Left.

Do you know what’s not fair?

Moving 2.6 million people into Britain with no democratic mandate from the British people.

Including care workers who brought as many as 15 relatives with them.

Allowing these people in despite them being a net fiscal cost to the UK economy, taking more out of the state then they are putting in.

And then charging the British people some £600 BILLION for a policy they never even voted for in the first place.

That’s what is unfair.“]

All’s fair in love and war.

Andy Burnham’s government will crash and burn by reason, mainly, of those issues.

When Britain has a real government, “Boris”-idiot must be one of the first put up against a wall.

(the Ann Widddecombe matter).

Hodges worked for that hateful Jew/”antifa” cabal until he found that System scribbling for the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph paid better. He never had to struggle financially, though; he and his dependants lived with his mother, famous actress and politician, Glenda Jackson, in her large house in Blackheath.

Oh, that’s a good way for Labour to lose the support of the only age-demographic still supporting them…

ps. yes, they cannot vote (this year), but will be able to vote in 2028-2029.

That lady (the ex-wife of an ex-MP) still seems to be pushing the line that there is a party or tendency called “the Moderates”, basically Conservatives who do not want to stop immigration. I have blogged before as to my belief (my guess) that the membership of the “Moderates” numbers about the same as the empty bottles in her cellar or kitchen.

She wants to “take off the unaffordable triple lock day 1“.

First of all, the Triple Lock is not unaffordable“, and only appears so because this country is wasting vast amounts on supporting the useless lives of black/brown immigrants and the offspring of previous waves of non-white immigrants, and wasting other huge amounts on the Jew/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev, among other wastages (e.g. military procurement in order to confront Russia, when we should be growing closer with Russia).

Secondly, any party which says it wants to (or does) dump the Triple Lock loses, automatically, the votes of 95% of those over age ~60. That demographic comprises about a third of the entire effective electorate, i.e. the electors who actually bother to vote.

The lady in question seems to be pro-immigration, pro-multikulti society, pro the crazed war against the German Reich 1939-1945, pro increased benefits for some (but not pensioners).

Of course, she herself is rather affluent (her ex-husband employed her at Westminster using Parliamentary expenses, and probably paid her rather well (no-brainer, surely?), she may well have other income streams, and she seems to own two properties, one near Hastings, and one in the Holland Park Avenue area of London.

That is what always astounds me— how out of touch these Westminster Bubble people almost always are.

Incidentally, the lady in question did put herself up for election as MP once; she stood as “Fiona Syms, Independent” in the Richmond Park by-election of 2016. She scored 0.4% of the vote (173 actual votes out of 41,283) behind the LibDems, Zac Goldsmith (standing as Independent), Labour, and the Monster Raving Loony Party…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Park_(constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s

I have no idea why she persists with this fantasy “Moderates” party. A hobby? Something to tweet about?

She seems to think that a so-called “centre” or “moderates” party can appeal to the mass of voters including those who never vote. My own conclusion is exactly opposite: people will eventually want a government which can “do de business”, whatever it takes. WHATEVER it takes.

Well, there it is.

Actually, though I disagree with that lady on most things, I rather like her spirit, and she at least opposes the satanic slaughter and torture etc being imposed by the Israeli Jews on the Arab Palestinians, especially in Gaza.

Talking point

Rather like me. I expect there are quite a few others as well.

Talking point

Starmer-stein will get his funeral on the Mount of Olives yet!

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Ecce the great negotiator and deal-maker… ha ha…

Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.

[“Dawood Safi should never been allowed into Britain.
He was an illegal.
He should then never have been allowed to stay in the country.
He should have been deported.
He then murdered Wayne Broadhurst, who just went for a walk with his dog.
Now Safi gets a manslaughter plea due to “mental health”.

Vote Reform.
Wayne, we will not forget.
“]

All illegal migrants should be herded into concentration camps in remote rural areas, where they can be guarded and undertake agricultural, horticultural, or dendrological work (such as forestry, or rewilding) until they can be dealt with one way or another.

Ha ha. Surely a gold multi-branched Jewish candlestick would be better…

Migration invasion case study: Roundhouse Hotel, Bournemouth

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/26276951.roundhouse-hotel-bournemouth-vacant-later-year

That hotel was once a decent 3-star place. I remember it even from the 1970s, when I rode past once or twice on my tiny and underpowered Vespa scooter when aged 16 or 17.

I also recall seeing it a decade or so later, when I was staying in another hotel nearby with my girlfriend and a Soviet dance troupe.

Well, in recent years it has been occupied and trashed by migrant-invaders, paid for by the British taxpayers.

After numerous instances of criminality, the migrant trash are going to be relocated, perhaps to social or private rentals near you (and still paid for out of your taxes).

Incidentally, that hotel is one of hundreds beneficially owned by a Jew called Langsam, who is “worth” £400M or more, and who came as a so-called refugee from Austria as a small child in 1938 or 1939. He has made untold millions from this country’s migration-invasion crisis: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Langsam.

Every. Single. Time.

Late thought around BBC Newsnight and Andy Burnham

For the first time in years, watched the first few minutes of BBC Newsnight. Oh dear…It started to be rubbish when Kirsty Wark took over (about 30+ years ago). Now, it seems that dull Paddy O’Connell is the presenter.

Terribly dull.

I saw that Andy Burnham gave his first speech in the Commons since his return. Oh my goodness…he focussed on the bloody Hillsborough thing, which some people “up there” (Manchester, Liverpool, mainly) have been drivelling on about since it happened. Yes, it was terrible, yes, the police were incompetent and dishonest, but it happened 37 years ago!

In a way, that so sums up what Britain now is. It is obsessed with past glories, past tragedies etc. Hillsborough. The 1966 World Cup. “The War” (and “our” Pyrrhic victory over the German Reich) etc.

Backward-looking. Provincial. Even parochial. Second-rate (at best).

Burnham had a chance here to really set out a strategy, his ideas. Well, now we know— he has none.

What Burnham has done is to have thrown some red meat to his Manchester (call it Manchester and 50-mile radius) power base. Same with his “deport the Paki-stani child sex criminals“. Nothing wrong with that, but he is only doing it, now, because it buys cheap popularity, especially “up North”. Until recently, he was just part of the Labour Party cover-up.

So that is Burnham. Useless (as I suspected). It is also Labour going, going, gone in a year or three…

I think that we can already see that Burnham will trash what is left of Labour’s support even more than has Starmer-stein.

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[Russian Imperial family, Tsarskoe Selo, 1915]
[Pechersk Lavra, Motherland Monument, and river Dnieper, Kiev]

Diary Blog, 13 September 2025

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[SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler at the Berghof]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He awarded himself 2 “and a half” out of 10, whereas I scored 7/10.

I did not know the answers to questions 6, 7, and 8. I admit that I guessed no.9 (out of two possibilities), and I really should have got no. 8, having visited the area several times, but I was out by some margin.

Typical…

https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/dishonest-london-nurse-blamed-patient-32453832

“‘Dishonest’ London nurse ‘blamed for patient death’ took second job while ‘sick’ and faked timesheets. Adekemi Adefidiya worked agency shifts at Homerton Hospital while receiving sick pay from Barts”

So the “dishonest London nurse” is actually an African…

Not only that. My London used a stock picture of a white nurse to illustrate its report. Imagine the fuss and noise if they had done it the other way around…

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Quite a photograph. Like “neo-Nazi” propaganda…

Oh…

I said, three years or more ago, on the blog, that “slightly to my surprise, Keir Starmer appears absolutely clueless“. Was I right or wrong?

It is not a question of whether Starmer will step down, but how and when. By resignation, and quite soon? After his MPs revolt after the local elections are a metaphorical bloodbath next year (2026)? After he loses the next General Election in (?) 2028 or 2029?

As I was saying…

“Boris”-idiot should be put up against a wall.

That refers to the past 5 years alone…

NO! both to Islamism and to Jew-Zionist supremacism.

…and no to Europe being swamped by non-Europeans in general.

I am not so sure. Never underestimate the stupidity of the so-called “elites”. Having said that, nothing countries such as the UK or France or Germany could send to Ukraine would change substantially the situation on the ground, which is that Russian forces continue to advance, the Kiev-regime forces continue to fall back, and the latter are losing 1,000-2,000 men every day.

Reposted today on Twitter/X by Dr. David Miller, the academic being persecuted and prosecuted by the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.

In fact, re. “lord” Walney (John Woodcock), I was there long before Dr. Miller:

[etc]

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My assessment of the situation, posted over the past week:

See also, from long ago, but with updates:

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Israel is doomed.

We have no need to read scholarly works about the ancient Medes and Persians to see that the relationship between economic strength and military strength is elastic, not simple. Look at North Korea: economically near zero in conventional terms, yet a major regional power militarily, and one which, if it were to acquire deliverable nuclear weapons, might be regarded as a potential world power.

It is true that Israel, Pakistan, and India all have nuclear weapons, and yet are not world powers, but it might be argued that Israel and perhaps India are anyway already more than simply regional powers.

How long before the British taxpayer is asked to pay out (yet again) via more aid money?…

Europeans should rule the world.

[“After the latest war between Iran and the Israeli regime, gaps in the defense systems of both sides were revealed. In these circumstances, Tehran intends to deploy the Russian advanced electronic warfare system “Krasukha-4” in the country in order not only to increase its deterrence potential, but also to create a balance of power in the region.

“Krasukha-4” is capable of blinding enemy radars and disorienting reconnaissance satellites. The deployment of this system in Iran is seen not only as strengthening the defense potential, but also as a strategic move that will entail serious geopolitical consequences for the entire region.“]

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