Senior American and Russian officials, including Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev, have discussed the possibility of involving American investors in "Nord Stream" projects with the aim of potentially resuming Russian gas supplies to Germany after the end of the military conflictโฆ pic.twitter.com/HHpKcvIAK8
— ๐๐ก๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ ๐ป๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ค (@SprinterPress) October 8, 2026
A European diplomat told the publication *Rapporteur* (formerly *Euractiv*) that the **European Union should stop giving Kyiv false hope about its prospects for joining the bloc**.
According to the diplomat, Brussels should be more realistic and transparent about Ukraineโs pathโฆ pic.twitter.com/c0AjnDGZrP
— ๐๐ก๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ ๐ป๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ค (@SprinterPress) October 8, 2026
**Netherlands Admits Military Reserves Have Been Depleted Due to Aid to Ukraine**
According to *Military Watch Magazine*, the Dutch Ministry of Defense has concluded that military assistance to Kyiv is undermining the combat readiness of the Dutch armed forces and making it moreโฆ pic.twitter.com/jDfU1XZSvH
— ๐๐ก๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ ๐ป๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ค (@SprinterPress) October 8, 2026
[“Netherlands Admits Military Reserves Have Been Depleted Due to Aid to Ukraine
According to Military Watch Magazine, the Dutch Ministry of Defense has concluded that military assistance to Kyiv is undermining the combat readiness of the Dutch armed forces and making it more difficult for the country to fulfill its NATO obligations.
The ministry has declined to publicly disclose which NATO targets have been postponed or affected, or to provide details on the current combat readiness of individual Dutch military units. The admission highlights the growing tension between supplying Ukraine with military equipment and maintaining national reserves at levels considered necessary for a major conflict.
According to the ministry, by February 2026, the Netherlands will have provided Ukraine with approximately โฌ11.7 billion in military assistance. The publication also claims that weapons stockpiles across NATO’s European members have been severely depleted, with shortages particularly affecting artillery ammunition, air-defense missiles, anti-tank weapons, and armored vehicles.
Europe is discovering the hard way that weapons sent abroad don’t magically regenerate back home. The bill for rebuilding those stockpiles could be just as serious as the bill for the aid itself.“]
Researchers at Stanford University say that, contrary to claims and expectations from the U.S. government and major business leaders, their independent analysis indicates that **China could soon catch up withโand potentially surpassโthe United States in the development ofโฆ pic.twitter.com/THdFzpnlPN
— ๐๐ก๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ ๐ป๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ค (@SprinterPress) October 8, 2026
[“Researchers at Stanford University say that, contrary to claims and expectations from the U.S. government and major business leaders, their independent analysis indicates that China could soon catch up withโand potentially surpassโthe United States in the development of advanced artificial intelligence models.
The researchers argue that the gap between the two countries is narrowing rapidly, challenging the assumption that the United States will maintain a lasting lead in the global AI race.
The AI race is starting to look less like a marathon and more like a photo finishโwith China closing the gap fast.“]
That is, I think, a signal that, should the European states get into a direct war situation with Russia, those European states will not be able to rely on American back-up.
Russian troops liberated the community of Annopolye in the Kharkov Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russiaโs Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/uLEfJ17on4pic.twitter.com/cK5SdYYG5i
She herself is neither English (that’s unarguable) nor, in any real sense, British. Her parents deliberately came to London for a few weeks so that she could be born in the UK and, as the law was in 1981, then be entitled later on to a British passport (that bad law was changed in 1982, so she only just scraped in before the portcullis was lowered). She then lived in Nigeria and the USA until she was 16 or 17. She is no more British than I am Nigerian.
Her children (who are of mixed-race) likewise.
Migrant camps are now normal in the capital. Several sit in Holborn and St Pancras, Keir Starmerโs old seat.
Men the hotels could not hold, pitched on the pavement. Some of them using the street as a toilet in front of the flats. Residents get a shrug. The council gets aโฆ
That is a small taste of what the British people have coming down the tracks at them unless a social-national government, or one very similar, does not seize power pretty soon.
Having said that, and incidentally, that AI-produced (?) picture of Kemi Badenoch in her supposed ancestral type of dress makes her look a lot better than usual. I have noticed in the past that black women usually look much better in that kind of colourful get-up.
Seems an underestimate anyway. Of course, the “small boat” arrivals are only ~5% of the whole migration invasion. Multiply those figures by about 20, and you get a better idea. Half a million to a million. Every single year.
Our society is already showing stress; by 2030, it may be showing clear signs of terminal stress.
Green activist wonโt take a refugee into his house but expects the working class to stay homeless for them. ๐ฌ๐งVOTE RESTORE BRITAIN ๐ฌ๐ง HOLBORN AND SAINT PANCRAS BY ELECTION pic.twitter.com/hBUvhEkCxE
— ๐ฌ๐ง National Housing Party U.K. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ (@LeaderNHPUK) September 26, 2026
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Images of the IRGC testing an air mine on one of the Iranian islands, which is used to prevent the deployment of troops by helicopter. pic.twitter.com/KLY0kabo1Z
— ๐๐ก๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ ๐ป๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ค (@SprinterPress) October 8, 2026
Interesting. Had never seen, nor heard of, that.
Kpler, the worldโs largest maritime research firm, suspects that some Gulf oil-producing states are paying Iran โtransit feesโ for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
โ Michelle Bruhard, head of geopolitical policy and risk at the firm, says that countries like Qatar,โฆ pic.twitter.com/kpsxkTnvbO
— ๐๐ก๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ ๐ป๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ค (@SprinterPress) October 8, 2026
Must add up to a massive amount. When I was a barrister, I drafted, at times, contracts for the transhipment of oil from the Middle East to black Africa. Each shipment was worth over USD $80M, and that was over 20 years ago. So maybe USD $150M today. If Iran is getting 20% of the value of every shipload, each one is worth perhaps USD $30M in “transit fees” to Iran. There might be several in a day even under present conditions.
Leonkov: Great Britain is gradually getting drawn into a direct conflict with Russia.
IF THERE IS A MAJOR ESCALATION, THE FIRST TARGETS WILL BE BRITISH FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE DRONES AND ROCKETS FOR KYIV.
Boris Johnson, who just the other day claimed he hadn't started a war, hasโฆ pic.twitter.com/VZZXU7B1tS
— ๐๐ก๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ ๐ป๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ค (@SprinterPress) October 8, 2026
[“Leonkov: Great Britain is gradually getting drawn into a direct conflict with Russia.
IF THERE IS A MAJOR ESCALATION, THE FIRST TARGETS WILL BE BRITISH FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE DRONES AND ROCKETS FOR KYIV.
Boris Johnson, who just the other day claimed he hadn’t started a war, has returned to his old tune: “We must continue bombing Russian oil refineries and power plants. Ukraine is on the verge of victory. Don’t slow down the sale of weapons (to Kyiv).“
Only three countries still believe that Ukraine is capable of confronting Russia: Great Britain, France, and Germany. However, even within those countries, voices are being heard that the conflict, in which Zelensky must remain in power until 2028, is costing them too much.
According to Western estimates, Ukrainian armed forces’ air strikes on Russia in July alone cost them $11 billion. Zelensky is spending a lot of money on these attacks, but his Western sponsors are not satisfied with the results. Everyone understands that Ukraine is losing.”]
There is no way of either proving or disproving my belief that “Boris” Johnson is getting paid large amounts offshore by the Kiev regime and (ipso facto) its backers (to promote the regime by promoting the Western support for it). It stacks up quite well logically, though, knowing what we know of the Kiev regime, its leading members, and the character of Johnson himself.
I do not know the city personally, but believe that Birmingham was at one time, even in living memory, considered to be a great, if long-declining, city. Then came mass immigration and, in the local council, social services etc, the Common Purpose cancer.
When a real British government emerges, the Common Purpose drones will have to be identified and eliminated.
The only issue that unites Britain now is a deep, abiding hatred of Keir Starmer. Are Labour MPs seriously going to say to the country "Yeah, sorry we know you despise him. But I'm afraid he's the best we've got" > Mail Plus > https://t.co/gZC8piUXNL
Luke Akehurst is a complete puppet for Israel and the Jewish lobby. He is that appalling thing, a non-Jewish pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby puppet, and has made a career —albeit uninspiring— out of being so.
I wouldnโt isolate it just to Starmer – they seem to want Labour gone. Labour policies are destroying the economy, employment (esp.youth), education, small and medium sized businesses, the creative sector & more. Itโs not just Starmerโฆ
— Studio in the hills (@studiointhehill) May 8, 2026
People generally, not just Muslims and/or Islamists, are sick of the malign influence of the Jewish/Israeli lobby on our governments and laws.
It may sound like a “conspiracy theory” take, but I think that it is even possible that Starmer has been told (by the secretive Zionist clique that backed him to take over Labour in the first place), to hang on, and to run Labour into the ground now. Why? Because Reform UK has now itself been taken over by the Zionist cabals, and (as I predicted) is morphing rapidly into a System party, one which may well form the next government. So “they” would still hold sway over government, and so also over the legal system.
Itโs actually the other way around; you will never be able to take power of institutions or secure our demographics until the JQ is addressed. There is endless literature supporting this and zero evidence to the contrary.
The moment you realise calling concerns about the rape of children a โracist dog whistleโ isnโt the vote winner you thought it was. pic.twitter.com/EX00QtoVyU
Four men with an average age of 45 who will never leave (on current trajectory), will never contribute financially and will detract from the country in innumerable ways. And if our path does change will have to be removed. https://t.co/9IcUwVgeGs
๐จ The Labour leader of Keir Starmerโs local council, Camden, has failed to win his seat, with the entire ward he stood in being won by the Greens.
Richard Olszewski did a โchicken runโ to what was thought of as a safer seat to avoid the Lib Dems, but has lost to the Greens.
โTen seats? Youโre reduced to a rump in Wales. What would your father think?โ
Andrew Neil challenges Stephen Kinnock MP – and son of Neil Kinnock – on Labourโs expected performance in Wales. The party has already admitted defeat in the election.@AFNeilpic.twitter.com/GV6SBM5s2Y
Stephen Kinnock personifies the type of Labour MP often seen. A nonentity as well as complete careerist, completely tied-in to the web of “Western” globalist organizations, as is his wife, who was Prime Minister of Denmark for 4 years.
His wife is connected to the conspiratorial WEF, Council on Foreign Relations, Atlantic Council etc. Kinnock himself, despite his underwhelming job history, was made a regional director of the WEF later.
In fact, Kinnock only got his EU and British Council jobs, prior to becoming an MP, because his father, infamous “Welsh Windbag” Neil Kinnock, and/or his mother, Glenys, arranged them for him. The British Council is a near-useless organization anyway.
Both of Kinnock’s parents were themselves champion expenses-blodgers and moneygrubbers, of course. Tribal Labour. Useless.
Kemi Badenoch has said the results of the English local elections show the Conservative party is โcoming backโ. After two years in opposition to a historically unpopular Labour government, she has lost, at the time of writing, 300 council seats and control of three councils.
#Starmer never had any voters in the first place. He got 20% of the vote of the eligible electorate which means #Labour NEVER had a #legal mandate to govern #Britain#UK or make #Law#LocalElections which cannot be gamed have revealed the truth!
Yvette Cooper & Lisa Nandy are clearly making the right impression in their constituencies ! #muppets@UKLabour = useless .
— David Wright , B.A. (@dicewright100) May 8, 2026
Yvette Cooper, like Lisa Nandy, belongs to —and I use the term advisedly— Labour Friends of Israel, and indeed is on good terms with the Chief Rabbi (see photo below). Perhaps she should ask for some advice…
On the same day a 649-page document was published with the name, age, gender & ID of known Palestinians killed in Gaza, of which the first 14 pages contain infants younger than 1, Keir Starmer, who has funded and supplied this, has declared โthe Holocaust cannot be repeated.โ https://t.co/0uRunzq9DR
“This was the first year that participation in Holocaust Memorial Day fell, we canโt sit back and accept that.
Tonight I am making two decisions in advance of that review. First, the Holocaust will remain on the curriculum come what may.
โAnd second, even schools who do not currently have to follow the national curriculum will have to teach the Holocaust when the new curriculum comes in.
โFor the first time, studying the Holocaust will become a critical, vital part of every single studentโs identity.”
[The Independent]
Starmer went on to say that the small park right next to the Palace of Westminster would be vandalized by having a Jewish-Zionist triumphalist “holocaust” centre built on it:
โSo yes, we will build that national Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. And build it next to Parliament.
โBoldly, proudly, unapologetically.โ
[The Independent]
Starmer is like one of the puppets used in those 1960s British children’s shows such as Thunderbirds or Stingray. At times, you can quite easily see the strings controlling his movements.
Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and the rest are all puppets of Jewish Zionism and the Israel lobby. Now intending to insist that every school student in the UK pays ritual obeisance to the “holocaust” mythus. Any who refuse, or do not tick all the required boxes (or who question the narrative, either as a whole or in detail), will probably be barred from higher studies.
This is an anti-British, anti-European, anti-historical dictatorship, controlled by an alien element, and which tries to impose an intellectual straitjacket on both history and politics.
As Starmer admitted, the contrived historical narrative is increasingly failing to convince British people; they are not interested, and/or do not believe the narrative usually blasted out at them.
UK: A transgender child rapist has been sentenced to an extra 33 months behind bars after threatening to mutilate the prison warden's genitals.
Marcia Walker was referred to by "she/her" pronouns by media and is legally recorded as a "female" convict.https://t.co/wiLtLNzgwO
[Irish Republican volunteers, c.1920. Those standing up, at least, maybe the others too, appear to have identical long weapons; one only has a sling attached]
THIS IS CRAZY! ๐ณ๐คฏ๐จ
Israeli Intelligence (Mossad) is responsible for KILLING at least 8 people in Lebanon, including children, as well as INJURING OVER 2750 other Hezbollah fighters by way of hacking their pagers & mobile devices causing them to EXPLODE in a MASSIVE targetedโฆ pic.twitter.com/pToLuoVX1o
Jews smirking about the destruction they have wrought on a largely defenceless civilian population. Still, “what goes around comes around“, in the American phrase.
Pannage has started in the #NewForest which sees pigs feed on fallen acorns, beechmast, chestnuts and other nuts. Please be aware of free-roaming animals in the road and read here on what to do in the event of a collision >>> https://t.co/wWoG4Rm3eo#HantsRuralpic.twitter.com/U4cbP5GkY7
I hardly think youโre in any position to comment on anyoneโs suitability for anything. This is you isnโt it? โa nominated judge found that Recorder Myersonโs behaviour amounted to #misconduct.โhttps://t.co/j1k4nlMQqB
Myerson did not take that “advice” (reprimand) of March 2024 on board, continued to post vituperative tweets etc, and was then, in effect, sacked earlier this year (June or July 2024) as a Recorder (p/t judge), though he was allowed to present it as “resignation”.
Now Myerson is implying in his tweets that the (Israeli) Jews were “clever” in their Lebanon pager-explosive operation.
As a matter of fact, I agree with Myerson as to that. It was clever. It was also very wicked, particularly in that something like 1,000 people other than the supposed Hezbollah personnel killed, were injured; most if not all were ordinary passers-by, shoppers etc.
Thank God that someone as unpleasantly nasty as Myerson, and so lacking in basic decency, is no longer able to sit in the seat of legal judgment over British and other people.
One can see why the Bench had to have Myerson removed. He was —and is— unfit to pronounce judgment on anyone.
Thanks. I will. As you mourn the terrorists you so admire. From a safe place of course – youโd not actually want to be near them. Sleep well. Leave your phone outside.
Imagine cheering on a war crime that ended up mostly killing doctors and nurses.
— Ashwin Bolar ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ (@Horrificmedium) September 18, 2024
Perhaps the Bar Standards Board might like to take a look at Myerson. I am not usually in favour of free-speech restriction, but in this case it would be only just, Myerson having been one of the Jews who (as an active member of “UK Lawyers for Israel”) had me disbarred for having posted a few tweets long after I ceased to be a practising barrister: see
โSince the 2019 general election Keir Starmer has accepted more in entertainment perks, including hotel stays and holidays, than any other Member of Parliamentโ
Starmer poses as an ethical Prime Minister elected by a “landslide”, when in fact he is a totally corrupt freeloader, and his MPs “elected” by only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters, and by only 4 out of 12 actual voters.
Starmer has no mandate.
Dutch requesting opt-out from EU migration policy saying โthey need to be in controlโ โฆ https://t.co/Q9YnPZRhkS
Good article Matt. We, the people know. We are losing faith in the ability of our vote effecting change. Soon we will forego the notion of voting and take actions into our own hands…. And there won't be enough prisons, courts or magistrates to stop us. Terrifying thought.
When I arrived back in UK by plane on Monday UK & EU passport holders had to queue for passport checks but people with rest of world passports or settled status waltzed straight through on fast lane – literally treated as second class citizens in our own country
Exactly. It is easy to be bien-pensant when the only non-whites you ever meet are of the educated and/or intelligent, or pleasant, few; especially when, if you are John Major, you have VIP protection and security where you live and whenever you travel.
John Major was a disaster for this country I seem to remember. The Maastricht Treaty which he signed up to without consulting the electorate didn't help. I actually once met him, when he was a bus conductor.
That last tweet is a typical example of false memory (or maybe an outright lie): John Major never was a bus conductor. He did apply, and was accepted for the job provisionally, but was rejected because he was too tall. He therefore never worked as a bus conductor, and that tweeter could therefore never have met him in that role: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major#Early_post-school_career_(1959%E2%80%931979)
Such false memory is actually quite common. The noted —but apparently not much liked— big businessman, “Tiny” Rowland [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Rowland] was said to have once worked as a porter at Paddington Station (Wikipedia does not mention it, but I believe Rowland did work there as a porter, though only very briefly, and in the early part of the Second World War, when he was about 20).
A friend of mine, a lady who often walked through Paddington Station from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, sometimes told me (in the 1980s), when Rowland was in the news, that she remembered him as a young man working as a porter at Paddington.
My old friend did not, I think, mean to lie, but she was mistaken, and had to be. If and when Rowland was briefly a station porter, it would have been around 1939 or 1940.
The lady I knew would have been still in her teens then, having been born in 1926. She had been born in East Prussia (on her family’s vast estate, or one of them), had attended the Sacre Coeur convent school in Paris for a year just before the Second World War, but was then a kind of hostage under NKVD control in the Soviet Union for 3 years, at first in a prison on a river island on the Kazakhstan-Russia border, then working briefly on a state farm before becoming a student-nurse. When she escaped from the Soviet Union in 1942, she was just 16. She was in Persia, and then British East Africa. She first visited London sometime in the late 1940s, but not for long.
In other words, my old friend could never have seen Rowland as a porter (assuming he ever was one), Rowland having been working in business in the City of London during the early/mid 1940s and then, from 1948, in the then Southern Rhodesia (the later Rhodesia and then Zimbabwe).
We often see false memory, not least in (mainly Jewish) recollections of life in Germany and Poland during the so-called “holocaust” years of the early/mid 1940s. It is often hard to say which of the hundreds, indeed thousands, of accounts are simply misremembrances and which are outright frauds, but both are very common.
…and that has been only about 5% of the full migration-invasion figure…
For decades all political parties have duped the public into thinking the NHS is the 'best in the world. ' It's not. Many European health services are way better. In a league table, the NHS is just above the relegation zone or, at best, in midtable obscurity.#politicslive
In 2021, writing in the Independent newspaper, Keir Starmer said heโd โtoughen the rules so MPs canโt profit from their office and open the door to vested interestsโ.
Since then weโve learned:
โheโs taken more freebies in holidays and gifts than ANY OTHER MP in parliamentโฆ
“In 2021, writing in the Independent newspaper, Keir Starmer said heโd โtoughen the rules so MPs canโt profit from their office and open the door to vested interestsโ.
Since then weโve learned: โheโs taken more freebies in holidays and gifts than ANY OTHER MP in parliamentโ
heโs taken 40 sets of tickets to sporting & pop concerts โ
heโs had a free holiday โ
heโs taken clothing worth ยฃ16,000 from a party donor โ
heโs taken accommodation valued at ยฃ20,000 โ
heโs taken glasses worth ยฃ2,485 โ
his wife has taken ยฃ5,000 worth of clothes โ
heโs seen his top aide take a ยฃ25,000 pay rise to ยฃ170,000 And this despite the fact he earned over ยฃ400,000 last year
โฆ โฆ while taking away winter fuel allowances for pensioners โฆ and declaring the era of sleaze is over.”
I would urge anyone arrested, and (unlike that lady) charged with anything effectively “political”, to plead Not Guilty.
Force the System to attempt to prove the case, and force the politicized police and “Clown” Prosecution to spend time and resources on the matter, and so (in terms of time) “kick the can down the road”.
If you do that, the System drones may have to drop the case (in the case reported on, of course, it never got that far; she was never charged). If you plead Not Guilty, the case may only be tried after many months (and if heard in Crown Court, maybe even a couple of years).
True, if convicted after a trial, you may get a sentence notionally more severe than had you pleaded (Guilty) to the charge, but these politicized cases are now being treated absurdly and unfairly harshly anyway. As far as Crown Court cases are concerned, we have seen people sentenced to years of imprisonment for doing really not very much, while real (non-political) criminals are often getting very lenient punishment.
I am not so sure that, from the perspective of a “political” “criminal”, there is much difference between getting, say, 15 months in prison on a Not Guilty plea then resulting in conviction after a trial, and 10 months on a Guilty plea.
The “political” convict, often someone of previous good character, or at least “not so bad” character, ends up in prison anyway in the current climate, either way.
In terms of time, too, a 15 month sentence might translate to 6 months actually incarcerated (40% of 15 months), as compared to 4 months after a Guilty plea and a sentence of 10 months. Still extra time, of course.
There is also the point that a Not Guilty plea might pay off in terms of you, as defendant, being found Not Guilty on technical grounds by a magistrate/District Judge or on a (Crown Court) Judge’s direction. Or you might be found Not Guilty by a magistrate, or a Crown Court jury.
There is also the possibility that something may happen during the trial, esp. if in the Crown Court, to render the trial ineffective.
In cases where imprisonment is never likely to happen, there may be little difference between being found guilty after a trial and pleading Not Guilty ab initio.
In my own case, related here below, I would never have pleaded Guilty under any circumstances anyway. As it was, I very nearly got off on technical grounds at “half time” (at the close of the Prosecution case).
My trial continued, however, and I was pronounced guilty by the District Judge, though on slightly confused (in my opinion) grounds.
My sentence was firstly to pay the purely notional costs of the trial and also to pay a “victim surcharge” (just another impost), the two together adding up to ยฃ734. Secondly, I was to complete 15 “rehabilitation days” under the supervision of the Probation Service.
Of course, the Jew-Zionists of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], who had procured the case against me by suborning the police and CPS in my county of residence, and who pressured the CPS politically, and quite improperly, to prosecute me, were livid at the perceived “leniency” of the sentence, so much so that it took them days, in fact I believe 2-3 weeks, to respond on Twitter/X and their own website. I can just imagine them fuming and arguing about it.
Well, a few generous donors who read the blog sent just over a third of the financial penalty monies, via a crowdfunder I established; the rest I paid off (I still have one small-ish payment left to pay) on a monthly basis. Irritating but not too onerous.
As to the “15 rehabilitation days”, it turned out that each “day” was a meeting with the Probation Service, the meetings as short as 20 minutes in a couple of cases (though 3 or 4 such meetings did for some reason not count toward the 15).
There was no “rehabilitation day” as long as an actual day, or even half a day.
Until a few weeks ago, I thought that I had only done about 3 or 4 actual “rehabilitation days” (meetings) counting towards the 15. However, I was then told that, by reason of larger-scale events not connected with me personally, my “days” were finished and I would be (as I have now been) deemed to have completed the “15” days to which I was sentenced.
So there it is. The politicized police (our new poundshop Stasi) and the politicized CPS, apparently spent hundreds of hours, maybe even thousands of hours, “trawling through” (as the CPS put it) hundreds of blog posts. The costs in terms of police and CPS time must have been large. The CPS instructed outside Counsel to prosecute. That barrister made several appearance prior to trial, at trial, and after trial, when (briefed again by, shall we say, “the fat lady” singing) he made a doomed attempt both to restrict my freedom to blog and to make the sentence more severe (only to find that the sentencing judge agreed with me).
All that money and effort, taking well over a year by the end, not to mention Court time, and the only result was that I had to pay out a few hundred pounds and meet a (rather polite and charming) young Probation Service lady about 7 or 8 times.
Further to the above, of course a defendant can appeal a Guilty verdict. In my case, it was expedient not to do so, though I considered that I had a 50-50 chance of success.
I was never arrested, incidentally, just charged by postal requisition, and was on unconditional bail throughout the proceedings in court.
Naturally, I should never have been bothered by the police, let alone charged or prosecuted.
A fortiori, I should never have been convicted or sentenced, but there it is.
My own perception of my trial and sentence, and the aftermath:
