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Diary Blog, 7 October 2025, with thoughts about Gaza, the proscription of Palestine Action, and the Jewish/Israeli influence on the Starmer misgovernment

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Carwithen]
[Basingstoke Canal, southern England, in Autumn; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke_Canal]

Tweets seen

Not much different in the UK, except in terms of scale.

Starmer-stein is far from being the only UK politician more or less under (((control))), but he is, after all, the person currently posing as Prime Minister.

Incidentally, that U.S. Congressman featured above, Jake Auchincloss, is a half-Jew anyway: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Auchincloss#Early_life_and_education; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Auchincloss#Israel

Take a look at this, about David Cameron-Levita, too:

Once again, Cameron (Cameron-Levita) is himself both a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, and a part-Jew.

More tweets

I hope so, if only because it will show that “their” money and consequent political influence will be resisted.

Would translate to a Commons with about 438 Reform MPs, 74 Lab, 54 LibDem, 36 SNP, and 20 Cons (etc).

Reinforces the previous ~125 opinion polls over the past year.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

Deliberately insane.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

And which group do you think is behind most of that?…

“Them”.

…and the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby.

[“NEW: A source very close to the senior leadership of MI6 has got in contact. They wanted to make public the opposition within the intelligence agency to the proscription of Palestine Action. Senior figures are said to feel it is a distraction from the battle against real terrorist threat – and should never have happened. The source has been verified.“]

The proscription of Palestine action was and is absurd. They are mostly totally harmless people; the few who are not commit acts of politically-motivated vandalism, aided by the apparent fact that the RAF and others seem incapable of guarding their sites properly. There are already laws in place to deter or punish criminal damage, conspiracy to commit criminal damage, burglary etc.

The only reason that the Palestine Action group was proscribed was because Israel, via its publicity and “lawfare” fronts in the UK (eg the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” cabal), pressured weak Starmer and other Labour Friends of Israel members presently in Cabinet to do it.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Metreweli; also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Ramsay,_Baroness_Ramsay_of_Cartvale. “[Meta Ramsay] is the chair of Labour Friends of Israel in the House of Lords.[9][10]” [Wikipedia].

The absurd thing is, of course, that the tiny number of people actively involved in “direct action” against Israeli targets, or targets involved with helping Israel, in the UK, will not be in the slightest deterred from their actions by the proscription of, in effect, a name.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians killed or badly injured, not to mention driven out of their modest homes which have now been flattened, and the neighbourhoods simply erased.

Every day, hundreds more killed, yet the newspapers in the UK prioritized the death by shooting of two Jewish guards at a synagogue in the UK, one of whom seems in fact to have been shot by the police.

The Gaza flattening goes beyond even most of the similar destruction in WW2. It is Biblical in its genocidal extent. The Roman destruction of Carthage also comes to mind— the symbolic sowing of salt in the ground, and then plowing of the ground where Carthage had stood.

As to the USA, for me it lost any right it still retained to call itself “home of freedom” etc when it embarked on its post-2001 programmes of secret abductions, concentration camps, and torture. All done in collaboration with the Jewish state, *Israel, and with the connivance of Jews and pro-Zionists across the U.S. Federal Government.

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Hardy-ha-ha. Cameron-Levita was always ready, as Prime Minister, to throw money at bureaucratic “aid” projects, yet his government was the one that really weaponized hatred of the sick, disabled, and unemployed, and indeed the elderly (“bedroom tax” etc)…

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

The lady tweeter, once “employed” by her MP husband (now ex-MP and ex-husband) via his bloated expenses, likes to pretend that she represents a political faction she calls, or miscalls, the “Moderates”. I have previously speculated as to whether the membership of the “Moderates” exists (beyond the lines of empty bottles in her kitchen). I doubt it.

“Compassionate Conservatism” was always a lie. Now it is a bad joke.

Typical black, though. Thinks that, so long as she keeps talking, or talking over the interviewer, and even if talking nonsense, people will think her both intelligent and plausible. Lammy is no different.

Looking at that Conservative Conference audience, once you take away the journalists and lobbyists, those sitting there are mostly about 80 years old, for one thing, and completely unresponsive to the speaker (unsurprising, since it was Mel Stride).

Both Dan Hodges and Owen Jones in the realms of fantasy. In reality, “neo-Nazis” are not “beating people up“. Most of the UK political violence you see is from the “antifa” dupes of Jew-Zionism, or from Islamist crazies, and the former at least is something that Owen Jones supports, as does Dan Hodges, in my opinion.

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I predicted that on the blog months ago, in January or February.

The top issue which impacts every other important issue.

[“Dizen: The European Union has no future – it is finished, a gradual disintegration also awaits NATO The EU has exhausted both its economic potential and has long ceased to bring any dividends to its members. Now those who lead it are trying to replace the language of mutual benefit with ideology and Russophobia. They propose increasing military spending, militarizing European societies, and the prospect of a great war instead of friendship with neighbors and shared prosperity. The people in the EU did not vote for this. The appropriate question is: aren’t the USA interested in a united Europe? They are, but Washington sees a united Europe as a competitor. Of course, it does not wish it harm, because it wants allies in European countries. However, the USA encourages internal conflicts because it benefits from a divided Europe. Therefore, I do not think the EU will last much longer. PROFESSOR Glen Dizen of the University of South-Eastern Norway assessed that the European Union has exhausted its own future, and that the prospects for the NATO pact are not at all rosy. Asked whether the European Union has a future or whether internal contradictions will prevail over the idea of a united and strong Europe and lead to the bloc’s disintegration, he said: – The EU has no future; it is finished. Not this year or next, but certainly in our lifetime. The European Union was born in the unique circumstances of the conflict between the West and the Soviet Union. Now, in the context of the transition to multipolarity, Europeans are losing unity because member states have gained more freedom. In this context, the gap between the interests of individual players becomes more obvious: for example, the security interests of Latvia have very little in common with those of Greece. Dizen further points out: “As for the economy, the EU has also exhausted its potential and has long ceased to bring any dividends to its members. Now those who lead it are trying to replace the language of mutual benefit with ideology and Russophobia. They propose increasing military spending, militarizing European societies, and the prospect of a great war instead of friendship with neighbors and shared prosperity. The people in the EU did not vote for this. – Even Germany, one of the key EU countries, has already begun to protest and seek a more important role in determining European policy. Essentially, this is a protest against the attempts of Brussels bureaucrats led by von der Leyen to tie all decisions to themselves. East, West, North, South — most EU countries are not ready to give up their sovereignty to some supranational body. They understand that this would result in discrimination against their interests. Therefore, fragmentation within the EU is growing. – Of course, the appropriate question is whether the USA are not interested in a united Europe? They are interested, but Washington sees a united Europe as a competitor. Of course, it does not wish it harm, because it wants allies in European countries. However, the USA encourages internal conflicts because it benefits from a divided Europe. Therefore, I do not think the EU will last much longer. Dizen answers the question of what awaits NATO as follows: — Paradoxically, the alliance also faces gradual disintegration. The USA have realized that they have lost the ability to “dominate” the world. Therefore, they are forced to choose: either to deal with European quarrels or to focus all their forces on a dangerous rival, China, which is becoming more and more confident. In this, of course, the Old World is less important. That is, the alliance leader, who held everything together, is slowly leaving them. And without the Americans, European countries will remember their mutual grievances and drown in mutual conflicts.“]

It is clear that the USA no longer, in the American phrase, “has Europe’s back“.

“What goes around comes around”…

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

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Diary Blog, 6 October 2025, including some thoughts about the dying Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch etc

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Variants_of_Dives_and_Lazarus]
[Vicente Romero Redondo, Girl in Green Garden; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Romero_Redondo]

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[“This is the Government’s formal position: “The Government has carefully considered the risk of genocide, including when permitting exports to the F-35 global programme. The high civilian casualties, including women and children, and the extensive destruction in Gaza, are utterly appalling. Israel must do much more to prevent and alleviate the suffering that this conflict is causing. As per the Genocide Convention, the crime of genocide occurs only where there is specific “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” The Government has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent”.

Why has Keir Starmer never publicly acknowledged this. Why has no Minister publicly acknowledged this. Why will no Minister simply say “Israel is not committing genocide.”]

Because Israel, in reality, is committing genocide. The Israeli Jew leadership have declared their genocidal intentions time and again, without using the actual word.

Then look at what they have actually done— killing and badly wounding over 200,000 Gazans, mostly civilians, mostly women and children, the vast majority of whom have had no means of self-defence at all, and were not even trying to defend themselves, let alone take the fight to the Jew invaders and/or occupiers.

All because Hamas killed or captured, on one day, or two days, about 1,500 Jews, many, perhaps most of whom were in fact killed via the free-fire/scorched earth protocols of the trigger-happy Israeli forces, and not by Hamas operatives.

The disproportion is ludicrous.

Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel government of clowns wants to support the Jewish state, but even Starmer’s cabal has been appalled at the behaviour of the Israeli Jews. Hence the weaselling. They, this government, stand upon a determination based on the single word “intent“…

As for Dan Hodges, he is somewhere between pathetic and disgusting. As far as I know, he is not Jewish (his mother, the famous actress and Labour politician, Glenda Jackson, was certainly not); I suppose he may be “part-“.

At any rate, Hodges seems to be, to put it over-politely, “less critical” of the Netanyahu regime than many a real Jew; many Jews even in Israel recognize the madness, evil, and extreme disproportion of what Israel’s armed forces have done over the past 2 years in Gaza.

Dan Hodges is on surer ground here.

50 people? 60? That audience, even including the deliberate bunching at the front (for the benefit of TV cameras etc), is sparse, to say the least. It includes quite a few journalists in its ranks, so the real audience there is numbered in the few dozens.

As I remarked yesterday, seeing Kemi Badenoch’s speech, fewer people by far than the audience at the London Forum, where I gave a politico-legal talk in 2017.

That photo is not showing a fringe meeting, but the speech of the Shadow Chancellor in the main hall.

On present polling, Mel Stride will probably lose his own seat at the 2029 (?) General Election.

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The only factor that really matters is the nuclear weapons situation.

Translates to a Commons with about 383 Reform MPs, about 106 Lab, 56 LibDem, 40 Con, and 33 SNP (Greens 6, Plaid 5 etc). What matters in that, and in the 120+ previous opinion polls, is not the exact detail but the overall picture. Reform either —as in this poll— carrying a solid majority, or very close to an overall majority, Labour cut back, and with the loss —in most polling— of two-thirds, or even three-quarters, of its MPs.

As to the Conservative Party, few if any polls now think it can get more than 50 MPs; many put the figure as low as 30, 20 or, in a few polls, below 10.

I do not think that removing Kemi Badenoch will make a huge difference, but if Jenrick takes up the reins, it might save 10 or 20 seats.

I have blogged before to the effect that British (real British) voters, will not vote for a non-white person as Prime Minister, which —in effect— is what they would be doing if voting Conservative at present.

Yes, there are, and have been for a number of years, non-white MPs. Few have impressed, to put it mildly. A Prime Minister, though, is another level entirely.

Sunak’s electoral failure was not entirely by reason of his Indian heritage and ethnicity, but it was a significant factor for sure. Not just that he looked “foreign”, but the fact that, despite having been born here, and educated at Winchester and then Oxford, he seemed not to “get” Britishness, as when he scurried back to London from the D-Day commemorations to attend a business meeting.

Kemi Badenoch has even fewer ties and bindings here. Born in London so that she could later get a British passport (the law was changed the following year; born a year later, she would have been barred from ever getting British nationality), she was taken to Nigeria by her parents, brought up there and then in the USA, and only “returned” to this country aged 16-17. Her roots are in every sense either in Africa or America, not in Britain.

No doubt the unthinking will call me “prejudiced”, but keep her as Conservative Party leader and you will see how she does at the (?) 2029 General Election. A near-wipeout is my prediction, if she stays in her present office.

The newspapers say that Jenrick and/or others are already gathering support for a leadership bid in November or December this year. I doubt that that can revive the Conservative Party, but it might make the difference between 10 Commons seats and 30.

[“My monologue on ‘Tories in the land of the living dead’ on The Times at One with Andrew Neil on @TimesRadio

As the Tories gather in Manchester for a conference they hope will rescue them from the land of the living dead one fact is salient above all others.  In the general election of July 2024 they scored their lowest share of the vote ever, at 24%. Just when they thought it couldn’t get worse than that — it did.

The Tories are now around 16% in the polls. Far from challenging a deeply unpopular Labour government for first place they’re struggling to avoid fourth place, behind the Liberal Democrats.

At Manchester Kemi Badenoch is abandoning her ‘slow burn’ approach to policies with a raft of new initiatives, many of them with more than a hint of the Reform song sheet.  But the Tories face a systemic problem which is not easily resolved.

Nearly everything voters dislike about the current government — high taxes, slow to no growth, mass legal immigration, uncontrolled illegal immigration, net zero, wokery — started under the last Tory government.  The Tories are now in full retreat from nearly all of that. But, to use a good Scottish word, if you’re really scunnered with Starmer, why would you seek salvation in the Tories, the original source of your misery? If you think net zero was a mistake — which the Tories are now saying — are you not more likely to look to Nigel Farage, who always opposed it, than the Tories, who enthusiastically implemented it for over 14 years?

Ditto large-scale immigration or high taxes or identity politics. All matters the Tories rail about now, all prospered under a Tory government. All opposed by Reform.  At least the Tories can claim to be the only party serious about cutting public spending, as shadow chancellor Mel Stride illustrated in Manchester today. Labour has given up the ghost and Reform’s fiscal plans verge on fantasy.  But not that long ago the Tories were the high spenders. So is anybody inclined to listen to them now? And there’s the rub. 

It’s not that voters don’t necessarily like what the Tories are now saying. It’s just that they’re not interested, not listening, don’t regard them as relevant to the current political discourse.  And when that happens to a political party, there’s the real risk that oblivion awaits just round the corner.“]

[Andrew Neil]

Exactly. Also, the fact is that the “Conservatives” are really, in power, little different from “Labour”. Same or similar core beliefs, similar methods, fairly similar personnel; both parties in favour of multikulti society and globalism, and both (of course) ruled, from behind the scenes, by the Jewish/Israeli lobby cabals.

[Kemi Badenoch after her speech today. About 80-100 people in shot. If that is about half the audience, then the whole crowd must have been, at most generous, maybe 250. Compare that to the years of Heath, Thatcher, even Major]

Late tweets

“Boris”-idiot and Starmer-stein are numbered among the enemies of Britain’s future.

As said earlier, there was a bigger audience at the 2017 London Forum; I think I spoke to between 120-150 people.

As I have said on the blog many times, I respect the independence or autonomy of both Poland and the pribaltika (Baltic states), and their right to run their own affairs, cultivate their own cultures etc, but they must not interfere with the destiny of Russia, or its own territorial, cultural, or political integrity.

If the System in Germany attempts to cheat the AfD by banning it or restricting it, the German people will have every right to take up arms.

Ha.

They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!

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[V.B. Tautiev, Launch of a Kalibr Missile from the Caspian Sea; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vladimir_Tautiev]

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Diary Blog, 5 October 2025

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Morning thought

The recent Manchester incident has permitted the Zionist-controlled mass media to deflect from the continuing heartless slaughter inflicted by [Israeli] Jews in Gaza and elsewhere, to deflect from the scandal around Morgan McSweeney and the Labour Friends of Israel Jewish/Israeli cabal that put Starmer into power and, to a lesser extent (the perpetrator having been yet another immigrant murderer), to deflect from the continuing migration-invasion by illegal immigrants etc.

I do not say that the Manchester incident was actually done as a planned “psy-op” —not at all— but, it having happened, it has been seized upon enthusiastically and gratefully by both the System msm (major news outlets), and “approved” scribblers and talking heads such as Dan Hodges; and also by the “controlled opposition”, such as Matt Goodwin etc, as well as by, predictably, the outright and open Jew-Zionist lobby propagandists.

Tweets seen

[“RAYNER’S BODYGUARDS TURNED REMOVAL CREW IN £80,000 BMW YOU PAID FOR. Angela Rayner, weeks after quitting in disgrace, the perks roll on. Close-protection cops. Luxury X5. Public cash. And who’s getting chauffeured? The boyfriend. Boxes in. Bags out. Taxpayer-funded shuttle between seaside pads while the boss is nowhere to be seen. We’re told it’s “for security”. Pull the other one. This is entitlement with blue lights. She paid too little stamp duty. She resigned. Yet the bills keep landing on your doormat. Thousands a day for protection, now doubling as porters. The public is skint. The political class rides leather seats. If this isn’t taking the mick, what is. Who signed this off. Where are the rules. Where’s the refund.“]

Angela Rayner. Now pretty much washed-up politically, but she very nearly became Britain’s first “chavscum” Prime Minister.

Oh dear. Penny Mordaunt, who lost her Commons seat in 2024, and who was pointedly not offered a peerage, tries, rather pathetically, to get the Jewish lobby to back her hopeless attempt to get back into Parliament.

Ms. Mordaunt had better accept that, as a woman without a Commons seat, and unlikely now to be offered one (unless she joins Reform, which is also unlikely), and with the Conservative Party rapidly draining down the plughole, she should just try to get some paid work elsewhere for the next 14 years until she can get a pension. She is now 52. The System has already thrown her a couple of (fairly lucrative?) crumbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Mordaunt#Post-parliamentary_career.

The Conservative Party is finished.

A clever cartoon, conflating Kemi Badenoch’s stewardship of the flagging Conservative Party with the recent accession of a “priestess” as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Both unsuitable, of course.

England erwacht…

What “they” really fear, though, is intelligent, thinking “antisemitism”…

According to Electoral Calculus, that would translate to a Commons with about 379 Reform MPs (a very solid majority), Lab 107, LibDem 61, Con 38, SNP 33, Greens 5, Plaid 5 (etc).

Castles in the air, castles in Spain. Surprising, and it seems that, nearly a decade ago, I was far too cautious:

Thoughts about Bitcoin
Diary Blog, 14 June 2022, with developments re. Bitcoin and Ukraine

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[7 September 1940: bombing of the dock areas east of Tower Bridge, London]

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In fact, the situation is even more alarming, because almost all births in the UK now are either to women born outside the UK (almost all non-white), or to women whose parentage or grand-parentage was outside the UK (almost all non-white), or to women who have been impregnated by non-whites.

Very few full-blood white English/British children are now being born.

I was unsure whether the Conservative Party Conference had started, it has had so little impact. seems that it will be very low-key, with few attendees. Nice to see that the animals are being championed, though.

Jewish-Zionist scribbler “has a lot of time for” puppet of Israel and the Jewish lobby, Michael Gove (a drunk, drug-abuser, and expenses cheat, among other defaults). Quelle surprise...

The Guardian‘s assessment of the Conference:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/04/conservative-conference-like-going-to-in-laws-apathy-kemi-badenoch

“Few people doubt that Kemi Badenoch faces what could be a make-or-break Conservative party conference this weekend. However, some members are not so worried about regicide so much as a more prosaic threat: sheer apathy.

“For every conference, as long as I can remember, I’ve gone for three or four days. This time it’s a day trip,” one senior party activist said. “Quite frankly, I’m thinking: ‘What’s the point in going for any longer?’ I know of lots of other people doing the same thing.”

Badenoch will in fact walk on to the main stage twice: first for a “welcome speech” to delegates on Sunday, and then for the more traditional leader’s address on Wednesday afternoon.

“I do wonder if they might have to shepherd some people into the hall to fill it up on Sunday,” one activist said. “I’m really not sure how many people will have arrived yet.

Not all hope was lost, they argued: “There is a narrow path in which we carry on being sensible and diligent, Reform fall apart, and voters think: they’re the best alternative to Labour. It’s not the most optimistic of tactics but it’s also pretty much the only one we have right now.”

One shadow minister was less optimistic: “Mine was always a safe seat. But with the number of Reform councillors since May, most realistically I’ll spend the next two or three years deciding what I want to do with the rest of my life.”]

[Guardian]

Washed-up. I expect that a few hundred people will turn up, many of them journalists, and a few lobbyists (fewer than in the past now that the Cons are unlikely to be part of the next UK government).

Another view: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kemi-badenoch-immigration-tory-conference-speech-b2839686.html

“...the huge Manchester Central conference centre was noticeably quiet on the first day with many corporate sponsors staying away and relatively few members and others attending what would normally be a crowded conference.

Half empty trains went from London to Manchester while hotels still were offering rooms at off-peak rates.“

[Independent]

Late tweets

Having seen a few short clips of Kemi Badenoch addressing the Con Party conference, the audience seemed to consist of no more than 100-150 people, as far as could be seen. The audience as a whole was not shown, no doubt because the numbers were embarrassingly small. In fact, it looked as if Ms. Badenoch’s audience was no larger than mine at the London Forum in 2017— that was about 150 (at max.) I think.

I have seen, today, some still photos of the Con Party conference: whole areas set up for crowds, but without people, a bit like the performative propaganda pieces called “Nightingale hospitals” during the 2020-2022 Covid “panicdemic”.

[Update, later same day:

I now see that there were several hundred attending; still poor by comparison with 15-20 years ago, let alone the 1980s]

Exactly. Those 14% to 16% polling results now being seen represent the last hurrah of elderly people who have voted Conservative since the 1950s, in many cases. Even many of those are now going to vote Reform (as I myself have been told in recent months; anecdotal, yes, but convincing).

I imagine that, by 2029, the likely year of the next UK general election, that Con vote might have slipped as low as 10%, as many present Con voters pass into history.

As that polling expert says, few voters love Farage or Reform, but most people want rid of both Con and Lab. Reform is the only game in town at present.

My view has been made clear on the blog. I want Reform to crush Lab and Con; but then, after Reform itself is found wanting, the voters might be ready for social nationalism, whether voted in, or installed via some other route.

Civilians should never have been taken hostage by Hamas operatives, though naturally I understand that Hamas felt that it needed them as a bargaining chip (and of course Israel has hostages too, in effect, albeit called “detainees” or some such).

The Jewish hostages should have been released long ago, in fact not long after their capture. Their imprisonment has given Israel the best propaganda it could muster during its genocidal flattening of Gaza and the killing (murder, if you like) of so many Gazan civilians by the Israeli Jew armed forces.

That Daisley individual is a hard-core Jew-Zionist scribbler, one of those involved in the concerted “lawfare” attack on academic James Wilson a year or so ago. The trial judge disbelieved the Jewish witnesses, and Wilson won in court.

Ostalgie:

I have blogged a few times in the past about my own impressions, during a very brief visit to the DDR (East Germany) in summer 1988. Slightly odd, slightly unreal, more like a stage set of a state rather than a real state.

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Diary Blog, 3 October 2024

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Afternoon music

[Palace-on-the-Isle, Lazienki Park, Warsaw. I do not recall seeing it when I was in that park in 1988 and 1989; I must have been preoccupied]

Talking point

David Icke punctures the balloon of the fake rebel, “Robinson”.

The “JQ” is the touchstone. Anyone supporting Israel and the Jewish/Zionist lobby is suspect, or worse. I do not refer to those simply seeing this or that “positive aspect”, but those who prioritize Israel and the Jewish/Zionist lobby over the interests of British and other European people.

Tweets seen

Four corrupt and (((owned))) idiots-on-sticks. Useless.

The individual shouting is one of “the usual suspects” (((them))). Odds-on. (and despite the facemask muzzle).

I strongly support that. I was quite shocked to hear, in 1989, in Warsaw, and from the lips of a Polish girl I knew slightly, that my old haunt, Raoul’s (cafe) in Little Venice (London), where she had worked (she used to serve me my coffees) would take a high percentage of the tips given to the wait staff. That money would, so I was told, go to the woman who owned the cafe. Disgraceful.

Incidentally, the manager of the cafe at that time was a very pleasant young-ish Lebanese, who referred to the Jews who were a fairly large proportion of the clientele as “the Chosen“. Sardonic.

Apropos of nothing much, that Lebanese seemed to regard me as omniscient when it came to knowing who —using the cafe— was who. By way of example, I remember him asking once, in the 1990s, who was the black man sitting with a rather spectacularly-dressed black —I think African— woman. The manager asked me to go into the cafe —I was seated outside— and pretend to order something so that I could take a look.

I was able to identify the black man as Paul Boateng [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng#Member_of_Parliament]. I had seen Boateng previously, not only on TV but also in person, when he was at Harrow Crown Court as Counsel in 1992 or 1993. It may be that he lived somewhere in the Maida Vale area; I do not know.

The brainwashing fear propaganda has deeply embedded itself in the mass psyche. Only a quarter of the population are awake to the realities, even now, years later.

In any case, the question is based on the false assumption that more inhabitants means greater “growth”. A house of cards. Fake.

Pretty damning. I myself would be firmly of the “they had none” persuasion.

Reform UK is still not the choice of most people or even a plurality. In my view, the people want, but subconsciously, social nationalism, but that has not come to expression either in the mass psyche or in objective reality— the movement and/or party does not exist. Not yet, anyway.

Emma Barnett, yet another (((termite))) in the msm woodwork.

[Emma Barnett]

The UK in 2024 is not, as one sometimes reads, “the same as” the Weimar Republic in 1924, but there are certainly some similarities…

Brainless young woman still prefers to see the world through her preferred multikulti blinkers even after one of the many negative aspects of the migration invasion is made directly apparent to her.

As Hitler said of the people of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion.“

Hard core cat.

From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/03/gp-injected-mothers-partner-flesh-eating-chemical-inheritance-kwan-patrick-ohara-newcastle

“A GP worried about his inheritance disguised himself as a nurse and injected deadly poison into his victim, who thought he was getting a home-visit Covid booster, a court has heard.

Thomas Kwan was not injecting Covid vaccine into Patrick O’Hara, prosecutors allege, but a poison that gave O’Hara a rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease.

“Sometimes, occasionally perhaps, the truth really is stranger than fiction,” said Peter Makepeace KC as he opened the prosecution case against Kwan at Newcastle crown court on Thursday.

Kwan, 53, is accused of attempting to murder O’Hara, his mother’s long-term partner and a “potential impediment” to him inheriting her estate.

The court heard Kwan devised an intricate plan to kill 71-year-old O’Hara, who lived in Newcastle with Kwan’s mother, by disguising himself as a community nurse and injecting him with poison.

Makepeace said the plan involved Kwan forging NHS documentation, disguising himself, using false number plates, and booking in to a hotel using a false name.

Police recovered a photograph from Kwan’s computer of him in disguise with a wig, beard and moustache.

“It was an audacious plan,” Makepeace told the jury. “It was a plan to murder a man in plain sight, to murder a man right in front of his own mother’s eyes, that man’s life partner.”

[Guardian]

Looks like a case so unusual that it may go down in criminal history, and be found in “true crime” anthologies, in television series etc.

The Prosecution Counsel in the case is someone with whom I was once acquainted, we both being part of a group of about 7 or 8 Bar students grouped together for the “Practical Exercises” which were then (1987-88) part of the Bar Finals course at the Inns of Court School of Law in London. All our names began with “M”. After that time, I only encountered Makepeace a few times: once or twice in a robing room (where barristers get changed for court) at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, I appearing at the High Court, he in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division); and once at the christening of a baby, child of two others of the same Bar School group. He was then based at York.

Early 1990s, around 1994. Long ago.

I took “the road less travelled” after that…

Late tweets

“So far this year, the United States has given: – $24,400,000,000 to Ukraine. – $11,300,000,000 to Israel. – $1,950,000,000 to Ethiopia. – $1,600,000,000 to Jordan. – $1,400,000,000 to Egypt. – $1,100,000,000 to Afghanistan. – $1,100,000,000 to Somalia. – $1,000,000,000 to Yemen. – $987,000,000 to Congo. – $896,000,000 to Syria. – $9,000 per illegal immigrant that has entered the U.S.

And Americans who have lost everything to Hurricane Helene will be getting $750, courtesy of FEMA.“

Late music

One of the great American symphonies.

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Diary Blog, 2 October 2024

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Morning music

Pine martens

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/01/pine-martens-return-to-dartmoor-after-150-year-absence

“Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence.

“Fifteen of the nimble, tree-climbing mammals were released last month at secret locations in Devon.

Fifteen pine martens are darting through the woods of Dartmoor for the first time in 150 years after the rare but recovering species was reintroduced into south-west England.

The nimble, tree-climbing mustelids were released last month at secret locations in the steep, tree-lined valleys of Devon in what conservationists are hailing as a historic step in the restoration of the region’s woodlands.

“We haven’t had pine martens here for 150 years, and to see them moving out into this landscape to explore it and find their way is really exciting,” said Ed Parr Ferris, conservation manager at Devon Wildlife Trust, which is leading a partnership of seven conservation organisations returning the marten to south-west England.

The eight adult females and seven males were caught from resurgent populations in Scotland, meticulously checked for health, and driven to 10 woodland pens, where they were released under the cover of darkness well away from people and busy roads. The threat of road traffic is a big risk for the mostly nocturnal animals.

Fitted with GPS or radio tags depending on their size (lighter radio tags were used on the smaller individuals), the animals were fed in the pens for three days to acclimatise, before the doors were opened and the martens slipped away into the night.

Pine martens were driven to extinction in England at the turn of the 20th century by the loss of forests and persecution, with gamekeepers in particular targeting the animals for preying upon pheasants and poultry.“

[Guardian]

Good news.

Tweets seen

Because Starmer is a complete puppet of the Israel lobby, aka Jewish lobby.

Such people are wedded to the idea that the job of the Civil Service is “the management of decline“, in the 1960s phrase.

Fairly typical…

…as I have repeatedly blogged.

Iranian attack on Israel

Puzzling to an observer. It seems that the attack was mostly if not entirely on military targets. The Israelis are keeping the scale of the damage secret. I had thought that there would be a large number of civilian casualties (as when the Israelis attack Lebanon, Gaza, Syria etc) but it seems that hardly any Israelis have been killed or even injured.

I have seen no indication of whether the Dimona nuclear weapons plant was hit.

Likewise, it seems odd that the main international airport suffered no, or no substantial, damage. I should have thought that that would have been a priority target.

Looking on from outside, it is hard to fully understand both the overall situation and the details, such as how many rockets (and of what type) Iranian forces have; likewise on the Israeli side.

All one can do is to keep looking out for news.

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“Remarkable revelations about the Home Office:

-an asylum claim received at the end of Tony Blair’s reign as PM was still being processed this year

-oldest claim in the system is nearly 17 years old

-one asylum applicant died before case resolved

-many asylum-seekers just go missing

-85,839 cases still awaiting initial decision -asylum costs in 2024-2025 to reach £6.4 billion

-£4 BILLION top up required even despite savings from scrapping Rwanda (which removed deterrent)

Shambles (source: The Times).”

Well, appoint members of the House of Lords from the bazaars of South Asia, from the slums of Jamaica and West Africa, and from the tribe of “the usual suspects”, and naturally the whole institution crumbles. Who would have guessed?…

A half-African, with a “degree” in Hospitality Management from Ealing College, as Leader of the Conservative Party and, potentially, as Prime Minister? What could possibly go wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cleverly.

Having said that, the other three candidates are also bad jokes: a Nigerian woman married to a banker of uncertain provenance; a part-Jew former “chocolate soldier”; a dishonest and corrupt moneygrubber married to a Jewish woman lawyer. All three vocally pro-Israel.

At least Cleverly is rather less vocal in his support for Israel and the Jewish lobby.

I suppose that most scribblers and msm talking heads are expecting the Conservative Party to revive as Starmer’s hopeless government continues to falter (after only 3 months), but that may not happen.

For me, the most telling aspect of GE 2024 is that, in broad terms, out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 decided not to vote at all. Beyond that, out of the 12 that did vote, only 4 voted “Labour”, only 3 voted “Conservative”, and then 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 (just about) voted Green.

At present, the underwhelming Reform UK is the only game in town in terms of becoming an unofficial populist Opposition. The LibDems are just beneficiaries of a ridiculously illogical voting system. The “don’t know how to vote so vote LibDem” party.

None of the 4 contenders for Conservative Party leadership are really of any importance; none —say I— will ever be Prime Minister.

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Self-publicizing, dishonest, and negligent lawyer (solicitor) Mark Lewis, once prolific on Twitter/X, has not tweeted for well over a month, not since his (and his wife, Mandy Blumenthal’s) fraudulent attempted political/money-compensation scam and stunt at the Edinburgh Fringe show of comedian Reginald D. Hunter backfired.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/08/20/diary-blog-20-august-2024-including-some-more-thoughts-about-and-around-the-recent-mark-lewis-mandy-blumenthal-sabrina-miller-attempted-scam-at-the-edinburgh-fringe/;

Diary Blog, 19 August 2024, including more about the latest Mark Lewis scam, aided and abetted by Mandy Blumenthal and (Daily Mail) scribbler Sabrina Miller
Diary Blog, 26 July 2024, including the latest news about the unprofessional behaviour of “Mark Lewis Lawyer”
Update re. “Mark Lewis Lawyer”— Questions Are Raised…

Lewis is totally washed-up.

[“Get down there where you wanted to send me, you unclean spirit!“]

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In other words, it became clear even to cloth-eared Sadiq Khan that that crazed American lesbian (on £132,000 for a 3-day week) was a total waste of space and, more importantly, was being seen as such by the whole of London (and beyond). In other words, Amy Lame has been sacked, but diplomatically.

Ha ha! Even the impassive Chinese must have cracked a smile at that…

Take a look on Wikipedia at the military power of China, as compared to that of the UK.

Conservative Party Conference

Well, what struck me, looking at tweets mainly, was how few people attended, even compared to other recent years. Hopeless rabble.

Late tweets seen

I have as much of a beef with the sheer brainless vulgarity of her behaviour (especially at the age of 44) as with the all-too-typical “New Labour”-style freeloading.

I think that not only Jews are puzzled. Looks as though the Iranian forces prioritized military targets. It is uncertain, though, what proportion of missiles hit their targets.

Without more detail, such information is almost useless.

The crimes of the Israeli Jews are terrible.

[Woman holds her cat by devastated residential building hit by Israeli attack, Beirut. The human and animal cost of war…]

Late talking point

Late music

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Diary Blog, 30 September 2024

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Morning music

[El Greco, The Disrobing of Christ]

Talking point

Talking point

This is the great non-white hope of the “Conservative” Party: a smug Nigerian woman married to a banker…

Tweets seen

As Hitler said of the equivalent “grifters” during the days of the Weimar Republic, “dirty democratic politicians“…

Of course, she is right on those points, but I cannot accept someone who is not English or (in any real sense) British, nor even European, as a political leader in this country.

Debates are a waste of time and effort.

Osterreich Ostmark erwache!

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-lawyers-israel-sought-israeli-help-dispute-palestine-ngos

“UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”] was the nominal organization which complained in 2014 to the Bar Standards Board about some of my tweets (I had a Twitter/X account until yet another pack of Jews had me “suspended”, i.e. expelled, in 2018).

An old Jew barrister called Goldberg, of whom I had never heard until that time, signed the complaint on behalf of “UKLFI”. It later turned out that he had at one time been the preferred Counsel of the notorious Kray gangsters (themselves part-Jew).

The malicious and dishonest “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] was also involved and, after I was (wrongfully and unlawfully) disbarred in 2016, its chiefs, Gideon Falter and Stephen Silverman, crowed mightily in the Press and on TV about my having been disbarred, and about how (they claimed) it set a “precedent” for their being able to target not only barristers but also members of other professions which now have strict conduct regulations (and three guesses which type of individual drafts those…).

The “UKLFI” and “CAA” have, to some extent, overlapping membership and supporter cadres. More or less, or in effect, volunteer arms of the Israeli Embassy in London, and therefore of the Israeli state.

My experience of the Bar Standards Board/Bar Disciplinary Tribunal process in the 2014-2016 period, and since then:

The Slide of the English Bar and UK Society Continues and Accelerates

A horrible tribe.

Brainless “Conservative” Party member at the Conservative Party Conference. She mentions “thousands” of people, but the most I have seen online would be a couple of hundred in one place, and that includes Press and other msm attendees. Most gatherings seem to have been dozens rather than hundreds, let alone thousands.

I notice that that tweeter mentions the absence of demonstrators outside (with the exception of that oddly-dressed pro-EU lunatic who impeded my taxi in Whitehall a couple of years ago). The reason for the non-appearance of demonstrators is obvious— the fake “Conservative” Party is now more or less irrelevant. The Con Party is politically completely irrelevant for the next 4-5 years, and may be even less relevant after that, if Reform UK or other party manages to do well.

The voters want a real alternative, and the Con Party is not that.

Britain in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s had many problems, but they were not insoluble and, in general, Britain was improving and developing in various ways, despite the disastrous socio-economic damage done by the unnecessary and very negative Second World War.

Britain still had many possibilities open to it in the 1970s, but after that time, especially after 1989, the shades of doom closed in: mass immigration, already a problem since the 1970s, became a constantly-increasing migration-invasion. A smallish island started to become a human ant-heap. Housing shortages, crowded roads and rail, even water shortages on a regular basis. All had existed at one time or another, but on a smaller scale or more limited in duration.

True, though that could be said of almost all “Conservative” MPs and ex-MPs, including Justine Greening.

Of course, Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng) is absent from that joke of a conference. If the City of London is stupid enough to give him a job, then it only proves that the City as well as Parliament needs root-and-branch radical reform.

Well, I counted about 150 in the line. Maybe a few more. Take away scribblers, photographers etc, and the total is about 100-150.

Not quite a Nuremberg rally…

Goodwin, very pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, will be surprised to find out what “element” has encouraged and continues to encourage mass immigration the most.

WEF Jew speaks. Be warned. Openly reveals WEF “Great Reset” intentions.

Interesting historical material channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Begleitkommando.

More tweets seen

Quite. The “Conservative” Party is not listening to the people, and the people are not listening to the “Conservatives”.

Intriguing. Is it purely personal, purely political, or a mix? Is MOSSAD involved somewhere? (only joking…but maybe it is).

God, how horrible. Only God knows what group karma will, eventually, result from everything “they” have done in the past 150 years.

More music

[Arik Brauer, The Rainmaker of Mount Carmel; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arik_Brauer]

More tweets seen

God mote it be.

Late music

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Diary Blog, 29 September 2024

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Afternoon music

[Clare Bridge over the river Cam at Cambridge]

Tweets seen

“Labour MP Rosie Duffield has resigned the Labour whip with immediate effect.

Her resignation pulls no punches:

“As Prime Minister, your managerial and technocratic approach, and lack of basic politics and political instincts, have come crashing down on us as a party after we worked so hard, promised so much, and waited a long fourteen years to be mandated by the British public to return to power

Since the change of government in July, the revelations of hypocrisy have been staggering and increasingly outrageous.

I cannot put into words how angry I and my colleagues are at your total lack of understanding about how you have made us all appear.

How dare you take our longed-for victory, the electorate’s sacred and precious trust, and throw it back in their individual faces and the faces of dedicated and hardworking Labour MPs?!

The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.”

I might not agree on everything with Rosie Duffield (specifically, her support for Israel and the Jewish lobby), but she certainly has principle. These days, in the political milieu, that is as rare and as valuable as rubies.

Starmer shows no embarrassment because he is not really a politician, let alone a statesman, but a technician, put into power by the Israel/Zionist/Jewish lobby to do a job: firstly to get rid of Corbyn and any non-Zionists in Labour, secondly to impose the ZOG/NWO regime, meaning pro-Israel and pro-“Ukraine” (the Zelensky Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev) internationally, and a kind of “great reset” domestically; thirdly, to destroy what little free speech and freedom of expression still exists in the UK, fourthly, to impose a “woke” dictatorship intent on shipping into the UK as many non-whites as possible.

Interesting. Something of which I was previously unaware. I suppose it might just be co-incidence, but there so often do seem to be so many “co-incidences”…

I think that it goes deeper than that.

That kind of Jewish lobby (which after 1948 became also an Israel/State of Israel lobby) did exist prior to WW2. Churchill was its main agent; but it did not really or fully embed itself until after 1989, in the 1990s. Blair was, in this as in so many other negative things, the one who opened up the portal of darkness.

Ha. Seems that her principles do not extend as far as giving up, or risking having to give up, the pay and perks of an MP. She understands all too well that, in a rigged system like this, the voting masses only vote for a label, at least 99% of the time. Which makes me wonder why she has left Labour. Maybe she will jump to Reform UK. Seems unlikely, though, especially in view of her solid electoral support at GE 2024— 41.4%, with Cons second on 23%.

I was just looking at Rosie Duffield’s bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Duffield. Not very impressive; not at all. The main thing that stands out is her pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby stance. I have noticed that the prolific and fanatical Jewish tweeters on Twitter/X always support her— a very bad sign.

Rosie Duffield cannot return to a well-paid outside profession or career, because she never had one. She dropped out of school at 16, and her main activity apart from being a mother was as a teaching assistant for a number of years. She was 46 when she became an MP in 2017.

Maybe Rosie Duffield, in the end, is just quite genuinely horrified by the evident unfitness of Starmer-Labour, and has simply decided to sit it out as an MP for the next 4+ years and then either not stand for re-election or maybe stand for Reform UK or as Independent. She might yet have a chance if she goes to Reform and if Reform is by then the main challenging party.

She is older than she looks and (born 1971) is now 53. By 2029, she will be 58. Perhaps she has little interest in continuing beyond that point.

As for Starmer, I said on the blog, about a week or so after GE 2024, that he had already failed in government.

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“Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s main opposition party, the CDU, said that “Ukraine can never defeat Russia, and that was never the goal.” In an interview with Bild, he said that the allies are helping Ukraine “not to lose the war.”

Asked whether Ukraine should win the war, he replied: ” Ukraine will never be able to defeat Russia, that was never the goal. But for me victory means: it must restore sovereignty over its territory. And Russia must stop attacking this country. We must do everything to make Russia consider the continuation of the war hopeless. But we are quite far from that.”

https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/anonymous-zoomer-its-impossible-to?r=6g7nl

That horrible creature of Evil, Jacinda Ardern, has been a major player in the attempt to create a world anti-white, anti-free speech dictatorship. New Zealand may be far away from almost everywhere but until about 30 years ago was an almost entirely English/Scottish new-ish society. That, of course, had to be trashed… How did they do it? Same as everywhere else of importance— imported non-white populations, and destroyed free speech.

People talk a lot of nonsense about how the white settlers took over the existing Maori state in the 19thC. There is of course a kernel of truth in that, but the main Maori invasion and/or settlement was in the 14thC AD, only c.400 years before the white European settlement. In any case, after the Europeans and Maori came to agreement, New Zealand was a progressive and peaceful society until the late 20thC.

Jacinda Ardern worked at a fairly high level for the UK Labour Party under Blair-Brown for 1-2 years before relocating back to New Zealand.

15 years as MP, of which about 6 were also years as Prime Minister (2017-2023).

One puzzling aspect of Jacinda Ardern’s political regime is that she came to power as Prime Minister with a rather small amount of capital, yet is now said to be worth tens of millions of NZ dollars. How?

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Anyone who has lived in the USA knows to what extent the Israel/Zionist/Jewish lobby controls the major parts of the news media (TV stations, radio stations, the newspapers, magazines etc). I do not hear John Kerry talking about that, though…

While admittedly not germane to the tweet above, I do find it puzzling that the parents of Ed and David Miliband were supposedly “poor refugees” “fleeing” “Nazi-ism”, so how did they obviously have so much money?

“Miliband was born in the Fitzrovia district of Central London to Polish Jewish immigrants Marion Kozak and Ralph Miliband, a Marxist intellectual and native of Brussels who fled Belgium during World War II. He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford and later from the London School of Economics.”

[Wikipedia]

“Belgian-born Marxist sociologist Ralph Miliband and Polish-born Marion Kozak [were] both from Polish Jewish families.[1][7][8] The latter was a teacher before she became a homemaker. He was given the middle name of “Wright” after the American sociologist C. Wright Mills, a friend of his father.[9] He has said “I am the child of Jewish immigrants and that is a very important part of my identity.”[7]

Both his Polish Jewish paternal grandparents lived in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw. His paternal grandfather, Samuel, a trained leather worker, served in the Red Army in the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 before moving to Belgium.[10][11] His paternal grandmother, Renia (later known as Renée), also moved to Belgium, where she first met Sam, and the couple married in 1923.[12]

The German invasion of Belgium in May 1940 split the Miliband family in half: Ralph and father Samuel fled to England,[13] while Ralph’s mother Renée and baby sister Nan stayed behind for the duration of the war. They were not reunited until 1950.”

[Wikipedia]

“Miliband’s parents grew up in the impoverished Jewish quarter of Warsaw, Poland. His father Samuel Miliband (1895–1966) was a member of the socialist Jewish Labour Bund in Warsaw.[11]“

[Wikipedia]

“Ralph married Polish-born Marion Kozak in September 1961.[25] She was the daughter of a steel manufacturer, David Kozak, with a Polish Jewish heritage, and also one of his former students at the LSE. They made a home in Primrose Hill, and later in Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, and had two sons, David in 1965 and Edward in 1969.“

So they flee penniless, supposedly, from mainland Europe, and not only get jobs in London; they have a house or apartment (I think house), firstly in the affluent area of Primrose Hill, and then in the extremely affluent/wealthy area of The Boltons, in South Kensington.

Even in the 1950s and 1960s, those were very expensive areas.

Moreover, their two children both go to university, and not just any university but Oxford (Corpus Christi).

Ed Miliband had so much money that, when he became Labour Party leader, Jeremy Paxman actually taxed him in interview with the question as to whether he had ever had trouble paying a bill. He floundered.

I suppose that the riches came from the maternal side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Kozak#Early_life_and_education

Puzzling all the same. We always hear how the “Nazis” confiscated all Jewish property. Does that mean that those Jews had riches stashed in other countries? If so, at least some “Nazi” propaganda would seem to be based on truth…

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She does not sound at all intelligent (whoever she is).

Are there only about 20 people at that conference?

Make that 120…

If you take away the msm scribblers and photographers, maybe 20 Young (not to say “callow”) Conservatives…

Labour are rubbish (and malicious), the equally-fake Conservative Party is equally-rubbish (the only reason Labour are in government is because almost all voters wanted the Cons out rather than Lab in).

People are looking for a new way forward. At present, only Reform UK, more or less “controlled opposition”, is looking likely to be able to mount an electoral challenge of any significance any time soon, but what Britain really needs is social nationalism.

“Benedict Pringle— I write about political marketing” (apparently). So learn when to use and when not to use an apostrophe!

Stray thought

Watched something called Abandoned Railways from Above. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/abandoned-railways-from-above.

The episode I saw was about the Varsity Line, of which I knew a little already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Line.

I like that kind of aerial travelogue, and this one was done reasonably well, except that the (Northern English) voiceover insisted on using the term “Nazi” when she meant “German“, as in potential “Nazi invasion” of the UK, or “Nazi bombs” falling on this or that city. I was glad, though, to see/hear the amusingly nerdy young custodian (?) or historian at Bletchley Park refer, correctly, to the encrypted matter and codes being studied as “German“, rather than “Nazi“.

Late tweets

In the time of the Reich, the untermensch would have been guillotined.

“Populism” is not enough. It may be a way-station en route to social nationalism, though. “Overton window” etc…

Late music

[Victor Ostrovsky, Spy Games]