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Diary Blog, 3 May 2026, including material about Goering, Labour Friends of Israel, the Conservative Party, immigration, and the recent London and other attacks

Morning music

Talking point

During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said: “Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, people don’t want war. No one wants war in Russia, England, America — not even in Germany. That’s obvious. But in the end, it’s the leaders of a country who determine policy. And it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it’s a democracy, a communist state, a parliament, or a fascist dictatorship.” Gilbert objected: “But there is one difference in a democracy — the people have a voice through their elected representatives.” To which Göring replied: “That’s all well and good, but whether the people have a voice or not, they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nuremberg Diary, April 18, 1946.”

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

https://archive.org/details/the-nuremberg-diary-1971-gustave-gilbert

Apply that to the present pro-war frenzy in the “British” Press (“Lugenpresse”/”Judenpresse”); the attempt to foment a terrible and unnecessary war between the western, some central, and some eastern European states, and Russia.

Talking point

Tweets seen

Tucker Carlson talks with some Jewish woman. “Their” reactions are often hard to understand for a European (including any real-European-origin American). They are “strangers in a strange land” among us.

Note how she has recently visited Germany, but all she has taken away from her visit are some speculations about the genesis of the supposed “holocaust” of the early 1940s.

Naturally, that sounds derogatory or even cruel, but once you have encountered Africans, even those with paper qualifications etc, you realize how true it is, speaking generally. There are a few exceptions, but not very many.

We have to improve and raise the overall intellectual level of the UK (and the rest of Europe). That cannot be done when millions of very low-level migrant-invaders are flooding in (whether “legally” or “illegally”) and breeding.

Of course, it may be trite to refer to MPs, journalistic scribblers and talking heads etc as “traitors” and “enemies“, but then look at what they, most of them, have done for decades, and continue to do. Facilitation and promotion of the migration invasion, and the covering-up of its consequences, among many other crimes.

So a couple of Jews are stabbed in London, and it is supposedly a “national security emergency“, but four persons (not Jews) shot from a moving car, as in 1920s Chicago, and it is merely an everyday criminal incident…

Join the dots…

Is comment even necessary?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

According to Marco Rubio last week, Iran may have used half of its entire missile stockpile, but that may also be true of Israel, we do not know. We can be sure, though, that Iran will be working day and night to build more missiles of the most advanced type.

If that is so, I think that I know why it is so. Such places were tribal Labour for a century or more, and now those people feel betrayed. They never expected the Con Party to help them, but they also never expected the Labour Party to stab them repeatedly in the back, or in the front for that matter.

It did not start with Starmer-stein but with Blair and Brown. Mass immigration encouraged, the demonization of the British sick and disabled, the ATOS carpetbaggers, the uselessness of police and NHS quite often. Then, also, freeloading and/or fraudulent MPs such as (to give merely a few examples) Stephen Timms, Caroline Flint (now binned), Wes Streeting, Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves (all members of Labour Friends of Israel).

What hurts more, the enmity of a long-term enemy, or betrayal by a former friend?

Import the lower races, import their low standards and ways of doing things (including business and politics).

Unexpected“? I have been predicting it for about 2 years, and proclaiming it as fact since Tice allied Reform to the Jewish lobby and Israel a while ago. Reform is rapidly becoming a System party and, now that it looks as though it may be able to form a government in 2-3 years, the Jewish/Israel lobby scrabbles to control it completely.

People are not going to vote Reform because they like or trust Reform or Farage, let alone Tice etc, but will vote Reform to hit out at both Labour and the Con Party.

System commentators live in the System Bubble and/or Westminster Bubble. They often fail to see that, for millions of people, this is not a clever little newspaper-scribblers’ game, nor a “debate” of some kind. For millions of people, this is a case of growing hatred of the way things are in this country, and that includes the System parties.

As I have repeatedly blogged.

If they cannot be stopped and/or turned back at sea, they should be offered the choice: a ticket home, or to somewhere else outside Europe, and a small monetary gratuity to encourage them, or sterilization (at the least). Europe including the UK must remain European.

I have to admit that I myself did not know that.

https://chuffed.org/project/dr-rahmeh-vs-the-lobby-and-the-state

Creatures of Hell, who should be sent there as soon as possible.

You can be sure that Morgan McSweeney, a non-Jew who serves the Jewish and Israeli interest and who tried to take the bullet for Starmer recently, will be found a lucrative sinecure as a payoff.

Zoe Gardner has made a career of sorts out of propagandizing for mass immigration into the UK. I wonder, though, whether she understands what will happen to her and her type once the UK is a dystopian black/brown hellhole akin to those from which many of the migrant-invaders originate?

Look at that interview with idiotic Con Party MP, Helen Whately, a silver-spoon know-nothing airhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Whately].

Completely in the pocket of the Jewish/Israel lobby. Also, a cautionary example of how unwise it is to think that a woman (or man, for that matter) is intelligent and/or well-informed just because she has a tick-box PPE degree from Oxford.

Completely idiotic.

Helen Whately is unlikely to retain her Faversham and Mid Kent seat, looking at her most recent election result; she retained the seat in 2024 with a very low 31.8% vote (Labour 28.6%; Reform 21.2%). Reform will probably win next time. She will hardly be on the breadline, though, being married to the CEO of an energy company.

Israel. Again.

The only factor to bear in mind is that it can only happen in Europe if the native populations want it badly enough, and are willing to pay the price (civil war) for it.

Leaving aside the politics, I have to commend that citizen for his garden (and flag!). An unaesthetic bungalow with a postage-stamp lawn, but his little trees and bushes have made a real difference. A few more, and it would be even better. If all the other dwellings in the neighbourhood did the same, the area would be transformed, very likely.

Terrible.

When I returned to the UK after a spell in Rhodesia, aged not quite 21, in 1977, I had no serious (well they were taken seriously, back then…) educational qualifications such as “A” Levels or a degree (having dropped out of school aged 16). I did not start to acquire such exam-pass qualifications until I was in my mid-twenties. However, it was very easy in those days to pick up casual/temporary low-level jobs in warehouses, factories, Post Office sorting facilities (heaving sacks of mail around) etc. You really had only to apply, in most cases. That was then.

Later, I acquired a law degree, then a Bar qualification (in fact, two, being Bar of England and Wales and the Bar of the State of New York, as well as a couple of “comity admissions” in other jurisdictions.

Terrible architecture (the new one; the older one merely undistinguished), but the worst thing is that Nature had a little space or haven there previously; now none.

Rather odd.

A thought out of season

I saw “Maureen Lipman” trending on Twitter/X today, and thought that perhaps she was at last going to make good on her much-repeated “threat” (or should that be “promise”?) to leave the UK by reason of “antisemitism” here, and go to live in either Israel or the USA. Sadly, no. It all has to do with some trivial storm in a teacup in a Scottish theatre.

22 July

I have just watched 22 July, a 2018 Netflix production about the 2011 massacre and bombing in Norway carried out by Anders Breivik.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_July_(film)

Overall impression: quite well made, but very slow in the last hour [143 minutes in all].

As to Breivik and his action, I was not blogging in 2011, so have never written anything substantial about all that. I did blog about the rather similar attack which happened in New Zealand in 2019:

Triple Lock

I disagree with the lady tweeter, but of course I would, being now 69 and markedly impecunious!

If the rubbish i Paper is right, then that is yet another reason to keep the Triple Lock…

Equally if not more seriously, that lady has apparently learned nothing from the fact that her ex-husband, one-time MP for Poole, lost his seat in 2024 (thus also depriving the lady in question of a fairly well-paid job as part of his office staff, though they were divorced long ago). She now pretends to run something called The Moderates, which I (perhaps uncharitably) think has a “membership” about the same as the number of empty bottles in her kitchen or cellar, and quite possibly no members at all.

At present, the Conservative Party is polling around 15%-19%, and may well be left with fewer than 50 MPs at the next general election (116 at present, already by far the lowest in its nearly 200-year history; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)#UK_general_election_results).

Part of the reason Rishi Sunak did so badly at GE 2024 is because he is Indian, but another major factor (of several) was that, for one year, 2021/2022, he paused the Triple Lock, making pensioners worse off. He reinstated it before GE 2024, but by then the damage was done.

A very large proportion of the Conservative Party vote in 2024, as always in the past, consisted of people over 60. Many former Con voters, though, did not vote, or voted Reform. The Con Party has not recovered, and will (in my opinion) never recover. Abandoning the Triple Lock would hammer in the final nail.

https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/49978-how-britain-voted-in-the-2024-general-election.

Now, bearing in mind that the Con Party is already usually opinion-polling below 20%, imagine the reaction from the pensioner voters were the Con Party to abandon the Triple Lock; Con Party support would decline to around 15%, maybe even to 10%, and the party be all but wiped out.

The same is true of Labour, though. Labour polling is already on or nearly on life support. Getting rid of the Triple Lock would dent the surviving Labour vote very considerably. At GE 2024, 20% of voters aged 70+ were still voting Labour, as were 28% of voters aged 60-69.

So far, Reform has pledged to retain the Triple Lock, thus locking-in a good proportion of that crucial 60+ age-group vote.

Look at the Con Party. Led by a Nigerian woman (that, alone…) who is a finance-capitalist stooge completely in the pocket of the Israel/Jewish lobby, and who only has a British passport because her parents deliberately had her born in London (only staying for a few days in 1980).

Are many people going to vote Con, either at the next GE or in the 7 May 2026 local elections? I doubt it.

Late music

Diary Blog, 29 January 2026

Afternoon music

Broken Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/jan/28/newton-aycliffe-county-durham-high-street-decline

“‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10

[Guardian headline]

Six miles north of Darlington, this industrial wasteland was chosen by William Beveridge for his pioneering new town in the late 1940s. Beveridge, the architect of the welfare state, personally oversaw its creation on the site of a former explosives shed used for experiments in the war.

It would, he said, be a town of “hopes and dreams” and a “paradise for housewives”, which would be centred on a high street he named Beveridge Way.

Nearly 80 years later, this single shopping precinct helps tell a different story.

Of the 45 shops on Beveridge Way today, 23 are empty – a vacancy rate nearly four times the national average. Those that are left include a Ladbrokes, Greggs, four charity shops, four discount stores and a pawnbroker.

The banks are long gone – the closest now a 90-minute round trip to Darlington by bus – and the faded signs record an exodus of household names: Wilko, Select, Peacocks...

But one peculiar aspect is that its town centre is wholly owned by a London-based multibillionaire who is wealthier than Richard Branson.

Benzion Freshwater, 77, may be the biggest property tycoon most Britons have never heard of.

The London-based multibillionaire heads one of the UK’s richest families, worth £2.6bn, according to the latest Sunday Times rich list. His empire includes prime property in New York, Florida and London, including the capital’s Grade II-listed Africa House.

Since 1990, his company, Daejan Holdings, has also owned the entirety of Newton Aycliffe town centre.

What attracted this global property empire to a remote corner of County Durham? And why have they stayed on despite decades of decline and growing local anger? The Freshwater family have scarcely ever been pictured in public, let alone spoken to the media.

[Guardian]

The Guardian managed to write and publish that whole long, intensively-researched report (I have reposted only a small part of the whole) without once expressly mentioning the fact that the secretive family that own the entire town centre of Newton Aycliffe are Jews:

Benzion Shalom Eliezer Freshwater (born 1948) is a British billionaire property investor of Haredi Jewish descent, known for his leadership within the Freshwater Group and its main company, Daejan Holdings. He is one of the UK’s largest private landlords…In 2007 it was reported that he held 279 directorships…In 2026, a Guardian article highlighted Freshwater’s and Daejan’s name, depicting them as “absentee landlords” responsible for the high level of vacant shops in the town of Newton Aycliffe, fueling political discontentment and the rise of the Reform party…In the Sunday Times Rich List Freshwater’s fortune rose from £1 billion in 2009 to £1.6 billion in 2016,[4][7] with his net worth estimated at £2.6 billion according to the 2025 edition.”

[Wikipedia]

Jewish Reform UK group

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/nigel-farages-party-launching-reform-jewish-alliance-and-friends-of-israel-groups/

Reform UK has announced the launch next month of the Reform Jewish Alliance, (RJA) with both leader Nigel Farage and deputy leader Richard Tice scheduled to speak at the opening event…Jewish News also understands that a separate Reform Friends of Israel (RFI) group will soon be announced.

It is understood that Jason Pearlman, former advisor to Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, could be appointed as director of the group in what would be seen as a major coup.

[Jewish News]

Regular readers of the blog will know that I have been predicting for quite a long time that Reform UK, the “populist” upsurge party, has been morphing into a System party. Look at recent events: System party ex-Conservative Party “retreads” joining Reform, Farage and especially Tice going all-out to speak in favour of the Jews and Israel; and now this.

Reform UK has one use— to destroy the old System parties. The downside of that, as predicted, is that Reform UK itself becomes a System party —perhaps the only one of any size, looking a few years down the line, and even more (((occupied))) than Con and Lab.

However, Reform has opened the door through which a social-national movement can march.

Tweets seen

The Church of England committed suicide many years ago. Now it is led by some woke/joke-priestess.

The UK needs a real chistka, starting at Westminster and in the msm…

Our animal friends.

[The Fuhrer as friend of animals
[“Love for animals— the Fuhrer has that before everything else!“]

For once I agree, up to a point, with both the Daily Mail and Dan Hodges, though it may be that Reform and Farage taking in the Con MP “retreads” will actually win over many former kneejerk Conservative Party voters to Farage and Reform, albeit at the same time alienating people desperately seeking an alternative, a more radical alternative.

Say what you like about Matt Goodwin —and naturally I despise his doormatting for Israel and the Jewish lobby— but it has to be admitted that he is the standout by-election candidate at Gorton and Denton. Someone of rare energy and decisiveness. If he does not win, it will not be because he has failed to try. At present, he is the favourite in the polling, and also with the bookmakers.

I myself dislike Goodwin’s pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby views (whether genuine or, shall we say, self-interested); I disagree with his apparent wish to dismantle what is left of the social security/”welfare” system, and to introduce an Americanized agenda even more than has already been the case; I disagree with several of his proposed solutions to “broken Britain”. However, he at least recognizes that the UK is sliding to dystopia, and needs to stop that slide.

Late tweets seen

14 words…

System scribbler Dan Hodges calls that opinion poll “madness” because —like many in the Westminster Bubble— he has not quite understood the depth of deep discontent and, yes, anger which now pervades much of Britain.

The Westminster Bubblers live in, as it might be, Blackheath or Hampstead, or Kensington and Chelsea, or now-gentrified Fulham, or wherever is quite affluent, have incomes in the hundreds of thousands (in many cases), family money too (in many cases), and have never known insecurity or poverty, or even much serious inconvenience (in most cases).

Dan Hodges and the rest thus fail to see, even now, that huge numbers of British people have just “had it” with the System parties and their ranks of careerist, moneygrubbing and treacherous clowns. Hodges etc think of Reform as a bunch of clowns, but have they really stepped back to look objectively at the utter clowns of Labour, Conservative Party, or the LibDems (such as hugely-smug LibDem clown-in-chief Ed Davey)?

Yes, Reform struggles to get beyond 35%, and is now in the modest 24%-30% zone, but that is because people are not voting for Reform, they are voting against “the others”, and against everything this country has become over the past 40 years; and against what the country is fast becoming.

That opinion poll translates to a Commons with about 376 Reform UK MPs (very solid majority), 67 Greens (very weak official Opposition), 57 LibDems, 45 SNP, 42 Lab, and 26 Cons.

Incidentally, on those figures, both Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer would lose their seats.

NWO/ZOG puppets. Useless and treacherous.

Why are the Iranians waiting to be attacked. They could do as the Israelis have often done, mutatis mutandis, and launch a massive pre-emptive attack on Israel, using everything they have. Dimona, Ben-Gurion Airport, central Tel Aviv, and nearby wealthy suburbs and towns such as Ra’anana.

Channel 12 is an Israeli TV station.

[“Iran Showed Underwater Missile Tunnels and Threatened the Security of the Strait of Hormuz

Amid growing tensions with the US, Iran officially showed a network of underwater missile tunnels, stating that in the event of an attack, the Strait of Hormuz would cease to be safe. On state television, the IRGC showed footage of the commander of the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Alireza Tangsiri, inside underwater facilities, where cruise missiles with a declared range of over 1,000 km and “intelligent” guidance systems are located.

According to Tangsiri, the infrastructure was created specifically to counter American ships in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, and Iranian forces are ready to respond to threats “at any level and in any geography”. The Iranian side claims that it has full control over the Strait of Hormuz in the air, on the surface and underwater – a key route through which about 20% of the world’s oil supplies pass.

The political deputy commander of the IRGC Navy, Mohammad Akbarzadeh, stressed that Iran is not seeking war, but is fully prepared for it, including the ability to track ships in real time. He also warned that regional states would be considered hostile if their territory was used to strike Iran. In parallel, Iranian media showed footage of the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and elements of simulated guidance, demonstrating Tehran’s readiness for a tough and prompt response.“]

Late music

[Tunis on a wet winter night; I remember walking in that street, about 40 years ago]