Well, this week brings me an easy victory over political journalist John Rentoul; he scored only 3/10, compared to my 7/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 2, 5, and 8. In fact, I “hit the post” on questions 2 and 8, and no.5 is arguable, depending on what you class as “a vineyard“, whatever “Wine GB” may say.
Looks as though curbing the Jew-Zionists, “antifa” idiots, and other would-be censors of freedom of expression, has encouraged better functioning at Twitter, and attracted more users and/or use.
Hi @BootstrapCook are you ever going to tell the people that donated money to you that you stole where it went?#JackMonroe is a THIEF
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 15, 2023
She is (in my opinion).
Some of these people on Jack Monroe Twitter are fucking nutters! All obsessed with the one same person because he stood up to her and took her to court for her grift. Very concerning behaviour.
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 15, 2023
They are (in my opinion).
There is no climate crisis. The alleged climate crisis is the most expensive and devastating lie of all time.
We look back at the Incas, and wonder why their priests had a kind of handball game in which you got executed if you dropped the ball [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#Human_sacrifice]. We look at the Aztecs, and wonder what motivated their bloodthirsty and cruel human sacrifices. Yet we (meaning society as a whole) accept the cruelties and stupidities of our own age as right and proper: “net zero”, “lockdown(s)”, killer “vaccines” and “boosters”, the 2010-2023 “austerity policies”, the importation into the UK of millions of culturally and ethnically backward people; and so on. The full list would be too long to publish today.
President Biden just called up 3,000 reservists to augment U.S. troops in Europe as part of "Operation Atlantic Resolve." I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It's about preparing for a ground war with Russia.https://t.co/YCzL0UWoo0
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023
I do not like George Osborne at all, but at the same time that very clearly terminally-smug “protester” (a woman aged maybe 60-70) could not have complained had she been hit in the face and/or given a good kicking.
Those “Just Stop Oil” loonies have to be stopped. In fact their sheer smugness (especially the ones aged 60+) is one of the most hateful things about them.
In some ways, British “toleration” is a very good thing, but it goes too far when it becomes toleration of malice and/or evil.
If Biden drops dead, or becomes even less compos mentis, that creature would be the U.S. President…hard to believe…
Belarusian sources report that a large convoy of Wagner PMC vehicles with LDNR numbers was seen this morning. She proceeded towards Bobruisk, and then – to Osipovichi. At least 60 cars were seen in the convoy, including at least 10 trucks, 3 buses, pickups and other equipment.… pic.twitter.com/ikgAfXmMrp
I wonder how long before “the musicians” start to play (again)…
Russian forces have eliminated two sabotage-reconnaissance groups in the Zaporizhzhya region , said the acting governor of the region Yevgeny Balitsky.
British Defense Minister Ben Wallace is considering leaving the position he has held since July 2019 and to stop engaging in politics, The Times reported, citing government sources.
UKRAINIAN ARMY TRYING TO BREAK THE FRONT NEAR DONETSK AND ARTYUMOVSK (BAKHMUT)
They have some success on both fronts. If the Russian units do not launch a counterattack and regain certain positions, they would find themselves in a big problem.
Lockdown Vax Passes Net Zero including 15 minute cities Biometric Digital ID Programmable CBDC Biometric CCTV Silencing free speech Stopping right to protest
The one thing they have in common is control. Control of you.
Wake up people!
— Lady Jane Simkins 💜🌸🏴🇬🇧 (@JaneSim66) July 15, 2023
The only "Inclusion" those behind the United Nations really want, is the entire world's population to be forced into their proposed digital control matrix.
It’s time for people to stand and fight back. Remove Party Politics and bring the Country back to the people. #StrongerTogether
— Betula Independent Alliance (@BetulaAlliance) July 15, 2023
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Not only that, but its Founding Chairman, Gerald Ronson, served time in prison for fraud. Is this really an organisation that can be relied on to produce accurate "antisemitism" statistics every year?
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) July 10, 2023
I think that the “Community Security Trust” [“CST”] is separate from the “Shomrim” Jewish private police, but I may be wrong.
“EXCLUSIVE – A tale of two hotels: How migrants set to be housed in four-stay luxury hotel would be ‘treated’ while homeless people will be put up in cheap hotel so grimy that it shut and was then converted into a hostel”
“Antifa” idiots and “refugees welcome” dimwits are, thankfully, only about 1% of the UK population. Get in your tank and roll over them.
Get the names and addresses of every one of the banner wavers! Send them 2 ILLEGAL immigrants each to house,feed and clothe I suspect it will be the same answer as these🤡🤡https://t.co/H1zuHXuWBZ
I have still not seen anything anywhere indicating where “Dr” Louise Raw obtained her “doctorate” (specialized subject— one strike in 1888). She seems very reticent about it, and about where she obtained it, assuming she did obtain one (and even if the doctorate is genuine, she should not use the title “Dr” in the UK, not being a f/t academic, or clergy, or medical practitioner. It’s infra dig).
This is the way forward a list compiled of people who want illegal invaders in the country a simple yes or no to each household and the yes households would then house the invaders, and be financially responsible for them
Here she is. She will be reelected and knows it. The people of wales hate the tories. All labour mps and ams.Have a job for life. Moan, Moan, Moan, Whinge, Whinge, Whinge. Then reelect witha larger majority. "Asylum Seekers welcome" pic.twitter.com/25YIUMrDJw
Nia Griffith, MP for Llanelli: among other things, a Labour Friends of Israel member, and an expenses cheat who owns three houses and flats, at least one with land. She should be able to accommodate some migrant invaders, surely? Oh, no, wait…
⚡️FSB claims that the preparation of the assassination of RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak was “prevented” pic.twitter.com/jFAtrMx0Fn
There is a deeply-embedded sickness in the Western world now. The “trans” nonsense is just part of it. The sickness is actually being promoted by the power-concentrations of our society— Government, the msm, big business etc.
“A transgender activist who served 30 years in jail for attempted murder has told the crowd at a Trans Pride march if they saw a ‘TERF’, they should punch them in the face.
Sarah Jane Baker was one of the speakers at the Trans+ Pride event in London yesterday and used her speech to call for violence against those critical of trans ideology.
She told the cheering crowd: ‘I was gonna come here and be really fluffy and be really nice and say yeah be really lovely and queer and gay… Nah, if you see a TERF, punch them in the f****** face.‘”
[Daily Mail]
The whole madness of this sort of thing has to be exterminated.
Incidentally, even the Daily Mail calls that individual “she” etc… Words are important. Designations are important.
These events, often during the working day, focused on transgender issues, sexuality and racism. They included a ‘tea and rainbow cake’ picnic and a special session on pronouns.“
Knives are not a problem. Those who carry and use them are a problem. Most of the latter, these days, are black or brown. I should prefer to see it lawful to carry a knife, but unlawful and heavily punished to threaten to use one, and very heavily punished to actually stab or slash anyone.
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US President Joe Biden has arrived in the UK, where he will meet with King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. pic.twitter.com/A9AuYTPuIJ
The head of the French company TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyanne: Europe may face gas shortages this winter
He noted that the European Union plans to completely fill the gas storage by October. “ But if the winter is cold, these reserves will not be enough to meet the needs of… pic.twitter.com/Xdxyl64mkW
What is really behind all this Chinese railway-building in Africa? Just influence-building? Just economic enterprise? Is there some long-term Chinese plan to colonize all or most of Africa, or maybe all or most of sub-Saharan Africa, “Black Africa”?
Elon Musk: Ukraine will lose even more territory in the event of a counteroffensive failure
The failure of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could lead to Kyiv losing a significant part of its territory , Elon Musk wrote on Twitter.
I’ve been on the front lines of the conflict of Ukraine to see for myself what is happening. The world is revolving around this small plot of land. It is important to come and see. The reality is far different than we are told it is . . . pic.twitter.com/oJP7hsO7p0
This is Nikoli, a life-long resident of Gorlovka, a city in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. While he still considers himself Ukrainian, he says that Donetsk can never be part of Ukraine again because the Ukrainian government has “acted against God” since 2014 in brutally… pic.twitter.com/GWpTN5nJDR
I went to the front lines of Donetsk today to see an Orthodox Church destroyed in 2014 when Ukrainian troops took it over and used it as a military base. They have continued to shell it since then. Ukraine continues to intentionally destroy churches throughout the country. pic.twitter.com/MzlLP2w6jW
This building in Gorlovka, now under repair, was shelled by Ukrainian forces in 2014. At the time, it was an orphanage. Today, it is a children’s social service center. pic.twitter.com/XIJylDmi9x
Treated myself to a nice dinner tonight in Donetsk City. The guy in the photo kept having the poor waitress send notes to a woman in the restaurant that he fancied. Life, love and lust go on in war time, and that is a comforting thought. pic.twitter.com/88mVNVg4nS
This is Dimitri. He, along with his mother and father, have been in the Donetsk people’s militia since 2014, defending themselves against Ukrainian aggression. His flat was shelled by Ukraine 3 days ago just as it had been in 2016. pic.twitter.com/ULg84xgnLs
This is a photo of Sasha, my translator in Donbas, in 2014 when she was 12 years old. The war has been going on for 9 years now. We’re being lied to when they say it started last year. pic.twitter.com/UfnrxJ4qCQ
Look at this Dublin street full of angry white men, probably angry white heterosexual men, demanding access to womens changing rooms. Owen Jones et al are fighting with women demanding that men getting off on being with women in vulnerable situations be allowed in all our spaces. pic.twitter.com/2lwV7TYyy4
That sort of nonsense scarcely existed even a decade ago, not as an aggressive and demanding movement, and was neither heard of nor tolerated in 2000, let alone 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960. I think that we must ask what are the powerful and wealthy forces promoting all this stuff., and why they are promoting it. #Great Reset…
The answer, as of today— 396. No less than 396 utter mugs, each sending pseudo-activist and grifter/fraudster “Jack Monroe” anything from £3.50 to £44 a month via the Patreon website.
Most of the msm are now avoiding “Jack Monroe”, but it seems that a few dozy scribblers and talking heads have still not got the message (see below):
Jack Monroe @bootstrapcook hates food, and doesn't campaign on anything. Maybe you can ask her what she's done with all her grifted cash.
Ah yes a foodie whose recipes don’t work and her latest book came was recalled with a health and safety warning. Perhaps you could ask her why she hasn’t refunded the legal fees she fraudulently crowd funded for or why she hasn’t fulfilled her patreon in years & hasn’t paused it
More narcissistic self-promotion. Other women (mainly) have tried the same “I am a victim” attention-seeking, including Jess Phillips MP and “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe”, the latter of whom most recently claimed to have reporters and stray peasants peering in her windows and ringing her doorbell. “Jack Monroe” also claimed that “celebrities” like her (ha…) were protected by a special Essex Police “celebrity and VIP” squad, which in fact does not exist. Neither did the “reporters” and stray peasants supposedly peering in at her windows and ringing doorbells etc.
One good piece of news is that another online self-promoter, part-Jew “activist” “Russ in Cheshire” (another supposedly “anti-Tory” “fighter”, like “Supertanskiii” and “Man Behaving Dadly”), has “left Twitter”. If so, very good news, but “Jack Monroe” has “left Twitter” many times and always returns with tales further stretching credulity (mental health emergencies, fake cancer diagnoses, terror threats, stalkers etc) and begging for more “donations”.
In fact, “Russ in Cheshire” has apparently merely moved his, er, operation over to the new Threads social media site; so he lives on to “grift” another day, so to speak.
What really happened when Boris Johnson "nearly died" of Covid-19, in 2020?
We've found out.
After an immense effort over 3 years, following a unique investigation, we have discovered the truth. We're exposing it all in the full detail it deserves in a long format, explosive,… pic.twitter.com/DrwkougsF9
— Marcus J Ball (Investigative Private Prosecutor) (@MarcusJBall) July 9, 2023
73% of surveyed Russians support SVO – poll by Levada Center*
For the entire period of the special operation, the level of trust in the government did not fall below 68% (in the very first month). Today the level of opposition does not exceed 19%. pic.twitter.com/Sqze3O62BD
If there does erupt a “revolution” in Russia, it will not be because of the war against the Kiev regime, unless perhaps the war is “lost” completely, which seems very unlikely.
If the difference in the production of artillery shells is so significant, then this may cause concern regarding the territorial acquisitions of Russia [in Ukraine] – Musk on the shell hunger of the West
The Ministry of Defense of Russia published a video of the destruction of an armored vehicle of the Ukrainian army in the direction of Zaporozhye.
The crew of the Russian reconnaissance-attack helicopter Ka-52 destroyed the armored vehicle with a precise hit of a guided missile pic.twitter.com/MQjJhu7ALd
The highbrow German weekly "Die Zeit" is asking its readers which "essential" restrictions&bans the government should impose on citizens (or, if they get their way, subjects).
The desire of left-wing German intellectuals to create totalitarian systems is seemingly unbreakable. pic.twitter.com/xlHhdOaaGN
As regular readers will know, I am now, once again, the target of a malicious and politically-motivated attack, this time a prosecution, instigated by the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a very small but well-funded group of fanatical Zionist Jews.
I now see that there have been a couple of tweets inaccurately stating that I am to be tried this month. Not so. Any trial (if one is actually held at all) will be held in November or December 2023, or possibly even in 2024. In the interim period, there will be at least one brief and purely procedural hearing.
A nuisance, of course, but since the latest malicious attempt was publicized (by the “CAA” goblins themselves, on Twitter and on their website), there has been an increase in the readership of this blog. Silver lining?
Nadine Dorries and the Mid-Bedfordshire constituency
A safe Conservative Party seat, which she has represented since 2005, and which has been good to her— good salary, hugely-inflated expenses, time out to appear on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here for a very large fee, and to write about a dozen cheap novels.
She was able to employ at least two of her three daughters on very inflated salaries (via MP expenses) and has been investigated several times by the police. On at least one occasion, the file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration for prosecution. However, she has wriggled out of trouble every time.
Now, having announced her immediate resignation [see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65910896], Nadine Dorries has not in fact done what is necessary, i.e. to apply, notionally, for “an office of profit under the Crown“, usually either “Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds” or “Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead”.
The delay is plainly because Nadine Dorries was, or so she claims, offered a peerage by the former Prime Minister, Johnson, which offer is now worthless. That she was offered a peerage was apparently the case; her nomination for a peerage was one of those deleted from the list, supposedly by decision of Rishi Sunak.
It seems clear to me that Nadine Dorries announced her “resignation” because she was sure of getting a well-paid sinecure as a “baroness” in the Lords— ~£350 a day without any need even to pretend to do anything for it, plus well-subsidized and palatial surroundings in which to meet people, network etc.
In theory, Nadine Dorries could hang on as MP until the next General Election, getting the salary, the expenses etc, while doing nothing. Perhaps she will.
Nadine Dorries was only too happy to jettison the loyal —and possibly stupid— voters of Mid-Bedfordshire. Unsurprising. As soon as her then-husband and father of her children developed multiple sclerosis, she (in effect) abandoned him, after 23 years of marriage: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries#Personal_life.
Hastings’ biography includes Sandhurst, and WW2 action with the Scots Guards, the early SAS, and the shambolic but certainly sometimes courageous SOE, later followed by 12 years with SIS/MI6.
Naturally, Hastings was born with a silver spoon compared to Nadine Dorries. No argument. Eton, Sandhurst, the expectation and inheritance of several large, or arguably even great estates. Financially, and in terms of useful connections, he had it far easier than Nadine Dorries, born into relative poverty in Liverpool.
All the same, which of the two really would be better as MP?
Again, one was born into affluence, indeed into riches, and never had to struggle financially, but the point is which of the two was the more fitted to be an MP and political leader.
Incidentally, I noticed that Stephen Hastings wrote an autobiography, Drums of Memory. I have just ordered a used copy, and for the knockdown price of £1.75 plus a couple of pounds postage. Pretty good value for a hardback book in apparently almost new condition. Will look forward to reading that, assuming it actually arrives (my last purchase, Anna Karenina in Russian, has been refunded by Amazon because of some problem with distribution).
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This is Nadine Dorries, part-time MP and Johnson super fan. Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about her not getting a peerage and hardly any of those words question if she deserves one in the first place. 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/opd5OOnLXA
— The90%. No to Charter Cities (@90percenters) June 14, 2023
There are people in her constituency worried about losing their home or putting food on the table. Dorries however appears more concerned about her peerage or lack thereof. She is selfish, shameless and undeserving of any honour, let alone a peerage! https://t.co/xc2HhsIT6D
Money thrown at the feet of the Kiev regime. Meanwhile, in Britain, people cannot get medical treatment or decent housing, and the roads are falling to pieces.
At night, the RF Armed Forces worked on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with long-range missiles and UAVs.
Arrivals were recorded in Kharkov, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog, Sumy region.
The loss of Western heavy equipment was an unfortunate surprise for Kyiv – French general “The current losses were a bad surprise. After all, everything is not going the way the West planned, ” said General Olivier Kempf in an interview with Figaro. He added that a large number… pic.twitter.com/QMDL0bOIhk
That would require a modicum of contrition on her part and Jack Monroe, like most narcissists, simply refuse to accept they are ever in the wrong in any meaningful way.
If “Jack Monroe” did that, she might trigger an avalanche of similar claims, together with even more negative publicity.
The unwavering support of Jack Monroe tells you all you need to know about her social status. If Jack was a single mum off a council estate she firstly wouldn’t have a platform and secondly wouldn’t be enabled by the virtue signalling middle class to carry on stealing from folk.
Going to be interesting to see how Jack Monroe bootstrapcook responds to the huge pushback against her attempt to skew the narrative re: her failure to attend court yesterday. Seems more & more people are seeing through her lies. I think she knows it's over for her TBH.
Her pseudo-celebrity supporters are ebbing away. Weak waste of space Alice Beer is the latest. Jay Rayner cut “Jack Monroe” loose nearly a year ago now, and Nigella Lawson later followed suit.
None will denounce her, but will just show her the cold shoulder.
I suppose that “Jack Monroe” will try to leverage whatever she can to stay in the public eye to some extent, as with her unexplained appearance on BBC Question Time recently, and she needs that public exposure, if only to keep onside the hard core of donor-mugs who are each sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month via Patreon— 411 utter mugs as of today.
Dominic Grieve – "We know Boris Johnson is a serial liar… & he lied through his back teeth about the circumstances relating to the breaches of the rules in No.10…. I hope he's gone for good, as the country is much better off without him."#KayBurleypic.twitter.com/KWViL309MU
Britain 2023, where Max Hastings looks like the most principled journalist imaginable…a measure of either how Hastings has grown since he covered the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, or of how far British public life has slid into the mire in more recent decades.
You've got to hand it to Boris Johnson. To be the worst Prime Minister we ever had when we've also had Liz Truss is quite the achievement
Sushil Wadhwani responding to Kirsty Walk mentioning Allister Heath's opinion that the coming mortgage catastrophe "will prove Liz Truss right"#Newsnightpic.twitter.com/vlR2li7K70
If mortgage rates continue to rise, there will be a rather British non-violent political upheaval. There must be millions of people who do not really “own their own home” as they think they do, because they have a mortgage on the property.
I have just seen a statistic which claims that nearly 28% of the UK population are homeowners without a mortgage or loan against the property, while nearly 38% are “homeowners” but with a mortgage or other loan against the property (I presume that the remaining ~34% are either renters or are too young to take title to real property).
38%. That means, in theory, 38% of the voters, too.
People may not like or trust the Labour Party or the LibDems (or others), but the Conservative Party has been in power since 2010. If mortgage rates continue to rise, there will be a backlash against the Conservative Party not seen even in 1997.
As a point of fact, I was a Master, not the Head Master of Eton, nor has humility always been my most obvious virtue.
— WWIII. #EndTheGenocide (@NWO_Covid_WW3) June 15, 2023
Another, and this time not very inventive “Jack Monroe” lie, that reporters and stray peasants are besieging her home. She must have lifted that from the life of van Gogh.
Simple question Jack. How much money was donated to fight the libel case against me that never happened? I'm sure Twitter would like to know.https://t.co/VHsnnCpkRJ
— WWIII. #EndTheGenocide (@NWO_Covid_WW3) June 15, 2023
“Jack Monroe” works on the —often-true— assumption that the public cannot check up on the veracity of her stories (mostly a pack of lies) and that most “journalists” (scribblers) are too lazy to check.
Jack Monroe is happy to share personal messages to reveal private information of others yet she won't show receipts here. She's very selective about what she keeps behind the curtain
The Armed Forces of Ukraine made several unsuccessful attempts to attack in the Makarovka-Pushilin area
According to him, one of the hottest areas on the front is the junction between the Zaporozhye region and the DPR, where the Ukrainian army is trying to carry out active…
New Kakhovka: shooting into the sky and a powerful bombing strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on enemy targets on the right bank of the Dnieper A massive fire broke out at the site of the bombings. pic.twitter.com/DVDLOgIkae
This morning, Russian airborne units launched counterattacks on the trenches of the Ukrainian army in the Kremnaya forests, and managed to penetrate deep into the forests. pic.twitter.com/GosAOJnpTc
Right now, a shooting battle is going on near Nova Kakhovka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, presumably, repulse an attempted landing by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the correspondent of "Izvestia" Emil Timashev. Shooting is also heard in Tavriysk… pic.twitter.com/iqcbKuT4o8
Footage of the detonation of the ammunition depot of the nationalists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the artillery strike of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction. pic.twitter.com/hKHSIn8l6f
The Americans know that even a limited Russian nuclear strike on the US mainland would send their whole society into freefall. Many of their cities are already powder kegs ready to blow. Racial and social war is just below the surface.
We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the British Monarchy.
The odd thing is that, as opinion polls —and simple observation— show, most of the blacks and browns (certainly those under 60) have no time for, or interest in, the Monarchy.
The same is true of the metropolitan LGBTQXYZ crowd, as seen on Twitter.
Yet Charles is bending over backward in the attempt to appeal to those and other “diverse” groups.
In other words, Charles is trying to appeal to those who either hate him and the Monarchy (a relative few), or to those (the vast majority) to whom the Monarchy is a total irrelevance.
It will no doubt be argued by the msm that Charles is being brave and principled. To me, that whole project comes over as weak and ineffectual. As does he.
As blogged in the past, I have nothing much against Charles himself, whom I once met at a small diplomatic reception in Kazakhstan (in 1996). He has championed some issues of importance, including matters of architecture, town planning, animal welfare, and the environment. He may not always have been successful in that —a chequered picture—but he has tried. I think that that cannot be denied.
It must be hard simply to behave decently when you are told by pretty much everything and everyone around you since birth that you are wonderful, special, way above others etc.
However, this Coronation, far from boosting Charles, may well prove to be the start of his —and the Monarchy’s— downfall. He has invited the head of Sinn Fein to attend, yet not members of families close to the Monarchy for decades, even centuries (and not some individuals close to the late Queen).
The whole thing seems to be a “woke”, fake-“diverse” circus of nonsense grafted onto the comfortable and customary mediaeval and Victorian base.
Maybe that is why Meghan Mulatta is not going to attend, because she realized that she would just be one more “diverse” exhibit in the show.
The last Coronation, in 1953, was (apparently) eagerly awaited by much of the population. Sales of then-still-new- TV sets exploded, because it was going to be the first televised Coronation. Much of the population was engaged and, it seems, felt involved, even if, inevitably, only as background chorus and spear-carriers.
Now? Well, writing this piece, I actually had to look up the date of this Coronation, to remind myself (Saturday, 6 May 2023). I noticed one of the Readers’ Comments to that Daily Mail report: the comment said “I am being swept along in [sic] a wave of apathy“. Despite the error, surely correct. I have not yet spoken to anyone who has mentioned the Coronation in any way, positive or negative. Public interest is at or near rock-bottom.
I have blogged before to the effect that what will kill the Monarchy is not hatred, anger, or even principled dislike, or ideological opposition. No, what will kill it (and is killing it) is apathy as much as anything; the fact that the Monarchy, the Royal Family, their activities etc, have just no connection to, or relevance for, most of those living in the UK today.
For all the “diverse” nonsense, most of the non-whites, indeed most of the non-Brits, are simply not interested. Even in the white (British) “community”, there is a demographic split, most of the over 65s not only interested in the Monarchy but supportive of it; as for the under-30s, not. I think that a recent opinion poll said that about two-thirds of the under-30s would like to get rid of the Monarchy. Again, though, the reason is not anger (as in England in 1649, France in 1789 or Russia in 1917) but simple apathy and lack of interest both in the Monarchy and in getting rid of it.
The other glaring fact is the sheer struggle so many now have simply to pay bills, keep a roof over the head, children and companion animals fed, and so on.
The Monarchy will go at some point but , in the much-used phrase of Nevil Shute, “not with a bang but a whimper”.
Marina Purkiss
One of the dumbest guest interviews in the history of UK broadcast television.
The staggering ignorance of the know-it-all Remainers
Marina Purkiss’s car-crash GB News interview reveals the hollowness of the #FBPE worldview.
“In one astonishing moment, she raised the recent renaming of Black Boy Lane in Haringey, north London. Believing she had found a winning line, she insisted that ‘If you had a street named White Trash you might want to rename it’. Why Purkiss considers ‘black boy’ to be a slur on a par with ‘white trash’ was never made clear.“
[Spiked magazine]
Marina Purkiss, a “woke” idiot who thinks that civil rights or human rights such as freedom of expression are unimportant.
Alarming but not surprising that huge numbers of Twitterati think that she is great (and that she somehow “smashed” Jacob Rees-Mogg in that interview).
No doubt Marina Purkiss will continue to make a kind of career out of intellect-free emoting on socio-political issues. She apparently also has other, and remunerated, activity online.
Not that cost-of-living issues are unimportant. In fact, when people start to really struggle, in large numbers, that is precisely when they turn to radical and even revolutionary alternatives which may, down the line, be dictatorial and anti-free speech.
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The Kiev regime has realized that it will lose Bakhmut….🫣
Ukrainian army corpses litter the trenches near western Bakhmut. Zelensky’s orders to not retreat is causing a very high death rate as more reserves with minimal training are sent to defend frontline positions near the city outskirts pic.twitter.com/ZWsDnNKlBa
In Ukraine, the shortage of mobilization resources in general and officers in particular is becoming more acute. Zelensky instructed the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny to send most of the military commissars from the recruitment centers to the front
I've never seen such protocol for any other PM of the UK. Genes never change. Rishi sunak's blood is indian n carrying the same genes of show-off and abuse of power. One gets to see in the subcontinent, so it didn't surprise me at all when I the video.
And when the banks / pensions market fail next time round – less bailouts and instead, bank acquisitions by governments – the Trojan horse towards CBDCs.
That could be the moment for social nationalism to strike. The missing element is a party or movement. At present there is none worthy of the name. However, in times of crisis and desperation, a party, movement, or individual personality may arise suddenly, out of the depths of the people and events.
During lockdown we couldn’t even mourn our loved ones properly. A son moves his chair next to his mother to comfort her at the funeral of her late husband and was told to separate. And all because governments framed political motives as “The Science”.pic.twitter.com/fjOnOzqYRy
Look at that crematorium drone, ordering better people than himself back to their places. The “panicdemic” really brought out numbers of self-important nobodies of that type. No more were they simple supermarket workers, shopworkers, or filling station cashiers. Oh, no! Now they were workers on the front-line of the “Covid” “emergency”, armed with powers (they thought) to order people back, forward, sideways, or to wear muzzles etc, just like instructors dealing with slow-minded military recruits. I had a few clashes with that sort in 2020-21. How they must have hated having to return to stacking shelves…
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[East Berlin, 1970s; reminds me of a few places in South London]
You still see anti-Hitler propaganda about the alleged euthanasia of some medical “hopeless cases” in the late 1930s. Not everything done in the Reich was correct, but what was done of that type was pretty much on a par with what was happening in the UK, USA and elsewhere. The Jewish lobby (mainly) screams endlessly about “the evils of Nazism“, when in fact the same was happening across Europe and North America, but you never or rarely hear about that.
As for a situation such as that in the last few years in the UK, even the Jewish lobby can hardly blame Hitler and the NSDAP for that…
By reason of the repression of free speech already well-advanced in the UK, I am “not allowed” to say what I want to say about what should be done right now…
So people will be “expected” (required?) to stay incarcerated in something akin to an open prison, albeit with cafes and wine bars (in some cases)? Presumably, also forbidden from saying or writing anything anti-“communitarian”…
Zelensky continues to beg for money from the world for military equipment, ammunition, etc. This time the held a meeting with the President of Slovakia and the Czech Republic pic.twitter.com/fPrp9nuT5F
The origins of Covid were never a secret. The real story — the greatest outrage — is that the people who knew or should have known the truth lied about it in order to hide the Chinese government’s role in mass murder. pic.twitter.com/Z1gJxsDQHc
As I blogged yesterday, if the Western governments knew, or know, that the Chinese government released the “Covid” strain(s) deliberately, that leaves them with the question “why?” and, also, with the dilemma about what to do about it.
China can hardly be invaded or attacked, or (in any serious way) subjected to economic sanctions, so what would be left? Verbal handwringing? That would make the West look weak, or even weaker. The only answer seems to be to pretend that the Chinese government did not do anything wrong…
Can't shake the feeling that something covid-esque in the loss of our freedoms is around the corner. Lots of talk about bird flu…
Would you comply with future lockdowns or restrictions if similar were to happen again? pic.twitter.com/ufHJWcjTAm
Where do they think they would be without white European people? Not living in luxury, travelling around in private planes or limousines, that’s for sure. Probably sitting in mud and straw huts somewhere, cooking sadza.
NZ: cashless society “You’re seeing and reading some horrific stories out there at the moment of isolated communities, when people lose the ability to transact, when they don’t have a means of exchange, then social cohesion is very quickly challenged.”https://t.co/BOlOhPv0EY
A year after Kiev cut off water for Donetsk, the Russians built the first segment of a new pipeline from a different source. These have been typical Kiev tactics since 2014 when e.g. they cut off the water supply to Crimea. pic.twitter.com/NJLbqOJ8du
When Kiev blocked Crimea’s water supply in 2014, comedian Zelensky used to mock its water-deprived residents, while the western media claimed it’s impossible to restore (much like they claimed the Crimea bridge was impossible to build). Last year, Crimeans got their water back. pic.twitter.com/0AGnx3q8g5
‘#israeli’ ‘settler’ squatters with protection of occupation army have burned hundreds of local semitic #Palestinian shops, farms, homes and cars to the ground, and uprooted trees across the occupied West Bank in #Huwara, #Palestine – the worst ‘settler’ attacks the area has seen… pic.twitter.com/MclarOdYu9
What is happening in Huwwara is state-sponsored. From the settlers being bussed in, to the soldiers keeping a watchful eye & acting as protectors as the settlers carried out their pogrom, & the Israeli ministers & leaders celebrating the burning of an entire Palestinian town.
After commiting a pogrom in Huwara, the settler criminals walk free. They go "pray" at the site of the pogrom under military protection, in an isolated town reeling from a night of vicious terror. Huwara is a ghostown tdy, exactly how the Zionists want it.pic.twitter.com/eibACVzPXk
It is being reported that some Israeli Jews disapprove of the violence.As a matter of fact, Adolf Hitler was taken by surprise by Kristallnacht, and somewhat disapproved of it, knowing that foreign enemies would use it against him.
Of course, the Israeli state was built on that kind of terrorism and intimidation. Mass graves are still occasionally uncovered in Israel, the result of Jewish ethnic cleansing from around 1948.
In the UK, USA, France, “they” are a relatively small minority, and usually rely on other methods: threats of “legal action”, prosecutions etc, if anyone criticizes their behaviour; attacking people’s jobs, businesses, or professions; bribery of MPs and officials; a stranglehold over the Press, publishing, TV, radio etc.
I do not know whether those Huwarra/Huwara events have been covered by BBC, Sky etc. Maybe, maybe not.
I rarely bother to watch TV news now, partly because it is so dull as to be almost unwatcheable, partly because it is largely System propaganda. The political editors are usually either (((you-know-who))) or in the pocket of the same.
European values! A Palestinian kills 2 Israeli settlers = “terror attack”
500 settlers lynch a Palestinian aid worker, wound 100s, pillage & burn down half a town, dance at the ruins = “settler violence”
Watch: Israeli police disperse a solidarity demo with #Huwara in #TelAviv following the attack by settlers yesterday. Protesters shout: “where are the arrested from Huwara?” as the police released the few settlers that were arrested last night pic.twitter.com/Dl17iRBYHa
I doubt whether the Jew settlers would have had the courage to carry out their pogrom had they not been backed up by the Israeli Army. Basically, Jew bullies.
“Incidents of settler violence across the West Bank happen every day, and have steadily increased over the past few years: many of the 700,000 or so Israelis living in the territory and East Jerusalem are motivated by what they see as a religious mission to restore the historical land of Israel to the Jewish people. Settlement communities are viewed as illegal under international law, and one of the biggest obstacles to peace.“
[The Guardian]
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“Covid leaked from a lab” is such an entry level, mid-2020 conspiracy theory.
Proper conspiracy theorists now realise that the whole idea of a novel ‘virus’ leaking from a lab is total nonsense and a deliberate distraction.
Coming hard on the heels of a Twitter ban on Melia, Laura Towler, Mark Collett, and PA itself, it is hard not to see this as part of a co-ordinated attack.
When the BNP started to get real traction about 20 years ago, Nick Griffin and Mark Collett were charged with “incitement to racial hatred” by collusive CPS lawyers and politically-motivated police. They were both acquitted in the end, thanks to the good sense of the British jury (and were lucky that the jury in the case was British).
The motivation was because the BNP was just starting to really go places. The same may be true now, in respect of this matter. PA is starting to resonate with many in the betrayed British enclaves of, especially, Northern England. The System wants to squash that, and leave the British people, especially the poorer ones, defenceless against the alien migration-invasion and the emergent police state.
I see from the BBC report that at least some of the charges relate to making or distribution of electronic or real/paper stickers. Stickers?! Is that something with which “Counter Terrorism Policing North East” ought to be concerning themselves?
“A prison reform boss is herself behind bars tonight after subjecting her husband to 15 years of physical attacks and verbal humiliation which has left him with mental scars ‘that will last a lifetime’.
Sheree Spencer, 45, was jailed for four years for making husband Richard’s life a living hell with daily beatings and verbal attacks that left him cowering on the floor in the foetal position.
On one occasion she defecated on the floor and forced him to clean it up, and on another she beat him with a wine bottle so hard it permanently disfigured his ear.
She worked at the highest levels for HM Prison and Probation Service and bragged to friends that she had the ear of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Spencer’s reign of domestic terror finally ended in June 2021 when the police were called to their family home by a concerned welfare worker.
Her arrest that day on suspicion of assaulting her husband opened a door into the hell he had kept private for his entire married life.
[Counsel] said that Spencer had suffered bouts of depression and anxiety throughout her life which she had ‘wrongly’ sought to self medicate by drinking alcohol.
The court was told that on some days she would drink as much as three bottles of wine.
Spencer could be heard sobbing as she was led away to the cells to begin her four year term.“
[Daily Mail]
That case is evidently an extreme example of a phenomenon often seen, perhaps especially in the UK, i.e. a woman trying to hold down a bigger job than that which she can handle, and trying to compete with male colleagues etc, while completely falling to pieces psychologically.
City of London law firms are a typical breeding-ground for that kind of craziness.
I liked the last sentence, by the way, about how that wicked woman cried as she was taken to the cells. Justice, however inadequate.
Sheree Spencer, the defendant, will be out in a couple of years, but (presumably) will now lose her (supposedly) “high-flying” Civil Service position. Also, one presumes that, while she is enjoying life in some women’s prison over the next two years, her husband will probably divorce her, and (as primary care-taker of their offspring) will be awarded the “family” house, very likely, or most of its value. She will therefore come out of prison to no house, no family, no job, and no future, aged 47 or 48.
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” [Matthew 5:6].
All the same, I cannot understand why the husband did not simply take her down many years before. True, a man should not, in principle, hit a woman, even (arguably) in self-defence, but every rule has its exceptions, and a woman who behaves as that bitch did deserves no misplaced cartoon chivalry.
How true it is that “there are more things in Heaven and Earth…than are dreamt of in your philosophy“…[Shakespeare, Hamlet].
“Britain’s Covid lockdown architect once warned that up to 200million people could die worldwide during a bird flu pandemic.
Professor Neil Ferguson, tasked with forecasting coronavirus-style scenarios in case the pathogen mutates to spread among humans easier, made the dire prediction in 2005 when fears of an avian influenza crisis were similarly high.
His original apocalyptic conclusion that up to 500,000 Brits could die if nothing was done to stop the spread of Covid spooked then-PM Boris Johnson into lockdown.“
[Daily Mail].
Many another society would have put the bastard up against a wall.
“Recent polling shared with the Guardian by HnH [the misnamed Jew-Zionist snoop and provocateur group, “Hope not Hate”] underlines the potential traction for such conspiracy theories among the public. As many as 34% of people claim to definitely or probably believe that “there is a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together”.
“Young people…More than a fifth (22%) of 18- to 24-year-olds thought it was “definitely” or “probably true” the official account of the ‘Holocaust’ was a lie…”
I hear Jack Monroe is very angry at Thérèse Coffey, for leaking the contents of her new book. pic.twitter.com/zi8xPPpbjI
— The turtles are fallen and the rain stands still▼ (@fritzdrybeam) February 24, 2023
Jack Monroe should have been first on the moon but let Neil Armstrong go first because she was too busy moving house and donating her sideboards to the poors
You've done a great job of bringing the case so far. Hopefully this starts a chain reaction of similar cases and solid evidence that Jack Monroe is seen in law as a scammer, and it brings about her total downfall x
Rep Mary Miller, R-Illinois, among 10 co-sponsors of Gaetz proposal to cut off US military and financial aid to Ukraine a yea after Russia invaded and as Russia still occupies parts of Ukraine https://t.co/Vl9H7Wqre8
Cut off money, arms, and ammunition to the Zionist regime in Kiev, and the whole war or conflict will or would wind down fairly rapidly. Weeks not months. Russia will or would then occupy Kiev, Ukraine east of the Dnieper and also the Odessa littoral. The Jew Zelensky and his cabal, if still alive, can be allowed to go to Lvov (from where he will or would rule only parts of Western Ukraine before, probably, decamping to either Florida or Tel Aviv). Rebuilding can then start.
4. He wanted people to move to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and eastern slices of Oregon and Washington to establish a (conservative) Christian society.
It's unclear how many people actually did this, but it became a sort of subculture, and even sparked a "Redoubt Realtor" industry. pic.twitter.com/JVvyt8YEfm
6. There's actually a *lot* going on with this blue state Exodus, and I should note a scholar explained to me the effect is heightened by significant movement *out* of Idaho as well.
Interesting. Of course, those American “religious Right” types are scarcely on the same ideological page as me, but the practical sentiment is not unalike to the ideas I have put forward on this blog since 2016 or 2017 about creating a focus for social nationalism in the UK by a concentration of people in one or two zones (my suggestion has been the peninsula of the South West of England)..
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What the actual fucking fuck? Is this the kind of shit direction the world is going? Trying to erase the artwork of innocent children who suffer apartheid under Zionist Israel? What kind of David Baddiel fuckery is this? Fuck's sake. pic.twitter.com/gGUZIcyy2c
I hope that these patients who feel "victimised" by artwork designed by children from Gaza will never have to experience the sheer terror which Palestinian children feel when Israel drops bombs on them.#Gaza#Palestinepic.twitter.com/aYuXuj1Scf
I had to check this was real and it is. @UKLFI truly doing despicably evil work. The artwork in question here was produced by children at two UNRWA schools in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/4uuZ9d2LTi
The "I Stand With Ukraine" crowd will likely never see this man being sent to die for a Western-fomented war which Ukraine could never win, and which never needed to happen—had Ukraine implemented the Minsk Accords with the Donbass Republics it has mercilessly bombed since 2014. pic.twitter.com/bu8VdZhCAi
When Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, it should have been “a Blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy” (as I blogged at the time): swift, overwhelming, and effectively bloodless, with little or no damage to the lives and homes of the Ukrainian population.
The inefficiency of the Russian Army, General Staff, and GRU ruined it. That was, if you like, “Russia’s fault”, but the continuation and escalation since then has been and is the fault of the Western powers (aka “NWO”) and their Jewish puppet regime in Kiev, figureheaded by the Jew Zelensky.
However, we are where we are. For the sake of the future, Russia has to win this now, however bitter any “victory” will be, for both sides.
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to @RimaMaktabi on @AlArabiya: #Russia is ready for peace talks at any time. However it was #Ukraine who, on a legislative basis, made talks impossible upon orders from the West which wants 🇺🇦 to continue fighting
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to @RimaMaktabi on @AlArabiya: Around 600 Russian businesses were squeezed out of the #UK due to London’s disadvantageous anti-Russia policy. This is bad not only for #Russia but 🇬🇧 as well, as it is cutting itself from developing external relations. pic.twitter.com/n1r9EbNrFS
🇷🇺🇺🇦Our artillery is dismantling the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of Artemovsk. The Ukrainian side continues to receive reports of heavy losses from overwhelming artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/MMuXUwvQWc
⚡️The Pentagon will provide the American firm Raytheon Technologies with a $1.2 billion contract for six advanced NASAMS air defense missile systems that will be delivered to Ukraine.
I highly recommend that you invest 1 hour to understand where the US proxy war in Ukraine is heading. Prof. John Mearsheimer explains what the likely outcome is: Escalation upon escalation until nuclear war. The west is playing Russian roulette in Ukraine. https://t.co/rDgf7qFPzC
That must be right. The USA is supplying the Jewish-Zionist Kiev regime with missiles, the UK is supplying tanks and other advanced armour. Training too. At what point does Russia, or the leadership of Russia, say “****-it!” and start to press buttons?
Ursula von der Leyen: "Russia and its oligarchs have to compensate Ukraine for the damage and cover the costs for rebuilding the country."
Who's covering the costs of rebuilding Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc?https://t.co/nF7T8oAse4
Why you got a Ukraine flag up there next to your name? You think sending billions of taxpayer dollars to keep a proxy war alive isn’t somehow supporting weapons and killing? Get your priorities straight and come back and see us.
Albanians make up the largest foreign national group in UK jails, with more than 1,500 behind bars in England and Wales making up around 10 per cent of total inmates from overseas.https://t.co/EjayKyejpS
— Tony #VoteAnyoneButLibLabConGreen (@Tony40335450) November 29, 2022
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Jack Monroe's Thrifty Kitchen. Available free at all good food banks.
I'm thinking we need to retire the word "grifter" and just go straight to synonymous word "scammer". There's something about grifter that doesn't sit right, a bit of "charming, harmless, victimless rogue nudge nudge". Whereas scammer hits the spot. E.g. "Jack Monroe is a scammer"
No. Don’t do this. This is exactly how they get away with it. Pretending that they were just ‘trying to be edgy’. As if they didn’t really know what the symbolism meant. These people aren’t simply interested in the concept of dystopia, they’re building it and taking us all there. https://t.co/UQzpc0AnXy
I wrote this about the closure of the Wellcome exhibit and the extraordinary power of small groups of intolerant people with unpopular views to make things worse for everyone elsehttps://t.co/7grK6Z9MHW
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future. My article in today’s Daily Mail about the incessant correction of museums:, pic.twitter.com/RVlbDYznfT
Is the ground shifting at last? Is the battle to free Julian Assange becoming respectable? Australian PM Anthony Albanese urges US government to end pursuit of Julian Assange https://t.co/A0crFQSvXt
Peter Hitchens, 2008'de #NATO tarafından şiddetlenen Rusya'nın karıştığı savaşla ilgili sağlam bir tahminle.
Eğer o bunun böyle olduğunu açıkça gördüyse, o zaman diğer tüm dünya liderleri de görebilirdi; hiçbir şey yapmadılar. Bu, bunun olmasını istediklerini gösteriyor. pic.twitter.com/QeV8FE70Eb
Think about that if you shiver in an unheated home, or if your lights go out, this winter (and whether because the supply has been cut off or because you cannot afford the bills).
Jeremy Vine is a typical UK msm (in his case, both BBC and other) drone. There are hundreds of them. They get paid very large amounts for really not very much, and are part of a whole corpus whose tendency is to run down anything white, European and positive in the UK and the wider world.
And yet the fat piss stained drunkard who greatly helped acheive that is called "The Greatest Briton"…even though his slapper of a mother was American
It is either white rule or brutal chaos. Note that even the supposedly pro-Brit Daily Mail will not print the likely truth, that the victim was white (ie English) and the bullying thugs black and/or half-caste.
Like a metaphor for anything created by white Europeans that falls into the hands of non-Europeans, whether it be a large house or an entire country.
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If you support Ukraine joining NATO then you support the US fighting a hot war with Russia right now. I don’t care what your reasoning is. If you support that, you are a dangerously insane person who should never be allowed to make these decisions.
Fiona Hill, an expert on Russia, says that we are already fighting in the Third World War, whether we acknowledge it or not. “We’ve been in this for a long time, and we’ve failed to recognize it,” she said.https://t.co/mwmAgy80HD
Angela came to the food bank after illness left her unable to work. “This is what I got from the food bank. Staff are friendly there,” she said. pic.twitter.com/zim994p8cJ
Daniel’s household costs are more than he can afford, so @HackneyFoodbank helps him out with food and essential items. “I’ve always wanted the chance to be a photographer,” he said. pic.twitter.com/uAwkLJWSm1
A decent society should not need foodbanks. In the UK, they scarcely existed before 2010 when the part-Jews, David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne, managed to trick their way into government.
However, they are now —as things are— an essential component of society for many.
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'The Russians feel badly used. We should forgive them. If they had done the same to us, we would denounce them bitterly.' An amazing prophetic article written in 1997: https://t.co/p1MZFFxKoy
It has emerged that the young Liz Truss, aged 20 in 1995, wanted to actually get rid of, inter alia, the State Pension.
All very well for her gophers to say that her views have matured since then, but who would trust this bitch, really?
It is only the pensioner or “grey” vote that has kept the so-called “Conservative” Party in power for the past 12 years. Now, it seems that Liz Truss, woolly-head Kwarteng and the rest of the present simply ridiculous Cabinet are about to throw pensioners under a bus. However, those over-65s have a sting in their tail. Their votes may not go to Labour (or anywhere else) but even mass abstention would finish the Conservative Party.
The latest opinion polls put the Conservatives on about 20%, with Labour well over 50%.
Just 37% of 2019 Conservative voters still intend to back the party.
17% now intend to vote Labour – this has doubled in the space of a week
Of course, Labour is a poor choice, but for most voters, an election in the UK is a choice of evils. The Conservatives have just got to the point where not only have they lost all credibility, but where very many people hate them and in fact fear them. Far more than in 2010.
If the “grey vote” abandons the Conservative Party, there is actually no other demographic of any real size that can keep the party in more than dormant existence. It simply does not deserve to exist any more.
If there were a credible social-national party, it could rise up as far and as fast as did the NSDAP in the 1929-1932 period.
If…
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Of all the words written about the catastrophe of the past week, this letter in the FT sums it up best of all. And it’s worse than we might have thought. pic.twitter.com/i35O9VlHPt
Truss, Kwarteng, and Clarke doubling down on their ‘small state’ ideology and rolling the pitch for spending cuts is totally detached from reality on at least three fronts:
2. We are in a highly volatile age. Russia, China, covid, an ageing population, technology, and, of course, the climate crisis. How, practically, does a smaller state fit with that context?
So they default to attacking welfare spending. But as many, many people have highlighted, most of this is a combination of pensions, in-work, and housing benefits.
As the response of almost every other European and North American country has shown, covid and the energy crisis has made the need for such a strategy even more compelling.
The cleverest thing that @Keir_Starmer could do right now is to commit to proportional representation and a full review of our constitutional arrangements. This must never ever be allowed to happen again.
Whether it's an accurate prediction or not, it's an insight into the feelings of the Tory Party right now. The fact they'd tell me – who they know to be a Labour backer who will blab on Twitter.
What amazes me about Liz Truss is that she must know that, at best, only a fifth of the people support her, and that about 80% if not 90% of the people are going to start hurting badly pretty soon, yet she seems to believe that she has some kind of entitlement to carry on with her package of wrecking policies, come what may, and without even the rough mandate of a general election behind her.
I am old enough to remember the Poll Tax riots of 1990 (though I saw them at a distance, on TV news in the United States). The population is now generally more quiescent (as witness the “panicdemic” compliance) but this might just be bigger than the Poll Tax, if people start hurting enough.
Liz Truss might have to “double and triple the guard”, before someone makes a —shall we say?— very personal and very effective “protest”.
I agree, for once, with Janet Street-Porter. The whole thing has been overdone. Instead of a quiet, dignified series of events, a mass circus in which good taste and real respect has been —partly at least— left behind.
— Liberty At Risk 🇺🇸 #𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵 🇺🇦 #BlueCrew (@LibertyAtRisk) September 16, 2022
At last the Russian high command is starting to think truly tactically, meaning in this case obliquely.
It will be recalled that the Iraqi Army flooded large areas at one time, in the 1980s and later, both when fighting Iran and when fighting the “Allied forces” (USA, mainly).
“One key aspect of the astonishing advance of Ukraine’s army in the east —and the astonishing collapse of Russian forces— is the gap in morale. Ukraine’s soldiers are fighting for their country and freedom. Russians are fighting out of fear and for money. https://t.co/TSiWskXYaJ
We tend to forget that, though the southeastern part of Ukraine is a war zone, that does not mean that all areas suffer continuous fighting. Far from it. The Ukraine is about 3x the size of the UK, and nearly 5x the size of England. The southeastern parts known as the Donbass or Don Basin (Donetsk and Lugansk regions) are, together, about half the size of England.
“…the foreign media cover this long period of ceremonial mourning with less servility. Hardly any British media, for example, dared comment on King Charles III’s rude gesture of impatience during the acclamation.“
[Stefanie Bolzen, in Die Welt]
“...a new recession, heralded by galloping inflation – the real thief in the night for working-class people, has caught the government off guard, with a new PM who has everything to prove, having been elected by a small number of Conservative members.”
[Rafael de Miguel, in El Pais]
“The risk is always that the UK ends up not as Global Britain but Little England. This, too, would have been a nightmare for the Queen.”
[Antonello Guerrera, La Repubblica]
[Liz Truss]
Pound sliding, inflation stoking, and recession likely
Still think that closing down the economy for almost 2 years (because a virus was supposedly killing one out of every thousand people, mostly aged and/or with serious pre-existing health problems), and while doling out “free” money to individuals and companies via “furlough” payments, grants, “loans” etc, was a good policy? Think again.
A delusionary time, but what happens once the funeral of the late Queen has been held?
The death of the late Queen, and the consequent ritual arrangements and spectacles, is occupying the msm in the UK to an almost (?) unprecedented extent.
It may be that the Diana death hysteria of 1997, about which I have heard, and the Silver Jubilee of 1977, were similar; I cannot say, having been out of the UK when those two events occurred. In 1977, I was in Rhodesia, and in 1997 I was in Kazakhstan.
In fact, I only heard of the Diana incident 2-3 days after it happened, when I attended a regular Monday morning meeting at my office in Almaty, the then capital.
The British Embassy opened a book of condolence, and I was told by one of my Embassy contacts that, out of all the ~70 British residents (in the city) of which the Embassy was aware, I was the only one who had not signed (though not because I was hostile to Diana, but because of simple lack of interest).
My non-signing may have also been noted because, about 10 months previously, I had attended by invitation a royal reception at the Ambassador’s official Residence, where I had met and briefly chatted to Prince Charles, as he then was. Also, because I was at the Embassy quite often, at least a couple of times per week.
I have blogged in the past about how, on my return to London a few weeks later, friends told me about the collective psychosis (?) that had descended (on London at least), with pubs full of blubbing drinkers etc.
I am now thinking ahead to the day, or perhaps two or three days after the funeral of the late Queen (next Monday, 19 September 2022). What then?
We as a nation (insofar as Britain still is a nation) face huge economic problems, as well as ingrained social problems. The cloud of illusion all too obvious this week on TV, in the Press etc will blow away, and the country may come down to Earth with a very hard jolt.
The sentiment around the enormous queues going to see the late Queen’s coffin etc is somewhat illusory. The hundreds of thousands of people shuffling toward Westminster, or lining the Mall, are still only about 1% of the whole UK population. The vast majority, almost all in fact, seem to be English/British, i.e. white, and most (that I have seen in photos, on TV etc), are middle-aged or elderly.
This will all look very different in six months’ time.
What the monarch is required to pledge at the Coronation. You can see why some people wouldn’t like this – and why I do like it. https://t.co/tajLneTlrG
.@politicsjoe_uk I think this tweet should also mention that I say new local forces should be trained and established *before* this. https://t.co/B8ogqhgefg
In 1997, during a pre-election conversation with A.Blair, I discovered that he did not even know that they speak Portuguese in Brazil. I doubt if anyone so ignorant of politics, geography, history etc has ever held such high office. https://t.co/bFVTSjm9ug
That tweet is from a year ago, but it bears repetition, especially as Blair now goes around the world touting himself as the great retired statesman, pronouncing on grand strategy and high policy…
Queen Elizabeth II’s first Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was born in 1874.
Her final Prime Minister, Liz Truss, was born in 1975.
What a contrast. In fact I wondered, a day or so ago, what the late Queen had thought of the Prime Ministers she had known— Churchill, that flawed titan; then the others, varying in ability and sincerity but mostly, though not all, at least able to play the part and not look totally out of place: Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Wilson again, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron (-Levita), May, Johnson, and now Truss.
One sees the general decline in stature, though, over those decades.
Hard to bracket Liz Truss in the same sentence, let alone the same office, as Churchill, much as I think that his policy toward the German Reich was completely wrongheaded.
Churchill got Britain and the Empire involved in that disastrous war which killed off not only the German Reich but also the British Empire and indeed, not far down the line, all the European imperia (French, Spanish, Italian, Belgian, Dutch), and much else besides.
Liz Truss seems intent on creating conflict, or making worse the relations between Russia and the West, or even fomenting a state of war between Russia and the UK. If that were to happen, we should all be joining the late Queen and Churchill sooner than most of us anticipated. Britain could scarcely survive if there were war on the strategic scale.
Biden’s mother sounds as if she was both quite mad and extremely unpleasant. You get that kind of silliness with some Irish-Americans though. I recall being introduced about 31 years ago to some fat woman in New Jersey, an acquaintance of an American friend. Her first words to me were “well, I’m Irish, so I shouldn’t like you!“. A kind of joke, but with a definite edge.
Of course, Irish-Americans are a lot more American than they are Irish. Many of the more ignorant ones seemed (when I was living in the USA in the early 1990s) to think that “England” (always England, not UK or Britain) was in a kind of war with Ireland.
They had no idea that the “war” between not Ireland but the IRA, and the UK authorities, was confined mainly not only to the six counties of Northern Ireland (Ulster, to use the name of the ancient province) but to a few small areas, mostly urban, within that province, and also confined to quite small numbers of the population.
There were exceptions to the prevailing ignorance. The owner of McSorley’s Old Ale House in Manhattan, which I occasionally visited if nearby, was an intelligent man who visited Ireland (the Republic) a couple of times a year (for river fishing). He understood the real situation, but few other Irish-Americans (most of whom had never left American shores, and got their ideas of the world from appallingly-poor American TV news reports) knew any more about it than they did about, say, Iraq.
In origo, so are “council” and “counsel“. The Monarch’s “counsel” was provided by his or her “council”. In Russian, there is still only one word for both “council” (as in a group of advisers and/or a local or other governmental or political body) and “counsel” (as in “advice“)— “soviet” [совет].
Peleș Castle is a Neo-Renaissance castle in the Carpathian Mountains, near Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania 🇷🇴 Built for King Carol I (1839–1914), under whose reign the country gained its independence. pic.twitter.com/Y11J0hngIP
⚡️Donetsk proxy confirms Russian retreat from Izium, Kharkiv Oblast.
Daniil Bezsonov, a Russian proxy leader in Donetsk Oblast, wrote on his personal Telegram channel that Russian troops had withdrawn from Izyum and a few other settlements in Kharkiv Oblast.
– DNR/DPR "leader" Denis Pushilin has left Donetsk few hours ago. Possible reason is panic rumors in russian TG channels about AFU paratroopers landed in.. Donetsk airport. Not yet confirmed. But, this night will bring more news than anyone expected.#Donetsk#UkraineWillWin 2/2 pic.twitter.com/IipgnPl4rP
If these reports (from sources supportive of the Kiev regime) are accurate, the Russian leadership will have to escalate the armament used, and soon, or accept bitter, if relatively localized —and possibly temporary— defeat in large parts of the region.
“...for the welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
A brief conversation with @TimesKennedy, Investigations Editor at @thetimes, about why he's not investigating vaccine injuries and deaths.
Remember, it's THEM who are the investigative journalists, and I'm just a troll/conspiracy theorist who needs to be deplatformed. pic.twitter.com/S8gpw3RHJq
@tubewaysrmy. No, I did not. This is what I said: ‘PETER HITCHENS: A long war in Ukraine will bring nothing but death, poverty and ruin. It's time for peace’ https://t.co/ZVtsCksNrB
I would expect this has been done before in private MPs have been able to affirm for ages. But @kulambq, the fascinating thing is that Starmer chooses to make a public stand of his religious opinions. I keep trying to tell people that he’s an actual revolutionary not a ‘moderate’ https://t.co/6d3fn4LKk8
So is Starmer a (?) secret atheist, or possibly even a crypto-Jew? He is, after all, married to a Jewess, and their children are being brought up as if full-Jew. I never was able to discover as to whether, when they hold those ritual Jewish dinners chez Starmer, he wears one of those little round skullcaps (yarmulki).
I really don’t see what China has to do with it. If anything China would benefit from the disintegration of Russia which US policy aims are https://t.co/cvcw7Rmr12
If Russia becomes again as weak as it was in the 1990s, the Chinese will be able to heavily infiltrate, and perhaps in effect take over, the whole of the one-time Soviet Far East, and possibly all of Eastern Siberia. Maybe in time even all of Siberia.
You are such a buffoon. I was the one saying for years before this that Russia’s armed forces were greatly overrated. This has always been my position. Now this is demonstrated, the last 30 years of fear-driven NATO expansion look pretty overdone. https://t.co/Uz2QeSlynE
1/2 @evolutionplants Can’t see why. The origin of the war is the Wolfowitz doctrine, followed by Senate approval of NATO expansion, followed by George W. Bush’s proposal of Ukrainian NATO membership at Bucharest, and then the US-sponsored overthrow of Yanukovych… https://t.co/64HIugohFN
2/2 @evolutionplants Russia is plainly the target, and saying the US didn’t create it is like saying Bismarck had nothing to do with starting the 1870 war. Ukraine’s just a battering ram, and a boxing ring, for outside powers. https://t.co/64HIugnJQf
@andyrob4327914 This is nothing to do with being smart or dumb. It is to do with the death of the sort of general knowledge which used to sustain civil society. https://t.co/4eRd8ytylT
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