“A Jewish father whose five-month-old daughter’s birth certificate was returned from the Passport Office ripped with the birthplace of Israel scratched out plans to sue the individuals responsible.
‘We are very happy that the Government took swift action but I hope whoever this public servant is is banned,’ he told MailOnline last night.
‘I would like to sue them personally for the damage they have carried out to my daughter’s birth certificate, my property.’
The family is in contact with a lawyer to discuss next steps and is considering whether to contact the police to report a possible hate crime.“
[Daily Mail].
He wants both money and (to put it politely) revenge.
Next stop— either dystopia, or civil/cultural warfare.
The Financial Times estimates Britain needs 421,000 homes a year every year until 2036, or 529,000 if current net migration rates continue. I wrote about this on my Substack (https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY) last December – good to see others waking up https://t.co/pWTmH3Gnnm
Speaker battling to save job as more than 50 MPs want him OUT after ‘bending rules’ to rescue Starmer from Gaza revolthttps://t.co/y6VGqfYpou. Bowing down to the Jewish community purely for votes is totally unacceptable people’s lives are at stake labour’s black politics
I wonder if we can find any justification for this type of behaviour? Israeli Soldiers making a mockery taking children’s toys and disabled and elderly people’s walking aids and grinning and making a mockery of it. Who knows what has happened to the kids/disabled and elderly https://t.co/qxspT2Li9s
This is what many of “them” are like. Compare their similar mocking of people (especially those unable to hit back) on Twitter/X. Jews in the UK, for example, mocking the historian David Irving, whose death (as yet unconfirmed) has been reported.
“They” never, or very rarely, have any class, or any understanding of decent behaviour.
Twitter is forcing us to tweet only what it approves, or we face suspension. There’s no free speech; accounts are being shut down by the thousands. Everyone is under surveillance; there’s no difference between the old Twitter and the new one. The whole thing stinks.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 22, 2024
Netanyahu: We are preparing a plan to transfer residents from Rafah in preparation for the army’s entry into the city. pic.twitter.com/DIyWfD5eVG
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 22, 2024
“They” are still whining about their recent ancestors having been moved around Europe by German forces in the early/mid 1940s. Now the Jews are doing something very similar to the Palestinian Arabs.
Classic
John Huston’s famous film was based on a book by the mysterious German (?) anarchist Bruno Traven, who once went by the name “Der Ziegelbrenner” (The Brick-Burner”).
The iconic Lyle's golden syrup packaging is getting a redesign. Here we take a look at the brand's links to Scotland and why the lion on the branding has had a makeover.https://t.co/0co2kUfCqX
Designs and pictures like the lion are part of a nation’s iconography. They are little pieces of a whole. Think the Robertson’s gollywog, gollywogs generally, the Camp coffee essence label scene (British officer being served by his Indian sepoy-batman), and the various famous companies with their legendary “backstories”.
Cadbury’s was one like that: its story (including Bournville village), its public-interest activity, its sheer Britishness. Now all gone, the workers betrayed, and the company sold off to American Jews who have ruined both the company and its image, and even its products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournville; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury.
Such things are not as trivial as many are now claiming about the Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup lion.
The famous old companies and their products are part of the gradually-acquired soul of this country. Their trashing and removal, or sudden metamorphosis into something alien, unfamiliar, is a symptom of what is happening to the British nation. It too is being trashed and more or less removed. All that is left is a shell. The same applies to (you name it) the Church, the Bar, Parliament, the armed forces, almost everything.
Any real British government would not accept these American weapons on British soil. They make the UK even more of a potential target.
️Gaza: The suffering and torment of Palestinians continues, including due to the forced need to leave their homes and become displaced people pic.twitter.com/paCLfDWY1I
Gaza's oldest man was also temporarily displaced; the 103-year-old man was evicted by Israeli during the Nakba in 1948 to Gaza, and in 2024 his house was destroyed by Israeli strikes. pic.twitter.com/syu9PlXU5i
🚨At dawn the Israeli Musta’ribeen disguised as Palestinian civilians and medical personnel stormed Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin & assassinated 3 Palestinians, Martyrs Basil Al-Ghazawi, his brother Muhammad and their companion Muhammad Jalamneh; pic.twitter.com/kXaFlXNMKr
Yet more evidence of how ridiculous Britain's post-Brexit immigration policy really is. We were promised high-skill, high-wage, highly-selective, low-cost immigration. Instead we got low-skill, low-wage, non-selective, non-graduate & high-cost immigrationhttps://t.co/9mY88fZaM7https://t.co/RlJshYXNhO
The Office for National Statistics just forecast that between today and 2036 Britain's population will grow by 6.6 million people –6.1 million of which will be due to international net migration
…and the rest will be from births to immigrant or previously immigrant or other non-white mothers.
If a social-national government cannot take power within the next decade, Britain is doomed and British society will become a chaotic and brutal dystopia.
Exclusive: BBC staff are being told not to hire candidates who are “dismissive” of diversity and inclusion.
A recruitment policy document says that applicants should be asked to “what opportunities do you see for you to promote, celebrate or encourage diversity and inclusion in…
“Exclusive: BBC staff are being told not to hire candidates who are “dismissive” of diversity and inclusion. A recruitment policy document says that applicants should be asked to “what opportunities do you see for you to promote, celebrate or encourage diversity and inclusion in your role?”
The guidelines tell recruiters “don’t hire; [candidates who are] unsuited to the organisation” if they are “dismissive or derisory of diversity and inclusion and surrounding topics”.
Managers are also directed not to offer jobs to candidates if they show a “lack of interest in learning more where no evidence of education and understanding of diversity and inclusion was given”.
Commenting on the recruitment guidelines, a BBC source said: “The BBC is not a welcoming place for those with conservative opinions. Management talks about diversity, without embracing diversity of thought.
The place that I have given years of my working life, and that I sincerely cherish, currently feels captured by Left-wing activists and is unable to deliver on our core principle of impartiality.”
“Hiring on the basis of adherence to diversity and inclusion ideology excludes most conservative-minded people, and indeed much of the population.”
[Steven Edginton, Daily Telegraph].
The BBC, even more than other msm, is a nest of treachery and evil, as shown by its propaganda output during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic.
Are you in the Armed Forces? Worried about woke initiatives or witnessed woke training? Please get in touch, DMs open. All discussions anonymous. https://t.co/nef0HuMYxa
I was just thinking, “just like the Soviet system of having at least one ‘politichesky rukovoditel‘ (political director, executive, supervisor, or commissar) attached to each ship or Army formation, and assisted by ‘sekretnye sotrudniki’ or ‘stukachi‘ (‘secret co-workers’ or ‘informers’).”
Meanwhile, in the real world, Britain is still being invaded daily…
It’s out of the headlines right now , but thought you should know seven boats carrying 1,000 illegals came ashore at the weekend- up on the same period last year. Forget the PR, it’s not going away.
It is with great regret that we report the death of Catherine McArdle, Deputy Librarian. Catherine passed away peacefully on Sunday 28 January. She had worked at the Inn since 1988 and was a much-loved colleague and friend. We send our deepest condolences to Catherine’s family. pic.twitter.com/DtjnfLDpL0
— The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn (@lincolnsinn) January 30, 2024
Sorry to see that notice. I was a member of Lincoln’s Inn from 1986 until I was (wrongfully and unlawfully) disbarred in 2016, at which point my membership of the Inn was, effectively, terminated automatically.
As a very frequent user of Lincoln’s Inn Library, I knew Catherine for many years (1988 to about 2002). She was from the North (maybe North East) of England, from a family in a coal-mining community. Beyond that, I knew little of her personal life, though I believe that she got married at some point after having joined Lincoln’s Inn (and the photograph in that tweet, showing a ring, would seem to support that).
A nice person.
[The Library, Lincoln’s Inn, London]
Mortality. It comes to us all. Catherine, I now see, was actually 6 years younger than me. It reminds us that we must stand up for truth and justice etc while we live, no matter what challenges the forces of Evil array against us.
The brave IDF dressing up as women and medical staff to murder 3 patients they allege are ‘terrorists’ in a hospital Now tell me Israel is a normal, democratic state pic.twitter.com/5swxmmX0q6
Well, looked at from an ethics-free view (and/or from the Israeli point of view), that operation has the hallmarks of skill and cunning. Equally obviously, to kill patients prostrate in a hospital (one photo shows a single bullet-hole in the centre of a hospital pillow, with blood around it) is pretty abhorrent and, indeed, very wicked, something one would associate with the worst criminals and terrorists.
Frederick Forsyth was or is very pro-Israeli. I saw something from him once to the effect that terrorists who then gain state power (as happened in Israel/Palestine when the various Jew-Zionist terrorists of the Irgun, Palmach, Stern Gang /”Lehi” etc became part of the Israeli power structure) can leave their terrorism behind and become “normal” political leaders of “normal” states.
Forsyth’s view may have had its arguments when he was most fervently pro-Israel, in the 1960s, 1970s, but now the facts have changed or become more evident: Israel’s massacres of Arab civilians every few years, and of course the truth coming out more in the West about the ethnic cleansing (mass murder, and theft of land) carried out by the Jews in Israel/Palestine from 1948 to the present day.
Forsyth himself, who always strikes me as rather dim, at least politically, was cheated out of much of his invested money by a Jew he trusted (“Roger” Something), insult then being added to injury by the said Jew receiving a mere suspended sentence for the embezzlement of millions of pounds. That episode is, incidentally, absent from Wikipedia. “They” seem to have been “editing” (sabotaging) again…
Yitzhak Brik: a ceasefire for two months will mean the end of the war
“Anyone who today thinks that we will enter a two-month period without hostilities and after that we will be able to return as if nothing had happened should understand that the United States will not give us… pic.twitter.com/CjepcsaPTT
Regular readers will be aware that I am to be sentenced tomorrow for allegedly having posted “grossly offensive” (anti-Jew-Zionist) material on 5 out of some 1,700 blog posts published since this blog started in late 2016.
It may be that part of the sentence will include a restriction on the publication of the blog. If so, the restriction might last for a year. We shall see.
Freedom of expression on political, social and even historical topics is as good as dead in the UK, and those responsible are, for the most part, those who may well be called “the usual suspects”.
I hope to resume blogging soon, but if that proves not to be the case, I wish all well-intentioned readers well, and hope to resume transmission in due course.
Because both Government and Opposition are pro-“The Great Reset” and “the Great Replacement”, both are riddled with agents of the Jewish lobby, both are pro-ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government], pro-NWO [New World Order] and in favour of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, and therefore both following exactly the same agenda. Understand now??
Every day I try my best to report objectively but when the country is run by a bunch of slippery, self serving law breakers with absolutely no respect for the truth & no obvious comprehension of right & wrong it’s not always easy
BBC news now becoming a government mouthpiece for number of covid jabs given out. Ten minutes every night. Barely any coverage of protests and emphasis on pice injuries. Wonder if they are real this time unlike Bristol.#bbcnews
And this year hymns are still forbidden, most wear masks and proper Holy Communion is banned. Still far from satisfactory @alex_komnenos . https://t.co/oX6rcD1bsh
That, @guffynicola, depends on which icons are being clasted. Michael Wharton, writing as 'Peter Simple' in the Daily Telegraph of the early 1960s, was a hugely funny satirist of the emerging age of self-regarding liberalism. Colin Welch did a reasonable job of following him. https://t.co/s2yrUK3vZV
Not sure that I can agree with Hitchens. “Peter Simple”, whose stuff I occasionally saw in the early 1970s, always seemed to me to be a rather unfunny propagandist of a kind of faux-English suburban pseudo-reactionary mindset. Fake. At least, that was my occasional impression, a long time ago.
Gosh, @barbatosalv. Leaving aside the fact that the Christian 'explanation' of the origin of the universe is a parable, not a literal account, Einstein was not an atheist . Why not? Please read : https://t.co/XbQF3HtZYrhttps://t.co/a07Rb3u4qy
'We have made a religion out of politics, have ascribed to government power and state power things which ought to be ascribed elsewhere, and that we are now reaping the reward of that mistake.' https://t.co/2xNPVNmKys
There's now an effort to rewrite history on the Covid frenzy. The government does not want to admit that it once told the inconvenient truth (they're not much use) about masks: https://t.co/j2OyGYNOT7
There are plenty of examples of socio-political madness at present in the Western world, not least the near-worship of the blacks (as in the “BLM” nonsense), and in respect of “the virus”. The former is nonsense partly because much of our present world has been created over the past few thousand years, and especially the past 600 years, by white European people(s). The blacks were and are mere adjuncts, bystanders, spectators, sometimes nuisances and, yes (and as the “BLM” proponents themselves say) sometimes “victims”.
As to the latter of my two examples, i.e. “the virus”, in some respects that seems to be a deeper-embedded sort of madness, perhaps because based on a deeper emotion— fear.
The Coronavirus or Covid-19 virus has (supposedly) so far killed somewhere around 2 million people in the world. That is about one person in every 4,000 people. In the UK, the death toll per unit of population has been far higher (taking the statistics as given, though they are obviously faked or wrong to a great degree). In the UK, there have been well over 60,000 people who have died at least “with” Coronavirus. That is somewhere around one person in every 1,000 people in the UK.
Conclusion as to seriousness: serious but not existentially so.
Conclusion as to measures taken: absolutely mad. Society has been crippled, normal life largely put on hold, civil rights abrogated, and the UK economy facing a very serious hit. A cowed and frightened population have been walking around (even on solitary country walks etc!) in facemasks (despite such masks being of doubtful use), and every kind of busybody and self-appointed guardian of public behaviour given loose rein. That applies also to the police.
Meanwhile, millions of people are all but abandoned by the NHS because their ailments (including the most serious) are priotitized as secondary in importance to the supposed battle against “the virus”.
The public debate, such as there is, is futile, because a huge propaganda campaign has frightened the unthinking mass of the people into imagining that their lives are in danger from this virus, whereas for 999 out of 1,000 people that is simply not so. Reasoned arguments from such as Lord Sumption, the former Law Lord (Supreme Court justice), cut little ice, because emotion almost always trumps reason.
Oh, well. In the phrase of the day, which so well sums up the present apathy and complacency, which applies in almost everything now (apart from the “panicdemic”), “we are where we are”…
Alison Chabloz
On this Easter Sunday, let us not forget brave and persecuted satirist, singer and songwriter, Alison Chabloz, presently sitting in prison because a malicious Jew-Zionist cabal instigated a prosecution under the notoriously flawed Communications Act 2003, s.127.
It is to be hoped that Counsel for Alison Chabloz will soon be able to secure her release on bail pending appeal (to Crown Court) against an egregiously poor verdict and sentence by a magistrate. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen (if it does happen) before Tuesday [6 April 2021], at earliest.
Bored by 'University Challenge', I wrote my own quiz, with questions which are interesting even if you don't know the answers. Guaranteed free of African flags, Pacific island statelets, obscure mathematicians or quantum physics: https://t.co/mwMA4HCOs3
That last is interesting as a metaphor. The same view, pretty much, that John Buchan, or Zuleika Dobson, might have seen before the First World War, or that others might have seen between the wars. Oxford now is hugely different (not just in terms of buildings but socially too) from both 1911 and the 1930s world of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, from that of C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and the Inklings, but that view remains essentially the same.
When I was a (rather belated) law student, in the 1980s, there was being discussed the question of whether barristers would continue to wear wigs and gowns. The wisest answer came from a lecturer who said that the Bar would cast aside everything except the wigs and gowns. The outward forms would remain.
In fact, while the above has proven to be mainly the case (in Crown Courts especially), in County Court the judge has discretion to dispense with the old form of dress, and in High Court and other fora (particularly in commercial cases) the old form of dress is often not in use now (neither is it in family law cases).
Nonetheless, most people do encounter the practising Bar in Crown Courts, and there the old forms remain in force. The substance of the Bar has, however, changed out of all recognition even since I was finally (having spent time in the USA) Called to the Bar in 1991.
Looking at the UK, the same is true in many other ways. Look at, for example, the Monarchy. It looks, at least largely, similar to what it was in, say 1956, the year of my birth. In reality, it has changed to something rather different. As I have blogged on previous occasions, whatever one may think of the Queen and Consort, no-one could mistake them or their lifestyle for that of “ordinary people”.
When you look at Charles, Anne, Andrew, Edward, there is less of the “royal”. You could just about (certainly in the case of the last three) imagine them living in some expensive part of suburbia, as part of (if the term now has any meaning) the rich “middle classes”, or indeed the “nouveaux riches”; or (as indeed is the case) living in Gloucestershire or Surrey, racing around in Range-Rovers, like characters in an “Aga saga”.
What about William and Kate, Harry and the Royal Mulatta? Notionally “royal” (in the case of William and Kate), but only in a “holding on by the fingertips” sense. Certainly there is nothing royal about Harry the “Royal Cuck” and Meghan the “Royal Mulatta” (who, not so many years ago, was actually married to someone else, a Jew businessman in Southern California!).
I do not want to be too hard on Harry. He obviously has emotional or mental problems, and was bagged by the Mulatta easier than the Duke of Edinburgh used to bag grouse, but he is basically now a peripheral nobody, albeit with plenty of money and still holding (so far) a couple of English titles.
William and Kate? At present still lined up to be King and Queen at some point, but I rather doubt that they will reach the finishing post.
Now I should say straightaway that I am not very familiar with the name Alex Belfield, having only seen that name a few times on Twitter. I believe that he was on BBC local radio in the Midlands or North at one time.
What interests me more is that here is another case of someone who runs a non-System, non-msm, Internet “radio station” being targeted by the forces of the state. There have been other recent cases.
In Cornwall, last week, a man was charged with five counts under the Public Order Act 1986. He ran an Internet “radio station”.
Tomorrow, 30 March 2021, the persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz faces trial yet again, and yet again the instigator of police/CPS action was the malicious Jewish-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, who were also the instigators of the above-mentioned action against someone in Cornwall. As to Alex Belfield, I do not know.
What interests me, apart from the Zionist aspect, is that in all three mentioned cases, Internet “radio” forms the background. The real or broadcast radio in the UK is “regulated” (strictly controlled) by the System, via OFCOM. Internet “radio” is not regulated or controlled by OFCOM. Thus the System is now scrabbling to find ways to shut down the “wrong” messages.
Alison Chabloz recently made a first appearance as defendant in yet another case involving Internet “radio”. Once again, the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” is involved.
Incidentally, anyone who wants to support Alison Chabloz at her trial under the notorious “bad law” of the Commuications Act 2003, s.127, starting tomorrow (set down for Tuesday and Wednesday this week) can do so. Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 181 Marylebone Road, London. Nearest Underground: Edgware Road (any line). https://courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/westminster-magistrates-court
[Westminster Magistrates’ Court]
[Update, 17 September 2022:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/16/former-bbc-dj-alex-belfield-jailed-for-stalking-jeremy-vine-and-others. I still do not know whether there was any directly political aspect to that case; if so, the msm have ignored it. As to the sentence (5.5 years), arguably savage, on the face of it, the trial judge having sentenced on the basis that several of the counts should be sentenced consecutively, rather than concurrently. Belfield was acquitted on a number of other counts.
Govt plan: 1. Keep to ´Road Map’ until May elections. 2. After elections some backsliding 3. Substantial ´opening up’ by July/August but masks/‘social distancing’ remain. 4. In Sept ‘concerns’ about new wave/new variants on every news bulletin. 5. Oct, lockdown ´to protect NHS’ https://t.co/aFdlf3D3VX
My theory is, if the same thing happens to humans that happened in the animal trials… another flu virus will attack the vaccinated cause mass fatalities, this will be branded another deady strain / mutation then mass enforcement of vaccines end game achieved.
I actually don't think people are going to put up with this "save the NHS" line any longer. If it's in that parlous a state then spend more money on it now rather than shut the economy down again in six months.
Which people will not put up with it? The scared rabbits who wear facemasks on clifftops and in supermarket car parks? Sadly, the British people have become rather pathetic.
Exactly. This is all designed to facilitate the next 33 years starting in 2022. The Great Reset, together with the Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. NWO. ZOG. A concerted attempt to rule the world.
“The streets of Thurrock are plagued by the activity of a violent gang. Responsible for stabbings, acid attacks and sexual assaults, C17 first rose to prominence in May, 2017.”
Good grief! Someone sent me the clip below. I knew that Lammy was/is a deadhead, and in fact I have been meaning for a long time to add an assessment of him to my “Deadhead MPs” series, but…well, see for yourself!
People will say, “oh, but he is a barrister, has several degrees etc”…yes, and one of the most stupid (and ignorant) people I ever met was a former Sierra Leone diplomat, a High Commissioner to the UK when in London, and ambassador to some other state. That African had degrees from one of the most famous English universities, one from the Sorbonne, one from either Harvard or Yale (I forget).
Imagine Lammy as either Lord Chancellor or Attorney-General! Still, now that Keir Starmer is running what is left of Labour into the ground, such appointment is unlikely.
My Twitter account (removed in 2018 at the instigation of a Jewish/Zionist cabal) was one of rather few accounts followed by Icke. Now he too has been removed from Twitter, by the same or connected (((forces))). We must fight for freedom now, or Lilliputian ties will bind us forever.
Saw a few minutes, on TV, of the “celebrations” by the Thames at London last night. Pure dystopian propaganda, carried out in and over an equally dystopian London, dark and deserted.
Technically, and as a spectacle, the display could not be faulted. Brilliant. What disturbed me was the content; that, and the surrounding situation.
This was not the Britain I recognize (except in fear), but a caricature; “Danny Boyle Britain”, if you like (thinking of the opening show of the 2012 London Olympics). There was the by now almost obligatory laudatory reference to the NHS. I fully support a health service free at point of use, but the NHS has become a kind of quasi-religious totem or sacred cow in the UK. You would think that nowhere else in Europe or the world has health or medical services (and that the NHS is being run properly).
Then there were other references, together with meaningless Orwellian slogans flashed into the sky: “Hope Together“, they said, “Love Together“, they said. It did not take much of a leap of imagination to see an isolated and lonely Winston Smith on the dark, almost freezing Embankment, looking upon this spectacle for the masses where the masses were absent. Or perhaps Volodin, in Solzhenitsyn’s In the First Circle [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_First_Circle].
The BBC TV News propaganda megaphone this morning outdid its own (unintentional) usual irony by putting on the sub-screen tickertape, “celebrations across UK“…
Some music
Tweets seen
What makes me laugh is that I've worked in dentistry for 10 years. Every year we do cpd on infection control.. and will learn that face masks only protect us from splattering….not viruses… what's changed? 🤷♂️
National hospital bed occupancy is currently 85%. A figure that has been pretty stable for three months. By contrast, bed occupancy for this quarter last year was 92%. In fact, winter 2020 is the lowest hospital bed occupancy for 10 years. Yes, really.
The BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, like much BBC output, is now all but unlistenable (radio) and unwatchable (TV). Not only biased but boring, very very boring.
Do you not realise the BBC is the mouthpiece for the government? It specialises in propaganda not facts. I thought most people knew that by now. pic.twitter.com/Dou9HfH4tu
“@rattus2384” is Stephen Applebaum, a fanatical Jew-Zionist troll and one-time “film critic”, who also tweets as “@grubstreetsteve”.
Just spoke with someone working on track & trace phone lines. "47,000 new cases" when test centres were empty yesterday & counting offices are shut today. This is Soviet level propaganda unbelievability. Even the t&t staff regard it as a farce, but they're happy to have a job.
Political opinions and Christianity are now protected by hate speech rules. The whole thing is ridiculous of course, but nationalists should claim & enforce this protection. Win if it's allowed, win if liberals deny it & expose their hypocrisy.https://t.co/iqkRgVGDeF
There have certainly been *excess* deaths @likemindschange. But the attribution of *all* of them to Covid is open to considerable dispute, and at least 15,000 are almost certainly attributable to shutdown measures. My point: Previous comparable epidemics haven't led to shutdowns. https://t.co/DHh3mksO2G
Repeat: The NHS winter crisis is worryingly frequent, and has never before been advanced as a reason to close the rest of the country. So why now? https://t.co/9oAmkdY1jI
Google “the Great Reset”, “the Great Replacement”, “NWO”, “ZOG”,”Bilderberg”, “World Economic Forum”, “WEF”, and “Ian Millard barrister” (and “Ian Millard WordPress”…), and you will be on the right track…
The NHS winter crisis, while not actually annual, is very frequent and not new. Generally, it is not used as a pretext to shut down the country, destroy education, kill jobs, strangle small businesses and prevent normal human contact. https://t.co/2AzEaAufJx
2/3 @saffiyah_khan Govts of both major parties chose long ago to reduce capacity in the NHS, knowing that this would lead to frequent winter crises, as it has done for decades. If a room is too small for its purpose, the real blame lies with those who designed and built it. https://t.co/YULx9vgXMa
1/3 @saffiyah_khan1 Possibly. Alternatively, propagandists are suggesting that the normal is abnormal to maintain their desired level of panic, and justify the tightening closure of the country, probably until April at least. https://t.co/YULx9vgXMa
I myself do not eat meat, but were I living on Britain’s streets (and, like Hitler, I came close, a couple of times in my life), and if then I were offered food unacceptable to me, while I would not eat it (I should prefer to scavenge or steal food more acceptable to me), I should all the same be grateful that someone was interested enough to make the offer…
Incidentally, while I am not a member of, or supporter of (as such), Patriotic Alternative, and in fact have never met nor had any online contact with it, nor with any people who are in it, I do commend in outline that which they seem to be doing.
Funny but, speaking politically, with a serious edge. This might be the way to go for social nationalism in the future. “From out of the fog, we strike…“.
That sort of thing has happened before in the USA and, though rarely proven, in the UK, France and Germany; Jewish fanatics trying to prove “neo-Nazi” “antisemitism” by faking attacks on Jewish sites such as synagogues and cemeteries. It always seemed bizarre to me. Would “neo-Nazis” really waste time attacking Jews who were already dead? In fact, several Jews, over the years, have been arrested and eventually convicted for similar “false flag” attacks.
I notice that even UK Government official websites (eg NHS) now have stylized cartoons showing the sort of family propagandized on UK TV ads etc, i.e. the black man with the white woman and their half-caste offspring. The Great Replacement. White Genocide, in effect.
Below, an example of the absurdity of Twitter: “Dr.” Louise Raw (whose doctorate is not medical but was the result of study of an industrial dispute of 1888), argues with another tweeter.
Sorry, I’ve had enough of people with no expertise spreading dangerous misinformation.
MANY illnesses require more than one vaccine dose- we need FIVE of the polio, tetanus, & diphtheria vaccines throughout childhood.
I notice that quite a few people have retweeted or “liked” Louise Raw’s tweet.
Leaving aside the substance of what she tweeted, I wonder how many of those retweeters etc assumed that Ms. Raw is a medical doctor?
As I have said before, in the UK it has always been the norm or “done thing” that persons with a medical degree are called “doctor”. In fact, many medics have no “doctorate”, as such; it is a courtesy title in many cases.
Others who, in the UK, have always been able to use the title “Dr.” without eyebrows being raised, have been priests and others in holy orders, tenured academics and schoolmasters, and scientists.
In other countries, notably Germany, it has always been acceptable for anyone, pretty much, who has a doctorate in anything, to use the title. One example was Dr. Goebbels: “At the University of Heidelberg, Goebbels wrote his doctoral thesis on Wilhelm von Schütz, a minor 19th-century romantic dramatist.[20]… After submitting the thesis and passing his oral examination, Goebbels earned his PhD in 1921.[21] By 1940, he had written 14 books.[22] “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels].
It may seem, perhaps in view of the German praxis, pedantic to complain that an obscure Twitter person, who is not a public figure, calls herself “Doctor” on an everyday basis (and she is now not alone; there are even several MPs doing this, Julian Lewis and Therese Coffey among them). However, I think that we now have to stand up for standards. “Doctor” should not be devalued; “Professor” already has been, along with “Lord” and “Baroness”…
Now that I am supposedly 64, that tweet resonates with me! Incidentally, should any (younger?) readers of my blog not get the “Logan’s Run” reference, see below:
More tweets seen
Another quality short video depicting old village life, the enlish countryside with a nice folk instrumental accompaniment.thumbs up from me👍good work maverick https://t.co/GBsIwjYLld
Well, in the end, the Courtauld Institute won it, beating Manchester, but what poor teams! As in previous matches, I did better than either team, by far. These were the finalists! Incredible.
Late tweets
A further reminder (in case anyone still hasn't got it) that the #clownworld police are an integral part of the enemy block. Just another reason the System can't be reformed; the first step is to set to organise your life to avoid paying these scum taxes.https://t.co/341tJmC8t8
Lest we forget. No new evidence has since appeared to alter HMG's June view that masks are no use. On the contrary, a huge Danish study https://t.co/jAcSvLncPW failed to find any significant evidence that they are any use. It's all politics, see https://t.co/0pwh3tNsYUhttps://t.co/BWgiPHdHgZ
Such twaddle @incytometry. The sample was huge(4862). Its leaders had hoped to show masks protected against infection. But it completely failed to do so, which means nobody has shown any such effect. Masks don't work. You hate this result, so you try to obscure or belittle it. https://t.co/9QKeX2fpqs
@homnestrob3. I do not trust any information emitted by the Chinese police state (which this week jailed a citizen journalist for four years). NZ is two sparsely populated islands, miles from the main world air routes. Plenty of hard lockdown countries have lots of Covid. https://t.co/cijeMfJ4Xs
As I watch the tragic farce of UK politics and society playing out, I realize anew that it is vital for the best people to create loose communities, preferably centred on one or two regions, as a basis for a later ethnostate. Perhaps one in the North and one in the South. As a Southerner, I have focussed on the Devon/Cornwall peninsula for a number of reasons (see earlier blog posts).
In the North? I leave that, at present, to those who are apparently (and independently) working along similar lines “up there”. God grant them success!
— National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) (@PoliceChiefs) November 20, 2020
“A trusted source“? The Government of Clowns? As for the NHS, that is but the monkey to the Government’s organ-grinder.
Further to that, the above tweet from the NPCC is another example of how the police have become politicized or, if you prefer, socio-politicized. It is not the job of the police to broadcast propaganda of that sort, or any sort.
I cannot say what should happen to these despicable, fear-mongering, nation-wrecking, corrupt, lying, murdering scum, and their MSM partners in crime.
You'll have to use your imagination. Even if words didn't fail me, twitter restrictions would pronably forbid you to see them. pic.twitter.com/yNluR8xKvI
Finance-capitalist groups in the West were behind the Bolshevik takeover of the (initially non-Bolshevik) Russian Revolution of 1917. Almost all the top 200 top Bolsheviks were Jews, bankrolled by Jews in New York.
That is not to say that there were not social conditions in Russia creating the crucible into which the spark of revolution fell. The inequitable and terrible social conditions of Russia, combined with the lost war against Germany (1914-1917) created a flammable situation. The first Revolution happened because of that; the Bolsheviks then seized power in a coup d-etat, several months later.
Far too much @AJUK29 Millions vote without serious thought at general elections, for pre-selected goons provided by party claques, carefully weeded to exclude any with independent minds. What sort of people would you expect would be produced by this method? https://t.co/WzKsHoTS8y
The UK public is ruled by consent. How many Government lies, non-Covid deaths and economic destruction will it take before the UK public say 'enough is enough' and withdraw their consent? Please write to your MP and ask them to do their job and hold the Government to account.
— The UK is being destroyed by Parliament and MSM. (@AntiWokeBritain) November 27, 2020
Sadly, “writing to ‘your’ MP” is likely to have only peripheral effect. I am not allowed to say what I would wish to say here, but let’s just say that MPs have been affected strongly only by a few incidents in recent years. None of those incidents were reading a letter from a constituent.
I agree with Mr Hitchens – no point in expecting a reasoned response. The response to my first email was copied and pasted. I have sent a further email with no expectation of a response, the point is, I did my bit and it was truly empowering!
— Time for Change, Out the Main Parties &Vote Reform (@di_conservative) November 27, 2020
In fact, I would take issue with tweeter “@antiwokeBritain”. Britain is not so much “ruled by consent” as ruled by apathy.
When phone companies are developing packages for the jobless, you know that the government really has screwed up the economy. https://t.co/uXOKJld7Ls
Yes. Money is a fascinating study, even if you have none! While it is true that money is not a finite amount kept in coin in the Treasury, or the Bank of England, or (pace Mrs Thatcher) in the “housewife’s shopping basket”, there is a limit to both “Government borrowing” and its “printing of money”.
The UK Government was hugely overborrowed after WW2, about 2-3 times worse than even after Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak’s recent and temporary largesse.
You hear, or see on Twitter etc, the view “look at what the UK accomplished after WW2. Created a National Health Service and got the country back on its feet.”
You have to unpack that. Yes, the NHS was created, but it was rudimentary compared to today. Also, as that excellent but sidelined historian Correlli Barnett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlli_Barnett] has shown in his books, after WW2 the almost “broke” UK had the choice to maintain a global empire (or post-imperial presence), to create a Welfare State, or to revitalize the economy. It tried to do all three at once, when only one or at most two were possible. The result was only partial success in all three main areas.
People who look back at the post-WW2 era and say, in effect, “look what they did despite Britain being broke“, neglect to notice the terrible socio-economic conditions of the mid/late 1940s and even early 1950s. Rationing continued after WW2 (a fact unknown to many, especially the “young”), only disappearing in the mid-1950s. It was severe. My own parents would recall that, in 1953 (I think), they could not have confetti at their wedding because of paper rationing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom#Post-Second_World_War_1945-1954
However, the UK economy was expanding fast then, certainly from 1956 (the year of my own birth). That enabled the UK government of the day to pay down the “National Debt” as well as try to hit those three targets mentioned above.
The truth about monies available to government lies somewhere between the Mrs Thatcher handbag idea (a fixed amount) beloved of simpletons and the open-ended “money can be created or borrowed ad infinitum” idea of the Twitter “experts”.
At present, interest rates are very low. Money can be borrowed by the UK government at very low, almost zero, rates. That can ground an investment strategy in the economy, education, infrastructure— and should do. Throwing away money on “lockdowns” etc is quite different, however.
This is not the place in which to examine the ultimate source of money “borrowed” by goverments. Another time.
Allister Heath in the Telegraph explains the terrible economic danger we are now facing. Sunak knows. But Johnson dare not let him admit it. pic.twitter.com/JtS6lriwDI
No. I think advanced societies require what you call 'big government'. But I also believe that the safeguards we used to rely on now need strengthening. The nreak-uup and replacement of the BBC is especially urgent, plus a reformed second chamber. https://t.co/r3MJVplHFS
What matters is that those who are responsible for strangling this country's livelihood and liberty are punished for it and know *now* that they will be. Let us worry nearer the time about who will replace them. @ukcloudprohttps://t.co/QZUdKtjHofhttps://t.co/w56OQeQg5G
All MP Alec Shelbrooke cares about is his own moneygrubbing, and whether he retains the support of the Israel lobby.
It is numbers and immediacy that count @basef41. The vote is on Tuesday. Get friends, neighbours, colleagues, family, to join in. Do not be worried about repeating your own message. https://t.co/QZUdKtjHofhttps://t.co/6Y2NNGDvnY
Do not be discouraged by stuff about 'safe seats' . Scottish Labour MPs used to think their seats were safe. Then they were not. In the reckoning to come, of lost jobs, destroyed businesses, smashed education, strangled liberty, *no* seat is safe, especially not Pfeffel's own.
It's a completely different issue. I've written at length about it on the Peter Hitchens blog. @robintheforest. Ask me about it the next time we have a chance to vote, or not. Abstention might be the best way of getting them out. Or it might not. https://t.co/WSoBKEHgG6
Hard to believe that anyone could believe that abstention from voting affects anything. Even now, there are Westminster constituencies where votes, especially in by-elections, are as low as 20% or 30% of those eligible. Voting may not change anything; abstention even less so.
Nadine Dorrries, who is she? Does she sit in the Belarus Parliament? Doesn't sound like someone from a free country, for sure. https://t.co/P58jTT6DEc
At what point, if any, will people decide that the UK is becoming a tyranny and that measures against the tyranny, its ministers and its MPs are justifiable? A question that I cannot answer, that no-one can answer. It may be that such a moment will not come, will never come. At that point, we should be living in a dystopian serf-state.
Looking at this programme 13 years later I am amazed at how hard Johnson tried to shut me up by heckling and sledging, whenever I was pointing out that the Tories had embraced Blairism. https://t.co/QnqxquxOIu
It is already well established that Covid-19 is a disease that is most dangerous to those over the age of 65 and who have preexisting conditions. In the United States, there has been an observed 2.1% mortality rate, with elderly individuals making up over half that number.
UPDATED: Boris Johnson is trying to fight off a growing backlash among Tory MPs about the COVID-19 tiers.
According to a @SkyNewsPolitics tally, at least 54 have voiced their unhappiness over tiering or have said they are unlikely to support the measures: https://t.co/zeCoHyu4OM
I'm very sorry for the staff. They'll be unemployed whilst Green will be sunning himself on his massive private yacht counting the money he got from BHS pension. He shouldn't have been allowed to hold onto to his Knighthood or be allowed to run a business again
Go into Circuit Break lockdown. Drop Circuit Break lockdown. Go into tougher Tiers. Exit Tougher Tiers for a week. Go into New Year lockdown. Again, this is madness.
At least six Tory MPs have said they are (currently) planning to vote against new tiers system on Tuesday: Tobias Ellwood Tim Loughton Julian Sturdy Robert Syms Craig Tracey William Wragg
Others are holding fire until they see impact assessments to be published before the vote.
As I blogged almost a year ago, in circumstances of (in this case, “elected”) dictatorship, opposition comes not from a weak and government-supporting official Opposition, but from within the ruling party itself.
When I lived in Little Venice, on and off until 24 years ago, there was a large houseboat, where Branson was said to have lived once. Beyond Blomfield Road.
[above: Branson’s former boat at Little Venice, or one very similar; I think the same]
I was told that that he owned a house right by where that houseboat was berthed.
[above: the Regent’s Canal at Little Venice, not far from where I once lived; also not very far from where the previous photo was taken]
Virgin Australia, and other Branson-founded businesses, are also said to be teetering on the edge of insolvency.
I have no particular animus against Branson. He certainly seems no worse than other big businessmen, and in some ways seems better than others in the public eye. His courage cannot be questioned, after his ballooning exploits, and he is certainly willing to try new things in business. I do not particularly like some of his socio-political attitudes, and he is obviously mainly interested in making as much money as possible; that is, however, scarcely unusual in the business world.
At one time, 1989-1993, I was a fairly regular flyer on Virgin Atlantic, flying from the UK to Newark Airport in New Jersey. Not bad (for an Economy ticket), and more convenient for me than Kennedy Airport (which I also used, when other airlines had cheap tickets), because I then lived in Middlesex County, New Jersey, about half an hour by car from Newark Airport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_County,_New_Jersey
I was rather surprised to see that Branson’s enterprises employ as many as 70,000 people all over the world. I do not know how many of those are in the UK.
I do not see why the UK Government should give his airline £500M, even as a loan. Airlines are going to be a drug on the market (almost worthless) for some time into the future. Any loan to Virgin Atlantic would probably be money thrown away. Admittedly, that is true of most of the money now being pumped out by the present government of fools, but why add more? Also, it seems that Branson himself has not paid tax in the UK for 14 years. Not exactly an incentive for a government looking at public reaction.
Coronavirus: an interesting view from Israel
“A similar pattern – rapid increase in infections to a peak in the sixth week, and decline from the eighth week – is common everywhere, regardless of response policies“
That would be more or less forever. I don't think people will put up with that. The government needs to understand that there is a limit on how long it can impose severe restrictions on personal freedom and normal economic activity. https://t.co/bJjRreGiyP
I understand the government cannot admit its mistake or immediately end the throttling of the economy and the stifling of personal liberty. But nor can it drift vaguely onwards, offering no hope of an end. There is a limit to how long people will put up with such things.
Hitchens has come to the same or a similar view to my own: this government of incompetents, advised by complete idiots, is starting to understand what it has done, i.e. pretty much killed, already, the UK’s economy (not to mention civil rights and the proper rule of law) but cannot, politically, simply whine that it got it wrong.
So comes the idea that there has to be an “exit strategy“, rather than the UK just resuming what is left of normal life overnight (by far the best idea). The Government (from its own standpoint) needs to pretend to be authoritative, in charge (and not, well, a bunch of idiotic mediocrities advised by similar ones).
Maybe so. I don't in any way suggest Sweden is a perfect nation. There is no such place. But I think its Covid-19 policy is better suited to a mature, free, law-governed nation than the schemes adopted here by Al Johnson and his committee of mediocrities. https://t.co/dQSNuuCOhy
I can think of several sane reasons for not doing such a thing, one of them being that it will soon be forced on us by the same people who accidentally wrecked the economy and left civil liberty lying unconscious on the ground. https://t.co/11DqwcMenq
I can think of one reason why a citizen (though perhaps not a very good citizen) might wear a surgical mask if required by the cretinous “authorities” of this poor country: it would be an excellent way in which those who commit crimes could stay undetected. I do not say that criminals, from shoplifters to bank robbers, will not still be detected and arrested (though, I hazard, in fewer numbers), but it will be harder for the prosecutors to get convictions in situations where not only have the accused allegedly been wearing masks but also where all other people at the alleged locus or loci were wearing similar masks! Eyewitness and cctv evidence will be almost worthless.
Below, Peter Hitchens teaches a little logic and commonsense to a lady evidently devoid of both:
Where did you read that and on what research was it based and how much protection did it say it gives? Locking yourself in the bathroom for the rest of your life would also stop you spreading the virus, but one must ask what the proportionality of such an action would be. https://t.co/VOZiybfYKu
I can't quite work this into a coherent thought, but Richard Branson pleading for state subsidies, the same Richard Branson who sued the NHS in 2016, right now, as people are being encouraged to donate to the NHS as if it were a charity and not a state health service, is… wild.
Not sure that I agree entirely with the last tweet, above. If Branson were to be allowed financial assistance for his companies in return for stumping up some sum in lieu of taxes previously avoided, it would be analogous to an individual not paying, say, car insurance and then, after an accident, being allowed to pay some money and then be treated as if he had paid previously.
Branson is a union buster. He’s paid no personal income tax to exchequer since moving to the Virgin Islands 14yrs ago. He sued the NHS. Virgin Healthcare paid 0 corporation tax while being handed £2bn worth of NHS & local authority deals. He deserves 0 sympathy. He’s a parasite. https://t.co/zPOY6t9cEs
Very interesting analysis of virus panic by Australian TV commentator Andrew Bolt. Brief, carefully-argued, powerful (and as far as I know, no equivalent in the UK) https://t.co/MjTSoMak3p
Why can't the government admit its mistake and immediately end the throttling of the economy and the stifling of personal liberty? Pride? Stupidity? Please enlighten us @ClarkeMicah
My latest conversation with Mike Graham of TalkRadio on the Covid-19 crisis : the damage to the police from this episode is irrevocable. https://t.co/R1emla9AAr
Yes, if the speaker or interviewee is a dissident (I mean a real dissident, not a faux-“revolutionary” joke like Owen Jones or Ash Sarkar), a radio or TV station faces “sanctions” (i.e. punishment for not self-censoring), or may even be shut down.
Did you really believe that we live in a (mythical) “free country”?
More Coronavirus nonsense exploded…
“The UK has today announced 449 more coronavirus deaths – the fewest for a fortnight – taking Britain’s total death toll to 16,509.
England declared 429 deaths and a further 20 were confirmed across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. And 4,676 more people have tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of patients to 124,743.
The day’s death toll is a fall on the 596 fatalities announced yesterday, Sunday, and half as many as the day before that (888). It is the lowest number for a fortnight, since April 6 when 439 victims were confirmed.
Although the statistics are known to drop after a weekend, the sharp fall adds to evidence that the peak of the UK’s epidemic has blown over.” [Daily Mail]
“It comes as a leading expert at the University of Oxford has argued the peak was actually about a month ago, a week before lockdown started on March 23, and that the draconian measures people are now living with were unnecessary.
Professor Carl Heneghan claims data shows infection rates halved after the Government launched a public information campaign on March 16 urging people to wash their hands and keep two metres (6’6″) away from others.” [Daily Mail]
Looks like I was right…all the way along, in fact…
The government of fools
As I blogged before, it is clear the pack of mediocrities and idiots now in government are afraid to take the decision to end the toytown police state called UK “lockdown”. They are avoiding having to take responsibility. The same is true of Boris-idiot, who (surely obviously now?) is hiding out at Chequers until the “crisis” he himself has partly manufactured is over or seen to be almost over. He can then reappear as clown “conquering hero”…
Unexpected? Maybe not
Britain was [X] to vote to leave the European Union:
Looks as if people are now unsure (at least more of them than previously) as to whether the EU was a “good thing” for the UK. Hard to say. Presumably, 13% are “Don’t Knows” or similar. On the other hand, in the actual EU Referendum of 2016, while there was just the binary choice to Leave or Remain, 27.8% failed to vote. Were they “Don’t Knows”?
Is anyone listening out there?
UK announces 449 more coronavirus deaths – the fewest for a fortnight as leading expert argues Britain's crisis peaked BEFORE lockdown and claims fatality rate could be as low as 0.1% You don't say https://t.co/w0oMiJmvKD
https://t.co/812hTfz5SX Carl Heneghan at Oxford has called for liberation of the people asap
— Alexei Romanov #NotABot – In a Castle on a Cloud (@AlexeiRomanov13) April 20, 2020
The question as always is whether the result is proportionate to the action. If you wore a goldfish bowl over your head at all times @_rp_77 , I am sure a lot of people would benefit. But is that a good enough reason for you to be made to do so? I think not. https://t.co/GkjaFiSRDp
@notacunnigplan, I’m not a Tory or a contrarian. I disagree with innocent people being treated like convicted prisoners because I was brought up in a free country,not out of ideology or a futile desire to make mischief. I disagree with needless economic ruin because it is stupid. https://t.co/VeZThbbMyX
Urgent question now is not rows over who messed up over the virus in the past. It is that people can't be expected to put up with this level of restriction & this amount of economic damage, indefinitely & without hope of an end. There's a limit. Drift will bring us to that limit.
Very interesting analysis of virus panic by Australian TV commentator Andrew Bolt. Brief, carefully-argued, powerful (and as far as I know, no equivalent in the UK) https://t.co/MjTSoMak3p
People may ask of me, “if you think that the government-mandated lockdown is a poorly-conceived and petty-tyrannical measure, and likely to half-wipe out the UK economy as well, why do you yourself obey it?”
My reply? “I am broadly going along with the lockdown nonsense because:
I find talking with (let alone being lectured by) the police (most of whom are poorly educated and as thick as two short planks) a bore, so I want to minimize the chance of being stopped on the local roads (mainly semi-rural or rural) around here, or on visits to the nearby small local town;
Almost nothing is open anyway, and I am not a partygoer, public (or private) sunbather, team sports enthusiast or general rambler on foot (these days).
On that basis, I may as well only make occasional shopping forays.”
Good grief! If this [see below] really is a snapshot of the mind of Dominic Cummings, then the government really is in the hands not only of idiots (eg Boris-idiot, Priti Patel etc) but of lunatics.
It also reminds us that lunacy is not really so hard to distinguish from genius, in most cases.
Say what you like about Dominic Cummings but this part of the blog is *spot-on* about the sort of people the civil service needs to start attracting. pic.twitter.com/0cfCatmSLr
[Update, 23 January 2020: the full lunacy of Cummings’ blog post, some of which was in the deleted tweet above, seems to have been expunged from the Internet, though maybe one of his “weirdos and misfits” would be able to find it]
[Update, 12 May 2024: the tweet appears to have been reinstated on Twitter/X and so is now visible here too]
The above (apparently from a blog penned by Cummings) is an inward-gazing stream of consciousness (though purporting to be to the point) worthy of someone whose residential address ends with the word “Hospital”, or similar.
What makes it alarming is that Cummings is not just a stray “Conservative” (and the word seems ever-less useful as a descriptor) who is on the periphery of power (in the way that the Monday Club or the Bow Group used to be), but someone right at the centre of what could be (perhaps inaccurately) called the Johnson Project. Indeed, “Cummings Project” might be more accurate. Boris Johnson himself has few ideas beyond schoolboy fantasies such as building bridges from Scotland to Ireland, creating artificial islands with Metropolis airports on them etc.
There was talk before the recent General Election that in Cabinet (effectively in Cabinet; I suppose technically, Cabinet committee), Cummings actually overruled the Prime Minister several times. Not just spoke over him, but overruled him on decisions! Now, OK, the person posing as Prime Minister is Boris-idiot, a bad joke PM who is a proven serial —indeed constant— liar, incompetent and fantasist, but there is still such a thing as respect for the office itself…
Dominic Cummings seems to me (admittedly only from what I have read…I have never met him or anyone who has met him) to be like a person who is somewhere between a guest and a gatecrasher at a dinner party, someone who has no idea how to behave and who has no respect for the hosts, the guests, the staff or the event.
Is there anything correct about his views re. government and civil service? Yes, the gene pool is shallow or narrow; in politics now even more so than in the administration proper (Civil Service), but the answer to that is to carefully reform recruitment and training, as well as overall structure, not to let off hand grenades all over Westminster.
I think that we have to remind ourselves that governing the UK is not some kind of pathetic country house weekend game in the drawing room or Hall. This impacts on real people, in their millions, all over this country. It is not a matter of scribbling some clever little half-baked idea that can be run up the flagpole at the Oxford Union or (taking on board the Cummings dislike of Oxbridge) a Spectator drinks party.
It may seem lazy to say “it is easier to destroy than create”, but the thing about truisms is that they contain truth. The machinery of administration and government in the UK was created over centuries, and particularly in the century or so since the mid-Victorian era. Once you tear it to pieces, you may find that groups of supposedly terribly clever little people, weirdos and misfits, sitting in groups around Whitehall, cannot in fact replace what presently exists.
Britain today has already suffered a number of shocks to its postwar (post-1945) stability: Thatcherism, mass immigration (accelerated since 1997), Blair-Brown “reforms”, the financial crisis of 2008, the fake “austerity” of the evil 2010-2019 “Conservative” governments (particularly the half-baked idiocies of Dunce Duncan Smith and his underlings). Now this.
Dominic Cummings is a History graduate, for what that is now worth. He will know, I presume, what happens to societies when everything that underpins their stability is knocked away. I presume that he also knows that revolutions usually consume their own children…
Update, 6 January 2020
Can't believe we got outmaneuvered twice by a man who's barely mastered keeping his anus on the inside of his trousershttps://t.co/E9hciVrV8j
More news about the half-Jewish “ho” madam, Ghislaine Maxwell:
Well, give that man a cee-gar! Turns out that I guessed right (I usually do, if I myself say so):
“Jeffrey Epstein’s socialite ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell ‘is being hidden from the FBI in a series of safe houses because of the information she has on powerful people’”
Maxwell has remained incognito since Epstein’s arrest and death behind bars
New report claims both she and Epstein were ‘assets’ for a foreign government
Source says they funneled dirt on the rich and powerful to foreign spies
Now Maxwell may be hiding in a safehouse in Israel, the new report claims
She is a British and US citizen, and daughter of an alleged Mossad operative.“
“An explosive new report has asserted that deceased sex criminal Jeffery Epstein and his alleged ‘madame’ Ghislaine Maxwell were foreign intelligence ‘assets’, and that she is currently hiding in a safehouse in Israel.”
“She is not in the US, she moves around. She is sometimes in the UK, but most often in other countries, such as Israel, where her powerful contacts have provided her with safe houses and protection,’ the source said.”
“Born in France, Maxwell is both a U.S. citizen and British subject. Her family’s alleged ties to Israel’s national intelligence service, Mossad, have been well documented.
Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, was a Czech-born ‘British’ [Jewish] media mogul whose financial fraud in raiding the Mirror Group pension fund was discovered after his death in 1991.
Also a ‘British’ member of parliament, Robert Maxwell reportedly had ties to British intelligence, the Soviet KGB, and Mossad — and was suspected of being a double or even triple agent by British Foreign Office officials.“
The shake-up of the Civil Service seems to be in the hands of Dominic Cummings but is being written about by a “Conservative” insider with a new name —new to me at least— called Rachel Wolf. Presumably Jewish.
[Further addendum: The author noted above is a partner at a firm of lobbyists called Public First. Another partner there is one Gabriel Milland, who was previously “Head of Media” at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre [BICOM], effectively an arm of Israel though funded, at least notionally, privately. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_Israel_Communications_and_Research_Centre
It will be recalled that, prior to her becoming a Labour Party MP, Ruth Smeeth, who lost her seat at the 2019 General Election, was exposed as having been a “confidential contact” of officials at the US Embassy in London, as well as having been deeply enmeshed in the activities of the Israeli Embassy. Ruth Smeeth was also, before that (2005-?2009), Director of Public Affairs and Campaigns at BICOM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Smeeth#Early_life
It appears that, of the four partners at Public First, one, Natascha Engel, is a former Labour MP, acquainted with Maurice Glasman, now Lord Glasman (whose brother is a very active member of the malicious Jewish-Zionist “charity” known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”. If the connection is not fraternal, perhaps a reader can tell me).
The UK has been shaken to the core already, though it may look much the same on the surface. The Thatcher years, then later the Blair-Brown regime, followed by the evil policies of 2010-2019. Now this.
We could be looking at the collapse of society before very long. What will then be society’s judgment upon those who precipitated such collapse?
Migration-invasion
Always amusing, though predictable, to read the tweets of those determined to believe that the influx of the backward peoples into Europe, including the UK, is somehow “beneficial”, something to be (in the usual bastard language) “celebrated”. Here we see tweeters “Femi”/”@Femi_Sorry” (the African talking head the System now has on Sky News The Pledge) and “ArnieSpanner”/”@unexpectedgoalz”, both struggling with the facts ( click to read the thread)…
The degeneracy of those who support migration-invasion
Here we see Zoe Gardner aka “@ZoeJardiniere”, who was so upset to read my tweets about mass immigration that she blocked my account after she had indulged in some truly pathetic bleating. That was a few years ago. She’s still at it, though (I suppose that she cannot get a better job):
"Hungarian family policy" is about women getting back into the home to breed more nice white kids "instead of" a permissive, liberal immigration system.
Watch out women, when they come for the foreigners they are never, ever far from coming for you. https://t.co/9yYQz8h7DC
Well of course it would be terrible if women in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands etc actually had “nice white kids” instead of agitating for the invasion of their countries by backward migrant-invaders…Oh, no, wait…
Carlos Ghosn
I know little of the rights and wrongs of the Carlos Ghosn case, but his escape from Japan was brilliant, bearing in mind the resources the Japanese brought to bear on him.
I have blogged previously about the need for Basic Income (see Notes, below).
One important point is that the nexus connecting work and pay is loosening in the more developed countries. Already, computers, automation and modern business streamlining have led to the situation whereby, apart from actual unemployment, there is huge underemployment. In the UK, we see, in big picture terms, that the poorer half of the workforce is still being paid less in real terms (the latest statistics suggest about 7% less) than was paid in 2007 for equivalent work.
Now, there is a headlong rush into greater automation and, crucially, to Artificial Intelligence [AI].
Working Tax Credits as Government Subsidy to Poor-Paying Employers
Even before the financial upheaval of 2007-2008, it is clear that the “market”, as “hidden hand” mechanism, delivering adequate pay for required work, was not working properly or as old-thinking economic theory suggested that it should. Employers were unwilling or in some cases unable to offer pay high enough for employees to subsist on, let alone live decently on.
The answer of the Blair-Brown governments was to offer employees “working tax credits”, i.e. a form of “welfare”/”social security” for those in employment, the purpose of which was (and at time of writing still is) to top-up inadequate pay to a determined level. A more limited measure, Family Credit, claimable only by families, was in operation from 1986-1999.
The most obvious drawback of Working Tax Credit [WTC], i.e. that it in effect subsidizes poor and poor-paying employers out of general taxation, was either not foreseen by self-styled financial genius Gordon Brown, or was ignored by him and/or Tony Blair. Adding insult to injury was and is the fact that some of the worst-paying employing companies are also those most adept at avoiding tax liability: transnational enterprises such as Amazon in particular.
In other words, an employee is forced (by circumstances) to work for pay which is not enough for that employee to live on, even at a very basic level. That pay is then topped-up to a minimum subsistence level by Working Tax Credit, which is paid for not directly by the exploitative employer but by government, and so by general taxation. Low-paid employees pay little or no income tax now, but still pay so-called National Insurance, which is today just another or extra income tax in all but name. Put simply, the low-paid worker is paying out for his or her own Working Tax Credit, at least to some extent.
The poor-paying employer has no incentive to pay decently, because the government will stump up enough to keep the employee in place.
Real-terms pay now, for very many people, is inferior to what was paid in the 1980s and 1970s. Conditions of employment are also worse in reality (though that aspect is not part of this blog post).
At present, 5 million people in the UK receive WTC, while another 2 million are entitled to receive it but, for whatever reason, do not apply for it.
Other Government Top-Ups to Pay
In addition to basic Working Tax Credit, people in low-paying jobs and who have children can get extra money via WTC , as can disabled workers.
Persons who are disabled or unwell (including employed persons) can receive Disability Living Allowance, which is not means-tested.
Persons who have children are also entitled to Child Benefit, regardless of capital or income (up to £50,000-£60,000, tapering).
Persons of the age(s) specified can receive State Pension regardless of whether they work or not; moreover, whether or not they have ever worked.
Limited Elements of Basic Income Already Embedded in the Existing System
State Pension, paid whatever the individual’s capital or income, and whether or not the individual is working (employed or self-employed) or not and (if you include Pension Guarantee Credit), payable regardless of how much the pensioner has paid in via National Insurance;
Child Benefit, paid regardless of income (under £50,000 p.a.);
Disability Living Allowance (and its successor, “Personal Independence Payment” or PIP), paid regardless of capital or income to qualifying persons (and this is not the place in which to examine why politicians and Department of Work and Pensions [DWP] civil servants often choose vulgar names for State benefits and programmes: cf. “Jobseeker’s Allowance” etc).
Advantages of Basic Income
Simplicity. A Basic Income would mean that most of the existing DWP structure could be dispensed with: the vast edifice of “Jobcentres” (office buildings), filled with DWP staff engaged in adminstration, and the snooping upon, monitoring, “assessing” of claimants etc. The absurdity of it is that many claimants are only getting about £75 a week anyway. The present Kafka-esque set-up really should be and can be junked. Probably 90% of the present 85,000 DWP employees can be made redundant. The financial savings from that, decommissioning of buildings, running costs etc would be in the tens of billions annually; the untold billions paid by the State to useless and dishonest private contractors, such as ATOS and Capita, would also be saved;
Security of Citizens. It has been shown in overseas pilot studies (eg recently in Finland) that having a Basic Income, even if small, gives people a sense of security only available until now to those with an inherited private income. Yes, some people will decide to loaf all day, maybe even drink all day, but others will do paid work, start small businesses, improve their cultural level, volunteer locally or far away etc. The idle and/or useless are like that under the present system anyway and are costing the State money even now, both directly and indirectly (eg via the costs of policing, NHS, prisons etc);
Doubts Often Expressed about Basic Income
“People will not want to work if they get money for nothing”: well, most wealthy inheritors of capital, most of those living off trust incomes etc do seem to want to work in some way, or to set up businesses, or at least to write, paint, or other similar activity. Don’t disparage writing or other artistic activity. After all, Harry Potter, which snowballed into a huge industry employing, altogether, many thousands and even tens of thousands, came out of the mind of one lady, a single mother on State benefits; J.K. Rowling herself has said that, under the punitive present benefits regime, she would have been messed around so much that it would have been impossible for her to sit in cafes with her baby writing Harry Potter. True, some people will simply loaf. They do that under the present system. Don’t think that there are no costs to the State and society now (even if actual benefits are cut off): police costs, court and legal costs, NHS costs, too;
“The cost to the taxpayer”: the cost of Basic Income would be little more than the present “welfare” (social security) system, once you take into account the huge savings on DWP and HMRC bureaucracy, savings by not using useless/dishonest outsourcing organizations, the economic benefit of people spending more, stimulating the economy, setting up new small businesses;
“People getting Basic Income money that they do not even need”: firstly, what people “need” is, beyond the basic level, something subjective. Apart from that, there is no problem with clawing back monies paid to those above a certain income. All that need happen is that a maximum level of income (all income) for recipients be set. All persons above that income level to be taxed or super-taxed to the same level as Basic Income received. The level might be a total (including Basic Income) of £30,000, assuming Basic Income of perhaps £15,000 per year. In that case, the person would be taxed the £15,000, leaving £15,000. Yes, there would be apparent unfairness at lower income levels, whereby it might be questioned why work, when you could simply receive the (in the example given) £15,000 and not work. However, even then the recipient does gain, via extra security in case of job loss or illness; alternatively, the threshold could be set higher, say at £50,000 p.a.
Variations on the Basic Income Theme
Instead of money alone, Basic Income could include benefits paid to certain persons, such as free housing for persons receiving less than a certain income. The danger here is in the complexity and cost, as under the existing system, as well as monies wasted going to landlords charging excessive rents. It may be that the way forward is to add to the existing (in the UK) more or less “free” (at point of use) health service, free education at primary and secondary level etc. Examples:
free public transport, whether local or regional;
free car insurance;
free domestic utilities;
free NHS or similar;
free education.
Basic Income as Necessity
It is clear that, in the UK, relatively few people at present are purely living off what they can earn by work or by investments and/or trust income. 7 million are eligible for Working Tax Credits, millions more are children, retired people, disabled and not working, unemployed etc. For many, working for pay does not cover the basic necessities of life, let alone provide a decent human existence. The State already recognizes these facts.
The explosion in artificial intelligence and robotics will turn the screw. For example, there are at present356,300 taxi drivers and private hire drivers in the UK. The technology already exists to replace them. It is unlikely that more than a small percentage will still be doing such work in, say, 2030. That’s just one group affected. Groups as diverse as farmers, lawyers, surgeons, pilots, security guards will all be made, as groups, largely redundant.
Basic Income is not just the right thing, but the necessary thing.
The necessity for Basic Income is spreading, but not yet to enough people. Many still think that it is “expensive” (probably the same people who believe that the answer to a recession is to “cut spending”…). There is, however, dissent…
Ian Robert Millard 