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Diary Blog, 17 October 2025

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Translates to about 437 Reform UK MPs, 57 LibDems, 46 SNP, 38 Lab, 27 Con, 19 Green, 5 Plaid (etc).

If not an outlier, or anomalous set of results, this is stunning.

The headline result for Reform would be, in the British context, near-revolutionary, and would cause an almost-immediate Constitutional crisis, in that Reform has no peers at all in the Lords.

An influx of hundreds of Reform MPs of very varied views, on that scale, would lead to hard-to-predict events over the succeeding 5 years.

Labour (38 MPs) below LibDems (57 MPs) for the first time (formerly, of course, sub nom Liberal Party) since the 1920s. Hard to believe.

Conservatives with only 27 MPs, but that would be not quite as bad as other recent polls, which have predicted as few as 7 Con MPs. Reform was on 32% in this poll; another recent poll had them on 36%.

Greens with 19 MPs! The “watermelon party”, of course, green outside, but light red inside…

Of course, Labour is being pulled apart by centrifugal forces. The Pakistani/Muslim/Islamist element is defecting to Galloway’s “Workers’ Party”, to Islamist independent factions, to Corbyn’s anti-Israel “Your Party” etc. The craven pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby stance of Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel government has alienated many of the very voters on which Labour is now mainly dependent: Muslims, non-whites generally, would-be “progressives” etc.

Interesting times in British politics.

[“Anyone who backed him the second time round after Truss and the spies should be shot. That includes Rudd etc. I said to father of children and best friend – who both lost their seats because of Tom – dear lord please don’t back him again. One did, the other was more sensible and entirely where I was on candidates despite being on very different wings of the party. When Tugendhat came to Poole to “help” during the election campaign I made my views known – we could not afford to lose a single vote and having probably the most notorious backed-Truss-for-a-job “helping” was a disaster. We lost by a handful. He partied as colleagues cleared their desks in tears, only interested in canvassing support for a run not a moment of grief for his party. Just disgusting. Ruthless bugger. One of so many reasons I’m glad to be free of this sort of nonsense. There is so little honour left in the Tories and TT is one of the absolute worst. Ugh.“]

Though of course the lady tweeter there would never make the point, Tom Tugendhat, the MP and former chocolate soldier, is a quarter-Jew whose family origins, some of them, are in Bielsko-Biala, Silesia (Poland, but once, pre-1918, part of Austrian Silesia under the name Bielitz ).

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

Incidentally, and as blogged previously, I know the Bielsko-Biala area slightly, having visited twice in the late 1980s, and having spent a total of about 4 weeks there.

Of course, the Conservatives having now fallen well below 20% in the opinion polls, the infighting about who should replace Nigerian chancer Kemi Carpetbagger as Con Party leader does rather look like bald men and women fighting over a comb, especially as 1. some predictions suggest that the number of Conservative Party MPs post-2028/2029 might fall as low as 7; and 2. all of those currently hoping to replace Kemi Badenoch are predicted to lose their Commons seats anyway (as is Kemi Badenoch herself).

Jewish-lobby puppet Michael Gove, a former scribbler and former MP expenses cheat and fraud, as well as a drunk and cocaine-abuser now Editor of The Spectator, weighs in to demand that notorious Israeli Jew football hooligans, Maccabi Tel Aviv, be allowed to have a “rumble in the jungle” in the West Midlands. Nein danke.

Starmer-stein never has explained how his “one in, one out” idea reduces immigration and the numbers here. Of course it cannot. At best (if it ever worked anyway) it would keep the huge numbers (of illegals; “legal” migrants would still flood in) static. Why am I even bothering to discuss this ridiculous scheme? It is just a scam for public relations purposes…

Not so remarkable when you consider the pervasive Jewish/pro-Israel influence over System politics in the UK.

Defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer” [Biblical phrase — adapted from Psalm 72:4— inscribed above the main entrance of “the Bailey” —Central Criminal Court, London, aka “Old Bailey”]

That Egyptian, after some punishment, should be given a choice— back to Egypt, or up against a wall. In fact, maybe just put him up against a wall anyway.

Egypt is still OK for a holiday, so long as you are in a good hotel. Admittedly, I have not been there for about 27 years. As a country, Egypt welcomes tourists, but not political dissidents, potential terrorists, or spies.

My own experiences include the following:

The Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment. Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts take away monies from various groups of mainly English/British people in order to have money to waste on migrant-invaders, Ukrainians, and Jews (in the UK and in Israel).

Rachel Reeves is evil, as well as being a moneygrubber and an expenses cheat.

As already mentioned, it is hard to see who will be left able and willing to vote Labour. Even “the blacks and browns” are largely charging for the exit. The Muslims certainly are, despite attempts to placate them.

Hard to see many pensioners, or those approaching pensionable age─ say anyone over 55, voting Labour, despite Reeves and Starmer keeping (so far) the State Pension Triple Lock.

The previously very supportive under-30 group of potential voters also seem to be turning their collective face against Labour, and going Green or LibDem; some are now turning to Reform UK as well..

Looked at like that, the at-first surprising (?) recent polling suggesting only 15% of voters intend to vote Labour makes sense.

Late tweets seen

More genocidal actions by [Israeli] Jews.

The Kiev regime must know that, at the end of the day, Russian forces have 6,000+ nuclear weapons. Russia may not want to use any in Ukraine, but the fact remains that, should the orders be given, Kiev and other major centres of population and industry could be reduced, entirely, to rubble and radioactive ash in a matter of, at most, half an hour.

…because Russian forces are slowly but steadily advancing along the entire active front.

Late thought

Just saw the film Oppenheimer, about the atom-bomb scientist. Pretty good, but too long by about half an hour and that last 30 mins or so of typically-American stuff about postwar legal arguments, and Congressional hearings, could have been cut out without loss.

One part of the film struck me, though the specific facts were not new to me, I having read books about the Manhattan Project and the atom bomb spies etc.

The film reminded me that the scientists at Los Alamos in the early 1940s were concerned that the first atom bomb might start a chain reaction which would be unstoppable and cause, inter alia, the atmosphere of the Earth to ignite. Despite that possibility still existing at time of detonation of the first full test, they decided to go ahead. Why? Well, almost all of the important scientists were Jews, and for them the defeat of the “antisemitic” German Reich was more important than the possibility that all life on Earth might be destroyed.

Lesson? For “them”, it really is always “all about them”…

Late talking point

Starmer-stein, for whom real British people always come second, third, fourth, or last…

Diary Blog, 12 July 2024, with more about who really voted for what at GE 2024

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Ippolitov-Ivanov]

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Back in the mid-1980s, I sometimes enjoyed Spitting Image [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image]. The sort of real cutting satire that would simply not be allowed today, much of it. In any case, with the sort of events we now see (eg Biden’s funny but also sad descent into the fog), any similar show today would have to fight hard to compete with what is actually happening in front of our eyes.

True, Reagan was not the most-obviously intelligent world leader, but the satirical treatment of him was deliberately “over the top”; whatever his flaws, he was not in the grip of a dementia-related condition plainly visible whenever he spoke in public.

I have not seen the more recently remade Spitting Image but I doubt that it pokes fun at the kind of non-political targets the 1980s original did, e.g. black “rap” performers. I admit that I am guessing, though. The remake is not broadcast on mainstream TV.

The regime of that evil little bastard has only one main chance— to drag NATO into the war. That might mean a slide into a nuclear confrontation before very long.

If the Kiev regime starts to attack Russian cities far from the front line, the response might be that Ukrainian cities in the western part of Ukraine, west of the Dnieper, might be attacked and even destroyed.

So far, Russia has not launched all-out attack on Kiev, partly because of its role in Russian history, but if major Russian cities start to be bombarded, that may change.

I predicted, a couple of years ago, on the blog, that Russia would start to degrade the electrical production and distribution network across Ukraine. That is now being intensified, and is a far more intelligent way of waging war than the more brutal and harsh —and less effective— choice of attacking directly the homes and neighbourhoods of the Ukrainian civilians.

If the Kiev regime starts to badly damage Russian cities away from the front line —especially Moscow, Petersburg and surrounding territories— the Russian response could be devastating enough to bring NATO into the war on some pretext such as Poland suffering damage. Were that to happen, all of us would be but a step away from a Russia-NATO war, which is being pushed by secret circles within the West. Such a war, which would quite likely go nuclear within weeks, would change Europe and the world forever.

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Incredible, when you think of the historical hardships of the Irish people. Now, unwanted non-European migrant-invaders demand this, that, and the other…

Forget the “Conservative” Party. Social nationalism can provide the right policies and administration.

Starmer-Labour has surprised even me by its evident ineptitude. We are only one week into what looks like being a disastrous 5 years.

Talking point

I do not follow football at all, but it seems to me that both domestic and international matches are now, in effect, a situation where people put “national” or team labels on a group of players and say to each other: “my blacks can beat your blacks“.

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Another example of the undemocratic and quasi-dictatorial nature of the Starmer-Labour government. 411 MPs from whom to choose, yet Starmer is appointing ministers at will from outside the Commons, elevating them to the Lords first.

Sophie Corcoran fails to point out that her comment might also apply, absolutely exactly, to the past 14 years of Conservative Party government.

Reform UK, GE 2024, and the Twitter twits

I was just looking at Twitter/X, which is alive today with Twitter-twits attacking Reform UK and, particularly, belittling Reform for, as it were, pretending to be a serious political party when it “only” has 5 MPs.

As recently as June 2024, the LibDems only had 11 MPs, and had only 8 from 2015 until 2017.

The forerunner of the LibDems, the old Liberal Party, at one time the party of government with hundreds of MPs, fell to having only 6 MPs during the 1950s and again in the early 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)#Electoral_performance.

As for the SNP, from its foundation in the early 1930s and until 1970, about 37 years (!), the SNP had no MPs at all; in 1970, the SNP managed to have elected 1 MP. The MP-cadre of the SNP then varied from 2 to (1974 to 1979) 11 MPs in the years 1974 to 2015, but mostly stuck at 2 or 3 MPs until 1997, when the SNP bloc increased its numbers, this time to 6 MPs. When the FPTP tipping-point was reached in 2015, the SNP mushroomed from 6 MPs to 56 (out of 59 Scottish MPs) overnight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.

Apart from those comparisons, the Twitter-twits might like to consider what this blog has been saying for the past week, as have some others (though not enough) even in the msm: Labour did not win by some kind of popular “landslide”, but only in terms of seats conferred by a totally unfit-for-purpose electoral system.

As noted on the blog in past days, at GE 2024 the Conservative Party only got (just over) 1.5x the number/percentage of votes of Reform UK, and even Labour only got (below) 2.5x the Reform UK vote-share.

As put on the blog the other day, out of every 20 eligible voters, only 12 even voted.

In very rough terms, out of that eligible 20 voters, 8 voters abstained, 4 voters voted Lab, 3 voters voted Con, 2 voters voted Reform, 2 voters voted LibDem, and 1 voter voted Green.

Not exactly, and “other parties were available”, but 90.29% of UK voters voted for one of those 5 parties. In England specifically, about 97% of voters voted Lab, Con, Reform, LibDem or Green.

The Twitter-Twits tweeting about Reform UK are mostly Labour supporters who belittle Reform because only 2 out of every 12 voters who voted voted for it, yet only 4 out of 12 (4 out of 20 if you count the abstainers) voted Labour.

I happened to notice one particular Twitter/X account, one “@RobBaron10”, who today (as of 1430) has already managed to put out about 29 Twitter/X “replies”, almost all angrily insulting, and all or almost all completely brainless. I have to say that I am loath to give much credence to someone whose Twitter/X profile says “Retired lecturer in philosophy trying to live a low-impact lifestyle. Despises the far-right and social injustice. Responds in the tone responded to.” Especially when said “retired lecturer in philosophy” thinks that “toe the line” is spelled “tow the line“…

Indeed, looking at the tweets copied below, it may be that “RobBaron10” deserves a place in my updated essay on the links between “antifascists” and/or Zionists, and mental illness: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/

More seriously, if Starmer-Labour MPs and supporters think that the absurd result of GE 2024 gives Starmer the right to impose a “woke”, and also Israel-lobby, tyranny on the people of the UK, he and they are very much mistaken.

Remember those figures— only 4 out of 12 who voted (<34%) voted Labour; only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters (~20%) voted Labour.

American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed with the illegal covert bio weapons laboratory facility’s doing gain of function. Ukraine is the most corruption country in Europe, a money laundering hub, a child trafficking hub and a live organ black market dealing hub. Fuck Ukraine and punk ass Zelensky!

That stupid woman must have the mother and father of all social connection address books…incredible.

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

Talking point

Twitter hashtag #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas

Some interesting posts on there.

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Also most railways, most electricity, and most other energy production and distribution.

…and no professional pretend-“offended” nuisances, such as the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal.

All part of the “blacks with everything” mass media cultural cafeteria (non-)”choice”.

…or the jungle.

Late tweets

That visage puts me in mind of some kind of lizard.

Along with the “gift”, he also sent an accompanying written appeal, in which he called on American politicians to stop supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with weapons and money in order to stop the bloodshed and the escalation of the conflict.

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One of the great American symphonies.

Diary Blog, 21 November 2022

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[Reichskanzlei, Berlin (destroyed 1945)]

On this day a year ago

The continuing “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” Twitterstorm

I personally cannot judge as to whether, or to what extent, “Jack Monroe” is “sad, bad, or mad“, in the well-known phrase. Maybe a bit mad and a bit bad…but that is just my opinion, based on what I have read, and 66 years of life-experience.

The more I read about “Jack Monroe”, the more I think “bad” rather than “mad”, in fact.

As I have blogged previously, some of the photos seen on Twitter of the food made from the recipes of the “Bootstrap Cook” seem to be a “dog’s dinner” at best; some have made me feel actually unwell. I don’t mean when made and eaten (I would not make stuff like that anyway, still less ingest it) but just the mere sight of her “food” on Twitter.

I concede that I am not very domesticated and, until I married for the first time (in 1990), had mainly eaten cold food when dining at home (in my twenties and early thirties). In fact, I am still not much of a cook, though I can offer to my readers the following idea, which is relatively cheap, rather tasty, fairly healthy (though admittedly rather high-fat) and, best of all, can be made from start to finish in about 45 mins:

https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/vegetarian-zucchini-slice-recipe/uf45jukn

That “zucchini bake” can be added to; you can add whatever vegetables are around— mushrooms, broccoli (inc. stalks, if grated or sliced), carrots etc. The only essentials are eggs, butter, zucchini/courgettes, salt, pepper, and cheese (any kind, but cheddar works well, maybe with some parmesan). Some basil helps.

I do not think I shall make a regular thing out of suggesting recipes. I would probably run out of the things that I myself have actually made in my whole life after a week or two. Still, I hope that the above is useful for someone.

About £5 to serve 4 people, or one person four times. Basic, yes, but I think that it stacks up pretty well against the offerings of “Jack Monroe”…

…and the £24,000 award she collected from her libel case against Katie Hopkins…

I looked at a few tweets by that stupid “Susan Macpark” woman. A Scottish pseudo-“nationalist” who, however, supports migration-invasion by backward non-whites. Crazy. She often flings vituperation at others, either tweeting that their parents must despise them, or simply insulting their intelligence (despite the unthinking tweets that she herself puts out).

That Macpark bitch will not give a penny. Guaranteed.

As to “Jack Monroe”, I have no idea whether she will return to Twitter (more likely than not, because she can then plough on, publicizing her stuff to those who are unwilling to question; she will simply try to ignore the gathering storm), or whether she will just think “well, I have £2,000-£7,000 a month coming in from 600-700 mugs on Patreon, plus maybe another few thousand from other sources, so why bother with Twitter?

An open question.

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If only the blacks, browns, Chinese, and especially the Jews in our country would understand this.

There should be a cultural purge in the UK, starting (arguably) with the absurdly overpaid, smug, mass media football pleb-fest talking heads. Lineker etc.

As far as that specific building is concerned, I do not entirely agree. Architecture should be about both form and function. The form, in this case is (in my opinion) not so different in both cases, and I expect (though I have never been inside) that the function is better (for today’s purposes) in the replacement building. Admittedly, it is rather ugly, but so was, in my view, the building that it replaced.

Famous missionary explorer David Livingstone was a bit like that.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/11/15/when-reality-becomes-subjective/.

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[painting by Roman Bozhkov]

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Exactly what I was thinking.

A worthwhile crowdfunder, as far as I can see.

London. Zoo.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bungling-burglar-who-killed-brother-28527977

Imagine how many white English people would have been spared misery and/or murder had that creature been deported or killed off at an earlier stage.

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“...and I can’t understand why she does it“? Really? how about “because she is getting £2,000-£7,000 a month for free, from (as of today) 667 mugs, for doing absolutely nothing but proclaiming that she is (in some unspecified way) ‘campaigning’ etc)”

Yet the 667 mugs (as of today) are still paying out £3.50-£10 —or more— each month to her, incredibly.

Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive” [Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field].

Ha ha! Incredible, yet at the same time almost inevitable. The “Bootstrap Cook” wanders lonely as a cloud through Southend or nearby, only to meet someone, by Fate or chance, who will no doubt (in this fairy-tale) “gift” “Jack Monroe” everything she needs or wants for the decoration of her new home.

Well, I am myself rather susceptible to tales of wonder and magic —and sometimes incredible “co-incidences” do happen— but, having now read a number of conflicting fantasies from the tweets etc of “Jack Monroe” (tweeted or said to interviewers over the past decade), I think it only fair and sensible to doubt this one (too).

So long as 667 mugs continue to shell out up to £10 monthly for absolutely nothing but to be part of the “Jack Monroe support echelon” or virtue-signal club, she will be laughing all the way to the bank (or the paint and wallpaper shop), even if (as no doubt will now happen) the msm “Bootstrap Cook” career on TV, radio, and in the Press ends, with the producers, journalists, and publishers running for cover (as I expect they already are).

The whole “Jack Monroe” supporters’ clan/defensiveness thing on Twitter reminds me of those who even now insist on wearing a useless facemask.

Late tweets

“Amelia” is very typical of many in the UK today: wants to tick the “right” boxes, and believes any old crap if the “right” (pseudo-socialist) noises are made. She favours Owen Jones! (‘Nuff said…). See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/04/a-brief-word-about-owen-jones/.

The allegation now is that “Jack Monroe” is using dozens of “sock accounts” to interact on Twitter while pretending to have left (having deleted, for the (?) time being her main “@BootstrapCook” account).

Seems plausible to me, looking at the myriad of Twitter accounts with zero or few “followers” that have popped up in the past days and weeks, all attacking critics of “Monroe”.

Late thought

Saw an extract, about a minute long, of a TV comedy/drama called The Larkins, a remake or re-adaptation of the well-known 1980s series The Darling Buds of May. Except that the husband or boyfriend of one of the characters is now black! The series was set, originally at least, I believe, in the late 1940s!

Typical ludicrous rubbish.

We hear much about “cultural appropriation“, but our own culture and indeed history is being taken over, basically stolen from us. Behind all of this nonsense, really, is the (((you-know-who)))…

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[Pushkin Square, Krivoy Rog, Ukraine]