There’s something wrong with a system which not only promotes people such as Beth Rigby (who has a speech impediment…yet is on TV and radio for a living), but pays them hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.
Nearly a decade on from 2016 much of our national "debate" is still built around catastrophising over the rise of these parties rather than actually addressing why so many people (especially YOUNG people) are voting for them.
“The astonishing victory by the Right tonight in the first round of the French general election where Le Pen’s National Rally received 34.5% trouncing the Left alliance ( 29%) and destroying Macron ( 20%) augurs well for Nigel Farage and Reform. I suspect our voters will no longer believe a vote for Reform is wasted vote. They will view it as a chance to change the political narrative once and for all just as it’s doing in France. Anything could happen on Thursday.”
[Kelvin MacKenzie]
Must be the first time I have ever agreed with Kelvin MacKenzie.
I was at a BBQ with friends last night, everyone there said they’ll vote for Reform. In the past, they’ve voted for diff parties. No one trusts Labour not to hike taxes to an unacceptable level and ex Tory voters feel let down.
Huge numbers of people are getting desperate for social-national change. Reform UK is only halfway —if that— there, but it is a start, a start which can smash the “two main parties” scam, change the dynamics of UK politics (if it does well enough on Thursday), and move the “Overton Window”, or at least start to move it.
I suspect that many will say “**** it!” and put their crosses next to Reform UK on Thursday, as a last-minute decision. I may be wrong, but that is my feeling anyway.
Would Sunak raise a crowd that big? That is not even a question. 10, yes, 100, doubtful. 5,000? Ha ha…
What about Starmer? Maybe a few hundred (organized by the Labour machine)…maybe.
Whatever the voters want now, it is not the hopeless and ridiculous Conservative Party; not really Labour either, or the LibDems. They will profit only by default.
Who are the 10% or maybe 15% still voting Con? Must be lifelong unthinking habit-voters, mostly those in extreme old age, in my view.
Frankly, I doubt whether the Cons will even get to 20% in this General Election.
Been coming for some time but still extraordinary to see like this.
— Remote-Controlled President Bumpty (@RealHumptyB) July 1, 2024
Legacy media is enemy of the people, it is disinformation and paid propaganda.
X is where the real news happens.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 1, 2024
These nurses fighting for women’s spaces really are so heroic
Compare and contrast their straightforward decency with the bloke at the end trying to hypnotise us all into thinking women’s concerns are a non-issue pic.twitter.com/pRM4WuevYZ
David Lammy is currently Shadow Foreign Secretary and, no doubt he plus many others expect him to become the Foreign Secretary, should Labour win the election; which seems likely.
— Hugh Fletcher #WTO-Brexit (@Hugh8Fletcher) July 1, 2024
A photo of a burning M113 armored personnel carrier of the Israeli army has appeared. It was shot down in Tel el-Hawa, south of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/Cb4HCt8NGU
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 1, 2024
It sounds like "Utopia" compared the the Woke tyranny under which the West lives today — but it also sounded "familiar." Then I had an epiphany. It was familiar –because that's the way society used to be – before the Left destroyed everything it touched.
“We are about to enter the era of the “Far right.” Kids are going to be taught to read rather than imagine they are born in the wrong body. Being white skinned won’t be a mark of the devil. TV and film will be about plot and casting rather than how many non binary lesbian people of colour and girth you can cram into a drama. We will stop worshipping the sun god and perhaps take some time to get to know the actual one. Victimhood will be frowned upon. Health services will be expected to stop dancing for TikTok and do what they are paid to do. The police will be asked to get off their knees and regain public trust again. Fear will be replaced by hope. It’s going to be much nicer than the woke period, where men had periods. The homophobic trans crap will be done. Content of character will matter more than colour of skin. It’s going to be good. And to those of you who don’t like it. Tough. We have had enough.”
For once, I agree with everything Fox has written.
On the left 23 year old healthy aspirational role model Miss Alabama
On the (Far right) is me. Mid 40s UNHEALTHY antivaxxer, granny killer
🤡 🌍. Thank god I won Miss GB in 1998 when Trump owned Miss Universe. I’d have to have a dick or be 3x the size to have half a shot now pic.twitter.com/Phl4ACWS2a
— leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ (@LeilaniDowding) June 8, 2024
Mr SHAKEY SHAKEY HEAD as seen in the audience of both #bbcqt and #BBCDebate the bbc think us “ Far – Right, Football Hooligan, Racist, bigoted Homophobic and England flag gammons” are stupid to not know you have your regular LEFT WING plants in the audience pic.twitter.com/OLx3BTF9Jp
— WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) June 7, 2024
This is a map of the E.U. election results in France tonight.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is now set to come under serious pressure as local election tallies indicated support for her party could be as low as 14%.
Sinn Féin calling their base racist and far right has backfired spectacularly
Whatever one may have thought about Sinn Fein and its military wing (the IRA) in the past, at least it was an honest and clear expression of political will. Now, it has become not dissimilar to the other fake Celtic “national” parties such as the SNP and Plaid Cymru, in other words a farrago of “anti-racism”, “anti-sexism”, pro-mass immigration, hostile to any true expression of European culture. Result? Most Irish people have turned against it, and those who are still voting for Sinn Fein are doing so mostly for reasons of misguided nostalgia, it seems.
Again, for once (?) I agree with what Jayda Fransen says here. Farage is indeed a System stooge, but sometimes things have to work out in particular, and sometimes unexpected, ways.
Yes, Farage and Reform UK are not social-national and, yes, the existence of Reform UK is blocking the emergence of anything new that is social-national.
Reform UK is channelling popular discontent into “safe” “Parliamentary road” diversions, but at the same time the existence of Reform UK —and the hoo-ha around it— is moving the “Overton Window”, changing the public’s idea of what might be possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window.
Also, it is to be hoped that Reform UK will help to destroy the now useless and hopeless Conservative Party, and thus destabilize the existing rigged System which depends upon the illusion of a basically binary “choice”.
Faragist diversion (UKIP) did destroy the rise of the BNP under Nick Griffin in and after 2005, and especially after 2009.
2024 is not 2015, when UKIP got 12% of the national vote but no seats. Why? Because the governing party, the Conservatives, were still riding fairly high in 2015. This year, the Conservative Party looks all but washed-up.
That may or may not mean that Reform UK gets Commons seats, but it does mean that a large number of Con seats are going to be lost because 10% or 15% of people, maybe even 20%, are going to vote Reform. That does also mean that Labour will thereby benefit, but most voters for Reform UK will be willing to accept that as the price for both destroying the Conservative Party and making a loud protest.
Not far right just conservative
Who believe in family Strong borders and not thousands of young men from opposing cultures storming our borders Believe in law and order Believe in good education Believe in science No woke Marxist pedophillia normalising agendas Who believe…
Who believe in family Strong borders and not thousands of young men from opposing cultures storming our borders Believe in law and order Believe in good education Believe in science No woke Marxist pedophillia normalising agendas Who believe individual countries should be the only ones to have a say how they are governed Who think it’s good to be patriotic Who believe in western Christian cultures Who think our military should be rewarded and revered Who are against regressive damaging socialism Who are against big brother government Who are against the tentacles of globalists poisoning everything they touch Who believe in small government and low tax And Who know what the hell a woman is!!
Nothing far right
Just decent and strong“
I'm voting Reform because I love my country.
— William on the Level (@William230616) June 9, 2024
I cannot vote for any party bent on the destruction of our country by importing yet more millions of migrants. Enough is enough. Only Reform see the threat.
— William on the Level (@William230616) June 10, 2024
Nigel Farage claims some in the UK polling industry is skewed against Reform & "tipping point" in replacing the Tories is closer than people think. Claims Reform is already ahead of the Tories across northern Englandhttps://t.co/DPf6ds47Ji
I have previously mooted, on the blog, the idea that there may be a bloc of “secret” Reform UK supporters who will not reveal, even to polling staff, their potential General Election voting intention.
I do not know whether such a bloc exists, or how large it is if it exists, but if it does indeed exist in any but marginal size, it could be a gamechanger.
Reform UK has been polling between 13% and around 17% recently. If the “secret” Reform voters exist and number the equivalent of one-tenth of the known Reform voters, then the Reform vote might be anywhere between 14% and 19%. Add on the possibility of polling errors, and that might result in anything from 12% to 21%. We shall only know for sure on and after 4 July. Three weeks and three days from today.
An intention to vote Reform UK perhaps has not the level of what might be called “socio-political embarrassment” (for people living in a conformist situation) that an intention to vote, say, BNP or National Front used to have, but I think that the constant Matthew Parris-style “oh my goodness, look at those hillbillies!” msm propaganda directed against the “left behind” areas (such as Clacton), and against so-called “racism” etc makes some people both reticent in expressing their anger at what has happened and is happening but, at the same time, more determined to do something about the situation, such as voting in a way not approved by the System puppets, the scribblers, the talking heads etc.
Anthony Browne(Tory): It's completely bonkers to expect the PM to resign 2 weeks before an election
Tim Stanley: The Tories could have fewer seats than the LibDems… that's extraordinary… everything you say Labour might do, you have done to historic degrees… #PoliticsLivepic.twitter.com/JQTcj5Wf7K
Browne seems to be saying there that the Conservative Party will do OK in the election because it always did, in elections since 1945. How do people with such limited mentality ever become MPs, well-paid journalists (as he was) etc?
As for his assertion that the present-day Conservative Party embodies “small-c conservative values“, hardy ha ha… Look at what it has done in the past 14 years alone.
Tim Stanley was right to state that “the [Conservative party] brand is…gone” and that no-one even likes the Conservative Party any more. Also, that Starmer is “not socialist” (and, he added, is therefore not the frightening figure the Cons pretend). I tend to think that Starmer is alarming, but not because he is in any way “socialist”. Just that Israel-lobby and Jewish-lobby repression comes naturally to him.
🛑Record backlogs in the Crown Court
🛑Cases collapsing daily for lack of staff and resources
🛑Delays of 5 years for rape cases to come to trial
— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) June 10, 2024
#rishisunak , the man with a heart of stone, takes to BBC News & pleads for people to find it in their hearts & forgive him for dishonouring D Day Vet's. If re-elected he'll take away benefits from the disabled making them destitute #politicslivepic.twitter.com/1B3YVKVSnN
One Catherine McKinnell, hitherto also unknown to me. A prime candidate for the Diane Abbott Clueless Prize for this year. True Labour-style cluelessness.
As I blogged three days ago, I do not really blame Sunak for not giving a tinker’s cuss about the Normandy Landings commemoration. After all, the bastard is not really British, is only (posing as) Prime Minister until 4 July 2024, about three weeks from now, and is (as I blogged) part of a transilient bloc of cosmopolitan wealthy Indians who are not rooted in the UK, or even in India, and whose natural (temporary) home is in places such as Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, Westchester etc.
Nick Robinson nails it: “you’re like a guy in a pub who borrows money and says he’ll pay it back next week but never does” #panorama
Nick Robinson: You attack Labour for having a secret plan to increase VAT, but which party put VAT up to 15% & then 17.5% & then 20%… every VAT increase, in your lifetime, Thatcher, Major & Cameron, were increased by Tory govts?
The reason is obvious. VAT raises a huge amount of money, and does so from everyone in the country, from the rich, the affluent, the less affluent, and the downright poor. The only way for an individual to avoid paying it is to be gifted the goods or services in question or (in the case of goods) to steal them.
Naturally, the wealthy prefer VAT to income tax, or capital gains tax.
Late tweets
If you're wondering why millions of Brits have left the Tories and Nigel Farage is back then watch this clip
“While they’re losing support to Labour and Reform, they’re also now losing an even larger number of their 2019 voters to something else — apathy.
Many people in Britain are simply giving up on politics, no longer convinced any of the big parties can fix the big problems facing the country. And this is especially true for people who voted Conservative at the last election.
Most of the people who have abandoned the Tories in recent months have not gone to Labour or Reform. Instead, they now say they will not vote at all, do not know who to support, or simply refuse to answer the question from pollsters. And the number who now say this is not small. About one in three of them now say this.“
[Matt Goodwin on Substack].
“One in three” of those who have stopped intending to vote Conservative during 2024 adds up to about, very roughly, a third of a half, i.e. about 1/6th of the whole electorate that voted in 2019 (67.3% turnout), so —again very roughly— about 1/9th of the whole eligible electorate. Call it just over 10%. Of those who would prefer to vote, maybe 15%.
Very speculative, I admit, but there is no doubt that many are anyway in that “politically homeless” position. Anecdotally, I have heard people say it, and heard them say it of others. It is a widespread phenomenon, no matter what may be the exact numbers.
Electoral Calculus may not be infallible, but —by my use of it— those figures give the Cons only 21 seats in the Commons (Lab 538, LibDems 55, Reform 1, Green 1, Plaid Cymru 4, and the SNP a mere 12).
Others calculate a Con bloc of 24 MPs. Whatever.
Effectively the end of the Conservative Party as it now is, if accurate.
Reform is in SECOND place with voters aged 45-54 and 55-64.
The Conservatives are in FIFTH with those aged 18-24
— Redfield & Wilton Strategies (@RedfieldWilton) June 10, 2024
As I guessed some time ago, the Cons are really only supported now by “habit-voters”, those who have all their lives turned out to vote Con, no matter what, no matter even how they themselves benefit or not. They are almost all now aged in their 80s and 90s.
Interesting to see all age groups from 18 to (?) 70 starting to look for radical and maybe (soon) social-national alternatives.
Nick Watt- I was talking to a veteran Lib Dem today and they are now beginning to think of that scenario (Lb Dems as the official opposition), they have visited 5 constituencies that they targeting and have found 3 people willing to vote Conservative 😂#newsnightpic.twitter.com/fkpRl6htwD
“Under the [“National Service”] plan, 18-year-olds will be given a choice between a full-time placement in the Armed Forces for 12 months or spending one weekend a month for a year [doing community work].
The Tories would also encourage employers to consider those who complete the Armed Forces placement during job applications.
However, the Armed Forces option would be selective – with only around 30,000 placements for ‘the brightest and best’.”
[Daily Mail]
So Sunak’s cockeyed “plan” for conscription turns out to be mainly a plan to have untrained 18-y-o young men and, I presume, women doing a kind of forced labour on one weekend per month for a year. Even by Sunak’s standards, this is pretty silly.
For one thing, the time is unbalanced. Leaving aside any Army/Navy leave or liberty days, it means that those choosing and being selected for the military or naval option will spend 365 days serving. The “civilian” option, though, will only take up 24 days.
Guess which option most young people are going to choose?
Even if you take off maybe 125 liberty days or leave days from the 365, that still only reduces to about 240 days on duty, as against 24. Ten times the commitment.
The idea that employers will give the “military/naval option” cadets an easier ride in later civilian job recruitment could not be enforced and relies entirely on goodwill.
In fact, the year of service (in either case) will set back the cadets or National Service litter-pickers for a year, especially the military/naval cadets, except those planning a Service career anyway.
As for the rest, spending one weekend a month picking up litter, helping clean hospitals, or planting trees, might not be a huge commitment of time, but will be seen by most as a kind of slave or serf labour, even if remunerated or compensated at say £150 per weekend (I have seen nothing so far, though, about any remuneration).
I suppose that, if the 30,000 military/naval cadets were offered pay (£15,000 p.a.?) and a gratuity, on completion, of some not-trifling amount (say £12,000 in cash, taxfree), that might spark some interest.
Over 700,000 or so people turn 18 every year in the UK. That means that 670,000+ will be on the monthly “community service” option.
What happens if the litter-pickers (etc) decide not to comply? Do they get taken to court? Fined? Ordered to comply on pain of imprisonment? What if there is mass non-compliance, or organized civil disobedience?
In fact, in view of the fact that the State has not the resources with which to imprison up to 700,000 young people, the most they could be given might be…unpaid work for a few days a month. Oh…
This has not been thought through by Sunak and/or those around him.
Likewise with the military/naval option. To train recruits to a basic level takes maybe 2-4 months (the British Army takes 14 weeks to basic-train standard recruits, the Royal Navy 10 weeks for ratings; officers are basic-trained for longer, 15-30 weeks), and overall training of those National Service cadets is likely to take a total of as long as 6 months (the British Army takes 44 weeks to fully train an officer).
In other words, after training, the cadets will only be available for deployment for 6 months before their time is up and they either leave or join the regular Army or Navy. Any trained to an officer level will only be available for deployment for a few months, or even weeks.
In other words, the increase in manpower might only be 15,000 or so, or is the idea to have both ordinary recruitment and National Service recruitment? Looks as though the end result would be much the same.
Also, who would choose to join as National Service recruit when he/she could join up with (?) better pay and conditions as a regular recruit and/or as an officer-cadet?
Will the National Service cadets or recruits be put into dedicated units, or mixed-in with regular units?
Again, this really has not been thought through.
The people this crazy scheme is apparently supposed to “help”, or change, or just control and monitor the most, those disaffected 18-y-o individuals who are not at or planning to go to university, nor into a structured career or job of some kind, will be the least likely to opt for the military/naval option, so will “choose” the “one weekend per month” option, and probably either fail to attend, or may do it very unwillingly, like a “community payback” penalty imposed by the courts.
What is the point?
Also, if the government has a force of about 670,000 “litter-pickers” (etc) to deploy, how many older (older than 18) people will thereby be deprived of the chance of doing paid or better-paid jobs doing the same or similar work?
Once again, the consequential effects have not been properly thought through.
Tweets seen
"Net migration in this parliament alone added more than 2 million people to Britain's population —enough for nearly 2 cities the size of Birmingham. This is why so many are concerned about the direction of travel"https://t.co/xMALs7SmZe
The most important problem facing both Britain and mainland Europe.
The entire world economy is under threat due to a glut of cheap Chinese exports, said French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire
“We have a problem with an economic model in which China produces more and more cheaper industrial devices, because this could pose a threat not only to…
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 27, 2024
L’homme qui rit (en Chinois)…
As if the pathetic French government is going to be able to do something/anything about this. The biggest weakness of all French governments is that they mistake making a gesture for actually accomplishing something. Macron is a prime example.
In fact, thinking of the French love for demonstrations and marches, most entirely ineffective, the tendency goes wider than just the political leadership.
The IDF press service publishes footage of an Israeli air attack on a Hezbollah facility in Lebanon pic.twitter.com/oOByd4a4Ks
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 27, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 26, 2024
Pity that the British Empire no longer exists. Churchill killed several empires, in effect— the German Reich, the British Empire (which died after using its sting to kill the German Reich), and the other European empires, which all eventually succumbed in direct or indirect consequence of what happened after 1939.
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🚨NEW: Keir Starmer is attempting to put pro-Israel lobbyist Ruth Smeeth in charge of the Ministry of Defence.
This is what the near future has in store for the UK— a literal Israeli agent as Secretary of State for Defence. Look at ex-MP John Woodcock (now “Lord Walney”), a sex pest and depressive case who is one of the worst Israel/Jewish lobby puppets at Westminster. He is apparently over-excited by the possibility that Israel will have yet another of its main “candidates” at Cabinet level, right in there with the others (Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Lisa Nandy etc).
All he wants is power and he'll say anything to get it. Independent Candidate Andrew Feinstein @AF4HSP with a brilliant introduction to the real Keir Starmer. If you let Starmer into Downing Street you'll spend the next five years eating what you ordered. pic.twitter.com/v5Jbs4IntA
All true (about Starmer), but all I myself am interested in, re. the upcoming General Election, directly, is to collapse one of the two main System parties, even at the high cost of allowing the other to become an “elected” dictatorship. Only by unbalancing the “two main parties” system can a social-national alternative arise.
Starmer speech in Lancing near where he grew up in Oxted. A personal speech in which he talks about growing up, his mother’s illness, struggling to make ends meet: A speech in which he tries to explain to voters who he is in order to try to better connect with public pic.twitter.com/PVQzSBXGBZ
Ecce the ****-poor quality of political reportage in the UK. Beth Rigby (the woman with the ludicrous accent or diction on Sky News) thinks that Lancing (West Sussex) is “near” Oxted (Surrey). Near? Well, 65.4 miles by road; as the crow flies, maybe 50 miles.
Steve Baker has, in US parlance, already "checked out"
"Mr Baker … accepted he’s widely expected to lose his 4,500 majority … telling LBC he wasn’t cancelling his holiday plans for the party’s general election campaign"https://t.co/sP6waydW0s
Israel is currently so genocidal that it and its supporters can’t even work out what line of justification to take. It was a mistake! It’s Egypt’s fault! All large crowds are Hamas! Fun fact: did you know that in some cases, killing children is legal? pic.twitter.com/sBvFkcFntc
So the Jewish chief of the Con Party election campaign is being accused of falling down on the job, thus making it even easier for pro-Israel Starmer and his cabal to win said election with a huge majority? I feel a conspiracy theory coming on…
[Addendum, same day: a regular reader of the blog suggests that Isaac Levido is not Jewish. I do not know for sure, despite the name(s) and the look of the said publicist, so am adding this cautionary addendum in the interests of accuracy and fairness].
Having said that, why the voters are turning away from the Con Party is not mainly by reason of poor presentation but by reason of very poor actual government of the country over the past 14 years, and especially the past 5 years.
Late tweets
Left: James Cleverly blames Doctor and Nurse strikes for the rise in NHS waiting lists
Right: Chart from the FT shows the rise of NHS waiting lists since the Conservatives took office in 2010. You see that black arrow on the right? That's when the strikes began pic.twitter.com/U2rqK5aPag
As Schiller put it, “Against stupidity, the Gods themselves struggle in vain“…[Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans].
It is probably pointless to speculate on why those poor people, living on pennies, support the ultra-wealthy little Indian money-juggler. Mental degeneration? Insanity? Congenital mental problems?
Having said that, they are not entirely wrong, inasmuch as the Labour Party under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall etc will probably be as bad as, and maybe worse than, Sunak and crew as far as social security “welfare” in concerned.
What can it be? The Israeli flag is to replace the Union Jack? Unlikely (too obvious). Sunak has resigned and there will be an immediate leadership election? Just about possible. British troops are being sent to fight on the Ukrainian frontlines? In that case, Goodnight Vienna London; it has been a pleasure…
At time of writing, it is —right now— 2229, so back in a minute or so…
2235. Still waiting. The clowns cannot even get their big announcement out on time.
Under the Conservatives, the State Pension had risen by £3,700 – and is increasing another £900 this year.
So that’s at. A desperate attempt to hold on to at least the former Con Party core vote of pensioners. The full registered electorate of the UK is about 45.5M; persons 65+ total about 11M, so about 27% of the electorate. Also, far more likely, traditionally to vote, either by post or in person.
These are pretty much the only people, or at least by far the biggest bloc, still likely to vote Con at GE 2024.
Whether it will make much difference, hard to say. Many pensioners will wonder a. as to whether Sunak will even be there after 4 July, and b. whether he can be trusted. There again, not all vote on the basis of perceived self-interest.
As a “big announcement”, slightly underwhelming, but I expect it will buy at least some votes. Absolutely desperate though, as a tactic.
“ Mom, I'm afraid to die ,” – The children in the refugee tents in Rafah, around which bombs are falling, are the children whom Israel burned. pic.twitter.com/B91AJnGrgF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 27, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
…and if you cannot believe what (supposedly; they say; they claim) happened only last year, then how can you believe “them” when they claim that this, that, or the other happened in 1942, 1943, or 1944?
Footage shows a former Israeli soldier harassing a Muslim woman in the US, along with other pro-Israeli members. pic.twitter.com/b15EIq8hYr
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“They” are very brave when in a group, harassing a lone woman but, if confronted, run away and then claim to be “victims”.
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 7, 2024
A horrible tribe.
Most of Israel's oil is supplied by post-Soviet countries such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan , all of which to this day passes along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan route, and from Turkey to Israel . pic.twitter.com/D0T9OzsJ79
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 7, 2024
Turkey should turn off the tap.
Let them squirm as their tanks and trucks and cars grind to a halt.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Al-Qassam Brigades showed another video of the destruction of the Merkava-3/4 tank pic.twitter.com/4hBvxamR1U
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The IDF captured the Rafah checkpoint on the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt – Israeli flags were raised there … The Rafah crossing was the only land corridor for people to enter and leave the Gaza Strip without going through Israel. … Let us remember that the capture of… pic.twitter.com/Ipxh0uoNDM
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“The IDF captured the Rafah checkpoint on the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt –
Israeli flags were raised there … The Rafah crossing was the only land corridor for people to enter and leave the Gaza Strip without going through Israel.
Let us remember that the capture of Rafah by the IDF is precisely the “absolutely red” line that all Middle Eastern players have drawn – from Iran and Qatar to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.”
Well, let’s see if the Arab and other Muslim states take any action against Israel. Frankly, I doubt their resolve.
Marine Le Pen on Macron's decision to send soldiers to Ukraine:
“War is the worst thing that can happen to a people and a country, and I am amazed at the ease with which Emmanuel Macron talks about it. When, with a glass of whiskey in hand, while talking to a singer at three… pic.twitter.com/fXGZf2UR4D
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“Marine Le Pen on Macron’s decision to send soldiers to Ukraine:
“War is the worst thing that can happen to a people and a country, and I am amazed at the ease with which Emmanuel Macron talks about it. When, with a glass of whiskey in hand, while talking to a singer at three o’clock in the morning, they say: “I’ll have to send the guys to Odessa.”
Yes, I’m talking about ease, because we are talking about the lives of our soldiers. He wants to send troops for the sake of his own ego, personal image.”
I knew it had to be something like that. Pearl Harbor Mark 2.
I attempted an analysis of those events a few days or so after they happened, 7 months ago now.
'I want them to suspend him, pending an investigation.' 'Free speech demands accountability after you've used it.'
After a Green Party councillor shouted 'Allahu Akbar' following his election, the Jewish Representative Council's Simon Myerson gives @NickFerrariLBC his thoughts. pic.twitter.com/PVm2Wxckdi
Lying Zionist and obsessed online social media troll, Myerson, comes up with a repackaging of the brainless old chestnut“you have free speech but not freedom from the consequences of your free speech“. Under such formulae, Mao’s China and Stalin’s Russia had “free speech”…
Why has Myerson himself not yet been suspended, both as Recorder and barrister? He brings both the Bench and the Bar into disrepute. Looks like his thinking skills are also pretty poor.
[Update, 23 September 2024: Myerson was kicked off the Bench and sacked as Recorder —p/t judge— in June or July 2024, but was allowed to present his sacking as a “resignation”. Now the Bar Standards Board is (or so I read) examining, not for the first time, Myerson and his vituperative social media activity in relation to his status as barrister].
Dame Andrea Jenkyns has suggested Britain's illegal migration crisis is costing the country approx. £14 billion a year. I've written previously about the spiralling costs and numbers here 👇👇👇https://t.co/HSpmwDfhfa
We will conduct nuclear strike exercises to verify tactical nuclear weapons carriers. pic.twitter.com/9rr5LBQRNG
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The IDF now controls the entire Philadelphia Axis along the Egyptian border in the Gaza Strip
This violates the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, also known as the Camp David Accords.
Under the agreement, Israel is not allowed to station any military units in “Area D,”… pic.twitter.com/KfGbX5nHo3
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“The IDF now controls the entire Philadelphia Axis along the Egyptian border in the Gaza Strip This violates the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, also known as the Camp David Accords. Under the agreement, Israel is not allowed to station any military units in “Area D,” which is a narrow land corridor along the border with Egypt.“
They can never be trusted, any more than can most of their regional enemies.
Deputy Mayor of Be'er Sheva and Deputy Chairman of the International Branch of the ruling Likud Party, Shimon Boker, calls on IDF soldiers not to separate civilians from Hammas pic.twitter.com/nk5VrkI4Np
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Simon Myerson KC is one of those making the loudest complaints about a Green Party councillor’s use of social media. It is inexplicable given his own recent history of social media use. https://t.co/jXU5SrMnHU
“Yesterday, 98 illegal immigrants on 2 dinghies were smuggled into our country by our so-called Border Force. The video shows the illegals being collected mid-Channel where Border Force were waiting to take them onboard & whisk them to our shores. The Home Office alleges that the French prevented 3 ‘events’ involving 71 illegals. The total for 2024 is 8,685 illegals on 178 dinghies. All undocumented. They could be anyone & they’re free to roam amongst us.”
By the end of 2024, it will be about 50,000, maybe more; the calm sea season has not even begun.
Several powerful explosions were heard in Lugansk
they report that there is a fire in the area of the oil depot
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Fox News: Biden Loses in Every Poll
Biden is losing in all major polls, which is not surprising given that life for Americans is getting worse, Fox News reports. The country is experiencing one of the most painful inflationary periods in history, so the people have lost faith in… pic.twitter.com/aAhklzhKvg
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Report in Politico: The release of the US State Department report, which was supposed to determine whether Israel violated international law in the Gaza war, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed indefinitely
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The (((fix))) is in…
CIA Director Burns is expected to arrive in Israel today and meet with senior Israeli officials pic.twitter.com/1dMZa3Uw83
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Actually, looking at that film, I was struck again by how much better-planned or built the Israeli villages and towns are compared to the Arab ones (anywhere). That will not lessen my overall hostility to Zionism and its Western lobby, but one must be objective.
Russia has ramped up its arms production and the US now expects it will produce more artillery this year than all 32 NATO members combined, reports Reuters pic.twitter.com/9l4NBnTsXV
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
#Panorama skewering the government on #immigration numbers, showing that the govt encouraged care workers & students to come to the U.K. with their dependents. The numbers are absurd. Add that to small boats, Afghans & Syrians & you have a disaster. pic.twitter.com/oT2qQvANEQ
Trump, today, now leads Biden by an average 1.7 in national polls & 4.7 in the key battleground states. Reboot my piece: why Trump is stronger than in 2016 https://t.co/yfG6h66bgr
Budanov is a legitimate target for Russian troops , said FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. pic.twitter.com/NCczVykMnK
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
All high-ranking members of the Kiev regime are legitimate targets, most of all Zelensky himself, and Danilov.
Jordanian attempt to attack the Israeli embassy
Last night, hundreds of Jordanians once again gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman and, according to the media, they were planning to attack the embassy, but the security forces dispersed them with tear gas. pic.twitter.com/rMiQCGTJKp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
Israeli embassies worldwide are not normal diplomatic buildings but centres for every kind of subversion and snooping, even compared to some others which mix diplomacy with an illegitimate amount of espionage and other activity.
London court postpones Assange's extradition to the US
Julian Assange has been granted a reprieve in his fight against extradition to America. London's Supreme Court has ruled that the WikiLeaks founder can take his case to an appeal hearing if the UK and US fail to meet certain… pic.twitter.com/axITft07dc
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
“London court postpones Assange’s extradition to the US Julian Assange has been granted a reprieve in his fight against extradition to America.
London’s Supreme Court has ruled that the WikiLeaks founder can take his case to an appeal hearing if the UK and US fail to meet certain conditions, The Guardian writes.
The court demands that the United States allow Assange to invoke the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech. They must also ensure that his Australian citizenship will not affect the proceedings, and that the death penalty will not be taken against the whistleblower, the publication explains.
If the court does not receive such guarantees by April 16, the defense will be able to appeal. However, even if assurances are provided, the parties will be able to file a motion before a final decision is made to file an appeal, the article emphasizes. If Assange is denied permission to appeal, he could be sent to the United States within days to face espionage charges.
His lawyers insist that the charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of secret and diplomatic documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are politically motivated and the extradition request is illegal.“
A purely political and malicious attempt to silence a truthteller. On a smaller stage, the same happened to me, most recently in 2023-2014.
This now seriously ill man is being tortured before our eyes by a system both sides of the Atlantic that is deeply sick and satanically evil. pic.twitter.com/J7jjwvUMz9
The Tories have pledged to keep the state pension triple lock in place if they win the next election – 72% of Britons think the triple lock should remain in place (including a majority across all generations)https://t.co/Cy60U7qpqgpic.twitter.com/g4WuDEXnLg
NEW. A judge granted asylum to chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi despite concluding he had told a "litany of lies" about his life (The Times). As I wrote at the time, we are being led by foolshttps://t.co/Jbqi7cF4cd
At what point does that sort of thing stop being foolishness (or idiocy) and start to become a form of deliberate treason?
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl made an interesting statement:
“The entire political system in large European countries like France and Germany has collapsed. The one who destroyed the political landscape was French President Emmanuel Macron.” pic.twitter.com/oPtimDlSjH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
McGregor believes that the Ukrainian president, because he has no solution on the battlefield, is ready to take desperately dangerous steps in order to confront Russia in some way. pic.twitter.com/PM0vaNYuvW
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
That seems to be a reference to American ex-officer Macgregor: see
My crowdfunder, set up to pay the court-imposed costs of my recent free speech trial, remains open. All donations gratefully received. If you cannot donate, please share the link as widely as possible. Thank you.
Well, this week I am back on winning form— 6/10, compared to political journalist John Rentoul’s 5/10. I very nearly got more, but could not bring the answers to questions 7 and 10 to mind for some reason; I had no idea about question 5, and guessed wrong on question 9.
Announcement
Regular readers will please be aware that, despite my trial, conviction, and sentence in respect of alleged breaches of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, this blog will continue to be published.
I shall blog later (probably later today) about the trial (held in November 2023) and sentencing hearing (held 14 March 2024).
The blog will continue to be published, but the style will have to change, inasmuch as my freedom to express views and to explain current and historical events has inevitably been restricted by the trial and sentence.
I am not in fact under any greater legal prohibition now than I was a year ago, but it will be readily understood that my having been convicted does apply somewhat of a chilling effect on my freedom to write what I want, or in such terms as I should prefer.
The “usual suspects”, and their dupes in the police and Crown Prosecution Service, will now be watching and “monitoring” (spying and snooping on) my blog in even greater detail than was previously the case.
They may think that they have scored a narrow victory “on points”, as the sport people say; I say merely that we shall see…
Like Sir Thomas More, I shall express my views and opinions in compliance with current law (however misguided and abused that law may be), so far as I can do so without compromising principle and honour.
Quite apart from that, I think that, in the circumstances of repression and “control” in which we (in the UK and some other countries) live, all social-national people have to look beyond the mere expression of views and the mere analysis of events to actually accomplishing the germinal basis of a different and more advanced society.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
More music
Of all the types of music of the Renaissance (and/or as modern-day composers have reinvented it) for me the best is the stately Pavane.
Old England, in the morning of its glory.
Talking point
[from the Daily Telegraph]
“A former Nato commander predicts our future – and it looks terrifying.
Ever since Erskine Childers’s 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands urged the British government to treat Germany, not France, as the leading threat of the new century, thrillers have often been co-opted as a means of warning policymakers about under-appreciated perils – with the advantage that such a book may be more likely to keep the reader awake than a dispassionate report.
Three years ago, the novelist and decorated ex-Marine Elliot Ackerman collaborated with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis on a political thriller called 2034.
The novel imagines – or predicts; we’ll see – that in the next decade a complacent America will suddenly find its military technologies outclassed by those of its rivals, and when pulled into a conflict with China in 2034, will resort to tactical nuclear strikes, resulting in the tit-for-tat annihilation of Shanghai and San Diego.
The book ends on the brink of a new world order, with a truce called but the US and China so badly damaged that India and parts of Africa are able to vie with them for superpower status.
Now, Ackerman and Stavridis have dusted down their crystal ball for a sequel: 2054. This time, the threat facing humanity isn’t nuclear destruction, but the event that keeps futurists awake at night, “the Singularity”, defined here as “an ‘intelligence explosion’, the equivalent of thousands of years of biological evolution crammed into months or even weeks when machine and human learning [will] integrate into a single consciousness”.
The Singularity may bring about such advantages as immortality, if you’re happy to have your brain uploaded into a mechanical super-body: useful in a future in which pandemics are commonplace. But it’s going to be bad news for the enemies of whichever nation or corporation wins the race to develop the tech.“
A question which has concerned me since I first read predictions of what seemed to be possible human/robot melding in then-unpublished manuscripts by Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg.
As far as I know, the relevant Steiner manuscripts, and probably also the Tomberg ones, are still unpublished. I do not know whether they might be in that online archive. Probably not. I read them well over 40 years ago, in a basement, from dusty files containing brittle old typescript.
Tweets seen
Vaughan Gething set to become Wales’ first minister and first black man in the post after winning Welsh Labour leadership contest https://t.co/y53vV2Vi7L
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan (ignore the pretty blatant vandalistic “editing” carried out by some of “the usual suspects”).
Not that I fully favour Marine le Pen (her father was better), but this has to be a positive move. The “Overton Window” is moving, and it is moving across Europe, except in Britain, where the “usual suspects” have a stranglehold on the mainstream media, politics, the legal system etc.
That is not to say that nothing is happening in the UK, but it is happening under the surface, as in all police states; for that is what the UK is becoming. Not a full police state, as yet; very much (usually) a “velvet glove” (“iron fist in velvet glove”) one.
The direction of travel, though, is pretty clear, looking at what happened during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic.
Most of the population complied with every last stupid, silly, pointless, made-up-on-a-whim, completely ridiculous “rule” invented by “Boris”-idiot, Little Matt Hancock and the misnamed “SAGE” committee (I always called it “DUMB”, i.e. “Department Under Matt and Boris”): “the Rule of Six”, “social distancing” of 1, 2, or 3 metres, the facemask nonsense etc.
Most people complied with being shepherded about in, or outside, supermarkets by bossy “security” dogsbodies or insolent little shop-girls. How the latter must have hated having had to give up instructing shoppers where to stand and walk, and having had to return to their usual routine of filling shelves and serving customers, rather than barking at them…
Quite a number of members of the public, either from misplaced fear, or from sheer malice, were willing to “report” (denounce, as it was always called in the Soviet Union under Stalin) their neighbours for “crimes” such as taking a ride in the car or on a motorbike, or having a few friends over for a drink at home.
The very compliant ones, and the enthusiastic collaborators, can be written off. Useless people. Our interest, at this stage, is in the non-compliant part of the population. They may still have some fight in them.
More tweets seen
The real situation of the army of the Israel
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) :
Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.… pic.twitter.com/jl1HBW3tV1
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“The real situation of the army of the Israel.
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) : Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.
The ground army is a small force that does not have surplus forces; in order to strengthen one sector, it is necessary to bring in forces from another sector. The situation is so bad that the army does not have the strength to fight in more than one and a half sectors.“
Please support me through the link on my page My family in Gaza is suffering I beg you to help me 😭https://t.co/AkHyHHqrdb
Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory
▪️Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military… pic.twitter.com/uE7a15Jp5J
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory.
Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military intelligence service, General Petr Pelc, in an interview for “Radio Universe”.
“Russia is crushing Ukraine in a slow and systematic way. We all send it money, part of which disappears somewhere, part does not even reach Ukraine, and thus we only prolong the agony and increase the number of dead people,” Peltz believes. – “
Weapons and soldiers win battles, and industry and logistics win wars. That’s all. The question is what we call a military victory. In two years of this armed conflict, Russia increased the productivity of its military-industrial complex 15 times. We are not for that, of course capable ,” he stated.“
As I have always said, short of a palace revolution in Moscow followed by complete anarchy, Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
My recent trial and sentencing hearing
Background
On 30 November 2023, I was tried under Communications Act 2003, s.127 in respect of 5 counts of having breached the said Act by having allegedly posted 5 pages of this blog.
In fact, only small parts of those 5 pages were alleged to have been “grossly offensive” (a few comments, remarks and cartoons).
To put the accusations into context, today’s blog post is number 1,799; tomorrow’s will be number 1,800. 1,800 blog posts published since November or December 2016.
Even taking the last few years, there have been blog pages posted almost every day, at least 1,000 in the past 3 years. I stood accused of having posted 5 pages, out of which pages about 2% of the content was supposedly “grossly offensive”.
I do not propose to go into the decade of persecution of me engaged in by Jewish Zionists, pro-Israel Jews. Anyone interested in the background can find it on the blog easily enough via the search box. Suffice to say that there has been a decade of false complaints and reports to police, politicians, professional regulators etc.
The organizations persecuting me (and many others, from Al Jazeera TV to David Icke, to Alison Chabloz, to various social-national political figures) have been the Campaign Against Antisemitism [“CAA”] and UK Lawyers for Israel [“UKLFI”]. The memberships or supporter-cadres tend to overlap to a degree.
I was wrongfully and (as it later transpired) unlawfully disbarred in 2016. I was later invited to re-open the matter, but declined, partly because I might have been re-instated at the Bar but fined heavily; in any case, the Bar is now a dustbin as far as I am concerned.
Various malicious and false (based on lies) complaints were made about me to the police from about 2012. All such complaints were from CAA-connected Jewish individuals. Not one was upheld, but I was subjected to two “voluntary” police interviews and a number of insolent telephone calls from police drones.
The last such lying complaint about me was made in 2021 by one Stephen Silverman, who grandly styles himself “Head of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “CAA”. My account of that can also be found on the blog. That complaint was thrown out by the Crown Prosecution Service [“CPS”] in early 2022, but the “CAA” persisted in trying to get the matter re-opened via the so-called “victim’s right of review”.
In a clear misuse of their powers, the CPS, having informed me that I would not be prosecuted for the (completely untrue) “racially-aggravated harassment” of Silverman (for which there was no evidence whatsoever), dropped that potential charge, but then (a year later) charged me of having posted 5 “grossly offensive” pages from this blog. Though never arrested, I was charged by post early last year, 2023.
The “CAA” are still tweeting and scribbling on their website that they have pursued me for 7 years (in reality, longer), and that my “case” was only brought to court after “Lord” Ian Austin (former Labour MP) wrote directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions to demand that I be prosecuted.
The prosecution of me was purely political.
🇬🇧 Following action from CAA, former barrister Ian Millard appears in court over five offences contrary to Communications Acthttps://t.co/FVWeiwwzJ4
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 29, 2023
After CAA action, former barrister Ian Millard found guilty of offences relating to comments about Jews.
Once again, the CPS dragged its feet and only acted after we applied pressure.
So far, in the past days, no tweet from them about my sentence, which they no doubt think too light.
The trial, and later sentencing hearing
The trial took place over one day in November 2023. It was presided over by District Judge [stipendiary magistrate, in the formerly-used title] Greenfield at Southampton Magistrates’ Court. I represented myself.
The old saw has it that “a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client“. Very true words, but I had reasons for doing so. Firstly, I have not been, nominally, a barrister for many years, and not a practising barrister for about 16 years.
I have not been involved in criminal law (except some corporate “crime” and international extradition matters) for even longer, since the early/mid 1990s. I was therefore treated more loosely by the Court, as being a non-lawyer. Also, I have little but contempt for the spineless Bar of today, and would not wish to be represented by one of them, even though in some respects I might have been better off having an advocate who was current on the law and practice of the criminal courts. I undoubtedly made mistakes in my Court presentation etc.
I found the judge to be generally courteous, eminently fair in most respects, and willing to put the rather poor police and CPS case to the test where he felt that it was particularly weak.
The judge was, however, unwilling to listen to argument about why I had even been charged, i.e. the obvious (and now admitted) political pressure brought to bear on the CPS, which had caved in to pressure from the Jewish/Zionist lobby (as the “CAA” itself admits on its website and Twitter/X account).
The judge (fairly enough, in a sense) made the point that I could go to the High Court on a judicial review application, work that I once did as Counsel, about 30 years ago. That would have had the effect of automatically staying the criminal prosecution, possibly for a year or more. Yes, in theory, but someone on his own, without money? Difficult.
Silverman from the “CAA” was in Court, but he was not a witness, and gave no evidence; just sat at the back of the Court. Afraid of being cross-examined, no doubt, and as I had pointed out in preliminary documentation.
I have no idea why the police never charged Silverman with, at very least, wasting police time over his demonstrably false accusation that I had “racially and/or religiously harassed” him in 2021, which brought two police drones to my door (on my birthday, at that) and effectively compelled me to attend two “voluntary” interviews (the first called off for technical reasons when I had already attended).
In my view, Silverman could have been charged with perversion of the course of justice: “Perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation are serious offences that undermine the administration of justice by falsely accusing people or withholding crucial evidence thus potentially damaging police investigations and wasting courts’ time” [Sentencing Council].
As in other aspects of this case, there are serious questions to be answered around the role of Silverman and the “CAA”, and his/their apparent influence over the police and CPS, but as matters stand they remain unanswered and may remain unanswered.
Reverting to the trial itself, I had been intending to make a submission at “half-time” (after close of the Prosecution case) of “no case to answer”, and on at least two grounds, but the judge (very fairly) pre-empted that (because I was treated as a non-lawyer and unrepresented by a practising advocate), and did it for me, in effect, by grilling Prosecution Counsel (instructed by the CPS) for a bit, before retiring to consider the matter over the lunchtime adjournment.
Sadly for me, the judge decided that the case could continue (I think that it was touch-and-go), so it did. I should not have bothered to give evidence but did (a mistake; I was very tired), and was briefly though not much cross-examined.
The judge gave a fairly brief summing-up and, in my now almost-lay opinion, said one or two things that seemed to me to provide possible appeal points, before convicting me on all 5 counts. A short discussion about potential sentence level then occurred between judge and Prosecution Counsel, and I had to get up and politely insist that I thought that another view was possible about level of sentence; and that was that. Adjourned for 3 months.
The matter reconvened in early 2024 and was adjourned after the Prosecution applied to ask for a Criminal Behaviour Order restricting my blogging slightly.
The sentencing hearing took place on 14 March 2024. The sentencing judge (District Judge/magistrate), District Judge Callaway (a former Deputy Chief Metropolitan Magistrate) presided, District Judge Greenfield having in the intervening period been gazetted and appointed to the Circuit Bench as His Honour Judge Greenfield (now sitting at Reading County Court).
I have to say that I found the sentencing judge, D.J. Callaway, to be as generally fair and courteous as had been the trial judge, D.J. Greenfield.
I had drafted in advance a Defendant’s Argument on Sentence, examining the relevant law as well as my own circumstances, which the sentencing judge was kind enough to say “was very well put together“, if I recall his words correctly. Maybe I still have the remnants of the barristerial skills that (if I may immodestly remember) led some (though not all!) judges to commend me in Court all those years ago. A different world…
The cutbacks in court funding led to one farcical situation when it transpired that the sentencing judge had not seen the long email (about various other matters), and which I had emailed about 10 days in advance of the hearing, requesting that it be printed out and supplied to the judge.
Not only that, the very efficient Clerk of the Court was unable to find the email at all. Fortunately, Prosecution Counsel, not present in person but appearing like a disembodied spirit via video link (something I had never seen before), and on a small TV high up on a side wall, was able to forward the email (which I had copied to the CPS as a courtesy).
The Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me re. my blogging was refused, the judge agreeing, in effect, with me that the proposed Order had been so badly-drafted that it would be impossible to enforce and anyway added nothing useful.
The CPS really are a bunch of clowns; not even honest clowns, looking at the way I have been treated over the past two and a half years.
My submission on sentence, that it should be a conditional discharge, or small fine, was not upheld by the judge. Prosecution Counsel, who on the previous occasion had intimated that the CPS were looking for an uplift on sentence based on the idea that my case was a “hate crime”, despite there being no actual victim (accepted by the trial judge and the CPS at and prior to trial), agreed with the sentencing judge that a “lower level community order” would be the correct penalty.
I was sentenced to a “community order” (akin to the “probation” of former years), which involves 15 meetings with the Probation Service, spread over 9 months, so about one meeting every 2-3 weeks.
In addition, I am to pay a total of nearly £800 in costs, including a notional “surcharge”. Money that I do not have right now.
Crowdfunder
In relation to the above-mentioned costs, I have just set up a crowdfunder. If anyone can help, either with a money donation, or via sharing the crowdfunder link on social media or elsewhere, I should be most grateful.
I shall blog about the (slightly amusing) aftermath of the trial and sentence tomorrow.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
[Update, 13 September 2024: As of yesterday, I do not have to attend any further meetings with the Probation Service, despite not having actually attended very many: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/09/13/diary-blog-13-september-2024/. My sentence is therefore effectively at an end. “The usual suspects” ((( ))) will be fuming].
Memory Lane
[me as barrister, London, early 1990s]
[me as “international lawyer”, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1996]
Late music
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky. I rather like this one; it must remind me of someone…]
"Almost 9 in 10 constituencies in British politics have a preference for lower immigration and tighter controls. Only in 12% of seats is there a majority for more migration and relaxed controls" https://t.co/sNOM3g08QQ
The Jew-Zionists play it differently in France, the UK etc; there, they try to abuse laws of various kinds in order to repress free speech and freedom of expression, while trying to keep a stranglehold on the mainstream media.
The unfortunate population of Gaza suffers and suffers, while the Israeli and other Jew-Zionists mock their suffering in Tik-Tok and other online postings. “They” are laughing (so far).
🇫🇷 Macron: France will very soon finalize the agreement on security guarantees for Kiev pic.twitter.com/7Tm4tUgjse
Poland was then (September 1939) flattened by invasions from two sides, by the German Reich advancing from the west, and by the Red Army advancing from the east (with a few other little incursions in the south as well). France (and Britain) declared war on one invader-state only, the German Reich, and did not actually lift a finger to assist Poland directly.
“The number of Albanians arriving on the small-boats rose sharply between 2020 and 2022, from 54 to 12,301, though is now beginning to fall. Yet at the same time the number of Indian nationals crossing has risen sharply, from not a single Indian in 2018 or 2019 to almost 700 last year.
Some suggest Indians are now the third-largest cohort of migrants crossing the Channel. There are currently more than 51,000 asylum-seekers living in hotels in Britain.
At the end of 2022, the total estimated one-year cost of asylum-related spending on hotel accommodation, asylum-related allowances, healthcare, and school places – along with supporting new bodies like the Small Boats Operational Command (SBOC) and a technical unit specialising in asylum applications by Albanians – is now estimated to be in the region of £3.5 billion.
Put another way, last year the UK government spent three and a half times more accommodating newcomers in hotels (£2.2 billion) than the £630 million spent tackling homelessness in the UK, or spent more money accommodating newcomers than it spent on the latest fund for Levelling-up the left behind regions outside of London (£2.1 billion).“
[Matt Goodwin, on his Substack blog].
In theory, there is almost no limit to the numbers who can claim “asylum” in the UK. The applicable law and rules were passed at a time or times when it was never envisaged that globalization and international disorder might result in huge populations, hundreds of millions of people, deciding to relocate en masse to Europe, including the UK.
If sceptics say, “it would never happen” (that hundreds of millions might strike out for the UK), the present migration-invasion (both “legal” and “illegal”) was never thought, by the average Joe, to be likely to happen, either. I can recall being ridiculed for suggesting that it might happen. That was in the 1970s. Look now…
Matt Goodwin, however, seems to be labouring under the misapprehension (let us politely call it that) that the System is simply incompetent, whereas in fact, amid the general incompetence of the Westminster Bubble types, there are secret and sinister plans afoot, and have been for decades: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
The continuing migration-invasion has already pretty much killed off, in most people, the pride in being British felt by most previous generations; it is also, right now, killing off what is left of the idea that the UK is “a nation” or a small group of 4-6 nations in one. It is killing off the Welfare State, the NHS, the idea that the average person without family money can buy a decent house or flat, and much else besides.
There will either be chaos or civil war, or both, by 2050 if not long before that date.
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Why did I just see a video of IDF soldiers trying to break into a Palestinians safe in their houses? Is Hamas hiding in there too?
Is that surprising? Starmer is a member of Labour Friends of Israel (as is Blair, whereas Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, “Boris” Johnson, and Liz Truss are all members of Conservative Friends of Israel. Not forgetting the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak).
“It was her parents who instilled her Jewish faith and the Starmers have continued in that tradition.
Despite Sir Keir being an atheist, the family attend The Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood. A politico from the Jewish community tells me: ‘Keir has fully embraced Victoria’s Jewish practice.’ Their children are said to go to Cheder lessons at the synagogue, where young people learn about Judaism.
They uphold the Shabbat tradition of Friday-night dinners with familyand friends as often as they can, even taking to Zoom prayers – read by Victoria’s father – during the pandemic. Invitations to these dinners are known to be ‘highly prized’…
Her faith may in fact turn out to be significant in a political sense. As towhat her first official foray into politics might be, one Westminster insider suggests that it could be connected with the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM): ‘Giving a speech to JLM would be quite an easy introduction because it is already the community she is part of.’
The group has approached Sir Keir’s office about Lady Starmer’s involvement. At the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool last September, she went with Ruth Smeeth, who has since been nominated for a Labour peerage, and a small group from JLM to Liverpool Reform Synagogue to mark the first day of Jewish New Year.
Another Westminster insider says: ‘She has helped shape Keir’s understanding of anti-Semitism...”
[Tatler]
These human animals should have their British citizenship revoked
I disagree with calling any humans, or humanoids, “animals“. The animal kingdom already suffers so much from humanity, so I prefer not to add insult to injury.
On the “terrorism” point, though, Jews have been going from the UK, France, USA etc to Israel for training and indoctrination for decades. They stand ready to do whatever they are told to do.
Victor Ostrovsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky] has said (and written) that MOSSAD and other Israeli Intelligence agencies maintain arms caches in all countries except the USA. So the arms (and explosives?) are already in the UK, as are those Jews who have received military and other training in Israel. Most if not all have UK passports and mostly dual nationality. A ready-made small army…
Is the Security Service complacent about all that? Complicit? The Government actually gives Jewish organizations British taxpayers’ money in order to “assist with security”. Is there any oversight? I doubt it.
Public opinion in the West is finally beginning to understand what the Israelis are up to in Gaza. It has been painfully slow to happen, but when even Piers Morgan realises a campaign of indiscriminate mass murder is being waged against the Palestinians, you know the blank cheque… https://t.co/QrI5RySsuF
Israeli war crimes, cheered on by (it seems, looking at Twitter/X and elsewhere) many, maybe most of the Jews currently resident in the UK, France, USA etc. That, at least, is my own impression (I concede that my conclusion is based on evidence anecdotal or unscientific).
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Public see 10000s of young men coming to UK illegally from a safe country, France, put up in hotels at great cost, some absconding, some committing crimes. Then they hear Westminster claim that, because of ‘international law’, we can’t deport them. And they say “Are you serious?” pic.twitter.com/6vXJCVwLYV
“The Tories are failing to provide a serious & effective response to illegal migration while also losing control of legal migration. And now both will almost certainly soar to even higher levels under a Labour government, which has no serious plan for the former and does not care about the latter.
This will further erode public trust in politics, fuel division, cost more lives in the Channel, and undermine the legitimacy of the old politics.
The real losers in all this will be the British people who simply asked for what they were promised in 2016: control over their borders and much lower levels of immigration.
The end result –I suspect– will either be widespread apathy or the emergence of a new politics which finally takes this promise, and the British people, seriously.”
[Matt Goodwin]
First apathy, then perhaps, after the UK slides further into the mire, there may emerge, from the depths of the people, a new wave.
The Israeli army continues to blow up entire residential areas in the Gaza Strip, pic.twitter.com/0oXtEWVY3u
Zelensky began to prepare Western public opinion for total mobilization in Ukraine and the extradition of Ukrainian men: “This is a matter of law and justice. If you are of mobilization age, according to Ukrainian law, you must be in Ukraine. It is a fact. And then you will fight… pic.twitter.com/mwWIpihbDB
“Zelensky began to prepare Western public opinion for total mobilization in Ukraine and the extradition of Ukrainian men: “This is a matter of law and justice. If you are of mobilization age, according to Ukrainian law, you must be in Ukraine. It is a fact. And then you will fight or not fight. You will work.
Without the help of the US and EU, Ukraine will struggle, Ukraine will be weaker and this will be an opportunity for Russia to take over us. And as soon as they capture us, believe me, it will be a war between NATO and Russia.”
[Zelensky]
🇺🇦Zelensky admitted: There are not enough resources in the world to defeat the Russian army pic.twitter.com/IDvMTY7Mfy
Note: Gliere, or Glier, is scarcely known to the public now, especially in the West, but won the Stalin Prize three times, and was the holder of three awards of the Order of Lenin, as well as the Order of the Red Banner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Gli%C3%A8re.
Gliere died in 1956 (the year of my birth), aged 81.
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Rafah, Gaza. More young children injured by the Israeli Jews.
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another Leopard 2A4 destroyed…little by little the Russians take the upper hand and the UA is totally helpless. It's very sad to see how the Leopard 2 is on the verge of extinction.😅https://t.co/hs3bhjpcIV
As I have blogged from the start, and speaking strategically, Russia cannot lose this war.
Decades of Neoliberal Capitalism in the #EU have seen the gutting of Public Services + rampant inequality – Yet the EU's priority is Defence spending, instead of promoting Peace – The EU refused to call for a Ceasefire in Ukraine, the EU refused to call for a Ceasefire in #Gaza.. pic.twitter.com/gI49mjOXIS
UKRAINE WAR || A Russian Su-24M front-line bomber is flying a sortie armed with a barraging smart bomb RBK-500 UMPC. From this footage the resembles between a bomber and a beaver becomes apparent, explainig why the Su-24M's are named Beavers in the Russian Army. pic.twitter.com/Mjq3Yqt279
Russian kamikaze drone destroys a Ukrainian P-18 VFU radar in Kryvih Rih, over 90km away from the frontline. Ukraine has large gaps in its air defenses and electronic warfare. pic.twitter.com/a42SHcXkTE
Sources say they are now in talks with the Home Office to house up to 1600 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS there and the manager wants to beat ME up for trying to expose it
Sick of leftie do gooders saying of course RNLI should be in French waters and bringing Muslim men here even though Boulogne nearest hospital. Now Pontins in Sussex is sacking staff to take in 1,600 gimmegrants. This country is over 😡
Frankly, I was always basically anti-Soviet, and still am (in general or in theory, Sovietism having died over 30 years ago) but, in retrospect, this country and the rest of Western Europe would have been better off invaded and occupied by Soviet forces in the 1980s than (as has now happened) being invaded and occupied by hordes of untermenschen, while the “Zionists” exploit our people and repress our freedom of expression.
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[Chekhov and Gorky, c.1900]
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I'm not on a grift but if you are out and about today please consider buying a homeless person a hot drink and some food
A homeless man's body has just been found in the car he was living in in Beeston Nottingham
Even the System administrators in the UK admit that about a million “new” inhabitants (even “net”) are in the UK every year. “Illegal” migration-invasion, “legal” migration and also (not even included in immigration statistics) about 500,000 births to non-whites within the UK. Every year. If you add those, the true figure is about 1.5M per year. White (real British) people are not even replacing their numbers.
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
The “liberal” and other pro-immigration idiots (and/or enemies of the people) never address the consequences— lack of housing, slow collapse of all civic and social services, fewer opportunities for British youth, lower pay, lower State benefits, and no decent future…
The pro-immigration idiots or enemies just drone that the UK should “build more houses“, meaning hundreds of thousands of dwellings per year, destroying our once “green and pleasant land”, and yet not even keeping pace with the numbers flooding in (and being born to invaders already here).
There are hundreds of millions of blacks, browns, Chinese and others who would like to live in the UK, even as it now is. Many would have, under the outdated “asylum” laws, a legal “right” to live here, if they can blag a way to get here. Imagine the UK with a population of 2 or 3 or 10 times what it now is, so 140M, 210M, even 700M, almost all non-white, non-European.
In reality, our society, and our political system, would collapse into chaos long before the population even reached 100M. Perhaps that is what will happen. If so, the most resilient British survivors may then have to “wade through slaughter to a throne“, in the words of Gray’s Elegy.
The USA may still have enormous military-destructive power, but internally is in a state of near-collapse in terms of the quality of its population. Imagine what it will be like there in 50 years, or even 20.
Ha ha! “They” love “apologies” from anyone who has criticized “them” and then been subject to overt or covert attack by “them”. It gives “them” the opportunity to grind the heel even more.
Well, looks like Elon Musk has been unwilling to “apologise” to “them” for perfectly acceptable remarks about “them”. Don’t expect anything from me, either.
.@Cosmopolitan who claim to be the “largest young women’s media brand in the world” promoted a “satanic abortion” ritual to empower women getting abortions. This is demonic. pic.twitter.com/1CJPXuFcxY
“Let’s talk about rape in France. We all know who is doing the raping, so we don’t have to talk about that. But, let’s prove it by numbers.
In 1971, the rate of declared rapes in France stood at 2.0 cases per 100,000 people. In 2015, when the “great migration” started the rape rate for France was 20.1 cases per 100,000 people.Today, they’re sitting at 39.59 cases per 100,000 people. You’re looking at nearly 94,000 reported rapes a year. About 5,000 to 7,000 of those rapes are gang rapes.
The other day, some migrant raped a 93 year old woman and a 95 year old woman while they were in a hospital.
Yet, many young liberal French women are still encouraging the illegal migration to continue. Do they think they’ll be passed over when a migrant randomly gets horny for something and they’re in arms distance? None of it has to be this way.“
Eventually, what has to be done will be done, but how many White Northern European people will have to suffer and die before the iron necessity happens?
A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report estimates the number of people experiencing ‘destitution’, which it defines as having a very low income or having to go without basic supplies, has more than doubled in the last five years in the UK. pic.twitter.com/uXRuoNoiT3
🇮🇱🇵🇸 The New York Times has produced a detailed analysis of the rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza, debunking the Israeli claim that the rocket came from inside Gaza, and concluding it was fired from Israel.
Rachel Reeves is a horrible woman, completely in the pocket of the Jewish/Zionist lobby, completely dishonest, and a freeloading pseudo-Labour MP of the worst kind.
Rachel Reeves currently poses as Shadow Chancellor, yet she ran up a large debt on her (interest-free) House of Commons credit card, and for a long time refused to repay it. Typical unmerited “entitlement”, and reminiscent of the Blair-Brown “MPs in clover” days. The details of that credit card fraud/freeloading have been removed from Wikipedia.
I heard a droning political address on Sky News this morning, and thought that it was Blair but, when I looked up, saw that it was Sunak! Their voices are almost identical. How is this possible?
In recent weeks, pro-Israel trolls have been flooding Twitter, attempting to hijack debates and use the Community Notes function to undermine posts showing the country in a negative light.
“They” always try to twist everything, and try to take over…
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“Where are the limits of religious freedom?
A blog post published 5 years ago, but since then read by almost nobody. I think that that is a pity, because I think it worth reading. I happened to notice that it had a hit, a single hit, this morning, the first for many months, so thought to republish it by the link below:
"The particular venom directed at Israel has become exceptional.”
The plan to expel UK visa-holders for expressing antisemitic views is a “diversion from the real problem”, says @Fox_Claire. pic.twitter.com/AAPaTO3ybI
Get lost, you freeloading pseudo-intellectual fake.
They really do want to throw away any chance of keeping voters,cut pensioners allowance that they have already worked and contributed to society, but increase the amount of refugees and asylum seekers who contribute nothing
If the Triple Lock is cut down, weaselled away, effectively abandoned, legions of State Pensioners will lash back at the “Conservative” Party. People aged 66+ years are the mainstay of the Con Party (both as voters and as members); if they go, the Con Party has no chance at the 2024 General Election and no future beyond that.
That's what it looks like. They've pressed the self destruct button.
The Con Party (a far more accurate name than “Conservative”) is currently running at 25% in the opinion polls. The proportion of people of 65+ years in the UK is around 19%. The proportion of people aged 60+ is around 23%. Most of both categories vote Conservative. If even half of those abstain, or vote elsewhere, the nationwide Con Party vote might be as low as 15%, or even lower, and the number of Con Party seats after 2024 might be as few as 16 (Labour seats 548).
The two main System parties are both now without purpose. I had thought, a few years ago, that Labour would collapse first. Turns out that it will be the Con Party. Much as I despise most of the Labour MPs, particularly the Shadow Cabinet, and especially Israel puppet Starmer, the Con Party MPs have forfeited the right to live (speaking metaphorically and politically). Completely useless.
Incidentally, despite my now being (since 2022) a State Pensioner myself (hard for me to believe though that is), my views are not much coloured by that. I only receive about a half-pension anyway, having spent so many years overseas.
History comes full circle. Even a Jewish (albeit apparently anti-Zionist) tweeter has echoed my view that the attack on Gaza is most similar to the Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German forces in 1943.
[Jews being led out of the Warsaw Ghetto by Waffen-SS men, 1943]
The German forces of 1943, mostly Waffen-SS, did not use poison gas in attacking the Warsaw Ghetto, and fought against the Jews (many of them armed) on the ground.
On that basis, the Jewish/Israeli attack on Gaza and its 2 million civilians is far more extreme than the German attack on the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Jews/Israelis are using massive air power to demolish whole neighbourhoods in Gaza. Now, if the Middle East Eye and Daily Telegraph reports are accurate, it seems that the Jews/Israelis may use poison gas (from what I have read somewhere or other —admittedly unverified— a cyanide compound similar to the “notorious” Zyklon B) to gas both Hamas operatives and unarmed civilians hiding below ground, and/or will use chemical “sponge bombs” to fill those tunnels, asphyxiating those in them.
History is more than ironic at times.
Having said that, we on the outside must just wait to see what happens. “In war, truth is the first casualty“…
A report today shows that the average student is left with 50p a week to live on after paying rent
Earlier this year, we found that just 25% of Britons believe they could have afforded to go to university if they were an 18 year old school leaver todayhttps://t.co/AFELrS6O7Apic.twitter.com/6q3uDgsZBC
“Rapists could be spared jail from next week as prisons reach breaking point, it was reported last night.
Sex offenders and burglars could be let out on bail rather than handed an immediate custodial sentence, according to guidance issued to judges.
The most dangerous criminals will reportedly have to be held in magistrates’ court cells if they are remanded in custody.
Prisons in England and Wales are on the brink of maximum capacity, with 88,016 inmates last Friday – leaving just 650 spaces spare.
The senior presiding judge for England and Wales, Lord Edis, ordered that sentencing hearings will have to be postponed from Monday, The Times reported.”
[Daily Mail].
There has been a sentencing crisis for years. While many crimes of drunken violence, acquisitive crime etc attract, quite often, non-custodial sentences, other crimes, often very minor, not only result in prison time but in very considerable time.
Look at the political realm. Harmless teenage fantasists who have downloaded online material such as the notorious Anarchist’s Cookbook (which was sold openly in London bookshops in the 1970s, and without the State imploding) have been sentenced to terms of 4, 5, even 7 years, incredibly. Anything (political or otherwise) involving illicit possession of a weapon (even a WW2 revolver) has attracted sentencing as severe, or more severe.
Likewise, there have been sentenced to prison people such as Alison Chabloz (sentenced to a number of months for posting “antisemitic” satirical songs and cartoons online), Jez Turner (a year, for having suggested in a brief speech in Whitehall that Jews should be driven out from England as they were under Edward I in the 14th Century), and “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch, sentenced to a very harsh 2.5 years for having posted “antisemitic” material on an internet radio station).
The alert reader will have noted the common factor in the immediately-above three Draconian sentences, but what do you expect when 10 Downing Street has the Israeli flag projected onto its facade? Or when Keir Starmer, posing as Labour Party leader, thinks that the Israeli ethnostate has every right to cut off water, food, and electricity (and everything else) from the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza.
As far as non-political crimes are concerned, one often sees newspaper reports these days about various types of criminal sentenced to, say, terms of 4, 5, or 6 years in prison, when a far shorter term of, say, a couple of years would really suffice. Likewise, people are sometimes —in fact, often— sentenced to a year or more in circumstances where, even retaining a custodial element, a few months would be more than enough.
At the present time, the crisis of available space would easily be solved if judges were to work out carefully, as they are supposed to do, the proper sentence in every case, but then, after all that, cut off a percentage, as an emergency administrative-judicial measure. Say 20%, so that a headline sentence of 5 years becomes one of 4 years, or one of 2.5 years becomes one of 2 years. That would scarcely impact anything other than space in prisons and, within a few months, would start to solve the present problem.
“Captain Sir Tom Moore‘s daughter has confessed to pocketing £800,000 from books written by the NHS fundraising war veteran.
In a tearful interview, Hannah Ingram-Moore revealed how the family received the money thanks to her father – whose lockdown walks raised £39million for the nation’s health service.
Mrs Ingram-Moore said her father wanted them to keep the profits from his three books: Captain Tom’s Life Lessons, One Hundred Steps and his autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day.
The family is also adamant that people buying the books were never told their money was going to charity.
However, the prologue of his autobiography calls this claim into question and suggests the veteran thought his books were just another way for him to raise cash.
The extract read: ‘Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.’“
[Daily Mail].
I was in the minority of sceptics when the old ex-officer (he spent 6 years in uniform during WW2) started his “crusade”. While arguably wrongheaded, one had to respect the grit of the old fellow, yet the whole thing played into the “scamdemic” propaganda of the time, and even the £30M raised probably did little to help the maladministered NHS.
I could see that the daughter and her husband were basically a pair of freeloaders, if not outright frauds, but people so badly (and rightly) want to believe. In something. In anything. You only have to look at the well-known online “grifters” and frauds around. “Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii”, “Man Behaving Dadly” etc. There are dozens, probably hundreds, of them. They destroy trust in society, as do some of the family of the late Captain Moore.
Apparently, the Israeli regime is preparing for a big war.
In the Israeli territories, an underground parking lot is being converted into a hospital with several hundred beds and medical equipment. pic.twitter.com/wCHothy1C8
#Updates: #Gaza Renewed Israeli air strikes on al-Karama neighbourhood in Gaza Wednesday morning UN says Gaza has food and water for 12 days, after Israel cut all electricity, fuel, food and water to the besieged enclave
The Captain Tom debacle is a prime example of how the media can get people to believe anything and of how dissenting voices are silenced by accusations of being unpatriotic
I think that I may start including a random historical note from Wikipedia etc in all my blog posts. It is quite shocking how few British people know their own history, even in outline.
[little boy and his dead cat, following Israeli air attack on Gaza]
Were the atrocities not so terrible, it would be funny to see the UK Jewish/Israel lobby all both pushing out (identical) Israeli propaganda and —at the same time— saying, when asked about the quasi-genocidal Israeli Gaza siege, and mass murder of Gazan civilians, “oh, no, that has nothing to do with us; we bear no responsibility” and “we are just opposed to antisemitism, the actions of Israel are nothing to do with our campaigning in the UK...”.
Etc.
Typical.
Incidentally, I have never seen political fraud and con-man Nigel Farage so pumped-up as when parroting the current Israeli propaganda line in the past few days.
“In the wake of the merciless assault by Hamas, Israel seems to be planning the same approach.
All the signs are that its government is preparing to retaliate on a massive scale, mobilising the country’s formidable armed forces against Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas.
Yet just as Iraq turned out to be a calamitous error, fuelling a lasting cycle of violence, so I fear that – however understandable – any attempt by Israel to exact its vengeance with a savage display of military might could be just as disastrous.”
“…a full invasion, such as Israel’s generals are surely discussing today, would be a bloody quagmire. For Jerusalem, it would mean a conveyor belt of tired soldiers fighting day and night, resupplying with food, water and military hardware, rotating and evacuating casualties, for months on end.
It would chew up thousands of troops for little or no benefit, and poison the Arab world, and to a certain extent the international community, against the Jewish state.
Alas, it looks like Israel is set to take precisely this route.
Already the country has launched a barrage of air strikes, causing heavy civilian casualties – unsurprising given that more than two million people are living in a strip the size of the Isle of Wight.” [in fact, smaller than the Isle of Wight— 141 sq. miles as against 148].
“This bombardment has been buttressed by a siege designed to weaken the morale of the citizenry by cutting off their water and electricity.
Yet what is the ultimate objective? What does ‘victory’ for Israel even look like?”
[Gaza City, already devastated by Israeli air attack]
It would be even more interesting were Israel to face attack or, even more so, invasion from the directions of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, and perhaps even (though even less likely) from Egypt, and if the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank were also to join in the fight.
The immediately-above scenario is unlikely, true, but the Americans must have some reason to have moved one of their fleets closer to the region.
If such a concerted invasion and uprising were to happen, though, Israel could be destroyed, its population fleeing in panic.
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There is such a disconnect between the stories and videos coming out of gaza and what the politicians and most of the media try telling us and I reckon most of the public recognise that no matter how much Margaret hodge talks over owen Jones about it being an obsessive hobby https://t.co/2stCAcLPZo
— any other leader would be 20 points ahead (@anyotherleader) October 12, 2023
I face trial late next month on 5 counts of contravening the notorious s.127 of the Communications Act 2003 (recommended for repeal by the Law Commission). Behind that prosecution, a pack of Jew-Zionists.
I cannot write about all that prior to trial, for reasons of potential contempt of court etc, but one aspect of the case is that I am alleged to have claimed that, in the UK, most of the TV and Press is effectively in the hands of Jew-Zionists (as Rupert Murdoch said years ago— and he is 100% pro-Israel…).
What do you think, blog readers?
be taken to the Gazza strip to see what the Palestinians are having to deal with, each and every day of their lives. We have, in recent years been too sympathetic to Israel, which, I believe we now have an out of control far right Israeli government. I am not, however, /
Margaret Hodge is just another Jew-Zionist liar and hypocrite.
It is now immaterial. It was used by Western media outlets to whip up hatred against the Palestinian people and rally support for Israel's attack on Gaza. This is a method the UK media always employ. I'm an old woman and I've seen it all my life.
— Mairead #HerdImmunityKills#RealSocialistsWearMasks (@imelda_mairead) October 11, 2023
[Nayirah al-Sabah, the lying Kuwaiti bitch at the centre of the faked 1990 Kuwait atrocity story]
I was in New York at the time, in 1990. Those lies (blown up hugely by the Jew-Zionist mass media) were quite effective in moulding the TV narratives and the political conversation etc.
Food, fuel, medicine and water have all been cut off into the Gaza Strip, while the land itself comes under heavy bombardment.
Water cut off, food cut off, electricity and gas cut off; all other supplies cut off, and area bombing and rocketing of civilian areas, in a “ghetto” occupied by 2 million inhabitants, 600,000 of whom live in Gaza City.
Of the 2 million Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip, about 1 million are under-18, and most of that million are young children.
If there was ever a war crime amounting to at least quasi-genocide, this surely must be it.
“Without water, a person can die after 3 days, and usually no one can survive for more than 5-6 days.” [medical website].
Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked if he would step in to mediate between Israel and Hamas if asked.
There goes the very last scrap of respect I still held for Emily Thornberry 🤮🤦🏻♀️ https://t.co/YeCW6nFhUE
— Iris Ex Labour 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇱🇧 #StarmerOut! (@iris_mansi) October 12, 2023
Emily Thornberry, entitled “Labour” hog, with a part-Jew husband and a dozen buy-to-let properties. In fact, the only reason she ever joined Labour was because her well-paid lawyer/journalist/diplomat father abandoned her mother, and the mother had to move to a council property (in Surrey). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Thornberry; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Thornberry.
“She was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn and practised as a barrister specialising in human rights law from 1985 to 2005 under Michael Mansfield at Tooks Chambers.”
[Wikipedia]
“Human rights” expert; you couldn’t make it up…
As I mentioned yesterday, the “human rights” lawyers (often Jewish, though she herself is not) seem to have gone AWOL now that Israel is involved…
[Emily Thornberry, some years ago, with (in centre) Mark Regev, then Israeli Ambassador, at a Zionist dinner in London]
If, as voter, you vote Labour now, you get moneygrubbing tools of Israel such as Emily Thornberry (and Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, and Keir Starmer). Why bother?
Emily Thornberry, “human rights” lawyer (etc), who thinks it justifiable for Israel to cut off water and food (etc) from 2 million people, almost all of whom (about 96%) are non-combatants, half of whom are under-18, and hundreds of thousands of whom are young or very young children.
Douglas Murray says the celebration of the Hamas attacks shows there are "simple supporters of genocide” in the UK.
I used to wonder what Israeli Intelligence had on Murray to make him the unashamed propagandist for Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby that he is. Now, I tend to think that he is just deeply psychologically damaged.
As for Julia Hartley-Brewer, I think (am unsure) that she is part-Jewish. She is certainly rather ignorant; I had to correct her on a couple of legal points when I still had a Twitter account (a pack of Jews managed to have me expelled in 2018). Instead of thanking me for schooling her, she tried to obfuscate, and then blocked me.
Murray is right with his “flare” metaphor, though. These events have shown what group really pulls the strings of our “democratic” political parties, and System politicians. With a tiny number of honourable exceptions, all puppets of Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby. From Sunak to Starmer, and from Emily Thornberry to that fraudulent bastard Nigel Farage.
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Consequences of the Russian attack on the train station in Oceretin near Avdejevka. pic.twitter.com/D8N3vY83RV
The war in Ukraine continues, but the Kiev regime now has to play second fiddle to the Israeli regime.
Support for Ukraine is not "unlimited" – White House
"And in Ukraine, as far as financing Ukraine is concerned, we are approaching the end of the rope." Today we announced $200 million and we will continue that assistance as long as we can, but it will not be infinite." pic.twitter.com/QvWakLN9Dg
Lavrov said that Zelensky’s words about the final stage of the conflict with the Russian Federation should be considered a recognition of hopelessness pic.twitter.com/eisjB8lPUa
As often seen in the past, Israel getting its “defence” in first…
Apparently it wasn’t enough for Israel to nonstop bomb Palestine, they’ve also just bombed Aleppo and Damascus airports in Syria. But they’re the victims here according to the US & West. pic.twitter.com/kVrXqsxQ1Q
“BREAKING: Israel bombed the international airports of Aleppo and Damascus in Syria, forcing them out of service. Bombing civilian airports in Syria. Massacring entire families in Gaza. Dropping white phosphorus on Lebanon and Gaza. This is the Israel that Western media tells you is a “victim”…”
If you don’t understand why Dresden was such a big deal, read this book. It might just give you a new perspective on the whole war. pic.twitter.com/LjmxTZjXMo
Zelensky is worried because the help of Western allies is weakening
The Ukrainian authorities want to get a new series of weapons in order to attack Russian positions after the unsuccessful summer counter-offensive, "ABC" writes. "Ukraine is desperate for more weapons to help… pic.twitter.com/WmLWessaIp
“Zelensky is worried because the help of Western allies is weakening The Ukrainian authorities want to get a new series of weapons in order to attack Russian positions after the unsuccessful summer counter-offensive, “ABC” writes. “Ukraine is desperate for more weapons to help its troops take over the positions of Russian units before the ground on the front turns muddy,” the newspaper said. According to the media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, as Kiev is becoming worried about the weakening of aid from the West, which until recently provided constant support to the Ukrainian armed forces.”
Stormy statements of former US intelligence officer about Israel's irreparable failure; Is it time to end the threat of Israel?
Scott Ritter, former US intelligence officer: Israel's ground entry into Gaza means more casualties and damage than Yom Kippur; Hezbollah's missiles… pic.twitter.com/L3JKhcvaq2
Ian Robert Millard 