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Diary Blog, 30 January 2024

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Tweets seen

In the medium term, Israel is doomed.

Ha ha!…

Any real British government would not accept these American weapons on British soil. They make the UK even more of a potential target.

Israeli Jews— inter-generational thieves.

…and the rest will be from births to immigrant or previously immigrant or other non-white mothers.

If a social-national government cannot take power within the next decade, Britain is doomed and British society will become a chaotic and brutal dystopia.

“Exclusive: BBC staff are being told not to hire candidates who are “dismissive” of diversity and inclusion. A recruitment policy document says that applicants should be asked to “what opportunities do you see for you to promote, celebrate or encourage diversity and inclusion in your role?”

The guidelines tell recruiters “don’t hire; [candidates who are] unsuited to the organisation” if they are “dismissive or derisory of diversity and inclusion and surrounding topics”.

Managers are also directed not to offer jobs to candidates if they show a “lack of interest in learning more where no evidence of education and understanding of diversity and inclusion was given”.

Commenting on the recruitment guidelines, a BBC source said: “The BBC is not a welcoming place for those with conservative opinions. Management talks about diversity, without embracing diversity of thought.

The place that I have given years of my working life, and that I sincerely cherish, currently feels captured by Left-wing activists and is unable to deliver on our core principle of impartiality.”

“Hiring on the basis of adherence to diversity and inclusion ideology excludes most conservative-minded people, and indeed much of the population.”

[Steven Edginton, Daily Telegraph].

The BBC, even more than other msm, is a nest of treachery and evil, as shown by its propaganda output during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic.

I was just thinking, “just like the Soviet system of having at least one ‘politichesky rukovoditel‘ (political director, executive, supervisor, or commissar) attached to each ship or Army formation, and assisted by ‘sekretnye sotrudniki’ or ‘stukachi‘ (‘secret co-workers’ or ‘informers’).”

So it seems that the Royal Navy probably has far more of those officers than it has ships: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Britain is still being invaded daily…

Sorry to see that notice. I was a member of Lincoln’s Inn from 1986 until I was (wrongfully and unlawfully) disbarred in 2016, at which point my membership of the Inn was, effectively, terminated automatically.

As a very frequent user of Lincoln’s Inn Library, I knew Catherine for many years (1988 to about 2002). She was from the North (maybe North East) of England, from a family in a coal-mining community. Beyond that, I knew little of her personal life, though I believe that she got married at some point after having joined Lincoln’s Inn (and the photograph in that tweet, showing a ring, would seem to support that).

A nice person.

[The Library, Lincoln’s Inn, London]

Mortality. It comes to us all. Catherine, I now see, was actually 6 years younger than me. It reminds us that we must stand up for truth and justice etc while we live, no matter what challenges the forces of Evil array against us.

Quite a few people I have known in my life have died now, many of whom were younger than me. I have mentioned a few on the blog: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/05/20/diary-blog-20-may-2021/, and

Diary Blog, 10 January 2022, with more reminiscences about early contemporaries

Well, looked at from an ethics-free view (and/or from the Israeli point of view), that operation has the hallmarks of skill and cunning. Equally obviously, to kill patients prostrate in a hospital (one photo shows a single bullet-hole in the centre of a hospital pillow, with blood around it) is pretty abhorrent and, indeed, very wicked, something one would associate with the worst criminals and terrorists.

Frederick Forsyth was or is very pro-Israeli. I saw something from him once to the effect that terrorists who then gain state power (as happened in Israel/Palestine when the various Jew-Zionist terrorists of the Irgun, Palmach, Stern Gang /”Lehi” etc became part of the Israeli power structure) can leave their terrorism behind and become “normal” political leaders of “normal” states.

Forsyth’s view may have had its arguments when he was most fervently pro-Israel, in the 1960s, 1970s, but now the facts have changed or become more evident: Israel’s massacres of Arab civilians every few years, and of course the truth coming out more in the West about the ethnic cleansing (mass murder, and theft of land) carried out by the Jews in Israel/Palestine from 1948 to the present day.

Forsyth himself, who always strikes me as rather dim, at least politically, was cheated out of much of his invested money by a Jew he trusted (“Roger” Something), insult then being added to injury by the said Jew receiving a mere suspended sentence for the embezzlement of millions of pounds. That episode is, incidentally, absent from Wikipedia. “They” seem to have been “editing” (sabotaging) again…

[Addenda, same day: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/levitt-trial-ends-as-second-man-admits-fraud-unexpected-events-in-court-and-the-man-behind-a-pounds-34m-collapse-1506406.html; and

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12709766.fraud-trial-ends-after-change-of-plea/; and

https://www.accountancyage.com/2004/12/07/the-corridors-of-power-104/; and https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/levitt-fraud-trial-cost-taxpayer-2-12m-pounds-1385929.html; and

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/oh-no-look-whos-back-in-business-6315101.html].

Late tweets seen

A fact not known to many people; people generally should be aware of it: see https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-get-a-debt-relief-order-dro.

That LSE research bod— thick, or a traitor to the future of Europe? Well, his background does not indicate stupidity, at least in the normal sense: see https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianhigham/?originalSubdomain=uk…

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Brik]

Note the “typical” hand gesture…

Very interesting.

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Final word

Regular readers will be aware that I am to be sentenced tomorrow for allegedly having posted “grossly offensive” (anti-Jew-Zionist) material on 5 out of some 1,700 blog posts published since this blog started in late 2016.

It may be that part of the sentence will include a restriction on the publication of the blog. If so, the restriction might last for a year. We shall see.

Freedom of expression on political, social and even historical topics is as good as dead in the UK, and those responsible are, for the most part, those who may well be called “the usual suspects”.

I hope to resume blogging soon, but if that proves not to be the case, I wish all well-intentioned readers well, and hope to resume transmission in due course.

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Daily Blog, 25 January 2024

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[Tangier on a rainy day]

Sam Melia

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/crime/pudsey-4490476

“A far-right activist who was caught with a library of online stickers telling non-white people to “go back” has been found guilty of inciting racial hatred.

The jury at Leeds Crown Court returned a verdict this afternoon after spending less than a day deliberating the case of Sam Melia.

The 34-year-old was on trial following a raid at his Pudsey home on Town Street in April 2021 in which police uncovered a catalogue of downloadable stickers which were “intended to stir up racial hatred” and encouraged racially-aggravated criminal damage. They also found a poster of Adolf Hitler on his wall and a book by the infamous British fascist, Oswald Mosley.“

[Yorkshire Evening Post]

There was a time in England, not so very long ago, when people had real freedom of expression. Even in the 1970s, when free speech had already been cut back, it still existed to an extent unthinkable in the England of 2024, in which the “woke” or “politically correct” rule almost supreme, and in which the malicious and fanatical Jew-Zionists “monitor” anything British people say or write, lest it might be —or can be be contrived to look— “grossly offensive” (to “them”).

The great British jury has also fallen by the wayside, and now almost inevitably finds anyone accused of “inciting racial hatred” guilty, no matter how flimsy the evidence. Rubber-stamp juries. I have no idea whether that was the case in respect of the Sam Melia trial. I know only what has been in the Press over the past day or two.

Not only that. Anyone found with such innocuous things as “racist” stickers may get, not even months but years of incarceration, in an England where real crime, even violent crime, is often scarcely punished by the courts.

Look at that Yorkshire Evening Post report. Things actually perfectly lawful (having a poster of Hitler on the wall at home, owning a book by a long-dead British politician) added to the mix in a “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” way…

I do not know Sam Melia, only of him, and only slightly even on that basis, but I very much regret that he has been found guilty. My thoughts are with him, and with his wife, the socio-political activist Laura Towler.

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Ukraine’s (Kiev regime’s) only hope in this war is to bring in NATO on the Kiev-regime side; to widen the conflict. Russia has not taken the bait so far, but the Zelensky regime keeps pushing, keeps prodding, in the hope of provoking a massive Russian response which might draw NATO into the war directly. If that were to happen though, it would be but a short step to a world war.

…and to the Jewish/Zionist lobby in the UK, USA, France etc.

Yes. A toad. Indeed, a “slithey tove“, it might be said…

Young and his controlled opposition friends have never said one word in defence of my supposed rights to freedom of expression.

Tell me about it…I myself face a sentencing court next week, after my conviction for having published a few supposedly “grossly offensive” comments, cartoons etc on this blog.

Many people kid themselves that we live in a somehow “free” country, when what it really is, or has become, is an “iron fist in velvet glove” dictatorship. Well-disguised at times, yes, and somewhat shambolic too, which gives the appearance of laxity (and so “liberty”), at times, but still a repressive dictatorship under (((the usual))) influence; and it is getting worse almost daily.

The usual “controlled opposition” grifters, such as Toby Young, can be disregarded as a total waste of space.

“While I’ve no time for #PA, this has to be said: Sam Melia is dragged through the courts and portrayed as a racist monster over stickers with messages such as “White Lives Matter”, which graced a few hundred lampposts.

Meanwhile, Tommy Robinson is allowed to post blatant incitement and heavy-duty ‘Islamiphobia’ like this to a gigantic audience.

I have always believed that the Muslim #grooming gangs – and the native traitors who facilitated them – should be tried and, if convicted, executed. But to use their crimes to incite generic hatred of an entire community is nothing more or less than conditioning for war against Iran – a war for Israel, without a shred of legitimate British interest.

Make no mistake, this is the UK deep state giving an asset free rein to prod the herd to war.“

Griffin is, of course, correct.

All the same, we must be clear from where the poisonous repression is coming. Not from, at root, the police, MI5, the CPS, but from the “special-interest cabals” behind them…

From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/25/david-cameron-broke-convention-when-he-made-michelle-mone-a-peer-says-tory-mp

“David Mundell says Scotland Office was not consulted about Mone’s 2015 appointment.

David Cameron breached “proper process” when he appointed Michelle Mone to the House of Lords in 2015, David Mundell, who was the secretary for Scotland at the time, has said.

Ms Mone is not a successful entrepreneur, she is a small-time businesswoman with a PR exposure far in excess of any actual success,” Anderson wrote. “Awarding her a peerage for a very mediocre business performance brings the awarding of titles into disrepute by rewarding failure.” [a well-informed Glasgow business leader wrote— to Cameron privately— at the time].

[The Guardian]

I blogged about Mone’s fakery at the time. Like so many in both the Commons and the Lords, she was always a fake.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/25/diverse-forests-of-slow-growing-trees-more-resilient-to-storms-study-finds-aoe

“Forests with two or three tree species are on average 35% more resilient to storms than forests with only one species, simulations created by researchers found. The type of trees also matters – forestry plantations are typically made up of fast-growing tall trees such as conifers, but they are more vulnerable to high winds than slower-growing hardwood species such as oak.“

[The Guardian]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/stategy-protect-temperate-celtic-rainforest-england-atlantic-woodland-aoe

“Conservationists have praised the launch of a new government strategy to revive the remaining fragments of the vast temperate rainforests that were once “one of the jewels of Britain’s nature crown”.

Temperate rainforest, also known as Atlantic woodland or Celtic rainforest, once covered most of western Britain and Ireland. The archipelago’s wet, mild conditions are ideal for lichens, mosses and liverworts. But centuries of destruction have meant that only small, isolated pockets remain.“

[The Guardian]

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Tice is hopeless. It is a measure of how unpopular the present misgovernment is, and how discontented are many of the voters, that Reform UK, even under Tice, even though it is not social-national, is apparently now on 13%, acc. to opinion polling.

Whether that will cut much ice at GE 2024 remains to be seen. We have, in a sense, been here before, with both UKIP and Brexit Party (both Farage vehicles, as is Reform UK). The difference, maybe, is in the degree of desperation felt by the voters.

When the voters feel real desperation, and in sufficient numbers, they may be ready, finally, to turn to real social-nationalism.

[the 20th Century’s Man of Destiny. 1889-1945]

“...the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not“…

Those latest polling figures are striking all the same. They might translate, at GE 2024, to a Labour majority of 420, with the “Conservatives” left as a rump of 35 MPs.

South Essex fraudster/”grifter” “Jack Monroe”.

Well-meaning people ripped off by a dishonest and indeed evil woman.

It is depressing, though, to observe how many of the said idiots are unwilling to see the truth even when it is presented, unambiguously and with irrefutable supporting evidence, to them… a bit like the people in the 1930s, 1940s, even up to the 1980s, who sincerely believed both in Marxism-Leninism and in the idea that the Soviet Union was a wonderful society, maybe with a few flaws here and there. I must have met hundreds like that.

https://twitter.com/BLAIMGame/status/1750260028152459663

Gaza (and the Jew-Zionist quasi-genocidal devastation there) is a very important issue but, as an acerbic Dutch lady once told me, about 42 years ago, “the shirt is closer than the skirt” (apparently an old Dutch proverb akin to “blood is thicker than water”). First things first. This country is now in a truly terrible mess. Our own people have needs that are not being addressed, still less satisfied. No wonder so many people say that they are “politically homeless”, and are unwilling to vote for any System party.

So it seems that the winds are set fair for a second Trump presidential term.

Late cartoon

Seems to hit the spot right now…

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_von_Dohn%C3%A1nyi[]
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

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Diary Blog, 24 January 2024, including thoughts about the UK, NATO, conscription, and General Sir Patrick Sanders

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From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12998863/britons-face-army-conscription-russia-attacks.html

“The chief of the British Army is set to warn Brits that they could be called up to fight for King and country in the event of war with Russia – because the military is ‘too small’ to handle the conflict on its own.

General Sir Patrick Sanders, Chief of the General Staff, will stress the need for ministers to ‘mobilise the nation’ in the event of a wider conflict against Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine.

His warning comes nearly two years after he said that Britain was facing its ‘1937 moment’, a reference to the two years leading up to the Second World War

Gen Sir Patrick – who has been openly critical of staff shortages in the military – believes there should be a ‘shift’ in the mindset of the public who should be willing to defend the UK against foreign adversaries.

But while the Army head – who is standing down in six months after allegedly falling out with Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the overall chief of the Armed Forces – is not thought to be in favour of conscription, Nato bosses have warned allied nations to be prepared to take any and all actions necessary to fight Vladimir Putin’s forces.“

[Daily Mail].

[Daily Mail graphic]

What utter nonsense. Conscription would never produce effective soldiers in the social milieu of Britain in the 2020s. Look at the population! Look at those aged 18-40!

Apart from that, what world do our politicians and military “geniuses” live in? One, it seems, in which the atom bomb, nuclear weapons and ICBMs have not yet been invented. The general appears (as portrayed by the Daily Mail, anyway) to envisage a WW2 scenario of massed armies fighting a ground war across Europe. Someone really ought to tell our military men that the massed armies of conscripts will not last long once their home cities and towns, and Army/Navy/Air Force bases, have been turned into charred craters by Russian nuclear attack.

Indeed, the said armies of conscripts would quite soon be turned into irradiated facsimiles of the Terracotta Army.

Even leaving all that aside, there is no overarching Russian plan, and no ideological impetus, to invade central and western Europe. Russia under Putin is not the Soviet Union in 1948, 1962, or even the 1980s.

Russia has no incentive to attack or invade NATO territory, unless itself attacked, or pushed too far. Put simply, Europe now has nothing Russia would want.

The hysterical propaganda from the msm calling for, or fomenting fear of, war with Russia seems to blithely ignore the fact that Russia has been trying —but not succeeding— to crush the shambolic forces of the Kiev regime for nearly two years. So now Russia is set to invade Central Europe? Western Europe? Scandinavia? How? With what? Why?

What is really behind this NWO/ZOG propaganda?

As for Sweden and Finland joining NATO, their leaderships must be mad, or part of an NWO/ZOG conspiracy. They have just made themselves targets for potential annihilation.

Thinking again about General Sanders, and his apparent view that the UK should be ready to “defend itself“, he appears to be unaware that, for many real British people (let alone the blacks, browns etc), there is a feeling abroad at present that there is now not much left to defend. Not much worthwhile, at least.

What are the serried ranks of the new conscript armies to defend? Enormous income and capital inequality and inequity? A nation and society largely destroyed already by mass immigration? The Zionist control, influence, and takeover of the UK’s mass media, publishing, law, legal system, and politics? Collapsing living standards?

If General Sanders (and his seaborne and aerial colleagues) want to “defend Britain”, they might start by securing the UK’s borders from migration-invasion, or from cultural invasion (i.e. from the USA). They can no more do that, though, than build (in their own little minds) a farcical copy of the Allied armies of WW2, and/or pretend to be about to face some fantasy conflation of the Soviet forces of the Cold War, and Hitler’s Wehrmacht.

The general in question is apparently about to retire. Looks like that might be not before time.

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I too was tried (in November 2023) for having published the truth, though was not actually arrested (merely summonsed, in early 2023, by postal requisition). Incidentally, I shall learn my fate within about a week (at the sentencing hearing). Free speech is effectively dead in England.

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…not to mention that it would prevent the present migration-invasion.

It surely says something about the state of the country that many people think that it would not be worse-ruled were it actually conquered by Russian forces…

Ha ha! Quite…

The Jew Shapps, he of the dodgy get-rich-quick schemes (scams) and fake identities, now poses as Defence Secretary as he trumpets the wasting of a further £2.5 BILLION on Zelensky’s shambolic, corrupt and brutal dictatorship.

NWO/ZOG conspiracy.

The answer to part of that first question is, surely “Biden” (and before Biden, “the great non-white hope”— Obama)…

“Don’t go looking for work, and work will not come looking for you” [Femi Oluwole (parody)] [Oscar Wilde (supposedly)].

https://twitter.com/sadboxerman/status/1750174524132216858

I find the whole (obviously contrived) “debate” puzzling. The whole idea that huge numbers of British citizens will “have to be” conscripted “if there is war with Russia” is simply bizarre, some kind of Loony Tune.

If NATO is at war with Russia, it will not be long before Russia’s 6,000-7,000 nuclear bombs and missiles are deployed. At that point, you can forget the new “Dad’s Army”, and much of the regular Army as well. Do idiots such as Tobias Ellwood really think that there would be much left of the UK in that scenario?

Yes, Russia would have its cities and bases destroyed too, but it has space beyond our usual imaginings. 70 times the size of the UK. Three times the size of the contiguous USA.

The fact is that any war with Russia which went nuclear (as it probably would) would spell the complete end of anything resembling the present UK.

This feverish speculation about upcoming war with Russia is being seeded by remarks from NWO/ZOG puppets, both military and civilian (military personnel, politicians and msm scribblers) across Europe and North America now. There is some kind of plot being hatched. A fairly obvious one, really, but the masses do not see it, they only see the noise and chatter, and take it as genuine.

The Kiev regime is now in serious trouble, and the Israeli regime is also on the back foot. The ruling circles of the West therefore deflect to the non-existent “threat” to western Europe and central Europe from Russia.

Is part of this “conscription” and “wartime regulation” thing just another attempt to corral the populations of Europe into behaving like compliant sheep, as during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic?

Incidentally, Wikipedia is very reticent about Ellwood’s parents. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Ellwood. He was born in New York, but they also lived (1970s/early 1980s) in Bonn and Vienna. Diplomats? Nothing on Wikipedia. SIS? Maybe. Bonn and Vienna were centres of both diplomatic and espionage activity in those Cold War days; and Ellwood junior is now an officer in the sinister TA/Reserves 77th Brigade (disinformation, online snooping etc).

That should always be and should always have been the case.

Bob Moran

I see that the cartoonist Bob Moran, so prominent in the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic (he was sacked by the Daily Telegraph for being too honest and too cuttingly satirical) is now in (more) trouble with the Jew-Zionists:

and

First of all, note the “typical” language. Those thought hostile to Jew-Zionism are always labelled “disgraced” (by the Jew-Zionists). In the same way, the (((very same))) “ones” always describe me as “disgraced and disbarred“. Disbarred (wrongfully and unlawfully)— yes. “Disgraced“— no.

Ironic, nicht wahr? They hate that Bob Moran cartoon so much that they have reposted it, many times now.

Note, also, how the money he is apparently getting for his pictures has “triggered” them…”A shark can smell blood in the water a mile off when he is hungry” [Control, in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]

Looking at the cartoon, several aspects strike me. First of all, the cartoon is very hard-hitting. Why should it not be? After all, the Jewish government of Israel has killed, in the present campaign in Gaza, about 26,000 people, mostly civilians (and wounded, many badly, about 64,000).

Half the population of Gaza is under 18, and about a quarter is under 12. The arithmetic may not be exact, but that means that, in three months, the Israelis have killed about 6,500 small children and babies, and have wounded (including mutilation, and injury leading to amputations) about 15,500 children under 12, including babies.

It might be argued that the “offending” (?) cartoon is far more hard-hitting than any posted by me on this blog (and in respect of which, inter alia, a magistrates’ court will sentence me next week); likewise, that Bob Moran cartoon is, arguably, more hard-hitting than anything posted by Alison Chabloz years ago (in respect of which she was actually imprisoned in the end).

Not that I wish for the cartoonist to be prosecuted. Far from it. Satirical cartoons were always part of the rough and tumble of British opinion and commentary, that is until “they” arrived and started to influence the legislature, the police and, now, the Crown Prosecution Service.

Free speech is now all but dead in the UK.

Finally, funny how those who have reposted that cartoon in order to attack Bob Moran have spread the cartoon far and wide online and offline! Indeed, I myself would otherwise have been unaware of its existence.

Cartoons should be freely publishable.

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Diary Blog, 14 January 2024

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[Kennet & Avon Canal]

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12960047/PETER-HITCHENS-foreign-brawl-Oh-grow-fix-pothole-peppered-roads.html

“Oh, when will Britain just grow up? We have no money, yet we spend billions on arming Ukraine in a dubious war in which we have no national interest. We cannot control the beaches on our southern shores, on which strangers land almost daily, but we tail along behind the Americans in the pretence that we can control the Red Sea as we seek (as far as I can grasp) to get entangled in yet another war in the Middle East. Haven’t we had enough of these stupid brawls?

We spend decades failing to do justice to wronged postmasters. We cannot keep order in our pothole-peppered streets. Our children can’t read or write. Our universities, when they are not imposing mad speech codes on students and teachers, sell themselves to the highest bidder to ensure they can pay their vice-chancellors’ enormous salaries.

We have created a society in which working hard is probably the worst possible route to riches. If you want to be comfortably off (and perhaps get a decoration or a peerage too), go and strip some assets, or sell dodgy PPE to the NHS, or some such.“

[Peter Hitchens, in the Mail on Sunday]

Also, from the same Peter Hitchens column:

“Might I too be sanctioned for saying the ‘wrong’ thing?”  

“At some point I shall write at more length about the High Court’s failure last week to come to the aid of Graham Phillips, the unlovable video blogger sanctioned by the Foreign Office.

The case is not about Mr Phillips. It is about free speech, and whether the Government can punish people for exercising it.

I might say I was (in the judge’s words) ‘an objective independent and fair-minded journalist’ who had happened to say things that ‘did not align’ with UK Government policy. But how would I prove it? The Government would be its own prosecution, judge and jury, and my only recourse would be to take the matter before someone, well, like Mr Justice Johnson. Be warned. These are dark times for dissent.”

Don’t I know it! Sad to say, the likes of Peter Hitchens, Toby Young, Farage, the “Free Speech Union” etc have not mentioned my “case” once. Disbarred (wrongfully and unlawfully, which the Bar Standards Board itself accepts was the case) in 2016, and now facing court sentence (in a few weeks’ time) for having allegedly posted a few home truths about the Jew-Zionists in the UK and Israel/Palestine.

People might argue that the apparent lack of interest (or is it out of fear of the Jewish lobby?) on the part of Hitchens (himself of course part-Jew), Toby Young (uncertain) etc is because I am not sufficiently well-known (and so of too little importance) for those puffed-up characters to take an interest in how my rights to freedom of expression are being trashed.

Well, if so, that scarcely chimes with the assertion of the malicious Jewish or Jew-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] itself, on their own website and Twitter/X account, to the effect that it has taken them seven years of effort to finally have the (corrupt and/or suborned) police and Crown Prosecution Service get me into court (magistrates’ court) and have me tried and convicted of having posted supposedly “grossly offensive” remarks, cartoons etc about Jews or Jew-Zionists on my blog (those remarks and cartoons being only a small part of the allegedly posted blog posts, and those five blog posts only 5 of over 1,700 posted since this blog started to operate in late 2016, over seven years ago).

As to my case itself, anyone interested might like to know that, though I am inclined to appeal the conviction (the trial was a couple of months ago), I shall only decide on that after the sentencing hearing.

If I do appeal, the appeal would be, in effect, a complete retrial, but this time in the Crown Court. There does exist another route of appeal, by “case stated” to the Divisional Court (i.e. High Court) on point of law, but I should probably take the more usual route if I do appeal, i.e. via the Crown Court. If that happens, the appeal might not be heard until late 2024, or even on some date in 2025.

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https://twitter.com/DefundIsraelNow/status/1746321843026571503

“They”, meaning (((they))), have thoroughly infiltrated the UK mass media, publishing etc over the past 75+ years. That applies even more to anything published about the Second World War, “holocaust” etc.

Ha ha. The Financial Times has lost all credibility in recent years, and politically is on or about the same level as someone such as Paul Mason. Pathetic.

“Yemeni Houtis maintain offensive capabilities despite US bombing US and British forces in the Red Sea struck 30 targets of Yemen’s Houthis.

It is stated that “about 90 percent of targets were damaged or destroyed.” Lieutenant General Douglas Sims even states that “the strikes achieved their goal of crippling the Houthis’ ability to conduct sophisticated drone and missile attacks.”

At the same time, two American officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The New York Times that even after massive bombing, the Houthis retain “three-quarters of their offensive capabilities.”

“Locating Houthi targets has proven more difficult than expected,” as, according to the officials, “US and other Western intelligence agencies have not spent significant time or resources in recent years collecting data on the locations of Houthi air defenses, command centers, ammunition depots, as well as facilities for the storage and production of drones and missiles.” Currently, the Pentagon is forced to conduct an urgent analysis of the situation and literally in real time assign targets for troops to strike.“

The USA has a short collective memory. “What goes around comes around”…

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/.

You cannot compare the Israeli-Jew mindset with that of nominally Christian countries, or even that of the Soviet Union under Stalin; you have to revisit the Old Testament, in which the ancient Israelites wiped whole tribes and nations off the map.

So in just over three months, the Israeli war machine has killed or injured over 84,000 people, the vast majority civilians. It is worth remembering, also, that about half of those killed or injured have been under 18 years of age, and about half of those under 12 years of age. Israeli war crimes.

Those supporting those war crimes, and who are resident in the UK, France, USA, are also guilty.

I certainly disagree with the overall state of society in Russia (as well as in the UK and Western Europe, let alone USA etc), but the fact remains that Putin “bestrides the narrow world like a colossus” when compared to political pygmies such as Sunak, Starmer, Macron etc, and of course poor old dementia sufferer Biden.

https://twitter.com/GoochLin/status/1746516115889467803

If you would not have sympathy for predators and pillagers who get hurt trying to break into and enter your individual home, why would you sympathize with predators and pillagers trying to break into our collective home— “this England“?

“Gonzalo Lira’s last public statement is chilling. He knew that if arrested, he would die in a Ukrainian prison. He pleaded for public outcry to put pressure on the U.S. State Department to do what it ordinarily does for American citizens trapped in these circumstances. But the outcry never came. The mainstream media ignored his story. So State Department officials were free to ignore the plight of a journalist who had criticized them. Gonzalo was abandoned.

And so the Ukrainian government could treat him as they wished, as they treat other dissenters and critics — with imprisonment, brutality and murder.”

I published Lira’s last tweet (before his final arrest) a few months ago on the blog. Sadly, it looks as though the brutal, murderous, corrupt yet shambolic Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev has finally killed him.

Meanwhile, Rishi Sunak, the little Indian money-juggler presently posing as UK Prime Minister, is just now gifting the Jew Zelensky another £2.5 BILLIONS of UK taxpayers’ money.

The Kiev regime is toast regardless of how many billions are thrown its way by Sunak, Biden etc. Its people are not reproducing themselves, its population numbers are collapsing, it has no volunteers asking to join its armed forces, only foreign mercenaries from poor parts of the world (the Western ones have all gone home or been killed off in battle), and the Kiev regime is press-ganging any Ukrainians able to walk and talk, regardless of health, fitness, and age (except the gilded offspring of the pseudo-elite).

“Ukraine”, the failed state, only keeps fighting because the UK, USA etc are supplying arms, ammunition, medical supplies, food, and vast amounts of UK/US/EU taxpayers’ money.

All the same, strategically, Ukraine has already lost. The failed 2023 summer counter-offensive proved that. Once the ground is hard, very soon, Russian armour will rule the land, as Russian air already rules the skies.

Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure is already largely shattered.

The Russian economy is doing better not only compared to the collapsed economy of Ukraine but also better than those of the UK, USA, and EU.

In any case, even if (which cannot now happen, realistically) the Kiev regime could contemplate advancing in eastern Ukraine or (impossible) southern Russia, Russia has devastating weapons which have not even been used yet, not least tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.

I repeat, “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) simply cannot “win” this war.

Jesus H. Christ! There are still idiots, or maliciously tendentious types, like that Dominic Campbell tweeter, who can claim that Europe (inc. UK) is somehow better off because it is flooded by huge numbers of low-skilled, often hostile, immigrants. “Treason” is a word often bandied about carelessly, but what else is such deliberately misinformed and misinforming nonsense?

The said tweeter is obviously one of those who thinks himself part of a self-regarding “enlightened”/”woke” fake “elite”. Wrongly, at that.

Immigration is good for the ultra-wealthy, and exploitative transnational companies, because a larger population creates more consumer demand, and because pay rates and benefit rates are automatically lower as more potential workers flood in. For 99% of the population, though, mass immigration is a disaster.

We, the British people, do not need more “debate”, more research papers, more msm yapping on chat shows or Question Time, more pointless dialogue with idiots or enemies. We need political action to create an ethnostate.

I myself am already facing a sentencing hearing in court, after my recent political trial, for having published the truth about what is happening in our society. I therefore cannot speak freely. Read between the lines, dear blog readers…

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Diary Blog, 28 December 2023

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[Neuschwanstein]

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Spectacular. I have to admit that I had never heard of that place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen-y-ghent.

…which is being underwritten by the taxpayers of the USA, UK, EU states etc.

WEF, NWO, ZOG etc (labels).

Ah. I remember her. Corrupt (like all “Ukrainian” political leeches), but I have to admit that she had a very beautiful daughter; the daughter married a rock musician from Yorkshire called Sean Carr. Michael Palin interviewed the daughter and her husband in one of his travel shows. At the time, that daughter would have been in her twenties, and he would have been nearly 40. They eventually divorced (Carr died in 2018, at the early age of 50).

Horses for courses. There are places, there are parts of the world, where you cannot rely on the police to respond. In much of Europe, including the UK, that is not (yet) the case, but in the UK the situation is clearly deteriorating. The police are attending fewer and fewer incidents and/or reported crimes.

Vertigo sufferers need not apply.

Something that Jew-Zionists in the UK (eg the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal) might like to ponder upon…

The transnational conspirators will probably provoke another world war in order to try to reset the agenda.

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Diary Blog, 15 December 2023

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[Ivan Kramskoy, Russalki (water sprites)]

Talking point

Regular readers will know that I myself was recently convicted of —in effect— speaking the truth on this blog, a prosecution procured by improper pressure from the Jew-Zionist cabal “Campaign Against Antisemitism”; pressure applied by the “CAA” on suborned police, the Crown Prosecution Service, and even the Director of Public Prosecutions.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12862953/Hundreds-middle-aged-adults-dying-month-Covid-ended.html

“An extra 28,000 deaths logged across the UK in the first six months of 2023.

The spike in mortality is especially stark among people aged 50 to 64.

Hundreds more middle-aged Brits are dying every month than expected, with experts blaming unhealthy lifestyles and the NHS crisis for the surge in excess deaths. 

An extra 28,000 deaths, or more than 1,000 a week, were logged across the UK in the first six months of the year, according to fresh analysis of official figures.

The spike in mortality is especially stark among people aged 50 to 64, with 15 per cent more dying than usual.

An analysis of the data, published in The Lancet, also noted that more people are dying at homes rather than hospitals.

During the pandemic, excess deaths were focused among older adults.

But there is now a pattern of ‘persisting excess deaths which are most prominent in relative terms in middle-aged and younger adults’, the authors wrote.

Anti-vaxxers have claimed excess deaths are down to Covid jabs but scientists insist that the injections, which have saved tens of millions of lives globally, are not to blame.”

[Daily Mail]

Yes, System propaganda and compliant medics are insisting that the Covid “vaccines” have nothing to do with this trend. Almost anything else is being blamed— lifestyles, lack of exercise, booze etc etc.

I blogged some time ago about how my own two younger brothers, both lifelong amateur sportsmen (golf, tennis, other sports), and without any history of heart disease, both had to have emergency heart operations in 2022. Both survived, one in the UK and one in Australia; both had received multiple “vaccine” injections in the preceding two years.

I, on the other hand, have not done any kind of sport or physical recreation for 20+ years (though in younger days —1980s, 1990s— I swam several times per week, sometimes for several miles, as well as doing —though not for very long— taekwando at one time and, at school in the early 1970s —albeit unwillingly— rowing, and at same age—more willingly, though again not for long— fencing).

I never accepted the supposed Covid “vaccines”, and have no heart problems.

There is an absolute epidemic across the “Western” world of previously healthy people suddenly dying, usually from heart attacks.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/14/sunak-scraps-dedicated-minister-disabled-people-government

“Rights campaigners have reacted with anger to the news that Downing Street will not appoint a new dedicated minister of state for disabled people, describing it as an “appalling and retrograde move”.“

[Guardian]

Another reason not to vote for any “Conservative” Party candidate.

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https://twitter.com/Dr_Onlyme/status/1731436832661946628

Sad how many “Tommy Robinson”-type “British patriots” are bamboozled, like tweeter “macandcheek”, into supporting Israel and the UK Jewish lobby. Pathetic.

See also: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

Good grief! Look at them…

However much one despises the present “Conservative” misgovernment, it is almost frightening to realize that “woke” cretins such as lesbian extremist Kate Osborne may actually have important governmental roles by 2025.

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

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I have occasionally posed, on the blog, the obviously rhetorical question “could an Englishman become head of government, or even an MP, in any African state today? India? Pakistan? Israel?” No, of course not.

Britain is going mad, has largely gone mad, and has been made mad.

https://twitter.com/Lucas_Gage_/status/1735653119776702554

Good grief. Not one only, though; three or four grenades. I have never seen anything like it.

https://twitter.com/MAbdullah21902/status/1735674941834428504

If either Kemi Badenoch or Suella Braverman become Con Party leader, it will be yet another sign of the now quite fast advance of the “Great Replacement”. Look at many of the leading politicians in England, Scotland and Wales. There because they are not English, Welsh, or Scottish…

Utter mugs, giving money each month to that fraudulent “grifter” “Jack Monroe”.

If Israel can be totally taken down, the worldwide web centred on it can be dismantled, one country at a time or all at once.

https://twitter.com/TheMuslim786/status/1735723646960931292

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Diary Blog, 13 December 2023

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[under Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, London]

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12856665/farmer-dragging-husky-car-died-avoids-jail.html.

“A farmer who was filmed dragging his white husky along the road while it was tied to the back of his car before she died has avoided jail.

Kim Norman Rendall, 65, was filmed callously dragging his pet pooch Daisy by a rope for around 200 metres, along Timsbury Road in High Littleton, near Bath.

Bristol Crown Court heard numerous motorists witnessed the horror and tried to stop Rendall by beeping and flashing their lights at his red Nissan Micra. But he refused to get help for Daisy and later left her to die in a cow barn. 

Daisy was eventually found by police but was left severely injured in the incident on the afternoon of April 17 this year and had to be put to sleep nine days later.

Rendall was sentenced today to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, 300 hours of unpaid work alongside a 20 year disqualification from having or keeping animals with the exception of cattle, and fish.

[Daily Mail]

Inadequate. The retired policemen recently convicted for a few trivial jokes and remarks on WhatsApp got about the same.

Animals are still not adequately protected, including protection by deterrence.

If ever an animal cruelty case demanded at least a token few —or several, or more— weeks in the clink, this was it.

The matter is now in the hands of higher powers, and also, perhaps, those of local residents.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12856793/Keir-Starmers-immigration-policy-lie-DANIEL-HANNAN.html

“Sir Keir Starmer‘s immigration policy is based on a lie. A well-intentioned lie, a lie designed to make us feel better about ourselves; but a lie nonetheless, a lie that will eventually bring down any Government he gets to lead.

He trotted out his falsehood again and again in interviews yesterday. Labour‘s solution to illegal immigration was to ‘break the gangs’.

Ah, what a delightful idea. Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could blame the Channel crossings on a few evil people traffickers? 

We could then regard every illegal entrant as a victim — the highest accolade our debased age bestows. We could imagine them all as desperate families who have been exploited by callous mafiosi. We could divert resentment of illegal immigration away from the illegals themselves.

The trouble is, it’s piffle. The idea that demand would dry up if there were no middlemen is a fantasy. Blaming people-traffickers is sheer deflection.

We are, in other words, just starting a new age of mass migration, a völkerwanderung. How we deal with it will define the politics of every wealthy country. I have no doubt that much of the legal infrastructure we put in place after World War II, including the UN Refugee Convention (1951) and the European Convention on Human Rights (1953) will end up being dismantled.“

[Daily Mail]

[migration-invasion]

As Hannan says, the post-1945 legal architecture was never designed to allow potentially —and quite literally— hundreds of millions of migrant-invaders the “right” to invade Europe. That is the scale of the danger facing us.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12856771/Third-Gen-Z-Millenials-nervous-restaurants.html

“A third of both Gen Z and Millennials admit they get so nervous when they eat out they are afraid to order their own food – and have to ask someone to do it for them.

A new study found ‘menu anxiety’ is most felt by those aged between 18 and 24 as 34 per cent confess they ask others to choose and speak to the waiter for them.

And when they do finally order, a third (33 per cent) of 25-34 year old’s will choose what to eat based on what will look best on social media.“

[Daily Mail]

Is this a sign that evolution is telling us that the present society does not deserve to survive in its present form?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12856947/rishi-sunak-net-zero-cop28.html

“Britain’s Net Zero minister flies 7,000 miles from the Cop28 climate summit and back again just to vote on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill.”

[Daily Mail]

I saw about 10 mins of Sky News coverage of that ludicrous COP28 jamboree. Some woman, a total clown, was talking about how vital it all was (just like it was last time, and in Copenhagen in 2009, when it turned out that the idiots could not even organize their own conference without creating chaos).

This is akin to the Covid “panicdemic”— those preaching from on high, from their massively-polluting private jets, do not really believe the bs they want the masses to believe (and so be compliant with all manner of “official” demands and restrictions).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12855743/Generation-disinformation-One-FIVE-Americans-aged-18-30-think-Holocaust-MYTH-say-exaggerated-according-shock-poll-shows-Democrats-likely-believe-conspiracy.html.

“One in five young Americans believe the Holocaust did not happen, a shock poll has found.

The survey, by The Economist and YouGov., included 1,500 people ranging in age from 18 to over 65 years old who were asked a series of questions about the massacre of six million Jews. 

Approximately 20 percent of people aged 18 to 29 agreed with the statement ‘the Holocaust is a myth’ and even more believed the death toll has been exaggerated.

“Another survey asked 1,500 Americans if they agreed or disagreed with the statement, ‘The Holocaust has been exaggerated.’

For the 18 to 29 group, 23 percent agreed, and 26 percent neither agreed or disagreed.“

So at least 49%…

People are waking up to the fraud and fakery.

The msm bias and absurdity is plain: the Daily Mail scribbler thinks that “the holocaust” is an “event“…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12855619/Shocking-moment-far-right-MP-uses-fire-extinguisher-Hanukkah-candles-Polish-parliament-blasts-female-official-face-tries-stop-him.html

Worth reading. In our “free” country, I am effectively barred from commenting (thanks to “you know who”), so I shall not, not at present anyway.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12856425/British-advertising-firm-billboard-campaign-kidnapped-Israelis-complaints.html

“A British advertising firm has allegedly pulled a billboard campaign that pictured  Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 following ‘an unusual volume of complaints from the public’.

The campaign was organised by the Israeli Embassy…

London Lites terminated what was meant to be a two-week ad campaign on boards throughout the capital after just six days, Jewish News reports.

The company reportedly said that it had received thousands of complaints in response to the posters, which picture Israeli hostages and feature the now-famous hashtag ‘Bring Them Home Now’.

The Israeli Embassy in London said in response to the adverts being taken down: ‘We regret that the “London Lites” company caved to the threats of an extreme minority in the UK, which forcefully tries to limit freedom of expression. 

‘The Embassy is considering further steps against the company.“

[Daily Mail]

So the Israeli Embassy deprecates “the threats of an extreme minority in the UK, which forcefully tries to limit freedom of expression.“

Ha. They should talk to their collaborators in the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] in that case. That malicious cabal is engaged in a persistent campaign to do just that— to limit and kill off the freedom of expression of British people, as witness my own persecution over the past decade, culminating recently in actual prosecution, a prosecution procured by political pressure exerted by the “CAA”, and the Jew-Zionist lobby generally, on the CPS, right up to the level of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Indeed, it is the “CAA” that has recently had vans driving around London carrying large illuminated posters of the Gaza hostages. The “CAA” is a major collaborator of the Israeli Embassy in this and other activities.

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Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia

[Adolf Hitler, surrounded by well-wishers, at the 1936 Olympiad]

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There are environmentalists who are genuine, and others who are not: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2016/11/17/social-nationalism-and-green-politics/.

See also (from 2018): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/06/09/society-politics-and-the-mental-landscape/.

If I say so myself, who shouldn’t, that blog post has held up rather well over the intervening 5-6 years. I hope that more people see it (there were a couple of hits today) before the (((usual suspects))) manage to use the suborned legal system to censor or even temporarily remove the blog.

“Why” is easy to understand. Pseudo-liberal “democracy” has not been providing the people with what they need. However, “populism” without social nationalism becomes merely a fake, a front for those who are under the thumb of Israel and the Jewish lobby. Think Farage, Tice, “Reform UK”. What think you, Monsieur Goodwin? Oh…

It is even possible that the Conservative Party will get a nationwide vote-share of well below 25%, or even below 20%, as even formerly die-hard Con voters are turned off by the sheer ineptitude of the bunch of clowns pretending to be a Cabinet and Government.

Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] puts the Con Party result for 2024, on the above premises (based on a 16% Con vote), as a total of 39 MPs (even a 20% vote might give the Con Party only 59 MPs).

Much, of course, depends on whether the Labour vote holds up or not. If it falls below 40% nationwide, the result might be very different.

Still, Goodwin must be right as far as “historic defeat” is concerned. In 1945, the Con Party was left with 197 MPs; in 1997 only 165. At present, it seems as if the 2024 result might be even more striking: somewhere between 25 and 125 MPs.

Ha ha! Slava!

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Diary Blog, 30 November 2023

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[painting by Jack Vettriano]

Tweets seen

Talking of American “Christian Zionists”, when I lived in New Jersey, over 30 years ago, one would often see cars carrying bumper stickers, occasionally amusing. One such was that proclaiming “If the driver of this car disappears, he has gone to Rapture“, “Rapture” being the idea that the religiously “Blessed” will all be taken up and protected by higher powers as the world in general is destroyed.

Actually, there were several bumper stickers seen back then that I found amusing, such as “My wife— yes. My car— maybe. My gun— NEVER!“, and the short and rather bitter “Jane Fonda— American traitor bitch“.

Most English people do not go in for bumper stickers, though I saw one many years ago in Cornwall that said “Too close for missiles; switching to guns“, which I took to be a former Naval person of some sort.

“I’ll admit it: I never really expected the Tories to cut migration by much, despite their promises. But I also didn’t expect them to double it. In fact, net migration has more than doubled since Covid. In 2019, about 227,000 more people arrived than left the UK. In the year ending December 2022, it was 745,000.

[that’s “more than tripled“, not merely “more than doubled”]

One might explain that extraordinary figure as a product of one-off factors: a catch-up after the pandemic, plus the Ukraine and Hong Kong schemes. But as of this week we have another half-year of data. In the year to June 2023, net migration still added an astonishing 672,000 to our population. So this is not an anomaly.

It is a further, massive liberalisation of Britain’s economic and social model after a period in which voters have made it overwhelmingly, blisteringly clear that they want to tighten it.

• I don’t know plan to cut arrivals, says Badenoch

The rationale, as ever, is the fiscal bottom line. During the past couple of decades migration has increasingly been the lever pulled to smooth out structural problems in our economy, but never has it been used so dramatically. The latest uptick in numbers is driven primarily by the recruitment of overseas care workers, who were made eligible for visas only early last year. Within months, care workers began to account for a third of all long-term work visas granted by the entire British immigration system.

Why did this happen? The government’s migration quango, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), stated that visas might be used as a “temporary” measure to make up for the inability to recruit immigrants from the EU. But this “temporary” measure has led to a surge in care workers far greater than we have seen before, this time from India, Nigeria and the Philippines rather than eastern Europe. Like the previous surges, it will no doubt permanently alter the labour market.

The main effect is to prevent wages from rising and working conditions from improving. The MAC has stated for years that we do not have enough care workers because care homes don’t pay them enough. Turnover in the sector runs at 28 per cent, creating a constant need for overseas recruits.

Unfortunately, instead of solving the shortage, the new recruits mainly replace current workers. As Miriam Cates pointed out in parliament this week, the UK recruited 70,000 care workers last year but vacancies in the sector only dropped by 11,000. Meanwhile, 20,000 British staff left, making the workforce ever more reliant on visas, which in turn gives employers greater power to exploit staff and effectively shave wages further. So much for this being a temporary fix.

In most sectors, of course, we would demand to know why employers are not fixing the problem. During the chronic shortage of lorry drivers after Covid, the spotlight rightly fell on the haulage industry, which had not delivered a real-terms pay rise in the UK for more than a decade. The usual suspects declared that solving the problem without much higher migration was impossible because modern Britons are constitutionally ill-suited to driving lorries. Instead, the industry began handing out massive bonuses and the government granted more licences. Miraculously, the shortage eased.

Why can’t the care sector do the same? Quite simply, because its biggest customer is the government and the government won’t pay up. It would rather let the sector run on knife-edge margins and loosen visa requirements. In other words, it is cannibalising its own supply chain in the manner of the most short-sighted and rapacious corporate.

The stupidest part is that this will probably end up costing money rather than saving it. The data suggests that whereas EU migrants tended to pay more in taxes than they received in benefits, non-EU migrants are, on average, net recipients from the tax system. This is particularly true when they bring dependent family members, as many on the new visa scheme do, and work minimum-wage jobs, as in the care sector.

Worse, despite overseeing a huge increase in annual migration, the government has made absolutely no plan for how it will build the additional infrastructure, housing and public services capacity needed to make sure the new workers have everything they need. The Treasury does not account for these costs at all on the bottom line. Perhaps that is because it knows the government cannot build this stuff anyway — in which case, the economic cost will be reflected in overcrowding, rationing, queues, rising rents and a general deterioration in living standards.

As should be obvious, none of this is the fault of the workers themselves. And if I had a close relative in care, it is the attitudes of the staff that would interest me rather than their home continent. This is not a question of judging individuals by their background. It is a question of numbers, the pace of cultural change and the economic model this country aspires to build.”

[Juliet Samuel in the Times]

[Note: the above quoted article only became available to republish on 2 December 2023].

“Woke” is a pseudo-religious belief system which views minority groups as sacred, is hostile toward the majority, subordinates individual rights behind fixed group (racial/sexual/gender) identities, opposes the objective scientific method in favour of subjective “lived experience”, & expands speech codes (“hate”, “racism”, etc) to erode free speech and try and silence critics in the name of “social justice”.“

In some respects, Matt Goodwin talks a lot of sense, but his apparent adherence to the Jew-Zionist lobby rules him out, politically.

The “CAA” goblins, admitting once again (they have done so several times) that I was recently prosecuted only because they applied political pressure for that over the past two or three years.

They also admit that the “CAA” has been secretly pushing for my prosecution (on various trumped-up charges) since at least 2016, and have admitted on their website that Jew-Zionist-lobby puppet “lord” Ian Austin (the former expenses cheat MP and Israel puppet) had actually written to the Director of Public Prosecutions demanding that I be prosecuted.

Apparently, this was because tweets on my then-existing Twitter account (closed in 2018 after more pressure from the same Jew-Zionist lobby) were supposedly “antisemitic”.

Ironically, the “CAA” thus shot themselves in the foot, because the closure of my Twitter account in 2018 meant that the CPS did not have evidence sufficient to charge me —as the “CAA” and suborned police idiots wanted— with a more serious offence —absurd though that would have been— that of “incitement to racial hatred“.

Soon, the Online Harms Bill will be law. Under that law, I could not have been prosecuted at all (because “harm done” will apparently be the nub of the new law and, in my recent prosecution and trial, the Crown Prosecution Service admitted from the outset that there had been no harm done by the 5 allegedly “grossly offensive” blog posts allegedly published). Neither were they able to produce even one notional “victim”.

I suppose that the “CAA” goblins will then have to invent some “harm done” so that they can continue to repress free speech via a supine or suborned police and CPS establishment.

I did, or did not do, the same, was never affected or (maybe) infected by “Covid”, despite being a great deal older than tweeter David Morgan.

Bravo.

…and, were I to do the same (on the blog), I should probably have the Hampshire Police (“cosplaying” as a more polite kind of DDR Stasi) at my door again (as has happened several times in the past, the last such having been in 2021).

I agree. Both my (slightly younger) brothers, both amateur sportsmen all their lives, both without previous serious medical conditions (one living in the UK, one in Australia), had emergency heart operations in 2022. Both survived (one had a triple by-pass) and recovered. Anything else? Oh, yes, both had had multiple “Covid” pseudo-“vaccine” shots…

Late tweets

Andrew Neil was the best political interviewer in the country. His fatal flaw is his adherence to the Israel lobby and the general Jewish-Zionist lobby.

What can one say? Our political system is totally broken. A total moron such as Esther McVey can be appointed Cabinet minister only because the political system is at rock-bottom.

Idiots like her, however, are taken care of by the corrupt System even when the voters chuck them out, as happened to Esther McVey in 2015. Having lost her Commons seat, she spent 18 months as Chair of the British Transport Police Authority, despite knowing nothing about either policing or transport.

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

Wolves are remarkable animals. They are said to kill any of their pack that are wounded badly, rather than allow them to be captured by enemies.

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Diary Blog, 19 November 2023, with brief reminiscence of Charleston, South Carolina, and mint juleps

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[“At the end stands Victory”]

Peter Hitchens

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12765795/PETER-HITCHENS-Liberty-fought-tyranny-barely-noticed-court-hearing-week-believe-one-important-cases-time.html.

“Liberty fought tyranny in the High Court in London last week, in what I believe is one of the most important court cases of our time. The issues were simple. Is it permissible to disagree publicly with the British Government‘s foreign policy?

If not, how much do you have to disagree with it to be in trouble? And can you then be severely punished without a proper trial?

I have a strong personal interest in this, since I often (in fact, almost always) disagree with British foreign policy. This frequently seems to have been made by bomb-happy teenagers who have never looked at a map, opened a history book or done any proper travel.

These are surely huge issues for any country. Apart from anything else, if foreign policy cannot be criticised, how long before domestic policy is protected in the same way?“

[Mail on Sunday/Daily Mail]

Well worth reading.

[cf. my own trial, just now finished (at least at first instance)].

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From over a year ago but nothing has changed since then.

Anyone who thinks that misnamed “Labour” will be somehow better than the equally-misnamed “Conservatives” is self-deluding. Having said that, the “Con Party” does deserve to be stamped on and reduced to a tiny caucus at the 2024 General Election.

https://twitter.com/AnchalaShin/status/1726211833017860506

Stop the migration-invasion. Remove those not wanted in this country. Eliminate rogue landlords and buy-to-let parasites. Build decent homes for British people.

Bob Stewart was at least well-known. Any replacement will probably attract fewer votes even before the slide in Con Party fortunes is taken into account.

Beckenham has been a fairly safe Conservative seat since its creation in 1950. The Conservatives won easily even at the General Election of 1997, and the scandals around Piers Merchant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Merchant] did not prevent his successor from winning the seat at the by-election (also in 1997): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_1990s.

That it looks as if Beckenham will go Labour in 2024 is of wider significance, and underlines the almost existential crisis of the Conservative Party.

Another fact of straw-in-the-wind significance is that the likely new MP for Beckenham is one Marina Ahmad, a Bangladeshi who moved to the UK when 6 months old. The Great Replacement?…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ahmad; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Stewart_(politician)[.

[Update, 13 October 2024: in the end, Marina Ahmad was shoved aside (I think after being labelled “antisemitic”) in favour of one Liam Conlon, the 20-something son of Keir Starmer’s collaborator, former civil servant and would-be queen bee, Sue Gray, who held the position of Chief of Staff at 10, Downing Street from July 2024 until (it seems) her interference and politicking made Starmer demote her and chuck her out of the first circle of power in October 2024. Conlon won the new Beckenham and Penge seat with 49.3% of the vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckenham_and_Penge_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s].

Mint julep

A word about a favourite drink, though one not had by me for some 20 years.

“I must descant a little upon the mint julep, as it is… one of the most delightful and insinuating potations that was ever invented, and may be drunk with satisfaction when the thermometer is as low as 70 degrees.

There are many varieties, such as those composed of claret, Madeira, &c., but the ingredients of the real Mint Julep are as follows. I learned how to make them and succeeded pretty well. Put into a tumbler about a dozen sprigs of the tender shoots of mint, upon them put a spoonful of white sugar, and equal proportions of peach and common brandy, so as to fill it up one-third, or perhaps a little less.

Then take rasped or pounded ice, and fill up the tumbler. Epicures rub the lip of the tumbler with a piece of fresh pineapple, and the tumbler itself is very often incrusted outside with stalactites of ice.

As the ice melts, you drink.

I once overheard two ladies talking in the room next to me, and one of them said, “Well, if I have a weakness for any one thing, it is for a mint julep!”–a very amiable weakness, and proving her good sense and good taste. They are, in fact, like the American ladies–irresistible!“

[Captain Marryatt— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Marryat].

Frankly My Dear, I’d Love a Mint Julep!—Drink Up #2

The typical mint julep of today, however, uses quality Bourbon more often than peach brandy and cognac.

Dickens also enjoyed the odd mint julep: https://www.foodhistory.com/foodnotes/leftovers/bev/julep/01/.

[Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and a giant mint julep]

Reminds me of happy times in Charleston, South Carolina, which I visited a few times in 2001 and 2002.

[Charleston S.C.]
[conservation district, Charleston S.C.]
[The Battery, Charleston S.C.; I stayed nearby]

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Diary Blog, 17 November 2023

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Battles past

When I was a victim of a malicious Zionist complaint…
The Slide of the English Bar and UK Society Continues and Accelerates
Diary Blog, 15 January 2022, including an outline of the failure of the latest Jew-Zionist attempt to prosecute me

My Daily Mail newspaper horoscope today

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12758871/horoscope-today-daily-star-sign-november-17-2023.html

“You’re struggling to understand something. The problem, is that everyone assumes that you know what’s going on. And they’re looking to you for guidance/leadership. It’s an uncomfortable sensation, which is making you feel even more uncertain and insecure. But your lack of understanding is based on a lack of knowledge. You don’t possess all the facts. This weekend brings an opportunity to make some subtle enquiries. Once you know more, you’ll be able to guide everyone in the right direction. It’s epiphany time.”

[Daily Mail]

Amusing, if nothing else…

“The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [Chinese proverb].

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation]

Announcement

Some regular readers will be aware that I am standing trial today, a prosecution brought by the Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] but in fact contrived by the serially-malicious “Campaign Against Anti-Semitism” or “CAA” after the CPS and police initially refused to prosecute me in 2021-2022 (see the blog post above for 15 January 2022).

However, not one of those malicious and cowardly Zionists is giving evidence (even of their usual perjured sort) against me. Indeed, there are no prosecution witnesses at all giving evidence against me (bar some formal police evidence on paper). Likewise, it is not alleged by the Prosecution that any “harm” has been done by me or my blog; neither is there any named “victim” or “aggrieved person”, not even of the (((usual))) contrived sort.

I am charged under the notorious “bad law” of the Communications Act 2003, s.127, recommended by the Law Commission for repeal, and which will soon be superseded by the Online Harms Bill when it becomes the Online Harms Act.

I have never been arrested or questioned in respect of the charges, and the summons to Court came via the post. A contrived and politically-motivated prosecution.

I refused Legal Aid and will be representing myself. The reasons for that are both practical and philosophical. I have decided not to invite any supporters or well-wishers to attend. I therefore stand alone against the (corrupted or suborned) forces of the State.

For reasons connected with propriety and any potential notional contempt of Court, I cannot blog in detail about the overall matter until the trial process is at an end (probably on Monday 20 November 2023, but possibly on a later date). However, I wanted to make an initial statement in case there is any attempt to interfere with the publication of the blog.

Wish me well.

Update, same day: Well, sadly, dear readers, the case went the wrong way for me. I shall know my fate by February 2024. Whether there will be an attempt to shut down the blog for a period of time after that, I do not know.

I shall not be blogging in detail about the case or today’s hearing until some time in 2024.

Free speech is now effectively dead in the UK.

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A trifle vulgar, but true all the same.