The appointment of an unfunny and uninteresting pseudo-comic American lesbianka as London “Night-time Tsar” (paid £133,000+ p.a. for a 3-day week) must rate as one of the most absurd appointments of the last decade, along with the elevation of “Boris” Johnson’s alleged illegitimate daughter, Charlotte Owen, as a member of the House of Lords in 2023 at the age of 29, despite having had no significant work or academic background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Owen,_Baroness_Owen_of_Alderley_Edge]
Having said that, I now see that, after the unexplained elevation of Charlotte Owen, an equally-absurd “ennoblement” occurred this very year, when one Carmen Smith of the joke-“nationalist” Welsh party, Plaid Cymru, was made a member of the House of Lords aged just 27. A woman whose academic background consists of having attended one year, if that, of a 3-year law degree in Wales, before she dropped out, and whose work experience consists of about 18-24 months as an office gopher for several organizations (she spent 6-10 months in each). Pathetic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Smith,_Baroness_Smith_of_Llanfaes.
Appointments of the type noted above bring the whole system of Parliament into (even more) opprobrium.
The Starmer-Labour government now intends to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the Lords. In principle, I would have no argument with that for several reasons: firstly, the hereditary peers (both those still sitting and the larger number removed by Blair in 1999) almost all had their “aristocratic” family pedigrees dating from as recently as 1900.
Until the era of George III (18thC), the House of Lords numbered only about 50 peers. By 1999, all but a handful of peers could trace their “aristocratic” lineage back only as far as the Lloyd George era of the early 20thC, when sales of honours happened on a wide scale.
The House of Lords has always, certainly from 1900, been a bit of a fake in terms of “aristocratic” credentials.
Having said that, Blair’s typically wrongheaded reform of 1999 has merely resulted in an ever-growing number of time-served ex-MPs, political donors, and low-grade cronies etc being given life peerages. Over 700 at latest count.
The two mentioned above, Charlotte Owen and Carmen Smith, are just the tip of the iceberg. As long ago as 2011, useless Oona King, half American black, half Jewish, was put into the Lords having lost her seat as MP in 2005, and having failed to become Mayor of London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oona_King. She had ridden the “diversity” carousel to get that far, and continues to do so, though she retired from the House of Lords in 2024 and is now “head of diversity” at, of all things, Uber taxis.
I read Oona King’s book of memoirs, The Oona King Diaries: House Music, many years ago. Utterly cretinous. I should have been able to refer readers of the blog to my Amazon review of the book, but the “usual suspects” (malicious Jew-Zionists) had my reviews all taken down over a decade ago. I am now unable to review on Amazon, despite once having been voted a “top 100” reviewer. “Free society”?
There seems little point in having the House of Lords at all now, even as a so-called “revising chamber”, a job at which the Lords is useless anyway.
“In 2023, 209 gang-rapes were reported to police in Germany’s Northern Rhine-Westphalia, the state with the largest population. 54% of suspects were migrants & 24% had non-German first names. Over three-quarters of all gang-rape suspects were foreign in origin” https://t.co/2ExPKGIO7t
Labour still being vague on how they will actually stop the boats. Why? Bc with soft borders, soft laws, no deterrent and lots of welfare we cannot stop the boats https://t.co/fOK2W2rShz
Goodwin forgot to mention that the leading cabals in all the System parties are effectively signed-up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan. They want to swamp the UK with non-whites.
77% of Germans want to reverse asylum and refugee policy
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 6, 2024
A number of NATO states, including the most important of all, the USA, are trying to edge away from the upcoming defeat of the Kiev regime.
In the West Bank,IDF share footage with Netenyahu’s channel 14 depicting them humiliating young Palestinian girls, women and elderly in Jenin. pic.twitter.com/3xCv7Prcax
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 6, 2024
British plastic surgeon Victoria Rose has spoken of the horrors she witnessed while volunteering in Gaza hospitals, treating Palestinian children with injuries sustained as a result of Israeli attacks. pic.twitter.com/Q4Rlmqt9jF
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 6, 2024
“80% of the victims were under-16; injuries from explosives” [Western doctor operating on patients in Gaza].
Israeli war crimes.
Sirsky: The armed forces of Ukraine are inferior to the Russian army " Russia really has an advantage in aviation, missiles, artillery, in the amount of ammunition used, and of course, in manpower, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles ," said the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian… pic.twitter.com/QOJKfZErod
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 6, 2024
“Sirsky: The armed forces of Ukraine are inferior to the Russian army ” Russia really has an advantage in aviation, missiles, artillery, in the amount of ammunition used, and of course, in manpower, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles ,” said the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Alexander Sirsky. According to his words, mobilization is now a priority for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
Russia could “win” this long and bitter conflict by simply flattening Kiev, but has not wanted to do that. Kiev was the first capital of Kievan Rus, before Moscow was even founded. It is a basic part of the Russian imperium, part of its history.
Broadcast media can’t survive in its current state *of living in a parallel universe. On @WokeWaste I screenshot everything, because the facts speak for themselves. Word is getting out that taxpayers are being fleeced, and for ideological ends. Mainstream can’t ignore it forever.
This case DEMANDS an inquest. 21-yr-old Tommy Roberts is dead because Border Force and @ukhomeoffice did not do their job on multiple occasions. A 19-yr-old Afghan murderer claiming to be a child was placed in a Bournemouth comprehensive. He went on to stab Tommy to death.… https://t.co/H4tBi8IHor
You forgot a bully too who judge juries and jails white working class for daring to see a riot while Muslim defence league run a mock throughout the country. We wont forget or forgive
I would probably not imprison “two-tier” Keir Starmer or dictatorial expenses cheat and freeloader Yvette Cooper even had I the power to do so. ‘Nuff said…
Were non-whites allowed to participate? If so, the “too high” figure there should be even higher, to reflect English/British opinion.
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They are all political prisoners the sentences do not reflect the crimes.
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 6, 2024
Only idiots and/or desperate Africans, South Asians, and Peruvians/Bolivians will join the Kiev-regime forces now. The early wave of would-be Rambo types, self-styled “dogs of war”, and clueless young adventurers is now history; most died in battle or went home in the end. Many were British ex-soldiers of, mostly, private-soldier rank, who found that the front lines were not only hazardous but very poorly-paid.
As for Ukrainians, most potential recruits are either evading the draft or have already avoided it by relocating to other countries.
Trump said he would lift US sanctions against Russia because they are hurting the dollar. pic.twitter.com/tK3FDpAOtT
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 6, 2024
Lift the sanctions. Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl. Stop fuelling this war which would not continue for more than a few weeks without the Western arms, ammunition, and money.
May Keir Starmer, David Lammy, Rishi Sunak, David Cameron, Joe Biden, Ursula von der Leyen and every single genocide-enabling disgrace never know a day of peace. Let them be haunted all the way to The Hague. Justice will come. pic.twitter.com/5Tk44U0R32
According to the malicious, tiny but very well-funded Jewish/Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], as many as 96% of “British” Jews consider themselves to be “Zionist”, and most of them also support what the Israeli Jews are doing in Gaza and elsewhere.
This case is extraordinary. An Afghan illegal migrant smuggled himself into Britain on a lorry in 2019, and went on to murder an aspiring Royal Marine (21-year-old Tom Roberts – do not forget his name) three years later.
The increasing support for Reform UK among (but not exclusively) “the young” seems to mirror the support for the AfD in Germany.
For me, Reform UK is not the way to go: pro-Israel, pro the UK Jewish lobby, economically “libertarian” etc. I agree with the Reform UK hostility to mass immigration, but not with much else they say. For me, real social nationalism is the way to go.
Still, the overall direction of travel is hopeful.
French officials now saying out loud what everybody knows to be true. When it comes to illegal migration Britain is a soft touch. That’s why the boats are coming. And that’s why they’ll keep cominghttps://t.co/fiigufysE3pic.twitter.com/szQcbCRBdk
You see tweets, or on TV, that “at least the migrants are prepared to work“, but first of all that applies to some, not all; secondly, what that naive assessment omits to add is that the kind of work most of them (the ones that are willing to work) want to do (or can do, having no usable qualifications or skills, or English language), is in the “black economy”. No income tax, no VAT etc. That way, they can get whatever State benefits they can blag as well as whatever they can make on the side, so rent paid, pocket money, maybe disability too in some cases. Child benefit, if applicable. You get the idea.
The bigger picture, as Goodwin has said, is that that whole process traps this country into being a low-wage, low productivity economy. Exactly the opposite of where we should be heading.
Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist when he was president:
– Victoria Nuland! Save all your papers and hire a lawyer, because we are coming for you, baby. You are the source of everything that is happening with Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/ui0ioABMPH
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 5, 2024
That would be good.
Arkady Milman, a former Israeli ambassador to Moscow and a senior Israeli official, said new Russian Su-35 fighter jets would soon arrive in Iran. The appearance of these Russian aircraft in Iran could significantly change the balance of power in the region, which is causing… pic.twitter.com/ZXa7wFE5RX
What a sad country we live in with a neighbour dobbing in this farmer. What miserable, miserable people this country is churning out. No pride anymore.
The self-describing “left” is particularly prone to denunciation. In fact, in modern Britain, that is its sole characteristic of note. No more do they want to revolt against privilege, or have a revolution of some sort. No, all they want to do is to obey the dictates of the State (especially if fronted by a “Labour” label), and to “deplatform” or “cancel” (censor or ban) anyone thought to be an independent thinker (usually someone labelled “racist” or “fascist” or “Nazi“). You saw the syndrome during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, of course. Anyone questioning the nonsense pumped out by Government or “SAGE” (I preferred “DUMB”— the Department Under Matt and Boris) was called a “Covidiot” by real idiots such as Piers Morgan.
All encouraged and all given the support of government and other authorities. Not Britain's finest hour dobbing people in.
You can send 200 to somewhere like Rwanda, maybe even 2,000; at a pinch, maybe even 20,000. You cannot, however, send 200,000, or 2 million, or 4 million, or 6 million or more.
These MAGA boomers make me laugh. “Make sure you follow my backup account in case I get banned” and their most controversial opinion is there are only two genders. You’re safe, guys. 🤣
Swallow the J-pill and then watch what happens to your account.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) September 5, 2024
I hope that all readers of the blog will read the tweets of David Morgan, a bold young man from Wales.
Kamala Harris Vows to Use Justice Department to Crack Down on Free Speech
"I will direct the Justice Department to censor 'disinformation and hate' on the Internet" pic.twitter.com/A00Gtu6cVY
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 5, 2024
Get rid of her.
" The United States is afraid of losing Ukrainian troops before the November presidential elections, because it will be very bad for the Biden administration, and especially for Kamala Harris. Ukraine, even with American or Western weapons, cannot improve the situation on the… pic.twitter.com/ijrhEhqm6W
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 5, 2024
“The United States is afraid of losing Ukrainian troops before the November presidential elections, because it will be very bad for the Biden administration, and especially for Kamala Harris.
Ukraine, even with American or Western weapons, cannot improve the situation on the battlefield, but the White House has only one goal – to ensure that the Ukrainians do not fail before the elections ,” says John Mearsheimer, an American political scientist.“
Zelensky in an interview with NBC News: Russia must be present at the second peace summit He said that Ukraine and the signatories of the Swiss resolution will work out a plan to end the war by this event and will propose it for the second summit. "Representatives of Russia must… pic.twitter.com/ILKrckRUj4
“Zelensky in an interview with NBC News: Russia must be present at the second peace summit He said that Ukraine and the signatories of the Swiss resolution will work out a plan to end the war by this event and will propose it for the second summit.
“Representatives of Russia must be present there. We understand that without the Russian side, it is very difficult to end this war diplomatically. And all countries asked us to have representatives of the Russian Federation at the second summit. We said, we are not against it, let’s prepare a plan and invite them.”
Zelensky knows that the Kiev regime is losing. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.
[F.B.I. special agent, 1930s, practising at the range, probably at Quantico, Virginia, and using the famous Thompson sub-machine gun, probably the 50-round drum magazine version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Academy#History]
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Watched The Cranes Are Flying (1957) for the first time last night and still thinking about the astonishing cinematography. How did they do this shot? pic.twitter.com/RZfdJpqXIw
Dan Hodges seems to have forgotten (assuming that he ever knew) that, in the Soviet Union, in Stalin’s day and even afterward, ordinary criminals were often treated better than “politicals”.
In any case, the “police state” aspect in question is not Hodges’ “early release” red herring but the incarceration of people for minor disorder, or for tweeting comments etc.
The present UK situation is similar (don’t forget Starmer’s extreme pseudo-socialist ideological background): the real criminals are being released after having served only 40% —with other measures in place, as little as 20%— of their headline sentences, but —by any other name— political, or treated as political, prisoners are being swiftly incarcerated, and are being more harshly sentenced as well.
Incidentally, not only those convicted following the recent protests and/or “riots” (nb. I myself do not consider saying “boo!” to a police riot squad operative, pushing at his plastic shield, looting a sausage-roll shop, or even overturning the odd police car, a “riot” nor indeed a “political protest” as such).
A while ago, I read that a young man had served his entire headline sentence (6 years, I think), having been convicted on one of those trumped-up bs pseudo-“terrorism” charges the UK police and Clown Prosecution Service seem to love today (they often involve an accusation that the accused shared some or another “terrorist” material online, and at the same time owned completely lawful objects such as copies of Mein Kampf or a picture of Hitler; random pieces of circumstantial “evidence” put in to bamboozle a typical low-IQ rubber-stamp “British” jury).
More broadly, the lack of real knowledge of history is widespread now. As G.K. Chesterton said, he feared the uneducated less than he feared the badly-educated.
The “Chaser”, Jenny Ryan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Ryan], fluffed the question “which of these three was first to be named as Time magazine Man of the Year in 1923?“, the three being Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin.
I thought Mussolini (because of the October 1922 March on Rome, after which Mussolini became Prime Minister), and that turned out to be the correct answer. However, it occurred to me that there was at least a possibility that the correct answer would be Hitler (because of the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923).
However, Jenny Ryan, “the Vixen”, thought that Stalin was the right answer, afterwards commenting that she had “thought that Stalin was a much bigger figure back then“, thus showing ignorance of the history of all three countries concerned (Stalin’s more or less supreme power in the Soviet Union only dated from about 1928, though it increased from 1924; in 1923, Lenin was still alive, and the leadership still somewhat collegial). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#1924%E2%80%931927:_Succeeding_Lenin.
“The Vixen” later made another mistake on the same show, in failing to choose Offa as the answer to a question on Anglo-Saxon history; she chose “Cnut” (Canute), but he was not even an Anglo-Saxon king (though admittedly a king during the Anglo-Saxon period). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa_of_Mercia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut.
That’s the problem with such quiz shows, esp. The Chase. The “Chasers” and others have memorized lists, and (some) facts, but generally have no real in-depth background. I have noticed that with other Chasers, such as “The Beast”, Mark Labett.
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing“, especially in political journalism.
Au contraire. Starmer and his pack (Yvette Cooper etc) do care about free speech— about shutting it down, that is.
This government response to a letter from over 500 academics concerned about the repeal of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act is disappointingly partisan and ill-informed. https://t.co/ingyVTTbaWpic.twitter.com/9GqW8udVrO
In the end, though, the Starmer-Labour government, for all its “massive majority” triumphalism, only got the votes of 4 people out of every 20 (eligible), 4 out of every 12 people (that voted). Quite a number of even the voters that voted Labour only did so to make sure that the Conservative Party lost the election.
The real support for Labour is about 10% of the population. The real support for the attack on free speech etc is even smaller, only a few percent of the whole population.
Starmer and Labour have no legitimate mandate.
Israeli media is scrambling to remove the “Hamas beat me” references 💨 Screenshots and the internet archive are forever 🥲 pic.twitter.com/u0Cx5LKzlK
The “British” mass media is utterly infested, of course. The UK msm routinely parrots Israeli and UK Jewish/Zionist lobby propaganda.
As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader.
The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be covered—no hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law. pic.twitter.com/GmqupXlJms
Being one of these pretend Deputy Mayors has to be the best jobs in Britain.
A total doddle, spending your time going on jollies, taking home six figure. Truly the modern aristocracy. Don’t pretend you aren’t jealous. https://t.co/C3lrODx1mB
“Storming a plane, arresting someone, & sentencing them to prison for 20months…For being ‘among a group of people’ & ‘throwing a single item’… Then Police making a social media boast video, complete with music, about it (while turning comments off). http://What.On.Earth ?! Did I fall asleep & wake up in China or something.
Meanwhile… A) You can literally be filmed (allegedly) battering police officers in an airport & be released on bail to do press conferences etc, whilst still weeks later remaining uncharged. B) You can sexually assault children in the sea and go without even being described in the press. Tho people are supposed to be ‘helping look for you’. C) You can be a convicted child rapist and avoid jail if you break your license terms ‘because there is no space’.
This country is becoming a complete basket case. Shame on anyone who celebrates this situation.”
I agree.
The police and Clown Prosecution Service love the “performative” stuff such as “storming” a plane to arrest someone (rather than waiting until the passengers disembark and go through immigration in the normal way, then quietly detaining the suspect).
It’s all part of the Starmer-Labour poundland police state and TV/Press show for the masses. Pretending that throwing a plastic bollard or a wheelie bin is “terrorism” etc.
A Muslim guy hit a waitress in the face with a plate in Nando's in front of his wife and child. What a wonderful example of an integrated community. The police have done nothing because they couldn't find evidence of right-wing opinions. https://t.co/lp20EubGjr
— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) August 23, 2024
Import them, and you also import their behavioural patterns.
Didn’t have this on my 2024 bingo card, but here we go…
Chris Cuomo actually speaks the truth, exposes Democrats/Republican Uniparty swamp. 👏 pic.twitter.com/deE7HhrhnE
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 23, 2024
If you are struggling to put food on the table, take comfort in knowing over the last two years we’ve given Ukraine $2.3 trillion.
— Kamala Harris Press Release (Parody) (@joebldenpress) August 18, 2024
If ever you needed confirmation that Lily Allen is a truly awful human being it’s her getting rid of her dog because her own stupidity meant she left passports in a place that the dog could get to them https://t.co/97M5QPM5iM
I know (and want to know) little about Lily Allen, but everything that I have heard or read about her makes me despise her.
*MUST LISTEN* Lily Allen adopts puppy from a shelter. Creates an insta for the puppy to get likes. Leaves passports within puppies reach, when puppy chews the passports she returns puppy to the shelter, then laughs about it on a podcast whilst discussing getting a new puppy. pic.twitter.com/wa3Kkg9FTp
Let us hope that something unpleasant happens to Lily Allen.
I shall be hoping that bad luck strikes her.
cosplay council estate accent ✅ blamed her kids for cancelling a tour ✅ evicted a family in time for Xmas ✅ not-so-secret-anymore Tory doner ✅ and now she mistreats animals too ✅
is there a worse female celebrity anywhere on earth?
That whole area of complex-sounding but meaningless bs is its own “industry” of nothingness now. It has ballooned over the past half-century, mostly in quiet corners of academia and the civil service. People may call me “biased”, but I should like to bet that much of it (if not all) started with “the usual suspects” (((them))). (cf. Freudian psychoanalysis).
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“Them”…
Condemned out of their own mouths.
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Keir Starmer’s failure to protect public safety while targeting social media critics is disgraceful, especially given his long tenure as a prosecutor. His problem is he’s a prosecutor trying to play PM with a lock-'em-up attitude, betraying public trust.
Who would have thought it? Still, no doubt (in the tiny little minds of Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and ludicrous “lord chancellor” Shabana Mahmood) that real criminals doing real crime is the better option, as compared to middle-aged housewives and others being released and then making socio-political remarks on Facebook or Twitter.
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‼️ Brian May documentary shows Government and its agencies are letting everyone down on bTB
Government departments are not fit for purpose and need a complete overhaul to end misinformation and confusion about bovine TB crisis for farmers
So the Israelis have now killed over 40,000 people in Gaza, the vast majority non-combatants, and the majority of them women and children (or at least juveniles under 18).
According to the Israeli authorities themselves, the Jewish/Israeli death toll in Southern Israel arising from the attack by Hamas operatives on 7 October 2023 was just over 1,100, of which about a third were Israeli soldiers, police, and operatives of the Shin Beth security organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel#Revision_of_casualty_numbers
So, Israeli death toll on 7 October 2023— about 1,180.
Palestinian Arab death toll in Gaza since 7 October 2023 to date— over 40,000.
40x the number…
Also, the Israelis have made Gaza all but uninhabitable.
The question arises: at what point will the “Israelis” consider that they have received sufficient “payback”?
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I myself have not thought that for a long long time anyway…
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Did you know that British Future gets taxpayer funding? Its trustee report for the year March 2023 says BF “strengthened [its] position as a thought leader on issues of identity and immigration, race and integration.” Mr “thought leader” with his lists⬇️ https://t.co/2G3UAaYQmohttps://t.co/YeAJyNjBs4pic.twitter.com/B8oCZBm6mh
Britain is now infested by these fake “think tanks”, “institutes”, fake “charities” etc, staffed and headed by useless persons (often, though not always, non-European), and subsidized (often, not always) out of public funds. A kind of propaganda industry dedicated to the subversion of our race, culture, and civilization.
You often find that MPs who are chucked out after having lost elections, and especially those who belong to “Friends of Israel” groups, are found well-paid jobs either heading such fake think-tanks etc, or similar “jobs” with various commercial regulatory bodies.
The young Palestinian boy Salah endured unimaginable loss, having lost his mother, father, grandparents, and had his leg amputated due to an Israeli airs & trike on his home in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/Cljc8cc2q4
Rasheed Abdel Qader Sada, 23 years old, was brutally murdered by terrorist settlers during a pogrom targeting the village of Jit in Qalqilya, West Bank.
The settlers shot Rashid while he was trying to stop them from setting his home on fire. pic.twitter.com/3WKeE4VrWo
The Jews in Israel/Palestine will not be content (and in fact not even then) until they “own”, by conquest or trickery or terrorist gangsterism, all of the land in the country. Many of those Jew “settlers” (terrorists) are not even of “Israeli” origin, but have recently arrived from the USA, Australia, the UK, France etc.
Harold Wilson was (in the 1960s; he returned for a couple of years in the 1970s) Prime Minister at a time of transition, when Britain still had (more) remnants of our once-vast Empire, and when it still stood up sometimes to the demands of our supposed “ally” across the Atlantic. Wilson refused to join the USA in the Vietnam War, though Australia and New Zealand did, considering themselves bound by their SEATO membership [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization]. The UK, though, was also a SEATO member, as were other states.
Domestically, the UK still had so many possibilities (in the 1960s as well as the 1970s), partly because mass immigration had scarcely started, as compared to 2024 (you rarely, almost never, saw black, brown, or other non-European persons). The very few (literally one or two, except at Oxford University) seen by me in the 1960s in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, where I lived, were occasional people such as NHS consultants.
I should know what the UK was like back then: I was born in 1956.
In the 1960s, there were many modernizing developments in the UK (for good or ill, sometimes for good) such as the Open University, the first motorways (M1, M4), Concorde etc. Also, after 20 years, Britain was just starting to pull away strongly from the restricted post-WW2 atmosphere that had hung over the country since the Pyrrhic victory of 1945.
As for Wilson himself, I encountered him when I was 9, or maybe just 10, in 1966 (my birthday being in early September). I was for some reason determined to meet him and, knowing that he was on the island, stalked a few people who looked, to my mind, a bit like him until I found my quarry on the quay at Hugh Town, St. Mary’s, accompanied by his sole bodyguard, a slim “British officer” type with a pencil moustache, his pistol and holster hidden under a cricket jumper tied around his waist, only the thin brown gun belt over the shoulder giving it away.
[the 9-10 year-old Millard, at left, with younger brothers and Harold Wilson, in 1966]
Wilson has been much-criticized over the years, but had some good qualities, not only personally but politically. He was unlucky inasmuch as the trade unions were all-powerful at the time, and because Britain was still, psychologically, fighting the Second World War.
Imagine the money the government could save if every crackpot scheme was defunded. Nothing like this is the business of government. https://t.co/N2LXwdGzuz
NEW POST. Anonymous Zoomer: "We spent years talking about #MeToo but why does nobody in the elite class want to talk about how mass immigration is undermining women and girls in the West like me?"https://t.co/EFaq4bAKWg
Darren Grimes cannot believe it…he must have missed the times when, to take only one or two examples from recent years, Jez Turner (Jeremy Bedford-Turner) was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for making a brief speech in Whitehall which merely suggested, in one sentence, that Jews should be expelled from England, as they had been (more than once) centuries ago. Darren Grimes and all those other “alt-right” talking heads and scribblers must have also missed the imprisonment of Alison Chabloz for having posted a few satirical songs and cartoons.
Other such free speech martyrs have included Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative and “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch).
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"Social media influencer" in London finds it funny he's on the train without paying for the privilege. He knows there won't be any cops to remove him, he's black, it's all a big joke. pic.twitter.com/pRGNPyiD7U
Completely useless, and in fact negative, a millstone round the neck of our present society, let alone any more advanced version. Not needed, not wanted.
I have seen examples of that attitude in London (including, but not only, on trains) since the early 1980s.
Those without respect for society, or for (real) British people, may at least be controlled, and their behaviour contained, via fear.
"Many Western governments deliberately hide data on the race and ethnicity of criminals, including people who assault women. If you don’t want people spreading “misinformation” then how about you start by making this information available?" https://t.co/1g3ZHqzrRU
"I don't think it's extreme to peacefully protest the policy of mass immigration. But I do think it's extreme to put mass immigration on steroids, which is exactly what the Labour government is now doing"https://t.co/bt5seb8wMz
"The urge to control what people say & think is a sinister trait of elites whose authority's been undermined in past decade. It's a technocratic authoritarianism by which the left seeks to guide the ignorant masses to wisdom" (Gerard Baker, Times). Indeed 👇…
I very much dislike Douglas Murray’s pro-Israelism and pro-Jewish/Zionist-lobby stances, but he is surely on the right track here, leaving aside his wrongful negativity towards National Socialism.
Mainstream media, show business, and academia have embraced the authoritarian left. That is why they are so keen on suppressing freedom of speech and controlling social media. If they managed that, the narrative would be almost completely unified, and what people don't know does…
“The current effort by those in power to once and for all silence opposition is oddly seen as a sign of the tyranny exerted by the left and center right. But it’s much more than that, it seems to me: it is a sign of the tyranny exerted by the Genocidal Bloc over all opposition,…
Incidentally, the only reason there are any cases at all of “mpox” (monkeypox) in Sweden and a few other European countries is because there are African populations in Europe.
Academic at a UK university says that the biology of sex is 'colonial'.
Stalin asked, sardonically, “how many divisions has the Pope?” (Pius XII), yet Stalin is gone, the Soviet regime is gone, and the Pope (albeit a successor-Pope) is still around, as is the Roman Catholic Church (though many think it will not outlast the present century).
Trump says he’s disappointed that the Israel and Jewish lobby isn’t as powerful now as it was 15 years ago.
“15 years ago, if you said anything bad about Israel or the Jewish people, you were finished as a politician — the most powerful lobby in this country by far, was Israel… pic.twitter.com/zYpbSfyGOe
“Trump says he’s disappointed that the Israel and Jewish lobby isn’t as powerful now as it was 15 years ago. “15 years ago, if you said anything bad about Israel or the Jewish people, you were finished as a politician — the most powerful lobby in this country by far, was Israel and Jewish people. Today it’s almost like, what happened?“
People at last, and at least, started to wake up, that’s what happened.
Part of that is younger people (worldwide) not using the Jewish/Zionist controlled or influenced “legacy media”, aka “mainstream media”, very much these days.
Trump, as President, always was a squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by Jews, but at least he might be able to prevent WW3, if re-elected.
I thought, before Biden stood aside, that Trump was “nailed on” to win, but the Kamala Harris candidature changes that, stupid and incredibly ignorant though she is.
For one thing, the American masses now vote mainly according to identity box-ticking. Many of the blacks will vote for Kamala Harris just because she is non-white (half-Jamaican, half-Tamil Indian). Many American women will vote for her simply because she is a woman.
I am beginning to think that Trump might lose this. Maybe that is why he is trying to get the Jews on-side. They may only comprise 2% of the American population, but their influence over the mass media makes their support all but indispensable for Trump.
I now find the US Presidential Election impossible to call.
Shoplifters caught on cctv. The police describe them both as “white“, which they plainly are not.
I wonder how accurate many such reports are (or, rather, are not).
The police of the UK are pretty close to being just useless now, and are utterly suffused with “woke” nonsense.
Late tweets
Immigration is the most important issue for British people, Ipsos confirms. This is what happens when people ask for lower numbers but you instead give them an extreme policy of mass migration on steroidshttps://t.co/bt5seb94C7pic.twitter.com/ji0h41Ia1u
Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region are throwing weapons, changing en masse into civilian clothes, stealing cars of local residents and trying to get lost among them due to lack of evacuation and supplies. pic.twitter.com/vfm2NZ7e0n
Ian Hislop became editor in 1986. He then became part of the BBC's HIGNFY team in 1990. Some 600 episodes later, at 20k a pop, Hislop has made 12 million quids. Becoming a BBC whore lapdog entailed selling out the entire raison d'etre of Private Eye.
Private Eye, Have I Got News For You etc are on the same level of System-approved fake “satire” as was the Soviet publication, Krokodil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil.
Working class people concerned about immigration? Private Eye really is dedicated to 'punching down' these days.
When people are first promoted they often shrink away from the bigger responsibilities and wider vision required by the new role, and search frantically for something they know how to do. Which usually turns out to be the thing they did pre-promotion.
As I blogged a week or so ago, Starmer, the “file-clerk given power unexpectedly”, has retreated into his “legal people” comfort zone, and (despite the sycophantic tweets of many of the usual pro-Labour Twitter-twits) has shown himself not a proper person to be Prime Minister.
BREAKING: A 60-year-old man named Glyn Guest has been jailed for two years and eight months at Sheffield Crown Court over the Rotherham riotshttps://t.co/cFJoMDPECj
A 60-y-o man imprisoned for 2 years and 8 months for merely pushing a policeman to the ground. True, he should not have done it, but (as with almost all of the recent reactive sentences following the protests) this seems highly excessive.
I hope that he appeals on sentence. 40% of 2 yrs 8 months is about 13 months. If he can get the sentence reduced to 20 months, he might be out in 8 months. Still pretty stiff. A suitable sentence might have been either a “suspended” or maybe 5 months, allowing for his release in 2 months.
Top marks for cheekiest job application for a recently sacked Tory MP so far. Theresa Coffey applied for a well paid, senior post with the Labour government. You'll be amazed to hear she didn't get it, but top marks for the sheer cheekiness. https://t.co/Cp0rX9XJcI
Therese Coffey, like Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, falsified her CV in several respects, and is little better than a fraud. I blogged about her 5 years ago:
The truth is already inconvenient to a number of influential groups in society (and not just “them”)…
Why is the @britishlibrary, which we all pay for even though it has been effectively shut for the last 9 months, telling us we must share its values before it will talk to us? https://t.co/gvPlFvYxvP
As frequently blogged, the West needs a thoroughgoing cultural purge, as well as a political one. TV, radio, the Press, the academic and other cultural institutions, the advertising industry etc.
Woman, 52, is remanded in custody after appearing in court accused of buying eggs and water for rioters to throw at police.
My rapist didn’t even get remanded and there was DNA evidence.
Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are never going to live this down.…
Two-tier Keir has already failed as Prime Minister, but what will sink him is not so much his blatant attack on free speech and protest, but the fact that he and his cohorts have no idea at all how to tackle the real and pressing national issues, especially immigration (not just the rubber boats aspect), which causes or makes far worse all the other pressing issues— housing, benefits and pensions, pay, housing, crime, overcrowded roads, the environment; even water supply.
NEW POST. NO. Nigel Farage didn't cause the RIOTS. The ELITE CLASS did.https://t.co/6tTOpMRoCr
“One of the most dangerous trends of our times”, said American writer Thomas Sowell, “is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with ‘hate speech’ laws”. And this is exactly what is taking place in Britain.“
“What all this reflects is a wider point about the political left; in the end, as history shows, it will always sacrifice free speech and free expression on the altar of “social justice”. This is what we see in the online ramblings of people like Paul Mason, Oliver Kamm, Jessica Simor, and Edward Luce, all of whom have called for the shutdown of social media platforms, alternative television channels, and, ultimately, conversation among concerned citizens.“
I have already blogged occasionally about Paul Mason and Jessica Simor, as well as Oliver Kamm (all partly-Jewish, by the way); the last-named has an honoured place in my 2019 blog post They’re Coming to Take Me Away, ha ha! which (updated to quite recently) examines the linkages between mental illness, the self-describing “Left”, and Zionists (both Jews and non-Jews): see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/.
"It wasn’t Farage who decimated the communities that saw the worst rioting by ushering in globalisation, mass immigration, & deindustrialisation; it was the elite class. It wasn’t Farage who promised they'd lower immigration only to do the opposite; it was the elite class" https://t.co/5Iw0i5rJAZ
#MCCFeszt recap No.4#Hungary is often criticised by the Western elites, but while he was here, @MCC_Budapest’s speaker @GoodwinMJ saw ‘no crime, no homeless people, no riots, no unrest, no drugs, no mass immigration, no broken borders, no self-loathing and no chaos’. ❕ pic.twitter.com/HCtFY3VW6I
Recession will hit the West most hard at the end of 2025 and will deal two blows IT IS UNPREDICTABLE WHAT CONSEQUENCES THE NEW LEVEL OF DELEGITIMIZATION OF THE SYSTEM WILL HAVE IN THE USA pic.twitter.com/iunobb2Wr9
What about the UK? Will this prove to be the open doorway for social nationalism, for which we have been waiting for most of our present lives?
In Kiev, another car of the Territorial Military Department, which distributed the war schedule and calls to the front, was burned. pic.twitter.com/avgefmvrj5
Ukrainian men generally are avoiding the draft, when that is possible. They have to be forced into uniform. Some are fighting back against the press-gangs of the Zelensky regime.
Johnson: Russia – especially after Kursk – will not negotiate with Ukraine
ZELENSKI IS MAKING FATAL MISTAKES BECAUSE HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE BRIGADES HE SENT TO RUSSIA
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: The sitting offer will not be as generous as the previous one. It… pic.twitter.com/k73zmRlRSZ
“Russia – especially after Kursk – will not negotiate with Ukraine
ZELENSKI IS MAKING FATAL MISTAKES BECAUSE HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE BRIGADES HE SENT TO RUSSIA
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: The sitting offer will not be as generous as the previous one. It will sound like this: withdraw troops from Odessa and transfer all others behind the Dnieper, and also demobilize your army, otherwise we will destroy it.”
I have been saying that recently on the blog and (with regard to the last bit) for 2 years. Who would have guessed that my analysis is swifter and better than that of the CIA?…
Sullivan: The future of the Ukrainian state causes pessimism
FORMER US AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW: CONFLICT IN UKRAINE WILL NOT END WITH PUTIN'S CAPITOLATION
FORMER ambassador of the United States in Moscow, John Sullivan, assessed that the future of the Ukrainian state is… pic.twitter.com/01z019GVey
“Sullivan: The future of the Ukrainian state causes pessimism
FORMER US AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW: CONFLICT IN UKRAINE WILL NOT END WITH PUTIN’S CAPITOLATION
FORMER ambassador of the United States in Moscow, John Sullivan, assessed that the future of the Ukrainian state is pessimistic.
The conflict in Ukraine will not end “with the capitulation of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Sullivan said in an interview with Foreign Policy. He admitted that he is pessimistic about the future of Ukraine: “The two sides do not want to negotiate, which could lead to a stalemate, and that is the best the West can hope for in the foreseeable future.”
Previously, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that Ukraine does not have enough soldiers to continue the conflict.“
The Pentagon is pessimistic about its ability to confront Russia, China and North Korea in a nuclear war, according to The Economist pic.twitter.com/4wckS3be10
A nuclear war would of course be terrible for all participants, and even those states not part of the conflict as active players.
Having said that, I feel that China and Russia would just about survive as peoples, probably, even if the states themselves were to implode. The USA is, relatively, more highly-centralized, more dependent on technology, more likely to fall into anarchy (meaning chaos).
If the top 100 population centres in the USA ceased to exist, the USA as a functioning entity would cease to exist.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz: “The war in Gaza is the bloodiest war of the century in terms of civilian deaths. Israel has killed many Palestinians in what it declared as safe zones.” pic.twitter.com/G6nriZrUDB
We hear little now of that rather fascinating tunnel network, said last year to add up to maybe 100-200 miles in length.
The armed forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region did not foresee that Russia would fight to the end and not retreat, Apti Alaudinov said.
▪️The goal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was initially to capture a part of the Belgorod region in addition to the Kursk region, he added. pic.twitter.com/3LtRkXxB6g
The world would be much better were both of those bastards not there.
Russian commander: More than 11,000 Ukrainian soldiers were engaged on the Kursk direction
"What can I say to Zelenskiy? Your 11,600 or 11,900 soldiers and all that combat equipment and all the tanks that were engaged did not fulfill their task," said the commander of the… pic.twitter.com/L3uUjtArIX
The Dictator Zelensky is so desperate to cling to power that he will do anything to impress his NATO masters. Bomb a nuclear power station, destroy his population
“Call this justice? Family of millionaire travellers who kept homeless men as slaves in filthy caravans are ALL out of jail and back at work – while 15 of their victims have died without ever getting compensation.”
[Daily Mail]
Parasites, scavengers and predators. I should like to offer a solution here but, sadly, “the usual suspects” and their political, police, and CPS puppets, have almost destroyed free speech in the UK, making any comment difficult, presently.
— هيئة تطوير محمية الإمام عبدالعزيز بن محمد الملكية (@IARDAKSA) August 11, 2024
Shows how the left creates and uses sensible-sounding legislation to censor. See it says nurses can withdraw care for “discriminatory behaviour”. But parts of the Left think discrimination includes things like not addressing someone by their “chosen pronouns”. https://t.co/FXmbN2PSXv
That sort of thing is being driven by relatively small groups within each occupation, profession, and vocation.
I cannot say anything directly on the blog because we now have so little free speech in the UK (by reason, indeed, of those same “small groups”), so I shall just say “are you thinking what I am thinking?“…
A man has been jailed for posting 3 memes over 2 days showing real images of Asian gangs with the words "Coming to a town near you".
This is becoming like a scaled down and ridiculous copy of Stalin’s purges. As Marx noted, first time— tragedy, but second time— farce [Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon].
Of course, that poor fellow quite wrongfully sentenced to 8 weeks in prison, will not see the (unfunny) joke, even though his 8 weeks will in the end be something like 3 (he will be out after 40% of the headline tariff).
In my opinion, the defendant should have pleaded not guilty. Unfortunately, he seems to have pleaded guilty (perhaps on advice of his solicitor) to get a notional sentence reduction from 12 to 8 weeks.
Starmer’s thoroughly wicked and unconstitutional suggestion (almost a demand, at least an expressed presumption) that anyone pleading not guilty to any charge arising —however peripherally— out of the recent protests) would be remanded in custody until trial (which these days might be months or even a year later) was a direct attack on the rule of law. Plainly intimidatory, and designed to make defendants cave and plead guilty.
The latest I heard, something like 700 arrests have been made. How many charges, I do not know.
Compare those sentences of imprisonment merely for giving out a few online opinions (though the Court, “Clown” Prosecution Service and politicized police all try to make the “offences” seem far worse) with those handed down for real crimes committed in the same area, such as this one:
“A thief told the manager of a Carlisle Co-op store who had caught him stealing alcohol that he would return and “stab him” if he called the police, magistrates heard.
The defence lawyer representing prolific offender Elijah Ali, 34, told the city’s Rickergate court that the defendant denied making the threat. He did, however, plead guilty to the theft and to using threatening behaviour.
Prosecutor George Shelley outlined the facts.
He said the defendant and a second unknown male walked into the Central Avenue branch of Co-op at around 9.30pm on August 5 and began brazenly stealing alcohol from the shelves, picking up “numerous” bottles of booze and putting them in Ali’s jacket.
This prompted the store’s manager to make a 999 call, reporting that a theft was in progress and requesting urgent help.
The second male left the store but as he left, said Mr Shelley, Ali told the store manager: “If you call the police, I’m going to come back and stab you. That placed [the manager] in a state of fear.”
Ali’s record comprises 98 previous offences, 25 of them thefts and kindred crimes. “He’s a prolific offender,” said Mr Shelley.
Magistrates imposed a £200 fine and told Ali to pay the Co-op compensation of £200 as well as £85 costs and a surcharge.“
So a few online comments about a news item results in immediate imprisonment, but for a “prolific thief” (called Ali) with 98 previous convictions, and who threatened to stab a shop manager, only a minor fine (probably paid off at £5 a week).
Any comment, “Prime Minister”? That’s you, two-tier Keir.
I don’t understand this. Why does the Crown Prosecution Service “stand with” any community? It’s supposed to be an impartial body taking decisions based on the law of the land. Why does the CPS need “panels”? Who is on the panels? What influence do they exert? Worrying. https://t.co/1hx2LcA55w
The language gives it away (“our communities” etc).
I DARE YOU: Call me a racist! 😠@ThatAlexWoman is apoplectic. She breaks down mass immigration, women's safety & Two-Tier Kier. Pls share because the media WON'T show this.
Exactly. Some completely blameless tweets by seemingly blameless middle-aged ladies, and which I reposted on the blog, are now gone completely (including from the blog, because I usually embed them). The ladies in question seem to have been frightened into deleting not only the (entirely lawful) tweets but also their Twitter/X account(s).
“Two-tier Keir” is a hateful bastard. Yvette Cooper is no better. They are conspirators, trying to impose a “woke” multikulti police state upon this country.
Today’s authoritarianism knows no boundaries. London’s Metropolitan Police Chief just told the world that he will be coming after anyone who violates British social media censorship rules with international extradition requests – to include American citizens. Simultaneously, the…
“Today’s authoritarianism knows no boundaries. London’s Metropolitan Police Chief just told the world that he will be coming after anyone who violates British social media censorship rules with international extradition requests – to include American citizens.
Simultaneously, the EU’s Censorship “Kommisar” Thierry Breton just told Elon Musk he can’t allow EU citizens to witness tonight’s interview with President Trump.
The elites who want to decide what is permissible to read and watch justify their censorship by labeling dissenting opinions as “misinformation,” “hate speech,” “far right,” or “extremist.”
During the lockdowns, MI-6 designated me and other health freedom activists as potential “terrorists.” But the label applies more closely to themselves, as they try to scare us into submission again with bird flu hoaxes, debt-fueled financial collapse, and ever more dangerous imperial wars of choice.
His uncle, President John F. Kennedy, once said this:
Something about which Britain’s new “Labour” government (“elected” by only 20% of all eligible voters and a mere 33.7% of those who voted) might care to think.
Three white police officers were discriminated against because of their race.
A judge ruled they were passed over for promotion in an anti-white racist decision, where bosses chose an Asian instead to "boost diversity". Disgusting anti-white racism. https://t.co/PQxbQzYeVp
Journalists should be reading the signs about growing authoritarianism instead of enabling it. Unfortunately many are ideologically identical to the people they're paid to criticise. https://t.co/UlZDALPcNW
The point is that the UK’s authoritarian/totalitarian laws and procedures have, in many cases, yes, been in place for some time, but have not been extensively used; in fact used mainly during and after the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic of 2020-2022.
NEW POST. Here comes the free speech CRACKDOWN which we must RESIST. How Labour and the left plan to undermine our hard-won freedoms https://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
One reason I challenge the elite consensus on mass immigration and broken borders is because unless people feel respected and safe in their own country they will find other ways to express their frustration https://t.co/6S1tPfCRHdpic.twitter.com/J4eckNLR5z
Bureaucrat-drone-dictator Starmer thinks that, by repressing free speech following the recent protests (and their riotous offshoots), he has somehow “solved” the problem that came across his desk. No. Every one of those recently sentenced, or sitting in some overcrowded jungle prison awaiting trial or sentence, now resents and hates Starmer and also the multikulti police state which he, Yvette Cooper, and Rachel Reeves, now head.
What does Starmer imagine will be happening in 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029, with British people scarcely able to make a living, to pay exorbitant rents, to buy houses the cheapest of which cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, or to walk the streets of their own cities safely?
Every day, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrant-invaders arrive illegally on our shores. Thousands more, every day, enter at least quasi-“legally”.
Britain is heading for a dystopian conflict never seen before.
"The Labour government will soon expand the definition of “Islamophobia”, creating a blasphemy law that will shut down debate about Islam, not least as it tries to appease its shaky coalition of Muslim and radical woke voters"https://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
Maybe also making “holocaust” “denial” (i.e. examination and historical revision, particularly of events of the 1940s and 1930s) illegal in the UK. Don’t forget that Starmer is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, and that his wife is Jewish.
"You're really no longer a country if you don't have a secure border"
703 illegal migrants entered Britain yesterday, the biggest daily number since Labour took power. Total this year now 18,342, 13% up on same point last year.
As I said, this crisis is only going to get worse until somebody takes control of our bordershttps://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
Don’t forget the others, the ~1,000,000 migrant-invaders that entered “legally” in the past year, or the births to non-European mothers.
Israeli media reports that the psychological war between Hezbollah and Iran continues. Iran's psychological warfare has completely taken over Israel's social media. pic.twitter.com/ZSFatgotyG
He would have been justified in smacking her in the face, in the circumstances. Not immediately, but by the end of her contrived and sustained confrontation.
Kiev-regime announcement
The Kiev regime has announced that it “is not interested” in hanging on to the little strip of land it recently invaded in the Kursk region of Russia.
Translation: the forces of the Kiev regime only made the incursion so that Zelensky and his cabal could claim to Western mass media that they are “winning”, or at least continuing to fight.
In reality, the Kiev-regime incursion forces, mostly press-ganged and poorly-trained serf-soldiers, have been mainly wiped out, and the rest are —literally— dying to be able to drive back over the border to Ukraine and relative safety.
The Kiev-regime incursion was never sustainable; the territory gained for a day or two, or a week or two, could never have been held.
I am worried, though, for the dim Ukrainian soldiers and their grieving, or soon-to-be-grieving families, and also for the Russian civilian families in the Kursk border region, their lives disrupted by this stupid publicity stunt.
At the same time, the Russian advance in the south-east continues steadily.
More tweets
Now it's a fight for simple human decency…perhaps already lost…thanks in part to degenerate media class..I know as I worked in it
“Just walked through Huddersfield city centre. Really struck by the starkest of contrasts.
Some older women sat outside a Merrie England cafe (remember ‘em?), trying to enjoy a civilised afternoon tea.
They were surrounded by the stench of weed, people shouting in foreign languages, couples in tracksuits hurling abuse at each other, gangs of lads hanging around, beggars off their faces.
Nothing noteworthy about the scenario – just everyday stuff in yer standard Red Wall town. But I was impressed by the dignity and stoicism of the women. The rest of it almost reduced me to tears.”
[Dr. Philip Kiszely]
I would suggest a few things, but no doubt that would bring the boring police drones to my door once again, as has happened several times in the past decade. They are the footsoldiers of the multikulti “woke” police state now re-energized by Starmer.
Had a break from Twitter for a couple of days just to come back and see the censorship brigade quote tweeting me hoping for my arrest. 🤣
Thanks to the trolls for the almost 1 million impressions, you just paid my rent this month. 👍🏻 https://t.co/KpUdTZRB5m
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 12, 2024
Late tweets
📍Dundrum, Tipperary.
This tiny Irish village of 200 people was forcibly planted this morning. 280 ‘asylum seekers’ are to be housed in this hotel, replacing the local population overnight.
Why is pathetic Sinn Fein supporting the migration-invasion of Ireland, and certainly not properly opposing it?
I really want someone to do this. There are a number of projects that are going to need to be people-led as 80% of the media seem to have abdicated their duty. We need better statistics to understand patterns, authority failures; to diagnose etc. https://t.co/c9SmOc0T0N
I remember seeing this sorta thing a few years ago and it worrying me, due to my "Patsy from Ab Fab" ways. Somehow in July last year I gave up booze. Everything improved! You don't need a "rock bottom" or epiphany. You can just feel "blurgh". Tomorrow could even be the day 🙂 https://t.co/7VLtoJ9Qtn
Strange. I have read about the increase in alcohol consumption during the “lockdown” nonsense or 2020-2021. I went the other way, almost stopping my relatively-modest consumption.
There have been times in my life when I drank little or nothing, other times when my consumption was quite high. I suppose the latter was true of when I was living in the former Soviet Union, in the Caribbean, and in France, as well as when I was practising at the English Bar (during the years 1992-1996 and 2002-2008).
Now, most days, I drink no alcohol at all. No particular reason predominates. It may be partly a function of increasing age (I shall be 68 next month, ironically on the same day as the birthday of “two-tier Keir” Starmer, though he is six years younger than me).
Another reason is that the wines, especially the red wines, that I once liked, such as Chateau Margaux, are extremely expensive (I suppose they always were, but that I notice it more now), or are hard to source (some Moldavian and Georgian wines).
One kind of booze I do like is what the French term eaux de vie, such as 40%+ Kirsch and Poire Williams etc.
A Central and Eastern European taste too, that I must have picked up somewhere or other, is Slivovitz (plum spirit), which UK Lidl had on sale recently (I bought 2 bottles, 42% alc.), and what the Hungarians call palinka, fruit spirit, which may be distilled from one fruit, or a mixture. Apricot is probably my favourite, though I have not had any for well over 20 years.
On a hot day, though, beer is often the best drink (apart from water). I used to like (30-40 years ago), Zhiguli beer from Russia, which was at that time sold in the UK, in Selfridges. Czech beer is pretty good, of course, as is some Polish.
When I was living in Turkey for a few months, I liked Tekel beer, made by a State enterprise. It no longer exists, at least in that form.
One type of wine that I liked a lot in the 1980s, and early 1990s, was the kind of white wine produced in Australia at that time, especially heavily-oaked quality Chardonnay. Harder to find now, of the same type. Maybe tastes have changed, and the producers have followed suit..
Late tweets seen
The people cheering on the destruction of #FreeSpeech in the UK (because they think it gives them power over their peers) reminds me of the crowds cheering Mao's regime as it murdered citizens and erased history.
The most frightening revolutions happen to the sound of applause.
As I noted on the blog during the “Covid” hysteria, the self-describing “left”, including almost all of the “human rights” tribe, were all in favour of more severe “lockdowns”, more severe penalties, dissidents and people ignoring the “Covid” hysteria to have all civil rights taken away, deprived of all medical treatment, even when entirely unconnected to “the virus” etc.
Indeed, the self-describing “left” has lost of of its former ideology and direction, and seems to exist purely to cheer on the right labels (“Covid”, “Ukraine”, “BLM”, “trans”-whatever) and of course “Labour”, despite Labour (also) having lost all or 99% of its former ethos. That, and to “deplatform” from everywhere possible any people who are labelled derogatively by them.
I agree. She was scapegoated. I'm not saying her tweet was fine. When I saw it, then her mistake, I thought, bloody hell. But NEVER did I imagine her being carted off for police questioning. I think the fact she's wealthy & good looking plays into some of the glee over her arrest https://t.co/Xx4JfqCvha
Professor Tettenborn is someone I met a couple of times in Exeter circa 2002-2003. He was at that time the professor at the law faculty of Exeter University. I was in a small set of barristers (now very much larger and, under another name, the largest in the South West outside Bristol; the former head of my old set is now a Circuit Judge).
I sat with Professor Tettenborn and another as a notional “Lord Justice of Appeal” at a moot competition held in the Guildhall at Exeter in mid-2002. My only day as a Lord Justice of Appeal, or indeed any sort of judge.
Incidentally, the winner of the moot (out of three student contenders) was a young Anglo-Armenian who had engaged in some sharp practice during the competition. We three “Lords Justices of Appeal” discussed disqualifying him, but in the end relented. As a student advocate, he was head and shoulders above the other two students, and we thought that that had to be recognized.
A few years later, as a young barrister, the same person got into trouble over allegations of sex harassment (not in my own Chambers but another set), I heard. Not sure whether that went to the Bar Standards Board (I think it did), but the person in question is still, I believe, at the Bar and still based in Exeter; I think that he was also, quite a few years ago, an unsuccessful Conservative candidate for MP at Exeter.
All a long time ago now.
Professor Tettenborn also made a very cogent case at the Law Commission inquiry as to whether the very bad law known as Communications Act 2003, s.127, should be repealed. That was what was recommended, but the section has so far not been repealed, and is regularly misused either by the police/CPS or by the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.
The labour leadership is showing itself to have extremely left wing or fascist tendencies in power. They must be removed from office at the earliest opportunity which means in about 4 or 5 years time. Imagine how far they will force the country to move towards 1984 in that time.
There is more than one way of removing a dictatorial regime.
Former Pentagon Analyst: Ukraine Simply Cannot Win, and F-16s Will Be Destroyed on the Ground
Ukraine and its Western partners have no military strategy in the conflict with Russia, former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski notes on Judging Freedom. According to her, Ukraine is… pic.twitter.com/yBNkiIq9rM
“Former Pentagon Analyst: Ukraine Simply Cannot Win, and F-16s Will Be Destroyed on the Ground
Ukraine and its Western partners have no military strategy in the conflict with Russia, former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski notes on Judging Freedom.
According to her, Ukraine is fundamentally incapable of winning — and no F-16s will change that: they will be hit not even in the sky, but at their parking spots.“
The UK Police website is now IP blocking anyone who's not in the United Kingdom. Here's what it looks like from the EU. pic.twitter.com/PLiguLCg2C
Ash Sarkar is put forward as the articulate voice of the (in her case, second-generation) non-European living in the UK. The fact is that, even taking her at face value, she is an example of maybe one out of every hundred if not thousand.
“Out there” on the streets, Britain is becoming a multikulti dustbin, full of those who are not British in any real sense, and not a few who are little more than semi-savages.
Don't believe the hype. Labour is already putting mass immigration on steroids. This is an extreme policy very few people support 👇👇👇https://t.co/bt5seb8wMz
"One after another, self-described “liberals”, “progressives” and even so-called "conservatives" have lined up to declare alternative viewpoints & dissenters be shut down" https://t.co/oA0dZHq2N6
We still need to reckon with the folly of lockdown. The Covid inquiry shows how politicians and experts alike were gripped by 'groupthink'. Too few were willing to question a policy that was bound to cause immeasurable harm, says David Livermore https://t.co/EhvVN01oKB
Not someone in whom I take a great interest, and I only knew of her existence from a relatively few years ago, as far as I can recall. However, she (meaning her life) seems to me to personify certain aspects of what is wrong with this country.
The odd life and downward progress of Katie Price also somewhat reminds me of a far more literate, though I think not very nice person, Jeffrey Bernard, who was once described as “having made a career from writing about dying from cirrhosis“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Bernard.
Bernard’s Spectator column could be, sometimes, brilliantly funny. More often, it was simply absent, with what became the standard apologia, “Jeffrey Bernard is unwell“, below a substituted piece by someone else.
Incidentally, I once had a copy of the book about him, Just the One (referring to his habit of saying —usually inaccurately— that he had popped into a pub for one drink only). Really funny, though sad too in places.
It becomes ever more obvious that nothing much works properly in the UK, from the prison service to the NHS to the legal system to…well, you name it.
This is really damning. As Leader of the Opposition Starmer took the knee for BLM two days *AFTER* the BLM riot that injured 27 police officers. Talk about #TwoTierKeirhttps://t.co/i3R970BgW6
Great thread. I hadn't realised senior police had a documentary exposing Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs pulled many years ago because they thought it could have led to a backlash from white residents. Sounds pretty two-tier to me. 🔽 https://t.co/9iitb4zD6d
Good grief. That is, apparently, “a senior police officer“…
Britain in 2024…
It all raises questions for policing but also for the mainstream media, political elites and "stakeholders". How many girls might have been saved if this 2004 exposé of grooming gangs hadn't been deliberately ignored due to "far-right"? 👇 #TwoTierBritainhttps://t.co/mEWQry0LnA
Look at recent Sky News and BBC News coverage. Almost like TV news in the old Soviet Union or DDR (East Germany).
“Shadows on the wall of the cave”…
During the Harehills riots the lady offered the police tea & ice lollies. She was then arrested for saying 16 years of immigration had ruined the area.
She describes the dehumanisation of her overnight custody.
As in Stalin’s Soviet Union— people arrested who are genuinely puzzled as to why, saying “why am I here?“, or “I haven’t done anything“, or “what have I done?“
To combat this, retweet the crap out of everything, flood the playing field, make the job of the the thought police an impossible game of whack a mole.
That little Director of Public Prosecutions bastard is a typical police-state drone bureaucrat.
Beyond Orwellian. Simply astonishing. I respect open dictatorships a lot more than the "caress" dictatorships that we now see throughout the West. The former own their autocratic reflex; the latter gang rape you whilst whispering sweet-nothings in your ear. https://t.co/B41WBEmtfc
What happens, and what has happened in history, when every form of peaceful socio-political protest, criticism, or even analysis, is shut down? As people say, “answers on a postcard…”
Reminder the assistant commissioner of the Met would have joined a movement whose goal was to dismantle the police. https://t.co/qbbA13KyBd
Incidentally, many will know of that Basu bastard (now only a former policeman), who is sometimes quoted on TV or in the lying Press as an “expert” on “extremism”, “terrorism” etc, and who, risibly, was apparently the UK’s chief of (police) counter-intelligence. He is often spouting nonsense about how almost everything “far right” etc must be repressed. Another supporter of the upcoming (unless stopped) multikulti “woke” police state.
See also my piece from about 6 years ago about the tendency to a police state in the UK, that even then was coming out into the open:
Quite. Out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 did not vote. Of the 12 that did, 4 voted Labour, 3 Conservative, 2 Reform UK, 2 LibDem, and 1 Green.
The regime of “two-tier Keir” has no legitimacy, no mandate. If the courts and general legal and justice system are not exercizing their proper independence, but are simply obeying the purported diktats of “two-tier Keir” and that bureaucrat-drone who seems to be the new Director of Public Prosecutions, then the courts themselves have no legitimacy.
Good grief. One of the most disturbing things I have ever heard from an MP. Wes Streeting actually detailing how he would push a leading journalist under a train. Was there ever a police investigation? @EssexPoliceUKhttps://t.co/ja8pbvO5Tn
Were I to argue that Wes Streeting (or Starmer, or Yvette Cooper, or other Labour Friends of Israel puppets) should be pushed in front of a train, the police would be (boringly) yet again at my door, no doubt, but once again it is that “two tier” policing…
[Update, 10 August 2024: looks like Allison Pearson may have been prevailed upon to delete her tweet].
As I wonder how many people charged and sentenced by the courts could appeal against their convictions based on what the likes of Streeting, McDonald, Rayner, Philips etc have said…
Starmer has left himself open to challenges to these…
“Two-tier Keir” Starmer is certainly confirming my view of him prior to the recent General Election, ie that he is akin to what Khrushchev said about Malenkov in his memoirs, “a file clerk type; people like that are dangerous if given power.“
Sleazy, racist Labour MP Lauren Edwards joked about William Hague's wife miscarrying their child, and that it "didn't prove he wasn't gay."
— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) August 7, 2024
The Labour Friends of Israel should watch that.
Former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief: We Are In A War Of Attrition
Amos Yadlin, the former head of the Israeli regime's military intelligence directorate, said that Israel will find itself embroiled in a long war of attrition, Israel will continue to have its ruined… pic.twitter.com/hRhdWAke23
“Former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief: We Are In A War Of Attrition
Amos Yadlin, the former head of the Israeli regime’s military intelligence directorate, said that Israel will find itself embroiled in a long war of attrition, Israel will continue to have its ruined economy, and our standing in the world will fall to a lower level.“
[in fact, Amos Yadlin, not “Yadin“; a natural mistake for a native Russian-speaker to make]
According to the malicious Jewish-Zionist organization, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], which (as I said during my free speech trial last November) is effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London, somewhere around 94% of the Jews in the UK consider themselves Zionists, and the vast majority of them support the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Thus says the “CAA” itself.
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) August 9, 2024
Late tweets
🇵🇸 Palestinians are leaving the eastern parts of Khan Yunis en masse due to constant bombardment and fear of renewed Israeli ground army operations pic.twitter.com/GGGxORMSxu
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) August 9, 2024
Tel Aviv might be like that in 5, 10 or however many years. Maybe only a couple of years.
Mother of many children from Gaza becomes a refugee for the seventh time
Gaza resident Miada Abu Anza has been displaced for the seventh time by Israeli attacks. After another airstrike, the woman and her five children lived on the streets for several days before finding shelter… pic.twitter.com/PF4f8diuzE
I can’t stomach these MPs gloating about incredibly young men being locked up for years. These are lads who feel utterly powerless and disenfranchised, raised in a system that’s taught them they have nothing and can never accumulate anything.
“I can’t stomach these MPs gloating about incredibly young men being locked” up for years
These are lads who feel utterly powerless and disenfranchised, raised in a system that’s taught them they have nothing and can never accumulate anything.
During the Black Lives Matter protests, left-wing commentators argued that protest, vandalism, and even violence were necessary to highlight injustice. I disagreed then, and I do now, but where are those voices today?
There IS an obvious injustice: the British working class has been maligned, slandered, ignored, fobbed off, and lied to for a generation. They can’t buy a house, their kids are in overcrowded classrooms, and they watch as illegal migrants get private accommodation for free. How is that not something to be angry about?
Our political class prioritizes everyone else’s interests over theirs. These politicians are clueless about the real struggles these young men face.
Abandoned, left to fend for themselves, and when they finally lash out, we throw away the key. It’s disgraceful. Instead of addressing the root causes of their anger, they fan the flames, and believe me, they’re not alone in their fury.“
Looking at Diana Johnson’s biographical details for the first time, I notice that she was a salaried barrister 1999-2005 at Paddington Law Centre (West London), where I myself did about half a dozen (unpaid) evening sessions in 1993. I lived only a couple of miles away at the time, in Little Venice.
I will go to bed tonight not knowing if I’ll be woken up at 4am by the police arresting me for controversial social media posts.
That’s the reality of the UK.
That is literally where we are at.
America, don’t become what we have become.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 9, 2024
David Morgan is a brave young man and deserves support.
Self-identified liberals, Labour voters & Remainers are consistently more likely than conservatives, Tories & Brexiteers to block, unfriend, & be hostile toward those who hold different views. See Values, Voice & Virtue for evidence. Or my debate with David Aaronovitch. Lol. https://t.co/oTZGczWQDJ
"Even answered a question about extra payments to prisons which really pissed people off. Prison staff being paid extra “for all the hard work they’re doing” recalculating release dates. I have no idea what else was said during that hour, it was all gobbledygook." 2/5
"I want to be paid more money for this job and when I come to work I want to park my car for free, sit at my own desk, have a manageable workload, not be spoken to like a child or a piece of shite…." 4/5
"…and not have a dumbass probation manager who doesn’t know their arse from their elbow unless someone higher up draws them a diagram. It’s never going to happen so like those about I’m leaving too." 5/5
Ha. I wonder what my probation officer would make of that, were she to read my blog?
Yes, dear readers, those of you who are not regular readers of the blog…I myself am, in effect, on probation, the result of my free speech trial, conviction, and sentence (trial November 2023; sentence March 2024).
15 “rehabilitation days” (in fact, mostly fairly short meetings, so far), and a financial impost, being the (notional) costs of trial— £734 in all, a third of which was crowdfunded by a few generous donors.
…thus it was that, thanks to the Jew-Zionists, and their police and “Clown” Prosecution Service dupes, I joined the “criminal classes”, or at least the convict classes.
Actually, I rather like my probation officer, despite the fact that, ideologically, at least as I apprehend, we are poles apart. My next scheduled meeting will be in September.
The whole Kafka-esque situation rather tickles me (when it does not irritate me), though of course I should never have been subjected to nuisance and inconvenience, should never have been charged, certainly should never have been convicted and, even then, should have received by way of sentence something purely nominal, such as a £50 fine (if anything).
— We All Need Vitamin Sea 🦖🦕 (@Lifes_A_Beach72) August 3, 2024
A special law was passed JUST FOR KIER STARMER to save tax on his pension when he retired from public Prosecutions in 2013. The Coalition government afforded him this unique right. This needs to be known widely. He's just cut The Winter Fuel Allowance… Happy to stand… pic.twitter.com/F84xdlhdsZ
“A special law was passed JUST FOR KIER STARMER to save tax on his pension when he retired from public Prosecutions in 2013. The Coalition government afforded him this unique right. This needs to be known widely. He’s just cut The Winter Fuel Allowance… Happy to stand corrected but here’s a government document.“
[tweeter “@juneslater17”]
“Not a lot of people know that” (I certainly did not).
Typical.
Jessica Simor, yet another “human rights” barrister who secretly —or even openly— wants to institute police-state measures if people say things with which she disagrees.
Incidentally, Jessica Simor was a fervent supporter of the joke “party”, Change UK, at which I used to laugh on the blog before it went down the drain. I occasionally laughed at her too.
As I have said for months —if not years— Labour, Starmer-Labour, will “solve” the illegal Channel crossings by simply rubberstamping 90%-95% of applications in France (or even in Africa and Asia), thus magically turning illegal migrant-invaders into nominally “legal” ones.
The remaining 5%-10% will then still try to cross the Channel anyway and, once here, will not be deported, just as at present.
Starmer-Labour has even less intention than Sunak-Conservatism of stopping mass immigration aka migration-invasion. Once you read about the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, all will be made clear…
Starmer-Labour is a falsely-“elected” dictatorship, and even tyranny, which, even more than the last 14 years of fake “Conservative” misrule, offers the people nothing.
‘They are hooligans.’
Former Brexit Secretary, Sir David Davis MP, detaches the rioters from concerns arising about mass migration. pic.twitter.com/nMHZcopo5I
How about detaching thevery few “rioters” from the thousands of entirely-legitimate protesters? Not to mention the tens of millions who want England to be England, not a rubbish dump for people from the most backward parts of the world?
In fact, where was David Davis, where was Starmer, where was Yvette Cooper, when the Gypsies of Harehills (Leeds) were rioting, only a week or so ago? Nowhere, or excusing them. Same with the Bangladeshi rioters in East London.
The System is trying to demonize all white (i.e. English) dissenters or dissidents by focussing the msm on a few bottle-throwers. Also, of course, ignoring the fact that our society is slowly collapsing, and mainly by reason of mass immigration.
You still neither listen nor see, do you? Ordinary voters have had years of being lied to, and taken for granted by successive governments. @Keir_Starmer accuses us of being far right. Rioting can never be justified. People are angry. You are part of the problem. #EnoughIsEnough
System MPs, System scribblers, and System TV talking heads are almost all in favour of mass immigration. Enemies of the people and of the future of the people.
This is the only dialogue the government have listened to so far though. People have been voting against migration for 20 years and been ignored. The British are sick of being foreigners in their own land and the crime that comes with it #EnoughIsEnoughpic.twitter.com/b2NEOneOdf
What Britain needs, though, is not an urban riot scenario but a disciplined social-national movement, something which at present does not exist.
“Our wonderful NHS”…
UPDATE: Within the next hour I’m being discharged from hospital after 6 days. I will have the op to remove my gall bladder in around 6 weeks time. In the meantime, a lot of R&R. Had a little bit of a tear up when I said goodbye to the nurses on the ward who have been so lovely to… pic.twitter.com/0fKYFdbnlZ
Superficially, System political commentator Iain Dale’s tweet commends the NHS, but not if you look a little further.
My first wife, an American, suddenly had terrible pain one Saturday morning in 1991 (I think it was). We drove to a general practitioner doctor in a small strip mall nearby. She had not been to him before but in the USA it is not usually necessary to be registered (unlike, as I believe, in the UK) to get an emergency appointment like that.
The small doctor’s office had no-one waiting, so once a patient left (about 5 mins), the Italian-American GP saw my then wife. He diagnosed her (it later turned out, entirely correctly), within a few minutes, as having a gall bladder problem, and suggested a couple of possible hospitals. He then charged her USD $25, cash on the nail.
We drove to the suggested hospital, about a 25-minute drive down the Garden State Parkway.
[Garden State Parkway, New Jersey, USA]
The suggested hospital was not very far from the Parkway, half a mile perhaps.
A modern hospital, the car park almost empty (and no charge for parking, unlike the absurd and sometimes stressful situation in the UK).
On entering, I think no-one there except a couple of uniformed nurses or whoever behind a glass-screened reception desk.
My then wife, in some pain, explained her problem, and was asked what insurance she had. That was not a problem, because she had a high level of medical insurance that went with her job (she was an employee of the U.S. Federal Government). She was then admitted through the security door and escorted away by a nurse. I was asked to wait.
A short time later, the reception person told me that the Head of Surgery would be down to speak with me. Imagine that in the NHS…
The Head of Surgery was a tweed-suited character, redolent of reassurance and expertise, like a surgeon in a Hollywood film, and sporting a full white beard, a bit like Sigmund Freud but more solid-looking and self-confident than Freud as seen in the photo below.
I was greeted pleasantly by the Head of Surgery, and informed that my wife had to have a gall-bladder operation and that that would be done either later that day or the next day.
In the end, my first wife spent three days in hospital, mostly on her own in a comfortable if rather white/cream and basic room (no wards in that hospital, unlike the UK; France also has only individual or shared rooms).
On discharge, the bill was itemized minutely, despite everything being covered by insurance, and nothing needing to be paid by us. It was posted to us a couple of days later (for our records only). I think that it was (33 years ago) about USD $24,000. Expensive… thank God for the insurance.
Two or maybe three nights stay, one operation, medications, other stuff used, food, drink etc.
So, thinking about that, and comparing that to Iain Dale’s experience, I have no idea how long Dale suffered before even getting a consultation and diagnosis. Not same-day, anyway. Weeks? Months?
Then again, how many NHS patients with similar-level problems (excruciating pain but nothing immediately life-threatening) would get immediate attention, immediate hospitalization, and almost immediate surgery? (I think the operation was done the following day).
Of course, in the UK you can get quicker attention if you pay privately, or have BUPA insurance etc. I have no idea whether Dale was in an NHS hospital or not. All, the same, his operation is scheduled for six weeks’ time! My first wife only had to wait for about 20 hours.
I am of course not medically qualified, but I thought that that experience was worth recounting.
Naturally, the elephant in the room is insurance or money. Without one or the other, I wonder whether an American would get even medicines or painkillers, let alone surgery; I cannot say. We hear that 40% of Americans are either uninsured or under-insured. The only good thing Obama did was to try to reform that situation (as I understand it). I do not know what Medicaid and Medicare might now offer.
“Free at point of use” healthcare is the NHS trump card, of course.
Few would want to import the American healthcare system to the UK, with the American inequities and money-orientation. However, the NHS is now a pretty basic service in most respects, as compared to many advanced countries. Too many people accept its deficiencies and treat it more like an object of veneration than a useful service, a service which, however, now needs to be properly reformed.
Incidentally, a year prior to the above events, my first wife had been recommended to have a scan, in relation to something else, and had been given a choice of seven hospitals within a 30-mile range where that could be done. In the same year, 1990 I think, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill (South London) had had to appeal for donations from the public to get such a scanner machine. I recall the banner (like a big red thermometer) hanging on the outside of the hospital when I often passed by c.1990.
More tweets seen
Terrifying scenes from the Israeli army's targeting of schools sheltering Palestinian civilian refugees in western Gaza City. #GazaGenocidepic.twitter.com/dxol23ODvo
For the first time, footage of the launch of Storm Shadow cruise missiles by front-line Su-24M bombers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces appeared online. According to preliminary data, the launches were carried out in Crimea. pic.twitter.com/4AQLxTWXFI
According to the narrator of the Nevil Shute novel, On the Beach, once famous and even filmed, “thus the world ended, not with a bang but a whimper” (if I recall it correctly from about 50 years ago). Will our known world end with a bloody big bang or two (in the Middle East, first)?
Anticipation of the Iranian response: A security consultation between the Prime Minister and the heads of the security system will take place at 20:00 Isrsel time at the Kirya in Tel Aviv. pic.twitter.com/EjbfpeqcLz
That is a building in Tel Aviv occupied by the Israeli Ministry of Defence.
The problem is we could stop the boats in 36-48hrs at source but there is zero appetite to do so. This is all part of a planned population replacement implemented by Soros and other globalists
Muslim mobs attacking protestors in Middlesbrough.
Not once has Starmer recognised that Muslims are causing mayhem.
They nearly murdered a man yesterday by throwing a projectile at his head and a liaison officer had to plead with the MDL to drop off their weapons at the Mosque. pic.twitter.com/tjOvu4XEwR
Everyone moaning about so called far right thugs. But at least they're not at the windows with fucking machine guns!! Rotherham right now. #UKRiotspic.twitter.com/oiNZ6tuQRJ
Saw Starmer making part of his statement, or threats, really, on TV news earlier this evening. A few thoughts came to mind.
Firstly, it is clear that the events across the country have frightened both Starmer and equally-rattled Yvette Cooper. They both looked scared, behind the threats and bluster.
Second, only a month after the General Election, it is clear that Starmer has woken up to the fact that the British people have no love for him and Labour, despite the electorally-rigged “landslide”. He knows that only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters voted Labour. In his heart, he must know that he really has no mandate.
Thirdly, Starmer has decided to rule by threats and fear. He wants to make people, “ordinary” citizens, fear the consequences even of attending a protest, or talking about events online. The tactics of a police state.
Fourthly, Starmer said that people arrested by reason of any of the above would be remanded in custody, i.e. not given bail. That is not Starmer’s decision to make, not so long as the UK retains any vestiges of being either a “free country” (though that ship has sailed, I think) or even “a society under law”.
It is not for a political office-holder, which is all that Starmer is, to effectively instruct (whether on the TV news or otherwise) magistrates, District Judges, and Crown Court judges as to whether they will grant bail or not.
A month into office, and Starmer-Labour already looks like a panicked police state.
This will not end well.
Late tweets seen
Keir Starmer should have condemned violence on all sides
NEW POST. What did you expect? Britain's protests reflect DECADES of elite failure. My thoughts on the latest atrocities in Britain -and the reaction to them https://t.co/KRHvECq7Zc
Goodwin has, however, left out one of the major causes— “them” (you-know-who)…
Nothing shameful about what he says, everyone should ask more questions. We shouldn't be afraid to ask questions, right?
— Politically Incorrect ⚖☀️💅 (@Marikke8) July 31, 2024
Barwell, an MP (2010-2017) who was mediocre at best, and who was removed by the voters after 7 years, only to be made a fake “lord” in the House of Lords section of the Westminster monkeyhouse. Oh, and Barwell is fanatically pro-mass immigration, too, despite the fact that his own former constituency, Croydon Central, has become an Afro-Caribbean swamp that becomes more violent, gang-ridden and crime-ridden daily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Barwell.
More music
[the acclamation of the German people, c.1933]
[acclamation]
[cross-Atlantic airship Hindenburg, 1930s, pictured at Lakehurst, New Jersey. National Socialist Germany was, in many respects, the most advanced state in the world at the time]
While I understand, I think, his strategy, Russia should stand a little apart from outside influences, not being allied to, nor much influenced by, Arab or other Muslim interests or (needless to say) Jewish and Israeli interests.
More tweets
"What’s happening in Britain right now is not about ‘disinformation’, ‘misinformation’ or a rogue tweet. It is the culmination of decades of disastrous policies by our ruling class -the same class that's rushing to discredit anybody who points this out"https://t.co/YdYfWXYOPq
The last 2 days have seen pointless arguments: “was the killer at Southport Muslim or not?” (not, it seems), and “was the killer at Southport ‘British’ or not?” (no, not in the world of reality, but he was born in the UK to Africans). Also, “were the rioters in Leeds Muslim?” (no, Roma Gypsies). All a stupid and pointless media and social media circus.
Anyway, comment about the specific Southport perpetrator must now be limited by reason of someone having been charged and arraigned.
What really matters is the big picture— the failure of “multicultural” Britain. The fact that only 80% of the inhabitants of these islands are now white European, let alone British. Even in 1989 it was about 93%, and in the 1960s at least 95%.
In England specifically, well below that 80% figure, and in the big cities far far below.
“Foreign-born” is not a very accurate measure anyway. As we have seen, many non-whites are born in the UK, but more than that many non-whites are not only born in the UK, but are born to parents themselves born in the UK.
Disastrous for Britain’s future, including its near-future.
Statistics are being misapplied, and falsified anyway.
Just look around you.
What we are looking at is the upcoming slow collapse of what is still a semi-civilized society in the UK. It has already started to crack and distort.
In cahoots with the MSM who could easily have mentioned Leeds or Manchester airport. We are being gaslighted by the government, the police, and the MSM. It’s absolutely frightening.
— foxinthebox2001 🇮🇹 🇮🇱🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 (@foxinthebox2010) August 1, 2024
I wonder whether Starmer’s wife has much direct influence over his political stances.
Starmer is behaving as though almost everyone in the UK voted Labour, and so (maybe) for him, when in fact only 4 voters out of every 12 that voted, voted Labour (only 4 out of 20 if all eligible voters are included).
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 13, 2024
Remember when during the election Labour had all white people election adverts and Union Jacks displayed all over their advertising, didn’t buy it then, and now anyone like that their calling far right.
Goodwin ought to address (including in his own mind) what (((element))) has always been and still is in the forefront of the conspiracy to import millions of backward non-Europeans into the UK.
He is quite right otherwise, of course.
Goodwin does not suggest what is most necessary though— the creation of a European ethnostate within the UK.
This was really upsetting to watch. Allowing males to compete against women in boxing is dangerous and shows the complete and utter disregard @iocmedia has for women's sport. https://t.co/OmfZ2Wf5aG
I agree with her, as far as that goes, but women should not be boxing anyway, even when they are both actual women and not, as in this case, one not a woman but a “trans” person.
[Bund Deutscher Maedel girls riding in a forest, Germany, 1930s]
It’s pretty weird to change your accent on the fly depending on which audience you’re speaking to pic.twitter.com/xj1KHopqtr
I myself am probably on various tick-box lists already, thanks mainly to the “usual” malicious (((troublemakers))).
[Starmer and Angela Rayner bending the knee to black mobs a few years ago]
Kier Starmer when a violent drug addict died of a drug overdose in the US …
Kneels
Kier Starmer when the British step onto the streets to protest the latest British kids murdered due to UK government policy that no one voted for or wanted …
Starmer is a tyrant posing as a file clerk, or a file clerk suddenly gifted power.
No NOT talking about knifemen. He’s NOT talking about groomers he’s NOT talking about murderers. Hes NOT talking about drug dealers He’s talking about ordinary men and women concerned about their kids pic.twitter.com/DKWrCpKhY9
— leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ (@LeilaniDowding) August 1, 2024
That tyrannical idiot and his “Labour” colleagues have always supported the mass immigration which is this country’s major, prime, most pressing problem, and which impacts all areas, from crime and lawlessness through to housing, environment, overcrowded cities, low pay, the declining NHS, the slow collapse of the Welfare State etc, even the water shortage.
The Labour “elected” tyranny is a complete “ZOG” (“Zionist Occupation Government”). Those who want to know what ZOG looks like in practice, look no further. Starmer-Labour.
— 'And it was Yellow' 🇷🇺🚜🚜🚜🇷🇺 (@Diggrich_) August 1, 2024
In Leeds, the police caved to the Gypsy mob, in Southend the police seemed to be entirely absent as hundreds of blacks fought battles in the streets using machetes etc, but in Whitehall, the brave paramilitary police arrest a woman, said to be 61, for protesting against what is happening in this country.
A biased, “woke” police state, albeit so far, usually, a “poundland” one.
I do not agree with everything Katie Hopkins says, but I do agree with quite a bit of it (not, of course, her pro-Israelism). She does make me laugh, though.
our forefathers must of been far right also for wanting to keep our lands & the people of our wonderful lands safe so they could go to dance classes & have the freedom of being safe in their own homeland..
— Ann Marie 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 LIVE, LOVE, BE HAPPY 💞 (@crzynites67) August 1, 2024
…and what or who do you think stands behind Israel-puppet Starmer? That’s right…
The Israeli army ordered all its air, land and sea troops to be ready for battle.
US units, including Navy and rapid reaction forces (such as the 101st Airborne Division), as well as several units stationed in the Central Command area of responsibility, were ordered to be on alert tonight, media reports pic.twitter.com/VhsESrlM4b
[The bridge over the Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. I was at school, in the early 1970s, only a half-mile away, and the grounds of the school went down to the Thames (on which I rowed when aged 13/14) only a short distance from that bridge]
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Russell Brand breaks down Canada's Orwellian Bill C-63:
"The legislation authorizes house arrest and electronic tagging for a person likely to commit a future crime… if a judge believes there are reasonable grounds to 'fear' a future hate crime."
— Canadian Refusenik 🍁 (@cdnrefusenik) July 23, 2024
How long before Starmer-Labour introduces similar measures in the UK? The justification will be something similar to that in the cartoon below.
The two aspects mentioned are a convenient “go-to”.
Those who question the System narrative, or suggest an alternative and/or better way forward for society, are often already “criminalized”, usually at the behest of the “usual suspects” (((“them”))).
A Labour Party which suspends MPs for voting to take children out of poverty has no right to call itself a Labour Party.
“Labour” is now just a label, as is “Conservative”, “Liberal Democrat”, and “Green”.
Israel has lost this war and Israelis have no idea how badly they have lost. The war of revenge that Israel is fighting in Gaza has crossed every moral red-line that is imaginable…Israelis cannot imagine the despair that has become the overriding emotion of our neighbors.…
"There is a listlessness among my peers & I. We are neither the ‘Somewheres’ nor ‘Anywheres’ @David_Goodhart writes about. We have neither the means to join Somewheres by putting down roots nor desire to join the hyper-liberal Anywheres. We are nowhere"https://t.co/N0T3LUfNnz
Ian Robert Millard 