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

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From the newspapers

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Daily Mail].

[Daily Mail graphic]

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is really behind this NWO/ZOG propaganda?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ha ha! Quite…

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

NWO/ZOG conspiracy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Moran

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

and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free speech is now all but dead in the UK.

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

Cartoons should be freely publishable.

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Diary Blog, 15 June 2023, including thoughts about Nadine Dorries and Mid-Bedfordshire

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

Statement

As regular readers will know, I am now, once again, the target of a malicious and politically-motivated attack, this time a prosecution, instigated by the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a very small but well-funded group of fanatical Zionist Jews.

I made a statement about this previously; see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2023/05/29/diary-blog-29-may-2023/.

I now see that there have been a couple of tweets inaccurately stating that I am to be tried this month. Not so. Any trial (if one is actually held at all) will be held in November or December 2023, or possibly even in 2024. In the interim period, there will be at least one brief and purely procedural hearing.

A nuisance, of course, but since the latest malicious attempt was publicized (by the “CAA” goblins themselves, on Twitter and on their website), there has been an increase in the readership of this blog. Silver lining?

Nadine Dorries and the Mid-Bedfordshire constituency

I was considering the Nadine Dorries situation.

At present, Nadine Dorries remains MP for the constituency of Mid-Bedfordshire. She most recently, in 2019, was re-elected with nearly 60% of the vote, and had previously usually achieved over 50%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_Bedfordshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

A safe Conservative Party seat, which she has represented since 2005, and which has been good to her— good salary, hugely-inflated expenses, time out to appear on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here for a very large fee, and to write about a dozen cheap novels.

She was able to employ at least two of her three daughters on very inflated salaries (via MP expenses) and has been investigated several times by the police. On at least one occasion, the file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration for prosecution. However, she has wriggled out of trouble every time.

Now, having announced her immediate resignation [see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65910896], Nadine Dorries has not in fact done what is necessary, i.e. to apply, notionally, for “an office of profit under the Crown“, usually either “Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds” or “Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead”.

The delay is plainly because Nadine Dorries was, or so she claims, offered a peerage by the former Prime Minister, Johnson, which offer is now worthless. That she was offered a peerage was apparently the case; her nomination for a peerage was one of those deleted from the list, supposedly by decision of Rishi Sunak.

It seems clear to me that Nadine Dorries announced her “resignation” because she was sure of getting a well-paid sinecure as a “baroness” in the Lords— ~£350 a day without any need even to pretend to do anything for it, plus well-subsidized and palatial surroundings in which to meet people, network etc.

In theory, Nadine Dorries could hang on as MP until the next General Election, getting the salary, the expenses etc, while doing nothing. Perhaps she will.

Nadine Dorries was only too happy to jettison the loyal —and possibly stupid— voters of Mid-Bedfordshire. Unsurprising. As soon as her then-husband and father of her children developed multiple sclerosis, she (in effect) abandoned him, after 23 years of marriage: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries#Personal_life.

I was just comparing Nadine Dorries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries] with the MP, Stephen Hastings, who held the seat from 1960 to 1983: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hastings.

Hastings’ biography includes Sandhurst, and WW2 action with the Scots Guards, the early SAS, and the shambolic but certainly sometimes courageous SOE, later followed by 12 years with SIS/MI6.

Naturally, Hastings was born with a silver spoon compared to Nadine Dorries. No argument. Eton, Sandhurst, the expectation and inheritance of several large, or arguably even great estates. Financially, and in terms of useful connections, he had it far easier than Nadine Dorries, born into relative poverty in Liverpool.

All the same, which of the two really would be better as MP?

In fact, that sort of decline in standards has happened across the board since about 1989. Compare Jo Grimond, for example, with Jo Swinson. Both Liberal/LibDem leaders, but what a contrast! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Grimond; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Swinson.

Again, one was born into affluence, indeed into riches, and never had to struggle financially, but the point is which of the two was the more fitted to be an MP and political leader.

Incidentally, I noticed that Stephen Hastings wrote an autobiography, Drums of Memory. I have just ordered a used copy, and for the knockdown price of £1.75 plus a couple of pounds postage. Pretty good value for a hardback book in apparently almost new condition. Will look forward to reading that, assuming it actually arrives (my last purchase, Anna Karenina in Russian, has been refunded by Amazon because of some problem with distribution).

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Nadine Dorries is just one symptom of a completely decadent and corrupt political system in the UK.

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Money thrown at the feet of the Kiev regime. Meanwhile, in Britain, people cannot get medical treatment or decent housing, and the roads are falling to pieces.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12196013/Army-considers-scrapping-ranks-including-Guardsman-Rifleman-masculine.html

“The head of the Army is considering scrapping centuries-old ranks such as Rifleman and Guardsman because they are masculine.

In an attempt to make regiments more inclusive, General Sir Patrick Sanders is poised to break hundreds of years of battlefield tradition.

Historic titles used by world-renowned Guards regiments and even his own regiment, the Rifles, could be ditched in favour of gender-neutral ranks.“

[Daily Mail].

Are we actually supposed to pretend that the British Army still has some kind of useful role?

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https://twitter.com/YeatesJM/status/1669239918571208704?s=20

If “Jack Monroe” did that, she might trigger an avalanche of similar claims, together with even more negative publicity.

Her pseudo-celebrity supporters are ebbing away. Weak waste of space Alice Beer is the latest. Jay Rayner cut “Jack Monroe” loose nearly a year ago now, and Nigella Lawson later followed suit.

None will denounce her, but will just show her the cold shoulder.

I suppose that “Jack Monroe” will try to leverage whatever she can to stay in the public eye to some extent, as with her unexplained appearance on BBC Question Time recently, and she needs that public exposure, if only to keep onside the hard core of donor-mugs who are each sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month via Patreon— 411 utter mugs as of today.

God. What a loonie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_O%27Reilly.

Britain 2023, where Max Hastings looks like the most principled journalist imaginable…a measure of either how Hastings has grown since he covered the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, or of how far British public life has slid into the mire in more recent decades.

If mortgage rates continue to rise, there will be a rather British non-violent political upheaval. There must be millions of people who do not really “own their own home” as they think they do, because they have a mortgage on the property.

I have just seen a statistic which claims that nearly 28% of the UK population are homeowners without a mortgage or loan against the property, while nearly 38% are “homeowners” but with a mortgage or other loan against the property (I presume that the remaining ~34% are either renters or are too young to take title to real property).

38%. That means, in theory, 38% of the voters, too.

People may not like or trust the Labour Party or the LibDems (or others), but the Conservative Party has been in power since 2010. If mortgage rates continue to rise, there will be a backlash against the Conservative Party not seen even in 1997.

Another, and this time not very inventive “Jack Monroe” lie, that reporters and stray peasants are besieging her home. She must have lifted that from the life of van Gogh.

“Jack Monroe” is so patently fake that it defies belief, and a huge number of stupid mugs still fall for her nonsense.

Venn diagram of “Jack Monroe” mug-supporters: 1. comfortably-off Guardian-reading virtue-signalling naifs (mostly aged 55+); 2. the mentally-unwell; 3. the LGBTQXYZ crowd on Twitter.

“Jack Monroe” works on the —often-true— assumption that the public cannot check up on the veracity of her stories (mostly a pack of lies) and that most “journalists” (scribblers) are too lazy to check.

At least it is not radioactive, yet.

The Americans know that even a limited Russian nuclear strike on the US mainland would send their whole society into freefall. Many of their cities are already powder kegs ready to blow. Racial and social war is just below the surface.

Russia is winning the strategic war.

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Diary Blog, 19 June 2022, including the latest ludicrous anti-Russian —and pro-war— propaganda

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On this day a year ago

Diary Blog, 19 June 2021

This is just mad

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10930527/Prepare-fight-beat-Russia-World-War-Britains-general-warns.html.

“Britain’s top army general has told his troops to prepare to fight and beat Putin’s armies in a European land war, it has emerged tonight.

General Sir Patrick Sanders, who assumed overall command of the British Army this week, warned soldiers ‘we are the generation that must prepare the Army to fight in Europe once again’ as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rocks global stability.“

[Daily Mail]

One is tempted to wonder whether the General had had a little too much Blackstrap (cognac/port mixture, not the rum of the same name) in the officers’ mess.

Look at the readers’ comments appended to that Daily Mail article. Most are scathing about both the perceived “need” to fight Russia and the actual ability of the UK to do so, bearing in mind that Britain was scarcely able to bomb Libya a decade ago, needing French and Italian assistance.

The British Army is somewhere around 70,000 “soldiers” (at present being reduced from 80,000+ to 72,000, officially, but in reality well under strength). A tenth are women. About three-quarters are rear-echelon forces. That leaves (roughly; I am sure that military buffs will correct me) 15,000-20,000 actual or potential fighting soldiers.

The Russian Army exceeds a million active troops. Yes, some are of poor quality; so are many of those in the British Army! Never more so than today. In the British Army, drunkenness and drug abuse are common (admittedly, the former has been known in the recent and historical past!), and the Army has had to lower its physical-condition entry standards for enlistment.

In reality, any “war with Russia” involving the UK would have the British in a role serving as very junior partners to the massive US forces.

To be frank, the British Army is in no state to take on any opponent at present, unless a very backward black/brown enemy (and that would not happen now anyway for several reasons, including the “lift” capacity of the RAF being very limited).

Quality usually trumps quantity, but I see few indications now that Russian troops are hugely below the British level. The newspapers have just reported that the very same general has barred some of the supposedly best troops (reportedly from 3 Para) from being sent on exercise or deployment, after disgraceful goings-on in their Essex barracks: see https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2022-06-09/armed-forces-minister-sorry-and-embarrassed-over-alleged-sex-video; https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2022-06-18/para-regiment-dropped-from-overseas-operations-after-alleged-sex-video.

Armies reflect the societies from which they recruit. Britain is subsumed in decadence at present.

As a matter of fact, that general, busy moving his painted regiments on a painted map of Eastern Europe, seems to be preparing to fight the last war (meaning the 1939-45 war against the German Reich). He talks as if Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened.

Russian military doctrine approves first-use of at least tactical nuclear weapons in any situation where Russia’s borders face existential peril.

The General’s ten or twenty thousand men (women are not on the front-line) will not last long in any war with Russia. Equally important, the families and homes of those soldiers will have been incinerated long before the soldiers themselves ever see a Russian soldier.

Taking a look back, at the bigger picture, this is all part of a cynical NWO/ZOG ploy, like the wars against Iraq. There is no need at all for the UK (or any Western or Central European state) to fight Russia.

The Soviet Union was an expansionist state, and motivated, however sluggishly since 1945, by an aggressive political doctrine, Marxism-Leninism.

That does not exist today. Russia is a mildly-nationalist traditional state, more or less. It may vaguely want to restore its core Soviet and Imperial-Russian borders (Ukraine, the “Pribaltika“, the Caucasus region, even Kazakhstan etc), but certainly has no interest in invading Europe west of Ukraine or Belarus.

There are now secret circles and cabals in the UK, USA etc which are pushing for war with Russia, using Ukraine (a “state” that has only existed for 30 years as a state, and with which the UK has almost no historical connection or common interests) as a pretext. Mad and bad.

Incidentally, I see that General Sanders is an alumnus of Worth Abbey school in West Sussex. In or about 1982, when the General would still have been at school there, I went with my then girlfriend and her two young children to some Roman Catholic gathering there. We camped in the grounds, just near the Abbey. I myself am not Roman Catholic, but went along for the ride, really. I was there for a dull day or two, and had a swim in the small and dark indoor pool, housed in a separate building.

A peaceful place, run by Benedictine monks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worth_Abbey; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worth_School.

[Worth Abbey, West Sussex]
[“Russia has no borders; it is wherever there are Russians“]

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Imagine savages from Benin etc let loose in a civilized milieu such as a Swiss city…it’s just mad, and evil.

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The UK is now full of filthy untermenschen of that or similar type. Those who promote migration-invasion are guilty of facilitating the consequent crimes.

It makes me wonder whether the education and training of officers should not be improved, so that nincompoops of that sort do not reach general-officer rank still thinking that a nuclear war with Russia can be “won”.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9231773/Ex-MP-NORMAN-BAKER-reveals-day-bacteria-released-tunnel-Northern-Line.html.

Interesting. I once knew someone, a former officer, who lived in the Savernake Forest, not very far from Porton Down. He was convinced that the people of Salisbury had been used, en masse, for mood-altering experiments.

Whatever the truth of that, it is at least interesting that the Skrypal case occurred in Salisbury. Was punishment of the double-agent only one motive? Was there another, such as trying to tar Porton Down with suspicion generally?

I myself once visited Porton Down, in the 1990s, with the then Ukrainian Ambassador, a Mr. Komissarenko. I blogged about that trip once or twice: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/03/06/diary-blog-6-march-2022/.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porton_Down.

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