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Peter Hitchens
I agree with most of what he has written for today’s Mail on Sunday. As for my views on Hitchens himself, please see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/.
From the newspapers
“The failure of Europe to keep pace with America has taken its toll on living standards. The average EU country is now poorer per head than every state in America bar Idaho and Mississippi.
The latter, the poorest state in the Union, is often referred to as America’s Third World but — with an average per capita annual income of $50,000 — the citizens of Mississippi are better off than their counterparts in France.”
[Daily Mail]
While I am no fan of the EU, the above is a typical example of how journalists twist the facts. Yes, per capita, France is “poorer” than Mississippi, but that is merely a headline figure.
In France, citizens get free and, until recently, quite good education, not only free at primary and secondary level, but also at tertiary level— universities, les grand ecoles, institutes etc. In Mississippi, higher education has to be paid for, either in cash or via student loans.
In France, medical and dental care of high quality is available via a hybrid State insurance system with a safety net for the unemployed, elderly etc. Hospital wards were done away with 40+ years ago. In Mississippi, there are areas without much healthcare at all and, despite Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare etc, health insurance is almost essential, if you or your employer can afford it.
Then there is the finance-capitalist system generally, and how it results in inequality of capital and income. In France, despite inequalities, there are relatively few people in grinding poverty; not so in Mississippi, where the top few percent take most of the money.
Beware of what newspaper scribblers tell you.
Andrew Neil not only should know better, he does know better. Dishonest.
More “trans” nonsense.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23686626.residents-gobsmacked-horse-carts-race-bournemouth/
“Residents ‘gobsmacked’ as horse and carts race through Bournemouth.
Footage sent to the Echo shows youths sat on the back of a cart attached to horses in the Lower Gardens, underneath the flyover at Pier Approach.
Concerned residents feared there could have been injuries or even a fatality if the horses had hit somebody, so phoned the police.
One resident, who asked to remain unnamed, was walking around the town when he came across the bizarre sight on Saturday, July 22.
‘I was just concerned because had there been a little child, or pet, or mother with a pram came running down, the horse would have gone into them and there could have been a fatality.’
The man said it was the first time he had seen anything similar in more than 30 years of living in Bournemouth.
However, he didn’t want people to have negative attitudes towards travellers.“
[Bournemouth Echo].
Isn’t that so typical of England in 2023? Nuisances, in this case “travellers” (Irish “tinker” “gypsies”), make life difficult and less pleasant (and potentially dangerous) for normal citizens, but nothing is done about them, the police do nothing, and even the concerned citizen who reported them felt obliged to say that no-one should have “negative attitudes” towards the nuisance group.
The System propaganda, endlessly pumped out by most msm outlets, by schools, by the churches (what’s left of them), and by MPs (especially Labour ones) has seeped into the thinking of many many people.
When I started this blog, nearly 7 years ago, I thought that the UK could be saved; now, I feel less sure every day.
See my blog from yesterday.
HS2 was a wrongheaded concept anyway. The high-speed train idea is OK in much larger countries such as France or China, or very elongated countries, such as Japan. Chile would be ideal. Not in the UK, unless the train were to go London to Scotland, or maybe to Penzance; the present plan is London to Manchester via Birmingham.
The Eastern route (to Leeds) has gone. There never was a Cornish route, and anyway the existing rail line would not be strong enough to take such trains beyond Exeter.
The HS2 project should have been scrapped a decade ago, and the money spent on providing more services and more branch lines in the North.
As it is, the project will be delivered in the 2030s (maybe), at ruinous expense, at ruinous environmental cost. Already the construction has scarred the landscape, destroyed ancient woodland etc.
All so that a train currently taking 1 hr 22mins to Birmingham will take 52 mins in the future, a saving of 30 mins. Oddly, the reduction in (fastest) travel time to Manchester will be less— 1 hr 40 mins instead of 1 hr 54 mins, a saving of only 14 minutes.
It is just not worth the money and the environmental damage.
“Lionesses”
Speaking of System propaganda…
The public are currently subjected to endless propaganda for the LGBTQXYZ agenda, masquerading as “sports news”.
I switched on BBC TV News recently, for the first time in a while, only to find that most of the broadcast was taken up with a report about some women’s football game in Denmark.
Women’s football is being heavily pushed by the “usual suspects”. No-one had even heard of women’s football a few years ago, not as a mass spectator sport. It now turns out that many of the women footballers are lesbians.
I myself am, in any case, not a sports fan, but the propaganda is just so blatant. Is that why most people do not notice it? It hides in plain sight.
This sort of nonsense is, like all the “anti-racism” stuff, and the “blacks with everything” agenda, part of a larger conspiratorial picture: see, e.g., https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/.
Kemi Badenoch
“Speculation about Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch‘s ambitions was gathering pace last night after a campaign to make her leader of the Tory party was revived.
The Backingbadenoch.co.uk website was quietly updated a few weeks ago, as were the corresponding Twitter and Facebook accounts.
[Daily Mail]
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. White people, despite still constituting 80% of the UK population, simply squeezed out everywhere, from TV ads and dramas to 10 Downing Street.
“Although a British citizen and born in the UK, Badenoch stated that she was “to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant” during her parliamentary maiden speech.
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.[7]Badenoch spent parts of her childhood living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States…She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria which had affected her family.”
[Wikipedia].
If you import a coconut, it does not thereby become a cucumber.
More tweets seen
Good security, but at what a price! Not “looks like a ghetto”; it is a ghetto.
The picture shown omits “Jew-Zionist conspiracies“, “NWO“, “ZOG“, “Trilateral Commission”, “Bilderbergers“, “migration invasion” and others.
Late tweets seen
Either Israel will eventually be hit by nuclear missiles from Iran or elsewhere, or it will fall apart internally, and then be subject to an uprising by the ~7,500,000 Palestinian Arabs who live at present corralled in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank areas, and inside the boundaries of Israel itself. The Arabs, as a population, number about the same, or only slightly fewer, than the Jews living in Israel.
If he were not so evidently mendacious and evil, Zelensky could simply be called an idiot. Imagine claiming to want a “peace plan” without the participation of the main player!
Dangerous territory both metaphorically and literally. If PMC Wagner were to attack Poland, that would presumably be taken to be an incident triggering Article 5 of the NATO Treaty (because presumably an action ordered by the Russian Government). Likewise, were Polish forces to attack official Russian or Belarusian forces, or to enter Ukrainian territory, there might be direct conflict between Polish and Russian forces, also probably triggering Article 5.
Sensible heads must rethink this conflict, and especially the increasingly frenetic NATO aid to the Kiev regime, before all Europe goes up in flames.
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