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Diary Blog, 26 October 2025

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[El Greco, Adoration of the Name]

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It seems clear that Labour Party members are, yet again, the foot-soldiers of a political army the heads of which ignore their views and preferences.

Once again, we see the influence of the Jewish and/or pro-Israel lobby, which is pervasive in our corrupt political system. In the Labour Party Deputy Leader contest, “they” made sure that they won. How? By backing both contenders. That is their usual method.

After what the Israeli Jews have done in Gaza (70,000+ mostly civilian dead, hundreds of thousands injured, tens of thousands of homes, shops, hospitals, schools, universities, and roads destroyed, embargo on food, water, and medical supplies, and military behaviour that can only be termed perversely sadistic), the priority is, apparently, recovering the remains of a small number of deceased Jewish hostages…

The hostages should never have been taken, or should have been released at an earlier stage, but when one looks at the behaviour of the [Israeli] Jews in Gaza etc, one can see why the hostages were kept as a bargaining counter and collective human shield (that idea did not much work, though, because the Netanyahu government and its armed forces carried on bombing Gaza anyway, heedless of the safety of the hostages).

[“Colombian mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain about long delays in payments and even their complete absence after receiving an advance, and ask the Colombian authorities to take them out of Ukraine Among other things, in the report, the mercenaries talk about the lack of rotation when debt accumulates — meaning there will be no debt after the mercenary’s death.“]

Interesting, but my own fairly youthful taekwando training (I was 28) ended with a cracked rib and waking up in pain for about 2 months. The pain mostly disappeared after a short time each day, but the old joke is true— it does hurt when you laugh…

Martial arts were never my thing, but the real exponents are fascinating. I did a short self-defence course about 30 years ago (1995 I think, when I was about 38) and with a small group of others, was taught by a renowned Japanese master called (as far as I can remember) Dr. Honda, who held black belts in various Oriental martial arts disciplines, including a rare honorary Dan rating which I believe was held by few if any others, or so we were told; told also that Honda was in the Guinness Book of Records, but I do not know whether that was so.

Dr. Honda was 84-y-o, but looked more like 50-something. He was only in the UK for a brief teaching tour. A dryly humorous person in an appropriately inscrutable way, he was like something out of a film. He could move, especially his arms and hands, quicker than the eye could follow.

Dr. Honda could put large and —at the time— fairly fit people like me (I swam half a mile to a mile nonstop, several times per week, then) on the floor in a split second, keep that person down using only a thumb or a couple of fingers, and if you struggled, could cause immense pain just by very slight pressure of a digit; I presume that he was expert in locating pressure points of the nervous system. Amazing person.

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Starmer-stein making much of the “fact” (if it is a fact) that ONE untermensch is (supposedly) now going to be deported. How many more came in today, or yesterday? A hundred? A thousand? More yet?

I once had a chat with a scientist who was working on nuclear fusion at Harwell (I think it was). I asked him how long it would be before electricity from fusion reaction was a practical reality. He said that he could not hazard a guess. That chat was in 1978…

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

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

[sculpture of Tarka the Otter, Bideford, Devon]

Henry Williamson, by any other name an English National Socialist:

Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social historyruralism and the First World War. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter.

He was born in London, and brought up in a semi-rural area where he developed his love of nature, and nature writing. He fought in the First World War and, having witnessed the Christmas truce and the devastation of trench warfare, he developed first a pacifist ideology, then fascist sympathies. He moved to Devon after the Second World War and took up farming and writing; he wrote many other novels. He married twice. He died in a hospice in Ealing in 1977, and was buried in North Devon.”

[Wikipedia— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson#Politics

All the System parties now have small memberships. The fake “Conservatives” have officially somewhere between 100,000 and 120,000, but probably well below 100,000. Active members are very few now.

To a large extent, the whole “democratic” political system in the UK is a kind of mirage, a view completely unreal. The supposed “credibility” of the “main parties” is founded on a mere projection of “credibility” and “importance”, which is totally fake. Look at the last half dozen Prime Ministers of the UK.

Monied elites“? Largely (((you-know-who))), of course.

https://www.fightingfund.org/stopthecaa

A good point by Jayda Fransen, and one about which I have wondered in the past.

We can point the finger, and with some justice, at Sweden and the Swedes (for behaving as total “cucks”), but we have to say that other countries and societies, not least the UK and the British, are or have been little better.

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A metaphor for white European, or European-derived, societies trashed and ruined by the untermenschen

Salus populi suprema lex esto. “The welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].

Looking at her background, Katie Lam will inevitably be conflicted, as Shakespeare alluded to in The Merchant of Venice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam#Early_life.

Inevitably, she will partly be in favour of European values, but also partly inclined to trash them.

[“People who are not-British, who are not from these islands, do not have a moral right to stay here. If they break our laws, if they do not contribute to our economy, if they impose enormous financial costs on British taxpayers, they should go. And by “go”, I mean back to their countries of origin. This means we should leave any international convention or court that prevents us from doing that. This is either a functioning nation-state or it is not. This will be a major fault line at the next general election. Whether you believe in the principle of national preference (putting our own people first), or whether, like much of the Establishment, you believe anybody and everybody has a moral right to move here, live here, and remain here forever, while imposing billions in costs on the British people and our children. This debate, one way or other, will settle the future of our country. Do not sit it out. Do not support fringe parties or figures that will go nowhere and merely help those in power. Focus your energy in a place that matters, in a place that will make a real difference. The future of your country now depends on it. This debate is coming one way or other. And the Common Sense majority have to win it or our country will simply be ruined.“]

Raise the banners!

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” [Yeats]

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[Arnold Bocklin, Triton and Nereid]

Diary Blog, 13 October 2025

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I covered some of that in previous blog posts: see

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“Regime”, “System”, whatever…

Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib’d alone

         Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin’d;

Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,

         And shut the gates of mercy on mankind…”

[Grey, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44299/elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard]

There can be no doubt at all that the current migration invasion of the UK (of which the “small boats” part is but 5%-10%) will eventually collapse our society. Already we see the whole structure of what was the “nation” starting to buckle under the strain, yet so many biens-pensants, virtue-signallers, and naive idiots (as well as outright traitors) prefer to pretend that all is well…

At the end of the day, should the Russian leadership be or feel pushed literally into a corner, all Ukrainian cities could be flattened within half an hour. Literally half an hour.

So far, Russia has not wanted to do that, thank God, but the fact remains that that could happen…The Kiev regime cannot “win” this war (however you define “win“), and Russia cannot lose this war (and will not).

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…while Trump and the Israeli leadership held a party.

I remain puzzled by Dan Hodges. His slavish pro-Israelism puts actual Jews in the shade, yet he is not Jewish (he may be “part-” but I have seen no actual evidence of that). As far as I can see, his extreme pro-Israeli views stem from some kind of mental condition.

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Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan

Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan. Like me, like others, someone attacked via her profession (and otherwise) by the Jew-Zionist lobby in the UK.

I saw a couple of tweets about how West Streeting is not Jewish, so (supposedly) not biased. Very amusing. Streeting is completely in the pocket of the Jew-Zionists, and always has been.

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Dim pro-Israel radio loudmouth Julia Hartley-Brewer thinks that it is “a war” when a state and people in possession of some of the most advanced weaponry in the world —tanks, jet fighters and bombers, hi-tech drones, quality sniper weapons, atomic weapons— unleashes that destructive power on an almost defenceless population, most of whom had no weapons at all (indeed, most were non-combatant women and children).

The only reason the [Israeli] Jews did not drop an atom bomb on Gaza was because it would poison most of the Jews in Israel itself. That, and render even less convincing the constant Jewish WW2 “holocaust” whining (and consequent profit-making via books, films, “reparations” etc).

Justice will be done, whether this year, next year, in 2033, or in seven generations’ time.

I think those women refer to the flag of Palestine, but it applies as much or more to the flag of Israel, waved by aggressive Jews in London and elsewhere recently; a pack of Jews even put Israeli flags all over the seafront at Hastings.

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Jewish terrorists.

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Crushing. What price the non-existent “Special Relationship” now?

Look at the direction of travel…

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Elgar/Payne)]
[Clun Bridge, Shropshire]

Diary Blog, 8 October 2025

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prussia#Evacuation_of_East_Prussia

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_East_Prussia#Crimes

The old East Prussia, and the old or former Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) no longer exists. Much of Konigsberg (and all of its real life, and that of German East Prussia as a whole) was destroyed in 1945 by Soviet forces, not so much Russian forces as Russian-speaking Sov-Mongoloid forces, a “Mong Army” if you like. Then occupation and settlement by Russians.

East Prussia now exists only in memory.

God bless its memory.

Another version, with old film footage:

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As previously blogged, though, it does depend on how exactly tax revenues are spent.

Ha. That cartoon really is a direct hit on Kemi Badenoch and the dwindling band of those who support her.

I quite seriously should not be surprised were the Conservative Party to score only about 10% at the (?) 2029 General Election; certainly if (which I doubt) Kemi Badenoch is still posing as Con leader.

Even if Robert Jenrick, a Jewish-lobby puppet now morphing into a kind of pseudo-nationalist, and who demands (literally, in his Conference speech) “a New Order“, becomes Con leader, I cannot see the Cons getting much above 15%. 20% at absolute outside. For one thing, many former hard-core Con voters may not still be around in 2029, they being in their nineties.

Will Jenrick soon be demanding “Eine neue Ordnung in einer neuen Zeit!“? (only joking, but who knows, these days?…). Desperate…

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Reminds me of the only time I can recall when I played a pub video game (excepting one other time, c.1978, when I played “Asteroids”). About 40 years ago. You had to kill terrorists and rescue hostages. I got halfway there; I killed all the terrorists. Sadly, I also killed most of the hostages.

As frequently noted on the blog, the best you can expect from the majority of recent non-European immigrants to the UK is that they are merely parasites; many are, or are also, criminal elements; a relative few are also supporters of terrorism, or are actually active terrorists.

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

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McSweeney is an Israeli agent of influence, at the very least. He will be there for the duration, unless he becomes the story for too long.

Ha ha.

More seriously, the System wants the two ping-pong System parties to stay in play. Result? System government.

Reform, though morphing into a System party, with the Jewish-lobby influence etc, is not quite there. There are still people who have other ideas in its ranks. Also, if Reform suddenly gets 400 new MPs in (?) 2029, which is not impossible now, the whole contrived or rigged political structure will face threats via those new, uncontrolled, people. Who knows where that might then lead?

So the answer for the System will be to keep the Con/Lab dichotomy in place, if that is still possible.

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Tit-for-tat? Might Russia supply, say, Venezuela, with missiles? 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis redux?

Lithuanian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrius_Kubilius. Of course, it often happens that small countries start big wars, one way or another. Look at the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1961; that situation nearly ignited the biggest of wars.

The word “termites” comes to mind…

Highly unpleasant. Suppose it does mean that the birth rate of those here will not be as high as it otherwise would be.

England erwacht!

Wir sind zuruck!

[“Actually, you do see more flags in working class areas. Turns out the poorest have the least to lose from being called racist by middle class trend-setters. Turns out the poorest are the most invested in preserving what little they have – what little they are able to call home. Turns out centuries of intergenerational investment makes people fiercely protective over their little scraps of home. Turn out those nowhere people who are free to move about the world aren’t as committed to this place as those unsightly “low-income” Englanders who have nowhere else to go. Turns out trying to bring your culture from abroad impose it on other people for your own temporary comfort – at the expense of their eternal belonging – is unwelcome. Just because you, or your parents, or your grandparents abandoned your homeland doesn’t mean I have to abandon mine in order to make you feel more comfortable. If you feel like a nomad and a stranger, it is because you are one. That’s not my problem. Take it up with your parents and grandparents. Do not consent to being dragged down into your identity wasteland for the sake of being “unified” as a people. If the choice is warring or being unified in our mutual nothingness, I really rather we be enemies.“]

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As previously noted on this blog.

Money given away (wasted) via aid to the Kiev-regime, Israel etc, and the massive cost of the non-white migration-invasion of Germany.

Reminiscent of Gary Glitter c.1973:

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[St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome]

Diary Blog, 25 January 2025, including the latest news about the legal case of Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Saturday quiz

Well, not a good week. I scored only 4/10, but still just beat political journalist John Rentoul, who got a mere 3/10. I knew only the answers to questions 4, 5, 8, and 9. I might also have guessed question 7 but, out of the two or three most likely battles, guessed the wrong one.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14318861/declassified-cia-documents-agency-plot-kill-americans-cuba-war.html

Chilling Pentagon documents may reveal why the ‘Deep State’ has always feared the release of the John F. Kennedy assassination files.

A 12-page report, signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in 1962, details a secret plan to commit heinous acts against American citizens to justify war with Cuba in the 1960s.

Code-named Operation Northwoods, this top-secret plot proposed enacting terrorism on US cities in a what is known as a ‘false flag operation’, before blaming Cuba in order to fool the Americans into supporting war efforts to oust communist Fidel Castro.

JFK rejected Operation Northwoods when it came across his desk and was shot.

A conspiracy theory surrounding JFK’s assassination claims he was killed by Israel which allegedly controls the US ‘Deep State.’ 

Now, President Donald Trump has promised to release all classified documents relating to JFK’s assassination, which could potentially lead to more shocking revelations about the US government’s activities during the 1960s.

[Daily Mail]

Plus ca change…

cf. the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. of 11 September 2001. Iraq was (wrongly, inaccurately) blamed, and that set the scene for the American invasion, thus greatly furthering the agenda of World Zionism and Israel.

“Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations”— latest

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14323329/Labours-tax-rises-leave-struggling-firms-dire-situation-figures-reveal-unprecedented-50-cent-rise-businesses-critical-financial-distress.html

The number of firms on the brink of collapse has surged under Labour.

Rachel Reeves was last night warned that her tax-raising Budget threatens to push many over the edge following an unprecedented 50 per cent rise in businesses in ‘critical financial distress’.

Separate figures yesterday showed private-sector jobs falling in January at the fastest pace since 2009 – excluding the pandemic – in another blow for the beleaguered Chancellor.

[Daily Mail]

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On the face of it, they look well taken care of.

Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor— latest

That refers to the case, and the aftermath of the case, of Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased) and Cantor, in which it seems that self-promoting Jew-Zionist solicitor Mark Lewis gave advice, and committed acts, both negligent and dishonest (and not for the first time, by any means).

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[“Retribution— Get down there where you wanted to send me, you unclean spirit!“]

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If—

By Rudyard Kipling

(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)

“If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”

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

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Wes Streeting, and his fellow Labour Friends of Israel members in Starmer’s hapless hopeless Government, are just empty vessels, making much noise. Even their noise, though, strikes me as being of the past, a tired rehash of Blair-Brown-ism mixed with rather a lot of Cameron-Levita/Osborne pseudo-“austerity” nonsense.

Starmer-Labour has nothing at all to offer the British people (as I predicted a year ago).

They are still, also, pushing the obviously false, untrue, mantra, “Diversity is our strength“, which only the very dim and/or totally deluded still believe.

Not quite the same as my solution…

Wall. Squad. End.

In the phrase of Katie Hopkins, “Bonkers Batshit Britain“…

According to Electoral Calculus, that would mean about 303 Labour seats, 138 Reform UK, 91 Con, 71 LibDem. So probably a Lab minority government with LibDem support, but possibly a Labour minority govt. with support from SNP and other minor parties. Labour would have to get a dozen or two dozen votes from somewhere.

Reform UK would be the official Opposition either way, on those figures.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

Half neither approve nor disapprove of the “diversity hire” “Conservative” leader, it seems. I suspect that many have never heard of her.

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Diary Blog, 2 May 2024

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[black and white still from 1959-1963 American TV series The Untouchables, one of my childhood favourites (seen by me in Australia in the years 1967/1968). Robert Stack seen in the photo in the role of Elliot Ness, toting a Thompson submachinegun with unusually-small drum magazine, probably the 20-round version]

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For my views about LBC, a radio station (ultimately) owned by a very pro-Israel Jew, see previous days’ blog posts, or use the search box on the blog.

…and look at the “Israeli” police: at least one shown is African, presumably a descendant of the “Jews” flown from Ethiopia by MOSSAD and the CIA in the 1980s and 1990s; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel#Immigration_to_Israel.

Apparently, there are about 155,000 Ethiopian “Jews” in Israel today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel. Half of them were born and brought up there. Their historical origins are rather obscure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel#Origins. Some people believe that the African “Jews” were slaves or servants of Jews resident in ancient Egypt, and took up their customs, but that theory has as little evidence, or less, than numerous other theories.

Those Israeli police are even more free with their swinging batons than are the traffic cops in Moscow, the GAI (as was). The Israeli police truncheons seem to be longer than the Russian ones (or the old British type, now replaced by extendable metal ones). The Russian traffic cops usually swing their batons menacingly as they stand in the street, as if just waiting for a chance to use them; the Israeli batons seem more like the NYPD “nightsticks”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Directorate_for_Traffic_Safety.

From the people that brought humanity the atom bomb“…

Try referencing “their” behaviour, and see how quickly the censorship kicks in, whether on LBC, Sky News, BBC, in Parliament, or in an ordinary court of law.

Here’s a bet. Radio loudmouth James O’Brien will never once say that LBC, his employer, is owned by companies owned by a Jewish heir to a fortune. He will never say that simple truth. What odds will you take?

Never be fooled by msm talking heads such as James O’Brien; they are bought and paid for. House-serfs. When the “You Know Who” cracks the whip, they jump…

Jews often say or talk, or write, or tweet about how Palestinian Arabs should draw a line under the fact that the Jews stole most of “Israel”, particularly during the 1948 “Nakba”, in the following years, and engaged in ethnic cleansing; whole villages killed by Jewish execution squads; men, women, and children shot after having been restrained by having their hands and/or feet tied.

The Palestinian Arabs, say the Jews, should “move on”, forget about the Jews’ ethnic cleansing, the massacres of civilians, the theft of land, houses, apartments etc, and make another life for themselves in Jordan, or Lebanon, and not keep talking about the catastrophe visited upon them.

Strangely enough, the very same Jews who say that never shut up about the events of the 1930s and especially early 1940s, when they say Jews were massacred etc by Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Baltic people etc. In fact, a whole industry of books, films, often “faction” (fiction disguised as “fact”, or “near-fact”) has grown up with those events (true or not) as its subject-matter.

When he was first elected, I thought that Johnny Mercer would be a breath of fresh air in the Westminster monkeyhouse— ex-officer, served in a war zone (Afghanistan) and, I think, saw combat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer_(politician).

I thought that Mercer would bring both integrity and commonsense thinking to the Westminster Bubble. Sadly, not so. His expenses have been questioned at times, and he seems to engage in private business activities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer_(politician)#Expenses. There is at least an impression of venality.

Having said that, Mercer’s vote-share has increased from 37.6% in 2015, through 51.9% in 2017, to 60.7% in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Moor_View_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Half of them cannot find their own country on a map of the world. I lived there. I know them as well as most Brits do. You are talking about a country (USA) where a tiny minority are incredibly well-informed (maybe 1%, being diplomatic about it), where about 5% are reasonably well-informed, and where maybe 94% know very little about anything beyond their everyday lives and situations. The 94% are easily manipulated by the American msm which is mostly owned, staffed, and influenced by “the usual suspects”.

In other words, opinion polling of the American people reveals, to an even greater extent than polling of British people, what the people have been spoonfed by the (((msm))).

National Socialism in Germany promoted health: physical health, moral and ethical health, spiritual health, cultural health, and the healthy evolution of the whole people or Volk in a Volksgemeinschaft or folk-community. They cut away unhealthy cancerous growths in the body politic, and in society as a whole.

[BDM girls ride through a sun-dappled forest, National Socialist Germany, 1930s]

Con and Lab are both nests of traitors, both parties being (in reality) signed up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.

Anyone’s guess, as far as the 2024 Westminster election is concerned (GE 2024), but my take is that tens of millions of British people are just sick of experiencing how nothing works any more in this country, from local right up to national level. They just want all this utter shite to stop. Labour will probably be unable to do much better, but what people want now, first of all, is to put the Conservative Party on a pyre, and then set light to it.

As to “how low” will the Con vote go at GE 2024, my view, formed over the past year or two, stands at present somewhere below 20%. The latest YouGov poll puts the Cons at about 18%.

My use of Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] on those figures puts the Con MP cadre after GE 2024 at 31 MPs (Labour 519, LibDem 58). On that basis, the Conservative Party will not even be the official Opposition.

Even if those figures are wildly out, it looks as if 2024 may be the swansong for the Con Party as both “the natural party of government” and even as the natural main opposition party.

So the younger generation(s) prefer white bread? Very unhealthy.

Britain can no longer protect itself from missiles and drones.

The UK is “increasingly vulnerable” to the threat of missile and drone attacks. Decades of savings have undermined its air defenses, experts warn. London has highly effective means, but they are no longer enough to protect the vast amount of critical infrastructure across the country, as well as troops abroad, Sky News reports.

The situation is exacerbated by the increasing quality and quantity of missiles and drones developed by hostile states such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

The Royal Air Force currently has just nine squadrons of fast jets, down from 30 at the end of the Cold War. The Royal Navy’s six Type 45 destroyers are equipped with the country’s only missile defense systems. But only three of those ships are “available for operations,” including one in the Middle East, according to a Navy spokesman.

On land, the military has about six Sky Saber ground-based air defense systems, each capable of shooting down multiple missiles. But at least two of them – and perhaps more – are deployed overseas, and those in the UK have a very limited range.

Britain benefits from its geographical location, with many European NATO countries located between its shores and Russia. However, the air defense of many European countries was also reduced in order to save money after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sky News notes.

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[Unity Mitford, at home in England after having shot herself in grief after Britain declared war on the German Reich in 1939]