We can reform all the planning laws in the world but unless we also control demand we will never fix our housing crisis. You can have affordable & available housing. Or you can have mass immigration. You can't have both.https://t.co/ERDM5mO3yN
The “unwanted truth”. The Twitter-twits and similar people will close their ears. They want to believe that mass immigration has nothing at all to do with the housing crisis, or low pay, restricted State benefits, crowded schools, hospitals, trains etc, even water shortages.
They also prefer to believe that you can import half a million or a million persons per year, mostly from very backward parts of the planet, to the UK, without any effect on public safety, a decent life, standards in all areas, you name it.
As Hitler said of the people of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“.
[The “4 million immigrants” (since 1997) of several years ago are now nearly 7 million, or more]
Palestinians are trying to repair parts of their destroyed houses in Gaza City in order to somehow live in them. pic.twitter.com/DKA7zL439I
Trump leads Biden in seven swing states šŗšø The former US president is superior to his opponent in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, The Times reports, citing YouGov poll data. pic.twitter.com/5hZLtCdp7C
To this day I canāt believe people actually buy Bitcoin. Itās just numbers on a screen!
What we should really be doing is trusting the Government to print worthless paper notes out of thin air, then depositing those notes at the banks so they can keep them safe for us!
— David Morgan š“ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó æ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 17, 2024
āTerrible news for Ukraineā – European experts on Trumpās choice of J.D. Vance
Donald Trump's choice of J.D. Vance as his candidate for the post of vice president of the United States has again raised fears in Europe that the former American leader will take a businesslikeā¦ pic.twitter.com/0PHueudqoW
āTerrible news for Ukraineā – European experts on Trumpās choice of J.D. Vance Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance as his candidate for the post of vice president of the United States has again raised fears in Europe that the former American leader will take a businesslike approach to foreign policy and will pursue it based on the principle of āAmerica First,ā writes The Guardian.
This, as the article notes, could lead to the United States insisting that Kyiv give in to Vladimir Putin and ask for peace with Russia. āIt’s bad for us and it’s terrible news for Ukraine,ā said one senior European diplomat in Washington. āVance is not our ally.ā
Foreign diplomats and observers often call Trump’s current policies a “black box,” saying it is impossible to know for sure what the unpredictable leader will do once in power. Some are comforting themselves by suggesting that leadership candidates such as former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien will maintain the status quo on foreign policy while Trump focuses on domestic affairs. But the would-be US president now has a much more energetic deputy who will stoke Trump’s skepticism about Ukraine and Europe while urging the party to pursue aggressive trade and foreign policies in other parts of the world.“
The former deputy mayor of Kiryat Shmona is considering buying an apartment in Greece due to the war and missiles from Lebanon.
The journalist asked him: Do you feel that the state is falling apart? He replied: There is no state. Everything is paralyzed. pic.twitter.com/qJIBgjGXcj
“Last week I made the decision to cancel my Conservative Party membership after nearly a decade. The party has failed to set out a positive visionĀ on housing, the environment and investment, as well as a pragmatic stance on Brexit. It has also drifted from the values of inclusivity and aspiration which drew me to the party under Lord Cameron.Ā This isnāt me leaving the Conservative party, itās the Conservative party that has left me.Ā Read my interview with the Telegraph on why for the first time I am politically homeless.”
Next time the Welsh Government complain they arenāt getting enough money from London, remember they spent almost Ā£40 million on changing the speed limits to 20mph, only to change them back following backlash, once again costing millions.
And no one will be held accountable.
— David Morgan š“ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó æ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 17, 2024
Record level data on doses, dates and deaths in relation to ten million people from the Czech Rrepublic has now been released by @stkirsch. It shows that the Moderna vaccine is 50% more deadly than the Pfizer. Steve's full analysis here: https://t.co/DWLwMWeMGYpic.twitter.com/tssOHNN5zp
The main theses from Sergey Lavrov's press conferences after the UN Security Council meeting:
ā»ļø The solution to the crisis in Ukraine must take into account the reality on the ground, but the West needs to stop pumping Kiev with weapons and then the conflict will end;
Labour's plans in King's Speech –as I wrote months ago–will further erode democracy by doubling down on Quangocracy –rule by unelected & largely unaccountable "expert" bodies removed from the peoplehttps://t.co/UA2ukmAI16
Once again, I refer readers to what Khrushchev said about Malenkov, namely that the “filing clerk” type should never be given power. That’s Starmer, in essence, a would-be dictator but in the guise of a careful, over-controlled lawyer.
GB News's Sir Philip Davies MP wagered he will not hold his Shipley constituency (6,242 majority.)
Last night he said he āfully expected to loseā the West Yorkshire marginal but insisted he had not done anything illegal. He is married to minister of Common Sense Esther McVey pic.twitter.com/Q4aU9aqbFd
— Jane š±ššŗš¦š (@localnotail) June 26, 2024
Good grief. The “Conservative” MPs really are “filling their boots” on the way out…
Rishi Sunak banging on about integrity, meanwhile simultaneously CCHQ have changed their handle to Tax Check UK and are posting misinformation………the fucking state of it.#BBCDebatepic.twitter.com/yy7mHPhsTI
— Land of Tope & Dory š (@lookeyhere4) June 26, 2024
Incredible. In the Christian Weltanschauung we are all “sinners”, it is said, but the Conservative Party is rapidly being exposed as a cabal of corrupt and ethics-free outright criminals and spivs.
Can you imagine a low trick of that sort being pulled in 1956 (the year of my birth), 1974 (when, aged 18, I voted for the first and only time—my candidate came last out of four…), or even 20 years ago? No. It would not, could not, have happened.
It is as if there has been a complete and shameless moral collapse on the part of the Conservative Party’s MPs and staff. Betting on the election date while having inside knowledge, masquerading as a fictional “Tax Check” organization (as above), masquerading as a candidate for any party other than Conservative (the unpleasant little Israel puppet, Robert Largan, at High Peak) etc.
Just unbelievable.
As for Philip Davies, he has, in a sense, every right to bet against himself, especially as he would certainly prefer to be, and make more profit were he to be, re-elected as MP for Shipley. Yes. No argument as far as that is concerned, but it just looks wrong, and so, bearing in mind the status and public position of an MP —as Davies was until the prorogation of Parliament— it is wrong.
“Migrant shipwreck survivor is arrested in Italy amid claims he strangled Iraqi girl, 16, to death in front of her mother on sinking yacht in the Med after watching his wife and daughter drown“
[Daily Mail]
Look at the type of untermenschen coming to mainland Europe, many then travelling on to the UK.
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A heartfelt message from David (Robbieās husband) to all of Woodfieldās supporters who have sent such kind messages since Robbieās passing last Thursday šhttps://t.co/4KVJbB9mLypic.twitter.com/4nRCj8Y2au
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) June 24, 2024
However, we can only do this with your continued support. Thank you to all who have donated, rest assured as always you money will be used to care for the animals that Robbie loved so much https://t.co/4KVJbB8OW0
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) June 25, 2024
Apropos of nothing, I wonder how many of my regular blog readers know that the Russian word for a railway station of medium to large size is a “voksaal” [Š²Š¾ŠŗŃŠ°Š»], which comes from, yes, “Vauxhall”.
The reason is that Vauxhall was apparently one of the first places to have a functioning steam train, or at least a well-known one, at a time (early 19thC) when Vauxhall was a “pleasure garden”. Possibly. A similar but distinct explanation is that other pleasure gardens, in Poland and Russia, were later referred to as “vauxhalls” and were in the vicinity of railway stations: anyway, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Gardens#Cultural_significance.
I think that a few of my regular readers already knew that, though I admit that I am guessing…
Pathetic, Paul. The legitimate concerns of women on this matter ā expressed by women from the Right *and the Left* ā are not to be falsely dismissed as a Tory plot.
Paul Mason, would-be Labour MP, becomes ever more pathetic politically. One feels that, given another 10 years, he will be found wandering the streets and swearing randomly.
Russian forces destroyed 12 drone control centers in the zone of responsibility of the Battlegroup West, spokesman for the battlegroup Ivan Birma said:https://t.co/M1SP6gqzAbpic.twitter.com/Rt4oJiVcMp
Russiaās navy is receiving more and more warships and boats year by year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on shipbuilding, citing year-on-year statistics:https://t.co/Pgzc6MjQn5pic.twitter.com/GnTJq5tyZ4
Good sense and Realpolitik breaking out in Berlin?
One INSANE thing about Johannesburg is how low trust it is.
Most people have houses with security guards for their gated community, high walls, electrified wire, CCTV. Nobody parks their car in the open at night Everyone seems to be in fear.
— Lord Miles Official (@real_lord_miles) June 24, 2024
If mass immigration, meaning net surplus immigration, were ended, then there would be no need for such building on the Green Belt. England's green and pleasant land is worth defending.
Enthusiasts for assisted suicide might not like to read this extract from a letter in todayās .@Guardian, fromProf David Albert Jones pic.twitter.com/VilROO32uU
It is coming now to the point at which we might ask, “which event will destroy our present civilization? A collapse in insect life, plant life and then animal and human life? A nuclear war? A “pandemic” (a real one, not one like the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic)?“
I live in the UK. 20 years ago if we drove 50 miles in the spring/summer our windscreens would be plastered with insects. Now I can drive 200 miles and there might be a couple. Donāt even need to use windscreen washers. Ask anyone here.
20 years is even less than a flash in historical times yet the number of UK insects has declined by around 75% in this time. It's similar in many other European countries where constant measurement has been taking place using standardized methods. https://t.co/SqsgjW7fFl!
The tide is turning. Reform UK is the first really significant movement of the “Overton Window” in mainstream UK politics. Later, social-nationalism can take hold, once there is a suitable movement as a vehicle for it. Then, a few accounts may be settled.
šµšø Dozens of Palestinians rush towards a humanitarian aid truck in the Gaza Strip due to severe shortages of clean water and food. pic.twitter.com/E44lIruuVr
Their evil is palpable when they feel thwarted. A similar incident happened in London a couple of months ago, with the Metropolitan Police as the immediate targets of the filmed propaganda.
According to my use of Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], that might result in a House of Commons with 441 Labour MPs (overall majority 232), LibDems 82, Cons 55, Reform UK 22, Greens 4, SNP 23 (etc).
Nearly 600,000 AFU troops have been lost and 4 oblasts, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson because Volodymyr Zelenskyy provoked a war, threatening to host nuclear weapons, attacking Donbass, threatening Crimea and insisting Ukraine could join NATO. Biden encouraged this.
— Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) June 27, 2024
Far right: the belief that British culture and civilisation is worth preserving.
— ŠŠ¾Š½Š“Š¾Š½ ŠoŠ³ šŗ (@LondonWog) March 5, 2024
Not much later— next week!
One of the israeli massacres on Rafah today, causing massive injuries, agonising death & trauma to hundreds of displaced Palestinian people https://t.co/F5y9iz8sVt
Even some Jews, the ones less contaminated by ancient tribalism, oppose the mass “slaughter of the innocent(s)” in Gaza.
Yesterday from Gaza city |
āNice flag! You bang*ed out! F*** your religionā
An Israeli soldier from the Givati Brigade at the military checkpoint along Gaza's coastal road harassing a Palestinian woman who is raising a white flag. pic.twitter.com/rLc4KKCWiw
šµšøš®š± Israeli soldiers have a barbecue and pizza party in their camps near Gaza while, the people of Gaza starve. pic.twitter.com/SCvN1ba6QW
Apocalyptic. Contrast the complacent American reaction to this with the scalded American reaction to the destruction, by Islamist militants, of two large buildings in New York City in 2001.
According to the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] pressure group in the UK, something like 96% of Jews in the UK identify with Israel and Zionism. That may or may not be exactly accurate, but gives a general picture, anyway.
Same thing applies to Muslims btw. Turkey and Bangladesh have below-replacement TFRs. Saudi and UAE have both gone Woke and are BFFs with š®š± & š®š³
And donāt act as if your daughters are on deen either. You know for a fact that theyāre in the DMs with Adnan and Abdi šš https://t.co/6jrGJcFHqE
— ŠŠ¾Š½Š“Š¾Š½ ŠoŠ³ šŗ (@LondonWog) March 5, 2024
Katie Hopkins about OFCOM censorship, Talk TV and GB News
Also:
Predicting it now:
This will be cited as a pretext under a Labour government to expand the scope of Ofcom's broadcast standards to YouTube channels, under the Online Safety Bill
The establishment sanitisers will chase Britain's dissidents to the furthest corners of the internet https://t.co/Pn4K1diCnX
“Donald Trump surged closer to a rematch with Joe Biden in November as he trounced Nikki Haley, his final rival for the Republican nomination, on Super Tuesday.
The former president, 77, dominated the biggest day of the primaries, winning eleven states by 9.30pm, and leaving the ex-South Carolina governor’s White House dreams hanging by a thread.”
[Daily Mail]
Trump is very flawed, but at least he is not suffering from increasingly-obvious dementia. He will take away Zelensky’s ricebowl, and that will end the war in Ukraine within weeks, as the already-crumbling frontlines of the Kiev regime break, allowing Russian to fulfil its “manifest destiny” and take over all Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and also the Black Sea littoral as far west as Transdniestria.
“Birmingham City Council has signed off on a wave of ‘devastating’ cuts to services and a 21% rise in council tax.
The Labour-run local authority has declared itself effectively bankrupt and says it needs to make Ā£300million in savings, after after identifying equal pay liabilities estimated at Ā£760million.
Councillors were seen leaving Tuesday’s crunch vote in tears after more than 50 of them voted in favour of the financial measures needed to secure a Ā£1.255billion bail-out loan from the Government.“
[Daily Mail]
That is what happens when the Common Purpose cancer takes hold— administrative chaos.
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Weāre the only G7 country in recession.
I canāt think of one public service thatās better than it was 14 years ago.
Yes…but a good part of the overall problem is caused, or made far worse, by the migration invasion, meaning the importation into the UK, every single year now, of a million backward persons, almost all non-European, i.e. non-white, and most of whom are little more than parasites, a substantial minority actively criminal and/or terroristic.
Unfortunately, the trade unions are no longer very useful to the workers of the UK. They have been captured by “woke” fanatics, pro-immigration lunatics, and/or the Zionist lobby. The Labour Party is similar.
The % of Brits who think immigration has been too high hits a new record high of 65% in the YouGov tracker
Only 19% think "it's about right"
As I've consistently argued, the British people are utterly fed up with how elites have managed this issuehttps://t.co/5eG7ts1LTK
As most readers will probably know, Sam Melia was sentenced last Friday to 2 years imprisonment (which may in practice mean 6-12 months —more likely 12 than 6) for distributing stickers which themselves contained nothing illegal, as the trial and sentencing judge recognized.
The judge is said also to have recognized, in his summation, that Sam Melia is a good fellow (or some such), a good family man, a good citizen and community member etc. Despite that, Melia has been imprisoned, for what amount to purely political reasons.
Melia’s wife, the brave Laura Towler, has been left to struggle with her home and small business, with one small child, as well as being about to give birth to a second child.
The crowdfunder set up to help Melia and Laura Towler has now reached, as at time of writing, Ā£55,641.
This is the link to that crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia. Donate as little as Ā£4, and so not only help that family but also stick it to the System, to “the lobby”, and to all enemies of this country’s future.
[A hero with a Valkyrie— Sam Melia and Laura Towler]
I am personally unacquainted with that couple; neither do I belong to Patriotic Alternative.
The couple and their children are exactly the kind of people who could, if existing in sufficiently-great numbers, form the basis for a new civilization once the present one collapses, which will probably happen within the next decade.
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Over 5 million migrants (8% of our population) have come to the UK over the last 5 years.
No economy or culture could survive such a dramatic rate of change.
Economically, culturally and constitutionally the UK is being extinguished
Undeniable, but it would be a mistake to imagine that Labour, under Jewish-lobby puppets Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc will be much different, or any better. Still, stamp on the Conservative Party anyway— extinguish it.
This follows an earlier post which looked at Labour's plan to double down on divisive woke theories about race, gender, etchttps://t.co/ohKIsJJ5uB
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) March 6, 2024
I must have missed all that.
I have my own (non-“conspiracy”) theory, which is that anything the human mind can imagine, even if only as a vague concept, can and will eventually become reality.
The idea of human flight by artificial means was first thought of in ancient times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus. In mediaeval and then Renaissance times, a few of the more-educated people conceived the idea of flight using either harnessed birds (Bishop Godwin) or mechanical contrivances (Leonardo da Vinci): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Moone
[Frontispiece of Der Fliegende Wandersmann nach dem Mond, 1659]
Neither Godwin’s nor Leonardo’s ideas were immediately practicable, but the important thing was that those people, and Leonardo in particular, had the idea that flight was possible, in Leonardo’s case by mechanical means. That was key.
Later, of course, in the 18th and 19th centuries, there were hot-air and lighter-than-air balloons, then Zeppelins (late-19th/early 20th centuries), and then the several people in the early 20thC who developed heavier-than-air machines; the Wright brothers are of course most famous.
[World War One: German Zeppelin over the palace of Westminster, probably 1916]
The fast jets, passenger airliners, spacecraft etc which we now know came, originally, from that one spark in a human mind.
The same is true in all spheres of activity. The human mind need only be able to think that something can exist for it to exist, though the working out may take, sometimes, hundreds or even thousands of years.
Typical of the “Conservative” drone-MPs of the past 15-20 years.
Anyone who has been to any uni has come across a Laura Trott in a seminar. Hasnāt done most of the reading, doesnāt understand what she has read but continues to spout nonsense with an unfounded sense of confidence.
Can Laura Trott actually count? People on less than Ā£25k a year are worse off, due to frozen tax thresholds & fiscal drag. That is not a tax cut. She actually said. āthe economy has been doing so wellā. We are in a recession. Jesus – she is so thick.
“Jesus, she is so thick“, the lady says…well, the only thing that can now save the Conservative Party is that many of the voters are also very stupid…
Harsh? Look at how many voters at the recent by-elections still voted Con. Yes, a minority, but thousands each time…a third of the voters who voted at Kingswood, and a quarter at Wellingborough. At Rochdale only 12%, but of course English voters who voted were a small minority there.
Alex Jones interviewed Laura Towler, the wife of Sam Melia. It's important that we make everyone aware of this gross miscarriage of justice. pic.twitter.com/TC57x1en8D
I know Laura Towler. She's a really nice young woman. She and her husband Sam Melia have been hounded by the system for years.
Even had several police raids, classed them as "terrorists", can you even believe that?
The 2 tier policing system needs to stop.
— National Identity š¬š§ā (@_National_ID) March 6, 2024
Correct this is a sample of the jew hate stickers he produced. #SamMelia also asked that they be posted close to schools. So many people defending a man they know nothing about. pic.twitter.com/pI1jDbAn7s
I have no problem with the examples shown; some may, but not me.
Time to start sheltering people like Sam Melia and others who are persecuted by the (in)justice system, instead of turning themselves in they should just go into hiding.
Ireland is pretty sad these days. Sinn Fein/IRA too. They seem to have surrendered completely to NWO/ZOG. Their “Irish Republican resistance” stance has become a kind of joke “cosplay” that evokes little but derision, and rightly so.
[Irish Republican Army volunteers, 1920]
[Black and Tans search a suspect, Ireland, 1920. Note the officer using his left hand to search the suspect’s pockets, while probably covering him with a pistol or revolver held in his right hand (unseen). Note also the body of a woman lying in the roadway behind]
Quite the chart! As I say, the immigration numbers that are unfolding in Britain right now are bananas https://t.co/3HlwWpqlFD
"What we are likely to see under a future Labour government is a return to what one scholar called 'post-democracy' — political powers will once again be pushed sideways, away from ordinary voters, to an array of quangos, auditors, regulators & the expert class"ā¦
In that event, Britain will be something akin to a dictatorship. In that event, anything will be justifiable by way of resistance to what may amount to a disguised tyranny.
Due to the difficult situation at the front, the United States may evacuate Zelensky from Kiev, said ex-Pentagon employee Stephen Bryan pic.twitter.com/dcATsI1xtn
In that event, will Zelensky and his wife go to his USD $40M villa in Florida, to another of his luxury houses (in Italy and elsewhere), or will he drop all pretence and go “home” to Israel?
According to the Washington Post, since the start of the war, the United States has secretly transferred more than 100 weapons shipments to Israel that were not submitted for congressional approval because their financial value was below the minimum financial value requiringā¦
I have seen a few comments on Twitter, mostly from the sort of people who are now quite often in evidence in England, for example from one well-known pro-Labour (Corbyn-Labour, lesbian, and half-caste) activist, to the effect that the death of Queen Elizabeth is of no importance, and that people should focus on energy prices, low pay, inadequate State benefits etc. I disagree.
The death of even one person has meaning, and when the death is that of a truly global figure such as Queen Elizabeth, the State and the society of —in this case— England and Britain is shaken to the core, no matter what else, even of great importance, is happening at or around the same time.
It is not a matter of whether one is a monarchist or not. I myself am not —as such— a monarchist or royalist, and believe that different socio-political arrangements fit national requirements at different times. Neither of my parents was royalist and, in the early 1960s, the royals (mainly the Queen herself, and the Queen Mother), were only glimpsed (by my own family) from afar, both on the TV and at the racecourse (Ascot, Newbury and, occasionally but later, in the early 1970s, Windsor).
All the same, for an Englishman such as myself, born in 1956, only a few years after the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, her presence, even though experienced mainly on television or in the Press, has been part of the backdrop for my own life, and the lives of others of my generation, whether we like it or not.
As a person usually described as “social nationalist”, though others say some variety of “national socialist”, and even (per the Dowager Lady Birdwood, circa 1975), “national bolshevik“, I cannot but wonder whether all the inhabitants of these islands are affected similarly by this momentous and very recent event.
While I have met blacks (West Indians and a few others) who were both royalist and also had quasi-patriotic feelings about the UK, my impression is that the bulk of the “blacks and browns” (and other such as Chinese) now in the UK have no such feeling or sentiment.
The young Jamaicans, or other West Indies-origined, of the inner cities, the hordes of more recent Chinese immigrants who have flooded the UK (especially though not exclusively in London and the south of England), the Pakistanis and other Muslims, the fake or other “refugees” of various kinds (eg the recent though smallish Ukrainian or supposedly Ukrainian influx) have no sentiment toward either this country or the Monarchy. To them, even those born here, Britain is a place to live in, benefit from, in some cases work in or make money in. A mere geographic space. Most of them have no patriotic feeling, no knowledge of our history, no real connection at all. They are just…here.
I am talking not about politics, or policy, or power, but of
“This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,–
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England“
There is also an age-demographical point here. The younger English too (and Welsh and Scottish) people around, particularly those aged maybe up to 35, are often emotionally distant not only from the Monarchy, but also from the race and nation.
You see msm vox pop, or Twitter, comments, or appearances on TV quiz shows, from those broadly “young”, let us say 18-30, which are so lacking in basic knowledge of England’s (and the world’s) history etc that those talking might as well have just arrived from Mars.
For many of the “young”, the members of the Royal Family are, as I have blogged in the past, basically denizens of the empty and stupid milieu of supposed “celebrity”, not essentially different from the casts of The Only Way is Essex, Made in Chelsea, or whatever else of a similar nature.
Indeed, with the marriage of “The Harry formerly known as Prince” and “the Royal Mulatta” (Harry and Meghan of that ilk), the two previously acquainted but once very different worlds of British Monarchy and “celebrity culture” have collided, with disastrous results, even so far.
As I have blogged on one or two previous occasions, it is not only the British population that has changed; so have “the royals”.
Whatever one may have thought of the late Queen and Prince Philip, they were traditionally and unmistakeably royal. They could never have been mistaken for “the common people”, not even the most ultra-wealthy “commoners”. They would certainly never have been mistaken for members of the suburban middle classes, or the working class or classes.
It can be seen that that unmistakeable “royality” slid somewhat in the generation of Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward. The younger two, Andrew and Edward (born 1960 and 1964), in particular, might be considered similar, at least in some respects, to their neighbours in suburban or semi-rural Surrey or Berkshire. Think of Andrew and “Fergie”, living in their sprawling villa, the so-called “South York”; Edward wanting to run a theatre company; Edward’s wife carrying on (until it became an embarrassment) with her public relations enterprise.
Of course, there have been many other scandals and, most recently, the scurrilous rumours about the next generation, mostly about Prince William.
While the Andrew/Edward generation could be said to be not far, in terms of lifestyle, from the very wealthy of the Home Counties, the William and Harry generation are not so far in attitude and lifestyle from quite ordinary, albeit very wealthy, commoners of their own age. If “Fergie’s” parents were an Army major and a mother, as “Fergie” has said, “from country gentry with a bit of old money“, Kate Middleton’s parents’ origins are that the father, though from a wealthy background (and later wealthy in his own right, via business), worked as a flight dispatcher, while Kate’s mother had been an air hostess.
Subtle differences but, over three generations making, overall, a big difference.
So now we have King Charles III, whom I regard as a basically well-meaning but also incredibly self-absorbed person who is more “at sea” ideologically and/or intellectually than most people think; perhaps more than he himself thinks.
Regular readers of the blog may recall that I blogged once or twice about how I met with and very briefly (a few minutes) talked with the then Prince Charles in late 1996, when I was invited to a royal reception (about 25-30 people) held at the official Residence (not the Embassy) of the British Ambassador in Almaty, then the capital of Kazakhstan.
The new King is 73, and will be 74 in November.
As for the next generation, I once described Princes William and Harry as “tame thick princelings“, signed up to what people now call a “woke” agenda, and I see no reason, several years on, to change that view.
The late Queen was an anchoring presence, not only in what she did but in what she was.
Without necessarily endorsing the following view, it can be said that Queen Elizabeth personified the idea that a monarch, at best, holds a nation together. Britain’s problem now is that it is rapidly ceasing to actually be a nation. It is more like a geographical space within which reside a number of interpenetrating racial, national, social and economic, and ideological, tribes, many of which dislike, or even despise and hate, each other.
“Sweet Thames”
I saw this very worthy historical blog and travelogue about the Thames, “that silver thread that runs through England’s history” as someone may have called it (Churchill called it “the golden thread through our nation’s tapestry“): https://thames.me.uk/Thames1891.htm.
Interesting, I think, not only for those who, like me, spent some of their young teenage years rowing on it.
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Twitter has removed a post from a CMU professor that called the British monarchy a āthieving raping genocidal empireā on the day Queen Elizabeth II died. The removed post from professor Uju Anya said of the queen, āmay her pain be excruciating." https://t.co/TTDTDMkJyu
An African woman is being threatened and harrassed today for not showing respect on the death of an English monarch. Even in 2022, colonial supremacy finds a way. Stay strong @UjuAnya, this tribulation is the burden of freedom fighters. https://t.co/b0DxTFO5pE
I believe in free speech, but I do not believe that such a person as this Uju Anya idiot should anyway be taken seriously enough to hold an academic post at a well-known American university.
American academia is very sick, largely because of this sort of nonsense. The usual suspects (((them))) are behind much of it, pulling the strings. The black “academics” (usually retailing pseudo-academic nonsense) are, to a great extent, just the puppets.
Unless America can recover its ethnic white European identity, it is doomed. There needs to be a reset of the white/non-white population-proportion in the USA, getting back to the ~90% white America of the 1920s.
Apart from which, there are times when a decent reserve is the right persona, and when nasty and tasteless jeering is not the right persona.
Sad thing is there will be people in this country celebrating this
For me, the main point is that the tasteless minority pretending to celebrate the death of the late Queen (and a few even hoping, on Twitter etc, that that death was painful) are not only celebrating the death of Elizabeth II, but are also —and in fact primarily— making a truly evil attack on the British people, on our history, on our now-disappeared Empire, on our culture, on our (and all European) culture, and on the overall European way of life. That is why they should all be deported, exiled, or eliminated.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis: When public health experts said you can't protest against lockdowns, but George Floyd riots are OK, āthat's when I knew these people are a bunch of frauds.āšpic.twitter.com/HN0St9jNEj
A nation that erects statues of career criminals like George Floyd while tearing down statues of the patriots and trailblazers who built that nation, won't be a nation much longer.
…and despite that, Jew-lobby puppet Keir Starmer and his deputy, thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner went down on their knees in fealty to the “BLM” “Black Lives Matter” idiocy, as did many others, including members of this country’s police, while on duty at that.
That, of course, was before the transnational conspiracy put up other idols for the unthinking to worship: first the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, and now the present nonsense about Britain’s (non-existent) “need” to “support” the Jew dictator Zelensky and his corrupt and antidemocratic cabal in Ukraine.
The tweets and retweets of the tweeter @DwayneDavidPaul (click below) are instructive. Monkeys like that can only just about live, parasitically, in a civilized society or culture; they could never create one, not in a million years:
The limited Kiev-regime counter-offensive in the south of Ukraine (Kherson area) was joined by another limited counter-offensive in the north-east, in the Kharkov area. Now, however, Russian missile strikes have hit a number of cities.
As for the tweet immediately below here, its judgment would be more convincing had the Kiev regime not been shelling and rocketing the population of parts of the Donbass for about 8 years…
Here is some of the shelling of #Kharkiv by Russia in real time targeting civilians. There is truly no safety for the people when they are not seen as people but targets.
If Russian forces are seriously pushed back on a consistent basis, and if the outcome of this war is in the balance, we can expect to see a massive escalation of force from the Russian side.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah has written quite extensively about how soap operas are powerful tools for influencing society (in whatever way the writers might see fit). Soap operas shouldn't be dismissed as bad tripe.
Fresh off his appearance at Wall Street, where he pitched corporations on the plunder of his country's assets, Zelensky will appear at a conference of arms makers in Texas to present his country's war as a fantastic business opportunity. #SlavaRaytheonhttps://t.co/zSNTT6Kcp3
As blogged many times, Ukraine is a new-ish state (1990s), a failed state, and a shambolic kleptocracy run by a pack of Jew billionaires (like Zelensky, who owns several luxury homes including one in Florida worth USD $40 million).
The Zelensky regime shoots its opponents both in secret and in the street, has banned opposition parties, banned trade unions, and arrested prominent opposition politicians.
Liz Truss wants to waste many billions more of UK taxpayers’ money on the criminal Kiev regime, as did “Boris”-idiot.
Two things that seem to need restating. A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. And the first casualty of war is truth. Everyone used to know these maxims. The modern web generation appears not to know or understand them.
@alexisbrassey Someone has been getting at you. I don't think Britain has any interest in this Russo-American war and I think the peoples of the region, and the world, would benefit from a negotiated peace. I've never got involved in speculation about the military balance. https://t.co/fKqr9ADhDe
My very normie ex said something similar yesterday, out of the blue. "Something bad is brewing and coming soon. I can feel it". Been noticing when I'm at Costco or the grocery store etc there's no energy. People seem to be just going through the motions.
It's the realisation that things will never "go back to normal." You don't have to be a political, economic, or historical student to see collapse coming. It's also the helpless to prevent whatever bad is coming is horrendous something no alive in the west has experienced
Ian Robert Millard 