This week, a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 5/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 10. I really should have got numbers 4 and 10, but there it is.
“Two amphibious warships are set to be ‘mothballed’ in a move critics have said could spell ‘the beginning of the end’ for the Royal Marines, as the Navy tries to tackle a sailor shortage crisis.
HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark could be retired from active service under plans put forward by Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, according to The Times.
The plans would be designed to help deal with the manpower crisis in the Royal Navy, freeing up more than 200 sailors for other ships – most likely the force’s new fleet of Type 26 frigates when they come into service.
But the move has been slammed by critics who say the ships are crucial to the functioning of the elite commando force, with experts saying their retirement would weaken the Marines by diminishing their ability to storm beaches from the sea.”
[Daily Mail]
Ha ha! In what world does Britain presently need the “ability to storm beaches“? Not the world where the only “storming” of beaches is by migrant-invaders invading the UK.
As far as I am concerned, the armed forces have virtually no useful role in a Britain becoming totally alien, and which soon will have nothing its inhabitants will wish to defend anyway.
Come to think of it, I was just watching an episode of Spooks, a TV series I did not see when it was first broadcast. That led me to thoughts around what use is MI5. The damage (possibly mortal) being done to the UK is not by spies infiltrating government offices, and not by anarchists or others wanting to assassinate MPs etc, but by a tsunami of immigration, and by the cultural trashing of our mass media, publishing, schools etc. About all that, MI5 has nothing to say, and even less to do.
“A man and a teenager have been convicted of murder after detectives used CCTV footage to track down their escape routes home.
[defendant]
Nah’shun Thomas, 20, of Bournemouth Road in Peckham, and a 17-year-old who cannot be identified because of his age were convicted on Friday January 5 of murdering Kalabe Legesse in Peckham Rye.“
[Evening Standard]
More “diversity”.
How on Earth can we create a more advanced society without —without creating— a more advanced population? Instead, the UK is nosediving to demographic disaster. The overall IQ of the population is sliding, and has been for some time. Not surprising when you look at specimens such as that in the above photograph.
complete Israeli withdrawal from the areas of the Gaza and North governorates to the cover areas, with the exception of Al-Tawam and Al-Maqousi Towers.
Israeli Channel 12: A state of fear prevails among the residents of the North and the Golan, especially after today's targeting that shook the region. There are several injuries that have been transported to Safed hospitals.
Douglas McGregor: The United States and NATO will not admit defeat in Ukraine. That's not how it works in Washington. And do they admit it secretly? Undoubtedly. It even became a proof of our weakness for the whole world. Our equipment, our technologies, our advice, even our… pic.twitter.com/Kgx2LgOuKQ
“Douglas McGregor: The United States and NATO will not admit defeat in Ukraine. That’s not how it works in Washington. And do they admit it secretly? Undoubtedly.
It even became a proof of our weakness for the whole world. Our equipment, our technologies, our advice, even our assistance on the ground and in the air – all of it failed against the Russians.
The only thing we have achieved is that we have increased Russia’s prestige, power and influence in the world, which is exactly the opposite of what we said we wanted to achieve.”
Massive destruction caused by the Israeli bombing of the Palestine Mosque area in Gaza pic.twitter.com/EoN8cUSsOM
There will be no aid to Ukraine without congressional approval – Biden administration
“Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, emphasized that there is no other way to help Ukraine except for Congress to approve additional funding,” the Associated Press… pic.twitter.com/OwUGixWTYA
It's also now beyond doubt mass immigration is worsening Britain's wider housing crisis. You can pretend it's not happening & put your head in the sand. Or like our community you can get real about the problems facing Britain and talk about them openly https://t.co/pWTmH3Gnnm
The facts would be even more striking if the msm etc stopped calling people “British” just because they have a UK passport.
The worst thing for our soul is to go through life not knowing who we are.
If our identity is taken from us then all we have left is to flail around in darkness, satisfying ourselves with even the most vacuous and superficial of identities that we can relate ourselves to; all in… pic.twitter.com/dtbb7kCmTd
A picture of Mike Pence, the former vice president of the United States, visiting and signing an artillery shell to be fired by the Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/j6zI9l05Xt
After an absence of decades, pine martens are now present across the New Forest and successfully breeding here according to the results of a three-year study. https://t.co/ViMyKo7zkz
Pipe down love. Hes an unelected WEF stooge driving this country into oblivion. Starmer will continue on the same path if he gets in, as it’s the same hand that controls these clowns. But you already knew that
I wonder how many are embedded in the UK political parties at Westminster.
In one of the desert regions of China, a full-size replica of the newest American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford for target practice. pic.twitter.com/uxzWyRcZhY
…and the Kiev-regime navy is nowhere to be seen (because the Kiev regime no longer has a navy…).
🇮🇱 Israel's Defense Ministry says 12,500 of its soldiers may be classified as disabled after the war, meaning they have varying degrees of disability pic.twitter.com/o6hnZYEoj0
As Enoch Powell said about 55 years ago, “we must be mad, literally mad” [to allow this flood of uselessness].
One reason so many doctors in Britain are from abroad (& often less qualified than British ones) is because for years both Left & Right FAILED to expand medical school places for British kids. We reject thousands each year. Once again, short-term sticking plaster rather than… https://t.co/NxyRCo9L1r
The very parts of the economy that should be in public ownership. Railways. Water supply. Energy (on the large scale). Royal Mail and post office services.
Rachel Reeves can find money to cut income tax or national insurance, but can't find the money to end the two child benefit cap. https://t.co/OdZxCNQAZU
Rachel Reeves. Labour Friends of Israel member. Expenses and perks freeloader. Failed to pay back her interest-free House of Commons credit card debt for years…
Anyone who thinks that the likely Starmer-Labour government from 2024-25 will be better than the bunch of clowns currently in office is being very very silly.
Having said that, the only way to (“peacefully”) destabilize the failed two-party rigged system in the UK is to destroy at least one major party. The “Conservatives” have volunteered, by their corrupt ineptitude, to be that party. At the upcoming General Election, all that is required is for people to punish the Con Party by not voting for it. Either abstain, or vote anywhere but Con.
Tice, of Reform UK, is scarcely my kind of politician, but he has caught the mood. In a recent interview (a few days ago), Tice made the necessary point: punish (his word) the Con Party, no matter whether voting for Reform UK means more Labour MPs. Labour will almost certainly “win” anyway, and almost certainly with a large majority. Think strategically. Wipe out the Con Party by either abstaining or by voting anywhere but Con.
Good. Another total waste of space gone. I never liked what I saw about or from him.
“He is also a member of the Free Enterprise Group of MPs, founded by Liz Truss, and along with Truss, Priti Patel, Kwasi Kwarteng and Dominic Raab, he co-authored After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012). The authors of Britannia Unchained claimed that “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.” [Wikipedia].
So wrote a man who has never done a day’s actual or non-political work in his life. He was even useless as an MP and junior minister, getting sacked at least three times from various portfolios (despite having been one of the least rebellious and most toadying of the Conservative MP-cadre).
Skidmore tries to present an “intellectual” front, but not convincingly. He does not have the horsepower, when all is said and done.
Skidmore, though now claiming to have resigned on a matter of principle, had himself earlier said (in 2022) why he would not be continuing as MP:
“On 26 November 2022, Skidmore announced that he would be standing down at the next general election, later stating in Parliament that ‘my constituency of Kingswood is being formally abolished in the boundary changes and there is nowhere for me to go.’[37][38][39]” [Wikipedia].
Translation: he has been both useless and disliked as MP and junior minister, and no other constituency would want him once his present one is abolished. In any case, there may well be few Conservative Party seats left after 2024.
Skidmore has spun getting kicked out of Parliament (by the time of the 2024 General Election) as a principled resignation, no doubt hoping to be given some lucrative and maybe environment-oriented quango appointment later. He might have been better to wait to see whether he would be in line for a peerage. No chance of that now.
…and the Zionist Jews in the UK, at least those making public statements on Twitter/X and/or on msm, are following that line; as are political doormats such as Starmer and that little Indian money-juggler currently posing as Prime Minister.
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: 4% of Gaza population killed, missing or wounded, 70% of buildings destroyed, as war enters fourth month pic.twitter.com/GZu8LaAejc
'Fundamentally, British people need to be housed first.'@GoodwinMJ says 'close to half of all social housing in London goes to households who are headed by somebody who is not born in Britain'.
“The Tories have been lying —they’ve been gaslighting the British people, promising them one thing while delivering something else altogether.
They promised “lower overall numbers” only to then send net migration soaring to levels that have simply never been seen before in British history.
They promised to “take back control” and restore Britain’s status as a self-governing nation only to then completely lose control of Britain’s borders.
And now –as the latest data shows– we can see that while they promised a high-skill, high-wage, and highly-selective immigration policy that would attract “the best and the brightest” global talent they have instead delivered the very opposite.
They’ve further pushed open the floodgates to a new era of low-skill, low-wage immigration from outside Europe —the very kind of immigration which, as the latest studies show, is a net cost rather than a net benefit to Western economies and welfare states.
They need to stop lying to the British people. They need to level with the British people and admit that what they have delivered since the vote for Brexit is the total opposite of what they promised.
The British people deserve better than this. And it’s high time somebody speaks up and gives it to them. They deserve the truth. And they deserve leaders who will give them nothing but the truth.”
…and they deserve political leaders and parties not in hock to the international Jewish lobby and/or Israel lobby.
Border situation rapidly worsening under Biden’s watch. Who benefits from this chaos? Not the border towns, our cities, or our workers. Not even the migrants themselves. Only the cartels. Right now the first step toward resolving this humanitarian crisis is to SEAL THE BORDER. https://t.co/lTArrrljus
Even in a country such as the USA, with a population of over 340M, figures like that naturally give rise to concern (as does the fact that the tweeter Ali Bradley seems to be ignorant of what the word “majority” means…American education…).
“To Israel: You can’t say “never again” while committing a literal genocide. You can’t bring up the Holocaust while detaining Palestinians, including children, in concentration camps. You can’t say you’re the victim while you’re bombing every hospital, bakery, journalist, and child in sight. You can’t say “self defense” while your kids are writing their names on rockets being blasted towards other kids whom you turned into orphans. You can’t say you’re protecting anyone while killing them.“
I notice that more and more people are waking up to “their” fake victimhood “cosplay”.
Israeli forces killed Sham, Maria, Shams, and Mona Moataz Wadih Salem with their mother Nidaa and grandmother Bahija, their aunt Sanaa and her husband Muhammad, and their children Sama, Ghazal, Abdullah, and Yazan. 100 member of the Salem family… pic.twitter.com/Pc26QG1STj
“A serious government would have looked at Brexit and recognised the necessity for economic and social reform. The first lesson should have been that mass immigration cannot be a substitute for skills training, and that open borders is not a sustainable answer to labour shortages.
Subsequently, it should have examined the reasons business relies on immigrant labour and modified policy accordingly – up to and including far reaching welfare reform. It should have also taken steps to reform the ponzi scheme that is higher education, ideally dismantling second rate universities in favour of vocational training with a view to improving labour market fluidity.
It should have initiated an immediate energy policy review, dismantling the EU regulatory systems that push up the price of energy.
It should have prioritised nuclear over renewable energy. It should have looked at streamlining energy planning and procurement regulation.
It should have initiated a complete review of food and agriculture policy with a view to improving food security and reducing food miles, cultivating local supply chains, and revising trade policy accordingly.
It should have initiated a complete review of foreign aid, trade and foreign policy in line with clearly defined national priorities.
But our politicians didn’t want any of that. They liked having their thinking done for them. They didn’t see any reason for change and everything they’ve done since has been to prevent meaningful change. Sclerotic mediocrity is how they like it and it’s the best we can hope for.
That is why the Tory party is dying. They were handed a massive majority and a mandate for change and they did precisely nothing with it. They wasted our votes and our time. They squandered every opportunity and walked away from every fight. Instead of taking the cue for radical change, they doubled down on all the worst aspects of centrist consensus politics on everything from immigration to energy, in lockstep with the EU as though we never voted to leave.
Immigration is now out of control, rents have skyrocketed, energy prices are insane, university degrees are next to worthless, and now they’re inflicting heat pumps and EVs on us when nobody can afford either, nobody even wants them, and we don’t have the electricity to power them.
Now we find ourselves with nobody worth voting for, and a decrepit opposition party set to inherit power by accident of numbers, and virtually nobody thinks it will be an improvement.
There is no means by which we can arrest the decline – while the media gaslights us by telling us this is the most right wing government in history.
Not only does the Tory party deserve to die, it is a necessary precursor to any kind of British renaissance. The conservative party only wishes to conserve a stagnant status quo even if it drags us into the dark ages.
We are condemned to drab, anti-patriotic technocratic managerialism and a zombie establishment that has long since abdicated from its obligation to govern. They are rotten, debased, corrupt and ineffectual in everything they do.
Every iteration of it is like a bad Hollywood sequel – a jaded repeat bereft of ideas and energy, oblivious to its own creative death spiral.
The cancer has now spread to all of the state’s vital organs, and the patient is now on life support. Nothing short of a medical miracle can revive it from its persistant vegetative state. The only merciful thing to do is to let it die.”
I agree with pretty much all of that analysis.
The Tories need wiping out, they deserve to be obliterated for their betrayal of their voters. The future looks very bleak
Quite. I hate and despise the misnamed Conservative Party, but also despise and hate the equally-misnamed Labour Party. Other misnamed parties? The “Scottish National Party” (currently run by a Pakistani) and the “Liberal Democrats”.
Look what the small hats are doing to a country like the U.S. that has been nothing but supportive to them (mass migration, transgenderism, race division, seed oils, etc), what do you think they will do to the rest ?
…and if you say anything about all that, at least in the UK, some malicious Jew-Zionist volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy and Government (eg the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) will suborn or corrupt the police and the prosecution service in order to bring down upon you the weight of the criminal law (while, in the real world, real crime explodes).
Our political class simply does not have the will, ability or courage to govern the country effectively. It is has failed and will continue to do so. More time is spent on anachronistic formalities and internal party processes than is ever devoted to enlightened governance.
Labour are setting up an immigration trap. The idea of processing illegals overseas is a scam that will allow millions to come to the UK by applying from centres in their own country, we will be swamped. Labour are plotting for even more immigration https://t.co/KTy4i2JabL
Obviously. Even at present, 75%+ of the invaders are given leave to remain. That’s 75% or 80% of the actual small boat invaders; the “legal” ones are all allowed to stay for the period of their visa, but many who stay beyond that are also, one way or another, allowed to stay in the end.
Overall, something like 95% of the various types of migrant invader are —eventually— allowed to stay indefinitely. As a nation and possibly, later, as a state, the UK faces ruin.
In Africa and Asia live hundreds of millions who would like to come here. Yes, in time that will reduce the UK to a “third world” level, but they cannot see that. All they see is a country still hugely better than their own. They want what we have, or they think we have. Even if our living standards continue to slide, for the black/brown invaders that is irrelevant. They are used to much worse conditions.
Therefore, the migration invasion will continue until our society collapses into chaos and/or civil war. When? Maybe as early as 2030, maybe a little later. By 2050, for sure, as things are going. Thank God I shall probably not be here to see it face to face.
Late tweets
Red sea story in short cartoon… Yemen against Israel & US/UK/EU failed coalition pic.twitter.com/Axig9BrZZL
"The US will give 250 million dollars in military aid to Ukraine," said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and added that this is the last package in 2023. pic.twitter.com/xACZ9RcRYL
Former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel has lost the war against Hamas and Netanyahu must be overthrown.
According to him, the real losses of the army are hidden, and for almost two months of ground operations there are virtually no strategic or even tactical… pic.twitter.com/x6semWZIA0
“Former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel has lost the war against Hamas and Netanyahu must be overthrown. According to him, the real losses of the army are hidden, and for almost two months of ground operations there are virtually no strategic or even tactical victories in the Gaza Strip.“
It would be a mistake to assume that all Jews, even all Israelis, are behind the continuing devastation in Gaza. My own guess is that most would have been satisfied by a week or so of targeted, albeit bloody, attacks in retaliation for the stunning surprise attack by Hamas forces in southern Israel in October.
There was a film, several years ago, interviewing former chiefs of Israeli intelligence and security; they were far less gung-ho than Netanyahu and his clique, or the malicious and unpleasant Jew-Zionists one sees or hears of in places such as London, Leeds, New York etc.
By the by, I keep wondering whether the Israeli Government, like F.D. Roosevelt before Pearl Harbor, knew of the October attack by Hamas before it happened, but let it go ahead in order to have to popular support —initially— for what is now happening in —in the Israeli case— Gaza, which amounts to an attempt to occupy Gaza and drive out its 2M inhabitants.
That may read like “conspiracy theory”, but so many of such theories turn out to be just true in the end. Why did it take Israeli forces several hours, in some cases 12 hours, to deploy to the site of the October attack? Israel is small. Tel Aviv is only 44 miles from the border of Gaza, and maybe 60 miles from the site of the Hamas attack in October.
When I was a practising barrister based in Exeter, in SW England (2002-2008), I lived in a country house about 4 miles north of Launceston (Cornwall) and almost exactly 45 miles west from my Exeter chambers. Same distance as Tel Aviv to Gaza. One day, I made the journey, door to door, in only 35 mins. I am sure that the supposedly elite Israeli forces can deploy in at least similar time (by road or helicopter), if they are so ordered. So why did they apparently take many hours in October?
Late thought
A day or two ago, I caught a few minutes of a political quiz on Sky News. Radio politico Nick Ferrari, some black woman (I think Dawn Butler), useless half-Jew former MP and now (absurdly) member of the House of Lords, Ed Vaizey, and “British” Indian pseudo-Communist, Ash Sarkar. All wearing silly Christmas hats for the occasion.
What struck me (again) is that the System TV would never have a social-national person on such a show, but there is political bad joke, Ash Sarkar, sitting there happily alongside Ed Vaizey, despite having commended not only socialism but Communism on air many times. She was obviously loving being part of the System mass media in-club…
Only social-national people and policies can now save Europe. The System easily suborns and buys the Ash Sarkar type. Paid TV appearances, even alongside the so-called “class enemy”, articles in newspapers, social media profile (and income). Pseudo-radical careerists and profiteers.
Owen Jones similarly. These are play-“revolutionaries”, play-radicals, and almost ludicrously-easily manipulated by the System.
If Johnson had been honest about Arcuri – maybe, just maybe UK citizens wouldn't be so untrustworthy of his motives regarding Charlotte Owen. Everything involving Johnson is surrounded by corruption/treason. Just incredible he managed to con so many people. pic.twitter.com/e1idU0SkIc
I think that I was one of a small minority who distrusted “Boris”-idiot from the time when he first became an MP in 2001. I was right…
As to the young woman in question, she quite obviously is either secretly related to “Boris” Johnson, or was sexually-involved with him. I think the former.
Christmas is time for family that’s why Charlotte Owen is round at the Johnson’s… pic.twitter.com/cCMveoUtns
How difficult would it be to get DNA samples from @BorisJohnson, his rumoured half-sister Charlotte Owen, his father Stanley & her mother Kathryn L Grantham? pic.twitter.com/2fNFqOC4cS
As for the rumoured “super-injunction”, no-one has told me…
The Internet makes mock of many things, and the various “little Britain” things especially. The overall situation, however, is not new.
In the 1930s, the public of the USA, France, Germany etc were aware, if interested at all, that Edward VIII was involved with a Mrs. Simpson. In Britain and its colonies, though, that was kept secret (from the British public) until 1937 (to be exact, from December 1936).
In the 1980s, similar situations arose. In the early 1980s, I was told that, at a State banquet held at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for an important Soviet delegation, and attended by someone I knew, the leader of the Soviet group said to a British minister how sad it was that former Prime Minister, Harold Wilson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson], had become completely demented (Alzheimer’s, or similar). Apparently, the British minister nodded sagely before changing the subject.
So the Soviet Government knew, the British Government knew, but of course the British public did not know.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, those interested in the rather underwhelming book could buy it and read it without let or hindrance. Absurdly, the same was true in Scotland, because Scotland has its own legal system and the British Government had not thought to apply for any restrictions in that jurisdiction.
I myself had a copy of the book soon after publication. Not a total bore but not exactly riveting either. Had the Government simply let Wright, the author, sell the book without all the publicity occasioned by the attempt to ban it, it would never have become a bestseller. As it was, millions of copies were sold, and Wright died, possessed of huge royalties, in 1995.
In fact, had the Government paid Wright his full pension at an earlier stage, he never would have written the book, or at least published it.
Now we have the Internet. Anyone with, say, a Twitter/X account can publish or republish under their own name, or a pseudonym. The English courts are unable to prevent —and/or in most cases even punish— any breach of injunction, certainly not before millions of people around the world have seen the material.
More tweets seen
I have numerous hotels full of illegal migrants in my town. Sheltered, fed and all needs catered for. Meanwhile they congregate in the town centre free to roam whilst walking past our homeless on the streets. What an utter betrayal to our own😡😥
Dutch political commentator, Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar), on the WEF's plan to impose a personal carbon allowance, connected to digital ID, under the guise of tackling the imaginary "climate crisis":
“Dutch political commentator, Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar), on the WEF’s plan to impose a personal carbon allowance, connected to digital ID, under the guise of tackling the imaginary “climate crisis”:
“The CEO of one of the largest Dutch banks said, if everyone gets individual personal carbon credits, why don’t we make it so that rich people, who for example want to go on holiday a little too often, can buy personal carbon credits from people who can’t afford buying plane tickets or eating meat too often?”
So what will happen is the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, and they’re saying it openly as if it’s not a controversial thing at all. It’s neo-feudalism. That’s what it is.”
They’re sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel while America looks like this 👇
Orban: Ukraine's membership in NATO would only drag the Alliance into conflict
▪️Hungary opposes Ukraine's intention to join NATO, because it could lead to the involvement of the member countries of the Alliance in a military conflict, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán… pic.twitter.com/ZHXKrtGKWW
Regardless of whether or when Israel crushes the population of Gaza and maybe occupies Gaza indefinitely, Israel’s days are numbered. Hamas is not Israel’s only opponent.
In the event that Germany confiscates Russia's assets, it is not excluded that Moscow will take reciprocal measures, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. We have something to confiscate in return, Lavrov emphasized. "Now they are thinking of finding some legal way to… pic.twitter.com/VGdok7d1id
Nonsense. Speak to anyone who works in recruitment or University admissions. Educational standards have fallen dramatically since the late '90s. Grade inflation has given us a generation of "highly qualified", semi-literate young adults who know next to nothing of any real value. https://t.co/uGBI5LMyNK
When I opined, at various times over the years, that the UK would gradually decline, crumble, break down, most people either disagreed or replied that nothing could be done about it.
BREAKING: Chaos has erupted at London Euston station after all trains have been cancelled due to a fault on the line
I’m meant to be travelling up to Manchester for Christmas today and I’m looking at the Euston clusterfuck and wanting to fucking scream/cry. Can this country stop being so unendingly shit for five fucking minutes
Somewhat akin to my curses as I traversed the crumbling roads of coastal southern England today. Potholed roads (mostly “A” roads, at that, not “B” or unclassified), and mostly not being repaired.
The UK Government has money with which to close down the economy for months and years because of panic over a virus that killed hardly anybody, it has money to spend on housing and feeding hundreds of thousands of migrant-invaders, it has money to throw away as “aid” to the corrupt, brutal shambles posing the the “state” (failed state) of “Ukraine”, but little for the British people.
At the same time, in the UK itself, almost nothing works properly: the migration-invasion continues, people generally are getting ripped-off right, left, and centre, living costs continue to increase relative to both pay and benefits, the NHS is at best now a skeleton service, and the schools and supposed “universities” are churning out “highly-qualified” (thanks to award inflation) “graduates” who know, most of them, ****-all.
That does not cover the entirety of the shambles; just a selection.
⬆️ Update: Passengers onboard the Eurostar have been left stranded in France after the rail company cancelled all trains to and from London due to ‘last-minute’ strike action. pic.twitter.com/1V1mguA5yl
When I was first there, in mid-1988, I was one of only a tiny handful of people on the bridge; about 7 people. The next time I saw it, in 1999, there were hundreds, and Prague was a very different city.
The key thing this person seems to have missed about the museum at Auschwitz is that it's not run by the nazis as a boast.
Reading a couple of tweets today reminds me of a personal experience of the criminal courts at Christmas-time.
I think that it was December 1993 when I went to Snaresbrook Crown Court (on the London/Essex border) to defend a West Indian accused of selling counterfeit cassette tapes at a street market.
I had formulated what I thought was a reasonable defence on the facts; in effect, mainly an alibi defence.
The defendant was rather a pain, who obviously thought himself a very clever fellow; I had also represented him at the committal proceedings at Highbury Corner Mags.
I was looking forward not only to a possibly successful defence but also to a lunch or more with a lady I knew slightly, who lived quite close to the Court, and who knew that I would be there that day. Not a firm date, but a pleasant possibility anyway.
Just before the start of the trial, Prosecution Counsel came to me with the news that the prosecution was not going to proceed. The cost of proving, via forensic science, that the tapes were counterfeit was too much, apparently.
Pleasant news both for the defendant and for me. Instead of a day in court, finished at 1030. The only negative factor— two days of refreshers (daily fees) which I would not get.
I was in the robing room and about to get ready to leave, when the public address system called my name. I hurried to the large circular reception desk in the entrance lobby of the building. Naturally, I thought that it must be that lunching lady whose businessman husband was, presumably, on the golf course where (she claimed) he spent most of his time.
Imagine my surprise and, to be frank, disappointment, when the person awaiting me was a short, fat barrister, who asked me whether I would be willing to undertake a defence at short notice (almost immediately). I agreed. A modest standard fee, but don’t look a gift horse in the mouth…
It emerged that, by reason of bureaucratic mistakes, a defendant (another West Indian) had actually got as far as Crown Court trial, on a charge of theft or attempted theft (of a handbag), without ever having had the benefit of solicitor or Counsel. Something, as far as I know, unheard of these days except where a defendant represents himself by choice.
The facts alleged were that the defendant had been being shadowed by a special police squad in the busy Upper Street, Islington, and that the surveillance squad had seen him enter the Cuba Libre restaurant.
The defendant had then emerged with a large laminated menu, and sat at an outside table, next to and very close to a table occupied by a group of young women. The police squad had observed the defendant’s foot moving the handbag in question, which was resting on the ground. Finally, the defendant had allegedly made to grab the handbag, only to be jumped upon and arrested before he could even get to his feet.
I actually knew the restaurant, had visited it a few times, and had even once sat outside, the very locus of the alleged offence.
I had a brief conference with the defendant. I asked him why he was even at a restaurant in view of the police evidence that he had not a penny in his pocket on arrest. His answer? That he had been awaiting his girlfriend, who always paid! I made a joke to the effect that I should have a girlfriend like that.
I told the defendant that the evidence did not really show that what he had done amounted to theft, or even to an attempt.
A poor witness in his own defence, but there was no need for him to give evidence at all, really. Let the Prosecution prove the attempt, if they could.
In Court, the judge was perplexed as to how the trial could ever have come on without Counsel having been instructed beforehand. Prosecution Counsel was equally perplexed. Still, both Counsel present were ready to roll, until —just as I got to my feet to reply to a remark from the judge— the defendant shouted out “WILL YOU PLEASE DEFEND ME?!“, followed by “I DON’T WANT HIM! I WANT SOMEONE ELSE” (unnamed).
The judge told the defendant to keep quiet, but added that, in the circumstances, he had no alternative but to adjourn the trial until late January, and grant the defendant bail. As the Prosecution Counsel said to me, that was exactly why the defendant had shouted out— he knew that he would be bailed over Christmas and New Year, and thought that an immediate trial would mean a custodial sentence that day, very likely.
I think that that defendant was wrong. I think that I could have had him acquitted that day, but there we are… I have occasionally wondered what happened at the eventual trial.
Incidentally, Cuba Libre closed some years ago, but has been resurrected in Dalston, East London, under another name. The interior seems to be similar to that of the restaurant I remember, though.
“Heartless fraudsters conned the public out of £500,000 by buying Pudsey Bear outfits and posing as collectors for children’s charities – before splurging on luxury holidays and fast cars.
On some occasions, the fraudsters, who were led by David Levi, 49, wore Pudsey Bear outfits which had been bought online, and used email addresses and websites set up to look like legitimate charities, Preston Crown Court heard.”
[Daily Mail]
[fraudster David Levi]
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Good afternoon, and an early Merry Griftmas to you all.
I'm publishing this early to get ahead of a systemic attempt to shut this controversy down.
I can now reveal some of the extent of the grift as money sloshed through Jack Monroe's PayPal account when she fraudulently… pic.twitter.com/xJQnR9aMDv
“Good afternoon, and an early Merry Griftmas to you all. I’m publishing this early to get ahead of a systemic attempt to shut this controversy down.
I can now reveal some of the extent of the grift as money sloshed through Jack Monroe’s PayPal account when she fraudulently claimed to be suing@MartinDaubney and @LeeAndersonMP_, as well as a bit earlier in 2022 when she repeatedly claimed her website was broken and she desperately needed the advertising income to continue her job as a “recipe writer”, making no mention of the £10k she had just received from Patreon subscribers.
My research covers the time period of the fake libel case, as well as various other begs such as the broken website, etc. and all the times she claimed to be living in poverty (e.g. July 2022), etc. however it was not possible to negotiate access to data earlier than that so we’ll never publicly know how much she scammed from 2012-2021, sorry.
It also does not cover beyond May 2023 as the primary focus of my investigation has been on the fake libel fundraiser which didn’t go beyond that time, as the most egregious fraud perpetuated on the public. January/February 2022: the “broken website” beg netted her more than £7,000 – seemingly a mixture of existing followers and new followers acquired from Nigella’s promotion of Jack’s Patreon and subsequent uplift in Patreon takings.
The fake libel trial: Over £25,000 in the first few days of the initial tweet about the alleged libel. Then, depending on how you calculate it (because no, these funds were NOT ringfenced at all), over £150,000 minimum across the year of claiming that she was definitely, 100% going ahead with it, boosted at various times when she put the beg out again and again and referenced it in media interviews, etc.
Hunger Hurts 2 – July 2022: A “smaller beg” of over £3,000 for contrived nonsense about boiling down soap to make shower gel. These figures and some of the data have been passed to HMRC and Action Fraud, urging them to do a deeper investigation.
Given the sensitive nature of the information, as well as the threats (of violence, of doxxing, of generally unpleasant things promised), police interest (I have not been arrested or charged), and backlash I received for leaking the Patreon data I was given, I am not going to publish the raw information at all; partly because I’m not a complete cunt, partly because there’s so many transactions that redacting them would take ages, and partly because doing so would likely undermine any future criminal investigation which has been my goal all along.
The level of deceit displayed by her is jaw-dropping. Inventing the fictional persona of “Jack Monroe”, the people’s poverty princess, and then revising history and testing out different versions of events to concoct the most emotionally charged and financially lucrative story to steal money from well-meaning, naive people: most of whom appear to have been less well-off than her, backing up the assertion that she claimed was defamatory about her making money off of poor people.
The people who platformed her have a lot to answer for, too. She didn’t become famous on her own. She has been platformed, celebrated, and supported by celebrities and the media for over a decade: all of it based on a mistelling of the truth that has grown out of all proportion to become monstrous, menacing, and misleading.
She has taken you all for a ride and laughed at your expense every step of the way. The watch, the earrings, the Cotswold sideboards, etc. all came from money you’ve given her. And it hasn’t helped the less fortunate: her “campaigning” has been insipid and weak, vague and general rather than specific, and a waste of time when a more qualified, knowledgeable person with the work ethic Jack lacks could have been platformed instead.
I can only hope this conclusively puts an end to her scamming and she faces justice for all the bad things she’s done. It is my fervent wish that she becomes a winning answer on the show Pointless (as nobody will know who she is) and that she is treated with contempt and mockery everywhere she goes, second only to the wish that she faces proper investigation and criminal sanctions for the fraud she’s committed.
And, at this point, given all I have seen, I am firmly of the opinion that it is fraud. Not a mistake, not an “oopsie, my bad” but clear, calculated fraud designed to take money from well-meaning people and spend it on herself. My work here is done.
This account will now be archived so the evidence remains public. Thanks for all your support. I couldn’t have done it without you all. I am off to enjoy my Christmas vacation now and I hope you are too (if you celebrate it). Please enjoy the video at the bottom and turn the sound up to hear the song.
Adieu, LG x“
"Strict migration will remain in place" says Swedish LEFT as it confirms it will uphold new policies. Everybody on left + right in Sweden now accept experiment with mass migration has been a total failure … https://t.co/KFaZgZq85l
“Travellers face huge queues while entering Europe from next autumn with the introduction of strict post-Brexit border controls.
British passport holders will have to go through fingerprint checks and face scans as part of the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES). It will replace the stamping of passports, which began after Brexit when the UK became a ‘third country’ to the EU.”
“From a man forced to pull out his own teeth with pliers to one who travelled to UKRAINE for treatment, the victims of the NHS dentistry crisis amid fears service is ‘gone for good’ with 80% of practices now not taking new patients.”
[Daily Mail]
Disgraceful. Britain could and should do better than this. The present Government is a disgrace, and the Starmer-Labour “Opposition” will be no better when “elected”.
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If Britain sustains something close to current record net migration levels (i.e. around 400k a year) then its population is forecast to grow by nearly 10 million people by 2045 — latest MAC report pic.twitter.com/uKnLQyydr8
The real “net” figure is even higher at present, closer to 600,000. Another point is that those leaving are often white British people, meaning that the “net” figures often cited disguise the true level of demographic change. Neither do such figures make any reference to the numbers of non-whites born in the UK every year. White British people are declining in numbers constantly, not only in percentage terms but also in terms of absolute numbers.
The Migration Advisory Committee: "The evidence suggests net migration has contributed to -but is by no means the only cause of- higher housing costs"
As I wrote here, when ppl threw their toys out pram, immigration is directly contributing to Britain's escalating housing crisis…
“The Migration Advisory Committee: “The evidence suggests net migration has contributed to -but is by no means the only cause of- higher housing costs”.
Dependants (i.e. relatives of international students) accounted for close to 150,000 visas in 2022, one quarter of ALL student-related visas. Most are adults. Three quarters from India or Nigeria. pic.twitter.com/oFLBc8QUyF
“A prospective HR manager has lost his race and sex discrimination case after he was told at his job interview the company wanted to hire ‘fewer white men’.“
[Daily Mail]
Britain in 2023.
Imagine what this poor country will be like in, say, 2043…
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Very enlightening. A straight male transvestite in 2013 – his own and repeated words. Who wants to be Mayor of London. Any place will do to further his political ambitions. His claims of affinity to Sheffield or Brighton are as fake as his claim to be a woman. https://t.co/v1anxnkP6l
The apparent popularity (with many) of Eddie Izzard has always puzzled me. I see nothing interesting in what he has to say, nothing worthwhile in his political positions (such as they are) and, from what I have seen of him on TV and in newspapers, the supposed “comedian” does not seem to be —in the slightest— funny.
While I have little time for the Israeli Jews, I have less for those in countries such as the UK who cheer on the quasi-genocide while pretending to be terribly “offended” by satirical cartoons.
Historical note
I was just reading something about the 18thC German mystic and writer, Novalis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novalis], better known in Central Europe than in the UK.
I saw this on Wikipedia:
“While at Jena, he published his first poem and befriended the playwright and fellow poet Friedrich Schiller. In Leipzig, he then met Friedrich Schlegel, becoming lifetime friends. Novalis completed his law degree in 1794 at the age of 22. He then worked as a legal assistant in Tennstedt immediately after graduating. There, he met Sophie von Kühn. The following year Novalis and Sophie became secretly engaged. Sophie became severely ill soon after the engagement and died just after her 15th birthday. Sophie’s early death had a life-long impact on Novalis and his writing.”
Also, re that girl:
Although Novalis’s love for Sophie has assumed mythic proportions, their time together was short and uneventful. The two met on 17 November 1794 when Novalis was twenty-two and Sophie was only twelve. They became engaged on Sophie’s thirteenth birthday 17 March 1795. Sophie became sick in November 1795, and her sickness continued until her death at the age of 15 in March 1797.”
I suppose that the average person today in the UK would be appalled at her young age when engaged, but the Wikipedia piece makes it fairly obvious that the relationship was kept on an idealized or romantic-spiritual level.
…and note the (((tribe))) of the one in the middle…
Sir Robert Menzies was Australian PM from 1949-1966. Here, he defends the White Australia policy that prioritised European immigration until 1966. Like America, which had a similar policy until 1965, Australia has been in multicultural decline ever since. pic.twitter.com/r0ydiiaDIg
Have a look at this footage of Paris in the 1920s. How well-dressed, well-behaved and FRENCH everyone is. How clean the streets are! The Islamisation and Africanisation of Paris is a crime against humanity. pic.twitter.com/bD0mKIQnlH
Paris was still a pretty decent, if rather quirky and odd city in 1971, when I spent three weeks there with a French couple (in the 5th Arrondisement; on the Left Bank). When I saw it again, in 1978, it was still OK. I did not see Paris again until 1990. Already its character had changed in many ways, mostly negatively. I was not there again, in the city itself, until about 2008. The rot had really set in…
The communist filth of Just Stop Oil have started attacking Christmas trees in various parts of Germany. These cowards would never attack symbols of any other faith. pic.twitter.com/Sw6zx0v2Go
“Former defence secretary Ben Wallace has warned Israel that it risks undermining the legal basis for its action in the Gaza Strip, adding to growing international pressure over the escalating conflict.
Writing in the Telegraph, the senior Tory warned against a ‘killing rage’ and said Israel’s ‘original legal authority of self-defence is being undermined by its own actions’.
The intervention by Mr Wallace, who left office earlier this year, is the latest warning to Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration amid deepening concern over the scale of civilian casualties.”
[Daily Mail]
Even pro-Israel drones such as Wallace are now trying to distance themselves from Israel’s “massacre of (mainly) the innocents” in Gaza.
The Israelis and other Jews may not be (mainly) descended from the original Israelites of thousands of years ago (the Jews of today being descended mainly from Black Sea or other Khazars), but the former model their actions on the Israelites’ genocidal wars as recounted in the Old Testament.
“Jack Monroe”
Certainly overdue for a reckoning on this one. She seems to have gone silent which is a good thing in terms of her dangerously misguided "campaigning" but can't help wondering why none of the celebrities that defended her have nothing to say now. #JackMonroe
I do think she wrongly perpetuated the idea that one could feed a family healthily for £20/week. Which was a lie. And contributed to some terrible stereotyping of pple in poverty. Aided austerity, rather than challenging it.
You're right. The lack of due diligence in fact-checking #JackMonroe backstory or whether any of her claims actually held any weight is a shocking indictment on the press.
Rufus Hound blocked me for suggesting that Jack Monroe was not as squeaky clean as people believed. @RalfLittle was also quick to defend the patreon. @Nigella_Lawson was taken in by the lies and, in turn, earned Monroe over £10.000 in a single month. Where are they now? pic.twitter.com/pLyp48i2EU
The above details only “Jack Monroe’s” Patreon “grift”. In addition, the “grifting” fraud also got money from stray donations direct to her, from newspaper interviews, radio, and TV shows and interviews, from “consultancy” “work” for major supermarkets, from well-paid appearances at various festivals and other events, and from book royalties, as well as from fake appeals for money based on non-existent legal actions against Lee Anderson MP and others (monies which “Jack Monroe” then pocketed for her own use). A total of tens of thousands of pounds a month at peak.
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🇮🇱Zionist infiltration of our government and institutions is the ONE thing we’re NOT allowed to talk about.
If you do, you risk (in the UK) being prosecuted at the behest of the Jew-Zionist lobby, eg the malicious cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”. They have corrupted or otherwise suborned the police and CPS. I myself was recently convicted in the magistrates’ courts by reason of such a prosecution, as regular readers of the blog will know (I may appeal; we shall see).
Incredibly, there are millions of poor saps who believe loonies and/or liars of that sort. If you are told constantly, for example, from age 5 or 7 or 10, or 14, and from all manner of “authoritative” msm and other sources, that millions of Jews were killed during 1941-1944 in “gas chambers” by German SS personnel in Poland, then that idea becomes embedded in your psyche, and stays there until you are, so to speak, “cured” in —usually— later life, whether that be at age 21, 28, 35, 42 or whenever.
They sit there in their armchairs, calling for genocide, while fellow-Jews smile and laugh in the TV studio or elsewhere, yet if anyone in the West posts a comment about them, or a satirical cartoon, they are —or pretend to be— horrified, and equate that to “terrorism”…
Will Esther McVey investigate the Tory MP who claimed £8,750 in expenses for her own personal photographer, while sanctioning 1,000's of disabled people for being a few minutes late for their benefit appointments? Esther?
Esther McVey is merely one of hundreds of “deadhead MPs”. The fact that so many clowns can become MPs and even Cabinet ministers proves, in my judgment, that the whole system is rotten.
Wanting to lower immigration, stop the boats, defend free speech, and defend kids from woke ideology is not "extremist". It's what must people in this country supporthttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/A2xyXtQcVs
Goodwin is right on those points, but goes very far wrong in persisting in his support for the Israel lobby, aka Jew-Zionist lobby, the very pack that is closing down free speech in the UK, not to mention supporting the migration invasion.
Adam Fleming: Is Rishi Sunak right to say that illegal migration is a risk to the country & we could be overwhelmed?
Stupid “Conservative” drone thinks that about 50,000 migrant-invaders crossing the Channel every year is “not a huge amount“. 1,000 each week. Where does the Government intend to park 1,000 new arrivals each and every week until the year dot (or until the UK explodes)?
While Zelensky is buying luxury yachts and foreign mansions with laundered US taxpayer funds, his people are going without food. pic.twitter.com/am0IxjD9pO
In 2013, The Wall Street Journal discovered a cache of files that revealed that the U.S. government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and occasionally homosexuality. pic.twitter.com/9cCZo82NJs
“It is not in US interests to see German, European let’s say, European industrialism & technology united with Russian natural resources. This is not what US grand strategy really wants to see happen.”
Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now @CNN’s @clarissaward, @scottycnn and @BrentSwailsCNN managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report. pic.twitter.com/JLioOfXf12
Yet another breakthrough for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), this time winning a mayoralty on outskirts of Dresden ahead of crunch state elections next year. None of this will surprise our regular subscribers who were again ahead of the curve https://t.co/1BOBz9pmiz
Just caught the last bit of Channel 5 news.Stephen Fry will give alternative christmas message,talking about the rise of anti semitism. I think,I'll give it a miss this year as long as he is happy in supporting Netanyahu and the genocide of the Palestinians.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Metropolitan Kirill's speech in Kiev in 2008, it's only been 14 years since this video, but watching Kiev today, someone could thing a century have past.
Ukraine along with Russia were then celebrating the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia.
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) December 18, 2023
“Metropolitan Kyrill of Smolensk addressed the crowd of thousands in Kiev: “What was Russia baptised for? For us to be happy. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus – this is Holy Russia! Holy Russia is not an empire, it is not a union: former or some future one. Holy Russia is an ideal of love, goodness and truth. We are all with you, one Holy Russia! Remain who you are and nothing will shake our unity.“”
I myself once met a Metropolitan of Kiev (the second-ranking dignity in the Russian Orthodox Church). At breakfast. My then girlfriend was looking after him that day (he spoke no English).
I think that that was at the de Vere Hotel by Kensington High Street, and in the early/mid-1980s. Maybe 1983 or 1984. He gave me some of his kefir (the first time I had tried it) and, at the same time, deftly fielded a question from me about his view of Tolstoy. Later that morning, at the empty Russian Orthodox Cathedral (also in Kensington), he gave me a bottle of Moskovskaya vodka.
Political drones and mouthpieces such as Indian money-juggler Sunak are effectively signed-up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, and the destruction or deformation of what is left of our white European societies (in Europe, in North America, in Australasia etc).
Statements such as the above are designed purely to mitigate the upcoming destruction of the Conservative Party (again, what is left of it) at the 2024 General Election.
If Sunak can get the nationwide Con Party vote up from its present (opinion poll) 20%, to 30% at the 2024 General Election, then the Con Party will survive, as will the fraudulent UK binary political system.
Note, though, who Sunak (impliedly) blames for the migration invasion— Putin! Not the “LibLabCon”-men and women who have encouraged non-white immigration to the UK for the past 50-60 years, and not “them” (((the usual suspects))), aka (((the “you know who”))), but Putin, the System’s current favourite msm ogre.
In any case, the Rwanda policy, if ever implemented, would deal with only a fraction of the “illegal” invaders, and none of the “legal” ones, so would only reduce the migration-invasion from maybe a million invaders per year (700,000+ “net”) to maybe 950,000 (650,000+ “net”), at best.
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I often listened to Rory Stewart speak and was confused how such a decent man could be a conservative politician. It seems even he is now confused.
If Starmer can indeed give Rory Stewart a job and put him out of his often expressed misery of not being a politician with a brief anymore then that really would be great for everyone including those who are tired of hearing him pine pic.twitter.com/83Q6CfN6Lz
Rory Stewart demonstrates ably that there is no difference whatsoever between a Tory wet & a Labour moderate. There is no choice either when both parties are the same
Rory Stewart, like Keir Starmer was a member of a group called the Trilateral Commission.
The Trilateral Commission's purpose is to engineer an enduring partnership among the ruling classes of North America, Western Europe, and Japan-hence the term "trilateral" https://t.co/SvDntgD8Ov
— ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill (@TweetForTheMany) December 17, 2023
Despite its enormous military-destructive power, the USA is rotting from the inside out. Within 20 years, its world power will have come to an end, either via complete decadence and the prominence of the stupid and uncultured, or via a world nuclear (or other) war.
When that happens, the remaining and properly ideological post-Aryans can build a true “New World Order” on the ashes of the old.
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Freudian projection?
Just saw a tweet from an elderly Jew-Zionist woman prolific on Twitter/X:
“Already this morning, I’ve had one person tweet that I’m personally a genocidal maniac, another that Jews are deicides (in the usual phrase, which Twitter is alert to). We can see that contemporary Jew hate has both ancient & modern components.“
None of the innocent Twitter-X readers reading the above tweet would be aware, naturally, that the same woman once openly tweeted (several years ago) to another elderly Jew-Zionist woman that both I and another then tweeter (that tweeter in fact unknown to me) should be made to drink strychnine…
Need any more be said?
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When you visit, as I have, the marble cistern at Zaghouan (modern Tunisia) and its aqueduct flowing (originally) a hundred miles to Roman-era Carthage, or when you visit, as I also have, the Alexandria Museum in Egypt, and see the classical era statues and other exhibits, you feel a sense of racial-cultural kinship which you emphatically do not feel in respect of the Arab societies around those oases of Western/European culture.
A simple yet clever idea, though it would not work well (or maybe at all) in parts of the world where the temperatures are extremely cold (eg Russia/Siberia/Canada).
What looks like a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie, actually shows how a reforestation session in British Columbia takes place after wildfires.
A mortar is a hell of a —fairly close-quarters— weapon, if in skilled hands. The range can be 2+ miles, but is usually well under a mile, often just a few hundred yards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_(weapon).
“An inferno ripped through a 19th Century Georgian country hotel last night in Galway, as police confirm they are investigating an incident of criminal damage by fire.
It comes just hours after protesters gathered outside the Ross Lake House hotel, Rosscahill, amid concerns about migrants in the area.
The elegant hotel has not been used in a number of years, but was due to accommodate 70 asylum seekers this week.
Gardaí, Ireland’s National Police and Security Service, say they are investigating this as an incident of criminal damage.“
[Daily Mail]
[I think that that should be “Garda” not “Gardai“, but I may be mistaken].
Incidentally, last Friday I was in a medium-size UK city. Not far from the centre of the city. A street with a Tesco Express, a Starbucks, estate agencies, various professional offices etc. All that, and —at about 0800 hrs— a number of people still sleeping in the streets in sleeping bags, blankets etc. Terrible (both in itself and aesthetically).
I had a mediocre cappuccino and croissant in the nearby Starbucks, until the horrible “music” drove me out. I thought to give a coin to a fellow in a shop doorway who had evidently woken up while I was in the Starbucks place (it hardly merited the title, “cafe”). A white Englishman aged maybe 30-something, or 40, maybe an ex-soldier, who growled “thanks, mate” as I pressed a £2 coin into his hand, suggesting that he buy himself a drink (probably not the best thing I could have said).
As I walked away, and about 50 feet further on, a black woman without most of her teeth (drug abuser?) accosted me and started on a story about how she wanted to get into a shelter but needed £20. I told her that I did not have £20, but felt in my pocket for another coin; a 50p was the only one. I gave it to her, and she took my modest offering without a word of thanks as I departed.
Britain’s cities in 2023…
My point (apart from just reporting what I experienced) is that neither of the two people I encountered was a migrant-invader (both spoke with British accents), and both were sleeping in the streets, in winter. Had they been migrant-invaders, they would have been in hotels paid for by the Government (i.e. by UK taxpayers). They would have been sheltered, fed, and given pocket money of (?) about £40 a week (the exact amount seems to vary), as well as provided with transport, medical and dental services, even online services.
How can this be right? Also, if another million immigrants arrive in 2024, and another in 2025 (etc), and even if “only” about 50,000 a year are small boat invaders asking for or demanding help, how is this situation sustainable? Answer— it isn’t.
[Update, 18 December 2023:it occurs to me that readers may object that the black woman mentioned was also a kind of migrant-invader, even if born in the UK. True in essence, but my point was that she had not just “got off the boat”; I should have been clearer].
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A HOTEL SET TO HOUSE ILLEGALS HAS GONE UP IN FLAMES 🔥
Ross Lake House Hotel in Galway, ROI which was set to house illegals has gone up in flames pic.twitter.com/b2bE3OXhGb
However, when pressed by the interviewer as to policies he thinks will win the support of the voters, all Francois could come up with were two: getting rid of inheritance tax, and spending more on defence.
Inheritance tax only impacts a tiny number of people anyway, all of whom already vote Conservative.
As to Defence, which Francois (military background— a year reading War Studies for a Master’s degree, and 3-4 years in the TA, final rank Lieutenant) thinks will be a huge issue next year, that again is not something which most voters think is important.
Our armed forces are now quite weak, and very small, but our traditional enemies (Germany, France, maybe Denmark and the Netherlands —going back 300 years or more—) are now not enemies or potential enemies. The larger potential opponents (Russia, China) are so powerful that the UK could not think of fighting them, and anyway they are far away, and the UK has only limited air/sea transport capability.
The armed forces have shown themselves incapable even of preventing migration-invasion, let alone any real one (which would come from…where?).
For me, Francois’ remarks are a measure of how out of touch with the people the Conservative Party now is. He has no idea; the Conservative Party has no idea.
Listening to Francois trying to express what his preference for “overall narrative” of his party would be just underlines the sheer mediocrity (at best) of so many MPs now.
Not only that, but when they are settled/housed, they will all be bringing their 4 wives and 20 children over. Then the numbers will dramatically increase.
Regular readers will know that I myself was recently convicted of —in effect— speaking the truth on this blog, a prosecution procured by improper pressure from the Jew-Zionist cabal “Campaign Against Antisemitism”; pressure applied by the “CAA” on suborned police, the Crown Prosecution Service, and even the Director of Public Prosecutions.
“An extra 28,000 deaths logged across the UK in the first six months of 2023.
The spike in mortality is especially stark among people aged 50 to 64.
Hundreds more middle-aged Brits are dying every month than expected, with experts blaming unhealthy lifestyles and the NHS crisisfor the surge in excess deaths.
An extra 28,000 deaths, or more than 1,000 a week, were logged across the UK in the first six months of the year, according to fresh analysis of official figures.
The spike in mortality is especially stark among people aged 50 to 64, with 15 per cent more dying than usual.
An analysis of the data, published in The Lancet, also noted that more people are dying at homes rather than hospitals.
During the pandemic, excess deaths were focused among older adults.
But there is now a pattern of ‘persisting excess deaths which are most prominent in relative terms in middle-aged and younger adults’, the authors wrote.
Anti-vaxxers have claimed excess deaths are down to Covid jabs but scientists insist that the injections, which have saved tens of millions of lives globally, are not to blame.”
[Daily Mail]
Yes, System propaganda and compliant medics are insisting that the Covid “vaccines” have nothing to do with this trend. Almost anything else is being blamed— lifestyles, lack of exercise, booze etc etc.
I blogged some time ago about how my own two younger brothers, both lifelong amateur sportsmen (golf, tennis, other sports), and without any history of heart disease, both had to have emergency heart operations in 2022. Both survived, one in the UK and one in Australia; both had received multiple “vaccine” injections in the preceding two years.
I, on the other hand, have not done any kind of sport or physical recreation for 20+ years (though in younger days —1980s, 1990s— I swam several times per week, sometimes for several miles, as well as doing —though not for very long— taekwando at one time and, at school in the early 1970s —albeit unwillingly— rowing, and at same age—more willingly, though again not for long— fencing).
I never accepted the supposed Covid “vaccines”, and have no heart problems.
There is an absolute epidemic across the “Western” world of previously healthy people suddenly dying, usually from heart attacks.
“Rights campaigners have reacted with anger to the news that Downing Street will not appoint a new dedicated minister of state for disabled people, describing it as an “appalling and retrograde move”.“
[Guardian]
Another reason not to vote for any “Conservative” Party candidate.
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Greg Stoker, a U.S. veteran, shares his thoughts on why the IDF is losing so many officers… pic.twitter.com/XzGviDL34o
Tommy Robinson's duty social media operator dropped a clanger reposting this classic: Check out the image at 5.28 as 'George' discusses who is responsible for turning the English into a minority in our own capital.
My aunt from Pakistan visited us in West London after 30+ years. I asked her what she thought about London after all this time. She was utterly disappointed… "Where have all the English gone??" she said.
DNA studies confirm the Palestinians are closely descended from the people who lived there thousands of years ago, whereas most 'Jews' are Turcic Khazars, with a strange bottleneck of descent from just four Italian women in late Roman times among the 'European' ones.
Sad how many “Tommy Robinson”-type “British patriots” are bamboozled, like tweeter “macandcheek”, into supporting Israel and the UK Jewish lobby. Pathetic.
However much one despises the present “Conservative” misgovernment, it is almost frightening to realize that “woke” cretins such as lesbian extremist Kate Osborne may actually have important governmental roles by 2025.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) December 14, 2023
I have occasionally posed, on the blog, the obviously rhetorical question “could an Englishman become head of government, or even an MP, in any African state today? India? Pakistan? Israel?” No, of course not.
Britain is going mad, has largely gone mad, and has been made mad.
Only 1% of illegal migrants who have arrived in the small boats since 2020 have been deported from Britain. And even 95% of Albanians have not been removed, despite Albania deemed "safe" in UK law. Dismal stats for Rishi Sunak & government
If either Kemi Badenoch or Suella Braverman become Con Party leader, it will be yet another sign of the now quite fast advance of the “Great Replacement”. Look at many of the leading politicians in England, Scotland and Wales. There because they are not English, Welsh, or Scottish…
In July 2022, she claimed to be on the poverty line – boiling down soap to make shower gel, etc. as outlined in this blog post: https://t.co/SS1jWdjCOX
In reality, she earned almost £3,000 from her Patreon that month after fees were deducted. pic.twitter.com/hhj4q8ukJx
If you wish to verify this for yourself, check out the page – my sources have told me that you can see her monthly earnings for yourself. pic.twitter.com/EJ8c7VpDBz
If Israel can be totally taken down, the worldwide web centred on it can be dismantled, one country at a time or all at once.
⚡️BREAKING
Maersk, The world's 5th largest shipping company has suspended all its vessels to sail through the Red Sea and Bab Al-Mandeb Strait due to fear of Yemeni threat
This measure is going to effect the global economy and make people more aware about the Palestinian… pic.twitter.com/xrpIaNQeqZ
“The Conservative MP David Davis has spoken of how he fought off an attack near parliament as he intervened to help a rough sleeper who was being beaten up.
Davis, a former cabinet minister and leadership contender, said he aggressively stood between the attackers and the homeless man, and dodged two punches.
After “manhandling” the main attacker away, he took the beaten-up man, whose name was Gareth, back to his Westminster flat and let him stay the night on the sofa.
He took Gareth to St Thomas’ hospital the next day, because he was still bleeding.
The incident on Tuesday was first reported by the Evening Standard.
Davis, who trained with the SAS before entering parliament, said it appeared the attackers were “very vicious” and addicted to the drug spice.”
[Daily Mail]
David Davis is one of the very few MPs for whom I have any time (albeit with reservations). Britain might have been in a better place had he, and not David Cameron-Levita-Schlumberger, become leader of the Conservative Party. He has always struck me as basically honest and decent.
Come to think of it, were Davis —even now, aged 74— to stand for the Con Party leadership against Rishi Sunak, he might have a serious chance.
Moreover, Davis is the kind of straight bat that might appeal to many voters, and so at least take the gloss off Labour’s expected triumphal procession to elected dictatorship in 2024. Who knows? He could possibly even do better than that.
Davis’ background from when he was at university (late Sixties and early Seventies) to when he became an MP (1987) is hard to make out from the Wikipedia entry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(British_politician)], not least because he seems to have not only worked for Tate & Lyle for 17 years but also to have spent a further 4-5 years in business-related student activity during the same years. Still, his background is basically solid, not a confection of lies and talked-up nothing, unlike the CVs of so many Conservative Party MPs.
“A top Tory reported to police in a trans row has vowed to continue speaking up for women’s rights and said she refuses to ‘deny reality’.
Rachel Maclean, the Conservative Party‘s deputy chairman for women, found herself embroiled in a storm after sharing an online post about an aspiring Green MP who is transgender.
The post labelled the Green candidate as a ‘man who wears a wig and calls himself a ‘proud lesbian’.
In a social media backlash, Mrs Maclean was accused of transphobia, which she denies, and reported to the police, who saw no reason to get involved.“
[Daily Mail]
What does it say about the Green Party, which allows a loonie of that sort to be a Green Party candidate?
Homelessness has many causes, but it would be naive to presume that the migration invasion is not one of them, particularly when, over the past 30 years, non-whites and even new immigrants “straight off the (small?) boat” have been prioritized over the needs of the host white British population.
About a million invaders (“legal” and “illegal”) over the past year alone (700,000+ “net”). It is unsustainable, and is breaking apart what is left of our society.
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A Christmas advert created by a family-run bar in Northern Ireland has gone viral on social media.
The manager of Charlie's Bar said she is "overwhelmed" by the reaction to the advert, which highlights how lonely people can feel over the festive period 🔗 https://t.co/RJnSCxcwpqpic.twitter.com/iDvu23rC23
Eastern Ukraine. Fighting at present is concentrated in a small part of the front. Both sides have had limited tactical successes, but Russian forces are sure to achieve victory in Ukraine, strategically.
Kiev-regime funding is being cut back in the EU and USA; Kiev-regime front-line soldiers are not being replaced; there is a recruitment crisis in Ukraine; the Kiev-regime army is running short on arms and ammunition compared to the Russian forces; also, the Kiev regime itself is now politically unstable.
Then, in 2024, the Russian Army will advance west and north to and along the Dnieper.
Russia and Ukraine war map as of Dec. 13 with Kyiv, Crimea, #Avdiivka, #Zaporizhia, #Bakhmut, Kharkiv and Kherson front updates.
Russian forces has launched at least 10 ballistic missiles at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.https://t.co/XbtEnReb6k
The committee on standards has recommended that Scott Benton(Tory MP) be suspended for 35 days… he told an undercover reporter that he was corrupt & for sale. pic.twitter.com/kMl07birdg
Benton was formerly a primary school teacher. I suppose that he will have to return to that, and will have to regard his unmerited 4 years as an MP as just having been a good opportunity to rip off as much money as possible.
This is yet another blow to the Conservative Party, re-emphasizing the lack of probity in many of its MPs. Quite a few will, like Benton, be looking for new jobs by 2025.
NEW: 35 day suspension for Scott Benton after lobbying scandal. By-election probable in Blackpool South.
An almost certain Labour gain. Reform would have to do well to show they can actually start chalking up some serious votes, not just decent polling intentions. pic.twitter.com/3fKvTn50Tk
In my view, Lewis Goodall has missed the point. Recent polling has made plain that the majority, indeed nearly 70%, of those planning on voting for Reform UK have no expectation of Reform UK winning in their own constituencies, or maybe in any constituency. They are going to vote for Reform UK as a “**** you!” snarl to the System, to the way things are going generally in the UK (especially England), and against mass immigration and migration invasion.
I see parallels to the 2016 Brexit Referendum. One man, walking his dog (in Blackpool or nearby, I think), was interviewed in the street at the time. He was asked about the possible negative economic consequences of Brexit, but answered (brilliantly, in a way) “I don’t care about all that. It’s only me and the dog, anyway…“.
The msm journalists did not understand that man’s attitude, thought it a result of stupidity, or “poor education” (because he, presumably, had not acquired some useless Mickey Mouse “degree” from a “university” of which no-one had ever heard).
In fact, that man was saying that he was not “aspirational”, did not care about the inflated supposed value of some other people’s houses, did not have sons and daughters called “Josh” or “Olivia” wanting to take (and being able, financially, to take) unpaid “internships” at the EU Commission or Milan fashion houses etc, that he never travelled by helicopter or private plane, and had no share portfolio.
That man was also saying that he had seen Britain decline in almost every way in the past 40+ years, and had seen it invaded by untold millions of unwanted immigrants.
As I tweeted at the time, “Brexit means more than Brexit“.
People voting Reform UK (and I myself do not “support” Reform UK, partly because it is yet more pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby “controlled opposition”, partly because it is not a social-national party, partly because it supports finance-capitalism) do not expect Reform UK to win many, or even any, Commons seats. They want to say “NO!” to the general state of this country.
[cartoon from the time just after the 2016 Brexit Referendum]
As for the pleas of the Conservative Party that voting Reform UK will not get Reform UK MPs elected but simply allow Labour to win more seats, my judgment is that intending Reform UK voters want the Conservative Party MPs to be voted out, and they want the Con Party to be stamped on hard. Why? Because they feel that they have been both betrayed and let down generally…and they have been.
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🇭🇺 Orban (Hungary) and 🇸🇰 Fico (Slovakia) are not pro-Russian politicians, they are pro-national ones. But there is NO ONE else along those lines in Europe – Putin pic.twitter.com/Mf4ikz9oxL
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) December 14, 2023
🇵🇸🇺🇦 UKRAINE LOOKS NOTHING LIKE GAZA:
All over the world, they see the difference in what is happening in Gaza and in Ukraine – Putin says.
Russia has offered to open a hospital in Gaza – but the Israeli side believes that the opening of a Russian hospital in Gaza is unsafe.… pic.twitter.com/iEnRUtodJH
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) December 14, 2023
Only 1% of illegal migrants who have arrived in the small boats since 2020 have been deported from Britain. And even 95% of Albanians have not been removed, despite Albania deemed "safe" in UK law. Dismal stats for Rishi Sunak & government
Goodwin has some useful things to say about immigration and migration invasion but, on the negative side, seems to be obsessively pro-Israel, pro the Jewish lobby etc. Have I missed something about him?
Ian Robert Millard 