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Diary Blog, 3 August, including thoughts about the recent urban upheavals in the UK, and about the Starmer-Labour “elected” dictatorship

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[George Frederic Watts, Ariadne]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week, 6/10, just trumping political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I admit that no.8 was a guess on my part; I did not know the answers to questions 2, 3, 6, and 7.

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You’re doing this on purpose now aren’t you Pink effing lights!!! You think that’s what people want?! God you’re disgusting.

Shove your stupid fairy lights you utter pathetic lily livered traitors!!! Sort this country out and the massive amount of Islamist males and mentally deranged men from Africa who are committing horrific crimes on a daily basis which you continue to ship in every day for us to pay for whilst you take every penny we have!

You’re a disgrace ! The people are angry !!!! Angry at what globalist liberal socialist measures have done to this once great cohesive nation. !!! Everything is breaking Our safety Our cohesion Our national identity Our public services breaking under the weight of the population explosion Our countryside you’re ripping up to house everyone Our education under woke bastardisation Our children being told not to be white not to be masculine not to be patriotic Our energy security – following the insanity of netzero and buying oil and gas from overseas when we have our own! Our food security as you fight against farmers and build on arable land and cover more land in metal solar panels

And you gaslighting us telling us we have no money and need to rob pensioners and yet in the same breath giving £11bn to foreign aid And to then stand there yesterday and say the ” far right ” Were the problem. Despicable .

I can’t think of one thing that the far right have done . My kids don’t fear the far right . Mums don’t wake at night worrying about far right grooming their girls, running around with machetes , bombing places . No We know the problem . Interpol knows the problem It’s importing a massive burden of men from 3rd world areas with often Islamist backward archaic ideologies. THATs the problem

You have let in a Trojan horse army. And you will not blame the exhausted British public who’ve put up with so much terror . You will be a leader and fix the actual problem Not the frustrated reaction after two decades of daily reports of evil committed on our streets . The public have been extremely tolerant. Beyond tolerant. No nation in the Middle East or China or Russia would have out up with one day of attacks like the U.K. has endured. And we’ve had 20+ years. The U.K. is weeping And it’s your fault. @Keir_Starmer#SackStarmer#StalinStarmer#StarmerResign

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Starmer-Labour is basically a bunch of traitors who have “marched through the institutions” (and professions) to create a pseudo-“elected” government now trying to lay down the structure of a multikulti and “woke” police state.

Elected“? Only 4 voters, out of every 20 eligible, voted Labour.

That refers, in fact, to one Joanna Jarjue, a black woman who is (for no good reason) apparently on TV discussion-nonsense programmes occasionally. I had never heard of her, so looked her up online.

Turns out that Joanna Jarjue’s main and possibly only claim to (“15 minutes of”) “fame” was that she took part in the appalling TV show (fronted by the Jewish business person Alan Sugar) The Apprentice, seven years ago, in 2017. Sugar “fired” her before the final part of the contest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(British_TV_series)_series_13#Candidates.

I don’t waste time on TV shows such as The Apprentice, but the format is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(British_TV_series)#Format

Basically, seems that Joanna Jarjue has put together a background or CV that, in reality, does not add up to very much (in my opinion)[https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-jarjue-261ab78a/?originalSubdomain=uk].

See also: https://www.gunjuronline.com/post/profile-joanna-jarjue

Now 30-31 years old, she runs some small digital marketing company in Leeds. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joanna-jarjue-261ab78a_i-co-founded-a-proud-northern-digital-activity-7169376943765708800-0vWv/

Seems that every pointless “discussion-nonsense” show on “British” TV now needs to show how “diverse” it is by including a black person, whether it is that useless Nigerian “grifter” Femi Oluwole or some other, such as this Gambian woman, Joanna Jarjue (of whom I had never heard until 10 minutes ago, when I saw a tweet about her defending “trans” “women” boxers brutalizing real women boxers —of whom I also disapprove— on GB News).

I do not believe that women should be boxing anyway.

I make a distinction, though, between women boxing and women doing other “martial arts” such as judo or even taekwando (which latter I myself did for a few months in 1984). There, the contenders score points, but do not (in the sport versions) aim to batter each other to the ground. I admit that taekwando utilises aggression (my instructors were always shouting at me, or encouraging me, in such terms as “More aggression, Ian! More aggression!“) but in a different way to boxing (in my opinion).

I looked at the GB News video clip. The Jarjue woman obviously wants to hit the “right” buttons to get invited to make more (paid) TV appearances (cf. Ash Sarkar).

Ah, here she pops up again, again on GB News:

Thick as two short planks. Thinks that people are angry about the state of the country not for any substantive reason, but because of “social media”. Good grief…

Seems to be supporting the fake Labour attempt to destroy whatever free speech is still left in this country. What a surprise…

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“The human jungle”, or should that be “sub-human”?

What will Britain be like in another ten years, let alone twenty years, if a real social-national government cannot attain to political power?

Quis custodiet custodes ipsos?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/nca-officer-jailed-computer-child-sex-images-dark-web-b1174519.html

An intelligence officer at the National Crime Agency who viewed hundreds of indecent images of children on his work computer has been jailed for 18 months.”

[Evening Standard]

We do not know, of course, what the police and the “intelligence and security” bods may be up to, whether generally or individually, or what (for instance) their political and social views might be, or whether they are doing their jobs in a biased manner.

There have been quite a few scandals involving Muslim policemen. What about Jews in such jobs or offices? Are some of them abusing their office? We do not know, at this time.

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The only surprise is that the fuse has been burning so slowly.

[Manhattan in 1931, seen from North to South, with the Hudson on the right, and the East River on the left. Some tall buildings seen in the distance, Downtown, but none at all in the Midtown district(s), nor on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side to left and right of Central Park]

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[Levitan, Vladimirka]

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System scribbler Dan Hodges uses the lazy “far right” label (as meaningless as “right” or “left”).

What Hodges means is, it is OK to sit in a dark room worrying about the migration invasion, or about the connected slow collapse of our society, but not OK to do much more than wring your hands, or maybe tweet something (or blog something).

The (((usual suspects))) and their “antifascist” dupes and/or loonies have often called me “far right” (inter alia) but I have not burned down any police stations (nor even “incited” anything of the sort).

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[Katyusha mobile rocket-launchers in action on the Ostfront, 1940s]

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I was not alone in predicting a short or non-existent “honeymoon” period for Starmer-Labour. Others, though not many, echoed my view; Matt Goodwin for one (and he makes money out of his blogging…well, that’s life…).

There are many reasons for Starmer-Labour having no popularity among the British people (excepting —some— Labour Party members, and/or the grifting online professional “anti-Tory” know-nothings such as “@supertanskiii”).

First of all, Starmer and his crew have no ideas worth a plugged nickel. Look at the stupid decision to halt so many infrastructure projects recently. Infrastructure investment is the very foundation for later prosperity, though I agree for other reasons with the halt to the HS2 vanity-rail nonsense, and with the scrapping of the Stonehenge tunnel (the better idea there would be a bypass, built a mile or more away).

Rachel Reeves is someone without any ideas worth anything, and I think that Starmer is similar. As to Angela Rayner and Yvette Cooper, need the question even be put?

Secondly, money is being cut off from British people who need it, including pensioners.

Meanwhile, however, Starmer has agreed to waste THREE BILLION POUNDS A YEAR on “aid” to “Ukraine” (the Jewish regime in Kiev led by the corrupt tyrant and former sleazy comedian, Zelensky).

Starmer is also throwing money at the —actually not very useful— junior NHS doctors, who only have to endure modest pay for a few years anyway before getting to fairly high salary levels. At the same time, the planned NHS hospital building and rebuilding programme has been stopped, more or less.

That is even before you start to look at the Starmer-Labour plan to destroy what little free speech exists still in this country.

Starmer was mainly (I think) a prosecutor, certainly best known for having been Director of Public Prosecutions. Looking at him, I have always been reminded of what Chekhov said to Gorky after having met, en passant, a smug young prosecutor in pre-revolutionary Russia: “…and it is pimples on the backside of humanity, like that, who dispose of the fate of people!”…[Gorky, Literary Portraits, trs. Ivy Litvinov]: see https://archive.org/details/maxim-gorky-literary-portraits-flph-1950.

Chekhov also said that every prosecutor he had ever met liked to fish. Well, I have no idea whether Starmer does. Perhaps not, though he does eat fish: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/uks-new-pm-keir-starmer-is-the-1st-jewish-pescatarian-to-ascend-the-position/articleshow/111558669.cms?from=mdr, the India Times incidentally having —apparently wrongly— identified Starmer as a Jew in that headline (his wife is the Jewish half of the couple). See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Starmer#Personal_life.

The non-existent Starmer-Labour “honeymoon” period is, of course, also a function of the unpopularity of Labour at the pseudo-“landslide” General Election, Labour having (as I repeatedly point out, but the msm rarely do) only been voted for by 4 out of every 12 people who voted (and only 4 out of every 20 if you include the 40%+ of eligible voters who did not vote at all).

A bad combination: a government voted for by, at best, 34% of the adult population (but really only by about 20%), but pretending that it is wildly popular and has a “mandate” to pass repressive laws etc.

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Here we go…sex-pest depressive “Lord Walney” (former Labour Party MP John Woodcock), a complete puppet of the Israel lobby, aka Jewish Zionist lobby (former Chair of Labour Friends of Israel), and a System drone who was ejected from the Commons by the voters, only to have been then “elevated” (in his case I cannot bring myself to write “ennobled“) to the pathetic House of Lords by a Conservative Party PM, “Boris” Johnson, himself a part-Jew and strong supporter of Israel, of course.

I assessed Woodcock a couple of times, but years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/02/09/diary-blog-9-february-2021-including-further-assessment-of-john-woodcock/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/05/04/john-woodcock-barrow-and-furness-and-the-general-election-2017/.

Incidentally, looking at “Lord Walney” in that photo, he really has aged in the past few years. He looks drugged or something, as well.

Even leaving aside the civil rights and human rights implications of “Walney’s”/Woodcock’s suggestion, what an incredibly irresponsible and ridiculous thing to suggest, to “lock down” the UK again.

The “Covid” “lockdowns” were both dictatorial and unnecessary anyway, but the point here is the huge economic damage done by them in 2020-2021. Now Woodcock/”Walney” wants to “lock down” the country again, merely because a few cars have been overturned and a police station “up North” burnt out! I don’t recall him suggesting that when non-Brits (such as the Gypsies of Harehills, Leeds) were doing the same or worse only a week ago.

Just what the UK needs— more economic damage. What a prize careerist idiot John Woodcock/”Lord Walney” is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodcock,_Baron_Walney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodcock,_Baron_Walney#Other_work

No wonder “Walney”/Woodcock was a failure as an MP (his constituents hated him in the end) and never would have been appointed to ministerial rank even had he not been a sex-pest (etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodcock,_Baron_Walney#Sexual_harassment_allegation

Just watch that, and listen to the bastard! He’s an idiot.

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Well, a suggestion does come to my mind, but it is very boring having to explain the law etc to police who arrive at the door of my now-very-humble home (something that has happened several times in recent years by reason of malicious complaints about me made by Jew-Zionist extremists), so on this occasion I shall keep my “rebellious” ideas to myself…

English rebellion? Reminiscent of areas of Belfast (etc) prior to Operation Motorman in 1972 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Motorman].

The crowds probably sense something bad coming their way.

Maybe so. Probably so. In any case, turning over police cars etc is of little lasting effect. I think that, in the conditions of censorship that now prevail in the UK, I can say no more.

Can you imagine that a substantial minority of the American electorate actually want that stupid creature to be President of the USA?

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Rendezvous]

Diary Blog, 1 August 2024

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https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/what-did-you-expect-britains-protests

Goodwin has, however, left out one of the major causes— “them” (you-know-who)…

Barwell, an MP (2010-2017) who was mediocre at best, and who was removed by the voters after 7 years, only to be made a fake “lord” in the House of Lords section of the Westminster monkeyhouse. Oh, and Barwell is fanatically pro-mass immigration, too, despite the fact that his own former constituency, Croydon Central, has become an Afro-Caribbean swamp that becomes more violent, gang-ridden and crime-ridden daily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Barwell.

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[the acclamation of the German people, c.1933]
[acclamation]
[cross-Atlantic airship Hindenburg, 1930s, pictured at Lakehurst, New Jersey. National Socialist Germany was, in many respects, the most advanced state in the world at the time]

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While I understand, I think, his strategy, Russia should stand a little apart from outside influences, not being allied to, nor much influenced by, Arab or other Muslim interests or (needless to say) Jewish and Israeli interests.

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The last 2 days have seen pointless arguments: “was the killer at Southport Muslim or not?” (not, it seems), and “was the killer at Southport ‘British’ or not?” (no, not in the world of reality, but he was born in the UK to Africans). Also, “were the rioters in Leeds Muslim?” (no, Roma Gypsies). All a stupid and pointless media and social media circus.

Anyway, comment about the specific Southport perpetrator must now be limited by reason of someone having been charged and arraigned.

What really matters is the big picture— the failure of “multicultural” Britain. The fact that only 80% of the inhabitants of these islands are now white European, let alone British. Even in 1989 it was about 93%, and in the 1960s at least 95%.

In England specifically, well below that 80% figure, and in the big cities far far below.

“Foreign-born” is not a very accurate measure anyway. As we have seen, many non-whites are born in the UK, but more than that many non-whites are not only born in the UK, but are born to parents themselves born in the UK.

Disastrous for Britain’s future, including its near-future.

Statistics are being misapplied, and falsified anyway.

Just look around you.

What we are looking at is the upcoming slow collapse of what is still a semi-civilized society in the UK. It has already started to crack and distort.

I wonder whether Starmer’s wife has much direct influence over his political stances.

Starmer is behaving as though almost everyone in the UK voted Labour, and so (maybe) for him, when in fact only 4 voters out of every 12 that voted, voted Labour (only 4 out of 20 if all eligible voters are included).

Goodwin ought to address (including in his own mind) what (((element))) has always been and still is in the forefront of the conspiracy to import millions of backward non-Europeans into the UK.

He is quite right otherwise, of course.

Goodwin does not suggest what is most necessary though— the creation of a European ethnostate within the UK.

I agree with her, as far as that goes, but women should not be boxing anyway, even when they are both actual women and not, as in this case, one not a woman but a “trans” person.

[Bund Deutscher Maedel girls riding in a forest, Germany, 1930s]

Quite apart from that Kamala Harris fakery, look behind her, at her audience. At the demographics. America’s future?

I myself am probably on various tick-box lists already, thanks mainly to the “usual” malicious (((troublemakers))).

[Starmer and Angela Rayner bending the knee to black mobs a few years ago]

Starmer is a tyrant posing as a file clerk, or a file clerk suddenly gifted power.

That tyrannical idiot and his “Labour” colleagues have always supported the mass immigration which is this country’s major, prime, most pressing problem, and which impacts all areas, from crime and lawlessness through to housing, environment, overcrowded cities, low pay, the declining NHS, the slow collapse of the Welfare State etc, even the water shortage.

Try these:

https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA013/

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

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

Maybe one less heavy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints.

Perhaps a bit too true to life, that last, though?

Out of the mouths of babes”?

Brava!

Rachel Reeves: expenses freeloader, moneygrasper and, of course, a fervent member of Labour Friends of Israel:

Reeves is a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel,[84] contributed a chapter to a book about Israeli politics and society,[85] and supports the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.[86][87] ” [Wikipedia].

The Labour “elected” tyranny is a complete “ZOG” (“Zionist Occupation Government”). Those who want to know what ZOG looks like in practice, look no further. Starmer-Labour.

In Leeds, the police caved to the Gypsy mob, in Southend the police seemed to be entirely absent as hundreds of blacks fought battles in the streets using machetes etc, but in Whitehall, the brave paramilitary police arrest a woman, said to be 61, for protesting against what is happening in this country.

A biased, “woke” police state, albeit so far, usually, a “poundland” one.

I do not agree with everything Katie Hopkins says, but I do agree with quite a bit of it (not, of course, her pro-Israelism). She does make me laugh, though.

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Exactly.

…and what or who do you think stands behind Israel-puppet Starmer? That’s right…

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Diary Blog, 30 July 2024

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What kind of clueless people voted “Conservative” at GE 2024 anyway? 3 out of every 12 that voted at all did, though.

Three hundred ships (and smaller craft)? Impressive, on the face of it.

Not much to choose between the Arab and the Jew, in many respects, arguably. Both non-European and also, quite often, anti-European.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/30/taylor-swift-southport-stabbings-children

I do not know who exactly is that Labour MP begging for more migrant-invaders to be allowed to come and stay here. Just one of —probably— hundreds of similar type.

Broken Britain

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24483508.victim-speaks-ear-bitten-off-razorlight-gig/

“A man has said he will never return to Bournemouth after an attacker bit his ear off at a Razorlight concert.

“I was enjoying the night, watching Razorlight and having a good time, having a laugh with everybody when out of nowhere he’s tapped me on the shoulder a few times,” said Matt.

“I went in thinking he had something to say to me and the next thing I know he’s taken my ear off.”

Daniel Sykes, 46, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court, for inflicting grievous bodily harm, to nine months in prison, suspended for 18 months.

He was also ordered to pay £500 in compensation, but Matt said this will not cover his counselling sessions and travel costs.

“He’s just walking the streets like nothing matters now to him.”

[Bournemouth Echo]

[defendant]

Regular readers know that I always say that I am not a “hanger and flogger” by any means, but a suspended sentence, and pitiful financial penalty, for a completely unprovoked and vicious attack of that sort in a public place, is inadequate; in fact it makes a mockery of law, order, and the courts.

We all know that prisons are full etc, but that sentence is just not good enough. Naturally, not all relevant facts before the court are printed in newspaper reports, but it is hard to see what mitigation could be sufficient on the facts that are known to newspaper readers to outweigh what the defendant did.

Incidentally, I had no idea what “Razorlight” might be. For those in similar difficulties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorlight.

Why would people aged 45+ even be at such an event? I do not know, but then I myself would pay to be able to avoid such a noisy gathering.

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The pseudo-populist mass media (GB News, Talk TV etc are all an offshoot of the Israel lobby.

Would it really be so bad if a proper English/British government were in power and decided to solve this whole problem by [REDACTED]?

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Spy Games]

Diary Blog, 29 July 2024

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Rachel Reeves has no “plan”, just a tick-box idea of “balancing the books”. cf. David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne.

Look at what she herself has decided to do, along with her boss, fellow Labour Friends of Israel member Starmer.

Infrastructure investment slashed, which is the worst-possible choice (though some projects are useless, notably HS2). More money for the subsistence of unwanted migrant-invaders. Pensioners to lose a lifeline. No new hospitals. Yet pay rises of 22.3% (over 2 years) for junior hospital doctors most of whom are useless, and most if not all of whom will be on far higher levels of income within a few years of seniority.

That last reminded me of a major league baseball players’ strike when I lived in the USA over 30 years ago. The strike was bitter and crowned with success eventually. The demand was that all major league baseball players should get $100,000 a year minimum (I suppose you could at least double the value today). Not unreasonable, arguably, though it was several times the average pay of Americans as a whole. The joke was that only 1% of all major league baseball players at that time received pay of less than $100,000 anyway. Most were in the several hundreds of thousands a year, with a substantial minority getting over a million a year.

The “trans” nonsense has become utterly ridiculous. Having said that, women should not be boxing anyway.

Less than a month since GE 2024, and Starmer-Labour is already the “elected” dictatorship I predicted. I say “elected“, of course, because only 4 out of every 12 voters who voted, voted Labour (only 4 out of 20 of all eligible voters— 8 out of 20 did not vote at all).

We are not ruled by “Labour” or “Conservative” labels, but by NWO/ZOG puppets. There is no substantial difference between the “two main parties”.

…and there are “alternative” NWO/ZOG puppets, less important ones, too: “Tommy Robinson”, Reform UK, Farage, Tice etc.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/.

Almost everything is fake and/or utterly screwed in contemporary Britain: Labour, Conservative, “Captain Tom” charity, “Jack Monroe” the “Bootstrap Cook”, SIS, the Foreign Office, the Bar, the Church of England— you name it…

I blogged an assessment of Owen Jones about 5 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/04/a-brief-word-about-owen-jones/.

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What has been absent from comment is the sheer malice of the recent announcement. I see Rachel Reeves as an extremely malicious person, and she will be well aware of the fact that few people aged 65+ vote Labour.

“Zelensky: We will discuss the issue of Ukraine’s borders with the respective countries.

PROMISED TO DEVELOP A “PEACE ESTABLISHMENT PLAN” BY THE END OF NOVEMBER

Kyiv-based political scientist Andrei ZOLOTARYOV believes that Zelensky is “preparing to sell the truce to the Ukrainians as a victory.”

Washington Post: Armed forces of Ukraine exhausted, a critical situation is emerging for the Ukrainian army on the front with elements of “serious chaos”.”

Surely, if the Kiev-regime forces are exhausted, this is the moment for a general advance of Russian armour and infantry across eastern Ukraine, not for a truce, from the Russian point of view?

The US allowed the use of nuclear weapons because of Ukraine The United States may use nuclear weapons because of the desperate situation in Ukraine, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern said in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue works. “The situation in Ukraine now is that the Russians have virtually defeated Ukraine, and so the United States has a choice between a humiliating defeat and perhaps dropping one of these low-yield nuclear weapons,” he said.

If the USA uses nuclear weapons on Russian forces, it can kiss goodbye to the top 50 American cities, including Washington DC, New York, LA, Philadelphia, Houston, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston.

Don’t instigate nuclear war. It could put humanity back thousands of years.

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Diary Blog, 24 July 2024

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[The bridge over the Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. I was at school, in the early 1970s, only a half-mile away, and the grounds of the school went down to the Thames (on which I rowed when aged 13/14) only a short distance from that bridge]

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How long before Starmer-Labour introduces similar measures in the UK? The justification will be something similar to that in the cartoon below.

The two aspects mentioned are a convenient “go-to”.

Those who question the System narrative, or suggest an alternative and/or better way forward for society, are often already “criminalized”, usually at the behest of the “usual suspects” (((“them”))).

“Labour” is now just a label, as is “Conservative”, “Liberal Democrat”, and “Green”.

Echoes of Weimar?

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[painting by Leonid Afremov]

Diary Blog, 22 July 2024

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The United States, like the UK, has experienced since the 1980s a decline in the quality of its politicians which is still continuing.

https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/why-kamala-harris-would-be-a-disaster

“…In fact, I’d go even further by stating the obvious. Kamala Harris, in reality, is only Vice President of the United States because she happens to tick the relevant identity boxes that according to the modern left need to be ticked. Woman? Tick. African American? Tick. She has basically benefitted from a system that is now hard-wired to promote certain identity groups over others, based on little more than these boxes.”

[Matt Goodwin]

…and the UK is going much the same way.

I am thinking that Kamala Harris will be replaced by another candidate. If so, it will have to happen soon.

Either way, I should imagine that Trump is likely to win now, though you never know.

cf. Twitter/X…

It seems most likely that some early parts of the Diary are authentic, but that most of it was written by some other person, almost certainly the girl’s father, and much later.

Not so much “New Labour New Danger” as a rehash of the “Conservative” fake “austerity” agenda.

The new Starmer-Labour government is already a total failure and fraud, only 2-3 weeks since its equally-fake “landslide” (only 33.7% even of those who voted).

As noted before on the blog, out of every 20 eligible voters, only 4 voted Labour (3 voted Con, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green. 8 did not vote).

Wait until they find out about the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic.

Deep state…

[Bohemian Grove, Northern California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove]

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Vinnitskaya]
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 21 July 2024, including the Andrew Malkinson wrongful conviction case, and about Helen Pitcher and her role in the Criminal Cases Review Commission scandal

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[Lincoln’s Inn, New Hall]

Helen Pitcher and the Criminal Cases Review Commission scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/jul/18/ccrc-chair-helen-pitcher-rejects-call-to-resign-andrew-malkinson-case

The chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission has rejected calls from the justice secretary to resign after a report on its handling of the Andrew Malkinson case laid bare “a catalogue of failures”.

The new justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said Pitcher was “unfit to fulfil her duties” and that she was seeking her removal in light of the findings. It is understood that she made her position clear to Pitcher on Thursday morning in the hope that she would resign.

But Pitcher said she was the “best person” for the job and that she had no intention of standing down.

James Burley, who led Appeal’s investigation into Malkinson’s case, said the report was “utterly damning” and detailed “a catalogue of failures by the CCRC”.

He said: “No one can doubt now that the CCRC is a broken safety net which sets the bar unreasonably high for innocent prisoners trying to clear their names. The CCRC must be completely overhauled.”

[The Guardian]

[Helen Pitcher, useless “quangocrat”]

I had never heard of Helen Pitcher, so I looked her up online: https://www.legalwomen.org.uk/helenpitcher.html.

Helen Pitcher OBE Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission talked to Bhini Phagura from Raydens solicitors about her career.

Tell us about your career progression which led to your appointment as the Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission:

I studied law at QMC London and used this degree as a basis for a career in commerce, where I rapidly progressed up the ranks to become an Executive and Divisional Director in Grand Metropolitan. I retained a footprint in the law in various roles related to Standards, Fairness, Equity and Diversity.

Well…wouldn’t you just know it?

There’s more:

The first role I held in parallel to my Commercial career was as a lay representative of the Professional Conduct and Complaints Committee of the Bar Council.” [now split into the Bar Standards Board and the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal].

Yes, there is usually at least one useless woman of this sort sitting (well-paid, too), but doing nothing, when a Bar Disciplinary Tribunal sits. In 5-person tribunal cases (as mine was, in fact wrongly— it should have been a 3-person tribunal, which has no power to disbar) there are usually two such women (they always seem to be women, as on benches of lay magistrates), invariably a pair of unsmiling and stupid “bookends”. Useless box-tickers. See also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.

I also became a lay representative on the Employment Appeal Tribunal and still hold this office.

I then joined the Queens Counsel (as it was then) Selection Panel and rapidly became its chair. Whilst there we improved the Diversity Statistics.

Again the “diversity statistics“… Why am I not at all surprised?

I held this role for 9 years. On stepping down, I decided not to apply for another role as I also had a burgeoning Consultancy and Portfolio Career. About 18 months later, however, an advertisement for the role of the Chair of the CCRC (Criminal Cases Review Commission) was brought to my attention.

Last year the role of Chairman at the JAC (Judicial Appointments Commission) became available. A Headhunter contacted me having uncovered my background on LinkedIn. I checked with the MoJ that there was no conflict of interest and submitted my application. On December 31st following a Justice Select Committee earlier in the month, I was appointed and took up the post on January 16th [2023].”

My role as chair involves leading the Board, ensuring appropriate oversight on governance and providing appropriate challenge and support to the executive. I am also involved in some of the most senior appointments.

I have rationalised my portfolio (which was a Commitment I gave to the JSC) in order to ensure I have the appropriate amount of time to devote to this key role.

You are holding this role for 3 years from January 2023, what are your aims/goals?

The strategic aims were already set, however they are due for a refresh as the period they covered draws to a close. These aims, which are developed in conjunction with the Board and executive, are on our website and thus in the public domain.

Our primary purpose set out by statute is to recruit on merit, our secondary (and no less important role) is to assist the rest of the judicial system to increase the diversity pool. It is for this reason that I also chair the Judicial Diversity Forum, which has a clear action plan to achieve its aims.”

So the secondary role is as important as the primary one? How muddled and wrongheaded is the stupid woman?

[Legal Women (online-only) magazine]

The interview is rather badly written, unfortunately, with superfluous upper-case here and there; as can be seen, it is the product of an Indian woman.

Well, there we have it. That greedy and plainly incompetent Pitcher woman has made a whole career, and no doubt a very lucrative one, out of “diversity”, tokenism etc. First of all, in her own person, by being a “token woman”, or one token woman, on commercial and quango boards. Secondly, by being a Trojan horse for more “diversity” and “inclusion” (etc) in important public offices.

Helen Pitcher, who seems to me to be a useless “diversity” box-ticker, has, inter alia, sat in the seat of judgment over employment appeal cases, over the cases of supposedly defaulting barristers etc, and has even been (and apparently still is) the head of the body which appoints judges, including those at the highest level.

cf. Paula Vennells [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells] and Dido Harding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_Harding] and many many others.

Helen Pitcher is, at time of writing, doing, and of course getting paid for doing, several different jobs simultaneously. She is probably making between half a million and a million pounds a year. For what? Ruining various bodies? Ticking various “diversity” and “anti-racism” boxes? Shoving our society further into the mire?

Look at how Helen Pitcher is clinging on to her CCRC role, presumably in order to maximize the money she gets before she is forced out. At least, that seems to me to be her motivation. Very telling, if so.

This latest scandal, including Helen Pitcher’s “march through the institutions”, is so typical of the way in which things generally have been allowed to develop in the UK in the past 30+ years.

You can see the way the UK is going, at least partly because of stupid and over-promoted women such as Helen Pitcher (and, yes, also men, not infrequently)— straight down.

God knows what state this country will be in in 2029 or 2034, let alone 2054 (which last I shall not have to witness, thank God, not from the Earth plane anyway).

[Update, 14 January 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan/14/andrew-malkinson-calls-miscarriage-of-justice-watchdogs-ex-head-shameless.

Andrew Malkinson calls miscarriage of justice watchdog’s ex-head ‘shameless’

Helen Pitcher resigned from the CCRC saying she had been ‘scapegoated’ over Malkinson’s case

Emily DuganTue 14 Jan 2025 19.51 GMTShare

Andrew Malkinson has called the former head of the miscarriage of justice watchdog “shameless” as she resigned from the job saying she had been “scapegoated for entirely legitimate decisions” taken over his case.

Helen Pitcher handed in her resignation as chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) on Tuesday afternoon after learning that an independent panel had concluded by a majority of two to one that she was no longer fit to be chair.

In a letter to the justice secretary she said she felt that she had been chosen as a “scapegoat at an early stage” for the Malkinson case and that “a head had to roll and I was chosen for that role”.

Malkinson said: “Helen Pitcher’s attempt to portray herself as the victim here is shameless.

The Guardian revealed that Pitcher had been in Montenegro promoting her property business in the weeks after Malkinson’s conviction was overturned and the organisation was in crisis after its failure to apologise to him.

[Guardian]].

Her property business” (as well as all the rest)?

Helen Pitcher thus managed to blag another 6-7 months’ pay and expenses, and pension contributions, when she should have resigned in mid or early 2024.

Shameless” indeed, the horrible and avaricious old hag.

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Summary of the Israeli strike according to what is known so far: – Approximately 25 F-15 and F-35 aircraft, accompanied by refueling planes, flew about 2000 kilometers toward the city of Hodeidah in Yemen.

– The strike was carried out in 8 waves.

-The attack destroyed fuel depots, inflicted damage on the port, and destroyed a power station north of the port.

– The fire is still burning and is expected to continue for several more days.

– There is a power outage across the entire region.

– The message of the strike is clear: this is not a strike on military targets (which has been done by the coalition over the past 9 months) but an attack on the already struggling Yemeni economy, causing significant economic damage.

– The attack on the port is a direct response to the damage Yemenis have caused to the port of Eilat.

– The message to the rest of the Middle East is also clear: the Bandar Abbas port and the Kharg Island, from where most of Iran’s oil is exported, are in Israel’s sights, as well as the port of Beirut.

– Israel has decided to take off the gloves; this is not a minor strike like those in Iran.

– The Houthis are threatening to retaliate, but it is unclear what the threat entails, as they have already attacked Israel 200 times.”

[Open Source Intel]

Middle East, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Far East. All now under threat of major regional wars.

Ukraine lines are collapsing. After 380 billions of aid pledged to Ukraine since the war begin; 118 billion are direct military aid; many countries literally emptied out entire inventory countless military units to give their weapons to Ukraine. Ukraine is STILL losing grounds everyday. Lost 5 towns in the past 48hrs. The fortress city of Krasnohorivka is falling as we speak; Russia threatens cut the Oskil Frontlines in half with the likely capture of Pishchane. Still not collapsing? This is not collapse of frontlines, then what is?

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Back to the UK tomorrow. I’ve never had such dread about Britain. Coming back to London and knowing how unpleasant it’ll be. The demographic changes and feeling that [the UK] is most against Brits. The lack of functional media. The feeling something big has to happen to restore order.

[Charlotte Gill]

Plenty of Twitter-twits replying to all that and saying how wonderful London still (?) is, but I lived in (mostly) Central or near-Central London, on and off, for 22 years (1976 to 1998, though spending also many years either elsewhere in the country or overseas), and I should not want to live there today: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/06/30/diary-blog-30-june-2022-including-impressions-of-a-trip-to-dystopian-london/.

I have not been to London since that brief visit in 2022, and am glad of it. I no longer have the Rolex watches I had 25+ years ago (or want them, or need them, or can afford them) but, if I did, I think that they would not stay on my wrist very long in the London of 2024.

Why can people who should know better not accept the truth that is in front of their eyes? In a word, deluded.

One aspect of London that seems to have radically improved in recent years, though, is the public transport network. New lines, new trains, new ways of travelling around the conurbation. Crossrail/Elizabeth Line for one. I do not speak, however, from personal experience of the new lines, just from what I have read online.

Well over 20 years ago, in 2000, I happened to meet and get to know (somewhat), in Bournemouth, a young blonde woman (20 or so) I first encountered in a photography shop, and who was very proud of her father, vice-Chancellor of (if I remember aright) Lancaster University. She talked about him rather a lot, and thus I learned that (again, if I remember aright) his salary was over £200,000 a year, which would be pretty good even today, by most people’s standards. In fact, the Bank of England online calculator shows that you could almost double that in today’s money. So today— maybe £400,000.

The tertiary educational sector in the UK has been a kind of “rotten borough” for a long time. At least 30 years.

Matt Goodwin

I notice that the “alt-Right” (?) academic and commentator, Matt Goodwin, has retweeted a tweet about the UNRWA by the malicious and publicity-seeking Jew-Zionist org, “Campaign Against Antisemitism”. Foolish. The credibility of that malicious cabal is shot; even most pro-Israel Jews are against its activities and behaviour. By retweeting the “CAA”, Goodwin risks his own credibility too.

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My understanding was that Japan had withdrawn from whale hunting in the Southern Ocean, and would only be whaling in Japan’s own Exclusive Economic Zone [EEZ]. Maybe I was too optimistic: see https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/30/asia/japan-whaling-mothership-kangei-maru-intl-hnk/index.html; and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/02/japan-whale-meat-industry-kangei-maru-mother-ship.

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan

I do not trust Japanese intentions.

The Japanese only have one new whaling ship, though…

Many of us are well aware of what will eventually have to be done, but we are “not allowed” to say it, let alone do it…

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I agree with that. Michelle Obama? Maybe not so easily defeated. All the blacks would vote for her, for a start.

If anyone other than Trump takes on the U.S. Presidency, the Americans will be staring civil war in the face. The rest of the world (as well as the USA) will be staring at, quite likely, a world war, starting (like the first two “world” wars) in Europe.

An omen.

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Diary Blog, 20 July 2024

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week I scored the same as political journalist John Rentoul— 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 6, 7, and 8 (in fact I had read about the last, but had forgotten it).

Historical note

On this day, 80 years ago, backstabbers attempted to kill Adolf Hitler and then to seize power in Berlin and over the Third Reich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot.

Classical Hochverrat [“high treason”].

I am willing to accept that some of the conspirators acted out of a sense of higher duty, and with the idea of bringing a halt to the war on the Western Front, and so also bringing a halt to the devastating aerial bombing of Germany (which eventually killed as many as 800,000 people). However, to attempt the assassination of the head of both state and government at such a time of crisis can only be seen as treason, if the term has any meaning [see also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/01/08/treason-is-a-matter-of-timing/].

The conspirators wanted to call a halt, via armistice or truce, on the Western Front but continue to fight Stalin’s Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. They seem to have believed that the Americans and British would have accepted that. Not impossible, but very unlikely. Roosevelt and Churchill, at the Casablanca Conference in early 1943 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_Conference] had jointly called for the war against the German Reich to be fought until the latter declared unconditional surrender.

I cannot but feel some understanding of the motives of the 20 July 1944 conspirators, despite their treason, and despite their attempt to kill Hitler. They wanted to keep Germany, and all Central Europe, from being completely obliterated. They were unaware at the time of the progress being made by Jewish scientists in the USA towards the development of an atomic bomb (originally planned to be used against Germany, not —primarily— Japan); had they known of it, they would perhaps have felt doubly justified.

The 20 July plotters gambled for the highest stakes, and lost.

I do not “condone” the actions of the plotters; neither do I “condemn” them (and my views make no difference either way). Let history judge. Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht [“the history of the world is the judgment of the world”— Schiller].

[Dresden 1945, after Allied, mainly British, bombing]
[Hamburg, probably in 1945, showing some of the damage done by the British and American bombers in July 1943, 81 years ago, but after rubble had been cleared: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II]
[“We are fighting for the future of our children!“]
[Reichskanzlei —Reich Chancellery— Berlin, 1945, after the devastating defeat of the Reich]
[Berlin 1945: Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag]

Let us hope that creatures of evil such as Ursula von der Leyen do not succeed in provoking or instigating another such regional or world war, which would be, this time, even more devastating for Germany, all of Europe, and the world as a whole.

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

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Is that wrong?

Britain 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13652631/Roma-police-Leeds-riots-locals.html

Inside the Roma community ‘persecuted’ by police: How violent Leeds riots were the latest act of lawlessness to hit a deprived suburb where ‘a problem for one is a problem for all‘.

Many have large families, and around 5,000 Roma are now believed to live in the deprived neighbourhood, attracted by its spacious three-story terraces and low house prices.

Harehills has long been one of the most ethnically diverse areas of Leeds.

[Daily Mail]

Even that Daily Mail report, if you read it in full, bends over backwards to be “nice” and “liberal” towards the Roma Gypsy “community”.

If I comment here about the bastards, no doubt the “usual suspects” will make yet another malicious complaint to the police (our new poundland Stasi) about me, which would be (again) a bore and a nuisance, so I shall allow the readers of the blog to read between the lines, as in other police states.

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I have been blogging about that, and in greater detail, since 4 July 2024, and indeed even before then.

Diary Blog, 18 July 2024

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London. Zoo.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13644513/Two-asylum-seekers-robbed-reveller-25-000-gold-Rolex-Londons-West-End-walk-free-court.html

Two asylum seekers who targeted a reveller for his £25,000 Rolex in London’s West End walked free from court today.

Egyptian Yousef Garef and Algerian Amin Abdelkadar were both spared jail and handed community orders on Wednesday. Both admitted to robbery.

The pair, attacked Kris Smith at around 2am in Soho, London on July 21 last year, seizing his gold Rolex Day Date watch.

[Daily Mail]

Is comment even necessary?

This country is so screwed it is actually almost unbelievable. Not only because of migration invasion, but that, together with a “multicultural” population, is the cause of much of the overall problem.

Starmer-Labour will not “fix” the problems of the UK. Au contraire—Labour’s fake “landslide” regime will worsen them. Starmer-Labour is wedded to “diversity”, “anti-racism” (except against white English people) etc.

More from the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/18/ukraine-war-briefing-germany-to-halve-military-aid-to-kyiv-draft-budget-reportedly-shows

“Germany plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine in 2025, to €4bn, despite concerns over continued US support, according to a draft budget seen by Reuters. Instead the German government hopes Ukraine will be able to meet the bulk of its military needs with $50bn in loans from proceeds of frozen Russian assets approved by the G7, and that funds earmarked for armaments will not be fully used.”

There is no “Ukraine” as such now, just the Kiev regime, which can either be regarded as a “failed state” or a non-state.

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What an amazing creature.

Starmer says that the event of 7 October 2023 was the worst attack on Israel since “the holocaust”. Israel did not exist as a state until 1948.

Leaving that aside, Starmer is a total puppet of the Israeli state and the UK Israel lobby.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13646829/Single-mother-framed-innocent-woman-driving-pick-truck-illegally-motorway-avoids-jail-judge.html

A single mother-of-two, who framed an innocent woman when she drove a pick-up truck and towed a trailer illegally, has dodged jail after revealing her personal woes.

Juliann Quilligan, 27, from Skelmersdale, Lincolnshire falsely told police her name was Rebecca Williams when she was pulled over for illegally towing a trailer on the M62.

The mother was driving her Mitsubishi L200 without being insured and kept quiet as police added eight points to the unaware woman’s licence. 

She argued that she became ‘panicked’ and ‘frightened’ when dealing with police due to mental health issues exacerbated by her estrangement from the travelling community which she fled in 2019 so her children could go to school. 

The victim – Miss Williams – only discovered she had been wrongly convicted in her absence when she attempted to renew the insurance policy on her own car.

[Daily Mail]

Egregious. Also, leaving aside the sheer injustice of it all, note the absence of proper journalism and sub-editing of that report. “Skelmersdale, Lincolnshire“, writes the Daily Mail scribbler, one Shannon McGuigan, when surely a “journalist” should know that Skelmersdale is in Lancashire

Again, the Daily Mail report is really quite poorly-written, something which is now almost the norm in most newspapers.

Proper journalism is another thing that has just faded away and died in the UK.

Speaking of brainless “journalism”…(see below)

What, “I wonder”, will much of the UK be like in, say, 2029, or 2034? What, “I wonder”, will be happening then? Many of us can see it coming.

Immigration laws, said Thomas Sowell, are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. By allowing 100,000 illegal migrants to stay in Britain we are incentivising others to break the law while treating British people, who want strong borders & play by the rules, with contempt https://telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/17/labour-fast-track-asylum-claims-90000-migrants-rwanda-uk/

[Matt Goodwin]

Of course, inflation since 2008 means that the £522, to have kept pace with inflation, would have to be £825.94 in 2024 (rather than the 2021 of the tweet): see https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

Just Stop Oil

Harsh sentences, though at the same time I myself oppose those idiots wholeheartedly. I am not —generally— a “hanger and flogger”.

Those people have no answers to the problems facing us.

Incidentally, I have blogged a few times in the past about Roger Hallam, Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil etc: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/16/the-extinction-rebellion-levellers/;

https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/09/extinction-rebellion-greta-thunberg-cressida-dick-and-the-madness-of-protesting-crowds/;

Court report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25

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True, but try telling that to the Twitter-twits, the self-describing “anti-racists” and “anti-fascists” etc…

Of course, the migration invasion is not being allowed to happen by accident:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan; see also https://www.ilpost.it/2018/01/16/piano-kalergi/.

The backlash from the people has grown, in the UK, in Ireland, and also across mainland Europe. In the UK, it drove the upsurge of voters for the actually rather mild Reform UK at the General Election of 2024 (over 4 million voters voted Reform UK. The Conservative Party only had about 6 million voters, and victorious Labour about 9 million).

The Conservative Party was dumped mainly because of both the invasion itself and also its down-the-line consequences, though sheer incompetence generally was also a major factor.

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Don’t say that we did not warn you…

I seem to recall that a certain political leader, now long-deceased, made sure that that could not happen in the territories under his rule…

…and the millions more that will be arriving…

Late historical note

Mein Kampf was first published on 18 July 1925.

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[SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler on the terrace at the Berghof, 1930s]

Diary Blog, 17 July 2024

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[painting by Vicente Romero Redondo]

Tweets seen

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]

My (frequently updated) blog post from 2019: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/.

Ha. I examined the whole Bitcoin/fiat money situation 7 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/12/10/thoughts-about-bitcoin/.

“Terrible news for Ukraine” – European experts on Trump’s 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 “America First,” 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. “It’s bad for us and it’s terrible news for Ukraine,” said one senior European diplomat in Washington. “Vance is not our ally.”

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.

Wandering…

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 vision 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. This isn’t me leaving the Conservative party, it’s the Conservative party that has left me. Read my interview with the Telegraph on why for the first time I am politically homeless.”

[Bella Wallersteiner]

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7211253478994706432/

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.

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[painting by Suchitra Bhosle]