According to YouGov, the most popular Conservative leadership candidate among 2024 Conservatives (joint top), Leave voters, Reform voters & the working-class is … Suella Braverman! (who just dropped out) see -> https://t.co/xBkvcoU0Xp
What kind of clueless people voted “Conservative” at GE 2024 anyway? 3 out of every 12 that voted at all did, though.
"Britain's growing problem with Islamic sectarian politics is directly downstream from its decision to pursue mass immigration while simultaneously failing to integrate those who do come into the country"https://t.co/PzlVaTE7Jb
Russia’s Defense Ministry has begun extensive naval exercises involving around 300 warships and speedboats from the Northern, Pacific, and Baltic Fleets, as well as the Caspian Flotilla. pic.twitter.com/fppViwryFD
Three hundred ships (and smaller craft)? Impressive, on the face of it.
newspaper "Maariv":
🔻 Ben Caspit: "Israel" is not on the brink of chaos, but it is in a state of chaos. The video clips showing dozens or hundreds of Israelis trying to storm the gates of military bases are a symbol of our disintegration.
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.
Supported open borders all his life. Got rid of the one deterrent we had without anything to take its place. Consistently voted against border control.
“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.
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.
Late tweets
I wondered how long it would be before the 'far right' trope would appear. We live in a country where anything the media don't agree with is 'far right' it's pathetic, lazy 'journalism'. The people who write such pieces are scum.
3,000 illegal migrants have crossed the Channel since Keir Starmer & Labour took power. As I've explained, with no serious deterrent, no serious plan, & no consequences for those who cross, this crisis is going to get much worse under Labourhttps://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
As long as illegal immigrants are warm and well fed in winter pensioners who have paid their taxes and National insurance can be cold and stave in winter what a bloody government we have
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.
🚨Breaking 🚨
The High Court has just ruled that the emergency ban on puberty blockers introduced by the last UK government was lawful.
This is seismic.
We must never allow children to be irreversibly harmed in the name of an ideology again.
Labour leaders like @bphillipsonMP believe that campus culture wars are a right-wing myth because that’s what their nice friends in the N. London and Oxbridge professoriat have told them.
Therefore, put a stop to HEFOSA and – presto – the campus culture wars will end. https://t.co/BIdFDHtwpZ
‘What starts as student union squabbling easily becomes the ruthless policing of the curriculum, the content of lectures and even academics’ published research.
This culture is inconsistent with the very purpose of a university.’ https://t.co/8uamEJ7vyD
Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Even the IPCC admits our extreme weather is not man made, says Mark Ellse; a Muslim cleric raises over £3 million for a Scottish Islamic homeland (Mullah Kintyre); and Claire Fox on Labour's betrayal of the young https://t.co/P8mKXn4RM2pic.twitter.com/AvOyh59KeO
The “trans” nonsense has become utterly ridiculous. Having said that, women should not be boxing anyway.
Yes, @Fox_Claire speaks from a bloodied mouth about @UKLabour's contempt not just for the sanctity of academic freedom and free speech but for the democratic process itself.https://t.co/smyvDBMDPc
— Charlie Bentley-Astor (@astor_charlie) July 29, 2024
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).
At least Zelensky will have cocaine this Christmas whilst our elderly freeze
So you’re cutting billions of pounds of public services but Ukraine will still get their £3 billion a year right? https://t.co/jQ8DOUXAxq
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 29, 2024
We are not ruled by “Labour” or “Conservative” labels, but by NWO/ZOG puppets. There is no substantial difference between the “two main parties”.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Tommy Robinson has been on Israel’s payroll for some time. pic.twitter.com/KRAjJ1KrvB
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 29, 2024
…and there are “alternative” NWO/ZOG puppets, less important ones, too: “Tommy Robinson”, Reform UK, Farage, Tice etc.
Day 4 of 56. Mark Lewis and Patron Law have not yet paid my costs.
In his disciplinary case, Lewis tried to withdraw his admission to sending abusive messages. He first said he was justified in sending them, but then that he might have been hacked or the messages forged.
Mark Lewis has followed me. If there’s anything you disagree with Mark, please post it and I’ll re-post it. I want to give you a right of reply! Just so long as you don’t go off with your “£19Wilson” or “Oh f**k off you stupid c**t” material. pic.twitter.com/O8j6TUeF2h
Owen Jones is a disgraceful champagne Labourite, privileged prick, who never grew up like he says he did he's a fool. Starmer is the same,.. Dad was a tool maker.. It's all bullshit. https://t.co/DFT9leNsxJ
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…
Rubbish. Millions of pensioners, far from wealthy, rely on the winter fuel payment to help them heat their homes in the winter. Scrapping the winter fuel payment will cost lives.
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… pic.twitter.com/7BqpCzP7dD
“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 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.
[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]
Talking point
Tweets seen
Russell Brand breaks down Canada's Orwellian Bill C-63:
"The legislation authorizes house arrest and electronic tagging for a person likely to commit a future crime… if a judge believes there are reasonable grounds to 'fear' a future hate crime."
— Canadian Refusenik 🍁 (@cdnrefusenik) July 23, 2024
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”))).
A Labour Party which suspends MPs for voting to take children out of poverty has no right to call itself a Labour Party.
“Labour” is now just a label, as is “Conservative”, “Liberal Democrat”, and “Green”.
Israel has lost this war and Israelis have no idea how badly they have lost. The war of revenge that Israel is fighting in Gaza has crossed every moral red-line that is imaginable…Israelis cannot imagine the despair that has become the overriding emotion of our neighbors.…
"There is a listlessness among my peers & I. We are neither the ‘Somewheres’ nor ‘Anywheres’ @David_Goodhart writes about. We have neither the means to join Somewheres by putting down roots nor desire to join the hyper-liberal Anywheres. We are nowhere"https://t.co/N0T3LUfNnz
The United States, like the UK, has experienced since the 1980s a decline in the quality of its politicians which is still continuing.
Chief of the General Staff of the Israel in Rafah: Behind the curtain of all the wars of (resistance front) is Iran. It is all Iran. That was an Iranian drone, is it right? The Houthis took it and changed name and range and that's it.
“…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.
Kamala Harris will have access to Biden’s campaign coffers, which includes millions from the Israel lobby.
Across the political spectrum Kamala Harris is deeply unpopular. They will try to insert another candidate before the DNC, but remember she has a major advantage – access to the campaign money already raised for Biden.
Still, if she's the nominee, it's over. Trump wins.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 21, 2024
Amazon doesn’t make a profit on Alexa devices.. They actually take a loss.
The truth is smart speakers aren’t the product. You and your data are the product.
Get these CIA spy boxes out of your home.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 21, 2024
cf. Twitter/X…
You may very well be correct.. I haven’t yet looked far enough into this to comment.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 21, 2024
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.
We can save billions by. 1. Scrap the Net Zero nonsense and save billions. 2. Scrap all foreign aid and save billions. 3. Stop paying 8 million per day to keep immigrants in hotels. 4. Stop sending billions to the Ukraine.
— lieutenant Colonel Kojak Slaphead The 3rd (@Scarfer13) July 22, 2024
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).
— CrémantCommunarde #WeAreCollective ☮️ (@0Calamity) July 22, 2024
Biden leaves office a disgraced war criminal but let’s make no illusions about where Kamala stands on Israel:
-Regular AIPAC speaker -Compared Selma & US Civil Rights struggle to her pro-Israel activism -Called BDS “anti-semitic” -Co-sponsored resolution against Obama in support…
" Viktor Orbán, with his visit to Moscow and negotiations with Vladimir Putin, thwarted the European Union's plans to demonstrate unanimous support for Ukraine ," German media write pic.twitter.com/7ohYuHjvPq
At least 70 people lost their lives and 200 people were injured as a result of intense attacks by Israeli forces in the Khan Younis region; The people of Gaza are leaving the area completely. pic.twitter.com/gs8hOpuVzu
Hezbollah is launching an attack on Israel's Haifa region. Air defense systems are trying to shoot down the launched missiles. pic.twitter.com/BLXf5UHMoM
“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.”
“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.
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).
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 thatPitcher 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.
Tweets seen
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.
“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.
Even worse, those maniacs are actually considering Hillary Clinton. Direct war with Russia will then be a certainty.
There are too many egos at stake, and too many sunk costs. What this means is that the pro-Ukrainian true believers won't concede anything has collapsed until Kiev is under Russia's control.
“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?“
I'm no military man, but from a purely common sense perspective, assessing the saleability in terms of effective manpower Ukraine has left, disregarding poorly trained conscripts thrown uselessly into the meat grinder, then the rubber and road meeting indeed appears to draw near.
If anyone has something cheery to say let me know 😅😔. But honestly, it just feels like the baddies keep winning. I really don’t know where this is all heading.
“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.“
London is turning into an unaffordable shit-hole with the "enjoyable" parts closed off to an elite minority. Everybody who lives there can see it even if liberal progressives will never accept it bc to do so would shatter their worldview. Charlotte is just saying out loud what we… https://t.co/sqNOr5KBhR
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.
Universities are the Home Office basically, and their policy is open borders – often with taxpayer funds. https://t.co/AxJRdv9XFd
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.
More tweets
According to Danish news @DRNyheder#paulWatson will be heard at the court in Greenland, and that the decision of whether to hand Mr. Watson over to the Japanese authorities will be taken by the Ministry of Justice, @justitsdkhttps://t.co/DXeiZVGH4u
The Japanese only have one new whaling ship, though…
And where is our Home Secretary Yvette cooper. West Yorkshire mayor? Thought they were going to support the police? How can a person stand on a British street and scream at a British policeman numerous times, Fuck off, you are bastards? Any white English man would be arrested!
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.
In anticipation of the Yemeni attack on Tel Aviv, the settlers reported that they saw a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles in the sky, which later turned out to be a flock of birds 😂 pic.twitter.com/GrjGmK4Tzh
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]
[“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.
When this woman is released, we need to get behind her & support her in any way necessary. She's a woman of immense bravery standing up to a violent crowd that size only for the cowards @WestYorksPolice to arrest her. We need more people like her! pic.twitter.com/lxvP3DMFsW
“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.
Nice chart. The real winner at the 2024 general election was not Labour but "none of the above". A total rejection of the two big parties. Source: Toby James pic.twitter.com/6VabeY1s6F
“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.
“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.
Since 1997 over 12million immigrants have entered Britain. 80% remain dependent on Welfare. Total cost is £50k per person pa. This is a staggering amount of money. Close to £500billion. It's destroying our economy.
This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million. pic.twitter.com/CcUmjLmqFJ
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 16, 2024
What an amazing creature.
Starmer asked is any Israel 🇮🇱 crime in Gaza 🇵🇸 unacceptable for him:
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.
Look at the demonic grin on this monsters face as he relishes the opportunity to finally deliver his digital prison.
Tony Blair has been plugging away at digital ID for our banking overlords for decades, and it looks like, in Starmer, they finally have the tool needed to finish… pic.twitter.com/2nVV1HZp8D
“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.
You can call me what you like, I'm not going to stop exposing what's really going on with immigration and the industrial scale abuse of our benefits system. I've only just got started with the racket in Boston…. https://t.co/o3U3i1ECvH
Too many people in this country believe it is Britain's role to take responsibility for the feck-ups of foreign governments. I believe the UK should, largely, be only letting in people who the govt believes it is in our direct strategic interest to do so.
— Martin in Monmouthshire (@MartinMonmouth1) July 18, 2024
“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]
MATT GOODWIN: "It's already obvious the new Labour government has no serious plan for (or even interest in) curtailing immigration". Latest in the Mailhttps://t.co/Z182zHTRKb
This is spot on. You can have available & affordable housing for our young people & British families. Or you can have an immigration-fuelled population explosion.
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.
Late tweets
Not a policeman in sight in Leeds. This is the reality of multiculturalism, it ruins everything it touches. pic.twitter.com/6n7eRTO1qs
Leeds tonight showed the world the consequences of mass immigration. You give them a home, you give them benefits, you give them safety and they give you hell. Ungrateful scroungers. pic.twitter.com/HsQULVSUwK
Riots have erupted in Harehills, Leeds tonight after Social Services took children away from a Roma Gypsy family, with a police car overturned and a bus now set on fire.
Britain needs to stop importing people with an alien culture and value system. Enough is enough. pic.twitter.com/QJ4NKPaEUy
Breaking: Police were chased away and the Fire and Rescue service are nowhere to be seen. Fires are burning unchecked in Leeds tonight.#Leeds#Riotspic.twitter.com/fOuvVKcAur
We can reform all the planning laws in the world but unless we also control demand we will never fix our housing crisis. You can have affordable & available housing. Or you can have mass immigration. You can't have both.https://t.co/ERDM5mO3yN
The “unwanted truth”. The Twitter-twits and similar people will close their ears. They want to believe that mass immigration has nothing at all to do with the housing crisis, or low pay, restricted State benefits, crowded schools, hospitals, trains etc, even water shortages.
They also prefer to believe that you can import half a million or a million persons per year, mostly from very backward parts of the planet, to the UK, without any effect on public safety, a decent life, standards in all areas, you name it.
As Hitler said of the people of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“.
[The “4 million immigrants” (since 1997) of several years ago are now nearly 7 million, or more]
Palestinians are trying to repair parts of their destroyed houses in Gaza City in order to somehow live in them. pic.twitter.com/DKA7zL439I
Trump leads Biden in seven swing states 🇺🇸 The former US president is superior to his opponent in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, The Times reports, citing YouGov poll data. pic.twitter.com/5hZLtCdp7C
To this day I can’t believe people actually buy Bitcoin. It’s just numbers on a screen!
What we should really be doing is trusting the Government to print worthless paper notes out of thin air, then depositing those notes at the banks so they can keep them safe for us!
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 17, 2024
“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… pic.twitter.com/0PHueudqoW
“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.“
The former deputy mayor of Kiryat Shmona is considering buying an apartment in Greece due to the war and missiles from Lebanon.
The journalist asked him: Do you feel that the state is falling apart? He replied: There is no state. Everything is paralyzed. pic.twitter.com/qJIBgjGXcj
“Last week I made the decision to cancel my Conservative Party membership after nearly a decade. The party has failed to set out a positive 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.”
Next time the Welsh Government complain they aren’t getting enough money from London, remember they spent almost £40 million on changing the speed limits to 20mph, only to change them back following backlash, once again costing millions.
And no one will be held accountable.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 17, 2024
Record level data on doses, dates and deaths in relation to ten million people from the Czech Rrepublic has now been released by @stkirsch. It shows that the Moderna vaccine is 50% more deadly than the Pfizer. Steve's full analysis here: https://t.co/DWLwMWeMGYpic.twitter.com/tssOHNN5zp
The main theses from Sergey Lavrov's press conferences after the UN Security Council meeting:
◻️ The solution to the crisis in Ukraine must take into account the reality on the ground, but the West needs to stop pumping Kiev with weapons and then the conflict will end;
Labour's plans in King's Speech –as I wrote months ago–will further erode democracy by doubling down on Quangocracy –rule by unelected & largely unaccountable "expert" bodies removed from the peoplehttps://t.co/UA2ukmAI16
Once again, I refer readers to what Khrushchev said about Malenkov, namely that the “filing clerk” type should never be given power. That’s Starmer, in essence, a would-be dictator but in the guise of a careful, over-controlled lawyer.
It's nearly that time of year again! And it’s certainly raining in Winchester at the moment ☔️ Tradition upholds that if it rains upon this bridge – St Swithun's bridge in Winchester city centre – on Monday 15 July, it will continue for forty days. #StSwithunsDay 🧵 pic.twitter.com/f5zvsdzTAH
— Winchester City Council (@WinchesterCity) July 9, 2024
At present, the forecast for Winchester on St. Swithun’s Day (next Monday) is…wet.
What an incredible waste of the British people’s tax monies, thrown at the brutal and shambolic regime of the Jewish dictator Zelensky. Meanwhile Britain’s public services are collapsing.
Fake Labour is already a failure as a government.
Crimea has been Russian for 200 years as shown by the continuation of the presence of their navy. And zelensky was bombing that region of Ukraine for 5 years before putin entered
"The knowledge that at least some Conservative ministers opposed the woke agenda meant radical activists in the institutions could not fully let rip. But that leash came off when Labour won on July 4" – guest essay by leading scholar of wokeism @epkaufmhttps://t.co/zBe2Fqilc1
“Ultimately, this means that defending our truth-based order, free speech and national identity is considered undignified while sacrificing these values in the name of ‘equal outcomes’ and ‘emotional safety’ is not.
Of course, Labour is also proposing innocent-sounding legislation on hate speech and racial equality which will further supercharge this woke cultural socialism, shutting down offensive speech while pressuring organizations to discriminate against whites and males to achieve equal outcomes for identity groups.
Will Britain wake up in time to prevent…erosion of our long traditions of free speech, free expression, objective truth, equal treatment and due process? Will future generations be taught to hate the British past and the white men who played an outsized role in creating our national community?
At best, I think we have one or two decades to reverse the march of wokeism before today’s Zoomers and Millennials, who prioritise ‘emotional safety’ over free speech, become the median voter and the country reaches a point of no return.”
[from a guest essay, published on Matt Goodwin’s blog].
There are of course other ways to resist tyranny than via the so-called “Parliamentary road”.
Virtue signalling Net Zero nonsense that will cost us jobs, revenue, exports, growth and energy security and do nothing to lower average global temperature. #NetZeroReferendum Ed Miliband orders immediate ban on new drilling in North Sea https://t.co/Els1iHavqb
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 10, 2024
I am sure Jake Wallis Simons, Robbie Gibb, Pollard, Harpin, the BoDoSBJ are all ensuring the person responsible for publishing that article feels their wrath, professionally and reputationally.
It will be recalled by older British readers that, in the Dikko case of 1984, an Israeli Jew doctor was directly involved in the MOSSAD operation to kidnap a former Nigerian government minister:
“The Dikko affair was a joint Nigerian–Israeli attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko, a former Nigerian government minister living in the United Kingdom, in 1984, and secretly transport him back to Nigeria in a diplomatic bag. The kidnapping took place, but the transportation thereof was unsuccessful.
Mossad sources across Europe failed to locate Dikko. However, Mossad Director-General Nahum Admoni decided that Dikko was probably in London, which had become a haven for Nigerian exiles critical of the new regime.
Mossad field officers (katsas), accompanied by Nigerian security service agents led by ex-Nigerian Army Major Mohammed Yusufu, traveled to London. The Nigerian team rented an apartment on Cromwell Road and posed as refugees from the new regime. The Mossad agents rented rooms in hotels catering to tourists from Africa, and posed as anti-apartheid activists.
Working separately, the two teams moved among the Nigerian expat community in London, gradually narrowing their search to West London, to the area around Hyde Park, where many wealthy Nigerian exiles lived. They combed the electoral registers freely available in the area’s town halls, but found no trace of Dikko.
On 30 June 1984, a Mossad agent driving down Queensway, in Bayswater, spotted Dikko. He parked his car and then tailed Dikko on foot to his house in Porchester Terrace. Admoni was immediately informed, and ordered surveillance on the house. From then on, the house was constantly watched, while the Nigerians, using their London high commission as a base, prepared a kidnapping operation.
Meanwhile, Mossad recruited Levi-Arie Shapiro, an Israeli doctor who was a consultant anesthetist and director of the intensive care unit at HaSharon Hospital. He was to fly to London and participate in the operation. Shapiro’s job would be to drug Dikko, and insert an endotracheal tube to keep him from choking on his own vomit while being transported in a crate.”
The air force and air defense forces of Belarus and the Russian Federation are put on high combat readiness due to the activation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Missile systems "Polonaise" and "Iskander" were brought into position, President of Belarus Lukashenko pic.twitter.com/3ZWzRUdAlA
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
🇻🇳 Footage from a Vietnamese police training to destroy terrorists and rescue hostages in a building pic.twitter.com/RrOcl7ICT6
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
Former economic adviser to Israel's chief of staff, Ram Aminah, said: "Israeli society does not understand the extent of Hezbollah's power" because it has a large stockpile of missiles, he added.
Hezbollah is considered one of the five superpowers along with the United States,… pic.twitter.com/udIWpIVVxF
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
“Former economic adviser to Israel’s chief of staff, Ram Aminah, said: “Israeli society does not understand the extent of Hezbollah’s power” because it has a large stockpile of missiles, he added. Hezbollah is considered one of the five superpowers along with the United States, China, Russia and Germany.“
Interesting and unexpected. All the same, Hezbollah is not part of the nuclear club: no Trident, no French force de frappe…
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
When they are given power…
The Kiev junta refused to compromise with Moscow:
Ukraine is not ready to compromise with Russia and give up any territory in order to end the conflict – Ermak. pic.twitter.com/Fq9IfoRDi9
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 3, 2024
“He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword” [Matthew 26:52]
Extraordinary- Sam Coates saying one member of the govt worried he might win, he just wants to lose 😆 Survation's latest poll puts Tories at just 64 seats. But we need to VOTE pic.twitter.com/eWnPFSqny4
Wonder what that idiot-tweeter will say when real social-nationalism arrives…
Have you any idea how shite the UK is to live in? Have you any idea how long you need to wait for a check up, a hospital bed, a dentist etc? Have you seen the slums and filth being created through lack funding? And you want more of the fucking same???
Incidentally, that Britain Elects poll result, if it is right, would mean a House of Commons with 469 Labour MPs (overall majority 288), 75 LibDems, 56 Con MPs, 15 SNP, 9 Reform UK, 3 Green (etc). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
Many will settle for a 20k salary so they avoid paying tax
My view is that it would be better to raise the threshold to at least the £20,000 level, but increase the tax burden of VAT (overall). True, that would hit poorer people disproportionately, but at the same time would put the choice into their hands, in fact into the hands of all consumers. Basic purchases, such as food, or basic foodstuffs, could be charged out at a lower rate or rates, or zero-rated.
Government needs tax monies in order to fund the functions of government.
"The British Conservative party will leave Downing Street after 14 years and 5 incompetent prime ministers who have left Britain poorer and weaker. More than at any time in modern history, Britain has lost the respect of the world", @FrancisGhiles 🔗https://t.co/a2FDKtxJ0cpic.twitter.com/4fEYy8suc3
— CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) (@CidobBarcelona) July 3, 2024
FINAL poll of campaign
Labour 36% Reform 20% Conservatives 16% Lib Dems 10% Greens 9% SNP 4%
That poll, by my use of Electoral Calculus, would result in a House of Commons with 454 Labour MPs (overall majority 258), 74 LibDems, 46 Cons, 34 Reform UK, 15 SNP, 4 Green (etc).
That People Polling opinion poll comes very close to my own (I hope, educated) guess about what might be the result of tomorrow’s General Election. Labour as “elected” (by default) dictatorship, LibDems the official but completely toothless Opposition (again only by default), and Reform UK in a good position to capitalize on what will soon be Labour’s total let-down as a government. Oh, and the SNP put back in its box, probably permanently.
As for the Conservative Party, if not totally wiped out on the day, mortally wounded.
I also tend to agree, as I have been blogging recently. “Shy Reform UK voters”, unwilling to share their tendency with pollsters, may add up to something significant, if they vote at all.
That means a House of Commons with 472 Labour MPs (overall majority 294), LibDems 69, Cons 63, SNP 15, Reform 6, Greens 3 (etc).
Once again, LibDems as official Opposition. About half the polls are predicting that the LibDems will get more MPs than the Cons. I imagine that large donors to the Conservative Party will close their pocketbooks soon. A party not in government and not even the main opposition party has little influence.
1700 hrs now. 17 hours before the polls open for real.
BREAKING – final YouGov polling has Reform on 36% in Great Yarmouth, Labour on 29%. The Tories CANNOT win here. If you want to keep Labour out, then voting Reform tomorrow is the only way. pic.twitter.com/MDwe0OsKdW
This is Frank and he has had a coffee stand at the top of the steps at Bethnal Green tube for as long as I can remember.
When the new restaurant/coffee shop next door opened along with another high street outlet opening across the street, Frank suddenly found that his license… pic.twitter.com/3bgeCMvuxP
“This is Frank and he has had a coffee stand at the top of the steps at Bethnal Green tube for as long as I can remember.
When the new restaurant/coffee shop next door opened along with another high street outlet opening across the street, Frank suddenly found that his license from the council had been revoked and he was chucked off his stand. I believe it was to make way for these new shops to take his regular custom. They didn’t need him in the way of gaining maximum profit… so Frank was gone.
Well the locals were having none of it and a petition started demanding his return. How dare they do this to him. How dare these people smash his business and leave him with nothing.
After a lot of pressure the council backed down and Frank had his licence and pitch returned to him but sadly by that time Frank had sold his equipment to feed his family and try to survive. So the good people of Bethnal Green started crowdfunding and here’s the result… Frank back in business on his old pitch with brand new equipment and even a little hut now to shelter him from the rain… Brilliant!!
He is truly the happiest man in East London and it’s wonderful to see. It really does show that if we all stick together, stand up to them and just say no… the little guy can win. If you’re in Bethnal Green come and have a coffee with this lovely man.“
A nice story, and an illustration on a small scale of what society could be.
Not an area I know (have been there a couple of times, 30-40 years ago), but if I am ever there, admittedly highly unlikely, I’ll take that coffee.
“A man has been convicted of strangling his wife while her online boyfriend was on a video link, and throwing her body hidden in a suitcase into a tributary of the River Thames.
Aminan Rahman, 46, was found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey of murdering Suma Begum, 24, in a flat in east London on the night of 29 April last year.
The killing was witnessed by Begum’s two children, aged four months and two years, and her online boyfriend via a video call from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he was living.“
[The Guardian]
Late tweets seen
Nigel Farage and Reform's average vote share in the final polls is now up to 17.3% — from 11% at the start of the campaign & 15% last week. Most polls suggest a strong end to the campaign for Farage & Co … https://t.co/O3wB4eQNON
‘He was the guy who liberalised immigration. He was the guy who lost control of the borders. He’s the guy who put mass migration on steroids.’@GoodwinMJ rips into Boris Johnson, saying his political influence has almost entirely diminished following his time in office. pic.twitter.com/KwVR8b8V9j
Ian Robert Millard 