“TalkTV has been shut down as a terrestrial TV channel by News UK. The Rupert Murdoch owned channel will be taken off air in the summer just two years after it was launched. The move comes after Piers Morgan quit TalkTV and moved his Uncensored show to YouTube permanently.“
[Daily Mirror]
I had missed that report from about 7 weeks ago. I have now seen this:
It does not surprise me. Hardly anyone watched Talk TV; I had not done so even once, and I doubt that I know anyone who ever watched it.
It seems that, over the 2 years of its operations, Talk TV lost about £90M, and that the losses were increasing.
After my sentencing hearing about 6 weeks ago, Talk TV was one of the few msm outlets to report on the matter. Entirely inaccurately. They did not have a reporter in court, so must have taken their “fact(s)” either from the “Clown” Prosecution Service or from the equally-“inaccurate” “Campaign Against Antisemitism” website, though neither of those claimed that I had been imprisoned. Indeed, the “CAA” has already been whining about how the sentence was too lenient.
According to Talk TV’s “report” on its website, and linked to via tweet, both of which I have seen, and which are still extant, I was “jailed“! Presumably a Freudian slip by one of the wannabee “journalists” [who were] employed there. Or should that read (((“journalists”)))? Wishful thinking, on their part?
In reality, my sentence was one of a “community order”, comprising 15 days or part-days (the longest meeting—so far— about 2 hours) with the Probation Service, spread over 9 months, plus a costs order amounting to £734. See https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
The mass media operations run by the aged cuckold, Murdoch, and his offspring have never been notable for their veracity, of course.
Anyway, it now looks as if the “journalists” of Talk TV, who could not get even the most basic facts right, will perforce be looking for other jobs, or other work. Good riddance.
[Update, 29 April 2024: just saw a few tweets which may explain why Talk TV was so keen to publicize my recent free speech conviction and sentence; turns out that one Jonny Gould, a Talk TV presenter (or perhaps now former presenter, looking at the news related above), who is a Jew very involved with issues around both “antisemitism” and Israel, is also (allegedly and according to the tweets I have seen) acquainted with (those tweets said a “fan” of) the egregious Mark Lewis —see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/— of both the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” and “UK Lawyers for Israel”. True, it may be that that is a co-incidence, but to my mind to accept that proposition would be asking a lot].
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A YouGov poll in the UK found that 56% of the population now favors halting arms exports to Israel, 59% of UK respondents acknowledged that Israel was committing human rights abuses in Gaza, Across Western European nations like Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and…
And yet the beautician had no hesitation in sharing her views with a client, which says a great deal about how comfortable she feels expressing them publicly.
📢To our UK Jewish friends, we need your voices heard. As Gideon Falter @GideonFalter works to create divisions between UK Jews & the rest of UK Society, it's now that we need to hear from you the most.
Why is this surprising to anyone? The UK almost shut down its society and economy for two years (supposedly because of a virus that actually was killing very few people), huge numbers of parasitic non-Europeans are entering the country, and are given housing, food, money etc out of public funds, and very large amounts are being transferred either to the Jewish-Zionist regime in Kiev, or to Israel in the form of air and naval operations.
Robert Jenrick tells @bbclaura that Dr Dan Poulter is confused on the facts re NHS spending.
He claims that under a Conservative gov “there has been a 40 percent real terms increase in spending on NHS”
Is this for real? Is this woman doing a Gideon Falter or is someone faking a Gideon falter fake? Hard to believe it's real but then Gideon Falter's fake was real… All so mad. https://t.co/0xx7Gf08fi
Typical. Playing the victim while trying to persecute others. Absolutely typical.
Similar to the #Toryscum who seem intent on loosing more voters (by continueing to lie) so it wld seems that @lbc are intent on loosing listeners&advertisers…. just listened (forced myself !) to @IainDale. Disgracefull.. selective rep re @GideonFalterhttps://t.co/DDNOm6Oq3I
Yes, I think that Gideon Falter should be arrested… He was inciting Trouble. A Breach of the Peace. NickOZ https://t.co/U6DEBnvf6B
— JVA Großenhain prison-Vatnick in the nick of time (@InsasseA9636AN) April 28, 2024
Not just Falter. Several of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” Prominente have been trying, over years, to pervert the course of justice in respect of a number of people, including me.
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Yet @IainDale spent a whole hour on @lbc today portraying Gideon Falter as an innocent bystander and then giving a platform to a guest who spouted debunked lies spread by the Netanyahu camp about 7 October and Gaza. Where is the balanced reporting? #WhereisSangitahttps://t.co/uoWCjElN8u
Well, I have repeatedly pointed out what type of (((individuals))) literally own LBC and most if not all of those working therein…
Overall, immigration has added nearly 100 times more people to our population in 25 years since Blair came to power than in previous 25 years (Sunday Times). Indeed. Now look ahead at what's coming 👇https://t.co/Weie1xR91f
Trump is supported by 49 percent of registered voters.
At the same time, Biden is supported by 43 percent, although back in January the level of support was 45 percent pic.twitter.com/aGsBL3UGaQ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 28, 2024
Trump seems to have the edge, just about, as far as the popular vote is concerned, but whether that is enough I do not know.
The US birth rate continues to fall, with the TFR falling to 1.62 in 2023
The graph shows the fertility rate (TFR) in the United States from 1965 to 2023. pic.twitter.com/yU5blLMeii
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 28, 2024
The steep decline below replacement-level seems to have started from around that very significant year in the 33-year cycle, 1989. The decline seems to show no sign of stopping, though.
If your friends believe that anti-Semites are "losers who live in basements" (or whatever), tell them to scroll down my profile. From Cicero and Tacitus to Ulysses S. Grant and Wagner, anti-Semitism has been the firm position of many of the most accomplished men throughout…
I once had a slim volume containing details of many “antisemitic” persons of artistic, scientific and other intellectual prominence in history. Too many to list here, but including Chopin, Schumann, and hundreds of others.
I believe that booklet had been compiled by Hilaire Belloc, but I may be mistaken in that.
These people truly understand you; they’ve been there when Israeli officials called them human animals, cut off food, water, and electricity, and even advocated dropping a nuclear bomb on them. They understand it since their families have lost at least one member. They understand…
Britain 2024— roads full of holes and poor surfacing, patched slightly here and there. A million unwanted immigrants a year flooding in. Living standards being slashed. Poor pay for most workers, and another round of attacks on the unemployed, disabled and sick. Almost nothing in the administrative realm working properly. Free speech under unprecedented attack by the Jew-Zionist/pro-Israel lobby, with Government connivance. The NHS sinking ever-deeper into a situation where, in some areas, it is scarcely a health service at all.
Meanwhile the misgovernment of the little Indian money-juggler posing as a Prime Minister sends arms and ammunition to the dictatorship of the Jewish tyrant in Kiev, and entangles the UK in the wars of the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
What price “democracy”? Get rid of Sunak and his Cabinet of clowns, and the only result is that a pseudo-Labour “elected” dictatorship under Israel puppet will carry on in a similar way; maybe worse. Freedom of expression will be destroyed even more, Israel and the Jewish lobby will be supported even more, and the Kiev regime will be propped up even more.
In effect, the UK will swap a Conservative Friends of Israel misgovernment for a Labour Friends of Israel cabal misgovernment.
By all means clear out Conservative Party MPs. They deserve it. Vote elsewhere, or at least do not vote Conservative, but do not imagine that anything will change for the better under Labour.
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Zionists control all of the Western governments and media. The proof has been visible since the 7th of October.
Israel's control over Britain's data, communications and technology renders Britain essentially a colony of Israel and the US. Is that what we want? Please watch https://t.co/dstAd23mJ8
— Sir Cordelia Appleby 💙 #SafeEdForAl 🇪🇭 LC (@CordeliaAppleb1) April 26, 2024
Is anyone going to point out the absurdity of Jessica Elgot, one of The Guardian's most prominent Zionists – along with Jonathan Freedland – writing an extremely mild 'exposé' of the rapidly Zionist CAA.
The purpose appears to be to undermine them on behalf of Margaret Hodge…
“Is anyone going to point out the absurdity of Jessica Elgot, one of The Guardian’s most prominent Zionists – along with Jonathan Freedland – writing an extremely mild ‘exposé’ of the rapidly Zionist CAA. The purpose appears to be to undermine them on behalf of Margaret Hodge and John Mann, now that the CAA has outlived its usefulness to Hodge, who was formerly one of its patrons. Can we please have conflict of interest statements from Zionist journalists when they write about their beloved genocidal belief system and its real world manifestations?“
[“rabidly”, not “rapidly“, of course].
It could take 14 years to clear debris in Gaza
Israel's military campaign against Gaza has reduced much of the narrow, coastal territory of 2.3 million people to a wasteland with most civilians homeless, hungry and at risk of disease.
“It could take 14 years to clear debris in Gaza Israel’s military campaign against Gaza has reduced much of the narrow, coastal territory of 2.3 million people to a wasteland with most civilians homeless, hungry and at risk of disease. Pehr Lodhammar, senior officer at the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), told a briefing in Geneva that the war had left an estimated 37 million tonnes of debris in the widely urbanised, densely populated territory.“
cf. the Teufelsberg, or Devil’s Mountain, a hill in the former West Berlin, nearly 300 feet above the surrounding land, and created entirely from rubble brought from the devastated city several years after the end of the Second World War.
From what one sees of Berlin today on TV etc, I find that I have no wish to visit the city. It might have been interesting to see, in the pre-1989 period, the contrast between East Berlin and West Berlin, but I never did, though I did see the southern part of the DDR (East Germany) in 1988, and I have seen (both pre-1989 and more recently) what was West Germany. I have blogged previously about my impressions.
Berlin has other, smaller, hills of that type. Some other German cities also have a Schuttberg or “debris mountain”, the larger ones calledTrümmerberge (“rubble mountains”), though most are considerably smaller than the Teufelsberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuttberg; they have been landscaped, “greened”, and are mostly not unaesthetic now.
“The Home Office considered appointing campaigner against antisemitism Gideon Falter as an adviser to its counter extremism unit but was warned against the appointment by the government’s antisemitism tsar.
The Guardian understands there were strong objections to Falter being offered the part-time civil service role advising the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) in 2022 and that John Mann told the then home secretary Suella Braverman he would quit if Falter was offered the post.
Falter told the Guardian: “These claims show a lack of understanding of how the Jewish community works. CAA works closely with CST, Shomrim [a volunteer-led security group that works with the strictly Orthodox Jewish community] and numerous other organisations.
“As part of our work we make complaints against antisemites in all walks of life…”
It is disgusting that this horrible little individual was ever considered for an official role. A liar and, some say, a perjurer, just like a couple of his self-publicizing colleagues.
Incidentally, I believe that the present Commissioner for Countering Extremism is Jewish.
As for Suella Braverman, thank God her time in the political limelight is probably over. A low-level barrister unaccountably selected/”elected” to the Commons and then, even less plausibly, appointed to Cabinet. She is what the Indians in her mother’s native Mauritius call —I have heard them say it— “bas-class“. Married to a Jew, and completely in the pocket of the Jewish/Zionist lobby and Israel.
Suella Braverman’s seat at Fareham is considered “safe”, but when the Conservative MP numbers are cut down at the General Election this year, Suella Braverman will just be one of about (?) 50 Conservative Party MPs left. No influence, and no political future except as a backbencher of a party which might even fail to become the official Opposition. I doubt that she will become the leader of that now very degraded party.
God knows what group-karma is eventually going to come down the tracks at Israel, the Israelis, and all those outside Israel who support the quasi-genocide.
Another day of British borders unprotected by @Conservatives Government under @RishiSunak Troublingly @olivertimprice misleads readers by suggesting the journey’ “deadly” Despite FACTS detail 67 deaths in 6 years 121,000 successes https://t.co/oH5YdgSacq
The idea that 500,000-1,000,000+ immigrants coming into the UK (mostly not via “small boats”) annually is in any way sustainable is just mad. This government has hugely increased immigration (hardly surprising…look at the Cabinet, composed largely of non-Europeans), and the Labour Friends of Israel government of Starmer, expected to start this year or early next year, will be even worse.
People look at their living standards plummeting, goods costing more, transport services, roads, NHS, schools etc getting worse, housing becoming totally unaffordable, but (in the case of many people) prefer to ignore the links between all of that and the tsunami of immigration.
Well worth reading. For me, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, but there is no doubt that parts have been rendered both less accurate and (therefore) less useful because of tendentious “editing” by, especially, the Jew-Zionist element. Knowledge areas such as Second World War and 1930s political history, social-national groups’ histories, certain “theories”, or phenomena, such as the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan etc.
A couple of years ago, the malicious UK-based Jewish/Zionist lobby and/or Israel-lobby group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] advertized online for any of its supporters with personal Wikipedia accounts to join in a programme of vandalistic “editing” of Wikipedia pages.
Found out today that Tony Blair is an honorary patron of Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Gideon Falter abomination of a charity. More people need to know this but I don't have the reach on social media.
Another reason for Blair to be put on trial one day.
If you want an insight into why that fucking creep Gideon Falter or the specky gimp at Columbia University are doing what they're doing, look no further https://t.co/mik8cjCEAg
Emily Thornberry this morning on Sky refusing to criticise Gideon Falter and instead blaming the police. Also Ben Wallace on Sky talking 🐎💩about China.
— Simon Hartley #Socialist (@FredMadagascar) April 24, 2024
[Emily Thornberry, member of Labour Friends of Israel, at a Zionist banquet in London, sitting with the then Israeli Ambassador, Mark Regev (at centre)]
Mass immigration, migration-invasion, and the Rwanda plan
NEW POST. Why we need Rwanda. Shocking new statistics on the sheer scale of Britain's illegal migration crisishttps://t.co/R0ciMBTXGh
"Britain's asylum system is dangerously broken. It puts the welfare of sex offenders, terrorists and acid attackers above the welfare of innocent civilians and even genuine refugees. The Rwanda scheme will do nothing to fix these fundamental problems."
The problem is that, mainly as a down-the-line consequence of the disastrous, catastrophic Second World War and the way it ended (with the European empires unable or unwilling to continue to rule vast tracts of Africa —both sub-Saharan and North Africa—, Asia and elsewhere), the world fell, after 1945, into a downward spiral consisting of overpopulation, wars, civil wars, shambolic and corrupt native rule, environmental degradation etc.
This became Europe’s problem when the instability of much of the Middle East and South Asia, as well as Afghanistan and much of black Africa, sent millions and tens of millions of both “bogus” and “genuine” refugees westward and northward to Europe. Africa’s northern barriers— Libya, Tunisia and Morocco— were penetrated, the fall of Gaddafi being key.
At the same time, Africa and parts of South Asia (notably, Pakistan) and the Middle East were experiencing a population explosion (by births) not mirrored anywhere else.
The UK, for example, has suffered a huge population increase in the past 20-30 years, but almost all of that has been via immigration, and births to recent immigrants, not births to native white British people or even to those non-whites who entered the country decades ago.
It is largely a waste of time, effort and money trying to separate “genuine” from “bogus” refugees (economic migrants etc). The two groups are very similar in type or in most respects, and pose similar problems.
The fact is that the world is in such a state, and now has so many possibilities of long-distance travel, that in principle, on the basis of the post-WW2 legal framework, literally hundreds of millions (800M is a figure often quoted) could make their way to Europe, including the UK (for many a preferred destination).
Those vast hordes could all, or almost all, make a legally-arguable case to be considered as “genuine refugees”, a fact confirmed by the proportion presently allowed to stay in the UK once having set foot on British shores and after assessment— 80%.
Of course, few of the remaining 20% are deported either.
Most immigrants to the UK are not “asylum-seekers” and/or purported “refugees” anyway, but are “lawful migrants”, i.e. “students”, “family members”, supposed spouses or “fiancees”, “highly skilled workers” (Indians who can work a computer) and so on.
Let us take that 800 million figure as correct (it may even be an underestimate). Even if only 10% were to come to the UK (and it could be 90%), that would mean a doubling and more of the population; moreover, an influx of “refugees” most of whom would be unable even to speak basic English, few of whom have any marketable skills, and many of whom are actively hostile to white European culture and civilization, despite wanting to live in Europe.
UK society is under stress and strain already from mass immigration. It could not take 80M more immigrants, or even 8M more, without descending into either chaos or socio-political upheaval. At present, the overall immigrant influx (not just supposed “refugees”) numbers about a million a year; supposedly “only” about 700,000-800,000 “net” because there are a couple of hundred thousand leavers every year, but most of those leaving are real white Brits emigrating to what they think might be a better life, or a better retirement, in Australasia, Canada, or European countries such as France and Spain.
Very few of the ~1M immigrants each year are of any use to the UK. A few are, true, though mostly in unskilled or partly-skilled occupations that could be done either by Brits or, soon, by AI, robots etc.
The best that can be hoped for is that the bulk of those entering the UK every year are merely neutral or parasitic, rather than actively hostile and/or criminal.
The whole question of immigration is not some side-issue. It affects the income, life-chances, living standards, food, water, shelter and safety of every single person in the UK.
10 years from now, there might be as many as 10M more people in the UK by reason of immigration. A population of the size of a city such as London, albeit spread over the UK, and populated by alien hordes the majority of which will be, at best, parasitic. Is that possible, or sustainable? No.
As to the present UK government policy of deportation to Rwanda, I have several problems with it, the first of which is around numbers.
It seems that, if it becomes operational, the Rwanda flights will carry, at most, a few hundred failed “asylum-seekers” per week. In a situation where even the “small boat” invasion across the Channel amounts to several thousand per week, the Rwanda flights will only deal with about 10% of the “small boats” invasion problem. The Rwanda policy does not even touch the larger migration-invasion, the “legal” (lawful) sort. The “small boats” are, at most 20%, probably 10%, of the entire problem.
That is on the basis that the Rwanda flights will start, that they will continue, and that they will carry more than a handful of deportees.
Another question arising is the capacity of Rwanda, a small country (somewhat larger than Wales, but with 4x the population), to absorb deportees on a large scale, most of whom will not even be from Africa, or that part of Africa.
Rwanda was the scene of the Hutu-Tutsi genocide of 1994; it has a history of ethnic tension.
What happens, in such a country, one of 14M people, densely packed (the most densely-populated on mainland Africa, and the fifth most densely-packed in the world excepting city-states, small islands etc, at over 1,400 persons per square mile— the UK is about 722 per sq. mile, England about 1,100 p.s.m.) when thousands, tens of thousands of foreign deportees arrive? At some point, there may be a local backlash.
What happens if the Rwanda government changes, or changes policy? Are their words, or treaties, reliable? Have they ever been, in Africa or indeed anywhere?
In any case, the Rwanda plan will apply only to (some) deportees from the small percentage called “illegal” migrants; the vast majority of migrants to the UK are notionally “legal” or lawful, so will not be subject to deportation at all.
The Rwanda plan is little more than a public relations exercise in an election year. Cosmetic only. Even if “successful” (operational), it will deal with only, perhaps, 1% of the overall mass immigration problem.
Matt Goodwin (see tweet and blog article above) sees the Rwanda plan as at least being a statement of intent, but it is doubtful whether it can be scaled-up, expanded to other countries in Africa or elsewhere.
The main question remains: how to stop over a million non-Europeans entering the UK alone each year? How to reduce the proportion of non-Europeans in the UK (and in Europe as a whole), and how to, eventually, create an ethnostate with the idea of laying the ground for a much later “super-people”?
▪️Washington's attempts to inflict fatal damage on Russia and destabilize its government have not only failed, but have led to a drastic weakening of NATO and a shaken image of America around the world, writes former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor for "American Conservative".… pic.twitter.com/deZuGZSalQ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 24, 2024
Today, Israel carried out its most powerful airstrikes in recent weeks in southern Lebanon pic.twitter.com/jTTUmJbXRX
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 24, 2024
The Guardian: UN human rights chief horrified by mass graves in Gaza
Palestinians last week began exhuming bodies from a mass grave near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis after the withdrawal of IDF . During this time, 310 bodies were found. pic.twitter.com/NCUuMvdUfc
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 24, 2024
Every word and expression from Penny Mordaunt needs to seen in the context of a leadership challenge. Imo she's the most likely victor, notwithstanding the fact she has persistently proved she is utterly clueless. And quite mad.
That is somewhere around my own view of Penny Mordaunt. Her trump card, amid all the Jews and non-whites in the Conservative Party MP ranks, is that she is actually English. I cannot see much else to commend her as a potential Prime Minister, though there is nothing too damaging against her either.
In fact, though, if it turns out that the Conservative Party is reduced to about 50 MPs this year or by early 2025, it will not much matter whether she becomes leader of that little band or not.
In any case, her seat at Portsmouth North is a “bellwether”, i.e. usually votes the same way as the winning side in general elections (in the case of Portsmouth North, since 1966), so Ms. Mordaunt is quite likely to lose her seat in 2024/2025, though her high profile may enable her to avoid that fate. In 2019, her vote-share was 61.4%; the Labour vote a mere 27%. Labour has not exceeded 40% there since its win in 2005.
“Russian troops have reportedly pushed through Ukrainian lines to take the strategic town of Ocheretyne in Donetsk – the latest scoop for Vladimir Putin‘s forces amid a recent string of gains on the battlefield.
Videos shared on the Telegram messaging app by Russian military bloggers appeared to show the Russian tricolour flying atop a damaged building in the town that once was home to 30,000 Ukrainians.
The town was lost after Ukrainian units fled their positions under heavy fire, Msocow’s defence ministry claimed, as a Ukrainian army spokesperson said the invaders were ‘using the entire arsenal of weapons available… including chemical poisons,’ in their assault.
The capture of Ocheretyne, a local rail hub, is a key milestone on the way to the city of Pokrovsk some 20 miles further west – an intersection of important roads and a railway junction that forms the linchpin of Ukraine’s military operations in the region.
Elsewhere, Russian divisions are pummelling towns on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a strategically important hill town that would allow them to move toward Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, key cities Ukraine controls in the eastern region of Donetsk.
And missiles and drones continue to batter energy infrastructure and residential areas in Ukraine‘s second-largest city, Kharkiv, which is only about 20 miles from the Russian border.
Moscow‘s soldiers are pushing forward at several points along the 600-mile front – perhaps to maximise their gains over their depleted and war weary adversaries before new supplies of Western munitions arrive.“
[Daily Mail]
As I have predicted on the blog, there will probably be a stunning Russian advance across all of Eastern Ukraine in 2024-2025. It might even end the war, either by collapse of the Zelensky dictatorship or by a Russian victory (defined as quasi-permanent occupation of all of Eastern Ukraine and the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov).
Western arms and ammunition may delay that Russian victory, but the Kiev regime is running out of soldiers.
Late tweets
The USA admits that the Russian Federation will achieve new "tactical" successes in Ukraine in the coming weeks, the White House announced. pic.twitter.com/HiQIi56SuY
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 24, 2024
Just a quick reminder that Great Ormond Street Hospital does not think the Campaign Against Antisemitism ( CAA) headed up by Gideon Falter is the right organisation for them. I trust their judgement. https://t.co/iZjmVoBTaI
Why would any organization want to subject its staff to a programme of socio-political brainwashing by Jew-Zionists, especially a dishonest and malicious pack such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”]?
Does Gideon Falter's fake charity the CAA pay protestors?
The next time that the “CAA” “executives” Falter and Silverman give sworn testimony in a criminal or civil legal case, they should be robustly cross-examined about finances, including how much they themselves are being paid for their disgusting activities.
The “CAA” is effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London.
Israeli agency #Mossad could have been directly involved to accuse @metpoliceuk. Reports indicate that the person seen beside Gideon Falter at the demonstration is a significant member of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's security team of Mossad.#Mossad#Metropolatonpolice… pic.twitter.com/oLRroz22W5
Now on at the Aldwych, the hit comedy "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way Back from the Synagogue" starring Gideon Falter and produced by Mossad – a heartwarming story about an ordinary guy out for a stroll round London with his security detail and cameraman in tow https://t.co/j6PMquQOHp
— Man in the High Castle (@mcelderrytruth) April 23, 2024
now that I've seen the photos of him, I realise that I saw gideon falter aggressively provoking people outside russell square station, by the tescos/pret. lady was handing out placards and was really visibly upset by two men shouting at her that she was racist and antisemitic 1/2
— tony hibbert's discourse analysis (@class__traitor) April 23, 2024
There must be an investigation into, not only that recent piece of street theatre by Falter, but also into, and more importantly, the hooks that the “CAA” cabal have got into the police, CPS, TV people, radio people, and newspaper scribblers, not to mention both “Labour” and “Conservative” political facades, right up to the little Indian money-juggler presently posing as Prime Minister.
That chart shows very clearly just how disastrous, economically, the war with the German Reich was for Britain. If only Britain had had real statesmen able to see ahead, unlike stumbling, bumbling Churchill, whose military and naval ideas were rock-bottom (Gallipoli in WW1, and in WW2 Norway, Greece, Crete, Singapore etc), and whose social ideas were antiquated and unreal.
As the under-rated historian Correlli Barnett said in several of his books, after 1945 the UK had the choice of trying to maintain its worldwide Empire and being a major power, and/or of regenerating its economy and particularly its industrial manufacturing sector, and/or of creating a Welfare State. Only two (any two) of the three were possible of full achievement, but Britain tried to undertake all three simultaneously; that strategy failed, or partially failed. It had not the means (because of the War) to succeed in all three. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlli_Barnett.
The total losses of the Ukrainian forces since the beginning of the SMO amount to almost half a million soldiers , Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu pointed out.
▪️He also stated that Russian troops liberated the places of Pervomayskoye, Bogdanovka and Novomiyalovka in the… pic.twitter.com/3bS5YCEmyi
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 23, 2024
Entirely typical of “them”. In the UK, such harassment and covert hostility is undertaken in a similar manner, mainly via Jew-Zionist groups such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.
'I was walking back from synagogue when I happened to bump into a Mossad security agent and a film crew. I urgently needed to cross the road directly against the flow of a huge demonstration, and so I accused the police of antisemitism…' pic.twitter.com/gk6IddTVhm
Apart from all the other lies of Gideon Falter, if he claims that he was taking a stroll after having attended a synagogue, that must also be untrue. Other Jews have said that Falter was out and about long before what the Jews call “schul” would have ended.
Also, as a former long-term near-Central London resident, I am unaware of any synagogue in the area around where Falter was performing his political street-theatre nuisance (in Aldwych); and even if I am wrong on that, as far as I know Falter lives mainly in the St. John’s Wood neighbourhood of NW London (quite close to my one-time home in Little Venice, London W9). There is a large synagogue in St. John’s Wood Road, and another one in Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale. Both far from the Aldwych/Kingsway area of London; miles away. How would any stroll take him that way, even forgetting about the ex-MOSSAD security staff and the film crew?
Falter, like all his “CAA” co-conspirators, is a liar, and an abuser of the legal system (and mainstream media) of this country.
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🚨Tommy Robinson has won his court battle against The Metropolitan Police, the Judge was not satisfied that the dispersal order was lawful.
With recent events in London, Is the Met Police fit for purpose?
“Insp Parker-Phipps, whose laptop battery was “dying”, put the order in place at 10:00 GMT on November 26, but accidentally dated the form for November 24.
Mr Robinson’s defence lawyer, Alisdair Williamson KC, told the court there had been a “litany of catastrophic errors” in the Met’s handling of the incident.
Questioning the inspector, Mr Williamson said: “This document is not correct is it?
“Can we have any confidence that there was a lawful order in place?”
To which the inspector replied: “No.”
Giving his ruling, District Judge Daniel Sternberg said: “I am not satisfied there was a legal authorisation.
“There is no case for you to answer.”
The hearing was attended by numerous supporters of Mr Robinson who filled the public gallery.“
[BBC]
So the policeman directly in question, of the rank of inspector, wrongly-dated the crucial document? He also admitted —without equivocation— in court not only that he had wrongly-dated the document but, further, that that probably meant that the Order purportedly authorized had thereby been rendered unlawful.
What an unusually-helpful police witness. “Tommy Robinson” must have been born under a lucky star. Or something.
Case dismissed! Tommy Robinson walks free from court this afternoon! Here he is speaking outside the court moments ago. credit Mahyar Tousi TV pic.twitter.com/w5hvazEx3M
Much truth in that, but the elephant in the room that “Robinson” never mentions is the pervasive Israeli and Jewish influence in the UK.
Like Katie Hopkins, and a whole host of other “alt-Right” and similar activists, Robinson always seems to take the Israeli/Jewish/Zionist side of a false dichotomy.
Gideon Falter's content with his 'close protection', but it looks like some people aren't very happy with Mossad-trained SQR Security. 'lots of connections in police and they'll get away with just about anything' is worrying, mind you… Is that why @metpoliceuk jumped so fast? pic.twitter.com/WqNa9Z7xRx
There is a Jewish police organization which seems to have plenty of influence: see below— “CAA” liar Gideon Falter influencing (?) former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, at Scotland Yard:
Finchley Road, so again in that Swiss Cottage/St. John’s Wood part of London.
No different from what Jewish terror squads did in Palestine/Israel in the 1940s. They blew up buildings, kidnapped and murdered British soldiers, and “ethnically-cleansed” whole villages, towns, and cities.
In Europe, Jewish terrorists even tried to poison the water supplies of London and some German cities, as well as attempting to bomb London indiscriminately, trying to kill as many British people as possible.
Incidentally, such Jewish terrorism, and other “activism”, did not come about by reason of the events of the Second World War. In 1933, as soon as the NSDAP under Adolf Hitler came to power, the web of “World Jewry” declared war on the new Germany. They, if you like, drew first blood.
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Australia has truly become a shit country. Whining, identity challenged, and generally happy to over governed and over regulated.. The French, Dutch and German wouldn't cop that. But here…whatever the government says, pussies fall in line.
Australia now is very different to the affluent and generally relaxed country I saw in the late 1960s. Controlled and tied down in so many ways, and far more stressed. Sydney itself has twice or more the population it had back then (then about 2M, now 5M+).
Another aspect that strikes (and puzzles) me is the almost caricature “Aussie” accent many now sport, including most of their politicians. That never used to be the case, not to that extent, as far as I can recall. There was a “strine”, yes, but it has become more accentuated, in fact almost become a joke, as one can hear from the woman in that clip.
“A furious mum glassed a man in the face at a pub after he guessed she was four years older than she was.
Joanne Dodd launched her attack on Carl Cooper after he suggested she might be 43, when she was actually 39. The pair were having a light-hearted exchange in a Manchester pub beer garden before Carl went to the toilet to try and get away from an offended Joanne. But when he returned, she ran towards him twice and pushed her wine glass into his face, leaving him with a 10cm cut that narrowly missed his eye and needed stitches, as well as an injury to his thumb.
Manchester Crown Court heard Dodd was suffering from ‘low self esteem’ and was drinking heavily at the time of the attack. The mum-of-one pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm, facing up to three years in jail under sentencing guidelines. But Judge Elizabeth Nicholls instead gave her a suspended sentence, explaining that despite there being no excuse for the crime, she could see that Dodd, who has no previous convictions, was a ‘hard working woman’, ‘loving mother’ and posed ‘no risk to the public’.
“Dodd was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for 12 months and was ordered to complete 180 hours of unpaid work and pay £800 in compensation to her victim.“
[Daily Mirror]
So a woman who twice pushed a glass into the face of (what seems to have been) a complete stranger poses “no risk to the public“?
I suppose that it could be argued that the sentence is not unjust: the victim will (presumably) get that £800, and 180 hours of serf labour is pretty stiff, but the idea that such a defendant poses “no risk” is surely demonstrably untrue.
I suppose, also, that the only way to test the verdict of that judge is the method suggested by the judge to the jury in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury:
“she says that when in drink, he hits her and kicks her; well, gentlemen of the jury, let’s make him tipsy…and see!“
I think that the courts must start getting tough on violent crime, including violence committed in social settings such as pubs, and not infrequently by drunken women these days.
“A homeless woman says living in a bus shelter with her boyfriend and mum is safer than being put in temporary housing with drug addicts.
‘I’ve got a chest of drawers, a carpet.’ The family will now have to move out after Transport for West Midlands announced it was demolishing the bus shelter within weeks.
Destiny added: “They’ve said we’ve got a month left and they’re going to destroy it. I’ve been in here a long time, I don’t want them to destroy my home, we haven’t got anywhere else to live. If the council doesn’t help us we’re going to try and move into another bus stop.“
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 23, 2024
Ha ha. If that little twerp thinks that the millions of Ukrainians now living in Poland, Germany, and many other countries are going to return to the brutal, corrupt, and shambolic dictatorship of Zelensky and the regime in Kiev, let alone join its ebbing armed forces, he is living in a land of fantasy.
Either this summer or later, there will be a general advance by Russian forces, moving north and west across Eastern Ukraine; perhaps even an approach or “podstup” near to Kiev itself, which region is now heavily defended.
The Kiev-regime forces are now entirely on the defensive, without the ability, troops or other means to attempt an advance, still less any offensive, after the failure of the last and half-hearted one in 2023. All they can do is launch occasional missile attacks on Russian territory, with the aim of causing a certain amount of damage to refineries, train lines, bridges etc.
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Well, this week I merely equalled John Rentoul’s 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 7, 8, and 9. I was unsure about questions 4, 5, 6, and 10, and had no idea at all about question 2.
“A fellow at the University of Cambridge who has sparked backlash with his comments on race has been dropped by Emmanuel College where he was a research associate.
Nathan Cofnas, an early career research fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy, is understood to have had his relationship with the college ended following an investigation into his conduct.
Mr Cofnas came under fire in February after he published a blog post which claimed the number of black professors at Harvard would ‘approach zero’ in a meritocracy, and that ‘Blacks would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment.’
He also dismissed equality between people of different ethnicities as a ‘thesis’ that is ‘based on lies’.
Mr Cofnas, who describes himself as a ‘race-realist’, is understood to have been informed of the college’s decision by letter on April 5, which stated his posts were in violation of its diversity and inclusion policies.
Last month, the first black man to ever be appointed to the head of a Cambridge College, Lord Simon Woolley, principal of Homerton College, held an event with students and the master of Emmanuel Doug Chalmers to discuss their concerns.
Lord Woolley, who was previously appointed by then-Prime Minister Theresa May to head the UK Government’s Race Disparity Unit, told the assembled students that free speech must be protected, but this did not extend to ‘abhorrent racism’.
Emmanuel’s Master Mr Chalmers had initially backed Mr Cofnas’ right to freedom of speech, but the college soon launched an investigation, alongside other probes by the University and the Leverhulme Trust, which provided him with a research grant.”
So the “diversity hire” has no understanding of the concept of free speech, or the concept of academic freedom, yet has been appointed principal of a Cambridge University college…
What a surprise, in the UK of 2024. Not.
The “Readers’ Comments” on that Daily Mail report are interesting. Almost every one supports the researcher, as do the votes on those comments.
Incidentally, the researcher in question is Jewish, so he cannot be described very plausibly as “Nazi” (nicht wahr?). See also a piece written on another subject by him: https://thecritic.co.uk/twilight-of-the-liberal-jew/.
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"How did we get to the point where Putin just decided he was going to invade Russia? Nothing like this has happened since World War II!” pic.twitter.com/p9XFqshZYA
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
Biden really ought to retire.
Russian drones undermined symbol of US military power
Drones, which are actively used in Ukraine, have changed modern warfare. They also began to inflict fatal damage on one of the most powerful symbols of American military might – the Abrams tank, writes The New York Times.… pic.twitter.com/v9qY8Hl281
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
After Netyantyahu's unfortunate rash act, the settlers began to stock up on everything they needed, as they were confident that there would be a response from Iran pic.twitter.com/QT727rf9vR
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
“Have you got a light, mac?” (“no, but I have a dark-grey overcoat“…boom boom…)
There is no plan B without the USA – Kiev
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmitry Kuleba, stated that this was the message he conveyed to his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken.
However, he reiterated that for Ukraine there is no alternative to US military… pic.twitter.com/li1sk4g9bg
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
“There is no plan B without the USA – Kiev.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmitry Kuleba, stated that this was the message he conveyed to his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken. However, he reiterated that for Ukraine there is no alternative to US military support, which already amounts to over 111 billion dollars since the beginning of the conflict with Russia in February 2022.“
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
Rishi wants to get tough on the 850,000 more people on long term sick after 'the pandemic.' 1) You literally paid them to sit on the sofa & then wonder why work ethic changed. 2) You mandated novel interventions that have killed & injured people & increased the long term sick. 3)… pic.twitter.com/RKdA7KZXQR
“Rishi wants to get tough on the 850,000 more people on long term sick after ‘the pandemic.’ 1) You literally paid them to sit on the sofa & then wonder why work ethic changed. 2) You mandated novel interventions that have killed & injured people & increased the long term sick. 3) Universal credit costs about £80 billion. You wasted £310-410 billion over-reacting to ‘the pandemic.’“
The little Indian money-juggler is trying to ape the vulgar and unpleasant attacks on the sick, disabled, and unemployed that characterized the 2010-2015 government of Cameron-Levita, Osborne, and Dunce Duncan Smith.
If Sunak thinks that this tired and derivative form of “gutter politics” will fly, he is very mistaken. I was looking at the “Readers’ Comments” in the Daily Mail on this. Only about 1% support the policy and/or think that it will ever be possible (or desirable) to implement it.
We read that there is currently an “epidemic of shoplifting“. What does Sunak imagine will be the result of cutting off the last peanuts lifeline to people, leaving them totally desperate, destitute, homeless etc?
If Sunak and the Conservative Party are trying to improve their electoral chances by this, they are in cloud-cuckoo land. The only people who will be impressed will be the hard core of unthinking Con voters aged 60+, and they will vote Con anyway.
Of course, none of the announced policies will be implemented, or implementable, prior to the General Election. The question therefore devolves to the response from Starmer and Rachel Reeves etc, who will probably be forming the next government. If they follow in Sunak’s footsteps, there could be something akin to an uprising eventually; certainly social upheaval.
Bismarck introduced the skeleton of a Welfare State in Germany 150 years ago, not because the Iron Chancellor was soft, or very kind-hearted, but because he wanted to divert any revolutionary sentiment in the masses. Looks like the UK’s pygmy politicos are going the other way.
He and his ilk have also overseen mass immigration that has stifled growth in pay, exported goods jobs, pushed accommodation, health etc costs through the roof and massively increased taxes etc making many feel little or no benefit from actually working/striving for success.
“A group of self-styled ‘Robin Hoods’ are bragging on social media that they stole from Marks & Spencer to give to food banks.
Campaigners from Everybody Eats, a group calling for direct action on food poverty, claim they launched their first raid at an M&S Foodhall in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
They also claim they will replicate ‘this all across the country’ until the government answers their demands on food security, The Telegraph reported.
Everybody Eats claimed that food banks were aware that the goods were stolen and suggested its members had been asked to help.“
Most politicians will lead us to believe that we’re all useless idiots. Not true, there are lots of wonderful people out there. Have a great weekend. https://t.co/xVscfCDxNb
Now, more information. Seems that the egregious Israel-based Jew-Zionist solicitor, Mark Lewis, was involved (I was unaware of that until today, though did wonder when I saw a few tweets in the past week). He has messed up…again.
It seems Mr Lewis thought Mr Cantor had no assets and had financial immunity for my costs even if he lost.
The “misunderstanding” is catastrophic for Mr Cantor and his family because he must sell his house to pay my costs.
My opinion is that Mr Lewis should pay the costs! 2/2.
Lewis is actually a pretty poor lawyer anyway in my opinion (based partly on what I have read about him over the years), and he has in the past admitted that at times — apparently by reason of his prescribed medications, in part— he has, or has had, no idea of what he is or was doing.
Looks now as if that Cantor individual (of whom I know nothing, and of whom I had never heard until this case finished recently) will or might have to take legal action against Lewis himself if he is not to become homeless after his failed attempt to ruin a university academic. What a great pity…
It is not for me to pronounce on whether Lewis was negligent and/or dishonest in this particular case, but (once again) it seems that he has, shall we say, “questions to answer”.
Lewis, though now based in Israel, has a foothold in the UK as “partner” of a small law firm in West London.
Lewis is basically a self-publicist: see my previous (years ago) blog mentions of him.
That blog post contains links which detail many (though I think not all) of Lewis’s defaults.
There is a notorious Jew-Zionist cabal on Twitter/X, and in the UK mass media, which has been determined for years to present Lewis to a gullible Press readership, TV-watching public etc as “hot shot lawyer”, or (as often described) “top lawyer“.
The fact is that, when Lewis finally left the UK for Israel (to live in Israel) about 5 years ago, his own Counsel said (at his “trial” before a Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in London, at which Lewis was found guilty of having posted savagely violent social media posts) that Lewis had “no assets” except his own clothes, a mobility scooter, and a private pension worth £70 a week. Even his car was being provided to him by the State disability benefit service, Motability.
Oddly (not), Lewis’s appearance before, and “conviction” by, the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal was not covered at all by the “occupied” UK msm, and only briefly by a few law magazines…
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Wow! Mark Lewis acted for Daniel Miller and Nina Power against Luke Turner. Lewis’ clients lost in spectacular fashion. Mr Miller is now bankrupt. I am not sure about Ms Power.
It is awful the same will happen to Mr Mendelsohn and Mr Cantor!
Seems that James Wilson is, on the face of it, a little too kind. Those Jew-Zionist fanatics (the defendants Cantor and Mendelsohn, whoever they are —I had heard of the unpleasant Newbon) were, after all, quite willing to ruin Mr. Wilson if they could.
As for Lewis, he is, in my opinion, repeatedly unprofessional, quite apart from, also in my opinion, being very far from as effective as his fellow-fanatics try to make him appear.
Lewis’s Third Witness Statementsays it— he “misunderstood“…
Mr Cantor was on a CFA with Mr Lewis, so if he settled with me for nominal damages and zero costs, he had to pay me almost nothing and his solicitor absoutely nothing.
Why would he have rejected this settlement in principle?
Lewis is no better than an “ambulance-chaser”, in my opinion.
For context. Mr Lewis referred to me as £19 Wilson because my maximum cost was £19/hour whereas his was £600/hour. And the Defendants – or perhaps Mr Lewis – refused mediation for two years until they lost the strike out application.
I keep seeing on Twitter/X that Lewis must be a great defamation lawyer because he “won when representing ‘Jack Monroe’ against Katie Hopkins, who lost and had to sell her house.”
True, Katie Hopkins did lose that case, and did have to sell her house to pay the legal costs supposedly incurred by that fraudulent purveyor of 10p-a-dinner swill, “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas, before she changed her name).
What that story leaves out is that, firstly, Katie Hopkins was either badly advised or, as I believe was the case, not advised at all; she had no lawyers, and so persisted with a defence which was bound to fail. She never stood a chance, but her pride got in the way.
As for Lewis, a child could have won that case against Katie Hopkins.
So Lewis was trying to blag £600 an hour for his most recent defective advice? Well, he will get nothing now (again); he will have to keep the lights switched off in his flat in Eilat, and “collect the pennies on the empties”, as people used to say.
Unfortunately this is necessary because I am dealing with unreasonable people. This message shows Pete Newbon’s total faith in Mark Lewis (@MLewisLawyer) of Patron Law (@LawPatron) to look after him in the litigation. Pete guessed he had to trust Mark Lewis. pic.twitter.com/6uNzvceSj4
Typical Lewis: tries to intimidate people who have no assets beyond (perhaps) a residential property; they, he hopes, will settle and, crucially, pay supposed “costs” to Lewis, who then gets money without having had to win at trial.
The defamation case won by James Wilson, included references in the court judgment that Rachel Riley had promoted the crowdfunder by the defendant (who’d committed the libel) to employ lawyer Mark Lewis.
— ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill (@TweetForTheMany) April 19, 2024
Lewis should be (at long last) struck off the solicitors’ roll; as for Myerson, the matter should be placed before the Bar Standards Board. I hope that Mr. Wilson complains formally to the BSB about him. In the meantime, Myerson should not be permitted to sit as a Recorder (if he still is so permitted after his previous defaults).
Yet another instance of Lewis having been, if not dishonest (?), then certainly negligent. That, at least, was the view of yet another High Court judge.
The world has had capitalist societies, socialist societies, feudal societies etc, but now, in the UK, has emerged a new form of society— the permanently “offended” society of fake “diversity”.
Most of the faked “offence” is taken by “the usual suspects”, of course.
The Daily Mail and Jewish/Zionist so-called “charities” (including the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) are whining because someone convicted (on evidence that would have shamed the Star Chamber) in 2018, and then sentenced to 6.5 years, is being released a few months before the end of his full term expires.
Most prisoners are released at, or even before, the halfway point. In this case, that would have meant release in 2021, three years ago.
I hope that the State will not be so cruel as to deny the young couple the right to have their child returned to them. To do that would be absolutely evil.
If the newspaper report (penned by one Iwan Stone, incidentally) is correct, the couple intend to live in Portugal when they can. Good luck to them as they move on from all of this.
Have they not suffered enough?
Literary thought
For no obvious reason, The Merchant of Venice springs to mind. I have not seen a proper production being put on for quite a while.
Othello seems to be more popular.
Perhaps it always was; it has also inspired more adaptations and variations, as in this old noir:
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I fully support what Stephanie said. It’s sound. We all like to project when we communicate online and maybe resist the urge to project your biases and ego defences onto Stephanie because she dared to tweet a thing about child development and maternal attachment. https://t.co/tscEDjE8ye
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
Zelensky admitted that the residents of Ukraine are tired of the military conflict with the Russian Federation.
Regarding fatigue, I won’t lie, it’s there. 📃 – Zelensky said in an interview with Brazilian journalists. pic.twitter.com/PzsWfES9pJ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
No matter how much money the U.S. Government sends to the Kiev regime, no matter even how much armament and ammunition is sent, the Kiev regime cannot “win”, even to the extent of occupying the Donbass and Crimea.
The Kiev regime army is flagging as many desert the field, and many more avoid conscription. To be recruited by the Kiev regime army is to be sent to quite likely death or life-changing injury on the front-lines, which are now starting to collapse.
Ukraine is producing few children, and a quarter or more of its pre-2022 population is living outside Ukraine. If American and EU aid stopped, there would be no fighting within a few weeks, followed by either a negotiated armistice or Russian victory. As it is, it looks as though this brutal war will smoulder on for months, maybe even a year or two.
In the end, though, Russia will “win”, in the sense of taking over all of Eastern Ukraine, and possibly the coast as far as, and maybe beyond, Odessa.
I watched a few minutes of a very biased BBC World News report about the war. The reporter, some bearded fellow whose name I did not catch, did say something about why Ukrainians try to avoid fighting. Apart from the obvious dangers, open-ended service (no way of getting out) and poor conditions generally.
What, however, made the report farcical was said reporter’s then assertion that Ukraine is a “genuine democracy“. Hardy ha ha… A “genuine democracy” that now refuses to hold elections, has banned trade unions, which press-gangs people up to age 60 and beyond to serve as cannon-fodder on the collapsing front-lines, and which shoots dissidents, or holds them without trial in unpleasant camps and prisons.
Units of Russia’s Battlegroup West moved to more advantageous positions in the past day, repelling three Ukrainian attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement:https://t.co/NtpVJaDTpMpic.twitter.com/967XucMRt1
GUR of Ukraine stated that the bomber that fell in the Russian Federation today was a Ukrainian special operation 300 km from the Ukrainian border
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation considers – tentatively – a technical malfunction as the cause of the fall. pic.twitter.com/EfpBHRkC8W
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
– Are you ready to choose freedom instead of democracy? Because this is America!
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
Heartless monsters. Degenerates.
Not all the blame lies on one side, admittedly, but the historical blame, arising from the Jewish occupation of Palestine from, mainly, after the end of the Second World War, overshadows the whole situation.
The status of Isfahan airport a few minutes ago after all flights returned to normal pic.twitter.com/t1R4OhqDqn
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
Talking point
I have known a few, not many, Persians/Iranians in my life. One group was a family the head of which was a member of the Parliament in Iran under the Shah. When the Islamic Revolution happened, that man was hanged but his two sons were in London as students at Imperial College, living in a mansion flat in Little Venice bought for that purpose. Their mother was later allowed to join them. Exiles. I got to know them via a mutual friend when living in the same district of the capital.
I also became briefly acquainted, in 1976, before the Revolution, with two of the children of a wealthy Iranian/Persian family; I believe that, as with the first family, the family were large landowners. I saw a picture of their palatial house in some province or other, maybe Shiraz.
The children of that family were a young man whom I had met while travelling from London to Penzance by train one night (a First Class compartment but not a sleeper). He was a student (Architecture, I think, if memory serves), aged about the same as me (I was 19, I think).
Not long after, I was invited for an informal supper with the student and his sister, a charming young woman in her early twenties, who was working in Brighton as a nurse, I think. The family had bought two or maybe three bungalows in the same small close on the edge of that town so that various young family members could be together while in England. A young female cousin who lived across the way also attended.
I remember the evening partly because I arrived from London, and departed, on my motorbike, a Suzuki 250, and was able to use, for the first time, the then quite new M23, and which had almost no traffic at all in the mid/late evening. Hard to believe, today.
I lost touch with the student and his sister, and wonder what happened to them after the Revolution. I suppose that they too stayed on in the UK as exiles.
Over the years, I met the odd Iranian, and at one time (early 1980s) I was acquainted with an old fellow (as it then seemed), Edward Sykes (now long-deceased), who at one time, during WW2, had been sent to Teheran under diplomatic cover, but whose real job was to prepare to blow up and/or scout out the land for the sabotage of, numerous bridges, should German forces invade the country. Unlikely perhaps, but with the Wehrmacht already in the Caucasus and, on the other hand, in North Africa (menacing British-controlled Egypt and Palestine, and French-controlled Syria), not impossible.
A common-enough surname, but the Middle and Near East (and especially Persian) linkages are telling. cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Sykes_(writer), another Sykes with Persian, Arab, SAS and SOE links and experiences.
Anyway, Edward had a group of people from Surrey (I was in the first year of my law degree, and had moved for a while back to living with my parents at Reigate); those old people went trekking on public footpaths through woods and fields once a week, starting and finishing at a rural pub somewhere, the route meticulously planned out in advance. I think that most of those people had some kind of WW2 intelligence or connected background.
Those old people were tough! After the fairly long trek and lunchtime pub food (ploughman’s lunch, pint of beer), they were all still alert, but I always fell asleep in Edward’s car (he and his wife were neighbours of my parents) on the way back! A tough generation.
Edward told me that he had been tasked, during the War, with the kidnap of a high-ranking Iranian, General Zahedi, thought to be pro-German. This Edward accomplished by using the services of the then quite new SAS. The general was sent to Palestine in a plane.
The story has a twist: later, that general’s son became, inter alia, Ambassador of the Shah in London, and invited Edward to a reception at the embassy, where he told Edward that his father had always said that he had not been badly treated in captivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir_Zahedi.
What strikes me, looking at some of the high-ranking military and naval people under the present regime in Iran, is that quite a few have strongly Aryan/European looks. Unsurprising in a way, in that the Aryan migration from Atlantis to ancient India then gradually ebbed back in influence from east to west: ancient India, ancient Persia, the Middle Eastern cultures, to Greece and Rome, and then to our Northern European culture, both during classical times and then, more particularly, since the 15thC and Renaissance.
There is also the point that some of the Persian aristocracy married German women in the 20thC. I know that another sister of that student I met on a train was a natural blonde.
My own direct connection to Iran has been less than slight— a 2-hour refuelling stopover in 1967, in the early hours at the then Teheran Airport, at the time a deserted and gloomy building with nothing much happening.
So, instead of improving the Green Belt, and making it greener, Starmer’s pathetic “plan” is to build on it, creating inevitably-poor-quality housing developments, which will be occupied mainly by immigrants of various kinds. How do I know this? Because there are over a million arriving in the UK every single year now, and even if a couple of hundred thousand people leave (mostly Brits, fleeing to Australia, New Zealand etc), that still means that the population of the UK is increasing by half a million to a million every single year (almost entirely noin-European), despite the (white British) birthrate having fallen to an unprecedented low.
Immigration on the mass scale has to be stopped. If you like, make an exception for the odd brain surgeon or nuclear scientist, but that would be in the hundreds, not the hundreds of thousands.
The mass immigration to which the UK is now subject is unsustainable for several reasons. First, the very numbers; secondly, the fact that most of those coming in, not just the 5% or 10% on the “small boats”, are actually useless to the people of this country. There are further reasons as well.
‘We don’t have a housing problem, we have a population explosion problem’
‘We wouldn't need these new houses if we stopped all this immigration. Population increase is the problem, it’s so obvious’@MartinDaubney reads out your views on Labour's plan to build more new homes. pic.twitter.com/gCSgQPHAS7
“Four ‘highly dangerous’ Hackney gang members including three brothers and a fourth man have been jailed for a total of 75 years after firing machine guns and pistols and possessing crack cocaine and heroin. Three brothers, Ryan Gordon, 31, Ramela Gordon, 28, both of Lynmouth Road, and Jameal Gordon, 32, of no fixed abode, were jailed at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, April 17.
On March 14, 2020, the Gordon brothers discharged a number of rounds from the Uzi sub machine gun into a block of flats targeting an opposing gang. One of the bullets injured a member of the public passing by on their way home from work.
Officers used CCTV footage to connect the brothers to another incident where a self-loading pistol was fired in a heavily pedestrianised area of Homerton on May 21, 2020. A few days later, officers examined a block of flats in Lynmouth Road after a warrant was issued.“
[My London]
Imagine what London will be like in 2034 or 2044. Escape from New York? Something like that. Unless a real (social-national) government can seize power in the meantime.
Late tweets seen
Imagine calling yourself a political magazine/journalist and after a major conference with prime ministers, presidents & scholars debating the EU, identity, migration, democracy you write & publish this utter drivel … pic.twitter.com/PNinyctIy6
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
The Telegraph newspaper quoted sources in the British government and wrote that the foreign minister of this country did not accept Israel's pressure to call the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist and stood against it. pic.twitter.com/hJ5NBIsfav
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
Ukraine will soon receive new air defense systems , NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes. Ministers at the Alliance-Ukraine meeting agreed to speed up aid deliveries to Kyiv, he added.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stated that Western weapons can still be… pic.twitter.com/kkTCw5sMlm
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
“Ukraine will soon receive new air defense systems , NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes. Ministers at the Alliance-Ukraine meeting agreed to speed up aid deliveries to Kyiv, he added.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stated that Western weapons can still be supplied to Kiev and used in the fighting, but this will only prolong the conflict.“
The first headline of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
📃 Israel's silent attack on Isfahan showed that Netanyahu has no strategy regarding Iran and the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/91AN5svBwV
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
Following Iran's attack on Israel last Saturday, Israelis began receiving calls allegedly from representatives of the Israeli army asking for donations to purchase missiles for the Iron Dome. Allegedly, the army was very wasted in repelling the attack and now they need the help… pic.twitter.com/pmTQq7vRla
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 16, 2024
MATT GOODWIN: Police shutting down a Conservatism conference in the heart of the EU was a tactic straight out of the Soviet playbookhttps://t.co/WdkFUvqONu
True, but I do not recall Matt Goodwin complaining at any time over the past years when the Jewish lobby (which he seems to support 100%) has had closed down meetings, speeches, conferences, even musical entertainments; not to mention “their” continual harassment of various people, including me.
Turkish President Erdogan is now speaking menacingly and powerfully in the Turkish parliament to stormy applause:
Our lives have been spent in the struggle for Palestine, and our lives have found meaning in the cause of Palestine! pic.twitter.com/UNzAccbQ61
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
Former British Ambassador to Tehran: It was natural for Iran to react to the attack on its consulate.
It is not in Britain's interests to interfere in such an issue. We should not have interfered in the conflict between Iran and Israel.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
Ukrainians view the West's promises to support Kiev "as long as necessary" as an empty story, Politiko writes.
" Due to the weakening of Western support, Ukraine is experiencing an acute shortage not only of weapons and men, but also of the fighting spirit of the soldiers.… pic.twitter.com/0n568hdjRu
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
“Ukrainians view the West’s promises to support Kiev “as long as necessary” as an empty story, Politiko writes. ” Due to the weakening of Western support, Ukraine is experiencing an acute shortage not only of weapons and men, but also of the fighting spirit of the soldiers. Neither the population, nor the soldiers, nor their leadership anymore believe in the victory of Kiev. Russian leader Vladimir Putin may never have been closer to his goal “, the paper writes.”
The Western states may supply arms and ammunition but cannot supply fighting soldiers. The Kiev regime is running out of soldiers, and new recruits. It can only be a matter of time before there is a general advance of Russian forces across both Eastern Ukraine and the Black Sea littoral towards Odessa.
“A barrister who was jailed for asking clients to sell him drugs has failed in a bid to overturn his 14-month prison sentence.
Henry Hendron, 42, sent messages asking for help with drugs supply, after meeting the men through his work as a criminal lawyer.
Delivering the ruling, Recorder of Sheffield Judge Jeremy Richardson, sitting with Lord Justice William Davis and Mr Justice Calver, said Hendron’s case is “unique” and added: “It is to be hoped that remains the case.”
Dismissing the appeal, the judges concluded: “The sentence here is not excessive, still less manifestly excessive in all the circumstances.”
Hendron had built up a profile as a barrister to the stars, with prominent clients including the Earl of Cardigan and Tory MP Nadine Dorries.
But Hendron’s career floundered after his 18-year-old boyfriend Miguel Jimenez was found dead at the flat the couple shared in Pump Court, Temple, in the City of London, after taking a lethal cocktail of so-called chemsex party drugs.
He admitted buying £1,000 worth of M-cat or Meow Meow and GBL from award-winning former BBC producer Alex Parkin and was handed a community order with 140 hours of unpaid work at the Old Bailey in 2016.
The Court of Appeal noted that Hendron had not been disbarred after that conviction, noting “unusual and very serious” feature of his case.
He was suspended by the Bar Standards Board for three years following his 2016 convictions.
He was reprimanded and prohibited from undertaking public access work for two years following a disciplinary hearing in 2021 after holding himself out as a barrister on websites while suspended.“
In that blog post, I speculated as to whether Hendron knew something discreditable about senior figures or, perhaps, was being treated leniently by reason of some other kind. I am still none the wiser on that, however.
It seems, on the face of that Evening Standard report, though, that Hendron is still not disbarred. Curiouser and curiouser.
Elon Musk has enormous amounts of money, but when it comes to society and politics, he simply howls into the void like many another on Twitter.
In order to have real impact, an “uber-wealthy” person of that sort has to engage directly, either by funding people and projects (Bill Gates), or by himself becoming a kind of political figure (Donald Trump).
🇬🇧“What started with Brexit is slowly, but inevitably, going to morph into a second big rebellion against the establishment on this specific issue of migration. This is the dividing line in British politics in the years ahead,” @GoodwinMJ says at @NatConTalk 2024 pic.twitter.com/eD8IAoAZza
"My friend grew up in New England where they have pigeons. Apparently they also hate them. He was always saying bad things about pigeons until I pointed something out that he never thought of before:
We domesticated pigeons. They are (nearly) all over the world because HUMANS… pic.twitter.com/sMlZEJtFwA
“My friend grew up in New England where they have pigeons. Apparently they also hate them. He was always saying bad things about pigeons until I pointed something out that he never thought of before: We domesticated pigeons. They are (nearly) all over the world because HUMANS BROUGHT THEM THERE. And, they were more than pets. They carried messages. People raced them. They lived spoiled lives as honored human companions for centuries. Then we got telephones and we threw them out like trash. Literally, we threw them away. Their species had already been fully domesticated and they could not survive in the wild; they lost all their survival instincts during the centuries that they lived caged by people. That is why they live in cities with people instead of in a forest somewhere. It’s OUR fault. And not only did we throw them away, but now humans curse them as “winged rats;” casting them as pests. But they don’t know how to live without us, and their instincts tell us that they should trust us. So, they continue to come up to humans and beg for food, because it’s the only survival skill left in their genes. They love us because they were bred by us to feel that way, and yet we hate them.”
Good points. Urban pigeons can be a nuisance, true, but they also clear up rubbish people throw away or drop in the streets, like crisps and chips. In the end, they are God’s creatures.
Late tweets
Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal asked the West for air defense “to protect Russian cities”:
“We need artillery and ammunition to reach parity with the Russians, we need F-16s to shoot down Russian planes near the front line, we also need air defense systems to protect Russian… pic.twitter.com/M6dyXJ0D2n
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
“Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal asked the West for air defense “to protect Russian cities”: “We need artillery and ammunition to reach parity with the Russians, we need F-16s to shoot down Russian planes near the front line, we also need air defense systems to protect Russian cities…
Sorry, Ukrainian cities where civilians live and where enterprises are located that are under threat from the Russian side. All of this will help us achieve victory, and will also set the stage for recovery, growth and prosperity.”
Freudian slip.
Let's end the day with two problematic polls for Biden:
Michigan: Trump increases gap by 6% (42 vs. 36 for Biden)
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
Uncharted waters. Trump is on trial on serious Federal charges, yet seems likely to win the 2024 Election. I suppose that, if elected, and also convicted, he can pardon himself! Not a mere jest; it is a long time since I passed an exam in U.S. Constitutional Law (1991 or 1992), and that topic was not on the paper (needless to add), but I think that there would be nothing to prevent Trump at least purporting to pardon himself (and/or those involved in the events at the Capitol several years ago).
This is California, USA.
Areas of California that were once one of the most beautiful places in the world have now become a living hell due to the right-wing policies of neoliberal capitalism. pic.twitter.com/SD7PL54eGj
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
Well, this week I scored 6/10, thus again trumping political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, 7, and 9 (though I should have got no. 9, had I thought about it).
Tweets seen
“Whoever supplies weapons wants war,” AfD leader in Thuringia against arming Kyiv
Three-quarters of the residents of East German Thuringia oppose arms supplies to Ukraine; the right-wing Alternative for Germany may win the land elections in this land for the first time. The head… pic.twitter.com/Axt7PQMEAS
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“Whoever supplies weapons wants war,” AfD leader in Thuringia against arming Kyiv.
Three-quarters of the residents of East German Thuringia oppose arms supplies to Ukraine; the right-wing Alternative for Germany may win the land elections in this land for the first time. The head of the regional branch of the AfD, Bjorn Höcke, demanded that Germany stop supplying weapons to Kyiv and organize negotiations.
“My grandparents told me what war is, so I say that this war must be ended as quickly as possible and at any cost,” Höcke said on Die Welt. He accused his opponent’s party, the CDU, of inciting the conflict. “The war rhetoric of the CDU will not lead to real progress,” “we need Germany as a peacekeeping power.”
He pointed out that Russia did not shy away from negotiations, results were achieved in Istanbul in 2022, but the West and Germany did not want them, and chose military supplies rather than diplomacy. “Whoever supplies the weapons does not want peace, he wants war,” Höcke concluded.”
As many as 82 percent of Germans do not believe that Ukraine can defeat Russia with the support of the West
IN AUGUST 2023, 70 PERCENT DOUBTED THE POSITIVE OUTCOME OF THE CONFLICT FOR KYIV
ONLY eight percent of Germans believe that Ukraine can win a confrontation with Russia… pic.twitter.com/FfoLLA5jQu
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“As many as 82 percent of Germans do not believe that Ukraine can defeat Russia with the support of the West.
IN AUGUST 2023, 70 PERCENT DOUBTED THE POSITIVE OUTCOME OF THE CONFLICT FOR KYIV.
ONLY eight percent of Germans believe that Ukraine can win a confrontation with Russia thanks to Western weapons. This was shown by a survey commissioned by the German television station ZDF. Also: that 82 percent of respondents are skeptical about the possibility of Ukraine winning the conflict with the Russian Federation. ZDF indicated that in August of last year, the share of skeptics in Germany was 70 percent, and those who believed in a positive outcome for Kyiv were 21 percent.
The same survey showed that 42% of Germans surveyed believe that the West should provide more [humanitarian] aid to Ukraine.“
The UN published shocking footage from the destroyed city of Khan Yunus
A UN aid team conducted an assessment mission in Khan Yunus following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from that part of Gaza. In the published footage, most of the buildings are damaged, and all asphalt… pic.twitter.com/H8K8owSbK2
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
🇺🇦 Kiev and the West are tired of war and of each other
What a small group of objective, but long-maligned observers in the West warned about for a long time, is now happening: Ukraine and the West are losing the war against Russia. The strategy of using Ukraine to either… pic.twitter.com/SCsTIzisky
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“Kiev and the West are tired of war and of each other.
What a small group of objective, but long-maligned observers in the West warned about for a long time, is now happening: Ukraine and the West are losing the war against Russia.
The strategy of using Ukraine to either isolate and slowly suffocate Russia or to defeat and degrade it in a proxy war is approaching its predictable disastrous end.”
As I have been saying on the blog (for the past 18 months) would happen.
Javier Milei met Elon Musk l. In the meeting participated Gerardo Werthein and rabbi Simón Wahnish. Both from the Jewish community. Werthein took Milei to meet Bill Clinton in his first trip to the USA pic.twitter.com/ksgNdNM51U
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
That Milei character is quite obviously mentally disordered, and “they” are taking advantage of his mental state.
Allegedly,the first photo from the seizure of the container ship Aries by Iranian forces pic.twitter.com/1RgfFvlwW8
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 13, 2024
Footage shows the moment an "Israeli"-linked ship, MSC Aries, has been captured near the strait of Hormuz by Iranian special forces pic.twitter.com/MaQ2tnd6Qu
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 13, 2024
The price of a barrel of oil reached $92, its highest level since October, amid news of Iran's response to Israel
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 13, 2024
Good news for Russia (and Iran), inter alia; bad news for the major economies of the West, and perhaps for China.
Ms Truss should cross her fingers and hope she never finds herself as sole 24/7 carer to a member of her family, with zero back-up and zero time off. Poor little soul!
Liz Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng) as Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom. What does that say about where this poor country now is? (the replacement of Liz Truss by Sunak, the little Indian money-juggler, makes only a cosmetic difference). I know what I think.
A Home Office Islamic Network aims to recruit Muslim staff and "influence policymakers" to support "Muslim needs", a GB News investigation reveals.
Leaked documents show the group of over 700 civil servants say they aim to "promote the recruitment, retention and progression of… pic.twitter.com/wyTTOR0BAU
“A Home Office Islamic Network aims to recruit Muslim staff and “influence policymakers” to support “Muslim needs”, a GB News investigation reveals. Leaked documents show the group of over 700 civil servants say they aim to “promote the recruitment, retention and progression of Muslim staff in the Home Office” and “influence policymakers so that policy is more inclusive of Muslim needs”. THE WHOLE CIVIL SERVICE ARE THE ENEMY WITHIN.”
To adapt and substitute the supposed words of Boris Savinkov re. non-Russians in the “Russian” Revolution, “Muslims, Jews…where are the English?!“
Look at most of the “alt-right” msm and/or social media “controlled opposition” types, the so-called “populists”, including those who make money, or try to make money, out of being pseudo-national and/or anti-Islam or anti-Islamist: the academic, Matt Goodwin, is a rising star of that tendency; others include the notorious Douglas Murray, Katie Hopkins, “Tommy Robinson”, Paul Golding and most of the “Britain First” crowd, and Anne Marie Waters of the now-defunct “For Britain” group. Then you have Farage, Tice, and their UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform UK parties.
They vary. Some are national figures with considerable public support, and are welcomed on msm platforms (e.g. Farage, and Matt Goodwin); others are marginal (e.g. Paul Golding of “Britain First”, Laurence Fox and his tiny Reclaim Party, and others). All, however, speak in favour of Israel, in favour of the UK Jewish lobby, and against any enemies (especially Islamist enemies) of Israel.
Most are also vehemently hostile to what they are pleased to call the “far right” (anyone social-national).
As for me, I stand for the British people, for European humanity, and for European culture and civilization. I oppose any enemies of European culture and civilization.
One can see, though, which tendency or interest-group is constantly trying to get European Christendom to fight the Islamic world (and not just Islamism).
“Alexandra Lesley Phillips (born 26 December 1983) is a British journalist and former politician. She served as a Brexit Partymember of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South East England constituency from 2019 to 2020. She was the second candidate on the party’s list for the constituency after party leader Nigel Farage.[1] Phillips was previously head of media at the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which she left in September 2016. She was a GB News presenter between June 2021 and September 2022. In February 2023, Phillips joined Reform UK.
Alexandra Lesley Phillips was born on 26 December 1983 in Gloucester.[2] She has an older brother. She is Jewish.
On 2 August 2019, Phillips was selected as the Brexit Party’s prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for Southampton Itchen.[15] However, on 11 November 2019, the Brexit Party announced that it would not stand in incumbent Conservative seats.[16] The following day, Phillips announced that she would not be voting in the general election as she had been “disenfranchised” by her party.[17] Her term as MEP ended in January 2020 when the UK withdrew from the EU.[18] In February 2023, she joined Reform UK (successor to the Brexit Party) as a policy adviser to party leader Richard Tice.[19]
Prior to joining UKIP, Phillips had worked as a local journalist for ITV, and later BBC Wales.[5]
Phillips presented a twice-weekly show on talkRADIO and is a contributor to The Daily Telegraph.[20] She co-hosted an afternoon programme on GB News with Simon McCoy between June and August 2021.[21][22] After McCoy moved to the breakfast show, she was given her own show, The Afternoon Agenda, in August 2021.[23] She left GB News in September 2022 after her show was cancelled.[24] In July 2023 Alex began presenting a Saturday afternoon programme on TalkTV. She now co hosts a show with Kevin O’Sullivan on talk tv daily.”
[Wikipedia]
Look at that one profile: UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform UK, ITV, BBC Wales, TalkRadio, GB News, Talk TV, and the Daily Telegraph.
The only reason a slight majority think that life is better now than in the 1960s and 1970s is because a constant drip-feed of propaganda tells them so. Most of the respondents would have been born after 1980 or 1975, of course.
The 1970s in the UK were a lot better than most people today will believe, despite some (actually quite limited) industrial unrest etc.
As for the 1960s, I remember them well, having been born in 1956. Fairly OK in most respects (I should add that I spent the last three years of that decade in Australia (Mosman/Cremorne, in Sydney), and that was another world then, though the devil is always in the detail: those were —and are— among the better suburbs of the city.
Looking at the above tracker graph, the Labour intended vote has been fairly stable (within parameters) for about a year or so, whereas the Conservative Party intended vote has steadily declined for what seems to have been most of the past year. They’re toast…
Were the Con percentage to decline even one point, to 18%, even without an increase in any of the other numbers, the number of Con MPs would reduce to only 28.
When you see that, and factor in the political intentions of those under 40, and under 30, and the fact that the Con core vote consists largely of the retired, indeed of those over 70, over 80, you can see that this really could spell the end of the Conservative Party.
In fact, even were the Conservative Party to retain 100, even 150, MPs, it would be all but irrelevant in a Commons with 450+ Labour MPs, and a Labour majority of maybe 300 or more. That would hit Con Party funding and ability to come back from the debacle.
I was just musing on such ideas as I carefully drove a few miles this morning on a rural A-road, its surfacing poor and dotted with troughs and potholes which one had to navigate around, as in some areas of Russia and Ukraine (or, in pre-EU-membership days, in Bulgaria, as I recall from 2001). The decline of Britain is seen even in mundane areas such as road maintenance.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 13, 2024
How strange. The little Indian money-juggler did not see fit to “condemn” the slaughter, by the Israeli forces, of tens of thousands of women an d children in Gaza, nor the unprovoked attack by Israel on the diplomatic and consular offices of Iran in Syria, an attack on two sovereign states.
Like 90% of “British” politicians, if you want to call him that, Sunak is bought and paid for…
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
The Russian Ministry of Defense received the first batch of new Su-35S fighters this year pic.twitter.com/6zxSefJmID
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
American naval group in the Middle East on the eve of Iran's attack on Israel pic.twitter.com/8X9XxAEmmg
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Ukrainian failure will be “worse than Vietnam” for the West, Johnson predicts
If Russia takes control of Kyiv, it will become a disaster for “American leadership on the world stage” that is much greater than the outcome of the Vietnam War, Boris Johnson is sounding the alarm.… pic.twitter.com/uvlNUNyXJp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“Ukrainian failure will be “worse than Vietnam” for the West, Johnson predicts.
If Russia takes control of Kyiv, it will become a disaster for “American leadership on the world stage” that is much greater than the outcome of the Vietnam War. Boris Johnson is sounding the alarm.
He also said he was “praying” that congressional Republicans would end the roughly $60 billion blockade of funding to Ukraine, adding: “The situation is grim and the delay is appalling.”
The British politician also said that the chaotic flight from Afghanistan in 2021 is “nothing compared to a possible Russian victory in Ukraine.”
There are exciting possibilities opening up, potentially affecting not only the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, but also Central and Western Europe, including the UK.
You’re the Senator for Arkansas, not Israel.
America has no business meddling in the Middle East, let alone when it’s already $34 trillion in debt, you warmongering scumbag. https://t.co/GzGkZqk3EN
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 11, 2024
Promising to hear that the US is considering dropping charges against Julian Assange, but there is no undoing the irreversible psychological and physical damage that has been done to Julian and his health.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 10, 2024
The USA lost any right to claim the “moral high ground” post-Cold War when it engaged in torture and/or depraved humiliation of captives and/or the innocent at Guantanamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib etc.
As for the UK, the old term “America’s poodle” covers it well enough (or “Israel’s poodle“, as far as the Westminster monkeyhouse is concerned).
Why did every single institution of western Governments apply as much force as possible to ensuring everybody got at least three doses? We’re are just now starting to find out https://t.co/re2euaoZkL
After the senseless murder of. Pensioner,by a migrants. Weak inferior Westminster MPs ignore the heartfelt plea from Hartlepool MP, as she has constituents coming to her offices on a daily basis TERRIFIED of asylum seekers pic.twitter.com/hbB3FDPvqT
“my office…is besieged by asylum-seekers. Most of them are young men, illegal migrants, who should be expelled“.
Bravo!
Truth (for once) in the Westminster monkeyhouse.
Royal Navy recruits no longer need to be swimmers A source says there is concern about the change to entry requirements, which means there will no longer be a 30-minute swim test prior to being recruited, and brands the move "a sign of true desperation to increase recruitment… pic.twitter.com/WiwmSZYCFW
Very few choose to join any of the armed forces now, because the services have no prestige, a poor career structure (certainly for “other ranks”), poor housing and, at the end, after 3, 5, 10, 22 or however many years, are just dumped into civilian life, in many cases without non-military skills, without accommodation, and without much money.
Another point is that some potential recruits are being forced to wait for months, even a year or more, before being approved by the rotten private contractor, Serco.
Back in 1975, I was told by someone in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army that some people were desperate to join immediately because they had no roof over their heads, and literally no money. The Corps would stretch a point, and allow them to come in even before the paperwork had been completed, and before any binding commitments had been made.
Such recruits would be given accommodation (at Templer Barracks, Ashford, Kent, now turned into a housing development like everything else in England), would eat in the NCO’s mess (there are no private soldiers in that Corps), and something would be found for them to do for a few days or a week while the necessary box-ticking was being done.
If accepted, they would join the next recruit squad; if not, they might go elsewhere in the Army or, at worst, leave having had a week of food and shelter; no harm done. Not now.
Apparently, the various military units at Ashford (the Intelligence Corps at Templer Barracks, and also the much larger ordinary Army base which surrounded the guarded Intelligence Corps centre) have long since been moved on, and the area, redeveloped as housing, is now known as Repton Park, though I have just seen that there is a small reserve Army military presence nearby even today.
“George Henderson had to sell his home to repay nearly £20,000, years after ticking wrong box on carer’s allowance form.
A carer who says he was “dragged through the courts” and had to sell his home to pay back almost £20,000 in benefit overpayments is fighting to clear his name after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) acknowledged he made an innocent mistake.
George Henderson, 64, said he made a gain of just 30p a week while claiming carer’s allowance for his son John, who has learning difficulties and is addicted to heroin. He now costs the Treasury £1,000 a month more in benefits, having become homeless and too unwell to work.”
[The Guardian]
Really absolutely disgusting. Britain in 2024.
Also, look at the sentence imposed by a Crown Court judge in respect of the matter:
“He protested his innocence but was found guilty. In 2018, a judge at Preston crown court gave him a 32-week suspended sentence and ordered him to wear an electronic tag for 16 weeks.
Henderson is one of a number of carers the Guardian has spoken to after exposing how people looking after disabled, frail or ill relatives are being forced to repay huge sums to the government and threatened with criminal prosecution after unwittingly breaching earnings rules by just a few pounds a week.”
“In the high street of Crookes, a leafy hillside suburb of Sheffield with a large student population, there were plenty of people saying they would vote Labour at the next general election – but most weren’t too happy about it.
“It feels like the lesser of two evils – it’s definitely better than going back to what we’ve got,” said Amy Pattison, a 24-year-old occupational therapy student at Sheffield Hallam university. “All I know is I won’t be voting Tory. And whatever I do vote will be tactical.“
Most people said they would vote Labour for one simple reason – to get the Conservatives out of power.
“I’ll be voting for Labour. But I’m more anti-Conservative than I am pro-Labour,” said Chris Macdonald, a 30-year-old teacher. “If our voting system was different I would be tempted by other parties, but it feels like it’s Labour or Tories, and I want them out.“
[The Guardian]
That chimes with my feeling about overall voter sentiment. Few people really like the Starmer version of the Labour Party, but almost everyone wants the Conservative Party to go down (and preferably never get up again).
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
25 years ago, on April 12, 1999, on the second day of Easter, around 11:40 a.m., NATO bombers fired rockets and burned international passenger train 393 on the route Belgrade – Nis – Skopje, full of passengers, in the Grdelica Gorge, while it was crossing the Bistrica Bridge over… pic.twitter.com/xO1RT6SDaS
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Another twist in the ‘hate incident’ shambles: @PoliceScotland say complaints against @HumzaYousaf did not ‘meet threshold to be recorded as hate incidents’. But this contradicts their own policy. And different from approach in my case. https://t.co/mgW05ttCFv
Exactly the sort of double standards now entrenched in England as well, where the Jewish/Zionist lobby has suborned the police and Clown Prosecution “Service”, “the usual suspects” never really facing the sort of nonsense “investigations” etc social-national people such as myself do.
Late tweets
The US military transferred 12 F-15 fighter jets from the UK to the Middle East pic.twitter.com/T1P4YlgahD
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are ordering their citizens to leave Israel and Iran immediately.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Their true nature, some might say. Others might claim only a minority are that bad.
As the report notes, Israeli security and police were investigating the matter, if only because it showed the Israeli Jews and state in an even worse light.
I suppose that, also, the dangers facing the Israeli state are only partly from outside its borders. A civil/racial/ideological war inside its borders is by no means unthinkable. Such a civil war might be triggered by such atrocities.
I do not know whether anything happened afterward, or whether any of the Jews were punished; I doubt any were, at least not much.
The post-Mao transformation of China crept up on me; I was not fully aware of it (though I started to sense it in the early 1980s) even after I made my last visit to Hong Kong (I also went to Macau) in 2006. Since then, I have tried to see and learn more.
Sometime in the early 1980s, a couple of friends took on the “opportunity” of delivering telephone directories in SE London, using their private car. I think only Yellow Pages. I recall visiting their house not long afterwards, and seeing the whole place packed with the thick directories. Floor to ceiling. Thousands of them. Feeling sorry for them, I foolishly offered to help them for a day. Good grief! Katorga (hard hard work, like being a galley slave).
I especially recall visiting Greenwich with them. In those days, very mixed. The elegant 18thC house of a Lady or Countess Somebody or other (I noticed a grand piano in her drawing room; glimpsed through a window) but, only one street away, 1930s council flats, very dilapidated-looking.
Out of one such flat emerged a fat black woman without shoes, barefooted on the dirty concrete floor of a communal balcony, and she demanded two directories (God knows why; maybe to use as doorstops?).
BREAKING:
🇮🇷 Iranian MP says if Israel strikes Iran's nuclear facilities then we will strike Israel's Dimona nuclear facility in 400 seconds@IranObserver0pic.twitter.com/CkI7xlJagj
Really dismal numbers for the Tories and Rishi Sunak. 2.3 million Brits were on hospital waiting lists in 2010. Now 7.5 million! pic.twitter.com/Q6PzjOsjDI
Terrible. I recall (as repeated observer) from maybe 2011/2012 how bad much of the NHS hospital service was then (not all, though). God knows how much worse it is in 2024. I pity anyone having to endure one of the maladministered, dirty hospitals run by the NHS, even though I support the “free at point of use” principle, and recognize that some of the doctors and nurses are stellar.
Unless something (but what?) changes very soon, the Conservative Party is going to be pretty much wiped out at the upcoming General Election.
Angara A5 rocket launched for the first time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome
The "Angara A5" launch vehicle with the "Orion" upper stage and a test payload was launched from platform 1A of the "Vostochny" cosmodrome exactly at noon Russian time. pic.twitter.com/nnncRkajQH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“I think we should prepare for a possible Russian attack on Europe, but I think it’s unlikely,” Finnish President
"I'm a little worried about this rather bellicose talk that Russia is going to test Article 5(?) and that Europe is next in line…
European states must become more…
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“European states must become more Finnish. In other words, more prepared. You have to prepare for the worst to avoid it,” Stubb said. Alexander Stubb also said Kyiv’s support in the coming months is paramount as Putin “feels very confident and is targeting a window of opportunity to break through Ukraine’s defenses between now and September.””
Finns are not known for their brainpower, speaking generally, but this takes the biscuit, notwithstanding Stubb’s paper qualifications. Does this Stubb really think that there would be anything left of Finland were a major war to occur?
I see now that Stubb is from the Swedish minority in Finland (traditionally more affluent and better-educated than the majority Finnish population): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stubb. Obviously plugged-in to the transnational NWO agenda.
Journalistic standards (fall ever-lower)
The standards of literacy in both online and “real” newspapers slide ever-lower. Look at this, from the online platform of a long-established local newspaper chain:
“Police hunt after men try to rob teen’s expensive coat, police say” [headline]
How do you “rob a coat“? Did the coat fight back at all?
“Police have launched an appeal after masked men with knives are said to have tried to get robbed a teen’s expensive coat” [first line of the report].
Where does one even start? Jesus H. Christ! To think that that “journalist” (semi-literate scribbler) probably has a degree, maybe/probably a degree in journalism. What can one say?
More tweets
New polling from YouGov:
The majority of Americans think Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
No matter how much Lloyd Austin wishes to lie before committee hearings, along with Israel’s failed PR, the truth is clear for all to see. pic.twitter.com/1NpQZHUqJ6
Unless I have missed out some part of the graphic, that is a plurality, not a “majority“; still, significant, bearing in mind the “usual” (((usual))) bias of the American mainstream media.
That means that at least 32% of the people of the UK have no idea at all how unutterably terrible and nasty would be life in the UK after even a limited nuclear attack (if that were the cause of the collapse).
That terrible and nasty existence might (for the survivors) continue for decades; maybe even longer, depending on the level of destruction, how widespread it were, and the level of radiation.
Other causes of a civilizational collapse might lead to quicker recovery (eg were the poles to shift), but a decent level of living might not be resumed (or created), for many decades, all the same.
A useless fag-end of a government, most of whose MPs will be looking for other employment by early 2025, if not earlier.
Even in the darkest of times, fragments of happiness can be found. It is not always easy to see, but it is there, quietly waiting to be discovered amidst the shadows & rubble. We have so much to learn from the Children of Palestine ♥️🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/MnRNytgW56
Macron: We continue to work on missiles that will allow us to strike Russian forces and capabilities that are causing such serious damage to Ukraine
"We cannot give up on Ukraine because it is 1,500 kilometers away from us. In other words, this is our own security. This is a… pic.twitter.com/j2eGQiPw5w
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Macron— a complete idiot, and a puppet of the NWO/ZOG transnational conspiracy.
United States Embassy in the Israeli asked its employees and American citizens not to leave the central areas and absolutely not to move towards the northern areas, especially Haifa.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Spokesperson of the Israeli army: An attack by Iran will prove Iran's intention to escalate the situation in the Middle East. We have a proven defensive ability, but the defense is never unbearable. pic.twitter.com/yy6h8yxYLw
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Does that mean “unbeatable“? As for “escalation“, what was the destruction of Iran’s embassy in Damascus? An attack on not one but two sovereign neighbouring states, simultaneously.
Retired Israeli general:
The attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus was a bad gamble that opened the doors of hell for us 🔥 pic.twitter.com/FD3CMRGhPh
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
If all the Arab states, plus Iran, and plus the Palestinian Arabs in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, turned on Israel at the same time, the Israeli state would be finished. The Arabs, and also non-Arab Muslims in the region, however, have always been disunited.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
The Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, American General Christopher Cavoli, stated that the size of the Russian army has increased during the conflict with Ukraine, and that Russia will soon be able to fire ten times more artillery shells than the Kiev forces.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“The Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, American General Christopher Cavoli, stated that the size of the Russian army has increased during the conflict with Ukraine, and that Russia will soon be able to fire ten times more artillery shells than the Kiev forces.
“The [Russian] military is actually 15 percent larger now than when Special Military Operations began”, Cavoli said during a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee. – “All in all, Russia is on its way to commanding the largest army on the continent,” Cavoli said and added that, “regardless of the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine, Russia will be bigger, deadlier and angrier at the West than before the escalation of the conflict.”
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Russia is winning and growing stronger despite the efforts of the West – Indian analyst
Many countries receive information about the Ukrainian conflict through the prism of Western propaganda. It contains many myths that need to be debunked, writes former UN Office for the… pic.twitter.com/FEggRbEAmF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“Russia is winning and growing stronger despite the efforts of the West— Indian analyst.
Many countries receive information about the Ukrainian conflict through the prism of Western propaganda. It contains many myths that need to be debunked, writes former UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs official Arjun Katoch in an article for The Print.
In particular, according to the analyst, contrary to the claims of Western media, Moscow is winning the confrontation with Kiev and its overseas sponsors.
After the “impressive failure” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ summer campaign and the liberation of Avdievka, the Russians are advancing along the entire front line, even in the current mud season.
“The Ukrainian army is being destroyed, and no amount of help can save it,” the author of the article emphasizes. “Russia will win this war; the only question now is how far west its troops will advance,” he adds.
The journalist also debunks the idea that the conflict is weakening Russia. Sanctions forced the country to focus on developing its own industry and reorient itself to the east. But as a result, its economy has outpaced the EU’s in growth, and defense production has grown exponentially, allowing Moscow to supply its troops with modern weapons and ammunition much faster than the West can supply the Ukrainians.
“Russia will emerge from this war with a battle-tested, most well-equipped and combat-ready army in Europe. So it’s certainly not getting weaker,” Katoch notes.“
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[Victor Ostrovsky, The House]
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