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Diary Blog, 22 August 2020

I have no sympathy for this kind of “we wuz robbed” nonsense. Whatever its faults, the UK is not (yet) North Korea. The voters had before them pretty much all the useful information about Boris-idiot well before the 2019 election.

They knew (those that ever delve beyond the sport and “celebrity” news) that he had never done a job properly, that he had been sacked from every job until he became Mayor of London and that, as Mayor, he had failed to realize anything, from water cannon and buses to the £80M failure of Joanna Lumley’s “Garden Bridge” and the almost unused cross-Thames cable-car.

Incidentally, though I like Joanna Lumley on TV, in her travel shows etc, she really ought to stop interfering in political affairs. The Garden Bridge, though an interesting idea, cost the people of London £80M for nothing. Her meddling in Army matters on behalf of the Gurkhas, about 12 years ago (her father having been one of their officers), has resulted in Aldershot becoming a crime-ridden Nepali town, in effect, thanks to the importation of “extended families”. By all means improve the pensions of the Gurkha soldiers, they deserved that, but let them retire to their homes in Nepal, where they can live better than they can here anyway; that would also have injected money into the poor Nepali economy.

Even Boris-idiot’s former bosses, such as Max Hastings, excoriated him, in such terms as that they were amazed that he had got as far as he had (Cabinet minister) and that he was “utterly unfit” [Max Hastings] to rise further.

As I blogged at the time, one heard or read remarks such as “Boris has the ability to be PM, but does he have the ethics?“, to which my reply (surely now vindicated in spades) was “where exactly has ‘Boris’ shown any ability whatsoever?” I did not accept that spewing out rote-learned Greek or Latin phrases, or odd words trawled from the OED, or scribbling a tabloid newspaper column, was proof of enormous ability.

Indeed, the very “resistible rise” of “Boris” shows how very and pathetically primitive UK political culture still is. Put a part-Jew, part-Turk, part-God-knows-what public entertainer on stage, dress him up with a little finery from Eton and Oxford, let him get away with everything he does, however stupid, and there it is. The msm was constantly implying or even expressing that the said con-man was “Prime Minister in Waiting”. Eventually, all that assistance from the msm worked, and “Boris” was anointed PM, without ever having had to win a General Election.

People knew all that information about “Boris”, and more, yet the Conservative Party geriatric division (comprising, at the time, almost all Con Party members) trooped obediently to vote for “Boris” as Conservative Party leader. “Boris” is not even his real first name.

Of course, the Jews favoured Boris, who after all is himself part-Jew and a member of Conservative Friends of Israel. Especially so when the likely alternative might have been Jeremy Corbyn.

Look at this: “Boris is…Boris is solid on Israel. Boris is…basically good [for Israel]…you know, he is an idiot, but…

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/secret-video-reveals-israeli-plot-take-down-uk-minister

…and after “Boris” was jeered at and disrespected by that Jew, what did “Boris” do? Stood up in the House of Commons and kow-towed to Israel once again!

Having said that, I no more “blame” the Jews for “Boris” being unmerited Prime Minister than I blame clouds for bringing rain. That’s what they do. Manipulate.

The lazy complacent British voters are, mainly, to blame for the fact that an idiot is now posing as poundland Churchill “prime minister”, and has surrounded himself with clowns posing as a Cabinet.

By the time of the 2019 General Election, Boris-idiot was known to the voters, and that should have sunk him, but the msm (Jewish or pro-Jewish) campaign against Corbyn, combined with the vagaries of the UK’s First Past The Post electoral system, shooed-in “Boris”.

There were two other factors of importance: Nigel Farage stabbing his own Brexit Party in the back, and the boundaries of constituencies:

People must wake up and pay attention. Their own lives and futures are at stake.

Tweets seen

As usual, the msm scribblers who consider themselves to be “conservative” etc whine about what is happening, but never want to see the big picture. There is an international conspiratorial agenda behind all of this sort of thing.

More tweets

Fear transmuted into control.

https://twitter.com/DavidHoban8/status/1297129524946259971?s=20

Not so surprising. One of the symptoms of a general spread of lies in a society is precidely that: an inability to distinguish the lie from the truth. For half a century and more, there has been a lie around what happened in WW2, especially as to the so-called “holocaust”. Probably a majority of people in the UK, for example, believe that there actually existed “gas chambers”, in which were killed millions of Jews. That narrative has been pushed strongly ever since the 1950s, though much more since the 1970s.

The story goes that the German forces completely destroyed the “gas chambers” as they retreated west in 1944-45. So that is why there are no “gas chambers” or even remains of “gas chambers”, though visitors to the Auschwitz visitor attraction are shown a small room, “reconstructed” after 1945 and designated a “gas chamber”, into which the tourists reverentially progress before emerging (and going off to the gift shop…).

The result, or one result, of that whole narrative is that people cannot distinguish what is true and what is not. The Jewish/Zionist element, via suborned politicians, therefore makes it a criminal offence in parts of Europe to question even details of the said “holocaust” narrative. Because the facts cannot speak for themselves in a situation where there is no credible evidence for the existence of such “gas chambers”.

It has poisoned the whole academic historical milieu in Europe.

Yes, this is now just “history” (even if fake history), something that happened, or did not happen, or did not happen in the ways or to the extent claimed, 75-80 years ago. The effects, though, continue, not only in the realm of what is or is not “history”, but into the political sphere.

Here we have a virus which swept through Europe and elsewhere. In the UK, the hospitals put patients who were infected and who were (as most were) of advanced age, into care homes where they infected others, in large numbers. It may be that a third of the serious cases and deaths resulted from infections in hospitals, and another third or more in care homes. Most of the population was unaffected. Almost all of the population is unaffected.

Now, no-one is actually dying from (or with) Coronavirus in the UK, but there are still draconian laws, and we even read that ludicrously misnamed SAGE wants another “national lockdown” (shutdown)! Tests are showing thousands of people are newly diagnosed daily, but most are unaware that they are even infected, and have few if any symptoms, yet there is a panic abroad, whipped up by the msm and government.

At the same time, the shutdown of NHS and the national economy has already killed more than the “virus” (even on the faulty statistics given). Huge numbers have been diagnosed too late with cancer, for example.

People generally are finding it hard to see the truth, so you notice that on Twitter, the usual mob (the FBPEs, the “anti-racists”, the “antifa” idiots, most of the Jews etc) are all mask fanatics, all completely under the spell of the fake news and panic, and all want stricter laws and enforcement. “Useful idiots” for the System.

More tweets seen

https://twitter.com/Yuriwasright/status/1297140466996187137?s=20

https://twitter.com/mhealananda/status/1297181416426541058?s=20

https://twitter.com/mhealananda/status/1297177661551378432?s=20

https://twitter.com/theshireling666/status/1297167712230297602?s=20

https://twitter.com/mhealananda/status/1296565545425403905?s=20

True. I myself have seen tweets from some of the UK Jew Twitter cabal demanding and trying to organize the expulsion of tweeter @jntwyatt. The same Jews, many of them infesting London, were behind my expulsion from Twitter in 2018.

The tweets of @jntwyatt are interesting (so were mine!); that is why “they” want him expelled. I would urge everyone on Twitter to give their support by following his account, and by retweeting his tweets.

Late music

Diary Blog, 3 March 2020

Polly Toynbee

I usually have little time for Polly Toynbee, but I can agree with much of her Guardian column today: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/03/tories-austerity-budget

Kitten torturer given only 6 weeks’ imprisonment

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/vile-man-who-bit-ear-21619715

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/monster-bites-kittens-ear-says-3906802

Aaron James Williamson, of Grimsby. Bit off part of his kitten’s ear in a number of separate attacks; punched the kitten on numerous occasions. Sentence? 12 weeks, which means 6 weeks actually in prison, at most. I usually oppose extra-judicial justice, aka “mob justice” or “lynch law”, but there are exceptions. The law should have sufficient weight to deal properly with such an offence. To my mind, the current law is inadequate (the max is a 6-month sentence, though a new law is currently before Parliament). Even so, why only 12 weeks? I should have thought that this crime (the evil little bastard pleaded to one speciment charge) at least merited 4 or 5 months, bearing in mind that the real term served would be only half anyway).

Coronavirus

 

Amusing, though not very useful. In a sense though, all one can do is laugh, when there is little of a practical nature that the individual can do.

My supposition of a week ago, that the main hope for us in relation to this nuisance (that could become some sort of catastrophe) is that the weather warms and so (we are told) weakens the ability of the virus to live on surfaces etc, is now echoed by scientists and talking heads.

I myself went this morning, early, to my local Waitrose (the only supermarket within miles, except for a smallish Marks & Spencer food store). I intended to buy some real Manuka honey (which stimulates the human immune system). The best type is about £20 a jar, but it works. No luck. The entire stock had already been bought and the shelf was empty.

In a blog post I penned a while ago,

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/

…I speculated about whether our present civilization might be ended by a virus pandemic, or by some other global threat. Coronavirus/Corvid-19 is not that virus, but the next one of the same sort may be. The present virus is 1,000x more infectious than was the SARS virus of several years ago, but less deadly. What if the next virus is 1,000x as infectious as the present one, and is also many times more dangerous to life?

As it is, we are almost thrown back on mediaeval remedies: avoidance of human contact, secure food and water supplies, “magic” honey, hope, prayer etc. There is at present no medicine, no vaccine available. Antibiotics are useless because they do not affect viruses. All that even the best hospitals can do, so far, is to relieve symptoms, and they will not be able to do that for long if the already-struggling NHS is swamped by huge new demand.

Russia

Russia’s Putin wants traditional marriage and God in constitution” [BBC News]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51719764

Slava!

 

Suddenly I feel a lifting of spirits, as I contemplate the short to medium-term future…in fact I feel quite excited!

 

Joanna Lumley

“‘Your money or your life!’: Joanna Lumley reveals terrifying moment armed bandits held her at gunpoint during filming of TV documentary in Haiti.” [Daily Mail]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8067801/Joanna-Lumley-ambushed-gun-wielding-gang-driving-Haiti.html

Joanna Lumley was threatened by armed bandits while filming a travel series in Haiti. They abushed [sic] the 73-year-old actress while she was driving through a mountain range with her camera crew. The gun-wielding gang told Miss Lumley and her team that they would kill them if they did not hand over their cash. But two of the Absolutely Fabulous star’s bodyguards stepped in and she escaped unscathed.” [Daily Mail]

The incident is not shown in the programme.” Well, no…I mean, we could not have British TV viewers coming away with the impression that black people, without white rulers or administrators, cannot run a reasonably civilized society…

I suppose that the incident might have been omitted because there were no cameras rolling at the time, but I doubt it.

The disease is spreading

I mean the Swedish disease…Finland is now also sick:

 

DWP dishonesty

Diary Blog, 20 December 2019

I suppose that the headline for me would be that Boris-idiot has already shown signs of weaselling on some of his empty promises, though covering up that with lots of noisy hullabaloo. The part-Jew public entertainer again, this time in his most challenging comedy-drama role, as Prime Minister of the UK. His mistakes as Mayor of London were on a correspondingly smaller scale.

He has to call upon more serious noise to disguise his deficiencies this time, not just a cable-car over the Thames or a garden bridge over the river, promoted by a charming actress who, however, really should steer clear of government policy.

Joanna Lumley’s previous policy disaster was when she “shamed” the then Labour government into allowing not only retired Gurkha soldiers into the UK but their entire extended families. The result? Aldershot is now a Nepalese town (the inhabitants mostly living off State benefits). It is not now an Army town as it once was.

Ironically, the Gurkha retirees (whose pensions were previously upgraded to the British Army norm) would have been far better off living in Nepal, a very poor country where such pension monies go a long way.

Boris-idiot was not responsible for the Gurkha mistake, but he was responsible for the cable-car and the Garden Bridge, which —like “Boris Island” Airport— were not necessary and were unworkable as planned. I have nothing against either cable-cars or garden bridges in principle though. Also, what is the Boris obsession with the Thames?

Boris-idiot, we are told, “does not do detail”. Meaning that his mind is on the lofty outlines of grand strategy. I suppose some poor saps believe that nonsense. The greatest leaders of the 20thC were interested, at least up to a point, in detail. That lack of interest was what sank all three projects noted above.

The cable-car was built partly at public expense but carries only a few regular passengers per day (it was planned for commuter use but in fact is now just a tourist attraction). “There has also been criticism of the project’s £24 million-plus cost to taxpayers, caused by a budget overrun. Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of London, had said the cost of the scheme would not be underwritten by taxpayers.”[Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Air_Line_(cable_car)

As for the Garden Bridge, it was a lovely idea but was poorly-planned (the Boris leitmotiv). Wrong place, arguably, for one thing.

On 14 August 2017 after months of uncertainty the Garden Bridge Trust entirely abandoned the project. The BBC London transport correspondent Tom Edwards described the situation as a shambles which was “an embarrassing mess for the capital … already descend[ing] into finger pointing and a blame game over who is culpable for wasting £46.4m of public money”.[75] In February 2019 it was revealed that the total public cost had been £43m.”

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

Boris Island. Never got far beyond the cartoon brain of Boris-idiot. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35855676

We can add to the above the water-cannon “Boris” ordered after his panicky (lack of) performance during the 2011 black riots in London. Scrapped and sold for peanuts. Another Boris disaster, though on a smaller scale; this time “only” £300,000 was lost. Still, the water-cannon did their job: not dealing with rioters, but getting Boris-idiot publicity as the man who wants to “get things done” (a completely mistaken view, of course).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/19/boris-johnson-unused-water-cannon-sold-for-scrap-at-300000-loss

Then there were the Boris-buses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Routemaster#Criticism

https://www.cityam.com/a-brief-history-of-boris-and-buses/

You get the picture: Boris cannot plan anything, his ideas are rubbish, just schoolboy nonsense, he has no executive ability to get anything done properly, and he leaves the public with a headache and a bill.

A musical interlude:

and now to the Labour leadership contest

I shall blog separately about this once all the runners and riders have been listed.

In the meantime, a few tweets seen:

https://twitter.com/JackRussellsMom/status/1207880411155750913?s=20

System drone Stephen Kinnock. An atheist. Shooed into a safe Welsh Labour seat, his wife a former Prime Minister of Denmark, he himself given, inter alia, a nice little sinecure at the British Council in St. Petersburg (via his father, ex-Labour leader and EU Commissioner Neil “We’re All Right!” Kinnock). Completely System, completely NWO/ZOG. A nasty little freeloader.

Clive Lewis is standing for the position of Labour leader. I saw this tweet by the Novara Media person Aaron Bastani:

Well, I have just read that piece. I cannot see anything of substance in what Clive Lewis says. Soundbite stuff about “democratizing the party” and about how “climate change” and “technological change” will define the next UK general election.

Underwhelming, like Lewis himself. His record is not inspiring. A “half-caste”, he read Economics at Bradford, but has never worked in that field. He spent time as a security guard before getting work as a local and regional journalist. He also held (2006-2009) commissioned rank in the Territorial Army, presumably as 2nd Lieutenant (unconfirmed; his eventual rank may have been higher). He was in Afghanistan for three months in 2009, but returned to the UK suffering from depression.

Lewis is MP for the relatively safe Labour seat of South Norwich.

There have been accusations of Lewis shouting inappropriate sexual jokes when drunk, and also of him groping at least one woman. He has also made other inappropriate remarks, usually of a sexual nature (e.g. one involving Ed Miliband and a goat).

My provisional view: underwhelming. Clive Lewis is not fully British for a start. Apart from that, his character seems weak to me. A loose cannon, not very trustworthy. On the face of it, could not hack Afghanistan for long and had a kind of breakdown. Whether that means that he could not fulfil a Labour leadership or, potentially, prime ministerial role, I do not know, but I doubt it and think that others might have similar doubts. Ideologically shallow. Unsuitable.

Having said the above, Clive Lewis’s pitch to the Labour rank and file (who will elect the leader in the end) is clever. It offers those rank and file members more —and more direct— power. That might be persuasive. Revolution in the revolution?

Another musical interlude…

Labour again…

I can see why many people are just laughing at the Labour leadership contest, after the recent election fiasco. However, the fact is that more than three-quarters of the 2017 Labour vote stayed with Labour: 32.2% as against 40%. Also, the demographics favour Labour in the medium term. As mentioned in previous blogs, had only under-25s voted, there would not be a single Conservative Party MP now. In fact, had only under-40s voted, most seats would be Labour, and even if only under-60s had voted, there might now be a Labour government.

Whoever wins the Labour leadership contest now may well head a Labour government in 2024, 2023 or even 2022.

Stray thoughts

Driving around the semi-flooded coastal part of Southern England in the dark this evening, it was incredible to experience how bad the roads are. Huge potholes, a feeling of disrepair. My car is fairly large, with large tyres, but these days it becomes necessary to drive something like a Range Rover just to smooth the ride! Thank God that I do not have false teeth!

Now it seems that this miserable new regime will press ahead with the HS2 white elephant, when the North of England needs regional railways and the South needs repair of the roads, which are degenerating into a 17thC condition. An exaggeration, but not a complete one.

The more I think about the state of the UK, the more I think that it will be fortunate to avoid either a repressive dystopia (following on perhaps from a chaotic one) or (and/or) some kind of civil war somewhere down the line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9D1svZ9Y0s