If you think I'm going to let middle aged leftists lecture me about mass migration when my generation are being pushed out of the housing market, education and can't get Drs appts because of uncontrolled migration
You would be wrong. I want my generation to have a future in 🇬🇧
True, if rather simplistic. For one thing, while the Blair-Brown “Labour” governments of 1997-2010 turbo-charged the mass immigration or migration-invasion of the UK, the Conservative Party has been in power now for 13 years, and by the time of the next GE will have been sitting there for over 14 years. In that time, immigration of all types has gone through the roof. Also, which party was in power for the 18 years before Blair?
Both main System parties are enemies of the British people.
Labour is one of the main gravediggers of our society, but the System’s other face, the “Conservative” Party, is another gravedigger, and is now burying our society very rapidly.
The only thing for the voters to do now is not to vote “Conservative”. I do not say vote Labour, but do not vote for Conservative Party candidates at the 2024 General Election. Either vote elsehow (however pointlessly), or abstain. The Con Party has to be binned. If it can be binned with sufficient force and effect, perhaps it can be almost killed off, allowing other political forces to take strength.
“Kelvin Ward was brutally stabbed as he left a KFC drive-thru with his 19-year-old son, who the group-of-four had been trying to kill on April 18, 2023.
Two teenagers and a man were today found guilty of killing the 50-year-old.
Coventry Crown Court heard how the three men were among a group-of-four attackers who rammed a Vaxuhall Corsa driven by Mr Ward’s son in the fast food chain car park, before turning on the father when the teenager managed to escape from them on Chester Road in Castle Bromwich…”
[Daily Mail]
[the streets of Birmingham; Daily Mail]
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The above four are just the tip of the iceberg. Only a social-national government can root out this country’s problems, and deal with them, permanently.
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“We don’t need any more oil and gas”
..says some guy next to Jo Brand who is “speaking out on climate emergency’. She is going to explain it to the lay person apparently.
The lay person understands more about about energy than these buffoons.
“What goes around comes around“… I am glad that I do not live in Kiev…
Israels' mass murder operation in Gaza has exposed the Western Medias myth of a Russian "Genocide" in Ukraine as a politically motivated fantasy,
The same Western Client Media that fuelled this lie is now willfully ignoring actual Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Gaza. Wake up pic.twitter.com/1D4D2RF0HZ
[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children!“]
The world has now moved on. Sovietism and its offshoots died in and after 1989. We now move to a new reality. Those people should be on our side, and we on theirs.
[SS-men take their sacred oath at midnight in Munich, 1938]
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Here is the daughter of Ukraines corrupt Head of Nikolaev Water Utilities celebrating her 16th birthday in her Mercedes SUV, while throwing money around. OUR MONEY! All while ukraine begs for more of it! pic.twitter.com/MoJ3EuTYT3
“Ukraine” (Kiev regime), a corrupt, shambolic non-state or failed state. The sooner it collapses, the better.
#Ukranian military cemeteries now filling up with young girls. #Zelensky didn't stop at the exterminating of the male population, he is moving on. Clearing out #Ukraine, the land is sold the population is decimated. Only Oligarchs are still buying villas and yachts. pic.twitter.com/uuCibTai5o
The @BBC has announced huge cuts to @BBCNewsnight as part of just released savings & digital reinvestment plans. The show will be shortened to 30 mins and become an “interview, debate and discussion show”. Reporter and other roles are being axed.
Newsnight, and its predecessor programmes in the same time-slot, were once solid current affairs shows. 1970s, 1980s. The rot set in when Kirsty Wark became the anchor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Wark]. She was, at the time, getting about £700,000 (in 1993) from the BBC and other sources.
Newsnight went downhill from there and has never recovered.
How far does money given by the public, either in regular donations or to support crowdfunding campaigns for the Good Law Project’s litigation go to the Treasury under an adverse costs order made by the court? Quite a long way, just under £0.5M (net of costs orders to pay GLP) https://t.co/m6ZUHSOtDb
That is in accord with my view: Russia to take Ukraine east of the Dnieper, together with a strip of land west of the Dnieper about 50 miles deep along the coast, and including Odessa. Kiev to be declared an open city akin to a semi-autonomous city-state.
That of course accords with the whole Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan agenda…if or when push comes to shove, there will be malleable non-white tools in key positions, ready to throttle any social-national upsurge.
While I have no reason to think that “Captain Tom” was other than “well-meaning”, that whole thing was just a ridiculous “silly season” kind of story, and was pushed by the mass media because it tended to validate the idea that NHS service is wonderful and that the NHS was only failing in its main mission because overwhelmed by the “Covid” virus (that in fact, statistically, killed very few people).
I was always suspicious of the hangers-on, especially the daughter, who now turns out to be yet another “grifter” or even fraudster, like so many around today: “Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii”, Jolyon Maugham, “Man Behaving Dadly” etc. Hundreds of this or that type are on Twitter alone.
As for the NHS, the cartoon below seems to encapsulate the public debate:
The NHS principle (“free at point of use”) is one I support, but it is clear that the NHS has lost its way. It —like the Welfare State generally— cannot work when mass immigration causes an endless line of new demand for its services. Also, maladministration has been patent for years, indeed for at least two decades. At present, the NHS is not really “doing what it says on the tin”. It is now a very hit-and-miss service.
Stopping the boats is much harder than the Govt thought it would be…. https://t.co/Ke4wgINUCS
They never really tried. Yet another political scam. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan requires Europe to be invaded by non-Europeans, particularly blacks and browns, and to be ruled by Jews and part-Jews. Look around you…
As far as the Channel migration-invasion is concerned, once a small number of boats were sunk (by Britain’s otherwise now-pointless Royal Navy), and that fact publicized, few others would even try; but the existing political system is either too weak, or implicated in the Coudenhove-Kalergi conspiracy, to take the initial harsh decision required.
Thus, instead of sinking the boats of the invaders, the Navy ferries the invaders to Dover, assisted by other corrupted organizations such as the RNLI, the Coastguard, the Border Force (“Farce”) etc.
Point proven. Not that humour is everything, but it helps.
🔦 Saturday spotlight on… Water voles 💙 Currently one of Britain's most endangered species, these endearing characters burrow into steep canal or riverside banks, forming a complicated system of underground tunnels and nesting chambers 🤩 Have you ever spotted one? 👀 pic.twitter.com/9gF9MuQCy6
— Canal & River Trust (@CanalRiverTrust) July 8, 2023
The failure of the assault of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the northern flank of Artemovsk The UAF is constantly attacking the strategically important settlement of Berkhovka, trying to break through the northern flank of Artemovsk pic.twitter.com/ikOeUWCK7z
Telegraph: Germany is trying to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO
An English newspaper, citing sources in NATO, reported that Germany plans to postpone Ukraine's accession to NATO as much as possible at the summit of this alliance in Lithuania.
Guess which countries will suffer the most if a major conventional war breaks out in Eastern Europe and then Central Europe? Germany and Poland. Naturally, Germans are concerned. As to the Poles, God knows.
‘Sergeant Major, what’s going on?’ ‘The geese know something we don’t, Sir.’ ‘What do you think it is?’ ‘I don’t speak goose.’ ‘Of course. How do we find out?’ ‘I’ll talk to the swans. They’ll know.’#birdwatching#wednesdaythoughtpic.twitter.com/sIEEPrNkSH
— Sgt Maj Norman French (@SgtMajFrench) June 7, 2023
Rewilding is NOT anti-people.
Quite the opposite: it can be a very powerful antidote to rural decline, revitalising not just nature but local economies.
It's happening right across Europe, let's embrace rewilding in Ireland too: we sure as hell need it.https://t.co/n3lHTSbNzg
The British have sharply accelerated the transfer to Ukraine of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine undergoing combat training, and some of them are not fully combat ready pic.twitter.com/FkmYuIWynV
Crazy Jewish woman, who holds herself out as being an expert in international relations and foreign trade, displays a complete lack of understanding, perhaps wilfully.
If Ukraine (Kiev regime) is allowed to join NATO, before very long there will be a situation created which might trigger “Article 5”, meaning that there would be war between Russia and the NATO states. The UK might then be subject to attack by strategic nuclear weapons. Nein danke…
Zelensky: “There is a signal that there may be another rebellion, a revolution in Russia. Moreover, there are many people who can support such a rebellion.” pic.twitter.com/6IwJUKjpSD
That is, in fact, Zelensky’s only real chance of achieving any sort of “victory” in this war, to have a revolution in Russia, thus collapsing the front-line; as in 1917, when Russia was facing the Central Powers.
“Russia is sliding off the oil needle”: the Russian budget returned to a surplus, and in June broke a record since March 2021
Last month, federal budget revenues exceeded spending by 800 billion rubles . And this despite the decline in oil prices and production cuts pic.twitter.com/6SHoo3OaN1
Russia has money coming out of its ears. The economic sanctions put in place by the EU, USA and UK have actually strengthened the Russian economy and strategically-hastened the fall of the post-1945 international order. The sanctions have mainly hit the taxpayers of the Western powers.
Russia should not allow anyone to "undo" its values — Medvedev According to the Deputy President of the Security Council of Russia, love for the motherland and the desire to defend it from the enemy are based on loyalty to one's family, care for loved ones, respect and support pic.twitter.com/fsgqmM6O0Z
Russia needs to strengthen its culture, and cut back on the products and values coming out of Hollywood, New York and other such centres of decadence. Films, TV, pop music etc.
I can remember a time when, if you drove outside the cities and towns your windscreen would be caked in insects. Something terrible has happened to our environment. I’ve never forgotten this book which detailed the causes so powerfully. pic.twitter.com/F65TBt34Eu
Feral untermensch on BBC Newsnight. Not just off some boat, but actually born here. Recipient, incredibly, of 13 years of State education.
Does anyone seriously believe that this useless creature is of any use whatever to this country? The same goes for the huge numbers like him.
You know what let me make it easier for her: JACK MONROE USED A FALSE STORY TO STEAL MONEY VIA PAYPAL DONATIONS AND REFUSES TO REFUND DONORS OR ACKNOWLEDGE THIER QUESTIONS.
Email/contact details in my bio. I can’t WAIT to see how she funds a “libel” suit this time 😂😂
— Kelly Jackson | It’s More Fun In Your 30s (@Kelly_Jackson88) June 2, 2023
Either “Jack Monroe” called in a few favours to get onto Question Time or the BBC has gone completely mad.
Question Time does not pay guests, but of course the free publicity and attendant credibility is worth rubies.
One to watch: will Jack Monroe finally face the music & be forced to reveal how much money she’s squeezed out of donors? Especially fund-raising for legal cases she never took to court? Tick tock… https://t.co/5E3tYwa4jE
After the recent revelations about how much cash Jack Monroe has scammed from people, and evidence of her habitual lies, I am genuinely surprised so many people are retweeting her fallacious rhetoric as if nothing has happened.
There is, quite obviously, an attempt now being made to turn the clock back and rehabilitate the reputation of thieving “grifter” “Jack Monroe”.
This is horrendous behaviour and I’m sorry it’s happened to you. She constantly complains people doxx her and then she does it to someone else simply for asking for a refund. Jack Monroe is the lowest of the low. #PayItBackJack
Oh, look… Jack Monroe is trending again. Pretending to live in poverty while they make loads of money. Oh look…. its not because they're pretending to be poor, it's because they just doxxed someone.
People have been trying to hold Jack Monroe accountable for her very questionable fund raising and Patreon subscriptions for some time now (she calls them trolls) Her response that she has to attend court is to dox the claimant to her 500K followers. WTF? https://t.co/AX9Ftry6cb
When #JackMonroe speaks at a festival or on TV, she gets away with cheap soundbites which play well in endlessly repeated social media clips. There’s no depth of analysis, no substance. The REAL experts like @jrf_uk are doing the real work. 👇 https://t.co/ouSFutwNcA
“Jack Monroe” is but a small part of a wave of lies and fakery that has swamped our culture for several decades. Not just online “grifters” such as Melissa Hadjicostas/”Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii”, Rachael Swindon (not as bad as the others, arguably), “Man Behaving Dadly”, Mike Stuchbery (antifa cheerleader and mentally-odd anti-free-speech type), “Dr.” Louise Raw, and many many others, but also political figures (prominent among which would be “Boris” Johnson, of course) and the msm-promoted “real world” “activists” such as Greta Nut.
It goes beyond even individuals, to beliefs and “causes”: “global warming”/climate change via “emissions”, “Black Lives Matter”, migrant-invaders as something somehow positive, “Ukraine”, “Covid”, “Covid” “vaccines”, UK “austerity” 2010-2023, “UK terror threat” from podcasters and tweeters such as Sven Longshanks and others, etc. The tendency of large-scale falsehood might be traced back to the still-flourishing “holocaust” and “anti-Nazi” farrago. History as mixed fact and fakery with, often, more fakery than fact.
Talking of “Sven Longshanks”, the political prisoner, his resettlement fund (to help him get back on his feet when he is released next year) remains open:
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
“Jack Monroe” stands out from the other two mentioned because she is a fake front or facade, with nothing behind it except her appalling “recipes”. Maugham is a barrister, and had a career, apparently lucrative, in that field before becoming an online personality. Owen Jones too, was known as scribbler on socio-political issues before he became a kind of msm/online caricature of himself.
“Jack Monroe” is actually more than a mere fake and “grifter”; she is a classic criminal type, psychologically (in my admittedly “non-expert” opinion), and who in other circumstances might have been (again, in my “non-expert” opinion) a career criminal, terrorist, or even something worse. She strikes me as being a dangerous woman. I think that the police should (at long last) start looking at both her fraudulent activity and her repeated organization of harassment against her critics.
Needless to say, the BBC etc should not allow her onto shows such as Question Time (which publicity wrongly validates her).
I’m so sorry LG, Jack Monroe has just shown what a nasty, vicious, narcissistic person she really is and proven what we’ve all been saying for months, that she doesn’t deserve her platform and she’s a danger to others with her grifting. Look after yourself xx
Hello new people. You've probably seen a number of my Tweets about how I'm facing Jack Monroe, aka @BootstrapCook in court soon. Here's the full story:
I subscribed to her Patreon. She failed to fulfil the contract and didn't send out any rewards. I asked for my money back. She…
Nasty new low from Jack Monroe in sharing the personal details of one of her victims who asked for a refund when they had wanted to stay anonymous online.
She plays the victim so much with accusations of people doxxing her then does it to others. pic.twitter.com/8r06WgTJxu
The worst of it is that, thanks to (LGBTQXYZ? Cocaine-abusing?) friends or contacts at the BBC, which contacts got her onto Question Time yesterday, “Jack Monroe” now has yet more msm “validation”, and many more ignorant mugs will probably be sucked into sending her cash via Patreon etc.
Having said that, and as Abraham Lincoln said, “you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time“. I notice that the number of Patreon mug donors sending cash to “Jack Monroe” is, as of today, 404, less than half of the number donating last year, and fewer than were donating even a month ago.
Between this and Jack Monroe on Question Time it’s not been a great night for the promotion of criminality on national television.
The tweets above attracted a host of “Jack Monroe” admirers to attack the tweeters. The admirers tend to be men (sometimes also women) of a certain age, and who want to “white knight” for the fraud/grifter. Pathetic.
As blogged previously, I see few if any young people taking “Jack Monroe” at face value; also, few if any ethnic minority people. I have speculated in the past that the latter probably know too much about real poverty or struggle, and /or look upon the swill “Jack Monroe” puts out as “recipes” with disdain or horror.
What I find incredible about the naivety of so many on Twitter is that they have been applauding the mediocre soundbite-uttering of “Jack Monroe” on Question Time as if it were some brilliant exposition of the horrible flaws of the “Conservative” governments of the past 13 years. In reality, she said (from what I have seen on Twitter) nothing new, nothing at all.
Appearing on Question Time and tweeting a bit about the “Tories” does not qualify as (serious) “campaigning“, by the way.
Not for the first time Jack Monroe has caused somebody great distress with her vile behaviour and sycophantic, vengeful flying monkeys pic.twitter.com/djiJ0xLc6S
Former Conservative party chairman, Chris Patten, condemns the economic situation in the UK citing inflation, lax monetary policy and Brexit, and calls for politicians to be honest with the public#bbcqthttps://t.co/x3u55OzAyypic.twitter.com/8xvCdvpfOP
— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) June 1, 2023
If Question Time is worth retaining (which I doubt), this is the kind of person who should be on it, despite my not agreeing with Patten on everything. Not “Jack Monroe, not Jess Phillips. Etc.
Why is it now obligatory to sob on television? Maybe I’m old school, but what happened to dignity? Moreover, the more they cry, the less believable it is. Phillip Schofield: Alison Hammond breaks down on This Morning https://t.co/tXi6l8fI8n
— Petronella Wyatt (@PetronellaWyatt) June 2, 2023
Jesus Christ! People are apparently sad about the fact that hugely overpaid ****-up, Phillip Schofield, has had to retire? I have to say that I never liked him anyway, though I never watch morning TV, but I had seen him on TV here and there.
People now are (or pretend to be) terribly upset about nothing, but often are not at all concerned about far greater matters.
Last week, the Scholfield business eclipsed the death of Martin Amis. Now it eclipses every serious new item. This doesn’t say much about us as a society. When did we become so trivial?
— Petronella Wyatt (@PetronellaWyatt) May 27, 2023
Leaving aside the Martin Amis news (which for me was not in any way major), Britain started to go wrong in the Thatcher era of the 1980s, and started to slide steeper downhill from, particularly, the Blair-Brown years. The UK may be still a bit of a “toytown” or “poundland” dystopian police state, but it gets darker all the time. It does not even have the saving grace of most police states— low (real) crime.
Everything must be done to prevent the announced offensive of Kiev against Russian forces, because it could have devastating consequences for Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. pic.twitter.com/AEG7WWg455
Well said. Russia is a major power, a major nuclear power. If the Zelensky regime thinks that that is an irrelevance, then anything could happen.
Footage of the destruction of equipment of saboteurs who tried to enter the Belgorod region the other day near the Shebekino checkpoint pic.twitter.com/jcZqdj8TIN
are climate fanatics, transgenderists, "refugees first & open borders" fanatics, globalists, in fact the entire NGO class not all ultimately sentimentalists? https://t.co/ZBIoRbs5vy
The quotation directly above expresses a fact which many prefer to ignore. Note— not “disagree with”, but ignore. They do not want the truth, but comforting (?) lies.
The UK is almost open-borders now. The “British” Government (packed with Jews, Indians, you name it) has basically given up the struggle to defend our borders. In that circumstance, how long can even the semblance of a “Welfare State” be maintained?
What seems to have been happening in Britain is that the outward forms have been and are being maintained but, at the same time, the content has been, and is being, hollowed out.
Not just Welfare State services such as State benefit levels, but allied aspects of society: the NHS is one. The NHS still exists, but underfunding and mass immigration is testing it to the limit. NHS dentistry is disappearing, in fact has almost disappeared. The GP service is now a skeleton of what it was only a few years ago.
Of course, “Covid”, or “the Covid crisis”, or “the pandemic” is a very useful excuse as to why standards cannot be maintained. You (apparently, supposedly) cannot see a GP or a dentist “because of” the “panicdemic” of 2020-2021.
That has become the contemporary version of the 1940s British excuse for non-availability of goods and services, as when, in the film of The Cruel Sea, senior Royal Navy Reserve officer Jack Hawkins calls over a steward at (?) the Trocadero in London to complain about dust in the decanter of water on his table, only to be told “I’m very sorry, Sir, it’s the war, you know…“, to which Hawkins replies, wryly, “well, in that case, I should not want to make too much of it” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruel_Sea_(1953_film)].
The same has been the case in very many areas of British life. When I was reading for the Bar in 1987, there was discussion about whether wigs and gowns would still be worn by barristers in the future. A wise old barrister replied that “they will get rid of everything else before they get rid of wigs in court“.
That turned out to be right. The Bar has changed radically since the 1980s, in a few respects for the better but in most respects for the worse, but those wigs are still there, at least in the Crown Court (though now more rare in civil cases, in both the High Court and in the County Court).
Look at the armed forces. The outward forms are still there, but the few remaining ships are merely like stumps sticking out of drought-hit fields. A couple of aircraft carriers without planes (!), and the officers and crews of warships (as seen on “reality TV”) seem pretty poor quality, at least from what is shown.
In fact, so useless are our armed forces now that “Boris” idiot recently suggested giving our remaining planes and tanks to the Jew Zelensky in Kiev, because the UK has no use for them! Johnson was derided, of course, but actually (while I would not want to support the Kiev regime) Johnson had a point.
The Navy now does little but ferry migrant invaders to the UK (!) and interdict drug smugglers (the only way to really stop the drug problem, though, is to hit the consumers in the UK, and hit them really hard).
Why do we even bother having a navy in those circumstances?
As to the Army’s tanks, they seem to be of no use at all here, and are only used for exercises and for occasional foreign misadventures such as Iraq, and that was decades ago.
The Royal Air Force? Most of its bases have been closed down, and most of the rest are really semi-disguised USAF bases.
Is there, likewise, much reality in the Monarchy? I think not. Not only The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta. Not only Prince Andrew, that useless and unpleasant freeloader. Not only the rest of them, but also their actual role. What are they for, really? Does their existence as “royals” really serve any purpose now?
The migration-invasion, and the general mass immigration into the UK, has ripped the stuffing out of this country. The original 1950s to 1970s immigration from former colonies turned Commonwealth countries was bad enough, but in the past ~40 years, and especially since about 1989, there has been a flood even from countries which which the UK has historically had few if any ties. That increased during and after Blair’s evil regime, i.e. post-1997.
The old idea was that immigrants, even non-whites, would just blend in with British people and their way of life. That was only a half-truth even half a century or more ago. Now, it is just not so; the numbers have become too great. Britain may be majority non-white as early as 2050, and even many of the European people here now are not British in any real sense; many are the rejected dross from the poorer parts on the continent.
It makes me laugh when I read in newspapers about how the UK is being “defended” by the armed forces, and by the security and intelligence bureaucrats. What are they now “defending”? Not the British people or their way of life, that’s for sure. That is being destroyed from within. Mass immigration. Births to non-whites. Corruption at Westminster. Cultural trash on TV , radio and elsewhere. Cheap hee-hawing by Jew comedians and others. All of that.
I tremble to think of what Britain might look like by 2050, let alone 2100, if we cannot reverse the process, or take the country in a new direction. I myself (b. 1956) will not be on Earth by then, but it may be that, before then, Fate will enable me to join with the best of my fellow Brits to change the mood music in the next 20 years. We shall see.
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Jack Monroe's involvement was debunked with a FoI request. She's since admitted it never happened.
Amazing how many quite educated and/or intelligent-seeming people, including well-known journalists, MPs etc have been so easily bamboozled by “Jack Monroe” and her tissue of lies.
#navycapital : The U.S. is considering the release of intelligence it believes shows that China is weighing whether to supply weapons to support Russia’s war in Ukraine https://t.co/NcFxlnnWdR
– Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would disappear if it lost its war in Ukraine. “If Russia stops the special military operation without winning, there will be no Russia; it will be torn apart,” he wrote on Wednesday. /8
I was of the view that Labour’s open door immigration policy (the real policy, not the “horseshit” fed to the public via the msm) would put voters off from voting Labour-label, but the “Conservatives”, under Indian money-juggler Sunak, are plainly bent on importing more millions, and have done nothing at all even to slightly reduce mass immigration, including the cross-Channel migration-invasion, so many people will just want to punish the Con Party even if knowing in their hearts that Labour will be no better in most respects— and worse in some.
Incidentally, that YouGov poll, if reflective of actual voting at the next general election, would give Labour the biggest Commons majority in history— a Commons majority of 430 [Labour 540, Con 20, LibDem 19, SNP 47, others 24 (inc. Northern Irish seats)].
Demonstrators disrupted traffic in London to paint a huge Ukraine flag on the road in front of the Russian embassy on the eve of the Ukraine war's first anniversary pic.twitter.com/xlSmf4DCms
That is what at any rate used to be the Consulate, the Embassy itself being nearby.
I remember standing in a long, slow line outside one of the gates in early 1993, the first time I needed a Russian visa.
In fact I had already been there once, in the 1980s, when I queued on behalf of my then girlfriend’s mother, who apart from being too aged to wait in line for hours, always seemed to have trouble there because she was born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg in or about 1908, and had insisted that her British passport reflect that and not (as per the silly Passport Office rule) Leningrad (the Passport Office staff always prefer to change places of birth to the latest name of the location, so “Tanganyika” is changed to “Tanzania” even if the latter was not in existence at the date of birth).
Of course, that 1980s visa for the old lady mentioned was a Soviet one, not a Russian one as such..
Incidentally, the fall of socialism in and after 1989, and the official end of the Soviet Union in 1991, brought a change in the way that the consulate treated its visitors. In the 1980s, an unwelcoming ambience and the strange little holes in the glass screen above the reception desk, as at old railway stations, the holes too low to speak through without stooping (they are —or used to be— everywhere in Russia, even at the Kremlin ticket office); in 1993, a new reception desk and no screen with little holes (in fact no screen at all, I seem to remember), and girls who actually smiled and were pleasant, unlike the sullen factotums of yesteryear.
The last two times I needed a Russian visa, in 1996 and 2007, I did not need to queue or to go there; commercial organizations will do it for you, at a price. I ended up going to Moscow again in 2007, but not in 1996, that visit having been called off at short notice, the very day before I was due to travel.
🇬🇧 Four arrests at London's Russian embassy as protesters paint massive Ukraine flag on road https://t.co/NOyPXSCQIU (Sky News UK)
My two closest friends are Ukrainians; one is ethnically from its western part, the other is from Chernihiv. One is w/ Western education. Both live in Ru. Both have relatives all over Ukr. Both consider our countries undivided and are really suffering from what is going on.
To all those who try to lecture me about Ukrainians (esp Westerners, who don’t know Ukr/Ru, have no clue about history, have never seen an Ukr in real life; whose knowledge is limited to what the mainstream says), just don’t do that. I just ban not to waste my time & nerves.
Someone on here (and detailed further on Kiwifarms) has successfully won in Small Claims Court against Jack Monroe bootstrapcook and is now progressing it to CCJ as she's failed to respond/refusing to pay.
I'd say it's almost certain that Jack Monroe is refusing to pay because in her nasty, narc head, she thinks she can do what she likes. She'd have to tell a lot of lies under oath to make it look like she can't rather than won't pay. Well done for getting thus far already 👏👏
As of today, the 502 hard-core mugs on Patreon are still sending “Jack Monroe” several thousand pounds each month.
It pleases me that every time I log onto twitter its either an Owen Jones binfire, a Jack Monroe binfire or trans rights activism is being shown the fucking door. It really does.
People of Britain: you know who your enemies are, and they are not the Russian people, not Putin, and not the so-called “far right” (social nationalists, who are fighting your fight)…
As far as ordinary System politics is concerned, the best result of any general election now is that the misnamed Conservative Party be simply wiped out, even at the cost of a Labour Party “elected dictatorship”. Once one half of the binary political scam has gone, sooner or later the whole rotten system will fall.
Meanwhile, the British people face high prices and shortages. Online repression means that I cannot suggest how to punish the freeloaders…
Actually, a friend of mine used to lunch quite often at the House of Lords in the 1980s and 1990s. Similar prices, or even cheaper, adjusted for inflation. Smoked salmon for pennies, main courses a couple of pounds.
Main square of local town. Stake. Blindfold. Firing squad.
In a better world…
In fact the tweet is mistaken, and the local newspaper report misleading. One untermensch was imprisoned for 12 years, the other for 10, meaning that, in fact, they will be out in 6 and 5 years respectively.
Odd though. How was the woman “lured” to the locus of the attack, a flat? Are we getting the full story here? I think not.
A little judicious “racism” might save many women and girls in the UK. Fact.
Even leaving aside the crime(s), what use are untermenschen of that type to the UK? They are nothing but a millstone round the collective neck. Useless humanoids. Get rid of them.
As said in relation to other matters, people know in their hearts what will eventually have to happen.
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to @AndrewMarr9 and @LBCNews: #NATO countries, with #UK among the leaders, are getting deeper and deeper into the #Ukraine conflict. This only prolongs it.
Why is the UK run like a 3rd world country? Why can Norway out perform us on every metric that counts? Why are we so poor? Why do we have lowest pensions at highest retirement age? Why are people waiting years to receive health care? What happened to the country I grew up in? 😭
The “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” situation continues
People like this, thinking they're doing the best for the 'wonderful desperate people' at breakfast club. Now they'll be armed with thrifty tips and some extra smugness. pic.twitter.com/F4pyHKanJB
“@frugally_minded” is a woman who was cheated by “Jack Monroe”, and who, despite being now in a parlous financial state, has been refused a refund by the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”.
Yeah, it's vile. She's also sneered at social housing in other tweets, and said she was so relieved that she didn't have to apply for it. As well as being a habitual liar, she's a snob. Sadly, her fan base are mostly middle class people like her, and so they can't see through her
No, she regularly claims that she is working class – she isn't, she even describes herself as middle class. You don't suddenly become working class just because you signed on for a few months. She was never a single mum either – she's a co parent, and has supportive parents
She blocks anyone who asks reasonable questions about her patreon including those who've requested a refund, charity money, PayPal, backstory, and anyone who questions any of her provable lies.
I saw an interesting allegation, which may or may not be true, to the effect that “Jack Monroe” is now subscribing to her own Patreon donation appeal, in order to keep the numbers up and prevent the perception that she is being abandoned by her real donors (hundreds of utter mugs).
— ♥️ never Tory 🚫😡Toxic & Cruel. (@Politics1951) January 3, 2023
Quite. There are a number of recognized defences to an action in defamation, one of which is “Truth” (formerly called “Justification”).
Apart from that, as that tweet implies, many potential claimants (“plaintiffs”, as was) will not want their business and life generally, exposed to public view. That of course applies a fortiori to those who may have unethical, or even criminal, matters to hide.
There is a further matter, which is that a claimant claiming that he/she has been defamed will have to spend much money bringing the matter to court, money which can only be recouped (and it may not be) from a wealthy, or affluent, or at least solvent defendant, or one who at least owns valuable real property.
We hear much (mainly on Twitter) about how people can sue others using litigation insurance etc, or “pro bono” lawyers. It’s not as easy as that.
Firstly, litigation insurance will only be available where it is thought that a claim is not only well founded in law and fact but also where the putative defendant has assets, or income, that might satisfy any claim.
You can see where that leaves the “Bootstrap Cook”— up a gum tree. The last thing she wants is forensic and/or judicial examination of her allegedly dishonest and/or near-fraudulent “grifting” cottage industry.
In any event, most of those criticizing her probably have next to nothing, certainly not enough to satisfy the legal costs (and award of damages) flowing from a successful defamation action.
The house owned by Katie Hopkins had to be sold to cover both the actual award to “Jack Monroe” (£24,000) and the costs of the claimant (£300,000), most of which went to her lawyers, meaning to her solicitor and —I think, two— Counsel.
Incidentally, “pro bono” properly refers to cases taken by a lawyer for no fee, not the “no win, no fee” speculative type; as when one of my tutors at degree level, who was an Old Etonian, appeared pro bono for Eton College in a 1980s High Court matter involving, I believe, land and trusts.
Someone like me, without real property, valuable assets, or much of an income, is effectively “unsueable”, unless the claimant were willing to accept that any award made, and costs which might top half a million pounds (bearing in mind appeals etc) would be irrecoverable. Of course, what at least used to be called a “prohibitory injunction”, and/or a “mandatory injunction” (those being orders to prevent a repeat of any alleged libel, and/or to order the taking down of the libel complained of) might be ordered, true, but at what cost!
All those tips are good – nothing unsafe about them. My mum used to have a glass rolling pin to fill with cold water. We are so far removed from making things for ourselves, that it seems alien to us.
Because she's not helping only herself. She is patronising & adds to the narrative that the poor are stupid, when she calls herself a working class woman & takes up that space she takes it from actual working class women
So tweeter “@sarahcam3ron”, apparently one Sarah Cameron, thinks that “Jack Monroe’s” suggestion of using a mallet and a chisel or knife to open a can (when you can get a new basic tin can-opener for a little as £1 in a cheap supermarket, or a used one for 20p in a charity shop) is good advice for “the poor” (seen as a “huddled mass” yearning to be preached to). These “Jack Monroe” fans and partisans believe what they want to believe.
In fact, the same tweeter seems to think that the bad behaviour of “Jack Monroe” is de minimis in the face of larger injustices in society: see below.
Extraordinary unjustified cruelty against her, especially when so many people in power enable the deaths & suffering of 1000s. Tories prevent hungry children being fed, destroy the NHS, 1000s die from austerity & Covid. Jack writes a book, & she’s the villain. Ffs.
“Jack writes a book“? Try “Jack fleeces hundreds, indeed thousands, of people out of money most cannot really afford“. In any event her ‘recipes’ are largely carb-heavy slush that must be hard to stomach for many, from what I have seen.
Does anyone not totally loony think that a nutritious feed can be had for (as “Jack Monroe” claims) 11p per person? Even hardcore Con MP Lee Anderson only claims he can make such for 30p, and I (admittedly no cook) doubt whether anyone can make a decent lunch/dinner for less than about £1. I suppose a slice of toast with a Burford Brown very large egg on it— that would cost about 70p.
Frankly, I should rather have a peanut-butter and lettuce sandwich or two (cost? maybe 40p, if that) than any of the stuff I have seen from the “Bootstrap Cook”— and it would also remind me of when I was 10-11 years old and had that (with some slices of rock melon) every day at Middle Harbour School in Mosman, Sydney, in 1967, sitting outside in the warm sun.
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Melibe viridis is a carnivorous sea slug with a gelatinous vacuum cleaner for a head. 😮 pic.twitter.com/STJbC1e2c4
.@seosquinn. Nobody has to take my advice. Hardly anybody ever does But the idea that a battle is now raging for the soul of Britain, which we cannot desert, is just piffle. What struggle there was ( not much) ended many years ago . People should stop dramatising themselves. https://t.co/ZhtW9RmgWv
It would not matter were a kind of mundane Ragnarok to take place, so long as the 1% —or 10%, so be it— of the population left at the end were relatively cultured, reasonably capable, and European.
What "disabilities", what "disadvantages"? It's not about envy, it's about morals and her lack of them.
Using disabilities as an excuse from reprehensible behaviour is vile. But many have come to expect that from Jack Monroe.
She even tried to make #Grenfell all about herself.
Her ‘alcoholism’ back story is riddled with so many elements that just don’t add up. 200 units of alcohol a week? Then stopping completely. I word in healthcare and this would literally kill her.
There are bigger issues facing the UK than “Jack Monroe” allegedly scamming a few thousand well-meaning or virtue-signalling “mugs” out of a total of maybe (?) £6,000 a month. Yes. No argument.
There are bigger issues facing the UK than “Jack Monroe” (to use the Essex argot) “blagging” her way to a mass media semi-“celebrity” profile in the Guardian or on TV. Yes. No argument.
Having conceded the above, I just find it absolutely infuriating both that that person seems to have cheated all those people, some genuinely “poor”, out of money, and also that the msm scribblers and talking heads in this country are so dim and negligent that they accept many poseurs and/or frauds at face value, without checking them out; and that applies not only to the “Bootstrap Cook”, but to many many others, from “Boris” Johnson and Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, Liz Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng), to relatively obscure individuals such as Aisha Ali-Khan (featured on yesterday’s blog: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2023/01/02/diary-blog-2-january-2022-2/).
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@TrussellTrust having looked at the “tips” from @bootstrapcook in the book you’re planning to distribute to foodbank users I’m both concerned and deeply insulted. These tips are dangerous and patronising, as a food bank user myself I’d be insulted by this book.#thriftykitchenhttps://t.co/IMbrxeTfsa
No, you don't need to break your paring knife to open a tin: just buy a tin-opener—cheaper. You don't need to buy tins of spaghetti hoops & rinse them; just use dried spaghetti. Nor do you need to boil down soap to make shower gel; just wash with soap (which is no cheaper anyway)
As someone whose income is low & who has in the past been pretty skint (I was a dance teacher, guys), I empathise with poor people. But I also recognise that this has become another form of victimhood culture.
Awful too. Essentially saying that hopefully a book urging poor to budget better/embrace hideous 'tips' – supposedly purchased by those in poverty – will secure Monroe, from a middle class background with limited experience of poverty, a home. Mercenary! https://t.co/y5LDvlB73T
They are steeped in a long history of condescension and poverty tourism. Wealthy imagining poverty they'll never understand, judging behind thin veneer of helping, providing tips of no value because they write about an existence they've never had. It's harmful because rather than
challenge poverty it ultimately accepts it. Claims Italian meals can be had by poor from spaghetti hoops – ignoring lack of money to buy good ingredients, to travel, go to restaurants, even get a take away. It's a lie! Masks horrors of poverty to satisfy fantasies of wealthy.
“Jack Monroe” has surely descended into the realms of Monty Python now. Nutritious lunches made for only 11p a head, opening cans using a knife and a hammer, or mallet (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, ROSPA, must love that one), and her various weird and not very wonderful “tips” reading like a dystopian Blue Peter charade.
I think that it is no accident that most of her supporters on Twitter seem to have mental problems of one sort or another. Many seem pretty stupid as well. Example? See below:
I spent about a month using my lads pen knife (that hook like blade similar to the bottle opener) to open cans when my can opener broke. I had the money to get one but just kept forgetting and I don't open that many cans without ring-pulls these days.
Ffs, of all the things to get angry about. It goes to show that those fuckers have never struggled…and to be honest neither have I to that extent but it doesn’t stop me imagining or empathising. Happy new year Jack Monroe x
People are angry about “Jack Monroe”, and the reason is that she has been making a good living by pretending to care about “the poor”, while taking money from, in some cases, genuinely poor people, and not even giving them what she promised, and because her food looks to many like “Mahashma Gandhi”, a dog’s dinner of beans and noodles mixed with curry powder etc.
Below, someone with more sense:
I've been poor and even homeless for a while so I saw straight through Jack Monroe immediately and I can't understand why so many people on my timeline fell for it. Does it have something to do with her being a middle-class person's idea of what a person giving advice would be?
The only poverty she campaigns against is that of her own "faux poverty".
Jack Monroe is a scammer and fraudster – why not ask her how many copies of the cookbook actually made it to foodbanks after this little cash grabbing stunt?
Day by day more evidence emerges that lockdowns were a catastrophe. When will those responsible admit they got it horribly wrong? You know who you are!
She is right, just as I and others were. People, many of them, don’t want to hear that. No, our national economic problems, they say, are caused by “Covid”, by Putin, by the war in Ukraine, by “climate change”, by anything other than the 2020-2021 ridiculous lockdown shutdown(s) of the UK for up to 2 years.
Enjoy your 11p “Jack Monroe” dinner in the dark and cold, once you get that can of ASDA cheapo spaghetti hoops open with a mallet and knife! And don’t forget to bring a couple of forks to the feast!
Late tweets
MFA spox #Zakharova: Ukraine, with its fertile lands & rich natural resources, through efforts of current #Kievregime pursuing a nationalistic Russophobic policy, has become one of the poorest European economies and is on its way to becoming a new colony of the #collectiveWest. pic.twitter.com/t6tCrXwx8Y
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul; he scored 4/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 6, 7, and 8.
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MSNBC. Ukraine cannot get to conflict termination until they can conclusively defeat the Russian Army in the field. Time to relook US and NATO policy. Ukraine being battered to death by Russian drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles. pic.twitter.com/pKnRdWh9S8
Even were Ukraine (the Kiev regime) able to defeat Russian forces, decisively, in the field, which is unlikely, that result would only then lead to the use by Russia of tactical or even strategic nuclear weapons, or to the decision to use fleets of bombers to reduce Kiev to rubble. Putin cannot accept the loss of “captured” territory in the “Russian” areas of Ukraine (Crimea and the Donbass), whatever happens
This is an absolutely brilliant forensic takedown of the fraud that is Jack Monroe. Please read it and share it far and wide. I’ve been attacked on many occasions for pointing out what a charlatan she is, this document shows just how bad her behaviour is. https://t.co/JjCDITdjSj
Typical of the Church of England in 2022— slab-faced lesbian priestesses preaching the gospel of “woke”. Time to disestablish this institution.
Twitter
The layout seems to have changed overnight. No longer is there a “latest” (tweets) column, allowing one to peruse a timeline in sequence by subject. This is very poor, eroding much of the point of Twitter.
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🚨 | As more elderly end up in hospital with hypothermia ‘afraid to put the heating on’ we can never remind the public enough of political failures.
Nick Clegg in 2010 saying nuclear not an answer because it wouldn’t come online until 2022.
Clegg and his Spanish lawyer wife now live in one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in the USA, near San Francisco. He betrayed the British people before taking the Facebook shilling (in fact, millions) and fleeing to the United States.
Amazingly, supporters of Rcn leader Pat Cullen are *still* claiming she did well in this exchange with me on BBC Question Time. They tend not to link to the actuality: https://t.co/Y1dcTYhGo3
Pro-life supporter Isabel was standing silently in a public street. Approaching her, a policeman asked: "Are you inwardly praying?" When she said she might have been, he arrested her. @seatradelaw on why Public Space Protection Orders should worry us all.https://t.co/oCRWEJmJ0w
Scott Ritter on the death of negotiation due to Merkel's admission that the West cheated Putin about wanting a peaceful resolution but really wanting time to prepare Ukraine for war. 8 years of incessant bombardment by the Ukrainian gov against the people of the Donbass resulted pic.twitter.com/9rs0957Hqa
— #CeasefireNow #BDS #Yemen #Kashmir #Assange (@ChristineJameis) December 16, 2022
Scott Ritter: "The provision of the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine will not change the outcome of this conflict. Ukraine is going to lose, and it is going to lose badly." pic.twitter.com/nduWuqoWrw
The kefuffle around the crowdfunder launched by “Dr” Louise Raw to (ostensibly) sue Jeremy Clarkson continues, with people not only saying that it is doomed on its own terms (for legal reasons, and as I pointed out a few days ago on the blog), but suggesting that the whole thing is a “grift” or near-(?) fraud by Louise Raw, something which I doubted when I wrote about it (if only because it seemed to me that it would be difficult to get away with a blatant fraud of that sort). Maybe I was too kind.
As to why gofundme was used instead of The crowdjustice platform, I also believe that refunds are possible via crowdjustice to the campaign donors
You’re quite right that the money will be paid out to Louise Raw, unless she has nominated a Beneficiary in accordance with GFM’s terms and conditions. If she had, that would appear on the crowdfunding page. Once in her control, she has no contractual obligation to account for it
Oh and this claim about “every single penny” isn’t strictly true, as GFM charge platform fees for using their service. Also, donation of a surplus fund in this form deprives charities of Gift Aid that UK taxpayer donors might otherwise lawfully claim on their donations pic.twitter.com/uRBiGdXIbV
I had thought that Louise Raw would not want to taint her “militant” or pseudo-revolutionary image to her mug followers on Twitter by keeping some of the money for her own use. On the other hand, the said “woke” mug Twitter followers are usually pretty dim, as can be seen in some of their responses to the legal critique of this doomed attempt to sue Clarkson.
Come to that, look at the fundraiser promoted by Roanna Carleton-Taylor on behalf of “grifting” fake “historian” and “journalist”, Mike Stuchbery (along with some Paki-stani solicitor whose name I forget). They raised about £12,000, which as far as I know has never since seen the light of day.
Unless I discover otherwise, I shall believe that, on the balance of probabilities, those monies were split between “Roanna” and Stuchbery, with the solicitor getting a bit by way of “professional fees” (for doing almost nothing but sending one letter to Tommy Robinson). Certainly, no legal action was ever launched. About 800 “woke” mugs donated to that crowdfunder.
Stuchbery still has over 88,000 Twitter followers, though Roanna Carleton-Taylor has apparently withdrawn from online activism (I have no idea whether or not the police took an interest in her and/or her husband’s other activities, as claimed by some people). Anyway, there it is.
Then, of course, we have —what increasingly looks like— a continuing and outright “grift” by the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”, who calls herself “Jack Monroe”.
As of today, 643 mugs, donating regularly via Patreon, are closing their eyes to the very telling exposures of “Jack Monroe” which have appeared since, especially, August 2022; they are supplying her, in aggregate, with monies amounting to some sum between £2,300 and £30,000 each month. Maybe, at a pure guess, about £6,000 or so, monthly. Probably taxfree, too.
“Jack Monroe” also had a crowdfund appeal going from May 2022, ostensibly in order that she could sue MP Lee Anderson and political activist/commentator Martin Daubney. People donated, but (quelle surprise) the “defamation case” has never been initiated, and the monies donated have disappeared into what might be called the “Jack Monroe” lifestyle fund…
“Jack Monroe”, despite everything, not only still has that cadre of 643 utter mugs sending her money every month, but also has no fewer than 563,000 “followers” on Twitter.
Even that ridiculous West Indian woman who caused a fuss recently at Buckingham Palace, and who literally “cosplays” as a tribal African, not only managed to rip off £170,000 before people started to look into the affairs of her blacks-only “charity”, but also, tellingly, has since then managed to get hundreds of mugs to donate another £36,000 in order to help to buy “her charity” a house. Unglaublich!
In other words, those “grifters” have not at all been damaged by what some have been calling outright theft of donated monies, because they make the right sort of “politically correct” or “woke” noises.
Perhaps that is what will happen to Louise Raw’s crowdfunder, i.e. a small amount will go to a solicitor, and Counsel, in return for a nicely-written Advice advising that legal action against Clarkson is impossible, after which Louise Raw will (I speculate, of course) keep whatever is left, perhaps donating a thousand or so to a domestic violence charity (on the publicized record, for public show).
Louise Raw is notably reticent with some information, e.g. as to her own background, including where she studied for her “doctorate” (if any) and her first and Master’s degrees (if any). It may be that she never will give information as to where the bulk of the monies raised went (or shall we say “disappeared”?). All she would have to do, on that hypothesis, is to say that the monies went to suitable “good causes” and that the “good causes” “requested no publicity” or some such. “Jack Monroe” has tried that one in the past, and the mug donors just accepted it as true, so…
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Legal grift. It has the added bonus of getting you the approbation of the Good People who think Good Things.
The first tweet above of course refers to 1. The absurd Marlene-something-posing-as-African; 2. “Jack Monroe” (and her dog’s dinner “cooking”); 3. Dr. Julia Grace Patterson (was very briefly an NHS doctor, now lives off “grifting” and/or selling useless facemasks etc); 4. Either Louise Raw, or notorious fox-batterer Jolyon Maugham, the narcissistic New Zealand-educated barrister and “activist”, and his largely pointless “Good Law Project” (anyone who saw his lamentable ignorance on Christmas University Challenge recently might prefer to keep their money).
Incidentally, I just saw a few tweets by “Jack Monroe” about how hard it was for her (supposedly a recovering alcoholic) to find mince pies in the supermarket made without alcohol. Surely a quasi-professional cook would make her own, especially at Christmas? Oh, well, there it is.
She is attempting not only to crowdfund but to crowdsource the victims of the proposed harassment claim, as if that would be effective in any way, given the wording of the statute
Those refer to Louise Raw and her stupid (or maybe not so stupid, if indeed it is a “grift”) crowdfunder.
I was just trying to remember what were the best fees I myself ever got for one-off written Advices when I was at the Bar. I do not include advice given when I was a salaried lawyer overseas in the late 1990s (Kazakhstan, Caribbean, elsewhere), and provided to large companies such as Raytheon, because I was then charged out at about USD $400 an hour, but that money went to the law firm(s), not me personally.
I think that the best fees for basic written Advices that I myself ever had were somewhere in the region of (in the money of 15-30 years ago) somewhat short of a thousand pounds (you could/might double that to put it in the money of 2022), so fairly modest compared to Counsel in the best —or best-padded— chambers.
I do recall, when working in Charleston (South Carolina) in 2002, telephoning to London to ask the Clerk of one of the top company law chambers in Gray’s Inn as to how much a written Advice from one of their QCs would cost. The document in question was 17pp long, but the only important bit consisted of only two paragraphs, and on only one page. A few alternatives were offered, but the bottom line was— £4,000 to £5,000. Again, maybe you would have to increase that by 50% or even 100% today, but even so, the £15,000 appealed for by Louise Raw seems high, particularly in view of the non-commercial subject-matter.
Twitter’s new feature comes into its own as it shows that Louise’s tweet is heading towards 100,000 views with 0.01 percent positive engagement pic.twitter.com/sAfUZWI9Ss
“Wokes” such as “Dr” Louise Raw always claim to be speaking up etc for the people, but the said “wokes” seem to forget that they chose the losing side re. Brexit, in the 2017 and 2019 General Elections, the 2016 US Election etc. Not that I myself favour Trump or the “British” Conservative Party, or even mishandled Brexit, as such, but the “wokes” are in a Twitter (etc) echo chamber where they refuse to even listen to, or see, any views contrary to their own; indeed, they try to “deplatform” people, as do the Jew-Zionists. Louise Raw is a prime example of an “I’m not listening” “woke”. No wonder they always get things wrong.
Incidentally, Louise Raw is on Twitter as “@LouiseRawAuthor”. “Author“?Technically so, because she has had one (non-fiction) book published, a decade or so ago. Is that really enough, though, to validate a self-description as an “author“? Maybe in her world, just as it seems to be OK, in her world, or mind, to call herself “Doctor” based on a “doctorate” granted (if indeed she has one) on the basis of the same subject-matter as her sole book, a strike of match-factory girls in London in 1888.
In the unlikely event that such pests and nuisances knock at the door of my humble home, I shall politely tell them “no thanks” and then (if they persist) to go away. After that, the iron bar comes out.
Instead of refurbishing Grade I and Grade II-listed landmarks to use as youth centres or much-needed housing, some councils have given them away for ‘very, very low’ sums.
Prior to this, the building had been used to house art and public works, including an exhibition by curator Ben Moore in April of this year. pic.twitter.com/V6otGFdC91
Cowen argues that given it’s hard to buy a house for ‘anything less than £2 million’ in Fulham, selling the landmark for £10 million was ‘absolutely ridiculous’.
He tells Metro: ‘Our predecessors sold it in 2014 alongside a lot of other properties very, very cheaply.’
Dozens of Freedom of Information requests to all London borough authorities reveal that Hammersmith and Fulham Council is not alone in disposing of historic public assets. pic.twitter.com/Jy4Ev2x8Mt
The Grade II-listed property, which shut in 2015, was bought by the Redeemed Christian Church Of God – an expansionary religious movement from Nigeria – in 2019 for £1.8 million.
Located a 10-minute stroll from Wood Street, Snow Hill police station is being transformed into a 219-room hotel by Premier Inn.https://t.co/g5pCoaWCYB
There is another point: society needs public landmarks, buildings (and monuments); landmarks which are for specifically public purposes: local government, courts, libraries, religious buildings, museums. This is of importance in maintaining the actual structure of society, and the buildings and other constructions should be grand, or even grandiose.
Makes her little child wear a facemask even when in a park or other open space. Seems mentally unstable.
More information: looks as if the lady doctor in question has in fact never actually practised medicine, nor does she even hold a licence to practise, yet Sky News has her on as a “doctor” who knows all about “Covid” etc!…Sky News should not be publicizing this crank: see https://www.everydoctor.org.uk/team.
Regular readers of the blog will know how sceptical I am about doctors who become (actual or wannabee) politicians (or, indeed, who become barristers, as have a few I have encountered in the past).
Saw another episode of the period crime drama (set c.1900), Vienna Blood. As before, quite good, not boring, but once again we had a Chinese woman working at Vienna Police HQ, and in this episode also saw a half-caste person, or maybe North African, as an “Austrian” monk in a monastery! I suppose not completely impossible but, as with the Chinese woman at police HQ, unlikely. Part of the propaganda (((agenda))) of the Coudenhove-Kalergi conspiracy.
Christmas University Challenge
Saw a Christmas University Challenge featuring well-known alumni from Birkbeck and from Portsmouth, one of whom was the prolific tweeter and barrister, Jo Maugham, perhaps best known to the general public for having battered a fox to death. He was pretty hopeless, despite seeming very full of himself; also, he could do with either a better tailor or better taste, looking at his pink jacket.
Actually both teams were pretty poor, and my wife and I scored far more than both of them put together.
An irritating start to the day. I awoke late. Usually, I switch off my radio once the BBC World Service, and Radio 4 Farming Today, is finished for the day, so that I do not have to hear the Today Programme and its annoying mixture of official propaganda, harshly hectoring female presenter tones and Jewish-Zionist bias. It has become unlistenable.
Today I missed, and left the radio on. The result was that I woke up to find being interviewed, the part-Jew barrister, Jolyon Maugham Q.C. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolyon_Maugham].
It may be that my readers on this blog will already be familiar with Maugham via his prolific tweeting, his pro-EU stance etc. He makes a great deal of money practising in the field of tax law.
However, the BBC and some other parts of the msm [see below] reported that the fox was in fact killed at Maugham’s London home; that, though superficially implausible, is in fact quite possible, as the “urban fox” has proliferated.
[above: vulpine interloper at the National Portrait Gallery, London]
[above: urban fox moves around the National Portrait Gallery out of hours]
Maugham is no longer facing prosecution by the RSPCA. His Today Programme interview rather exposed him, in my opinion. He, like the good QC that I assume he is, examined the wording of the statute in question, then put a certain complexion on that wording in order to exculpate himself. It might even be argued that his exposition almost invited people to pat him on the back for having complied with the statutory wording!
He must be a good barrister. As to whether he is a good man, well, “the soul of another is a dark wood” (Russian proverb— “чужая душа тёмный лес”). G.K. Chesterton once wrote that “if a man can shoot his grandmother at a distance of a mile, he may be a good shot, but is not necessarily a good man.”
What I found lacking in Maugham’s interview this morning was any expressed sorrow at what the fox suffered. It was all “me me me, I, I, I.” He feels (it seems) no sorrow, no guilt, nothing at what (he seems to be saying) he had to do. In fact, was that so, anyway? He could have telephoned the RSPCA, presumably. He seems to be saying that the law almost insists on someone in his situation doing what he did, and that seems doubtful.
“It is an offence to mutilate, kick, beat, nail or otherwise impale, stab, stone, crush, drown, drag or asphyxiate any wild mammal with intent to inflict unnecessary suffering (Section 1 Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996)” [CPS Guidance]
A grey area, but the wording requires “intent to inflict unnecessary suffering” to ground a charge.
Of course, the law was drafted and passed with country landowners and farmers in mind, rather than London-dwelling barristers keeping chickens in their gardens (which to me seems an extraordinary thing to do anyway, and not a little silly).
It is true to say that foxes, unchecked, do a great deal of damage, and are liable to kill chickens en masse for the hell of it. Answer: protect your chickens properly.
Overall, Maugham seemed to be making himself, not the fox, the “victim”. There seemed to be a good deal of deflection going on.
The very next item on Radio 4 Today was the Chief Pharisee talking about the Purim festival in Judaism, which starts this week, apparently. As can be read in the Wikipedia article below, the Purim festival, like most if not all Jewish religious festivals, is a celebration of Jewish exceptionalism and tribal ethno-nationalism:
A young Jewish woman is introduced to the king of the Persians. Her Jewish identity is concealed. She eventually marries the king, becomes queen (still concealing her Jew identity), takes over the kingdom from within, then, revealing her ethnic identity, has the “anti-Semitic” (anti-Jewish) adviser to the king killed, along with over 75,000 of his family and other enemies of the Jews. The Jews then effectively rule Persia.
The above is what “they” celebrate as a religious festival.
As to Radio 4, the disproportionate Jewish and Zionist influence (and output) has been growing since the 1990s, and that influence is especially apparent on the Today Programme. It is also true of BBC World Service, which has hugely declined in quality since the 1980s. Sad.
A bad joke…
The social security or “welfare” “reforms” of the past decade, “masterminded” by dimwit Iain Dunce Duncan Smith and others, may be a joke, but a bad one, and the results are far from amusing for millions. Duncan Smith and the others have never been properly (or at all) punished for their evil.
Back in 2016 years ago I had to go for my #PIP assessment, mainly because I returned the questionnaire the @DWP sent me with a post-it note on the front saying "As I'm not a salamander my legs have not grown back yet."
Saw Oliver Dowden MP [Con, Hertsmere], now Culture Secretary, on Sky News All Out Politics. Wikipedia describes him as “one of the brightest political strategists”. I wonder who wrote that. He gives the impression of being a bit of a dimwit, if truth be known. He was talking about Coronavirus, surely outside the ambit of his brief (though constitutionally any Secretary of State can fill in for any other).
Dowden may have been chosen to appear because he was in public relations at one time. If that was the reason why he was talking, it did not convince me. This government’s response to Coronavirus seems sluggish and complacent. George Osborne, on Today earlier, seemed to want a far more energetic and urgent response from government.
Trevor Phillips
The “anti-racist” (etc) revolution continues to devours its children:
— Dr Dominic Pimenta MD (@DrDomPimenta) March 9, 2020
Jesus H. Christ! Will you look at this idiot, posing as “Prime Minister”?! Talking simplistic crap to that little fag-end Philip Schofield and the bimbo (whoever she is)…
What kind of bad karma does the UK have, to have an incompetent, stupid poseur like Boris-idiot as supposed head of government at such a time?
If it were not for not wanting the dreary boredom of the thought police at my door (again), I would say straight out what I think should be done with this bastard and his bastard Cabinet of traitors, spies, criminals and nincompoops.
Ian Robert Millard 