A combination of the crazy “lockdown” “strategy”, and the dangerous and untested “vaccine”(s); the facemask nonsense too.
New book
Happened to see, on Sky News, the Chief Economics Correspondent of the Financial Times, a Jew called Wolf (I missed the first name), who has a book out about capitalism and democracy. It sounded interesting, from what he was saying.
The presenter somehow managed to bring in “holocaust” “denial” (historical revision), though the author did not seem to want to dwell on that. I wonder how many people were thinking “how is the present state of the world and Europe the fault of so-called holocaust deniers?“; I certainly was. A side-issue at best.
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This morning, so far, I have heard that 5 acquaintances in their 40s and 50s have either died or have serious mystery illnesses. All multi vaxed. 😬
Only group that gives me sense of hatred is white male liberals in Western society. There is something depraved and contemptible about going along with your own dispossession/destruction, and even crowing about it, declaring your virtue. Would like to step on them like ants.
And that's the goal. It is plain to see. The aims of the globalist great reset are not trivial. They are attempting to tear down and re-frame EVERYTHING. And they want this rapid evolution to happen in a ridiculously short time span.
In nearly 30 years as a professor, the meritocratic standards have been eroded in an astounding march toward mediocrity. Number of credits for a degree are constantly reduced; grade inflation is rampant; standardized tests are removed (even for graduate school). It is UNREAL.
The present world culture, based on Europe and on European implants elsewhere (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, much of South America etc), is dying, not with a bang but with a prolonged whimper. Indeed, it may be that only a bang, or a series of bangs, will save us from annihilation as a culture, and as white European people(s).
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Totally indulgent special one off treat at Ivy Restaurant – lobster linguine
Who is that “Jack Monroe” supporter? Her Twitter profile: “Strategic Leader/Transformation Director. Ambassador @FiMTrust, Board Member 15yrs @actnforchildren #boycottyourbed Opinions my own and I’m on the left!“…
OK…
Another one who is far from “poor” or “struggling“, of course.
Seems that today’s “Jack Monroe” distraction tactic is “what is your favourite pasta dish?“. In the language of the 1950s, “don’t the mugs ever twig?“— seems not, though her Patreon “grift” is ebbing away: months ago, 800+ mugs were sending her money monthly, after Jewish TV cook Nigella Lawson promoted her; that number reduced to 636 after her dishonesty etc was exposed to the light more, then 522 (yesterday). Today— 495.
Or she’s so bad with money that she pays for each one as she can’t be bothered being careful which means she’s the wrong person to be advising on money saving! Don’t need to cut your food budget to £20 Jack if you don’t waste Monet everywhere else.
For someone who has therapists, attends 10 AA meetings a week, has unlimited friends that check on her daily, family, agent, jounos etc aka a very healthy support network I’ve never seen someone so unhinged and flakey?
Also if it’s taking that much from your monthly disposable income then you would think somebody so “financially insecure” would be highly motivated to sort it.
True, in a sense, but we have a moral duty to protect the vulnerable, including those unable to see that they are being ripped off. We may not be able to protect them, but we must try.
Guessing her attempts to bury problems under a pile of hash browns didn't work then? Honestly, it must be harder to continue this nonsense than to do the decent thing & refund Patreon, she still has PayPal, tip jar, book sales, appearance fees. (This has put me off Patreon too)
But once it done, it’s done? It renews itself? You take out lightbulbs, melt soap which save pennies but don’t take 5 minutes to set up something that could save a significant amount of money.
And I’m not fixated, I’m shocked that somebody who has made a profession from being poor hasn’t done this most basic and simple task to save a lot of money. Imagine the difference that money could have, and still could make to her and her sons life?
She literally has made a career out of 18 months in benefits, her whole niche is poverty and supposedly helping people who are in poverty while campaigning against those that cause it. I say supposedly because there’s no evidence of anything other than self serving behaviour.
No, her books have all been poor quality recipes that don’t really work, cost too much in ingredients to start with and are nutritionally so poor that people would be sick living in them. I know because I bought her books in desperation and they were useless.
I “predict” that, in the end, “Jack Monroe” will be “supported” and/or funded (via Patreon etc) only by a small minority consisting of the mentally-unwell and/or obsessives and/or well-meaning “mugs” aged over 60.
(ps. not that I dislike people over 60 years of age…after all, I myself am 66 —not “666“, though, despite my full name adding up to that number under one system of numerology!).
#Buyakevich: The West does not want to see true reasons for their current difficulties,namely the deliberate crash of traditional economic ties with🇷🇺.For example,sabotage acts on gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea: overseas beneficiaries of those acts do not hide their satisfaction pic.twitter.com/Bb0nj54qu3
Very true. If the UK were to re-establish trading relationships with Russia, and withdraw from NATO, Russia would supply us with gas at knockdown prices. Result? An end to cold homes in the UK, and a boost for British industry.
I feel like I’m totally hooked on this because I genuinely can’t believe it (I do but you know what I mean) and just feel so shocked to the core. I really liked her and thought she did a lot of good. @AwfullyMolly has set it all out very clearly! 🙁
The “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” storm shows no sign of abating, with more and more stories coming out about vulnerable and actually poor people (i.e. unlike “Jack Monroe”) being, in effect, fleeced.
How is it a vindictive vendetta? Molly has never tweeted her own opinion on her blog. She has shown Jack’s constant lies and narrative changing, as well as the scams. People need to see this, it’s public interest.
I'm guessing people like Dermot Macintyre, Louis Theroux, hell even Stacy Dooley must be awful figures of spite too, for daring to do long tail investigations into bad things then broadcast them? 🤣🤣🤣
I know several people who excuse appalling behaviour with 'lol it's my autism/aspergers/neuro thingy', all while having no diagnosis or intention to get one. Must be infuriating for people with actual autism.
It looks very much like another get of jail free card: pick a perceived marginalised group to join to deflect critism and/or excuse behaviour: same with the NB and alcoholism shields.
Once again, yet another media appearance for a so-called "poverty campaigner" where the entire article is talking about Jack Monroe.https://t.co/CxAHcfQo7l
Or why she wrote a blog saying she was so poor she was boiling soap and at the same time got a dog from a breeder. People are fed up being taken for mugs
Friendship shouldn't mean blindly defending someone when they are clearly in the wrong. No one can argue with the facts. Monroe is taking money from people and providing no content and wrote a blog saying she was on her uppers when she has a house stuffed full of designer gear
By the way i lived below the line for longer than her and I'm sick of seeing people being taken advantage of. She needs to refund people. Close the Patreon and give people back PayPal donations
No, nothing, lots of indirect threats a while ago to her followers that legal/police investigations are ongoing – but the only direct contact was this, which she never replied to again: https://t.co/xz9o8888yZpic.twitter.com/GJH4E5hiBe
Same thing happened with the threat(s) by “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” to sue (in defamation) MP Lee Anderson and political commentator Martin Daubney. It appears that (so far— she has about 5 months or so left in which to launch an action, in principle), not only has no legal process been launched, but there has been no pre-action correspondence as mandated by the Pre-Action Protocols of the Civil Procedure Rules. Chances are that “Bootstrap Cook” never will sue those two, or anyone else.
The Katie Hopkins case was different. Ms. Hopkins had no arguable defence and was a sitting duck. “Jack Monroe” got £24,000 damages, while the claimant’s lawyers got, in effect, Ms. Hopkin’s house, that had to be sold in order to satisfy the costs order made. About £300,000.
If you're a friend of hers maybe you could send her some shower gel to stop her boiling soap?
Ha ha. Of all the products from the “Jack Monroe” fantasy factory, the “I was so poor that I had to boil down soap to make shower gel” (and/or “shampoo“) claim must be among the top few in the utterly-ludicrous stakes. It actually makes me wonder whether she makes up ever-more-fantastical stories just to see where the gullibility of her supporters stops; meaning at what point do they wake up to such lies, and/or stop donating to her (lifestyle)?
I suppose that it is just possible that she actually did boil down soap to make shower gel, mad and implausible though that would be; in my opinion, she never did.
I myself like Waitrose Sea Moss shower gel. It costs 90p for a bottle that lasts maybe 3 weeks (with me, at least; used once daily). No-one is going to tell me that buying soap, boiling it somehow, despite energy cost, and then somehow making shower gel out of it (is that even possible?) is cheaper than spending about 30p a week on proper shower gel. Also, Sea Moss from Waitrose is not even the cheapest; no doubt Aldi, Lidl, Tesco have even cheaper alternatives.
Or one could just shower with soap, as did previous generations.
Same goes, mutatis mutandis, for shampoo, except that soap would not be so good in that role.
It’s all her own words. I used to believe and support her too. It’s been a real eye opener seeing how much she lies and profits from those lies. Lots of people lie online though. If she just closed her patreon and stopped exploiting peoples sympathies she’d likely be left alone.
What I find incredible is how long she has been able to keep this going. It says a lot about how poor the UK msm is that no journalist has thought to investigate her claims or to find out which (if any) are actually true. And where are the “consumer watchdog” journalists and TV talking heads? Hundreds if not thousands of people appear to have been duped or bamboozled into sending money— tens, and maybe hundreds, of thousands of pounds.
Meanwhile, millions of people are in real poverty and get nothing, or very little.
Advice from what seems to me to be a rotten cook (not that I can cook much either, admittedly) about how to make curry by opening a tin of sardines and a can of peaches, mixing the two together with curry powder and heating the mixture in a microwave, is not very helpful, in my opinion. Frankly, it sounds terrible. I would rather open the sardines, put them on a piece of toast, then eat the peaches separately later. In fact, I should prefer a plain baked potato to that mixture.
Hey @guardianlive@guardian, you may want to get a researcher onto Jack Monroe (Tattle, @AwfullyMolly) before Jan. Her recipes and ‘advice’ are much like everything else she says – lies.
Ha. In fact the “award” mentioned was an “Observer Food” award a few months ago, voted for by Observer readers, few of whom are “poor” or “struggling”. In fact, the voters are exactly the same sort of people (and quite likely the very same people) who support “Jack Monroe” vocally on Twitter. The Guardian is of course the sister paper to the Observer.
Her fans are funding her lifestyle. This is the bottom line. She states that the Patreon allows her to do unpaid activism? When was the last time she did any unpaid activism?
Being born in a country doesn’t automatically make you of that nation. Lots of British people born in India or Egypt or other ex-colonies throughout the 19-20th centuries, yet they were still British, not Indian, or Egyptian, or whatever.
Britain must become a white northern European ethnostate (again).
It is not, fundamentally, a question of “hate” but based on the concept that only the European peoples can provide the basis for the next advance in human evolution.
I’m so tired of this idiotic argument. Were these Irishmen put up in four star hotels at public expense and permitted to lounge around doing nothing all day whilst getting every single bill paid for by the taxpayer? https://t.co/kbhaZ69XMg
Its scary. We have two hotels with them staying . They walk round in gangs or sit out side making it really uncomfortable to even walk past them. Its intimidating and dangerous and we should be being protected from these unwanted men.
At Manston there are a large number of people living in a nice new estate, terrified of going out of their homes. Swarms of migrants roam around , looking into windows and following residence down the road. They live in fear in their own country.
Will you be discussing the 700+ patreon members who haven't received anything in 2 years, but Jack Monroe has taken £3.50 – £44 pcm from each member without refunds? Missing charity money? All of the lies about her backstory? Donations to legal funds that were not refunded ?
667 “mugs” and/or dupes, as of today; thousands of pounds month after month, in cash (minus Patreon fees).
I think you need to have a look at @AwfullyMolly investigation into Jack Monroe, and maybe ask Jack about missing charity money, false claims of poverty, 2 years of unfulfilled patreon pledges and the thousands of pounds taken without refunds, and her general Walter Mitty life.
My housing association issued a safety warning to manage energy prices, which had to include explanation of what happens if you just stop paying your bills as per @bootstrapcook's advice. We have to stop validating these narcisssists. Thats a housing association having to respond
“Jack Monroe” is not a lawyer, and not a consumer law expert or anything similar. Her only known job (as far as I know anyway) was answering the telephone at a fire station or call centre, and that ended about 11 years ago. Her “Bootstrap Cook” thing is far more lucrative, it seems.
People in financial trouble need accurate advice, from trusted sources.
I don’t see how she can come back. She’s lost all credibility. Limits her replies, but still angrily argues with people questioning her obvious lies. She’s down a few hundred patreons, wonder how the book will do?
As of today, 667 “patrons” (mugs and/or those who are unaware of the storm now enveloping the “Bootstrap Cook”); I believe that there were over 800 earlier in the year.
I'm vegan and his vegan book is amazing and on his veggie book he veganises every veggie recipe he can. I'd recommend them to anyone trying to save a few quid
Nah. Most of what she says is to extract ££ from vulnerable, gullible (in the nice sense – kind hearted people who couldn’t believe someone would lie) people who are genuinely struggling. It’s not even possible to do that with a SIM anyway; they have a lot of network security.
As blogged earlier, only in a country where real journalism is all but dead would someone be able to do all that without facing serious questions after a while.
Still, look at “Boris”-idiot, who was able to fool much of the UK that he was a highly-intelligent, cultured, and serious, statesman, when none of those three are true (four things, if you include “statesman“). All it took was the fact that he had attended Eton and Oxford, and the expression of a few rote-learned Greek and Latin phrases. He also was “enabled” by a corrupt and stupid msm.
Late tweets
Firing missiles at a NATO member state is probably not the best way to join the alliance. pic.twitter.com/xkPmZD5l2q
It will look like a deliberate plea to retain subscribers thus ensuring Patreon receipts end of October and November. We are 3 weeks post the promise to sort it out.
All the Patreon subs I am in contact with have not received anything as yet.
In terms of remedy, it's not clear how Monroe could ever be held to account. Class action is not really an option. I spoke to my lawyer – woohoo yes I have a lawyer cos I'm a big cheese 😜 and although this is clearly terrible, it's not a big enough issue to warrant class action.
In the alternative, it could be taken up by @actionfrauduk
Their websites says: "There are many words used to describe fraud: Scam, con, swindle, extortion, sham, double-cross, hoax, cheat, ploy, ruse, hoodwink, confidence trick" (Insert "Jack Monroe")
I am writing to Action Fraud for advice on "next steps" and to establish what information they need to take the matter seriously and conduct an investigation. Let's see.
(2nd) the cocky shout outs by Jack Monroe on twitter where she continues to threaten legal action in a "just you wait pal" manner. This conduct will be frowned upon if she ever gets in front of a Judge.
Incidentally, I thought that the monthly maximum that “Jack Monroe” was extracting from each of her “patrons” (mugs) on Patreon had been reduced to £10, but it turns out that £44 is still the max. Her monthly take-home pay from that source alone, for doing absolutely nothing, is therefore between £2,334.50 and £29,348, minus the Patreon fees, if any. In cash. Every month.
More interesting to me than the content of the above (not uninteresting though it is) is the fact that Katie Hopkins has been allowed back onto Twitter.
I also am minded to return to Twitter, and with “blue tick”, mainly in order to promote my blog, but also in order to mock (simply by being back on Twitter) the Jew-Zionist pack that had me expelled in 2018; also, to irritate the self-promoting would-be “celebrities” etc who managed to get those blue ticks previously.
2 working weeks, and still scammer Jack Monroe hasn't made promised refunds. Looking more & more like deliberate fraud. https://t.co/oRfTEzMRwS
I would not go quite as far as that, in that I am unsure as to whether “Jack Monroe” had fraudulent intent right from the start. I concede, though, that her evident lack of interest in paying back monies taken (or even engaging with former donors) does give a rather poor impression, at the very least.
Heads should be authorised to call parents who aren’t feeding their kids into school and the government should provide a cheap weekly recipe menu to hand out to them. Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook I’m sure could design a good one.
Her recipes have always been dire and nutritionally terrible, but I used to think she was okay until all the revelations these last few months. Dreadful and so disappointing. 😪
This thread. “Jack” Monroe is the biggest con going. Fawned over and encouraged by the media, Oh So Sensibles, and dim and sheltered Islington Set types. https://t.co/tcjlnv4d5c
Even pre-fame, Jack Monroe was a liar and a con artist. Some very interesting, if unsurprising tea being spilled over on Tattle. pic.twitter.com/5oFSH4wITa
As I sid in May 2020 :'Think of Rishi Sunak as a smiling salesman of payday loans 'Happy to help!’ he says as he hands over the wads of notes. But it will not be the cheery face of Mr Sunak that you see when the time comes for repayment, but the hard countenance of the taxman.'
The Government should build council houses. And people on housing benefit should be removed from private rentals.
This will reduce the housing benefit bill long term and reduce rental prices in the private sector as it'll no longer be distorted by Government subsidies. https://t.co/bxXsFcLpdb
I have held similar views, and have expressed them, for some 40+ years.
I am working today, but here's a sneak peek at 2018. Remember, it's bad when Tories say you can eat well on a tiny budget, but absolutely fine when Jack Monroe is trying to sell her cookbook. https://t.co/nqpBk0apw8pic.twitter.com/BK0b2xnarR
I have come to the conclusion that “Jack Monroe”, aka “Bootstrap Cook”, is about 1% positive for society, and 99% negative…
The more I have learned about her, her behaviour, and her whole contrived sales pitch, the less I have been inclined to be favourable to her and it.
Many people really want to “believe”, though, and prefer to shut their eyes to the facts. As of today, and despite months of increasing online and even msm disquiet around the “Jack Monroe” “brand”, 665 mugs are still remitting to her up to £10 a month, every month, via the website Patreon.
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Why are we going to be paying more taxes
I didn't consent to your lockdowns, I didn't consent for you to send all of our money to ukraine or 11bn for climate rubbish, I didn't consent to you spending billions everyday on illegals
I agree with her on those particular points (but not on many others), though I struggle to accept that a self-describing “journalist” seems to be only semi-literate.
I may be mistaken, but I think that I read some time ago that she was a student at Durham University. Literacy seems to be dying out in the UK, as witness the product of all the “Justins” and “Emilys” scribbling for the online Daily Mail and other news outlets.
💥 Staff were “scared” to go into “abrasive and controlling” Dominic Raab’s office, the former head of the Foreign Office claimed today in an explosive intervention in the bullying rowhttps://t.co/SwkB1r4KIl
Re. the behaviour of half-Jew Raab, people should also be asking the question as to whether Raab behaves like that because he is not up to the job. It is a frequently-seen phenomenon in people who want the status of a powerful job but who are not really up to doing it.
The rise of Dominic Raab is even more baffling than Gavin Williamson’s. Just as charmless, obnoxious and unpopular in the party and doesn’t even have Williamson’s mastery of the dark arts. Sunak didn’t need to promote him but did, because he’s weak and has no judgement. https://t.co/zVmXrJBjpo
Blackout in Rivne after Russian missile strike at electrical power infrastructure in the city, – mayor Oleksander Tretyak https://t.co/L8ZkTEOzor#Ukraine
As I predicted, Russia will now run an “oblique war” strategy, just as the Americans have done in the past in some parts of the world. In between the first Gulf War and the second, the actual invasion of Iraq, the Americans, via both sanctions and other measures, followed by missile attacks, did what one analyst called “breaking every bone in Iraq’s body without killing it“. That meant degrading and eventually destroying the electrical power infrastructure and, inter alia, the water and sewerage systems (the latter, in Baghdad and elsewhere, relied on electricity, not gravity).
Ukraine was already a “failed state”, more or less, before this war. Now it is a facade, propped up by Western aid, arms, ammunition and military training help. Economically, it is on its knees. Now, its electricity generation and distribution systems are also being reduced.
I would not write off Russia in this war.
Explosions reported so far in Kyiv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih and Zhytomyr.
Air defence active in Sumy Oblast, Poltava, Rivne, Lviv.
News on the car radio this morning: there are now over 8 BILLION humans on Earth. In 1960, the figure was 3 billion. In other words, the world population is now not far from triple what it was only 62 years ago.
The detail is important, though. The rate of increase has slowed almost to a halt. Also, most of the population of the world is in a small number of countries: China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and a few others; and most of the increase in population is also in those and a few other countries.
The population of the USA has grown greatly in the past 60 years, but is now growing by only 0.1% annually. The same is true of many advanced countries. Some are not growing at all, others are growing only because of non-white immigration, but their core ethnic group is declining. Russia. Germany. UK. France.
I have previously mooted the idea that the number of human or humanoid souls rushing into incarnation (so as to experience the type of civilization we have presently while it still exists) has perhaps, arguably, come to a halt. That is, if you like, a “spiritual” explanation for the material effects noted in that newspaper report.
It is possible to lay the foundation, or the foundation of a foundation, for a later much higher level of evolution, a “super-race” if you like.
“You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your fathers and forefathers. You do not know those who have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the past. But they all live in you and walk in your blood upon the earth that consumed them in battle and toil and in which their bodies have long decayed.
Your blood is therefore something holy. In it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. To deny your blood is to deny yourself. No one can change it. But each decides to grow the good that one has inherited and suppress the bad. Each is also given will and courage.
You do not have only the right, but also the duty to pass your blood on to your children, for you are a member of the chain of generations that reaches from the past into eternity, and this link of the chain that you represent must do its part so that the chain is never broken.
But if your blood has traits that will make your children unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have the heroic duty to be the last. The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God’s will lives.”
[SS Verlag: material for instruction of the Hitlerjugend]
A lot of people have messaged me in the last few weeks upset about having been scammed (by various people/schemes) and I'm far from an expert, but I have put a page together with resources that might be helpful – https://t.co/8H84xr2Hm6
BREAKING: A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.
A Polish government spokesman did not immediately confirm the information, but said leaders were meeting on "crisis situation." https://t.co/W1hhjwa6ez
Either this incident was accidental, or the explosions are a false flag by the Zelensky regime, created to drag NATO into war with Russia. Either way, it was plainly not a deliberate attack on Poland, and thus should not trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty.
In any case, now that states such as Poland, the Baltic states etc belong to NATO (which should never have happened), Article 5 should be abrogated. It is now nothing less than a dangerous trigger mechanism which may put all of Europe (and quite possible both the USA and Russia as well) to sword and flame.
This situation has been caused, at root, by the reckless NATO support for the Kiev regime. This is not our fight, and never has been.
Saw many tweets lambasting Waterstones for promoting the latest Jack Monroe book, Thrifty Kitchen, to be published in January 2023 at a cover price of nearly £20, but already discounted to £9.99. I wonder whether the “Bootstrap Cook” brand is now damaged beyond repair. Still, 665 mugs are still paying Jack Monroe between £3.50 and £10 a month each as an absurd act of virtue-signalling, so I imagine that she is pretty sanguine (so long as the thousands of pounds continue to roll in monthly).
I also saw this:
I’m very happy to talk to Mark and the police about my crime of posting screenshots anytime they like, I haven’t had any contact since she made that threat two months ago https://t.co/rb8dhobVqN
“Mark Lewis Lawyer” is not much of a threat to people who, even if they have libelled someone (not always as clear-cut as many imagine) have defences such as “truth”, “honest opinion”, “publication on a matter of public interest”, and/or either absolute or qualified “privilege”.
I have assessed and written about Mark Lewis several times over the years, though not recently (in fact not since 2018 or 2019). I would dispute that any of what I have written about him is actionable, but in fact he has never even threatened me with a defamation action, no doubt because he knows that he would lose, but also because he knows that my financial circumstances (both capital and income) are now such that even any victory in court would be of little use when any damages and costs awarded could never be collected. See below for more about Lewis.
As for the “Bootstrap Cook”, her libel victory over Katie Hopkins was inevitable. It took no legal skill at all, or very little, in my view, bearing in mind that, as far as the libel itself was concerned, it had occurred because Katie Hopkins had demonstrably said something untrue about Jack Monroe (apparently mistaking her for the obscure socio-political scribbler Laurie Penny) that had caused Jack Monroe serious harm. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_v_Hopkins.
It occurs to me that the “Bootstrap Cook” may have become a little gung-ho about libel actions after her easy victory over Katie Hopkins, who not only had to pay Jack Monroe £24,000 but also to sell her house to pay the £300,000 legal costs of Jack Monroe, a goodly chunk of which went, no doubt, to “Mark Lewis Lawyer”. Probably a third or so.
Not all defamation actions are so simple, or the awards and costs so easily collected.
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I hope that she will be exposed for the fantasist and con artist she really is.
Rishi Sunak says Britain will be punished by the markets unless he whacks up taxes and slashes public spending
"Financial conditions have stabilised because people expect the government to take the decisions that will put our public finances on a sustainable trajectory"
Well, there it is: Indian “clever boy” and money-juggler, Sunak, has no arrows in his quiver, except to make everyone in Britain poorer. The real economy will dive next year.
Deep down she knows colonialism is the single best thing that's ever happened to her. She knows it and she's ashamed of it, hence this performative nonsense.
“If they’re black its a gang. If they’re Italian its a mob. If they’re Jewish its a ‘coincidence’ and you should never talk about it.” 😂 pic.twitter.com/htQzTzhYZM
After that, read the books of David Irving and Correlli Barnett.
.@greengas62. You have a touchingly outdated idea of what the modern police are like, and you also haven’t read the article you are commenting on. You can’t put people in prison unless they have broken the law. Now read it. https://t.co/NbDEboonEn
WHAT have we done?! It will take a long time to clean up the medical misinformation mess but we must start by understanding and tackling it at the root. That according to forensic psychologist Dr Robert Hare is the psychopathic entity that is Big Pharma. We must act NOW 👊👊👊 https://t.co/7MCls2Lgzn
You narcissistic, pathetic man. You’re only bothered because you got caught. Whilst businesses collapsed, people lost jobs, couldn’t see loved ones, couldn’t attend family funerals, missed vital appointments & more,he was getting his end away.
Why would anyone take Arnold Schwarzenegger seriously? Just an Austrian bodybuilder who struck lucky in the USA and married into its political Establishment. A puppet on a stick.
Hunt, Sunak and the rest are cardboard cut-out people, empty puppets, frauds, in thrall to shadows. Let's ignore them. https://t.co/aOq1OYWLXC
I do get why some people are upset, and I am sorry. To the question 'how are you any different from Jack?' – I've not made money from my identity, I've never taken up someone else's space or pretended to have knowledge and experience I don't. I think that is a big difference.
Fully agree 👍 No doubt Jack Monroe would have set her flying monkeys even more aggressively if she could 🔺️ her. We saw early in the Awfully Molly era that she almost quit the investigative work due to attacks by the FMs.
From what I have learned over the last few months, Jack Monroe sycophants are some of the most unsophisticated and gullible people anywhere on the internet.
Not quite as hostile as the #FBPE or Corbynist mobs, but equally as narrow-minded.
Tragic. Those idiots thought that their way of life would be mainly upheld if they appeased the ANC. How wrong they were. Gave up their historically-conferred right, and what for? A comfortable life, a swimming pool, rugby, an SUV in the drive, a beer in a sports bar, golf, and no outright war.
Had they only held on for a short while, South Africa as a white European-origin country would have survived. The collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites meant that funds and arms to the black rebels would have been cut off. Cuba, so prominent in so-called “liberation” struggles in Africa (Angola, Mozambique, South-West Africa/Namibia etc) was also cut off from Soviet funding after 1991, and had to withdraw from Africa.
The white population could have accelerated real apartheid, laagering the white populations mainly in specific parts of the country, as already planned for, and creating autonomous black zones and regions.
South Africa could have defended itself easily, with its powerful armed forces (including a navy, an airforce, as well as army); it even had atom bombs (six, which were dismantled in the mid-1990s). Other very advanced weapons too.
Water under the bridge now? Yes, but the white and the black populations continue to suffer the effects, not of white rule but of black rule.
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I love how meritocratic and open British radio is. Right now, you can listen to Martin Kemp's son on Capital, Johnny Ball's daughter on Radio 2 and Chris Tarrant's son on Radio X 📻
Indeed – Top Jack Monroe Tip pretend to sue a Tory MP, collect a load of cash into your personal paypal account, then never mention it again…#JackMonroeLiespic.twitter.com/AHQyy0v7rD
A black woman accused of doing a very similar thing is due in criminal court in Bristol in January 2023.
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I was partly brought up on, and still love, the lush music of John Barry, the popular easy-listening music of a post-1945 Western civilization now in crisis.
I like this, too:
[painting by Joyce Norwood]
Income inequality can be social inequity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/14/chairman-greggs-millionaires-more-tax-jeremy-hunt “Ten years ago, in the epilogue of my book Bread: The Story of Greggs, I stressed the need for the astonishing increase in top earnings in Britain to be curbed. At that time this was considered a serious problem. Yet despite the best efforts of many influential public voices, this position never translated into policy.
Sadly, since then, the growing divide has become even more extreme.. The richest 10% of households now hold 43% of all the country’s wealth, according to the Office for National Statistics. The bottom 50% hold only 9%. We now have 177 billionaires in this country, up from just 29 in 2010, with a combined wealth of £653bn. The difference between very wealthy and less well-off people has become obscene.”
[Ian Gregg, in theGuardian]
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It happens here too, there are also cases of people setting up their benefits and then going back home and living off that income.
— Tottenham Conservatives (@TottenhamConse1) July 23, 2022
…and that thick creature is now a Bencher of my old Inn of Court, Lincoln’s Inn. He is welcome at the Inn, whereas (by reason of Jewish plotting) I was wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 and so automatically expelled from Lincoln’s.
In what kind of England is a thick non-white such as Lammy more welcome than me? It’s just mad. A system like that does not deserve to survive.
So how does everyone feel, being told that we are going into a recession? whilst we workers (not the government) are funding hotels for male migrants who paid thousands to get here, throwing money at the green agenda and still funding the Ukraine war. It’s past a joke now.
And this has gone on for decades. I recall when I was a student overseas students marrying & bringing in wives & having babies. This has long been a way for better off Africans & Asians to gain a route to permanent legal settlement. They then form a bridgehead family for others.
Are you actually saying thru don’t ? My son has one working with him he gets 3 meals a day. £38 weekly clothing allowance free mobile with £10 credit weekly an he lives in the crowne plaza Heathrow oh yes abs a doctor on call
Seems that even the last bastion of Jack Monroe support – Mumsnet – has fallen. Great to see the scales lifting from the public's eyes and seeing her for what she is, a massive fraud, liar & conwoman. https://t.co/e3jipAwovtpic.twitter.com/AbbG1csWVg
I’ve been suspicious of Jack Monroe’s ‘activity’ for some time. I’ve just read your whole blog which supports some of my concerns. As I’m aware of Jack’s penchant for threatening legal action, I won’t say much more but suffice to say, your blog was a very interesting read.
Are you kidding me? You’ve got more chance of a pig flying over Manchester than Jack showing up to something that isn’t all about her. Plus, why would you want a lying, grifting fantasist supporting you? Matt Hancock has a better moral compass than her.
Yup. Threat of litigation has been Jack Monroe's MO for years. Now she's lost any credibility in that threat, she tends to block like a petulant toddler. Actually that's a disservice to toddlers as they don't scam hundreds of thousands of pounds. https://t.co/l30XnL2hwX
Certain key elements of our society have to be either nationalized or very very tightly-regulated by the State: utilities such as water supply, drainage, electricity and gas supply; also strategic transport, such as the rail network.
Electrical power: if people want to go off-grid, or work with the National Grid while producing their own domestic supply, then fine. I am talking about the large-scale producers— power stations, the distribution network, energy security.
Ukraine
BREAKING: President Biden said the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in Ukraine. https://t.co/r6A6wmnSgl
If that is so (and I believe that it is), then why oh why keep poking and pushing Russia, arming the forces of the Jew Zelensky (armed to the teeth by the USA and UK), and supplying billions in money as well?
Liz Truss, surely a political imbecile, thinks that Ukraine can be her “Falklands Factor”. I doubt it, credulous as much of the British public often is.
Ukrainian counteroffensive efforts picked up steam over the weekend, forcing a Russian retreat from the city of Lyman, which Russia had used as a strategic transport and logistics hub. https://t.co/YMDtNYP5hNpic.twitter.com/EfcMreWGXJ
As I blogged weeks and indeed months ago, the Russian high command needs to pull something out of the hat. That is now urgent.
At first there was delay, incompetence, and an inability to move quickly and to seize the initiative. Then came attritional warfare east of the Dnieper and along the Sea of Azov and Black Sea littoral. The Russian superiority in numbers and armament slowly won the day, but then that attritional superiority and movement, glacial as it was, stalled. The Western states began to supply good-quality and/or high-tech weaponry to the Kiev regime, as well as money and other supplies (eg medical supplies).
Russia has lost the initiative now. The Kiev-regime forces have the initiative, and are pressing forward. When they take a town or village, they shoot any people living there who do not want war with Russia.
The Jew Zelensky has declared it his aim and intent to take not only all the territory gained by Russia in 2022 but also the pro-Russian areas of the Donbass etc, and even the Crimea, where the population is at least 90% Russian, maybe even 95%.
I note that the Jew Zelensky is asking the USA to attack Russia as a “warning” not to use tactical nuclear weapons. Nothing would be more calculated to cause WW3. Zelensky is only a puppet of the New World Order, and he knows that his regime can only win by riding on the back of NATO power.
As things stand, the best result for Russia would be some kind of WW1 stagnant front. That is why the Russian high command needs to think outside the box, to regain the initiative, to unbalance the Zelensky forces, and/or to completely gain control of the theatre.
[“Russia has no borders; it is wherever there are Russians“]
“A Russian soldier’s wife broke down in tears during a wiretapped phone call to her husband after hearing of mystic Baba Vanga’s predictions for the Ukraine war.
The woman seemed wrought with emotion during the call which was uploaded to YouTube by the Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.
The Bulgarian mystic made a series of predictions about the world before her death in 1996 – with claims that many have come true.
Among many major events, the mystic has been credited with accurately predicting 9/11, Brexit and Covid-19.
“According to Vanga’s predictions, this will all last until 2024,” the wife said on the call.
She also predicted that Russia would become “lord of the world” after Europe is reduced to a “wasteland”.
She reportedly told writer Valentin Sidorov: “All will thaw, as if ice, only one remain untouched — Vladimir’s glory, glory of Russia.”
[Daily Mirror].
Interesting, anyway.
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"I totally applaud Lee Anderson. This idiot solely set out to provoke him. Lee did what any normal person would have done to a gobby, rude, aggressive twerp"
Of course, tweeter “@Scam_Watch_Ltd” is (apparently) under a misapprehension: Martin Daubney and Lee Anderson could not bring any counterclaim as such, because there has not (yet) been a claim by “Jack Monroe”. It is true that a counterclaim is merely itself a kind of claim, legally, and capable of being self-supporting, but I doubt whether either Daubney or Anderson are silly enough to sue “Jack Monroe”, bearing in mind her uncertain solvency and the sheer pointlessness of doing so.
The “Bootstrap Cook” did successfully sue columnist Katie Hopkins, but there were special factors: Katie Hopkins libelled Jack Monroe, because she, Katie Hopkins, was simply mistaken on the facts. She, Katie Hopkins, should have swallowed her pride and compromized on the basis offered by Jack Monroe. That not having been done, the matter went to the bitter end (never in doubt), and Katie Hopkins ended up having to sell her house to pay Jack Monroe the £24,000 damages and also, more importantly, the lawyers on both sides. Sometimes discretion really is the better part of valour.
There never was any doubt that Jack Monroe was libelled, and that that was obvious from the start. A child could have litigated that case, so there is no need to think that her self-promoting solicitor, Mark Lewis, now resident and/or domiciled in Israel, is any combination of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Perry Mason.
Katie Hopkins was stupid to defend the matter because, firstly, she had no defence and also, secondly, had valuable assets to cover any loss at court.
It seems unlikely, to me, that Martin Daubney and/or Lee Anderson will really be sued in libel by “Jack Monroe”. As previously blogged, it is even in doubt, despite her tweets, whether her previously-used lawyer, the egregious Jew-Zionist solicitor, Mark Lewis, has been “instructed” (though he may well have been consulted).
Not that I much like Anderson, or Daubney, either.
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Wow.
Like many I am sure, I have often ignored or dismissed Barry Gardiner as something of a ridiculous windbag. This however was exceptional & authentic oratory, perfectly capturing the reality of where we currently are as a nation.
What lie @ethan_odin ? All my foreign policy views are based (as they must be for a patriotic Britsh person) on the interests of my own country. The continued existence of NATO, not to mention its expansion, have caused grave difficuties for Britain and will cause many more. https://t.co/UYS8K9RkpX
As I have pointed out a hundred times, @evolutionplants, even Robert Kagan, husband of State Department senior official Victoria Nuland and strong supporter of the USA's hard line against Moscow, has conceded in 'Foreign Affairs' that there was provocation. So not unprovoked. https://t.co/wGHiyoXM9M
‘Where others see a bare plain, those with the gift of verse can remember it when it was a great forest’. @ClarkeMicah lamenting the revolutionary dismantling of English literature curriculum. One of many self-inflicted wounds explored in his The Abolition of Britain. pic.twitter.com/DLSey1vCtd
The ESO said: “In the unlikely event we were in this situation, it would mean that some customers could be without power for pre-defined periods during a day – generally this is assumed to be for three-hour blocks.”https://t.co/IxmPQnLdl3
Russia stands ready to supply the UK with all the gas it needs, but not while the ruling circles of the UK, USA etc persist in a near-war against Russia.
Today, a plumber charged a 81 year old lady £486.00 for a new pump & manifold. He did not change it, this is the original pump, he sprayed it with WD40 to release the motor.
“Alongside his work as an MP, Burns works as a consultant for Trant Engineering Ltd., earning £10,000 quarterly for 10 hours’ work a month.[24] He acts as a consultant for the Quantum Group, real estate developers, working six hours a month for a quarterly fee of £6,250.[24] In 2015, an article in Private Eye[citation needed] implied that Burns’ opposition to Navitus Bay Windfarm and subsidies for renewables was due to his connections to the oil and gas industry through Trant Engineering.[25][26]” [Wikipedia].
So… from just two (of several) enterprises which have been giving him money, Burns has been, for years, blagging a total of at least £65,000 a year (quite possibly far more now),for only 192 hours work per year, i.e. less than five 40-hour weeks per year.
Plus his actual pay as MP (plus, also, intermittently, ministerial and other salaries; plus inflated expenses claims).
Hundreds of thousands of pounds per year.
Another Conservative Friends of Israel member, as well:
Do “they” pay him too?
For once, Liz Truss manages to do something useful.
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Peter Hitchens is right. What Britain wants is neither & both at once. It wants a British Gaullism. Strong law & order, a fair & efficient welfare state, pro small business, family friendly, traditionalist, patriotic with strong defences. A bit High Tory & a bit Old Labour.
I have been pronouncing on this for many many years, and online for the past ten or twelve.
https://t.co/StS4MZ02ea Piers Morgan a man without shame. Any right thinking person knew what the mammoth cost of lockdown would be ,Peter Hitchens outlines everything that is now occurring. Morgan, hysteria monger in chief #thegreatinsanity
Indeed @hublok. The Walter Wolfgang incident was a symbolic rite of passage, of Labour from anti-war party to active warmonger party. https://t.co/M1NmeEv6dq
That made me really laugh. Britain 2022, the home of “slacktivism” and “clicktivism”.
They keep printing money. Things are getting worse all over. We are to be colder, poorer and living lesser lives. We are led by inadequates the world over. Did I miss anything?
…and much of what is now pumped out by (UK) government, and msm TV, radio, and Press is designed to condition the public to getting used to a poorer life in every way. Examples include such as the NHS providing ever-worse care; the police rarely doing their proper job but also acting as a poundland KGB; lower pay; lower State benefits; power cuts and blackouts; a more meagre choice of supermarket foodstuffs etc.
I disagree with the idea that this is only because we are (notionally) “led” by idiots such as “Boris” Johnson, David Cameron-Levita, Liz Truss —Liz Truss!…Jesus Christ!— etc. Behind those monkeys stand the organ-grinders, and their several but connected agendas. “The Great Reset”, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan etc form one overarching cabbalistic agenda.
Listening to speeches from front bench politicians at party conferences is like hearing kids read out letters to Santa.
Look how many conformed to covid lockdown rules, masks standing up but not sitting down 🤷♀️ jabs for holidays. How many ratted on neighbours for having their mum round for tea. It's easy to see, how easily the masses are controlled. They wanted the unvaxxed to die!!
“Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”: an assessment
I have blogged (briefly) previously a few times about the person known as “Jack Monroe” (originally Melissa Hadjicostas, half-Greek Cypriot), whose rather clever nom de plume is “Bootstrap Cook”.
The name Jack Monroe is now her official name, it having been adopted by deed poll.
In the past, I was content to be at least neutral towards “Bootstrap Cook”, in that I felt that anyone putting almost anything into the public domain that might help the millions of financially-struggling people in the UK deserved at least a chance.
Incidentally, this blog is written in the English language, and therefore does not refer to a woman (whatever her views or proclivities) as “they” or “them”.
“Ideological” criticism of “Bootstrap Cook” has come mainly from two directions. The first group would be those connected to or supportive of the “Conservative” regimes of 2010-present. They tend to say that there is no justification for the campaigning of “Bootstrap Cook” to raise State benefits etc, and that any food poverty that exists exists because the individuals subject to it cannot “budget” properly, or do not know how to cook cheap wholesome food.
An ignorant point of view (though not without a small kernel of truth, as with many basically lying narratives), which infuriates many, especially when expressed by the likes of Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, the MP who has also been a huge expenses blodger and fraudster, and who claimed vast amounts on his Parliamentary expenses (even a £39 hotel breakfast) while —as Secretary of State for the DWP— taking money away from people living in real poverty.
The second group who tend to criticize “Bootstrap Cook” are those who agree with much of her campaigning on benefits etc, but who say that she actually “enables” attacks on benefit recipients by reason of her claims that a family of 4 can be fed well on £20 a week or less.
Now, however, a third group has joined the fray, being those who claim that they and/or others have been taken for a ride by “Bootstrap Cook”, and that she is a “grifter”, or even an outright fraud, who has sold goods and services which were never delivered. These critics also claim that much of the “Bootstrap Cook” back-story is untrue, or embellished.
For example, it is said that “Bootstrap Cook” was either never in poverty herself, or was so for no more than 18 months. It is said that at least part of her financial difficulties were caused by her own (apparently past) alcohol and/or drug abuse. It is said that she makes up implausible stories about her past financial predicament, such as “having to” sell her little son’s beloved dinosaur toy to raise money (really? How much money would that raise? £1? £2? And how cruel is that, assuming the story to be true?).
It is also said that her parents are not badly-off financially, that they own buy-to-let property, and that her paternal grandfather was a millionaire. In other words, that “Bootstrap Cook” always had a financial lifeline. I have no idea whether, or to what extent, that may be, or may have been, the case.
Recently, following a storm of criticism on Twitter, “Bootstrap Cook” deleted her Twitter account, though others claim that she is merely taking a 40-hour “rest” from Twitter, and will return. Why 40 hours and not (as with Jesus Christ) 40 days, or whatever, I have no idea.
One aspect that interested me, as a former barrister, was the tendency of “Bootstrap Cook” to threaten some of her critics with legal action. A few years ago, “Bootstrap Cook” sued Katie Hopkins in libel.
Ms. Hopkins had libelled “Bootstrap Cook” entirely mistakenly as to the facts, had no defence whatever, and should have backed down and got out with minimal damage when she could have but, like many maximalisti, found sorry the hardest word, and so was hammered: £24,000 in damages, and very large legal costs. Ms. Hopkins had to sell her house in St. Leonard’s (the best residential district in Exeter) in order to pay those legal costs.
“Bootstrap Cook” retained as her solicitor Mark Lewis, the Zionist Jew who now lives in Israel, though he has also a professional foothold in London. His no-win no-fee cases have often been controversial.
I have to wonder how nice a person “Bootstrap Cook” is, if she is on friendly terms with someone such as Lewis.
As soon as people started suggesting, a month or two ago, that “Bootstrap Cook” was somewhere between “grifter” and fraudster, out came the Twitter threat that Mark Lewis and libel would be wheeled out (frankly, not so much of a threat— by no means have all of Lewis’s cases been brought to a successful conclusion, and when he was censured and fined by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority about 4 years ago, his Counsel said that his fine should be reduced because his only possessions were his clothes, a mobility scooter. and a private pension worth £70 a week).
In fact, when “Bootstrap Cook” threatened libel action against Conservative Party MP Lee Anderson [Con, Ashfield] (in May of this year), nothing ever came of it, as far as I know:
“Food journalist and activist Jack Monroe hinted at legal action against Anderson after he commented in an interview that “She’s taking money off some of the most vulnerable people in society and making an absolute fortune on [sic] the back of people”.[36] [Wikipedia].
The Guardian says “sues“, but the Independent said “hints at suing“, and I have seen nothing on the Mark Lewis Twitter output to the effect that he ever was “instructed” (the Guardian, again) on the matter. He may have been, he may not have been. I might add that all the news reports are from 15-16 May 2022; nothing since then.
Was Anderson right, though? As I have said, I was willing to cut “Bootstrap Cook” some slack, because in recent years, the past ~15 years, the social security system has become inadequate, pay for work has also become generally inadequate, and millions are struggling both to eat and keep sheltered and warm. My view was that any useable advice was, well, useful.
I still think that (despite the fact that, to me, many of the recipes of “Bootstrap Cook” do look like a dog’s dinner, and despite the fact that many disagree with her costings etc).
More serious criticism is that she has actually been making a pretty good living out of Patreon donations, while never or rarely providing the extras offered in exchange.
When I last looked, “Bootstrap Cook” had at least 800 Patreon donors giving a minimum of £1 a month. £800 a month. In itself not bad. When you consider that the suggested minimum is £3 a head, the total increases to £2,400 a month (perhaps). I have seen a tweet where the tweeter claims, truthfully or otherwise, to have been donating £44 a month. Well, you see the point. “Bootstrap Cook” must have an income from Patreon alone of between £800 and (?) perhaps as much as £8,000 a month. Or more. That’s before one takes into account book sales, other donations, paid (?) TV appearances, other appearances etc. We do not know.
Not that “Bootstrap Cook” claims poverty, these days. No, she claims, as I understand it (and perhaps truthfully) a degree of “precariousness” in her life and finances, and she is certainly not alone in that. It is almost the norm in the Britain of 2022.
“Bootstrap Cook” has a number of defence mechanisms. One is to threaten defamation actions, but the more usual tactic is to claim the shield of disability, and she has about two dozen options there.
A further defence tactic is, I read, to set her fanatical fans (she apparently calls them “flying monkeys“) onto any critics, and I have certainly seen tweets where mentally-disturbed fans have come close to suggesting violence against anyone daring to utter critical words.
The problem here is that “Bootstrap Cook” has become a totem for a certain tribe of virtue-signallers. Not really “the poor” but more the sort of people who like to think that they are socially-progressive etc. Facts do not matter to those people, belonging to the “right” tribe does. cf. “Covid”, Ukraine, “Black Lives Matter” and, of course, “FBPE/Remain/Rejoin” etc.
When you consider that someone who claims to be able to feed a family of 4 for £20 a week might be said to be, arguably or in effect, saying that UK benefits are perfectly OK and need not be increased, is that really something positive or not?
Some tweets seen about the issues raised:
Updated with recent events, plus Jack's responses to the ONS, Lee Anderson, Patreon and Georgia Church Suppers allegations.https://t.co/j4p8QUznId
I simply don’t understand how you can read this article, made from HER OWN TWEETS, and think Jack Monroe is anything other than a grifter https://t.co/WTCmHTdHD5
— Kelly Jackson | It’s More Fun In Your 30s (@Kelly_Jackson88) September 19, 2022
Why on earth would any Tory politico want to silence Jack Monroe? She plays straight into their message that ‘the poor’ can eat on £20/wk and are just too thick to budget & cook. Plus, she has made little to no impact on public policy. (Rhetorical tweet, obvs!)
Claiming you can't afford to put the hot water on, have unscrewed the lightbulbs and are using solar lights, and haven't bought shampoo for two years in order to gain internet points and cash donations, is also wrong.
Giving people "money-saving" advice that is going to cost them *more* money is wrong.
Not making an effort to make sure people understand that you've mistakenly given the wrong advice and pointing people to more accurate advice, is really, really wrong.
I have very good intentions. I *intend* to write book reviews and advice for people querying, to be supportive of other writers, especially those newly agented.
I don't actually do that, though. And because I don't, I don't expect to be held up or praised for it.
Jack Monroe wasn't hounded off of Twitter because of some anaemic roast potatoes. She's left because too many people were raising questions about her lucrative Patreon, murky charitable donations and questionable finances. Jesus, people are gullible.
As many have noted, this whole Bootstrap Cook thing is more like a creepy cult than anything. It’s as if a lot of fairly affluent or at least not poor people have decided that supporting “Bootstrap Cook” —right or wrong— validates their evenings of going out, their Netflix subscription, their holidays in Cuba or Costa Rica, their new cars, and in fact their whole comfortable existence.
In fact, it reminds me of the “indulgences” sold by the Roman Catholic Church before the Reformation.
Not that that is necessarily the fault of the “Bootstrap Cook” herself.
I've not much to say on the Jack Monroe issue except that if a government minister tries to tell someone how to survive on a box of cornflakes and a tin of sardines, they tend to get pilloried for it.
Just… bloody hell. The tide really does seem to be turning on Jack Monroe. Interesting that she was approached for comment and declined, same as with my blog. https://t.co/vfjJXHKlaE
(Past caring if Jack Monroe's fans abuse me as did for 48 hours few week back).
Authentic, knowledgeable women in poverty now could offer useful, genuine insights into experience but overlooked and devalued while Monroe's more acceptable celebrity face of poverty is prioritised.
Well, if you can believe that the “royal” Mulatta is a sadly-abused “princess”, then believing that a poverty campaigner, who seems to be making “a nice little earner” out of it and naive followers, is a modern Joan of Arc, must be easy enough.
It was absolutely nothing to do with “the far right” and everything to do with the revelations that she’s lied about a lot of things and taken money off a lot of people in very shady ways.
I followed #bootstrapcook's 'Wintry chicken broth' recipe word for word and not only did the meal cost me £4.61 more than she suggested it came out looking like this. I want a refund! pic.twitter.com/EK2ev0rh8g
Let's say you agree to pay the Times £x per month and in exchange they promise to send you a code to access their online issue – but they never send the codes. Would you see a problem there? Read the Patreon page and see if you agree the comparison.https://t.co/LUPccSWorV
No John, it appears that you don’t understand what it is. Each payment tier system means a certain amount of rewards/content in return. Jack has received money every month & has not honoured the obligations that Jack pledged. No rewards/content for TWO years.
What about the rest Anthea? The shop was open until a few days ago. What about the Patreon money? The funds raised for the libel case that hasn’t happened?
How had she helped others? I’m seeing a lot of upset people who have given her money over the years. They’re feeling ripped off. pic.twitter.com/H6Y00rtGVs
The only ‘attacks’ I’ve seen have been requests for financial transparency or refunds. She says she had death threats but then again she says a lot of things. Some of her supporters, however, their behaviour has been abhorrent.
There's a whole community of Jack watchers on a website called Tattle. Any updates are there. Have to say, they don't seem a right-wing crowd. Better characterised as working-class mums who seem pissed off about what they see as grifting.
She was caught out as a habitual liar, grifter and generally an abusive individual who was too happy to play the disability/race/victim cards, and too many people were questioning where all of the donations went.
She's never done that herself though. Her recipes and weekly shops would lead to malnutrition pretty bloody quickly. Not enough calories, or protein. And she has storecupboards and freezers full of food that aren't included in the performative £20 asda shop. It's a dangerous lie.
Her recipes are shit and she only keeps within budget because the portions are toddler sized. Totally dishonest and unsustainable. No one uses her recipes though, because as mentioned, they're shit.
Because you need to be a parent in order to… count calories. Some of Jack Monroe's meals are less than 200 calories per portion. Her best meals are in the region of 400-500 per portion. It's not enough. You too can eat cheaply, if you starve.
Well, that’s enough. There are hundreds of other tweets in similar vein.
As blogged previously, my view is that Bootstrap Cook’s stuff may well be of interest to many, though —as already said— much of it looks to me like carbohydrate-heavy food often presented like a dog’s dinner.
I do not think that “Bootstrap Cook”set out to defraud anyone, and it may be that she has no such intention now, but it does seem that legitimate questions about her fundraising have been asked by a number of donors, but not answered by her.
If people think that they are somehow accomplishing something by subsidizing the not-uncomfortable lifestyle of that person, then that is their business, in a sense, but it is legitimate for others, arguably more clear-minded, to ask “where is the money going?“, “is any of this true?“, and “are people being tapped for money under false pretences?“.
I can also see that her fans seem to be, almost entirely, not the truly poor but more those who are not “poor” but who support her “non-binary” profile, the “gender bender” aspects, and the general “government must do more for the poor” activism aspect.
I think that it is legitimate to question, not only “where the money went” (or goes), but also, whether in reality Bootstrap Cook has actually influenced government, or large enterprises such as ASDA (it seems that one or two supermarket chains were actually paying her for advice or consultancy or something).
Poverty is a huge problem in the UK now. Anyone claiming to be expert in it must expect searching inquiry.
Is this all really just a morning TV virtue-signal writ large? After all, at the end of the day, the decisive question is what government does or fails to do.
I personally have no animus against “Bootstrap Cook”, but my view of her has certainly become far less positive over the years since I first heard of her.
I do think, also, that if you claim that a person can feed healthily on £5 a week, you are really playing into the hands of swine such as Dunce Duncan Smith, Esther McVey, Therese Coffey etc.
I think that anyone wanting to help “the poor” could probably do so more effectively via GoFundMe or local foodbanks than by subsidizing the lifestyle of “Bootstrap Cook”. Perhaps I am mistaken, but that is my firm view and opinion.
On a wider point, we have in the UK this msm thing whereby TV channels or shows like to have a “go-to” list. Brexit discussion? Call Farage. Free speech discussion? Call Toby Young. Poverty discussion? Call Jack Monroe. And so on.
Thus you get “activists” who are really just “famous for being famous activists”. The Caroline Criado-Perez phenomenon. A hundred thousand or a million Twitter followers but, outside Twitter etc, really unknown and without real influence.
Of course, the msm now like to feature (supposed) “experts” who are, if possible, young, female, and black. “Bootstrap Cook” is not black, but as “Meatloaf” once opined, “two out of three ain’t bad“…
Well, there it is. I prefer to concentrate on other and larger issues really, but felt that I should examine the above first, after the recent Twitter storm in a teacup.
For clarification purposes this is a live poll so results don't necessarily represent public opinion. However, the latest results are: * still 81% re bankers bonus cap * still 82% re 45% tax cut for the rich * 88% re recall of parliament * 87% re govt loss of control of economy
All that the doomed “Conservative” Party had to do, to consign Labour to the bin, was select a leader to succeed “Boris”-idiot who was even slightly competent. It failed to do so. Endex.
Here's what the UK's new electoral map would look like if tonight's YouGov poll were repeated at a general election. pic.twitter.com/HbGJQywCB2
The implications are clear: either the Con MPs get rid of Liz Truss as soon as they can, and put in someone who at least looks semi-competent, or the Con Party will be near-finished by next year. Same goes, of course, for Kwarteng, Cleverly, and Coffey.
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I’m not sure you can call people angry and bitter, and then in the same tweet hope that they meet an unpleasant fate in an alley, all while still trying to maintain your own moral high ground. But I’m pretty new to Twitter, so I’m still figuring the moral maze out… https://t.co/KgZ3iqCdN9
Jack Monroe pulls apart tweets that suggest people can live off a cheap bag of pasta or oats (rightly so) but SHE reinforces this ideology with her £20 weekly Asda shops. They do not contain enough nutrional/calorific value for one person, never mind 2 to 3 people!
Look at ANY of the weekly shops she has posted. There is a good reason she doesn't follow it through with a FULL meal plan for the week. She states a few times that she'll post a meal plan or recipes for the week later on but they never appear. The idea that you can continually
COVID held a mirror up to society. As most of us were forced to slow down, we noticed it was not the mega rich or obscenely paid super stars that we relied on, but the dismissively termed ‘unskilled’ front line workers. We can’t now allow them to be forced into ‘working poverty.’
Ha ha. Yes, that ghastly little bastard Schofield is one of the worst people on TV in the UK; and, yes, it is peak contemporary Britain, just like…well, there are just too many examples around…
An eloquent warning from the former British ambassador to Moscow, in 1997 'Does Nato really have a future at all? Is enlargement really no more than a substitute for policy, the thrashing about of an organisation which has lost its raison d’etre? 'https://t.co/p1MZFFPTCG
: 'Over the centuries one great power after another has threatened the stability of Europe….in 1815 and…1945.. the victors were intelligent and self-interested enough to bring the defeated as equals into the comity of European nations.' https://t.co/p1MZFFPTCG
A good example was seen the other night. A new detective drama called Karen Pirie.
Set partly a few decades ago, partly in the contemporary era, even the older setting, in St. Andrews, Scotland, decades ago, had a black character appear. In a small town in what seems to be a bleak part of Scotland (I have never been there). Then we are introduced to the two detectives now investigating the cold case. One a small Scottish woman, the other a black or half-caste…
I do not have a great deal of patience with films or TV shows. If they do not catch the interest after 15 mins, switch— OFF. I gave this one 20 mins. A bloody bore, poorly conceived and worse-acted.
This evening, I saw an old episode of Wycliffe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycliffe_(TV_series)]. All characters more or less credible, and what I like best about Wycliffe is that it manages to catch the atmosphere of Cornwall well, from what I recall from when I lived there. It does not rely on cliche (most of the time, at least).
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The UK's economic woes appear to be a story of fiscal recklessness that's forced the Bank of England to stabilize crashing financial markets by buying up government bonds.
The real story is actually more complicated, and it all comes down to pensions https://t.co/H0wFKJe8IQ
But you’ve now borrowed short-term money to buy volatile financial assets.
The thing that was so good about pension funds — their structural long-termism, the fact that you can’t have a run on a pension fund: You’ve ruined that! https://t.co/Q6dEeBI8Ztpic.twitter.com/qTFzhEjNYT
➡️A margin call earlier this year when rates rose, which depleted the pensions’ collateral buffer ➡️Liz Truss's catastrophic mini-budget led to long-term interest rates spiking 100 basis points https://t.co/8vucDdxTDQpic.twitter.com/PeAj4jmPt1
But the questions about what happened in recent days run deep, are far from relevant only to the UK and are most certainly not over https://t.co/25jsfBV8mH
The BOE may have left itself hostage to misfortune with its actions.
The risk is that it finds itself in a standoff with markets, with pressure increasing to hike borrowing costs before its next meeting, which might tip the economy over the edge https://t.co/FLzsjzcWzr
In the month since I wrote about “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”, the storm around her murky financial arrangements has become fiercer yet. A few tweets:
Oh look, yet mire Jack Monroe bootstrapcook lies exposed. She's gifted donations to fund legal action and not even followed any pre-action protocol & got in touch. That money's been spent…. ❄️❄️❄️❄️⛄️ https://t.co/LrXqDsDB1b
In light of Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook's latest "working class" lies, it's worth retweeting her dad's comments regarding his professional landlording, which also reveal he has no bank debt, ie mortgages. Not surprising given he inherited 3 of his millionaire dad's 12 properties. https://t.co/7BrPnLiVtA
He is sometimes described, inaccurately, as having become a “pro bono” lawyer who works for free, out of quasi-charitable motives, whereas he in fact seems to work on a “no win no fee” basis, which is not at all the same thing.
“Jack Monroe” has tweeted that she still has several/many months in which to sue the MP Lee Anderson and the politico Martin Daubney. In theory, up to a year after the alleged libel, but the relevant Practice Directions do say that the courts will still expect any claim to be made expeditiously, so not, e.g., 10 or 11 months after the alleged libel.
The courts may (probably will) penalize even a successful defamation claimant (“plaintiff”, as was) in both award and costs if the action is not brought expeditiously.
Why are you tagging bootstrapcrook? ,she is literally doing the tories work by claiming you can feed a family on 20 quid a week, she has ripped of 1000s of working class people who have been paying into her patreon and received NOTHING, people are complaining and getting refunds
Part 1 of my new Jack Monroe blog is up now, complete with slideshows – I am very excited about the slideshows! The next part will follow shortly. This time with alt text.
[regular readers of the blog will be aware that I often repost tweets by @EternalEnglish, who however has now had his Twitter “account” “suspended” (probably removed permanently). It happened to me in 2018, and of course has now happened to most of the interesting Twitter “accounts” formerly online, such as those of David Icke, the London Forum, Katie Hopkins, Patriotic Alternative, Alison Chabloz etc. So much for the “free society”].
Anyone would think the worthless fiat usury they peddle came from the same source attached to these directives. Taking perverse irreversible surgical advantage of mentally unstable adults and children.
It’s a clear incitement of Kiev regime to commit reckless and deadly provocation. Putting lives of millions of Europeans at risk and hoping that radiation will not hit British isles. Britain remains Britain, 200 years ago or now. Same colonial unscrupulous and mean methods! 👎🏻 https://t.co/XwTfZDhnvr
Someone has, but I'm pretty sure it's not me. If somehow or other, over the next 5-10 years, a Nato state gets involved in the Ukraine-Russian war (eminently plausible!) then under the notorious article 5 'an attack on one is an attack on all'. Nuclear war then becomes possible.
Why? Because the Jew-Zionist element always tries to destroy freedom of expression, particularly for non-Jews. Wake up.
The same establishment that hyperventilates over mean words and edgy tweets will gladly platform people who justify car bombing private citizens for expressing opinions they don’t like. pic.twitter.com/uDU44uTwqP
Economists at Citi, the American bank, expect the rate of price rises for consumers to be at nine times the Bank of England’s target in light of the latest energy price jump.
They say that UK inflation is “entering the stratosphere” with affordability concerns growing by the day
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) August 22, 2022
Jesus H. Christ!
Still, if we had any real social-national party or movement, an economic shock like that might be a gamechanger politically, just as the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the consequent/subsequent Great Depression was for Hitler and the NSDAP.
📞The helpline for medical advice aims to answer calls in 20 seconds or less on average, according to an NHS benchmark
⏲️However, the latest official figures show the average time to answer a call was 395 seconds – six and a half minutes
🏥It comes after The Telegraph revealed on Saturday that the NHS has told hospitals to prepare a public awareness campaign for people to "minimise" pressures on urgent and emergency services
I favour a free-at-point-of-use NHS service, but only for British people, not for “health tourists” and all manner of riff-raff. How such a service can be funded is an open question. How such a service can be staffed is another question. The aim should be for the UK to train its own doctors and nurses, for one thing, and they should be forced to work in the NHS, and not allowed to emigrate to the white Commonwealth or elsewhere, for several years (in the case of doctors, perhaps 10 years).
Back in the 1970s, even 1980s, despite many Press stories about deficiencies, the NHS did work, most of the time. Now, mass immigration and NHS maladministration has ruined it.
Management, or rather mismanagement, is one of the really major problems with the NHS.
I see that the propaganda campaign is being readied to pretend to the public that they, the public, are to blame for the NHS not working properly, because they, the public, are actually requesting the services that the NHS is supposed to provide.
This winter, the NHS will not easily be able to blame the 2020-2022 “Covid” “panicdemic” for its inability to run itself properly, and it has been 3 or 4 years since other illnesses or conditions (eg “flu”) were blamed (almost every winter for many years).
If and when the UK has a real government, it must tackle the healthcare mess and the associated adult social care mess as a priority.
One idea might be to use a “dedicated” or “ring-fenced” tax only for the NHS. “National Insurance”, which is merely another tax on top of income tax, is paid into general government funds. If it, or a large part of it, were only usable for health services, the taxpayers would accept it far more readily, especially under a suitable name such as the unoriginal but easily-understood “Health Services Tax”. It is claimed that that would be less efficient; I think not.
Another point: blaming the consumer, or worker, or citizen, now seems to be “a thing” in the UK.
NHS not working right? It’s because Joe Public actually has a medical problem and wants it dealt with. Water shortage? It’s the fault of the public, because they actually want to have a bath or shower, and to water their plants. People cannot live on peanuts? It’s their fault, for being unable to “budget”, or cook, or enjoy “fasting” (going without food— yes, the Daily Telegraph suggested even that recently).
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This has been months of work, funded entirely by goodwill and cups of tea. I'm so grateful to everyone involved. This isn't just about me. It's the story of our movement, the times we're living through and why we refuse to comply. I hope you all enjoy it.
Dr Clare Craig has sacrificed a lot, she's risked a lot, she's received no financial reward for her efforts. She just cares about humanity and the truth. As I understand it, she was banned for sharing ONS data. As Tonia says, this is deeply sinister and disturbing. https://t.co/F92Pfm1URB
Watch Brilliantly Difficult, the hugely enjoyable new documentary about the fearless cartoonist Bob Moran. Bob is the Gillray of the Age of Hysteria. This film deserves to become a cult classic. https://t.co/0EEh4CTPOs
This week brought another victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored 5/10, but I trumped that with 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, and 5. I admit to having guessed no. 10, but fair’s fair…
From the horse’s mouth: the effects of the half-****** “Brexit” carried out by part-Jew chancer and liar “Boris”— an increase in non-European, non-white, immigration.
Relegated to the "Leeds & West Yorkshire" section of the BBC "News" Website.
It's not a news website, it's a biased managed information outlet with an agenda, part of that agenda is choosing the level of importance of a story based on the perpetrator – this they've played down. https://t.co/zXPxcUSawu
This isn't simply the work of an artist's imagination. The world really did look like this. Once upon a time… pic.twitter.com/mZncl9rw3Z
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) June 11, 2022
Of course, it is all too easy to eulogize the past, but a basically white Northern European society can progress; in our age, the black/brown societies cannot, which is why the forces of Evil support and promote “multiculturalism”, because it results in a never-ending cycle, the Eternal Recurrence, as Nietzsche put it.
In the 1970s, whatever problems Britain had could be solved, in principle. Now, with a far larger population generally (70 million instead of about 56 million) and huge non-white populations as part of that, I am not optimistic that problems can be solved. The direction of travel is downward.
Why is this woman on tv all the time? What a waste of space. She’s just the Katie Hopkins of the Education sector. https://t.co/vo8dpGhBFe
Quite. Tweeter “@sorrelish” is right. Sophie Corcoran must come from the “George Osborne” school of social observation.
Seems that Sophie wants to make a well-paid “career” of making would-be “edgy” socio-political remarks, though naturally not “antisemitic” ones (the acid test…), in the manner of wastes of space such as Tom Harwood or, previously, Katie Hopkins, Toby Young etc.
The USA has been heading down the road to chaos for a long time…
…and guess what? The sinister Jew conspirator, Soros, is up to his neck in it. Again.
Every. Single. Time.
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Almost every media commentator and politician currently claiming to be distraught by children dying from Russian bombs, American assault rifles or UK immigration policy, didn’t give a shit about these young people. And still don’t. It’s unbearable. https://t.co/Gqc4uWia9o
You don’t give a damn about mental health and you can never again pretend that you do. You should not even exist as a charity after such an unforgivable abdication of duty. You and so many others like you. Pathetic charlatans.
Pensioners warned hundreds of thousands may face costs for NHS treatment – ‘150 percent’ HOW CAN THIS BE RIGHT, WHEN ALL THE 1.1MILLION MIGRANTS ILLEGAL AND LEGAL THIS YEAR ALONE ALL GET FREE TOTALLY NHS?https://t.co/Ysqwo3WXpO
But this is not just a problem for the Chinese government.
"Analysts warned that the continued lockdowns would exacerbate already strained global supply chains and could contribute to inflation and the intensifying cost-of-living crisis in many countries." pic.twitter.com/03mpJ8WLcI
The Russian forces in Ukraine east of the Dnieper river are doing what I expected, though far more slowly than I expected. They are squeezing and trying to encircle the large Ukrainian forces in and around the Donbass (southeastern Ukraine). This is the main industrial area of the country and is already, effectively and mostly, in Russian hands, with pockets of resistance in places.
I had expected Russian forces to advance north and south from the areas of Kharkov and the Sea of Azov coast respectively, then forming a line through Zaporozhye and Dnipro, and up to/down from Kharkov, thus cutting off all Ukrainian forces east of that line.
The Russians have not done what I expected, perhaps because of supply problems, perhaps also because of the apparently successful Ukrainian counter-attacks in the Kharkov area. The Russians may have redeployed forces formerly in the Kharkov area further south, around Izyum and Lisichansk.
The present focus seems to be on the town of Severodonetsk.
Instead, there seems to be an attempt at a more limited encirclement, involving about a third of the area mentioned above.
The Guardian is reporting that Ukrainian casualties, both killed and wounded, may top 1,000 per day. Even the lower estimate of 600 per day would not be sustainable for long. The Russian attrition rate is believed to be far less now, partly because the Russian forces have a longer-range capacity:
“...with an artillery overmatch of 10 or 15 to one, according to the Ukrainians, it may well be that the invaders’ casualty rate is far lower at the moment, because they are able to deal death from a greater distance to defenders who cannot see them.” [Guardian]
“Ammunition is certainly running short on the Ukrainian side, again by their own admission. Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, has said Ukraine is using 5,000 to 6,000 artillery rounds a day, and has “almost used up” its stockpile of Soviet 152mm standard shells. It is now relying on Nato-standard 155mm howitzers; it is unclear how many of these it has.” [Guardian]
“Western support is still in place, as shown by the UK announcement to supply a handful of – perhaps three – multiple rocket launchers this week, even if Kyiv said almost immediately it wanted many times more. But it is Russia’s forces that have found a way to advance in the Donbas, raising the question of whether the three-month war is at another turning point.” [Guardian]
If Russian forces can succeed even in this more limited encirclement, they will capture huge numbers of prisoners (usable as bargaining chips), and territory, but also will more easily be able to overrun much of the territory of Ukraine east of the Dnieper and south of Kiev and Kharkov.
If the Russian forces succeed in their present operation, then I would expect them to attempt something akin to the larger encirclement of territory suggested at the top of this blog post. There may be relatively little opposition by that time. Also, the open and flat rural landscape will play to Russia’s strengths.
At that point (assuming that Zaporozhye, Dnipro, and perhaps Kharkov are all taken or bypassed), a very large assault on Kiev might be prepared.
I am assuming that the Ukrainian side is talking about their shortages of arms and ammunition in the hope that the UK and US (etc) will provide more and better. Maybe they will, maybe not.
That might be the case were Kiev seriously threatened. NWO/ZOG seems to want to provoke further conflict, so who knows?
Michael McFaul
I keep seeing hawk-like anti-Russia tweets from one Michael McFaul, Professor McFaul, of Stanford University (California). Turns out that he is a former U.S. Ambassador to Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McFaul.
— Mr Fezziwigⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 (@MrFezziwig6) June 11, 2022
How can a more advanced society be created with such as those? In fact, how can even a reasonably-decent society, such as ours still (just-about) is, even be maintained? It cannot.
🔺 NEW: The former Brexit secretary compared No 10 to “the cockpit of a crashing airliner” where “the dashboard lights are all flashing red” https://t.co/k7Tl1BiGLu
⚡️First-person footage of the fighting in #Severodonetsk
The #Ukrainian fighters got into a semi-encirclement, but were able to fight back to another position and slain several occupiers along the way. pic.twitter.com/p8bK8AfaU6
Desperate fighting, akin to the WW2 battle for Stalingrad, though on a far smaller scale.
Occupiers destroyed one of symbols of #Severodonetsk -Ice Palace.5000 residents of Severodonetsk (that's how many seats the hall had) will no longer attend a concert on the city's best stage.Figure skating, hockey, volleyball, sports school, concerts-almost 50years of the history pic.twitter.com/o4qCHZ52Qe
So constructed ~1972. Ironic that the Soviet Union finally became at least liveable only a decade or so before its collapse.
#Ukrainian militants are hiding in the apartments of #Severodonetsk and are firing from a heavy machine gun. Now you can better understand why the houses after the battles look deplorable, the Armed Forces of #Ukraine constantly equip firing points there.#UkraineWarpic.twitter.com/Tuho0Hvw3t
— peter pobjecky – #FreeAssange (@peterpobjecky) June 8, 2022
— Joël Zéphirin GÉLANOR (@JoelGelanor) June 11, 2022
But wait, even this week, #Ukraine#propaganda machine along with #CNN was saying #Severodonetsk was control by Ukraine like 50%. Now, it's almost under #Russia's control. #Zelensky administration have been lying to the public and the world about real situation on the ground.
The Jew Zelensky and his whole cabal know that their main chance is to lure the NATO allies deeper and deeper into this war, until —in effect— NATO forces are fighting Russian forces. Unfortunately, the largely Jewish-controlled or strongly influenced msm in the UK, USA and elsewhere are pushing Zelensky’s line, and his demand for more and heavier weaponry, and for more ammunition, rockets etc. If acceded to, that could lead to a nuclear war in Europe, and indeed across the USA, as well as across Russia.
With a couple of exceptions, the New Zealand women I have encountered have all been aggressively politically-correct (and frighteningly-ignorant) wastes of space. I wonder why.
Helen Clark thinks that cannabis use should be de-criminalized but that “the wrong sort” of opinions on social media should be criminalized. That tells you all you need to know about her.
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And by the way, I’m not necessarily saying it will work, or that the same numbers of people will comply. But don’t think they aren’t planning on making these disgusting policies a regular feature of our lives.
Lockdowns are catastrophic Lockdowns are unscientific Lockdowns cost human lives Lockdowns cause suffering Lockdowns cause suicides Lockdowns harm children Lockdowns cause mass global poverty, starvation & deaths
It is ironic that those of us often accused of wanting to institute dictatorship are in the forefront of the battle for free speech, freedom of expression, reasonable civil rights.
It is the pseudo-liberal supporters of the System, such as the Jew-Zionist element, the supposed supporters of (System) “democracy”, mainstream politicians etc (including most TV “celebrities” and talking heads, most “journalists” and other scribblers, most “human rights”-squawking barristers) who are on the other side, wanting strict “lockdowns”, shutdowns, forced vaccination, control of social media, and prosecution for anything “anti-Semitic” and/or “racist” etc.
Rory Stewart
Meanwhile, winning this week’s prize for stating the very obvious— Rory Stewart:
Rory Stewart says that Boris Johnson’s scandals make the UK feel like ‘Berlusconi’s Italy’ https://t.co/l3drsBnbbQ
Rory Stewart says, though slightly more diplomatically, that Boris-idiot is a narcissistic waste of space, unfit for office. True, and many of us were tweeting and blogging the same, years ago. Still, “those who live in glass houses should not throw stones“…
“Ukraine’s armed forces and regional officials say Russia is launching attacks on all fronts in eastern Ukraine in what seems to be new offensive.” [The Guardian].
I think that the Russian forces are now doing what I thought they were trying to do about a month ago, i.e. drawing a line from the coastal regions of the Sea of Azov and Black Sea up the eastern bank of the river Dnieper through Zaporozhye and Dnipro [former Dnepropetrovsk], then towards Kharkov, with the aim of eliminating all Ukrainian forces to the east of that line, then occupying all territory to the east of that line.
Once the above has been accomplished, the strategy may well be to strike north from Dnipro and west from the Kharkov area (once Kharkov is either taken or isolated), thus controlling and/or occupying almost all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper and south of Kiev itself.
Ha ha! I could not ignore that prize example of socio-political idiocy. Seems that there are still “useful idiots” around who idolize the Jew Marx. Not that everything he wrote was wrong; even Hitler said that (see Hitler’s Table Talk). However, what was, in its heyday, a serious political movement, meaning Marxism, or Marxism-Leninism, has become (gradually, since the 1950s) a farrago of nonsense play-politics, on the periphery of both events and political thought.
In the famous words of Marx himself: “…first time as tragedy, second time as farce“…
Being British has nothing to do with nativism or skin colour. It's about a set of values and a cultural identity which joins each of us together. Thats why the 🇬🇧 flag has places us all somewhere and the 🏳️🌈 places us all nowhere. https://t.co/P4RRb7OA0B
Thus actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox displays ignorance of history, ethnology, and politics, all in two short tweets. As I have written previously, you can dump Fox in the same bin as Toby Young, James Delingpole, Breitbart, GB News, the fake “Free Speech Union”, UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform Party, Nigel Farage, “Tommy Robinson”, and Katie Hopkins (etc):
Grifting wastes of space, as well as controlled opposition.
Not that all that they say is wrong…see below:
"What you can legally type, you won't be able to say online. This concept of 'legal but harmful' content is extremely worrying."
Not because of climate change or any of that woke nonsense, but because of mass immigration, toxic woke culture eroding society and globalisation in the hands of the WEF
— Sophie Corcoran 🇬🇧 (@sophielouisecc) May 27, 2022
More than one million migrants were allowed to live in the UK last year.
That’s a joke, mass migration is causing the UK to decline rapidly.
— Sophie Corcoran 🇬🇧 (@sophielouisecc) May 26, 2022
The truth of that becomes more apparent daily.
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The Prophet of the WEF, Yuval Harari and his Partner…state that God doesn’t exist and is simply ‘Fake News’. pic.twitter.com/BBEfePm5pA
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) May 27, 2022
The increase in non-European migration in the post-Brexit UK has been breath-taking. The number of visas issued to Pakistani nationals has surged by 255%. In a similar token, the number of visas issued to Nigerians grew by 415% and to Indians by 164%.https://t.co/9OKh0UPMlk
You only have to look at the “British” Cabinet and also the non-Cabinet ministers. Jews, part-Jews, Indians, Pakistanis. Where are the English?
Boris Johnson’s government has increased annual legal immigration to over a million for the first time in modern history, as illegal immigration in the Channel remains uncontrolled and deportations remain in freefall. #BorisTheLiarhttps://t.co/8HMAMa945x
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) May 27, 2022
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[Bishop’s Rock lighthouse, Isles of Scilly. Hard to believe that I visited it, long long ago, in an open boat (in high summer, and with the sea almost flat calm, though). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Rock]
I think that I have only read one or two of his books, long ago, in the 1970s. He sold 140 million copies altogether. When I visited Rhodesia in 1977, I found that the only large (perhaps even, the only) bookshop in Salisbury (now Harare) sold few books from Europe or North America (because of the anti-Rhodesia sanctions imposed, and because of shortage of foreign currency). South African or locally-published books about how to look after your horse, dog, even tropical fish, seemed to be the main stock-in-trade. Those, and Wilbur Smith.
Smith’s huge success as author did not translate well onto film, judging by the two films seen by me (Gold, and Shout at the Devil). Some have thought that the film The Wild Geese was based on a book by Smith, but that is not so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Geese].
Some writers, some characters, do not translate well onto film, or are hard to film credibly. In my opinion, Raffles has never been brought to life successfully. The same could be said of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories.
One writer usually poorly-represented in the films of his books was Alistair Maclean; at least eleven of whose books were filmed. The best I have seen is probably Where Eagles Dare, though Ice Station Zebra is also not too bad. Some of the films based on Alistair Maclean books are very poor indeed, though, e.g. When Eight Bells Toll [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Eight_Bells_Toll_(film)].
Even much-filmed John le Carre has often not translated well onto screen. The BBC series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was incomparable, its sequel, Smiley’s People, also very good (and another mini-series, A Perfect Spy, was not bad, lifted by the stellar performance of Peter Egan); le Carre’s stuff is better in such series format, hard to squeeze into the couple of hours of a feature film.
It may be that the best feature film adaptation of le Carre was the black and white The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton:
I myself rarely read any kind of fiction now; when young, I did. In the adventure genre, my favourite was Hammond Innes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_Innes]; rather forgotten now, I suppose. Four of his books were filmed, but (in my view) only one quite well, The White South, which was filmed as Hell Below Zero; the film contains historically-valuable, though unpleasant, footage of actual Antarctic whaling.
My favourite Hammond Innes book is The Strange Land, but it was never filmed.
Some writers’ books, which you would think would have made exciting films, never were filmed. Desmond Bagley [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Bagley] comes to mind. Adventure in tropical or other wild parts of the world: espionage, crime, treasure-hunting. I have only read a couple of his books. I recall reading The Vivero Letter about 50 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vivero_Letter_(novel).
[Update, 14 November 2022: since writing the above, I have become aware that The Vivero Letterwas later, much later, filmed— in 1998, thirty years after the publication of the book. It seems that two of Bagley’s other books were also filmed, in all three cases unsuccessfully as far as fame is concerned— I had never heard of the films].
Desmond Bagley, like Hammond Innes, can create a credible and quite gripping world out of strange and unusual events.
Another author whose work went largely but not entirely unfilmed was Elleston Trevor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elleston_Trevor. His spy story The Berlin Memorandum, written under the nom de plume “Adam Hall”, was filmed as The Quiller Memorandum, though not very credibly, in my opinion. Somewhat in the Len Deighton area [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton].
Trevor is arguably better known as the writer of the book The Flight of the Phoenix, filmed twice. As usual, the earlier film was the better by far.
Len Deighton himself (he is still around, presently aged 92) has had a number (I think three) of his early books filmed, and quite successfully, perhaps (?) because they are not as reflective and “psychological” as those of le Carre and some others. The IPCRESS File,Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain. Indeed, his own later work is more complex.
[title sequence from Billion Dollar Brain; directed by Ken Russell; music by Richard Rodney Bennett]
Come on you 77 trolls keep going I’ve only blocked 100 so far & I’m enjoying sorting wheat from chaff on my posts. Respectfully yours, the stupid old ugly hag with bad teeth, bad hair, fake profile & absolutely no sense of humour 🤷♀️
More charming DMs lol 😂. Anyone might have thought I’d criticised Remembrance Day or something rather than Tesco! These personal hate messages are contrary to @Twitter policies but it’s up to them if they want to do something about it; I’ve not got the time for them tbh 😂 pic.twitter.com/64rhU3kZZc
This kind of “pile-on” is typical of Twitter, of course. Not that Twitter is of any real importance now. Most of the really interesting accounts have been “suspended” (expelled), including mine!
My own Twitter account was removed in 2018 after a big effort by a pack of Jew extremists. Now we see almost any “dissident” account worth looking at removed. The better-known names include David Icke, Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Alison Chabloz, Katie Hopkins, the London Forum. Many others.
The purge on Twitter continues: only a week ago, the account of thinker Nick Kollerstrom was removed. Why? Usual (((suspects))), of course…
I repost tweets on the blog as a quick and easy way of making points or illustrating matters, but in fact Twitter has little real political influence. I have blogged in the past about this. I am always seeing accounts with, supposedly, thousands of “followers” yet only a handful of “likes” or retweets on any given tweet. Some accounts do get hundreds and even thousands of likes/retweets, but then you look at the profile and find that those accounts (mostly of the “famous”) have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Twitter followers.
As I have blogged previously, it says much about the self-describing “Left” that their big idea is to “deplatform” this or that person or organization. Nothing to say about society or how to form a better one; just negativity. That is why such people rarely get anywhere politically. Their lives revolve around Twitter. Many of the Zionist Jew cabal on Twitter are like that. They even have a word for themselves, “J-Twitter”.
As for the campaign of propaganda (not only “Covid” passports etc but the whole racemixing campaign), I was alerting the people to that years ago. Now, many are waking up.
However, that propaganda campaign is not aimed at people like me (65-y-o), nor indeed at those in their fifties or forties, nor even at those in their thirties and twenties. This is propaganda, and subliminal propaganda, aimed mainly at children, whose critical faculties are at an early stage of development.
The idea is to normalize the multikulti society, the society composed of various and very different races and ethnic groups, which society will then form the mixed-race mass promoted by Coudenhove-Kalergi.
The ignorance of the police about the very laws they are supposed to enforce is one of the most alarming things today. They often seem to have a completely wrong idea about what the law actually is. This became apparent during the stupid “lockdown” shutdown.
They wait to cross the Channel They are coming here because the UK govt wants them here French & UK boats will escort them to England Our governments are our enemy.#StopTheInvasion#DefendEnglandhttps://t.co/UrpWVB5muB
UK govt does not own England Corporate capital does not. We do not own England We are just its custodians We have a duty to pass on to future generations that which our forbears entrusted to us.
After the earlier discussion of writers, books, films, and film music, here is the full suite from Billion Dollar Brain, music written by Richard Rodney Bennett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rodney_Bennett]
Actually, I love donkeys, but not those carrying the rank of general officer.
Imagine a real war between NATO (i.e. the USA, i.e., in reality, NWO/ZOG) and Russia. It would quite likely turn nuclear. Britain is still the USA’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the words, I believe of Roosevelt. You could say goodbye to the UK and most of the British people, were the UK to be attacked; we are just too small, geographically, and have too many people (and too many key targets) in far too small a space. Britain could do a lot of damage to Russia, but not destroy Russia. Russia, however, could destroy the UK, in effect.
Why is Britain still being the poodle of the American NWO cabals? It’s madness. Better to join with Russia, against both NWO/ZOG and, if necessary, China, and certainly against both Zionism and Islamism.
More tweets
Andrew Marr glossing over the Jennifer Arcuri story just now as "salacious" and "nothing really substantial."
It's a first-person account of how Boris Johnson used his office to financially benefit his lover, against official advice. It's corruption #marrhttps://t.co/MfDOFR5v9f
These veterans overwhelmingly report the same things – not getting the level of payment they need and then facing lengthy and complex battles to get an increase
Payments to injured veterans fall into two camps – war pensions and the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) pic.twitter.com/8TVSCA4EMN
The royal helicopter has just gone over Kensington Gardens twice, to collect Prince Charles and take him off to Highgrove, or wherever he skulks gibbering about carbon dioxide. Powered by unicorn farts, no doubt.
— Sozzinski (Person without a cervix) (@Sozzinski) November 14, 2021
Denison’s Island. I have been there, in 1967, aged 10, with my school class. There was no-one else there at the time except the custodians. Strange place, quite small inside (the walls are over 12 ft thick in places), with a small area of lawn and a few old cannon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Denison. 54 years ago. Hard to believe.
The same attitudes appeared in The Times which said the UK was a Christian country not a vengeful one – implying that hoping that perhaps there might be some form of justice for genocide is basically a kind of distasteful Old Testament thing.
The constant and seemingly neverending push for vengeance (not “justice”) against Germany and German people by the international Jew-Zionist lobby is, quite exactly, “a kind of distasteful Old Testament thing“, akin to the behaviour exhibited by the Israelites thousands of years ago.
For true European people, the idea of carrying on persecution of individuals, or a state, or country, for decades or even hundreds of years (will the Zionists stop whining and/or bullying in 2045?), for alleged crimes which are not continuing, is indeed distasteful.
The Japanese, or many of them, treated Allied prisoners abominably during WW2. We, meaning the British, after the war ended, hanged or shot a relatively few and clearly proven war criminals, persons who had cruelly or brutally transgressed the accepted rules of war. The rest were released.
Now, nearly 80 years later, we do not seek out Japanese who were 18-y-o typists or even sentries, and put them on trial in a grotesque parody of courtroom “justice”, which is actually (in the case of of 90 or 100 year old SS men or German female ex-typists) a deliberately-contrived ordeal because of the defendants’ age and medical condition.
Likewise, no-one has suggested that those who, at age 18 or 16 were typists or security guards at, say, Los Alamos, should be tried for “facilitating” mass murder of Japanese civilians at Hiroshima. That would be not only unjust but, as said, grotesque.
The same could be said of British people who worked as typists or teenage Home Guard personnel etc at RAF bases from where bombers left to devastate the cities of the Reich in 1941-45, killing between 600,000-800,000 people, mostly civilians, mostly women and children.
The German bombings of the UK killed far fewer, 60,000 or so, but that was still devastation on a wide scale; yet the British do not constantly whine about it now, and did not at the time, or immediately after 1945.
The attitude of many Jews, particularly the hardcore Zionists, is at odds with the culture of Europeans, including British. So why the trials? Because the present German state is still, in a sense, “occupied”…
Ian Robert Millard 