I firmly believe the UK is now hurtling toward a major political earthquake. Look at the numbers in the latest polling, compared to the general election last year.
Amid the worst cost-of-living crisis since the Second World War, soaring and uncontrolled immigration,…
[“I firmly believe the UK is now hurtling toward a major political earthquake. Look at the numbers in the latest polling, compared to the general election last year. Amid the worst cost-of-living crisis since the Second World War, soaring and uncontrolled immigration, deteriorating public services, a glaring lack of social integration, and a succession of scandals that have rocked the Labour government, from the rape gangs to Freebiegate, voters are now on the move. Compared to the 2024 general election, Keir Starmer and Labour are down more than 10-points on just 24%. Kemi Badenoch and the Tories are down 2-points on just 22%, showing no sign of recovery. And the Liberal Democrats are up 1-point, averaging just 13.6%. But now look at Reform. As we’ve been predicting and analysing in our newsletter for two years (showing why people are voting Reform and the areas where it is building strength), Reform is now up 11-points to 25%. And that’s not all. As I explain below, Reform is now hitting both the Tories but especially Labour in unique and powerful ways, looking set for a major breakthrough as it inherits the post-Brexit realignment.”]
Yes, but Reform can only be a transitional party, existing in the space between the existing System parties and a social nationalist movement which, as yet, does not exist.
The next big test will be the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. 9 days from today. Those voters could make history. Will they?
'Why on Earth are we even imposing these things on the British people… they aren't even effective at stopping crime.'@GoodwinMJ calls for the abolishment of non-crime hate incidents. pic.twitter.com/lkESRBBp5S
“We” are not imposing anything. It has been imposed on us by the System parties, and mainly at the behest of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby…but don’t expect Goodwin to say anything about that…
I find it odd that UK authorities are throwing people into jail for voicing anti-immigration views on social media while seemingly not doing anything at all about trans extremists holding signs calling for the murder of women.
— Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) April 21, 2025
Labour has confirmed it will meet our demand to release data on migrant crime. But it’s not enough —we want to see ALL data on crime by immigration status and nationality https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/DV1EdcLCs0
[“The Ukrainian authorities simply stole, pumped money out of the territories and took it abroad” According to Vladimir Putin, this is where the Kyiv regime’s desire to cooperate with sponsors came from. He noted that the Kiev regime continues to steal money from the Ukrainian people, we are talking about billion-dollar accounts that are located abroad. And Western weapons supplied to Ukraine constantly end up on the black market.“]
Ukraine's gas storage facilities have almost completely run out of usable gas pic.twitter.com/Gm6YAqJthA
If the Kiev regime does not come to terms shortly, then the war will continue until unconditional surrender, or worse.
US State Department spokeswoman to Fox News: China doubled down on its response instead of rushing to make a deal on tariffs pic.twitter.com/SeBPXs4zEr
„Hi everyone, I’ll be offline for a while due to important medical checkups. The situation is serious, but I’m working on coming back stronger. Thanks for your support and understanding!“ Keep me in your thoughts! pic.twitter.com/hDYDCV1pis
In rough terms, at the 2024 General Election, Reform scored about 2 votes out of every 12 cast. Labour got 4 out of every 12, the Con Party 3 out of every 12. In fact, 8 out of every 20 eligible did not even vote, so Labour was endorsed by only 4 out of 20.
About half of those Labour votes were cast by people who now realize that Starmer-stein lied to them about almost everything. That is why Labour (supported mainly by non-white voters) is now around the same level as Reform UK.
The unfair FPTP electoral system gives the false impression that only a tiny fringe supported Reform at GE 2024; in fact it was over 14%, and the Conservative Party, with all its money and history (and in government until the General Election) only scored 23%.
Opinion | Nigel Farage's bubble could be about to burst
We should all take a deep breath before we accept that Farage will be picking out new curtains in Downing Street after the next general election
Widespread and angry political dissent is not going to go away even if Reform does. Popular discontent will simply find another channel to flow down. Another party, or a new movement of some kind, perhaps a social-national movement which goes beyond being simply a political party.
Man who spent years tracing everything he doesn’t like to “misinformation” & “disinformation” is now upset the state is releasing information on a subject he’d rather we ignorehttps://t.co/Dj8zZv5NvC
What’s wrong with the other 53%? Actually, the “53%” is nearer to 33% or even lower, because at least 20% of the whole population is now non-European and their votes should not be taken into account in such a poll.
A good majority of white (i.e. British) people are now firmly hostile to immigration.
The US is set to propose Europe recognize Crimea as Russian when officials meet in London on April 23 for talks on a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, The Washington Post reported, citing sources:https://t.co/zHIIq4el31pic.twitter.com/LOuJDEvtRo
The Kremlin is unaware about the content of US President Donald Trump's plan for a Ukrainian settlement, Dmitry Peskov told the Izvestia newspaper:https://t.co/56xXuux9JKpic.twitter.com/HWDvZnEaMe
Really? If so, the SVR is not doing its job very well…
Late music
[Great Patriotic War memorial, Panfilov Park, Almaty, Kazakhstan. In the Autumn and Winter of 1996, and the Spring of 1997, I lived on Prospekt Lenina, about 10 minutes’ walk from there (I moved to another address later). A striking example of public statuary]
Starmer-stein is out of his depth. Useless in every way. Personally, I do not care whether Trump comes to the UK or not, but (as with Tony Blair and others) it is just pathetic to see what poodles British prime ministers are when it comes to the USA (and Israel).
What a piece of work Rachel Reeves is. The UK economic contraction was for January when markets were still riding high and before Trump’s trade war even started. She’s pinning the blame elsewhere when it lies firmly with her and Labour’s catastrophic economic policies. Worse, her… pic.twitter.com/pz3GGOvAsV
[“No, wait! I voted Labour in 2024!” cried the poor mug as Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, and Keir Starmer-stein ordered the execution by stealth of the old, sick, and disabled]
The UK economy tanked from 0.4% to 0.1% at the start of the year. We are going backwards. This is what happens when you cling to a Big State, Big Tax, Big Debt, Big Net Zero, Big Immigration model that is stifling growth and prosperity.
Not sure I agree with all of that, but certainly agree about the net zero and mass immigration aspects. I wonder whether Matt Goodwin is positioning himself to become leader of Reform UK and, therefore, potentially, Prime Minister by 2028 or 2029?
As to the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, it is now surely Reform UK’s to lose, looking at the utterly disastrous Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment. I have already covered the by-election on the blog:
Incidentally, Lord Ashcroft or his employees should learn to spell: “likelihood” is not spelled “likelyhood“.
That opinion poll is interesting, though. Labour support in the constituency seems to have almost halved since the 2024 General Election. In a way, however, the fact that a third of Runcorn and Helsby voters are still inclined to stick with fake “Labour” despite both the thuggishness of the former MP and the actions of Starmer-stein’s useless and unpleasant government says something, arguende, about the intelligence or nous of the average voter!
The fact is that the Conservative Party has no chance in that constituency anyway, so the way for Con or former Con supporters to stick it to Labour and/or Starmer-stein is to vote Reform.
As for disenchanted Labour or former Labour voters, they can protest against Starmer-stein’s and Rachel Reeves’ (and Liz Kendall’s) utter betrayal of everything for which “Labour” used to stand by voting Reform or, failing that, or if they cannot countenance that, by just staying home, abstaining from voting.
Talking point
“A revolution without firing squads is not worth much” [Lenin]
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Ukrainian soldiers are suffering heavy losses in their attempts to evacuate damaged NATO equipment near Sudzha in the Kursk Region on orders from their military commanders, a source in Russian defense circles told TASS: https://t.co/CJtYn6l8Okpic.twitter.com/9EDqyW3On9
Incidentally, I just saw a Daily Mirror report about Kiev-regime drone strikes on Moscow yesterday or overnight. It included the classic error that one Ukrainian drone had hit an oil refinery near Moscow, “only 55 miles” from Putin’s palace on the Black Sea. Well, the nearest place —let alone palace— on the Black Sea from Moscow is about 865 miles away. The “British” msm is just full of absolute bs.
Only unexpected if you're called Rachel Reeves & are a disciple of this traitorous government. Anyone else saw it coming a mile off. Rachel from Accounts is not up to the job. She's in "good" company, though, because from #2TierKier down, none of them are. #StopLabour
I agree with that tweet, but I also agree with this:
At present, the UK is importing about a million so-called “legal” immigrants every year, as well as 50,000-100,000 illegal ones. There is no indication that Starmer-stein, “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves, or Liz Kendall see any of that as the existential peril for our society that it is.
As for Rachel Reeves’ idea of building millions of hutches for people (many of them migrant-invaders): first of all, who will build those “houses”, in a situation where even poorly-trained artisans are in short supply? Secondly, few will be able to afford to buy or even rent the dwellings. Most will be subsidized. How will that save government money, or much stimulate the general economy?
More pathetic System-drone bs, in other words.
In my latest piece, I analyse whether Mark Lewis of Patron Law knowingly misled the High Court with his evidence in my case.
I think it is possible that his conduct amounts to contempt of court.
If you follow the link in my bio, you will see my latest on Mark Lewis of Patron Law.
Something to bear in mind when you are reading it: this is his signed statement of truth on his witness statement dated 16 December 2022. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/rWQ2ZEaChj
The above half-dozen tweets all relate to the libel action won by the tweeter, James Wilson, an academic from the North East of England, who won against a swamp of dishonest Jew-Zionist lawyers and perjuring or “unreliable” witnesses (every last one a Jew-Zionist).
Simon Myerson was a witness for the defence in that case. Myerson, a barrister based in Leeds, was later sacked as a part-time judge for other reasons, at least officially (his malicious and vituperative tweets and other social media comments). In the case in question here, Myerson’s testimony was given very little, if any, weight by the trial judge.
As for the defendants, one, a vicious pro-Israel social media troll called Pete Newbon, committed suicide before the trial had ended, he having failed to inform his wife that the libel case was happening, and that their family home might be on the line.
Another defendant, one Cantor, was (as it appears) either negligently or, quite likely, deliberately misled by the Jew-Zionist solicitor and Israel-lobby political fanatic Mark Lewis. It seems that Cantor will now lose his family home by reason of Lewis’s default(s), in order to satisfy the court-ordered legal costs of the successful claimant, Wilson. Not that I personally have the slightest sympathy for Cantor or any similar individual.
I do not know, but it seems not unlikely that, the defendants or surviving defendants having now a legal obligation to pay Wilson’s costs (though they are but a fraction of those that would have been claimed by the lawyers of the defendants, had they succeeded at trial), those surviving defendants will almost certainly end up suing Lewis and probably also Patron Law, the mainly Jewish law firm (based in a mews side-street in Notting Hill, West London), which is Lewis’s legal foothold in England (he is now, and has been since 2018, an Israeli citizen supposedly living in Eilat, Israel).
Good grief! Can you imagine that drunken and/or drugged and/or crazed shambles negotiating with Putin, or Zelensky, or Netanyahu?
There really is something wrong with the allegedly “democratic” process, both in the USA and the UK, when some creature like Kamala Harris can become Vice-President, and nearly become President, of the USA. In the UK, look at David Lammy, Angela Rayner, and most of the rest of Starmer-stein’s Cabinet.
Everybody’s to blame except the people who are actually in charge of the economy 🙄 pic.twitter.com/tIZgBCSVlr
Even after the past 15 years of chaotic mismanagement, the government of Starmer-stein is something else…Look at them! “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves, Liz Kendall, Angela Rayner (!), David Lammy (!), Yvette Cooper etc. Starmer-stein himself. What a crowd of cretins!
This is interesting.
The top issue for ALL voters in Runcorn & Helsby, not only Reform voters, is immigration and asylum.
As frequently said on this blog, immigration affects everything when it is on the present Biblical scale— housing, pay, benefits, pensions, traffic, rail travel, crime, the environment, culture. You name it.
A convicted Ghanaian criminal deported from Britain 12 years ago, has been allowed to return under human rights laws because he is DEPRESSED…
Can you imagine?! That is a “judge”, according to the UN! “Lydia Mugambe”…
We cannot afford to be too complacent, though. How long before we get something similar here, sitting in judgment over native Brits? When we look at the Bar, the lower ranks, and some at higher level, are in part already like that…
Population of snow leopards increases from 10 to 87 in Russia over ten years, reported the Chairman of the general meeting of the interregional association "Irbis", Ali Uzdenov:https://t.co/mScdPM35Dqpic.twitter.com/xADb2h0jQn
There are some enterprises, some kinds of economic enterprise, that should be in public ownership: water companies, major rail services, large-scale electricity production and distribution, large-scale domestic-use gas production and distribution; some other activities.
Some other things, relating to the State and/or wider society, should also be run by the State itself, or by a quasi-State authority: Royal Mail, prisons, National Lottery; some others as well.
Talking point— a “free speech” thread on Twitter
Free speech is free speech, Alex.
You can’t complain about it by shutting it down.
‘The left’ are not outraged. Normal folk are not comfortable with outward displays of Nazism.
What the fuck does that sign have to do with Jewish communities? Disgraceful to bring them into this. Defamation needs to be untrue – Musk literally did a Nazi Salute and then supported a Nazi like party in Germany the AFD.
Have any UK-based Jewish-Zionist organisations complained? – They're habitually the most litigious when it comes to being "grossly offended" over e.g. satirical songs.
By the way, have any of these same NGOs complained about Tory Lord Hamilton "Jews have lots of money" remarks?
GB News, looking at its output, is very obviously permeated by “the usual suspects” (((“them”))) and paid puppets.
Also, I only noticed today that reply by what purports to be a Twitter/X account of persecuted satirist and singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz. If so, good to see her back on Twitter/X.
Alert regular readers of the blog may have noted that it is exactly a year (14 March 2024) since I was sentenced as a result of my free speech trial in November 2023.
Amazing. A whole year has elapsed since the sentence, and about 16 months since the trial itself. I repost my accounts of the trial, sentence, and aftermath here below:
I was able to continue blogging right through the process, and am still blogging almost every day, about 25-30 times per month.
As previously explained, I am under no greater legal constraint now than I was in 2024, 2023, 2022 (etc).
I have no doubt that the malicious Jew-Zionist element will continue to try to destroy the freedom of speech and expression not only of me but also of all British and other people. However, one must stand up for free speech and expression.
As far as I am concerned, “one human soul is a big audience“.
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The Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region will be ruthlessly destroyed, if they refuse to lay down their arms, said Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council:https://t.co/KET8kbZoB8pic.twitter.com/vJvgHkBUln
A senior adviser to Foreign Secretary David Lammy has questioned how much people will mourn the death of Prince William, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The comment by Ben Judah, the Labour adviser who has been described as ‘Lammy’s brain’, is one of a string of astonishing remarks he has made that the Conservatives have branded republican and ‘anti-British’.
Mr Lammy is facing a mounting whispering campaign within Sir Keir Starmer’s Government over his future as Foreign Secretary.
He has also caused a headache for Sir Keir with past tweets about Donald Trump – who could be just ten days away from returning to the White House – that included describing him as a ‘woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath’ and ‘no friend of Britain’.
One well-placed source said: ‘Lammy will be allowed a bit longer in the job, then someone more savvy such as [Northern Ireland Secretary] Hilary Benn will get the gig.’“
Of course, thick-as-two-short-planks Lammy does need intellectual support: see
A typical scenario, of course.
I have to concede that I agree with the said Judah’s view of the Commonwealth:
“In an article for the Unherd website in 2022, Mr Judah was also dismissive about the Commonwealth – to which Sir Keir has this weekend been paying homage at the summit in Samoa.
Mr Judah wrote about the Queen: ‘We pretended with her and for her that the Commonwealth was real, that there was love and affection for her, or for us, in countries we’d conquered and lost, that we were still a great power.
‘And if not an empire, then she ruled its heir. As she aged, shrinking into her clothes, it became clear there wasn’t enough there, behind the insignia of government, to hold us up in the world.’“
[Daily Mail]
There was, in decades past, a discussion to be had about whether Britain could “punch above its weight”, partly via the Commonwealth. Soft power etc.
One is reminded of how the late great Maurice Oldfield, one-time Chief of SIS/MI6, cultivated foreign students at Oxford or Cambridge likely to become leaders of Commonwealth states. Sometimes, after they had already started on a political-career path. Notably, Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore.
However, such activity is largely the filling in of gaps; a substitute for the real geopolitical power exercised by the British Empire.
As things now are, the Commonwealth seems to be largely a way whereby Britain gives money to those who, increasingly, are rather hostile to the British people whose money they take. Some, such as Mozambique, which never were colonies in the first place, have latched onto British aid by joining the Commonwealth.
Better to cut them all loose now. Take away the ricebowls of the former colonies. Stop playing the convoluted chess defence which Commonwealth diplomacy has become.
Final thought: a picture of Britain in its final (?) decline— a thick-as-two-short-planks and massive-chip-on-shoulder black “diversity hire” Foreign Secretary, “advised” by a Jew far more intelligent than his boss. Which is more inimical to the real interests of the British people?
Where are the (real) British?
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This is the late Peter Lynch, a political prisoner of @Keir_Starmer, who apparently committed suicide at HMP Moorland.
Here Peter believes @UKLabour have betrayed the working-class.
The above photograph is of a senior police officer (in the rank of Chief Inspector), recently appointed district commander of the semi-rural and coastal area of Hampshire where I live. Note the “rainbow” pin on his tie, presumably displaying allegiance to, or acquiescence in, the socio-political “woke” agenda.
The police have gradually become overtly politicized, not in party-political terms but in socio-political terms.
“A Ramada Encore chain hotel opened on 10 November 2008, with a 102-bed capacity.[57] It is situated less than ten minutes walk from the Terminal building. However since the closure of the airport it is now used to hold immigrants awaiting decisions on their asylum cases so is no longer open to the public.“
102 beds. A whole, quite large, hotel.
102— not even a third (sometimes, not even a tenth) of the numbers of migrant-invaders arriving on the “small boats” (or ferried in by Border Farce or RNLI boats) every day. That’s not even counting the “legal” immigrants arriving every day (literally thousands every single day).
The political liars, and msm liars, do not even want to seriously confront the issue of the migration invasion (all of it, not just the “small boats” part). Eventually, it will collapse this society, not decades in the future but in a relatively few years. You can already see it happening, gradually but visibly.
Look at that airport hotel. Destined, as it once seemed, to service British people travelling on business or on holiday, but now merely yet another dustbin for rubbish from all over the world.
Britain itself— a dustbin for untermenschen. It makes me both sad and angry.
As for that airport, I have never been there. I was due to fly from Exeter to Doncaster in 2007, and had a ticket, but an unexpected event meant that I had to be a no-show. I believe that the flight-time would have been only about half an hour.
[Doncaster Sheffield Airport, air-side view, before it closed in 2022]
[statue of Robin Hood, by Neale Andrew, at the now non-operational Doncaster Sheffield Airport, originally called Robin Hood Airport]
While the Tory councillor's wife jailed for her X post was vile, someone legal *really* needs to explain to me how a man who *actually* perpetrated violence on *multiple* occasions causing permanent physical damage gets a *shorter* jail sentence than her 31 months. https://t.co/InOta3eRHY
I do not usually repost tweets from notorious Jew-Zionist Twitter/X accounts, but the individual in question has a good point here.
I might add that I have noticed that South Wales seems to have a very serious problem with crimes of violence, most of which (in contradistinction to the situation in London and much of England) cannot be lain at the door of the non-European population.
I suppose that the sentence was so lenient (the defendant will be released within 12 months, i.e. 40% of 30 months) because he has lost his job in the police, has been banned from being a policeman in any Welsh or English force for life, and may well be “on the dole” for years after his release.
For the sake of clarity, I do not agree that the wife and mother who got 31 months for a few tweets that few saw and none acted upon should have been imprisoned (or prosecuted at all).
🇧🇴 Attempt to kill the former president of Bolivia, 14 shots fired
Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia, released a video showing several shots being fired into the front of a vehicle on the way to a radio station where he was to be interviewed.
Labour MP Mike Amesbury could face up to 2.5 years in prison and might have to resign, following a shocking incident captured on CCTV.
Amesbury, representing #Runcorn and #Helsby, was seen on video punching a man, knocking him down, and then continuing to hit him while he was… pic.twitter.com/VVSqGl0Hkf
Incidentally, the police state that “no arrests have been made“, which makes me ask, “why not?“… I bet that if I behaved as he has done, the police would arrest me.
Western sources claim to have spotted movements of Iranian missile launchers on satellite images, and that Iran is preparing to attack. pic.twitter.com/e14GraNu7V
“More than 2,000 households a month are facing homelessness in England because private landlords say they are selling up, with some blaming uncertainty caused by government delays to renting reforms.
Official figures show that more than four in 10 families who have asked councils for temporary housing after a private landlord ended their tenancy are in the predicament because the owner told them they were putting the property on the market.
Despite increasing demand, the supply of private housing available to rent is still 50,000 homes below pre-pandemic levels, figures from Rightmove show. The total number of privately renting households, including those in stable accommodation, has hovered around the 4.5m mark for the last decade, according to the English Housing Survey. In that time, England’s population grew by 3.2 million, equivalent to 1.4m households.“
[The Guardian]
Look at the effect of mass migration aka migration invasion: In the last decade alone, the UK population grew by 3.2 MILLION…
Islington North
The Labour Party is to select its candidate to fight Islington North in the expected 2024 General Election. Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, sacked from Labour by Israel and Jewish lobby puppet Keir Starmer, has not been invited to apply.
Corbyn presently sits as Independent, but was elected at Islington North for Labour in every general election since 1983. At that first election, Corbyn and Labour scored a vote-share of 40.4% (Con 25.3%, SDP 22.4%), but since then Corbyn has never received less than 50% of the total vote, and usually above 60%, peaking in 2017 (when he was Labour leader) at 73% (Con 12.5%, LibDems 9%). At the most recent general election, in 2019, Corbyn scored 64.3% (LibDems 15.6%, Con 10.2%).
The huge unknown is what percentage of the voters voted for Corbyn, and what percentage voted for the Labour label.
Usually, voters vote by label. Few indeed are the instances where a candidate who has been cast out by his or her party, and who has then stood as Independent (or for a small party) then been re-elected. Most face ignominious defeat. However, Islington North may be different.
There has never been a case where a party leader has been expelled, in effect, from his own party, and has then stood as Independent in the constituency that he has represented for 41 years and is still, at time of writing, representing.
Corbyn is very high profile, and of course has been the MP since 1983, over 40 years.
It seems that local Labour has been frozen out of the selection process, and that Starmer or his minions on the Labour NEC will select the candidate. Apparently, there are several not-unlikely possibilities, and a few political chancers, such as faux-revolutionary (and System msm drone) Paul Mason, will probably also apply.
Assuming that Corbyn does stand (as Independent), I think that he might be able to win the election, and I should put his likely vote-share at somewhere around 30%-40%. The official Labour candidate will probably also get about 30%-40%.
There is likely to be a Reform UK candidate, who will probably get below 5%, and possibly (as with UKIP and Brexit Party in previous elections) only around 1% or 2%. The Conservative candidate will almost certainly struggle to get over 10% and, in the present circumstances, may be in lost-deposit territory, below 5%.
It is possible that the LibDem candidate will score over 10%; hard to say.
My view is that, if Corbyn does stand, it will be a straight fight between him and whosoever is selected as the official Labour candidate. Corbyn surely has every chance, if he stands (I think that he will).
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Our kids should not be exposed to radical belief systems that have no basis in science. Reboot (free to all) of my piece last year on how some schools have become the Wild Westhttps://t.co/nMFJVzlJQS
72% of Mums & Dads in Britain think they should have the right to see what their kids are being taught about sex and gender cc @miriam_cateshttps://t.co/9gNknv06pZ
Labour unveil their 1997-style pledge card. Here's my take on why it's NOT 1997. There is no mass public enthusiasm for Keir Starmer & the Labour opposition https://t.co/SpatdyMnN4
The 1997 General Election passed me by; I was in the middle of living for a year in Kazakhstan, was busy with everyday and not-so-everyday things, and did not have a satellite (or any other) TV; also, BBC World Service radio reception from the UK was very poor by reason of the nearby mountains (Almaty is on the lower slopes of the Tien Shan) and the remoteness from Europe etc.
"ruined the good name of Captain Tom"
Some of us called this grift out for what it was the moment it started and were shouted down as 'unpatriotic' by individuals such as yourself. You don't get to ride a high horse now. Back in your box. pic.twitter.com/YkkGFFybWJ
I was and am willing to believe that “Captain Tom” meant well (though the whole stunt was basically brainless), but his daughter and her husband were very obviously riding it for all it was worth from the start. Disgraceful people.
The msm went along with it all because it tended to reinforce the “panicdemic”/”scamdemic” narrative of the times, the “Covid” craziness, “clapping for the NHS”, and other related nonsense.
Sad that @HackedOffHugh was duped into giving so much money to @DepherCPHUK , who I want to believe had his heart in the right place, but sadly like the family of Captain Tom, greed gets you in the end
— Lover of Trees & Honesty 🌳🪻🐞🐛🐝🌿 (@gwtreelover) May 16, 2024
See also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gxg4jd0ggo, which is well worth reading. An important investigation. These “grifters” should be hounded and prosecuted, not least because they destroy trust in the whole concept of charity and giving.
I myself gave a couple of small donations to that supposed quasi-charitable org. That’s a tenner I shall never get back. Not a fortune, true, but that “grifter” has thereby deprived me not only of a good feeling but also £10 with which I could have bought a couple of Lottery scratchcards. Never mind. If I ever meet him, I shall recover my money from the bastard in person.
I have blogged previously, several times, about this contemporary disease of online “grifters”— “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas, the Anglo-Cypriot fraudster known as the “Bootstrap Cook”), “Supertanskiii” (grifts money via her pathetic Twitter/X account which pretends to be doing pro-Labour political campaigning via swearing at “the Tories”), “Man Behaving Dadly” (a Jew called Simon Harris, who “grifted” hundreds of thousands of pounds, like “Jack Monroe”, from gullible members of the public, and also cheated Essex County Council out of about £600,000).
Many others exist, including Julia Grace Patterson, a woman who worked as a very junior NHS doctor for about 2 years before deciding that it was easier to live from online “grifting” in various ways, while also posing online as some kind of champion of the crumbling NHS.
Latest blog post regarding Simon Harris Man behaving dadly and @Essex_CC
It's about how ECC are whitewashing it. Hoping it's coherent as it jumps around. https://t.co/JVA9jxS8eh
— The Secret Service User (@ECC_Exposed) May 10, 2024
So the guy Simon Harris aka Man behaving dadly is back on Facebook. Did he ever answer those questions about the go fund me’s etc? https://t.co/CU4vRWlpOF
The Essex Police seem to be red-hot when it comes to supposedly “racist” teddy-bears, or jumping on legitimate free speech at the behest of the Jewish lobby, but not much use when it comes to frauds like the above (all based in Essex, apart from Depher UK).
Mobilization from the age of 25 can add approximately 100 thousand young fighters to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, – Ukrainian media citing a source in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/0AfOG7odwK
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 16, 2024
Well, when they are gone, that’s Ukraine’s future as a nation and people pretty much gone too. The birthrate is already far lower than replacement level, and about a third of the pre-2022 population is now outside Ukraine.
A group of Greek Orthodox Christians, outraged by Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip, threw stones at Israeli officials in front of the Israeli Embassy in Greece in Athens. pic.twitter.com/iY7HLdr1aR
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 16, 2024
Biden will send Israel more than $1 billion worth of additional weapons and ammunition for the genocide of Muslims
The package released includes about $700 million for tank ammunition, $500 million for tactical vehicles and $60 million for mortar rounds. pic.twitter.com/snd54nkZje
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 16, 2024
Some of the destruction caused by the occupation in the Al-Zaytoun area, southeast of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/v9xxfO7x3h
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 16, 2024
What might be called “the Reduction of the Gaza Ghetto”.
Avril Haines, Director of US Intelligence: An increasing number of actors, including non-state actors, are trying to influence US elections. Chief among them: Russia, Iran and China. pic.twitter.com/EYB7kjEuBv
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 16, 2024
Don’t forget the main one—Israel, aided by the Jewish lobby within the USA, embedded in politics, finance, TV, radio, newspapers, publishing, and business.
Zionists "work on both sides of any issue" @Tracking_Power says the example of Nicola Mendelsohn and her husband, Jonathan Mendelsohn, shows how Zionists are attempting to control public life by playing both sides of any dispute. pic.twitter.com/H9kWLerlFI
— Palestine Declassified (@PDeclassified) May 15, 2024
Exactly.
Hear the words of the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe which ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians. None have ever been able to return.
Many readers will be aware of the social media presence of a Jew-Zionist called Simon Myerson, a barrister and Recorder (part-time criminal and civil judge), whose toxic social media presence has led to his being given formal “words of advice” (equivalent to a caution) by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.
I have blogged a little about Myerson in the past; he used to tweet obsessively about me and others, and is tied up with the two organizations who have tried to persecute me over the past 10-12 years, the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”].
Recently, Myerson’s sworn testimony in the civil case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon, and Cantor was discounted by the judge, along with that of other unreliable Jewish witnesses (Nathan Comiskey, Joanne Bell, Adam Cailler).
The Jewish defendants lost out, and at least one may have to sell his family home to pay the costs of the Claimant, he (the defendant in question) plainly having been misadvised by self-seeking Israel-based Mark Lewis and others.
One defendant, Newbon, another obsessed Zionist, committed suicide during the trial. The attempt to ruin a university lecturer, James Wilson, and make money out of it for Lewis and the defendants, backfired spectacularly.
Despite the above, Myerson is still practising at the Bar, and (as far as I know) still sitting as a Recorder.
He is an obsessive, like so many of “them”. Here we are at 1300 hrs on a Thursday afternoon, and Myerson has already tweeted 39 times today by my count, starting at about 0800 hrs this morning. So about 8 times per hour, for 5 hours (so far).
I have no idea whether his practice is busy or not.
Should Myerson be sitting in judgment over the fate of British people?
For more on that specific legal case and the fallout therefrom, see previous posts on this blog and/or the tweets of the successful and brave Claimant in the case, James Wilson: https://twitter.com/per_incuriam2.
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A classic of the Mark Lewis genre.
“Your claims are devoid of merit.”
“I have also made it clear that any costs order will be enforced.”
Three years later, one of his clients is dead, two are facing bankruptcy, and one is going to lose his home.
“Here’s an angry email from Patron’s partner Alexander Zivancevic. My view is that there is no blackmail, there is no harassment, there are no threats, and there are no mindless emails. My position is: Patron Law led its clients – Mr Mendelsohn, Dr Newbon and Mr Cantor – into disaster. And Patron Law ought to pay to get them out. Mr Zivancevic is annoyed and threatening because all this is going to cost him some cash. But it’s fair enough that he coughs up some cash to protect Mr Mendelsohn and Mr Cantor? What do you think?”
I myself have no idea whether the defeated and possibly insolvent Jewish defendants will now seek to sue Mark Lewis and others, including Patron Law, on the basis of professional negligence, but it seems that that is a distinct possibility, if not probability.
Lewis himself has no property in this country, having “relocated” (fled?) to Israel several years ago. Indeed, just before he left, and at the time of his “conviction” in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018 (for violently insulting people on Twitter etc), and just before he moved “permanently” to Israel, his own Counsel pleaded that he should not be fined too heavily because his “only assets” were his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter. Even his car had been provided for him for free, paid for by the “antisemitic” British taxpayers, via the DWP-connected Motability scheme. The so-called “top libel lawyer” (according to the tabloid Press in years past)…
Egregious on its own, but also interesting in that Lewis is apparently a partner in that Jewish or mainly Jewish law firm, Patron Law, based in West London. If Lewis is sued (successfully), it may be the case that the other partners of that firm will be jointly and severally liable, if joined to the putative or potential action.
It is not unlikely that the laws of both libel and business or professional partnership have changed over the past few years. I no longer bother to keep up with most legal changes.
Well, there it is, my opinion (which must now come with a non-governmental health warning…).
I have to say that Mr. Wilson is a far more forgiving man than I am. Those Jewish defendants were trying to ruin Wilson and, even if they have been used and bamboozled and manipulated by their fellow Jews, deserve to suffer the consequences of their own badness, in my opinion.
Maybe it’s a Patron Law thing that, where the other side try to do the right thing morally, Patron Law accuse them of blackmail… https://t.co/DA8zG2N33w
“Blackmail?! Well there’s a coincidence. It is so weird. Before the “meanings” judgment was signed off and approved in my case, reading the draft I could see that it was not going well for the other side, that there would likely be further publicity which might be damaging to them and I did not want to cause them any harm. Like the old Buddhist hippy I am, via my sols, I made an offer that was pretty much in the same terms as the settlement we eventually ended up with, suggesting settlement before the judgment was handed down, and then we could ask the judge if he’d be willing not to hand down judgment in those circumstances. My offer was refused as “blackmail”. The judgment was delivered, and published on the BAILII website. The other side then settled. I don’t get it.” [tweeter Cremant Communarde “@0Calamity”]
…or maybe it’s just a (((you know who))) thing…
👀 I am getting closer to publishing evidence which creates a clear moral case for Patron Law to pay my costs.
That would mean the nightmare is over for Patron’s former clients Mr Mendelsohn and Mr Cantor.
Needless to add, a “moral case” would not cut it; only a clear legal case would do that.
I wish Mr. Wilson good luck, and victory.
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🧵 Gaza city | Warning ( ⚠️)
Extremely shocking footage showing the execution of unarmed civilians by Israeli forces. I obtained the scenes from a social media account of an Israeli soldier from the paratroopers brigade.
Regular readers will have seen that I recently had a slight disagreement with my wife over whether we should give to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance via some fellow who knocked uninvited at the door. I was unsure whether he was bona fide or not.
I later tried to contact the air ambulance people, only to discover that their telephone (the real one— I looked it up online) is an automated message which then switches to a line that then goes dead almost immediately. I emailed them via their own website but (about a week on), I have had no reply, nor even an acknowledgment.
I believe their CEO gets about £150,000 a year, maybe more, and that their total administrative staff salary spend (ie not pilots, not doctors etc) is about £700,000 a year. P*** poor.
I myself would never now give to Hampshire Air Ambulance, whether or not the bozo at the door was bona fide.
People should be banned from fundraising at the door anyway; it’s an open invitation to rip off householders.
The same goes for most of the larger charities as well. The higher-up staff are often getting £100,000, £200,000, even £400,000 a year. Forget it.
Bloody hell. I gave him the collection from my mums funeral. I'm beyond shocked. Is anything real anymore. Is everyone a scammer? I feel cheated, demoralised and cynical. I saw his defence that the house he bought for his family- he uses rent to buy food for the needy! He has
“He has completely missed the point that he owns the house! Is this not fraud? After Captain Tom foundation debacle – nothing is sacred anymore. Money corrupts people. I for one will not give to charities like this again.” [tweeter Martina J, “@MartinaJ70”].
I can only agree.
Captain Tom's daughter.. The hero plumber… Who's next.. Jack Monroe? British legion?
How many sacred cows are left?
— 1 of Sunak's Scottish extremists (@ACSpinner) May 16, 2024
Ha ha! Tweeter “@ACSpinner” has obviously slept through the past 2-3 years or more, during which time “Jack Monroe” has been comprehensively exposed as not only a “grifter” but a literal fraudster (though for some reason unknown, she has not as yet been prosecuted).
Outed amongst a small cadre of people online but not by MSM who bought into her grift 100%
— 1 of Sunak's Scottish extremists (@ACSpinner) May 16, 2024
Flashback one month as Robert Fico warned that the (Remainer style) media campaign of hatred against pro-peace voters and politicians would lead to violence & assassinations.
We've seen it in the UK for years, with me, Farage & Galloway relentlessly demonised. Trump in USA too. pic.twitter.com/HFN1EOP8Ma
The "most moral army in the world" eases the pain of a Palestinian boy who goes to help another child who had been shot – by shooting him too.#GazaCrisispic.twitter.com/9eGr6sm47v
British intelligence warned the Ukrainian authorities about the preparation of a Russian offensive in the Kharkov region. Unprepared defensive lines, delays in the supply of weapons, and a lack of manpower prevented it from being stopped – The Guardian. pic.twitter.com/iCqdIxEfaa
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 16, 2024
Quite so. The Kiev regime, as I have blogged for over a year now, is running out of soldiers, even the untrained cannon-fodder which has been pointlessly dying in waves over the past two years. As for those “unprepared defensive lines“, they merely emphasize the shambolic and corrupt nature of the Kiev regime.
The US considers the situation in which the Ukrainian troops are "incredibly desperate ", the State Department announced. pic.twitter.com/c6FF2I0me6
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 16, 2024
The Russian Army stormed the fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Volchansk – the central hospital. pic.twitter.com/F4hMX9Kybw
The Kiev regime has run out of “useful idiots” willing to volunteer to be killed or crippled on the chaotic and crumbling front lines. The foreign idiot virtue-signallers (unemployed Brit ex-private soldiers and adventure junkies, American Soldier of Fortune readers etc) have long since gone home, or been killed. Kiev now press-gangs people off the streets to be sent —on pain of the firing squad— to the front. Few will return. No wonder they put up a serious fight before they are “recruited” and have to face the guns.
🇺🇦🚨‼️ BLACKOUT IN KYIV: Authorities in Ukraine announced today that power outages are expected to persist until at least the end of August or possibly longer.
This projection comes as a response to the severe shortage of power generation capacity and the inability to offset it… pic.twitter.com/btiIKKKiud
🇺🇦🇷🇺🚨‼️ The Russian army is reportedly advancing on the Kharkov front, with reports indicating a storming of Liptsy.
Ukrainian sources confirm the developments, stating that Russian infantry is launching attacks from the forest west of Lukyantsy, situated on the eastern… pic.twitter.com/KhoPrEkBT9
“The Russian army is reportedly advancing on the Kharkov front, with reports indicating a storming of Liptsy. Ukrainian sources confirm the developments, stating that Russian infantry is launching attacks from the forest west of Lukyantsy, situated on the eastern outskirts of Liptsy. Heavy fighting is also reported west of Volchansk in the areas of Burgovatka and Starytsya, according to other Ukrainian sources.“
“A country that has forgotten its culture, history, traditions and national heroes is doomed to extinction” [Tolstoy]
I look at Britain and muse as to whether that can be said (can yet be said) about this country. I am unwilling to say so —yet— but that is probably the heart ruling the head, to be frank.
One thing she leaves out is which “demographic” is, ultimately, behind the attack on Christian culture(s) that she mentions (clue: not —most importantly— the Muslim demographic).
HEART specialist waiting lists are up by 75 per cent, according to NHS figures. Health authorities have admitted that mRNA jabs can cause potentially fatal heart issues, and published post-mortems have recorded heart-related vaccine deaths. Despite this, not one mainstream news… pic.twitter.com/08ODFfGAzR
— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) May 4, 2024
“HEART specialist waiting lists are up by 75 per cent, according to NHS figures.
Health authorities have admitted that mRNA jabs can cause potentially fatal heart issues, and published post-mortems have recorded heart-related vaccine deaths.
Despite this, not one mainstream news outlet has looked at the role covid vaccinations could have played in the huge increase in heart problems. Instead, our health watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), continues to call vaccine-induced myocarditis and pericarditis ‘rare’, despite admitting a 90 per cent under-reporting rate (it could be as high as 99 per cent), and continues to blame SARS-CoV-2 infection.
This is a disingenuous assessment, according to top US cardiologist and epidemiologist Peter McCullough.”
David Cameron met Rishi Sunak's father-in-law in 2010, and then at the next available Election in 2014, Rishi Sunak was parachuted into a safe seat from out of nowhere.
— Animal Welfare Party (@AnimalsCount) May 4, 2024
An important speech which challenges the current global dogma on immigration. In sharing such a video, one cannot avoid being criticized but I share it nonetheless for it makes a powerful case against accepting an unlimited number of migrants into a host country.
I was unaware that Amsterdam is now 56% migrant. That figure does not even include all migrants who arrived over the past 50 years, or their offspring.
Very sad. When I first and briefly visited the Netherlands, aged maybe 8, in 1964 or 1965, there were no migrants, effectively.
When I returned alone, in 1975, aged 18, there were few. Later, on trips in the 1980s, Dutch friends of my family were complaining about the behaviour of the few (I think Turks, or possibly others from Turkey) who had somehow moved to their part of Amsterdam (a relatively-new suburb in or by North Amsterdam, Amsterdam-Noord): thefts of bicycles, littering etc— maybe “petty”, but already slowly changing their decent (and fairly new) neighbourhood into a declining and less pleasant one.
My last visit to the Netherlands, other than using Schiphol airport a number of times, was in the mid-1980s. More recently, I heard from Dutch friends how things had changed, and not for the better. Drugs, crime generally, an immigrant takeover in some parts of the city etc. This all co-incided with economic problems, housing shortages (mass immigration again), considerable job insecurity, and a general cultural decline.
Sad.
As with the Swedes, the Dutch made the mistake of allowing decent tolerance to become indecent licence, and of allowing a kind welcome for a few non-Europeans to become an open invitation for any and all, millions of them.
Britain made, and is still making, the same or similar mistakes, and is also indoctrinating its young people with the same pathetic and weak pseudo-ideology that is eroding white Europe from within.
Incidentally, I just saw this, about WW2 bombing of Amsterdam-Noord:
The Fokker factories were the 17 July 1943 bombings’ goal, but the bombs of the United States Army Air Forces fell on the surrounding residential areas, causing 158 deaths and 119 seriously injured as a result.
The British’ Royal Air Force and Free French Air Forces both did another attempt to bomb the factory on 25 and 28 July, resulting in the death of 200 citizens in total by the three raids.[2]
Only the British Forces managed to bomb the targeted airplane factory, all other bombs fell on residential areas in Amsterdam-Noord. This is the heaviest air bombardment that ever hit Amsterdam. 106 houses were destroyed, 206 houses heavily damaged and 676 houses suffered glass and roof damage. Every year a memorial ceremony takes place on 17 July at De Nieuwe Noorder cemetery.”
[Wikipedia]
Rishi Sunak has written off a £14.9 billion PPE fraud and prohibited its investigation, claiming you don't care. Let's prove him wrong. pic.twitter.com/qyiz45QjGy
Sunak is a little Indian money-juggler, who neither looks, nor behaves, nor thinks like a prime minister.
As expected. the sanctions on Russia on gas supplies to Europe have been bypassed, now the gas goes directly to China, the result of these sanctions for Europe is to pay much more for gas, and for Russia there are no problems, in fact it further strengthens more the…
MOSSAD SPY Jonathan Pollard "I’m sorry, we’re Jews, and if we’re Jews, we will always have dual loyalty . I would counsel a young US Jew working in the American security apparatus to spy for Israel"
— Free Gedanken zur Baukunst (@free_zur) May 5, 2024
There should be a general chistka within the UK’s security and intelligence services. I have no idea, of course, which of the two main ones is the more infested; I suspect SIS/MI6.
Russian representative to the IMF: “BRICS must be prepared for the collapse of the dollar.” pic.twitter.com/oLUg6awOwH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 5, 2024
The evidence on why the vast majority of 2019 Conservative voters have abandoned the party is clear. These typically pro-Brexit voters are utterly fed up with the failure to stop the small boats & lower overall immigration. As I show time & again here https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY
Ukrainians don’t want to fight, but there is still no help from the United States pic.twitter.com/HjcIhPaLXO
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 5, 2024
Israeli military site Kerem Shalom, east of Rafah, under Palestinian rocket fire pic.twitter.com/yj5dMxwruA
— Sprinter clown 🤡 factory (@Sprinter00000) May 5, 2024
“It ain’t half hot, mum!“
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper correspondent in the north: The war in the north is escalating. In the last barrage of rockets towards the Upper Galilee, Hezbollah fired about 65 Katyusha rockets, and since this morning the number of rockets launched towards the north is approaching… pic.twitter.com/0dCFZBRNOW
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 5, 2024
The Minister of War of the Israel regime: Hamas does not intend to agree, we will attack Rafah soon. pic.twitter.com/sUvrLqIUeh
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 5, 2024
Gallant: I have ordered the army to prepare, the order to attack will be issued soon pic.twitter.com/5QLhchR9bn
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 5, 2024
💔Dr. Muhammad Al-Safi, part of a team of Kuwaiti doctors who arrived in Gaza to save people, began to cry after a Palestinian girl, Sumaiya, asked him if he would return her hand. pic.twitter.com/YSPqsMblUn
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 5, 2024
“While Labour is favourite to snatch the Northamptonshire seat from the Tories, Sunak’s party faces a battle even to take second place, if local opinion is anything to go by.”
[The Guardian]
Less an ordinary by-election, more a possible template for GE 2024. As I have blogged previously, there is a mood somewhere between anger and apathy, a mood which has become palpable in recent years, recent months.
The electorate now hates and despises the Conservative Party, whose governments now seem totally incompetent and ineffective. However, fake Labour is not much liked or respected either. “Least worst”, if you like.
As the Guardian report about Wellingborough indicates, that electoral mood leads people either to vote Labour as least-worst option, or to protest via Reform UK.
Sadly, no real social-national party is available.
The electorate’s present main emotion is wanting to stamp on the Government, on the misnamed Conservative Party, and on its MPs.
“A BBC editor was hired as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation – including a vile offender who sexually attacked a deaf teenage girl.
Now an investigation by this newspaper can reveal Ms Harper has givenexpert witness evidence in a string of other controversial deportation appeals by Somali offenders – including for another three sex attackers, three drug dealers and a career criminal who spent a decade in British jails.
In one of the most shocking cases, Ms Harper warned that a Somali man who committed a horrific sexual assault on a profoundly deaf 17-year-old girl would be at ‘severely heightened risk’ if he was sent back to Somalia because he had committed a sex crime.
A judge disagreed and threw out his appeal against deportation. Astonishingly, this newspaper has discovered that, 16 months later, the 29-year-old attacker, who the MoS is banned from naming by a court order, has still not been kicked out of Britain and is living with relatives in a council flat.”
[Daily Mail].
Get rid of the invaders. Get rid of any who connive at the migration-invasion of this country.
Talking point: a medical episode
I do not usually blog about any medical conditions that may impact me, but in this case something wider, about the NHS, is illustrated.
When I lived for a year in Kazakhstan (1996-1997), I suddenly became almost deaf at one point. Ear wax. The wife of a Russian colonel with whom I was friendly took me to a local hospital not far from where I lived; I think that it was about a mile up the same long boulevard, Prospekt Lenina.
The treatment was basic but effective. A giant “watering can” was filled with water. I was enjoined to kneel down with my head sideways over a large receptacle. A metal cone about 2 feet deep was then positioned over one of my ears. One nurse held the cone as the other poured the water quickly but steadily into the cone.
The feeling —not pain exactly, but pressure— was almost unbearable for a second. It reminded me of a couple of experiences during scuba dive training. Then it was over, and a plug of ear wax the size of a little finger was floating in the water. Blessed relief. Hearing was restored.
I think —cannot now recall— that either the treatment was free or involved a small fee. I wanted to give the nurses themselves some money, but Ludmilla, the colonel’s wife, told me that that would not be necessary. She was always saving me from “wasting” money (and/or from the odd blonde), as when we were at the “Zilyony Bazaar” (“Green Market”), the Central Market in Almaty, and she would not hear of me having my fortune told by an ancient Kazakh woman sitting on the ground, and who used small animal bones to do her divinations. Ludmilla was a strong character, a contrast to her very easy-going husband.
The next time I had a similar problem, about 2015, the local GP surgery made me an appointment to see a nurse. I did attend, but in fact felt OK by the time I attended, and the nurse said that she could not see any wax anyway. So nothing had to be done.
Well, here we are in 2024. I was informed by the same GP surgery that they “no longer offer” any ear wax removal. A private clinic was recommended. It operates out of a small and quiet NHS hospital in a coastal village about 5 miles from my home. I made the appointment. £15 non-refundable deposit and £65 for the treatment. I could have had it done earlier, but am in fact going next week.
So there it is. Something that used to be free on the NHS now has to be paid for, or no treatment. I am not exactly affluent these days, and even a sum as small as £80 is not nothing (as the Russians say), but one can well imagine that there are many who would struggle to find the fee demanded.
The NHS is less and less useful. Here we are, with GPs earning, in most cases, £100,000-£200,000 a year, monies coming out of all our taxes (even if, like me, you are not employed, you still pay out via VAT etc), and they no longer offer what was a minor but still very useful service. A sign of the way things are going.
The NHS lost its way many years ago. It now seems, often, to be run mainly for the benefit of those employed in it.
It is not just a question of supplying the NHS with more money, or higher staff salaries, bonuses etc. It is a question of making sure that the people are offered services, and that the outcomes are good. Also, that the people needing medical (and dental) help, and their families, are not messed around and ripped-off (eg by having to pay exorbitant parking fees).
At least I myself shall not have to pay for parking next week; having been to that small hospital once before, I know that parking is free, just as in the Good Old Days (or today in the USA, France and I think almost everywhere else).
Tweets seen
There is no community spirit anymore. It’s nearly impossible to see a doctor. The police are too busy checking for hurty words on Facebook to respond to crimes. The roads are crumbling. We are being taxed into oblivion. Nothing works in this country anymore.
The UK has fallen.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 3, 2024
Rishi Sunak on TV the last few days, saying there's no more money for doctors and nurses because "we don't have a magic money tree".
That's funny, because we just printed over £1 trillion out of nowhere to fund a pandemic hoax and wars that nobody asked for.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 1, 2024
At just 18, I looked around me during the Covid lockdowns, and I saw a world gone mad. I thought I was alone.
I turned to Twitter in the hope of finding just ONE person who could see through it too.
A few years, and too many Tweets later, there are 100,000 of us.
Tucker Carlson is in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin.
Uncensored on X. The US deep state and the Biden administration must be in panic mode because Putin (the most censored man in the West) will expose their propaganda and lies. pic.twitter.com/OXq9j8O3GX
Hebrew media: Today was one of the most difficult days that the North experienced during the war. In the Upper Galilee, the 21st siren was activated in just two hours.
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF: Our estimates say that 17,000 children in Gaza were left without parents or separated from their families during the war, and it is believed that almost every child in the Strip needs mental health support. pic.twitter.com/A0tB6ZwfBP
Demographics. The traditionally Roman Catholic —and Republican— minority [now not a minority, arguably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Northern_Ireland], was about 33% in the early 1970s, but is now well over 40% (42% in 2021 Census).
The Israeli forces opened fire on people again while they were waiting for help to arrive at the "Kuwait" roundabout in the middle of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/XhfG79elsx
Stupid smug woman MP doing what the drone-MPs always do, i.e. spout a load of nothing. Fake democracy. As for Gillian Keegan herself— totally useless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Keegan
Britain now needs to build 515,000 homes every year –73% higher than the target & nearly 3 times as many as the 178,000 homes built last year– just to keep up with our immigration-fuelled population growth (Source: Centre for Policy Studies)https://t.co/pWTmH3Gnnm
Just like Oliver Twist, our not-so-clever Home Secretary wants more. Only another £2.6bn. And ALL to pay for illegal immigrants. He should have thought about that before he let them in. It is time to send them all back. Our own homeless should come first. #VoteUKIPpic.twitter.com/JeNfO4iOur
Not that I disagree with the view shown in the tweet, but Reform UK is only useful to the extent that it can further and deeper push the Conservative Party into the mire.
And how will they prove that silent prayer took place?
Sign of the times. People to be arrested for what they might be thinking…
The very concept of “free speech” is heavily under threat already in the UK (mainly from Jew-Zionists and the Israel lobby, and from unthinking police, CPS, and other “official” drones), but now we see that people are being criminalized simply for having it assumed that they are thinking something!
Sturgeon and her SNP crew deserve to be kicked into the political gutter.
How cheaply people are bought, though! The Scottish electorate was offered and given a few cheap trinkets for its votes: no hospital car park charges, no prescription charges etc. That, and the the promise of a wonderful affluent Independence (which will never happen).
Nothing wrong with free parking and free prescriptions, as such, but look at the wider cost to the Scottish people under Sturgeon’s poundland dictatorship.
Quite similar to, though I think slightly less pretty than, the stylish Edwardian conservatory at our (leased) house in Cornwall over 20 years ago. We also had a wisteria tree growing up a wall inside.
[Polapit Tamar House, North Cornwall]
[Polapit Tamar House (and part of grounds), North Cornwall]
Late tweets
United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Health: The situation in Gaza is an example of violations of international humanitarian law, and the siege of medical personnel and emergency teams in the Strip is a major problem. pic.twitter.com/KQ8lgyV2Wz
Did you know that plants love CO2 so much, farmers pump it into greenhouses?
Higher atmospheric CO2 levels would also benefit reforestation by enhancing plant growth and creating more resilient microclimates. It's time to rethink the narrative that CO2 is bad for our planet. https://t.co/UModHIKZ8spic.twitter.com/NNTvD2EtDX
That occurred to me many years ago. Climate change (if occurring, and whether man-made or otherwise) may have as many upsides as downsides. We do not yet know.
'Covid changed everything – the green light for the roll out of all the absurdity in the world. Stockpiled absurdity was pushed like knock-off watches and handbags out the backs of lorries. Healthy people shut in their homes. Gyms closed but fast-food outlets open.'@Thecoastguypic.twitter.com/sqzTYDcAXy
Yes. I blogged about it at the time. Obedient rabbits lined up outside Waitrose, masked, and six feet apart (as decided upon by know-nothings “Boris” Johnson and Little Matt Hancock, and enforced by dim, black-clad, Handmaid’s Tale militia), only to rub shoulders once inside. Meanwhile, the pub across the road was open and without any restriction. Etc.
Farmers across Europe have mobilised huge protests against governments. Like the Canadian truckers, they are being smeared as “far-right extremists”. It’s grim manipulation. But this is the sort of blue-collar protest that the left-wing used to support.pic.twitter.com/QYs0If2OA1
I am not a Champagne-drinker, but I might open a bottle of Krug when Gates goes up the chimney…
Last year, I woke up to a police officer banging on my door accusing me of posting “hate speech” on Twitter. I asked her what law I’d allegedly broken and she couldn’t name a single one. She had no idea what she was talking about, but told me I’d be arrested if I didn’t stop…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 4, 2024
“Last year, I woke up to a police officer banging on my door accusing me of posting “hate speech” on Twitter. I asked her what law I’d allegedly broken and she couldn’t name a single one. She had no idea what she was talking about, but told me I’d be arrested if I didn’t stop doing the things she couldn’t even tell me I’d done. Helpful! Needless to say, free speech is nothing more than a relic of the past here in the UK.”
[David Morgan].
Tell me about it! (I am now going to be sentenced “in the mags” (in March, probably)— for having blogged nothing but the truth).
Brazil is also very shorthanded It's so big, the northernmost point of the country is closer to all other American countries (including Canada!) than to the southernmost point in Brazil pic.twitter.com/ox7BgaLWPz
Conversely, Alaska is one of the best logistics bases for air cargo because it's close to all the northern hemisphere markets: pic.twitter.com/sisoxZewpe
Having several times flown from Western Europe to Almaty, Kazakhstan, I was aware that the far-western Kazakhstan city of Uralsk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral,_Kazakhstan] is nearer to Vienna (where I changed planes a few times when flying from London on Austrian Airlines) than to Almaty.
These matters are important, because maps have a strongly-influencing effect on the mind, and so on policy and world-historical events and trends.
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Also a reminder of how when Musk tweeted about the investigation, it unleashed a torrent of abuse against me from trolls.
It proved what I’d revealed about the site struggling to protect users. More on being at the centre of a Twitter troll storm here. https://t.co/NY8jiaM9zy
Lol. BBC reporter claims there is hate speech, when challenged can’t name a single piece. Called out as “lying”. Appalling journalism. https://t.co/yvlFoliLrW
As far as I know, Marianna Spring has never once mentioned the Jew-Zionist lobby, which is arguably (I say unarguably) the worst trolling group or, indeed, cabal on Twitter.
“They” specialize in making false and malicious complaints to Twitter, as well as to police, professional regulators, OFCOM etc. “They” managed to have me expelled from Twitter in 2018. Of course, I could now get reinstatement (and a “blue tick”), but I do not see Twitter as a particularly influential platform anyway.
One thing is for sure: Marianna Spring will not be questioning the official, or System, or BBC line on matters such as race, culture, the “Covid” “panicdemic” or “scamdemic”, “Ukraine” (support for the Zelensky regime) etc. If she did, she would almost certainly be sacked or put in a backroom job at once, and would lose the £80,000+ salary BBC correspondents now get.
The head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, ordered the release on Easter Eve of all the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who were held captive by the organization. pic.twitter.com/HLlQBMKozk
Towards the end of that last video clip, you see the Kiev-regime POWs (not all actual Ukrainians, it seems) marching off as best they can, either unescorted, or escorted by one Wagner Group contract-soldier, who wishes them a happy Easter (Russian Easter is happening at present, because the Russian Orthodox Church uses the ancient Julian calendar, so Russian Easter is over two weeks later than the Western churches’ Easter festival).
It makes good sense to show compassion and let it spread to others , it’s a great intel move.
Ukrainian tankers are being trained on Leopard 2A4 tanks under the guidance of Canadian, Norwegian and Polish military instructors at the training ground in Sventoszow in southwestern Poland. pic.twitter.com/NJloBlCop1
US Treasury Secretary: The economic sanctions against Russia and other countries endanger the dominance of the dollar; Because the target countries are looking for alternatives. There is this desire in China, Russia and Iran to find an alternative to the dollar. pic.twitter.com/E82aI6Iuec
Kyiv was given old Mig-29 aircraft from Europe, they are not able to withstand modern Russian aviation and air defense systems, said Yury Ignat, speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
“Now Russian aviation operates from afar. They launch guided bombs and rockets
Ukraine's counteroffensive could be very difficult – FT
According to the publication, Ukrainian defenders will face more than 140,000 Russian soldiers on a 950-kilometer front line. pic.twitter.com/p8hmt37EZx
Scott Ritter: "Zelensky is insane. He is a threat not only to the Ukrainian people and himself but to the entire world,… he is not only going to help bring about the end of Ukraine but he is doing his best to bring about the end of the world." pic.twitter.com/LSMpdGpflZ
…The reason I consider this particular example is that one source high up in the care sector texted me earlier regarding the Home Secretary’s comments to say “She hasn’t got a clue the damage she is doing!” They’re already desperately clinging on to staff.
A side-effect of workers moving out of care work to other work would be that care work would then only attract people with no other choices, forced to do care work by being, for example, pressured by the DWP.
It’s astonishing but amazingly people allowed it to happen as they believed the hype. There was a spike in deaths in all western countries around April 2020.
Interesting video, rather idealistic. If the British Empire still existed and still ruled, the Arab-Jew problem in Palestine would be contained, and Israel would not be a centre of a manipulative web across the world.
Why have I just lost 500 followers? Is it because Elon’s waving his chequebook around again?
That report reminded me of when I was first in Almaty, Kazakhstan (in 1996 and 1997). I lived on one of the main boulevards, Prospekt Lenina. There were frequent power cuts or, as the Americans say, “outages”.
I bought some candles for my 12th-floor Soviet penthouse apartment, and that was OK, though I nearly got stuck in the lift one day when there was a power cut the moment I stepped out of that lift, having returned from my office. The power did not return until about midday the next day, so that was a lucky miss for me.
In fact, my area of the city was not so badly affected as others, being within the “Presidentsky” district, where the then Presidential Palace and major embassies were located. Usually, the power cuts involved one or two areas at a time, with other areas continuing to receive electrical supply. Where I lived was certainly given preferential treatment, but still lost power fairly often.
I remember well that I was due to dine with three people one evening at a small and little-patronized Georgian restaurant in a quiet lane not too far from my home, a place almost in the countryside.
When the time came to meet those people, I was sitting in the empty restaurant. They arrived together, a young American in the Peace Corps, and two local Russian girls who were employed by an American organization; I had met them previously.
No sooner had they sat down than the electricity was cut off. The owner of the place, a Georgian lady called Bella, hurried to put out quite a few candles.
In the restaurant, with its wooden walls and lack of traffic noise (the lane outside was deserted), this created a kind of 19th century environment. One of the Russian girls started to play the piano which was there. Mainly Chopin.
In the candlelight, it was like being in a scene adapted from Chekhov or some other pre-revolutionary author; perhaps a country estate circa 1860 and in a Russia not yet hit by modern warfare or the shocks of violent revolution. Charmant…
Still slightly favourable on defence and “terrorism”? How? Why? The armed forces seem incapable of stopping migration invasion across the Channel, and are too small to stop any conventional invasion. The present ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government) is pledged to continue to waste billions funnelling money and arms to the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.
What about “terrorism”? The Muslims are not taking over the British cities via “terrorism” but via their birth-rate. The Jews continue to send their teenage children to Israel, there to be trained in the use of firearms, as well as in techniques of streetfighting, but are not even monitored (much) by the UK Security Service on their return to the UK.
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I honestly can’t believe Liz Truss is leader of anything or anyone. Just can’t believe it
BREAKING: The Tories have banned laughing, humour and comedy! 🤬
Three brilliant Parody accounts I follow have been wiped off Twitter in the last 3 day’s. They all had over 100,000 + followers. Parody Liz Truss, Kwasi and Mancock 🙇🏻♂️#GeneralElectionNow#WhoVotedForThis
James Cleverly, proud possessor of a McDegree (in Hospitality Management) from a McUniversity, and who has never done much else (except work his way up in the TA) drones on. That half-caste is Foreign Secretary, believe it or not. This country is so screwed, and in so many ways.
I must do a blog article, in my Deadhead MPs series, about Cleverly.
Liz Truss Should Fear Homeowners and Rising UK Mortgage Rates – Bloomberg https://t.co/DBSr2c3Tzp
Some would. People whose income is well above the norm, perhaps; those on £150,000+, and who are also voting out of purely personal self-interest . Then —the largest group— those who want to vote specifically against Labour, and see a Con vote as the only effective way to do it.
Are there any other groups of “Conservative” voters now? I think not. The last 12 years have seen no effective policy or action on the immigration problem, whether in general or specifically re. the cross-Channel migration-invasion. As for that trad Con strongpoint, “law and order”, we have seen police numbers cut, courts (in the hundreds) closed down to save money, a huge backlog of trials, and legal aid cuts which have effectively denied millions the right to access the legal system.
Yes, a lot can happen in the two years before a general election has to be held, but it cannot really be said that Liz Truss has any popular mandate, and things look likely to slide even further from here: utility bills, mortgage payments, whatever may hit the UK by reason of the wrongheaded anti-Russia sanctions and military adventurism.
Even the mainly self-interested “grey vote” of pensioners and those nearing State Pension age might pause before placing their crosses next to the Conservative Party candidate, now that it has emerged that the young Liz Truss actually wanted to abolish the State Pension, and who intends to slash other benefits relied on by pensioners.
‘She’s seeking comparisons with Singapore or an economy like the United States.’
Saw an episode covering 2020. Not as good as the previous episode. Too many scenes with patients suffering (supposedly) from “Covid”, not enough scenes about the political infighting. The drama stuck to the official or accepted (?) narrative(s). Not much questioning of that.
Late tweets seen
Started with a sore throat on Sunday, then a tickly cough for a couple of days, now a bit of a runny nose. Someone asked me how I know it's not Covid. I replied 'why does it matter?' My natural immunity will sort it.
I shall blog in detail later, when the candidates have been declared. For the moment, it is possible to sketch only outlines.
Birmingham Erdington is considered a safe Labour seat, though not quite rock-solid now. The last non-Labour candidate was elected in 1936 (Conservative Party).
The lowest Labour vote since 1983 was recorded in 2010 (41.8%). However, that vote increased to 45.6% in 2015, then 58% in 2017, before slipping back a little to 50.3% in 2019. Dromey was first elected in 2010.
As for the Conservative Party vote-share, its high-water mark was back in 1931 (68.1%). It was closest to success (since the pre-WW2 era) in 1983, when Labour, with 39.8%, narrowly beat the Conservative candidate (39.2%), a majority of only 231 votes.
During the Blair era, the Conservative vote slumped well below 30%, but has recovered since: 32.6 % in 2010, 30.8% in 2015, 38.4% in 2017, and 40.1% in 2019.
In 2019, Brexit Party put up a candidate who scored 4.1%. While one cannot say that that 4.1% would otherwise have voted Con, it is more likely than not, putting the Conservatives maybe within a couple of points of Labour. However, recent opinion polling has shown that Conservative Party support, nationwide, has been sliding.
The potential level for any social-national candidate is hard to gauge, but in view of the fact that there presently exists no credible social-national party in the UK, my assessment of the likelihood even of a saved deposit for any candidate of that type is low. The BNP achieved 5.1% and a saved deposit in 2010, and achieved that, moreover, despite the existence of both UKIP (2.4%) and National Front (0.6%) candidates. Had only the BNP stood, then it is possible that its vote might have totalled over 8%, and —who knows?— even over 10%. Still modest, of course.
UKIP, not social-national but somewhat (conservative-) nationalist, achieved a creditable third place on 17.4% of the votes cast in 2015.
This is not Liberal Democrat territory. The LibDems have lost their deposit in every election since 2010 (16.2%).
I imagine that the by-election will attract a host of minor and joke candidates.
In years past, there would been little point in blogging about a by-election such as this. However, this time it is worth speculating about, and then seeing the result. The interest lies in seeing whether former Labour voters’ apathy, and/or dislike of Keir Starmer and/or Labour generally (with its pro-mass immigration stance and “Covid” obsession) can result in a great upset.
Labour is sliding fast in the affections of the voters, but so is the Conservative Party, which talks big on immigration yet not only does nothing to stop it but is actually inviting millions of Hong Kong Chinese to live here, is inviting tens of thousands of Afghans to live here, and has done absolutely nothing to prevent the cross-Channel migration-invasion.
This looks like being a straight Conservative-Labour fight. I cannot see the LibDems mounting a successful third-party bid. At the moment, I should say that Labour are still favourites, but only just. I do not rule out an upset.
[Update, 8 January 2023: In the end, Labour won easily, with 55.8% of the vote, the candidate being Paulette Hamilton, a West Indian one-time nurse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette_Hamilton. The Conservative Party candidate got 36.3%.
The remaining 10 candidates all received under 3%, the highest being the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition [TUSC] candidate, Dave Nellist (a former Labour MP), with 2.1%.
Only 27% of eligible voters turned out (in an area that voted 63% for Leave in the Brexit Referendum), meaning that the West Indian ex-nurse who won did so on the votes of only about 15% of all potential voters. A real social-national party, if it existed, would win a seat like that].
Labour Party in the Cold War
I am reading Against the Cold War; the nature and traditions of pro-Soviet sentiment in the British Labour Party 1945-89, by one Darren G. Lilleker.
A fairly interesting book-length study (a doctoral thesis), but I have already found flaws in the bit I have read so far, such as:
“Lee, identified as Will Owen, was solely interested in financial reward. According to [Josef] Frolik he demanded free holidays and money and in return passed information of the “highest importance.,… This description of Owen seems somewhat dubious, Owen was not party to important information, and the fact that he was acquitted from a treason charge on the 9th May 1970 substantiates these doubts.”
Well, Owen was tried at the Bailey, true, but not on a charge of treason (in the strict legal sense). The charge was one of “communicating secrets” contrary to the Official Secrets Act.
A basic error like that is not one that I should expect to see in the thesis of a Ph.D. candidate, frankly. There are already noticed one or two similar errors. Also, one is acquitted of (or maybe on) a charge, not “from“. Also, it is claimed, in the thesis, that the MP John Stonehouse was engaging in homosexual behaviour (which laid him open to blackmail by Czech Intelligence, though his main motivation for spying was financial).
The money aspect, yes, but is the other true, or not? Wikipedia mentions nothing of it [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stonehouse]. There have been two books on Stonehouse published in the past year; neither (judging from reviews) mentions the “gay” allegations.
Still, I am continuing to read Lilleker’s thesis, which I am finding interesting, overall.
“Intensive care doctor tells Sajid Javid: this is why I’m refusing the Covid vaccine“
“Steve James, of King’s College Hospital, said Health Secretary didn’t seem to agree that he had immunity from being ‘antibody’ positive.”
“Mr James told the PA news agency he did not believe Covid-19 was causing “very significant problems” for young people, adding that his patients in the ICU had been “extremely overweight” with multiple other co-morbidities.“
Cummings, about whom I blogged a few times, is making himself look silly now. As to Boris-idiot, it is hard to think that he could be made to look sillier…(actually, thinking about it, the same could be said of Cummings).
I should like to believe that the British public would do better, but I do wonder…in the new multikulti “British” land, ignorance is bliss, quite often.
By 52% to 23% Britons say it was the wrong outcome to find the four people accused of criminal damage for pulling down the statue of Edward Colston not guiltyhttps://t.co/25EJ0beyLOpic.twitter.com/pRHBayiyFk
My guess? Most of the jury was composed of a mixture of blacks, other non-Europeans, and persons of a generally Labour Party bent. There was no need for a majority direction from the trial judge, so either all jurors voted for acquittal, or most did and the few preferring conviction changed their minds and went along with that.
Let’s be brutally honest… if there really was a global health pandemic, and the Australian government were genuinely ‘terrified’ about it… there wouldn’t even be any tennis tournaments going on there in the first place!
Of course, I saw through Boris Johnson long ago, about 20 years ago. Unfortunately, I am forced by Fate to be merely (at least so far) a private citizen-blogger. Frankly, and if I myself say it that shouldn’t, I would be a far better head of government than Boris Johnson. Admittedly, many people might echo my words, and with justice.
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Kazakhstan
I was not intending to blog about the present upheaval in Kazakhstan. It is —tempus fugit!— now 24 years since I lived there (I was there for a year), and I have already blogged about some aspects of my own time there, en passant, several times. However, a few words…
Kazakhstan, when I went there, was all but unknown to the UK public. Even educated members of the Bar whom I knew asked “where exactly is that?” when I said that I would be living there.
Despite being the 9th-largest state in the world, more than 11x the size of the whole UK, Kazakhstan was almost invisible to most British people. That is less true today, though most people still know little about it.
At one time, from the 1920s to the early 1990s, Kazakhstan’s population was 20%-45% Russian, peaking at well over 40% in the 1970s. Even when I was there (1996-97), Russians were over 30% of the population, and probably more in the then capital and largest city, Almaty, where I lived.
By reason of Stalin’s mass deportations from other areas of the Soviet Union, there were numerous other ethnic groups in Kazakhstan up until the 1990s (they are still there but in far smaller numbers): Volga Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, Crimean Tartars, Turks and Koreans (former residents of Soviet areas bordering those countries) etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan#Demographics.
In the 1990s, Russians started to leave, as “Kazakhization” proceeded. Jews left for Israel. Germans left for Germany. Kazakhstan is now about 65%-70% Kazakh.
Russians were the backbone of Kazakhstan as a civilized and advanced country. The Kazakhs I myself met were (mostly) very pleasant, tolerant people, but badly-led and, after all, basically non-European. Before the late 19th Century, Kazakhs were still all nomadic. Most of them still were as late as the 1930s.
Russia gave the Kazakhs everything modern, from roads and rail, and medical services, and cities, to nuclear poison and labour camps…a mixed picture…
Kazakhstan was once called, informally —and dangerously—, Kazekstan, “zek” being a slang term for a prisoner.
The Russians, in the 19thC, established a fort at a place in the foothills of the Tien Shan mountains, a place they called Verny. There was founded a small town, later called Alma-Ata (“Father of Apples” in Kazakh). When I lived there, there were still a few small apple orchards in the hills within the city limits rapidly being developed into residential and office neighbourhoods.
Alma-Ata became (I have no idea why) “Almaty”, a name both Russians and Kazakhs found odd and somehow funny (they told me).
The few at the top after 1991 effectively stole everything, something that was obvious to me when I lived there. The “elected” dictator, Nazarbaev (resigned recently), was, even in 1996, said (by Fortune magazine) to be the 5th-wealthiest individual on Earth. The oil and gas and other riches under the ground went mainly to him and then to his clan, family, friends and contacts (and to Western oil, gas, and mining companies). Nazarbaev was the first Kazakh leader (even in Soviet times) who had no descent from Genghiz Khan; he was never fully accepted by many Kazakhs.
The Soviet government had tried, in the late 1980s, to install a non-Kazakh, a Russian, as leader. Riots killed hundreds.
I am sorry to see the bloodshed in Kazakhstan, but the country needs a new start.
Look who’s talking! US forces came to the UK by invitation in 1942, but never left! There are still strategically-significant American forces in the UK, not only air force contingents and actual US air bases, but Navy and Army, as well as smaller forces such as NSA, CIA and even US Coastguard (in London, of all places! I once talked with one of their officers).
(When the USA seized the gold reserves of the defeated state of Iraq).
🔻 💬Ambassador Anatoly Antonov to @Newsweek: 1⃣. @NATO's expansion eastwards is against the common and collectively agreed principle of indivisible security in #Europe. The transatlantic bloc itself is a rudiment of the Cold War. pic.twitter.com/OGiYrGKpYm
💬 One of the most important holidays, #Christmas, has a special moral significance. It unites people with high spiritual ideals, fills our hearts with joy.
🙏 I wish everybody good health, success and happiness.
That is mainly because Europe, particularly Western Europe, is infested.
All “influencers” are a detriment to society man. Sack off all of them. Even the term “influencer” is so fucking narcissistic. World would be a much better place without them. #mollymaehttps://t.co/BLzx6Ojqxs
I have no idea who that rather unattractive airhead is, but the frightening thing is that idiots like that do actually speak for at least a significant minority of the UK population, and that fact is one reason why the secret cabals and ruling circles are not finding it too difficult to drag this country into a future which is already beginning to look like a dystopian nightmare.
I never chose it… I never chose it!
“I never had a choice” [Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra]
**Breaking News**@MaajidNawaz will no longer present his programme on @LBC.
It seems LBC are not keen on presenters having an opinion.
What I'm seeing with #Omicron. 1) Everyone will be exposed in next few weeks. 2) Almost everyone gets a mild form of common cold. Trivial hospitalization. Trivial oxygenation needed. 3) Omicron replaces Delta. 4) Omicron acts as a natural vaccine, Herd immunity. 4) End pandemic.
Whatever happens (or is said to have happened) with “Omicron”, the “panicdemic” narrative will continue to be pushed. The endgame has nothing to do with public heath, and certainly nothing to do with any supposed huge “danger” to the public, or the world. It is all to do with the next stage in the conspiracy— the microchipping of effectively the entire population of the world.
Stray thought
Looking at the film (from 1974, though the music dates from 1959), no-one in that film could have imagined that the DDR/East Germany would pass into history only 15 years (officially 16) later. Even when I spent a couple of days in the DDR in 1988, the regime seemed to be in full control, though there was to me a strange feeling about the place (I was in the seemingly almost depopulated Southwest and Southeast), a feeling that —despite all the trappings of a state— this was a kind of facade. I suppose that the feeling might be summed up as “where are all the people?”…
We imagine that a set-up like the UK will go on almost forever, and certainly not disappear or be radically changed within a few years. I’m not so sure of that.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones, and I myself could certainly benefit from some weight loss, but truth is truth…
‘Migrants 'are staying in four-star hotel rooms at £125-a-night on the taxpayer' as Britons struggle to afford spiralling energy bills amid cost of living chaos’ https://t.co/0clDybKTN5
…and just in the past day or so I have seen one newspaper report about a working nurse forced to sleep in her car because she is “not a housing priority“, and another about an elderly Englishman who froze to death in a doorway because the local council would not help him, yet all stops are pulled out for these backward, useless untermenschen, who are invaders.
Même si Macron veut les emmerder, des manifestants anti-vax défilent à Paris.
A rare week, in which John Rentoul beat my score. This week he scored 7/10, but I scored only 5/10, a far worse effort than usual. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 6, 7, 9, and 10 (I should have known no. 7, but the mind was blank, so there it is…).
Sadly, very true, though “Left wing” (eg “socialist”) is not fully accurate, certainly not the full story. The Jew-Zionist element has a near-stranglehold, as it does over the msm. In fact, not so long ago, the fake UK “charity” known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” was advertising for “volunteers” with their own Wikipedia accounts to “edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia pages.
Wikipedia is one of the best resources on the Internet, perhaps the best, which makes it all the more irritating that Jew-Zionists and others are using it to spread propaganda.
It is absurd, also, that the mainstream UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, cannot be cited as a source for anything, yet rubbish publications such as the Sun, Mirror, even Morning Star, can be! Incidentally, I have no reason to be kind to the Daily Mail, as you will see if you google “Ian Millard barrister Daily Mail”!
Perhaps @franssmith11.More likely failure to compy will prevent travel, debar you from higher education, cause problems for your children. They don't want to have to feed or house you, & they know human rights campaigners don't pay much attention to marshmallow totalitarianism. https://t.co/LK0YuNPxsM
Also, we see that the trend for the State to “outsource” things has now led to the “Boris” etc weaselling that the facemask nonsense will largely end (in law) on 19 July 2021, while at the very same time telling the public that they “should” carry on being scared facemask-wearing rabbits, and also telling —or nod-and-winking— to large supermarkets etc, and airlines, that they should effectively demand that their customers continue to be muzzled.
Screw that, and screw all companies demanding facemask use! Rebel any way you can, especially by boycotting those companies. Vote with your feet, and with your wallet or purse!
My latest interview – on *why* the free countries of the west , especially in the Anglosphere, are willingly handing over their former freedoms and taking the yoke of submission. https://t.co/TBznvEdHKd
Excellent by Freddy Gray. People and institutions which used to guard freedom now combine to attack dissent. America’s Maoist mutation https://t.co/bManYD8RVs
Not exactly, @policy_uk. Rather ore that, having spent my childhood in an indebted rather grey and resource-poor country which had to count every penny, public and private, I must either now accept that this was not necessary, or fear we are in for a repeat of it. https://t.co/iHaFIkLZp3
After 2008, “austerity” (which was the policy not only of the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne but also of Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling), was completely wrongheaded. Now, though, we see almost the opposite —but skewed— policy of vast sums spent, not on useful infrastructure, nor on real education and upskilling, but on schemes over the past 19 months to keep the population at home, eating delivered junk food, drinking heavily, and watching TV.
Totally agree Peter. Or just basic things like paving. Even in Oxford, one of our wealthiest cities, it is appalling.
— UK public policy failure (@policy_uk) July 16, 2021
I too live in one of the wealthier parts of England, yet the roads are falling to pieces, and public services have been cut to the bone.
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These people should be on our side! When I lived in Kazakhstan (1996-97), I knew several former Russian VDV (Air Descent Contingent…special forces) people. Very solid people.
(and in most of the USA, minimum-wage workers cannot afford even a one-bed apartment!).
The same or similar problem exists in the UK. Topping-up pay via Universal Credit is quite wrong; it subsidizes poor-paying-employers vis a vis employers who pay decently. Pay must be sufficient to live on. A measure of State-paid Basic Income will also have to come into existence, because the nexus between pay and work is very loose now, and many do not have paid work at all.
Stonehouse was a sensation when exposed as a fraud who had not died, as everyone thought, in 1974, in the sea off Miami Beach (a rather unlikely place to drown anyway). His espionage for socialist Czechoslovakia was not exposed —to the public— until well after his death.
That was an age when politicians, though hardly honoured, were still regarded as basically straight people. The later tidal wave of mediocre and hopeless idiots had not yet filled the Commons. That was another reason why people were fascinated by Stonehouse’s attempted (and very nearly successful) scam.
Other reasons why l’affaire Stonehouse became a sensation, briefly, were because it coincided with that Reginald Perrin TV comedy series, and also because a few other cases of international (British) fugitives had been news for years, notably that of Ronnie Biggs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Biggs].
I recall that, when I had to visit the British High Commission in Gaborone, Botswana, in 1977, at age 20, I noticed a small golden plaque by the entrance stating that it had been officially opened by John Stonehouse in 1966, when he had been a minister in the Colonial Office and its successor, the short-lived Commonwealth Office (from 1968, joined with the Foreign Office in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office).
Strange to see that inscription, nearly three years after Stonehouse’s disgrace (but history is history, something both the “BLM” idiots and Zionist Jews might note).
The Daily Mail piece also contained the assertion that one Ernest Fernyhough, PPS to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, had also been (one of a number of Labour MPs) spying for the Czech StB (external intelligence organization). His treachery is new to me, and I see that Wikipedia does not mention it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Fernyhough.
I imagine that Stonehouse, who was a bit of a Casanova, and a gambler generally, might have been a fairly useful agent for Czech Intelligence, willing to take calculated risks.
As to the book, to be released on 22 July 2021, I might buy the hardback edition via Amazon when it is put on secondhand sale in a few months. RRP is £25.99, but the book can be bought at £18.99. Maybe when there are good, or as-new, used copies for £2 or so. Or, if you like, “when you get down to 90 kopecks, wake me up again”.
Despite that Daily Mail piece having been interestingly written, it contained one schoolboy error by the author (of both the book and the article): speaking in the strict legal sense, Stonehouse did not commit, as the writer claims, “treason”; his alleged espionage crimes would have been charged, had he been charged, under the Official Secrets Act(s) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_Act#United_Kingdom].
What a co-incidence! The new Secretary of State for Health, and also the person posing as PM, are apparently both now “self-isolating”. Of course, that has nothing to do with 19 July 2021, the day after tomorrow, and the (latest, so-called) “Freedom Day”…
The most enthusiastic supporters and promoters of the TORY lockdowns! https://t.co/cnyQ5nAZZG
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 17, 2021
The organized trade unions, what’s left of them, are basically just System-run, politically-correct, advice organizations, of very little use to British people whether employed or not.
I myself am not a member, nor even supporter (as such) of Patriotic Alternative, but the negative attention that PA is getting from “the usual suspects” makes me think that they are at least on the right track.
I don't think we need to worry about this, comrades. They can carry on protesting. Before the next election we'll have Macron close a couple of mosques and the masses will vote for him again. https://t.co/jPnFmciGw2
— Climate Warrior🐬 #ClimateJustice🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (@ClimateWarrior7) July 17, 2021
I missed Bastille Day, so here’s to Macron meeting with Madame Guillotine!
Late music
Last word tonight
Listening to BBC World Service and, once again, appalled by the poor standards now, as compared to the 1970s and 1980s, when I was a regular listener. Then, mostly interesting and erudite programming, and including some entertainment, of which some even entertained me. Now, endless black “music” or other ghastly trash, and “BLM”-style nonsense propaganda. 90% of the output now is rubbish.
Ian Robert Millard 