“Three men who filmed themselves while gang raping a 13-year-old girl have been jailed have been jailed for a total of 34 and a half years.”
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Odds-on that the 13-y-o victim was white.
Incidentally, the misleading Daily Mail report talks about “34 and a half years” whereas, in fact, the heaviest sentence was one of 12.5 years, meaning that the untermensch will be released in about 6 years.
Rhetorical question: do we need such untermenschen in our society? Of course not.
Imagine what this poor country will be like in 2034, 2044, 2054. If you encounter another actual English person, you will have to greet him by saying “hello, Robinson Crusoe!“…
“Travellers who illegally set up camp next to family homes have finally been given the boot – but only after distressed neighbours endured years of ‘misery’, ‘noise’ and ‘stench’ at their hands.
Shocking aerial photos show the state the land has been left in following an expensive legal battle by the council to win back the plot which lies in the picturesque Kent village of Vigo, near Gravesend.“
[Daily Mail]
The so-called “traveller” menace is one of the biggest law and order problems in the UK, but the police and politicians are unwilling to do what it takes to “solve” that problem.
Can you imagine this chaos and official weakness happening during the 12 years of the German Reich of 1933-1945? I think not.
As with so many aspects of life in contemporary Britain, the people suffer while evildoers prosper.
“A serial thief who targeted restaurant customers in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire has been caught on CCTV swiping a mobile phone from an unassuming victim.
Nirex Stanescu, 24, was jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to nine counts of mobile phone theft at Reading Crown Court on Friday, September 27.”
[Reading Chronicle]
A few points to note: firstly, that the Reading Chronicle does not identify the defendant as a Roma Gypsy (other than by publishing a photo). The newspaper does not even take the usual msm-weasel approach of calling her “Romanian”, which is so often seen but rarely strictly correct (the Roma gypsies are, ethnically, not Romanians, as such, even when they hold Romanian passports and/or live in Romania).
Secondly, the woman in question is obviously a persistent nuisance, yet is sentenced to only 8 months (for a total of 9 offences), meaning that she will do 40% of c.32 weeks, about 12 weeks.
Thirdly, why is she even (allowed) here? Get rid of her, and all the others like her, and stop similar trash from entering the country.
Reform UK is still “controlled opposition”. Goodwin himself is welcome on TV etc, and is pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby. All the same, Reform UK is helping to break down the existing structure.
Boris Johnson lied to the country. So did the Tories. Mass, uncontrolled, low skill immigration was never an “accident” —it was a deliberate political choice that has made our country poorer https://t.co/9mY88fZaM7https://t.co/vSZ8ePZqZe
When I was (wrongfully) put on trial in 2023, Prosecution Counsel made a pathetic suggestion that the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan was a (mere) “conspiracy theory“. I answered quite firmly that it certainly was not, and that all he had to do was to open his eyes to what was happening all around him. He did not attempt to take the matter further.
For those unaware that I was subjected to a free speech trial last year, please see:
Israel’s “Warsaw Ghetto”, but the (Israeli) Jews often treat the Gazans far worse than the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto were treated.
[SS troops escort non-combatant Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Note the generally good physical condition of the Jews]
[Warsaw Ghetto, 1942, a year before the armed uprising. Shown are Jewish Ghetto Police guarding a gate into the Ghetto]
I had not previously heard of Earnest Sevier Cox. A regular reader of the blog suggested the link.
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After Hurricanes Helen and Milton and the extremely sluggish response to them by the US authorities, voters in the states of Michigan and Georgia swung in favor of Trump and today, according to the latest polls, Donald Trump is again the favorite in the upcoming US presidential… pic.twitter.com/dpaPLswBmR
…and “those” (((those))) in the UK, France etc who support what the Israeli forces are doing are not only supporters but also propagandists, facilitators, agents, and fundraisers for the Israeli state and its war crimes.
BREAKING: Hezbollah targeted an Israeli military base in a drone attack resulting in 67 IDF casualties.
Reports that Halevi, the Israeli Chief of Staff, has been killed are at time of writing unconfirmed.
News reports are also suggesting that weapons due to be used against Iran “by Israel” will in fact be operated by American serving soldiers or Air Force personnel. If so, that constitutes a direct act of war by the USA against Iran.
Another 471 illegal immigrants entered Britain on small boats yesterday taking the total this year to 27,225 —5% higher than this time last year. Over 140,000 since 2018.
Funny how they seem to get an audio call available as soon as the world finds out the truth of their crimes . 🤷♀️ We’re still waiting for the evidence Israel has on the 40 beheaded babies story and the rape accusations, also the story of how the UNRWA workers are Hamas !! Where’s…
The IDF seems able to produce these phone calls on demand. Remember this onehttps://t.co/NFzind4Rh2
— Uncensored 🇬🇧 🇷🇺 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 (@Refusenik19) May 28, 2024
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy: "I don't remember one occupation where the occupier presented himself as the victim." Via @QudsNenpic.twitter.com/nEqfoEhf4Z
— Dr. Mansour Mansour (@DrMansourMansou) May 7, 2024
Exactly. Eternal “victims”, even when they are victimizing others.
Vaccine and martial law, ops sorry lockdown fanatic
A mere caution, for attacking an elderly man in the street.
Natalie Elphicke
This isn't true. All MPs leaving will get nearly £20k as a "winding down payment". Additionally those that fight the GE will get an additional redundancy sum according to their time in parliament. Elphicke has been there 1 term so it would have been be something less than £5K.
Whatever the facts of that, there are facts that are indisputable: Natalie Elphicke could have stood at GE 2024 as Con Party candidate. She received 56.9% of the vote in 2019 under that aegis.
I was puzzled as to why Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor, she after all knowing that a general election had to be called sometime before a date in January 2025. Does she have some better offer from outside Parliament? Seems doubtful to me.
Natalie Elphicke gives me a dual impression: not particularly intelligent, but particularly focussed on her own ambitions.
As a former member of Lincoln’s Inn, I have met several people over the years who were (as was Natalie Elphicke— see the Wikipedia entry) beneficiaries of Hardwicke scholarships. None impressed.
I saw this comment:
“Hardwicke Scholarships aren’t that prestigious. A mere submission of an application is more than enough to win one. They give about 150 away each year, and not many more people apply to each inn for a scholarship, surprisingly enough.” [online commentator].
I think that the real figure is nearer to 100 than 150.
To intrude a personal comment, I recall a young blonde lady barrister who (unsuccessfully, in all cases) opposed me in court a number of times during 2002-2008 when I was in chambers in Exeter (she was in another set, also in Exeter). She was a former Hardwicke scholar, just like Natalie Elphicke. I used to think of her as “Mrs Malaprop”, because her use of English was so poor. Comically so. A pretty poor barrister in terms of both legal knowledge and presentation, in my view, though wearing a sense of self-importance as thick as a suit of armour.
I had better not name that lady, mainly for reasons of propriety (I am too poor now to be worth suing; and there would be no basis for such a suit anyway). I just looked her up online for the first time, and found that she is still in Exeter, and still in the same chambers as she was 20+ years ago, apparently flourishing like the green bay tree.
I note that, having been Called to the Bar in 1994, only a few years after me, Natalie Elphicke decided to leave the Bar and to convert to be a solicitor (something that, at least then, basically meant filling out a few forms).
Natalie Elphicke only worked as a lawyer for a year or two, as a salaried employee of the Inland Revenue (as was; now HMRC) during 1995-1997. She married her now ex-husband, Charlie Elphicke, in 1995. They have two children. She appears to have returned to legal work for a year or two during the years 2011-2013, before helping to found a company which was dissolved 2-3 years later.
After that, her husband’s connections seem to have got her a couple of brief public appointments in the years 2016-2019, as well as the CEO job at the Housing and Finance Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_and_Finance_Institute. This may not be very lucrative, though, looking at the Institute’s funding. Hard to say.
Many will know that, though having displayed (performative?) “loyalty” to her disgraced MP husband, Charlie Elphicke, during his trial, Natalie Elphicke had by then already taken over as MP for Dover in 2019. She separated from him in 2020, and later divorced him, prior to which she sold her story to the Sun “newspaper” for £25,000. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/mp-wife-of-naughty-tory-paid-25k-to-tell-all-234749/.
I have to say that I agreed (and still agree) with Natalie Elphicke’s comment at the time of her husband’s unsuccessful appeal (against sentence only— he had been sentenced to 2 years, plus £35,000 costs, and was released after a year) that the 2-year sentence was harsh. He had really done very little: “During his trial the court heard how Elphicke groped one of his accusers, chased her around his house, and sang “I’m a naughty Tory, I’m a naughty Tory.” [Wikipedia].
I should have thought that a suspended sentence would have been enough. From what I read at the time, his three crimes were all just silly, really; almost identical, too, and surely only just coming within the “sex crime” area. Pathetic more than anything, in my opinion.
To my mind, if crimes and criminals can be divided into “bad, sad, or mad“, Charlie Elphicke’s conduct was surely “sad“, with a dash of “mad“, but nothing seriously “bad“.
Having —whether rightly or wrongly, and I think rightly— identified Natalie Elphicke as a “go for the main chance” opportunist, why on Earth did she defect to Labour? Looking at the electoral statistics for Dover, she had a very good chance of being re-elected. Maybe Starmer offered her a peerage (seems unlikely, though), or some quango chair (more likely), or a safe Labour seat (relatively unlikely, surely?).
I admit, Mrs. Elphicke’s motivation is still puzzling to me.
As to Charlie Elphicke, I had little time for him when he was an MP, but I have to say that his fall from status and relative affluence has the elements of a minor Greek tragedy. Apparently, he now lives in a small rented flat somewhere like Earl’s Court, and may (I do not know) be either unemployed or working in some obscure occupation. I can find no record of him still on the Solicitors’ Register, and the same is true of Natalie Elphicke, but as far as I know both are still able to practise; again, I cannot say.
Turns out that the Elphickes bought a house on the Kent coast for about £800,000 in 2012, and were able to sell it only a decade later for over £1.5M. The house almost doubled in value in 10 years. A commentary upon the house-price madness in this country.
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"In the latest polls, this week, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, and the Reform Party averaged 11.2%, compared to 11% before Rishi Sunak called the election. There is basically no evidence, yet, that Reform is being squeezed" https://t.co/5t6abIHJtn
There is also no evidence that Reform UK is getting anywhere. Nothing lower than an across-the-board 20% will win any seats; even a few percent more may only win a small handful, maybe 3-5. 11%, 12%, even 15%, is “nowhere” territory in seat-winning terms.
The LibDems and Greens are on a lower nationwide support, yet have seats in the Commons because their vote is concentrated, here and there.
Having said that, I make two points. Firstly, most intending Reform UK voters know perfectly well that RF is not going to win many, if any, seats. Their vote is a protest vote and/or a way of kicking the Sunak government and Conservative Party, by weakening greatly the Con Party vote in almost every constituency, but without voting Labour.
Secondly, as mooted yesterday, there may be a number, perhaps even a large number, of “secret Reform UK voters”, who do not show up in the opinion polls because they say “Don’t Know” or nominate a mainstream party out of embarrassment. Very English, arguably.
"Just before Rishi Sunak called the election Labour averaged 45.5% and the Tories 23.3%. Today? Labour’s averaging 43.8% and the Tories 24.5%. Labour's lead has barely moved at all. There's not much evidence (yet?) disillusioned Tories are returning" https://t.co/5t6abIHJtn
I doubt whether the usual general election convergence will happen this time. People hate and despise the useless Conservative Party governments of the past 14 years, and especially the past 5 years. That includes a huge number of 2019 or previous Con voters.
In fact, I should not be surprised were the Lab-Con gap to widen, though more because the Cons may slide again rather than because Labour increase their percentage.
Keir Starmer has said he is a socialist – do Britons agree, and is it a good thing?
Is a socialist, that's a good thing: 16% Is a socialist, that's a bad thing: 14% Is not a socialist, that's a good thing: 10% It not a socialist, that's a bad thing: 12%https://t.co/8nGGaHkEf6pic.twitter.com/sNgQRLxjCn
Prices have been going up consistently for the past few years but now it seems out of control, regardless of how many #ToryLies we hear. pic.twitter.com/sCBhLtMtrd
— GreensIeeves 🏴 (@Greenfleeves) May 28, 2024
That must be “value” olive oil. The last bottle I bought (extra-virgin olive oil, first cold pressing, but not a single-estate or special one) was nearly £13.
Incredible posting by Simon Myerson (1) @JewishMirelle’s statement can be opinion and defamatory. (2) Myerson is re-publishing a likely defamatory statement. (3) He’s a KC suggesting to someone on twitter that their statement might not be defamatory. (4) He’s the KC who acted for… pic.twitter.com/UQqvBivQR1
“Incredible posting by Simon Myerson (1) @JewishMirelle’s statement can be opinion and defamatory. (2) Myerson is re-publishing a likely defamatory statement. (3) He’s a KC suggesting to someone on twitter that their statement might not be defamatory. (4) He’s the KC who acted for Pete Newbon according the Telegraph. #GroundhogDay“
Myerson again.
Honest opinion is now a defence [Defamation Act 2013, s.3].
I think that I shall quit now, while I am ahead. I have not been in Bar practice for 16 years, and do not, in general, keep up with changes in the law.
Volodin : Zelensky, remaining in power after the expiration of his term, committed a state crime; agreements with him will not have legal force.
He noted that this is contrary to the constitution of Ukraine and is a seizure of power. pic.twitter.com/SZwqpBd6tb
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 29, 2024
General Election news
According to my use of Electoral Calculus, that might result in a House of Commons with 541 Lab MPs, 46 LibDem, 28 Con, 12 SNP, 3 Plaid Cymru, 2 Green, and 18 various Northern Irish.
On those figures, what Disraeli described as “the great Conservative Party, which destroys everything“, would be itself almost destroyed, reduced to a rump of 20 MPs; not even the official Opposition, which would be the LibDems.
Such a result would be a strategic defeat for the SNP too. 12 MPs, down from 56 (out of 59) at the 2015 peak, and 48 at the 2019 GE.
I get the impression that the SNP’s version of fake “nationalism” (blame England/the UK for everything, keep importing non-whites into Scotland, and think it normal to have a Pakistani as First Minister) has well and truly foundered on the rocks of socio-political reality). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.
Of course, a change in the Labour vote of even one point either way would add several to (or subtract several from) the Conservative total, and even more to or from the Labour total.
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This morning's YouGov for people under 50 only:
Labour 59% Greens 12% Cons 8% Reform 8% LD 6%
That's the worst result amongst this age group I've see yet. Equal third with Reform.
Video of Ursula Von der Leyen's speech at the democracy summit in Copenhagen, where she promises to “vaccinate” the EU population against “wrong thinking” pic.twitter.com/i5tPb3hPc7
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 29, 2024
A twisted and evil woman.
Ukraine knows that it's all over"
While the UK is preoccupied with the general elections, Kyiv “cannot withstand Putin’s brutal attack,” reports the British The Telegraph. Main points:
▪️Kiev was forced to transfer thousands of soldiers to the northeastern part of the front… pic.twitter.com/tUiK1KTYyw
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 29, 2024
“Ukraine knows that it’s all over” While the UK is preoccupied with the general elections, Kyiv “cannot withstand Putin’s brutal attack,” reports the British The Telegraph. Main points:
Kiev was forced to transfer thousands of soldiers to the northeastern part of the front line to try to slow down the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region.
The war is reaching a critical point as Western interest in helping Ukraine risks weakening again.
Zelensky seems to understand that time is running out for Ukraine: over the weekend he called on Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to take part in the upcoming “peace summit” in Switzerland.
Zelensky’s team is concerned about the shift of attention in the United States to internal elections: Ukraine is receding into the background.
The harsh reality is that Ukraine risks simply running out of people to fight.“
Exactly.
I have, on the blog, been saying for 2 years that Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
Trees Are Important – What Makes them Indispensable?https://t.co/eQ12FNzYVj In the quiet majesty of forests, do you grasp why trees guard our world? Fathom their role, where roots intertwine with the essence of life itself. pic.twitter.com/2ZzXsS285e
Ian Robert Millard 