European countries, unlike the United States, which is seeking a peaceful solution, are doing everything they can to prolong the hostilities in Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing ahead of a cybersecurity meeting with the Russian president:https://t.co/Jkr2U2jrXepic.twitter.com/lRKetZJII9
The split in the post-1945 Atlantic alliance becomes ever more apparent.
Overnight, Russian forces launched a massive strike hitting communication and energy infrastructure facilities in Kiev and the Kiev and Kharkov Regions that support Ukraine's military-industrial complex, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/Ngze3c46gypic.twitter.com/4eus6qMH6a
Tonight, the targets of hypersonic "Tsirkon" missiles, as well as "Iskander" mobile missile systems and "Geran" type drones, were located in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, as well as in the Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv regions. pic.twitter.com/qTyewHhOv1
Trump's message to Ukraine is now crystal clear – The Atlantic. The actions of the U.S. President over the past 72 hours appear to be an attempt to force Kyiv to surrender, states Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum. pic.twitter.com/yErvlfEMhd
In the province of Viterbo, 13 out of 33 sections of a highway bridge over the Tiber River were demolished in a controlled explosion. The structure collapsed vertically, which helped to protect the remaining parts of the structure. pic.twitter.com/T391kgoQNL
Traditional British surnames are becoming less common among newborns in England and Wales.
According to a report by the Daily Mail, compared to 1996, the top ten most common surnames now include Khan, Ahmed, Ali, Hussain, Singh, Patel, and Kaur. pic.twitter.com/msdGwFlCBw
🚨"I'm going to hold people CRIMINALLY accountable"
Tim McNally, chair of the Piddington Parish Council says he will hold ministers like Bridget Phillipson criminally accountable for the rapes and attacks on women when the migrant camp opens in his village.@PiddingtonRoarspic.twitter.com/FvSy4wrKqs
MPs, ministers, msm scribblers and talking heads, and heads of charities facilitating migration invasion are or should be held criminally and personally responsible for the consequences of their treachery.
The police are, usually, a bad joke these days, especially at the higher rank levels.
The big joke is that we're already doing this, just in a pathetic, tacit manner, via NGOs and all the rest of it. But that enables (mutual) corruption to take over and ruin everything. We should just be explicit again. Nobody else can look after the world like we can. And I'm… https://t.co/JSFbPXZVJG
4 out of every 5 new jobs created in Britain since 2014 went to immigrants rather than to British citizens, according to the Centre for Social Research.
This is outrageous.
The political class in Westminster must be replaced.
Russian forces struck Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle assembly workshops and storage sites and enemy deployment areas over the past 24 hours, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/oi5xCzcTSkpic.twitter.com/zX0eGJTztg
“The commander who led the land operation to liberate the Falklands has triggered a furore by saying that boats carrying migrants across the Channel should be machine-gunned.
‘I would shoot them,’ Major-General Julian Thompson told a documentary about mass immigration to Britain.
The Home Office warned today that anyone taking the law into their own hands would face ‘serious criminal consequences’, while the Tories stressed that ‘opening fire on migrant boats would be completely wrong‘
Maj Gen Thompson, 92, who headed 3 Commando Brigade during the conflict, said of the thousands of migrants who land on UK shores each month: ‘We could stop them tomorrow if we really had the guts. I’d shoot them, sorry, but I would.’
Asked if he feared a backlash to his remarks, Maj Gen Thompson said: ‘As long as they don’t come around here, I don’t mind what they do.
‘They come over here and rape our girls. One machine-gun blast is all it would take… then they would get the message. I just want them to bugger off.
‘If they [the Government] don’t stop them then there will be a revolution. Our leaders are just wet.’
He also says Britain is ‘just going downhill’, adding: ‘I’m glad I won’t see it, I’ll be dead.
‘It’s not Britain any more, it’s a sort of funny conglomeration of people, and in a wet country that allows itself to be pushed around all over the place.'”
[Daily Mail]
General Thompson is quite right.
The General has earned the right, at age 92 and with his distinguished military background, to speak the truth regardless of the untruths all around the issues commented upon.
I had never heard of the defendant, Lola May Salem. Turns out that she is of Jewish or part-Jewish background, having written in The Critic magazine that, when a child in Nanterre, a low-income banlieue near Paris inhabited by many North Africans, her brother experienced “anti-Semitism”.
It may well be, speculating a little, that this Lola Salem is of pied-noir origin. Google AI has this: “A Pied-Noir (plural: Pieds-Noirs, meaning literally “black foot” in French) is a person of European descent—including French, Spanish, Italian, Maltese, and Sephardic Jewish origins—who was born or lived in French-ruled Algeria during the colonial period from 1830 to 1962.“
Many pieds-noirs who left Algeria in the early 1960s were of Jewish origin.
One can only imagine what that woman saw in Gove. Someone wealthy and still influential, one supposes. Fairly big age-gap (26 years: she is 33, he 59). Still, these things happen.
Incidentally, the restaurant where Lola Salem and Gove indulged in seafood and public displays of affection seems to have been Sheekey’s [https://j-sheekey.co.uk/our-history/], off St. Martin’s Lane in London. I used to walk past there occasionally. and always thought to try it out, but never did.
Regular readers of the blog will be aware that one of the 5 tweets that got me disbarred in 2016 at the behest of the Jewish lobby (specifically “UK Lawyers for Israel”/”UKLFI” and, in the shadows, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”/”CAA”) was that describing Gove in some such terms as a dishonest expenses cheat and fraud, and puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby. All true, but that did not save me from a wrongful (and, it later turned out, actually unlawful) disbarment.
At that time (2016), I was unaware that Gove was also a cocaine abuser and, at times, a shambling drunk as well. That only emerged into public view later. He was even filmed on House of Commons TV staggering drunkenly into the Chamber, scarcely able to stand up, but the tweets showing that (I think, YouTube footage too) have disappeared. “They” must look after their puppets.
Well, I cannot comment on the Lola Salem criminal matter as such, firstly because it is now sub judice, but also because I know nothing about it anyway, and first heard of the matter —and the defendant herself— only a few hours ago.
I wonder whether Gove himself was questioned. Perhaps it will come out at the Lola Salem trial; we shall have to wait and see.
The Jewish thing seems to hang around Gove like a clinging cloud of smog. I have never been able to discover for sure the background of Gove’s estranged wife, Sarah Vine (they are separated but not yet divorced; something to do with “paperwork”, apparently…). I have my suspicions, but her origins seem shrouded in mystery.
Gove and Sarah Vine were married in 2001 (in France) and stayed together until 2022. 21 years of marriage. There has never been given, publicly, any specific reason why they split, which was apparently at Sarah Vine’s instigation. I believe that the split happened prior to Gove’s mesalliance or misalliance with Lola Salem, so what was the triggering event?
In fact, it was the Jewish lobby that got Gove into Parliament as an MP in the first place (he is now yet another absurd “lord” in the degraded House of Lords, and Editor of the Spectator). He remains a complete doormat for the Jewish lobby and for Israel.
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She has written of her brother being bullied in school for being jewish.
The mainstream media are now trying to hide the whole story, even the Daily Mail, which at first splashed it. The (((usual))) mob, of course. For example, the System scribbler Dan Hodges, usually prolific on Twitter/X, has not mentioned the case at all.
You see it whenever the Jew-Zionist lobby wants to cover up something (or amplify something, for that matter).
For example, when dishonest and incompetent solicitor, Mark Lewis was fined and censured by the Tribunal under the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2018. At first, there was nothing at all about it in the msm, not prior to “trial”, and nothing afterwards but Jews complaining about how “unfair” the process and sentence had been.
In fact, the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal bent over backwards to be fair to Lewis (now a wheelchair-bound invalid who lives in Israel much of the time) and even reduced his fine to a third or a quarter of what it would otherwise have been because Lewis’s own pro bono Counsel told the Tribunal that Lewis had no assets at all beyond his own clothes, a private pension worth £70 per week, and a used mobility scooter. No money in the bank. No real property. Nothing.
Even Lewis’s car (one adapted for invalids) was one provided to him via the DWP Motability scheme (until he crashed into someone and, after that, ceased to drive).
Ecce the great defamation lawyer…
The point is that the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby effectively controls or very strongly influences almost all those who scribble for newspapers, edit them, or own them.
I was just looking at Twitter/X. The Lola Salem/Gove matter is not mentioned by Dan Hodges, Andrew Neil, Robert Peston, BBC News, Sky News etc, you name it. News blackout.
Yes, the criminal matter is now sub judice, but even the bare facts of the matter that would be reportable are not in fact being reported.
It is strange how it's now so hard to now find a MSM article running the story of Lola Salem. Even Google news doesn't seem to list it although a couple of publications definitely ran it a few days ago. Someone putting a possible injunction on a story that had already got out… https://t.co/hJL0QnfagJ
Rupert Lowe has unveiled Restore Britain's six point plan to overhaul the NHS, calling for an end to mass immigration and tougher controls on access to British healthcare.
The proposals include removing medical school admission caps, prioritising British medical professionals,…
[“Rupert Lowe has unveiled Restore Britain’s six point plan to overhaul the NHS, calling for an end to mass immigration and tougher controls on access to British healthcare.
The proposals include removing medical school admission caps, prioritising British medical professionals, recruiting exceptional overseas specialists, introducing penalties for missed appointments and expanding private sector involvement to cut waiting lists.
Lowe also wants free hospital parking, an end to foreign language translation services, the abolition of NHS DEI programmes, reduced bureaucracy and stronger accountability for senior managers.
He argues that the NHS must prioritise British patients and that immigration is placing unsustainable pressure on services. Restore Britain says a more detailed healthcare policy is being developed.“]
Should, but will not. The Kiev regime is a cabal-dictatorship.
Trump plans to rename the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean to "Trump Ocean" or "Ocean of the Americas."
"We need to do this before I leave. I think we should have an ocean, and we need a great river. But I'm not going to change the name of the Mississippi. I love the Mississippi."
A little park has a Tom cat who is fed by everyone. Last year, he was given the name Silent King. He neither fights with anyone nor has he seen anyone getting scolded. He sits on a parking chair and watches the people coming and going. One day, a white kitten came to the park.… pic.twitter.com/Jev4YYXkLD
[“A little park has a Tom cat who is fed by everyone. Last year, he was given the name Silent King. He neither fights with anyone nor has he seen anyone getting scolded. He sits on a parking chair and watches the people coming and going. One day, a white kitten came to the park. She was very cute, but it turned out that she was blind. She kept bumping into things and didn’t react to sounds at all.
She didn’t seem very lively when she was alone, but she wasn’t lonely either. The Tom cat noticed her and started staying close to her. Wherever he went, he would walk in front of her so that she would bump into him. He took good care of her.
He would lead her to wherever he was, adjusting his speed so she could follow properly.
Whenever he would go to the road’s other side, he would cover her with his body.
Whenever it rained, he would take the kitten to a safe place and then sit with her.
The vet confirmed that the kitten was blind by birth. If the Tom cat hadn’t been there, she would have died within a week.
People tried to separate the kitten to adopt her, but both of them kept crying. That’s why it was decided that the community would keep both of them together.“]
Our animal friends.
Reform UK will ban airlines from British airspace and impose levies on goods and services for countries that refuse to take back migrants.
Put the British people first.
And play hardball with nations that take us for a ride.
Social-national Britain has to prepare to seize power without the formality of elections, the way things are going.
Russian servicemen and ballistic missiles are bringing about Moscow’s victory in the special military operation, not US President Donald Trump’s words criticizing Vladimir Zelensky, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stated:https://t.co/qU6bf7eqz1pic.twitter.com/rwXN9pY0lq
The Ukrainian armed forces may use chemical weapons to create a "scorched earth" in territories of the Donetsk People’s Republic that have not yet been liberated by Russia, specifically in the Slavyansk and Kramatorsk areas, Alexander Voloshin, a Russian senator representing the… pic.twitter.com/cSL5RC9TC3
To destroy a whole city, its inhabitants, its animal population etc is a very bad thing to do, or have to do, but one wonders whether Europe really needs the city of Kiev at all.
Palestinian farmers have been forced to flee after Israeli forces fired tear gas and stun guns towards them while they were harvesting olives.
When the state of Israel was created in 1948, a monster was born, created from the ghettoes, labour camps, and prisons of Europe as it was in or prior to the Second World War.
Kiev still can't stop themselves from faking amputation stories, even if for now they have stopped using AI rubbish. This girl is Anne-Catherine Maniette (also called Ani), callsign “Xena,” who posts on X as Tatou_Ania. As confirmed by herself she was born with a congenital… https://t.co/YKLuEHN6kZ
🇪🇺 luxembourg MEP mocks europe’s priorities, suggesting renaming the council of europe the “council of ukraine” and replacing antonio costa with volodymyr zelenskyy. fernand kartheiser claims a draft resolution devotes 168 lines to ukraine but only 12 to problems facing… pic.twitter.com/R94zvxBYCU
🇪🇺 Le Monde: Some EU officials compare funding Ukraine to “pouring water into the desert” as Kyiv seeks additional financial support. With Brussels demanding clearer figures before committing more money, the dispute exposes growing donor fatigue and raises a difficult question:… https://t.co/57uRqa8K9apic.twitter.com/ICXRAtdwj9
Das ist kein KI-generiertes Video. Es handelt sich in Wirklichkeit um den norwegischen Botschafter in der Ukraine, der an der russisch-norwegischen Grenze gefilmt wurde, um eine Geste des "Trotzes" zu zeigen und seine Unterstützung für die Ukraine zum Ausdruck zu bringen.
[“This is not an AI-generated video. In reality, it shows the Norwegian ambassador to Ukraine, who was filmed at the Russian-Norwegian border to demonstrate a gesture of “defiance” and express his support for Ukraine.
It looks like NATO is now rolling out the heavy artillery.“]
Good grief.
If that is really the Norwegian Ambassador to Ukraine, one finds it hard to characterize. An idiot, obviously. Decadent, presumably. I also find his age perlexing. I am, at 70 (last month), hardly young, and I do find ages hard to judge anyway, but that idiot looks like a schoolboy (and not a very intelligent one).
Ukrainian soldiers reportedly survived an attack by a Russian kamikaze drone. The incident highlights the growing role of drones on the battlefield, where survival increasingly depends on rapid detection, electronic warfare, and seconds of reaction time. pic.twitter.com/o1LzPExa2r
Russian forces struck a logistics center in the settlement of Ternovka in the Nikolayev Region that was used to store military cargoes for the Ukrainian army, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/tREHjwoIF5pic.twitter.com/NVmLIV06aL
Well, this week 7/10 (admittedly including one educated guess, i.e. question 1); political journalist John Rentoul scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 8 and 9, and could not bring the answer to question 6 to mind, though I really knew it (in the back of my mind).
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Rudolf Hess’s son offered David Irving access to his father’s private papers. He spent two weeks reading them. But why did the family send the files to Switzerland? Irving tells the story in this clip. pic.twitter.com/fbRkuYLW4S
Ukrainian servicemen shoot civilians while retreating and use them as human shields, Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin told TASS:https://t.co/EkeiKkMzGVpic.twitter.com/kWWo2C2r4N
Overnight, Geran-type drones reportedly targeted Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk, as well as the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Lviv and Poltava regions.
Overnight, Geran-type drones reportedly targeted Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk, as well as the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Lviv and Poltava regions.
Reports also indicate that Geran-4/5 jet-powered drones reached Lviv for the first time. The extent of the damage and any casualties require independent confirmation.
The reported expansion of drone attacks toward western Ukraine highlights the challenge of defending a vast territory. Faster jet-powered variants could further complicate interception efforts and increase pressure on Ukrainian air defenses.
The key question is whether Ukraine can sustain nationwide air defense as the threat evolves in both range and speed.“]
I suggest that the Russian side leaves Lvov unattacked. Lvov is an ancient and interesting city, at one time within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Once Russia achieves victory and supremacy over Eastern Ukraine, and once Kiev ceases to be the capital of a fake state, a real Ukrainian rump state, autonomous but disarmed and neutral, can be centred on Lvov.
🇺🇦 **ZELENSKY FUMES AS TRUMP EASES RESTRICTIONS ON RUSSIAN DIESEL**
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned Trump's decision to ease restrictions on Russian diesel exports following his phone call with Vladimir Putin, calling the move **“unfair and unjust.”**… pic.twitter.com/pePqmWjMfD
“A convicted rapist who punched and killed a police officer at a World Cup fan zone has been jailed for just one year.”
[Daily Mirror]
[defendant]
Wall. Squad. End.
The occasionally-seen (in fact, becoming now “often-seen”) cases of that sort are the tip of the iceberg.
The European societies, including UK society, are slowly (?) collapsing via both —scarcely controlled at all— the mass migration invasion and then also the soon-upcoming demographic collapse (European people having few if any children).
A man has jumped into a tiger enclosure at The Yorkshire Wildlife park!
No reports yet, as to whether he survived or not, apart from gun shots were fired & the park has been closed with heavy police & ambulance presence 🤦🏾♀️
Photos of the tiger at 12:30pm at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in UK. One hour prior to the attack, the undisturbed tiger was doing his own thing and enjoying the weather when a nutjob jumped into his enclosure. pic.twitter.com/YZJXl1DXoE
Glad to read now that —contrary to many ill-informed tweets— the tiger, an Amur tiger from the former Soviet Far East, was unharmed and, as it appears, will not be killed.
The Amur tiger is the world’s largest and one of the rarest.
Russian forces have struck an Ukrsibbank data center in Kiev used by the Ukrainian military to store intelligence, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement:https://t.co/RcfPAAm1jrpic.twitter.com/QNM527W8Gf
The European Union is unhappy with Washington's decision to allow Russian diesel imports and plans to adopt the 22nd package of sanctions on Moscow, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said:https://t.co/uPckbWPsTUpic.twitter.com/OWLVCs0qXA
Burnham’s recent announcements will have bolstered Labour’s chances. The fact that Burnham’s announcements are mainly hot air, and will never be implemented, will not become apparent until 2027, 2028, 2029, or later. As yet, they are likely to be attractive to many voters who may perhaps regard them as something real and viable.
On that basis, a general election this year might be a possibility. However, Reform might do better than expected. It all depends on how turned-off the voters are with the main System parties.
A lot of chatter about this on Twitter/X and in the mainstream media. In fact, Labour were always likely to win it. Labour has held the seat since its creation in 1983, and the Labour vote has never dropped below 43.2% (in 2005); the peak was 70.1% in 2017, when Starmer was the candidate but (ironically) Corbyn was Labour leader. Starmer’s vote in 2024 was 48.9%. Yesterday’s Labour vote was 45.2%.
The nearest any challenging party has come to beating Labour there, until yesterday, was in the 1987 General Election, when the Conservative Party managed 31.1%.
On that basis, the Green Party 32.8% yesterday was a fairly good result, in fact, particularly in view of the fact that they only scored 10.4% in 2024.
The British nationalist parties never stood a chance. The non-white electorate in the constituency is about half of the total, and the official “white British” electorate no more than a third.
To stand in a by-election where you know that you are going to get less than 10% (or 5%) of the vote is utterly stupid, and gives the impression that you are a fringe or crank party.
Had I been the leader of any of those (conservative) “nationalist” parties, I should have boycotted the by-election and made known the reason why. In fact, that by-election is a laboratory test-tube showing why, as time goes by, there can be no serious electoral road for the (real) British people. The importation of tens of millions of non-whites has, in effect, killed not only free speech but also any (worthwhile) democracy in this country.
The main conservative-national parties standing scored only 5.9% (Reform) and 2.5% (Restore). The reason, I think, is that most of the white/English/British voted with their feet and boycotted this farce and circus of a by-election. Turnout was a fairly pitiful 38.8%, not that much more than a third of voters bothering to vote.
The Conservative Party vote was poor, about the same as in 2024 (around 7%). As recently as 2019, and previously, the Conservative vote was always in double figures in that constituency, and has been almost 30% further back in time.
Well, there it is. “Democracy” has spoken (we are told). The inhabitants of Holborn and St. Pancras now have an MP who is an ignorant Somali woman of some kind.
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which Amendment was adopted in 1791, forbids “cruel and unusual punishments“. Like much of their Constitution, in practice it is a bad joke. Death by every slow and/or painful method: slow gassing, the electric chair (which can take 6 minutes of being, in effect, fried alive), and now the medicalization of capital punishment via the use of a series or cocktail of drugs, which sounds painless but is anything but. The latest ghastly farce in the USA just proves the point yet again.
I do not know why, if the Americans insist on retaining the death penalty, they do not simply give the convict a massive dose of morphine. I am not a medical man, but surely that would do the job quickly and painlessly? Maybe the American public, or many of them, would find that too painless and swift? Or is my medical knowledge incorrect? I cannot say for sure.
Of course, the Americans also use other punishments or methods not used in (?) other civilized states (shackling in transit etc).
I have seen a whole group of shackled prisoners in a Federal court building in the USA. All black. According to the F.B.I. agent standing with me, all murderers, and all lifers. A very sombre scene. All other people in the wide hallway stopped as the group, all handcuffed, all hobbled, all shackled in line together, passed through in total silence. As said, very sombre, and very sinister.
Speaking personally, I was always against the death penalty, and to some extent still am, but I see so many reports now in the UK of horrible murders and also rapes etc, that I think there may be a case for bringing back that penalty for some murders and other crimes, depending on the nature and quality of the defendants as well as the crimes. At least for a period of time. If so, using some quick method, possibly sometimes in public.
I notice that, in Belarus, a father who (with his equally wicked wife) starved, tortured, and finally killed his own 3-y-o son, was sentenced to death, which has been carried out in the manner prescribed by their law— Soviet-style, a bullet in the back of the head. The woman involved was sentenced to 25 years (probably without parole); apparently Belarus, like Texas long ago, never executes women.
What is more brutal, that Belorussian bullet, or what happens in the USA? Were I unfortunate enough to be in such a position, I should guess the American method(s), and so (if given the choice) might prefer the Soviet way of doing things…
I have only known one person, I think, who actually witnessed (at the scene, not on TV or online) an execution in the judicial sense. That execution was swift, consisting of a sword stroke cutting off the head in a split-second, and was carried out in public, in 1960s Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line… pic.twitter.com/fHkFqDra1K
[“A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.
This is her story of giving gratitude. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her…. a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
May you be so fortunate … To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.
And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.“]
Our animal friends.
Kiev may step up strikes on Russia ahead of the October EU summit to secure additional funding and weapons, Rubio urges Europe to prioritize national interests.
The US military is examining the possibility of resuming the full-fledged military operation against Iran, despite President Donald Trump’s earlier remarks, The New York Times (NYT) wrote citing unnamed US administration officials:https://t.co/XYweeZ3iWgpic.twitter.com/9JLg1A4qEE
As previously blogged, nothing Trump says or does can be taken at face value. His remarks and actions usually have a “shelf-life” of a day; a week at best.
🇪🇺 The EU may need to cut winter gas demand by 7%, or 14 billion cubic metres, as gas storage hits a record seasonal low of 72.4% — IEEFA.
The shortfall reflects rising demand, flat imports, and the risk of losing Russian LNG supplies from January 2027. pic.twitter.com/v1Uy72DnR3
🇩🇪 Germany plans to acquire low-cost cruise missiles capable of striking targets up to 1,500 km away and overwhelming enemy air defenses — Army Chief Christian Freuding.
Initial deliveries could begin in 2027, with two systems under consideration. pic.twitter.com/JqHHHRcxbo
I'm frequently critical of the lunacy we hear from Reform on small-boats. So it's important that this is said for balance. If we send out the message "if you get to Britain by small-boat you can work" what do people think will happen. https://t.co/hx4iS5lHj6
Fake “socialist” scribbler and “I’m from the North-East, me..” poseur Kevin Maguire (house in Richmond-on-Thames, holiday home in Devon, affluent wife etc) is one of the worst influences on current-affairs TV. Pro-migration invasion, anti-white European race and culture.
The question is not whether migration invasion will collapse our society, but when, and what will then ensue.
Actually, that anti-white Indian tweeter is wrong too: “asylum-seekers” (migrant-invaders) are not “demonized” for failing to work, but for coming here (uninvited) and staying here (also uninvited and unwanted).
(Many, probably most, though, are parasites, and always would be).
The media: "the Tories are back".
The reality: in the latest polls, the Tories are averaging 18.8%. Five points BELOW their 2024 vote.
At by-elections in England they've massively underperformed their poll share, averaging 4.6%.
[“New €1 Million Package of Military Aid to Be Sent to Ukraine from Finland
The decision was made quickly in response to an urgent request from Kyiv. The package includes defensive equipment from the Finnish army’s reserves.
The total value of military aid provided by Finland to Ukraine has now reached €3.6 billion.
Don’t be discouraged if you spent money on “trivial things.” Remember, someone is spending money on Ukraine.“]
**Thick Smoke Rises From Aramco Facilities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia**
Thick columns of smoke have been reported rising from Saudi Aramco facilities in Jeddah. The cause of the smoke, the extent of any damage, and whether the incident is connected to the ongoing regional conflict… pic.twitter.com/ghQ32ZO7f3
**Bloomberg: Iran Has Preserved Missile and Drone Production Despite Months of Bombing**
According to *Bloomberg*, citing Western officials, Iran has managed to keep its missile and drone manufacturing facilities operational despite months of airstrikes.
Senior American and Russian officials, including Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev, have discussed the possibility of involving American investors in "Nord Stream" projects with the aim of potentially resuming Russian gas supplies to Germany after the end of the military conflict… pic.twitter.com/HHpKcvIAK8
A European diplomat told the publication *Rapporteur* (formerly *Euractiv*) that the **European Union should stop giving Kyiv false hope about its prospects for joining the bloc**.
According to the diplomat, Brussels should be more realistic and transparent about Ukraine’s path… pic.twitter.com/c0AjnDGZrP
**Netherlands Admits Military Reserves Have Been Depleted Due to Aid to Ukraine**
According to *Military Watch Magazine*, the Dutch Ministry of Defense has concluded that military assistance to Kyiv is undermining the combat readiness of the Dutch armed forces and making it more… pic.twitter.com/jDfU1XZSvH
[“Netherlands Admits Military Reserves Have Been Depleted Due to Aid to Ukraine
According to Military Watch Magazine, the Dutch Ministry of Defense has concluded that military assistance to Kyiv is undermining the combat readiness of the Dutch armed forces and making it more difficult for the country to fulfill its NATO obligations.
The ministry has declined to publicly disclose which NATO targets have been postponed or affected, or to provide details on the current combat readiness of individual Dutch military units. The admission highlights the growing tension between supplying Ukraine with military equipment and maintaining national reserves at levels considered necessary for a major conflict.
According to the ministry, by February 2026, the Netherlands will have provided Ukraine with approximately €11.7 billion in military assistance. The publication also claims that weapons stockpiles across NATO’s European members have been severely depleted, with shortages particularly affecting artillery ammunition, air-defense missiles, anti-tank weapons, and armored vehicles.
Europe is discovering the hard way that weapons sent abroad don’t magically regenerate back home. The bill for rebuilding those stockpiles could be just as serious as the bill for the aid itself.“]
Researchers at Stanford University say that, contrary to claims and expectations from the U.S. government and major business leaders, their independent analysis indicates that **China could soon catch up with—and potentially surpass—the United States in the development of… pic.twitter.com/THdFzpnlPN
[“Researchers at Stanford University say that, contrary to claims and expectations from the U.S. government and major business leaders, their independent analysis indicates that China could soon catch up with—and potentially surpass—the United States in the development of advanced artificial intelligence models.
The researchers argue that the gap between the two countries is narrowing rapidly, challenging the assumption that the United States will maintain a lasting lead in the global AI race.
The AI race is starting to look less like a marathon and more like a photo finish—with China closing the gap fast.“]
That is, I think, a signal that, should the European states get into a direct war situation with Russia, those European states will not be able to rely on American back-up.
Russian troops liberated the community of Annopolye in the Kharkov Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/uLEfJ17on4pic.twitter.com/cK5SdYYG5i
She herself is neither English (that’s unarguable) nor, in any real sense, British. Her parents deliberately came to London for a few weeks so that she could be born in the UK and, as the law was in 1981, then be entitled later on to a British passport (that bad law was changed in 1982, so she only just scraped in before the portcullis was lowered). She then lived in Nigeria and the USA until she was 16 or 17. She is no more British than I am Nigerian.
Her children (who are of mixed-race) likewise.
Migrant camps are now normal in the capital. Several sit in Holborn and St Pancras, Keir Starmer’s old seat.
Men the hotels could not hold, pitched on the pavement. Some of them using the street as a toilet in front of the flats. Residents get a shrug. The council gets a…
That is a small taste of what the British people have coming down the tracks at them unless a social-national government, or one very similar, does not seize power pretty soon.
Having said that, and incidentally, that AI-produced (?) picture of Kemi Badenoch in her supposed ancestral type of dress makes her look a lot better than usual. I have noticed in the past that black women usually look much better in that kind of colourful get-up.
Seems an underestimate anyway. Of course, the “small boat” arrivals are only ~5% of the whole migration invasion. Multiply those figures by about 20, and you get a better idea. Half a million to a million. Every single year.
Our society is already showing stress; by 2030, it may be showing clear signs of terminal stress.
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Images of the IRGC testing an air mine on one of the Iranian islands, which is used to prevent the deployment of troops by helicopter. pic.twitter.com/KLY0kabo1Z
Kpler, the world’s largest maritime research firm, suspects that some Gulf oil-producing states are paying Iran “transit fees” for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
— Michelle Bruhard, head of geopolitical policy and risk at the firm, says that countries like Qatar,… pic.twitter.com/kpsxkTnvbO
Must add up to a massive amount. When I was a barrister, I drafted, at times, contracts for the transhipment of oil from the Middle East to black Africa. Each shipment was worth over USD $80M, and that was over 20 years ago. So maybe USD $150M today. If Iran is getting 20% of the value of every shipload, each one is worth perhaps USD $30M in “transit fees” to Iran. There might be several in a day even under present conditions.
Leonkov: Great Britain is gradually getting drawn into a direct conflict with Russia.
IF THERE IS A MAJOR ESCALATION, THE FIRST TARGETS WILL BE BRITISH FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE DRONES AND ROCKETS FOR KYIV.
[“Leonkov: Great Britain is gradually getting drawn into a direct conflict with Russia.
IF THERE IS A MAJOR ESCALATION, THE FIRST TARGETS WILL BE BRITISH FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE DRONES AND ROCKETS FOR KYIV.
Boris Johnson, who just the other day claimed he hadn’t started a war, has returned to his old tune: “We must continue bombing Russian oil refineries and power plants. Ukraine is on the verge of victory. Don’t slow down the sale of weapons (to Kyiv).“
Only three countries still believe that Ukraine is capable of confronting Russia: Great Britain, France, and Germany. However, even within those countries, voices are being heard that the conflict, in which Zelensky must remain in power until 2028, is costing them too much.
According to Western estimates, Ukrainian armed forces’ air strikes on Russia in July alone cost them $11 billion. Zelensky is spending a lot of money on these attacks, but his Western sponsors are not satisfied with the results. Everyone understands that Ukraine is losing.”]
There is no way of either proving or disproving my belief that “Boris” Johnson is getting paid large amounts offshore by the Kiev regime and (ipso facto) its backers (to promote the regime by promoting the Western support for it). It stacks up quite well logically, though, knowing what we know of the Kiev regime, its leading members, and the character of Johnson himself.
Thanks to the blog reader who sent me the YouTube video below:
Talking point
I see that the Jewish lobby is loudly whining and wailing today about the Jews killed on this day 3 years ago in Gaza.
Well, I concede that the incursion into “Israel” from Gaza should not have happened in quite the manner it did, and that some of the acts done by HAMAS were incorrect and insupportable, but the response of the Israeli Jewish state has been brutal, inhumane (indeed, inhuman), and as close to genocide as makes no real difference.
Almost complete devastation of Gaza, most homes destroyed, hundreds of thousands killed or injured, many injured very badly (loss of limbs etc), and most of those killed or injured women and children.
It seems that many of the Jews killed three years ago were killed (via free-fire protocols) by the Israeli forces themselves. The total Jewish death toll was somewhere around 1,000, a tiny fraction of the number of Gazans killed and wounded in vindictive retaliation by the (Israeli) Jews (egged on by many Jews living overseas, including in the UK).
One has to ask, when on Earth will the Jews (of Israel, and those supporting the slaughter and cruelty from overseas) have had enough blood (in Gaza)?
[part of Gaza City before the (Israeli) Jews devastated it]
[part of the same area after Israeli bombing, shelling, white phosphorus bombing etc]
[part of Gaza City in 2007]
Tweets seen
They will lock you in your house whilst they fill your town with migrants. They will throw you in jail if you protest too loudly. They will take away your ability to talk freely about the subjects that matter and offer you dystopia as reward for compliance. pic.twitter.com/5Eonh9sFwb
Russian forces delivered a massive strike overnight, hitting industrial sites producing Flamingo missiles and drones in Kiev and six regions in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
I find it curious that the Russian missile and drone strikes take place mainly after dark. I should have thought that during the day would be better tactics, in order to cause far more chaos and disruption to transport and to economic life etc. It may be that countermeasures are more effective during daylight hours; I do not know.
A visual representation illustrating the damage inflicted on the northern Gaza Strip during the air strikes and ground operations in the early months of the war, followed by the spread of damage southward with the ground operations in Khan Younis and Rafah. pic.twitter.com/ggOKlFl3hF
Royal Mail has announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs by the end of 2027.
When billionaire Daniel Křetínský’s takeover was approved in December 2024, the government presented the deal as one that would help “secure jobs”, while Jonathan Reynolds said: “We have negotiated… pic.twitter.com/vRRYhMHJNw
[“Royal Mail has announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs by the end of 2027.
When billionaire Daniel Křetínský’s takeover was approved in December 2024, the government presented the deal as one that would help “secure jobs”, while Jonathan Reynolds said: “We have negotiated something that secures the long-term future of Royal Mail.”
Less than two years later, thousands of jobs are set to disappear.
Britain has spent decades selling off essential national infrastructure on the promise that private ownership would make it leaner, cheaper and better. Too often the result has been the opposite: jobs cut, services hollowed out, prices pushed up and private owners protected, while the public is left carrying the risk when the model fails. Royal Mail is starting to look like another example of the same failed experiment.“]
As far as I am concerned, there is no decent party or, as far as I know, candidate, standing.
The Greens are up against it, now that Galloway is standing. Splits the avowedly anti-Zionist vote.
Last poll I saw had the Cons on 17% nationwide. Would mean they might get as few as 50 MPs, less than half even compared to their present depleted complement.
More than four in five Tory shadow ministers served in Tory governments that put mass immigration on steroids and broke our borders.
And unlike Rob Jenrick and Suella Braverman, they didn’t have the decency of resigning and saying sorry.
The next election is the last chane for the ethnic British to reclaim the country through the party political route. We either win it, or we have to think outside the box.
Russian forces struck workshops assembling unmanned aerial vehicles for the Ukrainian army and enemy deployment sites over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/wReGI6GBtRpic.twitter.com/5uCMnGE02C
Iran's escalation of its control over the Strait of Hormuz is intensifying daily.
In fact, according to Reuters, drone and anti-ship missile attacks on oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz reached their peak last week since the conflict began on February 28. pic.twitter.com/ux4IYXkh7S
US forces have moved more than 1,000 km away from Iran’s border, the head of the Advisory Group to the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said:https://t.co/0UCChIn20cpic.twitter.com/W2IyUamBWH
Does that apply also to U.S. naval forces? I am presuming not.
Russia is turning off the tap for diesel; the global market is on the brink of a crisis! Russia has restricted diesel exports in order to increase pressure on European countries, while disruptions in the Middle East have also reduced the supply of oil derivatives. pic.twitter.com/LcakY92tgU
[“Iranian ballistic missiles can reach the United Kingdom; there is no need for a terrorist bomb at RAF Fairford.
This is just the “demonstrated” range of Iranian ballistic missiles.
Some ballistic missiles in Iran’s arsenal, although few in number and not yet fully optimized, almost certainly have the range to reach the United States.“]
Not a complete answer, of course. A “terrorist” attack can be denied; it is deniable; not so with a strategic ballistic missile attack.
European gas storage facilities are only 72% full, which is the lowest level ever recorded for this time of year, compared to an average of 88% in 2021-2025. In Germany, this figure currently stands at 57% — The Economist.
[“European gas storage facilities are only 72% full, which is the lowest level ever recorded for this time of year, compared to an average of 88% in 2021-2025. In Germany, this figure currently stands at 57% — The Economist.
In a truly harsh winter, a government official from the energy ministry warns, “prices may not have a ceiling.“]
The Kremlin has described the strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv as "retribution."
"It is the Kyiv regime that has expanded the list of targets within the peaceful economy of the Russian Federation. And what our armed forces are doing now is called retribution for that.… pic.twitter.com/462UQtx40z
France has become the "weakest link in Europe" during Macron's presidency, according to Bloomberg.
The political movement of the president is expected to "effectively disappear" after he leaves office in 2027, and the promised "economic revolution" has failed to bring about any… pic.twitter.com/fd36MO66P9
Macron has done his job for NWO/ZOG and the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan; he can now be dispensed with. See my assessment of him, and his background, written in 2019:
And is already paying heavily as complaints come on to the Charity Commission and donations plummet – word on the street is if it looks like RNLI is going to crash Andy will make another pilgrimage to the legendary money tree
I do not know what is the financial position of the RNLI, but I expect that, once it became clear that the RNLI was ferrying migrant-invaders to our shores, the “useful idiots” of Twitter/X and Blue Sky Social all donated but, at the same time, millions or ordinary British people who oppose the migration-invasion of our country switched off. I suspect that the latter effect will be greater over time.
The RNLI is but one of many British institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, that have been captured by the forces of decadence and treachery over the past 30 years.
Professor Paul Craig Roberts, former U.S. Treasury Department official:
Iran's nuclear weapon is the Dimona nuclear facility in Israel.
All they need to do is strike it with their ballistic missiles, which they are perfectly capable of.
Britain has entered a state of anarcho-tyranny. It cannot fulfil its most basic tasks, like controlling the border, while it is now using things like Section 34 to restrict its own people from protesting against this failure. What Gosport reveals ⬇️https://t.co/jMIEEPaw2F
Societies fall apart when citizens no longer think the state is legitimate. This is what many British people are starting to think. They see a state that appears more interested in facilitating illegal migration than looking after its own citizens. And that is very dangerous.
Whatever one may think of Burnham and/or his announced policies, those Conservative Party rank-and-file members are really weird, with one or two exceptions, arguably (the blonde woman and the old man who distrusts “Fabianss”, though even they seem slightly “not all there”, with the blonde regarding arrogant and wrongheaded Kemi Badenoch as her great black hope). Several interviewees are non-white, and —as has been the case for many years— the young English ones are like wet-behind-the-ears geeks or nerds out of a TV sitcom, or youthful copies of Michael Gove. Utterly pathetic.
I myself think that Con Party support, presently around 17% or so, will decline to 15% or even 12% within a few years, well within the maximum range of this Parliament. The late middle-aged and elderly (both the mainstay of the Conservative vote and almost half of those that vote at all) are defecting to Reform or elsewhere. Many are dying off, too. That might leave the Con Party with only a handful of MPs next time around.
Make the change in your life to become more self sufficient. Join with others creating parallel systems that work in our favour.
Russian forces continue to strike Ukrainian energy and port infrastructure facilities and sea vessels used by Ukraine’s army, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
🦇 A rare bat, a broken wing, and a second chance… Meet our serotine bat – one of Britain’s largest bat species, with a wingspan of up to 38cm! Found grounded with a broken forearm, our vets carefully repaired the fracture. He’s healing well with medication and laser therapy. 💚 pic.twitter.com/rx5rKMMHgp
An Afghan migrant who stabbed Wayne Broadhurst to death after attempting to murder his landlord in a 'random, frenzied and entirely unprovoked attack' has been handed … a hospital order !
Uber driver Dawood Safi arrived in the UK illegally six years ago.
[“An Afghan migrant who stabbed Wayne Broadhurst to death after attempting to murder his landlord in a ‘random, frenzied and entirely unprovoked attack’ has been handed … a hospital order !
Uber driver Dawood Safi arrived in the UK illegally six years ago.
Mr Broadhurst’s beloved spaniel Harry kept vigil by his body as he bled to death in front of horrified neighbours.
Like millions of British people, I am beyond sick and tired of this, of the utterly ridiculous judgements that follow, and of the deafening silence in Westminster.”]
The British state just essentially shut down an entire town so it could facilitate the invasion of our country. Me on @GBNEWSpic.twitter.com/CAX3S05gtC
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. All those complicit in it, whether Government ministers, MPs, TV talking-heads, newspaper scribblers, fake “charity” officers and employees, police chiefs…whatever…must be both identified and punished.
Also, never forget the “community” mostly facilitating the invasion. Clue: it is not, mainly, the Muslim community.
I think them not releasing the data shows they have something to hide and that’s how I see it. Sunlight is the best disinfectant and all that, let’s have some transparency
But the young and disabled have their welfare cut? No thank you. I know Kemi’s obsessed with Israel but we don’t need our own iron dome at eye-watering expense. https://t.co/XTIEaF7EIy
The point is that even an “Iron Dome” (or “Britannia Shield”) would not —could not— protect the UK from missiles (I suppose the idiots are talking about Russian ones), if only because Russia has 7,000 nuclear weapons alone (mostly, I think, missiles), let alone non-nuclear ones. Most are too fast to be intercepted by any presently-available anti-missile-missiles.
In any case, the UK should be joining, at least informally, with Russia, leaving NATO, and opening up new markets in Russia for British goods and services, as well as buying oil and gas at cost price.
Kiev continues deliberately targeting the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, seemingly unfazed by the idea of a nuclear accident happening there, Maria Zakharova said:https://t.co/v6ksr3RSHkpic.twitter.com/QbjVZS0U6P
Real household incomes in Russia are projected to rise by 1.4% in 2027 and by an average of 2.5% annually over the following two years, Anton Siluanov announced during parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council:https://t.co/8LdXHRs1M4pic.twitter.com/akWfqCX1BE
They know, or fear, that Kiev’s days may be numbered.
Russian troops liberated the community of Samoilovka in the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/rJepZPNYzPpic.twitter.com/SlKFXFY9HW
Global oil stockpiles have become "scarily thin," creating a risk of worsening market conditions unless shipping through the Strait of Hormuz fully resumes, Saudi Aramco President and CEO Amin Nasser warned, Bloomberg reported:https://t.co/bsnEpV7mSepic.twitter.com/DflawBjTnP
Russian forces struck the Gostomel logistics center in the Kiev Region, a facility storing materiel for the Ukrainian army, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/ZRGZyTCWAbpic.twitter.com/r7nFrwpPbJ
Iran targeted at least eight ships in five days, without any response from the United States, despite the "tanker-for-tanker" policy announced on September 2. pic.twitter.com/H4JZyGw3hV
Europe slides ever-faster down the slope of utter decadence.
🇦🇷 Argentina to launch citizenship-by-investment program, with applications opening in Q4 2026 — Economy Minister Luis Caputo.
Applicants will need to make a non-refundable investment of at least $350,000 or purchase $800,000 in Argentine government bonds, subject to… pic.twitter.com/3fLn2egiBP
Would not be surprised to find that the Israelis, in conjunction with the Jewish lobby in Argentina, are behind this.
🇺🇸 Al Jazeera reports that **nearly 70% of Americans believe the war between the United States, Israel and Iran was not worth fighting**, a significant increase from July.
**Support is slipping fast — a growing majority of Americans now question the cost of the conflict.** pic.twitter.com/wLpiAeBv98
On this day two years ago. Don’t say @s_m_marandi didn’t warn you.
“If the United States gets involved, have no doubt, the US will be swept out of Iraq by the resistance and all its assets in the Persian Gulf will be destroyed. All these regimes with US bases will be destroyed…
[“On this day two years ago. Don’t say @s_m_marandi didn’t warn you.
“If the United States gets involved, have no doubt, the US will be swept out of Iraq by the resistance and all its assets in the Persian Gulf will be destroyed. All these regimes with US bases will be destroyed and the oil and gas markets will cause a situation where the global economy will collapse, so be careful about making stupid mistakes.”]
Marandi is an Iranian academic.
🚨 NEW: Benjamin Netanyahu has launched an extraordinary attack on Andy Burnham's Government, accusing Britain of behaving "like a rogue state" and appeasing an "Islamist Leftist alliance".
The Israeli PM said relations with Britain are "not very good" and accused Labour of… pic.twitter.com/zK6qnQCIum
More insults to add to the the murder of our troops and aid workers, having supplied arms to Argentina to do the same and supporting their claim to the Falklands.
Israel wouldn't exist were it not for us. This genocidal bastard should be down on his knees every day thanking us
Whatever you give “them”, (((they))) will complain, demand more, and turn on you in the end. Not just “Israel” and nominal Israelis, but also the type as a whole. Look at the behaviour of Zelensky.
Burnham is even a member of Labour Friends of Israel, just like Starmer-stein.
Israel— a rogue state, which has a very wealthy and influential “fifth column” in this country (as in some others).
Labour would rather take money from British pensioners than stop spending billions on foreigners.
That is a political choice.
Reform UK will slash welfare for foreigners, slash foreign aid, and put British pensioners first. pic.twitter.com/IQnBVgTNOD
Whatever the arguments, the fact is that pensioners will be worse-off under Labour after 2030 (when Burnham says the Triple Lock will go) and, quite possibly, before then. Result? 99% of pensioners (a third of the electorate, and maybe as much as 50% of the actually-voting electorate) will not be voting Labour. Largely but not just because of the Triple Lock being dumped. It is the whole direction of travel.
Late tweets
Most of the pensioner cohort don’t vote Labour anyway. Labour support in 65+ year olds currently at 12%. https://t.co/4eOByY5LEv
That funny woman tweeter is obsessed with, inter alia, cutting off Triple Lock money going to pensioners. Yes, only 12% of people of 65+ years vote Labour. That will now shrink to about 1%-2%, I expect. That means that 98% of those 65+ will vote somewhere other than Labour. Probably Reform, most of them.
The point, though, previously also made on the blog, is that people aged 65+ mostly actually vote. The other age-groups vote in far smaller numbers, proportionately.
The 65+ age group is about a third of the electorate, and must be at least 40% of those that actually turn out to vote (or vote via postal ballot). Maybe even 50%
Labour will therefore not be getting the votes of anything up to 50% of the total of those (of all ages) that vote, even before taking into consideration the votes of the <65 age groups.
Burnham-Labour has already alienated the under-24 age group by the recently-announced benefit cuts and changes.
Anything can happen in politics, but it would take a near-miracle for Labour to get to 35% of the poll, and that is surely their minimum if they want to be sure of a Commons majority.
That latest poll translates to a Commons with about 342 Labour MPs (so a majority of seats), 155 Reform (official Opposition), 55 Cons, 51 LibDems, and 20 SNP [etc].
Uncertain now how accurate such predictions are. Restore may only be getting 3% of the opinion poll votes, but that is enough to badly damage Reform in marginal seats. As to Labour, I doubt whether its present relative popularity will continue, but there is no doubt that many of Burnham’s recently-announced policies are quite popular:
Burnham’s housing policies are the clearest vote winners from his conference announcements while changes to the pension triple lock have the least support. pic.twitter.com/7wKdZQ8m0B
I myself agree with all but three of the policies listed there.
My feeling right now is that Reform, though so disappointing (pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-finance-capitalism and —in some respects— globalism, is still the main game in town in terms of at least pseudo-national populism. I can see many more presently Conservative votes going to Reform.
If I am right, and the Con vote reduces to, say 12% by 2028/2029, and the Reform vote rises to, say, 30%, then the post-election picture would be very different: that would give Labour maybe 265 MPs (far short of a majority), and Reform would have more MPs than Lab, 281. The LibDems would be on 53, the SNP 23, Greens 3 and the Con Party only 2. Near-wipeout. That would effectively finish off the Con Party.
As to government, Reform would be unable to form even a workable minority government despite having a plurality of MPs, but Labour would just about be able to function as a minority government with LibDem and SNP [etc] support.
Yet another Tory position I hate and I grew up very rurally, on horses and I live there now. I gave the Countryside Alliance march a swerve in 2002, one of the few Tories to do so. Support the hunting of beautiful foxes? Foul. 🦊
I agree with that lady tweeter on that subject. For many years I broadly supported foxhunting as a colourful historical spectacle with long roots in England, but for many years now I have strongly opposed it (and most other field sports) by reason of my love for animals and, in minor key, also my dislike of, or distaste for, all foxhunters that I have ever met (at least as an adult).
[me aged about 2 (?…I am hopeless at judging ages), late 1950s, happily standing amid the foxhounds somewhere in Berkshire]
[late 1950s, also amid the hounds, though looking less happy, or more thoughtful]
The Russian Foreign Ministry has again warned foreign nationals, including diplomatic missions’ personnel, against staying in or traveling to Ukraine, according to its statement:https://t.co/tALFqQbSyrpic.twitter.com/RJdmN3CiNo
The Russian Defense Ministry reported fighting and territorial gains in the Kharkov Region and Dobropolye, as well as Ukrainian losses and Russian strikes over the past day. TASS has compiled the ministry’s key statements:https://t.co/4DKK1QK3cApic.twitter.com/UU6toU4sXn
I have to say that the bridge attacks are a brilliant tactical move by the Russian side.
Kiev is on both sides of the Dnieper, but the more important part of the city is on the western or right bank.
Losses sustained by the Ukrainian armed forces in September, including foreign mercenaries and encompassing both killed and wounded, totaled nearly 48,000 personnel, according to military expert Andrey Marochko:https://t.co/YzD5yuBNkVpic.twitter.com/gMvyDDbFuc
I happened to see a travel show presented by an American of whom I had not previously heard, one Stanley Tucci [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Tucci]. Apparently a well-known film-maker and actor (well, I cannot know everything…). A New Yorker whose grandparents or great-grandparents emigrated from Calabria to America before the Second World War or, possibly, before the First World War.
It seems that the show was made in 2021, so 5+ years ago.
The programme showed him in Tuscany, then in Sicily. Mostly about the Italian regional cuisine(s). Not terribly dull, though hardly riveting, but of course this is an area covered many times in similar vein (think Rick Stein, Jamie Oliver, and many others).
When in Sicily, this Tucci expressed the view that immigration improves any society! Very wrongheaded. What many now call a “luxury belief” held by those (usually the affluent) who prefer not to see the downsides of mass immigration from backward parts of the world such as black Africa, North Africa etc.
Even without having to hear his wrongheaded views about the migration-invasion of Italy, I have to say that I found the aforesaid Tucci not someone to whom I warmed. He lacked the charm of some similar TV tourists.
Never mind. It filled an empty hour.
History as rarely seen
An historical and historic film sent to me today. Worth hearing or reading (subtitled)
“When Zack Polanski told the heart-rending tale of his ancestors fleeing the Nazis, it earned him applause at last year’s Green Party conference.
But the Holocaust story has raised questions after family history research found his grandparents were all born in Britain long before the Second World War.
On Thursday, Mr Polanski did nothing to clear up the mystery when the Greens declined to answer a request to explain the powerful yet puzzling line in his keynote speech.“
[Daily Mail]
Just another (((liar))).
Ingrained…
Tweets seen
Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 646 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled key details on the aftermath:https://t.co/tUR01sWnLMpic.twitter.com/W7yxM9sf3L
This morning, taxi fares in Kyiv skyrocketed after the bridge was destroyed: to simply cross from the left bank to the right bank, you need to pay at least 1,000 hryvnia –
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a railway and road bridge over the Dnieper River in the… pic.twitter.com/D1sVbwnbk6
1,000 hryvnia (Kiev-regime funny-money) = about £17 pounds sterling.
Sounds almost reasonable compared to London these days.
In Germany, an increasing number of children from Christian families are expressing a desire to convert to Islam so that they are not ostracized in their schools,acc Bild pic.twitter.com/5ENxtpSDbr
French farmers have once again resorted to using "manure cannons," spraying manure at the tax office, which was literally flooded with the waste.
The farmers are protesting against high fuel prices. In France, the tax on diesel fuel is 42%, and on gasoline, it's around 48%. This… pic.twitter.com/mPW4FZVG5o
Imagine going to, say, Japan and proclaiming the native Japanese don’t really exist because anybody can be Japanese and if you suggest otherwise then you are “racist”.
I think Andy Burnham and Labour just made a huge mistake. Re-joining the EU, turbo-charging immigration from the Third World, dismantling support for British pensioners, smashing workers with Net Zero … it all opens up a major flank for Reform UK https://t.co/m07sn1jA4W
“English” (or Japanese, or Chinese, or whatever) is not a mere label, which an individual can stick on themselves and claim to be properly descriptive.
I was born in England of two English parents (and am believed —plausibly but not definitely— to have one German great-grandfather). I am, and have every right to call myself, English.
My wife is English, born of two English parents (one Norwegian grandparent). She was, however, born in the 1950s in the then Tanganyika (now Tanzania), which at the time was a British colony. She came to the UK (to live) aged 14. That does not make her “Tanzanian”, or African!
If someone black or brown is born in the UK, in England, that person is not English or even (passport notwithstanding) British. The person concerned is not English/British but something else, even if born/brought up etc in the UK. Someone such as Kemi Badenoch, who was born in London of 1981 of two Nigerian parents (while they were on a flying visit to make sure that she was born in the UK, which fact —at the time— gave her, under English law, the right to a British passport later in life).
Kemi Badenoch is not English and, in real terms (despite having that “scammed” passport), is not British either.
Kemi Badenoch in fact only came to (or came back to) the UK aged 16-17. She was not even brought up here, and her attitudes are foreign, not that that in itself is determinative.
It would be absurd for me to say “I am Chinese“, even if living in China and having lived there my whole life, even if born there; indeed, even had I a Chinese passport.
Logic alone makes the case, but many of our treacherous scribblers, TV/radio talking heads, and MPs, wilfully refuse to see it.
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Young second and third-generation migrants film a French firefighter after setting him on fire during the school protests in Bordeaux
In a different Europe, the whole mob could just be submachinegunned.
They were born in France. Their parents and even grandparents were born in France. They are not, however, French.
It’d be better keep the public-service stuff with the licence fee at the same level but spin off and sell the entertainment stuff. https://t.co/W0apq6aDNP
As far as I am concerned, the BBC, if it is to be allowed to survive, must go back to its original Reithian principles: “Inform, Educate, Entertain“, and in that order. In fact, and in view of the multiplicity of other platforms now in existence, the entertainment part might as well be dropped, leaving the BBC with a mission to both inform and entertain. The devil is in the detail, though; at present, the BBC often misinforms, and ill-educates…
Macron stated that public support for Ukraine has declined in France and Spain due to social media:
It's very easy to understand what negative emotions are being exploited in Spanish society and in French society. And if I want to undermine your leaders today, if I want to… pic.twitter.com/SiXHk0Wahm
Russia is preparing for the most powerful strike yet on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, potentially involving up to 1000 missiles, drones, and aerial bombs, according to the New York Times, citing President Zelenskyy. pic.twitter.com/S84qL6e7fa
I think that that blog post stands up well, three years on; not in all details (I overestimated the speed of Russian advances in Ukraine), but overall.
Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 330 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and the Black Sea overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius questioned whether there is **any real intelligence evidence that Russia is preparing for a new military action**, saying there is none being presented.
**Big warnings require hard evidence — and Lithuania’s own leadership is now… pic.twitter.com/jU66glZbPr
A video showing how gendarmes in Rome "accidentally" knocked over their colleague who was patrolling and trying to apprehend a criminal is circulating widely across the European segment of social media. pic.twitter.com/SfsXqwxiQl
Apocalypse in France. Numerous schools—and more—are on fire. African and Arab students—also first and second generation ones—incited by far-left criminals, are setting everything on fire. pic.twitter.com/R7RYbbk6Gm
Get rid of them, either by dumping them in North Africa or by just eliminating them. Sterilization is vital, in the meantime.
Il ne s'agit plus aujourd'hui de contestations lycéennes. Il s'agit d'émeutes organisées par des professionnels et encadrées par des députés de la France insoumise.
Nous devons faire voter une nouvelle loi anti-casseurs pour que la participation à une émeute soit un délit… pic.twitter.com/XeJovhk4sl
Worrying scenes as an extremely drunk looking/sounding @EmmaforWycombe gets told by a Times Radio Presenter, the sums for robbing little old ladies of their cans of beans etc by screwing with their triple lock don’t add up.
Never had a non-political job. Is not qualified for any profession. Has no background in economics beyond her back-of-postcard PPE degree from Oxford. Member of Labour Friends of Israel. Believed to be or have been involved with lobby activities on behalf of China.
A stupid drunken moneygrubber, in short.
Congratulations to everyone celebrating the end of the triple lock. You won nothing. You will be pensioners one day. Many of you will be renting in retirement. Your private pension won't touch what today's pensioners have. Cutting the triple lock doesn't hurt today's pensioners… pic.twitter.com/FWPfsKcFby
[“Congratulations to everyone celebrating the end of the triple lock. You won nothing. You will be pensioners one day. Many of you will be renting in retirement. Your private pension won’t touch what today’s pensioners have. Cutting the triple lock doesn’t hurt today’s pensioners much. It hits you. Compounding, year after year, until you retire into a system even more inadequate than the one we have now. As Sam Coates explains here, you just cheered for your own poorer retirement. Own goal.“]
It's not just morally wrong, it's economically illiterate. Pensioners spend what they receive. That spending is demand. Cutting the triple lock doesn't just hurt today's pensioners—it removes demand from the economy, year after year. It's a regressive, self-defeating policy.
The same is true of cuts to social security/”welfare”, in most cases.
Thoughts out of season
In my view, taking the electorate overall, the voters knew what they were doing in 2024. They were binning the Conservative Party. What were were not doing, in intention, or primarily, was voting for a Starmer-Labour government (which has now become a Burnham-Labour government).
In 2024, the only way to bin the Conservatives led by little Indian money-juggler, Sunak, was to vote against the Conservative candidates. In some constituencies that meant voting Labour, in others for Reform, in yet others LibDem or even Green.
As frequently blogged about over the past 2.5 years, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.
Rough figures, obviously. Reform scored about 600,000 more votes than the LibDems, even though the latter ended up with 72 MPs, and Reform only 6, by reason of the absurd voting system in the UK. Likewise, the Greens did not get anywhere near 1 out of 20 potential votes (or 1 out of every 12 cast), but closer to half a vote out of every 20.
In short, Starmer-stein had no real mandate. Only 4 out of 12 actual voters voted Labour; 4 out of every 20 potential/eligible voters.
Even if you take it in terms of those that actually voted, Labour was only voted for by about a third of those who voted.
Burnham may be marginally more popular than Starmer-stein, but not much more.
Nature abhors a vacuum. The Cons were binned by the voters mostly voting elsewhere, or abstaining. Labour will probably go the same way. However, Reform is so underwhelming (pro-finance-capitalism, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel) that its ceiling is probably, at highest, 35%, and its popularity presently stands somewhere around 25%.
What matters is not just Reform UK’s popularity, but the unpopularity of, in particular, Labour. I think that most people who want rid of Labour will vote Reform (if they are anti-immigration), or LibDem/Green if they are not very anti-immigration and/or want to rejoin the EU.
How high can Labour’s polling go? It could get up to 30%, but it may well stick, in the end, say next year, around 25%. Hard to see it going as high as 35%.
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I’m sick and tired of seeing elderly pensioners harassed by the British police. 🤬
47 years ago this man used to be a drug dealer he was 20 for fuck sake he was a kid he's now 67 an OAP.
“A heavily pregnant woman has been left homeless after a council that houses more than 3,500 migrants refused her emergency accommodation, a charity says.
Homeless Project Scotland posted on Facebook claiming the 34-week-pregnant woman, who said she had fled an abusive relationship in London, was snubbed by Glasgow City Council.
The charity’s chief executive Colin McInnes described her plight as one of the most ‘horrific’ he had seen.“
The charity’s chief executive and co-founder described how staff there called the council’s social services helpline and a taxi was sent to collect the woman.
But she was later returned to the night shelter in a taxi after what Mr McInnes described as a ‘four-hour interrogation’.
He said: ‘I explained the situation that there is no way that this lady should obviously be in our shelter – we are at full capacity and this woman cannot sleep on the streets.
‘They told me, “Unfortunately this lady is going to have to sleep on the streets because we won’t be accommodating her.
At that point, I said the rights of every child is important and this child needs to be protected with its mother and the words that the woman on phone said to me and I quote, “An unborn child does not have rights”.’
Mr McInnes said the woman then spent the night sleeping on a mattress on the night shelter’s floor before leaving for the streets the following morning.
But volunteers later found her and directed her back to social services, he added.
Mr McInnes said: ‘This is not how we behave in the United Kingdom and certainly not how we behave in Scotland that we would leave women who are 34 weeks pregnant lying in the streets.’
‘This is a truly chilling and callous response to the plight of a heavily pregnant woman and her unborn baby.’“
[Daily Mail]
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"If a gun hangs on the wall, it must eventually be fired."
There are no guarantees that nuclear powers will not resort to using nuclear weapons, Vladimir Putin noted during his speech at the Valdai Club's plenary session.
[“The President also reminded that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine, and linked the collapse of the USSR to the naivety of Soviet leaders who tried to please the West, which in turn was only pursuing its own interests. At the same time, the Russian leader noted that “we experienced the collapse of the state system, which was a real tragedy for tens of millions of people.”
Following this, Putin again emphasized the risks:
“The moment when nothing can be changed may come very quickly and unexpectedly for everyone… […] A policy of escalating hostilities and sanctions is never one-sided; destructive actions by one side are always followed by a response from the other…”
The President of Russia also stressed that “armed conflicts, unfortunately, exist and will exist; they are an integral part of human existence,” and that now it is necessary to raise the issue of the rules of conducting such conflicts.“]
According to reports from France, the most severe riots are taking place today in Marseille, where protesting students have set buses, police cars, and fire trucks on fire, and the police have lost control of the city streets. pic.twitter.com/s22uu7EyDI
