Jaguar Land Rover will rebrand as JLR in a company image shift, marketing its cars under four brand umbrellas: Range Rover, Discovery, Defender and Jaguar https://t.co/O65ZVCipDz
So the name Land Rover, one of the most recognized and recognizable brands in the world, is going to be dropped. Who on Earth makes stupid decisions like that? What sort of people run such companies?
Cardiff is to introduce a charge for driving in the city centre.
Because apparently my car that I had to pay road tax for, out of my money thatโs already been taxed, that runs on fuel thatโs been taxed, and protected by an insurance policy I paid tax on, just wasnโt enough. ๐๐ป๐๐ป
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 18, 2023
America ๐ค Israel
Committing international war crimes while accusing everyone else of being war criminals
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
…aided and abetted by the Jewish lobby embedded within individual countries such as the UK.
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
I have infinitely more respect for people who speak the truth even if it might offend someone, than for people who beat around the bush for the sake of being polite.
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
He is right— I myself am often too polite to those who do not deserve it.
More of the same lying propaganda that has been swirling through the UK and the rest of the Western world for many years, particularly in the past decade.
In the Zaporozhye region, the Buk air defense system of the RF Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft. The fate of the pilot is unknown. pic.twitter.com/toLy1Tt2hM
The tank crew of the T-90M "Breakthrough" of the company hits with direct fire from the intersection of Svoboda and Sadovaya streets in Bakhmut. ใ ค The tank supports the offensive of attack aircraft, which occupy one of the high-rise buildings when moving to the west of Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/Bcv0Fob3k1
“Kiev“. Note the guard force. When some supposed VIP goes to Kiev to meet Zelensky or one of his cabal, and to create a photo-opportunity, the streets around are deserted, except for any sole “local person” allowed to approach the foreign visitor to thank him for his country’s “support” (arms, ammunition, money); as when “Boris” Johnson visits.
So, those deserted streets. Are they cleared as a security measure, or has a large part of the civilian population of Kiev fled?
๐ณInappropriate ostentatious display of wealth, in a country suffering a cost of living crisis, or a welcome distraction and cause for a united display of patriotism and joy, in a country suffering a cost of living crisis? https://t.co/WCVRY8iFNo
— Enough is Enough ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ท๐บ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟโ๏ธ (@FreedomsBritish) April 20, 2023
David Clews giving his verdict on NATOโs deliberate provocation to spark the war in order to get public support in the West. pic.twitter.com/6iSHNaQr38
— ๐ฌ๐ง National Housing Party U.K. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ (@NHPUKOfficial) April 19, 2023
I'm not avoiding this subject any longer. Trump left the WHO, UN, and UNESCO, and he threatened to leave NATO so they know it's over if he wins. Everyday I hear people ask, "why aren't our Representatives doing what we elected them to do?" Well I'll tell you! NWO is no longer aโฆ pic.twitter.com/2uFFGJmZDK
A video of the visit of the NATO Secretary General to Kyiv has been published, he visited an exhibition of broken Russian military equipment on Mikhailovskaya Square. pic.twitter.com/RJj7xjlGJp
More of Stoltenberg in Kiev, in Mikhailovskaya Ploshchad (Square), which is in central Kiev, near the Foreign Ministry and the British Embassy, among other headquarters and diplomatic installations. Still no “real people” (locals), only bodyguards, Army, police, TV crew(s), and Press photographers. Of what are they so afraid? Can it be that the Zelensky regime (and/or NATO) is not as popular, even in Kiev, as it likes to have portrayed?
A bright flash seen over #Kyiv was probably a meteorite, #Ukraine's space agency said Thursday, after officials denied it was a satellite or a #Russian missile attack. https://t.co/AYuuT1L9E5
I have never expected much from Starmer. For one thing, he is a puppet and mouthpiece of the Jewish/Zionist lobby, even as compared to other System politicians. Also, he is as dull as ditchwater.
Beyond that, I have noticed (and have long blogged) that Starmer’s general attitude to the past 13 years of “Conservative” misgovernment has been to say, in effect, “we support workhouses, but they should be run more efficiently“.
Starmer is not only not a “socialist” in any meaningful way, but not even much of a social-democrat. A different label from the Conservative Party, but little else substantially different.
In fact, looking at how Starmer vacillates, fails to make up his mind (even as to what is “a woman”!), and tries to evade difficult moral choices, while mouthing “me too!” on various issues, I can see what a rotten Prime Minister he would make, just as I saw —years before most people— what a rotten PM “Boris”-idiot would make.
As time goes by, my view against Starmer becomes less and less favourable, not that itwas actually ever favourable.
More tweets
๐ปIn Bakhmut, the Wagner assault detachments completely cleared the territory of the Transit Hotel, thereby pushing the Ukrainian formations away from the positions at the railway station along the railway. Attempts of unsuccessful counterattacks of the AFU were noted.
The position of the AFU in Bakhmut has become seriously complicated, and at the moment, if the current onslaught is maintained and there are no attempts to counterattack from Slavyansk and Chasiv Yar, the AFU will be completely driven out of the city.
Additional units of the AFU were deployed to Kramatorsk. The city was marked by a congestion of people and equipment. And in Novodmitrovka, near Konstantinovka, a positional area for launching missiles from the HIMARS MLRS has been equipped. FULL: https://t.co/VSGaJUInJA
After Bakhmut: Draining Battle Leaves Ukraine Battered, Russia Rising | Opinion **** How a situation is viewed depends who you support. Without Western support, Ukraine could not have lasted this long. https://t.co/o5fAVB4vGs
Was that a purely Chinese decision, or did elements of the Russian state unfriendly to the Wagner PMC/Wagner Group advise the Chinese —covertly— not to sell the weapons?
The origins of Covid were never a secret. The real story โ the greatest outrage โ is that the people who knew or should have known the truth lied about it in order to hide the Chinese governmentโs role in mass murder. pic.twitter.com/Z1gJxsDQHc
As I blogged yesterday, if the Western governments knew, or know, that the Chinese government released the “Covid” strain(s) deliberately, that leaves them with the question “why?” and, also, with the dilemma about what to do about it.
China can hardly be invaded or attacked, or (in any serious way) subjected to economic sanctions, so what would be left? Verbal handwringing? That would make the West look weak, or even weaker. The only answer seems to be to pretend that the Chinese government did not do anything wrong…
Can't shake the feeling that something covid-esque in the loss of our freedoms is around the corner. Lots of talk about bird flu…
Would you comply with future lockdowns or restrictions if similar were to happen again? pic.twitter.com/ufHJWcjTAm
Where do they think they would be without white European people? Not living in luxury, travelling around in private planes or limousines, that’s for sure. Probably sitting in mud and straw huts somewhere, cooking sadza.
NZ: cashless society โYouโre seeing and reading some horrific stories out there at the moment of isolated communities, when people lose the ability to transact, when they donโt have a means of exchange, then social cohesion is very quickly challenged.โhttps://t.co/BOlOhPv0EY
A year after Kiev cut off water for Donetsk, the Russians built the first segment of a new pipeline from a different source. These have been typical Kiev tactics since 2014 when e.g. they cut off the water supply to Crimea. pic.twitter.com/NJLbqOJ8du
When Kiev blocked Crimeaโs water supply in 2014, comedian Zelensky used to mock its water-deprived residents, while the western media claimed itโs impossible to restore (much like they claimed the Crimea bridge was impossible to build). Last year, Crimeans got their water back. pic.twitter.com/0AGnx3q8g5
โ#israeliโ โsettlerโ squatters with protection of occupation army have burned hundreds of local semitic #Palestinian shops, farms, homes and cars to the ground, and uprooted trees across the occupied West Bank in #Huwara, #Palestine – the worst โsettlerโ attacks the area has seenโฆ pic.twitter.com/MclarOdYu9
What is happening in Huwwara is state-sponsored. From the settlers being bussed in, to the soldiers keeping a watchful eye & acting as protectors as the settlers carried out their pogrom, & the Israeli ministers & leaders celebrating the burning of an entire Palestinian town.
After commiting a pogrom in Huwara, the settler criminals walk free. They go "pray" at the site of the pogrom under military protection, in an isolated town reeling from a night of vicious terror. Huwara is a ghostown tdy, exactly how the Zionists want it.pic.twitter.com/eibACVzPXk
It is being reported that some Israeli Jews disapprove of the violence.As a matter of fact, Adolf Hitler was taken by surprise by Kristallnacht, and somewhat disapproved of it, knowing that foreign enemies would use it against him.
Of course, the Israeli state was built on that kind of terrorism and intimidation. Mass graves are still occasionally uncovered in Israel, the result of Jewish ethnic cleansing from around 1948.
In the UK, USA, France, “they” are a relatively small minority, and usually rely on other methods: threats of “legal action”, prosecutions etc, if anyone criticizes their behaviour; attacking people’s jobs, businesses, or professions; bribery of MPs and officials; a stranglehold over the Press, publishing, TV, radio etc.
I do not know whether those Huwarra/Huwara events have been covered by BBC, Sky etc. Maybe, maybe not.
I rarely bother to watch TV news now, partly because it is so dull as to be almost unwatcheable, partly because it is largely System propaganda. The political editors are usually either (((you-know-who))) or in the pocket of the same.
European values! A Palestinian kills 2 Israeli settlers = โterror attackโ
500 settlers lynch a Palestinian aid worker, wound 100s, pillage & burn down half a town, dance at the ruins = โsettler violenceโ
Watch: Israeli police disperse a solidarity demo with #Huwara in #TelAviv following the attack by settlers yesterday. Protesters shout: โwhere are the arrested from Huwara?โ as the police released the few settlers that were arrested last night pic.twitter.com/Dl17iRBYHa
I doubt whether the Jew settlers would have had the courage to carry out their pogrom had they not been backed up by the Israeli Army. Basically, Jew bullies.
“Incidents of settler violence across the West Bank happen every day, and have steadily increased over the past few years: many of the 700,000 or so Israelis living in the territory and East Jerusalem are motivated by what they see as a religious mission to restore the historical land of Israel to the Jewish people. Settlement communities are viewed as illegal under international law, and one of the biggest obstacles to peace.“
[The Guardian]
Late tweets
โCovid leaked from a labโ is such an entry level, mid-2020 conspiracy theory.
Proper conspiracy theorists now realise that the whole idea of a novel โvirusโ leaking from a lab is total nonsense and a deliberate distraction.
I have to say, if immodestly, that that 2022 blog post has held up quite well overall, though with one important exception— the ability of the Kiev regime to fight on, backed by Western powers.
That happened in India but, as not infrequently blogged about, the “panicdemic” also liberated a whole load of mentally-unstable mugs and loonies in the UK. In fact, I noticed only yesterday, in the local Waitrose, two or three idiotic elderly women wearing facemasks, two of whom (maybe all three, but two that I saw) also wearing them in the not-busy car park. I wonder how old and filthy those masks were; possibly from 1-2 years ago, and replete with germs.
It is surprising what some people believe. A friend of mine was visiting people she knew in Switzerland about 30 years ago; they went over the border to Germany to see mutual acquaintances. It turned out that one old fellow, a former Waffen SS sergeant, had become obsessed by the idea that Hitler had withdrawn in 1945 to a redoubt under the ice in Antarctica, and from where (he thought) it was possible to access the interior of the Earth.
“Ukraine has launched a series of surprise attacks on Russian troops and supply lines in Mariupol โ the first strikes on the city since it fell to the Kremlin last May after a brutal three-month siege that left the key port in ruins.
There were at least 18 strikes last week over three successive days โ the most recent on Friday night โ in a significant ratcheting up of Ukrainian efforts to retake its captured southern corridor, the strip of coastal land that links to Crimea.
There is speculation the explosions โ which took place amid Kyivโs warnings of a Russian offensive to coincide with the warโs first anniversary โ may have involved newly donated long-range US rockets with a range of almost 100 miles.“
[Daily Mail].
So the Kiev regime now has American missiles capable of hitting targets 100 miles away? Moscow itself is only 300 miles from the nearest point of the border with Ukraine. Where will this end? I see no sign of anything other than escalation. At the end of the day, the Russian side may take, perhaps literally, the nuclear option, and go on to flatten Kiev, Kharkov, and other major cities, then move into the empty space with a rebuilding programme and Russian settlers.
“Desperate defence chiefs are allowing ex-soldiers to rejoin the Army after they were sacked for fighting, theft or going AWOL.
Troops who were medically discharged will also be allowed to rejoin, and will be able to keep any compensation they received when they were forced to retire.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has also said that soldiers who left the Forces after taking redundancy more than two years ago will likely be able to rejoin without having to pay back any cash.
It is understood that those who were sacked for smoking cannabis or who tested positive for drugs such as cocaine or amphetamines might also be reconsidered.“
[Daily Mail]
Thick and irresponsible Ben Wallace, former Guards captain now wanting to play the field-marshal, finds himself embarrassingly short of bodies, “for a general without troops is naked indeed“…
When will ex-captain Ben lead his depleted force of drug-abusing, drink-sodden brawlers and arthritics to Crimea against the several million-strong (inc. reserves) Russian Army? Vorwarts! Wir fahren nach Osten! Ha ha!
Incidentally, the “readers’ comments” under that Daily Mail report are both amusing and telling.
I have very little interest, either way, in this situation. The ex-ISIS recruit should not be in the UK, nor have been born in the UK in the first place. The same goes for most if not all of the non-whites here. The endless talk about her, merely one out of millions, is just a bad joke.
The idea that the “free” (Jew-Zionist permeated) Press/msm in the USA comprise anything other than NWO/ZOG propaganda is delusionary. I recall being in the USA in 1990-1991 when the USA was preparing to fight Iraq for the first time. Wall-to-wall propaganda, much of it a pack of not very clever but still effective lies (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony, straight from the WW1 and WW2 atrocity-propaganda and/or “holocaust” hoax playbook).
Effective propaganda when relayed to a public unable or unwilling to think for itself, or critically, or sceptically, a public without much if any knowledge of history, or even basic world geography (I met Americans in New York and New Jersey who were unaware where even American states, such as Wisconsin, were located!).
The United States position in Ukraine in my opinion should beโฆ.not one more American taxpayer dollar to Ukraine until Ukraine is at the negotiating table with Russia.
— chris ๐๐ช๐บ๐๐ #FBPE (@chrisinthepark) February 26, 2023
That main tweet (despite being by pro-Zelensky msm drone John Sweeney) does show the localized nature of the conflict. Most of Ukraine is only affected indirectly by the fighting in the southeast, though of course the electricity blackouts must have made life very difficult for many.
Wars usually are localized. Most areas, most of the time, are not like the Tet Offensive, or Stalingrad. Even in the days of the bombing of the UK during WW2 (mostly mid-1940 to mid-1941), large areas of the UK were unaffected (directly). That was even true of London.
If you visit London today, even Central London, you see that, despite postwar redevelopment, most of it dates from before WW2. Destruction from bombing affected more the dockland areas and those districts around the docks (City of London, inner East London etc).
So what was the crime? Did they go to a church service that was banned by Zelenskyy? Why torture your own citizens? pic.twitter.com/9C7xnM7vNs
Exactly. Follow the money. Ukraine leadership was installed in 2014 by hussein obama admin. Specifically: victoria nuland. Do your research. pic.twitter.com/ycnuROz4qB
Iโm disturb and disgusted the British political establishment are supplying these Challenger 2 tanks with support and logistics to Ukraine which is supporting the continuation of this proxy war between the globalist West and Russia
— Richard #Itโs time for change #RightWing (@Richard93783516) February 26, 2023
The psychotic leadership of the EU, UK and US drives me bonkers.
They keep repeating the lie that Putin wants to invade Europe.
If that were true, Putin would not have engaged in peace negotiations last year.
In any case, even were the absurd idea that Putin wants to invade Central and Western Europe true, how could he, looking at how hard he is finding it even to hold on to about a tenth of Ukraine territory?
Interesting, in view of the activities of the British Army’s 77 Brigade. One of the most extreme pro-war and anti-Russia MPs, Tobias Ellwood, is said to hold the rank of (Reserves) Colonel in that unit.
"Rather than Orwellโs prophecy, the future of enslavement will more closely mirror Huxleyโs vision in Brave New World, in which the state uses various technological implements to pacify the population, so that physical force becomes unnecessary to maintain control." – Ben Bartee
“Pseudo-science“? At one time the theories of Galileo, Pasteur, Tesla, and many others, were called “pseudo-science”… Where is the line drawn? 1960s CIA “remote viewing” experiments? Rupert Sheldrake? Uri Geller?
How time flies! Rupert Sheldrake is now 80. I remember him being described as a maverick young scientist; that must have been sometime around 1980.
In fact, I see that Uri Geller is now 76. In or about 1971, when he bought one of the largest houses in Sonning, Berkshire (where George Clooney now has a house, and where I was at school 1970-1973), he was still in his mid-twenties; he was on UK TV sometimes, bending spoons etc.
Anti-war protesters gathered in London to protest against arms deliveries to Ukraine and call for peace talks.pic.twitter.com/80ZS1ZWARS
๐ท๐บ๐บ๐ฆ Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles are working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kremennaya pic.twitter.com/g00ufzg7xT
Ukraine has released a drone video showing the attack on Petrovsky district, Donetsk which killed 4 ambulance workers a few days ago. This is a clear war crime and violation of the Geneva convention and Ukrainians are bragging about it. Of course the western MSM is ignoring it pic.twitter.com/rRKsB1JT7D
๐ท๐บ๐บ๐ฆ BTR-4E working on the positions of armed forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut direction. Bakhmut is encircled. Zelensky refused to withdraw weeks ago when they could have safely,as his ego condemns 300-400 Ukrainians soldiers to death a day #ukraine#Russia#UkraineRussianWarpic.twitter.com/JGCTfSVOd6
Stop pandering to the easily offended lefty snowflakes. There hurt feelings don't supercede our inalienable right to free speech which includes mocking,insulting and offending.
— lieutenant colonel Kojak slaphead the 3rd. (@Scarfer13) February 26, 2023
The usual “democratic” methods will not stop that sort of thing. This is a war, not a debate.
Late tweets
๐ท๐บ #Donbass is not just a piece of land. Donbass is people.
๐ซ All those who stay here and bring #Victory closer with their work are heroes. Doctors, rescuers, military, miners โ they are all #Defenders of Donbass.
Coming hard on the heels of a Twitter ban on Melia, Laura Towler, Mark Collett, and PA itself, it is hard not to see this as part of a co-ordinated attack.
When the BNP started to get real traction about 20 years ago, Nick Griffin and Mark Collett were charged with “incitement to racial hatred” by collusive CPS lawyers and politically-motivated police. They were both acquitted in the end, thanks to the good sense of the British jury (and were lucky that the jury in the case was British).
The motivation was because the BNP was just starting to really go places. The same may be true now, in respect of this matter. PA is starting to resonate with many in the betrayed British enclaves of, especially, Northern England. The System wants to squash that, and leave the British people, especially the poorer ones, defenceless against the alien migration-invasion and the emergent police state.
I see from the BBC report that at least some of the charges relate to making or distribution of electronic or real/paper stickers. Stickers?! Is that something with which “Counter Terrorism Policing North East” ought to be concerning themselves?
“A prison reform boss is herself behind bars tonight after subjecting her husband to 15 years of physical attacks and verbal humiliation which has left him with mental scars ‘that will last a lifetime’.
Sheree Spencer, 45, was jailed for four years for making husband Richard’s life a living hell with daily beatings and verbal attacks that left him cowering on the floor in the foetal position.
On one occasion she defecated on the floor and forced him to clean it up, and on another she beat him with a wine bottle so hard it permanently disfigured his ear.
She worked at the highest levels for HM Prison and Probation Service and bragged to friends that she had the ear of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Spencer’s reign of domestic terror finally ended in June 2021 when the police were called to their family home by a concerned welfare worker.
Her arrest that day on suspicion of assaulting her husband opened a door into the hell he had kept private for his entire married life.
[Counsel] said that Spencer had suffered bouts of depression and anxiety throughout her life which she had ‘wrongly’ sought to self medicate by drinking alcohol.
The court was told that on some days she would drink as much as three bottles of wine.
Spencer could be heard sobbing as she was led away to the cells to begin her four year term.“
[Daily Mail]
That case is evidently an extreme example of a phenomenon often seen, perhaps especially in the UK, i.e. a woman trying to hold down a bigger job than that which she can handle, and trying to compete with male colleagues etc, while completely falling to pieces psychologically.
City of London law firms are a typical breeding-ground for that kind of craziness.
I liked the last sentence, by the way, about how that wicked woman cried as she was taken to the cells. Justice, however inadequate.
Sheree Spencer, the defendant, will be out in a couple of years, but (presumably) will now lose her (supposedly) “high-flying” Civil Service position. Also, one presumes that, while she is enjoying life in some women’s prison over the next two years, her husband will probably divorce her, and (as primary care-taker of their offspring) will be awarded the “family” house, very likely, or most of its value. She will therefore come out of prison to no house, no family, no job, and no future, aged 47 or 48.
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” [Matthew 5:6].
All the same, I cannot understand why the husband did not simply take her down many years before. True, a man should not, in principle, hit a woman, even (arguably) in self-defence, but every rule has its exceptions, and a woman who behaves as that bitch did deserves no misplaced cartoon chivalry.
How true it is that “there are more things in Heaven and Earth…than are dreamt of in your philosophy“…[Shakespeare, Hamlet].
“Britain’s Covid lockdown architect once warned that up to 200million people could die worldwide during a bird flu pandemic.
Professor Neil Ferguson, tasked with forecasting coronavirus-style scenarios in case the pathogen mutates to spread among humans easier, made the dire prediction in 2005 when fears of an avian influenza crisis were similarly high.
His original apocalyptic conclusion that up to 500,000 Brits could die if nothing was done to stop the spread of Covid spooked then-PM Boris Johnson into lockdown.“
[Daily Mail].
Many another society would have put the bastard up against a wall.
“Recent polling shared with the Guardian by HnH [the misnamed Jew-Zionist snoop and provocateur group, “Hope not Hate”] underlines the potential traction for such conspiracy theories among the public. As many as 34% of people claim to definitely or probably believe that โthere is a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world togetherโ.
“Young people…More than a fifth (22%) of 18- to 24-year-olds thought it was โdefinitelyโ or โprobably trueโ the official account of the ‘Holocaust’ was a lie…”
I hear Jack Monroe is very angry at Thรฉrรจse Coffey, for leaking the contents of her new book. pic.twitter.com/zi8xPPpbjI
— The turtles are fallen and the rain stands stillโผ (@fritzdrybeam) February 24, 2023
Jack Monroe should have been first on the moon but let Neil Armstrong go first because she was too busy moving house and donating her sideboards to the poors
You've done a great job of bringing the case so far. Hopefully this starts a chain reaction of similar cases and solid evidence that Jack Monroe is seen in law as a scammer, and it brings about her total downfall x
Rep Mary Miller, R-Illinois, among 10 co-sponsors of Gaetz proposal to cut off US military and financial aid to Ukraine a yea after Russia invaded and as Russia still occupies parts of Ukraine https://t.co/Vl9H7Wqre8
Cut off money, arms, and ammunition to the Zionist regime in Kiev, and the whole war or conflict will or would wind down fairly rapidly. Weeks not months. Russia will or would then occupy Kiev, Ukraine east of the Dnieper and also the Odessa littoral. The Jew Zelensky and his cabal, if still alive, can be allowed to go to Lvov (from where he will or would rule only parts of Western Ukraine before, probably, decamping to either Florida or Tel Aviv). Rebuilding can then start.
4. He wanted people to move to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and eastern slices of Oregon and Washington to establish a (conservative) Christian society.
It's unclear how many people actually did this, but it became a sort of subculture, and even sparked a "Redoubt Realtor" industry. pic.twitter.com/JVvyt8YEfm
6. There's actually a *lot* going on with this blue state Exodus, and I should note a scholar explained to me the effect is heightened by significant movement *out* of Idaho as well.
Interesting. Of course, those American “religious Right” types are scarcely on the same ideological page as me, but the practical sentiment is not unalike to the ideas I have put forward on this blog since 2016 or 2017 about creating a focus for social nationalism in the UK by a concentration of people in one or two zones (my suggestion has been the peninsula of the South West of England)..
More tweets
What the actual fucking fuck? Is this the kind of shit direction the world is going? Trying to erase the artwork of innocent children who suffer apartheid under Zionist Israel? What kind of David Baddiel fuckery is this? Fuck's sake. pic.twitter.com/gGUZIcyy2c
I hope that these patients who feel "victimised" by artwork designed by children from Gaza will never have to experience the sheer terror which Palestinian children feel when Israel drops bombs on them.#Gaza#Palestinepic.twitter.com/aYuXuj1Scf
I had to check this was real and it is. @UKLFI truly doing despicably evil work. The artwork in question here was produced by children at two UNRWA schools in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/4uuZ9d2LTi
The "I Stand With Ukraine" crowd will likely never see this man being sent to die for a Western-fomented war which Ukraine could never win, and which never needed to happenโhad Ukraine implemented the Minsk Accords with the Donbass Republics it has mercilessly bombed since 2014. pic.twitter.com/bu8VdZhCAi
When Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, it should have been “a Blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy” (as I blogged at the time): swift, overwhelming, and effectively bloodless, with little or no damage to the lives and homes of the Ukrainian population.
The inefficiency of the Russian Army, General Staff, and GRU ruined it. That was, if you like, “Russia’s fault”, but the continuation and escalation since then has been and is the fault of the Western powers (aka “NWO”) and their Jewish puppet regime in Kiev, figureheaded by the Jew Zelensky.
However, we are where we are. For the sake of the future, Russia has to win this now, however bitter any “victory” will be, for both sides.
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to @RimaMaktabi on @AlArabiya: #Russia is ready for peace talks at any time. However it was #Ukraine who, on a legislative basis, made talks impossible upon orders from the West which wants ๐บ๐ฆ to continue fighting
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to @RimaMaktabi on @AlArabiya: Around 600 Russian businesses were squeezed out of the #UK due to Londonโs disadvantageous anti-Russia policy. This is bad not only for #Russia but ๐ฌ๐ง as well, as it is cutting itself from developing external relations. pic.twitter.com/n1r9EbNrFS
No but I wouldn't write about being so poor I boil soap to make shower gel and expect people to pay for my private healthcare. That's the issue people have with Jack Monroe. If she is doing well then stop begging
…and the main reason that “Jack Monroe” is not “poor” is because (as of today) 498 utter mugs are still each sending her between ยฃ3.50 and ยฃ44 a month in cash; tens of thousands of pounds per month in toto.
She's not on a low income though, and hasn't been for a decade – she's got 7 books to her name, had many lucrative partnership deals, tv shows, and a few grand per month from her Patreon and PayPal donors.
Kiev inches closer to conceding defeat. The idea of a Korean-style division of Ukraine has been discussed by current & former officials in Kiev, who claim this is what Russia is pursuing. This is wishful thinking โfor domestic consumptionโ Medvedev says https://t.co/lqPhOTm7OR
This is an idea I have discussed in the past on the blog: Russia to absorb the part of Ukraine (about or nearly half, ignoring Crimea) which lies east of the Dnieper river; the present regime in Kiev to move to Lvov and rule from there the west and southwest of Ukraine.
Kiev is a problem, lying as it does on the Dnieper. It is historically bound to Russia (after all, Ukraine as a state only goes back to 1991), but its status is unlikely to be agreed upon. Its (pre-war) population of 3M is about 8% or more of the whole population of the Ukraine.; it is the 7th-biggest city in Europe.
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โImportant to acknowledge that energy companies are getting richer because the rest of us are getting poorer.โ
#PoliticsLive Britain, or England, is now a tin pot dictatorship. The people in power are not working for our benefit but their own. The opposition is weak and suspect on some things eg NHS. Our mainstream media are shockingly shameful and should look in the mirror and be ashamed
— Sally Moscrop #NHS ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐๐พ๐พ๐ (@SallyMos) February 7, 2023
If you have not worked out yet that Paul Mason (part-Jew, and part of the System propaganda output) is not anything other than a fake “revolutionary” or “radical”, then look again. Yes, he wants Labour to increase defence spending, now that the NWO project in Ukraine is ongoing…
Not that I oppose defence spending, in principle, but it matters what it is for…
Iโm not au fait with the technicalities of the numerous scams Jack has had over the years, but the point stands that she has taken money from people far worse off than her very well off self.
Hardly. I could have won that case for her; Hopkins doubled down on the mistaken identity then didn't turn up in court. It was hardly Wagatha Christie.
Quite. I have blogged about that case previously, and more than once. Katie Hopkins was very silly and (like quite a few people) think that money spent on (good) legal advice is wasted…
โช๏ธK.#Gavrilov: "Since March 2022, there has been a fourfold increase in civilian casualties and a threefold jump in civilian destruction due to the use of @NATO weapons and ammunition in ๐ท๐บ #Donbass." pic.twitter.com/FeCzdQDf9T
— Russian Arms Control Delegation in Vienna (@armscontrol_rus) February 7, 2023
โก First 3 Russia's EMERCOM aircraft arrived in Tรผrkiye. They bring over 100 rescue specialists & doctors as well as hardware & an air-mobile hospital – doing everything possible to assist those trapped in debris or injured during the aftermath of the earthquake.#RussiaHelpspic.twitter.com/tBedQS8eqS
— Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman (@D_Blanchflower) February 6, 2023
The mere fact that someone as stupid, uncultured, and (in any real sense) uneducated as Liz Truss could hold the status, first as Foreign Secretary (under “Boris”-idiot), then actually as (or posing as) Prime Minister, should tell us very directly how broken the whole political and governmental system of the UK has become. The same is true when you look at her Chancellor of the Exchequer, Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng).
Was just watching one of those Michael Portillo rail journeys on TV, Vienna to Trieste. Interesting. Vienna railway station looks better now than the old one that I saw a couple of times in the 1980s.
More interesting to me was when Portillo mentioned that, in the several decades before the First World War, the population of Vienna had increased by 5x, but that the Jewish population of Vienna had increased by no less than 35x! That explains much.
The six cities of Europe with the greatest (absolute) numbers of Jews today (as of a couple of years ago) are Paris, Moscow, London, Kiev, Budapest, and Marseilles. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_city.
Apart from anything else, older British people do not want to work for rubbish pay or, if on better pay, to be taxed through the nose so that money in huge amounts can be wasted on the sort of rubbish we saw during the “panicdemic” of 2020-2021, or on migrant-invaders posing as “refugees”, or on any other rubbish.
I agree with them (though I am now 66 anyway): I say— live on a lower spend-level, re-evaluate, live (as far as you can) off-grid (or at least cut off from the HMRC, DWP, professional and other leeches such as lawyers, accountants, estate agents etc), and plot the end of this society while seeding a new one.
“The city [Bakhmut] sits on an important confluence of supply routes and, when fighting started at least, was seen as a vital staging point for assaults further into Donbas – particularly the nearby cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk.
Now, though, the battle is more symbolic than practical. Most analysts agree the blood price that Russia has paid trying to take Bakhmut – thought to be more than 100 troops per day – is not worth the value of capturing it.“
[Daily Mail]
Perhaps but, if that city is so unimportant, why are the Kiev-regime forces also trying so hard to win there —at the cost of a similar number of casualties, probably— ?
[state of play as of 2-3 February 2023]
Kiev remains the jewel in the crown. If Russia can take Kiev and Kharkov, the war will be almost over. Maybe later this year.
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How do you know? Are you her GP now? Have you any clinical qualifications or are you just another troll? What's the matter, you upset she has more reach than you given that no one knows who you are?
Jack stated in the Guardian a couple of weeks ago that sheโd spent the money given to her for campaigning on drink and expensive sideboards. That was money people like I gave her to make a difference, not to waste. When did she last campaign on anything poverty related?
I donโt sleep at night, Iโm busy caring for someone seriously ill and working out how to stay afloat. I gave to Jack thinking sheโd help people like me, I feel so much better knowing my money went on booze when it could have done good elsewhere or stayed with me.
If she is that mentally ill she shouldnโt be online and her family should be stepping in. She hasnโt been โhounded offโ her lies and cheating has been called out and instead of apologising she laughed, laughed at those in poverty who gave to her thinking she made a difference.
How do you know what I have or havenโt done? Or will do? At least Iโve never taken donations from the poorest in society to campaign to make things better for them and then laughed about wasting that money. Thatโs low and you defend it!
Youโve no idea when I donated it to which of her many money making schemes it was. Was it Teemill with the missing donations? Was it jar rattle? Was it buying an extra book? Patreon? Crowdsourcing for books? Sue 30p Lee? Fix her website? So many options! So much grifting.
I have no idea whether “@ChrissieClarky” is another “Jack Monroe “sock account” or just another pro-“Jack Monroe oddity. Birds of a feather flock together, after all.
Actually, the “mental health” defence is quite clever because, first of all, it enables “Jack Monroe” to do more or less as she pleases— take money from the naive and well-meaning, drink herself silly, take drugs, spend money (mostly donated) like a drunken sailor etc; secondly, it gives a “reason” for the above defaults and, thirdly, makes any critics (or even those just trying to get their money back) seem like “bullies” and “trolls”.
When “Jack Monroe” closes down her Twitter account (as she has done at least three times even in the last few months) her supporters blame “trolls“, “bullies” etc, rather than noticing that, that way, she can avoid answering embarrassing questions about her extraction and misuse of money…
I see plenty of the well-meaning saying that “Jack Monroe” should stay off Twitter, and/or get “help”. Why would she do that? It has been Twitter, and her whole social media facade, that (together with msm promotion) has built her “career” as a supposed champion of the food-poor, and has given her (via Patreon etc) an income of —at least— several thousand pounds a month and possibly as much as ยฃ40,000 a month, but probably around ยฃ6,000 a month.
There were at one time 800 “mugs” paying “Jack Monroe” between ยฃ3.50 and ยฃ44 a month via Patreon alone! Partly due to Jewish TV cook Nigella Lawson’s promotion of her; Jay Rayner, the Jewish restaurant critic, was also applauding her at one time, but seems to have belatedly seen the light in recent months.
Even at time of writing today, 497 utter mugs are still signed up to her Patreon “grift”. That is actually a couple more than yesterday! Average (?) ยฃ10 a month = about ยฃ5,000 a month. A “nice little earner”…
New Russian โMarkerโ robot thatโll be sent to Ukraine war. Former Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin says โitโll be taught to hit Leopards and Abramsโ. pic.twitter.com/B3AZNzqEsO
— #CeasefireNow #BDS #Yemen #Kashmir #Assange (@ChristineJameis) February 3, 2023
Shaftesbury is one of the highest towns in England, standing as it does at 750 feet above sea level. The beautiful village was founded by the Saxons. Dorset ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ pic.twitter.com/Sd0jTQ0Rv3
Herstmonceux Castle is a brick-built castle, dating from the 15th century, near Herstmonceux, East Sussex, England. It is one of the oldest significant brick buildings still standing in England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ pic.twitter.com/btVYuEPea5
Can you imagine the outcry from Labour and The Guardian if the Tory Government said it was going to prioritise government contracts for firms led by the white working class? How about we offer taxpayer cash to the best firm for the job, regardless of immutable characteristics? ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ pic.twitter.com/Q5kIhAOolY
Now they've found Ernest Shackleton's ship Endeavour, it won't be long before Dan Snow and Channel 4, make the documentary telling how it was originally crewed by Jamaican Lesbians.
To send men into battle without #artillery cover is murder. So we can add conspiracy to murder to the other crimes of the Sunak regime (of British soldiers, as well as the Donbass civilians the Azov nazis will kill before these guns are quickly destroyed)https://t.co/C6VEJsyiBm
Let's get this straight: We had artillery, but no ammunition for it. Now the politicians have given away the artillery, so even if we had shells there's no way to fire them. Even if we could buy the (Russian) chemicals to make them. Couldn't make it up!https://t.co/ljhY8Pq8x4
Another US insider publication spells it out. The #UkraineRussiaWar is all over bar the dying of more poor Ukrainian conscripts. Russia has won, and a deal will be done. Watch for Biden to declare victory and leave. It is, after all, the American way!https://t.co/Hu7zrwdmZ9
I too make a living off donations from the public (due to an actual service I reliably provide, unlike her) and if I frittered it away on expensive sideboards and booze at least I would not talk about it online. Esp if posing as a champion of The Poors.
Sheโs absolutely 100% deluded!! I did ask her before if she believed her own bullshit. I think sheโs so far up her own arse that she actually does believe it. Then thereโs the few sad sacks out there who defend her to the hilt!! They are as bonkers as she is
Back in May 2022, “Bootstrap Cook” was threatening all and sundry (including MP Lee Anderson) with her Jewish lawyer, but since then the lawyer in question (Mark Lewis), who may or may not be retained at present, has not emerged from his kennel to bark at anyone, at least not publicly, and it is now pretty obvious that, despite more “Jack Monroe” Twitter lies from time to time, Lee Anderson and Martin Daubney are not going to be sued by her.
Hang on…. so let me get this right. Jack Monroe posted a pic off Google of some sobriety chips to try and win an argument, got busted as having done so, and has now flounced off again?!? The scam's crashing down around her now isn't it. Desperation. https://t.co/y71c7A8UGO
I've literally lost track of the sheer web of lies that Jack Monroe has spun. Seems safest bet is to file anything she tweets, writes or says into the box labelled "bullshit" ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Partly true, though not the full picture. There is too much housebuilding, especially in the south of England; there is too much pesticide/herbicide use; the water companies are a disgrace; there is still a push for ever-more-intensive farming.
#Britain should engage directly in war against #Russia, says Tobias Ellwood, head of the British parliament's defence committee. "We are at war in Europe, we need to move to martial law". pic.twitter.com/4mibIJqECW
“And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God.”
The War in Ukraine: War footage shows 1 Russian tank holding back two massive Ukrainian armored columns consisting of 4 Ukrainian tanks & 20 BMPs. pic.twitter.com/1FzApr7fOA
Reminiscent of the exploits of Michael Wittman after the Normandy Landings in 1944:
“Michael Wittmann (22 April 1914 โ 8 August 1944) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. He is known for his ambush of elements of the British 7th Armored Division during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on 13 June 1944. While in command of a Tiger I tank, Wittmann destroyed up to 14 tanks, 15 personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns within 15 minutes for the loss of his own tank…Wittmann became a cult figure after the war thanks to his accomplishments as a “panzer ace” (a highly decorated tank commander), part of the portrayal of the Waffen-SS in popular culture.”
[Wikipedia]
[Waffen SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittman in May 1944]
Did you get that, Sunak, “Boris”-idiot, Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwarteng), Ben Wallace, Tobias Ellwood, Jeremy Hunt etc? Britain is doing worse than Russia…
Meanwhile, the UK’s popular Press and TV outlets are replete with rich Jew know-alls such as Martin Lewis telling British people how to keep warm— by covering their windows with clingfilm and/or wearing heavy clothing indoors. Pathetic. Pathetic society, pathetic “Government”, pathetic “Opposition”.
[German 16th Century, Three Couples in a Circle Dance, c. 1515, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection 1964.8.1767]
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When hundreds of people a week were dying with (not of) covid, we shut down society. Now there are up to 3000 mysterious excess deaths per WEEK and the government is acting like there's nothing to see here! Let's find out why this is happening – fast.
Without any apparent irony, the Tories claim theyโre โseizing the opportunities of Brexit.โ Literally nobody believes that. What theyโre actually doing is systematically squandering the opportunities. People need to see and feel some benefit, not listen to empty boasts!
The System parties are already trying to introduce it into UK cities such as Oxford.
Every time Jack Monroe bootstrapcook wants to cleanse her timeline it's the same. "What's your fave Vienetta/hash brown/80s chocolate/song". So transparent. Pity she's not as transparent about dodgy fundraising & associated fraud eh?
“Germany and the US will send armoured fighting vehicles to Ukraine, the White House said, in a move that will deliver a big boost to Kyivโs offensive capabilities.”
“Joe Biden and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz have agreed to send infantry fighting vehicles to help Ukraine fight Russia, a day after France said it would supply its own armoured vehicles to Kyiv in an attempt to create a breakthrough in the 10-month war.
The joint announcement followed a phone call between Biden and Scholz and amounts to a step change in western military support for Ukraine, which has asked for up to 700 armoured vehicles to help force the Russians out.
Ukraine has repeatedly said it needs 600 to 700 infantry fighting vehicles plus 300 tanks from from the west in order to give its military a chance of breaking through the increasingly fortified Russian positions along the frontline.
Until now, however, the US and Germany have been wary of supplying Ukraine with Nato-standard armour, because they feared it would be interpreted by Russia as escalatory. But the decision to supply western armoured vehicles is significant, even if both countries stopped short of sending tanks.“
[The Guardian].
At what point does Russia decide that it has no choice but to use massive force (nuclear or conventional) to raze Kiev and Kharkov to the ground, so that the area of Ukraine east of the Dnieper (about a third to half of Ukraine) can be later rebuilt, and occupied by Russian settlers?
That may sound almost impossible but is actually similar, arguably,to what happened centuries ago when the Cossacks were formed as a group, or connected groups, around the various rivers in southern Russia and Ukraine— Don Cossacks, Zaporozhye Cossacks, Volga Cossacks, Dnieper Cossacks etc.
Whatever the possibility of the above, there is no doubt that the supply of armoured vehicles, advanced missile systems, and tanks, to the Kiev regime constitutes considerable escalation.
In fact, one need not go back too far in history to find examples of Russian forces all but razing cities to the ground, then rebuilding them and filling them with the troops and civilians of loyal satraps: see Grozny in the 1990s— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny#After_the_wars.
“Afterwards, the Russians slowly entered the empty city and on 6 February raised the Russian flag in the centre. Many buildings and even whole areas of the city were systematically destroyed. A month later, it was declared safe to allow the residents to return to their homes, although demolition continued for some time. In 2003 the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on earth.”
I read, re. Ukraine in 2023, that Russia has huge numbers of troops not “in theatre”, i.e. not (yet) in Ukraine. That may be because those troops are not trained enough yet, it may be because there are logistical problems in supplying them. If Russia can train them and supply them by next Spring or early Summer, then a vast offensive might be possible, to take Kharkov and even Kiev itself, though if the latter it would be a bloody battle, akin to Stalingrad in 1942-43.
In the end, Russia needs to take Kiev, Kharkov and, if possible, Odessa, along with surrounding territory. If it can do that, then it can write off Western Ukraine and its cities (chief of which is Lvov). That would mean continuing conflict with a regime which would be based on Lvov, but there would be little the Zelensky regime or its successor could do, with almost all Ukrainian cities of any size in Russian hands.
At this point, Ukraine is not a functioning state.
Those “FBPE” tweeters are nearly always absolutely stupid, and often rather unpleasant as well.
The idea that “Jack Monroe” has “worked tirelessly” on behalf of anyone other than herself is ludicrous.
I agree. Criticism and asking genuine questions is not abuse. The same things being called trolling this last week has now been addressed by the publisher and Trussell Trust. The book doesn't help poor people, it just makes middle class people feel better.
Tweeter “@codfather” is the usual “Jack Monroe” partisan: wilfully blind, a certain age (reading between the lines), reasonably affluent (ditto) and certainly not “poor”. Also, vituperative.
In fact, and as I started to understand some time ago, many of the pro-“Bootstrap Cook” tweets are actually from…”Jack Monroe” herself, pretending to be other people. So-called “sock accounts”. Not all, and I think not “@codfather”, but many others.
Jack Monroe continually claims to be the *only* voice for people living in poverty. Her ego knows no bounds. I'm staggered that she's STILL claiming to have made a significant difference to the lives of people currently experiencing hardship. Where's the evidence? #ThriftyKitchen
The sheer delusion that many “Jack Monroe” partisans seem to live in has to be read to be believed; look, for example, at the tweet belkow, from (supposedly) a “professor emeritus at Bristol [University]”:
What the professor fails to see is that “Jack Monroe” has only one achievement (two if you include persuading large numbers of msm people that her whole story is true) — making a pretty good living for herself mainly by tweeting personal trivia, and recipes which look as dire as they are deficient in nutrient.
As for “measurement of food price inflation“, the ONS has made clear that their one meeting with her (at her request) had no effect on any of their work, and was not even noted or recorded. The “Vimes Boots Index”, supposedly being “worked on” by “Jack Monroe”, does not even exist, in reality. So what is left is the commonplace observation that the cost of basic foods has risen faster than that of luxury items.
Once again, a “Jack Monroe” supporter turns out to be a “woke”, and comfortably-off virtue-signaller, in this case an academic, or retired academic.
As I have blogged before, I have so far seen not one “Jack Monroe” supporter who is under 30, is “poor”, or who has ever been in circumstances of real financial difficulty.
Interestingly, also, I see not one “Jack Monroe” supporter who is black, brown, or Chinese. As someone who wants the UK and all Europe to be European, that in a sense is not a problem for me, but is still an interesting thing to note.
My take on that is that the ethnic minorities are too down to earth (and many also with too recent an experience of actual poverty) to take “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” seriously. Also, many would not look twice at the kind of swill she seems to produce much of the time.
Honestly, this is one of the most shocking reversals of the truth Iโve seen in a while. Our government absolutely hates its own citizens. They despise us. And they use our taxpayers money to remind us of it in public spaces everyday. Shame on you @MinBZK. Shame on you, @MinPres.
Incredible!! As someone who cares about the planet. This is what I want to see. Not the #netzeroscam.. our environmental groups who cared about pollution and micro plastics have been hijacked by net zero fanatics pic.twitter.com/w8EoeLZW8j
— leilani dowding ๐ธ๐ โฎ๏ธ (@LeilaniDowding) January 5, 2023
The same is true in most areas. Politically too. Lenin was just one of a small number of marginalized exiles; Hitler was just an individual who was told to take a look at a tiny party, then joined it as member (possibly committee member) no.7.
Acorn—oak etc.
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies.
It is an incredible fact that (what is left of) the print newspapers in the UK are still churning out “editorials” or “leaders” which hardly anyone reads and by which even fewer are influenced.
Ha. Back in the early 1980s, I knew a lady, a civil servant, who rented her basement flat near Central London to an actor well-known then in Australia, but obscure in the UK— Bruce Barry. I got to know him slightly.
At some point, maybe in 1984, Bruce auditioned for the part of Crocodile Dundee in the eponymous film. He told my friend, his landlady, that he had been shortlisted. The only other contender was… Paul Hogan. And the rest is history, as they say.
Bruce had spoiled his chance by going to the final meeting with the film people, at the Ritz in London, beautifully dressed (according to the lady I knew) but then enjoying “a liquid lunch“…
Bruce was fussy about food, living off wholefoods, nuts, avocado, and I think the occasional Australian steak, but drank too much. Drink and women were his downfall.
Not a bad fellow, though rather neurotic, and rather intense, in my view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Barry_(actor). Bruce had come to London at the age of ~46 to try to break into musicals. His divorce in Australia had left his wife (or one of them) and teenage sons in the family home, apparently a palatial house with grounds going down to the waters of Sydney Harbour, while Bruce himself was left with little.
In London, his first part was the male lead in The Biograph Girl [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biograph_Girl], a musical about Lilian Gish [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gish], which closed after (I now see from Wikipedia) 57 performances (I had thought, until today, after only a couple of weeks). Bruce had described it in hardnosed Australian fashion to my friend, the Civil Service lady, as “a bum show“, i.e. not much good.
I recall seeing Bruce on stage a couple of times, once at the Adelphi, in the Strand, where he was the second male lead in Marilyn! He played Andre de Dienes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_de_Dienes (though I cannot have been paying attention because until today I had thought he played Arthur Miller).
Bruce had very kindly given me two free tickets; I invited my mother, who lived in Surrey, and she enjoyed it. Musicals are not really my thing.
The other time I saw Bruce Barry in performance was at the Australian High Commission in London. I think that it was called An Evening with Bruce Barry, and was very good. I attended with the Civil Service lady, and met the real Australian Cultural Attache, who perhaps unsurprisingly was a very pleasant diplomatic fellow, and not a bit like “Sir Les Patterson” as portrayed by Barry Humphries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Les_Patterson].
Bruce had a girlfriend, a tall Australian dancer who had been a member of the Bluebell Girls ensemble in Paris. One day, Bruce returned to his flat to find her in flagrante with a third party. The end of the affair.
Bruce toured a bit around England with well-known stars such as Rula Lenska and Elaine Paige. I believe that that was in Evita. One star he disliked intensely, though, was Barbara Windsor. He was, apparently, not alone in that. Several disliked her tie-ups with gangsters etc.
In the end, Bruce Barry, having not quite broken through in the way he had hoped, returned to Australia, remarried, and had parts in quite a few TV shows, including The Flying Doctors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Doctors], where he played a landowner, I was told (I myself never saw it, though the series was shown in the UK).
The last I heard of Bruce Barry was that his second (or third) wife had divorced him, taken his home off him (as I heard it), and left him to drink and regrets.
Disgusting. And I'm talking about the craven masses who keep voting in parties and politicians who oversee such amoral cesspits formerly known as societies across the West
Don't you dare lecture me about the hypothetical dangers of political extremism as you tacitly endorse this https://t.co/bG1lK5RCNN
Said Eritreans should have been executed by firing squad in the main square of Stockholm; it would have been a deterrent to other migrant-invaders (prior to their mass deportation). Sweden is even more mad than the UK.
UK charities watchdog โassesses concernsโ about Campaign Against Antisemitism – https://t.co/6CaK4ug59y Commission opens โregulatory compliance caseโ after complaints that the charity is politically partisan
Jack Monroe threatened and crowdfunded to sue Lee Anderson because he claimed she makes a fortune from the poor. Her talent agency today showed ยฃ10-ยฃ15k fees she charges for appearances etc. Tell me how what Lee Anderson said was libellous. #GriftyKitchen#ThriftyKitchen
In any case, why would “Jack Monroe” even go to the Grenfell Tower fire? She was never in the fire brigade, except as a civilian office bod answering the telephone in Essex (about 50-60 miles from Grenfell Tower) for a year or so, and years before the Grenfell Tower blaze. If she did go to Grenfell Tower (which I doubt), it could only have been as a “rubbernecker”, and the police would certainly not have “waved her through the cordon” as she claimed. She’s a fake, a total fake.
Iโve been reading @AwfullyMollyโs blog and have had my eyes well and truly opened! I feel for those who donated to Jackโs Patreon and didnโt receive anything in return, and refund requests have largely been ignored. #shameful
Someone should make a series on con-men, con-women, “grifters” etc. Hour-long episodes, each covering two or three perpetrators, a bit like the very interesting In Suspicious Circumstances presented by Edward Woodward [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Suspicious_Circumstances]. A favourite series, presently being repeated on satellite TV.
To be fair to Monroe, she does say in the book she adapts other recipes. Other recipe writers also use a similar process. The issue in this case is apparently targeting the book at less well off people and charging them for something they can get for free. pic.twitter.com/4GuXe8yZU2
At a guess, I should say that copies of Thrifty Kitchen will soon be on sale in charity shops for about 20p. At least “the poor” will then be able to read the book, should they be so misguided.
Prince Harry should be ashamed of his sorry self for that book.
Somehow he managed to go from a Prince to a whiny bitch in two years.
Men, watch how you marry. That Meghan girl got him all the way messed up in the brain.
Prince Harry, who constantly complains about the press invading his privacy, releases a book giving details about how he shagged some woman behind a pub, his drug taking, physical fights with his brother, and what his penis looks like. ๐ฅด
Ha ha. Just thinking again about the very idea that “the poor” need to be advised (very negligently) that, if they have a can without a ring-pull, and cannot find a can-opener, that they should use a hammer (or mallet?) and large knife! “Jack Monroe” obviously thinks that “the poor” are all completely brainless, and either cannot think of that on their own, or think of how to get an opener (less than ยฃ1 in some places).
She might as well “advise” people to invest in a Swiss Army Knife (mine has a can-opener which does work, though it’s hard work). The worst “investment” is to buy her book, in my opinion.
Bluebird has issued a statement regarding โpotentially riskyโ hacks and tips included in Jack Monroeโs latest book Thrifty Kitchen, confirming that changes are being made post-publication.
Once the book appears for 10p (at a stretch, 20p) in charity shops, which will be soon, I shall probably buy a copy just to give myself a laugh or two before I chuck it away.
That's not what she is saying. Jack Monroe has not been poor for a decade, but sells books full of ridiculous 'thrifty' (not) hacks and recipes that don't save money!! She's not authentic.
Shes admitted a lot of that is lies, eg she withdrew the prostitute story and changed it by several years. It was a fantasy she wrote for Pink News. Even accused Kris if being a client. Vile. Also withdrew the autism diagnosis story. Absolute congenital liar.
No she's from a millionaire family, her dad didn't put her out on the game as she disgustingly insinuates, nor is Kris a deadbeat dad she often libelled him – resulting in a settlement requiring her to print a retraction, which she did with an article praising him.
…and, so far, despite 3-4 months of Twitterstorm and offline criticism, her Jewish lawyer, Mark Lewis, a resident of Israel, and with whose name (by implication) she used to threaten people who called her fraudulent, has not once emerged from his kennel.
How the bloody hell does washing no frills spaghetti hoops make you a celebrity chef ๐คฆโโ๏ธ Jack Monroe still grifting. pic.twitter.com/V9g6GFZIjS
People bashing Jack Monroe for writing about her lived experience, sharing tips for free online, writing some books, fundraising to send 1000s of copies to foodbanks, and earning a few quid (royalties rarely make a living) clearly haven't heard of Michelle Mone.
a. much of her “lived experience” written about has been fantasy or lies; b. her “tips” are mostly worthless, or actually dangerous to health, or are obvious (eg “buy the budget range at the supermarket“); c. her royalties total around ยฃ100,000 to date; d. the monies from “fundraising to send thousands of books to foodbanks” seem partly, perhaps largely, to have been diverted into her own pocket; e. then there was the “sue Lee Anderson” crowdfunder scam; and f. the continuing Patreon scam, bringing her maybe ยฃ6,000 each month.
In addition to the above, it seems that, last year, “Jack Monroe” did a number of events, and getting, it seems, up to ยฃ15,000 each time.
Not exactly “earning a few quid“…
In any case, should a small-time robber get off just because a big-time robber down the road has committed a bigger crime?
She admitted its all a pack of lies years ago by leaking this photo, and others, but then goes back to the lie. Classic Jack. pic.twitter.com/jwNH0qYaDE
Some types of bungalow do have a room upstairs, of course. #MoralHighGround.
She tried to distance herself by the above quote by saying she was manipulated by a journalist into saying it… and then an audio recording of her actually saying it during a speech in Parliament emerged. Lots of forgetfulness.
Yep! There's a literal recording of her saying it. She went quiet after initially going off an a woe is me rant about her young naiviety and cruel journalist manipulation.
Calorific content. I care because there are genuine poor people out there who deserve a voice that is being taken by someone pretending to be poor. I care because if someone is lying they should be called out on it regardless of what they are lying about. I care becauseโฆ
She keeps being held up as an activistโฆ but what has she actually, genuinely done? There are charities that do amazing work, that deserve the profile being given to JM. I care because, if you are poor and desperate, buying a cookbook is the last thing youโre going to do.
Fine on ยฃ20 a week. Which is false, because her recipes never come to ยฃ20 a week, thatโs also a lie. I care because I have morals. I care because Iโve known people to struggle. I care because even the trussel trust keep distancing themselves from jack monroe ffs.
Truth: Jack Monroe's dad was not just a firefighter, but a senior manager: https://t.co/AJVs5FR7xs Previously, he was in the armed forces and served in the Falklands. As a veteran, he would/will receive a pension for this on top of his salary.
Just looking again at the Twitter profiles of those who are the angry supporters of “Jack Monroe”: “professor emeritus” (ie retired academic), “noise consultant“, “retired HR lady“, “small businessman“, “writer“, “writer and photographer“, “part of brilliant Marketing Team“, “Pagan…therapeutic counsellor“, “#ACAB #BLM, Rape/Cop apologists blocked, TERFs blocked“, “novelist“, “High Profile hard left twitterer“, “Mother of Mayhem, Psychology student, Not Jack Monroe, Maybe“, “I’m a doctor but not working clinically” [i.e. another “grifter”], “fandom old, makes various media“, “BSc Psychology. History MA. Labour Party Member. MA Creative Non Fiction“, “Widower, autistic, stroke survivor. Tofu eating, Woke Corbynista“, “Labour & Co-operative MP for Oldham West & Royton | Chair, Co-operative Party | Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs” [n.b. if he cannot see through the “Jack Monroe” nonsense, Jim McMahon is unsuitable as MP and possible government minister], “Academic, political theorist, educationalist, former Pro-Director Education at LSE, HoD Department of Government LSE. ‘Woke Realist’ in a good way. Grandfather“, “Writing, blogging married mum of two boisterous boys..Tweets powered by Diet Coke, Earl Grey and wine“, “Educator/Writer/Student“, “Bristol based Graphic Designer. Gets giddy over lovely paper and buttons“, “*Producer|Cam|Editor *PhD #VR@ExeterDoctoral (yr 3, on hold) *Support Worker (#autism)“, “Nature, landscape, holloways, streams, printmaking. Wild swimmer & pluviophile“, “Founder & M.D of the Rabble Chorus, a lovely crowd of 350 community singers, open to all who fancy a bit of music on the side. Environmental activist, musician“, “Books. Music. Language. Science. Theology. Family. Talk. Think. Opinions my own. Pilot and PhD researcher (human factors and linguistics)“.
And so on.
Taken in a line. Just look at them. Not a steel worker, nurse, bus driver, train driver, cleaner, carpenter, plumber or the like among them. The “working class” seems to be absent.
Certainly not absent are the Guardian-readers, small business owners, suburban housewives (who prefer some other designation), well-paid freelancers, retired people (who used to be academics or working in reasonably-paid office jobs etc).
Also well-represented are various species of “Looney Tunes”.
Also absent is anyone likely to be “poor”.
As blogged previously, all her partisans are pseudo-socialists and/or “poverty tourists”, most if not all rather comfortably-off, many either retired or otherwise economically inactive (though not short of money); and quite a few with obvious mental health “issues” and/or problems with rational thinking. Also, various loony “trans” supporters.
Disturbing to see a Labour MP in there too, one Jim McMahon [Lab. and Co-op; Oldham West and Royton].
We are constantly fed an NWO/ZOG msm narrative about how “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) is “defeating Russia”. Is it true?
What would “Ukraine defeating Russia” look like, ultimately? Presumably, in that scenario, all Russian forces would be forced to leave behind not only the pre-2022 borders of Ukraine but also the Crimea, the population of which is at least 85% Russian and only a few percent Ukrainian now (there are also Crimean Tatars and others).
So, in that scenario, Russia would have been driven back into its own unargued territory, and kept there by Ukrainian/Kiev-regime military might. Is there any logic at all to that?
Russia is, of course, famously the largest country in the world, over six and a half million square miles, so about 72 times the size of the whole of the UK, and 29 times the size of Ukraine (even including Crimea and the Donbass). A country which covers one-eighth of the landmass of the entire planet.
Russia has a population of over 144 million (147 million if Crimea is included); Ukraine had 41 million people (excluding Crimea) in 2021, before the Russian invasion or incursion, but about 20% of the population of Ukraine (I suspect the relatively affluent layer) has fled beyond Ukraine, so the real population, at present, is perhaps 30 million.
Russia has, therefore, almost five times the population of Ukraine.
Russia’s economy may not be booming, now that Western (NWO/ZOG) sanctions have hit hard, but it is still functioning. Russia is getting huge amounts from oil and gas (and mineral) sales, and has, of course, no problem with generating electricity. Russia’s domestic agriculture has actually been stimulated by the Western sanctions which prohibit import and export.
Compare that to Ukraine— it has very limited sources of fuel of all kinds, its electricity generating and distribution capacity is being smashed, possibly beyond easy repair, its industry is scarcely operational, and its agriculture is unable to export easily.
Even before the invasion/incursion of 2022, Wikipedia noted that “Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe by nominal GDP per capita.”
The only material advantage that Ukraine has is that the Kiev regime is in receipt of enormous amounts of Western aid: arms, ammunition, military transport, food, clothing, medical supplies, and money.
There is no suggestion that Ukrainian forces can either invade or destroy Russian territory or cities. There can, likewise, be no suggestion that Ukrainian forces will actually topple Putin or the existing Russian Government (unless obliquely— e.g. should a coup d’etat take place).
The most that the Ukrainian forces can do, the peak of their realistic ambition, would be to expel all Russian forces from the pre-2014 Ukrainian borders, and then dig in, in effect.
Russia’s war aims have never been openly or clearly expressed in a manner that makes any sense, but part of them would be the necessity to demilitarize Ukraine, something that is now impossible without Russian control over the bulk of the territory, including Kiev.
Under other circumstances, Russia might now be sitting on the entire eastern half of Ukraine (ie Ukraine east of the Dnieper), but “we are where we are”, in the tiresome phrase.
As I predicted would happen on the blog months ago, Russian forces have recently been trying to think outside the box by applying “oblique warfare”, targeting the electricity production and generating system deep inside Ukraine, using missiles and drones.
While the Kiev-regime forces have supposedly been downing most of the attacking missiles, the ones that are getting through have been smashing the electrical system of Ukraine to pieces. What next? Possibly the railway network.
Russia is said to be mobilizing more troops, possibly with the idea of a mass assault on Kiev next summer.
Unless a peace treaty or armistice can be agreed and executed, the war can only escalate. However, Russia can only “win” this ghastly mess of a war by taking Kiev and toppling the present Kiev regime.
Hard to see why anyone not very feeble-minded would send money to “Jack Monroe” after reading that Tattle Life exposรฉ . Surprising, therefore, to see that no fewer than 647 utter mugs are still sending her ยฃ3.50-ยฃ44 monthly, a total of between ยฃ2,265 and ยฃ28,468, each and every month. “A nice little earner“, in the estuary argot, even if the actual total amount sent is nearer to —at a guess— maybe ยฃ6,000 or ยฃ7,000 a month rather than the maximum. Probably taxfree as well.
I have no idea whether the Essex Police, Metropolitan Police, trading standards officers, or fundraising regulators are “on the case” or not. If not, though, why not?
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I have also been there (in the 1980s). Just as well that Blake and I do not walk around that part of London now; we might get stabbed by some untermensch, almost certainly non-white.
I recall having a beer at the Clock House pub once, in the late 1980s.
[The Clock House pub, Peckham Rye]
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A brief list of things that the press has declared white supremist in the last two years:
Exercise Healthy food The scientific method Being on time Reading old books Using correct grammar Christianity The nuclear family Opposing the sexualization of children Self defense
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Peter Hitchens’ column is worth publishing in full:
“What a twisted society we have become. We stir up wars in other people’s countries and praise ourselves for doing it.
But there is no political reward for protecting our own people against crime and disorder on their streets and in their homes. It is no longer clear if anyone is governing the country at all, so busy are we putting other nations to rights.
Burglaries go unprevented, uninvestigated and unpunished, in colossal numbers. Our capital city seethes with uncontrolled knife crime and stinks of marijuana.
Christmas brings news of terrible ultra-violent crimes in supposedly peaceful suburban areas. Migrants stride boldly ashore in unknown numbers. We pay heavy taxes for pitiful services, cratered roads and a health system that is the envy of nobody.
Yet, nothing happens about all this. The surest way to gain praise in politics is to make simple-minded statements about a crisis abroad and demand that we send bombs and shells to some strife-torn state, or actually bomb it ourselves.
The idea that such things are often complicated and dangerous, and may do harm, has faded from view. When Prime Minister Anthony Eden dragged us into his disastrous attack on Egypt in 1956, the entire country was bitterly divided. And rightly so. The archives, when they were opened, showed that the adventure was based on lies, futile and doomed.
When the USA sank up to its waist in the bloody mud of Vietnam in the 1960s, the whole world was at odds. Once again, now that the truth is revealed, we know that thousands of brave men died, and many more thousands of innocent civilians were killed, because of a mistake.
But since the Blair revolution of 1997, pious, allegedly virtuous foreign crusades have come back into fashion. Criticising them gets you into trouble. There is only one permitted view. Few go back to find out how things actually went.
The Kosovo episode, for instance, did not bring paradise to that part of the world. Nor did the Iraq invasion. I know most people now pretend to have been against it at the time but as one who actually was against it at the time, I can assure you that they are mistaken. It had wide support. The same goes for the daft adventures in Afghanistan and Libya.
In fact, the last three did so much harm that it will never be measured. Together they began the era of mass migration from the Middle East and Africa to Western Europe. This is probably the biggest event in human history since the First World War, and perhaps bigger.
How can we do all this stamping about in foreign countries when we are so bad at governing our own and also not very strong? Our country doesn’t work properly. You can’t even see a doctor. The police are equally invisible. Our Army is as tiny as our debts are huge. Our grandest new warship, the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, has broken down. Even when it works, we have to borrow aircraft from the Americans to fly off it.
None of this will be properly discussed at the rapidly approaching General Election and nobody will stand in that poll who prefers reforming Britain to foreign policy fantasy abroad. Why do we put up with it?“
My rhetorical answer to Hitchens’ rhetorical question? This:
“The British/English people do not rebel against all of the above, not yet anyway, because they are bombarded with propaganda brainwashing 24/7, because few have either the independence of thought, or the (real) education, to stand against the tide, and because the “plebs” think that all that matters, or that the main matter of importance, is whether the “England” sports teams (which are now largely black or brown anyway) win some meaningless game, match, or tournament somewhere or other in the world.”
That, and because those in political life, those of great wealth, those in the mainstream media, who should all be protecting the people, are exactly those who, from malice, evil, or just sheer inability and lack of basic competence (as with “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, Woollyhead Trussbanger —Kwasi Kwarteng— etc), are encouraging migration-invasion of this country, are letting standards and services slide, and are preventing —by ever more repressive laws— even obviously justified criticism from being made. They are, in effect, signed up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.”
[the odd link immediately above now seems to be the only one for the interesting Western Spring article].
Incidentally, I see that the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday is now, yet again, refusing to allow its readers to comment on Hitchens’ column, no doubt afraid that the readers will leave comments hostile to mass immigration, migration-invasion, “intervention” in foreign wars or countries, or even (could it be?) comments hostile to the Zelensky Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev…
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From bison to pine martens to white storks, it's been a landmark year for species reintroductions in Britain. As we come to the end of 2022, it's amazing to know their footprints are amongst ours in the snow.
Whether they be Romanian or Albanian, they bring so much to the UK. A big thank you to all the lefties. XX keep up the great work guys/girls/Heshes/Shehes etc pic.twitter.com/SqJkVsChK5
— Richie (Patriots not Parasites) (@Richard_T_Wells) December 18, 2022
…and in England, most of the well-meaning (?) virtue-signallers who gave up parts of their homes to Ukrainians (often total ingrates) have found that they now cannot easily get rid of those nuisances (few of which are either genuine “refugees” or indeed poor).
Look at your baby, your child, your niece, your nephew. Think of your hopes and aspirations for them. This man was like them once. Letโs hope someone fights for your children as adults. https://t.co/tspSBsLfmz
The heating is broken and the water tank could freeze within days. He wears a coat inside and is worried that the pile of Christmas presents for family will be destroyed by leaks
@BootstrapCook Jack Monroe was dropped by her agent and moved back to her original agent… the one who she claimed robbed her of ยฃ55,000 in royalties. Probably a lie, like everything else. Though it puts into perspective her claims to earn pittance from her slopbooks.
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3/3 My main conclusion is that the normal well-informed reader should be aware that the reviewing, displaying etc of books is not a neutral, objective process. It is frightening to wonder how many good or important works must vanish without trace.
Liz Truss graduated from university in 1996. After that, she worked for Shell for not more than 4 years, until 2000. Her position was just a low-grade graduate-entry one, during which employment she also qualified as a management accountant; she left in 2000 to join Cable and Wireless, and was there for 4-5 years, but although she did eventually get appointed Economic Director, she was only at that level for a year or two at most.
Liz Truss was also Deputy Director of the Reform think-tank for a year or so (2008/2009).
After having won a House of Commons seat in 2010, Liz Truss was a backbench MP for 2 years, and gained minor preferment 2012-2014, joining Cabinet in 2016. She was, therefore, a Cabinet minister for 6 years until she became Prime Minister in 2022 for the notoriously and historically-short period of 44 disastrous days.
So from where does the ยฃ8.4M come? Surely not from her family, who though not poor were employed persons (father an academic, mother a schoolteacher); I have not heard tell of any considerable family money.
As for Truss’s long-suffering husband, he is a chartered accountant, so again, while not poor, scarcely living in great opulence amid heavy wealth.
Liz Truss cannot have begun to make more than a modest salary until about 2004, had 2-3 years out of employment (she has two children, and also took time out for reasons of political careerism etc) until 2008, and she ceased to be employed (prior to becoming an MP) in 2009 or early 2010. In other words, she probably only had ~4 years of relatively high earning.
A Cabinet minister and MP is paid a total of around ยฃ160,000 (plus expenses), but the ยฃ160K is taxed, and she was only earning that for 6 years.
The mystery or puzzle remains: if Liz Truss really does have assets of ยฃ8.4M (even if you include those of her husband) from where did the money come?
Most people would agree that Liz Truss was the worst Prime Minister that the UK has ever had and thank God that she has gone. ….how someone so unsuitable could have been selected for such an important job?https://t.co/zN3Q8Pt1BIpic.twitter.com/3kctxqM9Ug
Ha ha! Look at the “selection process” for MPs. They are often selected either because they know the right people and/or went to school with them, or worked with them previously in some way; or they are selected because they have paper “qualifications” which look good but in reality are not worth a hill of beans.
For example, “Oxford degree” (which these days is scarcely worth squat, and 94% of them are now either “Firsts” or “upper seconds”).
Many MPs (refer to, e.g., my “Deadhead MPs” series on the blog) also more or less invent a fake CV— fake or embellished academics, non-existent private business “successes” (e.g. companies that were set up, but which actually made no money), worthless business or other qualifications and/or “letters after the name”, such as meaningless “doctorates”, or a couple of years at the bottom level of the Bar, or even membership of bodies such as the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), etc.
All of the above, plus an air of confidence, easily impresses provincial selection committees.
Even those MPs exposed (later, after having been selected and then “elected”) usually manage to shrug off their dishonesty. Look at Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, an egregious example. Invented or hugely embellished his education (rock-bottom poor at secondary level, and then made up a fake degree from an Italian university he never actually attended; also turned a corporate in-house course lasting 2 weeks into a “management diploma”). Then his embellishment of a very underwhelming military career. And so on.
The fact is that Liz Truss is only one of very many MPs who are, in reality, mediocre or worse, and have been right from the start.
I certainly agree with that. This ghastly mess should never have happened as it has developed. The Russian High Command and GRU should have eliminated the Jew Zelensky —and his corrupt and dictatorial coterie— before (just before) launching an all-out and swift advance, including mass paratroop landings, on Kiev. One single and massive knockout blow for the sake of mercy, to save the civilian population from attack and misery, and to achieve the main objective before the NWO/ZOG support from USA etc could be mobilized.
The human cost (in Russia as well as in Ukraine) has been terrible: see tweet below
โก๏ธA very touching meeting of a Ukrainian defender with his young son amid air raid alert.๐#Hungary#Ukraine ๐ญ๐บโค๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐๐ป pic.twitter.com/MP6uTfUAuN
— Dรฉnes Tรถrteli ๐ช๐บ๐ญ๐บ๐บ๐ฆ (@DenesTorteli) December 19, 2022
Saint-Just said that “no-one can rule guiltlessly“, but a leader must always be aware of the hurt even the most necessary actions entail. The human cost of war is terrible.
Scott Ritter: "The provision of the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine will not change the outcome of this conflict. Ukraine is going to lose, and it is going to lose badly." pic.twitter.com/nduWuqoWrw
Ukraine government is so corrupt and cares so little about their people that their not just selling the aid we give them. They're openly selling the organs of people killed, injured or even just knocked unconscious on the black market, completely against their will! pic.twitter.com/zyQbqObahW
Talking of dereliction of duty, James, I haven't noticed you going out to bat for Jack Monroe while she has experienced a little local difficulty in recent months.
I seem to recall you proposing a regular 'Cost of Living Crisis' slot for her on your show.https://t.co/pLqFuU61G0
The case in which Mark Lewis acted for “Jack Monroe”, as her solicitor (I believe that he instructed both leading and junior Counsel who appeared in court as her advocates) was a not-very-difficult defamation action against social commentator Katie Hopkins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_v_Hopkins.
I am not sure that I believe that “Bootstrap Cook” now has a lawyer, as such, but we shall see. She threatened to sue MP Lee Anderson [Con, Ashfield], and Martin Daubney, “alt-right” (?) political commentator, but that was in mid-May this year, seven months ago. In theory, “Jack Monroe” has time, until early to mid-May 2023, in which to issue proceedings, but the courts may not take kindly to issuance which is only just in time, and so far no preliminary correspondence has been received (I read), so it is unlikely that any action will now take place.
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Frequent readers of my blog will know that I am interested in the ~33-year cycle: 1923, 1956, 1989, 2022…
The vlogger above mentions other things that have resonated with me for some time, such as how few people really understand our technology; I do not mean how to use it, but how to recreate, or even to repair it if necessary. Very very few.
Late tweets
The “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” fall from grace continues to stir the Twitter teacup:
it was the fake @uklabour anticuts movement, Labour supported austerity so @owenjones84 et al needed someone to represent the single parents Labour were agreed on who would shout about the mean old tories and tell lies.
Fake indeed. I heard some inside track in 2010 (well before the election which brought into being the “Con Coalition”) about planned slashing of spending by the Labour Government.
it really was quite a shock to me when i read tattle and realised how bad it was. She has been funding a compulsive spending habit and presumably a coke habit using these poverty stories for quite some time.
I read that second hunger hurts blog and shouldnt have done, I think its the sheer dishonesty of it. 'Am filling out job applications on my phone, poverty hurts, am melting soap, switching off lights' she had a google gig, asda gig and a book coming out. Its just fraud.
for me it was the 'I'm using my phone to write out applications' because Ive actually been there with only a phone or laptop held together by a thread, it was so dishonest. I dont know why I reread it, but it really made me quite angry. It was last week I reread it I think.
Even in the world of Jack Monroe and her pathological lies & constant Elevenerife stories, this was gold. Tier 1 bullshit so ridiculous I started to think it was the "reveal" stage of a social experiment ๐คฃ
For people such as tweeter “David Townsend” (“@DavidTo60389264”), creatures such as the Swedish Autistic, Meghan Mulatta, and “Jack Monroe” are somehow fighters for the Good. What can one say?
@AwfullyMolly absolutely on fire with the next phase of truth bombs about poverty cosplay scammer Jack Monroe bootstrapcook – shocking to think she kept the scam going for a decade! https://t.co/HFdAn5fRZr
As expected, the judge has ruled against Dad. In his view, sharing a 'conspiracy theory' such as the suggestion that the government is lying to you, means the ban from Europe is warranted.
Once again, watched a heat of the pre-Christmas alumni contest, this time the School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS], London University, against Balliol College, Oxford.
As I expected, Balliol won easily but, to be frank, were no better than mediocre. As for SOAS, the oft-seen term “OMG!” is what comes to mind. One half-caste-looking youngish woman whose name I cannot now recall (she apparently specializes in “racism”…wouldn’t you know?…) actually thought that Mozart was still alive in 1976! There were several other absurdities almost as incredible from her and the other SOAS alumni. Almost unbelievable, even for a cynic (reluctant cynic) such as me.
How did I do? Better than both teams put together, to be immodestly frank.
Ian Robert Millard 