Well, it is the longest day of the year in terms of light v. darkness. That’s all about that. About politics, though, that is not all. First of all, we continue to see opinions about the Chesham and Amersham by-election upset. People saying that it was about HS2 and lax conservation of the Green Belt. Others saying that all three System parties favour HS2. Some talking (ludicrously, to my mind) about (another) “LibDem revival”, while said party is scoring only about 7% in national polling.
I admit that I had thought that the misnamed “Conservatives” would retain Chesham and Amersham, though with a large LibDem protest vote.
I think that the way to look upon such a result (and the one in Hartlepool recently) is as akin to, say, the Brexit Referendum. A kick at the status quo.
People are not satisfied with the way the country is declining, want something done, and see that the System parties are useless and indeed often hostile to their interests, but see also that there are no credible parties outside the System either.
Look at Batley and Spen. A Labour candidate in effect trying to benefit from the sympathy vote around her assassinated (5 years ago) sister, which sympathy vote may not even exist, in that the 2016 by-election was totally rigged by having no main party opposition; the turnout was only 25%! Some “sympathy vote”! About 80% of eligible voters did not vote Labour in 2016! Makes you think.
The Conservatives, if they win at Batley, will not really win on merit, but because people, especially white people (the people “formerly known as” English…) have given up on Labour. The former Labour voters, if English, will either abstain, or vote Conservative, but I would guess mostly abstain. As for the Muslims, who are very important in the by-election, they would until recently have all voted Labour, but now that it is clear that Labour is totally controlled by the Jewish lobby, will either abstain or vote Galloway (“Workers’ Party”).
Look at the joke “parties” and candidates on the “British nationalist” side at the by-election! Ann Marie Waters and Jayda Fransen! I would not vote for either of those were I in Batley and Spen! Forget it…
What most English (I say “English” specifically) people want is an English form (no uniforms and salutes!) of National Socialism, but brought into the contemporary milieu as pan-European social nationalism. The problem is that most of those people do not know it…and of course are misled by “the usual suspects” in the msm.
Then we have the continuing nonsense around the Coronavirus “panicdemic”. Continuing facemask nonsense, continuing and hugely damaging lockdowns etc. Apparently, there will be a fourth “national lockdown”! All because of the “Indian variant” (aka “Delta variant” in case Indians are offended), which in most people has symptoms akin to a mild cold. This would be ridiculous, but of course is really part of a transnational conspiracy, imposition of a “Great Reset”.
Talking about political parties in the UK, only (a few) Conservative Party MPs have even turned up at the House of Commons to protest against the recent lockdown extension. The Labour, LibDem and SNP MPs did not attend. Not one. So much for “democratic choice”! Like a box of Soviet chocolates— different shapes, but all with the same filling!
Columnist Peter Hitchens says major UK media outlets “only give space to a very narrow set of views”.
He added: “The recent events of Covid have intensified this. You can’t get into the big papers or broadcasters if you don’t have ‘acceptable’ opinions.”@Iromg | @ClarkeMicahpic.twitter.com/051U1s3B12
Well, this week I again beat John Rentoul. He scored 6/10, I scored 7/10. The questions to which I did not know the answers were questions 1, 8, and 10.
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Campaigners and carers are demanding the government publish its long-awaited review into “barbaric” benefits rules forcing terminally ill people to attend work assessments
Sounds like another #WMD dodgy dossier to me, but will the MSM & social media giants now apologise to Donald Trump and all the people they've smeared, shadow banned and deplatformed for saying this when it was a 'conspiracy theory'?#Chinahttps://t.co/PeQWyea3F2
Lyrical piece from Hitchens on losing touch with our bucolic past, breaking “the long cycle of the centuries in which the dead, the living and the unborn joined hands under the oak trees of our countryside in a pact to protect and pass on what matters.” #OakAppleDayhttps://t.co/FrSpF477Nz
@adamgarriereal. You have misunderstood the issue. Aldous Huxley pointed out in Brave New World that a society in which the people numb their minds is far more easily governed. In fact, they come to love their servitude. https://t.co/R2FC2r0Q4A
1/2 @pocx100 It is an abuse of freedom to use personal insult instead of facts and reason. I have always quoted experts in support of my arguments. Johnson and Hancock are not doctors or virologists either, yet you do not complain about that. https://t.co/6ZxoWqvIPO
Perhaps @scepticsligo we ALL saw no reason why opposition to strangling the country also required opposition to the vaccination. I certainly see no logical connection between the two positions. You may reasonably hold both or neither, or just one of them. https://t.co/E6FBSr9BB5
The Cummins drama was about: 1) Making us believe that a harder faster lockdown would have made a difference (despite being against WHO advice) 2) Preparing us for future harder lockdowns – and soon 3) Paving the way for Gove to replace BoJo so we get tougher lockdowns – and soon
— Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD (@zoeharcombe) May 27, 2021
“The entire government has been complicit in the lie that lockdowns were an objective scientific necessity, rather than a subjective political decision”. https://t.co/To9eAqcONL
Cummings is the type of guy who thinks if only the Americans had dropped more Napalm and orange agent in Vietnam they would have won the war. He’s a lunatic.
As to Vietnam, the war could only have been won by the South (with American help) had there been a massive ground invasion of the North, with the attendant risk of superpower non-proxy conflict. There were Soviet fighter pilots actually on service in North Vietnam (I met one myself in 1996).
Whether that sort of ground invasion of North Vietnam would have succeeded long-term is of course doubtful (cf. Afghanistan and Iraq in the post-1989 era). In the end, war is a method of achieving political goals (in most cases). Peace is usually achieved via political consensus or victory.
Prof Neil Ferguson says on R4 that his claim that a week’s delay on lockdown cost 20,000 lives is “unarguable”. On the contrary, other academics have shown in detail how his figure was cooked up using now-debunked assumptions. https://t.co/9t7c6dT9J0
Why isn’t @BBCNewsnight being transparent about how many people working there are pro apartheid regime? I resent paying for this supremacist club https://t.co/mvYW8svJGf
This is pretty bad news for Labour, though unsurprising if you think, like me, that Labour now has no reason to exist except as a rather niche party, one for blacks, browns, and some of those who work in the public sector.
I am not yet ready to blog about Batley and Spen, the by-election for which is set down for 1 July 2021. If Labour loses, at it did at Hartlepool recently, Starmer is probably a “dead man walking”, politically.
At the moment, I incline to the view that Batley will be an uphill struggle for Labour, bearing in mind that George Galloway (under aegis of “Workers’ Party”), and the Yorkshire Party, are both standing. Galloway is rather a busted flush, but still has his supporters. The Yorkshire Party seems to have support as well. Those two together will probably get about 5%, which might make the difference between Labour holding on or not.
The Labour vote there has been declining since the rigged by-election of 2016 (in which Labour was not opposed by the other System parties).
The “right royal” circus
"Has Prince Harry ever had a thought and not made it public? Are there feelings or emotions he has experienced but kept to himself?" By @jowilliams293https://t.co/24pAXMblXf
— The Spectator World (@TheSpectator) May 29, 2021
I find this all hilarious. Harry is now effectively a critic of the whole “right royal” circus, yet he himself is of course a major recipient and beneficiary of it. After all, take away the “royal prince” thing, and what is Harry? A youngish man (37 this September) who only became an Army officer because he was “helped”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex#Education, and who would have had no chance of high rank based on merit (he held the rank of Captain at the end of his active service).
Indeed, without his birth privilege, Harry would probably have drifted into some line such as car salesman, Hooray Henry estate agency, or similar.
I doubt that Netflix etc would take any interest in him at all were he not supposedly “royal”…
Actually, thinking about Harry’s “help” in passing exams at Eton (he ended up with two “A” levels, a “B” in Art, and a “D” in Geography), I am reminded of a story I heard a long time ago (about 1981) about a similar “royal” educational straggler.
The young lady in question was a relative of the Queen who struggled academically. She needed intensive personal tuition in languages in order to gain entrance to an Oxford college. This was in the late 1970s, as I understand it. The college in question had bent over backwards to accommodate the Palace, but insisted on the young lady having the special private tuition if they were going to offer her a place.
In the end, she was accepted by that Oxford college, after having been worked on for weeks, perhaps months, by an elderly White Russian resident in London. All under cloak of secrecy, but of course there are no secrets, as such, just levels of secrecy.
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The first step towards restoring the National Trust
‘There is a feeling among the French I speak to that the country is nearing a tipping point and that voters, alone in the booth, might decide that with no dignified politicians left, they might as well give Le Pen a go.’
“President Macron has just welcomed to the Elysée two YouTubers called Carlito and McFly, both of whom dressed down for the occasion with one appearing to have a tea cosy on his head. The pair are all the rage among that section of society who get their kicks on YouTube, although despite their adolescent antics Carlito and McFly are actually a couple of middle-class men in their mid-thirties.
What followed was excruciating, what one conservative commentator described as ’36 minutes of soft barbarism… [which] erodes the verticality of power and deconstructs the state’. All of which begs the question: what was Macron thinking in inviting Carlito and McFly into his palace?
To win the youth vote, perhaps? A poll last month suggested that the 25 to 34-year-old demographic is more inclined to vote for Marine Le Pen in next year’s presidential election than for Macron. But they would not have been won over by what they saw, a president ill-at-ease in his suit and tie, a fixed grin on his face as he exchanged wooden banter with two lowbrow clowns.
There is a feeling among the French I speak to that the country is nearing a tipping point and that voters, alone in the booth, might decide that with no dignified politicians left, they might as well give Le Pen a go.” [The Spectator]
Sorry about bad language here, but this is the future if we don't act now to keep e-scooters illegal, as they should be. Write to your MP NOW via https://t.co/NvqnYvAbQphttps://t.co/YoUeflAEvE
This, I think, is what PH meant when he said that the measures will never be lifted. Not that ‘lockdown’ in itself will never be lifted, but that the regimentation of daily life and state interference will not go away.
Indeed, the State has been increasing its scope of power for quite a while now under various pretexts. The example I always point to is the introduction or ‘counter-terrorism’ laws, which I find sinister.
As in the example of Alison Chabloz. People should stop and think what kind of tyranny imprisons people for singing satirical songs, or for posting a few cartoons about Jews or others.
He really doesn’t get it. This is extraordinarily common with sixties types. They still believe all judges are male and went to public schools, that the Church believes in moral laws and that the Tories are conservative. For example. https://t.co/6zpSxk74Qk
The System and its msm handmaidens may not have thought through what might happen down the line if the British people are denied any peaceful political expression. Even the Soviet tyranny was toppled in the end, even the Albanian tyranny was toppled in the end, even the Romanian tyranny was toppled in the end. Our Ceaucescus may look different, but they too exist.
“Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.” [Milton, Paradise Lost].
— VIXC News – @VIXC_News (@VIXC_News) May 30, 2021
Demographic disaster
[2019 statistics]
Europe! Reflect on the disaster that is unfolding in front of your very eyes! Even those 2019 figures are well out of date; and those statistics do not include births to non-European mothers themselves born in Europe (esp. applies to UK).
Look at Switzerland! Austria! Germany! Sweden! This is a combination of madness, an ethno-cultural death wish (fostered by the “occupied” msm), and a transnational conspiracy.
What is that supposed to mean @michaelrosenyes? That you have encountered information that does not fit your presumptions? I sympathise, but there it is. Johnson is not even slightly conservative, in politics or culture. He’s far closer to you than to me. Sorry. https://t.co/O2dWwnzZpD
1/2 @michaelrosenyes Munira Mirza, Johnson’s close associate since his days as Mayor, and now head of his policy unit, has, er, links with the Revolutionary Communist Party… https://t.co/H2NZqAczIj
Yes, Munira Mirza, head of Johnson’s policy unit, is quite some way to my left. So is Claire Fox, ennobled by Johnson. But none so blind as those who do not wish to see. https://t.co/aQQ1A3veNn
I am talking about the fact that a 50-year cultural revolution, of which @michaelrosenyes has been part, has put the left in power in the cultural, educational, legal, official and moral institutions of a previously conservative country. Not new.I’ve been saying it for 20+ years. https://t.co/jZgla7tFOM
I myself never use the outdated “Left”/”Right” terminology unless qualified or in jest, but Hitchens’ basic view is correct. The only thing he has left out is the ubiquitous and malign Jewish influence on our society and its culture.
Now I should say straightaway that I am not very familiar with the name Alex Belfield, having only seen that name a few times on Twitter. I believe that he was on BBC local radio in the Midlands or North at one time.
What interests me more is that here is another case of someone who runs a non-System, non-msm, Internet “radio station” being targeted by the forces of the state. There have been other recent cases.
In Cornwall, last week, a man was charged with five counts under the Public Order Act 1986. He ran an Internet “radio station”.
Tomorrow, 30 March 2021, the persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz faces trial yet again, and yet again the instigator of police/CPS action was the malicious Jewish-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, who were also the instigators of the above-mentioned action against someone in Cornwall. As to Alex Belfield, I do not know.
What interests me, apart from the Zionist aspect, is that in all three mentioned cases, Internet “radio” forms the background. The real or broadcast radio in the UK is “regulated” (strictly controlled) by the System, via OFCOM. Internet “radio” is not regulated or controlled by OFCOM. Thus the System is now scrabbling to find ways to shut down the “wrong” messages.
Alison Chabloz recently made a first appearance as defendant in yet another case involving Internet “radio”. Once again, the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” is involved.
Incidentally, anyone who wants to support Alison Chabloz at her trial under the notorious “bad law” of the Commuications Act 2003, s.127, starting tomorrow (set down for Tuesday and Wednesday this week) can do so. Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 181 Marylebone Road, London. Nearest Underground: Edgware Road (any line). https://courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/westminster-magistrates-court
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[Update, 17 September 2022:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/16/former-bbc-dj-alex-belfield-jailed-for-stalking-jeremy-vine-and-others. I still do not know whether there was any directly political aspect to that case; if so, the msm have ignored it. As to the sentence (5.5 years), arguably savage, on the face of it, the trial judge having sentenced on the basis that several of the counts should be sentenced consecutively, rather than concurrently. Belfield was acquitted on a number of other counts.
Govt plan: 1. Keep to ´Road Map’ until May elections. 2. After elections some backsliding 3. Substantial ´opening up’ by July/August but masks/‘social distancing’ remain. 4. In Sept ‘concerns’ about new wave/new variants on every news bulletin. 5. Oct, lockdown ´to protect NHS’ https://t.co/aFdlf3D3VX
My theory is, if the same thing happens to humans that happened in the animal trials… another flu virus will attack the vaccinated cause mass fatalities, this will be branded another deady strain / mutation then mass enforcement of vaccines end game achieved.
I actually don't think people are going to put up with this "save the NHS" line any longer. If it's in that parlous a state then spend more money on it now rather than shut the economy down again in six months.
Which people will not put up with it? The scared rabbits who wear facemasks on clifftops and in supermarket car parks? Sadly, the British people have become rather pathetic.
Exactly. This is all designed to facilitate the next 33 years starting in 2022. The Great Reset, together with the Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. NWO. ZOG. A concerted attempt to rule the world.
“The streets of Thurrock are plagued by the activity of a violent gang. Responsible for stabbings, acid attacks and sexual assaults, C17 first rose to prominence in May, 2017.”
Good grief! Someone sent me the clip below. I knew that Lammy was/is a deadhead, and in fact I have been meaning for a long time to add an assessment of him to my “Deadhead MPs” series, but…well, see for yourself!
People will say, “oh, but he is a barrister, has several degrees etc”…yes, and one of the most stupid (and ignorant) people I ever met was a former Sierra Leone diplomat, a High Commissioner to the UK when in London, and ambassador to some other state. That African had degrees from one of the most famous English universities, one from the Sorbonne, one from either Harvard or Yale (I forget).
Imagine Lammy as either Lord Chancellor or Attorney-General! Still, now that Keir Starmer is running what is left of Labour into the ground, such appointment is unlikely.
My Twitter account (removed in 2018 at the instigation of a Jewish/Zionist cabal) was one of rather few accounts followed by Icke. Now he too has been removed from Twitter, by the same or connected (((forces))). We must fight for freedom now, or Lilliputian ties will bind us forever.
The debate’s been had since March. I fought hard against the new Health and Safety State -harder and longer than most, sometimes alone, though I shouldn’t have to point it out. And we lost. It is bilge to accuse me of kowtowing to anything. https://t.co/yd5wIbdapd
A fair point, I suppose. A few people (of prominence) such as Hitchens have done what they can to wake people up to the weaponization of “the virus” for the promotion of an ulterior agenda (the “Great Reset”), but the big battalions of the Government, Opposition (so-called) and msm were all pro-lockdown, pro-shutdown, pro-facemask nonsense etc.
1/2 It is one of many indicators of something anyone in contact with the public is aware of @vanessabeeley. I have thrown nothing under any bus. But I have lived long enough (and lost enough hard-fought battles) not to deceive myself about the true state of affairs. https://t.co/0VZfPKLTBC
For myself, I should have preferred it had those of prominence in the msm etc, such as Hitchens, refused to be vaccinated (as I have). Having said that, every individual must make his own choice. To each, his own. Jedem bei seinem…
Fleet Street editor Roy Greenslade reveals his secret support for the IRA and refuses to apologisehttps://t.co/BGqpsIGFAH
The UK msm is riddled with traitors of all sorts: former IRA supporters, supporters of Israel and Jewish terrorism, “refugees welcome” dimwits, “antifascist” idiots, anti-white European race and culture oppositionists etc.
In relation to the Greenslade matter, he was not alone in being a Fleet Street partisan for the terrorists in the 1970s.
There was a well-known part-Irish, part-Belgian, part-Jewish journalist (whose name presently escapes me), now long-deceased, who was also a columnist in London and who wrote about 30 years ago how appalled he was when, in the early 1970s, he realized how many mainstream/Fleet Street journalists reporting on the situation in Northern Ireland were strongly pro-Republican and often actually pro-IRA (Provisional IRA). This at a time when bombs were going off in London and across the UK as well as “over the water” in Northern Ireland itself.
The public were unaware how many employees of their daily “news” papers were pro-IRA.
The same newspapers are still pumping out disguised propaganda, though these days it is more often that they are supporting migration invasion, “black lives matter” nonsense etc.
Government has refused to release the Huddersfield grooming gang in full stating its "not in the public interest!"
It is very much in the public interest when paedophile gangs prey on our children, especially children manipulated into the care system by spotter social workers! https://t.co/e1M7sWoNFo
— Family Defence League (@FamilyDefence) March 1, 2021
National Lottery
“What would you do if you won the lottery?” A “frequently-asked question”, I suppose. Most people do not stray far from the “new house, new car, expensive holiday” banalities. I think that I might offer a different answer, should that benevolent lightning strike me. I should probably employ an expensive firm of solicitors and, if necessary, Counsel, to use available legal strategems such as Norwich Pharmacal orders against a number of pseudonymous Twitter trolls. Let’s find out who they really are, and where they are, so that legal action can be taken against them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich_Pharmacal_order.
We often spend time doing things such as trying to gain ordinary political traction, or defending ourselves against the onslaught of nonsense (malicious complaints to social media organizations, police etc) from the Jew-Zionist element and their “antifa” idiot-serfs, or commenting on the events of the day.
All of the above are of course necessary, but we should never forget that our primary focus should be the creation of a new and better society, together with the race and culture which should and must underpin that new society.
Society consists of people, and the most important thing of all is the production of sufficient numbers of white Northern European children, properly brought up and educated.
We, as white Northern Europeans, are facing existential peril. Call it “the Great Replacement” or simply “White Genocide”. Whatever. For example, in the world as a whole, only a few percent of people in this world are actually ethnically European, even broadly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people (n.b.the most populous regions, i.e. those of Asia, especially China, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which four states comprise nearly half the world population, are not covered in that article).
More directly, our own European societies have faced, in the past half century or so, unprecedented migration invasion. Since the fall of the socialist world (i.e. since 1989) and particularly since the disruptions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the fall of Gaddafi in Libya, a gigantic wave of migration-invasion has hit Europe.
We have seen how the evil cabals of the international conspiracy have helped that invasion, and funnelled the invaders from Africa and Asia to Europe, even to the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia etc; even to Iceland!
We have our backs to the wall, but all is not lost. The world may soon face destruction on a scale that may dwarf even the terrible events of the Second World War. If (when) that happens, we as white Northern European social nationalists may be mere bystanders and/or victims, but after the corrupt old world is destroyed (in large measure) we shall have both the opportunity and the duty to create a new society out of the ruins of the old.
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Flu rebranded as covid, to allow greedy psychopaths rebranded as philanthropists, to force Communism rebranded as the Great Reset, on the entire world.https://t.co/K4ZdSH49a3
That's kind @keithg811, and I do think one major task in the past 11 months was to reassure dissenters that they were not alone. But now we have to think of some way of securing a rigorous inquiry which will make a repeat unlikley. https://t.co/ao9OhsLRVf
Why would you be surprised about Wiliam Hague teaming up with the Blair Creature, @Francis_Hoar? Are you still beguiled by the Tory Delusion? '[They] looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.' https://t.co/yTuCX2Y7A0
'There is very little data that supports the claim that, at least until most people have been vaccinated, lockdowns are the only effective way of containing the spread of infection.' Alasdair Palmer in 'The Critic' https://t.co/znSmFZOt0u
Thank you @ink_spot_slot. Whenever I hear politicians talking about more 'bobbies' on the 'beat', I know he or she knows nothing. There have been neither any 'bobbies' nor any 'beat' for many decades. https://t.co/NSLR4dk4jB
I think this is rather good. Freddie Sayers on our willing acceptance of what would once have been rejected as servitude: How lockdown changed us @UnHerdhttps://t.co/GwZkLsZwZZ
Yes, that is pretty much the rule. The more that he talks of our freedom, the faster we head for the door. Another reason *not* to refer to him by the cuddly stage-name 'Boris' and use 'Johnson or 'Al', the name his family and close friends use @nannypicker. https://t.co/BKoRCZi4qb
It seems that, for the second year in a row, schools will mark the exams of their pupils, thus throwing away any rigour or credibility in the public examination system. For God’s sake, just check that the pupils are all breathing, then chuck them all “A” grades. They will love it, their parents will love it, the schools will love it and this shite “government” will love it. Sweeties for all! Meanwhile, in the real world…
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The smart city will sit at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, about 62 miles from Tokyo. It is set to be built on the site of one of Toyota's former manufacturing plants called Higashi-Fuji. https://t.co/dTCK8vWXMy
A fleet of Toyota's self-driving electric vehicles, called e-Palettes, will be used for transportation, deliveries, and mobile retail throughout the city.https://t.co/oIe2rHsOOf
There are such exciting possibilities in the world now, gifted by human intelligence and technology. We must add to those positive aspects others, such as love for Nature, and human compassion. If the forces of Evil can be defeated, who knows where we may be led?
…and if that presenter woman is not Jewish, I’ll eat my hat.
Always. Every. Single. Time.
Facebook, “Doomsday Machine”
An article attacking Facebook, from the editor of an msm outlet. In fact, just another attempt to shut Pandora’s box. There is a huge campaign now by NWO/ZOG to shut down even the limited free speech that exists.
In a time when the news is overwhelmingly gloomy, there's a ray of sunshine this morning: "Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale, 29, 'is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus'. https://t.co/mL0eYf164X
What is the phrase? Something like “a waste of oxygen“… We Europeans, especially perhaps we British, are in general and by nature more compassionate than Africans, North Africans, Orientals, Muslims generally, but that does mean that, sometimes, the unworthy benefit.
Yes , @golbadockdan, as D.H.Lawrence (of all people) warned nearly 100 years ago. https://t.co/1hXTLklx9F
1/2 D.H Lawrence , in his essay ‘Apropos Lady Chatterley’ quoted in the chapter ‘Difficulties with Girls’ in my 1999 book ‘The Abolition of Britain’. pic.twitter.com/TbtSnHXfgv
The truth of that was made manifest in the survival of decency and culture within families even in the terrible milieu of Jewish Bolshevism, and later Stalinism, in the Soviet Union of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s,1950s, and on to the collapse of socialism around 1989. I suppose that the worst time for secrecy plus denunciation was the 1930s, especially the Yezhovshchina of 1937-1939, and then the late 1940s.
@davidknopfler 'Robbie Fox, the great 20th century editor of the Lancet, who was no admirer of peer review, wondered whether anybody would notice if he were to swap the piles marked `publish' and `reject'. https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
@davidknopfler ' In addition to being poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless for detecting fraud it is slow, expensive, profligate of academic time, highly subjective, something of a lottery, prone to bias, and easily abused.' https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
This statue of Pavlik Morozov,the mythical martyred boy who denounced his parents,who Soviet children were taught to revere,still in Moscow when I lived there in 1990. Vanished without trace when Commiunism fell in 1991. Perhaps now on its way to London? https://t.co/wKVTXr6AHp
Here he is, the prototype of the child asked to spy on his parents for the state ( as now proposed by HMG) , Comrade Pavlik Morozov: https://t.co/cSz96bdLWX
New law being determinedly pushed by ‘Conservative’ govt says children should spy on their parents only in ‘exceptional circumstances’ . So that’s all right then. (Daily Telegraph report). pic.twitter.com/cS06CNGlvO
The Covert Human Intelligence Source Bill will allow 22 state agencies, including the likes of HMRC and local councils, as well as the intelligence services and police, to recruit children as “covert human intelligence sources”… https://t.co/n3gjO5MZrO
In fact, the “Conservative” government “child spies” campaign or proposal is merely the logical consequence of what has gone before (in recent years); it is a continuation of what already exists.
In and after 2010, we saw part-Jew Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, call upon curtain-twitching pleb-Cons to “report” their neighbours who were unemployed and/or disabled, and who might be sleeping late rather than hurrying and scurrying to “seek work” (often unobtainable anyway) in the (((finance-capitalist))) economy.
For years we have seen the authorities demand that neighbours, families, churches, mosques, schoolteachers, even Church of England priests (if there are any left who are not arse-faced lesbians), report or denounce their own families, and friends, acquaintainces, pupils, parishioners etc; not only for “terrorism”, by the way, but also for supporting animal welfare, for opposing mass immigration (migration-invasion) etc. The government even established “Morozovist” organizations, such as “Prevent” and “Channel”, in order to facilitate it all.
More recently, we have see government attempts to get people to denounce neighbours, friends, family who might have exceeded the arbitrary “Rule of Six” invented by Boris-idiot, or who might actually have invited family members to visit at Christmas.
Over the years, we have seen the users of Twitter etc delight in “reporting” “wrong thinking” and “wrong speaking” people to Twitter, or to police, or to others who might punish the dissident. Employers, academic institutions etc. As always, the Jewish element was in the forefront in “reporting” people, though others joined in, particularly the “antifa” idiot-crowd, and the allied self-describing “Left”.
Now this.
I wonder whether Jewish lobby puppet Keir Starmer will go along (yet again) with what this government is going and proposing?
The real agenda lies behind the supposed reasons for the “reporting” campaigns; to create a serf or slave society somewhere down the line.
Final thought (for today) on all that: remember what happened to Pavel Morozov. After all, if you play by Moscow Rules…
I wonder where the blacks, browns, even Orientals would be, had our white European civilization, especially that developed since about 1400 AD, never existed? Oh, no, wait…
I’ve absolutely had enough of people saying ‘This is not a proper lockdown’ when so many are struggling to cope with it. What do these lockdown zealots want? For us all to be welded inside our own homes till the summer? I’m genuinely shocked by the authoritarianism we’re seeing.
What we are seeing is not exactly “authoritarianism” but the infantilism of, mostly, the self-describing “Left”, who just want to be told what to do by the Big Brother State. Those types are the core of the lockdown and facemask zealotry. A chance for them to see people bullied and bossed around, while retaining a figleaf of “caring sharing” fakery at the same time.
EXCLUSIVE: Boohoo is set to acquire the Debenhams brand in a deal that will resemble the online retailer's previous swoops on Karen Millen and Oasis
Does not include the stores, sad but probably not surprising news for the 10,000+ people who still work there
Just what I was blogging about recently. I shall be laughing when the UK and connected “antifascist” Twitter-twits are expelled. They have little or nothing else.
A now-deceased friend of mine, acquainted with both Mosley and his wife Diana in the 1950s, always said that Mosley’s mistake was to accentuate the “Man of Action” and military aspect of his character (genuine though that was: WW1 officer of both the Army and the Royal Flying Corps; wounded in action), while playing down his more intellectual side (which my friend thought reflected his overall character more, though in the late 1950s Mosley was, of course, over 60).
UK quarantine
Unless the Government simply props up airlines and travel companies (pointlessly), they are finished. Who on Earth will book a foreign holiday from the UK when that tourist (and family, if any) will now quite likely have to spend 10-14 days quarantined in a guarded hotel, and even have to pay for their own incarceration?! Forget it.
In fact, the country where the tourist is booked may also impose some such requirement, and at short notice…
In short, the travel and tourism sector, both domestic and overseas, is totally screwed, as are its huge number of employees.
Incidentally, the whole travel and tourism sector in the UK employs a total of 3.8 million people, about 11% of the entire UK workforce.
Let's help him out. Here is Czechia. It closed its borders, locked down and introduced compulsory masking outside of residence *before* the UK went into Lockdown.
Yet although once hailed as a "Covid success story", it is now 4th worst in the world for deaths/million. pic.twitter.com/Z7gDanOXer
Good to give the movement some exposure today and continue the discussion. Thanks to @bwebster135 for the article and to @AliDriverUK for the connections. Love it. Hope I haven’t angered the local farmers quite as much as the headline suggests! pic.twitter.com/0NusjlDGAM
Today, I have decided to copy the arguably bizarre habit of the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday TV, by having cabaret in the daytime. So here is the latest song by satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz:
Chaudhary Mohammed Iqbal, a Labour politician of immigrant descent who made false statements in candidate nomination papers, has been jailed. https://t.co/rQUSSz2J9U
The “lockdown” zealots and facemask fanatics, who usually like to present themselves as terribly compassionate etc (and who are usually economically unaffected by the shutdown, being either fairly affluent and/or “working from home” and/or working for the State and so unlikely to be made redundant or sacked, or who are unemployed/retired and so not likely to be made homeless) seem to regard people like the lady mentioned in that tweet as collateral damage of a “necessary” policy.
THIS. THIS. THIS. The people demanding lockdowns don't really mind lockdowns because they aren't really hurt by them. Everyone else *is*. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/hZAMsUHU9t
It seems a lot of the blue, white collar trade unions supposedly for the workers are actually controlled, taken over at the top / leadership positions by the same. That’s why trade unions pushing woke agendas whilst doing nowt for the actual workers who pay in. Using your money.
Is there seriously anyone left out there who thinks this is about controlling a virus – and not introducing a change of regime to the Western world…. ? 🤔 🌍
Exactly. Some people are so black and white-minded that they say “Covid-19 is real, not a scam, so the conspiracy theory about the Great Reset is rubbish…“, when of course it is perfectly possible for “the virus” to be both real and a serious public health problem, and also being used as a convenient way of pushing through huge socio-political change via fear propaganda, financial manipulation etc. Oh, and as for the “Great Reset” being a “conspiracy theory”, it’s no theory. Indeed, the World Economic Forum [WEF; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum] actually both tweeted, and published elsewhere, the view that the virus situation was a perfect opportunity to push the Great Reset. They even used the words, “Great Reset”.
This is flipping weird. The phone cable should be visible in the mirror descending from @BorisJohnson’s watch, in this official Downing St picture. It’s not. What is going on? https://t.co/aRsrMSc0DT
System-approved journalist is somehow surprised that official photos may lie, or tell a completely or largely untrue narrative [cf. “holocaust”]…
Late tweets seen
I'm reminded of:
"I am seldom free of the fictional Oxford, or of the small part of its immense, intricate past that I myself have seen. Here I watched England change from being one sort of country to another." A cattle market, a brewery & a bookshop…https://t.co/Wl7JH8wSjD
@paniptrsphoto From memory, Keats said ‘Truth is beauty, beauty truth, and that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know’ . I tend to think he was on to something. https://t.co/MePqjKwUY3
Conflation of beauty and truth. Scruton (above) was more accurate: a trio of values, being the Good, the Beautiful and the True.
No doubt @cliveshaw11,but my point is that a country where the pubs, clubs, gyms, cinemas, theatres, schools, shops, libraries & churches are dead is a country in which people die of despair. And they too do not come back to life. This is not life vs money. It is life vs life. https://t.co/bJs0jeTwsT
Thank you @claxheughrocks. A reader contacted me about what had happened to the YP, and (tho' it's not my issue) I thought it significant. A strong independent press is vital for the proper functioning of society, to uncover inefficiency, errors, corruption etc. https://t.co/YXtSdfbacl
Bach was born in Eisenach into a hugely musical family but by the age of 10 both of his parents had died and he moved in with one of his older brothers. pic.twitter.com/osCXZElrjR
“…the structure of the proposed LTIP, which would deliver a block of shares covering three years, meant executives appeared “eligible to receive virtually unlimited remuneration”.”
“Cineworld staff have been on furlough since November, although there has also been a significant round of voluntary and compulsory redundancies at various managerial levels, from supervisors to cinema management.“
“The proposed LTIP will award the company’s top executives if Cineworld’s share price bounces back to £1.90p within three years. If this level, which is close to its pre-pandemic level of £1.97p, is reached, bosses will share £104m, with the chief executive, Mooky Greidinger, and his brother and deputy, Israel, in line for an award of £33m each.“
“Mooky” and “Israel“?…Wake up, people! Wake up to these parasites!
Except that the quotation marks should be round the last two words…
Speaking of “history” (as children are now indoctrinated…):
Sky News report on the German town of Meissen and how its ultra-modern crematorium can't cope with a covid death toll of 1,400 a month, despite working 24/7. This would appear to be a very subtle form of Holocaust denial. Sky must sack whoever is responsible for this outrage
Wasn't so last Spring, was it @nappatedd? Passive acceptance of house arrest was almost universal, during some of the most beautiful British weather of my entire long life. https://t.co/PlGGqO4GBb
Two main reasons: the fear-propaganda put out by the Government, and in fact by most West European governments; also, the fact that most people did not suffer economically. Many were on furlough payment, others were working from home and (if they had nice houses, gardens, swimming pools etc) could treat the near-house arrest as a kind of rather spartan holiday.
Here he is in the middle, the horrible tyrant Matyas Rakosi, inventor of the term 'salami-slicing' – meaning, if you want to do something wicked, do it in small steps so that only a few notice and nobody protests. By the end, the whole sausage is gone: https://t.co/lxjQcTzcTe
All the same, the Jew Rakosi (the former a fact that Peter Hitchens somehow neglects to point out) was overthown, in 1956 (apropos of nothing, the year of my own birth) and, though Hungary remained under effective Soviet suzerainty until after 1989 (when, effectively, old-style socialism died), the country had increasingly “liberal” policies internally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_K%C3%A1d%C3%A1r.
History is not usually black and white.
On Peter Hitchens’ main point, what is now happening across the Western world, but not so much in Central and Eastern Europe, or in Russia (i.e. “panicdemic” being used as a mehod of imposing a “Great Reset”) may be happening partly because the states and territories that knew Soviet rule are unwilling to submit to tyranny again. As an acquaintance of mine told me in Moscow in 1993, “Ian, that is an experiment that we do not wish to repeat.”
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But @cjsnowdon, don't you see? This is the BBC's reward for its valiant efforts to marginalise and suppress the very existence of dissent from the Lockdown Dogma. https://t.co/CxAe7tCPPT
What happens when dissent and any socio-political dissidence is blocked and when the broadcasting arena is completely under “control” ? Look again at Budapest in 1956…
August 2020: We’ll pay you to eat out. January 2021: We’ll pay you to catch Covid. pic.twitter.com/ruXMA76bib
Surely it's obvious @excogitare, a sudden mass cancellation would be obviously oppressive, even to you. But you can dismiss gradual salami-slicing as a conspiratorial fantasy. At the end, the result is the same. The whole sausage has gone. But nobody has noticed or protested. https://t.co/wfgDDWyzBE
My thanks to Jonathan Mayhew-Price for compiling in one place the recordings of my appearances so far on Mike Graham's Talk Radio show https://t.co/KOGQDLiZXN
Hitchens focusses on his own situation: increasingly censored and even banned (a talk he gave on TalkRadio was removed from YouTube and, though the channel itself was reinstated, his talk was not, I think). Hitchens however, is merely one of the more mainstream people affected by such methods. Others, including me, David Icke, many others, trod the same path previously.
Yet the facemask propaganda is being stepped up. The State mouthpiece, the BBC, via the Today Programme yesterday or today, had a fawning interview with some supposed medical “expert” who said (on being prompted) that medical-grade facemasks might become mandatory in shops and on public transport! Apparently Angela Merkel, the German dictator-for-a-while, is already moving that way.
The aim of the international conspiracy seems to be to see how far it can get down the path of “atomizing” people, making public group dissent a crime, and at the same time tightening (((control))) of the Internet. Result? Complete tyranny. They hope.
Goodness @theblogmire.Is Jackie Boy @dpjhodges still at it? I got bored with his childishness and apparently instinctive dishonesty. So uninteresting. Hoping to stay awake during our coming debate on @talkradio. https://t.co/UzU056CXUK
One sees how the term “holocaust” “denial” has opened the door to further tyranny, i.e. people who want full scientific examination of climatic changes are now called “climate-deniers”, while those who disagree with “panicdemic” laws and governmental “rules”, however absurd, are called “Covid-deniers” (when not “Covidiots”).
Richard Littlejohn shows how satire is done (compare and contrast with the leaden establishment rag @privateeyenews, living on a reputation won by others 40 years ago): https://t.co/RRuUKRWw0V via @MailOnline
The tweeter “@ BritishAlba”, if not some kind of parody, is the kind of pseudo-“nationalist” — not even a mere “conservative nationalist”— who makes me shake my head in disbelief. In what world is it “the right thing to do” to invite maybe FIVE MILLION (more) Chinese here?! A city on the scale of a half or a third of the entire London sprawl, or about three times the size of the Glasgow metro area!
That same tweeter agonizes about the relatively few thousand illegal immigrants arriving by small boat, when even the entire illegal immigrant/asylum-seeker contingent is less than 100,000 a year. Certainly a serious problem (and one not being addressed) but 100,000 is only a FIFTIETH the size of those 5 million Chinese!
Boris-idiot and his mainly Jewish and Indian Cabinet are simply enemies; in a real sense, enemies of the people.
“The Gods themselves struggle against stupidity in vain” [Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans].
Again, another very silly tweeter, one “@dafyddtaylor”, who thinks that the “Great Replacement” is a “fascist conspiracy theory“! In the colloquial phrase, “should have gone to Specsavers“! Look around you, man!
People such as “@dafyddtaylor” may well be beyond salvation, politically. Just as “@BritishAlba” thinks that the misnamed Conservative Party is “the answer”, so “@dafyddtaylor” sees political salvation in the equally-misnamed Labour Party. In fact, “Daffy” lives up to his name; he even retweets that useless creature “@Femi_Sorry”! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi_Oluwole].
Talking of “Femi”, whose many deluded Twitter “followers” want to see as a Labour MP, he has tweeted this:
At the very least I can tell you that as someone who hasn't had a thriving social life here since 2012 due to living abroad and then Brexit campaigning… I know it'll be a challenge for me, and it'll take time and effort… i.e. When the time comes, you won't be the only one.
At root, he has no profession, no job, and lives in his (affluent) parents’ house, though he had some anti-Brexit “campaigning” work since leaving university nearly a decade ago, campaigning funded mainly by the EU. He is now 30 and, like the Japanese soldiers who carried on fighting the Pacific war long after it was over, is still (in his own little mind) fighting Brexit. His ever-smaller world is Twitter. In that, he is certainly not alone. Most of the self-describing “Left” are there…and only there. They have nothing to offer the British people, nothing at all.
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Thousands of troops were sent to DC in anticipation of rioting by Trump supporters. It didn't happen. But elsewhere, #Antifa carried through w/their promise of violence.
My latest: "Biden won’t stop them & neither will cops, until Portland is burned down"https://t.co/kaplxfNWK9
Does this look familiar? Note how this Black Bloc member quickly breaks the window, then puts the weapon away in his backpack so there is no sign. All dressed identical to make individuals harder to ID. Deception is the key – never show your face or reveal your true intent. https://t.co/8vqQzylBFJ
Seattle: After another night of mass violence by #antifa, some residents are wondering why city officials aren’t responding substantively. The mayor’s spokesperson put out bizarre statement about homophobic hate speech. Reporting by @choeshow: pic.twitter.com/0tWTV58jOI
"Antifa militants chanted 'f—k' President Biden during a rampage through Seattle after the inauguration — and smashed up the historic site of the very first Starbucks." https://t.co/QgMS7VwuBG
“Action—Reaction—Control”. The “antifa” idiots are being used, so that a Federal crackdown on all dissent, especially “neo-Nazi” (social-national) dissent, can be presented as justified.
In the UK and elsewhere, we see sometimes actions such as attacks on Jewish cemeteries. On several occasions, Jews have actually been arrested as the perpetrators. In some cases, they were mentally disordered, but it is suspected that Zionist cabals were behind some of such attacks. The aim? To make the point that “Jewish organizations need State help (and money!)” to “defend themselves”. Also, to create a perception of a “threat” from social nationalists when there is in fact no such threat.
“Top pro-Israel lawyer who faked vandalism attack at Scots home faces being struck off…Matthew Berlow devised a conspiracy with an accomplice to catch out another lawyer he believed was subjecting him to anti-Semitic abuse.”
Of course, lawyers, in the tabloid Press, are always either “top” or “disgraced”!
“Pro-Israel Matthew Berlow devised a conspiracy with an accomplice to catch out another lawyer he believed was subjecting him to anti-Semitic abuse.”
“Glasgow -based Berlow helped fake a graffiti attack at his home and dragged political opponents into the firing line by making false claims against the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign on social media.” [Daily Record].
Note that that report does not use the term “Jew” even once!
There it is…
Interesting historical note from an Israeli newspaper
Were it not a matter of existential survival for European humanity, it would be a matter of sub-academic interest as to “how far can this nonsense go before people rise up in revolt?”. So far, no answer to that…
Ha ha! Very true, sadly. Eventually, the truth about Castro will come out, about his life of luxury as he ruled over those poor mulatto saps. North Korea is the same. As for the DDR (East Germany) the high-ups lived in a suburb near Berlin called by the people “Bonzo-grad”, “Bonzo” being a slang term for a boss.
The finance-capitalist society is little different in that respect, but arguably less hypocritical.
Sir Malcolm Tippett was living at Tidebrook Manor, Sussex Weald, described at the time as being very dilapidated, when he completed his opera The Midsummer Marriage. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/oGVm9iIyUd
I do not know much about Tippett’s music, though I have heard the Ritual Dances in the past. Unusual. When Stravinsky had The Rite of Spring performed for the first time (in pre-WW1 Paris), there was a kind of riot, or at least melee. The music challenged preconceptions. This is similar in that respect.
Moon Gate in New Jersey. Built using 7.5 tons of Pennsylvania Endless Mountain fieldstone. The moongate has traditionally been employed in garden and landscape settings as a symbolic threshold between worlds. 2/5 pic.twitter.com/uOI7v35xj8
Moongates are a common feature in Bermuda gardens. It is regarded as a symbol of love and Bermudians believe people who walk through a Moongate are blessed with good luck. 4/5 pic.twitter.com/oLXIYEQwIM
How to build a moon gate without mortar. “Build a wood form, place the stones to either side, and build up. Then you finish with a keystone and remove the form. There is a wonderful energy to these structures.” 5/5
Why did SNP Edinburgh Council allow this desecration of the capital’s skyline (and the Burns memorial) by US property developers? Neoliberalism trumps the neoclassical. pic.twitter.com/l9oWvMgaTc
Stalin is said to have remarked that “one death is a tragedy; a million is merely a statistic“. The same with jobs lost. Here is one individual, one family man, who has lost his job (almost certainly by reason of the shutdown of society by the Government, with no opposition from the Opposition).
It’s an interference with liberty. Far greater than an inconvenience. Let the majority wear them if they wish. But I do not wish to live in a society where the majority can tell the minority what to wear. Next comes what to think. https://t.co/qavsDxCWA0
No, @kamakevinprice the liberal elite lost interest in journalism when they found they were at last on the side of power, and instead embraced public relations gush, state toadying and attacks on actual journalists @matthewstadlen. https://t.co/rdqRkSkGMq
I have read them @momobaboon. They entirely lack hard experimentation. There is only one proper, huge RCT on masks, and it showed they were useless – a nuisance for those who ran it, who hoped for a different answer, and 3 major journals(+most UK media) who refused to publish. https://t.co/1x1rXDi6G5
Sir Simon Stevens says he expects lockdown to be eased gradually in Spring / summer: "It is not going to be the case that on Valentines Day with one band we are free. But equally we wont have to want until the autumn. Somewhere in the middle will be true." #Marr
Kate Ferguson, who is apparently Westminster Correspondent at the Sun “newspaper”, and who apparently does not know that the phrase she is trying to use is a variant of “…and with one bound he was free”… I mean, this is not some ignorant pleb tweeting. Oh, no…wait…
Yet another unintended comment on the state of British “journalism” and “journalists” today.
It says it all about how small the British establishment is that the NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens was involved, as an undergraduate, helping Boris Johnson get elected as President of the Oxford Union. 35 years later and they are playing the same games. pic.twitter.com/zYxcXiHTxI
The various Government measures to mitigate, not the virus but the Government’s own policies in relation to it (“lockdowns”, “tiers”, quarantining, etc) bought off real popular opposition last year. The Government took a leaf from the book of Aneurin Bevan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan], who said that he had bought off opposition from medical doctors to the establishment of the NHS by having “stuffed their mouths with gold” (i.e. allowing senior doctors (“consultants”) to take on private work as well as receiving relatively high NHS pay).
“Furlough” payments ensured that, in 2020, many received effectively the same pay as before, but for no work (“furlough” was capped at 80% of net pay to a maximum of £2,500 p.c.m., but that was close to 100% for most, when the costs of just having a job are factored in: travel, snacks, drinks, clothes etc).
Many others were able to “work from home”, which might have had disadvantages for some but many advantages for others: no travel costs; a saving of (?) 1-5 hours of travel on the day, depending on the commute; the possibility to organize the day to suit the employee; no “boss” people supervizing the employee directly, or able to see what the employee is doing during the working day.
Naturally, the higher-paid working from home would have been, and are, in a better position than the lower-paid: perhaps large detached houses, perhaps also with swimming pools, tennis courts, large gardens in which to relax etc. One could imagine some, working in between swimming, and perhaps drinking Chardonnay ordered online and delivered to the door (I seem to remember that, even nearly 20 years ago, Sainsbury’s would not only deliver my wife’s orders, but actually take the stuff into the kitchen for her).
Also, companies started to demand Government help. Even those run by tax exiles such as Richard Branson. Some help was given.
Not everyone was taken care of by Government largesse. The self-employed, thhose running the smaller and one-man companies etc. The majority of the population, though, was shut up in both senses by Government order and Government money. Even the unemployed (etc) on Universal Credit, got a £20 a week increase.
Now, however, after much to-ing and fro-ing, we find ourselves back in “lockdown”.
Once again, the furlough is extended. Once again, failing businesses are, in some cases, being propped up, smaller airports among them. For how long, though?
Today, we heard that Newquay Airport (which I myself used a few times in the past) will be given money. I do not know whether other airports I used to use, e.g. Exeter and Southampton, are in a similar position.
Let us examine what might happen. Let us say that “the virus”, whether because of natural decline, the vaccine(s), whatever, disappears some time in 2021 from the UK. Air travel will take a long long time to recover, especially if countries are to insist on quarantines and “virus-free” certification. Will UK airports, airlines, ground services etc need or demand propping-up for years? Is that even possible?
We read that the UK Government can borrow money at very low, almost zero, interest at present. Good, but for how long?
We now read that the Government wants to reduce Universal Credit by £20 a week, while chucking those currently on it £500 in cash. There may be a revolt by Conservative MPs, and a possible Government defeat in the coming days.
The argument over UC payments presages coming disputes. No matter how much can currently be borrowed by the UK Government, eventually that will become unsustainable. What then? Already, State benefits paid to the unemployed are at their lowest since 1992 and, according to other calculation, overall benefits were not this low in real terms since the 1960s, which however was a era of, effectively, full employment.
The present government cannot simply, say, raise the State Pension (“Old Age Pension”, as was) entitlement age from 66, where it will be from 2022, to he age of 67, or 68, or 70, not without a massive backlash from voters aged over 65, and they are a half of all Conservative supporters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-47909281. They are also far more likely to vote.
In other words, if the present government hits the pensioners or those looking at shortly becoming pensioners, it is toast.
The Government is looking at the unemployed and others as targets because they are less significant electorally, though at the same time, 40% of UC claimants are actually not unemployed but are in low-paid work.
Unsurprisingly, Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak is not going to introduce a windfall wealth tax. He wants to extract money from the poor or poor-ish, while not dooming his party electorally.
What about demand in the economy? Already low. The poor spend all or almost all of what they have; they have no choice. The rich, given extra money, invest it, often in hedging assets: property, savings accounts, gold etc. It makes sense to give more to the poor and less to the rich (however defined).
Once the various mitigation measures tail off, unemployment —and discontent—– will soar.
One can see storms coming. God grant social-nationalism the way in which to take advantage of them for the good of the people. “For the good of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
Meanwhile, the USA has concentration camps today, both at Guantanamo and elsewhere, including secret ones. The inmates are in many cases treated as badly or worse than were those in WW2 Germany, or even the Soviet Union’s GULAG operation. The American concentration camps have doctors too, as does the CIA.
Despite all the restrictions placed upon them a number of great women left their mark on Merovingian politics and society. Learn about these great female figures in today's episode. https://t.co/F4PeKon2xfpic.twitter.com/yy4pWgQHkX
With Trump’s term ending, "a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees,” report @nytmike and @kenvogel in New York Times:https://t.co/aBrfMW73VE
Trump! While you still can, PARDON the Capitol Stormers, PARDON all social-national and allied prisoners in Federal custody or incarceration, PARDON Snowden, PARDON Assange!
So Andrew, can you tell us what exactly is wrong with being, German, male, white, middle aged, and religious. Anyone would think you were Xenophobic, homophobic, ageist, and having a religiophobic agenda. There again you have probably sold your soul along with the rest of the MSM
Surprising, perhaps, that Andrew Neil put it that way, but then again he is very much pro-Jew and pro-Israel, and ranted a few times on TV (on his now-defunct late-night BBC2 show) about “Nazis”, “racists” etc. Demeaning (to him); it takes the gloss off his being the best political interviewer in the UK.
Tories plan to 'turn Britain into the Singapore of Europe'. The sort of dodgy deal where you need to pay VERY close attention to the small print: Mass Chinese immigration. 1984-style monitoring & control. Mass Asian immigration. Thanks but no thanks!https://t.co/5Zy6kXYY2w
Yes, I have many times had similar sensations, @adamgarriereal. But after about 1995, I began to feel it was no longer quite so reassuring, and in recent years , not really reassuring at all. https://t.co/PR16J4q8Hi
The East Wing of Rhodes House in Oxford also now vanished. I wonder if the building will keep its name. Fury against the dead British Empire a bit futile as China’s Empire grows in power and repressive fervour. pic.twitter.com/tHjnNbI3gq
The century-old West Wing of Rhodes House in Oxford now completely flattened as the building is prepared for its post-revolutionary transformation. Odd how little fuss there is about this. pic.twitter.com/j7co5Kj4gj
Can anyone help me? Mention of this study https://t.co/VXNU0sovTd is extraordinarily hard to find on the web. A link to the study itself is *impossible* to find (for me, anyway). .
Peter Hitchens makes, once again, a good point, but fails to point out that the present Kiev regime, posing as the legitimate overnment of the Ukraine, is a complete Jewish-Zionist sham. All the top ministers are Jewish, and at least one is actually an Israeli!
A Judge's political lecture to a defendant goes against all the rules of British justice. Here we are tried for what we do, not for what we think. But is this still true? https://t.co/OPChZQinof
“The whole point of the law is its cool impartiality, its judgment of the facts by a jury, and of the law by an impartial, dispassionate judge. If judges are going to start offering politico-medical lectures from the bench, it changes us into a completely different kind of country. In effect, a defendant in such cases is on trial for his opinions, not his actions.
Does Judge Matthews desire such a state of affairs? I doubt it. In that case she should not do this again. But I fear someone else will. Much that we used to know and trust about this country is vanishing with amazing speed.” [Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail].
All very true. Part of the problem is that “District Judges” (the old stipendiary magistrates) are not, in the traditional sense, real “judges”. Mostly solicitors who have applied for these rather simple jobs, which however pay quite well (I think that a full-time DJ gets about £110,000 p.a. now).
#SaferRoads@HantsPolice If you’re out and about getting daily exercise during hours of darkness – running / cycling / walking – it’s really important that you’re visible to other road users #besafebeseen#takeextracare 🏃
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) January 15, 2021
Very true. Recently, in the evening, I drove out of the nearby Waitrose store, about a mile or two from my humble home, and a woman crossed the road from the far pavement, riding a pushbike, and almost right in front of me. Dark clothing, and not a light showing on her bicycle; and no reflective strips on bicycle or clothing. When I overtook her and looked in the rear view mirror, she and her bicycle were almost invisible even at that short distance, despite some street lighting. Had I hit her, no doubt I would have been exonerated, but only after the nuisance and inconvenience of having to explain myself to the police.
@dpjhodges, Jackie Boy, as usual your tweet contains a misrepresentation. I have *never* said that 'if we just lifted lockdown the whole thing would go away.' If only. The damage done to the NHS by lockdowns may never be repaired, and will certainly take many years to fix. https://t.co/4i3jHqyBZg
Quite so @JaneyCMJ . There is a huge jump in logic between accepting 'the hospitals are under grave pressure ' to concluding 'we must therefore close down the country'. And the failure of Parliament and the BBC to permit debate means this is seldom examined. https://t.co/hYKXmifRXl
Well no, @drphilplee1, but the NHS has never before coped with a large winter outbreak of respiratory disease while many of its staff are compelled to self-isolate, and when large numbers of patients cannot be moved back to care homes, so perhaps this is the difference. https://t.co/qsDgM3rYlq
Naked Fear propaganda . ‘If you bend the rules, people will die’ . But is its real aim to prepare HMG’s excuses for the failure of the 3rd lockdown? pic.twitter.com/PyOvFGMamF
It’s much worse than ludicrous @newtonclarkeuk . It is disturbing and creepy, involving someone deciding what opinions Twitter users are allowed to express. https://t.co/8UEe2wenC8
The problem that literate, erudite System journalists such as Peter Hitchens have is that they think that this is a “debate”, and not a war…
There is an international conspiracy in existence. The Great Reset. The Great Replacement. White Genocide. NWO. ZOG. The censorship which is now pervasive and gathering pace is just part of that conspiracy.
Writing letters to corrupt MPs, tweeting, blogging too, while certainly necessary, will change little.
Ha ha! I was featured in 2017 or 2018. Not since, as far as I know. The enemy must consider me and my blog relatively harmless! Still, who knows? Butterfly-wing effect?
The USA, “land of freedom”… If Trump had any sense or much courage, he would now PARDON all social-national and allied prisoners being held in Federal prisons, PARDON Snowden, PARDON Assange and others. Stick it to his enemies in the week or so left. Just do it!
Not sure how true the above is, in that one could cite regimes in Africa or elsewhere, but the mere fact that we now start to ask “is the UK Govt. worse or less competent than those of African states?” rather makes the point…
It is true, though, that the British people now have no competent government and also no competent opposition parties.
Sure, but there are many ways to approach it. I do see rewilding and restoration as part of conservation. And rewilding as a form of restoration, or at least with plenty of over lap.
We're delighted to have Dominic Buscall of @WildKenHill as our next webinar guest. He'll be talking about rewilding, regenerative farming and conservation on his Norfolk farm. Tuesday 26 January at 7.30pm. Tickets from only £2 + Eventbrite fee. https://t.co/FlUWKZ8qNDpic.twitter.com/mmv6EcYAZN
Morning all, you may have seen in the @Telegraph and @thetimes this morning that @pritipatel will shortly announce that it will make it a criminal offence to trespass with the intention of settling. 1/nhttps://t.co/uoB8eugUyP
— Friends, Families & Travellers (@GypsyTravellers) January 16, 2021
Yay! About time Priti Useless did something right. The penalties proposed are far too light, however.
Most ecologists would endorse this statement but try and convince agric scientists, farmers, spp. conservationists, planners, land owners, local authorities, Gov agencies, and others that #rewilding can make a REAL difference to climate problems & biodiversity crisis https://t.co/GFozbo0fT6
“Jack” Monroe may not be on the same ideological page as me in several respects, but her activity around food poverty, low-income survival and child poverty is generally quite useful.
“Disappointing“? Ha ha…that’s the best that Rentoul has done for a long time, as far as I can recall. As for me, though I usually beat Rentoul, I too only managed 6/10. The questions I could not answer were questions 2, 3, 7 and 9. I would have got 7/10 right had I been able to remember that that little pro-Israel puppet, Sajid Javid, actually rose as high as Chancellor of the Exchequer (Question 3).
The enemies of civilization will not be content until the world lies in multi-ethnic ruins. The woman shown below, Corinne Fowler, is yet another termite in the UK academic world, another instant “professor” (in her case, “Professor of Post-Colonial Literature”, or possibly “Associate Professor”, at the University of Leicester). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9153499/Academic-says-GARDENING-roots-racial-injustice.html
Evil.
[“Professor” Corinne Fowler]
Apparently, one of her collaborators is an Indian called Raj Pal. Another is a Dr. Marian Gwynne.
“Sir John Hayes, leader of the Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs, which has been highly critical of the Trust, told the Mail: ‘The National Trust’s charitable purpose is being stretched to its breaking point. The fact is the National Trust is losing large amounts of money at the moment, and sacking staff while spending time, money and energy on this nonsense.’”
“Sir Roy Strong, the architectural historian and former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery agreed, saying the National Trust has gone ‘completely bonkers . . .” [Daily Mail]
Meanwhile, the National Lottery Fund has given the above nonsense £160,000…Taxation without representation…
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I rarely agree with anything said by the Israel-lobby or its collaborators, but…
*Actually not Women's Running at all but a biological male with no apparent intention of medical transition. https://t.co/akUhGlloHn
Britain is now a massive version of the Augean Stables. It must be cleansed.
1. I don't think there's any need to be uncivil. 2. A lot of my colleagues, especially women, feel that women's sport is being destroyed. 3. You seem to be missing the point. Neither they nor I care about what she wants to be called – the point is about women's sport.
Tweeter “@harrisglenys1” is all too typical in contemporary Britain. Yet look at “@rob_marchant”: goes along with the “she” stuff. Eddie Izzard is not “she” (though he is a pain in the neck!)…
This whole nonsense has just gone too far.
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When the ethno state is reclaimed, we must rebuild our railroad system bigger and better.
Our railroad system was amazing. With newer technology it can be even better. https://t.co/TtVborhh2p
…and the USA is in a better place to do that as compared to the UK because, when the American railways were closed (those that were, and that was the overwhelming majority) Federal law ensured that the railbed and the tracks (meaning the rails) were left. Bridges were mostly left too.
In Britain, both before and after the disastrous Beeching/Marples “reforms” of the 1960s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts], rails were taken up, sleepers removed, and —in many cases— bridges destroyed. The land was then ploughed, or built upon, with a few favoured tracks being eventually repurposed as leisure trails for walkers and cyclists, as with the Camel Trail to Padstow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_Trail].
[“Approaching Padstow, the Camel Trail crosses Petherick Creek on this bridge which formerly carried the North Cornwall Railway“– Wikipedia]
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