According to YouGov, the most popular Conservative leadership candidate among 2024 Conservatives (joint top), Leave voters, Reform voters & the working-class is … Suella Braverman! (who just dropped out) see -> https://t.co/xBkvcoU0Xp
What kind of clueless people voted “Conservative” at GE 2024 anyway? 3 out of every 12 that voted at all did, though.
"Britain's growing problem with Islamic sectarian politics is directly downstream from its decision to pursue mass immigration while simultaneously failing to integrate those who do come into the country"https://t.co/PzlVaTE7Jb
Russia’s Defense Ministry has begun extensive naval exercises involving around 300 warships and speedboats from the Northern, Pacific, and Baltic Fleets, as well as the Caspian Flotilla. pic.twitter.com/fppViwryFD
Three hundred ships (and smaller craft)? Impressive, on the face of it.
newspaper "Maariv":
🔻 Ben Caspit: "Israel" is not on the brink of chaos, but it is in a state of chaos. The video clips showing dozens or hundreds of Israelis trying to storm the gates of military bases are a symbol of our disintegration.
I do not know who exactly is that Labour MP begging for more migrant-invaders to be allowed to come and stay here. Just one of —probably— hundreds of similar type.
Supported open borders all his life. Got rid of the one deterrent we had without anything to take its place. Consistently voted against border control.
“A man has said he will never return to Bournemouth after an attacker bit his ear off at a Razorlight concert.
“I was enjoying the night, watching Razorlight and having a good time, having a laugh with everybody when out of nowhere he’s tapped me on the shoulder a few times,” said Matt.
“I went in thinking he had something to say to me and the next thing I know he’s taken my ear off.”
Daniel Sykes, 46, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court, for inflicting grievous bodily harm, to nine months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
He was also ordered to pay £500 in compensation, but Matt said this will not cover his counselling sessions and travel costs.
“He’s just walking the streets like nothing matters now to him.”
[Bournemouth Echo]
[defendant]
Regular readers know that I always say that I am not a “hanger and flogger” by any means, but a suspended sentence, and pitiful financial penalty, for a completely unprovoked and vicious attack of that sort in a public place, is inadequate; in fact it makes a mockery of law, order, and the courts.
We all know that prisons are full etc, but that sentence is just not good enough. Naturally, not all relevant facts before the court are printed in newspaper reports, but it is hard to see what mitigation could be sufficient on the facts that are known to newspaper readers to outweigh what the defendant did.
Why would people aged 45+ even be at such an event? I do not know, but then I myself would pay to be able to avoid such a noisy gathering.
Late tweets
I wondered how long it would be before the 'far right' trope would appear. We live in a country where anything the media don't agree with is 'far right' it's pathetic, lazy 'journalism'. The people who write such pieces are scum.
3,000 illegal migrants have crossed the Channel since Keir Starmer & Labour took power. As I've explained, with no serious deterrent, no serious plan, & no consequences for those who cross, this crisis is going to get much worse under Labourhttps://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
Well, 9/10 this week, trumping John Rentoul’s 5 and a half. The only answer I definitely did not know was that to question no. 1. I admit that I “educated-guessed” several, though.
The 2024 Olympics
Not everyone was happy when the Olympic Games were resurrected from the vaults of classical history. Rudolf Steiner, for one, did not like the idea, the form it took and, I think, the aesthetics of what was re-invented.
The sports have varied over the years. Tug-o-War was once a recognized Olympic sport, for example, and I personally cannot accept several of the present-day sports as real sports. Synchronized swimming and equestrian dressage, to name but two.
To my mind, the main damage was done when the Olympic Games became a competition among nations rather than among individuals. I suppose that the idea was to mirror the original Games, in which Greek villages and city-states sent representative athletes.
The Games developed from an early amateur and folksy festival to a peak of aesthetics at the 1936 Games in Berlin, but since then the whole thing has become an international corporate Schauspiel with little reality.
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To start off the #Olympics Opening Ceremony this year, they chose the Pale White Horse from Revelation.
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to… pic.twitter.com/6ZeYKUVwZO
I don’t care if Lammy has half a dozen tick-box “degrees” or diplomas. I prefer to look at the real person. Just listen to that ignorant [REDACTED]…
Also, it is clear that Lammy cannot think on his feet. Perhaps that is why he never worked as a practising barrister. In fact, I think that he never was actually in practice at the Bar at all, just did a few months as a kind of “diversity”-hire gopher and/or intern at a law firm in California, then a year doing the same thing in London at a different firm. That year or two together constitute the only non-political work Lammy has ever done, when aged about 26, before he latched onto the old MP racket (like so many other useless wastes of space).
Not at these impossible to integrate numbers we don’t
— Janekin24 💥💥🌞🌞Let’s grow the future WE want! (@janekin24) July 18, 2024
Exactly as I predicted would happen. Instead of a highly-visible armada of “small boats” across the Channel, UK “vetting centres” in mainland Europe will rubberstamp 90% of all applicants.
The rest will either be deterred or, more likely, will still try their luck at crossing illegally, but of course the visual and public relations impact will be diminished— 50 a day instead of 500, but with the other 450 coming in “legally”.
Straight treachery.
Starmer-Labour is a kind of bastard progeny of Blair’s trickery.
Incidentally, you can see there what a nest of evil exists in the “British” mainstream media (of which Talk TV would be part, if anyone actually watched it). Most scribblers and talking heads in this country are enemies of the future of the British people.
Labour’s announcement today, they are halting and probably repealing the new Education ‘Free Speech Laws’ are a chilling warning of what to expect in the new political dictatorship of Great Britain.
Day 2 of 56. Mark Lewis and Patron Law have not yet paid my costs.
In Davidoff v Google, the judge checked online to see if Lewis’ witness statement was true. Some of it was false, likely because Lewis ‘had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take… https://t.co/YSpOe14Jdipic.twitter.com/TQnBhC4C1Q
As noted many times previously, anyone silly enough to instruct Mark Lewis is to be pitied.
Yes. The Defendants have 56 days to pay my costs, or they face bankruptcy and/or losing their home. It is all most unfortunate. I hope we can reach a sensible agreement before then!
So two spiteful Jews may lose their homes for having made libellous comments claiming “antisemitism”? In the immortal words of Windsor Davies, “oh dear, what a pity, never mind“…
I suppose that the two Jews in question will recoup whatever they can by suing Mark Lewis… [please refer to the Windsor Davies comment above].
However, Lewis has no real property or other assets in the jurisdiction, and is based in the home of so many other frauds— Israel.
Well said David. You will lose friends & family over this battle. It’s a battle between good & evil.
— The Unboxed Mindset. (@UnboxedMindset) July 27, 2024
Something we see every day now in the UK. I myself have been prosecuted at the behest of the Jew-Zionist element for telling the truth. Still, I am still here, the blog is still here, and the truth is still being told.
The White Christian man is the only one who can and will put an end to this madness.
Incidentally, that young tweeter, “@david_r_morgan” is well worth following, for those with a Twitter/X account (I myself was expelled in 2018, after a long campaign by Jew-Zionists).
— Antifa Public Watch official (@UnmaskedAntifa) July 27, 2024
Posted this photo from the Olympics Opening Ceremony and had my account on Facebook restricted because of it!
So it’s ok to broadcast this shit live across the world but god forbid you share this behaviour to wake up your friends and families! pic.twitter.com/xc9Ijmlt9o
— 𝒯𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓎 🇬🇧🚜 💚🤍💜 (@tractorgirly) July 27, 2024
Bushido in the modern age
Have not seen that film for at least 25 years. Pretty good.
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Its time to stop pretending Nicola Sturgeon is some kind of political giant https://t.co/bZWOIV49sH
Not sure that I agree that the policeman who kicked one compliant suspect in the head and then stamped on the suspect’s head did behave “appropriately“, bearing in mind that the suspect was still, was lying face down, and was presenting no risk.
That two-stage action, the kick and the stamping, can be separated from the main fight, because the recipient of the attacking police actions was effectively a prisoner and not fighting when he was kicked and stamped upon.
Of course it is easy to pass judgment after the event, but that is what has to happen— cool judgment later, whether in a court or tribunal, or in the court of public opinion.
Instead highlighting human values, sports ideals, elevating body to the realm of the soul, from perishable to indestructible, org. comm. of Olympic Games highlighted the reduction of the human species to trash & a tool to reduce its value, I declare TOO I will #BoycottOlympics
A major Mississippi company is removing its advertisements from the 2024 Paris Olympics, following an unprecedented tableau reminiscent of “The Last Supper” during Friday’s opening ceremony.
Where was Matt Goodwin when Jez Turner was imprisoned merely for saying that Jews should be deported from the UK? Where was Goodwin when Alison Chabloz was imprisoned for creating and posting a few amusing cartoons and songs about Jewish behaviour? Indeed, where was Goodwin when I was prosecuted last year for allegedly having posted “grossly offensive” remarks and cartoons on this blog? Nowhere, that’s where Goodwin (a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish lobby) was…and is.
Late music
[Kiev 1944]
[Warsaw 1945]
[Stuttgart 1945]
[Berlin 1945— Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag]
[Dresden 1945]
The most important immediate task for all in the position of statesmen is to avoid another and even more devastating war in Europe.
I rather think we are there already. I commend the media on their assiduous efforts to find reasons why we are not. The ‘everything is fine’ scam.
— Gas Lighting Services 🇷🇺 (@TauntonHeat) July 25, 2024
CASE UPDATE: the Court has approved a costs order in my case. The court has awarded me 90% of my costs of c£140k. I am grateful to the Defendants for agreeing undertakings.
“CASE UPDATE: the Court has approved a costs order in my case. The court has awarded me 90% of my costs of c£140k. I am grateful to the Defendants for agreeing undertakings. The question now is whether the Defendants’ former solicitor Mark Lewis (@MLewisLawyer) helps the Defendants. If the messages between the Defendants are right, it seems Lewis advised that my claim “would be dismissed swiftly” and my strategy was “laughable”. If that was the advice, it was extremely poor and very costly. My view is that Lewis should do the decent thing and help pay my costs.“
[James Wilson]
Ha ha! Lewis “doing the right thing“? Very unlikely… I expect that the surviving defendants, Cantor and Mendelsohn, will eventually have to take action against Lewis (and the small law firm with which he is associated in London) in professional negligence or otherwise. The matter may also result, eventually, in Lewis appearing (again) before the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal. We shall see.
My hope is that won’t be necessary. I think Mark Lewis and Patron Law know what the honourable thing to do is. And I am confident they will do it.
Incidentally, it has been repeatedly stated, from the Bench, in English courts that “antisemitism”, as such, is not a crime in England (neither, by the way, is so-called “holocaust” “denial”, meaning historical revision or revisionism).
It is a mystery why my case has been ignored by the media since the judgment. Maybe the result was not newsworthy? Not the sort of thing that people would be interested in reading about?
On the other hand, there seems to be lots of public interest in it on here.
The same msm “lack of interest” was around when, for example, Lewis was found guilty in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal about 6 years ago. There was a cloak of silence in the mass media about Lewis even having been prosecuted in the matter, and that continued after he was found guilty. The “usual” (((influence))) in the “British” Press, of course.
“Israel-based solicitor Mark Lewis has been heavily criticised by Mr Justice Nicklin in a recent High Court judgement.
Lewis is known for acting for Rachel Riley against Mike Sivier and Laura Murray, and for John Ware against Jewish Voice for Labour and Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi.
In the recent case, Lewis came unstuck when he was acting for Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates, a lettings and leasehold management firm. Lewis was seeking a court order requiring Google to disclose the identities of people with gmail addresses who had left negative reviews about ABC Estates on Trustpilot. The evidence in support of the court order was two witness statement by Lewis. The judge described Lewis’ evidence in general as “nothing more than assertion” and “perfunctory, even desultory” and “simply not good enough” to justify making the court order.
Things then got much worse for Lewis. He had stated that the Trustpilot reviews were “false, fabricated statements which Unknown person(s) know are untrue”. The judge conducted some online research himself and found that one of the reviews was true and based on the findings of another court. The judge said it was:
a matter of very real concern that the Claimants put evidence before the Court, on an ex parte application, that was not true.
The judge did not require Lewis to provide an explanation for the evidence that was “seriously in error” and accepted that Lewis would not have knowingly misled the court. The judge’s explained Lewis’ evidence as being:
because he had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take adequate instructions from his clients.
The judge also stated that there had been a “significant failure” by Lewis to comply with the general obligation of full and frank disclosure. The judge refused all the applications and the escapade is likely to have costs Lewis’ clients tens of thousands of pounds. Perhaps Lewis’ claim against Michael Rosen would have ended in the same way?
Mr Justice Nicklin’s full judgment is available here, with comments about Lewis’s contribution from paragraph 84 onwards.
Mark Lewis is a former director of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) until his emigration to Israel and was involved in the relaunch of right-wing pro-Israel group Herut UK. UKLFI locked access to a YouTube video in which a panel discussed Lewis’s “very handy way of bankrupting organisations” the group considered to have done ‘wrong’. However, a transcript of the discussion is still available.
In 2018, Lewis was fined by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority for abusive speech on social media toward a young Labour-supporting critic and others. He responded to the judgment by accusing the SRA that:
faced with a choice between Holocaust denying neo-Nazis and a Jewish lawyer… It chose to side with the neo-Nazis.”
[Skwawkbox]
That was about yet another matter in which the often (and laughably-) described “top libel lawyer” behaved in an egregiously unprofessional matter.
The “Dr. Pete Newbon” mentioned in that piece was the third defendant in James Wilson’s case against the Jews Mendelsohn and Cantor. Newbon, a persistent and vicious social media troll, who had been disciplined by his employing university a number of times for his online and offline behaviour, committed suicide during the James Wilson legal case, having apparently deceived his, Newbon’s, wife about the fact that he was being sued, and about the reasons for that.
The funny thing is that, for years, the “British” mass media were quite content to puff Lewis (ludicrously inaccurately) as a so-called “top lawyer“, but I saw nothing in the mainstream Press about how, after having been found guilty in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018, Lewis’s own Counsel begged for mercy for him in terms of the fine to be imposed, because, he said, Lewis had no assets at all except for his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter!
Even Lewis’s own specially-adapted car (driven by him until he had an accident in early 2018, caused by his physical and mental incapacity) had been supplied free of charge to him by the DWP, via the Motability scheme.
“Top lawyer“… My view has always been that Lewis is just a self-promoting chancer.
Yes. Something about the judge being a f***ing moron? An unfortunate choice of language. And definitely not true. While I don’t agree with every aspect of his decision, he was thoughtful and careful, and had obviously got to grips with the issues.
What’s been disappointing is that I got all sorts of grief, from all sorts of people on here. Some really awful things were said about me, and not one person – nobody – has had the dignity to apologise.
And it’s definitely possible because both Defendants have apologised!
Wilson being “too nice” again. Those two Jews (the defendants) were only too happy to look forward to Wilson losing his family home if he lost the case. He did not lose his case. Now they cringe and cry and “apologise”, because they are, to put it in the language of the New Testament, “in the same condemnation“. It’s all so (((typical))).
Incidentally, I think that Mr. Justice Nicklin also was “too nice”, in saying that he was sure that Lewis had not intended to mislead the court in that 2023 High Court ex parte injunction application.
Having said that, the learned High Court judge did (though in other, and far more diplomatic, words) characterize Lewis as (in my words) a lazy, negligent bastard.
No word directly to me from Lewis. Except he accidentally copied me into an email to his own solicitor last week where he said I was floundering. I thought it was a bit steep to say I was out of my depth given what seems to have been his advice to Dr Newbon.
More can be found using the search box on the blog.
In Wilson’s case, a number of Jews gave purported “evidence” for the defence, which testimony however the judge dismissed in polite but firm terms. They are all named and shamed on one of my previous blog posts.
One of that pack was the vituperative Jew-Zionist barrister and (until he was kicked off the Bench very recently) Recorder (p/t judge) Simon Myerson. His testimony was, to put it politely, given little weight by the learned judge.
Indeed, Myerson now seems again to be in trouble. He now not being on the Bench, the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office is not involved (this time— last time, he was given “words of advice”, i.e. mildly admonished); the Bar Standards Board, though, now seems, belatedly, to be taking an interest:
I shall watch any further developments with interest.
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More than a few of them blocked me after being tagged in. I can only hope that they blocked me and then emailed Mark Lewis and Patron Law to suggest they cough up to stop the defendants going bankrupt or losing their homes! @MLewisLawyer
Britain is descending into an angry, lawless nightmare. The speed at which this is happening is utterly terrifying. In one week alone: mass riots; attempted murder of a solder; violent thuggery at an airport; Muslim mobs outside police stations. Shocking.
Twitter-twits have responded angrily, blaming Isabel Oakeshott or her personal partner, Tice, of Reform UK, or Farage, for the gradual descent of Britain into the swamp. A woman journalist, and two fairly minor politicians…
No, the major cause is the half century and more of mass immigration, which over the past 25 years has become a full migration invasion. Millions of mostly quite, or very, backward non-Europeans. That, and the decline of real culture and society in the UK. I know where I place the blame for most of that (the bit not caused by migration-invasion)… The “you-know-who” element.
I don't care that jailed Just Stop Oil protestor Jemima is going to miss her brother's wedding. Boo hoo. When she blocked the M25, she stopped thousands of other people getting to family events. SUCK IT UP.
"The truth is that illegal immigration in Britain is now so widespread – with 1.2 million living among us, more than anywhere else in Europe – that a few more raids on nail bars & car washes will change nothing"https://t.co/NmI46Tw5k8
‘Their deaths don’t matter do they? Because they weren’t killed by Jews. But somehow, again, it’s all the Jews’@TomTugendhat was asked at a Tonbridge hustings before the election how he would resolve the Gaza crisis
The Labour government does not care about free speech and free expression in our universities. They are enabling the woke takeover of higher education by repealing the Higher Education (Free Speech) Act.
Goodwin is right, but he fails to note that the primary group (or cabal, if you like) trying to repress freedom of expression in UK universities and elsewhere, including online, is the Jew-Zionist element, most egregiously seen, arguably, in the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.
Patriotic Alternative
I happened to see the following statement put out by Patriotic Alternative, which I partly republish out of a spirit of comity, and despite not being a member of PA:
“This week we received the SHOCKING news that Sam Melia had been DENIED early release by the prison service! At a time when prisons are overflowing and the judiciary are routinely handing out suspended sentences to convicted sex offenders – Sam Melia, a man who published LAWFUL stickers, has been denied early release!
This is the latest in a string of miscarriages of justice aimed at breaking the spirit of Sam and his family. At this point, only one conclusion can be drawn: this is politically motivated persecution which is aimed at Sam due to his system of philosophical beliefs – a protected characteristic under European Human Rights legislation!“
[Patriotic Alternative]
It will be recalled that Sam Melia was imprisoned for a notional 2 years in March of this year, meaning that he could expect release around 1 March 2025. However, earlier release, which has been granted to all sorts of hooligans and thieves etc by reason of prison overcrowding, has been denied to Melia.
Very unjust, bearing in mind the essentially trivial “crime” for which he was imprisoned; also, he has a wife and two small children (one only born this year and since Melia’s incarceration).
First of all, the full facts, in detail, are not publicly known; I certainly do not know them.
Having said that, a few things do occur to me. The most forceful policeman in the now-infamous video clip plainly went far beyond what was necessary. His prisoner or opponent was lying face down, hands apparently bound. He was apparently not moving at all. The policeman kicked him in the head, a hard kick which might have killed the prisoner. The policeman then stamped down hard —he was wearing boots— another assault that might also have killed the prisoner.
Secondly, the context is not on film; allegedly, an immediately-earlier assault by the Muslim family on a policewoman and another. I suppose that that policewoman was the young woman running around like a headless chicken in the video. Useless.
Thirdly, I noticed in the later video that another totally useless policewoman was there, doing nothing but being a useless extra body. There should probably be a rethink about the utility of policewomen in uniformed front-line roles, as UK society becomes ever-more violent.
Fourthly, the comment of Richard Tice MP of Reform UK, applauding the (apparent) over-reaction by one or two of the policemen, was predictably brainless.
Fifthly, the cartoon below is increasingly relevant in the UK:
Actually, another point also occurred to me as I watched a few minutes of TV news coverage: how many of the passengers seen in the background were non-European.
Tweets seen
Wolves and crows have a special relationship.
In the wild, crows will often lead wolves to prey in return for meat.
Crows have been seen playing with wolf pups, bringing them sticks and feathers as gifts, then reuniting with them as adults to continue the hunt.
NEW POST. Why the UK's illegal migration crisis is about to get a LOT worse. My thoughts on Labour's latest moves including the unserious plan to increase international aid https://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
"Labour's plan to spend £100 million on aid, hoping it will stop illegal migration, makes no sense. Serious studies show aid has little effect on migration flows while some even find it encourages further migration"https://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
Not unlike the Tories in 2001 convincing themselves that the country was screaming out for “a quiet man”. IDS was gone in two years https://t.co/RCoHLQrkLu
Trump is, obviously, a very flawed individual, but it is hard to imagine what kind of American would rather vote for Kamala Harris, a useless box-ticking careerist and know-nothing.
I suppose that the Democrats hope that she will capture the votes of the “blacks and browns” (etc), a simple racially-based preference based on the fact that she is mixed-race [father Jamaican, mother Indian Tamil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris#Early_life_and_education].
Forbes: A major war in the Middle East is inevitable.
"The likelihood of a major war between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran is increasing. Such a conflict could quickly spiral out of control with the participation of the US and Russia. It could even force China to take a more… pic.twitter.com/VBL7pHtp0g
A third “world war” would be devastating, probably on a scale exceeding even that of the 1939-45 conflict. We can only hope that humanity, i.e. those individuals and groups with real power, pull back from the brink. If not, Europe, and quite likely Asia and North America as well, may face near-wipeout.
Nadine Dorries, pretty brainless freeloader though she is, is right about the semi-gangster milieu that has grown up, over two decades or more, in the centre of the “Conservative” Party. Given my head, I should know how to get rid of nuisances of that sort, but I am “not allowed” to detail that, in our “free” and supposedly liberal country.
Green MP calls for commons overhaul, with electronic voting and electoral reformhttps://t.co/LYC0HWq9vB
The most important reform would be to the electoral system. As frequently recently noted on the blog, at the recent General Election and out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 decided not to vote, a clear repudiation of the political system, the voting system, and the “main parties”.
Of the remaining (12) voters who did vote, a mere 4 voted Labour, 3 Conservative, 2 each for Reform UK and LibDem (though Reform got far more votes), and 1 (not quite) voted Green.
That is Starmer-Labour’s mandate and support-base— 4 people out of every 20.
A brilliant imperative from the greatest charity on the planet. Please give them your support for #TravelWithKindness please join me and sign the petition below. https://t.co/igFDgi5bAY
Animal rights activist Peter Egan thinks dressage "should be banned" from the Olympics, after a video emerged of Charlotte Dujardin repeatedly whipping a horse.@TVKev | @PeterEgan6pic.twitter.com/mDn9lZ91FJ
"I deeply regret riding an elephant on holiday. This year we should all make the ethical choice" @ChrisGPackham writes for @guardian on his journey toward more ethical travel choices and urges everyone to support Animals Asia's #TravelWithKindness campaign https://t.co/gb0u5XIoGV
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 25, 2024
If you aren’t disturbed by a foreign leader receiving dozens of standing ovations from our Congress as he demands more of our money, you are not a Loyal American.
[The bridge over the Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. I was at school, in the early 1970s, only a half-mile away, and the grounds of the school went down to the Thames (on which I rowed when aged 13/14) only a short distance from that bridge]
Talking point
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Russell Brand breaks down Canada's Orwellian Bill C-63:
"The legislation authorizes house arrest and electronic tagging for a person likely to commit a future crime… if a judge believes there are reasonable grounds to 'fear' a future hate crime."
— Canadian Refusenik 🍁 (@cdnrefusenik) July 23, 2024
How long before Starmer-Labour introduces similar measures in the UK? The justification will be something similar to that in the cartoon below.
The two aspects mentioned are a convenient “go-to”.
Those who question the System narrative, or suggest an alternative and/or better way forward for society, are often already “criminalized”, usually at the behest of the “usual suspects” (((“them”))).
A Labour Party which suspends MPs for voting to take children out of poverty has no right to call itself a Labour Party.
“Labour” is now just a label, as is “Conservative”, “Liberal Democrat”, and “Green”.
Israel has lost this war and Israelis have no idea how badly they have lost. The war of revenge that Israel is fighting in Gaza has crossed every moral red-line that is imaginable…Israelis cannot imagine the despair that has become the overriding emotion of our neighbors.…
"There is a listlessness among my peers & I. We are neither the ‘Somewheres’ nor ‘Anywheres’ @David_Goodhart writes about. We have neither the means to join Somewheres by putting down roots nor desire to join the hyper-liberal Anywheres. We are nowhere"https://t.co/N0T3LUfNnz
Well, this week I scored the same as political journalist John Rentoul— 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 6, 7, and 8 (in fact I had read about the last, but had forgotten it).
Historical note
On this day, 80 years ago, backstabbers attempted to kill Adolf Hitler and then to seize power in Berlin and over the Third Reich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot.
Classical Hochverrat [“high treason”].
I am willing to accept that some of the conspirators acted out of a sense of higher duty, and with the idea of bringing a halt to the war on the Western Front, and so also bringing a halt to the devastating aerial bombing of Germany (which eventually killed as many as 800,000 people). However, to attempt the assassination of the head of both state and government at such a time of crisis can only be seen as treason, if the term has any meaning [see also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/01/08/treason-is-a-matter-of-timing/].
The conspirators wanted to call a halt, via armistice or truce, on the Western Front but continue to fight Stalin’s Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. They seem to have believed that the Americans and British would have accepted that. Not impossible, but very unlikely. Roosevelt and Churchill, at the Casablanca Conference in early 1943 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_Conference] had jointly called for the war against the German Reich to be fought until the latter declared unconditional surrender.
I cannot but feel some understanding of the motives of the 20 July 1944 conspirators, despite their treason, and despite their attempt to kill Hitler. They wanted to keep Germany, and all Central Europe, from being completely obliterated. They were unaware at the time of the progress being made by Jewish scientists in the USA towards the development of an atomic bomb (originally planned to be used against Germany, not —primarily— Japan); had they known of it, they would perhaps have felt doubly justified.
The 20 July plotters gambled for the highest stakes, and lost.
I do not “condone” the actions of the plotters; neither do I “condemn” them (and my views make no difference either way). Let history judge. Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht [“the history of the world is the judgment of the world”— Schiller].
[Dresden 1945, after Allied, mainly British, bombing]
[“We are fighting for the future of our children!“]
[Reichskanzlei —Reich Chancellery— Berlin, 1945, after the devastating defeat of the Reich]
[Berlin 1945: Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag]
Let us hope that creatures of evil such as Ursula von der Leyen do not succeed in provoking or instigating another such regional or world war, which would be, this time, even more devastating for Germany, all of Europe, and the world as a whole.
When this woman is released, we need to get behind her & support her in any way necessary. She's a woman of immense bravery standing up to a violent crowd that size only for the cowards @WestYorksPolice to arrest her. We need more people like her! pic.twitter.com/lxvP3DMFsW
“Inside the Roma community ‘persecuted’ by police: How violent Leeds riots were the latest act of lawlessness to hit a deprived suburb where ‘a problem for one is a problem for all‘.
Many have large families, and around 5,000 Roma are now believed to live in the deprived neighbourhood, attracted by its spacious three-story terraces and low house prices.
Harehills has long been one of the most ethnically diverse areas of Leeds.“
[Daily Mail]
Even that Daily Mail report, if you read it in full, bends over backwards to be “nice” and “liberal” towards the Roma Gypsy “community”.
If I comment here about the bastards, no doubt the “usual suspects” will make yet another malicious complaint to the police (our new poundland Stasi) about me, which would be (again) a bore and a nuisance, so I shall allow the readers of the blog to read between the lines, as in other police states.
Nice chart. The real winner at the 2024 general election was not Labour but "none of the above". A total rejection of the two big parties. Source: Toby James pic.twitter.com/6VabeY1s6F
“Keir Starmer is looking into plans to process asylum seekers outside the UK as part of a rethink of the government’s immigration policies, even as a returns agreement with the EU appears more distant than ever.
The prime minister said on Thursday he was open to the idea of Britain processing claims offshore, after a day spent discussing illegal migration with fellow European leaders at Blenheim Palace. Those talks, as part of the European Political Community summit, included a meeting with Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, whose country processes asylum claims on behalf of Italy.
But he said a deal to return refused asylum seekers to the EU was low on his list of priorities, as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned his country was not willing to shoulder the additional burden.
“But look, I’m a practical person. I’m a pragmatist. And I’ve always said we’ll look at what works and where cases can be processed closer to origin, then that is something which of course ought to be looked at.”
[The Guardian]
As I have been predicting for many months on the blog, Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” migration invasion, meaning get it off the TV news agenda, by simply “processing” the applications of the invaders long before they reach the UK, whether that be in France, in Albania, in Italy, or even in Africa.
“Processing” will mean, in this context, rubberstamping 90% or more of the applications. Probably more, looking at how about 80% of the applications of the present wave of invaders are eventually approved once they land in the UK (and the rest not deported anyway).
What about those, the small minority no doubt, who apply for asylum in those extra-territorial processing centres or offices but are refused? Is Starmer pretending that they will be content to stay in, or return to, their native countries? Of course they will not. They will simply make their way to the English Channel and then try to cross it.
What I can say is that – if the messages between the defendants in my case are right – the advice of Mark Lewis of Patron Law was terrible. He appears not to have understood fundamental aspects of my claim. @MLewisLawyerhttps://t.co/NznpEQpOTfpic.twitter.com/SVwBbdsngA
Only one thing can save Western culture and civilization, and the root-stock on which they both depend— social nationalism, and a consequent “revaluation of all values”.
Happened to see the above photo of the Thames just below Benson Lock, Oxfordshire. My mind at once returned to the summer of 1971, when I was there, aged 14, rowing my inflatable yellow neoprene boat downstream.
53 years ago. Over half a century. Does not seem possible, in a sense.
At least that little corner of England has not yet been trashed, or built upon.
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So the Ukrainian parliament just passed for further proceeding a law that would de facto legalize corruption under the guise of fighting corruption. And this came from Zelenskyy’s support party. This is beyond absurd. Should this become law expect an exodus of Western… https://t.co/OHz6MiJLMZ
“Ukraine” (Kiev regime)— a shambolic, corrupt and brutal dictatorship masquerading as a “democracy” that values civil rights etc.
Moscow does not rule out deploying nuclear missiles in response to the deployment of long-range US missiles in Germany, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters:https://t.co/U3h6IiWbv7pic.twitter.com/drRDoD671m
Russian troops destroyed a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system of the Ukrainian army by a Lancet loitering munition in the Kherson area, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://t.co/8OqWFq5YxV
Behind Donald Trump, entirely different forces are at play. He represents an alternative to Biden and globalisation, diverging significantly from the policies of both Democratic and Republican forerunners.
I often worry that I may be too old to take a leading part in the national revolution by the time it happens, at least to take an active leading part; I am already 67 (68 in September). Damn.
I can understand some people often make a steeple with their hands but this is simply an unnatural thing to do, especially when sitting down. This is no real IT 'outage', the prep is being done for more lockdowns.
— cognitivedissonanceeverywhere (@Vercovicium) July 19, 2024
Mirabile dictu! Former-MP and Israel-puppet Largan has said something with which I can agree.
I have noted in the past on the blog the inadequacy of so many post-1945 public buildings in the UK, for example the court buildings in both London and the provinces. Some are OK, or even impressive, but more are not. Compare them to most of the American court buildings, such as the Federal court building in Trenton, New Jersey, where I was, several times, over 30 years ago:
So ugly, one is prompted to speculate, “Britischer Architekt?” Still, quite large and impressive at least.
I see that that 1980s building is named after a former Governor of the state, who was also at one time Chief Justice of New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Hughes_Justice_Complex#Dedication. I was very slightly acquainted with one of his sons, who himself became a Federal magistrate in 1991, a year or two after I was introduced to him; I met him again, en passant, a few times, in the years 1989-1991: https://www.pli.edu/faculty/hon.-john-j.-hughes-i1305491. He was all right, but not the most social person in the world, to be frank. Not sure that I would have liked to have been a defendant in his court…
It seems, just now, To be happening so very fast; Despite all the land left free For the first time I feel somehow That it isn't going to last https://t.co/hoGQ84EsYt
Well, amazing. A second tweet of Largan that I like. Two in one day. Amazing.
If those poetic lines are original, from Largan himself, then he has a poetic sophistication, though not unflawed, at which I should not have guessed, to be frank.
Huge crowds marching to the Gardaí station in Collock.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Cheers from the Irish tonight as the building that was to be used to house unvetted migrant men in Coolock catches fire again 🤷🏻♂️ bloody climate change eh? pic.twitter.com/KR8ikRXqTW
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Surprise surprise. When it comes to claims linking a ban on puberty blockers to increased suicide Jolyon Maugham & other activist lawyers have been talking total bollocks https://t.co/iLQhUifqzV
Even if that were not so, the ban is obviously the right thing to do, whatever the collateral damage.
"While the British Tories have lost their way, failing to grasp how the tectonic plates of politics are on the move, Team Trump have doubled down on and expanded the post-2016 political realignment"https://t.co/V5XZ2cc81p
The United States may stop providing aid to Ukraine in the future, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a fireside chat at the 2024 Aspen Security Forum:https://t.co/G9NOsXzQz7pic.twitter.com/6WxrHJBRVm
“Two asylum seekers who targeted a reveller for his £25,000 Rolex in London’s West End walked free from court today.
Egyptian Yousef Garef and Algerian Amin Abdelkadar were both spared jail and handed community orders on Wednesday. Both admitted to robbery.
The pair, attacked Kris Smith at around 2am in Soho, London on July 21 last year, seizing his gold Rolex Day Date watch.“
[Daily Mail]
Is comment even necessary?
This country is so screwed it is actually almost unbelievable. Not only because of migration invasion, but that, together with a “multicultural” population, is the cause of much of the overall problem.
Starmer-Labour will not “fix” the problems of the UK. Au contraire—Labour’s fake “landslide” regime will worsen them. Starmer-Labour is wedded to “diversity”, “anti-racism” (except against white English people) etc.
“Germany plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine in 2025, to €4bn, despite concerns over continued US support, according to a draft budget seen by Reuters. Instead the German government hopes Ukraine will be able to meet the bulk of its military needs with $50bn in loans from proceeds of frozen Russian assets approved by the G7, and that funds earmarked for armaments will not be fully used.”
There is no “Ukraine” as such now, just the Kiev regime, which can either be regarded as a “failed state” or a non-state.
Since 1997 over 12million immigrants have entered Britain. 80% remain dependent on Welfare. Total cost is £50k per person pa. This is a staggering amount of money. Close to £500billion. It's destroying our economy.
This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million. pic.twitter.com/CcUmjLmqFJ
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 16, 2024
What an amazing creature.
Starmer asked is any Israel 🇮🇱 crime in Gaza 🇵🇸 unacceptable for him:
Starmer says that the event of 7 October 2023 was the worst attack on Israel since “the holocaust”. Israel did not exist as a state until 1948.
Leaving that aside, Starmer is a total puppet of the Israeli state and the UK Israel lobby.
Look at the demonic grin on this monsters face as he relishes the opportunity to finally deliver his digital prison.
Tony Blair has been plugging away at digital ID for our banking overlords for decades, and it looks like, in Starmer, they finally have the tool needed to finish… pic.twitter.com/2nVV1HZp8D
“A single mother-of-two, who framed an innocent woman when she drove a pick-up truck and towed a trailer illegally, has dodged jail after revealing her personal woes.
Juliann Quilligan, 27, from Skelmersdale, Lincolnshire falsely told police her name was Rebecca Williams when she was pulled over for illegally towing a trailer on the M62.
The mother was driving her Mitsubishi L200 without being insured and kept quiet as police added eight points to the unaware woman’s licence.
She argued that she became ‘panicked’ and ‘frightened’ when dealing with police due to mental health issues exacerbated by her estrangement from the travelling community which she fled in 2019 so her children could go to school.
The victim – Miss Williams – only discovered she had been wrongly convicted in her absence when she attempted to renew the insurance policy on her own car.“
[Daily Mail]
Egregious. Also, leaving aside the sheer injustice of it all, note the absence of proper journalism and sub-editing of that report. “Skelmersdale, Lincolnshire“, writes the Daily Mail scribbler, one Shannon McGuigan, when surely a “journalist” should know that Skelmersdale is in Lancashire…
Again, the Daily Mail report is really quite poorly-written, something which is now almost the norm in most newspapers.
Proper journalism is another thing that has just faded away and died in the UK.
You can call me what you like, I'm not going to stop exposing what's really going on with immigration and the industrial scale abuse of our benefits system. I've only just got started with the racket in Boston…. https://t.co/o3U3i1ECvH
Too many people in this country believe it is Britain's role to take responsibility for the feck-ups of foreign governments. I believe the UK should, largely, be only letting in people who the govt believes it is in our direct strategic interest to do so.
— Martin in Monmouthshire (@MartinMonmouth1) July 18, 2024
“Immigration laws, said Thomas Sowell, are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. By allowing 100,000 illegal migrants to stay in Britain we are incentivising others to break the law while treating British people, who want strong borders & play by the rules, with contempt https://telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/17/labour-fast-track-asylum-claims-90000-migrants-rwanda-uk/“
[Matt Goodwin]
MATT GOODWIN: "It's already obvious the new Labour government has no serious plan for (or even interest in) curtailing immigration". Latest in the Mailhttps://t.co/Z182zHTRKb
This is spot on. You can have available & affordable housing for our young people & British families. Or you can have an immigration-fuelled population explosion.
The backlash from the people has grown, in the UK, in Ireland, and also across mainland Europe. In the UK, it drove the upsurge of voters for the actually rather mild Reform UK at the General Election of 2024 (over 4 million voters voted Reform UK. The Conservative Party only had about 6 million voters, and victorious Labour about 9 million).
The Conservative Party was dumped mainly because of both the invasion itself and also its down-the-line consequences, though sheer incompetence generally was also a major factor.
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Not a policeman in sight in Leeds. This is the reality of multiculturalism, it ruins everything it touches. pic.twitter.com/6n7eRTO1qs
Leeds tonight showed the world the consequences of mass immigration. You give them a home, you give them benefits, you give them safety and they give you hell. Ungrateful scroungers. pic.twitter.com/HsQULVSUwK
Riots have erupted in Harehills, Leeds tonight after Social Services took children away from a Roma Gypsy family, with a police car overturned and a bus now set on fire.
Britain needs to stop importing people with an alien culture and value system. Enough is enough. pic.twitter.com/QJ4NKPaEUy
Breaking: Police were chased away and the Fire and Rescue service are nowhere to be seen. Fires are burning unchecked in Leeds tonight.#Leeds#Riotspic.twitter.com/fOuvVKcAur
We can reform all the planning laws in the world but unless we also control demand we will never fix our housing crisis. You can have affordable & available housing. Or you can have mass immigration. You can't have both.https://t.co/ERDM5mO3yN
The “unwanted truth”. The Twitter-twits and similar people will close their ears. They want to believe that mass immigration has nothing at all to do with the housing crisis, or low pay, restricted State benefits, crowded schools, hospitals, trains etc, even water shortages.
They also prefer to believe that you can import half a million or a million persons per year, mostly from very backward parts of the planet, to the UK, without any effect on public safety, a decent life, standards in all areas, you name it.
As Hitler said of the people of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“.
[The “4 million immigrants” (since 1997) of several years ago are now nearly 7 million, or more]
Palestinians are trying to repair parts of their destroyed houses in Gaza City in order to somehow live in them. pic.twitter.com/DKA7zL439I
Trump leads Biden in seven swing states 🇺🇸 The former US president is superior to his opponent in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, The Times reports, citing YouGov poll data. pic.twitter.com/5hZLtCdp7C
To this day I can’t believe people actually buy Bitcoin. It’s just numbers on a screen!
What we should really be doing is trusting the Government to print worthless paper notes out of thin air, then depositing those notes at the banks so they can keep them safe for us!
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 17, 2024
“Terrible news for Ukraine” – European experts on Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance
Donald Trump's choice of J.D. Vance as his candidate for the post of vice president of the United States has again raised fears in Europe that the former American leader will take a businesslike… pic.twitter.com/0PHueudqoW
“Terrible news for Ukraine” – European experts on Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance as his candidate for the post of vice president of the United States has again raised fears in Europe that the former American leader will take a businesslike approach to foreign policy and will pursue it based on the principle of “America First,” writes The Guardian.
This, as the article notes, could lead to the United States insisting that Kyiv give in to Vladimir Putin and ask for peace with Russia. “It’s bad for us and it’s terrible news for Ukraine,” said one senior European diplomat in Washington. “Vance is not our ally.”
Foreign diplomats and observers often call Trump’s current policies a “black box,” saying it is impossible to know for sure what the unpredictable leader will do once in power. Some are comforting themselves by suggesting that leadership candidates such as former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien will maintain the status quo on foreign policy while Trump focuses on domestic affairs. But the would-be US president now has a much more energetic deputy who will stoke Trump’s skepticism about Ukraine and Europe while urging the party to pursue aggressive trade and foreign policies in other parts of the world.“
The former deputy mayor of Kiryat Shmona is considering buying an apartment in Greece due to the war and missiles from Lebanon.
The journalist asked him: Do you feel that the state is falling apart? He replied: There is no state. Everything is paralyzed. pic.twitter.com/qJIBgjGXcj
“Last week I made the decision to cancel my Conservative Party membership after nearly a decade. The party has failed to set out a positive vision on housing, the environment and investment, as well as a pragmatic stance on Brexit. It has also drifted from the values of inclusivity and aspiration which drew me to the party under Lord Cameron. This isn’t me leaving the Conservative party, it’s the Conservative party that has left me. Read my interview with the Telegraph on why for the first time I am politically homeless.”
Next time the Welsh Government complain they aren’t getting enough money from London, remember they spent almost £40 million on changing the speed limits to 20mph, only to change them back following backlash, once again costing millions.
And no one will be held accountable.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 17, 2024
Record level data on doses, dates and deaths in relation to ten million people from the Czech Rrepublic has now been released by @stkirsch. It shows that the Moderna vaccine is 50% more deadly than the Pfizer. Steve's full analysis here: https://t.co/DWLwMWeMGYpic.twitter.com/tssOHNN5zp
The main theses from Sergey Lavrov's press conferences after the UN Security Council meeting:
◻️ The solution to the crisis in Ukraine must take into account the reality on the ground, but the West needs to stop pumping Kiev with weapons and then the conflict will end;
Labour's plans in King's Speech –as I wrote months ago–will further erode democracy by doubling down on Quangocracy –rule by unelected & largely unaccountable "expert" bodies removed from the peoplehttps://t.co/UA2ukmAI16
Once again, I refer readers to what Khrushchev said about Malenkov, namely that the “filing clerk” type should never be given power. That’s Starmer, in essence, a would-be dictator but in the guise of a careful, over-controlled lawyer.
#Volgarev: The countries to "West of Vienna" also have alarming trends and long-standing systemic problems. While their representatives have been busy for many years imposing narratives on others and ignoring problems "at home" pic.twitter.com/IY4GKzJqyM
Back in the mid-1980s, I sometimes enjoyed Spitting Image [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image]. The sort of real cutting satire that would simply not be allowed today, much of it. In any case, with the sort of events we now see (eg Biden’s funny but also sad descent into the fog), any similar show today would have to fight hard to compete with what is actually happening in front of our eyes.
True, Reagan was not the most-obviously intelligent world leader, but the satirical treatment of him was deliberately “over the top”; whatever his flaws, he was not in the grip of a dementia-related condition plainly visible whenever he spoke in public.
I have not seen the more recently remade Spitting Image but I doubt that it pokes fun at the kind of non-political targets the 1980s original did, e.g. black “rap” performers. I admit that I am guessing, though. The remake is not broadcast on mainstream TV.
Zelenskyy Calls on NATO Allies to Remove Restrictions on Strikes Into Russiahttps://t.co/DikGEKi0oX
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The regime of that evil little bastard has only one main chance— to drag NATO into the war. That might mean a slide into a nuclear confrontation before very long.
If the Kiev regime starts to attack Russian cities far from the front line, the response might be that Ukrainian cities in the western part of Ukraine, west of the Dnieper, might be attacked and even destroyed.
So far, Russia has not launched all-out attack on Kiev, partly because of its role in Russian history, but if major Russian cities start to be bombarded, that may change.
I predicted, a couple of years ago, on the blog, that Russia would start to degrade the electrical production and distribution network across Ukraine. That is now being intensified, and is a far more intelligent way of waging war than the more brutal and harsh —and less effective— choice of attacking directly the homes and neighbourhoods of the Ukrainian civilians.
If the Kiev regime starts to badly damage Russian cities away from the front line —especially Moscow, Petersburg and surrounding territories— the Russian response could be devastating enough to bring NATO into the war on some pretext such as Poland suffering damage. Were that to happen, all of us would be but a step away from a Russia-NATO war, which is being pushed by secret circles within the West. Such a war, which would quite likely go nuclear within weeks, would change Europe and the world forever.
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If your landlord lets a bunch of stray dogs into your apartment when you're at work do you blame the dogs or the landlord?
Incredible, when you think of the historical hardships of the Irish people. Now, unwanted non-European migrant-invaders demand this, that, and the other…
The Conservative Party needs a bold offering to make it easier to start and raise a family.@NBC789 outlines our proposal below 👇 pic.twitter.com/GnS7API2PR
Starmer-Labour has surprised even me by its evident ineptitude. We are only one week into what looks like being a disastrous 5 years.
Talking point
I do not follow football at all, but it seems to me that both domestic and international matches are now, in effect, a situation where people put “national” or team labels on a group of players and say to each other: “my blacks can beat your blacks“.
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What is going on??
Astonishing how quickly Patrick Vallance is pontificating on all this
attacks Brexit – doesn’t rule out Free Movement as part of a rapprochement with the EU – argues that liberalisation of visa rules is important
Another example of the undemocratic and quasi-dictatorial nature of the Starmer-Labour government. 411 MPs from whom to choose, yet Starmer is appointing ministers at will from outside the Commons, elevating them to the Lords first.
Must admit I certainly worry for my kids. The future does not look that great given Labours decisions over the last week.
I was just looking at Twitter/X, which is alive today with Twitter-twits attacking Reform UK and, particularly, belittling Reform for, as it were, pretending to be a serious political party when it “only” has 5 MPs.
As recently as June 2024, the LibDems only had 11 MPs, and had only 8 from 2015 until 2017.
As for the SNP, from its foundation in the early 1930s and until 1970, about 37 years (!), the SNP had no MPs at all; in 1970, the SNP managed to have elected 1 MP. The MP-cadre of the SNP then varied from 2 to (1974 to 1979) 11 MPs in the years 1974 to 2015, but mostly stuck at 2 or 3 MPs until 1997, when the SNP bloc increased its numbers, this time to 6 MPs. When the FPTP tipping-point was reached in 2015, the SNP mushroomed from 6 MPs to 56 (out of 59 Scottish MPs) overnight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.
Apart from those comparisons, the Twitter-twits might like to consider what this blog has been saying for the past week, as have some others (though not enough) even in the msm: Labour did not win by some kind of popular “landslide”, but only in terms of seats conferred by a totally unfit-for-purpose electoral system.
As noted on the blog in past days, at GE 2024 the Conservative Party only got (just over) 1.5x the number/percentage of votes of Reform UK, and even Labour only got (below) 2.5x the Reform UK vote-share.
As put on the blog the other day, out of every 20 eligible voters, only 12 even voted.
In very rough terms, out of that eligible 20 voters, 8 voters abstained, 4 voters voted Lab, 3 voters voted Con, 2 voters voted Reform, 2 voters voted LibDem, and 1 voter voted Green.
Not exactly, and “other parties were available”, but 90.29% of UK voters voted for one of those 5 parties. In England specifically, about 97% of voters voted Lab, Con, Reform, LibDem or Green.
The Twitter-Twits tweeting about Reform UK are mostly Labour supporters who belittle Reform because only 2 out of every 12 voters who voted voted for it, yet only 4 out of 12 (4 out of 20 if you count the abstainers) voted Labour.
I happened to notice one particular Twitter/X account, one “@RobBaron10”, who today (as of 1430) has already managed to put out about 29 Twitter/X “replies”, almost all angrily insulting, and all or almost all completely brainless. I have to say that I am loath to give much credence to someone whose Twitter/X profile says “Retired lecturer in philosophy trying to live a low-impact lifestyle. Despises the far-right and social injustice. Responds in the tone responded to.” Especially when said “retired lecturer in philosophy” thinks that “toe the line” is spelled “tow the line“…
More seriously, if Starmer-Labour MPs and supporters think that the absurd result of GE 2024 gives Starmer the right to impose a “woke”, and also Israel-lobby, tyranny on the people of the UK, he and they are very much mistaken.
Remember those figures— only 4 out of 12 who voted (<34%) voted Labour; only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters (~20%) voted Labour.
American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed… pic.twitter.com/dJtIeBBYuW
— AZ 🇺🇸 PATRIOT • Steve Emery (@SteveEmery0003) July 12, 2024
“American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed with the illegal covert bio weapons laboratory facility’s doing gain of function. Ukraine is the most corruption country in Europe, a money laundering hub, a child trafficking hub and a live organ black market dealing hub. Fuck Ukraine and punk ass Zelensky!“
In which Dido Harding reveals her confusion of public with ‘customer’ service. Test and Trace belongs in the same pile as “Tesco and Sainsbury’s” and “buying your broadband from Talk Talk” and they’ve all, she hopes, given her “a little bit of wisdom”. 😂 https://t.co/iLcUjG4luf
We now have a Labour government. Please can they be ‘Labour’ & renationalise our water ASAP Privatising water was another Tory disaster. #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas
Also most railways, most electricity, and most other energy production and distribution.
#JustChangeItBackToHowItWas when you could tell someone they are wrong and they could tell you to fuck off. Then go about your day with no offense currency and hounding out of jobs
— Why is everyone insane? (@Joyfulkumquat) July 12, 2024
…and no professional pretend-“offended” nuisances, such as the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal.
Every woke historical drama made now seems to be a ‘reinvention’ of history, in putting minorities and women in roles that wouldn’t have been possible in those days and scrapping any racism and sexism that would have existed back then. Rubbish. #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas
Washington is putting pressure on the new UK government to continue challenging the ICC decision in favor of Israel
The previous Tory government filed a request to challenge the ICC's jurisdiction to try Netanyahu and his gang for war crimes in Gaza pic.twitter.com/5ikwLKmbHl
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
🇮🇱 Haaretz : Former Prime Minister Exud Olmert says Israel will eventually face arrest warrants and prosecution for crimes against Palestinians cev on the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/Wi3o5i3b0V
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The main square of the city of Bani Suheila, the southern part of the Gaza Strip, before and after Israeli aggression. pic.twitter.com/lqw49OKwVn
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
Mossad director advocates continued attacks on Gaza after prisoner exchange
Increased attacks on Gaza have had a 'positive impact' on prisoner exchange talks – David Barnea pic.twitter.com/eATbzeaTv0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
That visage puts me in mind of some kind of lizard.
A rose forged from the steel of a Western missile launched on Donetsk was delivered to the State Department for the former US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, said the deputy leader of the DNR Jan Gagin.
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
“Along with the “gift”, he also sent an accompanying written appeal, in which he called on American politicians to stop supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with weapons and money in order to stop the bloodshed and the escalation of the conflict.“
Putin called the West’s big mistake the lack of reaction to direct strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant:
“This is their big mistake, we will remember this again, we will talk about this more than once.” pic.twitter.com/qPtzdxCf0H
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
🌋 Video from the crater of Mount Etna Voragin, which has been erupting for more than a week pic.twitter.com/vvYwOf0Xqt
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
Ian Robert Millard 