Well, this week I achieved 6/10, thus just beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, 8, and 9.
I was actually not quite sure about question 4, but against that I got question 1 right despite the fact that the question is itself flawed (the book in question was published in the late 17th Century, not 18th…).
BBC
It has only now come to my attention that the Chairman of the BBC (since February 2021) is one Richard Sharp, a Jew (or possibly half-Jew), who was previously an international banker worth several hundred million pounds, and who has given £400,000 to the Conservative Party.
Incidentally, Sharp’s sister, Victoria Sharp, is President of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court, and a former Lady Justice of Appeal.
[Update, same day: so only yesterday, “Jack Monroe” had “all-consuming bleak and crushing depression“, but less than a day later (earlier this evening) she is tweeting about being ready to go to a fancy dress party? See below on this blog post. Does she ever tell the truth?]
She's brought in a sock to defend her against an allegation of using socks.
Well, there it is, in plain sight. A new wave of non-white migration-invasion (inc. Albanian, which is non-white, in effect), given the green light by Britain’s first non-white prime minister.
The Plan is no “conspiracy theory”. Just look around you, especially if you live in a city and/or are over 40+ years of age (and so able to recall the 1960s and/or 1970s to compare).
Twitter will start incorporating mute & block signals from Blue Verified (not Legacy Blue) as downvotes
Brilliant. Maybe I shall apply to have my old Twitter account restored, with “blue tick”. First target…well, we shall see. A pack of malicious Jews around the fake “charity”, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, conspired to have it removed in 2018.
The idea that the NHS was somehow wonderful before 2010 or 2012 is just silly. I can recall seeing (as an almost daily visitor to a hospital, though not as patient) some appalling service and attitudes (as well as the opposite, and as well as surgical excellence) during the period 2012-2015, from only about 18 months after the 2010 General Election. It takes longer than 18 months for either positive or negative trends to develop in such a huge organization.
It is clear that maladministration is a major problem in the NHS, perhaps the major problem.
So, poverty stricken depressed @bootstrapcook Monroe, who hinted her 12 year old son died last week, is off out on the rave at an xmas party this weekend. So long, suckers. pic.twitter.com/02YtN2j61x
Jack Monroe's only lived experience is as a middle class poverty cosplay artist, congenital liar, hoaxer and grifter. Read her own screenshots.https://t.co/4PRSsKZoj6
“Asks only for a donation to a worthy charity”? Ha ha. What a “mug” tweeter “@SteveChev1” must be. 643 other mugs are each sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 each month via the Patreon website, and not even getting the various bits and pieces promised; they are thus sustaining the not-uncomfortable lifestyle of the “Bootstrap Cook”. Somewhere between £2,500 and £30,000 each month.
Sadly, most people prefer the comforting lies, whether re. race, culture, Ukraine, migration-invasion, the “Covid” “panicdemic”, “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook”, the war against the German Reich, or whatever.
And no doctor, whether on television or otherwise, had any reason at all, from day one, to recommend these procedures to anybody.
There is nothing wrong with the principle(s) behind the NHS, but the system is just not working or properly working now, and simply increasing the pay of nurses, doctors and others (not that I oppose that) will not help in the slightest, because the administrative system is broken, from the top down.
Late music
[Akademgorodok, nr. Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, in winter]
This 👇 Do not enable these poverty ghouls under the pretence of helping out foodbanks. Shameless grifters like LadBaby and Jack Monroe thrive when they fool you into thinking you're helping. Don't be their useful idiot this Christmas. https://t.co/n9U3RIGbjP
I had certainly heard of “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”, but never of “LadBaby”. Just looked him up on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LadBaby. Seems to be a typical UK-in-2022 waste of space, making a living by posting rubbish online.
How pathetic that someone is trying to intimidate @AwfullyMolly for daring to expose Jack Monroe & her decade long faux poverty scam. My theory is that it proves how correct Molly is. Saw similar last year when another scammer was bysted and her sister was playing similar games.. https://t.co/D5xM8XIQ2q
Exactly my opinion. I may be wrong, but it seemed to me some time ago that many of those Twitter accounts saying “let’s all send money to ‘Jack Monroe’” were actually…Jack Monroe herself priming the pump.
Of course, if it were to transpire that “Jack Monroe” has and/or had other Twitter accounts which encouraged people to donate money or sign up to Patreon etc, then that might well be taken to be evidence tending to prove that “Jack Monroe” had fraudulent intent from, if not the start of her activities, then anyway for some years.
Jack Monroe has enabled this. Genius Grift. Tick Tock. #timesup
Exactly like the “Bootstrap Cook” stuff: carbohydrate-heavy food, with few vitamins or minerals. This type of food, if not supplemented, leads to public health problems down the line.
More tweets
Expose the teacher. Expose the course. Expose the institutions behind it.
However justified the NHS strikes may be from the employees’ point of view, the fact is that to leave people helpless and suffering is just very wrong, to say the least. Public sympathy for hospital staff will quickly evaporate, especially after 2+ years of unnecessary “panicdemic” measures, facemask nonsense, NHS non-service etc.
The population of the Earth should be reduced to about a tenth of its present aggregate number, but there is no need to reduce the white Northern European population. On the contrary.
🎙 FM Sergey #Lavrov: The West is striving to preserve the domination that it has enjoyed for almost half a millennium but it is impossible to stop history.
☝️ Economic figures convincingly show that the world is evolving towards multi-polarity. pic.twitter.com/dv7ddlStbs
Well, in fairness you were wrong. Hunt doesn’t deserve a slap 🙄 The man wants to lock us down and remove kids from their parents? I’d say a slap is inappropriate.
I don't disagree. But nothing can be done until enough people are on board. So sharing information is important, your cartoons are a form of that too. By your own logic one might say they are futile, there are multiple tools to achieve one's goal.
Jack Monroe? THE Jack Monroe who has not given her @Patreon subs the promised rewards or content for over two years? The Jack Monroe who blocks you over the teeniest hint of criticism or non fawning behaviour? Jack Monroe who refuses refunds? She should be renamed Jack Shit!!
— Michelle dw i, dw i’n byw yn Ynys Môn (@michelleHR0803) December 12, 2022
Jack Monroe only came second?
What a disgrace.
She’s done a fantastic job at communicating her fanciful needs resulting in taking money off the public to line her own pockets pretending the money was for charitable causes.
Awarding second place to someone who has refused to be transparent or accountable for their actions, and whose communications are emotionally manipulative and devoid of fact or logic wholly undermines the award and is an insult to Mick Lynch
Pity they didn't do any due diligence on Jack Monroe before accepting her entry (and fee) though. I didn't realise gaslighting, charity fraud and constantly changing narratives fell under "communication" 🤷♀️🤦♀️🤡
What a “comms” and public relations disaster for…PR Week.
Whoever allowed “Jack Monroe”, aka the “Bootstrap Cook”, to be nominated (let alone win second place) should lose his or her job.
Recently @GeorgeMonbiot told us that our civilised English villages were boring because they lacked ‘diversity’. If it’s all the same to you George we’re happy without your diversity. You’re welcome to the savages. https://t.co/r1L9wBaXt8
Only 100 migrants have been arrested for arriving in UK illegally. Yet the government managed to arrange for 49,144 people to be prosecuted for the non-crime of not paying their TV licence last year – a similar number to the number of illegal migrants arriving here annually. https://t.co/iEkfoqiR0M
Strange that countries like the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary are able to run hospitals without enrichment, despite being considerably poorer than the UK.
Good read for anyone who still believes the MSM lies about Nato's immoral and foolish meddling in the Ukraine. And for the journalists who tell them.#endofempirehttps://t.co/JFhwQ85Py4
They had a go at me about my Just Giving account and I suspected it was Jack. How disgusting if it is her that she chose to attack someone struggling to care for their disabled husband, what a horrible woman that would make her.
A man walks into a library, and says to the Librarian, “I'm looking for a book that's been recommended to me… It's about Pavlov’s Dogs and Schrodinger’s Cat… Do you know it?”
The Librarian answers, “well, that rings a bell, but I'm not sure if it's here or not”.
Finally someone with clout standing up to this tyrannical nonsense from self-righteous morons like Scott Kelly & the rest of them who have terrorized sane people for too long. This is how it’s done folks – no fear. https://t.co/hCdSWOWvCB
As one's own country becomes more "vibrant", one understands why so many developing countries have comparatively heavy handed regimes that wield blunt security apparatuses with gay abandon. It's the only way they can keep what little functioning society that have from collapsing.
Only the influence of the (((you know who))), and importation of millions of non-whites.
I warned my family not to take the 💉. They ignored me. Last week my sister had another booster shot. My nephew found her laying on the floor in the kitchen last night. Dead. She was fine all day. Just dropped dead suddenly. You decide. #SuddenAdultDeathSyndrome
Whatever the causes, the fact is that the NHS is providing a service which is increasingly worse (just like the police, the legal system overall, and almost everything else).
240 MIGRANTS in 5 boats were escorted across the channel yesterday
Holiday camps, army Barracks, cruise ships and former universities to be used to house MIGRANTS in efforts to cut hotel costs#BrokenBritainhttps://t.co/OwuuaB4YD0
Watched Christmas University Challenge. Two teams of alumni, all now prominent and even famous. Birkbeck (London) and Portsmouth (a former polytechnic).
Neither team was much good. The Portsmouth team (three out of four were non-white) knew almost nothing, or at least very little about anything. The Birkbeck team were better (and won) but were also pretty poor all the same.
The captain of the Birkbeck team was the prolific tweeter, political activist and tax barrister, Jo Maugham, also notorious for having bludgeoned a fox to death: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolyon_Maugham.
What struck me were several aspects to Maugham’s appearance on the show: first of all, his Michael Portillo-like horrible pink jacket but, more relevantly, perhaps, his incredible ignorance (admittedly not much worse than the rest of his team).
What struck me also was the way in which, whenever Maugham got a question wrong (which was most of the time), he threw his head back and laughed as if he had just done something very clever.
Well, I am not in the sort of financial position where I need a tax barrister, but if I did need one, I have to say that I would look elsewhere (though I have no reason to doubt Maugham’s narrow professional expertise; I just disliked the look of him).
Another odd thing about Maugham was his oddly-fruity or “plummy” English accent, unexpected in someone brought up until his late teens in New Zealand. Like a character in an Agatha Christie adaptation.
If Birkbeck were a poor team, they still won easily over Portsmouth.
It may be immodest to say so, but a team composed only of me and my wife would beat both of those teams together, and without any difficulty whatsoever.
Actually, all the quiz shows are increasingly dumbed-down. Mastermind now has questions which are often embarrassingly easy. The main University Challenge show is better by far, but there are more too-easy questions even on that show than there once were. Sign of the times?
Take away the fake titles from them, at least. She is a mulatta, who was previously married to a Californian Jew business parasite; “Harry” is as thick as two short planks, and mentally unstable. Both hate Europe’s peoples. Reduce their pretensions to rubble.
"food charity Sustain found farmers made less than a tenth of a penny in profit from a supermarket loaf selling to consumers for £1.14, and just a penny in profit from a £2.50 block of mild cheddar cheese" https://t.co/uEeJwxzFSg
The “role of Government” changes along with circumstances, or should do.
I do not know what I despise more about Therese Coffey— her callousness, or her stupidity (read my assessment above); perhaps even more than those, her sense of (completely unmerited) entitlement.
[Therese Coffey at play; such are the blots on humanity presently thought worthy to rule over the UK]
As Lenin said, “a revolution without firing squads is not worth much“.
Labour has no real answers to Britain’s problems, but this present government is just so useless that it would take a miracle to save it, looking at its deadhead ministers, about which the public is surely now fully aware.
So weird that she posts shit like this, but I can't put my finger on why exactly. You're lying in bed next to your kid and you need to tell your 500,000 (but not really once you account for the bots) followers about it? You continue to overshare personal matters, @BootstrapCook. pic.twitter.com/9f8wgOshOj
In my opinion, using that situation (assuming that it is true) to deflect questions about the money she is alleged to have taken from vulnerable people, and in return for basically nothing. “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” has already tweeted (in order to fill up her Twitter timeline with supportive messages) about 1. polishing a copper kettle, and 2. her new hairstyle.
It seems to me that the “Bootstrap Cook” has been dropped by most of the msm now, but wants to hang on to those (as of today) 641 Patreon mugs, all paying her between £3.50 and £44 a month, every month.
The puzzle is why the mugs do it, now that the facts are becoming better-known.
6/ That means that as a minimum Jack has collected between £38,325 (minimum possible) and £482,800 (maximum possible), whilst providing no rewards at all.
Unfortunately, we cannot tell precisely how much, as Jack doesn’t display her earnings, contrary to what Patreon recommends.
7/ In August 2022, despite banking tens of thousands of pounds over the previous 21 months and providing nothing, Jack claimed to have “lost the password”. pic.twitter.com/DPYmRIyfvO
And was she really waved through the cordon at Grenfell? Did she really have the building plans at hand, and was "howling" down the phone? Or was this a lie too far, even for Jack Monroe, so she deleted it from her blog?https://t.co/FU9vLHDsAX
I myself have no idea whether “Jack Monroe” is so mentally disturbed that she scarcely knows the truth from untruth, or whether she is consciously “pushing the envelope” quite often, and actually mocking her “patron”-mugs by making up ever-more outrageous untruths; examples would include pretending to have been involved in investigating the Grenfell Tower fire, and boiling down soap to make shower gel and so (supposedly) save money.
People and hotel owners need to remember their contracts will be with SERCO not the Government. Good luck taking on a multi-million pound company to get your property sorted.
Yes.The usual short sighted greedy carrot chasing.Not one thought for the people of the area just money.Another complicit traitor who still didn’t seem to get it.
“Prosecutors said those detained formed a ‘terrorist organization with the goal of overturning the existing state order in Germany and replace [sic] itwith their own form of state, which was already in the course of being founded.’
The suspects were aware that their aim could only be achieved by military means and with force, prosecutors added.
Some of the group’s members had made ‘concrete preparations’ to storm Parliament with a small armed group, the prosecutors said.“
[Daily Mail]
An interesting straw in the wind. In 1923, the “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich was regarded by many in Germany with derision, yet less than a decade later, Hitler and the NSDAP were in power.
I thought @BootstrapCook Jack Monroe wanted to visit and you turned her down. Is that correct? Also, what happened about you defaming her on here and her taking action against you?
The idea, put about by well-publicized “enablers”, that a person can be fed on about £5 a week, is just nonsense. Even leaving aside the need for a balanced diet, with many vitamins and minerals, a pack of cheapest pasta is (I think) about £1, which might last someone a couple of days. The cheapest sauce would be at least £1, even if you made it last a week. That leaves £3 for everything else. Bread for a week must cost £1 if not £2. What else could you get? A jar of peanut butter? A pack of cheap butter? A couple of pints of milk? A couple of bunches of bananas?
While having little income (at first no income at all), I had to find food for myself while also finding a new contract (job), while somehow travelling around London (mainly to the City of London from Holland Park “borders”, near Shepherd’s Bush). I have to admit that it was hard going and, without being too detailed, I concede that I did “cut a few corners” here and there. Needs must…
Today I got to quiz the Albanian Ambassador over the 12,000 Albanians who have arrived here illegally. He could not answer a straight question. Its all here on my Youtube channel.https://t.co/GG5yZh2BnY
He expected an Albanian, a diplomat at that, to “answer a straight question“? Ha. Hope truly does “spring eternal“, at least in rhetoric.
This is not a fake video. I was there when Labour MPs said it was cruel to deport foreign rapists and murderers at Christmas. Sorry I think its a great Xmas present. I await the excuses pic.twitter.com/wFOA8lnSE8
The clip(s) show a few examples of the “elected” cretins who rule over us.
Let's hope your prison cell is eco-friendly. But if it gets too cold you could always ask the guard to put another bar on the window. Go to jail. pic.twitter.com/SNd9zBETSU
Ironically, the contrary might be the case, if it means that the Border Force (or Border Farce) take a break from “rescuing” (ferrying to the UK) the migrant-invaders in the Channel. Assuming that the weather becomes more stormy.
Migrant INVASION set to ascend to a new level of FARCE as the Royal Navy will take over from striking Border Force officers and bring illegal immigrants into Dover and Ramsgate. pic.twitter.com/sPcRSBoz51
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) December 4, 2022
Private soliders, who earn £21k are expected to cover public service roles hit by strikes.
For context, average base wage:
🚑 Paramedic £36k 👩🏼⚕️ Nurse £32k 👨🚒 Fire Fighter £28k ✈️ Border Force £27k
True, but private soldiers and junior NCOs do get or can get free or subsidized accommodation, food, transport etc (unless that has changed; I believe that it was the case, anyway).
It's social media entrepreneurial skills, not a grift thank you very much.
It took quite some time for the likes of me, Jack Monroe and Dr Ju to figure out the best way to sucker cash out of the stupid ones, but we've done very well from it and we deserve some credit and praise.
The Elves and the Shoemaker is surely the kindest of all the fairy tales – a story of giving and gratitude, with no villains. #RobertLumleypic.twitter.com/fIyg7q5kqT
A great part of the problem in the “West” is that those very pillars of liberty under law have been eroded, largely by the embedded Jew-Zionist element. It may be objected that other elements are also involved, and guilty, and that I do not deny, but the main rot in the whole system is the Jewish-Zionist element.
.@crockejo . I invariably choose the side of my own country and people, who do not benefit at all from the USA's absurd and ill-advised policy of goading Russia, or from its increasingly damaging and dangerous economic and political consequences. https://t.co/P5oJ2RQl85
Zelensky has been named TIME's Person of the Year. What a joke. This is a man who refuses to attend peace talks and is working overtime to start a nuclear WWIII. He should be named the most dangerous person of the year. pic.twitter.com/HGy0LjHGQf
A Jew-Zionist dictator, whose government is admitted by its own spokesmen to be “80% Jewish“. A dictatorship that has closed down opposition parties, imprisoned or killed dissidents, closed down trade unions, and attacked Russian civilians in the Donbass for 8 years. The Jew Zelensky also has several opulent villas in the West, including one valued at USD $40 million in Florida. A complete puppet of the NWO.
💬 FM Sergey #Lavrov: Nothing has changed. @NATO is determined to keep the Russians “out,” while the Americans dream of keeping not only the Germans, but the whole of Europe “down” – and have in fact already enslaved the entire European Union.
“The people who, alone in the midst of the ethnic chaos which is spreading more and more, everywhere on Earth, ‘devote all their energy’ to saving from miscegenation and ‘to promoting their best racial elements,’ writes the Führer, ‘is sure of achieving mastery of the world sooner or later’”
“Channel 4 has bought a painting by Adolf Hitler and will allow a studio audience to decide whether Jimmy Carr should burn it with a flamethrower.
As part of its latest season of programmes, the TV channel has bought artworks by a range of “problematic” artists, including Pablo Picasso, as well as convicted paedophile Rolf Harris and sexual abuser Eric Gill.
A forthcoming televised debate called Art Trouble, airing later this month, will then question whether you can truly separate a work of art from its creator – before deciding which pieces to destroy with a variety of tools.
Ian Katz, Channel 4’s director of programming, confirmed that if the studio audience chose to save the painting by Hitler it would not hang in the Channel 4 boardroom but would be “appropriately” disposed of.
Katz quoted Jeremy Isaacs, the station’s founder, as saying that Channel 4 should be watched by everyone some of the time – but not everybody all the time. “I think you might add that Channel 4 should be annoying everyone some of the time, but ideally not everyone all the time,” he added.“
[The Guardian].
Note the names: “Katz“, “Isaacs” (etc).
As seen above, Hitler’s art is not the only work apparently destined to be destroyed. The Jews and others involved have not only bought (not with their own money, of course) a painting by Hitler, but also works by major 20thC artists such as Picasso and Eric Gill, with the idea of getting some grinning little monkey such as Jimmy Carr to destroy them.
It is not merely a question of whether the art concerned is “great art” (even Hitler himself would not make such a claim for his paintings, all created when he was an aspiring art student before the First World War) but of the idea that someone disapproved of by the System and/or the “woke” mob should suffer a belated “cancellation” by having their art destroyed.
Personally, I would not want art created by, for example, Jews, destroyed —indeed, I sometimes post works by Levitan and others on this blog—, certainly not for that reason alone.
The joy in destruction exhibited in a show of the kind proposed is basically a celebration of destruction, and also a puerile celebration of “cancellation” etc.
Some may say that sensationalist shows of this kind are not always created and promoted by Jews. Perhaps.
This new TV show is not some example of witty or even groundbreaking iconoclasm; au contraire— a facile and rather stupid idea.
A sign of the complete decadence of the Western msm.
Watching Peston painful as it is.Politicians commenting on the right thing to do when the economy was crashed for a virus that 99.9% of people survived. And not one person on the panel questioning the policy that wrecked our economy and why we are where we are. @DavidDavisMP
Not so. Interest rates will rise far higher than they now are, making buy-to-let parasitism unprofitable once rents rise to a point where renters cannot cover them.
You can see that, already, the value of residential and other property is falling.
'This is a drug that is far, far more dangerous than people realised when they first softened the law on it in 1994.'
Journalist Peter Hitchens says legalising cannabis would be 'national suicide', as Home Secretary Suella Braverman says it should be made a Class A drug. pic.twitter.com/x9SxndTpXd
…and the blacks, who are anyway inherently more susceptible to certain forms of mental illness (particularly schizophrenia), and who often use marijuana, are thus even more likely to be a millstone round the necks of the British people.
Incidentally, that Jo Phillips person, seen debating with Hitchens, is pretty typical of the sort of middle-class, semi-Establishment, politically-correct drones that have led the UK down the tubes since the 1970s: “anti-racist”, pro-immigration, “refugees welcome”, pro-cannabis, anti-national, pro-EU etc.
At least she seems to be somewhat opposed to the “trans” nonsense.
"Globalisation is all about wealth. It knows the price of everything & the value of nothing. Without borders the world will become – is visibly becoming – a howling desert of traffic fumes, plastic & concrete, where nowhere is home & the only language is money."
No @piersmorgan , you pushed the division heavily, you pushed the discrimination & your support for a policy that caused terrible issues & losses for businesses, was abhorrent. The ‘science’ was wrong. People suffered both mentally & financially .pic.twitter.com/RP5RolS5LJ
Blair is a tool of the powers of Evil in this world. As to whether he himself is aware of it, or to what extent, that is an open question.
🇳🇱 The Dutch government is ramping up the expropriation of our farmers, driving some of them to commit suicide. They’re a bunch of inhumane greedy liars and thieves who created a fake crisis to rob people of their rights and property.
Russia can still win strategically. Not only vis a vis the Kiev regime, but as against the NWO.
If Western and Central Europe will only work with Russia, as should have happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union, then our energy security will not be an issue; neither will our general economic and/or military security be a problem.
“Earth’s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years, according to a leading scientific assessment, as humans continue to clear forests, consume beyond the limits of the planet and pollute on an industrial scale.”
'Perhaps when Sir Keir Starmer says he wants to rip it out, reverse it all… he isn't being entirely honest.'
Tom Harwood says 'of all the significant fiscal measures in the mini budget, the Labour Party has committed to opposing just two'. pic.twitter.com/mrr2jgBtto
BREAKING: The Conservative Party’s ‘Blue Wall’ in the South could be destroyed at the next general election, a damning new poll has found. https://t.co/McJvKNQWTI
The fall of the ‘Blue Wall’ could also see the likes of Steve Baker, Greg Clark, Michelle Donelan and Tobias Ellwood stripped of their MP positions 🔵🔨 pic.twitter.com/JEAw6GIWam
🗣️🤞 ‘Some Conservative MPs might get lucky in the confusion among opposition voters as to whom is the Conservatives’ challenger in these seats – but that will be a small consolation for the party if the current polling were to replicate itself in a general election.’
Labour is at root not very different in policy terms from the misnamed “Conservatives”, not in big picture terms: Ukraine, “Covid”, (anti-) free speech, (pro-) immigration, though of course there are nuances. The precipitous fall in Con fortunes is really just because it is so very obvious that Liz Truss, woolly-head Kwarteng, James Cleverly, Therese Coffey, Suella Braverman etc are not so much the “A” team, but the “Z” team. Dregs of the dregs, who are simply not at the level where they can function properly. They simply have not the competence or capacity to be at Cabinet level, and the public has noticed.
Of course, the longer that a general election is avoided, the more it looks as if Liz Truss is afraid of one…
Having said that, it may be that the Labour lead will be eroded, but it is hard to see how, at present.
More tweets
it's a great thought, how about it @theresecoffey are you any good at fast decision making or just another politician that talks?
— Brenda Spiller Wake Up; Rise Up; Speak Up; Resist. (@brenda_spiller) October 13, 2022
[Therese Coffey, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health]
Late tweets
Yes @GordonBrown, it is a terrible government, but was the one you supported and led so good, trampling idiotically across the Middle East with bullets and high explosive, piling up vast off-the-book debts through PFI, destroying pensions? Mote and beam, as the Good Book says. https://t.co/K1K6pgMf2U
The use of soap operas for cultural revolution propaganda deserves a whole book. I gave a chapter to it in my 'Abolition of Britain' 20 years ago and was of course sneered at, but I think any sentient being can see it now. .@janinethechef1https://t.co/ozRwtx93ZO
…The reason I consider this particular example is that one source high up in the care sector texted me earlier regarding the Home Secretary’s comments to say “She hasn’t got a clue the damage she is doing!” They’re already desperately clinging on to staff.
A side-effect of workers moving out of care work to other work would be that care work would then only attract people with no other choices, forced to do care work by being, for example, pressured by the DWP.
It’s astonishing but amazingly people allowed it to happen as they believed the hype. There was a spike in deaths in all western countries around April 2020.
Interesting video, rather idealistic. If the British Empire still existed and still ruled, the Arab-Jew problem in Palestine would be contained, and Israel would not be a centre of a manipulative web across the world.
Why have I just lost 500 followers? Is it because Elon’s waving his chequebook around again?
That report reminded me of when I was first in Almaty, Kazakhstan (in 1996 and 1997). I lived on one of the main boulevards, Prospekt Lenina. There were frequent power cuts or, as the Americans say, “outages”.
I bought some candles for my 12th-floor Soviet penthouse apartment, and that was OK, though I nearly got stuck in the lift one day when there was a power cut the moment I stepped out of that lift, having returned from my office. The power did not return until about midday the next day, so that was a lucky miss for me.
In fact, my area of the city was not so badly affected as others, being within the “Presidentsky” district, where the then Presidential Palace and major embassies were located. Usually, the power cuts involved one or two areas at a time, with other areas continuing to receive electrical supply. Where I lived was certainly given preferential treatment, but still lost power fairly often.
I remember well that I was due to dine with three people one evening at a small and little-patronized Georgian restaurant in a quiet lane not too far from my home, a place almost in the countryside.
When the time came to meet those people, I was sitting in the empty restaurant. They arrived together, a young American in the Peace Corps, and two local Russian girls who were employed by an American organization; I had met them previously.
No sooner had they sat down than the electricity was cut off. The owner of the place, a Georgian lady called Bella, hurried to put out quite a few candles.
In the restaurant, with its wooden walls and lack of traffic noise (the lane outside was deserted), this created a kind of 19th century environment. One of the Russian girls started to play the piano which was there. Mainly Chopin.
In the candlelight, it was like being in a scene adapted from Chekhov or some other pre-revolutionary author; perhaps a country estate circa 1860 and in a Russia not yet hit by modern warfare or the shocks of violent revolution. Charmant…
Still slightly favourable on defence and “terrorism”? How? Why? The armed forces seem incapable of stopping migration invasion across the Channel, and are too small to stop any conventional invasion. The present ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government) is pledged to continue to waste billions funnelling money and arms to the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.
What about “terrorism”? The Muslims are not taking over the British cities via “terrorism” but via their birth-rate. The Jews continue to send their teenage children to Israel, there to be trained in the use of firearms, as well as in techniques of streetfighting, but are not even monitored (much) by the UK Security Service on their return to the UK.
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I honestly can’t believe Liz Truss is leader of anything or anyone. Just can’t believe it
BREAKING: The Tories have banned laughing, humour and comedy! 🤬
Three brilliant Parody accounts I follow have been wiped off Twitter in the last 3 day’s. They all had over 100,000 + followers. Parody Liz Truss, Kwasi and Mancock 🙇🏻♂️#GeneralElectionNow#WhoVotedForThis
James Cleverly, proud possessor of a McDegree (in Hospitality Management) from a McUniversity, and who has never done much else (except work his way up in the TA) drones on. That half-caste is Foreign Secretary, believe it or not. This country is so screwed, and in so many ways.
I must do a blog article, in my Deadhead MPs series, about Cleverly.
Liz Truss Should Fear Homeowners and Rising UK Mortgage Rates – Bloomberg https://t.co/DBSr2c3Tzp
Some would. People whose income is well above the norm, perhaps; those on £150,000+, and who are also voting out of purely personal self-interest . Then —the largest group— those who want to vote specifically against Labour, and see a Con vote as the only effective way to do it.
Are there any other groups of “Conservative” voters now? I think not. The last 12 years have seen no effective policy or action on the immigration problem, whether in general or specifically re. the cross-Channel migration-invasion. As for that trad Con strongpoint, “law and order”, we have seen police numbers cut, courts (in the hundreds) closed down to save money, a huge backlog of trials, and legal aid cuts which have effectively denied millions the right to access the legal system.
Yes, a lot can happen in the two years before a general election has to be held, but it cannot really be said that Liz Truss has any popular mandate, and things look likely to slide even further from here: utility bills, mortgage payments, whatever may hit the UK by reason of the wrongheaded anti-Russia sanctions and military adventurism.
Even the mainly self-interested “grey vote” of pensioners and those nearing State Pension age might pause before placing their crosses next to the Conservative Party candidate, now that it has emerged that the young Liz Truss actually wanted to abolish the State Pension, and who intends to slash other benefits relied on by pensioners.
‘She’s seeking comparisons with Singapore or an economy like the United States.’
Saw an episode covering 2020. Not as good as the previous episode. Too many scenes with patients suffering (supposedly) from “Covid”, not enough scenes about the political infighting. The drama stuck to the official or accepted (?) narrative(s). Not much questioning of that.
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Started with a sore throat on Sunday, then a tickly cough for a couple of days, now a bit of a runny nose. Someone asked me how I know it's not Covid. I replied 'why does it matter?' My natural immunity will sort it.
Important, high-stakes signalling. “Two other western officials said that a nuclear strike against Ukraine would be unlikely to spark a retaliation in kind but would instead trigger conventional military responses from western states to punish Russia.” https://t.co/bpjbgU9OQE
“The US had also discussed scenarios with the Ukrainians about possible nuclear use and walked through “protection and safety”…The logistics of deploying nuclear weapons is complex, time-consuming and would be easily picked up by … satellites” https://t.co/bpjbgU9OQE
Agree that conventional response to Russian nuclear use carries huge risks. Not just obvious risk of conventional NATO-Russia escalation that has weighed heavily on US/allies throughout war, but also of Kremlin using any Western response to rally support for mobilisation & war. https://t.co/6fTVo0LSPt
Tip the Jesuit anti-Pope and usurper out of the Vatican .
The 1938 Pathe commentary might be better termed “pathetic”, though. Cheap Jewish hee-hawing for an unsophisticated and uneducated audience.
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“If Russia crosses this line, there will be catastrophic consequences for Russia. The United States will respond decisively,” Mr Sullivan told NBC’s Meet the Press programme
Sterling slid as much as 4.7% against the dollar to $1.035 on Monday, hitting a record low after UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng vowed to pursue more tax cuts https://t.co/afqEUtTJoepic.twitter.com/DoCqw3Amql
Opinion: The chancellor has so far given every sign of disregarding financial markets in his calculus. It might be time for him to reconsider https://t.co/woxzvBb1eJ
“It looks like we’re headed for a spiral that we usually see in emerging markets crises, where policymakers struggle to reassert credibility,” said Mansoor Mohi-uddin, chief economist at Bank of Singapore. https://t.co/nlzHapncX0
Britain is becoming a very strange country, on the one hand a nuclear power with all kinds of advanced technology, on the other hand a country where millions of its own citizens rely on foodbanks, millions more on State benefits, a country invaded daily by invaders in small boats as well as “legally” (and who are then housed in advance of actual British people). A country the currency of which shows signs of crashing.
Still, when the UK government is headed by a stupidly ignorant woman who only became an MP on her back, and when the Chancellor of the Exchequer is a woolly-headed n****r whose previous jobs included being a gopher at hedge funds, as well as a newspaper columnist…
…and let’s not forget our new Foreign Secretary, a half-caste with a “mcdegree” in “Hospitality Management”…
“Pay peanuts get monkeys”, they say. Is the aphorism true in reverse?
Britain needs, not fake “Labour”, but real social nationalism.
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Unelected official Ursula von der Leyen of the European Union, openly warns that if Italy votes for someone they disagree with, they will sanction Italy.
Unelected politicians answerable to no one should be quiet in the face of those that are elected and can, as easily, be unelected. https://t.co/4AQJrGgRgg
The EU as it now is is a facade of “liberal democracy” behind which is a core of NWO/ZOG power. Those who accept the EU at face-value are the kind of people who accept “trans” people as women, who accept the “panicdemic” as a real pandemic, and who think that only “discrimination” by Europeans has prevented blacks from creating a civilization, etc. They also accept the “holocaust” farrago as an unquestioned and unquestionable historical truth.
Treat the von der Leyen type as the evil tyrants they are.
Whatever the MSM tells you to hate, don't. Whatever they won't broadcast or print, read or watch elsewhere. Whatever they are silent about, shout out loud.
Public health information should disclosed, scrutinised and debated rather than suppressed and deplatformed. If there’s one tweet today that should be retweeted – this is it. All credit to the magnificent @DrAseemMalhotra for all his hard work on this. 👇 https://t.co/60q6hvxbLL
Listen to Italy's potential new prime minister and tell me why she is wrong… I find it extraordinary that valuing the family & calling out nefarious corporate greed which enslaves citizens is called "far-right." The EU & the media will hate her. Be awake to it. 👀 https://t.co/Qn0oAWTNW6
So 30 years of NATO expansion, the Wolfowitz doctrine and the violent lawless overthrow of Ukraine's legitimate government in 2014 played *no* part in these events? You must have been reading the Enid Blyton version of Ukrainian History @k_sonin. https://t.co/TVEAaTYxfe
Last night @scribblercat, the distinguished foreign reporter Catherine Philp 'liked' a tweet which was in fact a gratuitous insult to me. Surprised by this behaviour by a person I respected, I protested. She has not responded. What is happening to us,that we are reduced to this?
Wake up, Hitchens. There is an NWO/ZOG-approved msm mob, mirrored by a vastly larger amateur mob of the same sort on Twitter etc. They all know what to say and not say— the amateurs out of “me too-ism”, and those scribblers and talking heads making a living out of it because they know that if they do not support, eg the Jew/Israel lobby, the NWO agenda in Ukraine, or re Russia, or re Assad etc, or the whole “panicdemic” farrago, or the whole “holocaust” farrago, then their “distinguished” careers stop right there. Right there.
Anyway, “distinguished” is usually very much in the eye of the beholder.
Another would-be “saviour” glad to see the back of his Ukrainian “refugee” guest…
A “refugee” from Kiev, most of which has been little touched (so far) by the conflict.
Some of the Ukrainians in the UK are genuine refugees from war; most are not. They usually come from areas untouched by war, often have financial resources and/or expensive cars, and are looking for an economic or career opportunity.
Late afternoon music
[Vladimir Nechayev, Road, Road…]
[Vladimir Nechayev, Autumn Leaves]
Unexpected event
I visited the only fairly local supermarket this evening, a Waitrose branch. Outside the entrance to the building, a makeshift medical bed, like a large sleeping bag. Several staff were tending to the occupant, an elderly person. There were medic-looking cases or bags around, presumably from the first-aid room.
I did not like to stare, or interfere, in view of the fact that the incident was under control, but found out from one of the staff inside that someone had tripped over and was unable to get up. An ambulance had been called some 2 hours previously, but had not yet arrived. Two hours!
When I left, half an hour later, with my shopping, the patient was still there, still on the ground, and a member of staff had even moved up a large square parasol/umbrella from the Waitrose Cafe, to shield the person from a shower.
As I pushed my shopping to my vehicle, a large new Bentley passed by. Like something from a satirical sketch about Britain in 2022: if you are lucky, you drive off in a large new Bentley, if not so lucky you lie on a pavement, dependent on “the kindness of strangers”, until the NHS can organize itself to get around to you.
Eventually, I drove out. The patient was still lying, waiting and, needless to add, no-one was standing around clapping…
Britain 2022, where an ambulance takes hours to reach you.
Meanwhile, in some seaside resort, the pathetic remnants of the Labour Party were all going through the motions of praising “our NHS” etc, as they always do. Still, I suppose that the next General Election is now, rather surprisingly, suddenly theirs to lose.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to former US security contractor Edward Snowden today. The whistleblower is wanted in the US on espionage charges.https://t.co/2r02ADzoP8
This shouldn’t be necessary. It makes little difference to the reality of the ethics. But the way people have been trained to think, or rather not think, means they will cling to their precious ‘but there was a deadly pandemic’ delusion for as long as possible.
As I blogged a day or two ago, “JimmySecUK” presents himself as “sometime journalist” and as a supposed specialist of some kind in the field(s) of “national security” and strategy, but seems unwilling to put either his name or his organizational affiliations (if any) on his Twitter masthead.
An example of his style:
.@jimmysecuk, from time to time, any writer of integrity will face abuse for not joining the crowd. There is always a crowd, unthinking and shouting, and people such as you to join it. Later its members will claim to support free speech, and genuinely believe it. I pity you. https://t.co/cI5hCOkGY4
This is exactly the situation in respect of the UK msm. On many topics, but an obvious one would be the “holocaust” farrago.
Late thought
I do not know for sure whether Europe is heading towards a third and even more disastrous “world” war, but it certainly seems that that might be the case.
“Aubrey Allegretti, political correspondent: Kwarteng starts by pinning the blame for inflation and spiralling energy bills directly on Putin.“
[The Guardian]
Well, after all, it could not be the fault of the Boris-idiot government, which all but shut down the UK economy for 2 years for no good reason, while doling out free money like a drunken sailor…oh, wait a minute…
“Aubrey Allegretti: Kwarteng seeks to turn the last 12 years of Conservative economic wisdom on its head and present the government as new and radical – rather than hanging on the coattails of the last one.
He lays out his central point that “growth is not as high as it should be”, arguing this only leads to less money to fund public services, relying on higher taxes, and so on.
“We need a new approach for a new era” should be seen as nothing less than a bid to reinvent the Conservatives and present them as a party of change – to avoid being blamed for the mistakes of the past. (Despite, of course, Truss having served in the previous three Conservative governments.)“
[The Guardian].
This mini-budget is completely mad. The result can only be roaring inflation, higher interest rates for businesses and mortgage-payers, and before very long a huge spike in house-repossessions as people default on the mortgage commitments taken out in easier times.
Reducing tax for those earning over £140,000 —about 3x or 4x the average pay? That is just ridiculous and will be applied to purchase of hedging assets (including paying off any mortgage commitments such higher-earners may have).
Stimulation of the economy requires more money at the bottom end, where people are almost compelled by circumstances to spend on goods and services, not at the top end of the income scale.
Today, the pound sterling is down, as I write, by about 2%. Interest rates for UK government borrowing are rising steeply.
A budget of this sort does nothing for the poor (however defined), nothing for the bulk of the population, and only helps those already affluent or wealthy.
Indeed, it might be said that the “middle ranks”, meaning people without much capital, working for a modest living, paying off a mortgage, paying for children and a household, will be hit very hard.
If only there were an existing, tightly-controlled, social-national party, —even if small— and with credible policies and people. One does not exist. Somewhere soon down the road might come a “1929” moment. That was what started the NSDAP and Hitler on its path to glory (ultimately, tragic glory, but that is another question).
[“At the end stands Victory!“]
[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children“]
Hilary Mantel
The authoress, Hilary Mantel, has died.
I was struck by this, seen on her Wikipedia entry:
“In an 2013 interview with the Telegraph, Mantel stated: “I think that nowadays the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people.”[5] She continued in the interview to say: “When I was a child I wondered why priests and nuns were not nicer people. I thought that they were amongst the worst people I knew.” These statements, as well as the themes explored in her earlier novel Fludd, led some to question her work in Wolf Hall, with Bishop Mark O’Toole noting: “There is an anti-Catholic thread there, there is no doubt about it. Wolf Hall is not neutral.”[46].”
I myself had no contact with Roman Catholicism as a child. Indeed, I do not think that I even knew any Roman Catholics until I was in my early 20s. All the same, the few impressions that I had then were not favourable, as when I was in Ireland aged about 21 and had left Tralee station to walk or hitch-hike to the mountains. A small car approached, the first one since Tralee. I stuck out my thumb, only for the miserable-looking bastards on board, a thin, rat-faced and bespectacled Catholic priest, and a thoroughly nasty-looking nun (who was driving), to pass me without even a glance.
After a week or so in the sea-mountains, I returned the same way. Again, a car approached. The same car. The same occupants. I thought that this time they would stop, having seen me the previous week. No. Straight on past, not sparing me a look.
Miserable bastards, whom I hope met a miserable end.
Incidentally, I did get a lift eventually, in both directions; on the journey out, from an attractive dark-haired young Irishwoman who would not accept a chocolate from me because it was Lent.
The years spin past ever-quicker. That was in early 1979, all of 43 years ago now.
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Interest rates face their sharpest rise for more than 30 years as millions of households face huge increases in their mortgage costs https://t.co/kYpBCYqQaQ
It means that almost four million households who have climbed on to the property ladder since the global financial crisis face significant increases in their monthly bills
Sir John Gieve suggested the Bank and the government are pulling in different directions.
The chancellor is poised to announce more than £30bn worth of tax cuts on Friday in the mini-budget as the government freezes corporation tax, reverses the rise in NI and cuts stamp duty
🗣️ “They are trying to slow down the economy. The rhetoric we’ve heard so far from the new government is that they want to speed it up by increasing borrowing”
The thing is, the billionaire will use every loophole possible to pay absolutely nothing and HMRC looks the other way, while the one on 50k has tax taken from them automatically and if you even owe 50 pence, you’ll get a brown letter through your door 🤣 https://t.co/EzxeSjaYgr
Exactly. Both above tweets are right. The income point however leaves out the main difference between the few and the many, the capital held by each group.
The average Joe has no, or virtually no, capital. In fact, if you leave aside any equity value in residential property owned (usually just one dwelling, and Average Joe himself lives in it), most British people really only have a tiny amount of capital, a few thousand pounds, or even just a few hundred.
The wealthy few however, are often not at all dependent on income as such, certainly not income from any ordinary job. Their capital, invested in real property, or shares etc, is the key to their wealth. Careful investment and accountancy can mean that Average Millionaire/Billionaire Joe has almost no taxable income at all, while in any given year, his capital might have increased by 20%, 50%, even 1,000%.
The wealthiest of all have seen their capital increase hugely since the last financial crash in 2008; The Elon Musks (from about USD $2 billion to about USD $277 billion— in just one decade), the Jeff Bezos’s etc.
People like that laugh at the very idea of income tax. It is simply irrelevant to most of them. Look at the Duke of Westminster, small compared to the mega-billionaires, but still worth £10 billion -£20 billion. Then compare that to the Average Joe, who might (or might not) own, even including his house equity, maybe £200,000 or so. £1 for every £100,000 owned by the Duke of Westminster, and maybe £1 for every £1,500,000 owned by Elon Musk.
Hmrc wanting self employed people to submit tax returns every 3 months from 2024 🤡 literally no point in working hard in the uk at all between taxes and the state of the place
I myself had a great many problems with HMRC long ago. Partly but not entirely self-inflicted, and all now (long ago, over a decade ago) resolved to my satisfaction. I never ever encountered a bureaucracy as shambolic (as well as, in some cases, unpleasant) as HMRC. Not in Eastern Europe, not in the former Soviet Union, not in the USA (which came close, at times).
Had a letter from HMRC saying I owe £824.80 for 2021/2022. Logged into my account online and it says I owe £53.20.
Looks like an hour on the phone again ringing HMRC on my next day off. 🙄
I have decided to be more like the royals. I shall in future only pay tax voluntarily. If they, who are infinitely richer than me, can do this, then so can I. Fair's fair! I shall be informing HMRC of this decision immediately!
Look at them: Charles, Anne, Edward, Andrew, Harry (formerly known as “Prince”), William. Are any of them beyond mediocre in intellect, character, or in any way other than unearned and unmerited wealth? Most of them do not even pay taxes.
Meanwhile, Kelvin McKenzie, formerly of the Sun “newspaper”, exposes his ignorance once again:
McKenzie seems unaware that there is more to tax than income tax and inheritance tax. To give the obvious example (obvious at least to anyone better-informed than McKenzie), everyone pays VAT, a tax which is a major contributor to State funds, and is paid disproportionately by the poorer part of the population.
Hey Meghan remember your sister Samantha the sister who raised you and watched over you b/c Doria was always MIA you dragged this poor disabled woman through the mud you didn't even invite her to your wedding #MeghanMarkleExposedpic.twitter.com/BSoSCKa3UH
I have to admit that I have little interest in the minutiae of it all, but from the ruthless, Ayn Rand, callous self-interest point of view, the Mulatta has, as they say, “played a blinder”.
I think he took an irrational self-damaging decision @shaun_hutchings, in the full knowledge that it was so. That doesn't mena he smears his excrement on the wall, or thinks he is a poached egg and demands toast to sit on. But the decision was mad. https://t.co/PbqhbeYXdH
Putin’s decision to invade, as such, was not a mistake, but the decision to invade without proper preparation, without a proper plan, without having eliminated Zelensky, and with no proper logistics in place, was more than a mistake. It was criminally negligent. The GRU and General Staff should be purged, cut to the bone. Start again, as Stalin did.
It could have been done swiftly, with minimal hurt and damage.
This 12yr old Tory government are playing Russian Roulette with British finances. They’ve decided that the best way to solve the financial crisis is to give more money to rich people. Who’ll pay? Tory supporters have already paid with their souls #minibudget2022#stockmarketcrash
Put a short-term boost into the economy, win an election, to hell with the long-term economic consequences. This has been the Tory way for as long as I can remember- and that’s a long time now. Cocaine economics. #stockmarketcrash
True, but remember how Blair, and Brown in particular, worshipped the banking “industry” (sometimes useful but basically parasitic service industry).
More thoughts about the “mini-Budget”
Seems that “the markets” are dropping like a stone.
I mean, a simple-minded, almost cretinous Budget, announced by a woolly-headed ****** posing as Chancellor of the Exchequer; then we have a semi-educated half-caste with a “degree” in Hospitality Management posing as Foreign Secretary, and a stupid and ridiculous woman (who only became an MP on her back), actually posing as Prime Minister….what could possibly go wrong?
Jesus Christ! Is that stupid lot the best “the great Conservative Party” (in the words of Disraeli, his sentence ending “which destroys everything“…) can do? And is that hopelessly banal package of economic measures the summation of their thoughts?
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The war in Ukraine has reshaped global energy markets. Gulf states—especially Qatar—are likely to be the big winners https://t.co/Ww9nATJ1jC
Every single value you claim to be ‘defending’ in Ukraine was absolutely demolished by your government over the past two and a half years. It was criminally immoral and totally unjustified. But you went along with it all the same. https://t.co/jt6QfvTu6o
Liz Truss. The latest clown to pose as Prime Minister of the UK.
…I'll be on @mrmarkdolan@GBNEWS at 8:30PM tonight talking about why it is chilling to witness, in a supposedly liberal democracy, the cancellation and demonetisation of campaign groups who dared to fight the orthodoxy.
I remember when, in the 1980s, a load of caravan-dwelling “travellers” decided to camp on Hampstead Heath, near the opulent house of “socialist” humbug Michael Foot. Suddenly, the great champion of the “rights” of the Gypsies and “travellers” (Irish tinkers) was against them camping near his house…
As has become usual, many of the tweets I reposted a year ago are now only there skeletally, now that so many interesting tweeters have been expelled from Twitter. The Jew-Zionist element is behind most of the purging and “cancelling”.
Thoughts re. the Russian retreat in parts of Ukraine east of the Dnieper
I believe that Clausewitz wrote that, in war, the moral is to the physical in a ratio 3:1.
Morale, esprit de corps, confidence, and belief in the rightness of a cause, as against numbers of soldiers, equipment, arms, ammunition.
Despite the Kiev regime being a horrible, dictatorial, corrupt and Jew-Zionist-led kleptocracy, the simple Ukrainian soldiers at the front think that they are fighting for “Ukraine”, its history and culture, and for some kind of “freedom”. Also, for their homes and families.
However wrongheaded at least part of that is, it is a powerful message and, to those directly involved, congruent.
The Russian soldiers, many of them, are young, naive, not infrequently drunk, often ill-disciplined, and actually have more in common with many of their Ukrainian opposite numbers than with the savage Chechens fighting on the Russian side, and who have stained Russia’s reputation during this conflict.
The Russian soldiers, some of whom have their homes and families as far away as Siberia, have evidently not been properly prepared ideologically for the situation into which they have been thrust. The present Russian Army does not have the propaganda and disciplinary structure provided, in Soviet days, by political commissars and others.
The result of the above factors is that the Ukrainian soldiers’ morale is generally far higher than that of the Russian soldiers.
As previously blogged, the only way Russia is going to get through this is to augment numbers and armament, but principally to think “outside the box” by using shock tactics and, equally importantly, oblique tactics and, above all, unexpected tactics.
Britain 2022
Do you notice any similarity between these two crimes?
social issues etc. But the two weeks of mourning, stuff shutting down, peaceful demonstrators getting arrested, it all feels like a cult of personality to force King Charles 2 down our throats. 2/
I presume that he means “King Charles 3“, unless it is some kind of not very well-informed reference to Charles II and the Restoration.
How can that possibly be fair or fiscally sensible? And how can a government department be unavailable for comment at such an important moment in the cost of living crisis facing the country? @Jacob_Rees_Mogg should get staff back to work at @beisgovuk.
“Queen Elizabeth II‘s funeral will take place on Monday September 19 – which has been declared a bank holiday.
Several NHS Trusts have said that some non-urgent procedures and clinic appointments are to be postponed with King’s College Hospital stating this would be the ‘vast majority‘.
Hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery, maternity checks and some cancer treatments are among the postponed appointments, at a time when NHS data shows nearly 40 per cent of cancer patients had their treatment delayed beyond the two-month maximum.
However NHS England said that Covid vaccination services and urgent and emergency appointments would continue.”
[Daily Mail]
How ludicrous is that? People in great pain, in some cases, people needing knee and hip replacements, people with cancer, all postponed (in some cases for months).
What makes it even more ludicrous is that the useless and quite possibly harmful “Covid” “vaccinations” etc will still be done (with the staff doing that probably getting double or triple pay).
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17 life skills every parent must teach their kids before they leave home:
A lot of truth in that (read the whole thread), but it is all too American and “how to get ahead” and “aspirational” for me.
Center Parcs has been inundated with complaints after announcing it will close UK sites on the day of the Queen’s funeral – with holidaymakers told to leave their sites. https://t.co/P51j0rhnMq
Ridiculous, but in a way what I would have expected from that organization.
I myself have never been to a Center Parcs location, but a couple of people (admittedly about 30 years ago) told me that their impression was not very good. The quite high price did not cover many of the activities offered, for one thing. Those activities have to be paid for on top of the basic price for going there.
It may be better for people who go there with small children, I do not know, but imagine a resort (which is effectively what Center Parcs is, a modern take on the old Soviet “sanatorium” model) that chucks out its guests for one day so that it can virtue-signal re. the funeral of the late Queen. I suppose that staff shortages might be a factor too, but the unexpected holiday is only one day. Surely a skeleton operation could be kept going? Seems wrong to me.
“Center Parcs has backtracked after facing accusations of “ruining people’s holidays”by announcing it would close its UK sites for 24 hours from Monday morning to mark the Queen’s funeral.
However, on Tuesday evening, after an outcry on social media and widespread negative press reports, the company said that it had “reviewed our position regarding the very small number of guests who are not due to depart on Monday and we will be allowing them to stay on our villages rather than having to leave and return on Tuesday”.” [The Guardian]].
I would give it 3 out of 5 stars, maybe. Not more.
The Hitler character was, both in character and personality, not so much a portrayal as a caricature.
The locations filmed, and sets— all very good.
Neville Chamberlain was played well by Jeremy Irons, though looking too robust (despite the health problems mentioned); the real Chamberlain was, at that age, more of a grey figure, I think.
The flaws in the film, leaving aside the central assumption (that the Munich Agreement bought Britain time vis a vis Hitler/Germany), were in the small things: the “blacks with everything” agenda, which put a black man in Downing Street as a civil servant, indeed in a fairly senior position. That would have been unthinkable in the Britain of 1938. Also, an Indian woman as niece of Colonel Sir Stewart Menzies, the then Chief of SIS. If not unthinkable, unlikely.
Another absurdity (which had little to do with the main plot, and looked like a “me too” add-on) was that a Jewish woman, openly anti-Hitler, was —sometime in the 1930s— arrested or abducted by the SS, had a Star of David carved into her back, and was then defenestrated, ending up paralyzed and unable to speak.
There is a cultural truth-bending agenda going on, one which distorts history, in particular as to race.
Probably joking about how they all agreed to murder thousands of people to stop a mythical cold going round. So lovely to see.
“Remember how you wanted us to do even more of it, Keir?” “Ha, yes – I love a bit of human sacrifice.” “Lol. What are you like.” https://t.co/q9xLDg7x3O
Further to the above, I happened to hear a story about yet another example of the all-too-typical NHS maladministration and inability to make logical and useful decisions.
The story came to me third-hand, admittedly, but is believed to be accurate.
A lady who is apparently registered blind (I myself do not know her) was asked to attend an eye clinic at Poole, in Dorset. This is, again, apparently (I have no personal knowledge of it), a new NHS eye clinic, so this is not a case of some old and unrenovated NHS building.
The lady in question was told by the NHS that no ambulance would be available to take her from her home in the New Forest to Poole, but that local taxi companies offered discounted fares. The “discounted fare” turned out to be £100 (return-trip). The lady concerned is a very aged pensioner.
It gets worse. It seems that the eye clinic, on the top floor of a 7-storey building, has only stairs or an escalator; no lift. The escalator does not go to the top two floors of the building, and the blind old lady cannot use escalators without assistance anyway, I am told, so if she went there she would have to go up some 14 flights of stairs unaided, at the age of, I think, 90 or more.
Result? That lady will not be able to attend that clinic.
Leaving aside the individual case, what does that say about the ability of NHS people to plan and design properly? Not much to their credit, I think.
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ENGLAND 2001: White British: 43 million Other: 6 million
ENGLAND 2021: White British: 40 million Other: 19 million
One of the most sad and indeed angering aspects of the UK in recent years has been the trashing of the charity sector, not because of lack of money but because of politicization and near-embezzlement (paying of often mediocre top staff huge salaries). The damage has mostly been done by those who themselves work in the charities.
We have seen, for example, sex scandals in Oxfam, Save the Children and others. Readers might recall the scandals around sex-pest Brendan Cox, who was married to assassinated Labour MP Jo Cox. He was paid something like £300,000 a year, despite coming from a fairly mediocre academic and work background (though, as always these days, “bigged-up”, in the rather crude current phrase: see https://uk.linkedin.com/in/brendan-cox-433b364).
£300,000 per year, to be not even the head of Save the Children, but the (I believe) third-in-command. People on modest incomes give their pounds and pennies to such organizations, only for, in that case, the top three in the set-up to have creamed off a million pounds a year in salaries alone. Disgrace.
The charity sector in the UK is a totally “rotten borough”. Look at the recent activities of the RNLI and National Trust. The former has been operating what amounts to a ferry service for migrant-invaders, and I read that thousands of virtue-signallers have as a result donated to it! When the provision of housing and healthcare is stretched to snapping point because of mass immigration, I suppose that those idiots will not even once blame their own encouragement of the invasion.
As to the RNLI itself, it has obviously been infiltrated at a high level.
National Trust? I think that the cartoons below say enough:
I am very much in favour of charitable work but, as a sector, the whole charitable area has gone badly astray, and in a number of ways.
This winter?
Was sent this (inc. the photograph). Source unknown, but sounds correct:
“As we speak there’s a UK government department working with consultants on a strategy for controlling dissent this winter.
There will be a wall to wall media campaign of “blitz spirit” images of families and the multiracial Britain wearing jumpers and socks for Ukraine, with the blame aimed at Vladolf Putler.
This message will then be disseminated through the population by media addicted busybody women looking for the latest do-good cause and fuel poverty marches will get zero media coverage.
This is how control of liberal democracies works now. You’re all atomised individuals, capital owns media and the NPCs enforce the dominant narrative sufficiently.”
[#socksonforukraine]
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How fucking dare Nadhim Zahawi, he who billed us to heat his stables is telling us to cut back on our energy consumption this winter, how fucking dare he, I've had enough of patronising rubbish from greedy, selfish, grasping on the take tories, get these fuckers out…
Looking at those tweets, I actually had to remind myself that Zahawi is, for the moment, Chancellor of the Exchequer. A bloody Kurd from Baghdad, who only arrived in the UK when 11 years old.
What a mess this country is in! Hardly any of the last few governments have even had many white English MPs in the top jobs. Jews, part-Jews, Indians, blacks, half-castes, a Kurd…you name it.
On top of that, this particular non-Brit is one of the most corrupt persons possible to have in the once-exalted job of Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Had (as I have been blogging for years) the UK forged closer links with Russia and its people, we should have been able to buy Russian gas at knockdown prices, and would not now be facing shortages of energy, and our people going cold because of UK Government policy.
Nadhim Zahawi is just another gaslighting Tory £multi millionaire. REALITY We now get ZERO PERCENT of our gas or oil from Russia with the vast majority coming British based North Sea companies & Norway who are blatantly profiteering from the war in Ukraine.#EnoughIsEnoughpic.twitter.com/eloFoxrvFw
The difference being that the profits in Norway go into their sovereign wealth fund, used for the benefit of the Norwegian people, whereas the “British” gas companies profiteer for the benefit of parasitic banks and investment companies, as well as for multimillionaire shareholders.
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We urge the @StateDept to give a raise 📈 to the employees of the @USEmbRu, given the truly un-bear-able working conditions here.
The dishevelled drunk and/or drug abuser shown in the clip seems to be, if not an accredited U.S. diplomat, then at least an Embassy employee with a pass and, presumably, at least limited immunity, watching him show his pass to the Russian policeman and then be admitted to the Embassy by the U.S. Marine guards or other security people.
Defence Minister #Shoigu: #Pentagon financed more than 30 Ukrainian bio-laboratories. The high-risk research was carried out secretly, with the participation and guidance of #US specialists. Such actions pose a direct threat to #SCO countries. pic.twitter.com/D9ywI2KmAo
I have previously blogged once or twice how I visited the UK bacteriological research centre at Porton Down with a Mr. Komisarenko [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko], the then Ukrainian Ambassador, and the Scientific Attache of the Ukrainian Embassy in London. That was in or about 1994, I believe. The Ambassador had an educational background in microbiology. According to Wikipedia, he is now, or until recently was, the director of such a laboratory in Ukraine.
Ian Robert Millard 