#SaferRoads@HantsPolice If you’re out and about getting daily exercise during hours of darkness – running / cycling / walking – it’s really important that you’re visible to other road users #besafebeseen#takeextracare 🏃
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) January 15, 2021
Very true. Recently, in the evening, I drove out of the nearby Waitrose store, about a mile or two from my humble home, and a woman crossed the road from the far pavement, riding a pushbike, and almost right in front of me. Dark clothing, and not a light showing on her bicycle; and no reflective strips on bicycle or clothing. When I overtook her and looked in the rear view mirror, she and her bicycle were almost invisible even at that short distance, despite some street lighting. Had I hit her, no doubt I would have been exonerated, but only after the nuisance and inconvenience of having to explain myself to the police.
@dpjhodges, Jackie Boy, as usual your tweet contains a misrepresentation. I have *never* said that 'if we just lifted lockdown the whole thing would go away.' If only. The damage done to the NHS by lockdowns may never be repaired, and will certainly take many years to fix. https://t.co/4i3jHqyBZg
Quite so @JaneyCMJ . There is a huge jump in logic between accepting 'the hospitals are under grave pressure ' to concluding 'we must therefore close down the country'. And the failure of Parliament and the BBC to permit debate means this is seldom examined. https://t.co/hYKXmifRXl
Well no, @drphilplee1, but the NHS has never before coped with a large winter outbreak of respiratory disease while many of its staff are compelled to self-isolate, and when large numbers of patients cannot be moved back to care homes, so perhaps this is the difference. https://t.co/qsDgM3rYlq
Naked Fear propaganda . ‘If you bend the rules, people will die’ . But is its real aim to prepare HMG’s excuses for the failure of the 3rd lockdown? pic.twitter.com/PyOvFGMamF
It’s much worse than ludicrous @newtonclarkeuk . It is disturbing and creepy, involving someone deciding what opinions Twitter users are allowed to express. https://t.co/8UEe2wenC8
The problem that literate, erudite System journalists such as Peter Hitchens have is that they think that this is a “debate”, and not a war…
There is an international conspiracy in existence. The Great Reset. The Great Replacement. White Genocide. NWO. ZOG. The censorship which is now pervasive and gathering pace is just part of that conspiracy.
Writing letters to corrupt MPs, tweeting, blogging too, while certainly necessary, will change little.
Ha ha! I was featured in 2017 or 2018. Not since, as far as I know. The enemy must consider me and my blog relatively harmless! Still, who knows? Butterfly-wing effect?
The USA, “land of freedom”… If Trump had any sense or much courage, he would now PARDON all social-national and allied prisoners being held in Federal prisons, PARDON Snowden, PARDON Assange and others. Stick it to his enemies in the week or so left. Just do it!
Not sure how true the above is, in that one could cite regimes in Africa or elsewhere, but the mere fact that we now start to ask “is the UK Govt. worse or less competent than those of African states?” rather makes the point…
It is true, though, that the British people now have no competent government and also no competent opposition parties.
Sure, but there are many ways to approach it. I do see rewilding and restoration as part of conservation. And rewilding as a form of restoration, or at least with plenty of over lap.
We're delighted to have Dominic Buscall of @WildKenHill as our next webinar guest. He'll be talking about rewilding, regenerative farming and conservation on his Norfolk farm. Tuesday 26 January at 7.30pm. Tickets from only £2 + Eventbrite fee. https://t.co/FlUWKZ8qNDpic.twitter.com/mmv6EcYAZN
Morning all, you may have seen in the @Telegraph and @thetimes this morning that @pritipatel will shortly announce that it will make it a criminal offence to trespass with the intention of settling. 1/nhttps://t.co/uoB8eugUyP
— Friends, Families & Travellers (@GypsyTravellers) January 16, 2021
Yay! About time Priti Useless did something right. The penalties proposed are far too light, however.
Most ecologists would endorse this statement but try and convince agric scientists, farmers, spp. conservationists, planners, land owners, local authorities, Gov agencies, and others that #rewilding can make a REAL difference to climate problems & biodiversity crisis https://t.co/GFozbo0fT6
“Jack” Monroe may not be on the same ideological page as me in several respects, but her activity around food poverty, low-income survival and child poverty is generally quite useful.
“Disappointing“? Ha ha…that’s the best that Rentoul has done for a long time, as far as I can recall. As for me, though I usually beat Rentoul, I too only managed 6/10. The questions I could not answer were questions 2, 3, 7 and 9. I would have got 7/10 right had I been able to remember that that little pro-Israel puppet, Sajid Javid, actually rose as high as Chancellor of the Exchequer (Question 3).
The enemies of civilization will not be content until the world lies in multi-ethnic ruins. The woman shown below, Corinne Fowler, is yet another termite in the UK academic world, another instant “professor” (in her case, “Professor of Post-Colonial Literature”, or possibly “Associate Professor”, at the University of Leicester). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9153499/Academic-says-GARDENING-roots-racial-injustice.html
Evil.
[“Professor” Corinne Fowler]
Apparently, one of her collaborators is an Indian called Raj Pal. Another is a Dr. Marian Gwynne.
“Sir John Hayes, leader of the Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs, which has been highly critical of the Trust, told the Mail: ‘The National Trust’s charitable purpose is being stretched to its breaking point. The fact is the National Trust is losing large amounts of money at the moment, and sacking staff while spending time, money and energy on this nonsense.’”
“Sir Roy Strong, the architectural historian and former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery agreed, saying the National Trust has gone ‘completely bonkers . . .” [Daily Mail]
Meanwhile, the National Lottery Fund has given the above nonsense £160,000…Taxation without representation…
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I rarely agree with anything said by the Israel-lobby or its collaborators, but…
*Actually not Women's Running at all but a biological male with no apparent intention of medical transition. https://t.co/akUhGlloHn
Britain is now a massive version of the Augean Stables. It must be cleansed.
1. I don't think there's any need to be uncivil. 2. A lot of my colleagues, especially women, feel that women's sport is being destroyed. 3. You seem to be missing the point. Neither they nor I care about what she wants to be called – the point is about women's sport.
Tweeter “@harrisglenys1” is all too typical in contemporary Britain. Yet look at “@rob_marchant”: goes along with the “she” stuff. Eddie Izzard is not “she” (though he is a pain in the neck!)…
This whole nonsense has just gone too far.
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When the ethno state is reclaimed, we must rebuild our railroad system bigger and better.
Our railroad system was amazing. With newer technology it can be even better. https://t.co/TtVborhh2p
…and the USA is in a better place to do that as compared to the UK because, when the American railways were closed (those that were, and that was the overwhelming majority) Federal law ensured that the railbed and the tracks (meaning the rails) were left. Bridges were mostly left too.
In Britain, both before and after the disastrous Beeching/Marples “reforms” of the 1960s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts], rails were taken up, sleepers removed, and —in many cases— bridges destroyed. The land was then ploughed, or built upon, with a few favoured tracks being eventually repurposed as leisure trails for walkers and cyclists, as with the Camel Trail to Padstow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_Trail].
[“Approaching Padstow, the Camel Trail crosses Petherick Creek on this bridge which formerly carried the North Cornwall Railway“– Wikipedia]
The Party Formerly Known As Labour is pushing for a law to prevent anyone discussing online and negatively the anti-Covid vaccines currently under development.
Things have slid so fast in Britain that such a measure seems almost normal; to have an “urgent” law passed (at present only proposed, and only by Labour) which would have the sole aim of stifling or gagging discussion and views on a contentious bit of public policy.
One can see where the idea came from. Keir Starmer is married to a Jewish woman, a property lawyer, and their children are being brought up as Jewish. The “holocaust” narrative is protected from debate, analysis, or questioning in much of Western and Central Europe by means of “holocaust” “denial” laws, meaning that anyone questioning even part of that narrative faces prosecution.
Such laws can be compared to the religious heresy laws which were in force in much of Catholic Europe in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance eras.
It is natural for Keir Starmer, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, to see repressive law, or police and other punitive action, as the answer to a perceived problem of public belief in, or compliance with, government requirements. He believes in repression.
This kneejerk reaction, to ban any expression of dissent, is very much a sign of the times.
The conventional political wisdom is to think that, now that Labour is supposedly less “extreme” after the departure of Corbyn, the party is more “electable”. Perhaps, in Britain’s rigged binary system, which posits a “choice” between two “major parties”. Also, we have a government which exhibits incompetence and muddle exceeding even that of the previous decade. However, I would not put much money on Labour. It is still a party wedded to mass immigration, political correctness etc, still replete with black MPs, still full of petty would-be dictators such as Yvette Cooper and Rachel Reeves (both members of Labour Friends of Israel, incidentally).
While we are on the subject of System politics, consider the transnational element in the ZOG/NWO set-up. For example, Yvette Cooper went to work for then Presidential nominee Bill Clinton in Arkansas in 1992, after having left university but after a brief time also working as a researcher for the then Shadow Chancellor, John Smith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Cooper#Early_life_and_education.
Another case: the present New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, worked for the Labour Party in London sometime around 2002 as a Special Adviser (paid £50,000-£100,000 p.a.), before she returned to NZ politics.
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Trump needs to extend Presidential pardon to all social-national or allied prisoners doing time in Federal prisons. Stick it to “antifa” and other swine!
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Quite. It was dismal to visit Soviet public hospitals shortly before the USSR imploded – staff shortages, no drugs, poor hygiene, corruption usually necessary to secure antibiotics etc. National Wealth is essential to provide National Health. https://t.co/yI89ewZSXb
A Soviet-era poetic line about the Kremlin Clinic read, “The floors parquet, the doctors OK“, meaning politically-vetted (it rhymes in Russian): полы паркетные, врачи анкетные.
Straw in the wind https://t.co/T2XJEOCtCJ but I see more and more advertising for private GP services. I suspect this has accelerated in the past six months.
I'm in favour of free-at-the-point-of-use @cancelledxxx . Problem is that, if such a free health service crumbles, those who can will increasingly turn to private GPs, already increasing in number here, and private hospitals.The NHS officially survives,while in fact fading away. https://t.co/DzdwvMev6k
Again, yes. When my local GP (a nice fellow) was on paternity leave last year or the year before, he was replaced for the duration by a far more pro-active young doctor who improved my (high blood pressure, mainly) medication. Despite the fact that I only attend the medical centre about once a year, I was sorry to read in the newsletter the practice puts out that he had relocated to London to join a purely private practice. I looked up that practice online. Based in Kensington, and I noticed that a home visit was charged from about £250!
I have to say that that young doctor must have been very driven, because after all most GPs now get over £100,000 anyway, especially if partners, and if they practise in an area such as this they can play golf, sail, ride etc. In other words, they can live a rather pleasant lifestyle. Well, there it is…
'More and more journalists seem happy to be the mouthpieces of government, or of political parties. Worse, they attack other journalists for refusing to fall into step with the official line'. https://t.co/bOTe8CfgLv
Britain is floating – for now – on a sea of funny money. How long till we pay the enormous price for pretending we are richer than we are? https://t.co/bOTe8CfgLv
The woman arrested (with a degree of brutality, at that) cries out, “I have not done anything!”, as if that matters in the Britain of 2020 (cf. Alison Chabloz).
At what point does the “Overton window” move to the extent that it becomes accepted that former British “democracy and freedom” have been subverted, and therefore that it is acceptable to do whatever it takes to restore our liberties?
Special tweet for followers of current British nationalism on the shocking arrest of a young #PatrioticAlternative activist for giving out leaflets, and the response from #MarkCollett. With no freedom to comment here, I've addressed it on Telegram. https://t.co/wEhjdENgCh
The ending of the Dom Cummings era has damaged Boris. If it's replaced by the Carrie Symonds era it will destroy him > Mail On Sunday > https://t.co/MMGNd9fcim
Something being missed. It's not that Carrie Symonds was briefing against Cummings or Cain. She was briefing against Boris himself. He'd taken a decision. And she opted to use her contacts in the media, parliament and Government to overturn it. You can't run a country like that.
Some people keep tweeting me "how do you know". We know because it wasn't just Carrie Symond's enemies who were briefing she overturned the Chief of Staff decision. Her allies were openly boasting about how she overturned the Chief of Staff decision.
It is not often that I agree with Dan Hodges! In an extraordinary year, this stands out. Britain is, arguably, now run by the “ho” (to use the now-ubiquitous black argot) of the part-Jew chancer currently posing as Prime Minister!
A degree in art history and theatre studies, then Miss Symonds joined the Conservative Party in the lowly position of one of many press officers. Nine years later, she was heading that department, but “It was reported that she was asked to leave her post as director of communications after sources claimed party chiefs had said her performance was poor, and questions were raised over significant unjustified expenses claims.” [Wikipedia]
I notice that Miss Symonds was appointed to head the department in which she had worked for many years in 2018, the same year in which she started her affair with the still-married “Boris”.
“It’s not what you know but who you know”…(or should that be “It’s not what you know but by whom you are known”, using “known” in the “Biblical” or “Ugandan” sense?)…
Miss Symonds is an advocate for animal welfare. I like that. However, as Hodges says, this is no way to run a government.
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Laura Towler and her husband, of Patriotic Alternative, were attacked by three “antifa” swine yesterday, but beat them off. This has generated very many tweets.
Woman: I've been assaulted. Leftie women: omg, I don't even need any evidence, I believe you regardless. Let's get this male scum who did this to you. Even if he's innocent, I don't care. I believe you. Woman: it was Antifa. Leftie woman: …..where's your evidence?
A reminder to all that Alison Chabloz will be put on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 181 Marylebone Road, London, on Tuesday 17 November. That is the day after tomorrow. All supporters welcome. THe nearest Underground stations are Edgware Road (District, Circle, Bakerloo) and Marylebone (Bakerloo). The trial is expected to start at 1000 hrs.
You are pre-judging it's a 'lie' because you disagree with it. Thereby protecting yourself from hearing it and having to think and possibly have your bigotry tested.
Christopher Hitchens would have had a field day with you.
Watching that Schwab “Great Reset” video above reminded me of the opinion of Max Planck, who said that most scientists [and therefore people in general] are not convinced by theories, facts or new facts, but that once that sceptical generation is replaced by a new generation brought up with those new facts, the new theory becomes accepted wisdom.
That is what the propaganda is aimed at— the younger generation, including young children. What propaganda? Not just the “Coronavirus” stuff, but also “Black Lives Matter”, the whole racemixing agenda, all sorts of associated stuff too. The Great Reset. The Great Replacement. White Genocide.
It is not aimed against people born( like me) in 1956, nor at those born in 1966, or 1976, or even 1986. It is aimed at those born in the 1990s, the 2000s and the 2010s.
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One of the worst 'leaders' in the Western world lets out more than he probably should about how #TPTB are exploiting #covid to force a society-wrecking #GreatReset on our all. pic.twitter.com/Jm5znv467B
"The days when newspapers had that sort of concentrated power to defy authority are coming to an end.The internet, all too easily censored & manipulated, is taking over. Without strong newspapers, all the forces of liberty & law are weaker"
The problem with that view is that the “Judenpresse” is, and for a long time has been, owned, controlled or very strongly influenced by the Jew-Zionist element. The Internet promised —and briefly delivered on that promise— to provide free expression, but “they” are now reasserting control, and only the harshest resistance will prevent that.
Peter Hitchens’ view of “Press freedom” is very out of date.
On BBC Radio 4 Today (or should that be “Toady”?), the presenter bleats as a question, “but if it [lockdown] saves a life…?“. At least he did not rev it up to “but if it saves even one child’s life…?“. Such lazy (un)thinking. Cars and trucks kill people daily. Are you going to ban them? No? Why not? Because we have to accept, as a society, that a relatively small number of people will be killed because of cars, so that we as a society have cars, have mobility, have road transport and road freight. So what do we do? We try to make road traffic as safe as reasonably possible (the key word being “reasonably“) while keeping society and economy working.
That is the approach that should have been taken, and should be taken, vis a vis “the virus”.
The “lockdown” nonsense (and associated facemask nonsense) will kill (already has killed) more people than “the virus”.
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The part-Jew bad joke posing as Prime Minister has ducked addressing the CBI this morning. Apparently it is the first time any prime minister of the UK has failed to appear. One can see why. “Boris” would face a critical and very experienced audience. As in other ways, “Boris” is not up to it.
In fact, Alok Sharma will now address the CBI. Funny to think that that little Indian (who was at the same school as me, though about 10 years later, and I never knew him) is a Cabinet member, now addressing the CBI, and I am sitting, near-penniless, in a rural backwater… The world is upside down.
A half-Jewess, she seemed (in the TV show noted) obsessed by the “Nazis”, and exhibited the kind of (to my perception) ersatz emotion that one often sees displayed by Jews when talking about their relatives who were affected by the large-scale events of the 1940s. I say “ersatz” emotion, because said relatives cannot have been known personally to the Jews now emoting about them. There’s something fake about it all. You don’t see British people, or Germans for that matter, crying because a (never-known) great-aunt or great-grandfather was killed in WW2.
Well, as said above, Jane Seymour did emote from time to time on that TV programme. To adopt the words of Dorothy Parker (about Katharine Hepburn?), Jane Seymour “ran the gamut of emotions from A to B”…
Some of her relatives crossed illegally into Switzerland from France in late 1943, three years after Germany invaded France. Others died in Poland, and one or two were sent to Germany from Poland on one of the “death marches” in which inmates of camps were marched West in order to flee the approach of the Red Army. A strange thing for the Germans to have done, if all they wanted and intended to do was to kill their prisoners (as per the “holocaust” narrative)…
As I say, I know little of the background of that actress. I recall seeing her a long time ago on American TV, maybe after the death of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 2012, but I think after other and earlier events, supporting the black rioting that ensued. She even gave a clenched-fist salute! “They” always support upheaval (unless “they” are the victims of it).
I also seem to recall that she owned a country house in Somerset (I think), and used it partly as a kind of expensive guest house for a while, which if correct seems odd, for someone with so much money (she’s supposedly worth around USD $100M). I believe (read somewhere) that the locals disliked her for some reason but, if that was so, I forget why it was supposed to be so.
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It now looks like the scientific figures used to terrorise Boris and justify a second lockdown may be four times too high. They’re getting better. The previous lot were 10 times too high.
Memo for Shropshire covidcops: I will be putting on our normal family #GuyFawkesNight celebration shortly after dark. If you wish to commit treason against #English tradition by all means arrest me. Or you could head to Telford and arrest some gr**mers.#flyingpigs#BorisMustGopic.twitter.com/k3AGism14a
As it's not April1st, we have to believe this is accurate. 2 mums walking 2 six-year-olds to school can't stop for a chat. 2 adults can't meet a third fellow citizen to discuss living in a #GreatReset police state which destroys health, jobs & #freedomhttps://t.co/HiQexKr7PQ
The toytown police state gradually transitions to a real one. Political or socio-political activity of the traditional sort is frozen by order…as for religious services— banned. Looks as though Christmas itself will be all but banned by order, too. I interpret that as partly an attack on religion, but equally an attack on a way of life.
A way of life, when it disappears, does not leave a vacuum for very long. Another way of life replaces the former.
There is a scarcely-disguised push now by evil transnational powers for a robotic slave or serf-society to replace what has existed for the past several centuries in Europe and beyond. Call it The Great Reset and/or The Great Replacement, or something else, it has to be fought before we do not have the means to fight or even protest.
@c4lsyr. Awareness does *not* equal panic. The authorities and the well-informed have been perfectly aware of many outbreaks of respiratory disease comparable to this and have taken proportionate measures. It is only Johnson and Hancock who have strangled the country & the NHS. https://t.co/rRueNrIqBh
But @cl4syr , how you know that Covid would ‘kill more’ if these panic measures were not taken? Where is the causal evidence of their effectiveness? Even their advocates admit that at best they postpone and delay. But the panic has killed many. https://t.co/rRueNrIqBh
The NHS is a good idea that is now not working well, and has to some extent become a bureaucracy working mainly for its own employees. It needs radical change, with layers of (mis-) management removed, just cut away, and clinical need (and clinical excellence) put into the driving seat. The once-derided “Matron” figure must return. Standards of cleanliness are terrible now in the NHS. That is perhaps partly because of the number of non-Europeans now employed, but poor management and admin is at least as important.
@ClarkeMicah is correct, there's been very little criticism of gov policy since March. The BBC still gives a platform to Neil Ferguson for crying out loud.
She’s right. The dancing around the subject in the UK is also, as they now say, “a thing”. A “let’s not be beastly to the blacks” attitude. Example: one of the perhaps brainless TV shows I watch is The Chase, even though I know all the answers except the popular music, sports, “celebrities” and “soaps” ones.
On The Chase, occasionally they have a black contestant with a huge and visible chip on the shoulder. They usually claim to be studying something (superficially) difficult, such as (one, recently seen) Forensic Science. When the contestant gets bumped off, both the presenter and the “Chaser” almost bend over backwards to say how clever the black contestant is, and how unlucky he/she was to lose…
On the day of my Tribunal hearing, I was amused to discover that, on the previous day, the “Chaser” known as “The Dark Destroyer”, Shaun Wallace [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Wallace] had also been a respondent (defendant). He was lucky that most people missed the news about him. Other news, not least the headlines about my case (in the Daily Mail, Express, Independent, various other newspapers, and on Sky News etc) pushed Wallace’s incompetence off the news agenda.
It makes me laugh when the presenter, Bradley Walsh, introduces Wallace as “It’s the legal eagle, The Barrister, the Dark Destroyer that is SHAUN WALLACE!“
I notice that, like a lot of black people with at least some education, Wallace tends to regurgitate irrelevant facts to show that he knows something, even if the facts regurgitated are not really in point.
Actually, most of those who are regarded as highly educated and intelligent on game shows are actually not terribly…so.
In fact, on the The Chase itself, there is Mark Labett, a former maths teacher in a Welsh school, who received an underwhelming Third (3rd-class degree) in Mathematics at Oxford (he was unlucky; no-one gets a Third now, thanks to award inflation).
Then we have, to give another example, Carol Vorderman, another supposed great brain, who read Engineering at Cambridge, but received only a Third in the end: “Her degree was only a Third, a result she has described as having been “disappointing”[6] and is a member of the Nines Club,[7] having achieved a third-class score in each year of study“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Vorderman.
Rachel Riley of Countdown, the woman constantly ranting about “antisemitism”, especially in the Labour Party, received a 2:1 degree, but that was in or about 2008, when awards were already rather more generous than they were in the 1980s.
Actually, a degree is only a (possible) entry ticket: some of the most financially (etc) successful have no degree: Richard Branson, Lord Ashcroft etc.
I wonder whether any more idiots will be out soon, clapping and banging kitchen pans for the self-congratulating public services (which are fading away in terms of actually helping people…)?
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Glenn Gould performs Bach’s Partita 2 at his cottage in Uptergrove, Ontario in the 1958 documentary “Off the Record.”pic.twitter.com/PALAfXRe5X
One of the gunmen in #ViennaAttack tonight. #Macron winds them up. They go wild. We hate them. And we all forget that the people who own Macron are resetting our world and fucking up our lives. pic.twitter.com/jUPFtqUPot
Reminds me of when I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1996-97. Almaty had few “luxury” shops then. I went into a place to buy Paco Rabanne XS and got into conversation in Russian with the little Kazakh policeman who was moonlighting as a security guard. He even let me examine his submachinegun, and talked about its mechanism, magazine capacity etc.
Fraser Nelson asks where on earth the government's new doom-laden forecasts come from https://t.co/cMqs8f4vjU
Growing opposition to the throttling of the economy & the NHS is worrying the LockDown Zealots. I've been the target of two attacks on Twitter in 24 hours, people I'd never heard of before making near-identical attacks on tweets they wouldn't normally even have seen.A compliment.
What is a Covid-denier? Now publish the Swedish *death* figures instead of meaningless tallies of mostly healthy people who have had positive PCR tests. https://t.co/AuUR0qdEQ7
On the contrary @butterleyreg, many cancers and much heart disease are entirely preventable. They are also treatable, at least when the NHS has not been strangled by panicking Lockdown zealots such as your good self . https://t.co/drzKpwm0nh
Yes, we do now have the nucleus of an actual opposition @Gillianabeth, which we certainly lacked in March and which many countries lack entirely. But it is still far too weak. Millions have no idea that dssent even exists. https://t.co/EAyiLLpeEC
#SayNoToLockdown Hospital cases are rising because they test everyone entering hospital for Covid, regardless of why they had to go to hospital. The tests are at an amplified rate that create false positives, hospitalisations can, therefore, only rise no matter what you do
wearing a mask being a little sheep suppresses your immune system so when the winter flu comes like it always does nobody's immune system will be strong enough to fight it we all need to stand up now #SayNoToLockdown
#SayNoToLockdown Coronavirus is the greatest hoax in recent history and anyone that endorses this nonsense should be ashamed of themselves. You have not only allowed, but encouraged, governments to become tyrannical and sow division amongst the people.
Lockdown doesn't make the virus go away, all it does is suppress it temporarily. Spain had a far stricter lockdown than the UK, and cases of #Covid19 in Spain are rising again.#SayNoToLockdown
In April they were testing 5,000 a day tops. Now they're testing in excess of 150,000 a day, so of course numbers of cases are going to go up. But, less than 0.5% of the population have had COVID and 0.1% have sadly died. It's no excuse to shut 66 million down #SayNoToLockdown
— Alasdair Murray – the Recruitment Copywriter (@RecruitmentCopy) September 20, 2020
He is right, yet that is the consensus on Twitter, which is always on the wrong side of any question. The Twitterati generally were pro-EU, pro-Remain, thought that Leave could never win the EU Referendum, that Trump could never get elected. They want (more) mass immigration, think that “refugees” are “welcome”; want more “lockdown”, more facemask mandating etc. Many think of themselves, despite that, as pro-“rights” and as “socialist” or at least social-democrat.
The unreality that is the Twitterverse is patent. These people think that you can shut down the economy indefinitely yet pay everyone generously for doing nothing or almost nothing. They think that you can make everyone wear a facemask (which they wrongly imagine “saves lives”) and avoid human interaction, yet build a more altruistic and cohesive “community”. They are asinine and are being easily fooled by the actually transparently poor System propaganda.
Types? Oh, the “if it only saves one life” type, sometimes intensified to “if it only saves one child’s life“. Then there is the hysterical “people are dying!” type. That type does not seem to realize that very few people are dying from “the virus” and many are dying from delayed or cancelled NHS diagnosis, care, treatment and operations.
Other types? Those who, taking their lead from the msm, from talking heads such as Piers Morgan, from the popular Press etc, call anyone questioning the whole “virus” farrago, the facemask nonsense or the “lockdowns”, or who want to live a semblance of what was a normal life, “Covidiots“.
Yet others actually call any people not complying with the facemask nonsense, “murderers“! There is real madness abroad at the present time.
There seem to be many on Twitter and elsewhere who think that the British people (and others) should wear facemasks at all times when not at home (a few nuts even say when at home!), should probably not go to work, or should work masked and muzzled until the Government (in its entirely absent wisdom) so decides; should not send their children to school; should not gather in a group of more than six (what genius came up with that? Boris-idiot? Cummings? Professor “do as I say not as I do” Ferguson?).
Here, below, the real hardcore Twitter type:
The absolute state of some people using #SayNoToLockdown I swear some people shouldn’t be allowed access to the internet.
Well, there it is. If you don’t go along with the “panicdemic” view, if you have dissenting views, if you oppose official propaganda, you should be censored, muzzled, gagged, banned from posting on the Internet. Britain, 2020…(and the above tweeter, the supporter of Soviet-style censorship, is apparently an author, albeit only of science fiction and fantasy).
Here below is another of the same type. He wants anyone disagreeing with his (the System’s) fixed, brainwashed opinion about “the virus” to dig their own graves or those of others…
Here’s another; this one hits all the buttons (“do as the State or others tell you“; “obey the rules and regulations even if illegitimate and invalid“; “shut up, do not dissent, and wear your compliance-muzzle“):
That one probably saw the “million dead from Coronavirus worldwide” headline, and did not stop to think, “that’s out of eight thousand million people”…
Oh, God…just read a few more tweets from “@lilZehnny” (above). A total idiot; a deadhead.
Fortunately, Twitter is not the world, not even the British world. There are many, even on Twitter, taking a more rational view.
Lock down the vulnerable, Well that's who is most at risk right?
As for the rest of us let us ride out the storm with herd immunity and get this nation back on it's feet.#SayNoToLockdown
Hard to believe that many on Twitter actually believe that the rise in “cases” (because of the huge increase in tests being carried out) is somehow the result of “people not obeying the rules the first time”.
As far as I recall, almost all the British people (aka sheep) did in fact obey the (probably legally invalid) “rules” in March, April, May etc. Yes a few people went for a harmless drive in their cars, a few people did walk with their spouses on the hills of the Peak District or wherever. That did not and could not have made any difference whatsoever. Yes, a few “ethnics” did gather in London parks, and some people did go to a few crowded beaches. The effect of that would likewise have been minimal.
Whatever is happening now (another hysterical over-reaction) is not because a few people months ago broke the fake “rules” of the toytown police state.
Let us take it to absurdity: everyone to be “locked down” in their own homes unless designated “essential”, no-one or very few working unless doing so from home. Most retail (and other?) business closed. Schools closed. No-one allowed out without wearing a facemask. No gatherings of more than 6 allowed. What would be the result? Disaster.
The result of a strict lockdown is what we already see signs of happening: companies collapsing; millions thrown out of employment; boarded-up shops; a miserable and muzzled population; children not being educated (in fact, that is the least important effect, because the schools seem to do an appallingly-poor job anyway).
The fact is that, in the end, “the virus” has to be faced down by the population. Businesses have to operate, schools have to be open and operating, hospitals have to be working and actually seeing, diagnosing and properly treating people; dentists too.
The economy must start working, providing jobs, providing tax revenues for the State, providing the wherewithal for the services necessary for the people.
The first tweeter there (“@makesmesadtosee”) has made a cardinal error, seeing all change as “evolution”. Lowering the quality of the population by racemixing is not positive evolution at all; in fact it holds back evolution. Note the implied threat, too…
You don't. But if you want to work as a teacher, you have to abide by these standards or be struck off. PA claims teachers have worked on it. https://t.co/qx8Wm2Edvt
…says Mike Stuchbery, someone who was sacked from schools in the UK and (I believe) Australia…
And here (below) is someone who (looking at his other tweets) evidently believes that he is terribly clever (when in reality he is just an unthinking regurgitator of System propaganda):
Oh great, now the braindead COVID-19 deniers are here, telling me to wake up because the pandemic that's killed nearly a million people is fake and a government lie.
And these people are allowed to vote and drive cars and procreate? Good fucking lord.
Throbbing bellends the lot of 'em. Anti-mask nonces are the worst of our society. They're in Trafalgar Square to spread a virus that's killed over 45,000 people. You're all gobshites.https://t.co/8ynY1deOaF
That Mike P. Williams person is simply a enemy of the British people and of European race and culture. Twitter profile says “Content producer, writer, social media exec”; no organization mentioned.
The BBC says blm racist #sophieduker's 'joke' that "we want to kill whitey" is "within audience expectations"
Just for once the tax-grabbing parasites at Paedo House are right, it's EXACTLY what we expect. And why millions of us now refuse to pay the TV licence!#DefundTheBBCpic.twitter.com/goARHDthjB
Quite. I heard recently, on BBC World Service or Radio 4, some person whining that there are insufficient numbers of blacks or browns (“BAME”) on TV. Apparently “only” 13% of TV presenters are black. Looking at the demographic figures for the UK, though, “only” 3% of the UK population, even now, is fully black, and 13% “BAME” (blacks, browns, mixed, Chinese etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom.
So if 13% of TV presenters are “black”, then blacks are actually over-represented; even if 13% of TV presenters are some kind of “BAME”, then they are still not under-represented.
A good day spent doing a 7 mile hike today in the East Anglia region & enjoying the scenery . Thank you to everyone that showed up & helped make it a great afternoon. pic.twitter.com/rSs0PK0dv4
Yes but 1 million haven’t died from covid most of them died with Covid. That’s actually an extremely big difference. The 50k flu deaths we had in 2017/18 in the space of a few months went unnoticed yet mortuary’s were overflowing and nurses needed counselling from all the deaths
— 南京 外围/杭州学生/长沙上门/武汉外围/西安外围/厦门外围/福州外围/青岛外围/济南外围 (@MadyWaterer) September 20, 2020
The 'revolt' is already coming from the Tory back-benches, which is where we want it, because, having an 80-seat majority, they're actually in a position to do something about the situation….. It's noteworthy that 'the charge' is currently being LED by Sir Graham Brady!
Yes, @minv An election fought between parties ( and media) who disagree only on details and efficiency of implementation of a bad policy, and who have already accepted the conventional drivel that 'We should have locked down harder from the start'. https://t.co/P0P5zOisoC
I have always found it incredible how ingrained in the UK is the idea “this is a free country; we have a general election at least once every 5 years.”…
Simon Dolan's desperately-needed court case against the government has been postponed *again* (guess why?). It would never have happened to Gina Miller's case. https://t.co/opruYPbsaO
How lucky I was as a child to see the unspoiled wonders of the Pitt-Rivers museum, silent, dim-lit, full of the junk of empire. Of course such a ramshackle, British thing could not survive into this age. https://t.co/opruYPbsaO
The government has only one tool -national self-harm – to deal with a problem that can never in fact be solved. Unless we can get rid of them, then this misery and stupidity will go on forever: https://t.co/opruYPbsaO
Would the American black term, “hoes”, be appropriate? I recall seeing on a wall in London, some 33 years ago, “Whitey scum want whitey bum, so whitey chick want big black ****“. Well, you get the idea…
First thing for journalists to do— cease using “Left” and “Right”, which is just anachronistic and lazy political language.
*Now* is the time for civil, lawful, peaceful discontent. Anyone who considers himself or herself a citizen rather than a subject has a duty to use all legal, peaceful avenues of protest.
To all the adults out there I put this question. Have you ever, even in the direr years of John Major or Harold Wilson, experienced a government which so obviously has no idea what it is doing, or a Parliament so useless at holding it to account? So why does it survive?
I was largely overseas during the John Major years, and when I was not overseas I was trying to get work as a barrister in chambers in London. I disliked the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. I despised and hated the governments of David Cameron-Levita and Theresa May.
Each of those governments was harsher, yet less efficient, than the one before. Each of those governments was also more Jewish and Zionist than the one before, until we arrive at the rule of Boris-idiot, a part-Jew, part-Turk, part God-knows-what public entertainer. His Cabinet is entirely composed of Jews, Indians and a few others, who are all members of Conservative Friends of Israel. The Boris-idiot government is completely incapable, completely incompetent, completely idiotic.
How much more do they have to do to you before you realise a) that you've had enough and b)that they have no idea what they are doing? How did a Tory government of exceptional uselessness obtain and keep the support of almost all the media and political left?
Indeed. Look at the msm. Completely quiescent. Look at the official Opposition. Supporting everything that Boris-idiot does, pretty much (but wanting more of it).
Wake up, people! This is “ZOG” (Zionist Occupation Government) in action.
Not much chance in a Tory stronghold with Kit the Boris bitch Malthouse.
I've challenged him time and time again to the point I got an official letter response. I would happily take on a commando raid, but it won't mean anything when the majority are sheeple.
I think that may be the only thing Johnson *does* know, @suzseddon. His life has collapsed into a dot exactly the same shape and size as him. If one more person tells me he's 'really a libertarian' I may have to be sick. It's what he *does* that shows what he really is. https://t.co/GCLLzu5TuC
The proportions here are absurd. The response is what you might make a to major fatal plague. The cause is nothing like that. Why do ministers get away with their constant fanning of the embers of panic? Why are so many journalists so useless? https://t.co/ajSST2v8DU
Well, there we have it. For Peter Hitchens, the radical thing to do is email MPs threatening not to vote for them, or write a letter. Unsurprising. Hitchens is a man of letters, after all. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini (etc), though not uneducated, were not, primarily, men of letters.
If Mr Hancock is allowed to continue with his policies there will be neither autobiographies nor reviews nor most of the features of a civilised society, just the desolate husk of a former country. https://t.co/gZp7RTAr4z
OK, give up. In my view no seat is safe once the economic consequences of this mess kick in. But if, @admalez, you're too wet and lazy to write a simple e-mail, I don't even want you on my side. Mask up, bow your head, and join the submissives. https://t.co/F2oQZy5zKr
You cannot put new wine into old bottles. A new political movement is necessary. Social-national. Credible. Powerful. Uncompromising.
Not (for example) a “party” led by a woman whose idea of radical action is picketing a mosque, or bleating about how great Jews are (in her opinion). Not (for example) a party which seems to exist to hold conferences, or to post nice pictures on Twitter.
A truly credible, tight party, even if tiny, could gain traction in the situation which looks like developing in the next few years.
Took a look at the statistics for 2020. So far, tens of thousands of hits from nearly 10,000 individuals. With four full months to go until the end of the year, the number of hits already exceeds the figure for 2019 by about 7%, but the best aspect is that the number of individuals has jumped by 25%. It will be interesting to see the final figures for this year.
The number of “likes” from other WordPress users is also up, but few are ever given (on anyone’s blog) anyway. I had to laugh at the number (as of today) though: 88! True… Is it synchronicity?
Most readers of blogs do not belong to the platform, whether WordPress or other, so the number of “likes” means little. Most blogs get only a few in any given month. Likewise with comments. WordPress blogs are not like social media accounts such as Twitter.
Why does one bother? It is a way of influencing society, even if in a very small way; on the other hand, “one human soul is a big audience“, which I always think was said either by St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Dominic, or maybe even St. Augustine of Hippo, but in fact I have never been able to find the citation.
Who knows who might read my blog and be influenced by it? The next young Alexander? Perhaps a young reader who, after I leave this Earth in my present incarnation, will create the new civilization which I myself, at least so far, have been unable to bring to life and power.
A few “thoughts out of season”
I am 64 years of age in a few days’ time, though I do not —usually!— feel it. Two years until I am 66, in 2022. 2022 can be expressed as a 6 (2+0+2+2), and (by one system of numerology) the number of my name (Ian Robert Millard) is 666, though I should add that I am scarcely a —let alone the—“Beast”!
Like “the stars in their courses“, I “fight on the side of the just” (an ancient Chinese saying).
2022 is the next world-historic year. The last, 33 years before 2022, was 1989, the key year in the collapse of socialism across the world. Socialism did not collapse in one year alone, of course. It had been slowly dying for decades, indeed since the previous year in that 33-year cycle, meaning 1956 (also the year of my own birth).
When I say “socialism” here, I refer to all post-1945 varieties, from the kind of social democratic idea seen in postwar UK, Sweden, New Zealand etc through to the extreme versions seen in the Soviet Union, China, Albania etc. True, China still has and is ruled by the Communist Party, but that party rules over a society completely capitalist. Yes, there are a few unimportant remnants of ruined socialism here and there: Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela (which only became notionally socialist in the 1990s, though there were socialistic elements in Venezuelan society in the 1950s and 1960s). The point is that these countries are exceptions, and poverty-stricken exceptions. The mainstream of the world has moved on from old-style socialism.
After 1989, the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a socialist state, though the Soviet Union continued in name until 1991.
After 1989 and the —superficially— unsuccessful Tiananmen Square protest, “socialism” became a figleaf covering only, just like “aristocracy” has been for a long time in UK society. Deng Xiaoping had said that no-one cared what colour was a cat, so long as it catches mice. That was why socialism had to be superseded, because as an economic model it “does not work”.
Socialism does not work well in the economic sense, but finance-capitalism does not work well socially. Hence the —as yet largely not understood— need for the Threefold Social Order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding.
In the UK, the social democratic idea was fully espoused after the Second World War, certainly from 1956, by all three “main parties” (the two real main parties —Conservative and Labour— and the joke Liberal Party). That consensus (“democratic socialist” Labour, in existence in essence since the late 19thC, and “One Nation” Conservatism, also deriving originally from the late 19thC and Disraeli) broke down in the 1980s.
In the 1990s, the “Conservatives” travelled to a more finance-capitalist, anti-Welfare State position. “Labour” dropped “Clause 4” (which notionally committed the party to widespread nationalization —socialization— of the economy). Within a few years, after 1997, Labour had become completely “cosmopolitan finance-capitalist” under Tony Blair and the Jew Mandelson, who declared that he was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich“.
While the Jew Mandelson held secret meetings with Rothschilds and “Russian” Jew oligarchs in Corfu villas and elsewhere, Attlee and Bevan rotated in their graves, and the remaining “socialist” element in Labour seethed, led by the dissident MP, Jeremy Corbyn.
Despite much talk, the “socialist” Labour element under Corbyn and, before that, Ed Miliband, was unable to struggle successfully against the Zeitgeist. The General Elections of 2015, 2017 and 2019 proved that old-style socialism is dead. That despite public disquiet at the weakening and partial dismantling of the “Welfare State”, mainly under the Conservative Party governments since 2010.
In fact, that weakening of the UK “Welfare State”, though intensified after 2010, had started long before, and was in evidence during the Blair-Brown years 1997-2010. For example, the disgraceful ATOS organization was given its first contracts not by the Conservative Party governments (2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019), but by the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (1997, 2001, 2005, 2007): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atos#Atos_Healthcare.
People in the UK tend to think that policy is made by individual governments, when in fact there has always been a “deep state” element underneath, carried on in secret, or in semi-secrecy. The influence of, inter alia, freemasonry, Common Purpose, the Jew-Zionist element, the Bilderberg element etc are all part of that. Look at Welfare State policy since, say, 1997. There have been differences between and within parties, but the main themes continued beneath the surface chatter.
As we move to the next significant year, 2022, we see that neither old-style socialism/social democracy nor finance-capitalism satisfies the needs of the people.
A new movement is required, both in the sense of a “party” or political organization, and in the sense of a movement in —and of— society.
“For the welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
Time moves on
I found this graphic from 2018, not seen for quite a while. It was produced by the Jew-Zionist (and misnamed) “Hope Not Hate” crowd. It shows those who met (in my case, once, at a clifftop cafe, because someone thought reliable had asked me) a young Swede whose real name is said to be Patrik Hermansson, and who posed in 2017 as a Swedish student called Erik Hellberg. Personally, I think that “The Rat” suits him better, but that’s just me…
It will be noted that I was placed, as if a denizen of a contemporary “Inferno“, in the circle of the “holocaust” “deniers” [bottom right of the graphic].
I tend to be rather anti-social both in the ordinary meaning and politically. I do not mix much, in fact scarcely at all. For all that, I can see that political life has moved on in the intervening <2 years.
Some people have become more prominent (Alison Chabloz for one), others have retreated from the limelight: Jez Turner, Stead Steadman, Colin Robertson (“Millennial Woes”) etc. The London Forum is inactive. The “alt-Right” in the USA (as far as I can tell —I do not keep up with all that in detail) has developed a sharper edge, it seems.
The graphic does not of course purport to be a comprehensive map of the “nationalist” side of UK/US politics. As for the work of “The Rat”, he was wasting his time. His paymasters at “Hope Not Hate” eventually produced a film, but it sank like a stone. I think (not sure) that it did get a screening on Channel 4 or Channel 5 around midnight one evening, and the same in Belgium and Sweden. I myself cannot recall seeing it.
The most interesting aspect of that graphic is what is not there: “lone wolves” in the UK and elsewhere, German rural-sanctuary nationalists and national socialists, those setting up a mini-ethnostate in the Pacific North West of the USA etc.
Group tries to storm Berlin parliament after mass Covid-19 protest https://t.co/73j9dFPJ7r…. 38K? more like 380K! Rte said 500 at custom hse last week when 7500 turned up!substantial anti mask protest in London yest & people here cheer the arrest of Gemma O Doherty! THE FOOLS!
In fact, the behaviour of the pseudo-socialists and “antifa” idiots really highlights the sheer bankruptcy of their socio-political position or stance. They beg to be masked, muzzled, controlled, restricted by the State. They have nothing at all to offer in terms of policy or a way forward for society.
You see the same phenomena in the UK, the “anti-racist” and “antifa” types whose life revolves around trolling people on Twitter, saying negative things about those they deem “fascist” or “neo-Nazi” etc. They know nothing, have no real ideology, and put forward no programme of their own. Politically irrelevant.
Berlin. People of the UK: Why do you think they are protesting? What are you waiting for? Get off the bench and get involved. There will be no 2nd chances. We have 1 shot at stopping this new world order & it begins with you binning that stupid face mask & ignoring the “rules”. pic.twitter.com/xtmZ0T4IH0
…and look [below] at these idiots, sitting talking while wearing facemask muzzles! Complete idiots. This really is a ******* farce, but most people are too polite or too compliant or too brainwashed to say anything!
Listened to BBC Radio 4 Profile about Dido Harding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_Harding. Sounds like she is the sort of person who gets into highly paid positions (eg at Talk Talk, where she was paid millions for failure) because of whom she knows rather than what she knows (or does). A modified and female example of the Peter Principle [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle], except that she has been appointed to her present position having serially failed in others. Pathetic country, pathetic government.
Tweets seen
We must all look after each other and take responsibility for the bigger picture. But we need perspective. 450 people will die of cancer today. The impact on the cancer community is immense – both mentally and physically. 99% chance of dying from my Cancer. < 1% from Covid.
The fat man in his muzzle is [update: tweet gone] typical of the aggressive and/or mentally-disturbed facemask zealots who have been emboldened by the ludicrous fake “law” being misused by Boris-idiot, little Matt Hancock, Cressida Dick etc.
Below, “antifa” gassed! I’m lovin’ it (even though I think that Trump is completely unfit for public office)!
Trumpers inciting violence. This is all planned. It’s just beginning. https://t.co/o3rfpkWg15
In the lovely #English village of Claverley today, about 10 miles west of Birmingstan. As well as great walks & several proper pubs serving seriously good beer, the church is stunning. Its 13th century Wall paintings are described as "England's Bayeaux Tapestry". Your #heritagepic.twitter.com/dLzYfX32pl
'We never thought that our painfully acquired freedoms would be strangled by a jolly, obese, blond Etonian. Or that a people once famed for their fierceness and independence would be tamed by fear propaganda into muzzled, mumbling submissives'. https://t.co/keytNrVW6h
Hitchens is right as far as he goes, but fails, once again, to point out that Boris-idiot’s most significant characteristics come not from his few years at Eton (or Oxford) but from the fact that he is part-Jew, part-Turk/Levantine, born in New York City, brought up as child in Washington DC, New York and in Brussels. He is at least half-foreign, in short. Of course “Boris” is not really English in attitude, because he is not really English!
I don’t know why doctors are not speaking out about this.
I can believe (sadly) government and management instructions creating this problem but the doctors, GPs through to cancer specialists, should be appalled by this abdication of care responsibility.
Most NHS doctors are saying nothing because, quite simply, just as Aneurin Bevan said that he had overcome the opposition of the BMA and doctors to the establishment of the NHS by “stuffing their mouths with gold” (relatively high salaries and the chance to do private work on the side etc), Boris-idiot and little Matt Hancock have stuffed the mouth of today’s NHS doctors with more gold, via immediate 4.5% pay rises for less work done…
Interesting early use of face-muzzles(at the lawless Guantanamo camp)extraordinarily similar to those now being forceed on populations of formerly free countries. Nobody can so far explain how these can have a *medical* aim. So what is their purpose? https://t.co/qgsnLJ6iJ7
Hitchens may or may not be aware of it, but Americans have always treated their prisoners, especially political prisoners and/or prisoners of war, very badly. Those suspected of being involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were kept muzzled and with hoods over their heads for months in some cases.
The amazing effects of state-sponsored panic. In the UK the public think 6-7% of people have died from coronavirus – around one hundred times the actual death rate https://t.co/6D4vciah9O
In the very depths of the shutdown(which did no good at all), it really did look for a while as if civilisation had come to an end (see this picture of an untended Radcliffe Square, heart of Oxford University). But what of the impoverished future? pic.twitter.com/GazC6EcQgH
Indian “clever boy”, Rishi Sunak, who was briefly touted as a future UK Prime Minister when he started throwing money around to ameliorate the effects of his own government’s policies, established the “eat out to help out” programme. 50% off, up to £10 a head, I believe. Well, I just heard anecdotal evidence:
A lady I know went to a seaside cafe/restaurant one morning recently. Her purchase was modest, a single cup of coffee. When she went to pay (£2.20), she was told that she only had to pay £1.10 because of that scheme. A woman also waiting to pay then chimed in to the effect that her family now dined out three times a week because it made eating out almost as cheap as eating in.
Well, that lady whose family use restaurants three times a week and get a discount for it may enjoy the scheme, but the whole thing is being paid for by the public as a whole; by the poor too, who may not pay much in income tax but who certainly pay VAT and, if employed, National Insurance.
Why should the people as a whole pay to subsidize the cafe visits and restaurant excursions of the rich, the affluent and the comfortably-off? Like so many government policies now, there is just no logic and no justice behind it.
A very striking piece of architecture, quite exciting, and I do not hate it as much as tweeter “Western Traditionalist”, but I hear what he (or she) says. It is a symptom of cultural decadence, for sure.
As for the “architecture” below, that really is just disgusting, and should be demolished or destroyed.
Presumably a representation of some organ of the human body (?), or maybe some sea-creature, plonked down in the midst of what seems to be a town in Southern Germany:
[update, 9 January 2021: the above tweets seem to have gone]
Maybe if far-left ideologues don't want mainstream America to think they advocate riots and looting, they shouldn't write books praising riots and looting. Just a thought.https://t.co/FtO6ZWul0e
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
When the cyclical cooling of the sun made the global warming hoax useless for driving the One World Government agenda, the elite switched to covid. These figures show how they turned a weak flu season death rate into a pandemic. https://t.co/Ubj0ycyzeP
No @Paulo197446 The government was not ‘guided by science’ . It accepted the contentious advice of one group of scientists, who were wrong, and ignored others. https://t.co/BMVUI5N5vZ
Why I cannot write for @FIrstThingsMag 'First Things' any more. Full details of their attempt to censor me, for being too critical of the state-sponsored panic over Covid. https://t.co/keytNrVW6h
Oh @timothy_stanley are you really taken in by these ‘spikes’ of asymptomatic cases, obtained by intensified testing, signifying nothing? Was your education wholly wasted on you? https://t.co/fPOHggHzbi
I’m not interested in them @galphinpierce. They are by definition beyond reason. But many normal people have been misled into supporting state-sponsored panic by easily-exploded propaganda lies. There are of course muzzle zealots who are as batty as the Bill Gates Takeover types. https://t.co/LBPY5BpzGk
No Gerard, as you very well know. I just find it interesting that you choose to pick out black and brown skinned migrants, rather than encouraging integration generally regardless of skin colour.
If my white Northern Irish parents worked in Japan and I was born there ,Am I Japanese ? No I'm not I'm an Ulsterman born in Japan . Same goes for minorities here they ain't English Scottish Welsh Northern Irish .
Plus do we want our green and pleasant land covered in housing, schools, new cities, etc., to allow for the extra millions of migrants, legal and illegal? I for one do not. I enjoy our countryside, eating food grown here and these options will be gone.
What hope was there for UKIP, when its own former leaders are unsure whether, had they been born in Japan (eg in transit), or lived there, they would be Japanese? What a bunch of clowns!
Looks as though Batten needs to look at the Nuremberg Laws (the real ones, not the Jew-Zionist “edited highlights”…
UKIP is of course on a very different page vis a vis my own ideological basis. It never was social-national, and was never heavily attacked by the Jew element in the msm, a very bad sign (individual Jews tweeted etc against UKIP, but the core Zionist element was untroubled by it). UKIP was always given Press coverage, TV coverage; Farage the con-man extraordinaire was forever on Newsnight, Question Time, the TV news etc. Permitted opposition. Controlled opposition.
When UKIP was still a functioning party with a real chance of forming a small House of Commons bloc, I tweeted about it quite frequently. I am talking about between 2010-2015. After 2015, I understood that UKIP’s chance had gone (in fact, it peaked around 2014), cheated as it was by the UK’s pseudo-democratic electoral system: 12.6% of the national vote but only a small fraction of 1% of the MPs, in fact only 1 MP out of 650 (and he was a defected Conservative Party MP anyway).
I did blog a little about UKIP in the runup to the 2017 General Election. I knew that it would sink like a stone. The only reason that I now blog about it (for the first time in about a year) is because I saw those absurd Batten tweets. I was not going to blog today, but I can tack this bit about UKIP onto the start of tomorrow’s blog post.
UKIP has almost fallen into obscurity. Its not-bad 2015 General Election percentage (12.6%) fell to 1.8% in 2017, under the dim Paul Nuttall; that was the first decline in national vote-share that UKIP had ever suffered since its foundation. The 2019 General Election result was even worse: under the ludicrous Patricia Mountain, UKIP’s vote fell to 0.1%, i.e. one vote out of every thousand.
How far do such facts take you? I was once a guest at a private tennis club in North London. I had gone out of politeness. Despite having played occasionally since childhood, I still scarcely know the rules or how to play properly; anyone who knows me knows that I am not very sport-oriented. I did once score a direct hit from some distance with a tennis ball, on the bottom of a Ukrainian lady who had stooped to pick up another ball, but that hardly counts!
That London tennis club was rather formal. You had to wear the right clothing etc; it also had a pleasant bar, from which one could watch people playing. I saw a doubles match and, to my untutored eye, they looked not much different from the professionals who play at Wimbledon. Of course they were different, and that is the point. There was a far greater gulf between my inept level of play and the doubles-players than there was between them and the Wimbledon champions.
Champions, or the top people in every category of activity, are ipso facto better than almost all others. However, they may not be much better than a mass, perhaps a vast mass, just below that championship level. It is that tiny amount of edge that makes the difference.
Applying that to races and, yes, in big-picture “scientific” terms the DNA of the Northern European is very very close to other peoples, and even to the most backward peoples. It is that tiny difference that, all the same, matters.
“In your nothing I hope to find my everything“; “In deinem Nichts hoff ‘ ich, das All zu finden“[Goethe, Faust; Faust answering Mephistopheles, who has said that Faust’s belief is nothing].
Well, leaving such observations and reverting to the mundane world of UK politics as it is, and UKIP, I notice that even Wikipedia has found little to say of some of the post-Farage “leaders” of UKIP. In one case, that of someone called Wauchope, apparently (never heard of him), even the year of his birth is uncertain!
UKIP is said still to have 25,000 members, though I doubt that.
I see that one Freddy Vachha is now the “leader” of this embarrassing joke of a party. An Indian accountant. The tide has gone out, leaving some odd bits and pieces on the sand.
I think this was the moment the BBC deserved to lose its licence fee income, a thing I had always resisted before. The harm it has done since March is incalculable. https://t.co/8KMfLTAbgh
I think this was the moment the BBC deserved to lose its licence fee income, a thing I had always resisted before. The harm it has done since March is incalculable. https://t.co/8KMfLTAbgh
I always supported public service broadcasting. Still do, but the BBC is incurable. Defund the BBC and wipe it out.
Numbers of what are beginning to tick up here @brexitfreddy? Deaths peaked on 8th April and have been decreasing ever since. Don’t tell me you are fooled by meaningless ‘cases’ of healthy people who are not ill? What do they teach them in these schools?? https://t.co/K7HfIq9Lel
@janders31262652 I did. As to what others have done, the spirit of independence and the spirit of liberty have been dying for some time in what used to be the west. This may be the end of them. https://t.co/WRmFkicL7k
We read or hear that semi-lunatic “adviser” Dominic Cummings wants Sunak to impose spending cuts. Now that millions more face being dependent on State benefits by next year, that could just be the flame which, applied to the blue touchpaper of the present developing situation, could trigger the social-national revolution.
Finance-capitalism is failing. Old-style Marxist or Marxist-influenced socialism has already comprehensively failed, in the UK and across the world. The people will be ready to clutch at our straw. Not yet. Soon, though.
Britain’s “cuck” police bend down before non-Europeans (again)
On the contrary @philw52534128 I am quite sure they are stupid. I have met many politicoians in my life. Had you done so, you would know that they could not organise a glass of water. https://t.co/nbV64cdI4c
@Charlotte3003G @simondolan@ClarkeMicah Nine out of 10 people in England live in areas that haven't seen a Covid case in a MONTH and fresh lockdown based on 'dodgy data' is not needed, professor sayshttps://t.co/8yMQhTtISF
Proud crank as I am, @TomRidleyUK, I rather thought that it was amateur virologists who had devised the UK's mad national self-harm policy of strangling the economy, shutting the schools and harassing the population with fearmongering propaganda. We cranks were against that . https://t.co/6m2a8s76H3
Regular readers of this blog will recall the encounters I had with a couple of similar brainwashed would-be lecturing idiots a while ago.
If staff in businesses, or anyone else, act like cartoon labour camp overseers or prison guards, then they must expect to be laughed at.
Resist the facemask nonsense! Only wear a facemask if you really have no choice, and if you do wear a mask, make sure that you do so in a manner that makes it clear that you mock the nonsense and the government of clowns. Laugh at those who take it all seriously. Laugh at the rabbits!
The Army, Navy, Marines are all recruiting now on TV. They are finding it hard going to recruit many. I wonder why? Could it be that potential recruits realize that the armed services have become a joke? Also, that they abandon their people once their useful service has ended?
Take a look at Twitter. The Jewish-Zionist cabal on Twitter constantly tweets in favour of the migrant-invaders, “generously” wanting more to invade us. Yes, that Jewish mob on Twitter are all wonderfully generous with other people’s money, State funds etc, wanting the UK to take in anyone who manages to get here, no matter how hostile or useless. The same is true of “refugees welcome” dimwits and hypocrites such as Gary Lineker, Yvette Cooper, Lily Allen and all the other usual suspects.
Batten is too late. Regular readers of my blog will know that I suggested at least a year ago that Harry and the Royal Mulatta should (and would) relocate from the UK to Southern California.
I went on to suggest that they become a “reality TV” sitcom mix, perhaps living a pseudo-“royal” life in a little house; just Harry, the Mulatta, their baby, the dog (if not abandoned) and a butler, a Benson type. “Royal Married with Children“, with the Mulatta running her henpecked “cuck” husband ragged with impossible demands, as she tries to be a contender for political positions.
Sometimes I think that I am a male Cassandra, always predicting accurately, but rarely listened to…
Well, “historian” (TV presenter) Neil Oliver may be belatedly speaking up for some free speech now, but I seem to recall that he tweeted against me years ago when I still had a Twitter account. I have never seen anything from him supporting me, eg when I was disbarred for posting 5 tweets (out of 150,000+) on socio-political matters. I likewise did not see him support Jez Turner (imprisoned for making a speech) or Alison Chabloz (persecuted, prosecuted and convicted for singing satirical songs).
I also recall how biased Oliver was when some matters involving WW2 came up on his TV show, Coast.
Scotland does seem to be even worse on free speech than England. The combined influence of Jew-Zionism, freemasonry, Common Purpose (Police Scotland is riddled with both of the last two) and post-socialist SNP petty authoritarianism.
Ironic. What does Batten think that UKIP were? Quite. Controlled opposition. Just like Brexit Party, Tommy Robinson, Breitbart, “Prison Planet” Watson, Katie Hopkins etc.
Only machineguns can sort out this upsurge of madness in the USA. What it says to me is not “there is disorder now” but “if the US system ever weakens greatly, which is quite possible, there will be civil war“. Those unpleasant scenes may well be just the start.
I noticed in Waitrose that Ben & Jerry’s icecream is not selling, and has been reduced in price as a consequence. Don’t bother to sabotage it. Just boycott it.
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Just how did batshit 🤪Gavin Williamson get to be where he is? His story is even more puzzling than we could have ever imagined. Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: The Gavin Williamson Story https://t.co/kwWOfvwx83 via @ianrmillard
Hard to know what to think. The Greenland ice cover is vast and deep, certainly, and Wikipedia says that “If the Greenland ice sheet were to melt away completely, the world’s sea level would rise by more than 7 m (23 ft).“
If that were to happen, a scenario that has interested me since the late 1970s (along with the possible melting of polar ice proper, both from Arctic and Antarctic), then most of the major cities of the world would be drowned, situated as most are on or near sea-level.
A rise of 23ft would flood much of London, New York, Tokyo, St. Petersburg, to name only a few of the most obvious.
On the other hand, we know that Greenland has been at times warmer than it now is. The Vikings farmed there; there are remains of farmsteads from quite ancient times, certainly from the first millennium AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#History.
Not all of Greenland is ice and snow, however. In that vast land, over nine times the size of the UK, there is farming, in the southern part, by the coast.
I doubt that humanity can do much to change the climate in a significant way, but the issue is naturally one of utmost seriousness.
Less seriously, I just read that “Greenlandic coffee is a “flaming” dessert coffee (set alight before serving) made with coffee, whiskey, Kahlúa, Grand Marnier, and whipped cream. It is stronger than the familiar Irish dessert coffee.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Cuisine. After a few of those, the sting of living in Greenland must at least be made less painful!
If you went, as orchestral conductor, or as ordinary tourist, to another country, and then tried to trash the traditional festivals of that country, you would be jeered at and quite possibly attacked or deported. In Britain, all sorts of oddities arrive, aided by traitors in the BBC etc, and want to disrespect us. I know that Rule Britannia is now simply an expression of an Empire that no longer exists, but it does stand for part of the national psyche. The part not yet contaminated. It must not be blotted out by the “woke”, the non-whites, the cosmopolitan Jews etc. As performed at the Proms, it is both emotional and fun. It must remain.
I’m at a school in East London today where 47% of students have had results downgraded from teachers predictions. Some predicted Cs have been given a U. Some A* predictions reduced to a B.
I find it hard to take any interest in the school exams story of the day, and not only because I dropped out of school in 1973 aged 16 (the headmaster of the school [https://www.rbcs.org.uk/admissions/facilities/] told my parents at the time that “this was not a failure; it was a refusal to participate“).
True, though I have to say that the headmaster in question was a bit of a smug “git”, to use the vernacular…
He himself will not be offended by my remarks about those long-ago days, having been killed in a car crash, also in the 1970s, he having —as I later heard— recklessly overtaken traffic in order to hurry home to tell his wife the good news about some prestige job he had landed.
Reverting to that tweet above, the reporter seems to think that it is a tragedy that some pupils have had their “C” grades reduced to “U” (I don’t know what that is, but I presume a fail or near-fail).
As if a “C” grade from “a school in East London” is going to be some royal road to success and glory anyway! Not when almost everyone and his dog gets “A” or “B” anyway!
If the msm want to discuss unfairness in education, I can think of several places where they might better make an attempt.
I am not sure why this exam story is being hit so hard in the msm. How about covering the scandal of grade inflation and (at university) award inflation? That has been a joke for 30 years.
Another good story to cover would be how the education system fails to properly unlock that abilities and possibilities within each individual child. Career advice too, outside the most expensive schools, is poor.
As a matter of fact, even fairly expensive schools used to give little or no career advice of any use. I myself recall that I wrote off, aged 15, for various information, mainly at the prodding of my mother: the Bar (that appealed to me anyway), the Foreign and Commonweath Office, the armed services (Army, Navy, Marines officer), and my mother’s strongest preference (God knows why!), the Hong Kong Police (where, in those days, British cadets were promoted Inspector immediately on completion of training; the other ranks were all Chinese).
I recall reading the rather cheap materials sent out by the Bar, all line drawings of Inns of Court and complicated requirements (it’s different now). I seem to recall that, at that time, an “A” Level in Latin was required, though —a year before I dropped out of school!— that did not faze me; I was studying Latin. Caesar’s Gallic War, Suetonius, and Virgil, mainly.
The military brochures sent were much more glossy. The Army and Navy ones seemed to devote inordinate amounts of space to shiny pictures of badges and insignia of rank, in the case of the Army from Second Lieutenant up to Field Marshal. The Army one also showed photos of various regiments and corps in typical activity. I still recall the photo of one bad-tempered-looking fellow staring at the camera as his tank roared across what I suppose was Salisbury Plain. One of the armoured regiments, of course.
The school’s own military connection was with the Blues and Royals [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_and_Royals], but the CCF (Combined Cadet Force] was voluntary. This being the late-hippy early 1970s, the CCF people were mocked as “the thickos”, and tended to be the larger and less intelligent members of the school. I myself was in less physical pursuits: at first the Library Club, then Chess Club, and finally the Bridge Club.
The offering from the Diplomatic Service was low-key and showed various embassies across the world. I liked the look of the one in Tunis; it looked like a place with a few decent cafes nearby, whereas some (I think in Brasilia and Canberra) were glassed boxes in green captivity, looking as if they were miles from anywhere.
In the end, I dropped out of school at 16 and did not resume study in any formal way until age 26, and then only self-study, but did eventually (belatedly) make it to the Bar of two or three jurisdictions (rather than the bridge of a naval ship, the command of a tank force, or accreditation to a British embassy, let alone a colonial Hong Kong Police commission).
There are different impediments now for young persons: the general lack of jobs (especially career-type jobs) in the UK economy, the cost of even basic housing, not to mention the decline now caused by the huge and panicked over-reaction to the “Coronavirus” situation, which has made things even worse.
Having said that, life can take strange turns. Not getting the best school exam results is really not the end of the world, but at 16 or 17 it is hard to understand that.
Other tweets seen
CAA applauds @ARBUK1997 for removing architect from register who claimed #Judaism is a “cult” and Jews should be banned from “important public office”https://t.co/OfQLUkikLt
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) August 18, 2020
After I was wrongfully disbarred in late 2016, I noted in tweets (until the Jews, meaning the organized Jew-Zionist lobby, had me expelled from Twitter as well), and in blog posts, that the problem is that “codes of conduct” for all have now been expanded to almost demand fealty to certain views, and to almost “criminalize others” (eg “holocaust” “denial”, and any criticism of the behaviour of Jews in professions, the msm or politics etc).
I think that it is clear (((what sort of persons))) draft such “codes of conduct”…The result? Ever-decreasing freedom of socio-political expression. “They” have strangled it…
Disney Indoctrination: Children's Show Introduces First Bisexual Lead Character https://t.co/XhUUVIvMXI
Obviously, I do not want millions of any South Asians (or other non-Europeans) in this country, but I have to say that I have a lot more time for the Indians than the Pakistanis.
Quite a contrast with Jez Turner of the now-defunct London Forum; Jez was charged and convicted of “incitement to racial hatred” in 2018 merely for making a humorous (and true) speech in Whitehall about the Jews in England! That speech led to no violence whatsoever, yet Jez Turner ended up being sentenced to 1 year imprisonment, of which he served half (the rest spent in some ghastly hovel where he was ordered to live until the second six months had expired).
So much for Johnson's pre-election pledges to get tough on #immigration. Mind you, if anyone is stupid enough to believe a pre-election 'pledge' they deserve to be conned. A shame they can't book hotel rooms for homeless veterans though. https://t.co/Y0Ul16AUUI
A Cabinet full of Jews, part-Jews, Indians and others, led by a part-Jew public entertainer incapable of running a whelk stall. What could possibly go wrong?…
Please retweet this extraordinary evidence of government efforts to scare the population, as widely as you can. People do need to know this is an on-the-record UK government document. pic.twitter.com/3zms3Y6dCi
The Guardian, like the rest of the Lugenpresse/Judenpresse, deserves to close down, its scribblers thrown into the gutter (well, one can hope!). In fact, there seems to be every prospect that the Guardian will close fairly soon. That will just leave the Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, and the more obviously “gutter press” such as Sun, Mirror, Express, Star etc.
The evil “Campaign Against Antisemitism” will not take on Peter Hitchens, not yet; he’s too mainstream and too well-known. They and the Jewish lobby in general have tried with David Icke, but he is still there, on Twitter, YouTube etc.
How this worse-than-useless govt is killing the railways by scaring passengers away (Chance of catching Covid on a train? One in 11,000)https://t.co/ROAr32NqlD
No doubt, @broughton_colin, see https://t.co/FGk38Lo1vY but that does not overcome the problem that Franco was an unprincipled savage. Some conservatives (alas, Solzhenitsyn among them) went soft on the Caudillo, on the rebound. Mistake. https://t.co/1ScBHzzUTK
Franco (part-Jew, by the way), was a harsh dictator, but he did some things which redeemed him: first and foremost, he beat the Communists (Stalinists), the other Communists (Trotskyists), the various anarchist and various other kinds of riff-raff (eg anarcho-syndicalists).
Franco also defeated the regional nationalists, who admittedly had more honourable causes. Catalans and Basques, mainly. He did so in order to maintain Spain as a unitary country. That may have been unnecessary in the long view, but at the time was thought necessary and may well have been necessary, in a Europe facing war on a large scale. After all, the Spanish Civil War (about which I at one time knew quite a bit, incidentally) only finished in April 1939, a mere five months before Britain and France declared war on the German Reich.
Franco kept Spain out of the Second World War, as did that wise old fox, Ataturk, in Turkey. Naturally, I wish that both had joined with the Reich to defeat Stalin and Sovietism, but at least Franco (and Ataturk) did not succumb to pressure to join the Allied side.
I should add that Turkey did enter WW2 on the Allied side in the end, but only in late February 1945, when the result was a foregone conclusion. Diplomatic dark wisdom, I suppose.
Hitchens (a part-Jew himself) has a blind spot when it comes to Hitler, as witness the tweet below:
Take a look at Moradiellos, then @DiogoFMarques. Franco was a merciless opportunist, who forgot his supposed Christianity when he cosied up to Hitler, and whose greatest political talent was to switch sides at the best possible moment for himself. https://t.co/ONjUhyhj1e
It is true that Franco was not to be trusted (Hitler fumed at his inconstancy), but from the point of view of Spain he at least prevented much of Iberia becoming a battlefield (again).
Franco also fostered good relations with the Western winners of the Second World War, especially the USA, while keeping the Soviet Union at bay. This enabled him to improve the dire poverty levels in much of Spain via tourism and other industries.
Finally, Franco ensured stability after his death by grooming (if one can use that now tarnished word) Juan Carlos to be head of state (king), with a constitutional monarchy. True, Juan Carlos turned out to be a bit of a dud after a promising start, but that cannot be laid at Franco’s door.
That is true. I had to make a visit to a local hospital today (I was not a patient, I hasten to add, before the Zionists and “antifa” idiots start to cheer). Coastal Southern England. It was a brief visit (about 20 minutes), and I only saw the main part of the lower of the two stories, but it was telling.
Ordinary visitors were not being let in at all. Patients with appointments only (I was an exception). No accompanying persons either; there is no A&E dept., what Americans call “ER”, at that hospital.
At the door, several dark-blue-uniformed nurses or assistants, all masked. Hardly anyone else anywhere to be seen. I was allowed in. I had expected a disconsolate line of “social distancers” but found no-one else wanting entrance.
Inside, empty. A few mask-wearing nurses moving around. I only saw, in my time there (me half-wearing the mandatory disposable mask, about 80p a go, from Boots) about 2 or 3 members of the public.
These are strange times, and the NHS seems to have been “protected” at the expense of most of its patients, who are now invisible.
Significant. In England, there is no credible choice to set against a bad joke government totally lacking in credibility, because Labour is even less credible than the Conservative Party, especially now that the Jewish lobby has retaken control.
Keir Starmer, whom I thought could at least put on a brave face of credibility or at least steadiness, has been photographed on his knees or knee, along with his deputy, the absurd Angela Rayner, making a show of their surrender to the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense (System-controlled nonsense, though…). Starmer looks like a weak accomplice of all Government policy, so far. There’s nothing beyond the “I was the DPP” facade. Nothing.
In Scotland, it is slightly different. For me, Sturgeon and the SNP are faux-“nationalists”, but from the point of the Scottish voters, or at least about half of them, the SNP looks like a real alternative (even if it is not). The same applies to “Independence”. Don’t like Boris-idiot, or fake “Labour”? Well, vote SNP and vote for “Independence”…
Exactly. The police are still around, and are actually quite good at tracking down murderers etc. However, the police fall down when it comes to “small” robberies, burglaries, car crime, anti-social behaviour, and other mattersof more concern to most inhabitants of these islands. Also, of course, any crime likely to result in black riots “has to be” handled with velvet gloves .
At the same time, the police are really energetic, given their head, in acting like a toytown militia, preventing ordinary citizens from doing harmless and normal things. That all came out during the ridiculous Government/msm-inspired Coronavirus panic and accompanying “lockdown” regime. The police were behaving like manic clockwork toys: the Government wound them up and off they went…
The police are also now a “poundland KGB” when it comes to so-called “hate crime”, which can mean almost anything, including general comment on society. Look at Alison Chabloz and the persecution she has suffered and is still suffering from the police, who are doing the bidding of —again— the Jewish Zionist lobby. One has to ask, “why is it always (((them)))“?
“Hate crime”…in terms of expressing comments about society, this is a non-crime. The police love it. No need to have an identified “victim” (beyond a malicious “complainant”, such as the two Jewish Zionist organizations, the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” and the “Community Security Trust”), no need to do much if any detective work; and the “criminals” (unlike real criminals) are very unlikely to behave in a violent manner if questioned or arrested.
It is a stupid idea, medically almost useless (even the govt admits that) and politically oppressive @sirsanitynow . I wouldn’t dare to tell you what to wear. Do me the same favour. https://t.co/4F8UqtT9Hx
Quite "martin_brookes. BBC obviously stunned by brief emergence of truth on channels which have almost all suppressed it for almost 4 months. Begins at 19 mins 40 secs here: https://t.co/943qcBAqRbhttps://t.co/ComVuAFW4l
2/2 @carlaal77089954 . It really is time that our actions on this were guided by facts and reason, not by panic fear and emotion. A stupid government has already done huge irreparable damage. No true recovery is possible till it admits its mistake and is flung out on its ear. https://t.co/8m3seLzW4M
Heard a story about a weekend medical emergency. The usual NHS story, perhaps: efficient and pleasant paramedics, mostly caring but run-off-their-feet nurses (one exception apparently being a nurse sitting doing nothing but watching a frail old patient unable to eat his breakfast porridge by reason of Parkinsons or similar), and excellent doctors one of whom eventually bent the rules so that the patient (the one I know, not the old one with the shaking hands) could get what turned out to be an excellent surgical result immediately, rather than having to wait days or weeks. Food in hospital apparently not bad, and including such as cod Mornay (the food much better than same patient’s experience at same hospital a few years ago, so the NHS can improve, incidentally).
What let down the patient’s experience was, as always with the NHS, the administrative side: transport, and general organization in the hospital and ward, part of which might be ascribed simply to how very busy the nurses were. The poor administration was ameliorated by the willingness of a few staff to bend the rules slightly and not to be jobsworths (which a couple were). That however should not be necessary.
Hearing the story, and having visited a number of hospitals (not as a patient) over the past decade, it seems to me that what is required, in part, is for each hospital ward to have someone as a kind of receptionist and “fixer”.
In offices situated in places like the Arabian/Persian Gulf, there is usually a person (I forget the Arab title) whose job it is, working with a receptionist, to arrange transport, make sure that telephone or other messages are delivered, and so on.
Looking at the often-shambolic NHS organization, it is clear that that is the weakest link. There is no need for all the stress on both staff and patients caused by problems around transport, parking, scheduling of operations, availability of wheelchairs (something so basic!) and other hospital activity. A ward “fixer” might not solve all the problems of the NHS, but it would solve many of the everyday ones. It would also, immediately, free nurses and junior doctors to do their primary work.
It is a great shame that the —mostly very good— work of paramedics, nurses, doctors, surgeons etc should be let down by shambolic administration and systems. What makes it worse is that the administrators, who are so often simply negligent, are among the better paid (at top, hugely well-paid) people in the NHS.
Incidentally, in France there are no hospital wards and have not been since, I believe I read, 1978. Maybe it was 1988. At any rate, since at least 30 years ago, French hospital patients all have either a single room or one shared with one other patient. Another point: in France, certainly in Brittany, patients with serious conditions, and who are being treated as outpatients, have taxis booked at State expense to transport them to and from hospital. Also, as far as I am aware, there is no such thing in French hospitals as having to pay to park a car when visiting patients.
Why is the above (re. French hospitals) all regarded as somehow impossible or unworkable in the UK?
Cartoon politics
Ex-MP Charlie Elphicke 'groped woman' and sang "I'm a naughty Tory", court hears https://t.co/IzMtHmmxHG
I had assumed that the Coronavirus panic had abated, and so it has…in the general population; not in the NHS though, the GPs of which are still available only on the telephone, and that is only if people can somehow get to talk to them. The NHS has certainly protected itself, but what about the rest of the population?
Jesus H. Christ! They used to call it (or them) “the White Man’s Burden”, but I think that, as far as 95% of them are concerned, “a millstone round our collective neck” is an equally just verdict.
Yes, @jimflyn 59298147 it is fascinating that the Anglosphere, once a zone of liberty, is now rapidly descending into centralised bootfaced petty despotism. Maybe this is how the free world ends, not with a bang but with a sniffle. https://t.co/fhgcCodVmr
Interesting picture here of obedient North Koreans outside Pyongyang railway station, muzzled as instructed. Zealots here think we should follow this example : https://t.co/uhVk6cK1I3
The price of panic. And opponents of crashing the country were sneered at as caring only about money. Don’t try saying that now, please. pic.twitter.com/ocriNtTbcQ
Of course, little Greta Nut, the Swedish autistic and mental case, who (in our decadent age) is listened to with faked reverence by many of “the great and the good” (but mostly the stupid), makes much of what she always calls “The Science”, despite the fact that she has no scientific qualification (she is still only 17) and obviously has no real understanding either.
Remember Faima Bakar, the Metro “journalist” who had a good laugh when a Metropolitan Police mounted policewoman hit her head on traffic lights and was hospitalized, after her horse bolted, having been frightened by “Black Lives Matter” untermenschen? Well, she’s doubling down on it…
I spent the last two weeks reading, listening, watching and understanding the calls to abolish the police. We know the UK has a structural racism problem so I spoke to abolitionists, youth movements and academics to see how abolitionism can be applied herehttps://t.co/hwvxhsT8vg
1/4 https://t.co/AD52Rgaz0j"Standing in line two metres apart outside supermarkets does not make a lot of sense," Prof [Robert] Dingwall said. "The two-metre rule does not have validity and has never had much of an evidence base.
The only point at which I agree with “social distancing” is that it is common sense to avoid coming within a foot or two (i.e. far less than one metre) of people, just in case one of those nearby people were to sneeze or breathe excitedly on one, unlikely though that may be anyway. That should, however, be a personal choice, not a State-mandated compulsion.
I cannot wait to see whether the conforming rabbits in the line outside Waitrose will automatically adjust to any new “advice” from this hapless hopeless government of fools to the effect that one metre rather than two is OK. Psychological serfdom. Day 1— two metres; day 2— one metre. All line up at the approved distance, shop for “essentials”, then go home to stand at the door and “clap for the NHS”, making sure to note whether any dangerous dissidents are not clapping (cf. North Korea and Stalin’s Russia).
Oh @alisonfi@moutet, my point isn't really about better or worse. All medical systems fail sometimes. My point is that we should have a rational attitude towards the NHS, and not make it into a religion (currently the only one allowed to hold services). https://t.co/Ta0zXthCUF
I agree with you, wards are terrible. So noisy with people being given medication and coughing etc all through the night. The mixed ones must be particularly embarrassing for patients.
The British people have developed (or been forced by politically-correct termites in government, Common Purpose etc to develop) a kind of religion-substitute. NHS. You cannot discuss healthcare or health outcomes rationally in the UK because the health service is a kind of quasi-religion.
I favour the NHS in principle, but it has become an immobile, often poorly-functioning special interest bloc. One should not forget that it employs over 2 million people, so is politically powerful. Inertia is huge. In a crisis, the NHS flounders, cannot properly equip its staff, and is focussed on keeping up its image.
I think we in Britain were too busy closing railway lines, police stations and grammar schools to get around to closing hospital wards. @moutethttps://t.co/vSQS1ZmrK2
Absolutely superb by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet @moutet, demonstrating French wonderment at our absurd worship of the far from-perfect NHS : https://t.co/2G0syykUs8
'You were only meant to blow the b***** doors off!' . The man who didn't mean to win the EU referendum now goes on to frighten the populace more than he meant to: https://t.co/ELKBFX3uwA
Opposing the government's absurd policy is like being in a nightmare where you can see the danger, but nobody can hear you call out a warning: https://t.co/nXHozOAYXk
Ha ha! Look at this idiot! (below) [update note: that tweet from a Scotsman has now been deleted, apparently]. Thinks that State benefits and pensions (which are far less than average pay) should be cut to 80% of their present level to “share the pain” with those “furloughed”!
This ******* country has just gone mad. Look at the tweets by @JimBruce100, below, for example.
Yeah, if everyone was put in solitary confinement, there'd be no infections at all. Can anyone see any difficulties with that? https://t.co/x7MXyUaWij
The same Irishman, “J.P. Bruce”, tweeted this (below)!
I often stroll along a nearby beach. If there is a strong breeze blowing from the sea surely any dangerous droplets of Covid-19 which I exhaled could travel much further than 2 metres? It makes me wonder about the impact of wind speed generally on the transmission of the virus.🤨
What does it actually take for British people to ignore these “rules” and petty instant laws, and run a huge steamroller over “lockdown”, the toytown police, Boris-idiot, little Matt Hancock etc?
Public-private partnership— to brainwash the population
Since the Coronavirus situation began, followed and accompanied by the “Clap for NHS” stuff, I have noticed a considerable upswing in the notionally “private enterprise” organizations putting out what amounts to multikulti propaganda. You know the sort of thing: mixed race families, usually with a black, West Indian man and a white, usually blonde “wife” or other “partner”, their mixed-race children there too. A few of these propaganda ads even have two or more such multikulti “families” in the same clips.
This is no accident. Various ad agencies, numerous clients (fooled into allowing such stuff to go out under their corporate names), all dovetailing with System aims and purposes, including the recent “lockdown” nonsense.
We often hear about how, in Russia, Putin, the Russian state and its organs are tied to big business in an unholy alliance. Maybe we should look a bit closer home…
David Icke
People starting to wonder “what happened to free speech” in the UK. (((They))) stole it…
The removal of dissident material from public view did not start with David Icke. I was removed from Twitter in 2018; Alison Chabloz has also been removed (and subjected to prosecution). The London Forum had its YouTube channel removed. Just a few examples.
Who or what is behind all this? Three guesses…
Others join in, notably the idiotic pseudo-socialist “antifa” rank and file, but behind all that is the same impetus, the same world-problem.
Some people seem, even now, to be surprised that they do not live in a “free country”, even after having been subjected to mass house arrest, arbitrary harassment by toytown police for “crimes” such as sunbathing, going for a motorbike ride in the country, sitting on a park bench, walking along a beach etc. For God’s sake, robots, wake up!
What an inverted world we live in whereby David Icke is banned from Facebook and YouTube and Owen Jones is free to continue on both of these platforms.But then, one is embraced by British mainstream media, especially the liberal component, whereas the other one is not. #DavidIcke
— Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos (@DrMarcusP) May 3, 2020
I feel people ought to be able to make their own decisions to what they should and shouldn’t watch/listen to. #DavidIcke exposed Jimmy Saville 20 yrs ago as a pedophile, whilst Saville got a Knighthood. Noone listened & we all know how that story ended.
You may have agreed some or none of the opinions from #DavidIcke in the past. Now you’re not allowed to even consider them, because someone somewhere won’t allow YOU to decide. Censorship of any kind is dangerous, be careful of what you wished for.
Below, idiotic Welsh woman wants everyone who expresses any opinion, that is with which her little brainwashed self does not agree, to be banned! Sign of the times…
It's true #DavidIcke is a lunatic, he's batshit crazy and has dangerous opinions. But the same is true of Trump. All we ask for is consistency. Ban them both.
— Louise Ellis Davies ☮💕 (@louanndavies) May 3, 2020
I don't agree with a lot of what #DavidIcke says but that's not the point. Freedom of speech is what we base democracy on otherwise we have a dictatorship. Oh and while we are talking about misleading Covid19 information… pic.twitter.com/Gz2r28GqQ7
On the subject of the BBC, it has become a “State broadcaster” in the worst sense. More boring and more biased than the old Soviet TV channels. I regret to have to say (as someone in favour of public service broadcasting) that the BBC is basically enemy propaganda now, and its staff are part of that.
Below, a fine example of how the self-described “Left” (pseudo-socialists) have lost all credibility and all ideological meaning. A wannabee msm scribbler lesbian applauds the censorship of David Icke and justifies it by his supposed breaking of the “terms and conditions” of a private enterprise…
Imagine crying “fascism” about a known antisemite getting kicked off a website whose terms and conditions he repeatedly broke. Get a life, dweebs.
This is fucking appalling. What is happening to freedom of speech, to having different opinion 🤯 This just solidifies the fact that @davidicke is telling the truth. Bring on the @LondonRealTV interview tomorrow. More truth less fear #davidickehttps://t.co/DcNKNhos6J
I have to admit that, until today, I had no idea that the drink, Fanta, was invented in wartime Germany, and was the result of the US embargo, which cut off supplies of raw materials, meaning that Coca-Cola could not be produced in Germany.
A quite interesting article. Fanta was developed in Germany during WW2, but the usual orange flavour of today was introduced in Naples, in 1955. I was also unaware that there are over 90 (the article says both 90+ and 100+…) varieties of Fanta.
In February 2015, a 75th-anniversary version of Fanta was released in Germany. Packaged in glass bottles evoking the original design and with an authentic original wartime flavor including 30% whey and pomace, it is described on the packaging as “less sweet” and a German original. An associated television ad referenced the history of the drink and said the Coca-Cola company wanted to bring back “the feeling of the Good Old Times” which was interpreted by many to mean Nazi rule. The ad was subsequently replaced.[9][10]” [Wikipedia]
Come to think of it, whatever happened to Tab, which was an early precursor to Diet Coke? My aunt-by-marriage in Sydney always drank that, circa 1967.
'Testing' is displacement activity. It has no bearing on the actual issue, and is an obsession with tame media who (like Soviet media in the old days) are willing to criticise *execution* of government policy, but not the policy itself. https://t.co/fN22DTsIwT
Yes, basically our government of teenagers panicked and infected the population with the same panic. So they over-reacted ludicrously and frightened millions with wild overestimates of danger. Now they cannot dispel the fear they spread. @bartbukhttps://t.co/FvXMLQTXVZ
The flu of 1968-69 killed 80,000 in Britain,but there was no house arrest & the country didn't shut down: https://t.co/Nzq5GxibX9 'Perhaps the 1968 pandemic did not prompt a worldwide economic shutdown because the generation in power had a more sanguine attitude towards diseases.
Below: Look at the tweet by “@AvifaunaLux”! What incredible nonsense people believe of “the past”, when they were not there, or even were there but have forgotten what it was like in reality…
It is seen all the time, this idea that, eg, the 1970s were drab days of no electrical supply (by reason of strikes) and “three day weeks”. That was a mere few weeks out of 10 years! One year only, 1974 (plus the “winter of discontent” in 1978-79 (again a few weeks only for most people): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week#The_Three-Day_Week
Likewise, we see, all the time, nonsense on TV about how food was terrible in the UK in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, even 1990s! I am tempted to think it all part of a media campaign to think our ghastly present is somehow good or “the best ever”, when that is far from the case.
Just yesterday I saw a tweet from a very odd official Hampshire Police account (@WatersideCops) to the effect that we are in an “ever-improving society”! Not for the first time, I wonder who is actually in charge of that very tendentious Twitter account. Some Common Purpose “alumna” (or alumnus, though I think not…)? An ideologically-fanatical infiltrator? Very odd indeed.
Lord Sumption
Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption writes for the Mail on Sunday : https://t.co/3BjLNCbkCG
“Private hospitals are empty and up to 40,000 NHS beds lie unused amid mounting fury over the handling of non coronavirus treatment as thousands of operations are cancelled and cancers go undetected.
Figures suggest that up to four times the number of beds are free than normal for this time of year after a huge slowdown in non Covid-19 admissions as health bosses aim their focus at the pandemic response.
Hospitals have cancelled ‘thousands’ of their non-urgent surgeries – like hip and knee operations and IVF treatment – to free up space for infected patients, and operating theatres, equipped with oxygen supplies, have been turned into coronavirus wards.
Nightingale hospitals, built for the expected surge in coronavirus victims, are also largely empty, and private hospitals taken over by the NHS at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds are also barely being used.” [Daily Mail]
“Medics say up to 2,700 cancers are being missed every week as the numbers being referred by doctors for urgent hospital appointments or checks had dropped by 75 per cent. Professor Karol Sikora, a cancer specialist, has warned that the impact of the coronavirus outbreak could result in 50,000 cancer deaths.
Meanwhile NHS staff have been accused of making a ‘mockery’ of the health service as they faced a barrage of criticism for posting ‘tone deaf’ and ‘disrespectful’ videos of dance routines on coronavirus wards while seriously ill patients have their medical treatment delayed.” [Daily Mail]
[above: “NHS staff at the Tavistock Day Case Theatre in West Devon were forced to apologise after they filmed themselves performing a traditional Maori chant“—Daily Mail]
“Clap for the NHS”? Nein danke. The NHS is a very good thing, in principle, but the fact is that maladministration is a major problem, as well as underfunding. I have no time for virtue-signalling, nor for de facto enforced “community-ism”.
“NIGHTINGALES COULD BE RE-PURPOSED
It emerged today that NHS Nightingale hospitals could be ‘re-purposed’ to treat non-coronavirus patients to clear a mounting backlog of cancelled operations and other treatments.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace yesterday said empty beds at the seven Nightingales around the country may be used for cases including cancer sufferers or ‘stepdown’ patients on the road to recovery.
It came as the Nightingales remain largely empty despite having the capacity for up to 11,000 patients.
The first of the seven major sites in England to open at the ExCel Centre in East London has so far treated just 41 patients despite already having a capacity of 500.
And the transfer of more than 30 patients to the hospital which opened on April 3 was allegedly ‘cancelled due to staffing shortages’, according to NHS documents.
Of the 41 patients treated in London, four have died, seven have been discharged to a less critical level of care and the other 30 are still having treatment there.
There have since been three more Nightingales open – in Birmingham on April 16, in Manchester the following day and in Harrogate in North Yorkshire on Tuesday.
The NHS has not yet provided data on how many people have been treated by any of these three, although the figure is believed to be dozens at best. This means the total number of patients treated at the four sites could be under 100.” [Daily Mail]
So, after all the hullabaloo around the huge instant “Nightingale” hospitals, at least one (on Tyneside) never opened for patients at all, and the others outside London have had few if any patients. The London one, capacity 500, which was supposed to be treating “thousands” of critically-ill patients has in fact received only 41!
Of those 41, 7 have been discharged, 30 are still there, and 4 have died. So, with known infection rates in London falling quite fast now, it looks as though the London Nightingale will soon be redundant unless repurposed, but it is a “hospital” good for only one thing— keeping patients alive who need ventilation or oxygen. It has no operating theatres or other usual hospital facilities, so it looks as if Ben Wallace is talking out of his ****.
Sweden, Britain, washing hands and other questions
It has been obvious to the non-brainwashed since the beginning of the Coronavirus situation that the only known way to stop its spread is widespread washing of hands, thoroughly, with soap and water. As I blogged almost two months ago, the survey of 2015, showing the levels of personal hygiene across Europe, exposed the fact that Italy, Spain and France were the least hygienic, the very countries where the pro rata infection rates have been highest.
Likewise, the only other really useful measures to help stop the infection on a mass basis are closure of or avoidance of crowded, hot, places where many excited people gather: popular concerts and dances, nightclubs, underground and other trains. Preventing people from walking, sunbathing, sitting on beaches or park benches are useless wastes of time.
Coverage of Sweden's rational approach to Covid-19 is perhaps becoming less hostile as the weeks go by https://t.co/BCQ6CG2sKI
Countries that avoided hard shutdowns have had fewer deaths per million – Japan (1.2 coronavirus deaths per million), South Korea (4.3), Singapore (1.8) and Taiwan (0.3) – than those that imposed most severe rules – Spain (397.6), Italy (358.2), France (256.3) and the UK (193.5). https://t.co/nxdci442Y2
A recent Cambridge graduate, who is accused of writing online that extermination was the "best option" for Jewish people, has appeared at the Old Bailey charged with a terrorism offence
It seems a strange idea at first blush. After all, we are brought up to believe that diseases generally attack people on an equal-opportunity basis. Whites, blacks, whatever. However, that is, like much of what people are told to believe, not actually true.
It is well known that some diseases attack, or conditions affect, only blacks: sickle-cell anaemia is one (showing that blacks do not belong in Northern climes). Likewise, though NHS and other propaganda concealed it or tried to conceal it, HIV/AIDS was much more easily contracted by blacks, half-caste blacks etc than by Europeans, especially those from North-West Europe or with family origins there.
Now we see Coronavirus affecting, in the UK for example, people of all racial origins, yes, but so called BAME people (including Jews) far worse than those of what might be called “Aryan” or more accurately “post-Aryan” origins.
Age is obviously the most important demographic factor in Coronavirus infection, symptomatics and mortality, but after that the racial aspect is obviously significant, though the importance is blurred by social factors such as modes of life, ways of life and living, housing etc.
I was struck by the Boris Johnson case. Here you have someone aged 55, of not only European but also Turkish and Jewish origins. He gets the virus and, it seems, was lucky not to die from it. His fiancee, Carrie Symonds, apparently European, and only 32 years old, showed symptoms and tested positive but suffered no more than slight discomfort before swiftly recovering. Makes you think…
Recent tweets
1/2 Government ought to be alarmed by Daily Mail editorial today :'This national paralysis must end soon. The Government simply must not, whatever its top scientist blithely warns, let the shutdown drag on for a year…
2/2 '…The cataclysmic harm inflicted upon the economy, society and the nation's well-being would be irreparable….Ministers must begin an adult conversation about their plan for ending this torment'.
I had to go out in late afternoon (Friday afternoon) on an errand even the new UK bully police would certify as “essential”, so was able to observe how many people were out and about in my corner of Southern England. In fact, quite a few.
I remember when the “lockdown” nonsense started, a few weeks ago (though it seems far longer). The roads were empty. Now, today, I should say that, though the traffic has not built up to the Friday or any weekday norm, there was rather a lot of traffic around. Private cars as well as delivery vehicles. Quite a few people on bicycles, too.
A police car saw me as I passed in the opposite direction. The police car had cars ahead of and behind it. It slowed. I wondered whether the driver wanted to check me out, but was unable to do so because of the road situation. In fact, he would have been wasting his time. My car has valid MOT, is properly registered, as well as fully insured and so on; my UK licence is up to date and without “points”. In short, and in those senses only, I am “kosher”!
As I blogged yesterday, there is a “yes, repeat no” thing going on. No-one in the UK is rioting about this nonsense of the whole population being placed under conditional house arrest; no-one is even protesting loudly in the streets. Yet, with the weather warm, people are just taking their chances of being hassled by the toytown police, in the knowledge that the relatively few police around cannot, despite being more in evidence than pre-Coronavirus, arrest, ticket, or even talk to every motorist, every walking couple, every sunbathing young lady…
It reminds me of what happened in 1989. In 1988, I crossed the “East German” (DDR) border by car from Poland, then the next day into the then West Germany (Bundesrepublik). The border was rather fearsome in a quiet way, despite the fact that I crossed at a little-used and rural crossing-point in the south of the DDR.
Yet, only a year later, triggered by an announcement from a government minister (seemingly unintended), thousands of DDR citizens built up at the Berlin Wall and just started to cross. The Grenzpolizei (border police, aka Grepos) did not know what to do…so did nothing. One illegal crosser— shoot him; a thousand? Ten thousand. Impossible.
That, in minor key, is the situation the UK police are in now. They can throw their weight around when only a small number of (harmless, law-abiding English) people are involved, but when a thousand or a million people decide that they have had enough of the misconceived (and in any case pointless) “lockdown” petty tyranny, the police are powerless to stop those people from doing things such as driving around, visiting beaches, walking in parks or even —what wickedness!— sunbathing…
Musical interlude
A few tweets
Covid-19 related hospital fatalities in England by date of death:
Many people evidently have taken the “lockdown” at face value. This was an attempt by the global self-styled “elite” power club to see how far they can go in turning notionally “free” people into obedient, compliant, and above all unaware and bamboozled, serfs, clapping their own house arrest, in effect. Look at Cressida Dick, Metropolitan Police Commissioner and Common Purpose “alumna”, right there in the forefront. I was thinking that this was the result of stupidity [cf. the view of @ClarkeMicah/Peter Hitchens] but I veer now to conspiracy.
The plebs are easily manipulated…
“A woman says she was “named and shamed” by neighbours after she fell asleep and missed the weekly clap for carers tribute to NHS staff and key workers.
The mother said had been tired after “a rough night” with her son, and inadvertently failed to take part in the event despite having done so in previous weeks.” [Sky News]
If people actively wish to applaud the NHS, then that is their business and good for them. But any sort of compulsion or shaming directed against anyone who does not join in is totalitarian in nature. Applause that is not voluntary and spontaneous is worthless. https://t.co/qm8ChHxwXN
“The woman went on to write: “I just feel like I’m a total outcast on my previously friendly street now even though only one person posted it and only two others agreed
“It’s really disturbing how quickly people are ready to turn on each other and ‘report’ each other.”” [Sky News]
What many of the unthinking plebs would love would be a kind of “Nuremberg Trial” or kangaroo court every month (or week), with dissidents suitably “named and shamed” and then put in virtual or actual stocks so that the mob can throw things at anyone not going along with the official line.
Some “dissident” tweets
Sweden is taking the rational, considered approach any grown-up government would take. You need to ask, why is the UK government acting like a collection of hysterical prep-school boys? https://t.co/A0Z15KMTT1
This is just the abuse of power by petty authority for its own sake. There is no reason to it. Exercise will *protect* people, especially older people, from illness and so reduce the general pressure on the NHS. People exercising have no major risk of breaking distancing rules. https://t.co/bgvKRUlbTv
Again, as Hitchens says, or implies, the little penpushers, the toytown police and poundland KGB are finding new ways to fill their time, new “rules” to “enforce”.
Yes @Barristerblog, but with much reluctance, and not because there's anything wrong with juries as such. It's egalitarian, PC societies that can't sustain them. https://t.co/b7wvZBL41e
Like most barristers (in my case, “ex”, since late 2016) who have done criminal trials, I am thoroughly in favour of juries, not because they are educated, intelligent, logical, or have any knowledge of the law beyond what the judge chooses to share with them (direct them as to), for mostly those qualities do not apply. No, the value of the jury is in the “sense of justice” within that small conclave. That may go against “the law” as written, against the evidence in some cases. It is a mystery, a mystery which worries the neat and little minds of some.
I can think of a few cases from my pupillage and later my own Bar experience (though I stopped doing most criminal work after a year or two, around 1995); other cases I have in mind were far more serious trials where the State was obviously thought, by the jury, to have gone “too far”.
The problem that we now have is that juries are so brainwashed by State and/or politically-correct propaganda that the accused might often actually be better off being tried by a “Diplock Court” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplock_court].
Care homes are a separate issue @dermotmcgrath. The government, especially after observing Italy, should have quarantined them. But it preferred to pretend (I think it still does) that Covid-19 was equally dangerous to everybody, and to make grandiose gestures. https://t.co/lKwT60MjEe
not sure why people are questioning the independence of SAGE when its lead by the eminent Professor of eugenics and population cull Dr Dominic Cummings pic.twitter.com/Y9nAARmbKY
Remarkable story from The Guardian. Cummings' place on SAGE must considerably lessen the authority of Downing St "guided by the science" line, given we now know, that to some extent at least, that scientific advice has been influenced by well, Downing St. https://t.co/XgwJQpyWCv
Have just spoken to Sir Bob Kerslake, former Head of the Civil Service. He told me that if Cummings is a full member of SAGE: “it’s both surprising and concerning. The risk is the government is leading the science when it’s supposed to be the other way round.”
Ian Robert Millard 