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Diary Blog, 4 May 2026, including material about the Green Party, social-national environmentalism, the present Attorney-General, and demographics

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Afternoon music

[Volegov, Tea and Plum]

Talking point

“One wonders why, in this age of superficial iconoclasm, these antiquated figures (bishops) and organizations (churches) still command at least pro forma respect in the msm. I suppose because they always endorse every mad or evil trend the conspiracy wants, from “Black Lives Matter” and climate change via CO2 emissions, to “anti-racism” and all the other nonsense around, including the “holocaust” farrago and the “Covid” panicdemic propaganda and, of course, the “right” of women to become “priestesses” and crazed woman bishops.“

[quotation from this blog, 10 August 2022]

Still valid…

Tweets seen

“Boris”-idiot? Hunter Biden? Who else?

Starmer-stein strikes again (against the British people).

What will be the next idea? To shut all the migrant-invaders, at least the “small boat” ones, in London, and create a massive ghetto, as in the film Escape from New York?

There are better ideas…

Goodwin’s political star rose fast, but may now be fading. He (and Farage, and Tice) are also very much in the pocket of Israel and the UK (etc) Jewish lobby. That alone eliminates them as worthy in my book, though I am still hoping that Reform will do well over the next 2-3 years, because I need to have the main System parties crushed, and Reform is the only likely instrument available. That will have a massive mass political-psychological effect in this country.

Yes. Exactly. As I have blogged for some time. Reform UK, Restore Britain (or Restore-allied), Greens, Islamist and other Independents. Not Lab or Con.

…and in 2017 Corbyn-Labour won no less than 40% of the popular vote, only 2.3 points behind the “victorious” Conservatives…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results

People are getting seriously angry at the way this country is being run. The System parties are just not cutting it; they have failed for too long, and have been too dishonest and incompetent. People are clutching at whatever straws are available.

Of course, the “Greens” are no longer very “green”. One could scarcely imagine a policy less “green” than the near open-borders Green Party immigration policy, which is also a policy quite certain to destroy what is left of the Welfare State.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints]

See also:

Social Nationalism and Green Politics

More music

[photo-still from British film The Wicker Man (1973)]

More tweets seen

Google the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan (while being aware that Jew-Zionists vandalize certain parts of Wikipedia; they have admitted as much).

Aryans.

See also:

The Tide is Coming In: Reflections on the Possible End of Our Present Civilization and What Might Follow

Social-nationalism must rise up to exterminate all the problems the country now has.

That Jew-Zionist bastard is not only plainly malicious and violent, but unable to exercise his present office (Attorney-General) properly. He also, frankly, sounds remarkably dim, perhaps surprisingly.

Incidentally, if white English people were training for civil war like the Jews (potential terrorists) shown in that TV clip, they would get raided by the police, possibly arrested and maybe charged (with conspiracy etc), but there seems to be a different and less strict legal and policing framework for Jews in the UK. They even have their own police force, complete with police cars that look almost exactly like real police cars. Anyone else trying that would be arrested.

“Hermer is a friend of Keir Starmer, having met him on his first night at Doughty Street Chambers in 1996;[4][102][260] The Guardian describes them as having a “close relationship”…

[Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hermer,_Baron_Hermer

“All political careers end in failure” [Enoch Powell].

I can hardly wait for Thursday and the 7 May local elections.

The Greens have a few good ideas (i.e. ideas with which I might agree), but are mainly loonie now. At present they are between 12% and 20% in the opinion polls. It is an open question as to whether they can get to 32% (Labour’s polling at GE 2019) or 40% (Labour’s polling at GE 2017), but I should imagine not, in both cases. In fact, I should be surprised were they even to score 25% at any general election up to 2029.

As it stands presently, the Greens are looking at somewhere around 50-60 Commons seats, potentially, so not enough to be anywhere near forming a government but possibly (on a good or bad day) enough to be a very weak official Opposition.

I suppose that, a few years down the line, the LGBTQXYZ etc faction might be sidelined, and then the Greens might become a coalition of Muslims, hardcore socialists, urban pseudo-socialists, hardcore environmentalist/social justice types, and a few others, defined mainly by opposition to anything white national, English, British in any real sense, or traditional.

That “neo-Green” party might, bearing in mind the black/browning of the UK, be able to get into government, post-2029, but the UK would be on the brink of civil/social/racial/cultural war by then, and votes might not be the trump card they now are…

Reform has no real plan even to end most, i.e. “legal”, immigration, and plans to deport only those who arrive on the beaches or otherwise “illegally”. That does not cut it at all.

As for putting detention centres in Green-leaning areas, a very silly idea.

Also, with the numbers coming in now, even on the “small boats”, there would need to be places available for hundreds of thousands, i.e. 2x, 3x, 4x or more the number of prisoners in UK prisons.

Having said that, Dan Hodges and the System parties think that the way to deal with the migration invasion is to deny it is happening, deny its consequences, and cover everything up. Is that really better?

Well, I myself dropped out of school at 16 (admittedly, a fee-paying one, and my home was certainly not as hers has been described) and drifted about a bit for quite a few years before self-study led to “A” Levels, then university and a law degree, followed by the Bar, so that TV story is scarcely unique. Still, I suppose she has done well in all the circumstances, though her spoken English is slightly painful.

Anyway (not thinking specifically of that young woman), the Bar is a dustbin now, if truth be known.

[me as young-ish London barrister, and aged 35 in, I think, 1992]

NWO/ZOG puppet/mouthpiece.

Talking point

Late tweets

Untermenschen.

The old ladies are right but ex-Westminster Bubbler Fiona-Natasha Syms cannot see it…

Our animal friends.

There must be some way of knocking Zelensky off the board.

The Little Drummer Girl

Saw the first few episodes of the 2018 BBC adaptation of John le Carre’s book. Pretty good, and plainly shot largely on location. I recognized the Greece-Turkey border crossing area which I myself have driven through a couple of times (many years ago).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Drummer_Girl_(TV_series)

Late music

[painting by Joyce Norwood]

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Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: the Selaine Saxby story

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Foreword

The General Election of 2019 has washed up an almost embarrassing number of new deadhead MPs onto my golden shore. I have now an even wider choice than heretofore. Out of that mass, I have now chosen Selaine Saxby [Con, North Devon].

I have to admit that I had never heard of Selaine Saxby until yesterday. The material available online about her is sparse, but I think that one can come to an outline understanding of her character and background from what can be found.

Selaine Saxby has very recently been in the news, with others, for her truly stupid and unpleasant intervention in the “free school meals” debate: https://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/north-devon-mp-makes-statement-after-social-media-post-1-6899273; https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/tory-mps-ben-bradley-crack-den-brothel-free-school-meal-vouchers-a4572832.html;

Twitter has had much to say about Saxby, mostly critical:

What I find extraordinary about Selaine Saxby’s original comment is not only that it shows a complete absence of any compassion for the poor and struggling, but that it also attacks the very people most likely to vote Conservative: business people, company directors etc.

Selaine Saxby’s background

I had not previously encountered the Christian name “Selaine”. My brief researches have discovered that (unlike, say, Sharon, Sarah, Selena) “Selaine” has no classical or other meaning. There is some suggestion that it might be of French origin, but I have discovered that, in the whole of the past century, and in the whole world where records are available, only 80 girls were named Selaine, almost all between the years 1970-1990, and mostly in Brazil. A mystery.

Selaine Saxby was born in November 1970 in Coventry, and will be 50 within a few weeks. Her father was a school headmaster. Her school education is not, apparently, in the public domain; she then read Mathematics and Management at Cambridge.

I saw a tweet to the effect that Selaine Saxby is “a lawyer”, but that seems to be wrong. I can find no trace of her ever having qualified as either solicitor or barrister.

Having been born in 1970, Selaine Saxby probably graduated in the early 1990s, about 1991 or 1992. The years between then and 2000 are blank, it seems. What was she doing in those ~8 years? Sitting on a beach? Surfing? Working for MI5? We do not know.

Selaine Saxby started an online sport bra company (Lessbounce Ltd) in 2000. It seems to have been modestly successful, but was liquidated in 2016, with debts.

Other activities have included raising money for charity (though she seems to have done that as a “consultant”, i.e. she was paid, so there is no need to look upon her as having been particularly altruistic…).

Her Lessbounce (Lesbounce?) company was obviously no more than modestly successful. When it collapsed in 2016, she had already been working for a year as salaried Chief of Staff (big title for smallish job?) for gay Conservative Party MP, Ben Howlett [Con, Bath, 2015-2017]. As to Ms. Saxby’s own private life, Wikipedia, the several profiles of her online, and the MP’s own website, are silent.

After Ben Howlett lost his seat at Bath in 2017, Ms. Saxby’s job disappeared, so she became a schoolteacher (mathematics) at a state secondary in Bideford (North Devon) for what seems to have been only a few months, until a date in 2019. She had previously fought a doomed campaign at Llanelli (Wales), in 2015, in which contest she finished last out of four candidates.

Ideology

Nothing much is known of Ms. Saxby’s ideological stances except that she voted Leave in 2016, and was elected on the “get Brexit done” basis. Her recent comments seem to reflect unthinking “Daily Mail” views on social welfare. She seems to have said nothing publicly on questions of race and culture.

Attitude to money

I note that, since her election, Selaine Saxby has claimed expenses which have been not huge, and I find it odd that her “staffing costs” seem to have been only £885 in the past year (the maximum claimable is something like £165,000). She claims to take “a packed lunch” to Westminster! If true, rather silly and almost vulgar in view of MPs’ pay and expenses, especially when MPs get excellent restaurant food at Westminster for a few pounds, i.e. heavily subsidized, like the old Soviet “Kremlyovsky payok” (Kremlin ration).

I wonder whether she is not basically a bit of a skinflint. That would seem to explain her comments about both hungry children and struggling businesses.

Ms. Saxby is, incredibly, a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee in the Commons (she gets extra pay for that).

Conclusion

Selaine Saxby’s recent comments well qualify her as a deadhead MP. I have read her own website and what has been written about her online by Wikipedia, in the Press, on Conservative Home, the House of Commons online resource etc. Phrasing this in the colloquial, I do not detect a lot going on there…

Having said that, she is not going anywhere. North Devon has alternated between Conservative and LibDem for decades, and before that, Liberal, in toto for over a century. Nick Harvey held the seat for the LibDems for 23 years (1992-2015), and Selaine Saxby took over the seat from another Conservative Party MP in 2019.

The collapse of LibDemmery nationwide has meant that a number of their former strongholds are now safe Conservative seats. North Devon is one. It seems, therefore, that Ms. Saxby will be around for some time.

Update, 28 November 2023

Update, 5 July 2024

Selaine Saxby was voted out at GE 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Devon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

I suppose that she will go back to teaching in some girls’ school, taking in daily her briefly-famous packed lunch.

Update, 20 June 2025

Well, Selaine Saxby seems to have disappeared into the obscurity from which she emerged in 2019, though she is still tweeting once every few weeks on Twitter/X.

Incidentally, I see that at least one of my conclusions around her was wrong, i.e. that LibDemmery was collapsing; I think I can claim that I was right at the time, but that was 5 years ago; the times and tides have moved on.

The collapse in public support for both Labour and Conservative parties since the 2024 General Election has, ludicrously, boosted the LibDems by default, mainly in areas which otherwise might have stayed “Con”. Most polling seems to suggest that the LibDems will continue to have 50-75 MPs even after 2029, bad news for Selaine Saxby (if, as may be the case, she harbours hopes of a return to Parliament as Con MP for North Devon).