[Hitler, as Chancellor, greets wellwishers at the Berghof]
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Miriam Cates is much closer to the public mood on Rwanda, illegal & legal immigration than the vast majority of MPs in Westminster. Wanting strong & secure borders and lower migration is not "culture wars" — it's what the vast majority of Brits want See https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYhttps://t.co/AdjlXYBXHI
Non-white professor (Imperial College) and tweeter thinks (or at least implies) that “proper public services” can be had when a million non-white migrant-invaders, almost all low-skilled or no-skilled, are entering the country every single year.
An example of what we, the British people, are up against in trying, at the last moment, to save this country.
There are millions of foolish people who think that you can degrade a country’s population over decades, yet at the same time maintain, or even improve, that society and its overall standard of living, public services etc. No. That is impossible.
The main thing of importance now is to create the conditions for a people which can then, over time, be a foundation for a much later superculture.
Demography is destiny? "Between 2016 & 2020 Trump gained support among Latino voters. The Democrats have an increasingly tenuous hold on Asian vote & their support from black non-college-educated voters is slipping. Biden fell short of earning the support of a majority of…
Until yesterday, Bob Dole held the primary record in Iowa with a 12 point lead. Trump, as I said to Substack subscribers he would, just smashed that with a lead of almost 30 points. https://t.co/ucJXg3GWbc
Dole, of course, failed to become President of the USA. Trump is a different story. Against demented and half-dead (not to mention corrupt) Biden, Trump would have every chance.
As well as the sheer scale of public disillusionment on this issue. When Brits are asked who they trust to fix the crisis they do NOT choose Labour over Cons. The most popular answer by a country mile is "none of them"https://t.co/aXOiNbcq6Opic.twitter.com/6cCB1CA6O4
A real social-national party would, if one existed and were resourced, capture about 40% of the UK voters almost immediately, but “a certain tribe” makes sure that one cannot exist or survive for long, and that tribe effectively controls or very strongly influences the mainstream media, publishing etc in the UK.
Lastly, the Conservative failure to resolve the crisis is a major reason why about 10-15% of their 2019 voters are defecting to Reform, and another 30%-ish defecting to apathy. Many of these are pro-Brexit and sceptical of both mass legal and illegal migration…
I am sceptical of the Rwanda plan for several reasons, but would rather have it than not have it, the way things are. At least some of the bastards would thereby be expelled from the UK and Europe.
Of course, even if it worked perfectly, the Rwanda plan would affect mainly the “small boat arrivals”, not the vast mass of so-called “legal” migrants or migrant-invaders (which are 90%+ of the whole).
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New statement from the IRGC :
◾️ we used 24 ballistic missiles to hit terrorist bases, Mossad headquarters in Iraq and Syria
◾️ 4 missiles hit an ISIS base in Syrian Idlib, 11 missiles hit the Mossad headquarters in Iraqi Erbil pic.twitter.com/GsXy1NFN30
The Israeli army announced that it carried out artillery and airstrikes on dozens of Hezbollah positions in the Wadi Saluki area in southern Lebanon pic.twitter.com/USThduhoyg
I have heard or seen almost nothing about those networks (supposedly 100+ miles) of tunnels dug by Hamas in Gaza. The Israelis have apparently taken a few miles of tunnels; what about the rest?
Scenes of destruction caused by the ongoing Israeli aggression on neighborhoods in the city of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/LrrCfCFJc0
I suppose that, were I to say what I think should happen to them, “a certain tribe” (((the usual suspects))) would claim that my remarks would be “grossly offensive” or some such.
Either defend civilization, or let the jungle encroach on it until it is choked.
Did you know King Charles is a descendent of Vlad Dracula?
Amusing, but given that most of the people of Europe are now known to have descended from only 1-3 men of the Bronze Age, genealogy can show descent from almost anyone, as one sees in those British Royal family trees.
When I was at school, there was a rather mordant boy in my class, by name Waldron, who claimed descent from Henry VIII. No need to mock it; it was probably true— of him and thousands of others. I recall that he had a slightly dark skin, but whether that was of ethnic causation, or maybe a kidney problem, I have no idea. The only other thing I recall about Waldron is that he almost always carried a copy of Wisden, the cricket-statistics book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Cricketers%27_Almanack].
“The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been accused of wasting £123million of taxpayer cash on ‘misplaced priorities’ during his time in City Hall……£70,000 on a drag act called ‘Duckie Loves Fanny’, hosted by the city’s night czar, Amy Lamé, whose salary has risen 40 per cent to £117,000..“
What we are seeing is not just chaos over Rwanda. What we are seeing is the beginning of a Tory civil war between Establishment Tories and National Conservatives, the main fault lines of which are here 👇👇https://t.co/xBkvcoUyMXhttps://t.co/WUWlkoL0jR
CNN interrupted the broadcast of Donald Trump's speech after winning the intra-party vote in Iowa immediately after the ex-president spoke about problems at the border, and MSNBC did not air the speech at all, Fox Business reports.
Allegedly, The transfer of an entire train of American Stryker armored personnel carriers through the territory of Poland in the direction of the Belarusian border pic.twitter.com/R4AsS4UQe2
If the beleaguered Palestinian Arabs in that small territory can already launch thousands of missiles, albeit mostly not hugely powerful ones, what could happen in, say, 10 years’ time, and not only from Gaza? The top brass of the Israeli apparat must be contemplating a not-unlikely endgame, with no way out for the Jewish state.
The 36th Division of the Israeli army, defeated by the resistance in the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/FvmWSOuwwl
Well, this week an easy victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, whereas I managed 7/10, and might have scored 9/10 had I been able to bring to mind the answers to questions 1 and 7 (which I basically knew). The only question on which I had no idea at all was no. 3.
After languishing in the world’s smallest orca tank for 53 years, Lolita the orca died at @MiamiSeaquarium just before her impending transfer to a seaside sanctuary and the possible reunion with her mother. pic.twitter.com/PHFnnpKv9S
We are so deeply saddened by the heartbreaking news that the world's loneliest orca, Lolita, has died in captivity 53 years after she was captured from her home. A plan was underway to return her to the ocean. However, it was too little too late for Lolita, who was denied her… pic.twitter.com/gdIqEoHMHJ
Slava! All the same, that central westward thrust from Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk) to Vinnitsa looks to me unnecessary and possibly counterproductive.
Russia needs to secure all territory east of the Dnieper, and also the coastal littoral of the Black Sea (including Odessa) but, above all, Kiev itself. Confine the Zelensky regime to a rump inland “state” based on Lvov.
The map shows, supposedly, something akin to the original scheme, but it probably is still the overall strategy.
The Bürgerbräukeller, Munich, in or about 1923, shown above presumably before rather than after the “Beer Hall Putsch” (8-9 November 1923 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch).
The photo shows a meeting of the NSDAP. All those shown in the photo were members or supporters of the NSDAP.
What interests me is that, at that time, the NSDAP was a relatively minor party even in its hub, Bavaria (in early 1923, the national membership was about 6,000, and by the Autumn of 1923 about 20,000).
In May 1924, i.e. after the failure of the “Beer Hall Putsch” (aka “Munich Putsch” or “Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch), the NSDAP (banned, so using the name “National Socialist Freedom Movement”) scored only 6.5% in the federal (national) elections, and only 3% in December 1924.
In 1923-1924, the NSDAP had the sort of minor public support that, in the UK of the 21st Century, UKIP was enjoying about a decade ago, and that the BNP had about 15 years ago.
All the same, look at that photograph of the NSDAP meeting in 1923. Many hundreds of people, at the least. All looking decently-dressed.
One cannot but help compare that to the tiny so-called “far-right” (national and social-national) parties of today’s Britain.
The main difference politically between Germany in 1923 and Britain in 2023 is, that in 1923 Germany, there were large numbers of Germans of all social and income groups who supported the idea of national renewal. The NSDAP may only have had a few thousand or tens of thousands of members, but other volkisch parties and groups, such as, and primarily, the Stahlhelm, had the same or more, in some cases hundreds of thousands: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Stahlhelm,_Bund_der_Frontsoldaten.
Look now at Britain in 2023. The degenerate strata of higher-income and high-social-status groups do not, generally, support national renewal, but are (metaphorically) signed up to the trends which are destroying our society (and now destroying it quite rapidly).
What that means is that, should social-nationalism, by a political miracle (which I do not rule out) take power in this country, it will have to start its mission by removing surgically, and by drastic surgery, large sections of degenerate society, at all income and social-status levels.
[“At the end stands Victory”]
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Politics Explained: Another Starmer retreat from a policy that made him Labour leader https://t.co/rOBz2XiUHS
Ha ha! “Councillor Birgit Miller”. What a total mug. Typical “Jack Monroe” supporter (middle-aged, apparently fairly affluent, and unable to distinguish “grifting” deception and pointless tweeting from genuine campaigning).
As for the other mugs mentioned in the tweet, apart from Jewish TV cook Nigella Lawson, we have “Charron Pugsley-Hill, artist and hypnotherapist“, whose full Twitter profile says “Artist/Environmentalist Paintings of Nature/flower Paintings prints for sale. Solution Focused psychologist and hypnotherapist. Happier world together.” Another pretty typical “Jack Monroe” supporter-mug. Oh, and I have just seen that she is a facemask loonie as well. At least she is apparently an animal-lover.
I actually saw two facemask loonies today, one a supermarket cashier, the other a customer at the same place.
Maybe reality is seeping in. Anything even slightly looking like defeat for Russia in the Ukraine battlefield space might trigger a nuclear attack on the West. Don’t go there.
the US stops funding, then Ukraine will disappear in a couple of weeks
Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson said that the Ukrainian army will not be able to continue military operations without the support of NATO
Exactly. That has been the case for at least a year now.
Ukraine must mobilize 10 thousand people every month to at least hold the front, – Ukrainian Military Pages
“Only in order to compensate for the losses in the dead and wounded, as well as to replace the military, dismissed from service for health reasons, age and family… pic.twitter.com/bChe3HNFP2
I happened to see the two ridiculous tweets below:
I have just read the article, what a grossly unfair decision, there was no interest in prosecuting @MLewisLawyer. I hope he gets an apology.
— Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) July 5, 2023
So the often-heavily-criticized Jolyon Maugham [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolyon_Maugham], a part-Jew barrister and “activist”, here supporting egregious and self-publicizing Jewish solicitor Mark Lewis, is applauded by one Charlotte Proudman, apparently a mainly academic lawyer and barrister who has attended or researched at no less than five universities in the UK and USA. I do not think that I had heard of her before today.
Ms. Proudman should read my blog posts, written several years ago about Lewis, before expressing an opinion:
So far from having been “grossly unfair“, as Ms. Proudman opines (having apparently read only a brief and one-sided scribble on the Legal Business online platform), the decision of the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority [SRA] regarding Lewis was impeccably fair and, in punishing Lewis very leniently, bent over backwards to be fair. Even his small fine was reduced from £7,500 to £2,500 because his Counsel said on his behalf that Lewis (the ludicrously so-called “top lawyer“, if you believe the tabloid Press) owned no real property, and in fact owned nothing at time of the hearing in 2018 but his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter.
After the SRA hearing, Lewis took off for Israel, where he now lives.
Looking at what Lewis wrote online to various people, including a Jewish teenager, I was surprised that Lewis was not struck off the roll of solicitors.
I wonder whether Ms. Proudman thinks that the decision of the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal in my case was “grossly unfair“? I doubt it, even though I was both wrongfully, and actually unlawfully, disbarred (at the instigation of a pack of politically-motivated Jews) for having merely tweeted five (5) tweets, all of which were completely true and accurate: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.
Incidentally, this (below) is the profile photograph of herself that Ms. Proudman seems to think appropriate to publish on her Twitter account (which profile describes her as a barrister etc):
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THE TYRANT ZELENSKY: Banned the Ukrainian orthodox church Banned political opposition parties Banned members of his own party Banned media you criticised him Banned call who did not agree with him Banned ELECTIONS#ZelenskyWarCriminalpic.twitter.com/OtaYKWnmQm
As a result of the night Russian rocket attack on Ukraine in Lviv, a critical infrastructure facility was damaged, the head of the Lviv regional administration said. pic.twitter.com/HGh3ujx1N1
It's why they've painted Putin as a madman from the beginning. Remember the MSM reports that COVID had made him mad? Lol. All so you will believe the Russians are guilty of things that would make zero sense militarily.
Do you fancy looking into Jack Monroe? Has taken money from well meaning people to sue a Tory MP and kept the money with never even commencing proceedings. She then suggested it went to an unnamed foodbank and refused to provide proof. She’s stolen it. pic.twitter.com/Kzd45OqCqG
Flood control Dutch style. Rewilding of the Waal (Rotterdam branch of the Rhine) floodplain above Nijmegen has cut downstream inundation threat, restored ecosystems & created a fantastic amenity for people to enjoy. Many excellent examples to ponder in inspiring action in England pic.twitter.com/5tTOXssJl4
The mainstream parties all have the same open door agenda. None are fit to govern this country any more.
What is needed is a rout and a radical shake up of Westminster.
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) June 28, 2023
Polls of that sort are of course unscientific, and anything on Twitter more so, because of the well-known biases. All the same, it is clear that the present Government has run out of road. It is hitting as many buttons as possible to shore up at least the core Conservative-leaning vote: pledging to retain the pension Triple Lock, pledging to at least reduce net immigration (how about stopping the inward flow, and starting an outward flow?) etc, but it seems hopeless.
Actions speak louder than words. Something that the “Conservative” Party ministers and Prime Ministers of the past 13+ years seem not to understand. Mass immigration has continued unabated under Sunak and, as Chancellor, he also paused, for one year, the Triple Lock.
If I'm murdered by a foreigners I hereby give my permission for people to politicise my death and use it to forward the nationalist agenda.
Stop all immigration and begin a process of returns and deportation we must make life uncomfortable for them, remove benefits pass laws ,at the next election collectively vote for a Patriotic Right Wing anti immigration party we must save Britain 🇬🇧
Location given but left out to protect our Crew – "The homeless hostel I'm living in has started to take in "migrants" I asked what happens when we get kicked out & just got a shrug of the shoulders My time is up in 3 weeks" pic.twitter.com/YfymeA2eGV
— LittleBoats 🇬🇧NI🏴🏴En (@LittleBoats2020) July 4, 2023
Who is organizing this? Who is providing the tents, tarps, food, etc? Is the UN-IOM involved? Any NGOs? They’ve been “migrating” in this way through Central America and Mexico to the U.S. for 2.5 years now. Our government refuses to stop them. 😲
— Kim “filterless” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) July 4, 2023
🛎 The definitive guide to Cultural Marxism….Worth a bookmark.
Muslim humiliates & frightens old French lady. Blacks do same to our old in USA, Ireland & UK. They focus on the weak to destroy them. They hate us & want us to die. Time for a white Christian ethnostate. Protest to end the freedom of association ban.https://t.co/CHoHQPjONe
Interesting gadget. Hope that the thieves who steal car keys from entrance hall tables do not find out about it, though (having said that, I doubt that many car thieves read my blog).
China presented its analogue of the Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system under the name FK-2000.
It is capable of hitting: cruise missiles, precision bombs, air-to-ground missiles, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicles and other types of… pic.twitter.com/zg2yx9f6LA
Stats don't lie. Safe to say that with daily follower losses like this, Jack Monroe bootstrapcook needs to face up to the fact people have seen through the grift & are deserting her in droves. It's over. pic.twitter.com/nmn2q9flUZ
“Jack Monroe” is surely a busted flush. Even the utter mugs donating to her on Patreon are waking up: 396 as of today, the first time that the number has dropped below 400 (only a few days ago it was still 414). Last year, there were nearly 900 of those mugs, partly by reason of (now effectively withdrawn) endorsements by TV talking heads and cuisine “experts” Nigella Lawson and Jay Rayner (and others).
Still, 396 mugs each sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 monthly. As said previously, “not a bad little earner“, to use the Essex argot. Must still add up to at least a few thousand in cash. Monthly. For nothing.
If the fall continues, “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”, may have to either go on the dole or whatever again (she made a whole media career out of having done that once, for a year or so, a decade or more ago). Or perhaps her affluent/wealthy family of buy-to-let parasites, who live in the same area as her, will help her out. I doubt whether she would be employable as anything. I read somewhere that she has only had a couple of jobs (for short periods, and long ago), one arranged via her father, answering the telephones at the Essex fire brigade, the other in a fish and chip shop.
Sven Longshanks
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
A reminder that the appeal for Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) is still up. The aim is to raise funds both to assist him while he still sits in prison (i.e. until early/mid 2024), and also to help him resettle once released.
In cheering Thursday news, Jolyon Maugham and his (Not Very) Good Law Project have lost yet another of their flagship cases. #LGBAllianceWinhttps://t.co/ZBhjC8S410
Until today, I was unaware that Maugham no longer practises as a barrister in chambers (he specialized in tax law). Apparently, he left his last chambers in 2020.
I have seen tweets saying that Maugham is a “grifter”, living off donations to the Good Law Project. I have no idea whether that be so, and I also note that the GLP is supported by not only individual donations but also large grants from several well-known trust funds, not least that of the rather odd Rausing people (the descendants of the man who invented Tetrapak in Sweden); they also give or have given money to the mainly Jewish “Hope not Hate” crowd.
How much Maugham pays himself (in effect) as Director of the GLP I have no idea (and the website of the GLP is silent on the subject).
Jolyon lives in a construct of fantasy and demands that the rest of us exchange reality for that fantasy so it only makes sense that Jolyon see this loss within the prism of fantasy as well as a win.
I remember seeing Maugham on a “celebrity” episode of University Challenge. He stood out from the rest as combining a very-obviously huge opinion of himself with equally-huge ignorance of almost everything. Very funny.
I have no idea how well (or not) Jolyon Maugham was regarded as a tax barrister, before he launched “Woke Law Project”, but it gives pause for thought how many cases “GLP” has lost or not “won”.
As for Maugham being a KC, these days about 10% of all barristers hold letters patent as KC; it is not the accolade it once was. At one time, only a few barristers a year were made up to KC or QC; now dozens are.
You’d think people would realise how Jolyon works by now instead of continuing to fund the clown. His brings pointless and baseless claims to the courts that never should be there. He’s not doing what’s right by anybody but himself and his wallet.
@greenbelt do you still think Jack Monroe poses no risks? This is due to her doxxing someone, just for requesting a refund from her. Her fans turning up on someone’s doorstep and harassing him.
One of my online harassers turned up at my house late last night and refused to leave, claiming that I refused to answer their "3 reasonable dinner party questions" about myself and they felt the need to ask me in person. That is why the police are now taking it seriously.
I hope to god Jack Monroe bootstrapcook is punished to the maximum degree and shamed publicly for her part in this. She doxxed you, she led the pile ons, she is behind it all when she tried to escape facing justice.
“Jack Monroe” may not have ordered or asked for the above harassment to happen, but she is all the same behind it in the wider sense. She “doxxed” (revealed publicly the address of) the person involved, and she knows very well that her most fervent supporters are often those with mental health problems (as well as the very dim). In other words, she lit the blue touchpaper.
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George Osborne, being the insanely well-connected former British finance minister pic.twitter.com/mg5mzpAu0c
— Martin can be found wherever you get your tweets (@MartinConcagh) July 6, 2023
I myself have not yet read this instantly-infamous email, though I think that I can guess at least a little of what is in it.
Incidentally, Osborne is yet another part-Jew.
George Osborne is directly responsible for the mess we are in and the mess we've been living in since 2010. He destroyed this country.
So many people assume that because one enemy of the people has “Conservative” on the label, and another “Labour“, that they are not both part of the System together, or are somehow “opposed”. Only superficially.
The government refuses to believe that when you cut the benefit levels the economy crashes. The poor cannot spend what they don’t have. If you increase the benefit levels the economy grows as the poor spend everything you give them. That was why George Osborne’s cuts didn’t work.
Exactly. Give a poor man £1 and he will almost certainly spend it, and have to spend it. Give £1 to a rich man and he will either bank it or buy a hedging asset (eg over-valued real property) with it.
The UAF launched a new wave of offensive near Orekhov on the Zaporizhia Front. pic.twitter.com/zuxlwHX1Hr
Will such places one day be resettled, or will they stand forever as ruined testament to the horrors of war? I wonder.
Due to the failure, Kiev is looking for an excuse to introduce NATO troops into Ukraine
Russia calls on the US and the West as a whole to influence the current authorities in Kiev not to organize a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant that could lead to a… pic.twitter.com/a8GYBoi8aR
Western military analysts reacted with concern to the possibility that a Storm Shadow cruise missile in fairly good condition fell into Russian hands On that occasion, they pointed out that Russian rocket engineers can achieve a deeper introduction to the structure of this… pic.twitter.com/QxeEuv2gm9
The British government, hours before the UN Security Council's periodic meeting on Resolution 2231, added 13 Iranian individuals and one institution (Supreme Council for the Cultural Revolution) to its sanctions list. pic.twitter.com/8ON1dX9EF9
THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW THE REAL HISTORY OF THE USA ARE BASING THEIR HATE OF WHITE PEOPLE ON A LIE TOLD THEM BY THE MSM AND THE LEFTISTS WHO WANT US DIVIDED.
Thousands of white people died to free the slaves in the Civil War – White people should call that their “reparations” to… pic.twitter.com/7LpxVDKyMk
The brutal truth most young people don't want to hear..
You're doom-scrolling TikTok for 6 hours a day, you're addicted to porn, you're eating junk, you're not sleeping, and you're wondering why you're depressed.
You don't need anti-depressants. You need to fix your life.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 25, 2023
Mark 8:36 "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
1/11 EXCLUSIVE: Last year I tweeted my story that @BorisJohnson had faked nearly dying of Covid-19, otherwise known as the #Deathgate scandal.
But now, after a 3 year investigation, we have discovered it was MUCH WORSE than that.
A multimedia THREAD from Stop Lying In Politics.
— Marcus J Ball (Investigative Private Prosecutor) (@MarcusJBall) June 22, 2023
At first, when the news broke about “Boris” Johnson, the then Prime Minister, being in intensive care from “Covid”, I was probably 60% “it’s real news” and 40% “it’s fake news”. Now? About 70% in favour of it having been “fake news”, and it having been part of the whole “scamdemic” propaganda effort.
If you still think that ordinary Russians do not support the war in Ukraine, watch how they greet Prigozhin and the Wagner terrorist group, who rebelled because the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine was not effective enough. pic.twitter.com/oe01HpppgS
Perhaps. In days of yore, Stalin would have shot the heads of the Russian Army and GRU soon after the pathetic failed takeover of the Ukraine in 2022.
Rishi Sunak didn’t resign from Boris Johnson’s government as a point of principle… he’d already registered https://t.co/IuHKB4u5vx & hired his campaign team ready for a tilt at PM… if it’s possible he’s even less believable than cartoon Prime Minister Liz Truss,
Interesting to see the generally downward trend over 30+ years. Will Sunak go as low as Liz Truss? We shall see.
'Andrew Bailey himself acknowledged that he and his colleagues had made a mistake in terms of their forecast.'
Former Chancellor of The Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, doesn't believe he and Liz Truss are responsible for inflation but that 'the BoE was too slow' in reacting. pic.twitter.com/7tttuQ9xw6
— FREEDOM_OF_VOICE_HQ (@INDIA_VOICE_HQ) June 25, 2023
This has got to be the biggest L in the history of the three lettered agency that shall not be named. #Prighozin and #Wagner running away with the 6.2$ billion "accounting error" that was discovered the day before the coup. Imagine now if they invade Ukraine from Belarus 😂😂😂 https://t.co/RZUl51udKl
Belarusian border is 147km from Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia is 627 km away where the concentration of the ground action is occurring. I can't be the only one thinking that Belarus and Prighozin will be attacking from this direction in the very near future #Ukraine#UkraineRussianWar
I do not know, but maybe, with much of the Zelensky-regime army now either dead or occupied in the southeast of Ukraine, there is a plan to attack from Belarus, but Kiev must now be well-defended in depth. Any approach to the suburbs of Kiev would meet with stiff resistance, then would require a reduction of the urban and suburban battlefield space by artillery, aircraft, and missiles before a mass infantry incursion, and would be horrendously bloody, bearing in mind the number of civilians in Kiev.
A battle for Kiev would be on the level of [the WW2 battle for] Stalingrad, or the recent Bakhmut carnage, in ferocity, and on a much larger scale even than Stalingrad.
Having said the above, the Wagner Group forces seem to have been sidelined, with many sworn into the ordinary Russian Army. If PMC Wagner is “decapitated”, leaderless, and not in Belarus, how could it attack from there?
It looks more like a bloodless dispersal of Wagner Group assets.
The truth may be out there, but I think that we do not know it yet.
The motorized units of the operative group Wagner have completely withdrawn from the Lipetsk and Vronje areas.Russian road workers are intensively restoring the destroyed and damaged road infrastructure on the Rostov-on-Don-Moscow stretch. All roads put into operation.
Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces continues to work in the Zaporozhye direction. The footage shows the defeat of enemy armored vehicles in the area of the Vremevsky ledge. pic.twitter.com/1ihx5AE3oe
France said that Ukraine's accession to the EU would be a shock to the budget
The European Union, without a reform of the financial system, is not ready to accept Ukraine into its ranks, given its agricultural potential and population, the French Minister in charge of…
Disruption tactics to stop private citizens from peacefully assembling and talking to each other is pretty extreme. People justify it by saying it would be OK to use against the Nazi Parry in 1930s Germany.
In any case, why would it have been “justified” in the early 1930s? The KPD (German Communist Party) of the time was under Stalin’s control (via the Comintern) and, in the Soviet Union, mass slaughter was already happening in various ways. The NSDAP was a necessary Abwehr (“parrying”) to that Stalinist expansionism. Once in power, the NSDAP lifted Germany and its people out of degradation, and made Germany the most prosperous nation in Europe.
People, some people, should learn some real history…
As for any attempted historical analysis by the likes of Gary Lineker, the hugely-overpaid football talking-head, life is too short to waste time on it (or him).
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Glastonbury – where champagne socialists go to virtue signal about open borders behind an Israeli-style border wall that keeps out the riff-raff who can't afford the £340 ticket. pic.twitter.com/hZHGSwhqLm
Good grief. I knew that it was expensive but thought maybe £100-£200.
I suppose that age demographics come into it. I do not know what is the age typical of a Glastonbury audience, but not that young, I am guessing. Like owning a top-range motorbike, or a Morgan car, it is (?) the prerogative of the middle-aged and even elderly, these days.
Not that I have been there. At least, I have been to the town of Glastonbury a number of times (and have even stayed overnight a couple of times), but of course not to the music festival.
I remember when the Reading Festival was first held there, which I think was either 1970 or 1971. 1971, I think. If so, I was not quite 15. I remember driving with my mother, the day before it started, down the lane through the riverside meadows where it takes place, mainly to see the “hippies” who were already arriving. A human safari park, if you like. Our family lived on the other side of the river, in the suburb of Caversham Heights.
In those days, “pop festivals” were for the young (16-25, maybe 16-30). Of course, the general population has aged, and I see now that tickets for the Reading Festival cost hundreds of pounds.
It's just Jack Monroe herself. All of those sad sock accounts are her. She's clearly having a narcissistic rage. Her reputation (which was built on lies in the first place) is in tatters. And it's all down to her own idiocy, and toxic personality.
— ₛₐₙdᵣₐ ₚₑₙₑₗₒₚₑ 🇪🇺🇨🇵🇬🇧🟢⚪️🟣 (@PeuDeChoses) June 25, 2023
An outright fraud. Anyone who supports her or sends her money is just a total mug.
If nothing else, it may galvanize the Russian people into accepting a much more brutal handling of Ukraine. Counter offensive is not going well for Ukraine despite training and big money. Russia holding south or might see opprotunity.
Major General Karpenkov Nikolai Nikolayevich, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs – Commander of the Internal Troops, said that Belarus is ready to start hunting for the "Kalinovsky Regiment" in the border area. He also called these tiktok troops "children". pic.twitter.com/NCOqm0eH3V
In May, Russia was the only country in Europe where food prices fell by a record 1.12 percent on an annual basis, according to "RIA Novosti" calculations. So far, the annual deflation of food and soft drinks in Russia has been observed only twice – in June 2018 (0.42 percent) and… pic.twitter.com/UGEKsKTbbi
Israel will summon Ukraine's ambassador Yevgeny Kornychuk for a "diplomatic warning". Kornychuk publicly accused Tel Aviv of "immorality" for refusing to supply arms and ammunition to Ukraine, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Well, this week I again managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul. I scored 6/10 as against his self-awarded five and a half. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 6, 7, and 10. I just missed the last one, thinking that it might be the cassowary [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary] (which can reach well over 6 feet in height). Apparently, though, that is only the third or fourth tallest bird.
— Ramesh Patel – They Would Rather You Ignore This (@Imalright_Jack) May 19, 2023
Very true. So many people are misled by that kind of “Mrs Thatcher housewife’s shopping basket” economics. One would have thought that John Rentoul would know better, or is he just (as in days of Blair) parrotting the “centrist” Labour Party line?
As a former barrister (wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 and not in actual Bar practice since 2008), I have applied a little thought to such questions.
My view is that sentencing has become absurd in the UK. While many defendants are certainly not given sufficient —or any— time in incarceration, despite having been convicted of very unpleasant offences, including crimes of very considerable violence, there is at the same time routine over-sentencing.
Many defendants are sentenced to, say, 5 years (for whatever), when 4 or 3 would be more than adequate (and, in terms of actual punishment, about the same).
At the same time, there are quite a few people incarcerated for no good reason at all, as in the recent free speech case of “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch), sentenced to 2.5 years for supposedly “inciting racial hatred” (he was convicted on 10 out of 15 charges). He will be in prison, probably, until 2024. Political “crime” in our “free country” (as was).
I am not going to do an entire study of this one, but take a look at the Wikipedia entry: mixed Indian heritage; failed, at an early stage, to continue with a law degree, despite having been, in part, privately educated; seems to be a lesbian or something similar; “elected” (selected) as MP at age 23; took “several months” off from her MP duties in 2021; “celebrated” the attacks on statues of English historical figures.
Another deadhead MP.
An example of her views:
Troubling to hear Esther McVey at #PMQs refer to Travellers as a “blight on the local community” just a day after #RomaniResistanceDay.
GRT people face a huge amount of discrimination. Such hateful language, and Tory laws criminalising their way of life, only contribute to it.
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) May 17, 2023
Mirabile dictu! Seems that Esther McVey has actually said something with which I can agree.
Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow will take into account, among its plans, the West's intention to supply Ukraine with F-16 aircraft
If it turns out that the Russian air force or ground forces cannot deal with the increasing influx of sophisticated weapons systems being supplied to the Kiev regime, the end result may be that the Russian leadership will decide to destroy both the bases of those aircraft and also any nearby urban areas.
As previously blogged, it should never have come to this. The invasion should have and could have been essentially over within a week, with Kiev taken, and Zelensky’s cabal eliminated or driven into exile.
While the G7 countries in Hiroshima are introducing anti-Russian sanctions and discussing support for Ukraine, China is deepening its cooperation with Moscow, writes the German newspaper "Spiegel".
In Bakhmut, one of the last fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed The so-called "Nest" is located on the outskirts – now completely destroyed, military correspondents report. pic.twitter.com/u7vVvqW12H
The small area still defended by Kiev-regime forces in Bakhmut/Artyomovsk is now 100 acres or so, about the same acreage as Kensington Gardens in London.
What always strikes me about the Israeli police response to any incident is how swift it is. Not one, but several, and often many, police, security agents, soldiers etc are on the scene quickly, usually in seconds, at least in the Old City of Jerusalem or in the central parts of Tel Aviv. Reminiscent of the quick reaction of the militia in Moscow in Soviet times, if there were any sort of public disorder. The Israelis must have huge numbers of police personnel.
A Syrian migrant receives his UK passport courtesy of our soft, liberal Tory government. According to the Left, he is now fully British 😤😡 pic.twitter.com/0TxtvZaYCB
In a well-known and probably (?) apocryphal saying, Lenin is supposed to have opined that “in order to destroy a nation, first destroy its currency“. I suppose that he could not have foreseen the possibility that a nation’s integrity, credibility, and soul could be destroyed by migration-invasion, an invasion not through feat of arms, but through the moral weakness and/or self-hate of the people of the invaded country itself (whipped up, as usual, by “them”, the “you know who” element). He would not have believed it possible.
I have blogged briefly about that silly “ho”, Clare Moseley, in the past. Like so many English people, perhaps especially women, who attach themselves to “anti-racist”-type causes (“refugees welcome”, anti-apartheid etc), intellect is limited, emotionalism uncontrolled, hypocrisy common, and both knowledge and experience of the subject-matter usually absent.
They usually have mental health “issues” as well. See also:
We compiled all of the evidence showing who funds @Bellingcat, what the stated agenda of their government and private-sector funders are, and what those funders get in return.
Find out what the National Endowment for Democracy is. Decide for yourself.https://t.co/8WIxP90E5d
There is nothing wrong with being “antisemitic” anyway, and in the UK it is not a crime, despite what many ignorant Twitter types often tweet.
Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that there is a special symbolism in the fact that today we are talking about the complete liberation of Artemovsk, a year ago on this day the last Ukrainian militants surrendered in Mariupol.
Since the beginning of February, 80,000 refugees have returned from Turkey to Syria, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said.
"We are engaged in the normalization of life in the areas of Syria under our control. People are returning to Syria on a voluntary basis," Akar said. pic.twitter.com/8t6T0hqPIk
The bases of the Bakhmut Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kramatorsk were struck The explosions went off near the Kramatorsk airport, which has been turned into a supply hub and headquarters of the UAF pic.twitter.com/SFvAb16vD8
Looks as if “the musicians” are about to complete their performance in that area. музыканты хорошо играют…
Reportedly, Flight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. The desire to protect the "aircraft" is over. pic.twitter.com/pyPIqW4BMK
Lavrov: “Hopes for integration with the West did not come true. The Western track that has developed in our foreign policy has completely exhausted itself. We have entered into a full-scale confrontation with the West.”
What Russia lacks is a real ideology that goes beyond mere Great-Russian nationalism.
the release of Bakhmut means that two larger cities in the Donetsk region – Kramatorsk and Slavyansk – will be within the range of Russian artillery. With their release, the People's Republic of Donetsk will also be released. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in…
As a result of the offensive actions of Wagner's assault detachments, with the support of the artillery and aviation of the troop group "South", the liberation of the city of Artyomovsk/Bakhmut was completed
“A pub landlady today defied authorities and put more of her golliwog collection back on display just days after 20 of them were seized by police as part of an investigation that she and her husband had committed a hate crime.
Benice Ryley proudly placed five of the controversial dolls behind the bar of The White Hart pub in Grays, Essex, which she has run for the past 17 years with her husband Chris.
Read that article. The Essex Police clowns are still claiming that the golliwogs they seized are “part of an investigation” into a so-called “hate crime“, which is complete nonsense. It is not unlawful to own or display a golliwog.
One of the alarming aspects of contemporary Britain is the degree to which the police are (wilfully?) unaware of the limits to their power and, indeed, jurisdiction.
“Today’s revelation that suspected terrorists have entered Britain posing as small boat migrants brings a whole new context to the Channel crisis.
It was already known that hundreds of criminals had been identified among arrivals from France – raising huge questions about Britain’s porous border and the Government’s ability to protect its citizens.
Now we know that the problem is far, far worse.
The 19 terror suspects who camouflaged themselves as would-be refugees to enter the UK are known to be affiliated with some of the most murderous groups in the world, including Islamic State and the Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab.
The security services were already under pressure keeping tabs on thousands of individuals who pose an active threat in the UK.”
“Ukraine’s air defence could crumble ‘within weeks’, according to leaked US intelligence documents.
The New York Times reported that newly leaked Pentagon documents and US officials suggest that a huge influx of munitions is needed to keep Russia’s air force from changing the course of the war.
According to one leaked document, missile stocks for Soviet-era S-300 and Buk air defence systems, which constitute 89 per cent of Ukraine’s protection against most fighter aircraft and some bombers, could be fully depleted by May 3 and mid-April.
One leaked document reportedly assessed that Ukrainian air defences designed to protect troops on the front line will be “completely reduced” by May 23.”
[Daily Telegraph]
There it is. The air defences of the Kiev regime may have “crumbled” and will be “fully depleted” and “completely reduced” within 1-5 weeks from now.
At the same time, the Kiev-regime infantry still living is suffering poor morale and huge losses.
The conclusion must be that Russia can press its advantage in the warmer weather expected soon.
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Russian troops are simply razing to the ground the fortified area in the west of Bakhmut, created by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in high-rise buildings, heavy casualties pic.twitter.com/65Zc9KbDEH
A brief conclusive summary of the Ukraine war by Scot Ritter: "Russia has broken the back of the Ukrainian military.. the battle of Bakhmut is over, so too is the chance of Ukraine coming out of this war with any semblance of victory." pic.twitter.com/KT5u4jYm1X
Zelensky will have to stop pretending to be a great (or any) statesman and/or great (or any) military leader, and go back to clowning on TV comedy shows. Either that, or retreat to his USD $40M villa in Florida.
Putting up the Russian flag east of Bakhmut, now that the Ukrainians aren't just going to try to shell it out of spite.
Though I wouldn't mind seeing them try. Its a waste of their dwindling shell supplies. pic.twitter.com/yhCY6xrEhd
“I don’t know if Ukraine will even exist as a nation state by the end of 2023,” McGregor said. Douglas McGregor, a retired US Army colonel and former White House adviser, expressed uncertainty about the existence of a country called Ukraine on Stephen Gardner's YouTube channel.… pic.twitter.com/w3pvsLBxc9
Assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" continue fighting for quarters in the central part of Artemovsk, pushing the enemy to the western outskirts – Russian Defense Ministry
Western-made armored vehicles supplied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to be successfully disposed of by Wagners in Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/JbaqDfDp1g
NYT: Leaked US Documents Reveal Ukraine's Plans to Move Elite Troops to Bakhmut According to US intelligence, the situation in Bakhmut is "catastrophic" for Ukraine pic.twitter.com/qeMdBrDTHE
We invaded Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and each time we survived the consequences of the war because we had the global monetary reserve currency. Today's war with Russia and China is not like those wars" … Details about the future of the dollar in the video pic.twitter.com/VvEcXqsKuW
The above analysis is very weak re. Weimar hyperinflation. The Weimar Republic did not collapse because of hyperinflation.
The Weimar hyperinflation period was 1921-1923, but mainly summer 1922 to November 1923. In other words, hyperinflation really only existed for about 18 months.
The hyperinflation did not “collapse” the Weimar Republic, though it did destroy the savings of those who had savings, thus making the whole political situation in Germany, already unstable, more unstable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic. It did rob the Weimar Republic of authority, to be sure. People distrusted it.
The final collapse of the Weimar Republic, which stabilized to some extent in the mid/late 1920s, came about more because of the Depression, which was born outside Germany, in the USA.
Hitler and the NSDAP did not attain full State power until 1933, a decade after the end of the hyperinflationary period.
I was just looking at the memoirs written (actually, ghost-written) by some “senior” (so-called) politicians. Liz Truss’s Out of the Blue, which came out too late, after she had already been deposed, is at present selling about 200 new copies monthly on Amazon. Not very impressive, but better than Andrea Leadsom’s effort, Snakes and Ladders, which is managing a mere 20 per month.
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Heard about this on the radio this morning. Apparently one of those involved is a Ukrainian refugee, who is back there over the Easter break, for a holiday. Who leaves a war zone as a refugee and goes back as a holiday maker while the war is ongoing?
“A newly-leaked top-secret Pentagon document reveals American planners doubt Ukraine’s ability to launch an effective counteroffensive against Russian invaders this spring.
Outlining the developments of the war since February, the document picks up on ‘force generation and sustainment shortfalls’, predicting Ukrainian forces will fail…“
Morris dancers perform with blacked faces despite bans from ancient tradition's governing body https://t.co/zDhfhOCpNP England is a Free Country, so well done to all the Morris Dancers with Blacked Faces for standing up to all the Woke Madness🏴
What is especially interesting and telling about those “normalizing of racemixing” ads (and TV dramas,” and “soaps” etc) is that the actual black population of the UK is “only” about 5% of the whole (non-whites of all types comprise about 20% of the whole population now), yet almost every TV ad, online ad now has at least one actual black in it.
Munich 1939: interesting colour film documenting historical events
[Munich, 1939]
Stretford and Urmston by-election
I usually assess by-elections prior to polling, but missed this one.
A safe Labour seat since its creation for the 1997 General Election, Stretford and Urmston has never come close to being captured by the Conservative Party.
This is a “machine Labour” constituency. The by-election was caused by the former MP, Kate Green, half-Jewish and (I think) a member of Labour Friends of Israel, stepping down in order to be able to take up the role of Deputy Mayor of Manchester. The present Deputy Mayor is Beverly Hughes, who also preceded Kate Green as MP for Stretford and Urmston.
The 2022 by-election saw Labour at its highest in the constituency, at 69.6% (lowest was 48.6%, in 2010).
The highest Conservative Party vote in the constituency was in 1997 (30.5%), the lowest in yesterday’s by-election (15.9%).
The Labour vote has been above 60% in the last three elections in the seat: 2022, 2019, 2017.
Before yesterday’s by-election, the Conservative vote has been between 27% and (about) 30% since the creation of the constituency in 1997.
Conclusion as to numbers: the Labour vote has somewhat increased, but the Conservative vote has almost halved since 2019. The former Conservative Party voters have mostly abstained, but with some voting elsewhere.
The numbers tell the story: in 2019, just over 50,000 voters voted, as against about 18,400 in the by-election, but at the 2019 General Election, 13,778 voters voted Con, as against only 2,922 in yesterday’s by-election, a far steeper fall. In other words, former Con voters have voted with their feet.
The LibDems and (other?) minor party candidates are not worth discussing; Reform UK yesterday got exactly the same as Brexit Party managed in 2019— 3.5%. The same voters? Underwhelming.
What does this tell us about overall trends? In my view, that Labour, though not exciting, is consolidating its core vote. Also, that the Conservative Party is not at all enthusing even those who voted for it previously, not only in 2019 but even in elections prior to that. Also, that the LibDems are pretty much dead in the water in much of the country. Also, that Reform UK is obviously not going to get anywhere.
Is that what Kwasi Kwarteng was laughing about like a bear on crack during the late queen's funeral? #bbcpm
— Boris D'Burger-Zilla (Bah Humberger!) (@dozecat007) December 16, 2022
Unexpected. I had not thought that Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwarteng) was a cocaine abuser, though other former and existing Con ministers and MPs certainly have been and probably still are, that little pro-Jew bastard Gove for one. As for Liz Truss, thinking about her erratic behaviour, maybe.
Christmas University Challenge
Well, watched the Grand Final (Edinburgh v. Hertford College, Oxford). As on previous occasions, my wife and I scored better than the winning team. Surprising ignorance shown by both teams, bearing in mind that these are prominent and/or famous people, including the Political Editor for BBC News, one Adam Fleming, who (as in the previously-shown contest) displayed painful ignorance even in areas bordering on his own work.
Plumes of black smoke spiraled into the sky above Kyiv as Russian missiles rained down in renewed air attacks. Officials said energy infrastructure was hit — including hydro-electric dams, knocking out power, heat and water supplies https://t.co/bzSdG4FHXppic.twitter.com/brej0Y20GN
As I predicted on the blog quite a while ago, Russia would have to understand (and seemingly now has worked out) that it needs to unbalance the Kiev regime by oblique warfare, rather than simply by battlefield attrition.
Ukraine – A Warning to the Furious' (written in May 2014): 'I must just hope that people on both sides keep hold of their reason and their sense of proportion' : 'https://t.co/CJZUpfYilL
Even previously, the full story of our national suicide was not told, because the narrative spun only included mothers born in other countries, not grandmothers etc. The full extent of the “replacement” was never told.
Quite. It will be recalled that, last week, Hancock was in the front row at Downing Street, obsequiously clapping Indian “clever boy” and money-juggler Sunak, as the latter arrived. Sunak “blanked” Hancock, not looking at him, not shaking his hand and, most tellingly, not later offering Hancock a job.
Hancock has therefore turned to Plan B, having no doubt seen Michael Portillo become far more famous (arguably) and certainly better liked, as well as better paid, after Portillo gave up front-line politics to ride on trains around the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and beyond, giving out historical and socio-political snippets.
That restored Portillo’s reputation and public popularity. Few now even remember the unpleasant and bombastic minister and then Cabinet minister under Thatcher and Major; even fewer remember the 1990s sex scandal that revealed some of his various escapades (including affairs with both men and women, one of which was a Spanish male ballet dancer).
Portillo has become a popular TV presenter. Even I quite like his railway excursion shows.
As to Hancock, he has obviously accepted that his main political career is over. True, Nadine Dorries went on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and was later appointed to Cabinet, though only many years later, under Johnson (perhaps literally) and after having lost the Conservative whip for a while (under Cameron-Levita). I read today that Hancock has now also lost the whip, and so sits in the Commons as an Independent MP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hancock#I’m_a_Celebrity…_Get_Me_Out_of_Here!.
If Hancock does not regain the Conservative whip before the next general election, then he is toast, politically. Perhaps Sunak will dispose of him that way.
Finally, I sincerely hope that the “staff” on SAS: Who Dares Wins give Hancock a thorough “beasting”. I have never watched that show, but I might make an exception to see Hancock suffering a bit.
Late tweets
But it absolutely didn't when people like him were calling for the 'unvaccinated' to be deemed second class citizens. https://t.co/5dVp7t6RT9
Another suspicious person, in my view: Dr. Julia Grace Patterson, who qualified as a doctor, worked for maybe a year in a hospital, then dropped out and has of late (for the past few years) been selling (useless) cloth facemasks online, and tweeting about the NHS etc.
How long will it be before a combined race/culture war breaks out in the UK and across Europe?
“Labour” is no better than the fake “Conservatives”, maybe worse in fact, but if the Con Party can be destroyed at the next general election, the Labour elected dictatorship that may follow may itself, by its extremism and possibly very large Commons majority, trigger a real pushback.
“Aubrey Allegretti, political correspondent: Kwarteng starts by pinning the blame for inflation and spiralling energy bills directly on Putin.“
[The Guardian]
Well, after all, it could not be the fault of the Boris-idiot government, which all but shut down the UK economy for 2 years for no good reason, while doling out free money like a drunken sailor…oh, wait a minute…
“Aubrey Allegretti: Kwarteng seeks to turn the last 12 years of Conservative economic wisdom on its head and present the government as new and radical – rather than hanging on the coattails of the last one.
He lays out his central point that “growth is not as high as it should be”, arguing this only leads to less money to fund public services, relying on higher taxes, and so on.
“We need a new approach for a new era” should be seen as nothing less than a bid to reinvent the Conservatives and present them as a party of change – to avoid being blamed for the mistakes of the past. (Despite, of course, Truss having served in the previous three Conservative governments.)“
[The Guardian].
This mini-budget is completely mad. The result can only be roaring inflation, higher interest rates for businesses and mortgage-payers, and before very long a huge spike in house-repossessions as people default on the mortgage commitments taken out in easier times.
Reducing tax for those earning over £140,000 —about 3x or 4x the average pay? That is just ridiculous and will be applied to purchase of hedging assets (including paying off any mortgage commitments such higher-earners may have).
Stimulation of the economy requires more money at the bottom end, where people are almost compelled by circumstances to spend on goods and services, not at the top end of the income scale.
Today, the pound sterling is down, as I write, by about 2%. Interest rates for UK government borrowing are rising steeply.
A budget of this sort does nothing for the poor (however defined), nothing for the bulk of the population, and only helps those already affluent or wealthy.
Indeed, it might be said that the “middle ranks”, meaning people without much capital, working for a modest living, paying off a mortgage, paying for children and a household, will be hit very hard.
If only there were an existing, tightly-controlled, social-national party, —even if small— and with credible policies and people. One does not exist. Somewhere soon down the road might come a “1929” moment. That was what started the NSDAP and Hitler on its path to glory (ultimately, tragic glory, but that is another question).
[“At the end stands Victory!“]
[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children“]
Hilary Mantel
The authoress, Hilary Mantel, has died.
I was struck by this, seen on her Wikipedia entry:
“In an 2013 interview with the Telegraph, Mantel stated: “I think that nowadays the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people.”[5] She continued in the interview to say: “When I was a child I wondered why priests and nuns were not nicer people. I thought that they were amongst the worst people I knew.” These statements, as well as the themes explored in her earlier novel Fludd, led some to question her work in Wolf Hall, with Bishop Mark O’Toole noting: “There is an anti-Catholic thread there, there is no doubt about it. Wolf Hall is not neutral.”[46].”
I myself had no contact with Roman Catholicism as a child. Indeed, I do not think that I even knew any Roman Catholics until I was in my early 20s. All the same, the few impressions that I had then were not favourable, as when I was in Ireland aged about 21 and had left Tralee station to walk or hitch-hike to the mountains. A small car approached, the first one since Tralee. I stuck out my thumb, only for the miserable-looking bastards on board, a thin, rat-faced and bespectacled Catholic priest, and a thoroughly nasty-looking nun (who was driving), to pass me without even a glance.
After a week or so in the sea-mountains, I returned the same way. Again, a car approached. The same car. The same occupants. I thought that this time they would stop, having seen me the previous week. No. Straight on past, not sparing me a look.
Miserable bastards, whom I hope met a miserable end.
Incidentally, I did get a lift eventually, in both directions; on the journey out, from an attractive dark-haired young Irishwoman who would not accept a chocolate from me because it was Lent.
The years spin past ever-quicker. That was in early 1979, all of 43 years ago now.
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Interest rates face their sharpest rise for more than 30 years as millions of households face huge increases in their mortgage costs https://t.co/kYpBCYqQaQ
It means that almost four million households who have climbed on to the property ladder since the global financial crisis face significant increases in their monthly bills
Sir John Gieve suggested the Bank and the government are pulling in different directions.
The chancellor is poised to announce more than £30bn worth of tax cuts on Friday in the mini-budget as the government freezes corporation tax, reverses the rise in NI and cuts stamp duty
🗣️ “They are trying to slow down the economy. The rhetoric we’ve heard so far from the new government is that they want to speed it up by increasing borrowing”
The thing is, the billionaire will use every loophole possible to pay absolutely nothing and HMRC looks the other way, while the one on 50k has tax taken from them automatically and if you even owe 50 pence, you’ll get a brown letter through your door 🤣 https://t.co/EzxeSjaYgr
Exactly. Both above tweets are right. The income point however leaves out the main difference between the few and the many, the capital held by each group.
The average Joe has no, or virtually no, capital. In fact, if you leave aside any equity value in residential property owned (usually just one dwelling, and Average Joe himself lives in it), most British people really only have a tiny amount of capital, a few thousand pounds, or even just a few hundred.
The wealthy few however, are often not at all dependent on income as such, certainly not income from any ordinary job. Their capital, invested in real property, or shares etc, is the key to their wealth. Careful investment and accountancy can mean that Average Millionaire/Billionaire Joe has almost no taxable income at all, while in any given year, his capital might have increased by 20%, 50%, even 1,000%.
The wealthiest of all have seen their capital increase hugely since the last financial crash in 2008; The Elon Musks (from about USD $2 billion to about USD $277 billion— in just one decade), the Jeff Bezos’s etc.
People like that laugh at the very idea of income tax. It is simply irrelevant to most of them. Look at the Duke of Westminster, small compared to the mega-billionaires, but still worth £10 billion -£20 billion. Then compare that to the Average Joe, who might (or might not) own, even including his house equity, maybe £200,000 or so. £1 for every £100,000 owned by the Duke of Westminster, and maybe £1 for every £1,500,000 owned by Elon Musk.
Hmrc wanting self employed people to submit tax returns every 3 months from 2024 🤡 literally no point in working hard in the uk at all between taxes and the state of the place
I myself had a great many problems with HMRC long ago. Partly but not entirely self-inflicted, and all now (long ago, over a decade ago) resolved to my satisfaction. I never ever encountered a bureaucracy as shambolic (as well as, in some cases, unpleasant) as HMRC. Not in Eastern Europe, not in the former Soviet Union, not in the USA (which came close, at times).
Had a letter from HMRC saying I owe £824.80 for 2021/2022. Logged into my account online and it says I owe £53.20.
Looks like an hour on the phone again ringing HMRC on my next day off. 🙄
I have decided to be more like the royals. I shall in future only pay tax voluntarily. If they, who are infinitely richer than me, can do this, then so can I. Fair's fair! I shall be informing HMRC of this decision immediately!
Look at them: Charles, Anne, Edward, Andrew, Harry (formerly known as “Prince”), William. Are any of them beyond mediocre in intellect, character, or in any way other than unearned and unmerited wealth? Most of them do not even pay taxes.
Meanwhile, Kelvin McKenzie, formerly of the Sun “newspaper”, exposes his ignorance once again:
McKenzie seems unaware that there is more to tax than income tax and inheritance tax. To give the obvious example (obvious at least to anyone better-informed than McKenzie), everyone pays VAT, a tax which is a major contributor to State funds, and is paid disproportionately by the poorer part of the population.
Hey Meghan remember your sister Samantha the sister who raised you and watched over you b/c Doria was always MIA you dragged this poor disabled woman through the mud you didn't even invite her to your wedding #MeghanMarkleExposedpic.twitter.com/BSoSCKa3UH
I have to admit that I have little interest in the minutiae of it all, but from the ruthless, Ayn Rand, callous self-interest point of view, the Mulatta has, as they say, “played a blinder”.
I think he took an irrational self-damaging decision @shaun_hutchings, in the full knowledge that it was so. That doesn't mena he smears his excrement on the wall, or thinks he is a poached egg and demands toast to sit on. But the decision was mad. https://t.co/PbqhbeYXdH
Putin’s decision to invade, as such, was not a mistake, but the decision to invade without proper preparation, without a proper plan, without having eliminated Zelensky, and with no proper logistics in place, was more than a mistake. It was criminally negligent. The GRU and General Staff should be purged, cut to the bone. Start again, as Stalin did.
It could have been done swiftly, with minimal hurt and damage.
This 12yr old Tory government are playing Russian Roulette with British finances. They’ve decided that the best way to solve the financial crisis is to give more money to rich people. Who’ll pay? Tory supporters have already paid with their souls #minibudget2022#stockmarketcrash
Put a short-term boost into the economy, win an election, to hell with the long-term economic consequences. This has been the Tory way for as long as I can remember- and that’s a long time now. Cocaine economics. #stockmarketcrash
True, but remember how Blair, and Brown in particular, worshipped the banking “industry” (sometimes useful but basically parasitic service industry).
More thoughts about the “mini-Budget”
Seems that “the markets” are dropping like a stone.
I mean, a simple-minded, almost cretinous Budget, announced by a woolly-headed ****** posing as Chancellor of the Exchequer; then we have a semi-educated half-caste with a “degree” in Hospitality Management posing as Foreign Secretary, and a stupid and ridiculous woman (who only became an MP on her back), actually posing as Prime Minister….what could possibly go wrong?
Jesus Christ! Is that stupid lot the best “the great Conservative Party” (in the words of Disraeli, his sentence ending “which destroys everything“…) can do? And is that hopelessly banal package of economic measures the summation of their thoughts?
Late tweets seen
The war in Ukraine has reshaped global energy markets. Gulf states—especially Qatar—are likely to be the big winners https://t.co/Ww9nATJ1jC
Every single value you claim to be ‘defending’ in Ukraine was absolutely demolished by your government over the past two and a half years. It was criminally immoral and totally unjustified. But you went along with it all the same. https://t.co/jt6QfvTu6o
Liz Truss. The latest clown to pose as Prime Minister of the UK.
…I'll be on @mrmarkdolan@GBNEWS at 8:30PM tonight talking about why it is chilling to witness, in a supposedly liberal democracy, the cancellation and demonetisation of campaign groups who dared to fight the orthodoxy.
I remember when, in the 1980s, a load of caravan-dwelling “travellers” decided to camp on Hampstead Heath, near the opulent house of “socialist” humbug Michael Foot. Suddenly, the great champion of the “rights” of the Gypsies and “travellers” (Irish tinkers) was against them camping near his house…
This (read that report) is a trend that has been going on for 2-3 decades now. I could recount numerous examples from my own experience. One of the least egregious would be that involving a pupil in my own chambers in Exeter (in the early/mid 1990s, I was practising in London, but after working and living in various places overseas from 1996-2002, returned to the practising Bar in SW England in mid-2002).
The pupil to whom I refer (and who shall be nameless, partly out of courtesy but equally because I have actually forgotten her name), was from Northern Ireland.
Now I have to say that I find the Northern Irish accent one of the most difficult in the UK to understand easily but, in addition to that, the girl in question had a pretty bad speech impediment.
You might ask why on Earth someone with a bad speech impediment wanted to go to the Bar in the first place, or was not sidetracked into other career options at an earlier stage, but there it is. Of course, not all barristers spend much of their time in court.
Now, said girl pupil was, like many Bar pupils, far more obliging and pleasant when a pupil (and no doubt trying to get along pleasantly with members of chambers) than she was once taken on as a tenant or —as I think she was, cannot now recall exactly— squatter (a quasi-tenant but with no rights of tenure). I myself only saw her in passing, really, but did note that, once she was actually working as barrister, she seemed rather abrasive, judging admittedly by the very few times I saw her at (though not in) court. I never had any trouble with her myself, and in fact saw little of her.
Now the interesting thing was that not only did chambers (notably in the person of the main Clerk to Chambers) champion that young woman, but claimed that instructing solicitors loved her. Well, maybe. Seems strange to me that someone with both a speech impediment and an accent that was more like a gargle could be at the English Bar doing court work, but there we are.
I harbour a suspicion that people tend to bend over backwards to be nice, so to speak, to the physically-disabled, as many do also to some of the ethnic minorities. That is fine as far as it goes, but not when it amounts to a kind of lie.
Incidentally, I seem to remember that the person noted above returned, in the end, to her native Ulster, and maybe left the practising Bar.
Digressing further, I happened, out of curiosity today, to look at the website of the successor chambers to the one to which I belonged in Exeter from 2002-2008 (and which, an amalgam of two or three sets, is now the largest in the South West outside Bristol). I saw that several people that I liked are still there, and I saw that not only (as I knew already) is my old head of chambers now “His Honour” (a Circuit Judge) but that someone else I knew in chambers, a former magistrates’ clerk, with an encylopaedic knowledge of some aspects of (in particular) criminal law, is now also “His Honour”. Unless it is just someone with an identical name, but I think not.
That last was a nice little man, very polite and pleasant, who wore his considerable knowledge lightly. I seem to recall that he had written a well-received book on sentencing. Glad to see that his knowledge and diligence has been rewarded.
I was amused to see that two people who had rather more than a spat in chambers are now both members of that set. I liked both of them. One was a then-young man who was very eager to progress chambers (my wife called him a “Young Turk” for his enthusiastic diligence, but in these dumbed-down times, I suppose I shall have to explain that he was not a real Turk!). He was married to a pretty young woman whom I believe I met once at some chambers reception or other.
The other barrister, also young, was an ex-solicitor whose grandfather had founded one of the largest firms of solicitors in the South West. A very pleasant person.
Those people, with others in chambers, used to go shooting together, an activity of which I thoroughly disapproved. I disapprove of all hurt done to animals, particularly for sport or “fun”. I even disapprove of shooting humans, under most circumstances. Ironically, most of those I liked best in chambers were the shooters.
Anyway, one day, those two members of chambers were out shooting when a pheasant fell onto the head of the wife of the “Young Turk” and knocked her out in the field. Whether that preceded or not the affair that she apparently had with the other young barrister, I know not. It later transpired that, after much bad blood, I was the only member of chambers to be unaware of the feud that ensued, my mind being occupied by other matters (or as my wife would say, “in the clouds”) and, also, the fact that I was, by then, only spending half the month in the UK, the rest in France and some other countries.
I suppose that the two former antagonists have either buried the hatchet or (and/or) come to the realistic conclusion that that set is more or less “the only game in town” (in Exeter) now. Time heals all wounds, they say (though I remain doubtful of that, speaking generally). The events in question were after all some 15 or 16 years ago now.
Really heartened by solidarity in response to this. I was one of the women he harassed when I was very young and my DMs were full of male journalists who could tell I didn’t have a support network/ was vulnerable.
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) June 9, 2022
A ‘reset’ is meant to be a return to something that existed previously. The general idea being that doing so makes things better – fixes some problems. The ‘Great Reset’ is not that. It’s a total transformation to something entirely new. It is wholly destructive, not corrective.
The Independent witnessed losses being inflicted on the Ukrainian military and the lack of long-range firepower to fight back; one soldier interviewed has since been killed and another three injured
At last, a reality check in the otherwise useless and in fact often deliberately untruthful UK msm.
I was blogging months ago that the forces of the Kiev regime would soon be running short of military resources, particularly fuel and ammunition.
J.H. Brennan
I discovered today that J.H. Brennan, whose early 1970s books Astral Doorways and Experimental Magic I owned from 1978 (when I was 21-22 y-o), is still alive, now aged 81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herbert_Brennan.
A pretty good writer, in my opinion, with an easy-reading style (judging by the few books of his that I have read).
More tweets seen
Since 2008, politicians and bankers have kept recession at bay by pretending it wasn’t happening. That strategy is beginning to unravel.@willydunn explains why the ostrich economy is heading for a reckoning.https://t.co/TiNChSZPHr
The explanation was that someone (us) would have to pay for the deficit incurred by the banks, but the reality was that by removing the single biggest spender (the government) from the economy, they hampered recovery.
With monetary policy keeping financial markets on steroids, speculative investment led money towards whatever seemed to carry the most risk: companies with a failed business model, or ones that had actually gone bankrupt.https://t.co/r1noQATezn
Worse still, the high energy prices and inflation of commodity prices caused by the pandemic would provide the Russian kleptocracy with the money to conduct a brutal invasion of Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine was the first item on a list of factors that the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects predicted were likely to lead the world into a new global recession. pic.twitter.com/Xa9uIH8ypN
No one wants to accept that the world faces a “decade of despair”. While the World Bank and financial institutions are reluctantly beginning to agree, central bankers are still holding out hope for a “soft landing”.
And politicians are happy to let them do so, because the longer the ostrich keeps its head in the sand the more it can be made a scapegoat when the hurricane arrives.
Interesting analysis, and I can agree with much of it, though I do not accept that neurotic bighead, Gordon Brown’s, bailout of the bank swine was right at all— better to have let them go bust, imprison the wealthy bankers, then step in to help those with say £200,000 or less on deposit; and let the affluent and wealthy go smoke.
I agree that the “austerity” nonsense of the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne was disastrous, causing misery to millions without in any way dealing with the real problems of the financial sector and “national debt”.
Trudeau's Justice Minister David Lametti has just announced that people don’t have an “absolute right to own private property” in Canada‼️☝🧐🙏👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/YPuSD31UGL
Ian Robert Millard 