President Zelenski, did you get a promise from Speaker McCarthy to continue financing the war? — the sad Zelensky ignored the journalist's question and did not answer the questions
Therefore, the chairman of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, said that he refused… pic.twitter.com/7kSB8IxWsm
“FORMER British MI6 agent Alastair Crook has said that Ukrainian soldiers will start refusing to carry out an order to launch a new offensive if President Volodymyr Zelensky issues it on his return from the United States.
Kruk put forward the assumption that it will look like this: Zelensky addresses his generals with the words: “We must continue […] and break through the Russian defenses.” So he turns to his generals and realizes that none of them will follow him in this. Kruk estimates that the Ukrainian army is exhausted and that there is no продавница where Zelensky can buy new troops…“
“MI6 agentA. Crook“? Buyer beware, I suppose…
Thousands of Ukrainian men who are recognized as partially fit for military service will be drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The so-called "reserve" battalions will be formed from them. It was announced that there will be no combat training with them, nor…
“Thousands of Ukrainian men who are recognized as partially fit for military service will be drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The so-called “reserve” battalions will be formed from them. It was announced that there will be no combat training with them, nor will they be involved in combat tasks.”
In Odessa, a center for temporary accommodation of foreign mercenaries was hit. pic.twitter.com/wbGC9cmcX2
“Is the world running out of patience with Zelensky’s ‘blank cheque’ demands? Poland stops giving arms and US gives a fraction of what Ukraine’s leader asked for as he visits Canada today to win support“
[Daily Mail]
Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.
Russia cannot “lose” this war, whatever happens (unless there is a palace revolution in the Kremlin).
The best solution is for Russia to retain Crimea, take all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and also retain or take all of the coastal regions of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to a depth of (arguende) 50 miles, including the city of Odessa. Kiev can either be taken by Russia or operated as a condominium, or maybe as a “free city” not fully controlled either by Russia or by a rump Ukrainian regime based (probably) in Lvov.
A mere £80 fine? What a pathetic sentence for being cruel to his own dog.
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As a UK citizen I want to thank Rumble for taking a stand against our increasingly totalitarian politicians, especially the obnoxious Caroline Dinenage.https://t.co/rvtN0sTjpI
“One in 12 people in Germany shares a right-wing extremist worldview, according to a new study published on Thursday.
The research by Friedrich Ebert Foundation has found that the number of people with far-right views has significantly increased in the past two years, and has exceeded 8%.
In the foundation’s 2020/2021 survey, less than 2% of the respondents had clearly expressed support for right-wing extremist views.
Researchers said the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war, skyrocketing energy prices, and high inflation are creating challenges for the democratic parties in the center, and strengthening the far-right.
“Insecurities and conflicts over who gets what and how much, are providing a gateway for right-wing extremist ideologies and anti-democratic attitudes,” the researchers said in a summary of their report.
According to the survey, trust in the institutions and in the functioning of democracy in Germany has fallen to below 60%.
The number of those who see themselves more to the right of the democratic center has significantly increased, from 9% to 15.5%.
More than 16% of those surveyed approved xenophobic statements, while 5.7% expressed antisemitic views. Some 4% played down crimes committed by Hitler and praised Nazi ideology or policies.”
In 1928, the NSDAP was voted for by only 2.6% of German voters nationally. By 1932, that had grown to over 33%, and by 1933 to nearly 44%. With God, all things are possible.
At present, there is no suitable party or leader known to the people (the same is true in the UK), but “cometh the hour, cometh the man“…
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[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children“]
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A significant number of missiles and loitering ammunition are being sent to the Odessa region; presumably, they will hit military installations that supported the launches of UAVs and missiles in the Crimea.
The first targets were hit, presumably by Bastion missiles
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that the West gave the go-ahead for the “reset” of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky because he had become a liability.
Explosions thunder on the outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk: drones are attacking, Ukrainian air defenses are unsuccessfully trying to shoot down Russian drones
NATO: Kyiv's requests for weapons and ammunition exceed the alliance's capabilities
Kyiv's demands for weapons and ammunition, as well as the volume of military products used in Ukraine, exceed NATO's capabilities. This was stated by the head of the alliance's military…
“NATO: Kyiv’s requests for weapons and ammunition exceed the alliance’s capabilities Kyiv’s demands for weapons and ammunition, as well as the volume of military products used in Ukraine, exceed NATO’s capabilities.
This was stated by the head of the alliance’s military committee, Rob Bauer , during the annual conference of the NATO Chiefs of General Staff in Norway. “NATO countries that decide to supply weapons and ammunition to Kiev need to think about the risks associated with such a decision for their security and the security of the alliance,” he warned.
Bauer has previously complained about lagging defense production capacity, slowing deliveries and continuing price increases, and has expressed the view that increasing allied defense spending in such a situation may not actually improve the security situation.”
Explosions were recorded in the area of Khmelnytskyi. It is assumed that the attack was carried out on the military airport in Starokonstantinovo, where the Storm Shadow/SCALP EG cruise missile carriers are located pic.twitter.com/6xMX3L47TW
“General [Milley]: Even if the Ukrainian counter-offensive is successful – the Russians will not be expelled.
THE FIRST GENERAL OF AMERICA ADMITTED: THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE “LONG-TERM, DIFFICULT AND BLOODY” FOR KIEV.
The UKRAINIAN counter-offensive will not completely expel Russia from the conquered territories, nor will it completely return them to Kiev’s control, said General Mark Milley, the chief of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.”
The counter-offensive, although significant, has limited operational and tactical objectives. Even if these goals are fully achieved, they will not be enough to drive the Russians out completely,” [Milley] reasoned.
He avoided saying how long it would take Kyiv to achieve “its goals,” but admitted it would be “a fairly long period.” He also added that the Ukrainian counter-offensive will be “long-lasting, difficult and bloody“.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the “counter-offensive” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “not a slip, but a fiasco.”“
On the night of September 18, the Russian Armed Forces attacked critical targets in Ukraine
▪️ RF fighters worked at facilities in the Odessa (video) and Khmelnytsky regions. Explosions were heard in Kiliya and Izmail, where port facilities are located.
The new UK Defense Minister wants to transplant British pilots who trained Chinese colleagues
The new British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said that former British army personnel who train colleagues from rival countries will be brought to justice.
“The new UK Defense Minister wants to transplant British pilots who trained Chinese colleagues The new British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said that former British army personnel who train colleagues from rival countries will be brought to justice. It was previously revealed that a number of former RAF military pilots were training Chinese PLA pilots for a generous payment of around £250,000.“
Not sure what “transplant” means here but, leaving that aside, the Jew Shapps is talking nonsense (as usual).
Most of those ex-RAF pilots (most of whom were sacked by reason of spending cuts implemented by the “Conservative” governments of 2010-present) were selling their skills entirely lawfully at the time; I believe that the law was only recently changed. Retrospective laws are disapproved of in English law and tradition as unjust.
Thousands of workers demonstrated in front of the parliament building in Athens against a bill that would increase maximum working hours to 13 hours a day and 78 hours a week, as well as limiting the right to strike, with a penalty of 6 months in prison and a fine of 5,000 euros. pic.twitter.com/ROUwcgDNXc
Good point. I have blogged about this in recent months. The population of Ukraine (including Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk regions etc) was about 43 million in 2021. However, in 1992, the population (including Crimea and the rest) was far higher, about 52 million. By 2014, the population had already decreased to about 45 million.
Ukraine’s population, for the past 30 years, has not been breeding fast enough to replace losses. That trend has now accelerated.
Possibly as much as a quarter of the 2021 Ukraine population has relocated beyond Ukraine’s borders.
The Russian or Russian-occupied areas (Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk etc) contain several million people. Crimea has 2-3 million.
In other words, the parts of Ukraine currently under the control of the Kiev regime now have somewhere in the region of 20-25 million inhabitants.
Bearing in mind that the Kiev-regime army has lost at least 500,000 young or young-ish men since last year, and that the ~4-5 million Ukrainians now living overseas are disproportionately female, the future of Ukraine as a state looks precarious at best.
US Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that if he came to power, he would make a deal that would end the war in Ukraine.
“Yes, this means the transfer of part of Donbass to Russia. I would make a firm commitment that NATO will never accept Ukraine,” Ramaswamy… pic.twitter.com/IqpnjY34CK
What planet are Luke Pollard & Rafael Behr living on? Have they not seen what’s been going on in Lampedusa? Nothing will deter small boat crossings apart from either a Europe-wide naval blockade or an EU Rwanda-style scheme. The Left are deluded… #PoliticsLive
At least one of the pair mentioned is a Jew. He supports the migration-invasion of Europe by blacks and browns. Is that surprising to the above tweeter?
Yet another Conservative Party MP who evidently has no confidence in the Con Party vote holding up, especially in her own constituency. She had no chance at the 2024 General Election. I suppose that she may have a well-paid job already lined up.
The migraine factor is probably an add-on; presumably she will still have that problem whatever her future occupation.
“Italy‘s hard-Right prime minister has claimed that Europe’s future is at stake unless the EU can stop the surge of uncontrolled migration across the Mediterranean.“
[Daily Mail]
Is this “news”?!
It may be that, sooner or later, Europe will have to wade through brutal times, as bad or worse than some of the years of the 20thC, in order just to create a decent future for European people.
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Ukraine and its allies, including the United States, may have had too high hopes for a counteroffensive.
Ukraine is fighting against one of the most powerful armies in the world. Even if Ukraine succeeded in forcing Russia to back down significantly, it would likely take years,…
“Police officers quizzed a pensioner in her home on suspicion of a hate crime after she stopped in the street to take a photo of a sticker which said: ‘Keep males out of women-only spaces.’
The sticker had been placed on to a LGBT+ pride poster which had the slogan Stand By Your Trans. Officers told the 73-year-old retired social worker that she had been identified from CCTV footage.
The woman told The Mail on Sunday she was ‘in a state of shock’ when officers arrived at her door. The incident happened in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire – the setting for BBC crime drama Happy Valley about no-nonsense policewoman Catherine Cawood. It comes after fury over police forces failing to send officers to investigate burglaries and other serious crimes.“
“West Yorkshire Police said it had recorded the matter as a ‘non-crime hate incident’, adding: ‘Words of advice were given regarding the placing of the sticker, as it was reported to have caused offence.‘
“Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist and founder of international group Genspect, said: ‘It’s not the job of the police to decide that taking a photo is a hate crime.‘”
[Daily Mail]
The UK’s toytown police once again caught enforcing the emergent “woke” police state.
Note the defiant attitude of the West Yorkshire police box-tickers when challenged, though. A bland refusal to engage.
The West Yorkshire Police seem to have missed the recent comments of both H.M. Inspector of Constabulary and those of the Home Secretary, to the effect that police should start to do their proper job, and stop acting like a poundland KGB (regular readers of the blog will be aware that I have had similar problems with the “plodosphere”…).
Strange. Having yesterday evening, on my birthday, finished the remains of a half-bottle of vintage Tokay, I was just recalling what happened to many of the secret police in Hungary during the Uprising of 1956 (the year of my own birth). It was not pleasant for them…
Wouldn’t you know it? The Jew Shapps whining about how “his family” (ancestors, a century and a half ago) were victims of “antisemitism”. Was that in Ukraine?
If all those people rebelling against the ULEZ nonsense were to cover up their registration numbers, then drive out at the same time or on the same day, the police and ULEZ enforcers would have to admit defeat (cf. Berlin Wall, 1989).
Interesting. However, London has probably never been so well-interconnected as it now is.
I notice that, had those 1940s plans been implemented, even the area north of Reigate (Surrey), where I —intermittently— lived in the late 1970s and early 1980s, would have been within 2-3 miles of the proposed Underground stations of Kingswood and Tadworth, which are now still only on the ordinary railway (Tattenham Corner line).
Britain needs a fixed period of maybe 5-10 years, in which time Parliament must be suspended and this country sorted-out by a social-national dictatorship. Whatever it takes.
A few lines of verse
Still true, 259 years later (I do not think it was a “nursery rhyme“, though).
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Rachel Johnson just repeated the lie that the Conservatives have recruited 20,000 extra police officers on LBC.
I am sure that it is mere co-incidence that “Boris” and Rachel Johnson, Stanley Johnson, and the rest, are part-Jew. It is just that “they” are so often around when societies and nations, and empires, and even whole civilizations, are destroyed, falling into decadence and collapse…
[“Boris” Johnson pretending to pray at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem; his great grandfather was a Jewish rabbi in Lithuania]
[“Boris” Johnson, complete with “yarmulka” skullcap, and in company with the Jew paedophile criminal Greville Janner, and other Jews, gives out sweets to Jewish children]
Vaccines frequently cause neurological injuries, but as that's controversial, very few scientists want to study why it happens.
This article did an excellent job answering that question and also helps to explain many of the COVID vax injuries I've seen.https://t.co/bWJJasdz0X
Eventually, Gates will shuffle off, and hopefully soon, and probably via natural causes (disappointingly).
A few thoughts
Just saw on Sky News that no less than 872 migrant-invader bastards crossed the Channel in small boats yesterday (meaning, mostly, travelled a few miles in small or fairly small boats before being picked up and ferried to Dover by the Border “Farce” and/or RNLI).
So…872 useless and possibly dangerous parasites, likely criminals, possible terrorist sympathisers etc…
Those 872 bastards have to be (meaning, will be) sheltered, housed, clothed, fed, given pocket money in or by English towns and villages, provided with medical and dental services, provided with translators, interpreter, and legal services, at a cost of at least £200 per person per day. Minimum. Probably closer to £500 per person per day.
The “refugees welcome” dimwits are often the same people who complain that services, pay, benefits for (real) British people are being cut. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad…
The pro-invasion dimwits cannot see, apparently, the connection between literally millions of invaders (both “legal” and “illegal”) over the past years and decades, and the shortages of housing, NHS services, and the rest. About 10 million migrant-invaders over 30 years (including births in the UK to —mostly non-white— migrants).
I believe that relatively few people can see the horror that awaits Britain only a few short decades down the line. Dystopia and civil war.
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Billy Bragg urging caution about commenting on contentious issues online.
So you’re admitting that you perceive career and perception as more important than truth and empathy? What a horrifying realisation. As someone who grew up in a pit village, subsequently having my politics and worldview informed by your music, I never in a million years thought…
— The James McMahon Music Podcast (@jamesjammcmahon) September 3, 2023
Billy Bragg, that self-describing “Left” ignoramus and hypocrite.
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Russian military hit a fuel storage facility for supplying equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the port of Reni, Odessa region – Russian Defense Ministry
British newspaper: Our country does not have a single operational attack submarine.
The Daily Mail notes: 🔸 None of the British Navy's attack submarines are at sea, and most of them are in ports awaiting repairs. 🔸Due to the lack of ship engineers and dry docking facilities,… pic.twitter.com/OFSc5OGELC
Frankly, that situation makes the UK more secure from nuclear attack, as things stand.
This concrete thing could be the final straw for the Tories. Everything in Britain feels like it’s going wrong and now we can’t even be sure our schools, hospitals and courtrooms won’t collapse around us. As a narrative of complacent decline it could hardly be more on the nose.
…and it turns out that the person most responsible for allowing it to happen was the snivelling little drunk and cocaine abuser (and expenses fraudster) Michael Gove, another Jewish-lobby puppet. It was a tweet about that little bastard which was one of merely five that resulted in my wrongful and unlawful disbarment (at the instigation of a pack of Jews) in 2016.
As the above tweeter says, though, this does feel somehow symptomatic of the complacent negligence and “where will they go?” casual entitlement (and accompanying casual social brutality to the poor, sick, disabled, unemployed etc) which has characterized politics in this country since 2010.
There is no popular enthusiasm for, nor even any solid support for, the Labour Party under Jewish-lobby puppets Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc, but in a basically binary system which excludes other parties, the voters are left with a stale choice. On that basis, this doomed Government is sliding to defeat, surely. What kind or magnitude of defeat, though, is still an open question.
Historical sidelight
In online open-source research into one or two characters, I discovered that there was a serious offer by Japan, sometime in 1944-45, and made to Swedish diplomats, for Japan to stop fighting, and to relinquish not only all territorial gains made since 1940, but even its (post-1931) rulership over parts of northeastern and eastern China: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widar_Bagge.
Had that offer been taken seriously by the UK and USA, it would not only have saved innumerable lives on all sides intra-theatre, but would have rendered the atomic bomb attacks on Japan in 1945 unnecessary.
I can only suppose that the Allied leadership wanted Japan to be crushed, and then remade in the Western image, as indeed it later was, as part of the post-1945 restructuring of the international order.
▪️The Russian missile system "Sarmat" took up combat duty. The rocket is the heaviest in the world. Weight is more than 208 tons. ▪️One "Sarmat" is potentially capable of devastating a territory larger than the size of France or the… pic.twitter.com/jU8nA6D1RK
The major international players, meaning here the USA and Russia, must row back from this slide toward devastating nuclear conflict.
Ukrainian oil warehouse destroyed in an attack by Russian drones — Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Moscow carried out a drone attack on an oil depot supplying the Kiev military in the port city of Odesa region near the Romanian border, the Russian Defense Ministry… pic.twitter.com/VHljR2CS2P
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded the immediate deportation of all those involved in the recent riots staged by immigrants from Eritrea in Tel Aviv, during which more than 150 people were injured, including 50 police officers.
Jews in Israel deport black troublemakers, but many Jews in Europe encourage blacks and browns to invade, by giving “aid and comfort” to those waiting on the other side of the Channel, for one thing. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
“The Kiev leadership has created such conditions for the people when part of the Ukrainians will be killed in the war, those remaining in the rear will be robbed, and the refugees will not want to return,” said millionaire Gennady Balashov, who fled from Kiev to the United… pic.twitter.com/1sMo7uT7qk
Ukrainian media reports on a strong airstrike on the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kupyansk. According to Ukrainian monitoring channels, explosions were heard east of Petropavlovka, where rear positions and ammunition depots of the 14th, 41st and 88th Mechanized Brigades are… pic.twitter.com/UH5cy8JWKh
FAB-500 UMPC strike on the militants of the 126th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction. pic.twitter.com/oCTiaWhxBI
The Sword of Damocles – the Russian Army's force buildup through 2023 and what it means for the Ukrainian War going forward.
One of the biggest – and certainly the most consequential – question marks in the world right now is the current status of the Russian Army. Some… pic.twitter.com/Zkd4685zIt
Regular readers of this blog will know that my view is that Russia must occupy everywhere east of the Dnieper, the city of Kiev (if agreement to have a condominium cannot be reached) and also, to a depth of perhaps 50 miles and including the city of Odessa, the Black Sea littoral. The rest of Western Ukraine can become a rump state based on Lvov.
Business Insider reports that the better equiped and 'fearless' Russian soldiers in Kharkov direction are unlike the goat herders and rice farmers that the West is used to fight against. pic.twitter.com/lut0W6pFPe
You *cannot* read this (or indeed Miller v College of Policing) and not think we’ve got an issue with the political neutrality of some police forces. Insane policing of citizens’ free speech (taking a photo of a political sticker!) by W Yorkshire police.https://t.co/81OLugMQdY
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) September 3, 2023
Israeli food, some of it anyway, is quite healthy, and is one of the few aspects of their society which might be good to import to this country. Particularly good for health is some salad at breakfast, but it would be a hard task persuading most British people to adopt that.
Obviously, that Israeli breakfast is borrowed, much of it, from surrounding parts of the region; Lebanon and other Arab countries, but it is a pretty good mixture, anyway.
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There is no question of any breakthrough of the first line of defense in the Zaporozhye region by Ukrainian troops, the Russian army is holding its positions , said the president of the Zaporozhye movement "Together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.
Having said that, and acting as advocatus diaboli, let us suppose that the Kiev regime is speaking the truth for once. Let us suppose that the first line of defence (of, apparently, four) laid down by Russian forces has been breached. Let us suppose, further, that Kiev-regime forces can exploit that breach. Let us even suppose that they can breach all four defensive lines. What then?
The Kiev regime does not have the quantum of armour and infantry to breach all four defensive lines and then go on to take the major towns and cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Still less can the depleted Ukrainian Army go further, to invade the vast spaces of European Russia proper (which would anyway be a farcical repeat of the mistakes of both Napoleon and Hitler).
All that can happen, the most that can happen, is for the Ukrainian (Kiev-regime) forces to breach the defensive lines, then somehow hold on and bring up artillery with which to attack the civilian towns and cities in the Donetsk/Lugansk regions held by Russian forces (and now designated by them as part of Russia).
Russia has overwhelming air power, still mostly unused. Then there are its missiles. Soon winter will come to Ukraine, sometime in November, so within 2 months from now. Once the ground is hard, the Russian armour will come into its own.
I had thought that the much-trumpeted “Ukrainian counter-offensive” had already failed. It may be that, in one small southern sector of the overall front, that is not so, and that the Kiev-regime forces are still advancing slowly. Perhaps,; but for how long?
I think that, on the high-command level and above, the Russians are waiting to see what happens politically; in the USA, and in EU states as well. A change of US President may mean a change of attitude, and a change of policy.
If the 2024 US Presidential Election results in a President who continues the open-chequebook support for Zelensky and his cabal, Russia may take the gloves off, and destroy totally the rear areas from where the Ukrainian soldiers and their logistical support come. Kiev etc.
Incidentally, I saw analysis by Sean Bell, ex-RAF Air Vice Marshal, on Sky News. Very pro-Kiev regime, as far as I could judge (or he would probably not be on Sky News…). Cannot say that I much valued his presentation, but time will tell.
Scott Ritter: The only outcome of the war against Russia is the defeat of Ukraine. Kiev was offered a peace agreement a long time ago, but under the influence of its Western partners, it chose war. Now his fate is sealed, that is, it is time to surrender and accept reality, said… pic.twitter.com/aDrgAmxLkF
“Scott Ritter: The only outcome of the war against Russia is the defeat of Ukraine. Kiev was offered a peace agreement a long time ago, but under the influence of its Western partners, it chose war. Now [its] fate is sealed, that is, it is time to surrender and accept reality, said former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter.”
Ukrainian resources report additional reconnaissance of targets in Odessa, a subsequent strike by land-based and sea-based cruise missiles cannot be ruled out
A military train with the Russian MLRS "Uragan" and other equipment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was sent to help the RF military in the SMO zone. pic.twitter.com/9udrRjDxCg
So the “Conservative” Party has now alienated the” “young” generally (maybe 90% of those under 30), the working families, the unemployed, most voters under 60, both those who support “refugees” incoming and also those who do not want more migrant-invaders, those renting properties because unable to buy, those wanting clean rivers and other environmental improvements, and now those who are sick and/or disabled and who are not already anti-Con.
Many, perhaps most, of those getting disability benefits are over 60, i.e. the only demographic until recently still supporting the Conservative Party.
The trend of things electoral seems to be that the hard core of Conservative Party support for the expected 2024 General Election will be persons over 60 who 1. have no opinion either way about the migration invasion, who 2. are homeowners without any mortgage obligation, who 3. are not short of money, 4. who do not receive any State benefits at all (beyond the State Pension itself), and 5. who do not object to a government (at Cabinet level) largely composed of non-whites.
There is at least a possibility that Sunak will suspend the Triple Lock on State pensions, as he did when Chancellor. As I predicted on the blog at the time, that first decision cut away the bedrock of pensioner electoral support for (and trust in) the Conservative Party; the fall in Con Party fortunes dates from that time a couple of years ago.
I begin to think that Sunak will be lucky to keep even 20% of the popular vote, though I still see Labour as not offering anything much to the British people (and, after all, Starmer’s policies are not, in reality, going to be much different to those of Sunak).
I should think that, despite the fact that the Sunak government is doomed, the next election in terms of seats will be decided by many voters making their decision in the final days of the campaign.
Dawn Butler… The disrespect is not because of your colour it is because of your extreme anti white, anti British agenda and that big chip on your shoulder not to mention your incompetence as an MP
The Russian Armed Forces attacked the port infrastructure and fuel depots in the Odessa region with the help of 15 Geran drones pic.twitter.com/wgQOog5z19
WSJ: Western policy towards Ukraine only delays its defeat
This was stated to the newspaper by the former assistant to former US President Donald Trump for national security, John Bolton . “The failure of the Ukrainians to make significant progress was a natural result of the… pic.twitter.com/HTIMmKLOkk
The US said that Ukraine needs to “forget” about Crimea in order to end the conflict with Russia
This opinion was voiced by the political consultant of the State Department and the US Department of Defense Edward Luttwak . “The infrastructure of Ukraine is being destroyed… pic.twitter.com/hvr6dfDPvo
I did not know that he was still around; I recall reading his book, Coup d’Etat, around 1978. Some British Army fellow “borrowed” it, and I was unable to get it back.
Poland is preparing for a military parade. It is especially amusing to see German Leopards regularly burning in the fields of Zaporozhye. pic.twitter.com/Fmj11ihwan
It is a notorious fact that armies and states often prepare to fight the last war, the war already fought. In 1939, Poland collapsed within 5 weeks after powerful German forces invaded from the west, indeed from west, north, and south simultaneously on and after 1 September 1939.
The Polish forces were hopelessly outmanouvered and outgunnned. They withdrew to the southeast, only to be outplayed when Soviet forces invaded from the easterly direction on 17 September 1939. Faced with attacks from all sides, the Poles had no choice but to surrender de facto by 6 October 1939, though there never was a formal surrender.
Notoriously, the Poles, in one famous engagement, made a hopeless cavalry charge against the latest German tanks. The Germans were fighting (as it turned out) the Second World War, whereas the Poles were using the tactics not even of the First World War but of the 19th Century.
Scrolling on to 2023, we see the Polish Army more powerful than it has been for centuries, but its strength lies in armour, and in numbers. Second World War strengths. The Russians may or may not be able to equal that, not without general mobilization, but Russia also has well over 6,000 nuclear weapons of various kinds, mostly missiles. Nuclear missiles (etc) against tanks?
The old Soviet Union also had “suitcase bombs”, capable of destroying city centres to a diameter of perhaps two miles. Does Russia have a similar programme now? I do not know, but would not bet against it.
What is disturbing at present is that, even more than in 1939, the war drums are beating far louder than the plaintive cries for peace.
Not just in Poland and Ukraine, but across the world, especially in the USA and UK, and in the EU.
The EU is in big trouble as Poland calls referendum on illegal immigration for October. The ref seeks to defeat the EU's plan to force EU nations to take illegal immigrants against their will. The EU will lose badly. When can Brits have the same vote? https://t.co/DjI2AfpQHL
It is a warning, “a shot across the bow”. The fastest, most advanced Russian missiles, with nuclear warheads, cannot be intercepted at present. Stop fuelling the Kiev regime, stop getting entangled in war with Russia.
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On UAF troops powerful arrivals in Kramatorsk
Fire and smoke can be seen from miles away.
Presumably, there are hits on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the workshops of the Energomashspetsstal machine-building plant and the Kramatorsk heavy machine… pic.twitter.com/3T4h0CragF
The monitoring resources of the Armed Forces of Ukraine report the take-off from the Olenya airfield of Tu-95MS strategic bombers and the entry into the Black Sea of the frigate Admiral Makarov
“Two suspected ringleaders behind a day of chaos on London‘s Oxford Street, where police clashed with youths over fears of TikTok-inspired looting, were arrested last night.
Terrified shoppers were locked inside stores as staff pulled their shutters down yesterday afternoon as groups of youths gathered in the area after rumours on social media that gangs were going to ‘rob JD Sports’ and shoplift.
Shocking videos showed Metropolitan Police officers wielding batons and chasing after people in Europe’s busiest shopping street, with photos earlier in the day appearing to show one cop being punched in the face by a young man.
Some youths were seen being wrestled away by officers in handcuffs, while others were detained on suspicion of going equipped to steal and breaching dispersal orders.
Police issued 34 dispersal orders, including one to TikTok prankster Mizzy who was seen by police in the area days after failing to appear before magistrates for breaching a court order. He later released a video insisting he was not involved in the disorder on Wednesday.“
[Daily Mail]
Hundreds of blacks, but only two arrests? Also, they are often afraid of dogs, so why not use Alsatians in large numbers? Let the dogs loose to bite the untermenschen. Restore order to the streets.
As for that “Mizzy” cretin, he should be arrested and kept locked up until his trial(s).
Sadiq Khan has chosen this moment to announce that he will be turning over Trafalgar Square to the mob on 2 September, sub nom “Black on the Square”! In what proportion is the bastard mad or bad?
“A British man is among five people who have been shot dead in violent protests in South Africa.
The 40-year-old, reportedly a doctor who was on holiday in the country with two members of his family, was killed in the Ntlangano Crescent area of Cape Town last Thursday, officials said.
It is believed he had taken a wrong turn from the nearby Cape Town International Airport while driving with two other people when a group approached the vehicle and shot him.”
[Evening Standard]
These days, you hear little about the supposedly wonderful post-apartheid South Africa and its supposed “rainbow nation” (more msm lies, of course). Even the BBC has gone pretty quiet on all that nonsense. As for white South Africans, most have voted with their feet and left the country. The proportion of whites in the SA population is now very small, and continues to fall.
“A woman accused of the shooting and acid murder of her Tinder date told a jury she was too “petrified” to tell police her new boyfriend was the killer, but went on holiday to Jamaica with him days later.
Mr Smith had been lured from his home, shot in the face then had sulphuric acid poured over him as he lay dying, Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester heard.”
Astrologers have warned people to be prepared for changes for the rest of the year as the planets move backwards.
Seven planets will retrograde – and almost all of them will happen at the same time.
Astrologers say we all need to be prepared for challenges that will force us to “take stock” or “review” our habits or circumstances – even if we don’t feel as if we are ready to do so, with the shift in the stars that is set to happen imminently.
Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the seven planets that will all make a backwards move through the sky in the coming months, something that will affect us all through our astrology charts...
During this small window of intense retrograde action, be on alert for any profound shifts or thought-provoking insights around 4 September 2023.“
[Evening Standard]
Well, my birthday is on 2 September, so…
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London's Oxford Street, home to leading brand boutiques, was hot yesterday as TikTok called for them to be robbed. pic.twitter.com/s0SKdWc76L
“Young people“…meaning blacks. Correction: 95% blacks, 4% other non-whites, and maybe 1% real/white British.
They cannot create a civilization or culture, or maintain one already created by others, or even live in such a culture and civilization. So what is the answer? (answers on a postcard to 10 Downing Street).
It would not matter if 99.9% of the world population were to disappear tomorrow, so long as the remaining 0.1% consisted mainly or entirely of (ideally) reasonably cultured and educated white European or European-descended people. In fact, it would be a wonderful new start for our world, a foundation on which could be built, over time, the basis for a quantum leap in human evolution and the evolution of consciousness.
Ukraine will lose Kharkiv and Odessa due to NATO expansion – Fatto Quotidiano
NATO's desire for expansion to the East will lead to the fact that Ukraine will lose Kharkiv, Sumy, Nikolaev and Odessa, wrote columnist Alessandro Orsini.
Russia must and will eventually control all Ukraine east of the Dnieper (including all of Kiev), as well as Crimea, and also a coastal strip about 50-100 miles deep on the Black Sea, from the western bank of the Dnieper estuary to Transdniestria.
💣 Scandalous. Industrial- grade vandalism. I'm sickened. All for wind turbines with a 20-year life, which are reliant upon oil, kill tens of thousands of birds each year, and can't be recycled…. pic.twitter.com/lkSQw8Q9M9
The SNP, in the contemporary era, say since the 1990s, is a complete System party, completely pro all the schemes of NWO/ZOG and the Jew-Zionist lobby.
Comment: In the UK there is a growing concern that the millions of illegal migrants already here and heading over to the country, present a CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER to our national security.
The influx of fighting aged men, of completely unknown background is relentless. These… pic.twitter.com/cWDAKpDKjQ
— Herd Immunity News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) August 9, 2023
Yes. It’s almost funny that the UK “security and intelligence” bods are still fighting the last war (in their case, the Cold War). They focus on Russian intelligence, or on British people publishing tweets or blogs, and call it “counter-terrorism” (even Alison Chabloz, the satirical singer, was arrested on such a basis, ludicrously); meanwhile about 3,000 non-whites a day invade the UK, hundreds of them in rubber boats across the Channel, the rest via plane, ferry etc. Then there are the births to non-Brits— huge numbers, every single day.
Tell me again The Great Replacement is just a theory? For thousands of years blood has spilled for these lands, for them to be taken over in just a few decades is a crime against our ancestors. It may look bleak now, but the British are never down and out. 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/EaNXGM9NPk
I see Gordon Brown is on the radio again, touting his self-promoted credentials as a great humanitarian. The man will vigorously defend the human rights and democracy of everyone & anyone – except the citizens of his own country.
Many Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] decisions are really political decisions. I myself face trial (it seems) later this year by reason of a decision taken by CPS drones at the behest of the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal known as the “Campaign Against AntiSemitism”, a tiny group of Jews (a few dozen, really) who pretend to represent all Jews in the UK (some 250,000+).
Apparently an autistic child making the comment “I think she’s a lesbian like nana” to an officer is sufficient for half a dozen of them to make an arrest on the grounds of “homophobia.”
Expect more of this in the future. The more “hate speech” laws, the less rights you have. https://t.co/yRLvxNfTId
“Caring sharing” Britain, 2023. The police may be useless at their proper job, most of the time, but give them a “hate crime” dogwhistle, and the dogs are out of the traps, and racing, within seconds…
I had a similar experience, people denied care, families unable to visit hospitals, forced vaccinations. The Governments response to the pandemic was domestic terrorism imo!
— 💀(Max Power)💀 v2 🥇🎱🪙⚔️🪖👑🇺🇸🇩🇪🇨🇮🇬🇧 (@ff3k1984) August 8, 2023
Germany: Police cover up the rape of a 15-year-old schoolgirl by a Muslim migrant – https://t.co/3F4MMrWQod
Sweden is going to be part of NATO. Goodnight Vienna Stockholm…
Europe is at war and does not know it. She is overrun by invaders from the Global South, who seek to replace those who have inhabited her lands for at least 30,000 years. She is subject to an American overlord, whose world system dictates her de-Europeanization and globalization.… pic.twitter.com/T7g22xMC1G
What part of “THEY SHOULD NOT EVEN BE HERE! THEY ARE INVADERS, AND UNWANTED INTERLOPERS!” does Kevin Maguire not understand?
British people who do not want a million migrant-invaders a year coming to the UK (as at present) are “bigots“, says Kevin Maguire, the scribbler and talking head who gets paid hundreds of thousands a year to scribble and spout his kneejerk Labour-tribalist opinions.
Naturally, “gritty Northener” Maguire will not himself suffer from the migration-invasion, living as he does in a multi-million pound house in leafy Richmond, South West London (that is, when he and his wife Emma Burstall, novelist and newspaper scribbler, are not at their second home in Devon).
The REAL UKRAINE 🇺🇦
“They saw women kept on a sweltering maternity ward with no air-con ‘like cattle’. Surrogates forced to wash with bottles of water in filthy toilets”
‘They were offering a take-home baby guarantee’ being promoted in FACEBOOK Groups
New attacks by mechanized units of the Ukrainian army on the southern ones in Zaporozhye and Bakhmut were thwarted by Russian artillery and anti-tank systems, as well as FPV drones.
The Russian army counterattacked some positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kleshcheevka.…
Slow counteroffensive hits Ukrainian morale , – The Washington Post.
“All this time, Ukrainian officials and their Western partners have been spinning the coming counter-offensive, which they hoped, thanks to the flow of new weapons and training, would turn the tide of the war.… pic.twitter.com/zXTrdrX2Vr
a Russian special force destroys one of the Ukrainian forts and forces them to withdraw after suffering heavy losses
The special force used snipers, drones with a thermal camera installed to detect the enemy, and surface-to-surface guided missiles pic.twitter.com/vGc5SygsdU
Mobilization in Ukraine will affect every man, the country will have to send hundreds of thousands more men to the front, everyone will fight – Taras Chmut, head of the UAF aid fund
“This is now a total problem – people who have been in the trenches for a year and a half,…
…and, while the picture in the UK may seem not so bad, in fact the non-Jew politicians of the System parties are mostly, almost all, in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist lobby.
This is how the gray zone looks like in one of the front-line sections in the Zaporozhye direction – the fields are dotted with thousands of shell craters. pic.twitter.com/hPdlagQVOE
“A mother was left injured in a horrific revenge attack when her lover hired his retired father to help ‘sort her out’ after she refused to have sex with him.
Alex Craig, 36, and his 78-year-old father Francis Craig carried out the attack when Alex dumped Luana Dougherty. Luana’s daughter Carlee, 16, and her boyfriend Finn McBride were also injured.
The court heard [that] Craig snr, a retired builder, arrived at Miss Dougherty’s house on March 19 and went on to threaten Carlee by saying he would kill her as he pulled her hair and threw her to the ground.
Craig jnr then kicked Miss Dougherty, a mother-of-two, twice in her ribs and repeatedly kicked Finn McBride, 16. During the attack, he also threw a bicycle, pool balls, and an electric fan at the teenager.
Miss Dougherty, a community support worker from Cheshire, was left with bruising to her ribs, a cut to her right arm, and a cut to her lip. Carlee suffered a bump to the side of her head and a bloody nose while Finn suffered cuts to his knees, a bite mark under his left arm, and a split lip.
…at Chester Crown Court they admitted affray and were each sentenced to 18 months in jail suspended for 18 months.“
[Daily Mirror].
In what world are the above offences suitable for suspended sentences, looking at the deliberate and premeditated assaults, and the injuries? Crazy Britain, 2023.
Of course, routine over-sentencing in other cases is one factor that has led to a shortage of space in the prisons.
There is a sense that this country is not far from “anarchy” or, better put, societal breakdown. The urban jungles are the worst areas, of course.
We are living pretty much on the edge now, to a greater extent than is generally understood.
Incidentally, I have just been reading the memoirs of Gorbachev, which came out in the mid-1990s. He says that, in Stavropol region, southern Russia, of which he was effectively in charge before going to Moscow as a candidate-member of the Politburo in or about 1980 , they had exactly the same problems— petty and not so petty crime, and arguments around sentences, community penalties, and as to whether prison was the right punishment in less serious cases.
This is the kind of treachery taking place in schools.
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American and Western weapons dominate the attack on Russian territory Despite Washington's promises, the Kiev regime is using American and Western weapons for attacks on Russian territory, columnist Steven Bryan writes for "Age Times". pic.twitter.com/YkqzyTJSxq
If this war both continues and continues to escalate, Kiev will eventually cease to exist except as a blackened ruin. Stop the war now. Stop funnelling arms and ammunition (and money) to the Kiev regime.
American diplomat Freeman: following the results of the NMD, Ukraine will not get into NATO and will not maintain territorial integrity
Cheese Freeman , a senior fellow at the Institute of International Affairs, said that before the start of the NWO, Ukraine had undergone eight… pic.twitter.com/1Moev7SuQz
CNN: The Ukrainian army is advancing 100m a day – in Staromajorsko, Russian artillery is literally "sieving" the unprotected Ukrainian manpower The text states that the Ukrainian army is making difficult progress and is occupying a completely devastated area, which the Russian… pic.twitter.com/UnsGhUgEPF
— Shahzad Aslam Shaikh (@KarachiAhab2) July 23, 2023
Well, you live and learn. I should never have thought that Karachi was as green and lush as that; looks like England. Maybe outside the main city, and/or in hills. I do not know. I know that Karachi is the 12th-largest city in the world (20M inhabitants) and that much of it is rather bare and dusty. Obviously not all, though.
The world-famous musical group sends warm greetings to Warsaw…on border whit Poland pic.twitter.com/OIwwHPyfvZ
US defense companies will receive almost $10 billion to replace weapons supplied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Pentagon spent $9.7 billion to replenish the $26 billion approved by the US Congress.
As someone once wrote about the (I think) Conservative, or maybe also Liberal Party MPs, after the First World War, “hard-faced men who had done well out of the War“.
Ah…just pinned down that quotation: Stanley Baldwin, and the correct quotation is, apparently, “A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war“, referring to MPs elected in 1918. Baldwin was quoted in the influential 1919 book by J.M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_Consequences_of_the_Peace].
“After visiting Bournemouth town centre today, I came away feeling shocked and sad to see what has happened to the town since I last visited and felt the need to vent my frustration.
I consider myself a local despite no longer living in the area.
I am 34 and lived in Christchurch for most of my life.
I loved regular day trips or nights out in Bournemouth.
The town was always so vibrant with lots going on, great shops and restaurants and always felt very safe.
I moved up to Scotland five years ago and have just returned to Bournemouth for a visit.
What the hell has happened to this place? There are barely any shops left, with many boarded up.
The town centre looks like a wasteland and is filthy.
A high proportion of people walking around the town centre seem to have a drink or drugs problem.
Quite frankly there is no centre to visit anymore and the issues with drink and drugs make the place have an unpleasant and uncomfortable atmosphere.
I just don’t understand what this council are doing but it genuinely disgusts and saddens me.
Simply having a nice beach and gardens is not enough of an attraction with such a rundown town at its centre.
Growing up I was always so proud to live in such a beautiful place.
Now I couldn’t be happier that I no longer live here and after my experience this week I doubt I will ever return to the area again.
What a shame.
SAM GRIFFITHS
Elgin, Scotland“
[extracts from a letter to the Bournemouth Echo newspaper]
Bournemouth is about 17 miles from my present home. I remember, just about, being there (from Berkshire) with my family on occasional days in the early/mid 1960s. My memories were of somewhere safe, white, English, sunny (we visited on odd days in the summer), with clean streets and buildings (mainly hotels and apartment buildings), a beach not too crowded, bright yellow double-decker buses.
I also spent a few days there in the 1980s, as a kind of unofficial add-on to a Soviet dance ensemble (my then girlfriend was interpreting for them); I cannot now recall which dance or ballet group it was, but one of the well-known ones. The hotel was a quite decent 3/4-star place, with an unheated outdoor swimming pool. All the Russians opened their windows and looked out when I jumped in and swam in the cold water at about 8 in the evening, after dark.
I also visited the place another time, also early 1980s, when I and my then girlfriend swam with the ex-wife and children of the poet, Yevtushenko. I blogged about that years ago. The grandmother of those children had a wooden bathing hut on a semi-private beach in a pleasant area of Bournemouth; also a nearby home.
Bournemouth is appalling now. I almost never go there. 20+ years ago, it was still not too bad, though nothing like what it was like in the 1960s anyway. I drove there a few times in 2000.
By 2009, when I had to go there and nearby a few times, the downturn was pretty obvious. Large numbers of foreign persons, mostly non-white. Part of that would be the number of language schools there (genuine or otherwise), and also other higher education institutes attracting foreign students. That is far from being the whole picture, though.
As for drugs, I have never had any connection with them (unless you count the cannabis-smoking bourgeois dropouts etc I knew in the mid-1970s, or the DEA agent to whom I was introduced at the Federal Courthouse in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1990, and who showed me the real evidence in a trial that was going on: a sportsbag filled with vacuum-packed cocaine, the packs looking like supermarket coffee packs, but transparent, containing white powder, packed hard). Worth USD $250,000 wholesale, apparently.
However, Bournemouth is apparently now a drugs hotspot.
Sad. Bournemouth is not alone in becoming a dump. Torquay and many other towns, previously rather nice, are no better.
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Can you guys make sure that you respect Justin Trudeau’s privacy. You know the guy who wanted you to show your vaccination status before you could order a fucking Big Mac. https://t.co/ihs5OGJTGZ
A “conspiracy theory” that may not be completely impossible, when you look at times, dates, and the behaviour of Trudeau’s mother.
While Justin Trudeau was born in Ottawa, which is a considerable distance from Havana, his mother Margaret Trudeau visited Cuba nine months before Justin was born, and there are photos of her mingling with Fidel Castro. On the right Pierre Trudeau, and wife with Castro. pic.twitter.com/CW4T5M46De
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) July 29, 2023
On October 9th 2019, The girl who accused Justin Trudeau of sexual assault signed the $2.25 million. The terms of that agreement prevent both the accuser and Trudeau from acknowledging any aspect of that relationship, according to her father,“she was much younger than 17.” pic.twitter.com/ZjrXUrrewe
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) July 29, 2023
🇷🇺🇺🇦 New tank's graveyard on the Zaporozhye front.
The enemy's broken equipment, abandoned infantry fighting vehicles. Fighting is fierce, but the Russian troops keep repelling the enemy's attacks. pic.twitter.com/NYKrLtNerG
The policy of the Kiev regime and its Western handlers, who seek to destroy everything related to Russia, has no future, Russian President Vladimir Putin said:https://t.co/595PrSED1Kpic.twitter.com/f07aT71C6S
As I predicted on the blog a couple of days ago, this was a “battle of the apathies”. Complete “Conservative” omnishambles meets Labour mediocrity (both on the national and constituency levels).
The successful Conservative candidate drew a veil over both the non-performance of the Rishi Sunak government and the egregiously poor behaviour (and capabilities) of ex-MP “Boris” Johnson; the candidate just kept hitting at the ridiculous Sadiq Khan ULEZ scheme [“Ultra Low Emission Zone”], and saying very little else about anything.
In a sense that concentration on ULEZ shows how meaningless the supposed “democracy” of the UK now is. The ULEZ idea and policy was first mooted by none other than “Boris”-idiot and the Conservative Party in London. Quite apart from that, the new Con Party MP, one Steve Tuckwell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tuckwell] will be able to exercise precisely zero influence over the ULEZ scheme and Sadiq Khan.
The Labour Party candidate, Danny Beales, was arguably not a good candidate in the particular constituency, an outer London suburb. Gay, a former councillor in inner-city Camden, and a graduate of the London School of Economics.
That said, the result was close— 495 votes decided it. Both the LibDem voters (526, fifth place), and/or the Green Party voters (893, third place), had they voted tactically, could have prevented the narrow Con Party victory. Neither Greens nor LibDems had a chance of winning, and both lost their deposits, along with the other 13 candidates, all of whom could be described as either “minor” or “joke” candidates.
The actor Laurence Fox, for Reclaim, did well, in a minor way, to come fourth, not far behind the Green. Still, this was really between Con Party (13,965 votes, 45.2%) and Labour (13,470, 43.6%). The other 15 parties and independents only scored 11.2% between them.
It does puzzle me why LibDem voters in particular did not all vote tactically. Some did, plainly, looking at previous election results where the LibDem vote was higher by far (peaking at 20% in 2010, though only 6.3% in 2019), but not enough.
Why did 526 LibDems bother to trot down to vote, knowing that their candidate had no chance? Even if they hated both Con and Lab, and so were unwilling to vote for either, why bother to vote? As someone said of golf, “a good walk spoiled“.
So a Conservative Party win, though scarcely a ringing endorsement.
Turnout was about 2/3 of that in 2019, and indeed the previous elections. I am assuming from that that many former Conservative voters, in what was since creation in 2010 a fairly safe Conservative seat (a new seat on these boundaries), just threw up their hands in disgust at both main System parties, could find no other home for their votes, and so “voted with their feet”— abstained.
The successful Labour candidate is 25, once again (like the Labour candidate at Uxbridge) gay (seems that it is almost compulsory now in the Labour Party), and has only worked for 18 months since leaving university. Interestingly, those 18 months were spent working at the Confederation of British Industry, a more usual place in which to find young Conservatives, surely?
Also, he spent some months in 2019 and 2020 working with Wes Streeting, the “centrist” (Labour Friends of Israel) MP. So it seems that Keir Mather will fit easily into the Keir Starmer Labour Party. Not much else is yet known about him: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Mather.
Why did Mather win what had previously been regarded as a safe Conservative seat? As at Uxbridge, the implication is surely obvious: former Conservative voters were appalled at both major System parties, and so preferred to stay home rather than vote Labour (or elsewhere).
Mather scored 46% of the overall vote, as against 34.3% scored by his Con Party opponent.
Since the creation of the seat in 2010, the Conservative Party had won easily all elections, scoring between 49.4% (2010) and 60.3% (2019). Labour, however, had scored only around 25% of the vote, except in 2017, under Corbyn, when the Labour Party candidate managed over 34%.
The key here, as with Uxbridge, lies in the turnout. The by-election turnout was only 44.8%, whereas in 2019 it was 71.7% (and in previous elections, not dissimilar).
The implication, again, as at Uxbridge, is that former Conservative Party voters, in a formerly safe Conservative area, simply decided not to vote.
There was obviously a degree of tactical voting at Selby; the LibDem vote went down from 8.6% to 3.3%; without tactical voting, the result would have been much closer but not, in my view, different.
Incidentally, the LibDems only managed sixth place, no doubt because many otherwise LibDems voted Labour. The third place went to the Greens, whose candidate was the only one of the minor candidates to save his deposit (5.1%).
I was interested to see that a “Yorkshire Party” candidate, one Mike Jordan, who failed to fill in his nomination papers properly and so was a blank space (not even “Independent”) on the ballot paper, yet managed to score 4.2%. Not bad in the circumstances, and maybe a sign that localism, or at least regionalism, may be resurgent as central government falters and fails.
The Selby contest had other things in common with that at Uxbridge— contempt for the former MP (at Selby, he had stepped down apparently in order to damage Sunak and his party, and after having been passed over for a peerage); the fact that both seats were 2010 creations on their present boundaries; and of course the fact that the public are both despairing and angry at the overall non-performance by Sunak and his Cabinet. Mass immigration, migration invasion, cost of living increases, inflation, crime, NHS defaults etc.
The result was that Labour won at Selby, and very nearly won at Uxbridge, only by default. There is no enthusiasm at all for the Labour Party and its non-policies (basically the same as the Conservative Party policies), but equally there is no enthusiasm (and no respect) for Sunak and his Cabinet of (mainly) non-Brits (Indians, a black or half-caste or two, the odd Jew). These were by-elections. The ruling party is inevitably on the back foot.
Starmer’s strategy seems to be not to rock the boat now that Labour is ahead in the opinion polls. It is hard for Sunak and Con Party to score a hit on Labour’s battleship simply because Labour policy now so closely mirrors that of the Con Party. Almost indistinguishable. If the Conservative Party attacks Labour policy, it is to a large extent criticizing its own policy. In a sense, brilliant… but also dispiriting and pointless.
The LibDem candidate, Sarah Dyke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dyke] won easily, as predicted. I blogged briefly about her a couple of days ago. Her vote-share of 56.4%, as against the Conservative candidate’s 26.2%, mirrors in reverse almost exactly the result at the 2019 General Election.
Third place went to the Greens, with a fairly sizeable vote (10.2%). Reform UK beat Labour and three minor candidates for fourth place, but still lost the deposit, with 3.4%.
In a mostly affluent and bucolic area of this sort, Labour has little chance, and its vote has dropped below 5% in the past, though it scored 17.2% in 2017 (under Corbyn) and 12.9% in 2019. It is clear that, realising that Labour had no chance, former Labour voters voted tactically at the by-election, and that Labour’s 2.6% vote reflected that.
Turnout was, as at the other by-elections yesterday, pathetic— 44.23%. That compares to 75.6% in 2019, and turnouts in previous election which only once dropped below 70%, and which once exceeded 82%.
The LibDems held Somerton and Frome until 2015, so were always going to have a chance in the seat, once the “Con Coalition” of 2010-2015 faded from immediate memory, though the damage from that was still evident in 2019, at which election the LibDems scored only 26.2% (exactly the same as the Conservative Party vote at yesterday’s by-election).
The conclusion is pretty clear: the Conservative voters of 2019 either stayed home yesterday, or switched to the LibDems, Former Labour voters switched to LibDem to hit out at the Sunak misgovernment.
As at the other two by-elections, the contempt many apparently felt for the ex-MP, Warburton, was certainly another important factor, though perhaps not the most important.
Overall conclusion as to the main System parties in the light of the by-elections
The LibDems only have a chance to gain seats in rural/affluent parts of southern or south-western England. I do not see them recovering in any big way elsewhere.
The Conservative Party government is toast, surely. It will have to fall back on its hard core, mostly fairly comfortably-off homeowners aged 70+.
475 seats for Labour. That is “elected dictatorship”.
I just tried the “user-defined poll” at Electoral Calculus. My guesses resulted in only 61 seats for the Conservative Party.
What about Labour? Well, I detect no real enthusiasm for Labour, which means that there is every chance that the new MP for Selby may only be an MP for about a year, and will then have to find a less well-paid and less interesting (?) job.
More seriously, the only way that Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak could claw back some electoral support would be to STOP the boats, CUT BACK the main (i.e. “legal”) mass immigration, DEPORT hundreds of thousands, RENATIONALIZE water, rail and possibly the energy utilities, and start to really bat for Britain.
Those 2019 Conservative Party voters might return to the Con fold, but only if they see some action; words are played-out.
Still, none of the three by-election seats are natural Labour territory.
Pretty hard, though, for an Indian whose Cabinet is mainly non-white, or Jewish, and who worked for the predatory Goldman Sachs bankers (and so is a globalist “libertarian” by instinct).
It seems to me a 50-50 chance that the Conservative Party MPs will ditch Sunak before the next general election, but if they do, who on Earth can they try to present to the public as a credible leader?
As for attacking Starmer, the only things that might work would be to use American-style personal attacks, and to focus on his complete mendacity, his broken promises, on his “taking the knee” to the “Black Lives Matter” thugs, and his being completely in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby (the only thing is— so are the “Conservatives”…).
Conclusion, then— Labour will probably win in 2024 by default, but if some real movement on the above-designated issues were to happen, it might be a different story…
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there have been 16 by elections since the last general election.
starmer’s labour has won about 6 of them.
6 out of 16, against the worst government in living memory, while the media gives you the easiest possible time? embarrassing to be honest.
Biden: “What was that slogan? Bread, land, and peace? No, my fellow-Americans, it was ice-cream and war!“…
Germany to send 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks to Ukraine
The Ministry of Defense of Germany announced the next package of "military assistance" for Ukraine. It includes the first 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks, more than 100 are expected in total.
Tonight, the Russian Navy carried out another successful attack on facilities where terrorist attacks on the Russian Federation were being prepared using drones , the Ministry of Defense announced.
The statement adds that Russian troops hit the command post of the 79th Airborne…
President Vladimir Putin accused Poland of having territorial ambitions on the territory of the former USSR and said that any aggression against Russia's neighbor and close ally Belarus will be considered aggression against Russia.
At night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered another strike with high-precision weapons at facilities where terrorist attacks against Russia were being prepared using strike drones. The target of the strike was achieved, all designated objects were hit – Russian Defense Ministry
After the backlash by Tories of newly-elected 25 year-old #KierMather I see this Observer piece about 29 year-old life peer Charlotte Owen is doing the rounds again.
Picture by me of Downing Street staff (Owen, centre) on the day that Johnson resigned: https://t.co/krUhOIqfCO
There are really only two realistic possibilities: either she is Johnson’s secret daughter (one of them) or she was being screwed by him. It now turns out that she was only a kind of temp anyway, covering the job usually done by a recent mother. Maternity cover.
Britain is so screwed, it is hard to believe.
What about the House of Lords? At least the guy in Selby was elected. Ross Kempsell and Charlotte Owen were put in the Lords by disgraced former PM Boris Johnson for seemingly having achieve relatively little in their short careers, yet they're set fair for life. https://t.co/vjnEeWfEN8
— Alasdair Murray – the Recruitment Copywriter (@RecruitmentCopy) July 21, 2023
As for “Baroness” Chapman, she was an MP for 9 years (2010-2019), and then (having been voted out as MP) was elevated to the Lords on Starmer’s nomination, having previously done sweet FA by way of work in her life except a short time as the constituency manager for ghastly careerist MP Alan Milburn. So she can shut up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Chapman.
She is the mother of children, and that (and presumably being a “home-maker”) is a very honourable estate, but it is not the “real life experience” of work in the outer world, as per that clip.
As for Johnny Mercer MP, I have found him a big disappointment as MP, but I think that he can claim a great deal more “life experience” than “Baroness” Chapman, let alone that epicene little creature who is now the MP for Selby and Ainsty.
Many people on Twitter are incredibly ignorant and at the same time very dogmatic. I just saw a tweet saying that the Selby creature is “2-3 years older than Margaret Roberts [i.e. Margaret Thatcher] when she became an MP...”.
In fact, wrong, and on two counts. First, Margaret Roberts was born in 1925, and became an MP in 1959, shortly before her 34th birthday. She had married in 1951, so fought her first successful first election as Margaret Thatcher and not Margaret Roberts as claimed.
Well, there it is. Effete, epicene little “Labour MP” is going to support Starmer, Rachel Reeves etc in continuing the policy (policies?) laid down by the Con Coalition of David Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, and now the Indian money-juggler, Sunak.
Anyone who thinks that Starmer-Labour will be in any way an improvement on the “Conservative” omnishambles of a Government is sadly mistaken; in fact, deluded.
Actually, listening to Keir Mather there, I think that “Lord Charles” would have sounded more credible.
[Lord Charles, with Ray Alan]
To be honest, my first thought on seeing and hearing Keir Mather is that he seemed to be in need of a good kick.
The fact Mhairi Black was ever elected by the losers, wastrels, desperadoes & ne'er do wells in the Yes favelas of Paisley tells you everything you need to know about how fucked Scotland has become after wasted years of the calamitous SNP #shutdowntheshortbreadsenate
— Rt Dishonourable Damian Thirsty (@damian_thirsty) July 21, 2023
Rommel in fact died on 14 October 1944, but his death was connected with the attempted putsch on and subsequent to 20 July 1944, signalled by the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on the same day, 79 years ago.
The motivations of the plotters were varied and, in some cases, complex. Some (including Canaris, Rommel etc) acted at least partly out of noble motivation. Treason is often thus.
For the majority of degrees someone would be better equipped for the workplace and less indebted if they just did three years work experience.
— Peter McLovin 🏴☠️ (@PeterMcCormack) July 17, 2023
Failing miserably so….most students' critical thinking skills sadly lacking these days, in an era where everything is reduced to 10 second exposure to information via Instagram etc…academic model very ill-equipped.
Valid points, the least valid being that of freelance scribbler and talking head, Marina Purkiss, though her comment is in tune with the attitude of many, who think that all that matters is “how people did” in life (i.e. whether they became wealthy and/or famous), and that temporary worldly “success” validates, eg, a nonsensical “degree”, and/or falling standards made “OK” by award inflation.
Incidentally, Marina Purkiss thinks that “alright” is how one spells “all right“. Her “degree” in “marketing” from the University of Portsmouth seems to have failed to correct that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Purkiss.
It may be that the time has come to revisit the whole mediaeval “degree” concept: first “degree”, “Master’s degree”, “Doctorate”, which designations align with the mediaeval guild idea— apprentice, journeyman, master craftsman (also later imported into freemasonry, of course).
Universities should promote both learning and research, and least of all be what they mostly now are, degree mills (of varying quality) where mainly young people get a piece of paper entitling them to at least try to make a living in various ways.
In the United States, they try to make people who are aiming at becoming medical doctors, or lawyers, less narrow by making them take a so-called “undergraduate degree” (lasting four years rather than the usual English three years) before even embarking on their professionally-focussed medical or legal studies.
The result of that is of doubtful utility (I having met numerous American lawyers, though not many doctors). It also means that the cost of becoming a doctor or lawyer in the USA, especially at the more prestigious institutions, is prohibitive. 7+ years of expense.
The cost, including subsistence, of going to somewhere like Harvard Medical School is at least USD $100,000 a year (about 3x an equivalent British example).
"It's a very strange supposition that you can't win an election because you promised to try and do something about child poverty. Poor people have votes as well, you know" @jeremycorbyn tells #Pestonpic.twitter.com/2U7DgUeKus
Jeremy Corbyn discusses the insidiousness of suspending and expelling members. Some who have been members for 30 or 40 years, based on spurious retrospective grounds, for even LIKING a tweet from years ago.
I am and always was far from being a supporter of Corbyn, but he makes some good points at times.
#Peston: "What is the argument for keeping the water industry in private ownership?"
Liz Kendall doesn't bother trying to make the case for the private ownership of water. How could she, there isn't one. Instead, she tells us that ideals without power is just dreaming. pic.twitter.com/QrQPmzyzu1
Liz Kendall, yet another Labour Friends of Israel MP-drone (and I think part-Jewish). Labour has nothing to say, nothing at all. Its trump card, though, is that it is not, nominally, the Conservative Party. Just that. Nothing more.
Labour MPs think that the Labour Party not being the Conservative Party (though pretty much espousing similar policies, or even the very same policies) will be enough to clinch the expected 2024 General Election. They may even be correct in that, but the fat lady has not yet sung.
You could see @leicesterliz’s face harden perceptibly when #Peston was interviewing Jeremy Corbyn. She still hasn’t forgiven him for wiping the floor with her in the 2015 leadership contest. Listening to Corbyn talk sense must have been absolute torture for her.
According to Liz Kendall and the fictitious constituent she spoke to, Labour are "back of the right track", by doing absolutely fuck all except bringing back the legacies of Iain Duncan Smith. #Peston
Bloomberg: Turkey denied Ukraine protection of grain carriers in the Black Sea after Russia withdrew from the agreement
So far, there has been no official confirmation of this information. But if this is true, then this is good news for Russian grain producers. pic.twitter.com/ATdZcvk9dD
Financial Times: Armed forces of Ukraine complain that Russian minefields undermine the morale of Zahisniks “Ukraine's progress is painfully slow. Soldiers on the front lines largely blame it on Russia's minefields, a veiled threat that has become a psychological torment pic.twitter.com/dsuYopPnhF
The latest report is here, come get your coverage on the Odessa port strikes and wider implications. Manually type the link in the image below or click the link in my profile.#war#russia#ukrainepic.twitter.com/vbwInFMJWE
The patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" of the Black Sea Fleet, performing tasks in the southwestern part of the Black Sea, 180 km northeast of the Bosphorus Strait, discovered a derailed drifting Ukrainian mine.
An attack by the Russian Federation on July 19 severely damaged the grain export infrastructure at the port of Chernomorsk, resulting in the destruction of 60,000 tons of grain.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, it will take at least a year to…
The result of the July 16 rocket attack on the Osnova railway junction in Kharkiv. The blow definitely fell on the composition of the forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/tt6hqGy9XP
In connection with the suspension of the Black Sea Initiative and the cancellation of the maritime humanitarian corridor, from 00:00 Moscow time on July 20, 2023, all ships on the way to Ukrainian ports in Black Sea waters will be considered potential carriers of military forces.…
Well-judged words from MP @nicolafrichards: “The answer to the question Bev poses in her tweet is that no self-respecting publisher or broadcaster would share this antisemitic conspiratorial fantasy, and neither should she.” https://t.co/oVJYgoot5U
Prolific anti-national tweeter Matthew Sweet praises Jewish MP Nicola Richards.
Nicola Richards: prior to being selected/elected as MP at the early age of 24, Nicola Richards worked for the “Holocaust Educational Trust” and “Jewish Leadership Council”. She has been MP for West Bromwich East since 2019.
Nicola Richards succeeded “Labour” expenses cheat and freeloader Tom Watson as MP. Watson was/is, of course, a complete puppet of the Jew-Zionist lobby, apart from his other defaults.
I see now that Nicola Richards was appointed PPS to Penny Mordaunt in 2022, which makes me wonder whether Ms. Mordaunt agrees with the Zionist views of Nicola Richards.
Nicola Richards was also appointed, in 2022, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism.
Nicola Richards has argued for the UK to proscribe Wagner Group [PMC Wagner].
Oh well, she will be gone after the next General Election. Good,.
Incidentally, National Front executive Martin Webster stood as candidate in that constituency in February 1974, scoring 7% of the vote (placed third after Labour and Conservative). I myself met Webster a couple of times in 1975, once at the NF HQ in some featureless part of South London in or near Thornton Heath, and once at Chelsea Old Town Hall. A controversial figure; hard to read.
SIS/MI6: I suspect, another organization or body in the UK (along with Parliament, the police, the FCO, the Church of England, the Bar, the NHS, Oxford and Cambridge universities, the BBC, and others) living off its hump, with little real content inside the shell.
In any case, what Britain, what England is SIS/MI6, MI5, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force really trying to “defend”, these days? Look around you. The migration invasion continues, with 20% of the UK population now non-white, and with most births now being non-white. The British people have been abandoned to forces of raceless and cultureless finance-capitalist globalism.
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It is inconceivable that Biden will serve another term.
Look at the price of a counteroffensive. See? Tower, there is a "Leopard", and there is another in the bushes, – the officer sums up the results of the counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/noejwQjs6P
I did not understand part of that, but I think that it was not polite at the end…
The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that on the night of July 20, the RF Armed Forces continued to deliver retaliatory strikes with high-precision weapons at production shops and storage sites for unmanned boats in the regions of Odessa and Ilyichevsk, Odessa region
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that all ships going to Russian ports in the Black Sea, as well as to ports in the new territories of the Russian Federation, will be considered as carrying military cargo – " with all the associated risks"
Not a single cargo ship will enter Ukraine's ports on the Black Sea after the termination of the grain deal, admitted Mihail Podolyak, adviser to the chief of staff of the President of Ukraine.
"No country will dare to send its ships [to Ukrainian ports]. And this is not a…
…and none of those 440,000 cars will be produced in the UK, USA, or EU. So tell me again— who is hurting most because of economic sanctions on Russia?
Incidentally, the car shown is a 4.4 litre engine luxury car made in Russia in small numbers (100-200 per year); the Senat, under the Aurus marque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurus_Senat
Tobias Ellwood has always been the worst Tory MP. A fanatical remainer who loves the EU over Britain & now is a Taliban apologist rt@DavidJoBrexit https://t.co/JGjkuC5aSK
We live in a 2 tire justice system where ethnic minorities get much lighter sentences than whites. Whites would also be humiliated on National MSM channels. No prison for this lovely chap who also called white people ‘filth’ https://t.co/gcnTVtFMXf
— 🇬🇧 National Housing Party U.K. 🏴 (@NHPUKOfficial) July 20, 2023
My quarrel with the “intervention” in Afghanistan is not that it happened, but that the “West” (NWO/ZOG) had no intention to rule the country, nor to improve it. What the “West” should have done was to ignore all local political and paramilitary leaders, eliminate them if they refused to knuckle down, destroy all armed elements within the country (including all individuals carrying arms more than 500 yards from their own homes), then rule the country directly and, if necessary, forcefully. Allow their Islamic religion but eliminate those using it as a cloak to attack modern European-origined civilization. Educate children, including girls.
Alexander the Great took over many countries, but then also ruled them, as did, in their day, the Romans, the British and other European peoples, the Soviet Union etc.
Seizing a country is just the first step. Establishing a lasting imperium is also essential. Napoleon understood that. He remade Europe in his own preferred image.
Afghanistan was too tough a nut in the end for Alexander’s successors, for the Mughals, and also the British, but the British of the 19thC did not have helicopters and drones.
There was an attempt, in and after 1979, by Soviet forces, to rule Afghanistan, to turn it into a semi-Soviet country. That failed partly, perhaps mainly, because the USA funnelled arms, ammunition, and money to the mujaheddin (including Osama bin Laden). The Americans interfered, and without that interference, the Soviet forces may well have prevailed.
The Americans (and Brits etc), never tried to properly rule Afghanistan or found a new society there (not outside parts of Kabul, at least), and never tried to fully suppress rebellion.
British TikTok Menace Mizzy Gets Arrested and handcuffed then moments later released while telling police “do you know who I am?”
This is what happens when the msm validates cretins of that sort. It emboldens them.
Late today but no jokes. Late because I was fighting to protect our local hedgerows from being illegally cut. The National Parks and Wildlife Service in this country is a fucking farce & not fit for purpose. I’ll expand on this tomorrow when I’ve calmed down.#nationalpretencehttps://t.co/kRRIKZiRF9
Jesus H. Christ! He’s getting worse…If this continues, that stupid Kamala Harris creature might actually have to take over as President. We really are in uncharted waters from that moment.
The White House claims that Kiev uses cluster munitions in an "acceptable manner". pic.twitter.com/ivzsrRE2Ua
‼️Ukrainian air defence is not able to shoot down Russian Onyx missiles, which attacked Odessa and Nikolaev tonight – speaker of the Armed forces of the Ukraine, Yuri Ignat.
— Matreshka 🌺 🇷🇺🇰🇿🇨🇦 VVP 2024 (@MatreshkaRF) July 20, 2023
Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor: "Now there are only Poles left fighting in Ukrainian uniforms and only a few units that are ready to launch a new attack" pic.twitter.com/i9CCIq7D4p
The German army has ordered several hundred thousand artillery shells in agreement with "Rheinmetall" as it works to replenish the stocks emptied by the war in Ukraine, the company announced.
"Rheinmetall" announced that it received a new framework contract for the supply of 155…
The brutal and corrupt Zelensky regime is having to use press-gangs to enforce conscription, there are no more volunteers, and the Kiev regime is running out of cannon-fodder. The front is almost a death sentence; many are deserting.
Head of the Crimean Parliament: We must liberate Nikolaev, Kherson and Odesa HE EMPHASIZED: THERE ARE NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH KIEV – WE MUST TAKE THE ENTIRE COAST OF THE BLACK SEA FROM HIM pic.twitter.com/SWgBUNrWNx
The by-election was triggered by the standing-down of the Conservative Party MP David Warburton, following multiple allegations (some admitted) of misconduct: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Warburton].
In 2019, Warburton received nearly 56% of the vote, with the LibDems in second place on 26%.
Labour has no chance here and, on paper, this would normally be another easy win for the Con Party, but the manner of departure of the last MP, added to the anger across the country aimed at the Con Party government of Sunak, may mean a LibDem by-election upset, particularly as this is merely a by-election.
In 2019, only 4 candidates stood (Con, Lab, LibDem, and Green); at the by-election, there are also Christian People’s Alliance, UKIP, Reform UK, and an Independent.
The bookies’ favourite is the LibDem, a lady from a local farming family who is also a local councillor. She seems to hit all the buttons, even the sex one, being female after the defaults of male MP Warburton (sex pest allegations, and connected cocaine abuse).
The bookmakers have the LibDem, Sarah Dyke, as even-money favourite, with the Con Party candidate on 20-1, and Labour at 250-1. The rest are not even quoted. You could probably get 1000-1 against any of them.
Experience shows that bookmakers are a poor guide to by-election results, but the LibDem looks pretty sure to win this, especially when many Labour supporters will be voting tactically, and many former Con voters displaying apathy and/or unwillingness to vote for the present Government.
The by-election of course triggered by the standing-down of “Boris” Johnson.
The 2019 election attracted 12 candidates, because the seat of the sitting Prime Minister is always popular. “Boris”-idiot won with 52.6% in 2019, with Labour garnering 37.6%. Only one other candidate had a saved deposit (the LibDem, on 6.3%).
The by-election has 17 candidates, among them the TV actor, Laurence Fox, for Reclaim. The bookmakers only rate two seriously— Con and Labour. The Labour Party candidate is quoted at just better than even-money, with Conservative Party candidate at 9/1. The Labour price has not altered much, but the Conservative has gone out from an opening 3/1 to 9/1, and the LibDems are now at 1000/1. The third-placed runner is now Reform UK (but only on 300/1).
“A nurse sitting with her husband drinking coffee said: “The biggest issue is ULEZ. I’ve retired from the NHS after 49 years. What about the carers who can’t make visits any more?”
People in Uxbridge tend not to conform to media stereotypes, for example that the NHS is in an unbearable state of crisis. The nurse said: “If I had my time again I’d do the same job again. I love my job.” As she walks round Uxbridge she is often greeted by her former patients.
How will she vote in the by-election? “Up until Jeremy Corbyn I was a Labour person,” she said. “Labour looked after the schools, the hospitals and the elderly.
“But the party has changed now and I’m afraid I have no confidence in them. Keir Starmer wouldn’t come out and actually go against Sadiq Khan [on ULEZ] in a television interview, when he was asked about him.“
“‘It can’t be any worse’: In Boris Johnson’s back yard, Britons are desperate for a change.
Uxbridge, like Britain, is in a rut.
The town is where the capital’s westward sprawl ends. Two Tube lines serving central London finish their journeys here, as picturesque shades of green mingle with the gray and brown hues of suburban developments. But its high streets are shrinking and the local hospital is one of the worst in Britain – rated “inadequate” by the sector’s watchdog.
And nationwide, soaring inflation, public sector strikes and the aftermath of Brexit have left families poorer and services creaking to the point of collapse. Renewing a passport, taking a train, buying groceries, seeing a doctor – virtually everything is more difficult in Britain than it once was.
Change is in the air, and Labour is set to benefit. Opinion polls confidently predict the party, led by Keir Starmer, a former senior prosecutor, will win power in a general election expected next year.
But Uxbridge is a test case for that theory, and tensions are high. “You can see the national polls, just like I can see, but these are real votes,” Steve Reed, the party’s shadow justice secretary tasked with running the local campaign, told CNN on a hot afternoon on the high street. He predicts a “tighter race” than some media have suggested.
A handful of media outlets, including CNN, were denied the chance to interview Labour’s candidate or join a canvassing session, an unusually skittish move from a party tipped to win a by-election.
“People are not stupid. People understand the challenges facing the country,”
Some voters are more blunt. “They’re basically saying we’ll carry on business as normal,” says Mick, 61, who runs a food stall near Uxbridge station and has voted Labour his entire life. “So why are we voting?”
“I’d like to think [Labour would] like to do more for the working people,” Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. “But I can’t help thinking it’s two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,” she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the party’s worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursday’s vote in Uxbridge will indicate how far Labour has come.“
[CNN]
Maybe not so obvious as at Somerton and Frome, but here too it looks as if the Conservative Party is facing an uphill struggle. Uxbridge is a more typical contest though, maybe, compared to Somerton and Frome, and one in which many voters despise all the System parties, and particularly Con and Lab. A battle of apathies?
Selby and Ainsty
The Selby and Ainsty constituency is unusual in that it has been represented since creation in 2010 by only one MP, a Conservative, who seems to be abandoning ship in the moral certainty that the national unpopularity of the Sunak government will wash him away at the next general election.
I do not know why the departed MP, Nigel Adams, chose to stand down in 2023 rather than wait until 2024 and the next general election. Maybe he did not want the opprobrium of having been voted out. Rumour has it that he wanted a peerage and, when not given one, resigned in order to lash out at his own party. Maybe.
Adams won his four elections convincingly, and increased his vote share steadily from 49.4% in 2010 to 60.3% in 2019.
Labour scored about a quarter of the vote in 2010, 2015, and 2019 but, interesting to see, managed over a third of the vote in 2017, when Corbyn was still Labour leader.
12 candidates are contesting the by-election, but this will be between Con and Lab. The bookmakers have Labour just better than even-money, but Con on about 13/2. A few weeks ago, the result seemed more speculative.
Political websites and newspapers have taken an interest in the Selby contest, perhaps because it may give a clue as to the Northern “Red Wall” seats.
“I’d like to think they’d like to do more for the working people,” Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. “But I can’t help thinking it’s two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,” she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the party’s worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursday’s vote in Uxbridge will indicate how far Labour has come.“
“Labour and the Conservative party may have found a tougher opponent than one another as they prepare to fight a by-election in Selby and Ainsty this week: entrenched despondency among an electorate that’s tired of Westminster drama and the challenges posed by the cost of living crisis.”
“Selby local Rachel Young paused while walking around the shops to watch the candidates for Thursday’s poll take part in a televised hustings for the BBC in the town centre last week.
She told PoliticsHome that she still has not decided who to vote for, but thinks that many people she knows will simply not bother at all.”
For me, what will be most interesting will be to see whether Labour wins because people have voted out of enthusiasm (unlikely) or simply because former Conservative voters have given up bothering to vote (more likely). The numbers will tell the story.
My guess is that the LibDems will win Somerton and Frome; a meaningless protest vote. As to the others, Labour will probably score in both, but by default only, because former Conservative voters will just stay home. Only very silly people believe that Labour-label in government will be much, if at all, better than the present shambles.
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Who would vote for a party scared to publish its manifesto? Who would vote for a party whose leader has reneged on all of his leadership election pledges? Who would listen to one word that Polly Toynbee has to say? And who would agree with an endorsement of anything by Streeting?
— Sunderland Labour Left (@LeftSunderland) July 18, 2023
I agree with the second tweet.
You won't stop the boats. This is State sponsored people trafficking. Beyond the control of a politician.
— An Inquisitive Englishman (@JJsViews) July 18, 2023
All the stuff in the msm about barges and cruise liners is flim-flam designed to obscure a few basic facts, such as that one barge can “house” 500 migrant-invaders. On many days, twice that number arrive in 24 hours! So you would need about 400-800 or more barges extra even in one year.
Also, the number of migrant-invaders coming “legally” is ten times the number arriving in rubber boats.
The UK was doomed as a decent place to live once the proportion of non-whites went beyond about 5% (and we are already at about 20%). The same goes for much of western and central Europe.
The myth of the nuclear family is one of those things that is so anti-Black, anti-woman, ableist, & capitalist at the same time it makes me GAG
Western ideology places the entire responsibility of childrearing on 1 woman & fiscal stability on 1 man & wonder why shit DONT WORK https://t.co/Uc8MolYPtF
— Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@GeauxGabrielle) July 18, 2023
The above two tweeters might like to consider whether or not our advanced world civilization, which is 95% or even 99% based on white European-origined people, “works” (overall) when compared to the sorts of societies ruled by blacks, such as most of Africa, Haiti, Jamaica etc…
“Deluded” hardly covers it, but it seems that many blacks believe the same as those two, and their crazed beliefs are facilitated by anti-white non-blacks, either white European-origined or (usually) Jewish.
Today we see how the Kiev regime, having lost almost all of its own weapons and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, like a drug addict, survives only thanks to the massive pumping of Western weapons – and at the same time pushes with all its might, trying to prove that it can… pic.twitter.com/2XN4VSUZ2Z
The people are right— a majority of them are of the view that a Labour government under Starmer will make their lives no better (or that they do not know).
Meaning— the present Government is trash, and Labour is also trash.
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Coming up to day 67 now since she missed the deadline to sue. I expect she’d already stolen all of the stolen money (again). https://t.co/WT2WK8vTgW
Jack Monroe still has quite a way to go until she reaches the grift levels of @Supertanskiii though – £40 a month for Incels and neckbeards to listen to a middle-aged woman with a early-teens level of intellect swear about Tories. pic.twitter.com/HnwqMc53rq
American billionaire Elon Musk called on his Twitter to reveal how American aid to Ukraine is being spent.
"It would be nice if the public had some idea of how the funds are being spent," Musk wrote on Twitter, commenting on the news that the US is preparing to announce a new…
Pentagon: The Ukrainian military needs years to reach the level of Russian air forces
Bringing Ukraine's air capabilities closer to Russia's will require years of training for Ukrainian pilots and billions of dollars, said Mark Milley, head of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of… pic.twitter.com/z2E8Ud7RBL
Russia prepares 100,000 troops to attack Kharkiv – The Telegraph
The British newspaper admits that the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has stalled and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can take advantage of the situation and advance towards Kharkov.…
“Human problems aren’t economic. They’re moral and they can’t be solved by immoral measures. They could be solved within a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy, and they could be solved through a God-controlled Fascist dictatorship.”
[Frank Buchman, in a 1936 interview]
I suppose that the devil is in the detail. What is “immoral”, in the sense of state policy or implementation? Also, state or political measures or “steps taken” are, arguably, too crudely “clunky” to very easily encompass matters of morality or spirituality. As Saint-Just said, “no-one can rule guiltlessly“.
“An East London man who used his family to hire children as drug runners from his prison cell has been jailed for five more years.“
[My London]
[“East London” man…]
Perhaps they mean the other “East London”, the one in South Africa.
Tweets seen
Zelensky's "Servant of the People" MP Lyudmila Marchenko is trying to get rid of the bribe she is accused of taking. She just threw a wad of dollars over the fence to the neighbors. pic.twitter.com/DPq3uB2Fba
Ukraine has been a corrupt mess since at least 1991.
Ukraine needs a new start. Ideally, the Russians should take all of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper), as well as Crimea, and also a 50-mile-deep strip along the Black Sea littoral. Odessa and Kiev should have some kind of special status, either condominium status or as autonomous cities. A Ukrainian state, presumably based on Lvov, can then exist in the two-thirds of Ukraine west of the Dnieper and north of that coastal strip.
A lot of people are fleeing the US to these places, here are the cheapest countries to live in around the world
The only two of those cities on the map shown that I would ever choose would be Almaty (where I actually did live in 1996-1997), and which is probably still not too unpleasant, though I liked it in its recently-ex-Soviet quieter days, and Buenos Aires, which is at least a basically civilized city (though I have never been there).
I read once that Bangalore is not bad by Indian standards, and I know that it was a prized posting for officers and civil servants during the days of the British Raj, probably because it is in hills, and so cooler than the plains. No doubt it is very much larger and busier these days. It is now the 27th-largest city in the world, and the 3rd/5th biggest (depending on boundary definition) city in India, in fact.
Little cocaine-abusing drunk and Jewish-lobby puppet Gove must have been snorting again. He is said to support this absurd policy idea. As for Policy Exchange pseudo-think tank, it should be crammed into the nosecone of an interplanetary rocket and fired into space.
Paris is more and more indirectly drawn into the war against the Russian Federation – Russian Ambassador to France
“Naturally, such a decision cannot be said to be supported by the entire French society, because everyone is well aware that France is more and more drawn into the…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban: "Instead of supplying Ukraine with weapons, we must finally establish peace … Hungary stands firmly on the side of peace at the NATO summit!" pic.twitter.com/nTi5JynzHh
It's horror, it's a massacre": a foreign mercenary about the Ukrainian counter-offensive
The British TV channel Sky News quoted Rhys Byrne as saying, fought on the side of the Armed Forces. According to him, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operate without cover pic.twitter.com/TUzraAYpQq
I saw that report. Pretty hair-raising. No wonder that the Irishman (so they said, though he does not look Irish, particularly) and his immediate group decided to go home. It was not explained why they were allowed to leave Ukraine. Maybe they had fulfilled their contract.
If Paul Mason does stand against Jeremy Corbyn as Labour candidate – I'd be happy to contribute to a fund financing leaflets, detailing Mason's life journey as a Labour traitor https://t.co/rJJANMjYtS
— Oliver ✊🌏🔥 #ClimateAction #EcoSocialist (@tynewrc) July 12, 2023
Well, there it is. I have blogged several times in the past (over several years) about the part-Jew pseudo-revolutionary scribbler and talking head, Paul Mason, and have blogged, inter alia, that he was possibly aiming to become a Labour MP, perhaps ultimately aiming at becoming Chancellor or even Prime Minister.
If I say so myself, who shouldn’t, the blog has been proven right once again.
🇺🇦🇬🇧 British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has proposed that Ukraine should express more gratitude towards the West for its assistance, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky's recent complaints about the lack of a definitive timetable or conditions for joining NATO. pic.twitter.com/IAJ6mDbBjt
I have frequently noted Zelensky’s ghetto style of negotiation.
Do I sense that even the major puppets of NWO/ZOG are tiring of Zelensky and his corrupt cabal? Not least because there is no real prospect of the Kiev regime being able to “recover” the regions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk.
350,000 Kiev-regime soldiers have been fed into the hell of Bakhmut/Artyomovsk and other areas of the front, and have fallen. Several times that number have been rendered hors de combat by reason of injury. Foreign contract soldiers are now going home, and there are rather few coming to replace them. The Kiev regime is increasingly using press-gangs to force unwilling Ukrainian men into uniform, and has toughened the exemption regulations in order to be able to “lawfully” conscript a wider range of non-volunteers.
Ukraine is by most definitions a “failed state”. It exists, both militarily and in general, only by reason of the Western subsidies. It could well be argued that, as it now is, “Ukraine” is scarcely a state at all.
Asked Ben Wallace a question about nuclear weapons. The answer is very interesting pic.twitter.com/Uimi7Ew0j7
— Oleksiy Goncharenko (@GoncharenkoUa) July 12, 2023
That Ukrainian MP asking the questions must be a complete idiot. He wants NATO to station nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil, which would mean that Ukraine would become a prime target for Russian strategic weapons. It would be like painting a huge bullseye on Ukraine.
“Independent” Ukraine has never been blessed with very intelligent politicians (or honest ones), but what can one say?…
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Almost as if pretty much everything Jack Monroe bootstrapcook says is lies…… 🤷♀️ https://t.co/9bm6AYpMer
Day 60 since the deadline to sue Lee Anderson expired. Rich poverty-cosplayer Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook lies & harasses those asking for refunds & transparency after taking 100s of 1,000s of donations for 1 year. A decade of lies, fraud & theft – Kickstarter, Teemill, Patreon…
…and the hardcore of 396 utter mugs is still there on Patreon, each sending “Jack Monroe” £3.50 to £44 monthly. Thousands of pounds monthly, for precisely nothing. Not a bad little racket, really.
“@BartBirdy” is probably, and in my opinion almost certainly, “Jack Monroe” herself.
[Update, 13 July 2023: the @BartBirdy Twitter account is already gone. “Jack Monroe” must be using a new “sock account” today].
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An attempt to mobilize passers-by in Lviv ended in a fight between representatives of the military department and "deserters".
Those present claim that the man was stopped on the street for a "document check". A member of the military department "couldn't stand" the verbal… pic.twitter.com/v5UR5n84RR
The alliance must control its impulsive urges to expand and respect the legitimate security interests of other countries, writes the Chinese newspaper "Global Times".
Biden said that Ukraine has a problem with the lack of artillery shells and that the US is working on replenishing the stockpile, reports Reuters. pic.twitter.com/v7Q2ub7THR
Lavrov : Russia recognizes the emergence of F-16 in Ukraine as a threat in the nuclear sphere
“ In the course of hostilities, our military will not figure out whether each specific aircraft of the specified type is equipped for the delivery of nuclear weapons or not. The very… pic.twitter.com/97CLHokGwc
Cathryn Ross, one of the two joint CEO's at Thames Water, used to run Ofwat, the water regulator.
Tory MP Derek Thomas asks her: "Does the trend of Ofwat staff seeking high paid jobs in the industry affect the ability to regulate the water industry?". pic.twitter.com/j6mlJQ3uYc
Ian Robert Millard 