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Historical note
8-9 November 1923, so 102 years ago, was the time of the so-called Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch. Despite having comic-opera elements, it put Hitler and the NSDAP on the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch.
Thought for today
I watched on TV a few minutes of the Remembrance Sunday march of old soldiers past the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
Naturally, such an occasion is always tinged with sadness. So many failed to return, especially from the First World War. My own maternal grandmother had two brothers killed in that war (both captains in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry); one killed in France in, I believe, 1915, the other on the Somme in 1916.
Of course, there would now be no WW1-serving soldiers on that march, and few, if any, from WW2.
I paused to wonder what might be the views of those marching about the state of the country today. At a guess, not favourable.
My overall feeling, watching the still-proud ranks marching, was that the march has really nothing to do with the UK and its society today. It might as well have been ranks of Roman legionaries marching there. The same goes for so many other ceremonies and institutions which, until quite recently, say 35 years ago, were an accepted part of the national fabric.
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[“Former NATO Secretary General admitted that the alliance will not start World War III because of Ukraine. Jens Stoltenberg stated that NATO will not enter into a direct conflict with Russia to protect Kyiv. He recalled that back in February 2022, Zelensky requested the establishment of a no-fly zone, but that would require strikes on Russian air defense systems and would mean the start of a large war.“]
Thank God for that (if true)…
The Jew Zelensky has been hoping for, and pushing for, war between Russia and NATO. That must not be allowed to happen, not least because it might well turn (tactically) nuclear, and that tactical use of nuclear weapons might then lead on to an utterly catastrophic strategic nuclear exchange.
[“The Ukrainian Armed Forces Have Lost Nearly Two Million Soldiers! The Western resource Military Watch Magazine reports that, according to estimates, the Ukrainian army has lost more than 1.7 million people killed and missing in action throughout the conflict. Moreover, experts have found that in some combat operations, the average lifespan of a Ukrainian soldier was a maximum of four hours after entering combat.“]
Ukraine, as a state on its present or pre-2022, or pre-2014 borders, has no future. Perhaps white European people from Western and Central Europe could settle in Eastern Ukraine, once Russia wins the war.
What Lavrov is saying, at core, is “buy from us“; Russia is of course a major weapons-exporting state.
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[“The woke oppression totem pole that has been flooded into our establishment is a massive reason why we’re experiencing two-tier justice so extensively here in the UK in modern times. The more protected characteristics you have from the Equality Act 2010, the more the state think you are in the right – or are the victim even when you’re not. That’s why straight White men have been punished so harshly in their own country.”]
Britain’s politically-brainwashed, socially-brainwashed woodentopped police.
Of course, that MP is just another pro-Israel drone, but leave that aside.
The migration-invasion is now the pre-eminent electoral issue in the UK (and elsewhere) but there is still a big bloc of “I’m OK” idiots for whom rubbish such as football, rugby, cricket, lesbianki “lionesses”, X-Factor, Strictly Come Dancing etc take precedence in their little minds.
Translates to a Commons with about 428 Reform MPs, 80 Lab, 42 LibDem, 42 SNP, 14 Con, 9 Greens (etc).
My own opinion is that, by reason of the old System main parties, Lab and Con, now being equally hated and despised, very many people will vote Reform just to stamp on those two old parties; others will vote Reform because it is the only alternative now thought likely to have a chance.
Reform may end up with 450 MPs, it may end up with “only” 250, or even fewer; we shall have to see. I think that the “Conservatives” will slip lower as their natural hard core of elderly and very elderly pensioners start to pass away. Labour is also doomed, unless Starmer-stein is replaced by some figure able to appeal to a cross-section of voters.
At present, I see no sign of that. At one time I thought that Dan Jarvis might be a superficially-credible such figure, but his several years of toeing the Labour Party line, kow-towing to the Jewish/Israel lobby, and having nothing worthwhile to say about anything, have diminished him, visibly. No chance.
The present polling takes no account of either the Islamist independents or of Corbyn’s nascent “Your Party”.
I just fed my own speculations into Electoral Calculus, and came up with Reform 444 MPs, Lab 68, LibDems 50, SNP 40, Greens 15, and Cons…1 (etc). If “Your Party” were to get 5-10 MPs, then Labour would be reduced by the same amount accordingly.
Pie in the sky for now…
Then the same must be true, mutatis mutandis, of criticism of Jewish behaviour/Judaism/Zionism/Israel-ism/”holocaust” nonsense etc.
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I have to agree with her this time…
Our animal friends.
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I wonder why?…
“Their” lack of self-awareness is always hard to believe.
[“The man who rebranded ‘repatriation’ as ‘,remigration’ confirms my point: It’s an empty piece of political grand-standing. There isn’t the faintest possibility of the grifters and conmen who run Europe’s populist parties either doing anything effective or being replaced in state power by genuine nationalists within 3 or 4 electoral cycles. Which means that remigration is not going to happen. Which in turn means that calling for it simply wastes time and resources which are desperately needed to prepare our peoples to be the largest minority in societies of minorities. Time for nationalists to stop writing ‘Dear Santa’ letters and get on with organising for the long run.”]
True, but once the idea of removing non-Europeans from Europe is out there, on the table, it does change the political dynamic, whatever the political and social realities —or apparent realities— might say about that.
Never bettered
Miles better than the facile Hollywood film made more recently.
I still regret having missed the (apparently excellent) talk given by John le Carre (David Cornwell), the author of Tinker Tailor and similar books, at the G.B.-U.S.S.R. Association offices and library circa 1984. That was an organization in Grosvenor Place, London S.W.1., funded by the Foreign Office as a kind of para-diplomatic/cultural thing; the small staff (librarian, assistant librarian, and Director) were paid and employed on Foreign Office pay and conditions. The organization went back to 1959; several ex-Prime Ministers had belonged.
I joined mainly in order to use their library of Russian and English books, the windows of which library, a few floors up from ground level, overlooked the gardens of Buckingham Palace. I also took part in basic Russian language sessions.
That organization no longer exists. It was renamed in the early 1990s, moved to a ghastly brown-coloured office building near the (also now gone, and redeveloped) Nine Elms vegetable market at Vauxhall, then closed down as a result, in part, of government spending cuts (circa 1996).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Davie
Looking at the BBC’s coverage over several past years, he must have been pretty useless.
“The markets” should serve society, not rule society.
First of all, get rid of Marianna Spring, whose provenance is suspiciously obscure, and who was a proven fraudster/liar even before she joined the BBC.
The BBC is but one of many many old-established, respected, even beloved institutions in the UK now trashed and all but ruined. Which? Well, among them I would name the Bar, the Inns of Court, the system of “KC” appointment, the legal system generally, the court system, the prison system, the police, the Foreign Office, the Church of England, the whole political system and electoral system, the Civil Service, local government, the banking system, the Monarchy, the wider honours system, the RNLI, the National Trust [etc].
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Ian Robert Millard 