“Gypsy and Roma traveller pupils are to be referred to as ‘mobile children’ under new government guidance.
New pupil absence advice issued by the Department for Education uses the term to refer to students ‘of no fixed abode’ who miss school while their parents are ‘travelling during the course of their trade or business’.
The law allows children to be away from the classroom while their parents are travelling for occupational reasons.“
[Daily Mail]
The whole problem, not just the child aspects, of those “communities” is one not properly addressed by the present System parties in government.
He isn’t far wrong. It’s these kind of publicity stunts that end up making us Jews a more appealing target. My real concern though is that Lewis is clearly not well, but was roped in by his partner to make that misguided trek.
Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal wanted to 1. make up a fake “antisemitic incident” for tribal political reasons, 2. have that publicized in the Daily Mail etc by dishonest Jewish scribbler Sabrina Miller (see earlier blogs), 3. make money out of it all via “compensation” payments (as they had done on previous occasions).
The Daily Mail should sack Sabrina Miller at once.
nb. I have blogged on previous days about the attempted scam and/or stunt.
Until I can show as much as I can – as one person going through – this sort of tweet might sound a bit weird. Dramatic also: the only way I can describe it is like visiting "The Underworld", then coming back up again and trying to tell everyone what you saw.
We get it. You like cycling. To the point where “cyclist” could go on a psychiatric manual as a personality type – psychopathic ✅, aggressive ✅, selfish ✅, obsessive ✅. But why are we allowing these freaks to dictate travel around the UK? https://t.co/YKG9ZXLUlG
Starmer's Labour now plan to bring back Free Movement, allowing under-30s from across the EU to live & work in Britain. Why not? We basically have free movement with everywhere else in the world
Incidentally, this will mean that any non-European —African, Afghan, whatever— with some kind of ad hoc EU travel document will be able to enter the UK…
The ONE AND ONLY solution for the West
Sealed borders
Not a single foreign-born entry
White people having lots and lots of babies
Anyone talking about tax on tips or some other meaningless garbage is your enemy.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 22, 2024
Autarky is possible for Russia; it is also possible for Europe as a whole. The UK can link to one or the other, or both.
Trump is on the wrong side of history. Israel is not a friend of the United States. Friends don’t lure you into wars that cost trillions and ruin you. Friends don’t turn your politicians into prostitutes and friends don’t brainwash your population with the media they control.
Nonsense. You just don't like what he said. That's your privilege.
1. "Britain is under occupation" incites nothing, whatever it is printed over. You may not like the stickers but that's no reason to get heavy-footed law involved. 2. He can display the picture of any grown… https://t.co/77x3pELc8Y
“Nonsense. You just don’t like what he said. That’s your privilege.
1. “Britain is under occupation” incites nothing, whatever it is printed over. You may not like the stickers but that’s no reason to get heavy-footed law involved.
2. He can display the picture of any grown adult he likes in his home.
3. He incited no violence or disorder and no violence or disorder resulted. He was jailed for the act of “intention”. Intention is thought. Criminalising thought is thoughtcrime.“
Stray thought
I was just reading the crime reports in the My London online newspaper. See if you, dear readers, can spot the common factor re. almost all of the defendants and suspects: https://www.mylondon.news/all-about/crime.
Late tweets
For God's sake. Please can someone data savvy plot a graph of crimes to sentence time. You would hope there was a positive correlation between how violent crimes are and the latter. But I'll bet a graph would show a small change towards negative correlation. The Starmer Effect. https://t.co/Qy5oaO220O
It is broken and has been broken for the last 14 years. The Tories and their empty claim to be the party of law and order has always been a lie, and now we've got Starmer and his diktat to judges.
I'm starting to think no one can count. I can see no other explanation for the number of ppl ignoring supply and demand. It's highly discombobulating. Like living in a matrix where everyone says you should wear underpants on your head – and you saying "no" makes you a bigot. https://t.co/ILjkpn6nq4
“The number of asylum seekers granted refugee status has hit the highest level since records began nearly 40 years ago. 68,000 asylum claims were granted, more than triple the 21,000 the previous year”
The next step will be Two-tier Keir and Yvette Cooper rubberstamping 90% or more of all applications, whether here, in France, or elsewhere. Whoopee! The “small boats” will only rarely be seen crossing the Channel, because 95% of their passengers will be arriving in the UK by air or ferry. They will still be arriving, though…
Late music
[painting by Roman Bozhkow; it reminds me of the time, in the Spring of 1982, when I slept in an empty birdwatchers’ hut, or hide, in the middle of a small lake almost right on the border of East and West Germany. It too had such a rickety wooden bridge joining it to the shore; a cold wet night, and the hut had no glass in the windows]
I'm convinced plymouth was staged, there was no one there but the stand up to racism counter protesters..not 1 person from enough is enough protesters, not 1, not even a trickle slowly arriving bit by bit, right up until just after 7pm, then boom…
I saw it happen in real time, the local paper live reporting, all peaceful, all us locals were laughing amongst each other in comments about the lefties counter protesting no one, and within minutes, as soon as sky news went live, it was like they'd pulled the stage curtains back
“What this is about, is that people don’t feel safe in their own country.”
Author Matthew Goodwin says the handling of the riots by Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper has been 'one of the biggest examples of political failure for a long time.'@iromg | @GoodwinMJ | #Talk
What you are seeing -in the attacks on people like me- is a concerted effort by the elite class that created this mess to "manage" the debate and shut down dissent. Don't fall for it. We need to radically change the way this country is governed https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/r37Sfza0n5
In Birmingham, the alleged ‘counter protest’ of masked and armed muslim men has descended into them smashing the cars of innocent people. @Keir_Starmer what time will you be condemning this as thuggery? Will they also ‘face the full force of the law’? pic.twitter.com/NA2MPMsrux
I think that the British people, after only a month and two days, have awoken to the fact that they binned one useless misgovernment only to “elect” an even more hopeless and useless Starmer-Labour regime, which is both dictatorial and useless.
Paul Mason is some kind of NWO/ZOG mouthpiece, maybe (and many have suggested this) an agent of the UK security/intelligence services.
I find it very suspicious how his published and broadcast views have morphed over the years, and are actually quite opaque: sometimes quasi-Marxist, sometimes anarcho-syndicalist, sometimes in favour of aspects of finance-capitalism; sometimes all in favour of violent protest, but then often equally in favour of authoritarian clampdowns.
Mason tried several times to get into Parliament but never succeeded. Even Starmer-Labour would not have him.
The common feature in what Mason has said for many years is that he always favours dictatorial limits on free speech and freedom of expression, and he is always hostile to white European self-determination. He himself is a part-Jew.
I noted the above example of Britain’s new poundland Stasi yesterday, as well as the latest visit of the police to my home, about 5-6 weeks ago, which was in relation to comments allegedly made by me on Twitter/X apparently not long ago, which I found puzzling because my Twitter account was permanently shut down in 2018, and I have made no Twitter or Twitter/X posts since then.
Even more puzzling was that the policeman came to my door (he was not invited in and, to be fair to him, did not ask to enter) despite the fact that the (I think) two supposed tweets in question had already been examined by the police and, as he put it, “NFA’d” (“No Further Action”). So why was he even deployed?
Part of the problem here is that “a certain element”, i.e. the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby fanatics, seem to be able to make malicious and untrue “complaints” to police without any consequences for them even after the complaint is shown and proven to be both untrue and malicious.
For example, in 2021, the main active individual in the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, one Stephen Silverman, made an entirely untrue, false, and malicious complaint of “racial harassment” against me. The events are chronicled in the blog post below from 2022:
The complaint made against me was entirely false. I had never had any direct contact with Silverman, did not know his address or telephone number, and had never sent any message of any sort to him. He, however, has been trying to harass me for nearly a decade, by making false allegations of various kinds. His Jewish-Zionist “CAA” cohorts, too.
The CAA admitted on their website that they have been trying to “get” me for 7 years (longer, I think).
Now the making of a false and malicious complaint of that nature is an attempt to pervert the course of justice, a serious crime. In the 2021 case mentioned, though, not only was Silverman never charged with such a crime, but (following political pressure by the “CAA” on police, CPS etc), though I was never charged with “racial harassment”, I was, much later, in 2023, charged (by post) with having posted supposedly “grossly offensive” remarks and cartoons on the blog, nothing to do with the earlier allegation, but still instigated by Silverman and the “CAA”:
This is why filming an aggressive person trying to attack a bus driver .. can get you attacked too pic.twitter.com/jXQjmARfVx
— WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) July 30, 2024
The “multicultural society”…such people not only can never create a better or higher-level society, they are incapable themselves of maintaining the present level of society, or even living in the present society without dragging it down into the swamp.
Elon is now well and truly involved – bringing much unwanted attention to Keir Starmer pic.twitter.com/wXcoSLLDk9
— WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) August 6, 2024
Once again, the UK’s police behaving like a poundshop Stasi.
— WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) August 6, 2024
Quick question, do you trust the police?
I was just on the phone to my Mum about 20 minutes ago and she said she has no trust in the police anymore and she’s 82.. How sad !!!
— WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) August 6, 2024
Useless.
As to whether I myself have any trust in the police— not really. I might have answered differently 15 years ago, maybe even 10 years ago, but not now. The police I have dealt with personally in respect of various matters have ranged from just useless to unpleasant, to actively politicized and biased; and not forgetting their having been extremely ignorant of the very questions of law, history, and civil rights that several of them have claimed to know about.
Agony for mother of teen killed in machete attack after learning one of his killers will be released after just SIX MONTHS due to prison overcrowding under new Labour scheme
— WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) August 6, 2024
Alex Phillips saying that you cannot talk to such people as that Labour drone who, on the higher levels of UK politics, are the Starmers, the Yvette Coopers and so on. So if you cannot talk to them, and they as a group or cabal are not listening, then what?…
Daz who lives at and had eyes on the Birmingham roundabout mob scenes from last night, says that cars were getting wrecked right next to one of Birmingham's biggest police stations, 2 squad cars turned around away from the mob and only showed up at the pub 1 hour later…. too… pic.twitter.com/MQKpE6C7Wq
Starmer’s underlying problem is that he and Labour do not represent more than a small or even tiny number of people. 34% voted Labour at GE 2024, so only a third anyway, but 8 out of 20 people did not vote at all, and even many who voted Labour did so mainly to bin “Conservative” MPs and the Con government of the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak. The real level of support for Starmer-Labour is only around 10% of the adult population.
2/ I'd be happy to lose this service, and see Telegram blocked as well, if it avoids a serious breakdown of the rule of law this weekend…
Readers may like to know that tweeter “@ianmillard100” is not me. I have mentioned him previously. I do not think that he is deliberately passing himself off as me, though. I believe that he is some kind of I.T. specialist from Bath University who has the same name as me and, slightly irritatingly, happens occasionally to tweet the odd view not dissimilar to my own (as seen in the tweet above).
Anyway, my earlier mentions of Paul Mason stand vindicated. He wants to shut down various online services and platforms because they allow a greater level of free speech than he wants.
Paul Mason is not only a socio-political extremist with very murky motives and connections, but (like several members of the Starmer-Labour Cabinet) a would-be tyrant. He has no future, politically, though.
Reminds me of tweets I have seen in the past few days showing the police in the UK breaking into the homes of English protesters, the police very brave when confronted by lone women, pensioners etc…
Incidentally, the crowdfunder set up for Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative (the one in the centre of that tweet photo), his wife Laura Towler, and their 2 children (one born just after Melia was imprisoned) is still running:
Another good fellow who was also imprisoned and has a similar crowdfunder is “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch), who may be getting out of prison soon and will need help:
Starmer knows this, and many of his MPs will be looking on nervously, clinging to any scraps of copium. The north of England will now be seeking an alternative political home. If Farage has any sense, he'll pour a LOT of money into those constituencies for the council elections.
She does not fully reflect my own ideology, or even views, quite often, and I sometimes dislike her opinions (especially but not only on Israel and the Jewish lobby), but not always, and she does make me laugh sometimes. Unique.
In 1969, nearly 70% of British people polled cited "immigration of coloured persons" as a "serious social problem".
And this was always about race because polls showed far less opposition to immigration from the Irish Republic. pic.twitter.com/1CKhDelQ4T
The British public had not yet been brainwashed so much by the mass media back then. Look at much of England today, particularly the urban areas. A “dustbin” would be too kind a description.
Late tweets
Intention for Genocide. This is Genocide language.
Hard to know how many Israeli Jews (or other Jews, e.g. in the UK) would say the same openly, how many might agree secretly, and how many would disagree or dislike such obviously genocidal wishes.
We have to get serious about getting rid of the BBC too.
They're absolutely incapable of being neutral anymore, the whole corporation is infected from the top down.
Washington Institute : Most Israeli officials realize that today's war with Hezbollah will not be like any war Israel has fought before. pic.twitter.com/xNSy2BjDNN
I rather think we are there already. I commend the media on their assiduous efforts to find reasons why we are not. The ‘everything is fine’ scam.
— Gas Lighting Services 🇷🇺 (@TauntonHeat) July 25, 2024
CASE UPDATE: the Court has approved a costs order in my case. The court has awarded me 90% of my costs of c£140k. I am grateful to the Defendants for agreeing undertakings.
“CASE UPDATE: the Court has approved a costs order in my case. The court has awarded me 90% of my costs of c£140k. I am grateful to the Defendants for agreeing undertakings. The question now is whether the Defendants’ former solicitor Mark Lewis (@MLewisLawyer) helps the Defendants. If the messages between the Defendants are right, it seems Lewis advised that my claim “would be dismissed swiftly” and my strategy was “laughable”. If that was the advice, it was extremely poor and very costly. My view is that Lewis should do the decent thing and help pay my costs.“
[James Wilson]
Ha ha! Lewis “doing the right thing“? Very unlikely… I expect that the surviving defendants, Cantor and Mendelsohn, will eventually have to take action against Lewis (and the small law firm with which he is associated in London) in professional negligence or otherwise. The matter may also result, eventually, in Lewis appearing (again) before the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal. We shall see.
My hope is that won’t be necessary. I think Mark Lewis and Patron Law know what the honourable thing to do is. And I am confident they will do it.
Incidentally, it has been repeatedly stated, from the Bench, in English courts that “antisemitism”, as such, is not a crime in England (neither, by the way, is so-called “holocaust” “denial”, meaning historical revision or revisionism).
It is a mystery why my case has been ignored by the media since the judgment. Maybe the result was not newsworthy? Not the sort of thing that people would be interested in reading about?
On the other hand, there seems to be lots of public interest in it on here.
The same msm “lack of interest” was around when, for example, Lewis was found guilty in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal about 6 years ago. There was a cloak of silence in the mass media about Lewis even having been prosecuted in the matter, and that continued after he was found guilty. The “usual” (((influence))) in the “British” Press, of course.
“Israel-based solicitor Mark Lewis has been heavily criticised by Mr Justice Nicklin in a recent High Court judgement.
Lewis is known for acting for Rachel Riley against Mike Sivier and Laura Murray, and for John Ware against Jewish Voice for Labour and Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi.
In the recent case, Lewis came unstuck when he was acting for Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates, a lettings and leasehold management firm. Lewis was seeking a court order requiring Google to disclose the identities of people with gmail addresses who had left negative reviews about ABC Estates on Trustpilot. The evidence in support of the court order was two witness statement by Lewis. The judge described Lewis’ evidence in general as “nothing more than assertion” and “perfunctory, even desultory” and “simply not good enough” to justify making the court order.
Things then got much worse for Lewis. He had stated that the Trustpilot reviews were “false, fabricated statements which Unknown person(s) know are untrue”. The judge conducted some online research himself and found that one of the reviews was true and based on the findings of another court. The judge said it was:
a matter of very real concern that the Claimants put evidence before the Court, on an ex parte application, that was not true.
The judge did not require Lewis to provide an explanation for the evidence that was “seriously in error” and accepted that Lewis would not have knowingly misled the court. The judge’s explained Lewis’ evidence as being:
because he had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take adequate instructions from his clients.
The judge also stated that there had been a “significant failure” by Lewis to comply with the general obligation of full and frank disclosure. The judge refused all the applications and the escapade is likely to have costs Lewis’ clients tens of thousands of pounds. Perhaps Lewis’ claim against Michael Rosen would have ended in the same way?
Mr Justice Nicklin’s full judgment is available here, with comments about Lewis’s contribution from paragraph 84 onwards.
Mark Lewis is a former director of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) until his emigration to Israel and was involved in the relaunch of right-wing pro-Israel group Herut UK. UKLFI locked access to a YouTube video in which a panel discussed Lewis’s “very handy way of bankrupting organisations” the group considered to have done ‘wrong’. However, a transcript of the discussion is still available.
In 2018, Lewis was fined by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority for abusive speech on social media toward a young Labour-supporting critic and others. He responded to the judgment by accusing the SRA that:
faced with a choice between Holocaust denying neo-Nazis and a Jewish lawyer… It chose to side with the neo-Nazis.”
[Skwawkbox]
That was about yet another matter in which the often (and laughably-) described “top libel lawyer” behaved in an egregiously unprofessional matter.
The “Dr. Pete Newbon” mentioned in that piece was the third defendant in James Wilson’s case against the Jews Mendelsohn and Cantor. Newbon, a persistent and vicious social media troll, who had been disciplined by his employing university a number of times for his online and offline behaviour, committed suicide during the James Wilson legal case, having apparently deceived his, Newbon’s, wife about the fact that he was being sued, and about the reasons for that.
The funny thing is that, for years, the “British” mass media were quite content to puff Lewis (ludicrously inaccurately) as a so-called “top lawyer“, but I saw nothing in the mainstream Press about how, after having been found guilty in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018, Lewis’s own Counsel begged for mercy for him in terms of the fine to be imposed, because, he said, Lewis had no assets at all except for his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter!
Even Lewis’s own specially-adapted car (driven by him until he had an accident in early 2018, caused by his physical and mental incapacity) had been supplied free of charge to him by the DWP, via the Motability scheme.
“Top lawyer“… My view has always been that Lewis is just a self-promoting chancer.
Yes. Something about the judge being a f***ing moron? An unfortunate choice of language. And definitely not true. While I don’t agree with every aspect of his decision, he was thoughtful and careful, and had obviously got to grips with the issues.
What’s been disappointing is that I got all sorts of grief, from all sorts of people on here. Some really awful things were said about me, and not one person – nobody – has had the dignity to apologise.
And it’s definitely possible because both Defendants have apologised!
Wilson being “too nice” again. Those two Jews (the defendants) were only too happy to look forward to Wilson losing his family home if he lost the case. He did not lose his case. Now they cringe and cry and “apologise”, because they are, to put it in the language of the New Testament, “in the same condemnation“. It’s all so (((typical))).
Incidentally, I think that Mr. Justice Nicklin also was “too nice”, in saying that he was sure that Lewis had not intended to mislead the court in that 2023 High Court ex parte injunction application.
Having said that, the learned High Court judge did (though in other, and far more diplomatic, words) characterize Lewis as (in my words) a lazy, negligent bastard.
No word directly to me from Lewis. Except he accidentally copied me into an email to his own solicitor last week where he said I was floundering. I thought it was a bit steep to say I was out of my depth given what seems to have been his advice to Dr Newbon.
More can be found using the search box on the blog.
In Wilson’s case, a number of Jews gave purported “evidence” for the defence, which testimony however the judge dismissed in polite but firm terms. They are all named and shamed on one of my previous blog posts.
One of that pack was the vituperative Jew-Zionist barrister and (until he was kicked off the Bench very recently) Recorder (p/t judge) Simon Myerson. His testimony was, to put it politely, given little weight by the learned judge.
Indeed, Myerson now seems again to be in trouble. He now not being on the Bench, the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office is not involved (this time— last time, he was given “words of advice”, i.e. mildly admonished); the Bar Standards Board, though, now seems, belatedly, to be taking an interest:
I shall watch any further developments with interest.
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More than a few of them blocked me after being tagged in. I can only hope that they blocked me and then emailed Mark Lewis and Patron Law to suggest they cough up to stop the defendants going bankrupt or losing their homes! @MLewisLawyer
Britain is descending into an angry, lawless nightmare. The speed at which this is happening is utterly terrifying. In one week alone: mass riots; attempted murder of a solder; violent thuggery at an airport; Muslim mobs outside police stations. Shocking.
Twitter-twits have responded angrily, blaming Isabel Oakeshott or her personal partner, Tice, of Reform UK, or Farage, for the gradual descent of Britain into the swamp. A woman journalist, and two fairly minor politicians…
No, the major cause is the half century and more of mass immigration, which over the past 25 years has become a full migration invasion. Millions of mostly quite, or very, backward non-Europeans. That, and the decline of real culture and society in the UK. I know where I place the blame for most of that (the bit not caused by migration-invasion)… The “you-know-who” element.
I don't care that jailed Just Stop Oil protestor Jemima is going to miss her brother's wedding. Boo hoo. When she blocked the M25, she stopped thousands of other people getting to family events. SUCK IT UP.
"The truth is that illegal immigration in Britain is now so widespread – with 1.2 million living among us, more than anywhere else in Europe – that a few more raids on nail bars & car washes will change nothing"https://t.co/NmI46Tw5k8
‘Their deaths don’t matter do they? Because they weren’t killed by Jews. But somehow, again, it’s all the Jews’@TomTugendhat was asked at a Tonbridge hustings before the election how he would resolve the Gaza crisis
The Labour government does not care about free speech and free expression in our universities. They are enabling the woke takeover of higher education by repealing the Higher Education (Free Speech) Act.
Goodwin is right, but he fails to note that the primary group (or cabal, if you like) trying to repress freedom of expression in UK universities and elsewhere, including online, is the Jew-Zionist element, most egregiously seen, arguably, in the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.
Patriotic Alternative
I happened to see the following statement put out by Patriotic Alternative, which I partly republish out of a spirit of comity, and despite not being a member of PA:
“This week we received the SHOCKING news that Sam Melia had been DENIED early release by the prison service! At a time when prisons are overflowing and the judiciary are routinely handing out suspended sentences to convicted sex offenders – Sam Melia, a man who published LAWFUL stickers, has been denied early release!
This is the latest in a string of miscarriages of justice aimed at breaking the spirit of Sam and his family. At this point, only one conclusion can be drawn: this is politically motivated persecution which is aimed at Sam due to his system of philosophical beliefs – a protected characteristic under European Human Rights legislation!“
[Patriotic Alternative]
It will be recalled that Sam Melia was imprisoned for a notional 2 years in March of this year, meaning that he could expect release around 1 March 2025. However, earlier release, which has been granted to all sorts of hooligans and thieves etc by reason of prison overcrowding, has been denied to Melia.
Very unjust, bearing in mind the essentially trivial “crime” for which he was imprisoned; also, he has a wife and two small children (one only born this year and since Melia’s incarceration).
I have covered on the blog, in past years, various aspects of the fraudulent “grifting” of “Jack Monroe”, but even today there are, it seems, utter mugs around who not only believe her nonsense but also send money to her.
I have also covered, to a lesser extent, other similar frauds: Simon Harris, aka “Man Behaving Dadly” (Essex Jew who blagged £600,000 from Essex County Council, as well as large amounts from individual mugs online); “Supertanskiii” (whose modus operandi is to post tweets etc shouting angrily and often vulgarly at “the Tories”, while asking mugs to send her money; what will she do when her beloved fake “Labour” turns out to be as bad, or worse?); Julia Grace Patterson (her u.s.p. is that she was briefly a medical doctor in the NHS —for about 2 years—); Mike Stuchbery (see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/) etc.
Then of course, there is the “Captain Tom” fraud/embezzlement/”grift”, carried out by the daughter and son-in-law of the ancient ex-officer who raised millions (supposedly for the NHS) by that now-famous yet brainless stunt of traversing his garden lawn on a Zimmer frame thousands of times a few years ago. “Captain Tom” himself was no doubt sincere; his daughter is just a freeloading fraud.
As the BBC might say “other fraudulent grifters are available“…
She’s a grifter, no doubting it. But she’s been scapegoated, a distraction for what was a ridiculous few months of Captain Tom Moore bullshit. Captain Tom was also in cahoots with the Gov, acting as a media distraction for the lockdown casualties and failing system. Wake up 🫵 pic.twitter.com/oPJh2mbiWi
It's a big day for grifters. Here is Jack Monroe stating that she's not a millionaire despite the fact that we all know she's taken hundreds of thousands of ££ for taking donations for a lawsuit she never had any intention of going through with. Oh and stop your patreon Jack! pic.twitter.com/dO9akmLDhf
…and still sob-storying about “her boy“, who must be 20 years old now, and who (it is said) was mostly taken care of by others, not by drink/drug wreck “Jack Monroe”.
Oh she's a known liar anyway whom I blocked long ago. Isn't that correct @KitchandBot
Day 380 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…
I still fail to see how “Jack Monroe” asking for money to sue Lee Anderson and Martin Daubney (and then spending the money on her own pleasures and whims) is any different to what Xahra Saleem did.
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The BBC and its deluded puppets. We can choose who we want to come into Britain. That’s the point. The open door policy is ridiculous.
Farage in fiery clash with BBC's Mishal Husain over 'silly' migration question https://t.co/FhcpPJ5Hhb
— AstroPeanut 🇬🇧🏴🏴🇬🇬 (@peanut_astro) June 4, 2024
The BBC must be defunded.
Not that I have much time for Farage, for several reasons. For one thing, “net zero” migration would still, if implemented, mean about 200,000 non-whites entering the UK and staying indefinitely, because about that many persons (mostly whites people, i.e. real British people) leave every year to try to find a decent life is Australasia or North America etc.
Well, of course, Sunak has all the charisma or “in-touch-ness” of a limp lettuce, something that Sunak has in common with ludicrously over-promoted and now washed-up 49-day-PM Liz Truss.
That reminds me: I have heard and seen nothing, for weeks if not months, about or from Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng), who lasted only 38 days as Chancellor, yet received a payoff for those 38 days of nearly £17,000 (in addition to salary etc): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwasi_Kwarteng#Dismissal.
Controlled opposition. The Conservative Party is generally pro the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby, and Israel itself. So is Farage. So is Goodwin. Get the picture?
Only a social-national party or movement can save the future of this country, but such a party or movement does not exist. The nearest is Patriotic Alternative, I suppose.
According to our recent YouGov survey, a shocking 10% of the British public are unaware that #MotorInsurance is compulsory for any vehicle used on a public road.
Labour aren't popular, they're a lot less unpopular. I don't envy Starmer the 'honeymoon' period with Murdoch, but then I don't envy anyone's honeymoon with Murdoch.
I too, like tweeter “@JoeeggJoe”, think that the Cons have the potential to fall further. Now that Farage is Reform UK leader, Reform may increase its support, not so much because Farage is wildly popular but simply because Reform now as a very identifiable leader, which was not the case with Tice.
I also tend to think that there is a bloc of “secret Reform UK” voters, unwilling to admit to it publicly or to poll canvassers, but who, on 4 July (or before that, in postal voting), will put their X by Reform UK candidates, either because they support Reform UK anyway, or because they see it as the best way, where they live, of kicking the Conservative Party).
Yesterday I decided to allow myself to have twitter back on my phone for the duration of the election campaign and that decision is already SO vindicated. https://t.co/C6VbVfRUMM
The clowns at Westminster are far more amusing (usually, though, unintentionally) than the huge number of officially-approved and unfunny “comedians” we see in the msm.
The new mayor of Derry who wasn’t elected but selected by the SDLP gives her first interview and it’s a load of woke rubbish.
Good grief! Ecce the new Mayor of “Derry” (“Londonderry”, as was). So much for Irish nationalism! The SDLP, and Sinn Fein, are as fake as the SNP and Plaid Cymru. Is this what the IRA and others struggled for, all those years, all those decades, indeed all those centuries?!
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I like The Shadows for several reasons. Firstly, their music reminds me of my fairly early years of childhood, I having been born in 1956 (and so was about 6-7 in 1963). Secondly, their originality and quality. Thirdly, their music evokes a sense of the optimism of England in the years of the early/mid 1960s. Fourthly, they are or were unmistakably English, for all their enthusiasm for Americana (eg their piece, F.B.I.) in those Atlanticist years.
I remember seeing their name on the outside of the Kursaal in Ostend (Belgium) in the summer of maybe 1963, maybe 1965, along with that of Cliff Richard, when they were his backing group.
The smug look on the little bitch’s face says it all. Entitled. Probably pig-ignorant. Probably either a student or a trustafarian, or maybe unemployed. My money would be on her being a student of some kind, probably from an affluent family.
Almost certainly pro-mass migration and the invasion of the UK.
Regular readers will be aware that I am no fan of Farage’s “controlled opposition” “conservative nationalism” but this must be punished. I doubt that that will happen.
I wrote a piece about this type of sub-terrorism some years ago, when Farage was again the victim of an idiot milkshake-thrower, and the terminally unfunny supposed “comedienne”, Jo Brand, “joked” that it should have been battery acid.
Will the police track down and arrest the woman who today attacked Farage? I wonder…
Obviously, today’s attack was very predictable, and Farage does not seem to have effective personal protection.
I wonder whether Farage will get more votes because of what happened today. Maybe. Certainly, I have scoured the Press looking for any mention of his Conservative Party opponent, one Giles Watling, but without result. Watling is invisible in Clacton. Farage is the only game in town, both for those who like his candidature and those who hate it (and him).
Farage is probably a good deal more sanguine about the attack today than I should be in his position. I am restricted in what I can express, by reason of my free speech trial last year, which has had at least a marginally chilling effect on my freedom of expression, but I think that my regular readers will be able to read between the lines.
The perpetrator should be identified and arrested, though. At least that.
Counterproductive, just more publicity now sympathy for Farage, and no doubt more votes. This woman has unintentionally given Farge a boost.
“I don’t want to see the residents of Clacton-on-Sea taken for granted and sacrificed on the altar of his vanity.”
Mr Watling said he felt it was his job to “transform Clacton’s future” by using government funding he had secured.”
[BBC]
Watling himself seems rather remote from the majority of Clacton residents and voters. I notice that, in the photo on the BBC website, he is wearing a Garrick Club tie:
“As part of a privately funded experiment in Universal Basic Income in 2019, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (S.E.E.D.) conducted a pilot project that gave a $500 stipend to 125 randomly selected residents for an 24-month period with “no strings attached.“[51] “
[Wikipedia]
“SEED was a Randomized Control Trial that distributed $500 a month for 24 months to 125 recipients. The cash was unconditional, with no strings attached and no work requirements, and recipients were selected randomly from neighborhoods at or below Stockton’s median household income.
Results gathered from the first year, which spanned February of 2019 to February of 2020, found recipients obtained full-time employment at more than twice the rate of non-recipients. Recipients were less anxious and depressed, both over time and compared to the control group. They also saw statistically significant improvements in emotional health, fatigue levels and overall well being. Recipients had a greater ability to pay for unexpected expenses.
People spent the SEED money on basic needs, including food (nearly 37%), sales/merchandise (22%, on home goods, clothes/shoes and discount/dollar stores), utilities (11%) and auto costs (10%). Less than 1% was spent on alcohol and/or tobacco.”
In my view, Basic Income must be the way to go, with AI and robotics impacting employment and set to do so more. The alternative to Basic Income is to have a tiny sliver of the population ultra-wealthy, a wider layer wealthy, and about 80% of the population near-destitute.
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Simon Myerson – KC and judge – intimidating a member of the public at 1am. For expressing the view that employees of UK universities ought not to serve in the IDF.
Is Myerson on a solo mission to undermine public confidence in the judiciary?
I have noted before on the blog how Myerson sometimes tweets dozens of times in a day; the other day nearly a hundred. An obsessive.
And if you feel Myerson’s own conduct breaches the standards the public are entitled to expect from judges, you can complain here:https://t.co/nUKpU7Fizu
So far today, by my count, Myerson has tweeted and retweeted about 28 times. On a Tuesday, and mostly this afternoon. Relatively modest by his standards.
An extraordinary case of police "psychological torture" in Fontana, CA: When Thomas Perez reported his elderly father missing, cops brought him in for a 17-hour interrogation + coerced him to falsely confess killing his dad.
Well worth reading the whole thread. It happened not in 1980s (or 1950s) South Africa, not in Russia, not in Kazakhstan, nor in China, but in one of the wealthiest states of the USA, California. So much for “the land of freedom”. Really bad.
The Tories completely misread the room. Is what happens when you surround yourself with Oxbridge Set. Cabinet ministers used to tell me: "The Brits only care about illegal migration". WRONG. Millions fed-up with mass immigration which is managed declinehttps://t.co/liUeIhMQHwhttps://t.co/a3umlzuVVK
Forsyth and his wife, Allegra Stratton, have been albatrosses round the neck of the Conservative Party for over a decade. Sunak was best man at their wedding in 2011.
Allegra Stratton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegra_Stratton] was one reason why “Boris”-idiot sank as PM. As for Forsyth, he was appointed Political Secretary to Sunak in December 2022. Since then, well…
‘Nuff said?
(actually, it comes as a shock to discover that the Forsyths are in their mid-40s now. Tempus fugit…).
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Washington in fear: Kyiv has nothing left to lose
▪️The priorities of the US and Ukraine in the conflict with Russia diverge due to a possible nuclear escalation, writes the "New York Times" and adds that it is unclear in Washington what exactly an acceptable end to the conflict… pic.twitter.com/7J0gn5thUf
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 4, 2024
Amir Bohbout, military analyst of the Israeli website:
The Israeli Air Force is not ready for Hezbollah drones and this is a fact.
Hezbollah has thousands of drones at its disposal, and this means that if we increase the depth of our attacks to 40 or 100 kilometers and… pic.twitter.com/1GrocVumAL
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 4, 2024
“Amir Bohbout, military analyst of the Israeli website: The Israeli Air Force is not ready for Hezbollah drones and this is a fact. Hezbollah has thousands of drones at its disposal, and this means that if we increase the depth of our attacks to 40 or 100 kilometers and Hezbollah feels that it is in a war situation, then it will send a large number of drones here.“
As predicted on this blog quite a while ago, eventually Israel and particularly the Tel Aviv region will face fleets of thousands of drones. Also, powerful missiles in very large numbers.
Oil reserves of different regions of the earth Middle East by far in the top.
Recently, a report in the British Parliament revealed that Russia has discovered unimaginable oil in areas of the Arctic that Britain also claims. The report says that the volume of oil in this… pic.twitter.com/8KmzKPV3uC
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 4, 2024
“Oil reserves of different regions of the earth Middle East by far in the top. Recently, a report in the British Parliament revealed that Russia has discovered unimaginable oil in areas of the Arctic that Britain also claims. The report says that the volume of oil in this discovery is more than 510 billion barrels.“
You see the meaningful look of a little boy from Gaza who was wounded during the attack this evening: pic.twitter.com/BXy0O9LrxV
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 4, 2024
Lib Dems have confirmed North West Essex is not a target for them – only a vote for Labour can get rid of Kemi Badenoch. #votelabourhttps://t.co/nPmtXeWS5F
Let’s set a target (as unaffiliated British voters and people) for the House of Commons— only real British persons as MPs. Some hope, though, with Labour about to be gifted an “elected” dictatorship based on an influx of new MPs, many of whom will not be of European origin, and in many cases deliberately selected because they are non-European by origin. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan…
"You must always remember that a person in that amount of pain can always go to A&E" lies Health Secretary Victoria Atkins
No you can't.
A&E will send you back to an emergency dentist unless you have a life threatening infection that only they can treatpic.twitter.com/QEGT9cDTFA
One of the basic problems facing the UK is the sheer lack of competence of many, not in the realm of the tradespeople (plumbers, carpenters, electricians etc); they are almost always very good, in my experience, but in the realm of often highly-paid but more often useless persons such as politicians generally (from local councillors to MPs, Ministers of State, Secretaries of State, Prime Ministers). That also applies to many partners of City of London law firms and others, such as msm talking heads.
The fish rots from the head.
There was a time when even in low paid work you could still get by and mass immigration changed that and it became a race to the bottom. In any case the tipping point has been passed and your side has won so why the continued crying.
I agree with tweeter “@DavidSD1970”. As for the Jewish scribbler, he seems to think that if someone does not have money, or a proprietary interest in something, he or she cannot love it, or be part of it. Telling…
You're whingeing about people that genuinely feel that there has just been too much change in the UK over the last 30 years or so and nobody asked for this. And the moment ANYONE mentions this they are immediately branded a racist, bigot, or fascist.
Only a social-national ethnostate can give a future for the British people.
"Shared values. Mutual goals."
Put another way… Western man is ambitious, industrious… thoughtful about the moral landscape in a way the global south can never be… and these virtues can flourish by mutual consent… Lost to degenerate pygmies antagonistic to those virtues. pic.twitter.com/dxpgbKZdqL
— Pasquino_In_Rome (@Pasquino_A_Roma) June 3, 2024
Adolf Hitler contrasted (in Mein Kampf) “the Aryan ideal of creative work” with the non-Aryan mirror image of society— the “idle rich” on the one side, and the poor, condemned to either slavery or serfdom, or similar, and/or to destitution, on the other.
It is not about material wealth. You don’t get it. We see that.
Most of Britain’s current problems are caused or made far worse by the mass immigration, aka migration invasion, which took place on a limited scale from the 1950s but increased hugely (along with births to immigrants) in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, becoming an apparently uncontrollable flood after Blair’s (meaning the international conspiracy’s) deliberate policy choices from 1997; and then on to the past decade, when that flood became a devastating tsunami, which continues daily.
We felt comfortable with our own people and didn't want mass immigration, nor were we asked in our so-called democratic system. You as part of a diaspora tribe do not understand that and wish to undermine it for the people who took your family in. You are utterly evil.
That Twitter/X account, “@SerenaJB3” is worth following, for those with Twitter/X accounts (a pack of Zionist Jews had my own account closed down in 2018 and, for several reasons, it does not presently suit me to have it reinstated).
The so-called right wing alternative, Reform, dropped some of their candidates after being advised by this antiWhite hate group. I agree, Hope Not Hate are absolutely vile. I'd love to know who finances them. https://t.co/mjUm8U7oA4
“HnH” are financed mainly by wealthy Jews and/or pro-Israel elements. One of the Tetra Pak tribe (Rausing family) resident in the UK was throwing money at them. I think that that one died recently (not sure).
“To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People, White and non-White alike, have been trained to habitually deconstruct anything and everything having to do with White people.
The English are European ethnic group, and because we've been invaded in the past by other Europeans doesn't mean we should let non-Whites into our homeland. Stop trying to deconstruct our native population. https://t.co/bEX9FpK0OK
Reform's core voter base would be fuming if they made a deal with the Tories. They've been selling themselves as the right-wing option for people who oppose the Tories, allying with them now would alienate voters
Pro-Israel controlled opposition snake-oil salesman Farage stabbed his own candidates in the back in 2019, by standing down most Brexit Party candidates (some refused), thus gifting “Boris”-idiot an 80-seat majority instead of —quite possibly— a small one, or none. That treachery saddled the British people with 5 years of “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, and now the little Indian money-juggler. Is Farage about to do it again?
How many times can a con-man fool the same people?
Kay burley doing half her job with Kemi Badenoch , 5 points🤦♀️
Robert Largan isn’t just campaigning using Labour and reform manipulation tactics, he’s being investigated by the POLICE for
I am totally against any strikes in the NHS, but they are not the cause of its malaise. That is inherent, systemic, and to do with the whole structure, with very poor management and administration, and with resources (both the quantum of resources available and also the priorities as to allocation).
Total losses of Ukrainian soldiers per day are approx 1,745. Australian Govt support throwing more (young and old) men and women into the meatgrinder until the last Ukrainian. Australia Govt along with NATO and allies support escalating , the threat a Nuclear War is real.
If that 1,750 figure is accurate, within the next 3 months Ukraine (Kiev regime) forces will have lost about another ~170,000 troops killed or (?) wounded.
Not only are Ukrainian losses existential in terms of the north-east and other fronts, but existential in terms of the demographic future of Ukraine itself.
A quarter of the pre-war Ukraine population comprises Russian or Russian-speaking people, mostly living in the provinces now under Russian rule.
Another quarter of the pre-war population has gone beyond the borders of Ukraine to the west— Poland, Germany, France, UK etc.
That leaves about 20M people living in Western Ukraine and other areas not under Russian occupation, so about 10M male persons. If 500,000-1M are being lost per year (and so not having children), well, do the maths, as they say.
I will be making an Emergency General Election announcement at 4pm today.
Either Farage is going to stab Reform UK in the back (as per Brexit Party), or he is going to announce his candidature in a possibly winnable seat. I should imagine more likely the latter.
If (big if) Farage can win a seat for himself, he may (another big if) drag in a couple of Reform MPs with him.
Two or three MPs may not be many, but if (another “unknown”) the Con Party were to be reduced to small double figures, it is not impossible that, between 2024 and 2029, a merger or coalition might take place which (Farage may hope) might find more traction in the country.
Personally, I am social-national in ideology, so Farage’s mixture of loud pseudo-nationalism and pseudo-“libertarianism” does not appeal to me at all, but I could imagine quite a few voters going for it once Labour falls flat, which will not take long. How many voters might go for it? That probably depends on presentation, as much as anything. Who knows? Farage might become the leader of the said Reform-Con coalition, if Reform can increase its membership (and MP cadre) substantially after GE 2024.
As it now exists, I cannot see the Con Party reviving. How could it? On what basis? Starmer intends to give 16 and 17 y-o people the vote; also, the non-white population is increasing its proportion of the population, rapidly.
I tend to think that all of this might not be settled by elections anyway. We shall see.
Those that currently govern us need to be replaced.
A nice video of Victoria Derbyshire ripping apart every pledge the Conservatives have made for the last 14 years.
Richard Holden simply surrenders, "Victoria it is quite clear you go through all of these and we haven't achieved any of them." pic.twitter.com/XW7KWULsGn
Victoria Derbyshire to Tory MP Mark Harper on Tory abandonment of young people:
“Force them to do NS, tripled tuition fees, froze threshold, extend SL repayment term, invested only a third of catch up, rents rose 9% in last year & houses most expensive since 1876”#newsnightpic.twitter.com/Tcmr0EcPTg
The “Conservative” MPs must surely be toast, and for good reason— they are all hopeless and idiotic.
Your people are only free because white people freed them, patrolled the seas and stopped the slave trade. Meanwhile your people would sell their people in exchange for some nails and mirrors, selling your own black brothers and sisters in the slave trade…shameful
We must be clear about the Britain-hating, white people-hating, European-hating, civilization-hating and culture-hating elements in this country. The time will come when [REST OF SENTENCE REDACTED BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A GERMINAL POLICE STATE…].
Nigel Farage reveals he WILL stand to be a Reform MP in Clacton as he takes over as party leader from Richard Tice, dealing blow to Rishi Sunak – with poll showing insurgents just six points behind Tories #UKElection#Election2024https://t.co/GTALsskMek
Farage has chosen the right place and right moment. The age and race demographics are right in what is said to be an archetypal “left behind” British coastal area. All the same, this will not be so easy for Farage.
The MP 2017-2024, and who is standing again for the Con Party, is one Giles Watling, apparently well-known in the 1970s/1980s on British TV and in the theatre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Watling. He is now 71.
In 2019, the Con Party scored 72.3% at Clacton (Lab 15.5%; LibDems 5.8%). Perhaps surprisingly, no UKIP/Brexit Party type candidate stood, and there was no social-national candidate either. In 2017, there was a UKIP candidate who got 7.6%, but of course UKIP was already washed-up by then.
“Like some other coastal seats, such as Christchurch in Dorset, the electorate is one of the oldest in the country, with a high proportion of retired people, and low numbers of non-White residents. The area has experienced a considerable influx of White British families from multicultural areas of East London such as Barking and Dagenham, leading to the town of Clacton becoming known as “Little Dagenham”.” [Wikipedia]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
This will be a straight fight between Reform UK and the Conservative Party.
It may be that people who quite like Watling’s near-UKIP views may yet switch to Farage, who has the advantage of probably being better-known in Clacton than the man who has been the actual MP for 7 years.
If people want to hit out at the Conservative Party, then, in Clacton, the only way to do that is to vote Reform UK, because Labour and the LibDems have no chance whatever.
In fact, the only way for Labour and LibDem voters in Clacton (evencombined, only 21% of the votes in 2019, and about 27% in 2017) to beat the Conservative Party is to vote tactically for Farage and Reform UK. How many will be willing to do that is unknown.
Farage must have a good chance, despite on paper having a steep hill to climb.
— 🇺🇦 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 🇺🇦 (@NichStarling) June 3, 2024
Should Shapps lose his seat (Welwyn Hatfield, in the Hertfordshire “Borshch Belt”), he could always go to fight for his beloved Israel, after having been an infiltrator in the UK for so many years. He has now had 9 months posing as Secretary of State for Defence (in the UK). Maybe the Israelis, notoriously hard-nosed and realistically unsentimental in military matters, would at least make him a part-time corporal, and get him patrolling Jewish settlements in some arid part of occupied Palestine.
Clacton was always a no-brainer for Nigel Farage. It has Reform-friendly demographics, a long history of voting UKIP + outsiders, Farage & his team know it like back of hand, he can run through middle of Lab/Con & he won't have done it unless seat poll showed it was possible
The moment when the Israeli military helicopters bombed a residential building in Bypej camp in the center of Gaza pic.twitter.com/TKyiaxQR3t
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 3, 2024
Serious fires in the north of Israel due to missiles fired by Hezbollah “Israel” is preparing to seek help from countries in the region to extinguish forest fires pic.twitter.com/FCIFoG78W0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 3, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 3, 2024
Posters posted in tourist areas of the Maldives read: “ We don’t want your money stained with blood .” pic.twitter.com/rMPAzg9b84
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 3, 2024
The Israeli soldiers who took part in numerous massacres in the Gaza Strip, have released a video mocking the pain they have inflicted on Palestinians . pic.twitter.com/0JHz4wldVi
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 3, 2024
Human, or merely humanoid? The impression given is Satanic.
Russia stated that the USA would face fatal consequences if Ukraine attacked Russian territory with US weapons. pic.twitter.com/MsvK1sQ4QX
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 3, 2024
In the past year, Russia's GDP was 3.6 percent, which is more than in any G7 country pic.twitter.com/7PYa4RWzjN
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 3, 2024
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) June 3, 2024
Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman:
Everything we see now from Hezbollah is just an experiment. They are simply trying to learn about our defense system, our air defense response, the nature of the response and the speed of response. pic.twitter.com/4jQk2Ml8hk
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) June 3, 2024
“Rishi Sunak has been given a glimmer of hope as a major new poll by Lord Ashcroft suggests that more than half of voters have yet to definitively make up their minds.
With less than five weeks until the General Election, the research shared exclusively with the Daily Mail found only four in ten have ‘definitely decided’ how to vote.
But in a sign of the mountain the Tories still have to climb, the poll gives Labour a 23 point lead.
Overall, it puts Labour on a 47 per cent vote share, with the Tories on 24 per cent, and Reform UK on 11 per cent.”
Assuming honesty and relative accuracy of the poll, several points stand out for me.
Firstly, that this poll is not at all the “glimmer of hope” for Sunak and the Cons that the report accompanying it is spinning.
42% have “definitely decided” which way they are going to vote. Looking at recent polling elsewhere, that must greatly favour Labour. As for “...leaning towards a party” but “not definitely sure“, that could apply to any of the parties, but if most end up with Labour, then it is possible that Lab could end up, overall, topping 50%, leaving the Cons with a MP cadre in the single figures.
It might also mean, thinking of my previous speculation on the blog, that there are more people than polls suggest willing to vote Reform UK, if only as a protest, or as a method of giving the time-expired Conservative Party a kicking without having to vote Labour. “Secret” Reform UK voters. Do they even exist? We do not know. I think that they may exist, but in what numbers?
Anything up to 31% of eligible voters may not vote, it seems.
One big unanswered question is how many under-40s and especially under-25s will bother to vote, they being heavily pro-Labour.
On the other hand, the over-70s are the only age demographic more likely to vote Con than Lab. If significant numbers either vote Labour (unlikely) or Reform UK (much more likely) or simply abstain (not unlikely) then Sunak and the Cons really are in trouble.
Other takeaways include the fact (if it is a fact) that only 23% think that Sunak etc can do better than others at “running the economy” (Lab 37%; Don’t Know 39%, tellingly). For a Prime Minister with a banking and financial/business background, and who was, not so long ago, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that is very much a thumbs-down.
The voters’ assessments of the characters of Sunak and Starmer are not so very different.
Sunak is assessed by only 8% as being “up to the job“, while only 12% assess him as even being “competent“. That’s damning. (Starmer’s equivalent ratings were 18% and 21%, scarcely a ringing endorsement, but still far better than Sunak).
Ashford’s poll figures, fed into Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] suggest a result of Labour MPs 513, Cons 71, LibDems 31, SNP 12, Greens 2, Plaid 3, Reform 0, Northern Irish 18.
Very very bad for the Conservative Party, but not quite existentially so..
On that basis, there would still be a considerable Con bloc of 71 MPs, and the Cons would still be the official Opposition, however ineffective.
My own feeling, whether it be right or wrong, is still that the Cons may be reduced to below 50 MPs, and that the LibDems may exceed that by default (tactical voting), thus making the LibDems the Opposition in the Commons.
If that were to occur, the defeat would be existential for the Cons. No “bright young” (mostly idiot) careerists (think Liz Truss, once upon a time…) would want to join, and big donors would not bother to pump money into funding the Cons. A “death spiral”, as people say.
Election date— Thursday 4 July 2024. Less than 5 weeks to go.
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National Service
Piers Morgan🗣️ What about the Nations service to our 18yr olds? What they’ve been through. A Gen that lost the best years of their lives. They can’t afford to rent. Can’t afford food. Punitive tuition fees. Probably won’t earn more than their parents… #bbcqtpic.twitter.com/7rVNq31Iod
"There is a growing sense in this country that we are approaching, if not already in, what some have called ‘civilisational moment’ –a time when "we" are starting to lose the very things that make us a "we". Farage has realised this; many other politicians have not" https://t.co/UBS5ZbQKiK
The Tories are the architects of their own demise. By unleashing unprecedented, uncontrolled mass immigration, much of it low-skill and low-wage, they lost the millions of voters they now desperately need https://t.co/9mY88fZaM7
American officials expect that the first attacks on Russian territory using American weapons could begin within a few hours or days , The New York Times (NYT) reported this, citing sources. pic.twitter.com/0Lh3fQnlg3
The American government seems to have lost, if not its mind, then any sense of perspective.
If Country A sells or, even worse, gives Country B arms and ammunition, and especially if that is with the express intent that Country B should attack the territory of Country C, then that is pretty close to being an act of war by Country A against Country C.
Stop this mad slide to a quite possible superpower nuclear war.
The size of the British Army has shrunk BELOW 73,000 for the first time, new figures released today by the MoD reveal
It is widely mooted that the combat-ready spearhead numbers no more than 30,000, if that. Maybe as low as 20,000. Plus about 5,000 Royal Marines under naval command. Plus 4,000 Gurkhas. Plus Reserves.
If UK society continues to slide, they may be used to control the situation in the “British” cities more than anything else.
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The moment the "Burkan" missiles fired by Hezbollah exploded at the 91st Galilee Division headquarters in the Beranit barracks. pic.twitter.com/jQjpVDN7n5
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) May 31, 2024
🔶 Nir Arad, analyst in Israel's Channel 12 studio: Israel is using all its military power in Gaza and is motivated by revenge and frustration in this matter. pic.twitter.com/LPayoCN5uw
All attempts to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia are futile, said Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov.
"Sabotage and the use of Western weapons against civilian infrastructure and civilians in Russia are being prepared with the participation of NATO advisers," he… pic.twitter.com/QdNvk64rbH
Eric Trump: "May 30, 2024 may be remembered as the day Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election."
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) May 31, 2024
I do not have enough information to guess accurately at the likely outcome of the U.S. Presidential Election, but peace would be better served were Trump to be re-installed at the White House, no matter what his personal deficiencies.
I publicly disagreed with the IHRA definition of antisemitism by reference to the arguments of Sir Stephen Sedley (on any view a hugely respected jurist) that it protects Israel from legitimate criticism.
That led to people publishing confidential and dangerously defamatory… https://t.co/qHJf5zO5SH
“I publicly disagreed with the IHRA definition of antisemitism by reference to the arguments of Sir Stephen Sedley (on any view a hugely respected jurist) that it protects Israel from legitimate criticism.
That led to people publishing confidential and dangerously defamatory information about me. And lots more people publishing crude and dehumanising abuse of me. And grotesque accusations of antisemitism about me. And 4 years of litigation where a total wing-nut UK Lawyer for Israel tried to bankrupt me.And a trial where witnesses made untrue or wildly exaggerated statements to try to ruin my reputation.
In the end I won, but my experience confirms Lemoine’s argument. It was awful and exhausting and no doubt intended to be so. Ending people’s careers for agreeing with Lemoine’s reasonable point of view is wrong and dangerous.”
[James Wilson]
Stephen Sedley. I remember him. I appeared in front of him as Counsel sometime around 1994 when he was a High Court judge (he was later a Lord Justice of Appeal). It was a matter involving the Angolan secret service. Sedley had had some previous experience in dealing with Angolan matters: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sedley#Career. He gave me a very courteous hearing before politely refusing my judicial review application…
Perhaps there isn’t any such thing as the Israel lobby. Perhaps Israel is the only country on the planet without dedicated lobbyists. Perhaps organisations like We Believe in Israel, the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, and both the Labour and Conservative… https://t.co/b1HajLptTC
“Perhaps there isn’t any such thing as the Israel lobby. Perhaps Israel is the only country on the planet without dedicated lobbyists. Perhaps organisations like We Believe in Israel, the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, and both the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, simply don’t exist.
Perhaps it’s simply untrue to say that people who are critical of Israel online, or supportive of Palestine, are bombarded by hostile replies from pro-Israel accounts.
Or perhaps, there’s a concerted effort by Israel’s advocates to warp and distort the definition of antisemitism to make it impossible to describe their activities. Was Faiza Shaheen wrong to apologise? I can understand why she did it. But nobody should have to apologise for liking a plain statement of fact.“
Perhaps I imagined the evidence which clearly showed supporters of Israel working together to get information on me.
Perhaps I imagined them publishing confidential and dangerously defamatory information about me.
One of the unreliable witnesses for the losing defendants in that case was Simon Myerson, a barrister and Recorder (p/t judge). Others (all Zionist Jews) were likewise not given much if any credence by the trial judge.
If we are keeping count, I think Myerson has inferred, and then implied publicly, that both you and I were somehow responsible for Dr Newbon’s suicide.
Myerson is also a judge. Is it normal for judges to imply such things publicly? Or is it really weird behaviour?
It’s interesting isn’t it. It worries me going to some jobs and hearing “Last time I had an ambulance out, they were horrible to me”. Obviously, perceptions differ, but being understanding and showing kindness is the very least we can do.
It turns out that political prisoner Sam Melia is now being prevented from having access to his children. In fact, his wife cannot even tell him about them when she visits him. Disgraceful. These really are the tactics of a police state.
— Merv – Lord Merv of the Cinque Ports (@bearz1066) May 31, 2024
Late tweets seen
Donald Trump is already leading in the national polls. He is leading in the key battleground polls. And the latest snap poll suggests he's up among voters who've changed their minds since the trial began. I don't mind being wrong but I suspect this Democrat overreach is going to…
Israeli spy Shai Mosat named Labour’s candidate for North Durham, Luke Akehurst as Israel’s main man inside the @UKLabour Party.@lukeakehurst is also the director of @WeBelieveIsrael.
That should be Shai “Masot“, not “Mosat“, and certainly not “MOSSAD”. On the other hand…
In a further deeply concerning video, Labour's right-wing candidate for North Durham Luke Akehurst – a non-Jewish Zionist – demands senior members of the UK government get "a handle" on British UN diplomats and ensure they are only ever allowed to vote in the interests of Israel. pic.twitter.com/akY4EBF4dE
Does that Israel-puppet get fed exactly what to say by some Israeli agency? Sounds like it.
NATO weapons will be hit in any country from which Russia can be attacked — Medvedev
NATO countries that have authorized strikes with their weapons on Russian territory should be aware that their equipment and experts will be destroyed not only in Ukraine, but also in any place… pic.twitter.com/3LFr6hKsmw
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) May 31, 2024
Difficult questions this week. I scored 4/10, but even that very modest score was enough to trump that of political journalist John Rentoul, who managed only 2/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 5, 6, and 7. I came close (in my opinion, anyway) to getting no. 2 as well.
Talking point
Interesting. Well worth an hour of anyone’s time.
I liked the comment from a 90-something ex-soldier who said that, looking at Britain in the 21stC, he wishes that Hitler had successfully invaded in 1940 (in fact, there never was a serious plan to invade the UK: Hitler wanted alliance with the British Empire, not to conquer it. “Operation Sealion” [Fall Seelowe] was never more than a contingency plan and/or a smokescreen with which to lull Stalin into a false sense of security prior to Barbarossa).
I also liked the several comments by old soldiers now wishing that they had fought for Hitler.
Tweets seen
Listen to the first question Starmer is asked in this clip.
And listen to his answer.
That is not the response of someone who gives a shit about victims of sexual assault. That's the response of someone with no principles or integrity reciting a script.pic.twitter.com/Ph57WTjRFC
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) May 10, 2024
I didn’t think he could get any worse, I really thought the bottom of the barrel had been scraped, but here, draped in flags, with a rictus grin, Starmer, robotically answers from a script, spitting in faces of sexual assault victims. pic.twitter.com/7GjNbNordQ
Starmer’s priorities are: 1. Whatever Israel and the Jewish lobby want; 2. To eliminate any remaining free speech (and refer to previous priority); 3. To destroy what is left of Britain as a real nation, rather than a geographic space filled with globalized economic entities, including humanoid entities (and refer to no.1 above); 4. The self-interest of “Labour” politicians and hangers-on [e.g., most recently, Ayesha Hazarika].
Shocking moment elderly climate change activists use a HAMMER and chisel to smash glass protecting the priceless Magna Carta- the royal charter of rights signed by King John in 1215.
The two women in their 80’s tried to destroy the protective glass at the British Library. pic.twitter.com/5dG5FuwTgI
They should have been kicked into the gutter and stamped on. They are nothing but sub-terrorists, using their age and sex as a shield.
Just Stop Oil is a pathetic excuse for a cause or ideology; worthless.
Those ridiculous old “entitleds”, crowing about their “Christian” faith, will try to destroy a (genuine) “national treasure”, but probably welcome the migration-invasion which will destroy this country and its society long before any “climate change” (however caused).
Housing Sec Michael Gove says he cannot look at official figures showing sharp rise in number of homeless children – a record 145,800 – with "anything other than regret" and blames not enough homes being built. But it is poverty that causes homelessness. And govt can solve that.
Typical msm scribbler thinks that “govt” can “solve poverty”. That depends on various other factors. In the case of the UK, you have importation of around a million unwanted immigrants every single year now, a fact which scribbler Paul Lewis ignores. Simply ignores. As if to say “million immigrants a year? Irrelevant. Just build more houses for them” (for these mostly useless parasites). Oh, and give them cash, and medical services, and schools for their offspring (etc).
4 million? Try 12…(and, by 2034, 25M, or more).
I doubt whether scribbler (posing as an economist) Paul Lewis has much real expertise in the economics of a state or a society (about your electricity or gas bill, maybe; I do not know).
😾😾😾😾😾 When i was committing this ‘extremist’ act outside the Cabinet Office, some years ago who should pass by but #Gove. Sweaty faced and grey skinned. ‘The slithy Gove.’ Everything it touches dies. Slowly. pic.twitter.com/8CvUSos1PB
— ☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) (@riotgrandma72) May 11, 2024
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 11, 2024
Both lots of demonstrators are deluded in their own ways.
I used to go to Brighton Beach (New York) occasionally. Early 1990s. It was a largely Russian-speaking neighbourhood then. There was a large shop selling good bread, and pickled herrings and cucumbers etc.
It is unlikely that Kyiv will be able to regain control of the lost territories in the foreseeable future, Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview with the newspaper Die Presse. pic.twitter.com/f0hOJlgqzP
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 11, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.
Macron “hopes with all his heart” that France will not have to go to war over Ukraine
Emmanuel Macron published a 16-minute video on his X page, in which he answered pressing questions from the French. As Le Parisien reports, the head of state dwelled on the Ukrainian conflict,… pic.twitter.com/ODvBBEX4ny
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 11, 2024
Macron is an idiot. France would not survive war (totally pointless and unnecessary war) with Russia. One Sarmat-2 missile might take out, i.e. destroy, about 90% of the whole of France. I value France, where I lived for 3-4 years; I do not want to see that beautiful country destroyed.
“Mr Justice Nicklin said this in another case: “It is likely that this error occurred because he [Mr Lewis] had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take adequate instructions from his clients.“
[per James Wilson]
Dishonest and incompetent…
Both Mark Lewis and Daniel Berke are fanatical Jew-Zionists. Lewis even lives, some or most of the time, in Eilat, Israel.
People have asked how all this started.
The answer is that Joanne Bell @jobellerina accused me of being an anti-Semite. She’s well-known for making random accusations of anti-Semitism (and also for calling people c*nts or queyntes). It is obviously not normal online behaviour… pic.twitter.com/Rxu5wV2zAK
When Mr Mendelsohn gave evidence at trial, it became clear he was unaware of some of the conduct of, or positions adopted by, his solicitor Daniel Berke.
He honestly thought Berke had complied with the pre-action protocol. In reality, there was almost no compliance!…
As said, both dishonest and incompetent, in the case of Lewis. As to Daniel Berke, I have no idea of how competent or incompetent he is in the civil law field (I read that he is a criminal solicitor), but on the face of the above, he seems as incompetent as Lewis.
Perhaps MentalZone and Cantor could sue Berke and Lewis for their court fees?
As a breach of SRA Principle 4 which requires solicitors to act in the best interests of each client… pic.twitter.com/7o6ATmkJ5u
— Team Phoenix 🔥 #followthephoenix (@LeftPhoenix) May 11, 2024
As I opined some time ago, there seems to have been professional negligence on the part of Lewis, and that may now apply to Berke as well.
Incidentally, Berke also opines about “antisemitism” being connected to “mental illness”:
Seems that Berke’s knowledge of both “antisemitism” and mental illness is as sketchy as his knowledge of civil procedure seems to be. See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/ [updated consistently], in which I examined the incontrovertible links between Jew-Zionism, Jewish “antifascism”, and mental illness.
It’s been reported that pubs showing Eurovision have been issued threats by activists.
Thugs who support totalitarian regimes will not accept ideological impurity.https://t.co/ZvTACZABgO
Yet anywhere hosting anti-Zionists, whether political (London Forum, Patriotic Alternative, Keep Talking etc), entertainers (Alison Chabloz, Gilad Atzmon), metaphysical speakers (eg David Icke) or whatever, will be “hounded” by packs of Jews such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], “Hope not Hate” (“HnH”] and others.
When will the Daily Mail (etc) cover that story? Never…
Fair enough, but Neil is completely at one with Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby, and the Jewish element has been the driving force behind the attack on freedom of expression throughout the Western world: so-called “race relations” and “anti-hate” laws (designed to shut down socio-political debate), “holocaust” “denial” laws (designed to make aspects of modern history off-limits to both non-Jewish historians and members of the public) etc.
Incidentally, should anyone wish to help defray the costs of my own recent free speech trial, the crowdfunder is still open: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
I’ve never watched nor voted in Eurovision Song Contest. Always regarded it as something of a European musical embarrassment. But that changes tonight when I will tune in to vote for the young Israeli. I hope she wins. https://t.co/POk74C1ZCU
Could Andrew Neil be more craven? All his money, yet no real independence, in my opinion.
Like Andrew Neil (pre-2024), I have never watched Eurovision and (unlike Neil) do not intend to change my habit today. I have no interest at all in the Israeli contestant, positive or negative, or in any of the other howling freaks and noisemakers taking part.
I did notice that Denmark’s entry is an African! Not even a beautiful one. “Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad“…
The number of foreign mercenaries participating in the conflict on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has decreased by two thirds compared to March 2022 , writes "Business Insider".
"Half of the mercenaries come from Latin American countries hoping to make money. They are… pic.twitter.com/XycpYuLGhS
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 11, 2024
“The number of foreign mercenaries participating in the conflict on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has decreased by two thirds compared to March 2022 , writes “Business Insider”.
“Half of the mercenaries come from Latin American countries hoping to make money. They are there for money,” said Carl Larson, a former American soldier who fought in Ukraine.
He also admitted that, while he was in Ukraine, he realized that foreign mercenaries would not be able to stop the Russian forces and that they could only delay their advance “perhaps for an hour“.
Late music
[V.B. Tautiev, Launch of Kalibr Missile, Caspian Sea]
Most readers of the blog will be aware that I was sentenced yesterday for breach of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, a law so defective that the Law Commission has recommended its repeal.
I shall blog about my trial and sentencing hearing etc either later today or tomorrow.
Today, the most important thing is to think about forward strategy.
We see, in the Britain of today, a level of repression on free speech and/or freedom of expression never seen previously, not even during times of war, at least since the 17th Century.
Countries which are not cohesive, and which are sometimes called “diverse”, always have to have tyrannical police and secret police, and repressive laws. The modern paradigm, I suppose, was the Soviet Union.
My trial last November, and yesterday’s sentencing hearing was only one small example of the repression which is still increasing. Israel-lobby puppet Michael Gove introduced his “extremism” proposals and was supported by such as “Lord Walney” (the former MP, John Woodcock, who had to step down as MP after sex-pest allegations etc), who has always been a vocal advocate for Israel and its lobby in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodcock,_Baron_Walney#Adviser_on_Political_Violence_and_Disruption.
In fact, Gove, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, seems to be mainly targeting entirely non-violent British groups such as Patriotic Alternative, already attacked both by State agencies and private interests (as when Sam Melia and his wife, Laura Towler were “de-banked” for political reasons a few years ago). See also https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.
Incidentally, “Labour” supports the latest anti-free speech repression. At least, those with power in the Labour Party: Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc; all Labour Friends of Israel members.
What I want to do here is look at “what now?“, in the context of a British society where free speech (especially speech critical of “certain groups”) is finished, at an end, extinct.
Nick Griffin was (also) on the right track when he tweeted (and I think that his views remain the same) that there was “no Parliamentary road” to power for us as social-nationalists, but that we should avoid getting involved in “terrorism” (hard to define, of course, but let that lie for now).
The Parliamentary road is no good mainly because the game is so rigged that the Chicago mobs of the 1920s would feel ashamed. Look at the latest Israel-lobby-procured “extremism” nonsense coming out of Gove and the rest. That means that entirely lawful bodies such as Patriotic Alternative (mentioned by name by Gove) would never be able to take part in elections (certainly not if they looked like having success), might well find it hard to hold bank accounts, or operate any “regulated” mass media etc.
Of course the “antifa” clowns (unwitting pawns of “others”) will think this all wonderful, at first. Later, of course, they will find themselves fed into the meat-grinder.
As for anything approaching the usual view of “terrorism”, that would have no chance even were it morally acceptable. The State holds all the cards— police, military power, secret and security services, arms and ammunition, the mass media (more or less), and pretty tight control over international travel; and so on.
I think that that has to be the way forward. It is in concord with Clausewitz and his views (in another context) re. concentration of forces, sometimes referred to as a kind of Schwerpunkt, or focussed point or area.
On this day in 1938, Austria became part of the German Reich, the forces of the Wehrmacht having crossed the border unopposed on the previous day, welcomed enthusiastically by crowds of Austrian people passed en route:
“On the morning of 12 March 1938, the 8th Army of the German Wehrmacht crossed the border into Austria. The troops were greeted by cheering Austrians with Nazi salutes, Nazi flags, and flowers.[57]
For the Wehrmacht, the invasion was the first big test of its machinery. Although the invading forces were badly organized and coordination among the units was poor, it mattered little because the Austrian government had ordered the Austrian Bundesheer not to resist.[58]
That afternoon, Hitler, riding in a car, crossed the border at his birthplace, Braunau am Inn, with a 4,000 man bodyguard.[53] In the evening, he arrived at Linz and was given an enthusiastic welcome.
The enthusiasm displayed toward Hitler and the Germans surprised both Nazis and non-Nazis, as most people had believed that a majority of Austrians opposed Anschluss.[59][60]
Many Germans from both Austria and Germany welcomed the Anschluss as they saw it as completing the complex and long overdue unification of all Germans into one state.”
[Wikipedia]
“Most people...” in the UK etc were no doubt being informed, or misinformed, by newspapers owned by or influenced by “the usual suspects” (the “you-know-who”…). The enthusiasm of Austrians for Anschluss was therefore a shock to them.
Their crowdfunder [https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia] has now reached £60,532. The minimum level of donation is a mere £4. Help these people and their cause.
[Laura Towler and her husband, Sam Melia, with one of their small children, another being expected to be born very soon]
I myself do not, at least as yet, have any crowdfunder, but am due to be sentenced this week (for allegedly having written unwelcome truths on this blog).
Tweets seen
Russia responded to unprecedented Western sanctions with an “indecent gesture” – CBC
In early February, Vladimir Putin joked that he wanted to show a “well-known gesture” to the sanctions-imposing West, but would not do so because there were “many girls in the room.” Instead,… pic.twitter.com/MGWnMR0UKX
“Russia responded to unprecedented Western sanctions with an “indecent gesture” – CBC.
In early February, Vladimir Putin joked that he wanted to show a “well-known gesture” to the sanctions-imposing West, but would not do so because there were “many girls in the room.”
Instead, the Russian president boasted about the country’s economy and its ability to expand its military-industrial complex in the face of unprecedented sanctions, writes CBC journalist Briar Stewart.
Indeed, over the past two years, the Russian government has managed to circumvent sanctions and limit inflation while investing nearly a third of its budget in defense spending. He also managed to increase trade with China and sell his oil to new markets, in part by using a shadow fleet of tankers to get around a price cap that Western countries hoped would reduce the country’s military budget.
In 2022, Western countries froze Russia’s sovereign assets worth $300 billion. Then more than 16 thousand sanctions were introduced. European airspace was closed to Russian aircraft, and hundreds of Western companies left Russia or curtailed their activities.
But today there are the latest iPhones and MacBooks on Russian shelves because government and business have largely been able to adapt. Russia has relied on Asia, and especially China, as its main economic lifeline. Russia’s ability to produce weapons and use its oil money to finance them is a pressing issue for Ukraine, which is struggling with arms and ammunition shortages, and for its allies.
“However, there are no simple steps left to tighten the sanctions regime. It’s a game of cat and mouse. Any delays in making decisions on additional sanctions give Russia the opportunity to adjust its policies and its economy,” the article says.”
The British Tories are now falling to lows in the polls we've not seen since the final days of the Liz Truss premiership. The party is in a death-spiralhttps://t.co/UkQl6UYyjf
The “Conservatives” have given up trying to win, or even not badly lose, the 2024 General Election. They are now focussed on giving whatever they can while they can, not to their “core voters” but to the very core of that core, the wealthiest 1% or 2%.
67% of Britons think it is likely that Israel has committed war crimes during their attack on Gaza
Quote of the Day: "What disability group can you serve in the army?"
With anyone. If a person can tie a grenade to himself and jump into a dugout, that means he is fit,” – Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anatoly Bargilevich pic.twitter.com/lWx7jCxeWY
Ukraine has never been famous for great minds, but that quoted remark must take the biscuit for recent comments by members of the Kiev regime. That man is the Chief of their General Staff!
I’m not that easily cancelled! The MSM can try, but they haven’t realised yet it’s them that are finished. I'm now FINALLY free to speak the truth without fear of the Ofcommunist censors. This is why I HAD to leave GB News and go independent. My story…https://t.co/Puyv9xE64hpic.twitter.com/zMVEukUoaX
The hate monster? Seriously? Are we, and police Scotland, being run by a fucking primary one class? Or are they just allowing the lowest IQ idiots to dictate to them? Frankly, it doesn’t even matter. It’s offensive to any half intelligent adult. pic.twitter.com/tXNjBzpoiD
That is the level on which much of the police force seems to be, now. Incapable of doing their proper and authorized job(s), and wasting enormous time and money behaving like a poundland KGB or Stasi, spying on tweets and blogs, and “monitoring” what the British people say about the migration invasion, about corrupt and/or useless MPs, and about those “special interest groups” and cabals which hide in the shadows, controlling or influencing events to our detriment.
US Columbia University Vice President Gerald Rosberg could not directly answer “yes” or “no” to the question of whether Palestinians are human. pic.twitter.com/ECNKSe8ZyT
"I think it's time for politicians in Washington to face reality. Chuck Schumer came out of a meeting at the White House and said, 'It's simple, $60 billion and Ukraine will win. If you don't give them $60 billion, they'll lose.'" How they plan We're now in… pic.twitter.com/GRRXLk66fz
“Senator Ron Johnson: “I think it’s time for politicians in Washington to face reality.
Chuck Schumer came out of a meeting at the White House and said, ‘It’s simple, $60 billion and Ukraine will win. If you don’t give them $60 billion, they’ll lose.'”
How they plan. We’re now in a two-year bloody stalemate, and I think you really need to start asking yourself, is it worth spending another $60 billion to fan the flames of the bloody stalemate? Because every day more and more Ukrainians die, more and more Russian conscripts, more and more Ukraine is destroyed. If you care about the Ukrainian people, you should worry about this too.
We don’t have a winning strategy. The administration does not lay it out. If we are going to support Ukraine, it must be done in a way that forces Putin to come to the negotiating table and end this war. I don’t hear it at all. I hear that President Biden hasn’t even talked to Russia on this issue. And I would be very interested to know what happened in Istanbul shortly after the war began, when Boris Johnson, essentially halfway through the Biden administration, torpedoed the peace agreement.
So we really need to do a complete re-evaluation of this issue. And we should secure our own border before sending $60 billion down the rat hole to secure other countries.”
Quite. In fact, you could give the Zelensky regime USD $60BN or $600BN, and it would make no difference. “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) cannot “win”, even to the extent of “taking back” Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk, let alone anything more ambitious.
The present Ukraine is a failed state, and in fact a fake state.
🇵🇸 This is what Khan Younis, a city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, looks like today pic.twitter.com/JV180rNlSX
Russian troops advance even though Zelensky says Moscow's forces are 'stopped' – Newsweek
“Russia’s offensive has been stopped,” Zelensky told French broadcaster BFM TV on Monday. “Our command, our military stopped Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine.” But Western analysts say… pic.twitter.com/uqhklu4ESR
“Russian troops advance even though Zelensky says Moscow’s forces are ‘stopped’ – Newsweek.
“Russia’s offensive has been stopped,” Zelensky told French broadcaster BFM TV on Monday. “Our command, our military stopped Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine.”
But Western analysts say Russian troops continue to advance in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Kharkov and Luhansk regions. “Russian troops recently achieved confirmed successes in the areas of Bakhmut, Avdeevka and Donetsk amid ongoing positional battles along the entire line of contact on March 12,” Newsweek quotes analysts.
In the Kupyansky direction there is progress in the area of the village of Sinkovka. In the south, Russian troops are regaining positions lost during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023. Fierce fighting broke out around such settlements as Robotino, Urozhainoye and Staromayorskoye.
To repel the Russian onslaught, Kyiv has mobilized some of its best units, equipped with American-made armored vehicles and tanks, Newsweek notes.“
“I don’t want to cross this line”: Scholz again stated that he is against the supply of Taurus missiles to Kyiv
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that supplying Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles would be “irresponsible,” Politico reported.
The crowdfunder set up to support Laura Towler and her child (soon to be two children), to help Melia himself while he sits in prison (possibly until the end of this year and even into 2025, depending on any appeal —none as yet lodged, as far as I know), and to maintain political resistance, now stands at £60,782: see https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.
[Valkyrie and hero— Laura Towler and Sam Melia, with their little child; Laura is expected to give birth to another very soon]
What happened to our political class? With much coverage of Lee Anderson dripping with class prejudice, my piece on the dire state of our ruling class is open to all https://t.co/0Ozspo8kpF
The so-called “political class” has been (((captured)))…
"Britain issued nearly 280,000 visas to dependents of workers –80% up on 2022 and 403% higher than when Boris Johnson & the Tories came to power in 2019"https://t.co/3HlwWpqTvb
So you import, say, an Indian who can work a computer (“high-skilled worker”), or an NHS hospital cleaner or nursing assistant from Africa (“key worker”), and then they all come— husbands, wives, “fiances” or “fiancees”, children (of any age), “wider family members” etc, few of which will contribute anything, and all of whom will need to use UK services— NHS, roads, rail, schools, you name it.
More important yet is the effect on UK demographics. In 1956, when I was born, 99% of the UK population was white, almost all Northern European. By 1989, that 99% had become about 95%, and now stands around 80% but dropping rapidly.
Present projections say that white people (“the people formerly known as British”) will be a minority in the UK by 2066, if indeed the UK as such still exists by then. I think that 2040 is a more likely date.
Both System parties are following the same conspiratorial agenda, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan [be aware that the transnational Jewish lobby organizes “volunteers” to “edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia, and has infiltrated quite a number of Jews (especially American Jews) into Wikipedia as “editors”, “monitors” etc. Wikipedia is therefore sometimes biased on certain political and historical topics].
🌙🇵🇸 A Palestinian couple breaks their fast in the ruins of their destroyed home. pic.twitter.com/qLpKaHPWio
“What goes around comes around” and if, at some point, Israel itself lies in ruins to such an extent as it has reduced Gaza, the UK and other European states will, I hope, bar their gates and pull up their drawbridges to any Israeli Jews who may wish to enter as “refugees”.
“Israeli” media: 135 rockets were identified as having been launched from Lebanon since the morning hours
Israeli army radio: Hezbollah does not stop, and in the north there is increasing concern about an economic collapse
Former head of the National Security Council: We must…
There will be no permanent US bases in Sweden – Foreign Minister
After Sweden joined NATO, the Scandinavian country changed its security policy doctrine and approach to it. From now on, it will be developed jointly with other members of the NATO bloc. However, in an interview… pic.twitter.com/W1DqFp2pvS
I cannot see any benefit accruing to Finland or Sweden by reason of their having joined NATO. Au contraire— they have just painted target-roundels on their own countries. Meanwhile, they have already been invaded, by black/brown Afro-Asian hordes, and the Finns and Swedes are being quite literally raped and pillaged by them.
Instead of NATO, let escaped conscripts defend Ukraine – Slovak Defense Minister
Instead of discussing the possibility of sending NATO military units to Ukraine, Kyiv's Western allies should help Ukrainian men of military age return home and join the ranks of the country's Armed… pic.twitter.com/4DcjP06hL3
Those Ukrainians, hundreds of thousands if not millions of them, know that the Zelensky regime in Kiev is a brutal, shambolic, and corrupt police state dictatorship. They have no intention of going back to fight for it.
— Antifa Public Watch official (@UnmaskedAntifa) March 12, 2024
This week, I myself face my sentencing hearing for supposed political “crimes” under Communications Act 2003, s.127. Free speech is now all but dead in the UK.
I'm sure the memes that triggered this "sentence" weren't about Muslims or blacks….maybe about the very influential 1% ethnic group ?
Yes, the same 1% Sam Melia offended. We can see this is working towards the jail sentences they want made law here for antisemitism/anti zionism to silence us and enslave us to their demands. No more protests, free speech will be hate speech, either we stand up or we bow to them.
Completely useless. An enemy of the British people in every respect.
Odd that Woollyhead claims to be “interested in the General Election“, in which election he is not even going to be a candidate. I suppose that he hopes to be elevated to the Lords afterwards, and then get £350+ a day just for turning up to sign in for 20 minutes, and be able from time to time to show off in robes quite as quaint and silly as those of his native West Africa.
Sweep all that away.
🇬🇧 Reino Unido: 🧑🏻 Shaun Tuck – 4 meses de prisão por um post "racista" no Facebook
🧑🏻 Sam Melia – 2 anos de prisão por disponibilizar stickers anti-imigração para download
👨🏾 Al Soami – 180 horas de serviço comunitário por violar criança de 12 anos
The "Marian" newspaper obtained three confidential military reports that talk about the "critical situation" on the territory of Ukraine. These reports, among other things, state that the Ukrainian army is unable to win the conflict, that soldiers from Western countries are… pic.twitter.com/LZf1iCxtAd
“The “Marian” newspaper obtained three confidential military reports that talk about the “critical situation” on the territory of Ukraine. These reports, among other things, state that the Ukrainian army is unable to win the conflict, that soldiers from Western countries are already present in Ukraine, and that Russia has a great advantage in all aspects.”
Ian Robert Millard 