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Diary Blog, 14 August 2026

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[“Britain is the only Western country where the police will turn up at your door for a tweet, but somehow never seem to find the time when actual criminals are running the streets. Say something mildly offensive online? Instant investigation. Actual violence, knife crime, shoplifting epidemics? “Community impact assessments” and soft justice. They’ll lecture you about “hate speech” while the establishment destroys the country’s energy security with Net Zero virtue-signalling that makes your bills higher and industry uncompetitive. The message is clear: your opinions are the real threat. Everything else is just background noise. Two-tier justice isn’t a theory. It’s the operating system. #UK #Britain #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfSpeech #FreeExpression #UKPolitics #BritishPolitics #TwoTierJustice #FreeSpeechMatters #Police #UKPolice #JusticeSystem #LawAndOrder #KnifeCrime #Crime #NetZero #EnergySecurity #CostOfLiving #PoliticalAccountability #BritishPublic #SpeakFreely #PoliticalDebate #WesternCivilisation #UKNews“]

Public water supply, on the large scale, has to be in public ownership.

Yet many people, brainwashed by the System msm, will still vote System (Con, Lab, or the joke LibDems), in the belief that the longstanding System parties are more credible than others, even though that flies in the face of decades of their own lived experience.

If only the initial 2022 invasion by Russian forces had been planned and executed properly, in the Soviet fashion. A blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy.

Dan Hodges is not really a journalist in the traditional sense, more a tendentious and obsessed talking-head and scribbler.

Not very polite, but more or less what Hodges deserves…

I have little time for Farage, ideologically. His pro-Jew, pro-Israel stances, if nothing else, ensure that. His globalist and mindless “libertarianism” too.

Having said that, the “stunt” at Clacton was surely the stupid and meaningless “Count Binface” stunt, which was expressly backed by so many of the tired “woke” types on Twitter/X and in the msm (including Hodges).

The fact is that the old System parties, the LibLabCon-men (and women) are still running scared of Reform UK and, potentially, even more so of what can be seen coming down the tracks after Reform: maybe Restore Britain and, then, after that, real social nationalism.

The traditional System parties ran scared of Farage and Reform at Clacton. Had any of them thought they had a chance, they would have stood candidates. None did. They knew that Farage would beat them easily.

The “Binface” stunt showed, actually, how meaningless the Parliamentary circus is. More than 9,000 cretins (or disenchanted) voted for the “Binface” stunt nitwit. I suppose that, had the System parties stood, Lab and LibDem would have lost their deposits or nearly so (as happened in 2024), and that the Con candidate would have received a few thousand votes and probably come second.

Unable to say more about the actual result (i.e. Farage and Reform getting 63.34% of the vote, as against 46.2% in 2024), the msm scribblers have decided that the big story is that Farage did not turn up for the official declaration…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_(constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

All the traditional churches (and their offshoot organizations) have fallen into decadence and evil.

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[The Wicker Man (1973 British film)]

Latest vlog from Bealtaine Cottage

Some of her comments show an (inchoate) understanding of the encroaching evil in the world, evil using bureaucracy —and endless laws and regulations— as a cloak. She also realizes that that has increased and encroached more since the “Covid” scamdemic of 2020-2022.

Another recent Bealtaine Cottage vlog

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As blogged yesterday, Burnham is out of his depth. Not as obviously evil as his predecessor, Starmer-stein, but so far pretty obviously without real ideas, and anyway without the means or references to radically improve things in the UK.

Anyone caught deliberately setting fires at the present time (as allegedly happened in the Stourbridge case) should be executed in the field, no matter whether they are 50 years old, 20, or (as implied) about 15.

Another commentator addicted to the “we did this” idea. No, “we” did not do this; a few malicious little bastards did it (it seems), and they should be caught and executed in the field. No need for a trial. Executive action.

In fact, that tweeter really knows that “we” are not doing it: see

I have already stated my view. A couple of field executions, and the deliberate fire-raising would stop.

[“NEW: Labour MP Rachael Maskell, who once said that it doesn’t matter if mass migration causes longer NHS waiting times in working class areas, has attacked plans to house more migrants near her 90% white constituency of York Central.

She has described the plans as “unsuitable”, claiming it will cause a strain on local resources.

Funny how that works.”]

So it begins…

Rachael Maskell is an idiot (and clearly a hypocrite), but no worse than most MPs now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Maskell.

Those who want more migration (invasion) into the UK, or think it not a big issue, are either traitors to the future of the British people, or totally deluded. Mass immigration impacts almost everything: housing, road and rail capacity, education, pay, State benefits (including pensions), social services, NHS services, policing, even water supply.

Don’t forget the “Conservative” (((Conservative))) Party, which presided over massive migration-invasion from 2010-2024.

[“PRIME MINISTER ANDY BURNHAM — COME TO PIDDINGTON. @andyburnham See what Whitehall sees only on a map. A village of 350 people. 46 children. No shop. No pub. No substantial infrastructure. Drive the fast rural roads — stretches with no pavement and no safe pedestrian route to the nearest town, six miles away. Now consider the proposal: accommodation for up to 1,250 male asylum seekers on the edge of our village. More than three times our entire population. Explain to our 46 children and their families how a development of this scale will work safely. Tell us where the infrastructure is. Tell us what the policing plan is — because when we asked, none was provided. Cherwell District Council has stated there was no prior engagement or consultation before the announcement. Explain why. You have spoken about giving places outside Westminster a voice. Ours is clear. 96% of those voting supported a referendum on our future. We are not asking you to read another letter. We are asking you to come here. Walk the village. Meet the residents. See the roads. Answer the questions. Do not make decisions about Piddington from Whitehall. 350 people. 46 children. One village that refuses to be ignored. We are Piddington. THE VILLAGE THAT ROARED“]

System MPs, ministers, and prime ministers take no notice of letters, petitions, tweets, or blog posts for that matter. Only one thing really scares them, and I cannot specify what that is, because the UK is nowhere near a “free country” these days. Just read between the lines, as people living under unfree governments have always done.

Now, listen— those migrant-invader bastards are not welcome in these islands. They must be, to put it plainly, concentrated in guarded camps in remote parts of the UK until they can be either deported or eliminated.

Millions are on their way. Stop them, using whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.

Oh, and if the Navy or others refuse to do their duty, dismiss them all, and recruit new personnel.

The cartoonists have picked up on it:

Refers, of course, not only to the migration invasion but also to the ludicrous propaganda being pumped out on msm about how Putin and Russia want to invade Western or Central Europe and even the UK (which they could never do anyway, and would never want to do).

Taking the propaganda at its face, I should far rather be invaded by a million or more Russians (who are, overall, as a people, basically cultured, quite often of high IQ, and of European-origin for the most part) than —as now— invaded by millions of black/brown, low-IQ, low —or no— culture (sometimes subhuman) migrant invaders, many of whom have a predisposition to sex crime (in fact, do not even regard rape etc as crimes, as can be seen in criminal court reports daily now).

As far as 99% of the migrant-invaders are concerned (not just the small-boat invaders), the best that we can expect is that they will be merely an army of parasites, living off the British people. In reality, many are also involved in one or another type of crime. A few (or maybe more than a few) are also motivated by support for out-and-out terrorism. In fact, many of the invaders hate us, despite the fact that our misguided or malicious governments have been giving them shelter, food, and spending money.

We have to stop this whole invasion, get rid of the invaders already here, and make the UK, overall, an ethnostate.

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I have driven past there once or twice, in more abundant days circa 2004, when the reservoir was full.

It cannot be defended. Evacuate the European population, and leave both enclaves (Ceuta and Melilla) to the invaders, but then shoot to kill any who arrive on Spanish shores, on the shores of sacred Europe.

Israel must be regarded as a pariah-state, not to be traded with, or even spoken to, by civilized Europe (Christendom, if you like).

Its “fifth columns” within Europe must be dealt with.

Bolton, a pro-“intervention” (pro-war) policy hawk (who himself however managed to avoid having to see action in Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton#Vietnam_War) is associated with all the usual pro-war causes (pro-Israel, pro-“Ukraine” etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton#Israel.

In short, a horrible old bastard.

The Kiev regime continues to hit purely civilian targets.

I think that the Russian side will soon get very tired of trying to very slowly advance in Eastern Ukraine, and may be wondering whether it really needs to keep Kiev and other major centres in existence.

I hope that the great city of Kiev will not be devastated or destroyed (again) but the way things are going look stormy. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war.

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[panorama of Kiev, Pecherskaya Lavra, Motherland statue, and river Dnieper]

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Diary Blog, 7 October 2025, with thoughts about Gaza, the proscription of Palestine Action, and the Jewish/Israeli influence on the Starmer misgovernment

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Carwithen]
[Basingstoke Canal, southern England, in Autumn; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke_Canal]

Tweets seen

Not much different in the UK, except in terms of scale.

Starmer-stein is far from being the only UK politician more or less under (((control))), but he is, after all, the person currently posing as Prime Minister.

Incidentally, that U.S. Congressman featured above, Jake Auchincloss, is a half-Jew anyway: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Auchincloss#Early_life_and_education; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Auchincloss#Israel

Take a look at this, about David Cameron-Levita, too:

Once again, Cameron (Cameron-Levita) is himself both a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, and a part-Jew.

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I hope so, if only because it will show that “their” money and consequent political influence will be resisted.

Would translate to a Commons with about 438 Reform MPs, 74 Lab, 54 LibDem, 36 SNP, and 20 Cons (etc).

Reinforces the previous ~125 opinion polls over the past year.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

Deliberately insane.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

And which group do you think is behind most of that?…

“Them”.

…and the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby.

[“NEW: A source very close to the senior leadership of MI6 has got in contact. They wanted to make public the opposition within the intelligence agency to the proscription of Palestine Action. Senior figures are said to feel it is a distraction from the battle against real terrorist threat – and should never have happened. The source has been verified.“]

The proscription of Palestine action was and is absurd. They are mostly totally harmless people; the few who are not commit acts of politically-motivated vandalism, aided by the apparent fact that the RAF and others seem incapable of guarding their sites properly. There are already laws in place to deter or punish criminal damage, conspiracy to commit criminal damage, burglary etc.

The only reason that the Palestine Action group was proscribed was because Israel, via its publicity and “lawfare” fronts in the UK (eg the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” cabal), pressured weak Starmer and other Labour Friends of Israel members presently in Cabinet to do it.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Metreweli; also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Ramsay,_Baroness_Ramsay_of_Cartvale. “[Meta Ramsay] is the chair of Labour Friends of Israel in the House of Lords.[9][10]” [Wikipedia].

The absurd thing is, of course, that the tiny number of people actively involved in “direct action” against Israeli targets, or targets involved with helping Israel, in the UK, will not be in the slightest deterred from their actions by the proscription of, in effect, a name.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians killed or badly injured, not to mention driven out of their modest homes which have now been flattened, and the neighbourhoods simply erased.

Every day, hundreds more killed, yet the newspapers in the UK prioritized the death by shooting of two Jewish guards at a synagogue in the UK, one of whom seems in fact to have been shot by the police.

The Gaza flattening goes beyond even most of the similar destruction in WW2. It is Biblical in its genocidal extent. The Roman destruction of Carthage also comes to mind— the symbolic sowing of salt in the ground, and then plowing of the ground where Carthage had stood.

As to the USA, for me it lost any right it still retained to call itself “home of freedom” etc when it embarked on its post-2001 programmes of secret abductions, concentration camps, and torture. All done in collaboration with the Jewish state, *Israel, and with the connivance of Jews and pro-Zionists across the U.S. Federal Government.

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Hardy-ha-ha. Cameron-Levita was always ready, as Prime Minister, to throw money at bureaucratic “aid” projects, yet his government was the one that really weaponized hatred of the sick, disabled, and unemployed, and indeed the elderly (“bedroom tax” etc)…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedroom_tax

The lady tweeter, once “employed” by her MP husband (now ex-MP and ex-husband) via his bloated expenses, likes to pretend that she represents a political faction she calls, or miscalls, the “Moderates”. I have previously speculated as to whether the membership of the “Moderates” exists (beyond the lines of empty bottles in her kitchen). I doubt it.

“Compassionate Conservatism” was always a lie. Now it is a bad joke.

Typical black, though. Thinks that, so long as she keeps talking, or talking over the interviewer, and even if talking nonsense, people will think her both intelligent and plausible. Lammy is no different.

Looking at that Conservative Conference audience, once you take away the journalists and lobbyists, those sitting there are mostly about 80 years old, for one thing, and completely unresponsive to the speaker (unsurprising, since it was Mel Stride).

Both Dan Hodges and Owen Jones in the realms of fantasy. In reality, “neo-Nazis” are not “beating people up“. Most of the UK political violence you see is from the “antifa” dupes of Jew-Zionism, or from Islamist crazies, and the former at least is something that Owen Jones supports, as does Dan Hodges, in my opinion.

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I predicted that on the blog months ago, in January or February.

The top issue which impacts every other important issue.

[“Dizen: The European Union has no future – it is finished, a gradual disintegration also awaits NATO The EU has exhausted both its economic potential and has long ceased to bring any dividends to its members. Now those who lead it are trying to replace the language of mutual benefit with ideology and Russophobia. They propose increasing military spending, militarizing European societies, and the prospect of a great war instead of friendship with neighbors and shared prosperity. The people in the EU did not vote for this. The appropriate question is: aren’t the USA interested in a united Europe? They are, but Washington sees a united Europe as a competitor. Of course, it does not wish it harm, because it wants allies in European countries. However, the USA encourages internal conflicts because it benefits from a divided Europe. Therefore, I do not think the EU will last much longer. PROFESSOR Glen Dizen of the University of South-Eastern Norway assessed that the European Union has exhausted its own future, and that the prospects for the NATO pact are not at all rosy. Asked whether the European Union has a future or whether internal contradictions will prevail over the idea of a united and strong Europe and lead to the bloc’s disintegration, he said: – The EU has no future; it is finished. Not this year or next, but certainly in our lifetime. The European Union was born in the unique circumstances of the conflict between the West and the Soviet Union. Now, in the context of the transition to multipolarity, Europeans are losing unity because member states have gained more freedom. In this context, the gap between the interests of individual players becomes more obvious: for example, the security interests of Latvia have very little in common with those of Greece. Dizen further points out: “As for the economy, the EU has also exhausted its potential and has long ceased to bring any dividends to its members. Now those who lead it are trying to replace the language of mutual benefit with ideology and Russophobia. They propose increasing military spending, militarizing European societies, and the prospect of a great war instead of friendship with neighbors and shared prosperity. The people in the EU did not vote for this. – Even Germany, one of the key EU countries, has already begun to protest and seek a more important role in determining European policy. Essentially, this is a protest against the attempts of Brussels bureaucrats led by von der Leyen to tie all decisions to themselves. East, West, North, South — most EU countries are not ready to give up their sovereignty to some supranational body. They understand that this would result in discrimination against their interests. Therefore, fragmentation within the EU is growing. – Of course, the appropriate question is whether the USA are not interested in a united Europe? They are interested, but Washington sees a united Europe as a competitor. Of course, it does not wish it harm, because it wants allies in European countries. However, the USA encourages internal conflicts because it benefits from a divided Europe. Therefore, I do not think the EU will last much longer. Dizen answers the question of what awaits NATO as follows: — Paradoxically, the alliance also faces gradual disintegration. The USA have realized that they have lost the ability to “dominate” the world. Therefore, they are forced to choose: either to deal with European quarrels or to focus all their forces on a dangerous rival, China, which is becoming more and more confident. In this, of course, the Old World is less important. That is, the alliance leader, who held everything together, is slowly leaving them. And without the Americans, European countries will remember their mutual grievances and drown in mutual conflicts.“]

It is clear that the USA no longer, in the American phrase, “has Europe’s back“.

“What goes around comes around”…

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

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Diary Blog, 9 February 2023

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[Cloisters, Salisbury Cathedral]

On this day a year ago

Diary Blog, 9 February 2022

From the newspapers

“Church news”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11727055/through-Paedophile-priest-63-boasted-wanted-sacrifice-babies-Satan.html.

“No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition”…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11727267/Prevent-report-Anti-terror-programme-tackle-non-violent-Islamic-extremism.html.

There is no “far right” “terrorism” (armed action). If anyone disagrees, then prove it. I mean that there is no really serious action in the UK or mainland Europe, as far as I am aware anyway; all I see in the Press is a few young men shouting nonsense in pubs, or spending their days online, and pretending to be involved in (non-existent) global plots. See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/05/30/one-mans-extremism-is-another-mans-struggle-for-liberty-and-justice/.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11729001/What-like-pupil-today-trans-hysteria-grips-schools-One-14-year-old-girl-speaks-out.html.

The “trans” nonsense has become something akin to the witchfinding hysteria of the 17th Century.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11510237/Quarter-million-unemployed-young-Britons-planning-NEVER-job-survey-shows.html.

“A poll suggests that almost a quarter of a million young people who are currently not working never plan to get a job and two-thirds are complaining it is too difficult to get a good job, a survey has revealed.

The poll of 5000 18 to 24-year-olds found that a staggering 227,000 youngsters currently out of a job or not studying claim they never intend to enter the labour market.

The startling report found nearly half of those who are working (42 per cent) are receiving financial support from their family, with that number rising to 50 per cent in London.”

[Daily Mail]

Give people a positive reason to be employed, and you will get applicants. No-one wants to work at jobs that do not even cover the cost of basic food and shelter.

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Russian forces making smallish gains on a basically static front. Nothing on the large scale will change until one side or the other can mount either a large offensive, or pull some tactical or strategic rabbit out of the hat.

Appalling. Animals are living breathing creatures who share the Earth with us. I hate all callous exploitation of them.

“Boris”-idiot has suggested, I read, that all RAF fighters (and bombers?) be lent or given to the Kiev regime. Was that a hoax report? Maybe. If that were to happen, then the remaining RAF bases (once the occupying USAF forces were chucked out) could go the way of most former RAF airfields, and be turned into tract housing.

I can think of a number of UK air bases that have been turned into housing developments in the past few decades. The same is true of Army bases, such as the one-time Intelligence Corps base at Ashford, Kent, where I recall spending a day in 1975: see https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/templer-barracks-intelligence-corps-depot-ashford-kent-visit-2002-part-1.90734/. The photos in the linked site show how, even a couple of decades ago, housing was encroaching closely upon what was then left of the former Templer Barracks. Templer Barracks had its own guards and entrances, and was a base within a base, surrounded by barracks of the “ordinary” Army. Housing development covered that outer zone first, it seems.

I presume that the areas of Templer Barracks shown are now also tract housing.

[Templer Barracks guardhouse, years after decommissioning]
[One-time guardhouse at now-demolished Templer Barracks, Ashford, with new housing encroaching behind]

[Addendum, 10 February 2023: I have discovered that the trigger for decommissioning of Templer Barracks was the construction of the Channel Tunnel: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Services_School_of_Intelligence and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford,_Kent#Military].

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

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan again: a politically-tendentious half-caste training police recruits into the “right” way of thinking…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan; https://www.abebooks.com/Practical-Idealism-Kalergi-Plan-destroy-European/30553622304/bd.

It’s always “them”. Every. Single. Time.

Strangely enough, I have never knowingly encountered “Prevent”; I presume that I am snooped upon in other ways. Also, see: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/01/15/diary-blog-15-january-2022-including-an-outline-of-the-failure-of-the-latest-jew-zionist-attempt-to-prosecute-me/.

https://twitter.com/thisislaurat/status/1623689005714792449?s=20&t=Oq5LR1tG53YBZACko2v_7A
https://twitter.com/thisislaurat/status/1623607303927742466?s=20&t=Oq5LR1tG53YBZACko2v_7A
https://twitter.com/thisislaurat/status/1623289099296571393?s=20&t=Oq5LR1tG53YBZACko2v_7A

…only to be countered, vituperatively, on social media, by the half-Jew and half-Chinese wife of another former member of the same band.

If the UK were to stop its support for the Jewish regime of Zelensky in Kiev and —even more— were the UK to pull back support for what NATO has become (NWO/ZOG), Russia would then supply gas to the UK, to us, at cost price. No-one in the UK would then need to freeze or starve because of “Ukraine” (the Zelensky regime).

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[Shishkin, A Forest]

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Someone I Met Recently

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A couple of days ago, I needed to buy a new mouse for my laptop computer and also to ask advice on a technical issue. I decided to go to a PC World outlet about 15 miles from where I now live. The PC World store was outside a small town on the coast of Southern England. I was there by 0900 hrs, its opening time. A routine matter, of course, but I felt that I should blog, briefly, about it because it confirmed some of what I have been saying online for years.

There was only one other customer in the large hangar-like store at nine in the morning. I was greeted on going to the service desk by a youngish blonde woman who looked rather fed up. I feared that she would be surly or unhelpful. I could not have been more wrong.

The woman, who was not as young as she looked (she turned out to have a daughter aged 16; well, the police now also look young to me…) dealt with my technical question in a matter of seconds (completely correctly, it later transpired). She also directed me to the part of of the store which displayed “mice”. I chose one, brought it back and, the store now being empty, was told that I could pay for it there at the enquiries desk rather than going to a check-out. I did that.

It might be asked at this point why I am bothering to write about this? Well, I ended up having a chat with the blonde woman employee who had been so useful and helpful, and what she said was very concerning. I don’t know why she confided in me, whom she had only just met, except that people often do. They seem to divine that I can keep a secret, for one thing, though that does not apply in this case. I think that people also know that I want to help if I can.

The blonde woman worked full-time in the PC World store, but lived in a housing association property and received Housing Benefit to pay for the rent or part of the rent. That alone confirmed some of my expressed views over the years. Here she was, in a full-time job, and moreover one which actually required some skill and knowledge, which job she was doing really competently too (as I myself saw), yet was unable to pay her modest rent (after all, this was a housing association property) out of her pay!

Now this is just plain wrong. Here we have a large chain, part of a group (Dixons Carphone, formerly Dixons Group) which, in the financial year 2017-2018, made (pre-tax) profits of £382 million, yet is not paying its staff enough so that they can even pay their domestic rent! Instead, PC World relies on the State to stump up monies (Housing Benefit and also, perhaps, Working Tax Credit— I did not talk to the woman in such detail).

In other words, the profits of the employer are being bolstered by the State, meaning taxpayers (and including, at least via National Insurance and VAT etc, the employee herself in this case).

Previous visits to PC World had been far less satisfactory. That woman had made the difference, yet was struggling to survive. When will British businesses realize that they are only as good as their employees, at all levels?

There is something wrong about a system or society in which the pay received by an employee for full-time work is not enough to allow her even to pay her rent.

Further, I was told that, because the Housing Benefit was delayed by a few days, routinely, the woman had fallen into arrears and, though the arrears were always only in existence for a few days, the Housing Association had taken her to court at least once and, as a result, she had had to pay £100-something in court costs and also a financial impost of about the same to the Housing Association! This surely must be seen as unfair and unjust.

The woman also told me that her daughter was autistic (I do not know, of course, to what extent) and had been getting Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in respect of that. Recently, the daughter had reached the age of 16. As a result, she had been forced off DLA and forced to undertake a “test” for “Personal Independence Payment” or PIP [off-piste, someone must one day do a sketch on the vulgar cheesy names for such things: “Personal Independence Payment”, “Jobseeker’s Allowance”, “Job Centre” etc].

The daughter had, subsequently, been awarded nothing. So suddenly, this girl, long diagnosed as autistic, had now, despite the diagnosis and her previously accepted status, been cut off from State funds by reason only of a change in policy by government (Iain Dunce Duncan Smith and the jew “lord” Freud, Esther McVey, not to mention David Gauke and Chris Grayling etc).

I went away from that encounter at PC World thinking about how unjust and in fact how simply inefficient the system in the UK is, in that instead of a person being able to work and provide for herself and her daughter and/or get help from the State in a simple manner, she (a useful member of society at that) was being made anxious and being forced to jump through hoops in order to survive.

The present system is not efficient, is callous and unfair and is a complicated maze. Hopeless. Parliament is hopeless. “Democracy” (as we know it) is hopeless. The MPs and “peers” are hopeless. Business is not pulling its weight. The people are not only not being helped but are being impeded unnecessarily by the overall system in which they live and work.

Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_World_(retailer)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44286924