Well, the by-election is to be held the day after tomorrow, Thursday 1 May 2025. The chance for the voters of that area to make British political history. At present, Reform and Labour are neck-and-neck, according to the opinion polls. I have already blogged that I think that Reform can smash it, but that depends on all Reform-leaning voters getting out and voting, if they have not already done so by postal ballot. As for 2024 General Election Con voters, the Conservative Party candidate has no chance at all at the by-election (and got only 16% last year); so to stick it to Labour, vote Reform.
Any 2024 Labour voters wanting to send a message to Starmer-stein can either vote Reform (or, failing that, at least for some other party that is standing a candidate) or simply abstain.
If Reform can win the by-election, then both Labour and Con are doomed; if Labour manage to hang on, that too says that Labour is doomed, because Runcorn and Helsby was the 16th most-Labour seat as recently as July last year. A mere Labour win, unconvincing, would say that most of the country hates Starmer-stein and his fake Labour-label.
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I agree with tweeter “@CambrayXX”. Who are the Labour Party supporters in these polls? I think that the answer is that the UK is now about 20% non-white. Labour Party support is running at about 25%. Most blacks and browns (and other non-Brits) vote Labour.
By my reckoning, and using Electoral Calculus, those figures would give Reform 271 MPs, Labour 176, LibDems 69, Cons 68. Enough of the surviving Con MPs would defect to Reform, or make an accommodation, to give Reform a working majority.
Hard to understand why any white English/Welsh/Scottish person would vote Labour-label now. The policies are indistinguishable from those pursued by “Conservatives” David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne from 2010-2015.
I think that, especially in the North of England, there are still people around who support Labour in the same manner as they do their local football team— unthinkingly, and because their grandparents did; and maybe they have not noticed that Starmer-stein’s Labour-label of 2025 is just not the same party Labour was in 1975, or 1965, or 1945. It has become a different party with a similar label.
The same or similar is true of many unthinking “Conservative” voters in the more southerly parts of the UK.
Karen Shore, the Labour candidate in the Runcorn & Helsby by-election, has the door slammed in her face while canvassing
The other main candidates are: Sean Houlston (Conservative) Paul Duffy (Lib Dem) Chris Copeman (Green) Sarah Pochin (Reform) pic.twitter.com/QY92ASJzQU
Who would vote for that Labour-label drone? Dishonest and useless. A local council “grifter”.
Seems that the Labour brand, so to speak, is being trashed not mainly by the drunken behaviour of thuggish ex-MP, Mike Amesbury, but more by Starmer-stein and his rabble of a fake Labour Cabinet. That woman in the doorway is going to vote not for Reform but for the Greens, as she finally said.
'The government would urge the organisers of Glastonbury Festival to think very carefully about who is invited to perform there this year'
Security Minister Dan Jarvis responds to calls for rap trio Kneecap to be banned after a member said ‘kill your local MP’ at a gig in 2023 pic.twitter.com/hLsIWaK6B2
What a disappointment Dan Jarvis has been. I had thought that, as an ex-officer, and with a varied life-background, he would be better as an MP than he has been. Seems to be very pro the Jewish/Israel lobby, for one thing.
Actually, ex-officers usually are disappointing, not infrequently useless, both as MPs and, especially, as ministers (cf. Johnny Mercer, Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, Ben Wallace etc).
The real question is: Why the hell are these devils still in our country?
[“Two 13 year old girls were plied with alcohol and raped by three Syrian men outside a school in the west of Norway. The men posted the rapes to Snapchat before they left the girls to suffocate on their own vomit (luckily no lives were lost). One of the rapist says his life is difficult now because everyone calls him a rapist….”]
Wall. Squad. End.
The Vikings regarded rape as a far worse crime than murder, and punished it accordingly.
Exactly. The western world is ruled by demonic subhumans who revel in bringing destruction and evil to us. It excites them.
After all these years of seeing what they do, what angers me the most is when people call the govt “stupid”… like the accidentally repeatedly bolster…
A group of people, including Georgian mercenaries from Ukraine, plotted to change Georgia’s government by force in 2024, the country’s State Security Service said in its 2024 report:https://t.co/lPa2ctB8kXpic.twitter.com/IqcaZtaTfx
🚨BREAKING — Declassified managed to locate and question the head of Britain's military, Admiral Tony Radakin, about the intelligence his military is sharing with Israel. pic.twitter.com/pr6s588whc
The reporter was notably scruffy and impudent, but his questions were very relevant. Britain has paid out for over 500 surveillance flights in order to help the military efforts and war crimes of the Israeli Jews. That is, apart from anything else, money we need here.
We asked voters in this week's local elections to describe the four largest parties in England in a word – can you guess which is which? pic.twitter.com/HPnnhhCjM8
Three useless pointless System parties, and Reform UK, which is semi-System (at the top) but not perceived by people as being as weak and useless as the others. Hitler and Lenin made sure that their parties projected strength. Amid weak large parties, a coherent and disciplined small party can achieve victory. Reform is not that, but might pave the way.
This is not a joke.
When Labour’s candidate in Runcorn & Helsby said they planned to close the Daresbury Hotel – which houses illegal migrants at the taxpayers expense – I thought ‘ah, perhaps they are finally starting to see how appallingly unfair it is on local residents’.… pic.twitter.com/6B2DAOZZel
That slug wants to put migrant-invaders into council and private rentals, when British people should have those.
Reform can't lose if they get 35% and Labour 36% in this by-election its curtains for Labour at the next election as Runcorn is an alleged Labour safe seat, if Reform wins its the ultimate upset for Labour Now, as it proves to All Labour MPs they are vulnerable, either way its an…
This smacks of desperation. Even your leader isn't bothered to visit Runcorn for first bi election🤷♂️says it all. When will you wake up and realise you have failed the British taxpayer and pensioners since day 1.
🇺🇸 The United States will abandon its mediation functions if there is no progress in resolving the conflict in Ukraine , the State Department announced. pic.twitter.com/oX04CskPLT
'If the Tories had announced they were doing this, Labour would have been up in arms.'@IainDale is 'struggling to think of a positive reason' for the publication of foreign criminals' nationalities. pic.twitter.com/A0X1NQPbpo
Puppet and mouthpiece of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby, Iain Dale, does not think that the public should be allowed to see or hear the truth on this issue.
The fact is that, proportionate to the population(s), non-whites commit far more crimes than white English/British people.
In fact, even publishing the formal national origins of persons convicted does not and will not tell the whole story, because many of the non-whites committing crimes hold “British” nationality; indeed, many were born here. In quite many cases, those non-whites committing crimes have parents and indeed even grandparents born here, by reason of the mass immigration that has hit Britain in the past 80 years (mostly the past 60 years, indeed the past 30).
I recall how amazed I was, as a belated Bar pupil (trainee barrister) and then junior barrister (early 1990s) to see how high was the proportion of non-whites on trial in the criminal courts of London. That was 33-34 years ago. Imagine now!
If you were to take out the figures relating to “travellers” (Irish tinkers) etc, the proportion of actual English/British defendants would be even smaller, very considerably so,
Of course, as blogged previously, quite a long time ago, LBC is owned by a company itself owned by Jews. Use the searchbox on the blog to discover more.
Putin has offered to halt his SMO of Ukraine along the current front line in order to reach a peace deal with Trump. pic.twitter.com/7wtQP61wma
Security guarantees of the type demanded by Zelensky are practically equivalent to NATO membership anyway, and would be also of the type given by Britain and France to Poland in March 1939. That one made the Second World War almost inevitable. Don’t make the same mistake twice.
Ukraine's accession to NATO will not be on the agenda of US-EU negotiations this week, writes British journalist Owen Matthews in an article for The Telegraph, citing an interview with US President's special envoy Steve Witkoff and leaked information in the press.
Time flies to such an extent that, when I read that book, 14-15 years ago, around 2010 or 2011, I got halfway through before I realized that I had known the author’s mother (though only slightly) in the early 1980s, when I was taking a part-time Russian language course at a language institute near Euston Square in Central London. The language school was part of what is now the University of Westminster. Ludmilla Matthews was one of about 5 teachers I had. I think that her subject was Russian Conversation.
Ludmilla Matthews had something not quite right with one of her feet. She was kind enough to say once that my (in fact quite rudimentary) Russian at the time was “stylish“. I remember her mainly for having talked to me about her reluctant acquaintanceship with a (literally) mad Russian or Russian/Polish girl. That was after said girl had almost kidnapped me by guile, having said that I looked like St. Herman of Alaska (I had a beard at the time), and that she had an icon of St. Herman above her bed at her home in Kensington, and would I like to see it? You get the picture.
Anyway, Owen Matthews, now 53 and a well-known international journalist and writer, must have been about 12 when his mother was my once-a-week teacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Matthews.
I have written once before on the blog about these matters, I think.
Officials from the US, Europe, and Ukraine were unable to hold a meeting in London to discuss the Ukraine issue because they had failed to bring their positions closer together, Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing:https://t.co/lflKUyaozDpic.twitter.com/raghPzB72F
British author, Matt Goodwin, @GoodwinMJ, explains the Orwellian crack down on free speech in the UK and attempts by government to outlaw any criticism of Islam.
The full interview will be posted this Thursday April 24th at 2pm EST U.S. and 7pm… pic.twitter.com/lHmqmbQdkz
Tellingly, Matt Goodwin has never, not once, put the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby, particularly the malicious, small —but well-funded— “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [or “CAA”], in the dock…
Matt Goodwin? Controlled opposition, but useful all the same (moving the Overton Window etc, and maybe unwittingly paving the way for a later social-national movement).
Well-known Jews who have been mercilessly targeted by other Jews include the jazz musician Gilad Atzmon (I think that he is a half-Jew), author Michael Rosen, and the actress Miriam Margolyes. Another anti-Israel Jewess, the journalist Mira Bar-Hillel, too:
“Ms Bar-Hillel, who was born in Jerusalem and served as a folk singer in the IDF, claimed she was the victim of a trolling campaign. “You cannot criticise anything to do with Israel or Jews. You start by criticising Israeli government policy and then you get attacked by Jews,” she said…“I’m prejudiced against Jews who criticise me. Their religion has everything to do with it. I’m reporting something that’s horribly wrong with the policies of Israel and they attack me. In my long career no other group has acted in this way.
“When I’m being attacked I feel I’m being attacked by communal action. That community view is very dangerous. It is intimidation. The best way to respond to these things is to simply ignore them. It starts to be like a gang-bang.”
✍️ 'Overseas aid is not charity; it’s an investment in global stability that pays dividends for Britain’s security and prosperity' | Writes Hamish de Bretton-Gordon & Tobias Ellwood
Or so say two of the most misguided or wrongheaded (at best) “interventionists”, cheerleaders for the military destabilization of the Middle East, North Africa, and former Soviet Union.
Ocean County. 32-36 years ago, I lived in Middlesex County, very near Monmouth County, near to the Jersey Shore but to the north of where those fires are raging.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States now understands Russia's position on the crisis in Ukraine much better after holding a series of bilateral consultations:https://t.co/3OHjPYiQ1mpic.twitter.com/wRtkIOcBOw
Russia is not going to attack anyone, it has no problems with either Finland or Sweden, which have joined NATO, Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the French magazine Le Point:https://t.co/lgSNVw2Jxzpic.twitter.com/0SqaSOtrME
This blog punches above its weight. It may only have a relatively small number of regular readers (and far fewer commentators), but it has influenced many many people. It has reached directly about 150 states and territories in the world, and quite possibly all 200 or so indirectly.
I have always taken the view that “one human soul is a big audience“, and that if I can influence one young Alexander, Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi or, indeed, Moses, then the fact that I do not have a huge audience or a readership of millions becomes irrelevant. As Dietrich Eckart said when nearing the end of his life, “do not mourn me…I shall have influenced history more than any other German“.
I often see used distinctive phrases I myself have used (first) in the past, whether on the blog or from tweets when I still had a Twitter account (a pack of Jews had me expelled from Twitter in 2018, following a concerted campaign or conspiracy which lasted several years, and which continues).
For example, I think I was the first to use the terms “migration invasion” and “migrant invaders”, since echoed by many politicians and others, including even some Prominente from System parties.
If you put a drop of intense ultramarine dye into a pool, pond or lake, after a while, the water goes blue; all the water. My blog has that kind of influence, despite the fact that most of my blog posts have been read by, at most, only a few thousand people (each), even after several years.
It is because my blog has influence far beyond its actual numbers of readers that the Jew-Zionist lobby has made extensive efforts to shut it down over the past 8-9 years since first publication in late 2016.
Well, so far I am still here, and the blog is still being published near-daily, despite malicious complaints by Jews, despite backstairs attempts to procure prosecutions (by Israel puppets such as ex-MP —now “lord”— Ian Austin), despite repeated police interference, despite my having been put on trial in 2023, despite my having been sentenced in 2024, despite everything.
On the macro level, I see things beginning to move my way.
“Britain has still to make the decision as to whether it wants to be an advanced, European-race, high-IQ, high-tech, environmentally-aware country, or a multikulti black-brown and mixed-race mess, a “Congo-North” if you like, with ever-declining standards, pay, “welfare”, environment and culture.”
“Thousands of people left in limbo since plans to deport them to Rwanda were axed will now have their asylum claims processed in the UK, Labour has confirmed.
More than 5,000 asylum seekers were on an initial list drawn up by the previous government to be sent to Rwanda under a deal between the two countries.
One of the first acts of the Labour government was to scrap the Rwanda scheme, resulting in many of the 5,700 people the Kigali administration had agreed to accept having their claims processed in the UK asylum system. Some subsequently received decisions on their claims but it is estimated that thousands have remained in limbo.”
[Guardian]
As predicted on this blog, the Keir Starmer-stein “Labour” (Labour Friends of Israel) misgovernment is “solving” the problem by simply rubberstamping the applications of the migrant invaders.
Even under the fake “Conservatives”, at least 80% of the applications were “processed” leading to acceptance. In other words, over 80% were being allowed to stay, meaning that they then get rights to housing, social security/”welfare” payments, and all other benefits available to the actual British population.
This latest news is, of course, the tip of the iceberg. It is probably correct to say that over 90% of migrant-invaders are now being allowed to stay in the UK, with most of the rest also in effect allowed to stay by reason of not being removed from this country. In fact, the few actually leaving are almost all doing so voluntarily, and there are very few of them.
The next step will be, as I also predicted, “processing” invaders before they even get on those rubber boats. They will then enter the UK superficially “legally”, along with the enormous number of other “legal” migrants (migrant-invaders). Between half a million and one and a half million a year.
[from 2020, during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic]
“Businessman Simon Dolan is trying to block the government enforcing new restrictions. His lawyer tells the High Court: Deaths are 2-3% of total, considerably lower than the flu. The gov prioritises only suppression of the virus. It has an obligation to weigh all harms...”
[online news report from 2020]
Pity that, at that time, the courts (and the Government, and the news media, especially idiots such as Piers Morgan) were driven by panic and by “me-too” thinking or non-thinking.
As I predicted on the blog, the stupid shutdown of the economy and society because of a virus which was actually killing almost no-one would damage the UK for many years, and so it has transpired.
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Amazing spring day at Pompeii. If you don’t already know, Dr. Sophie Hay @pompei79 is the one to follow for all the latest news and finds pic.twitter.com/PpqvpGEdI5
A chance encounter this evening with a herd of 7 fallow deer near Oakworth Station. I've seen them around quite a bit when I'm out and about but not usually as many as this and not as close-up. 😊 pic.twitter.com/Pp2Jg0EEuh
— Brontë Country Landscapes (@AFowlerPhoto) April 9, 2025
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]
Did you know that bees sleep between 5-8 hours a day, sometimes in flowers? Also, they like to sleep with other bees and hold each other’s feet.
Shut up. New York City is a hellhole. Admittedly, I have not been there for 32 years, but I knew it fairly well and am still, nominally, a member of the New York Bar.
Some thoughts around the Trump tariffs etc
Assuming that the tariff wars continue and even escalate, what will result?
To my mind, the basic or overarching result will be that trade between the USA and the worst-hit other states will fall away, fall off, and then become trade among those tariff-hit states. China will deal more with Russia, India, Japan, European (including EU) states etc.
It is said that diplomacy has three main branches: classical or straight diplomacy (diplomats, intergovernmental contacts, military pacts etc), economic “diplomacy” (trade and trading incidents, eg tariffs, sanctions etc), and cultural “diplomacy” (such as that which used to exist between the Soviet Union and the West, via such bodies as the UK Foreign Office-funded G.B.-U.S.S.R. Association, to which I myself belonged in the 1980s).
Already, we can see that Russia is gradually forming a trade axis with a core group (China, North Korea, Iran) and a wider outer group (India, and numerous other states across the world). Now, the American or Trump tariffs will create a different bloc of tariff-hit states trading inter se and interpenetrating that first bloc. A kind of Venn diagram.
I can only assume that those advising Trump have it in mind to rebuild American industry and commerce by choking off the supply of foreign goods and maybe also services entering the United States, thus stimulating domestic production. That might work, though at the cost of driving up prices in many cases. However, there would obviously be consequential effects, in that retaliatory tariffs would hit American industry and commerce. China is leading the way in that regard.
The ultimate effects are still unknown. Of course, economic warfare can result in real warfare, and that has been seen time and again, as with the US-Japan situation prior to 1941.
It is not unlikely that the next major war will be between the USA and China.
The World Trade Organization forecasts the contraction of the trade turnover between the US and China by 80% due to mutual duties against each other:https://t.co/pDSAxhxvHbpic.twitter.com/XmouleDGCA
[“One of the UK’s biggest police forces has just temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to “boost diversity”. This is ‘positive discrimination’ or some might say ‘anti-white racism’ that could well be lawful. It will also fuel claims of a two-tier justice system.”]
Many of the ethnic “minority” recruits are later dismissed, often after having committed serious crimes.
The death toll from Israel’s strike on the Shujaiya neighborhood on the outskirts of Gaza City has risen to 35, with dozens reported missing, the Qatari-based Al Jazeera television channel reported:https://t.co/V8xXmfrBv8pic.twitter.com/AP6omKDOrB
How many Hamas tunnels are still active? Israeli Channel 12 TV reported, citing security officials, that since the beginning of genocide in Gaza, the Israeli army has only been able to destroy about 25% of Hamas tunnels in the strip. pic.twitter.com/RYYo0LxMjD
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 9, 2025
I do not know why the Hamas organization decided to attack Israel eighteen months ago. I have no idea why they did not wait until they had constructed much deeper and much longer tunnels, perhaps reaching as far as the Tel Aviv area.
The day after West Yorkshire Police advertised jobs overtly excluding whites we get this about trusting the police. Something sinister is going on from top to bottom of British society. I feel threatened @DouglasKMurray@RupertLowe10https://t.co/r1LaIZeJX6
I rang the West Yorkshire Police 6 years ago & told them 5 Asians had spit at me & said they would rape my daughter if I went in the betting shop I was again , they're response ? Find a different betting shop !
This is like bio-Leninism. Putting the people that hate the indigenous population in charge. This will increase the ferocity and willingness to oppress and dismiss the concerns of the indigenous white population.
The free speech video platform Bitchute has had to totally discontinue its service in the UK due to the draconian "Online Safety Act"
The EU is following a similar course of clamping down on social media platforms that allow free speech. Europe is heading for a dark future. pic.twitter.com/wJzRJEKCDd
The Russian Federal Security Service recorded a video of Arthur Petrov onboard a Russian plane after swapping him for US national Ksenia Karelina, where he said he is very eager to return home:https://t.co/1pLV5icO6Ypic.twitter.com/xasl2jRxyq
Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield, missile and artillery depots over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/DaDsUG0Ohdpic.twitter.com/xvAlvQ1WyU
Russian servicemen, preventing the Ukrainian armed forces from regaining the positions lost earlier, are successfully advancing on a great section of the front in the Kupyansk direction, military expert Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/nwmqyWNvwVpic.twitter.com/8TZK0c0u19
Morgan Ortagus, the US envoy to Lebanon, concealed her Star of David necklace during her meeting with Nabih Berri, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament and head of the Shiite Amal Movement, Hezbollah's representative in negotiations and foreign affairs. pic.twitter.com/US2gjLaNaq
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 5, 2025
Labour MP Dan Norris arrested over rape and child abuse allegations
Party suspends North East Somerset MP after he is taken into custody following police raid on his constituency homehttps://t.co/Oh8kJ7fEkS
— Land of Saints & Sinners (@Landsinners) April 6, 2025
Labour Friends of Israel member. A Starmer-stein favourite.
…and the Runcorn and Helsby by-election only 24 days away…
You do know a Labour MP was just arrested on child sex charges don’t you? How many Labour MPs and councillors arrested so far in the last 12 months?
6! 4 of which are paedophiles.
Labour MPs:
1.Dan Norris: On April 5, 2025, Dan Norris, the Labour MP for North East Somerset and…
[“You do know a Labour MP was just arrested on child sex charges don’t you? How many Labour MPs and councillors arrested so far in the last 12 months? 6! 4 of which are paedophiles. Labour MPs: 1.Dan Norris: On April 5, 2025, Dan Norris, the Labour MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, was arrested on suspicion of rape, child sexual offences, child abduction, and misconduct in public office. The allegations pertain to incidents from the 2000s and a rape allegation from the 2020s. Norris has been released on conditional bail while the investigation continues, and the Labour Party has suspended him, removing the party whip. 2.Mike Amesbury: In February 2025, Mike Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, was jailed for 10 weeks after pleading guilty to assault by beating. The incident occurred in October 2024, and Amesbury was suspended by the Labour Party following his arrest. Labour Councillors: 1.Lee Laudat-Scott: In July 2024, Lee Laudat-Scott, a councillor in Hackney, resigned after being charged with sexually assaulting a child under 13. His arrest marked the second paedophile scandal in Hackney Council within a year. 2.Ricky Jones: In August 2024, Ricky Jones, a councillor in Dartford, was arrested and subsequently charged with encouraging violent disorder. This followed a speech he made at a counter-protest in Walthamstow, where he allegedly called for violence against far-right protesters. The Labour Party suspended him pending the outcome of legal proceedings. 3.David Graham: In early 2024, David Graham, a senior Labour councillor in Fife, Scotland, was arrested and charged with alleged child grooming offences. Following his arrest, the Labour Party suspended him, and he was due to appear in court at a later date. 4.Desmond Gibbons: In late 2024, Desmond Gibbons, a former Labour councillor on Gedling Borough Council, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after being found with over 600 indecent images of children, some as young as three years old. Gibbons had resigned from the Labour Party and his council position prior to his sentencing.“]
“Hyper-globalisation was economic & cultural. Economically, it ripped nations open to a rigged system that offshored jobs, wages, factories to service China; culturally, it ripped them open to mass immigration to service big business. Both smashed the working class in the West” https://t.co/jTHP0gCSaj
Can it be that ridiculous and unpleasant little pissant Darren Jones thinks that the NHS is somehow an economic contributor to the UK economy, when it is really something (albeit necessary, so be it) taking out resources overall? Worrying that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury seems to have no grasp of basic economics.
Having clearly lied initially and claimed it was justified in doing so. An appalling crime. https://t.co/3V9RlNg6cu
'We need to wake up. Civil wars aren't something that are just assigned to history or to crackpot African nations. It could happen here. And unless we deal with the underlying causes, it will happen here!' — @WillKingston sounds the alarm over the UK edging towards civil conflict pic.twitter.com/cNbmNwMfNY
The most ancient countries in the world by date of the emergence of civilization. pic.twitter.com/qoQbtxusHS
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 6, 2025
Interesting, but I am more interested in both the present main culture, i.e. our own, the “Germanic-Anglo-Saxon-American” (as Rudolf Steiner put it), and the next main culture (which still lies fifteen hundred years in the future), the Russian/Slavonic.
At present, the Russian culture is almost entirely a borrowing from older cultures, mainly the Graeco-Roman culture and our present “Western” culture, just as Northern Europe only had “borrowed” Graeco-Roman culture until around 1400 AD (or “CE”) and the eruption of the Renaissance, which was essentially a brief recapitulation of the Graeco-Roman age.
There are, as yet, only indications, seen here and there, of that future Russian culture.
Breaking the ice: Russia's nuclear fleet has no competition
▪️This week, the fourth nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220, Yakutia, completed sea trials and departed for operations along the Northern Sea Route. pic.twitter.com/z5VnaLlYDo
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 6, 2025
‘Why should British hospitals, and British patients, be forced into humiliating corridor care in hospitals overrun with rats, cockroaches, and sewage leaks?’
Were there more limited foreign aid being sent, were vast sums not being wasted on the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, were there no migration invasion, were there few non-whites living here, and were the UK a fundamentally white European ethnostate, this country would be hugely better off in every way; not only economically but also socially and culturally.
Has anyone other than latterday slave traders benefitted from mass imigration?
— Steve – Back in Watford. (@SteveInWatford) April 6, 2025
Labour’s economic lunacy hits even the TUC. They’re cutting 40 out of 100 full time staff. “Who knew that championing workers’ rights meant trimming your own?” The TUC insists it’s part of a “recovery and growth” plan – Guido Fawkes https://t.co/PviWDMSPoD
The trade unions stopped standing up for British workers about 50 years ago, certainly 35 years ago. The unions moved to being just another load of “anti-racism” “anti-sexism” pro-immigration and pro-LGBTXYZ drones. As for supporting higher pay and better working conditions, forget it. The unions long ago stopped seriously pushing for those, and had no power to do so anyway. A waste of space.
Native British Snakeshead Fritillary. Getting increasingly rare, mostly a Southerner. I have one clump and it grows a bit every year. 😊🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/KAHpf1D987
Pickle, Jonny, Rupert and Wizard were born at the sanctuary following one of our largest and most shocking rescues in 2021. 😞
After receiving expert care, the quartet are now beginning an exciting next chapter several years later as part of our Donkey Assisted Activities herd. pic.twitter.com/Mu4b0LOndb
— The Donkey Sanctuary (@DonkeySanctuary) April 6, 2025
Late music
[a painting by someone I knew as a small child, who was the same age as me, who was also a neighbour and, much later, an eminent psychiatrist, but who died in his fifties]
Quite. Look at the Allison Pearson case. Oh, wasn’t she shocked when the police came to her door and questioned her about a few online comments. Yes, shocked. She put all her outrage in her next newspaper column scribblings, and the “usual suspects” in the “free speech” milieu all formed up to march behind her— Toby Young, the “Free Speech Union” he put together, the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail etc.
As a matter of fact, I myself think that the police behaved outrageously in that instance.
Where, though, was Allison Pearson when others suffered from similar or worse behaviour at the hands of the police and those behind the police, and indeed Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), who have wormed their way into positions of influence, sometimes having suborned those stupid “elected” Police and Crime Commissioners brought in a decade ago by David Cameron-Levita.
Much of such backstairs manipulation can be lain at the door of the very malicious Jew-Zionist org known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, a pro-Israel pressure group (effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London) whose self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement”…well, let’s just call him “Slitherman”…is not infrequently to be found broadcasting his lies and propaganda on the “usually, no-one watches” Talk TV and GB News and even, sometimes, on Sky News.
At the foot of this part of the blog can be found a few blog articles detailing some of my own experiences. First, though, let us look at Allison Pearson’s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Pearson] experience.
[“In November 2024, Pearson was visited at home by Essex Police asking her to undergo a voluntary interview after a complaint that she had incited racial hatred with a tweet posted in November 2023. During a period of scrutiny on British policing of pro-Palestinian protests during the Gaza war, Pearson had posted a photo of Greater Manchester Police officers standing besides supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan‘s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party waving the party’s flag. However, despite the flag including the word “Pakistan”, she called the flagbearers “Jew haters” and misidentified the officers as Metropolitan Police officers, citing an incident where that service had not met with an Israeli-advocacy group. These errors were corrected by a Community Note and Pearson deleted the tweet.[15][16]
After the visit, Pearson wrote a Telegraph column criticising the incident and saying that the police had said it was a non-crime hate incident. Essex Police reported The Daily Telegraph to the Independent Press Standards Organisation, saying that it had body camera footage proving that they had never said it was a non-crime hate incident.[15][16]
You see from that Wikipedia article that Allison Pearson criticized people as “Jew-haters“. She herself is not Jew, or even (as far as I can see) “part-” or “crypto”. A provincial scribbler by origin, who blagged a poor 2:2 in English at university and, as “journalist”, gets most of her facts wrong.
Allison Pearson has made common cause with the “CAA” snoopers and “lawfare” abusers. She said nothing when the Jewish lobby abused law and professional regulation to have me wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016; neither did she speak up for me when I was on trial for writing this blog (on trial in late 2023, sentenced in March 2024).
The police have been at my door about 5 or 6 times since 2013, always because some Jew or other has made up a contrived complaint. See the blog articles posted below. A few telephone calls too. The last time was only about a year ago, when some policeman at the door confronted me with Twitter/X posts, which (apart from the language used, which never could have been from me) were from, I think, 2024, and I have not posted on Twitter/X since I was permanently “suspended (expelled) in 2018, when —once again— a pack of Jews combined to “complain” about me.
Seems that the police (posing as a poundland KGB or Stasi) think that I am the only Ian Millard in the world, or in the UK, or posting online. Are they really so ineffective and unthinking? No wonder (real) crime is exploding.
Allison Pearson has also never said a word supporting other victims of Jew-Zionist lawfare, such as Alison Chabloz (imprisoned for posting satirical songs and cartoons), Jez Turner of the now-defunct London Forum (imprisoned for making a short speech in Whitehall saying that Jews should be removed from the UK), or Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative (imprisoned for distributing completely lawful stickers).
The same is true of other controlled opposition types—Toby Young, the Free Speech Union, GB News, Talk TV, Farage, “Prison Planet” Watson, Matt Goodwin etc, not to forget Katie Hopkins herself…
Ms. Hopkins has never said a word in support of me (or any of those others mentioned).
Come for the vulnerable and disabled yet again and they will rightly come for you. They might not have anything left under Labour but they have a vote. https://t.co/WxTeWffLwf
The first test of that will be the by-election at Runcorn and Helsby on 1 May 2025, i.e. 4 weeks this Thursday.
Only total dummies are going to vote foe Starmer-stein’s fake Labour, but there are plenty of dummies out there, especially in the North of England where many vote Labour automatically, even today (because their great-grandfather always voted Labour…).
Leaving dummies of that sort aside, though, who will vote Labour now? Pensioners? Hardly! The young (under-30s)? Doubtful. Anyone on any State benefits? Very doubtful.
Not that Con is any sort of alternative, now that Labour is doing what the “Conservatives” used to do, and worse…
Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to ditch the Triple Lock on State Pensions, so the over-60s voting “Conservative” would be turkeys voting for Christmas.
Reform is really the only game in town in the by-election, if one were to take seriously the “democratic” Schauspiel.
That wasn’t in the Labour manifesto either. More police they promised. Instead, devastating cuts in the capital.
Met Police to lose 1,700 officers and staff in £260m shortfall – BBC News https://t.co/rOoQic5Arf
[“REVENGE— Get down there, where you wanted to send me, you unclean spirit!“]
Thus perish all my enemies.
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Who is still voting for the Conservatives after 14 years in power? Has everyone memory-holed the Boriswave, highest tax burden since WW2 and the increasing crime rates that happened under their watch?
I find it hard to believe that any or many would vote Lib, Lab, or Con after the past 15-25 years…
These latest figures would translate to a Commons with 223 Con MPs, 170 Reform, 130 Labour, 56 LibDem (SNP 43 etc). Underwhelming. Con minority govt. (supported by Reform?).
Still, would be good to see so many “Labour” careerists culled.
Among those kicked out would be that horrid little bastard Stephen Kinnock, Angela Rayner, Mary Creagh, Ed Miliband, Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Sarah Champion, Kim Leadbeater, Torsten Bell, Lisa Nandy (it just gets better!), and Emma Reynolds.
That one would mean Lab 197 MPs, Reform 194, Cons 141 (etc), so maybe a minority Reform government.
What is holding back Reform is that it is not social-national, just conservative-national.
We always lecture Russia on democracy – and now they have thrown this lesson back at us like a boomerang, said Marine Le Pen, who was disqualified from running in the French presidential election by a court ruling pic.twitter.com/wziVOi7pTE
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
Aux armes, citoyens!
A Ukrainian model of the M901 launcher of the American MIM-104 Patriot air defense system, equipped with a container for PAC-2 missiles, is towed by a KrAZ-260V pic.twitter.com/uNDuOuaaUU
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
British media write that they received a sensational leak from the Pentagon : the US will not help Europe in the event of a Russian attack. The US Department of Defense document says that Europe should not depend on the White House in the event of a Russian invasion. pic.twitter.com/TMgger0CPp
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
NATO’s days are numbered.
Johnson: Europe is heading for war with Russia, but it has neither the military power nor the resources to do so
Larry JOHNSON: The main reason for the aggressive policy towards Russia is the loans that France, Great Britain and Germany gave to Kiev. If Ukraine is defeated, that… pic.twitter.com/ATC5AxBCAm
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
[“Johnson: Europe is heading for war with Russia, but it has neither the military power nor the resources to do so Larry JOHNSON: The main reason for the aggressive policy towards Russia is the loans that France, Great Britain and Germany gave to Kiev. If Ukraine is defeated, that money will disappear. And the Russian army will destroy all foreign forces that find themselves on the territory of Ukraine. All those soldiers will be dead. All that will remain is to count their bodies After the summit of the “coalition of the willing (to help Kiev)” held in Paris on March 27, French President Emmanuel Macron said that several members of the coalition plan to send “deterrence forces” to Ukraine. As he emphasized, these forces, which will operate under the direction of Paris and London, will allegedly not replace Ukrainian troops and will not become peacekeepers. Their task will be to contain Russia, and they will be deployed in strategic locations agreed in advance with Kiev.“]
Israel Channel 14:
Following the attack on Iran, Iran is also expected to carry out large-scale missile and drone attacks deep inside Israel. pic.twitter.com/030gt2X1C4
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
How about tax cuts to parents so that the mother can actually stay at home for the 1st 5 years of their child's life to raise them, instead of handing over their 6 month old baby over to strangers so that they can work & pay taxes. All you want is both parents working so you can…
— Heather Louise Navin 🟣 (@ZoeWill26686182) April 2, 2025
[“How about tax cuts to parents so that the mother can actually stay at home for the 1st 5 years of their child’s life to raise them, instead of handing over their 6 month old baby over to strangers so that they can work & pay taxes. All you want is both parents working so you can get as much tax as possible. Scientifically babies are not supposed to leave their mother at all until the baby is 3 years old. Exactly the same as Apes. This is an attack on the nuclear family.“]
At first, I thought that that tweet from Zoe Williams was uncharacteristically sensible, but soon realized that this is a different Zoe Williams, not the very silly Guardian scribbler [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Williams].
another black hole for the diversity chancellor to fund
— Nitrocellulose Doormat (@NitrocelluloseD) April 1, 2025
“Germany could ban far-Right politicians from running for office. Draft agreement seeks to ensure convicted extremists from parties such as the AfD cannot contest elections.
Far-Right politicians in Germany could be banned from running for office under plans by the incoming government, echoing a decision in France to block Marine Le Pen from a presidential bid…“
[Daily Telegraph]
Well, there it is. NWO/ZOG cabals are planning to remove even the fig-leaf of “democracy”.
Of course, “convicted” is but a (not-very-cunning) lie. All that that means is that the System will ensure that troublesome dissidents are indeed convicted, under some or another repressive anti-free-speech “law” or other. Then, abracadabra!, they are barred from standing in elections in the supposedly “free” countries.
Well, if implemented (whether in Germany, in France, or elsewhere) that will only leave action directe as a way forward, as President Kennedy noted about 65 years ago…
Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted up to 435 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed a tank in its area of responsibility over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday:https://t.co/IEUy5a9JA3pic.twitter.com/w5Xu1NrbIx
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
US expands military presence in Middle East to put pressure on Iran and strike Yemen's Houthis, media reports pic.twitter.com/p5IyRuNjzH
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
Those American aircraft carriers are incredible, both in themselves and as global power-projection tools. I once met an American carrier commander in the Caribbean. He and his wife were on leave. A funny little man to look at, a bit like the Penguin in the 1960s TV series, Batman, he carried his rank and responsibility lightly. I used to have a few drinks with them once the sun was going down.
Well, this week a modest 5/10, but still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 6, 8, and 10.
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Talked on @BBCNewsnight last night about people's grim views of the economy and the sense of hopelessness it'll ever get better. The very real possibility is having voted for change 3 times (Brexit, 2019, 2024) and not got it, people start looking elsewhere for 'real change' pic.twitter.com/uAFqu7j6Ro
We know in our hearts what we have to do. We may have to steel ourselves, and take on karmic guilt, in order to do what has to be done, as Krishna counselled Arjuna, before the battle at Kurukshetra, and as recounted in the Bhagavad-gita.
"Last year, in 2024, the General Medical Council registered 9,285 doctors who had been trained here in the UK and … get this … 19,279 doctors who trained abroad."https://t.co/RcfOA7Bl7P
And here’s the insanity taking place on UK campuses where I worked for 20 years and helped bring in a new law to uphold free speechhttps://t.co/f2He9wyBxR
[“I cannot remember the last time I saw six police officers together in Britain. But here they are, arresting two parents, in front of their children, for complaining about their local school in a Whatsapp group. Britain is completely and utterly lost. It used to be the home of individual liberty; now it’s morphing before our very eyes into an Orwellian nightmare. We need a political revolution to restore common sense. And we need it now.“]
Incidentally, Matt Goodwin, who seems to support the Jew-Zionist lobby, has never said a word in support of my free speech rights. Neither has Goodwin said anything to support persecuted satirical singer Alison Chabloz, imprisoned for posting songs and cartoons online; Goodwin never said a word on her behalf. Same goes for Jez Turner, imprisoned for making a brief speech in Whitehall (calling for the deportation of Jews from the UK).
It is suspicious that the Sun comic gives Goodwin (and Farage) a mass platform; TV shows do, as well. Would I ever be given such platforms? No.
As you can see, not one mention by Goodwin on his blog of the Jew-Zionist lobby that is the main driver of censorship and repression of free speech in the UK; notably the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, whose so-called (self-titled) “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” was once exposed in open court, and by the CAA’s own bungling solicitor, as a vicious and perverse social media troll, targeting mainly women, and doing so pseudonymously.
That unpleasant nuisance still holds that (I presume, paid) role, and appears on joke TV stations such as GB News, Talk TV etc, as well as, occasionally, on Sky News. He even turned up to gloat at my free speech trial (which his own persistent backstairs manipulation of the stupid/ignorant police and CPS Wessex had procured), as well as at the later sentencing hearing. He quickly scuttled off, however, after my sentence (which he later described online as “absurdly lenient“) was pronounced. See my blog posts of 16 March 2024 and 17 March 2024 for more detail.
Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative was imprisoned for distributing stickers, the content of which even the prosecution at his trial conceded was lawful.
Support for Melia, Turner, Alison Chabloz —or me— from Goodwin, Toby Young, Katie Hopkins etc? Nil.
The long-term Jew-Zionist attempts to criminalize “holocaust” “denial” (examination of the ever-less-credible stories around the repression of Jews in the mainland Europe of the early 1940s) have become a general strategy to criminalize any and all criticism of Jewish behaviour, or Israeli war crimes etc.
Likewise, we have seen how the plodding UK police, while failing at their proper job most of the time, enthusiastically tried to reinvent themselves as a poundshop KGB or Stasi during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic of 2020-2022. Those dissidents pointing out the absurdity of shutting down the economy and society because of a virus that was actually killing hardly anybody were hounded and, in some cases, even arrested. They were labelled “Covidiots” and/or “Covid deniers“
Some fanatics even wanted those sceptical of “climate change” orthodoxy to be criminalized. They too are called “climate change deniers“…
Starmer-stein’s fake Labour-label regime seems to be going even further.
That evil fraud should have been put up against a wall years ago.
Executive Board of the IMF has completed the Seventh Review of the Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility for Ukraine, which provides Ukraine with another tranche worth $400 mln, the IMF press service said in a statement:https://t.co/gBbRTbcbJqpic.twitter.com/QsBfLemJTK
The Russian armed forces have liberated Panteleymonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Shcherbaki in the Zaporozhye Region, the Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/jfYYFndJwzpic.twitter.com/h5XxzB8ZOx
The Kiev regime no longer tries to invent victories, advances etc. Russian forces are advancing steadily on all fronts.
🚨 This week’s Spring Statement was a “massive missed opportunity” to implement a wealth tax, economists and campaigners have warned.
Economists told Big Issue that a wealth tax could generate as much as £24 billion a year – five times the £4.8bn Rachel Reeves expects to save… pic.twitter.com/XnOrhL9W8I
Our social fabric is fine – despite Jenrick’s best efforts to stir the pot. I don’t think he’s the right person to lead anything – his recent trajectory frankly crackers. And I backed him so imagine he’s received pretty unfavourably by A N Other Average Voter too. pic.twitter.com/qH4vV9FwGr
If that lady (ex-wife of an ex-MP) thinks that the UK’s social fabric is “fine“, I really think that she should get out more…
I agree with her about Jenrick though (albeit for other reasons). He is a horrible little pissant, completely in hock (probably literally) to the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby.
Despite statements by Vladimir Zelensky about the purported cessation of attacks on Russian energy facilities, over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian army continued strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/TgzXhSueZDpic.twitter.com/stykns9IOH
🇬🇧 Great Britain and France cannot accept defeat in Ukraine
▪️ France and Britain's efforts to escalate the Ukrainian conflict stem from their "concern for their relevance" and refusal to accept that the conflict is lost, former British MP Matthew Gordon-Banks said. pic.twitter.com/VCo8djsYrb
In 2004, Gordon-Banks switched party allegiance to the Liberal Democrats, joining the party’s Executive Committee in Moray, Scotland.[6][7]
Gordon-Banks was suspended from the Liberal Democrats in 2016 after an antisemiticTwitter tweet: “Farron’s leadership campaign was organised and funded by London Jews” and “I am glad I never had to represent a constituency with a significant Jewish community because [they] are all bloody hard work“. Marie van der Zyl, Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said, “The comments by Matthew Gordon Banks on Twitter are of very deep concern. He talks about Jews and money and hints at the age-old canard of the ‘Jewish conspiracy’. He must urgently clarify and apologise for his comments, otherwise, we would expect the Liberal Democrat Party to invoke disciplinary procedures.[1][8]“
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This is how absolutely INSANE this case this. This is what the local Member of Parliament said today:
“I have constituents getting in contact with me saying their house has been burgled and the police have not turned up, or they have watched shoplifters come in and take things… https://t.co/KppX5zzmva
[“This is how absolutely INSANE this case this. This is what the local Member of Parliament said today: “I have constituents getting in contact with me saying their house has been burgled and the police have not turned up, or they have watched shoplifters come in and take things off the shelf, and police will not come. Now it appears Hertfordshire police were able to send six officers for parents’ comments on a WhatsApp group and emails to the school”. And now, we also learn today that the local police who staged this arrest warned off DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED local councillors from getting involved in the case. Outrageous. What has happened to our country? As I say here, this is not simply a freak case, an unusual outlier. No, it is merely the latest symbol of our country’s major and growing free speech crisis. This is, at its core, about freedom. Whether you believe we are a free nation with free speech, free expression and the right to question authorities, or you don’t.“]
Toytown police state becoming a real police state…
I am 43 years old. I cannot recall a time in my life when I have been as depressed about the state of Britain and England —a country I love—as I am today.
Here are 5 things that happened in the last week alone that point to the terrible future that awaits our once great country…
[“I am 43 years old. I cannot recall a time in my life when I have been as depressed about the state of Britain and England —a country I love—as I am today.
Here are 5 things that happened in the last week alone that point to the terrible future that awaits our once great country unless we urgently and radically change course.
1. In the political system, a group of MPs, many of whom preside over disadvantaged neighbourhoods here in Britain, decided to lobby instead for an airport in … Pakistan … to please their Muslim constituents, thereby continuing to usher in a dark and dangerous sectarianism into our politics that was further reflected this week in the election of “independent” local candidates campaigning not on issues central to Britain but … Palestine. We are heading, slowly but surely, toward a model of sectarian politics that looks more like Lebanon than Britain.
2. In the legal system, a remote, unelected, unaccountable and self-righteous ‘Sentencing Council’ refused a request from elected government ministers to change guidelines that will entrench a two-tier legal system, whereby people from racial, sexual and gender minorities will be treated more favourably than others when handing out prison sentences, thereby violating the principle that everybody in this country should be treated equally before the law
3. In the judicial system, police decided to arrest two parents whose only ‘offence’ was to complain about their local school in a WhatsApp group, with the Orwellian school and police authorities both prioritising the ‘emotional safety’ of a few fragile teachers over the need to uphold free speech and individual liberty in this country.
4. In the immigration system, meanwhile, we learned that 6,000 illegal migrants have now arrived on our shores on small boats in the first three months of this year, 40% up on last year, with crossings happening every day this past week, taking the total since 2018 to 157,000 illegal migrants who are costing struggling British taxpayers upwards of £7 BILLION a year. This isn’t only breaking our laws but is throwing full light on the total incompetence and inability of our politicians and the UK state to control our own borders, keep our own people safe, and maintain our status as a sovereign nation.
5. And in the economy, lastly, this week we learned that our hapless rulers in Westminster are now more interested in helping foreign nationals and illegal migrants than their own people, with a Spring Statement from the Chancellor confirming they are more focused on slashing welfare and support for British pensioners, workers, and farmers, who come from these islands and whose ancestors have contributed to these islands for centuries, than they are on slashing the BILLIONS these same British taxpayers are now being forced to spend subsidising foreigners, illegal migrants, foreign criminals, our broken asylum system, and foreign aid which is still being used to support the likes of eco-farms in Nepal, obese children in China, and LGBT campaigns overseas.
Sorry, but enough is enough. The people in power, the people who are presiding over these disastrous decisions, really need to start thinking about where all this is going, where all this is pushing us as a people and a nation.
Because it’s increasingly clear, to me at least, that the eventual destination will be a very dangerous, dark and divided place indeed. There is a total lack of strong leadership in this country. We need to change course, now. We need to start putting the British people first, now. And we need to start radically reforming the entire political, legal, judicial and economic system, now. Because unless we do then we are all heading into very serious trouble.“]
[Matt Goodwin]
Well, I am now 68, and I say the same, or similar.
Only social nationalism can save Britain and all Europe.
Exterminate evil, then build a state which can be a foundation for a better society and ethnostate and, developing over long periods of time, an eventual super-race.
The fear that Rachel Reeves is putting on disabled people and those that already suffer from conditions is horrific. I would never have voted Labour at the last election if I had known about their disgusting plans. They are no better than the Tories.
It only takes one individual to stand up, step up, and send a message that will never be forgotten.
Rachel Reeves has no credibility. She had a company credit card taken away because of misuse, she had her parliamentary credit card suspended because of misuse, she falsified her CV,and her recently published book was riddled with plagiarism. The chancellor is a fraudster #Fraudpic.twitter.com/iAJjUGOo3n
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts https://t.co/4NxN5nL5KZ Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday
I am sure that the migrant-invaders and other non-Brits will appreciate the free housing. Then they can start (or continue) to breed.
More of the green countryside lost to featureless sprawl.
Is this a pic of Rachel Reeves? This homeless looking crack slag doesn't look like a gov't bigshot. She looks like she really needs a shower, a shampoo and some deodorant. Eww! https://t.co/RALSio7ein
About time that the British people awoke to the fact that most of those purporting to rule over them are their enemies.
"Take a good look at Labour’s roll call of benefits scrounges: Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell, and Anas Sarwar—each one a master of mooching off the system they claim to fix. Starmer’s hauled in £107,145 since…
[“Take a good look at Labour’s roll call of benefits scrounges: Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell, and Anas Sarwar—each one a master of mooching off the system they claim to fix. Starmer’s hauled in £107,145 since 2019—£20,437 for a lord’s flat, £16,200 in suits, £2,435 for glasses, and £18,000+ in football tickets while fans queue for crumbs. Rayner’s £3,550 wardrobe and £1,250 New York getaway, courtesy of Lord Waheed Alli, scream entitlement—she can’t even dress herself on £150,000 a year. Reeves, our tight-fisted Chancellor, snatched £7,500 in outfits, while Streeting grabbed £1,160 Taylor Swift tickets as the NHS staggers. Phillipson’s £14,000 ‘event’ cash from Alli—birthday bash, anyone?—pairs with her concert freebies, and Powell’s £40,289 since 2019 marks her as a seasoned scrounger. Sarwar’s £10,117 in Scottish perks tops his MSP rivals. Together, they’ve gorged on £220,000 in shadow cabinet handouts—£700,000 across all MPs in a year—preaching equality while pocketing privilege. Hypocrisy doesn’t just drip from this lot; it pours, a rancid flood of greed proving they think rules are for us plebs and benefits are their divine right. Utterly revolting!“]
Dear Rachel Reeves MPs claimed over £200 million in expenses over the last 3 years. Why is it their electricity, gas, council tax, and contents insurance for second homes is paid for by us, the taxpayers? #GMB#BBCBreakfast
Delegations from Russia and the US have conducted technical consultations in Riyadh and sent reports to their respective leaders; the talks’ results will not be published, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/LcsV1esmZ4pic.twitter.com/cmt6GgmWHF
A widely circulated video shows secondary detonations at a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot in Sumy Oblast after an Iskander missile strike pic.twitter.com/GCDA9QtAnc
Ukraine continues attacks on Russia's civilian energy infrastructure amid the Moscow-Washington consultations in Riyadh, the Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled the main information on the Ukrainian attacks:https://t.co/20sDdznUpWpic.twitter.com/mCNJVWJR0s
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/jyPEVoOAJRpic.twitter.com/Jdt0qhbmzI
The more that I think about the upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election, the more I think that Reform are going to smash it.
No matter that I could imagine Reform with a better candidate (someone such as Matt Goodwin), though the Reform candidate seems voter-acceptable, anyway. The important thing, surely, is the hatred so many people now feel for the main System parties and even more —because of the feeling of betrayal— from Labour (in fact much more than for the Conservatives who, despite their appalling record 2010-2024, are now seen as near-irrelevant, finished, washed-up).
That’s before you even factor-in the fact that the Conservative Party is now led by a Nigerian woman who also seems totally clueless. Also, Kemi Badenoch’s thunder (on social security, tax, spending cuts etc) has been stolen by Labour. Labour is just a label now, and is even less social, let alone socialist, than the Conservative Party.
For me, it is telling that the Labour candidate for the by-election is trying to ape Reform, demanding the closure of hotels occupied by migrant-invaders etc. It is clear that Labour considers Reform to be its main rival, and not only at Runcorn and Helsby.
In the past nearly 9 months, the Labour “brand” has been totally trashed. The whole population, I should have thought, has turned away from Labour. Pensioners, the young, anyone receiving any State benefit at all, anyone anti-migration invasion, anyone with any genuine feeling for the English countryside, will not be voting Labour.
The petty corruption and sleaze of the Labour Cabinet may be dwarfed by the corruption of the past years of “Con Party” misgovernment, but the point, I think, is that people, especially in the North of England, somehow expected Labour to be somehow better.
The sheer “we are the masters now” arrogance and callousness exhibited by Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Starmer-stein, and their lesser followers such as Torsten Bell, has disgusted millions.
People now, after only 9 months, see this Labour-label regime as being quite as bad, and in fact worse in every way, than those of 14 years of Conservative misgovernment.
I do not think that Labour’s appalling handling of foreign affairs (by thick “diversity-hire” Lammy, as well as by Starmer-stein himself) will count for much at the by-election, either way, but people can surely see that Starmer has made a fool of himself by threatening to send (almost non-existent) troops to Ukraine etc. That is so even for people who support the Kiev regime.
I think that important factors at the by-election will include the continuing migration-invasion, the petty sleaze and corruption of Labour’s top echelon, the hypocrisy of the same, the sense of Britain as a country sliding to chaos and even civil war (albeit not this year), the behaviour of the former Labour MP, the wish to give Labour a real kick and, perhaps most important, the sense of total betrayal by Labour.
At present, both polling orgs and bookmakers predict a modest or narrow win for Reform.
I may be wrong, but I think we could be looking at a huge win by Reform. A win in the region of as much as 50% or even 60% of the vote-share. Labour? Maybe 20%-30%. Cons? 10% or below; maybe even a lost deposit.
This might turn out to be a very significant by-election result. If Reform can win it, the win might pave the way for dozens of others in this Parliament.
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The shocking sense of unfairness that now pervades British life —millions of hardworking, tax paying, law-abiding Brits now feel they’re being taken for a ride by a political class that puts immigrants first https://t.co/KaihWoYU3i
Wrong. The “political class” in the UK puts itself first, then its cronies and bribe-makers, and only then the migrant-invaders etc, with most British people last in line.
Only 11% of Brits think Rachel from Accounts is doing a 'good job' –YouGov, today
[“A British school scrapping Easter to celebrate “refugee week” & “diversity” is not a trivial story It reflects something which unites today’s ruling elite –a belief in “asymmetrical multiculturalism”. And what’s that? It is the belief you must celebrate every identity, culture & people except your own I wrote about this and the attack on who we are here https://mattgoodwin.org/p/the-war-against-our-past-inside-the“]
[Philby on a 5-kopeck late-Soviet commemorative postage stamp, and described as “Soviet Razvedchik“, a term which might be translated as “intelligencer”, rather than the grubbier-sounding “spy” (in Russian, “shpion”); “razvedchik” is a more polite or dignified term]
“Secret surveillance of Britain’s notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.
In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.
They said he gave “no outward sign of being either nervous or on the alert, but your well trained man should not do so; every movement is natural – again as it should be”
[Guardian]
The whole Philby thing has always been hugely overblown. Philby himself has been over-rated, too. Superficially well-educated, yes, but really a rather dogmatic Marxist-Leninist who, under other formative circumstances, might have been like some of the other basically mediocre professional-level bourgeois Englishmen I have met in my life, and who were not in secret-intelligence work but, variously, Roman Catholic converts, and/or military officers or barristers or other activity.
Philby was certainly no great mind, though he evidently thought himself very clever. Likewise, he was a bit of a plodder ideologically.
I recall that Philby wrote in his supposed memoirs (possibly part-ghosted by KGB helpers), My Silent War, or elsewhere, that “you choose your side and stick with it“, i.e. rather as others do to the Labour or Conservative parties, or to (the contemporary British obsession) football clubs. Unthinking loyalty. Stick-in-the-mud loyalty.
The puffing of Philby as the “masterspy”, or even “spymaster”, suited both sides in the Cold War: the Soviet side getting the gloss of having not only suborned Philby and other “Establishment” Englishmen to the Marxist/Soviet cause, but also having outplayed Western intelligence agencies in the spy game.
As for the British part of the Western side, Philby’s prominence could be presented as an example of why pervasive “security” (and the whole Cold War stance) was necessary. Also, his supposed “brilliance” in a way bolstered the reputation of institutions such as the more expensive English schools (Philby was at Westminster School) and, of course, the supposedly elite universities, in particular Cambridge.
The whole “Cambridge spies” story tends to puff the reputation of SIS and MI5 (despite their having been outplayed) by making their role seem terribly important. One scribbler even penned a well-known book called Philby— The Spy Who Betrayed A Generation, as if the Cambridge Spies were pretty much the centrepiece of British history since the 1930s, rather than an obscure footnote to it.
In the 1930s (when Philby started to work for Soviet organizations), there was (in the first half of the decade) the Great Depression, and the initial triumph of National Socialism in Germany. In the middle of the 1930s to 1939, the Spanish Civil War, while in Britain itself, the economy was recovering and society changing .
Then, in the early/mid 1940s, there was the titanic Second World War (in the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War).
In Britain, after 1945, there were the great social changes of the 1950s and 1960s. By that time, the “Cambridge Spies” were mostly not even in the UK. Maclean and Burgess had fled in 1951, and Philby was in journalistic exile in the Middle East. The economic and social changes in the UK were the main events, together with the start of the disastrous migration-invasion of non-whites into the UK, and Britain’s retreat from Empire.
The “Cambridge Spies” were not even footnotes to much of that. Near-irrelevant, despite the obsessions of the Westminster Bubblers and newspaper scribblers.
What damaged Britain in the 1940s through to the 1960s, and then on to today, was not a few spies passing on information to the Soviet Union, but the abandonment of Empire, the importation of blacks and browns in vast numbers, the cultural decadence etc.
You often see Philby and his fellow Cambridge spies described as “upper-class” or even “aristocratic”. In fact, not one was of “aristocratic” background, though all (except Cairncross) were affluent or wealthy. Philby’s own father was from an affluent government-connected family [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Philby] but a fact generally ignored or covered-up is that Philby’s mother, Dora, was half-Indian, a so-called “chi-chi” (pron. “shi-shi”), which may have subtly affected his loyalties.
General Kalugin, in his memoirs, describes how his superiors had the idea of using Philby, then in Moscow, as a kind of lure for potential agents in the West, by showing that he was respected, had a good life etc. His first meeting with the shambling drunken Philby makes a memorable picture.
Incidentally, Philby never learned to speak or read Russian beyond a rudimentary level, and had English-language books supplied to him via the KGB (presumably via people at the London embassy, and the diplomatic bag).
In the early 1990s, sometime around 1994, I was slightly acquainted with a Russian businessman living in London, and with an office in Regent Street, who had some legal business (I was a barrister at the time). We had lunch at least once at my Inn (of Court), Lincoln’s Inn. I recall that the Spanish waitress was very taken with “Ed” [Edvard] and his rather Scandinavian looks (he was from the Baltic regions) and even asked me later if I might effect an introduction for her (that never happened).
“Ed” was quite open about the fact that, prior to his taking to capitalist business activity, he had been in the KGB, though that would only have been, at a guess, for a relatively few years. He recalled having been at a lecture or two given by Philby in Moscow (he said that that had been at the Lubyanka).
Incidentally, those comments in the Guardian from the MI5 surveillance directorate in 1951 do tend to beg the question; after all, if a surveillance target is acting naturally, then either he is not guilty, or is literally acting (and/or has been trained to act) naturally, so in fact may be guilty. If, though, the target looks nervous, looks for reflections in shop windows etc, does that mean that he is guilty, or is he just a nervous wreck and/or afraid of being thought guilty? Wilderness of mirrors.
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This is getting obscene now. How do you give people greater dignity by removing their ability to wash below the waist and get in and out of the shower. https://t.co/Htcx53yS2A
The sheer hypocrisy of the Labour Friends of Israel “Labour” government is simply unbelievable. Surely Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Torsten Bell, Starmer-stein etc can see that? Or are they so removed from truth and decency that they cannot see it? That might be even more alarming.
A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters | Reform UK | The Guardian https://t.co/EgBKUoNgaE
I should imagine that even Labour-inclined voters will be voting Reform UK (or staying home) at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, in order to send a message (and/or a kick) to this horrifyingly callous and irredeemably incompetent misgovernment.
As to Conservative Party loyalists in the area, I should say that the Cons have no chance— so vote Reform in order to stick it to fake Labour.
From “tepid bath of managed decline” (really offensive) to blood bath. On top of 30,000 NHS England jobs. We are the party of work, it’s in our name, says Starmer! I don’t think you are. What a disgrace and totally counterproductive in an already struggling economy. https://t.co/HNL1ZdmhUP
“Given that there is a lot of talk about changes to special educational needs provision and reform plans for the NHS, we should worry about what the government might focus on next. Equally alarming, it seems to me, is a belief in Downing Street that reviving the UK demands embracing the wonders of artificial intelligence, which Keir Starmer believes will have an almost magical effect on everything from social work to education, and realise his new dream of “totally rewiring government”. Because this is an administration so lacking in everyday humanity, that is a much more scary prospect than he and his colleagues seem to realise.“
[John Harris in The Guardian]
I should not be surprised to find (if I am still around) that, somewhere down the line, in 5+ years’ time, the members of the present Cabinet will find themselves up against a wall.
A super piece. I simply don't take Kemi Badenoch seriously. She will never be Prime Minister. I rate her 1/10. Keir Starmer, who I rate 3/10, surely can't believe his luck. Even so, tangentially, I increasingly wonder how much longer Starmer is PM? He'll be gone well before 2029.
Russia and the US have a long way to go to resolve the situation in Ukraine, and there is no point in deceiving ourselves about imminent prospects, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov pic.twitter.com/SmBOg59npJ
Sumy Oblast or region is in NE Ukraine. Sumy city is NNW of Kharkov; about 150 miles from Kharkov by road but only about 90 miles as the crow flies. About 200 miles east of Kiev.
So Russian forces are in Sumy Oblast now. There seem to be Russian advances in all material parts of the overall front. Kiev-regime forces are falling back.
I don't think people properly understand the extent to which Labour is now the party of the rich. In 1997 the Tories led Labour by 10 points amongst the most affluent AB social class. But Labour led the Tories by 23 points amongst C2s, and 38 points amongst DEs. In 2024 Labour…
Why do many think it impossible that “the lion will lie down with the lamb” in a future age? All things are possible.
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Instead of addressing the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict, Europe is only exacerbating them by increasing military spending and considering the deployment of its troops in Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/g3iz7sEnq1pic.twitter.com/JlZGOa4D4b
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If you want the full story about Beth Grossman of Doughty Street, Mark Lewis of Patron Law, and Daniel Berke of 3D Solicitors, here it is:https://t.co/02BP64b6sl
I think it was Daniel Berke’s firm 3D Solicitors who acted for Pete Newbon in relation to Northumbria. Maybe it was them who advised him not to make the agreed apology?
As to why they gave that advice, my theory is that the plan was to sue Michael Rosen and making the apology…
For those who are unaware of the outline of James Wilson’s (now-successful) libel case against three defendants (all Jews; in one case, possibly only a part-Jew), the defendants were advised and/or represented by Jewish solicitors and barristers who seem to have been, all or variously, professionally negligent and/or incompetent.
Mark Lewis and Daniel Berke were the main solicitors for the defendants, Beth Grossman of Doughty Street Chambers was the barrister (possibly the only barrister; I do not know, and only heard of her recently, via Wilson’s Twitter/X account and Substack blog).
Are people reading your Substack blogs?
— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 (@MichaelRosenYes) March 21, 2025
I get about 900 views per piece on average. And the daily visits keep going up so far.
I definitely have some very committed readers in the legal field.
I expect they know Mark Lewis professionally and are keen to see his antics finally exposed?
“Lewis’s reputation“? Ha ha! Only ignorant fools think that that is worth more than a plugged nickel. I have blogged many times about him, over many years; he has never once threatened to sue me (no doubt partly by reason of my impecuniosity, but truth as defence –or other defences— may also have much to do with it).
Feel free to republish any of my blog posts. After all, I was a barrister until a pack of Jews procured my wrongful and, it turned out later, actually unlawful disbarment (in 2016): see
Success and failure are never certain. The great Stephen Sedley tells a funny story about when he started as a barrister doing work for North Kensington Law Centre. pic.twitter.com/TC4nydR6P6
Ha. Amusing. As a matter of fact, I myself appeared as Counsel in the High Court several times before Sedley, a High Court judge at the time (early 1990s), notably in a case involving a former member of the Angolan Secret Service.
I doubt that there are many barristers who have never suffered excruciating embarrassment in open court. For example…
As for Goodwin, I recently flagged the possibility, no more, that he might be on the following trajectory— win a by-election (Runcorn & Helsby?) as a Reform UK candidate, take over from Farage the leadership of Reform (with Farage’s support), and then (once Reform has become the largest party in the Commons after the next general election ) become Prime Minister.
It might just happen.
However, as that tweeter “Serena Brown” notes, either the UK becomes again a homogenous society, or it does not. There would be no point in a Reform UK government if it were unwilling to take the steps necessary.
This is not merely about immigration, and certainly not only about that relatively small part of immigration which comes in via the infamous “small boats”. It is about the non-whites already here, who are breeding much faster than the English/British, who themselves are not even reproducing their own numbers.
When we see Reform, we notice that it is ideologically in hock to the Jew-Zionist lobby, and pathetically adherent to Israel and Israeli interests.
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Shabana Mahood's justice system . Look how it's going is this fair is this justice …… https://t.co/EVlYYjgiFC
I have blogged previously about the bad joke that is Shabana Mahmood as “Lord Chancellor” and Secretary of State for Justice— a Pakistani woman whose total legal experience has been a 12-month Bar pupillage (decades ago), followed by a year as a salaried “gopher” at a firm of solicitors. Use the search box on the blog to find out more.
I polled a nationally representative sample of the public to test for attitudes to deportations, beginning with violent criminals, far from being a ‘very online’ fringe, it has overwhelming popular support: — 83% of all voters and 100% of reform voters https://t.co/QP2yY5oGPTpic.twitter.com/eeIY340YJc
Sexual offences – similar popular support. And notably not just with the general public but near unanimous support from reform voters — 84% of all voters and 100% reform voters would support removing migrant sexual offenders pic.twitter.com/zVdEYsXzw0
I cannot comprehend how *any* MP can believe that lowering the (relatively modest) rate of LCWRA is going to incentivize a measurable number toward employment.
The idea of 'mitigations' doesn't cut it either; the entire group is 'severely disabled.'https://t.co/6affz0ut1D
Starmer-stein is not a Labour prime minister (even of the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown type); he is a Labour Friends of Israel prime minister, and that applies, mutatis mutandis, to virtually his entire Cabinet.
Starmer-stein and his Cabinet should face real resistance from the British people.
Meanwhile, Starmer-stein continues to try to play the “world statesman” and would-be war leader, and looks ever-more pathetic as he makes that attempt.
NEW POST. NHS Insider — We should train more British young people to become doctors instead of importing less well qualified doctors from abroadhttps://t.co/ZJggUPTtLI
When simply noting the totally obvious sounds radical…
That influx of non-white doctors has another consequence: by reason of the high pay received by doctors in the UK, any offspring are automatically given a better life-chance than most white English/British children. The knock-on result is that more non-whites are going to be placed into the higher socio-economic groups in the UK, thus further weakening our civilized European culture and society.
“Last year, the General Medical Council registered 9,285 doctors who had been trained here in the UK and … get this … 19,279 doctors who had trained abroad” https://t.co/xN9e92K0JR
Yes we know… but what will @reformparty_uk actually do about it? All I hear is watered down rhetoric, political impossibilities…. Where is the solution – isn’t that how you win? Give us a credible solution, not garner votes out of the good British publics desperation.
Exactly. Reform is the last hope of many, but it is also the last chance for the System itself to survive. If Reform is squashed or disappears, we are looking at quite likely civil war, or social war, and the national revolution, down the line. However, if Reform manages to be either the largest or second-largest party after 2028 or 2029, or even in government with a Commons majority, but then fails to take the steps necessary, we shall also be looking at not-unlikely civil/social war.
We must not forget that the Jew-Zionist element is embedded in Reform. One only has to look at the pronouncements of Farage, Tice, and now Goodwin.
Still, at present, Reform UK is the only game in town:
Phenomenal growth for Reform in just 8 months:
-14% to 26% in national polls -160,000 members (220k total) -465 branches set up -30 events across country -will stand in ALL local seats
Hopefully, that little bully will be found and prosecuted, but of course his punishment, if any, will be slight, in the present society.
When the law ceases to be respected, or enforced (by reason of weak and/or politicized police, prosecutors, courts), such lawlessness leads, in the end, to the public taking the law into their own hands, and meting out more condign punishment to evildoers.
Not for nothing has “the Bailey” (Central Criminal Court, London) the following inscription on its facade: “Punish the evildoer, and protect the children of the poor“…
A deeply unpopular left wing prime minister or a man propped up as the anti-immigration right wing candidate by the same media that pretends to oppose him. Voters like Farage because they are told he is on their side, but what they want and who he actually is could not be further… https://t.co/xv0zF75ukM
It will be recalled how warmly Starmer-stein welcomed Farage into the chamber of the House of Commons for the first time.
Look at Canada. Similar story in UK. Mass immigration imposed while productivity flat lining. Why? Bc as I wrote here mass immigration is bad economics and pushing us into “population trap”. Economists were wrong https://t.co/KPXX4VnTqTpic.twitter.com/yTTHkO2ytX
The Council of the European Union has approved the payment of 3.5 billion euros to Ukraine under a macrofinancial assistance program, according to a statement:https://t.co/OrgTP4YbSopic.twitter.com/XbLFdcp8zP
The conversation between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin scheduled for March 18 is indeed being prepared, Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing in response to a TASS question:https://t.co/RXmzAXunMHpic.twitter.com/kCNZN8pbKt
Russian forces fully liberated the community of Stepovoye in the Zaporozhye Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday:https://t.co/zHeKGo2sgApic.twitter.com/pQbyH8kaw4
What? Apparently the incoming President of the International Olympic Committee Sebastian Coe visited Epstein’s Island 11 times!! pic.twitter.com/HebCwV40u5
'State pension is a benefit not entitlement – what you get is up to Starmer' https://t.co/TmQ2ELIFtJ I worked from 16 to 65 and never missed a payment as did my wife you piece of shit . Whilst you piss money up the wall on Ukraine and you lunatic green policies
Over £7.5bn in universal credit is spent on foreigners as more than one million non-Britons claiming benefits. Also when given leave to remain, they also qualify for state pension!
There is your savings @RachelReevesMP NOT the sick, disabled and vulnerable UK nationals !!
These penguins were stuck in a dip and were freezing to death, so this BBC Crew broke the rules stating they can't interfere to save them pic.twitter.com/jjicLNeq8o
Who makes up stupid rules like that anyway? Small-minded people who think that the natural world is not connected with humanity. Glad that those BBC people broke the “rules” laid down.
I often break rules, and feel good about doing so.
If the most significant event in my life was an extramarital affair with Britain's least successful prime minister, I would simply not write an autobiography. pic.twitter.com/t3vvxxRj8W
Runcorn & Helsby is the 144th most 'Reform-friendly' seat in the country.
If Reform can win there it can make enormous inroads across Labour-held territory in northern England, Yorkshire and the Midlands https://t.co/BhN57QraEs
“The government says it wants to make significant savings on welfare payments to the disabled and help the disabled into work. The point, say all ministers – led Sir Keir Starmer – is not to harm the disabled, but to free them from a life of dependency. That, they claim, is why this is a truly “Labour” reform — and not just brutal cuts engineered by Rachel Reeves because she needs billions in savings so as not to breach arbitrary, self-imposed fiscal rules on the assessment date of 26 March. Is any of this plausible?
The first thing to say is the point of fiscal rules should be to help focus minds in government about how best to share scarce resources between different important resources. They should not set hard deadlines for making decisions with potentially profound consequences for the lives of millions of people.
We’ve already seen an example of the political dangers of trying to rush through changes to personal independence payments (PIP) and the health related elements of universal credit – because one element that was particularly upsetting to Labour MPs has already been dropped, namely a one year freeze on PIP payments.
But as my colleague Anushka Asthana has been exclusively disclosing for the last ten days, this was only one part of the welfare reform package. The other elements were to restrict entitlement to personal independence payments, while cutting the health-related universal credit payments and recycling those UC savings into an increase in the standard rate of UC. You can see in this the simple story and perhaps simplistic story about welfare payments to the disabled that the government believes and is trying to tell.
First, that hundreds of thousands of people receive cash to help with their living and mobility costs, but don’t “deserve” it.
Second, that the structure of UC payments provides too great an incentive to disabled people to sign themselves off work to get the health-related benefits top up.
Starmer will doubtless take comfort from the fact that – according to polling by the Good Growth Foundation – 60% believe the system provides too much support to people who don’t want to work and 39% think that it’s too easy for people to get benefits who don’t need them. But popular belief does not make it true. And before going further into the nitty gritty, it is worth doing a quick economic reality check. It is a fact that the proportion of British people in employment has fallen since Covid and, unlike many other rich economies, has not recovered to 2019 levels. But the proportion of British people who are working remains high by international standards. According to the OECD, in the third quarter of 2023 the UK ranked fifth in the world, with an employment rate of 74.9%, well ahead of the US for example, and behind only Iceland, the Netherlands, Japan and Germany
Even if it is a laudible ambition to encourage more people into work. The UK’s is not an economy whose failure is that too few people are working. The grotesque failure of the British economy is hardly a mystery.
It is that living standards for those in work have barely increased for more than 15 years and too many of those in work receive too little to pay even for food, energy and other essentials.
Pretty much every competitor country whose employment rate has recovered to pre-covid levels has higher productivity and higher wages than the UK. Which might tell you that Britain’s problem is not that its benefit system is skewiff but that it’s the labour market itself that is broken, that remunerated toil in Britain delivers inadequate incentives. And by the way, we don’t have a benefit system in the UK that is remotely generous or lavish by international standards.
Research published only last week by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research showed that we spend less on welfare as a share of GDP than the average for developed nations.
Also when it comes to the so-called replacement rate – what any unemployed person receives as a proportion of earnings from employment – only the unemployed in Australia and the US receive less.
Unemployment payments are significantly higher everywhere else in Europe, for example.
And another thing. As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has shown, standard universal credit does not cover the costs of basics and essentials, for families or single people. “Ah ha!” you may exclaim, especially if you are the PM or chancellor. Surely this proves that there is a unhealthy incentive in the UC system for any claimant to prove that he or she has “limited capacity for work or work related activity” – to be diagnosed as unfit for work – so that their UC entitlements would go (for a single person) from £400 to £823, a month. But is an extra £106 a week the kind of incentive that would persuade a vulnerable person to permanently shut down their availability for work?
And if it were cut and partly offset by a rise in standard universal credit – which is what Starmer plans – would that persuade the vulnerable person to look for jobs?
That doesn’t feel compelling as an argument – especially in a world where most employers are reluctant to employ disabled people, let alone retain them on their books.
So another concern about the timing of these welfare changes is they come well before the findings of an equally important government review, that by former John Lewis boss Charlie Mayfield about how employers can be helped to retain and hire disabled people. Later this week he will publish his “discovery” document, about why employers struggle to keep in employment those who start to feel unwell, especially those suffering from mental ill-health. However Mayfield is still months away from recommendations.
In other words, it feels cart-before-horse to take cash from the disabled before a new support system is in place for employers to keep on their books those who are struggling.
As for the proposal to increase the threshold for those claiming the PIP, this will have an impact both on new claimants and those in receipt who are subject to review. How many disabled people could see their PIP payments reduced or withdrawn altogether?
Very large numbers indeed, according to the Resolution Foundation if it remains the Treasury’s aim to find net savings of up to £6bn by 2029-30. Louise Murphy of the Foundation estimates that more than 600,000 people, most on low incomes, would lose £675 a month on average.
Obviously this is all still hypothetical. Proper judgement awaits publication of the Liz Kendall’s policy paper tomorrow. But a change in entitlement on that magnitude will generate massive anxieties in those who both receive PIP and may need it in future.
None of this is to argue that any government should ignore the forecast that on current trends the cost of PIP is set to rise by £15bn by 2029 or that large numbers of especially young people are being excluded by disability from the world of work too young. It is to suggest that reforms that could reduce benefit bills in the long run will require large expenditure in the short term on mental health provision, skills, rewiring coaching and job search at the DWP, occupational health support for companies and so on.
A rational approach would see the costs of supporting the disabled rise in the short term. It would be an investment programme, not a cuts programme. With the supposedly all-important fiscal assessment looming, we’ll see if that’s what Starmer , Kendall and Reeves unveil. 2/2“
[Robert Peston]
A long comment, but important.
For me, the answer to all this a a “basic income” system, whereby all citizens (note, citizens, not any African or Afghan or similar just off the boat) get some modest amount of income regardless of any factor such as contribution, need, or “deservedness”.
That would also save vast amounts by enabling the shutdown of 95% of the DWP bureaucracy.
Late music
[“Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow“]
Thoughts about Reform UK— where does it go from here?
Reform UK peaked (at least so far) recently at about 28% in the opinion polls; the latest shows Reform around 25%. Not bad, all the same, when the Cons are around 21% and Labour between 25% and 28%. What now, though?
We have been here, more or less, before, with Brexit Party. That deflated for various reasons, not least because voters saw it, not wrongly, as a kind of (real?) Conservative Party. Arguable either way. Farage then stabbed his party in the back so that “Boris”-idiot’s Con Party could “win” the 2019 General Election.
This time around, I think that Farage at least, and maybe the other 4 Reform MPs, want to succeed. After all, they have every chance now that the fake Labour (Friends of Israel) Government is proving even less popular than it was when elected (by the votes of only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters, and out of every 12 actual voters).
At present, we do not have a Labour government, but a Labour Friends of Israel government.
The Conservative Party, equally fake, is still only around 21% in the polls, and few see it as having much chance under the Nigerian woman.
Reform has now hit a reef. Rupert Lowe has been binned, and so will stay on as only an independent MP, unless he either re-enters Reform, defects to the Con Party, or steps down (thus precipitating a by-election).
Reform is a System party in embryonic or fledgling form. Not social-national. However, it has (still) the potential to raise awareness among the people, to shift the “Overton Window”, thus facilitating social national organizations, including political parties, to rise up.
The System would like to revert to the old tweedledum/tweedledee Lab/Con binary (with LibDems as the “alternative” System “dustbin” in the middle). Failing that, to turn Reform into a kind of deeper blue Con Party.
Which way will Reform go?
It has to go for more social-national policies. I see that Matt Goodwin, arguably Reform’s best propagandist (though he may or may not be a member) is now saying that the State should not support the unemployed, sick, disabled etc (so much). This is a rehash of not only the failed and nasty policies of Dunce Duncan Smith, the Jew “lord” Freud etc (2010-2015) but also those being put forward by both Con and Lab at present. Beggar the pensioners, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, so that money can be thrown at the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, or wasted on more useless “defence” spending, or wasted aiding the Jew-Zionist regime in “Israel”/Occupied Palestine.
Reform UK needs to go outside its comfort zone of discontented former Con voters. 8 out of every 20 eligible voters did not vote. Go for their votes.
At present, Reform seems to have a ceiling of 30% support. It needs to nail down some of the truly disenchanted votes. If it can reach 30%, then stretch to 35% by the time of the next general election, it can change British politics forever, and then, if it fades, usher in a truly social-national movement.
Also, the present disunity repels voters. In unity is strength.
If it can weather the storms, Reform can form the next government, but it needs to present an attractive and, above all, powerful image. If it cannot, then the whole thing may just fall to pieces.
Whatever happens with Reform, though, social nationalism is starting to get moving, under the surface of events.
[“New. Freedom of Information requests reveal 10,500 foreign prisoners are costing UK taxpayers more than £1.3 million a day -Ministry of Justice/Telegraph.”]
So about 9%-10% of prisoners in UK prisons are foreign.
Further to that, if you took out all non-white and non-Brit prisoners, inc. those born here, the prisons would not even be half-full. Fact. That despite the fact that non-whites are still a minority (about 20%) of the whole UK population.
I have not been a barrister for a number of years, but even 30 years ago, the proportion of non-whites in UK prisons (and defendants in English courts) was huge.
[me as barrister in London, circa 1992]
The latest immigration numbers in Britain are insane. Nobody voted for this. And nobody wants this.https://t.co/jbWvPsJOMo
[“There are no words to describe how disturbing UK policing has become: ‘If we protest for Palestine, Sudan, Congo we can’t stay. If we protest for Israel we can stay?’ ‘Yes’ Just what instructions and from whom, are being given to British police.“]
[Cressida Dick, when Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, in “cocktail party” conversation with Gideon Falter of the malicious ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ fake charity (pressure group) at a Jewish police event held at Scotland Yard]
The police are under constant pressure from the Jew-Zionist lobby and/or Israel lobby, of which the “CAA” is but a minor part.
This is a Labour Friends of Israel government, not a Labour government. Note how fake “Labour” is saying more or less the same as “Conservative” parrots such as Chris Philp, and even Reform UK publicist (by any other name), Matt Goodwin.
There is a general push, again, towards finance-capitalist police-state dystopia in the UK, towards lower living standards, lower pay, lower State benefits and pensions, and towards the replacement of British people by the blacks, browns, and others. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
Note the biased and tendentious pro-spending cuts attitude of Laura Kuenssberg, who is paid hundreds of thousands of pounds per year (£325,000 in 2023-24; presumably more now). She seems seriously angered that some people are getting £100 per week in disability payments… That’s what she spends on lunch in a single day (except that that money probably comes from her BBC expense account anyway.
Laura Kuenssberg is of partly-Jewish and partly-German origins, incidentally.
[“The liberation of the Lebedevka settlement in the Kursk Region brings the Russian army close to Sudzha, with slightly over 10 km remaining to it, a source in the Russian security agencies told TASS: https://vk.cc/cJvzZk“— TASS]
[“Russia’s armed forces have liberated Konstantinopol in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said: https://vk.cc/cJvNEb“— TASS]
[“You have a moral duty to care for them. Most cannot save any more than they are already in a biting cost of living crisis. This isn’t the way to help them back in to work, they will sink. Labour MPs insist on ‘moral duty’ to get long-term sick into work.“]
For once, I agree with her.
Once again, the Starmer-Labour, or Labour Friends of Israel, government is shown to have no ideals and actually no ideas at all. This latest nasty nonsense is just taken wholesale from theCameron-Levita, dunce Duncan Smith, Osborne, “lord” Freud playbook of 2010-2015.
It is an interesting question as to why Mark Lewis has not threatened to sue me.
I suspect he knows from the litigation that his threats don’t work on me.
Lewis has never sued me, either, and I have blogged about him a number of times. Admittedly, I have no money anyway, but my main defence is truth itself…
Ian Robert Millard 