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[“It’s now crystal clear that despite a surge of support for Trump, AfD, Le Pen, etc., there is a huge section of the Left that not only refuses to compromise on immigration issues but wants to become even more fanatically pro-immigration in response to national populism.“]
It is now also crystal-clear that, the way things are going, the matter will probably be settled, across Europe, including the UK, not by rigged elections but, at least partly, by some form of civil war.
[“Kemi Badenoch is less popular than Keir Starmer, which is saying something …. Net ratings Keir Starmer -32 Kemi Badenoch -34 YouGov, yesterday.“— YouGov/Matt Goodwin]
[“It shows a basic lack of humanity.” The government’s reported plans to cut welfare spending by £6 billion will be “absolutely devastating”, Labour MP @BrianLeishmanMP tells @HugoRifkind.”]
Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.
Let’s hope that Runcorn and Helsby voters send a message to this rotten excuse for a Labour government. Reform can win it if enough disaffected 2024 Lab voters join with 2024 Reform voters and those former Con voters who realize that Con Party has no chance of winning the by-election. Those 2024 Con voters can prevent Labour from winning the by-election if they vote Reform.
[“Starmer echoes Liz Truss on reform of government, @ChrisMasonBBC writes.“— BBC News]
[“Russian troops have liberated Sudzha and two other settlements in the Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry said. TASS has gathered key details of the situation: https://vk.cc/cJFPk0“— TASS]
[“The military buildup plan for Europe, approved by the EU summit, is designed to incite war, Maria Zakharova stated: https://vk.cc/cJFPM5“— TASS]
We see the war propaganda everywhere, spread by the usual globalist NWO/ZOG puppets— Macron, Starmer, Tusk, Sikorski etc.
The stupid thing is that, without US backing, none of the European states —not even the UK and France as nuclear powers— can stand up to the Russia they keep pushing.
If push came to shove, and if the push and shove went nuclear, as would probably happen, the USA would stand back, as would China, and the terrible devastation would be only be in Europe and Russia, mostly in Europe, because Russia has about 6,500-7,000 nuclear weapons, whereas France has about 290, and the UK about 225 (about 120 deployable by submarine launch).
The French nuclear force was the force de frappe, changed in the 1960s to force de dissuasion. Deterrence, not challenge to the then Soviet Union, an expansionist power with an expansionist and militant ideology —Marxism-Leninism— at least on the surface.
Russia today is not the old Soviet Union, and its ideology is simple and rather inconsistent Russian nationalism, not one of world conquest.
The fact is that, while the UK and France could badly damage much of Russia in a nuclear match, Russia could wipe out the UK, France, and all other European powers.
These games of “poking the bear” are very stupid and quite likely to light the touchpaper of a major war.
[“Russian forces struck UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) assembly and storage sites of the Ukrainian army over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cJG55K“— TASS]
Putin appeared, unusually, in a kind of military combat attire, yesterday. Akin to the Zelensky “cosplay”, but with rather more weight behind it.
Trump has put Zelensky in his place. Z. is a “state beggar”, in effect. Without American arms, money, ammunition, intelligence assistance, “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) cannot continue to fight this war. Trump has therefore been able to railroad the Ukrainian side.
The Kiev regime cabal have little choice, and even their brief show of defiance was based on the hope, a forlorn one, that the UK and EU powers might plug any gap left by the American departure (if it were to happen or continue).
Russia cannot be much pressured by Trump. Therefore, the war will continue unless the Kiev regime at least accepts the minimum reality— that Crimea, and the mainland regions of Donetsk, Lugansk etc (and, a fortiori, that of the Russian oblast of Kursk) will remain Russian in perpetuity. Failing that, the war will continue, and Russian tanks will be in Kiev by 2026.
Russia has its military-logistical problems, but nothing compared to those facing the Kiev-regime side, which is losing hundreds of soldiers daily, and large areas of territory too.
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Not so sure about the Churchill bit…
Waitrose was driven into the ground by a West Indian woman whom they employed as CEO. Madness. It used to be such a good place to shop and, I believe, treated its employees well; gave them a modest cut of the profits as well. Now, like the rest of this country, it is going straight down (I refer to, inter alia, Parliament, the courts, the police, the armed forces, the Royal Mail and Post Office, the social security safety net, the monarchy, the countryside…you name it).
A couple of things strike me about that latest opinion poll. Firstly, that the polls are now quite volatile, especially as to whether Labour or Reform is more popular; secondly, that the Conservative Party is pretty much finished now. Few people see it as offering anything to 90% of the population, its policies have now been taken over by fake Labour under Keir Starmer-stein, and it is now not really even seen as relevant. That is so even if you discount the fact that it is now led by a Nigerian woman who was not even living in the UK until she was at least 16.
Incidentally, those opinion poll results would indicate a House of Commons with about 238 Reform UK MPs; 165 Lab; 123 Con; 58 LibDem; SNP 37; Greens 4 (etc).
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html
So probably a Reform government backed by Con MPs’ votes. Not ideal, but if it failed to satisfy the British people, a real social-national movement (in or out of Parliament) might well emerge.
You see the deficiencies of our FPTP voting system there. Greens on 10% of the popular vote, but with only ~4 MPs, rather than the 65 that the 10% opinion poll would suggest would be fair. Reform, on the other hand, would be overcompensated, getting a notional 238 MPs instead of the mathematically-indicated 175.
[“More than half of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s cabinet have urged his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to rethink her plans to scale back welfare and spending, in an extraordinary sign of growing concern“— Bloomberg]
[“@YouGov polling for @TrussellUK shows that 77% of people claiming Universal Credit and disability benefits have gone without essentials in the last six months“— Robert Peston]
[“Nigel Farage and Reform averaged 26% of the national vote across all polls this week, are 5-pts clear of the Tories and just 6-pts short of what they need for a majority in the House of Commons.”— Matt Goodwin]
[“N.S. Lyons is one of my favourite writers right now: “A nation is not a corporation. A nation is a particular people, with a distinct culture, permanently bound together by shared relationship with place, past, and each other. A house becomes a home through the relationship with the family that lives in it, a connection forged out of time and memory, between the concrete particularity of place and the lives of a specific group of people present, past, and yet unborn. We can say this house is home because it is our home. In much the same way, a country becomes our homeland because it is ours — and the we of that “ours” is the nation, which transcends geography, government, and GDP.”— Matt Goodwin]
Which is why the Jewish element tends to be hostile to anything truly national in Europe.
At present, a ceasefire would only impede the advances of Russian forces on all fronts.
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