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Tweets seen
[“I have a Mandelson anecdote from the time when we both attended the University of Oxford.
The college captain of rugby (Welsh) returned from training to find Mandelson and his crowd of self-declared Marxist-Leninist friends having a tea party (ironic or what?) on the second quad lawn of our college.
He asked Mandelson if they needed more water. He replied that they did.
Our rugby captain went and unreeled a high-powered fire hose and doused them.
Mandelson and his chums threatened unconvincingly from a safe distance to ‘do him’.“]
Incredible. “From tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow“…
[“In 1962, a 37-year-old man from England named Brendon Grimshaw suddenly quit his job and bought a small island in the Seychelles for about $10,000. The island was called Moyenne and, at the time of purchase, had been abandoned for 50 years. Everyone thought the man was crazy. Brendon eventually moved to the island permanently as its sole inhabitant. While most people tend to buy islands for luxury, Brendon had a broader vision. He wanted to restore the island to its raw beauty, creating a natural paradise completely uncontaminated by man and tourism. For the next 40 years, Brendon lived alone on the island; he managed to plant 16,000 trees by hand, built 5 km of nature trails and attracted around 2,000 new birds to the island. Brendon had transformed a desert land into an island of incredible beauty, Moyenne was so beautiful that Brendon was offered 50 million dollars by a Saudi prince, but he turned it down. Since Brendon died in 2012, the island has been owned by the Moyenne Island Foundation and is now a national park available to all thanks to his efforts. Photos that will restore your faith in humanity: https://bit.ly/3ILWYi4.“]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyenne_Island
“The power of one”…
Deborah Meaden, like most of those smug Dragon’s Den speculators and merchants, thinks she is so very clever…
White slavery?
A great deal of transnational crime, from massive fraud, to sex crime, to organ harvesting and blood harvesting, is based in Israel.
Exactly. I have been blogging for years that, were the UK to leave NATO and form a loose but close relationship with the Russian Federation, British people would be sold Russian gas at or below cost.
The Kiev regime is, however, losing steadily on the ground, and across the entire front.
The Zelensky regime continues to poke the Bear.,..
Odessa should either become a “free city”, or should be ruled by a condominium arrangement.
[“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the situation in Iran:
“We created a dollar shortage in the country. This led to a quick result.
I would say the culmination came in December, when one of Iran’s largest banks collapsed after a mass withdrawal of deposits. The central bank was forced to print money.
The Iranian currency plummeted, inflation soared, and as a result, we witnessed massive protests by the Iranian people on the streets.“]
“War without war”, as Sun Tzu either said or might have said.
The [Israeli] Jews think that (using American money and arms etc) they control, or at least restrain, Egypt. I wonder. I got the impression, in 1998, when I was “not arrested” in Egypt, that the Egyptians would rather like to defeat Israel, if that were possible.
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Maybe Mandelson should book another 4 tickets for his widely-expected fugitive flight to Israel— tickets for Starmer-stein, his Jewish wife, and their 2 children.
Gorton and Denton by-election
My own views about the likely result of the Gorton and Denton by-election have not changed from a day or two ago. Reform seem to be in pole position, and Labour very much on the back foot (every day more scandal), but the Green Party may also be getting not only their own former (2024) voters’ votes (about 13% in 2024) but also votes from both disenchanted English/British former Labour voters and from equally disenchanted Pakistani (etc) Muslim former Labour voters.
That triad of support for the Greens may add up to something formidable, though my money is, I think, still on Reform to win this. For Labour to win would take a minor miracle, the way things are, despite Labour’s 50.8% vote at GE 2024, and despite the history of the area.
Mark Hehir
I am still following the progress of the GoFundMe crowdfunder set up for the “hero bus driver”, Mark Hehir, who was so badly treated by his former employer, Metroline. At time of writing, the crowdfunder stands at not far below £42,000: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mark-hehir-the-hero-bus-driver.
More tweets seen
Many well-meaning but fatally-naive people still have a sadly-ingrained respect or deference to anyone in a position such as MP, Cabinet minister, certainly Prime Minister (or “royal prince”…). Unfortunately, the past 16+ years have shown that many, perhaps most, are clowns and/or freeloaders and moneygrubbers. Many, also, are little better, if at all, than Israeli agents and/or puppets of the Jewish lobby in the UK.
A victory for Reform (or even for the Greens) would knock Starmer-stein totally off his perch. I doubt that he would resign, though; he is the kind of box-ticking careerist who will cling on to his job even as people are stamping on his fingers. I think he would have to be dismissed by his own MPs.
[“Labour MPs, ministers and party insiders tell me they’ve never seen Keir Starmer so angry, as over Peter Mandelson’s lies about extent of his Epstein links.
But those who know him well say that anger has now turned inwards. That Starmer is, above all else, a man of public service, and will be grappling with his conscious this weekend. Where that ends up, who knows.“]
So tweets Guardian scribbler Pippa Crerar. Starmer “a man of public service“? Ha ha. A careerist box-ticker. Also, how is it that the Political Editor of the Guardian cannot spell the word “conscience”? Or was that a Freudian slip?
Israel-puppet Luke Akehurst, desperate for Israel-puppet Starmer-stein and Zionist agent Morgan McSweeney to stay en poste. Hardly surprising.
Treacherous enemies of the British people.
Might fly with the electorate. Senior officer (Colonel but was due for promotion to Brigadier) but still youngish (44; will be 45 in March 2026); MC and DSO; saw action repeatedly in Afghanistan; untainted (so far) by any scandal.
Enlisted, but was commissioned only 3 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Carns.
Whether that ex-officer’s election as Labour leader would be an electoral gamechanger, hard to say, but it would be far more popular than having Angela Rayner or West Streeting, let alone expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, taking over.
Usually, ex-officers are not much good, politically, but who knows, this one might be an exception. It might not save Labour, but might mitigate the damage.
That MP , a traditional Labour MP-type, has little to lose, his GE 2024 majority having been a mere 18 votes, and his win at Poole having been a fluke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.
Duncan-Jordan really has no chance of re-election, and is about 60 or so, so is free to be honest…
Ian Robert Millard 