[“Wenn die SS und die SA aufmarschiert“— “When the SS and the SA march away“]
Historical compilation
[Women sort gifts and create parcels for troops on the Eastern Front or Ostfront in 1942]
[Zeppelinfeld, 1930s]
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“, 1930s]
[Girls welcome Adolf Hitler into Vienna after the Austria-Germany Anschluss of 1938]
[1930s conversation]
[Hitler as Chancellor, early 1930s]
[Hitler with some young people]
[A young supporter greets Hitler]
[Obersalzberg, 1930s— Hitlerjugend, or Hitler Youth, boys hunt for autographs]
[Berlin Olympiad, 1936; acclamation]
[Hitler and Professor Troost plan the reconstruction of Berlin]
[House of German Art, Munich, opened 1938 (arch. Professor Troost)]
[autobahn, Germany, late 1930s]
[building, Nuremberg, 1930s]
[Dietrich-Eckart-Buhne, Berlin, now renamed Waldbuhne (“forest stage”), one of hundreds of new cultural venues constructed in Germany during the six years of peace 1933-1939; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldb%C3%BChne]
[Reichskanzlei or Reich Chancellery, Berlin, remodelled 1940]
More music
[“From Finland to the Black Sea“]
Tweets seen
Russia is still ready to hold negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict settlement, including with the United States, but the Kiev authorities are against it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said:https://t.co/WrlzQ7WK35pic.twitter.com/zgRVCE8YmF
EU sanctions against Russia can be prolonged only if Ukraine restores Russian gas transit to Central Europe, stops attacks on the TurkStream pipeline, and provides guarantees for continued oil transit, Viktor Orban said in an interview with Kossuth radio:https://t.co/lqZatUhjyipic.twitter.com/qHEWDkOk63
About 450,000 Russian citizens signed contracts for military service with Russia’s Defense Ministry in 2024 and another over 40,000 individuals volunteered to the special military operation area, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev:https://t.co/SuL3RkwuJTpic.twitter.com/5rMTaAxjS7
With the support of the West Kiev launched an organ trading scheme in Ukraine, human organs taken from the battlefield were sold on the Internet, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary for REN TV:https://t.co/oQ5jXg01cOpic.twitter.com/Jxcs2bt4lU
According to Electoral Calculus, the result of that, replicated in a general election, would be Labour— 179 Commons seats; Reform UK— 170 seats; Conservatives— 165 seats; LibDems 72; Greens, 7.
So a hung Parliament. Any of the top three could try to rule as a very weak minority government. Alternatively, Reform could ally itself in some form with the Conservatives, and get over the line that way. Maybe even a “grand coalition” of the System parties (LibLabCon). In that event, Reform would be the official Opposition, with every chance of later, after a further election, becoming the governing party.
Reform UK is morphing into a System party anyway, but the Overton Window is moving. Reform UK is part of the journey, not the ultimate destination.
Incidentally, were Reform to go from 26% to 27% (and all other parties stay where they are), the result would be Reform UK— 202; Labour 165; Conservatives 147; LibDems 72; Greens 7.
Stagflation fears stalked Britain at the start of 2025 with a closely watched survey showing jobs being slashed at a pace seen in the aftermath of the financial crisis https://t.co/XoLy7PXWlR
Why are we sending £15 billion to other countries around the world while taking winter fuel payments from British pensioners & treating British people in hospital corridors and car parks? Can anybody in power answer me that?
If Reform UK can become largest party in the Commons, they would have no need to “merge” with the Con-servative Party. They could govern as a minority government. If the System parties refuse to play ball, Reform could simply blame those other parties for the inability to govern, then call another general election, with every chance of getting a majority.
If the weakness of governments continues, that might be the opening a social-national movement needs in order to rise up.
Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin:
"Russia remains an extremely influential player in the Middle East. The countries of the Arab world and Turkey understand this, there is no loss of Moscow's position in that region." pic.twitter.com/uTZSIuP8GF
Well, this week is one of those rare ones when political journalist John Rentoul has managed to beat me. He scored, he says, 6.5/10; I scored a modest 4/10, knowing the answers only to questions 2, 6, 8, and 10. I also came close on questions 5 and 9, but a miss is a miss…
Tweets seen
Rishi Sunak and the Tories are an embarrassment and don’t care about the NHS and/or any other kind of healthcare….we’ve had 14 years of disaster and we need change when it comes to 4th July https://t.co/G14EmorDWH
.@SamCoatesSky: 'I'm not sure Rishi Sunak was that sorry judging by the tone and the person that stood in front of me earlier today and I think that is contributing to the Tory worry about where this goes next'#PoliticsHubhttps://t.co/GlTNastFii
— Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge (@SkyPoliticsHub) June 7, 2024
As I blogged yesterday, the events of 1944 (which really are, in 2024, rather overdone anyway, bearing in mind that only people born before about 1936 or 1937, i.e. those now at least 87-88 years old, would personally remember them) naturally mean nothing to Sunak, who after all is not really British and was only born in 1980.
You had your chance to defect & you chose to stay with the sinking ship
Choices
Tories have broken Britain yet your arrogant sense of entitlement means you think we should stand down for you?
Andrea Jenkyns, with her husband (or ex-husband; it seems unclear), Jack Lopresti [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lopresti] are both Con Party MPs, and both are also members of Conservative Friends of Israel. His constituency (also to be fought on new boundaries) may be “safer” than his wife’s or ex-wife’s, but whether safe enough to save Lopresti from also having to stack shelves is an open question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filton_and_Bradley_Stoke_(UK_Parliament_constituency). His only real job prior to becoming an MP was in his family’s ice-cream business (he is of Sicilian origin).
Andrea Jenkyns and Jack Lopresti. Both pro-Israel and the UK Jewish lobby? Kick them both into the political gutter, dear voters.
Literally this…short of shitting gold coins for every man & woman in the UK, I don't think there's any chance of @RishiSunak and his sorry band of Conservative Wets getting more than 20 seats.
If it were up to me it would be:@Conservatives = Zero Seats!
Ha. Engaging vision— Sunak in a chariot, throwing gold coins at the plebs and soldiers lining the roads, and shouting “50 gold sesterces for every man!“, as near the end of the 1964 film, The Fall of the Roman Empire:
Boris Johnson today calls Starmer “Sir Keir Schnorrer” (see attached). “Schnorrer” is the Yiddish word for beggar and scrounger. It is pretty offensive. It was part of the lingua franca of my grandparents and of my childhood. I find it unsettling to see Johnson appropriating it… pic.twitter.com/GUBdSUX6fe
“Boris” Johnson channelling his inner Yiddish-speaker, it seems. He is of course, partly Jewish.
[“Boris” Johnson at the Wailing Wall, aka Western Wall or “Kotel” in Jerusalem]
I remember when I first heard the word “Schnorrer“. It was just after a Jew who was Director of Public Prosecutions, one Green, had been caught “kerb-crawling” at King’s Cross in 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Green_(barrister).
That “Jerry” person happened to be at the same large cafe table as me that morning and, he somehow knowing that I was at the Bar (very recently Called, I think), started to talk about Green. His words stuck in my mind. Green, said he, “is what we [Jews] call a Schnorrer“, though his brief explanation of the word was even less polite than that of Robert Peston.
Two Reform UK candidates ditched after accusations of racism and religious hate. @ameliaajenne reports.
Instructive in two senses. First, look at that horrible little “journalist” careerist. Typical. Never give a “journalist” (whether scribbler or TV monkey-on-a-stick) the time of day. They have an agenda, and are enemies subservient to the “usual” lobby.
Secondly, it shows, yet again, that Reform UK is merely “controlled opposition”, and with no loyalty to its own members and candidates. Still, I hope that Reform UK does well enough to help kill off the Conservative Party, as well as moving the “Overton Window” a bit.
Bestiality: Ian Austin: Advocate. 1. …sex between a person and an animal; 2. …behaviour that is very cruel or like that of an animal pic.twitter.com/Ojd2EYcTtw
Just saw the above tweets, posted on Twitter/X in 2023.
Austin, now unmeritoriously in the House of Lords (thanks to “Boris” Johnson), actually wrote at least one letter to the then Director of Public Prosecutions sometime in recent years, and on behalf of the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], which letter or letters demanded that I be prosecuted for allegedly having posted “antisemitic” tweets and/or blog comments.
Incidentally, the same Jewish girl student who spearheaded Zionist complaints against the later and wrongfully sacked Dr. David Miller at Bristol University, one Sabrina Miller (no relation), actually defended Austin in relation to the pornography matter, and appeared to be, in a post or posts I saw online, not unsympathetic to his views at the time. She is now a scribbler for the Daily Mail.
Strangely, Austin’s Wikipedia entry seems not to mention his views on the rather unpleasant pornographic matter in question.
My legal victory against @BristolUni has set a vital precedent that will help to protect pro-Palestine 🇵🇸 campaigners across Britain.
I still have around £30,000 outstanding of my legal fees. If you would like to share in this victory, please contribute at:… pic.twitter.com/EmVnI3Upmn
“Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas) is no more “trans” than I am. A “grifting” cheat, liar, and fraudster, yes.
She is now falling back on previously-deployed (several times; indeed, many times) lies: she is “persecuted“, “having to hide” (“with her son”, who is now about 20 years old and who was mainly taken care of by others in his earlier years) “in safe houses“.
Not forgetting the Press apparently doorstepping her (she’s used that lie several times too) and “stalkers” stalking her in her home area (yawn…another much-trotted-out invention). Oh, and her alleged need for “bodyguards“. Would they be private ones, costing hundreds of pounds per day? Police ones, like some of the royals, and some Cabinet ministers, sometimes have? And does anyone not feeble-minded believe a word of all her nonsense?
“Jack” also claims, yet again, to be under police protection and, yet again, has no idea at all where the last year’s donations from well-meaning but brainless mugs have gone…
Of course she doesn’t…
As for why those utter mugs are still —after years of “Jack” being exposed as a dishonest cheat and fraud— sending her money every month, that is hard to say (beyond simple naivety and/or stupidity). I am not a psychiatrist.
Yes. It has been puzzling to me why the Essex Police, so hot on “racist” teddy bears and “antisemitism”, can find no time to investigate a woman who has ripped off hundreds of thousands of pounds from people, often genuinely poor people, over about 10-12 years. Whether it has anything to do with freemasonry (I think that her father, a former high-ranking fire officer and residential property landlord in Southend, is a freemason, though I am ready to be corrected if that is not so), I have no idea.
The only danger “Jack” is in (excepting possible arrest and/or quite likely civil legal action soon), is that she might be poisoned by the swill she pretends to cook.
Jack Monroe – decent?!
You must be new here.
Her entire back story was revealed to be fabricated nonsense, and she admitted to grifting thousands off donors only to spend it luxury furniture for herself.
Jack Monroe doubling down on the grift. Late delivering on Patreon to just deliberately not doing it & still pocketing cash. Also claiming all her SM accounts were hacked but websites such as Live Follower show that she's been painstakingly deleting over time. Lying? pic.twitter.com/Xn08OXEcSA
As I have blogged in the past, I could imagine “Jack Monroe”, under other circumstances, being a far more serious kind of criminal.
“A complete mental and physical breakdown” that lasted throughout the period from November 2020 to the present day, was it?
That prevented you from fulfilling the >28,000 things that you, Jack Monroe, @JustJackMonroe owed to Patreon subscribers during that time? pic.twitter.com/HzyJAtX0oO
“Jack Monroe” reminds me (her incredible portfolio of lies, and screamingly implausible tales and fantasies, remind me) of the Fawlty Towers episode where, looking at Basil, the psychiatrist says to his wife, “there’s material for an entire conference there“.
You know we’ve got Labour already, all of your inept doing Government. A vote for Reform or anyone else (excluding Labour) is not a vote for Labour, it’s a vote showing their contempt for a Government they had given their trust only to be screwed over in nearly every sense.
Whereas the main System parties have detailed, properly costed, fully or largely worked out policies…most of which are never implemented. Isn’t “democracy” wonderful?…
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) June 8, 2024
When “they” have power and others do not…
The difference is obvious.
On the left is Israeli captive Noah before and after being held in Gaza.
On the right is a Palestinian before and after being held in Israeli prisons. pic.twitter.com/RYpLRaEmts
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 8, 2024
Growing rumors indicate that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will soon resign. It comes after 78 MPs resigned ahead of the general election. pic.twitter.com/y8OpcZcwSJ
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) June 8, 2024
If that were to occur, it would be absurd. An election for Conservative Party leader could not happen (could it?) until after the General Election. It is uncertain at present even who will or will not retain his/her seat.
In any case, who would want to apply for the job, facing certain defeat in 3.5 weeks’ time? Traditionally, leaders resign after a lost election, so the idea makes no sense.
I suppose that Sunak might resign as Con leader, but retain the Prime Ministership until the General Election on 4 July.
Were Sunak to step down as PM as well, I suppose that the brainless Oliver Dowden might become caretaker Prime Minister. After the inevitable loss of the election, Dowden would then cease to be PM (and, ludicrously, be eligible, as was Liz Truss, for the ex-PM’s £125,000 or £150,000 p.a. for life!).
Re Dowden, I saw this: “Dowden is a former officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel, and has twice chaired the APPG for British Jews. Dowden has said he feels a “cultural affinity” with the Jewish community – his constituency of Hertsmere has the largest Jewish population outside of London.[18]” [Wikipedia]
Nein danke…
Were Sunak to resign as Con Party leader and/or PM prior to 4 July 2024, the Conservative Party might, quite seriously, be left with only a handful of MPs. I think that, for many voters, it would be the last straw.
As it is, we see people at Cabinet level attacking Sunak, the Prime Minister. Con Party discipline is non-existent now as the Titanic prepares to sink beneath the waves.
I happened to see the two ridiculous tweets below:
I have just read the article, what a grossly unfair decision, there was no interest in prosecuting @MLewisLawyer. I hope he gets an apology.
— Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) July 5, 2023
So the often-heavily-criticized Jolyon Maugham [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolyon_Maugham], a part-Jew barrister and “activist”, here supporting egregious and self-publicizing Jewish solicitor Mark Lewis, is applauded by one Charlotte Proudman, apparently a mainly academic lawyer and barrister who has attended or researched at no less than five universities in the UK and USA. I do not think that I had heard of her before today.
Ms. Proudman should read my blog posts, written several years ago about Lewis, before expressing an opinion:
So far from having been “grossly unfair“, as Ms. Proudman opines (having apparently read only a brief and one-sided scribble on the Legal Business online platform), the decision of the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority [SRA] regarding Lewis was impeccably fair and, in punishing Lewis very leniently, bent over backwards to be fair. Even his small fine was reduced from £7,500 to £2,500 because his Counsel said on his behalf that Lewis (the ludicrously so-called “top lawyer“, if you believe the tabloid Press) owned no real property, and in fact owned nothing at time of the hearing in 2018 but his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter.
After the SRA hearing, Lewis took off for Israel, where he now lives.
Looking at what Lewis wrote online to various people, including a Jewish teenager, I was surprised that Lewis was not struck off the roll of solicitors.
I wonder whether Ms. Proudman thinks that the decision of the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal in my case was “grossly unfair“? I doubt it, even though I was both wrongfully, and actually unlawfully, disbarred (at the instigation of a pack of politically-motivated Jews) for having merely tweeted five (5) tweets, all of which were completely true and accurate: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.
Incidentally, this (below) is the profile photograph of herself that Ms. Proudman seems to think appropriate to publish on her Twitter account (which profile describes her as a barrister etc):
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THE TYRANT ZELENSKY: Banned the Ukrainian orthodox church Banned political opposition parties Banned members of his own party Banned media you criticised him Banned call who did not agree with him Banned ELECTIONS#ZelenskyWarCriminalpic.twitter.com/OtaYKWnmQm
As a result of the night Russian rocket attack on Ukraine in Lviv, a critical infrastructure facility was damaged, the head of the Lviv regional administration said. pic.twitter.com/HGh3ujx1N1
It's why they've painted Putin as a madman from the beginning. Remember the MSM reports that COVID had made him mad? Lol. All so you will believe the Russians are guilty of things that would make zero sense militarily.
Do you fancy looking into Jack Monroe? Has taken money from well meaning people to sue a Tory MP and kept the money with never even commencing proceedings. She then suggested it went to an unnamed foodbank and refused to provide proof. She’s stolen it. pic.twitter.com/Kzd45OqCqG
Flood control Dutch style. Rewilding of the Waal (Rotterdam branch of the Rhine) floodplain above Nijmegen has cut downstream inundation threat, restored ecosystems & created a fantastic amenity for people to enjoy. Many excellent examples to ponder in inspiring action in England pic.twitter.com/5tTOXssJl4
The mainstream parties all have the same open door agenda. None are fit to govern this country any more.
What is needed is a rout and a radical shake up of Westminster.
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) June 28, 2023
Polls of that sort are of course unscientific, and anything on Twitter more so, because of the well-known biases. All the same, it is clear that the present Government has run out of road. It is hitting as many buttons as possible to shore up at least the core Conservative-leaning vote: pledging to retain the pension Triple Lock, pledging to at least reduce net immigration (how about stopping the inward flow, and starting an outward flow?) etc, but it seems hopeless.
Actions speak louder than words. Something that the “Conservative” Party ministers and Prime Ministers of the past 13+ years seem not to understand. Mass immigration has continued unabated under Sunak and, as Chancellor, he also paused, for one year, the Triple Lock.
If I'm murdered by a foreigners I hereby give my permission for people to politicise my death and use it to forward the nationalist agenda.
Stop all immigration and begin a process of returns and deportation we must make life uncomfortable for them, remove benefits pass laws ,at the next election collectively vote for a Patriotic Right Wing anti immigration party we must save Britain 🇬🇧
Location given but left out to protect our Crew – "The homeless hostel I'm living in has started to take in "migrants" I asked what happens when we get kicked out & just got a shrug of the shoulders My time is up in 3 weeks" pic.twitter.com/YfymeA2eGV
— LittleBoats 🇬🇧NI🏴🏴En (@LittleBoats2020) July 4, 2023
Who is organizing this? Who is providing the tents, tarps, food, etc? Is the UN-IOM involved? Any NGOs? They’ve been “migrating” in this way through Central America and Mexico to the U.S. for 2.5 years now. Our government refuses to stop them. 😲
— Kim “filterless” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) July 4, 2023
🛎 The definitive guide to Cultural Marxism….Worth a bookmark.
Muslim humiliates & frightens old French lady. Blacks do same to our old in USA, Ireland & UK. They focus on the weak to destroy them. They hate us & want us to die. Time for a white Christian ethnostate. Protest to end the freedom of association ban.https://t.co/CHoHQPjONe
Interesting gadget. Hope that the thieves who steal car keys from entrance hall tables do not find out about it, though (having said that, I doubt that many car thieves read my blog).
China presented its analogue of the Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system under the name FK-2000.
It is capable of hitting: cruise missiles, precision bombs, air-to-ground missiles, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicles and other types of… pic.twitter.com/zg2yx9f6LA
Stats don't lie. Safe to say that with daily follower losses like this, Jack Monroe bootstrapcook needs to face up to the fact people have seen through the grift & are deserting her in droves. It's over. pic.twitter.com/nmn2q9flUZ
“Jack Monroe” is surely a busted flush. Even the utter mugs donating to her on Patreon are waking up: 396 as of today, the first time that the number has dropped below 400 (only a few days ago it was still 414). Last year, there were nearly 900 of those mugs, partly by reason of (now effectively withdrawn) endorsements by TV talking heads and cuisine “experts” Nigella Lawson and Jay Rayner (and others).
Still, 396 mugs each sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 monthly. As said previously, “not a bad little earner“, to use the Essex argot. Must still add up to at least a few thousand in cash. Monthly. For nothing.
If the fall continues, “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”, may have to either go on the dole or whatever again (she made a whole media career out of having done that once, for a year or so, a decade or more ago). Or perhaps her affluent/wealthy family of buy-to-let parasites, who live in the same area as her, will help her out. I doubt whether she would be employable as anything. I read somewhere that she has only had a couple of jobs (for short periods, and long ago), one arranged via her father, answering the telephones at the Essex fire brigade, the other in a fish and chip shop.
Sven Longshanks
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
A reminder that the appeal for Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) is still up. The aim is to raise funds both to assist him while he still sits in prison (i.e. until early/mid 2024), and also to help him resettle once released.
In cheering Thursday news, Jolyon Maugham and his (Not Very) Good Law Project have lost yet another of their flagship cases. #LGBAllianceWinhttps://t.co/ZBhjC8S410
Until today, I was unaware that Maugham no longer practises as a barrister in chambers (he specialized in tax law). Apparently, he left his last chambers in 2020.
I have seen tweets saying that Maugham is a “grifter”, living off donations to the Good Law Project. I have no idea whether that be so, and I also note that the GLP is supported by not only individual donations but also large grants from several well-known trust funds, not least that of the rather odd Rausing people (the descendants of the man who invented Tetrapak in Sweden); they also give or have given money to the mainly Jewish “Hope not Hate” crowd.
How much Maugham pays himself (in effect) as Director of the GLP I have no idea (and the website of the GLP is silent on the subject).
Jolyon lives in a construct of fantasy and demands that the rest of us exchange reality for that fantasy so it only makes sense that Jolyon see this loss within the prism of fantasy as well as a win.
I remember seeing Maugham on a “celebrity” episode of University Challenge. He stood out from the rest as combining a very-obviously huge opinion of himself with equally-huge ignorance of almost everything. Very funny.
I have no idea how well (or not) Jolyon Maugham was regarded as a tax barrister, before he launched “Woke Law Project”, but it gives pause for thought how many cases “GLP” has lost or not “won”.
As for Maugham being a KC, these days about 10% of all barristers hold letters patent as KC; it is not the accolade it once was. At one time, only a few barristers a year were made up to KC or QC; now dozens are.
You’d think people would realise how Jolyon works by now instead of continuing to fund the clown. His brings pointless and baseless claims to the courts that never should be there. He’s not doing what’s right by anybody but himself and his wallet.
@greenbelt do you still think Jack Monroe poses no risks? This is due to her doxxing someone, just for requesting a refund from her. Her fans turning up on someone’s doorstep and harassing him.
One of my online harassers turned up at my house late last night and refused to leave, claiming that I refused to answer their "3 reasonable dinner party questions" about myself and they felt the need to ask me in person. That is why the police are now taking it seriously.
I hope to god Jack Monroe bootstrapcook is punished to the maximum degree and shamed publicly for her part in this. She doxxed you, she led the pile ons, she is behind it all when she tried to escape facing justice.
“Jack Monroe” may not have ordered or asked for the above harassment to happen, but she is all the same behind it in the wider sense. She “doxxed” (revealed publicly the address of) the person involved, and she knows very well that her most fervent supporters are often those with mental health problems (as well as the very dim). In other words, she lit the blue touchpaper.
Late tweets seen
George Osborne, being the insanely well-connected former British finance minister pic.twitter.com/mg5mzpAu0c
— Martin can be found wherever you get your tweets (@MartinConcagh) July 6, 2023
I myself have not yet read this instantly-infamous email, though I think that I can guess at least a little of what is in it.
Incidentally, Osborne is yet another part-Jew.
George Osborne is directly responsible for the mess we are in and the mess we've been living in since 2010. He destroyed this country.
So many people assume that because one enemy of the people has “Conservative” on the label, and another “Labour“, that they are not both part of the System together, or are somehow “opposed”. Only superficially.
The government refuses to believe that when you cut the benefit levels the economy crashes. The poor cannot spend what they don’t have. If you increase the benefit levels the economy grows as the poor spend everything you give them. That was why George Osborne’s cuts didn’t work.
Exactly. Give a poor man £1 and he will almost certainly spend it, and have to spend it. Give £1 to a rich man and he will either bank it or buy a hedging asset (eg over-valued real property) with it.
The UAF launched a new wave of offensive near Orekhov on the Zaporizhia Front. pic.twitter.com/zuxlwHX1Hr
Will such places one day be resettled, or will they stand forever as ruined testament to the horrors of war? I wonder.
Due to the failure, Kiev is looking for an excuse to introduce NATO troops into Ukraine
Russia calls on the US and the West as a whole to influence the current authorities in Kiev not to organize a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant that could lead to a… pic.twitter.com/a8GYBoi8aR
Western military analysts reacted with concern to the possibility that a Storm Shadow cruise missile in fairly good condition fell into Russian hands On that occasion, they pointed out that Russian rocket engineers can achieve a deeper introduction to the structure of this… pic.twitter.com/QxeEuv2gm9
The British government, hours before the UN Security Council's periodic meeting on Resolution 2231, added 13 Iranian individuals and one institution (Supreme Council for the Cultural Revolution) to its sanctions list. pic.twitter.com/8ON1dX9EF9
Also, my mother's a fierce benevolent woman in her late 70's who thought Jack Monroe was amazing. £12pm may be buttons to JM but for her it was a significant amount to spend. Just wish my Mam wasn't (self admittedly) a shit cook. Everything she made from JM's books was inedible😂
I personally cannot judge as to whether, or to what extent, “Jack Monroe” is “sad, bad, or mad“, in the well-known phrase. Maybe a bit mad and a bit bad…but that is just my opinion, based on what I have read, and 66 years of life-experience.
The more I read about “Jack Monroe”, the more I think “bad” rather than “mad”, in fact.
Yeah I know. It was the perfect storm 😂 If my Mother had better taste we'd both be non the wiser about Jack Monroe and her decade long dupe. My Mam is just the tip of a very large iceberg unfortunately.
As I have blogged previously, some of the photos seen on Twitter of the food made from the recipes of the “Bootstrap Cook” seem to be a “dog’s dinner” at best; some have made me feel actually unwell. I don’t mean when made and eaten (I would not make stuff like that anyway, still less ingest it) but just the mere sight of her “food” on Twitter.
I concede that I am not very domesticated and, until I married for the first time (in 1990), had mainly eaten cold food when dining at home (in my twenties and early thirties). In fact, I am still not much of a cook, though I can offer to my readers the following idea, which is relatively cheap, rather tasty, fairly healthy (though admittedly rather high-fat) and, best of all, can be made from start to finish in about 45 mins:
That “zucchini bake” can be added to; you can add whatever vegetables are around— mushrooms, broccoli (inc. stalks, if grated or sliced), carrots etc. The only essentials are eggs, butter, zucchini/courgettes, salt, pepper, and cheese (any kind, but cheddar works well, maybe with some parmesan). Some basil helps.
I do not think I shall make a regular thing out of suggesting recipes. I would probably run out of the things that I myself have actually made in my whole life after a week or two. Still, I hope that the above is useful for someone.
About £5 to serve 4 people, or one person four times. Basic, yes, but I think that it stacks up pretty well against the offerings of “Jack Monroe”…
I'd been a fan since not long after Hunger Hurts – I own Monroe's first book – until I read Awfully Molly.
My brother seemed to think she was dodgy but I just couldn't see it.
Guess by the time she contradicted a previous tweet or part of her back story I'd forgotten it.
Oh Monroe's recent blog post emulating Hunger Hurts & claiming to be too poor to buy soap was a bit of final straw too.
Watched Monroe host a BBC TV show during the first lockdown – she tweeted she was paid a lot & was saving most of it at the time – where did all that money go?
I looked at a few tweets by that stupid “Susan Macpark” woman. A Scottish pseudo-“nationalist” who, however, supports migration-invasion by backward non-whites. Crazy. She often flings vituperation at others, either tweeting that their parents must despise them, or simply insulting their intelligence (despite the unthinking tweets that she herself puts out).
I suggest Susan that you read the “just giving” page of .@frugally_minded and then understand it’s her money that Jack Monroe took, never donated to charity, and refused to refund even though this lady is in desperate need. Maybe donate a little yourself.
That Macpark bitch will not give a penny. Guaranteed.
As to “Jack Monroe”, I have no idea whether she will return to Twitter (more likely than not, because she can then plough on, publicizing her stuff to those who are unwilling to question; she will simply try to ignore the gathering storm), or whether she will just think “well, I have £2,000-£7,000 a month coming in from 600-700 mugs on Patreon, plus maybe another few thousand from other sources, so why bother with Twitter?“
If only the blacks, browns, Chinese, and especially the Jews in our country would understand this.
Taking the knee, for something that happened 2 years ago, in another country. This is how ridiculous we are led by a hostile media. https://t.co/x8cxnpjyt6
The fact that they immediately caved because (God forbid) Harry Kane might get a yellow card, underscores yet again how all the sanctimonious virtue signaling is empty nonsense.
How about just abandon it entirely and concentrate on the actual football instead? pic.twitter.com/tEKgjxQvNl
There should be a cultural purge in the UK, starting (arguably) with the absurdly overpaid, smug, mass media football pleb-fest talking heads. Lineker etc.
As far as that specific building is concerned, I do not entirely agree. Architecture should be about both form and function. The form, in this case is (in my opinion) not so different in both cases, and I expect (though I have never been inside) that the function is better (for today’s purposes) in the replacement building. Admittedly, it is rather ugly, but so was, in my view, the building that it replaced.
Famous missionary explorer David Livingstone was a bit like that.
Only person I know who died with it was an elderly man (83) went into hospital as he was having trouble walking, appeared to be on the mend after a few days then tested ‘positive’ in hospital and was dead 4-5 days later. At no point was anyone allowed to visit him. Very strange.
Absolutely this. Imagine the difference that could have been made for this couple if even a fraction of the Patreon/tip jar/spite donation/'legal fees' that Monroe has pocketed could have gone to them.
Isn’t it brilliant that the only verifiable decent outcome that has arisen from Jack being on Twitter was completely by accident, and as a result of her own vanity, and the spite she throws at the people who are much poorer than she is who she has been ripping off for years.
“...and I can’t understand why she does it“? Really? how about “because she is getting £2,000-£7,000 a month for free, from (as of today) 667 mugs, for doing absolutely nothing but proclaiming that she is (in some unspecified way) ‘campaigning’ etc)”…
She's been caught scamming astronomical amounts of money from people, using provable lies & manipulation to make them donate. Luckily, she's more or less cancelled now. https://t.co/5hWJLdCMUI
Yet the 667 mugs (as of today) are still paying out £3.50-£10 —or more— each month to her, incredibly.
Besides Jack Monroe being a two-faced, narcissistic, dishonest, duplicitous, abusive, lying and grifting grief-thief for the last decade all whilst duping well-meaning people out of cash they can ill afford??
“Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive” [Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field].
2) Jack pretending to be poor while the pictures of her own house that she has shared on social media show that it is full of seriously expensive stuff – tens of thousands of pounds of high-end furniture, electronics, appliances and clothes?
3) The endless lies that she herself posts, including this absolute banger from yesterday which was clearly a confected story that she could use to explain why she’s about to have really expensive Farrow & Ball paint and wallpaper in her new home: pic.twitter.com/hJiMkauTVq
Ha ha! Incredible, yet at the same time almost inevitable. The “Bootstrap Cook” wanders lonely as a cloud through Southend or nearby, only to meet someone, by Fate or chance, who will no doubt (in this fairy-tale) “gift” “Jack Monroe” everything she needs or wants for the decoration of her new home.
Well, I am myself rather susceptible to tales of wonder and magic —and sometimes incredible “co-incidences” do happen— but, having now read a number of conflicting fantasies from the tweets etc of “Jack Monroe” (tweeted or said to interviewers over the past decade), I think it only fair and sensible to doubt this one (too).
It's really rubbing it in, isn't it? She'll literally talk shit about anything for hours but completely fail to address the important stuff.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) November 21, 2022
“I was never able to paint colour on the walls in my rentals” is my new favourite Monroe lie, replacing Georgia Church Suppers.
So long as 667 mugs continue to shell out up to £10 monthly for absolutely nothing but to be part of the “Jack Monroe support echelon” or virtue-signal club, she will be laughing all the way to the bank (or the paint and wallpaper shop), even if (as no doubt will now happen) the msm “Bootstrap Cook” career on TV, radio, and in the Press ends, with the producers, journalists, and publishers running for cover (as I expect they already are).
As someone with an autism diagnosis who is a carer for someone else who is autistic, I don't believe that Jack is actually autistic. Her diagnosis stories are many and varied and her takes on autism are frankly, bullshit. She's certainly no advocate for autistic people.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) November 21, 2022
The whole “Jack Monroe” supporters’ clan/defensiveness thing on Twitter reminds me of those who even now insist on wearing a useless facemask.
I absolutely agree. This generation though seem to have taken a leaf out of her book on Oppression Olympics.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) November 21, 2022
I live in 🇨🇦 and I have been following your blog because Jack’s behaviour reads like a classic narcissist. You have clearly shown her lies, backpedaling and when she gets caught, she says her mental health has been affected. You are not a troll, don’t let the 🛩🐒 get to you.
Molly, the suicide post was purposely evasive yet pointed as to incite reaction from her diehard fans. It was a cheap disgusting manipulation. A transparent attempt to silence and intimidate valid factual criticism.
“Amelia” is very typical of many in the UK today: wants to tick the “right” boxes, and believes any old crap if the “right” (pseudo-socialist) noises are made. She favours Owen Jones! (‘Nuff said…). See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/04/a-brief-word-about-owen-jones/.
Let me make it easier for you (even though you’ve buggered orf) my real name is Pablo Garcia but I go as Paul. Spanish dad, English mum.
DM for any other detail you need for your lawyer.
I’m quite well off so should be good for you. Maybe better than Hopkins 😘
The allegation now is that “Jack Monroe” is using dozens of “sock accounts” to interact on Twitter while pretending to have left (having deleted, for the (?) time being her main “@BootstrapCook” account).
Seems plausible to me, looking at the myriad of Twitter accounts with zero or few “followers” that have popped up in the past days and weeks, all attacking critics of “Monroe”.
Thank u4 yr posts. I am autistic, & am horrified at much of jack monroe’s behaviour & her “I’m autistic so I can’t lie” claims. Shes clearly exploiting the poor &needs to be held2 account4 her https://t.co/DoGSi7AJ1V’ve done a great job of showing the evidence of her narcissism
Saw an extract, about a minute long, of a TV comedy/drama called The Larkins, a remake or re-adaptation of the well-known 1980s series The Darling Buds of May. Except that the husband or boyfriend of one of the characters is now black! The series was set, originally at least, I believe, in the late 1940s!
Typical ludicrous rubbish.
We hear much about “cultural appropriation“, but our own culture and indeed history is being taken over, basically stolen from us. Behind all of this nonsense, really, is the (((you-know-who)))…
Ian Robert Millard 