The Roman Empire slowly collapsed from not one but many causes. However, one was the combination of decadence, luxury, profligacy and cultural degeneration at the top of that society; another was mass immigration into Rome and Italy generally from all parts of the Empire.
There is no exact parallel with the Europe of today and the Britain of today. Close enough, though.
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I knew that this sort of censorship happened. I have long argued that the most pernicious “cancel culture” is the one directed toward pro Palestinian speech. But I was shocked at how blatant it was. They were very clear I was being fired for criticism of US policy toward Israel.
I am lucky, however, that I have an independent platform at my own small leftist magazine. This means that I have more ability to speak, because I can survive without getting another newspaper column. If I was freelance it would be much more difficult.
The editor in chief told me, in writing, that I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone that he was policing my tweets because officially I was “free to speak.” He tried to “confidentially” patrol my public speech. But I am not going to keep something like that silent.
ah yes because when I get canceled, it's cancel culture but they when get canceled it's just whining, for the things I believe are better than what they believe.
It has been very obvious that cancel culture (not the best name but that's another story) would never be something
that is restricted to canceling the "bad guys". It has been very clear that this is an all-encompassing phenomenon that will come back to bite *anyone* expressing a dissenting opinion, no matter how well-reasoned that dissenting opinion is.
“The incident, on May 29, 2018, began as Ms Lancaster was about to leave the Tesco store and Doris’s son was swinging on a metal bar.”
“Doris [black defendant], believing [white victim] Ms Lancaster’s basket had touched her son’s head, shouted “you have met the wrong woman you white b***h”, the court heard.
“She shoved Ms Lancaster inside the store, hurled racial abuse, and told her: “Watch out, watch what happens to you when you come outside”, Southwark Crown Court heard.“
“She then shoved Ms Lancaster on the shoulder, forcing her to stumble forward”.“
“Ms Lancaster, who works in the travel industry, suffered injuries to her head and knees, and was left with post-traumatic stress disorder, the court heard.“
“Doris, who was sentenced via videolink from her home, admitted assault by beating and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.“
“Darryl Cherrett, her barrister, said Doris has learning difficulties and mental health difficulties.”
“She entered guilty pleas last month on the first day of her trial, with the judge agreeing for her to be sentenced remotely as she was not going to send her straight to prison.”
Sentence? A “suspended” (plus some “mental health” and “rehabilitation” bs). I wonder what a white person would have got, had the roles been reversed?
Several other aspects of that case are troubling: the judge apparently decided to give a non-custodial sentence before even having heard the full history, or any mitigation; the defendant being allowed to sit at home to be “sentenced”; the fact that this low-IQ and lunatic black woman has children at all; finally, a barrister called “Darryl” (chalk that one up to my prejudice). Well, there it is. Britain in 2021…
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Under the new Scottish Hate Law Bill it'll be illegal for this red squirrel to complain, in his own dray, about the grey squirrel invasion. pic.twitter.com/h0yXk6V3QP
Where are these people now @AyoCaesar? 62 years is not enough time for a distinct population to just organically disappear without meticulous planning and coordination.
I challenge anyone who disagrees to please explain why the 'Great Replacement' is a conspiracy theory? https://t.co/FjvPDouaB5
In the 1980s and later, I myself would sometimes visit that market, off Edgware Road, more to walk through than buy, though I did once buy an excellent-quality 2-flask spirit set in tan leather-covered steel from a woman vending from an old suitcase (and probably without a licence). Secondhand but pristine. £10, I think. Provenance (of both flasks and woman) unknown, beyond both obviously having come from Scotland.
None of your midwit comments or insults change the fact that he’s right. London was 44.9% White British a decade ago, and 59.8% White British a decade before that. Only an “idiot” would believe that’s organic. https://t.co/Ru9tK95MQM
Ok, now it’s a permanent ban. They’ve suspended my Instagram (where I only posted wholesome pics), and they’ve suspended Mark’s Facebook and Instagram, and the Patriotic Alternative Facebook page at the same time. https://t.co/9cJqH2ti7T
Unfortunately, but inevitably, the “big battalions” of the (ZOG) Government, Opposition, msm, and their Twitterati camp followers, have won the argument for the majority of the public mind, won not on merit but because the fear propaganda has been massive and is now embedded.
It will be a different story once people realize that they are permanently poor, marginalized, unable to travel without huge expense and convenience, corralled and controlled, and muzzled everywhere. Then, they will look desperately for a solution…and a leader.
This lovely tweet is so important! We draw strength and support from each other and can affect a much greater influence as a coherent group. This is how we grow our community. One voice, one family, one people. Unite🤍💕 https://t.co/rgEANym31N
…and to think that I thought that only Russians eat ice-cream in the street when the temperature is sub-zero! Having said that, I myself once or twice had a Baskin-Robbins cone (probably coffee-flavour…I am very much a creature of habit) in a frozen Manhattan, a long long time ago.
Electronic health ID's & they work like a barcode.😳What is this insanity? “It’s being discussed so that test results will be valid for 72 hours & these can be scanned with a person’s phone to enter clubs, cinemas & other establishments. This is demonic. https://t.co/oBLv2j2f9h
These ancient remedies and preventatives are very useful, but we must not lose completely the advanced knowledge developed over the past 500 years (much of it in the past century). If world society steps back, let it then step forward twice, and our society bounce back even if and when a short-to-medium term disaster occurs.
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If the police don't understand the law, how do they expect the public to understand them?
I'm not sure why we're supposed to respect the police if they can't get one of the most basic and fundamental parts of their job right.
I have experienced similar problems with the police a few times over the past few years, particularly in 2017 and 2018. Police who not only do not know the specific law they themselves are purporting to enforce, but are simply unwilling to be instructed by me, a former practising barrister (one wrongfully disbarred some 8 years after I ceased practice: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/) as to what the law is.
What the law is, not what stray police constables think that it is or might be, and certainly not what malicious Jew-Zionist individuals would like it to be.
A commemorative medal celebrating the century of carlsberg in 1911 given to workers of the brewery,what's interesting is the use of a certain symbol on closer inspection,clear evidence the symbol was used openly and with no connection to a later political party,my collection pic.twitter.com/C84mezbhS2
I have never been to Copenhagen, but I once read somewhere that, until quite recent times (possibly 1980s), the gates of the Carlsberg brewery had Swastikas either on the gateposts or worked into the brickwork of those gateposts. Maybe the latter. I doubt that they are still there today, wherever they used to be.
Interesting claims
Leaflet from Germany claims that leading “German” politicians, including Merkel, are Jew or part-Jew:
n.b. I myself have not researched any of the above, so can neither endorse nor dismiss the claims made.
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If you think the 'New Normal' is acceptable, or even human, you need to get a reality and morality check. pic.twitter.com/I0kypsSIWf
If I may say so, @johnrentoul, that is the most complete bilge, and shows you have not been paying attention. I am disappointed, and had thought better of you. My blog, going back to March, should link to most of my writing on the matter. Please take a look. https://t.co/3iCNkeZtft
The journalist John Rentoul usually presents himself quite well, a political “all-seeing eye”, but I have noticed that he normally scores below me in the Saturday quiz in theinewspaper, so it may be that he is not a fount of knowledge after all.
Dying *with* Covid or *of* Covid? Dr Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, insists on the distinction at a govt press conference last May. I agree with her. https://t.co/e6b4NEuCN2
Then take the next logical step and stop calling “holocaust” “deniers”, “deniers“. “Historians” would be OK, where appropriate, or “historical revisionists“.
Dan Hodges's argument summarised: "I believe whatever last week's government policy was and use inflammatory language against anyone who disagrees".
I still can't quite get to grips with Rishi Sunak's obsession with rebalancing the books before there's actually anything in the books. Yes, the deficit is going to have to be tackled. But why not give the economy room to recover first. https://t.co/NpF2e5XmEi
Exactly. The Government is not respected but the “Labour” “Oppositon” is just irrelevant, and is unwilling to oppose “lockdown”, the facemask nonsense etc; indeed, wants more “controls”!
Labour (label) just has nothing to offer. The fact that Keir Starmer is a puppet of the Jewish lobby (meaning Zionist lobby, Israel lobby, NWO/ZOG) is not very relevant in terms of public attitudes, because the public is mostly asleep. Jew-Zionist “control” is rather “caviar to the general”. What does sink Starmer is that (as I blogged before he even took over from Corbyn) he is as dull as ditchwater.
As we move towards the very significant year 2022, it can be seen that the groups, cabals or “ruling circles” of the West are gearing up.
The whole “virus” and vaccines narrative has become almost hysterical. Yes, a million people have died “with” this virus (most of whom would have died anyway at or near the same time, from other conditions they had), but that is out of eight thousand million (i.e. 8 billion) human beings on the Earth. One in every eight thousand.
I do not say that “the virus” does not exist. Of course it does. Something like 50,000 have died with it in the UK, out of about 70 million inhabitants (about one death for every 1,400 people in the UK). It is a serious public health problem, but is hardly the Plague or the Black Death.
In much of the UK, the population has been basically unaffected. Anecdotally, I personally do not know a single person who has had “the virus”, let alone died from it. Indeed, as far as I know, I do not know anyone who knows anyone who has had it, even asymptomatically.
It is clear that the virus has been weaponized, across the “West” especially, meaning Europe, North America, Australasia, to corral the population into both obedience to State orders and into being injected with the vaccine(s). The fact that there is already mooted the strong possibility of compulsion or “nudge” semi-compulsion is deeply suspicious.
Leaving aside “the virus” question, we see that the System is also behind the ludicrous “Black Lives Matter” campaign. That too is tied up with large-scale movements, behind which are those same groups or “ruling circles”. The “Great Replacement” of white Europeans both in Europe and across the world. White Genocide.
The “useful idiots” here are of course the “blacks and browns” and other non-whites, as well as the pathetic”antifa” and “anti-racist” types, all used by the System as a battering ram. The blacks think that they are about to take over, whereas they are just being used by transnational tyrants as a catspaw.
“The Covid-19 crisis, and the political, economic and social disruptions it has caused, is fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making…As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies...” [World Economic Forum].
There it is. The “ruling circles” think that “the virus” (the true origins of which are unknown) creates a wonderful opportunity to reshape the world the way they want.
The last year in that 33-year cycle was 1989. If one had to pinpoint a year in which “socialism” in various forms died, it would be 1989. After 1989, “socialism” of the old sort lost whatever credibility remained to it.
In the 1980s, in the Soviet Union, the CPSU (Communist Party) was on its last legs, legs of straw. “Perestroika” (a mere word or slogan proclaiming “rebuilding” but in fact meaning demolition of a socialist command economy) was the cry; in fact the legs of that old command economy were being cut off.
Within a few years after 1989, a pack of Jews had descended on Russia (and the other republics) and were carpetbagging on an unprecedented scale, buying whole huge industrial sectors for peanuts. Even before 1989, a few pioneer Western corporate lawyers were going to Moscow. The first one resident there was a Jew or part-Jew, UK based and whom I myself later met on a few occasions both in London and overseas.
I recall when Gorbachev, not yet officially the leader, came to London in 1984. The red carpet was quite literally rolled out for him, for example, by large Western enterprises. I saw one such carpet being laid down a day or so before his arrival (it was not shown on the TV news until he had actually been to the place, the HQ of one of the largest UK engineering companies): http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/16/newsid_2560000/2560125.stm
In other words, the “Wise Men of the West” were well aware that socialism, as such, had had its day, the socialism which their own predecessors had “injected”, via Lenin (part-Jew) and Trotsky (full Jew), into Russia.
Those Western “ruling circles” and cabals were preparing for the post-1989, post-socialist world already in 1984, and no doubt long before then.
One example: the American Jew economist, Sachs, first advised the Polish Government in 1989, then moved on to the Soviet Union a couple of years later, as it died, promoting a “capitalism in 100 days” concept. This was partly carried out under Yeltsin and his clique. Millions died (quietly…most were pensioners) of malnutrition and whatever else as the economy tanked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs#Advising_in_post-communist_economies
Across Western and Central Europe, parties formerly at least notionally “social-democratic” if not “socialist” either fell or became finance-capitalist in all but label or presentation. In the UK, the Labour Party abandoned its commitment to a form of socialism by 1995 (though substituting a form of meaningless “communitarian” words): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause_IV. There was never a serious attempt to revive Clause 4, even under Corbyn.
The overall point that I am making is that 1989 was the pivotal year, though significant events happened both before and after that year. The death of socialism.
Other manifestations included the fall of the Berlin Wall (also 1989) and with it the DDR system of not only government but also society. As in most of Eastern and Central Europe, the DDR socialist regime simply gave up.
Yes, there are a few “socialist” states still around: Cuba, North Korea etc. They have as little significance as the surviving hunter-gatherer tribes of the Arctic, Australia or Latin America.
Since 1989, the prevailing ideology worldwide has been finance-capitalism, but a finance-capitalism permeated by globalism.
[the obverse side of the Great Seal of the United States]
The next world-historic year will be 2022. We can see the Western cabals preparing for it: the removal of free expression or free speech, especially online (which has developed entirely since 1989), the fake communitarianism, the push to (start to) eliminate the white European peoples completely, by race-mixing, by intimidation, but mostly by propaganda and brainwashing, starting at the school and even pre-school level; the normalization of mixed-race couples and mixed-race offspring etc.
The NWO cabals thought that their work would be more successful than it has been. The 1989-2022 plan was partly derailed by at least two major trends; the first was the unexpected revival of Russian national spirit, meaning patriotism, culture, political will under Putin (for all his flaws), and military might (which is still growing).
The second impediment to the New World Order [NWO] in the 1989-2022 period was the upsurge in Arab/Muslim military and paramilitary activity, from the more terroristic in the West to the outright war of the “ISIS” barbarians in the Middle East.
Those two factors slowed the progress of the NWO. We see now, as 2022 approaches, that both are blocked or weakened: Russia weakened by economic sanctions, and the various forms of Arab/Muslim upsurge or resistance running out of steam, or crumbling. For example, the Gulf states, I think Jordan too, either have or will soon have given official recognition to the Israeli state. That may only have formalized previous unofficial ties, but the timing is significant.
The previous years in the cycle have all been very important: 1989, 1956, 1923, for example.
The necessity now is for Europe itself to recover its racial and cultural memory.
"Argentina has passed a new tax …- dubbed the "millionaire's tax" – by 42 votes to 26 on Friday. Those with assets worth more than 200 million pesos ($2.5m; £1.8m) – some 12,000 people – will have to pay."
In the UK too. People are being softened up for huge standard-of-living falls, under cover of “the virus”, when 90% of the problem has been caused by the Government measures. Hundreds of billions are being thrown away by Rishi Sunak and Boris-idiot, yet already we see one billion shaven off the railways support.
It’s all connected with “The Great Reset” etc.
Heard Rachel Reeves on Andrew Marr this am stating that UK wants to maintain export of Mackeral to EU, complete ignorance of breakdown of catch stats!
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell policirs were liked Anto austerity was liked Labour right, Rachel Reeves, said they backed cuts social security Backed austerity Backed poverty They didn't win 2015 #SocialistSunday
Good point. If Corbyn was no good electorally, was Miliband better? Brown?
Rachel Reeves, 2010-2015, parrotted the same line as David Cameron-Levita (remember that little bastard?) and George Osborne, more or less. They all belong to Friends of Israel…Oh, wait…
Whatever your opinion of covid, vaccines, etc, how can you stomach paying to watch TV 'news' that will show you Soros-sponsored demos in Belarus or Hong Kong, but covers up huge grass-roots protests in your own capital?#DefundTheBBC#cancelskyhttps://t.co/En35T6B2ZC
Truly whacky conspiracy from #77Brigade shill Dan Hodges: Vlad is trying to kill us all with a plague that kills 0.06 of those who get it. 90% of them with other illnesses which would kill them within a few months anyway.#tinfoilhathttps://t.co/oI536jbRTp
I have been looking at Patriotic Alternative after I followed Laura theres lots of information on the site, I may even try Laura's tea! 🙂 Building our community and connecting is the key to turning this around i believe so its something I could get behind and support..
Following @YorkshireTea's support for Black Lives Matter, and its silence over the tens of thousands of white girls victimised by grooming gangs, I now drink Grandma Towler's Tea, produced by @thisislaurat
It’s almost time to deliver some leaflets & enjoy our beautiful countryside 💪🏻 pic.twitter.com/H2A211I0h0
— Patriotic Alternative | East of England (@PatAltEast) December 5, 2020
“If @jeremycorbyn accepts responsibility for what happened on his watch, accepts the EHRC report in its entirety and proffers an absolutely complete apology.. I think it'd be wrong not to let him back, but he has to be willing to do that" – @margarethodgehttps://t.co/jzm3oajjw1
How absolutely typical of “them”. The Jew-Zionists always want “apology” for non-existent “wrongs”. That way they completely crush their victims spiritually, making them into craven doormats who can be then simply swept away without anyone noticing or caring.
Labour failed to win the 2019 General Election partly because, every day after Corbyn became leader, the Jew-Zionist element in the newspapers, on TV, on radio, and online were trashing not only Corbyn but also Labour.
I do not “support” Labour, as such, but if anyone is owed an apology it is the Labour membership, and it is owed that apology by the anti-Corbyn plotters in the msm and online, and by the Jewish lobby Labour Party MPs (some now ex-MPs, and not all Jewish, incidentally), such as Margaret Hodge, Luciana Berger, Tom Watson, Joan Ryan, Anna Turley, Mary Creagh, Emma Reynolds, Ruth Smeeth, Jess Phillips, Mike Gapes, Ian Austin, John Woodcock and others.
Hitchens may be right about the teaching; after all, Eton even has its own orchestra with full-time conductor, and teaching staff have included such as John le Carre (David Cornwell), but the connections are the main reason why Old Etonians flourish.
The above-linked article starts with the evident assumption that so-called “radical right” persons and organizations have to be smothered. That is the aim. Method? To “deplatform” them (eg on YouTube or elsewhere) while also taking unspecified other measures.
Not a hint in that article about the importance of free expresson on socio-political topics, not a hint that the Western “democracy” her organization supposedly supports should be open to non-System voices. Well, after all, the writer does come from the country where the Inquisition reached its most extreme level and where, more recently, the leaders of Catalan independence were sentenced, mostly in absentia, to long terms of imprisonment for dissidence.
The book helped me to understand that culture and society mean something – and have a much higher value to personal self worth and happiness than money and overall wealth.
Found among souvenirs of my late father’s 30 years in His and Her Majesty’s Navy. Dinner on the Mombasa/Nairobi sleeper, June 1938. A world so different that the imagination struggles to cope. pic.twitter.com/nAd5rdXvG8
Some music by Atterberg, a Swedish composer all but unknown to the public of Britain, and in his native Sweden very much sidelined after 1945 because of his cultural and spiritual ties to the Reich.
I managed it without difficulty, though I know that my lung capacity must be a fraction of what it was 20-40 years ago when I could —and did— swim a mile, or a couple of miles, every couple of days, and had been known to swim several miles of open sea and then haul myself up several feet onto the deck of a motor yacht (without a ladder— very awkward and slippery, but it had to be done).
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Another brilliant article from the Unz Review. In-depth look at, and explanation of, the cancelling of white men from corporate advertising. Be sure to follow the link to the second half as well.#WhiteGeNocide#frankfurtschoolhttps://t.co/jbwZV4Q97X
When I hear them whine 'cultural appropriation', I think of the concepts, language & technology they use to do so. The clothes they wear, sports they play, the farms that feed them, medicines that keep them healthy. And the fact they don't eat each other.https://t.co/FDPNiDCEXb
The Black and White Minstrel Show and similar is “cultural appropriation”, apparently (despite the fact that “blacking up” was invented by non-blacks), but black actors and actresses can play white people from history, such as (absurdly) Ann Boleyn!
If you backed the second lockdown despite all the evidence that it would trash the economy & cost more lives than it saves, then DON'T YOU DARE complain about cuts to foreign aid, no pay rises, millions of lost jobs, huge debt & the inevitable future tax rises.
Multiple Penguin Random House Canada staffers broke down crying because their employer is publishing Jordan Peterson's next bookhttps://t.co/H6HsPVLO3j
This is what I was talking about. Why should a decision of this magnitude be “50:50”. If we’re going to have this ridiculous system there should be transparent, objective criteria to determine which regions enter which Tiers. There shouldn’t be any debate about it. https://t.co/cvEKjOHfHo
“Government insiders said it is possible none of England will be put into the less restrictive Tier 1.” And then Johnson can claim that he kept his promise to end lockdown on December 2nd, technically. https://t.co/Nngjvbwna5
The faltering of the wave in late October and early November was not just a pause but a peak. Hospital admissions appear to have peaked on 11 November and began to fall, implying a peak of infections in late October, well before lockdown began. https://t.co/Ii9duwBYKv
Politicians everywhere are not very bright, and are afraid of real responsibility. They also hate admitting mistakes. That's why. https://t.co/jY2f3i2ZQu
Peter Hitchens sees (surely correctly) the incompetence of governments, but fails to see the interpenetrating conspiracy (or “consensus” if you prefer) within and behind governments: Bilderberg, WEF, the Coudenhove Kalergi Plan, the “Great Reset”, the “Great Replacement”, “ZOG”, “NWO”, etc…
The Danish Study did shred the case for masks, @silversynergy . So much so that @nntaleb, the well known muzzle zealot, is now calling for it to be retracted. Now, he wouldn't do that if it *supported* the case for masks, would he? https://t.co/xsBLt8rmvQ
@willadamslsd Do you regard it as ‘normal’ to go around wearing a pointless nappy over the lower half of your face, for fear of being fined £6,400? Takes all sorts. https://t.co/HbncScdG47
If you're ill @michaelberry, sweetie, do you normally need a full-page newspaper advertisment to get you to realise it? And how many illnesses have you had which the government actively urged you have tested and recorded by them? https://t.co/tSV3fqdx8D
Here we go again, the first epidemic in history which the government has to search for. The first disease where they have to advertise for actual patients. pic.twitter.com/CnIwPMO1Ob
Is this why the BBC refused to answer my question about QT's audience last week? : Question Time ratings plummet to all-time low in 'huge embarrassment' for BBC https://t.co/D6fConvVwD
I happened to see a trailer for a game show called Pointless Celebrities. The main “pointless celebrity” shown? Owen Jones! Ha ha! Am punkt! I presume that that episode was from some years ago. Does Owen Jones still count as a “celebrity”? Maybe; after all, I have no idea who most of the contemporary “celebrities” even are.
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When the new Covid tiers are announced this morning, don't be *grateful* if your area is in Tier 2 or even – dare to dream – Tier 1.
Don't be grateful for being given back freedoms that should never have been taken away in the first place.
Bad news for Liverpool bar/pub owners. Tier 2 restrictions are so tight that it's not worth the effort of opening. Tier 3 gets you a nice fat cheque from Rishi. https://t.co/I1QG07U4wi
To see how debased our cultural elites have become, consider that Carole Cadwalladr was given the Orwell Prize for what have now been shown to be preposterous fantasies, simply because she was telling Europhile hardliners what they wanted to hear. https://t.co/82oJPqlYI6
She may have got a prize worth a couple of thousand pounds, but now has to pay over £60,000 in costs, as well as (presumably) her own; also, to add to the merriment, the Guardian is sacking staff and reducing pay, so the future looks bleak for its scribblers.
Before further punishing pubs and restaurants how about improving infection control in hospitals? Over 15% of Covid hospital “admissions” are given the virus after being admitted for another condition.
Foreign aid is a rotten borough, just as quite a lot of the charity sector is a rotten borough. As many have said, the beneficiaries of foreign aid, often, are those who work in the sector (especially the “senior” bods), corrupt officials and politicians in the receiving country, and large Western companies, law firms etc. I saw some of that myself in respect of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s.
Charities are similar. Look at organizations such as Oxfam and Save the Children. I think that the latter was where Brendan Cox, the sex pest husband of assassinated MP Jo Cox was second in command, and had a salary of something like £200,000 a year. Someone with virtually no credible academic or other background. I seem to recall that the CEO was paid even more, around £400,000 a year. Is this what people in the UK, often poor, give their pennies for? I think not. Also, much UK government money is funnelled through such bloated organizations.
Just last week, I saw that the head of Barnardo’s, a non-white now, has launched a basically anti-British crusade against “racism” etc, using Barnardo’s funds. People do not give their pennies or leave legacy monies so that it can be wasted on trash of that sort.
Anything given to foreign aid etc via government, charities etc, is likely to be wasted. When I spent a few months in Egypt in 1998, a month of that was in the Berber oasis of Siwa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis
I often saw bags of flour on sale in the market, which bags and sacks were marked with the English words “A gift from the Danish people“! I do not imagine that Siwa received such food as aid; it is a rather prosperous place by Egyptian standards. The sacks may have come from beyond the Sahara, from Chad or elsewhere.
The Rishi Sunak statement etc
I start from the premise that the lockdown/shutdown was unnecessary, as is the facemask nonsense etc. It has done tremendous damage to the UK. Not “the virus”, but Government measures in reaction.
Having said that, “we are where we are”, in the irritating and smug phrase so beloved of “our” politicians.
Huge monies have been spent and largely wasted this year. The only saving grace is that, interest rates being very low internationally, the UK can borrow at almost no cost. That should be done to a even greater extent than at present, while the chance is there.
The devil, though, is in the detail. The monies borrowed must be used as investment for the future: well thought-out infrastructure spending, meaning railways and roads (but not without thought), as well as proper urban planning, and upgrading of the population, including radical reform of the entire educational structure.
I cannot see the point in immediate tax rises or spending cuts, both of which tend to have a depressive effect on economic resurgence.
The first thing to do, though, is to end the “lockdown” nonsense, the “tiers” of shutdown nonsense, the facemask nonsense etc. Without opening up the country again, any other measures to stimulate the economy will be a complete waste of time and effort.
A Government of clowns headed by a part-Jew public entertainer whose jokes are now falling flat. What could go wrong?
Do I blame “Boris”? Yes, but not entirely. I also blame the MPs (both fake “Conservative” Party and equally-fake “Labour” Party). I also blame the 90,000 or so Conservative Party pensioners (almost all were pensioners) who decided to vote for “Boris” as Conservative Party leader last year. I also blame the mass media, who have pandered to the am-dram sub-Churchillian fantasies of Boris-idiot for 20 years, puffing him to the public as a “Prime Minister in Waiting”, despite his blatantly obvious unfitness.
Finally, I also blame the great but often sadly moronic British public, who have preferred, for decades, to worry about the latest news re. football, rugby, cricket, or whatever may be happening in Emmerdale or “Coronation Strasse”, rather than anything to do with the future of the UK, of Europe, of our race and culture etc.
Unless the Government can publish very clear criteria for why the Tier 3 areas have been placed into that top tier I think this is going to become a political disaster for Boris.
Political disaster maybe, but what can the British people do, when the political system is carved up between a couple of System parties with, at root, very similar policies. That’s Boris-idiot’s lifebelt, that Labour would do exactly what he is doing, or more of the same.
We live in an elected dictatorship. Not just the Conservative Party but also the other party, Labour (or, if you look wider, LibDems and SNP as well).
The authoritarianism at work today is truly appalling. But is it necessary and proportionate to the threat from this disease?
Don't get the politics behind this. Tory MPs are fanning out to praise Sunak's statement, and talk up what he's going to do for their areas. Where do they think these 2.6 million job losses are coming from. And what are they going to say when their words are thrown back at them.
The Globalists have the MSM and the government's say shit that's DELIBERATELY full of emotional blackmail. Guilt tripping. Shaming. It's weaponized applied behavioural psychology and masd propoganda upon yhe unsuspecting respective populations of each country thats infiltrated.
They manifest like crazy. 👁️ One of the most immediately suggested symbols on social media platforms. The more it's symbolised. The closer into reality it becomes. Social media platforms deliberately make it one of the most convenient and suggested symbol to be used whilst typing
The BBC complaints system is a sort of sponge @BBCnewspr, whose outer layer is run by Capita, and which noiselessly absorbs complaints .Then if anyone works out how to take it to its limit, it arbitrarily dismisses them. I have documented proof. https://t.co/lhpKl8ebyU
To date, deaths per million: 637 Sweden 862 UK If it were "rampant", Sweden's deaths would far exceed that of the UK. But hey, why let facts get in the way.
Trump has pardoned a convicted ex-military officer of his acquaintance. He must now go further, and use his remaining time as President to extend Presidential pardon to all those social-national people doing hard time in Federal prison. For many, doing life sentences or long fixed terms, a pardon may be their only hope.
I'm left wing but this is insane – sure invest in public hospitals, infrastructure – things that add value to a country – but don't throw money away for nothing. We have to pay it back. Furlough is just a way to destroy people's lives slowly.
“We have a golden opportunity to seize something good from this crisis — its unprecedented shockwaves may well make people more receptive to big visions of change,”
Furlough just kicking the can down the road. When it ends and the consequences of that emerge, the Conservative party are finished. Furlough is the sticking plaster holding society together.
A funny money fan like Johnson himself. No idea that money is not wealth and thinks enough govt printing will fix e'thing. Just like it has in Venezuela. You are in for a rude awakening mug.
No one with any real idea thinks that Government money is a fixed amount of coins in a wooden chest; that is “Mrs Thatcher” economics, “housewife’s shopping basket” economics.
Having said that, continual issuance of fiat money eventually cannot be sustained. In extreme cases it leads to collapse of the currency as people cease to accept that such money has value. Such money ceases to be money at all except nominally, and just becomes worthless paper. Examples well-known include Zimbabwe under Mugabe, the 1923 German hyperinflation (1921-1923, but the slide became unstoppable in 1923), various Latin American examples too.
I myself saw, on several visits, what happened in Poland in the late 1980s as the zloty slid in value and then just collapsed vis a vis hard currencies. When I was first there, in summer 1988, the zloty already had an official rate which was many times the value of the true rate (as against the US Dollar, the only currency universally acceptable in 1980s Poland). The taxi drivers all had stickers saying “x4“, meaning that you paid 4 times what the meter showed. By the time that summer 1988 had given way to the snows of winter, the stickers read “x40“, and by early Autumn of 1989, “x200“.
I recall taking a taxi ride around part of Warsaw in late 1989. The taxi driver could not find the address, because the apartment building sought was in a small street which was not marked on any streetmaps. Eventually, he found it. The amount on the meter was large and then had to be multiplied by 200! Fortunately, I had more than enough (in British money it was worth only a few pounds). As a tip, I gave the driver a single American dollar. His face! I might as well have given him a gold bar with “Reichsbank” stamped into it! His thanks were effusive…he could not stop smiling.
At that time, the ordinary shops were almost empty of goods. Only the hard-currency “Pewex” shops had goods, mostly imported: alcohol, scents, some foodstuffs. Their customers were either black market operators or those with access to foreign currency via relatives in the USA or elsewhere. Everyone wanted dollars, and Poland had a class system of three tiers: the ruling elite, those with dollars, and the rest.
I bought little with the stack of zloty high-denomination notes in my possession. A bottle of Krupnik (a Polish drink, not bad with black coffee on the side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupnik), and also some vinyl records, mostly of Soviet manufacture. Cesar Franck, Taneyev, Lyapunov, Tchaikovsky, Russian folk music. I still have a couple somewhere. I think that they cost, in English money, about 20p each, if that.
By that time, late 1989, the socialist system had just more or less collapsed. The —very— new government was a Solidarity one.
Collapse of a currency means, more often than not, collapse of the political system too, eventually. Both government and currency depend on confidence.
Absolutely right. The seriousness of all this has just not filtered through to the majority of the population. When it finally does there will be the rudest awakening possible. https://t.co/xuEu0covju
The wall came down because Moscow lost the strength and wealth to sustain its empire. No doubt the demonstrations speeded things up a bit, but the Warsaw Pact states were finished anyway. @winston03457509https://t.co/8Y8fcyVJRt
Yeah @johnlowe56 , Governments can create money by magic. That is why HMRC has been closed down, income tax has been abolished and VAT , fuel duty etc are no longer collected. Instead offices have been set up on over High Street where free money is handed out on request. https://t.co/oHsKV7O28M
Looking at the above exchange, both are right and both are wrong. What matters is the extent of money-creation in any given period. If Hitchens is too much of the “Thatcher’s shopping basket”, then his interlocutor is too blase by far. Yes, the UK has been mightily indebted in the past, and to some extent that is a fiction, just as money (whether coins, notes or displays on computer screens) is a fiction or accepted reality. There is some effect or price to pay though, eventually, though it can be minimized by stretching things out for years or centuries.
People often talk about how Britain was in a poor state in terms of public finance after WW2 and by reason of that unnecessary war, yet established the NHS etc.
True, the UK established the NHS and kept an Empire/Commonwealth going, but as Correlli Barnet pointed out, Britain had resources enough to do one or possibly two things (global power status and a Welfare State), but tried to do both and also to modernize its industry. It could not do all three, despite the 1960s/1970s development of North Sea Oil.
“WW2” rationing did not end, along with the War, in 1945; it carried on, at first stricter but then lessening, until 1954, and even slightly longer in some respects! Rishi Sunak has more to play with, but not an unlimited amount.
I walk across this esplanade as Governor of @edinburghcastle & think of the men who were photographed here at start of WW1 & later picture of survivors at the end.
I recognise him – he's someone worried about what's happening to this country and where things are going. If you got up off your knee, you might recognise him too.
they talk of demographic changes, such as ONS statistics such as adult indigenous brits being a minority in uk by 2066 and children even sooner by 2037…..but that kinda wrongthink is not allowed under this system
I do hope you have sufficient resources for this? I know you have to deploy the 'SWAT' team to enforce face nappy wearing in shops even when the human, aka bio hazard, is exempt. BTW someone keeps putting leaflets through my door should I report them as I don't like Pizzas? pic.twitter.com/9jOBwdb0mG
Please define "racially abusive and unacceptable wording" What do the leaflets say?? Perhaps you should do some real policing – how is this a Police matter?
It would probably be better if you spend your time investigating real crime rather than taking the role of the thought police. Saddens me to see how quickly the police are losing public support with recent actions.
Pal had cycle & motorbike stolen. Then shed broken into. £600 bike & £1000 power tools gone. He dials 999. They say dial 101 who say get crime number online. End of cops input. Rarely see cops in LAWLESS UK But look how many cops to arrest gym owner https://t.co/RioxDhlVaA
— 🇬🇧 🇬🇧Yes Nigel for Prime Minister🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (@Mr__XYZ) November 9, 2020
Yes, because the gym owner is defying the “advice” or “rules” laid down by government decree and posing as valid law. The police are now a State militia and politically-correct poundland KGB.
Look at and listen to that little police drone! This is akin to what the Roundhead soldiery did in the days of Cromwell.
(the victim should stop wittering about how she is “under Common Law“, though. That is just silly.)
Only a matter of time?…
Stray thoughts
I thought that the “young” (eg aged 18-24) were supine, but looking around in the local town and local supermarket a mile or so away from my humble home, I see that many of the worst kow-tow-ers are members of the older generation (70+ or 80+), wearing their facemasks and muzzles even in the open air, as if to say, “look Mr. Government, look Mr. Policeman, I am compliant!“
If they are so worried and think (wrongly) that a cloth face-muzzle will protect them, then why take the (non-existent) risk? Why not stay indoors where I cannot see your pathetic mugs?
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Interview with Laura Towler, Deputy Director of the British Patriotic Alternative
My grandad fought in the war and my uncle fought and died. Both fought for their nation and people and would’ve been disgusted at the state of Britain today & the views of people like you.
Don’t you dare turn their sacrifice into a sacrifice for open borders & diversity quotas. https://t.co/MFMAGcABeW
Laura Towler is quite right. In fact my own (maternal-side) grandfather fought in WW2 (really fought: he was at Dunkirk and later in Burma). I doubt that he would think much of the Britain of today (he died in 1970, when the decadence and evil of multikulti Britain was but in its early stages).
Many UK and US troops were shocked at the destruction wrought by RAF and USAAF bombing in Germany, as was my father in law (himself a WW2 officer of Bomber Command, and who had to bomb Germany on many occasions).
150 veterans recently surveyed say they resent how Britain has been transformed by mass immigration. Immigration in the 50s was tiny by today's standard, it's be called far right to suggest those levels. 75% of people agreed with Enoch Powell in 1968. https://t.co/jpjAFL17SX
As if a few hundred or thousand Indo-Paks (in a UK population of 40M-50M then), would “get Britain moving“! Also, the mill towns in the North already had skilled workers…you know, English workers…
Labour used to care about the white working class, and there wasn't any non-white immigration at the time, Windrush was in 1948 and was slow at first. 75% of people agreed with Enoch Powell saying it had become too much, in 1968, according to a Gallup poll at the time.
The demographics literally were unchanged, perhaps they went from 99.9% to 99.8% White British. Perhaps from 50k non-White Britons to 103k (by a govt estimate in 1951) out of a total population of 30-40 million. https://t.co/EXEfmqsHMW
In the 1920s and early 1930s, the NSDAP always said that a Communist was a potential National Socialist, but today, in 2020 Britain, we of social nationalism would not want the “antifa” and similar idiots anyway, because they are idiotic, badly-informed and generally useless.
The Guardian
Apparently, the Guardian newspaper is on the brink of insolvency and is cutting more staff. In a way, I shall be sorry to see it go, when it goes, if only because at least it has sub-editors, or others who can spell and/or have some basic education (compare the wannabee “journalists” used by the Daily Mail and other online news outlets).
On the other hand, it has supported mass immigration and the Jewish lobby as far back as I can recall, so goodbyee, don’t cryee…
What’s good for the goose
I noticed a few pro-“antifa” drones whining on Twitter because an account was briefly disciplined by Twitter staff for using the word “redneck“. Well, “redneck” was preceded by other terms long ago, “nigger” and others among them. “What goes around comes around”, as the Americans say.
More widely, these “useful idiots” of the Jewish-Zionist lobby or ZOG/NWO cabal(s) cannot see that, once they have served their purpose, they will go the same way as those they have hounded or weaselled off Twitter and other platforms.
A US President has an unfettered jurisdiction and power to apply the prerogative of mercy, that is to pardon anyone. Trump could, at any time up to his last minute in office, pardon anyone. If he wanted to, he could pardon all the social nationalists etc who have been serving hard time in Federal prison, many of them for years.
“Virus” infections tail off before “lockdown” (shutdown)
So infections are apparently declining in number across much of the country, and were declining days ago, in other words before the second national “lockdown” (ruinous shutdown) of society even started.
Will this wake up the “lockdown” and facemask zealots? I doubt it. As for the Government, it cannot admit that the measures are useless or even counter-productive…
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The Guardian: OMG, free broadband and education is communism!! Corbyn is coming for your kids!!!!
Also the Guardian: Talking about kids, did we mention all the great benefits of child labour? https://t.co/nGbkId85Lv
Of course, the “mad psychiatrist” is a cliche, but there is often a kernel of truth in cliches, of course. In this case, the doctor in question seems to imagine that most shops are open ( they are not) and that most people are not masked (I should hope not; the facemask nonsense is only mandated, by the —probably invalid— law, inside shops etc).
The above tweet is actually the true voice of the Twitter pseudo-intelligentsia. Begging to be controlled, and wishing full control upon a cowed population; wanting everyone to be miserable and dependent; also, either ignorant or uncaring of the damage to the economy (which will eventually have its effect on pay, State benefits, services, infrastructure). A typical Twitter virtue-signaller.
AT last! @douglaskmurray condemns shutdown ' It's got to stop ..self-inflicted harm after self-inflicted harm'. Say it louder, Douglas, and say it in Britain. https://t.co/LHavswDOWq
yes, the context is that they felt it completely appropriate to just start kicking the man – not restrain him, but to take out their own anger – absolutely disgusting and what will eventually happen is that the mob will return and defend themselves. this is not "by consent"
Sadly you have no idea just how much you and your colleagues are alienating the public with your heavy-handed tactics, and quoting regulations as if that excuses your compliance in destroying liberty. You won’t be forgiven or trusted.
This should be aimed at the right ones @pritipatel & @metpoliceuk Ttouble being that I think they are fully aware of this stuff, but do nothing about it. The people MAY have to respond in an appropriate manner to these scumbags.
Was thinking the same. Police standards are no more. And therein lies the problem. Minimum fitness standards and common sense are long gone. Hard to tell the perps from the police nowadays. Police used to command respect a few decades ago. Not anymore.
State power's like a noxious weed in your garden. If you don't constantly cut it back it takes over everything. The idea that the police didn't know journalists are free to report on demonstrations is absurd. Just taking advantage of the new conditions: https://t.co/LawIMJ95QJ
We saw the same 1st lockdown vids of police telling people to get off their own front gardens , silly and shows some love the power more than protecting the people
Indeed. Neither is that urge to exert petty power confined to the police. All the heretofore gophers and wage slaves such as receptionists, supermarket cashiers, shop staff generally, have been rather enjoying their (presumed, assumed) power to tell visitors to adjust their masks, stand back etc. Some stray idiots started to tell complete strangers they encountered, or who were nearby, to do so! I see less of that now, compared to a few months ago, probably because the mask zealots got barked at a few times by freedom-fighters or dissidents (like me!)…
Cassandra Fairbanks is a fascist who wants people imprisoned based on political belief. I would have been justified in calling her much worse. https://t.co/QARMS5OaUO
Hypocrite Stuchbery (who has repeatedly called for those with whom he disagrees or of whom he disapproves to be punched, taken down, taken out, have their skulls crushed in etc). Of course, Stuchbery always does his “antifa” and pro-Jew lobby cheerleading from a very safe distance…and see: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/.
Raheem Kassam
Needless to say, I have little time for Raheem Kassam, another of the “alt-Right” or “alt-Lite” wastes of space (Breitbart, “Prison Planet” Watson, “Sargon of Akkad” Carl Benjamin, Katie Hopkins etc), but it is telling that Kassam’s online newspaper has now been suspended (removed) from Twitter. I was expelled, David Icke has been expelled. Many others as well.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” [John F. Kennedy].
7 ноября
Today is the 103rd anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, a coup d’etat in one city of one corner of a vast empire, which flame spread like a wildfire across those huge territories. A cataclysmic and largely catastrophic event. Probably the single biggest reason why Russia does not today rule the world, or is not at least the most influential state…
The Russian Revolution, that is the real one, in early 1917, not the mainly Jewish putsch headed by Lenin in October (old-style) 1917, did not emerge from nowhere. The social inequities under Tsarism provided the fuel, then events (not Bolshevik propaganda) provided the spark that set that fuel alight.
The Bolsheviks were in fact almost an irrelevance until 1917. Their numbers seem to have been between 5,000 and 50,000 until that year. Lenin himself was not even in Russia until two months after the first or real revolution of 1917. His putsch merely took over an existing situation.
I doubt that many, in the Russia of, say, 1913 or 1914, could have predicted that the Imperial state (and society) would fall so easily and so comprehensively.
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The police don't realise the rules surrounding face mask exemption. Again and again and again, the British Police demonstrate their lack of suitability to perform their tasks.
— Winston Smith – war on bullshit (@Winston03457509) November 7, 2020
“Like Peter Finch’s deranged newsreader in the 1976 movie Network, Shelley Tasker is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it any more.
As England was pitchforked into another debilitating lockdown, she set up an amplifier on the steps of Truro Cathedral, grabbed a microphone and began telling passers-by what’s ‘really going on’ in the NHS. Within minutes she had attracted a small crowd.
Shelley has resigned in disgust from her job as a healthcare assistant at Treliske hospital and wants the world to know why.
The idea that the NHS is overrun, she said, is a pack of lies. ‘I can tell you now that at the height of the pandemic I had no work because there were no patients.
‘On Friday in Treliske there were three people with Covid. We’ve closed down Cornwall because three people are in hospital.’
She also claimed that patients who died from flu were being registered dishonestly as Covid victims on death certificates.
Yesterday the chief executive of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust confirmed that in the county’s main hospital there are just seven patients suffering from coronavirus, three of them in intensive care.
Yet on the strength of that minuscule number of cases, a county of 565,000 people is being shut down. Businesses are again closing their doors and many will never reopen. Cornwall, like the rest of the country, is braced for a jobs bloodbath.” [Richard Littlejohn, in the Daily Mail]
The above echoes my recent experience of having visited a small hospital in Southern England a few times and briefly. Almost deserted.
I see that Littlejohn compares the “virus” madness, and the behaviour of the police and others, and just as I did a day or two ago, to the film The Lives of Others, about people in the pre-1990 DDR (East Germany). Or does Littlejohn read my blog? (he also uses some of my typical phrasing…). Actually, quite a few journalists and MPs (etc) do read my blog.
Once again, fascinating that former East Germany, all too familiar with a self-righteous repressive regime, is much less willing to accept this sort of thing thna the long-pampered west. https://t.co/06qgIvzs61
Idiot. Sometimes our worst enemies come from our own. National Trust chair praises BLM as 'human rights movement' https://t.co/HC3SMEx3tr via @MailOnline
Racial replacement is not a thing Racial replacement is not a thing Racial replacement is not a thing Racial replacement is not a thing Racial replacement is not a thing Racial replacement is not a thing Racial replacement is not a thing Racial replacement is not a thing Oh…… https://t.co/eG6IiOy08a
I have had a few experiences in recent years that actually surprised me re. police, about how ignorant of the law they often are and how unwilling they are to be instructed even by me, a former barrister who appeared many times not only in the lower courts (magistrates’ courts, Crown Court, County Court) but also in the High Court.
Interesting how poorly-trained they are in the law they claim to be enforcing. https://t.co/nfLURBN3BP
AS you say @petedurnell . And many people are quite enthusiastic about it, Mind you, quite a lot of the older DDR citizens have serious Ostalgie for their , er, tightly-governed little republic. https://t.co/Hd77ydLltZ
Happened to hear on radio the plummy voice of a “Conservative” MP, and for the past months the Minister for International Trade, which turned out to be that of a Sri Lankan/Indian, albeit born in London, called Ranil Jayawardena [Con, North East Hampshire]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Jayawardena. The constituency is one of the safest Conservative Party seats in the UK.
From where the plummy voice, though? Not from his local comprehensive school, which he attended before attending a nearby sixth-form college. The London School of Economics? Doubtful. He was then at Lloyds Banking Group, where he worked for several years until elected as MP in 2015.
Looking at the way things are going, wih Rishi Sunak talked about (puffed in the msm) as the next Prime Minister, it may be that, in the Commons as elsewhere, the real British people are being completely sidelined; marginalized. Outbred by the non-whites, as well. White Genocide.
“The Great Replacement”. No mere “conspiracy theory”. It’s happening. Just look around you.
Rishi Sunak is making it up as he goes along – and is therefore likely to become PM. My Sunday article for @Independenthttps://t.co/dBcI70Ses6
“There was more support (29%) for the claim that there is “a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together” regardless of who is in government. This was believed by 42% of 25- to 34-year-olds.” [The Guardian]
[an elderly couple in Knighton, in the Welsh Marches]
A rainswept Welsh hill town, in the open air, few if any others around, and a poor old couple who have evidently been scared out of their skins by the “virus” fear propaganda.
My wife has the gift of premonition. Last night she dreamed that Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, “unauthorized foods” and stored water. They said we had been “reported”. Becca awoke crying. What happened to our freedom? She asked. What indeed.
The President of the United States arrives in a helicopter or an armoured car. Quite the contrast to Chancellor Merkel, seen here casually strolling through Berlin. She regularly does her own grocery shopping pic.twitter.com/c7DG5sFnwl
I recall an interview, on British TV in the mid 1970s, with Lindsay, the Mayor of New York in the 1960s and early 1970s, and conducted by either Michael Parkinson or David Frost. Lindsay said that he had been able to walk around in Manhattan, alone and unmolested (at first), until the atmosphere changed in the early 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindsay#Mayoralty; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindsay.
Operation Dark Winter is also the basis of the storyline in Tom Clancy's The Division. A political and military coup by the Deep State following the outbreak of a deadly pandemic that ravages the United States.
Diversity DID NOT Build Britain Debunking the lies behind the Conservative Party's latest attempt to write indigenous Brits out of their own history! This is a @bitchute exclusive, please support the platform.https://t.co/g6uQu3ZcSKpic.twitter.com/drXNATMzRA
Professor Ferguson again! He has not even the grace to shut up, not even now! A serial fantasist. Stalin would have had him shot, and rightly so. So where will the professor spend Christmas? Breaking “the rules” again with his married “ho”?
Will no-one rid us of these turbulent “experts”?
Also, why does BBC Radio 4 Today Programme give this Ferguson charlatan airtime, and thus spurious credibility?
1/2 @starrider8008. There are different kinds of law. Generally they punish recognised crimes (evasion of taxes imposed by legitimate government in accrdance with manifetso, theft, violent assualt etc) or torts (failure to fulfil contracts, slander etc) . https://t.co/sCUE4wjvzq
2/3 @starrider8008. But they are proportionate to the offence (there's no death penalty for illegal parking, for example) and they tend to punish *actions*. The law on clothes is the law on decency. There are private parts of the body whose exposure is widely judged offensive. https://t.co/sCUE4wjvzq
3/4 @starrider8008 But laws passed by decree, without debate or electoral mandate, which compel the wearing of garments over parts of the body not generally deemed obscene, are a new developemnt in free societies. https://t.co/sCUE4wjvzq
4/4 @starrider8008You say 'you ain't free to not risk infection and die'. But you are. Till now states have recognised that the effort needed to prevent transmission of respiratory diseases(which can in rare cases be fatal) is unlikely to work & disproportionate to the risk. https://t.co/sCUE4wjvzq
I can't help your gullibility @timwilde16. The BBC is a propaganda channel, not a news service. 'Infections' are questionable positive tests,often of healthy people. Respiratory disease always increases at this time of year. Look at death rates in April/March and look at them now https://t.co/eIxCOAjrgL
Are you *sure* about that @tours732hammer? Positive mass abstention from these insulting contests between unacceptable candidates is increasingly a political as well as a moral duty. The political parties of the UK and USA need to be de-legitimised and replaced. https://t.co/am4CMHiRmj
Quite so @kazstirling . If you knew where to look you could read or listen to Sucharit Bhakdi(virtually a prophet), John Ioannidis and Sunetra Gupta, and others. But the BBC and others disgracefully unpersoned them, and the BBC still largely do. https://t.co/j21Znq1pkM
I suspect that 10 years hence the extradition(failed or successful)of Julian Assange will be seen as a key moment in our liberty and in US-UK relations. If you think Britain should be an independent state, or believe in a free press, there is only one side to be on. So be on it.
The “virus” hysteria is instructive for those who wonder how it was that the Inquisition could hunt down heretics, or the NKVD hunt down anti-Soviet dissidents (often imagined).
Poem of the night(1) 'To think that two and two are four and neither five nor three, the heart of man has long been sore and long 'tis like to be' A.E.Housman. 'When first this way to fair I took'.
Poem of the night (2). 'The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever. But if you break the bloody glass, you won't hold up the weather'. Louis MacNeice 'Bagpipe Music'.
There goes the al fresco revolution? Westminster Council set to charge thousands of pounds in fees to allow hospitality businesses to continue using pavements for seating. https://t.co/4ujnB9uuw2
Oh, that’s clever: just when the pubs, cafes and restaurants are on their knees by reason of the stupid “lockdown”/shutdown and social distancing policies, hit them hard in the one thing they can do to make any money, i.e. serve customersin the open air! Is this more government and local government incompetence, or some kind of sinister plan to deliberately smash everything?
When Boris Johnson won his majority, most Tories believed he could unite a country bitterly divided by Brexit. Now, they fear his style of governing is eroding trust in the party and that Brand Boris has gone from affable optimist to incompetent bully https://t.co/E6oY71PlvT
You'll come round @Iromg – probably when the bill finally needs to be paid and you find yourself paying it (really big news yesterday was that Rishi Sunak did not *dare* produce a budget, as it would have been so unpopular and miserable). https://t.co/7ijDP9ofkm
So far, the msm is promoting Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak for his largesse with public funds and his schemes to somehow keep large parts of the poisoned economy alive. In fact, it is telling that several Conservative Party MPs have coyly implied that Sunak would be better at being PM than irrelevant poseur Boris-idiot.
“Boris” is like a faded entertainer whose jokes are now falling flat and who, having been a major draw, is reduced to treading the boards in the provinces. While Sunak was expounding his rather underwhelming ideas and new policies in the Commons, “Boris” was inspecting police recruits at some place in East Anglia.
"The forced wearing of face coverings which publicly signal both surrender to the state and acceptance of the utopian, unscientific policy which guides that state", Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicahhttps://t.co/Rirvo936FX
''Propaganda is not there to make you agree with it. It is there to tell you that you are powerless against it''@ClarkeMicah living still with the consequences of the worst evil, which is communism, the words of Peter Hitchens are very clear.https://t.co/JulyqHpggO
Not so sure about the “great“, but the article in question is important at this time, and Hitchens himself is at least willing to see what is happening, as many in the msm either turn a blind eye or fall in behind the System.
Maybe so, but Pfeffffel keeps copying Nicola. Whenever she announces something especially mean and spiteful, he does it too, within a few days. https://t.co/giRHMIyf6H
The SNP is a phenomenon. A faux-“nationalist” party which has succeeded in gaining power not because of its own merits but because there was nothing much opposing it.
The SNP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party] was founded in 1934, but only had its first MP elected in 1967. It increased representation to 7, then 11, in the febrile political conditions of 1974 (also the time when North Sea Oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil came to the forefront of public attention). [it’s different now: the cost of production is higher than the price of the oil produced in 2020].
The Scottish public was sold the idea that much of Britain’s North Sea oil was really Scotland’s North Sea oil…a doubtful (though not completely implausible) proposition, looking at the geography and the Law of the Sea as it applies to Exclusive Economic Zones [EEZs]:
The Scottish seats at Westminster then numbered 71, later increased to 72 but reduced from 2005 to 59. The SNP’s 11 MPs in 1974 remained the high-water mark until the SNP’s huge breakthrough in 2015, when the SNP under Nicola Sturgeon suddenly had 56 out of those 59. In 2010, the SNP had had elected only 6 MPs.
After decline to 35 MPs in 2017, the SNP (as I predicted) surged again to 48 MPs in 2019.
In fact, the apparent landslide does not reflect the views of the public very well. FPTP voting distortion. Even in 2015, when the SNP got 56 out of 59 Westminster seats, its vote-share was no more than 50%. In 2019, that was only 45%, yet the SNP has 48 out of 59 seats.
The SNP rose up for several reasons. Firstly because “it was there”; it existed. People cannot vote for a party that does not exist.
Secondly, the Scottish Labour Party, so long dominant, collapsed after years of complacency and corruption. The name that comes to mind is that of Jim Murphy, a complete System puppet. He got his first “real job”(sort-of…working for Scottish Labour!) at the age of 30! He had been a student for 12-13 years without even managing to get a degree!
The Murphy fiasco was symptomatic of a party totally out of touch. It had thrown away “socialism” in stages after 1990; by the time Murphy became leader in 2014, Scottish Labour stood for almost nothing but the Union with England, as well as a continuation of a failed society and economy.
Scottish Labour has had three more leaders since 2015, none of which has troubled national attention.
Scottish Labour (until 1994 simply part of the —UK— Labour Party) had been first-placed in Scotland in all general elections from 1922. The party was only placed second in 2015, third in 2017 and fourth in 2019. A stunning collapse. The popular vote share fell from 42% in 2010 to 18.6% in 2019. 41 MPs out of 59 in 2010, 1 MP in 2015, briefly 7 MPs in 2017, only to fall back to 1 MP in 2019.
It might be objected that Scottish Labour can still come back. I cannot see how. Recent surveys indicate that, as with Conservative Party support in England, Scottish Labour Party voters are mostly elderly people. A diminishing asset.
In the Scottish Parliament too, Scottish Labour has steadily declined, from 56 seats out of 129 in 1999 to 24 in 2016. The SNP currently has 63 MSPs.
What about the other Scottish parties? The Scottish LibDems now have 4 Westminster MPs out of 59 (11 in 2019, and 1 in 2015); in the Scottish Parliament, another steady decline, 17 out of 129 in 1999, 5 out of 129 now (2016 election).
The Scottish Conservatives declined steadily from 1955 to 1997 (no MPs at all were elected in 1997, and the party then had only one until 2017, when 13 were elected); presently, the Conservatives hold 6 Westminster seats out of 59. The Scottish Conservatives have increased their Holyrood representation: 18 MSPs in 1999, 15 in 2011, but 31 out of 129 in 2016.
The pattern is clear overall. The SNP came up in the 2010-2015 period because the other main parties were seen as declining entities with little to offer. The SNP may now be a fake “nationalist” elected dictatorship North of the Border, and rather incompetent to boot, but there is no obvious sign of challenge as far as Westminster elections are concerned.
In England, we see that Labour has floundered, that the Conservative Party is disastrous (too) and “won” in 2019 by default, with the LibDems on their last legs, but what does not exist in England (or Wales) is any semblance of a new or insurgent and upcoming party.
In Wales, Plaid Cymru is hampered not only because it is not really “nationalist”, but because Wales would be a very very poor little land had it to pay for itself as an “independent” state. Indeed, there is every chance that the Welsh economy will submerge further in 2020 and 2021.
In England proper, there is no real social-national party at all. If one were to exist, the next few years, as the economy crashes, as Brexit is mishandled and ruined, and as mass immigration continues, could be the years of triumph.
Thank you @geidelberg. I most of all welcome support from those who do not wholly agree with me. Scepticism about the government's Covid policy needs to move into the mainstream. https://t.co/fhpSAKGVZ7
In fact, others did speak out, but they were, like me, not msm-approved scribblers and talking heads. I do not even have a Twitter account (a pack of Jews had Twitter expel me in 2018).
Jemima Lewis in the Telegraph is dead right. This is a beautifully-written explanation of why the economy is not a cold machine, but a living organism which sustains life, and depends on it. pic.twitter.com/Ewp77KIiAZ
Generally speaking, the higher the proportion of European or European-ancestry people that exists in any given country, the better, overall, that country is.
MSM Wall of Lies over covid is crumbling. The editors know public opinion is shifting & the more articles like this sppear the faster it's happening. A virtuous spiral that will break Johnson's rotten regime. The harder we push, the faster it will fall!https://t.co/Au3fXokP1O
Life isn’t lived simply to survive. If it was, we’d never cross a road or drive a car. Covid is a new risk and we must learn more about it but that doesn’t mean putting the country in prison until there’s a vaccine, which may never come or not be very effective. https://t.co/pOuaQA16xp
Just spoken to my son who is a student in Scotland. They are now not allowed to visit each other’s flats, banned from going to pubs & all tuition is online. So they’re getting in debt paying huge amounts of rent & fees to stay imprisoned in their rooms. This can’t be right
Don’t think people fully appreciate the scale of anger and despair amongst cabinet ministers and Tory MPs over the perceived lack of leadership within No.10. Boris has a serious political problem now.
Oh, what a surprise. Not. I have been raging against Boris-idiot for about 10 or more years, on Twitter since 2011 and in this blog since late 2016. My influence as yet is small, and it has felt at times like a hopeless struggle against the msm talking heads and scribblers, who have been pushing this completely unfitted vanity machine for about two decades. In fact, the unmerited “triumph” of “Boris” shows how powerful msm propaganda is when it comes to “the moronic masses”…(cf. facemasks and “Coronavirus” fear propaganda in general).
The Labour MP has joined forces with Conservative rebels to demand a Commons vote on any future national lockdown plans https://t.co/XQ6FZSTJ2B
Overwhelming support for the new lockdown measures hasn't improved the government's approval rating. Currently it scores a net -35 on its handling of COVID-19, a slight drop from last weekhttps://t.co/4nO3Jrs2Skpic.twitter.com/Bke3lG6EjA
Talking of “the moronic masses”…here we have a British population which, faced with an epidemic that, in the UK, has killed about 1 in 2,000 of the population (and worldwide, about 1 in 8,000), has allowed itself to be scared to death. The majority, or at least about half, of the population seem to want to be locked in their homes, forced to wear facemask muzzles, prevented from going out or going anywhere much, so long as the State funnels some more money their way. As Shakespeare might say, “ay, there’s the rub“, for that money is, ultimately, the resource available by reason of a functioning economy.
No economy = no money. Not immediately. The Government can borrow, and is borrowing. At present, at advantageous rates. Borrowing to invest in people and projects is often good as a policy; to borrow merely to sustain a failing range of industries and companies, or to pay people’s bills, is not a good policy, and will be disastrous in the end.
Heading home. Didn’t appreciate the significance till tonight. 10.00 PM rule has killed London. It’s about to become a dead city.
Once it gets taken away, they don’t readily give it back. Little by little, they will steal our freedom. This is a Globalist takeover.
— BoomerBex – No to The New Normal 🕷 (@rebecca_morgan) September 24, 2020
Go take a look at last years DAVOS meeting and next years scheduled meeting title and the WEF’s website and then you can come back to me. If you like I can make it easy for you and drop some links here?
— BoomerBex – No to The New Normal 🕷 (@rebecca_morgan) September 24, 2020
— BoomerBex – No to The New Normal 🕷 (@rebecca_morgan) September 24, 2020
“We are able to confirm that the Metropolitan Police Service has closed its investigation due to jurisdictional issues and that we have instructed lawyers abroad to pursue this matter. When antisemites incite hatred against Jews, we will pursue them, including across borders.”
Ha ha! Fanatical UK-based Jews think that they can hound their critics worldwide! In most countries, the repressive laws of the UK are not replicated, and in some (eg USA) there are safeguards for free speech.
Looks like the rest of the country is catching up fast with long-time critics of the part-Jew public entertainer presently posing as Prime Minister.
I have been anti-“Boris” for well over a decade.
When I saw a brief part of Prime Minister’s Questions last Wednesday, “Boris” looked not so much crushed as flattened. That was not entirely because of the onslaught on him by actually rather unimpressive Angela Rayner. I think though (and last PMQs thought for the first time) that “Boris” really is, in the time-honoured phrase, now “considering his position” as Prime Minister.
As I blogged a day or two ago, “Boris” enjoyed being PM so long as it amounted to him posing as “World King” (his stated ambition when he was 8 years old). Now, he has understood that, especially in fractious times, being Prime Minister involves the storied “blood, sweat and tears”. Difficult choices and decisions. Trenchant criticism from many, including political “friends”. Nowhere to hide, most of the time. A British Prime Minister may not have to be on display as he gets dressed, unlike the Bourbon kings at their morning “levee”, but apart from that is on display most of the time.
You might think that an exhibitionist such as “Boris” would enjoy the attention which is an inevitable part of being a Prime Minister of the UK, but I apprehend that “Boris” does not like being put on the spot or questioned. Who does, actually?
Theresa May hid away as much as possible, leading to her ludicrous election speeches in 2017 to selected bunches of people in remote aircraft hangars. “Boris” has tried to hide in a fridge, in a tent, at Chequers, and elsewhere too, but his very rank now seeks him out. You cannot “work from home” as a Prime Minister. There is no home, really.
In the end, people want to be Prime Minister for one or more of several reasons: vanity; to accomplish particular things; out of a sense of duty; in order to be at the peak of executive power; malice, meaning to deny the position to others.
Boris-idiot has no ideology, no real ideas, no sense of duty, and has really only the vanity of having attained to the position, and also the sense of power, of being able to hire and fire etc.
Boris has no ideology, that much is obvious. He pretended at one time to have a kind of libertarian, “free-market”, 1960s Hong Kong-meets-Milton Friedman ideology at first; a “can-do” cartoon American self-help view of the world which indicated a total lack of self-awareness. After all, where would “Boris” be without the education (and for “education”, read “connections”) bestowed by Eton and Oxford and bought by his pushy careerist father, and family generally? Every job “Boris” messed up just led to another and another. “Boris” has never had to struggle, because family and other connections always helped him.
Any ideological sense has now left “Boris”. The one-time cartoon “libertarian” now tries to force the British people to wear facemask muzzles, to keep x-feet away from each other, to have no more than 6 people together at any one time, even at family gatherings etc. When was the last time there were such killjoy “laws” (which in fact may not even be —valid— laws)? The Second World War? The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell?
As for free-marketism, the Boris-idiot government has prevented many businesses from operating profitably or at all, while at the same time propping up those and other businesses with public money: airlines, train companies, bus companies, restaurants, pubs, hotel chains. You name it.
All that in the name of suppressing a virus which peaked in the UK in early April of 2020, and which has been killing fewer and fewer people ever since. Yesterday, the latest figures showed about 4,000 people “testing positive” for “the virus”, most of whom showed no symptoms at all! Meanwhile, about 20 or so people died “from” (with) that virus (supposedly). 1 person dying for every 2,000 known to have the virus.
This is madness. “Boris” made the wrong call right from the start, by “locking down” (shutting down” much of the economy and almost all of our society, even churches and the House of Commons.
“Boris” was misled by the risibly misnamed “SAGE” committee (I prefer “DUMB”— Department Under Matt and Boris).
I do not blame “Boris” for making the wrong call, but I do blame him for not admitting his mistake in due time, for not stopping the “lockdown” after the first few weeks, and for not reining back the excesses of the toytown police across the country. A police state is bad, but a silly toytown police state is in some respects worse and certainly leads to a disrespect for all the institutions of society.
What are the ideas of Prime Minister “Boris”? Schoolboy fantasies of bridges across the Irish Sea, a bridge across the English Channel, of tunnels under the sea, of garden bridges across the Thames, cable-cars across the Thames (the only one that was built, but which is of little use); again, of sci-fi artificial islands, on which were to be new airports and high-tech industries. All fantasy, not thought through.
I think that I prefer the fantasies of Ludwig II of Bavaria, who at least realized some of his, leaving fairytale castles in the Alps for the wonderment of latter-day tourists. Neuschwanstein, Linderhof etc at least were built. “Boris Island”, the “Thames Garden Bridge”, the Scotland-Ireland tunnel etc, will never be.
Looking at Boris-idiot now, there is little beyond a deflated balloon. I think that, in his heart (such as it is), “Boris” knows that he is no good at being Prime Minister, and, in that heart, wants out. However, he will not want to resign in disgrace. That means that he has to keep on pretending that the “lockdown” was necessary, that the “local” lockdowns (which now cover or soon will cover much of the country) are necessary, that the fairly recent facemask-muzzling of shoppers (but not pubgoers or office workers) was and remains necessary.
“Boris” is like someone, an employee, who has bet with the money of the company and cannot leave without exposing his dishonesty and incompetence. A political Nick Leeson.
We see now that a raft of stories emerge about how “Boris” cannot live comfortably with his latest quasi-wife and latest child on the poor salary of a Prime Minister, about how crowded are their living conditions at Downing Street, how they actually have to pay something for their food and drink (!), and how they cannot even use Chequers for entertaining their friends without actually having to pay for said friends!
Can you believe it?! The bastard thinks that he cannot live easily on his salary (nearly £160,000 gross), in addition to which salary he has a free flat at Downing Street, a free country house and park at Chequers, free chauffeured transport etc.
“Boris” thinks that the public funds should pay for food and drink for himself and the “ho”, and for their friends!
This seems like a testing-the-waters for a “resigning for personal reasons”, which might include “health reasons”, i.e. that the idiot’s health has been so damaged by “the virus” that he has to step down as Prime Minister. He can then put forward a narrative such as “wounded in action” or equivalent.
No doubt he would not step down as MP, thus enabling him to keep getting the MP salary and expenses, and to scribble his cretinous rantings in the popular Press (for which he was getting £250,000+ p.a., incredibly). No doubt a book or two would also be scribbled. “My Life” and/or “My Time As Prime Minister“, “Me and the Virus” (etc).
For the first time, I thought over the past week that “Boris” might be gone within a year or so. Who then will be (“unelected”) PM, just as “Boris” was when he took over from Theresa May? Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak, he of the disastrous furlough payments? Somehow I doubt it. Mass unemployment, probably just around the corner, will put paid to him, probably. Another Indian, Priti Patel? Good grief! I hope not. As dense as Channel fog. What about little Matt Hancock? This is absurd now…but that is the political system we are in…
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On the personal front sources say Johnson is complaining about money. He is still supporting four out of his six children, has been through an expensive divorce and had his income drop by more than half as a result of fulfilling his lifetime ambition https://t.co/JGe3D91tOX
If poor Boris can't afford to pay for his own meals on £150,000 a year, he can fucking well visit a foodbank and explain why he thinks people should be able to survive on £85.68 a week Universal Credit lol x
1. His name is Johnson. He isn't a friend of yours. 2. He earns more than 99% of the population. 3. He took the job voluntarily, in fact he lied and smeared and cheated to get it. 4. He has failed at the job and should be paid nothing.
Poor Boris! What the hell is Carrie doing – she should be caring for their child like thousands of British women with a fraction of the income of these two. https://t.co/N5a1nEe05gpic.twitter.com/0LgMLdKyRh
Imagine your life choices coming back to bite you then having your mates put out some sob story, in the hope we feel sorry for you in a feign attempt at distracting from your poor performance as PM.
Met police show today that they don't only run from Islamist marches and blm riots. They're now equal opportunities cowards! Great to see – the #English resistance to the #plandemic lockdown regime is now beginning. pic.twitter.com/Aa9AtDVdyp
Sweet of you to care at all what I think, @greenman203, but you must open your mind a bit to work out what is going on. The approaching form of govt can best be described as the hideous love-child of Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher. Wallets and loins free. Minds in chains. https://t.co/eQkJKD0Q6L
As my regular readers will know, I rarely use the lazy and inaccurate designations “Right” and “Left”. Politics and society have moved on. Look at Boris-idiot “recommending” (giving) a peerage to former Revolutionary Communist Party and more recently Brexit Party candidate, Claire Fox…
You come late to this @rockboltg. Sweden permitted the same disaster in its care homes as the UK did. Its general poloicy had no effect on or relation to that. The incidence in the general population was low and current spread appears to be weak. . https://t.co/yOldZkpzem
1/2 @boy_mediocre . There is no congruence between the severity of shutdown measures throughout the world, and the subsequent behaviour of the virus. Rather the reverse (see especially Peru, Belgium and Japan) https://t.co/kUQ2RISQ4G
2/2 @boy_mediocre It is an old rule that he who claims the existence of a causal effect has to prove it. And there is another old rule that because B happens after A, B is not necessarily caused by A. So if you have such proof, I'm ready to read it. https://t.co/kUQ2RISQ4G
Seems that the more “hardworking” prisoners are being kept in prison in California, contrary to express court orders, so that they can be used as slave labour doing things like fighting fires, and cleaning cars! The less amenable and probably more dangerous ones are being released, incredibly. Further, guess who argued for those “good” prisoners, mostly blacks, to be kept longer in prison so that they could slave for the State? None other than Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party candidate for Vice-President!
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End of possibly the last bbq of the year. Own tomatoes & courgettes (zucchini to my colonial friends), foraged wood, local steak, red wine from French booze & baccy run, whisky from Tennessee. What more can a man ask for (that's printable & isn't banned on Twitter)? pic.twitter.com/tBuUJ7ykFX
Well, I myself would forgo the steak, or perhaps change it for fish or shellfish, but otherwise that sounds pleasant. Maybe some roasted sunflower seeds too.
This is an extraordinary indictment of the unscientific behaviour of some scientists. These are people who really are supposed to defend reason from the mob. In several cases they failed, and look who is saying so. https://t.co/ZiqwaeWsaG
Don't necessarily assume others are as complacent. A compulsory face mask (as well as being of little use) is an imposition, by which the citizen is forced by threats to wear a symbol of support for the government. You'd get it, if it were an armband or a salute. @paddym04882466https://t.co/XnuoIMhOXw
@clarkemicah Cases of COVID-19 are certainly going up in last two weeks. But no corresponding rise in hospitalisation or death as we saw at the end of March. I believe this is the "school effect". Young, healthy people getting corona and not becoming very unwell. pic.twitter.com/iQJGeWdcqZ
I was listening to some System propaganda yesterday on the radio. Unsure now whether it was BBC World Service (probably was) or Radio 4. The only other radio station I listen to regularly is BBC Radio 3. Anyway, that broadcast said that deaths “from” (with) “the virus” now top a million worldwide. Well even taking the million figure as accurate, that is one million out of a world population of nearly 8 BILLION, i.e. 8 thousand million. One person dead from or with “the virus” for every 8 thousand people living on Earth now (in rough figures).
There is no need for “lockdowns” (which huge harm both socially and economically), let alone facemasks.
UKIP, Brexit Party etc are just “controlled opposition”
I happened to see the tweets below. The first are from Gerard Batten and Henry Bolton, two of the former leaders of whatever is left of UKIP.
I seem to have upset some people because I have said that a LEGAL black or brown skinned migrant, or especially a descendant of migrants, can indentify as English if they want to.
No Gerard, as you very well know. I just find it interesting that you choose to pick out black and brown skinned migrants, rather than encouraging integration generally regardless of skin colour.
Politically they are British since they have British citizenship. I would expect most migrants to identify with their country of origin, but this is really about their descendants. Do we want people who identify with somewhere else? That’s what we have in many instances.
On the estate i grew up on in London none of the blacks said they were English they all said Jamaican or African even though they were born here.
— Breaking Into The Echo Chamber. (@blocked_forever) August 22, 2020
If my white Northern Irish parents worked in Japan and I was born there ,Am I Japanese ? No I'm not I'm an Ulsterman born in Japan . Same goes for minorities here they ain't English Scottish Welsh Northern Irish .
Plus do we want our green and pleasant land covered in housing, schools, new cities, etc., to allow for the extra millions of migrants, legal and illegal? I for one do not. I enjoy our countryside, eating food grown here and these options will be gone.
What hope was there for UKIP, when its own former leaders are unsure whether, had they been born in Japan (eg in transit), or lived there, they would be Japanese? What a bunch of clowns!
According to lots of people on here that means you can’t be English. They won’t state the % where by English starts or stops, or what they want to do with the people who fail the test.
Looks as though Batten needs to look at the Nuremberg Laws (the real ones, not the Jew-Zionist “edited highlights”…
UKIP is of course on a very different page vis a vis my own ideological basis. It never was social-national, and was never heavily attacked by the Jew element in the msm, a very bad sign (individual Jews tweeted etc against UKIP, but the core Zionist element was untroubled by it). UKIP was always given Press coverage, TV coverage; Farage the con-man extraordinaire was forever on Newsnight, Question Time, the TV news etc. Permitted opposition. Controlled opposition.
When UKIP was still a functioning party with a real chance of forming a small House of Commons bloc, I tweeted about it quite frequently. I am talking about between 2010-2015. After 2015, I understood that UKIP’s chance had gone (in fact, it peaked around 2014), cheated as it was by the UK’s pseudo-democratic electoral system: 12.6% of the national vote but only a small fraction of 1% of the MPs, in fact only 1 MP out of 650 (and he was a defected Conservative Party MP anyway).
I did blog a little about UKIP in the runup to the 2017 General Election. I knew that it would sink like a stone. The only reason that I now blog about it (for the first time in about a year) is because I saw those absurd Batten tweets. I was not going to blog today, but I can tack this bit about UKIP onto the start of tomorrow’s blog post.
UKIP has almost fallen into obscurity. Its not-bad 2015 General Election percentage (12.6%) fell to 1.8% in 2017, under the dim Paul Nuttall; that was the first decline in national vote-share that UKIP had ever suffered since its foundation. The 2019 General Election result was even worse: under the ludicrous Patricia Mountain, UKIP’s vote fell to 0.1%, i.e. one vote out of every thousand.
In fact, so obscure is UKIP now that I realize that I was scarcely aware of some of its leaders of recent years.
The tweet/reply below, by one Valerie Leppard, made me laugh (though at the same time despair at the naivety displayed):
How about human? Human from one place visiting humans in another. When we overcome our distaste at the differences between us, we will be far more astonished at our similarities. Perhaps look for similarities? pic.twitter.com/W8jRI87AGM
— Valerie Leppard#BLM#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn (@LeppardValerie) August 23, 2020
How far do such facts take you? I was once a guest at a private tennis club in North London. I had gone out of politeness. Despite having played occasionally since childhood, I still scarcely know the rules or how to play properly; anyone who knows me knows that I am not very sport-oriented. I did once score a direct hit from some distance with a tennis ball, on the bottom of a Ukrainian lady who had stooped to pick up another ball, but that hardly counts!
That London tennis club was rather formal. You had to wear the right clothing etc; it also had a pleasant bar, from which one could watch people playing. I saw a doubles match and, to my untutored eye, they looked not much different from the professionals who play at Wimbledon. Of course they were different, and that is the point. There was a far greater gulf between my inept level of play and the doubles-players than there was between them and the Wimbledon champions.
Champions, or the top people in every category of activity, are ipso facto better than almost all others. However, they may not be much better than a mass, perhaps a vast mass, just below that championship level. It is that tiny amount of edge that makes the difference.
Applying that to races and, yes, in big-picture “scientific” terms the DNA of the Northern European is very very close to other peoples, and even to the most backward peoples. It is that tiny difference that, all the same, matters.
“In your nothing I hope to find my everything“; “In deinem Nichts hoff ‘ ich, das All zu finden“[Goethe, Faust; Faust answering Mephistopheles, who has said that Faust’s belief is nothing].
Well, leaving such observations and reverting to the mundane world of UK politics as it is, and UKIP, I notice that even Wikipedia has found little to say of some of the post-Farage “leaders” of UKIP. In one case, that of someone called Wauchope, apparently (never heard of him), even the year of his birth is uncertain!
UKIP is said still to have 25,000 members, though I doubt that.
I see that one Freddy Vachha is now the “leader” of this embarrassing joke of a party. An Indian accountant. The tide has gone out, leaving some odd bits and pieces on the sand.
I think this was the moment the BBC deserved to lose its licence fee income, a thing I had always resisted before. The harm it has done since March is incalculable. https://t.co/8KMfLTAbgh
I think this was the moment the BBC deserved to lose its licence fee income, a thing I had always resisted before. The harm it has done since March is incalculable. https://t.co/8KMfLTAbgh
I always supported public service broadcasting. Still do, but the BBC is incurable. Defund the BBC and wipe it out.
Numbers of what are beginning to tick up here @brexitfreddy? Deaths peaked on 8th April and have been decreasing ever since. Don’t tell me you are fooled by meaningless ‘cases’ of healthy people who are not ill? What do they teach them in these schools?? https://t.co/K7HfIq9Lel
They're essentially both the same party. Tories are a continuation of Blairism. Labour under Starmer are now a backup. A very good book on how this came to be is The Cameron Delusion by Peter Hitchens.
@janders31262652 I did. As to what others have done, the spirit of independence and the spirit of liberty have been dying for some time in what used to be the west. This may be the end of them. https://t.co/WRmFkicL7k
We read or hear that semi-lunatic “adviser” Dominic Cummings wants Sunak to impose spending cuts. Now that millions more face being dependent on State benefits by next year, that could just be the flame which, applied to the blue touchpaper of the present developing situation, could trigger the social-national revolution.
Finance-capitalism is failing. Old-style Marxist or Marxist-influenced socialism has already comprehensively failed, in the UK and across the world. The people will be ready to clutch at our straw. Not yet. Soon, though.
Britain’s “cuck” police bend down before non-Europeans (again)
On the contrary @philw52534128 I am quite sure they are stupid. I have met many politicoians in my life. Had you done so, you would know that they could not organise a glass of water. https://t.co/nbV64cdI4c
Proud crank as I am, @TomRidleyUK, I rather thought that it was amateur virologists who had devised the UK's mad national self-harm policy of strangling the economy, shutting the schools and harassing the population with fearmongering propaganda. We cranks were against that . https://t.co/6m2a8s76H3
Regular readers of this blog will recall the encounters I had with a couple of similar brainwashed would-be lecturing idiots a while ago.
If staff in businesses, or anyone else, act like cartoon labour camp overseers or prison guards, then they must expect to be laughed at.
Resist the facemask nonsense! Only wear a facemask if you really have no choice, and if you do wear a mask, make sure that you do so in a manner that makes it clear that you mock the nonsense and the government of clowns. Laugh at those who take it all seriously. Laugh at the rabbits!
The Army, Navy, Marines are all recruiting now on TV. They are finding it hard going to recruit many. I wonder why? Could it be that potential recruits realize that the armed services have become a joke? Also, that they abandon their people once their useful service has ended?
David Clapson died in 2014, a veteran who cared for his mum until her death. He died with no food in his stomach and unable to pay electricity to keep his insulin chilled. A pile of CVs was found next to his body.
Take a look at Twitter. The Jewish-Zionist cabal on Twitter constantly tweets in favour of the migrant-invaders, “generously” wanting more to invade us. Yes, that Jewish mob on Twitter are all wonderfully generous with other people’s money, State funds etc, wanting the UK to take in anyone who manages to get here, no matter how hostile or useless. The same is true of “refugees welcome” dimwits and hypocrites such as Gary Lineker, Yvette Cooper, Lily Allen and all the other usual suspects.
Who thinks the Virus appeared spontaneously & the Lockdown was a spontaneous reaction by world govnts?
They could move into a one bedroom flat in Tower Hamlets. Harry could work in a fast-food place & Meghan as a race-relations out-reach coordinator for the Council.
Batten is too late. Regular readers of my blog will know that I suggested at least a year ago that Harry and the Royal Mulatta should (and would) relocate from the UK to Southern California.
I went on to suggest that they become a “reality TV” sitcom mix, perhaps living a pseudo-“royal” life in a little house; just Harry, the Mulatta, their baby, the dog (if not abandoned) and a butler, a Benson type. “Royal Married with Children“, with the Mulatta running her henpecked “cuck” husband ragged with impossible demands, as she tries to be a contender for political positions.
Sometimes I think that I am a male Cassandra, always predicting accurately, but rarely listened to…
The Masked Mayor probably isn’t even aware of the White Slave Trade whereby over hundreds of years people were taken from ships & the coasts of Europe by the Barbary pirates of https://t.co/eg7F1rvpyf & enslaved in Islamic countries. It was stamped out by Britain, France & the US https://t.co/pNRIunXTso
Well, “historian” (TV presenter) Neil Oliver may be belatedly speaking up for some free speech now, but I seem to recall that he tweeted against me years ago when I still had a Twitter account. I have never seen anything from him supporting me, eg when I was disbarred for posting 5 tweets (out of 150,000+) on socio-political matters. I likewise did not see him support Jez Turner (imprisoned for making a speech) or Alison Chabloz (persecuted, prosecuted and convicted for singing satirical songs).
I also recall how biased Oliver was when some matters involving WW2 came up on his TV show, Coast.
Scotland does seem to be even worse on free speech than England. The combined influence of Jew-Zionism, freemasonry, Common Purpose (Police Scotland is riddled with both of the last two) and post-socialist SNP petty authoritarianism.
Boris’ Tory Govnt in a nutshell.
Net immigration at 270k pa, gone up not down. Ferrying in illegals over the channel & treaing them like VIPs.
Boris has an 80 seat majority but he & it are nothing more than puppets of the Globalists.
Ironic. What does Batten think that UKIP were? Quite. Controlled opposition. Just like Brexit Party, Tommy Robinson, Breitbart, “Prison Planet” Watson, Katie Hopkins etc.
God bless him… Doctor David Bellamy confirming that there is no such thing as Man Made global warming…. Shortly after the interview his T.V. career ended… (Strange that) pic.twitter.com/bf0j83NywQ
Only machineguns can sort out this upsurge of madness in the USA. What it says to me is not “there is disorder now” but “if the US system ever weakens greatly, which is quite possible, there will be civil war“. Those unpleasant scenes may well be just the start.
I noticed in Waitrose that Ben & Jerry’s icecream is not selling, and has been reduced in price as a consequence. Don’t bother to sabotage it. Just boycott it.
Hotel watch 🕵🏻♂️
This was at the 4* Mercure Fairfield Manor Hotel in York
In 2019 a 10 year contract worth £4bn was given to outsourcing companies to house asylum seekers – they’ve no intentions of stopping this deluge if they’ve budgeted so far in advance pic.twitter.com/QEYKKofazf
It's not about individuals. It's about large groups – millions of Muslims, Africans, Asians etc. They exert their influence on the host society's politics, culture and social life. Eventually they become the majority population and the native people lose their homeland forever.
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Looks interesting given the subject categories. Woodrow Wilson was indeed manipulated into office to get the Jekyll Island Federal Reserve Act passed on Christmas eve 1913 while most had gone on hols, just in time to fund WW1, which was a significant reason for it's creation
— Zippy 🌹🇵🇸 (hit follow limit again 🙂 ) (@YourPalZippy) August 24, 2020
Just how did batshit 🤪Gavin Williamson get to be where he is? His story is even more puzzling than we could have ever imagined. Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: The Gavin Williamson Story https://t.co/kwWOfvwx83 via @ianrmillard
Hard to know what to think. The Greenland ice cover is vast and deep, certainly, and Wikipedia says that “If the Greenland ice sheet were to melt away completely, the world’s sea level would rise by more than 7 m (23 ft).“
If that were to happen, a scenario that has interested me since the late 1970s (along with the possible melting of polar ice proper, both from Arctic and Antarctic), then most of the major cities of the world would be drowned, situated as most are on or near sea-level.
A rise of 23ft would flood much of London, New York, Tokyo, St. Petersburg, to name only a few of the most obvious.
On the other hand, we know that Greenland has been at times warmer than it now is. The Vikings farmed there; there are remains of farmsteads from quite ancient times, certainly from the first millennium AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#History.
Not all of Greenland is ice and snow, however. In that vast land, over nine times the size of the UK, there is farming, in the southern part, by the coast.
I doubt that humanity can do much to change the climate in a significant way, but the issue is naturally one of utmost seriousness.
Less seriously, I just read that “Greenlandic coffee is a “flaming” dessert coffee (set alight before serving) made with coffee, whiskey, Kahlúa, Grand Marnier, and whipped cream. It is stronger than the familiar Irish dessert coffee.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Cuisine. After a few of those, the sting of living in Greenland must at least be made less painful!
If you went, as orchestral conductor, or as ordinary tourist, to another country, and then tried to trash the traditional festivals of that country, you would be jeered at and quite possibly attacked or deported. In Britain, all sorts of oddities arrive, aided by traitors in the BBC etc, and want to disrespect us. I know that Rule Britannia is now simply an expression of an Empire that no longer exists, but it does stand for part of the national psyche. The part not yet contaminated. It must not be blotted out by the “woke”, the non-whites, the cosmopolitan Jews etc. As performed at the Proms, it is both emotional and fun. It must remain.
Yesterday evening, went out to Waitrose. First outing for 4 days. Roads fairly quiet but not empty. It was after 1900 hrs, though.
At Waitrose, the car park almost empty, though a source told me that a Tesco supermarket, in another and more populated area 21 miles away, had been packed earlier in the day. Different factors though: that other area is quite suburbanized, is on a major “A” road, the time of day was earlier, and of course Tesco is more popular than Waitrose anyway, being slightly cheaper.
At Waitrose, the Handmaid’s Tale militia (Waitrose “marshals”) were few, in fact I saw only three loitering outside or cleaning shopping trolleys. There have been as many as half a dozen in recent weeks. There was no line to get into the store; in fact there were almost no customers at all.
Inside, disappointed to see no last-minute offers at 10% or 5% of the usual price (I can be rather a scavenger), but for once no shortages. All the usual suspects were available: bread, dry pasta, rice, pasta sauce, even bleach. I think that the shopping public has decided that the “panic buy” emergency is at an end and so there is no need to join the throng. In any case, in my area, many people must be sitting on mountains of loo paper, kitchen roll, pasta and rice.
Still, there is still a background panicked atmosphere around. I saw one silly woman wearing a thick scarf very loosely wound round her mouth and neck. Very unlikely to make any difference whatsoever to getting or not getting the Chinese virus. Even more ludicrously, I saw another and even more silly woman driving out of the car park, alone in her car and wearing a face mask! So…she is afraid that she might transmit “the virus” to…herself? Or is she afraid that, somehow, the air that comes into the car might harbour “the virus”? Which is impossible.
Tweets seen
Some recent tweets by Peter Hitchens, who is worth reading because he is one of the few who has stood up against the Government-sponsored “virus” panic (etc) which has recently swept “the nation” (which latter does not exist any more, but let’s leave that aside).
The disturbing fact is that the police in many formerly free countries now actively side with a political viewpoint, and failure to hold that viewpoint can swiftly bring you into conflict with a body established to uphold *law* not the govt of the day. This is a huge loss., https://t.co/Mqgl3ouPOT
My view is that so-called 'lockdown' (in fact a US prison term which should not be applied to free countries) has so far had no discernible effect on the pattern of the disease, if you examine all the affected countries. https://t.co/4KqCKwunXN
The unmistakable sound of one mind shutting @hyperglobalist. What a dreary life you must lead cut off from the ideas you fear. Tombs is a good writer, though in my view his ‘That Sweet Enemy’ written with his French wife Isabelle, is better. https://t.co/wg63pXP2tj
On April 5 at govt briefing Dr Jenny Harries, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, confirmed that many deaths with Covid are not necessarily from Covid. She said: ‘These are Covid-associated deaths, they are all sad events, they would not all be a death as a result of Covid.’ https://t.co/UAGhuyLWfk
I know the difference between hard science, objective testable, falsifiable, experimental and predictive, and pseudo-science, which is none of these things but pretends to have the same status. Which is why it describes its guesswork as 'stochastic'. Big words baffle. https://t.co/HqNFNleQil
Heresy! An affront to our Dear Leader Kim Jong Al our All-Wise Helmsman ! But this article: https://t.co/pyWshJGJuY is also a calm, well-reasoned and researched corrective to much that has bene said about the Covid outbreak. Please read, but only if you are intelligent.
“Covid-19 is no more than a nasty, but basically normal, viral respiratory infection, though you’ll be regarded rather as a mullah regards a blasphemer if you say so. Why is this?
After all: it is precisely because its symptoms seemed so similar to viral pneumonia that the initial outbreak in Wuhan was missed until the numbers built, and it is now clear that we have been missing Covid-19 cases diagnosed as pneumonia in Europe at least as far back as December, probably earlier. In the vernacular: it looks as though it was bubbling away for ages before we noticed.”
and
“There are really only two particularly unusual things about the Covid-19 epidemic: the timing of its arrival and the lockdown some countries declared. And if we ask “Covid, where is thy sting?”, it is lockdown that will sting: in the UK, the death-toll of people not turning up to hospital with cardiac issues (admissions are down 50% across the country) is now unmissable in the weekly non-Covid excess death figures published by the ONS, now running over 3,000 per week just for England and Wales. The downstream toll from missed cancer diagnoses (referrals are down 67%, as stressed by Professor Sikora) is heartbreak yet to come.
This is to say nothing of the toll on education, liberty and the economy. We’ve given up everything we should hold dear for a virus that just turned up three months later than similar viruses normally do.”
Some of the comments appended to that blog post are also of interest:
“It’s also a consequence of the media being increasingly dominated by young people, who thus have no sense of historical perspective. We see it in the climate change debate – weather events that are bog standard in any sort of medium to long term time span are immediately termed ‘unprecedented!’ by the media, whose attention span (and personal experience) hardly goes back more than a decade or so. Thus the idea that something that happened in the 1990s could be relevant to what is happening today would be laughed at.” [from above blog post comments section]
“Life today driven by demands of the minority of vocal pathetic snowflakes’ demands for “no-risk”. Just look at the headline today about the Unions not wanting to go back to work until they ‘feel safe’. This is the language of infants.” [from above blog post comments section]
“Three points. Lockdown started AFTER peak infection and peak hospital admissions. Continuing infections/deaths occuring despite weeks of lockdown because hot spots of infection unaffected by general population, they are in hospitals and care homes. Sweden, Japan, S Korea, Taiwan had no lockdown, considerably less deaths than UK. Lockdown has had minimal effect on the normal bell curve of infection/deaths.” [[from above blog post comments section]
A “free country”?
Just as plans harden for a court challenge to Kim Jong Al's shutdown (see https://t.co/OCFvptAai1 A former govt law adviser says Human Rights laws should be suspended to prevent such challenge: https://t.co/F0PFubdewR Free country or what?
Meanwhile, away from the toytown police state imposed on the British people, and in the real world:
“Five boats carrying 82 migrants were intercepted in the English Channel on Saturday as people smuggling gangs stepped up their operations during the good weather conditions.”
“It means a total of 227 people have been brought from Calais to the south coast of England in 13 small boats within just two days.”
It is clear that some countries which have had little or no “lockdown” have done much better than the UK in dealing with the Chinese virus, and have at least tried to save their economies from ruination; others, on far more strict “lockdown”, such as Italy and Spain, have done worse than the UK (per capita) and now face economic meltdown.
I blogged from the start that (as the UK Government said before crazed advisers caused it to go mad) the only known way to safeguard yourself from getting this virus is to keep thoroughly washing hands with soap and water (or gel, if in transit). The other “measures taken” have been driven by public relations rather than any scientific facts. I mean the “2-metre social distancing”, the facemasks, the “stay home” mantra. As to those three aspects, it may be that a tiny number of people have been protected by such measures, but at what cost?!
Meanwhile, the London Underground has stayed open, though (you couldn’t make it up!) with reduced numbers of carriages, thus making the conditions even more friendly to “the virus” (and other viruses and bacteria). And let’s not forget the influxes into the UK: air passengers allowed in freely, and migrant-invaders “caught” in the Channel or on beaches, then directed to free shelter, food and cash, and allowed to mingle freely with the unwilling host population.
As for “Protect the NHS”, well the sacred cow has been protected, but at the cost of thousands of lives: those often elderly people bundled up and shunted off back home (to often-inadequate home care), sent back to residential care homes where they and other residents have been dying in droves, while the “clap for NHS” rabbits have been virtue-signalling on cue every week (though not as many ever did it as the propaganda would suggest, and the display has almost died out now; where I live, it was always only a tiny minority doing it).
Then there are the uncounted thousands who have died and will die because “lockdown” has delayed or cancelled consultations, treatment, surgical operations etc.
One may laugh at Boris-idiot and his “government of fools”, but these opportunists are killing people, by their half-measures but also by their over-reaction and by their sheer ineptitude and negligence.
I do not think that “lockdown” is very useful, and in any case I think that the Chinese virus is far more widespread than at first thought. It probably started to infect people in the UK in January or even last December. Neither do I think that the “social distancing” measures are hugely useful. What I do think useful are closures of crowded nightclubs, pubs, busy cafes, sports venues, pop concerts and (which was never done) closure of public transport in crowded cities like London. Places where people are jammed together and may breathe over each other.
My bottom line? Whatever the truth of any of the above, either way, the fact is that “lockdown” (especially) has huge economic effects, despite and even to some extent because of the ameliorating measures put in place by Rishi Sunak.
The Government has scared people silly, unnecessarily. Now, the public is only gradually getting used to the idea of not being under a kind of house arrest, only gradually getting used to the idea of going back to their —in many cases, boring— jobs. The 80%-of-pay furlough payments (capped at £2,500 per month) add up to 100% of pay for those making under £36,000 a year and who pay for transport to and from their usual work.
Apart from the niggling restrictions, the civil rights aspects and the sheer boredom, the “lockdown” has, thanks to furlough payments, not been too bad for many. However, the Government simply cannot indefinitely bribe much of the public not to work, not at that level.
For me, that is the bottom line, beyond all of the medical, scientific and other arguments around “lockdown”: it simply cannot be maintained endlessly, because it cannot be paid for.
Many have accepted “lockdown”, as a temporary measure, because they are not suffering financially. Indeed, that is what the furlough payments (etc) were designed to do. Furlough alone is costing £8 billion per month. By way of comparison, the NHS, with 2 million employees, costs £11 billion per month to run.
I doubt that the Government will authorize furlough payments after the end of June. Maybe until the end of July. Not later. Then those furloughed will either return to work or, in many cases, go onto the”Universal Credit” dole.
We do not know yet the full economic cost of the Government’s imposition of a toytown police state. Everything has been frozen: redundancies, sackings, domestic property evictions, commercial property legal actions for recovery of rent; and so on. We do know that the “ruthless entrepreneurs” and “hardnosed private enterprise” chancers, like Branson, have all been demanding, or begging for, money from Government. Many will beg without satisfaction.
Airlines (and so airports) may be uneconomic for months, for years. Ground support companies as well. Retailers may soon be failing by the hundred, by the thousand, not only from “lockdown” itself but because people will have less money to spend and may prefer to spend what they do have safely, via the Internet. Fancy a holiday in Spain or Italy? I doubt it. Not for a year or so, anyway. Ferry companies will also struggle. The list continues.
Quelle surprise…
“Nine in 10 people do not want the lockdown to ease immediately – with 50 per cent happy to stay off work if they are getting paid or receiving government subsidies.
As Boris Johnson prepares to unveil his ‘exit strategy’, a poll found just 4 per cent believe the draconian restrictions should start to be lifted now, and another 7 per cent were not sure.” [Daily Mail]
So half the workforce are “happy” to stay off work so long as they are still getting paid? Well, there’s a shock (not).
The Daily Mail graphic is interesting, if accurate:
So hardly any of the public (4%) want an end to the “lockdown” nonsense immediately (well, it’s not the first time I have stood as part of a small but worthy minority), more than a quarter think that the end of this month would be best, but a fifth think that the end of June would be best (!), while nearly a quarter prefer the end of July or even later!
I doubt whether many presently content to sit at home indefinitely, or at least for another month, so long as they still get paid, are aware of the probably lasting damage that this is doing to the UK economically. They will only notice it when it hits home in terms of no job, no home, no future for their children etc. By then, the virus may be in the past, but the negative effects of “lockdown” will be very much around.
Boris-idiot’s speech
Sitting in my car earlier, I heard a Radio 4 broadcast of a 10-minute speech by the person currently posing as Prime Minister. I should say that it was somewhere between mediocre and poor. A half-hearted attempt to reprise Churchill in 1940 fell very flat. Johnson called Coronavirus “the most vicious threat to the UK I have seen in my lifetime”. So it seems that the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War passed “Boris” by?
Johnson seemed overwhelmed. This was not the easy prime minister stuff he wanted to do. He gave the impression of being not quite big enough for the role. His speech was pedestrian, forced, unconvincing. An overgrown schoolboy pretending and posing and whistling into a cold wind.
As for Johnson’s movement on “lockdown”, too little by far. He also went through a list of matters which only served to underline his incompetence and that of his Cabinet.
What Johnson does not seem to understand is that people are not waiting for his permission to do things such as drive places, walk through parks or national parks, or on beaches. Or maybe he does understand that he, the Government and the toytown police are losing control. His remedy? To make “lockdown” easier before people just ignore it.
Oh well, at least that stupid “Stay at home; Protect the NHS; Save lives” slogan is now dumped. Dump the weekly “clapathon” too!
Van der Valk
Another episode of the new Van der Valk. Slick compared to the mid-1970s original, a more developed storyline (in 2 hours compared to the original one hour), but somehow slightly missing the heavy Dutch atmosphere of the original 1970s stories.
I did not know that the series continued after the 1970s. As to that Dutch atmosphere, both productions were/are British, though filmed on location. I myself was first in Amsterdam in 1975, and made subsequent visits in the 1980s.
One aspect that seemed to be unnecessary in the new production was the introduction of a young black detective in a semi-comic role. Out of place.
Overall, I should award the new production 4 out of 5 stars. It is well done for the most part, though it suffers from the same problem as the first Van der Valk, namely the characterization of the title character. Somehow insubstantial or vacant. What makes him tick? Compare Van der Valk to Inspector Morse, Lewis, Endeavour, Wallander etc. Point made, I think.
Tweets seen
Seems that I am not the only one appalled by how out of his depth Boris Johnson seemed today:
In summary: Stay home but go out as much as you like. Work from home but go back to work without using public transport. The infection rate in care homes is falling now that all the old people are dead. 2 week quarantine for air passengers but yet. Cheers Bozo.#BorisHasFailed
So in a nutshell. Step one: Make the impression of easing lockdown Step two: Give impossibly vague guidance on who can go to work Step three: Increase fines Step four: Use the vague guidance loopholes to rake it in Step five: oh and yes, every death a tragedy etc #BorisHasFailed
Boris Johnson has just declared the working class are expendable to protect capitalism. The people you'll risk your lives to work for will get richer from the safety of their own homes. The Tories could've sacrificed HS2 or Trident but are sacrificing you instead. #BorishasFailed
— RD Hale🌹Open Selection NOW! (@SkyeCity_) May 10, 2020
One would think that the quarantining of airports would've been the first step not one of the last…. you know with us being an island and all #BorisHasFailed
and to date there are 117,000 more tweets in the same vein.
So what? Now include Belgium and Ireland, the Netherlands, and Japan and Taiwan. Any serious analysis does not focus narrowly on a few countries. And it finds there is *no* pattern which links the severity of the shutdown and the number of deaths. https://t.co/u1rxNGlDsE
Define 'hysteria' @jlflanner. I'm not ordering people to stay in their homes,like Wee Willie Winkie, or sending out the police to arrest sunbathers, or spending £2.4 billion a day I haven't got, paying people to do nothing,on the basis of guesswork. I'm the one saying it's silly. https://t.co/0JHeYyEphe
Let me say it one more time. Many countries which have not shut down have had low numbers of deaths. There is no pattern which suggests that oppressive measures save lives. https://t.co/YnVqDgQaVx
I think the Churchillian pretence has never looked so thin. The Kim Jong Son statement was simultaneously boring and outrageous, then made ridiculous by clunky Blue Peter graphics. Like watching John Major declare war on Monaco. https://t.co/44cMGgvAoF
1/2 Watching Dear Leader Kim Jong Son's address to the people of the Democratic People's Republic of England, I noted this was the first time any head of government in this country had ever concerned himself with when and how I go to work, how I travel, who I meet.
2/2 All this absurd Maoist interference with private and personal matters was founded on a claim, unsupported by evidence, that he was somehow able to protect me from a virus. This is a classic distillation of fear into power….
3/2 As I watched this Maoist performance, it was amusing to think that only a few weeks ago this man and his party machine (now also flooding the country with fairy gold) were trying to persuade me that Jeremy Corbyn was a Marxist threat to freedom and the economy. Well, I never
Oh dear @kundesteria, how determinedly you miss the point. You actually *want* to believe that Big Brother can protect you from a virus, don't you? What all the evidence shows is that He can't. At some point you have to grow up and be an adult in a world of risk. https://t.co/W3E25SGO8U
And you *believed* that @hollinssquare? You gave power and freedom to the state and expected to get it back? What *do* they teach them in these schools? https://t.co/wKcdf3YYAz
