I happened to see the comment below, appended to a video on YouTube.
“A friend of mine was very high-ranking in the British Army during the Iraq war and knew Tony Blair personally. When I asked what he was like he told me that Blair is ‘demon-possessed’. He was quite serious and meant this literally. This surprised me as he is a mild-mannered, diplomatic man and not given to overstatement.”
I have no idea of the provenance and authenticity of that statement, but it rings true.
The McSweeney scandal is starting to boil down to this. Are he and No.10 seriously now going to try to pretend Labour Together had no role in Starmer's leadership campaign. Having spent the past 5 years briefing every journalist in Westminster they were central to that campaign.
An Afghan man who arrived in Britain illegally on a small boat in 2022, telling asylum officials his Taliban-controlled homeland was too dangerous to return to, has been pictured on holiday in … Afghanistan.
Roger Scruton, before the election of 1997, on how Blair would make Britain worse and turn it into a different country. The prescience is pretty astonishing, and demonstrates that Scruton wasn't just the Paddington Bear of safe consrvatism. https://t.co/9pLoROq6I2pic.twitter.com/dk2KHhhvrF
Scruton, though, fails to place much of the blame for all that where it —most of the blame anyway, admittedly not all— belongs. The embedded Jewish/Zionist element, in short. Even Scruton ran a little scared of “the lobby”, needing as he did to make a comfortable living, get his books published etc…
🇮🇹Italy sends a second warship to escort the aid flotilla to Gaza
Italy will deploy a second warship to protect the Global Sumud flotilla as it sails to Gaza, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told lawmakers on Thursday.
…and even were that first tweet (from a Jew in the USA) true and accurate (and not, as it seems, a lie), the events supposedly taking place would be merely a far more limited and low-tech version of what Israeli Jews are doing in Gaza, and have been doing for nearly two years now. 200,000 dead or very badly injured, mostly civilians, mostly women and children…
'He is a mob orator'
Lord Jeffrey Archer shares his views about Nigel Farage and whether the Reform UK leader could become PM. pic.twitter.com/ZczFiS0KfY
Fraudulent perjurer and one-time Con politician (“con” in both senses), Jeffrey Archer, says that he has been surprised by how many people he has “met in the street” who say they are going to vote for Farage and Reform UK. I expect that it would surprise a dishonest chancer of the Archer type. He fails to see (or prefers not to see) that voters are turning to Reform not because Farage is (as Archer puts it) “the best mob orator since Michael Foot or Tony Benn” (the now-deceased fake “socialist” traitors and poseurs) but because the old System parties, Con, Lab, and LibDem, have run the UK into the ground, particularly over the last 35 years, arguably for far longer. The voters are intending to vote Reform not because of Farage, or indeed Reform itself, but because Reform is the only (quasi-) credible game in town that is not Lib, Lab, or Con.
It must be easier for Archer to “meet people in the street” now. The only time I myself ever saw him in the street was in the 1980s (I forget when exactly, probably circa 1985), somewhere in the Westminster area. As he exited one of several cars, his retinue of bodyguards and/or other idiots got in my way as I walked along the pavement. I actually had to walk onto the roadway to get past as that silly little man, about 5 feet tall, marched self-importantly inside a building, surrounded by his entourage of besuited nobodies. F*** him…
Are people in the UK 'over-taxed'?@DanNeidle points out that the median worker is currently paying historically low levels of tax 👇 pic.twitter.com/7UUYgfiMhE
The devil is in the detail. Government, both central and local, needs revenue from various taxes, but what matters is not only how much is raised but also how and where it is spent. Much of the tax burden accomplishes little because the monies raised are mis-spent.
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We're working with the 10,000 Black Interns Foundation, chambers and organisations, across England and Wales to provide 6 weeks of internship placements at the Bar for aspiring Black barristers.
I was always anti the death penalty, but that was when this was a semi-decent, semi-civilized European country. It is now time to treat the untermenschen how they should be treated, to control them until we can get rid of them en masse one way or another.
This poll was undertaken 2 days AFTER Reform committed to scrap the Boriswave
Which legacy media from Andrew Marr, Iain Dale to Dan Hodges said “was an error”
Turns out, again, the British people think otherwise
The best part of that, if it happens, will be the grief and despair of all the Con and Lab careerist MPs, suddenly chucked out, and losing their ~£100,000+ p.a. salaries, their expense accounts, their networking opportunities etc. I’m lovin’ it!
That would be gamechanging in several ways, socially as well as politically. Politically, obviously, massive. The LibDems, though only with 68 MPs (fewer than they now have) as official Opposition in the Commons; the rout of Starmer-stein Friends of Israel “Labour”; also, the utter collapse of the once-great Conservative Party. 11 MPs! Brilliant. Just what they deserve (well, if what I would do to them were taken off the table). 11 MPs. Finished. Totally.
In fact, if that poll is realized in a general election, the fake Conservative Party will have only 3 MPs more (11) than the fairly pathetic Green Party (8).
This is another massive blow to Starmer. Driver was universally respected and liked across Westminster. https://t.co/ywCVLGVW6B
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, firing back at Vladimir Zelensky, warned that if Russia unleashes the fury of its weapons arsenal, it won't do any good to hide in a bomb shelter:https://t.co/UrwggDb2Zqpic.twitter.com/Ai2IyHw6ID
That is the main point. In the UK, we see the pathetic msm “newspapers” and TV stations giving airtime to know-nothing talking heads, superannuated ex-officers etc and talking about Second World War things such as conscription, rationing etc, as if the nuclear age had not happened.
If a full-scale war —totally unnecessary— breaks out between NATO and Russia, you (especially in the UK, a major likely target) can forget about Dad’s Army, bread rations etc…just say a last prayer.
Russia couldn’t even beat Ukraine…and they expect the world to believe they have the capacity for a broader conflict?
That last tweeter has apparently never heard of Russia’s ~7,000 nuclear weapons…
If Russia were willing to do it, Kiev and all other major Ukrainian cities under control of Zelensky would be radioactive holes in the ground within minutes. Russia has a different strategy, thank God. So far.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer will shortly announce that all UK adults will be issued with a compulsory "Brit Card" digital ID
The emergent UK police state being given more structure…
Labour got in to such a mess over winter fuel they’re too scared to take off the lock. #Moderates wouldn’t have touched winter fuel with a barge-pole but would’ve taken off the lock day 1.
The lady tweeter who pretends to have a political quasi-party called “the Moderates” (the membership must be the empty bottles lined up in her kitchen or kitchens— I believe that she may own more than one property) tweets another wrongheaded “policy”.
Imagine a former Conservative (she is the ex-wife of the one-time Con Party MP for Poole, who “employed” her via his MP expenses; he was voted out in 2024) who favours making British pensioners poorer so that (mostly non-European or non-white) families with several children can extract more money from the State!
Talking point
A very important subject, here analyzed by Nick Griffin:
Starmer now on to his fourth communications director in a year, which must be some kind of record. But if you don't have a clear vision of what you're trying to do then no-one can communicate it – let alone implement it https://t.co/mNLzVpWwtw
Housing Sec Steve Reed refuses three times to say whether Morgan McSweeney told him donations to Labour Together were being declared in line with the law while he was on the think tank's board. Tells @BBCWorldatOne that the case was investigated at the time and is now 'closed'
The fact is, that “digital ID” would do nothing to stop or “control” illegal migration-invasion (which is, in any case, only 5% or so of all migration into the UK).
Academic argument anyway. The Starmer-stein government of utter clowns may be able to get the proposed new law (and this would require new law) through the Commons, thanks to his GE 2024 majority of young, know-nothing, fake-Labour MPs, but to get the new law through the Lords may be a great deal more difficult.
Many older people do not even have a “smartphone”. I had a mobile telephone before most people; from 1992, I think, certainly in 1993, but now that I do not have to have one (as I did when a practising barrister), I choose not to have one, for several reasons.
Will older people (65+) not in possession of a smartphone be forced to buy one? Will they be exempted? We do not know.
Such telephones cost hundreds of pounds, too.
I can see this being yet another Starmer disaster for Labour. Good in that respect, then.
Of course, behind the “digital ID” plan are the usual sinister forces and secretive cabals, as we saw during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic.
Russia’s ambassador to France Alexey Meshkov has warned that if NATO were shooting down Russian planes allegedly violating the airspace of the alliance's member countries, that would mean war:https://t.co/7KlhOBhwjdpic.twitter.com/mJRWasiFle
Pakistani migrant Mohammad touched a girl inappropriately. She alerted white man who spontaneously stepped in and gave “nice slap” Salute to this brave gentleman for protecting the woman. pic.twitter.com/Adpq8guQon
The "Brit Card" policy was first floated through Labour Together in June. So either the Government read the policy document and decided to introduce a fundamental national policy change in less than two months. Or Downing Street is still so close to Labour Together it's using… https://t.co/M5a6tDBZvA
“Keir Starmer is now as unpopular among the British people as Rishi Sunak was after he bailed out of a D-Day remembrance service, and Boris Johnson was after his entire government collapsed”https://t.co/OJ2UhNJkdm
Paris City Hall has removed Ukrainian flags. ▪️ The flags have been hanging on the building since 2022. Conclusion: the fashion for lavish symbols is fading in the West — even in France the tone is changing pic.twitter.com/Q6hzeTjUuq
North Korea is in the final stages of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of striking the US mainland
Yonhap reports this citing a statement from the South Korean president, noting that if confirmed, this capability would become one of the most… pic.twitter.com/x6V7O7K3IN
If true, extremely significant. The distance from North Korea to California is about 6,000 miles. The distance from North Korea to Moscow is about 4,000 miles. The distance from North Korea to Israel is about 4,900 miles.
Well, this week another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10. My score was 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 3, and 6 (and I admit that my correct answer to question 8 was a semi-guess or educated guess).
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🇮🇷 Iranian satellite "Nahid 2" was launched into space by the Soyuz rocket
This satellite, designed and built by Iranian experts, is an important step in the development of space technologies and gaining knowledge for placing satellites in geostationary orbit.
A Ukrainian woman living in Sanya (a Chinese province of Hainan) is unhappy that the city has been occupied by Russians. She says it feels like she has returned to her homeland. The beach is full of Russians, the city signs are in Russian, even the advertisements are in Russian.… pic.twitter.com/MlpQbapZUh
I have met relatively few, not so many, Ukrainians. I have met many Russians, of all sorts. I have to say that I much prefer the Russians I have met to the Ukrainians I have met.
Subjective, yes of course. Anecdotal too, were details to be considered. However, consider the cultural riches of Russia: composers, writers, painters, philosophers and other thinkers. Now consider the Ukrainian equivalent. Frankly, there is no comparison.
Trump is absolutely right to say mass immigration is killing Europe.
Why?
Because it’s not only transplanting non-European cultures but is ushering in low-wage, low-skill, low-educated migration that’s a net fiscal costhttps://t.co/KPXX4VnTqT
"Close to 1.3 million people from outside the UK are now claiming Universal Credit welfare payments while living in the UK —at an estimated cost to the hard-working British taxpayers of some £12 billion a year."https://t.co/jLE6rG15Jt
This is the sort of thing that happens when free speech is attacked via not only misguided or deliberately-totalitarian anti-free speech laws but also via policy determinations that have no basis in law whatever, as with “non-crime hate incidents”. “Hate crime” itself has no real basis in law; even less so has “non-crime hate” etc.
This is akin to, parallel to, what happened during the 2020-2022 “Covid” hysteria— government wishes, or preferences, labelled as “official guidance”, and all of that farrago confused with actual law, and then “enforced” arbitrarily by police woodentops who often had, and have, no idea either as to what is and what is not law, and who also often have an inflated idea of their own powers under law.
Talking about “Covid” and thinking back to the facemask loonies seen everywhere 2-3 years ago (though not so often now the msm propaganda hysteria has died down), I saw a typical one today in a supermarket: a middle-aged woman, very fat, hauling herself along slowly, while wearing her filthy, probably 3-years-old, cloth facemask, and pushing a large shopping trolley full of high-carb, high-fat foodstuffs.
Incidentally…
"Small boat crossings just passed a new, record high for this point in the year of some 23,000, taking the total number of mainly young, unvetted Muslim men who are streaming into Britain to more than 170,000."https://t.co/38leU4M8Y2
Much of what Goodwin says is correct. What weakens Goodwin, weakens Farage, weakens Reform UK, is that they are totally in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist-Israel lobby. Same goes for Toby Young, Allison Pearson, the “Free Speech Union” etc.
Moscow travelogue
Very different from when I was not far from there several times in 1993 (in Leninsky Prospekt, at the Academy of Sciences). On my second and shorter trip to Moscow, in 2007, I was in another area of the city.
Whatever may be said about Putin, he has made Moscow a very much better city than it was either in 2007 or (a fortiori) 1993, when it was, palpably, on the edge of chaos.
Sovietism had to fall, after the years of gradual decline and the uselessness of Gorbachev. It fell into near-chaos, it was ravaged and pillaged by finance-capitalist carpetbaggers (mostly Jews) from the West, and also by (mostly Jewish) homegrown predators, the so-called “oligarchs”. Gangsterism too.
Putin put an end to much of that, certainly to the outright gangsterism (in 1993, in the Yeltsin era, I was staying in the same hotel, the Ukraina, as the top-level Chechen gangsters), but there are still huge social inequalities (and, worse yet, inequities) in Russia.
I feel that Russia is still in one of its states of transition. The situation will become clearer later.
"Violent crime is up sharply. More than 2 million violent crimes were recorded against people last year, up from 634,000 a decade ago."https://t.co/8d8lbc7CA8
I am not a “hanger and flogger”, usually, far from it, but the sentences handed down for quite bad crimes of violence are often risibly lenient. The public are rightly concerned.
Well, Corbyn proves, once again, that he is a bit of a political joke.
At present, Reform UK is between 28% and 34% in the opinion polls, which might result in anything between 200 and 400 MPs at a general election. Corbyn’s (I think as yet unnamed) “real Labour” party has not been much tested in opinion polls but seems to be somewhere between 5% and 10%.
That might result in anything from a couple of MPs (inc. Corbyn himself) and (at peak) half a dozen or so MPs. The likelihood is that Corbyn’s new party will take a small amount of support from Reform, far more from official Labour, and so give Reform maybe (?) a dozen more MPs.
The new and totalitarian Online Harms Act is already resulting in footage of protests being censored. LibLabCon MPs supported its passage.
American version, but applicable more to the UK.
Rachel and fellow Jewish act Philip Simon were told in a phone call last Friday that the venue was no longer willing to host them, leaving them without a place to perform their popular shows.
The comedians were informed that venue staff had complained of feeling “unsafe” at…
Jew-Zionist troublemakers have been trying to censor British people for decades. They have been pressuring commercial venues to cancel shows by “antisemitic” and/or anti-Israel speakers, comedians, singers etc for at least half a century in the UK. People such as David Icke, such as the Jewish anti-Zionist jazz musician Gilad Atzmon, and hundreds if not thousands of others.
“Slitherman” and his “Campaign Against Antisemitism” co-conspirators are prominent in that sort of activity, and have been for at least 11 years.
As a matter of fact, the “CAA” was behind the “cancelling” of satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz at the Edinburgh Fringe several years ago, and dishonest/negligent Jew-Zionist solicitor Mark Lewis, and his loudmouthed wife/carer, Mandy Blumenthal (aided and abetted by lying Daily Mail scribbler Sabrina Miller), were behind the attempted shutdown of black comedian Reginald D. Hunter last year (2024), also at the Edinburgh Fringe:
Now, the “CAA” pro-Israel propaganda outfit (engaged in “lawfare”— abuse of English law for pro-Jew-Zionist/Israel purposes) has taken the matter further, actually having the sheer gall to privately prosecute that black comedian on a criminal charge.
One of the most popular blog posts, published just over 6 years ago.
The links between many Jewish/Zionist individuals, pro-Israel-ism, “antifa” cretins, and mental instability, are very clear.
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The threat of a third world war keeps growing, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, adding that the international community should do everything it can to prevent it:https://t.co/0INLck1LeWpic.twitter.com/jQROt3Twej
Very true. I also note that there is a strong Jewish involvement in most of the significant regional flashpoints: USA/NATO/EU-Russia, Ukraine (Kiev regime)-Russia, Israel-Gaza, Israel-Syria, Israel-Yemen.
Genocidal Zionists are incandescent with fury at the continued solidarity with Palestine shown by international lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
The latest tactic is to have the Donald Trump administration announce sanctions against her.
[“Genocidal Zionists are incandescent with fury at the continued solidarity with Palestine shown by international lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. The latest tactic is to have the Donald Trump administration announce sanctions against her. “Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated,” the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, posted on X. “We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense.” Rubio is one of the most pro-Zionist people ever to be appointed to the post of US Secretary of State and has received over a million dollars from Zionist lobby groups, “making him one of the top recipients of pro-Israeli donations”. The sanctions announcement coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, DC. Rubio and Netanyahu met on the same day that the sanctions were announced, which must suggest very close coordination. My latest: UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese faces US sanctions and smear campaigns by Zionist groups after exposing tech billionaires’ complicity in Israeli genocide in Gaza. https://presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/26/751884/francesca-albanese-smeared-exposing-tech-billionaires-complicit-gaza-genocide“]
Marco Rubio— just another corrupt Cuban.
The Russian army has liberated the settlements of Zeleny Gai in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Maliyevka in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, the Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/D9fTKkU65qpic.twitter.com/Kxjb6g9wIr
Start of multinational NATO exercises on the territory of Georgia
⏺On Friday, multinational military exercises of NATO member countries began at the NATO-Georgia military training ground located near Tbilisi. The command is carried out jointly by the USA and Georgia. pic.twitter.com/37FM1vTVuR
Yes, get all of our armed services doing something actually beneficial for this country, instead of backing up American policy idiocy and/or supporting the Israeli Jews.
The israelis have attacked the British flagged Handala illegally in international waters, kidnapping crew: another act of piracy pic.twitter.com/S1QcdmP18X
Something’s flipped — people who never or rarely post about the horrors in Gaza now are. Journalists who might’ve held back are posting more. Clearly the flood of photos of emaciated babies has tipped the balance. There’s a ground shift.
“A nation is not merely a collection of people, it is a collection of obligations: inherited, assumed and passed on.” – Sir Roger Scruton https://t.co/rHQiBJ8aoL
The sheer sickness of the present society is exposed when some thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity-hire” such as David Lammy is an MP, and now even a Cabinet minister, and is on TV politics shows, while at the same time someone such as me is either ignored or is treated as a political criminal. It’s just ridiculous, a bad joke.
Ecce “your” (Starmer’s) Foreign Secretary…
Labour Cabinet has accepted more than £800,000 in donations and freebies this year. David Lammy has taken the most —Telegraph
With the “Conservative” Party as good as dead, and with fake “Labour” already, after only 2 months in office, crashing and burning, it is not impossible that, failing the emergence of a real social-national movement, desperate voters will have only Reform UK for which to vote in 2029 or 2028.
Those hundreds of “diverse” “Labour”-label idiots presently in the Commons will then die off like flies in Autumn.
Every time I think I couldn't be more shocked by the dystopian reality of British ‘public health’ policy and its associated ecosystem, something else comes along to knock me off my chair. This time, it's the turn of the ‘sick man of Europe report’ released yesterday.
It's like we're being prepared, with tons of them saying "I'm done with Musk and X. If you want to follow me, I'll be on BlueSky." Feels like setting the groundwork so that everyone thinks "ooh, I'll move over there too", making it easy for the Labour Party to censor Twitter.
The David Morgan Twitter/X account is one of the most worthwhile of those dealing with certain problems head-on. Those with a Twitter/X account will find his material of interest should they follow it.
Morgan, however, must —and probably does— realize that many types of people suffered both before and during the Second World War (and in the mid/late 1940s, after it ended). In most cases, not at the hands of National Socialist Germany (contrary to that which “the usual suspects” tend to say).
My generation, Gen Z is more awake than people realize.
“Keir Starmer has suffered a precipitous fall in his personal ratings since winning the election, according to a new poll for the Observer that comes before his first Labour conference as prime minister.
The latest Opinium poll reveals that Starmer’s approval rating has plunged below that of the Tory leader Rishi Sunak, suffering a huge 45-point drop since July. While 24% of voters approve of the job he is doing, 50% disapprove, giving him a net rating of -26%. Sunak’s net rating is one point better.
In a troubling assessment of the government’s opening months, only 27% think it has so far been a success, while 57% think it has not been successful. Even a third (32%) of those who voted for Labour at the last election believe the government has not been a success in its opening two months. Labour is seen as focusing too much on the government’s fiscal position when the public want them to focus on growing the economy.
James Crouch, head of policy and public affairs at Opinium said: “While the prime minister might have a world-beating new wardrobe, voters are refusing to wear his government’s austerity drive.“
[The Guardian]
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Important thread. Don’t agree with everything in it. But the ideas need discussion.
There is an actual academic literature on this.
Are Jews so (relatively) privileged because of ‘intelligence’ or ‘culture’?
There's a whole industry of charities/ otherwise that do nothing but write endless reports for a living. What I've noticed is that their recommendations, 5-year strategies and diagrams NEVER translate to practice. We have more reports than ever before – and yet, nothing works!
News just in; The MoS reports Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson accepted ( but didn’t disclose) thousands of pounds from Lord Alli to pay for her 40th birthday party last year. There were 100 guests for wine and canapés and the duplicitous Starmer said in a speech at the…
“What goes around comes around“… or to put it another way, “old sins cast long shadows“…
The calibre of this Labour Cabinet is frighteningly poor, unprecedentedly poor. This is supposed to be one of the rising stars. https://t.co/5yjv3HS757
Labour are so bad it’s hard to keep up. It’s not just the sleaze. You expect greed galore from grabbing socialists.
No. It’s the sheer bovine stupidity. Ok, you expect that too – but never in my wildest dreams could I have foreseen this utter sh*tshow. I almost feel guilty for…
“Labour are so bad it’s hard to keep up. It’s not just the sleaze. You expect greed galore from grabbing socialists. No. It’s the sheer bovine stupidity. Ok, you expect that too – but never in my wildest dreams could I have foreseen this utter sh*tshow. I almost feel guilty for enjoying it so much. I have to keep reminding myself that it’s deadly serious. They’re freezing pensioners, sucking up to unions, gendering kids, bowing to Islamists. They’re crashing the plane into the f*cking mountain. We have to think about what will replace them.“
The legislation and other rules and regulations these crooks set in place are work-arounds to let them do whatever they want to do. https://t.co/qDIxeVcNa2
So thick-as-two-short-planks “Deputy Prime Minister” Angela Rayner took “a friend” on her freebie break in Manhattan, as well as going (on another freebie break?) to Ibiza, where she made the UK a laughing stock by her vulgar antics in the so-called “VIP area” of a noisy horrible nightclub of some sort? (at age 44).
Very true, but that should not be used as a reason or excuse to vandalize the English countryside with tracts of boring, poorly-designed and ugly housing, with inadequate infrastructure (a fortiori, if that housing is destined to be used as hutches for migrant-invaders).
Sadly, when said friends were featured in a national newspaper gossip piece about him (meaning, about Scruton hobnobbing with people having radical “neo-fascist” political connections), Scruton decided to cut them from his acquaintances for reasons of careerism.
Scruton was a very influential academic later in his career, and published over 50 books which were translated into many languages, especially in Eastern and Central Europe (I myself recall seeing an entire bookshop window of Scruton’s works in Czech in the Old Town of Prague in 1999). Scruton, though, was fatally flawed by his wish to make money.
UK – Rachel Reeves …Shamelessly Levelling herself up, whilst punching you down 👀
▪️Had her official credit card suspended over inappropriate spending 2015
▪️Plagiarised other people’s work over 20 times in her book 2023
Rachel Reeves and Starmer have, they say, “no money” to keep pensioners warm this winter (or in those to come) but there’s money aplenty to throw away and waste on the “Ukrainian” Jewish regime in Kiev, on the rulers of dozens of African and other “nations”, and on sheltering and feeding and giving pocket-money to millions of migrant-invaders who should not even be here.
[“No! Wait! I voted Labour in 2024!…”]
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This of course is before what is going to be a pretty disastrous budget
Bearing in mind that only 4 out of 12 voting voters (4 out of 20 eligible) actually voted for Labour anyway, that is pretty damning, and much less than 3 months in.
Migrant-invaders. At best— useless parasites; at worst— criminals and/or terrorists.
Anyone supporting this invasion is, in a very real sense, a traitor to the British people and to all European people— and the future.
707. In a single day. All will now be housed, fed, given money, given medical and dental services, given other services etc by the “government”, i.e. out of the pockets of the British people. About £200 per day each. Maybe more. So at least £140,000 per day, just for today’s consignment of riff-raff.
Meanwhile, Starmer’s Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment and “elected” dictatorship is throwing billions at “Ukraine” (the Jewish regime in Kiev), at African and Asian wastes of space, at all sorts of nonsense, and is cheating all British people, especially pensioners but also, down the line, the middle-aged and young (deprived of a decent future).
In my pre-polling day look at the by-election, I picked Galloway (“Workers Party”) as the winner; not very difficult under the circumstances— most journalists also thought that Galloway would win, as did the bookmakers.
Galloway scored 39.7%; oddly enough, exactly the same figure as the understandably poor turnout, which was also 39.7%. In other words, Galloway was elected via the votes of about 15% of the whole eligible electorate.
I went wrong on second place. I thought that Azhar Ali, the disowned Labour candidate, would still manage a second place on the basis that he is local, a councillor, a Pakistani Muslim and, until Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer sacked him, the official candidate of the Labour Party.
In fact, Ali scored only 7.7% and a 4th place. I attribute that largely to his sacking, which means that he will not be the Labour candidate in the upcoming 2024 General Election. Also, to the fact that he climbed down and “apologised” to Starmer and the Israel lobby. In a word, he lost face, badly, by doing that. I presume that his 7.7% reflects a personal vote, mainly.
I also thought, though speculatively, that the LibDems might do rather better than they did, based on their previous (though pre-2015) showings in the constituency, and on their perhaps being a magnet for anti-Government white (English) votes in Rochdale. Not so. Seems that the LibDems are very much a spent force outside a few parts of southern England.
The LibDem vote was only 7%.
The poor turnout sank the LibDem cause in Rochdale. It is pretty clear that the Pakistanis voted but the English/white voters mostly did not. The Pakistani population of the constituency is somewhere in the 30%-40% range. Almost all Pakistanis voted (it can be surmised), but few English/white people bothered.
The Conservative Party candidate never had a chance. This government is as unpopular as any has been in the past century or more, and Rochdale has not elected a Conservative since 1955.
Having said that, the attitude of the candidate cannot have helped. He decided to prioritize his holiday over campaigning, jetting off to the sun only a week or so before Polling Day!
Ellison’s 12% vote (3rd place) is around where my initial thought about the by-election, a couple of weeks ago, put him (I thought maybe 15%), but better than my most recent speculation (a day or two ago, I thought the Con vote might go as low as 5%).
Finally (leaving aside the five candidates who lost their deposit, none scoring higher than 1.7%), there is Reform UK. Oh dear…
As I wrote before the by-election, Reform UK must have been mad to take on Danczuk as its candidate. After all, he was the local Labour MP 2010-2017, who was sacked for various personal behavioural problems, and who then tried to hang on as an Independent, getting an embarrassing 1.8% vote at the 2017 General Election.
The toxic tabloid content of Danczuk’s life 2010-2017 with and around his seriously thick then wife, Karen Danczuk (known as “the selfie queen” for her self-portraits posted online, featuring both her cleavage and her buck teeth), sank him in 2017, and will still be (and obviously was) remembered by the voters of Rochdale.
Danczuk’s 6.3% vote at the by-election is about where I thought he would end up.
In my view, Reform UK has rather too much of the “Mickey Mouse” about it, too much of the “wing and a prayer” “Amateur Night” village show, to be considered a serious party.
The political scientist Matt Goodwin has been pushing the idea that Reform UK might overtake the Conservative Party in the polls. Not yet, it seems.
At Rochdale, the Conservative Party candidate managed to get twice the vote of Danczuk and Reform UK, despite not bothering to campaign much, whereas Danczuk tried hard, and was even supported by his leader, Richard Tice, riding a sky-blue battlebus.
The by-election does say something about Reform UK that goes beyond its very silly decision to put up Danczuk as a candidate. If Reform UK was going to capture the mainly white/English protest vote, this by-election would have been the place for that to take off. White English people are a majority, maybe even two-thirds, of the Rochdale constituency, yet most —probably the vast majority— did not bother to vote, and even fewer voted Reform UK.
Some may say that the above is because English people are apathetic. I say that they are apathetic for a reason, or reasons. One, in this case, was because Reform UK’s semi-“libertarian” offering just does not “hit the spot”. White English people want, though in most cases unconsciously, social nationalism, and there is not one party, even a small one, offering or proclaiming that ideology.
What does the by-election say about the Conservative Party in the run-up to GE 2024? Toast. This was the worst Con Party result (12%) at Rochdale since the Blair-Labour years (10.5% in 2005, 13.4% in 2001, 8.8% in 1997). In 2019, the Cons received 31.2%, and even in 2017 28.4%.
So there it is. Angry apathy from the white English voters, angry protest from the Pakistani Muslims, a Government without hope, but an Opposition Labour Party unable to inspire any enthusiasm yet likely to “win” GE 2024 purely by default. Also, an upstart and supposedly “populist” party, Reform UK, that has no real support.
I have said nothing about the victor, Galloway. That is because he is a maverick and, despite the “Workers Party” label, basically a one-man band. Whether he can retain his seat at GE 2024 or not is an open question. Maybe he can.
And Tim Stanley, if you said something similar about Judaism, you’d be called an antisemite…. In fact, you wouldn’t be able to say anything, because you’d get arrested and cancelled. So, what’s your point?#bbcqt#TimStanley
95% of the repression on freedom of expression in the UK comes from the organized Jew-Zionist/pro-Israel lobby. I myself face sentencing in a couple of weeks, the malicious Jew-Zionist lobby having procured an entirely political prosecution of me in 2023 (and admit to having been trying to bag me for most of the past decade).
Israeli ‘massacre’ of Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza condemned globally https://t.co/iUH81xPZir
Galloway must be one of the few, one of the very few MPs who can speak in public without either reading pathetic platitudes from a written crib, or sounding like a speak-your-weight machine, or both.
The symptoms of the slowly-encroaching “woke” global (Western) police state (in the UK, in the EU, elsewhere too) are now seen everywhere; they include my own Jewish-lobby-procured political prosecution and conviction last year (sentencing hearing this month).
When you look at why Simon Danczuk fell from grace, running on a grooming platform was not the best idea. It says everything about Tice's judgement. Especially when, standing as an independent in 2017, Danczuk won a mere 883 votes. He was a lame duck out of the starting gate. (do…
I agree with that. I have no idea what Tice is like as a businessman, though I note that his main work was in a company founded by his grandfather. As a politician, I have no doubt that he is “nbg” (no bloody good). As I blogged some time before the by-election, Tice’s selection of someone as sleazy as Simon Danczuk was a miscall of stunning proportions. As in…you run a “populist”, “new broom”, “clean the Augean Stables” party, so naturally you pick as your candidate someone who was not only sleazy in the sexual sense when an MP but also a grifting freeloader and moneygrubber. An example of the worst of the old parties. No, wait…
How does that work? It doesn’t.
If Tice’s judgment is in question for having, inter alia, picked Danczuk as a candidate, then that, and the by-election result, also brings into question the judgment of political academic, scribbler and blogger Matt Goodwin, who has been boosting Reform UK as a possibly-unstoppable coming political force in the land. Ha…
"Britain issued 81,203 family visas last year —up 72% on 2022 and the highest figure on record. The sharpest increase of all was for family members from Pakistan (+70%), India (+57%) & Bangladesh (+68%)"https://t.co/DhsCdicgpI
Unconfirmed reports are saying that Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative has been sentenced in the Crown Court to 2 years in prison for supposed “incitement to racial hatred”.
I did not follow the trial, but I understand that the charge or charges related to the production of (from the little I have read) very innocuously-worded stickers. “Evidence” deemed admissible (presumably going to the Defendant’s intention) included having a picture of Hitler.
The Star Chamber would be proud of England’s 21st Century police, CPS, and judiciary.
As we know, in 2024 Britain, political crime is deemed far more serious than real crime. In a country where crimes of serious violence, or considerable and dishonest acquisition, result often in non-custodial sentences, Sam Melia will now spend about a year in prison basically for having offended or opposed the System and “the usual suspects”.
I have no idea as to whether the plight of his wife, Laura Towler, and their very young child, was taken into account. Seemingly not, or not much. I understand that Laura Towler is presently pregnant with a second child, which will now be born (in the next couple of months) while its father is incarcerated.
I hope that a crowdfunder is soon set up for Melia’s wife and children.
“A huge crowd”? At a guess, 5,000. Maybe, at peak, 10,000.
Russia has ~143M people, so even 10,000 represents only 1 person in every 14,300. Out of the Moscow population of 13M, 1 person out of every 1,300. Somewhere between those two figures, then. 1 person out of every 1,300-14,300 people.
Of course, the authorities have tried to suppress visible support for Navalny, but even if the true figure is 1 out of every 1,300, and even if there are 20 secret supporters for every one on that march, that is still only, at best, 1 out of every 65 inhabitants of Moscow.
Whatever one’s view of Navalny, his percentage of even mild support was in single figures. Maybe 2%, maybe as high as 5%, of the Moscow population; probably no more than 1%, if that, among the whole population of Russia.
Thousands of supporters of #Navalny gathered for his memorial service and funeral in #Moscow despite #Kremlin warnings and a heavy police presence.
The presidential administration has ordered the media not to cover funeral of Navalny. The ban on news about the funeral came to… pic.twitter.com/UbtUDvGVUI
That film shows a seemingly larger crowd, but even if my calculations are out by a factor of 10, that would still show a visible and covert ratio of 1 Navalny supporter out of every 6 or 7 people. Significant but not overwhelming.
Anyway, such speculation is a castle in the air in the circumstances.
Tim Stanley did 2 degrees and a PhD at Cambridge all paid for by the tax payer. When it comes to him paying back he is having none of it… pic.twitter.com/L8pAwjuiJU
I've been calling for a Militant Democracy strategy in Britain since the 6/1 insurrection: I hope @RishiSunak is listening… end the divisive rhetoric, defend the institutions which are coming under massive hybrid attack: democracies have no duty to facilitate their enemies… pic.twitter.com/zmoudIrFlq
Mason again. His “political philosophy” comes down to two words: “arrest them“. Nothing more. Neither a socialist nor a pro-capitalist, nor yet anything other than someone cobbling together disparate strands to make one jumbled string of pseudo-philosophy which really comes down to the exercise of State power by those who control it, and against any dissidents or dissenters.
I'm not normally that interested in parliamentary politics. More interesting to see what everyone else in the country is thinking and doing.
But I will make an exception. It's good to see George Galloway is an MP while Paul Mason isn't. Mason's piss is boiling nicely. https://t.co/NC8j1otTRH
Mason’s sheer bile is obvious to almost everyone but Mason himself. Mason’s ideal living environment would be somewhere such as the DDR, circa 1970. Maybe as a Stasi-connected academic in a concrete provincial university.
“Left”/”Right” are terms I never myself use. Not helpful or meaningful. Look at Mason, though, playing the role of “licensed revolutionary”. The police seem uninterested in talking to him about any inflammatory outbursts…
Your hear that Galloway voters? Paul Mason says you’re ‘racists’ and ‘misfits’.
If people who endorse Labour think this little of voters, then they deserve to lose, badly. The sense of entitlement Starmerites have is mind-blowing. The tantrums they’re having today are hilarious. https://t.co/sl7fhI0zUa
— 🕊️🍉 A Rey of Light 🇵🇸🇪🇸 (@areyoflight) March 1, 2024
Mason’s MI5 “PF” (Personal File) would be a fascinating read…I would love to see my own, incidentally. I suppose it might make my ears burn…
Britain needs social nationalism. No matter the intervening repressions (as seen only today and previously in the Sam Melia show trial), events are “conspiring” or converging to create, down the line…Victory.
I love my country.
I’m ashamed of my government and my Prime Minister.
He has turned the beautiful country I love into the country that I escaped from.
The country that took me in, now looks & feels like the country that would persecute me for wrong-think. pic.twitter.com/NX3PARKRre
Caroline Lucas, "Antisemitism case have risen six fold, Islamophobia has risen three fold, language has consequence"
"We need to call out this unelected Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, who is leading one of the most unpopular governments in all time. And he is deliberately and… pic.twitter.com/TnFqNHrU08
Peter Oborne mentions almost every group but the Jewish lobby; not even “Zionists”; only “Israel”. I can only imagine (joking slightly) that he is afraid of being blackballed by one of his clubs (the Garrick? I am only guessing).
Slightly disappointing by Oborne, who has in the past made interesting anti-Israel lobby documentaries: see
What (((group))) is behind Starmer? What group is behind Sunak? What group is behind “Reform UK”, Farage, Tice etc? Yes, the Israel lobby, but of what (in the UK) is that composed?…
In some ways, Oborne’s 15-minute tweet above is very hardhitting, but it pulls a few punches when it comes to “a certain group” in UK society.
Oborne refers to the danger of the “far right” etc. In fact, any danger is actually from the two superficially opposed groups— Islamists/Zionists.
Announcement from Laura Towler
I happened to see the message below, believed to be a public announcement from Laura Towler of Patriotic Alternative:
“By now you will have heard that my husband Sam Melia was sentenced today to two years in prison for his intentions behind publishing stickers that the prosecution said were both lawful and truthful.
The sentencing guidelines gave the judge the option of choosing anywhere between 2 years and 6 years, and the minimum was given due to the lack of seriousness regarding the offence. The judge could’ve suspended the sentence (and sent Sam home) at two years, however he chose not to and said the reason why was because he wanted the sentencing to act as a deterrent to other people with the same beliefs.
Before today, Sam met with his Probation Officer who said that Sam was no risk to the public and there was no chance of reoffending, and recommended a community order. The judge chose to ignore this.
The worst case scenario is that Sam will serve 12 months in prison. Potentially, he could serve 6 – 8 months. He is considered low risk and could therefore be on day release from as early as in a few months.
If you take anything from this, let it remind you why we do what we do. We live in a country where our people are attacked by the anti-White state for advocating for their own safety and interests.
I don’t want cuddles and condolences. I don’t want thoughts and prayers. I want you to join me in filling the void that Sam leaves for the next few months. There are no excuses. Not everybody has to be on the front line. There is plenty you can do behind the scenes.
Sam should hold his head up high knowing that he put his head above the parapet when many others dare not. He didn’t back down at any point over the last three years, nor did he take any offer they offered him. He remained defiant for us, and now it’s our turn to repay his sacrifice by carrying his flame until he is back.“
[unconfirmed, but believed to be by Laura Towler]
Another example of how the British jury is now little better than a rubber stamp. As for the judge in question, I prefer not to comment, mainly because I have no wish to transgress the “contempt of Court” rules; in any case, I did not follow the case. There is also the further fact that I myself, in Biblical language, will be “in the same condemnation” in a couple of weeks, being sentenced for —in effect— telling the truth.
“Rishi Sunak has claimed extremist groups in the UK are “trying to tear us apart”, in a hastily arranged Downing Street statement that came hours after George Galloway won a byelection in Rochdale.
Standing outside No 10 late on Friday, the prime minister condemned what he called “a shocking increase in extremist disruption and criminality” after the 7 October massacre by Hamas and the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
He also claimed democracy itself was a target, as he condemned the election of Galloway, who easily won the seat in Rochdale on a platform that focused on anti-Israel sentiment over Gaza.
However, in a sometimes rambling and seemingly contradictory 10-minute address, Sunak made points likely to anger MPs on the right of the Conservative party such as Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick, who have sought to frame recent tensions as almost entirely the responsibility of Islamist extremists.
Sunak was at pains to stress the recent abuse of Muslim Britons as well as the Jewish community, and to highlight the threat from far-right groups as well as Islamists.“
[The Guardian]
The little Indian money-juggler presently posing as Prime Minister has made a speech in which he conflated “democracy” with “electing System candidates”, in effect.
Sunak calls for no support for “extremism”, yet he does not seem to think it “extreme” to project the Israeli flag onto 10 Downing Street and then to call for support of a war by a huge mechanized army against, mostly, civilians, half of which are under 18 years of age, and about a quarter of whom are undisputedly small children and babies.
So far, the Israeli Jews have killed about 30,000 or so in Gaza, in under 5 months. About half were children.
Starmer, that nasty ideas-free puppet bureaucrat, is no better.
Incidentally, I myself have blogged about both “democracy” and “extremism” in recent years:
In response to the supply of Taurus missiles to Kiev, Moscow could consider the possibility of a Dagger attack on the factory of these missiles in Germany, said expert Igor Korotchenko.
Germany does not officially want to send its troops to Ukraine, but the German army is…
“In response to the supply of Taurus missiles to Kiev, Moscow could consider the possibility of a Dagger attack on the factory of these missiles in Germany, said expert Igor Korotchenko.
Germany does not officially want to send its troops to Ukraine, but the German army is already present there as advisers and technical experts, noted expert Vladimir Evseyev. The situation is heating up after such statements. Especially after the first, the second is a statement of fact….”
[Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin, 1945]
Founder of "Blackwater" – We can't beat the Russian bear
"Ukraine needs peace, otherwise it will destroy itself," said the founder of the private military company "Blackwater" Eric Prince in a podcast with Patrick Bet-David.
Founder of “Blackwater” – We can’t beat the Russian bear.
“Ukraine needs peace, otherwise it will destroy itself,” said the founder of the private military company “Blackwater” Eric Prince in a podcast with Patrick Bet-David.
He also drew attention to the poor state of the Western armies and stressed that American citizens are not obliged to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to a corrupt state, such as Ukraine.“
I’d love to hear what ‘journalist’ Sam Coates can hear through his master’s earpiece 🤔
He’s a puppet and We see its strings 😂
George, on the other hand, speaks with honesty, integrity, experience and for the Many 👍
Sam Coates parroting rubbish, much of it “antisemitism,antisemitism“. Idiots like Coates get paid half a million or more per year. Sick society; almost a (bad) joke society.
Is Sam Coates part-(((you know who)))? I wonder…
Coates was easily put in his place by Galloway. Not worth his salt.
are climate fanatics, transgenderists, "refugees first & open borders" fanatics, globalists, in fact the entire NGO class not all ultimately sentimentalists? https://t.co/ZBIoRbs5vy
The quotation directly above expresses a fact which many prefer to ignore. Note— not “disagree with”, but ignore. They do not want the truth, but comforting (?) lies.
The UK is almost open-borders now. The “British” Government (packed with Jews, Indians, you name it) has basically given up the struggle to defend our borders. In that circumstance, how long can even the semblance of a “Welfare State” be maintained?
What seems to have been happening in Britain is that the outward forms have been and are being maintained but, at the same time, the content has been, and is being, hollowed out.
Not just Welfare State services such as State benefit levels, but allied aspects of society: the NHS is one. The NHS still exists, but underfunding and mass immigration is testing it to the limit. NHS dentistry is disappearing, in fact has almost disappeared. The GP service is now a skeleton of what it was only a few years ago.
Of course, “Covid”, or “the Covid crisis”, or “the pandemic” is a very useful excuse as to why standards cannot be maintained. You (apparently, supposedly) cannot see a GP or a dentist “because of” the “panicdemic” of 2020-2021.
That has become the contemporary version of the 1940s British excuse for non-availability of goods and services, as when, in the film of The Cruel Sea, senior Royal Navy Reserve officer Jack Hawkins calls over a steward at (?) the Trocadero in London to complain about dust in the decanter of water on his table, only to be told “I’m very sorry, Sir, it’s the war, you know…“, to which Hawkins replies, wryly, “well, in that case, I should not want to make too much of it” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruel_Sea_(1953_film)].
The same has been the case in very many areas of British life. When I was reading for the Bar in 1987, there was discussion about whether wigs and gowns would still be worn by barristers in the future. A wise old barrister replied that “they will get rid of everything else before they get rid of wigs in court“.
That turned out to be right. The Bar has changed radically since the 1980s, in a few respects for the better but in most respects for the worse, but those wigs are still there, at least in the Crown Court (though now more rare in civil cases, in both the High Court and in the County Court).
Look at the armed forces. The outward forms are still there, but the few remaining ships are merely like stumps sticking out of drought-hit fields. A couple of aircraft carriers without planes (!), and the officers and crews of warships (as seen on “reality TV”) seem pretty poor quality, at least from what is shown.
In fact, so useless are our armed forces now that “Boris” idiot recently suggested giving our remaining planes and tanks to the Jew Zelensky in Kiev, because the UK has no use for them! Johnson was derided, of course, but actually (while I would not want to support the Kiev regime) Johnson had a point.
The Navy now does little but ferry migrant invaders to the UK (!) and interdict drug smugglers (the only way to really stop the drug problem, though, is to hit the consumers in the UK, and hit them really hard).
Why do we even bother having a navy in those circumstances?
As to the Army’s tanks, they seem to be of no use at all here, and are only used for exercises and for occasional foreign misadventures such as Iraq, and that was decades ago.
The Royal Air Force? Most of its bases have been closed down, and most of the rest are really semi-disguised USAF bases.
Is there, likewise, much reality in the Monarchy? I think not. Not only The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta. Not only Prince Andrew, that useless and unpleasant freeloader. Not only the rest of them, but also their actual role. What are they for, really? Does their existence as “royals” really serve any purpose now?
The migration-invasion, and the general mass immigration into the UK, has ripped the stuffing out of this country. The original 1950s to 1970s immigration from former colonies turned Commonwealth countries was bad enough, but in the past ~40 years, and especially since about 1989, there has been a flood even from countries which which the UK has historically had few if any ties. That increased during and after Blair’s evil regime, i.e. post-1997.
The old idea was that immigrants, even non-whites, would just blend in with British people and their way of life. That was only a half-truth even half a century or more ago. Now, it is just not so; the numbers have become too great. Britain may be majority non-white as early as 2050, and even many of the European people here now are not British in any real sense; many are the rejected dross from the poorer parts on the continent.
It makes me laugh when I read in newspapers about how the UK is being “defended” by the armed forces, and by the security and intelligence bureaucrats. What are they now “defending”? Not the British people or their way of life, that’s for sure. That is being destroyed from within. Mass immigration. Births to non-whites. Corruption at Westminster. Cultural trash on TV , radio and elsewhere. Cheap hee-hawing by Jew comedians and others. All of that.
I tremble to think of what Britain might look like by 2050, let alone 2100, if we cannot reverse the process, or take the country in a new direction. I myself (b. 1956) will not be on Earth by then, but it may be that, before then, Fate will enable me to join with the best of my fellow Brits to change the mood music in the next 20 years. We shall see.
Tweets seen
Jack Monroe's involvement was debunked with a FoI request. She's since admitted it never happened.
Amazing how many quite educated and/or intelligent-seeming people, including well-known journalists, MPs etc have been so easily bamboozled by “Jack Monroe” and her tissue of lies.
#navycapital : The U.S. is considering the release of intelligence it believes shows that China is weighing whether to supply weapons to support Russia’s war in Ukraine https://t.co/NcFxlnnWdR
– Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would disappear if it lost its war in Ukraine. “If Russia stops the special military operation without winning, there will be no Russia; it will be torn apart,” he wrote on Wednesday. /8
I was of the view that Labour’s open door immigration policy (the real policy, not the “horseshit” fed to the public via the msm) would put voters off from voting Labour-label, but the “Conservatives”, under Indian money-juggler Sunak, are plainly bent on importing more millions, and have done nothing at all even to slightly reduce mass immigration, including the cross-Channel migration-invasion, so many people will just want to punish the Con Party even if knowing in their hearts that Labour will be no better in most respects— and worse in some.
Incidentally, that YouGov poll, if reflective of actual voting at the next general election, would give Labour the biggest Commons majority in history— a Commons majority of 430 [Labour 540, Con 20, LibDem 19, SNP 47, others 24 (inc. Northern Irish seats)].
Demonstrators disrupted traffic in London to paint a huge Ukraine flag on the road in front of the Russian embassy on the eve of the Ukraine war's first anniversary pic.twitter.com/xlSmf4DCms
That is what at any rate used to be the Consulate, the Embassy itself being nearby.
I remember standing in a long, slow line outside one of the gates in early 1993, the first time I needed a Russian visa.
In fact I had already been there once, in the 1980s, when I queued on behalf of my then girlfriend’s mother, who apart from being too aged to wait in line for hours, always seemed to have trouble there because she was born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg in or about 1908, and had insisted that her British passport reflect that and not (as per the silly Passport Office rule) Leningrad (the Passport Office staff always prefer to change places of birth to the latest name of the location, so “Tanganyika” is changed to “Tanzania” even if the latter was not in existence at the date of birth).
Of course, that 1980s visa for the old lady mentioned was a Soviet one, not a Russian one as such..
Incidentally, the fall of socialism in and after 1989, and the official end of the Soviet Union in 1991, brought a change in the way that the consulate treated its visitors. In the 1980s, an unwelcoming ambience and the strange little holes in the glass screen above the reception desk, as at old railway stations, the holes too low to speak through without stooping (they are —or used to be— everywhere in Russia, even at the Kremlin ticket office); in 1993, a new reception desk and no screen with little holes (in fact no screen at all, I seem to remember), and girls who actually smiled and were pleasant, unlike the sullen factotums of yesteryear.
The last two times I needed a Russian visa, in 1996 and 2007, I did not need to queue or to go there; commercial organizations will do it for you, at a price. I ended up going to Moscow again in 2007, but not in 1996, that visit having been called off at short notice, the very day before I was due to travel.
🇬🇧 Four arrests at London's Russian embassy as protesters paint massive Ukraine flag on road https://t.co/NOyPXSCQIU (Sky News UK)
My two closest friends are Ukrainians; one is ethnically from its western part, the other is from Chernihiv. One is w/ Western education. Both live in Ru. Both have relatives all over Ukr. Both consider our countries undivided and are really suffering from what is going on.
To all those who try to lecture me about Ukrainians (esp Westerners, who don’t know Ukr/Ru, have no clue about history, have never seen an Ukr in real life; whose knowledge is limited to what the mainstream says), just don’t do that. I just ban not to waste my time & nerves.
Someone on here (and detailed further on Kiwifarms) has successfully won in Small Claims Court against Jack Monroe bootstrapcook and is now progressing it to CCJ as she's failed to respond/refusing to pay.
I'd say it's almost certain that Jack Monroe is refusing to pay because in her nasty, narc head, she thinks she can do what she likes. She'd have to tell a lot of lies under oath to make it look like she can't rather than won't pay. Well done for getting thus far already 👏👏
As of today, the 502 hard-core mugs on Patreon are still sending “Jack Monroe” several thousand pounds each month.
It pleases me that every time I log onto twitter its either an Owen Jones binfire, a Jack Monroe binfire or trans rights activism is being shown the fucking door. It really does.
People of Britain: you know who your enemies are, and they are not the Russian people, not Putin, and not the so-called “far right” (social nationalists, who are fighting your fight)…
As far as ordinary System politics is concerned, the best result of any general election now is that the misnamed Conservative Party be simply wiped out, even at the cost of a Labour Party “elected dictatorship”. Once one half of the binary political scam has gone, sooner or later the whole rotten system will fall.
Meanwhile, the British people face high prices and shortages. Online repression means that I cannot suggest how to punish the freeloaders…
Actually, a friend of mine used to lunch quite often at the House of Lords in the 1980s and 1990s. Similar prices, or even cheaper, adjusted for inflation. Smoked salmon for pennies, main courses a couple of pounds.
Main square of local town. Stake. Blindfold. Firing squad.
In a better world…
In fact the tweet is mistaken, and the local newspaper report misleading. One untermensch was imprisoned for 12 years, the other for 10, meaning that, in fact, they will be out in 6 and 5 years respectively.
Odd though. How was the woman “lured” to the locus of the attack, a flat? Are we getting the full story here? I think not.
A little judicious “racism” might save many women and girls in the UK. Fact.
Even leaving aside the crime(s), what use are untermenschen of that type to the UK? They are nothing but a millstone round the collective neck. Useless humanoids. Get rid of them.
As said in relation to other matters, people know in their hearts what will eventually have to happen.
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to @AndrewMarr9 and @LBCNews: #NATO countries, with #UK among the leaders, are getting deeper and deeper into the #Ukraine conflict. This only prolongs it.
Why is the UK run like a 3rd world country? Why can Norway out perform us on every metric that counts? Why are we so poor? Why do we have lowest pensions at highest retirement age? Why are people waiting years to receive health care? What happened to the country I grew up in? 😭
I contacted #jackmonroe & asked if she'd look at 'Nurish' my 'cooking on a budget' page on Instagram #nurishtable she blocked me that told me something must be wrong I'm a trained chef now living on DSP genuinely trying to help others & it seems she is not
I started off, several years ago, thinking that “Jack Monroe” (who changed her name at some point by deed poll from her birth-name of “Melissa Hadjicostas”— she is half-Greek Cypriot) was a generally positive influence, bearing in mind the poverty mainly introduced under the all-misnamed “Conservative”, “Liberal Democrat” and “Labour” System-parties since about 2008.
In the past months, I have seen more and more material from Twitter and elsewhere about how “Jack Monroe” made up or embellished much of her personal biography, while concealing other parts, such as the fact that her grandfather was wealthy, and that her father is still what many might term a rentier (someone who lives parasitically off rental property); apparently, he owns a number of rental properties in the Southend (Essex) area.
I also discovered how, partly thanks to the tweeted and otherwise-expressed support of half-Jew TV cook and scribbler Nigella Lawson, “Jack Monroe’s” number of Patreon donation/purchase adherents (each sending her between £3.50 to £44 per month) grew from about 200 to about 800, a figure which declined after summer 2022 and has now fallen to 623. Still, multiply 623 by any figure between £3.50 and £44. Every month. Taxfree (possibly). My own guesstimate? About £6,000 per month.
Sure enough, I discovered that, the deeper I looked, the more fakery and near-fraud seemed to attach itself to “Jack Monroe”: the unreliable (to say the least) biography or, as people now say, “backstory”; the endless whining and demanding for money; the various tiny violins being played to get people to give to her (e.g. involving her son, who it now turns out does not even live with her most of the time, e.g. around her possibly-invented medical conditions, mainly mental but also physical). Etc.
I also discovered that genuinely-poor people, some of whom had donated monies to her monthly via Patreon, had been refused refunds after she failed to supply the goods and services offered for various levels of Patreon subsidy.
Then there was the threat to sue MP Lee Anderson [Con, Ashfield] for having openly called her a parasite “living off the backs of the poor“. Which she most clearly is.
No legal action has ensued and, after 8-9 months, never will, now.
That last reminded me of another fraud who quite frequently used to threaten me (and many others) with an action in defamation, and some (including Tommy Robinson) with other legal action— Mike Stuchbery, online “antifa” cheerleader, who begs money from people online while fighting a good (actually risible, and laughably derivative, ideologically) pseudo class war from cafes in Germany.
In fact, Stuchbery and one-time “antifa” comrade Roanna Carleton-Taylor (along with a tame Paki-stani solicitor), got about £12,000 out of ~700 mugs in order to fund a legal action against “Tommy Robinson”. No action was ever taken.
Another “comrade” of Stuchbery’s, “Dr.” Louise Raw, recently tried the same gambit, and, in a matter of a week or so, has raised nearly £15,000 in order to, ostensibly, “sue Jeremy Clarkson“. Well, numerous lawyers on Twitter have only just stopped laughing. I wonder what will really happen to the money Louise Raw has bagged?
Imagine being as deluded and dim as that tweeter, Jan Fuscoe, yet another very comfortably-off “Jack Monroe” fan (she was a scribbler and photographer for Time Out magazine and others, and is currently scribbling for the Daily Telegraph about Sardinian holidays etc).
As if the fact that there are worse fraudsters and tricksters around somehow exculpates the behaviour of “Jack Monroe”! Also, how has “Bootstrap Cook”/”Jack Monroe” ever “helped” “people in poverty” anyway? By appearing on a few TV shows (for money)? By selling poverty-play books for £20 a go?
Jan Fuscoe seems to fit the usual “Jack Monroe fan” profile: middle-aged, rather comfortably-off, and almost certainly rather “woke” as well.
In a word, “Jack Monroe” is shameless, the ideal mock-heroic figure for “woke” Britain…(and always ready, in case of anyone criticizing her, with either a contrived “mental health” or illness defence, or with a snarling “I’ll sue you” counter-attack).
I honestly don't care. They shouldn't come in the first place. They illegally break into our country. Then they expect us to pay for their food, accommodation, and now therapy?
No. We are not a charity. They should just be returned to wherever they came from without delay. https://t.co/yuZGraVDnI
The migrant-invaders should be eliminated in the Channel, before they ever reach the UK.
"Non-discrimination laws effectively tie the hands of the indigenous European communities, forbidding them from offering privileges to their existing members while permitting every kind of discrimination among the incoming migrants" The Future of European Civilisation
Tories cause problems then brag about solving🙄 How about not causing problems in 1st place by controlling immigration? Flood alleviation req'd due to building 1000s of houses near Romsey on floodplains. Urban sprawl ruining rural areas nationwide https://t.co/f0zKdk2sw5
— 🇬🇧Goodbye Greenbelt Due to Mass Immigration🇬🇧 (@Ted_Wellread) November 11, 2022
Is this what they mean by levelling up? All of England will be 3rd world🙄 This govnt is worse than the Corbyn nightmare we all thought we'd avoided. I worked hard to buy a decent place to live in a rural area to escape migrant ridden Southampton. No where's safe from them now😡 https://t.co/GPp09mvQs7
— 🇬🇧Goodbye Greenbelt Due to Mass Immigration🇬🇧 (@Ted_Wellread) January 5, 2023
Harrowing story of a groomed white English girl https://t.co/4vgXDakuG4 Watch this 10 min video from the start to the end. It is very upsetting, BUT is very true of how the UK once was & then changed into what it has become today.
EU Parliament corruption scandal gaining momentum as further corruption exposed – "Brussels leadership has effectively stolen from EU member countries for 2 decades" https://t.co/Ewkrm6TrjN#FBPE#Brexitbenefits
My one and only visit to the EU Commission, in 1998, was enough— a nest of shambolic corruption.
This is not compatible with a free and open society.These people are here to destroy us they come disguised as sheep but they are wolves. pic.twitter.com/24OMy5G7nx
As groups, both Jews and Muslims are inevitably hostile to European civilization, and to the future of European humanity.
The same article has this woman complaining that our all-but-open borders was so taxing for her son-in-law that he ended up murdering her daughter. pic.twitter.com/MRPJoGvEeS
Britain is now flooded with similar trash. Does any rational person believe that a better society can be built, or even the present level maintained, when there is a constant increase in the proportion of backward persons and groups within our borders?
Both main System political parties are promoting migration-invasion.
Like this bloke? 👿👿👿BBC News – Police officer Amjad Ditta in group charged with sex offenceshttps://t.co/4ZNIEQXIJd
That idiot tweeter, “Charlotte”, is very typical of the “refugees welcome” and “anti-racist” dimwits around.
Some customs are so absurd and cruel that they should never exist, and if they do, they should be banned forever! Sacrificing an innocent animal that is terribly afraid should never be associated with anything good.
Never mind the downright laughable and dangerous things suggested in Jack Monroe's book, have you tried reading any of it? It's pitifully bad, I'm no author, but I'm darn sure I could at least make a book sound like an adult has written it.
Is that a “poor person” buying a “Jack Monroe” book for once? No, yet again not someone in obvious financial need (a microbiologist and technician, in fact).
Thank you. Don't you think it's time to dissociate yourselves from this rather alarming individual now? Particularly in light of evidence regarding her dishonesty.
— Mad, bad, and angry of Mayfair. (@Vanessa17253550) January 5, 2023
they deserve it. Influencer books, that's what they call them. Stick a picture on the front, they might as well fill them with pig latin because noone is expected to read them. Be safer actually.
We will get by, we always do but it’s a worry. I think that’s why I’m really mad about the whole JM thing. I feel that still people believe we are just Tory trolls or people who are critical of her because of x y or z – I’m critical because the exploitation needs to stop.
— Michelle dw i, dw i’n byw yn Ynys Môn (@michelleHR0803) January 4, 2023
Source: https://t.co/Ii5Yv66dDr And keep in mind this is just from ONE lockdown. Before we did even more. And before anything starts to be squirted into people's arms.
[Wanda Landowska at the keyboard, as Tolstoy looks on; probably at Yasnaya Polyana, though possibly at Tolstoy’s house in the Kropotkinskaya district of Moscow. I myself have been in that latter house, long ago, and the parquet floor was similar]
“Cost of living catastrophe“, but that was written (and tweeted) by Sky News in December 2021, about 3 months before the Russian incursion into Ukraine that (we are now told) is the cause of all our woes…
Mainstream media lies.
Tweets seen
[🔴China’s 64th launch in 2022] At UTC 04:43 Dec 29, Shiyan-10-02 space environment detection, new tech testing satellite was successfully launched by CZ3B rocket at Xichang, Sichuan. It’s also the 458th launch of Long March rocket family. HD: https://t.co/oySxQl6WeEpic.twitter.com/zMAMUFkpaY
…and in the middle of the alien crowd, I see the philosopher Roger Scruton, now deceased. “And then there were none“.
A couple of friends of mine in South London were friendly with Scruton, back in the mid/late 1970s. He would arrive by bicycle, in the manner of Cambridge University.
Then a fairly obscure university college lecturer at Birkbeck College (part of the University of London), though already becoming known and communing with the famous and well-connected (including Margaret Thatcher), Scruton later dropped the couple I knew for fear of being associated with them after the popular Press ran a story about how Scruton of the Salisbury Review etc was associating with “fascists” and “neo-Nazis” etc.
In other words, Scruton put career before friendship.
Having said that, Scruton was a considerable figure, sometimes honoured more in the recently ex-socialist states such as the Czech Republic —where I myself once saw a whole bookshop window of Scruton’s works in Czech— than in the UK.
That display was seen by me in Central Prague in 1999; it could not have happened when I had previously been in that city (1988); very few Western visitors were there then, and the works of Scruton (and many others) were banned.
Scruton was born into modest circumstances and, when later both famous and wealthy (as some might say, “box office“, with his high-selling books in multiple translation, and with several income-streams), he took on some of the traditional habits of the English “upper classes”, such as foxhunting, and living in country houses. He also started to take money from tobacco-lobby interests.
[Scruton’s house —2004-2009— near Sperryville, Virginia, USA]
Scruton (whom I myself never met) strikes me as having been, like many, perhaps most people, a blend of the highminded and tawdry, of the original and the very derivative, of the highly ethical and the morally-suspect.
A hugely-talented man, in any event. One could say, without it being too much of a cliché, “a Renaissance man“.
Perhaps better remembered in his works than in himself.
“Blame and praise alike befall, when a dauntless man’s spirit is black and white mixed, like the magpie’s plumage…”
[Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival]
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Just remembering there is literally a button @BootstrapCook can press on Patreon to make the amount they earn from their patrons public….
Perhaps the (at time of writing) 643 utter “mugs”, each presently donating between £3.50 and £44, and every month, might start to wake up if they saw the total income (from that source alone) of “Jack Monroe”, the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”. Somewhere between a few thousand pounds and tens of thousands, monthly.
I'd love to know which part of "questioning an unlikely story and asking for transparency on fundraising & donations, plus promised refunds to be processed in a timely manner" is criminal as Jack Monroe alleges? https://t.co/9A3zUtZnLS
“Criminal?” My idea of “criminal” is pleading poverty or (when, e.g., Tiffany earrings are noticed by alert readers) near-poverty, in order to induce people to donate thousands of pounds monthly to a private bank account, while never or rarely providing the goods and services offered, and (it is said by many) never having intended to perform; or crowdfunding in order to fund a defamation case, with no real intent to launch such a case, and later (it is alleged by many, at any rate) keeping the donated monies for private purposes.
This will only be clarified if, or when, police and/or trading standards officers and/or various regulators properly investigate the activities of “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”.
No decent meal can be made for either 30p or 11p. This is reaching Monty Python levels of nonsense.
Hi @panmacmillan, can I ask why you have published and are promoting a book containing dangerous advice? Previews of Jack Monroe's Thrifty Kitchen include using a knife & hammer to open a tin can and draining boiling liquid through cloth. Positively harmful suggestions. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/ILWq8Esi5Z
And here goes Catharine herself. Just like most things coming from Russia she belongs into a museum.
Anyway, the remnants of Russian chapter of Odesa are herewith closed for good, as it has been already the case since 1991. #Odesa#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/uo3wdt9BmJ
Without the Russian connection (there since Kievan Rus in the 9thC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27], there would be really nothing of note in Ukraine, and that is exactly what its present Jew-Zionist dictatorship wants; in other words, for there to be nothing in Ukraine that existed before 1991, when this shambolic, corrupt and Jew-Zionist-ruled and exploited republic emerged from the collapse of Sovietism.
A semi-final alumni teams match: Balliol, Oxford v. Exeter, Oxford.
At last, two teams which at least scored about the same as me, not far below as over the past two weeks. Balliol seemed rather better than on their previous appearance (admittedly not hard). Some incredible howlers all the same.
It cannot be denied that this conflict started in 2014, not in 2022.
This wasn't a mistake. This is the same as the Poland incident. The Ukrainians are losing badly and they are desperately trying to drag NATO into the conflict. They want Belarus to go to Ukraine so that NATO can have an excuse to go to Ukraine as well. pic.twitter.com/q0u8UJHWnR
The Zelensky regime in Kiev wants NATO to weigh in on the Kiev-regime side. If that were to happen even more blatantly than is presently the case, a nuclear exchange between NATO (NWO/ZOG) and Russia will be only a matter of time.
Gas in Germany 🇩🇪 has increased from 80 Euro a month to 860 euro a month. Straight from horses mouth. Every one cheering Ukraine hang yr head. Germany once a great country… ruined by leftist socialist green government 🤬 TAKE NOTE AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
We have a new addition today. There are as many as 7 new kittens. They were just thrown out into the cold and frost. The electricity is off. But they are warm and will receive food and treatment. Kindly support us Paypal- https://t.co/rzrJz12GsS#Ukraine#animalrescuepic.twitter.com/ifXlGstekD
I cannot say whether the above is a genuine cause or not; probably it is. In any case, the true cost of war is the suffering of both human beings and their companion animals.
It is bad that Ukraine, whatever the reasons, is a theatre of war. Let us make sure that the rest of Europe is not dragged into a worse, and greater, war.
My latest blog post about Alison Chabloz, to include more about her recent appeal victory, has been slightly delayed for extraneous reasons, but will be published soon.
As I blogged a couple of days ago, the Crown Prosecution Service has surrendered, having now decided not to offer any evidence against Alison at the planned 10 July appeal hearing (which might anyway have resulted in another adjournment) at Derby Crown Court. The matter has now been taken out of the list. Alison has won. She has defeated both the suborned CPS and the malicious “CAA” [“Campaign Against Antisemitism”] Jew-Zionist conspirators (who may now find themselves in trouble for attempting to pervert the course of justice).
More details when my blog post about the persecution of Alison Chabloz by the “CAA” (mainly), and about the general war on free speech in the UK, is published.
David Starkey
More “me-too” “liberal” repression and groupthink: Starkey has been sacked, by any other word, from his several university roles, and dropped by publishers.
This is not only hypocrisy, but a kind of sub-Stalinism. Once the “heretic” or “enemy” is identified by the persecutors, he (or she) is removed from jobs or statuses, denounced by those wanting to curry favour with the powerful, or by brainwashed nobodies etc. In terms of our sick contemporary society, the Twitter mob and the like, egged on by the officially-mandated scribblers and TV talking heads.
Starkey won a scholarship to Cambridge University from Kendal Grammar School, and received a First Class degree from Cambridge at a time when that was unusual, i.e. before degrees (and especially Firsts) had been devalued and made all but meaningless.
Those criticizing Starkey are usually of lesser academic attainments; persons such as the scribbler and talking head Piers Morgan, a product of a comprehensive school followed by Harlow Technical College.
What makes the Starkey persecution slightly remarkable is that, in the past week, an Indian agitator and inciter of hatred towards white people, Priyamvada Gopal, was actually promoted to full professor at Cambridge after saying and tweeting that “white lives don’t matter“, a declaration of war on the British people, on all European people.
— Destiny- The Journey (@mrG_Lincoln) July 3, 2020
I do not agree with everything Starkey says, but I respect his honesty, something in short supply in our increasingly (intellectually-) dishonest society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Starkey
Starkey is not alone, even in the ranks of historians. David Irving was probably the first victim. His very ill-advised libel action against the Jewess and hard-core Zionist, Deborah Lipstadt, brought both the international Jew lobby and “antifascist” “useful idiots” down on his neck. Irving should have shrugged off her insults (remember Oscar Wilde…) and/or taken other action.
After the Lipstadt case, in which she was funded by the international Zionist lobby, Irving’s books were not only withdrawn from sale in bookshops (many are however available via Amazon etc and also on the author’s own website: http://www.fpp.co.uk/), but also many print runs were pulped by the publishers; a number were even burned. The Jews aping the “Nazis” (German National Socialists) once again, and as usual only in the most negative ways.
I link here to Irving’s Wikipedia entry, though it is clear that the Jew element, very strong on Wikipedia (because that way they can mislead millions via tendentious editing) has been unable to conceal its bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving
I have blogged, both in recent days, and years ago, about how the workaholic society should become, not the 1960s sci-fi “society of leisure”, but a “society of measure”. I see now that the general public are thinking about other ways of organizing the work-leisure boundaries. Millard and the People!
In fact, you could keep a 40-hour week and yet reduce the working week in terms of days, by simply having a 10-hour work day, 4 days per week.
Advantages? Less strain on public transport, on roads etc. Less stress on employees, because they would be off-duty 3 days each week (and if Sunday were made to be, once more, a true day of leisure, with shops closed, so much the better). Less cost to employees in terms of train tickets and car fuel etc.
Disadvantages? Not many. Less convenience in shopping, maybe, if all retail employees had the same day off.
Selection of tweets seen
Easily @kengreller. Far from being selfish, you are helping to preserve this person’s job despite the government pointlessly trying to make him dress as a starship trooper. Try to get things in proportion. This is Not The Plague. https://t.co/1CNqrJoRjA
My favourite muzzle wearers are the ones who pull the muzzle down and light a cigarette. If you stick around, you'll see them replace the muzzle once they have finished smoking. The power to create fear, through this virus, is extraordinary. https://t.co/ujhZaw80rQ
Very true; at first, no-one knew anything much about Coronavirus. We were shown “news” reports of Italian towns with no-one moving except elderly couples having their lonely once a day evening walk through shuttered streets. The fear factor was palpable. It was whipped up throughout much of Europe by dictatorial governments, toytown police bullying ordinary citizens for doing completely harmless things, and by a compliant and uninquisitive msm.
Talking of the msm, have many noticed the sheer volume of System propaganda supporting the “Black Lives Matter” campaign? Sky alone has shown ads frequently about it and promoting it. Commercial ads are more subtly pushing home the same message.
Hungary is a good country, from what I have seen. Admittedly only there for about a week, and never saw Budapest itself, but I drove from Romania to the pleasant small city of Szeged (near the Serbian border https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szeged; the Hungary-Serbia frontier is only about a mile from Szeged), spent 3-4 days there, then drove North-West; stayed several days in a special suite at a former Soviet-style “sanatorium” (hotel, basically), overlooking Lake Balaton’s Western end. I swam in the lake, and drank palinka (fruit spirit) at the bar which had a small bust of Lenin on the bar top! Perhaps a kind of joke. This was in 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Balaton
Budapest is probably one of the few cities left that I both have not visited and would like to visit. Others? St. Petersburg (top of the list), maybe Istanbul (I have seen much of Turkey and Turkish Cyprus in visits totalling about 4 months or so, but never Istanbul); maybe Oulu (Finland); maybe Copenhagen; maybe Lugano (Switzerland). Can’t think of many others. Ah, Baden-Baden…
I never met him, and rather disapproved of some —by no means all— of his views (as seen in the newspapers, mainly) and activities (e.g. foxhunting), but he was an important figure in his own field and in terms of socio-political life.
He was, arguably, better known in Central Europe than in the UK. I recall seeing a whole window full of his works, in Czech translation, in a Prague bookshop. That was in 1999, 11 years after I first saw the city (in 1988 it was still under socialist rule).
“Scruton published a rueful article in the Spectator magazine, lamenting the Maoist climate of intolerance sweeping through our institutions. ‘We in Britain are entering a dangerous social condition in which the direct expression of opinions that conflict — or merely seem to conflict — with a narrow set of orthodoxies is instantly punished by a band of self-appointed vigilantes,’ he wrote.” [Daily Mail].
Bravo!
Naturally, those who supported his work in trying to bring greater freedom to the former socialist countries East of the “Iron Curtain” are out in force. Here is a tweet by the Jewish historian, Anne Applebaum:
In the 1980s, Roger Scruton organized money and books for dissidents in Eastern Europe. I was one of the student couriers who helped smuggle them "across the iron curtain." I am still grateful for what Roger did for them, and for me.
Sadly, her support for freedom in socialist Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s was not reflected in her behaviour in blocking me on Twitter a few years ago. I had never tweeted to her, as far as I can recall, so I assume that I was blocked for purely political reasons. Not very “freedom-loving”…Her works about Stalinism are interesting (and a very important resource), though. I myself own a copy of her book, GULAG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag:_A_History
Scruton was at one time friendly with a couple of people I knew in South London. That would have been in the 1970s. He would visit on his bicycle (an Oxbridge affectation which must have been hazardous in South London even then); he was at that time sometimes at Goldsmiths’ College in New Cross and may have taught there on occasion, though his main base was Birkbeck College (University of London) in Bloomsbury.
Scruton apparently enjoyed talking philosophy with the people I knew, but he ditched them and cut off contact after one of them was reported upon by the trash press as being “far right”. He was afraid that the connection might damage his career, which was just starting to take off at the time.
Curious to read that, in 1974-76, when he was 30-32, Scruton read for the Bar, at the Inns of Court School of Law (which I myself attended in 1987-88). He was Called in 1978, at age 34, though he never practised. I wonder why he bothered to become a barrister; because the Bar was a —small-c— “conservative” profession? Maybe because being even nominally a barrister was putting two-fingers up to his modest origins in High Wycombe, and to the father who stopped speaking to him after he won a place at Cambridge? Was that also one reason why he took up foxhunting?
Scruton was certainly interested in money, setting up private companies etc. Again, perhaps a result of financial insecurity in his earlier life.
A mixed picture. Not unflawed, but a substantial figure.
Labour and the Jews
“Charles James, author of a report which has been seen by The Daily Telegraph entitled “General Election Part Two: Why didn’t we win?”, wrote: “Many of us believe that the row about anti-Semitism has been stoked by the government of Israel and its helpers in the UK.”” [Daily Telegraph]
Sometimes it seems to me that English people hate trees. In fact, most do not, but every now and then you see newspaper reports of disputes about them, such as one seen a couple of years ago, where most of the people living in a street of surpassing ugliness somewhere in the North East wanted the only tree in the street chopped down. It was not even very tall or wild. Similarly, the neighbour-disputes about trees. In most cases, the trees are not in any way “dangerous” (an idee fixe in England— in, say, Germany, trees often grow close to houses, as indeed is the case in, say, Russia).
I attribute part of the blame to the “Thatcher’s children” types, the kind of pleb-Cons who, especially in certain kinds of neighbourhood, spend much time on “Do It Yourself” repairs and “improvements”, when not washing and valeting their prized cars. God forbid that their little gardens (probably tarmacked or gravelled in front and laid to lawn in back, with statutory tiny and pointless “water feature” as recommended by some TV “landscape” guru) should have hedges or trees that might even, at times, look slightly “untidy”.
Times such as this week, when high winds are expected, tend to bring out the anti-tree idiots, afraid that trees that have stood for decades or even centuries will be uprooted.
I think that it was Chekhov who wrote that “for some people, a tree is sacred”. Amen.
The defendants in this case are “travellers” of some sort. I have little time for Priti Patel, but if she can screw down on such horrible riff-raff I shall applaud her.
Labour leadership
So Clive Lewis is out of the race before it even started. I cannot think why…(well, maybe I can…). Various factors.
Lewis, like Obama, is supposedly “black” by self-description, despite being, in reality, “mixed-race”, or in the language of the people, “a half-caste”:
Clive Lewis rejecting the label 'non-white' on #r4today: "I, like billions of black people across the world, don't like to define myself by what I'm not, I'm actually black"
I cannot imagine what degree of narcissism and low self-awareness Clive Lewis must have, to even imagine that he might be a suitable Labour leader and potential Prime Minister. Incredible.
À la recherche du temps perdu
I happened to see on a map the tiny street off the Rue de Rivoli where I stayed in a small hotel with my first wife in, I think, 1990: la Rue des Mauvais Garcons (Street of Bad Boys). No doubt my harsher critics will think that an apt street for me!
I see that the Hotel Rivoli, decent but very basic, is only £95 equivalent per night even now, despite its good and central location (our room had a balcony and overlooked the Rue de Rivoli; it was one of the corner rooms shown in the photo below). I think that they charged £18 or so in the money of 30 years ago.
Harry and the Royal Mulatta— latest
“TORMENTED Prince Harry has been left “heartbroken” after cutting ties with the royals – but Meghan Markle has warned: “It’s not working for me” [The Sun “newspaper”].
The Mulatta has the Southern Californian self-centredness. Actually, the Queen has only one thing in common with MM beyond basic biology— she prefers her dogs to her offspring!
Look at this!
For those of you who are still unsure about Meghan Markle This is how she operates…
Good grief! Hard to believe. Harry is to the Royal Mulatta what “Johnny” was to Fanny Cradock!
“Cradock…mixed furious disdain with extreme tenderness towards her on- and off-screen partner, Johnnie, who became her third husband. Johnnie…was the TV ‘stooge’ who stood behind the chef, obeying her instructions and drinking wine while she cooked on her shows.” [The Guardian]
A first for my blog: a hit from Antarctica! Someone in a frozen scientific research base? A penguin? Descendants of fugitives from the Reich, brought to Antarctica by submarine in 1945 and now living in a secret centre hundreds of feet below the surface?
Another French “blast from the past”
Les Rivieres Pourpres, a good film but one which would have been far better had half of the director’s cut not ended up being binned.
Labour Party
Looking at the 5 runners in the race, one can only shake one’s head. I cannot see many voters (let alone floating or swing voters) being impressed.
TV ads and soaps as propaganda
Looks like someone needs to read my blog!
I want to know why on practicality every British TV advert we have a Mixed race family ? What is all this propaganda about ITV Channel 4 Channel 5. This is pure anti whiteism against the British population and insults intelligence. This is NOT a racist tweet just a question?
Almost always a black man white woman. Ethnic minorities comprise 15% of the population to watch TV you would believe it was 50% . There is an agenda here. Nothing in these expensive commercials is by chance. Advertising agencies are owned by a different religious group to us
An opinion poll released this evening shows that Labour’s likely share of the popular vote has declined 4 points even since the General Election. Not exactly a shock.
Labour should have stood up to the Jewish/Zionists (the “Israel lobby”) and hit back hard on issues such as the way British people are tricked, bamboozled and exploited. Never give the lobby an inch. Oh, and stop shedding fake tears over the hugely overblown “holocaust” farrago. Apart from anything else, the Second World War (in which about 80 million died, about a tenth of whom were German) ended 75 years ago!
The opinion poll indicates that 16% of voters do not favour any System party.
Westminster voting intention:
CON: 44% (-1) LAB: 29% (-4) LDEM: 11% (-1)
via @BMGResearch, 08 – 10 Jan Chgs. w/ GE2019, GB result
Ian Robert Millard 