“Demands for answers were mounting on Sunday as to how an armed man was able to get into position on a roof overlooking a rally and fire shots at Donald Trump – the 2024 presumptive Republican nominee – despite federal and local law enforcement presence and witnesses reportedly alerting police.
Trump was bleeding from his right ear and later described a bullet whizzing by while he was speaking at the rally. An attendee was killed and Secret Service agents then shot dead the suspect, with eyewitness reports that someone outside the rally had told police they’d seen the armed suspect heading to the roof but it appeared that officers did not respond.
“How was it that someone could get [in position] on a roof … with a weapon and try to assassinate [Trump]?” Turner told CNN’s State of the Union show on Sunday morning, adding: “The fact that people knew there was a man with a rifle and were trying to get the police’s attention is a cause for concern.”
1. US Deep State seeking to prevent NATO surrender in Russia-Ukraine War.
2. Israeli Intelligence seeking to replace Trump with a Republican more willing to support Gaza/West Bank Annexation and expansion of the war into Lebanon and Iran.
“What we also know is that this shocking event is about much more than the shooter and the bullet. The race for the White House, which in recent weeks has seen Donald Trump pull comfortably ahead in the polls, was already turning deadly. On a private phone call with donors last week, Joe Biden reportedly said, “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye”. Only two weeks ago he described Trump as “a genuine threat to this nation”. And these were only the latest in a long series of quasi-violent threats that came from the ‘liberal’ left of American politics, not the right.
There was Robert de Niro saying he’d like to punch Trump “in the face”. There was comedienne Kathy Griffin who posed with a graphic model of Trump’s severed head. There was Mickey Rourke who said he’d hit Trump with a “left hook from hell”. On and on it goes. Anthony Bourdain, Snoop Dogg, George Lopez, Pearl Jam, Madonna, Johnny Depp, Rosie O’Donnell. These are just some of the many left-leaning celebrities who have threatened or wished violence upon Trump.“
Riddle me this: If supporting Israel offers so many strategic benefits for the West, why does AIPAC spend millions to ensure pro-Israel politicians are in our government? Wouldn’t our deep state government naturally support Israel without such influence? pic.twitter.com/FqnAMQ6hmV
latest data from ONS released today. The piece looks at forecast population growth between now and the year 2036 based on similar government data. Subscribers are consistently ahead of media debate on these issues.
The real UK population is already somewhere between 65M and 70M. Wake up.
Whilst David Lammy proudly stands with the regime dropping bombs and killing entire families. Gosh, why can’t we see ourselves in these poor children? As much as I hate sharing these graphic photos, what is it going to take for this to end? https://t.co/b2SjzlIGOt
It is bad enough when families like that get caught up in a “normal” war, but what we see in Gaza is a relentless and largely one-sided attack by one side (which alone has planes, real missiles, tanks, all sorts of advanced weaponry etc) upon an almost defenceless population. A kind of savage bullying of a civilian population by a heartless and ideologically-harsh tribe.
As for thick-as-two-short-planks Lammy, were he not (for his own benefit) willing to say more or less what the UK Israel lobby wants him to say, he would not be in the (Labour Friends of Israel) Starmer-Labour government, let alone Cabinet.
And I really don't believe for a second that Starmer personally believes in the 2 child cap. It's not about his own values, it's about winning over centrist voters. Corbyn got more votes but all in areas Labour already held so useless.
The last tweet there by tweeter “@alexphaea” is typical of kneejerk Labourites, i.e. “all that matters is having a Labour-label government, even if it is almost indistinguishable in policy terms (or results) from a Conservative-label one“…
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 15, 2024
One of the latest statements by Senator J.D. Vance, who today became a candidate for US Vice President in conjunction with Donald Trump, about the conflict in Ukraine :
" In particular, on the issue of Ukraine, everyone with a brain knows that this will end in negotiations…… pic.twitter.com/zK1Ml60fZn
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 15, 2024
“One of the latest statements by Senator J.D. Vance, who today became a candidate for US Vice President in conjunction with Donald Trump, about the conflict in Ukraine :
“In particular, on the issue of Ukraine, everyone with a brain knows that this will end in negotiations… Ukraine is functionally destroyed as a country… […] Our policy towards Ukraine is unsustainable. The average age of a soldier in their army is 43 years old – No one older than me can articulate what $61 billion can achieve, so we need to seek a negotiated end to the war.“
If Trump can get re-elected, and take away Zelensky’s ricebowl in all senses, the war can finish, either by negotiation in a few months, or via Russian victory east of the Dnieper in a few weeks.
Sadly, though, all mainstream American politicians are poisoned, at an early stage in their careers, by the Israel lobby:
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 15, 2024
Still, politics is the art of the possible. There are no social national candidates of any weight standing in those American elections.
Late thought
England in 2024, a “nation” which pretends to be in mourning because the “England” football team, most of whom are not really English anyway, fail to win a football competition somewhere or other.
England in 2024, a “nation” consisting of people more interested in that football result than in the fact that between half a million and a million migrant-invaders every single year are invading this country.
After Trump’s courageous immediate response to the attempted assassination, his stock among the American voters must surely rise.
I just landed and missed an assignation attempt. Holy shit. What a bad ass reaction from Trump. The election is over. He's the next president. The Dems should give up. They can't beat him now. pic.twitter.com/omtbue191d
This must surely seal the Presidential race for Trump, even if the Democrats replace Biden with someone compos mentis.
Having said that, were Biden to be replaced by someone such as Michelle Obama, popular —God knows why— among the non-whites who are now the majority of the American population, it is possible that Trump might lose, I suppose, but that really might see an actual civil war develop.
Have we just seen and heard, in those popping shots at the Trump rally, the first shots of the second American Civil War, akin to the shot fired at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina in 1861, or even that fired by the cruiser Aurora in 1917?
Is anything Liz Truss may think even worth reporting? Her rise to prominence, then —briefly— power came as a result of peculiar and particular political circumstances; and, after all, she only became an MP in the first place on her back.
Were her crazy idea about pension age ever to be implemented, it would cause an electoral, and perhaps actual, rebellion that would make the rise of Reform UK look like the Teddy Bears’ Picnic.
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David Lammy is quite simply not up to the job. Foreign Secretary is one of the great offices of state. It is vital that all language used is accurate, moderate, and coherent.
— Juanita Fogarty ✝️👑🇺🇦 (@wheatnotincl) July 14, 2024
Thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire” Lammy is not only a barrister and a member of Lincoln’s Inn (as I was from 1986 until my wrongful and unlawful disbarment in 2016, when I was automatically expelled) but I think now even a Bencher there. He is welcome there; I am not. Could one imagine a more absurd example of where our society has gone wrong?
As Matt Goodwin has predicted, the Starmer-Labour government will crash and burn very quickly. It has no real mandate anyway, despite its Commons majority. Only 33.7% of the popular vote. People wanted rid of the fake “Conservatives”, that’s all. Few really wanted Starmer-Labour. Don’t forget that Sunak’s “Conservatives” also had a large Commons majority.
How is it that a Zionist Jew such as Aaronovitch can post that, and nothing happens, but a comment or cartoon about Jewish behaviour, allegedly posted by an English blogger, causes the suborned UK police and/or CPS to go mad?
Oh…
I refer readers to the posts re. my free speech trial of 2023.
After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, like after Robert Fico in Slovakia, a not insignificant chunk of the legacy media class has become a joke. Do journalists see this? Do they understand how they have eroded public trust? Why don't they ever talk about it? pic.twitter.com/GugzeNQGZY
Compare and contrast Donald Trump's strength and courage after an assassination attempt to Joe Biden's fumbling and bumbling performance as president. That's what millions of Americans will be doing right now.
Of course, both Biden and Trump kow-tow to the Israel lobby, but at least Trump would or will avoid war with Russia and, I hope, take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.
MOST READ #2 this week. The realignment is OVER. 10 KEY messages from the 2024 electionhttps://t.co/hjoHoqJtxM
The Labour hegemony in the younger age-groups (highest in the 25-34 age-group— 46%) will not last. The wider 18-44 group —where Labour support was, at GE 2024, over 40%— will soon defect or fall away when Labour fails to improve the housing crisis, or improve the poor deal renters get in the UK, among other issues.
Farage
I see that the little world of UK Twitter/X is going mad because Farage is going to visit Trump. According to those Twitter-twits, Farage is neglecting his duties as MP and, in particular, neglecting the constituents of Clacton by briefly going to the USA. They obviously have no idea that a great many MPs either do nothing at all for their (notional) constituents, or send pro-forma letters back to them, explaining why they can do little or nothing. There are exceptions, but those are exceptions to the general rule of uselessness.
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who recently survived an assassination attempt, about the attack on Trump:
"The script is like a copy. Trump's political opponents are trying to shut him down, and when they fail they just incite society until some poor guy takes up arms." pic.twitter.com/uzWfigmq81
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
I think so. Of course, it is a gamble, but one at reasonable odds.
Trump announced that he will go as planned to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee pic.twitter.com/i27MYlJk0M
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Meanwhile, poor old Biden has decided to cancel his engagement tomorrow in Texas…
American culture has begun to bring the topic of the assassination attempt on Trump to the masses pic.twitter.com/jeTX1ejMTM
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Trump intends to raise $1 million for the family of the slain firefighter Donald Trump's organizational team has launched a "GoFundMe " campaign that will serve to collect donations to support the victims of the shooting in Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/qFd4nb0mIl
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Russia and the USA are in a phase of deep confrontation, for now there are no preconditions for getting out of it, said Dmitry Peskov. " One day, that time will come ," said Peskov, adding that more and more countries in the world do not want to choose between the West and… pic.twitter.com/6AGUBdIyQ4
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 14, 2024
#Volgarev: The countries to "West of Vienna" also have alarming trends and long-standing systemic problems. While their representatives have been busy for many years imposing narratives on others and ignoring problems "at home" pic.twitter.com/IY4GKzJqyM
Back in the mid-1980s, I sometimes enjoyed Spitting Image [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image]. The sort of real cutting satire that would simply not be allowed today, much of it. In any case, with the sort of events we now see (eg Biden’s funny but also sad descent into the fog), any similar show today would have to fight hard to compete with what is actually happening in front of our eyes.
True, Reagan was not the most-obviously intelligent world leader, but the satirical treatment of him was deliberately “over the top”; whatever his flaws, he was not in the grip of a dementia-related condition plainly visible whenever he spoke in public.
I have not seen the more recently remade Spitting Image but I doubt that it pokes fun at the kind of non-political targets the 1980s original did, e.g. black “rap” performers. I admit that I am guessing, though. The remake is not broadcast on mainstream TV.
Zelenskyy Calls on NATO Allies to Remove Restrictions on Strikes Into Russiahttps://t.co/DikGEKi0oX
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The regime of that evil little bastard has only one main chance— to drag NATO into the war. That might mean a slide into a nuclear confrontation before very long.
If the Kiev regime starts to attack Russian cities far from the front line, the response might be that Ukrainian cities in the western part of Ukraine, west of the Dnieper, might be attacked and even destroyed.
So far, Russia has not launched all-out attack on Kiev, partly because of its role in Russian history, but if major Russian cities start to be bombarded, that may change.
I predicted, a couple of years ago, on the blog, that Russia would start to degrade the electrical production and distribution network across Ukraine. That is now being intensified, and is a far more intelligent way of waging war than the more brutal and harsh —and less effective— choice of attacking directly the homes and neighbourhoods of the Ukrainian civilians.
If the Kiev regime starts to badly damage Russian cities away from the front line —especially Moscow, Petersburg and surrounding territories— the Russian response could be devastating enough to bring NATO into the war on some pretext such as Poland suffering damage. Were that to happen, all of us would be but a step away from a Russia-NATO war, which is being pushed by secret circles within the West. Such a war, which would quite likely go nuclear within weeks, would change Europe and the world forever.
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If your landlord lets a bunch of stray dogs into your apartment when you're at work do you blame the dogs or the landlord?
Incredible, when you think of the historical hardships of the Irish people. Now, unwanted non-European migrant-invaders demand this, that, and the other…
The Conservative Party needs a bold offering to make it easier to start and raise a family.@NBC789 outlines our proposal below 👇 pic.twitter.com/GnS7API2PR
Starmer-Labour has surprised even me by its evident ineptitude. We are only one week into what looks like being a disastrous 5 years.
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I do not follow football at all, but it seems to me that both domestic and international matches are now, in effect, a situation where people put “national” or team labels on a group of players and say to each other: “my blacks can beat your blacks“.
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What is going on??
Astonishing how quickly Patrick Vallance is pontificating on all this
attacks Brexit – doesn’t rule out Free Movement as part of a rapprochement with the EU – argues that liberalisation of visa rules is important
Another example of the undemocratic and quasi-dictatorial nature of the Starmer-Labour government. 411 MPs from whom to choose, yet Starmer is appointing ministers at will from outside the Commons, elevating them to the Lords first.
Must admit I certainly worry for my kids. The future does not look that great given Labours decisions over the last week.
I was just looking at Twitter/X, which is alive today with Twitter-twits attacking Reform UK and, particularly, belittling Reform for, as it were, pretending to be a serious political party when it “only” has 5 MPs.
As recently as June 2024, the LibDems only had 11 MPs, and had only 8 from 2015 until 2017.
As for the SNP, from its foundation in the early 1930s and until 1970, about 37 years (!), the SNP had no MPs at all; in 1970, the SNP managed to have elected 1 MP. The MP-cadre of the SNP then varied from 2 to (1974 to 1979) 11 MPs in the years 1974 to 2015, but mostly stuck at 2 or 3 MPs until 1997, when the SNP bloc increased its numbers, this time to 6 MPs. When the FPTP tipping-point was reached in 2015, the SNP mushroomed from 6 MPs to 56 (out of 59 Scottish MPs) overnight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.
Apart from those comparisons, the Twitter-twits might like to consider what this blog has been saying for the past week, as have some others (though not enough) even in the msm: Labour did not win by some kind of popular “landslide”, but only in terms of seats conferred by a totally unfit-for-purpose electoral system.
As noted on the blog in past days, at GE 2024 the Conservative Party only got (just over) 1.5x the number/percentage of votes of Reform UK, and even Labour only got (below) 2.5x the Reform UK vote-share.
As put on the blog the other day, out of every 20 eligible voters, only 12 even voted.
In very rough terms, out of that eligible 20 voters, 8 voters abstained, 4 voters voted Lab, 3 voters voted Con, 2 voters voted Reform, 2 voters voted LibDem, and 1 voter voted Green.
Not exactly, and “other parties were available”, but 90.29% of UK voters voted for one of those 5 parties. In England specifically, about 97% of voters voted Lab, Con, Reform, LibDem or Green.
The Twitter-Twits tweeting about Reform UK are mostly Labour supporters who belittle Reform because only 2 out of every 12 voters who voted voted for it, yet only 4 out of 12 (4 out of 20 if you count the abstainers) voted Labour.
I happened to notice one particular Twitter/X account, one “@RobBaron10”, who today (as of 1430) has already managed to put out about 29 Twitter/X “replies”, almost all angrily insulting, and all or almost all completely brainless. I have to say that I am loath to give much credence to someone whose Twitter/X profile says “Retired lecturer in philosophy trying to live a low-impact lifestyle. Despises the far-right and social injustice. Responds in the tone responded to.” Especially when said “retired lecturer in philosophy” thinks that “toe the line” is spelled “tow the line“…
More seriously, if Starmer-Labour MPs and supporters think that the absurd result of GE 2024 gives Starmer the right to impose a “woke”, and also Israel-lobby, tyranny on the people of the UK, he and they are very much mistaken.
Remember those figures— only 4 out of 12 who voted (<34%) voted Labour; only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters (~20%) voted Labour.
American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed… pic.twitter.com/dJtIeBBYuW
— AZ 🇺🇸 PATRIOT • Steve Emery (@SteveEmery0003) July 12, 2024
“American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed with the illegal covert bio weapons laboratory facility’s doing gain of function. Ukraine is the most corruption country in Europe, a money laundering hub, a child trafficking hub and a live organ black market dealing hub. Fuck Ukraine and punk ass Zelensky!“
In which Dido Harding reveals her confusion of public with ‘customer’ service. Test and Trace belongs in the same pile as “Tesco and Sainsbury’s” and “buying your broadband from Talk Talk” and they’ve all, she hopes, given her “a little bit of wisdom”. 😂 https://t.co/iLcUjG4luf
We now have a Labour government. Please can they be ‘Labour’ & renationalise our water ASAP Privatising water was another Tory disaster. #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas
Also most railways, most electricity, and most other energy production and distribution.
#JustChangeItBackToHowItWas when you could tell someone they are wrong and they could tell you to fuck off. Then go about your day with no offense currency and hounding out of jobs
— Why is everyone insane? (@Joyfulkumquat) July 12, 2024
…and no professional pretend-“offended” nuisances, such as the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal.
Every woke historical drama made now seems to be a ‘reinvention’ of history, in putting minorities and women in roles that wouldn’t have been possible in those days and scrapping any racism and sexism that would have existed back then. Rubbish. #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas
Washington is putting pressure on the new UK government to continue challenging the ICC decision in favor of Israel
The previous Tory government filed a request to challenge the ICC's jurisdiction to try Netanyahu and his gang for war crimes in Gaza pic.twitter.com/5ikwLKmbHl
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
🇮🇱 Haaretz : Former Prime Minister Exud Olmert says Israel will eventually face arrest warrants and prosecution for crimes against Palestinians cev on the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/Wi3o5i3b0V
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The main square of the city of Bani Suheila, the southern part of the Gaza Strip, before and after Israeli aggression. pic.twitter.com/lqw49OKwVn
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
Mossad director advocates continued attacks on Gaza after prisoner exchange
Increased attacks on Gaza have had a 'positive impact' on prisoner exchange talks – David Barnea pic.twitter.com/eATbzeaTv0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
That visage puts me in mind of some kind of lizard.
A rose forged from the steel of a Western missile launched on Donetsk was delivered to the State Department for the former US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, said the deputy leader of the DNR Jan Gagin.
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
“Along with the “gift”, he also sent an accompanying written appeal, in which he called on American politicians to stop supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with weapons and money in order to stop the bloodshed and the escalation of the conflict.“
Putin called the West’s big mistake the lack of reaction to direct strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant:
“This is their big mistake, we will remember this again, we will talk about this more than once.” pic.twitter.com/qPtzdxCf0H
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
🌋 Video from the crater of Mount Etna Voragin, which has been erupting for more than a week pic.twitter.com/vvYwOf0Xqt
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
It's nearly that time of year again! And it’s certainly raining in Winchester at the moment ☔️ Tradition upholds that if it rains upon this bridge – St Swithun's bridge in Winchester city centre – on Monday 15 July, it will continue for forty days. #StSwithunsDay 🧵 pic.twitter.com/f5zvsdzTAH
— Winchester City Council (@WinchesterCity) July 9, 2024
At present, the forecast for Winchester on St. Swithun’s Day (next Monday) is…wet.
What an incredible waste of the British people’s tax monies, thrown at the brutal and shambolic regime of the Jewish dictator Zelensky. Meanwhile Britain’s public services are collapsing.
Fake Labour is already a failure as a government.
Crimea has been Russian for 200 years as shown by the continuation of the presence of their navy. And zelensky was bombing that region of Ukraine for 5 years before putin entered
"The knowledge that at least some Conservative ministers opposed the woke agenda meant radical activists in the institutions could not fully let rip. But that leash came off when Labour won on July 4" – guest essay by leading scholar of wokeism @epkaufmhttps://t.co/zBe2Fqilc1
“Ultimately, this means that defending our truth-based order, free speech and national identity is considered undignified while sacrificing these values in the name of ‘equal outcomes’ and ‘emotional safety’ is not.
Of course, Labour is also proposing innocent-sounding legislation on hate speech and racial equality which will further supercharge this woke cultural socialism, shutting down offensive speech while pressuring organizations to discriminate against whites and males to achieve equal outcomes for identity groups.
Will Britain wake up in time to prevent…erosion of our long traditions of free speech, free expression, objective truth, equal treatment and due process? Will future generations be taught to hate the British past and the white men who played an outsized role in creating our national community?
At best, I think we have one or two decades to reverse the march of wokeism before today’s Zoomers and Millennials, who prioritise ‘emotional safety’ over free speech, become the median voter and the country reaches a point of no return.”
[from a guest essay, published on Matt Goodwin’s blog].
There are of course other ways to resist tyranny than via the so-called “Parliamentary road”.
Virtue signalling Net Zero nonsense that will cost us jobs, revenue, exports, growth and energy security and do nothing to lower average global temperature. #NetZeroReferendum Ed Miliband orders immediate ban on new drilling in North Sea https://t.co/Els1iHavqb
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 10, 2024
I am sure Jake Wallis Simons, Robbie Gibb, Pollard, Harpin, the BoDoSBJ are all ensuring the person responsible for publishing that article feels their wrath, professionally and reputationally.
It will be recalled by older British readers that, in the Dikko case of 1984, an Israeli Jew doctor was directly involved in the MOSSAD operation to kidnap a former Nigerian government minister:
“The Dikko affair was a joint Nigerian–Israeli attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko, a former Nigerian government minister living in the United Kingdom, in 1984, and secretly transport him back to Nigeria in a diplomatic bag. The kidnapping took place, but the transportation thereof was unsuccessful.
Mossad sources across Europe failed to locate Dikko. However, Mossad Director-General Nahum Admoni decided that Dikko was probably in London, which had become a haven for Nigerian exiles critical of the new regime.
Mossad field officers (katsas), accompanied by Nigerian security service agents led by ex-Nigerian Army Major Mohammed Yusufu, traveled to London. The Nigerian team rented an apartment on Cromwell Road and posed as refugees from the new regime. The Mossad agents rented rooms in hotels catering to tourists from Africa, and posed as anti-apartheid activists.
Working separately, the two teams moved among the Nigerian expat community in London, gradually narrowing their search to West London, to the area around Hyde Park, where many wealthy Nigerian exiles lived. They combed the electoral registers freely available in the area’s town halls, but found no trace of Dikko.
On 30 June 1984, a Mossad agent driving down Queensway, in Bayswater, spotted Dikko. He parked his car and then tailed Dikko on foot to his house in Porchester Terrace. Admoni was immediately informed, and ordered surveillance on the house. From then on, the house was constantly watched, while the Nigerians, using their London high commission as a base, prepared a kidnapping operation.
Meanwhile, Mossad recruited Levi-Arie Shapiro, an Israeli doctor who was a consultant anesthetist and director of the intensive care unit at HaSharon Hospital. He was to fly to London and participate in the operation. Shapiro’s job would be to drug Dikko, and insert an endotracheal tube to keep him from choking on his own vomit while being transported in a crate.”
Zelensky: Ukraine cannot equip 14 brigades due to lack of weapons
" We have brigades without weapons, we have 14 brigades that do not have enough weapons. One brigade has from 1,000 to 8,000 people, and the main source of weapons for the Ukrainian forces is Western supplies ,"… pic.twitter.com/wIjrY2zSzv
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 4, 2024
Whether it happens this summer or next, sooner or later the Russian “Stavka” will order a general advance across Eastern Ukraine. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.
#ToriesIntoThird Stephen Smith was found 'fit for work' by the Tory DWP. He appealed from his hospital bed but died before the result was known. One of thousands. Don't let them get away with it. pic.twitter.com/wsScXd1WGM
The Labour Party 1997-2010 created the system that resulted in this, the Conservative Party 2010-2015 made such events more common, and the Liberal Democrats enabled the Conservative Party from 2010-2015.
— alessandra rizzo (@alessandrarizzo) July 4, 2024
If so, rather disappointing for me. I wanted the Conservative Party to be all but wiped out, primarily. 130 MPs will mean that it can still present itself as a potentially viable party of government, as it did after 1997. Very disappointing and irritating.
That means that the “2-3 main parties” scam rolls on, at least until 2029.
For social nationalism, there is no “Parliamentary road”…
Assuming that the exit poll is accurate, this is the triumph of the unmeritorious. Unmerited “elected” dictatorship for Labour. Unmerited success for the LibDems, getting 61 seats off little more than Ed Davey clowning and falling off sailboards etc. The “dustbin” party… Also, the unmerited survival of the Conservative Party, even if only as a rump party of ~131 MPs, but still enough to be the official Opposition.
The SNP, reduced to ~10 MPs at Westminster, is pretty much a dead duck as a party of Scottish government in the future, as is, now, any faux-“Independence” for Scotland.
As for Reform UK, I think that ~13 MPs constitute as good a result as they realistically could have expected. For the past 9 years, the LibDems have had fewer MPs: 8 in 2015, 12 in 2017, and 11 in 2019, yet look at them now— 61 MPs predicted. Reform UK could be there, or beyond there, in 2029. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)#General_elections.
The air force and air defense forces of Belarus and the Russian Federation are put on high combat readiness due to the activation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Missile systems "Polonaise" and "Iskander" were brought into position, President of Belarus Lukashenko pic.twitter.com/3ZWzRUdAlA
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
🇻🇳 Footage from a Vietnamese police training to destroy terrorists and rescue hostages in a building pic.twitter.com/RrOcl7ICT6
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
Former economic adviser to Israel's chief of staff, Ram Aminah, said: "Israeli society does not understand the extent of Hezbollah's power" because it has a large stockpile of missiles, he added.
Hezbollah is considered one of the five superpowers along with the United States,… pic.twitter.com/udIWpIVVxF
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
“Former economic adviser to Israel’s chief of staff, Ram Aminah, said: “Israeli society does not understand the extent of Hezbollah’s power” because it has a large stockpile of missiles, he added. Hezbollah is considered one of the five superpowers along with the United States, China, Russia and Germany.“
Interesting and unexpected. All the same, Hezbollah is not part of the nuclear club: no Trident, no French force de frappe…
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 3, 2024
When they are given power…
The Kiev junta refused to compromise with Moscow:
Ukraine is not ready to compromise with Russia and give up any territory in order to end the conflict – Ermak. pic.twitter.com/Fq9IfoRDi9
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 3, 2024
“He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword” [Matthew 26:52]
Extraordinary- Sam Coates saying one member of the govt worried he might win, he just wants to lose 😆 Survation's latest poll puts Tories at just 64 seats. But we need to VOTE pic.twitter.com/eWnPFSqny4
Wonder what that idiot-tweeter will say when real social-nationalism arrives…
Have you any idea how shite the UK is to live in? Have you any idea how long you need to wait for a check up, a hospital bed, a dentist etc? Have you seen the slums and filth being created through lack funding? And you want more of the fucking same???
Incidentally, that Britain Elects poll result, if it is right, would mean a House of Commons with 469 Labour MPs (overall majority 288), 75 LibDems, 56 Con MPs, 15 SNP, 9 Reform UK, 3 Green (etc). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
Many will settle for a 20k salary so they avoid paying tax
My view is that it would be better to raise the threshold to at least the £20,000 level, but increase the tax burden of VAT (overall). True, that would hit poorer people disproportionately, but at the same time would put the choice into their hands, in fact into the hands of all consumers. Basic purchases, such as food, or basic foodstuffs, could be charged out at a lower rate or rates, or zero-rated.
Government needs tax monies in order to fund the functions of government.
"The British Conservative party will leave Downing Street after 14 years and 5 incompetent prime ministers who have left Britain poorer and weaker. More than at any time in modern history, Britain has lost the respect of the world", @FrancisGhiles 🔗https://t.co/a2FDKtxJ0cpic.twitter.com/4fEYy8suc3
— CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) (@CidobBarcelona) July 3, 2024
FINAL poll of campaign
Labour 36% Reform 20% Conservatives 16% Lib Dems 10% Greens 9% SNP 4%
That poll, by my use of Electoral Calculus, would result in a House of Commons with 454 Labour MPs (overall majority 258), 74 LibDems, 46 Cons, 34 Reform UK, 15 SNP, 4 Green (etc).
That People Polling opinion poll comes very close to my own (I hope, educated) guess about what might be the result of tomorrow’s General Election. Labour as “elected” (by default) dictatorship, LibDems the official but completely toothless Opposition (again only by default), and Reform UK in a good position to capitalize on what will soon be Labour’s total let-down as a government. Oh, and the SNP put back in its box, probably permanently.
As for the Conservative Party, if not totally wiped out on the day, mortally wounded.
I also tend to agree, as I have been blogging recently. “Shy Reform UK voters”, unwilling to share their tendency with pollsters, may add up to something significant, if they vote at all.
That means a House of Commons with 472 Labour MPs (overall majority 294), LibDems 69, Cons 63, SNP 15, Reform 6, Greens 3 (etc).
Once again, LibDems as official Opposition. About half the polls are predicting that the LibDems will get more MPs than the Cons. I imagine that large donors to the Conservative Party will close their pocketbooks soon. A party not in government and not even the main opposition party has little influence.
1700 hrs now. 17 hours before the polls open for real.
BREAKING – final YouGov polling has Reform on 36% in Great Yarmouth, Labour on 29%. The Tories CANNOT win here. If you want to keep Labour out, then voting Reform tomorrow is the only way. pic.twitter.com/MDwe0OsKdW
This is Frank and he has had a coffee stand at the top of the steps at Bethnal Green tube for as long as I can remember.
When the new restaurant/coffee shop next door opened along with another high street outlet opening across the street, Frank suddenly found that his license… pic.twitter.com/3bgeCMvuxP
“This is Frank and he has had a coffee stand at the top of the steps at Bethnal Green tube for as long as I can remember.
When the new restaurant/coffee shop next door opened along with another high street outlet opening across the street, Frank suddenly found that his license from the council had been revoked and he was chucked off his stand. I believe it was to make way for these new shops to take his regular custom. They didn’t need him in the way of gaining maximum profit… so Frank was gone.
Well the locals were having none of it and a petition started demanding his return. How dare they do this to him. How dare these people smash his business and leave him with nothing.
After a lot of pressure the council backed down and Frank had his licence and pitch returned to him but sadly by that time Frank had sold his equipment to feed his family and try to survive. So the good people of Bethnal Green started crowdfunding and here’s the result… Frank back in business on his old pitch with brand new equipment and even a little hut now to shelter him from the rain… Brilliant!!
He is truly the happiest man in East London and it’s wonderful to see. It really does show that if we all stick together, stand up to them and just say no… the little guy can win. If you’re in Bethnal Green come and have a coffee with this lovely man.“
A nice story, and an illustration on a small scale of what society could be.
Not an area I know (have been there a couple of times, 30-40 years ago), but if I am ever there, admittedly highly unlikely, I’ll take that coffee.
“A man has been convicted of strangling his wife while her online boyfriend was on a video link, and throwing her body hidden in a suitcase into a tributary of the River Thames.
Aminan Rahman, 46, was found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey of murdering Suma Begum, 24, in a flat in east London on the night of 29 April last year.
The killing was witnessed by Begum’s two children, aged four months and two years, and her online boyfriend via a video call from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he was living.“
[The Guardian]
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Nigel Farage and Reform's average vote share in the final polls is now up to 17.3% — from 11% at the start of the campaign & 15% last week. Most polls suggest a strong end to the campaign for Farage & Co … https://t.co/O3wB4eQNON
‘He was the guy who liberalised immigration. He was the guy who lost control of the borders. He’s the guy who put mass migration on steroids.’@GoodwinMJ rips into Boris Johnson, saying his political influence has almost entirely diminished following his time in office. pic.twitter.com/KwVR8b8V9j
EXCLUSIVE: We’ve gone undercover inside Nigel Farage’s Reform UK campaign in Clacton and found evidence of anti-migrant rhetoric, homophobia and one canvasser making racist and offensive remarks. As @DarshnaSoni reports. pic.twitter.com/VkhVLczjcw
The System is now getting very worried about the level of support being shown even for Reform UK, a basically small-c conservative-type party. The anti-Reform UK rhetoric is now close to that displayed in the past against more social-national parties such as the BNP and, further back still, the National Front.
The System thinking must be, “if even Reform UK can be so disruptive, how more so would be a credible and genuinely social-national party?“
That anti-Reform UK propaganda is broadcast as Reform UK reaches heights of popular support few thought that it would or could reach.
Some polls are putting Reform UK as high as 20%, and all are putting it well above 15%, the average now being around 17%.
Meanwhile, support for the Conservative Party has dropped to as low as 18%, and may go even lower. I have just yesterday heard admittedly anecdotal evidence that, in my own local area (in coastal Hampshire, and one of the most heavily-Con in England), lifelong Con voters are planning to vote anywhere other than Con or Labour. Many, perhaps most (?), are switching to Reform UK, and some to the LibDems.
I was just looking at my blog from about 8 or 9 months ago. I thought then that Reform UK would get a nationwide popular vote of at least 15% and, at the outside, 20%. Seems that I was right (so far).
Estimates of the number of MPs Reform UK might have by 5 July 2024, i.e. once the votes are counted, range from 1 or 2 to as many as 22. A few Reform UK optimists are doubling or even tripling that. It seems very open, with less than a week to go.
I doubt whether the Channel 4 undercover silliness will change the minds of many people planning to vote Reform UK, as witness the tweets below:
I doubt that more than a few hundred of the voters of Clacton will have even seen the “expose”. In any case, the main person shown was merely a volunteer. It may even be that some people will be more inclined to vote for Reform after having seen the Channel 4 piece. You never know.
There is also the point that postal voting has already taken place. Many of the older and/or disabled British voters, as at Clacton, will by now have voted.
Farage seems nailed-on to win at Clacton, as far as I can see. The Conservative Party candidate has not even been seen (by me anyway) on TV or online, while the young African standing as Labour MP has apparently been redeployed to help another Labour candidate, in the West Midlands, and has thus left the field of battle at Clacton.
I can only suppose that Starmer decided that only the Con candidate had any chance of beating Farage, having scored 72.3% in 2019, so scaled back the Labour effort at Clacton to zero for nakedly tactical reasons.
Also, the fact that Labour deliberately chose an African for its candidate at Clacton, of all places, would be likely to prompt a surge in support for Reform UK. Anyway, he’s gone elsewhere, and will probably not be seen at Clacton until the count on Election Night. I still think that he might lose his deposit.
As blogged previously, while I am not a Reform UK supporter, as such, its existence moves the “Overton Window” a bit, at the very least, and will help to break down the “two main parties” scam.
The public’s view of the mostly System politicians is not favourable. Even Starmer, on the crest of his “popularity by default”, is only viewed favourably by just over a third of voters.
Look at Sunak. Only 19%, the same as the Conservative Party. I begin to wonder whether previously undecided voters will actually start to pile in against the Conservative Party now, or at the last minute, thus reducing the Conservative vote to somewhere below that 19%, maybe as low as 16%. We shall know in 6 days’ time.
I’ve interviewed George Galloway who told me he is a fan of the Latin Mass. He calls it “poetry in motion”. George has met and asked the Pope not to ban it.
“I believe in Jesus with all my heart… Jesus genuinely moves me, drives me”. https://t.co/BgYEBgOVpC
Staggering how unrepentant the Tories are. 14yrs. And everything that’s broken is down to them. They reek of corruption, dishonesty and failure. Yet still so smug, so entitled, so nasty and defiant in the face of their glaring unpopularity. They’re due such an electoral slapping.
I should say “80% that’s broken“, not “everything“. Otherwise, I agree.
Tory MP Philip Davies put a £8k bet on himself to lose. This is what we found when we dug into his and his wife Esther McVey’s finances pic.twitter.com/3HyoNfwcHj
The African will probably get about 4% of the vote, and lose his deposit.
BREAKING: is the key character in the Channel4 undercover “expose” in fact an ACTOR who specialises in what he calls “rough voices”?? @reformparty_uk is urgently investigating
You had MPs sacked for Rape, bribery, corruption, tractor porn & a host of unsavoury actions. Rather than the odd candidate or supporter. Dopey! https://t.co/eupilvgSXK
Gavin Barwell really is an utterly stupid person, yet there he sits in the House of Lords, getting nearly £400 a day (taxfree) any (sitting) day on which he chooses to turn up for 30 minutes and have his name ticked off… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Barwell.
Dover & Deal constituency polling update 📊
The Conservatives have 19.5% and cannot win. A vote for the Tories is a vote for Labour.
— Reform UK Dover and Deal (@doveranddeal) June 27, 2024
Yes. If all Con-leaning or anti-Lab-leaning voters were to vote Reform UK, Reform UK could just about win at Dover; even then it might be very close. One thing is for sure— the Con candidate cannot win.
So Giles Watling is still alive… I had seen and heard nothing from the retired actor since the Clacton campaign started. I assumed that he had fallen into his soup and drowned at the Garrick Club.
Watling has nothing in common with most Clacton voters. Hopeless.
These men died in a war that should never have happened. Arrogant Neocons in the Biden White House sacrificed half a million soldiers in a proxy war they hoped would weaken Russia. It didn’t work. Russia now has more international prestige and a stronger military capacity than… https://t.co/5jIcX76Syu
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 27, 2024
The Jew Zelensky thinks that there can be a “peace summit” without Russia’s participation (unless Russia were to effectively surrender). He’s a con-man who has stolen billions.
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Should make people think.
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Convinced whatever they say it's been deliberate. If labour implode off a large majority then the 2030 great reset and one world government is doing its thing.
I tend to agree, up to a point, with that last tweeter. Yes, the Cons are doomed, but look at what the Labour Party now is! A mixture of Blair-Brown-style fake communitarian rhetoric, “woke” craziness, “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) partisanship, and pro-Israel-ism, combined with pro-Jewish lobby repression of free speech and, in terms of domestic policy, almost indistinguishable in reality from the policies of the Conservative Party.
Incidentally, it is Bicester and Woodstock, a new constituency, not just Woodstock. That may explain the close polling.
Even Reform UK has more support among the under-30s in the UK, especially in England, than many suppose. A real social-national party might be able to capture far more hearts and minds.
This really is stunning. If accurate, it may mean a House of Commons with 483 Labour MPs (overall majority 316), 73 LibDems, 27 Reform UK, and only 22 Con Party MPs (SNP 18, Green 4 etc). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
It would mean the LibDems as official Opposition, and Reform UK with several more MPs (27 in toto) than the rump of the old Conservative Party (22), which would not be the Opposition, not even third party, but a poor fourth. Finished. Washed-up.
I have yet to meet, in the past month or even longer, even one person who expresses an intention to vote Con. There may be some people I meet who intend to vote Con without my knowing it, of course; I meet relatively few people, and rarely talk directly about politics with most of those that I do meet. All the same…
In fact, and by my use of Electoral Calculus, it may be that, were Reform UK to poll at 24%, only 3 points higher than in this latest poll, Reform could edge the LibDems out of second place, which would mean Reform UK as the official Opposition, and Farage as Leader of the Opposition! Were that to happen, I should have to eat my words of a year or two ago (dismissing him as not such an effective politician despite his oratorical and mass media skills).
“Brutal” is the word. Whatever one may think of Trump and his overall fitness for office, it is clear that Biden should now go into retirement.
The world has rarely if ever been in such multiform peril. The state with, by far, the greatest military-destructive power on Earth, is a “colossus on legs of straw”, and cannot, at this time, be commanded, even notionally, by someone not in command of his own faculties.
“The Labour parliamentary candidate for Poole, Neil Duncan-Jordan, said he and others have been targeted with ’disgusting and disrespectful’ comments.
He said he had been called a ‘white traitor’ and told that ‘Adolf Hitler had the right idea’.
Mr Duncan-Jordan has called on his counterparts in the election to distance themselves from antisemitism, racism and hate crime following a number of incidents he and his supporters have faced.
Mr Duncan-Jordan said: “In the last few days there have been three separate incidents that have caused me concern. I’ve been called a ‘white traitor’, one of my supporters was spat at and I was told that “Adolf Hitler had the right idea.”
“I think it’s important that all candidates in this election come out clearly and say that antisemitism, racism and fascist views have absolutely no place in modern Britain.
“Spitting at someone because you don’t like their political views is disgusting and disrespectful. We cannot allow this kind of behaviour to become the acceptable norm.”
The candidate has reported the incidents to the police.“
[Bournemouth Echo]
Well, while I would never condone spitting at (or for that matter, throwing milkshakes over) people (as a Labour supporter did to Farage recently), if a candidate wants to knock on people’s doors to engage them in political debate, he must expect some of his “victims” to cut up rough, bearing in mind what the System parties have been doing to this country.
God knows what, in the course of time, will be the karmic, including group-karmic, consequences of everything that has happened in and around Gaza in the past 9 months, or indeed the past 77 years.
Spot on. The so called Reform candidate is an actor hired by Channel 4 to try and discredit the Reform Party. Channel 4 should be charged with electoral interference
— lieutenant Colonel Kojak Slaphead The 3rd (@Scarfer13) June 28, 2024
The whole of the System msm is rotten.
A constituency with that kind of history would be a great one to flip to make the message clear that we don't want any more of what these charlatans are selling (or their blatant, in your face, corruption)
“Rishi Sunak‘s chief of staff has been interviewed as a witness by the gambling regulator as part of the row over alleged bets on the timing of the general election, it has emerged.
Liam Booth-Smith is reported to have spoken to the Gambling Commission last week to help the watchdog understand who may have known when polling day would be.
Sources stressed to the BBC that the PM’s top adviser – dubbed the ‘Treasury Travolta’ during Mr Sunak’s time as Chancellor due to his fondness for leather jackets – is not a suspect in the regulator’s investigation and had not placed a bet himself.“
[Daily Mail]
Can you believe it, even today, as the UK goes into a tailspin? The Chief of Staff of the UK Prime Minister— and look at the bastard!
“Liam Booth-Smith (born 1987) is a British political adviser who has served as the Downing Street Chief of Staff since October 2022. He previously served as de facto chief of staff to then-chancellorRishi Sunak as head of the Joint Economic Unit.
I know that I often expostulate in this vein, but this country really is ****** on so many levels…
[Update, 16 January 2026: Liam Booth-Smith must have been born under a lucky star— he was elevated to the House of Lords by Sunak, in his 2024 Resignation Honours List, so now gets about £400 a day taxfree just for rolling up, for as brief a time as half an hour, any sitting day, i.e. about 200 per year. About £80,000 a year taxfree, for not necessarily doing anything at all. He also makes a great deal more via his salary, bonuses etc as executive of an AI company. As a John le Carre character called this country, “the pigs in clover society“…]
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The National Front turned out to be optimists
— Sally-Anna King – Misinformation reporter (@sallyanna25) June 28, 2024
In the 1970s, Britain still had many avenues open to it. Now, it is as if (?) we are painted into a corner, with almost nowhere to turn.
"Why would we want to conservative any of this?" One Zoomer wrote for me recently on why they are planning to back Reform over the big parties. I've made it open access in case it's of interesthttps://t.co/QgmeqpQirE
Only 21% of Brits think a Labour government will make the economy stronger. I'm telling you now -this will quickly be a very, very unpopular governmenthttps://t.co/8jAhHg8gbr
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 28, 2024
When I stayed for three weeks with a French couple, in Paris, in 1971 (at age 14), I was taken once by car through an area my host referred to as the “quartier arabe“. Now it seems that much of Paris is the “quartier africaine“…
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 28, 2024
🔥“In #Israel we have this big surveillance lab called the occupied territories where there are 2.5 million guinea pigs that shows how to completely monitor and control a population with very few soldiers.” #Harari, Davos 2020#GazaGenocide2024 pic.twitter.com/azQOMB0iTd
GB News's Sir Philip Davies MP wagered he will not hold his Shipley constituency (6,242 majority.)
Last night he said he “fully expected to lose” the West Yorkshire marginal but insisted he had not done anything illegal. He is married to minister of Common Sense Esther McVey pic.twitter.com/Q4aU9aqbFd
Good grief. The “Conservative” MPs really are “filling their boots” on the way out…
Rishi Sunak banging on about integrity, meanwhile simultaneously CCHQ have changed their handle to Tax Check UK and are posting misinformation………the fucking state of it.#BBCDebatepic.twitter.com/yy7mHPhsTI
— Land of Tope & Dory 🐀 (@lookeyhere4) June 26, 2024
Incredible. In the Christian Weltanschauung we are all “sinners”, it is said, but the Conservative Party is rapidly being exposed as a cabal of corrupt and ethics-free outright criminals and spivs.
Can you imagine a low trick of that sort being pulled in 1956 (the year of my birth), 1974 (when, aged 18, I voted for the first and only time—my candidate came last out of four…), or even 20 years ago? No. It would not, could not, have happened.
It is as if there has been a complete and shameless moral collapse on the part of the Conservative Party’s MPs and staff. Betting on the election date while having inside knowledge, masquerading as a fictional “Tax Check” organization (as above), masquerading as a candidate for any party other than Conservative (the unpleasant little Israel puppet, Robert Largan, at High Peak) etc.
Just unbelievable.
As for Philip Davies, he has, in a sense, every right to bet against himself, especially as he would certainly prefer to be, and make more profit were he to be, re-elected as MP for Shipley. Yes. No argument as far as that is concerned, but it just looks wrong, and so, bearing in mind the status and public position of an MP —as Davies was until the prorogation of Parliament— it is wrong.
“Migrant shipwreck survivor is arrested in Italy amid claims he strangled Iraqi girl, 16, to death in front of her mother on sinking yacht in the Med after watching his wife and daughter drown“
[Daily Mail]
Look at the type of untermenschen coming to mainland Europe, many then travelling on to the UK.
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A heartfelt message from David (Robbie’s husband) to all of Woodfield’s supporters who have sent such kind messages since Robbie’s passing last Thursday 💔https://t.co/4KVJbB9mLypic.twitter.com/4nRCj8Y2au
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) June 24, 2024
However, we can only do this with your continued support. Thank you to all who have donated, rest assured as always you money will be used to care for the animals that Robbie loved so much https://t.co/4KVJbB8OW0
— Woodfield Animal Sanctuary (@AnimalWoodfield) June 25, 2024
Apropos of nothing, I wonder how many of my regular blog readers know that the Russian word for a railway station of medium to large size is a “voksaal” [воксал], which comes from, yes, “Vauxhall”.
The reason is that Vauxhall was apparently one of the first places to have a functioning steam train, or at least a well-known one, at a time (early 19thC) when Vauxhall was a “pleasure garden”. Possibly. A similar but distinct explanation is that other pleasure gardens, in Poland and Russia, were later referred to as “vauxhalls” and were in the vicinity of railway stations: anyway, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Gardens#Cultural_significance.
I think that a few of my regular readers already knew that, though I admit that I am guessing…
Pathetic, Paul. The legitimate concerns of women on this matter – expressed by women from the Right *and the Left* – are not to be falsely dismissed as a Tory plot.
Paul Mason, would-be Labour MP, becomes ever more pathetic politically. One feels that, given another 10 years, he will be found wandering the streets and swearing randomly.
Russian forces destroyed 12 drone control centers in the zone of responsibility of the Battlegroup West, spokesman for the battlegroup Ivan Birma said:https://t.co/M1SP6gqzAbpic.twitter.com/Rt4oJiVcMp
Russia’s navy is receiving more and more warships and boats year by year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on shipbuilding, citing year-on-year statistics:https://t.co/Pgzc6MjQn5pic.twitter.com/GnTJq5tyZ4
Good sense and Realpolitik breaking out in Berlin?
One INSANE thing about Johannesburg is how low trust it is.
Most people have houses with security guards for their gated community, high walls, electrified wire, CCTV. Nobody parks their car in the open at night Everyone seems to be in fear.
— Lord Miles Official (@real_lord_miles) June 24, 2024
If mass immigration, meaning net surplus immigration, were ended, then there would be no need for such building on the Green Belt. England's green and pleasant land is worth defending.
Enthusiasts for assisted suicide might not like to read this extract from a letter in today’s .@Guardian, fromProf David Albert Jones pic.twitter.com/VilROO32uU
It is coming now to the point at which we might ask, “which event will destroy our present civilization? A collapse in insect life, plant life and then animal and human life? A nuclear war? A “pandemic” (a real one, not one like the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic)?“
I live in the UK. 20 years ago if we drove 50 miles in the spring/summer our windscreens would be plastered with insects. Now I can drive 200 miles and there might be a couple. Don’t even need to use windscreen washers. Ask anyone here.
20 years is even less than a flash in historical times yet the number of UK insects has declined by around 75% in this time. It's similar in many other European countries where constant measurement has been taking place using standardized methods. https://t.co/SqsgjW7fFl!
The tide is turning. Reform UK is the first really significant movement of the “Overton Window” in mainstream UK politics. Later, social-nationalism can take hold, once there is a suitable movement as a vehicle for it. Then, a few accounts may be settled.
🇵🇸 Dozens of Palestinians rush towards a humanitarian aid truck in the Gaza Strip due to severe shortages of clean water and food. pic.twitter.com/E44lIruuVr
Their evil is palpable when they feel thwarted. A similar incident happened in London a couple of months ago, with the Metropolitan Police as the immediate targets of the filmed propaganda.
According to my use of Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], that might result in a House of Commons with 441 Labour MPs (overall majority 232), LibDems 82, Cons 55, Reform UK 22, Greens 4, SNP 23 (etc).
Nearly 600,000 AFU troops have been lost and 4 oblasts, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson because Volodymyr Zelenskyy provoked a war, threatening to host nuclear weapons, attacking Donbass, threatening Crimea and insisting Ukraine could join NATO. Biden encouraged this.
— Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) June 27, 2024
Far right: the belief that British culture and civilisation is worth preserving.
My own admittedly anecdotal and completely unscientific guess for this area (coastal western Hampshire), is that support for the lazy and useless Conservative Party incumbent has slumped, but that he is so entrenched in this ultra-safe Con heartland that he will survive without too much trouble.
I did see, somewhere or other, one Con Party poster, a while ago, and I have seen one solitary Labour one now; an outlier in a constituency where Labour usually comes in third or even fourth; Labour only managed (a very poor) second once (in 2017, under Corbyn). I have, however, now seen quite a few LibDem posters.
The LibDems usually come second here, and their high point was in 1997, when they still only scored 27.8%.
The only joker in the pack is Reform UK. Their likely vote is unknown in this constituency, but may reach 20%; we shall see.
“Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species.
Protecting just 1.2% of the Earth’s surface for nature would be enough to prevent the extinction of the world’s most threatened species, according to a new study.
Analysis published in the journal Frontiers in Science has found that the targeted expansion of protected areas on land would be enough to prevent the loss of thousands of the mammals, birds, amphibians and plants that are closest to disappearing.
From Argentina to Papua New Guinea, the team of researchers identified 16,825 sites that should be prioritised for conservation in the next five years to prevent imminent extinctions of animals and plants found nowhere else.”
[Guardian]
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Hopefully a very long prison sentence. @JustStop_Oil are a domestic terrorist group who should be proscribed.
As frequently blogged previously, the connected “Just Stop Oil” and “Extinction Rebellion” groups are sub-terrorists. They set out to create chaos, they set out to intimidate, and deserve a good kicking.
‘I would not fight for the country anymore’ | Veteran, Les Underwood ashamed as ‘This is not Great Britain anymore’ and wonders what he and his fellow comrades have ‘sacrificed so much for.’#UK#GreatBritain#Veteran#War#Englandpic.twitter.com/RjvmdWMp0g
🚨 EXCL: A Royal Mail postman has been caught writing 'racists' on Reform UK leaflets
A RM spokesman said: "We are aware of the video and are conducting immediate enquiries. It’s our priority to ensure all candidate mail is delivered with the same, high level of service." pic.twitter.com/QzGHrMF7QV
Liz Kendall, Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions promises to get tough on benefits. But Since becoming an MP in 2010 she's claimed over £2 Million in taxpayer funded expenses on top of her £86K salary. Now those are the kind of benefits that Liz really likes. pic.twitter.com/y3kc21EruR
— Ragged Trousered Philanderer (@RaggedTP) June 11, 2024
Liz Kendall is like a poor actress trying to portray “genuine emotion” by overdoing the (((typical?))) hand gestures etc. She comes over rather like one of those puppets from 1960s shows like Stingray or Thunderbirds.
Good grief. The more I see of the upcoming fake-Labour “elected” dictatorship, in its germinal form, the more I think that it will have to be overthrown.
NEW POST. Is support for Nigel Farage and Reform SLIDING? What the latest polls suggest after Nigel Farage's Ukraine commentshttps://t.co/L58R1GN7Sd
Most people in the UK are not pro-“Ukraine” in the sense of being pro-Zelensky and his brutal yet shambolic regime. Many are sorry for the ordinary people there, and their companion animals —indeed, that applies to me too, which is why I hoped for a very swift Russian victory in 2022— but few really support the Kiev regime to the point at which it becomes a UK General Election issue.
I do not think that Reform UK is sliding. In any case, many postal votes have already been cast, often by the middleaged and elderly people who are more likely to vote Reform UK.
Only 8 days now separate us from Election Day. Many people are angry, and almost all want to bin the Sunak-led Conservative Party, or even the Con Party under other management. I still think that many of the “undecided 20%”, if they vote, may decide to back Reform UK. We shall see.
I should not be surprised to see Reform get to 20% in the end. At the present, the election remains to that extent open. The Cons are surely doomed, and Labour, without much merit, looks heavily odds-on not only to win but to win at a level which may turn out to be historic. However, the level of Starmer’s victory is still undecided, as is the extent to which the very uninteresting LibDems will, purely as an electoral side-effect, have their MP numbers boosted. Perhaps by as many as 70 in total, almost certainly by 30-40 in total.
The number of Con MPs after 4th of July may be as few as 40 or as many as 140. My guess has always, in the past months, been closer to 40 than 140.
Whoever wins and whatever the detail, the bottom line is that the incoming Labour government will be trying to install a police state. That will have to be fought.
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[East Berlin, 1970s]
Look at how free speech, freedom of expression has become largely a thing of the past in the UK. Also, consider how there is a double standard: anyone social-national, or even conservative-national (even someone as basically near-centre-ground as Farage) is under far more scrutiny and restriction than either the hostile Jewish/Zionist Israel-lobby element or the often-connected “antifa” types, let alone the “useful idiots” of the transnational conspiracy, such as the Black Lives Matter nonsense, the Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion pawns etc.
We now project that the Liberal Democrats will be forming the official opposition, pushing the Conservatives into third place in terms of seat tally. pic.twitter.com/2IOPjlw6QE
Johnny Mercer voted to cut veterans benefits. Took £85k from a Veterans Charity. Pays his wife £45k a year. Took an extra £30k a year being a Veterans Minister and did nothing except vote against them.
As previously blogged, I have been disappointed in Mercer. I thought that the ex-officer would be a breath of fresh air and integrity at Westminster. In fact, he has been basically useless and, worse than that, rather a freeloader, even somewhat corrupt (in my opinion).
I rather like the humorous and sometimes combative tweets of his wife, but they cannot save him. Time to bid adieu.
Suella Braverman: antisemitism in Britain has made me ‘ashamed to be British’ https://t.co/3UUd86XgTJ
Quite. Ecce “democracy”— with enough “lobbying“, box-ticking, and “money from central government“, 50 feet of road in Cheshire can finally be patched up. “Pathetic” is indeed the word. The whole system must be changed, not just thick-as-two-short-planks Esther McVey binned.
An idealized but not really untruthful view of how parts of England were in the 1950s, or even early 1960s, if you forget the 1930s-style bus in the background.
Incidentally, I was watching a “true crime” documentary about a series of appalling murders carried out by some crazed half-caste in the mid-1980s, the “Stockwell Strangler” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Erskine], who, incidentally, is still detained in a mental hospital.
What struck me as much as anything is how smart the uniformed police still looked back then; one forgets. No beards, no stubble, no tattoos, and wearing shirts and ties and neat uniforms. What a contrast to the often untidy-looking rabble they (especially in London?) are today, with their beards and tattoos.
— Boris D'Burger-Zilla (Vote Count Binface) (@dozecat007) June 24, 2024
A parody very close to the truth.
Sometimes, as I navigate along the potholed and badly-patched highways in the area where I live (supposedly one of the most affluent in England), thinking about things, I think that this country is so ****** that only some kind of very radical, indeed revolutionary, change will be able to give it a decent future.
Labour are haemorrhaging votes as they cannot get enough 'activists' out on the stump.
Slightly more than half the number of Labour activists are on the stump in this election compared to the Corbyn campaigns.
Labour is dying at it's roots, Tories at the head.
💬 “If Keir Starmer said, you know, we’re setting up a cross-party commission on the NHS or on AI, and we want people from different parties … I’d love to do that”@jamesrbuk meets @RoryStewartUK, for @theipaper
Tories might complain about Labour's position on gender transition but it was the Tories who mainstreamed woke gender ideology. We need a politics that actually stands up to this nonsense.https://t.co/eRkEYav5SF
#VoteTactically folks. Braverman works more for Likud than her constituents. Fareham and Waterlooville Labour voters, please lend Lib Dems your vote. https://t.co/bUBqTMjTV1
Needless to say, my views on the current migration-invasion are not unalike to those of Suella Braverman, but I do not need some Mauritian Indian bas-class import to tell me what to think. Anyway, she is married to a Jewish Zionist, and supports Israel to the hilt, so nein, danke!
For Ukrainian troops, a difficult situation has developed on the battlefield, said the head of intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer. This is how he answered the journalist’s question whether the Ukrainian… pic.twitter.com/82kpTvdTXE
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 24, 2024
“For Ukrainian troops, a difficult situation has developed on the battlefield, said the head of intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer. This is how he answered the journalist’s question whether the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to stop the advance of Russian troops.”
Will truth now start to break out in the newsrooms of the Western msm?
The head of Ukrainian intelligence Budanov* admitted that the situation at the front for the Ukrainian troops is difficult. He also stressed that he opposes peace negotiations with Russia pic.twitter.com/Hs1Bskufun
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 24, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.
A big fire in Odessa after a rocket attack – a storage of Western-made rockets was hit pic.twitter.com/1xr6L3Pwj8
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 24, 2024
Ukrainian army will have to get used to it – FAB-3000 has arrived at the front Another video of the use of a FAB-3000 devastating bomb with a universal planning and correction module in the village of Lipci in the Kharkiv region appeared on social networks pic.twitter.com/jLjrxkvNCV
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 24, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 24, 2024
Ukrainian deputies received 20 thousand dollars for voting in support of the mobilization law. This was stated by ex-Minister of Labor of Poland Piotr Kulpa. pic.twitter.com/2QkyZjLb7q
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 24, 2024
Kiev-regime “Ukraine” is not even a “failed state”— it is scarcely a state at all.
More than half a million people left Israel forever during the first six months of the war in the Gaza Strip, from October 7 to April, reports the Israeli television channel Channel 12 pic.twitter.com/7K2VLVH7q9
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 24, 2024
Huge numbers of Israeli Jews are dual passport-holders.
“Nigel Farage is on course to win the Clacton seat with a 27 point lead in a devastating blow to the Conservatives.
The Clacton Constituency poll, conducted by JL Partners on behalf of Friderichs Advisory Partners, has Farage polling at 48 per cent while the Tory leader sits back at 21 per cent of the vote share.
Farage is leading in every age group apart from the 18 to 34-year-olds and only one in five 2019 Conservative voters are sticking to the party.“
[GB News]
I presume by “Tory leader“, GB News means “Conservative Party candidate“(?), unless the reference is to Sunak in his Richmond (Yorkshire) constituency.
I predicted previously on the blog that the Labour candidate at Clacton would bomb, maybe even losing his deposit. Let’s see.
Never thought I’d ever say this, but well said, Harry Cole, on gamblegate:
“It looks like the last days of Rome, it’s nicking the candlesticks on the way out. The first instinct the people running your election campaign had as soon as they found out was to fill their boots.” pic.twitter.com/LFC7VrFuXv
Yes, 800 a day crossing the Channel, being ferried most of the way by the bloody “Border Force” farce and others, such as the RNLI, but what about the other invaders, 4,000+ per day, coming in quasi-“legally”?
Starmer-Labour will stop the smaller influx, the “small boats” influx, to a large extent, by simply rubberstamping 90% or more of the applications before they even get here, doing it in France, after which the invaders will simply get onto a ferry in Calais and will be here 2-3 hours later.
Residents of Khan Yunis are returning to life in the ruins of their homes destroyed as a result of the occupation. pic.twitter.com/ycoTGz1bGZ
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 24, 2024
I do not think that I can be accused of being overly pro-Arab, let alone pro-Islamist, and I might be induced to agree that the attack on Israel in October 2023 should not have happened (for the good of all sides), but what Israel has done since then has been utterly abhorrent, and it continues to do the same or similar.
Ian Robert Millard 