“Sadiq Khan is announcing plans to build on parts of London’s green belt, in a dramatic shift in housing policy aimed at tackling “the most profound housing crisis in the capital’s history”.
In a major speech on Friday, the mayor of London is expected to say the scale of the challenge, which could need about 1m new homes built in the next decade, requires a break from longstanding taboos.
It marks the first time city hall will support the strategic release of low-quality or inaccessible green belt land near transport links in order to provide hundreds of thousands of new affordable homes.”
[Guardian]
Very sad. Apart from that, when they talk about “low-quality or inaccessible land“, what “low-quality” means in this context is simply land on the edge of built-up areas, which may not always be very scenic (but could be, with political will to improve it). “Inaccessible land” is still better than the same land being built on, and its very inaccessibility provides a haven and sanctuary for animals, birds, insects etc.
This is what happens when a country is invaded by a million migrant-invaders per year (legal or illegal)— pressure on land, transport, public services etc increases, housing becomes unaffordable, and life becomes stressed and unpleasant. Look around. The evidence is all around you.
“European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming.
Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK.
More than 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils are degraded due to intensive agriculture, with similar damage to about 40% of British soils, a report has found.”
[Guardian]
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Russian forces liberated the settlement of Troitskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic before the start of the Victory Day ceasefire, the Defense Ministry said in a statement:https://t.co/5HSaoealYrpic.twitter.com/nQXoQdvsdH
Adam Carruthers says he ‘could not understand’ outcry as it was ‘just a tree’
It was just a tree so he drove for 90 minutes in the middle of the night to cut it down 🤡 to drive 90 minutes back home. Plus 20-30 mins to walk to the tree from the car park.
Disgusting pair. I hope that the sentencing judge passes a suitably condign sentence. I hope that I do not read “Sycamore Gap vandals escape prison“. This was a horrible and destructive crime, an act of evil; there was also huge economic damage to the surrounding region (I have seen figures estimating damage of up to £1M).
Just a tree? So tie them to a tree for a few weeks, or months (in winter).
Like all "official" figures it will cost a lot more than £15 billion to house the invaders. It's almost impossible to calculate the figure. NHS, prisons, housing, just to begin.
Yet another opinion poll placing Reform UK in government, potentially. According to Electoral Calculus, a Commons with 314 Reform UK MPs, 168 Labour MPs, 63 LibDems, 39 Cons, 36 SNP (etc). Reform 12 short of an absolute majority, but on the cusp of a working one.
Let’s put emotions aside for a moment. The United States .. like any sovereign nation .. has every right to reclaim its independence, pursue its national interest, and break free from parasitic entanglements that have long drained its dignity and resources. What we are witnessing…
— Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد (@Ahmed_hassan_za) May 8, 2025
[“Let’s put emotions aside for a moment. The United States .. like any sovereign nation .. has every right to reclaim its independence, pursue its national interest, and break free from parasitic entanglements that have long drained its dignity and resources. What we are witnessing today may be the first real attempt in decades by parts of the American establishment to free themselves from the stranglehold of the Zionist lobby. But here’s the irony: the very idea that America might make decisions based on its own interests has sent Israeli officials into a frenzy. Why? Because for decades, they’ve treated the U.S. not as an ally, but as a tool .. a weaponized servant to carry out their ambitions, silence their critics, and whitewash their crimes. And now, as the leash begins to loosen, their panic grows louder. Let’s be clear: This isn’t a battle between good and evil. It’s a clash between Racial superiority and religious superiority One seeking global domination through lies, manipulation, and media .. driven illusions , Blackmailing , assassination The other aiming to reassert global control through , brute force, and economic imperialism We now stand at a crossroads for America: Either the United States, through Trump, succeeds in imposing a model of sovereign imperialism based on American supremacy… Or Israel unleashes its old playbook .. media manipulation, financial pressure, political chaos .. to manufacture another storm, just as it did when JFK tried to challenge their influence and paid for it with his life.“]
It’s a mad mad mad mad world…
Nope. That was part of that color group at the hotel we were staying in. I called security and said there are fools up here who just escaped their cages. They were removed. https://t.co/BEcRb28nqy
Interesting. Plaid is of course not truly “national” or “nationalist”, but more akin to the SNP in Scotland. Its basic premise, that Wales should be an independent state, is of course ludicrous, especially but not solely from the economic point of view.
Having said that, I can see why Welsh voters in Wales are going for Plaid (the apparent tautology is in fact not so, because a great number of voters in Wales are not Welsh, being either non-European —non-white— or English, mostly the latter; there are a few other small groups as well).
I think that Plaid is making hay because the main System parties, Lab and Con, are perceived as both hopeless and not “local” (to Wales). That was not always so (in relation to Labour) but I think it probably is so now.
As for Reform’s upsurge in Wales, it follows the rise in support for Reform in England and even in Scotland.
In Scotland, Reform is rising up, but another consequence of the drastic fall in support for both Con and Lab is that the SNP may survive, however unmeritedly, and may be able to increase its Westminster representation from its present 9 MPs (out of 57 Scottish seats) to something like 30; not quite the 56 out of 59 it had in 2015, nor even the 48 out of 59 it had in 2019, but still respectable, and a plurality of the 57 Scottish seats that now exist.
Put another way, people across the UK are binning Con and Lab, and I do not see that changing.
The YouGov poll is about the Senedd (Welsh Assembly) elections, not Westminster voting intentions, but must have relevance to the next general election.
Running that through Electoral Calculus (notionally putting LibDems at 15% and Greens at 10%): Reform 375 MPs; Labour 121; LibDems 62; SNP 38; Cons 25. A Reform government with a very large majority of 49 (working majority of about 59).
I keep seeing Labourite and Con Twitter-twits’ tweets saying “still 4 years to go“, as if the main System parties will somehow regain public trust before 2029. Are they serious?!
Tom, these details don't matter. Anything that is to detriment of the already struggling British worker is just intolerable. We are done at this point, we are absolutely done.
That ghastly little “Conservative” (?) scribbler and talking head, Harwood, really deserves some bad luck to come his way. Pro-Israel, pro-globalist finance-capitalism, in favour of cuts to public services and social security, in favour of unrestricted housing development. A System puppet, retailing “controlled opposition” rubbish.
48% of Britons say that immigration is one of the top issues facing the country, the joint-highest level since the election
[“48% of Britons say that immigration is one of the top issues facing the country, the joint-highest level since the election Economy: 52% (-2 from 26-28 Apr) Immigration: 48% (+4) Health: 36% (-1) Crime: 22% (-1) Defence: 20% (-2) Housing: 20% (=) Environment: 15% (-2) Tax: 14% (-1) Europe: 13% (+2) Welfare: 13% (+2).”]
Maybe the British people are at last beginning to wake up.
Many Europeans and Americans think World War 3 is likely in the next 5-10 years
Defend? Against what? There is a concerted attempt to push for war with Russia, which would be both mad and pointless, Russia having no interest at all in invading central or western parts of Europe.
Ukraine was always part of Russia; as for the Baltic States or pribaltika, while I respect their rights to self-determination and their own cultures, that respect would not outweigh the right of the UK, France, and Germany etc not to get into a nuclear conflict with Russia over that small part of Northern Europe. In fact, the only reason Russia is now overshadowing the three Baltic states is because they have joined NATO. The same is true of Finland.
Present-day Russia is not like the old Soviet Union. It does not have the expansionist drive that came out of Marxist-Leninist ideology. It is also far less efficient in terms of military power (and secret intelligence etc).
European culture and civilization is threatened not by that fantasy “Russian invasion” but by migration-invasion from backward parts of the world, and I see very few and very weak attempts being made even to slow it, let alone stop it.
'People feel so let down by this Labour government.'
Reform UK MP @SarahForRuncorn outlines the key challenges facing her constituents in Runcorn and Helsby, saying that the Labour government 'have damaged' people 'very quickly'. pic.twitter.com/nJhPP2zvbj
Boris Johnson was just as bad. He literally removed the requirement for British companies to advertise jobs in Britain first while flooding the country with low-skill, low-wage immigration that is making us poorer and driving crime. https://t.co/VRa6DiqVEu
“Boris” Johnson— part-Jew and pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, and a Conservative Friends of Israel member; Starmer-stein likewise— pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, not himself Jewish (as far as is known) but with a Jewish wife, and with children being brought up as if fully-Jewish, Starmer being a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
Join the dots. Both Starmer-stein and “Boris” Johnson were fanatically in favour of the police-state measures brought in under cover of the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, both funneled British taxpayers’ monies to “Ukraine” (the mainly Jewish regime in Kiev), and both encouraged and still encourage mass immigration into Britain, while having English/British dissidents and protesters arrested. Both also want to allow (((developers))) to build on what is left of the “green and pleasant land”.
As I say, just join the dots.
Where are they going to live? Social or not, they’re going to need housing and healthcare.
— Lis Villiers 🇬🇧🏴 (@LisVilliers) May 6, 2025
Quite. We are well past the stage of treating our country like an international grazing strip and judging migrant groups based on their balance sheet.
Once again, we see where that Harwood bastard is coming from. For him, British politics and society is all about the (((money))). Same goes for GB News generally (and, even worse, the “no-one watches” Talk TV).
Interesting that Harwood and GB News, supposedly small-c “conservative”, now start to defend Starmer-stein, i.e. now that his fake Labour (((government))) is collapsing amid public hatred of it and him.
Tweeter “@benonwine” should consider what percentage of the UK population is now non-European (non-white). About 20%. Not all of that bloc vote, and not all of that bloc who vote, vote Labour, but most do. Question more or less answered.
As to Goodwin’s tweet and YouGov’s polling, according to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], those numbers would be enough to give Reform about 345 MPs, and a goodly-sized Commons majority (19, but in practical terms about 30 or 40. Other significant parties: 143 Labour MPs, 71 LibDems, SNP 38, Cons 23.
On that basis, the once-great Conservative Party would be reduced to a very small rump of 23 MPs, and would be a very poor fifth party in the Commons, after Reform, Labour, LibDems, and the SNP. It would be the end of the Conservative Party, bar the shouting about the whys and wherefores.
Sending Kemi Badenoch back to Nigeria at once, or at least sacking her (asap), might save some of the present Con Party MPs, but not most, I think. The tipping point may already have been reached. Every time I see the woman on TV, I think, “can anyone really see that as a Prime Minister?“.
Russia foiled a large-scale attack of Ukrainian UAVs on the regions on Wednesday night by destroying nine drones over Moscow, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said. TASS has compiled the main facts about the attack:https://t.co/ndP4TgvfgDpic.twitter.com/vG5jznxxWW
My favourite Art of War aphorism – sit by the riverside long enough and the bodies of your enemies come floating by.
The only way they can escape age and infirmity and all its indignities is by dying. They will know soon enough and I hope they have enough humanity left to be… https://t.co/g4vZIGquoG
Certainly, I have found that to be true. Many who have tried to attack me over the course of my life (I am now 68) have hit hard times, and some (quite a few) have died. Not exactly The Consolation of Philosophy, but rather heartwarming nonetheless…
Operatives from Russia’s FSB have prevented a planned terrorist attack organized by Ukrainian special services near a war monument in the town of Kakhovka in the Kherson Region:https://t.co/x7r6eXrKEopic.twitter.com/t5m4LmIJpK
I went to Greece last summer. First day in Athens I saw graffiti that read ‘refugees welcome, tourists go home.’ I love Greek people and culture, but Greece is suffering from the migrant crisis. Most of Europe is. https://t.co/Vj0ZkyPOEBpic.twitter.com/pdgTSRU7IQ
Not so sure about that last comment from “@elias_baa”…
Over the last year the British people paid £1.67 BILLION on hotel and accommodation for illegal migrants and asylum-seekers, equivalent to £4.6 million every day or £3,172 every minute. These costs over 10 years are equivalent to 15 new hospitals for the country.
'Keir Starmer and the Labour government have just thrown British workers under the proverbial bus.'@GoodwinMJ slams the 'two-tier tax system' after the UK-India trade deal allows Indian workers to be exempt from national insurance contributions. pic.twitter.com/LDoO4qI1xT
The only obstacle to the 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine is the Kiev government, which violates the existing agreements, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said:https://t.co/jQJe4LSRQXpic.twitter.com/IKp9kJTA7F
Surprising, yet not so surprising. Labour has done rather little for the people of Scotland in the past several decades. The SNP is only supported by, at most, half of the electorate. Reform may be the banner to which anti-SNP voters will flock.
A Labour MP loyally advertising to her constituents that as a result of her government’s policies, UK businesses will find it easier to outsource their products to foreign suppliers. It’s political suicide. Starmer is sending his MPs into the electoral Valley of Death. https://t.co/5uVNVv83lE
I think I had not previously heard of that one. Rosie Wrighting. 27 years old. Sounds like a total bimbo. Selected/elected as MP aged 26. Had a job with ASOS for what seems to have been months not years. Never done anything else. Studied (Mickey Mouse “degree”?) fashion, we are told…
The utter insanity of modern politics. Labour MPs and supporters are today fanning out to praise globalisation. It’s the Right who are now challenging the prevailing economic orthodoxy. And people on the Left clutch their pearls and say “what shall we do about populism?!?”.
Keir Starmer has decided on his response to the British people in the wake of last week’s results. It’s to turn and face them, stick two fingers up, and say “screw you” > Mail Plus > https://t.co/1cH0FZs1IF
The present “elected” dictatorship in the UK is evil.
“Aux armes, citoyens“…
My love for Russia began here. My grandparents house in Siberia 💗 Many wrongly believe that Siberia is a constant frozen wasteland, but in the spring and summer it’s a paradise full of plants, berries, and sunshine. This is my home, the one that hasn’t changed since childhood. pic.twitter.com/oHG3Ppae6K
Well, 8/10 this week, well-beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1 and 9 (though I did see that Danish TV series, some years ago). I more or less guessed the answers to questions 3 and 5 (from the back of my head, somewhere…).
The Trump administration is planning significant personnel cuts at the CIA and other major U.S. intelligence agencies.
The Washington Post claims the administration intends to cut the CIA's workforce by about 1,200 people over several years and cut thousands more from other… pic.twitter.com/VoPhJExSUi
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 3, 2025
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— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 3, 2025
Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 170 Ukrainian drones, eight Storm Shadow missiles and three Neptune missiles overnight , the MoD announced.
▪️96 drones were shot down over Crimea, 47 over Krasnodar Krai, nine drones were neutralized over Rostov Oblast,… pic.twitter.com/qrVlUuVYPP
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 3, 2025
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"The AfD is the most popular party in Germany and certainly the most representative in East Germany. Now the bureaucrats are trying to destroy it. The West together destroyed the Berlin Wall. And it was restored – not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German… pic.twitter.com/6oWU6XEw2c
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 3, 2025
Look what has already happened in France, and in respect of Romania and vis-a-vis Hungary. The EU, as it now is, is a barely-disguised dictatorship, a dictatorial supra-national regime.
Israeli Air Force launches series of strikes on Damascus (video) and several regions of Syria
At the same time, Turkish Air Force fighters entered Syrian airspace and began jamming GPS and sending warning signals to Israeli aircraft.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 3, 2025
[“Israeli Air Force launches series of strikes on Damascus (video) and several regions of Syria At the same time, Turkish Air Force fighters entered Syrian airspace and began jamming GPS and sending warning signals to Israeli aircraft. Despite this, a new Israeli Air Force squadron is currently heading to Syria. Syrian air defenses are unsuccessfully striking Israeli aircraft, whether Turkish F-16s will attempt to shoot down Israeli F-16s and F-35s will be shown in the next half hour, meanwhile Turkey is now jamming Damascus radars and GPS. Israeli fighters approaching Damascus are preparing for the fifth wave of airstrikes on the Syrian capital in the last hour and a half. UPD. The number of Israeli airstrikes on Syria in the period from December 9, 2024 to May 2, 2025 inclusive reached 167.2″]
This is why people are voting Reform. A striking 11,074 illegal migrants have now arrived on small boats this year, with more than 1,500 arriving Weds & Thurs alone. Labour are so incompetent they are reduced to blaming “the weather”.
[“When the Scharnhorst was sunk off the North Cape on 26 December 1943, the British commander issued the following statement: ‘”Gentlemen, the battle against the Scharnhorst has ended in victory for us. I hope that any of you who are ever called upon to lead a ship into action against an opponent many times superior, will command your ship as gallantly as the Scharnhorst was commanded today.“‘]
"Nearly 10,000 foreign nationals were arrested for sexual offences in the first 10 months of last year across England and Wales"https://t.co/oviiDiw4s6
He trashed his family as Prince Philip was dying.. he trashed his family as The Queen was dying… and now he’s trashing his family as both his father and sister-in-law have been battling cancer. Is there a more contemptible public figure in the world than Prince Harry? pic.twitter.com/HmXi4xsq8p
For once, I agree with Piers Morgan. I saw a few minutes of that interview. “The Harry formerly known as Prince” is just a ridiculous weasel. Many hold him in contempt, but few if any want to kill him or even assault him. In other words, he is in no significant peril should he wish to visit the UK, with or without Meghan Mulatta and/or their offspring.
The fact is that, without the accident or incident of his birth, Harry would be totally insignificant and would live in utter obscurity. He has nothing of interest to say, nothing at all.
As a matter of fact, he and the Mulatta are said to have hundreds of millions of dollars, so if he wants to employ a bodyguard (or a whole team) when in the UK, he and the Mulatta have the means to do so.
I noticed, for the first time, how very close together are Harry’s eyes; looks like some kind of genetic defect. Very strange. There is evidently something not quite right about Harry, mentally, but I have no view as to whether that has been caused, or triggered, by his marriage to, and apparent subservience to, the Mulatta. Perhaps he was always like that under the surface. The few times I saw him on TV, when he was a young officer or ex-officer, he always looked to be in good spirits, superficially.
His military service seems to have consisted of about 8 years in uniform as a junior officer, including a total of about 6 months deployed in Afghanistan, flying helicopters. He saw action a few times, apparently (that is to say, killing opponents on the ground from his attack helicopter…).
Thinking idly about it, it seems to me that Harry chose the right title for his book of memoirs— Spare. He now has no real function or role in the world. His situation reminds me of that of Vronsky in Anna Karenina, when Vronsky and Anna are in self-chosen exile in Italy, after having left Russia. Homesickness. Frustration. Relationship problems.
Incidentally, it infuriates me (though certainly not enough to want to kill or injure him, or even to —much— criticize him!) that Harry whines constantly about his life, his expenses, his little upsets, and the death of his mother (when he was 12), which last must have been very upsetting but which, after all, took place in 1997, 28 years ago! The man is now 40 years of age!
What I mean is that so many people in this world, indeed in the UK, are poor, suffering in various ways, wishing for a better life and/or a better society, and all this featherbedded nonentity can think about is his own comfort, security etc, and his unmerited wealth.
Never a word about the struggles and problems facing the British people.
In fact, in some ways I have more time for the Mulatta. At least she knows what real life is, having had to struggle, make a living for herself etc. Harry probably finds it a challenge to brush his own teeth.
I just have no time for him.
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Fighters from the Akhmat Special Forces have thwarted a Ukrainian incursion into the bordering Russian region of Kursk in a joint operation with Russian assault teams, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said:https://t.co/Axx9KMSMmUpic.twitter.com/mWTp2QzFF7
Wow. Labour MP Lucy Powell refers to the horrific rape gang scandal as a “little trumpet” & “dog whistle”
These people genuinely do not think the mass rape of white girls by Muslim Pakistani gangs is important and show open contempt for those who do https://t.co/RDENusXpO1
'The leading pollster says that the “devastating” local election results have shown Labour support is “in free fall” and voters lost to Reform and the Greens “are not likely to return to the party any time soon”.'https://t.co/TfwJ03sg0t
Well, it has taken several years, but at last my prediction of terminal decline for the main System parties is coming to pass, and evidently so.
Late thoughts on the recent by-election and local elections
One thing that struck me, looking at the pro-Labour or anti-Reform Twitterati, is how readily they describe, contemptuously, those who recently voted Reform as being “thick as mince“, “thick gammon racists” (the irony…), or “thick c**ts“, while often posting cartoons or AI-produced pictures of supposed Reform voters (shown as tattooed skinheads drinking cheap canned beer while draped in Union Jack flags, or wearing football-club clothing).
You would imagine that the opposite would be seen as more true, i.e. that repeatedly voting for the same System parties that have been driving the UK into the ground for decades (and especially since about 1989) might be seen as unintelligent or, in a word, stupid.
In fact, it is clear —as said often over the years on the blog— that many self-describing “Left” partisans have no real ideology left, only the wish to censor and attack even mildly nationalist people.
All those pseudo-socialists have left is that wish to “deplatform” others. They have no real ideology or principle left, and their preferred System party, Labour, is quite plainly just one face of a Janus-faced “uniparty”. Where is the real or significant difference between Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel “Labour” and the “Conservative” Friends of Israel governments of 2010-2024?
Such people seem to think that the voters in places such as Runcorn should be grateful to have a Labour-label government, whatever its policies, and whatever its actions and defects.
People did not, most of them, vote actively for Reform (in terms of ideology or policy), they voted Reform as a way to hit back at both Lab and Con, and as a way of trying to change a political and economic system that is no longer working for them. No social-national party of the slightest significance exists at present; Reform is the next-best option.
I see that, beyond Starmer-stein Labour propaganda trickery, nothing will change in terms of stopping the migration invasion, stopping the migrant-invaders taking over both social and private housing (paid for by the State out of taxation of the British voters); and nothing will improve in any significant way (if at all) for the British people economically.
Reform will rise up from here and, if it then founders, or fails, real social nationalism will then take up the baton. Raise the banners!
“Tim Montgomerie’s leap from the Tory ship to Reform UK? Now this is a statement. Thirty-three years of loyalty to the Conservatives, yet even he’s had enough of the dithering, U-turns, and wet centrism. Reform UK is becoming the island for those sick of the Westminster circus, a home for patriots tired of compromise and careerists. The Tories should be terrified—if stalwarts like Montgomerie are walking away, what does that say about the state of the party? Reform UK isn’t just nibbling at the edges anymore; it’s carving out a proper movement for common-sense politics and sovereignty. Watch this space, lads. The political realignment is only just beginning.”
Naturally, for anyone social-national, Reform UK is only a step forward, rather than any giant leap. Many of its expressed policies are wrong, and many of its candidates non-European. It is also pro-Israel etc.
Reform, however, may help to kill off the System parties over the next few years.
As for Tim Montgomerie, I have of course never had any time for him. He supported the fake “compassionate Conservatism” of David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne (both part-Jew) and the cruelties inflicted on so many by their policies, and by “welfare” (social security) “reformers” Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, the Jew “Lord” Freud etc.
Still, Montgomerie’s defection is an interesting commentary on the possible upcoming demise of the Conservative Party.
Reform UK is polling at around 20%. It has been there before, just about, but fell back to score only 14.29% at GE 2024. In my opinion, though, the fact that Reform UK was able to have 5 MPs elected (in contradistinction to other small parties of the past half-century and more) is more important than appears superficially.
To look at Reform UK’s underwhelming (in themselves and in terms of numbers) 5 MPs and say (as many Labour Party partisans, pro-EU drones etc, have done, expressly) “ha ha! You lost!“, totally misses the point.
For any small political party, under the UK electoral system, to get even one MP elected is huge; to get 5 elected at once is, well, massive.
That especially applies once one realizes that it was only the FPTP voting system, which since the 1960s has gradually ceased to reflect the real levels of political opinion in the country, which prevented Reform UK having about 93 MPs (14.29% of 650).
Under a (full) proportional representation system, Reform UK would have been awarded 93 MPs, the LibDems 79, the Conservative Party 154, and Labour 219, on the voting numbers at GE 2024.
In reality, were the voting system proportional, many more voters might have voted for Reform UK anyway, because not put off doing so by the perception that not voting Lab, Con, or LibDem is “a wasted vote”.
As can be seen from the graphic above, the present system of voting in England (particularly) is skewed against the smaller parties. Not Reform UK alone; the Green Party, under a fully-proportionate system, would have been awarded, at GE 2024, 42 MPs (6.39% of 650) instead of the 3 who were actually elected. Even George Galloway’s Workers’ Party would have 5 seats.
Some proportional-voting systems have a “threshold”, 1%, 5% etc, below which a party gets no seats.
We now have a Labour government which was voted for by a third (33.7%) of the actually-voting electorate, and by a mere 20% of the eligible electorate. It has only marginal legitimacy.
Having said all that, we are where we are. At present, the main two System parties still stand opposed to reform of the electoral process.
The SNP was founded in 1934, but only had its first MP elected in 1945, in a by-election, and he lost his seat only 3 months later. The next SNP MP won her seat in another by-election, in 1967, but lost it in 1970, though another SNP candidate won in another seat. At that time, there were 71 MPs holding Scottish constituencies.
The SNP did well in 1974, getting 11 MPs at one of the two general elections, but fell back to 2 in 1979. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, the SNP increased its support but even in 2010 had only 6 MPs out of the 59 then available in Scotland.
Then, in 2015, the SNP had its electoral miracle, based on a “Conservative” Party government at Westminster supported by relatively few Scottish voters, and on a Labour Party which had been supreme in Scotland since 1945, increasingly so since 1964 and then in the early 21stC, but which was perceived as being useless (particularly so in the Blair/Brown years (when Labour was in power at Westminster) and thereafter, when Scottish Labour was headed by the egregiously poor Jim Murphy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Murphy]. Murphy had been an unsuccessful university student for 11 years, and never did graduate, but became a Labour MP at the relatively early age of 29.
In 2015, Scottish Labour lost 41 of its 41 Westminster seats, while the SNP held or gained 56 (out of 59).
How does that relate to Reform UK in 2024 and perhaps 2029?
We have seen how the SNP took over a decade to get 1 MP, and 40 years to get a cadre of MPs, and how the SNP only surged to power 81 years after its foundation.
Reform UK, dating from only 2021, is however the same, in effect, as its previous persona as Brexit Party, founded in 2018, and a lineal descendant from UKIP (though that still exists as a small rump), founded in 1993.
Reform UK is now aiming to do in England, as well as in the UK as a whole, what the SNP did in Scotland in 2015, i.e. catch the wave of popular support. For Farage, Tice etc, there has to be that FPTP tipping point, the point at which the illogical, unfair etc FPTP system, instead of impeding Reform, starts to work in its favour.
Reform’s slightly underwhelming result at GE 2024 was purely the result of its support (and votes) being spread so thinly. Reform had considerably more actual votes than the LibDems, but few concentrations of votes. Where the concentration was dense enough, Reform got MPs.
The msm commentators, and the Labour and Conservative Party partisans, have not fully taken on board why Labour won so many MPs, and so won the election.
Labour won because the Conservative Party lost. Trite, yes, but the point is that —as can be seen from the percentage voting for Labour, only 33.7%— rather few people actually voted Labour, and most of those who did, did so in a wholly negative way, i.e. because in this or that particular constituency, the fight was perceived as being only between Lab and Con, or Lab and SNP in Scotland, and people desperately wanted rid of 14 years of “Conservative” misgovernment.
What, then happens when Labour, Starmer-Labour, Labour Friends of Israel Labour, is hated and despised as much as the Conservative Party was 5 months ago? Well, actually, that has already happened, but of course Labour is going nowhere, insulated from dissent, protest, and even riot by its very large majority (presently 156: see https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/government-majority).
It has taken Starmer only 5 months to put Labour down where the Cons were, in popular estimation, after many years, arguably 14 years.
If the voting patterns of several years continue, i.e. people voting against rather than for candidates and parties, then I think it entirely possible that, in voting against Labour, Reform might be the receptacle for those “anti” votes, more than the Conservative Party. In fact, I can see at least the possibility that both Lab and Con will slump, Lab to maybe 200 seats, and Con to somewhere below 100. If that were to happen, there would be about 350 seats going to others, in England maybe 250. Reform could be the main beneficiary of that.
It may be speculative to suggest that the next general election could see Reform UK as the party with the most Commons seats, but it is now not impossible.
How many seats could Reform get? I do not know. Anywhere from 50 to 200, if they continue to gather support. Reform came second in 98 seats at GE 2024; on the other hand, UKIP came second in 120 seats in 2015.
The only gamechanger I could see for the Cons would be if “Boris” Johnson were to come back into direct politics, take one of the few “safe” Con seats left, depose the Nigerian woman, Kemi Badenoch, then appeal to the public, “cosplaying” his favourite role as an am-dram Winston Churchill.
As regular readers know, I myself despise Johnson, and hold him in utter contempt. However, many voters do not. Stupid, maybe, but we must look at the realities. In fact, Johnson is not terribly popular with the voters; just more popular than Kemi Badenoch ever will be.
I have often wondered why Johnson was not granted a life peerage. He could have had one, had he wished. There is only one answer— he wanted to keep his options open. Were he to return as Con leader, he could not do worse than Sunak (or Badenoch) electorally, in my view. A “Boris” general election might steal much of Reform’s thunder. The Cons might even become the largest party again. Hateful to me (as is Starmer-Labour) but it might just happen.
At GE 2024, parties and individuals other than LibLabCon got a record 30.4%. That means that, already, if taken with the 40.2% of eligible voters who did not vote, 70.6% of people did not vote for the so-called “three main parties”.
In the early 1980s (when I took A Levels, studying for a few months alone in order to be able to get onto a law degree course, having dropped out of school a decade before, at age 16, in 1973), about 8% of candidates were awarded a Grade A. By 2009, that had grown to nearly 27%, despite the increase in the number of candidates.
In 2009, the concerns about grade inflation resulted in a new category being established, the A*. Look at the statistics. From 2009, about 8% were getting A* grades, but the ordinary A grades were, from 2009, running at around 18% or more. B and C grades were inflating even more.
As with the currency, grade inflation simply means that, in the end, the piece of paper becomes almost worthless.
Israeli war crimes— Genocide in Gaza
“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.
And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.
““My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people – more than 800 of them civilians – were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage. But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide. But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide. It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words. But there does need to be a clear intent. And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders – including the prime minister and the minister of defence – and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there. A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here. Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership. Lemkin – that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ – described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements. And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” – Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024 – Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024.“
Powerful.
That statement certainly puts the UK and US-based Jew-Zionist “human rights” lawyers in their place, the ones constantly tweeting about how what has been happening in Gaza is supposedly not a genocide because… [how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?].
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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer BLASTS Kemi Badenoch for being the ‘cheerleader’ of mass migration
'She was the cheerleader, she was the one urging on the removal of the caps for work visas… she championed it, she advocated it, record number of immigration!’ pic.twitter.com/JfOa2d8HCr
What really matters politically, though, is not the Westminster Bubble blame-game but what is actually happening on the streets. A million or more invaders every year (last year 1.2M) (yes, one or two hundred thousand leave, as do about a hundred thousand disenchanted Brits), and a steep slide in terms of public services, a decent society, crime, incomes, housing provision, and much else.
If things go on as they now are, there will be either a quietly-British form of social-national revolution somewhere or somewhen down the line, or (and/or) a kind of civil war mixed with a social war and a race war. A confused mixed picture, though, not a sharply-delineated and two-sided one.
In contemporary Britain, the truth is “inflammatory“…
I argued, in my long-ago talk at the London Forum in 2017, that people charged with such essentially political offences should never plead guilty.
Pleading guilty is understandable in ordinary criminal cases, in that it reduces the sentence where the evidence is overwhelming, but I consider it the duty of social-national and other nationalist defendants to plead not guilty. To plead guilty is to validate the prosecution. Also, in a jury case especially, you never know your luck.
I followed my own advice in my 2023 free speech trial.
Yes, I was still convicted, after a process that started, from my point of view, in February or March 2023, and ended with my sentencing hearing on 14 March 2024, but my “9-month community order” (probation, by any other word) ends in about a week, technically, and in reality finished in mid-September 2024; my “community order” sentence of “15 rehabilitation days” turned out to be half a dozen or so meetings ranging in duration from about 30 minutes to a couple of hours each.
Would I have been handed down a more lenient sentence had I pleaded guilty? I doubt it.
People at the Spectator Awards used to laugh at @Nigel_Farage. Last night, I sat in the room as he warned them Reform will cause an earthquake at the next election. There was total silence because everybody knows it could happen.
It does not even much matter that Reform UK would probably be poor at governing. The main thing is to smash the “two main parties” scam, and—to intrude a metaphor from the world of chess— to open up the board.
Happened to catch 10 mins of a TV jaunt around the Caribbean, presented by Clive Myrie. Needless to say, the black TV presenter focussed, when in Jamaica and Barbados, mainly on slavery, “reparations” for slavery, and on “racism” etc.
There was an amusing moment when Myrie met relatives in what I took to be their not unpleasant large villa, set amid a profusion of flowering plants. One of them mentioned how Myrie’s father had, after having moved to the UK, encountered “racism, not like you today“, but Myrie demurred. He obviously has that chip on the shoulder, despite being paid hundreds of thousands a year by the BBC and (as, co-incidentally, I just saw in the Guardian) large extra amounts moonlighting as well: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/04/clive-myrie-apologises-for-failing-to-declare-at-least-145000-in-outside-earnings-bbc.
YES. Trump just declared war on the Woke Hijacking of universities
This is HUGE:
-will fire radical left accreditors who bias the entire system -will take on the “Marxists, maniacs, and lunatics” -will defend the American tradition & Western civilisation -will protect free… pic.twitter.com/vKH5T36eee
“YES. Trump just declared war on the Woke Hijacking of universities This is HUGE: -will fire radical left accreditors who bias the entire system -will take on the “Marxists, maniacs, and lunatics” -will defend the American tradition & Western civilisation -will protect free speech -will remove all DEI bureaucrats and pointless administrative roles -will end racial discrimination in the admissions process -will introduce taxes and fines for those who introduce racial bias in admissions in name of “equity” -will get “anti-American insanity out of our institutions”.“
Nigel Farage confirms he’s yet to receive a reply from @Keir_Starmer about our request for information on how immigration is impacting crime, welfare, tax, and more
I suspect this won’t go down well for Labour in the Red Wall & Wales … https://t.co/XVGPoQR9x1
You can but admire Simon Myerson’s sanctimoniousness?
He’s had a pop at Alistair Campbell for not admitting mistakes and blaming someone else.
Meanwhile, when the judge in my case said Myerson was wrong to call me the scum of the earth and accuse me of contributing to someone’s… pic.twitter.com/POKcn031Qo
“You can but admire Simon Myerson’s sanctimoniousness? He’s had a pop at Alistair Campbell for not admitting mistakes and blaming someone else. Meanwhile, when the judge in my case said Myerson was wrong to call me the scum of the earth and accuse me of contributing to someone’s death, Myerson accused the judge of antisemitism and blamed me for not seeing the judge’s misconduct. Myerson has some front?“
There’s no question (mark) about it…
Simon Myerson is one of the weasels connected with the Israel-lobby organizations “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”]. He has been plotting behind the scenes for years. The “CAA” and “UKLFI” have been conspiring to have me arrested, charged, prosecuted, disbarred, removed from social media etc for at least a decade. So far not arrested, but certainly disbarred in 2016 (albeit wrongfully and unlawfully), expelled from Twitter in 2018, and charged/prosecuted/convicted/sentenced (see below).
As for Myerson, he was, fairly briefly, a Recorder (p/t judge) before being sacked (earlier in 2024) by reason of his vituperative tweets and other activities.
In the case of Wilson v. Newbon (deceased), Mendelsohn, and Cantor, which has been featured on the blog previously, Myerson’s evidence was, to be “diplomatic” about it, “not given any weight” by the learned trial judge. The same was true of the other Jews who gave “evidence” in that trial: Adam Cailler (newspaper scribbler), Joanne Bell (occupation, if any, unknown to me, but prolific on Twitter as “@jobellerina”); David Hirsh or Hirsch (minor academic specializing in “antisemitism”…); Nathan Comiskey (occupation, if any, unknown to me, but an active Jew-Zionist Twitter/X troll). There were a couple of other minor witnesses, their sworn testimony also discounted by the trial judge.
And Myerson did not have the good grace to apologise even when a judge in the High Court explained to him what he’d done. Myerson is a very strange man. pic.twitter.com/e7C2y8IhUN
Having dealt with Mark Lewis in my litigation for over three years, I have to say this is all of a piece. I’m reminded of the two times – that we know of – that Mark Lewis provided untrue information to the Court and then got found out. pic.twitter.com/AbOoFaiRk4
CASE UPDATE: in relation to my costs, one defendant now complains he was badly advised by his solicitor. The judge’s response is “That is not a factor I can properly determine or take into account.”
Since then, the surviving defendants (Newbon killed himself) have been ordered to pay the costs of Wilson but (as far as I know) have not fully complied. As for Lewis, he should have been struck off the solicitors’ roll years ago.
Lewis’ clients must bitterly regret taking the cases to trial.
I don’t know what Lewis’ advice to them was. It does seem from Pete Newbon’s messages that Lewis advised him he would win and Newbon trusted him. pic.twitter.com/Aeb7iqeMLR
It is clear that there is an occult (in either sense) aspect to the mad wish of Starmer and Macron (both in the pocket of the Israel lobby) to have war with Russia. It cannot be in the interest of Western Europe (any more than of Central and Eastern Europe) to become a smoking and irradiated ruin.
Macron and Starmer are marching to the beat of another drum, that of the secretive NWO/ZOG cabals.
…and “nationalist” political parties which are not, not in the slightest, “nationalist”, let alone social-national (look at the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, Reform UK etc).
Reform UK has glimmerings of “nationality” but is pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, and not even against having non-white candidates or MPs. This is farcical.
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[A mother hides her face as she puts four children up for sale, presumably by reason of poverty, Chicago, 1948. “The land of freedom“, it is claimed (I have to say that I never found it so…). I hope that the children were able to stay together at least, and that their lives became easier later]
“Labour‘s plan to smash the small boat gangs ‘won’t work’, Home Office insiders have claimed.
Civil servants at the department are said to be ‘underwhelmed’ by the Government’s proposals to tackling Channel crossings and reducing illegal migration to the UK.
It comes as nine different boats carrying 572 migrants were intercepted crossing the Channel on Saturday.“
[Daily Mail]
572. In a single day.
As previously noted, the hordes of unwanted migrant-invaders (both on “small boats” and otherwise, thousands daily) will collapse our society. When exactly that will happen is uncertain, but we see signs of it all around us now.
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I still see people on Twitter/X shouting loudly for “Scottish Independence”, but it is pretty clear that the wish to break away from the UK, i.e. from England, is waning north of the border.
I do not purport to know Scottish politics in detail but, to me, there was always something very odd about the “Indy” noise. For a start, how could Scotland really be “independent” in any meaningful way while (as the SNP and Alba parties wanted) it remained in, or returned to, the EU, maybe NATO too, and would still be under the Western finance-capital blanket (IMF, World Bank and the rest)? What does “independence” really mean, or look like?
The SNP/Alba idea of Independence always seemed to me rather old-fashioned somehow, a bit like Irish Home Rule and “Independence” in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Then there is the SNP and Alba idea that to be “Scottish” you either have to be born there, or maybe even just live there, like the black/brown immigrants they “welcomed” and continue to encourage. So they are saying that a Pakistani who was born in, or maybe just arrived in, Scotland, is closer to the (real) Scots than an Englishman in London (or even Berwick-upon-Tweed)? Mad.
The SNP is now going to plateau electorally, at best, after the Sturgeon financial scandals etc. Flash in the pan. A handful of Commons seats until 2015, a massive upsurge that year (56 out of 59), then a slight decline until the disaster of 2024 (9 out of 57). In local councils, the SNP has (from 2022) 453 out of 1,223. About a third. Not overly impressive. What will 2027 bring? I do not know, but I am guessing a significant fall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party.
As for Alba, it failed from the off, really. Even Alex Salmond could not propel it to escape velocity. Maybe his acquittal on sex charges (surely a perverse verdict, and probably obtained via Nat-supporters on the jury) still left stigma. Now that Salmond has died, Alba will just fade away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_Party.
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Israel's Channel 12, citing security sources: Netanyahu holds his meetings in a fortified place in the basement of his office, fearing another assassination attempt.
Since the drone attack on his residence in Caesarea, Netanyahu has been holding his meetings in a fortified place… pic.twitter.com/50c4rbrWnP
Macron and Starmer are pushing Biden to approve the use of French-British Storm Shadow missiles, capable of striking deep into Russian territory before Biden’s term ends pic.twitter.com/a4xtKF0ED9
Ukrainian realities. Advertisements for transplant-ready body parts have flooded the dark web, with organs being sold at high prices and delivered quickly to European surgeons. This ad sells a man's heart. If to judge upon the last sentence, it belonged to a German mercenary. pic.twitter.com/kL5LnMFYFy
When I had a discussion with the BBC’s Nick Robinson he said the claim people were trying to redefine the British countryside as “racist” was “nonsense” https://t.co/sQ5a10Y0aipic.twitter.com/wbkuiZeM9f
Even the countryside, it has been decided, cannot be free of the ever-increasing numbers of blacks and browns…the real British people have to welcome those invaders and interlopers into every hitherto safe space.
“IDF Air Force destroyed a hotel where Ivan Bunin, Charles De Gaulle and Albert Einstein stayed The Palmyra Hotel in Belbek is listed as one of Lebanon’s major historical sites. It was built in 1874. Besides Bunin, De Gaulle and Einstein, Winston Churchill and Pablo Picasso were also among the guests.“
This research on 180 year old trees is of great importance as it substantiates the major role for mature temperate forests in climate change mitigation.
As a method of proven CCS, it calls for urgent increased protection for mature trees.
I have posted in recent days a couple of hours of memories by the acclaimed, but now also “cancelled”, historian David Irving. Well worth seeing and listening to, so here it is again:
Today, 7 October 2024, the Israel lobby (aka Zionist lobby or Jewish lobby) is using the events of 7 October 2023 as a hook on which to hang the whole “holocaust” narrative, which in fact (under that label) mainly dates from the 1970s and later, despite being about disputed “events” of the early 1940s. The “usual suspects” are going mad on Twitter/X. A partly-coordinated “claque“.
At the same time, Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is again displaying his fealty to Israel. In lay terms, Starmer can be, not inaccurately, described as “traitor”.
Also released today, figures showing that the number of people killed by the (Israeli) Jews in Gaza over the past year stands at about 42,000 (killed, not including the much larger number injured, in many cases grievously); many, the majority, have been women and children.
Starmer is a total disgrace, as well as being a freeloading hypocrite.
The same goes for Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and others.
Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal announced that Ukraine will not renew its natural gas transit agreement with Russia, aiming to reduce Russian energy dependence. https://t.co/Z6WYA7toOU
Should I comment as I would like, “the usual suspects” on Twitter/X etc would no doubt make yet another malicious complaint to the poundshop Stasi police…
Still, the locals could stop them, though not by merely asking…
Such fake “Scottish nationalists” are beyond funny. Total cretins.
The London Economic is run by the same team as JOE UK. Two directors are from “an international boutique fund manager and principal investor focused on debt, expansion capital and private equity investment in the technology and media sectors.” Sefton was oil and gas executive. https://t.co/OajDNPfCxJpic.twitter.com/8u23aNcgah
Odds-on that those ultimately behind that “company” are Jewish, and probably Israeli.
When I was resident in Kazakhstan in 1996-1997, one of those I encountered a few times was the chief of an Israeli energy company called something like Suntree. They were taking over hydropower and other electrical production and distribution plants and networks.
That Israeli, about (?) 70 or 75, had been a general in the Israeli Defence Forces, and he told me (by implication critical of the UK Embassy in Almaty, the then capital) that every Israeli ambassador is given, on appointment, a list or quota of connections to be made— economic, diplomatic, military etc.
Look at how the Israelis interfere in UK politics; of course they have the advantage of the voluntary help given to Israeli officials by “British” Jews.
“The far right can’t take away our hopes and memories. Culture is our weapon.”
[Milo Rau in The Guardian]
but…
“Milo Rau was born in 1977 in Bern, Switzerland.[1] His father’s Jewish family moved from Germany to Switzerland to escape the Nazis shortly before World War Two, while his mother, surnamed Larese, had Italian origins. His parents divorced when he was about two years old.”
I was at a medical centre recently (not on my own account). While waiting in the almost empty waiting area, I noticed a steady stream of people even older than me (in their 70s and maybe older) lining up, looking perfectly well, in order to order their anti-flu and supposed anti-Covid injections.
People with (I presume) real problems had to wait while those “worried well” pensioners endlessly discussed it all with the receptionist. Some of those nuisances wanting what I expect they term their “jabs” were even wearing facemask muzzles. No, dear…that was a couple of years ago…(the message has apparently not yet got through).
Loonies, again. Brainwashed by msm propaganda.
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Much of the world is laughing at Bonkers Britain. Releasing criminals so we can imprison people who wrote offensive things on Facebook pic.twitter.com/s8ZfSPnGAJ
@Fox_Claire we don't live in a democracy! It's a lie we are given as an illusion of choice otherwise people would riot. The Blue , Green , or Red pill options all lead to the same path. Look at Brexit never happened. Thats why riots are happening, then the law starts to work!
When Starmer was booed at the Southport commemoration – that’s his next five years. And if the rozzers arrest people for booing, they will just maintain a stony silence.
This 53-year-old woman, a full-time carer with no previous convictions, wrote on Facebook 'Blow the mosques up'. It was a wicked thing to say, and she deserves public shaming. But 15 months in jail? When violent thugs are often given suspended sentences? https://t.co/lwPDd1y9Uo
People have already lost faith in the UK political process, and the police. Until now, the courts have retained a measure of public respect. Will the courts and the judges now go the way of the politicians and police?
“Respect” is not quite the same as “fear”. Judge Jeffreys was feared but not respected. Look what happened to him.
“George Jeffreys, 1st Baron JeffreysPC (15 May 1645 – 18 April 1689), also known as “the Hanging Judge“,[1] was a Welsh judge. He became notable during the reign of King James II, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor (and serving as Lord High Steward in certain instances). His conduct as a judge was to enforce royal policy, resulting in a historical reputation for severity and bias.”
The judge said: "Of the people I have thus far sentenced, you are the person who provides me with the most difficulty because it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that you…
“This is how ludicrous things have become. The judge said: “Of the people I have thus far sentenced, you are the person who provides me with the most difficulty because it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that you spat at anybody. But it is accepted by you that you were a party to this disorder and I have to sentence you on that basis, and you know that anyone party to it has to receive a custodial sentence.” Man described by judge as the ‘least involved’ in riot jailed for a yearhttps://telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/youngest-female-rioter-13-court-mother-step-father/“
I was not familiar with the facts of the case until (just now) reading the above link, but if the defendant did actually nothing, neither by deed nor by word (of incitement, though he did say things of an insulting and profane character), then how could any judge, properly directing himself, either find the defendant guilty (even on a plea of guilty, which may have been procured by fear of a heavier sentence yet) or hand down any custodial sentence?
I see now, in the Daily Telegraph report, that the defendant did in fact push at a police riot shield, though once only.
The judge was fair enough to have gone into recess at the trial, until further video evidence was screened.
Surely appealable, at least on sentence.
Indeed, if the defendant’s only action had been to be at the scene, and even if, so to speak, “silently in agreement” with the acts done by others, then that surely would not be enough? His words actually said were at worst ambiguous, in my view. Meaning that, on those premises, arguende, there was no actus reus sufficient in law (?). However, the pushing of the riot shield might (and obviously did) change that, in the mind of the judge. Rather thin, though.
Even if the judge felt impelled to imprison that defendant, surely 3 months would have been more than enough? He would then have been released within 4-5 weeks. Now, he will be spending about 5 months in prison, unless he gets bail pending any appeal on sentence.
Strongly favours migration-invasion, and mass immigration generally. Pretends to think that it actually benefits this country! An enemy of Britain’s future.
@Fox_Claire on @BBCNewsnight just pointed out that while there are dedicated squads of police trawling social media for people to prosecute, if you call the cops because someone has burgled your house or stolen your car they're always too busy.
Victory of @elonmusk over #GARM is an enormously significant moment in the struggle to preserve free speech – Gerald Warner in @reactionlife. Have made this piece free to read. https://t.co/tKZhvCZ1tZ
(to British families or individuals only, though, not to migrant-invaders or any other non-Europeans).
A 53-year-old woman, the primary carer for her husband, who led a "kind and compassionate lifestyle". Sentenced to 15 months of prison time for a quickly deleted FB post. As she was convicted, she replied, “Thank you, your honour". Just awful. .https://t.co/7dTwlaI049
Again, plainly excessive. A suspended sentence would have been appropriate; the immediate 15 months, in all the circumstances, and seeing the strong personal/family mitigation— savage. As it is, the defendant will only be released after 5 months (minus a few days).
Starmer and his compliant judges may have repressed the recent protests (which were coming to an end anyway— the (((Hope not Hate))) cabal just invented the spectre of 100 more “far right” protests— but, in my opinion, people are getting even angrier, albeit under the surface, and with both the general situation in the country and about the “elected” dictatorship (“elected” by a mere 20% of eligible voters) of Two-Tier Keir.
People are just wary of openly saying or publishing online anything now, because of the open repression of free speech, and because of the police-state over-reaction by both Two-Tier Keir and those judges who have recently been giving out Cold War East European-style “People’s Court” sentences (for political “crimes” only).
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He really sickens me , do this to pensioners and curtailing the British natives freedoms hard won , such as the freedom of expression our freedoms set down in Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. https://t.co/nHbXjgmc1p
🇺🇦ZELENSKY APPROVED PLAN TO BLOW UP NORD STREAM PIPELINES
Despite the mainstream media saying for months that Russia blew up the pipelines, the Wall Street Journal has now revealed it was planned and executed by Ukraine at a cost of $300,000.
“ZELENSKY APPROVED PLAN TO BLOW UP NORD STREAM PIPELINES
Despite the mainstream media saying for months that Russia blew up the pipelines, the Wall Street Journal has now revealed it was planned and executed by Ukraine at a cost of $300,000.
When the CIA learned of the plan they told Zelesnky to abort it, however it still went ahead. According to senior Ukrainian defense and security officials, the pipelines were a legitimate target. They are jointly owned by Russian, German, French, and Dutch companies, and the explosion caused 800 million cubic meters of gas, equivalent to about 3 months of Danish gas supplies, to escape.
It’s a problem for Germany, as a senior official said: “An attack of this scale is a sufficient reason to trigger the collective defense clause of NATO, but our critical infrastructure was blown up by a country that we support with massive weapons shipments and billions in cash.” Ukraine still officially denies involvement in the attack.
The vulgar mercantilist influence comes out in the language, and has for a number of years.
Apart from that, throwing money at a trade union or its members, in order to ensure a period without strikes, is easy enough, and not some masterstroke of Labour Party industrial relations.
You have until Monday to apply to be in charge of the UK's trade with Poland: a top-15 UK trading partner with £31 billion (up 15% YoY) and buffer against Russia.
Pay: £33k.
Otherwise, a nearby Bill’s restaurant is advertising for a sous chef: £40k https://t.co/9gTRkXsVfP
Wow. Reform is ahead of Tories in 2nd. Labour 33%, Reform 21%, Tories 20% (WeThink)
"Farage is winning over cultural conservatives who are economically populist, who loathe mass immigration and think global corporates are taking them for a ride"https://t.co/6tTOpMRoCr
You consistently opposed the one law that created a legal duty on UK universities to promote free speech& protect scholars who do not support the woke orthodoxy. So we shall take no lectures on free speech from you. https://t.co/dxoYS3KRmn
Then compare that to the equally inaccurate and one-sided BBC and Sky News (etc) reportage about the Ukraine conflict, the migration-invasion and much else.
Other than in the most egregious cases, such as where there is clear evidence of incitement to violence or law-breaking, I don't think anyone should be sent to jail for something they wrote on social media. That is a hill worth dying on.
I agree completely. The UK has gone slowly mad in that regard over the past 50 years and especially the past 25 years.
.@simoncalder. But the poor old taxpayer has to fork out far, far more on the pretend private rail franchisees( who delay my journeys far more often than any union does) and their bonuses. And drivers drive trains.I’ve never worked out what the operating companies do for me. https://t.co/YWcq7OmJr3
Example(s) of and from what Katie Hopkins calls “Batshit Bonkers Britain”.
Quite remarkable to see so many colleagues on the left reveal themselves as true "hang 'em, flog 'em" reactionaries after spending years berating me for the same thing!
As frequently noted on the blog over the past 7 years, the self-describing “Left” has almost nothing left except hysterical demands that “the authorities” should “deplatform” anyone of whom they disapprove, or who is not of the “woke” orthodoxy. It even came out during the “Covid” hysteria of a few years ago.
The once-socialist so-called “Left” and/or “antifascist” tendency has actually nothing to offer the British people. No ideals. No ideas. Just witch-hunts.
Incidentally, anyone wanting to confirm that those sorts of individuals really are of “Batshit Bonkers Britain”, read this
During the past night there was a new eruption of Etna volcano in Sicily. Due to the emission of ash into the atmosphere, the airport in Catania was closed until 18:00 pic.twitter.com/oghP9qmYl6
The lady in the white bikini better start running…
Megregor: The Kursk operation serves to create the illusion of progress
🇺🇸 It is possible that the United States participated in providing the intelligence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed to attack the Kursk region, said former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor. The… pic.twitter.com/bLAjIz8Wf7
“The Kursk operation serves to create the illusion of progress.
It is possible that the United States participated in providing the intelligence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed to attack the Kursk region, said former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor.
The goal of the operation is to create the illusion of success so that warmongers in Washington will continue to send money to Ukraine, he emphasized.“
Exactly.
A group of over 100 Israeli settlers invaded a Palestinian settlement near the city of Kalkilja in the West Bank. Burn houses and cars. pic.twitter.com/uvNGJ9Ktbd
#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
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.
Ian Robert Millard 