A 19-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was sentenced to 30 months in prison in Marseille for sexually assaulting five goats and a lamb at a local animal shelter. One of the goats died from the injuries it sustained.
Such barbarians have no place in Europe. Untermenschen. Put him and others up against a wall.
A century ago, one in every four big trees in the eastern forests of America was a chestnut, and every autumn the country under them ate for free.
The American chestnut was a giant, a hundred feet tall, and there were close to four billion of them from Maine to the Deep South.… pic.twitter.com/UYFP1ngx6S
[“A century ago, one in every four big trees in the eastern forests of America was a chestnut, and every autumn the country under them ate for free.
The American chestnut was a giant, a hundred feet tall, and there were close to four billion of them from Maine to the Deep South. Each autumn they dropped a carpet of sweet nuts so thick you raked it up by the sackful. Families roasted them all winter. Hogs and cattle were turned loose in the woods to fatten on them for nothing. Turkey, deer and bear lived off the same mast. The timber, straight and rot-proof, built the barns, the fence posts and the furniture. One tree fed the people, fattened the livestock, carried the wildlife through winter, then built the house.
Then in 1904 a blight arrived on imported Asian chestnut stock, spotted first on the trees at the Bronx Zoo. It moved through the forest at fifty miles a year, and by the 1940s it had killed close to four billion trees, nearly every mature chestnut on the continent. One of the worst ecological catastrophes in the country’s history.
Here is the part that should stop you. The tree is not quite dead. The old roots still send up shoots, year after year, that the blight cuts down before they grow tall enough to fruit. A century on, the stumps are still trying, and still failing.
A free harvest that fed a continent every autumn for thousands of years, gone in forty, and still reaching for a sky it will never reach again.”]
The American Chestnut Foundation has been breeding blight resistance into the genome for thirty years. The biotechnology is already being applied, quietly, without the podcast.
Refers to senior Labour Friends of Israel drone, James Purnell, being appointed as Burnham’s Chief of Staff.
Purnell is a horrible careerist, entirely in the Jewish/Israeli pocket. Pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, anti-Welfare State, anti any privileges for pensioners, pro- finance capitalism, and pro-globalism. An outright enemy of the people.
He also has a history of the most cynical attacks on sick and disabled people including trying to get claimants to sit lie-detector tests. If anyone thought Burnham was going to be an improvement, they have their answer.
I think the issues now is when, and not if, we reach “Crossover”. The point where Reform are no longer ahead in the polls. And what the internal and external reaction will be. https://t.co/f156yhNUVk
[“Here are three seemingly separate stories you might have missed in the last week in the UK that, taken together, reveal something far more profound.
First, it’s emerged that pro-immigration campaigners helped place and prepare illegal migrants in the audience on the BBC flagship debate programme, Question Time, to “test” pro-migration messages in front of the British people.
Second, it’s been revealed that a writer who helped craft storylines on the popular BBC primetime soap Eastenders is a “migration and racial justice” activist who works on “changing people’s views” through popular culture.
And third, it’s been revealed that the family of Rhiannon Whyte — a young mother who was stabbed to death by an illegal migrant from Sudan — was guided by state officials to “tone down” their statement after Rhiannon’s murder, because of fears it might cause unrest among the wider population.
Three seemingly different stories that involve three different institutions – the BBC, the creative industry, and the British state. What do they all have in common?
They all reflect the Narrative State — a state that no longer sees its main role as being to describe reality but present a warped version of reality that reflects and reinforces its dominant ideology.“]
We are going to need a lot of walls and squads…
Burnham’s allies have told the “i” newspaper he plans to water down Labour’s plans to reform ‘indefinite leave to remain’.
Reminder: many of those who are being given the right to remain are part of the disastrous Boriswave which nobody voted for.
[“Burnham’s allies have told the “i” newspaper he plans to water down Labour’s plans to reform ‘indefinite leave to remain’.
Reminder: many of those who are being given the right to remain are part of the disastrous Boriswave which nobody voted for.
It was an enormous betrayal of the British people.
Burnham’s allies talk about “fairness”.
But how is it “fair” to undercut British workers by importing 5 million mainly low-wage, low-skill, non-European workers into the country and then forcing the British people to cover the cost?
And how is it fair to demand the British people stump up an estimated £600 BILLION for a policy they never asked for?
It’s not.
As usual with Labour:
It’s immigrants first.
British workers second.”]
Air defense systems intercepted and neutralized 323 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/5R3R7ZIDiKpic.twitter.com/ii5nLlLHVR
The CSTO hears the latest statements from the Kiev regime regarding Minsk, and the situation on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border is beginning to escalate, Chairman of the CSTO's Permanent Council Viktor Vasilyev told:https://t.co/dRzcM0zsEWpic.twitter.com/yIl4qelkrw
If mass deportations are not “realistic” (but who decides what is “realistic”?), then the problem will have to be dealt with in other ways. Sterilization, for a start. Other solutions beyond that.
The Nationality Act 1948 has caused this false data. It needs to be repealed. A piece of paper or being born here doesn’t make you British. https://t.co/FlzeywF0A8
Rupert Lowe has his points but has not the consistent sound ideology, nor the wide and deep education, to be a real national leader.
Different monkey, same organ grinder in Tel Aviv. @AndyBurnhamGM is a glorified Arfur Daley. Andy says he wants the country to prosper, he is NOT talking about UK🤦♂️ https://t.co/VK5pNOaZQM
— Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts (@officialrnintel) June 24, 2026
For a long time, the French have indulged in a favourite socio-cultural fantasy, i.e. that if a non-European is born in France, or even just arrives, he or she either is, or can become, “French”, especially if processed through the French school system. Sadly misguided.
This Ghanaian 🇬🇭 is a civnat dream – a pilot & pays taxes – yet still raped a 12 year old. Total Remigration NOW https://t.co/qhJNsf5mST
The Epstein files have shed light on the "heinous scum" who were been inventing myths about Russia for many years to divert attention from their own crimes, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, told TASS:https://t.co/dy6qM6NHJdpic.twitter.com/PcQQh4GCED
Good God. Talk about “the new Bu“! J. Edgar Hoover must be spinning in his grave.
Graham fears rational voices around Trump might convince him to call off Iran attack
The US has the chance “to bring about historic change” in Iran, “but it’s increasingly clear to me that voices opposing entanglement and the risk associated with decisive action are getting… pic.twitter.com/vpS296Hu18
Lindsey Graham is a truly disgusting person and puppet of the Jewish lobby/Israel lobby, even by the standards of most American politicians.
Iran will purchase 500 of the most advanced portable air defense missile systems "Verba" and 2500 missiles for them from Russia, as well as "Mowgli-2" night aiming devices for these systems under a contract worth a total of 500 million euros.
OK, there is something increasingly strange about this scandal. I honestly don't understand why Keir Starmer has failed to take any action. None of the facts have been disputed. The optimum political move would have been to draw a line under this quickly. What is he scared of? https://t.co/5WT0ZaHGol
Is Dan Hodges being disingenuous or just fatally naive? Has he never heard of the Jewish lobby, the Israel lobby, the “New World Order” plan(s), or “Zionist Occupation Government”?
Starmer is not the organ-grinder, but merely one of the monkeys…
I have tried various games or tests like that in the past.
Today, I tried same test:
Not far different from tweeter Sophie Meaden, but rather more socialist and even less authoritarian.
There, you see: I am not really “an extremist” (as Jew-Zionist fanatics, “antifa” loonies etc, even the Clown Prosecution Service, have often said) after all…
National Socialists are terrifying.
Imagine a whole group of people who:
– Protect and love animals, nature and children – Prioritise the health, safety and welfare of their people and nation – Aim to abolish everything harmful to their people and nation (violent crime, drugs,…
Prioritise the health, safety and welfare of their people and nation
Aim to abolish everything harmful to their people and nation (violent crime, drugs, prostitution etc)
Appreciate and cultivate beauty, art and skill
View one another as family, as part of a spiritually collective soul
Definitely wouldn’t want to associate with anyone like that.
It’s a wonder how any of us sleep at night knowing there is evil like this living among us.
In all seriousness, the only people who have any reason to fear national socialists are those who pose a threat to our people, nation, animals, nature etc.
So if you fear us, you should take a look in the mirror and realise that YOU are the problem. Not us.”]
Offspring of boomers – unlike their boomer parents and unlike previous generations – are less likely / less able to form lasting relationships and produce any kids of their own.
Blaming boomers for all their ills is unproductive and tiresome. Change the bloomin' record. https://t.co/9t5UewIl54
Absolutely agree. The Andrew Windsor hype is to distract frm all the other corruption surrounding UK establishment. https://t.co/xaNGB84SfM
— Stephen L Bates 💙 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 #FBPE #WakeupUK (@StephenLBates) February 23, 2026
Investigations are OK, and sometimes necessary, but in the final analysis, again, I want concrete results. Read that how you will.
🚨 NEW: Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons has accidentally messaged all Labour MPs that he will be investigated by Keir Starmer’s ethics adviser over a possible Ministerial Code breach
It follows claims he commissioned a report containing journalists’ personal information pic.twitter.com/Mu8M4wYCxF
“Josh Simons“. Jew, or half-Jew. The Jewish/Zionist/Israel influence runs like a toxic streak through the whole “get rid of Corbyn”/Labour Friends of Israel/Labour Against Antisemitism/Starmer/Mandelson/Labour Together/Maxwell/Epstein thing. Absolutely toxic influence, both in the UK and, under other guises, in the USA and elsewhere.
In 2022 Simons became the director of the think tank Labour Together[11] which he led until his Parliamentary selection in 2024.[12]
Simons is also a member of the UK parliament Israel All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), which supports Israel and advocates a bilateral relationship between the UK and Israel.
In February 2026 it was reported that PR firm APCO Worldwide had investigated the private affairs of several journalists when commissioned by Labour Together, whilst Simons was director, to ascertain the source of reports about Labour Together’s late declaration of certain donations.[13]
The Sunday Times reported that the APCO report was written by a former Sunday Times employee and was shown to Labour shadow cabinet members, falsely suggesting that two Sunday Times journalists were part of a Russian campaign to politically harm Starmer. Labour Together sent a shorter version of the APCO report to GCHQ‘s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which declined to investigate.”
[Wikipedia]
A conspiratorial cabal.
Note the repeated attempts that have been made to blame Putin and Russian Intelligence for the defaults of Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell etc, when it was quite obviously an Israeli operation from the start. MOSSAD, Aman etc.
Dan Hodges and other scribblers have eagerly recycled the “it was Putin and Russia and the SVR” smoke, but it really never washed. Utter bilge.
I wonder whether that dishonest Steele person, who was in SIS before he turned to making money privately, was involved in the anti-Russia smear (again; not for the first time, of course).
Every single piece of literature and video we have put out during the Gorton & Denton by-election campaign has been in English, our national language. I should not need to point this out but with Labour & the Greens doubling down on dangerous sectarianism I feel the need to.
The betting market is strongly focussed on the Greens to take Gorton and Denton at the by-election. Maybe so, but I remain convinced that Reform and Goodwin can still do this.
Many 2024 Labour voters (50.8% vote-share) in the constituency will either not vote at all, or will migrate to Reform or the Greens.
Many of the Muslims, who comprise about a third of all Gorton/Denton voters, will migrate to Green; at any rate, the Muslim vote may be split between Green and Labour (in proportions that are and will be unknown, even after Thursday).
How many white English/British voters will go for Reform is also up in the air, as is any quantification of the chance of Reform being able to recruit people eligible to vote but who did not vote in 2024 (turnout was only 46.8%, pathetic for a general election). In 2024, Labour was returned with 50.8% of votes cast, but only about 23%-24% of all eligible votes.
My guess is that few real British/English voters are going to vote Labour in this by-election, and they are about 65% of all eligible voters. The Muslims will either go Labour or Green, probably more the latter.
My conclusion remains what it has been since the beginning: very close, but Reform can do this, if luck is with them.
Incidentally, at this by-election, a third of the voters are the Muslims, and they are all or almost all, Pakistanis. Should non-Europeans even be allowed to vote? Frankly, I think not.
“Police vehicles were used to traffic her and some of the abuse events were called ‘cop nights.'”
“torture included waterboarding and strangulation by rope.”
“raped by a dog, filmed, and forced to rewatch the footage as the men placed bets.”
[“Police vehicles were used to traffic her and some of the abuse events were called ‘cop nights.’”
“torture included waterboarding and strangulation by rope.”
“raped by a dog, filmed, and forced to rewatch the footage as the men placed bets.”
“she witnessed the murder of at least three girls, one of whom was allegedly killed as a punishment for speaking to the police force.”
You aren’t angry enough.“]
That is my conclusion about British people generally over the past decades— “not angry enough“. Too many are still far more interested in whether a “British” sport team (mostly composed of blacks and browns, usually) can beat some other such team, somewhere or other in the world, in some meaningless competition, than in the steep slide of the UK into multikulti dystopia.
Uber Zionist Margaret Hodge will, we hear, become Ofcom chair after uber Zionist Michael Grade steps down. A two step solution to ensure the Palestine & Palestinian suffering are denied proper coverage. And the Israeli state gets away with atrocities.
On Saturday this lady gave me such a horrible response whilst I was out leafletting.
She ran towards me, swore and insulted me…whilst she was still in her dressing gown at 2pm.
Luckily she captured it all on her Ring doorbell so that the world can see how lovely she is.… https://t.co/4HT38kLLXv
— Matt Smith – Reform UK Sheffield West 🇬🇧🩵 (@MattJSmith) February 23, 2026
Presumably, that woman then retreated indoors to her bottle of booze, her hashish pipe, and her viewing of something such as Loose Women.
Lot of people, rightly, been saying Gorton & Denton is a must win seat for Starmer. But as I wrote at the weekend, I can’t think of a worse backdrop for a governing party than this one. If Reform don’t win I think serious questions will be asked of Nigel Farage.
Not necessarily. After all, Reform is still an upstart party, despite having had opinion poll leads for well over a year. I think that, if Labour cannot retain Gorton and Denton, it proves that they are toast. However, if Labour were to hold on by a few points, that would still indicate that they are toast in all but long-traditional, kneejerk Labour tribal areas.
If Reform comes in second to the Greens, especially,then that would be a smallish setback, bearing in mind the Muslim/Islamist factor. If Reform comes in third, then that would be a far bigger setback, though scarcely fatal.
It is true that Reform is not breaking past the 35% point in the opinion polls, and usually is not breaking past the 30% mark. That is because (as Goodwin has said) Farage has welcomed too many tarnished Con Party defectors, several not even white European. Were Reform social-national, and free of fake “libertarian” rubbish, it would be at 50% in the polling.
Ha ha. Yes, I am sure that she feels terribly afraid, that BBC talking head “earning” hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, and who only has to say a word to have the police (and the several Jew-Zionist snoop and strongarm squads) come running to her assistance.
More propaganda.
The hypocrisy would be stunning, were it not so typical, and so often seen.
Russian troops in the special military operation zone are acting in a coordinated and efficient way, firmly standing for their country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the presentation of state awards to Heroes of Russia in the Kremlin:https://t.co/9ztRNvxNRVpic.twitter.com/wUghkXLQrt
Top EU diplomats have failed to reach an agreement on the 20th package of anti-Russian sanctions, EU Foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said after the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting:https://t.co/CQ96pXm6Dmpic.twitter.com/mqLoXKwsx5
Hey! Had they been offering that when I was there 1989-1993 (on and off), I would certainly have signed up for a few days, or a week or two, while I was reading for the New York Bar (I was Admitted and sworn in in early 1993, if memory serves) and had little money most weeks.
Zelensky: Russians who pay taxes and thereby support Russia's army, —are criminals Today, "our star" is in high demand in Western media. For example, in an interview with AFP, the frightened clown admitted that he lived in a bunker for two years, which was built during the USSR,… pic.twitter.com/xLNKK5YoIx
Well, this week a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 6/10. I scored 7/10, and did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, and 8.
[Starmer-stein and Angela Rayner kneel in fealty to the black mobs of “Black Lives Matter” a few years ago, at Westminster. Both traitors to the British people]
Well over half the adult population of the UK get at least some of their income from social security “welfare” benefits. If you include state pensions in the definition, the figure must be over 60%. Attack people’s survival at your peril, Starmer-stein.
Yes, Farage, as a finance-capitalist promoter, also wants to reduce the “welfare bill”, but if Starmer thinks that the way to stop Reform UK is to say “they will do it too“, he is certainly very mistaken.
There is a necessity to move towards some kind of Basic Income system, once the connected immigration and migration-invasion issue is fully sorted-out.
"The state, the establishment, the elite class, will now go to war with Reform and try to block anything and everything they set out to do."https://t.co/fhacQZEP9H
I have already predicted that on the blog. Look at the House of Lords. Already over 800 members, and by 2029 could be 900 or more. Not one adheres to Reform UK. Farage could either abolish the Lords, or create 1,000 new peers. If he does neither, he may well find any radical legislation blocked.
No Labour minister will ever solve this fiasco, no matter who is in the Home Office. Because so long as Labour refuse to LEAVE the ECHR, scrap Blair’s Human Rights Act, and detain & deport the boats will keep on coming .. another 600 todaypic.twitter.com/nZoajo2ErD
Britain has no need for any new housing at all. What it needs is fewer inhabitants. Fewer (no) migrant-invaders, more (none at present) remigration, more (not much happening at present) deportation, and (not happening at present) elimination of greedy developers.
"Labour routinely claims it’s “returning more people than ever” but, in reality, only 4% of all small boat arrivals have been returned."https://t.co/0uCfgX2fsc
“Small boat” arrivals are only about 5% of all arrivals by migrants. Concentrating on the “small boats” (however necessary that is) often misses the bigger problem, which is “legal” immigration, and also births to non-Europeans.
So much of the mainstream media is utterly hopeless —they need to get out of London https://t.co/oQ4bOwKu40
"A Reform government will pass the Ilegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill, clearing the way for the mass removal of illegal migrants from the country."https://t.co/7g9BYoH0D4
The Kiev regime is losing 1,000-2,000 troops on the front-lines every single day. Therefore, the Kiev-regime’s press-gangs abduct potentially-suitable, if unwilling, “recruits” off the streets.
The “recruits” know that to be posted to the front-lines is an almost-guaranteed death sentence, so they fight their abductors, or try to flee. Most fail, and are carted away to be brutally subdued, then given a few weeks of rudimentary training before ending up in the squalid ranks of other impressed “soldiers” on those front-lines. Low or no pay, little food, and an open-ended commitment. No wonder that several hundred thousand have deserted in the past 3+ years.
Russia is winning this unpleasant war; it cannot afford to lose and will not lose, despite its army’s deficiencies.
Russia's gold reserves have reached a value of $255 billion for the first time
The share of gold in the reserves continues to set a new high for this century, already reaching 37%, according to data from the Bank of Russia. pic.twitter.com/fqei4rempK
Quite good, though I could have done without the howling.
@doctor_rahmeh I'm sorry you are being persecuted; zionists also persecute other people, e.g. Ian Millard:
"Regular readers of the blog will know of my own past battles with the Jew-Zionist lobby in the UK, which have been taking place for over a decade"https://t.co/5UeTvQ8Rcphttps://t.co/z79GM1p64s
Gaza’s Health Ministry said six Palestinians have died of Israeli-induced starvation in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number to 382 people, including 135 children.
Meanwhile, the Jew-Zionists in the UK, such as that dead-eyed woman in Brighton who is very prolific on Twitter/X, say “oh, look, the ‘Pals’ say that we, the Jews, Israeli Jews, are literally starving to death children in Gaza, but here is one starved child in Gaza who may have died from a pre-existing rare medical condition!So the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza are lying!“…
I do not think that “they”, or most of them, even really see themselves, they are so indoctrinated.
…and what about the tens of thousands of Arab children killed by bombing, shooting (including deliberate and sadistic targeting) etc by the Israeli forces over the past 3 years alone?
It’s almost as if, er, “that man” (you know who) was right…
An Egyptian intelligence source told MEE that Egypt has been sidelined in the failing Gaza ceasefire talks, with Cairo worried that a major Israeli assault could push Palestinians to breach the Sinai border, sparking chaos.
Iran is trying to produce viable nuclear weapons, and is pushing ahead with production of thousands, tens of thousands, of drones, as well as advanced medium to long-range rockets with high-grade conventional warheads in large numbers. When the time comes, the rockets will rain down on Israel. Israel is doomed.
Anxionizm: it’s when you’re more of a victim than a 6 year old trapped in a car with the corpses of her family for hours and then executed yourself. https://t.co/VvxlScYDWp
There is a connection, unexplored by any msm “journalists”, connecting “antifascism” and “antifascists”, Zionist Jewish and pro-Israel loonies, and mental illness generally. I blogged about it years ago:
— Green Knight 🇸🇩🇺🇦💚💙#FBPE#RejoinEU#STV (@GreenKnight60) September 6, 2025
All that is wrong with UK politics. Yvette Cooper failed in the Home Office. She failed to stop the boats. She failed to close asylum hotels. She even forcibly re-opened them. And she resisted the rape gang inquiry. Her reward? Foreign Secretary, a major office of state pic.twitter.com/qwnYJ11rYz
A Labour Friends of Israel member in a Labour Friends of Israel government. Join the dots…
Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer (both active members of Labour Friends of Israel) listening with apparent respect to the Chief Rabbi of the UK (who was born in South Africa, lived for many years in Israel, and then in Ireland, before arriving in this country).
It is mind-boggling that I’m doing my best to avoid Mr Cantor losing his house, but Myerson won’t disclose the documents Mr Cantor and I need to try to stop that happening.
I’ve genuinely no idea how Mark Lewis maintains professional indemnity insurance so he can keep working as a solicitor. It seems to me he should be uninsurable to do defamation law, because does not understand defamation law.@MLewisLawyer@LawPatron@sra_solicitorshttps://t.co/zx8lbxZ36B
For a great deal more detail about the activities of “Mark Lewis Lawyer” (especially), Simon Myerson, Daniel Berke, and Beth Grossman (all Jewish solicitors or barristers), please use the search box on the blog.
'I have to sit there, take abuse every week and I have no means of answering.'
Nigel Farage says there is 'almost no point' in him going to PMQs.
Of course, Prime Minister’s Questions, invented in fairly recent times [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister%27s_Questions] has become a meaningless ping-pong match and televised spectacle for the masses (in 10-second or 20-second extracts on TV news). It accomplishes little. From that understanding, it is but a step to recognizing the uselessness of Parliament itself.
"The Luxury Belief Class are forcing people to pay the costs of extreme policies that will hit working people much harder than they will hit insulated elites."https://t.co/1f5kWtfhxk
Nationalism is love, not hate. Just as you prioritise your family over strangers, you cherish your people, culture, and home. That isn’t disdain for others – it’s devotion to what is yours, a bond rooted in care and loyalty.
It’s the glue that holds civilisations together. We…
Once Reform tries and fails to do more than, say, 10% of what is necessary (not just on migration invasion, but across the waterfront), real social nationalism can arise, for the first time since the 1930s.
The 2026 local elections, which will include parts of Solihull, will probably prove a wipe-out for both Lab and Con. It looks as though Reform’s time has come.
Israel has ordered Gaza City residents to leave their homes for a "humanitarian zone" ahead of a planned full-scale assault on Gaza's last urban centrehttps://t.co/5RpwSowj3G
More Israeli war crimes, with yet more upcoming. What a horrible tribe.
Lucy Connolly said today she wants to work with Reform. She should stand against Yvette Cooper, a seat she’d win. Lucy Connolly bringing down the politician who expanded ‘non-crime hate incidents’ would be too perfect
I have seen replies to Goodwin’s tweet, those saying that Lucy Connolly would be disqualified from standing by reason of having been sentenced to, or detained for, more than one year. That is not so. Now that she has been released, there is no legal or constitutional bar on her standing for election as an MP.
It would just be brilliant were Lucy Connolly to stand against Yvette Cooper and win. I think it would be possible. Yvette Cooper got a 47.5% vote-share in 2024, with Reform in —fairly good— second place on 29.1%. The Con candidate was well behind on 15%. However, turnout was a mere 48.2%.
Bearing in mind Yvette Cooper’s incompetent showing as Home Secretary, the fall in support for Labour, and the collapse in support for the Conservative Party, it is not implausible to guess that, at the next General Election, the result in that constituency might be to return Lucy Connolly for Reform UK with maybe 50% of the vote, Yvette Cooper for Labour getting maybe 35%, and the Con candidate 5%.
Tactical voting might well play a part. A Con vote in that constituency is a wasted vote now. Also, as said, in 2024, fewer than half of the eligible voters even voted (48.2%), indicating extreme disenchantment with both Lab and Con, the previous main contenders there (in a differently-named constituency on somewhat different boundaries).
Ukraine lost a total of about 1,340 troops in the special military operation zone in the past day, according to data from the Russian Defense Ministry:https://t.co/sfm5EdtpWOpic.twitter.com/DRUHCGKF6F
Zebra foals imprint on their mothers by recognising their unique patterns of stripes. When we rescued Bombi – orphaned after a lion attack – we dusted off our Zebra coat, so that Bombi didn’t feel alone and knew who to follow.
Is it surprising, really? After all, the State of Israel was founded on “ethnic cleansing”, massacres of Arab civilians (men, women, and children), and theft of land and housing. Also, while many Israelis and other Jews are in reality not descended from the ancient Israelites of the Bible, the Israelis seem to follow the genocidal tendencies of those ancient tribespeople (as recounted in the Old Testament).
Gaza. West Bank. Surrounding countries.
Tweets seen
The only surprise is that anyone is the slightest bit surpriesed as this is what majority of mp's in the 2 leading party's have always done & they simply can't be trusted to stick to their word on anything whatsoever & neither of them deserve to win the next election!
List of countries that Iran attacked "first" and list of countries that the United States attacked first. pic.twitter.com/dq0uROy3gS
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 25, 2025
Russia has more than 13,000 missiles of various ranges: it is capable of producing up to 200 more each month, — Financial Times. pic.twitter.com/iFCEavrnxL
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 25, 2025
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 25, 2025
Almost all Western media agree on one thing – the recent NATO summit in The Hague was the worst for Volodymyr Zelensky since the start of the special military operation.
Ukraine received practically nothing except "moral support" and general words. pic.twitter.com/IVdouhlqMK
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 25, 2025
Russian troops liberated the community of Yalta in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/nHYMjfwlU8pic.twitter.com/1TMLKVaArA
The Doomsday Clock is edging ever closer to midnight, while Russia is trying to pull the hands back by working to avert nuclear catastrophe, Sergey Lavrov said:https://t.co/V3uZfLEE40pic.twitter.com/6zWNvUhUCN
Cognitive Pilot will deliver up to 45 AI-assisted robots that will carry out baggage handling duties and clear snow at the Pulkovo Airport of St. Petersburg, the press service of the developer told TASS:https://t.co/7lX7xN3nVppic.twitter.com/TQCH9yzNPu
“Three Slovakian men have been convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl repeatedly over three days after they lured her from an Asda car park.”
[Daily Mail]
In fact, not “Slovakian” (though no doubt carrying Slovakian passports) but Roma Gypsies, but not even the sensationalist Daily Mail will print that, or the full truth.
I notice from the “Readers’ Comments” to that report, though, that quite a few readers of that comic are well aware of the newspaper pulling its punches.
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As it stands only Reform and the LDs would profit. Labour & Tories would both be in serious trouble. People like me in the middle would have to stay home and be quietly murderous and/or miserable. Undecideds would go up from last year’s already high 40% and that is unforgivable.…
NBC, citing three unnamed US officials, reports that Israel is running out of ammunition pic.twitter.com/y6Tr04EbgA
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 26, 2025
A field commander of the Palestinian resistance stated that the Israeli soldiers are in a state of exhaustion and confusion, and emphasized that the resistance fighters are carefully monitoring the movements of enemy forces and surprising them with ambushes and precisely planned… pic.twitter.com/l31qbrL0rk
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 26, 2025
Can anybody in Britain tell me why these monsters got a shorter prison sentence than Lucy Connolly? pic.twitter.com/iyY4irlfsX
Palestine, Cyprus, the rest of the Middle East, the UK, the USA, Australia, France (etc)…
This is terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish settlers and it has to stop. it is evil and a disgrace but also a challenge to the very essence of the state itself. https://t.co/jczxipkGse
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) June 26, 2025
Even some Jews, even some pro-Israel Zionist Jews, are appalled by what these settler/colonists are doing.
I believe that most of them are from places such as the slums of Brooklyn.
What a horrible tribe.
I have a few of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s books; he makes some interesting historical documentaries for TV, too. An old Jew in Little Venice once told me, 30+ years ago, that the Montefiore family was “Jewish royalty“.
Well, I did much better than political journalist John Rentoul this week— 7/10 as against his claimed “4 and a half out of 10” (not sure how he managed to give himself a half-point for no.7; still, there it is). I did not know the answers to questions 6 and 9; I might have got no. 3 had I thought about it (but did not, because I jumped at Francesca di Rimini which was composed a couple of years earlier).
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❗️ Russia poses no threat to the UK: neither in its waters, airspace, nor streets & certainly not to Britain's long-suffering NHS.
We have no need to do so. It is the UK government that needs these fabrications to avoid dealing with the country’s real social & economic problems.… pic.twitter.com/elmTGLwXZo
Right to praise WW2 fighter pilots, wrong to attack the young. My father had enormous sympathy for depression etc and never criticised his children for weaknesses or just being young & silly. He never got the chance to be really silly during a war.https://t.co/PEp4bUYSIs
Unpleasant Jew “restaurant critic” (what a silly job) talks about “our” (i.e. British) “Battle of Britain bravery“. He, of course, has never served in any armed force; neither have any of his family (not in this country, anyway; I suppose that it is possible that he has relatives serving in the Israeli forces).
I was unable to read the full article, by reason of the paywall; why would anyone pay to read that sort of ignorant rubbish?
Worth watching Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff accusing Keir Starmer of being simplistic, posturing and posing. Adds Starmer suffers from a notion of needing to be like Winston Churchill with Russia threatening to march across Europe, a scenario Witkoff describes as preposterous.… https://t.co/HQ543WvtGG
Roughly what the “cut” in welfare spending looks like: blue before; red after; rising from £74.9bn to £95.7bn instead of £100.7bn https://t.co/zoWtLPfhK8 Table 5.10 memo line: health and disability benefits pic.twitter.com/DbQZ2OdKqc
Rentoul, as usual, supporting pseudo-“moderate”/”centrist” Labour-label. Making out that the spending cuts are not really cuts at all. Tell that to people who will now be deprived of much or all of their income because of this Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment (Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves and, of course, Starmer-stein himself).
Others may get more, yes, and more will be spent on keeping alive, sheltered, and fed, useless and hostile migrant-invaders by the million. British people needing help will, in many cases, not get that help, or much of it.
The Israeli Air Force has been carrying out large-scale airstrikes on cities and towns in southern Lebanon for several hours now pic.twitter.com/nnf70XiUtZ
At least 130 Palestinians have been killed and 263 wounded in the last 48 hours during Israeli attacks on Gaza, the enclave's Health Ministry said pic.twitter.com/74TzAfjIIz
Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, admitted that the majority of residents of Donbass and Crimea have expressed a desire to join Russia.
In a new interview with Tucker Carlson, Witkoff called the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and the Zaporizhia and Kherson… pic.twitter.com/Vf29BukKBP
This tribunal ruling in favour of Peter Wilkins reveals just how aggressively gender-critical scientists are silenced. His experience at Porton Down—branded a "security risk" for believing in biology—is shocking but increasingly familiar. Time to restore reason to science. pic.twitter.com/j8TA4qx42J
You would think Porton Down, a govt. facility specialising in biological weapons research, would understand sex. But no. Peter Wilkins, a "scientist forced out over gender beliefs wins legal battle". https://t.co/GhZeF05JHfpic.twitter.com/uPUbbLASkD
Paul Kealey, Head of Counterterrorism at Porton Down told Wilkins that while staff were permitted to hold gender-critical beliefs, it was “not OK to express such views in the workplace” 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ pic.twitter.com/kXiOFNKb3X
Let me give an example. Mark Lewis ticked the box to say his client had complied with the pre-action protocol. Here is his email after he was instructed where he basically refuses to comply with the pre-action protocol.
Another scandal that govts of all colours have lacked courage to tackle. Council tax is outdated, regressive, and grossly unfair to those living in poorer regions and in cheaper properties.
There it is. Disgraced sex-pest Jew ex-MP praises a woman, Jewish again, who wants Russia and Russia people beaten and humiliated. One would imagine that Newmark would shut up and keep his head down, but that is not “their” way…
Incidentally, quite a few years ago, that tweeter was some kind of office manager for her then husband, a “Conservative” MP, her no-doubt generous salary paid for out of his MP expenses. Well, they are now no longer married, and he is no longer an MP. She appears to have set up some “organization” (possibly consisting only of herself) called “the Moderates”, which seems to lie politically between the LibDems and the David Cameron-Levita Conservative Party “compassionate Conservatism” scam of 2010-2015.
[“A woman from Ghana has won the right to remain in the UK after organising a proxy marriage to an EU national, in Ghana, 12 days before the Brexit deadline. Neither she nor her “husband” attended the wedding.“]
As Katie Hopkins puts it, “Batshit Bonkers Britain“…
Perhaps England should withdraw from the United Kingdom and become a republic. It's hard to see any downside for England.
Increasingly, I can agree with the idea of England, or England & Wales, becoming a separate republic. Let those north of Hadrian’s Wall, and those across the Irish Sea, go their own way (without the subsidy from England), particularly as many of the Scots seem, in their delusion, to not only be willing to accept migration-invasion by blacks and browns but even (ludicrously) to welcome it! I certainly see little or no serious Scottish opposition to the invasion, even at the low level of opposition so far seen on the streets of England.
[“I’m hearing language like ‘we have to be prepared for a b******’, that’s Donald Trump, ‘to do mad things’”. @Nicholaswatt says there’s concern among both Labour and Conservative MPs over the US President’s approach to Ukraine and global diplomacy. #Newsnight“].
Ha ha. For decades, certainly since Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, the UK has been the poodle of the ZOG/NWO American governments. Now, suddenly, the USA is going its own way, in a direction NWO/ZOG, at least in Europe, does not like. Suddenly, Europe, both EU and UK etc, finds itself almost powerless, and squashed (as was mainland Europe in 1945) between the (?) all-powerful USA and a somewhat powerful Russia.
I should like Europe to find its own way forward in a social-national way, independent of both USA and Russia (but closer to the latter) but, at present, Europe is under ZOG control— pro-Jewish Lobby, pro-Israel, pro the Jew-Zionist regime in “Ukraine”. The present European power structures have to be taken down before a better Europe (call it “Christendom” or “Grail Europe” if you like) can arise.
"It's not just a kind of dramatic move […] it's a cruel move"
The Economist's Geopolitics Editor, David Rennie, says "more people may die" due to President Trump's decision to pause intelligence sharing with Ukraine.#Newsnightpic.twitter.com/oicrA1HN5i
Rennie senior’s other, and elder, son was arrested, charged, prosecuted and (presumably; nothing online about it) convicted of a large-scale heroin importation conspiracy in 1973: https://time.com/archive/6840716/britain-cs-busted-cover/.
Charles Tatham Ogilvy Rennie was later adjudged bankrupt (discharged in 1978).
As for the Economist, one of the most important “house journals” of the New World Order conspiracy (despite the fact that the Economist is usually wrong in its predictions, a fact that I started to notice as early as the 1980s).
Further to above:
“Only in rare instances have the links between the Hong Kong opium firms, British intelligence, and the Chinese Communist Intelligence Service come to public light. Where they have, the results put the best pulp thrillers to shame. One illustration is the story of the luckless Rennie family, Scots traders who sold their operation to Jardine Matheson in 1975. The Rennies are old Africa and Asia hands both in merchant ventures and the British colonial service, with major operations in South Africa, through Rennies Consolidated Holdings Ltd. (7).”
I have mentioned this before, though long ago, on the blog. There is a tweeter with the same or similar name to me, and who tweets as “@IanMillard100”. I understand that he is an IT specialist resident in Bath.
It is of course not his fault that he has the same name as me and that he tweets (I myself have not tweeted since expelled from Twitter in 2018), but I find it slightly irritating, simply because some people may think that he is me and that his tweets are from me. He occasionally replies to tweets from Elon Musk etc.
Anyway, if any readers were wondering whether “@IanMillard100” is me, he is not me. Over and out.
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A now-deceased friend of mine who, as a young girl from a prominent East Prussian —i.e. German— aristocratic family, was a hostage in the Soviet Union from 1939-1942, used to recall that song from her time there. She was at first under NKVD detention, later and briefly a worker on a state farm —not a collective farm— and later still a student nurse —aged about 14-15— before managing to escape by mingling with the Anders Army families allowed to get out of the country: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%27_Army.
[“Without new supplies from Washington, Kiev could run out of Patriot missiles in a matter of weeks, CNN reported, citing a Ukrainian official: https://vk.cc/cJnwa3“— TASS]
[“Russian troops liberated the community of Andreyevka in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cJp1TR“— TASS]
Every day, more ground is taken and held.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLANS TO REVOKE LEGAL STATUS FOR 240,000 UKRAINIANS WHO FLED TO US – SOURCES
In May 2014, Aleksey Goncharenko was involved in the Odessa massacre, where 46 people were burned alive. Despite this, he was later rewarded with a seat in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. These are the so-called "democrats" supported by the West.
I don’t often find myself agreeing with Jenrick, but if we aren’t all equal under the law, and can’t trust our attacker is sentenced according to the crime rather than ethnicity, then what is the point. https://t.co/AsJfibOzeG
— Karen ♿🌞💐 🇬🇧 🇺🇦🇮🇱 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇪🇺 (@MrsXXV25) March 6, 2025
If there is going to be a “two-tier” justice system, then it should be in the other direction, favouring real British people.
[“Lavrov: “If European troops enter Ukraine, this won’t be a proxy war anymore. It’ll be NATO fighting Russia directly”]
Do the little men and women pretending to statesmanship —Starmer, Macron, Tusk, Ursula von der Leyen etc— understand what that might mean? Tactical and possibly strategic weapons, Russian weapons, being used against the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Belgium etc. Yes, there would be damage to Russia too, but let’s not pretend that NATO (without US involvement) can take on Russia and “win”, or even survive.
The USA under Trump is not going to back up the UK and EU states if they get into a shooting war with Russia.
Indeed, the belligerent calls from Brussels, Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, and London for fast rearmament, and especially nuclear weapons increases, are likely to make Russian strategists think that those capitals, and connected nuclear weapons production and launch sites, should be eliminated before such proposed nuclear rearmament takes place…
The Speaker of the House of Commons is invariably a self-important and greedy nobody. This one is no different to his predecessors. Remember the Jew Bercow and his “ho” wife? Then there was Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans. I wrote a blog piece about him in 2019:
If he had any self-awareness, he might consider whether it would not have been far better had Britain and its Empire stayed neutral in the period 1939-1945, or even joined with the German Reich to rule much of the world. The world would have been in a far better condition had that happened.
Shock horror. Controversial guidelines suggesting that people from ethnic minorities should get softer sentences were drawn up on the back of recommendations by … Labour Minister David Lammy
[“Shock horror. Controversial guidelines suggesting that people from ethnic minorities should get softer sentences were drawn up on the back of recommendations by … Labour Minister David Lammy —The Times, tonight“]
Russia can do that because its ultimate security and sanction rests on its vast geographic size, its large population, its large armies and other forces and, crucially, on 6,000-7,000 nuclear weapons.
Free speech in Britain is under attack. “Non-crime hate incidents”. “Islamophobia”. Plots to “kill” Elon Musk’s X, talk of shutting down GB News, controlling pub banter, silencing millions as “far right”
…and not one of the much-publicized champions of free speech —Matt Goodwin, Toby Young, the “Free Speech Union”, Allison Pearson (all pro-Jew, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel, by the way; so there’s a clue…) said one word in defence of my free speech rights.
As can seen from the above accounts, those seeking to “put the manacles” on me were/are all Jew-Zionist fanatics, all connected with either the dishonest “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (“CAA”) cabal, or “UK Lawyers for Israel” (UKLFI), the memberships and/or support cadres of which overlap to some degree.
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Across ALL polls this week Reform averaged 24% —up 10 points in just six months
The voters are willing to take any option that seems to have a chance. The System parties have all failed. If only there were a proper social-national party able to take on the challenge. The “Parliamentary road” is not the way forward, as such, but may have a part to play. All roads lead to Rome.
1 in 3 young workers signed off sick with stress last year.
I genuinely think the obsession with talking about stress and mental health is breeding an anxious and unhappy generation https://t.co/fwOJ4iz8Cc
The truth is that, since the 1970s, paid work has become far more stressful in the UK. The “long hours culture”, “present-ism”, no proper lunch hours, the vulgar trend of people eating at their desks, the perceived “need” to be on-call in the evenings or at weekends etc. All for other peoples’ profits and self-aggrandisement.
Still, I would not expect Kate Ferguson, the Political Editor (yes, they really do have one) of the Sun on Sunday, to want to acknowledge any of that.
[Kate Ferguson, Political Editor of the Sun on Sunday, pictured in Washington D.C. by the Tidal Basin, and across from the Jefferson Memorial]
EXC: I’ve got the balls to take an axe to Britain’s benefits bill – we’ll be RUTHLESS with cuts if needed, Starmer says
PM accuses critics of “overreacting to each and every single decimal point on daily basis”
YouGov's MRP for the 2025 German election shows a strong East/West divide, with the AfD leading in all but two constituencies in the former East Germanyhttps://t.co/9UMT1N9AYWpic.twitter.com/iYR3L1cK2x
[“Wiens Gruss an den Führer nach der geschichtlichen Grosstat. Als erste Stadt des Grossdeutschen Reiches war es der Haupstadt der Ostmark, Wien, beschieden, den Führer in ihren Mauern nach seiner geschichtlichen Grosstat zu sehen und ihn in einem unbeschreiblichen Begrüssungsjubel des Dankes der Ostmark zu versichern. Unser Bild zeigt die Wagenkolonne des Führers bei der Einfahrt in die Wiener Innenstadt. Im Hintergrund links das Tegetthoff-Denkmal.”]
[“Vienna’s greeting to the Führer after the historic feat (the Anschluss of 1938). As the first city of the Greater German Empire, the capital of the Ostmark, Vienna, was destined to see the Führer within its walls after his historic feat and to assure him of the Ostmark’s thanks in an indescribable welcome celebration. Our picture shows the Leader’s motorcade entering Vienna’s city centre. In the background on the left is the Tegetthoff monument.”]
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I don't understand what Kemi Badenoch thinks she's doing here. It's political suicide. Her party won't allow it. So why float it. https://t.co/ONg6ZVTZoV
Does Starmer want the UK to become an irradiated wasteland?
Having said that, if it were only one massive warhead, landing on Central London, the centre of most of the socio-political degeneracy and corruption (and “the lobby”, i.e. “them”), it might at least have a silver lining…
It might even give the British people the chance to have a proper social-national government, and thus a new society, once the main enemies are eliminated.
Jesus H. Christ! That tweeter “@frankflynn20016” must be a complete idiot. He thinks that, if millions of Europeans cease to exist, and are then replaced by the same or a greater number of black Africans, Europe will be “saved”, or even that it will be better than it now is! What can you say to a view as totally asinine as that? Totally loonie.
Ah…seems that the photo below is that tweeter who believes that black Africans should populate or “repopulate” Europe. A non-European who seems to be a —probably temporary, probably American— resident of Argentina.
66% of Brits say if public officials covered up or neglected the rape gangs they should go to jail
She was elected to Parliament 7 years before him. She was (inexplicably) a Cabinet Minister now (inexplicably) LOTO. This crap needs to stop – not least because it looks so weak and the greybeards said she’s Boudica 😵. A disgrace a fringe party with 5 MPs is currently… pic.twitter.com/99PoPzABmH
“She was elected to Parliament 7 years before him. She was (inexplicably) a Cabinet Minister now (inexplicably) LOTO. This crap needs to stop – not least because it looks so weak and the greybeards said she’s Boudica. A disgrace a fringe party with 5 MPs is currently out-performing the out-going government party.”
As Fiona Syms (ex-wife of an ex-MP) knows well enough, Reform UK is not really a “fringe party”. It has only 5 MPs because the electoral system in this country is both grotesquely unfair and grotesquely illogical.
At GE 2024 (and in rough terms), out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 did not vote, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.
If Reform UK is “a fringe party“, then so is not only the Green Party, but also the LibDems (who got 500,000 fewer votes than Reform UK), and indeed the Conservatives, who received only slightly more than 1.5x the votes cast for Reform UK. Even Labour only received just over 2.3x the Reform UK vote.
In actual numbers: Labour 9,708,716; Conservatives 6,828,925; Reform UK 4,117,620; LibDems 3,519,143; Green Party 1,841,888.
If the people keep being ignored, they will eventually turn on the System parties.
I agree with Fiona Syms, though, re. how hopeless Kemi Badenoch is. Well, there you go. If you put people in positions because they are “diversity hires”, they will almost invariably be a waste of space. Look at Lammy…
“A woman who shielded for nine months was killed on her first day out after being hit by a lorry while searching for a face mask in her handbag.Sarah Lewis was struck by the vehicle on November 16, 2020 after stepping into its blind spot while untangling a face covering from her belongings.” [Daily Telegraph] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/21/woman-killed-lorry-first-day-shielding-nine-months/.
I myself have saved not only reckless pheasant and pigeons (not to mention a number of cats) from certain death on the road recently, but several equally-reckless human persons, including one old lady and one young girl, both of whom insisted on stepping in front of my car while muzzled, and also engrossed in what I took to be mobile telephones.
Look at that Patel bitch! Smirking…Well, of course she is smirking! Instead of spending her life serving behind the counter of a Kampala grocery shop, she is a “British” Cabinet minister! She may be rubbish at her job, she may be thick as two short planks, but there she is… sitting there…(and dragging down a few hundred thousand a year as well).
So 50 men in designer clothes carried this through Calais and no-one noticed? pic.twitter.com/qojB8lYwyd
So it now looks like I'm losing my job of 23 years as a gardener at the same care home cos I don't want an experimental jab that may or may not help 🤬🤬🤬
At a time when the British state is using coercion against its citizens to take the vaccine, where are the so-called human rights groups and activists in the UK who have not shown the slightest bit of concern about the most severe infringement on the civil liberties of Britons?
— Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos (@DrMarcusP) July 19, 2021
I myself have heard verified accounts of how some people with serious conditions are now effectively barred from getting necessary scans and/or treatments because unwilling to have the painful and intrusive “Covid tests” before being allowed into the precincts of the therapeutic clinics.
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He talks so much rubbish and he never feels compelled to substantiate or delineate his reasoning behind any of his grandiose pronouncements and conclusions. And once he leaves the sinking ship HMS Starmer people on the left will welcome him back with open arms. https://t.co/DJzSjWduRd
I have blogged about Paul Mason previously. When he writes about economics, he can be interesting, but when he writes or speaks about politics, he is ludicrous. His political viewpoint seems to be a kind of anarcho-syndicalist/Trotskyist/general “Leftist” mixture which leaves both history and good sense far behind.
Why does Mason support Jewish-lobby puppet, Keir Starmer? Well, that is an open question. Mason is part-Jew, like Owen Jones and other msm talking heads, so that may be part of it. There again, it may be that Mason thinks that “mainstream” Labour is still the only political game in town apart from the equally-misnamed Conservative Party. He may therefore imagine that he can perhaps influence Starmer-Labour, and so rescue himself from being a fringe commentator.
For all I know, Mason may even harbour ambitions to become a Labour MP and then something more, such as, in time, a major Labour Party figure. Who knows?
That may seem to be absurd, but perhaps less so than “Boris” becoming a Cabinet minister and then Prime Minister…if one political bad joke can rise high, why not another? After all, it happened not only to “Boris” but to Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Grant Shapps, Matt Hancock etc. A similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis.
Never say never…
This not a particularly good piece on the fanatic running the #Assange prosecution. But it is a rare one. Mark that the "free" US press has blacked out the #Assange case, yet no serious journalist is safe if this extremist wins.https://t.co/bI3fsjQMpC
The prosecutor? “Gordon Kromberg“. Every. Single. Time.
A friend just got a 24 hour #facebook ban for this. Even if you believe in the elite narrative on the #pandemic, that level of censorship & manipulation of public opinion by a giant corporation should worry you. "First they came for the …." pic.twitter.com/jBu0Jn1xf0
They never give up . Full page propaganda advertisement today. Mask-wearers, in my experience, need no encouragement. So what’s the aim? pic.twitter.com/09uU08HICQ
An excellent riposte here to another person mindlessly expounding the silly view that ‘scientist’ means ‘wise person who cannot possibly be wrong or have his opinion questioned’. https://t.co/QtTaWXLNNy
Another myth is that a scientist is, ipso facto, honest. We have seen enough fakery around the “climate change” narrative to have a different view. For example, that scientist (whose name I forget) at the UN IPCC (and University of East Anglia) who colluded with the Indian at the IPCC to falsify data, so that the public would believe the “climate change” narrative more readily.
That was about 13 years ago, about the same time as said Indian claimed that the Himalayan glaciers would cease to exist by about 2015, leading to the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Indus and other rivers running dry. Not yet, anyway.
Many will recall the Al Gore film, An Inconvenient Truth, with its claims that, inter alia, “climate change” caused the Aral Sea to dry up (no, it was caused by the mad diversion of rivers in order to support cotton production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea).
That is without even starting on certain “historical” untruths…scientists are not necessarily any more credible than historians, when they depend on certain “narratives” for their careers, publishing etc.
I was last on Question Time in March 2018 @pbfromdevon. As I had been on pretty much every year since 1996, it can't have been because I was no good. My own view is that the pictures got smaller. https://t.co/XN380C4aoY
Mr. Hitchens, a journalist, is obsessed with the largest current event since 9/11. So very strange.
— Lucius Sergius Catilina (@CatilinaSergius) July 22, 2021
A year from now, you will wish you had acted to stop the legalisation of e-scooters, bone-breaking menaces which, if legalised, will mean the safety of pavements, paths and parks will be a distant memory. Please, write now to your MP It is quick and easy. https://t.co/NvqnYvAbQphttps://t.co/cFKc4Nn4SA
Peter Hitchens has an almost touching faith in the efficacy of writing to MPs. That is one rather big delusion (though I like much of what he writes). I do not know what might change the mind of the clowns now posing as MPs. Not letters, anyway…
Those once-fine old English/British institutions such as the RSPB, RNLI, National Trust etc have all been taken over by the enemy, the fake communitarians of Common Purpose, “BLM” etc. The enemy thus gets well-paid while subverting both the institution in question and the general society. A general purge is needed.
Personally ,I can't understand them !..They have been in Lockdown for over 16 months all that revenue gone,now they are turning custom away,why ?
— Janner1952.. First account .. 2006.. May 9 1952 (@Janner19521952) July 22, 2021
The sort of rabbits that go around wearing facemasks are really the weak-minded who do what they think the mob wants. “Everybody” does it, think they. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you see someone masked or muzzled when the law does not mandate it, that person can probably be written off as a free or independent thinker.
Glad to see that I am not the only person awake! Ouspensky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky] once had an experience in the street in which he perceived that all others in that street were actually asleep, not really awake…
I was in Australia for 3 years in the late 1960s, and attended school there (Middle Harbour PS and North Sydney Boys’ High). I have come to understand that basically Anglo countries such as Australia and the UK are held back by their basic philistinism; in other words, by their prioritizing of mass spectator sport and mass TV rubbish over thinking freely.
Thus, the System can easily impose a biosecurity police state, or import millions of backward people from Africa, Asia, Caribbean, without the slightest serious challenge from the people, because what matters to the (so far) majority white population is not spirituality, philosophy, history, good government, even logic, but winning some televised sporting pleb-fest on the other side of the world.
Legal action cannot usually be taken against a bankrupt, but the issuance of proceedings for legal action in this case preceded the bankruptcy petition.
It will be recalled that I blogged prolifically about the supposed legal action (in harassment, I think) being taken a couple of years ago by Twitter twit, “antifa” cheerleader and mental case Mike Stuchbery against Tommy Robinson. It never was likely to happen, as I said from the start. Now, it cannot. A bankrupt cannot usually be sued, as noted. Also, there would be no point in suing “Tommy Robinson” now, even if it could be done.
I suppose that that one will have to be filed with Stuchbery’s other fantasy libel actions (against stray Twitter users, a number of Danes who laughed at him, and against me!). He loves the idea that he might “clean them out”…
Never mind, he can also send me (yet another— he sent a couple in the past when he forgot to take his medication) would-be intimidating comment on my blog comments page. They made me laugh (which is “the best medicine”, it is said; not that I need any).
Stuchbery, with “Resisting Hate” Twitter troll Roanna Carleton Taylor (“@witchofpeace”, aka “@antifashwitch” and now “@oilpaintwitch”) launched a GoFundMe appeal to pay for action against “Robinson”. A Pakistani one-man solicitor firm was supposedly going to issue proceedings. As I guessed would prove to be the case, from the beginning, it never happened.
I still sometimes idly wonder what Roanna Carleton Taylor, Stuchbery, and the Pakistani did with the nearly £12,000 they were given (by a total of nearly 700 “antifascist” mugs). It certainly was not spent on legal work. It seems that the Pakistani drafted only one very short and very poor “letter before action” to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson’s real name), which letter may not even have been delivered.
'pingdemic' is fucking peak twee english trivialisation. infuriating that editors continue to confront the reality: it's unmitigated infection not the app that is massively disrupting everyone's lives, livelihoods, health and sanity.
Possibly yet another Twitter user with mental health problems. I do not know. The “virus” infects many people, but only a tiny number have any symptoms; only a few (an even smaller proportion) need any medical help at all. A tiny tiny number die from or “with” this virus.
My 99-y-o mother-in-law only knew she had it after having been routinely tested while in hospital for a fracture; oh, and she contracted it in hospital, where all patients were constantly masked, an indictment of both the appallingly-poor hygiene in NHS hospitals and the uselessness of facemasks; she was discharged weeks later, still without symptoms.
My 20-something Australian niece (working in London) contracted the virus last year, but only required a few paracetomol tablets and a few weeks of rest. I know of no-one else at all who has knowingly contracted “Covid-19”.
One is not supposed to insult America by discussing Banks or France by discussing duelling; why should the Jews be the only people who refuse to be talked about intelligently?
The sooner all those Gulf micro-states bite the dust, the better.
-why do you talk about jews so much?
-because it’s extremely relevant to the situation at hand. When you’re being punched in the face, you don’t focus exclusively on the fist and try and rationalize it being swung at you independent of the person it’s attached to
As it happened: More than 600,000 people told to isolate by app – BBC News https://t.co/uDfWSF1LbL
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 22, 2021
The, so to speak, killer question…
I went into a supermarket, here in Devon, today. It was my first visit to one in over a year. Only saw one other chap not wearing a mask and there were lots of empty shelves. What a bloody depressing experience!
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 22, 2021
The British answer to the society of The Handmaid’s Tale…
And @peterfrot27, I shall leave you to get on with it. Your choice. Accusations of selfishness surely require hard material, experimental@and falsifiable evidence. Have you any? https://t.co/hhnP5i0Dwd
I have blogged previously about the need for Basic Income (see Notes, below).
One important point is that the nexus connecting work and pay is loosening in the more developed countries. Already, computers, automation and modern business streamlining have led to the situation whereby, apart from actual unemployment, there is huge underemployment. In the UK, we see, in big picture terms, that the poorer half of the workforce is still being paid less in real terms (the latest statistics suggest about 7% less) than was paid in 2007 for equivalent work.
Now, there is a headlong rush into greater automation and, crucially, to Artificial Intelligence [AI].
Working Tax Credits as Government Subsidy to Poor-Paying Employers
Even before the financial upheaval of 2007-2008, it is clear that the “market”, as “hidden hand” mechanism, delivering adequate pay for required work, was not working properly or as old-thinking economic theory suggested that it should. Employers were unwilling or in some cases unable to offer pay high enough for employees to subsist on, let alone live decently on.
The answer of the Blair-Brown governments was to offer employees “working tax credits”, i.e. a form of “welfare”/”social security” for those in employment, the purpose of which was (and at time of writing still is) to top-up inadequate pay to a determined level. A more limited measure, Family Credit, claimable only by families, was in operation from 1986-1999.
The most obvious drawback of Working Tax Credit [WTC], i.e. that it in effect subsidizes poor and poor-paying employers out of general taxation, was either not foreseen by self-styled financial genius Gordon Brown, or was ignored by him and/or Tony Blair. Adding insult to injury was and is the fact that some of the worst-paying employing companies are also those most adept at avoiding tax liability: transnational enterprises such as Amazon in particular.
In other words, an employee is forced (by circumstances) to work for pay which is not enough for that employee to live on, even at a very basic level. That pay is then topped-up to a minimum subsistence level by Working Tax Credit, which is paid for not directly by the exploitative employer but by government, and so by general taxation. Low-paid employees pay little or no income tax now, but still pay so-called National Insurance, which is today just another or extra income tax in all but name. Put simply, the low-paid worker is paying out for his or her own Working Tax Credit, at least to some extent.
The poor-paying employer has no incentive to pay decently, because the government will stump up enough to keep the employee in place.
Real-terms pay now, for very many people, is inferior to what was paid in the 1980s and 1970s. Conditions of employment are also worse in reality (though that aspect is not part of this blog post).
At present, 5 million people in the UK receive WTC, while another 2 million are entitled to receive it but, for whatever reason, do not apply for it.
Other Government Top-Ups to Pay
In addition to basic Working Tax Credit, people in low-paying jobs and who have children can get extra money via WTC , as can disabled workers.
Persons who are disabled or unwell (including employed persons) can receive Disability Living Allowance, which is not means-tested.
Persons who have children are also entitled to Child Benefit, regardless of capital or income (up to £50,000-£60,000, tapering).
Persons of the age(s) specified can receive State Pension regardless of whether they work or not; moreover, whether or not they have ever worked.
Limited Elements of Basic Income Already Embedded in the Existing System
State Pension, paid whatever the individual’s capital or income, and whether or not the individual is working (employed or self-employed) or not and (if you include Pension Guarantee Credit), payable regardless of how much the pensioner has paid in via National Insurance;
Child Benefit, paid regardless of income (under £50,000 p.a.);
Disability Living Allowance (and its successor, “Personal Independence Payment” or PIP), paid regardless of capital or income to qualifying persons (and this is not the place in which to examine why politicians and Department of Work and Pensions [DWP] civil servants often choose vulgar names for State benefits and programmes: cf. “Jobseeker’s Allowance” etc).
Advantages of Basic Income
Simplicity. A Basic Income would mean that most of the existing DWP structure could be dispensed with: the vast edifice of “Jobcentres” (office buildings), filled with DWP staff engaged in adminstration, and the snooping upon, monitoring, “assessing” of claimants etc. The absurdity of it is that many claimants are only getting about £75 a week anyway. The present Kafka-esque set-up really should be and can be junked. Probably 90% of the present 85,000 DWP employees can be made redundant. The financial savings from that, decommissioning of buildings, running costs etc would be in the tens of billions annually; the untold billions paid by the State to useless and dishonest private contractors, such as ATOS and Capita, would also be saved;
Security of Citizens. It has been shown in overseas pilot studies (eg recently in Finland) that having a Basic Income, even if small, gives people a sense of security only available until now to those with an inherited private income. Yes, some people will decide to loaf all day, maybe even drink all day, but others will do paid work, start small businesses, improve their cultural level, volunteer locally or far away etc. The idle and/or useless are like that under the present system anyway and are costing the State money even now, both directly and indirectly (eg via the costs of policing, NHS, prisons etc);
Doubts Often Expressed about Basic Income
“People will not want to work if they get money for nothing”: well, most wealthy inheritors of capital, most of those living off trust incomes etc do seem to want to work in some way, or to set up businesses, or at least to write, paint, or other similar activity. Don’t disparage writing or other artistic activity. After all, Harry Potter, which snowballed into a huge industry employing, altogether, many thousands and even tens of thousands, came out of the mind of one lady, a single mother on State benefits; J.K. Rowling herself has said that, under the punitive present benefits regime, she would have been messed around so much that it would have been impossible for her to sit in cafes with her baby writing Harry Potter. True, some people will simply loaf. They do that under the present system. Don’t think that there are no costs to the State and society now (even if actual benefits are cut off): police costs, court and legal costs, NHS costs, too;
“The cost to the taxpayer”: the cost of Basic Income would be little more than the present “welfare” (social security) system, once you take into account the huge savings on DWP and HMRC bureaucracy, savings by not using useless/dishonest outsourcing organizations, the economic benefit of people spending more, stimulating the economy, setting up new small businesses;
“People getting Basic Income money that they do not even need”: firstly, what people “need” is, beyond the basic level, something subjective. Apart from that, there is no problem with clawing back monies paid to those above a certain income. All that need happen is that a maximum level of income (all income) for recipients be set. All persons above that income level to be taxed or super-taxed to the same level as Basic Income received. The level might be a total (including Basic Income) of £30,000, assuming Basic Income of perhaps £15,000 per year. In that case, the person would be taxed the £15,000, leaving £15,000. Yes, there would be apparent unfairness at lower income levels, whereby it might be questioned why work, when you could simply receive the (in the example given) £15,000 and not work. However, even then the recipient does gain, via extra security in case of job loss or illness; alternatively, the threshold could be set higher, say at £50,000 p.a.
Variations on the Basic Income Theme
Instead of money alone, Basic Income could include benefits paid to certain persons, such as free housing for persons receiving less than a certain income. The danger here is in the complexity and cost, as under the existing system, as well as monies wasted going to landlords charging excessive rents. It may be that the way forward is to add to the existing (in the UK) more or less “free” (at point of use) health service, free education at primary and secondary level etc. Examples:
free public transport, whether local or regional;
free car insurance;
free domestic utilities;
free NHS or similar;
free education.
Basic Income as Necessity
It is clear that, in the UK, relatively few people at present are purely living off what they can earn by work or by investments and/or trust income. 7 million are eligible for Working Tax Credits, millions more are children, retired people, disabled and not working, unemployed etc. For many, working for pay does not cover the basic necessities of life, let alone provide a decent human existence. The State already recognizes these facts.
The explosion in artificial intelligence and robotics will turn the screw. For example, there are at present356,300 taxi drivers and private hire drivers in the UK. The technology already exists to replace them. It is unlikely that more than a small percentage will still be doing such work in, say, 2030. That’s just one group affected. Groups as diverse as farmers, lawyers, surgeons, pilots, security guards will all be made, as groups, largely redundant.
Basic Income is not just the right thing, but the necessary thing.
The necessity for Basic Income is spreading, but not yet to enough people. Many still think that it is “expensive” (probably the same people who believe that the answer to a recession is to “cut spending”…). There is, however, dissent…
Ian Robert Millard 