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Diary Blog, 27 December 2025

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[Grotto Pavilion, Tsarskoe Selo, nr. St. Petersburg, Russia]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week— 6/10, as against political journalist John Rentoul’s 3/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, and 7. I guessed the first two words of question 7, but not the final one.

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Amazing.

Human ingenuity is amazing.

Ha ha! Brava!

Keir Starmer”? Oh, him! Starmer-stein…

I wonder how many have faked qualifications etc.

System politicians know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Russia must win this war, but neither side should be directly targeting civilians (if that is what that was; seems unclear; it might have been a legitimate military target, such as a general’s or intelligence official’s apartment). The Kiev regime engages in drone terror attacks against Russian civilians almost daily, so itself does not have clean hands.

Whatever Zelensky says or does, and whatever referendum is held, and whatever the result, Russia is not going to cede control of the Donbass or any other territory.

The Kiev regime is quite plainly now losing the war, its troops are deserting or being killed, and all territorial gains are in one direction.

Once the USA cuts off funding and arms supplies, the game is up (whatever may be then done by pitiful Starmer-stein, Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, or that peculiar creature who now poses as German Chancellor).

(((Quite)))…

Well said. Brava!

Superficially, yes. What difference would 150 make? No difference. The Kiev regime loses about 1,000 in a day, on average. About the same number via desertions.

In fact, were there ever a Russia-NATO conflict, one of Russia’s 6,000+ nuclear weapons would vaporize the base of the new recruits on the first day, or in the first week anyway.

Anyone joining the NWO/ZOG “British” Army at this time, especially in the ranks, is almost certainly a mug.

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[“OFFENSIVE ON ALL FRONTS” — Russian General Staff on the advance of their troops Russian troops are conducting an offensive on all fronts of the special military operation, in the face of the futile attempts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to contain their advance, reported the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, on Saturday.“]

[“If the Kiev authorities do not want to end the matter peacefully, we will solve all the tasks facing us during the Special Military Operation by armed means – Putin The Russian President stressed that, given the pace of the offensive, Russia’s interest in withdrawing the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the occupied territories is reduced to zero.”]

Israel is doomed.

Remigration is one solution, and a difficult one to accomplish.

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Diary Blog, 2 July 2025, including thoughts about the Jewish-Zionist organizations trying to monitor and censor opinion in UK and USA (etc), and about the mechanics of societal collapse

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Travelogue— St. Petersburg

Quite interesting, despite the occasionally (unintentionally-) amusing commentary. The title or subtitle is a bit silly (though arguably borne out by the content).

Worth seeing. The lady at 12:54, dressed in mauve, is particularly stylish.

Petersburg is one of the few cities in the world which I both want to see and have not already visited.

The video has certainly not discouraged me.

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Same situation exists in the UK in respect of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, a pack of malicious, lying, perjuring Jew-Zionists. Effectively a volunteer offshoot of the Israeli Embassy in London (albeit that some of them are paid out of large funds donated from wealthy Jews in the UK, and from Israel), they make unfounded and untrue allegations to police, professional regulators, and others (eg the Crown Prosecution Service), and try to close down venues hosting anyone supposedly “antisemitic”. Glastonbury is their latest large target.

Latest example? Published by the malicious “CAA” cabal only this morning:

A new day, and a new attempt to (as “they” themselves put it) “ruin” someone they call “antisemitic”

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Does that mean that malicious liar Falter, and others, will be leaving the UK, and going to Israel (or the USA or elsewhere)? We have seen many such “threats” before from others, but they rarely seem to actually go…

[“Israeli Newspaper, regarding impact of Iranian missiles:

The shortage of Arrow missiles poses an increasing threat to the home front, as the fall of an iranian missile in a populated area could cause economic damage estimated at no less than 300 million shekels, according to Ministry of Defense estimates. The mayor of Bat Yam stated that a missile falling in his city left “the largest destruction site in Israel since its establishment,” noting that the explosion destroyed approximately 160 dunams and damaged about 120 buildings, including 20 buildings that were completely destroyed, killing nine people. He added: “And all this from just one missile.”

The cost of producing the most advanced generation Arrow missile is 12 million shekels, which is a huge amount, but the problem is not the price. What matters is filling the stockpile, because you do not press a button to get an interceptor missile.

At the heart of the current dispute lie interceptor missiles, particularly “Arrow 3 and 4.” These missiles are an extremely important means of countering missile attacks. International media reported concerns about a shortage of them, after the Iranians posed a major challenge to the Israeli defense system. According to security sources, all relevant parties in the Ministry of Finance have been informed of this, but the required budget has not yet been transferred.“]

Opinion polls supposedly ask questions of a representative sample of the population. Only about 80% of the UK population is now white/European. That suggests that pretty near 100% of real Brits want those predators, scavengers, and parasites, expelled or otherwise eliminated.

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Of course, standards of education in the United States have always been poor. In the Second World War, German Military Intelligence officers were dumbfounded to discover, after the Normandy Landings of 1944, that many American military units were regularly supplied with comic books for the troops’ reading matter.

Anyone who has lived in the United States will be aware at what a rock-bottom level is the education and general knowledge even of many of those at university graduate or professional levels.

Unfortunately, that is also slowly becoming more true of the UK than it was in the past.

[“More evidence that the NHS and ambulance service is unfit for purpose. This afternoon, I was walking through Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire) on my way to the station when I heard a thud and a scream behind me. I turned round to see that a woman had fallen on the broken paving stones and was writhing in pain. I and the owner of a nearby tattoo parlour went to assist. The woman was complaining of pain in her arms, legs, and left hip. She was in shock and very distressed. She said she didn’t feel she could get up, even with assistance. Her breathing was laboured. Fearful that she may have fractured her hip or limbs, and fearful of trying to move her, we agreed to call 999. Tattoo man made the call while I cleaned blood from her hands, comforted and reassured her. The call handler informed him that “a clinician will review the case and may call you back in the next four hours” (!) I take the phone, explain the woman is flat out on the pavement, can’t move, may have broken something, is in shock, and crying out in pain. I insist that we can’t just leave her on the hard pavement for 4 hours in the hope of a clinician deciding if an ambulance is needed, and that she needs to be checked out at the hospital asap. Any delay might exacerbate her injuries. Call handler says she is following protocol and that this ” is the most appropriate action”. I disagree, explain again that the woman has fallen on a concrete surface and can’t move, and her breathing is laboured, but it’s clear call handler won’t budge. The call ends with call handler telling me to shield the woman from the sun! Er… how? “Put a coat over her.” It’s 34C, and she’s telling me to procure a coat… I hang up, and after 5 mins, redial. A more switched on call handler responds this time. Ambulance arrives in about 8 mins. Had I not made that second call, the woman would have remained on the pavement for hours. The lady is now back at home.“]

Shocking, and a similar incident happened near me, at the local Waitrose, I think 2 years ago. By the time I passed by, the victim was already being attended to by Waitrose staff and some others, either her family or stray customers. I naturally assumed that an ambulance would be there before too long. In fact, Waitrose people told me the next day that an ambulance only arrived after 4 hours.

Having said that, I have also seen some sterling work both by ambulance paramedics and other NHS staff, but that is what happens in gradual societal collapse— it is indeed gradual, not the same everywhere, rather hit and miss.

Britain is not collapsing overnight, or in one year, or even in one decade. This is characteristic. When the Soviet Union eventually collapsed, and that took several years (some would argue, decades), the momentum of habit kept things running normally in places, even as near-chaos happened elsewhere.

I recall seeing a TV news piece from the BBC (I think) in the early 1990s about Yeltsin’s post-Soviet Russian society. I myself had already been there, in 1993, though not for long and only in and around Moscow.

In that news report, we saw a uniformed lady in some small place outside Moscow. She was the station-mistress of a very small railway station, just a halt really. Despite not having been paid at all for four years (!) she still kept the station clean, planted and weeded the flower troughs, and was there for most of the arrivals and departures during the day.

Was it Aristotle who said that civilization was immanent, something inherent, or inborn? Maybe it was St. Thomas Aquinas. Ah…looking now at Wikipedia, it seems not; quite the reverse, in fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanence.

Never mind. My point here is that people often go on doing their duty even as society decays and collapses. Some people, anyway.

The NHS is a bit of a touchstone in the UK. For some, it is unique, envied worldwide, the greatest development of Britain, ever, and staffed by wise medics, angelic nurses, and public-spirited support staff. For others, it is a giant waste of money, badly-organized, and run largely for the benefit of its own employees. Examples of all of the above can be found, even in the same hospital or relating to the same patient’s care, and easily enough.

The same with society generally. Parts of UK society can be seen, even today, as advanced, optimistic, worthy of admiration. Other parts of our society can, equally objectively, be seen as horrible, toxic, and worthy of being eradicated, exterminated.

A process such as the development, or decline, of a society cannot easily be seen fairly or accurately by people who themselves are within that process. cf. the “Fall of the Roman Empire”, a complex process that took place over hundreds of years.

Nevil Shute, quoting T.S. Eliot, put it well at the end of his once-famous novel On the Beach (as a child of 10-13 in 1960s Australia, I noticed that almost every house had a copy): “...this is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper“. Gradual mortality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel).

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At what point do British people say that the present “one man one vote” supposedly representative “democracy” has become invalid (for several reasons, one being that only real English/Welsh/Scots/British people should be allowed to vote)? An open question.

See also (from over six years ago):

I live only 15-20 miles from Southampton (depending on route etc). Alien, in several ways. As for Reading, I was born there (in 1956), but when I last saw it, some 18 years ago, 2007 I think, both the central parts and some of the outlying parts to the east had changed out of all recognition, though the area where I spent part of my childhood and part of my teenage years, Caversham Heights (on higher ground on the other side of the river from the main town) had not changed very much.

The Kiev regime is losing 1,000-2,000 soldiers daily, perhaps more (especially if you include medivac cases and desertions) . That is a rate of attrition that must lead to the collapse of the front-line before very long.

Rachel Reeves. Hateful woman. Member of Labour Friends of Israel. Thought she was so tough as she hit those she thought unable to defend themselves— pensioners, the sick, the disabled etc.

That horrible woman even contributed to a Jew-Israeli propaganda book about Auschwitz.

I am very glad she is being stamped on. I hope that that both continues and intensifies.

Ha ha…

As a confirmed “supporter” (near-agent) of Israel and the Jewish lobby, Rachel Reeves has no interest in the dead of Gaza (or the poor of the UK, come to that).

Labour is just a label now. In fact, one of its least impressive MPs, Jess Phillips (an expenses cheat, freeloader, and moneygrubber) admitted as much several years ago.

Rachel Reeves and her husband, combined, are dragging down a total of about half a million pounds a year.

I should love to see her lose her Commons seat too. 2029?

(i.e. the Israelis, and Jewish-Zionist interests generally).

My advice to her is to get on your broomstick and fly far away, until you are forgotten (should take a few weeks).

I love it when one of those smug, moneygrubbing, freeloading, careerist, pro-Jewish-lobby (even better) System MP drones is toppled, and crashes to oblivion (as Rachel Reeves surely will).

Had I a button that would send Reeves (and the entire Starmer-stein misgovernment, and the fake “Conservatives”, and some others) into orbit, I would not just press it, but make a fist and bang on it like Khrushchev did at the UN.

It follows that I have not one atom of sympathy, fake or other, for her. Au contraire.

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Just the thing for a typically unpleasant British summer heatwave (hot, humid, sticky, no aircon).

Shoot all invaders. That might work…

Also, listen to that former Labour-label SpAd. Deluded. No real ideas, just tick-box nonsense.

Reform UK is merely somewhat better than the other LibLabCon (etc) System rubbish, but its triumph, if it happens, will break the whole rigged political/msm scam asunder. Overton Window etc…

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[Levitan, June Day]

Diary Blog, 30 June 2025, including thoughts around the decaying remains of the one-time Soviet city of Vorkuta, Northern Russia

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[The high country of Shropshire]

Vorkuta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkuta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkutlag

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/01/27/europe-s-easternmost-city

I have only ever met one person who has been to Vorkuta, and his was an involuntary visit that lasted for many years; a Pole sent there as a young man, I think in or about 1940, along with many others. I believe that he somehow survived a decade there, and was eventually repatriated to his family in Bielsko-Biala, south-west Poland. Maybe about 65 when I met him and his family in 1988, he was a bit of a tough guy, and he must indeed have been tough, in more youthful days, to survive for 10 years as a prisoner and slave-labourer in Vorkuta.

Looking at that film (above), I am again struck by the harshness and brutality that humans can inflict on each other, but also by the incredible resilience and ability to create that humans have.

Vorkuta, like other cities in inhospitable areas and harsh climates (Magadan, Norilsk etc) which were wholly a product of the Stalinist period of the Soviet system (Vorkuta did not exist even as a hamlet until the 1930s), had at one time (1960s, 1970s, 1980s) a real city life, with a railway station, buses, an airport, a city theatre, hospitals, cinemas, sports centres, even a symphony orchestra; also, some fairly impressive-looking official buildings.

[Mining College, Vorkuta, northern Russia, built in the late 1940s or early 1950s); date of photo uncertain, possibly 1990s]

See also: https://philanthropicpeople.com/tag/book-burning/; https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/arctic-mining/coal-tycoon-buys-vorkuta-mines/106789; https://www.new-east-archive.org/features/show/11764/vorkuta-documentary-photography-russian-arctic-gulag-Roman-Demianenko-russia-z

[street in central Vorkuta (date uncertain: possibly 1980s, possibly 1990s)]
[Vorkuta: the now-seemingly-abandoned and ruined Palace of Culture at Severny, an offshoot of Vorkuta. A local arts and culture centre, complete with dilapidated statue of Lenin in front; building probably dating from the 1950s, but photograph dating from 2020]

Vorkuta had, at one time, 115,000 inhabitants. The real population is now thought to be well below 50,000, perhaps as low as 30,000.

See also:

My point is that civilization is not a simple continuum. Rudolf Steiner, Valentin Tomberg etc have described human evolution as a staggered spiral. There can be breaks in the spiral. Civilizations or cultures arise, but also decay and disappear. Amazing places can be created and built out of “nothing”, but those same places can fall to pieces and disappear even from memory and/or from recorded history.

The beautiful city of St. Petersburg was created from swamp and forest by the vision, in origo, of one man, Peter the Great, and still exists, now with millions of inhabitants (it is commonly said to be the 4th or even 3rd-largest city in Europe, depending on whether Istanbul is accepted as European). On the other hand, famous Sparta left almost nothing behind it but memories become history. Troy was, for many centuries until its site was rediscovered in the 19thC, thought to be not even legendary but mythical. New York City was created from “nothing”, from the 17thC onward, and still exists, yet the huge cities which once existed in Mexico and Central America and elsewhere have either disappeared or been supplanted (as at Mexico City) by very different successors.

Vorkuta was built on brutality and suffering, but then so was Petersburg…

The world, particularly Europe but also the Middle East, North America, Russia, stands in peril from massive and probably nuclear war. The cities of the West and Centre of Europe also stand in peril from internal strife caused mainly by migration invasion by backward hordes from other parts of the world. Our present overall culture and civilization may not survive the 21st Century, not in their current forms.

We should all be thinking about these matters and about how to salvage as much as possible of our present advanced culture and civilization, should that become necessary.

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The Bar is riddled with traitors. I should know; until a pack of Jews procured my (wrongful and actually unlawful) disbarment in 2016, I myself was a barrister, and saw how corrupt and also stupid the whole system is.

The Bar of England and Wales is now, more or less, a dustbin.

Rare but not unprecedented. Israeli orgs, usually Shin Beth, have arrested Jews and others in the past on espionage charges; people accused of being agents of the Soviet Union, then Russia; also for Arab states.

Another Israeli war crime.

[“Why do we say that Israel was crushed by Iran’s strikes? A prominent American analyst answers! “The United States was forced to intervene to prevent Iran from destroying Israel.”

Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst: “Many people don’t realize that Israel was perhaps one or two weeks away from total defeat. Some say, ‘Oh, you’re just repeating Iranian propaganda.’ Well, then listen to me…”

“Israel has two seaports, and Iran closed them, so there was no sea traffic. Iran also destroyed two oil refineries — in Haifa and Ashdod — or disrupted their ability to produce fuel. Iran closed Israel’s only international airport.“]

So why the ceasefire? Israel will use it to regroup, resupply etc.

Russian travelogue

Looks like I missed out in a big way on my two visits (1993 and 2007) to Moscow! In some ways, at least… Still, they were business trips (mainly).

Having said that, there were huge changes visible in 2007 as compared to 1993, and it seems clear that the changes since 2007 have been at least as great.

I could do with some very cold vegetable okroshka on such a hot day as today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okroshka.

A different side of contemporary Russia

…and only 90-100 miles from Moscow…

Good to see how quickly Nature, the forest, is recolonizing the land, though.

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Letting existing sick and disabled people continue to receive help, but cutting off help (income) from similar people in the near future, ismorally wrong“, in my view. That is almost unarguable, surely?

That is the MP for Normanton and Hemsworth in Yorkshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Trickett; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normanton_and_Hemsworth_(UK_Parliament_constituency).

Trickett cannot be bullied by Labour whips. He is already 74, so unlikely to contest another general election in 4+ years’ time. Also, he got over 47% of the vote in 2024, with Reform UK second on 29%. If deselected, he could, should he so choose, stand as Independent Labour, and so either win or let in Reform, which may have a good chance anyway.

Starmer-stein is too busy complying with whatever Israel and the UK Jewish lobby want done to actually do anything positive for this country or its (real) inhabitants.

So much of the msm/entertainment industry/music industry etc is in the hands of Jewish persons, and (as the Jew-Zionist orgs constantly remind us) about 95% of Jews in the UK support Israel, support the war in Gaza, the attacks against Iran (etc).

Even the Jewish anti-Zionist jazz musician, Gilad Atzmon, was targeted and persecuted by Zionist Jews, and his shows attacked or cancelled, to the extent that he eventually had to relocate out of the UK, to Greece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Atzmon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Atzmon#The_Wandering_Who?

For once, I have to agree with O’Brien. The fact is that the Jew-Zionist element in Israel, in Palestine generally, and also in countries such as the UK and USA, France, Germany etc, is out of control. “They” have grabbed both influence and direct power, and are abusing that influence and power.

https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1939767598268227797

The Kiev regime forces are ebbing away.

https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1939770322313781577

Disgrace.

Russia is slowly, painfully slowly, winning by attrition. It should never have come to this, but “we are where we are”…

[“The underlying discontent among rebellious and even loyal Labour MPs stems from what many would say is a pathetically late discovery: that what’s driving so much government policy is Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules and the absolute power of the Office for Budget Responsibility in determining whether she is breaching those rules or not. Any illusion that this isn’t the single most important driver of government decision-making was shattered today by the revealed contradiction between its establishment of a supposedly fundamental review led by disabilities minister Stephen Timms to shape new criteria for awarding Personal Independence Payments, while nonetheless sticking with the contradictory stipulation that from November next year no one will be eligible for PIP if they don’t score four points on one of PIP’s existing criteria. It is absurd and illogical to characterise Timms’s review as the face of humane reform while simultaneously saying that this new four-point rule based on existing criteria will willy-nilly come into effect next year. So what’s really going on? The work and pensions secretary’s unspoken reason for sticking to the four-point reform is that without it, and under the OBR-assessed fiscal rules, Reeves would have to fill a £5bn hole in her finances in the autumn’s budget, and not the £2.5bn hole created by Kendall’s partial welfare-reform climb down. That is a big difference when it comes to any taxes Reeves may have to raise or any spending she may have to cut. So a growing number of Labour MPs see this subservience to the OBR and the fiscal rules as just the stupidest motivation for making today’s decisions that affect the lives of the most fragile of UK citizens – decisions that will, on the government’s own calculations, shift 150,000 vulnerable people into poverty. These MPs were bitten once by the OBR dog when Reeves chose to means-test the winter fuel allowance as proof of her fealty to the OBR’s jurisdiction over her own fiscal rules. With the disability reforms, many of them now feel twice shy. They don’t ask why a Labour government respects the OBR, especially after the Truss/Kwarteng fiscal debacle caused by their disrespect for the OBR. But they do question why the Chancellor and Treasury endow the OBR with an almost mystical ability to determine which policies are sensible and why Reeves has seemingly abdicated responsibility for trying to sell the government’s initiatives to the country’s creditors independently of the OBR and fiscal rules straitjacket. So whatever the outcome of the vote tomorrow on the welfare reforms, Reeves and Starmer are now under enormous pressure – probably irresistible pressure – to lose their OBR religion.“]

That bastard Timms again…

I think that people are generally awakening to the fact(s) that this is only a Labour government in terms of label. Labour-label. In reality, a Labour Friends of Israel government (misgovernment).

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Diary Blog, 24 November 2024, including thoughts about what makes political parties “credible” and “serious”

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[Fontanka, St. Petersburg]

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Kiev-regime Ukraine is not a civilized state. Indeed, it is not really a state at all. Were it not propped up by EU, US, UK aid, it would collapse. It will eventually collapse. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war.

What makes politicians and parties “credible” and “serious”?

In fact, at time of writing, that petition has over 600,000 signatures, and is obviously going to end up in the millions. I doubt that its existence, even if 6,000,000 sign, will change anything, though. Keir Starmer and his Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment will hang on, in order to retain power, to retain status, and to quite deliberately further ruin this country.

Interesting how people perceive political parties and their MPs, though.

For example, Rachel Reeves was touted as a real heavyweight, a serious economist etc. Now, it turns out that she was not working as an economist prior to becoming an MP, but was, as the detractors say, more or less “Rachel from Accounts“, a kind of office bod, and a retail banking mortgage adviser who sold retail products to members of the public and engaged in customer relations.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14116675/Rachel-Reevecustomer-relations-Halifax-CV.html.

The CVs of many MPs, not only Labour ones, are faked to the point of utter dishonesty; that of Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, for one. Even the bastard’s surname is a fake (it is not “Duncan Smith” but simply “Smith”).

As to the parties themselves, the public are fooled into thinking that the Labour Party and Conservative parties are somehow “serious” or “credible” because they have been around for a long time and have, respectively, 402 and 121 MPs. Even the LibDems, who have 72.

Reform UK is not regarded, even now, as credible or serious, partly because it is fairly new, because it is a vehicle owned (literally) by Nigel Farage, and because it has only 5 MPs

The reality is that the make-up of the present Parliament is by reason of a voting system that is more than simply flawed; it simply bears no relationship to the real and expressed opinions and preferences of the electorate.

The present “elected” Labour Party quasi-dictatorship of Jewish-lobby/Israel lobby puppet Starmer was voted for by 4 out of 20 eligible voters (4 out of 12 actual voters), and has 402 MPs. 3 out of 20 (3 out of 12) voted Conservative Party, which has 121 MPs. 2 out of 20 (2 out of 12) voted LibDem; 72 MPs.

Then we have Reform UK, also voted for by 2 out of 20 (2 out of 12) voters. Indeed, Reform UK gathered in half a million more votes than did the LibDems. Only 5 MPs! Unfair, and actually illogical. In fact, the proportion of votes going to the LibDems was 12.22%, to Reform UK 14.29%.

More significantly, Labour’s total vote was, roughly, 9.7M, the Conservatives’ was 6.8M, Reform UK got 4M, and the LibDems 3.5M. Reform UK was not so far behind the Conservative Party, and within sight of the Labour Party, which got nearly 2.5x the Reform UK vote.

I do not think it impossible that a head of steam (of discontent) will build from now until 2029, and that Labour will then suffer a crushing electoral defeat. The “Conservatives”, presumably under their new Nigerian woman leader, are unlikely, in my opinion, to get far beyond where they now are. The LibDems are just a “dustbin” party for the votes of those not wishing to vote Lab or Con. The remaining straw at which the voters might clutch is Reform. I could see Reform winning 50-100 seats next time, maybe more, in those seats where 3 or 4 parties will be in serious contention, each of the contending parties getting 20%-30%.

In those circumstances, yes, Reform might emerge as either the third or the second party in the Commons. First place? Unlikely, but never say never.

Caveat: Reform is morphing slowly into a new System party, as witness Farage’s recent statements, both pro-Israel and not particularly anti-Islam; also, with numerous non-white candidates. Only real social nationalism can save this country, but there is no party of that kind, unfortunately.

Incidentally, that “Call a General Election Now” petition has, in the time it took me to write the above lines, gone well above 700,000, and is running at about 2,000 signatures per minute. Admittedly, 700,000 people is only about 1% of the whole UK population, and about 2% of the GE 2024 turnout. On the other hand, if the petition numbers reach 7M, or 14M, are Labour partisans still going to be saying that it is meaningless? In terms of public relations, that does not wash.

“Seriousness” and “credibility” of political parties rests on a number of connected factors: ideology, professed policies, leader, other prominent members and/or MPs, history (if any), funding and publicity, msm comment, Press comment, online comment, number of people voting for the party.

“Call a General Election Now” (II)

I notice that the petition now has 1.2M signatures, and still increasing by about 2,000 per minute as I write. If, as expected, the signatories are ignored by the Government (save for a perfunctory brief and no-vote debate in the Commons), then Labour’s slide will certainly continue.

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Once again, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, the hard-core Israel and Jewish-lobby supporter and mouthpiece.

New World Order (NWO), Israel, Zionism and “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) under the Jew Zelensky are all closely connected.

<4 hours later, as I write, and the petition is now at about 1.3M. It may reach 2M, it may reach 3M, or 20M. I cannot say.

Does Lebanon have no air force to counter the Israeli attacks?

Ah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Air_Force.

Seems that the answer is “no”…

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[Morna Rhys, Full Moon, Cornwall; https://nortonwaygallery.com/artist/morna-rhys/]