Well, this week an easy victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, whereas I managed 7/10, and might have scored 9/10 had I been able to bring to mind the answers to questions 1 and 7 (which I basically knew). The only question on which I had no idea at all was no. 3.
After languishing in the world’s smallest orca tank for 53 years, Lolita the orca died at @MiamiSeaquarium just before her impending transfer to a seaside sanctuary and the possible reunion with her mother. pic.twitter.com/PHFnnpKv9S
We are so deeply saddened by the heartbreaking news that the world's loneliest orca, Lolita, has died in captivity 53 years after she was captured from her home. A plan was underway to return her to the ocean. However, it was too little too late for Lolita, who was denied her… pic.twitter.com/gdIqEoHMHJ
Slava! All the same, that central westward thrust from Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk) to Vinnitsa looks to me unnecessary and possibly counterproductive.
Russia needs to secure all territory east of the Dnieper, and also the coastal littoral of the Black Sea (including Odessa) but, above all, Kiev itself. Confine the Zelensky regime to a rump inland “state” based on Lvov.
The map shows, supposedly, something akin to the original scheme, but it probably is still the overall strategy.
The Bürgerbräukeller, Munich, in or about 1923, shown above presumably before rather than after the “Beer Hall Putsch” (8-9 November 1923 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch).
The photo shows a meeting of the NSDAP. All those shown in the photo were members or supporters of the NSDAP.
What interests me is that, at that time, the NSDAP was a relatively minor party even in its hub, Bavaria (in early 1923, the national membership was about 6,000, and by the Autumn of 1923 about 20,000).
In May 1924, i.e. after the failure of the “Beer Hall Putsch” (aka “Munich Putsch” or “Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch), the NSDAP (banned, so using the name “National Socialist Freedom Movement”) scored only 6.5% in the federal (national) elections, and only 3% in December 1924.
In 1923-1924, the NSDAP had the sort of minor public support that, in the UK of the 21st Century, UKIP was enjoying about a decade ago, and that the BNP had about 15 years ago.
All the same, look at that photograph of the NSDAP meeting in 1923. Many hundreds of people, at the least. All looking decently-dressed.
One cannot but help compare that to the tiny so-called “far-right” (national and social-national) parties of today’s Britain.
The main difference politically between Germany in 1923 and Britain in 2023 is, that in 1923 Germany, there were large numbers of Germans of all social and income groups who supported the idea of national renewal. The NSDAP may only have had a few thousand or tens of thousands of members, but other volkisch parties and groups, such as, and primarily, the Stahlhelm, had the same or more, in some cases hundreds of thousands: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Stahlhelm,_Bund_der_Frontsoldaten.
Look now at Britain in 2023. The degenerate strata of higher-income and high-social-status groups do not, generally, support national renewal, but are (metaphorically) signed up to the trends which are destroying our society (and now destroying it quite rapidly).
What that means is that, should social-nationalism, by a political miracle (which I do not rule out) take power in this country, it will have to start its mission by removing surgically, and by drastic surgery, large sections of degenerate society, at all income and social-status levels.
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Politics Explained: Another Starmer retreat from a policy that made him Labour leader https://t.co/rOBz2XiUHS
Ha ha! “Councillor Birgit Miller”. What a total mug. Typical “Jack Monroe” supporter (middle-aged, apparently fairly affluent, and unable to distinguish “grifting” deception and pointless tweeting from genuine campaigning).
As for the other mugs mentioned in the tweet, apart from Jewish TV cook Nigella Lawson, we have “Charron Pugsley-Hill, artist and hypnotherapist“, whose full Twitter profile says “Artist/Environmentalist Paintings of Nature/flower Paintings prints for sale. Solution Focused psychologist and hypnotherapist. Happier world together.” Another pretty typical “Jack Monroe” supporter-mug. Oh, and I have just seen that she is a facemask loonie as well. At least she is apparently an animal-lover.
I actually saw two facemask loonies today, one a supermarket cashier, the other a customer at the same place.
Maybe reality is seeping in. Anything even slightly looking like defeat for Russia in the Ukraine battlefield space might trigger a nuclear attack on the West. Don’t go there.
the US stops funding, then Ukraine will disappear in a couple of weeks
Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson said that the Ukrainian army will not be able to continue military operations without the support of NATO
Exactly. That has been the case for at least a year now.
Ukraine must mobilize 10 thousand people every month to at least hold the front, – Ukrainian Military Pages
“Only in order to compensate for the losses in the dead and wounded, as well as to replace the military, dismissed from service for health reasons, age and family… pic.twitter.com/bChe3HNFP2
Ukrainian resources report additional reconnaissance of targets in Odessa, a subsequent strike by land-based and sea-based cruise missiles cannot be ruled out
A military train with the Russian MLRS "Uragan" and other equipment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was sent to help the RF military in the SMO zone. pic.twitter.com/9udrRjDxCg
So the “Conservative” Party has now alienated the” “young” generally (maybe 90% of those under 30), the working families, the unemployed, most voters under 60, both those who support “refugees” incoming and also those who do not want more migrant-invaders, those renting properties because unable to buy, those wanting clean rivers and other environmental improvements, and now those who are sick and/or disabled and who are not already anti-Con.
Many, perhaps most, of those getting disability benefits are over 60, i.e. the only demographic until recently still supporting the Conservative Party.
The trend of things electoral seems to be that the hard core of Conservative Party support for the expected 2024 General Election will be persons over 60 who 1. have no opinion either way about the migration invasion, who 2. are homeowners without any mortgage obligation, who 3. are not short of money, 4. who do not receive any State benefits at all (beyond the State Pension itself), and 5. who do not object to a government (at Cabinet level) largely composed of non-whites.
There is at least a possibility that Sunak will suspend the Triple Lock on State pensions, as he did when Chancellor. As I predicted on the blog at the time, that first decision cut away the bedrock of pensioner electoral support for (and trust in) the Conservative Party; the fall in Con Party fortunes dates from that time a couple of years ago.
I begin to think that Sunak will be lucky to keep even 20% of the popular vote, though I still see Labour as not offering anything much to the British people (and, after all, Starmer’s policies are not, in reality, going to be much different to those of Sunak).
I should think that, despite the fact that the Sunak government is doomed, the next election in terms of seats will be decided by many voters making their decision in the final days of the campaign.
Dawn Butler… The disrespect is not because of your colour it is because of your extreme anti white, anti British agenda and that big chip on your shoulder not to mention your incompetence as an MP
The Russian Armed Forces attacked the port infrastructure and fuel depots in the Odessa region with the help of 15 Geran drones pic.twitter.com/wgQOog5z19
WSJ: Western policy towards Ukraine only delays its defeat
This was stated to the newspaper by the former assistant to former US President Donald Trump for national security, John Bolton . “The failure of the Ukrainians to make significant progress was a natural result of the… pic.twitter.com/HTIMmKLOkk
The US said that Ukraine needs to “forget” about Crimea in order to end the conflict with Russia
This opinion was voiced by the political consultant of the State Department and the US Department of Defense Edward Luttwak . “The infrastructure of Ukraine is being destroyed… pic.twitter.com/hvr6dfDPvo
I did not know that he was still around; I recall reading his book, Coup d’Etat, around 1978. Some British Army fellow “borrowed” it, and I was unable to get it back.
Poland is preparing for a military parade. It is especially amusing to see German Leopards regularly burning in the fields of Zaporozhye. pic.twitter.com/Fmj11ihwan
It is a notorious fact that armies and states often prepare to fight the last war, the war already fought. In 1939, Poland collapsed within 5 weeks after powerful German forces invaded from the west, indeed from west, north, and south simultaneously on and after 1 September 1939.
The Polish forces were hopelessly outmanouvered and outgunnned. They withdrew to the southeast, only to be outplayed when Soviet forces invaded from the easterly direction on 17 September 1939. Faced with attacks from all sides, the Poles had no choice but to surrender de facto by 6 October 1939, though there never was a formal surrender.
Notoriously, the Poles, in one famous engagement, made a hopeless cavalry charge against the latest German tanks. The Germans were fighting (as it turned out) the Second World War, whereas the Poles were using the tactics not even of the First World War but of the 19th Century.
Scrolling on to 2023, we see the Polish Army more powerful than it has been for centuries, but its strength lies in armour, and in numbers. Second World War strengths. The Russians may or may not be able to equal that, not without general mobilization, but Russia also has well over 6,000 nuclear weapons of various kinds, mostly missiles. Nuclear missiles (etc) against tanks?
The old Soviet Union also had “suitcase bombs”, capable of destroying city centres to a diameter of perhaps two miles. Does Russia have a similar programme now? I do not know, but would not bet against it.
What is disturbing at present is that, even more than in 1939, the war drums are beating far louder than the plaintive cries for peace.
Not just in Poland and Ukraine, but across the world, especially in the USA and UK, and in the EU.
The EU is in big trouble as Poland calls referendum on illegal immigration for October. The ref seeks to defeat the EU's plan to force EU nations to take illegal immigrants against their will. The EU will lose badly. When can Brits have the same vote? https://t.co/DjI2AfpQHL
It is a warning, “a shot across the bow”. The fastest, most advanced Russian missiles, with nuclear warheads, cannot be intercepted at present. Stop fuelling the Kiev regime, stop getting entangled in war with Russia.
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On UAF troops powerful arrivals in Kramatorsk
Fire and smoke can be seen from miles away.
Presumably, there are hits on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the workshops of the Energomashspetsstal machine-building plant and the Kramatorsk heavy machine… pic.twitter.com/3T4h0CragF
The monitoring resources of the Armed Forces of Ukraine report the take-off from the Olenya airfield of Tu-95MS strategic bombers and the entry into the Black Sea of the frigate Admiral Makarov
Damn. For the second time recently, political journalist John Rentoul beat my score (which has happened only very rarely over the past several years). This week, he scored 8/10 as against my 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 6, and 10.
As not infrequently noted on the blog, Ukraine now has few domestic volunteers willing to go to near-certain death or serious injury at the front. Likewise, few foreign adventurers are now willing to risk it, whether for misguided idealism, for thrills, or for —relatively paltry— money.
Many Ukrainians are trying to evade conscription, and/or to get across the borders of Ukraine (forbidden to most men 18+ in age). Meanwhile, Kiev-regime press-gangs are now scouring the streets trying to find draft-dodgers. The wealthier evaders are willing to pay plenty for an exemption document, which might also allow them to escape the country.
“Ukraine and Russia have engaged in tit-for-tat drone and missile attacks as their war of attrition intensifies.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is increasingly taking the war to Russia, with fresh strikes on Moscow yesterday.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian drones damaged government offices in the capital, and on Thursday Russia said it downed two drones headed for Moscow, a day after two others were destroyed on approach. Targets yesterday included the west of the capital near the Karamyshinsky hydroelectric power station.
The attacks led to the closure of airspace over Moscow’s Vnukovo international airport and Kaluga city, 125 miles to the south west.
At least two drones were reported, with one filmed buzzing the Russian capital. A drone was said to have been shot down by Russia. There were also reports of an explosion in Krasnogorsk in north-west Moscow.“
[Daily Mail]
Should the Russian leadership so decide, Kiev and all other Ukrainian cities can be razed to the ground, either via nuclear attack or via conventional missiles, bombs etc. That would be a terrible thing, and bitter for both sides, but the Kiev regime is playing with fire.
After the 2020-2022 years of police-state “lockdowns”, stupid “anti-virus” measures such as the facemask nonsense and the ludicrous “Rule of Six”, and the NHS leaving millions to “die on the vine” without medical or dental services, not many will feel sorry for doctors who, even the junior ones, get paid more than most British people. Many of the doctors are also from affluent backgrounds, as is the one featured in that Daily Mail report.
You only have to look at the bitch in question (one Pamela Mattinson, of Bolton, Lancashire): dressed in exercise clothing even at court, and a grandmother at the age of 48 (though looking 70 years old)… a “chavscum” grandmother.
Oh…and of course (needless to add) she has “issues” with alcoholism and her “mental health”…drinking vodka in the middle of the day…
Look at her with (I presume) her equally “chavscum” daughter, smirking on the steps of the court.
Rhetorically, one might ask why her sentence was suspended, but these days, in England, you rarely get a prison sentence unless you murder someone, or publish something that the Jewish lobby does not like.
Britain now has millions of feral and useless persons of that sort. The country needs to be cleansed.
At least the kitten recovered and was rehomed, but the bitch who tried to kill it has not been suitably punished, not at all.
This is not simply a report about an abused kitten, nor even about one wicked woman and her probably-equally-unpleasant family, but also the context of a whole stratum of society that should be straightened out or eliminated.
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Jack Monroe doesn't tweet much anymore. She was found to be someone who tricks honest leftwing people out of money for court cases and uses the money for her own purposes. She abuses the goodwill of her supporters and flounced away when people started asking her to be honest
That first tweeter, “Mariken”, is very typical of many naive “Jack Monroe” supporters. Even after the past year or more of gradually-intensifying exposure of the “grift” and outright fraud by “Jack Monroe” (one or two mild assessments were even published in the Guardian and Daily Mail), “Mariken” obviously has no idea at all. Amusingly, her Twitter profile says “Animal lover. Hate corruption and liars“, yet here she is lauding psycho liar “Jack Monroe”, who also killed at least one or two domestic animals by wilful neglect or worse.
You could hardly make it up— the silly woman thinks that “Jack Monroe” is “a great role model“! What part of constant lying, “grift”, theft, fraud, and the harassment of both critics and disenchanted donors (etc) does “Mariken” fail to understand? Not to mention alcohol and drug abuse, and the profligate spending of other people’s money (etc).
Over the course of the past year I’ve had the privilege of working in collaboration with Soloviev Live! to bring important Russian voices to an American/Western audience through “The Scott Ritter Show.” Today YouTube cancelled the channel used to air the show, calling it “hate…
When it rains, it pours. The same day that YouTube deplatformed “The Scott Ritter Show”, they deplatformed “Ask The Inspector.” This is a targeted effort by YouTube to remove/minimize my voice, and those of my guests and the people who took the time to ask probing questions about…
Also confirms Starmer didn’t intend to create a big story on keeping the 2-child benefits limit: “The leadership had about as much control over events as a carrier bag caught in a gust of wind”
Yes. Starmer stands for nothing, basically, except of course being even more of an Israel/Jewish-lobby puppet than (inter alia) David Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, Liz Truss, or “Boris” idiot. As previously said on the blog, Labour also now stands for absolutely nothing, unless it is the parody “we can run workhouses better” (etc).
As against that, the present “Conservative” government has taken “Boris”-idiot’s “omnishambles” to a whole new level. Even its own MPs are now loud in condemnation of its total incompetence. The Con MPs hoping to stay on as MPs, that is; many others are already in the lifeboats as the Con ship sinks in the opinion polls.
My assessment at present is that there is no enthusiasm for Labour (beyond the usual Twitter drones). Labour is up because the Con Party and its misgovernment are down, purely that.
On the above premises, while the Sunak government is obviously doomed, it may not be quite as doomed as presently appears. If the economy (the real economy, for the average Joe) improves a little, if inflation falls at the same time, i.e. over the next 6-9 months, and if that average Joe, and Josephine, feel apathetic or so-so rather than actually angry about the present government, then they may just stick with Con rather than defect to LibDem or Lab.
If enough of them do that, in marginal seats, then the prospect of a 1997-style Labour landslide (seats, not the popular vote) may just disappear like a mirage. We may then be back in hung Parliament territory.
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Big question about today's "major incident" 4 miles off the French coast, with a dinghy get into trouble is: why did British vessels perform a search & rescue mission so deep into French waters – then ferry illegals not to Calais, but back to Dover? https://t.co/uQa9PJEN1Y
No mystery. Just part of the implementation of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: ferry blacks and browns etc from Africa and Asia to Europe, get the white Europeans to mix with them, thus over time creating a coffee-coloured population, then that population to be ruled over by Jews and part-Jews (eg Rothschilds, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, David Cameron-Levita, Zac Goldsmith etc, to name but a few).
I'm a single white male, a pensioner and a disabled veteran. I've applied to various councils, estate/letting agents and others responsible for letting out property. I don't even get the courtesy of a "Thanks but no thanks".
"It will be a hard autumn" : chapter The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that calls for peace talks with Russia are increasingly heard in the world
“We will do everything within the framework of international law and criminal law to ensure that these voices fade away,” said… pic.twitter.com/gLSP0TYoBU
The sooner the brutal, shambolic, and corrupt Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev is crushed, the better.
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next. What they have done to our children over the past few years is absolutely disgusting – on so many levels.
When enough people realise they've been had, all their lives, by corrupt, lying, politicians and captured institutions bought and paid for by criminal, unelected, unaccountable transnational entities … what then?
“The failure of Europe to keep pace with America has taken its toll on living standards. The average EU country is now poorer per head than every state in America bar Idaho and Mississippi.
The latter, the poorest state in the Union, is often referred to as America’s Third World but — with an average per capita annual income of $50,000 — the citizens of Mississippi are better off than their counterparts in France.”
[Daily Mail]
While I am no fan of the EU, the above is a typical example of how journalists twist the facts. Yes, per capita, France is “poorer” than Mississippi, but that is merely a headline figure.
In France, citizens get free and, until recently, quite good education, not only free at primary and secondary level, but also at tertiary level— universities, les grand ecoles, institutes etc. In Mississippi, higher education has to be paid for, either in cash or via student loans.
In France, medical and dental care of high quality is available via a hybrid State insurance system with a safety net for the unemployed, elderly etc. Hospital wards were done away with 40+ years ago. In Mississippi, there are areas without much healthcare at all and, despite Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare etc, health insurance is almost essential, if you or your employer can afford it.
Then there is the finance-capitalist system generally, and how it results in inequality of capital and income. In France, despite inequalities, there are relatively few people in grinding poverty; not so in Mississippi, where the top few percent take most of the money.
Beware of what newspaper scribblers tell you.
Andrew Neil not only should know better, he does know better. Dishonest.
“Residents ‘gobsmacked’ as horse and carts race through Bournemouth.
Footage sent to the Echo shows youths sat on the back of a cart attached to horses in the Lower Gardens, underneath the flyover at Pier Approach.
Concerned residents feared there could have been injuries or even a fatality if the horses had hit somebody, so phoned the police.
One resident, who asked to remain unnamed, was walking around the town when he came across the bizarre sight on Saturday, July 22.
‘I was just concerned because had there been a little child, or pet, or mother with a pram came running down, the horse would have gone into them and there could have been a fatality.’
The man said it was the first time he had seen anything similar in more than 30 years of living in Bournemouth.
However, he didn’t want people to have negative attitudes towards travellers.“
[Bournemouth Echo].
Isn’t that so typical of England in 2023? Nuisances, in this case “travellers” (Irish “tinker” “gypsies”), make life difficult and less pleasant (and potentially dangerous) for normal citizens, but nothing is done about them, the police do nothing, and even the concerned citizen who reported them felt obliged to say that no-one should have “negative attitudes” towards the nuisance group.
The System propaganda, endlessly pumped out by most msm outlets, by schools, by the churches (what’s left of them), and by MPs (especially Labour ones) has seeped into the thinking of many many people.
When I started this blog, nearly 7 years ago, I thought that the UK could be saved; now, I feel less sure every day.
[so-called “travellers” causing chaos in Bournemouth]
HS2 was a wrongheaded concept anyway. The high-speed train idea is OK in much larger countries such as France or China, or very elongated countries, such as Japan. Chile would be ideal. Not in the UK, unless the train were to go London to Scotland, or maybe to Penzance; the present plan is London to Manchester via Birmingham.
The Eastern route (to Leeds) has gone. There never was a Cornish route, and anyway the existing rail line would not be strong enough to take such trains beyond Exeter.
The HS2 project should have been scrapped a decade ago, and the money spent on providing more services and more branch lines in the North.
As it is, the project will be delivered in the 2030s (maybe), at ruinous expense, at ruinous environmental cost. Already the construction has scarred the landscape, destroyed ancient woodland etc.
[HS2 ground preparation scars the landscape near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 2021]
All so that a train currently taking 1 hr 22mins to Birmingham will take 52 mins in the future, a saving of 30 mins. Oddly, the reduction in (fastest) travel time to Manchester will be less— 1 hr 40 mins instead of 1 hr 54 mins, a saving of only 14 minutes.
It is just not worth the money and the environmental damage.
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Speaking of System propaganda…
The public are currently subjected to endless propaganda for the LGBTQXYZ agenda, masquerading as “sports news”.
I switched on BBC TV News recently, for the first time in a while, only to find that most of the broadcast was taken up with a report about some women’s football game in Denmark.
Women’s football is being heavily pushed by the “usual suspects”. No-one had even heard of women’s football a few years ago, not as a mass spectator sport. It now turns out that many of the women footballers are lesbians.
“Speculation about Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch‘s ambitions was gathering pace last night after a campaign to make her leader of the Tory party was revived.
The Backingbadenoch.co.uk website was quietly updated a few weeks ago, as were the corresponding Twitter and Facebook accounts.
[Daily Mail]
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. White people, despite still constituting 80% of the UK population, simply squeezed out everywhere, from TV ads and dramas to 10 Downing Street.
“Although a British citizen and born in the UK, Badenoch stated that she was “to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant” during her parliamentary maiden speech.
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.[7]Badenoch spent parts of her childhood living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States…She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria which had affected her family.”
[Wikipedia].
If you import a coconut, it does not thereby become a cucumber.
Either Israel will eventually be hit by nuclear missiles from Iran or elsewhere, or it will fall apart internally, and then be subject to an uprising by the ~7,500,000 Palestinian Arabs who live at present corralled in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank areas, and inside the boundaries of Israel itself. The Arabs, as a population, number about the same, or only slightly fewer, than the Jews living in Israel.
"The main thing is that Russia does not participate." Zelensky announced the terms of the discussion of the peace plan in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/IVDqnFdbGL
If he were not so evidently mendacious and evil, Zelensky could simply be called an idiot. Imagine claiming to want a “peace plan” without the participation of the main player!
Wagner PMC fighters may attempt to invade NATO territory
According to the Polish vice-marshal Kaminsky, the "musicians" will carry out a military operation to attack the territory of Poland in order to "test NATO" for a response.
Dangerous territory both metaphorically and literally. If PMC Wagner were to attack Poland, that would presumably be taken to be an incident triggering Article 5 of the NATO Treaty (because presumably an action ordered by the Russian Government). Likewise, were Polish forces to attack official Russian or Belarusian forces, or to enter Ukrainian territory, there might be direct conflict between Polish and Russian forces, also probably triggering Article 5.
Sensible heads must rethink this conflict, and especially the increasingly frenetic NATO aid to the Kiev regime, before all Europe goes up in flames.
The Wagnerians are entering Poland as migrants – claims Polsat News
A new wave of panic gripped Poland. Namely, the local population believes that illegal migrants who are essentially members of PVK Wagner are penetrating the territory of Poland from Belarus, this was said by… pic.twitter.com/rbi7giOqvE
PMC "Wagner" and military personnel of the Belarusian mechanized brigade held a joint training , – the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/9w1owa0hyK
Well, this week I scored a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored only 2/10, whereas my score was 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5 and 10. I admit that I guessed the answer to question no.1, but that still counts.
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He is nasty I’ve heard so many people say he’s nasty mothers who lost sons in Afghanistan he was truly awful to them
Now, Biden is demented; back then, in 2019, he was just a very obviously unpleasant person. Were he not a politician, notunder public scrutiny, and were he in, say, an Irish-American bar somewhere, one could imagine him viciously assaulting his interlocutor.
"We have a corrupt and compromised president, rogue Joe Biden dragging us into World War III on behalf of a nation that paid him millions and millions of dollars in bribes " – Donald Trump
Amid the ongoing legal investigation against Trump, his lawyer wants cameras in the… pic.twitter.com/M8gWN7Sgzo
The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta, are a pair of one-trick ponies. They are rapidly becoming yesterday’s news, except as a kind of joke.
Electricity prices rise in Germany without Russian gas — Die Welt In the coming years, the cost of electricity in Germany will remain high and may even rise. By 2025, electricity consumption is expected to increase in Germany, and gas is still used for its production. pic.twitter.com/7NSfqRuiQA
So, again, who is hurt by sanctions against Russia? The consumers and taxpayers of western and central Europe. Not Russia or Russians. The gas produced in Russia will still be sold elsewhere in the world, and Russian citizens are, if anything, better off than they were before the sanctions were imposed.
The Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine said that food exports from Ukraine decreased by at least 30% after the termination of the grain deal. pic.twitter.com/vJZtAXPN40
Another crack in Ukrainian-Polish friendship — Wprost
Poland's decision not to import Ukrainian grain outraged the Ukrainian prime minister. “This is an unfriendly and populist move that will hit global food security and Ukraine’s economy hard,” wrote Denys Shmyhal.
Ukraine will increase the tariff for the transportation of Russian oil through its section of the Druzhba pipeline by 23.5 percent
From August 1, Russia will pay 4 euros more for pumping each ton of oil in the direction of Slovakia and Hungary – the tariff will increase to 21… pic.twitter.com/g8qCa4nwi4
A strange “war”, in which Ukraine (Kiev regime) allows transit of Russian oil exports through its territory (at a price) and, until last week, Russia allowed the Kiev regime to export grain.
Destruction of the artillery arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Chudnov, Zhytomyr region pic.twitter.com/pErEOuUcZH
Two 9-ton furnaces have been restored at the Azovelectrostal plant in Mariupol “The territory has been demined and cleared of destroyed structures. An initial technical and economic audit was carried out. The backbone of the team has been preserved – 250 technical staff," the… pic.twitter.com/bqKupbFUSF
Is it not the other way around? Whatever. The fact is that there is little clear blue water between the two major System parties, a fact many voters have started to realize.
Map of the attacks of the Crimean peninsula by drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on this one pic.twitter.com/qzkPMs7LJs
I don't know how ANYONE can think it's right for Jack Monroe bootstrapcook to solicit donations under false pretences, refuse to prove where cash has gone & block donors who ask for transparency. Every day, she looks less like just a grifter & more like a serial fraudster https://t.co/J5tuoczDPa
As I predicted on the blog a couple of days ago, this was a “battle of the apathies”. Complete “Conservative” omnishambles meets Labour mediocrity (both on the national and constituency levels).
The successful Conservative candidate drew a veil over both the non-performance of the Rishi Sunak government and the egregiously poor behaviour (and capabilities) of ex-MP “Boris” Johnson; the candidate just kept hitting at the ridiculous Sadiq Khan ULEZ scheme [“Ultra Low Emission Zone”], and saying very little else about anything.
In a sense that concentration on ULEZ shows how meaningless the supposed “democracy” of the UK now is. The ULEZ idea and policy was first mooted by none other than “Boris”-idiot and the Conservative Party in London. Quite apart from that, the new Con Party MP, one Steve Tuckwell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tuckwell] will be able to exercise precisely zero influence over the ULEZ scheme and Sadiq Khan.
The Labour Party candidate, Danny Beales, was arguably not a good candidate in the particular constituency, an outer London suburb. Gay, a former councillor in inner-city Camden, and a graduate of the London School of Economics.
That said, the result was close— 495 votes decided it. Both the LibDem voters (526, fifth place), and/or the Green Party voters (893, third place), had they voted tactically, could have prevented the narrow Con Party victory. Neither Greens nor LibDems had a chance of winning, and both lost their deposits, along with the other 13 candidates, all of whom could be described as either “minor” or “joke” candidates.
The actor Laurence Fox, for Reclaim, did well, in a minor way, to come fourth, not far behind the Green. Still, this was really between Con Party (13,965 votes, 45.2%) and Labour (13,470, 43.6%). The other 15 parties and independents only scored 11.2% between them.
It does puzzle me why LibDem voters in particular did not all vote tactically. Some did, plainly, looking at previous election results where the LibDem vote was higher by far (peaking at 20% in 2010, though only 6.3% in 2019), but not enough.
Why did 526 LibDems bother to trot down to vote, knowing that their candidate had no chance? Even if they hated both Con and Lab, and so were unwilling to vote for either, why bother to vote? As someone said of golf, “a good walk spoiled“.
So a Conservative Party win, though scarcely a ringing endorsement.
Turnout was about 2/3 of that in 2019, and indeed the previous elections. I am assuming from that that many former Conservative voters, in what was since creation in 2010 a fairly safe Conservative seat (a new seat on these boundaries), just threw up their hands in disgust at both main System parties, could find no other home for their votes, and so “voted with their feet”— abstained.
The successful Labour candidate is 25, once again (like the Labour candidate at Uxbridge) gay (seems that it is almost compulsory now in the Labour Party), and has only worked for 18 months since leaving university. Interestingly, those 18 months were spent working at the Confederation of British Industry, a more usual place in which to find young Conservatives, surely?
Also, he spent some months in 2019 and 2020 working with Wes Streeting, the “centrist” (Labour Friends of Israel) MP. So it seems that Keir Mather will fit easily into the Keir Starmer Labour Party. Not much else is yet known about him: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Mather.
Why did Mather win what had previously been regarded as a safe Conservative seat? As at Uxbridge, the implication is surely obvious: former Conservative voters were appalled at both major System parties, and so preferred to stay home rather than vote Labour (or elsewhere).
Mather scored 46% of the overall vote, as against 34.3% scored by his Con Party opponent.
Since the creation of the seat in 2010, the Conservative Party had won easily all elections, scoring between 49.4% (2010) and 60.3% (2019). Labour, however, had scored only around 25% of the vote, except in 2017, under Corbyn, when the Labour Party candidate managed over 34%.
The key here, as with Uxbridge, lies in the turnout. The by-election turnout was only 44.8%, whereas in 2019 it was 71.7% (and in previous elections, not dissimilar).
The implication, again, as at Uxbridge, is that former Conservative Party voters, in a formerly safe Conservative area, simply decided not to vote.
There was obviously a degree of tactical voting at Selby; the LibDem vote went down from 8.6% to 3.3%; without tactical voting, the result would have been much closer but not, in my view, different.
Incidentally, the LibDems only managed sixth place, no doubt because many otherwise LibDems voted Labour. The third place went to the Greens, whose candidate was the only one of the minor candidates to save his deposit (5.1%).
I was interested to see that a “Yorkshire Party” candidate, one Mike Jordan, who failed to fill in his nomination papers properly and so was a blank space (not even “Independent”) on the ballot paper, yet managed to score 4.2%. Not bad in the circumstances, and maybe a sign that localism, or at least regionalism, may be resurgent as central government falters and fails.
The Selby contest had other things in common with that at Uxbridge— contempt for the former MP (at Selby, he had stepped down apparently in order to damage Sunak and his party, and after having been passed over for a peerage); the fact that both seats were 2010 creations on their present boundaries; and of course the fact that the public are both despairing and angry at the overall non-performance by Sunak and his Cabinet. Mass immigration, migration invasion, cost of living increases, inflation, crime, NHS defaults etc.
The result was that Labour won at Selby, and very nearly won at Uxbridge, only by default. There is no enthusiasm at all for the Labour Party and its non-policies (basically the same as the Conservative Party policies), but equally there is no enthusiasm (and no respect) for Sunak and his Cabinet of (mainly) non-Brits (Indians, a black or half-caste or two, the odd Jew). These were by-elections. The ruling party is inevitably on the back foot.
Starmer’s strategy seems to be not to rock the boat now that Labour is ahead in the opinion polls. It is hard for Sunak and Con Party to score a hit on Labour’s battleship simply because Labour policy now so closely mirrors that of the Con Party. Almost indistinguishable. If the Conservative Party attacks Labour policy, it is to a large extent criticizing its own policy. In a sense, brilliant… but also dispiriting and pointless.
The LibDem candidate, Sarah Dyke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dyke] won easily, as predicted. I blogged briefly about her a couple of days ago. Her vote-share of 56.4%, as against the Conservative candidate’s 26.2%, mirrors in reverse almost exactly the result at the 2019 General Election.
Third place went to the Greens, with a fairly sizeable vote (10.2%). Reform UK beat Labour and three minor candidates for fourth place, but still lost the deposit, with 3.4%.
In a mostly affluent and bucolic area of this sort, Labour has little chance, and its vote has dropped below 5% in the past, though it scored 17.2% in 2017 (under Corbyn) and 12.9% in 2019. It is clear that, realising that Labour had no chance, former Labour voters voted tactically at the by-election, and that Labour’s 2.6% vote reflected that.
Turnout was, as at the other by-elections yesterday, pathetic— 44.23%. That compares to 75.6% in 2019, and turnouts in previous election which only once dropped below 70%, and which once exceeded 82%.
The LibDems held Somerton and Frome until 2015, so were always going to have a chance in the seat, once the “Con Coalition” of 2010-2015 faded from immediate memory, though the damage from that was still evident in 2019, at which election the LibDems scored only 26.2% (exactly the same as the Conservative Party vote at yesterday’s by-election).
The conclusion is pretty clear: the Conservative voters of 2019 either stayed home yesterday, or switched to the LibDems, Former Labour voters switched to LibDem to hit out at the Sunak misgovernment.
As at the other two by-elections, the contempt many apparently felt for the ex-MP, Warburton, was certainly another important factor, though perhaps not the most important.
Overall conclusion as to the main System parties in the light of the by-elections
The LibDems only have a chance to gain seats in rural/affluent parts of southern or south-western England. I do not see them recovering in any big way elsewhere.
The Conservative Party government is toast, surely. It will have to fall back on its hard core, mostly fairly comfortably-off homeowners aged 70+.
475 seats for Labour. That is “elected dictatorship”.
I just tried the “user-defined poll” at Electoral Calculus. My guesses resulted in only 61 seats for the Conservative Party.
What about Labour? Well, I detect no real enthusiasm for Labour, which means that there is every chance that the new MP for Selby may only be an MP for about a year, and will then have to find a less well-paid and less interesting (?) job.
More seriously, the only way that Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak could claw back some electoral support would be to STOP the boats, CUT BACK the main (i.e. “legal”) mass immigration, DEPORT hundreds of thousands, RENATIONALIZE water, rail and possibly the energy utilities, and start to really bat for Britain.
Those 2019 Conservative Party voters might return to the Con fold, but only if they see some action; words are played-out.
Still, none of the three by-election seats are natural Labour territory.
Pretty hard, though, for an Indian whose Cabinet is mainly non-white, or Jewish, and who worked for the predatory Goldman Sachs bankers (and so is a globalist “libertarian” by instinct).
It seems to me a 50-50 chance that the Conservative Party MPs will ditch Sunak before the next general election, but if they do, who on Earth can they try to present to the public as a credible leader?
As for attacking Starmer, the only things that might work would be to use American-style personal attacks, and to focus on his complete mendacity, his broken promises, on his “taking the knee” to the “Black Lives Matter” thugs, and his being completely in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby (the only thing is— so are the “Conservatives”…).
Conclusion, then— Labour will probably win in 2024 by default, but if some real movement on the above-designated issues were to happen, it might be a different story…
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there have been 16 by elections since the last general election.
starmer’s labour has won about 6 of them.
6 out of 16, against the worst government in living memory, while the media gives you the easiest possible time? embarrassing to be honest.
Biden: “What was that slogan? Bread, land, and peace? No, my fellow-Americans, it was ice-cream and war!“…
Germany to send 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks to Ukraine
The Ministry of Defense of Germany announced the next package of "military assistance" for Ukraine. It includes the first 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks, more than 100 are expected in total.
Tonight, the Russian Navy carried out another successful attack on facilities where terrorist attacks on the Russian Federation were being prepared using drones , the Ministry of Defense announced.
The statement adds that Russian troops hit the command post of the 79th Airborne…
President Vladimir Putin accused Poland of having territorial ambitions on the territory of the former USSR and said that any aggression against Russia's neighbor and close ally Belarus will be considered aggression against Russia.
At night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered another strike with high-precision weapons at facilities where terrorist attacks against Russia were being prepared using strike drones. The target of the strike was achieved, all designated objects were hit – Russian Defense Ministry
After the backlash by Tories of newly-elected 25 year-old #KierMather I see this Observer piece about 29 year-old life peer Charlotte Owen is doing the rounds again.
Picture by me of Downing Street staff (Owen, centre) on the day that Johnson resigned: https://t.co/krUhOIqfCO
There are really only two realistic possibilities: either she is Johnson’s secret daughter (one of them) or she was being screwed by him. It now turns out that she was only a kind of temp anyway, covering the job usually done by a recent mother. Maternity cover.
Britain is so screwed, it is hard to believe.
What about the House of Lords? At least the guy in Selby was elected. Ross Kempsell and Charlotte Owen were put in the Lords by disgraced former PM Boris Johnson for seemingly having achieve relatively little in their short careers, yet they're set fair for life. https://t.co/vjnEeWfEN8
— Alasdair Murray – the Recruitment Copywriter (@RecruitmentCopy) July 21, 2023
As for “Baroness” Chapman, she was an MP for 9 years (2010-2019), and then (having been voted out as MP) was elevated to the Lords on Starmer’s nomination, having previously done sweet FA by way of work in her life except a short time as the constituency manager for ghastly careerist MP Alan Milburn. So she can shut up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Chapman.
She is the mother of children, and that (and presumably being a “home-maker”) is a very honourable estate, but it is not the “real life experience” of work in the outer world, as per that clip.
As for Johnny Mercer MP, I have found him a big disappointment as MP, but I think that he can claim a great deal more “life experience” than “Baroness” Chapman, let alone that epicene little creature who is now the MP for Selby and Ainsty.
Many people on Twitter are incredibly ignorant and at the same time very dogmatic. I just saw a tweet saying that the Selby creature is “2-3 years older than Margaret Roberts [i.e. Margaret Thatcher] when she became an MP...”.
In fact, wrong, and on two counts. First, Margaret Roberts was born in 1925, and became an MP in 1959, shortly before her 34th birthday. She had married in 1951, so fought her first successful first election as Margaret Thatcher and not Margaret Roberts as claimed.
Well, there it is. Effete, epicene little “Labour MP” is going to support Starmer, Rachel Reeves etc in continuing the policy (policies?) laid down by the Con Coalition of David Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, and now the Indian money-juggler, Sunak.
Anyone who thinks that Starmer-Labour will be in any way an improvement on the “Conservative” omnishambles of a Government is sadly mistaken; in fact, deluded.
Actually, listening to Keir Mather there, I think that “Lord Charles” would have sounded more credible.
[Lord Charles, with Ray Alan]
To be honest, my first thought on seeing and hearing Keir Mather is that he seemed to be in need of a good kick.
The fact Mhairi Black was ever elected by the losers, wastrels, desperadoes & ne'er do wells in the Yes favelas of Paisley tells you everything you need to know about how fucked Scotland has become after wasted years of the calamitous SNP #shutdowntheshortbreadsenate
— Rt Dishonourable Damian Thirsty (@damian_thirsty) July 21, 2023
I see that the “BBC presenter” story is still rolling. A couple of things strike me about the story and also about the reaction to it.
Firstly, the sheer hysteria. It seems that the girl involved was 17 at the time, assuming that there is any substance to the story. It is one of the oddities of the English law at present (as I understand it— I admit to being not very au fait with it now, having not practised at the Bar since 2008) that the unnamed BBC presenter could actually have had full sexual relations with the girl (or any girl of 17, or indeed 16) without being in peril of the law, yet if he paid for nude photographs of her (even though she may have taken them herself, and willingly) he might actually be at risk of imprisonment: see https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/09/bbc-presenter-accused-of-paying-teenager-for-photos-could-face-jail-term-if-guilty.
To my mind, this makes a mockery of the law. The “photographs” law should surely be in line with the law on sexual relations, and so the age reduced to 16 years.
I am unsure about whether a “photographs” law of that kind was or is necessary at all, or if it is, whether the relevant age should be 16 or lower, as with some provisions of, eg, the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Sexual Offences Act 1956.
The Protection of Children Act 1978, the present “photographs” law, does not (as far as I know) specify an age, but refers only to “children“.
This was never the kind of law I did when at the Bar, so I may be out of my depth on the detail here but, to my mind, that 1978 “photographs” law (which I have never read in full) seems to be on the face of it yet another badly-drafted law of the past half-century. There are several others, including the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and the Communications Act 2003, s. 127. Both of those have been superseded or are about to be superseded by newer laws.
I find it strange that the 1978 “photographs” law was thought to be necessary at all. It was brought in 20 years before the Internet was widely available for public use and, after all, photography itself has been around for about 200 years if you include its earlier modern manifestations such as the daguerrotype. Photographs as such have certainly existed since the 1860s, yet only in 1978 did Parliament consider that such a penal law was desirable, or at all necessary. Very odd.
Leaving all that aside, there seems to be a strange dissonance now— UK and general Western society almost eliminating real childhood and/or childhood “innocence”, and yet going mad if someone, especially anyone famous (such as George Osborne), has sexual relations, even if completely lawfully (in Osborne’s case, that is disputed), with a teenage girl of 16 or 17, or if such a person (as alleged of the unnamed BBC presenter) pays a girl of 16 or 17 for some risque photographs.
Well, there it is. To my mind, this “BBC presenter” story is a bit of a storm in a teacup anyway, looking at the challenges our country and society face at present. There are bigger issues.
The other aspect which I find striking about the “BBC presenter” story is that the unnamed defaulter has such a high level of income that he can, and apparently is willing to, pay out £35,000 for photographs of some girl.
The BBC gets almost all of its money from the outdated tax misleadingly called a “licence fee”. Radio licences, dog licences etc have passed into history, but the BBC licence fee marches on. Not only that, but enforced by criminal sanction. There are many people (mostly women) actually in prison because of having not had a TV licence, and then unable or unwilling to comply with the order of a court: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tv-licence-fee-women-convictions-b1763192.html.
Out of the huge revenues thus raised, the BBC pays its staff well, often very well, and in some cases far too well. Gary Lineker, that loudmouth ignoramus, is paid a million a year to shoot the breeze about football. Alan Shearer, another ex-footballer, gets about half a million. Zoe Ball apparently gets about a million. A number are getting around £400,000. Looking at them, most are, frankly, overpaid.
Why should the public subsidize what is increasingly, “Soviet” TV and radio output, largely unwatchable and unlistenable?
My final thought about this nonsense is that George Osborne must be loving it. The notorious email about his own peccadilloes is now already all but forgotten. I suppose, though, that despite his former, though fairly brief, political prominence, Osborne is now yesterday’s news…just not very interesting to most people.
“It’s deeply worrying that many older people are ending up in hospital due to lack of the right sort of services in the community. No one wants to be in hospital but for older people all too often it can lead to an avoidable deterioration in their health,” said Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s charity director.
Prof Adam Gordon, the president of the British Geriatrics Society, said the report “makes grim reading [and] rightly identifies that older people are currently being let down by NHS and social care services”.”
[The Guardian]
This has been a scandal (and a massive waste of money) for years, certainly since 2010 and probably long before. No care at home means more demand at hospitals. District nurses were once ubiquitous; now they seem hardly to exist at all. I was told by one, a decade ago, that she was fed up with NHS mismanagement, and so was emigrating to Australia, where she would also be paid far more.
As with so many areas of life in England, Government and Opposition talk a good game, but fail to deliver for the people.
“Nearly 10,000 small-boat migrants who reached Britain in the past four months were last night handed an ‘amnesty’ from the Government’s tough new immigration measures.“
[Daily Mail]
More treachery.
10,000 more deadbeats, criminals, potential terrorists, and/or useless millstones round the neck of the British people.
However bad and (at best) useless Starmer-Labour will be, this “Conservative” Party misgovernment really has failed on every metric. It has to go, and I hope that almost all of its MPs will be dumped by the voters. Then a new fight will begin, against the “Labour” version of the System…
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"We have to have a buffer somewhere because if we don’t we know what happens," says Home Office perm sec Matthew Rycroft, alluding to dangerous overcrowding, disorder and diphtheria at Manston last year
For context, the current "buffer" in prisons is just 1,000 cells
Imports of goods from Russia to the United States in May increased compared to April from $215.6 million to $504 million, according to the monthly report on trade turnover of the main US statistical agency Bureau of the Census,… pic.twitter.com/HTwEKfeEiR
Most of the inhabitants of Poland are against the rapid admission of Ukraine to NATO , according to a survey conducted by the Center for Public Opinion Research of the country and published by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.
Well, there it is. The Poles are sensible after all…
Biden admitted: The US Army is running out of artillery shells
In an attempt to justify his controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, US President Joseph Biden said in an interview with "CNN" that it is necessary to give cluster munitions to Kiev because there… pic.twitter.com/N697vRVGzl
Stocks of artillery provided by the West to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are running out.
US national security adviser Sullivan said that without the supply of cluster munitions, Ukraine will not have enough artillery not only for the offensive, but also for defense. pic.twitter.com/cH1zvh6sJg
and “Labour”, under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, will be saying, in effect, “vote for us…we can make workhouses run more efficiently, and more fairly, and with full implementation of any anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-LGBTQXYZ measures you can imagine“…
Jeremy Hunt …Yet another multi millionaire politician who knows whatever chaos he brings will have zero impact on him personally …Crooks in Suits… #MartinLewispic.twitter.com/w1lZyIVyf2
2%, though? Surely that (((group))) is more like 0.5% of the population?
Theresa May led a revolt against Rishi Sunak’s small boats bill on Tuesday as she accused the Govt of consigning more people to slavery. The arch-Remainer tried to derail Brexit, and now she’s trying to support the dinghy armada! https://t.co/DWdhCZG5WR
A horrible woman, and completely out of her depth when Prime Minister. I suspect part-Jewish. She strengthened the bad law of Communications Act 2003, s.127 by introducing a 3-year longstop limitation period in place of the formerly-existing 6-month one, which change has emboldened evil little cabals such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, which use “lawfare” (abuse of our legal and justice systems) to repress British people.
China, India, Singapore, Turkey and the UAE have increased their imports of Russian oil by 140%, while exports of oil refining have suddenly increased by 26% – The Economist
Against the background of the failure of another wave of mobilization in Ukraine, and in order to cover up the catastrophic losses of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Kiev regime has increased recruitment in the countries of Asia, Latin America and the Middle East in…
The number of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war approached 350,000. It is impossible to even think about Ukraine's victory over Russia. There are many Ukrainians who did not want to enter the war. They surrender and go over… pic.twitter.com/7Z9jvnWsr5
Unless NATO forces join in the war (as the Zelensky cabal wants), the Kiev regime has no prospect even of recovering Donetsk and Lugansk regions, let alone Crimea.
If NATO forces were to join in the war, directly, a major conflagration would start across Central and Eastern Europe, maybe even into Western Europe. It might then go nuclear.
Zelensky has failed in his last desperate bid to win an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO – The Guardian pic.twitter.com/x3K5f5D632
This is why I wrote "How Shrinks Think" in 2014. Sometimes, our patients' stories are our stories, and when told respectfully and anonymously, they can do a great deal to reduce stigma.
I happened to see the two ridiculous tweets below:
I have just read the article, what a grossly unfair decision, there was no interest in prosecuting @MLewisLawyer. I hope he gets an apology.
— Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) July 5, 2023
So the often-heavily-criticized Jolyon Maugham [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolyon_Maugham], a part-Jew barrister and “activist”, here supporting egregious and self-publicizing Jewish solicitor Mark Lewis, is applauded by one Charlotte Proudman, apparently a mainly academic lawyer and barrister who has attended or researched at no less than five universities in the UK and USA. I do not think that I had heard of her before today.
Ms. Proudman should read my blog posts, written several years ago about Lewis, before expressing an opinion:
So far from having been “grossly unfair“, as Ms. Proudman opines (having apparently read only a brief and one-sided scribble on the Legal Business online platform), the decision of the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority [SRA] regarding Lewis was impeccably fair and, in punishing Lewis very leniently, bent over backwards to be fair. Even his small fine was reduced from £7,500 to £2,500 because his Counsel said on his behalf that Lewis (the ludicrously so-called “top lawyer“, if you believe the tabloid Press) owned no real property, and in fact owned nothing at time of the hearing in 2018 but his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter.
After the SRA hearing, Lewis took off for Israel, where he now lives.
Looking at what Lewis wrote online to various people, including a Jewish teenager, I was surprised that Lewis was not struck off the roll of solicitors.
I wonder whether Ms. Proudman thinks that the decision of the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal in my case was “grossly unfair“? I doubt it, even though I was both wrongfully, and actually unlawfully, disbarred (at the instigation of a pack of politically-motivated Jews) for having merely tweeted five (5) tweets, all of which were completely true and accurate: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.
Incidentally, this (below) is the profile photograph of herself that Ms. Proudman seems to think appropriate to publish on her Twitter account (which profile describes her as a barrister etc):
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THE TYRANT ZELENSKY: Banned the Ukrainian orthodox church Banned political opposition parties Banned members of his own party Banned media you criticised him Banned call who did not agree with him Banned ELECTIONS#ZelenskyWarCriminalpic.twitter.com/OtaYKWnmQm
As a result of the night Russian rocket attack on Ukraine in Lviv, a critical infrastructure facility was damaged, the head of the Lviv regional administration said. pic.twitter.com/HGh3ujx1N1
It's why they've painted Putin as a madman from the beginning. Remember the MSM reports that COVID had made him mad? Lol. All so you will believe the Russians are guilty of things that would make zero sense militarily.
Do you fancy looking into Jack Monroe? Has taken money from well meaning people to sue a Tory MP and kept the money with never even commencing proceedings. She then suggested it went to an unnamed foodbank and refused to provide proof. She’s stolen it. pic.twitter.com/Kzd45OqCqG
Flood control Dutch style. Rewilding of the Waal (Rotterdam branch of the Rhine) floodplain above Nijmegen has cut downstream inundation threat, restored ecosystems & created a fantastic amenity for people to enjoy. Many excellent examples to ponder in inspiring action in England pic.twitter.com/5tTOXssJl4
The mainstream parties all have the same open door agenda. None are fit to govern this country any more.
What is needed is a rout and a radical shake up of Westminster.
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) June 28, 2023
Polls of that sort are of course unscientific, and anything on Twitter more so, because of the well-known biases. All the same, it is clear that the present Government has run out of road. It is hitting as many buttons as possible to shore up at least the core Conservative-leaning vote: pledging to retain the pension Triple Lock, pledging to at least reduce net immigration (how about stopping the inward flow, and starting an outward flow?) etc, but it seems hopeless.
Actions speak louder than words. Something that the “Conservative” Party ministers and Prime Ministers of the past 13+ years seem not to understand. Mass immigration has continued unabated under Sunak and, as Chancellor, he also paused, for one year, the Triple Lock.
If I'm murdered by a foreigners I hereby give my permission for people to politicise my death and use it to forward the nationalist agenda.
Stop all immigration and begin a process of returns and deportation we must make life uncomfortable for them, remove benefits pass laws ,at the next election collectively vote for a Patriotic Right Wing anti immigration party we must save Britain 🇬🇧
Location given but left out to protect our Crew – "The homeless hostel I'm living in has started to take in "migrants" I asked what happens when we get kicked out & just got a shrug of the shoulders My time is up in 3 weeks" pic.twitter.com/YfymeA2eGV
— LittleBoats 🇬🇧NI🏴🏴En (@LittleBoats2020) July 4, 2023
Who is organizing this? Who is providing the tents, tarps, food, etc? Is the UN-IOM involved? Any NGOs? They’ve been “migrating” in this way through Central America and Mexico to the U.S. for 2.5 years now. Our government refuses to stop them. 😲
— Kim “filterless” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) July 4, 2023
🛎 The definitive guide to Cultural Marxism….Worth a bookmark.
Muslim humiliates & frightens old French lady. Blacks do same to our old in USA, Ireland & UK. They focus on the weak to destroy them. They hate us & want us to die. Time for a white Christian ethnostate. Protest to end the freedom of association ban.https://t.co/CHoHQPjONe
Interesting gadget. Hope that the thieves who steal car keys from entrance hall tables do not find out about it, though (having said that, I doubt that many car thieves read my blog).
China presented its analogue of the Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system under the name FK-2000.
It is capable of hitting: cruise missiles, precision bombs, air-to-ground missiles, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicles and other types of… pic.twitter.com/zg2yx9f6LA
Stats don't lie. Safe to say that with daily follower losses like this, Jack Monroe bootstrapcook needs to face up to the fact people have seen through the grift & are deserting her in droves. It's over. pic.twitter.com/nmn2q9flUZ
“Jack Monroe” is surely a busted flush. Even the utter mugs donating to her on Patreon are waking up: 396 as of today, the first time that the number has dropped below 400 (only a few days ago it was still 414). Last year, there were nearly 900 of those mugs, partly by reason of (now effectively withdrawn) endorsements by TV talking heads and cuisine “experts” Nigella Lawson and Jay Rayner (and others).
Still, 396 mugs each sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 monthly. As said previously, “not a bad little earner“, to use the Essex argot. Must still add up to at least a few thousand in cash. Monthly. For nothing.
If the fall continues, “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”, may have to either go on the dole or whatever again (she made a whole media career out of having done that once, for a year or so, a decade or more ago). Or perhaps her affluent/wealthy family of buy-to-let parasites, who live in the same area as her, will help her out. I doubt whether she would be employable as anything. I read somewhere that she has only had a couple of jobs (for short periods, and long ago), one arranged via her father, answering the telephones at the Essex fire brigade, the other in a fish and chip shop.
Sven Longshanks
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
A reminder that the appeal for Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) is still up. The aim is to raise funds both to assist him while he still sits in prison (i.e. until early/mid 2024), and also to help him resettle once released.
In cheering Thursday news, Jolyon Maugham and his (Not Very) Good Law Project have lost yet another of their flagship cases. #LGBAllianceWinhttps://t.co/ZBhjC8S410
Until today, I was unaware that Maugham no longer practises as a barrister in chambers (he specialized in tax law). Apparently, he left his last chambers in 2020.
I have seen tweets saying that Maugham is a “grifter”, living off donations to the Good Law Project. I have no idea whether that be so, and I also note that the GLP is supported by not only individual donations but also large grants from several well-known trust funds, not least that of the rather odd Rausing people (the descendants of the man who invented Tetrapak in Sweden); they also give or have given money to the mainly Jewish “Hope not Hate” crowd.
How much Maugham pays himself (in effect) as Director of the GLP I have no idea (and the website of the GLP is silent on the subject).
Jolyon lives in a construct of fantasy and demands that the rest of us exchange reality for that fantasy so it only makes sense that Jolyon see this loss within the prism of fantasy as well as a win.
I remember seeing Maugham on a “celebrity” episode of University Challenge. He stood out from the rest as combining a very-obviously huge opinion of himself with equally-huge ignorance of almost everything. Very funny.
I have no idea how well (or not) Jolyon Maugham was regarded as a tax barrister, before he launched “Woke Law Project”, but it gives pause for thought how many cases “GLP” has lost or not “won”.
As for Maugham being a KC, these days about 10% of all barristers hold letters patent as KC; it is not the accolade it once was. At one time, only a few barristers a year were made up to KC or QC; now dozens are.
You’d think people would realise how Jolyon works by now instead of continuing to fund the clown. His brings pointless and baseless claims to the courts that never should be there. He’s not doing what’s right by anybody but himself and his wallet.
@greenbelt do you still think Jack Monroe poses no risks? This is due to her doxxing someone, just for requesting a refund from her. Her fans turning up on someone’s doorstep and harassing him.
One of my online harassers turned up at my house late last night and refused to leave, claiming that I refused to answer their "3 reasonable dinner party questions" about myself and they felt the need to ask me in person. That is why the police are now taking it seriously.
I hope to god Jack Monroe bootstrapcook is punished to the maximum degree and shamed publicly for her part in this. She doxxed you, she led the pile ons, she is behind it all when she tried to escape facing justice.
“Jack Monroe” may not have ordered or asked for the above harassment to happen, but she is all the same behind it in the wider sense. She “doxxed” (revealed publicly the address of) the person involved, and she knows very well that her most fervent supporters are often those with mental health problems (as well as the very dim). In other words, she lit the blue touchpaper.
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George Osborne, being the insanely well-connected former British finance minister pic.twitter.com/mg5mzpAu0c
— Martin can be found wherever you get your tweets (@MartinConcagh) July 6, 2023
I myself have not yet read this instantly-infamous email, though I think that I can guess at least a little of what is in it.
Incidentally, Osborne is yet another part-Jew.
George Osborne is directly responsible for the mess we are in and the mess we've been living in since 2010. He destroyed this country.
So many people assume that because one enemy of the people has “Conservative” on the label, and another “Labour“, that they are not both part of the System together, or are somehow “opposed”. Only superficially.
The government refuses to believe that when you cut the benefit levels the economy crashes. The poor cannot spend what they don’t have. If you increase the benefit levels the economy grows as the poor spend everything you give them. That was why George Osborne’s cuts didn’t work.
Exactly. Give a poor man £1 and he will almost certainly spend it, and have to spend it. Give £1 to a rich man and he will either bank it or buy a hedging asset (eg over-valued real property) with it.
The UAF launched a new wave of offensive near Orekhov on the Zaporizhia Front. pic.twitter.com/zuxlwHX1Hr
Will such places one day be resettled, or will they stand forever as ruined testament to the horrors of war? I wonder.
Due to the failure, Kiev is looking for an excuse to introduce NATO troops into Ukraine
Russia calls on the US and the West as a whole to influence the current authorities in Kiev not to organize a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant that could lead to a… pic.twitter.com/a8GYBoi8aR
Western military analysts reacted with concern to the possibility that a Storm Shadow cruise missile in fairly good condition fell into Russian hands On that occasion, they pointed out that Russian rocket engineers can achieve a deeper introduction to the structure of this… pic.twitter.com/QxeEuv2gm9
The British government, hours before the UN Security Council's periodic meeting on Resolution 2231, added 13 Iranian individuals and one institution (Supreme Council for the Cultural Revolution) to its sanctions list. pic.twitter.com/8ON1dX9EF9
“Thousands of village halls across Britain are facing closure because they do not comply with new anti-terrorism legislation introduced after the Manchester Arena atrocity.
Jobsworths are insisting that venues of all sizes have to implement strict security measures, including training and evacuation plans.“
[Daily Mail].
How depressing, and how typical of what this country has become.
“‘Turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent’: Hollywood talent agency supremo Jeremy Zimmer dismisses Duchess as a talentless broadcaster after Spotify axed its £18m deal with the Sussexes.”
[Daily Mail]
All that The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta, have to sell is tittle-tattle about the Royal Family, with a few “woke” bits and pieces tacked on. They are pretty much a one-trick pony, and of little interest.
Essex, again. Just like that other online “grifter” and fake, “Jack Monroe”.
So “Supertanskiii” was at Glastonbury, where tickets cost £340 minimum? Seems that ranting pointlessly on Twitter etc against this admittedly incompetent “Conservative” government, while begging for donations, is fairly lucrative, though she claims that she was “booked to perform” at some kind of fringe event at Glastonbury. As what, another one-trick pony?
So maybe she did not have to buy a ticket. I have no idea.
Of course, many, perhaps most, of the “antifascist”and other ranting fanatics on Twitter are not quite normal mentally.
No-one, I see, has suggested that that Glastonbury “mental health” incident might have been invented, inflated and/or exploited as a “grifting” opportunity (in the manner of “Jack Monroe”). Who knows?
Putin thanked the entire personnel of the Armed Forces, law enforcement agencies and special services for their courage, valor and loyalty to the people of Russia! The President noted that their determination and courage, as well as the consolidation of society, played a… pic.twitter.com/mIoP2CNbLl
My own visit to the Kremlin, in 1993, was less formal. I paid my (?)20 roubles (in the money of 1993) and bought tourist entry, together with entry to the Kremlin churches (some shown in that tweet), which were very interesting (I was the only visitor to the churches then, probably because it was early in the day, about 0900 hours, and I had been one of the first “tourists” into the Kremlin).
[Kremlin from the air]
I was the second tourist visitor into the Kremlin that sunny day in the early summer of 1993, and would have been first had a Russian family not got ahead of me as I slept in the sun, sitting on a wall by the not-yet-open ticket kiosk, and having already done an hour of hard swimming at the almost-empty huge open-air swimming pool “Moskva” in Kropotkinskaya (now replaced by a replica of the cathedral that was on the site prior to the 1930s).
[Swimming-pool “Moskva”, 1970s, near Metro-station Kropotkinskaya]
Looking today at the website below, I see that the little wooden ticket kiosk (with its typically Soviet inconvenient little ticket-window about 5 feet from ground-level) is now no more, replaced by a large ultra-modern ticketing hall, tickets also being available online (something of course not dreamt-of in 1993).
[State Palace —the former Supreme Soviet— and Trinity (Troitskaya) Tower]
[Moscow Kremlin]
[dark and threatening clouds over the Kremlin]
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So, the result of this rebellion was, Prigozhin gets exiled to Belarus, Russia gets Wagner fighters to enlist in the Russian army, Russian people become more united than ever, & Putin becomes more popular in Russia. Sounds like another W for Putin & another L for Ukraine/NATO. pic.twitter.com/pQ36Rg5gdw
"Putin is not a war criminal, and Ukraine is no longer a sovereign state, the achievement of peace depends on the USA, not on Ukraine" — Orban 🤡 pic.twitter.com/fhQ9tIXZHR
Why are we sending Ukraine $200B to combat Putin, when we should use that money to combat the fentanyl epidemic in our own country? https://t.co/Wf4zw4X9Mv
The USA, even more than Russia (arguably), is a colossus on legs of straw. Socially, the USA is disintegrating.
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I assume this victimhood comes complete with the traditional tin-rattle?
She has crafted a grift around being persistently rude and obnoxious about people on Twitter who she disagrees with, and their families, yet she claims to be the victim? Jack Monroe would be proud.
“Supertanskiii” is sort-of similar to the “Jack Monroe” “grift” but, unlike “Jack Monroe”, she does not even pretend to offer “recipes” looking like mixed-up dog food, or indeed to offer anything at all beyond a continual “f*** the Tories” Twitter rant. Incredibly, though, some mugs are actually willing to chuck donations at her for that.
Seriously?
What an absolute pisstaker. I imagine the neckbeards are quite happy to be her paypigs though.
When you see the sort of utter mugs that send money to “Jack Monroe” or “Supertanskiii”, you start to understand part of why this country is in such a mess, at least in places and in aspects. Too many mugs. This has nothing to do with the blacks, browns, Jews etc. These are all or 99.99% white British people who imagine themselves to be well-meaning or at least “progressive”. Not the same mugs who support “Boris”-idiot, far from it, but on the same sort of unthinking level.
The same sort of “mug-dom” is seen in those who imagine that replacing Indian money-juggler Sunak with Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is going to change everything for the better. Wake up.
Afternoon music
From 1965. More civilized days, in general.
A “bad” organization, and the DDR (East Germany) was perhaps a “bad” country overall, but life is not usually black and white. When you are my age (66), and have lived and/or worked in much of the world, you understand that.
[small railway station, East Berlin, DDR, 1970s]
A neglected blog post
I see that there were a few hits today on the following (linked) blog post from about three years ago. One of my least-read posts, in fact; I think, unfairly…
You too can get your money back from #JackMonroe… If you're prepared to spend significant amounts of time in the law courts, and take a hit to your reputation as she doxxes you to her 1/2 million followers.
He has woken up, and is trying to awaken others, but the Westminster monkeyhouse is completely corrupt.
Will any hero eventually do what is required?
They closed schools, mandated vaccines, and suspended the Constitution on shaky and unscientific grounds. I'm going to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. #Kennedy24pic.twitter.com/blKm2dwpDd
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 26, 2023
According to some information, the Russian military and political leadership is discussing the possibilities of where the Orchestra can be sent next.
“In World War II, the city again suffered significant damage, and Nazi Germany occupied it from 19 September 1941 to 6 November 1943. Axis forces killed or captured more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers in the great encircling Battle of Kyiv in 1941. Most of those captured never returned alive.[95] Shortly after the Wehrmacht occupied the city, a team of NKVD officers who had remained hidden dynamited most of the buildings on the Khreshchatyk, the main street of the city, where German military and civil authorities had occupied most of the buildings; the buildings burned for days and 25,000 people were left homeless.” [Wikipedia]
Further destruction took place during the second Battle of Kiev in 1943.
NATO will change the status of the air force mission for the protection of the skies of the Baltic states to combat, Stoltenberg said. Previously, there was the status of the air police.
The so-called air police control the space above the Baltic states and are not considered a… pic.twitter.com/nWy4nddYVn
Europe is approaching disaster – unfortunately in every sense. Now it is possible to prevent an even bigger disaster and save thousands of lives, but for that it is necessary to stop the psychosis of war. I have no more illusions that this could happen today at the meeting of EU…
The crew of the operational-tactical missile system "Iskander-M" of the Western Military District carried out an attack on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone of special military operations , the Ministry of Defense of Russia announced. pic.twitter.com/rEmNkCmIYr
And the Italian Corriere della Sera, next to the portrait of Prigogine, quotes Machiavelli's classic quote: “Mercenary troops are useless and dangerous; the power that rests on a mercenary army will never be either strong or durable, for mercenaries are ambitious, dissolute,… pic.twitter.com/zryQH1RltC
Journalists to be monitored in the West in the name of "national security" – The Daily Mail
EU countries are going to approve the use of spyware to reveal secret sources of journalists in the name of national security. pic.twitter.com/tajOqiz5Lc
The Russian army advanced in the LPR and in the Kharkiv region There are reports of the liberation of the village of Sinkovka and access to the operational space in the north of the LPR. Here, Russian servicemen allegedly create a foothold across the Oskol River. The information… pic.twitter.com/EqrJ39Pd1h
4) when the time is up and people ask where their money is. DARVO them and say it's been sent to a charity. Make something up about why you can't name the charity. 5) close your twitter so you have an echo chamber of love It's called the Jack Monroe charity begins at home method
While crossing a bridge, a calf fell into a channel. Rescuers place an excavator further to run a rescue. The operator saves the animal with a single gentle move. A masterful skill is best when used for a kind act. pic.twitter.com/Ri9PqkzlR6
Same old, same old. Corbyn wanted to stop the likes of Murdoch dominating British politics. Starmer is following Blair and begging Murdoch for his support. This means nothing will change. The establishment is safe in Starmer's hands.#SocialistSundaypic.twitter.com/w2dK0OENqJ
Starmer is merely the monkey; the organ-grinders are NWO/ZOG.
Irresponsible and reckless," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said about Russia's deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus.
Stoltenberg noted that NATO sees "no sign that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons," adding that the alliance "remains… pic.twitter.com/MxXeEknOZ5
Confessions of American officers who were present at the Ain al-Assad base in Iraq on the night of the attack on that base by Iranian tactical ballistic missiles:
Concrete barriers shattered and crumbled like in a movie, everything around was destroyed.
Now imagine the damage strategic nuclear missiles cause, or would cause if they were to land in Oslo, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, London etc. Avoid that. Scale back support for the Jew-Zionist Zelensky and his corrupt and thoroughly brutal regime in Kiev. Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.
As for Kiev itself, it may be doomed.
American analysts and officials expected a different outcome from Prigozhin's rebellion, reports CNN.
US military analysts predicted serious resistance from the troops of the Russian Ministry of Defense to the columns of the Wagner PMC.
James Rickards: Russia is preparing to release news that will shock the world
Russia and its BRICS partners will soon announce news that will shock global markets. These results were shared by an American financial expert, former CIA consultant James Rickards. pic.twitter.com/uTAjclErOS
In Europe, Zelensky was accused of selling land to foreigners
Irish MEP Wallace accuses Ukrainian President Zelensky of selling land to foreign buyers. He claims that local oligarchs, having colluded with international financial capital, “stole” Ukrainian cities and adjacent… pic.twitter.com/lAjvx5tt9j
I wonder what (((kind))) of (((foreign buyers))) they might be?
At the front near Avdiivka, a new Russian kamikaze drone called "Gadfly" has begun to be used. In the footage, this drone strikes the dugout of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/oJX0xAla3g
A city I have never visited, and which I am now even less likely to visit. The few people I have known who have visited Marseilles were not favourably impressed, and that was before the present migration-invasion even started.
Putin called on the soldiers of the Wagner group to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense, return home or go to Belarus pic.twitter.com/1ZW6gShBVN
Germany and France want to end veto rights in the EU this year.
In what could be the beginning of the end for European nations, Germany and France are determined to reform national rights, including the EU's right to veto. The debate has caused a stir in recent months, and in…
We didn’t want to overthrow Putin’s government, Wagner chief says
The head of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group says its recent aborted mutiny was not an attempt to overthrow the government of President Vladimir Putin.https://t.co/N6lFtt6ccf
As I surmised, a “revolt of the Streltsy“, rather than a new revolution or civil war, though either or both may occur somewhere down the line.
Neil Oliver: Any government – one that has set aside any notion of accountability to the people, any credible pretence of caring about the people in favour of serving the markets, banks and unelected, unaccountable transnational interests can and surely will tell the people lies. pic.twitter.com/6DFi6G87Gu
As for Sunak, he does not really care that his “green tax” load on the taxpayer may cost the Conservative Party some votes. Those controlling both Sunak and Starmer will win, whichever of the two main System parties “wins” a rigged election.
There's still an archipelago called the British Isles, but there's no such place as Britain, not any more. https://t.co/s2xErqHe0W
Ian Robert Millard 