Well, this week another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a modest 4/10; I scored 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, 6, and 9. I really should have got question 3, but did not, so 6/10 it is.
Talking point
G.K. Chesterton was more than a writer; he was a prophet.
Keep importing inferior populations from the worst parts of the world and you will soon see how fragile civilization is— and I do not mean by reason of protests or other resistance by English people. I mean that the sheer weight of numbers of the migrant-invaders and the nature of their cultural, political, and religious norms will destroy our civilized, white European, English/British society utterly, even if there were to be no more protests at all by English/British people.
You can see what is already happening in our society, and again I am not referring to the protests. Consider what this society will be like in 4, 5, 10, 20, 50 years. Dystopian.
50,000 a year. That was in the late 1960s. 50,000. Now it is a million or more (invaders, of all kinds) every year, twenty times as high as the figure cited by Powell in 1968. Moreover, those immigrants, alien though they were (and their descendants are), were from Commonwealth countries formerly part of our great Empire. Many of the present migrants, especially the rubber-boat invaders, are even more alien. Afghans, various types of Arabs, other Muslims, and Africans from, literally, “Darkest Africa” (Congo, Liberia etc); those, and every other kind of non-European.
Incredibly, despite his interventions on the world stage having been either negative or a complete joke, Starmer-stein still seems to imagine that he is some kind of world statesman…
It doesn’t have to be “nature vs development”.
That’s the message we sent to UK Government. Thank you to everyone who added their views – and for always standing up for wildlife 💚 pic.twitter.com/nEfMDhfspL
Good, but that becomes impossible when the UK is being swamped by a million or more migrant-invaders (rubber boat invaders, other asylum-seekers, visa-holders who are economic migrants, births to non-Europeans and to British women impregnated by non-Europeans) every single year.
As Lenin said, “Worse will be better“. First, get rid of the main System parties by the voters voting for Reform UK in huge numbers, thus allowing Reform to get into power.
Secondly, after Reform fails to take the measures necessary because riddled with Jewish lobby and other non-European influences and candidates, or because Reform’s legislation is blocked in the Lords (where Reform is not represented at all— zero peers out of 836 sitting), or blocked by hostile senior judges, the frustrated will of the people will provide the chance for real social nationalism to arise.
Angela Rayner admits today she removed her name from the deeds of her family house before buying a seaside flat 250 miles away that saved her £40,000 in stamp duty
One law for them, another law for the rest of us …
A drone attack was repelled in the Kamensky, Chertkovsky, Tarasovsky, Millerovsky and Azovsky districts of the Rostov Region, the acting governor of the region, Yury Slyusar, reported on his Telegram channel:https://t.co/sk0GTFTD9Xpic.twitter.com/gJMhDHsW0d
The United States is supplying Ukraine with weapons that allow it to strike deeper into Russian territory, Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO Matthew Whitaker said:https://t.co/Me0SDCCa3lpic.twitter.com/MwyVqYG3mm
Zelensky's recruiters defeated by an unlocked gate 😂 The notorious Ukrainian military commissioners in Odesa failed to catch another victim to send to the front because they couldn't open the gate pic.twitter.com/OZaBRKljRa
The fox escaped the hunters that time, thank God. People know that to be sent to the crumbling front lines of the Kiev regime is a death sentence. 800,000 are hiding from the draft inside Ukraine.
In that short video, the hunted man pulls open the gate, but the hunters try to open it by pushing at it. Pretty much the intellectual level of the Kiev-regime army…
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Community note: Labour will reward illegal entry by putting small boat migrants in a hotel or private housing, giving them welfare, and taking annoying local British people to court to ensure they do not disrupt this absurd Ponzi scheme https://t.co/b5lMH95NV9
Jew “human rights” lawyers say that that is not a war crime, not genocide…
Spy network linked to Mossad uncovered
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported the arrest of 8 people in the Khorasan Razavi province connected to the Israeli intelligence agency "Mossad."
Canada, like Australia, like New Zealand (the three main members of the imperial but autonomous “White Dominions”) made the disastrous decision to import blacks and browns etc, and in huge numbers. Now look…
A video of the moment of the murder of the former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Andriy Parubiy, has been published pic.twitter.com/JVuO8HJQLX
Serial political failure and “adviser” John McTernan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McTernan] complains that the flag of St. George is “clearly not [about] national pride, but clearly a form of ‘othering’.“
What on Earth does John McTernan think that national and other flags are all about?! They are about a group identity, as against other identities (whether that group is also part of another identity, with another flag, or not). Someone should tell him before he makes an idiot of himself on national TV (again).
I do not think I ever saw the flag of St. George until one day, when I was about 7, about 1963, I was near St. Peter’s, Caversham (Church of England), on the other side of the Thames from Reading. I noticed the flag flying from the ancient tower. I had no idea what it even was.
This is wokeness turned into policy
Intersectionality is the foundation of wokenes
It says that everything white, Christian, European & British people did are horrible & awful & they are irredeemable as oppressors
Therefore, their countries deserve to be conquered. That's it.
This terrible and bitter war should never have happened. Russia should have done what the old Soviet Union was famous for— a swift and overwhelming onslaught and occupation, “a Blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy”, if you like. The Russian General Staff, Army, and GRU (etc) messed it up, terribly. It should never have been like this. Civilians and their companion animals should never have been hurt or killed. Having said that, we are in this situation. Russia must come out on top, even if that falls short of both total victory and a perfect post-conflict settlement.
The collapse of the Kiev regime armies and the regime itself cannot now be far off.
Agree but don't fall into the 'all boomers' cliche… Many opposed this shambles and have been vilified for it over decades.
NEW – All parties except the AfD have pledged to speak "only positively about migration" in the upcoming local election campaign in the West German city of Cologne. pic.twitter.com/wh03a1VoIf
🌻 Did you know the sunflower hides a mathematical secret?
The seeds in its flower head aren’t arranged randomly, they follow a spiral pattern based on the Fibonacci sequence. This arrangement allows the plant to pack the maximum number of seeds into the available space without… pic.twitter.com/2BKScKEJ9w
Saw brief interview, on either Sky News or BBC News, with one Steve Smith, yesterday, interviewed from his home in rural Cornwall. He is the CEO of Care4Calais, the pro-migration invasion “charity”, which has been repeatedly censured for mismanagement, misapplication of funds etc, though mostly or entirely prior to Smith’s leadership role.
A former Army colonel, the said Smith came across on TV news as what many might term a “smug git” and, after all, no-one is going to make him, in his rural Cornish idyll, live in some festering UK urban slum area alongside migrant-invaders from backward parts of the world.
Incidentally, interesting how Smith, a former defence intelligence specialist, is involved at all. This migration invasion has been, on some level, planned.
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At least ten members of the government formed by Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement, Ansar Allah, were killed on August 28 in an Israeli strike on Sanaa, a source within the Yemeni movement told TASS:https://t.co/u1qz9hiACjpic.twitter.com/WoJ2JOL5xS
Security guarantees for Ukraine will be provided primarily by European countries, while the United States is prepared to assist them, US President Donald Trump said in an interview with The Daily Caller:https://t.co/SYvc2Dg28apic.twitter.com/IgBkh7djgy
In other words, should “WW3” break out because of the crazy UK/EU support for the Kiev regime, Western/Central Europe is on its own, and the USA will not be getting into a nuclear war with Russia, whatever happens to the UK, France, Germany etc.
I have no idea whether Trump is dead or alive, but if he is dead, J.D. Vance will automatically take on the mantle of President and head of state of the USA. This is him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance.
Most important provisional take, for me: Vance, should be become U.S. President, might cut off funds and arms to the Kiev regime.
The psychological flaws of Truss have been laid bare, a sociopath bereft of empathy, besotted by self promotion. Convinced of her own genius. By all means hand her over to our broken mental health services. I feel no sorrow.#ToryShambles#TrussMustGo
The chancellor has reversed more than £32bn of tax cuts. And there are public spending cuts to come. The scale of Truss’s and Kwarteng’s mini budget irresponsibility – as demonstrated by today’s u-turn – is like nothing we’ve seen in the UK for 50 years.
Now that we've established "Truss-economics" has wrecked our economy domestically can you also ask what she's been doing internationally to our country?https://t.co/Ac24kwPysi
Liz Truss made herself look like a complete fool when she met the Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov. He totally outclassed her. In fact, she looked more like a stray visitor or uninformed heckler than a supposed equal to Lavrov. As people now say, “cringe-worthy”.
It’s not just about Liz Truss, though. The whole system and way of life in the UK is running out of road.
Liz Truss might have done better not to have shown her face in the Commons yesterday. She looked (literally) drugged; quiescent. Very strange.
Liz Truss had a very bad day on Monday — and this morning's newspapers didn't hold back https://t.co/BUpOf0CVIv
She might be OK at a parish or small local council level, or maybe even at county council level, but she just cannot hack being a minister, or being a Cabinet minister, let alone a prime minister. It’s ludicrous.
Liz Truss is apparently clinging on till she reaches 2 months so she can get £115,000 a year ex PM payment for life.
When Mrs Thatcher was ousted after 11 years, out of sympathy for her financial situation, Parliament introduced a Public Duties Cost Allowance of roughly £115,000pa for ex-PMs. If Liz Truss resigns after 2 months, she will receive the PDCA "pocket money" for the rest of her life. pic.twitter.com/yTFvqM6zQO
Liz Truss became Prime Minister on 6 September 2022. If she can last until 6 November 2022, she gets the cash. 19 days from today.
“Not a bad little earner“… especially when combined with her £84,000 MP salary, and continuing MP expenses payments, and whatever else the bitch has going on.
Once again, there are elements of Greek tragedy (and comedy) in all this.
I feel not a trace of sympathy for this stupid, over-promoted, self-publicizing bitch so typical of Parliament today. She has plunged this country into despair, and is now about to plunge many millions of British people into poverty and, in some cases, destitution.
She should be stamped upon. The same goes for woolly-head Kwarteng, “Boris”-idiot and many others. All the crazy so-called “free market” finance-capitalist pseudo-libertarians.
That piece by Peter Oborne is seriously worth watching. In fact, every single Conservative Party MP, ordinary member, and indeed ordinary voter, should watch it. Nine minutes of solid commonsense.
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I’ve sent in my letter of no confidence to Sir Graham Brady. I’m not an MP or anything, I just thought I’d join in.
Ha ha. Made me laugh, and it somehow encapsulates the present situation. Does anyone in the UK retain any confidence in Liz Truss (if they ever did have any— I myself of course never had any).
The Urgent Question began at 15:31.
Graham Brady was pictured in the House of Commons during the Urgent Question at 15:36.
Brady was in attendance until at least 15:50.
Liz Truss left Downing Street for Parliament at 16:00.
Over the past 12 years, the various “Conservative” governments have been called “a shitshow” several times, but this shambolic farrago must be “the shitshow to end all shitshows”.
Not that “Labour” is much better really, just less obviously rubbish (arguably)…
And Naz Shah shared a tweet that said that the Rotherham underage girls who had been groomed, beaten, used as prostitutes for years should have kept their mouths shut for the sake of diversity
I am voting for the Guy Fawkes Party (a joke yet not a joke).
Our political system is broken beyond repair.
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NEW: China has recruited dozens of former British military pilots to teach the Chinese armed forces how to defeat western warplanes & helicopters in a “threat to UK interests”, officials have revealed.
“Retired senior officer” finds it perplexing that ex-RAF pilots might work in China for a quarter of a million pounds a year. Is that the kind of woodentop we have at the top of the air force?
The situation is so grave, the UK @DefenceHQ’s Defence Intelligence service on Tuesday issued a “threat alert” to warn against such approaches.
Despite the potential for harm to national security, the UK appears to have been powerless to stop the recruitment schemes or to force the former service personnel who have accepted jobs in China to return home – beyond appealing to their sense of honour and patriotism.
“Appealing to…honour and patriotism“? Pretty hard to make such an appeal successfully, in view of the fact that real Britain is rapidly ceasing to exist. A population now consisting of demoralized, uncultured (and de-cultured) whites and huge numbers of blacks, browns, Chinese indeed, and others, ruled over by a political class which is just rubbish and, like the msm and much of the country, under the thumb of the Jew-Zionists.
NYC restauranteur Keith McNally called the famous comedian "a tiny cretin of a man" in an explosive Instagram post. https://t.co/6oyrYRCqNI
I like it. I usually like it when people speak the truth.
I have, admittedly, seen little of Corden (and had never heard of him until a few years ago), but what I have seen I have not liked.
Should military operations continue in the coming months, Russia may see less than 1.2 million births next year, the lowest in modern history. https://t.co/aG39ueMzxP
Russia needs a new start. It needs to free itself once and for all from Jew-Zionism, build a new society on a structural basis similar to the Rudolf Steiner concept, the Threefold Social Order, and bring far more equity and social justice into Russian society.
First, though, it has to beat the regime of the Jew Zelensky.
Since 10 October, i.e. in the past week, 30% of the electrical power generating stations in territory held by the Kiev regime have been destroyed. This is the modern equivalent of a mediaeval siege, but on a wide geographical scale.
I cannot see “Western” (NWO) support for Zelensky’s regime continuing indefinitely.
Russia has to win this, or die, and it is clear that the gloves are coming off.
Of course. Unfortunately social media has spawned a great many grifters like Maugham (and indeed Jack Monroe). It’s not just the issue of money people can ill-afford, but the celebrity narcissism of it all that’s so repugnant.
I should say that she has her defenders, people who seem to have elected her a kind of “Queen of Poverty Britain”. They themselves are very rarely poor, and many in fact seem rather comfortably-off. I question how many actually use her often very peculiar recipes. They seem to support her in a kind of unthinking way because she is perceived to be “anti-austerity” etc, though one could argue that saying (as she does, however absurdly) that someone can live on £5 a week, actually plays into the hands of such as Iain Dunce Duncan Smith and Therese Coffey.
All the same, Ms. Monroe has had published over half a dozen books and, apparently, has made £90,000 (and counting, continuing royalties taken into account) out of them. She also appears on TV shows, gives interviews etc
It seems to me that some people need a “hero” or “heroine”, even a fake one, and those people will shut their eyes to the seeming fact that they are perhaps being taken for a ride.
Many of her supporters also seem to like her “LGBTQXYZ” persona.
800+ people were apparently sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 a month via the Patreon donation website; about 700 still are, it seems (and the maximum suggested amount is now reduced to £10). Still, keeping with the Essex argot, “a nice little earner“, on the face of it.
The problem is or was that it seems that many of those donating received few if any of the items promised in return.
Search for “Jack Monroe” or “Bootstrap Cook” on Twitter, and you will see many of the arguments around her.
For myself, and as I wrote in that assessment, I do not think that she actually set out to defraud anyone, but she has obviously not delivered on her promises, as least to quite a few people.
As for the whole “eat well on 70p a day” idea, it just does not stack up. I am sure (well, it sounds plausible, anyway) that some of her recipes and ideas help some people. Far too many people in the UK live off takeaways and/or unnecessarily expensive packaged foods. However, no-one in the UK can live —even frugally— on less than about £3 a day for food (at minimum), and it is dishonest of someone with a public platform to suggest otherwise. £5 a week for food is certainly “for the birds”.
Some of her recipes are on such a level as “boil an egg, mash it up with mayonnaise, spread it on bread“. Similar to that, anyway. Well, thank you, Escoffier!
There again, the whole “Bootstrap Cook” thing was originally about how someone living off Britain’s pitifully-small basic State benefits could survive, and it is hard to maintain that ethos once you have thousands of pounds a month coming in on a regular basis, and tens of thousands in the bank.
I have never met anyone who reads the Observer who has not been affluent. (actually, one scarcely ever meets an Observer reader anyway, the newspaper has such a low circulation).
Anyway, you see my point— virtue-signallers. The sort of people who live in Blackheath, or Hampstead, or near Stroud, drive an SUV when not showing off on a bicycle, and read the Guardian and the Observer.
As said in the assessment, I have no particular animus against Ms. Monroe, and I do not regard her as a fraudster, more just as someone not entirely to be trusted, but I do not think that her contribution, such as it is, to the social or poverty debate in the UK, is at all useful in terms of policy.
I was blogging about that just a few days ago. I should put in for the job of Political Forecaster Laureate. A couple of hundred grand a year and the now-redundant lodge of Harry (Formerly Known As Prince) and the formerly “royal” Mulatta should suit, if Windsor Castle itself is not yet available.
Theory doing the rounds that we’re set to see a lot of kites flown on cuts. Defence. Triple lock. NHS. And then Hunt turns round and says “Right. There you go, you didn’t like that did you. So you decide – it’s either welfare, or the pensioners, squaddies and nurses take the hit.
The problem with the kite flying strategy is that for it to be credible the kite actually has to get off the ground. And the idea of abandoning the triple lock is not going to make it out of the boot of the car, never mind fly…
“Liz Truss is no longer publicly committed to defending the triple lock – the guarantee that the state pension will rise every year in line with inflation, earnings, or 2.5%, whichever is highest. In their 2019 manifesto the Conservatives said they would “keep the triple lock” and in interviews only two weeks ago, during the party conference, Truss confirmed that she was still “committed” to it.
Not any more. At the Downing Street lobby briefing after cabinet, the PM’s spokesperson refused to say that Truss still feels bound by this. He did not say it would definitely go, but he clearly signalled that it is up for negotiation.“
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BREAKING Liz Truss threatens to ABANDON state pension triple lock – hitting 12million with cut in Aprilhttps://t.co/oab6TZY4Kp
As previously blogged, if the Triple Lock goes, the Conservative Party goes, probably forever. Sunak reneged, in 2021-2022, on the manifesto commitment to keep the Triple Lock. Result? Most (mostly 60+-y-o) Conservative Party members voted against him as Con leader. Sunak’s refusal to keep to the pledge cost him the Prime Ministership.
Only about 20%-25% of UK voters are now intending to vote Conservative next time, so say the opinion polls. That 20%-25% bloc is composed almost entirely of pensioners, and is the real hard core of the Conservative general election vote. Alienate that bloc, make them abstain or vote elsewhere, and the Conservative Party vote will collapse to 10% at top. Only a handful, or a few dozen, Con Party seats would remain. Ironically, as said earlier, one of the few left standing, like a pillar of salt, would be that of Liz Truss herself.
If the Tory leadership election were being run again now, most Conservative members would back Sunak
Rishi Sunak: 55% Liz Truss: 25% Would not vote: 15% Don't know: 5%
We therefore now know, for certain, that at least 40,000 members of the Conservative Party are so brainless that they should not be allowed out on the street alone (if they indeed are now).
As @SamCoatesSky points out, minus 70 poll rating was BEFORE yesterday’s outing by the PM. The Tories may be agonising about what next, but the polls – and the front pages are clear – every day is more damage to the party, never mind the country. https://t.co/5ckS9Hm2ta
One thing becoming apparent. A lot of Tory MPs have watched too much West Wing. They think they can game the current crisis to their own personal advantage. And they can’t. Politics doesn’t work like that. The country is actually watching this fiasco. And it’s giving up on them.
A party in the UK stands or falls, more or less, as a party.
Look at this “shitshow“, to quote the open-mouthed Johnny Mercer. The Conservative Party was always admired for its ruthlessness in getting rid of unwanted leaders. Is it now falling short even in that?
Interesting Constitutional point too, that occurs to me: in principle, a general election need only be held within 5 years of the last one, so long as a prime minister can command the confidence of the House (Bagehot), so in principle Truss can be replaced by another Con MP who can rely on that large Con majority in the Commons. However, these circumstances of October 2022 are unusual.
Only the King can prorogue Parliament, and does so on the advice of the Prime Minister. What if Liz Truss refuses to vacate her office, and advises the King that she should remain, in circumstances where it is doubtful that she holds the confidence of even her own side? That might place the King in a very difficult Constitutional position: a choice between proroguing Parliament in effect on his own judgment and against PM’s advice, or not proroguing and then forcing the Commons to vote on confidence.
In such a circumstance, would the Conservative MPs vote “no confidence” in Liz Truss? That would mean a general election in which, on present polling, all but 50-150 out of 357 would lose their seats. Are they that altruistic? Most not, I think.
On the other hand, were those Con MPs to vote that they have confidence in Liz Truss, then no general election, but they would be stuck with her for at least a year, and possibly until the next general election, at least in my view. Awkward.
The new and as yet uncrowned King may find himself taking, or having to take, a far more active role in a party-political matter than he might prefer.
I did of course read Constitutional Law, at degree level, but would, naturally, not hold out myself as being in any way expert. Perhaps there are others, more erudite, who can solve the conundrum. If so, the comments section is open to the ocean.
A stupid “ho”, who only became an MP on her back, posing implausibly as “Prime Minister”, a woolly-headed n***** as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and moreover the latter —some say— banging the former…What could possibly go wrong?!
Now add to that a crazed and mediocre Indian barrister woman as Home Secretary, a useless half-caste as Foreign Secretary, and a drunken ex-Scots Guards junior officer as Defence Secretary.
Britain really is ready now for the Nuclear Age… as a target.
Ian Robert Millard 