Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10, a score I trumped with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 3, 7, and 10, though I nearly got no.2, and should have also got right no.7 (but did not).
“Almost one-in-three babies born in England and Wales last year were to women born outside the UK.
According to the Office for National Statistics, 31.8 per cent of live births in 2023 were to non-UK born mothers – a slight increase from 30.3 per cent in 2022.
The proportion was also an increase from 26.5 per cent a decade earlier, after passing the quarter mark (25.1 per cent) in 2010.“
[Daily Mail]
That does not even include the vast numbers of non-white children born to mothers (and/or fathers) also non-white but themselves born in England.
The truth is that the majority, indeed probably vast majority, of births in England are now non-white.
The UK has no future, no decent future, if this continues.
I have never agreed wholly with Katie Hopkins, but she is a force of Nature…
One of the most messed-up things I have ever seen is Keir Starmer and David Lammy siding with Israeli Football hooligans. I guess burning a Palestinian flag and shouting Kill The Arabs merits a hug these days. pic.twitter.com/XnqP1KfJnr
Starmer is a national embarrassment. Totally in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby. Same is true of thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire” David Lammy. In fact, he is even more of a bad joke.
The #AmsterdamAttack saga has exposed something crucial about the reaction of Starmer and Lammy. They’re not interested in the facts as any serious politician would be. They’ve reacted as members of Labour Friends of Israel above all else with pro-Israel spin and propaganda. pic.twitter.com/0cxJZhIckp
As mentioned previously on the blog, there is someone carrying the same or similar name to me, and who tweets as “@IanMillard100”. I believe that he is an IT worker at Bath University. His tweets occasionally mirror my views, though usually not.
I have no reason to suppose that this other Ian Millard tweets with any malign intent (i.e. with the intent of passing himself off as me), but I have to admit that it is slightly irritating to think that some people may imagine that those tweets come from me; maybe most people can see that they are from someone else, though.
A minor nuisance, no more. Anyway, there is nothing that I can do about it.
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After the defeat in the US presidential elections, Harris can get the seat of a judge of the US Supreme Court – CNN announced. pic.twitter.com/8iuWXHPETz
I doubt that Russia would agree to that. The Kiev regime is plainly losing.
The collapse of the German ruling coalition and the imminent return of newly elected President Donald Trump to the White House have created new risks for the largest economy of the European Union, which is already in a worrying decline. " Germany is going into a very serious and… pic.twitter.com/WrNM81R9qt
“Cutting ties with Russia was the last nail in the coffin for Europe. Energy intensive industries are going where energy is cheap, it means in the long run deindustrialization of Europe. US neo-cons knew it, their plan is to destroy EU industries and finalize the vassalization of Europe.“
Combined, of course, with the replacement of Europeans in Europe by mixed-race populations, as provided for by the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
“Conspiracy theory?” Just look all around you. Look at Britain’s streets. Look at “British” TV. I just saw several TV ads, one after the other, all showing “British Christmas” themes, but the couples shown were all white woman with black man as “husband” or “boyfriend”.
Accurate… I spent 9 months in East Africa. It’s very hard to pinpoint exactly why it’s such a mess. They have an infantile mentality and absolutely no commercial sense.
I once went about 10 miles down the road, in the middle of nowhere on the way to Lusaka, the capital of…
“Accurate… I spent 9 months in East Africa. It’s very hard to pinpoint exactly why it’s such a mess.
They have an infantile mentality and absolutely no commercial sense.
I once went about 10 miles down the road, in the middle of nowhere on the way to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, and every 50 meters there was someone selling watermelon. I said to the driver, “Everyone is selling exactly the same product. Why don’t they try making watermelon juice or something different to stand out?” He replied, “But why would we do that? We like melon!”
That attitude was everywhere. In fact, I would sometimes meet Westerners who would say, “Isn’t it amazing how they’ve kept this piece of junk car going for 30 years?” And I’d reply, “It’s more amazing that we have automated car factories with robots.” They literally only focus on the immediate need. “Car not go today, car fixed with string and tape.“
The only two factors preventing Britain and other European countries from retaking direct control of Africa, of all of Africa, are 1. socio-political will and 2. the fact that the (((globalists))) find it more convenient to exploit Africa’s resources via corrupt tiny “elites” in each fake African “state” (and to hell with the environment, the forests, the wildlife, and the African people themselves).
The fact is that European rule would benefit all, not least the ordinary Africans.
Incidentally, it would be a great deal easier than many imagine for Europe to reconquer Africa militarily. Only the two factors already noted make it at all hard.
Illiterate travel
I have just read this, https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/sarajevo-guide-balkans-bosnia-and-herzegovina-b1176081.html, a travel piece in what I still call the Evening Standard, and written by well-known columnist Suzanne Moore. Not hugely interesting anyway, but then absurdly badly-written. An essay by a 10-year-old, at best. Or is the sub-editing to blame? Maybe someone pushed a few of the wrong buttons. Extraordinary. Read it and see.
I have read other pieces by Suzanne Moore which were written properly, so maybe it was the fault of the Standard.
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“I made a promise to Esther Rantzen”
He is so shit at this. He’s absolutely fucking awful. We really do have Blairism again but with no good bits. And with Alan Partridge as leader.
Pretty accurate summing-up of “Starmer-ism”, in my opinion, “Blairism without the good bits“, though I do not recall many good bits then either, speaking personally.
As far as assisted dying is concerned, I see it as a generally well-meaning attempt to be kind, which however, put into policy and law, is the start of a slide to, eventually, somewhere down the line, killing people for convenience or money.
We can’t sort out our borders because LOTS of money is being pushed into keeping them open. Do have a nose at what the UK’s many charitable foundations are up to if you want to see – eg Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmee Fairburn – @ShireStrike what others?
Wouldn’t have thought you would be that old to remember. Get prepared buy a few dozen candles and a pack of cards just in case. I’ve told my grandkids about those days, don’t think they actually believe me 🤷♂️
That’s because you, “Steve Zodiac”, are apparently telling your grandchildren a load of old hooey…
I have blogged in the past about how very many people (including, weirdly, many who were at least in their teens then, and so actually of an age to remember) say, and even perhaps believe, that the 1970s in the UK were some kind of dark age in which the electricity was off most of the time, in which bodies were left unburied by reason of industrial action, in which trains and buses rarely ran, in which rubbish piled up in the towns and cities, in which there was a “three day week” when offices and factories were closed for four days each week, and in which life was generally miserable (for example, food was terrible, they say).
The above-noted fabled dystopia was, we are told, the result of overreaching trade union power and Labour misgovernment.
In other words, out of the 10 years, Labour was in power for about 6 years. Labour government was in place from the early 1960s until mid-1970, then from early 1974 until mid-1979.
Compare to 2024: 81.8% of seats based on 57.4% of the popular vote.
In 1966, the winning party (Labour) got 48% of the popular vote, the losing Conservatives 41.9%.
In 2024, Labour got 33.7%, and the losing Conservatives only 23.7%.
The electoral system has become not just unfair but also illogical and ridiculous. It no longer reflects reality.
Reverting to the general situation in the 1970s, the much-talked-about “Three Day Week” only affected, directly, commercial operations (which were banned from using electricity on the other four days). The Three Day Week only lasted for two months. Out of 10 years (120 months).
I saw the Three Day Week firsthand. I was working, aged just 18, as supposed assistant manager in a very small commercial intelligence outfit based in the Strand (London). The office only had 5 people including me, though we did have a network of mostly ad-hoc agents all over the southern and eastern parts of England (anywhere south or southwest of The Wash). Much of the work was in Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Essex. The agents were often retired Army officers who, on being contacted, would —eagerly— say something such as “right-oh, old boy. I’ll fire up the Rover and get onto it.”
I must do a blog post sometime about it.
There were, in the early 1970s, strikes by coal miners etc, resulting in a few brief power cuts (“outages”, as the Americans say), but they lasted for a few hours a day, for a few days. Out of 10 years, again.
In the “Winter of Discontent” (1978-79), there were, for a few weeks, situations in some towns and cities whereby rubbish piled up, yes; that much of the “fable” is true, but only for a brief time. As for the “bodies left unburied“, that only applied in Liverpool and Manchester and only for 14 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent#Gravediggers’_strike.
In fact, though the 1970s had its problems political, social, economic, Britain still had possibilities. The population was still almost entirely white Northern European, new ideas and projects were around or developing (the Milton Keynes conurbation, the Open University, new express trains, cross-Channel hovercraft etc), and the absurd and damaging house-price madness, though it had started, was still in its early stages.
Britain still had a functioning Army, Navy, Air Force (etc), and a police force that mainly did its expected job and was not usually the sort of poundshop Stasi we now see, snooping on or “monitoring” the expression of views and opinions.
Incidentally, the food was OK back then on the whole. Slightly less cosmopolitan, yes, but in the South of England at least, foreign foods such as hummus, taramasalata, olives, Indian, Chinese, etc were ubiquitous. In fact, some food was better and more available back then.
What I find worrying is not only that people who were not there, or were small children, are convinced that England in 1970-1979 was a dark and gloomy place; more that people who were there seem to have substituted, for what actually happened, a kind of folk-tale.
As for Jewish-lobby puppet Robert Largan, who was parachuted into the constituency of High Peak (Derbyshire) and served as MP from GE 2019 to GE 2024, he was only born in 1987.
If people cannot recall accurately the 1970s, how much less accurate must be the “memories”, often publicized, of the 1930s and 1940s.
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NEW POST. Keir Starmer doesn't understand the country he is leading -he is violating the British people's sense of fair play on multiple fronts https://t.co/JJ1bHBCCW9
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