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Diary Blog, 5 November 2025, with thoughts about a European war, the next UK General Election, and Islamist terrorism in the UK and throughout Western/Central Europe. Also, the latest about incompetent/negligent/dishonest solicitor, “Mark Lewis Lawyer”

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Thought

Today is the 5th of November, the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot.

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If the NWO/ZOG elements ruling parts of Western and Central Europe foment a war with Russia, and if that then turns nuclear, do not expect the USA to “have your back”, as people now say.

Of course, the number of Islamist fanatics willing to take direct action, or act as support squad for terrorists, is small, perhaps as small as 1% of the whole Muslim population, and perhaps only 0.1%. There are, in the UK, something like 4M-5M Muslims in the UK, so that would mean that between 4,000-50,000 are a serious danger. It also means that the others are not, but is it acceptable to us to harbour even 4,000 dangerous individuals, let alone 50,000? Those numbers, of course, will increase, along with the expansion of the Muslim population via both births and immigration (whether “legal” or not).

As regular readers will know, I have always been opposed to extreme Jew-Zionist elements, but the UK and Europe harbour several different enemy elements, not just one, nor even two.

“Terrorism” can take many forms. It can be, for example, just blacks attacking English/British people for reasons not purely political or religious, and the perpetrators may be crazed or semi-crazed.

See also my assessment of the pathetic “Prevent” programme, penned as long ago as 2018:

…(and LibDems 13%; Greens 12%).

That translates to a Commons with about 401 Reform MPs (fairly massive majority), 71 Labour, 56 LibDems, 45 SNP, 27 Cons, 14 Greens (etc).

Does anyone really imagine that the domestic political situation will suddenly change, and that Lab or Con will suddenly rise up again? I doubt it, and I doubt that that will happen. Indeed, after the Budget of “Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations” Reeves, there is every chance that Labour will sink lower in the opinion polls. The once-great Conservative Party, meanwhile, is a not very interesting irrelevance. Its one strong card is the pensioner vote, but many of “a certain age” (not only 66+ but —I should say— 55+) look upon this country and despair…and blame both of the main “old parties” for what has happened and for what is continuing to happen.

There is also the point that, by 2029, many of the 2024 Con voters will have reached the end of their lives. They will not be voting.

Reform is underwhelming, but is the only game in town (in England) that is not Lib, Lab, or Con, that has a chance at all, and that is not basically a more-or-less pro-Muslim offshoot of Labour (Corbyn’s “Your Party”, and Galloway’s “Workers’ Party”).

It is an open question how many MPs might be gained by the two small offshoots of Labour, and by the Greens. Perhaps a total of, in the region of, 20 or 30. Not more, as far as I can see.

So far, Corbyn’s “Your Party” has not appeared in opinion polling. It may eventually get 2 or 3 MPs, it may get 10 or more. Hard to say. Of course, anyone voting “Your Party” would otherwise vote Labour or Green; the Reform ascendancy will not be affected.

However, Reform’s time in the sun may be very limited, should it reach government. Tice and Farage (and Matt Goodwin) are almost ludicrously pro-Jewish lobby and pro-Israel, and that may help them into government by limiting the msm opposition to them. However, in government it would be a very limiting factor, in my view.

Likewise, Tice, the likely Chancellor, has refused to rule out dumping the Triple Lock on State pensions. If the Triple Lock goes, so does about 3/4 of the Reform vote. A Reform government might well be a one-term government.

Then there is migration invasion. Reform has pledged to remove some “illegal” immigrants, “small boat” invaders (or some of them) etc, but that will not touch most non-Europeans in the UK; certainly not those born here, and not those here “legally”. That makes Reform almost a waste of space even if they could remove the hundreds of thousands of “illegals”.

Out of a Reform government, though, as an offshoot, might grow something better.

Incidentally, I see quite a few tweets from anti-Reform tweeters all saying about how tactical voting can prevent Reform getting seats, as at Caerphilly. Not very convincing.

Caerphilly was a long-time Labour stronghold, but Plaid was usually/always in second place, and not only in the Senedd constituency; also in the Westminster one: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerphilly_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

The Plaid candidate was also a strong one, with roots in the area going back half a century.

In most English constituencies, there is no one obvious alternative to Reform or the main System parties. In 50-100, the LibDems would be the beneficiaries of tactical voting and, to some extent, already are. That is unlikely to be the case in most.

If Reform can get even 250 seats, far less than a Commons majority, it will still cripple the main parties. Give the LibDems 100, and all the other parties will have to split the 300 remaining. Lab and Con might split between them about 200 or so.

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[“IS THERE REALLY RACISM IN THE NHS?… Let me tell you a story, my partner works in a dementia care home, to circumvent paying decent wages they import Africans en mass via an agency , they subsidise their accommodation and some meals too, (my partner gets no help with her accommodation or meals and is on minimum wage) none of the 5 that were brought in can speak English clearly which causes frustration for sometimes hard of hearing dementia residents desperate to talk to someone. There is no time spent with the residents , they sit for hours on end with zero stimulation or interaction from staff who just congregate in a staff room for a chat, my partner (not a carer) sometimes hears heartbreaking stories from the residents and nearly all of them relating to not being able to understand what the carers are asking them to do. This overuse of agency staff from other countries is common in the NHS too where similar complaints have been reported, so instead of labelling us all as “racists” why not consider employing people WE CAN FUCKING UNDERSTAND! and pay them correctly.”]

I happened to be in a large NHS hospital recently a couple of times (not as patient). Dystopian. Car parking near-impossible to navigate and also very expensive.

The hospital itself was a giant rabbit warren, expanded several times over the decades, and with yet more building going on, but without even a basic reception or information desk (despite the huge size of the complex), and no-one working there had much idea even where any particular unit was, or how to get there. Signage terrible.

Endless corridors filled with mostly non-European staff (in uniform) and masses of very poor-looking, drably-dressed English people, presumably mostly visitors. A vision of a kind of hell, in short.

I hope that that dystopian vision is not the future for all or much of our country, but I rather feel that it is, unless something truly truly radical happens fairly soon.

[“Yesterday in Westminster, I asked the Chancellor if she would publish a tax contribution breakdown by nationality. We know the data exists, as Restore Britain has obtained the same unpublished information for ethnicity through FOI requests (see below). The gasps in Parliament were telling. How could someone even dare to ask the question? What a monster Lowe is… I’ve previously asked the minister about the analysis, and I was told… “HMRC do not publish individual level analysis of Income Tax brackets by (a) ethnicity or (b) nationality.” They may not publish it, but they certainly have it – as we’ve proven. So why the deception? Why won’t the Government release nationality stats on tax? Are Somalians paying the same amount of tax on average as Australians or Americans? I doubt it, to be honest. It’s a scandal. We’ve got some of the data. Now we must demand the nationality figures.“]

“Mark Lewis Lawyer”— latest

Long-term readers of the blog will remember the quite many posts centring on the egregious UK/Israel-based solicitor, Mark Lewis. Anyone not au fait can use the search box on the blog. The same goes for successful libel claimant, James Wilson, whose matter Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased) and Cantor not only ended well for him, but badly for the Jewish defendants, one of whom killed himself (he had deceived his wife about the case and stood to lose his home after having been misadvised), and another of which now stands to lose his home, he having been misled as well as misadvised by negligent, incompetent, and thoroughly dishonest Jewish lawyer and Israel fanatic Lewis (probably with others).

Wilson won his case after he was conspired against by a whole pack of Jews, several of which are prolific (and, of course, pro-Israel etc) on Twitter/X. Details about them can be found, as noted, via the blog search box.

Latest tweets:

Believe one Jew and not another (closely connected with the first one)? Nein danke!

At one time, long ago, there were effectively no Muslims in New York City (or State) and, while there were many Jews, they were largely kept in their box, unable to take over politics, the legal system etc. That was, as I said, long long ago…

Look now. As a matter of fact, look at the way London has gone and is going.

All races that presently exist must eventually be subordinated to the rule of a super-race that does not, at present, exist.

The task of present-day European humanity is to create the conditions, not for that super-race, but for a racial grouping that will be the ur-foundation for the coming super-race.

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Late tweets seen

We have plenty of walls and, when the right time comes, people will know what to do at the direction of a social-national government.

Were he not a sinister little power-crazed bureaucrat, Starmer-stein would be a joke.

I was once a great supporter of the NHS (and the BBC, for that matter). I have not changed, they have, and indeed have become utterly useless much of the time. Said more in sorrow than in anger; both, really.

Ha. Not sure I agree with point 3. Polls show young people are generally more tolerant of mass immigration than those of my age (69). I attribute that (if so) mainly to the brainwashing they all get in the otherwise ineffective UK school system, especially the State-run schools.

Pretty silly of those “tolerant” young people, though. I wonder when it will dawn on them that mass immigration is a major reason why their work is badly paid (huge low-grade labour pool), why working-age State benefits are worth less now than they were in 1985, why rents are sky-high and council housing all but unobtainable (massive demand from millions of immigrants and their offspring added to existing English/British demand).

Late blog post by Nick Griffin

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november

Well worth reading.

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[Soviet T-34 tank in action, Eastern Front/Ostfront, 1943]

Diary Blog, 22 August 2025, including news about the fanatical Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (“CAA”)

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Tweets seen

Those two fanatical Jew-Zionist organizations have largely-overlapping memberships, and work in concert.

I am unsure as to whether that tweet by one Fahad Ansari is true or not. I have been unable, at this time, to find any confirmation. Will clarify as and when.

Incidentally, the “CAA” tweet is itself mistaken, in that it describes Franck Magennis as “an officer of the court“. Magennis is, I now see (I think I was unaware of his existence until today or yesterday), a barrister: https://gardencourtchambers.co.uk/barrister/franck-magennis/.

Solicitors are, by statute, “officers of the court“; barristers are not. The distinction arises out of the historical background, going back hundreds of years, of the two main branches of the legal profession in England and Wales.

A few of my own experiences of “CAA” and “UKLFI” activity:

…and take a look at the case of Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased) and Cantor (use the blog search box).

The now-washed-up self-promoting Jew-Zionist fanatic and solicitor, Mark Lewis, involved in James Wilson’s case, was and I think still is a prominent member or supporter of both the “CAA” and the “UKLFI”, at one time prominently featured on the website of the “CAA”.

Lewis is currently quite likely facing (not for the first time) both disciplinary action by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA), and legal action by at least one former client (on grounds that may include professional negligence and civil fraud).

Simon Myerson, barrister based at Leeds, and briefly a Recorder (p/t judge), whose vituperative behaviour on social media led to his effective dismissal from the Bench after a few months, and who (I believe) may face action from the Bar Standards Board, is involved in or supportive of both UKLFI and the CAA, and was a witness (whose sworn testimony was disbelieved and/or given no weight by the trial judge) in the James Wilson defamation case. Again, for more about that, see the search box on the blog.

Having now read a little about that barrister, Magennis, it seems that he is very far from my viewpoint, ideologically, but we have both been attacked by the Jew-Zionist orgs “CAA” and “UKLFI”. Sadly, in this complex world, my enemy’s enemy is not necessarily my friend…

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https://twitter.com/wissamshabat/status/1958770361899892877

Victim of yet another Israeli war crime.

According to the “CAA” and other Jew-Zionist orgs, anything up to 96% of UK-resident Jews support Israel in anything it does.

Anyone giving support to Israel is, thereby, to some extent complicit in its crimes.

As police fly-on-wall TV show voiceovers always say, “it’s all kicking off“…

Quite likely, and the Labour Party still has about 300,000 members (though dropping rapidly), so that might add up to 75,000 or more people, which would be fairly significant; however, the 28% figure refers to members, not voters.

The Labour Party membership, especially the activists who are or were the core of that party, were always far more radical than Labour voters . A small number of people, really.

I still think that Corbyn will struggle to achieve a national vote (assuming that his new party can even fight many seats) above 5%.

Most English white people will not vote for Corbyn, who actually seems to want more migrant-invaders to arrive (and to give them even more than they currently get by way of housing, food, pocket-money, services).

It may be that some young English/Welsh/Scottish voters, as well as some ethnic minority voters, may be attracted by an anti-Israel message, as well as by a pro-Welfare State, pro-NHS etc message, and a generally pro-multikulti orientation. Some but (in my opinion) not enough to win many seats. Corbyn seems to be in George Galloway territory, more or less.

I think that Corbyn and his candidates may be able to win in a few particular seats, including that of Corbyn himself, but I doubt that the number of seats won would be more than three or four, if that.

Only a minority, a small minority, of seats look like remaining Labour anyway; maybe 150. Corbyn’s “sales pitch” would be to a fraction of that minority of seats. As said, probably far fewer than a dozen; quite likely, well under half a dozen.

In fact, it is an open question as to whether even Zara Sultana, Corbyn’s deputy, will retain her seat (at Coventry South). As a Labour candidate, she got over 47% of the vote in 2024, but next time that vote will be split between her and the new Labour candidate. Also, the Conservative vote in 2024 was nearly 24%, and the Reform UK vote over 13%. If the Con vote collapses further, Reform might get a vote, on that basis alone, of 30%+.

In 2019, the Con candidate got 42.5% of the vote, Labour (Ms. Sultana) only slightly more (43.4%). Brexit Party got 3%.

In both 2019 and 2024, the Con Party put up the same candidate, an Englishwoman, I believe. She nearly won in 2019.

Add to those factors the disaffected 2024 Lab voters deciding to cast their lot for Reform in 2028 or 2029, and one could easily see Reform getting over 40% at Coventry South, with official Labour and Ms. Sultana sharing 30%-40% between them. Exit Ms. Sultana?…

Talking point

[National Socialist poster from the 1920s: Die Bonzen im Speck, das Volk im Dreck“; literally, “the Bonzos [fat cats or bigwigs] in bacon” [i.e. in clover], the people in the dirt“].

National Socialism, Communism, and other radical movements did not, and do not, come out of nowhere.

Incidentally, note the facial features of the “Bonzos” there.

Actually, thinking about it, does that not bear at least a certain passing resemblance to the UK in 2025?

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The reality of 1930s Germany. Very different from the usual (((propaganda))) seen in the “Western” msm…

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In fact, here I stand somewhere in the middle. As society is now, not in 1800, or 1900, or 1960, there is a problem with —usually quite mediocre, at best— people inheriting, in some cases, tens of millions, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of millions. We all know the more newsworthy names— McCartney, Beckham, Jagger etc, but there are many others not so prominent in the gossip columns or even the financial pages. Some have wealth far beyond that bestowed upon popular music people, footballers etc, and/or their offspring.

Personally, I think it acceptable for people to inherit a modest amount, arguably up to £1M, but not £10M, certainly not £100M, £1BN or more.

This is a difficult and complex question once you get beyond simple cases. There are knotty questions of landed estates, trusts, tax avoidance offshore etc. A near-confiscatory tax regime is hard to enforce in anything approaching a free society. What I do not agree with is the out-of-hand dismissal seen in Matt Goodwin’s tweeted comment. The question or questions should be addressed.

There are, at present, only two serious contenders re. the next UK general election—Reform UK and Labour.

[“Several generations have perished”: a horrifying number of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine revealed From a recent leak of military documents, it became known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 1.7 million people since the start of the full-scale conflict with Russia, writes MWM. The death rate of Ukrainian conscripts is very high, and in areas with intense combat, the life expectancy of servicemen sometimes amounts to only four hours. The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered especially heavy losses during the invasion of the Kursk region, as they were encircled by Russian troops who attacked from several sides simultaneously. Against the backdrop of this news, more and more supporters of the regime in Kyiv are saying that Ukraine is on the verge of complete military defeat.]

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 14 May 2020

Why would you be surprised that a psychopathic liar and part-Jew public entertainer (merely posing as “Prime Minister”) would…lie? It’s what he does.

and this, below, is interesting

…particularly when, only yesterday, the UK Supreme Court quashed the convictions of Gerry Adams. Do we see where this is going? I think that we do.

Indeed, it now seems that Boris-idiot secretly agreed to the “border in the Irish Sea” as long ago as October 2019!

“Campaign Against Antisemitism”

https://twitter.com/TomorrowsBrita1/status/1257410459432615938?s=20

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10461342/mum-daughter-took-money-cancelled-trips-disneyland/

Typical, of course…

Interesting tweets

Especially the one by tweeter @first_dante

https://twitter.com/first_dante/status/1257634243703955458?s=20

The “Communist” campaign of subversion that started as an adjunct to Soviet Intelligence and was noted by such as Golitsyn (albeit over-valued by him, and to some extent distorted), became so-called “Cultural Marxism”, infecting society from the 1960s. It was particularly powerful in infecting students across Europe, North America, Australasia (and, to a lesser extent, South Africa).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Golitsyn#Golitsyn’s_books

Those students became prime ministers, Cabinet ministers, judges, heads of TV stations, radio current affairs programmes, as well as journalists and talking heads etc. A few names from the UK? Tony Blair, Cherie Blair, Alistair Darling, Jack Dromey, Jack Straw, and many many others. Few if any were “Soviet agents” (as far as I know, not even ghastly Jack Dromey, later a Blairite “Labour” MP, who attended the 1970s mercenaries’ “trial” in Angola as a kind of “socialist” vulture, sub nom “observer”).

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

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576111/Comrade-Calamity-Union-thuggery-Financial-scandals-And-links-child-sex-abuse-Throughout-life-Mr-Harriet-Harman-got-things-SO-wrong.html

Few of those then-young people were even pro-Soviet, not least because “Cultural Marxism” broke free from its conspiratorial Soviet origins as the Soviet Union started to slowly decay and eventually collapse.

It could be said that what is called, inter alia, “Cultural Marxism”, is now just another NWO cultural current. It has little or nothing to do with any form of “socialism”, that’s for sure.

Where Golitsyn went wrong was in assuming that the “headwaters” of “Cultural Marxism” lay in Sovietism, when in fact they lay on higher ground, in the groups that developed (and named) the “New World Order” or NWO. Those same groups were those who fostered the Soviet Union under Lenin in the first place.

In other words, the former secret operatives who helped to collapse Soviet and Eastern European socialism (in the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland etc) were not communists disguising themselves as something else, but a metamorphosis of communists or socialists turning into something else, while still coming under the overall and yet covert control of the NWO powers on the grand scale.

Russia is not in control of the play as it is acted out; neither is the USA, as such. The NWO is pulling the strings, often through “Zionist Occupation Governments” [“ZOG”].

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The aim is to form a one-world regime, composed mainly of raceless, cultureless serfs, ruled over by ZOG and, beyond ZOG, the NWO powers. Below the ruling levels, a mass of untermenschen is promoted by the “governments” and the contaminated msm, drowning out the true voices of Europe’s future.

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Seems that some Americans have never heard of “tax” and, in particular, “income tax”. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet is very dry in its humour…

Unfortunately, while in principle it is far more efficient for tax monies to go into one fund, or what in the UK are usually termed “central funds”, in practice this has flaws and drawbacks. It tends to mean that governments decide to use some of the tax monies gathered for all sorts of misconceived projects and grandiose ideas, while the foundations of society are ill-funded. It also means that those who pay tax (one way or another, and to some extent, everyone) lose any feeling of connection between what they pay in tax and what they see being funded and/or underfunded.

It might well be worth the loss of a certain amount of notional fiscal efficiency to both tie and be seen to tie tax monies raised to specific expenditures. For example, “Road Tax”, or “Vehicle Tax” is raised from motorists and others on the misleading basis (apart from it being compulsory) that the monies raised will pay for roads. Well, some may go to that, but probably less than is raised. The rest? To “central funds”.

“National Insurance” is another and similar example.

I am sure that people would more readily accept taxation if they knew that X% was going to go to the NHS directly, perhaps by taking X% off income tax and having a new “NHS Tax” at X% (or whatever).

The above proposal would also make more rational the election-time arguments about money, taxes, and services.

There is a limit to how far funding of NHS, roads etc can or should be localized, however. There is always the danger that poorer areas will be hugely impoverished if dependent only on a local tax base. However, a degree of localism is, in my view, good. It enables people to relate easier to what needs funding and to the sources of funding.

Bad news from the Beeb

https://twitter.com/AnnettGordonW/status/1260865958614380544?s=20

https://twitter.com/BVC194/status/1260893200929128450?s=20

…and to “balance” all the sensible opinions (with which I agree), let’s have the obligatory dim SNP tweet of the day:

Ah, yes, UK/English TV is “foreign” to a dim SNP partisan. Funny how these Scottish “nationalists” have (certainly Sturgeon’s SNP leadership have) no objection to the Jewish/Zionist lobby, no objection to mass immigration of non-Europeans into the UK (or even Scotland itself), no objection to Scotland being ruled or partly-ruled by the EU, NATO, the USA/NWO, “international” banks and financial institutions etc…Fake “nationalism”.

Lord Reith laid down his famous dictum for the BBC: “Inform, educate, and entertain“, presumably in that order. That dictum has been watered down to the extent that the BBC usually now fails to inform, or deliberately misinforms; it scarcely “educates” at all, even on BBC2, though it does —to some extent— on apparently-doomed BBC Four. As for “entertain”, it still tries to do that, mostly unsuccessfully, as far as I am concerned. Lowest common denominator.

The fact that opinionated football idiot Gary Lineker is (as I read) paid nearly £2 million a year makes the BBC worse than a mere absurdity.

The BBC pays millions to unpleasant “comedians” who trash everything worthwhile: Jo Brand, Jimmy Carr, David Baddiel; and many others.

The BBC is a negative force in national life now, in every respect. This latest insult to those of its viewers (and “licence”-payers) who have a mentality above gutter-level proves that it should now be shut down. It is not true “public service broadcasting” now, is an expensive anachronism and also a nest of anti-British propaganda.

Tweets by Peter Hitchens re. “the current situation”

Coronavirus

A team of international researchers say mouthwash could destroy the outermost layer or ‘envelope’ of the virus, preventing its replication in the mouth and throat.” [Daily Mail]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8315269/Commercial-mouthwash-prevent-COVID-19-transmission-scientists-say.html

and

Spending time in the fresh air and sunshine can reduce someone’s risk of catching the coronavirus, a scientific adviser to the Government has said…Professor Alan Penn, a member of SAGE, the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, reassured that those who flock to the parks that the risk of catching the virus outside is lower…He said: ‘The science suggests that being outside in sunlight, with good ventilation, are both highly protective against transmission of the virus.’ Other scientists say they ‘totally agree’ with Professor Penn and advocate spending more time outdoors, where the virus is less likely to survive.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8319049/Fresh-air-sunshine-protective-against-coronavirus.html

So much for the “Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives” nonsense-propaganda that has been pumped out by idiots to idiots for months now…

I wonder how many virtue-signalling serfs will be out “clapping for the NHS” this evening? Where I live, not many; I have only ever seen one or two clapping. We now know that in fact NHS staff face little if any more risk from Coronavirus than do the general population. The risky jobs seem to be those done by care staff, taxi drivers and, oddest of all, security guards.

Evening foray

Needed a few things from Waitrose. Far more traffic on the roads than seen for maybe 6-8 weeks. In Waitrose itself, still the ludicrous “social distancing”, which seems to have been ingrained in many; a couple of people jumped clear as I, carrier of the Plague (as it might be) approached. One vacant-looking woman was wearing a —clearly home-made– facemask.

In fact, there were few shoppers and no obvious shortage of any goods. One “interesting” event occurred. I was there just before closing, and got stuck behind a woman buying a mountain of shopping while also having an extended conversation about trivia with the cashier. While standing waiting for my turn to be dealt with, an announcement over the PA system: “Waitrose closes at 8 pm, at which time all staff will stop what they are doing and clap for our carers”! In other words, what started as a genuine and spontaneous gesture in a few places has become a socially-mandated, Government-promoted and corporately-enforced and compelled act.

As a matter of fact, I left the Waitrose building a minute before 2000 hrs, and was still in the car park when the designated clap-time arrived. I noticed that only the black-clad Waitrose marshals, two of them (I call them Handmaid’s Tale militia) actually stood outside the main doors and clapped for 10 seconds or so. I also heard a police or ambulance siren, which was probably not co-incidental.

En route back to Schloss Millard a minute or two later, I saw one family of 5 standing outside a house, having presumably clapped. I later heard that some idiot let off some fireworks somewhere in the area.

Das ist’s. Time to dispense with the “clapathon”, I think.

https://twitter.com/michelle_daly02/status/1261055529536946177?s=20

Tweets seen late

The above article is worth reading.

Something else worth noting is that below, about “social distancing” being “here to stay” (or so says thick Ugandan Asian Priti Patel, the inept would-be spy for Israel who is now, laughably, a Cabinet minister for the second time)…

Limitation of Permitted Income

Social inequality is inevitable in any human society. All that one can hope for and, more pertinently, legislate for, is a decent and reasonable measure, so that inequality does not become excessive or grotesque.

Social inequality arises out of and is maintained by inequalities in both capital and income. Today I address only income. My contention is that the maximum post income tax income must be capped at (2016 values) £200,000 per annum. Needless to say, only a relative handful of UK citizens actually receive anything like that after tax; the average is closer to £20,000. Still, it is important that the huge incomes which a few have, be lopped off at that level or, arguably, at one even lower, for the preservation of some sense of social contract in society. That is a more worthwhile reason for this policy, rather than just the (often criticized) aim of raising more tax revenues, which might not even happen, taking things in the round.

The work of all citizens should be valued, by society, by the citizens themselves (valuing the work of others and having a modest pride in their own contribution, too). When a few award themselves or are awarded incomes in the many hundreds of thousands or even millions of pounds per annum, the whole fabric of society is gradually ripped to shreds.

There is another and oft-discussed policy to complement the above maximum-income cap. That second aspect is the concept that the pay of the highest employee or office-holder in an enterprise or a public service should not exceed that of the lowest-paid employee of the same body by more than a certain decided multiple. To my mind, that multiple should be 10x, that referring to post-income-tax income.

The above two policies will go far to knitting society together. There will be anomalies, special cases etc, but the important point is that the general idea will  be accepted by all or almost all…and will work practically.