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Diary Blog, 11 November 2025, Armistice Day

[Blues and Royals, London]

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In the U.S., yes; but also in the UK, France, Germany, Austria etc.

While the Jewish/Zionist infiltration into UK mass media becomes ever more blatant, it is only when you are in the USA that you see a country pretty much taken over by Jewish/Zionist elements, and the TV/radio/Press flagrantly so.

[“Because the British Right (just like the British Left, and almost every other political movement in the land) has been fully captured by Jewish supremacists for several decades now. That makes “kvetching about Muslims”, as you aptly put it, the first and last order of the day. ‘Yookay’ pseudo-anthropology from the likes of drukpa is the fuel for a political project built around eliminating Islam and Muslims from Europe. In the Zionist reading, Muslims in Europe have broken out of the shtetlekh and are now too close to articulating positions on policy issues — so they must be relentlessly punished; subject to arson attacks and murder; and terrorised into submission. Accounts like drukpa’s simply (or elaborately, in this case) marshal white nationalists towards that cause, as lemmings in a Jewish Zionist holy war against Islam and Muslims. The likes of drukpa, the Lotus Eaters, wall-toucher Richard Tice and Tel Aviv Tommy are merely the UK water-carriers in a pan-European Zionist anti-Muslim terror strategy. Each has their own role to play and their own audiences to cater to.“]

My enemy’s enemy is not necessarily my friend. Britain and all Europe have several deadly enemies, not just one.

There is something just unclean about Douglas Murray (though I do not disagree with all that he has said over the years). The Henry Jackson Society has or has had a number of very odd individuals connected with it, and/or in its HQ team, in the past, including one (Sam or Samuel Armstrong) who was involved many years ago in the Conservative Party cabal around the sex-pest/rapist Mark Clarke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Clarke_(politician)].

Armstrong was acquitted of rape in 2017, many thinking him to have been “lucky in his jury”, in the old Bar phrase. He joined the Henry Jackson Society and later became its Director of Communications but, after 2 years or so, left to go freelance. He is now Legislative Affairs Director at the so-called “Free Speech Union”, the Toby Young outfit that believes in free speech for all (except those critical of Israel and/or Jewish behaviour…).

Speaking more generally, you see the attempt generally now to conflate “British nationalism” of a sort with pro-Israelism. You see that in organizations like the Henry Jackson Society and Free Speech Union, you see it in Daily Mail and other scribblers (eg Allison Pearson), you see it in “alt-right” figures such as “Tommy Robinson”, Katie Hopkins etc, and you see it in Reform UK’s major figures, including Farage and Tice and, of course, Matt Goodwin. All singing the same songs. Controlled opposition.

[“If you want to come and see University of Bristol vs Dr David Miller on Wednesday – Friday this week, here are the details: Just as a reminder, the University of Bristol’s attempt to overturn by Employment Tribunal victory establishing that anti-Zionist views are ‘worthy of respect in a democratic society’ will take place this week. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) will hear the University of Bristol’s appeal on 12–14 November 2025 at 10am. The hearing will take place at: Employment Appeal Tribunal, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Ln, London EC4A 1NL. Hope to see some of you there!“]

I well remember appearing, decades ago, as Counsel, and on quite a number of occasions, at the former Rolls Building (a modernist building within the precincts of the Royal Courts of Justice) but in company law cases, not on employment matters. I see that a new Rolls Building, not far away, and finished in 2011, has now taken the place of the one once familiar to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls_Building.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

The System has to be destroyed.

First, May 2026 local elections— vote Reform purely to get rid of Con/Lab/LibDem local politicians. Second, vote Reform at the next general election to do the same at national level. Third, when Reform fails to do 90% of what it promises, turn to social nationalism, not only electorally but in other ways too.

[“This is not particularly special polling for Reform. I realise it is a YouGov poll and we should expect lower figures from them, but by now I would have expected YouGov to be close to 30% and some of the others to be in the mid 30% range, and edging towards 40%. It suggests to me that Reform have stalled, or are at least coasting in neutral, in terms of grabbing the public’s attention.”]

Reform has indeed stalled, albeit at a good-ish level. Why has it stalled? Because it has made at least two or three very bad errors.

Firstly, Reform is now calling for deportation of illegal migrants in the future, but not of those already granted asylum. In any case, “illegals” are only 5%-10% of all migrants. To create or recreate a white European society in the UK, Reform’s policies would have to be far stronger.

Secondly, Reform itself has non-European candidates and officials. How does that look?

Thirdly, Reform has sent out a message that it wants to slash the Welfare State, and not only for non-Brits. Even for pensioners and the disabled. Who does Farage think are supporting Reform? Many are pensioners, many are disabled one way or another. Many are struggling financially. Farage, Tice etc do not really understand their own supporters. People who are doing OK under the present conditions have no obvious incentive to vote for radical change.

Fourthly, Farage and Tice are almost ludicrously pro-Israel, pro the Jewish lobby etc. Electoral death if they continue with it.

Incidentally, that poll may not be yet another stunningly-good one for Reform, but would still give them about 326 MPs, so a razor-thin majority in the Commons. They would still form the Government. So Reform 326, Lab 100, LibDem 72, SNP 45, Cons 42, Greens 27 (etc).

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[Levitan, June Day]

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Many of the pro-invasion types, in fact probably a majority, have serious mental health problems, as do very many of the Jew-Zionists. I examined those connected phenomena in a blog post several years ago:

Meanwhile, China is taking over, everywhere…

True, of course. I myself think that the Baltic States or, in the Russian designation, pribaltika, have every right to national autonomy, national cultures etc, but they just go too far in becoming part of the NATO set-up, and encouraging attacks on Russia.

Whatever just criticisms can be aimed at China (animal welfare, human rights, environmental damage etc), the achievements of the Chinese since, say, 1989, have been phenomenal.

Stunning vulgarity.

The number one priority for those aspiring to statesmanship today is to avert a major war, in Europe in particular.

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Diary Blog, 20 September 2025

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferruccio_Busoni]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week 7/10, thus again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 5, and 8. Question 1 is an embarrassing one, one that I really should have got right, but did not.

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Very interesting. Even Labour supporters, and even LibDems, nearly half of them anyway, support a far more forceful protection of borders policy. Nearly all Reform UK supporters want more forceful measures, and they are by far the most numerous (recent polling re. voting intention had Reform on 34%, with Lab and Cons both around 16%).

Sink the boats. It is harsh, yes, but the situation is desperate. 1,000-2,000 of the bastards are invading our country every single day now.

Detention. Sequestration. Concentration. Sterilization. Deportation. Or elimination.

Also, “smuggling” seems hardly the right word, when the invaders are openly sent across the Channel, met just off the French coast by ships of the Royal Navy, Border Force, or degraded RNLI, then escorted to British ports, the invaders meanwhile having been provided with life-jackets.

This is the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in operation. The deliberate flooding of the UK (and the rest of Europe) with non-Europeans.

“They” are a menace to any country that harbours them.

So even beyond the area some designate as a “Greater Israel”…

Maybe, eventually, the boomerang will return home…

All the same, those helicopters and vehicles will not help Israel much once hypersonic missiles start raining down on Tel Aviv and other places.

Enough to finish off fake Labour completely.

I am with Goodwin and Reform UK on that, but Goodwin, Reform, Tice, Farage, Laurence Fox, Katie Hopkins, “Tommy Robinson”, Toby Young, the “Free Speech Union” etc never mention the main subverters and repressors of free speech in this country— the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby.

See also:

I oppose both Islamism and Jew-Zionism, but it has to be said that, as far as I know, no extreme Muslim types have tried to close down my blog, or have me prosecuted, or have complained to police, professional (Bar) regulators etc about me. The Jews (Zionist Jews, pro-Israel Jews) have, many times. Mainly the small but (((well-funded))) cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], which is run by just a few Jew-Zionists, such as the liar and perjurer Gideon Falter and the liar and one-time serial social media troll —who harassed women online— and whom I call “Slitherman” (the so-called “Head of Investigations and Enforcement” of the “CAA”).

There is only one way to make corrupt and careerist MPs and ministers stop, but I am “not allowed” to say what, whether on this blog or any other platform…

The anti-Russia sanctions have the effect of strengthening the Russian economy and society in most, and the most important, ways.

As for oil, the price continues to rise, overall, and Russia thereby benefits, hugely. Much of the war in Ukraine, on both sides, is being paid for by the consumers of Western Europe.

Quite (only one correction: the untermensch was living in the “Hilton Hotel, Ealing”, according to the court report, not the Hilton, the one in Park Lane; so, apparently, in some Hilton offshoot, not the famous one).

Davey is a joke, the LibDems are a joke party, so naturally the opinion polls think that they will still have 50-100 MPs after the next general election, more than the Cons, and not far short of Labour. They might even end up as the official Opposition in the Commons. A joke party for what, increasingly, is a bad-joke country— and one sliding to civil/social/cultural/racial war.

Starmer’s fantasies and lies shattered by reality

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15117069/thousand-migrants-crossed-Channel-13-boats-Starmers-one-one-scheme-fails-deter.html

Nearly 1,100 illegal migrants arrive in the UK in one DAY as Nigel Farage rages at Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ deal and claims ‘invasion is getting bigger’

[Daily Mail]

Not just “one day”. EVERY day.

While I oppose what the Jews are doing in Israel/Palestine/Gaza/West Bank,I cannot see recognizing as a state a concept that is not a state at present is of any use.

British governments have almost always recognized governments and states de facto, i.e. because a government has actual control of a defined area. Britain has only rarely (mainly during the Second World War, in reference to the “governments-in-exile” of occupied Europe, mostly small groups based in London) recognized governments de jure, i.e. on ideological grounds and despite those “governments” having no or little real power on the ground.

…and put Johnson up against a wall.

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[Beckley Park gardens, Oxfordshire]

Diary Blog, 11 September 2025, including more about Mandelson and the Jewish Israel-lobby milieu in which he has thrived

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[Bishop Rock lighthouse, Isles of Scilly]

More about Mandelson

Regular readers will have seen yesterday’s blog post:

…and a detailed, much older but frequently updated blog post about the milieu of the now-defunct Jew rapist, sex trafficker, and Israeli agent, Epstein, which very long post goes into, inter alia, Epstein’s (and Ghislaine Maxwell’s) relationship with Israeli Intelligence, including both MOSSAD and Aman (Israeli military intelligence):

The Epstein inner milieu was essentially Jewish, though non-Jews with useful intelligence information, influence or “clout” (such as American future or ex-Presidents) were also invited to travel to “Lolita Island” on the “Lolita Express” private jet(s), and to stay on the island.

Some of the Jews invited by Epstein included Peter Mandelson, the famous Jew-Zionist lawyer Alan Dershowitz [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz], and prominent members of the Israeli intelligence apparat.

As to Mandelson, his Jewish family brought him up in Hampstead Garden Suburb, a heavily-Jewish area of North-West London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mandelson.

Most of Mandelson’s close friends and/or contacts seem also to be Jewish, as a few tweets make plain.

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

…and this, showing Mandelson walking amiably in conversation with incredibly wealthy Jewish woman and Labour Friends of Israel member, Margaret Hodge (nee Oppenheimer) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hodge]:

Margaret Hodge, a long-time Labour Party MP, was nominated by Starmer (“Starmer-stein”) for a peerage in the 2024 Dissolution Honours List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Dissolution_Honours#Labour.

Starmer is, of course, also a Labour Friends of Israel member, as is Mandelson.

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I would love to discover whether Starmer, when en famille, and during the Jewish religious dinners which he himself has said happen at his home on certain significant dates (his wife being Jewish, and his children brought up as if fully-Jewish), wears one of those little skullcaps (a “yarmulka“, I believe is the term).

[Starmer in discussions at a Jewish synagogue in London in 2022]

See also: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/watch-as-keir-starmer-discusses-the-meaning-of-rosh-hashanah-in-synagogue/.

…as the late Queen noted to one of her butlers.

Jew-Zionist Israel lobby mafia.

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So there it is. Starmer sacrifices Mandelson because the clamour became too loud.

Surely (?) Starmer will realize, if he has not already realized, that he is really not very good at this prime minister stuff…

Another day, another 1,000-2,000 Kiev-regime troops lost.

I have noted this before on the blog, but I am always amazed to see the development that has taken place in Doha since even my second visit there in 2008, let alone my first in 2001.

An ignorant bimbo and/or “puppet on a stick”. Her opinions are valueless.

All true, albeit an incomplete picture.

One factor alone: a couple of days ago, the first “unescorted” migrant-invader boat for about 2 years came to UK shores. In other words, every day, give or take, for the past 2 years, the migrant-invader untermenschen have been “escorted” to the UK by the Royal Navy, Border Force (farce?) or the (captured by traitors) RNLI’s vessels. Or, to put it another way, the invaders have been ferried here. Google “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan”…

Translates to a Commons with about 445 Reform UK MPs, 71 Lab, 48 LibDem, 41 SNP, 14 Con, 7 Green (etc).

Who would ever have thought it? Not only the Reform upsurge, but a mere 14 Con Party MPs in the Commons, only seven more than the Green Party, and scarcely more than a quarter of the LibDem contingent.

Also, Labour projected to be on 71, having won or retained 412 MPs only just over a year ago, in 2024.

What makes recent polls even more remarkable is that Reform has climbed so high despite most people polled residing little trust in Farage, Reform’s leader (and I dare say that Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, and a total doormat for the Jewish lobby and Israel, would poll even lower, assuming that the public generally are even aware of his existence).

Imagine where an upsurge-party could be if it had a leadership cadre in which the public could reside trust!

The main two System parties have been binned by the British public already. They are running on empty (and their 2024 election results).

All too close to some human behaviour. I recall that Lenin had a statuette of a monkey holding a small human skull on his desk, supposedly a gift from the Jewish business exploiter, Armand Hammer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer]

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Cut off financial and military aid.

The Jewish “leader” of the misnamed “Green Party”, who thinks that a million migrant-invaders per year is “not a huge number” (not just the rubber-boat invaders —50,000-200,000 a year— but also the “legal” migrants).

It is easy to say that the open-borders Greens are just loonies that have no traction, but those loonies are currently polling at 12% in some polls. That is almost as high as the current polling of the “Conservatives” and the LibDems (both around 15% in some polls; in others the LibDems are on 12%, Cons 15%).

Of course, the Green Party is mainly default voting for some disenchanted former Labour Party voters. They are unlikely to poll, in a general election, as high as 12% (6.39% at GE 2024), but it is disturbing that so many people are willing to accept such rose-tinted socio-political fantasies as having any reality.

The fact is that the legal framework around “asylum” is totally outdated. It was never meant to apply in a world which is in such chaos that maybe 10% of the entire population of the planet, i.e. 800 Million persons, might plausibly have a “well-founded fear of persecution“…

One of the unexpected (?) detriments of the disastrous ending of the Second World War, which led to premature decolonization etc.

You do not have to be a psychiatrist to see that that person is a total lunatic, whether guilty of the recent shooting or not.

Finally“?!…

Well, Starmer can only be pushed out by his own MPs, unless he resigns.

In any event, Labour is toast whichever clown may replace Starmer-stein. Labourites can take comfort in the undoubted fact that the Con Party is even more “toast” than Labour.

I cannot now remember how much my First Class monthly season ticket Brockenhurst-London Waterloo cost when I used that line near-daily in 1999 and then again in 2001, but it seemed extortionate, and for a not very reliable service. I just looked up, out of curiosity, what it would cost this month. £1,400 for the month. Nein danke!

A half-caste who cannot even express himself in the English language.

Oxford University, like the rest of the UK, is sliding very fast now.

Incidentally, the Oxford Union elections brought forth the following names:

The full breakdown of results is as follows:

President-elect: George Abaraonye

Librarian-elect: Brayden Lee

Treasurer-elect: Matthew Chiu

Secretary: Samy Medjdoub

The six candidates elected to the Standing Committee are Arwa Hanin Elrayess, Liza Barkova, Prajwal Pandey, Daniel Eldridge, Katie Pannick, and Catherine Xu. Victor Marroquin-Merino was the runner-up. 

The eleven candidates elected to the Secretary’s Committee are Vijay Pathak, Will Lawson, Milo Donovan, Sara Hughes, Qasim Ahmad, Zahra Saeed, Dheeraj K. Singh, Catherine Kola-Balogun, Trishaad Surty, Oliver Douglas, and Oliver Green.”

[The Oxford Student]

Not only few obviously English/British names, but few that are even wider European. Sign of the times.

Had the Arabs inter se, and Iranians, not been very divided, very inefficient, and very corrupt, “Israel” would not have lasted a tenth of the time (77 years) it has.

Our animal friends.

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[photomontage, Hitler, and Unity Mitford]

Update, 14 September 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/jeffrey-epstein-emails-wealth

“Jeffrey Epstein was a very wealthy man, but exactly how wealthy and where that money came from remains shrouded in mystery.

Newly unearthed emails last week shone light on Epstein’s role as freelance client development officer, acting as a channel between political figures and business titans, greasing up the former with lifestyles they could not afford and the latter with avenues of political influence.

the questions about the source of Epstein’s wealth have never been fully resolved. He was worth nearly $600m at his death, thanks mostly to two wealthy billionaire clients – Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner and, later, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black – as well as Johnson & Johnson heiress Elizabeth “Libet” Johnson, sister of former US ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson.

Between his collection of lavish homes in New York, Palm Beach and Paris, two private Caribbean islands, two jets and helicopter, Epstein held nearly $380m in cash and investments, according to his estate.

That wealth arrived suddenly. According to associates, until the end of the 90s, Epstein was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side close to the river. It was only when Maxwell arrived from London that his lifestyle was dramatically elevated.

Epstein moved to a townhouse on 68th Street and later to a 28,000-sq-ft mansion on 71st Street, later transferred to him by Wexner in 2011.

Steven Hoffenberg, a former business partner of Epstein convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, claimed that Maxwell’s father, disgraced press baron Robert Maxwell, introduced his daughter to Epstein in the late 1980s.

[Guardian]

Diary Blog, 4 July 2025, including brief discussion about the British Army and the (non-existent) “Russian threat”. Also, Matt Goodwin as craven vis-a-vis Israel and the Jewish lobby

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I notice that the lady is wearing the insignia of a full general. This is her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Nesmith.

Realistically, one can see what is going on here. The Army wants to tick the “we’re rough and ready, if need be” box for benefit of those MPs (and the general public) rather than say the truth, i.e. “we have only a few tens of thousands of soldiers, maybe 70,000 at most, and only a few thousand of those are really battle-ready in any sense“…

Another truthful response might be “in any real war between Russia and NATO forces, much of Europe will become a devastated and irradiated wasteland, and the UK would probably be the worst-hit of all, with its US air bases and the Trident submarine pens in Scotland” (submarine pens do exist in Western France as well, though fully under French command).

In reality, the UK is only a major player in that deadly game because it is an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” for the US forces. Why are our treacherous NWO/ZOG governments still playing that 1940s-1980s Cold War game, and why are they pretending that “we” can fight Russia (in any way at all)? Indeed, why are they still pretending that “we” might “have to” fight Russia anyway, when Russia has no interest in invading Western Europe, Central Europe, or even (most of) Eastern Europe?

Travelogue— Moscow and other cities

Again, an absurd title/subtitle, but the video itself is interesting. As previously noted on the blog, either I missed out on my own visits (in 1993 and 2007) or Moscow is a very different city these days! I think both, really, but probably more the latter.

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That Sebastian Salek individual is typical of what Labour now is: Labour supporters are now mainly non-European, and many of the more active are either involved in low-level journalism/public relations or some kind of publicly-funded activity.

Listen to that outright liar. Unbelievable (literally…).

Look at Goodwin’s face! The “cuck” is terrified of even slightly “offending” the Jew-Zionist lobby and its Israeli hub.

I agree with much of that which Goodwin has been saying in recent months. I agree with much, not all, of Reform UK’s views. However, they have several very weak points in their armour. The worst is, of course, this pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby viewpoint, which may be partly sincerely-held (though, if so, it does not say much for Goodwin’s, Farage’s, or Tice’s perspicacity), but is evidently partly in place because Goodwin/Farage/Tice/Reform are afraid of being “cancelled” on TV, radio, newspapers, social media etc by the power and influence of the Jewish/Israeli lobby. Craven.

Israel is no “ally” of the UK. Its founders hanged, shot and blew up British soldiers and civilians even during the 1939-45 war against the German Reich, terrorism that intensified after that war’s end.

[British Army sergeants hanged by Jews in Palestine]

These are the aliens Goodwin calls “allies”…

There are other aspects to Reform UK policy which may put off large numbers of voters, particularly its pseudo-“libertarian” socio-economics, but also the fact that Reform will not deport “legal” non-European migrant-invaders, only (they say) the “illegals”. I doubt whether they will even do that on a large scale, but they say they will…

Reform’s only useful function, in my view, is to break up the existing System “three main parties” scam. Once that is achieved, we’ll see.

I agree, largely, with this, though:

The voters have, most of them, already turned away from both Lab and Con, though the LibDems, as traditional default alternative or dustbin have managed to entice many former Con voters, and many young voters.

The flaws in the Reform policy offering may not much affect the overall result, because people are thoroughly sick of Lab and Con and want things to start to work properly again, putting it at most basic. Lab and Con both have to be destroyed; Reform is the only immediate way to do that.

Perhaps so, but what about the Jew-Zionist-Israel lobby, which suborns police and CPS, and makes false, lying, and indeed perjuring, allegations and accusations to police, professional regulators, the mass media etc under the anti-“antisemitism” banner?

In the UK, the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby is the main danger to free speech and general freedom of expression.

Hello, Goodwin…are you listening? (I doubt it).

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Diary Blog, 1 July 2025

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Yes to more English/British children, but no to more children from non-whites resident in the UK.

Even that does not tell the whole story, because quite a high proportion of the grandmothers, or grandfathers, or both, of the remaining 66% are in fact also non-white, non-European.

About 1,600 babies are born daily in the UK. Only about 400 of those are actually English/British, or fully English/British.

8 out of 10 of those countries are very backward, and so are most of the people. As for “Romanians“, I would be prepared to bet that most, the vast majority, are not real Romanians at all but Roma Gypsies.

Refer to earlier comment. The real figure, i.e. children born to wholly or partly non-white English/British parents and grandparents is nearer to 70% now.

Israeli Jews have been and still are killing tens of thousands of defenceless Arab Palestinian children. Fact.

Eventually, though, there will be a big bang. Then, no Tel Aviv…

In Central London. Amazing.

USG” = “U.S. Government”. As for Russia’s economy “starting to creak”, has Steele taken a look closer to home recently? UK, EU states etc…

Steele [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele] was an officer of SIS/MI6 1987-2009 who, in more recent times, has worked in the private sector, and has been involved, inter alia, in preparing “black propaganda” dossiers of doubtful veracity targeting Trump and others, and Russian interests generally. He cannot now conveniently travel in either Russia or the USA, and is believed to live and/or have property in Surrey, south-west of London.

According to Wikipedia etc, Steele acted as a paid FBI source between 2014-2016, and was paid around USD $100,000 in toto.

In my opinion, probably not at all reliable.

As an outsider, not involved in secret activities, I have always been sceptical of the value of the SIS/MI6 apparat. I still am. Where are the successes? (and it is no answer to reply that they have to be kept secret).

Looking at Steele’s tweet, I might bat back at him the same question, but about his own activity— cui bono?

I have just looked at a few recent tweets by Steele. He is, it seems to me, in danger of becoming obsessed by the idea of Trump as Russian secret (or not-so-secret) agent.

Reminiscent of those SIS/MI6 and MI5 oddities of the 1960s and 1970s (Peter Wright, Stephen de Mowbray etc) who were convinced that the D-G of MI5, Roger Hollis, and others (including the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson) were Soviet agents: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wright_(MI5_officer); and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_de_Mowbray; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hollis.

Using Electoral Calculus, that would suggest Reform 276 MPs, Labour 199, LibDem 73, Cons 47, SNP 24. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

Reform has probably fallen back a bit by reason of two factors: its kneejerk pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby pronouncements, and the perception (seen in comments by pro-Reform Matt Goodwin, as well in some by Tice etc) that Reform wants to radically cut back the Welfare State.

As for the Conservative Party, probably damaged beyond repair now. 14 years of terrible misgovernment in almost all if not all areas, and now “led” by hopeless Nigerian woman Kemi Badenoch.

[“I loathe disability cuts full-stop from any party, what an absolute disgrace. But let’s be quite clear, Tories are opposing them BECAUSE THEY DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH. That is an appalling position to adopt, unpopular & mad, look at how the public’s reacted to Labour’s plans! I’d almost respect that despicable position more if they at least backed Labour’s intention to bring welfare bills down, it looks more principled – if you believe in disability cuts which dear lord I don’t. So Labour want to bring in horrific cuts, Tories (and Reform) want deeper cuts but Tories will oppose even though they agree with the mission but think it’s underpowered. Beyond unprincipled. The vote tonight reveals an all-round shitshow of cruelty, cynicism and performative opposition. No wonder voters despair.“]

The only thing that makes System MPs afraid is […COMMENT REDACTED because the UK no longer has much freedom of speech…].

That is because Starmer-stein and his cabal are not really a Labour government, except in terms of label; they are a Labour Friends of Israel regime. Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, all of that rubbish lot.

High Peak is an unfortunate constituency. First they had Conservative Friends of Israel MP Robert Largan (2017-2024), now they have Labour Friends of Israel MP Jon Pearce (2024-). The difference is mainly the party label.

What price “democracy” when, whomsoever you vote for, you get a Friends of Israel drone?

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What a nice idea…

More seriously, Basic Income is the way forward. Akin to Pension (Guarantee) Credit, but rolled out to every (real) English/British citizen (i.e. not fuzzie-wuzzies straight off the boats).

95% or more of the vulgarly-named “Jobcentres” could be shut down, 99.99% of the ludicrously-named “job coaches” etc (most of whom are probably otherwise unemployable themselves) could be dismissed; huge numbers of buildings could be shut down, saving billions.

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Liz Kendall. Stephen Timms. The two most immediately guilty individuals, followed by Rachel Reeves, Starmer-stein, and then all the MPs who vote for these evil disability cuts.

Quite. It is the hypocrisy emanating not only from Liz Kendall etc but also from the evil Conservative Party MPs such as Ian Dunce Duncan Smith that is so nauseating.

Also, where is the understanding about how automation, computers, now AI too, already affect and will increasingly affect employment? Marx (arguably) started the ball rolling on that (discussion of the effects), and that was 150 years ago.

Who needs prisons, when walls and squads are available?

Jon Trickett, born in 1950, comes from an era when the Labour Party, for all its flaws, still had weight and at least some integrity. That was then…

Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Starmer-stein, Timms. Others. All guilty. I am “not allowed” (in our “free country”) to say what I think should happen to them, but I know what I think, and I think a lot of other people are thinking the same…

[“Today, CAA has written to @Glastonbury demanding answers over the weekend’s events and noting that the Festival organisers may have breached the conditions of their licence by platforming certain acts despite warnings not to do so. The letter is also being shared with @SomersetCouncil, the licensing authority. We have given Glastonbury fourteen days to respond, and, subject to their answers and engagement, we will consider further legal steps. Glastonbury this year allowed itself to become even more of a hate-fest than ever before. That ends now. Or Glastonbury Festival does.”]

“They” are completely out of control, and themselves want the power to control, “monitor”, censor, and close down anyone and anything they decide is “anti-Semitic”.

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Diary Blog, 18 June 2025, including swift bricks, Israeli war crimes, Iran/Israel, and why Russia is now winning in several ways

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Horrifying

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14822053/MPs-vote-decriminalise-abortion-law-change.html

MPs have voted in favour of measures to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancies in the biggest change to the law on reproductive rights for half a century.

Women will no longer face prosecution for aborting their own baby for any reason and at any stage up to birth under the proposed legislation, which was backed by 379 votes to 137 on Tuesday night.”

[Daily Mail]

Horrifying. A form of infanticide or even murder, in lay terms. The deliberate killing of a completely viable foetus (which after all only means unborn baby). When you consider that it is commonplace for babies to be born days or even weeks prematurely, and then go on to thrive, this proposed law, which will obviously become law now, decriminalizes the killing of any unborn child, even if done only hours, minutes, seconds even, before actual birth, and for any reason whatsoever, so long as the expectant mother does the killing. Truly horrifying.

Not sure whether the new law will validate that, exactly, because the killing will (from what I have read, anyway) have to be by the mother to escape legal sanction.

More Israeli war crimes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/dozens-killed-in-gaza-waiting-for-food-trucks-says-health-ministry

[“Witnesses have described scenes like “a horror movie” in Gaza after Israeli forces fired towards a crowd waiting for trucks loaded with flour near Khan Younis, on one of the bloodiest days for weeks in the devastated territory.

At least 51 Palestinians were reported to have been killed and hundreds more wounded in the southern city. People at the scene and doctors described seeing injured and dead with wounds typical of those caused by artillery or tank fire. Unverified video shared on social media showed about a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street.

Multiple other incidents of violence involving crowds of desperate Palestinians trying to get food were reported on Tuesday.

The Israeli military acknowledged firing in the area of the crowd in Khan Younis and said it was looking into the incident.

The IDF said it was aware of reports of casualties “from IDF fire.”

[Guardian]

What the Israeli Jews in uniform do is not so much a copy of what the German SS are alleged to have done in WW2 (there are no similar recorded instances, in fact) but a kind of horrific and ahistorical parody of what the Jews (Israeli and other) claim the SS were like.

Yet more Israeli war crimes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/16/doctors-describe-carnage-iran-hospitals-israel-strikes

The stream of wounded in Imam Khomeini hospital in Tehran had been steady since Friday. On Sunday evening it became a flood. A renewed wave of Israeli strikes on Iran’s capital overwhelmed the hospital’s emergency unit, turning it into what one doctor described as a “bloodbath”.

“It was a bloodbath. We were overwhelmed by chaos and the screams of grieving family members. Dozens upon dozens of people with life-threatening injuries, minor wounds and even bodies were brought in,” a doctor at the emergency unit of the hospital told the Guardian on Monday under condition of anonymity.

As fighting between Israel and Iran entered its fourth day, Iranian hospitals were receiving a surge of wounded people, overwhelming medical facilities and exhausted personnel. Medical staff described scenes of bloody chaos and an influx of injured people that has only seemed to grow as Israeli strikes increased in intensity.

I’ve seen toddlers, teenagers, adults and the elderly alike. Profusely bleeding mothers were rushing in with their children injured by shrapnel,” the doctor said, adding that some parents did not realise they themselves were injured until they put their children down.

[Guardian]

So…Israeli Jews killing children and others from the air. Of course, the Jews say that noticing such facts about their behaviour constitutes a so-called “blood libel”

Swifts

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/17/swifts-decline-uk-birds-swift-bricks

Swifts’ decline: how can Britons help these remarkable birds?

Campaigners are calling for compulsory ‘swift bricks’ in new homes to provide nesting sites.

What are swifts and why are they in trouble?

The swift (Apus apus) is an acrobatic aerial bird, a remarkable sprinter and endurance flyer that rarely touches the ground. When these sickle-winged birds do come down – after several years in perpetual flight, even sleeping midair – it is to nest in the eaves of roofs across Europe after spending winters in sub-Saharan Africa, migrating 7,000 miles (11,000km) every year. They are celebrated by nature lovers, artists and poets as they race through city skies on long summer evenings, filling the air with their screaming calls.

The fastest bird in level flight (top speed: 69mph/111kph), they feed on airborne insects. Swifts are in trouble because of steep declines in insects, but also because they are losing traditional nesting sites. Swifts once nested in caves and hollow trees but moved into buildings hundreds of years ago. Modern insulation, particularly in roofs, removes the crevices and cavities where they have nested for centuries.

What are the prospects for swifts?

Grim. Swift populations in Britain slumped by 66% between 1995 and 2022 and have continued a rapid downward trend. Since the last count of 59,000 breeding pairs, the population this summer is set to be just 40,000 pairs. In five years’ time there could be fewer than 25,000, unless action is taken.

A swift brick is a hollow brick that slots into the brickwork of new or old homes, providing a cavity where swifts can nest. The bricks have also been found to help other cavity-nesting birds, including the rapidly declining red-listed house martin, house sparrow and starling. Other species including blue tits, great tits, nuthatches and wrens will also nest in the bricks.

Swift bricks are made by brick manufacturers large and small, and typically cost about £35. There is a British standard for them and some developers are already fitting them to new homes.

[Guardian]

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/wild-birds-uk-environmental-laws

Reform UK backs plan to put swift bricks in every new home in England

[Guardian]

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The Israelis are not like us. They are alien. Their supporters in the UK should be deported and/or otherwise punished.

The Israelis claim, for foreign consumption, that Israel does not practise a form of apartheid, but it obviously does. This is only one of many examples.

Trump shows every sign of reverting to what he was 9 years ago— a squawking parrot surrounded on all sides by a phalanx of Jews.

Well, we shall soon know.

Had the Arabs (inter se) and Iranians not been so divided over the past 80 years, Israel would not now exist. Now look: one by one, the Israelis, via their influence over Washington, London, Paris, have had taken down for them all their surrounding potential enemies— Lebanon (invaded, part-occupied), Jordan (suborned), the Gulf Arabs and Saudis (suborned), Egypt (defeated and then suborned), Libya, Iraq, Syria etc. Only Iran and Yemen are left standing.

Even the way things are in the UK now, hard to believe that that is the “Deputy Prime Minister”.

Good news, if true, though possibly leaked by Israel and designed to push Trump into getting directly involved in bombing Iran.

“They” are manipulating the entire Western world.

(make that “40 years on…”)

You can never believe a word “they” say.

[“Official statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The eleventh wave of the proud Operation True Promise 3, using the first generation Fatah missiles, marks the beginning of the end of the mythical air defense of the Zionist army, the confusion and self-destruction of the Zionist villains. We congratulate you, commanders and loyal fighters of the IRGC Aerospace Force. Fattah’s powerful and maneuverable missiles, having penetrated the anti-missile shield tonight, repeatedly shook the shelters of the Zionist cowards and conveyed a message of Iranian strength to Tel Aviv’s military ally, which lives in illusions and empty dreams. Today’s missile strike showed that we have complete control over the skies over the occupied territories, and their residents are completely defenseless against Iranian missile attacks.“]

Russia could, in theory, tell the United States that, should the US bomb Iran, Russia will bomb or rocket Israel. That would stalemate the situation, and stop the Americans from attacking Iran. It might also trigger WW3, though, and make “Armageddon” reality, both in Israel/Palestine and elsewhere.

However, Putin will not want to get Russia directly involved.

So far, Russia is winning all ways: the oil price is rocketing, gold is rocketing too, and Russia is one of the largest producer-states of both.

Also, Trump has apparently signalled to Zelensky and the Kiev regime that American military aid hitherto given to Kiev will be cut back, and priority given to the Middle East. That, as Russian forces press forward on all relevant sectors of the overall front.

In short, Putin is winning the geopolitical chess game.

Typical American ignorance. That cretin, Ted Cruz, is a U.S. Senator, and tipped by some as a potential U.S. President. It also just goes to show that having a load of degrees and endorsements does not mean that someone is really educated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Foreign_affairs.

Just another Israel/Jewish lobby puppet, of course.

You can see that Ted Cruz is a useless waste of space by just looking at him, or listening to him for a minute or two.

Here comes the sandman to send you to bed, here comes the chopper to chop off your headone, two, three…chop.” [traditional English children’s bedtime words]

On that basis, Reform 326 MPs (and a bare majority), Lab 129, Con 76, LibDem 50, SNP 39.

Different from other recent polls in that the Cons have edged ahead of Labour in terms of popular vote, though not enough to go ahead in terms of Commons seats; however, the Cons are seen there as the third-biggest party in the Commons, not, as in most other recent polls, fifth-placed. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/anonymous-zoomer-what-happens-when

Ah…

No comment necessary.

He says it with a straight face. Do “they” ever tell the truth?

If it is true that Israel will run out of ground to air missiles within a week, and if it is also true that Iran still has thousands of missiles of various types, then Tel Aviv really will soon start to look like flattened Gaza as those Iranian missiles rain down, unimpeded, onto their targets.

Stray thought

Amusing to see rubbish newspapers in the UK, such as the Daily Mirror, talking about what occupations might be exempt from conscription if WW3 were to start! In the nuclear age, when immensely powerful missiles can reach UK targets in minutes (I am told, maybe 8 minutes) from launch sites thousands of miles away…

I wonder how many people actually read and believe all this 1940-cosplay?

The fact remains that, in any continental-level war, with Russia on one side, and NATO states on the other, the UK would quite soon be a charred and irradiated giant bombsite. In that terrible scenario, the Daily Mirror, the other “lying Press” outlets, and warmongers such as Tobias Ellwood, would be among the first to go (whether with a bang or a whimper).

Alternative idea: Britain enters into loose alliance with Russia, leaves NATO, kicks the EU hierarchy to the kerb (while maintaining correct relations with all European powers and peoples), and stands opposed to fanatical Jewish Zionism, extreme Islamism, and all other negative influences in the world.

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Iran is defending itself. Israel is the aggressor. Israel attacked without declaration of war and without any warning, and Israel drew first blood.

Whether guilty or not, they are probably not having a good day. I have no idea how efficient Iranian security may be; in the days of the Shah, SAVAK was feared, and its reach extended well beyond Iran itself.

SAVAK’s last three chiefs all met similar ends in the same year, 1979, after the fundamentalist clerics seized power in Iran: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK.

I think that, if a particular people has been expelled from dozens, indeed hundreds, of states and territories over the centuries, it is legitimate to ask why. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsions_and_exoduses_of_Jews.

[“Gideon Lifi, Haaretz journalist:

Everything is paralyzed. Everything is at a standstill. The economy is at a standstill, you can’t live like this. I don’t think Israeli society will be able to tolerate this situation for long.

We feel safe in public shelters, but not everyone has access to these shelters. There are many people who have no shelter from danger.

At first, we were all happy because we were witnessing important achievements in Tehran. But everything changed quickly because the price we had to pay became high, and I fear that this price and cost we are paying will be much higher.

I don’t think Israeli society can tolerate this situation for weeks or a whole month or years. The airports are closed. There is no way in or out. Life here is not easy.”]

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There are still plenty of people around who do not understand that Labour, as understood during almost all of the 20thC, ceased to exist during the 1990s, which was why it was called “New Labour” for a while. A different party supplanted 90% of what had been Labour.

That process, connected to the overall collapse of socialism after 1989, has continued in the UK to the extent that Starmer, or Starmer-stein, now sounds far more like Conservative Party leader than a Labour one. Why is that? Because he is more like one…

Diary Blog, 6 June 2025, including the persecution of Dr. David Miller and comedian Reginald D. Hunter by Jew-Zionists, and a few thoughts about Richard Tice and Reform UK

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[Kennet and Avon Canal, England]

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I agree.

Again, I agree. See also:

[“The head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Istanbul, Vladimir Medinsky, informed the president about the Ukrainian side’s attempt to extort funds for holding the next round of negotiations. “Off camera, the Ukrainians have announced that they have no plans to meet again unless they receive a significant amount of money for it. This was a request from their leader — Zelensky.”“]

There is something really quite absurd about the supposedly senior members of the shambolic, corrupt, and brutal “government” of this non-state or failed state making pronouncements of that sort. After all, without EU, UK, and US aid (governmental, NGO, private charitable) , the Kiev regime would not only not be able to continue the war, but would be unable to function at all beyond a very basic level.

I do not have enough information on the subject to know whether 800 missiles could overwhelm the Israeli “Iron Dome” anti-missile system; they themselves may even be only ground-to-air defensive missiles. Interesting development, though.

Kiev.

Tice, of course, is little more than a dissident and pseudo-libertarian “conservative”, scarcely nationalist at all, and certainly very pro-Jew-Zionist, pro-Israel.

The weakness of Reform UK is that it is not a proper social-national party.

Once you start kow-towing to the Jewish-Zionist lobby and Israel, and once you start saying that you are against some immigration (“illegal”) but not much against other immigration (“legal” or “lawful”), and once you say that the racial-cultural composition of the UK is not something you need to be worried about (or do anything about), and once some of your party officers and election candidates are non-European, you may as well surrender to the System, because you have become just another System party.

That is, in fact, more or less where Reform is, but its existence moves the Overton Window, it is at present the only serious game in town and, if it can destroy or mortally wound the main System parties (as is now happening), then it is doing its job, as far as I am concerned.

Later, a real social-national movement can arise.

Listen to what Tice says in that interview. He obfuscates, fails to address the question, blows out some near-meaningless verbiage about the UK being “a Christian nation“, then finishes up with the pathetic “let’s see what happens…”! That is not an answer to the migration-invasion of Britain and the parallel “invasion by births”, which is turning a white European country into a dystopian multiracial chaos-in-the-making.

Does Tice really think that 38 years is a very long time? A would-be political leader should be thinking in terms of hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of years, not just this year, the next year, or a few years down the line.

The very fact that our European society listens, to some extent, to the ignorant rants of non-Europeans hostile to our culture and civilization merely points out how decadent it has become.

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

https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/who-is-narinder-kaur-and-her-link-to-laurence-fox/

…until, or unless, militant Islam migrates and/or breeds its way into even greater prominence in the UK. Then, you will have no choice…

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Amazing. Like something from a James Bond film.

“TCC” is the military recruitment (press-ganging) org of the Kiev regime.

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Diary Blog, 17 March 2025

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[German 16th Century, Three Couples in a Circle Dance, c. 1515, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection]

Talking point

She has a point.

As for Goodwin, I recently flagged the possibility, no more, that he might be on the following trajectory— win a by-election (Runcorn & Helsby?) as a Reform UK candidate, take over from Farage the leadership of Reform (with Farage’s support), and then (once Reform has become the largest party in the Commons after the next general election ) become Prime Minister.

It might just happen.

However, as that tweeter “Serena Brown” notes, either the UK becomes again a homogenous society, or it does not. There would be no point in a Reform UK government if it were unwilling to take the steps necessary.

This is not merely about immigration, and certainly not only about that relatively small part of immigration which comes in via the infamous “small boats”. It is about the non-whites already here, who are breeding much faster than the English/British, who themselves are not even reproducing their own numbers.

When we see Reform, we notice that it is ideologically in hock to the Jew-Zionist lobby, and pathetically adherent to Israel and Israeli interests.

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I have blogged previously about the bad joke that is Shabana Mahmood as “Lord Chancellor” and Secretary of State for Justice— a Pakistani woman whose total legal experience has been a 12-month Bar pupillage (decades ago), followed by a year as a salaried “gopher” at a firm of solicitors. Use the search box on the blog to find out more.

Starmer-stein is not a Labour prime minister (even of the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown type); he is a Labour Friends of Israel prime minister, and that applies, mutatis mutandis, to virtually his entire Cabinet.

Starmer-stein and his Cabinet should face real resistance from the British people.

Meanwhile, Starmer-stein continues to try to play the “world statesman” and would-be war leader, and looks ever-more pathetic as he makes that attempt.

When simply noting the totally obvious sounds radical…

That influx of non-white doctors has another consequence: by reason of the high pay received by doctors in the UK, any offspring are automatically given a better life-chance than most white English/British children. The knock-on result is that more non-whites are going to be placed into the higher socio-economic groups in the UK, thus further weakening our civilized European culture and society.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan; https://www.amazon.com.be/-/nl/Richard-Coudenhove-Kalergi/dp/1913057097.

Exactly. Reform is the last hope of many, but it is also the last chance for the System itself to survive. If Reform is squashed or disappears, we are looking at quite likely civil war, or social war, and the national revolution, down the line. However, if Reform manages to be either the largest or second-largest party after 2028 or 2029, or even in government with a Commons majority, but then fails to take the steps necessary, we shall also be looking at not-unlikely civil/social war.

We must not forget that the Jew-Zionist element is embedded in Reform. One only has to look at the pronouncements of Farage, Tice, and now Goodwin.

Still, at present, Reform UK is the only game in town:

Hopefully, that little bully will be found and prosecuted, but of course his punishment, if any, will be slight, in the present society.

When the law ceases to be respected, or enforced (by reason of weak and/or politicized police, prosecutors, courts), such lawlessness leads, in the end, to the public taking the law into their own hands, and meting out more condign punishment to evildoers.

Not for nothing has “the Bailey” (Central Criminal Court, London) the following inscription on its facade: Punish the evildoer, and protect the children of the poor

I agree, but it may be that Reform has to succeed but then crash and burn before a social-national movement (of any type) can arise.

It will be recalled how warmly Starmer-stein welcomed Farage into the chamber of the House of Commons for the first time.

Russian forces continue to advance on all fronts.

Former MP, member of the House of Lords, Conservative Party member. Quarter-Indian. Scribbles for Daily Telegraph.

Who makes up stupid rules like that anyway? Small-minded people who think that the natural world is not connected with humanity. Glad that those BBC people broke the “rules” laid down.

I often break rules, and feel good about doing so.

…and cretins of that sort (Mark Field, Liz Truss etc) purport to have the right (and ability) to rule over us. Wall. Squad. End.

My question is whether Goodwin himself is going to be the candidate…

If so, the date of the by-election will soon be set, maybe even tomorrow.

The government says it wants to make significant savings on welfare payments to the disabled and help the disabled into work. The point, say all ministers – led Sir Keir Starmer – is not to harm the disabled, but to free them from a life of dependency. That, they claim, is why this is a truly “Labour” reform — and not just brutal cuts engineered by Rachel Reeves because she needs billions in savings so as not to breach arbitrary, self-imposed fiscal rules on the assessment date of 26 March. Is any of this plausible?

The first thing to say is the point of fiscal rules should be to help focus minds in government about how best to share scarce resources between different important resources. They should not set hard deadlines for making decisions with potentially profound consequences for the lives of millions of people.

We’ve already seen an example of the political dangers of trying to rush through changes to personal independence payments (PIP) and the health related elements of universal credit – because one element that was particularly upsetting to Labour MPs has already been dropped, namely a one year freeze on PIP payments.

But as my colleague Anushka Asthana has been exclusively disclosing for the last ten days, this was only one part of the welfare reform package. The other elements were to restrict entitlement to personal independence payments, while cutting the health-related universal credit payments and recycling those UC savings into an increase in the standard rate of UC. You can see in this the simple story and perhaps simplistic story about welfare payments to the disabled that the government believes and is trying to tell.

First, that hundreds of thousands of people receive cash to help with their living and mobility costs, but don’t “deserve” it.

Second, that the structure of UC payments provides too great an incentive to disabled people to sign themselves off work to get the health-related benefits top up.

Starmer will doubtless take comfort from the fact that – according to polling by the Good Growth Foundation – 60% believe the system provides too much support to people who don’t want to work and 39% think that it’s too easy for people to get benefits who don’t need them. But popular belief does not make it true. And before going further into the nitty gritty, it is worth doing a quick economic reality check. It is a fact that the proportion of British people in employment has fallen since Covid and, unlike many other rich economies, has not recovered to 2019 levels. But the proportion of British people who are working remains high by international standards. According to the OECD, in the third quarter of 2023 the UK ranked fifth in the world, with an employment rate of 74.9%, well ahead of the US for example, and behind only Iceland, the Netherlands, Japan and Germany

Even if it is a laudible ambition to encourage more people into work. The UK’s is not an economy whose failure is that too few people are working. The grotesque failure of the British economy is hardly a mystery.

It is that living standards for those in work have barely increased for more than 15 years and too many of those in work receive too little to pay even for food, energy and other essentials.

Pretty much every competitor country whose employment rate has recovered to pre-covid levels has higher productivity and higher wages than the UK. Which might tell you that Britain’s problem is not that its benefit system is skewiff but that it’s the labour market itself that is broken, that remunerated toil in Britain delivers inadequate incentives. And by the way, we don’t have a benefit system in the UK that is remotely generous or lavish by international standards.

Research published only last week by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research showed that we spend less on welfare as a share of GDP than the average for developed nations.

Also when it comes to the so-called replacement rate – what any unemployed person receives as a proportion of earnings from employment – only the unemployed in Australia and the US receive less.

Unemployment payments are significantly higher everywhere else in Europe, for example.

And another thing. As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has shown, standard universal credit does not cover the costs of basics and essentials, for families or single people. “Ah ha!” you may exclaim, especially if you are the PM or chancellor. Surely this proves that there is a unhealthy incentive in the UC system for any claimant to prove that he or she has “limited capacity for work or work related activity” – to be diagnosed as unfit for work – so that their UC entitlements would go (for a single person) from £400 to £823, a month. But is an extra £106 a week the kind of incentive that would persuade a vulnerable person to permanently shut down their availability for work?

And if it were cut and partly offset by a rise in standard universal credit – which is what Starmer plans – would that persuade the vulnerable person to look for jobs?

That doesn’t feel compelling as an argument – especially in a world where most employers are reluctant to employ disabled people, let alone retain them on their books.

So another concern about the timing of these welfare changes is they come well before the findings of an equally important government review, that by former John Lewis boss Charlie Mayfield about how employers can be helped to retain and hire disabled people. Later this week he will publish his “discovery” document, about why employers struggle to keep in employment those who start to feel unwell, especially those suffering from mental ill-health. However Mayfield is still months away from recommendations.

In other words, it feels cart-before-horse to take cash from the disabled before a new support system is in place for employers to keep on their books those who are struggling.

As for the proposal to increase the threshold for those claiming the PIP, this will have an impact both on new claimants and those in receipt who are subject to review. How many disabled people could see their PIP payments reduced or withdrawn altogether?

Very large numbers indeed, according to the Resolution Foundation if it remains the Treasury’s aim to find net savings of up to £6bn by 2029-30. Louise Murphy of the Foundation estimates that more than 600,000 people, most on low incomes, would lose £675 a month on average.

Obviously this is all still hypothetical. Proper judgement awaits publication of the Liz Kendall’s policy paper tomorrow. But a change in entitlement on that magnitude will generate massive anxieties in those who both receive PIP and may need it in future.

None of this is to argue that any government should ignore the forecast that on current trends the cost of PIP is set to rise by £15bn by 2029 or that large numbers of especially young people are being excluded by disability from the world of work too young. It is to suggest that reforms that could reduce benefit bills in the long run will require large expenditure in the short term on mental health provision, skills, rewiring coaching and job search at the DWP, occupational health support for companies and so on.

A rational approach would see the costs of supporting the disabled rise in the short term. It would be an investment programme, not a cuts programme. With the supposedly all-important fiscal assessment looming, we’ll see if that’s what Starmer , Kendall and Reeves unveil. 2/2

[Robert Peston]

A long comment, but important.

For me, the answer to all this a a “basic income” system, whereby all citizens (note, citizens, not any African or Afghan or similar just off the boat) get some modest amount of income regardless of any factor such as contribution, need, or “deservedness”.

That would also save vast amounts by enabling the shutdown of 95% of the DWP bureaucracy.

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[“Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow“]

Diary Blog, 29 July 2024

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Rachel Reeves has no “plan”, just a tick-box idea of “balancing the books”. cf. David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne.

Look at what she herself has decided to do, along with her boss, fellow Labour Friends of Israel member Starmer.

Infrastructure investment slashed, which is the worst-possible choice (though some projects are useless, notably HS2). More money for the subsistence of unwanted migrant-invaders. Pensioners to lose a lifeline. No new hospitals. Yet pay rises of 22.3% (over 2 years) for junior hospital doctors most of whom are useless, and most if not all of whom will be on far higher levels of income within a few years of seniority.

That last reminded me of a major league baseball players’ strike when I lived in the USA over 30 years ago. The strike was bitter and crowned with success eventually. The demand was that all major league baseball players should get $100,000 a year minimum (I suppose you could at least double the value today). Not unreasonable, arguably, though it was several times the average pay of Americans as a whole. The joke was that only 1% of all major league baseball players at that time received pay of less than $100,000 anyway. Most were in the several hundreds of thousands a year, with a substantial minority getting over a million a year.

The “trans” nonsense has become utterly ridiculous. Having said that, women should not be boxing anyway.

Less than a month since GE 2024, and Starmer-Labour is already the “elected” dictatorship I predicted. I say “elected“, of course, because only 4 out of every 12 voters who voted, voted Labour (only 4 out of 20 of all eligible voters— 8 out of 20 did not vote at all).

We are not ruled by “Labour” or “Conservative” labels, but by NWO/ZOG puppets. There is no substantial difference between the “two main parties”.

…and there are “alternative” NWO/ZOG puppets, less important ones, too: “Tommy Robinson”, Reform UK, Farage, Tice etc.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/.

Almost everything is fake and/or utterly screwed in contemporary Britain: Labour, Conservative, “Captain Tom” charity, “Jack Monroe” the “Bootstrap Cook”, SIS, the Foreign Office, the Bar, the Church of England— you name it…

I blogged an assessment of Owen Jones about 5 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/04/a-brief-word-about-owen-jones/.

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What has been absent from comment is the sheer malice of the recent announcement. I see Rachel Reeves as an extremely malicious person, and she will be well aware of the fact that few people aged 65+ vote Labour.

“Zelensky: We will discuss the issue of Ukraine’s borders with the respective countries.

PROMISED TO DEVELOP A “PEACE ESTABLISHMENT PLAN” BY THE END OF NOVEMBER

Kyiv-based political scientist Andrei ZOLOTARYOV believes that Zelensky is “preparing to sell the truce to the Ukrainians as a victory.”

Washington Post: Armed forces of Ukraine exhausted, a critical situation is emerging for the Ukrainian army on the front with elements of “serious chaos”.”

Surely, if the Kiev-regime forces are exhausted, this is the moment for a general advance of Russian armour and infantry across eastern Ukraine, not for a truce, from the Russian point of view?

The US allowed the use of nuclear weapons because of Ukraine The United States may use nuclear weapons because of the desperate situation in Ukraine, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern said in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue works. “The situation in Ukraine now is that the Russians have virtually defeated Ukraine, and so the United States has a choice between a humiliating defeat and perhaps dropping one of these low-yield nuclear weapons,” he said.

If the USA uses nuclear weapons on Russian forces, it can kiss goodbye to the top 50 American cities, including Washington DC, New York, LA, Philadelphia, Houston, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston.

Don’t instigate nuclear war. It could put humanity back thousands of years.

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Diary Blog, 12 July 2024, with more about who really voted for what at GE 2024

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Ippolitov-Ivanov]

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Back in the mid-1980s, I sometimes enjoyed Spitting Image [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image]. The sort of real cutting satire that would simply not be allowed today, much of it. In any case, with the sort of events we now see (eg Biden’s funny but also sad descent into the fog), any similar show today would have to fight hard to compete with what is actually happening in front of our eyes.

True, Reagan was not the most-obviously intelligent world leader, but the satirical treatment of him was deliberately “over the top”; whatever his flaws, he was not in the grip of a dementia-related condition plainly visible whenever he spoke in public.

I have not seen the more recently remade Spitting Image but I doubt that it pokes fun at the kind of non-political targets the 1980s original did, e.g. black “rap” performers. I admit that I am guessing, though. The remake is not broadcast on mainstream TV.

The regime of that evil little bastard has only one main chance— to drag NATO into the war. That might mean a slide into a nuclear confrontation before very long.

If the Kiev regime starts to attack Russian cities far from the front line, the response might be that Ukrainian cities in the western part of Ukraine, west of the Dnieper, might be attacked and even destroyed.

So far, Russia has not launched all-out attack on Kiev, partly because of its role in Russian history, but if major Russian cities start to be bombarded, that may change.

I predicted, a couple of years ago, on the blog, that Russia would start to degrade the electrical production and distribution network across Ukraine. That is now being intensified, and is a far more intelligent way of waging war than the more brutal and harsh —and less effective— choice of attacking directly the homes and neighbourhoods of the Ukrainian civilians.

If the Kiev regime starts to badly damage Russian cities away from the front line —especially Moscow, Petersburg and surrounding territories— the Russian response could be devastating enough to bring NATO into the war on some pretext such as Poland suffering damage. Were that to happen, all of us would be but a step away from a Russia-NATO war, which is being pushed by secret circles within the West. Such a war, which would quite likely go nuclear within weeks, would change Europe and the world forever.

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Incredible, when you think of the historical hardships of the Irish people. Now, unwanted non-European migrant-invaders demand this, that, and the other…

Forget the “Conservative” Party. Social nationalism can provide the right policies and administration.

Starmer-Labour has surprised even me by its evident ineptitude. We are only one week into what looks like being a disastrous 5 years.

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I do not follow football at all, but it seems to me that both domestic and international matches are now, in effect, a situation where people put “national” or team labels on a group of players and say to each other: “my blacks can beat your blacks“.

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Another example of the undemocratic and quasi-dictatorial nature of the Starmer-Labour government. 411 MPs from whom to choose, yet Starmer is appointing ministers at will from outside the Commons, elevating them to the Lords first.

Sophie Corcoran fails to point out that her comment might also apply, absolutely exactly, to the past 14 years of Conservative Party government.

Reform UK, GE 2024, and the Twitter twits

I was just looking at Twitter/X, which is alive today with Twitter-twits attacking Reform UK and, particularly, belittling Reform for, as it were, pretending to be a serious political party when it “only” has 5 MPs.

As recently as June 2024, the LibDems only had 11 MPs, and had only 8 from 2015 until 2017.

The forerunner of the LibDems, the old Liberal Party, at one time the party of government with hundreds of MPs, fell to having only 6 MPs during the 1950s and again in the early 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)#Electoral_performance.

As for the SNP, from its foundation in the early 1930s and until 1970, about 37 years (!), the SNP had no MPs at all; in 1970, the SNP managed to have elected 1 MP. The MP-cadre of the SNP then varied from 2 to (1974 to 1979) 11 MPs in the years 1974 to 2015, but mostly stuck at 2 or 3 MPs until 1997, when the SNP bloc increased its numbers, this time to 6 MPs. When the FPTP tipping-point was reached in 2015, the SNP mushroomed from 6 MPs to 56 (out of 59 Scottish MPs) overnight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.

Apart from those comparisons, the Twitter-twits might like to consider what this blog has been saying for the past week, as have some others (though not enough) even in the msm: Labour did not win by some kind of popular “landslide”, but only in terms of seats conferred by a totally unfit-for-purpose electoral system.

As noted on the blog in past days, at GE 2024 the Conservative Party only got (just over) 1.5x the number/percentage of votes of Reform UK, and even Labour only got (below) 2.5x the Reform UK vote-share.

As put on the blog the other day, out of every 20 eligible voters, only 12 even voted.

In very rough terms, out of that eligible 20 voters, 8 voters abstained, 4 voters voted Lab, 3 voters voted Con, 2 voters voted Reform, 2 voters voted LibDem, and 1 voter voted Green.

Not exactly, and “other parties were available”, but 90.29% of UK voters voted for one of those 5 parties. In England specifically, about 97% of voters voted Lab, Con, Reform, LibDem or Green.

The Twitter-Twits tweeting about Reform UK are mostly Labour supporters who belittle Reform because only 2 out of every 12 voters who voted voted for it, yet only 4 out of 12 (4 out of 20 if you count the abstainers) voted Labour.

I happened to notice one particular Twitter/X account, one “@RobBaron10”, who today (as of 1430) has already managed to put out about 29 Twitter/X “replies”, almost all angrily insulting, and all or almost all completely brainless. I have to say that I am loath to give much credence to someone whose Twitter/X profile says “Retired lecturer in philosophy trying to live a low-impact lifestyle. Despises the far-right and social injustice. Responds in the tone responded to.” Especially when said “retired lecturer in philosophy” thinks that “toe the line” is spelled “tow the line“…

Indeed, looking at the tweets copied below, it may be that “RobBaron10” deserves a place in my updated essay on the links between “antifascists” and/or Zionists, and mental illness: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/

More seriously, if Starmer-Labour MPs and supporters think that the absurd result of GE 2024 gives Starmer the right to impose a “woke”, and also Israel-lobby, tyranny on the people of the UK, he and they are very much mistaken.

Remember those figures— only 4 out of 12 who voted (<34%) voted Labour; only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters (~20%) voted Labour.

American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed with the illegal covert bio weapons laboratory facility’s doing gain of function. Ukraine is the most corruption country in Europe, a money laundering hub, a child trafficking hub and a live organ black market dealing hub. Fuck Ukraine and punk ass Zelensky!

That stupid woman must have the mother and father of all social connection address books…incredible.

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

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Twitter hashtag #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas

Some interesting posts on there.

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Also most railways, most electricity, and most other energy production and distribution.

…and no professional pretend-“offended” nuisances, such as the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal.

All part of the “blacks with everything” mass media cultural cafeteria (non-)”choice”.

…or the jungle.

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That visage puts me in mind of some kind of lizard.

Along with the “gift”, he also sent an accompanying written appeal, in which he called on American politicians to stop supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with weapons and money in order to stop the bloodshed and the escalation of the conflict.

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One of the great American symphonies.