No amount of ‘Barbie’ (spending £40 of stolen money on a hoodie to ape ‘sincerity’), false nostalgia about sweets (for the rage nans), cup-a-soup recipes (for the unlovable) or rotten mouth timeline-cleanses will prevent your arrest for fraud & theft, ‘Jack Monroe’ @BootstrapCook
The Ukrainian army attacked Tokmak with cluster bombs
The Ukrainian army shelled the town of Tokmak in Zaporizhia on three occasions using cluster munitions, announced the acting governor of the Zaporozhye region Evgeniy Balitsky pic.twitter.com/R4spVLpzX8
Judging by the location of the RC-135W and E-8C reconnaissance aircraft, both from the US Air Force, the Pentagon expects some activity in Belarus pic.twitter.com/h4bL8icEk2
In two or three months, there may be no ports left in Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the press center of the Operational Command "South" Natalia Gumenyuk.
According to her, after withdrawing from the grain agreement, Russia seeks to "close Ukraine as a country that can… pic.twitter.com/uESJKLl7n5
The Times: Britain's Defense Ministry sent secret letters to Putin's ally Mali instead of the Pentagon due to a typo
The US Department of Defense has a .mil domain, while Mali has a .ml domain. Apparently, i was lost when sending. The newspaper writes that the sent messages… pic.twitter.com/NXKsLrKP20
All contradictions must be resolved during negotiations , Ukraine refuses to conduct them – Putin
“The conflict is based on the creation of threats to the security of Russia by the United States and NATO, and they refuse to negotiate on ensuring equal security for all, including… pic.twitter.com/Y0olYjn3zF
🇷🇺 Lavrov to journalists: Do not engage in manipulations like the American and European media do
I invite journalists to work responsibly and proactively in an environment where the West does not stop tarnishing the image of Russia. More and more manipulations and fabrications… pic.twitter.com/jsubzLNQM8
Germany delivered 6 Gepard SPAAGs and more than 15,000 ammunition to Ukraine in a week
Berlin also supplied more than 30 reconnaissance drones, more than 2.5 thousand 155 mm smoke projectiles, follows from the updated list of the German government, which publishes weekly data on…
[Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin, 1945]
Naturally, it was tragic that the war or wars of the early/mid 1940s happened. There was right and wrong on both, indeed all, sides. However, that was ~80 years ago, and the Reichstag was destroyed over 78 years ago. There is now no need to trigger another huge war in Europe by arming, and funnelling ammunition and money etc, to the corrupt, brutal, shambolic Kiev regime. Germany should learn the lesson of history here.
Nadine Dorries' local town council writes to her to raise their "concerns and frustration" at the "continuing lack of representation for the people of Mid-Bedfordshire at Westminster". They demand she "immediately vacate" her seat and allow someone else to represent the area. pic.twitter.com/srhnhKcUL9
#NadineDorries I know many of us are constantly saying how this government isn't working. But Nadine Dorries LITERALLY isn't working. She's not doing her job.
She is, however, still taking her wage from the taxpayer.
One of my several problems with expenses cheat and fraudster Nadine Dorries is that she is typical of a great number of MPs in simply being far too stupid, uncultured and generally uneducated to be a legislator of any kind. At least (unlike several other recent “grifters” and sycophants) she has been denied a peerage.
David Baddiel
Fuck off, Baddiel. You never hired a black actor to play a black footballer in your shit "comedy" show. You blacked-up and did it yourself. Terminally irrelevant arsehole. pic.twitter.com/E4zzeeecXr
J. Robert Oppenheimer is famous for developing the atomic bomb, not for being Jewish.
Presumably, if they ever make a film about Jeffrey Epstein or Harvey Weinstein, @Baddiel will insist on their Jewishness being an integral part of the narrative.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) July 28, 2023
I'll say it once and I'll say it again. David Baddiel is about as "intellectual" as the line-up for Channel 5 and his thinly veiled bigotry is bringing him closer to being the UK equivalent of Ben Shapiro (ugh). pic.twitter.com/ii0QJhhycV
— Jack Monaghan #AutisticandProud #Extremist4Love (@JackMonaghan1) July 28, 2023
“Erasure” of Jews? Ha ha.
Oh well, people can dream, I suppose…
In reality, though, whether in TV, on radio, in films, in newspapers, in fact in the msm generally, indeed in UK, US, French (etc) society in general, you can hardly get away from “them”. “They” have certainly not been “erased”, and there is no “erasure” happening, at least that I can see. Au contraire.
Baddiel does not object to Jews or blacks playing non-Jew and non-black roles, including roles of people who actually existed (even Anne Boleyn was played by a black American woman not so long ago, absurdly), but he does object to Jews being played by non-Jews, so long as the said Jews are —rightly or wrongly— considered to be positive characters.
Presumably, Baddiel does not want Jewish theatricals confined to playing Jewish roles.
“They” always want things their way.
As a matter of fact, I have never seen the creators of atomic weapons (almost all of which, in the 1940s and 1950s, were Jews) as being very positive, especially in view of the fact that they wanted to use the weapons not only on Japan but also in Europe, and especially on Germany. That was the original target. Thank God Europe dodged at least that bullet.
Atomic science in the 1940s, 1950s was largely, though not entirely, a preserve of Jews, starting of course, with Einstein.
The benefits of [atomic science] in practice are far outweighed by the negative aspects.
Would it not have been better had [atomic science in practice] never existed? Would it not be better if [atomic energy and weapons] did not exist, or were, in the future, somehow eliminated?
As for blacks playing white Europeans from history, when will a white European actor be playing the part of Nelson Mandela in a TV or film drama? Never, I am presuming…
Gina Miller now. Farage recently, but before both of them were the Patriotic Alternative people— Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Sam Melia, who all had their personal bank accounts shut down, and not by esoteric banks such as Coutts, but by high street names (I think Barclays, Halifax etc). Incidentally, those three were “cancelled” at least a couple of years ago.
This is all a part of a gradual encroachment— the “Great Reset” of Western society by secretive cabals.
Thought for the day…
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This is outrageous. Without banking services, political parties cannot operate. The law needs to be changed immediately!https://t.co/d4HAXnCWDK
“Without banking services, political parties cannot operate“. Indeed, but why does Golding think this is happening? Precisely so that one cabal, or connected cabals, can rule over the UK (and beyond) without much political opposition of any kind. These are initial, tentative experiments in control (just like the “lockdowns” the facemask nonsense etc). To use the usual phrase, “first they came for...”, in this case, Patriotic Alternative.
Probably the only reason nothing has happened to me so far (in terms of banking) is because a. I belong to no party or group, and b. I have little money anyway.
Hopefully, the penny will finally drop with the Left — you need to take a stand against the de-banking of right-of-centre people because if you don’t you’ll be next. https://t.co/9maJTzEiqs
What a massive hypocrite Toby Young is. He never said a word when I was wrongfully and indeed unlawfully disbarred in 2016, or in relation to any of the false and malicious complaints made to Twitter, online fora and even police about me (made, in every single case, by Jews). One of those matters is still ongoing, in fact, I having been (some time ago and quite wrongly) charged under the notorious “bad law” of Communications Act 2003, s.127. That case will not come to trial (if at all) until Autumn 2023.
In fact, that much-abused law (mostly, in the political realm, abused by Jews engaging in “lawfare”) is set to be either repealed, or at any rate superseded, next year. It may well be that I shall be that last person tried under its poorly-drafted provisions.
Reverting to Toby Young’s hypocrisy, he and his so-called “Free Speech Union” also never said a word in defence of others who have been persecuted and/or prosecuted by Jewish interests: Jez Turner, Alison Chabloz, and many others.
Would the many among you here who were vicious and rude in your comments that banks had every right to close Farage's account, care to comment on this story? I'd be especially interested to hear from those of you using the #FBPE tag in your profile. https://t.co/sYQS9xkpSP
The arch-Remainer who led the legal challenges to the Government over its handling of Brexit has seen the bank account of her political party shut down.
Lol. If @bootstrapcook does get banged to rights, a judge might say she has to go an actual real NA meeting and do an occasional piss test with her community order. Am sure she does want to wax lyrical about shoplifting. You do when the law wont touch you.
apparently today she's opining on shoplifting. With her extensive expertise its probably the first time shes discussed something she's directly experienced in her entire career.
One used to see dozens, even hundreds of tweeters naively defending “Jack Monroe” and/or holding her up as a wonderful and principled “activist” etc. No more. The few tweeters defending her are patently almost all “sock accounts” operated, in my opinion, by “Jack Monroe” herself. Often recently set up, often with few or even no Twitter “followers”. She admitted to doing that a decade ago, in fact.
I notice, also, that the large commercial and other organizations that used to cite “Jack Monroe” in tweets and other publicity, now do not. As a public figure, she has almost certainly reached the end of the line.
Still, I would not mind having 397 people (in her case, utter mugs) all sending me money monthly via Patreon, adding up to several thousand pounds each month.
‘Failed health secretary and cheating husband’ Matt Hancock loses IPSO complaints against Mirror. Daily Mirror articles about Matt Hancock not inaccurate, rules IPSO.https://t.co/xlciyHDt0c
“The Kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack with an anti-aircraft missile of the S-200 air defense system converted into a strike version on the residential infrastructure of the city of Taganrog.
On the city beach in Dnepropetrovsk, a stout man threw a policeman into the water and, with the help of a friend and a bottle of beer, drove the military man away from the barbecue pic.twitter.com/FkEQK2sK66
Ha ha. I like the way the policeman fell back into what looks like a paddling pool. Beyond that, it shows how desperate the Kiev regime is getting for more cannon-fodder. The “stout” man looks about 40 years old at least, and markedly overweight.
Thinking about the desperate attempts by the Kiev regime to recruit (press into service) anyone they can leads me on to thoughts of the demographic future of Ukraine.
Even before the war, the population of Ukraine was in decline, mainly because of the past 30+ years of corrupt, shambolic “independence” as well as, pre-“Independence”, decades of Brezhnevite stagnation when Ukraine was a constituent part of the Soviet Union.
Now, huge numbers of, mainly, young and youngish men have been killed, many others badly wounded. Hundreds of thousands in all. Many Ukrainian women, at the same time, have taken the chance to settle in other parts of Europe. Most men are barred from leaving. The birth-rate in Ukraine must already have declined even further. This is a state without a future.
Footage of the counter-battery fight in the Kupyansk direction. Artillerymen of the 6th Army of the Western Military District identify and destroy self-propelled guns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. pic.twitter.com/pWCnxJk49t
Orban: The question is how much longer the EU will be able to help Kyiv. Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán said that it is not known how long the European Union will be able to provide financial support to Ukraine, given the lack of reports on what 70 billion euros from the… pic.twitter.com/PXagAbyj8L
Trump says he will continue his campaign in the 2024 presidential election even if he is convicted of the charges against him pic.twitter.com/9bFkpeHsqz
More footage of today's missile attack on the SBU building in Dnepropetrovsk UPD: it is possible on the video that a Ukrainian rocket arrives at a residential complex under construction. Since the footage shows a column of smoke, probably from the destroyed building of the SBU. pic.twitter.com/tILv64sRpD
How ridiculous, to move a successful company like English National Opera out of its long-established home to some provincial centre.
Most countries concentrate their cultural treasures in terms of opera, ballet etc in one city, usually the national capital, a concentration of cultural forces. Moscow, Paris, etc. Not all, but the exceptions are countries which were only unified (or created) in the 19thC (Germany and Italy, the USA).
By all means tour around the UK, but base yourself in London. Also, the concentration of cultural companies in London leads to cross-fertilization of the arts.
The most important thing is to keep a bloc of white Northern Europeans intact, because that bloc can be the foundation for a later “super-race”, one far ahead of where we are now. That foundation has to be “post-Aryan” and white European; the other races and groups cannot provide such a foundation. The later “super-race” will be a quantum leap in human evolution. The other races and ethnicities will be left behind, just as, compared to our world of today, previous forms of humanity have been left behind.
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Rachel Reeves implies Alison Rose should be let off because she’s a woman (doesn’t sound much like equality).
Then says she doesn’t know the details of the case. Which is odd, because everyone else in the country does. Plus she’s Shadow Chancellor.pic.twitter.com/TrVcPyXvfu
Israel-puppet Rachel Reeves. She would never acknowledge that a large number of organizations including banks and law firms have been promoting —and, in many cases, over-promoting— women for virtue-signalling and box-ticking reasons for about 30 years. I myself have seen many examples.
One correction: as far as I can see, the only “neo-Nazi problem” that Ukraine has is that so few “neo-Nazis” seem to exist there. If that is wrong, why do they tolerate Zelensky’s corrupt, brutal, and shambolic NWO/ZOG tyranny?
Instructor of PMC "Wagner" and servicemen of the 51st artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/ktamYD3lFo
Interesting. Usually, the “instructor” in such a situation would be the one from the army of the state, not from the private military company. However, who knows from where that “instructor” has come, in career terms? Russian Spetsnaz? The post-Soviet VDV? These are not fake “mercenaries” as once found in Soldier of Fortune etc. They are a very serious fighting force.
“A historic royal census, known as “swan upping”, has revealed a 40% drop in the number of cygnets on the River Thames, compared with last year.
The decline has been blamed on avian flu but also a growing problem of violence, including shootings, catapult attacks and dogs killing swans.“
[BBC]
I was saddened to hear, on BBC Radio 3 news this morning, that same report, i.e. that the number of swans counted on the Thames this year is about 40% lower than in previous years, and that, worse yet, part of the decline is because of “increased violence towards swans“. Jesus Christ! What sort of horrible bastards are cruel to swans?! They should be flayed alive if caught mistreating swans.
Having said that, there was always a small amount of such badness. I remember rowing my inflatable boat, with someone from my school, down the then-still-closed river Kennet in 1971, and seeing a dead swan in the water. The swan was obviously not long dead. That happened somewhere between Newbury and Reading. Not long after having seen the dead swan, we passed an unpleasant-looking young man on the bank, not older than about 20, with some kind of rifle or air-rifle. Were the two sights connected? I think probably they were.
Incidentally, the Kennet, and connected Kennet and Avon, was then only navigable by carrying the boat around disused locks, over barbed-wire fences etc. Since then, volunteers have been able to re-open the waterway to traffic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennet_and_Avon_Canal.
[where the Kennet meets the Thames at Reading; viaduct bridge carrying the mainline Paddington to Reading railway also in the picture]
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'The housing crisis has been caused by mass rapid immigration.' – GB News debate. pic.twitter.com/lxOnRrbkuA
Let’s not forget that Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook lied for nearly a YEAR about suing 30pLee, claims she raised less that £1400 for it, but also bought a £2k+ designer dog and a £7k+ watch during that time. How can anyone defend, support or promote this grifter? pic.twitter.com/rLOI0NMHem
Bless her. Faux poverty conwoman & fake fundraising fraudster Jack Monroe bootstrapcook hates it here. Simple solution: Stop using the platform to top up your scam scam sales funnel, delete account, stop patreon, refund #suelee cash, get a job. Easy 👍 pic.twitter.com/ddZJMAAubZ
She hopes that her critics will tire of trying to enlighten the public (including the 397 utter mugs still —as of today— sending her a total of several thousand pounds per month via Patreon). If the critics tire, then she can resume (on a larger scale) her decade-long career of “grifting” and defrauding and embezzling and “cosplaying”, as may be convenient for her; maybe even get onto Question Time again (which does not usually pay, but does tend to validate her with the msm in general and with the uninformed majority of the public.
The MET office established in 1855 didn’t record temperature until 1912. In 1974 climate scientists said we will have ice age in 2000. Man made global warming wasn’t invented until 1985. pic.twitter.com/5fvXzV0sXc
Save this video and send it to @maitlis when she’s quite rightly appalled that she can’t buy food or access basic services. Free speech is defending the speech of those you disagree with the most. Moronic lack of self awareness.
Ignorant Jewish talking head Emily Maitlis, hugely overpaid by the BBC thanks to the outdated and tyrannical “licence fee” system, wilfully fails to see the bigger point about freedom of expression. I can only assume that she is unaware that other people, less famous than Nigel Farage, have also been “cancelled” for having the “wrong” views (i.e. anti-System views), people such as Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Sam Melia (all of Patriotic Alternative), and others. They all lost their personal bank accounts, and they were not “cancelled” by Coutts but by standard high street banks such as Barclays and (I think) Halifax.
You hear much (and rightly so) about the attempted bank account cancellation of Farage, but where were Laurence Fox, the “Free Speech Union”, Toby Young etc when those other victims had their bank accounts cancelled? Where were those “champions of free speech” when Alison Chabloz was imprisoned for posting online legitimate satire about Jewish and Zionist behaviour, or during my continuing persecution at the hands of the Jew-Zionist lobby? Absent.
Coutts (obviously) Rose Starmer Just Stop Oil Simon Jack Dale Vince The BBC Vorderman Maguire Mason Biden Rayner Bray Stonewall Khan O’Brien The BMA ULEZ Lynch Bryant Izzard Packham Harman Brian Cox Cooper Soubry The RMT Yorkshire BS Burley Ellwood Maitlis
Ukraine may not have a single port left in three months – representative of the operational command "South" of the armed forces of Ukraine Natalia Gumenyuk
Ukraine (Kiev regime) cannot win this war; indeed, without having been propped up by vast amounts of money, arms, ammunition, clothing, food etc from the West, it would already be totally on its knees.
Abandoned Ukrainian T-72M on the outskirts of Rabotino, Zaporozhye direction. pic.twitter.com/nnwxai246A
He left out a fourth aspect— Jewish-Zionist control (of banks, businesses and commerce, legal services, newspapers, television, radio, and pseudo-democratic politics).
The remains of NATO armored vehicles in the SMO zone Another column of UAF armored vehicles was destroyed before reaching the positions of the RF Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/sndmK0E2a8
Nothing will stop the Russians – ex-Trump adviser Douglas McGregor “And if we decide to whisper to the Poles: they say, well, for the cause, cross the border, go to Lvov. What will happen? I think that Lvov will be easily razed to the ground , and the troops that try to cross… pic.twitter.com/yXp7MNHFlt
In our paper published today, 🏴 @ScotGov proposes an open and inclusive approach to citizenship in an independent Scotland.
One that welcomes people who want to settle in Scotland, rather than putting barriers and excessive fees in the way of individuals and their families. pic.twitter.com/x8kK94lMnh
Pakistani “Scotsman”, SNP Leader and First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf, now proposes the flooding of Scotland with new huge numbers of Pakistani and other migrant-invaders.
If that were ever to happen as proposed, many migrant-invaders would take up Scottish citizenship purely in order to, sooner or later, relocate to England. That in turn would entail the building of…a wall…to keep them out. Certainly the construction of border fortifications.
In reality, though, it will almost certainly never happen. Even bearing in mind the pseudo-nationalist idiocy that leads to nearly half of the Scottish electorate voting SNP (that’s right— the SNP has never garnered even half of Scottish votes), this must surely give even die-hard SNP supporters pause.
Yousaf may just have cost the SNP a goodly portion of its votes.
I usually steer clear of commenting on Scottish politics, but think that faux-“Independence” is losing traction.
🇺🇦 "Ukraine may not have any ports left in three months" – said the representative of the operational command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Natalia Gumenyuk. pic.twitter.com/3cMGBLSYTy
Ukraine's army has lost almost a fifth of its NATO counteroffensive equipment, including armored vehicles" – Financial Times. pic.twitter.com/uMeMhBgVaz
The Kiev regime’s “big push” may soon become its “long walk home”.
The hilariously miscalculated closure of @Nigel_Farage’s account tells a wider story: one of corporate virtue signalling which, since last February, has weaponised Russophobia for the sake of moral posturing. https://t.co/G85dWnk3Y6
Those of us who read it and have bought the book for others to read greatly appreciate the truth of history for once being told. Whomever is slandering your work need be and will be silenced by the truth in time. I mean Vril cannot be defeated pic.twitter.com/Od4imRbr3n
A woman once asked me, about 40 years ago, whether I felt in any personal way “betrayed” by Kim Philby. Obviously not. Philby was born in 1912, 44 years before me, I never knew him or, as far as I know, anyone who knew him (excepting that I once or twice had lunch in the 1990s with an ex-KGB officer turned businessman, “Ed”, who had once heard a lecture by him at the Lubyanka) and, last but not least, I have never been an officer or agent of SIS (or any other intelligence or security agency).
However, the woman’s question missed the point. Philby betrayed his Service, and colleagues, but also the State. The crime was against the State, just as is the case, fundamentally, with almost any crime.
It is immaterial that I myself have never been mug enough to waste money sending funds to “Jack Monroe” so that she can snort it up her snout or guzzle it down her throat. I am offended by her defrauding of genuinely poor people, and her abuse of them and their plight so that she can present a fake image to the public and make plenty of money out of virtue-signalling mugs, an enterprise in which she has been aided and abetted by the hand-wringing part of the affluent middle classes (Guardian and Observer scribblers and readers, book-festival organisers, TV producers and other parasites).
Ah. I was wondering whether tweeter “Neil Marsden” (joined Twitter July 2023, only 4 “followers”) is yet another “Jack Monroe” “sock account”. Probably.
Incredibly, and as of today, 397 utter mugs are still sending “Jack Monroe” a total of thousands of pounds each month via Patreon.
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The continuation of the delivery of American weapons to Ukraine exceeds the limits of morality and common sense, spreading human suffering and death , said Russian Ambassador to the USA Anatoly Antonov
The Abu Mahdi cruise missile has replenished the arsenal of the Iranian Navy and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
It is reported that the flight range of the Abu Mahdi missile is more than 1,000 km. It is claimed to be the first long-range cruise missile to use… pic.twitter.com/4BEMw7Oq4T
Reports about the abandonment of the RF Armed Forces of Kleshcheevka in the Artemovsk direction are not confirmed Military correspondents write that a heavy battle is going on in Kleshcheevka. Despite the density of artillery fire, the settlement was held. The enemy also failed… pic.twitter.com/7arr8PTpm9
Dziennik Polityczny: Poland is serious about war with Russia
Jacek Tochman, columnist for the publication, writes about this in the author's column "That's why PiS (the ruling party of Law and Justice) was called the party of war."
Poland has already been the location of the trigger for one world war. Will there now be another, and probably far more devastating?
British intelligence: Russia redeployed ships of the Black Sea Fleet after withdrawing from the “grain deal” This may indicate preparations for a naval blockade of Ukraine and an escalation of hostilities at sea, according to MI6. So, the ship "Sergey Kotov" was transferred to…
According to British intelligence, the patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" is located in the southern part of the Black Sea and patrols communications between the Bosphorus and Odessa. It is not excluded that it will become the core of the connection, which will intercept the breakers of… pic.twitter.com/jSdZkD79dO
Festive, yet slightly sedate, and well-behaved. If only our British resorts and visitors were so well-behaved. There again, Yalta has not suffered the kind of decadence and migration-invasion as have, say, Bournemouth and Brighton.
Not a chef, not really even a cook, just a fraudulent “grifter” who deserves to be binned by the public and msm alike.
This is my assumption on her..I think she was jealous(bitter) of the attention foster kids got during her formulative years and is resentful .shes desperate for fame and fortune without hard work and discovered grifting this whole monroe gig is just an act..
— Comrade Terfnificent 35293 (@smugcheeks) July 26, 2023
It was purely performative for social media attention.
Just like her ouchy shoulder, ADHD, autism, arthritis, and many many other illnesses that she has claimed to have at various times. A full list of Jack Monroe medical ailments are documented herehttps://t.co/uAE0kHvuLZ
In Kind Hearts and Coronets, Alec Guinness played 8 separate roles, with different clothes, hairstyle, mannerisms etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_Hearts_and_Coronets. That theatrical tour de force is, if not equalled, at least certainly imitated by “Jack Monroe”— courageous “firefighter” officer (she never was, she just answered telephones for a while); “cancer sufferer” (never was, but collected donations off the back of the lie); “Grenfell Tower rescuer/organizer” (out and out lie); “poverty-stricken benefits claimant” (for a few months, maybe a year, at least a decade ago; she always had her Greek-Cypriot family nearby, who own millions of pounds in buy-to-let property); “single mother” (yes, but claimed to have sold her child’s favourite toy for cash, a blatant lie designed to fool more mugs into sending her more “donations”, and the child is said to live with her only occasionally); “cook” (her food is execrable and not as cheaply-made as she claims); “lesbian” (apparently not, or only when it suits her); “anti-Tory activist” (occasional tweets, very occasional soundbites on TV shows misguided enough to believe her fake backstory etc and invite her onto such as Question Time); “suicidal-ideation sufferer” (only on Twitter, and when people start to question her fraudulent activities); “mental health sufferer/victim of online and offline harassment” (see previous description).
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Russia and Iran are building a UAV plant in Tatarstan, which could have a serious impact on the course of hostilities in Ukraine – CNN
The American media very sharply recalled the plant in Yelabuga, about which they have been writing for several months, but before its… pic.twitter.com/RtZ0W5jW9W
One can imagine a near-future in which human beings are not on the battlefield at all, at least not the traditional battlefield.
Haaretz reports: Netanyahu made Israel more vulnerable to Iran
Haaretz wrote about the events in the occupied territories these days: Netanyahu likes to present himself as the savior of Israel from "nuclear Iran", but his strategy was a big mistake, and the military-political… pic.twitter.com/BMZEo8RDu8
If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circ. (AMOC) were to lose a significant portion of the Gulf Stream current, it could potentially result in the UK & Ireland being covered in ice once again. The current keeps temps 2/3 degrees warmer than the east. https://t.co/5RM6Xpt5BJpic.twitter.com/FP3lrUDmlN
“I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program.”#ufotwitter#ufopic.twitter.com/FGtjMGl4wR
Watched all 2 hours plus of the UFO hearing today and I can honestly say that I think I genuinely witnessed history. Aliens are real and they are here. I for one am absolutely buzzing
*NIGERIANS WERE JUMPING DOWN FROM A MOVING BUS BECAUSE THEY WHERE TAKING TO AIR PORT FOR DEPORTATION FROM TURKEY NOBODY WANT TO COME BACK TO NIGERIA* pic.twitter.com/2VcfYkrP1B
Donetsk under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.Arrivals near the Vishnevsky hospital, it is also known that a shell hit the apartment of the house pic.twitter.com/JktrmTQMz7
The contract soldier or “mercenary” has fallen somewhat onto the margins of European affairs since the condottieri of the Renaissance era, though in the 20thC many Europeans served, some more honourably than others, in mercenary forces elsewhere in the world, mainly in Africa. Among the better ones were 5 Commando under Mike Hoare in the Congo of the early/mid 1960s, and those who served under the Rhodesian flag in the late 1960s and 1970s. Among the less honourable, les Affreux (“the Frightful”), Belgian and French mercenaires in the Congo circa 1961-62, and some of those who served in Biafra; also, arguably the rock-bottom, those (some completely untrained) who went to Angola under “Colonel” “Callan” (in reality, Costas Georgiou, a Greek-Cypriot dishonourably discharged from the Parachute Regiment of the UK, and who never held a rank higher than corporal, if that): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Georgiou; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary#Africa; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Mike_Hoare.
“To recruit his force, Hoare placed newspaper advertisements in Johannesburg and Salisbury (modern Harare, Zimbabwe) for physically fit white men capable of marching 20 miles per day who were fond of combat and were “tremendous romantics” to join 5 Commando.[5] The moniker Mad Mike which was given to him by the British press suggested a “wildman” type of commander, but in fact Hoare was very strict and insisted the men of 5 Commando always be clean-shaven, keep their hair cut short, never swear and attend church services every Sunday.[5] The men of 5 Commando were entirely white and consisted of a “ragbag of misfits” upon whom he imposed stern discipline.[5] 5 Commando was a mixture of South Africans, Rhodesians, British, Belgians, and Germans, the last of whom were mostly Second World War veterans who had arrived in the Congo wearing Iron Crosses.”
[Wikipedia].
[Mike Hoare, when commander of 5 Commando in the Congo]
The Wagner Group, aka PMC Wagner, has changed the rules. Here is a notionally private military company effectively acting as the private part of a state military force, though not signatory to any international conventions and, by the same token, unprotected by any.
In the 1960s and at most other modern times, mercenaries were seen only in quite small groups, certainly no more than a few hundred. That alone marks out Wagner Group as something new. Even Mike Hoare’s successful 5 Commando consisted of only about 300 men. The Wagner Group can (or could, until the recent fighting for Bakhmut/Artyomovsk) muster tens of thousands. The whole of the British Army is now no more than about 70,000-80,000, and most of those are either headquarters or “rear-echelon” forces, not combat-ready.
It comes as a slight surprise to realize that Wagner Group might even be a match for the maybe 30,000 troops who comprise the whole of the fighting part of the British Army.
It is an open question as to what would happen were Wagner Group to attack and/or get into combat with, the forces of a NATO state (eg Poland). That is, would it trigger Article 5 of the Treaty, and so create a general European conflict?
I suppose that the last time the British used private forces on any scale would be the seaborne “privateers” of the 16th-18th centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer, unless you include the arrangement with the Gurkhas, though they are now completely subsumed into the British and other armies.
The British Ministry of Defense has shown the latest modification of the Challenger 2 tank – the Challenger 2 Theater Entry Standard (TES) 'Megatron', designed for fighting in urban areas pic.twitter.com/TNBsVRWmDf
The Polish army is transferring the promised two battalions to the Belarusian border due to the presence of PMC "Wagner" on the territory of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/YySk0WEp6b
Polish roads have certainly improved since I was there (late 1980s).
Pushilin: Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Uluhdar direction make at least five attempts to attack every day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulse them
The acting head of the DPR added that Russian troops had improved their positions in the Avdeevka and Krasnoliman…
WSJ: The West knew in advance that Ukraine was not sufficiently prepared for a successful counteroffensive.
When Ukraine launched its major counter-offensive this spring, military leaders in the West knew that Ukrainian forces lacked the training or weapons arsenal—from…
She speaks !!! 😳😳😳 30 year old Charlotte Owen today became "Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge" – for life. No one knows why Johnson gave her the peerage, coz there's apparently a super-injunction stopping anyone from reporting on her. So let the rumours continue! Who is she? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/VMPEL9jh78
— Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed (@BrexitBin) July 24, 2023
Baroness Owen & Lord Kempsell who have less than a decade work experience between them but who now have jobs for life making laws because Boris Johnson said so, have made the case for abolition of the House of Lords clearer than I could pic.twitter.com/Zz6nwUcKPg
They both look hugely smug, as well they might. I wonder what could wipe the smirks off their faces?
Labour’s stunning success in Selby can’t disguise that failing to win Uxbridge, given changing demographics there and real anger at the government, is a very poor result. Easy to say it’s all about ULEZ but having spent time there recently, I’m not convinced that’s true.
Nonsense. Mass immigration has suppressed wages, the reason British people don't do the work is because they can't afford to. The so called "benefits" have not materialised. We compete with the world for both jobs and housing. Its absurd
Reading tweets from pro-immigration cretins such as tweeter “@DawnRowatt” is more than irritating; it is actually slightly frightening. It shows that there are rather a lot of people in this country devoid of any real awareness of how the country is changing for the worse (the much worse) via mass immigration and migration-invasion. Such “refugees welcome” and similar dimwits are immune to logic, to facts, to intelligent analysis. What does that leave?
They are the gravediggers of our still relatively-civilized, though declining fast, white European society.
It's interesting that you're that familiar with the situation, Mr Account with one follower, with your account only hours old that has *checks notes* ONLY tweeted in defence of Jack Monroe. Nothing suspicious to see here, nothing at all.
As mentioned on the blog and by others, fraudulent “grifter” “Jack Monroe” uses literally hundreds of Twitter and other “sock accounts”, some prepared years ago, as long ago as 2013 in some cases. Such “non-people” argue with those exposing “Jack Monroe”, and they also praise her, or her dire food “recipes”.
As for me, I fail to understand why the police have not (as far as I know) launched investigation into what is really a long-running fraud, or series of frauds.
“A spokesman for the National Police in the Balearic Islands said: ‘Officers have arrested a Moroccan man as the suspected author of a crime of unlawful detention, sexual assault, resisting arrest and disobedience after he tried to take a two-year-old girl on a beach in Ibiza who he kissed on the face.”
[Daily Mail].
That is what is invading Europe. That is what the “refugees welcome” dimwits (whether on Twitter, in the Labour Party, or in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court) are facilitating.
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Scottish broadcaster, Neil Oliver, eloquently rebuts the mainstream media's relentless "human-induced climate change" fear mongering.
"A rising volume of CO2 in the atmosphere is a consequence of a warming planet, not the cause of one. You might as well watch a horse-drawn cart… pic.twitter.com/RpEnFD4LsT
This is Bill Gates. Bill is very concerned about climate change. He flies in his private jet to conferences all over the world to ask you to stop driving cars. pic.twitter.com/oWIk0qQmXu
I usually believe in the maxim de mortuis nihil nisi bonum, but I have to say that when Gates drops dead, I shall be pleased, even though we are all on the same conveyor belt.
Not only Gates, incidentally.
The only "democracy" in Western Asia is collapsing.
Interesting fact: Israel just a few months ago said that Iran is brutally treating armed rebels. pic.twitter.com/JtTWFhgvyg
Hollywood in Ukraine 🤭🤭 It would be good if the woman with the vest came out of the frame when they are already filming the scenes 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/wcL4jV2j4G
West Germany, pre-1990, pre-Reunification, was pretty impressive; East Germany (DDR) not so much, and very strange, but still pretty clean and efficient, from what I saw in a brief visit at the time.
Now look at it. Migration-invasion and cultural decadence has done huge damage even as compared to the Weimar period of the 1920s and early 1930s.
UAF General Sirski admitted that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is not going according to plan
"Due to the complex situation on the Bakhmut and Liman fronts, the plans will have to be corrected," said the commander of the ground forces of the Ukrainian army, Alexander Sirsky…
“No military plan survives the first contact with the enemy” [von Moltke].
The Israelis train their staff officers and others by telling them to prepare a plan over a period of a week. 24 hours before the wargame is due to start, the officers are told that the situation has changed radically along lines explained. A new plan therefore has to be prepared. Then, less than an hour (I think a matter of 10-20 minutes) before the start, the officers are told that the situation has changed again. They are instructed to think of a new plan at once.
That method has been proven to have been effective in training officers able to think on their feet, as seen both in 1967 and in 1973, and plays to the Jewish/Israeli strength in off-the cuff innovation.
The Russians and Ukrainians of senior rank were, at least until recently, brought up in the Soviet idea of carefully-thought-out plans, and wargames that were mostly for show, to be displayed like a panorama to senior officers, political leaders, and in propaganda films. In a word— inflexible.
Well, this week I scored a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored only 2/10, whereas my score was 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5 and 10. I admit that I guessed the answer to question no.1, but that still counts.
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He is nasty I’ve heard so many people say he’s nasty mothers who lost sons in Afghanistan he was truly awful to them
Now, Biden is demented; back then, in 2019, he was just a very obviously unpleasant person. Were he not a politician, notunder public scrutiny, and were he in, say, an Irish-American bar somewhere, one could imagine him viciously assaulting his interlocutor.
"We have a corrupt and compromised president, rogue Joe Biden dragging us into World War III on behalf of a nation that paid him millions and millions of dollars in bribes " – Donald Trump
Amid the ongoing legal investigation against Trump, his lawyer wants cameras in the… pic.twitter.com/M8gWN7Sgzo
The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta, are a pair of one-trick ponies. They are rapidly becoming yesterday’s news, except as a kind of joke.
Electricity prices rise in Germany without Russian gas — Die Welt In the coming years, the cost of electricity in Germany will remain high and may even rise. By 2025, electricity consumption is expected to increase in Germany, and gas is still used for its production. pic.twitter.com/7NSfqRuiQA
So, again, who is hurt by sanctions against Russia? The consumers and taxpayers of western and central Europe. Not Russia or Russians. The gas produced in Russia will still be sold elsewhere in the world, and Russian citizens are, if anything, better off than they were before the sanctions were imposed.
The Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine said that food exports from Ukraine decreased by at least 30% after the termination of the grain deal. pic.twitter.com/vJZtAXPN40
Another crack in Ukrainian-Polish friendship — Wprost
Poland's decision not to import Ukrainian grain outraged the Ukrainian prime minister. “This is an unfriendly and populist move that will hit global food security and Ukraine’s economy hard,” wrote Denys Shmyhal.
Ukraine will increase the tariff for the transportation of Russian oil through its section of the Druzhba pipeline by 23.5 percent
From August 1, Russia will pay 4 euros more for pumping each ton of oil in the direction of Slovakia and Hungary – the tariff will increase to 21… pic.twitter.com/g8qCa4nwi4
A strange “war”, in which Ukraine (Kiev regime) allows transit of Russian oil exports through its territory (at a price) and, until last week, Russia allowed the Kiev regime to export grain.
Destruction of the artillery arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Chudnov, Zhytomyr region pic.twitter.com/pErEOuUcZH
Two 9-ton furnaces have been restored at the Azovelectrostal plant in Mariupol “The territory has been demined and cleared of destroyed structures. An initial technical and economic audit was carried out. The backbone of the team has been preserved – 250 technical staff," the… pic.twitter.com/bqKupbFUSF
Is it not the other way around? Whatever. The fact is that there is little clear blue water between the two major System parties, a fact many voters have started to realize.
Map of the attacks of the Crimean peninsula by drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on this one pic.twitter.com/qzkPMs7LJs
I don't know how ANYONE can think it's right for Jack Monroe bootstrapcook to solicit donations under false pretences, refuse to prove where cash has gone & block donors who ask for transparency. Every day, she looks less like just a grifter & more like a serial fraudster https://t.co/J5tuoczDPa
As I predicted on the blog a couple of days ago, this was a “battle of the apathies”. Complete “Conservative” omnishambles meets Labour mediocrity (both on the national and constituency levels).
The successful Conservative candidate drew a veil over both the non-performance of the Rishi Sunak government and the egregiously poor behaviour (and capabilities) of ex-MP “Boris” Johnson; the candidate just kept hitting at the ridiculous Sadiq Khan ULEZ scheme [“Ultra Low Emission Zone”], and saying very little else about anything.
In a sense that concentration on ULEZ shows how meaningless the supposed “democracy” of the UK now is. The ULEZ idea and policy was first mooted by none other than “Boris”-idiot and the Conservative Party in London. Quite apart from that, the new Con Party MP, one Steve Tuckwell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tuckwell] will be able to exercise precisely zero influence over the ULEZ scheme and Sadiq Khan.
The Labour Party candidate, Danny Beales, was arguably not a good candidate in the particular constituency, an outer London suburb. Gay, a former councillor in inner-city Camden, and a graduate of the London School of Economics.
That said, the result was close— 495 votes decided it. Both the LibDem voters (526, fifth place), and/or the Green Party voters (893, third place), had they voted tactically, could have prevented the narrow Con Party victory. Neither Greens nor LibDems had a chance of winning, and both lost their deposits, along with the other 13 candidates, all of whom could be described as either “minor” or “joke” candidates.
The actor Laurence Fox, for Reclaim, did well, in a minor way, to come fourth, not far behind the Green. Still, this was really between Con Party (13,965 votes, 45.2%) and Labour (13,470, 43.6%). The other 15 parties and independents only scored 11.2% between them.
It does puzzle me why LibDem voters in particular did not all vote tactically. Some did, plainly, looking at previous election results where the LibDem vote was higher by far (peaking at 20% in 2010, though only 6.3% in 2019), but not enough.
Why did 526 LibDems bother to trot down to vote, knowing that their candidate had no chance? Even if they hated both Con and Lab, and so were unwilling to vote for either, why bother to vote? As someone said of golf, “a good walk spoiled“.
So a Conservative Party win, though scarcely a ringing endorsement.
Turnout was about 2/3 of that in 2019, and indeed the previous elections. I am assuming from that that many former Conservative voters, in what was since creation in 2010 a fairly safe Conservative seat (a new seat on these boundaries), just threw up their hands in disgust at both main System parties, could find no other home for their votes, and so “voted with their feet”— abstained.
The successful Labour candidate is 25, once again (like the Labour candidate at Uxbridge) gay (seems that it is almost compulsory now in the Labour Party), and has only worked for 18 months since leaving university. Interestingly, those 18 months were spent working at the Confederation of British Industry, a more usual place in which to find young Conservatives, surely?
Also, he spent some months in 2019 and 2020 working with Wes Streeting, the “centrist” (Labour Friends of Israel) MP. So it seems that Keir Mather will fit easily into the Keir Starmer Labour Party. Not much else is yet known about him: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Mather.
Why did Mather win what had previously been regarded as a safe Conservative seat? As at Uxbridge, the implication is surely obvious: former Conservative voters were appalled at both major System parties, and so preferred to stay home rather than vote Labour (or elsewhere).
Mather scored 46% of the overall vote, as against 34.3% scored by his Con Party opponent.
Since the creation of the seat in 2010, the Conservative Party had won easily all elections, scoring between 49.4% (2010) and 60.3% (2019). Labour, however, had scored only around 25% of the vote, except in 2017, under Corbyn, when the Labour Party candidate managed over 34%.
The key here, as with Uxbridge, lies in the turnout. The by-election turnout was only 44.8%, whereas in 2019 it was 71.7% (and in previous elections, not dissimilar).
The implication, again, as at Uxbridge, is that former Conservative Party voters, in a formerly safe Conservative area, simply decided not to vote.
There was obviously a degree of tactical voting at Selby; the LibDem vote went down from 8.6% to 3.3%; without tactical voting, the result would have been much closer but not, in my view, different.
Incidentally, the LibDems only managed sixth place, no doubt because many otherwise LibDems voted Labour. The third place went to the Greens, whose candidate was the only one of the minor candidates to save his deposit (5.1%).
I was interested to see that a “Yorkshire Party” candidate, one Mike Jordan, who failed to fill in his nomination papers properly and so was a blank space (not even “Independent”) on the ballot paper, yet managed to score 4.2%. Not bad in the circumstances, and maybe a sign that localism, or at least regionalism, may be resurgent as central government falters and fails.
The Selby contest had other things in common with that at Uxbridge— contempt for the former MP (at Selby, he had stepped down apparently in order to damage Sunak and his party, and after having been passed over for a peerage); the fact that both seats were 2010 creations on their present boundaries; and of course the fact that the public are both despairing and angry at the overall non-performance by Sunak and his Cabinet. Mass immigration, migration invasion, cost of living increases, inflation, crime, NHS defaults etc.
The result was that Labour won at Selby, and very nearly won at Uxbridge, only by default. There is no enthusiasm at all for the Labour Party and its non-policies (basically the same as the Conservative Party policies), but equally there is no enthusiasm (and no respect) for Sunak and his Cabinet of (mainly) non-Brits (Indians, a black or half-caste or two, the odd Jew). These were by-elections. The ruling party is inevitably on the back foot.
Starmer’s strategy seems to be not to rock the boat now that Labour is ahead in the opinion polls. It is hard for Sunak and Con Party to score a hit on Labour’s battleship simply because Labour policy now so closely mirrors that of the Con Party. Almost indistinguishable. If the Conservative Party attacks Labour policy, it is to a large extent criticizing its own policy. In a sense, brilliant… but also dispiriting and pointless.
The LibDem candidate, Sarah Dyke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dyke] won easily, as predicted. I blogged briefly about her a couple of days ago. Her vote-share of 56.4%, as against the Conservative candidate’s 26.2%, mirrors in reverse almost exactly the result at the 2019 General Election.
Third place went to the Greens, with a fairly sizeable vote (10.2%). Reform UK beat Labour and three minor candidates for fourth place, but still lost the deposit, with 3.4%.
In a mostly affluent and bucolic area of this sort, Labour has little chance, and its vote has dropped below 5% in the past, though it scored 17.2% in 2017 (under Corbyn) and 12.9% in 2019. It is clear that, realising that Labour had no chance, former Labour voters voted tactically at the by-election, and that Labour’s 2.6% vote reflected that.
Turnout was, as at the other by-elections yesterday, pathetic— 44.23%. That compares to 75.6% in 2019, and turnouts in previous election which only once dropped below 70%, and which once exceeded 82%.
The LibDems held Somerton and Frome until 2015, so were always going to have a chance in the seat, once the “Con Coalition” of 2010-2015 faded from immediate memory, though the damage from that was still evident in 2019, at which election the LibDems scored only 26.2% (exactly the same as the Conservative Party vote at yesterday’s by-election).
The conclusion is pretty clear: the Conservative voters of 2019 either stayed home yesterday, or switched to the LibDems, Former Labour voters switched to LibDem to hit out at the Sunak misgovernment.
As at the other two by-elections, the contempt many apparently felt for the ex-MP, Warburton, was certainly another important factor, though perhaps not the most important.
Overall conclusion as to the main System parties in the light of the by-elections
The LibDems only have a chance to gain seats in rural/affluent parts of southern or south-western England. I do not see them recovering in any big way elsewhere.
The Conservative Party government is toast, surely. It will have to fall back on its hard core, mostly fairly comfortably-off homeowners aged 70+.
475 seats for Labour. That is “elected dictatorship”.
I just tried the “user-defined poll” at Electoral Calculus. My guesses resulted in only 61 seats for the Conservative Party.
What about Labour? Well, I detect no real enthusiasm for Labour, which means that there is every chance that the new MP for Selby may only be an MP for about a year, and will then have to find a less well-paid and less interesting (?) job.
More seriously, the only way that Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak could claw back some electoral support would be to STOP the boats, CUT BACK the main (i.e. “legal”) mass immigration, DEPORT hundreds of thousands, RENATIONALIZE water, rail and possibly the energy utilities, and start to really bat for Britain.
Those 2019 Conservative Party voters might return to the Con fold, but only if they see some action; words are played-out.
Still, none of the three by-election seats are natural Labour territory.
Pretty hard, though, for an Indian whose Cabinet is mainly non-white, or Jewish, and who worked for the predatory Goldman Sachs bankers (and so is a globalist “libertarian” by instinct).
It seems to me a 50-50 chance that the Conservative Party MPs will ditch Sunak before the next general election, but if they do, who on Earth can they try to present to the public as a credible leader?
As for attacking Starmer, the only things that might work would be to use American-style personal attacks, and to focus on his complete mendacity, his broken promises, on his “taking the knee” to the “Black Lives Matter” thugs, and his being completely in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby (the only thing is— so are the “Conservatives”…).
Conclusion, then— Labour will probably win in 2024 by default, but if some real movement on the above-designated issues were to happen, it might be a different story…
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there have been 16 by elections since the last general election.
starmer’s labour has won about 6 of them.
6 out of 16, against the worst government in living memory, while the media gives you the easiest possible time? embarrassing to be honest.
Biden: “What was that slogan? Bread, land, and peace? No, my fellow-Americans, it was ice-cream and war!“…
Germany to send 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks to Ukraine
The Ministry of Defense of Germany announced the next package of "military assistance" for Ukraine. It includes the first 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks, more than 100 are expected in total.
Tonight, the Russian Navy carried out another successful attack on facilities where terrorist attacks on the Russian Federation were being prepared using drones , the Ministry of Defense announced.
The statement adds that Russian troops hit the command post of the 79th Airborne…
President Vladimir Putin accused Poland of having territorial ambitions on the territory of the former USSR and said that any aggression against Russia's neighbor and close ally Belarus will be considered aggression against Russia.
At night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered another strike with high-precision weapons at facilities where terrorist attacks against Russia were being prepared using strike drones. The target of the strike was achieved, all designated objects were hit – Russian Defense Ministry
After the backlash by Tories of newly-elected 25 year-old #KierMather I see this Observer piece about 29 year-old life peer Charlotte Owen is doing the rounds again.
Picture by me of Downing Street staff (Owen, centre) on the day that Johnson resigned: https://t.co/krUhOIqfCO
There are really only two realistic possibilities: either she is Johnson’s secret daughter (one of them) or she was being screwed by him. It now turns out that she was only a kind of temp anyway, covering the job usually done by a recent mother. Maternity cover.
Britain is so screwed, it is hard to believe.
What about the House of Lords? At least the guy in Selby was elected. Ross Kempsell and Charlotte Owen were put in the Lords by disgraced former PM Boris Johnson for seemingly having achieve relatively little in their short careers, yet they're set fair for life. https://t.co/vjnEeWfEN8
— Alasdair Murray – the Recruitment Copywriter (@RecruitmentCopy) July 21, 2023
As for “Baroness” Chapman, she was an MP for 9 years (2010-2019), and then (having been voted out as MP) was elevated to the Lords on Starmer’s nomination, having previously done sweet FA by way of work in her life except a short time as the constituency manager for ghastly careerist MP Alan Milburn. So she can shut up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Chapman.
She is the mother of children, and that (and presumably being a “home-maker”) is a very honourable estate, but it is not the “real life experience” of work in the outer world, as per that clip.
As for Johnny Mercer MP, I have found him a big disappointment as MP, but I think that he can claim a great deal more “life experience” than “Baroness” Chapman, let alone that epicene little creature who is now the MP for Selby and Ainsty.
Many people on Twitter are incredibly ignorant and at the same time very dogmatic. I just saw a tweet saying that the Selby creature is “2-3 years older than Margaret Roberts [i.e. Margaret Thatcher] when she became an MP...”.
In fact, wrong, and on two counts. First, Margaret Roberts was born in 1925, and became an MP in 1959, shortly before her 34th birthday. She had married in 1951, so fought her first successful first election as Margaret Thatcher and not Margaret Roberts as claimed.
Well, there it is. Effete, epicene little “Labour MP” is going to support Starmer, Rachel Reeves etc in continuing the policy (policies?) laid down by the Con Coalition of David Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, and now the Indian money-juggler, Sunak.
Anyone who thinks that Starmer-Labour will be in any way an improvement on the “Conservative” omnishambles of a Government is sadly mistaken; in fact, deluded.
Actually, listening to Keir Mather there, I think that “Lord Charles” would have sounded more credible.
[Lord Charles, with Ray Alan]
To be honest, my first thought on seeing and hearing Keir Mather is that he seemed to be in need of a good kick.
The fact Mhairi Black was ever elected by the losers, wastrels, desperadoes & ne'er do wells in the Yes favelas of Paisley tells you everything you need to know about how fucked Scotland has become after wasted years of the calamitous SNP #shutdowntheshortbreadsenate
— Rt Dishonourable Damian Thirsty (@damian_thirsty) July 21, 2023
Rommel in fact died on 14 October 1944, but his death was connected with the attempted putsch on and subsequent to 20 July 1944, signalled by the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on the same day, 79 years ago.
The motivations of the plotters were varied and, in some cases, complex. Some (including Canaris, Rommel etc) acted at least partly out of noble motivation. Treason is often thus.
For the majority of degrees someone would be better equipped for the workplace and less indebted if they just did three years work experience.
— Peter McLovin 🏴☠️ (@PeterMcCormack) July 17, 2023
Failing miserably so….most students' critical thinking skills sadly lacking these days, in an era where everything is reduced to 10 second exposure to information via Instagram etc…academic model very ill-equipped.
Valid points, the least valid being that of freelance scribbler and talking head, Marina Purkiss, though her comment is in tune with the attitude of many, who think that all that matters is “how people did” in life (i.e. whether they became wealthy and/or famous), and that temporary worldly “success” validates, eg, a nonsensical “degree”, and/or falling standards made “OK” by award inflation.
Incidentally, Marina Purkiss thinks that “alright” is how one spells “all right“. Her “degree” in “marketing” from the University of Portsmouth seems to have failed to correct that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Purkiss.
It may be that the time has come to revisit the whole mediaeval “degree” concept: first “degree”, “Master’s degree”, “Doctorate”, which designations align with the mediaeval guild idea— apprentice, journeyman, master craftsman (also later imported into freemasonry, of course).
Universities should promote both learning and research, and least of all be what they mostly now are, degree mills (of varying quality) where mainly young people get a piece of paper entitling them to at least try to make a living in various ways.
In the United States, they try to make people who are aiming at becoming medical doctors, or lawyers, less narrow by making them take a so-called “undergraduate degree” (lasting four years rather than the usual English three years) before even embarking on their professionally-focussed medical or legal studies.
The result of that is of doubtful utility (I having met numerous American lawyers, though not many doctors). It also means that the cost of becoming a doctor or lawyer in the USA, especially at the more prestigious institutions, is prohibitive. 7+ years of expense.
The cost, including subsistence, of going to somewhere like Harvard Medical School is at least USD $100,000 a year (about 3x an equivalent British example).
"It's a very strange supposition that you can't win an election because you promised to try and do something about child poverty. Poor people have votes as well, you know" @jeremycorbyn tells #Pestonpic.twitter.com/2U7DgUeKus
Jeremy Corbyn discusses the insidiousness of suspending and expelling members. Some who have been members for 30 or 40 years, based on spurious retrospective grounds, for even LIKING a tweet from years ago.
I am and always was far from being a supporter of Corbyn, but he makes some good points at times.
#Peston: "What is the argument for keeping the water industry in private ownership?"
Liz Kendall doesn't bother trying to make the case for the private ownership of water. How could she, there isn't one. Instead, she tells us that ideals without power is just dreaming. pic.twitter.com/QrQPmzyzu1
Liz Kendall, yet another Labour Friends of Israel MP-drone (and I think part-Jewish). Labour has nothing to say, nothing at all. Its trump card, though, is that it is not, nominally, the Conservative Party. Just that. Nothing more.
Labour MPs think that the Labour Party not being the Conservative Party (though pretty much espousing similar policies, or even the very same policies) will be enough to clinch the expected 2024 General Election. They may even be correct in that, but the fat lady has not yet sung.
You could see @leicesterliz’s face harden perceptibly when #Peston was interviewing Jeremy Corbyn. She still hasn’t forgiven him for wiping the floor with her in the 2015 leadership contest. Listening to Corbyn talk sense must have been absolute torture for her.
According to Liz Kendall and the fictitious constituent she spoke to, Labour are "back of the right track", by doing absolutely fuck all except bringing back the legacies of Iain Duncan Smith. #Peston
Bloomberg: Turkey denied Ukraine protection of grain carriers in the Black Sea after Russia withdrew from the agreement
So far, there has been no official confirmation of this information. But if this is true, then this is good news for Russian grain producers. pic.twitter.com/ATdZcvk9dD
Financial Times: Armed forces of Ukraine complain that Russian minefields undermine the morale of Zahisniks “Ukraine's progress is painfully slow. Soldiers on the front lines largely blame it on Russia's minefields, a veiled threat that has become a psychological torment pic.twitter.com/dsuYopPnhF
The latest report is here, come get your coverage on the Odessa port strikes and wider implications. Manually type the link in the image below or click the link in my profile.#war#russia#ukrainepic.twitter.com/vbwInFMJWE
The patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" of the Black Sea Fleet, performing tasks in the southwestern part of the Black Sea, 180 km northeast of the Bosphorus Strait, discovered a derailed drifting Ukrainian mine.
An attack by the Russian Federation on July 19 severely damaged the grain export infrastructure at the port of Chernomorsk, resulting in the destruction of 60,000 tons of grain.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, it will take at least a year to…
The result of the July 16 rocket attack on the Osnova railway junction in Kharkiv. The blow definitely fell on the composition of the forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/tt6hqGy9XP
In connection with the suspension of the Black Sea Initiative and the cancellation of the maritime humanitarian corridor, from 00:00 Moscow time on July 20, 2023, all ships on the way to Ukrainian ports in Black Sea waters will be considered potential carriers of military forces.…
Well-judged words from MP @nicolafrichards: “The answer to the question Bev poses in her tweet is that no self-respecting publisher or broadcaster would share this antisemitic conspiratorial fantasy, and neither should she.” https://t.co/oVJYgoot5U
Prolific anti-national tweeter Matthew Sweet praises Jewish MP Nicola Richards.
Nicola Richards: prior to being selected/elected as MP at the early age of 24, Nicola Richards worked for the “Holocaust Educational Trust” and “Jewish Leadership Council”. She has been MP for West Bromwich East since 2019.
Nicola Richards succeeded “Labour” expenses cheat and freeloader Tom Watson as MP. Watson was/is, of course, a complete puppet of the Jew-Zionist lobby, apart from his other defaults.
I see now that Nicola Richards was appointed PPS to Penny Mordaunt in 2022, which makes me wonder whether Ms. Mordaunt agrees with the Zionist views of Nicola Richards.
Nicola Richards was also appointed, in 2022, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism.
Nicola Richards has argued for the UK to proscribe Wagner Group [PMC Wagner].
Oh well, she will be gone after the next General Election. Good,.
Incidentally, National Front executive Martin Webster stood as candidate in that constituency in February 1974, scoring 7% of the vote (placed third after Labour and Conservative). I myself met Webster a couple of times in 1975, once at the NF HQ in some featureless part of South London in or near Thornton Heath, and once at Chelsea Old Town Hall. A controversial figure; hard to read.
SIS/MI6: I suspect, another organization or body in the UK (along with Parliament, the police, the FCO, the Church of England, the Bar, the NHS, Oxford and Cambridge universities, the BBC, and others) living off its hump, with little real content inside the shell.
In any case, what Britain, what England is SIS/MI6, MI5, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force really trying to “defend”, these days? Look around you. The migration invasion continues, with 20% of the UK population now non-white, and with most births now being non-white. The British people have been abandoned to forces of raceless and cultureless finance-capitalist globalism.
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It is inconceivable that Biden will serve another term.
Look at the price of a counteroffensive. See? Tower, there is a "Leopard", and there is another in the bushes, – the officer sums up the results of the counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/noejwQjs6P
I did not understand part of that, but I think that it was not polite at the end…
The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that on the night of July 20, the RF Armed Forces continued to deliver retaliatory strikes with high-precision weapons at production shops and storage sites for unmanned boats in the regions of Odessa and Ilyichevsk, Odessa region
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that all ships going to Russian ports in the Black Sea, as well as to ports in the new territories of the Russian Federation, will be considered as carrying military cargo – " with all the associated risks"
Not a single cargo ship will enter Ukraine's ports on the Black Sea after the termination of the grain deal, admitted Mihail Podolyak, adviser to the chief of staff of the President of Ukraine.
"No country will dare to send its ships [to Ukrainian ports]. And this is not a…
…and none of those 440,000 cars will be produced in the UK, USA, or EU. So tell me again— who is hurting most because of economic sanctions on Russia?
Incidentally, the car shown is a 4.4 litre engine luxury car made in Russia in small numbers (100-200 per year); the Senat, under the Aurus marque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurus_Senat
Tobias Ellwood has always been the worst Tory MP. A fanatical remainer who loves the EU over Britain & now is a Taliban apologist rt@DavidJoBrexit https://t.co/JGjkuC5aSK
We live in a 2 tire justice system where ethnic minorities get much lighter sentences than whites. Whites would also be humiliated on National MSM channels. No prison for this lovely chap who also called white people ‘filth’ https://t.co/gcnTVtFMXf
— 🇬🇧 National Housing Party U.K. 🏴 (@NHPUKOfficial) July 20, 2023
My quarrel with the “intervention” in Afghanistan is not that it happened, but that the “West” (NWO/ZOG) had no intention to rule the country, nor to improve it. What the “West” should have done was to ignore all local political and paramilitary leaders, eliminate them if they refused to knuckle down, destroy all armed elements within the country (including all individuals carrying arms more than 500 yards from their own homes), then rule the country directly and, if necessary, forcefully. Allow their Islamic religion but eliminate those using it as a cloak to attack modern European-origined civilization. Educate children, including girls.
Alexander the Great took over many countries, but then also ruled them, as did, in their day, the Romans, the British and other European peoples, the Soviet Union etc.
Seizing a country is just the first step. Establishing a lasting imperium is also essential. Napoleon understood that. He remade Europe in his own preferred image.
Afghanistan was too tough a nut in the end for Alexander’s successors, for the Mughals, and also the British, but the British of the 19thC did not have helicopters and drones.
There was an attempt, in and after 1979, by Soviet forces, to rule Afghanistan, to turn it into a semi-Soviet country. That failed partly, perhaps mainly, because the USA funnelled arms, ammunition, and money to the mujaheddin (including Osama bin Laden). The Americans interfered, and without that interference, the Soviet forces may well have prevailed.
The Americans (and Brits etc), never tried to properly rule Afghanistan or found a new society there (not outside parts of Kabul, at least), and never tried to fully suppress rebellion.
British TikTok Menace Mizzy Gets Arrested and handcuffed then moments later released while telling police “do you know who I am?”
This is what happens when the msm validates cretins of that sort. It emboldens them.
Late today but no jokes. Late because I was fighting to protect our local hedgerows from being illegally cut. The National Parks and Wildlife Service in this country is a fucking farce & not fit for purpose. I’ll expand on this tomorrow when I’ve calmed down.#nationalpretencehttps://t.co/kRRIKZiRF9
Jesus H. Christ! He’s getting worse…If this continues, that stupid Kamala Harris creature might actually have to take over as President. We really are in uncharted waters from that moment.
The White House claims that Kiev uses cluster munitions in an "acceptable manner". pic.twitter.com/ivzsrRE2Ua
‼️Ukrainian air defence is not able to shoot down Russian Onyx missiles, which attacked Odessa and Nikolaev tonight – speaker of the Armed forces of the Ukraine, Yuri Ignat.
— Matreshka 🌺 🇷🇺🇰🇿🇨🇦 VVP 2024 (@MatreshkaRF) July 20, 2023
Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor: "Now there are only Poles left fighting in Ukrainian uniforms and only a few units that are ready to launch a new attack" pic.twitter.com/i9CCIq7D4p
“Boy, 15, walks free from court despite battering David Quigley, 69, who was left with a brain bleed and died three weeks later.“
Britain in 2023.
How long will it be before British people generally understand that we are in the opening stages of a multiform civil war? Not a race war, as such, and not just a traditional civil war based on ideology, but a hybrid type, encompassing both of those and also social aspects.
One aspect that is relatively new is that it is precisely the wealthy and powerful parts of society that are encouraging the incipient chaos, so that they can profit by that chaos and then impose a “multicultural” police state. The “Covid” “panicdemic” was a test run for that.
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
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Weirdo people on here that stick up for a thief like Jack Monroe and go for people who actually campaign and provide content, must be socks coz no one if that fucking stupid 😂😂😂😂
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 19, 2023
I agree with that.
The “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe” set up dozens, possibly hundreds, of Twitter “sock accounts” many years ago, and has continued to do so. Some look like genuine accounts with a few even having a couple of hundred Twitter “followers”. They praise “Jack Monroe”, her non-existent “activism”, and her ghastly “recipes” such as mixing tinned peaches with chickpeas and curry powder to make a kind of pseudo-Indian dinner. Mahashma Gandhi?
The aim of “Jack Monroe” is to try to keep her name appearing online for something other than cheating the less-intelligent members of the public out of their money.
Incidentally, as of today, 397 utter mugs are still sending “Jack Monroe” a total of thousands of pounds each month, via Patreon.
The reason why there are such concerted and coordinated attacks on @GBNEWS presenters is because in two years a brand new channel has managed to completely overthrow the cozy narrative which has been peddled by the morally superior establishment media for decades, and they are…
My provisional view is that the System set up GB News as “controlled opposition”, meaning that it was supposed to act as a safety valve by blowing off steam (public anger) at various issues, but (crucially) avoiding “antisemitism”. Look at who set it up as first Chairman— Andrew Neil.
Having said that, I think that it has spiralled out of System control to some extent. That is what happens. Look at Father Gapon in the St. Petersburg of 1905. The fake “resistance” sometimes mutates into real resistance.
The public were supposed to be bamboozled by GB News, but by some quasi-divine grace, the just anger of the public has, to some limited extent, taken over GB News presenters and agendas.
Rachel Reeves: member and vice-Chair, Labour Friends of Israel, supporter of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation (connected with the contrived “holocaust” farrago), wrote part of an Israeli propaganda book etc. Family income (herself and husband) of around half a million pounds a year. Suspected of being part-Jewish.
Still think that any “Labour”-label government under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper is going to be any better than the present fake “Conservative” shambles? 99% the same.
Rachel Reeves reminds me of the worst kind of HR/personnel figure. Or the toxic non-profit head who smiles as she questions your commitment to the work.
Every time they ask Rachel Reeves, School Dinner Thief to find some money, as if it isn’t the whole job of being the Chancellor, she’s unable to. Are we confident she has the ideas and lateral thinking to be the Chancellor
For a start, tax transnational enterprises trading here but domiciled elsewhere.
Then take away Zelensky’s ricebowl— stop sending billions in money, arms, and the rest to the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.
Then stop importing useless non-whites. Then get rid of the ones already here.
Then remove the hundreds of thousands of fake “refugees” from Ukraine who are here. Few are genuine refugees, and few are without money.
Then stop wasting money on useless projects such as HS2.
Start with the above, then keep going.
Disadvantaged children are growing up without books of their very own. Without books that they can love and cherish. And without a favourite bedtime story that they want to read again and again. Become a BookTrust Friend and help us reach more children with the magic of reading.
“On Friday 17 December 2010 it was announced that the government would cut its entire £13 million annual grant to BookTrust’s English bookgifting schemes. The schemes, including Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up, provided more than two million packs of books to English children annually.”
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The priorities of the part-Jews, David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne…
the new bill will make any difference, he twice refused to give a direct answer.
It's all meaningless. Numbers are far greater than Rwanda agreement and no other country deal in sight. They will continue being housed in whatever can be found. As you say, no disincentive.
We have the highest acceptance rates in Europe by percentage. We need to redefine the meaning of refugee in a way fir for the 21st century. The current ridiculous definition means almost anyone from the third World is eligible. This is madness. Britain in full.
The government are letting them in and helping them to take over. This is population replacement AKA kalergi plan – which was called a conspiracy theory by government. Note most conspiracy theories have been shown to be correct post covid aka the great re set
— Graham Orwell Powell (@grahamj62980760) July 19, 2023
Until removed or otherwise dealt with, the migrant-invaders should be prevented from breeding, both among themselves and with members of the indigenous population.
Hot weather
Just saw a weather report. Apparently, parts of Sicily are now the hottest they have been since…1957. So not quite unprecedentedly hot. I suppose people will say that that proves nothing. I wonder.
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I'm sure the well known poverty cosplaying grifter, Jack Monroe, could spare some time out of her "120hour working week" to either help out or even raise awareness…
Via @Survation, On 30 June-5 July, Changes w/ 2019 General Election.
— British Electoral Politics (@electpoliticsuk) July 19, 2023
A couple of weeks old now. If that is still so in 2024, we could be seeing the end of the Conservative Party as a major political force. That would leave a vacuum…and Nature abhors a vacuum, as we know…
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Should banks be allowed to remove customers who have personal or political beliefs that don't align with the bank's values?
Another sign that the expected or possible Labour government from some date in 2024 will be, if heavily successful at the General Election, an “elected dictatorship” even worse than that of Blair/Brown.
Jo Coburn: “Was the NHS underfunded before the pandemic?”
The German army has ordered several hundred thousand artillery shells in agreement with "Rheinmetall" as it works to replenish the stocks emptied by the war in Ukraine, the company announced.
"Rheinmetall" announced that it received a new framework contract for the supply of 155…
The brutal and corrupt Zelensky regime is having to use press-gangs to enforce conscription, there are no more volunteers, and the Kiev regime is running out of cannon-fodder. The front is almost a death sentence; many are deserting.
Head of the Crimean Parliament: We must liberate Nikolaev, Kherson and Odesa HE EMPHASIZED: THERE ARE NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH KIEV – WE MUST TAKE THE ENTIRE COAST OF THE BLACK SEA FROM HIM pic.twitter.com/SWgBUNrWNx
The by-election was triggered by the standing-down of the Conservative Party MP David Warburton, following multiple allegations (some admitted) of misconduct: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Warburton].
In 2019, Warburton received nearly 56% of the vote, with the LibDems in second place on 26%.
Labour has no chance here and, on paper, this would normally be another easy win for the Con Party, but the manner of departure of the last MP, added to the anger across the country aimed at the Con Party government of Sunak, may mean a LibDem by-election upset, particularly as this is merely a by-election.
In 2019, only 4 candidates stood (Con, Lab, LibDem, and Green); at the by-election, there are also Christian People’s Alliance, UKIP, Reform UK, and an Independent.
The bookies’ favourite is the LibDem, a lady from a local farming family who is also a local councillor. She seems to hit all the buttons, even the sex one, being female after the defaults of male MP Warburton (sex pest allegations, and connected cocaine abuse).
The bookmakers have the LibDem, Sarah Dyke, as even-money favourite, with the Con Party candidate on 20-1, and Labour at 250-1. The rest are not even quoted. You could probably get 1000-1 against any of them.
Experience shows that bookmakers are a poor guide to by-election results, but the LibDem looks pretty sure to win this, especially when many Labour supporters will be voting tactically, and many former Con voters displaying apathy and/or unwillingness to vote for the present Government.
The by-election of course triggered by the standing-down of “Boris” Johnson.
The 2019 election attracted 12 candidates, because the seat of the sitting Prime Minister is always popular. “Boris”-idiot won with 52.6% in 2019, with Labour garnering 37.6%. Only one other candidate had a saved deposit (the LibDem, on 6.3%).
The by-election has 17 candidates, among them the TV actor, Laurence Fox, for Reclaim. The bookmakers only rate two seriously— Con and Labour. The Labour Party candidate is quoted at just better than even-money, with Conservative Party candidate at 9/1. The Labour price has not altered much, but the Conservative has gone out from an opening 3/1 to 9/1, and the LibDems are now at 1000/1. The third-placed runner is now Reform UK (but only on 300/1).
“A nurse sitting with her husband drinking coffee said: “The biggest issue is ULEZ. I’ve retired from the NHS after 49 years. What about the carers who can’t make visits any more?”
People in Uxbridge tend not to conform to media stereotypes, for example that the NHS is in an unbearable state of crisis. The nurse said: “If I had my time again I’d do the same job again. I love my job.” As she walks round Uxbridge she is often greeted by her former patients.
How will she vote in the by-election? “Up until Jeremy Corbyn I was a Labour person,” she said. “Labour looked after the schools, the hospitals and the elderly.
“But the party has changed now and I’m afraid I have no confidence in them. Keir Starmer wouldn’t come out and actually go against Sadiq Khan [on ULEZ] in a television interview, when he was asked about him.“
“‘It can’t be any worse’: In Boris Johnson’s back yard, Britons are desperate for a change.
Uxbridge, like Britain, is in a rut.
The town is where the capital’s westward sprawl ends. Two Tube lines serving central London finish their journeys here, as picturesque shades of green mingle with the gray and brown hues of suburban developments. But its high streets are shrinking and the local hospital is one of the worst in Britain – rated “inadequate” by the sector’s watchdog.
And nationwide, soaring inflation, public sector strikes and the aftermath of Brexit have left families poorer and services creaking to the point of collapse. Renewing a passport, taking a train, buying groceries, seeing a doctor – virtually everything is more difficult in Britain than it once was.
Change is in the air, and Labour is set to benefit. Opinion polls confidently predict the party, led by Keir Starmer, a former senior prosecutor, will win power in a general election expected next year.
But Uxbridge is a test case for that theory, and tensions are high. “You can see the national polls, just like I can see, but these are real votes,” Steve Reed, the party’s shadow justice secretary tasked with running the local campaign, told CNN on a hot afternoon on the high street. He predicts a “tighter race” than some media have suggested.
A handful of media outlets, including CNN, were denied the chance to interview Labour’s candidate or join a canvassing session, an unusually skittish move from a party tipped to win a by-election.
“People are not stupid. People understand the challenges facing the country,”
Some voters are more blunt. “They’re basically saying we’ll carry on business as normal,” says Mick, 61, who runs a food stall near Uxbridge station and has voted Labour his entire life. “So why are we voting?”
“I’d like to think [Labour would] like to do more for the working people,” Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. “But I can’t help thinking it’s two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,” she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the party’s worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursday’s vote in Uxbridge will indicate how far Labour has come.“
[CNN]
Maybe not so obvious as at Somerton and Frome, but here too it looks as if the Conservative Party is facing an uphill struggle. Uxbridge is a more typical contest though, maybe, compared to Somerton and Frome, and one in which many voters despise all the System parties, and particularly Con and Lab. A battle of apathies?
Selby and Ainsty
The Selby and Ainsty constituency is unusual in that it has been represented since creation in 2010 by only one MP, a Conservative, who seems to be abandoning ship in the moral certainty that the national unpopularity of the Sunak government will wash him away at the next general election.
I do not know why the departed MP, Nigel Adams, chose to stand down in 2023 rather than wait until 2024 and the next general election. Maybe he did not want the opprobrium of having been voted out. Rumour has it that he wanted a peerage and, when not given one, resigned in order to lash out at his own party. Maybe.
Adams won his four elections convincingly, and increased his vote share steadily from 49.4% in 2010 to 60.3% in 2019.
Labour scored about a quarter of the vote in 2010, 2015, and 2019 but, interesting to see, managed over a third of the vote in 2017, when Corbyn was still Labour leader.
12 candidates are contesting the by-election, but this will be between Con and Lab. The bookmakers have Labour just better than even-money, but Con on about 13/2. A few weeks ago, the result seemed more speculative.
Political websites and newspapers have taken an interest in the Selby contest, perhaps because it may give a clue as to the Northern “Red Wall” seats.
“I’d like to think they’d like to do more for the working people,” Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. “But I can’t help thinking it’s two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,” she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the party’s worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursday’s vote in Uxbridge will indicate how far Labour has come.“
“Labour and the Conservative party may have found a tougher opponent than one another as they prepare to fight a by-election in Selby and Ainsty this week: entrenched despondency among an electorate that’s tired of Westminster drama and the challenges posed by the cost of living crisis.”
“Selby local Rachel Young paused while walking around the shops to watch the candidates for Thursday’s poll take part in a televised hustings for the BBC in the town centre last week.
She told PoliticsHome that she still has not decided who to vote for, but thinks that many people she knows will simply not bother at all.”
For me, what will be most interesting will be to see whether Labour wins because people have voted out of enthusiasm (unlikely) or simply because former Conservative voters have given up bothering to vote (more likely). The numbers will tell the story.
My guess is that the LibDems will win Somerton and Frome; a meaningless protest vote. As to the others, Labour will probably score in both, but by default only, because former Conservative voters will just stay home. Only very silly people believe that Labour-label in government will be much, if at all, better than the present shambles.
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Who would vote for a party scared to publish its manifesto? Who would vote for a party whose leader has reneged on all of his leadership election pledges? Who would listen to one word that Polly Toynbee has to say? And who would agree with an endorsement of anything by Streeting?
— Sunderland Labour Left (@LeftSunderland) July 18, 2023
I agree with the second tweet.
You won't stop the boats. This is State sponsored people trafficking. Beyond the control of a politician.
— An Inquisitive Englishman (@JJsViews) July 18, 2023
All the stuff in the msm about barges and cruise liners is flim-flam designed to obscure a few basic facts, such as that one barge can “house” 500 migrant-invaders. On many days, twice that number arrive in 24 hours! So you would need about 400-800 or more barges extra even in one year.
Also, the number of migrant-invaders coming “legally” is ten times the number arriving in rubber boats.
The UK was doomed as a decent place to live once the proportion of non-whites went beyond about 5% (and we are already at about 20%). The same goes for much of western and central Europe.
The myth of the nuclear family is one of those things that is so anti-Black, anti-woman, ableist, & capitalist at the same time it makes me GAG
Western ideology places the entire responsibility of childrearing on 1 woman & fiscal stability on 1 man & wonder why shit DONT WORK https://t.co/Uc8MolYPtF
— Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@GeauxGabrielle) July 18, 2023
The above two tweeters might like to consider whether or not our advanced world civilization, which is 95% or even 99% based on white European-origined people, “works” (overall) when compared to the sorts of societies ruled by blacks, such as most of Africa, Haiti, Jamaica etc…
“Deluded” hardly covers it, but it seems that many blacks believe the same as those two, and their crazed beliefs are facilitated by anti-white non-blacks, either white European-origined or (usually) Jewish.
Today we see how the Kiev regime, having lost almost all of its own weapons and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, like a drug addict, survives only thanks to the massive pumping of Western weapons – and at the same time pushes with all its might, trying to prove that it can… pic.twitter.com/2XN4VSUZ2Z
The people are right— a majority of them are of the view that a Labour government under Starmer will make their lives no better (or that they do not know).
Meaning— the present Government is trash, and Labour is also trash.
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Coming up to day 67 now since she missed the deadline to sue. I expect she’d already stolen all of the stolen money (again). https://t.co/WT2WK8vTgW
Jack Monroe still has quite a way to go until she reaches the grift levels of @Supertanskiii though – £40 a month for Incels and neckbeards to listen to a middle-aged woman with a early-teens level of intellect swear about Tories. pic.twitter.com/HnwqMc53rq
American billionaire Elon Musk called on his Twitter to reveal how American aid to Ukraine is being spent.
"It would be nice if the public had some idea of how the funds are being spent," Musk wrote on Twitter, commenting on the news that the US is preparing to announce a new…
Pentagon: The Ukrainian military needs years to reach the level of Russian air forces
Bringing Ukraine's air capabilities closer to Russia's will require years of training for Ukrainian pilots and billions of dollars, said Mark Milley, head of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of… pic.twitter.com/z2E8Ud7RBL
Russia prepares 100,000 troops to attack Kharkiv – The Telegraph
The British newspaper admits that the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has stalled and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can take advantage of the situation and advance towards Kharkov.…
Here’s a grass roots initiative I can get behind. Neil Oliver @thecoastguy has kept me sane in these crazy times. @TuckerCarlson could do no better than to introduce him to his audience. Both great family men with high moral standards. The conversation would be epic! Please 🙏 https://t.co/0AiGdQ23mt
I noticed that a Twitter lynch-mob has been attacking dissident broadcaster Neil Oliver over the past day or two after he had a dialogue with a doctor who disagreed with him on one or two issues. The Twitter mob have been trashing Oliver not only about the medical questions which were the subject of the show (on, apparently, GB News) but also Oliver’s whole past history, his TV shows on archaeology, his views in general, the way he looks, speaks etc.
Many of the Twitter mob claimed (and at time of writing, are still claiming) that the doctor in question completely defeated Oliver. Also, that Oliver (and MP Andrew Bridgen) had no right to speak because said doctor is a doctor, and so of course (?) knew more than they do.
Well, is that last so? I did not watch the discussion (in fact I have never seen GB News and am unsure whether my TV can even receive its broadcasts) but the said doctor is, as I understand it, an ordinary GP, not a specialist in vaccines or, indeed, viruses.
What interests me is how there is this superficially huge number of persons on Twitter (though probably not even a tenth of 1% of the general population) who are willing to join in with others of their sort to create a Twitterstorm which, in terms of real effects in the real world, makes not a ripple in society or the body politic.
The sheer hatred of their vituperative tweets is incredible. These are, more or less, the “anti-racists”, and/or those who mostly believe every last (and latest, and unexamined) detail of the Jew-Zionist so-called “holocaust” farrago, and who “support” (by having little Ukrainian flags on their Twitter profile) “Ukraine” (the regime in Kiev). Most probably support such as the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense, no doubt echo “refugees welcome” slogans (and so what if most of the migrant invaders are in reality not “refugees”), and prefer not to think of the impact of the invading hordes on British health services, housing, social cohesion, crime and, down the line, pay and conditions of employment. Oh, no, that’s for “the Government” to worry about.
I would be prepared to bet that pretty much the same bloc of Twitter posters support the “trans” nonsense, are “anti-Tory” (while —most of them— somehow believing that Labour-label under Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer will be far better), and that almost all of them will identify with Remain/Rejoin and, of course, “FBPE”.
The Twit-mob lynch-mob of today is a contemporary version of the Stalinist or Orwellian “daily hate”. Examples seen today on Twitter:
“Work in a charity bookshop and it’s very noticeable that we can’t give Neil Oliver history books away. They used to be steady sellers. Same for Starkey and Johnson. History book buyers avoiding like the plague and GBNews viewers can’t read.“
“If there was ever going to be a Scottish UnaBomber it would be Neil Oliver.“
“Neil Oliver was always a biased clown, even on his “history” programs – now he’s just plain lost his mind.“
“No need to present evidence to dismiss the crazy claims of Neil Oliver and fellow loonies.”
There are hundreds of tweets like that, all from people who think that they know things, and they think that they “know” purely because they believe, by default, various System and msm sources.
They cannot bear even seeing a dissident opinion.
Opinion polls in the UK seem to be showing that censorship, “no-platforming”, “cancelling” etc are becoming more popular, especially among the young.
As far as I am concerned, if people are becoming more and more like easily-corralled sheep, then such people are not worth having in our society, and read that how you like.
Is that true, or just jingoistic hot air? I have no idea.
"Good tank, you have to take it!": Vladimir Solovyov not only appreciated the Russian military equipment, but also personally tested the T-90 "Breakthrough" tank. pic.twitter.com/2Z2CKLeVs1
It is reported that PMC "Wagner" will become an addition to the regional grouping of the Union State in Belarus, the financing will be provided by the RF Ministry of Defense. pic.twitter.com/XJovrcnO0v
I am unsure at present whether there are being concentrated Russian forces in Belarus with the aim of launching an offensive south, toward Kiev, or whether those forces are there to keep Kiev-regime forces tied down on or near the Ukraine-Belarus border, so as to prevent the deployment of the Kiev-regime forces to the southeast regions, notably Donetsk and Lugansk, where most of the active combat is happening.
Ukrainian forces stopped on the Dnieper
Units of the "Dnieper" force group twice during the past day prevented attempts by the Ukrainian army to force an attack along the Dnieper River in the Kherson region. Five boats and 30 members of the Ukrainian forces were destroyed.
Russia is obviously not short of trucks, which is interesting.
Putin: If they use cluster munitions, we will use them too
🇷🇺So far, Russia has had no need to use cluster munitions, but if they are used against us, we reserve the right to reciprocate, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Another Kiev-regime press-gang. They have few volunteers now, and are running out of cannon-fodder.
Pot, kettle, black. You had years at the helm to ‘stop the boats’, and were all mouth and no action. We’ve noticed no difference between having you as Home Secretary or Suella Braverman. You’re both full of shit. https://t.co/8zjo9rtMCQ
So UK, eh? Defence Minister Ben Wallace quits after telling us UK will soon be at simultaneous war with Russia, China, and African terrorists. I guess the Ukrainian laundry closing soon. pic.twitter.com/ZWKkNf3kHu
Britain should be politely distant with China, friendly with Russia, and hostile only to (((you know who))) and other untermenschen…
Wallace dismissed concerns over the pace of Ukraine’s offensive. He said Kyiv’s forces were ‘advancing every day’, but had been somewhat slower than expected because Russia's lessons learned and they've adapted accordingly. /2
Having adapted, Moscow's forces now lay mixed minefields, combining anti-personnel and anti-tank mines to further slow any Ukrainian advance. Russia is also learning, and adapting its forces, to deal with new, long-range weapons introduced onto the battlefield, Wallace added. /4
Wallace said Ukraine hadn't yet committed reserves from its 12 offensive brigades, the majority of which were trained and armed by Nato allies. He said Kyiv hadn't yet made a choice on what potential axes of attack to 'really pile it on' in an attempt to breach the lines. /6
On future security guarantees for Kyiv, Wallace said: 'You could expect more British troops in Ukraine after this conflict than you did before.' He suggested these troops would be as part of 'capacity building' training missions, building on operations Orbital and Interflex. /8
There is no “after this conflict“. Either Russia effectively “wins” the conflict (whether by negotiation or in the field), or the whole thing turns into a general Eastern European and Central European war between Russia and NATO, which might or might not go nuclear.
Whatever or whichever, there will be few more UK troops in Ukraine. In any case, the British Army is almost non-existent now in terms of major field presence. Take away the office bods, clerks, rear-echelon elements, and the whole brass-hat staff officer element (etc, meaning all non-combatant units), and I doubt that the UK could field, overseas, more than about 20,000 active troops, at most.
Who cares what Ben Wallace says, anyway? His military service consisted of 7 years in the Scots Guards (1991-1998), during which he attained the modest rank of captain. His subsequent pronouncements have been mostly idiotic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wallace_(politician).
Incidentally, we need not take his decision to stand down as MP at the next general election (presumably in 2024) as having been prompted by anything based on principle.
Wallace’s Commons seat, Wyre and Preston North, is set to be abolished via boundary changes, so were Wallace to wish to stay in the Commons, he would have to find another seat quite soon, almost impossible in view of the expected Conservative Party mass wipeout at the (2024?) general election.
I suppose that Wallace will now be looking for some well-paid business sinecure, combined with a nice £350-taxfree-per-day House of Lords peerage in Sunak’s resignation honours list.
Drone-kamikaze "Lancet" strikes the American 155-mm self-propelled guns M109 in the Zaporozhye direction. pic.twitter.com/27b3d8fmgN
After the US left Afghanistan, the structure of exports in the country almost completely changed: the production of opium poppy collapsed (green curve) and the production of wheat (blue) increased sharply.
first above the people who vote in this country then?
— Steffi Thompson🏴 🇵🇸 (@SteffiThompson) July 16, 2023
Puppet on a chain…
How does this differ from the austerity govt of Cameron and Osborne?
It doesn't. It's identical.
Under Starmer, the Labour Party has become the Conservative Party of the 2010s.
Vote Labour for another decade of consciously cruel and economically illiterate austerity. pic.twitter.com/eFrDIz8Jfj
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) July 16, 2023
Late tweets
After the liberation of Crimea, Ukraine will expel up to 800 thousand Russians”: Kyiv threatens Russians with deportation and a “black list”
Tamila Tasheva, Zelensky's spokesman for peninsular affairs, reminded everyone about the terrorist nature of the Kyiv regime in an… pic.twitter.com/doHO9EB9tK
The Zelensky cabal counting their chickens before they are hatched.
No reaction so far from the usual Western “human rights” parasites about the plan to expel 800,000 Russians from their homes in Crimea, something akin to the deportations carried out by Stalin or (to a far lesser extent) Hitler.
In fact, the Kiev regime is engaged in “pie-in-the-sky” politics. Putin and the Russian Government (and people) will never allow the Kiev regime to annex Crimea again. If there were any real danger of that, the Russian forces would use tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield and, if that were not enough to stop any annexation, a strategic nuclear missile or two on Kiev itself. In that event, “goodbye Zelensky” or at least his corrupt and brutal government.
Donald Trump said that if he wins the presidential election in 2024, he intends to seek a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
"I will contact Putin in order to conclude an agreement with Zelensky. This will happen very quickly," the former US president said in an… pic.twitter.com/1dkwzZ5n5U
Johnson: Not even direct NATO intervention can save the Kiev regime SEAN BELL: UKRAINE WILL NOT RETURN CRIMEA AND DONBAS THROUGH DIPLOMATIC OR MILITARY WAYS Former Special Assistant to US President Ronald Reagan, Doug Bendow, called on the US authorities to end the already lost… pic.twitter.com/2VE8g1t8nQ
The Russian Army has been actively advancing on the Kupyan direction in the Kharkov region for two days in a row. We are on the defensive. Fierce battles are going on," Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar pic.twitter.com/kEziWXJJT6
Watched about 10 mins of the new TV spy drama, A Spy Among Friends. Had I known that it was about Philby, I should probably not have bothered. I do not have a lot of time for the so-called “master spy” whose reputation was and still is the most inflated since Mata Hari. No need to go into all that now, though.
I am rather impatient with films and TV dramas. If they bore or irritate me in the first 10-15 mins, I rarely watch on. In this case, there were invented scenes, which may have been inevitable, but some of them lacked any credibility. For example, there was a West Indian involved in the first few minutes, highly unlikely in 1963. Also, the show pushed, in those opening minutes, the buttons of all the known cliches about Philby— cricket, booze, womanizing etc.
It is true that Philby, had he become Chief of SIS, would have been a “master spy” or “legendary agent” (“legendary” in more ways than one). Not because (or primarily because) he would have been able to give the KGB secrets at all levels, but mainly because he would have been in a position to cripple SIS strategically, structurally; even more important, he would also have been in a position to deliberately mis-advise the Prime Minister and other ministers, and to point them in the wrong direction strategically.
It never happened. Philby was found by General Kalugin to be living in a permanently intoxicated state in his apartment in Gorky Street (now once again Tverskaya Street). Kalugin, and Philby’s last wife, Rufina, sobered him up somewhat, and Kalugin gave him mentoring work to do.
I myself was slightly acquainted in the early 1990s with a former KGB officer (turned businessman) called “Ed” (Edvard, from the Baltic regions or pribaltika), who told me at lunch in Hall at Lincoln’s Inn in 1994 (I think) that he had once heard a lecture by Philby at the Lubyanka. That lecture must have been late 1970s, or maybe early 1980s.
“Though Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman’s mustard and Lea & PerrinsWorcestershire sauce,[84] his wife Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova later described Philby as “disappointed in many ways” by what he found in Moscow. “He saw people suffering too much,” but he consoled himself by arguing that “the ideals were right but the way they were carried out was wrong. The fault lay with the people in charge.”[85] Pukhova said, “he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. He said, ‘Why do old people live so badly here? After all, they won the war.'”[86] Philby drank heavily and suffered from loneliness and depression; according to Rufina, he had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists some time in the 1960s.”
[Wikipedia]
Assuming that the above is accurate, Philby’s only very superficial understanding of politics, geopolitics, history, and economics is almost too obvious.
Even were A Spy Among Friends better than my first impressions, I would probably not bother with it, because at root, Philby just does not much interest me.
Ian Robert Millard 