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5/10 this week, trumping the 3/10 of political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8.
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The poisoning of the world and the global conversation.
Why would they do that? Wherever they go, they cause trouble.
“Uniparty”…
Someone who killed several great empires: the German Reich, then (after 1945, when subject peoples were eventually allowed “independence” because the European nations were exhausted) the French, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese etc, and…the British Empire as well.
Had Churchill not blagged his way into taking over as Prime Minister in 1940, an honourable armistice might have been, and almost certainly would have been, concluded between the British Empire and the German Reich.
Western and Central Europe would thus have been saved from the ravages of war, and Eastern Europe from at least some of the ravages of war. Stalinism would either have been defeated in the field, or contained east of the Urals. Eastern and parts of Central Europe would then not have fallen under the rule of the Soviet Union in the 1940s (which rule of course lasted until the late 1980s).
In such a scenario, there would have been no premature decolonization in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Massive damage to the environment and wildlife would have been largely averted.
That never happened, mainly because Churchill became Prime Minister of the UK. Almost everything else was consequential.
Disastrous.
We in the UK would also have avoided being gradually and largely taken over by the “you know who” special interest tribe. Oh, and would never have been invaded, whether by Windrush (etc) Caribbeans or by rubber boat migrant-invaders from every failed state in the world.
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My blog posts from summer 2024 clearly show my own understanding of the early failure of both Starmer-stein and his Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.
As for the constituency of Gorton and Denton, one of its predecessor constituencies, the main one, was Manchester Gorton, whose MP 1955-1967 was Konni Zilliacus, a crypto-Communist (according to George Orwell) of both Swedish-Finnish and American origins, and whose aged American widow de facto (they never actually married) I knew slightly when I lived in the Little Venice area of London in the 1980s (mainly); she was the friend of a friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konni_Zilliacus; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konni_Zilliacus#Personal_life; https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jan-zilliacus-1097376.html.
Konni Zilliacus was of affluent background, and had attended both Bedales (school) in Hampshire and, later, Yale.
The Zilliacuses met both Stalin and Tito, inter alia, during the late 1940s.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Loyd.
I used to find it tiring (and boring) rowing on the Thames (when I was at school, well over half a century ago), but these people row the Atlantic! What a feat.
The allegation is not new, but plausible confirmation may be.
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Allegorical, if one thinks of UK System-politics…
Only real social-national policies can now save this country.
I, on the other hand, will presume that Irene Coslet herself is a Jewish woman, until I see evidence to the contrary. She may not be Jewish, in fact, but there is certainly more likelihood of her being Jewish than there is of Shakespeare having been a Jew.
We no longer have academia in this country, but a kind of degenerate pseudo-academia. “They”, of course, are well represented therein.
Those blurred lines are mainly, though not entirely, a legacy of the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic.
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Britain must leave NATO, stay out of the EU, cold-shoulder Israel, and forge new and strong links with the Russian Federation.
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