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Diary Blog, 2 June 2026

Afternoon music

[William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Nymphs and Satyr]

Tweets seen

I was too kind. I had assumed that the “highly-skilled migrant” route into the UK would be used or misused to bring in (as I put it on the blog years ago) “Indians who can work a computer“. Looks like I really was either too kind or too optimistic.

Feliks Dzerzhinsky would know how to deal with this situation. Himmler, too.

At this point, looking 5-10-20-50 years down the line, it may be that we have to accept that something very unpleasant not only may take place but will probably have to take place, after which those of us that are left can start again from whatever base level we are on.

It is not possible at present to do what I should favour.

The woodentops (police) of the UK are —many and perhaps most of them— now brainwashed on “anti-racism” and other “courses”, including “antisemitism” ones run by the malicious Jew-Zionist pressure group (posing as a fake “charity”), “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (aka “CAA”), which is led by proven Jewish liars and perjurers .

Police personnel wanting promotion cannot now expect any, certainly not above sergeant, unless they have been on such courses and ticked all the “right” boxes.

Even their lies are mediocre and uncreative.

[“Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

People tell me: “Why don’t you work together with the AfD? They agree with you on many issues. You would have a majority in the German Bundestag.”

I will not do that. And there is a very simple reason. This party wants to take Germany back to the time before Adenauer.

With Adenauer, we left the age of nationalism behind us in Germany. And I will not lead the Federal Republic of Germany—and I will not lead my party—back behind the era of Adenauer.“]

Merz is a stupid little man, completely in the pocket of Israel and the Jewish lobby. He is (as Merkel was) presiding over the continuing decline of Germany, which is invaded by blacks and browns, and being degraded in every way. West Germany, pre-1990, was so much better than Germany now; even the DDR (East Germany) was at least German, if nothing else.

It is an open question now whether German society falls to pieces from inside, or will be devastated again from without, and as a consequence of its continuing support for the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev.

[Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin 1945]

Interesting. It is certainly true that, if a party is not given as a valid option to choose, only a few will, of their own volition, mention it.

That poll would seem to indicate that Labour may not revive even if Burnham does replace Starmer-stein. Not so surprising, really. After all, Burnham offers nothing new, just a mish-mash of Blairism, Gordon Brown-ism, general “Northern”-ness, and a vague semi-socialist or social-democratic feeling not amounting to policy.

Of course, the opinion poll will not be accurate if Restore Britain is really running at a higher level of support and if it challenges Reform UK in enough constituencies at the next GE.

Leaving that aside, and taking that poll as offered, the result at a GE would be a Commons with about 338 Reform MPs (reasonable working majority), 67 Greens (extremely weak official Opposition), 65 LibDems, 63 Cons, 45 SNP, and 44 Lab [etc]. That means that no less than 352 present Labour MPs would lose their seats, as would 53 Con Party MPs.

Incidentally, on those figures, both Starmer and any Labour MP at Makerfield would also lose their seats. Burnham might, therefore, not last long even if he does win that by-election.

Hardy-ha-ha. Jew trolls have operated constantly on Twitter/X for years, without the police taking any interest, but if anyone on Twitter/X replies to their trolling, those replying are often bothered by the police, who are triggered by faked-up complaints by those Jews, acting secretly in concert. Some people have even been prosecuted as a result.

Stephen Silverman, the self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “CAA”, made a completely untrue allegation of “racial harassment” against me in 2021 (I had never met or even seen the bastard and did not know his address, or any of his contact details).

After much correspondence with the police woodentop dealing with the matter (a uniformed —as well as uninformed— constable), and a ludicrous interview at my local police station, I was never charged (unsurprisingly, as there was not the slightest evidence against me), yet look at the nonsense I had to endure by reason of Silverman’s lies…

I should really have made complaint myself to the police about Silverman’s plain attempt to pervert the course of justice, not to mention his deliberate and malicious wastage of police time, but I never did, and the woodentops were either too much in the Jew-Zionist pocket or too lazy and incompetent to do anything pro-actively about his crimes.

Oh, the police force involved (Gloucestershire Police, where Silverman now lives apparently were also involved) was Hampshire Constabulary, the same force now under fire re. the Henry Nowak murder:

Of course the Jews in question are a tiny minority, mostly if not all (I think all) supporters of that small, malicious and perjuring but (((well-funded))) “lawfare” cabal, the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.

Basu (half-Indian, half-Welsh) resigned from the police early. “NBG”?

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

Enemy of the (real) British people, in my view. If I am wrong, I am wrong, but that is my view. I have seen his excusing of black and pro-black mob violence and, in any case, why should the death of a black criminal in the USA cause riots —or indeed any concern at all— here? I refer of course, to that George Floyd individual. A contrived System propaganda ploy, of course.

Talking point

Vote for Enoch Powell,’ came the counsel from a stage in the West Midlands. ‘Stop Britain from becoming a black colony … Get the foreigners out … I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man.’

Not some ranting nutcase from the National Front, but an inebriated Eric Clapton (now CBE), formerly of Cream and latterly of Hello! magazine. Yes, Clapton – who played the blues, but whose outburst in August 1976 came hot on the heels of another from David Bowie, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to be ‘the first rock star’ and urging that what Britain needed was a ‘right-wing dictatorship’.”

[Guardian, 2007: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/04/race.otherparties]

More tweets

I do not understand how that would even be possible, bearing in mind that Madame Macron had three children with her first husband.

For more about the Macrons, see this 2019 blog post:

That would be great. I do not care who wins; I just want fake Labour to lose.

Remember that “Conservative” idiot-MP, Scott-something, who wanted to have GPS tracking inserted into every knife in the UK? I did a Deadhead MPs piece about him years ago; but he lost his seat at GE 2024 and has either reverted to being a postman (a far more useful occupation) or is now unemployed Ah, here it is:

Bravo!

Late music

Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: The Scott Mann Story

A Few Preliminary Words

I have blogged in the past about a few MPs in the present House of Commons who stand out even in that —at best— mediocre ensemble for their stupidity, deadheadedness and general uselessness. My most recent targets have been Kate Osamor MP and Fiona Onasanya MP. I move now to examine Scott Mann, Conservative Party MP for North Cornwall.

Scott Mann has made so little impact in Parliament since he was elected in 2015 that I was entirely unaware of his existence until today, despite the fact that, in the years 2002-2004, I myself lived in the North Cornwall constituency and had a lease of one of the largest country houses there [seen below in a 1940s photograph]

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The North Cornwall Constituency

The constituency is largely rural, though it contains some fairly small towns (Launceston, Bude, Wadebridge, Padstow); it has a significant, mostly coastal, tourist industry. It was held by the Liberal Democrats from 1992 to 2015. The national collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote in 2015, which continued in 2017, was reflected in North Cornwall. The Conservative, Mann, increased his vote share from 45% in 2015 to 50.7% in 2017. It can now be considered a safe Conservative seat.

Scott Mann

I am not someone who is biased against those who drop out of school or education; after all, I myself did! (and then had to do it all myself later). There are several possible reasons (apart from sheer lack of ability) why someone gets a university degree late or (as in Mann’s case) not at all (and in any case the “degree” label is so devalued these days anyway), but Mann’s background, like those of so many MPs now, does not inspire confidence.

Mann was educated locally before becoming a postman, working out of the sorting office in Wadebridge (Cornwall), the town in which he had been both born and brought up.

In 2007, Mann was elected as a county councillor. In 2016, he resigned after having been criticized for poor attendance. He remained a postman until he became an MP.

Mann employs his girlfriend as “part-time secretary” via Parliamentary expenses (she gets about £30,000 a year for a part-time job). Apparently, they do not live together. He also claims, or has done, for other personal items, such as Amazon Prime [see Notes, below], and for his London accommodation. Well, after all, he lived for years on a modest Royal Mail pay-packet, and the opportunities to make hay, as a county councillor, are far more limited than those open to an MP.

Now Mann has come to public attention as the idiot who says that all knives should be fitted with GPS (!) and that anyone carrying one should be severely punished unless hunting, fishing or shooting! P.G. Wodehouse meets Common Purpose? I have some sympathy with the tweeters who asked “how are you even an MP?”

“Scott Mann admitted his idea was “s—“, but added: “ultimately we do have a problem, and no one’s coming up with any solutions, we need to sort it out.”” [Daily Telegraph]

I fear that the answer to the above question (as to how this idiot ever became an MP) is the same as applies to all other “deadhead” MPs (and they are many) in the Westminster monkeyhouse: they get through a selection procedure which is often a joke, or rigged, then get “elected” in circumstances where only one candidate (sometimes two, very occasionally three) has a realistic chance, because of FPTP voting, dominated by 2 or 3 System parties.

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Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Mann_(politician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cornwall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/150608/mann_scott.htm

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25383/scott_mann/north_cornwall

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/11/nine-mps-used-parliamentary-expenses-fund-amazon-prime-subscriptions/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-47572133

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-ridiculed-after-saying-all-knives-sold-in-uk-should-be-fitted-with-gps-trackers-a4091791.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/14/mp-mocked-suggesting-knives-should-fitted-gps-trackers/

The tweet that exposed Scott Mann MP as a deadhead…

The twitterati respond…

Update, 4 December 2019

Unusually, especially for a Cornishman (I would suppose anyway), Mann cannot swim. He nearly drowned in 2016 and had to be saved by fellow-MP Johnny Mercer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer_(politician)#Personal_life

Update, 26 February 2020

The General Election 2019 confirmed Mann as MP for North Cornwall. In fact, Mann received the votes of no less than 59.4% of those who bothered to vote, the largest winning percentage in the history of the constituency if one leaves out the unopposed victories of Liberals in 1918 and 1923.

In 2019, Mann managed to more than double his 2017 majority to 14,752; he also doubled his majority in percentage terms. Interestingly, the LibDem candidate’s percentage share (30.8%) fell not only compared to 2017 (36.6%) but even as compared to 2015 (31.2%). Another sign that the LibDems are on the way out even in former strongholds.

Update, 2 March 2020

In February 2020, Mann was appointed PPS to Gavin Williamson, the Secretary of State for Education (formerly —and risibly— Secretary of State for Defence), who himself has featured in these pages as a “Deadhead MP”: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-gavin-williamson-story/.

Update, 21 June 2024

Well, less than 2 weeks separate us from Election Day 2024. The Guardian has done a piece on North Cornwall at election time: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/19/field-fork-disillusioned-voters-feeling-pinch-north-cornwall.

Seems that deadhead MP Scott Mann is now odds-on to lose his seat to the LibDems. Five years ago, and in fact until quite recently, I thought that “LibDemmery” was dead, but it has revived as a result of the total incompetence of the present Conservative Party and its ministers and MPs, and may be set to actually get 40, 50, maybe even 60 or 70 seats at the 2024 General Election. Who would have thought it? Unmerited, of course, but unmerited benefit is, after all, so UK 2024…

As for Scott Mann himself…well, my opinion is that, for someone with his very underwhelming academic and work background, he has been very lucky to have had a pretty well-paid near-sinecure as MP for 9 years.

Indeed, in 2022, he was even appointed to a minor ministerial position (as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, or PUS) by Liz Truss. That was after he was “shifted” says his Wikipedia entry (probably edited by Mann himself) in 2021 after a few months being a Government Whip (paid) to being an Assistant Whip (unpaid). Translation: he’s useless.

Mann will now have to forgo the MP salary (now over £90,000 p.a., plus pretty decent expenses), and that also means that the London flat will go, as will (at least as paid “part-time secretary”) his girlfriend.

In fact, MP salaries are not paid while Parliament is not sitting by reason of a General Election, so he may already be feeling the pinch.

Mann could, I suppose, go back to being a postman, a far more socially-useful job than being an MP, at least one of the type Mann has been. Otherwise, unless his friends can find a job for him, he may soon start to learn from personal experience how hard life can be in contemporary Britain for the unemployed, especially at his age (46).

That should not come as too much of a shock to him, though. After all, he himself voted for all of the anti-“welfare” nonsense put through from 2015-2024, and approved of most if not all of the Dunce Duncan Smith nonsense of 2010-2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Mann_(politician)#3rd_term_as_MP_(2019-).

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25383/scott_mann/north_cornwall#profile

https://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp/scott-mann/4496

Update, 5 July 2024

Mann came a very poor second at GE 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cornwall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s