4. To get rid of the groundwater that fills Clive’s well and that Clive uses to grow fruit, vegetables, and flowers, developers installed at least 800 underground well points and pumped the groundwater out of the ground near Clive’s farm. pic.twitter.com/na2mtMkRPg
[houses built by Bloor Homes at “Northstowe”. Could the architect —if any—and builders have made them any uglier? They look more like buildings in some decayed area of local council housing. Where is the space for Nature? Who would actually want to live there?]
Until I am convinced otherwise, I remain of the view that there is some secret or semi-secret plan to move the centre of gravity of England from the London area to a belt broadly stretching from Oxford to Cambridge.
I first became interested in this when on the road rather a lot in the years 2002-2007, going to county courts all over the place. I noticed the amount of roadbuilding and road improvement going on in that Oxford-Cambridge belt north of southern England but south of the Midlands.
I later discovered that railway links were also being created or upgraded: see, eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Line [“There are funded plans for the entire line to be re-established by the “mid 2020s”, partly on a new route and under a new name – East West Rail” —Wikipedia].
There may be a plan, perhaps secret, to create an urbanized belt, or initially a linked series of urbanizations, as a fallback position should London and the southeast suffer damage through war or natural disasters.
Milton Keynes is halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, and has been greatly expanded in recent decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes. I can remember when it was little more than a building site; that was in 1977. I hardly recognized it when staying in the city for a couple of days in 2007 (for a case at Milton Keynes County Court, something that did not exist in 1977 or even, as far as I know, 1987; I first visited the Court in 2002).
Guess who/what is the local councillor (with responsibility for planning the “Northstowe” area) is?
[Tumi Hawkins: “LibDem District Councillor for Caldecote Ward, Cabinet Member for Planning at @SouthCambs. Chartered Engineer, Businesswoman. Jazzercise fanatic. Drummer”]
“I then became a property developer and investor, buying, selling and building/renovating property in Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. I then moved on to ecommerce, developing our own range of dog skin care products selling on our website and on sites like amazon and ebay.” [Councillor Tumi Hawkins].
Take a look at the comments underneath her biography, comments by local people.
She seems to be unwilling to address the issues raised by local (English) people:
@CouncillorTumi has refused to meet with us to discuss these issues for the past 4 years.
Perhaps Jack could publicly disown the behaviour of these “fans” who are bullying innocent people who simply want a refund of the money which Jack has dishonestly kept.
This is what happens in (other) frauds such as Ponzi schemes. Any “investor” who makes a loud-enough noise is paid back, but most either do not ask for the money taken from them to be repaid, or the repayment demands are not loud enough.
Lots of us who donated to her are disabled and felt solidarity. I don’t believe she has arthritis any more. Nothing she says is true. If you can tweet you can refund, it’s less buttons. She can’t see this but it’s frustrating when I see how she’s playing the victim YET AGAIN.
She’s blocked me for asking for a refund. Her ‘fans’ started on me so I deleted my tweets since she can’t see them anyway. If this refund is real I hope others get what they’re owed. She should pause her patreon and stop pretending to be sick and bullied.
“Jack Monroe” usually does this— either ignores questions and criticism, and tweets irrelevant rubbish, or snarls, threatening critics with Jew lawyers or “flying monkeys” (mentally-disturbed fans), or —in extremis— makes up a story of how she is suffering from an attack of a physical or mental illness. Who knows? She may actually half-believe that the illnesses are real; a psychosomatic reaction.
How much did you pay her in total, if you don’t mind me asking?
Refund update: It is now 78 days (or 11 weeks & 1 day) since @BootstrapCook Jack Monroe agreed to give me a refund for Patreon fees. I see she yesterday refunded someone else. It appears that small claims court is the way forward. With added statutory interest + my admin fee. pic.twitter.com/tH43ckeVm4
Jack Monroe has worked out how to refund people – at the literal last minute before legal action was commenced. Precedent is set – if you want a refund for her failure to deliver as promised, nows the time to hit her with the request & threat of MCOL if she fails to refund you. https://t.co/VE4K0BRJ6d
Jack Monroe has issued one refund. If it was anyone else I’d suggest giving them the benefit of the doubt, and time to get sorted. But she promised a refund 11 weeks ago and it seems it’s a narcissist control thing to keep the money when you clearly have them means to sort it.
One refund out of (presently) 635 utter mugs on Patreon, who are each sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 every month, and not forgetting the unknown number previously cheated by “Jack Monroe”, and who are now no longer sending her money; at one time there were 800 “patrons” —incredibly— largely because the Jewish TV cook, Nigella Lawson, helped to promote the whole “Bootstrap Cook” image. Nigella Lawson’s commendation of “Jack Monroe” is still on the front cover of the latest (and ludicrous) “Jack Monroe” book, Thrifty Kitchen.
Jack Monroe is a liar & scammer. She has been dining out on the promised “VBI” for nearly a year now. It doesn’t exist. She has not helped anyone with it. Also, she did not help the ONS as FOI have proven. Calling out scams and asking for refunds is not trolling or harassment. pic.twitter.com/0bbT4aYQAC
MyLondon's Mariam Khan speaks to "locals" in Shadwell who all tell her the best thing about living there is being among their own kind pic.twitter.com/e2PHma95Yw
Afghan mother-of-two says living in London hotel ‘like a prison’ amid affordable housing shortage https://t.co/ly3mNtNFJo Another Afghan moaning about the FREE Hotel they have been living in being like a prison. Later on this month she will be in Parliament talking to MPs.
That tweet refers, of course, to Kurdish carpetbagger Nadhim Zahawi.
Of course they are hypocrites – Jesus I am old enough to remember Diane Abbott admitting her son went to a private school – it is always one rule for them and one rule for the rest https://t.co/rYq2HF0uG5
Yvette Cooper, Wes Streeting, Lisa Nandy, Angela Rayner…no wonder they take orders from the Jewish-lobby, aka Israel-lobby. They “need” the money from those slush funds to fuel their lifestyles (the lifestyles they keep hidden from the public gaze)…
Late afternoon music
[Eton College Chapel]
Late tweets seen
Jack Monroe is really trying to portray herself as frail and vulnerable. What she is omitting from this image is that she took money from vulnerable families. Money from disabled families. Deflect all you like Jack, people aren’t forgetting.
Jack Monroe is a well-paid poverty tour-guide exploiting the good nature of the less well-off to fund a frivolous and extravagant lifestyle. F@cking shambles of a person. Well done for calling her out.
Owen Jones, who wailed like a girl for two years that the economy should be trashed, people’s immune systems ruined, frontline care stopped, and everyone injected with poison, now tells us with a heavy heart that the current NHS crisis was avoidable. https://t.co/FVxVtNBdeP
In case some of you haven’t realised: nobody anywhere who hasn’t got this stuff in their body is going to suddenly decide to go out and get their first shot at this point. The damage is done. It’s about truth and justice now.
“An obscure company has handed more than £340,000 to three senior Labour figures.
Analysis of political funding has revealed that MPM Connect Ltd has been the third-biggest donor to MPs since the general election.
It has given £183,317 to shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, £100,000 to former South Yorkshire mayor Dan Jarvis and £60,000 to health spokesman Wes Streeting.“
'People were dying with flu between 2020 and 2021, but they were being labelled as Covid…when are they going to talk about the excess deaths?'@thecoastguy discusses whether the establishment are weaponising common illnesses to try and control us. pic.twitter.com/sxYk9xeNjT
Oxford is now emerging as a UK centre of resistance against draconian schemes (also coming to cities) that would force residents and visitors to obtain council permission / permits to drive along the city's main roads. Hundreds have turned out to start the fightback. pic.twitter.com/5NW6IbEbwT
I have been fighting the corruption of science for years now, starting when I realized that early treatment against C-19 was suppressed globally. Battling the rot at the core of the medical sciences has become my life's work. https://t.co/mB28GwJbbv
To protect you from Covid and just because it’s the “natural way things are going”
The manufactured unnatural ‘new normal’ was never voted for democratically. It’s being force on you by those who stand to gain!pic.twitter.com/rE4bt3kc5Z
How many billions of single use face masks ended up in our oceans and landfill – thrown there by the same people who pretend to care about the environment… 😐😷🐋
Not a peep from these actors about masks, vaxx injured, civil rights, the abuse of power over the last 34 months. He seems to think changing parties will make a difference 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/7CNFdYnbm9
Not that I disagree with him about Sunak’s “study maths until age 18” nonsense. The most important thing in that regard is to drill very basic maths (multiplication, subtraction, division) into pupils aged 7 or so. I constantly meet young and not so young cashiers at Waitrose who literally cannot work out how many lottery tickets are necessary for X-number of lines at Y-number per ticket. Some have to use a calculator!
Of course, “@TheFreds” are quite right: changing the colour of the deck chairs on the Titanic changes nothing but the scenery.
More lies from “Jack Monroe”
How do we trust anything @BootstrapCook says when she claims to have changed and then immediately lies again about something so trivial? If you can lie about something so easily disproven then how much more is lies?
Because it's pathological. To see people presented with the lies and still say she's the victim of trolls is absurd. Some people won't accept the truth when it's staring at them, it's sad really that people prop up the lies.
Serious pathological/psychological condition, I think.
I posed the question weeks, and I think even months, ago as to whether “Jack Monroe” sometimes makes up things and rolls out a pack of lies almost daring people to accuse her of lying, as in (to take a few examples only) that she was “on the game” (prostitution) in Essex (by reason of impecuniosity), that she attended the Grenfell Tower fire (60+ miles from where she lives), was “waved through the police cordon” (oh yes, the police would really allow a stray interfering rubbernecker to go through…) and even had plans of the building (why would she? How could she?).
The “Bootstrap Cook” said that she was so poor that she had to sell her small son’s toy dinosaur, that she had to take out lightbulbs in order not to waste electricity, and that she had to boil soap to make shower gel (which does not even stack up logically, when 90p shower gel lasts for 1-3 weeks with daily use, and when boiling soap costs money in itself; and why not just use the soap instead of trying to make gel out of it?). Ludicrous.
On several occasions, I have been certain in my own mind that her lies must amount to her thinking “surely the sad bastards won’t buy this one?!“, and then they (those who defend her to the marrow) do buy whatever absolute crap she comes out with at any given moment; while also (631 utter mugs as of today) each sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month!
In other words, at times she is certainly, in the well-known phrase, “having a laugh”, a laugh at the expense of the mugs subsidizing her and the others promoting her, the latter including Nigella Lawson, at least a couple of Labour MPs, and of course the media rats from the Guardian, Observer, BBC and Channel 4.
I think that “Jack Monroe” lies mainly because she enjoys inventing a fake or 90% fake narrative, and because she enjoys making absolute mugs out of those who not only defend her as a supposed —if risible— “champion of the poor” but who also send money to her!
She herself has said recently that her basic lifestyle, inc. rent, utilities, food, adds up to about £4,000 a month. The 631 utter mugs subsidizing her are anyway sending more than that (I am guessing about £6,000 but it may be more) each month.
Was she helping when, by her own admission she solicited money for her “work” and spaffed it on drink, drugs and tat? It wasn’t just the m/class that was donating. She should be hanging her head in shame and so should you for excusing her. Im disgusted with the lot of you pic.twitter.com/gWH0SN1Zti
I have no idea who that particular mug is, nor whether his/her problem is a mental illness or just plain everyday stupidity, but imagine taking money off someone like that on the false promise/threat that Con Party MP, Lee Anderson, was going to be sued for stating, entirely truthfully, something along the lines of the assertion that “Jack Monroe” is basically a fraud (at very least, a “grifter”) “living off the backs of the poor“, which is exactly what she is and does.
It is obvious that “Jack Monroe” is not going to sue Lee Anderson and/or Martin Daubney, though she has hinted at “things going on behind the scenes etc”.
Rubbish. Technically, she has 3-4 months left before the one-year limitation applies, but Lee Anderson has apparently not even received any letter before action.
It’s another “Jack Monroe” lie, in other words.
I think that “Jack Monroe” has one main intent, which is to be the centre of attention. Nothing else. I believe, rightly or wrongly, that even the money she gets from mugs etc. is very secondary to that central narcissism.
Incidentally, the “media folk” are still promoting her— there are a couple of articles even today in the Metro newspaper, giving “tips” and a recipe, and no mention of the scandal(s).
Afternoon music
[Ava Gardner in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman]
Strange to see: I was just reading about Ava Gardner [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Gardner] and saw that she died in 1990, aged 67, at at her home in Ennismore Gardens, Kensington (London), near Kensington Gardens, where she had lived since 1968. I never knew. Had I thought of it at all, I probably would have assumed that she lived in either California or New York City.
I have only been to that exact place once, I think; in the very early 1980s, with someone escorting the then Metropolitan of Kiev (a kind of Russian Orthodox archbishop, the second-highest prelate of that church) who was then visiting London. The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition is at the end of a kind of hidden-away cul de sac there. We dropped him there, and were invited in (no-one else was around, as far as I can recall). The Metropolitan kindly gave me a bottle of Moskovskaya vodka.
Winner of the first "chinny reckon, that never happened" award of the year goes to Jack Monroe who thinks you get bookings by being unmasked as a fraud, exposed as lying in the press with 6 negative articles in a matter of days, a flopped book launch, and dropped by an agent. pic.twitter.com/zwIdcNORil
In other words, only 1 person out of every 235 is on the side of “Jack Monroe” and her tweet.
Most supporters of the “Bootstrap Cook” effectively say, on the larger scale, “let’s bin the Tories. Once ‘Labour’ are in government, everything will be fine, or start to be fine“…
Does anyone with any sense actually believe that? The migration-invasion (both across the Channel and otherwise) will continue unchanged in numbers, and Rachel Reeves and her fellow Labour Friends of Israel MPs will be even harder on the unemployed, disabled etc than the fake “Conservatives” have been— she said so expressly.
In a binary political system, and one where both main System parties are really almost identical, you cannot change things very much by squashing one party at some election or other, because the other one is thereby strengthened, and the “Deep State” policies continue largely unchanged.
It would appear Tom doesn’t like questions or people pointing out he has deleted tweets. pic.twitter.com/yPbNbPTl9y
That Tom Doorley person is an Irish restaurant critic, who has been oddly biased in favour of the “Bootstrap Cook” for some time; see also https://www.tomdoorley.com/about.
Harry on Rebekah Brooks “an infected pustule on the arse of humanity, plus a shit excuse for a journalist.” Thats a pint in the pump for him. Well said son. pic.twitter.com/RMKnXz4qub
Ha. Well, there it is. For once I have to agree with “The Harry Formerly Known as Prince”!
More tweets
NEW: The far right group Patriotic Alternative Scotland is the subject of a counter-terrorism strategy involving the Scottish Government, The Ferret can reveal. https://t.co/1wpNEnPgkV
Unfortunately, despite being a lecturer, @ItsFreyaVass is only capable of responding to discussion through the medium of Gif. I suspect it's because she doesn't have a strong argument in defence of Jack Monroe's recent admissions.
It’s fine, she clearly thinks she has enough money to never have to feel like this and so is feeling smug. I hope she never has to deal with a sudden and disabling illness that takes away everything she has, like we had.
I just glad the uni I went to had a better class of caring staff and lecturers. I visited yesterday for something and it’s still a very special place to study and be supported.
You’re a very deeply troubled woman, you might want to take your employer off your profile as it really reflects badly on them. Harassing struggling people online isn’t a good look for anyone, let alone someone teaching others.
Even the authorities admit German cities on New Year's Eve were like "civil war". But the best they can do is propose a ban on fireworks. Given the vast amounts of real weapons leaking onto the black market from corrupt Ukraine, worse is to come. #Enochhttps://t.co/nOvhCVjXeZ
I myself am at present disinclined to bother with having my Twitter account reinstated (it having been “suspended” quasi-permanently after a pack of malicious Jews conspired to make a mass complaint in 2018).
Imagine if almost all 5-y-o children had such talents. That is what we aim for in the creation of a “super-race”— not political or military power, primarily, but a quantum leap in the overall level of advanced humanity.
Well, only 5/10 this week, though that was still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored only 2/10 (and, as always, I commend his honesty in admitting it).
I did not know the answers to questions 2, 5, 7, 9, and 10.
Tweets seen
Just watching a man being interviewed by Kay Burley saying that St Paul's is a working cathedral – open for everyone. Last time I went it cost £12 to get in !!!
I recall being shocked, when aged about 22, and when I visited St. Paul’s for the first (and I think only) time, and found it had a revolving door like a busy hotel, and —inside— stalls selling souvenirs etc.
“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” [Matthew 21:12-13]
[El Greco, Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple]
Here we are, 2000 years later, and Mammon still infects the house of Spirit…
Kay Burley pisses people off because she tends to scupper their enjoyment of bending their knee & doffing their caps to that lazy, lying, law-breaking oaf. I mean, ffs. Imagine claiming to be patriotic & still thinking that useless git is good enough to be British Prime Minister.
As far as Boris-idiot is concerned, one can only agree.
Asked by Kay Burley how many ounces were in a pound, he replied 14 – though the correct answer is 16.
He was also asked how many grams of sausage he would get if he ordered a pound and replied 250g. But the minister remained some way off, as the correct answer is 450g. pic.twitter.com/CKoLDfze6b
'[…] a number of reasons why Denisova was removed, including "the numerous details of 'unnatural sexual offenses' and child sexual abuses in the occupied territories, which were unsupported by evidence and only harmed Ukraine."https://t.co/yV9MlTnJdk
The Ukrainian side has “played a blinder” on propaganda. The Jewish regime in Kiev has managed to convince much of the Western world that Zelensky’s regime is a democratic government, with civil rights, despite the facts that all opposition parties are now banned, all opposition leaders in the country are under arrest and badly-treated, and any criticism of Zelensky or the war is met with arrest or worse.
Even the fact that a Ukrainian government negotiator was shot in the head in Kiev by Zelensky’s security people for being “pro-Russian” or “a Russian agent” has not damaged much the propaganda picture shown on Western television, because that incident was scarcely reported.
Despite the above, the propaganda picture effort is faltering now. More and more incidents or events have been shown up as completely fake: the “Ghost of Kiev” (non-existent), the Snake Island retort (never happened) and, more importantly, the whole narrative that Ukrainian forces are winning this war.
Ukrainian forces are losing at least as many men as the Russian Army, about 100 per day. Ukrainian forces may be (in the east of Ukraine) running out of fuel, ammunition, and food. The whole of Ukraine east of the Dnieper river and south of Kiev may soon be under Russian control.
A personal reminiscence
As noted yesterday, I happened to see the following YouTube video:
[Robert Powell, astrosophist, talking about, inter alia, the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations, and about astronomy, astrology, and astrosophy]
That is someone whom I met about 43 years ago, in or about 1979, at the Goetheanum, in Switzerland.
I was at the time a frequent visitor to the Library of the Anthroposophical Society in Park Road, London (near Regent’s Park). The librarian there, on discovering that I was intending to fly to Basel and to visit the Goetheanum, said that Robert Powell was living there, and he would write to him to the effect that I might be arriving, and perhaps he could show me around.
Tomberg had settled, after WW2, in the mid-1940s, in the village (now a suburb) of Emmer Green, near Reading, Berkshire.
I myself was born, in 1956, at Reading. Now I discover (only yesterday) that Robert Powell was also born at Reading, at about the time that Tomberg settled in the area, in 1947.
As to my trip to Switzerland, I did go to the Goetheanum, arriving at Dornach [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornach] late in the day. I checked into the little inn by the railway station and then set off at once to see the famous Goetheanum.
In fact, I had not been able to arrange anything specific by way of meeting Robert Powell.
On approaching the main doors of the Goetheanum (huge, like those at the Lubyanka in Moscow), I saw that the building had closed for the day, but an attendant appeared and, hearing that I had just come from London, offered to show me the building.
My impression? A feeling that it was halfway between a museum (such as the British Museum) and what I supposed an ancient Egyptian temple might have felt like (rather than looked like).
After that tour, I was shown out and, near the doors of the building, out of the near-darkness, a young man appeared and (having never met me, nor seen a photo of me) asked whether I was Ian Millard! This was Robert Powell, someone with a slight air of mystery, but worn lightly.
Powell lived somewhere in the vicinity (I do not believe that I ever saw where), and was apparently friendly with a German girl who also lived locally, whom I met, and who kindly took time to show me a couple of places.
Despite his having things to do, over the next few days, Powell met me several times, and showed me a few of the local sights seen by few: some ruined small mediaeval castles; the small lake where, supposedly, Parsifal first saw the Fisher King, another site by that lake where a small rivulet ran through stone blocks which formed a floor: this was, I heard, the place where Siegmund and Sieglinde lived, and where, in legend, “a river ran through their kitchen“.
Powell also showed me a place in the hills (Dornach is in the foothills of the Jura Mountains) where there was a kind of natural platform, in the stone of the hill itself, where there was a kind of oblong chamber in the rock, about the size of a human being plus about 6 inches all round. There was also a seat cut into the stone by the oblong chamber. This, I was told, was where a priest-initiate of the ancient (Central European) Celtic Mysteries would sit, guarding the pupil of those Mysteries who would be for three days in a comatose state in the oblong chamber, experiencing occult initiation. Geothermal warmth heated the oblong, almost magically so.
The German girl mentioned took me to see a pleasant if slightly eccentric old lady who lived in a house close to the Goetheanum. She was of Russian extraction, I think, and had been there since the time of the building of the present Goetheanum in the 1920s (the first, wooden, one having burned down). In fact, she had herself known, or at least met, Rudolf Steiner, who started it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner.
I spent the last few days of my week in the district mostly alone. I had transferred from the railway inn to an almost deserted anthropop guesthouse (this was Autumn-time) to save money, Switzerland being rather expensive. I attended a eurythmy performance at nearby Arlesheim, returned to the Goetheanum for a longer look around, and had a look around the nearby city of Basel and saw the turbulent river Rhine—10 miles away—as well.
Interesting to see that Robert Powell is still around. The young man I encountered in Switzerland, and who is now author of many books on spirituality, astrosophy etc is still recognizable at the age of 74 or 75.
Wes Streeting, a non-Jew member of Labour Friends of Israel (I believe that all or almost all of Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet are LFI members). Streeting is a complete puppet. In fact he only became head of the National Union of Students in 2008, aged 25, because the Union of Jewish Students supported his candidature: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Streeting.
Tory leadership manoeuvres latest: leadership candidates and their teams have been asking Tory staffers to “remain on standby” over the next few weeks and months. Told not to book holidays etc
One of the consequences of preventing almost anyone with ideas or independence from being selected as a System party candidate for Parliament is that only mediocrities, puppets, and complete idiots are selected. The pool of MPs is therefore composed largely of persons of those types.
Unwittingly satirical is the outfit, looking at the numbers of blacks who are trying to blag getting into Western Europe as “Ukrainian” “refugees”; Ireland has been stupid enough to allow in a number; maybe the UK as well.
I wonder what Rees-Mogg is thinking, as he stares down at that African woman, whom I presume (?) is some kind of diplomat.
I thought the sanctions are working and Ukraine are winning and that Ukraine will fight until they got everything back …!what happened to all the propaganda which destroyed our European economy?
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) June 4, 2022
China is doing things like this in nations like Pakistan, while all our elites do is curate resentment. They get stronger while we are targeted for loathing.
Ian Robert Millard 