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Diary Blog, 20 August 2025

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More needs to be known about that tendentious hypocrite.

Still no detail about her parentage, background, education, affiliations, work history (if any) outside pro-invasion “activism” etc.

She will have no future in a social-national UK.

I think that, on some level, the System wants a limited uprising, which can then be suppressed but also used to bring in yet more anti-free-speech, anti-protest measures. It may backfire, though, and then trigger a national revolution, the way things are going…

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Translates to: Reform about 360 MPs and a comfortable Commons majority, Labour 113, LibDems 59, Cons 54 [etc].

One thought: is a fifth of the electorate really intending to vote “Conservative”? Seems very doubtful to me.

What the Israeli Jews (with help and money from Jews across the world) have done to Palestine generally, not just Gaza, over the past 77+ years, is not only appalling, but is a warning to non-Jews in the rest of the world.

In the well-known phrase, “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance“…

[“The Hebrew newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth” reports from a foreign report: Data from Pentagon documents clarify the American difficulty in replenishing the stockpile. During the “12-day war,” the United States used more than 100 THAAD missiles – that is a quarter of the system’s operational stock. However, the production pace does not keep up with the required support for “Israel”: last year, only 11 THAAD missiles were produced, and this year only 12 are expected to be produced. According to American experts, this is a very rare resource and constitutes a critical part of the American deterrence system even against other adversaries like China.”]

Israel is doomed.

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

Life is always surprising

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Long-term and regular readers of the blog will know that I have blogged a few times about the month I spent at the oasis of Siwa in the Western Desert of Egypt in 1998 (part of three straight months I spent in Egypt that year). Siwa had slave caravans coming through from Central Africa to the Nile and Nile Delta right up until the 1940s, I think the late 1940s.

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

One of several unusual features about Siwa is that, at least until the late 20thC, men were not allowed to marry until aged 40, but girls were always married by their early teens. I was told that the girls now finish their schooling first (whether that means 16 or 18, probably 16).

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Very different to the Moscow(s) that I saw in 1993 and 2007. Almost disorienting.

Lawless London

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/thug-turns-white-vomits-dances-32298262

Both men had their sentences suspended after Judge Vanessa Baraitser considered the bursting prison population and an assessment by the Probation Service that found both defendants were unlikely to reoffend if they took up the opportunity to do self-help workshops. Both must pay compensation to their victims and attend rehabilitation days instead.

Williams-Gillett reached through the window and took his car keys. When his pregnant partner asked for the keys back, Williams-Gillett tried to punch her. By now the dad 50, had come back down the stairs and tried to pull Williams-Gillett away from the partner, triggering a brutal assault.

“Your response to that was to launch a violent attack on him. To stab him repeatedly to his face, so hard the keys were bent out of shape from the impact,” said Judge Baraitser.

Unable to start the car, the man phoned his cousin for help, while Williams-Gillett’s brother Fabian Bennett also arrived carrying a metal baseball bat. Bennett immediately set to work on the dad with the baseball bat, hitting his legs, ribs, and body. Williams-Gillett also joined in the beating, kicking the dad and using the baseball bat.

Bennett then turned to the pregnant woman, grabbed her by the throat, and bent her backwards over a fence while goading her partner ‘using her as bait’. When the cousin arrived in his Citroen, the man and his partner got in the car while Williams-Gillett used the bat to smash the windows, including where a child was sitting.

The cousin was punched in the face, but the first male victim managed to drive everyone away leaving his Hyundai behind. When he came back to get the car, the doors had been broken and his partner’s purse containing £350 in cash and her Monzo card was stolen.

Williams-Gillett was sentenced to 18 months suspended for 20 months with 25 days rehabilitation activity requirement. He must also pay £1,700 in compensation. Bennett got 12 months suspended for 18 months with 25 days rehabilitation activity requirement. He must pay £500 compensation.”

[My London]

Plainly inadequate.

Regular readers of the blog will know that I am very much not a “hanger and flogger”, but that sentence for those crimes makes a mockery of “law and order” or “a society under law”.

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The Hebrew caption reads: “Anyone who throws a water bottle can also throw a grenade. Mobilize everyone.” That refers to the exemption of the “black hat” Jews from military service in Israel/Occupied Palestine. Those “black hats” are a cowardly bunch, though. Look at how that young woman is able to chase one who threw water at her, and kick another in the rear!

As repeatedly predicted on the blog…

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Diary Blog, 7 August 2025

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

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There is now effectively nothing left of the original, or even original post-WW2 (1945-1989), Labour Party.

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The irrelevance of the Conservative Party is plainly seen there. Despite Starmer-stein having a disapproval rating of 60%, and Kemi Badenoch having one of “only” 35%, when it comes to positive approval, the two are both down in the trough of public esteem: Starmer 23%, Kemi Badenoch 24%. Indeed, fewer people actively disapprove of Kemi Badenoch (35%) than disapprove of Farage (41%), but when it comes to positive approval, Farage, on 37%, easily outpaces Kemi Badenoch’s 24%.

41% of people are unsure as to whether they approve or disapprove of Kemi Badenoch, a sure sign that she has made little impression on the public (and it can be seen that what impression she has made is mostly not favourable). By contrast, only 22% of the public are “unsure” about Farage— people either approve or disapprove of him, in almost equal numbers.

People are even more sure about Starmer. Only 17% are “unsure” about him, but 60% disapprove of him.

Quite simple. 14 years of total maladministration and misgovernment finished the Conservative Party with most of the electorate, though 3 out of every 12 voters who voted (3 out of every 20 eligible) still voted Con in 2024 (Labour had 4 out of 20 or 4 out of 12). Most of those Con voters were over 60 years of age, many over 80. They have mostly now gone to Reform UK, and many are expiring daily by reason of old age etc. The next general election may not be until 2029; how many habitual Con voters will have expired by then?

The young (anyone under 30, indeed the vast majority under 40) will not be voting Con. Most of the ethnic minority (rapidly becoming majority) voters prefer Labour or other parties. So who is left?

Once again, the “snake in the grass” here is the Jewish-Zionist/Israel lobby in the UK, which has most of the politicians of the two main System parties (and Reform, too, it seems) in its pocket. The (((lobby))) wants many many organizations banned or prosecuted; it wants many individuals prosecuted, too (they have already tried it with me: see below:

Strange that that former Conservative Party tweeter, Fiona-Natasha Syms (her ex-husband was Conservative Party MP for Poole until 2024; he lost by a mere 18 votes; and she worked for him, paid generously out of her ex-husband’s MP expenses) thinks that (of all people) Yvette Cooper is to be admired. Nein danke! Yvette Cooper is a would-be dictator, very dishonest, a moneygrubber and expenses cheat (as was her husband, Ed Balls), and a “refugees welcome” dimwit to boot! Also, like all of Starmer-stein’s Cabinet —except a few servile Muslims— a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Short-sighted Con voters in some parts of England have, in the past couple of decades, shown themselves willing, in my view very wrongly, to vote for non-Europeans such as Kemi Badenoch as their constituency MP, so long as the right party label is affixed. Putting promises of low taxation etc above racial or national pride. That has led to the brainless Conservatives imagining that the country as a whole will vote, in effect, for a party led by a non-white MP. Very misguided. Look at Sunak.

True, that was not the only factor that sank the Conservatives at GE2024, but it was one important factor. Sunak was, in that sense, more “electable” than Kemi Badenoch. After all, people look at Indians en masse and see business, at least some organizational skills and, in Sunak’s case, a UK upbringing. Added to that, the vast wealth of his wife’s family and so his own wealth, meaning that, whether rightly or wrongly, he is at least perceived to be “in it” not for personal money reasons. Compare that to Kemi Badenoch, a loudmouth careerist carpetbagger.

Most Brits, not unfairly, look at Nigeria and see chaotic maladministration, corruption even worse than that of India, and nothing at all to admire. Kemi Badenoch was not even brought up in the UK. Her parents made sure that she was born in London, so that (under the law as it then was, in 1980) she could later claim a British passport, but she was only in the UK for a few days before being returned to Nigeria. She lived there and in the USA until at least age 16.

For those who say that Kemi Badenoch is scarcely a typical Nigerian, well, yes. As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, in effect (not an exact quotation), “the rich are different from you and me; they have more money“.

Yes, Kemi Badenoch is not a typical Nigerian. I have known a few like her, such as the Nigerian princess with whom I was acquainted in the mid/late 1980s, and whose (much older) husband was a Federal High Court judge in Nigeria. However, the basic model is still there, not far under the surface. (if anyone is interested, that Nigerian princess was shot dead in her luxury apartment in Lagos , nearly 30 years ago; Lagos is a rather dangerous place).

I just cannot believe that the British public will vote for a Prime Minister who is a Nigerian woman. The very idea, at least to me, is utterly farcical.

When you add to that her abrasive personality etc, you see how disastrous Kemi Badenoch is for the Conservative Party, which looks increasingly irrelevant.

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

No, don’t resign. Stay in place, dragging down your double salary (MP + ministerial) plus expenses, and making money out of being an exploitative private landlady. That will help to sink Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel government even faster.

Anyone who has had to deal with the chaotic crazy mess called “HMRC” will be familiar with the term “Kafka-esque“. I am glad to say that my interaction with them ceased some 13-14 years ago (in relation to matters now 20-40 years in the past). I found it hard to believe, at the time, that such chaotic maladministration could exist in this country.

[incidentally…internet definitions of “Kafka-esque“:

extremely unpleasant, frightening, and confusing, and similar to situations described in the novels of Franz Kafka: He is caught up in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare. The urban landscape is invested with a nightmarish, Kafkaesque bleakness.”

and/or

Synonyms of Kafkaesque:

  • surreal.
  • unusual.
  • irrational.
  • illogical.
  • strange.
  • unreasonable.
  • weird.
  • misleading.

From what I read in newspapers, HMRC has not improved much, if at all, since they decided to engage in dialogue with me 13-18 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Revenue_and_Customs#Controversies

In fact, HMRC reminded me slightly of the 1950 comic novel, The Way Backwards.

Translates to about 414 Reform UK MPs, 94 Labour, 54 LibDems, 37 SNP, Cons 21.

That would be a Commons majority greater than that of Starmer in 2024, and almost as great as that of Blair in 1997. Prior to that, very large majorities were achieved in the early 1930s, in the 1920s, and by Earl Grey’s government of 1832. All times of sweeping change.

Of course, 32% of the popular vote is not huge in historical terms, but is about what Starmer-Labour gathered-in in 2024. It hardly matters that your vote is “only” 32% if your main opponents are getting 20% and 16%.

War is hell, even when unavoidable. May victory attend the forces of Russia in Eastern Ukraine, and be the forerunner of genuine peace.

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[“Former heads of the army, police, Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli military intelligence issued a joint statement calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza. They emphasized that this conflict is no longer just and poses a threat to the very identity of Israel, its values, and its international image.“]

I wonder whether the fanatically pro-Israel Jew-Zionists of the UK (etc), such as those malicious abusers of the English legal system, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], are listening?

Incidentally, I see that lying perjurer Gideon Falter, the head or figurehead of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, was allowed to publish a fairly long opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph. The horrible little bastard had the sheer gall to write about the small number of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza that they now look like Jews starved in German camps at the end of the Second World War.

That at a time when an Arab Palestinian population in the many hundreds of thousands, including huge numbers of civilians (many of them children), is being deliberately starved to death in Gaza by the (Israeli) Jews, a para-military campaign backed to the hilt by (non-Israeli) Jews such as Falter.

As a matter of fact, I should not be surprised if Falter, effectively an agent of influence of a foreign power, Israel, is not an Israeli passport-holder himself, perhaps a dual Israel/UK passport-holder (maybe even a triple passport-holder (Israel/UK/Austria).

I accept that the hostages in Gaza should be released, but the Palestinians have been pushed to the genocidal brink, and have few chips to play.

Israel should also release its own prisoners, of course. Some of them have also been brutalized and starved.

I once stayed overnight at Mappin’s hotel, a Victorian castle hotel at Tintagel, North Cornwall, the one-time seat of King Arthur. In late 2001; December 2001. It was not really run properly as “an hotel” should be; I believe that, since then, it has been taken in hand by Mappin, the heir to a very considerable fortune (think Mappin & Webb, the jewellers). I just read today that he bought it in 1999.

When I was there, it was hugely atmospheric, like a decayed private castle, an effect emphasized by the fact that my wife and I were the only guests, and the staff, in the evening at least, consisted of a not terribly welcoming middleaged Englishman and his (possibly Austrian) wife. I recall that our rather cold room (I think it may have had a four-poster, and an ancient bar fire set into the wall) cost £200 a night, quite expensive in the money of 24 years ago. Akin maybe to £400+ today.

I well recall, after eating informally at a local pub in the nearby village (no restaurant open then at the Castle), being seated before a Hollywood-film-scale blazing fire in the Great Hall, and being served a double or triple Irish whiskey, the absence of other guests making it seem as if we were in our own home (or castle).

In the morning, a very pleasant and very rickety old retainer-woman served breakfast in a long gallery, her tiny grandchild hanging onto her skirts, as the Cornish winter waves crashed onto the rocks below, as in Rebecca.

Memorable.

I blogged, years ago, about our stay. The Castle once played host to many of the rich and famous, especially in the years before the First World War. Composers such as Arnold Bax, and Elgar (who wrote much of his Second Symphony in the very room in which we were staying): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Elgar)#Extra-musical_considerations.

I expect it is very different today.

Ah. Just saw their website. Very different today, and much-modernized: https://camelotcastle.com/rooms/.

Good to see that Mappin is awake to at least part of the problem in the UK, but he is so very careful to push the “peaceful” protest idea— writing to MPs, becoming a candidate in elections etc. Yes but no but…

That pro-migration invasion crazie, shouting wildly, is one Jonathan Lis, a Jewish msm scribbler and “political commentator” (apparently): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/22/jewish-voting-labour-antisemitism-progressive-government

Typical.

I wonder whether the Israelis would allow echt-British/English people to go to Israel, scribble for newspapers, and go onto Israeli TV angrily urging more and more (non-Jewish) migration to Israel. The very idea is, of course, ludicrous, and would be even were those non-Jews born in Israel, which would be almost impossible anyway.

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So says great foreign policy and grand strategy “expert” Ben Wallace, a half-pay retired captain (his highest rank in the Army).

On 23 February 2022, Wallace was filmed saying that the Scots Guards “kicked the backside” of Nicholas I of Russia during the Crimean War, and could do so again. Russia invaded Ukraine the following day.[58]“]

[Wikipedia]

An idiot.

What does “Field Marshal” Wallace think that Britain, which scarcely has an army now anyway, or air force, or navy, can bring to the table? He seems to think that Britain can almost impose a Pax Britannica. That last bottle must have been a good one.

She has now either resigned or been pushed out: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14980971/Labour-homelessness-minister-resigns.html

https://twitter.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1953248650643075399

“Ukraine” (Kiev regime) “fighting until it wins the war” is now impossible. It always was, even if “victory” means merely taking over the oblasti of Crimea, Lugansk, and Donetsk (rather than any capture of the territory of pre-2014 Russia or destruction of the Russian armies in the field).

Reality has now been accepted by the vast majority of Ukrainians, and I expect that a majority would now accept Russian rule over all Ukraine east of the Dnieper.

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Diary Blog, 27 July 2025

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Kemi Badenoch is just an embarrassment to her party but also, and more importantly, to this country. Conservative Friends of Israel member.

Get rid of them.

Wake up, Goodwin. Many have already gone that way, mainly because of the Jew/Zionist/Israel lobby that you seem to support. Indeed, the troublemaking Jew-Zionists have been targeting me for over 12 years:

Woody Allen can make a film about it.

The karmic consequences devolving upon Israel, the Israeli Jews, and their supporters overseas, will be crushingly heavy.

I commented on that cartoon yesterday or the day before.

Islamic and Jewish traditions, laws etc, cannot be tolerated in Europe except as niche eccentricities among small minority populations. Once those populations become large, and once those traditions and “laws” start to interfere with the country as a whole and/or its general or universal laws, the said traditions and laws have to be subordinated to the general law of (in this case) England and the UK.

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Diary Blog, 15 July 2025

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Sviridov]
[Akademgorodok, near Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, from the air]

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Meaning that the taxpayers of the EU and UK are going to be stung yet again so that the brutal, corrupt, and shambolic dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky and his cabal can continue the war.

Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war. If the NWO/ZOG powers continue to send advanced weaponry to the Kiev regime, Russia might just lose patience. Kiev might not continue to exist, in that scenario. That could even apply to Berlin, Paris, and London etc.

[“We cannot end the genocide in Gaza without ending the Zionist state.” Prof David Miller, @Tracking_Power via @PressTV He’s been fired, detained under the Terrorism Act, and now faces prosecution under Section 127 for speaking truth to power. But he hasn’t backed down and neither should we. Won his tribunal against @BristolUni Targeted by the CAA for his anti-Zionist stance Still calling it what it is: a genocide, fuelled by Zionism People like David Miller are exactly who we should look up to. He speaks what others are too afraid to whisper and he pays the price so others can speak freely. Support him in this fight: https://fightingfund.org/stopthecaa#FreePalestine#EndZionism#DavidMiller#StopTheCAA#FromTheRiverToTheSea“]

He will get his new war when Iran has a nuclear weapon and a reliable delivery system.

The Jews are still whining about pogroms that took place 150 years ago in Russia, Ukraine etc, but in 2025 they themselves are doing the same and worse to non-Jews in occupied Palestine.

[“John Kiriakou, a former senior CIA officer, explained in an interview that planning for the capture of Tehran was conducted simultaneously with the invasion of Iraq. He says CIA Director George Tenet was shocked to hear about the Bush administration’s plan to seize Tehran, stating, “They Bush administration officials know neither history nor society.” Kiriakou recounts: “That day, the president was unavailable, so Dick Cheney chaired the meeting. All the heads were seated at their tables. George Tenet was the CIA director, and I was sitting behind him.” “General Tommy Franks began his briefing and concluded by saying, ‘If everything goes according to plan, we could be in Tehran by August.’” “George CIA Director cautiously turned off his microphone and said to me, ‘Did he say Baghdad or Tehran?’” I replied, “He said Tehran.” George said, “Have they lost their minds?” He was prosecuted in 2013 for his disclosures, charged with revealing a CIA operative, and sentenced to 30 months in prison.“]

If that is true, that squawking parrot will trigger a nuclear war in the end. If that happens, I hope that Putin reserves one warhead for Mar-a-Lago, one for Trump Tower, and one for Trump’s NJ golf club. Oh…and another one for wherever the parrot happens to be perching.

Re-nationalize the water companies, without compensation if there is no alternative.

Apparently, the school had a kind of “celebrate diversity” and “celebrate different cultures” day; only thing was, English, Scottish, and Welsh contributions turned out to be banned. Translation: only blacks, browns, and other non-Europeans welcome…

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/15/girl-union-flag-dress-school-culture-day-rugby

[“A man wearing two masks, rubber gloves, and using a CARD-ONLY self-service checkout at Tesco. This is a depressing example of what has happened to what was once a great country. If you ask me, this man is mentally unwell – and through the use of extreme fear propaganda from our governments, we now have people who have been psychologically brainwashed for life. Remember: 80% of the government advisors on the SAGE committee during COVID were social scientists, placed there to find ways to manipulate the public into forced compliance using fear – they succeeded. #COVID#Fear“]

Yes. I see, occasionally, the same few facemask-loonies in the supermarkets I frequent. Two or three sad individuals, wearing the same dirty-looking (and entirely useless) cloth facemasks they must have bought in 2020 or 2021. The pathology is of the mind, not the body.

It is, as I remarked on the blog at the relevant times, now going back 3-5 years, also interesting how the facemask nonsense ties in with other System propaganda campaigns.

The land of freedom” (they used to say, long ago).

Trump thinks like the more predatory type of businessman, not like a statesman. His deadlines, threats, invitations are just theatrical gestures, signifying nothing. He gives and takes away (on paper, mostly). All designed to panic or pressure his adversaries (as he sees those on the “other side”) to make a “deal”. Pathetic, in a way, but he is after all the most powerful person on Earth, at least in potential.

Trump’s negotiating style may work in New York, or southern Florida, but Russians are chess players, not poor poker players; they think ahead. Slow and determined thinkers and, eventually, doers. The same goes, mutatis mutandis, for the Chinese. Trump’s style of negotiation may seem impressive at times, but his waves break helplessly upon the rocks of Russia and China, the two other global major powers of the age.

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At least he seems not completely deluded. There is much wrong with our present society, but to have it all destroyed, and then have to start to try to build from scratch, from a Stone Age level (but worse, because of despoilation, devastation, radiation poisoning etc) would be bitter on a wholly new level.

Well, thank God for that…

[“Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, made a sensational statement claiming that the Zionist intelligence agency “Mossad” took control of the Pentagon after 9/11. This happened through direct infiltration of senior officials (Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz).”]

There should be an audit in the UK as to how many Jewish/Zionist individuals are in senior or other ranked positions in SIS/MI6, the Foreign Office, and MI5.

Kiev-regime “Ukraine” is a brutal, if shambolic, Jew-Zionist dictatorship. Look at the facts: forced labour, forced Army service (enforced by press-gangs etc), corruption from Zelensky downward, no elections, no opposition parties, no trade unions, no free speech, no right to dissent.

For me, that is not the main point; the main point is “should there be a maximum income, after tax, which anyone is allowed from any source?

I say yes.

What should that limit be? I would suggest somewhere around £200,000 after tax.

The devil would be in the detail, e.g. what about ownership of assets with rapidly-rising value? Should they be taxed upon sale? If so, at what level, and under what conditions?

For now, though, we should, as a society, start to be thinking of flattening the income/capital curve. Start on the journey.

[“This is a big reason why your taxes are going up this winter: £1 billion on UK & UK/France costs for policing the small boats crisis £6 billion on social housing subsidies for foreign-born £7 billion to resettle 24,000 Afghans in the UK £12 billion a year on Universal Credit for non-UK nationals £15 billion on accommodation for refugees and asylum-seekers £200-234 billion giving migrants Indefinite Leave to Remain Oh, and £140 million translating English into other languages We. Must. End. Mass. Immigration.”]

Translates into: Reform UK 327 MPs (a bare majority); Labour 149; LibDems 72; Cons 37; SNP 28; Greens 8 (etc).

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Under Paris Sky]

Diary Blog, 26 June 2025

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Is it surprising, really? After all, the State of Israel was founded on “ethnic cleansing”, massacres of Arab civilians (men, women, and children), and theft of land and housing. Also, while many Israelis and other Jews are in reality not descended from the ancient Israelites of the Bible, the Israelis seem to follow the genocidal tendencies of those ancient tribespeople (as recounted in the Old Testament).

Gaza. West Bank. Surrounding countries.

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News from the migration-invasion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14831621/men-guilty-raping-girl-three-days-lured-Asda.html

Three Slovakian men have been convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl repeatedly over three days after they lured her from an Asda car park.”

[Daily Mail]

In fact, notSlovakian” (though no doubt carrying Slovakian passports) but Roma Gypsies, but not even the sensationalist Daily Mail will print that, or the full truth.

I notice from the “Readers’ Comments” to that report, though, that quite a few readers of that comic are well aware of the newspaper pulling its punches.

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Because the Government, police, CPS, and msm are riddled with traitors. Walls. Squads. End(s).

That has been the case for months. The msm in the UK is totally out of touch, as is the connected Westminster political milieu.

Palestine, Cyprus, the rest of the Middle East, the UK, the USA, Australia, France (etc)…

Even some Jews, even some pro-Israel Zionist Jews, are appalled by what these settler/colonists are doing.

I believe that most of them are from places such as the slums of Brooklyn.

What a horrible tribe.

I have a few of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s books; he makes some interesting historical documentaries for TV, too. An old Jew in Little Venice once told me, 30+ years ago, that the Montefiore family was “Jewish royalty“.

Diary Blog, 15 June 2025

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What goes around comes around“, and old sins cast long shadows.

Ha ha! Complete rabble.

Re. Labour’s recent supposed “stunning victory” in the recent Hamilton by-election (Scottish Parliament): when you look at the figures, Labour won but with only 31.6% of the vote. The SNP vote fell markedly (unsurprisingly) to 29.4%, and Reform UK, which had not previously put up a candidate in the constituency, came in a close third, with 26.1%; all three main candidates were within a band of 1,400 votes.

The Conservative Party got only 6%, a huge fall from its previous vote, and the six other candidates (including the LibDem) lost their deposits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,Larkhall_and_Stonehouse(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)#2020s

This was a pretty good performance by Reform. They may well succeed next time. Until now, Scotland has been a barren field for broadly British nationalist parties, so the result is an interesting straw in the wind.

Tel Aviv, the Ben-Gurion Airport, and Dimona, the “unholy trinity” of obvious strategic targets.

Maybe they could spare a couple for Ra’anana…

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That Jew is an Israeli government minister. Openly says what most of his co-conspirators do not— that Israeli policy is genocidal, i.e. either to wipe out the Palestinian Arab population in Gaza, or to “resettle” them in concentration camps. Wait a minute…where have I heard something similar to that before?…about 90 years ago, in Europe…but back then, much of the population affected was able to leave, and go to Palestine, the UK, the USA, Australia, South Africa etc, and in many cases with considerable stolen or otherwise “acquired” monies and gold etc.

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“They” always think like terrorists. They always target the civilian population of any country.

Well, if (as claimed by Israel) Iran is within days of building a viable nuclear weapon, now is the time to use it. What is happening is all-out war, initiated by Israel.

Starmer-stein…

Social workers in the UK are often dim, malicious, “anti-racist”, anti-British, pro-immigration wastes of space and/or mediocre Common Purpose drones.

(((Maitlis))). Every. Single. Time.

I happened to see a biographical/interview feature by joke-journalist scribbler Zoe Williams in the Guardian. Interminable and very boring, and I did not finish it, but I had a feeling about the subject of the interview, one “Miranda July”. Sure enough, and as I intuited. Her real name is Grossinger. Half-Jewish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_July#Early_life.

Hard to decide whether Rachel Reeves (“Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations”) is the most horrible member of this evil “elected” dictatorship, or not. Maybe Yvette Cooper is worse; about the same, I think (and both belong to Labour Friends of Israel).

Ha.

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[painting by Volegov]

Steer clear. In an ideal world, the Islamists and Jewish Zionists would destroy each other, leaving the white European post-Aryan peoples to rule over the rest.

I might agree with part of that, but he is wrong to say Israelis are “white“; a few are, most are not. Question of definition.

The Jew/Zionist/Israel lobby voice has spoken, and set its craven puppets to repeat.

Mel Stride, a System mediocrity whose time has come. Now that the mortally-wounded Conservative Party is dying, and is headed by a Nigerian carpetbagger woman, and now that any Con MPs of any weight have disappeared, out comes Stride to pose as Shadow Chancellor and probable successor to the Nigerian. He may not have quite grasped that, even if his plan works, he will then be heading a party which will, by 2028 or 2029, have only a few dozen MPs; maybe only one or two dozen.

Mel Stride is what happens when statesmen, and even ordinary but credible politicians, no longer exist.

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

Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion Airport, Dimona nuclear complex.

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Ha ha. Very funny. Thinks that if she persistently cries and demands, her wishes will be met. Let’s hope not. (not that I had ever heard of her).

Found this about her: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13476757/streamer-natalie-reynolds-dares-homeless-woman-jump-lake-stunt.html. Would be nice if something unpleasant were to happen to her; in the meantime, losing her Tik-Tok income will do.

Unsurprising, bearing in mind that the Israelis seem to have bankrolled and protected the ISIS barbarians and their allies in the past.

Starmer-stein wasting British taxpayer monies, and putting British pilots etc at risk, for the sake of helping the Jewish state, which has murdered our soldiers and civilians in the past, and whose supporters exploit the British people now.

Yes, that was a long time ago (mid-1940s) but is more recent than whatever the Germans are alleged to have done to Jews in the early 1940s, and about which Jewish and Israeli organizations (and Israel itself) are still constantly whining.

Ha ha! I recall blogging many years ago, maybe 2017 or 2018, that, were I to vote in a swimsuit competition, Penny Mordaunt might get my vote, but not in any other context.

If the “British citizens” are Jews in Israel, many of whom have dual nationality, and who are usually fanatical Jew-Zionists, then let them stay there, pack a Desert Eagle, and take their chances.

As for moral coward and ex-MP Ellwood, who killed a neighbour’s cat while driving his car carelessly, but failed even to stop, he of course is one of the worst NWO/ZOG political puppets. He was also an expenses cheat. At least one of his parents worked in a diplomatic/intelligence role, and he himself, though reaching only the rank of captain in the (Regular) Army, is now a Lt.-Col. or maybe full Colonel in the sinister online/propaganda Reserves unit, the 77th Brigade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Ellwood; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom).

Ellwood is absolutely idiotic in terms of his preferred field— geopolitics. If anyone were to listen to him, we should be fighting Russia, China, and much of the Arab/Muslim world, simultaneously.

Starmer-stein has to be removed.

There probably are very stupid people who support Labour, and who think that Starmer-Labour is the same party once headed by Attlee, Harold Wilson etc. Not really. What now exists is a kind of “System Party” with several heads, one of which is “Labour”. Listen to Starmer. He sounds much more like a Conservative Party prime minister than anything approaching what, in the past, sounded like a Labour one.

Interesting name. “Metreveli” (“v” not “w”) is a Georgian surname. Wonder what is her background. “Florence” (her middle name) is, I think (subject to correction), a rather old-fashioned English name. My own maternal grandmother was Florence Eva [+ surname].

Seems that the new SIS Chief at one time anyway lived in Pimlico (quite convenient for the HQs of both MI5 and MI6/SIS).

47 years old (48 in July), and read Anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. That must have been in the late 1990s.

At first, it seemed as though the Israelis were going to have a depressingly easy time in this conflict. Now, though, an outlier thought comes to mind…could this be the beginning of the end for Israel?

Oil prices will probably continue to rise, placing Russia in a good position economically and thus militarily. As for the Kiev regime, “blackbird, bye bye“…

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[“The Keys of Peter”, emblematic of the Papacy]

Diary Blog, 1 June 2025

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[Bridge of Sighs, St. John’s College, Cambridge]

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1,200+ of the bastards. In a single day. A real UK government would do whatever it takes to stop the invasion. WHATEVER it takes…

Meanwhile, about ten times that number, maybe even twenty times that number, are entering “legally” as (supposedly) “skilled workers”, “students” (who never go back), “tourists” (who never leave), “fiances/fiancees”, “husbands/wives”, “refugees”, “business migrants” etc.

It is not mere hyperbole to wonder how far this can go before the whole society as we have known it collapses into political and economic instability and then some form of civil or social war.

Even the first two are doubtful. Look at the interference in elections in several countries of the EU. France. Romania. Germany.

Starmer-stein’s repressive Labour Friends of Israel government is itself a nightmare. This blog, however, will fight on, against “the lobby” (((them))), whether in government or elsewhere.

If I had to name just one huge change internationally that has happened in the past 50 years, it would be the economic rise of China, and the social and military-strategic changes which have accompanied that.

I wonder what the late Sir Maurice Oldfield would make of it, were he still alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Oldfield.

[“Hazin: A serious financial crisis will shake the world in the fall Mikhail KHAZIN: The current leadership of the United States, including the rest of the American elite, has a vested interest in bringing everything down as soon as possible. If the Americans try to speed things up, then the financial collapse could happen sooner.”]

Never heard of this Khazin, or Khazar, or whatever and whoever he is. He may be correct, he may not be. On what basis is his prediction made? I have no idea.

Interesting, all the same.

Well, needs must. Could be useful (surely the socks would be better directly over the feet, though? Or maybe one set over the feet and another over the whole ensemble).

City created by ants

Incredible. Fascinating. On the one hand, I commend the research, but on the other the moral question of whether it can be justified to destroy the city and its inhabitants is troubling. It is all very well to say that “they are only ants“, but they are still living creatures and deserve some respect, particularly when they are not posing any threat to humans.

The French historical figure, Saint-Just, said that “no-one can rule guiltlessly“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Saint-Just.

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This is where we now are. Some Indian woman openly defends the destruction of the UK by migration-invasion, and all “controlled opposition” Matt Goodwin can say is that a few “Iranian terrorists” are among the millions entering the UK (hundreds of thousands on “small boats”, but millions overall).

The few real terrorists among those millions are a small or limited problem that can be dealt with by police, the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service etc. The problems caused by the millions of others — housing crisis, water shortages, congested roads and rail, costs of “welfare”, medical services costs, educational costs, ordinary policing, court costs etc— are less easily dealt with.

Those who support migration-invasion are enemies of the people.

The forces of the Russian Federation continue to advance steadily, if slowly, on all relevant sectors of the overall front.

[“It was announced what Ukraine will demand at the negotiations in Istanbul tomorrow. – Reuters. – Complete cessation of hostilities for 30 days as the first phase of the agreement. – Exchange of prisoners of war on a large scale according to the principle “all for all”. – The return of some “Ukrainian children” who were brought to the territory of the Russian Federation. – Organization of the summit (Zelensky – Putin) as soon as the initial conditions are met. – Creation of an international working group (with the participation of the US and the EU) to develop final conditions for peace. – There are no restrictions on rearming Ukraine. – There is no recognition of lost territories, negotiations are conducted based on the current front line. – Mandatory reparations from Russia.”]

So the war will continue…

The drones were, according to local eyewitnesses, launched not far from their targets. I presume that the FSB (Federal Security Service) will be trying to apprehend and question the drone-launchers.

There may come a time when Putin or those around him decide that the only real obstacle in their path is the city of Kiev. Were Kiev to cease to exist, or be almost destroyed, that would be the end of the Kiev regime militarily, economically, and in pretty much every other way. Of course, the destruction of a city of the size of Kiev would be a tremendous and terrible crime from the humanitarian point of view, a crime on the scale of, indeed on a larger scale than, the WW2 attacks on Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima etc by the Anglo-American air forces.

[Hamburg,1945, about 2 years after the British RAF bombed and firestormed the city]
[Stuttgart 1945]
[Dresden 1945]

Incidentally, German policymakers might like to remind themselves of the above before increasing their military aid to the Kiev regime.

…yet it was apparently not a shock to, nor deserving of comment (let alone support) by Toby Young when I was prosecuted for addressing social and political questions on this blog, when Alison Chabloz was prosecuted for singing satirical songs about Jews etc, when Jeremy Bedford Turner was prosecuted for making a reference in a public speech to clearing Jews out of this country, or when Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative was prosecuted for distributing stickers (which even the prosecution conceded were lawful in their content).

More “controlled opposition”, i.e. in the (((usual))) pocket…

Toby Young is a hypocritical fake, in short.

The delays in the court system have been caused in various ways. One is closure of smaller courts. Many county courts where I myself appeared 1992-1996 and 2002-2008 are now no more; Ilford, Penzance, Poole, Bedford, Bodmin, Bow, Trowbridge, Bromley and (I think) Yeovil among them. Even more magistrates’ courts have closed, and some Crown Courts, including some in London (and in which I also appeared at times, especially in the early 1990s).

Actually, the abuse of the legal system by the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” is slightly mitigated by the present delays. For example, after the “CAA” managed to get the dim Hampshire Police and the clueless “Clown” Prosecution Service (CPS Wessex, based at Winchester) to charge me by post in early 2023, the trial (despite being only in the magistrates’ court) did not take place until mid-November 2023, and the sentencing hearing was not held until mid-March 2024. Had the trial been one on a more weighty basis, requiring Crown Court trial, I should be now still awaiting my “day in court”; in fact, it might not have even happened. Many Crown Court trials are never effective, never take place.

The legal adage is “justice delayed is justice denied“. Often true, but in terms of the present repression of free speech, one could say “injustice delayed is injustice denied“…

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…and about a million others entering “legally”…and maybe half a million or more, arguende, being born to non-Europeans in the UK. Maybe 1.5M per year altogether.

Meanwhile, our white English/British population is not even reproducing itself…

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Diary Blog, 8 May 2025

A few thoughts out of season

I read a couple of pieces in the online-only Independent newspaper and its connected Indy100 site. Semi-literate, semi-educated. Examples? In the Independent, in an interview with the ex-MP, Mike Amesbury, Amesbury described the three days he recently spent in prison as “…surreal…like an out-of-body experience“, which the Independent‘s scribbler, one Ellie Crabbe, wrote down as “an outer body experience“. No sub-editor (if they even have any) corrected Ms. Crabbe’s egregious mistake. Appalling ignorance. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reform-labour-amesbury-runcorn-chancellor-b2745519.html.

Meanwhile, in the Indy100, one Harriet Brewis, described as “ the Chief Reporter at indy100, covering everything from scientific discoveries to online trends. She previously worked on the Evening Standard’s news desk, heading up the coronavirus blog throughout 2020 and writing the website’s leading stories“, writes that a lake in California has returned after long absence, the water having been extracted by “the greed of colonialists“! Ha ha… Is this an English news outlet, or a Cuban one?

The water extraction was in the USA of the late 19thC, as the article does say, so “colonialists” is a bit anachronistic, arguably, and not really accurate anyway, however bad the treatment of the local Indians/Native Americans may have been.

I might add that that report was published somewhere else a year or two ago. I recall reading it, or some version of it.

Ah, I see now that it was first published a year ago. Well, OK, and it is quite interesting, but do subscribers (I am not one) pay to read stuff recycled from over a year ago? https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/tulare-lake-2024-2671911762.

Standards in all areas are, overall and collectively, dropping like a stone, as I noticed and/or predicted many many years ago, in the 1990s.

Talking point— the decline of the Conservative Party

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/07/massive-earthquake-in-politics-could-lead-to-tory-extinction-says-hunt

Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said the Conservatives cannot rule out becoming extinct because of a “massive earthquake” in politics that is seeing the fracturing of the old two-party system.

Senior Conservatives are increasingly alarmed about polls that show support for the party plummeting, while Reform UK is soaring.

Some Conservative party sources said there appeared to be “very little dynamism” within Conservative Campaign Headquarters about trying to turn the party’s electoral fortunes around, while many local activists and some agents have already made the leap to supporting Reform.

On Wednesday morning, a YouGov Westminster voting intention poll put Reform on 29%, Labour on 22%, the Conservatives on 17%, the Liberal Democrats 16%, and the Greens 10% – suggesting the Tories are now flirting with fourth place in popularity.

[Guardian]

In fact, the Conservative Party may well soon be in fifth place in terms of numbers of Commons seats (after Reform, Labour, LibDems, and the SNP).

Talking point— the decline of the Labour Party

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/07/disability-benefit-cuts-to-hit-700000-families-already-in-poverty-dwp-forecasts-show

The government’s planned disability benefit cuts will hit 700,000 families who are already in poverty, according to internal Department for Work and Pensions forecasts obtained by the Guardian.

The figures, sourced under the Freedom of Information Act, are in addition to the projected 250,000 people who will be newly driven below the poverty line by the cuts, as set out by the government’s impact assessment in March.

Disability rights campaigners called the new disclosure “truly shocking” and said the changes would push people even further away from having the means to find work.

The DWP estimates that 3.2 million families across Great Britain will lose out under the plans in 2029/2030, about three years after the cuts are due to take effect. Of those, 700,000 will be families already categorised as being in relative poverty, when taking housing costs into account.

[Guardian]

So that is some of the human and social cost of the policies of Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, and Liz Kendall (all members, incidentally, of Labour Friends of Israel). What, however of the political cost to Labour?

We see Labour already languishing in the opinion polls below 25%, in some at only 22%. I have already blogged about the fact that the UK population now has about 20% of its population non-white, and that those voters (those eligible and actually voting) probably now provide the vast bulk of Labour votes.

Since Starmer-stein lied his way to the office of Prime Minister in July 2024, his misgovernment has alienated the “average white families”, those above State Pension age, those approaching State Pension age, almost all British workers at or below average incomes, anyone concerned about the racial and cultural degradation of the country, anyone concerned about developers trashing the green countryside, and anyone at all concerned about the migration-invasion of between half a million and a million immigrants and/or invaders every single year.

Now, in addition to the above, Starmer-stein’s regime is about to hit not only the various types of disabled person, but also their families and others. The biggest hit will come in 2028 and 2029, just when the next general election is probably going to be held.

[“But I voted Labour last time! Never again!“]

The result of all of that is that Labour will quite likely have (a trend forecast on the blog quite a while ago, a few years ago) votes mainly from (some of) the “blacks and browns”, and (some of) the public service workers, including (some of) the NHS workforce. Even the 18-24 demographic generally is turning away from Labour.

The electoral result may be that Labour can only score 22%, maybe only 20%, at the next general election. The Conservative Party, on present showing, may not even achieve that. The LibDems are the default “alternative” or “dustbin party”, so will pick up votes from both, but mainly from disaffected Con voters; perhaps 15% or so overall. Greens and several others will take (combined) about 10%-15% of votes. That leaves maybe 30% of the whole available for Reform.

Nature abhors a vacuum. If Reform gets to 30%, with Con and Lab both in the 20%-25% range, the earthquake will have happened. Reform will be in government with a 30 or even 50-seat majority, Labour may have fewer than 140 MPs, and the Con Party may slump to as few as 25.

Once the main System parties are displaced, the only real alternative to Reform, after 2029, will be real social nationalism.

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So less money for the Treasury (which means it will have to be found from elsewhere), and more unwanted immigrants coming to the UK (and don’t believe the nonsense about “short-term working” etc…).

The Starmer-stein and Rachel Reeves fake “Labour” government is a disaster in every way.

Under the surface, its attitude is probably unchanged. Snoopers.

As blogged previously Matt Goodwin may be a Father Gapon for our times…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Gapon#Bloody_Sunday

The above nonsense is only part of huge wastage. The “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic “Test and Trace” programme alone was 4x worse. About £38 billion. I favour government spending, in principle, but the devil is in the detail. The kind of idiots who get into System politics in the UK are simply not capable of running anything properly, or of making the right decisions.

Mason has been examined previously on the blog. A System asset of some kind or other, but one who, for whatever reason, likes to be thought of as radical or even revolutionary. He always supports police-state measures; he did it during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, he did so when the BNP was rising up, he even did so when UKIP looked like becoming a major party. He certainly did so in relation to Greece, when the popular Golden Dawn social-national party was repressed by the fake “Left” or “socialist” party, Syriza, when the latter was in power. Syriza quickly sold out to international banking and the EU. The Golden Dawn people, many of them, still sit in prison.

There is something deeply unpleasant about Paul Mason. Deeply suspicious, too. Look at his Twitter/X timeline over the past few days. Incidentally, he is part-Jew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)#Early_life_and_education.

What interests me more, though, is the revolution after the revolution…

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Electoral Calculus suggests that those numbers would result in a Commons in which Reform would have 421 seats out of 650. Labour would have 92, the LibDems 56, the SNP 43, and the Cons only 8. Eight MPs… Surely terminal for the Conservative Party. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

Diary Blog, 4 February 2025

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[Cloisters, Salisbury Cathedral]

Talking point

The above blog post was one of the earliest published (November 2016), but is still completely relevant today.

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What is the Israeli/Jewish excuse this time?

In reality, everything that has been happening in all parts of occupied Palestine relates to the plan to settle immigrant Jews everywhere, then to expand Israeli Lebensraum and to create, over time, a “Greater Israel”:

It’s not hard to figure out why Reform is now surging in the polls.

Millions of hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding people in this country are utterly frustrated & fed-up with the elite consensus that has been imposed on them from above for the last 30 years.

An elite consensus that’s defined by a deliberate and extreme policy of mass, uncontrolled immigration which is making us poorer not richer, is driving crime and ushering in millions of people from culturally inferior and incompatible nations.

An elite consensus that’s given us broken borders which make a mockery of our claim to be a self-governing, sovereign nation, are allowing an assortment of murderers, rapists and criminals onto our streets, and which our so-called “leaders” refuse to fix because they’re more interested in helping strangers than protecting their own citizens and children.

An elite consensus that’s ripped open our economy to a rampant and relentless globalisation that benefits an alliance of urban elites, global corporations and immigrant workers but which is smashing the working class apart and hollowing out our national economy.

And an elite consensus that would rather see Britain waste billions of £££ overseas each year on foreign aid and trying to maintain our failing asylum system than redirect all this money from British taxpayers into fixing Britain and helping British families before reaching out to the wider world.

For much of the last thirty years this broken consensus has been imposed on the Forgotten Majority in this country by both Left and Right, by both Labour and the Tories —by the Uniparty. They are the architects of the disaster that you see around you today, of the managed decline of a once great and proud nation that you used to know and love but today no longer recognise.

And so just as you’d never invite back an architect who took the home that had been loved for generations and destroyed it the people out there are now starting to reject the architects of what they see around them today —endless, unavoidable, embarrassing, never-ending national decline.

They might not think Nigel Farage has all the answers. They might not think Reform is the perfect vessel. But what unites them is a feeling that is far more powerful than any one leader or party can convey. “We want our country back”.

This is why we are now starting to see wholesale and historic change in the national polls and, soon, the country. Because what I think we might be about to witness in British politics is not just a revolt against an out-of-touch elite minority but a full scale revolution against the Uniparty and all that it stands for.”

[Matt Goodwin].

“A revolution without firing squads is not worth much” [Lenin]…

Actions speak louder than words.

Talking point

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/04/no-medical-evidence-to-support-lucy-letby-conviction-expert-panel-finds

“‘No medical evidence’ to support Lucy Letby’s conviction, expert panel finds.

Babies the former nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering were in fact the victims of “bad medical care” or deteriorated as a result of natural causes, an expert panel has concluded.

Outlining what the senior Conservative MP David Davis described as “one of worst injustices of recent times”, the international team told a press conference there was “no medical evidence” to support claims of deliberate harm.

A panel of experts, chaired by Dr Shoo Lee, examined the cases of 17 babies whom Letby was charged with murdering or harming at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England.

Lee, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto, said said the 14 experts had found “so many problems with the medical care” of the babies and nothing to support the claim they were attacked. “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders,” he told a press conference in Westminster on Tuesday.”

[Guardian]

I personally have no fixed opinion at all on the matter (and have not read up on it in any great detail), but the way that the NHS now is, I do find it impossible to ignore the possibility that the unfortunate babies in question were not murdered but simply died as a result of poor care.

Also, if the Lucy Letby convictions turn out to have been unsafe, it would not be the first time that events triggering huge public anger will have also resulted in egregious miscarriages of justice.

David Davis has courage. He would have made a far better leader of the Conservative Party than any who actually were elected in the past 25-30 years.

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I wonder how much of that nonsense is going on in Hampshire, where I live…

Britain has no proper governance, whether central or local.

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[Tiger tanks on the Eastern Front, 1943]
[“When the SS and SA March Away“]

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This is akin to child abuse. I myself was taught to swim very early (by my mother, who was a championship-level swimmer and coach) but not like that! It might give the child an aversion to water.

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Diary Blog, 2 February 2025, including a few thoughts about Trump, tariffs, isolationism, and autarky

Afternoon music

[painting by Volegov]

A few thoughts about Trump, tariffs etc

Trump is promulgating tariffs on imports from a range of countries and blocs presently major trading partners with the USA. Canada and the EU, to name but two. China, too.

As many are pointing out, tariffs reduce trade, because they make imported goods (and/or services) more expensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff.

That view, however, though the majority one, is not universally held by economists, at least in specific historical cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff#Tariffs_and_the_Great_Depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff#Arguments_against_tariffs.

Looked at from a different point of view, there are reasons why Trump’s tariff barriers might be positive for the USA, mainly because they might allow American industry, in decline for half a century, to revive.

American tariffs go back a long way— to 1789, in fact: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff#Political_analysis.

The tariff has been used as a political tool to establish an independent nation; for example, the United States Tariff Act of 1789, signed specifically on July 4, was called the “Second Declaration of Independence” by newspapers because it was intended to be the economic means to achieve the political goal of a sovereign and independent United States.[93]

[Wikipedia].

In the short-term, Trump’s tariff’s may well cause domestic prices (within the USA) to inflate. In the longer-term, however, those tariffs may also create American jobs, and also increase America’s long-term security.

The USA is one of the few economies capable of being an autarky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarky]. Others would be Russia and mainland Europe (the EU, presently).

There is little doubt, though, that in those countries that produce items exported to the USA, the Trump tariffs will cause economic damage, possibly severe damage. That in turn will cause political fallout.

The USA is a huge and vibrant economy. If turned inward, that may be able to create the prosperity and job security so lacking at present in many American communities. The USA should have been isolationist in the 1940s and afterwards, as it had been in the 1930s. It seems to me that that would be a good policy now for the USA. Economic isolationism allied to political isolationism.

The USA should build up purely defensive military and naval power, but avoid doing what it has done, particularly, since 1941, i.e. interfere all over the world. If that is done, American security will thereby be increased.

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I agree. It may not be the whole picture, but it is a large part of it.

That second tweet by “@InFearOfKeir” is also very true.

Yvette Cooper, the Labour Friends of Israel expenses cheat, has been wanting to be a dictator for many years. May she suffer the fate of so many dictators.

That really is alarming. I have commented previously on the blog about Chinese and other androids and also other types of robot etc.

Keywords might be “genocide”, Lebensraum, and Greater Israel. They plan to settle the Gaza Strip with Jews. The same is true of the West Bank, southern Lebanon, parts of Syria etc.

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