“Rishi Sunak has been given a glimmer of hope as a major new poll by Lord Ashcroft suggests that more than half of voters have yet to definitively make up their minds.
With less than five weeks until the General Election, the research shared exclusively with the Daily Mail found only four in ten have ‘definitely decided’ how to vote.
But in a sign of the mountain the Tories still have to climb, the poll gives Labour a 23 point lead.
Overall, it puts Labour on a 47 per cent vote share, with the Tories on 24 per cent, and Reform UK on 11 per cent.”
Assuming honesty and relative accuracy of the poll, several points stand out for me.
Firstly, that this poll is not at all the “glimmer of hope” for Sunak and the Cons that the report accompanying it is spinning.
42% have “definitely decided” which way they are going to vote. Looking at recent polling elsewhere, that must greatly favour Labour. As for “...leaning towards a party” but “not definitely sure“, that could apply to any of the parties, but if most end up with Labour, then it is possible that Lab could end up, overall, topping 50%, leaving the Cons with a MP cadre in the single figures.
It might also mean, thinking of my previous speculation on the blog, that there are more people than polls suggest willing to vote Reform UK, if only as a protest, or as a method of giving the time-expired Conservative Party a kicking without having to vote Labour. “Secret” Reform UK voters. Do they even exist? We do not know. I think that they may exist, but in what numbers?
Anything up to 31% of eligible voters may not vote, it seems.
One big unanswered question is how many under-40s and especially under-25s will bother to vote, they being heavily pro-Labour.
On the other hand, the over-70s are the only age demographic more likely to vote Con than Lab. If significant numbers either vote Labour (unlikely) or Reform UK (much more likely) or simply abstain (not unlikely) then Sunak and the Cons really are in trouble.
Other takeaways include the fact (if it is a fact) that only 23% think that Sunak etc can do better than others at “running the economy” (Lab 37%; Don’t Know 39%, tellingly). For a Prime Minister with a banking and financial/business background, and who was, not so long ago, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that is very much a thumbs-down.
The voters’ assessments of the characters of Sunak and Starmer are not so very different.
Sunak is assessed by only 8% as being “up to the job“, while only 12% assess him as even being “competent“. That’s damning. (Starmer’s equivalent ratings were 18% and 21%, scarcely a ringing endorsement, but still far better than Sunak).
Ashford’s poll figures, fed into Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] suggest a result of Labour MPs 513, Cons 71, LibDems 31, SNP 12, Greens 2, Plaid 3, Reform 0, Northern Irish 18.
Very very bad for the Conservative Party, but not quite existentially so..
On that basis, there would still be a considerable Con bloc of 71 MPs, and the Cons would still be the official Opposition, however ineffective.
My own feeling, whether it be right or wrong, is still that the Cons may be reduced to below 50 MPs, and that the LibDems may exceed that by default (tactical voting), thus making the LibDems the Opposition in the Commons.
If that were to occur, the defeat would be existential for the Cons. No “bright young” (mostly idiot) careerists (think Liz Truss, once upon a time…) would want to join, and big donors would not bother to pump money into funding the Cons. A “death spiral”, as people say.
Election date— Thursday 4 July 2024. Less than 5 weeks to go.
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Piers Morganš£ļø What about the Nations service to our 18yr olds? What theyāve been through. A Gen that lost the best years of their lives. They canāt afford to rent. Canāt afford food. Punitive tuition fees. Probably wonāt earn more than their parentsā¦ #bbcqtpic.twitter.com/7rVNq31Iod
"There is a growing sense in this country that we are approaching, if not already in, what some have called ācivilisational momentā āa time when "we" are starting to lose the very things that make us a "we". Farage has realised this; many other politicians have not" https://t.co/UBS5ZbQKiK
The Tories are the architects of their own demise. By unleashing unprecedented, uncontrolled mass immigration, much of it low-skill and low-wage, they lost the millions of voters they now desperately need https://t.co/9mY88fZaM7
American officials expect that the first attacks on Russian territory using American weapons could begin within a few hours or days , The New York Times (NYT) reported this, citing sources. pic.twitter.com/0Lh3fQnlg3
The American government seems to have lost, if not its mind, then any sense of perspective.
If Country A sells or, even worse, gives Country B arms and ammunition, and especially if that is with the express intent that Country B should attack the territory of Country C, then that is pretty close to being an act of war by Country A against Country C.
Stop this mad slide to a quite possible superpower nuclear war.
The size of the British Army has shrunk BELOW 73,000 for the first time, new figures released today by the MoD reveal
It is widely mooted that the combat-ready spearhead numbers no more than 30,000, if that. Maybe as low as 20,000. Plus about 5,000 Royal Marines under naval command. Plus 4,000 Gurkhas. Plus Reserves.
If UK society continues to slide, they may be used to control the situation in the “British” cities more than anything else.
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The moment the "Burkan" missiles fired by Hezbollah exploded at the 91st Galilee Division headquarters in the Beranit barracks. pic.twitter.com/jQjpVDN7n5
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) May 31, 2024
š¶ Nir Arad, analyst in Israel's Channel 12 studio: Israel is using all its military power in Gaza and is motivated by revenge and frustration in this matter. pic.twitter.com/LPayoCN5uw
All attempts to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia are futile, said Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov.
"Sabotage and the use of Western weapons against civilian infrastructure and civilians in Russia are being prepared with the participation of NATO advisers," heā¦ pic.twitter.com/QdNvk64rbH
Eric Trump: "May 30, 2024 may be remembered as the day Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election."
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) May 31, 2024
I do not have enough information to guess accurately at the likely outcome of the U.S. Presidential Election, but peace would be better served were Trump to be re-installed at the White House, no matter what his personal deficiencies.
I publicly disagreed with the IHRA definition of antisemitism by reference to the arguments of Sir Stephen Sedley (on any view a hugely respected jurist) that it protects Israel from legitimate criticism.
That led to people publishing confidential and dangerously defamatoryā¦ https://t.co/qHJf5zO5SH
“I publicly disagreed with the IHRA definition of antisemitism by reference to the arguments of Sir Stephen Sedley (on any view a hugely respected jurist) that it protects Israel from legitimate criticism.
That led to people publishing confidential and dangerously defamatory information about me. And lots more people publishing crude and dehumanising abuse of me. And grotesque accusations of antisemitism about me. And 4 years of litigation where a total wing-nut UK Lawyer for Israel tried to bankrupt me.And a trial where witnesses made untrue or wildly exaggerated statements to try to ruin my reputation.
In the end I won, but my experience confirms Lemoineās argument. It was awful and exhausting and no doubt intended to be so. Ending peopleās careers for agreeing with Lemoineās reasonable point of view is wrong and dangerous.”
[James Wilson]
Stephen Sedley. I remember him. I appeared in front of him as Counsel sometime around 1994 when he was a High Court judge (he was later a Lord Justice of Appeal). It was a matter involving the Angolan secret service. Sedley had had some previous experience in dealing with Angolan matters: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sedley#Career. He gave me a very courteous hearing before politely refusing my judicial review application…
Perhaps there isnāt any such thing as the Israel lobby. Perhaps Israel is the only country on the planet without dedicated lobbyists. Perhaps organisations like We Believe in Israel, the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, and both the Labour and Conservativeā¦ https://t.co/b1HajLptTC
“Perhaps there isnāt any such thing as the Israel lobby. Perhaps Israel is the only country on the planet without dedicated lobbyists. Perhaps organisations like We Believe in Israel, the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, and both the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, simply donāt exist.
Perhaps itās simply untrue to say that people who are critical of Israel online, or supportive of Palestine, are bombarded by hostile replies from pro-Israel accounts.
Or perhaps, thereās a concerted effort by Israelās advocates to warp and distort the definition of antisemitism to make it impossible to describe their activities. Was Faiza Shaheen wrong to apologise? I can understand why she did it. But nobody should have to apologise for liking a plain statement of fact.“
Perhaps I imagined the evidence which clearly showed supporters of Israel working together to get information on me.
Perhaps I imagined them publishing confidential and dangerously defamatory information about me.
One of the unreliable witnesses for the losing defendants in that case was Simon Myerson, a barrister and Recorder (p/t judge). Others (all Zionist Jews) were likewise not given much if any credence by the trial judge.
If we are keeping count, I think Myerson has inferred, and then implied publicly, that both you and I were somehow responsible for Dr Newbonās suicide.
Myerson is also a judge. Is it normal for judges to imply such things publicly? Or is it really weird behaviour?
Itās interesting isnāt it. It worries me going to some jobs and hearing āLast time I had an ambulance out, they were horrible to meā. Obviously, perceptions differ, but being understanding and showing kindness is the very least we can do.
It turns out that political prisoner Sam Melia is now being prevented from having access to his children. In fact, his wife cannot even tell him about them when she visits him. Disgraceful. These really are the tactics of a police state.
— Merv – Lord Merv of the Cinque Ports (@bearz1066) May 31, 2024
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Donald Trump is already leading in the national polls. He is leading in the key battleground polls. And the latest snap poll suggests he's up among voters who've changed their minds since the trial began. I don't mind being wrong but I suspect this Democrat overreach is going toā¦
Israeli spy Shai Mosat named Labourās candidate for North Durham, Luke Akehurst as Israelās main man inside the @UKLabour Party.@lukeakehurst is also the director of @WeBelieveIsrael.
That should be Shai “Masot“, not “Mosat“, and certainly not “MOSSAD”. On the other hand…
In a further deeply concerning video, Labour's right-wing candidate for North Durham Luke Akehurst – a non-Jewish Zionist – demands senior members of the UK government get "a handle" on British UN diplomats and ensure they are only ever allowed to vote in the interests of Israel. pic.twitter.com/akY4EBF4dE
Does that Israel-puppet get fed exactly what to say by some Israeli agency? Sounds like it.
NATO weapons will be hit in any country from which Russia can be attacked ā Medvedev
NATO countries that have authorized strikes with their weapons on Russian territory should be aware that their equipment and experts will be destroyed not only in Ukraine, but also in any placeā¦ pic.twitter.com/3LFr6hKsmw
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) May 31, 2024
A captivating video by @theoldbuilding captures the essence of the Petit Palais, an architectural gem nestled in the heart of Paris.
Originally constructed for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, it now serves as the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts, housing an exquisiteā¦ pic.twitter.com/hT2WYdhv2x
Jew-Zionist hypocrite Myerson, whose recent evidence on oath as a witness on the losing side of a significant legal case [Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon, and Cantor] was given little if any weight by a High Court judge, should be removed in short order as Recorder (p/t judge), and also disbarred, in my opinion.
Incidentally, Myerson belongs to the very organization that complained (via another Jew barrister, of whom I had previously never even heard) about me in 2014— “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”]; he also belongs to the malicious and conspiratorial “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], which was behind other contrived and malicious complaints against me, such as the one that resulted in my being put on trial in November 2023.
Raus!
Agreed. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chief Justice must act to stop Myerson – who holds judicial office – constantly attacking a political leader who is Jewish because Myerson dislikes his views on Israel.
Myerson is undermining public confidence in judicial independence.
His flats in Southampton were covered again recently in the local press as tenants reported that he had raised their rent more than any of their neighboursā landlords had raised rent. So he knows very well that rents are rising.
When I look at the MPs in the Westminster monkeyhouse, or at least 80%+ of them, what amazes me is the sheer patience (or is it lazy complacency?) of the British people.
At #PMQs I asked why @RishiSunak is allowing water companies to destroy our waterways & make obscene levels of profit whilst making people ill.
Not very Parliamentary language, but truth is its own defence (or used to be…).
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I really am sick to death of all this #GeneralElection rumouring. Just call it. The present dysfunctional, dystopian farce which dares to describe itself as a government needs to be put out of its misery.
…and with all the Jewish persons involved, those students must have imagined themselves as extras in some sort of Hollywood film…
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The zionists will have reported it.
— Mark š¹ Disabled as defined the Equality Act 2010 (@RacistToriesOUT) May 13, 2024
“They” love to “report” people, but if it happens to them, they recoil in horror, and from that moment become, yet again, “innocent victims”.
As to Mark Lewis, he is an appallingly bad (bad in more than one sense) lawyer. He should be struck off the solicitors’ roll.
Lewis was always a self-publicist first and foremost. The Jewish lobby so embedded in the “British” msm has always given him a free ride, publicizing any legal successes (mostly very easy wins, such as the “Jack Monroe” defamation suit against Katie Hopkins), but keeping silent about the many times when Lewis has failed.
As previously blogged, I (unlike the seemingly well-meaning James Wilson) have no sympathy for the Jew-Zionist defendants. One has committed suicide, the other two are now as good as bankrupt, with one apparently likely to lose his family house, unless (and here’s the rub) he sues Mark Lewis, and possibly/probably the firm of which Lewis is a partner, Patron Law, in professional negligence and/or otherwise.
To recycle Lewis’s own arrogant boast, but with a twist, “someone can be a fanatical Jew-Zionist twister and lawyer, but at least they can be a bankrupt and struck-off one“…
I agree with Goodwin. What Mackinlay is suffering and has suffered, I should not wish on (most of) my worst enemies. However, it is not wrong or in bad taste to note that, throughout his time as MP, Mackinlay has voted, consistently, in Parliament to reduce social security/”welfare” benefits, including those paid to the sick and disabled.
Mackinlay and his wife have high incomes, and many “perks” etc. Many sick and disabled people struggle by without such privilege. I wonder whether his recent experiences have in any way changed his outlook on the life-challenges facing less-affluent people in the UK?
Germany joins France and Norway. Netanyaxi will be arrested if he sets foot on German territory.
Germany ā of course ā will execute a potential ICC arrest warrant for Netanyax, a government spokesman said. pic.twitter.com/ugUPRFpOC9
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 22, 2024
Get him on the train!
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives McCaul called on the White House to allow Ukraine to strike with American weapons deep into Russian territory.
McCall brought with him a map of the potential reach of American GMLRS and ATACMS missiles pic.twitter.com/eJWY29PNga
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 22, 2024
Idiots like that may be digging their own irradiated graves.
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 22, 2024
Never give “them” power…
The State of Palestine is recognized by 143 countries around the world , but please note that Canada, Balthur Britain and the United States do not recognize this. pic.twitter.com/PFQoSCgf95
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 22, 2024
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Russian President Vladimir Putin explained how Russia will fight against sanctions: "We will solve the most ambitious tasks" The effectiveness of Russian solutions and developments in the technological sphere will allow to overcome the restrictions imposed on Russia by hostileā¦ pic.twitter.com/YhsQBz6iJ5
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 22, 2024
Lewisā email makes very little sense. He seems not to understand what the judge found on meaning. And why would Mr Cantor insist I pay his solicitor Ā£75k to settle the case when he could have settled for Ā£5 and walked away? Who stood to benefit from this bizarre offer?
“Mark, rather than making witless jokes about a helicopter crash, please can you focus on giving instructions to your solicitors about my claim for costs against you and your firm Patron Law. Your former client – the one who is still alive – is vulnerable. He and I need some explanation as to why you insisted I give you huge sums of money to settle my claim.“
This will probably end up with the egregious Jew-Zionist solicitor, Mark Lewis, and/or his colleagues, having to settle a professional negligence claim.
Lewisā email makes very little sense. He seems not to understand what the judge found on meaning. And why would Mr Cantor insist I pay his solicitor Ā£75k to settle the case when he could have settled for Ā£5 and walked away? Who stood to benefit from this bizarre offer?
A humongous Roll Cloud appeared in the sky of the Mukhaizna region in the wilayat of Haima in Al Wusta Goveronorate on Tuesday morning.
The Roll Cloud is also known as Morning Glory Cloud.
According to Oman Met Office weather forecaster, this has been experienced before in 2014ā¦ pic.twitter.com/fSZU9VSKVm
— Oman Observer š“š² (@OmanObserver) May 21, 2024
See Values, Voice & Virtue. The most important institutions in our country are hard-wired to magnify the values, interests, tastes, & priorities of the more liberal elite graduate class at the expense of everybody else https://t.co/S1kYAjvXLd
I am deeply concerned about the direction of British, & Western, society but I also have zero time for anti-semitic, anti-democratic, extremists, whether left, right, Islamist. Here's a piece on why my views have changed on some issueshttps://t.co/0ZmzVb5lnqhttps://t.co/3oBe5Bb1aM
Where Goodwin goes wrong is in failing to see that only some form or forms of social nationalism can save Europe as anything much more than a geographic space inhabited mainly (after about 2100, possibly before then) by non-Europeans.
Goodwin is also entirely in consonance with the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby. That means that he gets an easy ride from the mass media, but also means that he has hitched his wagon to the “controlled opposition” populists such as Reform UK. They cannot appeal to the bulk of the people, but can only hoover up votes from disenchanted people who were, mostly, Conservative Party supporters until recently. Some were also Labour voters, true, but not so many. Maybe —at peak— 20% of the electorate.
Iām less worried about Lewisā slips with the date and the grammar, and more worried about his grasp of the law!
It seems Lewis thinks when that when you sue for libel, you are not entitled to an undertaking from the defendant saying they wonāt further publish the libel becauseā¦
“Iām less worried about Lewisā slips with the date and the grammar, and more worried about his grasp of the law! It seems Lewis thinks when that when you sue for libel, you are not entitled to an undertaking from the defendant saying they wonāt further publish the libel because it is you that has put the libel in the public domain.
So if you donāt sue for an undertaking/injunction, they can further publish. And, er, if you do sue for an undertaking/injunction, thereās no need for one because youāve put the libel in the public domain. No doubt libel lawyers will be scratching their heads at this.”
Ha. The fact is that, for all his brief “celebrity” about 10-12 years ago, Lewis is not much of a lawyer, in my opinion. That is even if we leave aside Lewis’s own admission, before the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018, that at times he had no idea what he was saying, writing, or doing (by reason of his intake of prescription drugs).
Solicitors Regulation Authority principle 7 states a solicitor must āact in the best interests of each clientā.
1. In Nov 2021 I suggested a nominal (say Ā£5) settlement with Mr Cantor.
2. Mr Lewis rejected it in principle, apparently on Mr Cantorās instructions.
3. Mr Cantor now says Mr Lewis said the only way to get a zero money settlement was to ask me for Ā£5k.
4. Because I could never offer Mr Cantor anything better than a nominal settlement, and that was explicitly rejected by Mr Lewis, Mr Cantor lost at trial and is likely to lose his home. What was going on here?“
This is far from having been the first time that “Mark Lewis Lawyer” (his old Twitter/X name, now supplanted by “@MLewisLawyer”) has acted entirely unprofessionally, but up until now the fanatical and semi-loonie Lewis has managed to wriggle out of professional sanction, except in 2018, when the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal fined and censured him for having tweeted violently-abusive things on social media.
Even then, supportive Jews stumped up, via a crowdfunder, the Ā£12,500 penalty (being a fine plus costs). Lewis’s fine itself (Ā£2,500) had been reduced by two-thirds because he had effectively no money. His own Counsel said to the Tribunal that Lewis had not only been affected mentally by his (prescription) drug intake, but that “his only assets” consisted of his own clothes, a mobility scooter, and a private pension worth Ā£70 a week.
Lewis’s honesty, as well as his competence, has been in question for many many years.
In the Wilson case, should the recent defendant, Cantor, wish to have reduced his liability for the costs of the successful Claimant (Wilson), he has (it seems) little choice but to go after Lewis. Should Lewis have no or not sufficient means to satisfy the costs, then I suppose that Cantor’s remedy would be, in principle, to go after Lewis’s legal partners in the law firm to which he is now attached, Patron Law.
It will be interesting to see what eventually happens. Unfortunately, the costs will be less than they normally would be (had solicitors and Counsel represented the Claimant); it seems that Wilson represented himself much of the time.
Still, Cantor and maybe Wilson can both complain to the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority. I hope they both will.
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 21, 2024
“Israel has shut down a live video broadcast by the Associated Press of Gaza, where journalists are barred from entering.
Israel claims that this broadcast was used by Al Jazeera after the medium was banned in Israel, and that it was used by Hamas for military planning.
Since the start of the war, international journalists have come under increased scrutiny from the Israeli government for reporting on the conflict and have faced increasing restrictions on their activities, drawing condemnation from the United Nations and media freedom groups.“
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 21, 2024
The Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot equip recruits with heavy equipment , writes Forbes.
Despite the help of the West, the shortage of armored vehicles in Kyiv has become even more obvious against the backdrop of combat losses and increased mobilization, the publication notes.ā¦ pic.twitter.com/6EDqsbsIMi
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 21, 2024
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot equip recruits with heavy equipment , writes Forbes.
Despite the help of the West, the shortage of armored vehicles in Kyiv has become even more obvious against the backdrop of combat losses and increased mobilization, the publication notes. For example, the recently formed 153rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had to be retrained as an infantry brigade.“
Budanov and wife (right) attended a gala event in honor of Israel's Independence Day, at the invitation of the Israeli Ambassador in Kyiv. pic.twitter.com/HuGwYkHT6r
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 21, 2024
Looking at that photo, I am assuming that the “tart-on-a-stick” in the blue outfit is his daughter.
Michael Gove goes rogue and veers from history lecture to full-on rant about antisemitism, showing his real self ā his nasty self. The only good protester is a dead protester. Bring on the tanks. Tell the police to stop being so nice. Crack some skulls.https://t.co/f0B3f8B35o
— Bob Glen š“ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó “ó æšŖšŗš (@bobglen1) May 21, 2024
Gove is a complete puppet of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby, and has been for many years, even long predating his time as MP and then government minister. A drug abuser, a shambling drunk, an expenses cheat/fraudster, and more besides.
An Israeli IDF soldier posted footage of him making a fire in a mosque in the Gaza Strip and burning the Koran. pic.twitter.com/jQNxcsB8gm
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 21, 2024
At these moments, the Israeli army carries out brutal raids and shells the city of Rafah. pic.twitter.com/uXxaJdt21w
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 21, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 21, 2024
The US House of Representatives proposed a new bill that would extend the same tax benefits to Americans serving in the IDF ov, as for US military personnel.The US will now pay salaries to the Israeli military. pic.twitter.com/ykTTuEhNNG
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 21, 2024
Could the Federal Government —and whole society— of the USA be any more penetrated and occupied by “them”?
The Jew-Zionist solicitor, Mark Lewis, was recently found guilty at a Disciplinary Tribunal on several charges brought by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority. My blog has carried the following articles about him and about some of his egregious behaviour, which behaviour has been manifested for a number of years, certainly since 2013:
Lewis and his partner/carer Mandy Blumenthal (Lewis has also referred to her, in a British TV interview, as his “wife”), “made aliyah”, i.e. emigrated from the UK to Israel, in late 2018, after he had been found guilty by the Disciplinary Tribunal. At that hearing, Lewis’s Counsel told the Tribunal that Lewis “had no assets” except for his clothes, a mobility scooter and a private pension [said to be worth Ā£70 a week]. Lewis had an income (salary, payable only until March 2019 when his notice period expires) of Ā£10,000 (pre-tax, per month), and was also in receipt of Disability Living Allowance benefit, which he was exchanging (with Motability) for a car.
According to the published judgment of the Tribunal, the financial penalty imposed upon Lewis, the relevant part of which was a fine of only Ā£2,500, was reduced from Ā£7,500 precisely because of his impecuniosity. He was said to have no real property and to be living in rented property in London.
In this very recent podcast, Lewis was interviewed from his location in Eilat, the Israeli resort on the Gulf of Aqaba. Why is this relevant? Well, in an interview of 2011 with the London Evening Standard, Lewis said this:
“I was devastated,” he says. “I’d been turned down for so many jobs, I’m thinking to myself, I can’t go on any more, you can only get so many knockbacks. I’m giving in and going to my flat in Israel and retire in Eilat.”
In the recent podcast, Lewis goes on to say that, while he has no intention of applying for the Bar of Israel (because of his poor Hebrew), he may be servicing “clients” which he claims he still has in the UK; he even implies that he may be making (as solicitor-advocate, presumably) court appearances in English courts! Well, that would not at present be possible, unless he has been approved by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority as a sole practitioner (which he did not say he has been), or unless Lewis acts as a member of a law firm in England (which I doubt that he is or will be). Otherwise, Lewis would only be able to deal with legal matters the substance of which is outside the UK. He certainly could not appear in English courts.
In the podcast, Lewis talks about how he can work from Israel on UK work, using computers etc, and about how “there are planes to get you to court appearances”! Once again playing the “big shot”, this time once more the “top lawyer” who flies in to London or wherever else in order to appear in court on some important case. Hardy ha ha…big talk from someone whose own Counsel said at the Disciplinary Tribunal hearing that Lewis should not be fined much because “he has no assets” (except for his clothes and a mobility scooter!)…and whose recent flight to Israel was gratis, courtesy of the Israeli emigration authorities.
Incidentally, the podcast interviewer introduced Lewis as “one of England’s most distinguished lawyers”! Is there any limit to “their” lies and gall?!
Implications
So in 2011, Lewis owned a flat in Eilat, Israel…Does he still own one there? If so, he may have deliberately misled the Disciplinary Tribunal. Of course, it may be that he does not now own property in Israel and therefore did not mislead the Tribunal. He may simply have been in Eilat on holiday, staying in rented property or in hotel accommodation. It does raise questions, though…
See tweet below: are Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal already on the way back??
So basically you are saying that you feel disabled passengers that need an ambilift are only suitable for the back row seats even when paying for the most expensive fare bracket? Funny how no other airline does that.
Well, it appears that the egregious Lewis has now joined what appears to be a firm of Jewish or mostly Jewish lawyers based in London. I thought that he and his “partner”/”carer”, Mandy Blumenthal, were fleeing British “antisemitism”? Lewis made a big fuss about going to live in Israel, only a month or so ago!
So…the UK is OK as a place to make money for him while he lives in Israel? Or is he actually back in UK? If so, full-time or part-time (or, er, not at all…)?
The firm in question seems to operate from 2A, Norland Place, London W.11. Norland Place is a small cobbled mews side-street in Notting Hill, as seen in the estate agency photos below (and on Google Earth).
According to Companies House, Mark Lewis was appointed a director of Patron Law Ltd on 23 January 2019. According to the 2-page pdf document attached to the filing document, Lewis gave his “Country/State where usually resident” as “United Kingdom”.
So did Lewis lie to the public and Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in giving his (then upcoming) residence and/or domicile as “Israel”? Or has he made a false declaration to Companies House in stating that his “Country/State where usually resident” is the UK? Surely they cannot both be true?
Update, 30 January 2019
I will be based in Israel. Technology and flights mean I can live here and work there.
Lewis has apparently been retained by two minor UK Jewish “celebrities” and is threatening to sue on their behalf somewhere around 70 people, all or almost all Corbyn-Labour supporters on Twitter. As in the notorious McAlpine case (with which Lewis was not involved), Lewis is demanding that those tweeted by him supply their real names and contact details as a preliminary to “settlement” (surrender) or legal action.
“@Rattus2384” (aka @grubstreetsteve) is in fact Stephen Applebaum, a prolific Twitter user (troll) from North London, who is a member or supporter of the “Campaign Against AntiSemitism” (CAA), as is Lewis. Applebaum’s tweet puffs Lewis to absurdity. He fails to mention that Lewis’s own Counsel at the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal a few months ago asked for Lewis to be let off lightly because Lewis “has no assets except for his clothes and a mobility scooter”!
“The UK’s most successful defamation lawyer”? Ha ha!
Update, 3 March 2019
Lewis pretending that his (honorary) “Doctorate in Law” was not given to him by his old poly just for being briefly sort-of “famous”…
You arenāt familiar with the Data Protection Act and GDPR are you. So simply revert to ad hominem attacks. I guess my doctorate in law was an award for stupidity.
Some of Lewis’s Tweets, Part of the Recent Case Against Him
Update, 4 March 2019
Meanwhile, some people [see the Jewish Chronicle link, below] find it hard to let go of the laughable illusion that Lewis is a “top lawyer” (in this case, “high profile lawyer”), despite the fact that “his employment was terminated” by his last three (if not four) employers (in acrimonious circumstances in at least two of the cases), despite the fact that Lewis was described by his own Counsel at the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal (which found him guilty of professional misconduct) as someone who “has no assets” except “his clothes and a mobility scooter“! Lewis also has effectively no income now, since his Ā£7,000 net monthly salary from his last employers, Seddon’s, is cut off this month (the last month of his notice period).
Lewis, now resident in Israel but connected with a small law firm in London, has however been instructed to pursue tweeters on behalf of two unpleasant Jewesses also prominent on Twitter. I shall watch the progress of the actions (if proceedings are ever actually issued) with interest.
Below, another testimonial for the “top defamation lawyer”, Mark Lewis! Oh, no, wait…
PLUS @MLewisLawyer donāt forget that I have a LONG memory… I no longer recognise the Mark that acted for me anymore, what happened to your integrity? ???
Seems that some Twitter Zionists and others have not quite got the news, and think that “Mark Lewis Lawyer” is something more than a poisonous and near-insolvent bully impotently tweeting and threatening from his wheelchair or mobility scooter in Israel! Others, however, seem to be better informed…
But you're always one step ahead. Karma will get@MLewisLawyer.
I think that Karma is already having its effects on Lewis…
Update, 12 March 2019
The Jewish Chronicle hedges its bets now, referring to Lewis merely as “high profile lawyer”, no longer “top defamation lawyer” etc. The bastard’s Ā£7,000 (net) a month from his former employer, Seddons, expires this month, so he may soon be feeling the pinch.
As I have said in the past, “Mark Lewis Lawyer” is a fraud, not worth his salt as a lawyer, but just someone who (and it is typical of “them”…) publicizes himself, talks a good game, but then only performs in simple open-and-shut cases (such as the Katie Hopkins/Jack Monroe case), which a child could litigate.
Ooooops I mustnāt forget to mention that my Phone Hacking litigation Case, is in full Swing …NO THANKS TO YOU YOU @MLewisLawyer. Just Saying āŗļø Looking so Forward #RupertMurdoch#NewsOfTheWorld#TheSun and OTHERS ššŖšæ
Lewis is (quelle surprise) well-known to horrible “Blairite” MP (Common Purpose drone, expenses cheat, gay online dating site user, Labour Friends of Israel member, Remain and anti-Corbyn conspirator etc) Chris Bryant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bryant
who won Ā£30,000 from the News of the World in 2012. You cannot say that Bryant does not maximize his opportunities as an MP…
One of the amusing and ongoing aspects to the “Mark Lewis Lawyer” situation is the number of those on Twitter (mainly Jews, but not solely) who still seem to think that Lewis is “top lawyer”, “top defamation specialist” etc. They also tend to be those who imagine that libel actions can be brought at the drop of a hat, and without consequences if lost. They rarely know the law at all. Here’s one, inciting Lewis to sue an unnamed person (who seems to be in South Africa, at that!)
Sue him for libel Mark!
— (((LucilleGrantWriter)))š®š± šŗš¦šÆ š¢āŖš£ āļø (@L_D_Grant) June 23, 2019
People like tweeter (((LucilleGrantWriter))), obviously Jewish (again…), never seem to think how Lewis (whose Counsel told his Disciplinary Tribunal that “he essentially has no means“, and that “his only assets are his clothes and a mobility scooter“) might sue anyone in England or elsewhere on his own account!
Come to think of it, I have heard nothing, and seen nothing in the msm or legal websites about the proposed defamation actions being threatened by Lewis of behalf of UK-based Jew-Zionist “celebrities” Tracy-Ann Oberman and Rachel Riley (“Riley”? The only Jew I ever heard of with such a name was Sidney Reilly! In his case, he just invented his nom de guerre. Still, there it is.).
Under the law as it now is, libel actions in England have to be brought within a year of the date of publication. I seem to recall that the alleged libels (by Labour Party members and supporters, nothing to do with me, in case the reader is unaware!) were tweeted around November or even October of 2018, so time will run out within a few months. My guess? More Jewish Zionist bullying tactics, and there never will be any such libel action by those Jewish women.
Update, 10 July 2019
I never miss being in the UK, but I wish I was there tonight to watch #Panorama āis Labour Antisemitic?ā and the rest of the series āIs the Pope Catholic?ā and āDo bears defacate in the woods?ā BBC 9pm @BBCPanorama@UKLabour
Lewis was born and brought up in the UK, educated here, lived and worked here, scarcely been anywhere else for most of his life, yet has no more real connection with this country than if he had just got off the boat from wherever his clan originated. There we have it. In a nutshell.
Seems that Lewis’s ex-wife, Caroline Feraday, has also fallen on hard times, living in a “Nowheresville” in California with her young daughter (Caroline Feraday is now a single mother). She says that she is unable to raise a mere $10,000 [Ā£7,700], despite having some kind of (“office bod”?) job, and so has turned to GoFundMe. Strange. She was featured, in the past (in newspapers), a decade ago though, as having property of considerable value both in the UK and Brazil (in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro) as well as (since 2013) in California.
Surprisingly, she has, and within only one day (at time of writing), managed to raise nearly $2,000 of the $10,000 for which she asks.
[above: the latest picture of Lewis, looking a little peaky; taken in London, February 2020]
Update, 10 July 2020
The reader will have noted that one-time wannabee “celebrity”, Caroline Feraday, who now lives in a obscure tract development in California, was, not so long ago, begging for money via GoFundMe, because her neighbour was, allegedly, harassing her [see above].
In fact, some mugs were still donating money to Caroline Feraday, via GoFundMe, only a month ago: https://uk.gofundme.com/f/legal-fees-dealing-with-stalkerharassment, yet the tweets below show clearly that she has recently spent out USD $10,000 on a sunroom or windows for her house (the sunroom or windows apparently not delivered or constructed):
Before lockdown I paid @SunroomsWindows for a job which should have been done in March. Theyāve repeatedly lied and clearly donāt intend to fulfil, yet have taken 10k of my money, theyāre are out of contract, told me theyād start today and just didnāt show. Iāve been too patient
.@SunroomsWindows are literally the MOST dishonest company Iāve ever dealt with. I donāt cry about much, but to have given them so much trust over and again and then no show broke me today. The world just seems too full of liars and tw*ts right now.
“Dishonest“? “Liars“? “Tw*ts“? Look in the mirror, if you can bear it! Ha ha! To my mind, this comes close to fraud: taking money from kindhearted mugs because she claims to be in desperate need, yet paying out the very sum she originally sought ($10,000) for her legal fees in order to buy special windows!
Update, 24 July 2020
Now Lewis is again retained by other Jews and/or Labour Party or ex-Labour Party members and/or employees to sue the Labour Party (which —under doormat for the Jewish lobby, Starmer— has rolled over) and, I believe that I read, Jeremy Corbyn personally.
We are back in “pound of flesh” territory…
Meanwhile, there has been a backlash, not only from Corbyn supporters, but from those who do not like or trust Lewis:
Donations to 'Jeremy's Legal Fund', to support his possible libel battle against John Ware, continue to surge.https://t.co/hLFOnoZcg5
— The London Economic (@LondonEconomic) July 24, 2020
Legal fighting fund started for Corbyn reaches Ā£120,000 in first 24Ā hours https://t.co/j3jp28TM6I
I just checked: as of date and time of writing, that legal fund, which at first was aiming at a target of Ā£20,000, has reached over Ā£163,000, with about Ā£30 coming in every minute! https://uk.gofundme.com/f/47gyy-jeremy039s-legal-fund
What about Lewis?
The same maniac #MarkLewis who represented me back in the day re my phone hacking claim and litterally did fuck all but court the media, and YET my NEW Lawyers took under 3 Months to settle the same claim this Year. Lewis needs to be disbarred, heās no Lawyer heās a warmonger
Well, of course Lewis cannot be “disbarred”, because he is not and never has been a barrister! He is a solicitor, though one whose behaviour has been more than merely questionable over the years.
Update, 28 July 2020
People continue to tweet about Lewis and his behaviour. Jews tend, generally, to corrupt the legal system of any country that “hosts” them. Lewis is a prime example. An abuser…
Other Zionist Jews have always supported Lewis on Twitter. There’s a whole cabal of them.
Mark Lewis told a court he was living on Ā£75 a week – he doesnāt sound very successful to me. pic.twitter.com/VxL4dTjwmO
What sort of person gets disciplined and fined by their own Professional body the SRA for 'truly awful, nasty and dreadful' messages sent to Jewish people ?
Lawyer Mark Lewis
What sort of person hires such a lawyer to take action against 'antisemitism' ?
— Lady Kšššššššš (@k1482) July 24, 2020
I still remember a few years back when #MarkLewis was caught out on Twitter for buying up 1,000ās of Twitter accounts to give the impression he had a larger following. Pathetic Man
UK people are very naive about Jews. They often fail to see how Jews are totally different from English people. A Jew will put up a “big” front, no matter what, at all costs; they regard it as a speculative investment. The more honest ones admit it. Look at the book about the Korda brothers, Charmed Lives, by Michael Korda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Korda
This is what Lewis has always done, “created a legend” (in the old KGB sense); meaning a not entirely true and/or inflated CV.
Lewis of course is a small operator in that respect. Certainly compared to major Jew frauds such as the late and unlamented “Robert Maxwell”. The very verb “to big up” is of Jew origin.
So we have Jew solicitor Lewis, whose own Counsel at his 2018 “trial” asked for mercy on the basis that he owned only a mobility scooter, his own clothes, and Ā£70 a week from a private pension, yet Lewis is now again posing as the big international lawyer!
When Lewis sued a former firm (where he was a “consultant”, doing “phonehacking” cases) he claimed to the tame (Jew-infested) UK Press that he was expecting to receive a “six figure sum”. Result? The case failed, in effect. Settled without Lewis receiving anything. Typical of him.
Lewis did have a good position for a couple of years at Seddons, a well-known firm of London solicitors. That ended in late 2018, the year when Lewis was found guilty at the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal.
Much of the circa Ā£10,000 a month (c.Ā£7,000 net) which Lewis was paid (Seddons continued to pay him to the end of his notice period in March 2019) seems to have gone on presenting a wealthy front to the world and especially the Press. Renting an expensive apartment etc. He also had expensive cars at one point years ago (though later blagging a free car via Motability, once he realized that he could get Disability Living Allowance). Yet poor people, without much income, have had Motability cars taken away, in many cases…
Lewis is very (((typical))), let’s leave it there…
Update, 29 July 2020
TV stars Tracy-Ann Oberman and Rachel Riley drop libel claim over Twitter post https://t.co/pDEjIFdj4c
People may not be aware that Mark Lewis has settled an anti-Semitism case before this, without it reaching court. I am sure @CraigMurrayOrg will be delighted for Jane Heybroek. Jake Wallis Simons accepted that Mr Murray is not an anti-Semite, on the steps of the court 1/2
— leftworks #WeAreCorbyn (@leftworks1) July 29, 2020
Rachael Riley and Tracey-ann Oberman's legal team forced to settle with Jane Heybroek in embarrassing libel defeat. Legal TEAM? You mean the 1 Lawyer #MarkLewis a WarMonger. They were NEVER going to win. I Hope that Lewis. #Riley and #Oberman get Bankrupt https://t.co/NWtN5V05hv
And the Guardian of course manages to leave out the interesting information that Jane Heybroek, who had promptly deleted her retweet, was the only one targeted for a libel case, despite previous hints from the two celebrities that legal action could be taken against 70 people.
Ah, that was what I wondered about previously: out of the ā70 potential defendantsā targeted by the Jewish women Rachel Riley and Tracy Ann Oberman, it seems that only one claim got to courtā and that that one has now failed.
I do not know whether the two unpleasant Jewish women are planning to sue others. I doubt it.
Lewis even now tries to talk a big game to the newspapers, as always, but where are the ābigger fish to fryā of which he spoke today? Is he back on those drugs that he testified (at his 2018 Solicitorsā Disciplinary Tribunal āwhich he lost) caused him not to know what he was doing or writing? That is what he himself testified, i.e. that he was incapable and incoherent.
Why on Earth would anyone retain Lewis? On the other hand, he is cheap, in the sense that he operates on the no-win, no-fee basis, backed by speculative finance (litigation insurance). They hope to take assets from defendants who lose at trial, or monies from intimidated defendants who might decide to settle at an earlier stage.
People are so easily conned, nicht wahr? I still see tweets from people who imagine that Lewis is some kind of defamation superstar. His successes have been in simple cases where the defendant was unwise and self-willed, like the āJack Monroeā (āBootstrap Cookā) action against columnist, now ex-columnist, Katie Hopkins. Well, now we see what happens when Lewis is up against real libel specialistsā¦
Update, 20 March 2023
Yes very much an ex-husband, this wasn't even the worst thing he did. Twice he was spotted very much with other women, once coming out of a hotel in the morning with one, and another at an airport going away for the weekend together when he very much told me he was home.
If that was Lewis (and I think that Caroline Feraday has only been married once), then of course he would not be able to “storm off” now, unless he put his wheelchair into overdrive.
Time heals all wounds, one way or another…
Update, 16 September 2023
Here's Mark Lewis formerly of UK Lawyers for Israel, attendee at launch of extremist Herut UK, getting into bother for retailing untrue evidence.
Well worth reading, the following tweets describe part of a recent case catastrophically badly-handled by “Mark Lewis Lawyer”. Quite apart from his evident professional negligence, it is clear to me, reading it all, that Lewis was also flagrantly dishonest. He really should be struck off the solicitors’ roll.
I might add that the heroic and ultimately victorious Claimant, James Wilson, is in my opinion far too kind to the Jews and/or part-Jews who defamed and hounded him, but that is another question.
Since one of the Defendantsā solicitors, Mark Lewis (@MLewisLawyer) of Patron Law (@LawPatron), is mentioned in the statement, I am tagging him here. If he wishes to reply, Iāll post his reply below my statement.
This is the email where Mark Lewis (@MLewisLawyer) of Patron Law (@LawPatron) refuses in principle my offer to settle for nominal damages and zero costs with Mr Cantor
Wow! Mark Lewis acted for Daniel Miller and Nina Power against Luke Turner. Lewisā clients lost in spectacular fashion. Mr Miller is now bankrupt. I am not sure about Ms Power.
It is awful the same will happen to Mr Mendelsohn and Mr Cantor!
Mr Justice Nicklin said this about Mark Lewis (@mlewislawyer) misleading the court: āIt is likely that this error occurred because he [Mr Lewis] had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take adequate instructions from his clients.āhttps://t.co/ECvQB8yqpnhttps://t.co/T7SlclxAjl
Hereās another example of an unhinged letter from Mark Lewis (@mlewislawyer).
Big question: did Mr Cantor insist I had to give Lewis a pile of cash before Mr Cantor would settle? Or was it Lewis himself insisting on that? What do you think? Cui bono? pic.twitter.com/vOeBqyznpD
When Mr Mendelsohn gave evidence at trial, it became clear he was unaware of some of the conduct of, or positions adopted by, his solicitor Daniel Berke.
He honestly thought Berke had complied with the pre-action protocol. In reality, there was almost no compliance!ā¦
In my case, Mark Lewisā completely bananas position was that mediation had to follow meaning and strike out hearings. I assume heās never bothered to read the pre-action protocol! @MLewisLawyer
Because Mark Lewis is a self-publicizing Jewish/Zionist bully who is also not a very good lawyer, as many of his clients over the years have discovered; neither is he an honest one.
Also @supergutman, I am doing my absolute level best to avoid forcing the sale of Mr Cantorās house to pay my costs.
Mark Lewis seems to have washed his hands of Mr Cantor in terms of helping him meet my costs.
Whatās desperately sad about the position is that Lewis has talked openly about being belligerent, ruthless, hitting people, and taking homes off people.
Something has gone terribly wrong here in that it is Lewisā own client who is set to lose his home. pic.twitter.com/DrsPF1FV2P
It is weird that the anonymous pro-Israel trolls have started having a go at me again after judgment in my case.
If the trolls actually cared about defending Jewish people, there is a vulnerable man called Eddy Cantor who is set to lose the home he and his family live in. I needā¦ pic.twitter.com/Iaxc3zmeAg
“It is weird that the anonymous pro-Israel trolls have started having a go at me again after judgment in my case. If the trolls actually cared about defending Jewish people, there is a vulnerable man called Eddy Cantor who is set to lose the home he and his family live in.
I need help to stop that happening. He is set to lose it because Mark Lewis did not work out that Mr Cantor had equity in his home. Mr Lewis therefore thought Mr Cantor had financial immunity in the litigation.
I worked out Mr Cantor had equity in his home by looking it up on the Land Registry and asking him. Rather than having a go at me, the trolls could have go at Mr Lewis to encourage him to step in to stop Mr Cantor losing his home.“
“Famous” (self-publicizing) “libel specialist” Mark Lewis Lawyer: both dishonest and incompetent, as I have blogged for several years. He has never sued. Admittedly, partly because my present —and for several years past— impecuniosity makes me effectively “unsueable”, but he has never even tried to apply for an injunction/restraining order against me. He knew that he would lose. He prefers to sneak around helping the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (he was a founder member) to make malicious lying complaints to police (etc) about me.
Mark Lewis and his partners at Patron Law are refusing to say whether they will pay my costs.
It is causing terrible stress to their former client Eddy Cantor who is set to lose his home.
Iām going to give some information about Patronās partners.
“This is Patronās partner Alexander Zivancevic. He was fined Ā£15k by a Tribunal because he lacked integrity. He paid money from a client into his own personal bank account.“
Another one of them, of course…
Mr. Wilson has discovered that, when the usual Jew-Zionist pack scores a hit against a non-Jew, the (((usual))) Press pack (inc. LBC radio and Talk TV etc) go overboard on it, but when the Zionists (eg “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) fall down, the mass media is silent. I have seen it time abd again.
Of course, one must not say that the Jewish influence over the mass media is stifling truth in the UK; that would be, apparently, not only “antisemitic” but “grossly offensive”…
Ian Robert Millard 