“Keir Starmer is looking into plans to process asylum seekers outside the UK as part of a rethink of the government’s immigration policies, even as a returns agreement with the EU appears more distant than ever.
The prime minister said on Thursday he was open to the idea of Britain processing claims offshore, after a day spent discussing illegal migration with fellow European leaders at Blenheim Palace. Those talks, as part of the European Political Community summit, included a meeting with Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, whose country processes asylum claims on behalf of Italy.
But he said a deal to return refused asylum seekers to the EU was low on his list of priorities, as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned his country was not willing to shoulder the additional burden.
“But look, I’m a practical person. I’m a pragmatist. And I’ve always said we’ll look at what works and where cases can be processed closer to origin, then that is something which of course ought to be looked at.”
[The Guardian]
As I have been predicting for many months on the blog, Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” migration invasion, meaning get it off the TV news agenda, by simply “processing” the applications of the invaders long before they reach the UK, whether that be in France, in Albania, in Italy, or even in Africa.
“Processing” will mean, in this context, rubberstamping 90% or more of the applications. Probably more, looking at how about 80% of the applications of the present wave of invaders are eventually approved once they land in the UK (and the rest not deported anyway).
What about those, the small minority no doubt, who apply for asylum in those extra-territorial processing centres or offices but are refused? Is Starmer pretending that they will be content to stay in, or return to, their native countries? Of course they will not. They will simply make their way to the English Channel and then try to cross it.
What I can say is that – if the messages between the defendants in my case are right – the advice of Mark Lewis of Patron Law was terrible. He appears not to have understood fundamental aspects of my claim. @MLewisLawyerhttps://t.co/NznpEQpOTfpic.twitter.com/SVwBbdsngA
Only one thing can save Western culture and civilization, and the root-stock on which they both depend— social nationalism, and a consequent “revaluation of all values”.
Happened to see the above photo of the Thames just below Benson Lock, Oxfordshire. My mind at once returned to the summer of 1971, when I was there, aged 14, rowing my inflatable yellow neoprene boat downstream.
53 years ago. Over half a century. Does not seem possible, in a sense.
At least that little corner of England has not yet been trashed, or built upon.
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So the Ukrainian parliament just passed for further proceeding a law that would de facto legalize corruption under the guise of fighting corruption. And this came from Zelenskyy’s support party. This is beyond absurd. Should this become law expect an exodus of Western… https://t.co/OHz6MiJLMZ
“Ukraine” (Kiev regime)— a shambolic, corrupt and brutal dictatorship masquerading as a “democracy” that values civil rights etc.
Moscow does not rule out deploying nuclear missiles in response to the deployment of long-range US missiles in Germany, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters:https://t.co/U3h6IiWbv7pic.twitter.com/drRDoD671m
Russian troops destroyed a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system of the Ukrainian army by a Lancet loitering munition in the Kherson area, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://t.co/8OqWFq5YxV
Behind Donald Trump, entirely different forces are at play. He represents an alternative to Biden and globalisation, diverging significantly from the policies of both Democratic and Republican forerunners.
I often worry that I may be too old to take a leading part in the national revolution by the time it happens, at least to take an active leading part; I am already 67 (68 in September). Damn.
I can understand some people often make a steeple with their hands but this is simply an unnatural thing to do, especially when sitting down. This is no real IT 'outage', the prep is being done for more lockdowns.
— cognitivedissonanceeverywhere (@Vercovicium) July 19, 2024
Mirabile dictu! Former-MP and Israel-puppet Largan has said something with which I can agree.
I have noted in the past on the blog the inadequacy of so many post-1945 public buildings in the UK, for example the court buildings in both London and the provinces. Some are OK, or even impressive, but more are not. Compare them to most of the American court buildings, such as the Federal court building in Trenton, New Jersey, where I was, several times, over 30 years ago:
So ugly, one is prompted to speculate, “Britischer Architekt?” Still, quite large and impressive at least.
I see that that 1980s building is named after a former Governor of the state, who was also at one time Chief Justice of New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Hughes_Justice_Complex#Dedication. I was very slightly acquainted with one of his sons, who himself became a Federal magistrate in 1991, a year or two after I was introduced to him; I met him again, en passant, a few times, in the years 1989-1991: https://www.pli.edu/faculty/hon.-john-j.-hughes-i1305491. He was all right, but not the most social person in the world, to be frank. Not sure that I would have liked to have been a defendant in his court…
It seems, just now, To be happening so very fast; Despite all the land left free For the first time I feel somehow That it isn't going to last https://t.co/hoGQ84EsYt
Well, amazing. A second tweet of Largan that I like. Two in one day. Amazing.
If those poetic lines are original, from Largan himself, then he has a poetic sophistication, though not unflawed, at which I should not have guessed, to be frank.
Huge crowds marching to the Gardaí station in Collock.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Cheers from the Irish tonight as the building that was to be used to house unvetted migrant men in Coolock catches fire again 🤷🏻♂️ bloody climate change eh? pic.twitter.com/KR8ikRXqTW
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Surprise surprise. When it comes to claims linking a ban on puberty blockers to increased suicide Jolyon Maugham & other activist lawyers have been talking total bollocks https://t.co/iLQhUifqzV
Even if that were not so, the ban is obviously the right thing to do, whatever the collateral damage.
"While the British Tories have lost their way, failing to grasp how the tectonic plates of politics are on the move, Team Trump have doubled down on and expanded the post-2016 political realignment"https://t.co/V5XZ2cc81p
The United States may stop providing aid to Ukraine in the future, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a fireside chat at the 2024 Aspen Security Forum:https://t.co/G9NOsXzQz7pic.twitter.com/6WxrHJBRVm
Trump looking presidential, in a way that he rarely did even when he was President before.
If he can survive the campaign and get re-elected, his personal history, and his personal flaws, can take a back seat. He can stop funding Zelensky and the whole Kiev regime. That can be his first task.
Trump may be in a position, if or when re-elected, to call a halt to the rush to world war. That is the issue of primary importance.
“An arrest warrant has been issued for an asylum seeker who tried to bring cannabis onto the Bibby Stockholm barge and then bit a police officer when he was being arrested.
Kenson Noel, aged 29, pleaded guilty at Weymouth Magistrates Court on June 7 to possession of a class B drug and assault by beating of Portland Port Police officer Christopher Grant.
The charges relate to an incident on May 16, 2024.
He was due to be sentenced today at Poole Magistrates Court but did not appear.
This triggered a warrant for his arrest to be issued by the court.
The court previously heard that Noel, whose address was given as a hotel in Bournemouth, is an asylum seeker who fled Trinidad and Tobago after being threatened by gangs.“
“Protesters hurled bricks and fireworks at riot police near a Dublin factory set to house asylum seekers today, with officers spraying activists with pepper spray.
Gardai clashed with hundreds of people gathered at the former Crown Paints factory in Coolock as fighting exploded throughout the day.“
[Daily Mail]
People on both sides of the Irish Sea are getting very angry, and that can only continue and intensify as more millions of migrant-invaders arrive in 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 etc.
“Archaeologists have finally traced a lost alphabet that puzzled scholars for decades back to a 3,000 year-old civilization of Biblical significance.
Since 1964, archaeologists have found 15 different tablets with strange carvings at the site of an ancient settlement in Jordan.
Thanks to new analysis, archaeologists have found that they were likely made by the Canaanites, an indigenous group who thrived in the Middle East until the second half of the 13th century BC.
The Canaanites resided in ‘the Promised Land’ from 3500BC until 1200BC before they were conquered by Israeli tribes following their Exodus from Egypt.
“Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump in a bombshell ruling less than 48 hours after the former president was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Trump was accused of taking highly sensitive national security documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate when he left the White House, and FBI agents seized a trove of material during a search of his Florida home in August 2022.
Judge Cannon threw the case out based on ‘violations’ of the Constitution’s Appointments and Appropriations clauses.
In her ruling, she found that the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional.
The decision has an enormous impact on Trump’s legal battles, and he now faces just two criminal trials in Georgia and the federal court in Washington D.C.
A year ago, Trump’s classified documents case appeared to be his most serious legal threat: perhaps easier to prove than Trump’s January 6 case, which relied on public statements, tweets and complex schemes involving electors around the country to charge a complex conspiracy to overturn the election.“
[Daily Mail]
Everything’s going Trump’s way, it seems…
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Fuck it. I’m just gonna come out and say it.
After a lot of thought, I am now 100% behind Donald Trump for President. Let me explain my reasoning…
Trump fell short in many ways in his first term. He was weaker than he should have been on the border. He appointed people to his…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) July 16, 2024
“Fuck it. I’m just gonna come out and say it. After a lot of thought, I am now 100% behind Donald Trump for President. Let me explain my reasoning…
Trump fell short in many ways in his first term. He was weaker than he should have been on the border. He appointed people to his cabinet that frankly stained his image and sunk his reputation. He let us down with the vaccines and Operation Warp Speed. But it’s about more than Donald Trump. It’s always been about more than Trump.
He has awakened the sleeping giant in America and across the world. People have hit breaking point. And they are sick to the back teeth of the status quo. For all my reservations, I do believe at heart his intentions are mostly good. Compare and contrast him to a demented old man who doesn’t remember what he had for breakfast.
What happened on Saturday night pushed me over the edge. They have tried everything to stop this man. Impeachment, election rigging, lawfare and now an attempted assassination in broad daylight. It’s not about trying to stop Trump. It’s about trying to stop a populist uprising.
In these times we can’t be picky. Trump isn’t going to fix all our problems. Trump isn’t going to save the world. We are living through a time of pure evil, the likes of which only God can protect us from. But we have to rebuild, we have to reorganise. We all have differences of opinion on various issues but ultimately we all see the evil in this world and we all want to make a change. And I believe the best start to that work is to get behind Donald Trump and use our influence to push for the change we want to see.”
[David Morgan]
NEW POST. Britain's population explosion. SHOCKING new data. The latest data on how the country is being completely transformedhttps://t.co/ERDM5mO3yN
"The British people are currently living through the largest increase in their population since 1948, when British soldiers returned from World War Two and there was a baby boom. The difference today? It's because of mass immigration"https://t.co/5XqFFHeTm0
“There has simply never been a nation-state in history that has endured the sheer scale and speed of demographic change that is currently unfolding around us and remained a healthy, socially cohesive, prosperous, high-trust society.“
"Last year, our population only increased by 400 people through 'natural change' (births minus deaths among people already here). It's the lowest figure since 1978. In sharp contrast, immigration added 622,000 people, one of the highest stats on record"https://t.co/ERDM5mO3yN
…and virtually all the children now being born in the UK, and particularly in England, are non-white (including mixed-race). Demographic disaster.
Israel executed a FAMILY. Look. A little girl with her backpack. Monstrous war crimes. https://t.co/AbMX0JTsJd
— AnnaChetConcreteisland (@Concreteisland2) July 16, 2024
Vaughan Gething jumped to stop more dirt coming out but it's not worked. Expect revelations.
Gethin's native Zambia thoroughly corrupt, like all of sub-Saharan Africa, and African standards of probity don't go down well in the UK. We expect better.
Let’s bin all “diversity hires”, starting with David Lammy, presently and ludicrously posing as Foreign Secretary.
Ha ha…yes, but the joke is on us…
The System promotes idiots like that, making sure that they can wave a few bits of paper (tick-box degrees, diplomas etc) if challenged, as a way of accelerating the destruction of European civilization.
⚠️“Britain has reached its immigration breaking point,” @dampierguy warns in @Telegraph.
“Instead of the promised economic boom, we’ve seen GDP per capita fall, meaning that even if the economy is technically growing, individually we are getting poorer.”https://t.co/6k0B6swR4O
Even the System msm cannot ignore the migration invasion completely, because the public has started to awaken and, indeed, become fearful of what is happening, and what might and probably will happen not so far down the road.
The Twitter-twits, and the System politicians, have been laughing at the Reform UK result at GE 2024 (“only 5 MPs” etc), but the underlying reality is that, out of nearly 29M actual votes, Reform UK got over 4.1M, the Conservative Party only 6.8M, and victorious Labour 9.8M.
Labour received under 10M votes, and has 411 MPs, despite only getting about (indeed, less than) two-and-a-half times the number of votes cast for Reform UK, fobbed off with merely 5 MPs.
As noted in previous blog posts, for every 20 people who were eligible to vote at GE 2024, a plurality, 8 people, did not bother to vote, probably because they were disenchanted with the whole set-up.
Out of that group of 20 people, only 4 actually voted Labour.
Another 3 out of the 20 voted Conservative; 2 voted Reform UK. 2 also voted LibDem (which however received only 3.5M votes as against Reform’s 4.1M). (Almost) 1 notional voter out of the 20 voted Green, which party received 1.8M votes.
The point is that Reform UK is, at least in part, “controlled opposition” but, notwithstanding that, over 4 million people decided to register their anger by voting for it. Another 19.6 million did not vote.
It is possible that, were a credible social-national movement to exist, a substantial part of the 19.6M non-voting bloc, as well as a large part of Reform UK’s 4.1M bloc, might vote for, or otherwise support it.
Remember, out of every 20 adult people in the UK, only 4 voted for Starmer-Labour.
Starmer-Labour has no real mandate from the people.
Salus populi suprema lex
[“the welfare of the people is the highest law“— Cicero]
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Park Lane.
One of the most prestigious addresses in London.
One of the most expensive places on the Monopoly board.
It’s a disgrace wherever it is, not because it’s #Park#Lane. I feel we are lost as a #nation & because the vast majority have sold their souls & have no #morals with true meaning. https://t.co/fLaIEjq0gP
Europe can only be saved when its peoples, including the British, rise up against the tidal wave of migration invasion.
MIGRANTS SET UP CAMP IN PARK LANE
If the UK were a serious country, immigration officers would rock up there arrest and detain all the foreigners. The process of repatriating them back to their native lands starts
All you really need to know about the real view taken by both Starmer-Labour and the now-binned Sunak misgovernment is that virtually all government ministers (of either main System party) were and are signed up, in reality, to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. Mass immigration into Europe, with the aim of destroying European culture and civilization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
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Happened to see part of one of those fly-on-the-wall cop shows, called Police Interceptors. The bit I saw concerned a raid on a house where a man was thought to be trading in drugs.
The police arrived in force, were ready to bust open the front door but found it unlocked, so went in and took control of the property. The man named on the warrant was not at home, but his wife/girlfriend/whatever was, along with her small and terrified children.
In the kitchen, the police found large bags stuffed with herbal cannabis, apparently harvested from the marijuana farm in the attic, which the police also found. They also found little plastic bags used for retail sales of the drug.
The woman was arrested only because the wanted man refused to give himself up, but was in touch with the woman by telephone, under police guard, and was apparently nearby. He gave himself up a few days later.
What interested me was that I should have thought that there was ample evidence to prosecute them both for “possession with intent to supply”, but in the end the woman was released (I was distracted so missed the exact outcome, I think an official caution), and her husband/boyfriend/co-habitee was apparently not charged with anything!
A big raid, the police all dressed up in the paramilitary style to which they have become accustomed, warrants obtained, searches made, drugs found, arrests made and, in the end…nothing.
The police and CPS need to start dealing with (real) crime, rather than snooping on tweets and blog posts and generally behaving like a poundland Stasi.
This country is now pretty close to running on empty.
After Trump’s courageous immediate response to the attempted assassination, his stock among the American voters must surely rise.
I just landed and missed an assignation attempt. Holy shit. What a bad ass reaction from Trump. The election is over. He's the next president. The Dems should give up. They can't beat him now. pic.twitter.com/omtbue191d
This must surely seal the Presidential race for Trump, even if the Democrats replace Biden with someone compos mentis.
Having said that, were Biden to be replaced by someone such as Michelle Obama, popular —God knows why— among the non-whites who are now the majority of the American population, it is possible that Trump might lose, I suppose, but that really might see an actual civil war develop.
Have we just seen and heard, in those popping shots at the Trump rally, the first shots of the second American Civil War, akin to the shot fired at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina in 1861, or even that fired by the cruiser Aurora in 1917?
Is anything Liz Truss may think even worth reporting? Her rise to prominence, then —briefly— power came as a result of peculiar and particular political circumstances; and, after all, she only became an MP in the first place on her back.
Were her crazy idea about pension age ever to be implemented, it would cause an electoral, and perhaps actual, rebellion that would make the rise of Reform UK look like the Teddy Bears’ Picnic.
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David Lammy is quite simply not up to the job. Foreign Secretary is one of the great offices of state. It is vital that all language used is accurate, moderate, and coherent.
— Juanita Fogarty ✝️👑🇺🇦 (@wheatnotincl) July 14, 2024
Thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire” Lammy is not only a barrister and a member of Lincoln’s Inn (as I was from 1986 until my wrongful and unlawful disbarment in 2016, when I was automatically expelled) but I think now even a Bencher there. He is welcome there; I am not. Could one imagine a more absurd example of where our society has gone wrong?
As Matt Goodwin has predicted, the Starmer-Labour government will crash and burn very quickly. It has no real mandate anyway, despite its Commons majority. Only 33.7% of the popular vote. People wanted rid of the fake “Conservatives”, that’s all. Few really wanted Starmer-Labour. Don’t forget that Sunak’s “Conservatives” also had a large Commons majority.
How is it that a Zionist Jew such as Aaronovitch can post that, and nothing happens, but a comment or cartoon about Jewish behaviour, allegedly posted by an English blogger, causes the suborned UK police and/or CPS to go mad?
Oh…
I refer readers to the posts re. my free speech trial of 2023.
After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, like after Robert Fico in Slovakia, a not insignificant chunk of the legacy media class has become a joke. Do journalists see this? Do they understand how they have eroded public trust? Why don't they ever talk about it? pic.twitter.com/GugzeNQGZY
Compare and contrast Donald Trump's strength and courage after an assassination attempt to Joe Biden's fumbling and bumbling performance as president. That's what millions of Americans will be doing right now.
Of course, both Biden and Trump kow-tow to the Israel lobby, but at least Trump would or will avoid war with Russia and, I hope, take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.
MOST READ #2 this week. The realignment is OVER. 10 KEY messages from the 2024 electionhttps://t.co/hjoHoqJtxM
The Labour hegemony in the younger age-groups (highest in the 25-34 age-group— 46%) will not last. The wider 18-44 group —where Labour support was, at GE 2024, over 40%— will soon defect or fall away when Labour fails to improve the housing crisis, or improve the poor deal renters get in the UK, among other issues.
Farage
I see that the little world of UK Twitter/X is going mad because Farage is going to visit Trump. According to those Twitter-twits, Farage is neglecting his duties as MP and, in particular, neglecting the constituents of Clacton by briefly going to the USA. They obviously have no idea that a great many MPs either do nothing at all for their (notional) constituents, or send pro-forma letters back to them, explaining why they can do little or nothing. There are exceptions, but those are exceptions to the general rule of uselessness.
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who recently survived an assassination attempt, about the attack on Trump:
"The script is like a copy. Trump's political opponents are trying to shut him down, and when they fail they just incite society until some poor guy takes up arms." pic.twitter.com/uzWfigmq81
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
I think so. Of course, it is a gamble, but one at reasonable odds.
Trump announced that he will go as planned to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee pic.twitter.com/i27MYlJk0M
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Meanwhile, poor old Biden has decided to cancel his engagement tomorrow in Texas…
American culture has begun to bring the topic of the assassination attempt on Trump to the masses pic.twitter.com/jeTX1ejMTM
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Trump intends to raise $1 million for the family of the slain firefighter Donald Trump's organizational team has launched a "GoFundMe " campaign that will serve to collect donations to support the victims of the shooting in Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/qFd4nb0mIl
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Russia and the USA are in a phase of deep confrontation, for now there are no preconditions for getting out of it, said Dmitry Peskov. " One day, that time will come ," said Peskov, adding that more and more countries in the world do not want to choose between the West and… pic.twitter.com/6AGUBdIyQ4
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 14, 2024
#Volgarev: The countries to "West of Vienna" also have alarming trends and long-standing systemic problems. While their representatives have been busy for many years imposing narratives on others and ignoring problems "at home" pic.twitter.com/IY4GKzJqyM
Back in the mid-1980s, I sometimes enjoyed Spitting Image [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image]. The sort of real cutting satire that would simply not be allowed today, much of it. In any case, with the sort of events we now see (eg Biden’s funny but also sad descent into the fog), any similar show today would have to fight hard to compete with what is actually happening in front of our eyes.
True, Reagan was not the most-obviously intelligent world leader, but the satirical treatment of him was deliberately “over the top”; whatever his flaws, he was not in the grip of a dementia-related condition plainly visible whenever he spoke in public.
I have not seen the more recently remade Spitting Image but I doubt that it pokes fun at the kind of non-political targets the 1980s original did, e.g. black “rap” performers. I admit that I am guessing, though. The remake is not broadcast on mainstream TV.
Zelenskyy Calls on NATO Allies to Remove Restrictions on Strikes Into Russiahttps://t.co/DikGEKi0oX
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The regime of that evil little bastard has only one main chance— to drag NATO into the war. That might mean a slide into a nuclear confrontation before very long.
If the Kiev regime starts to attack Russian cities far from the front line, the response might be that Ukrainian cities in the western part of Ukraine, west of the Dnieper, might be attacked and even destroyed.
So far, Russia has not launched all-out attack on Kiev, partly because of its role in Russian history, but if major Russian cities start to be bombarded, that may change.
I predicted, a couple of years ago, on the blog, that Russia would start to degrade the electrical production and distribution network across Ukraine. That is now being intensified, and is a far more intelligent way of waging war than the more brutal and harsh —and less effective— choice of attacking directly the homes and neighbourhoods of the Ukrainian civilians.
If the Kiev regime starts to badly damage Russian cities away from the front line —especially Moscow, Petersburg and surrounding territories— the Russian response could be devastating enough to bring NATO into the war on some pretext such as Poland suffering damage. Were that to happen, all of us would be but a step away from a Russia-NATO war, which is being pushed by secret circles within the West. Such a war, which would quite likely go nuclear within weeks, would change Europe and the world forever.
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If your landlord lets a bunch of stray dogs into your apartment when you're at work do you blame the dogs or the landlord?
Incredible, when you think of the historical hardships of the Irish people. Now, unwanted non-European migrant-invaders demand this, that, and the other…
The Conservative Party needs a bold offering to make it easier to start and raise a family.@NBC789 outlines our proposal below 👇 pic.twitter.com/GnS7API2PR
Starmer-Labour has surprised even me by its evident ineptitude. We are only one week into what looks like being a disastrous 5 years.
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I do not follow football at all, but it seems to me that both domestic and international matches are now, in effect, a situation where people put “national” or team labels on a group of players and say to each other: “my blacks can beat your blacks“.
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What is going on??
Astonishing how quickly Patrick Vallance is pontificating on all this
attacks Brexit – doesn’t rule out Free Movement as part of a rapprochement with the EU – argues that liberalisation of visa rules is important
Another example of the undemocratic and quasi-dictatorial nature of the Starmer-Labour government. 411 MPs from whom to choose, yet Starmer is appointing ministers at will from outside the Commons, elevating them to the Lords first.
Must admit I certainly worry for my kids. The future does not look that great given Labours decisions over the last week.
I was just looking at Twitter/X, which is alive today with Twitter-twits attacking Reform UK and, particularly, belittling Reform for, as it were, pretending to be a serious political party when it “only” has 5 MPs.
As recently as June 2024, the LibDems only had 11 MPs, and had only 8 from 2015 until 2017.
As for the SNP, from its foundation in the early 1930s and until 1970, about 37 years (!), the SNP had no MPs at all; in 1970, the SNP managed to have elected 1 MP. The MP-cadre of the SNP then varied from 2 to (1974 to 1979) 11 MPs in the years 1974 to 2015, but mostly stuck at 2 or 3 MPs until 1997, when the SNP bloc increased its numbers, this time to 6 MPs. When the FPTP tipping-point was reached in 2015, the SNP mushroomed from 6 MPs to 56 (out of 59 Scottish MPs) overnight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.
Apart from those comparisons, the Twitter-twits might like to consider what this blog has been saying for the past week, as have some others (though not enough) even in the msm: Labour did not win by some kind of popular “landslide”, but only in terms of seats conferred by a totally unfit-for-purpose electoral system.
As noted on the blog in past days, at GE 2024 the Conservative Party only got (just over) 1.5x the number/percentage of votes of Reform UK, and even Labour only got (below) 2.5x the Reform UK vote-share.
As put on the blog the other day, out of every 20 eligible voters, only 12 even voted.
In very rough terms, out of that eligible 20 voters, 8 voters abstained, 4 voters voted Lab, 3 voters voted Con, 2 voters voted Reform, 2 voters voted LibDem, and 1 voter voted Green.
Not exactly, and “other parties were available”, but 90.29% of UK voters voted for one of those 5 parties. In England specifically, about 97% of voters voted Lab, Con, Reform, LibDem or Green.
The Twitter-Twits tweeting about Reform UK are mostly Labour supporters who belittle Reform because only 2 out of every 12 voters who voted voted for it, yet only 4 out of 12 (4 out of 20 if you count the abstainers) voted Labour.
I happened to notice one particular Twitter/X account, one “@RobBaron10”, who today (as of 1430) has already managed to put out about 29 Twitter/X “replies”, almost all angrily insulting, and all or almost all completely brainless. I have to say that I am loath to give much credence to someone whose Twitter/X profile says “Retired lecturer in philosophy trying to live a low-impact lifestyle. Despises the far-right and social injustice. Responds in the tone responded to.” Especially when said “retired lecturer in philosophy” thinks that “toe the line” is spelled “tow the line“…
More seriously, if Starmer-Labour MPs and supporters think that the absurd result of GE 2024 gives Starmer the right to impose a “woke”, and also Israel-lobby, tyranny on the people of the UK, he and they are very much mistaken.
Remember those figures— only 4 out of 12 who voted (<34%) voted Labour; only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters (~20%) voted Labour.
American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed… pic.twitter.com/dJtIeBBYuW
— AZ 🇺🇸 PATRIOT • Steve Emery (@SteveEmery0003) July 12, 2024
“American citizens stand with Russia, not Ukraine. Russia is an orthodox Christian nation, a sovereign nation, doesn’t pander to illegals aliens, was lied to by Ukraine, the U.S and NATO and had forces put on their border, a violation of previous promises made. Ukraine is in bed with the illegal covert bio weapons laboratory facility’s doing gain of function. Ukraine is the most corruption country in Europe, a money laundering hub, a child trafficking hub and a live organ black market dealing hub. Fuck Ukraine and punk ass Zelensky!“
In which Dido Harding reveals her confusion of public with ‘customer’ service. Test and Trace belongs in the same pile as “Tesco and Sainsbury’s” and “buying your broadband from Talk Talk” and they’ve all, she hopes, given her “a little bit of wisdom”. 😂 https://t.co/iLcUjG4luf
We now have a Labour government. Please can they be ‘Labour’ & renationalise our water ASAP Privatising water was another Tory disaster. #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas
Also most railways, most electricity, and most other energy production and distribution.
#JustChangeItBackToHowItWas when you could tell someone they are wrong and they could tell you to fuck off. Then go about your day with no offense currency and hounding out of jobs
— Why is everyone insane? (@Joyfulkumquat) July 12, 2024
…and no professional pretend-“offended” nuisances, such as the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal.
Every woke historical drama made now seems to be a ‘reinvention’ of history, in putting minorities and women in roles that wouldn’t have been possible in those days and scrapping any racism and sexism that would have existed back then. Rubbish. #JustChangeItBackToHowItWas
Washington is putting pressure on the new UK government to continue challenging the ICC decision in favor of Israel
The previous Tory government filed a request to challenge the ICC's jurisdiction to try Netanyahu and his gang for war crimes in Gaza pic.twitter.com/5ikwLKmbHl
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
🇮🇱 Haaretz : Former Prime Minister Exud Olmert says Israel will eventually face arrest warrants and prosecution for crimes against Palestinians cev on the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/Wi3o5i3b0V
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
The main square of the city of Bani Suheila, the southern part of the Gaza Strip, before and after Israeli aggression. pic.twitter.com/lqw49OKwVn
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
Mossad director advocates continued attacks on Gaza after prisoner exchange
Increased attacks on Gaza have had a 'positive impact' on prisoner exchange talks – David Barnea pic.twitter.com/eATbzeaTv0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
That visage puts me in mind of some kind of lizard.
A rose forged from the steel of a Western missile launched on Donetsk was delivered to the State Department for the former US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, said the deputy leader of the DNR Jan Gagin.
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
“Along with the “gift”, he also sent an accompanying written appeal, in which he called on American politicians to stop supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with weapons and money in order to stop the bloodshed and the escalation of the conflict.“
Putin called the West’s big mistake the lack of reaction to direct strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant:
“This is their big mistake, we will remember this again, we will talk about this more than once.” pic.twitter.com/qPtzdxCf0H
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
🌋 Video from the crater of Mount Etna Voragin, which has been erupting for more than a week pic.twitter.com/vvYwOf0Xqt
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 12, 2024
It's nearly that time of year again! And it’s certainly raining in Winchester at the moment ☔️ Tradition upholds that if it rains upon this bridge – St Swithun's bridge in Winchester city centre – on Monday 15 July, it will continue for forty days. #StSwithunsDay 🧵 pic.twitter.com/f5zvsdzTAH
— Winchester City Council (@WinchesterCity) July 9, 2024
At present, the forecast for Winchester on St. Swithun’s Day (next Monday) is…wet.
What an incredible waste of the British people’s tax monies, thrown at the brutal and shambolic regime of the Jewish dictator Zelensky. Meanwhile Britain’s public services are collapsing.
Fake Labour is already a failure as a government.
Crimea has been Russian for 200 years as shown by the continuation of the presence of their navy. And zelensky was bombing that region of Ukraine for 5 years before putin entered
"The knowledge that at least some Conservative ministers opposed the woke agenda meant radical activists in the institutions could not fully let rip. But that leash came off when Labour won on July 4" – guest essay by leading scholar of wokeism @epkaufmhttps://t.co/zBe2Fqilc1
“Ultimately, this means that defending our truth-based order, free speech and national identity is considered undignified while sacrificing these values in the name of ‘equal outcomes’ and ‘emotional safety’ is not.
Of course, Labour is also proposing innocent-sounding legislation on hate speech and racial equality which will further supercharge this woke cultural socialism, shutting down offensive speech while pressuring organizations to discriminate against whites and males to achieve equal outcomes for identity groups.
Will Britain wake up in time to prevent…erosion of our long traditions of free speech, free expression, objective truth, equal treatment and due process? Will future generations be taught to hate the British past and the white men who played an outsized role in creating our national community?
At best, I think we have one or two decades to reverse the march of wokeism before today’s Zoomers and Millennials, who prioritise ‘emotional safety’ over free speech, become the median voter and the country reaches a point of no return.”
[from a guest essay, published on Matt Goodwin’s blog].
There are of course other ways to resist tyranny than via the so-called “Parliamentary road”.
Virtue signalling Net Zero nonsense that will cost us jobs, revenue, exports, growth and energy security and do nothing to lower average global temperature. #NetZeroReferendum Ed Miliband orders immediate ban on new drilling in North Sea https://t.co/Els1iHavqb
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 10, 2024
I am sure Jake Wallis Simons, Robbie Gibb, Pollard, Harpin, the BoDoSBJ are all ensuring the person responsible for publishing that article feels their wrath, professionally and reputationally.
It will be recalled by older British readers that, in the Dikko case of 1984, an Israeli Jew doctor was directly involved in the MOSSAD operation to kidnap a former Nigerian government minister:
“The Dikko affair was a joint Nigerian–Israeli attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko, a former Nigerian government minister living in the United Kingdom, in 1984, and secretly transport him back to Nigeria in a diplomatic bag. The kidnapping took place, but the transportation thereof was unsuccessful.
Mossad sources across Europe failed to locate Dikko. However, Mossad Director-General Nahum Admoni decided that Dikko was probably in London, which had become a haven for Nigerian exiles critical of the new regime.
Mossad field officers (katsas), accompanied by Nigerian security service agents led by ex-Nigerian Army Major Mohammed Yusufu, traveled to London. The Nigerian team rented an apartment on Cromwell Road and posed as refugees from the new regime. The Mossad agents rented rooms in hotels catering to tourists from Africa, and posed as anti-apartheid activists.
Working separately, the two teams moved among the Nigerian expat community in London, gradually narrowing their search to West London, to the area around Hyde Park, where many wealthy Nigerian exiles lived. They combed the electoral registers freely available in the area’s town halls, but found no trace of Dikko.
On 30 June 1984, a Mossad agent driving down Queensway, in Bayswater, spotted Dikko. He parked his car and then tailed Dikko on foot to his house in Porchester Terrace. Admoni was immediately informed, and ordered surveillance on the house. From then on, the house was constantly watched, while the Nigerians, using their London high commission as a base, prepared a kidnapping operation.
Meanwhile, Mossad recruited Levi-Arie Shapiro, an Israeli doctor who was a consultant anesthetist and director of the intensive care unit at HaSharon Hospital. He was to fly to London and participate in the operation. Shapiro’s job would be to drug Dikko, and insert an endotracheal tube to keep him from choking on his own vomit while being transported in a crate.”
EXCLUSIVE: We’ve gone undercover inside Nigel Farage’s Reform UK campaign in Clacton and found evidence of anti-migrant rhetoric, homophobia and one canvasser making racist and offensive remarks. As @DarshnaSoni reports. pic.twitter.com/VkhVLczjcw
The System is now getting very worried about the level of support being shown even for Reform UK, a basically small-c conservative-type party. The anti-Reform UK rhetoric is now close to that displayed in the past against more social-national parties such as the BNP and, further back still, the National Front.
The System thinking must be, “if even Reform UK can be so disruptive, how more so would be a credible and genuinely social-national party?“
That anti-Reform UK propaganda is broadcast as Reform UK reaches heights of popular support few thought that it would or could reach.
Some polls are putting Reform UK as high as 20%, and all are putting it well above 15%, the average now being around 17%.
Meanwhile, support for the Conservative Party has dropped to as low as 18%, and may go even lower. I have just yesterday heard admittedly anecdotal evidence that, in my own local area (in coastal Hampshire, and one of the most heavily-Con in England), lifelong Con voters are planning to vote anywhere other than Con or Labour. Many, perhaps most (?), are switching to Reform UK, and some to the LibDems.
I was just looking at my blog from about 8 or 9 months ago. I thought then that Reform UK would get a nationwide popular vote of at least 15% and, at the outside, 20%. Seems that I was right (so far).
Estimates of the number of MPs Reform UK might have by 5 July 2024, i.e. once the votes are counted, range from 1 or 2 to as many as 22. A few Reform UK optimists are doubling or even tripling that. It seems very open, with less than a week to go.
I doubt whether the Channel 4 undercover silliness will change the minds of many people planning to vote Reform UK, as witness the tweets below:
I doubt that more than a few hundred of the voters of Clacton will have even seen the “expose”. In any case, the main person shown was merely a volunteer. It may even be that some people will be more inclined to vote for Reform after having seen the Channel 4 piece. You never know.
There is also the point that postal voting has already taken place. Many of the older and/or disabled British voters, as at Clacton, will by now have voted.
Farage seems nailed-on to win at Clacton, as far as I can see. The Conservative Party candidate has not even been seen (by me anyway) on TV or online, while the young African standing as Labour MP has apparently been redeployed to help another Labour candidate, in the West Midlands, and has thus left the field of battle at Clacton.
I can only suppose that Starmer decided that only the Con candidate had any chance of beating Farage, having scored 72.3% in 2019, so scaled back the Labour effort at Clacton to zero for nakedly tactical reasons.
Also, the fact that Labour deliberately chose an African for its candidate at Clacton, of all places, would be likely to prompt a surge in support for Reform UK. Anyway, he’s gone elsewhere, and will probably not be seen at Clacton until the count on Election Night. I still think that he might lose his deposit.
As blogged previously, while I am not a Reform UK supporter, as such, its existence moves the “Overton Window” a bit, at the very least, and will help to break down the “two main parties” scam.
The public’s view of the mostly System politicians is not favourable. Even Starmer, on the crest of his “popularity by default”, is only viewed favourably by just over a third of voters.
Look at Sunak. Only 19%, the same as the Conservative Party. I begin to wonder whether previously undecided voters will actually start to pile in against the Conservative Party now, or at the last minute, thus reducing the Conservative vote to somewhere below that 19%, maybe as low as 16%. We shall know in 6 days’ time.
I’ve interviewed George Galloway who told me he is a fan of the Latin Mass. He calls it “poetry in motion”. George has met and asked the Pope not to ban it.
“I believe in Jesus with all my heart… Jesus genuinely moves me, drives me”. https://t.co/BgYEBgOVpC
Staggering how unrepentant the Tories are. 14yrs. And everything that’s broken is down to them. They reek of corruption, dishonesty and failure. Yet still so smug, so entitled, so nasty and defiant in the face of their glaring unpopularity. They’re due such an electoral slapping.
I should say “80% that’s broken“, not “everything“. Otherwise, I agree.
Tory MP Philip Davies put a £8k bet on himself to lose. This is what we found when we dug into his and his wife Esther McVey’s finances pic.twitter.com/3HyoNfwcHj
The African will probably get about 4% of the vote, and lose his deposit.
BREAKING: is the key character in the Channel4 undercover “expose” in fact an ACTOR who specialises in what he calls “rough voices”?? @reformparty_uk is urgently investigating
You had MPs sacked for Rape, bribery, corruption, tractor porn & a host of unsavoury actions. Rather than the odd candidate or supporter. Dopey! https://t.co/eupilvgSXK
Gavin Barwell really is an utterly stupid person, yet there he sits in the House of Lords, getting nearly £400 a day (taxfree) any (sitting) day on which he chooses to turn up for 30 minutes and have his name ticked off… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Barwell.
Dover & Deal constituency polling update 📊
The Conservatives have 19.5% and cannot win. A vote for the Tories is a vote for Labour.
— Reform UK Dover and Deal (@doveranddeal) June 27, 2024
Yes. If all Con-leaning or anti-Lab-leaning voters were to vote Reform UK, Reform UK could just about win at Dover; even then it might be very close. One thing is for sure— the Con candidate cannot win.
So Giles Watling is still alive… I had seen and heard nothing from the retired actor since the Clacton campaign started. I assumed that he had fallen into his soup and drowned at the Garrick Club.
Watling has nothing in common with most Clacton voters. Hopeless.
These men died in a war that should never have happened. Arrogant Neocons in the Biden White House sacrificed half a million soldiers in a proxy war they hoped would weaken Russia. It didn’t work. Russia now has more international prestige and a stronger military capacity than… https://t.co/5jIcX76Syu
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 27, 2024
The Jew Zelensky thinks that there can be a “peace summit” without Russia’s participation (unless Russia were to effectively surrender). He’s a con-man who has stolen billions.
Talking point
Should make people think.
More tweets seen
Convinced whatever they say it's been deliberate. If labour implode off a large majority then the 2030 great reset and one world government is doing its thing.
I tend to agree, up to a point, with that last tweeter. Yes, the Cons are doomed, but look at what the Labour Party now is! A mixture of Blair-Brown-style fake communitarian rhetoric, “woke” craziness, “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) partisanship, and pro-Israel-ism, combined with pro-Jewish lobby repression of free speech and, in terms of domestic policy, almost indistinguishable in reality from the policies of the Conservative Party.
Incidentally, it is Bicester and Woodstock, a new constituency, not just Woodstock. That may explain the close polling.
Even Reform UK has more support among the under-30s in the UK, especially in England, than many suppose. A real social-national party might be able to capture far more hearts and minds.
This really is stunning. If accurate, it may mean a House of Commons with 483 Labour MPs (overall majority 316), 73 LibDems, 27 Reform UK, and only 22 Con Party MPs (SNP 18, Green 4 etc). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
It would mean the LibDems as official Opposition, and Reform UK with several more MPs (27 in toto) than the rump of the old Conservative Party (22), which would not be the Opposition, not even third party, but a poor fourth. Finished. Washed-up.
I have yet to meet, in the past month or even longer, even one person who expresses an intention to vote Con. There may be some people I meet who intend to vote Con without my knowing it, of course; I meet relatively few people, and rarely talk directly about politics with most of those that I do meet. All the same…
In fact, and by my use of Electoral Calculus, it may be that, were Reform UK to poll at 24%, only 3 points higher than in this latest poll, Reform could edge the LibDems out of second place, which would mean Reform UK as the official Opposition, and Farage as Leader of the Opposition! Were that to happen, I should have to eat my words of a year or two ago (dismissing him as not such an effective politician despite his oratorical and mass media skills).
“Brutal” is the word. Whatever one may think of Trump and his overall fitness for office, it is clear that Biden should now go into retirement.
The world has rarely if ever been in such multiform peril. The state with, by far, the greatest military-destructive power on Earth, is a “colossus on legs of straw”, and cannot, at this time, be commanded, even notionally, by someone not in command of his own faculties.
“The Labour parliamentary candidate for Poole, Neil Duncan-Jordan, said he and others have been targeted with ’disgusting and disrespectful’ comments.
He said he had been called a ‘white traitor’ and told that ‘Adolf Hitler had the right idea’.
Mr Duncan-Jordan has called on his counterparts in the election to distance themselves from antisemitism, racism and hate crime following a number of incidents he and his supporters have faced.
Mr Duncan-Jordan said: “In the last few days there have been three separate incidents that have caused me concern. I’ve been called a ‘white traitor’, one of my supporters was spat at and I was told that “Adolf Hitler had the right idea.”
“I think it’s important that all candidates in this election come out clearly and say that antisemitism, racism and fascist views have absolutely no place in modern Britain.
“Spitting at someone because you don’t like their political views is disgusting and disrespectful. We cannot allow this kind of behaviour to become the acceptable norm.”
The candidate has reported the incidents to the police.“
[Bournemouth Echo]
Well, while I would never condone spitting at (or for that matter, throwing milkshakes over) people (as a Labour supporter did to Farage recently), if a candidate wants to knock on people’s doors to engage them in political debate, he must expect some of his “victims” to cut up rough, bearing in mind what the System parties have been doing to this country.
God knows what, in the course of time, will be the karmic, including group-karmic, consequences of everything that has happened in and around Gaza in the past 9 months, or indeed the past 77 years.
Spot on. The so called Reform candidate is an actor hired by Channel 4 to try and discredit the Reform Party. Channel 4 should be charged with electoral interference
— lieutenant Colonel Kojak Slaphead The 3rd (@Scarfer13) June 28, 2024
The whole of the System msm is rotten.
A constituency with that kind of history would be a great one to flip to make the message clear that we don't want any more of what these charlatans are selling (or their blatant, in your face, corruption)
“Rishi Sunak‘s chief of staff has been interviewed as a witness by the gambling regulator as part of the row over alleged bets on the timing of the general election, it has emerged.
Liam Booth-Smith is reported to have spoken to the Gambling Commission last week to help the watchdog understand who may have known when polling day would be.
Sources stressed to the BBC that the PM’s top adviser – dubbed the ‘Treasury Travolta’ during Mr Sunak’s time as Chancellor due to his fondness for leather jackets – is not a suspect in the regulator’s investigation and had not placed a bet himself.“
[Daily Mail]
Can you believe it, even today, as the UK goes into a tailspin? The Chief of Staff of the UK Prime Minister— and look at the bastard!
“Liam Booth-Smith (born 1987) is a British political adviser who has served as the Downing Street Chief of Staff since October 2022. He previously served as de facto chief of staff to then-chancellorRishi Sunak as head of the Joint Economic Unit.
I know that I often expostulate in this vein, but this country really is ****** on so many levels…
[Update, 16 January 2026: Liam Booth-Smith must have been born under a lucky star— he was elevated to the House of Lords by Sunak, in his 2024 Resignation Honours List, so now gets about £400 a day taxfree just for rolling up, for as brief a time as half an hour, any sitting day, i.e. about 200 per year. About £80,000 a year taxfree, for not necessarily doing anything at all. He also makes a great deal more via his salary, bonuses etc as executive of an AI company. As a John le Carre character called this country, “the pigs in clover society“…]
More tweets
The National Front turned out to be optimists
— Sally-Anna King – Misinformation reporter (@sallyanna25) June 28, 2024
In the 1970s, Britain still had many avenues open to it. Now, it is as if (?) we are painted into a corner, with almost nowhere to turn.
"Why would we want to conservative any of this?" One Zoomer wrote for me recently on why they are planning to back Reform over the big parties. I've made it open access in case it's of interesthttps://t.co/QgmeqpQirE
Only 21% of Brits think a Labour government will make the economy stronger. I'm telling you now -this will quickly be a very, very unpopular governmenthttps://t.co/8jAhHg8gbr
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 28, 2024
When I stayed for three weeks with a French couple, in Paris, in 1971 (at age 14), I was taken once by car through an area my host referred to as the “quartier arabe“. Now it seems that much of Paris is the “quartier africaine“…
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 28, 2024
🔥“In #Israel we have this big surveillance lab called the occupied territories where there are 2.5 million guinea pigs that shows how to completely monitor and control a population with very few soldiers.” #Harari, Davos 2020#GazaGenocide2024 pic.twitter.com/azQOMB0iTd
Well, this week brought only 5/10, same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 8, and 10; was a few years out on question 7, could not bring to mind the answer to question 4, and had no idea about questions 5, 6, and 9.
I am a market researcher. I spoke to Sunak about Polls at the leadership hustings. I don't think he believes them and to some extent he is right to do so. But we've been out campaigning in Bexhill and Battle and have yet to meet anyone whose said they'll vote Tory in a 26k…
— The Good Statistician aka Nigel Jacklin (@TheGoodStatsMan) June 20, 2024
“I am a market researcher. I spoke to Sunak about Polls at the leadership hustings. I don’t think he believes them and to some extent he is right to do so. But we’ve been out campaigning in Bexhill and Battle and have yet to meet anyone whose said they’ll vote Tory in a 26k majority seat.”
We read newspapers, watch TV commentary, see opinion polls, look at (often biased) Twitter/X comment. All contribute to our belief as to what might happen on Election Day. Beyond that, there is mere personal experience of one’s own local area; anecdotal, subjective.
I myself live in an area of coastal Hampshire known for being traditionally “safe” Conservative. The local MP is someone with some of whose views (eg on the Covid scamdemic/panicdemic) I can agree, but with whom I would not agree on other topics. He is also a very poor constituency MP— lazy, uncaring, and totally useless in fact, as a few people have told me after not having received help or even a polite acknowledgment from him.
In previous general elections, I have seen almost exclusively Conservative Party posters around, and one huge banner on a house in the nearby small town. This time, I think only one Conservative poster, and three or four LibDem ones. Unscientific, but is that a straw in the wind? Hard to say, but interesting all the same.
The incumbent MP has been there since the constituency was created in 1997. He has never scored below 50%, and received well over 60% in both 2017 and 2019. Labour usually come third (second in 2017) here, and the LibDems (usually second-placed, though fourth behind Con, UKIP and Labour in 2015) had their best result in 1997 (27.8%).
In other words, it would take a political earthquake, maybe a political meteorite strike, to displace the Conservative here…and yet…and yet…
I may be reading too much into the presence or otherwise of political posters put up locally, but it occurred to me that the Conservative Party in the constituency has (perhaps) few volunteers now. The average age of Con Party members in this constituency must be around 80 if not 90. Does the presence of a few LibDem posters indicate a local upsurge, or just a single diligent volunteer?
How big the Reform UK vote here will be on 4 July 2024 is uncertain. UKIP scored 16.9% in 2015, though far less prior to that. Since 2015, there has been no broadly “national” party standing, and no social-national party has ever stood here.
💥#Breaking Three former Prime Minister's Office employees have been awarded $240,000 for abuse akin to "modern slavery" at the hands of Benjamin & Sara Netanyahu. Jerusalem District Court rules in the case of Chef Joe Korson & household employees Aharon Naor & Yair Itzhaki. pic.twitter.com/itPGXPwxMR
If the staff had been Palestinian Arabs, they would have stood no chance. Having said that, Arabs would probably not have been employed anyway, for reasons of security.
I hope not. That would leave me politically homeless again. A vote for Conservative is a vote for Labour because they’ve shown themselves to be one globalist uniparty. I need a party that i can trust to rid government of WEF influence.
Farage and Reform UK to merge with the Cons within 14 days? That sounds ludicrous. If it were to happen, in the 12 days left, it would just be a replay of 2019, when Farage stabbed his own party in the back; with one big difference, though— in 2019, Farage’s back-stab meant that instead of a likely hung Parliament, “Boris”-idiot was able to get an 80-seat Commons majority. In this General Election, the surrounding situation is very different.
Were the predicted merger to occur, and if Farage then urged voters to vote Con in many constituencies, all that would happen would be that Labour would still win overall, but with a majority of maybe 100+ instead of maybe 300. Of course, that would save perhaps 100 or 150 Con Party seats. It would also destroy whatever credibility Farage still seems to have with many people.
After any such merger, I suppose that the idea would be that Sunak would lose the election, resign, disappear from view, and that a leadership election would then anoint Farage as leader of the Con/Reform party.
Not totally impossible, arguably, but very unlikely. Reform UK is on a roll. Brexit Party had all wind taken out of its sails by Farage’s treachery in 2019. The same would happen today. It might even help Labour more than Reform UK fighting on as at present. After all, all the Reform UK candidates are now on the ballot papers.
The only way the predicted merger would work would be if Sunak and Farage were to announce a list of which seats would be “gifted” to Reform UK, but the candidates would still have to remain nominally in place.
That prediction to me sounds like nonsense. After the election might be a different story, were Reform UK to have 5-10 MPs in the Commons, and the Cons 50-100. However, once Reform UK merged with the Cons, and after (if it were to happen) Farage were elected to lead the merged parties, then what? The surviving Con MPs would be not a good match with the new Reform UK MPs; apple and orange. What could they offer the public? Con Party policies but with more emphasis on immigration? Sounds underwhelming.
Never say never, but I cannot see it as likely. If, however, it were to happen, it might yet open the door, on the flank, to real social-national people. “Always look on the bright side of life“.
As to that Gewolb individual’s views on UK interest rates, I do not have the economic background to assess them.
American merchant banker, UK resident since 1999, now aged 80.
The Conservative Party is dying on its feet right in front of us. I really cannot see Farage wanting to ally himself with a party that, in another metaphor, is sinking below the waves. Not even after the election.
I notice that the Sky News “Chief Political Correspondent”, one Jon Craig, has been wheeled out to write a piece on the Sky News website about how “vile” Farage was to speak the truth about the Ukraine situation, i.e. that NATO has steadily advanced across Eastern Europe since the 1990s, thus destabilizing the NATO-Russia status quo.
Interesting language…”vile“— reminiscent of the language used by “the usual suspects” (((them)))…
The System may be getting or feeling seriously threatened by Reform UK, and is trying to use attack propaganda to weaken Farage’s appeal.
Craig claims that most “Britons” support “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime). I doubt it. Look at the comments section of the Daily Mail.
There is something going on here, with System scribblers, talking heads, and both “Labour” and “Conservative” Friends of Israel MPs all attacking Farage.
I have just heard the news on my car radio. Farage’s comments about the Ukraine situation were prominently displayed. I wonder, though, whether the Kiev regime is as popular with the people as it is with pseudo-“elite” deadheads such as Ben Wallace (former Con MP) and the Labour Friends of Israel drones. I think not.
In any case, few if any will now decide not to vote for Reform UK just because of a few comments about NATO.
Using, as always, Electoral Calculus, I make that a House of Commons with 468 Labour MPs —overall majority of 286, Con 67, LibDem 63, SNP 20, Reform UK 6, Plaid 4, Greens 2 (etc). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
If you're from England this hits you on multiple levels. Very well done.
I agree, in principle, with the vast majority of that, about 90%. Only social nationalism will actually “do de job”, though. Reform UK is too finance-capitalistic, too pro-Israel, not quite what I would ever support as a destination (rather than as a means to an end).
Today is the UK msm “hit Farage” day, it seems. “Ukraine”, NHS etc etc. Anything to get the Reform UK vote down. I doubt that it will work.
Your so right, this guy Cleverly is a parasite, hasn’t done anything remotely worthwhile, Cleverly and Sunak have done irreparable damage to this once great country, now its in decline thanks to masses of migrants, many clearly unfit to even be in the U.K.
Even in an election the Tory civil war on immigration continues. Armed Forces Minister slams James Cleverly for lying. Cleverly promised illegals would not be placed in new flats only to change his mind 1 day before election purdah rules started.More lies https://t.co/Lf0y6WFliL
I used to watch Yes Minister and Yes Prine Minister. Very witty and cleverly written. Gone are the days when most households get a daily newspaper. Reform UK is doing extremely well on social media, and they definitely are getting my vote. https://t.co/lUnJu5aCOG
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) June 22, 2024
I have blogged once or twice in the past about how, in the mid-1990s, I visited the biological research base at Porton Down, accompanying the then Ukrainian Ambassador. Those posts can be found via the search box on the blog. Here is one, anyway: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/03/06/diary-blog-6-march-2022/
Good grief. He is only 5 years older than me; looks like an extra from Lord of the Rings, perhaps (first picture) someone with an incurable affliction or someone cursed by a wizard, or (second picture) a dishonest peasant or itinerant tinker. Still moneygrasping at age 72. Part-Jew. I never liked what I saw of him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Geldof.
Kharkiv will remember today for the rocketing of Belgorod. FAB arrives every few minutes on average. pic.twitter.com/MV5CrQTifX
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
Polls from Emerson College and The Hill show Trump leading Biden in key states: Arizona (43-47%), Georgia (41-45%), Michigan (45-46%), Nevada (46, 43-43%), Pennsylvania (45–47%) and Wisconsin (44–47%).
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
Israeli police attack Israeli demonstrators demanding the overthrow of Netanyahu's government. pic.twitter.com/PTvHT4fLj0
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
Left to itself, the world’s only Jewish state would collapse into a kind of civil war, but the money and armament provided by the Jewish “communities” both directly and indirectly (via governments) in the USA, UK, France etc keep the whole project going, so far.
The Ukrainian people are signaling to the world that they need help to get rid of Zelensky. Yesterday, at a football match with Slovakia, Ukrainians carried out a banner with the inscription “Give us back the elections.” pic.twitter.com/IeiTEnuVTx
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) June 22, 2024
Zelensky is a Jewish tyrant, who has suspended elections, banned most political parties, banned trade unions, and arrested or killed political opponents.
A hot summer awaits us in Ukraine "A major military event will take place in August or September." pic.twitter.com/k3qVVqTupW
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
Perhaps a general Russian advance.
“Germany is no longer the same” – Orban chastised Berlin for the failure of migration policy
Before his visit to Berlin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticized modern Germany. He said that the country had even lost its former smell, clearly making fun of its problem… pic.twitter.com/rcBskHWP8C
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 22, 2024
“Germany is no longer the same” – Orban chastised Berlin for the failure of migration policy.
Before his visit to Berlin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticized modern Germany. He said that the country had even lost its former smell, clearly making fun of its problem with migration, writes The Daily Telegraph. “Germany no longer has the taste it used to have. She doesn’t smell like she used to anymore. This whole Germany is no longer the Germany that our grandparents and parents set as an example for us,” the politician said in an interview before a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Orbán also said that Germany was once a country of “order,” “well-organized work” and “hard-working people.” But now, he noted, citing the German newspaper Die Welt, Germany is a “colorful, changed, multicultural world” where migrants are “no longer guests.” “This is a very big change,” summed up the head of the Hungarian government.“
Late thoughts about GE 2024
If reports are to be believed, 20% of voters have either not made up their minds as to how they will vote, or have not decided whether they will vote at all.
The 20% equates to thousands of eligible voters in every constituency.
It is also reported that as many as 175 seats are in very close contest now, more than a quarter of all seats.
I have speculated previously whether there is, or is not, a bloc of “secret Reform UK voters”, people who may not admit to leaning towards Reform UK if asked. I do not know the answer to that, and neither do I know its size if it exists, but if that bloc does exist, and if it mostly votes Reform UK on the day, then all bets are off, because there just might be a political meteorite strike on the 4th of July…
Even that averaged poll translates, according to my use of Electoral Calculus, into a House of Commons with 476 Labour MPs (overall majority 302), 62 LibDem, 60 Con, 20 SNP, 6 Reform UK, 4 Plaid, and 2 Green (etc).
One big reason why so many Brits are fed-up, why Nigel Farage is back, is because they know both Left & Right, both Labour & the Tories, are committed to the ongoing failure of mass immigration. My latest in @TheSunhttps://t.co/XFT1hZuj21
There are still large numbers of (arguably) “well-meaning” pro-mass-immigration idiots around. They are loud on Twitter/X, and on msm shows such as BBC Question Time. In the country as a whole, while I think that they are a minority, and possibly a smaller minority than was the case 5 years ago, there are still far too many of them.
We have to be clear. The level of immigration into the UK, effectively a migration-invasion, that we have been seeing (~1M a year), is not just a debating issue for the TV, radio, or at university moots; it is an existential danger for UK society. UK society stands in peril of complete collapse within a decade because of this.
It seems that one must repeat and repeat the valid points about pressure on every part of society caused by or made much worse by the invasion, because that pro-immigration minority, most MPs, most TV and radio talking heads, and most newspaper scribblers, are NOT LISTENING.
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Holy sh*t, Zelensky’s militants just kidnapped a father in broad daylight, leaving his wife and little baby alone in the street..
Yes, but literally millions of idiots and/or quasi-traitors are either unable to see that, or prefer not to see it. However, the real emergency around immigration is the total picture, not just the ~5% invading across the Channel.
Election in Birkenhead set to be closest result in generations
On the doorstep, residents are increasingly saying they will be backing Jo Bird as the candidate who will best represent Birkenhead in parliament. Many are aware that Greens already out score Labour in local… pic.twitter.com/X1a71F3PE2
Voters are increasingly dissatisfied with the System parties. A large part of that is not purely ideological but actuated by the ever-lower living standards and conditions of employment, housing and general life-expectation.
As the millions of migrant-invaders flow in, the situation can only intensify, along with the frustration and dissatisfaction of the UK masses, leading eventually to an overthrow of the entire system in this country.
What is so disgusting about the “Boris” Johnson pseudo-“upper crust” “cosplay” is that the bastard is not even really British. Part-Jew (one of his ancestors was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Lithuania), and brought up mainly in the USA and Belgium, with a gloss of Englishness via Eton and Oxford (where his nationality was recorded as having been “American”). Cameron-Levita is a more-polished version of the same, really.
The last actually/really British Prime Minister was Gordon Brown (if you leave out the moronic 49-day careerist “Prime Minister”, Liz Truss).
NEW POST. Something IS happening out there in the country. They laughed at my poll — they're NOT laughing now.https://t.co/qPd1F5CLH9
The so-called “expert commentators”— the Tim Montgomeries, the Ayesha Hazarikas, the Beth Rigbys… when have they been right about anything?
I saw a few minutes of Montgomerie on Sky News yesterday, all emotional because of the distress being suffered by people who have been Conservative MPs for years and who are now candidates, and the distress and anxiety suffered by their families now that the Cons look set to be all but wiped out. “These are people“, cried Montgomerie.
Ha ha! Watch me laugh as some at least of those System political swine and profiteers suffer a tiny bit of the anxiety and distress suffered over the past 14+ years by the sick, disabled, poor, homeless, unemployed etc, while those bastards voted time and again to bully and oppress —and repress— the real people suffering in this country. I want the “Conservative” careerists to suffer personally. I want them to have to chase jobs with no result. I want them to worry every day about whether they can feed themselves and their families. I want them to lose their homes and status symbols. I want them to suffer.
I think that a very large proportion of the country is with me on this.
Here are YOUR PUBLIC SERVICES that 5 Prime Ministers have stolen in the past 14 years
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 21, 2024
Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, before the present war the 10th largest city of Ukraine, and which was heavily damaged in the fighting a couple of years ago.
Looks like Russia is making a good start, at the very least, in reconstructing the city.
The Guardian's spinster fetishism, where getting shitfaced on rosé and pumped by a waiter is made to sound as fulfilling as raising children, is communist propaganda designed to weaken the strength of family, community and culture in the West. Judging by the preponderance of… pic.twitter.com/hnKjGN31Ni
— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) June 11, 2024
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— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) June 11, 2024
Just one symptom of a sick society. The sort of people who take Eddie Izzard seriously (politically or otherwise…and probably call him “her”) are the same sort that would love that fake “Labour” unemployed African freeloader to win the election at Clacton.
The 7 seats that Reform UK could win, according to Survation:
🟣 North West Norfolk (34.5%) 🟣 Great Yarmouth (33.8%) 🟣 Mid Leicestershire (31.4%) 🟣 Ashfield (31.1%) 🟣 Clacton (30.7%) 🟣 Exmouth and Exeter East (28.5%) 🟣 South Suffolk (26.2%) pic.twitter.com/jc4OlmZ4a4
'SPEECHLESS': A data reporter at the network explained how he's "never seen anything like this" as Trump's support from Black Americans rises in the polls. https://t.co/Tba1Ru7cgFpic.twitter.com/iI52jvf02V
On the one hand this seems crazy… On the other, you genuinely wonder who in their right mind would vote Tory after what they've done to our country? https://t.co/L315fET5hT
I am not usually a Champagne drinker but…maybe a half-bottle of vintage on 5 July.
I would not be drinking to Labour’s victory but to the Con Party’s downfall, and especially to the downfall of any of their MPs who will hopefully suffer personally at least slightly as much as those victimized by them over the past 14 years.
Vote Tory, save the Dodo from extinction. Nah, only joking – let them pass into the history books where they belong.
The British vote Tory to get taxes down, criminals jailed, immigration cut, and the economy growing. Having failed on all four, I doubt offering “War with China” is going to bring them back around. https://t.co/ClEL7c3229
Why do we have to prop Ukraine up? half of their population went to western countries like America and Canada and receive handouts. If they love Ukraine so much they should be in Ukraine fighting for their country and not sponging off us.
Laura Trott. Complete idiot. Idiots like that pretend to know how to rule over us, they pretend to know…things; they also have a completely misconceived sense of entitlement. Kick them into the political gutter.
Ha ha! “…I won’t be intimidated…!“, tweets Israel-lobby puppet Largan, as he runs away…
He must be looking for a new job, or getting back his old one at Marks & Spencer. His chance of re-election is very small. Nasty little man.
Another one to be binned politically in 2 weeks’ time.
Tomorrow morning I'm pleased to be publishing another column from Anonymous Zoomer on the dire state of Britain (get it https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY) . Here was their first piece which rocketed into our top five of all timehttps://t.co/AKx0za7uEL
Laura Farris. Another “Conservative” Party idiot. Sadly, in a (formerly, at least) very safe seat. The only way to get rid of her politically on 4 July will be tactical voting. The only obviously likely party would be the LibDems, though Reform UK is standing in Newbury, and is an unknown quantity.
In 2019, Laura Farris scored 57.4% (LibDems 30.6%).
In 2015, UKIP scored over 10% here.
In my opinion, it is not impossible to see Reform UK getting 15% or even more, and the Con vote reducing to about 40%, maybe even 35%. In those circumstances, it is at least possible to see the LibDems getting 35% (or even more, if aided by tactical voting; they scored 35.5% in 2010) and so pulling off rather a coup.
According to my use of Electoral Calculus, that would give Labour 512 MPs (overall majority 374), LibDems 58, Cons 31, SNP 20, Reform UK 4, Plaid Cymru 4, Greens 2 (etc).
So, on that basis, a Labour “elected” dictatorship, LibDems as official Opposition, Cons facing the end of the road, and the SNP pretty washed-up. Also, Farage with a very small but significant bloc of MPs, likely to punch above their weight in public relations terms.
Incidentally, were the Cons to fall to 17% from 18%, their MP numbers would fall from 31 to only 21. FPTP is a harsh system.
Well, this week I return to winning form: 8/10, compared to the 6/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 7 and 10.
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Reform UK have proposed requiring businesses to pay a higher rate of NI for foreign workers than British ones. Britons would back such a move by 41% to 30%https://t.co/1cDP3MxAF2pic.twitter.com/HOEh8Y1GDe
Cameron-Levita in his usual bubble of total unreality. The idiot who brought us the war on Gaddafi (result— millions of Africans flooding Europe), fake “austerity” (result— misery for millions, as well as lower economic growth than anywhere in the then EU, USA etc), and other misconceived policy choices, most recently the increased support for the brutal and shambolic dictatorship of Zelensky in Kiev.
Not only is it infuriating that a 95 year-old woman would be in jail for her words, not crimes, but the fact that she is speaking truth makes it even more absurd
Who has the 'whip hand' in this interaction? Or in all such interactions? Who does the state support more? Who would the police interject to defend first? Who does the organisation the interviewer represents themselves represent?
The pendulum may start to swing back now that pine martens are being reintroduced in several parts of the country; pine martens prey on grey squirrels but not (much) on red squirrels.
The Tories are unlikely to attract many Reform UK voters given…
– Only 36% would vote Tory if a Reform UK candidate wasn't standing – 61% are voting Reform despite thinking they won't win in their seat – 75% say the Tories and Labour are as bad as each other – 74-76%… pic.twitter.com/P7UpQvMAfJ
Desperate. I had not heard of that MP. Looks a bit of a careerist; tried to become a Police and Crime Commissioner at one point (came third in the election): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Moore_(MP).
I cannot think that those attempts at confusing the voters (of High Peak and also Keighley) will work. After all, most people vote according to party label, so when the voter is faced with a ballot paper, the “X” is placed by the party more than the candidate’s name.
Biden wanders offstage or walks like a geriatric robot. Yet we are meant to believe he’s carefully navigating us through the nuclear tripwires of the West’s serial wars.
Meanwhile, back in the real world… There are dozens of similar clips of Biden, far more embarrassing than this one. I included this photo and video because it's the most recent example and because the parachute strings work as a visual metaphor for my argument.
Just because Biden's dementia is obvious why do you assume the person is a Trump supporter? Maybe you should ask the DNC why they are running a dementia patient with an approval rating at an all time low? Biden will not win again. I suggest getting behind Jill Stein 👍🏽
— Casa ChiChi 🆓 🦀 #M4A 🚑 (@CasaChichi) June 15, 2024
Clacton
He’s a racist who said he likes to drink white men’s tears and believe Wakanda to be a real place. He’s a clown and Farage will wipe the floor with him.#votereform@reformparty_ukhttps://t.co/CGTXCU53cr
Labour has no chance at Clacton, a famously “left behind” and white British area. To choose an African “eternal student” as candidate is almost insulting to the voters there. Moreover, one whose social media posts make clear his hostility to the real people of the UK.
Despite Labour’s overall “popularity by default” in the nationwide campaign, I should not be surprised if its vote-share at Clacton were to dip below 10%.
The frightening thing is not that such a candidate is standing in Clacton, where Labour has little or no chance; it is that, across the country, similarly-hostile individuals are likely to be elected next month for Labour. God help the poor English people of these islands.
Labour’s candidate for Clacton, standing against @Nigel_Farage, has said:
White man tears are his “favourite drink”.
The people of Clacton surely won’t vote for someone who clearly has a problem with white men? pic.twitter.com/HbRILpgHaN
Not quite what I want to see: too many Con MPs. A couple of unexpected wrinkles too, such as Reform UK with 7 seats, and the SNP with 37, more than twice the number predicted elsewhere.
While the Con Party is toast pretty much whatever happens between now and 4 July, in some respects the General Election is quite open. A substantial minority are either undecided as to for which party they might vote, or are undecided as to whether to bother to vote at all.
That may mean a better than expected Con Party performance, a better than expected Labour (or even LibDem) performance but, most intriguingly, perhaps an even better than expected Reform UK vote, either as a targeted anti-Con vote, as a serious “I am dissatisfied” protest vote, or an angry “F.U., System parties!” vote.
The election is shaping up to be both interesting and important, perhaps even historic.
Our latest MRP shows the Conservatives are in deep trouble in their heartlands. They are set to hold on to just 13 out of 52 seats in the Blue Wall. Across these seats their vote share is down by an average of 23%. pic.twitter.com/Uog1OsAUko
Been a mad few days in the rain and the sun, but our signs are coming together. Thanks so much if you’ve let us put one on your fence. Any problems please do get in touch. I’m sorry they have my face in them. They’ll all be gone in a couple of weeks! pic.twitter.com/bDmOep9qjR
— Rt Hon Johnny Mercer (@JohnnyMercerUK) June 14, 2024
So will you, probably!
As people, from what I have seen online etc, ex-officer Mercer and his lady wife seem like a pleasant couple, but we are talking serious politics here.
Mercer has increased his majority steadily and considerably since first elected in 2015, but the general unpopularity of his party, his poor performance as a minister, and his personal moneygrasping would seem to leave him exposed. Also, Reform UK may well eat into his 2019 vote. Well, we shall soon know.
Ian Robert Millard 