Tag Archives: Zionists

Diary Blog, 10 November 2024

Afternoon music

Talking point

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14063507/donald-trump-wwiii-nick-candy-russia-ukraine-china.html

Donald is the only man who can stop us slipping into WWIII, writes NICK CANDY

[Daily Mail]

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Spare a thought for Tim Walz and his wife (I already have— that is why I am laughing!…hahaha!)

Hard to argue with that, but still a totally one-sided tweet. What about the proven and perverse brutality in Israeli prisons? That’s before we even start to consider the torture (often worse, and also often perverse) inflicted by Israel-contaminated America (and its allies) in the fairly recent past in Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo, and elsewhere, and which continues in some places.

Again, not a tweeter I would normally repost, but truth is truth…

Note how that supporter of the Democratic Party puts down the poorer (poorer white?) people in his country. That party has lost its traditional anchoring in the American “working class”, and is now foundering or floundering in a morass of identity politics, fake history, and soundbite nonsense. You only have to observe or listen to Kamala Harris, Tim Walz etc when on the campaign trail.

See also: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14061285/Harris-campaign-inside-disaster.html

The same sort of fate has overtaken both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party in the UK. Looking at misnamed “Labour”, it has little or no interest now in supporting the poorer part of the population, once its mainstay.

Can you imagine the old, pre-Blair, Labour Party effectively robbing pensioners of Winter Fuel Allowance, or similar, in order to throw that money and more to the Jew-Zionist dictatorship in Kiev, the bosses of which (including Zelensky) have each ripped off hundreds of millions of US dollars? I think not.

Would the old Labour Party be sheltering, feeding, and giving pocket money to migrant-invaders (in the hundreds of thousands), while —outside the repurposed business hotels housing the invaders, British ex-soldiers and others sleep in the streets? I think not.

Then there is the “anti-racism” nonsense, the “trans” nonsense etc, and looming over it all, the unquestioning support given by Starmer and all his hopeless Cabinet to Israel and the world (inc. UK) Jewish-Zionist lobby. After all, those political drones and corrupt freeloaders all belong to Labour Friends of Israel.

As for the “Conservatives”, no better. Both System parties are more or less a “uniparty” now. There are differences, yes, but few where it matters to the majority of the population.

The American voters, most of them, have clutched at the Trump straws; in the UK the equivalent, so far, would be Reform UK (though that is really just a System party in embryo, with mostly similar policies to the existing ones).

As British society gradually slides to dystopia, it can still happen that a small minority of social-national people may find a way to take power and rule this country properly. That minority need only be a few percent of the entire population, actively supported by another 10%, and mildly supported by another 20%.

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Amazing rapport.

Press-gangs continue to force unwilling Ukrainians to fight, or at least be present, on the crumbling front-lines.

Such forced “recruits” are unlikely to be useful at the front, and quite likely to desert, despite the threat of a firing squad. The fact is that everyone except the Western mass media understands that the Kiev regime’s days are numbered; even the Western msm is slowly waking up to it.

[painting by T.W. Schaller]

Diary Blog, 20 October 2024

Afternoon music

[The Bronze Horseman]

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[clown]

Talking point

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https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1847593598449021335

“Israel” is not just that small country in the Middle East; it is also a global web consisting of the worldwide Jewish-Zionist lobby, and also those in public life whom that lobby has bought or otherwise suborned. Look at the UK. Both remaining contenders for the Conservative Party leadership are Israel-lobby puppets, as is the present “Labour” Prime Minister, “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer, and also his close colleagues (such as Rachel Reeves and Yvette Cooper).

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13979249/city-migration-breaking-point-Coventry-arrivals-overseas.html

A city at migration breaking point: An unvarnished dispatch from Coventry – which saw over 22,000 arrivals from overseas in a single year – exposes how housing, schools and GPs are being placed under unbearable strain.

Another development has already started in Bennetts Road in the suburbs of Coventry. ‘There were green fields as far as the eye could see,’ said Gillian Collinge, a former Home Office official.

Today the once idyllic vista is scarred by a brutal two-metre-high security fence just feet from the back gardens of their homes, which have names such as Springfield Cottage, Lilac House and Harefield.

Beyond the metal perimeter are diggers, mud, noise and men in high-viz jackets.

‘It’s absolutely heartbreaking,’ added Gillian, who lives next to the chaos with husband Peter, also 66, a retired software engineer.

The building site – until just over a year ago a green-belt haven for wildlife – is now the location for 3,200 new houses. More than 500 have already sprung up.

[Daily Mail]

Read the full report. Even those badly affected by migration-invasion are often so sadly brainwashed that they imagine that there is some kind of moral imperative requiring the UK to accept settlement by backward people from all over the world.

Both main System parties are guilty not only of allowing migration-invasion, but of promoting it: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.

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

The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail.[1][2][3] A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world. Almost forty years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.[4]

Truth is not only “stranger than fiction“; truth is often foreshadowed in works of fiction.

Unsustainable. Impossible. Anyone who supports this disastrous state of affairs must be called traitor.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13979353/NHS-set-millions-smartwatches-wearable-tech-track-health.html

Millions of people are set to be handed smartwatches to track their health as part of Labour’s 10-year plan to save the NHS.

Wearable tech, including devices to track blood pressure, glucose spikes and how cancer patients are responding to treatment, will be issued across the country to help prevent illness and treat more people at home.

[Daily Mail]

So it begins…

All very reasonable, at first blush. Helps citizens, saves public money etc. However, this may well be one of the first steps to microchips implanted under the skin. Anyone refusing to have one will not be punished directly, at least not at first, but will simply be cut off from accessing most health services. Later, perhaps cut off from receiving State benefits, even pensions. Then, once most people are on the system, your beliefs and political activities will be added to the mix. The “racist“, “antisemitic” etc will be cut off from services and State financial help, and be even more marginalized for their views etc. After that, taken into “protective custody”…

Most schools, most of the time, are just useless. For the mass, a school is a place where children are “warehoused” during the day while the parents are (both?) at work making money (mostly for someone else).

Contrary to what many believe, you do not have to send your children to school in the UK, though there are conditions: https://www.gov.uk/home-education.

I should love something seriously bad to happen to “Boris” Johnson.

No wonder that the Kiev regime has to use press-gangs to “recruit” new cannon-fodder. No-one wants to volunteer, or even be drafted.

A good example, the above Twitter/X thread, of the ever-more-apparent split in the UK between those who see the realities and those who choose not to see them. The fact is that Winter Fuel Payment is or was a great boon to pensioners, and now huge numbers of them are going to be deprived of it; both those who are entitled to apply for Pension Credit but have not done so and those who are above (often not far above) the Pension Credit capital or income cut-off points, and will therefore not now be given WFP.

The press-gangs of the Kiev regime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13980181/desperate-ukrainian-men-hiding-houses-army-russia.html

Desperate Ukrainian men have resorted to hiding in their houses for up to eight months just to avoid fighting Russia.

Stories include missing a daughter’s birth, avoiding public transport, and not attending weddings – all to get out of being conscripted into the Ukrainian military.

This comes as Ukraine is on the look-out for more fighters as it has struggled to replenish its army while thousands of soldiers from North Korea join Russia.

Roman, 33, an entrepreneur in Lviv, said he pays $1,000 a month to receive an exemption. 

He explained: ‘Eighty per cent of my friends who went to fight have been killed and I don’t want to join them. By now we all know what happens.

‘I am lucky I have money and my own business so don’t need to be on public transport or in places where the mobilisation gangs operate. I don’t go to restaurants or weddings.’

Desertions from the Ukraine army are at an all-time high since the recent escalation of conflict began in 2022.

This comes as Ukraine passed a controversial new law in May that requires every man of draft age — 25 to 60 — to register so they can be called up.

[Daily Mail]

Few if any want to be caught and forced onto the front-lines to fight for the shambolic and corrupt dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky. Who can blame them? 6 weeks of rudimentary training, and then transported (presumably under guard) to the front. I wonder how long the average such “recruit” lasts before being killed or badly wounded, or taken prisoner? A month or two?

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Near the end of that clip, a (presumably Jewish) woman shouts out “racist” at the old woman shown. Voice very similar to that of Mandy Blumenthal, the wife of negligent/dishonest solicitor and Israel fanatic Mark Lewis.

Mandy Blumenthal shouted out, at the audience, something similar during her recent attempted Jew-Zionist scam and political stunt at the Edinburgh Fringe show of Reginald D. Hunter.

Were they there, at the above-shown demonstration?

Cuba— a country crumbling to nothing, a country with no future in its present form.

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[painting by Arnold Bocklin]

Diary Blog, 19 October 2024, including a few thoughts about the sentencing of protesters in recent months

Morning music

[Dresden 1945]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. 6/10 as against Rentoul’s 3/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 5, and 6.

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See also: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

New research suggests that the majority of the world’s modern Jewish population is descended mainly from people from ancient Turkey, rather than predominantly from elsewhere in the Middle East.

The new research suggests that most of the Jewish population of northern and eastern Europe – normally known as Ashkenazic Jews – are the descendants of Greeks, Iranians and others who colonized what is now northern Turkey more than 2000 years ago and were then converted to Judaism, probably in the first few centuries AD by Jews from Persia. At that stage, the Persian Empire was home to the world’s largest Jewish communities.

According to research carried out by the geneticist, Dr Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield, over 90 per cent of Ashkenazic ancestors come from that converted partially Greek-originating ancient community in north-east Turkey.”

[The Independent]

Explodes the very notion that modern-day Jews have any right at all to the lands of Palestine by reason of ancient occupation. They’re fakes.

https://twitter.com/NextWaveAmerica/status/1847391333004300484

but if Ian Leslie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Leslie_(writer)] is so very clever, how is it that he and —apparently— John Rentoul think that Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc are “basically decent“?

Members of Labour Friends of Israel, expenses cheats and freeloaders, buy-to-let parasites, and general moneygrubbers, who want to institute a police state of a dystopian kind (prison time for free speech; encouragement of mass immigration and migration-invasion; enforced weight-loss injections as a condition for getting unemployment or disability benefits; euthanasia; abortion; and much much more).

Sounds hopeful. I’ll take 10,000. (only…sort-of…joking).

They don’t like it when it happens to them...

God save any civilians, women, children, and animals, under such a brutal bombardment.

Cuba will eventually just crumble to dust under the present system.

Anyone who uses Lewis as a solicitor can expect double-dealing, incompetence, negligence, and dishonesty.

Mark Lewis is a man of straw. When the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal fined and reprimanded him in 2018 (after which he scuttled to Israel, though he keeps returning here to make money, despite the “antisemitism” by which he claims to have been targeted), the Tribunal lowered the level of his fine because, as his own Counsel said to the Tribunal panel, Lewis owned only his own clothes, a £70 a week private pension, and a mobility scooter! Even his car was not his own, but provided to Lewis by the “antisemitic” British taxpayers via the DWP-funded Motability scheme [https://www.motability.co.uk/].

I wonder whether they will still be laughing when it happens to the homes of their own families?

[SS-men escort non-combatant Jews out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Ghetto Uprising of 1943; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising]

As a former barrister (unlawfully and wrongfully disbarred in 2016 at the instigation of the Jewish lobby), I can see that what is happening is that many people involved (often only peripherally or online) with the protests and so-called “riots” of 2-3 months ago are now sentenced to terms of imprisonment (often years rather than months) for having done not very much; in some cases, almost nothing.

I am presuming that most of those sentenced will have had the benefit of legal advice from solicitors and Counsel.

The problem lies in the narrow legal view taken by many lawyers. I suspect that many of the lawyers involved looked at the political climate (eg the intervention on TV by “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer in July or August), looked at the evidence, and then advised their clients to plead Guilty in order to mitigate the sentence.

All good advice, or would be in a “normal”, non-political, case.

The fact is that most of the sentences being given are absurdly harsh, even taking the charges at face value.

In my opinion, the defendants in most of the recent protest cases, at least the ones about which I have read, would have been no worse off, probably better off, had they pleaded Not Guilty.

I concede that one cannot these days rely on the good sense of the traditional British jury, because the brainwashing of the public continues apace, but still I believe that a jury trial would have given many of those charged a good chance of acquittal.

A gamble, true, to plead Not Guilty, but in these “political” cases not so much, because the “message” from on high seems to have come down, “lock them up“… I do not really believe that many of those defendants have been given a real diminution of sentence of a (or the, notional) third.

My own free speech trial in November 2023 (sentence, March 2024) was different, not having been connected to any violent or noisy protests, but it was still a “political” case (instigated by the malicious Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby).

I republish the details here below but, in short, I pleaded Not Guilty to all 5 similar charges, was found guilty (by a District Judge sitting alone) on all 5 counts, and was sentenced to a financial impost amounting to £734, and to a period of, in effect, probation, involving 15 “rehabilitation days”. In the event, the financial penalty was one-third crowdfunded for me (the rest paid off over the past 6 months in instalments), and the “15 days” turned out to be about half a dozen meetings lasting from 20 minutes to a couple of hours.

All now water under the bridge, and the blog continues to be published daily, but would I really have got a lighter sentence had I pleaded Guilty? Frankly, I doubt it. For one thing, the malicious nature of the whole prosecution would not have been laid bare before the Court.

Anyway, there it is…

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Diary Blog, 16 October 2024

Morning music

[King’s College and Chapel, Cambridge in winter, as seen from the Backs]

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisham_West_and_East_Dulwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

Wait until Charlotte Gill realizes that all members of the present Cabinet are members of Labour Friends of Israel and, in the case of Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc, fervent ones.

Talking point

[“Off with their heads!“]

[“Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer, in the event that he emerges as “trans”]

Talking point

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Meanwhile, ever more migrant-invaders are being sheltered, fed, given medical and dental services (etc) and pocket money by the UK state (i.e. British taxpayers).

Meanwhile, billions of pounds are being spent on military aid to Israel, a state which hates, despises, and exploits us; millions more are wasted on “security” for the Jewish “community” in the UK, including tens of millions thrown to the Jewish “Community Security Trust” [“CST”], the strongarm and snoop organization founded by a Jewish exploiter and fraudster.

Meanwhile, billions of pounds each year have been wasted, continue to be wasted, and are now pledged by Starmer to continue into the future, sent to the corrupt, shambolic, and brutal dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky in Kiev.

The whole idea of the UN Security Council is that it consists only of the largest and most significant states which have real military power; states which are large geopolitical players and which, in practice, are also nuclear powers: USA, UK, France, Russia, China. All hold the power of veto.

There are also 10 non-permanent members on a rotating basis: https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/content/current-members; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council.

As usual, Starmer tries to play the statesman, rather than the grubby little careerist bureaucrat that he is. He is entirely unconvincing. There he goes, interfering in completely irrelevant and pointless matters overseas, when his own country is close to crisis.

For Starmer, the one-time criminal lawyer, what matters is fiddling around with rules and regulations, rather than trying to achieve concrete socio-political results in the real world.

The entire country, pretty much, has already come to the conclusion that Starmer is in the wrong job.

In any case, how does Starmer intend to “push for” reform of the UN Security Council when all 5 permanent members have a veto, and when, even if that could be overcome somehow, the Security Council would become a dead letter, were the USA to withdraw completely? In fact, in that circumstance, the UN itself would become a dead letter, and might as well just close down.

The military-destructive power of the USA is such that, without American agreement, most Security Council resolutions would be otiose, as would be, a fortiori, any resolutions actively opposed by the USA.

Starmer is a total waste of space.

Interesting. Unexpected.

When he was a journalist, Waugh always seemed to me to be pro the Jewish lobby. I think he even tweeted a few times against me. Maybe he is one of those who thinks you can oppose Israel but at the same time not oppose what amounts to its “fifth column” in the UK.

London. Zoo.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-appeal-oap-assaulted-hammersmith-bus-station-queue-b1187706.html

Detectives investigating an assault on a pensioner who was shoved over in a row in a west London bus queue have released a picture of a man they want to trace.

The victim, 85, was attempting to board a 220 bus at Hammersmith station when he was verbally abused before being pushed over and suffering a broken hip.

Police believe the incident at 1pm on July 2 was triggered by the pensioner insisting that women and children board the bus first which his attacker believed was holding others up.

[suspect]

London. Zoo. (2).

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/piccadilly-line-train-graffiti-london-tfl-british-transport-police-b1187931.html

The first new Piccadilly line Tube train has been covered in graffiti as it arrived in London.

The train – the first of 94 new trains bought as part of a £2.9bn upgrade of one of the London Underground’s busiest lines – was being transported from the Siemens factory in Vienna when it was targeted.

British Transport Police has launched an investigation and is appealing for witnesses.

The incident is understood to have happened early on Monday morning while the train was near Latchmere rail junction, near Clapham.”

I wonder what kind of untermenschen people would do that…

You cannot build a house out of straw, and you cannot create an advanced society, or even maintain a reasonably-civilized one already in existence, if the population, increasingly, consists of untermenschen. Fact.

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and your point is?

Am I stopping you from leaving? You are free to go or stay.

I’m gonna say for the record that every politician, every pastor, every Christian, every single person who supports Israel at this point – especially after yesterday’s horrifying mass firebombing of hospital patients in tents – is truly an evil, wicked person who has abandoned any last shred of humanity.

Israel is now clearly the No. 1 most wicked and evil nation in the world today.

It’s sad that of the political candidates in this race (that I know of), only Dr. Shiva and Jill Stein dare to even oppose Israel. Everybody else who’s in the running remains COMPLICIT in supporting, endorsing or even funding Israel’s ongoing genocide and modern-day holocaust against humanity. That includes Trump, Kamala, RFK Jr., Walz and all of them. Not one of them will criticize Israel’s war crimes. And in this, they FAIL the most important test of leadership: Your humanity.

If you can’t call out such obvious evil and Israel’s reckless, repeated violations of international law, you are not qualified to lead any nation, much less this nation.

I am strongly reconsidering my voting plans from here forward, for I don’t want the stain of evil on my hands for pulling the lever for someone who supports genocide.

[Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg]
[“the Fuhrer as friend of animals“]
[“Love for animals— the Fuhrer has that before anything else!”]
[Hitler discusses, with his architect, Professor Troost, the monumental planned redevelopment of Berlin; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Troost]
[Hitler acclaimed by well-wishers at the 1936 Olympiad]
[1930s; the first Autobahn]
[Munich, the House of German Art, inaugurated 1937 (architect: Professor Troost)]
[Berlin, Reichskanzlei interior, remodelled 1940]
[Berlin, 1939, the Brandenburger Tor area]

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Just look at it. Just listen to it.

This is the way many of them think and feel. It is embedded in their whole history.

It is ironic that “they” are often the first to talk about “hate” (emanating from others, according to them), but real hate is ingrained in many of them, ingrained in much of the culture and religion.

As I said on the blog yesterday, should Kamala Harris win that election, the “Deep State” will be driving the American car for the next 4 years; Kamala Harris will be just the nodding dog mascot on the shelf at the back, placed there purely for show.

Zelensky must have been hitting the cocaine again…

This “Labour” misgovernment is an evil tyranny masquerading as a “socially-liberal”, “elected”, and “democratic” government-by-consent.

Liz Kendall is, of course, yet another leading Labour Friends of Israel member.

Not only an “elected” dictatorship (“elected” by 4 voters out of every 20 eligible) but a totally useless one as well.

Broadly correct, though that has only really taken effect, or taken effect fully, since 1989. A new cycle, adding to that 33-year cycle, began in 2022. Look at the Israeli flag being projected in lights onto 10 Downing Street, the skyscrapers of New York City, the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (etc).

These things are all connected. The 2020-2022 “Covid” “panicdemic” or “scamdemic” as well.

Alarming. More than alarming, in fact. Dystopia is about to come roaring out of the tunnel at us.

Yes, that is one extraordinary aspect of the whole mess. The Kiev regime is presently conscripting only those aged 27+ (in theory, younger men —and women— can volunteer, though few now do). The result is that the Kiev-regime forces are full of the middle-aged, while those approaching the age of 27 desperately try to flee the country, or hide inside Ukraine, or buy fake exemption papers, or bribe doctors etc.

I can only assume that the Zelensky cabal has decided that the under-27s have to be exempted on the grounds that the Ukrainians are actually dying out, and more babies have to be born. Demographically, Ukraine has no future, even when compared to Russia, or to the countries of Central and Western Europe.

Having said that, it seems that younger men are being press-ganged, illegally. Zelensky’s “Ukraine” is both brutal and shambolic.

All requests made by Vladimir Zelensky during his visit to Europe were rejected , said British expert Alexander Mercuris.”

Zelensky returned from a very unsuccessful trip to Europe. Biden canceled the meeting in Ramstein, there are more and more media reports that the meeting will not happen at all.

In any case, all doors are slammed in his face. Western allies did not give him the green light light to use long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia, and he also failed to ensure Ukraine’s accelerated path to NATO ,” he added.

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Diary Blog, 14 October 2024

Morning music

[Elizabethan-style garden, Yale University]

A thought out of season

I was just thinking, admittedly not in a very original way, about how time flies. It is now nearly a year, about 11 months, since my day of trial on free speech issues (in November 2023), and it is already 7 months even since I was sentenced (mid-March 2024).

All water under the bridge. My pointless “15 rehabilitation days” turned out to be about half a dozen meetings lasting from half an hour each to a couple of hours or so, and the meetings have now been deemed completed; as to the (rather unfair) financial impost of £734, that was one-third crowdfunded, and the rest paid off in monthly instalments. All done. All finished.

For those unacquainted with the details, see:

Despite the behaviour of malicious Jew-Zionists, the dim and/or suborned police, and the antics of the “Clown” Prosecution Service, the blog has continued to be published almost daily since then. The legal position, to date, has not changed.

Very nearly 8 years of both telling the truth and suggesting policy.

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https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1845647931547807924

Israel committed a horrific massacre by bombing the TENTS of displaced Palestinians in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs HOSPITAL in the central Gaza Strip. Civilians were burned alive. That’s right. The grandchildren of Holocaust survivors burnt children alive.”

[tweeter @Khalissee]

BREAKING: A man, woman and a little girl captured burning alive after Israel bombed tents sheltering displaced civilians in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa martyrs hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza.

After that real “holocaust” in Gaza, the peoples of the world no longer want to listen to the contrived “holocaust” narrative of the Jew-Zionists, constantly trotted out by them (and their Western dupes and agents) to excuse their usually-terrible behaviour.

No response from the UK’s “Labour Friends of Israel” misgovernment (Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc).

https://twitter.com/mdwasi89/status/1845669845200699894

A man, woman and a little girl captured burning alive after Israel bombed tents sheltering displaced civilians in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa martyrs hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza.

One of the biggest support-pillars of the Israeli state is the worldwide web of Zionist supporters and enablers, funnelling money and arms, manipulating politics and, especially, the mainstream media, the law and legal system in Western jurisdictions, and so on. In the USA, Canada, Australia, France, the UK etc.

I have often found that to be true.

What will expiate the guilt, and the consequent group-karmic burden, of the Zionists?

…and 90% or more will be “processed” and then allowed to stay here. Odds-on.

Google “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan”…

SS United States to become an artificial reef

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24649060.historic-ss-united-states-sunk-become-coral-reef/

A historic ocean liner which regularly docked in Southampton will soon be sunk and turned in the world’s largest coral reef.

For 17 years the SS United States powered through the Atlantic waves making constant journeys between New York and Southampton.

When the ship first came to the city in 1952, she drew in crowds of almost 70,000 as it was the fastest in the world at the time.

Now, after a years-long legal debate over its future, the iconic ocean liner is set to make its final voyage.

SS United States will be submerged off the Florida coast where it is expected to create the world’s largest artificial coral reef.

[Southampton Echo]

[the rusting hulk of the SS United States, berthed on the Delaware River at Philadelphia]
[SS United States berthed at Philadelphia in recent times]
[painting of SS United States undergoing sea trials in 1951 or 1952; more or less as I recall the ship from the mid-1960s]

I have actually been on the SS United States, though not as a passenger.

In the mid-1960s, my parents were friendly with an American family who lived not far down the same road in Caversham Heights (near Reading). They had two children, a boy about the same age as me (about 8), whose name I do not remember, and a pretty dark-haired girl, maybe the same age, called Carla (I had never heard the name Carla before). I went to their house a couple of times for birthday parties.

Americans were rather an exotic species in the England of the early/mid 1960s, and seen mainly on TV, though my parents had known a number when they lived for a year, a few years before I was born, near the Greenham Common air base near Newbury. Not very many Brits travelled to the USA as tourists in those days, either.

The father of that family was, we were told, a diplomat who worked for the U.S. Embassy in London, but in hindsight I think that his real job must have been some kind of intelligence and security posting involved either with the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, southwest of Reading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Weapons_Establishment] or one of the atomic research locations in Oxfordshire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Energy_Research_Establishment].

I cannot see any other reason why an American diplomat or other embassy employee would be living in, indeed beyond, Reading, 40 miles west of London. As to why they lived in that specific neighbourhood, I think that is easier to answer. It was (and still is) the best neighbourhood in the Reading area.

The father of that family must have been quite high-ranking. When my family went to wave them goodbye at Southampton (maybe 1965), we were allowed aboard the United States, and they had a suite in First Class (I now see, having read Wikipedia, that the liner had three classes of travel).

I still remember the main stateroom of their suite, the centre of the room taken up by a large circular polished wooden table, the centre of which had on it a huge bowl of flowers.

Nearly 60 years ago. I wonder where those Americans are now.

More information about the SS United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_United_States.

Incidentally, those artificial reefs created by sunken ships are a very good idea, begun many decades ago in the U.S., though more basic structures were known even in ancient times. It is a more complex operation than one would initially assume, though: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_reef. It is not simply a matter of sinking a ship.

[Update, 27 October 2025: https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25565847.film-set-made-creation-worlds-largest-reef/].

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Still no response from Mark Lewis, Patron Law or the Solicitors Regulation Authority about this.

Serious allegations have been made publicly about a solicitor that relate to the administration of justice. The allegations are met by a wall of silence from all concerned. Lewis himself seems unable to deny the allegations. What is going on? @MLewisLawyer @Patron_Law @sra_solicitors.”

[James Wilson]

I speculated months ago that the losing Jewish defendants in that case would probably end up suing Mark Lewis and/or Patron Law. Lewis is said to be a partner of Patron Law, yet himself has no assets in the England and Wales jurisdiction, so it may be that the losing defendants will have to sue both Lewis and Patron Law, but that Lewis will scuttle back to his flat in Eilat (Israel), leaving his co-partners at Patron Law to pick up the bill, assuming that they are found jointly and severally liable with Lewis.

I expect Lewis will get the push (not for the first time; other firms have sacked him in the past), at least from that small law firm, if not (also?) from the solicitors’ profession. After all, Lewis has been cheating and conning people for years, and also displaying both negligence and a serious deficit of ethics: see, e.g.

Formerly prolific on Twitter/X, Lewis has now not posted on the site for 6-7 weeks.

[“Revenge— Get down there where you wanted to send me, you unclean spirit!“]

See also:

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This is how the power of Zionism operates. It penetrates institutions via personnel and finance, sure, but effects like this depend on its ideological power to convince and intimidate individuals in institutions. This has the result that they, (very possibly) quite independently, take on the role of punishing critics of the genocidal Zionist entity. This is why we don’t just need to collapse and remove the colony in Palestine, but also wage a generational war against the Zionist movement in the UK and in many other nations worldwide.”

[David Miller]

The Bar of England and Wales, for example, is thoroughly “infested” now.

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“They” slide in anywhere they can.

I have written in the past about that nasty little sex pest and depressive case:

Nick Griffin

Disturbed to see that the @NickGriffinBU Twitter/X account, while nominally still there, seems to have had all its tweets removed. I have no idea whether Twitter/X did it at the instigation of “the usual suspects”, or whether Griffin himself has done it. I also have no idea when it happened, having not looked at the account for weeks, if not months.

Whatever is said about Griffin, he was the most successful and high-profile social nationalist of the period 1990-2010. He managed to get himself elected as an MEP (along with Andrew Brons), and is still pretty much the only social nationalist whose name is known to most people in the UK.

I do not say that I have agreed with everything said or done by Griffin, and have never met or communicated with him (beyond having posted a few of his tweets on the blog; he also retweeted me a couple of times when —pre-2019— I still had a Twitter account); but I regard him as, at root, a good fellow, and staunch under State repression (as when he was prosecuted). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin.

Incidentally, I see that he is only 2.5 years younger than me; I had thought quite a few years younger, maybe 7-8, even 10 years, though for no particular reason. Never assume, I suppose.

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Emily Thornberry, a lazy entitled “New Labour” hog. Married to a part-Jew, a member of Labour Friends of Israel, and a buy-to-let parasite (her property portfolio is worth about £10M), as well as, at least in the past, a massive expenses freeloader. Another mouthpiece for Israel and Jew-Zionism.

[Emily Thornberry and husband with Mark Regev (centre), the then Israeli Ambassador in London, at a Jew-Zionist dinner held several years ago; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Regev]

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

Similar to many other (Northern/Central/Eastern) European countries.

A core of post-Aryan Europeans, whether 100 million or 1 million or (after societal catastrophe) even as few as 1,000, must exist, as the basis for an ethnostate which can, in time, provide the foundation (perhaps only in hundreds or even thousands of years) for what might be termed a “super-race”, i.e. a quantum leap in the evolution of consciousness, after which that race will have all the technical knowledge of our day —and more— but will also have powers of mind amounting to what we today would call “magical powers”.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.

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Diary Blog, 4 October 2024

Afternoon music

[Pushkin Museum, Moscow]

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Britain is crippled because Israel has a fifth column inside the UK.

I noticed when I was a starting-out pupil-barrister over 30 years ago (in London) that the vast majority of criminal defendants, in both the magistrates’ courts and (I think more so) the Crown Courts of the capital (where the more serious crimes in London are tried) were non-white, and that despite the fact that the non-white proportion of the population at the time was only about 10%-20% (indeed, the West Indian and African proportion was perhaps 5%, yet in the court system seemed to be at least half of the defendant-cadre).

David Irving’s thoughts and reminiscences

Some thoughts and reminiscences of David Irving, the famous historian whose works have been repressed, though not entirely successfully, by the Jewish-Zionist element.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving [note, though, the now-frequently-seen vandalism of Wikipedia by “the usual suspects”]

https://irvingbooks.com/about-irving-books/

[David Irving]

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If that happens, Iran surely will destroy, or try to destroy, Israel’s greatest targeted weapon by eliminating the Dimona plant(s).

What I find incredible is that the supposedly “racist”, dinosaur-like “reactionary” Con Party membership seems to have no problem with the fact that all 4 of the candidates for leadership are non-white or part-Jewish, and/or are married to Jewish individuals. The members must be very very slow-witted, or at least brainwashed by multikulti propaganda.

The Conservative Party is no longer a British party in any real sense.

Subconsciously, even those most opposed to social-nationalism know that it is, or would be, the right way for European societies to go.

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Diary Blog, 3 October 2024

Afternoon music

[Palace-on-the-Isle, Lazienki Park, Warsaw. I do not recall seeing it when I was in that park in 1988 and 1989; I must have been preoccupied]

Talking point

David Icke punctures the balloon of the fake rebel, “Robinson”.

The “JQ” is the touchstone. Anyone supporting Israel and the Jewish/Zionist lobby is suspect, or worse. I do not refer to those simply seeing this or that “positive aspect”, but those who prioritize Israel and the Jewish/Zionist lobby over the interests of British and other European people.

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Four corrupt and (((owned))) idiots-on-sticks. Useless.

The individual shouting is one of “the usual suspects” (((them))). Odds-on. (and despite the facemask muzzle).

I strongly support that. I was quite shocked to hear, in 1989, in Warsaw, and from the lips of a Polish girl I knew slightly, that my old haunt, Raoul’s (cafe) in Little Venice (London), where she had worked (she used to serve me my coffees) would take a high percentage of the tips given to the wait staff. That money would, so I was told, go to the woman who owned the cafe. Disgraceful.

Incidentally, the manager of the cafe at that time was a very pleasant young-ish Lebanese, who referred to the Jews who were a fairly large proportion of the clientele as “the Chosen“. Sardonic.

Apropos of nothing much, that Lebanese seemed to regard me as omniscient when it came to knowing who —using the cafe— was who. By way of example, I remember him asking once, in the 1990s, who was the black man sitting with a rather spectacularly-dressed black —I think African— woman. The manager asked me to go into the cafe —I was seated outside— and pretend to order something so that I could take a look.

I was able to identify the black man as Paul Boateng [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng#Member_of_Parliament]. I had seen Boateng previously, not only on TV but also in person, when he was at Harrow Crown Court as Counsel in 1992 or 1993. It may be that he lived somewhere in the Maida Vale area; I do not know.

The brainwashing fear propaganda has deeply embedded itself in the mass psyche. Only a quarter of the population are awake to the realities, even now, years later.

In any case, the question is based on the false assumption that more inhabitants means greater “growth”. A house of cards. Fake.

Pretty damning. I myself would be firmly of the “they had none” persuasion.

Reform UK is still not the choice of most people or even a plurality. In my view, the people want, but subconsciously, social nationalism, but that has not come to expression either in the mass psyche or in objective reality— the movement and/or party does not exist. Not yet, anyway.

Emma Barnett, yet another (((termite))) in the msm woodwork.

[Emma Barnett]

The UK in 2024 is not, as one sometimes reads, “the same as” the Weimar Republic in 1924, but there are certainly some similarities…

Brainless young woman still prefers to see the world through her preferred multikulti blinkers even after one of the many negative aspects of the migration invasion is made directly apparent to her.

As Hitler said of the people of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion.

Hard core cat.

From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/03/gp-injected-mothers-partner-flesh-eating-chemical-inheritance-kwan-patrick-ohara-newcastle

A GP worried about his inheritance disguised himself as a nurse and injected deadly poison into his victim, who thought he was getting a home-visit Covid booster, a court has heard.

Thomas Kwan was not injecting Covid vaccine into Patrick O’Hara, prosecutors allege, but a poison that gave O’Hara a rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease.

“Sometimes, occasionally perhaps, the truth really is stranger than fiction,” said Peter Makepeace KC as he opened the prosecution case against Kwan at Newcastle crown court on Thursday.

Kwan, 53, is accused of attempting to murder O’Hara, his mother’s long-term partner and a “potential impediment” to him inheriting her estate.

The court heard Kwan devised an intricate plan to kill 71-year-old O’Hara, who lived in Newcastle with Kwan’s mother, by disguising himself as a community nurse and injecting him with poison.

Makepeace said the plan involved Kwan forging NHS documentation, disguising himself, using false number plates, and booking in to a hotel using a false name.

Police recovered a photograph from Kwan’s computer of him in disguise with a wig, beard and moustache.

“It was an audacious plan,” Makepeace told the jury. “It was a plan to murder a man in plain sight, to murder a man right in front of his own mother’s eyes, that man’s life partner.

[Guardian]

Looks like a case so unusual that it may go down in criminal history, and be found in “true crime” anthologies, in television series etc.

The Prosecution Counsel in the case is someone with whom I was once acquainted, we both being part of a group of about 7 or 8 Bar students grouped together for the “Practical Exercises” which were then (1987-88) part of the Bar Finals course at the Inns of Court School of Law in London. All our names began with “M”. After that time, I only encountered Makepeace a few times: once or twice in a robing room (where barristers get changed for court) at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, I appearing at the High Court, he in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division); and once at the christening of a baby, child of two others of the same Bar School group. He was then based at York.

Early 1990s, around 1994. Long ago.

I took “the road less travelled” after that…

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So far this year, the United States has given: – $24,400,000,000 to Ukraine. – $11,300,000,000 to Israel. – $1,950,000,000 to Ethiopia. – $1,600,000,000 to Jordan. – $1,400,000,000 to Egypt. – $1,100,000,000 to Afghanistan. – $1,100,000,000 to Somalia. – $1,000,000,000 to Yemen. – $987,000,000 to Congo. – $896,000,000 to Syria. – $9,000 per illegal immigrant that has entered the U.S.

And Americans who have lost everything to Hurricane Helene will be getting $750, courtesy of FEMA.

Late music

One of the great American symphonies.

Diary Blog, 8 September 2024, with some examination of the role of atrocity narratives in modern history

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)]

Atrocity stories

Nihil novi…

As a matter of fact, most WW2 atrocity narratives in Europe can be traced back to WW1 British “black propaganda”. A few used in the First World War were not recycled for Second World War use, though, because obviously invented and very hard to believe (e.g. the German Army of 1914 allegedly having used Belgian nuns as bell-clappers in cathedrals).

More recently, many will recall the lying 15-y-o Kuwaiti girl who, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, claimed that Iraqi troops had taken hospital incubators, leaving hundreds of babies to die: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony.

In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah’s last name was al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيرة الصباح) and that she was the daughter of Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, the erstwhile Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of a wider public relations campaign conducted by the Kuwaiti government-in-exile’s Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which sought to encourage American military involvement against Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait through coordination with the American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton. In the aftermath of the Gulf War, the Nayirah testimony came to be regarded as a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda.[1][2]

Nayirah’s story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, which published a report about the supposed killings[3] and testimony from Kuwaiti evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, international media crews were given access to the country. A report by ABC News found that “patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait’s nurses and doctors … fled” but Iraqi troops “almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die.”[4] Later, Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the H. W. Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement.”[5]

[Wikipedia]

In other words, the guilty parties were Kuwaiti doctors and nurses.

Incidentally, I have myself met only a small number of Kuwaitis in my life, about a dozen, but I have to say that every single one I have met in the past was a useless, unpleasant, and completely untrustworthy waste of space.

I myself was in the USA in 1990, and remember the barrage of TV propaganda pushing that untruthful testimony, as well as other stories designed to get the clueless American masses behind Desert Shield and, later, Desert Storm.

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

Apropos of nothing much, I think that the American names for military and other operations are much more evocative than the British equivalent, which are deliberately disconnected from the operations concerned, so that some espionage plot might be designated “Operation Morris Minor” or some such.

Hard to believe that that happened 33 years ago. The Second World War officially ended on 2 September 1945 (I was born on the same day and month but 11 years later, in 1956).

33 years after the end of that terrible war brings us to 1978. By that time, a new generation, my generation, born after 1945, thought of “the War” as mere long-ago history. I presume that that is how young people today think of the Gulf War or, even more so, the Falklands campaign of 1982 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War].

Atrocity propaganda is now an inevitable part of almost all human conflict, as was seen in the fairly recent (October 2023) attack by the Gazan organization, Hamas, on Southern Israel. At time of writing, people are still arguing over whether Hamas operatives “beheaded babies”, but it seems that they did not. The story that they had done so, though, was much used by Israel and the worldwide Jewish lobby to deflect criticism of the initial Israeli attacks, which happened (on a huge scale, though similar attacks had happened for years) from October 2023, killing, wounding, and making homeless the civilian population of Gaza (including babies).

The ultimate “atrocity propaganda”, of course, remains the WW2 “holocaust” narrative, and particularly the “gas chambers” part of that. Other parts of that narrative (armchairs upholstered in Jewish skin, lampshades made of the same material etc) have joined yet other “holocaust” atrocity stories in what Marx called “the dustbin of history“, abandoned even by the Zionists, but the “gas chambers” remain. Not as actual relics— there are none, unless you count those constructed after 1945 at Auschwitz in order to show the credulous masses of West and East what German SS personnel were alleged to have done. The “relics” that remain are psychological, in the minds of millions, particularly in the Anglophone countries.

One can see why the Zionists persist in trying to maintain the “gas chambers” narrative. Without it, the whole Jewish “holocaust” narrative (as something above and beyond what was suffered by other races or peoples in the 20th Century) falls. What would remain, were the world to accept that the “gas chambers” never existed, would be the actual truth— that quite large numbers of Jews in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, were treated badly, with many of them actually shot, but none actually gassed (as per the “official” historical narrative).

That more truthful version of 20thC history, however, would put Jewish suffering on —at most— the same level as the sufferings of others: in WW2, the sufferings of Russians and others brutalized and/or shot by the Soviet government, and the sufferings of Germans brutalized and/or killed by Soviet forces and or by other forces, including the Allied bombing of Germany 1941-1945 (which killed somewhere between 350,000 and 800,000 Germans), as well as the various groups treated badly by some German forces.

The “gas chambers” narrative is really the only claim that, if accepted, would tend to put the experience of Jews in the early/mid 1940s into a box above and beyond what other peoples suffered during the 20thC (and before, and after). That is why the Zionists keep pushing it.

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Very true.

Many seem to regard Divine intervention as the only thing that might stop or delay the migration invasion of the UK. Whatever one thinks of that, the System parties will not stop it; indeed, they encourage it.

Something for Richard Moore to think about before he broadcasts more pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev-regime) propaganda bs.

Hardball.

Well, as a pensioner now myself, I support that on a personal as well as general policy level, especially as I get a very reduced State Pension (by reason of having been overseas much of the time).

Wait a minute… Only yesterday, Sir Richard Moore, the Chief of SIS/MI6, told the UK television audience that “Ukraine” has “the will to fight“. In reality, Ukrainians are desperate to avoid or evade the draft. The Kiev regime will collapse before long. Russia will ultimately prevail.

If only I had the power to do something about all of that, especially that last item.

Exactly. The NHS is very much a “hit or miss” service now.

What is “on the rise” is a growing anger that nothing works properly or easily in the UK, and a growing anger about the migration-invasion (a million or more each year), and also a growing realization that “two-tier” Keir is incapable of improving this country and indeed is determined to (further) ruin it (as well as being an unmandated petty dictator).

…and another 20,000 who entered the UK “legally” in the past week; at least superficially “legally”.

That is in the northern part of Donetsk Oblast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloviansk.

Only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters voted Labour at the 2024 General Election. About 3 voted Con, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green. 8 refused to vote.

Labour has no real mandate.

Hard to know what to believe.

So far, mainly threats. In a sense, a clever tactic, in that Israeli government, society, and economy seem paralyzed by the fear or expectation.

Late music

[Bishop Rock Lighthouse; I have been there]

Diary Blog, 5 September 2024

Morning music

[Botanical Garden, Sukhumi, Abkhazia]

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According to the malicious, tiny but very well-funded Jewish/Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], as many as 96% of “British” Jews consider themselves to be “Zionist”, and most of them also support what the Israeli Jews are doing in Gaza and elsewhere.

That last tweeter is wrong; she compares one or two days at Dresden with the whole 5+ years of war in the UK.

The more accurate figures are: about 60,000 killed in Britain, as against (disputed) 350,000 to 800,000 killed in Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II.

[Dresden 1945, after Allied bombing and firestorm]

https://twitter.com/GregJ1966/status/1831594340143013914

The increasing support for Reform UK among (but not exclusively) “the young” seems to mirror the support for the AfD in Germany.

For me, Reform UK is not the way to go: pro-Israel, pro the UK Jewish lobby, economically “libertarian” etc. I agree with the Reform UK hostility to mass immigration, but not with much else they say. For me, real social nationalism is the way to go.

Still, the overall direction of travel is hopeful.

You see tweets, or on TV, that “at least the migrants are prepared to work“, but first of all that applies to some, not all; secondly, what that naive assessment omits to add is that the kind of work most of them (the ones that are willing to work) want to do (or can do, having no usable qualifications or skills, or English language), is in the “black economy”. No income tax, no VAT etc. That way, they can get whatever State benefits they can blag as well as whatever they can make on the side, so rent paid, pocket money, maybe disability too in some cases. Child benefit, if applicable. You get the idea.

The bigger picture, as Goodwin has said, is that that whole process traps this country into being a low-wage, low productivity economy. Exactly the opposite of where we should be heading.

That would be good.

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The self-describing “left” is particularly prone to denunciation. In fact, in modern Britain, that is its sole characteristic of note. No more do they want to revolt against privilege, or have a revolution of some sort. No, all they want to do is to obey the dictates of the State (especially if fronted by a “Labour” label), and to “deplatform” or “cancel” (censor or ban) anyone thought to be an independent thinker (usually someone labelled “racist” or “fascist” or “Nazi“). You saw the syndrome during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, of course. Anyone questioning the nonsense pumped out by Government or “SAGE” (I preferred “DUMB”— the Department Under Matt and Boris) was called a “Covidiot” by real idiots such as Piers Morgan.

You can send 200 to somewhere like Rwanda, maybe even 2,000; at a pinch, maybe even 20,000. You cannot, however, send 200,000, or 2 million, or 4 million, or 6 million or more.

£1M in 1939 is about £50M or more in the money of 2024. See https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator.

I hope that all readers of the blog will read the tweets of David Morgan, a bold young man from Wales.

Get rid of her.

The United States is afraid of losing Ukrainian troops before the November presidential elections, because it will be very bad for the Biden administration, and especially for Kamala Harris.

Ukraine, even with American or Western weapons, cannot improve the situation on the battlefield, but the White House has only one goal – to ensure that the Ukrainians do not fail before the elections ,” says John Mearsheimer, an American political scientist.

Zelensky in an interview with NBC News: Russia must be present at the second peace summit He said that Ukraine and the signatories of the Swiss resolution will work out a plan to end the war by this event and will propose it for the second summit.

“Representatives of Russia must be present there. We understand that without the Russian side, it is very difficult to end this war diplomatically. And all countries asked us to have representatives of the Russian Federation at the second summit. We said, we are not against it, let’s prepare a plan and invite them.”

Zelensky knows that the Kiev regime is losing. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.

Late music

[Shishkin, Before the Storm]

Diary Blog, 29 May 2024, including a look at Natalie Elphicke

Morning music

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

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I never believe “them” without corroborative evidence.

Exactly. Eternal “victims”, even when they are victimizing others.

A mere caution, for attacking an elderly man in the street.

Natalie Elphicke

Whatever the facts of that, there are facts that are indisputable: Natalie Elphicke could have stood at GE 2024 as Con Party candidate. She received 56.9% of the vote in 2019 under that aegis.

I was puzzled as to why Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor, she after all knowing that a general election had to be called sometime before a date in January 2025. Does she have some better offer from outside Parliament? Seems doubtful to me.

Natalie Elphicke gives me a dual impression: not particularly intelligent, but particularly focussed on her own ambitions.

Incidentally, many may be misled by the academic section of her biographical details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Elphicke#Early_life_and_career.

As a former member of Lincoln’s Inn, I have met several people over the years who were (as was Natalie Elphicke— see the Wikipedia entry) beneficiaries of Hardwicke scholarships. None impressed.

I saw this comment:

Hardwicke Scholarships aren’t that prestigious. A mere submission of an application is more than enough to win one. They give about 150 away each year, and not many more people apply to each inn for a scholarship, surprisingly enough.” [online commentator].

I think that the real figure is nearer to 100 than 150.

To intrude a personal comment, I recall a young blonde lady barrister who (unsuccessfully, in all cases) opposed me in court a number of times during 2002-2008 when I was in chambers in Exeter (she was in another set, also in Exeter). She was a former Hardwicke scholar, just like Natalie Elphicke. I used to think of her as “Mrs Malaprop”, because her use of English was so poor. Comically so. A pretty poor barrister in terms of both legal knowledge and presentation, in my view, though wearing a sense of self-importance as thick as a suit of armour.

I had better not name that lady, mainly for reasons of propriety (I am too poor now to be worth suing; and there would be no basis for such a suit anyway). I just looked her up online for the first time, and found that she is still in Exeter, and still in the same chambers as she was 20+ years ago, apparently flourishing like the green bay tree.

I note that, having been Called to the Bar in 1994, only a few years after me, Natalie Elphicke decided to leave the Bar and to convert to be a solicitor (something that, at least then, basically meant filling out a few forms).

Natalie Elphicke only worked as a lawyer for a year or two, as a salaried employee of the Inland Revenue (as was; now HMRC) during 1995-1997. She married her now ex-husband, Charlie Elphicke, in 1995. They have two children. She appears to have returned to legal work for a year or two during the years 2011-2013, before helping to found a company which was dissolved 2-3 years later.

After that, her husband’s connections seem to have got her a couple of brief public appointments in the years 2016-2019, as well as the CEO job at the Housing and Finance Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_and_Finance_Institute. This may not be very lucrative, though, looking at the Institute’s funding. Hard to say.

Ah…[10 mins later…]… seems that my hunch was correct: that HFI CEO position is entirely unpaid: see https://members.parliament.uk/member/4795/registeredinterests.

Many will know that, though having displayed (performative?) “loyalty” to her disgraced MP husband, Charlie Elphicke, during his trial, Natalie Elphicke had by then already taken over as MP for Dover in 2019. She separated from him in 2020, and later divorced him, prior to which she sold her story to the Sun “newspaper” for £25,000. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/mp-wife-of-naughty-tory-paid-25k-to-tell-all-234749/.

I have to say that I agreed (and still agree) with Natalie Elphicke’s comment at the time of her husband’s unsuccessful appeal (against sentence only— he had been sentenced to 2 years, plus £35,000 costs, and was released after a year) that the 2-year sentence was harsh. He had really done very little: “During his trial the court heard how Elphicke groped one of his accusers, chased her around his house, and sang “I’m a naughty Tory, I’m a naughty Tory.” [Wikipedia].

I should have thought that a suspended sentence would have been enough. From what I read at the time, his three crimes were all just silly, really; almost identical, too, and surely only just coming within the “sex crime” area. Pathetic more than anything, in my opinion.

To my mind, if crimes and criminals can be divided into “bad, sad, or mad“, Charlie Elphicke’s conduct was surely “sad“, with a dash of “mad“, but nothing seriously “bad“.

Having —whether rightly or wrongly, and I think rightly— identified Natalie Elphicke as a “go for the main chance” opportunist, why on Earth did she defect to Labour? Looking at the electoral statistics for Dover, she had a very good chance of being re-elected. Maybe Starmer offered her a peerage (seems unlikely, though), or some quango chair (more likely), or a safe Labour seat (relatively unlikely, surely?).

I admit, Mrs. Elphicke’s motivation is still puzzling to me.

As to Charlie Elphicke, I had little time for him when he was an MP, but I have to say that his fall from status and relative affluence has the elements of a minor Greek tragedy. Apparently, he now lives in a small rented flat somewhere like Earl’s Court, and may (I do not know) be either unemployed or working in some obscure occupation. I can find no record of him still on the Solicitors’ Register, and the same is true of Natalie Elphicke, but as far as I know both are still able to practise; again, I cannot say.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-61276734

While looking up the above details, I noticed this story from the Daily Mail in 2022: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10367265/Naughty-Tory-Charlie-Elphicke-makes-700-000-profit-selling-cliffside-home-Kent.html.

Turns out that the Elphickes bought a house on the Kent coast for about £800,000 in 2012, and were able to sell it only a decade later for over £1.5M. The house almost doubled in value in 10 years. A commentary upon the house-price madness in this country.

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There is also no evidence that Reform UK is getting anywhere. Nothing lower than an across-the-board 20% will win any seats; even a few percent more may only win a small handful, maybe 3-5. 11%, 12%, even 15%, is “nowhere” territory in seat-winning terms.

The LibDems and Greens are on a lower nationwide support, yet have seats in the Commons because their vote is concentrated, here and there.

Having said that, I make two points. Firstly, most intending Reform UK voters know perfectly well that RF is not going to win many, if any, seats. Their vote is a protest vote and/or a way of kicking the Sunak government and Conservative Party, by weakening greatly the Con Party vote in almost every constituency, but without voting Labour.

Secondly, as mooted yesterday, there may be a number, perhaps even a large number, of “secret Reform UK voters”, who do not show up in the opinion polls because they say “Don’t Know” or nominate a mainstream party out of embarrassment. Very English, arguably.

I doubt whether the usual general election convergence will happen this time. People hate and despise the useless Conservative Party governments of the past 14 years, and especially the past 5 years. That includes a huge number of 2019 or previous Con voters.

In fact, I should not be surprised were the Lab-Con gap to widen, though more because the Cons may slide again rather than because Labour increase their percentage.

A plurality of voters do not know where Starmer stands. For Starmer, that may be what he wants.

Telling…

That must be “value” olive oil. The last bottle I bought (extra-virgin olive oil, first cold pressing, but not a single-estate or special one) was nearly £13.

Incredible posting by Simon Myerson (1) @JewishMirelle’s statement can be opinion and defamatory. (2) Myerson is re-publishing a likely defamatory statement. (3) He’s a KC suggesting to someone on twitter that their statement might not be defamatory. (4) He’s the KC who acted for Pete Newbon according the Telegraph. #GroundhogDay

Myerson again.

Honest opinion is now a defence [Defamation Act 2013, s.3].

I think that I shall quit now, while I am ahead. I have not been in Bar practice for 16 years, and do not, in general, keep up with changes in the law.

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According to my use of Electoral Calculus, that might result in a House of Commons with 541 Lab MPs, 46 LibDem, 28 Con, 12 SNP, 3 Plaid Cymru, 2 Green, and 18 various Northern Irish.

On those figures, what Disraeli described as “the great Conservative Party, which destroys everything“, would be itself almost destroyed, reduced to a rump of 20 MPs; not even the official Opposition, which would be the LibDems.

Such a result would be a strategic defeat for the SNP too. 12 MPs, down from 56 (out of 59) at the 2015 peak, and 48 at the 2019 GE.

I get the impression that the SNP’s version of fake “nationalism” (blame England/the UK for everything, keep importing non-whites into Scotland, and think it normal to have a Pakistani as First Minister) has well and truly foundered on the rocks of socio-political reality). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.

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

Of course, a change in the Labour vote of even one point either way would add several to (or subtract several from) the Conservative total, and even more to or from the Labour total.

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A twisted and evil woman.

Ukraine knows that it’s all over” While the UK is preoccupied with the general elections, Kyiv “cannot withstand Putin’s brutal attack,” reports the British The Telegraph. Main points:

Kiev was forced to transfer thousands of soldiers to the northeastern part of the front line to try to slow down the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region.

The war is reaching a critical point as Western interest in helping Ukraine risks weakening again.

Zelensky seems to understand that time is running out for Ukraine: over the weekend he called on Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to take part in the upcoming “peace summit” in Switzerland.

Zelensky’s team is concerned about the shift of attention in the United States to internal elections: Ukraine is receding into the background.

The harsh reality is that Ukraine risks simply running out of people to fight.

Exactly.

I have, on the blog, been saying for 2 years that Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.