That oft-spouted dictum ‘follow the science’ would not have surprised American philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996). In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Kuhn explained how ‘normal science’ becomes a rigid orthodoxy, maintained by rewards in pay, promotion and prestige. Great force is needed to disrupt the established paradigm and its assumptions, as everted by the discoveries of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Consequently, science progresses not as linear trajectory but by a series of revolutions.
The peer review process in scientific journals is meant for quality control, but it has been criticised by editors of prestigious journals such as Richard Smith of the British Medical Journal, Marcia Angell of the New England Journal of Medicine and Richard Horton of the Lancet, the latter remarking:
We know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong.
A bigger problem than inconsistency is reinforcement of prevailing ideological consensus, as shown by the difficulty of climate change sceptics in getting their work in print. By contrast, Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose got a series of absurd spoof papers published in the journals of various ‘grievance studies’ such as Gender, Place & Culture. One paper explained the penis as a social construct, in the second the authors claimed to have examined thousands of canine genitals to reveal rape culture in dog parks, the third argued that men could quell their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys, and the fourth was a translation of Mein Kampf with feminist buzz words. Research is judged on acceptability rather than scientific validity, it seems.
This departure from due diligence is a mystery to many, but it is explained well by Costică Brădățan in UnHerd of December 21st:
How did papers of no scholarly merit pass, sometimes with flying colours, the crucial test whereby a scholar’s subjective opinion becomes reliable knowledge: the peer-review process? Because the authors understood how important conformism to the dominant ideological orthodoxy is in the academic humanities. The hoaxers didn’t need to place any real knowledge in their submissions, only the recognisable markers of belonging to the same camp — dazzling buzzwords such as ‘rape culture’, ‘queer performativity’, ‘systemic oppression’ — which mesmerised both journal editors and the external reviewers.
In 1975, Professor David Horrobin founded the journal Medical Hypotheses as an outlet for ‘revolutionary science’. Instead of peer review, Horrobin made all publishing decisions as Chief Editor. The journal was owned by Pergamon, a company established in 1951 by Robert Maxwell. Pergamon expanded to hundreds of journals and Maxwell, the media tycoon, made a fortune in selling it to Elsevier in 1991. Pergamon did not interfere with Medical Hypotheses, but the new owner did.
After Horrobin died he was replaced by Bruce Charlton. In 2009 Charlton accepted a paper by Peter Duesberg, a virologist at Berkeley who contested the link between HIV and AIDS. Duesberg supported the South African government’s decision to withhold antiretroviral drugs from AIDS sufferers. This was sacrilege to the AIDS research community, which was thriving on huge research grants. Scientists associated with the U.S. National Institutes of Health threatened to banish Elsevier journals from the National Library of Medicine unless the article was retracted. Elsevier relented to pressure and Charlton was dismissed as Editor. As the Secret Professor wrote in The Dark Side of Academia (2022): “Peer review had to be instituted in order to ensure that existing truths were not threatened again.”
Censorial activity escalated with COVID-19. For example, both of us were denied the right of reply in the prestigious Journal of Advanced Nursing published by Wiley after being smeared in its editorial pages over our expressed views on lockdown. One journal editor –Jose L. Domingo of Food and Chemical Toxicology – who published a controversial COVID-19 article and also requested manuscripts “on the potential toxic effects of COVID-19 vaccines” resigned after concern about “deep discrepancies” with the journal’s direction under publisher Elsevier as the reason for his early exit. One of us (RW) has raised the possibility that the Committee on Publication Ethics may be complicit in the process of censoring academics and editors and has expressed concern over what the major academic publishers classify as ‘misinformation’ regarding COVID-19.
Academic journals are commercial enterprises and are under no obligation to publish anything sent to them. They favour manuscripts that are likely to be cited highly to maximise impact factor – a key measure of journal performance in a competitive marketplace. A manuscript may be rejected in initial desk screening by the Editor-in-Chief, subsequent screening by an editor to whom it was assigned or following peer review. In some cases, an Editor-in-Chief may overrule the Editor and reject a manuscript. Peer reviewers are chosen for their specialist expertise, but they merely make recommendations to editors. They may warn about a manuscript with contrary findings or controversial claims, and some editors will shy away from potential trouble.
The extent of retraction of counter-narrative COVID-19 articles, as tracked by website Retraction Watch is very concerning, If a manuscript published as an article is subsequently retracted the convention is that it remains on the website and available at the original digital object identifier, but with a prominent header indicating that it has been retracted or a ‘Retracted’ watermark across the pages. However, this process has not been followed with the vast majority of retracted COVID-19 articles. Reputable publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley and PLOS One have been mounting retraction notices and completely removing the original articles.
Scientific preprint outlets, which enable researchers to publicise their findings before peer review, boast of their openness to any study results. However, just as the sanctuary of freedom of speech at Speakers Corner fell to the COVID-19 regime, so did the preprint websites. Several papers on COVID-19 by Professors Norman Fenton and Martin Neil, despite adhering to scientific standards of analysis and reporting, were routinely rejected. For example, Fenton and Neil recently submitted an analysis of ONS vaccine surveillance data to medRxiv, which responded:
We regret to inform you that your manuscript is inappropriate for posting. medRxiv is intended for research papers, and our screening process determined that this manuscript fell short of that description.
A similar response by arXiv dismissed the article as out of scope, yet as Fenton and Neil observed, “this is curious given the enormous number of papers they have on Covid data analytics”.
What is to be done? Gatekeepers are manipulating the dissemination of scientific research, but this is not an easy problem to solve. One of us (RW) has been an editor on three journals during the COVID-19 period. The only policy of which he is aware is a widespread agreement across the academic publishing industry to fast-track COVID-19 manuscripts as a public health priority. He is not aware of any policies to publish only articles that align with the official narrative (lockdowns good, masks effective and vaccines safe). However, pressure is clearly being exerted at some point and it has extended beyond the publishing industry to the preprint environment.
When research is blocked from preprint exposure, effectively it doesn’t exist. Surely if preprint sites are used properly then we have nothing to fear from publication of manuscripts that challenge medical or scientific orthodoxy. If an argument is flawed or analysis faulty, let these flaws and faults be revealed. As Justice Louis Brandeis famously said, early in the last century, “sunlight is the best disinfectant”.
Roger Watson was previously the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advanced Nursing, published by Wiley, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Nurse Education in Practice, published by Elsevier. He is also an editorial board member of the WIkiJournal of Medicine. Niall McCrae was an editorial board member of Journal of Advanced Nursing.
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I don’t think that not voting is the answer. Dissenters are lost amid the lazy non-voters.
I want a way of saying how disillusioned and angry I am.
I’d prefer to have a “none of the above” option on the ballot, in effect an option for explicitly spoiling the ballot paper, rather than simply defacing it or drawing rude pictures.
If a winning party fails to beat the “none” column, then their mandate is meaningless, with potential penalties such as a maximum 1-year term in post to prove your worth, followed by an automatic by-election.
I think spoiling the ballot paper is effectively “none of the above”, though I suppose a specific category would be clearer as it differentiates from people who can’t fill in the ballot paper properly and also might make people more likely to turn up and tick it than to stay at home.
I think if there is a candidate standing in your area who you feel reflects your views, or their party does, then you should vote for them.
I can’t, Reform has been shut down in Saffron Walden! Well done daily fail.
Yes, Heretic mentioned that. Write them in. I don’t know what the bloke said but my default reaction is they should not have backed down.
Here’s what he said 15 years ago, that the Tories have just dug up to remove him so that Badenoch can easily win the seat: “The 71-year-old St.Clair-Armstrong, who is challenging business secretary Kemi Badenoch in the constituency of North West Essex, posted on a blog called the Joli Triste in 2010:
“I could weep now, every time I pick up a British newspaper and read the latest about the state of the UK,” The Times reports. ““No doubt, Enoch Powell would be doing the same if he was alive. My solution … vote BNP!”, he added.”
“His comments were found in an archived version of the Joli Triste website, which has since been changed. According to The Times, other blog posts included racial slurs and a joke about “female hormones”.”
I don’t remember the BNP’s precise policies, but I would agree with his comments about Powell, and so would a lot of people.
I’ve actually met him and was impressed. I will still go with him. I can’t vote for Goves stooge and the labour thing is only 21!!
I meant to say activist rather than thing.
Freudian slip!
The Reform candidate St.Clair-Armstrong’s name is still on the ballot, as you will see on the link below, so just vote for him anyway, as you intended.
Saffron Walden has been absorbed into the North West Essex constituency whose seat was held by the Globalist Nigerian Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke, otherwise known as Kemi Badenoch.
UK Parliamentary general election: The 8 candidates in North West Essex (whocanivotefor.co.uk)
‘Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke’ – by heck, that’s a mouthful!
The Daily Mail ought to focus on the Conservative Party and its MPs who have wantonly betrayed their voter base, trashed conservatism and left a trail of social and economic destruction over the last 14 years. The DT has shown who it is batting for.
“people who can’t fill in the ballot paper properly”
tof, you wouldn’t believe how many voting papers are not filled in correctly.
Incorrectly completed votes could be marks made with any colour pen but black and then ticks, squiggles, circles, yeses, no’s, this one and whatever. I have in the past challenged votes that do not comply with the instruction to mark with a cross in the box but the standard response of the adjudicating officers is that the vote counts. The excuse is that taking the matter to court is a waste of time because “any mark on or around the candidates name on the voting slip shows an intention to vote.”
Similarly, when 100 postal votes are emptied in front of you marked with a blue biro tick for the Labour candidate this is nothing to do with voting papers collected from constituents and taken to the local mosque for processing because nothing can be done. The votes count.
Now who relaxed the rules on postal votes?
Voter ID? Not required for postal votes.
What was the percentage of postal votes in the Rochdale by-election won by Galloway?
Electoral fraud is endemic and all the evidence is that it supports the Labour Party.
“tof, you wouldn’t believe how many voting papers are not filled in correctly.”
I assumed most people had a minimum of common sense and ability to follow instructions!
The Electoral Commission has detailed guidance on rejecting votes if the signature on the voting paper is not genuine. But signatures can be copied of course. If fraud is apparent this can be reported to the police. However proper vetting may well not take place so I favour restrictions to postal voting to the elderly and disabled, otherwise it would only be allowed in exceptional individual cases with proof of need on each voting occasion
It’s infuriating but I get the gist. A none vote is about as effective as banging your head on a wall and silently saying “ouch”.
Your vote counts. Vote for something you like, something you think is funny. CO2 is plant food, votes are Politician food. Deny the politicians vote food by voting against them. Not voting or spoiling your paper is as ineffective as it can possibly get. It’s akin to a little boys first glimpse of a girls pants on a washing line.
I do feel that spoiling your ballot paper could be effective if enough people did it. Spoilt ballot papers are counted, so if everyone turned up to vote, yet the majority spoilt their ballot papers e.g. 30 to 40 million or so, surely that would be very significant.
Totally agree. And the logic behind supporting that is the same as for supporting Reform. You don’t necessarily support the group that has a chance of winning. You support the group that best represents your ideas.
I will never again vote for any party that has Net Zero as a policy. If the only party available at election time that does not subscribe to Net Zero is the Monster Loonies then that is the party I will vote for.
I cannot vote for a policy that deliberately seeks to impoverish me and ration my energy use based on un-validated politicised claims about climate where no empirical evidence exists. Even if I agree with every other thing in a party’s manifesto, as long as Net Zero is in there, they will NEVER get my vote
Perhaps that is why ‘None of the above’ is not on the ballot, because it would win therefore the King would be forced to dissolve Parliament.
It seems to me that most people are still getting excited by the girls pants on the washing line.
The idea is pretty simple. If the majority of people stop voting it makes the system illegitimate. It draws a big bold fat line under the fact that our supposed democracy is an illusion. At that point it must be replaced. Almost everyone on here, it seems, has been programmed with a backdoor hack – one they access every four years to control the masses and maintain their system. The backdoor hack makes you believe voting within the current system is democratic; that the current system works and is there to support the serfs choose who should represent them. It doesn’t and it’s not. The current system exists to ensure your enslavement to the elite-based system and your vote is an unwitting endorsement of that undemocratic system. Even spoiling your ballot only rejects the choices the system has given you, it doesn’t reject the system. The backdoor hack works because of decades of ‘you must vote because of x/y/x’ propaganda and because people like to believe that they’re really in control. You’re not, and under the current system you never will be.
How anyone can go through the last few years and watch the upending of supposedly democratic societies across the world, and think that their vote ensures their freedom within a people-serving democracy, is just extraordinary. But then, the psychological programming runs deep, so nothing really surprises me at all.
I think that all spoilt votes should be recorded and read out on election day.
There isn’t a Reform candidate in West Dorset: they didn’t get time to appoint/vet anyone. There are 2 Independents standing, but I know nothing about them or their policies, although one of them delivered a leaflet to my door and is an elderly man with a personal grievance against Dorset Council and I’m not interested in supporting his personal “war.”
So I will be writing “REFORM PARTY” on my ballot paper.
My dear Father used to say if the ‘Don’t Knows’ get in then we’re really in trouble.
Reclaiming democracy by refusing to take part in it and leaving the power in the current hands, seems batty to me.
Agreed. And I’ve always thought that the don’t vote argument is a psyop to dissuade the disgruntled from voting for parties like Reform.
You are spot on!
There was an article on here some time ago claiming Raving loony Party is a PsyOp because it is there to keep the Uniparty system together.
How so? I don’t understand what function the Raving Loonies could have as a PsyOp.
I can’t remember the article, but I think because they often split the vote from the smaller parties. Remember the Pub Landlord Al Murray stood against Farage.
It’s not democracy.
It’s all we’ve got for now. You know what they say:
“When life hands you a lemon, make a lemonade.”
The “Can’t-Be-Bothered-To-Vote”s are the very same people who perennially complain that the only way we get to partake in democracy is by having the right to vote once every 5 years…
So let’s give that up too, shall we?
If you want reform, Vote Reform!
“…urging the establishment of a Royal Commission to devise a new, more democratic system.”
Yeah. That will work.
A bit late in my case; polling day was half an hour ago by postal vote. If I wanted to waste time, I could point out to the candidate (or, more likely, the agent) that just because it’s “General”, it does not mean I agree with everything they try to do. Watch this space etc.
Postal votes are for the lazy, stupid and, of course, Muslim women who have no rights in my opinion and should be banned. “A bit late in my case” is unbelievably pathetic: get off your arse and walk. Quite frankly, why are you on a, largely, politics site if you prefer re-runs of Neighbours to exercising your right to vote?
They often make it possible for us to vote at all, when our business or other matters make it physically impossible to be at a polling station on a specific day. When it was more awkward to use postal voting, that kept me out of a GE some years ago. Where I live, it has long been the practice in political Parties to encourage those who are generally reliable to vote for one’s Party to use them as well, on account of the belief that it does actually increase the turnout (hopefully to their benefit). After all, an established supporter/member does not to waste their time on the subject.
Postal votes should be available for those that have booked a distant business trip or holiday, or, in some circumstances, taking care of a long distance relative.
It may be difficult to administer, but at least acknowledge that some would be badly affected for helping others.
Would our country be in a better state in the coming months and years if everyone who might be inclined to vote for Reform chose not to vote or if everyone who might be inclined to vote for Reform actually voted for Reform?
I’m voting.
If everyone did not vote Red or Blue your vote changes your world.
Voting should give some indication as to what policies are preferable.
Not voting does not do this. It sounds it’s a subtle very authoritarian move.
Not voting is a very bad idea now that we have Reform led by Farage who defeated the establishment in the Brexit vote. Reform offers a ray of hope. Just look at how Net Zero is all of a sudden being discussed publicly, and deservedly denigrated, after having been forced down our throats for so many years by the Con/Lab/Lib/SNP Uniparty with no discussion allowed.
The most important thing is to Not vote for the Con/Lab/Lib/SNP Uniparty who are leading us in lockstep into ruination, be it on their Covid plandemic (Bird Flu next?), Net Zero, out of control immigration, needless provocation of Russia and assorted very annoying wokeries.
Reform is in a good position to do a reverse mimic of how the minority SNP separatists keep winning in Scotland, because the traditionally tribalist votes for the unionist Con/Lab/Lib parties get split. If enough people vote for an anti-Uniparty candidate in the GE, with Reform now the obvious choice, we could see a major turn-up for the books.
100% correct.
Politicians’ post mortem: “Only 20% voted. Look how apathetic they all are. It’s lucky that we who know better and care more are here to take the sheep where they need to go, before things really go down the pan. Note to selves: it’ll look better next time if we get the behavioural psychs nudging them to vote for us rather than not vote and make us look undemocratic.”
Reviving our democracy is going to be a long road. The first step was BREXIT. We are now at the stage where we can get rid of the globalist Tories. We are at a pivotal time in UK politics.
The next few years are going to be a good time to be in opposition. Labour will be full of themselves for a short while until all their net zero policies, and trying to overturn BREXIT, and culture wars start to hit home with the public. Look to 2029 for real change, but only if we actually vote for it.
Just throwing this out there and I know it might not be popular, but ending public subsidies for political parties just puts them in to the hands of their biggest donors. If we want our politicians to act on behalf of the rich, then allow a system where the rich pay their bills. If we want our politicians to act on our behalf then that funding model does not work.
Well, it’s always worthwhile having a closer look at things, and asking awkward questions, such as “Why does that Not in my Name website have no staff or people listed at all?”
Being a Nosey Parker, I did some searching, and found that this “Not in my Name” appears to be an academic research project from the Nest of Marxists at the London School of Economics, and we are being invited to be guinea pigs for this research project run by LSE Assistant Professor Jonathan Parry and two of his grad students.
Here’s one of Prof. Parry’s many learned articles:
“Sociological Marxism” in central India: Polanyi, Gramsci, and the case of the unions Parry, Jonathan (2009) “Sociological Marxism” in central India: Polanyi, Gramsci, and the case of the unions. In: Hann, Chris and Hart, Keith, (eds.) Market and Society: the Great Transformation Today. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 175-202. ISBN 9780521519656
You can see his photo and a long list of his research publications here, by clicking on the red & white “See More Research” button at the bottom of his home page:
Jonathan Parry (lse.ac.uk)
We in the West haven’t the least clue about the huge number of hardcore Marxists there are among the Indian establishment in India.
And then they come to the West…
Jonathan Parry awarded ERC starting grant for new 5-year research project | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (lse.ac.uk)
Seems that Toby needs to get a grip…
It has engendered debate – and to be fair, that’s what we are here for, isn’t it?
Excellent point!
No, I’m glad he published this, because it may be that the EU are actually interfering in our elections, by this circuitous path, using our own never-ending “contributions” to the EU budget!
Are they panicking about the populist, nationalist uprising in the West, and terrified of their old nemesis Nigel? Enough to trot out this “Don’t Vote Campaign” at precisely the right moment to stop people from voting for his Reform Party?
It’s all very interesting. While people are worrying about the Russians interfering in elections, it seems the EUSSR and “Fond of Lying” von der Ursula are quietly interfering themselves.
It ties in with the strange new Spanish protests against British tourists, instigated by their Leftist government to re-direct the wrath of the Spanish public about Invasion of Third World Scroungers towards poor old Brits having a jolly holiday, paying pots of money for it, helping the Spanish economy, and then going back home.
In Tenerife the blame is on the big Blue Chip Hotels buying up land and pushing up house prices for the locals. I did wonder if this was some sort of PsyOp. France24 was talking about a town in Italy where they have restricted the amount of visitors they can take in. Some US travellers were angry because they were not informed about it and fined. Whatever is going on, restrictions on travel with QR codes etc are being normalised.
It could also be that they are restricting tourists in order to seize the accommodation for the Third World Invaders. Just as in Britain, where owners of hotels are offered much more money by the government to house Fake Refugees than they could ever make from housing tourists.
“Restrictions on travel…”
Manufactured nonsense. We have been to Spain twice this year. There was no animosity and people were as hospitable as ever. Just back from Greece – ditto.
A friend just back from Greece reported exactly the same.
Nobody I know who has been in Europe has reported any issues.
It would appear that Fond of Lying and the rest are attempting to guilt trip us in to putting an end to foreign travel. Not a prayer.
LSE: the Ghost Of Teflon Past. There is something very disturbing about that place.
Yes! I didn’t realise it was founded by the evil Fabian Society:
“The Fabian Society had developed an obsession with economics in the very first months and years of its existence, when its members met regularly to study and discuss Karl Marx and his economic theories. This obsession led to the Fabians’ creation of institutions like the British Economic Association (later Royal Economic Society) and, in particular, the London School of Economics (LSE).
The Fabians’ strange interest was motivated by two things. First, they could use economic theories as a “scientific” backing for their Socialist ideology just as Marx had done before them. Second, through educational institutions teaching Fabian economics, they consciously sought to create whole generations of professional economists — a new ruling class — who, working as civil servants and other government officials, would implement Fabian policies (M. Cole, p. 88).”
“This paved the way for the infiltration and domination of society – for many generations to come – by a system hell-bent on imposing Socialism on the world.”
mhp: The Fabian Society — The Fabian Society and Keynesian Economics (modernhistoryproject.org)
There is also Common Purpose exposed by UK Column many years ago.
Well done for remembering that! Retired Royal Navy Lt. Commander Brian Gerrish has done a great service to humanity by exposing the evil Communist Subversive gang called “Common Purpose”.
“Free, free, LSE
Free it from the bourgeoisie”
Ah, they don’t write them like they used to…
And where’s the proof that this social sciences ‘research project’ is related to the notinmyname.uk domain name?
NB: The answer is not another about how my mother must be black, which she certainly isn’t.
Prove that it isn’t.
And it’s entirely your own fault that people thought one of your parents must be a Third World Ethnic, because you insisted that you are “German, not white”, and complained about “racist” Brits throwing you out of pubs for ogling.
You’ve made a positive assertion. Hence, it’s up to you to prove it.
Just to correct the other errors: I’ve repeatedly stated that white people is a US construct which came into being because of the melting pot USA phenomenon, with immigration from all over Europe in the 19th century. In Europe, we aren’t “white” but German, English, French, Italian, Spanish or Polish which are all very much different things.
I once got thrown out of a pub in Reading (The Monk’s Retreat) because a Polish women (judging from her accent, her English was pretty poor) thought there was something wrong with me walking up and down the room with a pint and minding my own business. What set her off was probably me smiling at her when I noticed that she was looking attentatively in my direction.
I’ve repeatedly pointed out that so-called white privilege helps you jackshit when everybody notices you’re a foreigner the moment you open your mouth. If you seriously believe there are no Brits who don’t like foreigners, maybe come here for a while.
Etymology dictionary “WHITE”:
“Middle English whit, from Old English hwit “bright, radiant; clear, fair,” also as a noun (see separate entry), from Proto-Germanic *hweit- (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian hwit, Old Norse hvitr, Dutch wit, Old High German hwiz, German weiß, Gothic hveits).
As a surname, originally with reference to fair hair or complexion, it is one of the oldest in English, being well-established before the Conquest.
The racial sense “of those races (chiefly European or of European extraction) characterized by light complexion” is recorded from c. 1600.”
“Of those races”, to wit. Even at a coarse-grained level, that’s Celts (eg, from Wales, Ireland or Britanny) Romanic people (French, Italians, Spaniards), Germanic people (Germans, Danes, Swedes) and Slavs (Poles, Croats, Serbs, Russians). More fine-grained, Danes are very much not Germans, just as Croats are certainly no Serbs and Spaniards are certainly not French.
Why list different tribes of the same race? They’re all Ethnic Europeans = White People, unless they have true black hair, like 93% of humanity. Ethnic Europeans can have any hair colour, even very dark brown, but not true black, which is one of the most fundamental characteristics of a Non-European = Non-White. Many Spaniards and other Europeans with true black hair are the result of the Moorish invasions and other miscegenation.
For example, if both parents are blond, they cannot have anything except blond children.
Because they’re not different tribes of the same race. Tribes are a subdivision below the level of peoples. Eg, both Hessians and Bavarians are German tribes (as were Angles and Saxons, for that matter, although they should probably rather be called Germanic tribes as the notion of a German nation didn’t yet exist at that time).
There are only Four World Ethnic Groups (= races): Africans, Orientals, Indian Subcontinentals, and Europeans. All others are subdivisions of these four, regardless of whether you call them tribes, or peoples, or nations, or some other word.
The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, Europeans = White People, comprised 25% of all the people on the planet in the 1950s. Today, we are down to about 7%, falling to 5% within a decade, and total extinction after that.
I don’t know who came up with this schematization and terminology, but I’ll stick to the traditional European one.
It is traditional Anthropology. There is no “European” one. Germans are Ethnic Europeans = White People. Some may have been brainwashed into denying this very obvious fact, by the endless Guilt Trip forced upon all German (& Japanese) people after WW2, but it’s time for them to cast off that yoke. They were horrifically punished after that war, and their descendants continue to be unjustly blamed for the sins of their forefathers. No one on the planet can be held responsible for the sins of their ancestors, regardless of what some Middle Eastern religious cults say, and “reparations” for ancestral sins are a total scam.
Here endeth the lesson.
I have no idea about traditional Anthropology (and don’t plan to change that) but there used to be a notion of grouping people which made Conan-Doyle write about the excitable celtic temper of female domestic servant in The Musgrave Ritual, which had the author of Die Tragödie von Verdun, 2. Teil (The Tragedy of Verdun, prt 2) state that members of all German tribes had fought, sufferend, perished and ultimatively, conquered on the mountain of Vaux (on whose crest Fort Vaux sat) in 1916 and which posits that I’m neiter English nor Polish although more closely related to the former than the latter. I reject being put into some wastepeople bin labelled White Unmenschen and be held responsible for each and every act of English foreign policy someone disagreed with since the disovery of the Americas.
NB: This is not a statement of opinion about these acts of English foreign policy, just the assertion that nobody from my people/ tribe/ nation/ younameit was ever actively involved with these.
Bloody stupid. The way to force change is to vote anything but Blue and Red for heavens sakes. The average “win” is 27% of the electorate. Vote anything you like and, when that share hits 15%? Hardly needs a genius to work it out does it?
Now, the reason not voting is useless is because that non-vote is meaningless. It’s long been the nutter resort. It is simply not part of the statistics. Take away 99% of the electorate and the winning party still gets 27% of the votes cast.
Did the idiot who came up with this write Labour’s manifesto by any chance?
You want to hurt them? Vote against them!
Finally a political campaign that I feel represents me.
I’ve always voted but now it’s appalling that Lib/Lab/Con are all a dire waste of space. It’ll be Reform for me but they haven’t a snowball’s chance in my area. Fully Lib Dem now, ugh.
“…the establishment of a Royal Commission to devise a new, more democratic system.”
Democracy is binary, either you have it or you don’t. It’s like pregnancy, nobody can be more or less pregnant.
Democracy would mean getting rid of voting which concentrates power rather than the fundamental principle of demos kratos to distribute power equally across the population so nobody has more power than another to avoid the sort of tyranny we now have.
It would also mean abolition of taxation to be used to redistribute wealth, with a small flat tax on land/property and point of sales, to fund public goods like military.
All else, so called public serves, paid direct by consumers in a competitive private market.
Good luck with any of that.
I agree not voting to deny legitimacy, but the demos has its collective nose planted firmly in the public treasury trough, and won’t give up lots of free stuff paid for by others.
Yes, these are philosophical airy fairy ideas though. It would be true that if you got enough people to stop buying bread and milk the price would come down. But it is virtually impossible to get everyone in your own street to agree on anything, never mind the whole country.
How is it “airy fairy”? We only need to start something. Once started it’ll gain mass, and once it gains critical mass it’ll kick off a chain of events that will see all the dominos fall.
And people need bread and milk almost daily, we don’t need to be allowed to pretend we’re in charge for a day once every four years.
What have you got to lose by not playing their game this year? I mean, seriously?
I like the idea and the proposal make an interesting read but it’s seriously half-baked.
The prime minister of the UK is position which came into being because one of the Hannover-kings stopped attending cabinett meetings, presumably, because he didn’t understand most of what was happening there because his English was too bad. In principle, a prime minister is appointed by the monarch as he sees fit. In practice, the monarch will appoint someone who can probably command a majority in the House of Commons because he’s the leader of the party which won a majority or at least someone who engineered a coalition agreement.
Ministers are appointed by the monarch on ‘advice’ of the prime minister. This is called advice for polite protocol reason because this ‘advice’ is really an order given to the monarch by the prime minister (the same is true for all other kinds of ministerial ‘advice’ — it’s always orders the monarch is obliged to fulfill).
With the Workers Party Of Britain deciding not to field a candidate in my constituency I cannot vote for any of Tory, Labour, LibDems, Greens, Reform or English Democrats due to their policies.
I recognise the sacrifice previous generations made with their lives so we could vote so I will be writing “NONE OF THE ABOVE” on the voting paper.
which will be indistinguishable from the number of voting papers marked by people too stupid to understand that you’re only allowed to vote for one candidate.
So you and the “Workers Party of Britain” care NOTHING about Britain or Indigenous British Workers, or any issue directly affecting them in their Ancestral Homeland of the British Isles, where you live.
You and the “Workers Party of Britain” only care about ONE ISSUE, a Foreign War thousands of miles away that has nothing whatsoever to do with our UK elections, and nothing to do with making life better for Indigenous British Workers.
You and the “Workers Party of Britain” need to GO THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY to that Foreign War you care so much about, and let the Indigenous British Workers of Great Britain set up their own NEW PARTY without you or that treasonous clown with his 3 successive Muslim wives, and call it The Indigenous British Workers Party.
Now dust off your passport, put on your Islamic pajamas, don’t forget your tea-towel headgear, and off you go. Don’t forget to take all your friends who hate Britain with you.
Bye, bye! Have a nice trip, and send us a picture postcard of you fighting on the frontline in whichever Foreign War you choose.
The spittle flecked, purple faced gammon has blown a gasket.
Since your use of that Anti-White Racist skin colour word “Gammon” is precisely the same as other people using Racist words to describe various skin colour in Third World Ethnics, neither they nor you should be vilified or prosecuted or driven out of their jobs for using those words.
Upon further consideration, the Indigenous British Workers of Great Britain don’t need their own political party, because they have their own Unions to defend their interests and their human rights at work.
If they want to vote for a political party that will actually make their lives better, they can VOTE REFORM.
Reading the comments is depressing. Everyone so excited about putting on their Boss suit for the day. And so many unable to grasp the all-important difference between not voting and the system choices provided. If 90% of supposed sceptics can’t work out the difference, and are instead excitedly getting ready to be taken up the rear again, then we deserve everything we get.
The ‘social contract’ between Parliament and people has already been broken. It was broken on 23rd March 2020. Ex-QC Lord Jonathan Sumption QC described the stay at home control orders to be the greatest intrusion into the lives of the British people for 300 years, war times included. To believe that the government would now pay attention to the electorate is naive in the extreme.
It has made more people aware of just how shallow politics has been.
Unfortunately there is not an Independent candidate running in my Central Bedfordshire constituency so I will probably either spoil my ballot paper or not vote. I really can’t bring myself to vote for the riff raff presented to us. As I’ve said before a plague on all their houses.
Dream on.
Back in the real world VOTE REFORM
Sounds thoroughly irresponsible to me. By all means encourage voters to spoil their ballot papers if you want. But don’t discourage voting.
What he really wants is vote for an independent candidate, ie, someone that’s actually from the constituency, or don’t vote if there isn’t one. There are three basic choices here:
If the system politicians would be believe in their own BS, they really ought to care about 2) or 3) but that’s the catch: They really ought to. There’s little reason to assume they actually do, cf London mayor election with turnout less than majority of the electorate. Khant democratially elected nevertheless.
A fourth choice would be hope that they’ll overdo it to the degree that hunger revolts break out, like the moron from Singapore did. But banking on one’s opponents being criminally stupid is a risky strategy. Plus, a violent muslim takeover of London might not be that desirable, either.
Spoilt ballot paper is the way. A couple of hundred spoilt papers implies a few who don’t understand the process; several thousand in each constituency sends the message. Whether it will be listened to is another matter.