- “Starmer squirms as Question Time audience smirks and exposes his waffle” – The Conservatives believe Labour’s Achilles’ heel is tax, but for the public it seems that Keir Starmer’s vulnerability lies in his lack of truthfulness, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak looked like a man who was running the country – until he wobbled” – Rishi was strong on the gambling allegations but spluttered his way through the National Service issue during the Question Time debate, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak says plan ‘making a difference’ in Question Time election show” – Rishi Sunak vowed to kick out any Tories found to have broken rules over betting on the election date during a Question Time grilling, reports the Mail.
- “Tory ministers fear defeat beyond their ‘wildest nightmares’” – Senior ministers have said that polls showing the Conservative Party on course for its worst election result in a century are beyond “people’s wildest nightmares”, says the Times.
- “Farage predicts Tory wipeout will be even worse than polls suggest” – Nigel Farage claims that a Conservative wipeout at the General Election could be even worse than the polls suggests, reports the Telegraph.
- “Winston Churchill’s great nephew backs Reform” – The Duke of Marlborough hails his “friend” Nigel Farage as the only person who can stop the U.K. from being dragged into war, says the Telegraph.
- “Conservative campaigning director takes ‘leave of absence’ amid election gambling probe” – The Conservative Director of Campaigning has taken a “leave of absence” while he is investigated over an alleged bet on the date of the election, reports the Standard.
- “Huge spike in bets on day before Sunak announced election” – An unusual burst of bets on a July poll preceded Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the General Election, according to an analysis by the FT.
- “The truth is out: Labour will tax Britain to destruction” – Starmer could hardly have made it clearer: his party plans to target the productive to bribe dependent voters to stick with Labour, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “How Keir Starmer plans to rule through the courts” – The real theme of a Keir Starmer government will be the eclipse of elected politicians and the continued draining away of power to the courts, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “James Cleverly ‘lacks appetite’ for Conservative Party leadership contest” – James Cleverly is not planning to stand in the Tory leadership race, as the field of candidates to replace Rishi Sunak begins to narrow, reports the Times.
- “Labour’s Islington North Chairman who ‘hid in bush when spotted campaigning for Corbyn’ quits” – A senior Labour figure has been forced to resign after hiding behind a hedge when caught campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North, says the Express.
- “Budget rules mean private schools VAT raid won’t start before September 2025, Labour insiders claim” – Labour’s private school tax raid would not kick in until September 2025 at the earliest, party insiders have insisted after Rachel Reeves said it would be in her first Budget, according to the Telegraph.
- “Vote Priti, get Boris? The Tories in defeat are dreaming of better times” – Conservative candidates are grasping at stratagems for post-election revival, but even these are flaky, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Tory voters want to punish their party – and themselves” – Tory voters are set to elect an extreme Left-wing government to punish the current one for being too Left-wing, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Whoever you vote for, the Blob wins” – MPs are little more than human shields whose job is to take the blame for decisions made by bureaucrats, says Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
- “Social Democratic Party candidate Rod Liddle admits ‘deal’ with Reform” – On the latest Planet Normal podcast, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson ask the SDP’s candidate for Middlesbrough Rod Liddle about his hopes for the election.
- “Eminem hit back in top 40 as Nigel Farage adopts it as election anthem” – Eminem’s ‘Without Me’ has made a reappearance in the U.K.’s top 40 more than 20 years after it was first released – after Nigel Farage made it his election theme tune, reports the Mail.
- “BBC’s Emma Barnett calls armed terrorists ‘men working for Hamas’” – BBC Radio 4 star Emma Barnett has sparked a backlash after calling a pair of armed terrorists who kidnapped an Israeli grandmother “men working for Hamas”, according to the Mail.
- “Lockdown sank both Trudeau and Sunak” – For both Sunak and Trudeau, the evaporation began after the pandemic lockdowns, writes Michael Coren in the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer CEO says there will be another holocaust if we don’t ‘follow the science’, compares Pfizer and elite establishment to the Jews” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett reacts to Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla comparing the spread of COVID-19 disinformation to Nazi propaganda.
- “Covid fines were ‘bonkers’ and slate should be wiped clean, says David Davis” – Conservative MP Sir David Davies says that Covid fines were “bonkers” and that the slate should be wiped clean for people who were landed with criminal convictions as a result, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown rule-breakers don’t deserve to be treated like criminals” – Of course there must be an amnesty for those convicted of breaking lockdown rules, says Isabelle Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “A&E waits causing ‘plane-load of deaths every week’” – Senior doctors say that long A&E waits are causing a “plane-load” of deaths each week, according to the Express & Star.
- “‘No bulls–t’ and Thatcherite thinking: the unstoppable rise of Kemi Badenoch” – The Business and Trade Secretary could be the next leader of the Conservatives – but can she unite a divided party? asks Mick Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Democracy in decay: Parliament’s Legion of the Damned” – In TCW, Andrew Cadman asks us to have faith and build a new democratic golden age for the future.
- “Russian hackers demand £40 million ransom from NHS” – Russian hackers who targeted NHS hospitals have demanded a £40 million ransom, reports the Telegraph.
- “Don’t outlaw ‘Islamophobia’” – If you look into the forces demanding that Britain outlaws Islamophobia, you find the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, writes Ed Husain in the Spectator.
- “Zelensky’s peace summit flop” – If Zelensky’s summit demonstrated anything, it’s that international support for a forever war is waning and the time for ugly compromise is beginning, says Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “U.K. and U.S. at loggerheads over Ukraine joining Nato” – The United States and Germany have derailed a European plan to grant Ukraine an “irreversible” path to Nato membership, reports the Telegraph.
- “British cows could be replaced with ‘double-muscled’ European breed to cut emissions” – A foreign cow breed known as the XL Bully, renowned for its muscular physique, could replace U.K. breeds under secret new plans, says the Express.
- “‘I’ll close the gender pay gap – once and for all’” – Rachel Reeves says that she will “close the gender pay gap once and for all” if she becomes Britain’s first female chancellor, according to the Telegraph. She’ll have to find it first.
- “The hidden perils of equity” – The stark divide between genuine inequality and that which the grievance industry claims to be fighting, is now at comedic proportions, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Racism is an incoherent, stupid and dangerous concept” – The reason that racism is in such high demand and such low supply is that it is a fake concept, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “We’re all Soviets now” – A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar? asks Niall Ferguson in the Free Press.
- “Free speech doesn’t just need defending in NZ” – New Zealand’s Free Speech Union invites everyone who can attend to see Toby Young, founder and Director of FSU U.K., currently on tour down under. Join them at an event near you.
Free speech doesn’t just need defending in NZ. There are Free Speech Unions around the world & we’re privileged to have @toadmeister, the founder & director of @SpeechUnion UK touring with us at the moment. Join us at an event near you https://t.co/sxcxMs1x1F pic.twitter.com/2sdmL169IO
—Free Speech Union
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https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/dodgy-chief-constable-nick-adderley-stays-away-from-gross-misconduct-hearing-summing-up-in-northampton-4673622
This is the Chief Constable who, during covid said his force was “only a few days away” from “marshalling supermarkets and checking the items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it’s a legitimate, necessary item”.
This is the calibre of Northamptonshire’s most senior policeman:
‘The defence crashes at the first hurdle. This false legend is in his own document signed by Mr Adderley. It’s completely untrue. The document he signed is completely untrue.’
‘He described himself as a leader, no longer content with the lie of (Royal Navy) Lieutenant, he described himself as a ‘Commander’. He never saw active service. He repeats these deceits.’
‘The panel was told the medal that Mr Adderley had started to wear in 2009 on his dress uniform he claimed belonged to his brother Rick.’
‘Rick Adderley had only applied for the South Atlantic Medal 10 days after his brother had received an official notice into the investigation by the IOPC in 2023.’
‘Mr Adderley continues to receive his full salary – £176,550 a year – while he is suspended from his job as Northamptonshire’s top cop.
The Chief Constable has been been directed to attend the hearing tomorrow but it is thought he will be ‘unlikely’ to attend in person.’
Outcome:
‘A three-person panel, chaired by Callum Cowx, who served in the Royal Navy, the Army and the police, has now upheld all the allegations against him after a five-day hearing.
They found “his audacity to be quite staggering”, adding that he had lied over many years with “arrogant temerity”.
Mr Adderley was dismissed without notice and placed on the police barred list.’
Sky News 1055hrs 21 June 2024
And the recruitment arrangements at the Constabulary were clearly ineffective. Does the Home Office (MI5) not vet such people?
We’re all Soviets now
An interesting take on today’s U.S.A. which is also a look in the mirror for (socialist fascist) contemporary Britain.
‘How about a massive disaster that lays bare the utter incompetence and mendacity that pervades every level of government? For Chernobyl, read Covid.’
‘In a letter to Komsomolskaya Pravda from 1990, for example, a reader decried the “ghastly and tragic. . . loss of morality by a huge number of people living within the borders of the USSR.” Symptoms of moral debility included apathy and hypocrisy, cynicism, servility, and snitching. By July 1988, 44 percent of people polled by Moskovskie novosti felt that theirs was an “unjust society.”
‘“It also emphasizes treatment by pharmacology, providing innumerable drugs for anxiety, depression, anger, psychosis, and obesity, plus new drugs to treat addictions to the old drugs.”
‘the nomenklatura (i.e., the elite members) of the Party had rapidly formed a new class with its own often hereditary privileges, consigning the workers and peasants to poverty and servitude’
‘policies to promote “diversity, equity, and inclusion” do nothing to help poor minorities. Instead, the sole beneficiaries appear to be a horde of apparatchik DEI “officers.”
‘Asked if they would favor “rationing of gas, meat, and electricity” to fight climate change, 89 percent of Ivy Leaguers said yes, as against 28 percent of regular people.’
‘….we also need to contemplate the possibility that we have done this to ourselves—just as the Soviets did many of the same things to themselves. It was a common liberal worry during the Cold War that we might end up becoming as ruthless, secretive, and unaccountable as the Soviets because of the exigencies of the nuclear arms race. Little did anyone suspect that we would end up becoming as degenerate as the Soviets’
We are comprehensively fecked.
Zelensky’s peace summit flop
It was a bit, wasn’t it since here we are 28 months later and Moscow still occupies 16% of Ukrainian territory within borders that both Britain and the U.S.A. (and Russia) assured Ukraine.
Nevertheless that is less than Russia held in June 2022 (24%) so why would Ukraine have any interest in peace now, particularly after signing a ten year defence agreement with the U.S.?
‘“A lasting peace for Ukraine must be underwritten by Ukraine’s own ability to defend itself now, and to deter future aggression anytime in the future,” the president continued, adding that the U.S. is going to help ensure Ukraine can do both.
Per the agreement, the U.S. and Ukraine will spend the next 10 years building and maintaining Ukraine’s credible defense and deterrence capability; strengthening Ukraine’s capacity to sustain its fight over the long term; accelerating Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration; and consulting in the event of a future Russian armed attack against Ukraine.’
First of all Ukraine will need to institute a major repopulation program as those men who didn’t manage to escape their country are being decimated and maimed.
Those millions of Ukrainian women who are settling across Europe will need to be enticed back.
The energy infrastructure will need to be totally reconstructed before the country can rebuild its industrial base.
And don’t forget the 16% that is Russian territory again is the most valuable land in terms of natural resources and compromises much of Ukraine’s industrial base, is growing by the day. Large swathes of what is left is being bought up by Western opportunists.
It is also expected that the country will default on its international debts when they become due next month.
If only they had gone along with the settlement that was on the table 2 years ago, and even better if they had not succumbed to the political interference from USA in 2014, prior to which they were a true, if imperfect, democracy rather than the US designed dictatorship that they are today.
correction – comprises not compromises.
P.S. In a war between two parts of the old USSR, endurance levels are the same. Inhabitants of the USSR are all used to a much harder life, bereft of many of the trappings of civilisation that Western citizens take for granted.
That is why Ukraine adopts a similarly hard negotiating position to that of Putin; both sides miles apart in expectation.
Ukraine also sees the long term as working in its favour.
‘They are better fighters. They are more technologically adept. They have plans in hand to use their technological capabilities in a far more sophisticated way. They are continuing to make gains, they are not just accepting a line of control, and they are continuing to push……..they’ve started not only rebuilding, but they’ve started mass manufacturing, and have arrangements now with Western Arms suppliers to start producing inside Ukraine. And I think this is probably going to be the secret: Who can outproduce themselves fastest? And we know from the history of Ukraine’s military industrial complex that once they get geared up, they will be unstoppable.’
Professor Peter Roberts, Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
05 Jan 2024
RUSI always presents a biased view of the conflict. If he thinks Ukraine is adopting a negotiating position then he knows nothing about negotiating. Bluffing from a losing hand might be a strategy in a card game but betting your country from a position of demonstrated weakness is a mugs game.
But why have Ukraine and Russia continued fighting for so long, tearing each other to pieces? Why can’t they get to a peace deal and end the slaughter?
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is like a poker player gambling all his chips on a win. He is counting on the West failing to supply Ukraine with the sufficient means to defend itself.
Since the U.S. (and China) strategy is simply to weaken Russia, that is a one way bet…..in the wrong direction, as Putin may, by now, be aware.
The future direction of the conflict, following the recent ten year agreement between Ukraine and the U.S.A. is now somewhat more apparent:
The United States cannot determine the outcome of the war on its own; its decisions will never have the same impact as those of the two combatants.
But Washington does have policy options to try to affect the trajectory of the conflict.
A longer war could significantly undermine Ukraine’s postwar recovery, involving a great deal more expense in terms of post war reconstruction.
So, with U.S. backing, the Ukrainian President’s clear aim at the recent peace conference in Switzerland is to accelerate the pace of the war as large scale international support and domestic materiel production ramps up.
The United States has instruments to increase the likelihood that any peace endures and that is now its intention. This ‘porcupine’ strategy for Ukraine mirrors the approach to defence of Switzerland; too strong to be attacked, not strong enough in offensive weaponry to attack.
The war has weakened Russia and shown that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization still has a strong deterrent in being against any threat of a Russian attack on alliance members.
Forward defence in the form of defensively powerful Ukrainian armed forces backed by a redoubtable Ukrainian domestic defence industry may very well be Western Europe’s expensively funded answer to the threat of Russian imperialist adventurism.
The USA is the biggest obstacle to peace. It has never been about Ukrainian freedom let alone self determination and equality for all Ukraine’s population, it has been about destroying Russia as a potential military and commercial opponent. This has been clearly stated by numerous people both inside and outside Biden’s administration,
Your characterisation of the desire for peace amongst the two sides is the polar opposite of what has actually happened. Zelensky, whilst he was still the legitimate president, enacted a prohibition on himself and Ukraine negotiating any peace terms with Russia., whilst Putin actually offered a starting point for peace negotiations only a week ago. These were rejected out of hand by pretty much the entire West, much to the dismay of large parts of the rest of the world.
U.K. and U.S. at loggerheads over Ukraine joining Nato
The U.S. is correct. This also applies to Georgia.
‘If Ukraine and Georgia were to join NATO, the alliance would have to ready itself for an adequate assurance of its new members and an unprecedented conventional deterrence of Russia.
Defending a country the size of Ukraine or as remote as Georgia puts in doubt NATO’s ability to deploy the substantial in-theater and backup forces and equipment this would require.
It also puts in doubt America’s willingness to greatly enhance its existing deterrence initiative and not least carry the financial burden. NATO has a hard enough time showing a credible defense its current members in Eastern Europe. Extending a security commitment to Ukraine and Georgia would extend NATO requirements beyond any degree of realism.
Moreover, combat troops are neither trained nor structured to assist with the gray zone operations below the threshold of collective defense that Russia may be tempted to test again in eastern Ukraine, similar to the situation in 2014. In sum, the fact that NATO seems unable to make its security commitments credible in Ukraine and Georgia would expose enlargement as a gigantic bluff that would kill NATO’s credibility as a defense alliance in any theater.’
Henrik B. L. Larsen 08 June 2021
Nevertheless, what NATO Secretary General Mr Stoltenberg, actually said was:
‘Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. Ukraine will become a member of NATO. The work we are undertaking now puts you on an irreversible path towards NATO membership, so that when the time is right, Ukraine can become a NATO member’
Without significant internal reform, which requires an extended period of peaceful and enlightened democratic rule, and secure, stable borders, the time will not ‘be right’ and none of that is going to happen outside a fifty year window, in my view.
I am sure Trump will clarify the position later in the year.
In my opinion, NATO was never anything other than a tax-free comfortable armchair for retiring generals, except when USA wanted an ‘international partner’ to assist in its destructive sorties in various countries around the world.
NATO (“committed to the peaceful resolution of disputes”) has now been blessed with an uptake in members, before which its justification as a relic of WWII could/should have been called into question, especially since the fall of USSR. However, many countries simply view NATO as a cheap alternative to financing national military forces.
Now NATO wants to massively expand despite, or because of, its total failure alongside USA in the proxy war against Russia.
I am so tired of hearing how Russia is my enemy when Russia has clearly demonstrated that it has neither any desire nor any intention to attack European countries, despite the ongoing provocation from all our ruling politicians.
Ukraine had the choice to remain neutral and quite simply not to apply for NATO membership. Just what is so wrong about remaining a neutral country? And Zelensky promised peace, which was why he was elected President. Now he is no longer a legitimate president and continues as a dictator, even recently banning another Ukrainian political party.
And, no, Putin is not a dictator but a politician who achieved 87.8% of the votes of the 74.2% of Russians who voted in the recent presidential election (according to Reuters). A British politician would be ecstatic with such popular support!
European populations are slowly turning against their politicians, primarily because of immigration problems. Another reason should be to stop the ridiculous and nonsensical militarization of our countries.
Documentary evidence from inside the Kremlin makes plain the plan for Putin and Russia’s imperial expansion.
Moscow’s own business school states that Russia perceives itself as an empire.
NATO has been responsible for ‘The Long Peace’ in Europe, 1945-2014.
‘The Long Peace’ has been responsible for unparalleled global prosperity.
NATO cannot unilaterally ‘expand’. Countries can, however, apply to join.
As demonstrated recently by Sweden and now by Ukraine and Georgia, this is by no means an easy process.
The 1995 NATO study on NATO enlargement, updated 2008 makes it clear that:
‘States which have ethnic disputes or external territorial disputes, including irredentist (historical) claims, or internal jurisdictional disputes must settle those disputes by peaceful means in accordance with OSCE principles.
Resolution of such disputes would be a factor in determining whether to invite a state to join the Alliance.’
OSCE principles include the right for nations to decide their own security arrangements.
As a consequence of the Long Peace, Europe is, effectively, demilitarised. No Western European nation is capable of deploying a fully formed armoured division.
The idea that Putin’s election or, indeed, his rule is democratic is just plain dotty:
‘Previously, we published an estimate of fraud at 31.6 million, which is based on the method of physicist and election statistics expert Sergei Shpilkin. But this year’s elections are so “dirty” that standard methods of analyzing fraud work with reservations.’
‘Anomalies in the data indicate that the desired result and turnout, “let down” by the presidential administration, could have been drawn from “scratch” by 6.7% of PECs in the country (5,900 commissions). Massive evidence of this appeared in the media throughout all three days: for example, on the first day of voting, all 136 polling stations in Stary Oskol in the Belgorod region reported the same turnout of 47% (the deviation from the even 47% on the GAS “Vybory” website was no more than half the percentage point); the same thing happened in one of the districts of the Tula region, where the same turnout was in 16 out of 21 polling stations.’
Novaya Gazeta 19 March 2024
Oh not that old saw again. Quote the official documents themselves not what a dissident news outlet with a known bias against Russia says they said.
Addendum:
‘The falsification scheme is as follows: after the initial count, the observer from the public chamber receives a call from a certain Elena Viktorovna from the TEC (Airport District Administration), the OP observer initiates a recount of votes, after which some of them go to Putin. At polling station 205, the OP observer refused to conduct a recount, so a real circus and absolutely blatant falsification began.’
‘At polling station No. 2185 in Zyuzino, when announcing the data of the final copy of the protocol, the chairman announced figures that did not coincide with the results of the count. This is reported on the “Map of Violations” website. In the complaint, observers note that as a result of the commission’s actions, candidate Davankov had 100 fewer votes, and candidate Putin had 200 more.’
During these elections, activists from Nadezhdin’s headquarters decided to interview people at the exits of polling stations due to restrictions on access to observation; exit poll workers were detained regularly. In Barnaul, activist Vladimir Titarenko was taken from the polling station for lack of registration. Detentions of former coordinators and employees of Nadezhdin’s headquarters were also carried out in the Chelyabinsk and Leningrad regions, Bashkortostan and Udmurtia.
In Kazan, the coordinator of the headquarters was attacked by observers from the Public Chamber, and in Vladivostok, on March 13, on the eve of the elections, three people were detained, among whom was the coordinator of the local headquarters, Igor Krasnov, who was brought to justice for “propaganda of an extremist movement.”
In the Primorsky Territory, at polling station No. 1945, one of the members of the election commission was counting the voter turnout, and revealed a discrepancy between the number of voters who voted and the number of ballots that the commission issued, with a difference of 100 pieces.
During the counting of votes, 39 ballots were found in the ballot box without the seal of the election commission. Such ballots must be recognized as ballots of an unspecified form; they should not be taken into account when summing up the results according to the provisions of the law. But the commission members decided by a majority vote to recognize these votes as valid.
60% for Davankov and only 16% for Putin – such a protocol was published by the Central Election Commission from a polling station in Prague.
St Petersburg:
The victim Olesya Vasilchenko is a member of PEC No. 427 of the Kalininsky district. As “Observers of St. Petersburg” report on their Telegram channel, members of TEC No. 38 were present at the polling station during the vote counting procedure. They demanded that Vasilchenko come out with them “to talk” right during the count. When she refused, members of TEC No. 38 grabbed her by the arms, threw her to the floor, beat her and dragged her along the corridor. Having escaped, Vasilchenko ran out into the street and remained there without outer clothing until the security guard took her clothes out. It is specified that the victim was hospitalized.
Journalist Elina Kozich was forcibly removed from the station where Olesya Vasilchenko was beaten. She came to the station after learning about the pressure on Vasilchenko. Kozich recorded violations, including the commission’s refusal to accept Olesya Vasilchenko’s application for a copy of the final voting protocol. At that moment, a member of PEC No. 427 began to take the journalist’s phone and try to stop the recording.
And so on and so forth.
Having watched videos of how the referendums were organized and carried out in the areas of Ukraine annexed by Russia (e.g. https://odysee.com/@ma.taliano:5/Excellent-report:4), I cannot believe that the Russian presidential election was in any way inferior in carefully checking voter identity, enabling secure and private voting, and carefully and honestly counting individual votes.
According to tass.com (oh dear, a Russian source), 295 polling stations opened abroad for the Russian presidential election in 144 countries and 275,249 of 383,553 voters voted for Putin. New People party candidate Vladislav Davankov was the runner-up with 63,388 votes, followed by Communist Party candidate Nikolay Kharitonov (8,445 votes) and LDPR candidate Leonid Slutsky (7,495 votes). The remaining 26,147 ballots were deemed invalid.
In Russia itself, voter turnout was 77.49% and Putin ended up with 87.28% of the votes. Kharitonov, Davankov and Slutsky achieved 4.31%, 3.85% and 3.20% of the votes, respectively.
I did see a video of some activist pouring paint into a ballot box somewhere before being arrested. I have no idea what that person was trying to achieve but I do not believe for a moment that there was mass fraud being carried out over the how many hundred polling stations in Russia and abroad?
Had that been the case, or had there been any such indication, the western press would have jumped at the opportunity to slam Putin and Russia, and there would have been never ending reports in the western mainstream media.
Believe what you will but the idea that Putin was fairly elected is quite simply batsh*t crazy.
‘As many as half of all the votes reported for Vladimir Putin in Russia’s presidential election last week were fraudulent, according to Russian independent media reports using a statistical method devised by analyst Sergey Shpilkin to estimate the extent of voter manipulation.’
France24
Russian Proxies in Ukraine Push Moscow to Annex Occupied Regions
The requests from the Russian proxies followed sham referendums that ended on Tuesday in four regions in Ukraine and that, to no one’s surprise, purported to put voters’ stamp of approval on joining Russia. Many of the ballots were cast at the point of a gun, witnesses said.
One resident of the town of Berislav, in the Kherson region, scoffed at the notion of wanting to join Russia.
“When they first came to our town, they beat me up and took both of my cars,” the man, Pavlo, said of Russian soldiers. “And now they threatened that if I don’t vote they will evict me and my family from our apartment.”
Because of the threats, said Pavlo — who insisted that his surname not be made public for fear of retaliation — he voted in support of joining Russia.’
Anecdotes have never had the status of evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51WwMAK7j0
Actually the result was France 0 (Netherlands 0)
Eva Bartlett is a Canadian blogger and independent journalist. She contributes op-eds on the Russian state-controlled channel Russia Today’s website. She lives in Russia currently.
Bartlett spread disinformation on Syria and appeared on a Syrian government panel at the UN, alleging that the White Helmets staged rescues using “recycled” children in its videos.
Currently, she promotes pro-Russian content about the conflict in Ukraine.
She is indeed Canadian and reports from war zones, such as Donetsk and Palestine. You can watch her videos here and judge for yourself what sort of person she is: https://odysee.com/$/search?q=eva%20bartlett.
She is on the Ukrainian Myrotvorets hit list (https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/bartlett-eva-karen/). Should she currently be living in Russia, then it will be because she feels safer in Russia than in her home country under Trudeau’s government.
Never Forget…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St05nTLAnyg&list=WL&index=4&t=10s By Dr. Suneel Dhand. Just over 9 minutes.
It would be good if you provided a snippet or a clue about the content of the video … just my opinion.
“‘No bulls–t’ and Thatcherite thinking: the unstoppable rise of Kemi Badenoch”
The Reform party might have all the froth of a crazy fun fair ride but it does address some sacred cows the nobody in the Conservative Party seems prepared to mention. I would list these as;
They may not be totally realistic or deliverable but on face value they are appealing. Unless a future ‘reformed’ conservative party has some radical ideas on these sort of topics what would be its ‘raison d’etre’?
Most specific policies are “deliverable” – what varies is the financial and political cost. So protecting our borders significantly more than we do now, or much lower immigration, is surely deliverable – just depends how badly we want those things. What is not deliverable is stuff like “we’ll make everyone richer” – you can certainly make policies you think will help this, but it’s hard to guarantee it. Interestingly most policies by most major parties seem more or less guaranteed to make most people poorer.
https://youtu.be/7qI0xQSn8Y0?si=4CpsHjKG_z8JFHqt
For those who haven’t seen this delightful 10 second clip here is the treasonous Kneel pining for Davos.
So he is running for a seat in Westminster just so that he can be a leader and attend the Davos conspiracy against democracy. It must fill everyone with confidence for the future.
Starmer was named after Kier Hardie; he must be turning in his grave to see how his namesake views giving a voice to the working man.
Of course, coming up with your own definition of a working man helps.
Is that real?
Is there a link to the full interview?
It is real and was posted by the ‘Together’ organisation.
https://togetherdeclaration.org/
Led by Alan Miller.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2024/06/20/call-for-action-as-patients-coming-to-harm-in-aes/
The Davos Deviants must be delighted with this news. A dysfunctional NHS killing patients through neglect.
Oh dear, the Mail article on Eminem’s hit and Farage no longer exists. I wonder why? It was “Without You” if you are any the wiser – no, me neither.
The article is still there.
You are right. I am able to see it again, despite making multiple attempts at the time of my comment.
Seems to be back now. Sorry to have wasted your time.
—“‘No bulls–t’ and Thatcherite thinking: the unstoppable rise of Kemi Badenoch”
Nauseating article by Mick Brown, kneeling to lick the boots of the Globalist Manchurian Candidate, Nigerian Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke
—“A&E waits causing ‘plane-load of deaths every week’”
Meanwhile, Third World Health Tourists continue to arrive every week, like the 9-months-pregnant African women who land at Heathrow and go straight to the nearest London hospital to give birth, without even unpacking their suitcases.
—“Winston Churchill’s great nephew backs Reform” – “The Duke of Marlborough hails his “friend” Nigel Farage as the only person who can stop the U.K. from being dragged into war.”
That is good news. Great photo of him boldly wearing a Reform badge at Ascot. I hope more will join him.
— And here’s more good news: our Fearless Leader is on tour Down Under, rallying our Kiwi cousins…
“Free speech doesn’t just need defending in NZ” – “New Zealand’s Free Speech Union invites everyone who can attend to see Toby Young, founder and Director of FSU U.K.”
“Tory ministers fear defeat beyond their ‘wildest nightmares’”
Not to worry, because Hindus will come to the rescue of their Hindu leader Sunak, who swore his Parliamentary oath of office on the Bagdavad Gita:
Tory candidates sign ‘Hindu manifesto’ immigration pledge despite border stances (msn.com)
“Tory candidates Bob Blackman, Theresa Villiers, Laura Farris and Ameet Jogia have all have signed a ‘Hindu Manifesto’ that campaigns for looser immigration rules for elderly Hindus and religious workers, GB News can reveal. ”
“The Hindu Manifesto also calls for those who commit “microaggressions” against Hindus to specific prosecution as “anti-Hindu hate (Hinduphobia).”
“MPs are asked to consult Hindu organisations before legislating on issues concerning UK Hindus. The manifesto advocates for a memorial for Hindu soldiers who served the UK and demands that more crematoriums are built and for the coroner’s process to be sped up to allow Hindu cremations to take place within three days of death.”
“It also calls for it to be made mandatory that Hinduism is taught at GCSE level, for a greater number of language schools teaching Indic languages, and calls on candidates to champion the funding of more state-funded Hindu faith schools.”
“The manifesto recommends Hindu chaplains are appointed in all prisons, hospitals and schools and for articles of Hindu faith, including Hindu deities, to be made available in prayer rooms in these places.”
[Note: Hinduism contains thousands of deities, and Hindus can choose which ones they want to worship. Hard to fit them all into a prayer room…]
Another good Suneel Dhand product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVszhB_9W78&list=WL&index=2 Although he’s across the pond, his view seems to be equally valid here.