Remember those headlines saying the UK had the highest number of Covid deaths in the world? Back in January, Sky News reported the UK’s daily Covid death toll was the highest in the world. Some news services went further, saying the UK had the highest number of Covid deaths per capita in the world. But new data published by Statista shows that, in fact, the UK’s deaths-per-million are the sixth-highest in the world.
Some small crumbs of comfort there for the Government.
Worth reading in full.
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My Father used to tell me life success is about who you know, rather than what you know.
It will take a great deal more money than that!
Britain may be a socialist fascist country but it is, even so, not ready to elect someone who ‘admires Putin for the way in which he has taken control of Russia’
Putin has taken control of Russia by means of imprisoning and murdering journalists, political opponents at home and abroad even by means of radiological and chemical agents.
In so doing, Putin’s assassins have killed a British citizen on British soil.
Not only is that not admirable, it is criminally barbaric and profoundly stupid. Anyone finding it admirable should be condemned in the same terms.
I gotta give it to you Monro, I’m impressed how you manage to spin even this article in to some anti Putin diatribe.
It’s a shame you don’t focus on the country that would deserve your constant and incessant condemnation….. The USA…
Spot on
‘Anna Politkovskaya, who had reported critically of Putin and of the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, was shot in her apartment building in Moscow in 2006. The Novaya Gazeta reporter was one of Russia’s most prominent journalists and the killing had a chilling effect on free media in the country.’
‘Shortly before his death, Litvinenko told journalists the FSB security service was still operating poison laboratories dating from the Soviet era. A British inquiry concluded that Russian agents had killed Litvinenko, probably with Putin’s approval.”
‘Nemtsov had been shadowed by FSB agents for almost a year before he was assassinated on a bridge. It also showed that some of the same agents were involved in the poisonings of other top Kremlin critics.’
‘Mediazona has documented nearly 2,700 new Russian military deaths in Ukraine over the past fortnight. The total confirmed death toll now approaches 80,000, with volunteers accounting for 17,000 casualties, recruited prisoners for 14,500, and mobilised soldiers for 9,700.’
And so on and so forth…….
And he isn’t finished with Britain.
‘The notorious spy pair of Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin are wanted men in the UK over the use of the deadly Sailsbury nerve agent in 2018.
They are also now the two men said to be behind a spate of recent incidents allegedly linked back to the GRU’
The idea that anyone in this country could ‘admire’ Putin is quite frankly beyond belief.
Yawn
Do you think we, the “good guys” are above politically-motivated assassination?
If so, I have some magic beans to sell you.
If you have any evidence of politically motivated assassinations perpetrated by or financed by British citizens, you should hand that evidence over to the authorities.
But you do not…….
The same authorities that did it, you mean?
I rather suspect that might not be the best plan.
So no evidence at all then……
You must have missed the bit about British Army soldiers still being pursued in the courts for over fifty years.
Soldiers being pursued by lawyers is not the honest holding to account of those who have killed for political gain in the UK. It is not evidence that supports any contention that Western agencies operate transparently or with regard for the law.
Regular Armed Forces personnel are completely disposable and are tossed aside like scrap once they have served their purpose, as successive Governments have shown.
Those who perform “wet” operations for the establishment remain in the shadows. Do you really believe Western powers do not utilise such people?
‘Wet’ operations in the shadows…..
No evidence…..complete nonsense…..Walter Mitty stuff……..
On certain matters you are very starry-eyed and naive.
‘Wet’ operations in the shadows…..
The ribs can’t take it……..
Personally, I would be disappointed if it turned out that Western nations did not carry out such things from time to time. It would mean that if you fight fair you will inevitably lose to those who don’t. I hope the lack of evidence is merely the signature of a superior guile.
Or a bridge in London.
“the deadly Sailsbury nerve agent in 2018”
Is that the same deadly nerve agent that Dame Sally Davies (Chief Medical Officer) said we should wipe away with a wet wipe?
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-day-of-the-skripal
I wish I owned a polling firm so I could prove you wrong. But we shall never know. My impression is that the main issue with Farage is that there are millions of Tory voters who find him vulgar and think he’s a horrid racist. Middle class CofE bien-pensant Tories who will never desert their party.
‘Some 28 percent of people polled by YouGov have a positive view of Farage, compared to 63 percent with a negative view. That gives him a net favourability score of -35.
Farage remains polarizing, however. More people have a “very unfavorable” view of the Reform UK leader than they do of Starmer — 49 percent vs. 41 percent, respectively.’
Oct 2024
Well I find it bizarre but there’s no accounting for taste.
Many clearly find the idea of politicians quite blatantly gearing their remarks to the hope of filling their boots from the bounteous Russian petrodollar trough distasteful.
I do not find that bizarre.
Well, you are just speculating as to people’s motives, as am I.
‘Investigation of Cottrell revealed that he had a series of online links to small banks that were part of the notorious Russian Laundromat scam, which allowed dirty money to be shipped all over the world. A UKIP insider wrote that it was his knowledge of the “murky and complicated world of shadow banking” that “landed Cottrell an unpaid role” in the party.’
‘An enigma at the heart of Nigel Farage’s general election campaign: why has a 30-year-old businessman, self-confessed high-stakes gambler and convicted fraudster flown in from a glamorous Balkan resort to act as his unpaid aide?
George Cottrell was at Farage’s side when the Reform UK leader was milkshaked on the campaign trail in Clacton, and on a private helicopter flight with him from Ashfield in Nottinghamshire to London. Cottrell was there at a London hotel, ear glued to his phone, as Farage hosted a press conference.’
You care about the Russian business a lot, others I suspect less so. We are both speculating about why people may dislike Farage. Unless you’ve done a detailed poll you just don’t know what people think of him.
You are entitled to your opinion. It is not one that I share.
‘Farage’s ability to split public opinion was, however, evident with a substantial 48% regarding him as an unfavourable leader, leaving his net favourability at -20 – worse than Davey and Badenoch, but much better than Starmer and Reeves.
Keiran Pedley, director of UK politics at Ipso, said what the statistics showed overall is that politicians are extremely unpopular overall at the moment with not a single UK leader anywhere near having a positive net favourability rating.’
Nov 2024
I’m more interested in policies than personalities, though of course policies are not always carried out.
I think a Reform government might be worth a try – all the others are certainly to be avoided.
We won’t get a Reform government though, or any government that I feel I could even half heartedly support. Not in my lifetime anyway.
‘As one campaign aide puts it: ‘There will be a group that this speaks to and some voters who will back Reform whatever. But for lots of our base considering voting for Reform, it is unpatriotic and a turn off.’ In the UK – unlike with some countries on the continent – support for Ukraine remains high.’
The Spectator
More speculation
Or not really:
‘Support for Nigel Farage‘s right-wing Reform UK party has fallen ahead of a July 4 election, a poll showed on Thursday, after he said the West had provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The BMG Research opinion poll for the i newspaper, carried out June 24-26, put support for Reform on 16%, down from a record high of 19% last week. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak‘s Conservatives were on 20%, up from 19% previously.’
Maybe. Could be coincidence. Anyway I don’t much care what Farage thinks of Putin or has said about him. I am much more concerned about his enthusiastic support for “covid vaccines”, including bizarrely suggesting Blair be put in charge of their rollout.
Still, given that all major political leaders are covidiots, I would rather have a govt that at least says it will ditch Net Zero.
But Farage has changed his mind about Covid vaccines.
Please cite sources.
If true, that’s better than not changing his mind, but his instincts let him down. So did almost everyone else’s.
I heard Farage talking about the Covid vaccines a couple of times in the last few months on GB News, I don’t have a record of it for you to hear for yourself, but I didn’t imagine it, he was very clear that he’s now sceptical about the “safe and effective” claims.
Thanks for that information. If he ever does occupy a position of power, I hope he remembers what happened during “covid” and how he reacted and keeps a clear head if another fake crisis is presented.
Hopefully RFK will expose much of that mendacity, even if our own MPs will not.
I am hoping that events in the US provide some kind of solace over the next 4 years. There won’t be much good news here.
More speculation!
I have made it clear I am speculating. My point is that I don’t think any of us are in a position to know why Farage may or may not be acceptable to various segments of the voting public. But I’m done with this debate now. If others are certain they know all of these things, good luck to them.
I’d say that’s still pretty good, given that the mainstream media has been weaponised against him, and large swathes of the population have proven themselves susceptible to the resultant brainwashing.
They need the turkeys to keep voting for Christmas, and so many are very willing indeed to oblige.
Farage’s stance on Putin is going to work against Reform at every election.
Putin is responsible for the death of an entirely innocent British citizen on British soil. That is, unsurprisingly, extremely unpopular.
What really is bizarre is the insouciance in that regard of so many on here who no doubt believe themselves to be British patriots.
Bizarre verging on batshit crazy.
My sweet, summer child. This sort of thing happens all the time. When our opponents do it it’s terrible, and barbaric and just awful. When we do it, it’s kept in the dark. Other than that, there are no differences.
As I said above, if you believe we are above such action I have some magic beans to sell you. I believe someone else also has a bridge in which you may be interested.
Or not really…..
‘Mr Naseem led the investigation for the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). He left the watchdog shortly before a file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
This is the first time he has spoken publicly about the Kaba case.
“A police officer can only use lethal force when it’s absolutely necessary,” he says. At the point the weapon was fired, Mr Naseem says that he did not think that appeared to be the case.’
Nov. 2024
‘A former British soldier, who is being referred to as Soldier F to protect his identity, was in court for the first time Friday as he faces charges for the murders of William McKinney and James Wray and five counts of attempted murder during Bloody Sunday.
Bloody Sunday took place 52 years ago’
June 2024
‘The Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan, launched in the wake of reporting by the BBC and other media outlets, is investigating whether UK Special Forces killed civilians and unarmed people on night raids in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013.’
March 2024
Neither of those were political assassinations.
One case is that of a drug dealer being shot by police as he attempted to use his car as a weapon to avoid arrest. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
The other describes the betrayal of a British soldier and his sacrifice on the altar of appeasing those the establishment now wish to court.
If you stand in the way of the establishment making more money, or have any dirt on them that would bring them down or put them in jail, then you can expect to find yourself suicided. Both in Russia, and here.
As I say, batshit crazy.
Stick to the MSM.
Dotty
There was Gonzolez a US journalist who died in a Ukrainian jail, and a critic of the regime there. Plague on both houses. Most people I’d guess are more interested on how Farage would conduct himself in this country and as the US elections are anything to go by, it’s always the economy first.
i think it was also freedom of speech or rather the lack of freedom of speech by the democrats , and a backlash against all the democrat ‘mandates ‘ too. i hope so anyway
These personal popularity polls mean nothing at this point in time. If Musk is going to fund Farage with the aim of him becoming PM, the election won’t be for about four years from now, and a week is a long time in politics.
Farage is not the future.
And he knows it. That is why he is hedging his bets regarding Putin.
‘Nigel Farage helped Reform UK by mobilising within the quarter who like him. His reputation steady over time as a well known, broadly unpopular politician with a 1/4 market. An asset to a 10% party. Potential conundrum for a 24% party on the right that wants to be a 40% party’
I think we can likely dismiss anything coming via yougov as being largely bollox tbh
‘A 194 majority for Starmer would dwarf Mr Blair’s 1997 landslide majority of 179 and that of Margaret Thatcher, who got 144 in 1983.
The Conservatives would plummet to 140 seats, down 232 – as they face a near wipeout in London, the North East, the North West and Wales. This is the lowest since 1906 when they won 131 seats. This means the party retreats predominantly to the South East, South West and East Anglia.
This projection gives the Tories significantly fewer seats than the previous lowest number of Tory seats in British post-war history: 165 in 1997.’
YouGov 04 June 2024
You’re out of date. Farage now more popular than Starmer
Absolutely right. The way the UK is currently heading, with generally very bad news on the economic front, the chances of Farage making material headway in 2025 are high.
No I don’t think they believe that of him. They resent the fact he has so often been right when they and their party was wrong. They resent he could not be bought off. They resent there are millions who like him whereas Tory leaders have just been tolerated at best.
You seem to have overlooked the fact that polls show that Nigel Farage is the most popular Party Leader in the UK.
Most of the electorate care far, far more about the UK than Ukraine. And a large percentage are far more savvy when it comes to the Establishment’s “Farage is a Putin stooge” propaganda than they think.
Tousi could arrested tomorrow so if Elon wants to help let him
If we had a presidential system I think it’s possible, though as I’ve said elsewhere I don’t think we are “right wing” enough. But in a parliamentary system you need a party to become PM, and Reform stands zero chance of getting enough votes or seats to form a majority or even to be in a coalition with the Tories, especially now that they have a vaguely conservative leader. The chance was in 2024 and the voters blew it – six bloody million people voted Tory – the party that brought you mass immigration, lockdowns, high taxes, capitulation to globalists, lack of pushback against wokeness and cancel culture, and net zero.
+ they prepared the ground for Labour & seamlessly passed the Global Baton to Starmer !!
Yup – it almost looked like they threw the election. Slightly less bad than Labour would have been. At least we’re out of the EU – but wasting the opportunity.
Again I will mention Nadine Dorries’s book. The Plot? she mentioned how the plan was to dismantle the Tory Party. For what reason they would go to self-destruct mode is up for debate. Something related to Build Back Better maybe.
I don’t know much about that book but from what I have seen it doesn’t ring true, but who knows? What we saw was odd, for sure.
That’s good, as long as Nigel doesn’t do a “Bait & Switch”, handing over the party leadership to the Pakistani Muslim Millionaire busily manoeuvring behind the scenes to replace our Nigel.
Not sure that the idea of foreign billionaires buying influence is altogether to be welcomed.
No I definitely do not welcome this prospect.
As long as trade unions finance Labour, and various big businesses finance Conservatives and/or Labour, why shouldn’t Musk finance Reform?
Look how the Green Blob and Green NGOs buy their influence. Not to mention Soros who’s name never comes up in the memoirs of any of our ex PMs.
All true.
Soros, what a nightmare, for decades he has been undermining the integrity of the country that gave him succour.
The fact he has not been offed or jailed shows how his loathsome agenda suits TPTB.
That is how screwed we are.
Isn’t the problem here that if you’re not on the UK electoral register you can’t legally donate large sums to a UK political party? Electoral law and all that. He would have to funnel it through a British company, and even that might not be legal if it was clear that the underlying funds came from overseas.
X UK for example.
Musk is smart, he’ll find a legal way.
Jesus Christ have we really sunk this low. I can just about remember the tail end of the 1970s. There were some intelligent people in England back then quite a lot of highly accomplished people real mensches. I remember some of them talking about things ‘going to the dogs’ and I thought they might’ve been overstating things, perhaps confusing the state of the world with the state of their liver, which was a stupid thing to think in retrospect.
Every penny helps. It will infuriate Starmer.
Unless Farage can be replaced with a competent leader it will be a waste of money. Perhaps if Elon spends more time around Farage he will realise what a waste of space he is.
Starmer is you looking in the mirror. You can’t really get rid of him via outside means. The Russians say that the British people can only be saved by outside help. a decapitation operation for example. But even this isn’t going to help because your next leader will simply be a more ghastly image of yourself looking in the mirror. Starmer is you. When you look at his infinitely punchable face like a slapped arse you are looking at yourself. Everything about him is our embodiment. If you see him as something as separate and outside then you do not detect the tumour within your own body.
I can look at this Musk man and tell you that he is seriously ill just from a brief inspection. I wouldn’t go down that road if I were you. We are screwed for sure but this ghoul isn’t going to help. He is the embodiment of the system that is screwing us. And he doesn’t even carry it very well.
As a foreign national is Musk permitted to make with level of donation?