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And I can see us heading in that direction. The recent election of a Green Party councillor purely on the pro-Palestine issue is now being called into question as he had previously had an inappropriate public anti-Jewish rant that somehow was missed by the Greens when they put him forward.

Green Party - pro Palestine campaign? I had to read it twice. Clearly they are no longer concerned about the environment then.

 

Yes, I saw that. There must be. mechanism in place for the London Assembly to challenge that under regions/race laws.

I suspect he was voted in on the basis on religion rather than policy. We seem to be entering into a different era in politics and it does not bode well.

 

In times past -- and I'm only talking about 3 or 4 generations back (2 generations for me) -- people set back food for all of the late fall and winter months. I spent >50% of my days at my paternal grandparents' house, plus we perpetually visited kin up in the mountain hollers of Southern Appalachia. People always had on hand at least a half-year's worth of food. Salt pork / smoked meat was a staple, that and freshly killed chickens.

Fall was canning season. Fall was hunting season. Back before the great chestnut blight, people often let hogs go feral so that they'd grow fat on the forest's mast, then in fall, hunt them down, salt and smoke the meat.

Canning took days. My grandmother's basement (dirt floor) had shelving on which there were mighty rows of canned veggies, jellies, jams, pickled this and that's, on and on. As a boy, I paid attention to the blackberry jelly stores. Boyz iz boyz.

Deer meat was a big deal for some families, but not mine. Pap and I would hunt small game for that evening's supper table.

In former days, not putting back food for winter meant that you'd die. Not knowing home remedies for fevers meant that you were going to die. Not having access to pure mountain water meant that you were going to die. I was raised by these people. I'm actually not a prepper. This was the norm. This was the way things just were. People didn't worry. You did these things. Life went on.

I find the times in which we are now living bizarre / very foreign / raw idiocy.
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The point of Reform, I believe, is the same as the point of UKIP all those years back. They are a group that can and probably will influence future policy in the same way that UKIP's results many years back forced the Brexit referendum. If one is really unhappy with unfettered immigration Reform is probably the most viable choice. They do not have enough candidates to form a government but that does not really matter.

I am really quite concerned the Labour will be the next government. Five years of them and we'll all be wearing dresses and have blue hair. Under them I strongly suspect we will ave further unfettered immigration and will have moved so far towards being a Muslim state that there will be no going back. It does not bode well.

 

I expect Reform to have quite a large impact - before the election that held up to Brexit most people though UKIP would have little impact but, on the day they did around 15%. I suspect we will see the same story.

 

I don't believe a vote is ever wasted. Whoever gets into office will be careful to try and appease the masses, however small an alternative vote it still has power.

Apparently it is now 78 Conservative MPs that are not standing for election. They have thrown away the chances of the Conservatives. My key concern is that I genuinely fear a Labour government.

 

I think so. I am not sure I would want them as a government (in reality they do not have enough candidates for that to happen) and they are a one issue party but the issue of unfettered immigration and silo societies needs addressing.

 

Oh precious England, observe that which is happening in the USSA! Avoid this insanity by any means necessary. If your laws prevent you from restoring order, then disobey such laws. Your survival must become a reality.

To ignore what is devolving is to die. Never-ever imagine that your civilization, your order, cannot be annihilated.

You are NOT where we here in the U.S. are ... yet.

Chaos is inevitable without turning-back the tsunami of political correctness, the tsunami of other cultures violent in nature overwhelming your moral underpinnings. Are there events dark in England's past centuries? OK, sure. Yet, tease-out the good and restore the enlightened qualities . Raise them up! Do NEVER lower your standards. FIGHT for nobility in human nature and remove any corrupting influences. Your future is at stake right here and now! Hold to the truths and Liberties of the Magna Carta. Hold to sacred Reason. Emotions are fleeting. Only the base, the ignorant, are guided by their emotions and glandular natures. Set these things and people away from yourselves. Stay true to the advancement of humanity. Shun dead and violent cultures. Send them away.
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The Brexit vote happened on the basis of a 15% vote for UKIP. That definitely was not a wasted vote (although, sadly, it seemed to open the door to the unfettered immigration we have now).

 

I am sure they will mess things up. We will all have to have blue hair and wear dresses and white people will become. minority, never mend the mess they will make of the economy. The question is "could we withstand another Conservative government". One only has to look at their election manifesto to ask why were they not doing the things they are proposing now some time back? Unfortunately I see the current Conservative government as a sort 'legal crime syndicate' not unlike the British view of the mafia. It feels like so many of them are rather seedy and, as a whole, they have their hands in everyone's pockets (I am sure this is, in reality, a picture painted by the media, but when one looks at the Post Office Horizon scandal, the performance of the water companies, where the bosses still receive 'telephone number' bonuses, one has to wonder).

Good conservatism is good, but these days we have bad conservatism.

 

I agree with you on all the above points. I suspect we will get Labour as the next government but I doubt it will be the sweeping victory Labour are hoping for.

 

This is the first general election I will not vote on. The UK is finished.

 

I think that Starmer has made a mistake. Diane Abbott is a loose cannon and some of the drivel that comes out of her mouth is simply ludicrous but, hey ho, it's Starmer's own political future he is putting on the line.

 

On D-Day, my dad was still in England. He was in Ordinance and they were still prepping to move an unimaginable amount of armor into Europe after the Germans were sufficiently pushed back. He and his mates were buzz-bombed, but then civilians / everyone was getting buzz-bombed.

His brother was to go in on D-Day, but he was on a WWI ship that broke down. He went in on day 3. Later on, he was caught in the Battle of the Bulge. During only one week of that battle his company lost 3 company commanders. Tree-top artillery bursts sent flack everywhere, cutting men to pieces. He was in many other hellish fights. In one battle, he said that he could have stepped from body to body. In one battle, a British Spitfire took out a German tank that had him and his mates pinned down. That pilot saved their lives then came back round flying upside-down while waving at them as he flew over. He told me about he skies going black due to our sending-in vast squadrons of bombers. One of his duties was to go forward with the company commander and call in mortar and artillery barrages over their heads into German positions. Sometimes he manned a .50 machine gun. By the end of the war, 50% of the young men in his company had been killed. My uncle was awarded the Bronze Star. Those who were left made it all the way in to Germany and could have met-up with the Russians; however ... Scouts were sent forward to gather intel on the Russians. When they came back, they reported, "We don't want to meet them." My uncle never learned what it was that the scouts observed, but it must have been bad and/or sick.
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Take away guns and gang members go to sharp objects.







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Ban metal. Ban grinding wheels. Ban files. Ban hack saws. Ban all of these tools so that knives (i.e. sharpened steel) cannot be made.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrLRw3BG6f0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYx1vC0JizY

 

UK 'gang"members" have used sharps all along. Historically knives and razors were used far more often than guns in the UK. Were were not a huge gun owning society with most of our firearms being "sporting guns". Even today this situation still exists despite the media's claims otherwise.

UK gangs tend not to be organised gangs like you might imagine, instead they are mostly groups of low life who grew up together and hang around in small groups.

 

Was thinking of that horrific incident where a soldier was killed by an edged weapon in broad daylight and the killer made a video while Lee Ribby's body was lying in the street ...in the background.

I think the fellows name was Lee Rigby as I recall.


Watcherchris
Not an Ishmaelite.

 

England's violent criminals of today are NOT of British nor Northern European origin. UK culture is NOT their culture. Your gangs of today are composed of migrants from Africa and the Middle East. Their culture in the UK remains the same as their culture in their home countries. Africans and Near-East Muslims do not assimilate particularly well into the UK nor Continental Europe.

These folk have been slaughtering each other on an ongoing basis for millennia. Many females, few males, this due to males killing each other on a rather routine basis.

Organized crime groups bring-in migrants. After having done so, plus the migrants finding few jobs, the migrants join the crime gangs that brought them in and thus have jobs in the smuggling of drugs or any other illegal commodities; example, surplus military firearms. Much West European armaments headed to Ukraine get diverted all over the world.

During the 1980s, I purchased firearms and ammunition from >15 different nations -- leftover/obsolete war sh##. My most accurate 9mm ammo came from Indonesia (manufactured for NATO, "fell off a truck"). My best .303 Brit ammo came from Greece and was headed for the Hong Kong police (lacquered primers & non-corrosive; "fell off a truck"). Bought training 7.62 NATO ammo out of West Germany. Bought sh## Czech corrosive ammo. Bought steel-cased ammo out of Eastern Block countries. When you're out at the rifle range blasting away, you don't need target ammo. You are building "muscle memory". You are acclimatizing to heavy recoil -- wearing NO shooting jacket, just civvies. You're re-wiring your brain to incorporate firearms into your brain's body image. Where you get the ammo is the CHEAPEST place/origin you can find. I have no idea of how many tens of thousands of rounds of military ammo I've gone through. As I write this, my left ear is ringing like the bells of St. Mary's.

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"Organised immigration crime"

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/organised-immigration-crime

"Organised immigration crime generates easy money for criminal groups, funds other forms of organised crime, and often endangers the lives of the migrants themselves.

"Entering the UK illegally prevents law enforcement from conducting criminal record or security checks, meaning we don't know who they are or what risk they pose to the UK.

"Organised crime groups involved in immigration crime are highly exploitative of vulnerable adults and children, charging large sums of money for their illegal services. This revenue is often used to fund other forms of criminality. Some use violence in order to maintain territorial control and to control migrants."

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"Scale of Albanian Channel migrants crime wave in the UK revealed"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/29/channel-migrants-albania-crime-wave-numbers-jailed/

"Eighty Albanian migrants have been sentenced to 130 years in jail in the first four months of this year alone, as the scale of the crime wave from the surge in Channel crossings can be revealed for the first time.

"They have been convicted of murder, manslaughter, rape, violent disorder, firearms offences, kidnap, causing death by dangerous driving, burglary and producing cannabis in gang-run farms in houses and disused industrial sites.

"The cumulative total of 130 years in jail will cost the UK taxpayer at least £20 million pounds to house each offender for the allotted time, at an average cost of £57,000 per prisoner per year.

"The disclosure was based on a detailed analysis of every court case in England and Wales in the four months since Jan 1 2023. Last year, a record 12,301 Albanians reached the UK on small boats, representing a quarter of the total of 45,755."

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The wifer and I are keen on British movies. She just watched (I came in about halfway through) the movie, "Mr. Bates vs The Post Office". The movie is based on the true stories of innocent postmasters being held culpable for monies lost due to computer errors. The British gov. hired the computer company to manage financial records within the national post office. That company's software was outrageously buggy and buggered financial records. When the sh## began hitting the fan, the government did its best to cover-up their liabilities.

As the ancient wise statement goes, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"British Post Office scandal"

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

"The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office. Other subpostmasters were prosecuted but not convicted, forced to cover shortfalls caused by Horizon with their own money, or had their contracts terminated. The court cases, criminal convictions, imprisonments, loss of livelihoods and homes, debts, and bankruptcies led to stress, illness, family breakdowns and at least four suicides. In 2024, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the scandal as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history."

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Old Gzr: How exactly does one compensate a family for the loss of a relative who was driven to suicide by his government?

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The Post Office "Horizon" software fiasco has not gone away, and the postmasters have fought for years, won their case and still not been compensated. As you will know from he film numerous people have been wrongly jailed. Currently there is an enquiry going on which, helpfully, is being show publicly and it is shocking that the Post Office bosses are still prepared to lie under oath. Eventually the groundswell of public anger will win the day and wrings will be properly righted.

 

Apparently, a couple of days ago Angela Rayner (Labour MP) suggested that they might scrap Trident, our one and only nuclear deterrent and with a belligerent Putin on the horizon. Things are not going to go well.

 

I suspect the "comrades" malarkey is a thing of the past. These days they present as "weak tea" to the Tories "coffee". All this trying to be nice silliness during the election was ludicrous.

 

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"New Leftist UK Govt Looks to Set Criminals Free Early to Reduce Prison Overcrowding"

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...als-free-early-to-reduce-prison-overcrowding/

"The newly elected leftist Labour Party government is reportedly considering a scheme to release some prisoners after they serve just 40 per cent of their jail sentences in a bid to reduce prison overcrowding.

"In its general election manifesto, Sir Kier Starmer’s Labour Party declared that 'prisons should not be academies of crime' and it appears that his left-wing government has a novel way of preventing this, by simply releasing criminals back onto the streets early.

"According to a report from the progressive Guardian newspaper, the new government is looking to set prisoners free after serving just 40 per cent of their term, down from the already lax 50 per cent time served requirement. This would reportedly not include violent criminals, sex offenders, or terrorists, however."

 

As a prepper ,My mind operates in prepper mode and can see whereas some sort of sea capable sailing vessel would be priceless , if or when the above scenario described by LoneWolf should materialize . The downside , one might have to be beating people off your boat with a stick , as the panicked , desperate hoard finally realize their folly .

 

"Russia MP says that Russia can destroy British "civilisation" with just 3 missiles and lists 7 targets:
London, Manchester, Birmingham, Devonport Naval Base. The Clyde in Scotland, Portsmouth and Chatham Dockyard in Kent.

"I'm not absolutely sure how you destroy 7 targets with only 3 missiles but there you are. ..."


"Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle"

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

"A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target. The concept is almost invariably associated with intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying thermonuclear warheads, even if not strictly being limited to them. An intermediate case is the multiple reentry vehicle (MRV) missile which carries several warheads which are dispersed but not individually aimed. All nuclear-weapon states except Pakistan[a] and North Korea are currently confirmed to have deployed MIRV missile systems. Israel is suspected to possess or be in the process of developing MIRVs.[citation needed]

"The first true MIRV design was the Minuteman III, first successfully tested in 1968 and introduced into actual use in 1970.[5][6][7] The Minuteman III held three smaller W62 warheads, with yields of about 170 kilotons of TNT (710 TJ) each in place of the single 1.2 megatons of TNT (5.0 PJ) W56 used on the Minuteman II.[8] From 1970 to 1975, the United States would remove approximately 550 earlier versions of the Minuteman ICBM in the Strategic Air Command's (SAC) arsenal and replace them with the new Minuteman IIIs outfitted with a MIRV payload, increasing their overall effectiveness. ..."