tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10433329424812064692024-03-14T16:23:00.397+00:00Northern VoicesBlanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.comBlogger4287125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-20010845355321861212024-03-14T16:22:00.000+00:002024-03-14T16:22:29.333+00:00Carlton Club gives Anderson the boot.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXj3tq2ozcRLmDvOmHXAYq0YQoDKkXGWBj2FfXFp9Cn-I2kxzLYINjVE8R56D2wUUTYXWMg1iQPwH0F7l133hlaCvKaLlVCugE_x1SFODTGqx22ZwQ0TPly4o2_JmKu4N2EzUvKYuErrO249-Y-tM19I8Z7ZFXt9HU2mR9AsxxBfLmJQsq9IJFjHKO7I/s300/Lee%20Andersom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="168" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXj3tq2ozcRLmDvOmHXAYq0YQoDKkXGWBj2FfXFp9Cn-I2kxzLYINjVE8R56D2wUUTYXWMg1iQPwH0F7l133hlaCvKaLlVCugE_x1SFODTGqx22ZwQ0TPly4o2_JmKu4N2EzUvKYuErrO249-Y-tM19I8Z7ZFXt9HU2mR9AsxxBfLmJQsq9IJFjHKO7I/w224-h400/Lee%20Andersom.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Lee Anderson</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I want
my country back</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">", Lee Anderson, has been told to resign his membership
of the exclusive and prestigious Carlton Club in Mayfair. He's been told by the
chairman of the Carlton Club, Lord Young of Cookham, that if he refuses to
quit, he will be expelled in two weeks' time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anderson recently defected to the Reform UK Party.
He'd been the Conservative MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, since 2019 but
was stripped of the Tory whip when he claimed that London and its mayor, Sadiq
Khan, was under the control of "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Islamists</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."
He produced no evidence to substantiate his ludicrous allegations but merely
referred to the anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian rallies that have taken place
in the capital. Anderson denied being a racist Islamophobe but refused to apologise
or retract his comments which he admitted were '</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">clumsy</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'. Referring to Sadiq Khan, he told GB News viewers, "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He's actually given our capital city away to
his mates</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." Sadiq Khan accused Anderson of "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">pouring fuel on the fire of anti-Muslim hatred</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." In January
2024, he resigned as a deputy chairman of the Conservative party in order to
rebel against Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill, claiming it didn't go far enough.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I wonder how many people in the pubs and clubs of
Ashfield, were aware that this </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'Man of
the people</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" or Tory in clogs, was a member of a posh private member’s
club founded in 1832 by Tory peers including the Duke of Wellington. Anderson,
a former Labour councillor and Notts miner, also presents a TV show on GB News
bizarrely called </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'Lee Anderson's Real World</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'
for which he's paid £100,000 a year for hosting the show.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 2022, Anderson defended his £220,000 claim for
his expenses as an MP after saying Brits can't budget. The expenses he claimed
in 2020/21 were in addition to his £84,144 salary as an MP and were nearly
£16,000 higher than the average costs for an MP. In 2022, Anderson claimed that
food banks were being used by people who can't budget or cook and that you
could knock up a meal for 30 pence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anderson has ruled out the possibility that he
would trigger a by-election citing the impending general election as a reason
for doing so. As the first MP for Reform UK, Anderson, a right-wing populist,
knows that the Tories are likely to lose the next general election and he
obviously thinks he's more chance of retaining his seat if he stands for the
Reform UK Party. Last month, Simon Danczuk, the former Labour MP for Rochdale,
received a 6% share of the vote (1,968 votes) when he stood as the candidate
for Reform UK in Rochdale. George Galloway of the Workers Party of Britain,
received a 40% share of the vote (12,335 votes) and was elected.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since 1955, when the Ashfield seat was created, the
constituency has been predominantly Labour controlled. It went Conservative in
1977 and 2019, with the election of Lee Anderson. Geoff Hoon represented
Ashfield as the Labour MP from 1992 until 2010, when he was succeeded by Gloria
De Piero who now works for GB News. The voters of Ashfield should take heed of
the words of Doctor Samuel Johnson, who famously said, "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Patriotism is the last refuge of the
scoundrel</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." If they've any sense they'll give this uncouth bigoted
lout the boot and put him on the park benches where he belongs.</span></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-26613638844241799792024-03-12T16:00:00.000+00:002024-03-12T16:00:05.922+00:00The poisoner who taught Sylvia Pankhurst to dance.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52nUHcQ3v37X-5lo7LtLaY-1hD158s_TJxjQHaItN_fnS4xPc3TF4Nxd2pwtfYzmK2xG-lRu6mc7rdA4fe8WOTh-pCnsY3Bg35PbSqCl-QMK_i484yxQP959NZnnp9IwGy31F4Sq_YUMADb6dYjCVXMAFqYP6PoaeLsDxSij1JH8gyzeB6UF0Yi8-37k/s600/Pankhurst.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52nUHcQ3v37X-5lo7LtLaY-1hD158s_TJxjQHaItN_fnS4xPc3TF4Nxd2pwtfYzmK2xG-lRu6mc7rdA4fe8WOTh-pCnsY3Bg35PbSqCl-QMK_i484yxQP959NZnnp9IwGy31F4Sq_YUMADb6dYjCVXMAFqYP6PoaeLsDxSij1JH8gyzeB6UF0Yi8-37k/w400-h300/Pankhurst.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
house pictured above, was once the home of the suffragette leader Emmeline
Pankhurst. Mrs Pankhurst lived in the
house with her husband, three daughters, and her son Harry, before Mr Pankhurst
died in 1898. It's near Victoria Park in Manchester, Buckingham Crescent, 114,
Daisy Bank Road. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Mrs
Pankhurst was supposed to have been in straitened circumstances when she moved
into a five-bedroom villa at 62 Nelson Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock in 1898.
It's now the Pankhurst Centre and it faces Manchester Royal Infirmary. The
family also had two servants and rented the property. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Mrs
Pankhurst took a job as the salaried registrar for births, deaths, and
marriages, for Chorlton-on-Medlock. The family knew the area well because her
daughter's Christabel and Sylvia had taken dancing lessons at number 60 Nelson
Street. The dancing school was run by Mrs W Webster and her brother. In October
1895, Mrs Webster poisoned herself and her two sons. The youngest son survived
the poisoning. The inquest returned a verdict of murder and suicide due to
temporary insanity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Sylvia
Pankhurst, who was a socialist, lived with an Italian anarchist called Silvio
Corio and they had a son called Richard, born in 1927. The Italian was her
lover and companion for thirty years, but Sylvia refused to marry Silvio,
because she objected in principle to entering into marriage and taking a
husband's name. Mrs Pankhurst severed ties with her daughter and never spoke to
her again. Sylvia died in Ethiopia in 1960 aged 78. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Christabel
Pankhurst worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement and died in
Santa Monica California in 1958 aged 77. She never married but had an adopted
daughter called Betty. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
youngest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, Adela Pankhurst, died in Sydney Australia,
in 1961 aged 75. She had been a Communist and then an anti-Communist founding
the far-right Australia First Movement. Later in her life she became a Roman
Catholic. Mrs Pankhurst had given Adela a one-way ticket to Australia. She had
five children and married a man called Tom Walsh. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Harry
Pankhurst, the son of Emmeline Pankhurst, died in 1910 aged 21 of spinal
inflammation. An older son Frank, had died of diphtheria in 1888, aged four.
Emmeline Pankhurst died in a nursing home in Hampstead, London, in 1928 aged
69. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-37331102757511691412024-03-12T15:40:00.000+00:002024-03-12T15:40:09.811+00:00Gary Goldsmith the 'Bad Uncle'.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjPNqxTpoNT-2g0Vm8AK2eC5pcR-Wk4eS3n7GEHNs6OS8dKeQ3J1pFnZ0l5zjHqF6vy1IpMjzhi78JPsVJgJpTNVCzXO9OGtucK8izycJjPsycnUdEomGWl-EHl8GkbcsfBWSVWxs76put-jKbwGhVqu7pQpejhkdVrVXvYBPWZrkmM8JzSQ9IQKop3M/s317/Gary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="317" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjPNqxTpoNT-2g0Vm8AK2eC5pcR-Wk4eS3n7GEHNs6OS8dKeQ3J1pFnZ0l5zjHqF6vy1IpMjzhi78JPsVJgJpTNVCzXO9OGtucK8izycJjPsycnUdEomGWl-EHl8GkbcsfBWSVWxs76put-jKbwGhVqu7pQpejhkdVrVXvYBPWZrkmM8JzSQ9IQKop3M/s1600/Gary.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Gary Goldsmith</b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">I
don't watch Big Brother, but I've just been struck by the resemblance between
Gary Goldsmith the "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">black sheep</i>"
maternal uncle of Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her eldest child Prince
George. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
self-made multi-millionaire has just been slung out of the Celebrity Big
Brother House after being in it for less than a week. Marrying into trade might
improve the Royal Family gene pool, but it's not without its risks. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Goldsmith,
who has been married four times, is the brother of Carole Middleton, the mother
of the Duchess of Cambridge. In July 2009, Goldsmith was the subject of a '<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sting' </i>by the News of the World in which
he was filmed dealing cocaine to an undercover reporter. In October 2017,
Goldsmith was charged with assault for beating his wife during a "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">drunken argument</i>." He pleaded
guilty to assault and was fined £5,000 and given a twelve-month community
order. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Although
Goldsmith and his sister Carole Middleton were brought up in a council house in
Southall and Hounslow in London, they are descendants of Jane Harrison, nee
Liddle, the great-great granddaughter of Sir Thomas Conyers, 9th Baronet, who
was their great-great grandmother. Their father, Ronald Goldsmith, was a
painter and decorator and their mother Dorothy, was a shop assistant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Michael
Middleton, the father of Catherine, Princess of Wales, is linked via his Leeds
born cousin, Lady Bullock, to William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of
Lansdowne, who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1782 and 1783.
Michael Middleton inherited trust funds from his grandmother, Olive Christiana
Middleton (nee Lupton). Last year, the Middleton's were forced to sell off
their party supplies firm, Party Pieces, after it racked up debts of £2.6
million. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Gary
Goldsmith first met Prince William at a dinner party when he and Kate were
dating. In 2006, he invited William and Kate to his eight-acre luxury property
in Ibiza called La Maison de Bang Bang. Gary and his daughter Tallulah, were
guests at Pippa Middleton's wedding ceremony to James Matthews in May 2017.
Catherine and Pippa Middleton were nicknamed "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Wisteria Sisters</i>", by those in aristocratic circles
because of their ability to climb the social ladder.</span><o:p></o:p></p><br /></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-8039638638549698862024-03-12T14:30:00.001+00:002024-03-12T14:30:44.682+00:00Mary & George.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9I5KvK0xzDrxEfh31tPR4AIdAiFMIvMw8HehhzHsiDlFFWnCb3IAMawKVquZZ8SFT-FE5GV_M-mwjis2QZ_wF0iaEUJviLywjFVhZfw5Hp8jg4gSERJNEsjq4-xvMA1gQboys6Q-kGhiALmjtWQlcgv9mbTINFbp2Q6FSwKTbq1aRYrHBTm1ai6fxmk/s300/Mary%20&%20George.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9I5KvK0xzDrxEfh31tPR4AIdAiFMIvMw8HehhzHsiDlFFWnCb3IAMawKVquZZ8SFT-FE5GV_M-mwjis2QZ_wF0iaEUJviLywjFVhZfw5Hp8jg4gSERJNEsjq4-xvMA1gQboys6Q-kGhiALmjtWQlcgv9mbTINFbp2Q6FSwKTbq1aRYrHBTm1ai6fxmk/w400-h224/Mary%20&%20George.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">A
recently released Sky Atlantic drama, Mary and George, starring Julianne Moore
and Nicholas Galitzine, depicts the relationship between King James I of
England and the courtier Earl of Buckingham, George Villiers. James described
him as his "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sweet child and wife</i>."
A contemporary French poem says: "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It
is well known that the King of England/Fucks the Duke of Buckingham</i>." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
drama portrays the role played by Villiers' mother, Mary, in plotting her son's
social advancement by way of the King's bed. It's well known that King James
had many relationships with men and openly flirted with male courtiers in
public. He also seems to have had an active sexual relationship with his wife Anne
of Denmark, with whom he fathered seven children of whom three survived. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">History
has not been forthcoming about the male relationships that James had with men,
but to portray King James as a prominent figure in LGBTQ+ history, is frankly
laughable. He wrote tracts condemning sodomy even though he may have practiced
it. He was known to be slovenly about his personal cleanliness and seldom
washed himself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">In
the days of King James I, there was no such thing as a 'homosexual' and to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'gay</i>' depicted someone who was
light-hearted and carefree which is still the true meaning of the word to this
day. In those days they called a spade a shovel and sexual acts between
men was known as "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">buggery"</i>
and was frowned upon. It also became a capital offence punishable by death in
1533 with the passing of the 'Buggery Act. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Villiers
relationship with the King may well have been simply a means to social
advancement. In the ruthless world of the Stuart court, royal favour was
everything. Villiers rose from a Knight to a Viscount and finally in 1623, he
became the Duke of Buckingham</span>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Duke was stabbed to death on 23 August 1628, at the Greyhound Inn, in
Portsmouth.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-55834541314465638532024-03-12T14:15:00.000+00:002024-03-12T14:15:17.403+00:00The Pentrich Rising 1817<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmTc1B9p8apIiC_ffLHwXahODyuLhmyWiPAH1cTna1YV9Qt7E2lJeWVVuMZPIuj3QdD_CV7-4Z9fXdjLnx9UDMsZA8CiaRqLYCT6Y3rqjRHyI5WYVeDeqfEIvAtzqnAl7Be2jUKt7bRCfz6nc_fNwe6xdqXdO0WNzqt4cCp0YVYM2kxTDz6ef4OHQbVQ/s266/Pentrich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="266" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmTc1B9p8apIiC_ffLHwXahODyuLhmyWiPAH1cTna1YV9Qt7E2lJeWVVuMZPIuj3QdD_CV7-4Z9fXdjLnx9UDMsZA8CiaRqLYCT6Y3rqjRHyI5WYVeDeqfEIvAtzqnAl7Be2jUKt7bRCfz6nc_fNwe6xdqXdO0WNzqt4cCp0YVYM2kxTDz6ef4OHQbVQ/w400-h286/Pentrich.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Pentrich rising (1817), was a bit of a fiasco.
The rising is said to have been instigated by an agent provocateur working for
the government. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I read about it in E.P. Thompson's book </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'The Making of the English Working Class</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">.'
The rebels believed themselves to be in the vanguard of a Rebellion that would
see an army of men descend from the north of England who would assemble in
Nottingham, which was to be made a regional centre of government. They would
then march to London and set up a government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of the leaders of the Pentrich rising was the
stocking maker Jeremiah Brandreth, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, who was executed
for treason. After being hanged he was beheaded. Two other people, Isaac Ludlam
and William Turner, were also hanged outside Derby goal. The men claimed they
had been set up by Lord Sidmouth and 'Oliver the spy' and there may well be a
great deal of truth in this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Oliver was an informer for Lord Sidmouth and he was
aware of the planned rising which could have been prevented. The TV presenter
and former MP, Gyles Brandreth, claims to be a descendant of Jeremiah
Brandreth.</span></p><br /><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-78431953370097765262024-03-08T16:14:00.000+00:002024-03-08T16:14:50.682+00:00Counter extremism Tsar says London is now a no-go area for Jews.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbEP3h0W-B1-Jw8guMRzI1yZLf5T_osM1KNPG5yf9cc7NM4BoKHTjMEdWX3EGkpJYALwP11HMgEIIOTxad-UeasnbmuMJmBWCwb8P5EwoZNac9-pPKcuW1CrKgxzu_7QCGuZgviDF8vWuAGTxrvSJxL7cqNCXsW2Pe8uVDvm5i07qzQRZynH23UeEpdw/s310/Simcox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbEP3h0W-B1-Jw8guMRzI1yZLf5T_osM1KNPG5yf9cc7NM4BoKHTjMEdWX3EGkpJYALwP11HMgEIIOTxad-UeasnbmuMJmBWCwb8P5EwoZNac9-pPKcuW1CrKgxzu_7QCGuZgviDF8vWuAGTxrvSJxL7cqNCXsW2Pe8uVDvm5i07qzQRZynH23UeEpdw/w400-h210/Simcox.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Robin Simcox - Commissioner for Counter Extremism</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Robin
Simcox, the Government's Commissioner for Countering Extremism, has claimed
that London has become a no-go zone for Jews every weekend because of
pro-Palestinian protests in the capital. He also says the government have let '<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extremis</i>ts' go "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unchallenged for too long</i>." Those people who have marched and
protested against genocide in Gaza are being labelled '<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extremists'</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">I
think we should treat what Simcox says with a degree of suspicion and
scepticism. The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has talked about extremists who
are trying to tear Britain apart and described George Galloway's by-election
victory in Rochdale as "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">beyond
alarming</i>." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Anyone
who has attended a pro-Palestinian rally will tell you that it's not unusual to
see orthodox religious Jews at these rallies who support neither the State of
Israel or the military action currently being taken by the Israelis in Gaza.
They are easily identifiable because of the way they dress. This hardly ever
gets reported in the British media which constantly talks of a "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Community</i>." Moreover, not
all Jewish men wear the Kippah head covering, display side curls, or wear a
black frock coat, so how would you identify someone has being Jewish? Most Jews
living in the UK whether men or women, don't look any different from the rest
of the white UK population. Who would think that Rachel Riley who co-presents
the Channel 4 Countdown program was Jewish? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
term 'extremism' is taken from the government's '<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prevent</i>' program that aims to counter '<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radicalization</i>'. It defines 'extremism' as: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vocal or active opposition to fundamental
British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and
mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs</i>." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
police also refer to "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">domestic
extremists</i>" which is not defined in English law but covers anti-fox
hunters, anti-fracking protestors, and those who campaign against the arms
trade. It also includes Baroness Jenny Jones. The term "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">domestic extremist</i>" basically means
anything the police what it to mean. They also apply the term "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extremist ideologies</i>" to groups
like the environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion (XR) who are trying
to save the planet from environmental destruction. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Simcox
has been branded a cheerleader for the UK's own brand of extremism. Although
the right to protest peacefully is seen as a fundamental democratic right in
Britain, Simcox has slammed the pro-Palestine protests and has urged a
crackdown on non-violent Islamism. His views are largely in step with those of
the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman who sees a clash of civilisations in
multicultural Britain. She called for powers to ban protests outright and
called pro-Palestinian anti-genocide protestors, "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hate marchers</i>". Braverman was called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Minister for Hat</i>e' and was described has being the most divisive
Home Secretary in modern British history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Robin
Simcox also has close links with the neo-conservative think tank the Henry
Jackson Society that has been described as having an "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anti-Islam</i>" agenda.</span><o:p></o:p></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-11331156254798796542024-03-08T15:54:00.000+00:002024-03-08T15:54:35.407+00:00The French Connection<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Tyk8SbRqD1AWQUz8XbFvCZ0lbW6xb2QKd8K7Crf2-VztOcolSfdaLl3_Eufj2G3ozlZ9eVBM2VzrMxEO9dZVKMRj6HTVG8sjf2eIbDafAizQiZO7GcsuGEuREY3d3bvSs4Sq3yj2x1iwc_3edW8u5TK4Y6m0j81GrpmNLmDygK9ZPEhl8rsdJrHp9KI/s290/Agincourt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Tyk8SbRqD1AWQUz8XbFvCZ0lbW6xb2QKd8K7Crf2-VztOcolSfdaLl3_Eufj2G3ozlZ9eVBM2VzrMxEO9dZVKMRj6HTVG8sjf2eIbDafAizQiZO7GcsuGEuREY3d3bvSs4Sq3yj2x1iwc_3edW8u5TK4Y6m0j81GrpmNLmDygK9ZPEhl8rsdJrHp9KI/w400-h240/Agincourt.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Battle of Agincourt</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Most
English people know of the Battle of Agincourt because it was made famous by
William Shakespeare in his famous history play Henry V. The battle is
considered to be one of England's most celebrated victories in what is called
the Hundred Years' War. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">From
the 11th to the 16th century, parts of France were under English control. The
so-called 'Angevin Empire' stretched from Scotland to the Pyrenees and included
Normandy, Maine, Brittany, Anjou, Aquitaine, Gascony and Toulouse. The Pale of
Calais, remained part of England until 1558 during the reign of Mary 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">After
the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Bordeaux was under English
rule between 1152 and 1453. Henry V claimed the French throne through his
great-grandfather Edward III, whose mother, Isabella of France, was the daughter
of Philip IV of France. The 'Hundred Years' War' (1337-1453), fought between
England and France, originated in English claims to the French throne. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
French throne ceased to exist in 1792 with the French Revolution. King George
III of England was the last monarch to use the title King of France when
England abandoned claims to the French throne in 1802.</span><o:p></o:p></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-88381386296781684652024-03-04T15:11:00.000+00:002024-03-04T15:11:08.042+00:00Paul Mason calls for Galloway to be "isolated and ostracised."<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Oc5arMXabN00H9pREnin_3vJ5OkTcgckdUTs9E4Fwn55L3s-JhmMkltOhG4Skhd0XbjFTxfQEZEBki3r529vQWmeIhCOFTiVmo7C-w-btmwLMaKTMZKIE8K91bAmIkBW4EDFl8K8UWLX5Vs32wJTRx76bYluXwVlKu5oXr-druwhLYLtNKycGPBYmFI/s259/Galloway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Oc5arMXabN00H9pREnin_3vJ5OkTcgckdUTs9E4Fwn55L3s-JhmMkltOhG4Skhd0XbjFTxfQEZEBki3r529vQWmeIhCOFTiVmo7C-w-btmwLMaKTMZKIE8K91bAmIkBW4EDFl8K8UWLX5Vs32wJTRx76bYluXwVlKu5oXr-druwhLYLtNKycGPBYmFI/w400-h300/Galloway.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>George Galloway</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Another
bravura performance by George Galloway has he ties up in knots the Sky TV news
presenter <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnBAF4BKeM">Anna Botting</a>. I believe this interview took place in 2006 and has
been watched by over 100m viewers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">In
a more recent interview with Sam Coates, of Sky TV, Galloway made him look
equally ridiculous when Coates asked about intimidation in the election
campaign and claimed that people in Rochdale were worried about his election as
the MP for Rochdale. Galloway reminded him that he'd just been elected the MP
for Rochdale with a "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thumping
majority</i>" and that he'd won more votes than the Conservatives, Labour,
Liberal Democrats and Reform Parties, combined together. Coates told Galloway
that the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, had described his election as the MP for
Rochdale has "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">beyond horrifying</i>."
Galloway told him that "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little Rishi
Sunak</i>" was at the "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fag end
of his prime ministership</i>" and that he despised the man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Sunak
has threatened to jail anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian supporters and
Starmer-oid has praised his leadership. Galloway has said that Starmer-oid and
Sunak are two cheeks of the same arse. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">One
election official in Rochdale has already been sacked after Galloway and
representatives of his Workers Party of Britain, accused him of ballot rigging
on behalf of Azhar Ali, who was the official Labour candidate until Labour
withdrew its support over comments that he made about the Israelis. It's
believed that a complaint was also made to the police and the Returning Officer
for Rochdale. At this time, there's no suggestion that Mr Ali was involved in
this or was even aware of it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
pseudo lefty journalist and former BBC Newsnight presenter, Paul Mason, has called
for Galloway to be isolated and ostracised along with any politicians and
activists who support him. He wrote on X, "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">treat him like Greek Parliament treated Golden Dawn</i>." Mason
described his election by the voters of Rochdale as "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">militant democracy</i>." Mason, a former member of the Trotskyist
group 'Workers' Power', has aspirations to become a Labour MP but has been
repeatedly rejected as a Labour candidate despite sucking up to Starmer and his
handlers.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-35623350753035422662024-03-04T14:56:00.000+00:002024-03-04T14:56:59.461+00:00Welcome to the 'Real World' of Lee Anderson.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9p51HoTGoZK1oQ-G4z3jOwMTsXyVze5vhdVkEndQPXBqiCUajtVXZksfzgC1ovPy1HgNmxEvcfqycMZxY4yuac56imQKJeKrppEY64EWfaiEoLC8QE3mzZMvtNvuYSjJuHLGlS9WgUg-UOXWTnqPcnbQDrZuvlF5JwuFTmYh2YSr7mdE90sDmENLR4OQ/s275/Anderson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9p51HoTGoZK1oQ-G4z3jOwMTsXyVze5vhdVkEndQPXBqiCUajtVXZksfzgC1ovPy1HgNmxEvcfqycMZxY4yuac56imQKJeKrppEY64EWfaiEoLC8QE3mzZMvtNvuYSjJuHLGlS9WgUg-UOXWTnqPcnbQDrZuvlF5JwuFTmYh2YSr7mdE90sDmENLR4OQ/w400-h266/Anderson.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Cloth Capped Tory - Lee Anderson</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The right-wing populist politician, Lee Anderson,
has built his lucrative political career on courting controversy and fostering
social division to promote his own self-image. The pro-death penalty former
miner, who has been the Conservative MP for Ashfield since 2019, was once a
Labour councillor. He was suspended by his local branch of the Labour Party in
2018 after he received a community protection warning from the council for
using boulders to stop members of the Traveller community, setting up a camp site
in the area. There were also calls for him to be sacked when he called for
nuisance tenants to be evicted into tents and forced to work in the fields
picking vegetables. The Labour Party compared his idea to "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">forced labour camps</i>." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 2023, this wind-up merchant, told asylum seekers
that if they didn't like being housed on the barge the 'Bibby Stockholm', they
"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">should fuck off back to France</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."
He also accused people of misusing food banks because they couldn't cook and
claimed you could knock up a meal for 30 pence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>I</o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">n a debate on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and
Courts Bill, in June 2021, Anderson accused the Traveller community in Ashfield
of '</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">thiever</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">y' and said:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">the
Gypsy encampments that we are talking about in places such as Ashfield are not
the traditional, old-fashioned Gypsies sat there playing the mandolin, flogging
lucky heather and telling fortunes. The Travellers I am talking about are more
likely to be seen leaving your garden shed at 3 o'clock in the morning,
probably with your lawnmower and half of your tools</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">..."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">During the Euro 2020 tournament, Anderson announced
that he wouldn't be watching any England national football team matches because
the players had taken the decision to bend the knee as a gesture against racism
and in support of the campaign 'Black Lives Matter(BLM). Anderson claimed that
BLM was a "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">political movement whose
core principles aim to undermine our very way of life</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Although some Conservatives like the former MP
Matthew Parris, have argued that one of the jobs of a parliamentarian is to
curtail the instincts of the mob, Anderson plays up to the mob, and its paid
off. The oaf now presents a show on GB News entitled </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'Lee Anderson's Real World'</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, for which he gets paid an annual
salary of £100,000. It was on his show that Anderson claimed that the mayor of
London, Sadiq Khan, was controlled by 'Islamists' but he didn't provide any
evidence to substantiate his ludicrous allegation that "Islamists"
had "got control" of Mr Khan and London, he merely referred to the anti-genocidal
protests that have been taking place in London in support of the Palestinians.
Although Anderson denied being a racist and denied being Islamophobic, he said
he wouldn't apologise to Sadiq Khan or retract his comments.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The former Conservative Party deputy chairman, told
ITV news that he would choose his "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">clumsy</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"
words "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">slightly differently</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"
if he could turn the clock back, but that he "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">will not back down</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" on the comments that he made. Anderson
also denied that he'd targeted Sadiq Khan because he was a Muslim. Sadiq Khan
said Anderson's comments "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">pour fuel
on the fire of anti-Muslim hatred</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Although the Conservative Prime Minister, Rishi
Sunak, has denied that Anderson is racist he's withdrawn the whip from Lee
Anderson and said his comments were "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">wrong,
unacceptable and ill-judged</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." Anderson said that since making his
comments on Sadiq Khan, his inbox had been full with people telling him that
he'd been right to say what he said. He remarked on social media:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I went
into the pubs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Ashfield. The first pub I went
into they all stood up and applauded me. That tells you all you need to know
about the people of Ashfield</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In fairness to the people of Ashfield, some do
regard Anderson has "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">a bit of a prat</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"
and a "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wally</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" who'd do
better to keep his mouth shut.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">During the 2019 election campaign, Anderson was one
of three Conservative Party candidates who were investigated by the party over
claims of antisemitism. It was alleged that Anderson was an active member of a
Facebook group that supported the racist Islamophobe Tommy Robinson and which
also promoted conspiracy theories about the Hungarian Jewish financier George
Soros. Although the results of the investigation weren't made public, Anderson
apologised for being a member of the group and agreed to attended online
training sessions by the Antisemitism Policy Trust charity to improve his
understanding of antisemitism.</span> </p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-14317086106851127572024-03-02T14:07:00.002+00:002024-03-02T14:18:29.980+00:00Landslide victory for Galloway in Rochdale.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2brOsgLaeW5awl-Xi4V9GGInEF1GG3EKI8aR9I-Kqt3Qgm3hUMY07Q_kD6KLhf2KnhJz9H8DyOyF5gN48X4Tv0-5JKPiG1lxlik1SHZLmOoc4Dktxs23guwQm1ul1L3yEb3tTEAIdPFNVNaHTQZKsqRLVjtmhEaK-Ua3_7VJjwwXxVYEzKDVrLTBHOKk/s277/Galloway.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="277" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2brOsgLaeW5awl-Xi4V9GGInEF1GG3EKI8aR9I-Kqt3Qgm3hUMY07Q_kD6KLhf2KnhJz9H8DyOyF5gN48X4Tv0-5JKPiG1lxlik1SHZLmOoc4Dktxs23guwQm1ul1L3yEb3tTEAIdPFNVNaHTQZKsqRLVjtmhEaK-Ua3_7VJjwwXxVYEzKDVrLTBHOKk/w400-h263/Galloway.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Congratulations to George Galloway in winning
the Rochdale by-election with a thumping majority and landslide victory. Thanks
to Tory-lite Sir Keir Starmer-oid and the voters of Rochdale, Galloway has been
returned to Parliament after an absence of nine years. In 2015, Galloway lost
his seat in Bradford West and stood in the Rochdale by-election, for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Workers Party of Britain'</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this interview with <a href="https://news.sky.com/video/george-galloway-i-despise-the-prime-minister-13084676">Sam Coates</a> of Sky TV,
Galloway puts on a bravura performance and makes Coates look ridiculous as he
answers questions put to him about alleged intimidation in the election and
Galloway being a divisive figure in British politics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Little Rishi Sunak, the unelected Tory British
Prime Minister, has spoken about extremist forces that are "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">trying to tear us apart</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" in
Britain. Only recently, Sunak was criticised for failing to condemn divisive
racist comments made by the former miner and Labour councillor, Lee Anderson,
in an Islamophobic rant about the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and for refusing
to apologise to the mayor. Anderson accused the mayor of London of being "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">controlled by Islamists</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." Sunak may
have withdrawn the Conservative whip from Anderson and sacked the former Home
Secretary, Suella Braverman, but he's never condemned their racist outbursts.
Anderson has been accused of "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">pouring
fuel on the fire of anti-Muslim hatred</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Both Anderson and Sunak are at the fag-end of their
political careers and it's likely that Anderson will defect to the right-wing
populist party Reform UK. Braverman was dubbed the 'minister for hate' and was
denounced as the most divisive Home Secretary in British history.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The House of Commons is full of mealy-mouthed time
serving MPs and is badly in need of some sparkle. As an effective political
communicator, George Galloway might well add some flavour to the proceedings
and liven things up a bit. He's one MP that won't be kowtowing to the Israelis
and Netanyahu and his Zionist thugs. At the moment a vote for either Labour or
Tory is a vote for '</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">genocide</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">' in Gaza
and that's why Starmer-oid has lost the Muslim Labour vote. As George Galloway
said in the election, Starmer-oid and Sunak are two cheeks of the same arse.</span></p><br /><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-54182006356611431972024-02-29T18:09:00.000+00:002024-02-29T18:09:51.343+00:00Starmer spoke to Israeli President before crucial SNP vote on Gaza.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-iP0Wm0tK6l0OqYxXlIZAqkOMRDTH89syBQFwQlUSxGpXg2wMZfjPngGBanlWLwU7eFqNHhMANmBjYIj_hZkiR257O4oLNn1j-xco7yU3La-FcmZ87nJyZJ7gPk82T2-780uLCpTSX2jL8o-S6_xio_8P_ASdxMYpvklV6GPUs8rHdTSa4HUDnzDYvmk/s300/Herzog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-iP0Wm0tK6l0OqYxXlIZAqkOMRDTH89syBQFwQlUSxGpXg2wMZfjPngGBanlWLwU7eFqNHhMANmBjYIj_hZkiR257O4oLNn1j-xco7yU3La-FcmZ87nJyZJ7gPk82T2-780uLCpTSX2jL8o-S6_xio_8P_ASdxMYpvklV6GPUs8rHdTSa4HUDnzDYvmk/w400-h224/Herzog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Isaac Herzog- President of Israel</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sir Kier Starmer-oid has admitted to having spoken
to Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel, before embarking on Parliamentary
manoeuvres that scuppered the Scottish National Party's (SNP) motion calling
for a full and immediate ceasefire in Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It has been widely alleged that Starmer-oid lobbied
the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, to break with precedent to
let a watered-down Labour motion be debated before the SNP motion that called
for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">end to the collective punishment of the Palestinian people</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"
and an end to arms sales from Britain to Israel. Starmer is alleged to have
told Hoyle that choosing his motion was in the interests of MPs' safety.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was also reported that as many as 100 Labour
MPs, including two shadow cabinet ministers, were planning to rebel against the
Labour leader who has been accused of excusing genocide in Gaza and of being a
cheerleader for Israeli mass murder. When Labour's amendment passed, the SNP's
motion was scuppered and a mass Labour rebellion was avoided. The Commons
descended into chaos with SNP and Tory MPs walking out in protest at the way
Hoyle had bent the rules to get the Labour leader out of a tight spot. Hoyle
later apologised for the way he'd handled matters but said he'd done so in the
interests of MPs safety. Since the vote, over 80 MPs have expressed no
confidence in Lindsay Hoyle as the Speaker.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Spain recently agreed to ban arm sales to Israel
but Britain, the U.S. and Germany, continue to supply the Israeli Defence
Forces (IDF), with weapons and ammunition to kill Palestinians. Over 29,000
people have been killed in Gaza. Most of these are not members of Hamas but
innocent men, women, and children. Well over 10,000 children have been killed
by Israeli carpet bombing and Israeli ground forces.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The International Court of Justice (ICJ), recently
ruled that the conflict in Gaza "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">may
plausibly be genocide</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">", though it stopped short of calling for an
immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The UK Conservative government of Rishi Sunak,
recently used its seat on the UN Security Council to abstain on a vote calling
for a ceasefire in Gaza and the U.S. vetoed the motion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Last November, Labour abstained on a motion calling
for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and this was supported by all three Labour
Tameside MPs, Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne), Jonathan Reynolds and Andrew
Gwynne. Reynolds, who represents the constituency of Stalybridge & Hyde, is
a Vice Chairman of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) and Gwynne, who represents the
constituency of Denton & Reddish, is a former Chairman of LFI.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sir Kier Starmer-oid has stated publicly, "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I support Zionism without qualification</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."
Starmer-oid may have avoided a Labour rebellion but his political stance on the
conflict in Gaza and the way he bows and scrapes to the Israelis, have lost him
the Muslim Labour vote and the Rochdale by-election. It's truly scandalous the
way in which the Israeli lobby meddle in British politics and the way in which
some British politicians, are in thrall, to this little country in the Middle
East.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-77903724637456881152024-02-26T14:42:00.000+00:002024-02-26T14:42:16.755+00:00Does anybody really know what Labour stands for under Starmer-oid?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGaLyrXPQtsF0H0KaUlENdbpSC68r96990wHiXGLxABBrPBkGTVAbiMkPWkgHgVYM70hLbx2sMEc1rKBULU7PX3tt5JmabDgOUY0-XZPKKFko1c8Oj-syJVZ0Gr-r_wQghmK3wB9Fj3-MDZ14EL0zc1lDo9i1ji5BFknt14pTFhGxnTzSaLX179F8HXUA/s299/Starmer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGaLyrXPQtsF0H0KaUlENdbpSC68r96990wHiXGLxABBrPBkGTVAbiMkPWkgHgVYM70hLbx2sMEc1rKBULU7PX3tt5JmabDgOUY0-XZPKKFko1c8Oj-syJVZ0Gr-r_wQghmK3wB9Fj3-MDZ14EL0zc1lDo9i1ji5BFknt14pTFhGxnTzSaLX179F8HXUA/w400-h225/Starmer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Sir Kier Starmer-oid</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Apart
from a desire to become the next UK Prime Minister and a thirst for power, it's
difficult to know what Tory-lite Sir Keir Starmer-oid really believes in or
what he really stands for. The Labour Party leader can turn on a dime in his
quest for power and his pledges don't amount to very much. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">As
the journalist <a href="https://youtu.be/mv7sZoQkkns">Peter Oborne </a>shows in this excellent Double Down News (DDN)
video, Starmer-oid has done a U-turn on most of his pledges. Starmer-oid is the
great dissembler and hypocrite who will say anything to get a vote. Yet, in an
age of social media, it's more difficult to dissemble because your deceit can
be exposed in the dusty archives of your forgotten past. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">In
his younger days, Starmer-oid was a Trotskyist and a member of Socialist
Alternatives, which represented the British section of the International
Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT). Today, Starmer-oid wraps himself up in
the union jack and praises the monarchy. He's previously said that he prefers
Davos to Westminster. But in his younger days, as a Pabloite Trotskyist, he was
a fervent anti-capitalist and anti-Royalist. He was also in favour of giving
the trade unions greater power. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Starmer-oid
has often been accused of selling out, but he's not the only Labour big shot
that can be accused of being an apostate. Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson were
once members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Starmer-oid is
very much a political chameleon who can change colours to suit every occasion. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-30479543562519814002024-02-26T14:25:00.000+00:002024-02-26T14:25:51.889+00:00Trump found guilty of financial fraud<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy49ldGfTd7TPlIINkHwAlSzPKNna3lrkAI6n1_CcYqKrDwG1Nw-6yHPfx-TuwpZMwt6gMOP3xGqgkP18rQT7jwNf-STfoafdhQC8P_2FAJLAjI-zaUF9AKgwdWwjfp10p__qFqWZX4mQ-KeOPQ_TTPm58csCErfjvnscZf6Q2iNouAr8jbQAJMUtHV8Q/s226/Trump.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="226" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy49ldGfTd7TPlIINkHwAlSzPKNna3lrkAI6n1_CcYqKrDwG1Nw-6yHPfx-TuwpZMwt6gMOP3xGqgkP18rQT7jwNf-STfoafdhQC8P_2FAJLAjI-zaUF9AKgwdWwjfp10p__qFqWZX4mQ-KeOPQ_TTPm58csCErfjvnscZf6Q2iNouAr8jbQAJMUtHV8Q/w400-h395/Trump.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Donald Trump</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Former U.S. President, Donald Trump, and his eldest
sons and business associates, have been ordered to pay over $350m by a New York
judge who found them guilty of intentionally committing financial fraud over
the course of a decade. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Judge Arthur Engoron, barred Trump and two other
executives from serving as officers or directors of any corporation or entity
in New York for three years. In his decision, Jude Engoron, said: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">fact
and expert witnesses simply denied reality, and defendants failed to accept responsibility
or to impose internal controls to prevent future recurrences</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" adding,
the defendants "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">complete lack of
contrition and remorse borders on pathological</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The hefty fine comes on top of an $83.3m judgement
against the former president in a defamation suit by the writer E. Jean
Carroll. It's doubtful whether Trump is wealthy enough to pay the fine or
defamation judgement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yet, the New York judgement, is likely to improve
Trump's prospects of winning the Republican primaries. Although Trump was found
to have inflated his assets for the purposes of obtaining loans, he devalued
his assets for the purpose of taxation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trump always denies wrongdoing and claims he's the
victim of a political witch-hunt. Unfortunately, many stupid Americans tend to
agree with him and fall for Trumps lies and demagoguery. They see Trump, a
property speculator, as a kind of Messiah of the rust belt and a champion of
the ordinary American workingman. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-42898089540427864652024-02-19T15:31:00.000+00:002024-02-19T15:31:26.939+00:00Death of Alexei Navalny<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHCGv-T71oDB5qRmlDlwTSQrziN6YKPIy0NUy2mHBE0pN7eRxS8zRXNc2mewEnPx9sUjxaHp7yZM7KBWlkAMFqwYYSkE_lg_kWE20ZJRNezlBDQVmFpenpejEzyRtqOfGDksoGGMvCSF6kriHf426za1YNN021y13o-ioyLb-f0F6OmqrIURvWZeiSqe8/s299/Navalney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHCGv-T71oDB5qRmlDlwTSQrziN6YKPIy0NUy2mHBE0pN7eRxS8zRXNc2mewEnPx9sUjxaHp7yZM7KBWlkAMFqwYYSkE_lg_kWE20ZJRNezlBDQVmFpenpejEzyRtqOfGDksoGGMvCSF6kriHf426za1YNN021y13o-ioyLb-f0F6OmqrIURvWZeiSqe8/w400-h225/Navalney.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Alexei Navalny</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It takes a brave man or a bloody fool to stand
against the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Most of Putin's critics left
Russia long ago, but Alexei Navalny, who has died suddenly in prison at the age
of 47, returned to Russia in January 2021, after undergoing months of medical
treatment in Germany for Novichok poisoning. The Novichok agent had been
applied to Navalny's underwear when he was staying at an hotel in Tomsk. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">On his return to Moscow, he was immediately taken
into custody. He would never leave jail again. Considered to be one of Putin's
staunchest critics, Navalny was serving a 19-year jail term on charges widely
considered politically motivated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Last year, Navalny was moved to the Polar Wolf
Artic penal colony 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Navalny had looked
healthy when he appeared by video for a courtroom appeal on Thursday, the day
before his death. The prison authorities said Navalny had felt unwell following
a walk on Friday and had lost consciousness. Although the cause of Navalny's death
has yet to be established, his death is likely to be seen as a political
assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 2015, opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, was shot
dead on a Moscow bridge a stone's throw from the Kremlin. In August 2023, the
Wagner boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was killed in an unexplained plane crash weeks
after leading his mercenaries in an armed mutiny.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-87398815819885523992024-02-15T18:33:00.000+00:002024-02-15T18:33:36.785+00:00The deskilling of Britain's medical profession<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFcvicSCBskQNk_9zspoSBzFoKWmjPfHmo8G93cHDe52onS4_f1roq4RvmDR70zzhLKOWhdAv83Pczeo4b2aRac4hYFopj9xMtUClCJ0lo-N6sYCLM6Z8E75aNLoJUJEnx3AoTG1G-wucSTFqaUPAm8EVKr5sbQOFs4NRxfGn3A3O4PsdMnsi_TI-aNls/s299/NHS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFcvicSCBskQNk_9zspoSBzFoKWmjPfHmo8G93cHDe52onS4_f1roq4RvmDR70zzhLKOWhdAv83Pczeo4b2aRac4hYFopj9xMtUClCJ0lo-N6sYCLM6Z8E75aNLoJUJEnx3AoTG1G-wucSTFqaUPAm8EVKr5sbQOFs4NRxfGn3A3O4PsdMnsi_TI-aNls/w400-h225/NHS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The medical profession in the UK is being quietly
deskilled. Since the COVID lockdown in 2020, many GP's have become notoriously
fickle and have eschewed face-to-face contact with their patients, even though
their pay has increased incrementally. You might say they've been cutting their
own throats with a blunt razor, slowly putting themselves out of work.
Consequently, much cheaper and less medically qualified people such as
'Physician Associates' (PA's) and 'Anaesthetist Associates' (AA's), are now
being allowed to do much of a doctor's work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Already, in General Practice, patients are finding
it difficult to see a qualified doctor and are being referred to nursing
practitioners, physiotherapists, nurses, and even pharmacists. The new roles
are all part of the Tories' so-called </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'NHS
Workforce Plan</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">' a cunning scheme that aims to rapidly create lots of less
skilled positions that patients think are doctors but who are less medically
qualified people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some medical professionals have warned of the
inherent dangers for patients in seeing less medically qualified staff who may
misdiagnose, a medical problem. Other have warned of the dangers of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'scope creep'</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">. There have been instances
of Physician Associates undertaking neurosurgery.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At least two deaths have already been linked by
coroners to incorrect diagnosis by P.A.'s. Emily Chesterton, a 30-year-old
woman from Salford, was diagnosed with a calf-strain but died of an embolism.
Ben Peters, aged 25, died of a heart hemorrhage after being diagnosed with a
panic attack and gastric inflammation. In November 2022, he had attended the
emergency department at Manchester Royal Infirmary with chest pain, arm ache, a
sore throat, and shortness of breath, symptoms which are associated with
myocardial infarction (a heart attack). While waiting in A&E, he had
endured a "<i>severe episode of vomiting</i>." He was seen by a non-medical
school trained physician associate but not a doctor, who diagnosed a panic
attack. A supervising consultant, who never saw </span>Mr.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Peters, agreed with the
diagnosis.</span></span></p><br /><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-56243058752656081422024-02-15T18:20:00.000+00:002024-02-15T18:20:04.224+00:00Labour in disarray over Israel and and Gaza<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZWBgbA-sFS7UeRf7yfiFUto6gbihyphenhyphen4EZulrCUT3HDrkYn6_ANGnZ6tn0QrWzFg-7psYXJaBB9jaQpzTa4qXD77Rc435TNpUPa3XYA6cJF59OCR4dh8Rp85XAXIrFx6jZB8qrK2enmn3LE7YE-oGES1JiKBgHbmS97pOxPLm9BlQWonbtSwVGPwAJqn_4/s225/Starmer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZWBgbA-sFS7UeRf7yfiFUto6gbihyphenhyphen4EZulrCUT3HDrkYn6_ANGnZ6tn0QrWzFg-7psYXJaBB9jaQpzTa4qXD77Rc435TNpUPa3XYA6cJF59OCR4dh8Rp85XAXIrFx6jZB8qrK2enmn3LE7YE-oGES1JiKBgHbmS97pOxPLm9BlQWonbtSwVGPwAJqn_4/w398-h400/Starmer.jpg" width="398" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Sir Keir Starmer</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sir Keir Starmer-oid is getting himself all tied up
in knots with his pro-Israeli stance on the conflict in Gaza and his obsession
with eradicating delusionary antisemitism in the Labour Party. Bowing and
scraping to Marie van der Zyl, the President of The Board of Deputies of
British Jews and Netanyahu's ultra-right-wing Zionist thugs, he's prepared to
condone genocide. Anyone who says anything remotely critical of Israel, is
forced to apologise and gets dumped. We shouldn't be surprised at this. Starmer-oid
has stated publicly, "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I support
Zionism without qualification</i>." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Graham Jones, the former MP for Haslingden &
Hyndburn, was suspended on Tuesday. He's alleged to have used the words "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">fucking Israel</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" and said that
"British people who volunteer to fight for the Israeli army should be
locked up." In 2023, Ruth Smeeth, now Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent,
a Jew and a former Director of BICOM, Britain's most active pro-Israel lobbying
organisation, said this of Graham Jones:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Graham
is a true ally to me during the height of the antisemitism crisis in the Labour
Party. Week in, week out challenging anti-Jewish hate and demanding that more
was done. I'm proud to call him a friend.</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Rochdale, Labour have disowned their official
candidate Azhar Ali, because he claimed that Israel had ignored warnings of an
imminent attack to justify an attack on Gaza. It seems that Israel did ignore
warnings of an attack from the Egyptians, but it has yet to be proven that they
did so, even if it seems likely they did so, in order to make it a green light
for an attack on Gaza. Labour initially tried to say that Azhar Ali had
embraced a false conspiracy theory that didn't really reflect his own views. He
was then overheard accusing "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">people
in the media from certain Jewish quarters</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" of inflating claims of
antisemitism, and he was then toast. The former Labour Jewish MP, Louise
Ellman, condemned Ali's "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">outrageous
and deeply offensive conspiracy theories</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" but said she had "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">known Azhar for over 20 years and he
consistently supported me when I was subjected to anti-Semitic attacks</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Starmer-oid is beginning to resemble Don Quixote
who attacked imaginary enemies and evils by tilting at windmills. He doesn't
brook any opposition or deviation from the official Starmer party line. Neither
can he accept a different point of view or perspective when it comes down to
Israel. There isn't much democracy in Starmer's Labour Party. Under his
leadership, Labour is likely to lose the Muslim Labour vote and not just in
Rochdale. Rochdale should have been a safe Labour seat, but it may well now
change hands. Jewish campaigners now fear that George Galloway and his Workers
Party of Britain, could win the Rochdale by-election. I bet Galloway is rubbing
his hands at Labour's chaos. </span></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-66750443684448214242024-02-13T18:25:00.000+00:002024-02-13T18:25:13.493+00:00Labour withdraws support for Azhar Ali<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZCn-tJEaVHaZrrDoBlb75DkEDoOzmnBKHl2gAPQkH4MJVNROcMA08FxveHT6ZL3egVe8SwpYsa8wAH9JqrI59KZCHXw1rnCW0M7z8sMeKHj-IqeRSDwBxskkMXW34FP4KOyc0S7rWPv8-y0kIuQZ00zPsL9Zq4aAm_oJehIgypkiitMOjX-s-NbLAwg/s261/Azhar%20ali.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="261" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZCn-tJEaVHaZrrDoBlb75DkEDoOzmnBKHl2gAPQkH4MJVNROcMA08FxveHT6ZL3egVe8SwpYsa8wAH9JqrI59KZCHXw1rnCW0M7z8sMeKHj-IqeRSDwBxskkMXW34FP4KOyc0S7rWPv8-y0kIuQZ00zPsL9Zq4aAm_oJehIgypkiitMOjX-s-NbLAwg/w400-h296/Azhar%20ali.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Azhar Ali</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Azhar Ali, the Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary
Candidate for Rochdale is certainly right that the Israeli authorities appear
to have been given prior warning about an imminent attack on Israel before 7
October 2023. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 9 October 2023, The Times of Israel, reported
that an unnamed Egyptian intelligence official had told them, "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jerusalem had ignored repeated warnings that
the Gaza-based terror group (Hamas) was planning 'something big' - which
included an apparent direct notice from Cairo's intelligence minister to the
prime minister</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">U.S. Texas Congressman, Michael McCaul, who chairs
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said last October, that he'd been told at
a closed-door intelligence briefing that Egypt had warned the Israelis "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">that an event like this could happen</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"
at least "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">three days</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"
before the Hamas attack. Israel denied the reports of Egypt sending a warning
saying they were "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">absolutely false.</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"
The Israelis have said the attack was due to an "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">intelligence failure</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu, has denied receiving any such advance warning and said the story was
"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">fake news</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">If the Israelis were tipped off by the Egyptians,
then it does beg the question why they didn't act on it and why they deny
having received any advanced warning. Are the Egyptian intelligence official
and the U.S. Congressman, both lying? The whole thing looks highly suspicious,
but whether the Israeli government ignored the warnings of a Hamas attack, so
they could have justification to take military action in Gaza, isn't entirely
proven, even if it appears likely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The big shots in the Labour Party have made Azhar
Ali apologise for his remarks because they bow and scrape in a very greasy and
subservient way to the Israeli government and Marie van der Zyl OBE, the
President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. They have also withdrawn party
support for Azhar Ali who will now have to stand as an independent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Labour Party leader, Tory-lite Sir Kier
Starmer-oid, who says publicly, "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
support Zionism without qualification</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" has tilted the Labour Party
sharply towards supporting the Israeli ultra-right-wing coalition government of
Benjamin Netanyahu. In doing so, Starmer-oid is in danger of losing the Muslim
Labour vote.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since 7 October 2023, over 28,000 people have been
killed in Gaza including over 10,000 innocent children, and in excess of 67,000
Palestinians, have been wounded. Despite the death toll and charges of "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">genocidal intent</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" levelled against
Israel by South Africa and other countries, Starmer-oid has refused to back
calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. He has said this would "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">embolden</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" Hamas to commit more acts
of violence. Starmer-oid, a former human rights lawyer, has also said that
Israel has the right to deny the people of Gaza energy and water. Under
international law, this is considered a war crime.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Last summer, Starmer-oid backed calls for a ban on
UK concerts by the former Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters, alleging that he
"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">clearly espoused antisemitic views</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"
and that his concerts should be called off to stop him spreading his "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">troubling</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">" beliefs. Starmer-oid
called for the ban after receiving a complaint about Rogers Waters from Marie
van der Zyl. Waters, a supporter of the Palestinian people, denied the
allegations and called Starmer-oid a "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">loathsome
snake</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." In a post on Twitter, Waters wrote: "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Keep the Israeli Lobby out of UK politics</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-11593968213393308312024-02-13T18:06:00.000+00:002024-02-13T18:06:07.198+00:00Disgraced former MP to stand in Rochdale!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2PHWu7yVmgv344MciAL0Yjo-nP_2eVSQZ-SnuLh9GGC2chIL7cZ01BsIviQXVObMmYkZ_6e2BWpHuzcc0Z6-ruRUyAwBVPBGAUgr5SlIqjua98XbjfWzjI4GrxOoDx-Os_dI02vXvemA_-0a2Mo3SdPhRUdBB-hbnpd-9TgBXC_VDhJBqQUrAexzZEZQ/s299/Danczuc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2PHWu7yVmgv344MciAL0Yjo-nP_2eVSQZ-SnuLh9GGC2chIL7cZ01BsIviQXVObMmYkZ_6e2BWpHuzcc0Z6-ruRUyAwBVPBGAUgr5SlIqjua98XbjfWzjI4GrxOoDx-Os_dI02vXvemA_-0a2Mo3SdPhRUdBB-hbnpd-9TgBXC_VDhJBqQUrAexzZEZQ/w400-h225/Danczuc.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Simon Danczuc</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>No Show Without Punch</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>By Les May</b></div><p></p><p>So Simon Danczuk, or as he is more commonly referred to these days, ‘The disgraced Simon Danczuk’ has decided that he is ready to inflict himself upon the good people of Rochdale yet again. Just when we were trying to forget our shame that in 2018 a Labour councillor, Faisal Rana, had voted twice in a local election and escaped censure, we find that our town is back in the news after Simon announced he was to be the Reform Party candidate at the next election seemingly standing on a platform of stopping inward migration across the English Channel. The evident lack of success at this, which seems likely to become the graveyard of the political ambitions of Rishi Sunak, ought to be a warning to all who are tempted to vote for Simon because of course saying you are going to do something isn’t the same as actually doing it. But once he’s got his bum back on the House of Commons benches it will be five years on the expenses gravy train, with all those potentially lucrative newspaper columns and ‘photo-ops’, before he can be called to account.</p><div><p></p><p>Naturally so far the column inches have all mentioned his ‘sexting’ escapade in 2017 and his supposed ‘outing’ of Cyril Smith in 2012. But as readers of Northern Voices will already know Cyril Smith was ‘outed’ in 1979 in the columns of ‘The Rochdale Alternative Paper’, (RAP) by the editors David Bartlett and John Walker.</p><p></p><p>If you have never heard of Simon or just want to refresh your memory of the way he and his co-author managed to turn a few grains of fact about Cyril Smith’s antics at Cambridge House Hostel in the 1960s into a book of ‘flowery flannel’ in the shape of ‘Smile for the Camera ’ published in 2014, then I urge you to scan the past pages of the NV blog where you will find that Simon was mentioned in no less than 259 articles and not always favourably.</p><p></p><p>Happy hunting!</p></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-67058901966398000432024-01-30T18:17:00.000+00:002024-01-30T18:17:22.117+00:00Could humans colonize Mars?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPxVZet0sYjjgJGmU-DD40yNtFCBL271SjOYMa25usouNAML8k4bIcLqyNHNKm5NQ55TMqKGmAwqUx-NMXBuuEOruDxq1jIqVz2qEhLQ591VB7KCcyzBsyx-4IAi5FXgcAgsyftixK6FxCLOaxlJrxok35RkB94O5O3N38hdNh6G47ftNGDxxMR4Ti7Y/s300/Mars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPxVZet0sYjjgJGmU-DD40yNtFCBL271SjOYMa25usouNAML8k4bIcLqyNHNKm5NQ55TMqKGmAwqUx-NMXBuuEOruDxq1jIqVz2qEhLQ591VB7KCcyzBsyx-4IAi5FXgcAgsyftixK6FxCLOaxlJrxok35RkB94O5O3N38hdNh6G47ftNGDxxMR4Ti7Y/w400-h224/Mars.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Mars</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
video footage we've seen of the planet Mars compiled by NASA is absolutely
amazing and is a tremendous technological achievement. I know that Elon Musk
wants to colonize Mars with humans but how could human beings possibly live on
Mars and who would want to? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Mars
is a toxic planet and it takes seven months to get there in a spaceship. It's
also difficult to make a landing on the planet's surface and to get off it. The
Martian atmosphere contains hardly any oxygen and the soil is toxic. Humans
would also be exposed to radiation. It's a very cold planet with average
temperatures of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit and Martian gravity is only a third
of what it is on Earth. A human weighs less on Mars but the lower gravitational
pull would lead to muscle atrophy. The planet is prone to dust storms that can
go on for long periods of time. If a human was exposed to the Martian
atmosphere, they would asphyxiate as air would be sucked out of their lungs
causing the lungs to implode. The blood would also boil because fluids in the
human body would vaporize. It's all because of low pressure and the thin
atmosphere of Mars. A human would also freeze to death. They say a dead human
body on mars would not decompose as it would on Earth because it would dry out
and mummify. It's not surprising that they've found no life on Mars. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">We
should consider ourselves fortunate to live on the blue planet with its diverse
forms of life, abundance of water and oxygen. It's a beautiful planet and we
should take better care of it and one another. We inhabit a rotating planet
that is suspended in a black void called space, with scarcely a clue, why we're
here or what real purpose we serve in the overall scheme of things. We may well
be the only form of human life in the entire universe. It's truly amazing and difficult
to comprehend.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-74506849884986097922024-01-30T18:10:00.000+00:002024-01-30T18:10:25.898+00:00Sunak accused of having "blood on his hands"!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7K3UXGUAYw8YWo3xnouXBbyFmy8JB_CXGxtNUoAfJZze1uq4CaWIYLr6EQB-PF0JQRsw6nc-_POorSpvhtFUdQCwlq8GK1kAi9r6xUxrtbiMvH2o8ymr5nah2mTJTzcreOZsgrL1VlAM6Ydf8obkLRNR3aX_xkIsTL19YV_N1ayckBAnl6cVGNxGzAZY/s300/Sunak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7K3UXGUAYw8YWo3xnouXBbyFmy8JB_CXGxtNUoAfJZze1uq4CaWIYLr6EQB-PF0JQRsw6nc-_POorSpvhtFUdQCwlq8GK1kAi9r6xUxrtbiMvH2o8ymr5nah2mTJTzcreOZsgrL1VlAM6Ydf8obkLRNR3aX_xkIsTL19YV_N1ayckBAnl6cVGNxGzAZY/w400-h224/Sunak.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Rishi Sunak</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In a heated intervention in the House of Commons, Tair Ali,
the Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green, accused the UK's unelected
Conservative Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, of "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">having the blood of thousands of innocent people on his hands</i>"
over his stance during the Israel-Gaza conflict. He told the House of Commons
that while Sunak had spoken of Israel's respect for international law, recently
released documents showed that the "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Foreign
Office had serious concerns with Israel's compliance with international
humanitarian law and its ongoing assault on Gaza</i>." The Labour MP said
this assessment had been hidden from parliament. He called on Sunak to call for
an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and to end the British arms trade with Israel.
Sunak's rather pathetic response was to declare "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That's the changed face of the Labour Party</i>." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In a tweet on X, Bella Wallersteiner, called this an "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Utterly appalling intervention from an
elected representative</i>." While Israeli indiscriminate carpet bombing
and Israeli military intervention in Gaza have led to the deaths of over 26,000
people with more than 64,000 wounded, many of whom, are innocent women and
children, Wallersteiner has the gall and effrontery to say that Israel is fighting
for the values we hold dearest in the UK and that this country will continue to
stand by Israel. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">More than 10,000 innocent children have been killed by Israeli
airstrikes and ground operations in Gaza since the 7th of October. According to
a press release issued by Save the Children on 30 November 2023, Israeli
soldiers and settlers have killed at least 63 children in the West Bank since
the 7th October and yet we're expected to believe, that racist apartheid
Israel, is fighting for the values we hold dear in Britain. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How Sunak can talk of Israel's respect for international law
and keep his face straight at the same time, is mind boggling. Israel's
military occupation of the West Bank since 1967, is illegal under international
law and so are the Israeli settlements built in the West Bank, East Jerusalem,
and the Golan Heights. Apart from the Americans, the rest of the international
community considers the Golan Heights to be Syrian territory held under Israeli
military occupation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In total some 450,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank
in contravention of international law along with 220,000 settlers in East
Jerusalem and 25,000 in the Golan Heights. They are considered to be Israeli
occupied territories and in violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva
Convention. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The recent ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
restraining Israel from committing potentially genocidal acts in Gaza, is
rather embarrassing for the U.K. and U.S. governments, who belittled South
Africa's case that Israel was guilty of "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">genocidal intent</i>." Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state
called South Africa's case meritless and Britain's Foreign Secretary, David
Cameron, warned South Africa not to bandy around with words such as genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-17574417152296866522024-01-30T17:57:00.000+00:002024-01-30T17:57:09.232+00:00Tameside MPs abstain on Gaza ceasefire vote.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwl4300kZjVd23yp57FwzTjkoN2HA3Jdit6dICLRyTWgdNIuKxvzjjAr8lZb6x_TPGsP_ZjUhYwWjkXkClNNb4Mu2pFDEvUpogPP1gne_wiLfQgVNEtXM2_zunPxhQJllfMxEnHNvHP2JdMuGecpudEXAi2mH68JvmUnw58VnYcp-F66m9F8RXb6yysng/s303/Israel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="303" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwl4300kZjVd23yp57FwzTjkoN2HA3Jdit6dICLRyTWgdNIuKxvzjjAr8lZb6x_TPGsP_ZjUhYwWjkXkClNNb4Mu2pFDEvUpogPP1gne_wiLfQgVNEtXM2_zunPxhQJllfMxEnHNvHP2JdMuGecpudEXAi2mH68JvmUnw58VnYcp-F66m9F8RXb6yysng/w400-h219/Israel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Both
Jonathan Reynolds and Andrew Gwynne have connections with Labour Friends of
Israel (LFI). Gwynne is a former Chairman of LFI and Reynolds is a vice
chairman of LFI. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">In
2018, Reynolds and Gwynne were criticised for visiting Israel as part of a
delegation, at a time, when over sixty Palestinian demonstrators had been shot
dead in Gaza and thousands seriously wounded. The visit or jolly, had been
organised and paid for by LFI. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Angela
Rayner is a supporter of Labour Friends of Palestine & the Middle East and
so is the former Trotskyist, Sir Keir Starmer-oid, who is also a supporter of
LFI. As the leader of Labour Party, Starmer-oid has said publicly, "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I support Zionism without qualification</i>."
He's also said that Israel 'has the right' to withhold power and water from
Gaza, which some regard as a war crime. With friends like Starmer-oid who needs
enemies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">At
a Chanukah event in 2018, Angela Rayner, expressed regret and apologised for
quoting from the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'The Holocaust
Industry'</i> by the anti-Zionist, Norman Finkelstein, who claims that the U.S.
Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Holocaust for political and
financial gain. In a Facebook post, Rayner wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As Norman G Finkelstein writes in his
seminal book The Holocaust Industry it is important to fight for and preserve
the integrity of the historical record</i>." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
Board of Deputies of British Jews had faced calls to disinvite Rayner from the
Chanukah event because she had cited Finkelstein. Ivor Caplin, chairman of the
Jewish Labour Movement, called on Rayner to 'apologise immediately' adding,
"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There is nothing seminal about
accusing the Jewish community of collectively abusing the memory of the
Holocaust</i>." Angela Rayner said the quote had been taken out of context
and that she'd been reflecting on her visit to Auschwitz and how important it
was to remember the Holocaust and to continually challenge and confront
antisemitism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Last
November, all three Tameside MPs, abstained in a House of Commons vote calling
for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. On Friday, the International Court of
Justice (ICJ), ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide but
stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire. It also called on Israel
to improve the humanitarian situation for Palestinian civilians and to ensure
that its troops commit no genocidal acts in Gaza. Israeli officials responded
by accusing the ICJ of anti-Semitic bias.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-60114490861362814362024-01-22T16:46:00.001+00:002024-01-22T16:46:42.897+00:00The pervasiveness of English 'Podsnappery'. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjN7fH36HvM9S-pabz94jSlRVDKrmKMFVLCU6QWpovmKE_cvgMrV2yjscs0Rz6o3_4niqrCkq0CqwarnOlSuJOrS2fNRvOEVHmwBxJUvoQHVtoUwXHszh2OcZ4sYQTZmskMrkPmo1jmJsyOlFyvSG3gpSfNa1DxznsGoE3tP_oxizolg9fA2v3zIWPxXE/s850/Podsnap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjN7fH36HvM9S-pabz94jSlRVDKrmKMFVLCU6QWpovmKE_cvgMrV2yjscs0Rz6o3_4niqrCkq0CqwarnOlSuJOrS2fNRvOEVHmwBxJUvoQHVtoUwXHszh2OcZ4sYQTZmskMrkPmo1jmJsyOlFyvSG3gpSfNa1DxznsGoE3tP_oxizolg9fA2v3zIWPxXE/w400-h189/Podsnap.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As I write this, it's absolutely freezing outside.
I can't believe that anybody would choose to sleep outside on a night like this
if they had other options. You're literally putting your life at risk of dying
of hypothermia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some fools like </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cruella Braverman, the former Tory British
Home Secretary, would have us believe that being homeless is a lifestyle
choice. It might be for the odd individual, but make no mistake, homelessness
can happen to anybody.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I think many of us in Britain could learn a great
deal about British society from reading the novels of Charles Dickens. When
Dickens wrote </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'Our Mutual Friend'</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">
during 1864-5, starvation, want and neglect, claimed more lives over the course
of any given year, than the later Jack the Ripper Whitechapel murders did, over
a period of three years. It wasn't unusual to find people dead in the streets
of London.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The theme of food and hunger pervades throughout
much of Victorian literature. While half the Victorian population subsisted on
almost nothing, the other half, as V.S. Pritchett noted, was "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">disgustedly overfed</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." The Victorian
upper classes, enjoyed the luxury of eating fifteen-dish meals. The wealthiest
of Victorians often believed that the poor had only themselves to blame for
their pitiful existence and shouldn't be helped or they were indifferent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Our Mutual Friend, Dickens satirizes the English
middle-classes through the character of John Podsnap, a rich, pompous,
self-satisfied complacent upper-class Englishman. '</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Podsnappery'</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> has come to symbolise smugness and complacency and a
refusal to recognise unpleasant facts. It needs to be rooted out like knotweed and disposed of. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Britain, we're still living with the legacy of
much Victorian thinking about sturdy beggars and the deserving and undeserving
poor. There is a great deal of Podsnappery about. Braverman could easily have
fallen out of the pages of a Dickens novel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-40032650020821058312024-01-22T16:33:00.000+00:002024-01-22T16:33:31.951+00:00The French see the English has politically docile. Is this true?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoJMkiOMKo6Q7HyWT8Nkp6-3mCc-6fqhaWGn6pq5T4gQsI17VTpRcVTJgbtazRFwtDPBfPqmnNZ8D7eRAfwjhctCIQ20yBFOmqVd6VQoKBrhkGzQaAJ_B2i0EnvTUYT2T42X81uUiwvOmhHTs43WMMQGWAZud8r4VVuE2Gf3OGuRZ7Lug3yv5qDDRv854/s1200/French.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoJMkiOMKo6Q7HyWT8Nkp6-3mCc-6fqhaWGn6pq5T4gQsI17VTpRcVTJgbtazRFwtDPBfPqmnNZ8D7eRAfwjhctCIQ20yBFOmqVd6VQoKBrhkGzQaAJ_B2i0EnvTUYT2T42X81uUiwvOmhHTs43WMMQGWAZud8r4VVuE2Gf3OGuRZ7Lug3yv5qDDRv854/w400-h300/French.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
best thing I like about the French is their militancy. There's a tradition of
revolution and taking direct action in France. The barricades were always going
up in Paris. Now and again French people take to the streets to show the
politicians who's really in charge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
French see the English has being supine. They think the English allow
themselves to be used as doormats by capitalists and politicians. There's a
germ of truth in this, but in the 18th century, England was considered one of
the most riot prone countries in Europe. In the years leading up to WWI,
strikes and industrial unrest, were a common feature of life in Britain.
Moreover, the English have never had a Vichy France or a Petain and Laval who
collaborated with the Nazis. As Winston Churchill couldn't be certain which
side the French would join, he sank the French navy to stop their ships falling
into enemy hands. France wasn't liberated by the allies until 1944. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">England
certainly had Nazi sympathisers like Oswald Mosley and his British Union of
Fascists. Nazi sympathisers could also be found amongst the English
aristocracy, the Tory Party, and the House of Lords. Many of these aristocrats,
like the Duke of Windsor, would have sold us out to the Germans. Lord Semphill,
spied for Japan, but was never prosecuted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The
author George Orwell, said that the English upper classes didn't really
understand Hitler, but what they did understand, was that Hitler was an
anti-communist and on the side of the dividend drawer. There's no doubt that
Winston Churchill had fascists sympathies and had initially admired Hitler's
political skills and nerve. He also detested Stalin and communism. He visited
Italy in 1927, and said that Mussolini - who he called the 'Roman genius' - had
done the world a favour by crushing Bolshevism in Italy. Churchill also said
that had been Italian, he would have been a fascist. But Churchill was an
English patriot, a racist, and a staunch imperialist. He saw Hitler and the
Germans has a direct threat to the British Empire and its interests. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">As
for the 'dividend drawer', we should not forget that while millions of people
were being slaughtered in Europe by the Nazis, the German arms manufacturer
Krupp, always paid the Dividend on time to its shareholders including its
English shareholders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">At
the end of the war, the directors of I.G. Farben, including its Jewish
directors, were tried for war crimes at Nuremberg. I.G. Farben made the
Zyklon-B gas that was used in the gas chambers. The Nazis had called I.G.
Farben the citadel of Jewish capitalism.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-16474606852376088882024-01-19T15:41:00.003+00:002024-01-19T15:41:46.345+00:00Turkish journalist beaten up by Israeli soldiers<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBWjpRQDMgjwq7zpD8eo2j5X_tOsW0SoDAKK3MIgHGQG1DIcbojaGAjnEMN6JKCnLZFsgNethMrZfduYMeJHAx7vzyCoFrHZ-x7z_eyspn-TeVHUZXvklYQ9Mpca5Zhr4xQVp-VYU70Ru5i2BKCP7DOrZW6n00N9eL1nKHg8OdDE0ZEbmD2qg8ZqKlFPM/s640/Haruf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBWjpRQDMgjwq7zpD8eo2j5X_tOsW0SoDAKK3MIgHGQG1DIcbojaGAjnEMN6JKCnLZFsgNethMrZfduYMeJHAx7vzyCoFrHZ-x7z_eyspn-TeVHUZXvklYQ9Mpca5Zhr4xQVp-VYU70Ru5i2BKCP7DOrZW6n00N9eL1nKHg8OdDE0ZEbmD2qg8ZqKlFPM/s320/Haruf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When they're not killing Israeli hostages, Hamas fighters, or
innocent Palestinians, the Israeli Army are known to target and kill
journalists. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 63
journalists have been killed since 7 October while covering the Israel-Hamas
war. The majority have been killed in Gaza. The picture in this posting shows
Israeli soldiers attacking a Turkish photojournalist called Mustafa Haruf. He
was first struck in the head by a rifle and then dragged to the ground and
kicked in the head. The incident occurred in occupied East Jerusalem. Haruf who
works for the Turkish news agency Anadolu, was hospitalised with severe head
injuries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Last month the news channel Al-Jazeera, reported that eight
BBC employees had written to them criticising the BBC's "pro-Israel bias
and insufficient coverage of Palestinian civilians compared to the Israelis in
their broadcasts on the Israel-Palestine issue." The authors of the 2,300-word
letter said the BBC had "failed to critically approach Israel's claims,
couldn't tell the story accurately, and therefore couldn't help the public
understand human rights violations in Gaza." They said the BBC used terms
like "massacre" and "brutality" only for Hamas, and
portrayed the Palestinian group as the sole provocateur of violence in the
region. They claim the BBC carefully portrays Israeli suffering by telling
audiences the names of the victims, covering funerals, and interviewing
families. Yet, in comparison, the BBC journalists say that humanising coverage
by the BBC of Palestinian civilians, has been singularly lacking. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why is it that we're told the names of the Israeli hostages
abducted by Hamas, but not the names of the innocent Palestinian women and
children who have been killed in their thousands by Israeli carpet bombing?
Obviously, to the BBC, some lives are more important than others. The eight BBC
journalists, who have requested anonymity, "fearing reprisal",
accused the corporation of "double standards' in how it reports on war
crimes and the war in the Ukraine, with its reporting on the conflict in Gaza
which has seen over 17,000 people killed, including many women and children.
Over 10,000 children have been killed or are lost under the rubble and presumed
dead following the Israeli carpet bombing of Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Israeli authorities claim that 1,200 Israelis were killed
by Hamas in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attack on 7
October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Britain, neither the
Conservative government of Rishi Sunak or the Labour Party led by Sir Keir
Starmer-oid, have called for a ceasefire in Gaza. In failing to call for a
ceasefire, are they condoning genocide and ethnic cleansing? In October, Paul
Bristow, a Conservative MP, was sacked from his government job when he called
for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-64924008764953605102024-01-19T15:15:00.000+00:002024-01-19T15:15:48.016+00:00Are all men potential rapists? Some women seem to think so.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5eQ3VgojfP9I2FSTV6NJgKWmOnyklqnnrLIIHtl_gJbQcz-fw3ImVVPteHhgOcDA-JeoIZqFygsVr6Gtxbq-qG4f9Loxxk-zMkq7tmfb_pfgDRx2lhR7MlhHsDyMt6GVjuj_v3tDLTEDprk0usBbu22X3VDO0IMRluahmLj4Kmj3lTm0NC2pZ1PnKetg/s234/Russell%20Brand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="216" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5eQ3VgojfP9I2FSTV6NJgKWmOnyklqnnrLIIHtl_gJbQcz-fw3ImVVPteHhgOcDA-JeoIZqFygsVr6Gtxbq-qG4f9Loxxk-zMkq7tmfb_pfgDRx2lhR7MlhHsDyMt6GVjuj_v3tDLTEDprk0usBbu22X3VDO0IMRluahmLj4Kmj3lTm0NC2pZ1PnKetg/w369-h400/Russell%20Brand.jpg" width="369" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Russell Brand</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The feminist pitchfork mob seems to have it in for
the comedian and TV presenter Russell Brand. Has Brand been charged or
convicted of any crime? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jess Phillips, Labour's former Minister for
Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, said that women who accused Brand of sexual
impropriety, which he denies, were effectively "</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">made to feel like they have to prove themselves</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">." Really?
Isn't tangible evidence the basis of any prosecution in English law? Aren't
people supposed to be innocent until proven guilty?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 2018, Jess Phillips claimed to have been
bombarded with 600 rape threats in one night. Jess seems to think that all men
are potential rapists. Rape or any kind of sexual assault is a serious
business, but so are false allegations of rape or sexual assault which do
occur.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Last January, Eleanor Williams, aged 22 from Barrow
in Furness, was sentenced to eight and a half years imprisonment after falsely
accusing men of rape and trafficking her for sex. These false allegations
devastated people's lives. A court found that her allegations were totally made
up. She was in fact a rape fantasist who self-inflicted injuries on herself
with a hammer and then posted it on social media to get attention.</span></p><b></b></div><p></p>Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.com0