If There's A Competition For 'Worst Take On The German Christmas Market Massacre'...

...then I think I've found it. This went up before the engine had cooled and the bodies had been counted. You think you hate the MSM? You don't hate them enough.

The serious prospect of Reform as viable opposition?

… and as such … govt.

Two ex-Tories discussing Reform, Miriam Cates current Tory … to be expected … however … that does not negate the clear issues within Reform which also plague the Tories even now … wets v dries, Uniparty v Conservative people, ideologically.

Then there is the Carswell factor … are these two plants or in Jenkyns’s case … trying Reform out. Let’s give credit where it’s due and let’s say they’re genuine and the aim is to build … is being anti-Wokerati, anti-Uniparty sufficient or is it too broad a church to survive?

On the latter point … well aren’t the Tories too broad a church themselves?  Well yes, but with a long history and ferocious whips. I’ve oft-written about the fundamental problem with Party per se before country.

Reform must attract investment … that’s Farage/Tice, plus they must stay ideologically pure, i.e the Lowe/Anderson position … they must bring in sufficient M25, as well as working class Brit … then there is the male-female thing … they will probably sort the real migrant v spurious issue at fierce meetings.

What do the public need? Assurance that Farage won’t sell them out to the Tories again … sorry but that’s the perception … plus that a broader cross-section of social strata can be accommodated … more centrist without mass dismay and desertion.

In short, Reform MUST have heated discussions to hammer out policy recognised as such by the international west.  DJT’s admin will be watched carefully over there.  For how long? Well, Reform are certainly not ready yet … so 2025 is the year.  Depends how long Britain can stand Starmer.

Plus there (cough) IS actually still a Tory Party … splitting the vote with Reform … that’s the most vital question of all. If you take the numbers of Labour, red rosette types, other forms of socialist, CINOs … how many are they, combined, versus true pro Britain people?

Are Reform seriously possible as the senior partner in a coalition?  Will Old Tories ever brook that?

My feeling is … increasingly, as the ageing young come into it more.  Different ballgame is developing. 🍿🍿🍿

Any ideas, Sherlock?

There’s a cartoon meme with two charts on the wall listing the spike in crime and the spike in something else … an observer then asks Holmes the titular question above.

Obliquely, here’s another way to come at the issue in Magdeburg:

And here’s yet another way:

All right … that’s that you’d think but no … I’ve just posted it, a crime in the eyes of those determined to take offence, whilst they know full well what it’s all about … every single person in the west knows excepting Woke left yoof and ageing champagne socialists …

… but were you to make any comment below, you’d have made yourself complicit in their evil eyes … better to just leave it be I’d suggest.

Which does leave us with the conundrum, does it not? In the US, the people have made their move, action is on its way … but in Soviet Britain, under The Beloved Leader Kim Jong Granny Harmer?

Just give me the one page summary

The long and the short of it is that it's all well and fine Elon writing, in response to the Demrat/RINO win in the House in Washington about an hour ago, it being 02:04 a.m. GMT:

... because even though the Machine was certainly discommoded, temporarily, for a day yesterday, with MAGA and therefore the antiWoke crowing, even in this country, about "people power" ... I for one went on to read the fine print and knew they had until their midnight Friday for the evil muvvers to concoct a different way of ramming through more destruction ... just as the Granny Harmer is doing here, stacking the Lords.

Whoa!  How do I know all this? It's my job to, plus a few people at our site over there, Julia here ... a drop in the ocean so to speak. Given that we across the way are older, with health issues and Julia here is fulltime employed ... then it's unrealistic for us to be able to comprehensively cover every vital topic, particularly as we're being deliberately flooded with issues to overwhelm the "citizen pundit" and there's an expertise gap as well, plus we have homes to upkeep and maintain, chores to do.

How many reading this now are fully aware, can grasp the fine detail of why the evil Jeffries was crowing half an hour ago, Biden plus Harris having flown back in just for this, that the Demrats and RINOS are chortling that they can now F America over good and proper for Trump on Jan 20, plus his much trumpeted team, plus the American people ... so much for the promised tax cuts to the needy ... even a Brit can understand that ... at least grannies can.

For what it's worth, here are some screenshots of the past two hours, it now being 2:23 a.m. GMT:

The tactic by which the omnibus was jemmied through?  Confuse and confound, offer each GOPer sweeteners, personally or in some cases, have them stand on "principle" ... it was diabolically clever ... for those remotely interested, a link to the bill is across the way at our place.

For the average bear (soc-med reader), the only thing they need to know is Jeffries crowing to the assembled MSM in delight.  Digressing from the issue itself and looking at just what we can and cannot do as ordinary people to keep these bstds at bay from harming us ... yes, we may be millions upon millions of voters but we're confused and confounded voters, unable to combine due to dearth of good data ... deliberately distorted data like fake Met weather station reports, like covid vaxx efficacy, like every other issue we're beset with ... all at once ... with enough on our plates without having to worry about some complexity across the pond or even our ditch.

For example ... Magdeburg. Why have I not touched it yet? Because I've been covering the House mess. There's only so much one person can do, an ageing person, unpaid, with health issues ... multiply that by the number of us bringing the stories in ... what, two dozen of us being up to speed on the major headlines?

Then consider censorship all the way down ... airtime provider, platform, device, browser, search engine ... at each and every link in the chain is the potential to F us about ... accounts suspended, blogs stolen ... let me count the ways.

Moaning?  Realistic! We are designed not to get our act together, something MAGA and Reform were showing signs of ... still are.  Anyway, at 2:43 a.m. GMT, I'm off to get some kip, all right?

If At First You Don't Succeed....

...stick on a wig and some lippy, and try again!

A trainee firefighter has been accused of jumping the queue to qualify after they failed to pass the physical exam as a man and then said they were changing gender to 'take advantage of lower pass marks' required by female candidates.

*gets the popcorn* 

The candidate, known as David, initially failed to pass the exam as a man by not achieving a high enough score. But shortly after receiving the news, it has been claimed the firefighter then announced they were changing gender.

Just like that? Yes, apparently. This is Spain. 

According to the rules in Spain, a woman can qualify by achieving a lower score in the physical tests because of the strength differences between sexes. It comes as Spain introduced its Trans Law last year, which allows anyone to legally change gender without medical evaluation or justification on psychological grounds.

Well, you made your beds, senors, now you get to lie in them!  

These evil muvvers most certainly want war

… and I’m not sure they’re too particular between whom … in foreign lands, civil war here, revolution perchance … all the while thumbing their noses at “the plebs”, meaning those not of the cabal, including even moneyed players.

That’s the only conclusion I and others can reach after these four screenshots below … from here, from the US where it just blew up yesterday, plus one from the Spectator, Oz.

We have this curious situation where we’re all concerned, each in his or her own country, for his or her own country, for our place in that … but at the same time, this is occurring in every western country … by design … see the similarity of tone in each, from different parts of the world.

Really, it’s no accident, not least in the mass influx of “guests” … fighting age male. And through it all is a consistent pattern of out and out lying to the assembly, to the voters. In Britain,the latest is the WASPI ladies … in the US is Johnson turning his back on his words from months ago … and trying to brazenly defend this porkbarrelling before Christmas … which at least is Christmas again in 2024.

The ever present question is the one posed by the global cabal behind the puppets … deriding us … wotchagonnadoaboutit, eh?

Isn't It Time They Faced Charges Of Aiding And Abetting?

A schizophrenic artist stabbed a dog walker to death after being allowed out of a mental hospital despite a warning that she had ‘discussed murdering people’, an inquest heard today. Emma Borowy, 32, was sectioned after stealing and slaughtering two goats in a ‘witchcraft’ ceremony. But doctors continued to grant the mother-of-one short spells of leave from the unit despite Borowy repeatedly absconding and twice being found armed with a knife.

Yes, it's this case.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Dilraj Sohi insisted that ward staff would have asked police for any ‘relevant’ information. He confirmed he hadn’t met Borowy before granting her leave on August 4, having just taken over as her doctor. Asked by senior coroner Tanyka Rawden if this was ‘acceptable’, Dr Sohi said ward notes assessed her as ‘settled’ in preceding days.

Then why are you collecting a salary for not doing your job and actually meeting the people you're supposed to be assessing? 

Coroner Ms Rawden asked the psychiatrist whether the speed of her deterioration made him ‘reflect’ on whether Borowy should have been granted leave. Dr Sohi replied that he had ‘reflected a lot’, but that he would probably have approved it even if he had assessed her face-to-face first.

WTAF? 

‘We do live in hope that people will improve when we try to work with them,’ he added.

And everyone else takes the risk caused by your hopeless naivety, of course. 

Mr Leadbeater was described by his family as a ‘good, hard-working and decent man’ whose job was to drive children with special needs to school.

Why should Sohi continue to be employed? Indeed, why should he not face charges of aiding and abetting Mt Leadbetter's murder? If they had to face genuine consequenses for their decisions, they'd make better ones. 

It’s that nativity time again

My comment on DAD’s item was:

Grand idea at the naturalisation exam, in French language … explain the Nativity story, whether or not you buy it. Another question is to explain laïcité, whether or not you buy it, also the St Bartholomew’s massacre, whichever side you’re on, also the foreign legion, perhaps Vietnam, Algeria.

And DAD’s item:

This year, again, the installation of a nativity scene in the courtyard of the town hall of Beaucaire, in the Gard, is causing controversy. After the Human Rights League (LDH) filed a legal appeal, the town will have to explain itself on Wednesday, December 18, before the administrative court of Nîmes. “There are citizens who want to be able to go to the town hall, to get a birth certificate, for a public service, and who do not want to have a religion imposed on them, whatever it may be. We are in France, a secular country, with the separation of church and state,” justified the LDH lawyer, Sophie Mazasse, in an interview with France Bleu Gard Lozère.

[What a feeble argument, Sophie, ‘your citizens’ walk in the public square with Christmas lights without worries.]

https://www.fdesouche.com/2024/12/16/beaucaire-30-la-mairie-assignee-en-justice-pour-atteinte-a-la-laicite-apres-une-plainte-de-la-ligue-des-droits-de-lhomme/

Do We Need To Book 30,000 One Way Flights, Home Office?

The Home Office would like to facilitate the return of refugees to Syria, a minister has said, saying about 6,500 asylum claims had been suspended as the government waited to assess the fallout from the end of the Assad regime.

And what about the ones already here? Claiming asylum from a regime which is no more?

Homsi is one of nearly 30,000 displaced Syrians in the UK celebrating the fall of Assad and what Keir Starmer described as his “barbaric regime” over the weekend, when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels seized power in a fast-moving offensive.

Shimale’s story is similar to Homsi’s. He came to the UK in 2016 because he would have been imprisoned if he had stayed. He said: “I’m sure I can [return to Syria] now. With Assad away, I will be able to go back.”

Ruba Sulaiman Khaled, a trainee solicitor and influencer from Stockport who has been unable to return to Syria since 2011, said she hoped there would be a “revolution, a new start for Syria” and that it was a time to “establish the country from the ground up”.

Anyone taking bets on how many will actually go back? 

The impossibility of governing by Party

Was just looking at these two ... one in Britain, one in the States:

The second was by an Xer called Publius.  With the first, there really can be conflicting realities the moment you plan to be an alternative party ... I'm not Nigel's greatest fan but what June says above is probably so ... he's the flagship ... but at the same time, whilst the council election results were good in a few areas, with wins over Labour, there's the old issue of "close but commendable" second in other, usually Tory seats of power.

With the other, Johnson has shown himself to be distinctly iffy on important matters ... not necessarily this one, as it's "sources said" again ... plus there are reports that hardline Hegseth, after talking to Senators one on one, has softened his stance on certain issues such as women on the front line, plus LBGwhatever "rights" ... which is clearly against the MAGA platform they were elected on.

Broadening this ... if your personal manifesto on a dozen issues is then broken into subdivisions of issues within issues ... what chance that if every voter were tasked on his/her stance on every sub-issue, that there'd be uniform agreement across the range ... even between two people?

So how can a Party put out a manifesto, have a platform it runs on, when that involves compromising your stance on various important matters? It seems to me to bring in two other things ... proportional representation, plus some sort of qualification to vote based on merit.

Which is, of course, fraught.  Plus the instability of minority coalition govts is a known-known ... as distinct from Starmer having a massive majority with from 20 to 25% of the eligible national vote?

I see no solutions here, only least bad compromises.