The two main issues, as of Tuesday a.m.

The two major stories this morning are the US Senate treachery in failing to kick illegals off welfare due to Thune:

and over here … this:

The optics, as they call it, are not good on either of those developments.  The timing of Ben Habib (who?) forming this one man party, albeit with tacit support from many pundits was immediately followed by Rupert Lowe launching his own initiative and the Lib Dem Sarah Pochin attacking both in support of Farage/Yusuf.

Not a good look … where can it actually go?  How far can it get?  The Tories are deliberately being useless, controlled Labour opposition … Reform certainly has the results so far, esp. at local level (councils) and their PR is better.

The problem with Reform is that straight after they score resounding grassroots victories, Farage then betrays them as usual. His agenda is simple to see and involves the very cult most Brit polling so far is down on.  More specifically, he sees himself as one of the inner powermongers, taking no truly populist position for long.

Oh and of course … the fault is all ours, seen as splitters.  Very clever.

Rupert has popular support but how many outside of the online lot know of him? Plus it’s not a party … it’s crossparty … how does that actually get legislation into place?

And there we are.

Why Are We Compensating People For This In The First Place?

An MP has raised alarm at the slow pace of a scheme to compensate LGBT service personnel dismissed or discharged from the forces because of their sexuality, saying that at the current rate it could take more than a decade to complete the process.

It was illegal to be gay and in the military back then - I undertand we are more 'enlightened' now, and it's no longer illegal (some might wonder if it's going to be made complusory!) but why on earth does this attract compensation?

Jess Brown-Fuller, the Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester, said she began examining the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme, formally launched in December, due to the experiences of a constituent, who is one of just 69 people to have been compensated, of more than 1,200 who have applied.

Brown-Fuller used a parliamentary question on Thursday to highlight Stead’s case and to push the government to make sure claims were processed more quickly.

There are other government compensation schemes ewually, if not more, deserving of a hurry up than this one - the Post Office compensation scheme, the infected blood scheme, for instance. Why is Parliamentary time not used on genuine victims of injustice, not people who knew full well that they were breaching regulations going in?

“It will take years to settle all of these applications, and veterans in their 60s, 70s and 80s potentially don’t have years for those payments to be settled,” Brown-Fuller said. “My frustration is shared by the LGBTQ+ veterans, because they’re angry, they’re frustrated and they’re disappointed that they’re still experiencing these delays. “I think the government is totally aware of the issue, because there is cross-party support for this scheme. What it is not fully grasping is that the minister needs to get a handle on how quickly those payments are going out and the process.”

Of course, the modern MoD is happy to roll over and show it's belly to the least threat these days, even the displeasure of a LimpDumb MP: 

An MoD spokesperson said: “We deeply regret the treatment of LGBT serving personnel between 1967 and 2000 which was wholly unacceptable.

 But was the law then, for good reason, and no-one turned a hair. It's only that it's now viewed with modern day sensibilities that this reflexive crinnging takes place.

“While we don’t hold comprehensive records of personnel discharged due to sexuality, we’re working with organisations like Fighting with Pride to ensure that we reach as many LGBT veterans who may have been affected. “We also encourage anyone who may think that they’re affected to contact us so that we can see if we can help, and the Home Office also runs the disregards and pardons scheme for people wishing to have historic ‘offences’ wiped from their records.”

Why is 'offences' in inverted comments? - according to the law and custom back then, that's what they were. 

The nefarious, hellbent in their own particular way

A couple of years back or more, I became aware, as did many, via Polly, of other names and organisations such as GAVI, PEPFAR, names also such as David Brock … nefarious people. We know of Mark Elias. Over here, there was a Geoff Mulgan doing his worst with Common Purpose … is the public aware?

Hardly, just as the clown MSM need it to be.  Plus people are either “not interested in politics” or find it all daunting.  This below is in the same vein and is a nice setting out as to how the nefarious operate:

Housing OR remigration

… or housing PLUS remigration?

There is no way to build enough homes to house them all the way they’re multiplying now.  I ran a youtube on worst seaside towns now and one was Southend. Our Julia wrote:

The thing that’s killing Southend and many other seaside towns is HMOs- and London councils shipping their undesirables to them!

One commenter on the tweet above replied to the question:

What if govt kept building at a lower rate, nicely designed places … PLUS remigrated, say, 20 million within 5 years?

……

Anyway, that’s a bold idea but the implementing of it is, at this time, pie in the sky … even were some enterprising strong leader to remove the “illegal” numbers, what of those who went about it the right way, some generations back?  In short, they’ve very much integrated?

Plus, in a ramshackle, rundown country where even the RAF planes are leased from a hedgefund these days … whose army is going to march into the ghettoes and do this thing?

I for one suspect that economic necessity is going to decide it all … and not that much further into the future either.

The Fabians

First bombshell … I was one, once, in university, but not for long … as a student, I then went all anarchist (we used to send our demands to the admin on loo roll).  However, I rebelled against the Fabian Party as it was at university, me being radical and all.

Oh, and gradually I grew up … went Tory most of my political life … now I’m a rebel against Yusuf, Farage, Tice … such is life.  Here’s something on the Fabians I’ve been saving up two days:

Whom to believe?

That’s the question I’m left with this Tuesday morn, also whether to run first up with Trump’s reported 12 day journey from bombing to a ceasefire, with Carney’s announcement that he’s aligning Canada with the EU to bring in a NWO, with the bombed church in Damascus and aftermath, with the non-comp theatre in the UK parlmt … or the one I shall run with, below.

If I use the word “I” here deliberately, it’s because someone is certainly making those statements in the previous paragraph as if they’re true, valid, as if they hold water.

You the reader, on the other hand, are deciding by applying tests in your mind … does this appear at source X or not, is it corroborated or not elsewhere, just what sort of thing is this Higham pumping out anyway (Unherdables across the way) and many other checks you apply.

And Mary Tally-Bowden … that’s pretty big time to be on Rogan …pretty august company … how accurate is Rogan? And anyway, how did her voice rise to be heard? And why am I running that when there are any number of British issues?

Short answer is that the Americans aren’t shy at putting out the info.  Here tis:

Also, why am I using the Unherdables method of screenshots when I could have copied and pasted?  There’s more work with the screenshots … they use up far more space.

The answer is partly over at our place … Steve, a military man, mentioned the seismic readings of those three blasts in Iran, quite a distance away … can he be believed … whilst others are unsure there actually was any bombing … can they be believed? What is the hobbyhorse of each typer?

In the end, we come down to bona fides … whom do we believe on each question?  In this new way of gleaning information, seeking veracity, are we going to find that veracity in the MSM, with its reasons to conceal, or do we further explore what MTB said on Rogan, if she said it at all, if there even is a Rogan … don’t forget “AI” today?

The difficulty in Iran “rising up”

Yes, it would be very nice if they did, the ordinary folk:

… but I’m not sure it will happen that way. Thing is, it’s not just the oppressed women, is it?  And so many of them have Stockholm Syndrome.  

Then there are the men, quite happily wifebeating, blinding their women in one eye, raping, burning, multiple “wives”.

How will the girls of Iran overcome all that?

Sarah Pochin v Reform

The matter does need to be looked at in Britain.

As for me, Reform members, workers, helpers, supporters, are on the whole good people … on most issues, we’re at one.  Most issues.

But not the gang of three at the top … and now, certainly not Sarah Pochin, the ex LibDum:

There’s a broader aspect to all this, split into these points and more:

* FPTP is a nightmare within which, along with gerrymandering, a “Party” with 20% or so of eligible votes gets to say what the 80% don’t want, with no comeback whatever due to the rules.

It’s said that proportional leads to weak govt but look at two systems … first ours … has strong govt helped us withe the likes of Starmer and the Uniparty?  Then there’s Europe which has its own ways of stopping the most popular candidate.

*  What about false manifesto claims? Being elected on one platform, then suddenly doing the opposite, arbitrarily?  There are no laws in the UK to stop this … so the monster destroys the country … legally.

*  The British are far too docile and compliant … even resigned to things … sign of a defeated population, as with the Time Machine Eloi. Why?  Lucy Connolly, Bernie Spofforth, Allison Pearson.  It’s bullying culture, from schooldays.  Also look after n1, hoping the crocodile gets to them last.

*  “Party” by definition, in this 1984 context, is an impossibility. Take five people agreeing perhaps on half the current issues. Sarah Pochin even agrees with most of the coubtry on half the issues. What of the other half?  This is where “Party” is a tyrannical monster, bludgeoning, via whip, anyone disagreeing on this or that.

Rather than calling that “strong leadership”, how about calling it suppression of valid views?  Slippery slope.

*  The loss of decency, ethics, moral compass from discourse and doings. Which morality characterised the west?  Basic Christian precepts … how many turned away just now, didn’t want me to continue with this line?  Now look at what fills that vacuum out there … a better society?

Look, I’m the first to hide in a back room if two men in suits, carrying a bible or book of mormon or whatever rock up to my door … or if we get onto pointy hats and incense, chanting, paedo priests, the Crusades, Torquemada, Bergoglio, Welby, purple haired weird female parsons … count me one of the multitude when that sort of thing comes at us.

So … what of the new Slamophobia blasphemy laws about to be dropped on us?  Nuff for now.

Chamber of Ghouls

Here are some reactions to the week’s doings in the killing chamber:

John in Cheshire:

Celebrity Witterings

Presenter and campaigner Katie Piper has told an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales that "ageing can be compared to a bereavement."

why would anyone say anything so daft? 

Piper's latest book, which is published on Friday, is titled Still Beautiful: On Age, Beauty and Owning Your Space.

oh, say no more! 

The 41-year-old said: "Women age out of the male gaze. I was ripped from the male gaze at 24. I didn't just become invisible. I became a target for people saying derogatory things."

Derogatory things like ‘You’re talking bollocks, love’ perhaps? 

Piper, who is also a presenter on the BBC programme Songs of Praise and ITV's Loose Women. said she had recently been asked if writers minded if they mentioned her age. "It was shocking, but not surprising. This was because I had been reminded at such a young age the currency and the power a woman holds when she is considered either beautiful or young, and now here I was going through the second phase of youth slipping away and feeling, once again, society's judgement and the label that they were going to put on to me."

It’s a familiar refrain. Because we are all getting older - some of us with dignity and acceptance, some of us...clearly not!

She said she felt positive about getting older. "I'm going to be 42 in October. I'm still incredibly young to many, and old and past it to some. You realise, 'I know who I am.' I have a strong sense of self and identity. This is the heyday. This is the time of my life. So I can only imagine what's on [for the] 50s and 60s and the decades beyond. I feel excited by that second chapter."

She said if she had to give one message to her younger self, it would be: "If you've ever felt less than... you've hated yourself or felt ashamed, it was never you. It was society, consumerism and capitalism. It was beneficial to someone, somewhere, to hold you down.

Oh, boy, capitalism is forever the big bogeyman in some people’s eyes, even as they earn a nice living from it, isn’t it?