A bleak midwinter post

Usually, your humble pundit does not do personals at Orphans but I just had to today, once I saw Yorkshire Wolds Weather's magnifipic at his X site, gained his permission:

Think my time in Russia reinforced the mindset on the magnificence of winter, when nature takes her rest, everything becomes calmer, quieter, the hush of introspection usually sets in, not even the politicians can overcome the festive, yet soft mood.

Of late, I've been going back over last century, plus this one ... when events happened, what generation was in control at the time, what age I was, what music and film was popular ... for example, I have a 1941 B film up at the blog just now ... and one thing quite clear is that from 1946, the generations do go in 17 year cycles, give or take ... 1946, 63, 80, 97, 2014.

But it's only today that I realised just how much Midwinter's Day or the Solstice or whatever you call it ... through to the day after Orthodox Christmas/Pascha, which is also the day after our Twelfth Night, maybe even the following weekend which is Orthodox New Year ... just how much it means in my heart and soul ... and it all kicks off today. I feel I'm at winter's gate today, with so many festive things still to follow.

In Russia, we used to drive to the forest, get out the BBQ and have prepared, marinaded shasliki and salads, plenty of imbibing going on as well ... even in minus 12C, it did not feel cold with the winter sun on the carpet of glistening snow, little creatures poking their noses out to see what the commotion was about ... miles of silver birch trees in each direction. I do miss that.

But Britain also has fine walks, views, food and drink ... I'm thinking British winter cuisine is unsurpassed. Of course, North America is the goods too, esp. the leaf-peeping. Plus the Antipodes when their turn comes around.

The downside for me is that this is the shortest day and I do not welcome the lengthening ... sun going down before 4 p.m. is magic. Of course spring alleviates that ... new life, new shoots ... everyone likes that after the slush, but not everyone lives for the winter. I do.  My season ... maybe yours?

Our Steve across the way ran this song yesterday:

Of false flags and the inability of the antiWoke to combine

Let's open with a comment on X by a grandmother and former model, with dogs she walks morning and evening, what you'd call a typical antiWoke, "fatigued with it all in Britain right now" type, not in the least  Bully type, just dismayed with how Britain has gone down.

I used the term "false flag right", e.g. Boris Johnson, Theresa May but of late, they've refined it and there are some of the Reform "brass" just as much what would be called RINO in the States ... Yusuf-Farage-Tice are three:

... but there's another one they've just taken into their steering "committee":

Why can't the right unite?  Because we are not "the right" for a start, we against the Uniparty are a big tent, with everyone from slightly upper middle to working class on zero hours contracts ... how could we possibly agree on all matters?

Plus there is that false flagger in there at all times ... paid to be in there, stirring it up.  One of them wrote yesterday about the "Woke right" ... no such thing ... "right" is being used by the PTB as anti Fabian govt but actually, there are many on the anti-war Old Left also in with us.  The whole thing confuses and confounds.

All right, let's go to this by-election result from yesterday:

It was already Reform, yes, but still ... observe the Labour support.  And there's something else many might be unaware of ... one of the Reform councillors has called on the six dissidents from Reform to resign and force byelections.

Why?  Because they resigned over Yusuf-Farage's stunt of trying to jail Rupert Lowe and badmouth Tommy Robinson who has considerable support in Britain, not just within the working class.  Remember September 13th?  Whether 1m or 3m ... it was still many people.

So ... Reform looks good in Cornwall among the retired writing up their memoirs and what do the dissidents then do ... the dissidents being "the fatigued" who quite like Rupert Lowe but have not actually joined Advance?

Invidious situation because so many of our own lot, our own type, vote Reform at the moment, whether adoring "Nige" or else knowing his track record of betrayal and overlooking it ... or just not knowing at all.  And one such lady just followed me on X and I followed back.

Why?  Because we agree on issues facing Britain. As many of us here do. Bizarre situation.  Personally, I'd be delighted if there was a party which could shut the Uniparty out.

Only to be sold out by the Uniparty false flaggers on the steering committee. Already Sarah Pochin has had the rough end of that.

Was She Discovered Because She Was More Sensible Than The Adults?

Or just because she didn't have an OnlyFans account, unlike all the other female prison officer candidates?

A child was accidentally recruited by bungling prison bosses to look after murderers and terrorists, the Daily Mail can reveal. Emily Frith worked as a prison officer at HMP Erlestoke in Devizes, Wiltshire, while still aged just 17.

And she has the nerve to blame them for being conned by her! 

Speaking to the Daily Mail, she said: 'It's shocking, prisons are supposed to be secure but nobody even did basic checks on me. Where was the safeguarding? I was a child placed in a dangerous environment and I could easily have been seriously hurt 

So you knew that and didn't mention it at any point? Why not? 

'At the time I thought it was a great job, I was earning a fortune for a 17-year-old. I was shadowing another officer but I was still out there chatting with inmates, helping with bang up, helping with counting. I was doing everything a trained prison officer would do 

Ah. Of course. Too busy enjoying the money! 

'It's embarrassing from the government. No wonder prisons are in the state they are in.'

With David Lamentable MP in charge, could they be anything else? 

Her age was only discovered by accident more than two weeks after she joined when she applied for mileage expenses for driving to training and a colleague noticed the date of birth on her driver's licence.

The implication being, if not for this, she'd still be there.... 

Sickening, destructive legislation

... knowingly, deliberately, dishonestly designed to destroy.  How to stop them?

Deliberately designed to distress and infuriate the people of the land ... it's more than psycho, it's sicko. And it must end.

No Amount Of Laws Will Prevent This!

Holly Bramley's life was barbarically snatched away when she was murdered by her husband of nine years. The 26-year-old had been isolated from her family by 'evil monster' Nicholas Meston, who convinced her that her family didn't love her. He moved her 50 miles away from them without telling anyone - and the pair eventually tied the knot.

It's a sad story, and a familiar one, a woman so lacking in self-confidence and a sense of self-worth that a man becomes everything to her, no matter what he does... 

In the nine years Holly was with Metson, she was alienated from her parents, who were never invited to her wedding and didn't know it was happening. Tragically, it would only be 18 months later that he would cut up her body into 224 pieces at their Lincoln home before dumping her remains in a bag for life in a river. In the run-up to her murder in March 2023, Holly had reported Metson to the police for killing her pets in a gruesome fashion. On one occasion, she found her new puppy dead inside a washing machine with the drum still spinning after her husband dumped the dog inside. Another time, she fled to a police station with her rabbits in a bid to escape after he had killed her hamsters by putting them in a food blender and a microwave oven.

And did the authorities act? Well, they tried.  

However, according to her mother, Annette, the RSPCA were never able to bring any charges against Meston because her daughter had withdrawn her statement.

And, unwilling to accept that she's somehow bred and raised a woman so lacking in the instincts of self-preservation, her mother wants to make it everyone else's fault, hence the inevitable demand for legislation: 

Her grieving mother, pushing for a new law, said she had done everything in her power to convince her youngest daughter to walk away from the deadly relationship.In a bid to help others in a similar situation to her daughter, Annette is now calling for Holly's Law. The proposed legislation would see a nationwide animal cruelty register created for individuals who harm or kill animals, to be brought into legislation.

Personally, I'm in favour of such a law, but purely on it's own merits, not to try to prevent more deaths like this one. Nothing will do that, except raising daughters to have enough self-worth that they don't subsume their entire personality to a brute.  

Annette's petition for an animal cruelty register has reached over 50,000 signatures as she remains hopeful it will be brought into legislation similarly to Clare's Law.

And when the next murder happens despite this, what will be demanded then? 

The brazen arrogance of worthless usurpers

When you look at these utterly bizarre, brazen reactions of the pollies, at odds with any form of reality at ground level, then it leads to certain conclusions:

Just what has brought on this full-on brass-neckedness, openly thumbing the nose at people?

Well yes ... directives from HQ, whoever the deep state actually is. But where's their confident arrogance from?  What has happened to make them so open in their brazenness?

In 2000, in Toronto, an ex one of them gave an explanation ... they will go open around 2020 and roll out the new order ... I've posted that radio transcript a few times since 2006.  They have total faith that they are safe, that they need not pretend anymore, that parts of western society being set at each other's throats ensures the invasion and perma-power..  A Clinton type of safety . Either stop those who know or "we'll all hang".

Revolution?  Yep, that will do fine say the honchos ... that's factored in ... either way, western culture is swept away, melting pot stuff.  That lady in 2000 was asked ... how to dtop these lowlifes in power?

She mentioned two things which can stop them ... errors, overplaying their hand ... then a resurgence of faith in the old culture plus its underpinnings.

And that is precisely what Gen Zees are starting to do, with some Gen Xs helping.

Yes, Jamie, Haven't They Made It Perfectly Clear That's What They Are Doing?

The former Royal Marine, who is suing the authorities for £25,000, told The Telegraph: 'It makes no sense. It just seems to me they want to punish me because of my opinions and because my views don’t align with theirs.'

Bingo! As with the Joey Barton trial, that is indeed the deciding factor behing the decision - 'how dare you question your rulers' Even medieval kings didn't weild their power so cavierlierly, because they knew their castles weren't totally impregnable if the citizenry were riled enough...

Jamie Michael, from Penygraig in south Wales, was charged with inciting racial hatred following comments he made in a 12-minute Facebook video. The 47-year-old described some migrants as 'scumbags' and 'psychopaths' as riots spread across the UK in the aftermath of the Southport murders.

Some undoubtedly are. So what he said wasn't even wrong. 

Despite his acquittal Mr Michael was told a 'child protection concern' made against him had been 'substantiated' less than a fortnight after the jury delivered its not-guilty verdict. As a result the Football Association of Wales has now barred the father-of-two from coaching his daughter's team following a meeting held in private with a safeguarding officer and South Wales Police.

The Free Speech Union is taking up his case: 

Lord Young, the union's founder and director, said: 'Citing safeguarding concerns to silence people you disagree with is a scandalous abuse of the system.' He added the FSU has '15 people on our books' branded a risk to children due to their political views.

Safeguarding boards were established in 2004 following the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham by a school caretaker.

A crime that  wouldn't have happened without the incompetence and laziness of the police record-keeping, and which lead to a host of shutting-the-stable-door legislation to prevent wrong un's with criminal histories slipping through the cracks in future. It was never intended to silence critics of the government's plans to flood the UK with boat people, but that's now how it's being used.

Venues for the two London rallies-meets today

The anti-DID is at 1300:

The second is TR's Christian service at 1400:

We need to promote the up and comers, plus any newbies of good heart

Had a quick look at my 17 items waiting to be posted and saw that there were no real Brit items ... they usually kick in late morning. This is not strictly a Brit blog, Orphans, but it's certainly Britcentric ... I'm thinking tomorrow morning's post will cover one of the Stasi issues.

Please remember the two London rallies today ... No to Digital ID at 1 p.m. and TR's prayer meeting st 2 p.m.

Meanwhile, the only non-US issue I currently have is a "hiding to nothing post" on promoting fellow pundits, esp. Gen Zee.  On X, about two-thirds of my interaction is with females of all ages, being closest to Gen X, while Unherdables is heavily male-centric, Gen X/Boomer, though not exclusively.

Seems to me, and of course it would given my last twelve years of working life teaching, on average, 115 girls and 5 boys a year at university ... it seems to me that anyone either parent and/or teacher would be vitally interested in promoting "good" females of all ages, plus newbie males like Young Bob, plus ourselves of course ... our readers being our lifeline.

One gal downunder I try to promote is Kobie ... this below is disjointed, no thanks to X, but you might get the idea.  I'd commented on her post on the "far right":

This was that article.

By the way, that last one was our Julia having a weekend respite in York.  If you're going to venture into the gateway to God's Own Country, hope you drive out into that country ... try the North Riding and the NY Moors.

It's An Ask Now, What Will Happen When They Decline?

India’s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cybersecurity app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates.

And the people in the market for a smartphone, surely? Or don't they count? 

In tackling a recent surge of cybercrime and hacking, India is joining authorities worldwide, most recently in Russia, to frame rules blocking the use of stolen phones for fraud or promoting state-backed government service apps.

How long before Britain joins them?  

Apple, which has previously locked horns with the telecoms regulator over development of a government anti-spam mobile app, is among the companies, such as Samsung, Vivo, Oppo and Xiaomi bound by the new order.  The 28 November order gives major smartphone companies 90 days to ensure that the government’s Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones, with a provision that users cannot disable it.

What about existing phones? Oh they have a plan for those too!  

For devices already in the supply chain, manufacturers should push the app to phones via software updates, the ministry said in its order, which was not made public and was sent privately to select companies.

Who ptromptly leaked it, shoeing just how likely they are to comply. 

A lawyer specialising in technology matters said India’s move was cause for concern, however.

“Apple has historically refused such requests from governments,” said Tarun Pathak, a research director at Counterpoint.

And they aren't about to start going along with this nonsense now...