Why Can’t We Do This?

The three Gardai - Irish police officers - walk down the rows of passengers on the bus, a few kilometres south of the border with Northern Ireland. Observing this is the head of the Garda National Immigration Bureau, Det Ch Supt Aidan Minnock. “If they don't have status to be in Ireland, we bring them to Dublin,” he explains. “They're removed on a ferry back to the UK on the same day.”

And why is Ireland doing this now, when they've long been a welcoming country to Third World trash? 

Asylum applications in Ireland have risen by nearly 300% so far this year compared to the same period five years ago. A spike in arrivals from the UK has been driven by various factors, among these the UK’s tougher stance post-Brexit, including the fear of deportations to Rwanda, as well as Ireland’s relatively healthy economy. Most asylum seekers coming from the UK to the Republic of Ireland enter the country from Northern Ireland, as - unlike the airport or ferry routes - there is no passport control. The Garda checks along the 500km-long (310 miles) border are the only means of stopping illegal entry.

Heh! Sooner or later, the taxpaying population has had enough of what progressive policies are turning their country into...

In the village of Dundrum, County Tipperary - population 221 - a group of locals attempted to block the arrival of asylum seekers at the gates of a former hotel in August. The proposal to house up to 277 people at Dundrum House, which hasn’t operated as a hotel since 2015, would double the local population. Locals worry that it will be a permanent fixture.

“How can our government not engage properly with us?” asks Andrea Crowe, a local teacher and protester who has frequently spoken in public. She cites concerns over housing, health and education provision for the community.

None of which will be made any easier by importing the 'new Irish' in huge quantities.  

So why indeed are we paying compensation to former criminals?

We learn this morning that homosexuals who were justly dismissed from service in the past with Her Majesty’s Armed Forces because they broke the law against Homosexuals; are to receive compensation and possible restoration to the rank previously achieved.

My question is simply:Why?

They knew that they were breaking the Law when they were  serving, they knew the consequences, but they did not resign, but instead waited until they were ‘outed’ before being dismissed from the Service they were serving in.

I repeat, they knew they were breaking the Law which governed their behaviour; so why on this Earth should we, as taxpayers, fund this weird ‘compensation’?

Definition of a “human right”

There’s a thing we hear chanted about “manifest destiny”, a political invention to justify outrageous intrusion … and another one used to justify, to cover up, to exonerate, is “human rights”.

Which is not to say that the U.S. Founding Fathers should not have written it to aspire to, just as Christians have the gospels to aspire to, though close to unachievable, just as this Magna Carta thing sounded good at the time.

There are at least three glaring dangers though imho:

1.  What about aspirations bundled in with it which a large proportion of the population do not embrace, no way, e.g. communistic talking points a la Starmer?

2.  All well and fine stating our own aspirations but unless backed by brute force, by political will, then that stairway lies on the whispering wind.

3.  And if the enemy’s aspirations involve dispossessing the industrious who have built nest eggs for posterity, then right there is a set of enemies who will ultimately tear down the communist ideal … people start asking, strongly, en masse:

But if people are not willing to put themselves at least partly in danger to defend their own aspirations such as industriousness, incentive, stability, protection of what is ours, then a rough and neanderthal set of thugs and vandals are most certainly going to tear them all down, steal them, give them to the feckless bottom feeders.

As we ourselves moan our way into penury and slavery.

More Political Upheaval in Europe

An ultranationalist, Moscow-friendly Nato critic is set to face a centre-right candidate in the runoff of Romania’s presidential elections after a shock first-round result that has upended the country’s politics and could jeopardise its support for Ukraine.

It seems voters everywhere have finally had enough of left-leaning governments, and want some adults back in charge. 

With 99.98% of votes counted, Călin Georgescu, an independent who has praised Vladimir Putin as “a man who loves his country”, was on 22.9%, with the reformist Elena Lasconi, of the Save Romania Union (USR), second on 19.17%. The result, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Romania’s post-communist history, triggered the swift resignation as leader of the country’s centre-left, pro-EU party of prime minister Marcel Ciolacu, the pre-ballot frontrunner, who finished third on 19.15%.

That shows a lack of faith in your vision, doesn't it? 

The election focused largely on Romania’s soaring cost of living: the Black Sea country has the EU’s biggest share of people at risk of poverty, as well as the bloc’s highest inflation rate and largest budget deficit, at 8% of economic outlook. Georgescu said on Facebook after he had voted that he was standing “for those who feel they do not matter, and actually matter the most”. Later, he said the results were “an extraordinary awakening” of the people.

Long may it continue! Why, we might one day see it here, too. 

Information exchange

Last evening, I saw an item on X where some big MSM funder was apoplectic over Elon’s comment about us now being “the media” … at least the MSM being untrusted legacy media … useful for snippets but ignore their analysis like the plague.

In lieu of the MSM’s now rejected view on almost anything, what we’re left with is diffuse … there are some very good amateur pundits and then a continuum down to trash&troll. Trouble is … who’s whom … which is which?

Going back to first principles, we might start with a catalyst, a clip or snippet one of us saw:

It certainly did … they lost control of many of our minds … an increasing number of such minds, though we’re still a minority, the anti-globo-psycho, anti-Wokerati, anti-Karen, which underpins our politics.

My suggestion is that, when you meet any news snippet at all, immediately ask yourself:

• Who is this person, who funds this person, cui bono, whom is he/she part of, what are the hidden connections etc. etc.?

And to answer that, you need to delve … yes, ggl and bing are highly biased left, they almost all are … it’s today’s paradigm, zeitgeist, default position … and yet they can be “got around” by technique:

• Always seek the dirt first … enter some outrageous slur in search, see what comes up … you’re not going to take it onboard but it gives you other lines of enquiry.
• Always go to their About section, where they operate from, to whom they answer, with whom affiliated, how long they’ve been operating, who funds them?

Remember, chaps and chapesses … we’re only as good as our sources. I’m about to quote two iffy ones … one is The Slog where I’m still not sure where he’s at, politically … plus Atlas Obscura, quite Woke left, so beware of that. But as Andy pointed out, there are still stories there, pointers to explore.

Our model as an information exchange is the old journo one of always seeking the truth, the nitty gritty, what the bottom line is:

• Knowing it’s always constrained by Them’s interference and censorship ruses, plus our own safety … there are things we’re simply not going to put into the public domain about ourselves, unless it impinges on or colours our comment … we need to disclose that, e.g. who funds us?
• We’re not godlike … beware the narcissistic pundit who speaks of his/her “followers” … your reputation is only as good as the quality of your input today, measured against your previous.
• We go the way of all things, eventually, we’re a candle or beam from a lighthouse for now … for now, folks … then you must look elsewhere … same painstaking evaluation.
• Don’t rely on one source, e.g. us … have a range, a bloground or soc-med round … but every single one needs delving into … what is his bias? Why? What’s his “thang”? Never take information exchange at face value.

I’m going to run this at Unherdables as well.

Humble apologies to OoL readers/comenters

Julia’s in Edinburgh and we did not get our act together about clicking through comments … I’ll take on the moderator duties for now until the boss gal’s back in harness.

Everyone Else Is A Realist, Love...

Someone struggles with reality...

I have spent most of the last week on Zoom calls with accountants in New York, trying to figure out the personal finance implications of moving to the UK – lugging dual citizenship behind me. (Short version: they’re not good.) Since these conversations deal with economic outcomes it has felt, as a matter of form, necessary to mention that given the US just elected a maniac, at some level – don’t we think? – all bets are off. Joking not-joking: we can talk about pensions or college savings until the cows come home but really, why aren’t we screaming? A remark that has elicited, to a man, either blank looks or cheerful entreaties not to be so alarmist.

I'd entreat you to get psychiatric help, personally... 

The spectacle of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of the fiercely anti-Trump MSNBC show Morning Joe, beetling down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with the president-elect as fast as their little legs could carry them, was presented by the pair as a necessary piece of journalistic engagement.

It's their job, of course they will want to do that. Not everyone has the luxury of acting like a spoiled child and refusing to do something they find distateful. 

Under the auspices of pragmatic engagement, or “holding Trump to account”, or the reasonable accommodation of a new American reality, there is the usual sucking up to money and power. Despite Trump’s conviction that the entire mainstream media is against him, it seems unlikely that he will be sitting alone in a ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ dinner next April while the US news media takes a stand.

And it’s true: sulking or ranting does nothing.

I wouldn't say that. It clearly gets you a column in the 'Guardian'...

Two current issues this Sunday morn

Going to run these five screenshots at both OoL and Unherdables as they seem to encapsulate the situations.

Reform

There’s no hard and fast truth on why different players are acting seemingly strangely … there’s somewhat informed opinion … and opinion being at various stages of uninformed, depending on sources and how far you’ve delved.

My feeling is that Nigel is trying to do the World Statesman thing a la DJT, allowing himself some good ole Reform (and people of Britain) rhetoric, whilst positioning himself as that statesman, hobnobbing with the high and mighty, loved by all except the wrong ’uns.

There’s no doubt that the middling and emerging newly informed masses are more swayed by Nigel vis-a-vis, say, Gove, Badknock, Labour than maybe hardline Rupert … yet for Reform people, Rupert is laying it on the line far better … there’s deep distrust of Tice outside the M25 bubble yet Tice has his contacts inside.

My feeling is that, despite your and my misgivings on the terrible two, they’re still carrying a fair bit of the country, which will count with the non-aligned come elections … if the two factions, Faragists and real reformers, can somehow co-exist long enough to take power … why not?

Syria

To my mind, that one screenshot contains much … look at the political-ethnic-religious leaning of the writer, clearly anti-Assad and the Baathists, plus how relevant is the USA now?  After Jan 20 in the US, I’d say increasingly relevant, which leaves the Shia v Sunni conflict to be evaluated.

Remembering that the Zionist Talmudists plus the jihadis both want Christianity exterminated, it’s not going to be too much fun for slaughtered Christians now in Syria.

It's not just the BBC but all TV now

It was a case of running with the new anti-white job discrimination or running with the BBC issue.

It's a non-issue for me, not having a TV nor comparable device, no streaming, nuffink ... but it really is time for the BBC to fold.  Trouble is ... all channels are bad, all MSM is bad ... to be shunned.

And It’s Only 10%

More than 5,000 civil service jobs are set to go at the Ministry of Defence in a drive to cut costs, prompting alarm among trade unions. David Williams, the permanent secretary, said the department was aiming to lose 10% of its 56,800 staff by the end of the parliament. It has already shed thousands under the previous government through a hiring freeze that was due to end in March 2025.

What on earth do they all do..? They certainly don't keep the Armed Services running like clockwork:

Two former Royal Navy flagships, a frigate and two support tankers will be decommissioned, with the savings reinvested into the defence budget. Healey blamed the move on a “dire inheritance” left by the previous Tory administration. Williams’s comments about reducing the size of the MoD appears to have come as a surprise to those working in the department and the leading civil service trade union.

I'd ask when the last government is going to stop being the catch-all for trouble under this government, but I suspect I know the answer... 

Fran Heathcote, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, said: “We had been given no warning this was coming. To announce job cuts in parliament and talk about 10% of MoD jobs being lost as a ‘jumping-off point’ is hugely disrespectful to our hard-working members, who deserve better from their employer.

“Our members in the MoD are doing essential work in keeping the country running and we shall not let them, or other dedicated public servants, pay the price for the previous government’s financial black hole.

“We demand an urgent meeting with ministers to get to the bottom of what is happening at the MoD but, rest assured, PCS will fight for every job because we believe our members’ commitment should be recognised and rewarded, not dismissed in the Houses of Parliament.”

I suppose it's nice to know at least one aspect of our Armed Services is up for a fight, even if it's just with the government... 

Reform … real reformers versus RINOs

That topic no one is allowed to even name is still very much livewire, even moreso now, it will still have plod at your door in numbers should you even attempt to type the word online.  DEI’s now fine to name, even the word England, pronouns are ok … but not the word starting imm, let alone inv and as for Isl or Mus … that’s right out … protected species, aren’t they?

Why?

To the resolution of the issue:

TWO British problems that no one, not even Sir Keir Starmer, is any longer pretending they cannot see, are uncontrolled mass immigration and the absence of a party with an effective policy to deal with it. Last year’s record net migration figure of 906,000 sent Sir Keir scuttling for his lectern. Yet first Brexit and now this July’s strong showing for Reform UK at the General Election were the result of people wanting immigration dealt with and Britain restored to a country they are happy with.

Obviously, the Rupert branch of Reform (the majority who voted Reform) will be wanting things done and if he somehow becomes PM, something might be done, a la the Donald … but then there’s the Reform in name only branch (RINO), led by Farage and Tice … mostly wet, like the Tory woke wets, Tory-lite … making a lot of noise every time it’s looking a bit iffy but then they’d just let it slide again.

With those two branches … real reform vs RINO photo op and soundbite or tweet … just how will Reform take power?  And even if they do, by some miracle … who will lead the charge to get things done?