(1108) Happy elevenses. (1345)

 

13. Congrats to Rory

Grand Slam after tribulation,re-finding himself etc. Ex gf congratulates him:

H/T Toodles who told me. Wasn’t that much of a dig from C Woz. MSM.

12. Beautiful Bristol

11. Brummieland Caliphate

10. Ode to an evil beech (tree)

9. This one’s for posting at X

The most dismaying part of what Farage, Tice and Yusef did to about a third of the Reform membership is they caused us to fall out … no skin off the noses of those three themselves … that was the plan … to always keep Reformers, Kippers etc., the anti-Uniparty in other words, down to protest group levels, never as a govt in itself.

Look very carefully at Farage’s history every single time there seemed an effective opposition forming … I understand former good friends who’ve now blocked me, why they did it … they’re dismayed that we who were attacked by the party brass “can’t let it all blow over” in the interests of a Reform surge. Well yes, it was surging and we were very much part of it … then Yusef and Farage decided they did not want us. Just like that. With Tice and Oakeshott from Qatar.

Why? Because we were preventing Reform sliding towards where so many don’t understand it is sliding towards now … towards just another Uniparty third branch with some, but not too many, grievances. A rival for Ed Davies but still within that safe, Unicompliant, approved debate area. Good chaps on all sides dontchknow.

So I’ve lost so many former colleagues … good chaps and chapesses, lovely people … why? Through my intransigence? Or through machinations of the brass who knew full well they had to split Reform … it was becoming a monster. My attitude to May 1st? Good luck, no issues … it’s not the rank and file who are the issue.

8. This at TDS today

… is fairly obvious, as are the reasons for it.

“Recent polls also bear witness to the unwillingness of our nation’s youth not only to fight for their country, but to defend it from invasion. According to an UnHerd poll to mark 80 years since D-Day, published last year, only 29% of 18-24 year-olds said they would defend Britain in the event of an invasion. In addition, just 21% of parents would want their children to fight in such circumstances – 67% would urge them not to get involved. Moreover, in a YouGov and Public First survey for the Times, published in February this year, only 11% of Generation Z, aged 18-27, said they would fight for Britain; 41% said there were no circumstances in which they would take up arms for their country. 

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The reasons are myriad and complex, but not impossible to discern. For example, our young people do not want to defend what they despise. In the same survey cited above, half of Generation Z believe Britain is racist and only four in 10 say they are proud to be British. This shows that the age group most likely to provide new recruits is predominantly unpatriotic and, with patriotism being a precondition for anyone’s decision to sign up, its members are therefore unwilling to fight for King and Country.”

Maybe it could be summarised thus … the brainless brainwashed, esp. young girls … are always going to blame the racist far right, as per instruction by everyone they meet, everything they see. Those on the other hand with a functioning brain look ar Chas III down to every Woke official they meet, inc. many TV washed parents … and say no way, chum.