(1655) Almost evening all.

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14. Steve

Some news from the land down under..

Will One Nation reverse Australia’s ‘mortmain migration’ system? | https://www.noticer.news/one-nation-immigration-mortmain-migration/

A link from the article goes to this fascinating piece:

Mortmain Migration | https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/mortmain-migration

From it is the following on post-war industrial history, which I studied as a university degree module:

British mill towns

Britain had its largest sustained economic boom in history in the decades after WWII (though it was smaller than elsewhere in the Western bloc thanks to the democratic socialism of the Attlee government and its successors). A consequence of this boom was the decline of Britain’s labor-intensive textile industry, which lost out to cheaper imports from lower wage and/or more technologically sophisticated countries.

The textile industry could have invested in new machinery or come up with new organizational models to boost productivity. This is how the British textile industry was built in the first place, with historically positive consequences for Britain and the world at large. Alternatively, the government could have used some combination of subsidies and trade barriers to keep out foreign competition, or simply allowed the industry to decline in favor of imports, which is what happened eventually anyway. Instead, the textile industry lobbied for, and acquired, the ability to hire from the newly-independent Indian subcontinent, especially the Mirpur province of Pakistan – to lower wages.

This labor migration allowed Britain’s textile industry to preserve its organizational and technological status quo for a few years. But only for a few years. Temporarily suppressing wages did not stop the industry from contracting by two thirds between 1950 and 1970, and it was practically gone by 1980.

Britain paid, and continues to pay, a steep price for a few more years of keeping obsolete factories in business through migration rather than direct subsidies or more ordinary protectionism. The Pakistani diaspora created by this instance of mortmain migration is the source of Britain’s euphemistically-termed “grooming gangs,” really ethnic- and clan-based rape gangs, responsible for a very large though unknown number of rapes going back to the 1950s (roughly 1400 victims, most of whom had been raped many times, in Rotherham alone between 1997 and 2023). Some of the rapists are explicitly motivated by racial revenge on the English – not that equal-opportunity rape would be excusable – and their crimes were concealed and aided by British institutions such as social workers, police, local governments and the media out of anti-racist ideology.

(The Yugoslav War-like atrocities committed by Pakistani rape gangs in Britain, perhaps the worst in any Western country since World War II, are far from the only problem caused by this particular migration wave. The standard issues of welfare use, clannish ethnic networks taking over local institutions, forging alliances with the political left, and general ethnic conflict turning all issues into a cold race war, are present as well. Even without the rape gangs, creating the Pakistani diaspora would still have been a huge mistake for Britain)

13. Penseivat

… a retired policeman’s take on Gosport etc.

‘I’m afraid any counterpoint of mine may not calm others as much as hoped. I have been retired from my county force (now a service) for over 20 years and it often seems like a different profession to the one I spent half of my working life in. I still believe that majority of coppers are doing what they are supposed to be doing, protecting life, preventing crime, arresting offenders and, through the CPS, prosecuting them, and preventing breaches of the Police.

However, times, and society has changed. A Police officer’s allegiance is to the Crown, not a political party, but recent events have, in my opinion, brought political influences into the way Police officers carry out their role. For whatever reasons, one group of protesters can parade through the streets without arrest, while another group face arrest and prosecution. Why is this?

Operational order are given out by very senior officers, but those operational orders are, allegedly, drafted and written by the Home Office, or other politically motivated departments. This may be why those demanding the destruction of Israel, and displaying terrorist flags can do so, while others, protesting about what they see as an invasion of this country which may put their families at risk are not allowed to do so.

I am not saying that one group is bad and one group is good, but there have been rumours of the second groups having people deliberately placed in them to stir up or invite trouble (slightly off topic, a recent report from the USA suggests that FBI members were in the 6th of July crowd in Washington, encouraging protesters to break into the buildings.

If agitators, acting on political instructions, can do that in America, then there is no reason why it can’t, and doesn’t, happen here). If that is happening, it often gives the opinion, rightly or wrongly, that the Police in general are politically motivated.
There have been reports of individual incidents where the Police, apparently get it wrong, and I would suggest it’s down to training and instructions from senior ranks.

One recent newspaper article was about a woman being harassed by two men of a particular hue, and she was so concerned, she phoned 999, and was Apparently advised that her use of the words, “filthy migrants” could cause offence. If this really did happen, then I would suggest the attending Police officer should be given more training.

While on the subject, may I comment on YouTube videos where so called auditors video Police officers reacting to an incident they have staged, such as deliberately walking around and fiddling the outside of Police stations, looking into parked Police vehicles, or recording Police officers in their private cars. This usually leads to people in uniform coming to ask why these numpties are doing this (and In the current security situation, perhaps these requests are reasonable)?

There are two views I have on this. Either these people are out to deliberately get a reaction from Police in order to show them in a bad light, claiming they know their rights (but not apparently, their responsibilities), or the uniformed people are actors so that the video YouTube blogger can obtain more views, and more money.

There will no doubt that many may disagree with me, and I’m ok with this. That is what free speech and debate is all about.
Finally, when the media is full of reports that the nasty Police arrested a man purely because he shouted, “I love bacon” outside a mosque (was that the only offence he committed?), the grandson of an ex colleague, himself a Police officer, stopped a stolen car and discovered a kidnapped child in the back. Not a peep in the media. Possibly because he was ‘a nasty Policeman’.

12. DAD corner

a) Pakistan has entered the air war against the Houthis. A senior Pakistani military official confirmed to The New York Times that Pakistani fighter jets are participating in airstrikes against Houthi forces in Yemen.

A second Pakistani official said Islamabad’s involvement is focused on providing air support against Houthi missile and drone threats, rather than launching a ground offensive inside Yemen. The development comes as Saudi Arabia intensifies its military campaign against the Iran-backed group.

Pakistan’s reported participation marks a significant expansion of its role in the conflict. What began as a commitment to help defend Saudi Arabia now appears to include direct combat operations, raising the stakes for Islamabad and increasing the number of countries involved in Yemen’s renewed fighting.

b) Knights Templar (non-Masonic)