(1111) Elevenses with a vengeance, if the time is owt to go by. (1142)
15. Enjoy Sunday lunch, readers
14. It all seems a bit Bath and Wellsish to me
13. Now and Next
“Who voted for the slaughter to begin? Nobody. The electorate comprised 5.2 million men (some 60% of all adult males, and no women at all), but they were not consulted. Instead, the order was given by King George V at a Privy Council meeting in Buckingham Palace attended by only two court officials and Lord Beauchamp.”
I’m in two minds on war. For an enemy within or nearly at our gates, you’d see me at the local recruiting office, doctor permitting. For some faroff war, it again depends how it affects us. I quite agree with Donny doing the deed in Persia … in this chess game, if only for the masses of humans beings slaughtered as well, plus for the promise he made, plus for Christian eschatological reasons (endtimes scenario) … there’s certainly a case, zionist ashkenazi or no zionist ashkenazi.
The red line is boots on the ground … firstly for the US, then as ally … us. The problem with it in our case is that the mussy cells are primed to slaughter in every village, right now. For this reason, I’m far more in Rupert’s camp. No way, esp. no coercive callup for overseas duty. It comes back with my first comment … if intel put it beyond doubt, for an enemy within or nearly at our gates, you’d see me at the local recruiting office, doctor permitting.
12. Wars and rumours of war
11. IYE has posted a “semi-revealer”
There is, in general, copy that does not make it to square one, some which of course reaches the inbox but I have to bury and vaguely signpost it, copy which is “semi-revealed”, copy which is just signposted and lastly, copy I blog on. The criterion is simply political sensitivity … copy that will see us hit more than the average.
How’s the Iranian Navy doing this morning? Not very well as it happens. Airforce? Those Iranian F4 Phantoms II’s are older than my Silver Jubilee mug. As for missiles the Israelis took out three-fifths of them in the first 24 hours. Robert Fox, talking to Angela Rayner on GB News, explains how the removal of up to 40 in top leadership positions, plus the war plans they had in their possession, is why the reaction since from the Iranian regime is all over the place. Command and control (C2) is shot to pieces. Can they recover?
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JH: Nice commentary, Steve, enjoying it, plus the weaponry and transport.
“Instead, the order was given by King George V at a Privy Council meeting in Buckingham Palace”
What a stupid way to phrase it, as if the King had made the decision. The decision was taken by the Cabinet after lengthy, heated debate which resulted in resignations therefrom. The main warmongers were Lloyd George, Sir Edward Grey, and Churchill; Asquith acquiesced. Or so the historians teach.
I don’t know how the peacemongers planned to explain our ratting on the Belgian treaty, as would have been necessary.
You left out Milner and Rothschild. But then the historians always do.