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Monro
10 months ago

It will take more than 3% to make Britain ‘battle ready ‘No UK government has had to run a wartime economy in the era of high social security spending’ Not quite true: Korea. Britain provided more than 90,000 military personnel. The British Brigades provided ground support from August 1950 to March 1953.  The U.K. suffered casualties that included 1,078 killed in action, 2,674 wounded in action, and 254 missing in action. State spending at the time on health, education and welfare was about 10% of gdp. Defence spending was of a similar size. But the premise is essentially true because, today, we spend 23% of gdp on health etc and barely 2% (like for like) on defence. And the chickens are coming home to roost. If we had a sensible defence set up (5% of GDP), we would, by now, have built sufficient unmanned remotely piloted RIBs to turn around every illegal immigrant mid channel and return them to France. Like this: ‘The fully enclosed vessel discovered by Indonesian authorities was one of 11 bought by the Abbott government in a bid to stop asylum seekers from reaching Australia, the report said. The boats can carry up to 90 passengers… Read more »

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

If we had a sensible defence set up (5% of GDP), we would, by now, have built sufficient unmanned remotely piloted RIBs to turn around every illegal immigrant mid channel and return them to France.”

Well yes but this is simply not going to happen. Too many interests conspiring against it, not the least of which is that a large proportion of the British middle class have been conditioned to think that doing this would make us Literally Hitler.

Steve-Devon
10 months ago

Yes indeed, you increasingly wonder what there is left to defend as perfidious Albion descends into the slough of despond?

Monro
10 months ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

There wasn’t much to defend in 1939.

Unemployment was the dominant issue of British society during the interwar years. Unemployment levels rarely dipped below 1,000,000 and reached a peak of more than 3,000,000 in 1933, a figure which represented more than 20% of the working population. 

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

True but I think we are more divided and less patriotic

Monro
10 months ago

A lack of patriotism is nothing new. And, as you say, mass immigration is nothing new, either, particularly to man docks and factories: ‘At the height of World War I, in February 1915, workers in munitions factories on the Clyde had walked out, with industrial unrest spreading to factories in Sheffield and Birmingham. Later in the year, 15,000 Clyde shipyard workers went on strike again in protest at the compulsory deduction of rent arrears from their pay packets. Then, in 1917, 200,000 workers in 48 different towns walked out, mainly over wages, but also over food prices, exemptions from military service and what they termed ‘war profiteering’. While men were dying for their country, Jones was establishing a Communist-approved organisation of shop stewards in the factories of his West Midlands bailiwick. Pathetically, the bosses rolled over and allowed the unions to establish enormous power in their factories — which would linger on after the war and, by the Seventies, effectively kill the British car industry. Overt Communists went further — and refused to abstain from strike action until 1941 and the Nazi invasion of Russia and their beloved Stalin. Even though strikes had been made illegal in wartime, there were… Read more »

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Thanks – I didn’t know there were that many strikes. Interesting.

Monro
10 months ago

‘While polls show that when asked what are the main issues that concern them, voters rated asylum seekers pretty low behind things like education, the economy and health. But when asked if they’d back a tough stance on asylum seekers, the government broadly has public support. Sure, there are many people in Australia who are appalled by the government actions. But not the majority.’ “The thing is: Tony Abbott stopped the boats,” one said to the other. “Labor never managed to do that.” And that essentially, is the debate here in a nutshell. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-33179049 ‘Liberal party leaders have won elections through tough positions on borders. Even if they were not convinced of this policy, they have seen it work for them. Labor party leaders have seen that not taking a tough policy on borders has brought electoral defeat. The political reality is that the current policy is popular with Australian voters, as many surveys have shown. Since 2013, it has been backed in parliament by both the government coalition (led by the Liberal Party) and the main opposition Labor Party. Between them these two currently hold 144 of 151 seats in the Australian House of Representatives. In April 2016, Labor leader Bill Shorten warned that “there… Read more »

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

I hope you are right.

Monro
10 months ago

Unlikely, although one can never rule it out entirely.

Who would have thought socialist Denmark could stop immigration in its tracks?

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/62576/denmark-unprecedented-measures-to-signal-to-migrants-they-are-not-welcome

But then, they have a leader, a competent government and an effective civil service.

We do not.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

I have probably spent too much time with metropolitan liberals.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

See the news from the Netherlands – doesn’t look promising.

Anyway it’s too late to save English race and culture. We will be in a minority in our own country even if all illegals are stopped now and sent home, and probably even if legl immigration is stopped now, which it won’t be.

Monro
10 months ago

Maybe. We have a strong culture that so many immigrants embrace. Whether it can handle these kind of numbers every year so far since 2000 is, I agree, debatable.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Some embrace it

The problems started long before 2000

Why would we want to conduct a dangerous experiment to see if we can “handle it”, given that the results if things go wrong are not reversible

Anyway, I don’t want us to “handle it”. I want the English race and culture preserved

Monro
10 months ago

It is not an experiment.

It is a deliberate effort by governments to deal with a declining birth rate.

Putin is simply doing the same thing using entirely different, barbaric and inhuman methods.

The core problem, ‘root cause’ is socialism which has disincentivised citizens from forming nuclear families with large numbers of children.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Well the most charitable interpretation is that the people supporting this believe that our civilisation will survive the influx of alien races and cultures – and that is really just a hope, so it’s an experiment of sorts. In reality we’re quite obviously not thriving under this assault, and diversity is not a strength, and that charitable interpretation is a fantasy. As for the absurd notion that we are somehow compelled to become a minority in our own country, one of the greatest civilisations the world has ever seen, I can’t take it seriously.

But we are done for, if not in my lifetime then that of my kids or theirs. We (English, British and Europeans) have done pretty much everything we have attempted better than every other race, culture and civilisation in history, except preserve ourselves and the homelands that have enabled us to achieve what we have. Traitors and idiots.

Monro
10 months ago

And we are comprised of immigrants….the clue..’English’..is in the name……

Studies indicate that the Central English and Frisian populations are genetically indistinguishable.

Frisian is a group of three languages spoken in parts of the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. It is a West Germanic language that shares 80 percent lexical similarity with English.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

These lands have been populated by white people for millenia. The racial makeup of England had been stable since the Norman conquest, apart from influx of Irish probably and I think some Huguenots, until after WW2. It’s disingenuous to suggest that what we have experienced since WW2 is some continuation of what has gone before.

Monro
10 months ago

‘There is some controversy however as to whether the advent of agriculture in Britain 10,000 years ago was the result of cultural diffusion or the migration of peoples. In the first millennium AD, Britain experienced considerable inward flows of people

The Roman period…..

Anglo Saxons ,Vikings and Normans….

Quite sizeable numbers of Flemings also came to England in the middle ages

By the beginning of the seventeenth century there was an established African community in England

In the 19th Century Jewish people from Eastern Europe immigrated to the UK in fairly sizable numbers. 

After political unrest in France in the late 17th Century, Huguenots again migrated to Britain in their thousands

In 1709 German refugees known as ‘Poor Palatines’, fleeing French invasion, began to move to England

There were also fairly large number of Americans in Britain in the 19th Century

Movements from Ireland to England and Wales (as well as Scotland, not covered in these figures) have historically been quite substantial.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Chickenfeed compared to postwar migration. UK was almost 100% white before then, and mainly British.

Monro
10 months ago

Not in terms of proportions.

But, of course, you have a point.

For example the consistent 30% core support for Scottish independence largely derives from communities of Irish immigrants in Glasgow and Dundee.

huxleypiggles
10 months ago

I wouldn’t have bothered challenging this assertion tof because it is complete bollox. We don’t need to increase defence spending to stop the Calais Yacht Club.

Absolute nonsense of a story.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Very good point. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies we are number 5 in the world in terms of money spent on defence, but we can’t stop dinghies.

Monro
10 months ago

The Royal Navy, Royal Marines, would be deliriously happy, properly funded, politically supported, to develop unmanned autonomous RIBs etc and have the channel, real test case passengers, with which to develop standard operating procedures; a brilliant R&D, skills training opportunity for RN, RM. They need more budget and political leadership, backbone. How is it that Socialist Denmark, inside the EU, can close its borders, stop immigration and Britain, outside the EU, cannot? Quite clearly we lack political leadership, political backbone and a sensible defence budget….as our NATO allies will delight in pointing out to us shortly.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

With you on that except for the absurd notion that we need to spend more money on defence in order to properly protect our borders

Monro
10 months ago

Deterrence is key.

Deterrence is expensive, but a great deal cheaper than either unchecked illegal immigration or war.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Give over. The world’s 5th most expensive military needs more money to repel dinghies? I can’t take it seriously.

Monro
10 months ago

When we actually had a formed Army Corps in Europe (until 1990) we spent at least 5% of GDP on defence annually.

The Royal Navy is not currently tasked or equipped to turn back illegal immigrants on small boats.

It is equipped, though not authorised, to blow them out of the water.

A different role, currently executed (not) by border force, would require R&D, product and tactics development, new and specialised task specific equipment. That requires, first, political direction and, second, budgetary allocation. The Royal Navy does not currently have the means to accomplish all the myriad tasks already expected of it as things stand.

Willing the mission but not the means is a Blairite expedient that has been tested to destruction.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Not willing to spend another penny on the military, sorry. They can find the money from savings elsewhere.

None of this is going to happen. We won’t be turning any boats back. And we’re done for anyway. All too late, none of it matters.

Monro
10 months ago

Yes, well you may very well be happy to have your country’s foreign and domestic policies dictated from Moscow. That is your choice and you have a right to that choice.

But 63% of Reform voters agree with increased defence spending

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

OK, we have one of the world’s most powerful militaries and we can’t stop people invading us in dinghies with our current resources, without leaving ourselves open to “foreign and domestic policies being dictated from Moscow”.

Monro
10 months ago

Of course the Royal Navy can stop the dinghies….by the simple expedient of sinking them.

The RN stopped illegal immigration to Israel after WW2 by turning the refugee ships away, threatening to sink them.

The government has no backbone. Remotely piloted vessels returning immigrants to France once transferred from their dinghies would work but the political will is simply not there.

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Sad but true

transmissionofflame
10 months ago

“Why won’t TfL staff stop fare dodgers?” – In the Spectator, Andrew Gilligan slams Sadiq Khan’s TfL for letting fare-dodging spiral out of control. My take on this, having lived in London most of my life and seen tons of fare dodging: There is probably a proportion of staff who are maybe a bit lazy and don’t much care. Others care more but senior management and policies tell them not to risk getting involved in potentially dangerous confrontations – with some justification because there are violent people out there who are mad enough. Staff probably don’t feel they have the backing of the public – again with some justification. The police are never there when you need them. There’s quite a lot of antisocial behaviour and worse on public transport, at certain times and in certain places, too – for similar reasons. None of this is to excuse TfL and Khan, who could be doing a lot more. But I wouldn’t dump all of the blame on the staff. I was behind someone in the queue to get on the bus once. Whoever it was – some crusty mad-enough bloke I think – waltzed on without touching in. I did the… Read more »

stewart
10 months ago

Andrew Tettenborn warns that the conviction of Hamit Coşkun for Koran-burning signals the quiet resurgence of blasphemy laws in Britain.

Not really.

What we have in Britain is arbitrary law and policing enabled by loose concepts like “hate”, “offence”, “harm” and “disorder”.

The rules in this country have been made in such a way that you can be arrested, tried and convicted for things those in power don’t like.

Like for an angry social media post about immigrants. Or burning a book. Or supposedly causing offence to someone.

We live in a completely anarchic system where might is right. We always have.

The difference is that before those with power seemed to act sensibly in a way that we all understood and largely agreed with. And now those in power seem to have lost their marbles and have it in for people with what were previously cinsidered normal ideas. Like, you know, thinking there are two sexes, expecting a reasonable, manageable number of immigrants, being proud of your country and your heritage instead of being proud of being gay.

Monro
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Quite so. Why? ‘…..conversation was mainly between Reform’s Charlotte Pickles and two former Permanent Secretaries’ ‘ one important message from both speakers is that the problem must be addressed by Parliament. The civil service cannot fix it on its own.’  ‘…ministers run things……They generally don’t know very much about their policy area. Why would they know anything about the civil service? Typically they’ve never run anything. So if you just leave it to ministers, you’re never going to really get any change or you’re very unlikely to, because it’s just typically not their area of competence So that leaves the civil servants……..why haven’t the people at the top of the civil service got any idea how poor it is? Because they’ve never done anything else…..PPE……..fast stream…….. When you get to the top of the profession you’re not going to think it’s very poor at choosing the people to run it, are you? essentially chasing after ministers and solving the political problems…….but that meant that we were chasing, constantly chasing our tails.’ ‘Whitehall does function as a series of sort of pyramids of power which are departments….the primary loyalty of a permanent secretary…..the department tends to be first…..Secretary of State second …… Read more »

huxleypiggles
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Stewart, it’s not that those in power have lost their marbles, they know perfectly well what they are doing, the reason is that those with power are working for different masters to the people who gave them their positions. Best summarised with one word…

Treason.

Mogwai
10 months ago

Can you imagine how awesome it’d be if this happened so efficiently in the UK or other European countries? That Egyptian psycho and his family are being kicked out of the U.S; ”Boulder Terror Attack Exposes Democrat-Supported Chaos: State Department Revokes Visas, ICE Arrests Suspect’s Family for Expedited Deportation as Illegal Immigrant Crime Surges and Democrats Doxx ICE Agents The State Department has revoked all visas for the family of Boulder terror attack suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa and attacked a pro-Israel rally on June 1, 2025, injuring 12. ICE arrested his wife and five children today, processing them for expedited deportation. This tough stance deters future attacks by illegal immigrants, showing their families face consequences. Illegal immigrant crime is rampant. A 2020 FAIR report noted 63% of ICE detainees had criminal convictions! Yet, Democrats oppose deporting violent criminals, ignoring 82% of Americans who support it (2023 Gallup poll). They’ve pushed amnesty and sanctuary cities, enabling chaos. Worse, Democrats fuel violence against ICE. In 2018, activists doxxed 1,600 ICE agents, and in 2021, Antifa firebombed a Portland ICE facility, emboldened by figures like Rep. Maxine Waters. Their anti-American policies endanger us all. Deporting Soliman’s… Read more »

Mogwai
10 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

EDIT: It’s his family being deported, who he’ll probably never see again as he’s facing a lengthy prison sentence, to say the least;

”Judicial District Attorney Michael Dougherty outlined the severe potential penalties Soliman faces if convicted on all charges related to the alleged June 1 attack. He faces 16 counts of attempted first-degree murder – eight for attempted murder with intent and deliberation and eight for attempted murder with extreme indifference.

If he’s convicted and sentences are ordered to run consecutively, he could face a maximum of 384 years in state prison for those charges alone. In addition, Soliman is charged with two counts of use of an incendiary device, which could add up to 48 years if served consecutively.
He also faces 16 counts of attempted use of an incendiary device, carrying a potential additional 192 years. In total, the maximum possible sentence could reach 624 years if all convictions are handed down and run consecutively.”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/family-boulder-firebombing-suspect-taken-federal-custody-sources

Dinger64
10 months ago

“White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims”

If you would have told me at any point in my life up to now that Britain would be a white minority in the year of my 100th birthday I would have laughed!
The rapid fall of the most influential and benevolent country on the planet, in history, is a sad and sorry message of our modern times.
Time will tell, but I really don’t mind if I’m not hear to witness this tragic milestone.
I fear there are only two ways left to halt this looming prophecy from becoming reality: democratically, with a strong Reform lead government or failing that: I fear there my have to come a civil war, a fight for survival! I so hope it will be democracy that wins out

WillP
10 months ago

James Cleverly has decided now is the moment to reveal he’s just another wet Tory imbecile. Never noting for them again.
Net Zero is the busted flush of busted flushes. Not only economic assisted dying, but actually impossible to achieve – by a mile.
Copper alone: we would need to mine more copper from now to 2050 than we have up till now in human history. And that’s a mineral that is plentiful enough.

Old Arellian
Old Arellian
10 months ago
Reply to  WillP

Cleverly by name but definitely not by nature.

EppingBlogger
10 months ago

We cannot expect the police to be there when every infringement takes place but in years past there was a sufficient chance of it people were careful about offending and the public were somewhat reassured.

In recent years I have not seen police or revenue protection officers (“inspectors”) on tube trains or stations. I have not seen the police pull over a motor vehicle being driven badly even when they are seen driving past (two-up, of course).

transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Yup same here

I see fare dodging often and it’s really easy to spot, there has to be some low hanging fruit there for a properly motivated team of officers

huxleypiggles
10 months ago

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/politics-news-latest-starmer-labour-defence-reform-tories

I posted an article about this three days ago from Natural News after flagging said article as worthy of inclusion in the News Round-up which failed to make the cut. It would appear a degree of shadow banning is taking place.

Old Arellian
Old Arellian
10 months ago

Thank you Dominic Frisby! Just made my day.

Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago

Michael Gove, his ambitious ex-wife and how the wealthy Camerons treated them like ‘staff’

I agree with these comments from the Mail:

—“My politics don’t quite align with you Sarah, but I’ve always found you to be decent and fair. But why would you air the ins and outs of your marriage in public. Surely in this modern era of everything ending up online, cherish a bit of privacy. Not a big fan of your ex either, but HE DESERVES BETTER THAN THIS.”

—“‘But why would you air the ins and outs of your marriage in public.’ Ker-ching!”

—“Cringe. Keep it private.”

—“How utterly tawdry to write a book about your marital problems.”

—“What an absolute hypocrite. She was one of the first to condemn Prince Harry for “airing dirty laundry” in his book.”

—“They all sound like the most appalling people imaginable, including the author. If they were supposed to be running the country, no wonder it all went down the pan.”

—“Maybe she’s been taking advice from the Terrible Two and will soon start making jam.”