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Thursday, November 05, 2026

Apologies For Slavery And Trying To Make Britain A Slave Of The EU - A Busy Week In British Politics

The big stories in the UK this week have been the British Commonwealth leaders conference in Antigua, where they has been much talk of apologies to nobody in particular (because everybody involves is long dead,) for Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade and ways of giving African and Caribbean nations huge amounts of UK taxpayers money without looking as if we are paying reparations, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham's efforts to sneak us back into the EU by the back door. The two may be unconnected but the UK back-stabbed commonwealth by joining the EU, neglected its own responsibilities towards citizens of former colonies, then once in Europe was never a wholehearted member..

In spite of this I am happy my vote in the referendum went to the 'Leave campaign. Behind all talk of ever closer union and bringing member states together as 'one nation' members of the political elite that is promoting EU expansion are ruthless and corrupt sucessors of the former Nazis who created The Common Market, which was the first incarnation of what has become a giant, failing monster. The ‘hopes’ you saw disappear as the EU ‘changed’ from a free trade club of sovereign nations to a corrupt and authoritarian wannabe federal superstate were not what I saw or experienced while working as an IT consultant at the bloc's administrative headquarters in Luxembourg, and the construct was set in its current direction long before the Treaty of Lisbon changed it from a trading bloc to a political federation..

Still in UK there are many who do not know the behind the scenes truth of what the EU is and aims to become, and they blame Britain's inability to fit comfortably into the plan for becoming a federal superstate on local xenophobia and not EU authoritarianism, corruption or obstruction. That the UK political class are as corrupt and caught up in their own delusions and illusions also is the main reason why Brexit, while not the catastrophe many Europhiles predicted has not been a resounding success or led to a resurgence of The Commonwealth.. Similarly goes for various other UK/EU ‘relic establishments’, which are often used, directly or indirectly, to undermine UK from within UK.

For now, however fake everyman Andy Burnham is trying to wheedle us back in, without a vote and without himself having gained a popular mandate. The contempt of the British political class for any semblance of democracy has been on full display ever since the Brexit vote.

In fact the vote itself was only proposed by David Cameron in an effort to gain a Tory majority after the miserable coalition he had run with the Lib Dems and to prevent losses to UKIP under Farage. He had set up the ‘nudge unit’ which he thought could be used to finesse a Remain vote and assumed he would easily win.

The majority of the Uniparty, their owners and donors, as well as leaders of all Europe's liberal democracies, were ideologically wedded to the EU project and assumed it would be an easy win for Remain. That’s why there was no plan for how to leave.

After Cameron tendered his tearful resignation, the poison chalice was passed on to the next in to bat who were forced to pretend to honour the vote whilst having not the faintest idea or desire how to achieve it.

Many years of political chaos later, Boris Johnson managed finally to deliver the worst possible Brexit, obscured by the scamdemic and ever since it has been dishonestly blamed for everything currently wrong in the UK.

Burnham is going to have some very stormy times if he tries to drag the UK back in, especially as the EU seems to be going self-destruct right now. Most British voters don't care one way or the other about apologies for the slave trade, but do care about being forced to pay for reparations when, at the time Britain was leading the civilised world in abolishing slavery (which is still rife in Africa, the middle east and some parts of South East Asia,), their own ancestors were working in near slave conditions in the Industrial Revolution factories. They also care about being sold down the river (an expression that comes from the slave trade BTW,) to a Brussels based bureaucratic dictatorship.

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The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly In a move that went almost completely unreported in mainstream media, Russia has recently opened a market for the trading of physical and 'paper' oil (futures) in Moscow in Roubles. This is the most blatant challenge yet to the domination of the US dollar in world trade.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Prime Minister Burnham Caves As Trump Says Chagos Deal Is Terrible

Picture: Daily Telegraph

Andy Burnham is reviewing the Chagos Islands deal after Donald Trump said it was “terrible” in their first face-to-face meeting.

The Prime Minister said he was doing “everything possible to find a resolution to the issue”, opening the door to scrapping the deal he “inherited” from Sir Keir Starmer.

Mr Burnham reversed his position after a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in which the US president suggested he should review the 'ridiculous' agreement.

Trump has said in the past the UK agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is “an act of gross stupidity” and that Andy Burnham is “going to be looking at it”.

Speaking at his first meeting with the UK Prime Minister on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, the US president said the move to transfer ownership of the British Indian Ocean Territory was “ridiculous”, describing it as “a very important piece of real estate, militarily and strategically”.

It is often difficult to agree with Donald Trump but "terrible" is the right word to describe the deal which was brokered by 'Human Rights' shyster lawyers, all of them long term associates of former Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Hand the islands over to a country that only has a claim because we happened to administer them together during the empire, a country that has ties to China and then lease them back at an exorbitant rate we can't afford and at the same time, the actual people who lived there, the Chagossians, are left without a say. Terrible, one has to wonder what was in it for the lawyers who drafted the deal.

The Government’s plans to cede sovereignty of the remote archipelago and then pay billions of pounds to lease back the joint UK-US military base on the largest island of Diego Garcia has been on hold since April in the face of opposition from the White House.

Asked by a reporter from The Daily Telegraph about Britain’s plans to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Mr Trump said: “I don’t support it. I think it’s terrible. It was a terrible deal... strategically it’s very important.”

He added: “It’s amazing how strategic it is, and I think the Prime Minister is going to be looking at it”. Mr Burnham nodded in agreement and replied: “Yeah.”

It’s almost beyond parody that we’ve reached a point where Burnham needs a foreign leader to tell him not to give away British territory (seemingly against the wishes of the local population), and squander £35 billion of our money leasing a small part of it back. I’m glad there was someone at the table who was willing to stand up for the interests of the British taxpayer.

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Russian cruise missiles - Picture:Getty

At the start of this week newly minted Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced The UK plans to provide Ukraine with classified technology to allow the neo - Nazi regime in Kiev to build their own version of the British/French-designed SCALP (Storm Shadow) air-launched cruise missile. This is a piece of political theatre that will have no effect on the progress of the war and could possibly backfire disastrously on the UK.

You may recall a couple of years ago when another Nazi collaborator, Keir Starmer, gave the first batch of British Storm Shadow missile to Zelensky's corrupt cronyocracy they were hailed as the weapon that would shift the war in Ukraine's favour. They didn't, in fact they were, and will be,next to useless because they have to be launched from an aircraft and the Ukies do not have the right kind of aircraft to launch from.

Ukraine has used all its domestic-made and designed Neptune cruise missile to strike oil refineries and military sites deep inside Russian territory. A domestic-made SCALP would present the likelihood of Ukraine then using this Western-designed missile to directly attack Russia, which only increases the chances of an eventual Moscow-NATO clash because the crazy Banderites behind Zelensk how repeatedly shown they will go to any length to provoke a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, and thus start World War III. Ukrainian forces already appeared to have used the missile on Donetsk and other locations closer to front lines in the Donbass.

From the very start of the Ukraine war, the United Kingdom has consistently been among Kiev's most open and ardent military supporters, time and again transferring heavy weaponry, including cutting edge long-range missiles like the Storm Shadow while British politicians, who must be aware of the depleted state of our armed forces, have given every impression they are eager to get UK forces directly involved in combat with Russia.

In response to Burnham's stupid posturing, on Thursday the Kremlin has issued one of its strongest warnings and threats aimed at London to date, accusing the UK of "fully taking part in the war on Kiev's side" - and thus thwarting any chance of peace talks while adding fuel to the fire.

Moscow is now saying that the UK's own military facilities could become fair game for direct attacks.

Kremlin spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a Thursday press briefing, "We have repeatedly warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons against Russian territory could be directed against any British military facilities and equipment in Ukraine and beyond."

Zakharova urged "all residents of the United Kingdom to think about the inevitable, catastrophic consequences of the hostile steps taken by their own authorities."

Ironically this performative nonsense comes right after a visit by the CIA Director to Moscow. US officials claim the Tuesday meeting between John Ratcliffe and top Kremlin intelligence officials was to convey a warning to President Putin to not attack any NATO member. However, many analysts are skeptical that this was the real reason.

Andy Burnham is handing over British classified information which would permit Ukraine to one day manufacture its own Storm Shadow missiles. But Burnham’s handover of “blueprints” is in fact a political gesture, aimed at other countries: particularly the US. And it is known that a significant portion of the weapons and technology handed to the corrupt Ukies has been sold on to unknown buyers by the corrupt oligarchs in Kiev.

It isn’t as though Britain has much to do with making the Storm Shadow in any case. We Britons like to pretend that it was jointly British and French developed, but in fact – as analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC bluntly state – it is “French-made” and we bought it from France rather than co-developing it.

Storm Shadow is a version of the 1980s-vintage, entirely French made Arme Planante à Charges Éjectables (Apache), updated in the 1990s as the Système de Croisière conventionnel Autonome à Longue Portée (Scalp). The only significant British part of it is the warhead, and even that is partly French. Ukraine, in the event of deciding for whatever reason to build its own Scalps, could (and might well) choose to use a different warhead.

But Ukraine has no real reason to be building Scalp (“Storm Shadow”), which has to be launched from a fighter jet and only has 150-odd miles of range. To give just one example, the much bigger Ukrainian-made Flamingo FP-5 is conveniently ground launched, carries a warhead three times as heavy and has a range of almost 1,900 miles. Ukraine was reportedly producing seven Flamingos a day as of last year, and plans were in hand to scale this up massively although in Ukraine plans announced in public are usually very different from anything likely to happen.

What has been happening is the NATO are outsourcing the production of the weapons used against Russia to their proxies in Ukraine. How can that not make the factories that are producing those weapons targets since the weapons are being used against civilians in Russia?

All of this way of conducting geopolitics is sickening. It amounts to one countries people dying and suffering for other nations to satisfy their economic interests (via whatever international institutional infrastructure renders all this viable) and the only thing that explains it is the compromised, comprador, nature of the Ukrainian state and the rest of those in western Europe. What people in Europe have any interest in this war which is being fought for the benefit of global corporations and banks?

None, UK and Germany, need to be allied with Russia, not America, they need alliance to obtain cheap energy that can be the basis of economic and industrial reconstruction. It is only because European politicians are compromised that these policies make any sense.

On the other hand The USA worked hard and long to create this proxy war with Russia and has been the ring leader of the mob that keeps it going. Ukraine remains in the grip of a Nazi puppet regime that was put into power by the US / EU engineered regime change. These animals have enjoyed murdering Russian speaking Ukrainians and are corrupt to the core.

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Pound Falls, Confidence In Burnham Evaporates As Prime Minister In Waiting Lurches To The Left

Traders in London's financial markets have staked their biggest bet against the pound in almost a decade, according to The Mail on Sunday.

In a blow to Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham, speculators are piling into short positions in the expectation that sterling will fall against the dollar and other currencies if Burnham's government moves to the Left.

News of the £7billion wager against the pound comes as Burnham, who is will replace Keir Starmer and enter No.10 later this month, seeks to calm financial markets.

His major policy speech last week promising to devolve more power to English regions caused barely a ripple on the bond markets, though Government borrowing costs remain high, but this news shows there is little confidence that he will prove to be more competent than Starmer.

Sterling recently fell to $1.32 after Burnham emerged as the front-runner to oust Starmer when he won the Makerfield by-election, clearing his path back to Parliament.

Now, in what amounts to a big thumbs-down on the prospect of a Burnham premiership, speculators have raised their wagers on a weaker pound to their highest level since the aftermath of Brexit almost ten years ago. All of which would lead to a reduction in tax revenues, more borrowing to fund the deficit, higher inflation and further weakening of the pound.

And the the UK Government would have no option other than to seek a bailout from the IMF as Labour governments of the 1960s and 70s did.

The incoming PM has pledged to retain fiscal rules designed to the curb excessive borrowing of the Starmer - Reeves financial policy and stick to Labour’s 2024 manifesto promise not to raise VAT, income tax or employee National Insurance. But the former Mayor of Greater Manchester has suggested other taxes could rise, while ruling out ‘crude cuts’ to the welfare bill.

Burnham has already expressed his opinion on 'the markets' and seems to believe he can ignore them and introduce whatever public spending policies he has in mind. The previous Labour government left a 'no money' note when it exited in 2010; the one before it had to apply to the IMF in 1976 for a fiscal bail-out. The common denominator then and now being that of SOCIALIST GOVERNMENTS running out of cash and credibility as they slide towards authoritarianism.

A financial or currency shock - as we saw with the Soros bet of a similar amount in the 1990s - during the handover of Starmer to Burnham could be politically exploited to reset the UK’s economic baseline. It would weaken confidence in the incoming Burnham government, justify tighter controls on the financial system which, so long as things go according to plan, then shifts public appetite toward more state intervention, and creates the opening for reforms like a CBDC that would have been harder to sell before.

It is the road to communism.

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The Announcement made by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak acknowledged at last that to keep the lights and heating on in our homes and the wheels of industry turning it will be necessary to start building new gas-fired power plants because the great science backed leap to transition energy productions to clean, green, pollution free, sustainable, renewable, blah blah blah sources has failed dismally.

Double Blow To Irish Woke Wonks - Voters Reject ‘Progressive’ Reforms to the Constitution By Big Majorities
Simpering, limp wristed Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar whose government has faced protests because it is claimed they govern in the interests of the liberal elite and ignore the Irish people, suffered two blows to his ambition to turn Ireland into the wokest country in Europe last weekend. Varadkar admitted on Saturday that voters had delivered “two wallops” to the government, which, led by Leo himself, had pushed for a "Yes" vote on a pair of referendums.

Corbyn's Politically Correct Hypocrites Hate Sexism But Approve Of Muslim Sexism
On encountering my insense dislike of the Labour Party, people asume I am a Conservative. WRONG! I have never supported The Conservatives and have never voted either Conservative or Labour in my life. Politicians should never be trusted, I but what sets Labour politicians and activists above the rest in terms of being worthy of only contempt is the hypocrisy.

He's Not The Messiah, His Name Is Edymandias - Miliband's slab stunt goes down like a Lead Balloon Only two days campaigning left before polls open for the 2015 general election. Who will winn? Opinion Poll show no conclusive trends. But inside information tells us the reason conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has a smile on his face as the campaigning draws to a close. Farage is radiant, clegg liooks chirpy, only Ed Milband is down in the dumps.

Were Rotherham Abuse Victimes sacrificed To Save The Labour Party
One of the victimes of Rotherham's grooming and child abuse gangs has put a political perspective on the scandal by claiming she and other victims were ignored, effectively sacrificed to the tender mercies of the gangs to ensure Labour did not lose votes in the town. The young girls were abused by Muslim men for years on end, but council did nothing to stop the crime.

Miliband Promises Same Old Shite - Not A Word About Action Against Paedophile Sex Gangs
Labour leader Ed Miliband's keynote speech at the Labour Party conference woyuld have to be the best speech of his life if he hoped to be Prime Minister after next years election, the consensus of opinon said. Ed's friends and opponents awaited the speech with very different hopes and expectations. in the end as Ed dodged the bg issues, the economy and debt, law and order, immigration and Europe, it was probably his enemies who were happier.

The Left's Rhetorical Technique Explained
In the first of what might become a long if irregular series of posts with the collective title, "Left Wing Authoritarianism for beginners," your friend and mentor Little Nicky Nicky Machiavelli will expose the origins of the socialist left's propaganda technique and its apparent dependence on slogans, dogma and mantras. But first let's play a little game ...

Ve Haff Vay Of Making You Konform. The Tide Is Turning against the Autoritarian Left
The left's self confidence has had a hint of desperation about it for a long time. From their constant whines about the sexism, racism and homophobia of the working class who happen to be the party's core constituency to the substitution of smearing UKIP for policies in the european Election this is a party of arrested adolescents throwing a hissy fit because people are laughing at them.

Secret Justice Threatens The Right To A Fair Trial
A move to extend the government's power to order court proceedings to be held in secret and without a jury from only applying to trials affecting national security to anything the government would rather we did not know about threatens the most basic principles of British justice and the right to a fair trial.

These stupid laws insult the public and threaten free speech When the law forbids us to insult or offend somebody, to insult or offend a religion, race, skin colour or sexual preference, free speech and other important democratic rights are under threat. When the law then goes on to say that anyone accused of these offences has no right to defend themselves and the word of the accuser is sufficient evidence on which to obtain a conviction then we have abandoned justice and are ruled by fascists.

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