tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post631966220563928743..comments2024-03-28T22:45:51.014+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Mr Putin's Gas is Heating Things UpCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-73320078290452084132022-06-30T15:17:42.804+01:002022-06-30T15:17:42.804+01:00Diogenes: " How will the nation, especially p...Diogenes: " How will the nation, especially pensioners, cope with the rising fuel bills?<br /><br />Easy. There is a shed load of cash coming their way from Rishi starting next month.<br /><br />1. £650 split into two with the first payment next month for benefit claimants<br />2. £300 for pensioners on top of the £200 Winter Fuel Allowance (8m voters)<br />3. £150 in September if you are disabled<br />4. £400 for everyone over the winter period.<br /><br />"<br /><br />Which of course means that the current inflation ( which has almost nothing to do with 'putin' and everything to do with the WEF inspired incontinence of the British (Tory) government in 2020/2021 'furlow payments' ...<br /><br />Will get worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-36954464581644674932022-06-29T15:25:01.703+01:002022-06-29T15:25:01.703+01:00"I think we did send some volunteers to help ..."I think we did send some volunteers to help the Finns in early 1940,"<br /><br />In those days, a volunteer went somewhere of his own accord.<br /><br />Volunteers went from the UK to fight on both sides of the Spanish, but I don't think the British government sent volunteers. In those days it was considered permissible for an individual to make stupid decisions with their own life.<br /><br />Odd too, that Shamima Begum isn't allowed to go and support/fight for ISIS, and return to the UK, but the brain dead foreign secretary was actually urging British citizens to go fight against Russia in Ukraine. Ukraine, a country we have no mutual defence treaty with and no strategic interest in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-77738184719376539992022-06-28T17:41:39.322+01:002022-06-28T17:41:39.322+01:00I think we did send some volunteers to help the Fi...I think we did send some volunteers to help the Finns in early 1940, while the Phoney War was still on. <br /><br />Biggles Sees It Through, published 1941, features our hero in Finland.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-71334228026155275782022-06-28T17:32:00.978+01:002022-06-28T17:32:00.978+01:00Elby the Beserk: You must have missed WWII?
What ...Elby the Beserk: <b>You must have missed WWII?</b><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_convoys_of_World_War_II" rel="nofollow">What !??</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-5653691258232870102022-06-28T12:53:35.806+01:002022-06-28T12:53:35.806+01:00https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/mens-health-and-fi...https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/mens-health-and-fitness/19023008/urologist-why-teach-boys-pee-sitting-down/<br /><br />Off topic but here we go...<br /><br />The battle of the (multi) sexes to stop men being men and their right to pee standing up and not having to queue (feminists resent this.) Already new council buildings here are being built with unisex (non urinal) toilets.<br /><br />*The Science* has been used to lock us down, control our language (what is a woman ?) vaccinate us, hike our fuel prices, block our roads... take away femininity - now it will be used to take away the one remaining male advantage. <br /><br />What was it the General said ? Putin is the greatest threat to Western democracy ???<br /><br />Really ? REALLY ???? <br /><br />What planet is he on ? Planet Woke or something ?E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-34091897511736681082022-06-28T12:44:04.490+01:002022-06-28T12:44:04.490+01:00Elby
31 years a driver and never been on strike. ...Elby<br /><br />31 years a driver and never been on strike. Most of my service in the private sector. That goes for 90% of staff. <br /><br />You hear about the militant TfL/RMT or Southern but the vast majority of TOCs (20 odd) have never seen industrial action. <br /><br />Whenever I've wanted better pay or conditions I've simply moved my labour to a company that has offered it. <br /><br />Privatisation was the best thing to have happened to staff. <br /><br />BTW - engineering and signalling grades have accepted massive job cuts and modernisation drives over recent decades. Most regions now have centralised Power Signal Boxes and much engineering has been outsourced. E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-29327721247783778802022-06-28T12:24:36.523+01:002022-06-28T12:24:36.523+01:00Anonymous said...
"The Uk has been an ally of...Anonymous said...<br />"The Uk has been an ally of the USA for the last eighty years."<br /><br />Yea, that's why we need ( currently ) thirteen US military bases on our soil.<br /><br />"Have not been enemies for over 200 years."<br /><br />The man who's boot is on your neck is not your friend.<br /><br />"Great Britain was at war with Russia more recently than it has been at war with the USA."<br /><br />When was the UK at war with Russia?<br /><br />10:23 pm<br />=========================================================================<br /><br />You must have missed WWII?Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-16432566492353462732022-06-27T19:51:48.150+01:002022-06-27T19:51:48.150+01:00If Russia are saying they are at war, then Putin w...If Russia are saying they are at war, then Putin won’t have to continue bribing the reserves with five years of pay for going to fight in Ukraine as ‘volunteers.’<br /><br />If he declares an actual war, he can call them up and send them off to the Putingrad city street fighting, for conscript pay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-40770492279671258182022-06-27T17:50:07.657+01:002022-06-27T17:50:07.657+01:00I tried to read Trenin's original article in t...I tried to read Trenin's original article in translation on RT, but it looks as if UK providers are blocking it - "www.rt.com’s DNS address could not be found." Free country and all that.<br /><br />Russian version here<br /><br />https://globalaffairs.ru/articles/politika-i-obstoyatelstva/<br /><br />Via Tor I read it<br /><br /><i>"War is always the most severe and cruel test of durability, endurance and inner strength. Today, and for the foreseeable future, Russia is a country at war. "</i><br /><br />Funny - I'm told in all respectable media outlets that anyone in Russia using the "war" word immediately gets 5 years in jail!<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-36811468833780913102022-06-27T16:58:49.759+01:002022-06-27T16:58:49.759+01:00"If someone could kill Putin all our problems..."If someone could kill Putin all our problems are solved"<br /><br />https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/06/06/why-russian-intellectuals-are-hardening-support-for-war-in-ukraine/<br /><br />"An article by Dmitri Trenin, entitled “How Russia must reinvent itself to defeat the West’s ‘hybrid war’: Russia’s very existence is under threat,” may be one of the most consequential published in Russia in recent times — partly for what it says, and partly for who is saying it. <br /><br />Dr. Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center until the Russian government closed it in April, was for many years one of the most important pragmatic Russian voices in support of cooperation with the West and the “westernization” of Russia. He was one of the few Russian figures still to retain some of Gorbachev’s hopes for a “common European home.” (I should say that I have known Dr Trenin since I was a British journalist in Moscow in the 1990s, and I was his colleague at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace between 2000 and 2004). <br /><br />The significance of Trenin’s article lies in the evidence it gives of a consolidation of the Russian intellectual elites in support of the war effort in Ukraine. It is not in many cases out of a desire to conquer Ukraine (many of the figures joining this new consensus were strongly opposed to the invasion and loathe Putin), but out of an increasingly strong feeling that the United States is trying to use the war in Ukraine to cripple or even destroy the Russian state, and that it is now the duty of every patriotic Russian citizen to support the Russian government."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-56857839672969941022022-06-27T11:44:10.374+01:002022-06-27T11:44:10.374+01:00"there is no effective British lobby in the U...<i>"there is no effective British lobby in the US pushing policies that would benefit Britain in return, as there is an Israeli lobby"</i><br /><br />Note that America's Greatest Ally In The Middle East hasn't got any sanctions on Russia, though they would like to sell gas and electricity to the mugs who ARE sanctioning!<br /><br />https://time.com/6187361/eu-israel-gas-power/<br /><br /><i>“European Union Working to Forge Gas and Power Ties With Israel”</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-3704583920377922972022-06-27T11:35:47.872+01:002022-06-27T11:35:47.872+01:00Elby the Beserk: "Johnson crumpled before the...Elby the Beserk: "Johnson crumpled before the Unions during lockdown, [ snip ] Johnson is a wretch who seems intent on destroying the tattered remnants of conservatism in the UK. And the UK."<br /><br />Johnson was I think threatened. I really can't explain his volt face over the shutdowns, in any other way. Over a period of 48 hours he went from, 'we may experience a large number of deaths but we will get through this', ... to we need to lock down to save the NHS ( which they've subsequently sold off to the pharmaceutical lobby).<br /><br />So, yea, Johnson is an empty suit, a nothing-burger, or worse, an instrument of the WEF.<br /><br />"in fact they [the US] had their hand up Tony Blair's arse."<br /><br />I was thinking about GW1, when it is accepted that Kuwait was 'greenlit' for Saddam by the State department. <br /><br />It's a tribute to the relationship Thatcher had with Reagan that the Americans did an about face on that too. But generally speaking, the UK toes the US line.<br /><br />Bill Quango MP: "Just write a letter and the USA will go pack up"<br /><br />Interesting tho, any potential Prime minister that might be likely to 'just write a letter', never gets to be Prime Minister; Michael Foot, Jeremy Corbyn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-72425743931073930202022-06-27T11:08:05.919+01:002022-06-27T11:08:05.919+01:00"The Uk has been an ally of the USA for the l..."The Uk has been an ally of the USA for the last eighty years." Yes, but the US will not hesitate to act in their own interests. The most recent case was the US having a hissy fit and threatening to stop intelligence sharing if the British government blocked the takeover of Ultra Electronics by a US PE group. During the Falklands war, it was only the intransigence of the Argentinian government in blocking every offer of sovereignty sharing that finally forced the Reagan government to commit to Britain, and not support their client in Argentina.<br /><br />And during and after WW2, the US was explicit in trying to force the breakup of the British Empire.<br /><br />Since Suez, British foreign policy has always been to do whatever the Americans want, more enthusiastically than anybody else. This has been helped by having many politicians with a personal connection to the USA. It's not a bad policy, but there is no effective British lobby in the US pushing policies that would benefit Britain in return, as there is an Israeli lobby, or (with the Biden government) a Ukranian lobby.DJKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-14677168883426090522022-06-27T10:58:17.603+01:002022-06-27T10:58:17.603+01:00More on Ukraine from Mearsheimer - two hours but I...More on Ukraine from Mearsheimer - two hours but I am sure absorbing, having read his "The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities" which predicted the disaster that has overcome Ukraine. <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVozNtCDM<br /><br />"Professor John J. Mearsheimer will discuss the current Russian invasion on Ukraine whilst exploring the potential causes and consequences of the crisis.<br /><br />In this lecture, Prof. Mearsheimer will aim to focus on both the origins of the war in Ukraine and some of its most important consequences. He will argue that the crisis is largely the result of the West’s efforts to turn Ukraine into a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. Russian leaders viewed that outcome as an existential threat that had to be thwarted. While Vladimir Putin is certainly responsible for invading Ukraine and for Russia’s conduct in the war, Prof. Mearsheimer states that he does not believe he is an expansionist bent on creating a greater Russia. Regarding the war’s consequences, the greatest danger is that the war will go on for months if not years, and that either NATO will get directly involved in the fighting or nuclear weapons will be used — or both. Furthermore, enormous damage has already been inflicted on Ukraine. A prolonged war is likely to wreak even more devastation on Ukraine. <br /><br />Prof. John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago."<br />Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-31582701291680436742022-06-27T10:45:53.136+01:002022-06-27T10:45:53.136+01:00To get back to the original post - so Germany stil...To get back to the original post - so Germany still wants gas from Russia, and are aggrieved they aren't getting as much as they'd like.<br /><br />In which case, can I please have some diesel from Russia? And 2500 litres of hearing oil? I hear their oil is clean stuff that doesn't need much processing.<br /><br />As I understand it, the UK is impoverishing its own citizens with these sanctions, yet Russia is making more money from oil sales than it did before sanctions were applied. So we, not Russia, are paying a price. "NATO Inflation"<br /><br />Surely then the biggest hit the UK and EU can make on "Putin's War Machine⟨™⟩" is to cancel the oil sanctions?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-5603547122979173762022-06-27T10:36:55.629+01:002022-06-27T10:36:55.629+01:00Anonymous said...
Good to see the Tories getting a...Anonymous said...<br />Good to see the Tories getting a good thrashing in Tiverton and Honiton, with the Red Tories losing a 20,000 majority.<br /><br />And here's another thing.<br /><br />Boris Johnson says RMT leader Mick Lynch is asking for too much money. The chutzpah!<br /><br />5:03 pm<br />=======================================================<br /><br />Above average salaries<br />Above average pensions<br />Above average working conditions<br />Like to strike on safety grounds to get more money, which oddly makes them safer overnight.<br /><br />Where's Mrs. T when you need her? <br /><br />Johnson crumpled before the Unions during lockdown, allowing teachers to inflict horrible damage to kids by forcing them to be masked all day. Johnson is a wretch who seems intent on destroying the tattered remnants of conservatism in the UK. And the UK. <br /><br />https://brownstone.org/articles/how-dangerous-are-masks-for-children/Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-76376852698055930942022-06-27T10:34:01.828+01:002022-06-27T10:34:01.828+01:00>Declaration?
It's a De facto proxy war aga...>Declaration?<br />It's a De facto proxy war against Russia by the eu/uk/usa using the Ukrainian army to man the front lines. Our (Boris's) belligerent attitude is singling us out as aggressors.<br />I'm with you though that it serves US interests more than Europe's but that doesn't mean that the UK is under the US's jackboot.<br />Timbo614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-44693742702783845432022-06-27T08:11:02.837+01:002022-06-27T08:11:02.837+01:00"Are you seriously suggesting that the UK is ..."Are you seriously suggesting that the UK is a captive of the USA ?"<br /><br />Yes. There is a restricted bound of acceptable behaviour. Suez was outside of it, Falklands was just, ... just inside it.<br /><br />Iraq we were hand in glove with the US, in fact they had their hand up Tony Blair's arse.<br /><br />"The other NATO members with missiles or bases. They are captives too?"<br /><br />Yes<br /><br />"When the French in 1966, told the Americans, and every other NATO member, to remove all of their forces from France, they all went."<br /><br />France doesn't matter to the alliance, so long as the US had Germany and the UK.<br /><br />"Just write a letter and the USA will go pack up"<br /><br />Ha ha! Keep telling yourself that bud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-24022080733784097472022-06-27T00:35:18.311+01:002022-06-27T00:35:18.311+01:00Are you seriously suggesting that the UK is a capt...Are you seriously suggesting that the UK is a captive of the USA ? Is only in the NATO alliance as it has been occupied, against its will by the United States? <br />The other NATO members with missiles or bases. They are captives too? Is South Korea an occupied country? Is Iceland? Is Cuba governed by the US? Because of Guantanamo.<br /><br />When the French in 1966, told the Americans, and every other NATO member, to remove all of their forces from France, they all went.<br />Nato headquarters was in France. It had to be moved to Belgium.<br /><br />It’s not that hard for the uk to get us forces to leave forever. Just write a letter and the USA will go pack up. Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-45285712406756455192022-06-26T23:24:34.786+01:002022-06-26T23:24:34.786+01:00Timbo614: "Um, today..."
Declaration?
...Timbo614: "Um, today..."<br /><br />Declaration?<br /><br />Because that's the only thing that is restraining Russia from decimating the UK.<br /><br />We have two (2) divisions ( 30,000 men ) avaliable for deployment in the British army. Russia has more or less wiped out the Ukranian army (East Ukraine ) of roughly 150,000 - 200,000 men.<br /><br />But we've just given our <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/admiral-chief-of-the-defence-staff-ukraine-uk-armed-forces-government-b2106807.html?fbclid=IwAR3c3UmPb62C4cjvF_jUdVOmCrWwnUzCyDp855807MIlNV2vdojypJFBaWg" rel="nofollow">weapons</a> to Ukraine. So British army is hardly battle ready.<br /><br />The government were rationing the artiliary shells avaliable per day in Iraq, the Iraqi militia are not the Russians.<br /><br />According to <a href="https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare" rel="nofollow">RUSI</a> Russia is firing 6200 artiliary rounds a day.<br /><br />In war games, "UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days", Russia has been sustaining in excess of 7000 rounds per day for four months.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-68887351463461757892022-06-26T23:16:23.483+01:002022-06-26T23:16:23.483+01:00Less than 30 years after that song we were fightin...Less than 30 years after that song we were fighting the Turks and we were on Russia's side. My grandfather got quite seriously damaged by them at Gaza, and his regiment got seriously damaged earlier at Suvla Bay. <br /><br />Give me a Russian over a Turk any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-13024374824317911252022-06-26T23:03:47.813+01:002022-06-26T23:03:47.813+01:00Crimean war would be the last time, though we sent...Crimean war would be the last time, though we sent troops to support the Whites during the post-Revolution period.<br /><br />We nearly fought in 1878. <br /><br />"We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do,<br />We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too,<br />We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true,<br />The Russians shall not have Constantinople."<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ZFzs7hL5gAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-10997435951882661412022-06-26T22:40:45.485+01:002022-06-26T22:40:45.485+01:00"When was the UK at war with Russia?"
Um..."When was the UK at war with Russia?"<br />Um, today...<br /><br />PM in Ukraine pact with Macron<br />Leaders promise surge in military support against Russia as Johnson hails ‘le bromance’ - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/<br />Timbo614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-12159982229865051002022-06-26T22:23:36.302+01:002022-06-26T22:23:36.302+01:00"The Uk has been an ally of the USA for the l..."The Uk has been an ally of the USA for the last eighty years."<br /><br />Yea, that's why we need ( currently ) thirteen US military bases on our soil.<br /><br />"Have not been enemies for over 200 years."<br /><br />The man who's boot is on your neck is not your friend.<br /><br />"Great Britain was at war with Russia more recently than it has been at war with the USA."<br /><br />When was the UK at war with Russia?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-80500589189930586032022-06-26T22:05:56.278+01:002022-06-26T22:05:56.278+01:00The Uk has been an ally of the USA for the last ei...The Uk has been an ally of the USA for the last eighty years.<br />Have not been enemies for over 200 years.<br />Great Britain was at war with Russia more recently than it has been at war with the USA.<br /><br />So hardly a big gamble to buy from USA.<br /><br /><br /><br />Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.com