Recent Visit to “Perfidious Albion”
Impressions of people and events in the UK
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“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world”. Socrates
Intentions
Impressions
IgnoranceIdyll
Idiocy
Insight
The main value in this article may well be in the footnotes and links!
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” Socrates
“Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard. ” Hesiod
1 Intentions
Elderflower and Lemon Cake
It was my turn to make a speech. I started to stand up, pushing back my chair as I did so.
The chair caught on something behind me, and wouldn’t move back: it stopped me putting my leg under my weight as I had anticipated, and I started toppling backwards towards the three-tier cake on its display stand. The “bride” – a former chef - had spent the entire previous day (and more) making that cake. I had been a first-hand witness to some of the trials, vicissitudes and setbacks of that lengthy process.
Now, normally I try and write about things that are always true, in this Substack, as a philosopher might. But, in the absence of revelation of eternal verities, I thought I might share some experiences of my recent trip to the UK; to illustrate what I have in common with many of you - the efforts to engage with loved ones with limited understanding of what is going on; and the unending struggle to enjoy the present to the full, whilst the impending future oscillates between certain tyranny with early death, and the tantalizing glimmer of hope that sufficient people will understand to make simply saying “no” work!
One of my sons was having a party, thrown by his mother - my lovely ex-wife - to celebrate his union with an Australian lady. They had done the legal part in Australia, and the celebratory part was taking place (much later) in the UK1 . This seemed to me an admirable distribution: the Aussies are welcome to the legalities while we enjoy the food, drink and company.
(This is the point at which - if I had the modicum of experience necessary - I should make a topical joke about recent Australian sporting success - or failure - meaning that it was our turn to give them sympathy, or conversely that we have had plenty of practice at giving Australia sympathy. With zero interest in commercial sport, I have to leave it to you to select the appropriate punchline).
There was never any doubt about going: apart from seeing the people I love most in the World, I would meet my daughter-in-law and grand-daughter for the first time.
You can tell people how to ride a bicycle, until they understand about peddling, and steering to balance; but it’s just not the same as them doing it for themselves. In the same way, you can tell people about parental love – and they understand – but it’s not until they have children themselves that they really understand.2
I behaved myself: I determined beforehand not to say anything political or controversial until the third week, and then to make it short, pared to the essentials, and only to my sons. Nobody wants a Cassandra spouting implausible predictions for a gloomy future.
I was largely successful in this. Even when I saw an invitation on the fridge from the NHS to bring grand-daughter in for routine vaccines … I had had the sense and timing to send them “Dissolving Illusions” by Suzanne Humphries3 4: so surely they knew better? No: the book (costing £25!) had been thrown away unread to save weight for a flight! Even then I kept quiet.
It took a toll though. Imagine watching your own hypothetical three-year-old offspring running joyfully down a hill: some distance below them on the slope is a chasm, fatally deep, across their path. They could, perhaps, successfully jump over it, if they really prepared well and gave it their all; but they haven’t seen it. How would you feel if you can’t warn them? That’s how I felt, watching my boys living joyful lives, experiencing new young family and hard-earned success, unaware of what lies ahead. I can’t say I was always the life and soul of the party.
It’s not that I haven’t tried. In fact I had assumed that me rabbiting on for a decade or so without much push-back meant that they were better informed than most … until one of them, to my surprise, got “vaccinated” twice. Undoubtedly it was difficult to avoid in Australia, with visa and travel restrictions. Unfortunately they need someone more persuasive than I, although I have pointed them towards some I thought persuasive enough.5
I have come to the tentative conclusion that for most people who still don’t know what’s going on, it’s because they don’t want to; although, admittedly, some are led astray by the distractors and “fact checkers” that will pop up at the top of a Google or YouTube search. By this time, if you haven’t come across eminently qualified people explaining to you in detail why taking the vaccine was a most unfortunate thing to do, then either you are not interested, for whatever reason, or you don’t appreciate that you are choosing search engines etc. that are censored. At the same time, I feel ashamed that I didn’t do a better job of keeping my offspring informed: that was my prime duty. What, otherwise, was the point of all the time invested in informing myself over the last 15 years?
2 Impressions
During the party I had a really wonderful time, catching up with wider family and friends. But you will not be surprised to hear the expected litany of typical “vaccine” damage: strokes, neuropathy, a pacemaker in a nephew in his early thirties, ineffective immune systems, chronic fatigue, and cancer.
Evidence of wider societal destruction included hearing from a lovely lawyer who has worked pro bono for decades for the CAB (Citizen’s Advice Bureau – a wonderful charitable institution offering free legal and practical advice) that now, in Britain, the proportion of children growing up in poverty has grown to one in six! Still a “first-world” country?
But the friends and family are middle-class people, who are only affected in a quantitative way by the “boiling frogs” decline, not a qualitative one. And they have never been this age before: they don’t know how many people to expect to hear are ill; or how wealthy they might have been if it hadn’t been stolen by nearly invisible taxes; or what the NHS would have been like if it hadn’t been deliberately sabotaged over the last 50 years; or whether English culture would naturally change at this rate.
(Paraphrasing Martin Niemöller:
“First they came for the elderly, but I wasn’t elderly, so I hardly noticed;
then they came for the poor, but I wasn’t poor and thought it was normal;
then they came for our health ... institutions ... morale ...”)
Arrest and detention without due process hasn’t happened to them6; they haven’t noticed their communications being censored; they haven’t had their income removed yet.
All my British friends and family seem largely unaware of what’s going on (or possibly just its significance).
Ignorance
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” Socrates
I’ve always thought that quotation rather suspect; but right now it strikes me as apt.
The following things seem to have escaped most UK citizens’ attention somehow.
There are people with an agenda7 (i.e. not a conspiracy, as the information is publicly available, merely too boring to pay attention to) …
… stealing the populace’s assets,10
… and pushing the impoverished remnants into ghettos (a.k.a. “Fifteen Minute Cities”);
making life cheap. (Charlie Faulkener MP is introducing a bill to move euthanasia for the elderly towards being desirable: people like the infirm or disabled are to be regarded as a drain on society, that no society can afford. Society cannot afford it if you steal enough resources from it).
The government controls how people think more than they realise; everyone thinks that brainwashing happens to other people, because they don’t notice it.13 14
Their government/media terrorised them by lying to them about the “pandemic”, its origins, prognosis, and treatment;15 and the nature of pandemics generally16
… and about the safety and effectiveness of “The Vaccine”, which has caused several Holocaust’s worth of dead around the World. And no, it wasn’t the virus.17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 (ALL worth looking at)!
They encouraged and co-erced people to vaccinate their children when they KNEW from the VSAFE data that it would cause huge numbers of health problems (entirely predictably).25 The effect on that generation’s fertility has yet to emerge.
By discussing mandating the vaccine the governments revealed themselves to be collectivist. If they had NOT soon killed large numbers of their populace it would have been a rarity, as that is what collectivist governments do (1917+ - Bolsheviks; 1930’s -National Socialists; 1950s - Mao; 1970’s - Pol Pot).26 27
The vaccine produced a huge upsurge in people claiming disability allowance. (Insurance companies know this well: their income depends on being aware of such trends).28
This was unsurprising since the vaccine was a tailor-made bioweapon, as you can see from both its chemical composition29, and the legal chicanery around responsibilities and obligations ...30 31 32
… in response to an apparent crisis caused by mendacious lethal hospital protocols.33
World War III has already started; it’s just using a different set of weapons, a larger psychological component.34
Censorship is rampant.35 36 It’s important to the powers that be that the majority of people do not perceive what’s going on. The new prime minister recently made a speech in parliament depicting the Telegram app as a terrorist tool, when it’s simply a means of communication (an improved WhatsApp: when you join, you get to see posts made before that). The difference is that the Telegram CEO has not bowed to pressure to compromise privacy37. Telegram and Substack are rarities in being uncensored today.38
The TV has not held up in front of the populace’s noses the massive protests39 from the … perhaps 5% of the population who have done enough research to realise what’s going on. Perhaps that’s why
the government is expanding the distribution of fluoride in the drinking water!40 41
Clamping down on demonstrations is coming in.42 This is what that looks like: 43 The synthetic riots are being used to pass fascist laws, allowing you to be arrested without any pretense of a pretext.44
I’ve heard that Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Union), in buying the poisonous “vaccine”, allegedly gave away enough of European citizens’ money to big Pharma, for everyone in the EU to have eleven doses! It’s hard to confirm as I haven’t been able yet to find how much was paid per dose. But here are some solid facts.45
Now its a “defense” spending spree she’s on (actually, OFFensive – in every sense).
John Healey (UK “Defense” minister) is running around Europe on a “Diplomacy” drive. You wouldn’t want some country to get left out of the war! The repetition of the treaties which led to WWI, and the spate of agreements made with European countries just before WWII could hardly be more obvious (the one with Poland being the one eventually used as trigger for WWII).
8 and 9 are the keys for most people. They show that a group deliberately and knowingly killed or sickened billions of people. This is aimed at you. They haven’t gone away: they are winding up for the next - larger - stunt.
They are beating the Nazis at their own game. Fascism (- or Fabian Socialism – pick your preferred collectivist government46) doesn’t look like young skin-heads with swastikas: it’s brought in with quiet changes to the law, and with effective propaganda, to a gullible populace, by people in suits.
In 2000 AD, perhaps 1 person in a million understood what was going on - just a few people who had come across obscure things: perhaps Operation Gladio e.g., or the work of G. Edward Griffin or Dave Emory.
After 9/11/2001 it would have gone up an order of magnitude or two, when those who had the resources to pay attention got a wake-up call.
But with “Covid” the lies have been so obvious that now I guess it’s around one in twenty who are “awake”, i.e. they have accepted the reality of “the big lie”,47 and are therefore more willing to examine other potential lies. Nowadays it’s easy to find like-minded people to discuss reality with. The question is whether awareness is going to rise fast enough. It’s going to have to rise a lot: when everyone’s dependent on Universal Income for their food,48 (i.e. “join the New World Order or starve”) it’s going to be somewhat late.
My feeling is that people discuss The Great Reset (or whatever you want to call current events) so much now, that the parasite class are going to have to introduce the next savage distraction pretty soon. And if, like me, you think that the next generation’s fertility is going to be severely impacted, that gives you an idea of the severity of the event they will need in order to have something to blame all the infertility on with some plausibility. Similarly, they are going to need something to blame the disappearance of money on (typically war or “banking collapse”, from precedent, but an EMP event would serve as well).49
If you are still unaware of all the people who understand what’s going on now (or even if you aren’t!) sample some gems like these top quality minds:
Neil Oliver’s interview with Alex Story e.g.
or anyone’s conversation with Whitney Webb;
anyone’s interview with Sasha Latypova.
Go to UK Column for your news, not the BBC.
Nowadays its very easy to find out … IF you want to know.
“Average minds have big TV screens; exceptional minds have big libraries.”
I felt like Strider walking into Hobbiton; I saw the bucolic way of life exemplified, with all the splendid virtues – and myopia – of normal people.
They think life will continue as usual - (never underestimate the power of wishful thinking!) - whilst around them the preparations for war go on, less and less surreptitiously. I really didn’t want to spoil it for them, temporary though it be. Perhaps I should have said more? I don’t know.
“It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.” Socrates
3 Idyll
Indeed there was plenty to enjoy and celebrate. My talented sons, and ex-wife are all leading productive, successful and fulfilling lives. My sister was on great form - as hospitable as ever, and amusing about enjoying tussling with her conscience over her “green credentials”, for example. The UK felt, superficially, to be continuing about as usual, with many wonderful benefits to living there.
I need restraint to avoid enthusing for pages about my new (1 ¾ year-old) grand-daughter who – by an extraordinary co-incidence - happens to be the cutest in the World.
Discussing Toes with Grandpa
I’ve only had boys (who develop more slowly at that age) and to see her linguistic sophistication at 21 months was amazing. It’s not just the extent of her vocabulary, and the extended vocalizations which sometimes even the parents couldn’t interpret, but the body language, including wide two-handed gestures indicating “isn’t this remarkable?” or “who would have guessed such a thing?”; the long shoulder shrugs, her head cocked over to the side, as she ponders, with a lop-sided frown, the significance of something; the half-smiling, extended eye contact as she watches to see if you think this is funny too …
Trying on party dresses
Absolutely heartwarming; such a joy.
We were staying with the “bride” and “groom” and their beautiful daughter, and so we had time to get to know them as a family. Leaving them to come back to Southern Africa was a terrible wrench; all the more poignant when we don’t know how long we have before the next stunt to shut down freedom.
They say “fish and guests go off after three days”. On a previous occasion I had managed to outstay my welcome with another relative to such an extent that even I had noticed. I was determined not to do the same on this occasion. So instead of staying for a solid three weeks, as invited, in the middle week, we planned to give them a break from us, with my missus flying off to visit her brother in France, and me visiting friends and indulging my passion for backpacking.
4 Idiocy
I had the impression that I wasn’t supposed to make a speech at the party in the marquee. So my preparation was “just-in-case”, and a little last minute; but I had managed to think of a few jovial pleasantries, and a couple of sagacious comments to prove that with age comes wisdom. I had enough experience to form the mnemonics to string them together without the need for notes. What could possibly go wrong?
So I was able to go through the party feeling prepared. As it turned out, however, I was destined to demonstrate the main theme of another of my Substack essays – that we are much, MUCH more stupid than we should like to think. Any hints of intelligence or wisdom pale in the shadow of the vastness of our stupidity.
I was fortunate in that my “other half” - (alright, “better half”) – with decades of experience of my abilities, was quick enough to leap up and deflect my fall so that I missed The Cake: so it was merely a dramatic pratfall which I had just invited the assembled company to watch, rather than a culinary disaster in addition, which would have threatened my burgeoning relationship with my daughter-in-law. (It is possible that she would have seen the funny side, and welcome the unforgettable anecdote … “eventually”. But it’s not a risk I would want to take).
But my REALLY stupid choice was yet to become apparent. I had planned to start my short speech with an attempt at sophisticated jocularity along the lines of “Many of you old buffers would be tempted to give the happy couple advice: not me, however”. And I would then explain why general advice wouldn’t work (as I sneaked in a piece of general advice), whilst picking specific advice, like this – (the next surreptitious advice) is impossible given the multiplicity to choose from.
But, as von Moltke, one of Napoleon's generals, said – “no plan survives contact with the enemy”50: what’s important is to be able to adapt it when things - inevitably - go wrong.
You may have spotted the flaw in my plan. I did just before I was about to speak, and froze: I was speaking after the mother of the “groom”. She – entirely predictably given a moment’s thought - had included someone’s well-chosen advice to read them. I could hardly follow with insulting people who offered advice on such occasions, however jocularly delivered.
Without my chosen string of ideas to follow I had to extemporize, and illustrated von Moltke’s point with my terrible attempt at an adapted plan. I managed to miss out all the important things I should have said – little things like thanking the host, and saying appropriate nice things about the “groom” (which was easy as I had known him from birth) and the “bride” (with whom I had been staying for a couple of weeks, so that even I couldn’t fail to spot some notable virtues).
Ah well: they still seem to be speaking to me, which goes to show what a lovely, forgiving lot they are. I do hope I get another opportunity to see them all.
5 Insight
One slightly philosophical thought to finish with. When I was a young man I had the opportunity to work with some really remarkable characters. Most of them had gone through a lengthy competitive selection process to find people who would be able to get on well in difficult conditions. As I worked with them I pondered what I could learn from them, and what was it that made them so impressive, when their talents, backgrounds and intelligence were so enormously varied? I came to the conclusion that the most important characteristic that people should possess in life is that they should try hard. That may seem a little trite, but I offer it for your consideration. (Lessons learned by others, which they try and pass on, usually seem reasonable or common-sense advice: but it’s not until it’s your experience which informs you, that it makes much impact).
When looking for someone to spend your adult life with, some things make an impact automatically, without conscious thought – their looks, health, cheerfulness, kindness and so on. But I had deliberately looked for that attribute – trying hard – in addition. I reflected on that as I sat in the marquee watching the two women who had shared the first and second halves of my adult life, and the one setting out on sharing life with my son: I thought, with gratitude, that he and I had been particularly fortunate.
I’m not sure I’d have the ability to put that across in a speech though: unfortunately, “she tries hard” sounds … awfully like “damning with faint praise”!
“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.” Marcus Aurelius
Footnotes
The use of the adjective "perfidious" to describe England has a long history; instances have been found as far back as the 13th century.[1] A very similar phrase was used in a sermon by 17th-century French bishop and theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet:[2]
'L'Angleterre, ah, la perfide Angleterre,
que le rempart de ses mers rendoit inaccessible aux Romains,
la foi du Sauveur y est abordée.
England, oh perfidious England,
Shielded against the Romans by her ocean ramparts,
Now receives the true faith.
The coinage of the phrase in its current form, however, is conventionally attributed to Augustin Louis de Ximénès, a French-Spanish playwright who wrote it in a poem entitled "L'Ère des Français", published in 1793:
Wikipedia
https://docmalik.com/212-crypto-rich-the-problems-with-traditional-schooling-and-the-benefits-of-home-education/ This conversation between two people who are remarkable in their areas of expertise gets better and better as it goes on. It’s a wonderful, uplifting privilege to listen.
Typically James Corbett, or Richard Andrew Grove. But here’s a great interview with Jacob Nordangaard that might help: https://rumble.com/v59ngl1-summer-emergency-broadcast-summit-jacob-nordangaard-august-1-2024.html
See footnote 29, and here’s one of very many, and just for 24 hours.
*Club of Rome,
— 1972 Limits to Growth
— 1974 Mankind at the Turning Point
— 1977 Goals for Mankind
— 1982 Making it Happen
*UN
— (1992) Agenda 21,
— UN (c. 2019) Agenda 2030
*Rockefeller institute, (not an “agenda” per se of course - merely a think tank’s “scenarios for consideration”)!
*WEF,
— The Great Reset (book)
— Here is a quotation from Klaus Schwab, in 2017, at Harvard. You’ll find video of this if you look. E.g. https://odysee.com/@DaAlternative:9/Our-Young-Global-Leaders-penetrated-half-the-cabinets-Klaus-Schwab-2017:2
"What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries with our WEF Young Global Leaders." "... and I have to say, when I mention our names - like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin - they all have been Young Global Leaders of the WEF. But what we are very proud of now, is the YOUNG generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau, the President of Argentina and so on. So we penetrate the cabinets. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau, and I KNOW that half of his cabinet - or even more - are actually our Young Global Leaders of the WEF. Same in Argentina."
UN 2.0
What do you think happens to a society when you reduce the energy available by, say, 80% and imply that the tiny amount produced by solar and wind is going to make up for that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi5Ii9TARis
That’s an easy way to get a handle on Global excess deaths, with John Campbell.
John Campbell goes over the excess deaths data.
https://www.Xoutube.com/watch?v=DMYZg8_22y8&app=desktop
Michael Nehls explains how the “appropriate” memories get inserted. https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/staging/2024-6-20/383553099-44100-2-996378486a61d.mp3
See Mike Yeadon explain. https://rumble.com/v3zywlj-the-saborski-address-english.html
Danish Freedom Movement & David Bell https://rumble.com/v58skle-summer-emergency-broadcast-summit-david-bell-july-25-2024.html
Despite the many examples of mortality rising after the vaccine, people continue to suggest it could have been the virus. The final nail in the coffin of that idea has to be Andrew Madrey’s paper about the rise in deaths in Queensland immediately after the “vaccination” where the covid VIRUS DIDN’T ARRIVE UNTIL 9 months LATER! It’s discussed here:
Re-analysis of the Netherlands data after many results had been temporarily excluded from the data. Rise in excess deaths immediately following each “vaccine” rollout.
"variations in national excess all-cause mortality rates allow us to conclude that the Covid-period (2020-2023) excess all-cause mortality in the world is incompatible with a pandemic viral respiratory disease as a primary cause of death.”
From the largest study yet -
https://correlation-canada.org/covid-excess-mortality-125-countries/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Office for National Statistics (ONS) data -
https://rumble.com/v56ep2d-uk-govt-docs-quietly-admit-vaccine-holocaust-will-kill-millions-of-children.html
SHOCKING DUTCH COVER-UP: THEY KNEW ABOUT VACCINE INJURIES AND HID THE DATA | w Clayton Morris
https://www.Xoutube.com/watch?v=kKu3mxnNYM8&app=desktop
Quotes from the former Director of the CDC:
https://t.me/CovidScienceLibrary/3811
Phillipines data. https://rumble.com/v56n6wt-filipino-excess-deaths-2021-2023.html
R J. Rummel, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/JCR.ART.HTM
Jessica Rose goes through this rather quickly, but you’ll get the gist, even without understanding much of what she says. Mike Yeadon says it more simply (below). I’ll find additional explanations when I get a moment. https://rumble.com/v3q1v43-dr-jessica-rose-excess-death.html
https://substack.com/@hereticwithlesliemanookian/p-145776828
There a several crucial things to learn in this discussion: be sure to listen until the end.
Doug Casey and Michael Yon - https://www.Xoutube.com/watch?v=v2H0PQRq7pw
This example was a year ago: it’s much worse now.
Compare the weasel words of Keir Starmer with those of JFK:
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.” ― John F. Kennedy
Now he has been arrested in France, 2024-08-25. https://vigilantnews.com/post/telegram-ceo-arrested-in-france-for-refusing-to-follow-censorship-laws/
Rather than expect timely revelations on YouTube, use the apparently uncensored Rumble, Bitchute, Odysee.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36639015/
Some recent (2024-08) UK headlines:
U.K. PM Calls For More Facial Recognition Following Weekend Of Riots
UK Man Arrested For Social Media Posts Containing “Anti-Establishment Rhetoric”
Schools to wage war on 'putrid' fake news in anti-extremism crackdown
Tech companies will be forced to ban fake news from their platforms under plans being considered by the Government
UK Plans to Treat Extreme Misogyny as a form of Terrorism
For an explanation, see Why You Should Stop Using the Concepts "Left-wing" and "Right-wing"
“… in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.” - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
https://archive.org/details/hitler-on-big-lie-technique-from-mein-kampf
Here it’s explained by Paul Craig Roberts, Asst. Treasury Secretary in the Reagan era.
No, of course those weren’t his exact words! For a start he wrote in German.
In his 1871 essay on military strategy, Helmuth von Moltke wrote
“Kein Operationsplan reicht mit einiger Sicherheit über das erste Zusammentreffen mit der feindlichen Hauptmacht hinaus.”
“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.”