Joe Biden may have many faults. But one strength he seems to have is that he must be one of the fastest writers in America.
In just one day Biden ‘granted’ 2,490 commutations. If we assume it took about 10 seconds to sign each of these pardons, then 2,490×10 seconds = almost 7 hours. So in that one day, Biden must have been signing pardons for about 7 hours.
On another day he ‘granted’ 1,500 commutations. So that’s over 4 hours of signing.
Of course, another possibility is that Biden actually spent most of these two heavy pardonning days in a senile doze while his controllers used a computer to draw up and sign these pardons. It’s even possible that Sleepy Joe wasn’t even aware of all these pardons which were being signed in his name.
Altogether Biden (or his controllers) signed 8,064 pardons for people who presumably could have been prosecuted for all sorts of offences once Trump moved into the White House on 20 January 2025. In comparison here are the number of pardons signed by the four presidents before Biden:
Trump: 237
Obama: 1,927
Bush: 200
Clinton: 459
Appart from Biden’s extraordinary signing skills, another thing I noticed from the above list is that Democrat presidents seem to issue many more pardons than Republican presidents. I wonder why that might be?
In my Monday-Tuesday blog I showed how Chatgpt’s AI could produce satirical song lyrics in just a couple of seconds. Just as a fun experiment, on Monday afternoon, a few hours after Starmer’s immigration speech, I asked Chatgpt to write a 600 word blog criticising Keir Starmer’s latest speech on controlling immigration. I was amazed at the result. I had assumed that AI was just some kind of big computer system. But I’m now beginning to realise how powerful and revolutionary it can be. If a technical idiot like myself can produce satirical songs and blogs in just 2-3 seconds using AI, it’s hard to imagine what an intelligent person could achieve.
About 3 seconds after I asked Chatgpt to write a blog for me, this is what ChatGPT came up with:
In his latest speech on immigration, Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled a series of reforms aimed at reducing migration to the UK. While the intention to address public concerns is understandable, the proposed measures raise significant questions about their practicality, economic impact, and alignment with the UK’s values.
Economic Implications
One of the central components of Starmer’s plan is to extend the residency requirement for settlement from five to ten years, with reductions available through a contributions-based model favoring work in public services or skilled sectors like AI and engineering. Additionally, the government plans to restrict post-study visa durations and consider charging universities per foreign student. These measures could deter international students, who contribute significantly to the UK’s economy and cultural diversity. Universities may face financial challenges, and the broader economy could suffer from a reduced influx of skilled graduates.
Impact on Healthcare and Social Care
The proposed cap on care worker recruitment from overseas aims to push employers to hire from within the UK’s pool of economically inactive individuals. However, the care sector has long relied on migrant workers due to domestic shortages. Limiting this recruitment without a robust plan to attract and train local workers could exacerbate staffing crises in healthcare and social care, ultimately affecting the quality of services provided to the public.
Integration and Language Requirements
Elevating English language proficiency requirements for all migrants and their adult dependents is intended to enhance integration. While language skills are crucial for integration, the policy may disproportionately affect individuals from non-English-speaking backgrounds, potentially limiting the diversity and richness that migrants bring to UK society.
Legal and Human Rights Concerns
The government’s plan to limit judges’ use of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights to prevent deportations raises concerns about the UK’s commitment to human rights. Article 8 protects the right to private and family life, and restricting its application could lead to unjust deportations and family separations, undermining the UK’s reputation as a defender of human rights.
Political Motivations
Starmer’s rhetoric, including phrases like “failed experiment in open borders,” echoes sentiments often associated with right-wing politics. This shift appears to be a strategic move to counter the rising influence of the anti-immigrant Reform UK party and to regain support lost in recent local elections. However, adopting such rhetoric risks alienating progressive supporters and undermines Labour’s traditional stance on social justice and inclusivity.
Conclusion
While addressing immigration is a legitimate concern, the approach outlined in Starmer’s speech may lead to unintended economic and social consequences. Policies that potentially harm key sectors, compromise human rights, and shift political rhetoric towards the right warrant critical examination. A balanced and compassionate approach to immigration reform is essential to uphold the UK’s values and ensure the well-being of its diverse population.
There have been quite a lot of ads on daytime TV recently for UNICEF. These ads, of course, show all the wonderful charitable work UNICEF is doing in desperate countries around the world and ask us plebs to donate our already heavily-taxed money:
The UK branch of UNICEF rakes in just over £160m a year.
Here are the salaries and benefits for some of the top UNICEF UK bosses:
Joanna Rea Interim Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy, Programmes and Safeguarding – £145,072
Mohini Raichura-Brown Deputy Executive Director, Partnerships and Philanthropy – £150,085
Steven Waugh Chief Financial Officer – £153,447
Jonathan Sparkes Executive Director – £184,493
You may think these are quite modest and deserved for an organisation which is raising and spending over £160m a year. But you also have to factor in that salaries, grants, and allowances paid by the United Nations to its staff, including UNICEF executives, are generally exempt from income tax. This is a standard practice for international organizations like the UN.
I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether UNICEF deserves our money or whether it is being excessively charitable to its own tax-avoiding bosses with our already heavily-taxed money.
I wanted to write about this. But congratulations to the Telegraph and Daily Mail and vloggers like The Blackbelt Barrister and Simon Webb for picking up on this story that our Government doesn’t seem keen to mention. As far as I’ve seen, the BBC hasn’t thought it worthwhile reporting on this story either. Here’s our Government’s unusually long press release about the supposedly ‘best deal India has ever agreed‘ new trade deal Britain has agreed with India:
Don’t bother reading it. The key point is that there’s one not insignificant issue the lengthy Government press release doesn’t mention at all – under the deal an apparently unlimited number of Indian workers will be able to come to work in the UK on 3-year visas and neither they nor their employers will have to pay National Insurance. This will immediately make them at least 20% cheaper to employ than equivalent British workers. This seems to be something Mr Starmer and Mr Reynolds and, of course, the BBC ‘forgot’ to mention when blethering on about ‘best deal India has ever agreed’ Although, at least it does seem to be ‘best deal India has ever agreed‘ – but for Indian, not for British workers.
Moreover, as I guess many of these Indians will be married, will they be allowed to bring in their families? And would that include wife/husband, a pack of brats, the workers’ parents, maybe a few aunts and uncles and 15 to 20 cousins and their families? Probably they’ll bring in a few family members each so that will mean more school places will be needed, it will be harder for taxpaying Brits to get NHS treatment, the cost of housing rentals will increase due to higher demand and there will be further pressure on many other public services. And, of course, with the latest clashes between India and Pakistan, the new arrivals might decide to bring their decades-long rivalry and violence to our streets enriching us even further.
Starmer repeatedly claims that “puting more money into workers’ pockets” is one of Labour’s main goals,Unfortunately, many or even most of those workers whose pockets will benefit will apparently be from India, not from the UK. Anyone still not believe in ‘The Great Replacement’?
Here’s Simon Webb explaining this latest Starmer betrayal of Britain, a country Starmer seems to loathe:
First I thought I’d bring you a little climate panic story which I don’t think the BBC’s climate Cassandra, Justin Rowlatt, will be mentioning. Why won’t he mention it? Well (IMHO), partly because this story takes place in Central London so it doesn’t allow Rowlatt and his camera crew and various other BBC hangers-on to fly somewhere exotic at our expense to tell us the Earth is doomed because we plebs travel too much. But this story won’t be mentioned by ‘our BBC’ mainly because this story rather undermines the whole ‘you all have to buy EVs to save the planet’ nonsense.
It has been reported (not by the BBC, of course) that users of the parliamentary estate have been informed that they won’t be able to charge their electric vehicles in New Palace Yard’s underground car park. The charging points are due to be removed on health and safety grounds following a review by the Safety and Fire teams, and in consultation with the Chair of the Administration Committee.
I guess that the Safety and Fire teams are worried that were a faulty EV lithium ion battery to spontaneously combust and, burning in a fire at around 2,000 degrees which would overwhelm any sprinkler system while spewing out toxic fumes, Ed ‘EV’ Miliband might achieve what Guy Fawkes failed to do.
I rather suspect that within the next few years, insurance companies will demand that all EV charging points in garages under offices, flats and other buildings are similarly removed as a condition in their insurance policies. We may even see EVs banned from underground parking garages altogether.
The ghastly ‘genocide’ against Palestinians
I don’t know if these idiots are still protesting about the supposed ‘genocide’ of Palestinians by Israel:
But, if the Israelis are really committing ‘genocide’, they’re not doing a very good job.
This supposed ‘genocide’ against Palestinian Arabs has been going on for over 70 years:
Palestinian population in 1950: 944,624
Palestinian population in 1960: 1,073,081
Palestinian population in 1970: 1,116,280
Palestinian population in 1980: 1,469,059
Palestinian population in 1990: 2,139,067
Palestinian population in 2000: 3,151,792
Palestinian population in 2010: 4,016,916
Palestinian population in 2020: 5,069,962
Palestinian population in 2025: 5,589,623
If the ‘genocide’ doesn’t stop soon then these people will be wiped out completely. Not!
Though there are plenty of genocides being conducted around the world. The most recent seems to be the slaughter of Alawites and Christians in Syria by groups of Jihadis:
The murderers seem to have been eagerly supported by members of the new ‘moderate’ government’s security forces. But nobody protests against this as the murderers are from our favourite religion.
Oh, and in case you didn’t know, the UK government is giving around £160 million of our money to the new ‘moderate’ government in Syria. I wonder if some of our money will go to help fund the slaughter of more Alawites and Christians?
Let us all join together to congratulate our Iberian Peninsula friends. They seem to be leaping ahead of Starmer’s amd Miliband’s wonderful ambition to lead the world in becoming ‘clean energy superpowers’. In achieving this, they have showed us all what Mad Red Ed Miliband’s economically-suicidal plans will do for us:
Of course, those in power will give us all kinds of sophisticated explanations why there were massive power failures in Spain and Portugal – complex planetary movements, Venus going up Uranus, solar phenomena not seen for 100 years and of course, ‘climate change’. I’m no ‘scientist’ dependent on government grants for my luxury, globe-trotting, climate-conference-attending lifestyle. But there does seem to be an embarrassing (for our rulers) connection between the power failure and excessive use of useless, so-called ‘renewables’.
I look forward to hearing the BBC’s Justin Rowlatt and the Guardian’s George Monbiot trying to explain away this latest catastrophic failure of their much-loved ludicrous Net Zero policies..
On 24 and 25 April 2025, the IEA (International Energy Agency) and the UK government convened an international Summit on the Future of Energy Security in London. UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer amd Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband were among the keynote speakers.
The IEA informed us that: ‘The Summit will examine the geopolitical, technological and economic factors affecting energy security at the national and international level. It will provide leaders and decision makers from around the world with an opportunity to review the trends shaping global energy security – and reflect on the tools needed to address traditional and emerging energy security risks.’
At this important conference, our leader, Sir Keir, spouted:
“So our task is clear – To act – together… To seize the opportunity of the clean energy transition. Because homegrown clean energy is the only way. To take back control of our energy system. Deliver energy security. And bring down bills for the long term.“
“And I want to tell you we’re going all out –  through our Plan for Change to make Britain a clean energy superpower to secure home grown energy and set a path to achieving clean power by 2030.“
And the hero of this momentous gathering of many of the world’s greatest jet-setting hypocrites, Lord Edward Miliband blethered:
“Abundant energy can raise living standards, economic growth and deliver for today’s and future generations of citizens. For the UK, just to talk about us for a moment, there is an exciting vision of energy security and abundance from cheap, homegrown, low carbon power. So our vision of low carbon power goes well beyond the climate imperative — important as that is. Homegrown low carbon power is our nationally chosen route to energy security.”
Firstly, I hope you’ve noticed how our rulers have changed the narrative. Originally, they kept telling us that we needed Net Zero to save the planet from global boiling:
But now they hardly mention supposed climate change and instead claim they’re acting to provide energy security.
Let’s look at how Red Ed Miliband is giving us “energy security”:
closing down North Sea oil and gas production
banning coal mining
closing down and blowing up power stations long before their productive life is over
the UK’s last fracking wells are set to be closed and filled with cement despite warnings that Britain’s gas stockpiles are dwindling
deliberately delaying the approval of small modular nuclear reactors despite the fact that their production could provide thousands of highly-skilled, well-paid jobs
At the same time they are:
removing productive agricultural land from food production and covering it with next-to-useless solar panels which only produce energy for a couple of hours a day. In my book THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS I quote the head of one of Germany’s largest power companies warning that relying on solar power in Northern Europe was like growing pineapples in Alaska
erecting hideous wind turdbines which don’t work when the wind is too weak or too strong
Starmer and Miliband must realise they are lying when they claim they are giving us “energy security” when they’re actually actively destroying our energy system.
I know we all lie:
What astonishes me is that these two (IMHO) Davos-adoring, UK-hating scumbags can lie so brazenly.
There are some quite interesting (I think) things happening in China which don’t seem to get much mainstream media attention.
Last year, Evergrande, once a giant in China’s property market, collapsed due to mounting debt triggering a wider crisis in the Chinese real estate sector. A Hong Kong court ordered the company’s liquidation in January 2024. Evergrande’s debt surpassed an astonishing $300 billion. Moreover, there are many other Chinese property companies which are also over-indebted and on the brink of collapse. And several new Chinese cities which are just ghost cities:
There are an estimated 65 million Chinese homes which are unoccupied.
Many Chinese families have invested in property expecting a continual rise in property prices. But when a country with a falling population keeps building ever more properties, economic gravity will eventually win over uncontrolled speculation.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will inevitably claim that China’s economy grew by the planned 5% this year. But the truth is that in many cities, Chinese property prices have fallen by up to 50% and this is having a negative knock-on effect on consumer confidence, consumer spending and the Chinese economy.
And now that Trump has imposed massive tariffs on Chinese exports to America, many Chinese factories are closing as they can’t sell their now unwanted production in the Chinese home market and up to 20 million Chinese workers may lose their jobs. Moreover, around 12 million students graduate from Chinese universities each year and unemployment for new graduates is at around 55%.
Faced with this situation, after years of bullying its neighbours with its aggressive expansionist policies, Chinese mafia boss (sorry, I meant the head of the much-respected CCP) Xi PingPong has just been on a charm tour of South-East Asian countries to try to make friends and create a group of countries who will oppose the new US tariffs. Judging by the video linked below, Xi’s attempts to seduce China’s neighbours into an anti-US trading block are backfiring as most countries seem to prefer getting into bed with the US rather than China. South Korea has already finalised a new trade deal with the US and many other countries are expected to follow.
Much of this is explained in the video below. It’s rather long and the presenter is not (IMHO) the most stimulating speaker. But you only need to watch a few minutes to get the picture.
Why this situation might be important to us is the issue of how Chairman Xi will react if China goes into a serious recession and he feels his position is under threat. In such a situation, totalitarian leaders usually try to find a foreign enemy so they can use the cover of patriotism to rally their disaffected people. If Xi goes that route, an invasion of Taiwan might look extraordinarily convenient for Chairman Xi.
Anyway, here’s the video explaining why Xi might be becoming a ‘Norman No Friends’:
David Craig, on May 23rd, 2025
