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Today’s letters (visible only to DT subscribers) are here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/07/22/letters-government-should-trust-vaccines-return-us-normal-life/
Defence is an expensive insurance policy that some people always want to cancel. But freedom isn’t free. Colin Brazier. 23 July 2021.
But this Russia, the Russia of Vladimir Putin, is a threat.
His cyber-propagandists want to break up our United Kingdom by stirring up Scottish nationalist hatred of the union.
His defence spending, massively out of kilter with his economy, is paying for hyper-sonic missiles, gigantic new submarines and an advanced generation of tanks capable of outgunning our thickest armour.
Boys toys? Never going to be needed? Maybe not.
Defence is an expensive insurance policy that some people always want to cancel. But freedom isn’t free.
Putin is a bully and bullies exploit weakness.
Which is why we have to ensure our capabilities are a plausible deterrent.
A new cold war is upon us, whether we like it or not.
We will have done well if the gravest inconvenience we face in coming years is a blocked motorway.
Morning everyone. I caught this on GB News at eight last night. It was the opening diatribe to the Andrew Neill hour which Brazier has taken over temporarily. He has form in this respect. It was only a couple of weeks ago that he conducted an offensive interview with the Russian Ambassador in which he accused him of much the same.
This particular piece is mostly scaremongering propaganda. That Russia would need to stir up Scottish Nationalism when it already has Nicola Sturgeon is worth a laugh to any UK observer. How they would set about doing it, let alone why, is beyond imagination. Are a few tweets really going to bring the Scots snarling to the border?
That Russia would initiate an attack on the UK without first securing Central Europe and Scandinavia is military idiocy and the use of Motorways as emergency airfields was; if memory serves me correctly, ruled out forty years ago. Contrary to this specious nonsense and the Government Narrative, we are not beefing up our defence capabilities but reducing them. Russia’s Defence spending is not “out of kilter” with its economy. It has to defend an area much larger and more vulnerable than that of the UK. It is of no small significance that Russian Defence expenditure which is roughly equal to that of the UK also get much more for their money than we do.
This entire slot was an exercise in the simplest form of anti-Russia propaganda. The worst part is that it is on GB News. It looks to me like Brazier is its first Establishment Mole,
https://www.gbnews.uk/shows/colin-brazier-a-new-cold-war-is-upon-us-whether-we-like-it-or-not/114125
mng Araminta. It’s more a clear signal [not a virtue one] that Bordon Brown News is going nowhere and is another pseudo establishment entity
Morning AW. I think it has been more penetrated, as some on here suggested it would be, than is itself a Woke Entity!
agree, it certainly follows the pathway of Woke attempts to portray something different ignoring all the joining of the dots as to what real people know already and offers what people already know, not what they don’t and why
From GB News:
“Most people will be familiar with your work, but tell us something that nobody knows about you?
I once sang for a punk band called ‘Completely Crap’. And, yes, we were.
GBNews welcomes alternative views and searches for items which are not getting prominence on other media channels. Viewers are encouraged to provide their own take on subjects discussed. The Nigel Farage programme on Sundays has a very bright , eloquent and knowledgeable trade unionist for the Fire Brigade Union as a regular contributor. NF interviewed a French politician last night who mocked every view that NF had against the French attitude toward the Illegal immigration across the Channel.
GBNews is very open but still needs tidying up a bit. I look forward to AN’s return.
mng all up & about. Another power rationing stint finished. Here’s the TGIF virtue signal scribbles:
SIR – In all my medical career (and probably since Edward Jenner introduced vaccination) I have never come across a vaccine being launched where the message seems to be: “Have the vaccine but don’t trust it.”
The whole purpose of a vaccine is protection, or at least a very attenuated form of the illness. If the Government carries on with this madness there will never be a return to normal life.
Dr Robert Walker FRCP
Great Clifton, Cumbria
SIR – It has been suggested that key workers who have been double-jabbed should be exempt from self-isolation if they are pinged. Why not just stop self-isolation for all who have been double-jabbed?
Surely the object of the exercise was to get the population vaccinated so that we could get back to some semblance of normality. To keep moving the goalposts is unhelpful, and will lead to apathy and people simply deleting the NHS Covid-19 app.
Barbara Dennis
King’s Lynn, Norfolk
SIR – With supermarkets running out of food and the country slowly grinding to a halt at a time when economic recovery is so vital, can the Government not admit that the NHS Covid-19 app is no longer fit for purpose?
There is no question of losing face if that is what it fears. The app was one of a range of tools designed to fight the pandemic before the advent of the vaccines. It’s time has passed.
Sue Pickard
Epsom, Surrey
SIR – I’m sick of hearing about key workers who should be exempt from this or that restriction. Our economy relies on any number of interlinked supply chains and disciplines, all of which need to be operating efficiently or the whole system starts to break down. We should get rid of this wretched app, stop the pings and get the economy moving again.
Neil Bailey
Stockport, Cheshire
SIR – Many people seem to be using the ping as an excuse to take the family on a holiday or enjoy time at local facilities. Isolation has become a vacation and makes a farce of government policy.
Workers who have had both jabs for at least two weeks and test negative for Covid should go back to work immediately so that our country can recover from this pandemic.
Peter Amey
Hoveton, Norfolk
SIR – A record 618,903 Covid alerts were sent to app users in England and Wales last week. These alerts are creating a new lockdown at a time when the economy is in desperate need for people to get back to work.
Christopher Learmont-Hughes
Caldy, Cheshire
SIR – I would be interested to know what proportion of those who are pinged actually become ill with Covid.
Roger Vincent
Beaumaris, Anglesey
Immigration crisis
SIR – Whatever our feelings about illegal immigration, politicians fail to understand the scope of the problem or present it honestly and openly to the public.
Millions have fled to countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, nearly all of them set on coming to Europe, and many determined to come to Britain. The cross-Channel arrivals are just a small proportion, and we could receive a million or more over the next decade.
When and how are British citizens going to be consulted on this matter? Our politicians are clearly unable to control the situation, which implies that it is going to have to get a lot worse before it starts to get better. A realistic and honest approach to the problem has been lacking for years. It is a dereliction of duty both by those in power and those who wish to be.
Nicholas A Odoni
Westgate, Co Durham
SIR – We have given the French millions of pounds to deal with the migrants trying to cross the Channel, and are now going to give them another £54 million – which even the French MP for Calais says is not going to work, as the coastline is too long to police. Why waste yet more money?
Deryck Hedley
Steyning, West Sussex
SIR – Who will police the French police to ensure they do the job they should have been doing before we started paying them to do it?
Nick Rose
Selsey, West Sussex
Church leadership
SIR – William Nye’s letter defending the Church of England (July 16) portrays a “nothing to see here” attitude that is the core of the problem with the leadership of the Church of England. It is unwilling or unable to see that we need more parish priests and fewer dioceses and bureaucrats.
What is insulting is that they expect those who value parish priests to pay for the top-heavy bureaucracy we neither want nor need. We shall soon have no choice but to stop paying.
Tim Reid
Mayfield, East Sussex
SIR – The Church Commissioners’ report, Supporting the Work and Mission of the Church of England (2020), showed that the Church’s investment portfolio has increased by £500 million to £9.2 billion. Given the much-publicised financial state of parish churches, many of us feel that more support would fall well within the Commissioners’ remit.
The parish system has served the Christian Church well for more than 1,000 years in this country, through times when attendance has fluctuated. Let us not allow its winding down just because we find ourselves at a relatively low point in the attendance cycle. Commissioners need to take a long view on this and ensure that our precious parish system survives for another 1,000 years.
John Lockwood
Cammeringham, Lincolnshire
Gender blindness
SIR – I sympathise with Ian Milne (Letters, July 20), who was not allowed to make an innocent telephone inquiry on behalf of his disabled wife.
I had the same response when I tried to deal with our gas bill (registered in my husband’s name). So I rang again, saying I was John Page, and answered their security questions. Problem solved. Who would dare challenge a female-sounding John these days?
Isabel Page
Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire
Blue Badge demand
SIR – As an occupational therapist who assesses Blue Badge applications, I sympathise with Stella Mills (Letters, July 20), whose husband has been refused one, but it should be said that most councils are overwhelmed with applications of wildly varying merit.
All are assessed against criteria set by the Department for Transport, and complex ones are seen by the occupational therapist, who also assesses an applicant’s medical and physical functions, which may include a hidden disability. If this system was not in place, demand would exceed capacity even more than at present, and Blue Badge holders would struggle to access disabled parking spaces.
Sarah Runnacles
Eaglescliffe, Co Durham
Ice-cream benefits
SIR – Elizabeth Gomm (Letters, July 19) thinks we should ban ice-cream vans to tackle childhood obesity.
In the 1960s, my friends and I indulged in such occasional treats without any problems. There are many other causes of childhood obesity than the odd ice cream, and a bit of enjoyment can lift the spirits – a proven benefit to people of all ages.
R K Hodge
Chichester, West Sussex
SIR – When my children were young I told them that when the ice-cream van played a tune it was to tell everyone it had run out of ice cream.
Rosemary Knight
Allostock, Cheshire
SIR – It is not the responsibility of government to control levels of obesity (“Sugar and salt taxes plan set out by food tsar”, report, July 15).
For adults the responsibility lies with individuals, and for children with parents. And please don’t tell me that it is too expensive to eat healthily: an apple is cheaper than a bag of crisps, four pounds of carrots are cheaper than a pizza – the list goes on.
Cliff Peers
Chester-le-Street, Co Durham
Practice for the PM
SIR – Perhaps Sue Perkins (report, July 21), the new host of Just a Minute, could invite Boris Johnson to participate. I’ve yet to hear him utter a sentence, let alone speak for a minute, without hesitation, repetition or deviation. The practice would be good for him and for the country.
Andy Trask
Liphook, Hampshire
The evolution of tourism from Byron to Bezos
SIR – Those who complain that space tourism (“Bezos boldly goes to the boundary of space”, report, July 21) is expensive or elitist might reflect that all tourism started that way.
Two centuries ago, you had to be someone like Lord Byron and go on the Grand Tour to visit Paris, Venice, Naples and Rome, picking up the odd statue for your country estate.
Improvements in transportation, communication and food preservation – some spurred by the Second World War – made modern tourism possible. Now we’re seeing the same process on a larger scale.
The first European explorers to visit the Grand Canyon said that theirs would probably be the only expedition to visit such an out-of-the-way place. Nowadays, of course, it is a major tourist destination.
The Noctis Labyrinthus canyon system on Mars is longer than the Grand Canyon on Earth. It is always possible to go one better.
Peter Davey
Bournemouth, Dorset
Use sat-navs to identify speeding motorists
SIR – John Brandon (Letters, July 20) is right that speed limits are ignored by countless motorists.
Many offenders drive with sat-navs, which could surely be given a vehicle identification number, and alert the DVLA if the car was speeding. Notice of this could be sent automatically to the registered owner, who would be obliged to identify the driver, so that a speeding fine could be issued.
Pat Cooper
Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire
SIR – Some roads in my village will be designated Quiet Lanes, which I and others applaud. However, ours, which is one of them, has a 60mph speed limit.
This makes a mockery of the concept, especially as a separate application for a “speed order” is required. This is not exactly joined-up legislation, particularly as the cash-strapped parish council may have to fund this application.
Nick Kester
Wattisfield, Suffolk
SIR – It makes perfect sense to have a 20mph speed limit in residential areas where it can improve safety and the quality of the environment. But on vital urban arteries it simply causes unnecessary congestion and consequent poor air quality.
It is farcical that cyclists (who ignore this and most other laws) overtake cars on both sides and make sensible driving a nightmare. Furthermore, halving traffic flow by creating dedicated cycle lanes results in cyclists having to proceed alongside stationary traffic emitting the very pollution the policy was designed to avoid.
Tony Jones
London SW7
SIR – Third gear is optimised at about 23mph, giving fuel-efficient driving at this speed (Letters, July 21). I have long wished for more sensible 25mph zones, which would allow use of the apt slogan: “Twenty-five saves lives”.
Kenneth Wilshire
Cheam, Surrey
When and how are British citizens going to be consulted on this matter? Our politicians are clearly unable to control the situation, which implies that it is going to have to get a lot worse before it starts to get better. A realistic and honest approach to the problem has been lacking for years. It is a dereliction of duty both by those in power and those who wish to be.
This omission is quite deliberate Nicolas.
Sue Packard doesn’t get it i.e. the ‘pinging’ but Christopher Learmont-Hughes does. Sue, and the many of like mind need to wake up, and soon.
Thank you again, from those of us who can no longer access the letters.
Seconded.
Mobilising Against the Corporate Hijack of Agriculture and the UN Food Systems Summit c/o off Grauniad https://off-guardian.org/2021/07/22/mobilising-against-the-corporate-hijack-of-agriculture-and-the-un-food-systems-summit/
Good Morning, all
Minimal humdiddy and a decent night’s sleep for once.
Neither of these cartoons strike me as being especially worthy but in combination…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2021/07/22/2307-MATT-GALLERY-WEB-P1_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.png?imwidth=1260
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Boris off his trolley?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2021/07/22/DAVEY23072021_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqXLf5rZYUXGKwZgSx01hvqAjj8ErxbDGRAuacUwyQXO0.jpg?imwidth=1260
like a BBC repeat it’s back again ” New study calls on wildlife bodies to rectify harm caused by ‘damaging, racist and bigoted’ bird names https://www.rt.com/news/529944-racist-birds-names-legacy/ As usual there are people too immature to control their own emotions and allow themselves to be far too easily offended by arbitrary nonsense. Therefore, they demand everyone else moderate their words and language in order to control their emotions FOR them
https://youtu.be/9zbtAxQdZcU
Good morning all.
Good Morning Folks,
Another glorious start to the day, slightly cooler I think.
As if Oz isn’t already suffering enough from overreaction, The Piranha strikes again…
New Zealand shuts Australia travel bubble as Sydney’s Covid outbreak worsens
Jacinda Ardern pauses flights for eight weeks as her health chief says the spread in NSW was ‘clearly not under control’
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/23/new-zealand-shuts-australia-travel-bubble-as-sydneys-covid-outbreak-worsens
She must be from Viking stock
What with that long boat
mng Bob, Blair’s footsoldier merely following orders
Just like all the G7
100%
Australia you say…………
https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1417860184538451968
Batshit crazy…..
If anyone doubted the conspiracy theory that this pandemic is a staged event by the globalists to reorder the planet then what is happening in New Zealand and Australia just weakens their dismissive argument
Morning Bob. There’s no doubt that they have taken advantage of the opportunity to further their program!
They’re all at it.
Rugby teams withdrawn.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyleague/article-9813367/Australia-New-Zealand-WITHDRAW-Rugby-League-World-Cup-England-amid-coronavirus-fears.html
I really think the stupid woman? sits in her office with her fingers in her ears, singing ‘la la la, I can’t hear you…’! Does she not watch the world news or just ‘NZ Today’?
Does she have an eating problem?
That is a seriously anorexic face.
If so, what effect is it having on her brain?
mng anne. Suggest amend first line: Does she have a bleating problem? A – Yes. Answer to Q2 – none, no brain to be affected
Certified, and certifiable Greenie. Doesn’t eat enough sheep, would be my guess. Ambition to be Sec Gen of the UN. Mad as a hatter, according to my (non-PC) NZ cousins.
Yes, our relatives in NZ think that she’s a completely bonkers leftie.
Unfortunately a lot of the Kiwi MSM keep asserting that she’s wonderful.
Pervert targeted fellow passenger on train from Fife to Edinburgh Haymarket. 23 July 2021.
Tulsi Ram Bhandari, 48, of Dunfermline, was convicted of sexual assault at Edinburgh Sheriff Court under Section 3 Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 .
He was sentenced to 150 hours community payback order and placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 5 years.
I think only Heterosexual Rapists can now be called Perverts though this guy could be exempt under the Islamophobia Defence!
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/pervert-targeted-fellow-passenger-on-train-from-fife-to-edinburgh-haymarket-3319220
Morning All
A rich crop of #CovidClownWorld
https://twitter.com/BordersAgainst/status/1418302206047145985?s=20
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Yay!!
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Dr Dunlop’s tweet exposes the stupidity, not only of the authorities, but of the compliant people. I visited four establishments yesterday, Hughes to purchase a new washing machine, Argos, B&M and Lidl. Masks were in the majority by a huge margin at all venues, including the car parks. If the government could only be as successful with the economy as they have with scaring people then the Country would be in a really good place.
Sacrilege! Not a single mention of Eeyore, everyone’s favourite.
Winnie-the-Pooh goes to Harrods in new authorised AA Milne prequel
Once There Was a Bear by Jane Riordan and Mark Burgess will channel the original books’ voice and pictorial style using details from Christopher Robin’s real life
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/23/winnie-the-pooh-goes-to-harrods-in-new-authorised-aa-milne-prequel
some info post Cyber Polygon webinar that furthers great reset agenda of centralized power & surveillance https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/cyber-polygon-great-reset-centralized-power-surveillance/ for those that dabble with Ethereum, that’s included
Did the creep who poses as the “Vaccine Minister” drop the ball or did he deliberately let the placebo information out. He made a gaff early on when he mentioned the “passports” and he had to retract that statement: one of his many lies, of course.
If Aiden Stanley is correct then why did the creep mention the use of a placebo at all, “fully vaccinated” would have been sufficient.
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that’s what happens when you put foreigners in Government positions but then he’s ex big pharma and millionaire from what was a rich Iraqi family
Well when I read that thirty percent of those in hospital with Covid19 are double jabbed I wonder why anyone would bother!
With the latest “variant” displaying a complete new set of symptoms, akin to a summer cold or even hay-fever, should it even be referred to as CV-19? The government will continue to use that label as the fear was instilled by its use but that doesn’t make it so.
C-19 billionaires spin the ball https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/covids-billionaires-spin-the-ball got to keep the gravy train rolling regardless
I find the threads intolerably messy. It’s simple: order by date, oldest to newest.
This is from early 2020
Oh boy can I get him to pick my lottery tickets ’cause he could sure see the future
https://twitter.com/WestwoodParking/status/1409796031831691270?s=20
Errrm… did anyone think it would be any different?
The problem is, big fat state suddenly realised that the thing it loves more than power – tax – doesn’t come in if you force people to stay at home.
Thayaric could tell you they don’t rely on tax – they just increase the money.
Another one. If one let’s Too Stupid to Live be a self fulfilling prophecy then time to bite the dust https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/595496eb63881d4383b97a2f727864dbcdeda3b2b3affc04860b3ecf7793b8e5.jpg – body donated to science? Irony from the grave no less
More Darwnism at work.
Woke epitaph: Evolve or die in the real world
Never to be reported in the mainstream media, although they run regular articles about “non-believers” supposedly recanting on their deathbeds as they are about to expire from covid.
mng, true. And the more frequently they run such articles, the more they expose their agenda
Tragic, because he was only a youngster and he was speaking his mind, which is what the internet is for after you get married.
But glancing at the accompanying photo, I was reminded of the old expression “Now there’s a bottle that will soon find another cork”.
The Graun’s readership is giving the mothership a right royal bollocking BTL as regards its initial supercilious review of the following (in the past 24 hrs said review has been amended to conform more closely with the faithful’s views and comments have been closed) :
The best thing Jeremy’s done: why I can’t wait for more Clarkson’s Farm
Amazon has renewed Jeremy Clarkson’s farming show after rumours it had been axed. It pains me to say it but … I hope it runs and runs. It’s the real deal
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That’s odd – because I’d heard it was “Eight hours of a buffoon screwing things up for our supposed entertainment”, and that it was mostly “wearisome, meretricious rubbish”.
Can’t think which disreputable rag I read that review in.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/22/clarksons-farm-best-thing-jeremy-clarkson-has-done-amazon#c
I saw a clip of JC being interviewed the other day. He talks like a child on farming matters but has high respect for most farmers, as I have.
If he hasn’t already got one he should get a farm manager suitable for his farm and let him shoulder the responsibility for the many practical decisions to make the farm functional.. Change the name of the farm, “Diddley Squat” is not suitable. Stop buying expensive unsuitable farm machinery and sit back with a light hand on the tiller.
Alternatively sell the farm.
The granuad hates everything good and decent. They especially hate Clarkson – it’s that same bitter, nasty, petulant spite the Left have of someone who doesn’t care what they say and does what he wants to.
Low-traffic schemes halve number of road injuries, study shows. 23 July 2021
Road injuries halved in low-traffic neighbourhoods installed during the coronavirus pandemic when compared against areas without the schemes, a new study has found.
Wow! Imagine that! I guess if we banned motor vehicles altogether there would be no casualties at all? Who would have thunk it?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/23/low-traffic-schemes-halve-number-of-road-injuries-study-shows
Dr David Martin’s facts and evidence video https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/no_author/exclusive-dr-david-martin-just-ended-covid-fauci-doj-politicians-in-one-interview/ and document evidence https://www.covidtruths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/The-FauciCOVID-19-Dossier2532.pdf
On an imgur nonsense post, someone was complaining that others should get vaccinated to protect him.
Do people not understandd how vaccinations work? Do they think they’re some sort of nano tech cloud that you carry around and magically floats out to destroy virai in others? It’s a staggering ignorance. A vaccination only affects you, and then not 100%.
mng, consider [very briefly] to offer to help them with their ignorance https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/716d77c60f7d978f37ecd3af9824df57d6312d0b593a7a02ebc474e2c65f2ac8.jpg well, up to a point https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/64e9d89093df2b7c68caa1cc137817e144cfa864da6b42962566fcad2310471b.jpg as you know, they’d get zero empathy / sympathy here
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UK food supply chains ‘on the edge of failing’, meat industry warns. 22 July 2021.
Britain’s food supply chains are “right on the edge of failing” as absence related to COVID-19 has aggravated a critical shortage of labour, a meat industry body said on Wednesday.
The destabilisation of the UK appears to be reaching a crescendo. A food shortage, real or engineered, would provide a peak and suitable reasons for a National Committee for Public Safety to replace the Government! Blair would certainly qualify for its leadership!
Just saying.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-food-supply-chains-edge-failing-meat-industry-says-2021-07-21/
What a great excuse to introduce meat rationing….
the MSM / Govt front to collapse supply chains. It’s breaking at moment in Septic land that farmers have to destroy their produce or essentially face their own version of Agent Orange and have Govt destroy crops etc for them
found the link https://truth11.com/2021/07/22/u-s-farmers-are-receiving-letters-from-the-department-of-agriculture-offering-them-cash-to-dispose-of-their-crops-farmers-must-refuse-to-be-part-of-genocide/
What a great excuse to put Blair back into power….
I think a lot of folk would endorse his immediate Martyrdom and instant cannonisation so he could do no further harm to the UK…
UK food supply chains ‘on the edge of failing’, meat industry warns. 22 July 2021.
Britain’s food supply chains are “right on the edge of failing” as absence related to COVID-19 has aggravated a critical shortage of labour, a meat industry body said on Wednesday.
The destabilisation of the UK appears to be reaching a crescendo. A food shortage, real or engineered, would provide a peak and suitable reasons for a National Committee for Public Safety to replace the Government! Blair would certainly qualify for its leadership!
Just saying.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-food-supply-chains-edge-failing-meat-industry-says-2021-07-21/
Tokyo’s Pandemic Games Open https://orientalreview.org/2021/07/23/tokyos-pandemic-games-open/ and you will attend said one Australian to another
It is the Olympic 100m men’s final,
The athletes have all done their little routines, their names have been announced.
Suddenly the stadium goes silent,
The starter says on your marks,
Then, PING!
The favourite sprinter lights up a Hamlet
https://youtu.be/ldKF1EiaxnE
This is not the version used in the TV ad. That was performed by the Jacques Loussier Trio.
That is the music that should be played whilst you wait to be connected on the telephone……………………..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9814089/Ferrets-UK-Hilarious-moment-pet-owner-tries-eight-lively-animals-cat-carrier.html#v-6703350359681973506
335757+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Friday 23 July: The Government should trust the vaccines to return us to normal life
More realistically at this moment in time it would help immensely if the herd had trust in these governance manipulators, sad thing is many seemingly do via the polling booth.
Nobody should trust the vax ( gene tailoring ) could very well be in play
for any sort of future reason.
Notice how any good news is via written verbals on the internet,and
is suppressed via the MsM channels whereas what comes across as bad news in regards to the herd is given top billing and pushed the day long.
We are IMO revving up in the westminster pit with more fear material
in the shape of food shortages there will shortly be stirrings within the herd leading to first the walk then the trot,followed by the canter,to the full on gallop.
Leading up to the burning of books as in instruction manuals appertaining to boilers, petrol / diesel vehicles etc,etc, coal is getting a right old bashing seemingly to be replaced by more political hierarchy money spinners ( wind turbines)
I can see a future move being we must ALL take down any metal property protective railings to help in the wind turbine manufacture, we must ALL do our bit, besides protective borders of any sort are NOT on the political overseers agenda.
Are political actions today looking familiar, reset, repress, replace ?
Guaranteed fact being,
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Well, there’s a surprise – no real investigation of Halfcock!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bf201a1c61a3f719f24fe1e9c7eb5962c1e5d645503afb704110e96c471fed15.png
Nothing to see here…
that comes later when it becomes 1 MP out 1 Illegal economic gimmegrant in
Meanwhile on the Telegaffe front page …
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0be40e884cfad1b1b441cdd6522c9f3ca28dd675f9a5f4578e189f359abb91a8.png
For sitting at home all this time?
For voting, after the event, for ever more draconian powers to be imposed or continued, without bothering to question any of the claims/data presented!
For voting, after the event, for ever more draconian powers to be imposed or continued, without bothering to question any of the claims/data presented!
They got a pay rise shortly before the pandemic began and £10000 tax free to allow them to speak online to the HoC.
HMRC has declared that they are going to be especially harsh on the self-employed – that is any of the self-employed who are still in business. And, from the Spring of 2023, Corporation tax will rise in the UK from 19% to 25%.
The Conservative Party stands for blatant self-interest as far as its own publicly paid for politicians are concerned but what else does it stand for? It certainly has abandoned its former philosophy of supporting private enterprise and personal initiative.
(Incidentally we must be wary of being taken in by percentages. If you pay 19% on £100 you pay £19 in tax ; if you pay 25% you pay £25 in tax. To say that the rate has increased by 6% is misleading. The actual rise in the tax you would pay in this case is actually 31.6%. i.e. for every £100 in corporation tax a business now pays it will have to pay £131.6 from 2023.)
I seem to remember learning how to calculate percentages when I was about 10 years old.
My flabber is completely ghasted. When Johnson surrendered to the senile Biden and agreed to raise corporation tax by such a staggering amount was he even remotely aware of what he was doing?
As long as he didn’t name Guy Gibson’s dog why would anyone check such minor matters as possible malfeasance with public money?
Translation: For God’s sake don’t start investigating private emails, we’re all at it!
Another cracker from the Daily Star!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/44b6c07bd3db04256d834e6fde271dad937446880553859445ed6cbccd4647d0.png
Good Moaning.
A couple of DM reads:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9816223/JAN-MOIR-No-10-let-ball.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9815989/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Bog-Roll-Bandits-dont-panic.html
Ta ever so much, Anne. Two good reads – always reassuring to find sarcastic cynics in hard copy {:^))
335757+ up ticks,
May one ask,
Is this “truly understanding plague) falling in line with this ?
Straight off MPs natch, who else could lead us from this state of state incarceration, they have experience in that quarter look at their their success with the brexitexit.
Revealed: The ‘critical’ industries that could be exempt from pingdemic self-isolation
Food supply workers given exemption but other companies must apply for staff to avoid quarantine rules
Morning Ogga If everyone ditched the app the problem is solved. I don’t have the app, in fact it wouldn’t download anyway
335757+ up ticks,
Morning FA,
Same as that,
There lies the rub ” if everyone” great lack of unity, if everyone under one proven pro English banner fronted the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella coalition political overseers and acknowledge the politico’s are totally naked then vote accordingly things would improve immensely from that day on.
IMO,
If everyone ditched the app & the lab/lib/con that would be a winning yankee.
Hilarious, a woke got fired https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9815591/German-TV-reporter-fired-caught-smearing-mud-filming.html “Our reporter’s approach clearly contradicts journalistic principles and our own standards. We therefore gave her a leave of absence on Monday after we heard about it””
There’s a job waiting for her as Downing Street Press Secretary…….
Obviously a graduate from the “Damian from Drop the Dead Donkey” school of journalism!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hL_DyvEV84
Enjoyed that, thanks, quite funny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVuQZ3SIo_k
It was very funny in the days when our institutions still had some credibility.
She didn’t get fired.
RTL was quite clear that she was given a leave of absence
Just like that leftie BBC announcer who was punished by being given six months leave of absence on full pay.
woke language janet, to avoid hurt feelings. she got binned
Hilarious, a woke got fired https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9815591/German-TV-reporter-fired-caught-smearing-mud-filming.html “Our reporter’s approach clearly contradicts journalistic principles and our own standards. We therefore gave her a leave of absence on Monday after we heard about it””
Biden trying to explain vaccines etc at a town hall meeting this Wednesday. It’s a nightmare of incoherence.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6264823777001#sp=show-clips
Why does it take Disqus 6 days to tell me I’ve had a reply to a post? What’s the point?
Odd! Usually it is instant.
It used to be for me too, but over the last couple of months it’s been days. This morning’s was a reply Conway sent me on the 14th July about the Euro final.
I don’t know if there is a way to contact Disqus, I doubt you would get an answer anyway. But perhaps find a trouble shooting website for Disqus online. Perhaps you can find something? I suppose it could be a glitch that you can correct, if you are lucky.
Someone must have been pinged in head office.
Me too!
I vary between instant responses and 10 days, mostly it’s very quick.
I’ve had 4 replies to my post, but haven’t received notifications about any of them.
Do you get notification by e-mail or via your “name” at the top of the page? If I refresh the page the notifications appear. The long delayed replies appear totally random.
am getting the same delays
It’s because of
TrumpBrexitCovidThe wind turbines aren’t going around fast enough
#MeToo, Iffy, though, in truth mine are forwarded from the useless ‘Hotmail’ so that’s where the trouble may lie.
Good morning, all. Grey after a bad night.
Cats keeping you up or degeneration of the old body?
It’s too hot to sleep well at the moment.
A combination
How is the cat?
Are you OK this morning, Billy?
Just my usual anxious self, thanks, Grizz.
Take care. We’re all here for you.
Take care, Bill; we need you 🙂
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca64a165f6bb02c274a7d4196cb947ad49df4b748be232a195ebbf66214772ec.jpg?w=600&h=636
The Daily Human Stupidity.
“Third basic law of human stupidity: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of people while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring loss. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.”
Carlo M Cipolla.
335757+ up ticks,
G,
Agreed, that is given credence by the lab/lib/con
member / voters over the last three decades.
Dangerously stupid.
Cat news. Pickles is moving much better – is anxious to go outdoors. It will be a struggle to keep him “quiet and rested”…!
Excellent!
Ball and chain for Pickles…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2c3aeccdca15a0c8f34d9fcfbe0c67a2e58103312d62c1c402592b45df61c830.jpg
Good morning, my friends
Dina Asher-Smith warns Tokyo Olympics chiefs against punishing athletes for taking the knee
Asher-Smith, who stopped short of declaring whether she would take the knee at the Games, claimed any sanction would be ‘unenforceable’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/22/dina-asher-smith-warns-tokyo-olympics-chiefs-against-punishing/
This is very sad.
I think that Ms Asher-Smith should be asked on live television if:
i) She wants to defund the police;
ii) She wants the overthrow of capitalism and it replaced with communism;
iii) She wants the destruction of the family unit.
These are all the stated core aims of the Black Lives Matter political movement.
She should also be asked if professional sport should allow participants to engage in supporting political parties.
Dina Asher Smith stealing knees already? She’s not even started [term used loosely] “competing”. Is she even aware of the Olympic Code about no political signals allowed, or it’s only applicable to people not of colour?
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1418644736643145728
Dutch PM Rutte under pressure https://twitter.com/i/status/1417808808219455490 an MP who tells the truth no less – top man
Skewered!! Well done that man!
Gotcha!
In the past, we had members of the House of Commons who would have put Boris through the same.
“Mr Speaker, may I congratulate my right honourable friend, on being such a fine Prime Minister…”
The PM
“Mr Speaker, may I thank my honourable friend for his kind words and the invaluable contribution that he continues to make to Her Majesty’s Government in fulfilling our commitment to our nation as laid out in our party’s manifesto at the last General Election. Alas, for as long as I remain Her Majesty’s Prime Minister there isn’t a hope in hell that the slimy bastard will get to call himself ‘Rt Hon’ by virtue of being admitted to my over-stuffed cabinet because he is an even worse back-stabber than I am and we don’t have enough chairs.”
Who was that sycophant, Bill?
True, instead we have the low calibre, racialist Butler (she of the reversed video attempting to claim she had been stopped – at the height of the George Floyd madness – whilst driving, due to the colour of her skin. When in fact her driver was white) using all the subtlety of a house brick and relying on the infamy of being excluded from the chamber as some sort of medal of virtue. If she was any thicker, she’d set.
Thanks for reminding us of Butler’s own acquaintance with truthfulness. I raised the subject of her Commons outburst elsewhere.
From Steerpike
It’s final term day in the Commons as MPs prepare to break for summer recess. Traditionally the last day before recess sees a debate held in which MPs can speak on any subject they choose. A hapless minister has to field a huge range of subjects, and usually ends up promising that a ministerial colleague will write to a particular MP about a particular issue.
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https://youtu.be/wMDBIMhxc1c
Methinks, Lass, that there are few of that colour with Sowells’ IQ
More’s the pity.
335757+ up ticks,
There is always a scam awaiting, scams like missed trams, little waiting time, they’ll be another in a minute.
Bet good money the forging brotherhood are forging ahead 24/7 with a very credible plague free passport.
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1418478502391787521
Well, I’m just so surprised, ogga1.
The scam is the one perpetrated by government, making us pay for these tests.
I don’t want a pcr test – I paid for the negative certificate.
So I don’t care if this company throws the useless tests away.
335757+ up ticks,
Morning BB2,
We are not short of herd milking scams as shown via the
political overseers cartel working both sides of the channel
in unison with macron & funding more uniformed shepherds appertaining to the calais / Dover crossing.
Good morning everyone , blue sky here, I am just about getting used to the heat again.. slight breeze .
Please put your speakers on and enjoy this wonderful little clip of our Queen, Heath , Thatcher attending a formal function .. and listen to our Queen speaking French .
https://twitter.com/BenABrittain/status/1418332360903315459
Families of Croydon tram crash victims call inquest a ‘farce’ as jury finds deaths were accidental
The jury found that they were not unlawfully killed after the driver was believed to have ‘nodded off’ for up to 49 seconds before the crash
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/22/croydon-tram-crash-inquest-finds-seven-passengers-died-accidentally/
A disgusting whitewash
Or was it a blackwash?
What was the compositon of the jury – and the judge. You know what I mean.
The instigator was the Coroner
It can now be reported that Sarah Ormond-Walshe, the south London
senior coroner, refused to call a number of people who the victims’
families wanted to give evidence about alleged safety failings.
Those potential witnesses include senior managers of operator Tram
Operations Ltd, a subsidiary of FirstGroup, and Transport for London,
plus other experts and tram drivers.
Ms Ormond-Walshe had ruled at a special hearing that there was no
need to call the two organisations’ bosses because the inquest only
needed to rely on the Rail Accident Investigation Branch investigation
report.
A bit more
Meanwhile, it can be revealed that a chief engineer had written a
report in 2006 warning Tram Operations Ltd that Sandilands Tunnel needed
to try a lower speed limit of 37mph (60kph) because drivers were
“braking heavily” and at “the last moment” before approaching the bend.
Jim Snowdon, the chief engineer at Tramtrack Croydon Ltd, which ran
the infrastructure before TfL took over in 2008, warned there were “few
visual clues as to location … [in the tunnel and] there is the potential
for the driver to lose awareness of the distance to approaching
hazards”.
He did not think Tram Operations Ltd responded to his report, adding that there was “hostility” between that company and his.
Anyone willing to bet that this cretinous response and breaking down of supply chains and loss of workers isn’t deliberate?
It will be used as a way of pushing us back into the EU.
NoTTlers are on the case sos…..
Pontyclun in the news again. Sadly an elderly driver seems to have had a ‘medical episode’ and lost control of his car. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/22/major-incident-car-crashes-people-outside-pontyclun-pub-wales/
Irish Logic
An Irish guy goes into a bar and asks the barman for 3 shots of Irish whiskey. The barman proceeds to pour 3 shots into a glass. The Irishman says “no, no, no…I want 3 shots in 3 separate glasses!”
The barman obliges and pours 3 shots in 3 glasses. The Irishman drinks them down, pays for the booze and leaves the bar. This goes on every day for weeks, so the barman asks “why the 3 shots in the 3 glasses?”
The Irishman replies “Well, I have 2 brothers back in Dublin and if I have 3 shots in three different glasses, I feel that we are drinking together.”
Touched by the sentiment, the barman gladly pours 3 more drinks for the Irishman.
Months pass and one day the Irishman comes into the bar and only orders 2 shots. Stunned, the barman offers his condolences to the Irishman for the death of one of his brothers.
The Irishman says “Oh no, nobody died…I just quit drinking!”
Here’s some Irish Logic NtN https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a81fd85ec363c6206494f26d431fd4d206ccdf20daaf946523f6c0a8967633bd.jpg
Morning hall.
Now ‘Naked Attraction’ has lost its novelty, ITV have decided to launch, (compèred by everyone’s favourite BBC employee and crisp
salesman), a game show called ‘Sitting on a Fortune’.
‘Sitting on a Fortune’? Well, I for one won’t be watching some ghastly programme about prostitution.
Even if I had a licence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57927271
Depths plumbed.
Apt that the biggest arsehole on TV should be selected to host it.
Indeed. The aitch was missing in the name of the programme.
I think Linaker has been proposed as host!
That’s what I said.
Gary Lineker and Philip Schofield , such talent!
If any of you have had recent problems with Yodel deliveries you have my sympathy! Their tracking system says they tried to deliver to us yesterday at 19:42 but we were out so they left a card! Neither claim is true – we were here and there is no card. The tracking web page offered a “web chat” facility – I tried twice and was shown a message that no operators were available; since then the facility has been withdrawn to be replaced by a message saying ‘We’re sorry, all or our operators are busy. Please try again in a few minutes”. That message has been there now for over 90 minutes! Appalling customer service, but no great surprise!
Edit – I think I have spotted the flaw in the Yodel operation – I have been tracking the delivery at regular intervals today, and I see that the driver has 119 deliveries to get through! Call it 120 to make things easier for me – at 1 minute per delivery [including travel] it would take him 2 hours. At 10 mins per delivery [not that unrealistic I would have thought] it’s 20 hours. In narrow lanes, with confusing addresses I can see why there might be snags – surely the company needs to change the schedule??
Edit 2 – well, what a surprise – nothing has arrived yet again! Snotogram to the CEO of Yodel tomorrow – not the poor driver’s fault, I suspect – the schedule looks unsustainable!
https://rocketreach.co/mike-hancox-email_3306451
They are pretty awful, Still Bleau! I was driving up our lane one day, to find it blocked by a Yodel van whose spotty young driver was peeing up against our hedge! I was not terribly amused and told him so, to be greeted with “F*** off, you old bag!” Needless to say I was even less amused by that, and suggested that his mother must be very proud of him!
On the plus side, at least he spoke English!
Nah! Falkirk Scottish!
I had some plug plants ‘delivered ‘ over the gate by Yodel a couple of years ago. They had been on the van for nearly a week and were brown & slimy by then.
I complained to T & M and they replaced them but they should have changed their delivery firm.
They deliver my daughters Nespresso order, and are charming! I guess it’s the individual (invidious?) driver!
You should have used your machete to slash his tyres.
Sgian-dubh him in to his employers?
I tried and tried! The phone was never answered, and it wasn’t covid related!
Tyres wouldn’t have come into it! His ‘bits’ would have!
Morning Sue,
I had the same response when I was shopping the other day , when a couple of blokes , with an old refashioned Commer motor home van were fussing over a lovely looking subservient Staffie dog ..and were about to leave it in the van as they (GAYLY) retrieved their empty shopping bags to go shopping , temp was 47c in my car as I opened the windows turned the engine on with the air con as I bunged my shopping in side the tailgate ..
I called across to them ,” hot day, hope you are not going to leave your dog in there whilst you are shopping ”
Response was ” Yu spying on us ?, shut yer marf , you fussy old bitch” I suggested that one of them shopped and the other waited in the shade of the supermarket arches , with the dog .
The IQ of the majority of people in this country is below 100.
Too true, Belle! And belligerent with it!
Yo Maggie!
And we know what has brought it down.
I fink a lot o’ people are fick.
Good morning Belle
You think the IQ is that high?
They sound nasty, spiteful characters.
The alternative of you not saying anything would be to call the police and let them smash the window to allow the dog to survive.
I don’t take Mongo in the car during hot weather. It’s too dangerous for him. We always have his water bucket and – don’t laugh – a mini paddling pool I inflate using the electric tyre pump and fill from a water tank that’s too useful for washing him down.
We’re you actually expecting a delivery? I have had a lot of scam messages from delivery companies 😐
Sadly yes – there’s another one [hopefully plus yesterday’s] due today!
Write to the company you bought from and say that you are not prepared to accept that kind of service, and will no longer shop with them.
It worked in the one case I tried it.
That’s why I responded to Aldi in that vein.
http://www.ceoemail.com might help.
I never accept poor service from anywhere and I always get recompense. A few weeks ago I bought a new fridge and matching freezer for the kitchen to replace an old fridge-freezer unit that was past its best. After choosing the units at a large electrical retailers I was told that delivery was free but that I would have to pay extra for installation and a bit more for taking to old unit away.
On the day the new units were delivered the delivery men informed me that they could not take away the old unit since it was plumbed-in (to feed an ice-making contraption in the freezer part). They suggested I get a plumber to do the job and they would return in a few days to complete the installation. A plumber attended and decoupled the unit from the water supply. When the installers returned the following week they told me that they could not remove the old unit since it was too big to go through the door (it only required the doors removing but they didn’t have any tools!).
When they came back another week later I had removed the doors and taken the old unit outside to make their collection of it easier. They “installed” the new units in their place but failed to level them (they said the floor was uneven) so I had to struggle to level them myself.
I then wrote a comprehensive letter, in English, to the (Swedish) company demanding a refund of monies paid for installation and collection, and for inconvenience. After looking into the matter they paid back all excess monies paid, with an apology, and even paid a little extra for the plumber’s services. It always pays to complain.
Who was the company that went over and above?
El Giganten.
I have recently notified Aldi of Yodel misdemeanors, on a promised delivery not being made because, “We couldn’t find you.” despite Yodel having delivered many time to us and, if the driver is confused, they ring and are re-directed.
I suspect it’s management and fiddling with the delivery system’s IT.
My wife’s birthday in June – Flowers from a son arrived – Yodel repacked, a day late and flowers were squashed / dead – the watered had drained.
Golden wedding in July – Flowers from a cousin) Yodel delivered a bashed box, the outerbox was damp, the flowers dry dead
M&S contacted twice – (1) Full refund to my son (2) fresh flowers delivered (late of cou might have left.rse)
Cheap Yodel deliveries look very expensive for M&S and any reputation that they
I read that we are going to have 2 flag bearers at the start of the Olympics – with only 1 flag ? Having seen the photo, it brings to mind that old schoolboy song . .
“One black one, One white one and One with a bit of -“
I believe that the lead bearer is the first Muslim to do so for Britain. Perhaps they can’t actually hold the flag for some reason.
Is he to carry the ISIS flag?
This is the Olympics, it’ll be a MEME.
I suppose, being “games” , he’ll leave his rifle in the changing rooms.
No no! He’ll be carrying it! That’s why he needs help with the flag! Those Kalashnikovs are heavy, innit?
Yo Sue!
Surely NoTTLers haven’t forgotten this gem from a few years back
CNN’s most embarrassing flub ever? The ISIS dildo gay pride flag, explained.
By Max Fishermax@vox.com Updated Jun 29, 2015, 9:11am EDT
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??
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8a783bea2b6b49767878f0dc5450a727aac2ed929b9b14a0800a3452a0684917.jpg
https://twitter.com/truthbeforepc/status/1418347613770895366?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FPlHot8QQk
♬”One hand on the bible: one hand on the gun!”♬
This Is My Rifle. This Is My Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U
Good morning Grizzly. Here is one of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5sO0HbB5WY
I can hardly believe, Rastus, that it is nearly 48 years since we lost him.
Get. Rid. Of. Them!
HaBloodyHa
You have to sleep sometime,just wait
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British Ridge-back.
https://twitter.com/davidkurten/status/1418494036856512512?s=20
https://youtu.be/APWhx97QvxE
Makes me proud to belong to the same generation.
The brain-dead, bone-headed, race-baiting Butler resorts to name-calling. We might share her broad opinion of Johnson but a considered argument will always work better than ‘Liar! Liar! Liar!’
Strange how the brain-dead race-baiters all seem to be cast from the same mold. (Apart from certain SNP members – wonder how it got to them too.)
“…the same mold.”
Dawn Butler is fungus?
Yes, since you ask, Wm.
I believe the words mold and mould are interchangeable. But in answer to your question, I agree with Citroen1 below!
Just my little joke!
Frightfully close to the truth, William!
Only if you’r American, Lass, I’m sure that in Denmark, those who teach English know the difference.
I know – my English is far worse than those who teach it in Denmark!
Dawn Butler MP for Zimbabwe East & former Voodoo & spells saleswoman
https://twitter.com/DawnButlerBrent/status/1418271177160679425?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Good – you won’t be missed.
See if you can get elected via the BLM party.
Or the Monster Raving Voodoo party
Hypocrite.
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1418467530776227840
Yes, but if a liar accuses someone else of being a liar – when they’re not, merely deceptive – in an environment where calling someone a liar is forbidden, you’d expect that person to be punished.
You see, Butler law applies to you and your racism isn’t a defence.
Rhett Butler Law applies to me :
https://media.tenor.com/images/9ab4723dc0916e1792c5018e66217b9e/tenor.gif
Yes, but any other words might use more than one syllable.
The Free Speech Union
Welcome to the Free Speech Union’s weekly newsletter. This newsletter is a brief round-up of the free speech news of the week. Although this week there’s so much free speech news it isn’t all that brief!
Widespread public opposition to “decolonising” university courses
A new survey has found that just 23% of the public support “decolonising” the university curriculum. But 67% favour students studying “about people, events, materials and subjects from all around the world” with a variety of global perspectives presented in a “fair and even-handed way”.
In an article in the Telegraph criticising the obsession with taking down the Rhodes statue, Oxford academic Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda says that prioritising emotions over learning defeats the very purpose of going to university. Our founder Toby Young was quoted in the Daily Mail on the Rhodes statue.
A letter in the Guardian urges Labour to back the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which we campaigned for. Michael Meadowcroft writes: “A refusal to take on the debate should only be supported by those who feel unable to sustain it.”
Joanna Williams argues in Spiked that the withdrawal of a university offer over a student’s racist posts is a worrying sign, equivalent to a political test for university admission. The student was reprimanded by his peers for his abhorrent language, and that should have been the end of the matter, she says.
Critical race theory obsession has no place in schools and divides society
Nick Gibb, the schools minister, told the Times: “There is no reason why the work of a ‘dead white man’ is not appropriate for children from ethnic minorities to learn about… We will not create a more harmonious, tolerant and equal society through promoting a curriculum based on relevance to or representativeness of any one group. Nor will we do so by being ashamed of who we are and where we came from.”
Baroness Falkner, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has said “white privilege” is “divisive” and an “unhelpful way of looking at society”.
Professor Edwin Conner wrote an article for the Mail on Sunday objecting to the removal of To Kill A Mockingbird from a Scottish school’s curriculum: “This is not the first time that To Kill A Mockingbird has been targeted. It has been banned by school boards and libraries, such as in Richmond, Virginia, in 1963… Now we have gone 180 degrees and it’s not the right but the left which has the book in the crosshairs.” He is the nephew of Harper Lee.
Meanwhile Yorkshire delicacies like parkin are to be “probed” for links to slavery as part of materials for primary school pupils on empire and colonialism.
Law Commission’s proposals to reform the Communications Act
In September of last year, the Law Commission of England and Wales launched a consultation about reforming the criminal law governing harmful, threatening, and false communications. We submitted a response – and we learned this week that the Commission has taken seriously some of our objections to their provisional proposals. You can read the full report, which was published on 21 July, here and a summary here. As you’ll see if you read the full report, the Commission referred to our submission throughout and, in particular, took on board our concerns about protecting the freedom of the press. Nevertheless, we still have a number of concerns about the Commission’s recommendations. You can read our press release about the report here.
Feminists rally for free speech and women’s rights
We’re supporting our member Natalie Bird, who was barred from seeking office by the Liberal Democrats for 10 years after she wore a t-shirt with the words “Woman: Adult Human Female” on it. The party said she was “transphobic”. She’s now raising funds to fight a legal battle. You can contribute to her fundraiser here. (And don’t forget the fundraiser of the anti-lockdown campaigner Debbie Hicks who is currently trying to defend herself against three separate prosecutions, all of them free speech-related.)
JK Rowling has faced extensive online abuse for her gender critical views, including a recent pipe bomb threat. Andrew Doyle of our Advisory Council spoke about the abuse directed at Rowling on GB News. James Kirkup wrote in the Spectator about the modern-day witch-hunt against her. The author has praised SNP MP Joanna Cherry QC, who will be defending Marion Millar, charged under the Communications Act for her posts opposing transgender self-identification. Millar’s first court hearing has now been postponed. Hundreds of feminists gathered on Glasgow Green to support Marion amid growing fears that women’s rights are playing second fiddle to trans rights in Scotland.
Milli Hill, cancelled for objecting to being told that she had to use the phrase “birthing people” instead of “pregnant women”, gave an interview to the Times about the abuse she’s faced. She said that a lot of the abuse was the work of her professional peers, not random online trolling. Margaret Driscoll writes about Milli and her likeminded colleagues in the Telegraph: “They are a secretive bunch of women who jokingly call themselves The Witches – a group of midwives and birthing professionals holding an increasingly controversial view. It’s one the majority doesn’t dare air in public for fear of losing their job and reputation, or becoming the victim of a social media pile-on.”
Debbie Hayton writes in UnHerd that Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act was passed without scrutiny or debate, and now faces widespread public opposition.
Taking the knee
Our founder Toby Young writes in his Spectator column: “I hope that when the new season gets under way, the spectators interpret the taking of the knee in the way the players intend it and don’t disrespect them. But if some fans do boo, I hope the same benefit of the doubt will be extended to them and they won’t be penalised.”
Free speech report calls for extensive protections
A report by Frances Hoar QC, commissioned by the Reclaim Party leader and actor Laurence Fox has called for six reforms to give freedom of speech the same kind of legal protection enjoyed in the US. It proposes protection for employees who express unfashionable views, and a ban on social media sites censoring posts unless they are criminal. The report includes a call to end the practice of police recording “non-crime hate incidents”, something we have campaigned for. An investigation into NCHIs found a case of a man landed with a police record for whistling the theme from Bob The Builder at his neighbour.
Council made to apologise for removing Christian adverts and ordered to pay compensation
Blackpool Council and Transport have issued a public apology to a Christian evangelical group after removing adverts for their festival from buses. A court found that the Council discriminated against the group and “interfered… with the right to freedom of speech”. Steve Haskett, the trustee of the Lancashire Festival of Hope, told the Christian Institute: “If they wanted to silence Christians in being able to speak publicly about their view of marriage, which I think really was the entire point of the whole thing in the first place, what they’ve done is actually brought us to a place where it’s clearer in law than it was before, that it is acceptable and right and protected to hold those views, so we’re very, very satisfied with the outcome.” The Council – or rather the taxpayer – must now pay £25,000 in damages, and £84,000 in costs for discrimination.
Cancel culture and the culture war
The director of the Olympics opening ceremony was sacked just one day before the event because of a joke he made in the 1990s about the Holocaust. The joke, which is incomprehensible to non-Japanese audiences, was made when he was performing as a stand-up comedian 23 years ago.
It is a myth that Boris Johnson is fighting a culture war, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked. “Yes, sometimes the Conservative government makes culture war noises, but usually only against fairly easy targets,” he writes. “They will critique critical race theory, for example, but leave untouched the broader racialisation of everyday life. They will reprimand Stonewall for foisting genderfluid nonsense in workplaces, but fail to properly stand up for the truth of biological sex, the importance of women’s rights, and the centrality of words like man, woman, mother and father to the functioning of community life.”
Ella Whelan warns of the danger of cancel culture emerging on the right as well as the left.
Comedians mustn’t be silenced just because they hurt people’s feelings, writes Louis Wise in the Telegraph.
James Marriott writes in the Times about the way woke language codes are used to show superiority and status.
Lord Kalms and Lord Willoughby de Broke have been banned from Parliament’s bars and restaurants after they failed to attend “Valuing Everyone” training.
Modern blasphemy
Laurence Fox writes for Spiked that the Equality Act has created an anti-blasphemy law by stealth: “The law is far more influential than it first appears on paper. Institutions, activists and members of the public have stretched the law far beyond its original intentions. Take, for instance, one of the protesters outside Batley Grammar School, who made the claim that his faith was ‘protected in law’ from insult. Parliament has not passed a blasphemy law, so where has the confidence to make claims like this come from? It is hardly a great leap to trace it back to the protected characteristics in the Equality Act.”
Anjem Choudary is now free to speak publicly again. He has already given his first public speech since leaving prison.
Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist who drew Mohammed for Jyllands-Posten and faced assassination attempts, has died at the age of 86.
Tech censorship
The left has taken over Wikipedia, destroying its neutrality, says co-creator Larry Sanger.
Mary Harrington says digital censorship is inevitable.
Under government plans journalists could face up to 14 years in prison for receiving certain leaked documents.
FSU Speakeasy with Kathleen Stock
If you were not among those members who attended the speakeasy earlier this month in which Toby interviewed philosophy professor Kathleen Stock, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel here. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel. Once we reach a certain number of subscribers we can then start monetizing it (assuming our channel isn’t demonetized).
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The Free Speech Union
Welcome to the Free Speech Union’s weekly newsletter. This newsletter is a brief round-up of the free speech news of the week. Although this week there’s so much free speech news it isn’t all that brief!
Widespread public opposition to “decolonising” university courses
A new survey has found that just 23% of the public support “decolonising” the university curriculum. But 67% favour students studying “about people, events, materials and subjects from all around the world” with a variety of global perspectives presented in a “fair and even-handed way”.
In an article in the Telegraph criticising the obsession with taking down the Rhodes statue, Oxford academic Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda says that prioritising emotions over learning defeats the very purpose of going to university. Our founder Toby Young was quoted in the Daily Mail on the Rhodes statue.
A letter in the Guardian urges Labour to back the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which we campaigned for. Michael Meadowcroft writes: “A refusal to take on the debate should only be supported by those who feel unable to sustain it.”
Joanna Williams argues in Spiked that the withdrawal of a university offer over a student’s racist posts is a worrying sign, equivalent to a political test for university admission. The student was reprimanded by his peers for his abhorrent language, and that should have been the end of the matter, she says.
Critical race theory obsession has no place in schools and divides society
Nick Gibb, the schools minister, told the Times: “There is no reason why the work of a ‘dead white man’ is not appropriate for children from ethnic minorities to learn about… We will not create a more harmonious, tolerant and equal society through promoting a curriculum based on relevance to or representativeness of any one group. Nor will we do so by being ashamed of who we are and where we came from.”
Baroness Falkner, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has said “white privilege” is “divisive” and an “unhelpful way of looking at society”.
Professor Edwin Conner wrote an article for the Mail on Sunday objecting to the removal of To Kill A Mockingbird from a Scottish school’s curriculum: “This is not the first time that To Kill A Mockingbird has been targeted. It has been banned by school boards and libraries, such as in Richmond, Virginia, in 1963… Now we have gone 180 degrees and it’s not the right but the left which has the book in the crosshairs.” He is the nephew of Harper Lee.
Meanwhile Yorkshire delicacies like parkin are to be “probed” for links to slavery as part of materials for primary school pupils on empire and colonialism.
Law Commission’s proposals to reform the Communications Act
In September of last year, the Law Commission of England and Wales launched a consultation about reforming the criminal law governing harmful, threatening, and false communications. We submitted a response – and we learned this week that the Commission has taken seriously some of our objections to their provisional proposals. You can read the full report, which was published on 21 July, here and a summary here. As you’ll see if you read the full report, the Commission referred to our submission throughout and, in particular, took on board our concerns about protecting the freedom of the press. Nevertheless, we still have a number of concerns about the Commission’s recommendations. You can read our press release about the report here.
Feminists rally for free speech and women’s rights
We’re supporting our member Natalie Bird, who was barred from seeking office by the Liberal Democrats for 10 years after she wore a t-shirt with the words “Woman: Adult Human Female” on it. The party said she was “transphobic”. She’s now raising funds to fight a legal battle. You can contribute to her fundraiser here. (And don’t forget the fundraiser of the anti-lockdown campaigner Debbie Hicks who is currently trying to defend herself against three separate prosecutions, all of them free speech-related.)
JK Rowling has faced extensive online abuse for her gender critical views, including a recent pipe bomb threat. Andrew Doyle of our Advisory Council spoke about the abuse directed at Rowling on GB News. James Kirkup wrote in the Spectator about the modern-day witch-hunt against her. The author has praised SNP MP Joanna Cherry QC, who will be defending Marion Millar, charged under the Communications Act for her posts opposing transgender self-identification. Millar’s first court hearing has now been postponed. Hundreds of feminists gathered on Glasgow Green to support Marion amid growing fears that women’s rights are playing second fiddle to trans rights in Scotland.
Milli Hill, cancelled for objecting to being told that she had to use the phrase “birthing people” instead of “pregnant women”, gave an interview to the Times about the abuse she’s faced. She said that a lot of the abuse was the work of her professional peers, not random online trolling. Margaret Driscoll writes about Milli and her likeminded colleagues in the Telegraph: “They are a secretive bunch of women who jokingly call themselves The Witches – a group of midwives and birthing professionals holding an increasingly controversial view. It’s one the majority doesn’t dare air in public for fear of losing their job and reputation, or becoming the victim of a social media pile-on.”
Debbie Hayton writes in UnHerd that Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act was passed without scrutiny or debate, and now faces widespread public opposition.
Taking the knee
Our founder Toby Young writes in his Spectator column: “I hope that when the new season gets under way, the spectators interpret the taking of the knee in the way the players intend it and don’t disrespect them. But if some fans do boo, I hope the same benefit of the doubt will be extended to them and they won’t be penalised.”
Free speech report calls for extensive protections
A report by Frances Hoar QC, commissioned by the Reclaim Party leader and actor Laurence Fox has called for six reforms to give freedom of speech the same kind of legal protection enjoyed in the US. It proposes protection for employees who express unfashionable views, and a ban on social media sites censoring posts unless they are criminal. The report includes a call to end the practice of police recording “non-crime hate incidents”, something we have campaigned for. An investigation into NCHIs found a case of a man landed with a police record for whistling the theme from Bob The Builder at his neighbour.
Council made to apologise for removing Christian adverts and ordered to pay compensation
Blackpool Council and Transport have issued a public apology to a Christian evangelical group after removing adverts for their festival from buses. A court found that the Council discriminated against the group and “interfered… with the right to freedom of speech”. Steve Haskett, the trustee of the Lancashire Festival of Hope, told the Christian Institute: “If they wanted to silence Christians in being able to speak publicly about their view of marriage, which I think really was the entire point of the whole thing in the first place, what they’ve done is actually brought us to a place where it’s clearer in law than it was before, that it is acceptable and right and protected to hold those views, so we’re very, very satisfied with the outcome.” The Council – or rather the taxpayer – must now pay £25,000 in damages, and £84,000 in costs for discrimination.
Cancel culture and the culture war
The director of the Olympics opening ceremony was sacked just one day before the event because of a joke he made in the 1990s about the Holocaust. The joke, which is incomprehensible to non-Japanese audiences, was made when he was performing as a stand-up comedian 23 years ago.
It is a myth that Boris Johnson is fighting a culture war, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked. “Yes, sometimes the Conservative government makes culture war noises, but usually only against fairly easy targets,” he writes. “They will critique critical race theory, for example, but leave untouched the broader racialisation of everyday life. They will reprimand Stonewall for foisting genderfluid nonsense in workplaces, but fail to properly stand up for the truth of biological sex, the importance of women’s rights, and the centrality of words like man, woman, mother and father to the functioning of community life.”
Ella Whelan warns of the danger of cancel culture emerging on the right as well as the left.
Comedians mustn’t be silenced just because they hurt people’s feelings, writes Louis Wise in the Telegraph.
James Marriott writes in the Times about the way woke language codes are used to show superiority and status.
Lord Kalms and Lord Willoughby de Broke have been banned from Parliament’s bars and restaurants after they failed to attend “Valuing Everyone” training.
Modern blasphemy
Laurence Fox writes for Spiked that the Equality Act has created an anti-blasphemy law by stealth: “The law is far more influential than it first appears on paper. Institutions, activists and members of the public have stretched the law far beyond its original intentions. Take, for instance, one of the protesters outside Batley Grammar School, who made the claim that his faith was ‘protected in law’ from insult. Parliament has not passed a blasphemy law, so where has the confidence to make claims like this come from? It is hardly a great leap to trace it back to the protected characteristics in the Equality Act.”
Anjem Choudary is now free to speak publicly again. He has already given his first public speech since leaving prison.
Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist who drew Mohammed for Jyllands-Posten and faced assassination attempts, has died at the age of 86.
Tech censorship
The left has taken over Wikipedia, destroying its neutrality, says co-creator Larry Sanger.
Mary Harrington says digital censorship is inevitable.
Under government plans journalists could face up to 14 years in prison for receiving certain leaked documents.
FSU Speakeasy with Kathleen Stock
If you were not among those members who attended the speakeasy earlier this month in which Toby interviewed philosophy professor Kathleen Stock, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel here. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel. Once we reach a certain number of subscribers we can then start monetizing it (assuming our channel isn’t demonetized).
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Go’morgen og tusind tak, Bamse!
It’s good to be able to get things from all over the net via NoTTLers, that we would spend a whole day trying to ind, if we tried individually. Hope you are thriving!
Hej, min vän,
I’m fine, thank you. Hope you are too.
I gather Lord Kalms and Lord Willoughby de Broke are not exactly in their first flush of youth.
I would imagine they’re rather flattered to think they still pose a danger to each or any sex.
Is this derelict church the result of the Islamification of areas around Bradford?
Would you buy a £85,000 derelict church at auction? Meet the couple who did in new TV show The Great British Home Restoration – then transformed it into a stunning five-bed family home valued at £1million
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-9814283/Great-British-Home-Restoration-Couple-spend-500k-doing-church.html
I’ve just spent an hour clearing weeds from the riverbank and then I see this and think hmmmmmmmmmm why not?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a7070376c80924ef3c43540688fb54f4fc53e604b550a318ed4a9ec3cbdb09c4.png
That’s the village drinking water too. Shhhh.
After my first stint of topsoil stinting, see above, I’ve already had a cold bath and have just finished my mug or tea & breakfast.
Still dullish outside, so i think I’ll get a bit more done.
Respect!
Dogs dangly bits, just in the right place, of course he might have been out all night.
I’ve just spent an hour clearing weeds from the riverbank and then I see this and think hmmmmmmmmmm why not?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a7070376c80924ef3c43540688fb54f4fc53e604b550a318ed4a9ec3cbdb09c4.png
More marches planned, globally tomorrow : Freedom rally [world Invermectin day] https://worldwidedemonstration.com/ in UK Glasgow, Scarborough, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Norwich, London, Canterbury, Bristol, Cardiff, Dorchester, Plymouth, Jersey, Belfast, Dublin https://www.standupx.info/ latest feeback is exceptionally large demos in France [Macron’s in Tokyo, presumably watching female Greco-Roman wrestling]
I’ll be going to Hull but I hope there’s not much marching; I’ve buggered my knee (piratical labrador usurped my paddleboard).
I’ve been to Hull and back … a few times! 😉
Quote of the Day:
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley, English poet.
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” The meaning of life is easy to explain once you know the answer is 42 ” A quote by Elf & Safety, English Plonker & failed poet.
And a 2nd Good morning to all. 13° and a bit of a duller start to the day so I go straight on making a start with shifting the 1½ ton of topsoil I unloaded yesterday.
This is what the pile of bags looked like when I started:-
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So far I’ve split 14 bags down and carried them up the garden. Only 39 to go.
I feel faint just looking at it.
Find a nurse to help you recover…
Bill lend Anne yours
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Poor old Jack eh, he copped it.
it’s a powerful image if you equate it with the political party conferences
Far too many Muslim women there, BoB.
You’ll get the sack for saying that 😉😃
If you know where that plot of land on Homes Under the Hammer was and is you know where to shove it 😄
Nice looking lass that bought it, but is she really as thick as she seemed or just pretending?
I thought she was funny it was about her hubby liking the chip shop.
They do take the piss a bit on that program.
I think she was playing up to them.
335757+ up ticks,
Afternoon Bob,
There’s me thinking that was a muslim ladies rugby scrum.
Human Stupidity.
This morning I will stray into Grizzly territory.
Last night there was a British version of Dr. Pimplepopper; i.e. dermatologists who didn’t have sculpted cheekbones.
One patient was a woman with red, sore and itching facial skin. She worked for a ‘shopping channel’ – not something I would imagine NOTTLers can imagine – which meant slapping on the slap to appear in front of the lights and cameras.
The doctor gently questioned her about make-up and whether her skin improved when she was on holiday. Yes it did.
Well, duh, you don’t need to see a doctor to work out that one. And I doubt she’d increased her telly presentation chances by being that demonstrably dim.
Then she married the Prime Minister.
Skin problems through using the slap-on? I think I’ll avoid that brand!
not if you’re at the right end of the catapault
not if you’re at the right end of the catapault
No exceptions!’
Tokyo Olympics chiefs reject Brussels’ demands to fly EU flag at event.
BRUSSELS’ demands for Slovenian athletes to fly the EU flag at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was embarrassingly rejected by the Olympics chiefs.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1466574/tokyo-2020-olympics-eu-flag-opening-ceremony-slovenia-ioc-eu-commission-schinas
IMHO The Olympics should not be taking place. Especially as the MSM are still insisting that there is still a global pandemic.
Covid will run riot….
I’ll get me javelin.,..
I had one, just to make a point ………I was the Hendon schools javelin champ at the age of 14.
What do you call it when fellow javelin throwers hang out?
A Meet n’ Yeet
No wonder people nearby were anxious!
Is this the 2020 Olympics, or 2021?
The cue is in …are they taking the stupid knee Obs.
The 2020 was postponed to this year, it should have been cancelled; although that would have been very tough on all those sportspeople who will only realistically get one chance ever.
And the Japanese would have been furious at the use of oodles of money building things that never got used.
So, they call it the 202
01 Olympics?It’s still the 2020 Olympics and will no doubt be a University Challenge quiz question in 2071!
335757+ up ticks,
Afternoon RE,
What else have the political fiddlers of westminster to celebrate whilst playing the ode to joy than watching England destruct, with, I might add an appreciative audience as shown via the polling booth.
Too right Eddy….I’m not remotely interested in the games now!
It seems rabbit is featuring in the Olympics this year there is so much talking going on………I’ll nip off now.
The EU’s arrogance knows no bounds.
I note that the EU’s spokestosser says that they will try again for Paris 2024!
In response, EU Commissioner Margaritis Schinas tweeted: “It won’t
happen this time round but I am confident the rules will catch up with
our values soon enough.”
He added in French: “Our Union, like no other, is strength. Next step Paris 2024.”
Trouble is, Margaritis (sounds like a disease) that The EU, despite having a Flag, An Anthem and a pretendy Parliament, it ain’t a country (that is also subject to varieties of spelling).
Good morning & Happy Friday all Nottlers from sunny 31’C Tel Aviv at 13:08 PM . Morning music : Hilary Klug, Orange Blossom Special with a Texas Twist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGRZdwBAzw
I’m not a fan but ……..https://youtu.be/IV29JgskkwY
So it’s been registered know as one rule for them and another rule for the Plebs.
And the forgers will be working their little socks off.
How ill any one be able to check the authenticity of a vaccine passport at a concert, sports ground or night club venue ?
Of course. They are “important people” © John Effing Whittingdale MP.
Afternoon all. This makes me absolutely hopping mad. I don’t care about the authenticity of a “vaccine passport” anywhere. I think they are completely undemocratic. What is so special about this particular virus? Oh yes, the fact that lots of people in the know are making shed loads of money from PCR tests, PPE equipment, lateral flow tests etc. etc.
Never mind that it seems acceptable to so many sheeple that our liberties and freedoms are being inexorably removed from us.
335757+ up ticks,
Unbloodybelievable,
https://twitter.com/sceptic47332553/status/1418443242744557570
335757+ up ticks,
O2O,
Won’t be long now OG, you got a prayer mat yet ?
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1418346714000470017
Wotcher, NoTTLers!
A little bit of levity (but true). Please excuse the language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcAPw2ggFNg
This plank has never been to Bolsover. If he had he’d realise the bollocks he spoke about its residents, and he would also know that it is not pronounced “Bolls-over” by anyone. It’s invariably known as “Bozer” to everyone in the area.
…and George how many people (newscaster in particular) know how to pronounce Milngavie, Happisburgh, Wymondham and Haverhill to name but a few?
It’s a bit unfair to castigate someone who is not from the area pronouncing it the way it is spelled.
I’m sure you’ve had fun with Swedish places like Norrköping Djurgårdsbrunn and Malmö.
How many non-Swedes get that right first time?
Ha ye no bin to Costessey or Tacolneston, bor?
Those I know very well since ‘Cossy’ is a suburb of Narridge and and Tackleston was one of the major TV transmitters when I was under 15. It doesn’t alleviate your castigation of those who don’t know the local pronunciation of Bolsover. In fact, who cares?
I wasn’t ‘castigating’ his lack of knowledge of the local pronunciation of Bolsover. I was lamenting the fact the he only lives 25 miles away from the place and he is not aware (as the rest of the country are) that Bolsover is correctly pronounced “Bole-zover” and not “Bolls-over” as he said.
Sorry, a complete tosser, trying too hard.
I didn’t know this….
https://twitter.com/SimonPe05071156/status/1418517195349446663?s=20
Yes… and they wonder why the gummint isn’t trusted?
It’s not quite true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
However, the study is almost equally abhorrent.
Not going to watch or follow the Olympics, but I recall that Tokyo in June/July 1994 and Kanazawa on the West coast of Honshu, provided the most uncomfortable weather I’ve ever experienced 30+, no breeze, and constant extremely high humidity. No let up at night. My wife used to coat herself in a wet cold sheet before going to bed (our flat had no AirCon.
Heatwave
death toll hits 21.
Government makes everyone stay indoors.
Nobody allowed out without a hat
…Masks still mandatory to save you breathing in hot air (as generated in Westminster).
Government spends in excess of £40b on an app which will not work in hot conditions.
As with – Destroyers that don’t work; tanks that make soldiers feel sick….(compile your own list!)
Aircraft carriers with no, or faulty, ‘planes and shit seals on the propeller drive shafts.
MoD Procurement, it would be laughable (if it wasn’t so serious).
Some parts of the media have been writing about Amy Winehouse, the singer who died 10 years ago today at the age of 27. She was another victim of drink, drugs and flawed temperament. The good die young, eh?
Claudio Abbado was 63 looking 45 when I saw him conduct the Berlin Phil in Mahler’s 2nd at the Proms in 1996. I was there a year earlier when dear old Charles MacKerras, 70 but looking 80, wrought a better performance of the same work out of the BBC Phil, our Morris to the German Mercedes. Ah well, age or reputation don’t always count for much but rock’n’roll is a dangerous occupation and in our student days we knew Lee Brilleaux wasn’t long for this world when he was rehydrating on litre bottles of Hirondelle White during Dr Feelgood gigs. It was almost a surprise that he made it to 1994. And I doubt the Berlin or BBC Phils would ever have got to grips with Shotgun Blues, then or now.
Brilleaux wasn’t quite 42 when he died two days after Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, also 27. In the Isle of the Dead, I know who I’d rather see perform.
PS Did anyone really like AW’s derivative and slightly nasal style?
A friend of mine compares Amy Winehouse to Helen Shapiro. Chalk and cheese to my mind. Even worse than AW was Janis Joplin who is almost deified now. She also died at 27 and was a truly talentless and sordid excuse for a human being.
I never understood all the clamour for Joplin.
Joplin was Great
https://youtu.be/r1yqBt-PkT4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin
I’m still not convinced! But Scott I love!
You’re ragging me.
Me neither!
George Eustice Environment Secretary, is under the spotlight today regarding the extent of exclusions from isolating after getting pinged by the NHS COVID app.
Exclusions appear to be extending beyond food supply workers into essential infrastructure employment.
I would have thought at least he could announce a Government appointment for the roll of toilet paper administration who could then update the House about the white paper that can then be reported in Yesturday in Parliament.
“Dido” Harding (spit) has been quiet lately…
So very close to Dildo……
But without the, er, enjoyment…
Her name’s Diana, but strangely the press don’t seem obsessed with reminding us at every turn, as they do about Tommy Robinson.
Her “pet” name, clearly. Hard to imagine her as anyone’s pet….
Should it be Dildo Very Harding?
She’s acting like a false prick.
Sent to me by a Spurs supporter…
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Clearly designed by someone with aSpursers syndrome…
DeKanestructed
Blackcurrant vomit. Oh, that’s two words. Never mind.
What’s with mis-spelling of Old MacDonald’s chorus? EiEiO
Sent to me by a Spurs supporter…
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Have just returned from an early lunch with Nagsman. Considering that she is in the middle of a house move, she is in alarmingly good heart.
Time for a nap.
The Guardian 20 July 2021 – The Government plans to strip National Grid of its role in keeping GB’s lights on as part of a proposed “revolution” in the electricity Network driven by smart digital technologies.
NG will lose its part at the heart of the industry after government officials put forward plans to replace it with an independent “Future System
Operator”
Smart meters all round. What can possibly wrong?
We are well and trully in a mad dictatorship
335757+ up ticks,
Afternoon Cs,
It is not that bad yet is it ? I mean if things really got out of hand regarding say mass murder, mass paedophile rape & abuse of the nations children or say an illegal en masse invasion peoples would sharp say something then and it would certainly be reflected in the polling booth,
By the by see conservatives won the humberstone & hamilton by-election 44’7 of the vote up 18.4 %.
What indeed, why not replace a working system full of Professionals MEng(Hon) ,HNC engineers and ONC technicians who offer a rational and “grounded” approach ,uncomplicated by green nonsense with a bunch of humanities, social science and PPE twonks whose targets are primarily to go CO2 neutral ASAP at any cost. I’m lost for any more words
I think National Grid has told the government politely that the Climate policy is expensive and the target time too soon.
The Future System Operator, although “independent” will be chosen by the government .
Blackouts will be much more frequent if this plan becomes a reality. Our lives become more miserable due to the madness of our PM and his damaging and insignificant UK climate policies.
Does the government have the legal right to destroy a successful company’s control of an essential management tool?
I will admit I had to read the article twice as I couldn’t believe the rank stupidity of the notion.
…and here in Suffolk we are facing a supplementary charge on our electric bill to subsidise EDF‘s building of Sizewell B or C.
Why do we Suffolk dwellers have to subsidise a Frog outfit?
Because the £54 million that we gave the Frogs hardly covers the coffee and bikkie bill.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-infections-cases-rise-ons-one-in-75-b947365.html?itm_source=Internal&itm_channel=homepage_banner&itm_campaign=breaking-news-ticker&itm_content=1
1 in 75 people have tested positive????
If nearly 60% of the population have been jabbed twice and a further 24% once that suggests a very significant number of those vaccinated have tested positive and what is more disturbing that a significant proportion of those have been jabbed twice.
Seriously? You still believe the garbage that is being churned out? The vaccine clearly doesn’t work. The more children vaccinated the better. Old people will die. Young, fat people will die. Clubbers will die. Football fans will die. MPs will not die, although they possibly should.
“Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy jab into his place: for all they that take the jab shall perish with the jab”
Updated COVID version of the Bible, Gospel of Matthew
Hence my comment.
I was making the observation that it appears that an awful lot of people vaccinated have hardly been protected at all; although we don’t know how badly affected the unvaccinated vs vaccinated have been.
Just had to fend off the Canal & River Trust Licensing folk threatening to send me an invoice for breaching 48 hour visitor mooring limit:
“The sighting of your boat show it is moored at Bathampton West 48 Hour – S1 Mooring since the 19th of July which is more than the stated 48 hrs.
Kind Regards
xxxxxxxxxx
Licence Support Advisor”
Fortunately I had a photo showing the boat at Bath top Lock on 20th July. If the guys doing the recording only go along the canal once a week how the hell do they know where a boat may have travel to and back again within the week?
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The Canal and River Trust must be using the same algorithm as the pingometer in the NHS COVID app!
Who knows. The poor LSA didn’t know that one can make use of each 48 hour visitor mooring for a total of 7 days per month. I promised to send her a photo of the posted notices to this effect!
So many rules for messing around on our rivers !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9oez8ck8I
Trouble maker – that’s you!
A Troubledore no less!
Oh Lord, forgot you sang, too….{:¬))
Yer Police used to put a chalk mark on a banned driver’s car tyre and come back later to see if it had been moved. Hmm, not sure how to do that with a boat – unless they use waterproof chalk to mark the propellor blade.
Good for you!
Light breeze blowing ..but rain alerts are beeping on Moh’s phone . Feels muggy ..
A couple of hours ago Moh also had an alert on his phone from SSE to say that the possibility of thunderstorms and strong winds taking our power out, we would be a priority if and when need be to be connected again.
Jeepers creepers, how strong is this storm going to be , and the weather radar shows big stuff coming up from the Channel and France .
The sun is now shining, although it is cloudy , last night was spectacular , the sea was like a mill pond , and the cruiseliners looked as if they were flying ..the hazey conditions and the moon were something out of a Turner sketchpad .
Fingers crossed the weather won’t be as savage as they predict .
Must go and top up my garden bird feeders , and the woodies are hungry !
and the weather radar shows big stuff coming up from the Channel and France .
That is the invasion force, going to dover!
‘Afternoon, Maggie, I think I’ve got that right now.
Talking of Turner, I wonder if you’ve seen his picture with the blooper in it. He has the moon in front of a cloud. I’ll see if I can find it.
No I haven’t seen it Tom.
Hope you can find it to show me .
Fata Morgana.
(You can see why MB had a heart attack; it’s tough living with a know-all.)
Is YB any relation to that ubiquitous loud-mouth A Allan chap?
Only by marriage!
Poor fellow! {:^))
You know such a lot Anne , and now I will pay it onwards 😄
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Culture wars: Leeds City Council to investigate Parkin and Yorkshire Tea links to slavery
YORKSHIRE TEA and local baked delicacy Parkin is under review due to its problematic past and links to the slave trade.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1465412/culture-wars-parkin-cake-yorkshire-tea-leeds-city-council-colonialism-slave-trade-ont
I wonder how many mud slime families are free of past slavery?
OH’s nephew has just been pinged. The first question his Mother asked him was “Why didn’t you delete the app, you wazzock?”
Some young people today seem less questioning of authority than in our day.
Ahem
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Amen.
Well Johnny, you live, you learn.
The right were always the cool ones, because we were always right!
John, must be 60 by now?
65.
Thanks Bill.
Uncle Google is your friend!
I like this bloke. He’s always spoken sense and is not afraid to say it as it is.
He certainly doesn’t suffer twats gladly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcZne8YKgGY
Yup. Johnny is a discerning and educated punk. Punk remains a much underrated form of music.
Yup. Johnny is a discerning and educated punk. Punk remains a much underrated form of music.
Young people today eh…(shakes head)
Snap…!
HAPPY HOUR – you bet!
Just back from a panic shop at my local supermarket…I had the last bottle of sherry…. HIC!
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Erk!
Memories of the shortages in Nigeria, mid 1970s.
Sigh
Boris has brought life in 1970’s USSR to 2020 UK.
Shurely not before you left the premishesh?
Was your bottle any old rubbish or some of the good stuff from Cyprus? {:^))
British Sherry, Ihope!
or Tío Peddy?
Probably rubbish but after several glasses who cares….HIC!
Try and make it last. You don’t know when the next one is coming.
Sherry over ice in a tumbler make it last …..cheers!
Try a rebujito…
https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/3508/rebujito-cocktail
I can recommend it.
As does Scotch with an equal measure of water. My night cap(s) of choice.
Hic, orf for another, doncha know, slainte.
interesting article:
https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/08000/ivermectin_for_prevention_and_treatment_of.7.aspx
Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection:: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines
Bryant, Andrew MSc1,*; Lawrie, Theresa A. MBBCh, PhD2; Dowswell, Therese PhD2; Fordham, Edmund J. PhD2; Mitchell, Scott MBChB, MRCS3; Hill, Sarah R. PhD1; Tham, Tony C. MD, FRCP4
Conclusions:
Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.
335757+ up ticks,
Heads will roll, literally,
https://twitter.com/NKrankie/status/1418597358510747649
Coming to a place near you soon…
335757+ up ticks,
Evening P,
Many in place already…. waiting.
The implications of the above are rather worrying. For example, is it safe to drive through France or visit the country, in the knowledge that you might be refused hospital treatment if you need it?
335757+ up ticks,
Evening BB2,
What I would find more worrying is the way things are shaping it could very well happen here and looking at the results of that by election today the toxic trio are still well supported.
Good heavens, one wonders what France might just be afeared of.
335757+ up ticks,
Evening NtN,
Getting as dreadful as England would not surprise me.
Wonderful news – for the totalitarian regime centred on Downing Street:
“PHE spots ANOTHER variant: 16 Brits have tested positive for ‘Colombian’ strain that is already spreading in the community”
Fantastic – just what they need to hear to cancel the summer, stop children returning to school and reducing the country to Fifth World one.
Did they
snifffall for the line?I couldn’t say (loftily). All I know is that coffee will be banned…!
Columbian coffee is like gnat’s pee; no great loss.
Oh, you’ve tried gnat’s pee? How adventurous.
Life in Colchester is adventurous.
Ross Clarke is unimpressed:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/23/corporations-like-unilever-just-playing-woke-soon-found/
“Corporations like Unilever are just playing at being woke. And soon they’ll be found out
By aligning itself with activists who in many cases would love to destroy it, big business has crafted a very large rod for its own back
23 July 2021 • 12:26pm
We are not woke, says the CEO of company which says it will no longer sell a brand of ice cream in the Occupied Territories, which removed the word ‘normal’ from its products in order to promote a “more inclusive definition of beauty”, which shared a post from Black Lives Matter in its Twitter feed, which stopped calling one of its skin creams “fair and lovely” in response to a petition which claimed the product was racist, which used a transgender couple to model its haircare products, which sent a branded, 75-strong team to Pride in 2019, featuring samba dancers and an Australian drag star.
Inasmuch as there is no official definition of the word ‘woke’, and that few people can seem to agree what it means, if anything, I suppose we have to allow Alan Jope and Unilever a little leeway under the Trades Description Act. But I don’t think I am the only one who sees in Mr Jope a man who is keen to leap aboard any lefty-liberal bandwagon which passes his office.
Except, that is, for one of them. Strangely, all the guff in Unilever’s annual report about “social equality” and a “purposeful and inclusive culture” seems to stop short of the directors’ remuneration report. Instead, that section focuses on how, after careful consideration, the remuneration committee decided that it wouldn’t change the rules concerning Mr Jope’s bonus in response to the financial constraints created by the Covid pandemic. Consequently, Mr Jope was able to waltz off with a total of £6.043 million in 2020 — £1.508 million in basic pay, topped up with a £2.262 million bonus and £2.273 million worth of share awards. That is not a bad haul, especially considering that Unilever’s operating profits fell 4.6 percent to £8.303 billion over the year.
Were I a left wing activist I don’t think I would be too happy about this. In fact, I might be minded to gather a flash mob to dress up as fat cats and slurp cream outside Unilever’s head office – or some such stunt – while highlighting the vast gulf between the earnings of the company’s highest and lowest-paid employees and contractors.
All of which makes me wonder whether Unilever’s wokery – as well as the woke initiatives practiced by many other large corporations – is really just a cover for excessive boardroom pay. Look at us, aren’t we good and enlightened people, they are saying – hoping that while we are praising their commitment to diversity and inclusion we might fail to notice their sky-high salaries and bonuses.
Sadly, I don’t think it is going to work for long. On the contrary, I fear that the woke mob is not going to be satisfied with a bit of corporate window-dressing. Now it has tasted success on a number of touchstone left-wing issues it is going to come back for more. And in its sights is going to be the hypocrisy of plastering your company report with references to social equality while at the same time bidding up your own pay into the stratosphere. There are arguments to try to justify high boardroom pay, but however you attempt it, it is not going to cut much ice with the likes of Black Lives Matter or any other liberal cause a company might try to snuggle up with.
Ultimately, I suspect that Mr Jope and his counterparts in other multinationals will come to regret their dalliance with wokery and wish they had got on quietly running their businesses in accordance with their own, conservative values. By aligning itself with activists who in many cases would love to destroy it, big business has crafted a very large rod for its own back. No skincare product is going to hide the resulting weals.”
Not: “Trades Description Act” – you wazzock.
TRADE Descriptions Act…
You’d think a journalist would check …hang on a mo….
You’re becoming like Peddy.
Oh no…!
It is just that solecism that drives me mad – ever since 1968!
Dat’s coz you’ze a znob.
Yer znob knos a trade is always below a profession!”
Ah – yes there are some particular ones that are unberable. And my comment was slightly tongue-in-cheek…
Not so, Lass, Bill is right to pick up on these journalistic errata – there are too many of them and too few educated editors to do, as the say in Cornwall, “to do a proper job.”
That’s what I mean too; there are to many journalistic errors – the place to complain is the journal itself surely?
“there are
totoo many journalistic errors” 🙂“No skincare product is going to hide the resulting weals”
And Black Lepers Matter will be all over them like a rash.
Weals within weals?
When will these virtue-signalling corporations recognise we are not the stupid ones?
We know exactly what and why they are promoting this drivel and will act accordingly.
Not buying their shit products. The best way to identify our displeasure.
I ditched P&G after the Gillette debacle. Now Unilever have joined my boycott. So I guess I’m on my last bottle of Fairy Liquid.
“Key workers who are exempt from quarantine will still have to adhere to the normal isolation rules outside of work, the government has said.
Ministers announced last night that emergency measures to protect food supplies will see thousands of workers in critical areas such as supermarket depots and food manufacturing avoid the need to self-isolate if pinged or contacted by a test and trace official.
George Eustice, the environment secretary, said ministers were “never going to take risks with our food supply”, following reports of empty shelves in supermarkets, and had decided the most important thing was to ensure “that those main arteries in our food supply chain keep working”.”
From The Grimes just now.
Useless Eustice; Randy Halfcock; Shatts; Williamson; Fuckland ….from under which stone do these completely pointless wazzocks come?
You can stack shelves and cut ham for the customers but not go to the pub.
“How do you get rid of this effing app?”
Switch your phone orf?
You would have to explain “Switch your phone orf.” to a large section of our present population.
My latest phone refuses to switch off by the usual means. So you have to swipe down the ‘notifications’, and there is an icon for turning the damn thing orf.
Incredible.
Mine turns itself off automatically if you don’t touch the screen.
Delete it via via ‘Google Play’.
I urge every UK citizen to delete it.
Jesus, do you actually think I have it?
No Mola but, what about the stupid millions who still have?
You can stack shelves and cut ham for the customers but not go to the pub.
“How do you get rid of this effing app?”
Let me think this one through. You are allowed to nurse the sick and vulnerable from (say) 07.00 am – 2.00 pm. Once 14.01 strikes, you are biological warfare on legs and that continues until the following morning.
Hooray – you’ve cracked it…!!
Yup.
Wonder how that works?
Jolly lucky that the virus can tell the time, knows whether you’re standing or sitting and if you are travelling in a bus or a car.
Oh, and it’s racist.
…and if you’re within or without the Vale of Glamorgan, blessed be its name.
They have it sorted in Wales. According to the Penarth Times, “Majority of adults now double-jabbed against covid in the Vale” – but what about covid outside the Vale? Is that still dangerous?
The Barmy Stone perhaps?
So, die of COVID or starve to death?
…and how about the MPs outside work?
Oh no, that rule is only for the plebs we are Whittingdale exempt.
I hope that comes back to not only haunt him but lose his seat, his income and any future hope.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/PortalPictures/july-2021/2407-MATT-PORTAL-WEB-P1.png?imwidth=320
That’s me for this grey day – enlivened by a brighter Pickles (currently asleep). The drugs that were prescribed keep him drowsy for a lot of the time – then manic for a spell… Dear little chap. Gus has also been in much of the day. I am 99% certain that Gus was there at the assault: he has been MUCH less inclined to stray far from the house.
Anyway time for a little drinky-poo. Tomorrow they Annual Flower, Fruit and Veg competition. The MR is VERY competitive…and has entered about a dozen classes. Much stress looming in the morning!
A demain.
My Dad was Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Lowdham (Notts) Horticultural Society…..so he got to appoint all the judges….so he won most of the prizes. {:^))
Good luck to the MR for tomorrow.
Thank you
Hope you have a relaxing evening Bill/
It would be lovely to see some pics of your dearest MR’s contributions to the show , I love events like that .
I hope that the MR has charmed the judges suitably.
One of my few memories of my father was is dismay at every entry into the local village show being disqualified for nefarious reasons – sweet pea stems too long, potatoes In a dish not a plate and so on. Needless to say the village in crowd won.
My potatoes were judged ‘best in show’……
Sweet were they?
King Edwards…..
Just remember, Pings ain’t what they used to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biUvH1XcVmg
SingalongaMax. Whoopie!
It is starting with….. Montélimar.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1418609462823329792?s=20
https://twitter.com/ire_free/status/1418351116178370560
I think this is rather clever!
How much time did they spend practising it?
Ballroom balls, as far as I’m concerned.
Good exercise in break time I expect T-B.
Didn’t that used to be a fag and a coffee?
https://twitter.com/boblister_poole/status/1418612178702241792
Too true.
It’s nothing to do with “Can’t”. It’ all to do with not having the brains or balls to do something about it.
We have armed forces, FFS, who could first fire shots across their bows before taking more positive action to keep the realm secure. Sod public opinion in the rest of the world (or in the Guardian-reading halfwits), and take some positive action that will make them all sit up.
No need to be firing shots across (or into) bows, just use one of those honking great aircraft(less) carriers to block their way.
Think of it as a movable Trumpian wall.
Agreed, Grizz, but first the PTB need to want to stop it, and as yet, there’s no indication of that. In fact, I believe all this “tough legislation” (ha! ha!) is just smoke and mirrors – they want the crossings to continue, that’s the only explanation as to why they aren’t stopped and the Border farce go to France & bring the buggers over.
What use is making landing illegally a criminal offence if the criminals can just scoot off? How about clapping some of the Border Force and RNLI in irons for aiding and abetting a criminal act?
The first one sunk will be the first one that really did have lots of women and children in it.
The BBC would certainly find only drowned kiddywinks.
335757+ up ticks,
Evening M,
Personally before resorting to murder and dropping to the same level as a politico, why not tackle the root cause
first, I know it’s never been tried but, is worth a try.
Get rid of the current political uncontrolled immigrant purveyors as in the lab/lib/con political hierarchy in total.
Men, women, children: they are all a threat to the realm.
Indeed, but babies make the better photo-op for the pro unlimited immigration fanatics.
Try my solution, George. They are stopped, mid channel and told, “Turn180° and return whence you came. Failure to heed this warning means your dinghy will be cut, stem to turn, it will sink and you will ALL drown. The Choice is yours – NOW.”
Quite.
Gawd, if the greasy Greeks can, surely we can.
I agree, Tom, but why waste so much breath. Actions, not words, are what they understand.
Unfortunately, George, while Patel is long on words and very, very short on actions. I have a question, is it all her fault or is he being obfuscated by the Common Purpose snivel serpents? How do we get that answer and, if true, how do we kick their self-serving arseholes out of there?
“…how do we kick their self-serving arseholes out of there?” That must be a rhetorical question, Tom, since neither you nor I have the answer.
335757+ up ticks,
G,
The lab/lib/con ( ino) coalition current members / voters say NO.
May signed us up to the UN migration pact. So what is going on is tolerated but blamed of the frogs to deflect political criticism.
335757+ up ticks,
Evening TB,
We need to get rid of patel along with lab/lib/con en masse & any hard core die-hard members because sure as God made little green apples they are going to get rid of us.
So far the kids of today are facing condemnation
tomorrow, courtesy of the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration, members / voters, wise up,get real.
We can stop them. The state refuses to and is actively preventing us from doing so.
I’d almost imagine it’s entirely deliberate revenge by the state for Brexit.
Nearly 400 migrants were detained by Border Force officers in the last two days alone according to new Home Office figures.
On Wednesday 219 people in 11 boats were intercepted and 175 were picked up in six incidents on Thursday.
It takes the number of migrants to have been detained after reaching the UK in small boats to 8,840 – with nearly 3,000 arriving so far in July alone.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9817773/Border-Force-detained-400-migrants-two-days.html
Having, ‘detained’ them, what happened next?
Oh, well, like all the others, we tried to get them to stay at their local Hilton Hotel but, strangely, they all fucked orf, and I’ve no idea where to.
That’s the problem – or one of them. They should be turned around and send back, or at least incarcerated. What used is making landing illegally a criminal offence if the criminals can just scoot off? How about clapping some of the Border Force and RNLI in irons for aiding and abetting a criminal act?
Import the third world…………..
https://twitter.com/CruVIII/status/1418575287655219201
They say that you can take the man out of the dark ages
Love me, love my Goat !
Dada where’s maa maa?
He was supposed to sacrifice the goat to ensure a safe crossing whilst the traffic light was green!
He did that. The goat you see is for the return journey.
Shouldn’t be allowed to have so many kids.
Thanks, Labour. You’ve done irreparable damage to this country.
Bad News Coming:
“In this short video clip (straight after the 30 second intro), the scientist in charge of UK ‘vaccine’ operations himself states that the Pfizer ‘vaccine’ reduces people’s natural immune system ‘five fold’!
https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=60f89c07b4c876043c591c8a
https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=60f89c07b4c876043c591c8a
Isn’t that great – a ‘vaccine’ for Covid which reduces your body’s natural immune system, which everyone will be depending on as we got into Winter, by five times!
Guess what’s coming this Winter.
‘Night All
Finish with a Risky Laff
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/99f940484f3d1131a485605a711baaaa340b5e8381a52058b954c23a1a2189f9.jpg
Husband: “I’ll have what my wife is not expecting to get tonight”
Waitress: “I can see that from here sir – do you want it on a plate?”
PM Winston Churchill was justified in being worried in 1943 when, during the Battle of the Atlantic, Germany was threatening essential supplies to the UK by sinking the supply ships carrying cargo essential for our survival.
Fortunately for the UK, Germany lost the battle shortly before I was born:
https://www.historynet.com/why-germanys-kriegsmarine-lost-the-battle-of-the-atlantic.htm
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eb6fa0894faf05afe66d62a206a85ecadee7269dcc8e9d75da8f19538e753e2b.jpg
Shortage of HGV drivers and food chain employees has now put our PM in the same position.
There are few of us left who knew what we went through to get where we are now in our fight against an invisible enemy,.
Looking on from afar, I have to wonder at their unwillingness to admit that they got it wrong.
Surely not so common common sense dictates that the positive should just be a warning.
I’m a bit negative about letting common sense be a dictator.
Goodnight all Nottlers. Bedtime music: Dream On – Postmodern Jukebox ft. Morgan James (Aerosmith Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq4KA0mUnC8
Sorry Nottler dirty old men, it was a bloke
I’m sure this must have been posted earlier, but quite a revelation. The BBC talking about it I mean.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/57932699
Fauci would say that wouldn’t he?
MRD Award.
Possibly going to rain but… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b1beeb00c1e470e4efd2bf004316c75071fd3aa08b659dd7c06a7e8965bd5990.jpg
The forecast might be govt propaganda…. it was overcast here this evening, no rain, and cleared about 7.00 pm. The skies are clear and calm. We shall see what tomorrow brings.
Nothing would surprise me these days. I shall be there anyway. Hope it’s an event in the square this time and not a march. The marches are great – but not so good for my hip joints!
Sock it to ’em, Sue, and one from me. Regretfully I think I’m too old now to go on a march and crowds cause me stress.
Locally the forecasts have been fluctuating wildly. I think it more to do with the unmoving low pressure system which we’re in.
We have had a heat emergency and now a thunderstorm warning. Cripes, what is next, winter might arrive in a few months and it will be cold and dark. The propaganda is becoming desperate.
Have you changed your avatar, Sue? For a moment I thought that was a post from Lotl. I think it was a Teddy.
I changed it some time ago. Lotl had some different avatars but yes, I remember her teddy. This is my old Pedigree Dolls Pooh with a toy dog my Mum had when she was in a nursing home. I brought it home when she passed away back in 2013.
Treasure it.
Ha, good for you, Sue, if you go down to the woods today…
Good night all.
Evening all, just back from a family meal, all 9 of us in a lovely Italian restaurant, what a joy to go out without a face nappy and interact with others.
Talking of face nappies,
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Why I’m cutting back on hand washing (but keeping my mask on)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9819619/DR-MICHAEL-MOSLEY-Im-cutting-hand-washing-keeping-mask-on.html#comment.
If I was a cynical sort of person I would think one is an easy visible virtue signalling act and the other is not, just a sensible action for good hygiene in general.
Are you going to tell us what you had to eat ?
Gamberoni for starters, Penne Crema for mains and Panna Cota desert with a couple of glasses of Peroni. Of course the best part was just being there with the family.
I saw only one other unmasked shopper when I went out this afternoon. Everybody seemed to be welded to their rags as usual 😕.
With me it was exactly the opposite. Whilst there were a fair number with masks on in my local supermarket no-one at all bothered with my not wearing one.
No-one bothered that I wasn’t wearing one but it was a bit depressing to see everyone else still covered.
“The sheeple” (WSC)
I went to Waitrose yesterday and saw one bloke without a mask. He didn’t disinfect his hands at the entrance either.
And people wonder why we’re going through a third wave.
I went into town to pay a bill and came across a bloke walking on his own, in the open air, masked to the eyeballs. Why?
Plenty of maskees in cars today….
He thinks it’s the right thing to do.
In the restaurant I only saw one person with a face nappy who was wandering out of the toilets, a chap probably in his late 30’s. He must have underlying health reasons or succumbed to project fear.
Off to bed shortly, Good night and God Bless, fellow NoTTLers – maybe late tomorrow as we have the paper version of the Telegraph to consume but – I’ll see you there but maybe later.
Good night Tom , sleep well.
Good night Tom and all others on here. See you in the morning.
Raining gently, thunder and lightening , warm air , patio doors open and a delicious odour … Petrichor.. something you cannot bottle , Moh cut the grass this afternoon, and the smell from the garden is delicious . The crackles and flashes , and sound of the rain is so refreshing , the bad news is, I think we will have to put up with this all week end .
Windy here but no rain or thunder yet.
Evening, all. I feel the government hasn’t the slightest interest in letting us return to normal life.
Hi, Con. Back home? OH still incarcerated?
Yes to both questions. I have spent most of today either telephoning or being telephoned by various welfare agencies. I am trying to get a CHC (Continual Health Care) package, but it seems NHS Shropshire will fight tooth and nail to avoid funding care. They would rather take a charge against my house 🙁 If I lived two miles over the border there would be no problem.
Oh, dear. Is there no-one/organisation that can provide help in getting a solution. Have you tried CAB?
I will be getting in touch with Age UK and failing them, the Alzheimer’s Society. Voluntary organisations seem to be more humane…
Best of luck. It’s time something was sorted!
Cross fingers for you both.
https://twitter.com/True_Belle/status/1418699650685669378
Benefits, Maggie, benefits.
Changed my will. Nothing for RNLI. A woke disgrace run by silly women, similar to the National Trust for whom we have cancelled our membership subscriptions.
I dont give to any of the main charities any more. I try and go local, they probably need the cash more than the main players.
A local hospice is a good choice. They don’t get the megafunding from government/the taxpayer like Oxfam and other charities do.
Goodnight, all.
‘Night. Sleep well.
Good morning all – Saturday’s new page is here.
Thank you again, Geoff.
Have a good weekend.
‘Morning issy – how are you feeling today?
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