Saturday 28 August: Biden’s Afghan withdrawal has destroyed trust in America as a partner

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  1. US airstrike targets Islamic State in Afghanistan after deadly Kabul airport attack. 28 August 2021.

    The US has killed an Islamic State “planner” in retaliation for Thursday’s suicide bombing in Kabul.

    Captain Bill Urban, spokesman for US Central Command, said the US military had conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State member in Afghanistan’s Nangahar Province, which borders Pakistan.

    Friday’s airstrike goes some way to fulfilling a promise made by US President Joe Biden to retaliate against those behind the airport attack.

    In a message to the perpetrators on Thursday evening, he had said: “We will hunt you down and make you pay.”

    Morning everyone. In other words this was some anonymous goatherd who had nothing whatsoever to do with the Kabul attack being sacrificed to satisfy Joe’s ego!

    https://news.sky.com/story/us-airstrike-targets-islamic-state-in-afghanistan-after-deadly-kabul-airport-attack-12392733

    1. Morning AS – Perhaps this drone strike of a supposedly Islamic State “planner” is a bit premature and unwise. There could be serious repercussions for the US military and our military in the last few days of their stay in Kabul.

    2. As someone said yesterday ‘How you carry out a retaliatory attack against a successful suicide bomber was not made clear.’

      1. Those suicide bombers will be bricking it now that Resident Biden has unleashed his squirrels.

    4. Rather too neat, is it not? I’m sticking to my conjecture of yesterday that the bombing was a US false flag action.

  3. Usurper Biden destroyed all trust in America and Western democracy right from the outset with the election steal, what were people expecting to happen?

    1. 338189+ up ticks,
      Morning B3,
      We really must look to our own ruling political platform in the United Kingdom first & foremost,

      Against what passes for political parties in the UK decent peoples are trying to fill a bottomless bucket.

    2. The social media giants and the whole media that suppressed truths about Hunter Biden and Joe’s dementia, and relentlessly lied about Trump, are as much to blame as the rotten, rotten Democrats.
      They must really hate America to bring it down like this.

  4. The Afghan thing is going to get messy. I get the feeling that the Taliban simply want the Americans out – these have had twenty years to change hearts and minds and instead they have ensconced corruption.

    Now the Taliban might use the thousands of foreign nationals to lever release of their assets, but essentially they want to run the country in the manner of their own vision.

    But Daesh are nutters. – They started in Syria when the US opened the Iraqi prisons to find allies against Assad and Hizbollah and then further lost control of the situation.
    Daesh can’t stand Al Quaeda or the Taliban and will do everything to sabotage any tacit or explicit agreement the new government might wish to make.

    Stand by for another civil war.
    Then we will see whether Russia and China venture to physically help them.

        1. Intervention in the Middle East has always been a disaster. Does anyone seriously believe that intervention in Iraq, Libya or Syria has done any good whatsoever?

  5. Good morning
    If anyone has access to the obituaries in the Times or Telegraph, I would be grateful if they could copy the one for Jonathan Myles-Lea when it appears.
    Thank you.

      1. I’ve re-posted a couple of his instagram posts on here in the past. He was on the Delingpod, and also talked to the Conservative Party conference a few years ago.

      1. He was far too good-looking and knew way more powerful men than any young man ought…
        He was just a very nice person, in love with life, and that’s how I remember him.

  6. “Biden’s” Afghanistan debacle continues to throw up more disasters, including the worst kind, the indiscriminate slaughter of people by suicide bombers. There is one idea that I have not seen being proposed and that is “Biden’s” reckless action was deliberate and linked to the “pandemic”: either as a distraction from the current problems the elites’ continuing aggression is causing or as a means to create a real threat from terrorism that will “require” strong government measures to quell the problem in the USA, UK etc.
    Are the problems Biden has created purely the effect of an obviously very ill man totally unequipped to be POTUS or was Afghanistan seen by the elites to be an opportunity to be exploited, much as they have claimed the “pandemic” was?

    As time passes my tin foil hat has become an essential part of my attire and more comfortable than I ever thought it could be.😎

    https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1431157223967928320

    https://twitter.com/WalkerMarcus/status/1431356515584253956

    1. Another branch of the same idea would be that America has left the lithium deposits and other minerals so that the Chinese would take them. Why would they do that?

      Because they have leverage not only over Biden but also over Obama who is really running Biden.
      How?

      Maybe because Hunter Biden would fly to China on Airforce 2 when Daddy was VP – given his penchant for crooked dealings and young girls it is impossible the Chinese do not have dirt on him. What does that have to do with Obama – guess who was best friends with Michelle. Hunter’s wife at the time. Wives have always been a way whereby scrutiny is evaded.

      I know this is all conjecture but there must be a reason for this debacle. Either the American military are utterly incompetent or this withdrawal has been sabotaged.
      It would be good to find out why.

    2. Morning Korky. There are several oddities about the suicide car bombing, not the least of which are the warnings about it which were so detailed that I began to wonder if the driver was phoning his progress into Langley.

  7. I backed Joe Biden. He has been a terrible disappointment. 28 August 2021.

    Biden’s woke rhetoric, chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and declining mental state leave me disappointed in the man I reluctantly supported in the 2020 election.

    Its’s strange (though predictable) that all the intellectuals were fooled by Biden. The truth about him was readily available on Nottl long before the election. His corruption, pederasty, cognitive decline were all remarked upon. This said there was no real secret about them, they were simply suppressed by the MSM and drowned out by an anti-Trump propaganda campaign of unprecedented malice and deception.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/27/backed-joe-biden-has-terrible-disappointment/

    1. I remember listening to Shriver on Spiked (I think). I normally enjoy listening to her and she has very sensible ideas on identity politics and cultural appropriation as applied to authers. But she was denigrating Trump and looking forward to his defeat. I remember wondering how intelligent people can be so deluded.

    2. Sadly, much the same could be said about the libertine residing in No 10. One of his previous bosses, Max Hastings, revealed much about Johnson that should have set alarm bells ringing.But, you know, good old Boris and all that!

      Hastings on Johnson

          1. I’ve never been a Boris fan and have always been aware of his abundant shortcomings.

          2. I am not really a Boris fan .

            His grunting sweaty pig like appearance makes me feel unsafe and insecure .
            I suspect a few of us girls on here have met men like that , and kept our distance thank goodness .

            Dylan Thomas used a wonderful expression in his wonderful Under Milk Wood .. Gossamer Beynon dreams of a man ..all cucumber and hooves …

            Boris doesn’t seem to do sincerity , his main mission is to replace and replicate ..

      3. An excellent read – I particularly liked thi spart of the final paragraph…
        If the Johnson family had stuck to showbusiness like the Osmonds, Marx Brothers or von Trapp family, the world would be a better place. Yet the Tories, in their terror, have elevated a cavorting charlatan to the steps of Downing Street

      1. I think it goes much deeper than that.
        It’s not just Biden, but those pulling his strings.

    4. Lionel Shriver was one of the early people to appear on the GB News Channel – she argued coherently that if the Scots want independence they should have it and that if the Northern Irish want to join the republic they should be encouraged to do so.
      Give the people what they say they want was her clear mantra which makes it hard to understand how she ever backed Biden in the first place – but at least she seems to be admitting that she was wrong which is more that most people in journalism or politics are prepared to do.

      1. Lionel Shriver is a good writer and a very honest woman.
        Like Janet Daley, she had this blind spot driven by Trump Derangement Syndrome.
        At least – sadly too late; far, far too late – she has the bravery to admit her mistake.

          2. Sunny and warm here all day – sat outside in the afternoon and enjoyed a barbecue chez des amis.

  9. 338189+ up ticks,
    Morning Each,

    Dt,
    Now there’s a question,
    Can the world afford another three and a half years of President Biden?
    Britain has grown used to a strong America. Now, it must contend with a weak leadership in retreat

    More to the point ARE the treacherously devious United Kingdoms political overseeing politico’s fit for purpose in regards to governance
    concerning Great Britain.

    Things, via the westminster political cartel are getting progressively worse
    daily, DOVER points that out quite clearly so in 42 months time adhering
    to the same leadership in both Countries & taking into account the speed
    the terrorist org. has operated at, there could be radical change on both home turfs.

    The UK due to mass uncontrolled immigration via governance party’s, has
    an alien standing army being built on with every intake eventually we will Not have to travel to reach the war zone it will be just outside the front door.

    Thin end of the steak & two veg, there are halal dumplings on the parliamentary canteen menu, lest we forget.

      1. 338189+ up ticks,
        Morning N,
        The American peoples are not alone, we have suffered
        via the political hierarchy noticeably for the last three decades also with fatalities in serious numbers.

      2. Quite. The way the US system works, instead of calling an election, they work their way down through the hierarchy. So the Camel could be impeached and removed but the crown then moves to the Speaker of the House. If that’s still Pelosi, lord help us all?

        1. I find it unusual that we have such truly incompetent politicians. I understand that the media needs a client class, a group to look down on, a nice set of sensationalist victims to create hysteria about and that Trump’s polcies (as any Right wing policy does this) erodes that group.

          I fully understand that because the Left saw this and panicked, needing victims to perpetuate their own ideology and thus they attacked Trump mercilessly, with frantic desperation but was the only other option the obviously incompetent mentally deficient Biden?

          Was it really fair on Biden to run considering the pressures of the presidency?

          3. I don’t find it surprising. What kind of person would want to be a minister these days? In the age of statement and opinion being transmitted around the world in three seconds and reaction coming back in ten, there is no longer time taken to digest what has been said and construct any meaningful response, whether for or against.
            There can be no long term plans formulated, all intention has to be faultless immediately or suffer a viscious and acrimonious backlash.

          4. Yet I think that’s precisely where we have to say ‘No, I need to properly understand the issue.’

            Shcoking as not replying might be to a politician, a bit more consideration and thought would remind the public that MPs are human, don’t know everything and are not knee jerk responding.

    2. We also need to know where our PM’s loyalties are. Born in the USA and of Turkish descent, is he a true Brit?

      2. It’s not the Turkish descent so much as the childhood spent among the UN and Brussels elite who despise nation states.

      3. You can be born a foreigner, and more loyal than loyal.
        Those Cambridge spies where born British, and look at their actions.
        To judge the loyalty, look at the actions. I’d say, he’s loyal to himself and lying to the rest. Promises about NI, fishing, illegal immigration were only there for the votes, not as an indication of what he will do. In fact, I can only conclude, based on the government actions, that illegal immigration is thoroughly approved of, and encouraged through the Boarder Farce and RNLI – btw, RNLI are no longer in my Will. I have yet to conclude on why illegal immigration is approved of, other than the UN Global Compact on Migration.

        1. Signing off on the UN migration pact was Saggy May’s final betrayal, even as her fingers were being prised from the door jamb at No 10. A bitter woman who achieved little in her time in the high offices of state other than to deflect the inquiry that had possible repercussions for her father; hence the rolodex of unsuitable chairs of the inquiry as the whole mess is kicked into the long grass.

        2. Those with a cosmopolitan upbringing often don’t feel they belong anywhere – they are citizens of the world and are not beholden to any country.

      4. You can be born a foreigner, and more loyal than loyal.
        Those Cambridge spies where born British, and look at their actions.
        To judge the loyalty, look at the actions. I’d say, he’s loyal to himself and lying to the rest. Promises about NI, fishing, illegal immigration were only there for the votes, not as an indication of what he will do. In fact, I can only conclude, based on the government actions, that illegal immigration is thoroughly approved of, and encouraged through the Boarder Farce and RNLI – btw, RNLI are no longer in my Will. I have yet to conclude on why illegal immigration is approved of, other than the UN Global Compact on Migration.

  11. Tales of ‘Frisco Bay
    The day after a man lost his wife in a scuba diving accident, he was greeted by two grim-faced policemen at his door. “We’re sorry to call on you at this hour, Mr. Wilkins, but we have some information about your wife.”

    “Well, tell me!” the man said.

    The policeman said, “We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?”

    Fearing the worse, Mr. Wilkins said, “Give me the bad news first.”

    So the policeman said, “I’m sorry to tell you, sir, but this morning we found your wife’s
    body in San Francisco Bay.”

    “Oh my god!” said Mr. Wilkins, overcome by emotion. Remembering what the policeman had said, he asked, “What’s the good news?”

    “Well,” said the policeman, “when we pulled her up she had two five-pound lobsters and a dozen good size Dungeness crabs on her.”

    “If that’s the good news, then what’s the great news?” Mr. Wilkins demanded.
    The policeman said, “We’re going to pull her up again tomorrow morning.”

  12. After my early morning spell, a belated Good Morning from a bright & sunny Derbyshire with 10°C outside.

    2. Sent back where? France won’t take them. Sent back to their country of origin? The Human Rights lawyers will put a stop to that. The only solution is to stop them getting here in the first place. Turn them back in the Channel.

      1. Does anybody seriously believe that Boris Johnson has the testicular strength to deal with the problem of illegal immigration?

        Indeed Nut Nuts has been given total control of the prime ministerial scrotum and its contents can only be utilised when she authorises it.

    3. So much could be done very quickly to stop the tide, yet Boris does nothing. Patel talks a lot, but nothing changes and thousands more flood over.

        1. Up to a point, Lady Copper. Her chum is a 150% Europhile – and feeds Mrs Murrell dope – and instructions -from the Hauptkommandantur…..

    2. The Greens have often been a gateway for islamists in the recent past too.
      I look at that photo of Sturgeon with her new besties, and I’m afraid all I see is the vain, arrogant fools that made up the court of Mary Queen of Scots.

    3. One BTL comment was that a physical border should be built between Scotland and England to stop the Scots escaping after independence!

      Avon and Zodiac are planning the construction of some super-dinghies with powerful outboard engines so that the Scottish migrants – most of whom will actually be described as refugees as they will be fleeing from tyranny – can set off down on the voyage across Forth, Tyne and Dogger, Humber and Thames and make their landing in the UK government’s accepted landing beaches in the Dover fishing area.

        1. Maybe a competent entrepreneur will organise the transporting of them to the Scottish border in anticipation of the mass exodus.

    4. My feeling is that if there is a second referendum there will be lots of sabre-rattling from Scots before the event, but when it comes to voting they’ll remember where the money comes from and result will be much the same as before.

      1. If they were really serious about independence (rather than devo-max with us footing the bill), they would open it up to voters in England. They’d be gone faster than one can mumble “fishwife”,

  16. Cat news.

    Gus (and Pickles) went out at 5.45 am as usual. Gus was heading the procession when I opened the kitchen door. At 8 am he scampered back across the lawn when I called him – and ate some food (including crunchies) and is generally behaving for what passes for normal.

    When one picks him up, there is definitely a “tummy” which has been lacking this last week.

    For a pessimist (NO, I hear you shout) I am reasonably optimistic.

    Many thanks to all you NoTTLers who have been so supportive. The MR and I greatly appreciate it.

    2. That’s really good to hear Bill.

      When someone calls you a cynic, just tell htem that the glass is half empty, but that you’re just planning the next round.

    5. Good news! I once cat-sat my landlady’s puss, back when I was still renting and pussy started having fits so I took her to a vet, who figured that she’d walked in something nasty and licked it off her paws. My attempts to administer the pills prescribed amounted to a comedy routine but much to my relief, puss was alive and well when her owner returned from hols.

      1. Been there done that! What gets me is when tablets are prescribed and the vet says: “Just pop one in his mouth every four hours…”

        You need a thick towel to wrap the cat; gauntlets and arm protectors…. And a torch to find the spat out tablet….

        1. We found that sticking the pill to a Dreamies cat treat with a wee drop of syrup worked fine. Glop. Gone.

          1. Marmite also works. Sometimes.

            Mousie – an earlier cat (still going strong (ish) at 17) – would tak the tablet on Marmite; “swallow” it – lick her nose (the sign that something has gone down the throat) and we’d find it under the washing machine…..

      2. There are several versions of this invaluable advice.

        “Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as though holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat’s mouth, and gently apply pressure to his cheeks. When cat opens up, pop pill into mouth. Cat will then close mouth and swallow.

        Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Repeat the process.

        Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.

        Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, immobilizing front and rear paws. Ask assistant to hold cat’s head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into cat’s throat. Flick pill down ruler with forefinger, and rub cat’s throat vigorously.

        Retrieve cat from living-room curtain valance.

        Carefully sweep shattered figurines from hearth, and set aside for later gluing. Remove next pill from foil wrap.

        Wrap cat in beach towel, and ask assistant to lie prone on cat with cat’s head visible under assistant’s armpit. Put pill in end of paper tube you’ve made for this purpose. Then force cat’s mouth open with pencil, and blow.

        Check label to make sure pill is not lethal to humans. Sip water to take taste away. Apply bandage to assistant’s forearm, and remove blood from carpet with soap and cold water.

        Call 911, and ask fire department to retrieve cat from eucalyptus tree. Remove remaining pill from foil wrap. Tie cat’s front paws to rear paws with garden twine, and securely tie to leg of dining table. Put on heavy-duty pruning gloves. Force cat’s mouth open with tire iron. Drop pill, previously hidden in 1 ounce of raw hamburger, into cat’s mouth. Hold head vertically with nose pointed to ceiling, and pour one-half pint of water down cat’s throat, and two jiggers of whiskey down your own.

        Ask assistant to drive you to emergency room. Sit quietly while doctor administers anesthetic, stitches forearm and removes pill remnants from eye. Drop off cat, along with a generous donation, at animal shelter, and adopt a goldfish.”

  18. Afghanistan: US kills Isis ‘planner’ in air strike – latest news

    DT Headline

    So what – what difference does this make – the planner would probably have done the job for the US himself and happily committed suicide when there was a stirring in his loins and he fancied a few virgins!

    The priority must now be to recapture or destroy all the weapons which Biden so stupidly and carelessly left behind in Afghanistan making it the best armed terrorist state the world has ever seen.

    1. Bomb Bagram to bits before they get a chance to ship out the weapons.
      Unless, the deal struck by Dangerous Joe with the Taliban was that they get all that materiel, of course. Which is why it wasn’t destroyed by the very capable US military. It’s not as if a retreat is a new thing, scorched earth has been in use since time immemorial, and even Firstborn’s ex-military Landy came with instructions on how to destroy it to prevent it falling into the hands of the enemy.

      1. Trump had planned to do just that as ‘stage four’ of the retreat. The military airlift out, the whole base, all the kit goes up.

        Which is odd, as we have been taking our equipment home – hell, after what we’ve paid for it we blasted well should!

        1. Of course our lads bring the kit home; someone’s signed it out and doesn’t want the cost of the replacement docked from their wages.

      2. On 22 vehicle a FOB resupply convoy in Helmand, we had to ‘deny two broken down vehicles with well placed grenades.

      3. Canada tried shipping out their equipment from Afghanistan. Many of the containers of military stuff that left arrived as containers of rocks and sand.

      4. Keep some of the foreigners as surety, to leave the equipment – damage the goods – they show the hostages being beheaded.

    2. I am extremely suspicious that they knew exactly where this character was and yet didn’t take him out much earlier.

      2. If he actually WAS the “master-mind”, of course. Knowing the great skill of the Yanks – he could have been any old Afghan….

        1. Craig Murray in his book ‘Murder in Samarkand’ suggested that America’s ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ policy of rooting out terrorists in central Asia was interpreted by Islam Karimov to mean burning political opponents alive. This bolshie tribesman (who resisted arrest) was boiled up for refusing to give information about Al Qaeda, on the grounds that he’d never heard of Osama bin Laden, nor had anyone in his village.

        2. If it really was the “right” man, expect his successor to set up a spectacular atrocity in the fairly near future, to establish his credentials.

    4. The BBC claims that Britain has left behind a lot of vehicles and equipment.

      No mention whether any had been disabled.

  19. Day 4 Medal Count – August 28, 2021

    Rank Gold Silver Bronze Total
    1 China 22 14 20 56
    2 Great Britain 13 11 14 38
    3 Russia 12 7 15 34
    4 USA 10 6 4 20
    5 Australia 7 6 9 22
    6 Brazil 6 5 10 21
    7 Netherlands 6 5 5 16
    8 Ukraine 5 15 9 29
    9 Azerbaijan 5 0 2 7
    10 Spain 4 7 2 13

    Sorry about the disorder. I spent 15+ minutes sorting it out but when I post it, it goes where it wants. 🙁

    1. Why do we in the UK feel it necessary to be at the top of the table in the Olympic and Limplimpic medal tables? Germany, France, Spain, Holland etc don’t seem to worry about it.

    2. Does the China tally include Taiwan and Hong Kong? Apparently the Chinese were cheating by pretending those two are part of China. Cheating is natural to the Chinese Communist regime.

  20. Good morning all.

    “Biden’s Afghan withdrawal has destroyed trust in America as a partner” is hysterical and overblown. Trust in this administration may have been lost if any idiots hand any trust in it in the first place. If Trump comes back then trust will be restored. I have to say that a lot of these sort of remarks in the MSM seem to be a perverse wish for the death of America with no thought about what will be the consequences if this continuous undermining succeeds. On our own heads be it if we continue to wallow in this perversity as long as Biden is President. The expression: “Poisoning the well”. Comes to mind and when we cannot drink from it either, what then? Are we .pipsqueaks militarily and diplomatically going to triumph over China as it advances on us without America?

    1. If Trump gets in then the Left will go nuts. In fact, they’re probably already winding up to full blown insanity.

      The desperation and terror of a Trump administration that will make their client base better off terrifies them.

      1. I noticed today that the MSM are still continuing the lie that this is all Trumps fault. Fact is that if Biden had continued Trumps policy, it would never have happened. Trumps policy was a classic of “walk softly and carry a big stick.” Telling the Taliban chief that he would drop a MOAB on his village is not exactly the same as Biden’s farcical withdrawal.

          1. Massive Ordnance Air Blast/Mother Of All Bombs (aka fuel-air/counter-pressure/thermobaric bomb).

    2. It’s not just Biden that’s the problem. Lurking in the wings we have Harris and Pelosi plus legions of similarly minded vicious incompetents.

          2. I do think Trump was bad, and for precisely the same reason.

            Just as Biden should be condemned for implementing a stitch-up Trump made with the Taliban and betrayal loyal allies in Afghanistan, Trump should be condemned for abandoning the garrison in Northern Syria, leaving loyal Kurdish allies to the mercy of the neo-Ottomans.

            The only 2020 presidential candidates I had any time for were Bernie Sanders and perhaps Andrew Yang. Mike Pence was also a safe pair of hands, although I don’t know what part he played in the betrayal of the Kurds.

      2. But is it REALLY them?
        Or are they just the puppets?
        And if the latter, who is pulling the strings?

        1. The same people that are controlling western European “leaders”. And Australia and New Zealand.

      3. The one we should really be concerned about is the one we don’t know.
        If Harris takes over, who will she appoint as VP and can she get them through both houses?
        Unlikely, but imagine one of the extreme BLMers getting the job and Harris getting shot.

      4. The entire Democrat party appears to be corrupt and thoroughly dishonest from top to bottom.

    3. Suez, Falklands, etc. The US has always put itself first. One of the driving forces of its foreign policy was to destroy the Empire, and amputate the colonies from the UK. They thought that they would step in and would then exercise the same kind of hegemony as we had, kind of. Except that they did not understand how the Empire came about. Possibly because the US did not need an external Empire in order to prosper, whereas Great Britain did. All that the US could manage was destruction. After WW2 they assumed a lead role in many affairs that went bad (eg Persia) because they were, and remain, clueless.
      We thought that they were our friends but that was a delusion of the politicos. Even now our politicians babble about a “special relationship” without realising it is “boss” and “sidekick”. We gave the US our twenty year lead in aero-engineering. Our Trident nuclear deterrent has to be serviced in the US. Without our skills their Eagle would still be stuck on the Moon, unable to return.

    1. Cold? Not half. We have chums coming round for afternoon tea (posh, we are).

      The plan was to find a place in the shade on the lawn…the revised plan to have it in the sitting-room with the stove going…..

    2. I’ve got his ‘Return of a King’, but had a few problems with the similar names of many of the leaders involved.

      1. SIR – I was in Ceylon as it was then when my feet got badly sunburnt .Since then I have always worn socks with sandals (“Diary of a Modern Dad”, Features, August 26).
        The Romans also did so, as can be seen on some of their statues.
        Brian Robinson

        If any of the Mr Cups over the years had tried this they would have had their sandals cut up and replaced with wellies.

        You don’t see women wearing socks with sandals. How does Mr Robinson imagine we manage?
        Kn*b

        1. ‘Morning, Stormy.

          When I was in Sri Lanka, in March ’77, I climbed Sigirya barefoot, as the leather soles of my moccasins wouldn’t rip the rock.

          2. Thank you.
            That should be grip the rock. The views from the top are spectacular and 1/2way up there are some fascinating murals.

    5. 338189+ up ticks,
      Morning Anne,
      YES, in regards to the United Kingdom the major type kicked off the openly odious political types we have been suffering these last three decdes.

      Much of the electorate refuse to acknowledge any wrong doing, to acknowledge would put the party name in jeopardy as would seeing the party as a treacherous political nine bob note party.

      In short their input has succeeded in making this
      …………………….NO country for decent peoples.

    6. Britain’s Fourth Afghan War has ended, like the First, in ignominy and defeat. There is no Lady Butler or William Barnes Wollen around today to paint the explosions outside Kabul airport, or the desperate crush around American C-130 transport planes inside its perimeter. A Butler or a Wollen is not needed — images of both have already travelled halfway around the world on social media. The words of the First Afghan War’s first historian, Rev. G.R. Glieg, are as hauntingly apt in 2021 as they were in 1843: “Not one benefit, political or military, has been acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated.”

      Amen to that! Morning Anne.

    7. After bright start it’s chucking it down now, once more the people who present them selves along side the weather have got it wrong.
      As my Yorkshire grand father would say, the best way to gauge the weather is to nail a piece of seaweed on the garden shed door.
      If it’s wet it raining.

    8. Yes, I started with socks yesterday too. Best thing about summer is wearing fewer clothes, especially if you favour frocks as I do. Dressing in the morning takes half the time!

  22. Let European workers fill half a million vacancies, say farmers and food producers
    Call for 12-month temporary visas to ensure the UK’s food supply chain is able to weather the ongoing disruption in the coming months

    Where’s the headline about UK unemployment’s being zero? Did I miss that one?

    1. A formerly unemployed jihadi can mow down a fair few shoppers with a 40-tonne juggernaut.

          2. And after a planned mass crash into hospitals all over the country some govt berk from a concrete bunker will announce ” Lessons have been learned – please vote for us to stop this happening again – and don’t forget to have your daily Covid jab ( or else you’ll be arrested)”

        2. One grand ambition I’ve always had has been to get in a helicopter and conduct a version of Handel’s Messiah on car horns played by every vehicle on the M25.

          Since jihadis don’t approve of making music, I suppose they would have to content with a mass flattening of the M25 using 40 tonne juggernauts.

    2. What about the 800 or so willing workers that arrived at Dover yesterday? They can’t all be rocket scientists and dentists!

        1. Why work – when everything is supplied from our taxes. Roof, food, healthcare, education, lawyers, translators etc etc – why work and be taxed???

    3. What about the 800 or so willing workers that arrived at Dover yesterday? They can’t all be rocket scientists and dentists!

    4. They’re not in the right places (inner cities), usually not able to read and write and wouldn’t do the work anyway.

    5. Pre-EU we used to have the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS). There is no reason why we couldn’t revert to that. Oh, sorry, I forgot. That wouldn’t fit the doom and gloom, Brexit is a disaster scenario.

    6. Pre-EU we used to have the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS). There is no reason why we couldn’t revert to that. Oh, sorry, I forgot. That wouldn’t fit the doom and gloom, Brexit is a disaster scenario.

  24. Armed Forces Chief says that the evacuation operation from Afghanistan is due to end today. Sky News

    1. Mean while about a thousand rubber boats are being delivered to Calais from Dover.
      Perhaps all the missing truck drivers are coining it by picking up people from the Afghan border countries.

          1. Our govt probably serviced the engines, filled the tanks with fuel, had the dinghies checked out by H&S – ( don’t want them to sue us !! ) then kitted them out with location trackers so they could be found easier on future trips by Border Farce – enabling them to “rescue” even more. .

    2. 338189+ up ticks.
      Cs,
      On par with leaving half the paid for shopping behind in morrisons.

        1. 338189+ up ticks,
          Afternoon HP,
          Old Kim would have been a cross coalition
          ( all governance party) role model, outshining even the
          super dangerous twat charlie lynton.

          Nothing changed, politico’s still getting innocents killed & maimed, children raped & abused, same politico’s / parties returned to power after such acts.

    4. The idiot! You should never tell the enemy your intended actions. I can see a career in politics for that moron.

    1. I’d say all this was pre planned pre arranged and premeditated, probably at the ‘G7’ in Cornwall earlier this year.

    2. 338189+ up ticks,
      O2O,
      Ere Og,
      How many mullahs, imams, have the governance party’s been allowed, via support through the polling booth to place throughout the Country in seemingly waiting mode.

  27. A solicitor has appeared in court accused of injecting syringes filled with blood into food items at three supermarkets in west London.

    Leoaai Elghareeb, 37, is charged with contaminating or interfering with goods with intent at three stores – a Tesco Express, Little

    Waitrose and Sainsbury’s Local – in Fulham Palace Road on Wednesday evening.

    Elghareeb, of Crabtree Lane, Fulham, indicated no plea at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday afternoon.

    Will they ever get it right

    ...was injecting blood held in syringes into food items at three supermarkets in west London

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/27/solicitor-remanded-custody-accused-contaminating-food-blood/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-onward-journey

      1. Not really, if the crime is the words stated and it goes to trial, at the end of it, if found guilty, his solicitor has good cause to appeal!

          1. That may be answered by the religion of the person arresting him – or the one at the station booking him in?
            I wonder also about the ( don’t laugh ) immigration officers at an airport – are they deliberately letting things through from certain people of certain culture?
            I remember it was found an Egyptian? driving examiner here was foung to be dishing out passes,( in exchange for cash) to useless dangerous drivers. He was approached – on camera – and told they knew what he was doing. He legged it – and apparently never heard of again. Fake ID? New ID? – his “passes” were never retested – just allowed to carry on around being a danger to the rest of us.

      1. There are a lot of Little Waitrose stores in and around London. They’re like the M&S Simply Food shops to be found at petrol stations. Or is that a London thing too?

        1. Nahh, we’ve one around our way attached to a petrol station. Was great, then my work moved offices.

        2. Last time in London – about 40 yrs ago. Certainly wouldn’t go now. Don’t own a stab vest.

          1. Oh, I dunno. It’s a bit like a trip to a very foreign country – without the hassle of airport security.

    3. ‘is charged with contaminating or interfering with goods with intent at three stores’
      Caught red handed and indicated no plea ? The interview will be probably filled with ‘no comment’ from the accused.

    1. It really is time we stopped ‘celebrating’ a lifestyle choice.

      Just like with the black looting mob, such propaganda will create homophobia. Just leave people alone. Shut up, be quiet.

      1. I don’t think anybody is irrationally afraid of queers – fed up to the back teeth, more likely.

    2. These are the relevant awards:

      Heterosexual Awards – Two years supervision and corrective education.
      White Policeperson Awards – Transfer to Metropolitan Police Farce (West Indies Division).
      White Lives Matter Awards – Serious misdemeanour, possible term of imprisonment.
      Music of White Origin Awards – Straight to psychiatric ward.

      1. Another award might be included and could be, playing Romeo and Juliet as black actors award. It’s taken more than 400 hundred years to push the agenda.

        3. Those are industry awards though, like BAFTAs and Oscars. They reward recognition for performances.

          Despite folks’ approach to the adult industry, it’s a profession.

          Being gay is simply a choice. No, it’s not something you’re born with, it’s just a choice – one anyone should be allowed to make.

        1. Because in this new —woke — world; merit, skill, application, intellect, determination and talent count for nothing.

    2. That’s a little too close for comfort and it certainly confirms my observations in the town regarding substantial increases in numbers of Muslims.

    4. Any migrant increase means a rise in crime.

      Even if they don’t create it, there’s an increase in theft due to increased scarcity, more violence – both against migrants and in retaliation; communities are disrupted.

  30. Investigators in the US have produced a report that says, more or less, that nothing is known about Covid-19. We do know that as vaccines all the different versions are really failures as the “immunisation” is only effective for a few months. It is a vague and changing story, with each and every change and modification being pushed by the MSM with the passion and enthusiasm of old time religionists.
    How strange. All the Big Pharma companies and the university researcher have access to the latest most modern state-of-the-art equipment in their shiny clean laboratories.
    Two hundred years ago Edward Jenner developed smallpox vaccine. He probably did not have an election microscope.
    A hundred years ago Albert Calmette and Jean-Marie Camille Guérin developed the anti-TB vaccine, (the BCG).
    So why exactly, with all our accrued knowledge and unlimited research facilities ,does nobody seem to know what is really going on?

    1. The successful vaccines are for singular and stable pathogens. There are many viral RTIs and they are highly and continually variable. It’s much more difficult, perhaps impossible, to produce a vaccine giving long-term protection against them.

      1. Well, yes. Why then, as this is straightforward known science, did the government, all governments, bet the bank on a successful vaccine, while knowing it was unlikely in the extreme?

        1. The Great Reset – that’s why. Govt ministers are ok – that is all that matters – in their world.

        2. Because they panicked. Having nailed society and the economy to the floor for a disease that they had wrongly presented to the public as a threat to the existence of the species, they had to justify their measures: “Only a vaccine can save us!”

        3. Control. Vaccine passports morphing into full digital ID from which there will be no escape if ever implemented.

          Something doing the rounds on social media, “The vaccine wasn’t produced for the virus, the virus was produced for the vaccine.” Ergo, leading to the “passport”.

    2. Cold virus is particularly skilled at mutation, which is why flu vaccine is only good for that year’s strain, and there’s no cold vaccine. Best leave the body to sort it out, don’t live in a 100% sterile environment!

      1. The only time I had a really nasty dose of flu was in the year I had the vaccine.

      2. The ‘flu vaccine isn’t even always good for that year’s strain. I had the jab and went down with ‘flu! Something I very rarely do.

    5. Vaccines for SARS-01, one of the Corona virus family, failed miserably during the animal testing phase. Now we have a “vaccine” for SARS-02, another of the Corona virus family failing at the animal testing phase. Sadly, the animals in the SARS-2 test consist of millions of human beings. Hopefully the failure will remain as the ineffectiveness of the “vaccine” and not follow on with the condition that killed the animals in the SARS-01 trials although there is some tentative evidence that that condition is appearing. Not that the PTB, and therefore the MSM, would be informing the public of that fact.
      The Pfizer booster that will become available is, according to the write up, the same formulation as the current 1 & 2 jab potion and interchangeable. With the Delta variant the latest iteration of the virus and, according to the PTB, rampant and clearly escaping the current “vaccine” as many double jabbed people are succumbing to it, why are the very same PTB advocating that people take a “vaccine” for last year’s virus? If they do know what they are doing, they certainly aren’t telling the people. Independent doctors, pathologists, scientists etc are very worried by what they see happening as evidence comes to light but are being banned, cancelled etc for stating the evidence. People must draw their own conclusions.

      If you want information then The Highwire weekly programme is a good source. Last Thursday’s show is very informative, especially the segment featuring Dr Ryan Cole, a pathologist from Idaho.

  31. A couple of BTL Comments from the Telegraph Letters Page worth perusing:-

    Carolyn Bates
    28 Aug 2021 8:44AM
    I do not believe we cannot rely on America; we cannot rely on Biden and his administration, as we have just be shown, in all it’s horror and chaos over the past nine months, reaching a crescendo in Kabul in the last week. However, this woke, leadership in this country is also to blame with the exception of maybe Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lord Frost and most recently, Ben Wallace, as they accepted this incapable, American presidency with open arms. This despite the fact Biden did not even give us the trade deal we had been promised by Trump and, if we are to believe the Prime Minister, kept us in the dark over his terrifying and lethal, withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    Neither of these two things would have happened had President Trump been returned for a second term, and the travesty is, this government and the MSM in this country, all played their part in singing the praises of Biden, when in fact, he has done more damage to our country, by both his direct inaction, and deliberate actions as witnessed this week in Kabul.

    This is what happens when the people of a country do not get the President they actually voted for; this is what happens when global governments and Big Tech, as well as the MSM and Left-leaning news channels, make a deliberate and continued attack on the one man who would have never allowed this to happen.

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, and this is the shameful result of it.

    Glass ChessSet
    28 Aug 2021 9:11AM
    @Carolyn Bates
    Good morning Carolyn, an excellent letter. Many of us who had followed the twists and turns of the US Election were well aware that Biden was not fit for Office. Not fit for a range of reasons.

    One of those reasons was that information garnered from Hunter Binden’s laptop which very clearly showed that Hunter was being paid vast sums of money for access to his father who was VP. This corruption was not going on behind Biden’s back – he was fully complicit in it.

    So even before the first fraudulent vote was pushed into the machines it was known that Biden was a corrupt crook and he was a senile old man incapable of doing much more than decide on which ice cream to order.

    It was clear that the Democratic Party machine, of which Obama plays a very prominent part, was manipulating things in collusion with the left wing controlled MSM and Big Tech. Obama lover of the EU and hater of the British people.

    And with all this knowledge BJ warmly opened his arms. BJ has made all sorts of mistakes and miscalculations (the list is rather long) but his lack of understanding on Biden staggering.

    1. I don’t know how the left manages to do it but somehow they succeeded in producing a situation where those in favour of Brexit kept quiet about it, those who voted Conservative did not admit to having done so and those who were pro Trump did not say so.

      And the same process is being applied to Covid. Those who have serious misgivings about the jabs have been bullied into silence.

      1. Biden is merely the boil that has now burst on a diseased body politic. As soon as they are able to do so, decent Americans should use their votes to remove the Democrats from office and, unless the party repudiates what it has become, prevent it from gaining power in America ever again.

        It’s a little late for that Melanie. The poison has seeped into the bloodstream of the West and become gangrenous. It’s killing everything that the West ever stood for!

    3. These two comments are spot on. The manipulation was a disgrace, and has landed us where we are.

  33. Government set to ban single use plastic plates and cutlery. 28 August 2021.

    Single-use plastic plates, cutlery and polystyrene cups could be banned in England under plans to further cut environmentally damaging waste.

    A public consultation on banning the items will be launched in the autumn, with the aim of businesses using more sustainable alternatives and cutting polluting plastic litter.

    Wow! Children’s tea sets too one imagines. Well that should save the planet!

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/single-use-plastic-ban-plates-cutlery-england-b952790.html

          3. While bamboo appears to be a relatively sustainable crop, with great
            potential as a carbon sink, an examination of the fabric manufacturing
            process raises some concerns.

            The fibers that make up bamboo textiles are considered regenerated fibers
            as outlined by the Organic Exchange. This means they are man-made
            fibers that have been artificially created using natural building blocks
            (e.g. proteins or cellulose) as opposed to fibers made entirely by
            nature (e.g. cotton).

          3. You got suckered into buying them too?!
            Straight back to plastic after one use for me!

        4. I have bamboo underpants… excellent, they are. Bright green and yellow (think John Deere) with tractor tyre pattern across the butt.

        5. Bamboo socks are actually rayon made from bamboo rather than other wood. They are very comfortable like cotton.

    2. It’s funny, isn’t it. We used to be provided with disposables in the kitchen hubs and canteen at work. Now we’re given glass tumblers and fairly decent crockery and cutlery. There are housekeeping staff to load the dishwashers.

      1. We have staff at home to load the dishwasher… that’s me, Culinary Hygiene Manager – the only one who seems to be able to operate the dishwasher, wash the pans, wipe the stove… put stuff away…

    1. Maybe – but yer French still obey the “rules” – put on masks, show their “ausweis” to go to the bloody supermarket.

      They may “protest” but they don’t do anything enough actually to frighten the powers that be…

      And, natch, the French MSM barely mentions the demonstrations – one regularly uses the phrase “a motley crowd” when 25,000 turn out.

      1. They have a more recent history of beheading governments than we do…. and of bringing the country to a standstill.

        1. True – the gilets jaunes got the diesel tax rise cancelled. But the present nonsense is far more serious and the French govt will NOT yield. Also, there are a large number of Full Covidians in France who believe the garbage spouted in Projet Peur….

  35. All the commentators berating the “government” and the incompetent shower of “ministers” detailed to continue Project Fear ad infinitum: the letters to the press; the brave who speak out on radio and TV. What happens? Sod all.

  36. We have now reached a point where the fact that the CV19 vaccines are seriously injurious to human health is incontrovertible, and the only uncertainty is as to the scale and range of harms they have done and will do.

    This is knowledge that is certainly available to those who have corrupted the public health of the many countries around the world, and that they choose to continue to ignore the learned and eminent voices calling upon them to change course, while continuing to prattle the lies of the paid creatures of the Black Hats “advisors” who have traduced the name of science, tell us all very clearly that their intent is not one that has the peoples’ interest in mind. Millions have already had two jabs and their immune systems have already been compromised irreversibly. If those people get another “booster” shot they are quite likely to die as a result, and there are other vast uncertainties as to their future health outcomes. The intent of our attackers, we all recognise, is to get control, but it is also one of mass murder, a crime which is already well under way. I give below a link to one of the many clear discursions recently, this one by Dr Ryan Cole. We need to have the reality of what we face clear in our minds. It is not welcome – who wants to know this? But our lives and the future of our species depend on it.

    https://www.tarableu.com/where-are-the-vaccine-death-autopsies/

    1. Thanks, JWE, for posting the link. I’ve watched three other presentations by Dr Cole, all have been calm, clear and factual. The sheer number of different adverse side-effects, including death, has been highlighted this week and is perplexing.

  37. Has anyone ever seen ANY post on John Redwood’s blog mention the Barcelona agreement. Doesn’t he want to acknowledge the signing up to white Europe being invaded by Africa and Asia? – with the aim of mixed race breeding wiping out the “Must be eradicated” white? Certainly happening now.
    https://centurean2.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/the-barcelona-declaration-euro-mediterranean-eus-dirty-secret/
    “Barcelona Declaration – Secret EU agreement on Muslim immigration “

    2. Must be wrote large and spread around UK

      Boros MUST be questioned about it in the HoC

      We need to leave it

    1. and…
      https://youtu.be/uc8eoeURBXc

      I love the BTL:
      ““When I was a kid back in Scranton a wheel fell off my canoe which made me wonder how many pancakes fit in a dog house. None because ice cream doesn’t have bones.”

      Dementia Joe”

    2. This guy knows his onions though I would dispute with him about the relative importance of Kabul and Saigon. The American defeat in Vietnam was regional. The Kabul rout has Global implications because of the rise of China. It signals the end of the US Hegemony, Christendom and Western Civilisation.

    3. Presumably GBNews hoped to be as authoritative and compelling as Sky News Australia…..

      Oh what a missed opportunity.

      On the other hand, what are Sky Oz’s viewing figures?

    2. Yorks tea drinker – – spot on – probably holding meetings teaching the next lot what to say to ensure they stay – then show them photos of what they get from the taxpayer as a reward because we are all so happy they’ve come to be a burden on us.

    3. Same here in Norway as Yorks_tea_drinker notes. It results in lost status for the “refugees”.

  42. Chums about to arrive for afternoon tea. Things to do (= await orders from HQ). I’ll look in before supper.

    Play nicely.

    1. Surely a man of your compassion would/should ? be inviting some refugee family to partake in the delights of the quaint English custom of afternoon tea.. Teach them to have the little finger outstretched and when you say “Two lumps” to his wife – expect him to reply – – “How dare you look at wife No 4 like that you infidel”

  44. Britain is planning to take out ISIS-K chiefs responsible for Kabul airport suicide bombing as PM tells of his ‘great regret’ at leaving Afghans behind. 28 August 2021.

    The UK was last night plotting the elimination of Isis-K leaders responsible for the Kabul atrocity as it emerged that two British nationals and the child of another Briton were among at least 170 killed in the attack.

    Ministers said they were prepared to ‘take action’ to deal with the terror threat as the death toll continued to rise following the suicide bomb blast which signalled the biggest single loss of American troops in Afghanistan for a decade.

    You couldn’t make this up! Twenty years in country. Total defeat. Now they are going to take care of ISIS!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9934417/UK-planning-ISIS-K-chiefs-responsible-plotting-Kabul-airport-blast.html#comments

    1. his ‘great regret’ at leaving Afghans behind.

      He has not been there, our troops have

    2. 338189+ up ticks,
      Afternoon AS,
      Fodder for tory (ino) party supporting fools, it surely has to be between two ways to go, action in a kill zone weighed against appeasement, a certain operating manual resting between the two dispatch boxes, & halal porridge on the parliamentary canteen menu.

      That is without the threat of an unknown number of
      scimitars in close proximity at his and the peoples combined throats. more arriving daily.

  46. Afternoon all

    Overcast here , and jumper wearing weather, there is a chill in the air .. Just wondering whether this chilly weather is anything to do with the heat and fires up on the Arctic tundra , pollution blocking our sunshine ?

    Our fields are full of campers/ glampers, mobile homes and people determined to enjoy their Bank holiday .

    I had my car handwashed by the little set up in the village .

    2 chaps , one with limited English, he was tall dark haired strong and wirey and got on with his tasks very efficiently.

    The second chap was slightly built, had a little moustache , intelligent forehead , olive skin and an excellent grasp of English .

    Before they started on my car, established a price , blah blah , I enquired where they were from ..

    1st one said Romania.. he had a latin look , and the other one said he had lived in Romania with his parents who had fled to Romania when he was a baby … from the Yemen .. He said life in Yemen was very harsh and difficult. He said he was an Arab.

    His parents were still in Romania , but he was here in Britain to earn money , because life in Romania was also hard re getting work and studying .

    He was in his 3rd year of University .. learning to be an Electrical Engineer, his English was excellent, he also spoke Romanian , as well as Arabic .

    When my car was finished , nice and clean , I thanked him in Arabic, and he was shocked and delighted .. then he asked me how I knew Arabic, and I said , ahhh when I was a little girl along time ago.. he asked me to say a few more words , which I did , as well as counting to 10 in Arabic , and he was very tearful and happy that he had heard an English women blathering on , and when I said goodbye and thank you in Arabic , I think he wanted to hug me !!!

    Isn’t it strange really how many people we come across with different stories , and hand on my heart and cross fingers , 2 men in a peaceable country like the UK and a rural village , working their nuts off to earn a crust , with sheer muscle power and energy , and yet across the road are English youngsters glugging down their pints of cider , because life goes from eight to four , and weekends are spent glugging the profits of the week .. life’s funny really.

    We can’t get HGV drivers , or bods to gather the fruit harvest in , or work in warehouses , or just pull their fingers out ..

    2. How the invading hordes become interesting individuals when one takes the time to meet them.
      I worked with a Chechen Muslim in 2017. Great guy, lots energy and skill, refugee from the Russian bombardments down there. Top bloke.

    3. Spot on, Maggie. The cab driver that took me to Mountbatten to go fishing early Thursday morning was Romanian. Excellent English, been here 10 years and shared my, and a lot of this forum’s, political views. Shook his hand and gave him a decent tip.

    4. How many aren’t like them? And what will they be like if they are infected by the welfarism that has ruined our society?

      1. Sadly so true , WS.

        Our beautiful country is now entering into that .

        Can you remember the Story of little Red Hen , I think we must all have read that in infant school.

        The Little Red Hen is an old folk tale, most likely of Russian origin and its most commonly used story when teaching children the virtues of work ethic’s and personal initiative.

        A hen living on a farm finds some wheat and decides to make bread with it. She asks the other farmyard animals for help planting it, but they refuse. The hen then harvests and mills the wheat into flour before baking it into bread; at each stage she again asks the animals for help and they refuse. Finally, the hen has completed her task and asks who will help her eat the bread. This time the animals accept eagerly, but the hen rebuffs them stating that, just as she made the bread herself, she will eat the bread herself. She then runs away with the bread.

        2. Didn’t the Commies use it as an example of how communism should work and capitalist’s use it as the prime reason of why communism doesn’t work?

    5. Interesting note about the cider quaffers. I work all week from 8-6 (which is stupid, as people are most efficient working 6 hour days) and I don’t work weekends because I earn enough as a knowledge worker to not have to.

      If a manual labourer is working long hours for low pay that causes him to be working weekends that’s fair.

      The simple truth is the work is there, but natives either don’t want to do it or won’t because welfare pays better. If you’re not registered with the system it’s ideal. Cynically, a lot of these ‘car washing’ things are fronts for organised crime.

      However, welfare is excessive and must be curbed, but the first start to that is to stop – completely – illegal immigration. Even economic migration for specialist jobs have to be carefully considered – a curry chef is NOT a necessary immigrant. A hydrogen engineer is.

    1. It appears that i have been doing the right thing all along, always do the opposite of what the mainstream medical advise and you wont go far wrong

  48. Spent this afternoon at the National Gallery. A few hours of relief from the rot, surrounded by the fruits of a once rising civilisation.

    Getting in was comical. The queueing system for entry is all based around smart phones and QR codes. I leave my phone at home wherever possible so was escorted by a security guard to an inside desk where a paper ticket was issued. Much to my surprise I was then allowed to go straight upstairs, ahead of the folk waiting outside.

      1. There to view as many old favourites as I could find, really. Some were definitely missing. Possibly on loan elsewhere. Reproductions are all very well but nothing quite beats standing in front of the real thing.

          2. I always go and pay homage when I’m in London (a rare event, these days, as it’s become more like Port Said). The thing I find fascinating is the little “drips” of paint in the background; you think it’s plain, but it isn’t. Whistlejacket has a very wary look, I think. He probably didn’t trust people (other than his groom, maybe).

  50. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9935165/Pentagon-drone-strike-KILLS-man-believed-mastermind-Kabul-airport-bombing.html

    ‘We will defend ourselves’: Pentagon says drone strike killed TWO
    and injured one ISIS-K ‘planners and facilitators’ after airport blast that left 170 dead.”

    Does anyone else look at this article and think it is one of the biggest lies yet? Are they seriously telling us that they have known about these terrorists all along?

    What a bunch of utter incompetents. The death toll is as much their fault as that of the bombers, in my view.

    OK, I know I’m not in charge, and I know that there are conventions about who you can and cannot kill, but if I was in charge I would be swatting these bastards as if they were flies and be saying absolutely nothing about having done so.
    Slippery slope? Yes. but if people mean to do you great harm, get your retaliation in first.

    1. Evening Sos. They probably killed two quite innocent guys minding their own business!

      1. Don’t be silly, they’ve killed a couple of their translators:
        1 They know where they live.
        2 It saves the Taliban the trouble.

          2. If I reply, I undermine my argument.

            I should have written “few people read what you write”.

            And even those who do ignore it.

  52. Interesting take on what might happen if Kamala Harris takes over from Joe… looks like they might well be fooked.
    OT a bit, these Sky Aus people are the kind of Aussies I recognise, not the bedwetters who are frightened by a virus to the point of fascism.
    https://youtu.be/OOwUY7d1OmE

  53. Tea over – finished with a glass or two of Crémant. Lovely to have chums round for a natter – and a smashing tea – all created by the MR.

    From what they both had to say about their GP outfit (Holt) we are very lucky in Fakenham. Thank goodness.

    Gus now fully fit – here are he and his brother five minutes ago finishing their supper. (Gus on right).

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/96861ed48798f43d44784e4accb20a2e938d7d6ad2202e1b3861896efa7e337e.jpg

  54. That’s me gone. Have a jolly evening. Let us hope for an été indien…(you see, I can be optimistic.)

    A demain.

      1. Eté de la Saint-Martin has, I fear, been replaced – in the French media, at any rate – with été indien. I don’t suppose l’Académie is very pleased!

  55. ‘Night All

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    Finally, Ilike it!!

    https://twitter.com/GTA___Memes/status/1427350488446603264?s=20

        1. That was a rhetorical question on a matter of perspective.

          You are conversing with a sunfish, he knows when something is sunni-side up!

    4. However, in England…

      Driver is charged with dangerous driving for mounting the pavement.
      His insurer recinds his insurance as the thief has sued.
      The man who kicked him is arrested for actual bodily harm
      The council put up a lot of signs at incredible tax payer cost – and blame the victim.

      The police don’t want to press charges as it’s a lot of paperwork.

      The judiciary bungle the case
      The thief gets legal aid to sue the driver, his attacker and the woman for violating his ‘uman rights as an ethnic.
      The woman’s phone is smashed – and the insurer doesn’t offer to repair it.

      The victim, the driver and the kicker are all facing long, expensive court cases and the scum walks away and buys a new bike with the sue-ing money and does it again.

    1. This racket has been going since the 90s, and probably further back – getting asylum by saying how dangerous it is at home, and then going back for one’s summer hols.
      Clearly it backfired, but I have very little sympathy for them. They of all people should know how unstable that country is. You’ve just been granted a prize in the lottery of life, why would you throw it away to visit the shithole where you grew up? A certain amount of common sense is required to survive this life to a ripe old age!

        1. During the late 90s, when there was supposedly a civil war in Algeria (they had a muslim terrorist problem), a lot of Algerians got asylum in the West by using lies about what was going on in the country, which were actually recycled stories from the war of independence against France. I saw the queues at Alicante of Algerians heading home on the ferry for summer – yes, most of them were probably asylum seekers, and quite a lot of them were driving BMWs that were very likely to be rented!
          I’ve never believed the asylum fairy tale since.

          1. The day any family member of the asylum seeker returns for a holiday, a marriage, or a burial, is the day I would send the entire family back. If it’s safe enough to go there, it’s safe enough to live there.

          2. My main bleat is the volume of Pakistanis who travel backwards and forwards .. are they claiming benefits when they are away , are they conning us all, are they hiding terrorists , the Taliban .. are they up to bad mischief?

    2. Wasn’t the Arena bomber, brother and mother here on asylum? over £2k a month/? She returned iirc, and the benefits still being paid for them 2 to live on here, while scumbag went on to show his gratitude to the country that provided him with a free and comfortable life. I post this from memory and may be wrong on some points.

    3. Yet more dross and waste consuming public funds.

      Considering the mass of countries he’d have to go through to get here, and that he clearly has no ties to this country – hell, his family weren’t here – then he’s just another dangerous threat to the country who should never, ever have been here for any reason whatsoever.

    4. As someone previously posted…check out the Barcelona agreement. Race replacement was considered to be a conspiracy theory. Hah ! Just as Rik says…a conspiracy theory is only a conspiracy theory for three months and then it becomes fact.

      1. The Barcelona agreement itself has been know about for a long time. They have been quite open about it and details have been updated regularly on the Europa website.
        Unfortunately, few people bothered to join the dots.

  57. Further to my paragraph yesterday evening regarding rescuing dogs (and cats) in Afghanistan, I do not understand the rancour hurled at Pen Farthing and especially on this site. Is it some sort of inverted fashionable virtue signalling? I came across this comment in the Daily Mail a few moments ago and I thought it appropriate to quote it here:

    “It’s a shame that people don’t do their research on exactly who Pen Farthing is and what his animal rescue centre is about. They are portraying him as someone who just took out 200 pets. He served many years in Afghanistan in the marines. UK and USA soldiers build a bond with the dogs out there when they are fighting. Nowzad reunited many many dogs with service man in the UK and USA once their tour was over. His work is well known amongst service men. So what – he took 200 animals with him, the plane was paid for privately and he wanted to fill it with 200 humans but was not allowed. He stayed so long in an attempt to get his staff out too. The animals flew in the hold and took no human space. Well done Pen Farthing, I’d like to see some of these keyboard warriors do something so brave and compassionate.”

    1. It’s an odd one for me. I acknowledge what he did and has done there.

      But on the other hand, I ask myself whether his chartered plane took up a slot that might have allowed more people out.

      Given the choice between the animals and people who might be sneaking through to do us great harm, give me the animals.

      1. I doubt the takeoff slots were that limited. If it was a private charter flight, good on him.
        A lot is being said about the poor Afghanis, and yes, I do sympathise to a certain extent, but at the end of the day, people have to look after themselves, and many intelligent ones will have got out years ago, and not played with fire by going back.

        1. If the take off and landing slots were not limited, why was there a problem, apart from logistical issues?
          I’m afraid I’m very sceptical, private hire or not.

          3. That’s what I understood. The journalist who publicised it thought she’d be vilified, but was pleasantly surprised that so many people came on board. Obviously, she didn’t post on Nottl!

          4. If by taxpayers, you mean people who chose to donate (ignoring the tax advantages of gift aid etc.), then fair enough, but either way, people before pets as far as I’m concerned.

            The thing about this one is that it appears the Afghans put the animals before themselves; that’s extremely altruistic and if it was me, to Hell with the animals, get my family out.

          5. I think there are animal lovers in every country. It is also possible that people know they can live with the Taliban in some areas, or have family they do not want to leave.

          8. Availability of fuel? But its likely they could fly there with quite a lot in the tanks as the plane would be empty.

    2. That’s misleading. The animals took up time and effort to load that could have been far better used elsewhere and there is limited ramp space. I wonder how US marines think about their dying to keep the airport open for pets that don’t belong here; don’t we have enough of them in pet rescue centres already?

      1. Back in the day the rescue of the animals would have been done as a matter of course and we would scarcely have been aware of it. I am wondering why the DM is putting up such effort to manipulate our perceptions of this man, why they are trying to turn readership against him. I can only assume that it is political and for a reason that is not yet obvious.

          6. Hertslass keeps a list of emails of those who don’t mind being contacted beyond Nottle.

            Geoff is an absolute star.

      2. I am humbled about the concern generated from me not posting for five damn minutes !!!

        TeeHee…just channelling Plum. :@)

        BTW. email not received. I suggest you upgrade from a water wheel to smoke signals !

  60. Evening, all. I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I can’t say I ever had any trust in America as a partner – late-comers to both world-wide conflicts, charging us lease-lend, some very dodgy presidents who didn’t like us … the list is endless.

      1. And in all probability WW2 might not have happened in the way that it did, if the Germans had won the first one.

        Ho hum, one could debate this subject for ever and a day…

      2. If we hadn’t held out until the Yanks stopped dithering (when they were attacked at Pearl Harbor) and joined us, there would have been no base to launch the invasion of Europe from.

      3. We owe a great debt to Americans for their contributions to the defeat of Hitler. The terms by which their contributions were financial as in the Lease Lend agreements for equipment disfavoured the UK.

        Subsequently Germany got off almost Scot free and we paid for it. The German factories and infrastructure was rebuilt as new whereas our bombed out factories and buildings fell into disrepair or disappeared altogether.

    2. That was something that always stuck in my mind….Lend lease. At the same time we rebuilt the enemy cities bombed at great cost to our RAF. Ours were left in ruins.

      What we are seeing now with the re-arming of terrorists in pakistan and afghanistan is beyond insanity.

      I believe ‘they’ put that fuckwit Biden to facilitate this.

      1. Hello, Phizzee! We were just writing that we hadn’t seen you for a while. Glad to know you’re okay.

      3. Yup. This is deliberate. Biden is a creepy dishonest fuckwit. Obama and the Clintons are actually pulling the strings.

        They have stolen millions of taxpayer funds from graft and bribery and consider themselves our global masters, whereas they consider the rest of us as their cerfs.

        They seek global governance by an elite few, themselves included. They wish to run every aspect of our lives and as such in this internet age are doomed to failure.

        Edit: President Trump understood this trend and told the cretins assembled at Davos to get lost. Trump asserted the importance of the USA as a nation state.

        Trump openly denied the globalist agenda at Davos and that is the principal reason that they rigged the presidential election to switch about 15 million votes for Trump to Biden. It is as clear as day that the election of decrepit Biden and laughing hyena Harris was fraudulent.

        1. To break down societies and then rebuild them.

          The Frankfurt plan on a global scale.

          You can see it all around you.

    3. Not talking for the politicians, but American kids stormed the beaches, and died, alongside ours on D-Day.

      1. They didn’t have a choice, though, did they? I didn’t say I didn’t trust Americans (with the exception of their politicians).

      1. Correct; they thought they would take over, but they lacked the experience and the expertise.

    1. I don’t know if the photographer caught her at an awkward moment in that opening shot, but she looks a really nasty piece of work.

    2. Thunberg is a small child with little understanding of the world, an autistic and thus an ideal front man for the climate change scam.

      She’s no doubt believes sincerely in her cause but she isn’t self aware enough to understand that she is being used.

      Climate change is nothing more than a scam to soak money from the work and have it given to the state. There is much we can do to help our environment and ecology, but shutting down our industrial base, research facilities, energy production, making energy five, six times as expensive solely for ideological purposes will do absolutely nothing to change anything.

      What it will do is make the poor poorer, hugely widen the wealth gap, transfer vast amounts of private wealth to the state, create massive unemployment, and suppress progress of any sort. This is well known and obvious. The state denies it. The state is incompetent, greedy and arrogant.

      1. With you on all points except that Thunberg is not a small child. She may have the mentality of a small child but she’s 18 years old. That surely makes her legally an adult.

          3. Autism likely induced by the MMR jab. I would imagine she also suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome.

            Other psychiatric disorders are available.

        2. Ah, didn’t know that. I assumed she was 12.She looks 12.

          However, I’d argue that she lacks any actual knowledge of how the world works. She has no idea of the simplest things and just looks at the superficialities.

      2. Even if they were to reintroduce it, I doubt she’d make the Page 3 Sun Spot…….

  65. Goodnight, lovely people – or should I, at 01:44, say good morning. See you later on Sunday.

  66. Mail to a Con MP….

    “Ah, the doorbell, Watson. That must be my client, Lord Lockemup in Pentonville. I’m sure he’ll be fascinated to hear that Tony Blair and Claude Moraes prove the link beyond reasonable doubt of George Soros to British migration policy from 1997 to 2021”.

    “Indeed so, Holmes, also the link between George Soros and British Legal Net Zero through Mr Soros’ funding of Bright Blue and meetings between Alok Sharma MP and Mr Soros’ trusted friend and representative, Frans Timmermans”.

    “Lord Lockemup, delighted to see you. Thank you, Mrs Hudson, tea for our visitor if you would be so kind… ”

    Polly

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