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Good Morning Folks,
Another scorchio day to look forward to here
Yes, another 26/27°C due here (currently away in Wiltshire in the tin snail). Said vehicle was 38° when we got back to it at lunchtime yesterday.
Yes, Bob3. (Good morning to you and all NoTTLers, btw.) More fence painting for me today – Year 2 of a 5-year cycle.
Yes, Bob3. (Good morning to you and all NoTTLers, btw.) More fence painting for me today – Year 2 of a 5-year cycle.
Is it just the tin foil hat conspiracy theorist in me, but these latest tax rises are just a tax on our competitiveness, jobs and business that will only stifle our recovery and result in less tax take overall, it will only really please our competitors like the EU, the EU have been very worried that the UK will have a huge business advantage over them after Brexit.
Well now there is a thought, are we having these tax rises as part of some dodgy deal with the EU to be more compliant over Northern Ireland and border controls?
If we see a sudden improvement in our relations then we will know.
Very perceptive comment about tax rises Bob3.
Morning Bob. They certainly have nothing to do with “saving” the Health Service!
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Morning B3,
Tis funding DOVER, the £51 million carrot offered by priti treacherous is paedophilia in the sky as the french are saving their welfare system money & relieving stress on
medication,education, accommodation,incarceration.
Double up the numbers is surely their intentions.
The treacherous double act priti / johnson know this
but their hollow offer pacifies the main herd.
Add to the mix the rises to come in energy prices…
Distracting us from vaxx passports, perhaps?
It almost made me forget that corporation tax is going up sometime soon.
To have a successful Brexit we needed to have a proper Brexit in the first place.
With the EU still in control of Northern Ireland and our fishing waters and with no proper deal on financial services we have not a remotely satisfactory Brexit.
I am becoming more and more convinced that the flagrant and flatulent flanneler Johnson was under strict instructions from his puppet masters to give us a completely rotten deal.
Hear, hear, Richard, and Good morning.
Time to scrap the WA, pay no more and trade under WTO rules.
Morning Bob, for conspiracy theory, read spoiler.
Afghan soldiers trained by UK and US forces have defected to Taliban. 8 September 2021.
Afghan soldiers who were trained by British and American forces have reportedly defected and are now fighting for the Taliban, UK army sources revealed.
While there is no official confirmation that Afghan soldiers who were trained by the UK and US have switched sides, the military source said it is likely they defected to save themselves after western countries withdrew from Afghanistan last month.
Morning everyone. Though the evidence here is a little thin this is almost certainly true. In fact most of them probably defected during the takeover. When the Americans were present Afghan soldiers would campaign for the Taliban during the Summer and lie up with the Afghan Army during the Winter. This way they could feed their families the year round!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9967933/Afghan-soldiers-trained-UK-forces-defected-fighting-Taliban-sources.html
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Morning AS,
Not hard to believe many in civvy street lay up in the United Kingdom then take RR in Afghanistan.
But Ogga, I don’t think many in civvy street are rich enough to afford Rolls-Royce motor cars. (Where is my acronym dictionary?)
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Morning EB,
But they can afford the boat ride over then return and
get into all sorts of trouble at kabul airport i’m thinking.
Why are care homes so expensive? maybe the government should be looking more into the reasons for that and also the terrible treatment and service that the people in them are receiving.
‘Morning, B3. Expensive for those who are self-funding, because they subsidise those who who are publicly funded. That is the cost of ‘saving for your old age’.
Governments cannot run or control anything.
Increasingly I am coming to your point of view, Johnny.
Governments cannot run or control anything.
As with all skills where we used to excel, but progress has now cast into oblivion, being able to care for people has gone the same way as the old industries.
It is therefore simple to apply supply and demand, pushing up charges, while at the same time not needing to care because people no longer know any different.
Trained staff, insurance, business rates, building maintenance?
Wealthy Asians and many absent owners , and probably offshore manipulations .
Government legislation.
Expensive compared to what?
A back-of-a-fag-packet calculation:
Staff at £10 an hour, say £15 at work after employer taxes and admin costs, holidays, sick leave, courses etc, with, say, one per 5 residents = per patient, £3 per hour (£72 per day). Note that there are some 700k workers and 500k residents, the 1.4 ratio easily increasing to 5 when applying average hours per week.
Buildings, rates, equipment, etc = easily £28 per day.
Total of £100 per day – £36,500 pa.
Those with serious medical needs will require higher staffing, eg dementia patients may require staff able to restrain them, will cost more.
Compared to staying at a luxury hotel or going on a world cruise.
You don’t get care in a luxury hotel or a cruise ship. Apples and oranges Bob. But if you want to compare you can get 24 hours in a care home in London cheaper than you can get 24 hours in a 4* London hotel.
Do they get much in the way of care in a care home?
Ours get a choice of daily newspaper, unlimited calls, board and lodgings, care staff 24/7, laundry, great food, constant warm environment, a lift, manicures, chiropodist, hairdressing, freeview and a TV. We can arrange netflix but no one has asked us too. Music, activities, areas for socialising, pretty gardens which we’ve slowly made more old person friendly with a lovely pond full of Koi they can feed with provided pellets. Considering they are waiting for God, it’s not such a bad life.
The usual argument is look at the cars care home owners drive. Look where they live, they are rolling in it. Then they put two and two together and make five. Most care home owners earn their money in their professional job. My dad was in financial services, the home just down the road is owned by a private dentist, the next closest to us is owned by a dermatologist. Care homes make terribly small amounts of profit if a 96% occupancy rate is maintained. Basically rooms can’t be empty for more than half a week.
Most care home businesses don’t own the land they operate on. The properties are leased and rent is paid. Property costs over the past 25 years have risen astronomically. Even the big chains tend to rent.
‘Morning, Peeps.
This BTL comment from the letters column caught my eye. Excellent suggestions but the problem is, Angus old chap, Johnson ain’t no Maggie and this isn’t a Conservative government:
Angus Long
8 Sep 2021 12:16AM
I don’t accept the need for tax rises to fund he £10bn needed for elderly care
The government has squandered £37bn, so far, on the largely useless “Test and Trace” system.
In addition the current estimates for HS2 are around £100bn.
In my view, care for the elderly is far more important than shaving a few minutes off a train journey and being pinged to stay off work for a week.
Fact is the £10bn needed for treating our senior citizens with care and dignity is easily available:
First, I’d tell the over paid (£625,000 pa) and useless CEO of HS2 Andy Thurston he’s got 6 months to find £30bn of savings on HS2 or be sacked and this white elephant cancelled.
Then, I’d demand the totally inept company behind Test and Trace that they need to refund 50% of the cost of their failure on grounds thier product, support and service wasn’t fit for purpose.
To ensure we minimise waste and maximise efficent use of finite taxes. We need to get rid of time served public sector managers and replace them with private sector ones who know how to procure efficiently and effectively.
Was just about to post that myself!
Sorry BoB, the ‘early’ bird catches the worm! (Well, early-ish…)
HS2 and Test and Trace, the two largest feeding troughs of our time. Providing money for troughs doesn’t appear to be a problem for this government. Making hay while the Sun shines is the order of the day.
‘Morning, Korky. Permit me to add a third trough; that of the ridiculous ‘green revolution’ and its vast subsidies…
Morning, HJ.
Well spotted. There are too many to list: I thought about adding the PPE scandal but decided to keep my reply to the subject of the comment.
And the Diversity Industry, as detailed BTL by Michael Staples:-
Good morning all. Another 10°C start with the sun shining onto the wood on the other side of the valley. Once it moves round a bit it’ll get rather warm here today.
A couple of Tw@ter comments:-
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1435487493265240066
https://twitter.com/FunctionGaynor/status/1435486399168458757
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1435233253338853386
The red herring at the heart of Boris’s tax hike. 8 September 2021.
One of the most dubious and meaningless parts of today’s health and social care plan is the pledge that the new tax will be a ‘legally hypothecated levy’ – ring-fenced so that the money raised can only go to health and social care services.
It’s dubious in the same way that the Tory manifesto pledge not to raise taxes turned out not to be worth the paper it was printed on. And it’s meaningless because a government that wants to unlink the tax could just pass a law doing that – and no legal ring-fence can stop it. It’s also worth remembering that the ring-fence around health and social care is a red herring. What is really necessary is a barrier between the two.
The Whole Thing is a Political Scam!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-red-herring-at-the-heart-of-boris-s-tax-hike
Morning, Araminta.
Recent history re our “governments” must lead to the conclusion that ‘it’ i.e. the government, has in fact proved to be an impediment to improving the health, wealth and well-being of the populace in general. The current shower are working hard to provide the coup de grâce so long planned by the extremely wealthy, power seeking and controlling oligarchs.
Preparing them for their descent into real slavery? Morning Korky.
Just one reform might go a long way to sorting out the funding crisis throughout the public sector – the serious breach of ethical standards concerning Conflict of Interest. The rules are useless for as long as we are told “it is not within the remit of the regulatory authority to impose standards here” that let so many gigathieves off the hook with nothing more serious than a bit of grovelling before a select committee, followed by a commission report published after enough time has elapsed not to do anything about it.
Good morning, all. Sunny and blue sky.
Breezy too.
Morning all
SIR – I sympathise with what the Government wants to do about social care, but without root and branch reform of bureaucracies in the NHS and local authorities, we might as well take this extra money outside and set fire to it.
Frances Braithwaite
London SE6
SIR – My wife rang the GP surgery for some blood test results before a hospital appointment the next day. After a 1 min 20 sec message telling her to dial 999 if an emergency or 111 if not, she was able to select the “test results” option. After 30 minutes held in a queue, she gave up.
She redialled, suffered the message and selected “reception’”, which answered after 1 hour 10 min. She was told the results would be available for collection later that afternoon.
Does anyone believe that throwing more taxpayers’ money into the NHS black hole will solve such problems?
John McDonald
Altrincham, Cheshire
SIR – The NHS in its present form is past its sell-by date. Problems with a system based on the 1948 model are not solved by ever-increasing sums of tax. Financing the NHS should be by private insurance for those who can afford it, with tax relief on premiums and help for lower-income groups, by a voucher scheme for example.
It is not politicians who need courage for reforms. Voters must have the courage to elect those who promise NHS reform – and mean it.
David Saunders
SIR – Boris Johnson is being lazy, again. The NHS and social care need a restart – requiring some serious thought.
Hiking taxes is no way to improve a system that already overspends.
It’s not just hiking taxes, though, is it? It’s going back on a promise not to.
The last election was well won, primarily because people didn’t want Jeremy Corbyn. What Boris Johnson must remember is that Tony Blair became PM not because we wanted him, but because the Conservatives looked no better than useless.
Andy McCarthy
Rayleigh, Essex
SIR – The Tories must remember the cost to the Lib Dems of breaking their manifesto pledge (on tuition fees) in 2010. The public will chastise the Tories more severely for breaking their promises on taxation.
Andrew Munday
Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
SIR – Will anyone ever believe another word uttered by Boris Johnson?
Deirdre Lay
Cranleigh, Surrey
SIR – Extra taxation on savers to fund the NHS and care-home fees is bizarre.
Some paying the extra tax may have been motivated to save in order not to depend on the state in their old age. Now achieving that objective will be undermined.
Others will be care-home residents, now having to make a higher tax contribution to fellow residents’ costs.
Barry Legg
Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee 1992-97
London SW1
SIR – My mother worked hard, and when at 94 she needed 24-hour care she became a resident in a good care home near me. I sold her house and used her savings to fund her in comfort until her death three years later. We have no right to our parents’ money. It is theirs not ours.
Elizabeth Hill
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
SIR – When the debate in Cabinet is “Which tax shall we raise?” we know no Conservatives are in that Cabinet.
Jag Tatla
Reading, Berkshire
SIR – Labour was always a tax and spend party. The Conservatives are now a spend and tax party.
Dr Richard A E Grove
Isle of Whithorn,
As regards the Lib Dems’ 2010 election manifesto pledge to the students, that was unequivocally confirmed by Nick Clegg at the time, would it have got the Lib Dems into Government if they had not made a pledge that could not be honoured?
Likewise, would Boris Johnson have got his majority if he had not pledged not to raise the three major taxes, even though he was making any Government he would lead a hostage to fortune?
Morning again
Covid from China
SIR – Joe Biden’s 90-day review into the origins of Covid was published last week but widely overlooked amid the turmoil of the Afghanistan defeat.
It was inconclusive, but suggested that the virus was as likely to have its origins in a lab leak as a zoonotic transfer. With 31 years’ experience in this field, I suspect the former. China’s reluctance to help the inquiry, given its role in all this, is shameful.
Last week, too, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention was being discussed at the UN in Geneva. It went virtually unreported, even though it could provide the global regulation and policing of bio-labs required to prevent another pandemic.
As an Afghan veteran, I am deeply saddened by our capitulation in Afghanistan, but as a security expert, I judge that a new pandemic is a much greater threat to us all than the Taliban.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
Bio-security fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Hamish double-barrelled is right up himself. “Expert” my foot! (Reposted to right place!)
Precisely my reaction. His, blowing, trumpet, own.
During Trump’s tenure every single morning on the toady programme would have the same tedious waffle: Trump bad, Tories bad, business bad.
Every. Single. Day.
Now Biden has royally screwed up and is clearly mentally ill. Where is their criticism?
Is the socialist Lefty green Tory now so like Labour the BBC are having a problem whining?
Morning again
Covid from China
SIR – Joe Biden’s 90-day review into the origins of Covid was published last week but widely overlooked amid the turmoil of the Afghanistan defeat.
It was inconclusive, but suggested that the virus was as likely to have its origins in a lab leak as a zoonotic transfer. With 31 years’ experience in this field, I suspect the former. China’s reluctance to help the inquiry, given its role in all this, is shameful.
Last week, too, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention was being discussed at the UN in Geneva. It went virtually unreported, even though it could provide the global regulation and policing of bio-labs required to prevent another pandemic.
As an Afghan veteran, I am deeply saddened by our capitulation in Afghanistan, but as a security expert, I judge that a new pandemic is a much greater threat to us all than the Taliban.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
Bio-security fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: ‘Dialogue only strengthens Putin’s regime’. 8 September 2021.
Question: But Putin seems to pay a lot of attention to World War II and to rehabilitating the image of the former Soviet Union, and also that of Ukraine. Even though money is probably of interest to everyone, including Putin, he obviously has an overarching idea, a certain philosophy regarding the nature of Russia and its place in history.
Khodorkovsky: He possibly has an idea, but he lacks the education and the global perspective to join the individual pieces into a unified concept and make it his life’s work. I think that — fortunately for all of us — he lacks this. He’s not interested in a glorious Russia but rather in yachts, rooms filled with fur coats, castles and so on. That’s what he really wants. The idea of a glorious Russia is just a fig leaf.
It is patently obvious to any impartial observer that the opposite is true. Putin is smarter than a waggonload of monkeys; he has raised Russia from the depths of its degradation after the collapse of the Soviet Union on every possible level. The people’s lives have been improved. The Military has recovered and the Economy is probably stronger than it has ever been and is certainly in much better condition than that of the UK. He also shows no interest whatsoever in the Trappings of Power. There are no Yachts or Castles!
Vlad’s real crime is that he has shown what might be done by someone who has the interests of his Country and People at heart and not that of Vested Interests or of a Political Doctrine!
https://www.dw.com/en/mikhail-khodorkovsky-dialogue-only-strengthens-putins-regime/a-59100697
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Morning Each,
World leaders, to repeat myself be in no doubt the electorate in the main
have pulled off a very unbritish coup with their adherence & solid backing
for the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella
proven anti United Kingdom coalition.
The daily whinge is in due to the fact that we have an abundance of
paedophiles, knifers, assorted killers etc,etc., with the very same type governance in number ten we have had voted in for the last three decades.
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1435366460877156353
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O2O,
ALL orchestrated OG, their opening shot that triggered the treachery was the nine month delay giving birth to a
whole load of anti United Kingdom troubles, the “deal” &
suchlike their revenge weapon in repayment for the 24/6/2016 result.
Is O2O any relations to H2S? Is OG an Olly Gark? (Where is my acronym dictionary when I need it?)
Not-so-clever cars
SIR – Like Richard Dalgleish (Letters, September 6) I have a modern car with a handbook over 500 pages long.
Unfortunately, the support has not kept up. My car is in the garage for the ninth time in four months due to an electrical warning fault. But because the computer download does not identify a specific “error code”, the manufacture’s maintenance policy is to do nothing. Still, I am keeping the local AA service busy collecting my car.
Brian Hunter
Devizes, Wiltshire
SIR – My daily drive is a 1972 VW Beetle and the instrumentation in front of me tells me two things: how fast I am going and how much petrol is in the tank. What more does one need?
James Thomson
Silloth, Cumbria
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ed311c4a03b701c7c23926aea5d761c0a7d32036d115dd43fb1a112fa8751fa4.jpg
Nice one, Matt.
The Monty Python Highway Robbery Team engaged in mass redistribution of lupins – but it was not an overwhelming success.
Except the wife’s bank are now charging their customers more. Those companies (hedge funds, pension companies, big multinationals) then charge their customers more. And so on until Joe Soap is paying another 10p for an apple.
Then people buy less.
And demand falls.
And Joe Soap finds himself thinking ‘I might lose my job.’
And he does.
And because everything is more expensive, welfare has to go up.
So taxes go up again as the government has – again – run out of money.
And so on and so on.
SIR – There is yet another attack on the Royal Navy in general, and Nelson in particular, over links with slavery.
There are many illustrations of the fact that the Navy in Nelson’s day valued all men, whatever their race or colour.
In 1828, Lord Collingwood, second-in-command at Trafalgar, recounted Nelson’s actions: “Descending to the quarter-deck, he visited the men, enjoining them not to fire a shot in waste, looking himself along the guns to make sure they were properly pointed, and commending the sailors, particularly a black man, who was afterwards killed, but who, while he stood beside him, fired 10 times directly into the porthole of the Santa Ana.”
Clearly the man was captain of the gun, with a crew who were doubtless mainly white. As someone who served in the Navy in the 1960s and 1970s, I know that men have always been accepted on the basis of what they are and not the colour of their skin.
Christopher Stannard
Cowes, Isle of Wight
SIR – Yesterday I watched a television programme on the life of Sir Walter Scott. The presenter stood in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, and looked up to admire the Scott monument.
He then turned to four passing youths and asked if they knew who was depicted in the statue. I was shocked when one replied: “Was he a slave owner?”
Barbara Smith
Stafford
Mrs Smith has obviously never heard of the word: “Primed”.
It’s a monument? I thought it was a replica of the rocket that he designed.
The prototype for Thunderbird 3.
BTL Comment:-
My wife has just told me that sexually transmitted disease is well down because of covid. She has had the brilliant idea that if we were permanently locked down we could solve that problem. She thinks the government will be very interested.
Clap for low STD numbers every Thursday?
Clap for no clap, then…
Subscriber Trunk Dialling?
Sexually Transmitted Disease, Bill, as if you didn’t know.
Gosh – the things you learn on NoTTL…
Don’t give them ideas!
Judging by the behaviour of members of the government, I doubt these numbers apply in Elite-land.
Afghan refugees left without cash or essential supplies after arriving in UK, says council. 8 September 2021.
Afghan refugees have been left without cash and essentials such as sanitary products, toothpaste, nappies or medicines after being evacuated and arriving in the UK, according to the refugee council.
It said some families had been left without cash for up to two weeks, forcing them to try to take essential items from shops without paying for them.
Most are being housed in temporary hotel accommodation while the Government negotiates permanent homes for them with local councils.
It used to be called thieving!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/08/afghan-refugees-left-without-cash-essential-supplies-arriving/
And would probably have cost them a hand where they came from.
Thus said, it seems harsh that they are being brought in by the UK but not adequately provided for.
Channel hoppers I have far less time for.
Morning Sos. Most of these people are unsophisticated primitives with little real knowledge of the World though I doubt that they don’t know what stealing is. What seems clear is that there is a Third World Narrative that the UK is a Treasure Island waiting simply to be plundered. This explains why these people cross Oceans and Continents to get here, refusing all stops on the way!
Good! They shouldn’t be here. Why should we feed, clothe and give them things to wash with? Sod them!
The BBC website claimed that all migrants were taken to Primark where up to £500- of taxpayers’ cash was spent on each individual.
Can anyone say whether this has now been cancelled?
Good morning all.
Mustn’t stop, but my teenage mind couldn’t resist this gem:
“SIR – Dr Michael Blackmore’s aunt (Letters, September 7) would have appreciated the advice of Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard. His idea of happiness was eating a ripe mango in the bath with a fine cigar.
John H Stephen”
I suppose that Mrs Lockwood Kipling also occasionally enjoyed the benefits of a fine cigar and a couple of mangoes.
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Yet another in-house farce acted out via the ” All in it together” club you DO NOT get to be in the overseers hierarchy without a thorough grounding in treachery.
Dt,
Whipped into line: Inside the Cabinet meeting that crushed Tory tax rise rebellion
Frontbench challenge to the National Insurance increase dissolves with barely a whimper after threat of reshuffle sends rebels scurrying
Once again, I would soooo like to be surprised. A resigned sigh is all I can manage.
It shouldn’t be up to the Commons. The issue should have gone to the public to accept or reject.
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Morning W,
The who ?
Good Morning, all
Sunny. Rain expected later.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2021/09/07/128blower8-9-21_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSM8Sv5nIxQonD2k-JCC_U.jpg?imwidth=1260
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fe831f12e-1009-11ec-86b8-9dcf48a101ba.jpg?crop=2582%2C1721%2C699%2C225&resize=1027.5
Perfect!
Thanks, Citroen, nicked and posted to Ar5ebook, as a supplement to Maggie’s list of Boris’ promises – published yesterday.
Good Moaning.
Warm … Sunny …
Global War..Climate Change … all whitey’s fault … slavery …. we’re all doooooooomed ….Worse still – the ex-Mrs Gove has once again written something with which I agree. The End of the World is Nigh.
“THIS IS MOTHERS’ RUIN
An estate agent who took her employer to a tribunal after he refused to let her work a four-day week and leave the office early to collect her child from nursery has been awarded £180,000 — more than her annual salary — in damages.
She claims she brought the case to ensure her daughter does not have ‘the same experience’ when she is older. In fact, she has ensured precisely the opposite: it’s thanks to people like her that small firms are so reluctant to employ women of childbearing age, in case they find themselves embroiled in similarly ruinous proceedings.
Truth is, some jobs just can’t be done part-time or on reduced hours.
In this particular case, the woman was on £120,000 a year — more than enough, you would have thought, to employ help. Not so much having it all as grabbing it all.”
Why on earth was she paid so much in the first place?
The employer is a twit and you let your employees work how they want to, and pay them accordingly.
As said though, this sends a signal to other employers to not hire women. Stupid berk.
The employer is a twit and you let your employees work how they want to, and pay them accordingly.
As said though, this sends a signal to other employers to not hire women. Stupid berk.
This would explain a lot about Boris…
‘Your proposal is whack’: Chaos as ‘junior worker’ who thought he was testing dummy council website rejects and approves REAL planning applications – including allowing two pubs to be demolished – and it is all legally BINDING
Staff at Swale Council, Kent accidentally rejected or approved five applications
Blunder was made by a ‘junior’ staff member at Mid Kent Planning Support team
The person was trying to resolve software issues, but in doing so, five ‘dummy’ decisions, used to test the website was working, were accidentally published
Among them included the rejection of an animal sanctuary to stay on its site
Two Kent pubs were also given permission to be demolished or part-demolished
A butcher’s change-of-use applicaton in Sittingbourne was turned down
A farm was granted planning permission with 20 conditions, listed just as 1 – 20
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9967701/Planning-chaos-junior-worker-unknowingly-rejects-approves-real-applications.html#newcomment
Why doesn’t that surprise me?
This is what happens when you cheap out on proper quality assurance and think any old monkey can do it.
Any young monkey, surely?
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/07/21/47624095-9967309-image-a-18_1631046134355.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/08/08/47643359-9967309-image-a-4_1631085652339.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/08/08/47643365-9967309-image-a-3_1631085632529.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/08/08/47624097-9967309-A_Chanel_migrant_reaches_the_shores_of_Dungeness_in_Kent-m-2_1631085618361.jpg
Well,….at least he seems grateful….I woner if he’s thanking Priti?
Allahu Akbar. Now measure me for my vest…
I know you mean vests of another type, but no life vests apparently.
Why bother when one is escorted from shore to shore by “rescue” vessels.
True, but RNLI would not tolerate vessel to vessel transfer of people without buoyancy aids unless absolutely none available.
338620+ up ticks,
Morning C,
And the welfare state.
Turn around, go back to France. Take them to their point of origin.
Isn’t he in normal prayer mode?
I’m surprised it didn’t bring a mat.
338620+ up ticks,
Good question,
://twitter.com/zoeharcombe/status/1435162195365666818
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/33171508ef716aa3ef0e281cf677e6be4153ccbeb66baa525eff7fc37c3c0668.png
Eyes are the Windows to the Soul! Is there someone else in there?
338620+ up ticks,
AS,
Aghh so.
Blimey, the ‘thousand yard stare’.
Couldn’t possibly be, that idiot can’t see six inches beyond the end of his nose.
He is hardly worn out by defending the country like the Battle of Britain pilots who had that.
Fluck off, Boris you vapid waster.
You’re just another gutless lying politician that has effed up everything they/you come into contact with.
Now you are set on stealing my home and my families inheritance to fund, let’s be honest, a ‘king ongoing invasion. *It has nothing what so ever to do with* looking after the elderly or health care. Pandemic or not you should not have allowed one single person to land on our shores.
You blab on about climate change and carbon emissions but right at this moment there are thousands of mainly small cheap substandard houses being built on green belt and farm land.
Because of the tory behaviour. We will probably end up with an even more useless and socially destructive labour government after the next election.
*any more than the annual road fund licence (tax) has anything to do with road maintenance*.
https://twitter.com/True_Belle/status/1435505396249206787
William the Conqueror, on landing on the beach at Pevensey, stumbled and fell to his knees. His followers were alarmed at this ill-omen, but William picked up a handful of pebbles and said “See, I have England in my hands already”. History repeating itself?
I’m sick of this. It is truly nauseating.
Have them filled with arrows and thrown in the sea.
Hallelujah ……Land of the Free….
Morning all,
Well, the fever has subsided and the cough has stopped. Nose now a running tap but I can cope with that. Problem is the pcr test. I know people run lateral flow tests under a tap to get a negative result but can I spit on the pcr?
Morning Sue , are summer colds being classified as Covid, just wondering .
Deighted you are feeling better .
It would seem so. I fear the pcr test because it can’t actually distinguish Covid from a cold and will probably be run at high cycles because I haven’t been vaxxed.
Sue – you haven’t commented since this morning – how are you? I hope you’re beginning to feel better – please let us know. xx
Good news.
I could send you a new box of lateral flow test kits; I was going to put it on EebayGum, but there were no others for sale so it is probably a Verboten item.
The cotton stick makes me gag, but as long as someone is nearby to hear the awful disgusting retching noise I feel that it is worthwhile.
The Art Of Negotiation
After being away on business, Rich thought it would be nice to bring his wife a little gift.
“How about some perfume?” he asked the cosmetics clerk. She showed him a bottle costing $50.00.
“That’s a bit much,” said Rich, so she returned with a smaller bottle for $30.00.
“That’s still quite a bit,” Rich groused.
Growing annoyed, the clerk brought out a tiny $15.00 bottle.
“What I mean,” said Rich, “is I’d like to see something really cheap.”
So she handed him a mirror.
https://twitter.com/True_Belle/status/1435511718659207170
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ffc3012abfbbb24820a36257b642a9635fb0e6d66a384ce377d5b2e1b3841964.png Well said, Robin.
That is a piss-take letter of the highest calibre. I’m just so jealous that I didn’t write it. Top marks.
Good morning, Grizzly!
God morgon, Auntie Elsie.
Bizarrely, it is quite true. Knitting wool (wool, not acrylic, not a blend) is hard to find and very expensive. Yet the sheep farmers are complaining that they are being paid a pittance for it, which they are.
One very obvious and glaring error. Just soak the unopened Tesco jars of jam in warm soapy water and remove the labels, it saves all of the hassle of making the jam and surely nobody would notice the difference.
If anyone ever gives me a jar of strawberry jam (I love all fruit jams except strawberry) I give it away to someone else claiming it as my own.
I notice we have a jar of raspberry jam in the cupboard that is seed-less, that takes half the fun out of eating jam.
Two weeks ago I made some raspberry seedless jam. The seeds get wedged between my teeth and are difficult to remove. Raspberry is my favourite followed by morello cherry.
Likewise, George. Please send me some. 🙂
If I can find you, John, I’ll gladly do so. 👍🏻
I still have a picture of Thatcher in my office’: Sajid Javid insists the Tories ARE still a low-tax party ahead of vote today to land Britons with biggest peacetime tax burden – after Tory revolt on £12bn NI raid to rescue NHS melted away
Ministers have vowed that billions in extra NHS funding would clear the Covid backlog by 2025
Health Service will receive majority of £36bn raised by the national insurance hike over the next three years
PM said it would help NHS fund 9m extra operations and checks before next general election
Health bosses said it leaves a ‘significant shortfall’ and warned millions of patients will still face long delays
By JAMES TAPSFIELD, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:20, 8 September 2021 | UPDATED: 09:01, 8 September 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9968745/MPs-set-approve-eye-watering-12bn-tax-raid-NHS-social-care-TODAY.html
Where are they going to get the facilities and staff from? Building new infrastructure and training new people will take years. They could make better use of some facilities, for example by using operating theatres more at nights and weekends, but the lack of extra beds and staff will soon see that grind to a halt.
NHS top end facilities, such as operating theatres, scanners and such, are often hired out to private medical companies. There may be contracts in place.
NHS medicine is one pace, very slow. If you want be treated quickly in A&E you must arrive in an ambulance, otherwise you will wait for hours without anyone even glancing at you.
“after Tory revolt on £12bn NI raid to rescue NHS melted away“- spineless, self interested traitors!
There’s a reshuffle coming. They’re scared for their ministerial salaries and being moved away from the cabinet. Back-benchers generally toe the party line after bluster.
The social care proposal is all hot air, virtually nobody will receive any real help, it’s full of holes, and it won’t stop the need to sell the family home even in the South. The real caveat is it doesn’t cover living costs which make up approximately 60% of care fees. So with an 86k cap on care costs, you’ll need to be paying full fees for yourself for about 4 years before the state steps in and helps you with a little over a third of the fees. It’ll cost the average pensioner 250k if they live four years. Most won’t and so will receive no help at all.
You cant suddenly pump more money into the NHS and create resources like operating theatres and surgeons. It takes around 14 years to train a surgeon. So I expect this extra will be used to buy expensive operations from the private sector who now have the government by the balls. You’ll find a huge number of MPs are on the board of these companies or are investors in them.
338620+ up ticks,
We are witnessing Mana in political construct,
https://twitter.com/timfprice/status/1435354167896428553
As I said earlier, we are faced with a colossal deception, based on lies and fraud.
This deception starts from the premise that the justifications put forward by the authorities in support of their actions are sincere.
More simply, the mistake consists in believing that the rulers are honest and in assuming that they do not lie to us.
A quote from this letter of Archbishop Vigano, revealing that the Church Militant is not yet finished. He considers the need for the use of force to remove those currently in charge.
“In the course of history, totalitarian regimes have been overthrown by force.
It is difficult to think that the health dictatorship that has been established in recent months can be fought differently, since all the powers of the State, all of the means of information, all the international public and private institutions, all of the economic and financial potentates are complicit in this crime.
Faced with this bleak scenario of corruption and conflict of interest, it is indispensable that all those who are not subservient to the globalist plan unite in a compact and cohesive front, in order to defend their natural and religious rights, their own health and that of their loved ones, their freedom, and their goods.
Where authority fails in its duties and indeed betrays the purpose for which it has been established, disobedience is not only lawful but obligatory: non-violent disobedience, at least for now, but determined and courageous.”
My highlights
Hear, hear, Horace, and Good morning.
We may not be part of Church Militant but there is definately, if not elderly, a NoTTLe Militant with the will but not necessarily the physicality to rise up.
338620+ up ticks,
Morning HP,
Totally agree, the political barrel is stuffed full of rotten apples with maybe one or two on the turn.
It has truly gone beyond left / right politics it is now down to base level RIGHT / WRONG.
The governing overseers know themselves they have burnt their bridges.
The letter is very interesting, and has a lot of historical stuff of which I was not aware. It’s too long to reproduce here, but well worth a read.
He’s a brave man!
Good morning, everyone.
‘Morning Delboy!
Morning, Ma’am. Having lived in Dorset since 1985 and never been to the isle of Wight we are going on Friday for a few days.
Are you going by ferry? That brown, steamy thing that comes out of Cowes?
:O(
Yep!
Morning. Del.
I visited the Isle of Wight for the first time in 2016. It was a huge disappointment. All the shops and cafés were run by get-rich-quick London wide-boys; their fare and service was deplorable. To get to see the Needles, I needed to pay a huge car-park fee, then invest another fortune on the bus service taking you to the place. I didn’t bother! I shall never return.
Other English seaside towns have suffered a similar fate, long abandoned to the cheap flight Mediterranean regions. Sadly seldom visited now run down cafés and restaurants hotels B&Bs short of customers, the owners have taken the cheaper options. Our middle son, wife and small son went to South Devon this summer but they were very disappointed. Whilst number one went self catering in south Devon with the outlaws they had a great time.
For our double birthday treat we have chosen to go to St Ives ( Carbis) next month. Stopping off over night in Somerset, to visit and old buddy and his wife for a chin wag dinner and a few pints. He’s a but of an academic old leftie (he has certain reservations) but it should be good fun.
When I was stationed at St Mawgan and St Eval in the late 50s I lived initially in Newquay and enjoyed it.
I went back for a visit in the 70s and wished I had just retained the memories of the 50s.
So many places have changed Del, we love north Cornwall, in fact we are off to St Ives for a week at the end of the month.
Looking at a google earth of my old school in Mill Hill NW7 I could see the people walking along out side were not of the same religion as my family were at the time. It’s the changes we have all been forced to make to accommodate these somewhat ungrateful people that is destroying our once green and pleasant land. Can you imagine what our parents and grandparents would be saying right now after so many of them gave their lives to protect their beloved country.
Oh don’t be such a sourpuss. You caught them on a bad day.
Would that be a “bad rip-off day” as opposed to their norm, which is lots of “good rip-off days”?
A friend flew Mrs D around the island two weeks ago so now she wants to see it at ground level.
I hope you have a better experience than I did. The only town I discovered that had any charm whatsoever was Yarmouth.
I sailed from Poole Harbour into Yarmouth almost every Summer in the 70s. Wonderful get-away-from-it-all place.
Watch out – they are thoroughly weird – too much inbreeding.
Even by Narfolk standards?
Definitely {:¬)) I used to act for solicitors from the IoW – and even they warned me that their clients were nuts!
Are you using Lymington , it is such a pretty route to use .
The real way to get to the island is on a yacht & tie up in Yarmouth Harbour.
Yes. Ferry at 0845 Friday.
If you get the chance i thoroughly recommend this place.https://www.theyarbridgeinn.co.uk/
Fantastic Sunday Lunches. Once written up in the Sunday Times as the best place for a great roast dinner.
Thanks, Phil.
You end up in a time warp to the 1950’s after you cross the water. Keep an eye out for red squirrels. Only place around here that they still exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S91wQbYYX3Q
They still exist on Brownsea Island, Poole Harbour.
Good morning DB,
The warm weather will be short lived , clouds are building up.
I’m just back from walking the dog and 100 yds from home large raindrops fell on us and thunderstorms are forecast.
On Netweather rain radar there’s some nasty stuff arriving from the SSE, and it looks like the fist of God in nasty colours. Can hear the thunder coming up the valley.
Use the Met’s rainfall radar. The colours are better!
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation/map/gcr981rc1#?zoom=6
So much for sunny, drought-ridden Cornwall, eh?
Lovely and dry and sunny in yer Narfurk, by the way…
As black as Newgate’s knocker here.
A change is on its way.
Colourful clouds here, humid and just a light breeze .
Really warm night last night , probably the hottest night yet .
We need the air cleared , the lull before the storm, crows are wheeling and doing aerobatics over the field near to us , that sort of flying reminds me of Autumn .
It was a very warm night here too. Waiting for some respite from the heavy rain before walking Oscar on Kit Hill.
Warm here and clear blue sky. My neighbour, the one who mows lawns when she is bothered by something (her therapy), is busy attacking my lawn at the moment. Wonderful smell of new mown grass!
I notice all the lawn tennis luvvies are wetting their knickers and spilling their Pimm’s over the prospects of the “New ‘British’ tennis sensation”, Emma Raducanu. This wonderful ‘British’ ball-tapper has a Romanian father, a Chinese mother, and was born in Toronto.
Get those red crosses of St George waving, you limp-wrists. At least she seems to have more balls than Timid Henwoman ever did!
Zola Budd springs to mind.
Who soon buggered off back to Safferland when the going got tough.
Given her parentage she is a remarkably good looking young woman.
I remember a speech day at Allhallows where the giver-away of prizes was a former headmaster at Wellington College, Frank Fisher, for whom our headmaster had worked before moving to Lyme Regis.
He remarked how, on occasions like speech days, parents and schoolmasters mingled and the latter often wondered how such charming parents could have produced such a monstrous child; they also sometimes wondered how such a delightful boy could have had such …..
Fisher’s address was by far the best I have heard and I have had to endure many speech day speeches. Another observation was that he speculated that there was a special public school somewhere which existed solely to be beaten at rugby and cricket matches so that headmasters of other schools could boast about how successful their own teams were.
I wonder if Hilary Mantel will start writing about the Arthurian legend in her new place of residence as Ireland is a great place for mythology, mystery and legend.
Sir Lancelot’s observation on the Lady of Shallot’s face would not be appropriate in her case, poor woman.
Oh dear….
Dame Hilary Mantel said she would try to gain Irish citizenship to leave Brexit Britain.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a07400f277b459e4be84a62f4b69a1f0f3e4d86754270633854d49c2ca84ccc8.jpg
She thinks she is a “sleb”. She is really just another old bore in the pub.
Apols if you are eating breakfast…..
Well she certainly has strong connections to our past history…………..
https://surreyornamentalstoneware.co.uk/t/gargoyles
Ooooh i’m suuuch a biatch 🤔
She doesn’t look like she belongs to the Homo sapien species.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/38193eca3de2355ca2c5f5eb57264c5a38213ce19a5d043cf93a61ff68460b91.jpg
Whoahh – quite a looker!
Sent to my MP asking who is telling the truth.
https://order-order.com/2021/09/08/sajid-says-pro-vaccine-kids-will-be-able-to-overrule-parents/?fbclid=IwAR2ERE_PP8-81Gk5Jt9XFa993xDvDR7gKewn5NyAEK0FxnDh7aiwmgl-uew
Are you expecting a reply…..?
Yet again the state undermining parental authority. And these evil people pretend to be Conservatives.
“To rebuild a successful economy we need a smaller public sector and to encourage an optimistic entrepreneurial spirit”
So what does the Conservative government do? It gives pay rises to the public sector and does its best to punish small businesses by tax rises and leaves the self-employed unsupported to drown in the quagmire the government has created.
It’s been a long time since politicians put the interests of the country and its population ahead of their own and their party’s.
The greater share of blame has to be taken by voters, who know what these politicians are like but have encouraged them to get elected by offering policies best described as bribes and pandering to prejudices and envy.
Morning, Nottlers!!
Off to demonstrate outside Parliament today; if anyone sees a madwoman covered in flowers, come and say hello!
That’ll be Treason May…!
Good luck – make sure you have a toothbrush for when you are arrested.
And a spare set of knickers!
Great minds 🤣🤣
It’s a hot day. Go commando !
And spare knickers. #BePrepared
If she’s going, count me out…
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.eIUh8yxde7XX0Zrm1acRfwHaE8?pid=ImgDet&rs=1
Right-click here.
Get yer self in front the TV cameras. 🤩
What TV cameras?? Nothing to see . . .
I did get in a few papers before.
Oh right,……… I forgot about the MSM censorship.
Good for you Ashes!
Putin outsmarted as Brexit Britain to use Norway to bypass EU gas crisis: ‘Very fortunate’
BREXIT BRITAIN will be able to avoid a looming gas crisis in the EU as Vladimir Putin threatens to restrict supplies, an expert has told Express.co.uk.
So Britain with their “special partner” the US have spent the past 3 years trying to STOP the flow of gas from Russia to Europe but now they’re worried that Russia might do what they campaigned for!!!
Russia won’t restrict the flow but it makes a good scare-story……it IS the Express.
That’s fabulous! How wonderful! A super strategy! Mmm. Is Norwegian gas not pumped from under the North Sea just as ours is? How is Norwegian gas greener that ours? Will their gas last longer? Do they not have activists seeking to ban production?
Oh, wait… I’ve just remembered the old saying;
“The gas is always greener on the other side of the sea”.
It’s pathetic, isn’t it? Big state moves the cost of the gas somewhere else, thus claiming we are greener. Stupid people.
Morning all, England football team are at a double disadvantage this evening, not only are the playing Poland who are at home in Warsaw but the 11 or more dopey wokeys will be kneeling once again to show their love respect and affection towards a US criminal and druggy who died in the custody of the US police department.
Job done boys,……….. get over it and get on with the game and do what you are paid to do.
Expect the Poles will show much the same reaction to this gesture as Hungarians did the other day, and good for them for doing so.
I will probably only watch it for that. 🤗
DM Story
‘I still have a picture of Thatcher in my office’: Squalid Jawdrip insists the Tories ARE still a low-tax party ahead of vote today to land Britons with biggest peacetime tax burden – after Tory revolt on £12bn NI raid to rescue NHS melted away.
The big question is: does this man use beeswax to polish his bald pate?
[Are my observations more or less ridiculous that those that come from our government ministers?]
I think this is the picture he means:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5d5f5dc854fb4f2713ab5d8e7f01d542d925a52a240c5bcd30786ad40dc058e5.jpg
Morning Richard ,
Okay I am going to be an absolute misery guts, , but after observing all the discarded tents and seats and other stuff that the thousands leave behind after music festivals , and knowing how expensive tickets are .. some people pay hundreds for a ticket , and when you also consider the amount of money people pay for football colours and season tickets or tickets on the day .. or expensive tattoos, why not a hike in NI
When I see the green recycling boxes full of empty booze bottles , the rubbish left behind on beaches , the growth of leisure activities , designer clothes and thousands of very expensive cars , the sale of jacuzzis( everyone seems to have one now , and the must have it now brigade , ) people should be forking out more NI.
Could be an excellent idea, except that it hasn’t been sold very well.
Good morning, Maggie.
The daily Mail sent up a drone after the Reading festival showing thousands of abandoned tents and other detritus. It was quite shocking and wasteful.
What the Mail didn’t mention was the clean up cost was included in the price of the tickets.
The tents were collected by a charity to be re-used.
Sometimes seeing is not believing.
Morning Phizzee,
Ah, so the argument reaaly and truly gets better , festival goers are prepared to pay big money for a concert ticket knowing their filth will be cleared up afterwards .. so let them pay more for NI, and tough titty if they are ‘shtudents’.. they should also be paying because they know the value of nothing ..
Maybe so, but why were the tents not brought together to a central point? Why were people not asked to put waste in a bin bag? Heck, we take a couple of thick bin liners with us everywhere we go. If you’ve rubbish, you put it in the bin.
The mess was just disgusting and so easily avoided.
Good morning, Maggiebelle
Not such a good idea for the self-employed and those trying to run small businesses.
I appreciate the sentiment, but why should I pay when I don’t go to a music festival. When I don’t litter? When the ‘expensive car’ is already heavily taxed on fuel and emissions (it’s a Volvo XC something). Alcohol already attracts a heavy duty.
For the litterers at festivals, send them a bill for the cleanup and disposal. If they don’t pay it, keep hounding them with bailiffs.
A 200% tax on footballer’s wages and transfers (and other sports) would be a start. Watching England lose would be less painful (if not less often) knowing that some of the time wasted has gone to help the infirm and the elderly.
He’s lying to himself. He knows otherwise. In fact, he doesn’t care. He is simply parroting the party line. Maybe in his head he knows otherwise, but he is simply a barefaced liar. They all are.
I think they are just trying to distract people from resisting vaxx passports. They could print more money for the NHS any time they wanted.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/08/tories-have-forgotten-tax-cuts-can-raise-revenues/
I whinge about tax a lot but everyone knows higher taxes are a bad thing. Why doesn’t this stupid government?
Case in point – I only take on 4 or 5 contracts a year as else I lose money to the tax man. The wife is registered offshore for her taxes through a service vehicle set up by her company.
If taxes were lower, the government would get more money and I’d be able to employ more people, train some youngsters in security and penetration testing. I despair.
I think the “stupid government” doesn’t realize it because most of them have not had to work in a proper business in their life, or they have money in the first place. I honestly don’t think they understand that taking a hands off approach to entrepreneurship generates more revenue whilst taxing generates less. A lot of people have proposed that you should not be able to run for office until you have worked and are at least 30. Not a bad idea except the people in power would never vote for such a thing because it would effect them and their network of hangers on, relatives, etc coming down the pipe who have also never done anything in their lives other than go to school and promptly work for their party whilst waiting to be parachuted into a constituency to become another clue3less MP.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ac4125e2feb076bf55003d988364ca008501ec01/0_0_1500_1000/master/1500.jpg?width=720&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9162f62353693e6eb2005b39dec23ed7
Living up to 500 years, these bizarre trees are unique to the island of Socotra, Yemen. When the trunk is cut, a deep red sap, highly prized from ancient times, oozes from the tree. Growing in harsh conditions, the tree has raised its branches upward over time in an effort to obtain moisture from the highland mists. Once part of a vast forest, these remaining trees are now classified as endangered.
The ordinary name for this plant is ‘Dragons Blood Tree’. It is actually a Dracena and not a tree, but all the same. It’s related to the tatty things you see in the lobby’s of businesses https://www.plantrentals.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Dracaena-marginata.jpg
You can buy seeds of Dracaena cinnabari from https://africa-seeds.com/products/dracaena-cinnabari-10-seeds a company I can recommend because I buy plenty of things from them and they are always excellent. But at $50.00 for 10 seeds you better know what you are doing! Basically treat as you would Cacti.
Don’t water and don’t touch?
Basically, yes.. And if you are interested in trying I would use the damp paper towel method and order some GA3 (Gibberellic acid) available on ebay . Try one with it and one without as a test run. Many plants from extremally arid climates require GA3 to germinate.
My kind of plant. Those I have watered and tended with care and hope have promptly died.
Horace. Please see that I added on to my comment.
Yes, thanks. In the bathroom we have a fig tree. It was a present, a twig from Tesco, twenty years ago. It is now seven feet high and seven feet wide. I can crawl under the branches to get into the bath. With the sun shining through the Velux window, I am dappled with light through the leaves as I soak in restorative foamy water. I did nothing except water it when I remembered and we repotted it earlier this year.
Another present was small cherry plant in a pot. We stuck it in the bare strip known as the “front garden”. We did nothing at all. It grew and braced its shoulders against the pot, growing deep into the ground. It is now sixteen feet high . There is no sign of the pot, except for a couple of lumps of stone put into the pot as drain covers, now entwined in the trunk two feet off the ground. Elsewhere, half of the this year’s selection of pot plants have died. A pot that was empty except for the compost stuff now wonderfully contains a very small oak tree that looks quite healthy. From bird droppings I suppose, as the nearest oak is at least fifty yards away.
Maybe you could plant it outside, Horace, but then again, maybe Scotland is too cold.
Here in Suffolk, we have one growing at the Eastern end of the Churchyard – massive size, massive leaves but very small, inedible fruit.
We had others. A couple of big ones. I’d read that they could be given spot of fresh air by being moved outside to a sunny, sheltered spot. We did this. They died…
Ah, The Scottish disease!
The Fig tree in the bathroom sounds wonderful! Resting in the water while the light shines through it.
Half your pot plants have died, neglect? If not feel free to ask when you encounter problems. I am, by profession, or rather was, a horticulturist. Although I still have two greenhouses in the garden and a third being built. I specialize in exotics, the weird and wonderful.
Neglect -ish. We were away for a few days and they lacked water. At any rate they never recovered.
Sorry about that. Tip, when going for a trip put plants in the bathtub with a little water.
Ah. I tried a plastic device that was supposed to siphon water out of a container and drip feed it to the plant pot. (Yes, the fig again – it was too heavy to lift and the clay pot would have scratched the bath.). Anyway, when we returned the bathroom had been flooded – then dried – as a result of too high a rate of flow…
Quite unnecessary. Try this next time, capillary action.
https://www.urbangardenertoronto.com/blogs/plant-store-blog/741631-advanced-plant-care–what-to-do-before-you-go-on-vacation#.YTn0exmSkdU Bit of a pain but much nicer than coming home to a bunch of murdered plants!
Thanks, I have bookmarked it. I’ll have to think of names for the plants in order to label them; Cassandra, Vercingetorix, …
Impeccable timing…
NHS HIRING 42 NEW MANAGERS ON SALARIES UP TO £270,000
Now that the government has decided to steal from working people’s pockets to throw yet more money at the NHS, it’s worth checking in on how some of that money will be spent. New job adverts on the Integrated Care Systems (ICS) recruitment page show that the NHS is now hiring 42 new chief executives to manage ‘integrated care boards‘ across the country, on salaries averaging £223,261. Seven of which will pay up to a whopping £270,000. 80% more than Boris himself…
The site explains how the new executives will help lead “new partnerships between the organisations that meet health and care needs across an area, [and] plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequalities between different groups”. The job description also insists that candidates “actively champion diversity, inclusion, and equality of opportunity for all.” All life-saving work, no doubt.
https://order-order.com
Bringing back matrons and fire every bureaucrat who cannot come up with at least 50% savings in the area where they are in charge and getting rid of all diversity directors and similar non-jobs would be a good start.
Oh Sos, you know what would happen there. They’d sack everyone productive and pay themselves more as a bonus.
{:-((
…as well as Matron, stop recruiting nurses with useless degrees and employ more Sisters-Tutor to ensure proper on-the-job training.
Thank goodness the medical side is so well staffed we don’t need any surgeons, consultants, registrars, doctors etc etc…..
Are they as well as all the diversity managers they already have?
The most important person in UK politics has ordered further renovations to Downing Street.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/08/00/47629685-9967773-image-a-136_1631056976941.jpg
And Boris just did as he was told…
Boris Johnson’s wife, Carrie, ordered a swanky revamp of their Downing Street flat, rumoured to have cost £200,000.
Now the ground floor has been given a plush makeover as well — at the taxpayers’ expense.
It’s great spending other people’s money.
It’s just about all they know.
For the layman it is just about impossible to work out what our civil service and politicians lords etc jointly cost this country. It would be many billions each year and knowing that as most of them would, one might be forgiven for reaching a conclusion that they might jointly show some respect to those who pay them. But seemingly not a prayer.
Spongers!
And when he’s chucked out the next bastards will do exactly the same, ad nauseam
There ought to be a law against it…where are MPs when you want them? (joke, by the way)
Good morning to all!
Since Boris and Carrie are on the public money, their behaviour rather reminds me of shady welfare recipients that have some sharp way of putting their hand in the till whilst waving two fingers at people paying their taxes.
And quite often some have been caught out renting out their free home and living with a relation of a partner in another town.
Imagine what it must be like in a care home if you are paying for your care.
Where is Guy Fawkes when you need him most?
He’s realised to solve the problem of government wouldn’t stop as Westminster. He knows he’d have to nuke every single state location lest the poison spread.
I think the difference between me now and a loony terrorist is that while we both find the target thoroughly disgusting, my approach is apathy and resignation along with active dissent.
Which is the more shocking – the shade of pink of the woman’s dress or the sheer hypocrisy of the man holding her hand?
This was the prize for 50 lucky Russian A -grade students….a trip on an icebreaker to the North Pole.
https://www.facebook.com/RTnews/videos/277964440492547/
RT:
Russia state-controlled media · 5 September at 22:00
Lol! When is it going to say:
BBC:
UK state-controlled media?
RT:
Russia state-controlled media · 5 September at 22:00
Lol! When is it going to say:
BBC:
UK state-controlled media?
Thought for the day
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
When 24 hours in a day is not enough; remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 beers.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and start to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced two pints of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.
‘Now,’ said the professor, as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognise that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things – God, family, children, health, friends, and favourite passions
Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car.
The sand is everything else –The small stuff.
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that areimportant to you.
So.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Know your God.
Play with your children.
Take time to get medical check-ups.
Take your partner out to dinner.
There will always be time to clean the house and fix the dripping tap.
‘Take care of the golf balls first —
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beers represented.
The professor smiled. ‘I’m glad you asked’.
It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of beers with a friend.’
Please share this with other “Golf Balls”
I just did…..
I hope the students took note.
I once read an account about an AA meeting the guy on the podium welcomed the audience and there were two large tumblers of clear liquid on the table in front of him. And another jar with a lid. He opened the jar and pulled out an earth worm, popped it into one of the tumblers. and the worm wriggled away for some time. He then took another worm from the jar and popped it into the second Tumbler the worm wiggled and quickly shriveled and died.
He then stated the first tumbler contains tap water the seconded contains strong Neat Vodka. So my friends what do you learn from this ?……….. a few seconds later one of the younger members of the audience put his had up. Yes said the lecturer ? The Young man said, “What i learn from this is, that if you drink vodka you will never have worms”.
38620+ up ticks,
Has priti treacherous realised that the £54 million carrot is only rhetorical & for domestic consumption, and not believed anyway, because the french
are happy with their rate of exchange.
Boatloads of undesirables OUT their domestic welfare outlay down.
Well, that was fun. A hour’s useful ladderwork to remove another branch from the copper beech. When I finished, the MR very sensibly suggested that I marked a higher, larger branch for the tree chap to remove in the winter. I had a can of yellow spray paint. Went up ladder. Removed lid of can. Nozzle fell to the ground. Ten minutes searching – found nozzle. Tried to fit it back on tin…..result – hand and face covered with yellow paint. None came out through nozzle. Used paint covered hand to mark branch…
All done and dusted – and I have removed most of the paint from hands and face. Not T-shirt or shorts, though. To be retained as “honourable scars”.
Just make sure you clean off the paint before the man arrives with his chainsaw and you ask him to chop of a few limbs.
Get yourself down to the local Chinese and tell them you have just arrived from France – you may get a free take-away.
Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen hints at return for another fan-favourite character. 8 September 2021.
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Cohen had so much fun, in fact, that he is considering bringing back the character, a white wannabe rapper imitating hip-hop and British Jamaican culture.
“Yes, I think I would,” he said when asked whether he would return as Ali G.
“Because the reason I became a comedian was that I loved people laughing at my jokes. To actually hear laughter is a rare thing for me. When I do the movies, I think it is funny, but I have to wait three months to hear an audience laugh.”
Am I the only person who thinks this guy is an absolute twat! (Asking for a friend)
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a37508653/borat-sacha-baron-cohen-ali-g-return/
Nope.
“To actually hear laughter is a rare thing for me.” Probably because he is about as funny as a Death Watch beetle.
But it was funny when they played the wrong National Anthem at the *Eurovision Song Competition.
[* Correction – apparently it was at a shooting competition.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou3lW32EXL0
No, he isn’t.
The thing he does very well is point out hypocrisy on both sides. Once you ignore the persona, the point is very valid. The difficulty with Cohen is knowing when it’s him you’re talking to. He is articulate, well read, intelligent and cogent – you’re just never sure if you’re talking to him or not.
And as a friend once admitted, he has (or used to have) a muscle bound physique which was occasionally on public view when he was sunbathing in the local park.
Nice swimsuit – pity about the body.
Nut Nuts made a big hit with her bonker when she bought him this for his birthday in June!
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Good afternoon all.
Russia’s gold and foreign currency holdings have risen to a record high of $618.1 billion as of September 1, according to data published by the country’s central bank.
They grew by $17.1 billion, or 2.9%, since August 1.
According to the regulator, the previous record was registered on August 27, when Russian international reserves amounted to $615.6 billion.
These comprise highly liquid foreign assets including stocks of monetary gold, foreign currencies and Special Drawing Right (SDR) assets, which are at the disposal of the Central Bank of Russia and the government.
For a country with minimal debt they’re not doing too badly.
Good for them, but it is the rule of law that protects investors.
“I still have a picture of Thatcher in my office”: Sajid Javid Daily Fail
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Labour politicians and trades union officials routinely referred to the lady as “Thatcher”, usually by spitting the name out in contempt.
Savid Javid needs reminding, urgently, that only Baroness Thatcher, Mrs Thatcher, or Margaret Thatcher are acceptable ways of referring to The Iron Lady by a so-called Conservative politician.
I upbraided Norman Tebbit about calling her just “Thatcher”, in that it’s rude and aggressive. As you wrote, Baroness, Mrs or Margaret Thatcher.
Yep. Javid needs to be told ‘It’s Lady T to you. You’re not worthy of speaking her name.’
Lies, damned lies etc.
Yesterday I pointed out how politicians try to give a misleading impression of the level of their robbery by using a percentage rate rather than the actual percentage increase. A 1.25% increase in the rate sounds relatively easy to take but, thanks to the DT’s tax calculator ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/income-tax/national-insurance-tax-calculator-much-will-paying-social-care/ ) I can actually give you the actual %age rates of the increase you will have to pay at different rates of salary:
a) Current income; b) current amount of NI contribution; c) New contribution after rate increase; d) Percentage increase in your NI contribution
a) £ 50,000 b) £4,852 c) £5,358 d) 10.42% increase in contribution
b) £ 75,000 b) £5,378 c) £6,197 d) 15.2% increase in contribution
c) £100,000 b) £5,879 c) £7,010 d) 19.2% increase in contribution.
As I suggested yesterday the government is so confident in the low level of educational attainment in Britain that the general public will take some time to work out that a 1.25% rise in rate can equal a massive rise in the amount of tax payable.
Far too numerate for the average journo, Rastus – they still spout the “£139” increase in energy bills.
https://order-order.com/2021/09/08/whitehall-shut-down-bomb-disposal-robot-spotted-by-downing-street/
It wasn’t me, nor should politicians be blown up.
They should be beaten with a cricket bat until they admit that they are idiots doing the wrong thing. They can’t do that dead.
Ah, the old Bulldog Drummond touch! I like it.
The West’s Islamist capitulation. 8 September 2021.
On the contrary, the West is withdrawing from the ideological fray. Witness the way a Yorkshire schoolteacher was abandoned by politicians and teaching unions earlier this year after he dared show a picture of the Prophet Mohammed during a discussion about freedom of expression. Theresa May’s promise to have some ’embarrassing conversations’ after the London Bridge terror attack in 2017 is just one of many empty pledges made by western leaders in the last decade.
This insidious capitulation to Islamist ideology is attributable largely to the spread throughout western society of another strain of extremism: one that promotes diversity above all else and sees any criticism of non-western thinking as racist by definition. This ideology, as intolerant and vengeful as Islamism, also seeks to bring down western civilisation. Consequently, many of its adherents appease and excuse the West’s enemies.
It’s difficult to grasp the utter spinelessness of the Political Elites though a start might be made by looking at Batley Man. Here was someone who was in effect following their orders and when it failed they decamped so swiftly that no trace of them could be found. Out of the 650 MP’s who squat in the chamber and feed off Public Largesse not one could be found to speak up on his behalf. This defies not just belief but statistics themselves. It makes the Rump Parliament look like the Cockleshell Heroes! Don’t be under any illusions, these people will hand us over to the Forces of Islam without a qualm!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-west-s-islamist-capitulation
If an indigenous white Englishman was found guilty of rape in a British court how big would the reduction in his prison term be if he claimed he had converted to Islam?
Let us not forget Mike Roper, headmaster of Allerton Grange School in Leeds, who was forced to apologise after the North London intifada in May when he commented upon the Palestinian (sic) flag.
The first sentence of the article:
On Monday, Tony Blair addressed a military think tank in London and stated that the West should continue to intervene in countries under threat from Islamist extremism.
To whom in ‘the West’ should we issue the invitation to invade the UK?
We watched the speech on Sky News.
We were amazed.
He has done a complete about turn from the time that he was in power and encouraging large numbers of uneducated Muslims into
the country.
His purpose was to rub the noses of the right in diversity. Now that we are so diverse that the noses of the left are just above the level of the cesspit he’s finally realised that we’ve built the funeral pyre that Enoch Powell warned us about and that those diverse incomers are about to set it alight..
Yes sos, it’s a pity he didn’t listen to any of the voices warning him.
If he’s finally realised that, he certainly doesn’t care and won’t apologise.
Blair will never apologise for anything he has done.
He’s too busy apologising for things that happened generations ago.
He is the epitome of a hypocritical pool of runny shit.
Anthony Slurry B Liar!
Official twat to the kleptocracy.
I think the West should leave other countries alone. We’re not good at helping when we do get involved and lots of our soldiers die for little gain.
The Poles, or the Hungarians? Maybe the Russians???
If we intervene in Britain, we’d be accused of slamophobia and sent to jail!
The West’s Islamist capitulation. 8 September 2021.
On the contrary, the West is withdrawing from the ideological fray. Witness the way a Yorkshire schoolteacher was abandoned by politicians and teaching unions earlier this year after he dared show a picture of the Prophet Mohammed during a discussion about freedom of expression. Theresa May’s promise to have some ’embarrassing conversations’ after the London Bridge terror attack in 2017 is just one of many empty pledges made by western leaders in the last decade.
This insidious capitulation to Islamist ideology is attributable largely to the spread throughout western society of another strain of extremism: one that promotes diversity above all else and sees any criticism of non-western thinking as racist by definition. This ideology, as intolerant and vengeful as Islamism, also seeks to bring down western civilisation. Consequently, many of its adherents appease and excuse the West’s enemies.
It’s difficult to grasp the utter spinelessness of the Political Elites though a start might be made by looking at Batley Man. Here was someone who was in effect following their orders and when it failed they decamped so swiftly that no trace of them could be found. Out of the 650 MP’s who squat in the chamber and feed off Public Largesse not one could be found to speak up on his behalf. This defies not just belief but statistics themselves. It makes the Rump Parliament look like the Cockleshell Heroes! Don’t be under any illusions, these people will hand us over to the Forces of Islam without a qualm!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-west-s-islamist-capitulation
Gavin Williamson confuses Marcus Rashford with a different black sports star: Guido Fawkes
Some interesting comments.
Edmund Waller
So, he got mixed up between two sportsmen. Silly thing to do, but why is it always such a delicate issue when someone mistakes one bl@ck person for another? If it is not done on purpose or with mischievous intent, there should be no problem.
Robin Burn
How can you make a mistake, Rashford is the one that can’t take penalties
Chris Plemmons
Is he Conservative, Labour or Liberal? They all sound the same to me.
Bikeb
Bit of humour, about time let’s wait for the BBC (sorry) football players Indignant response.
Charliefatbloke
Except one is 6 inches taller and 6 stone heavier
ExFish
The clue was that the bloke he was speaking to was ‘incredibly engaged, compassionate and charming’. He should have known that was unlikely to be Rashford.
njuham
They look roughly the same to me.
Steve
Maro Itoje is an eloquent, polite national treasure who plays rugby.
Rashford is a BBC stooge fed lines by spoon face Sally Nugent.
https://order-order.com/2021/09/08/gavin-williamson-confuses-marcus-rashford-with-a-different-black-sports-star/#comments
Mr Itoje is a very good player, the backbone of the England team.
He terrorises the opposition kickers and scrum halves.
He does. When he comes onto the field against Scotland my heart sinks.
What a great next Prime Minister Williamson will be……(sarc)
The next PM is going to be a Muslim or a Hindu.
Given how badly Priti Awful has performed it will probably be her. Shades of Theresa May.
She’d make May look like a genius….{:¬((
If he dyes his hair blonde how will we know the difference?
Well I’m jiggered. The Bbc lunchtime news had a MP on who demanded that we need to send the dinghy people straight back to Calais, and if that triggers a diplomatic row, then so be it.
Had drink been taken,i wonder?
Who was the MP and what was the interviewer’s reaction?
I didn’t catch his name. It was just a 15 sec clip from a Zoom interview, and not surprisingly there was no response by the interviewer.
Craig Mackinlay (C), Thanet South.
He has skin in the game (as I believe they say). His constituents must have bombarding him for months…
He’s not the Dover MP, though. That’s Natalie Elphicke, who hasn’t been quite so straightforward about the invasion.
What MP ever IS straightforward?
Brexit should make us better at trade deals.
So if the French want millions of pounds for not stopping illegal immigrants coming to Britain then perhaps we can demand even more money for not returning them to France and dumping them on the beaches near Calais?
338620+upticks,
Afternoon R,
The french are on a far better deal keep shipping them out instead of accepting a one off payment.
They have saved that amount already on mo’s welfare.
…while destroying their dinghys.
Craig Mackinlay!! Thanet South!!!
338620+ up ticks,
Afternoon WS,
You just triggered all my alarm bells, an old mate of nige’s, a very dubious duo.
338620+Up ticks,
Just after the polls close if the voting mode continues in the same fashion.,
Vote first followed by whinge,
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1435563473656745986
BBC Radio 4 A history of the World in 100 Objects. Neil MacGregor is wetting his knickers over an Indonesian Mooslim shadow muppet. He is an expert in his chosen profession – a first rate master debater. Fifteen minutes of wet-lipped, wobbly-kneed adoration. You don’t know what you are missing.
“...a first rate master
debater.”I’m happy to miss this, Ped.
His series ‘Germany: Memories of a Nation’ was much better, even if it did jump backwards and forwards in time.
338620+ up ticks,
The tory ( ino) party is getting the wind up now bringing on the covert tory.
Remember the old saying “once bitten” then with this character remember it well.
https://twitter.com/BreitbartLondon/status/1425508812597956608
Not tow them back to Calais but to a beach and then destroy the boat.
338620+ up ticks,
Afternoon NtN,
Do it without leaving the office, stop welfare, the french have.
Every boat load OUT is a winner.
Exactly…you don’t attract many bees if there’s no nectar.
How come the French can stop welfare? We can and should now we are “no longer in the EU”! Huh – some hopes.
The French just let them form shithole camps and rely on do-gooders for food.
How about not picking them up in the first place? How about sending fire tenders to douse them all in water?
Oh, dear, vw, all the ‘wets’ would be up in arms or alms.
I can but dream!
Wet dreams?
As can we all, even though reality keeps coming back to kick one where it hurts.
One warning shot across their bows. If no reaction torpedo them!
I may be wrong, but i don’t think a torpedo would work on a rubber dinghy.
You’re probably correct. However, I bet a harpoon would.
That’s a whale of a difference.
Hand grenade.
Nah! They might catch it and chuck it back.
As soon as they turned the boat – ONE would jump off – then the “rescuer” boat would have to stop to rescue them, then another would jump – – etc etc etc.
And the photo shows all men – once here family get to here – so for 10k – add on numerous kids, parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, all their in laws and THEIR families too. UK is finished. Hope Boris will be happy, running a 3rd world ****hole. Not long till the freeloaders costs outstrip the govt taxes. – – and there will be NO way back.
“As soon as they turned the boat — ONE would jump off…”
Tell him, “Tough shit, Abdul. Let’s see if you are as good as Captain Matthew Webb. Toodle-oo!”
Toss him a life belt and say grab the dinghy or you will be lassoed and dragged.
338620 + up ticks,
Afternoon W,
Keep a weather eye open for smoke / mirrors the johnson will not be giving a damn for these Isles he will have done his qualifying bit for which he will be duly weighed in, one way or tother.
The wretch cameron into zillions, treacherous treasa paid thousands for non speaking regarding a speaking part, charlie lynton ( willie watcher) a multi mill.
Their supporter / voters these last 3 decades pondering on maybe it was wrong to throw their kids futures under a bus, but the old mussies ain’t so bad if you attend the mosque 5 times a day.
Cressida Dick ‘to get two more years’ as Met Police Commissioner. 8 September 2021.
Home Secretary Priti Patel is preparing to offer Britain’s top police officer an extra two years in the job which will see her keep her post until 2024, according to the Evening Standard.
The Old Dykes Network!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/08/cressida-dick-get-two-years-met-police-commissioner/
The only good thing is that it keeps that smug bame git (who loathes England) out of the top job for a few months.
Two years behind bars would be apt.
Lyce Doucet interviews a founding member of the Taliban prior to their takeover and reveals their stance on ethnic and female inclusivity in the ‘interim’ government that they have now just formed with thirty three mullahs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2jn8
I listened to this last night on the World Service and was impressed by Lyce Doucet’s depth of knowledge and interview techique with her thirty years experience on events in Afghanistan.
She gets the Mullah to admit that, whilst the Taliban are saying that they wish to pursue peace in an independent Afghanistan, they are ready to fight if international negotiations don’t result in what they wish to achieve.
Vladimir Putin’s close ally dies while trying to save filmmaker who fell off a cliff. 8 September 2021.
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has died trying to save a renowned filmmaker during training exercises in Russia’s Arctic.
Yevgeny Zinichev, Russia’s Emergency Situations Minister and Mr Putin’s former long-time bodyguard, was inspecting emergency drills in the Arctic town of Norilsk together with a press pool on Wednesday.
One strives (in vain) to imagine one of Johnson’s acolytes attempting the same.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/09/08/vladimir-putins-close-ally-dies-trying-save-filmmaker-fell-cliff/
Very sad, although I struggle to understand what the film maker was doing at he edge of a cliff. Not that I am a great fan of President P, but people in power need trustworthy friends to keep them sane.
‘Afternoon All
Laff Time
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Mr Rotten, only now are you realising you’ve been wrong all this time. The Right were always anti establishment. It’s in our nature.
He mistook the Tories for The Right.
Because of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the Government has pledged to increase the number of people resettled through the scheme from 3,000 to 10,000,
Xxxxxxx (a small town in the Yorkshire Dales) has been identified as the preferred area for resettling families as it has the largest housing stock, available school places, and a wide range of services, It also has easy access to Bradford, where there is an existing Afghan community and specialist services.
The
Home Officetaxpayer will pay a grant to cover all costs of setting up and running the scheme for the first year. Grants of around £10,500 per person. Costs will include setting up accommodation, ‘cultural integration’ including learning English, and the provision of ‘specialist and intensive support’..The cost of supporting the ‘newcomers’ with food, clothing, travel, schooling and medical services is not mentioned. You can see why the government needed to increase the tax of every working person in the country now.
Why the Yorkshire Dales? There is plenty of more suitable living space within the M25.
Because, Grizzly, the Yorkshire Dales already have large numbers of Muslims, so they will feel at home, and won’t have to integrate
with the British.
Then they could put up a high barbed wire fence to keep the imperialist, oppressive whites out.
The Islamic Republic of Yorkistan.
Do you mind, Uncle Bill. I have booked myself a holiday in the Yorkshire Dales in a few weeks’ time. Stop giving them ideas!
Have a halal of a good time, Harry!
There are far more within the M25. They may keep them there.
No we don’t want to,so jog on. None in Birmingham, Leicester, Oxford or Bristol, then?
OK, OK, OK! How about within the North Circular then? 😜
They should all be sent to Sweden, home of the most hospitable and generous people on the planet.
Just the paradise on earth that they are seeking. Particularly as the women are generally very good looking.
Sweden’s stopped taking them in. As for your last sentence: you’ve evidently never been to Skåne. It’s twinned with some hillbilly land in the south-eastern USA. A visit here would put that ‘gorgeous blonde’ myth to bed for good an’ all.
Was that before or after you arrived?
};-O
You’ve never been to Stockholm, Norrköping, George?
I’ve lived and worked in both, together with some gorgeous and intelligent girls
I’ve been to Stockholm a number of times, Tom, and I’ve seen many gorgeous women there. It seems that all the really ugly, filthy and stupid ones live in many small towns and villages here in the south of the country. Friends from elsewhere in Sweden can’t believe there are so many of them in one area. I’ll have to wander around and film them and post the results on here. It will come with a warning.
Har du bott i sverige? Have you lived in Sweden? They are not at all hospitable to outsiders, I went there with 11 colleagues, all on 2-year contracts. 2 ran away home within the first 12 months, all but 2 went home as soon as their contracts were over. As for the women being good-looking, forget it. I fully endorse what Grizz says – it’s not all Volvos & Abba.
It was a tongue in cheek comment on their alleged social care, I wouldn’t live there if it was all expenses paid.
Very wise. Thy may have ‘social care’ but they have no idea how to treat old people.
Given that the average age of the asylum seekers and economic migrants appears to less than 25, I don’t suppose the gimmegrants care.
I left Sweden in Summer ’05, before the big insurge of gimmegrants, although there were plenty of Kurdish refugees.
Within NOWHERE inside the UK.
That’s out of my hands, Dukke.
Because, Grizzly, the Yorkshire Dales already have large numbers of Muslims, so they will feel at home, and won’t have to integrate
with the British.
Perhaps it the number of sheep? Could keep ’em occupied for months.
Oh no there isn’t.
Oh yes there is!
Don’t you, either, I live (just) within the M25 and there is nowhere suitable. Anywhere.
Edit: I mean anywhere in this country.
Oh, I dunno. Downing Street. The Ballses many houses – indeed all MPs with accommodation in yer London….
Hmmm. Skipton, by any chance?
Skipton is not exactly a small town. My father started his teaching career at the Grammar School there in the 1930s. Keep it the way it is.
I have been through Skipton many times in my life. It is a small town compared with the nearby big city (not Bradford) where I was born and bred.
No doubt they will be spread amongst all the constituencies who changed from Labour to the Conservatives at the last election. That, plus the tax rises and green malarkey should ensure that the Conservatives hand Labour a thumping majority next time round.
That should bankrupt finish off the UK forever, other than as yet another shithole within the great caliphate.
Apart from this, from
For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls
Steve Sailer
September 08, 2021
After a pandemic pause, momentum in behavioral genetics is once again building, threatening to undermine confidence in the conventional woke wisdom.
Now, I’ve been warning against genetic triumphalism because the world keeps changing and nobody knows what will come next. But the prospect for the left of being intellectually humiliated by future findings appears much worse.
The last major empirical contribution that boosted the left’s position in the IQ-race-genes argument was the late James Flynn’s discovery more than forty years ago of the Flynn Effect of rising raw IQ test scores.
“Even when it comes merely to debating rather than discovering, the quality of the left’s paladins is in free fall.”
In contrast, immense amounts of new data are pouring in. The cost of sequencing an entire human genome fell from $10 million in 2007 to around $1,000 by 2017, making possible studies of mind-bending scale. James J. Lee of the U. of Minnesota broke the million-person sample-size barrier in 2018 with an analysis of the genetics of educational attainment.
We are also now seeing 10,000-subject longitudinal studies including both IQ scores and genomes, such as in the new paper by John Fuerst and Gregory Connor that correlates racial admixture with cognitive ability.
In the 1970s, the science-denialist Establishment view was represented by actual scientists of achievement in their own specialties who were also cultured authors, such as Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and the recently deceased Richard Lewontin. But now the left’s intellectual pacesetters are instead minds like Florida A&M African American Studies and Magazine Production double major Ibram X. Kendi, crank amateur historian Nikole Hannah-Jones, ed school prole prof Robin DiAngelo, and Fleet Street hack Angela Saini.
A few on what remains of the pro-science center-left are becoming alarmed at the growing hatred of research among the woke. Thus, University of Texas psychologist Paige Harden is getting a big buildup for her upcoming book The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality on how studying genetics can be good for equity.
The New Yorker this week has given Dr. Harden a nice puff piece: Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters? The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.
The book is an outgrowth of her 2017 Vox article with Eric Turkheimer and Robert Nisbett with the misleading headline “Charles Murray is once again peddling junk science about race and IQ” after a brouhaha erupted when Murray was allowed on a podcast.
Actually, the Vox article, despite being rather incoherent due to conflicts between Harden’s Christian moderation and Turkheimer’s but-is-it-good-for-the-Jews extremism, makes clear that Murray is more right than the conventional wisdom about at least four of five crucial issues:
(1) Differences in intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, are real.
(2) Intelligence is partly heritable. The three authors admit:
Like the validity of intelligence testing, the heritability of intelligence is no longer scientifically contentious.
(3) Racial groups differ in average IQ. Vox explains:
People who identify as black or Hispanic in the US and elsewhere on average obtain lower IQ scores than people who identify as white or Asian. That is simply a fact….
(4) Standard racial categories like black and white are validated by genetic tests:
Human evolutionary history is real; the more recent sorting of people into nations and social groups with some degree of ethnic similarity is real; individual and familial ancestry is real….
(Modern genomics can do a good job of determining where in Central Europe or Western Africa your ancestors resided.)
However, a willingness to speak casually about modern racial groupings as simplifications of the ancient and turbulent history of human ancestry should not deceive us into conjuring back into existence 19th-century notions of race—Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid, and all that.
Obviously, the last sentence is intended as misdirection. If you stop and think about it, the fact that modern population geneticists can not only determine that you are white or black but can even pin down precisely which part of Europe or sub-Saharan Africa your ancestors came from validates the existence of the larger continental-scale races posited by Enlightenment naturalists like Blumenbach. But nobody bothers to think: The point is to associate your enemy with words that 21st-century lowbrows find icky.
Finally, the three professors accuse Murray of playing unfair with them on the fifth and final question—whether genetics might underlie part of the racial gap in IQ—by putting forward a moderate, reasonable hypothesis, leaving them to defend a view that they know is prima facie implausible: Murray makes a rhetorical move that is commonly deployed by people supporting his point of view: They stake out the claim that at least some of the difference between racial groups is genetic, and challenge us to defend the claim that none, absolutely zero, of it is.
But, they argue, due to the moral superiority of their preferred assertion, no matter how improbable it is, the burden of proof must fall wholly on Murray and his deplorable rationality.
But that was four years ago. Hopefully, Harden is now finally free of the baleful science-denialist influence of her dissertation adviser Turkheimer (who is perhaps the funniest living embodiment of the traditional Jewish worry that if the peasants ever figure out that Jews are smart, they’ll come for us with their pitchforks), and can come into her own. As Turkheimer admitted in a follow-up in Vox:
In fact, I will close by noting that not even the three of us are completely in agreement about it: I (Turkheimer) am convinced that the question is irredeemably unscientific; Nisbett accepts it as a legitimate scientific question, and thinks evidence points fairly strongly in the direction of the black-white gap being entirely environmental in origin; while Harden questions the quality of the existing evidence, but thinks more determinative data may be found in future genetic knowledge.
Harden is much younger than Nisbett or Turkheimer so she has good reason to be cautious about what the future may reveal.
Indeed, Harden is a lovely young woman, so she makes a good spokesperson for her position that studying the influence of heredity scientifically can help craft better social programs to aid the poor.
Indeed, it should. As the motto of Faber College in Animal House points out, “Knowledge is good.”
In the New Yorker article, Turkheimer sputters: You have to believe in a certain amount of genetic causation or you don’t have a science, and you can’t believe in too much genetic causation or you believe that poor people are poor because they have poor genes—and that’s a very, very delicate walk.
But Harden, who likes to cite Matthew 25:40 (“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me”), believes exactly that: Poor people often are poor because they received poor genes in the “genetic lottery.” The New Yorker writes:
Harden argues that an appreciation of the role of simple genetic luck—alongside all the other arbitrary lotteries of birth—will make us, as a society, more inclined to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy lives of dignity and comfort.
The idea that we should look out for our fellow Americans and help out those who are born with fewer capabilities to get by sounds like something Jimmy Stewart would declare in a patriotic Frank Capra movie.
But, of course, to be practical, this policy depends upon limiting the scope of our charity to Americans rather than extending our generosity to the 96% of humanity that isn’t American. But old-fashioned national solidarity conflicts with our new moral mandate to allow mass immigration of the wretched refuse of countries that can’t manage their own affairs, such as Afghanistan.
The leftist philosopher John Rawls, whom Harden cites as an inspiration, justified his call for a Swedish-style welfare state by asserting his version of the lottery of birth: a supposed pre-birth “veil of ignorance” about your upcoming nature and nurture behind which you’d choose to minimize your risk. He dealt with the obvious danger to his system posed by foreign freeloaders by emphasizing the need for immigration restriction. Rawls wrote:
People must recognize that they cannot make up for failing to regulate their numbers or to care for their land by conquest in war, or by migrating into another people’s territory without their consent.
We’ll see if Harden dared to follow her idol Rawls’ logic on immigration policy…
Do you really get your genes wholly through a random raffle, as Harden’s Genetic Lottery title implies? Or perhaps your ancestors and their decisions had something to do with it?
As an example of how extremely nonrandom assortative mating can be, here’s Harden’s 2010 wedding announcement in The New York Times:
The bride and bridegroom, who are assistant professors of psychology at the University of Texas in Austin, met at Virginia, from which each received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
And what about poor genes? If a society generously chooses to subsidize the victims of poor genes, can it take any steps to lessen the chances of them passing on those poor genes and thus expensively victimizing future generations?
Or is that eugenics, which is, of course, the worst thing ever?
Consider a suddenly relevant example of poor genes: birth defects stemming from inbreeding.
The American aversion against cousin marriage is due to early-20th-century American eugenicists, such as biologist Helen Dean King, proving that marrying your first cousin could harm your offspring.
Afghans have very high rates of birth defects because they are so inbred: 28 percent of married Afghans are wed to their first cousins and another 7 percent of couples are double first cousins, who are as closely related as half siblings.
Not surprisingly, 39% of Afghan infants suffer unfortunate disorders. The average IQ of Afghans is probably depressed several points by their penchant for consanguineous marriages.
Questions for Dr. Harden in her chosen role as a proponent of genetic awareness:
Should the U.S. public be informed of the high rate of costly genetic problems in Afghans before letting in more of them?
Or should this kind of genetic knowledge be off-limits to American voters?
Should Americans attempt to persuade the huge number of Afghans who are now being admitted that their culture’s custom of inbreeding is wrong?
Or would enforcing our various state laws against cousin marriage be eugenics and discriminatory against Afghans and their right to move here and avail themselves of our tax dollars?
And do you really think liberals can hold an intelligent discussion of genetic questions like these in the emotional state that they’ve gotten themselves into?
I’m beginning to fear that our multiple current anti-intelligence moral panics might mean that Dr. Harden’s well-intentioned intervention is too late.
Wot a load of Bollocks …
Why do you think so?
Nisbett, Turkheimer and Harden are self-appointed experts; not in my book, Hertlass …
It doesn’t mean that none of them ever get anything right –
That doesn’t mean that none of them ever gets anything right –
‘Evening, Lass, “People who identify as black or Hispanic, in the US and elsewhere, on average obtain lower IQ scores than people who identify as white or Asian. That is simply a fact….”
My punctuation.
A fact discovered and published in the 60s, that produced such a howl of opprobrium that the findings were hidden.
Glad to see that the truth will out.
Lock up your daughters and goats.
Have you got a source for this Ped? I can’t think of anywhere in the Yorkshire Dales that would want to have such an addition to their town.
What we want is irrelevant.
Who said anything about consulting the indigenous whose lives are about to be disrupted?
Oi Laffed,I’m going to Hell aren’t I………….
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HAPPY HOUR – So where is it?
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1487985/Brexit-news-NHS-350-million-a-week-social-care-tax-rise-national-insurance-Sajid-Javid-vn
A few miles of Haitch Esse Too.
Been used for Test & Trace!? These useless government IT systems don’t pay for themselves you know!!
Pissed up the wall.
£350,000,000, that’s around 1% of what he spaffed out on Track and Trace. Then there’s the PPE deals, the killings made on the “vaccines”, PCR testing and on the LFT kits. It’s been a gravy train of epic proportions: Bisto and OXO combined are green with envy.😎
An interesting article/interview with an Afghan refugee.
He would appear to be well qualified and motivated, I wonder if he is typical.
The first thing his handlers should be doing is explaining how dire the housing situation in the UK already is.
https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/diary-afghan-refugee-uk-government-support-b954064.html?itm_source=Internal&itm_channel=homepage_trending_article_component&itm_campaign=trending_section&itm_content=3
Reading between the lines I suspect that he expects the UK to take many, many more.
“…expects…”????
Bloody knows.
Ungrateful bastard, he is. No mention of safety from being hung from a helicopter, bullets, and bombs.
Throw them in the sea, a long way from shore.
Oddly enough I didn’t get the feeling that he was ungrateful, more that he wanted to be able to work.
What does get my dander up is that he (and doubtless others like him) seems to think that the UK is awash with housing and should have systems in place to open bank accounts etc for everyone who arrives almost on the day they arrive.
He could do worse than to tell his wife that modifying her dress might make her less conspicuous and willing to integrate.
I’m surprised someone of his intelligence and status didn’t take steps to open a bank account in Europe or the US and move his assets while he had the chance as it was obvious the US was withdrawing.
And yes, his wife should adopt western dress.
I would be prepared to make a small wager that he has done exactly that, but the last thing he will want is to be means tested.
Time for me to shuffle off. Gosh, it’s been hot. However, we didn’t go to Overstrand because there was a very stiff wind which would have made it unwelcoming.
Tomorrow = market. And then to deadhead the roses in the forlorn hope that we’ll get another flowering. Still finding spots of yellow paint….!
Have a jolly evening with your new Afghan neighbours. At least they’ll have lots of advice about which are the best drugs.
A demain.
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Looks like one of those invasive Harlequin ladybirds.
https://www.coleoptera.org.uk/sites/www.coleoptera.org.uk/files/scheme/Harmonia_colour_variants_plate.jpg
Nah…Uncle Bill has been spraying it for fun
I much prefer Ladies in Red …
Oh dear, is it Covid ?
Must be, plum.
Have you been deluged this arvo?
No just a light shower…..still very warm.
Clouded over here mid-afternoon.
Thunderstorm tonight hopefully.
Well we could do with some rain – it’s been very dry. It was still warm when I went out to the post office.
Still 27C outside here. I’m having vey chilled gazpacho for supper.
Probably not that warm here this afternoon though it was very warm this morning.
Don’t shuffle off too far, Uncle Bill!
Don’t shuffle off the mortal coil, Bill!
That was a storm and a half.
In an hour enough rain has fallen to fill a large wheelbarrow to overflowing.
Looking at the level of the pool I would guess we had well over two inches of rain.
Where are you sos? Calm here in West Sussex.
Dordogneshire, France
That’ll larn you to live in Dordogneshire.
Over and done with; back to clear sky and sun.
Oh, and a beautiful rainbow.
Enjoy your grey days and your wind, even if the MR doesn’t.
29ºC here today, matey – and not a drop of rain. Spent an hour watering. So there!
29? That’s a cold front…
My pool was 28 this evening.
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Especially like the photo of his meeting with Tony Blair. 🙂
For Gavin Williamson, Glaikit – a wonderful Scottish word meaning stupid, foolish, or thoughtless.
Never waste a splendid word on such creatures.
The man’s a cunt
Cowpit yow. The Doric.
My sympathies are with Gavin Williamson.
I can’t recognise people, ever, at all. I wouldn’t be able to tell a football player from a rugby player.
When in public, I am in a constant state of low level panic in case someone says hello and I don’t know who they are. The workplace is a nightmare – how do these people expect me to know who they are? I swear, I’ve never seen them before in my life. Or worse, I’ve seen them, but they remind me of someone I knew twenty years ago.
Calling Williamson racist and mocking at him for something he can’t help is just cruel.
For once, I sympathise with GW. Quite frankly, I can’t tell one virtue signalling ethnic sportsman from another.
I hope you don’t mean that they are all similar looking, Anne!😳
Was denn sonst?
Well, I’m fairly sure we probably aren’t encouraged to use it as a term of endearment, nowadays!
For once, I sympathise with GW. Quite frankly, I can’t tell one virtue signalling ethnic sportsman from another.
24C, pleasant sunshine and a whisper of a breeze – 3Kts – in Argyll today …
Thunderstorms forecast tomorrow.
Don’t catch cold sweetie x….
A few flashes of lightning and ten minutes of rain here in the Surrey Hills.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2021/09/08/0909-MATT-GALLERY-WEB-P1_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.png?imwidth=1260
Wow! Raducanu is through to the semi-finals of the US Open! She hasn’t dropped a set yet!
Lovely player too………well done.
Beautiful shot player! So pleased for her.
If only she WAS British….
If she wants to identify as British….!
OH sat and listened to the radio commentary!
Did Geronimo have to die?
Owner of executed alpaca claims post mortem shows no signs of Bovine Tuberculosis – but Defra fires back saying a ‘number of TB-like lesions were found’ in body. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7deed5c1731dd3741f22cf905ddd158db340afe2ebf49cc68987be3e690ec772.jpg
Best check out that Covid 19 jab NoTTlers…….
As I said last week, he didn’t have bovine TB ad never had bovine TB. He should never have been put down, but useless Defra never admit that they’re in the wrong! Remember the burning pyres of needlessly slaughtered cattle and sheep, during the disastrous foot and mouth farce? And that was the idiot Ferguson as well!
If there really was a God Ferguson would get BSE, nv Creutzfeldt-Jakob, foot and mouth disease and scabies.
And constant itching that gives him no peace. Anywhere.
That’s why I added scabies.
I just wanted to complete the visuals.
Brother of poofta nuff then.
https://archbishopcranmer.com/jeremy-sleath-train-conductor-sacked-alcohol-free-caliphate-facebook/
Civil Liberties
Train conductor sacked for referring to ‘alcohol-free caliphate’ on Facebook
Jeremy
Sleath had worked for West Midlands Trains for 17 years. He was a
Senior Conductor who had served his employer faithfully and admirably.
He was sacked in September 2020, at the end of the national Covid-19
lockdown, for writing on his personal Facebook account: “Thank F*** our
pubs open up today. We cannot let our way of life become like some sort
of Muslim alcohol-free caliphate just to beat Covid19.”
Like many lefties and virtue-signallers, they cannot bear having the truth stuck up ’em.
Sue, Mr Sleath, sue the effin’ ar5e off ’em.
I’m probably late to the party, but I will arrange for an electrician to be shot and various elderly gentlemen to have their sunset years blighted by gossip and innuendo.
Kerchinnnnggggg: that’ll be £230,000 per annum, ta very muchly.
Once you’ve ticked the right boxes, what does it take to get the sack in this blasted country?
“Dame Cressida Dick is expected to be offered another two years as chief of the Metropolitan Police despite being blamed for a series of blunders, reports say.
Home Secretary Priti Patel is said to be arranging the extension while London Mayor Sadiq Khan is reportedly supportive of the move.
But it has not been finalised and there are fears (hopes, shirley ????) Dame Cressida could turn down the £230,000-a-year role.”
Ah but…
Look at her likely replacements.
Mr Worse, Ms Worser and FIIK Worserest.
As a result of her orders in 2016, Jean Charles de Menezes – an innocent Brazilian electrician – was killed aboard the ‘Tube’ – the London Underground.
She should have resigned.
Under her Gold Command wasn’t it.
He was killed in 2005, not 2016. This woman has been over-promoted in spite of her blunders and her responsibility for ordering his death.
I stand corrected, Ndovu …
Re your last sentence, are you kidding?
Hubris punished.
Having said it had returned to clear sky and sun the weather front has returned with a vengeance.
Livid purple sky, thunder, lightning, rain. power cuts almost certainly on the way.
France certainly knows how to do weather.
Get it over with as fast as you can?
France certainly knows how to do weather.
They bottled it. 391 to 248
One lived in hope….. hope dies eternal.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1488404/national-insurance-tax-rise-tory-party-boris-johnson-social-care-plan-commons-vote
Vote Conservative get Labour.
The Tories new slogan.
Vote Conservative get Labour.
The Tories new slogan.
The new Labour slogan:
Vote Labour avoid New Labour?
Well done the Poles.
They acknowledged the English (British) national anthem and applauded. And then they booed and whistled against the George Floyd memorial knee bend.
That’s the best way to approach this idiocy, respect your opponents but call out their politics.
I’m going orf early – too much misery and blight. Good night and God bless, one and all. Bis morgen fruh.
A pensioner drove his brand new BMW to 100 mph, looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a police car behind him.
He floored it to 140 , then 150, … then 155, … Suddenly he thought,
“I’m too old for this nonsense !”
So he pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the police car to catch up with him.
The officer walked up to him, looked at his watch and said,
“Sir, my shift ends in ten minutes. Today is Friday and I’m taking off for the weekend with my family. If you can give me a good reason that I’ve never heard before, why you were speeding… I’ll let you go.”
The Man looked very seriously at the police man, and replied :-
“Years ago, my wife ran off with a policeman, I thought you were bringing her back.” !!!
The Cop left saying,
” Have a good day, Sir “…
Cheer up Tom
Up cheered, Maggie.
I’m with Neil Oliver.
https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1435212604193058816
Australia is looking more like the test bed for the globalists. Pushing the people to see how much they will take. Now beer is being restricted to control the virus. Who thinks up this shit?
https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1435592069771313159
This can not be true. I don’t believe the ‘Diggers’ are putting up with this
They’ve had it too good for too long. When was the last time they had to fight for something?
Too much waltzing….
I read that you have to register with the government in NSW if you want to have a visitor.
When they’ve abolished cash, they can police your alcohol consumption directly at the supermarket checkout.
“Purchase refused. Alcohol limit exceeded”
“Purchase refused. Loo paper stockpiling not allowed” etc.
I knew a married couple of teachers in Germany. They were passionately anti-credit cards, which were just coming in there. That is exactly what they warned against – monitoring & control of purchases.
They were right!
Credit cards are the devil’s work in my opinion. They bring no benefits for the ordinary user, apart from the ability to get into debt, and various artificial “benefits” that the card provider bestows in order to get the mug hooked.
Funny, I do about 95% of my shopping with my Visa card, but I always stay within bounds & pay off the full balance each month.
Then the ability to go into debt is not bringing you any advantages by definition.
But it saves my being weighed down with pocketfuls of cash.
I meant the comparison between a debit card and a credit card, actually.
But as to the other argument (cash vs non cash payments) – cash is your guarantee that the government doesn’t own you.
In a world without cash, your every transaction can be monitored, restricted and controlled. The only reason that isn’t already happening, is because other people are protecting your rights by using cash.
When we’re all on digital ids and digital payments, the nanny state will be able to restrict you from buying more than your permitted meat or alcohol ration. Purely to save the planet and for your own good, of course.
I forgot to say that I knew the couple 35 years ago. They were way ahead of their time.
Hmm. Most come with various benefits, including (mine as an example):
Free cover for shoddy etc goods
0.5% cashback on all purchases
An interest-free payment period, allowing current/savings a/cs to accrue credit interest (I know – not much at the moment.)
Settled monthly by d/d.
Suits me.
Those are the benefits that I mentioned, that are artificially added by the card issuers to get people to use credit cards.
South Africa banned all alcohol!
A strenuous day.
Dropped a couple of medium elms that had died off, cleared and logged the trunks and then dropped a 50′ ash. To ensure it did not fall onto the road, I strapped it up using straps. One to pull it towards where I wanted it to drop and a 2nd to make sure it didn’t fall into the road.
It came down well clear of the road which was a relief!
I strapped it up using straps.
As the saying goes, no shit, Sherlock! 😉
Typo. Meant to say using 2 straps.
Hello Bob, I was listening to a prog on the radio a couple of hours ago about Lord Gladstone When he was PM .. he loved chopping down trees , big trees little trees , all for relaxation ..
I have found an interesting newspaper link as well https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/16602687.axe-helped-carve-gladstones-place-history/
When he used to visit grand country homes , the host used to select a tree on the estate for him to attack and demolish
By any stretch of the imagination, Gladstone was an extraordinary character who burnt off his physical energy in long walks, hill-climbing and tree-felling (“The forest laments, in order that Mr Gladstone may perspire,” Lord Randolph Churchill famously joked in Parliament said). His intellectual energy meanwhile saw him own and read more than 20,000 books which today make up the collection at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire.
“My great-great grandfather was a man of massive physical as well as mental ability,” says Charlie Gladstone, the current resident at Hawarden, who also contributes to the programme. “He lived much of his life in cities, but he was a countryman at heart and his absolute love was chopping down trees.
“William became famous for his pastime and he was given axes on hundreds of official visits,” says Charlie Gladstone . “We still have them at home. He was a huge celebrity and people in their hundreds and often thousands would come to the woods in Hawarden to collect chippings as souvenirs of the trees that he chopped down.
Are you related to him , Bob? 😉😂🤣🤣
Does anyone remember the the dreadful ‘Woodchopper’s song’ by the Radio 1/2 DJ Tony Blackburn?
This one MM?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PcvT15IJ3g
No, Belle, a dreadful parody of a decent song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKP23BUSpPc
No, I’m afraid not.
The trees I’m felling are either elm which has already died off, or ash which are dying off.
I’ve quite a bit of both to get sorted so I’m not going to be short of logs for the fire anytime soon!
Vandal.
https://foxhole.news/2021/09/08/watch-illegal-channel-migrants-kiss-the-ground-and-pray-to-allah-as-they-arrive-on-kent-beaches/
https://twitter.com/OhBrokenBritain/status/1435671520794251265
Sacking Patel is pointless. The entire home office is not fit for purpose. Take them back to bloody France, not here. Pack the dross into a shipping container and dump it in Calais. If they try again, fecking shoot them.
BBC offers staff a game to test how privileged they are – as Tory MP says: ‘Most will view this as nonsense – or worse’
‘The Ally Track’ is an online tool and game which asks the player 20 questions
Answers to the questions are used to determine how privileged they are
Whoever reaches the finish line first is the person who enjoys most ‘advantages’
Tool is being promoted by the BBC’s director of creative diversity June Sarpong
By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9967965/BBC-offers-staff-game-test-privileged-are.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK
I wish I had black privilege.
It’s more woke crap. I hope the sraff refuse to use it.
Pointless or not, she is Pritti bloody awful and Pritti useless so she has to go. She can take Cressida Dick with her.
Hey, Russell. A tad elusive these days?
Just busy John. Trying to stay afloat and keep the wife in any other state than miserable is taking up all my time.
Ok. Thanks for replying. KBO.
Where were any of you when the appalling TWIN TOWERS/ Muslim assault on our freedoms took place , 20 years ago?
Dealing with Foot and Mouth. I was in an office and I heard a commotion in the general office. The TV was on and we all watched the disaster unfolding with horror and disbelief.
The gentleman properly attired dropping from one of the higher offices in a vertical straight pose with umbrella and his case in his hands haunts me to this day.
We were confronted with so many horrors in such a short period .
F+M was a nightmare
The world seemed to be a perilous place , then of course there were earthquakes and Tsunamis , and so much more
It still is a perilous place. It’s a wonder we’ve all survived so long.
T-B – This country is heading for blood shed if not civil war. Enoch Powell’ s warning years ago is coming to fruition yet our politicians are trying to force us to put up with their gross negligence of what is happening before their eyes.
My father will be turning in his grave , especially so by knowing how many hard working great areas of all parts of Yorkshire have been so badly put upon , and the identity changed .
His twin sister lived in Borrowby , untill she died 8 years ago !
I was at work in Dursley and one of my customers told me what had happened. I saw the pics on the telly later on at home.
I was in a meeting in Brussels and we were ushered immediately into a safe area. Well, as safe as it could be, given our proximity to NATO HQ.
I’d just finished work and gone up to see my mum, who had just had another health scare. She was in bed and we sat watching the horror in silence. I can’t believe it’s 20 years ago – it could have been yesterday.
I was standing amid piles of rubble as I renovated the lounge of my cottage. I had pulled down a plasterboard ceiling to expose the timber beams, and I had used a Hilti-gun to remove gruesome cladding in order to expose an old inglenook fireplace (reversing some idiotic ‘modernisation’ done by previous owners). Whilst I was standing in this scene of desolation the telephone rang and I was ordered to switch on the telly. It was quite surreal to see that carnage on the telly whilst I was standing in my own ‘carnage’ of brickwork, timber cladding and plasterboard debris.
I was working in Ostfriesland. The receptionist came back from lunch & said a plane had flown into the first tower. We didn’t really take in the seriousness until the reports started coming through of the 2nd plane.
A birthday lunch, Peter?
No, Elsie. I had brought in a bottle of Sekt to drink with the girls after work, but none of us felt like it when the time came. They gave me a printed Tshirt as a present.
I was on holiday in Turkey,sat in a jewellers negotiating on a set of earings for my stepdaughter when he told me of the first plane,retired to nearby bar to watch the rest of the horror unfold………….
The security on the flight home was “interesting”
I was a court usher checking in defendants prior to them going into the courtroom.
I was in an office just outside Chemsford marking exams for trainee holiday firm clerks. I would guess that Peter Anderson was celebrating his birthday.
That would take the shine off the day.
I was in my transport office in Radlett Herts.
I was in the office in Warner Street Clerkenwell. A Muslim member of my staff was watching the unfolding events on a G3 standard office Macintosh. He was very animated and seemed to miss the fact that several thousand human beings were being murdered. The chap in question was constantly toggling his screen between the drawing he was supposed to be working on and various websites.
I watched the same on my computer and was shocked to see the second plane and the inevitable carnage.
There was a concomitant rumour that further planes were about to attack Canary Wharf.
My neighbour intercepted me on the steps and invited me to watch the unfolding horror on TV: Tuesday 11 September at 13.46 …
The second tower fell some twenty minutes later.
The worst real-time disaster in my lifetime, Maggie …
I was in bed when the first plane hit. My wife woke me up to come and watch TV. We had no milk so I went out pretty quickly to the shop to buy milk for coffees and the second plane hit while I was walking back from the shop. I came home to endless replays of the action.
Pretty similar for me, except for the milk.
I was in TC, seven floors up, watching in horror.
In the office. After the crashes, we were desperately trying to contact work mates who were in New York that day.
One of our group was in Atlanta, not directly effected by the events in Washington or New York but it took a long time to arrange for him to get home.
A bit later, we carried on with a planned getaway weekend, it was eerie how the skies were clear with none of the normal contrails passing overhead..
Comment reposted in the right place.
Just returned home after an off-site meeting and collecting Firstborn from school.
Watched the TV in horror, saw the 2nd plane crash, people jumping, and the towers collapse.
338620+ up ticks,
Although truly needed methinks this would meet with a great deal of resistance from the lab/lib con coalition cosy squad who have always put t
he party before the Country.
https://twitter.com/Rob_Kimbell/status/1435632030696579087
338620+ up ticks,
Serious incident at the meeting the french minister had to be sedated on account of priti treacherous triggering a bout of no stop hysterical laughter.
https://twitter.com/AgainBraine/status/1435703860916543489
The only thing she will ‘construct’ is another parking lot for the growing number of dingys.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b18b61ab69a35f6733f9937b8ed4e2c364554628aa46da058ce78c57462fb044.gif
Yeah, his body language totally says he’s taking her seriously.
Good night all.
I’m over 1/2way through V2 by Robert Harris. Enjoying it a lot.
Good night, Peter. I too am having an early night, and spending lots of time painting garden fences and washing bed linen. More fence painting tomorrow.
“Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
You been out paintin’ fences for so long now…”
I have just finished reading it and thoroughly enjoyed it . I intend to read it again and make a note of the characters and their marriages etc as I had to keep going back as my memory is not good now. There are a few unexpected twists for you, Peter, as the end approaches.
I am now rereading a Dalziel and Pascoe book.
https://twitter.com/AGarblek/status/1435717765483175940
As predicted Bagram Airport, partly built by the Russians and surrendered by the Americans, who had fortified it, is to be given over by the Taliban to the Chinese.
Unless the Americans do something about either court marshalling or else impeaching the illegitimate senile old fool in the White House we are all in for big trouble.
I wonder what Geoffrey Woollard, late of this forum and who expressed the wish to see the removal of President Trump in order to ‘return to normalcy’, makes of this. I suggest an abject apology to this forum would be in order.
The US Bagram Airbase should have been the safe point of departure for all legitimate Afghan refugees – until surrendered by Dozy Joe.
POTUS is a disgrace.
Bagram ? Is that not the base where the US stored their tactical nuclear weapons? Did they leave those behind as well?
I miss dear old Geoffrey – he is totally misguided in every opinion he ever expresses and, without doubt, he is severely cerebrally handicapped but if you were polite to him he was equally polite back.
We have the birthday of another former Nottler coming up in a few days. I wonder if he will look in?
We knew we were in for big trouble the minute Biden “got” in…
Evening, all. Somewhat late on parade tonight as I’ve had a busy day. Thought you’d like to see a pic of Oscar yesterday:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a6703d48458daeb795df793141a2d6d67059d159fb1f69c6ce3eb415f5a11a5b.jpg
You both appear to be enjoying a new lease of life.
Well done.
Thanks, Bob.
Looks a lot more confident and happy than in those early photos.
I do think he’s starting to relax and come round, richard. He wags his tail when I speak to him now and is starting to lie on his back for tummy rubs more frequently. It’s just over the three month threshold when rescue dogs are supposed to start to feel secure. He does have occasional relapses, but I forgive him those (although I do tell him they, while understandable, are not acceptable).
Sod it.
Went to bed early, fell asleep quite quickly, then woke up after an hour & a half. Have been tossing & turning for the past hour so decided to sit down here for a while.
Perhaps you should try strapping yourself into bed, using straps, Bob.
A bit of racism from a Democrat supporter in California:-
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1435720974083706886
Goodnight, all.
Good morning all – Thursday’s new page is here.