Friday 29 October: Traditional Tories find little to toast in Rishi Sunak’s Labour-lite Budget

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      3. I think the odd few pennies off alcohol backfired a bit, because it looked like a fake appeal to working class Britons from an ultra-rich teetotal Indian. It highlighted the differences.

    2. What’s with the mug of beer? I thought that Rishi was teetotal? (Morning, everyone.)

      2. For those on this forum who are looking for a role model might I recommend Sir Toby Belch who put the oleaginous Malvolio firmly in his place?

        “Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there will be no more cakes and ale? “

  3. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    A couple of BTL comments. The natives are becoming increasingly restless, and goodness knows what the effect of the expensive and hypocritical CON26 Green Jamboree will be on these and other posters:

    G Hazelwood
    29 Oct 2021 4:29AM
    As a Country, dealing with Brexit in isolation or Covid in isolation presents a serious challenge. Combine them and the problem becomes far greater than the sum of its parts. Add Net Zero and we as a Country are facing a disaster of incalculable proportions.

    Brexit was an exercise in democracy. Covid was not our fault, but Net Zero has been inflicted upon us by a highly dangerous minority and represents a bewildering exercise in political naivety. The Tories need to bring Johnson into line.

    Rob Burton
    29 Oct 2021 5:11AM
    Parliament has one green MP, that should tell people a lot. Boris has no mandate for Net Zero and he’ll find he is a one term PM if he and his performing monkeys don’t change tack

    1. Picking over the details, this Budget had nothing to do with Covid or HMG’s ludicrous reaction to it. It’s all other guff.

        1. Why I believe this Budget means Boris Johnson will go to the polls tumbril in less than two years

          We live in hope

    1. Yo Rik

      A fiddle:

      “Kids get stroked too” is obviously geared towards kids in areas like Rochdale, Rotherham, et al

  10. COMMENT
    Tories have taken taxes to a 71 year high, and this could be just the start
    Sunak’s promise to shift to tax cuts threatens to be derailed by inflation, net zero – and Boris Johnson

    FRASER NELSON
    28 October 2021 • 9:30pm

    The most important promise that Rishi Sunak made this week was not in his Budget speech but in a private meeting with Tory MPs afterwards. He would not mince words, he told them: he has had enough of these tax rises. From now on, every extra pound “should be put into lowering people’s taxes, not more spending”. His fellow Tories cheered him on. “We want to believe him,” one of them said afterwards. “But we have no idea if we can.”

    These Conservatives had been cheering just as loudly earlier on as Sunak took taxes to a 71-year high and government spending to the highest level since the late 1970s. It was a bizarre spectacle: a party elected on a promise to protect the public from tax rises celebrating their inability to honour that pledge. Simon Clarke, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, explained this as a “philosophical shift” to big-state Toryism. If he is right, then Sunak is wrong: this Budget won’t be the high water mark of taxes. It will be just the start, with far-higher taxes to follow.

    To understand all this, you need to understand the distribution of power in the Cabinet. A good number of Sunak’s colleagues – Liz Truss, Sajid Javid, Priti Patel – agree with him on tax cuts. But they are not consulted by a Prime Minister who treats his Cabinet like a personal court.

    They go along with this because they recognise that, without him personally, there would be no 80-seat Tory majority. So whatever he wants, he gets. It’s not quite right to call it a “philosophical shift” because there is no philosophy, no discussion, no debate. Just a succession of faits accomplis.

    Much of it is instinct: Johnson likes to splurge his way out of any problem. He pressed ahead with HS2, for example, when most of his Cabinet colleagues think its costs far exceed any likely benefit (especially given the post-Covid boom in homeworking). His approach to the NHS has been to prove that he cares by shoving more cash towards it at regular intervals – rather than, for example, asking it to cut bureaucracy (one in five trusts are still paper-based). When CO2 plants were in trouble during the energy crisis, his approach was simple: if in doubt, bail it out.

    All of this has huge consequences. Health will soon make up 44 per cent of day-to-day public service spending: when Johnson entered parliament, two decades ago, it was 27 per cent. “The NHS is just a black hole that we keep shovelling money into,” says one of those involved in the Budget, “but we can’t say that.”

    The NHS behemoth is now squeezing the education budget. The Institute for Fiscal Studies was quite right to say, yesterday, that starving education to feed the NHS will do nothing for the economic recovery or levelling-up.

    It all adds up to a total tax burden now set to rise to £35,400 per household in five years’ time – some £8,600 more than when Johnson took office. Adjust for inflation and it’s still rising by £3,500.

    So one of the fastest-rising costs in Britain is the cost of Boris Johnson – a cost that no one in the Cabinet has been able to control. Sunak tried, telling the Prime Minister that any extra spending would need a tax rise. But his bluff was called.

    Now, he has come as close as he dares to making a personal ultimatum. After promising to cut taxes as soon as he ends up with extra money, he’d find it very personally difficult to raise them again. Sajid Javid found out how the Prime Minister is quite happy to dispose of difficult chancellors, but it would still be quite the drama.

    A drama that may be on us before too long, given all that was left out of the Budget. There was scant mention of the net-zero agenda being paraded with such fanfare at the Cop26 Glasgow climate summit. Any genuine attempt to meet this legally-binding target by 2050 is bound to mean massive cuts in consumption – from avocados to air travel – enforced by some form of tax. As Oxford’s Dieter Helm has pointed out, political attempts to deny this are at best delusional and at worst mendacious. Net zero will, necessarily, mean higher bills and a corresponding drop in living standards.

    You can argue that this is madness, or a price worth paying to stop us frying. But if Johnson is halfway serious, green levies will certainly come. Whether imposed directly or indirectly they could amount to an extra £2,200 per household per year, going on Treasury estimates.

    Another big cost could be care homes. Money from the Prime Minister’s tax rise – due in April – is being sent at first to the NHS to help it tackle waiting lists. “The NHS will never let go of the money,” says one minister, “we’ll go into an election with the same care home problem that we promised to fix.”

    As we have seen, the Prime Minister is happy to raise taxes for this and even now, will not rule out doing so again.

    The final threat is one the Government cannot control: the prospect of inflation, already expected to be high enough to wipe out any salary increase for the next three years. In his Budget speech, Sunak confirmed a calculation I mentioned in this page a few months ago: that a one-point rise in inflation would cost £23 billion. If passed on as tax (as opposed to spending cuts) it works out at a further £800 per household. When inflation gets out of control, it can ratchet up by quite a few of those points. To say nothing of its cost inflicted on household bills more generally.

    Sunak closed his budget with a defiant call against big-state conservatism, but so far he has largely fought a losing battle. His Universal Credit reform, making work pay more for two million on benefits, was a badly-needed example of his own belief: that government creates prosperity when it lifts the burden. But until he wins over the Prime Minister (who talks to him about “your tax-cutting agenda”) it’s hard to see things changing. For now, Toryism is whatever Boris Johnson does – and he likes to spend. We can expect the bill to keep growing for some time to come.

    * * *

    Some leading BTL comments:

    Philippa Squeak
    28 Oct 2021 9:56PM
    Fraser, there will be no 80 seat majority after Boris has done his worst with his ridiculous unsustainable, unaffordable net zero Green agenda. That dangerous man must be ousted before him and his unelected wife do any more damage to this country.

    After the disastrous Copout26 meeting the country will realise the climate change nonsense is the biggest scam inflicted on us by gullible fools. He doesn’t possess a Conservative bone in his body.

    Novo Caine
    28 Oct 2021 9:50PM
    Johnson is a danger to democracy, the economy and the future of this country. The sooner he is removed from office the better.

    michael jones
    28 Oct 2021 9:55PM
    Get rid of Fat boy Fat or we have a major societal problem looming. He’s a total ignoramus.

    Paul Neczypir
    28 Oct 2021 9:45PM
    This is the thing. All this talk of mere tens of billions being printed, or of rising taxation, is trivial compared to the abject poverty and societal breakdown that accompanies the establishment’s Net Zero delusion.

    I only wish that the 1922 Committee would have the guts to replace Johnson as a matter of urgency with someone who has even a smidgen of Tory principle and who recognises that the cliff edge is already far too close for comfort. How I regret voting for this shower!

  11. COMMENT
    Tories have taken taxes to a 71 year high, and this could be just the start
    Sunak’s promise to shift to tax cuts threatens to be derailed by inflation, net zero – and Boris Johnson

    FRASER NELSON
    28 October 2021 • 9:30pm

    The most important promise that Rishi Sunak made this week was not in his Budget speech but in a private meeting with Tory MPs afterwards. He would not mince words, he told them: he has had enough of these tax rises. From now on, every extra pound “should be put into lowering people’s taxes, not more spending”. His fellow Tories cheered him on. “We want to believe him,” one of them said afterwards. “But we have no idea if we can.”

    These Conservatives had been cheering just as loudly earlier on as Sunak took taxes to a 71-year high and government spending to the highest level since the late 1970s. It was a bizarre spectacle: a party elected on a promise to protect the public from tax rises celebrating their inability to honour that pledge. Simon Clarke, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, explained this as a “philosophical shift” to big-state Toryism. If he is right, then Sunak is wrong: this Budget won’t be the high water mark of taxes. It will be just the start, with far-higher taxes to follow.

    To understand all this, you need to understand the distribution of power in the Cabinet. A good number of Sunak’s colleagues – Liz Truss, Sajid Javid, Priti Patel – agree with him on tax cuts. But they are not consulted by a Prime Minister who treats his Cabinet like a personal court.

    They go along with this because they recognise that, without him personally, there would be no 80-seat Tory majority. So whatever he wants, he gets. It’s not quite right to call it a “philosophical shift” because there is no philosophy, no discussion, no debate. Just a succession of faits accomplis.

    Much of it is instinct: Johnson likes to splurge his way out of any problem. He pressed ahead with HS2, for example, when most of his Cabinet colleagues think its costs far exceed any likely benefit (especially given the post-Covid boom in homeworking). His approach to the NHS has been to prove that he cares by shoving more cash towards it at regular intervals – rather than, for example, asking it to cut bureaucracy (one in five trusts are still paper-based). When CO2 plants were in trouble during the energy crisis, his approach was simple: if in doubt, bail it out.

    All of this has huge consequences. Health will soon make up 44 per cent of day-to-day public service spending: when Johnson entered parliament, two decades ago, it was 27 per cent. “The NHS is just a black hole that we keep shovelling money into,” says one of those involved in the Budget, “but we can’t say that.”

    The NHS behemoth is now squeezing the education budget. The Institute for Fiscal Studies was quite right to say, yesterday, that starving education to feed the NHS will do nothing for the economic recovery or levelling-up.

    It all adds up to a total tax burden now set to rise to £35,400 per household in five years’ time – some £8,600 more than when Johnson took office. Adjust for inflation and it’s still rising by £3,500.

    So one of the fastest-rising costs in Britain is the cost of Boris Johnson – a cost that no one in the Cabinet has been able to control. Sunak tried, telling the Prime Minister that any extra spending would need a tax rise. But his bluff was called.

    Now, he has come as close as he dares to making a personal ultimatum. After promising to cut taxes as soon as he ends up with extra money, he’d find it very personally difficult to raise them again. Sajid Javid found out how the Prime Minister is quite happy to dispose of difficult chancellors, but it would still be quite the drama.

    A drama that may be on us before too long, given all that was left out of the Budget. There was scant mention of the net-zero agenda being paraded with such fanfare at the Cop26 Glasgow climate summit. Any genuine attempt to meet this legally-binding target by 2050 is bound to mean massive cuts in consumption – from avocados to air travel – enforced by some form of tax. As Oxford’s Dieter Helm has pointed out, political attempts to deny this are at best delusional and at worst mendacious. Net zero will, necessarily, mean higher bills and a corresponding drop in living standards.

    You can argue that this is madness, or a price worth paying to stop us frying. But if Johnson is halfway serious, green levies will certainly come. Whether imposed directly or indirectly they could amount to an extra £2,200 per household per year, going on Treasury estimates.

    Another big cost could be care homes. Money from the Prime Minister’s tax rise – due in April – is being sent at first to the NHS to help it tackle waiting lists. “The NHS will never let go of the money,” says one minister, “we’ll go into an election with the same care home problem that we promised to fix.”

    As we have seen, the Prime Minister is happy to raise taxes for this and even now, will not rule out doing so again.

    The final threat is one the Government cannot control: the prospect of inflation, already expected to be high enough to wipe out any salary increase for the next three years. In his Budget speech, Sunak confirmed a calculation I mentioned in this page a few months ago: that a one-point rise in inflation would cost £23 billion. If passed on as tax (as opposed to spending cuts) it works out at a further £800 per household. When inflation gets out of control, it can ratchet up by quite a few of those points. To say nothing of its cost inflicted on household bills more generally.

    Sunak closed his budget with a defiant call against big-state conservatism, but so far he has largely fought a losing battle. His Universal Credit reform, making work pay more for two million on benefits, was a badly-needed example of his own belief: that government creates prosperity when it lifts the burden. But until he wins over the Prime Minister (who talks to him about “your tax-cutting agenda”) it’s hard to see things changing. For now, Toryism is whatever Boris Johnson does – and he likes to spend. We can expect the bill to keep growing for some time to come.

    * * *

    Some leading BTL comments:

    Philippa Squeak
    28 Oct 2021 9:56PM
    Fraser, there will be no 80 seat majority after Boris has done his worst with his ridiculous unsustainable, unaffordable net zero Green agenda. That dangerous man must be ousted before him and his unelected wife do any more damage to this country.

    After the disastrous Copout26 meeting the country will realise the climate change nonsense is the biggest scam inflicted on us by gullible fools. He doesn’t possess a Conservative bone in his body.

    Novo Caine
    28 Oct 2021 9:50PM
    Johnson is a danger to democracy, the economy and the future of this country. The sooner he is removed from office the better.

    michael jones
    28 Oct 2021 9:55PM
    Get rid of Fat boy Fat or we have a major societal problem looming. He’s a total ignoramus.

    Paul Neczypir
    28 Oct 2021 9:45PM
    This is the thing. All this talk of mere tens of billions being printed, or of rising taxation, is trivial compared to the abject poverty and societal breakdown that accompanies the establishment’s Net Zero delusion.

    I only wish that the 1922 Committee would have the guts to replace Johnson as a matter of urgency with someone who has even a smidgen of Tory principle and who recognises that the cliff edge is already far too close for comfort. How I regret voting for this shower!

      1. Or pregnant?

        When our boxer, Rumpole, was a puppy he used to pass easily through Chaucer’s cat flap until one day he got stuck halfway and couldn’t get in or back out. Chaucer then used to tease him by creeping up quietly and giving him a swipe of the paw and then rushing to the cat flap and disappearing as Rumpole gave chase.

  15. ‘Morning again.

    Tom Harris getting stuck in on the subject of the Scottish Nasty Party:

    COMMENT
    When it comes to UK government spending, SNP hypocrisy knows no bounds

    Anything the UK government does with which the SNP disagrees is apparently a “power grab”

    TOM HARRIS
    28 October 2021 • 4:33pm

    The Grievance Olympics, now a permanent fixture in Scotland’s political landscape, has only one event. It’s called “Power Grab”. The rules are simple. The devolved nationalist government and its supporters identify anything that the UK government is doing, and then come up with a reason – any reason will do – that it is “undermining the devolution agreement” and constitutes a power grab by Westminster on Holyrood.

    Unfortunately, since the setting of the rules is a devolved matter, it was up to Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP to devise them, which, to the outside observer, might seem a little unfair.

    For example, while passing the Internal Market Act in order to regulate standards across the country post-Brexit, the UK government was, you guessed it – undermining the devolution agreement. However, when Sturgeon appointed ministers to the entirely reserved policy areas of international development and external affairs, that wasn’t undermining devolution – oh no, not at all. That was “Standing up for Scotland”. You see? Oh, do keep up.

    Basically, anything the UK government does with which the SNP disagrees is a power grab. The record-breaking block grant settlement announced yesterday by the chancellor Rishi Sunak, for example, is not “undermining devolution” because it’s extra cash, something even the Edinburgh administration would be hard pressed to disparage. But the announcement that a number of local projects in Scotland would benefit directly from Sunak’s largesse fell into the “power grab” territory because the money will go directly from the Treasury to the projects concerned, and in doing so will bypass the Scottish Government entirely.

    This will, in truth, cause some uneasiness among devolution enthusiasts, though will be welcomed by the communities concerned because the Scottish Government has gained a reputation in recent years for skimming off UK government money before handing the rest of the money to the people it was intended for.

    For example, the SNP stands accused of holding on to (ie, not spending) £449 million of its £48 billion budget by the end of the 2020/21 financial year, at a time when many communities and businesses could have used some extra support.

    In the days of Britain’s EU membership, Scottish ministers were regularly accused of rebranding structural funds with a St Andrew’s flag and passing down less than 100 per cent of what communities expected to receive. Hence the UK government’s more belligerent approach now.

    And despite the SNP’s insistence that local councils would shun this new approach, a number of nationalist-run councils have applied enthusiastically for the new Levelling Up fund. Among them are West Dunbartonshire and Edinburgh City councils.

    The SNP might find it hard to justify their claims that these schemes represent an “assault on devolution” when their own councillors are eagerly holding out their hands.

    And it should be noted that the SNP (along with their Green Party wingmen) is the only party that campaigned explicitly to abolish devolution in the 2014 independence referendum. Devolution, after all, is a system in which a balance of reserved and devolved powers is enshrined in law, and where a pooling and sharing of sovereignty and resources is accepted and encouraged. On both these measures, the SNP can be accurately described as opposing devolution tooth and nail. Or “undermining devolution” in the starkest and most literal sense.

    When they complain of a “power grab”, therefore, we must assume that their chief complaint is that the grab in question is in the wrong direction, not that it exists at all. The nationalist vision for Scotland is one in which its parliament is deprived of any of the features and qualities that make it devolved. This is straightforward enough: while no one knows what the details of independence are, most of us are familiar with the general concept. And it is a concept with no room for devolution.

    Had the Scottish Government been more transparent in its processes for dispersing vital community funds, it would not be in the position of having to decry UK ministers for doing the job instead.

    It will sit badly with the first minister and her MPs that their own party councillors are putting the interests of their own constituents above that of their party. But in the game of “Power Grab”, them’s the rules.

    1. Oh dear: taxpayers’ money going directly to the beneficiaries.
      Does that mean the notorious bedroom in Bute House won’t get a make-over and the Fishwife can’t afford her Brussels trips to see her girlfriend?

    2. One must keep in mind the mind-boggling corruption and greed inherent in local councils whatever their apparent political colouration. This over-rides everything else.

  16. Russia’s ‘Greens’ Revolution. 28 October 2021.

    In the question and answer session that followed President Putin’s speech to the annual Valdai Discussion Club meeting in Sochi last week, Vladimir Vladimirovich said he was thankful to the European Union for imposing sanctions on Russia in 2014, because Russia’s counter-sanctions, banning food imports from the EU, resulted in an enormous boost to its agricultural industry. Russian farming coped magnificently with the challenge. Putin mentioned the $25 billion in agricultural exports that Russia booked in the last year and he went on to thank Russia’s workers in the sector who made this possible.

    These remarks would suggest to both laymen and experts in the West the emergence of Russia as the world’s number one exporter of wheat and its leading position as global exporter of other grains. As we know, investments in industrialized farming by Russia’s oligarchs and agricultural industry giants have paid off in higher crop yields and insured their production volumes against weather imposed damage through farming in multiple regions. Moving beyond the traditional production centers in the ‘black soil’ belt of the south, Russian grain farmers have made excellent use of previously under or ill-used acreage in Western Siberia and elsewhere. Thus, when Canada or the United States have stumbled in wheat production from one season to another, Russia has carried on to new heights. Investments in grain storage and port facilities have made it possible to use the new surpluses to best advantage on world markets.

    Here’s something cheerful about a Democratic State that isn’t Gaslighting its citizens and turning them into Globalist Slaves. It’s an upbeat, detailed and interesting article on Russia’s agriculture sector with a section on the domestic front. A counter to the miserabilist propaganda by the MSM that the Federation produces nothing of worth.

    https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2021/10/28/russias-greens-revolution/

    1. C 1:COM
      Corn (CBOT)
      USd/bu. 564.50 +1.75 +0.31% Dec 2021
      W 1:COM
      Wheat (CBOT)
      USd/bu. 775.50

      $ 5.64 /bushel for corn and $7.75/bushel for wheat…prices are increasing daily. these are December futures prices.

    2. Russia appears to have reached the stage it was at before the Bolsheviks took over.
      But what’s a century of economic stasis in the great scheme of things?

    3. I’ve told this story before but it bears repeating.
      Vico is Finland’s leading producer of dairy products.When Russia applied their counter-sanctions on the EU,Vico lost a major export market.
      Not prepared to accept defeat,they built a new processing plant on the outskirts of St Petersburg.
      Now they hire Russian labour,use local milk and pay their taxes to Moscow.
      I wonder how many other EU companies did a similar thing?

    4. If only we would tell France to shove its exports, and accept the consequences. These would include our eating all the excellent food produce that normally gets exported.

      1. Well, that’s exactly what I do with French and other EU members’ produce, unless it is a product not available elsewhere.

  17. Many heart attacks are preventable because you can change your risk factors by making lifestyle changes and taking medications if needed to protect your health. You can get all the support you need to prevent a heart attack at the Cardio Metabolic Institute.

    https://www.cminj.com/blog/whats-behind-the-rise-in-heart-attacks-among-young-people

    This hit the headlines this morning but it’s really an advert for fitness watches and blood pressure pills.

  18. I had a flyer through the front door yesterday offering a 12 year warranty on a new gas boiler – it was hydrogen ready!
    No flyers yet for the latest electrical gas boiler replacements possibly beecause you need a three phase supply and a commercial circuit breaker if you own an electric vehicle.

  19. Good morning from a dark and damp Derbyshire. The rain has paused at the moment, but it’s 8°C outside with no sign of the sky even thinking of getting lighter at the moment.

      1. No sign of anything like that here.
        With a VERY heavy overcast, the sky isn’t so much lightening but greying.

  20. Comedy must not be neutered by a fear of causing offence. 29 October 2021.

    Some cite the right to free speech as a defence for online abuse, but the reality is that much of this abuse serves to suppress our freedom through intimidation. When such a high proportion of us are afraid to voice our views, it’s impossible to claim this as a victory for free expression.

    Free speech is anyone and everyone saying anything they damn well please without Let or Hindrance by any Power or Source. Anything else is tyranny!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/10/29/comedy-must-not-neutered-fear-causing-offence/

      2. I watched an episode of HIGNFY last night. Hosted by Stephen Mangan. It was quite amusing. One of the guests was Ria Lina. A British comedienne apparently. She was also amusing.

        Ria Lina also happens to be a virologist. When asked a question from Mangan about covid and was it all over she said yes. She went on to say that because of lockdowns and social distancing we are going to see the population attacked by myriad viruses this winter.

        Johnson, Raab and Hancock and the entire Cabinet are responsible for many more deaths between them because of poor decision making than covid ever could have killed. (those are my words not Ria Lina’s)

        1. OT, Phil. PF have a free delivery offer until 5/11 if you need anything. Code is WELLIES. Don’t have a current e-mail for you.

          1. Thanks for the heads up. Had two delivery recently. Don’t need anything else thanks.

            If you contact Hertslass she will give you my email.

          2. OK, it’s worth signing up for e-mails. There is also a daily Halloween scratch card atm.

    2. We have freedom of speech or we have censorship. There are libel and slander laws for those who libel or slander.
      ‘Hate speech’ is just a tool used by those who do not want, and/or do not want others, to be exposed to alternative points of view.

    1. Probably, Johnny. Breakthrough infection in the doubled jabbed caused by forcing the virus to evolve. Have the ‘jab pushers’ lost control? They were warned but took no notice of experts they didn’t control.

      1. As they took no notice of the people with knowledge, I suspect that breakthrough infection was the result they wanted. Thus to blame further mystifying outbreaks on the unvaccinated. And they do want further outbreaks, the bigger the better. There is method to their seemingly madness, a cynical old rat-bag writes.

        Good morning, Korky.

        1. Morning, poppiesmum.

          Way back I watched a video, IIRC it was Dolores Cahill but not 100% certain, and one item discussed was ADE and how this could be blamed as a new variant and used as the excuse for more restrictions, lockdowns etc. Is Delta a catch all for ADE and evolving virus mutants? I put nothing past these charlatans.

          4. All the time one has to bear in mind that things are not as they seem, that this is not about a virus. In the pursuit of their agenda the logical ends of their reasons for aspects concerned with this do not always meet, but the media does not pursue this, it is obvious they have all been all bought or gagged in some way – in Australia a whistleblower said they had been promised a tax-free existence to support the narrative.

            I think Delta is a catch-all for the ADE response, and also for the covid-like illness caused by the vaccine. It seems that this illness is caused by the ‘vaccine’ itself – it is not in the vial as such, if you analysed the contents you would not find it, but the chemicals in the ‘vaccine’ cause the body’s cells to replicate the spike proteins of the covid virus. It is these spike proteins that cause the damage as they clump together (because of the spikes) causing clots and inflammatory damage. It is very cunning, because as one’s own body in this case has replicated the spikes (caused by the vaccine) the body’s natural immune response does not recognise them as invaders and allows it to pass on its way to do the ‘covid’ damage.

            As I see it, the ‘vaccine’ has three objectives.
            1. To wipe out the immune system and replace it with its inferior, artificial, synthetic immunity. The switching off occurs almost immediately, and it takes approximately 14 days for that of the ‘vaccine’ to switch on. This would explain why many people fall ill in this time slot. If death occurs in this time slot it is regarded as being unvaccinated for registry purposes. And most deaths occur within the first 14 days. Twisting the facts to suit their agenda.
            2. It rummages around in your genes to prod into life and accelerate any illness it may find lurking there. The lack of a natural immune system that kept these diseases at bay assists this process. It hastens the ageing process in the body.
            3. To cause damage to the body by the means of blood clots.

            It would seem to be an injection designed to end life one way or another, sooner or later, masquerading as a ‘vaccine’.

            I would be delighted if someone would tell me I’ve got it all wrong and completely misinterpreted all that I have read.

          5. We’ve been reading from the same, or similar, sources. Micro clotting is very dangerous for the medium term. Slowly but surely killing off the body’s organs, including the brain.

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    Help Line Support and Support Groups.
    Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM

    Class 7
    Can a Bath Be Taken Without 14 Different Kinds of Soaps and Shampoos?
    Open Forum …
    Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.

    Class 8
    Health Watch–They Make Medicine for PMS – USE IT!
    Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

    Class 9
    I Was Wrong and He Was Right! –Real Life Testimonials.
    Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined.

    Class 10
    How to Parallel Park In Less Than 20 Minutes Without an Insurance Claim.
    Driving Simulations.
    4 weeks, Saturday’s noon, 2 hours.

    Class 11
    Learning to Live – How to Apply Brakes Without Throwing Passengers Through the Windscreen.
    Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined

    Class 12
    How to Shop by Yourself.
    Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

    I’ll get me tin hat.

  24. ‘We see clotting – not from virus, but from spike from vaccine itself’: AFLDS Medical Director Dr Ryan Cole. 29 October 2021.

    Well, pilgrim turcopoles, I have been sick, sick, sick since I had the two Moderna shots in April. Sick like I never was before, and then I had a cerebral hemorrhage in early June with no antecedent trauma to the head. A variety of specialists have been unable to point to a cause. Pat Lang.

    The Colonel citing personal experience. One wonders how common this is?

    https://turcopolier.com/we-see-clotting-not-from-virus-but-from-spike-from-vaccine-itself-aflds-medical-director-dr-ryan-cole/

    1. Good to see someone citing Dr Ryan Cole. Dr Cole has been casting light on the shortcomings of the “vaccines” for some time now. As a pathologist he sees the results in his lab.

  25. Morning all

    IR – I was chuffed when Boris Johnson won a decent majority in 2019. As a free-market capitalist, I was looking forward to small government.

    I’m therefore frustrated by the approach that Mr Johnson and Rishi Sunak have taken, as demonstrated by Wednesday’s Budget. It seems that, since Britain caught Covid, we have lived in a parallel universe with the Labour Party running the country.

    Who does a traditional Tory supporter vote for now?

    David Hands

    Pulborough, West Sussex

    SIR – As a businessman and economist of 40 years’ standing, I’m speechless at the Treasury’s ineptitude.

    Pumping seemingly infinite monies into a Covid-stressed economy to chase finite goods and services can only result in rapid inflation.

    The icing on the cake will be if the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee implements inflationary interest-rate rises.

    David Waller

    Cound, Shropshire

    SIR – I am sure that most Conservative voters want the Government to keep taxes as low as possible – but not at the expense of good public services, the levelling-up agenda, infrastructure, education and training, housing construction and, of course, proper care for the sick and elderly.

    We are one nation. Boris Johnson is doing a good job.

    John Sharp

    Great Glen, Leicestershire

    SIR – Lord Blunkett (Letters, October 28) suggests that the tax changes to flights will encourage long-haul travellers to break their journey at a Continental airport.

    Having spent much of my working life flying in and out of European and other airports, I can tell him that most people will probably pay the extra tax to save themselves the trouble.

    Nicholas Franks

    Dorchester

    SIR – How very unintelligent is the revised taxation of wine on the basis of alcohol content. Wine is a natural product, whether a moselle (7.5 per cent) or a zinfandel from California (15 per cent), and the alcohol comes from differing sugar levels. It is absurd to let prosecco (11 per cent) off lightly and punish rioja (13.5 per cent): they are simply different styles.

    People don’t drink wine primarily for the alcohol; it is variety of taste that matters.

    Rev Neil Fairlamb

    Tilford, Surrey

    SIR – The much vaunted reduction in draught beer duty is not all it seems.

    First, since it applies only to barrels with a volume of over 40 litres, a lot of small breweries – which supply their beer in 20-litre or 30-litre barrels – will not benefit.

    In addition, the retail price of beer currently benefits from the temporary reduction of VAT to 12.5 per cent. This is due to return to 20 per cent next April, adding just over 3p to the average price of a pint (and more in London where prices are higher), cancelling out any savings the Budget might have enabled.

    Roger Gentry

    Weavering, Kent

    SIR – You state that the price of a pint of Stella Artois is £3.80 (report, October 28).

    Apart from in Wetherspoons, you would be hard-pushed to find a pint for less than £4.50 in Surrey.

    Steve Matthews

    Woking, Sur

    2. David Hands asks: ‘Who does a traditional Tory supporter vote for now?’

      The truth is that there is nobody with any chance of winning power so the answer is None of the Above and a spoilt ballot.

      Now you know what it feels like to be totally disenfranchised as I was disenfranchised first by Tony Blair and then, in the referendum vote, by David Cameron.

    2. Boris is doing a terrible job. He’s doing the precise exact opposite of everything he should be doing.

      1. He has transitioned from pantomime clown to pantomime villain: fly buttons to daggers.

  27. Test and Trace waste

    SIR – We at last have some insight into the monstrous £37 billion cost of the failed Test and Trace system (report, October 27). The mind boggles at the thought of these lost billions, which the stressed taxpayer will have to fund.

    From the figures, we can see that approximately £5.9 billion went on consultancy fees (2,239 people at £1,100 per day for a year); £7 billion on 600 contracts with more than 200 organisations; £372 million on agency and contractor staff; £52 million on permanent and seconded staff; and £3.1 billion for laboratory capacity. That comes to about £16.4 billion.

    So what happened to the remaining £20 billion or so?

    No commercial enterprise would be permitted to spend such sums without full accountability. The taxpaying public has the right to know, and a full cost and benefit analysis must be carried out by independent economists.

    Philip Knights

    Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire

    SIR – Sizewell C: £20 billion.

    Test and Trace: £37 billion.

    Dr Jeremy Field

    Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

    SIR – To discriminate against those who refuse the Covid-19 vaccine (Letters, October 26) would be disgraceful. Should we deny NHS treatment to those who are obese, smoke or drink? Of course not.

    I worked in the NHS for nearly 40 years, when it had a caring ethos. What has changed?

    Dr Geoffrey Maidment

    Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire

    SIR – It was interesting to see the number of Tory front-benchers with covered faces on Wednesday. Are we being softened up for a return to mask wearing and other restrictions?

    Gail Bridger

    Goveton, Devon

      1. The NHS would very much like to refuse treatment to the drinker, the fat and the smoker. ALL

          1. That would make a change (sarc)

            They could spend some of the time learning English and our customs, as well

      2. Having been in hospital quite a few times in the last 3 months I couldn’t help noticing how many of the Nurses, Technicians, and Doctors are obese. Not great adverts for the NHS.

        1. When I was in NNUH last year, I noticed the same thing. EXCEPT in the acute wards – Cardiac and Intensive Care – here without exception everyone was the right size.

        2. I noticed that yesterday in the outpatient clinics.
          Rather a lot of them waddling about with pieces of paper.

    2. A comment from BTL

      Michael Geddes

      While contemplating that infamous £37 billion test n’ trace epic fiasco, I thought I might try to get some idea of what a billion quid actually is.I hadn’t a clue. So, here’s a few random examples of what £1 billion can buy;

      16,000 new family homes.

      2 state of the art hospitals

      19,000 GP annual salaries

      5 top class hotels

      27,000 secondary school teachers salaries

      165,000 replacement hips

      Remember, those samples represent what ONE billion can purchase. We don’t know exactly how much of the £37 billion was squandered but every lost billion could have alleviated need in other areas, and produced beneficial results. If that doesn’t bring anger, then it should. Waste on that level is intolerable and deserves a full inquiry.

      If you struggle with the maths, give Diane Abbott a call. I got the figures from BBC News websites.

      2. You might like to consider the £107 billion that the HS2 track is predicted to cost….and I’m sure that there won’t be any cost overruns.

    3. “Average” pay went up by 8% during this period. Don’t tell me it was all skewed by bonuses for bankers charging companies at a far higher rate than they are offering to savers, or by water company bosses making money by trashing the environment (which only the hated greenies care about).

      Loadsamoney!

  28. SIR – The much vaunted reduction in draught beer duty is not all it seems.

    First, since it applies only to barrels with a volume of over 40 litres, a lot of small breweries –
    which supply their beer in 20-litre or 30-litre barrels – will not benefit.

    So, Boros and Co not only support the Big Pharma, but also the Big Brewa

    2. Well, maybe. When I was working for a brewery the standard beer keg was 11 gallons (50 ltr) and Guinness kegs were 9 gallons (40ltr) so it is not clear that this was intended to benefit big brewers. Some of these reductions are not all that they appear to be. The Duty on most red wines will go up as many of them are in the 14% alcohol range which is going to be combined with the same levels as port and sherry. The 50p reduction in sparkling wine will boost prosecco, but make little difference to Champagne, at 50p off per bottle.

      1. I’m glad I stocked up with red wine, port and sherry. Mind you, as I enjoy drinking them, I shall have to replace them some time. Do the Kiwis make a decent sparkling wine? I quite enjoy Zinfandel rosé, which I believe has been reduced.

        1. I think that there are a few NZ sparklers, but I do not recall trying them. Sparkling Sauvignon Blanc*, kind of thing. I have tried Seaview Australian sparkling made with Chardonnay, the traditional champagne grape. when it was on sale in Lidl. It was perfectly fine. I’ve not seen it for a while though. I’m hanging off buying till I see the Xmas offers from ALDI/Lidl and others. Xmas is a good time for tawny port, LBV and similar at good prices.

          https://www.nataliemaclean.com/wine-reviews/seaview-brut-sparkling-white/15746
          *https://www.lidl.co.uk/our-products/wines-beers-spirits/wines/champagne-sparkling-wine

    5. I am beginning to realise that Johnson is not just a buffoon he is thoroughly evil and the latent evil that was in in him has been brought to the surface by his current wife.

      It is the phenomenon of where the evil of one partner is stimulated by the evil of another as in the cases of Rose West and Myra Hindley both of whose evil was stirred up by their partners Fred West and Ian Brady. Also the murderers of James Bulger egged each other on.
      (Apparently Rose West and Myra Hindley had a lesbian affair in prison as they were drawn to each other as soul mates.)

      When Nutnuts has finished with the Bonker I wonder if he and Evila May will be drawn together by their shared lust for evil?

      (This phenomenon is called folie à deux. I first came across the term when I was studying Shakespeare’s Scottish play where a critic postulated that the usurping Scottish king on his own would not have acted out his latent evil – he needed his wife to activate it.)

  29. SIR – The much vaunted reduction in draught beer duty is not all it seems.

    First, since it applies only to barrels with a volume of over 40 litres, a lot of small breweries –
    which supply their beer in 20-litre or 30-litre barrels – will not benefit.

    So, Boros and Co not only support the Big Pharma, but also the Big Brewa

  30. Good Moaning.
    So much for all that posturing with masks.
    As Richard Littlejohn says about Sir Kneeler’s latest quarantine:
    “Since the pandemic kicked off, Starmer seems to have spent more time in solitary than Mad Frankie Fraser.”

    2. Even watering cans would do. Soaking wet in a cold wind while glued to the road. Too bad the hospitals are too full up to treat them for pneumonia.

    3. There is an incident from our glorious Imperial past where Indians blocked the railway by laying on the tracks. The inventive commander of the troops ordered his soldiers to urinate on the protesters. That solved the problem in double quick time.

    4. As I have said many times here – water cannon is the only answer but the Evil May Witch got rid of the ones that Johnson had procured when he was Mayor of London

  32. 340610+ up ticks,
    Morning Each,
    All part & parcel of ” the deal” the fat turk & co had to keep a tie with their old handlers when TOTAL severance was the way to go.

    The french peoples have the answer as do the United Kingdom peoples, at the coming election will they use it, doubtful.

    In England I believe the sale of monkey nuts escalates on polling day
    then we suffer the consequences for another five years, this has been the repetitive voting pattern for nigh on four decades.

    https://twitter.com/profsked/status/1453886188025155587

    1. English waters in the Channel seem to be a dumping ground for sewage from the Channel coastal towns. I wonder why the French are so keen to eat shellfish taken in our waters.

    2. Clement dearie. It was the force applied by the British and our allies that saved your sorry ungrateful arses. What a mistake that was you miserable little frog.

  33. Good morning, all. Late on parade. Can’t make out whether was a very heavy dew or if it drizzled during the night.

    Any news today?

    1. Apparently, an Australian footballer is gay and the headline news is that it should not be headline news. Well, Aunty Beeb, its not feccing me thats blasting that particular item as a regular news item throughout the night, alternating with climate change and Blicks. Strewth, I had a sleepless night. Now this morning we have traumatised schoolgirls telling us that we are all about to die. I’m beginning to think an early departure form this mortal coil might be a blessing.

        1. Yesterday’s news indeed, but Aunty keeps going on about it in case the story gets forgotten.

      2. Would it not be appropriate, if it’s physically possible, for our sportsfolk to bend over whilst taking the knee to show their support for BLM/LGBTQRETC?

      3. Would it not be appropriate, if it’s physically possible, for our sportsfolk to bend over whilst taking the knee to show their support for BLM/LGBTQRETC?

      4. As i have suggested under it’s recent hiring of soon to millionaire’s new management, the NHS appears to have a new working directive and it’s known as FOAD. Feck Off And Die

    1. Yo ogga

      Shirley you meant

      I am to take it then that burning at the steak will not be on the table,

      1. 340610 & up ticks,
        Morning OLT,
        She will be at one also with the NON meatereaters brigade which obliges us both.

        1. I assume she is in Sweden at the moment. So she can come by sailboat. Anything else would demonstrate what a hypocrite she is.

  36. 340610+ up ticks,

    TOP GREEK COURT RULES NON-STUN HALAL SLAUGHTER ILLEGAL

    Are you taking heed O fat turkish one.

    1. If France thinks that we will retaliate, every scrap of white material, that could be used for making Flags, will be
      bought up by Macron and Co

  39. Good morning all.

    Stormy weather here , we had a real battering overnight and a real monsoon like downpour which dumped on us for about 20 minutes , squally stuff now, and Moh is fretting about the leaves on his well tended lawn .

    What is Billy Boris Bunter going to do about the French .. I mean we are being quiet about the thousands of migrants the French are escorting in to our waters .

    Some one told me that because the British are very fussy re their fish eating habits , and there are so many things the British don’t eat like whelks and mussels and scallops , not to mention the exotic fish varieties , why this quarrel, and how will this seafood be transported … by lorry of course and by the time it reaches the continent , the stuff will be rotten anyway?

    1. Yo T_B

      Opposite the Breakwater Hotel, in Portland on the LH side of the road, just before you got to the Dockyard Gate, was a company, that l shipped Live Spider Crabs to Fance and Spain, in One Metre Cube containers, by lorry, on a very frequent basis

      1. Morning OLT,

        Yep, that is what I based my observations on , crates of spider crabs and sacks of welks and mussels , all shipped off to Europe , down there .

        You will also still see crates of spider crab on Poole quay ready to be put in huge transporters.

        I don’t think many will be eating shellfish now , the sewerage that is being pumped into the Oggin is really horrible.

        1. Yo T_B

          just Curry them…..

          The dish was basically invented, in India, to cover the sight, taste and smell of fod that was “Beyond its ‘Eat-by Date” (By Lots)

    2. Good Morning Bell et al.

      Not sure about that – I love muscles, scallops, and fish in general. My favourite food.

      1. Skate wings with samphire tonight.
        (Because we fancied it – not because we’re Papes.)

    3. Send MoH with a nice springy leaf rake. That should take his mind off the fretting.
      p.s. and some garden bags, natch.

        1. Nor me, i have bad reactions from both so far and possible another bad one from the Flu jab two weeks ago. I’m laid up with another bout of Afib now.
          I supposed I could take a piece of paper work with me, as in doc u ment (me no harm) with me and ask the jabber to sign it and suggest they take full responsibility for another reaction.

          1. You’ve probably already done enough damage to your immune system – give it a break and refuse the booster. The more I read about the effects these vaccines are having, the more I regret having mine.

          2. What i find really worrying is that we had AZ for both previous Jabs and the booster will be another infusion of chemicals.
            I still find it difficult to understand why they overtly insist on calling the jabs vaccines. As they clearly do not work.
            I mentioned that the cardiologist agreed with me the jabs caused my problems.

          3. My OH had the Pfizer and I had the AZ. Neither of us had any side effects so we were lucky. We don’t want to push our luck this time though.

            I’ve had a stiff shoulder for several months which catches me sometimes with quite a sharp pain…….. I seem to remember Richard SK said his doctor had said something about synovial fluid damage from the jabs – so perhaps that is a side effect.

          4. Causing acute Osteoarthritis.
            I have also heard that the ‘vaccines’ can cause some people’s hearts to swell. Clearly not enough research was carried out before launching and forcing these jabs.

          5. I’m sorry to hear that Eddy. It’s difficult to know what to do for the best…..so confusing.
            I’m hoping my good health over the years will help me through the dreaded lurgy……..who knows!

            Hope you feel better soon. x

          6. I’m sorry to hear that Eddy. It’s difficult to know what to do for the best…..so confusing.
            I’m hoping my good health over the years will help me through the dreaded lurgy……..who knows!

            Hope you feel better soon. x

    1. But, according to St. David of Attenborough, by the time it reaches the Antarctic, the Antarctic won’t exist.

      “… there is no there there”…

  43. As I’m waiting for someone in the car I idly glanced at the DT website on my phone for the first time for months. Amazing! You would think the Virus catastrophe of corruption and poisoning of millions did not exist and that Johnny Foreigner was now the major threat to our peaceful existence.
    The media have betrayed their duty to the public entirely. They can not be trusted without significant risk on any material matter. Those who still take their living from the media have, compromised their integrity,
    As millions start the struggle to restore their natural immunity lost to the wickedness of the injectâtes we must call this betrayal loudly for what it is – giving comfort to murder.
    http://www.tarableu.com

  44. If there are any MODS about – we are under attack from the Spamwaffe. I have now shot down 4 (and am looking for my DFC)….

    1. I’ve set a few more restricted words which hopefully will send the next lot to pending or spam to be dealt with.

      You’re a warrior! Take your medal!

  46. Morning all it seems the politicians have done it again. And once more Effed up everything they have come into contact with. Test and trace what a c*ck up that was. No wonder Handcock conveniently cleared off. And now in his fake and much made up wisdom the so called chancellor has burdened the working class people with and extra £ 3,000 plus per year on top of what they already are forced to pay to survive. Within six months as an awful lot of British pensioners are, they will also be thinking that they might be better off landing in a rubber boats on the coast. It seems to pay more than working for a living or having paid in for a working life to be ripped off by the civil service Pensions department. But let’s remember the political classes and the civil servants wont have a worry, in their own establishment version of the ‘real world’ they will just put all the extra costs on their expense accounts. And in around 6 months hand themselves another ‘king pay rise.

    1. In the post this morning I received an envelope with a picture of ragheads on it and the question “Would you give enough for refugees to live in this country?” I expect the swearing could have been heard in Shrewsbury! No, I effing wouldn’t! I’d give ’em a boot up the effing backside to speed them on their way back home! Nobody is going to give me the means to live in this country and I’ve worked and paid taxes all my life. Indeed, I am being impoverished to provide everything for them. The only good thing was, the rubbish lit well and gave off some warmth.

  48. Politics latest news: France warned ‘two can play at that game’ ahead of diplomatic showdown over fishing row
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/29/boris-johnson-france-brexit-fishing-row-angela-rayner/

    I think that the French have been emboldened by Britain’s complete failure to deal with the illegal immigrants arriving each day in rubber dinghies organised from France by the people smugglers.

    If the British can’t cope with unarmed immigrants in flimsy boats then they are going to offer no effective resistance to robust fishermen in robust fishing trawlers.

    Imagine if the British were encouraging unwanted illegal immigrants to go to France in rubber dinghies? Does anyone seriously believe that the French would put up with it in the craven way that the British political establishment has done?

    Remember when Cassius was being a bit petulant with Brutus in Julius Caesar? Brutus put him in his place by saying:

    “There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
    For I am armed so strong in honesty.
    That they pass by me as the idle wind,
    Which I respect not.    ”

    However despicable Macron is I have to admit that he has got the measure of Johnson. He can see that Boris is just full of piss and wind.”

    2. Absolutely correct Richard.
      Your Shakespeare analogy is similar to a situation I encountered on Wednesday afternoon. Two young lads around 10 and 8 years old in their front garden raking up leaves for their father. I stopped to talk with them and I had our lovely trusty friendly black lab with me, off the lead. She wandered onto the grass verge and the younger boy ran off screaming saying he was scared of dogs. I persuade him to come closer and tell her to sit, which she did. I explained that if a dog does as it’s told to do, you have nothing to fear from the dog. He then picked up her ball and threw it, but as trained to do she bought it back.
      Between them our political classes couldn’t run a bath. Some one would either pull the plug out, before it was used or it would flood the flor it’s standing on.

  49. Have sent this letter to my MP. It only scratches at the surface of the contempt I feel for this government.

    At the last count there are only 5 Conservative MPs in Parliament. They are the ones who voted AGAINST the jobs tax also known as National Insurance.

    Then we come to the grotesque sum of taxpayer money spent on Trick and Trace. I’m sure you will have seen the below the line comment re the hideous cost of between £37 and £40 billion, yes BILLION. This is the comment:

    Michael Geddes
    While contemplating that infamous £37 billion test n’ trace epic fiasco, I thought I might try to get some idea of what a billion quid actually is.I hadn’t a clue. So, here’s a few random examples of what £1 billion can buy;
    16,000 new family homes.
    2 state of the art hospitals
    19,000 GP annual salaries
    5 top class hotels
    27,000 secondary school teachers salaries
    165,000 replacement hips

    Remember, those samples represent what ONE billion can purchase. We don’t know exactly how much of the £37 billion was squandered but every lost billion could have alleviated need in other areas, and produced beneficial results. If that doesn’t bring anger, then it should. Waste on that level is intolerable and deserves a full inquiry.

    If you struggle with the maths, give Diane Abbott a call. I got the figures from BBC News websites.

    PS – The clocks go back on Sunday and I wish I could reset mine to 1979 when we had the last Conservative Prime Minister.

    On top of this we, the public, are having to put up with ridiculous policies such as Climate Change scam, Net Zero scam, banning of gas boilers, banning of petrol and diesel cars increase in tax burden to a 70 year high.

    Without admitting it this Blue Labour Government is following the latest scam in the transfer of money from the poor to the very, very rich. Globalisation was never in the manifesto.

    Don’t get me started on Brexit that never was, the increase in CGT so as not to upset the Eurozone and Jo Biden. The continued failure to control illegal immigration, the lack of police action to deal with demonstrators/terrorists preventing honest people from going about their lawful business and there’s the sweeping under the carpet of the Pakistani grooming gangs who raped and abused 14-1500 young women aided and abetted by the police and social services.

    I could go on but the wilful acts against the indigenous peoples of this country continue unabated.
    I would welcome YOUR views on this email but I won’t hold my breath.

    2. Expect a load of waffle accompanied by loads of Central Office bollox justifying the unjustifiable.

    3. How much does it really cost to build a railway? Countless billions have been spent on HS2 yet still no railway. The awarding of contracts and transfer of funds from the public purse to the well-connected is all just part of the transfer of wealth scheme that’s underway.

    2. Just signed it thanks. Number now stands at 2,746. Make sure you email the petition to as many people that you can folks.

      1. I put the link on Twitter and it’s been retweeted by three people who hopefully have more followers than me, so it’ll spread further. One can but try.

  51. Cop26 is set to be an appalling display of Western decadence. 28 October 2021.

    But then that is the climate change elite all over – determined to enjoy a privileged lifestyle which it wants to deny to the rest of us. For months, ordinary travellers to Britain have been made to take expensive tests, isolate for 10 days, shut themselves away in quarantine at a cost of nearly £2000 a time. Then, with COP26 coming up, the red list was dramatically shrunk, even without any obvious drop in global infection rates. And now, the red list will miraculously be abolished altogether. Suddenly it is fine for tens of thousands of people to descend on a city without observing self-isolation.

    This is a model for a future which the great and good of the climate movement would love to impose on us – with global economic growth halted so that much of the world can be returned to living lives of pre-industrial purity. Sir Patrick Vallance wants us to know that he has cut down on flying and started eating less meat in order to tackle climate change. I am sure it will be a terrible hardship for him to take his next holiday by Eurostar and have the occasional seitan and black bean stir fry, but what if you are already struggling to feed your family? I don’t think it will go down too well being told you must curtail your lifestyle for the good of the climate.

    Wow! Someone in the MSM has twigged! Won’t make any difference though; the New Nomenklatura has the bit between its teeth and we are being dragged along, galloping to oblivion!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/29/cop26-set-appalling-display-western-decadence/

    1. Let’s hope Con26 is an unmitigated disaster! Maybe the delegates will all go down with a new and more dangerous form of covid.

      2. How would we know if it was an unmitigated disaster? The MSM are sold, should that be bought, on the idea and will do their utmost to keep the saga rolling forward. My hope is that Johnson embarrasses both himself and the UK, concerns about how the UK appears to those abroad should be ditched. From within it looks like a disaster zone with the potential to become worse over time if Johnson gets his way, that is where we should focus our attention.

      3. No, no, no – a “new and more dangerous form of covid” will be just what they want ! Another lockdown/more stringent rules and regulations just in time for Christmas. May all the delegates get a really bad dose of food poisoning. May all their Teslas break down.

    1. I’ve often wondered about him whether he’s the full packet.
      A crisp but meaningful warning might have been advisable to those about to open the link.

  53. 340610+ up ticks,

    Friday morning UK news briefing: Fishing boat used as ‘political pawn’

    Should read “Fishing boat used as ‘political prawn” by political prats as sprats to catch both peoples in a net of deflection all the while other issue
    are gaining strength as in the DOVER intake, mounting murder numbers,
    mounting paedophilia numbers,odious issues mounting daily.

    What terrifies is that after decades of building a society of, in the main,
    Hoover dam size sh!te many ( suckers) still support / build, firmly gripping their party card, ongoing.

    1. No description or photograph available, I wonder why ….sarc
      Detective Constable Francois Olwage, 51 was arrested at a property in Basingstoke on Thursday.

      1. 340610+ up ticks,
        Afternoon RE,
        Would it jeopardise his standing in court ?
        if so we could be releasing a potential paedophile back on the streets.
        But I did as you, where is the photo of the person ?

        1. Usually the MSM can’t wait to expose the nature of the persons suspected of these sort of crimes.

          2. 340610+ up ticks,
            RE,
            I do agree, they are a law unto themselves
            and have a great deal to answer for.

        1. To use a much featured phrase and saying from the original version of the House of Cards……………
          “You might think that, but I couldn’t possible comment”.

          Hunger pangs it must be lunch time………

    2. And another one:

      “On Wednesday, a serving Metropolitan Police officer was charged with
      rape. PC Adam Zaman, 28, is accused of raping a woman at a hotel in the
      City of London last weekend. He denies the allegations.”

      2. Gus is very smug. He has developed foolproof tactics for outwitting his servants and there is nothing they can do about it.

  56. 340610+ up ticks,

    This does show consequences for voting for the best of the worst,

    Angela Rayner apologises for Tory ‘scum’ comments after receiving death threats,

    The next move will be the party core supporter / voters will be taking to the mattresses.

  58. 340610+ up ticks,

    In the lands of the decent YOU won’t BE BACK barmy arnie.

    breitbart,
    Arnold Schwarzenegger hit out Friday at leaders who highlight the financial and societal burdens of combating climate change as “stupid or liars.”

    The former governor of California told the BBC cutting carbon emissions will benefit global economies despite the initial on-costs and new, prohibitive regulations on gas and oil use.

    1. He also told the left wing reporter Tom Heap from BBC Country file that people should be buying local produce which I totally agree with, he added shipping food around the planet is madness. I guess Tom Heap chose not to argue. He probably wouldn’t have been back.
      But still no one has picked up on the Government announcement regarding the spending of 2 billion pounds building thousands of new homes on ‘waste land,’ ‘underused’ agricultural land and any sections of green belt they can get their filthy destructive hands on during the ruination of our country.

      1. I wonder what Californian farmers think of their ex governor saying that they should stop shipping food around the planet?

        Much of their produce may be tasteless chemically treated crap but it brings in a mere $23 billion a year.

        Schwarzenegger for ex ex governor!

        1. Having lived there for years, it is not tasteless crap, it is better food than you get in the UK. What’s more it is fresh. And the regulations against chemicals are just as strict in California as they are in the UK.

          1. Obviously you haven’t seen or tasted what gets sent up north. There again if you want strawberries in February, that is the only source and the only choice is with or without listeria.

          2. Well I also spent, every year, several weeks in New York and in Miami, Florida. I did not detect that the food was inferior than it was in England. However, I have definitely come to the conclusion that it is inferior in the UK. A tomato that actually tasted like one would be a nice change. Tne Bell Peppers are tasteless and peaches that actually ripen instead of turning into disgusting stringy things that are inedible, would be nice. As for an actual ripe avocado, such a thing simply doesn’t exist in the UK. For those sort of things you have to shop and M & S. when it should be standard to find decent veg and fruit in any supermarket, but here it isn’t the case.

      2. California is the richest agricultural state in the USA. Everything you eat over there is “local” it’s easy for a multimillionaire in California to make such a remark. The state, in terms of food, can do without the USA. Schwarzenegger lives in Lala land, it’s appropriate!

  59. Where is the “Freedom gas” Trump promised?

    Poland asks Russia to do new discount deal on cheaper gas to slash its energy bills amid shortages & price rises across Europe

    Poland’s state-run energy firm has asked Moscow for a new deal on cheaper gas amid rising prices and worsening shortages across much of Europe, despite its current contract for supplies not coming up for review for another year.
    On Thursday, PGNiG sent the request to Gazprom, asking it to cut the price of gas exported through the overland Yamal pipeline, despite market volatility and growing demand.

    According to a statement released on the firm’s website, the country is hoping for a revision in prices “so that the current market situation is taken into account in the renegotiation process.”

    Pavel Mayevsky, the head of PGNiG, said that there has been “an unprecedented rise in prices for natural gas on the European wholesale market.” He went on to insist that “this extraordinary situation serves as the basis for revising the price conditions on which we purchase fuel under the Yamal contract.”

    The agreement between Poland and Russia is set to expire in December next year.

    2. Anything that President Trump promised has been revoked or Biden has done the very opposite. It is why the USA and us as collateral damage, are ending up deep in doodoo. From being fuel rich and self sufficient under Trump the USA is now fuel poor and having a crisis in that department as well as most others. Thanks to Biden over one million illegals have entered the USA and vanished. The Commie revolution continues.

      1. The “fuel poor” nation is selling a lot to Asian countries where the price is higher than Europe.

        1. It may be so but the price of filling your car in the USA has gone up thanks to Biden and they are having to import fuel. That was not happening under Trump.

          1. I believe the West coast refineries still rely on Russian crude.
            They did under Trump but it was never mentioned.

          4. If you make an allegation it is for you to provide proof. I always, when making an assertion that may be in doubt, provide proof. You can do the same and the fact that you evade tells me you are not being on the level.

    3. Good for the Poles. Waiting for Brussels to get its act together would a triumph of hope over experience.

  60. Good afternoon folks

    Whilst our and about this morning we had a masked intruder enter the grounds of the house we are currently living in. Despite tall fences (badger proofed at bottom) we’ve no idea how the felon got in and wreaked havoc:….

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9238c41954292bccdfd231420758fd3aa54d36400b031b856d1d108cf7ef49b3.jpg

    A shot of some of the damage:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0f2a4693d2b60bdca053f252895e61d71f04827a82818afb5387cf884f78f103.jpg

    Needless to say we can’t afford to wait for a police response so we’re currently going house to house to find out if anyone can help with our enquiries:

    Have you lost a large black & white rabbit?

          4. Like a dog at the Crufts Show it would need a long Pedigree (Chum) name such as “Bullingdon Bonking Boris Buffoon” or BB Boris for short.

      1. Haven’t eaten rabbit in years, a good winter stew is to be had from rabbit. I’ll ask the butcher next time I go in.

        2. It was spoiled for me when my wife made a civet after I had visited the morgue.
          I still had the smell of cadaver on me and I associated the two.
          I’m over it now, 31 years later.

  61. Filthy monster

    Serving Met Police officer, 51, who is attached to Special Operations unit is charged with four child sex offences
    Metropolitan police officer was arrested at an address in Basingstoke yesterday
    DC Francois Olwage, 51, will appear at Basingstoke Magistrates Court today
    He is charged with four offences including sexual communication with a child

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10143955/Met-Police-officer-51-charged-four-child-sex-offences.html

  62. Ever mindful of the ‘This is a good day to bury bad news’ approach that our politicians are wont to deploy on us, one wonders whether our lords and masters are deliberately cranking up the Frog-bashing in order to deflect attention from the slow motion disaster that will be COP26 (or CRAP26 as it is apparently being referred to in Westminster).

    Just thinking out loud…

  64. Yo, again all.

    A quick update on the garage/shed clear-up

    I have found three walls and the fourth has an up and over door.

    The opposite end wall has a door and a window.

    Until today, I did not realise the two were connected.

    I fear it will all be in vain: I have to empty what is left in our 20 Foot Shipping container.

    I shall battle on

    PS: Does anyone else have 37 Rolls of assorted Gaffer/Masking tape?

      1. In 1985, I was given a box of GPO black (sorry) adhesive tape. Still in excellent condition. The donor retired five years after BT was created. He worked in the stores. I also received 50 yards of thick, blue rope – still in regular use with tree work). He also offered 50 gallons of GPO Green paint. I declined…!

  65. BBC Radio 4 is full steam ahead on ‘Green’ issues. A slight distraction from pure anti-British propaganda because of the upcoming Cop26 farce. Current guest is Sir Jonathon Porridge, Baronet, Green badge and Star. Named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Tony Bliar in 2000. Continuing the great British tradition of impartial broadcasting. (No sniggering at the back!).

    2. 340610+ up ticks,
      Afternoon P,
      Is that the anthony charlie lynton chap aka the bog man
      who years ago had something going with peat in the park ?

      1. His favourite haunt was the cottage behind the Old Bailey. Later the fuzz were told not to Police it.

  67. From solicitor chum: I just hope he’s not charging me 50 guineas for the privilege.

    WORLD SURVEY BY PHONE….

    Last month a world-wide telephone survey was conducted by the UN.

    The only question asked was:

    “Could you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”

    The survey was a massive failure because of the following:

    1. In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant.

    2. In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant.

    3. In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.

    4. In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant.

    5. In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant.

    6. In South America they didn’t know what “please” meant.

    7. In the USA they didn’t know what “the rest of the world” meant.

    8. In the UK they hung up as soon as they heard the Indian accent.

    1. We have seen Boris Johnson getting the Covid injection at least three times. I am beginning to wonder if he actually had the vaccines or whether it was a pretence.

  69. A Times article by a business adviser, who had ongoing problems trying to get his heat pump system repaired
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/my-heat-pump-cost-me-thousands-and-no-one-will-repair-it-w7ps6n57n, prompted me to find out what the main pitfalls of heat recovery central heating would be.

    I was flabbergasted when I realised that a heat pump failure was likely to be caused by a refrigerant leak in the cooling/heating circuit which would not only require the use of a secondary emergency backup source of heating but could also result in a concentration of inflammable vapours in a dwelling.

    I had first hand experience of such a refrigerant leak as the efficiency of our refrigerator dropped and attempts to repair it through recharging the refigerant circuit failed due to repeated failure of the compression seals that were used to make the repair. I was alarmed by the fact that the remainder of the inflammable refrigerant that hadn’t already leaked into the kitchen had to be vented through a long tube far away from the house. Ironically this dangerous refrigerant has to be used instead of the previous one which damaged the ozone layer and wasn’t green. We decided to write the fridge off even though it was covered for repair.

    The seriousness of heat pump technology failure is revealed in this article:

    https://www.hvac.com/troubleshooting/dangers-of-refrigerant-leaks-in-winter/

    1. A problem with heat pumps in this area is that there is a shortage of engineers.

      We hire a person from nearly an hour’s drive away, he is competent but we can’t find anyone competent or willing who lives nearer.

      Before you install an heat pump make sure that you have regular maintenance organised.

      1. If he uses a desktop, he may not have his computer with him. Is such a thing still possible in this day and age?

          1. I don’t have internet on my phone either, but a laptop does enable me to take the computer on holiday (if there is a suitably secure wifi connection). Agree about the principle of walking away from it and being free.

          9. You said you don’t own a phone and i asked how do you manage without.

            Do you rent/steal from handbags or just blag other peoples when you need to make a call?

          11. Sorry i was so long.The land line went and it was the police.The old lady whose phone i stole down the supermarket earlier has made a complaint.Seems she was angry that i didn’t leave my email address.

        2. I use a desktop, but I take a laptop with me when I travel. It does not always let me log in, though.

  71. In honour of the birthday of Queen Marie of Romania…

    Oh life is a glorious cycle of song,
    A medley of extemporanea;
    And love is a thing that can never go wrong-
    And I am Marie of Romania.

    An interesting and quite controversial figure.

  72. Steerpike
    The tragic embarrassment of Sir Nick Clegg
    29 October 2021, 12:04pm

    If you thought Nick Clegg’s career reached its nadir with the ‘I’m sorry’ video then think again. The former Deputy Prime Minister is re-enacting the stunning success of his political career out in Silicon Valley where he’s paid £2.7 million a year to sell his soul to Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the rest of the Facebook – today rebranding as Meta – cabal. Whereas Sir Nick is all too familiar us here in Britain, Americans were not au fait with the former Lib Dem leader when he was appointed as vice president of the social media behemoth back in 2018.

    But all that has changed in the last month, with Clegg becoming a familiar face to millions stateside thanks to his near-constant cringing appearances on American networks. Facebook/Meta has endured a torrid few weeks of revelations, leaks and whistleblower broadsides, with the company now accused of turning a blind eye to hate speech, anti-democratic plotting, and even human trafficking on its platform. And Clegg – in the absence of Zuckerberg and Sandberg – is the sacrificial lamb to the media slaughter, constantly being wheeled out to face the guns of the American press.

    https://youtu.be/Ea26Ffa9jU4

    With a face that contorts between exasperated anguish and pained self-righteousness, his various interviews appear to have done little to win over the critics. There’s talk about a ‘more senior global leader’ being needed to do his job, with Clegg being compared to a tobacco salesman for his deflections. Still, at least during such moments he can retreat to his £7 million house fitted with a pool, ‘outdoor fireplace’ and hot tub – in the Atherton neighbourhood of the San Francisco Bay Area, believed to boast America’s highest property prices. Not for nothing did the Guardian quote Clegg’s wife Miriam praise for California: ‘People praise failure here in a way we don’t. It’s so healthy.’

    Undaunted by his interviews, today Clegg has been given a starring role in the relaunch of Facebook/Meta. The company has released its new utopian vision of the ‘metaverse’ in which users will be able to live their lives in a virtual reality – one that presumably does not include, say, the platform’s role in propagating Myanmar atrocities. In an jargon-riddled clip with Zuckerberg, Clegg lobs softball questions at his boss over a phone call, stuttering like a charmless Hugh Grant in front of a bookshelf shorn of its books – an appropriate analogy, if ever there was one.

    Still, it’s moments like these that remind us why Jared O’Mara was ever able to be elected to Parliament.

    2. ‘ere, how do you spell sycof.. er sicough… oh alright then ar$e kisser! What a truly nauseating pair they are.

    1. I had to stop the clip because the urge to use physical violence on that nincompoop was so strong.

    2. Richard Madeley has risen in my estimation. He was the personification of patience with that hysterical harridan. She made her cause seem infantile (which it is – my opinion).

    4. I won’t further pollute my cluttered mind by watching the interview, but I will repeat my mantra that insulation foam contains brominated or chlorinated flame retardants that may be potentially carcinogenic or toxic. Perhaps OK in a well ventilated building.

    1. Ah – you don’t understand.

      Both these tossers are “important people” (© John Whittingdale (useless) MP). So the rules don’t apply to them.

      I’ll bet a shilling that neither has ever had a test nor filled in a Passenger Locator Form nor even, I suspect, been vaccinated.

  75. “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Edward Murrow

    That is going to be my motto from now on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zk5uDYIyDU&list=WL&index=56

    My free, uncluttered, and unbrainwashed mind firmly believes the following:

    1. The whole ‘Covid’ scenario, whether it exists or not, is a manufactured epidemic by those in charge, promulgated by mass media, and intended for no other reason than to cow the sheep.

    2. The whole ‘climate change’ fiasco is another area where mass hypnosis has transcended intelligence (not that transcending human intelligence is a tall order these days).

    3. The whole “don’t eat fat, eat ‘healthy’ foods” propaganda is pushed by the global corporations who have removed healthy fats from their products and replaced them with sugar and masses of industrially-modified seed oils that are being marketed as ‘healthy’ when they are, demonstrably, far from it.

    The worldwide scam of ‘Covid’ is being used to control minds, especially feeble minds. Whether this virus was manufactured or nor is a moot point; however, it is a massive convenience for those who rule over us, not to mention their paymasters. The number of data being manipulated, on a worldwide scale, to say how many people have suffered from — or died from — as a direct result of being infected by the Sars-Cov-2 virus, is a hellish blend of lies, damn lies and statistics; and those statistics are highly suspect to say the least. I have no intention, whatsoever, at any stage of rolling up my sleeve for anyone to inject me with any substance. It will not happen.

    The climate sages have been warning for decades about the urgent necessity for us to “do” something to prevent the melting of the ice caps and the concomitant rising of the sea levels that will, no doubt, flood the planet. Strange, then, how the Maldives are still afloat, and that the Norfolk Broads are not yet part of the greater North Sea. Much effort, especially by Left-wing pressure groups, goes into telling us that we must take urgent action to conquer ‘climate change’, yet newspapers still glorify families who procreate huge families.

    Up until around the 1950s, most western humans were routinely thin and wiry, in fact television newsreels show how few fat people there were. Compare that to today when obese people waddle around everywhere and thin ones are few and far between. Two films taken in the same USA city street, five decades apart, show this graphically. Up to the 1950s, it was normal for people to enjoy a diet that was replete with milk, cream, cheese, butter, lard, dripping and suet. People remained healthy and never put on weight eating these delicious natural fats. Then an intensive campaign was launched by “health authorities” all over the western world, urging people to “eat healthily”, to cut off fat from meat, stop eating and drinking dairy products, and replace them with more “nutritious” and “healthy” cooking oils. They were also told to eat far more carbohydrates and far less fats and proteins.

    It has now been discovered that all those “health authorities” were funded by huge donations from the global enterprises that had a vested interest in selling the products of their wheat, maize and rapeseed prairies, soya-bean plantations, and cotton fields. One of these mass giants, Proctor & Gamble, discovered a mechanical method of converting their excess industrial lubricants an selling them to a gullible public as ‘food products’. That was the start of people consuming billions of gallons of ‘healthy’ cooking oils. It is of no coincidence, whatsoever, that this caused a massive imbalance in the consumption of Omega-6 fatty acids at the expense of more healthy Omega-3 fatty acids, which had the direct consequence of starting the obesity epidemic.

    Two independent investigations: one at Minnesota in 1956, and another at Sydney in 1973; provided unchallengable evidence that this was, indeed, the case. The results of both surveys were shelved and never published! That is, until recently when they were unearthed and studied. It has also been proved that the exponential rise in all modern-day diseases, such as: cancer, respiratory problems, strokes, heart disease, atherosclerosis, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease/dementia, macular degeneration, fibrosis, inflammation, lupus, arthritis, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, asthma, postpartem depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Parkinson’s disease, low testosterone, infertility, DNA damage and Crohn’s disease have all been exacerbated and aggravated by the modern diet.

    Bollocks to the global corporations, the health authorities, and the world’s governments. I am losing a minimum of one kilogram a week by eating properly, healthily, nutritiously and deliciously. I shall continue to do so as my health and wellbeing continues to rise. And woe betide anyone coming anywhere near me with a syringe!

    2. I wanted to say shut up you daft bat and then I realised that I agree with pretty much everything she says!

        1. The sound can be switched off and the cc box near the bottom right turns on subtitles. The % sign is missing from 90% but otherwise it reads OK.

        2. Agreed – and, personally, I dislike being called: “You guys”…. In the same way that I LOATHE people who say: “Hi.” And worse still, “Hi, William”…..

    3. I bought some double cream the other day and rediscovered the art of floating it on top of my coffee. Used to be common and hardly done now but undeniably tastes better than soya milk.

      2. We used to go into the Berni Inns for a liqueur coffee with a cream floater on it. They had a dozen different flavours. Last week I bought a carton of almond milk. It looked like milk but tasted of tap water.

        1. I liked Berni’s. I liked Wimpey’s too.

          They went the way of the dinosaurs because you had to know how to use cutlery.

          1. I remember Irish coffees at Berni’s but also loved the ‘schooners’ of sherry before dinner!!

          2. You and me.

            I still do when i go to my favourite restaurant. Harvey’s Bristol Cream. I don’t even have to tell them to ‘go large’ any more. :@)

      3. I do hope you didn’t just have a plain coffee floater..

        Whiskey Coffee/ Irish Coffee. Whiskey Coffee is most often known as Irish Coffee. …

        Grand French Coffee. Grand French Coffee is a drink made from Grand Marnier. …

        Café com cheirinho. …

        Rudesheimer Kaffee. …

        Caffè Corretto. …

        Kaffekask. …

        Drambuie Coffee. …

        Braeckman Flemish Coffee

          7. Real gravy comes from the vegetables under the roast (trivet) and meat juices. Passed through a fine sieve or Mouli and then Monteed with butter. But i expect the MR knows that.

          8. Knows that? She is a fantastic and imaginative cook. She’d give you a run for your money!

    4. Excellent post, Grizz.

      . “The whole ‘climate change’ fiasco is another area where mass hypnosis has transcended intelligence (not that transcending human intelligence is a tall order these days).”

      I’ve come to the conclusion that there are people who wish to be seen to be on the righteous side of these issues, whether it was Apartheid, global warming, Brexit and now Covid. They generally are the same people.

      It’s as if they don’t understand or care about the science, they’ll just support the side of the issue as a form of virtue-signalling with a large amount of Western guilt thrown in.

      1. Thanks, John. Your prescient summary of those righteous virtue-signallers encapsulates the thoughts of you, me, and a good number of other positive thinkers in a nutshell.

  76. Golly (sorry, bames) Gosh. Went out 20 minutes ago to take a probably next to last picking of raspberries. After five sunny minutes – the heavens opened. In the three minutes it took to get back to the house, I was drenched. Complete change of clothing. Pickles was out, too, and arrived shortly afterwards – in the shape of a ginger sponge! Gus – smugly – was sitting by the AGA….!

    Bright sun again…

    3. I took my washing in an hour or so ago as it was getting a bit grey out there – and the sun promptly came out and it’s still sunny!

    1. Looks like being taken out by her would involve sitting in a restaurant watching, while she scoffs everything on the table.

    3. She has tenure. She can’t be fired. She is proof that tenure is a corrupt system. It is supposed to be there so a professor can say what they will with out fear. It has become a means, by the left, of having a platform to spread corrupt politics to all and sundry and get away with it. And, as you can tell by her language she isn’t fit to be at a University.

      She sits there, in an institution, using furniture in a building with a modern communication system by which she spreads her bile all of which is provided by the inventiveness of the very people that she would like to murder. I would have no objection to her if she was to go back to her mud hut, sitting in a kraal, and using drums to communicate. But like the destructive parasite that she is, she is happy to take while wishing destruction on the host.

      2. Behind her is another whitey development; or have we failed to discover prehistoric Effrikan books?

  85. The Telegraph has altered its access so that you are now required to sign up before you can read the articles, so that’s the end of Telegraph coverage on Nottl!

    1. Perhaps someone will help him out and stick a spear in his side…

      St John’s Gospel ch19 v34

    5. In the eighteenth century, people visited Bedlam for a good laugh.
      Nowadays, we sit at home and get the same on telly.

  88. The sun has broken through, briefly, after three days of non-stop rain. This morning the lake in the field reappeared. Ten years ago drainage was put into the field to prevent it’s being inundated.
    A few days ago it was sunny. I was looking out of the kitchen window I saw a buzzard sitting on a branch of tree about 200 yards way at the edge of the field. The branch is a dead one and sticks out past the greenery. It is a good lookout spot for a buzzard. I watched for a few minutes as it sat quietly, with it’s back to me. I turned away for a moment and when I looked back it had gone.
    Later, at the same window, I was washing the dishes and saw sudden movement. A stoat ran across the grass next to the fence. The fence separates us from the field. The edge of the field is thick, tangled grass. There are one or two holes that are the entrances to the rabbit warren. The stoat stotted across the grass, and poked its head into one of the holes, and come back out immediately. It moved on to the next hole and disappeared into the warren. A few moments later it came back out with something in its mouth. It dropped the small gray thing, which moved a bit. It looked like a vole, possibly. The stoat played with it the way a cat plays with a mouse, then picked it up and disappeared into the warren again. I did not see it again.
    I’ve only seen the stoats half a dozen times. It is good to know that they are there.

    1. Either you have very good eyesight or your window has an opticians prescription.

      Nature in tooth and claw.

      1. Well, the “back garden” is about 10 feet wide. The binoculars help when watching buzzards.

    2. Stoats, weasels, always a treat to see, even if they just give you a disdainful look as they disappear.

          5. A wonderful lady. I love that having refrained from smoking because it was bad for her voice, on her death bed she decided to enjoy a ciggie! Those who saw her said she was glowing, just before the end…

        1. Several of us Nottlers are going to a lovely place soon for dinner and walks near you. You should see the place. Part of a huge estate with extensive grounds at our disposal. Shame you are not invited.

          1. It seems to happen in every country – folk don’t seem to read the 50 pages of ultra small print before planting their crosses. It’s no wonder we end up being crucified…..

      2. Every muscle in her face gives away the fact that she is not a happy soul. Mind you, if I woke every morning and saw that countenance in the mirror looking back…….

          1. I am beginning to worry about you, Bob. Every time someone posts a pic of a harridan, you say you’ve had worse!

          5. Reality is never going to bed with anything less than gorgeous and waking in the morning to find a hideous witch next to you in bed.

  91. That’s me for this day of two halves. More rain expected tomorrow. Just had a word with the MR’s brother – sound engineer working on the CRAP26 thingy in Glasgow. Though it means he has a month’s work (yes – a MONTH), he is appalled at the utter waste of millions and millions of pounds in setting up the event.

    Have a cheerful evening.

    A demain.

  92. Juvenile Macron is making France look ridiculous
    Yes, a bit of Brit-bashing can go down well, but not if it involves hostile stunts and bullying threats
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/29/juvenile-macron-making-france-look-ridiculous/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-onward-journey

    BTL

    Is the fact that he married a woman old enough to be his mother and has step-siblings/step-children older than himself indicative of the fact that he thinks like a baby and hopes his babyish behaviour will be treated with indulgence by the grown ups?

    His wife/mother substitute needs to behave like a good Old Fashioned French Mother and give him a damned good smacked bottom.

    3. In my experience of French mothers with unruly, nay uncivilised, children, smacked bottoms are unknown territory.

  93. Stop press; Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse:

    “Nicola Sturgeon, 51, says she and her husband Peter Murrell might foster children in the future when she leaves politics – after suffering a miscarriage in 2011”

      1. “I dinnae care what yus dead mother used to give ya for breakfast, ya little gobshite!”

          2. As an Geordie incomer? to the new Republic of the Marxist la Sturge I have to get the wurds right!

          4. Ta, darling! You must have missed Conway and me discussing ‘Cushie Butterfield’ last night!

          7. Yes, I did.
            I miss much: workload and other stress factors mean early bed – about 22:00 local (BST+1)

    5. I liked The Diary of Dilyn The Dog in The Critic.
      “Tomorrow we’re seeing a woman called Nicola, who is scared of dogs. Bozzo says I should put her at ease by humping her leg”.

  95. Evening, all. There has been precious little for proper Conservatives for decades. It has been a continuation of Blue Labour policies for ages.

    2. Boris is exactly where he wants to be. Bought and paid for like the whore he is. Just like his Eton chums.

  97. Boris is ducking and diving .

    We didn’t vote for some one who hides away from real confrontation ..

    I thought he was an authority on Churchill, Boris has no guts , he and his spineless pals are conning us out of £millions by persuading us this new Green religion will save the planet .

    1. Boris learned a few phrases of Latin at college and then blagged his way to PM. The man is a total fraud. He knows nothing about anything except how to discharge his little penis in to women who are as enamoured of his faux charm as the rest of what was the Conservative party. I hope he gets a disease that rots his cock off.

      1. I only, he had just learned to Master Bate, life in UK would be so much betterfor us Brits

        1. Yes. In journalism, he could have kept up the pretense for the rest of his life.
          Gove, in my opinion is the same. Both of them have the same flaw, that they are driven by ambition, and their main talent is for getting elected, rather than carrying out the job.

    2. Rockall – for the rest of their days – would be appropriate …

      They could aspire to eat gannets …

  101. Good night al.

    Pan-fried fillet of gilt-head bream, crunchy potatoes. Pouilly-fumé 2019.
    A plump, ripe mango to follow.

  103. Earlier in the day I reported on an intruder. Pleased to report that door to door enquiries resulted in a positive ID and the felon was captured and is now once again behind bars…..

  105. The hounding of Kathleen Stock and what it means for our freedom of speech.

    Unless universities discipline groups who bully individuals and causesthey take issue with, we’re going so see an awful lot more of this

    Each and every day, I thank My God that I am old (well 27 in my parlance, when I ignore the first 50 Years).

    I cannot see a way around the Wokeness that rules UK, at the moment

    The Crowning Glory, for the haters of the way of life that in UK has slowly evolved over 1000 years, will be when our Remeberance Parade at the Cenotaph is
    disrupted and the police do nothing to stop that, in the same ways that highways are blocked, Statues toppled, Refineries invaded etc

    We deserve better than this, we need a Party to support that will give freedom to us all, not just the Wokeists

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/29/hounding-kathleen-stock-means-freedom-speech/

    1. Further to the above, about. Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at Sussex University, as you read through the article, she is referred to as “Stock”.

      This is how a murderer of an MP is described, by the BBC

      Mr Ali is accused of visiting the home of one MP, the Houses of Parliament and the constituency surgery of another MP at various times
      this year as part of reconnaissance for a potential attack.

      I am fed up of it

    2. Further to the above, about. Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at Sussex University, as you read through the article, she is referred to as “Stock”.

      This is how a murderer of an MP is described, by the BBC

      Mr Ali is accused of visiting the home of one MP, the Houses of Parliament and the constituency surgery of another MP at various times
      this year as part of reconnaissance for a potential attack.

      I am fed up of it

    3. …and, OLT, the little parties are currently just vote-splitters and need to get together, compromise and present us with an alternate manifesto that we NoTTLers, and others of a similar mind can get behind.

  107. 340610+ up ticks,

    Many are calling for a new party but will NOT relinquish their lab/lib/con membership cards, that is the truth of the matter.

    1. No, Ogga, as you well know, they are looking for a NEW party that will fulfil their desires outside the current Lib/Lab/Con, of which very few here are members..

      Maybe you need to go out with sandwich boards or otherwise proselytise in street corners.

      1. 340610+ up ticks,
        Evening NtN,
        Two don’ts don’t be fooled by how many are card holders and don’t try to tell your granddad how to suck eggs.

        Been out on the streets time after time in regards to the real UKIP through a shitstorm from those very same card holders, the 2019 general Election was an example of what our opposition was.

  108. 340610+ up ticks,

    Do not make the mistake that the fat turk & co disagree, they don’t.

    Dt,
    Britain must be punished for Brexit, says France
    Brussels needs to make clear that ‘leaving union is more damaging than remaining’, says French PM in call for sanctions over fishing war

  110. Too much to read this late, so Good morning, God bless and I’ll join you all, again in the morning’s light.

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