Wednesday 3 November: Patients encouraged to use NHS 111 – but then forced to drive to A&E

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    2. Good morning Bob, it was a calm, cool morning on the sunlit golf course yesterday morning. As I prep to head out for my weekly shop, it’s much crisper today though the sunshine has cleared my frosted windscreen.
      On both events, it’s a matter of squinting into a low sun.
      Blue skies on another calm day. Just as well we’re not relying on the windmill farms for our wigglies.

  2. Patients encouraged to use NHS 111 – but then forced to drive to A&E

    That has been the case for some time now, not just since covid.

    2. Even before NHS111 it was often necessary to go to A&E because full time GPs only work a few hours a day and an appointment is more difficult to get than a winning lottery ticket.

  3. I refuse to be lectured on climate change by the Keystone Cop26 brigade. Allison Pearson. 3 November 2021.

    I have one small objection to Cop26. They forgot to put the word Keystone before it. Proceedings at the climate summit in Glasgow got off to a disastrously slapstick start. In no particular order:

    A fallen tree on the West Coast main line caused chaos, preventing delegates travelling from London. Channel 4’s Jon Snow tweeted that this was proof we should take climate change seriously. Because no tree in England ever fell over in bad weather before the Industrial Revolution. A bystander suggested the newsreader was particularly exercised by global warming because, if it wasn’t halted, he’d be known as Jon Water.

    Around 400 private jets landed at Glasgow airport, carrying world leaders and billionaire businessmen, which did slightly undermine the summit’s key message that we need to reduce our carbon footprint in order to reach net zero by 2050. It swiftly became apparent that by “we” they mean poor people, who must make sacrifices in order to “offset” the uninterrupted, frictionless pleasures of the global elite.

    Morning everyone. This must be the most complete fiasco of a summit of any description there has ever been but it will have absolutely no effect on the Elites who need it not only to justify their own existence but to enable them to pursue the Globalist Agenda. So it’s full speed ahead to the extinction of Freedom and Democracy (the real casualties of Global Warming) and a Bright Marxist Future with serfdom for the peasants and luxury and largesse for the New Nomenklatura!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/11/03/refuse-lectured-climate-change-keystone-cop26-brigade/

    1. Morning minty et al.

      The principle purpose of this and similar conferences has been achieved and that is is to provide cover to justify imposing and then increasing taxes on energy. Energy being the one good that has fairly inelastic demand i.e. if the price of fuel increases, (in no small part due to increases in taxes and duties) people will continue to consume energy without a notable reduction in the levels of consumption and therefore the result is an increased tax take. One might ask why it is necessary to increase taxes and the answer is of course all the legally enacted unfunded promises.

    2. In Scotland it is a legal requirement to provide access for disabled people, e.g people in wheelchairs. Even small businesses must bear the often onerous costs of making alterations to premises that involve modifying doors and installing ramps. These laws do not apparently apply to the UN. The UN have been “loaned” a chunk of Glasgow around the SECC. They did not arrange for access, and on Monday an Israeli delegate could not get in and went away.
      In other news, the police closed off a road without warning, and thereby prevented residents from returning home. They were redirected through Kelvingrove Park an area not patrolled by the police. Kelvingrove is quite a big public park with no lights and no police patrols. The police compelled women to use that route to get home in the dark.
      If only there were words to describe this dangerous, useless cockupfest.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-59128618
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59135235

    3. Copulate26 may be a fiasco but it has made me take a long, hard look at my lifestyle. I henceforth pledge to have a smaller carbon footprint than Prince Charles.

    4. Not to mention, Minty, the excesses of Bumbling Joe Biden, his helicopter flown over in a giant transport and his 85 car motorcade.

      These greedy morons seem unable to rationalise that we see their greed and any respect is gone – in fact we now look at ways to undermine and/or depose them.

  7. ‘Morning All

    CDC approves Pfizer vaccine for 5/11 year olds………..

    This Pfizer??

    “Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial”

    “But, for researchers who were testing Pfizer’s vaccine at several sites

    in Texas during that autumn, speed may have come at the cost of data

    integrity and patient safety. A regional director who was employed at

    the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ

    that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed

    inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse

    events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial. Staff who conducted

    quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they

    were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the

    regional director, Brook Jackson, emailed a complaint to the US Food

    and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day.

    Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails.”

    https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
    Utter utter bastards,couldn’t miss out on the vax boom could they,not as if they don’t have form,highest ever fines for bent clinical trials

    2. Yo Rik

      It could be equally shocking to those who ‘pins’ in the more personally exotic parts of their body*

      * This all hearsay, of course: I have no personal experince of it

    3. Yo Rik

      It could be equally shocking to those who ‘pins’ in the more personally exotic parts of their body*

      * This all hearsay, of course: I have no personal experince of it

  9. This is a good one for The Copulaters on the Clyde

    BTL@DTletters

    Martin Mitchel
    3 Nov 2021 6:17AM
    In London alone 2,000 massive chimney stacks were blown down. The lead roofing was blown off Westminster Abbey and the Queen had to shelter in a cellar at St James’s Palace to avoid collapsing chimneys and part of the roof. On the Thames, some 700 ships were heaped together in the Pool of London, the section downstream from London Bridge. HMS Vanguard was wrecked at Chatham. HMS Association was blown from Harwich to Gothenburg in Sweden before way could be made back to England. Pinnacles were blown from the top of King’s College Chapel, in Cambridge.

    There was extensive and prolonged flooding in the West Country, particularly around Bristol. Hundreds of people drowned in flooding on the Somerset Levels, along with thousands of sheep and cattle, and one ship was found 15 miles inland. Approximately 400 windmills were destroyed, with the wind driving their gears so fast that some burst into flames.

    At sea, many ships were wrecked, with about 1,500 seamen drowned. Between 8,000 and 15,000 lives were lost overall.

    The shape of things to come or the Great Storm of 1703? I blame man made climate change.

  10. #Greenfuckwittery

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/aae310ced43fe7f21af9f78eb056d2996fa4c967977102fc0b700bfd38e89dd2.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a59e10d53812db42b44abf7c1d4824d520732fed27d7f32366dd3b2148ac43e2.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6cb30342307658251f707b42ea3aef7ab9933c95227bb7e217e1036d8c223ec.jpg

    Especially the Trannies,apparently……….

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  11. The lunatics are in charge:

    Dear deer-park parking
    SIR – Until recently, you could pay £5 to park at any time and enjoy the vast deer park at Knole, Kent, a National Trust property (Letters, November 2).

    Now, if you wish to visit just the grounds, the National Trust website advises you to park in Sevenoaks and walk. Otherwise, to use the car park, you must book at least 24 hours in advance and buy a ticket to see the house, which also gives you access to the grounds.

    On visiting recently, I found the enlarged and spacious car park half empty. The main road around the park, however, had a lot of parked cars on it. The reason is that the Trust counts bodies not cars, so the number of cars is limited. The explanation for this bizarre situation: Covid.

    How stupid does the Trust think the public are, if it assumes they cannot distance themselves in a deer park?

    Gwen Mant
    Wigmore, Kent

    Parking in Sevenoaks and walking into Knole isn’t easy. Quite why the NT wants to deter people from visiting some of its properties is hard to fathom. Some form of collective madness, perhaps?

  13. SIR – I read in the Court Circular (November 1) that the Prince of Wales attended a “Sustainable Markets Initiative Fashion Taskforce Digital ID Commitment Presentation”.

    I hope the presentation was more informative than its title.

    Peter Howard
    Norton Lindsey, Warwickshire

    Presumably a title like this makes the organisers feel very important?

    1. “organisers”? Oh, you mean the “Sustainable Markets Initiative Fashion Taskforce Digital ID Commitment Presentation Management Steering and Implementation Group”.

      2. Yes, that’s the one! Given Brian’s constant greenie gobbledygook lecturing he should at least feel at home in such an activity…

    2. I read that as the “Sustainable Markets Initiative” has a subgroup called the “Fashion Taskforce” who have made a “Presentation” detailing their “Commitment” to “Digital ID”.
      No doubt linked to a Central Bank Digital Currency to replace cash.

  14. BBC going apoplectic that Virginia has elected Republican Governor, Deputy Governor, Attorney General, etc.

    2. Isn’t it great. I’m so pleased, the fall of the Democrats has begun along with their wicked agenda.

      1. That is a photo-fit picture

        Bad news from the BBC can only be released:

        when he has his dark overcoat on

        it is an outside broadcast
        it is dark

        Edit: and of course he Twitches

  15. SIR – I wonder if Greta Thunberg would have been allowed to berate Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, had they bothered to turn up at Cop26.

    Mark Solon
    London E1

    Rather than CRAP26, how about a Greta appearance in Tiananmen Square or Red Square? With luck we would never see or hear her again.

    1. Selective use of the onoff button on your Telly can ensure that you never see or hear of or from her, again

  16. SIR – The NHS wants us to use 111 rather than 999.

    Last Sunday, my daughter woke in great pain in the early hours. Later in the day she and her husband called 111 and arranged to see a doctor at the out-of-hours GP unit. En route they were informed that the appointment had been cancelled, and were told to contact 111 again to make another.

    On returning home my wife and son-in-law tried to contact 111, without success. My daughter’s condition had deteriorated further, so we called 999 to get an ambulance. There was a lengthy telephone queue, and ultimately my son-in-law drove my daughter to A&E in Oxford. She was seen in a hut by a GP. After a five-hour wait, she was treated, discharged with medication and instructed to contact her GP if her condition did not improve.

    Separately, my wife and I are due our Covid booster. We tried unsuccessfully to book online. However, we qualify for the “walk-in” initiative, so on Monday travelled to our nearest facility. On arrival we were told there were not enough vaccines for walk-in patients. We have no idea how we will get the booster.

    What has happened to the NHS? The burden on A&E must, in part at least, reflect the failure of GP surgeries to examine patients effectively, but the problems are surely deeper. While many parts of the health service do a superb job, others are falling short.

    Aviation and education are a few of the major sectors that are subject to constructive external scrutiny. But the NHS is beyond any criticism. We will never solve the problems of this sacred cow unless we accept that they exist.

    Tony Gardiner
    Woodstock, Oxfordshire

    What an appalling indictment of our system! And yet Johnson’s only response is to pour yet more of our money into a broken NHS, instead of instigating wholesale reform.

  17. Good morning all. A dark, dank and dreary start to the morning with the overnight rain still drizzling on and 2°C in the yard.

      1. Temperature in my Conservatory, here in Yeller Belly Land* fell to +1.8 deg C overnight

        *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowbelly_(Lincolnshire)

  18. US president lashes out at Russia and China over failure to attend COP26 3 November 2021.

    Addressing reporters at the end of the second day of the climate conference in Glasgow, the president of the United States said China had “walked away” on the biggest issue of our time and described President Xi’s absence as a “big mistake”.

    The US president then went on to attack Russia for not committing to ambitious climate goals.

    After seeing this disastrous exhibition of Elite arrogance and hypocrisy one imagines both men have thanked their lucky stars that they weren’t there. You can tell what Vlad thought about it because after watching it he actually cancelled the video presentation that he was supposed to make!

    https://news.sky.com/story/cop26-president-biden-says-chinas-failure-to-attend-climate-summit-a-big-mistake-12458265

    1. Xi is afraid. His situation is so precarious he is afraid of leaving the country because he fears a coup. It is now almost a year since he left China because of his disquiet. It is rumoured that he recently had the head of the PLA assassinated because of a plot, real or imagined, against him. As for Putin, why would he want to mingle with a bunch of characters that use him as a scapegoat for their failings?

      1. I was reading the other day about tthe power behind Xi’s thone (whose name escapes me now) who is likely to depose him soon.

    2. Can we became an Annex of Russia, for 10 years or so, until

      CONVID
      COP26 til COPInfinity +1
      Global Warming

      Great Reset
      New World Order
      Davos Rules OK
      etc

      Have run their course

  19. Good Moaning.
    Epic one from Melanie Phillips.

    “The tragi-comic climate doomsday cult

    World leaders have made complete fools of themselves at COP26

    Melanie Phillips

    Nov 3

    What would happen if a doomsday cult were to take over the world? Science fiction? No. It’s happened.

    How else to explain the collective lunacy of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, an absolute farce where world leaders made complete fools of themselves?

    There’s been much criticism of the hypocrisy of the event, with hundreds of private jets flying into Glasgow to hector the world about reducing carbon emissions.

    Far, far worse has been the total erasure of rationality in the hysterical chorus that this was the “last chance to save the planet” — and the fact that no-one in mainstream debate has challenged this as utter unscientific garbage.

    Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, said in his address:

    It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now.

    Pledging once again to make Britain the “Saudi Arabia of wind power,” he said people were

    quilting the earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2, raising the temperature of the planet with a speed and an abruptness that is entirely man-made.

    Was this the same Boris Johnson who in 2015 called the concern that global warming was causing rising temperatures a “primitive fear” which was “without foundation,” and who claimed in 2013 that wind turbines couldn’t “blow the skin off a rice pudding”? It was.

    Speaker after speaker said COP 26 was the planet’s last chance to save itself from extinction through climate change. Do none of these people ever stop and wonder why this very same claim has been made over the years with just as much urgency —only to be made again when the climate apocalypse hasn’t happened or has been once more mysteriously postponed?

    At COP26 on Monday, we were told we had until 2050 to save the planet. We were “quite literally” in the “last chance saloon,” said Prince Charles.

    Addressing the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, Prince Charles had told delegates “our planet has reached a point of crisis and we have only seven years before we lose the levers of control”. Which set the last chance saloon in 2016.

    In 2018, climate scientists said there were 12 years to save the planet. Which took the last chance saloon to 2030.

    In July 2019, the BBC’s environment correspondent Matt McGrath wrote there were now 18 months to save the planet since

    the decisive, political steps to enable the cuts in carbon to take place will have to happen before the end of next year.

    McGrath reported:

    “The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can’t be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020,” said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus of the Potsdam Climate Institute.

    The sense that the end of next year is the last chance saloon for climate change is becoming clearer all the time.

    “I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival,” said Prince Charles, speaking at a reception for Commonwealth foreign ministers recently.

    Alas for the planet: COP26 has failed to achieve the binding commitment it sought from the world to keep global temperature rise below 1.5C through achieving “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050. So is it now all over for Life As We Know It? For the predictions at COP26 were blood-curdling and absolute.

    UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres insisted it was an “illusion” to think there has been enough progress reducing carbon emissions, and said mining for coal, oil and gas was like “digging our own graves”. The world’s addiction to fossil fuels was pushing humanity to the brink. “We face a stark choice: either we stop it — or it stops us,” he said.

    Yet by the climate cultists’ owns lights, the planet is now irrevocably doomed to extinction because the world has failed to commit itself to do what it must do to save it. So it follows that there’s no point whatever in continuing any carbon restrictions at all.

    That’s how stupid all this is.

    Evidence of how this issue is frying people’s brains (if not the world) was provided by the mess that Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, got himself into when he compared climate change to the Holocaust. The Mail reported him saying:

    “People will speak of them (current world leaders) in far stronger terms than we speak today of the politicians of the 30s, of the politicians who ignored what was happening in Nazi Germany because this will kill people all around the world for generations, and we will have no means of averting it”.

    Asked whether that meant failure to act on climate change would be worse than people allowing genocide to happen, he replied: “It will allow a genocide on an infinitely greater scale.

    “I’m not sure there’s grades of genocide, but there’s width of genocide, and this will be genocide indirectly, by negligence, recklessness, that will in the end come back to us or to our children and grandchildren”.

    Oh dear. Realising virtually immediately that he had made a grievously inappropriate comparison and diminished the genocide of the Jews, the archbishop quickly apologised and retracted his words. But the fact that he had said them shows the extent to which “climate change” has simply unbalanced people and erased all sense of proportion and reason.

    Shockingly, even the Queen has endorsed this mania. Praising the commitment of the late Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Prince William in

    encouraging people to protect our fragile planet,

    she said:

    It is the hope of many that the legacy of this summit — written in history books yet to be printed — will describe you as the leaders who did not pass up the opportunity; and that you answered the call of those future generations. That you left this conference as a community of nations with a determination, a desire, and a plan, to address the impact of climate change; and to recognise that the time for words has now moved to the time for action.

    The Queen was representing the government’s position — the role she is supposed to play. However, she seemed to be personally endorsing “net zero”. It’s bad enough that Prince Charles bangs on about this. The Queen, however, is supposed to be above politics, and we must never know what she thinks — a role she has played to absolute perfection throughout her long reign. Until now.

    But then, a key part of this lunacy is the belief that “climate change” is above not just politics but all normal discussion— that there can be no argument against it. The issue is beyond debate because the science is said to be “settled”.

    But science is never settled. The climate change cult is akin rather to religious faith — more than that, to the type of religious faith that brooks no dissent.

    Yet this is absolute madness. As I wrote here — and on many occasions over the past three decades — there is no evidence that today’s climate is displaying anything other than the normal fluctuations in climate patterns over the centuries. The predictions of climate apocalypse are all based on dodgy computer modelling, laughably inconsistent measurements of temperature and outright falsifications of the evidence.

    On The Daily Sceptic, Chris Morrison asks why journalists and politicians more sceptical about the “net zero” policy given that it’s based on the outputs of unreliable models. Good question! Morrison writes:

    The suggestion is an unproven scientific hypothesis based on the output of climate models that over a 30-year period have yet to record an accurate forecast among them. The vast majority greatly over-estimate global warming, yet are routinely presented as evidence for a hard green agenda that says the matter and science is beyond debate.

    …Sceptics of the hypothesis are routinely traduced as ‘deniers’, although quite where the equivalence is between denying the proven fact of the Nazi Holocaust and questioning fanciful climate model predictions is hard to see.

    To put it mildly. Moreover, in total contradiction of the core belief that rising CO2 levels inevitably and inescapably drive global temperatures upwards, satellite and surface measurements show that there has been no global warming for seven years.

    Morrison goes on:

    Of course the flatlining temperature should be well known to agenda-driven journalists, politicians, activists and academics, hence the recent move from global warming to Climate Crisis, then Climate Emergency and now Climate Breakdown. To back up these emotional claims, the emphasis has turned to ‘extreme’ weather – what we used to call bad weather. Heat, cold, rain or drought, everyone is a winner. Of course, cherry picking individual weather events and blaming it on long term changes in the climate is about as unscientific as you can get and not a scintilla of credible proof has yet been produced to back up the claims.

    Almost daily, the headlines are filled with news from the Met Office’s gauge at Heathrow airport where record temperatures are to be found, helped by acres of concrete and black tarmac and the warm breezes from jet engines and numerous industrial air-con units. In 2019 the BBC highlighted one ‘record’ high temperature in one day in Antarctica and splashed it across all of its media outlets. The recent news that the South Pole had its coldest six month winter since records began was ignored. One-off event good, longer term trends bad.

    …We don’t know for certain if humans cause all or most global warming by burning fossil fuel. But it seems highly unlikely. From around 1945 to the late 1970s, there was a fall in global temperatures and the almost unanimous fear was global cooling. Then the temperature rose for 20 years leading to the “settled” science of global warming. Now it is flatlining and possibly heading for cooling so Armageddon beckons with “extreme” weather.

    Is CO2 to blame? Well, humans only contribute three per cent of all CO2 entering the atmosphere. If we destroy our industrial lifestyle by cutting our modest contribution, can we be sure the other 97 per cent will behave itself in a world that is naturally warming a little, as it has done countless times in the past?

    A small test recently occurred when the Covid pandemic cut human global CO2 emissions by 7 per cent in 2020. It had no discernible effect on the overall rise, which seems likely to be a product of a gently warming natural climate.

    On the basis of an uncertain hypothesis which has become an argument-free agenda for most members of the mainstream media, politicians, activists, state-sponsored scientists and subsidy-hungry industrialists, we are embarking on net zero with little idea, or seemingly care, of the disastrous effect it will have on human society across the globe. Almost every new technology to replace our existing cheap and reliable power has severe disadvantages and heavy costs. The warnings of green disaster have long been evident. In 2018 the long established Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland warned that the Scottish and UK Government green energy policy was likely to lead to severe electricity blackouts. Such events, it warned, “lead to death, severe societal and industrial disruption, civil disturbance and loss of production”.

    Yet the public is mostly quite unaware of all this. The public won’t know about the recent work of the noted atmospheric scientist and renowned authority on radiation physics, Professor William Happer, emeritus professor of physics at Princeton, who has argued that the heating properties of CO2 fall as more is placed in the atmosphere.

    They won’t know about Professor Antonio Zichichi, another emeritus physics professor, who published a letter in 2019, along with 70 Italian academics, warning about signing up to policies of uncritical reductions of CO2 with “the illusory pretence of governing the climate”.

    Few know about all the many distinguished scientists who say man-made global warming theory is garbage — because no mainstream outlets will give them a platform. In 2006, the BBC decided to stop giving any air-time to climate change sceptics. The BBC is now no more than a propaganda outfit for the climate change cult. As Dan Wootton wrote in the Mail:

    But most concerning has been a full-fledged BBC climate campaign masquerading as journalism.Perhaps that was best illustrated by the corporation’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt, an anti-Trump protestor whose sister is one of the Insulate Britain zealots arrested for blocking roads.

    His “interview” with the prime minister amounted to a shouting match, with a clearly exasperated Boris Johnson helplessly turning to look at his advisers on a number of occasions.

    In one exchange, Rowlatt yelled: “You’re going to the developing world saying ‘phase out coal’, at the same time as not ruling out a new coal mine in Britain. A new coal mine in Britain! We started the industrial revolution. We should close the mines!”

    If anything embodies and signals the end of the age of reason it is this climate cult, in the grip of which the west has gone through Alice’s looking-glass into a surreal post-science, post-truth world.

    No wonder Russia and China didn’t even bother to turn up to COP26. Their contempt for the west must be bottomless as they look upon its accelerating economic and cultural green suicide — and rub their hands.”

    1. A-HA, and good morning all, cold though it is but sunny. Melanie said: ” Professor William Happer, emeritus professor of physics at Princeton, who has argued that the heating properties of CO2 fall as more is placed in the atmosphere.” I mentioned him yesterday and his analogy of a red barn with regards to Co2. Which explains that it is impossible to get to a point with Co2 where it becomes a danger. It is abject scientific cant to pretend it harms us or causes warming. I would strongly urge people to watch his talks/interviews on You Tube to hear a real scientist explaining the function of Co2 and why the global warming business is a scam.

      1. It’s accepted that each doubling of CO2 has a logarithmic declining effect. CO2 is lower than it has been for most of the earth’s history and were it to sink too low we are doomed. There has already been a 15% greening of the earth. Our contribution from the UK is about 1%. Nothing we could possibly do will have the slightest effect on the little warming we have seen since the Little Ice Age and we will wreck our future prosperity and happiness. This dreadful fraud should be fought against yet the DT has a climate story each day and the BBC is part of the foul corruption of science.

        1. It is almost as if the people in Glasgow are advocating not only genocide but the mass destruction of all life on earth. Happer has said that the lack of Co2, if it continues to fall, is so bad that we may have to end up extracting it deliberately from the earth itself, where it is deposited in various minerals, in order to preserve life on this planet.

          1. There was not a glimmer of irony the other week when the Beeb reported a lack of CO2 for slaughter houses.

        1. Bang goes Shakespear’s Macbeth, if his mate cannot say Me Thane of Cawdor

          Fffing Wokists

    3. How many of these politicians and world leaders actually believe this garbage? Do they just go along with it so that the emperor’s lack of clothes doesn’t become apparent?

      “Was this the same Boris Johnson who in 2015 called the concern that
      global warming was causing rising temperatures a “primitive fear” which
      was “without foundation,” and who claimed in 2013 that wind turbines
      couldn’t “blow the skin off a rice pudding”? It was.”

      Clearly the biggest hypocrite of all. He knows it’s garbage.

    4. Doomsters, Scaremongers, hypocrites and all Lacking Moral Fibre (LMF).

      Should be taken out and shot.

  20. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini charged with fraud by Swiss prosecutors
    “Why did Blatter cross the road”??
    “To get to the other bribe”

    1. ‘Morning Rik. It has only taken 6 years to reach this stage. Will they live long enough to face trial I wonder?

  21. ‘Morning again.

    Two very unhappy BTL posters…they are not alone:

    Martin Selves
    3 Nov 2021 4:54AM
    Theresa May is still an MP, and when she stands up in the HoC many Tory hearts sink. She should have resigned, and instead she sits alone on the benches, and only stands up to criticise the Conservative Party.

    The mess in the WA over Northern Island and Fishing was her fault, and her design with Ollie Robbins pulling the levers. Boris Johnson and the entire Country wanted the nightmare to end, and he signed off the WA without a back stop, but still with a deeply flawed and fatalistic legal treaty on NI and fishing. He was disingenuous when he said he had a oven ready Treaty to replace the WA. It is fair to say he lied to the country if he had read the parts we suffer under today and understood their meaning. If he did understand the meaning, but still pressed ahead, he has my sympathy and my anger in equal measure. This was a no win situation apart from a WTO exit.

    Playing games with Macron has become humiliating. The French Police watch as 45 economic migrants walk past them into rubber boats and disappear. We pay the French to watch. They impound a fishing boat and threaten Jersey with a power break. Macron threatens us with repercussions at Calais and elsewhere. Macron threatens us everyday, and Boris plays elbows with him everyday in Glasgow.

    This absurd situation must end. We must stop paying the French for watching. We must use Article 16 and turn the tables on Macron. We must stop this never ending delay and appeasement. If Boris stands up to the bully, he will find the Country is behind him, full square and demanding more. Instead he shadow boxes with climate change, when the UK is probably near the top of the World in a clean economy already … but wants to do more by forcing everyone into expensive battery cars, heating systems that don’t work, and a growing dependancy on wind and foreign energy imports. The ordinary man and woman can see the Elephants as the rich and famous Jet home after 2 days in luxury Cars, in luxury Aircraft, to a luxury privileged life style. Is it any wonder we raise 2 fingers as they leave. As for Greta ….. who is this crazy child?

    Carolyn Bates
    3 Nov 2021 3:59AM
    The ongoing NHS saga has no signs of dissipating as, quite frankly, it is no longer fit for service. This was evident before the Covid crisis but as we now come out of it, GPs are still not operating as they were before the pandemic, and there are no signs that this will change in the near future.

    This in turn, is placing pressure on A&E units, which are now seeing an increase in minor ailments when this is not what they are there for. This is taking the time of highly trained staff when they should be free for actual emergencies.

    The other scandal of course is that there is currently an estimated 30,000 shortage of staff due to the ridiculous vaccine mandates. These staff have worked all through the Covid crisis yet they are being told that they will have to leave their posts if they do not accept the vaccines. Many have already done so, rather than take an experimental vaccine. Most, will have natural immunity by now anyway.

    This is insanity by governments in the West, and the US is currently escorting doctors and nurses off hospital premises due to their refusal of the jabs.

    Where do they think they will get replacements from?

    * * *

    With so many vacancies in the NHS and care homes, it seems that the obvious solution is to create an even greater shortage by threatening to sack to those who refuse to comply. It beggars belief that apparently no one in the government can see what is about to happen. The legality of what they are doing has yet to be tested, but sooner or later the taxpayer will be required to stump up compensation and vast legal fees for something of such monumental stupidity. To cap it all, a new advertising campaign – no doubt costing a small fortune – is seeking to recruit people to the care industry. Give me strength!

  24. As a break from the CRAP26 nonsense, may we rejoice in the courage of this chap. The absence of any recognition of his gallantry seems to me a sad omission, although I’m quite sure that many such instances frequently went unrecognised in the fog of war. Perhaps in his case he ruffled too many feathers.

    * * *

    Stanley Perry, troop commander who survived a sniper’s bullet and a mortar bomb in ferocious fighting after the Normandy landings – obituary

    He had a narrow escape when shrapnel was slowed up by a wallet in the breast pocket of his battledress, a present from his wife

    By
    Telegraph Obituaries
    2 November 2021 • 6:29pm
    Stan Perry

    Stanley Perry, who has died aged 97, served with the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) and saw some of the fiercest fighting in the Second World War.

    The SRY, part of 8th Armoured Brigade, landed on Gold Beach, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6 1944. They were equipped with swimming Sherman tanks fitted with canvas flotation screens and propellers driven by the tank’s engine.

    Perry commanded No 4 Troop, C Squadron. Two months later, in mid-August, he was involved in his Regiment’s attempt to navigate the River Noireau and climb through steep, wooded hills and capture the Berjou Ridge.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Christopherson, his commanding officer, had to find out whether the river could be crossed and Perry was ordered to make a night reconnaissance.

    Crawling through thick bocage, accompanied by an infantryman and a sapper, he came across a German machine-gun post. The infantryman was armed with a Sten gun and wanted to attack it. “Not bloody likely,” Perry told him, “that would tell the Germans we’re here.” They crept around the post and discovered that the bridge had been destroyed.

    The river, however, was not more than a few feet deep and easily fordable. On their return journey, they knocked out the enemy post with Mills bombs. Perry reported to his CO and got into his sleeping bag at two o’clock in the morning.

    An hour later, he was shaken awake and told that the SRY had to be over the river at first light and that his troop was to lead the way. Shortly after he set off, he came across a dead sapper who had been blown up on a mine.

    A sapper officer told him that they were still clearing a minefield and he should halt until they had finished. But Perry had his orders. His troop followed in his tank tracks and they crossed the river without loss.

    As his tank climbed up the opposite bank, a rocket from a Panzerfaust carried away his aerial and he lost all wireless contact. Shortly afterwards, his corporal’s tank was hit by a mortar bomb and he was blown out of the turret. His sergeant dismounted from his tank and was running across to help the wounded man when he was mown down by a machine gun.
    Both were killed.

    Stan Perry’s troop of tanks, early 1945, during the advance to the Rhine
    Stan Perry’s troop of tanks, early 1945, during the advance to the Rhine
    A few moments later, Perry was hit by a sniper’s bullet and lost the use of an arm. Then steering was lost because a Panzerfaust rocket jammed one of the tank tracks.

    Somehow, they managed to return to the river. The bridge had been repaired and they got back to the squadron HQ. A medic took one look at Perry and called for a full medical team. He had to be evacuated at once.

    Back in England, he was on a hospital train which had halted for an hour when he spotted a nearby pub. He was heavily bandaged, but could walk a little and managed to make his way there.

    He ordered a pint of beer and put his hand in his pocket to pay for it. The landlord said: “Are you insulting me, sir?”

    “No,” replied Perry, “I’m paying for my pint.”

    “You’re not paying for beer in here,” said the landlord, and a few moments later there were five pints lined up on the counter.

    Stanley Arthur Perry was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on November 8 1923. His father worked in a factory processing sugar beet. Young Stan won a scholarship to Culford School. Aged 12, he started playing rugby. He played until he was 42 and represented RMA Sandhurst and the Army.

    His parents were devout Christians and on Sundays he attended church four times. One night a week he manned the warden’s First Aid post and once the bombing started he was called out to help with the casualties.

    He gained a scholarship to read Mathematics at Cambridge but enlisted in the Army instead. He had wanted to serve with the RAF as an air gunner but was persuaded to join the Young Soldiers Training Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, at Bovington, Dorset.

    An American medical unit was experimenting with a new drug. Perry and fellow “volunteers” were injected with a mumps serum. They developed jaundice, but being looked after by attractive nurses provided some consolation.

    He applied for a commission, passed the War Office Selection Board and went to RMA Sandhurst in autumn 1941.

    Matt Busby, who subsequently managed Manchester United and was knighted, was a PT instructor there. Busby took his charges on a six-mile cross-country run every morning. He used to lead and, at regular intervals, would turn around and say: “I’ll sweat the beer out of you idle beggars.”

    Perry was trained on Valentine, Matilda and Churchill tanks. The course included instruction in gunnery, wireless telegraphy and the principles of commanding a tank crew. In summer 1942 he was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment, but to his considerable disappointment he was posted to a north country training depot, nominally as motor transport officer but actually sports officer.

    Perry applied to transfer to the SAS and was accepted. He completed a parachute course at Ringway, Manchester, and was posted to Egypt. He was interviewed by Johnny Cooper but the two men did not take to each other. During a heated argument, Perry struck Cooper. He was posted back to his unit at Darvel, Ayrshire, where Lt Col Blair “Paddy” Mayne, CO of 1st SAS Regiment, gave him the choice of facing a court martial for striking a superior officer or finding another regiment.

    Mayne covered up the affair, and when Perry applied to join the SRY he was accepted. In the training for D-Day he went to Portsmouth, where he practised escaping from a submerged tank, a task made more difficult by the fact that he had never learnt to swim.

    His tank crew talked about him, sometimes disparagingly, using slang to disguise the meaning. But he was a linguist and quickly learnt the language and used it to tell them off. They were abashed, but it was the beginning of a close relationship.

    During the Battle of Normandy, the SRY were in action for 55 days and lost 200 men killed or wounded. Perry was wounded several times. On the second occasion, his life was saved by a wallet that his wife had given him. Shrapnel from a mortar bomb which would have killed him pierced the wallet in the breast pocket of his battledress and lodged in the wall of his heart.

    There were other narrow escapes. As he was leading his troop through a village, a length of wire strung across the street caught him in the throat. He shouted to his driver to stop and just managed to free himself in time.

    He often dismounted when going along narrow roads in villages. There was always the danger of someone lobbing a grenade from an upper window into the turret.

    Other hazards were less easily avoided. Perry met a Frenchman on the outskirts of a village. The man said he believed that almost all the Germans had left, but he pointed to a house and said that there might still be enemy soldiers there.

    Perry had his pistol and took his gunner, who was armed with a Sten. They went to the house. Perry kicked in the door. He saw a movement inside and shot. He hit the grandfather clock.

    On the table was a full bottle of wine with the cork drawn and a glass beside it. The gunner was reaching for it when Perry shouted: “Stop!” He had spotted some wiring under the table. The bottle was connected to a deadly anti-personnel device.

    After he was repatriated following the battle for Berjou, he was treated at Baguley Hospital at Wythenshawe in Manchester, where he met Lisa Berg. After he had recovered, he had a week’s embarkation leave and the two got married.

    Perry then rejoined the SRY near Maastricht and, in mid-January 1945, as his Regiment prepared to attack Heinsberg to the north-east, he was returning to his tank after an O Group when he heard the screeching of incoming rockets from a Nebelwerfer. He dived for cover but was hit by shrapnel in the face, arm, chest and leg.

    He was sent to an American hospital in Brussels and when he regained consciousness he found a replica Purple Heart on the locker beside his bed. An American clergyman came to his bedside to present him with the award but when he found out that Perry was serving with a British regiment, he took it back again.

    Perry was on the danger list for several weeks. He became addicted to morphine and drifted in and out of consciousness. A GI came and asked him if he had any last wishes. Perry said he would like some pineapple juice and the next day two dozen cans of tinned pineapple arrived.

    Back in England, he was operated on by a chest surgeon. It was found that he had shrapnel in his lung and pieces of his ribs were removed. He was medically downgraded and after returning to duty in December 1945, he was made adjutant of a PoW camp holding 3,000 German prisoners. He finished his service in the rank of captain.

    Perry subsequently moved to Denmark, and for the next three years he worked for a company making coated paper. There was high unemployment in the country, and when his work permit expired he returned to England and worked for Unilever.

    He finally retired in 1994, but he was the church treasurer of the village of Holton le Moor, Lincolnshire, until he died. In 2015 he was presented with the Légion d’honneur.

    Stan Perry married, in 1944, Anne-Lise (Lisa) Berg. She predeceased him and he is survived by their son and two daughters.

    Stanley Perry, born November 8 1923, died October 6 2021

    Edited for typo.

    1. Sadly, my reaction – apart from amazement at the courage – is “why did they bother”?

  25. A portrait of Welsh slave owner Sir Thomas Picton has been taken down from National Museum Cardiff.

    It had been on almost continuous display for more than 100 years.

    It has been described as “the beginning of a journey” by National Museum
    Wales. Its chief executive Fadhili Maghiya said the move had “huge
    significance”.
    Ah yes the Maghiya family,famous in the valleys for a thousand years………..

    1. This is the Sir Thomas Picton who fought through the Napoleonic Wars with great courage and distinction though it had an effect that we would now call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This did not prevent his attendance at the Battle of Waterloo where he was killed leading a charge against D’Erlon’s infantry!

      All honour to the man and a curse on his detractors!

    2. https://www.bond.org.uk/person/fadhili-maghiya

      Good morning Rik

      How many Africans live in Wales, have we missed something significant ?
      He should be warned not to poke his nose into OUR national cultural history.

      Fadhili is the director of Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel (SSAP) a network of African communities in Wales working in international development and across Wales. At SSAP, he manages a team working on local and international projects (mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa).

      Fadhili is also the founder and director of Watch-Africa: Wales’ African Film Festival. Having started the festival in 2013, it has grown to become one of the leading festival in the UK focusing on African cinema.

      He is a board member for Cardiff Community Housing Association and The National Community Lotter Fund Wales, RSA Fellow and Arts Associate at Arts Council Wales. Loves running, playing footballer and a healthy debate.

      1. Good morning, Maggiebelle

        Many years ago I saw on television a black American who visited the country of his ancestors. He said that when he compared his own prosperous and secure life in the US with the lives of the people whose great grandfathers had stayed put he thanked God for the fact that his own great grandfather, who had been sold as as slave by the chief, had given him such a happy escape.

        It would be interesting to see some statues put up by prosperous black people in Britain and the US to white slavers in African countries and the black people who sold them their merchandise. This would be in gratitude to them for liberating them from the hell hole their ancestral countries were and still are.

        Why else are millions of people in Africa trying to escape to Europe to this very day?

    3. Sir John Soane’s museum in London is well worth a vist just to see the Hogarths. Also the eclectic collection of artifacts.

      My mother had a book of Hogarth’s cartoons – now in my collection – and I did find some of them scarily compelling when I was a child.

          1. Tell me about it! And the joy (and strife) of combining books from two houses when we returned from France!

          4. “Books Do Furnish A Room”
            title of Anthony Powell novel.

            “Home is where the books are.”
            Actor Richard Burton when asked which of his many houses was his real home.

            “Knowing I loved my books, from my own library
            He furnished me with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.            ”
            Prospero in The Tempest

          5. “Books Do Furnish A Room”
            title of Anthony Powell novel.

            “Home is where the books are.”
            Actor Richard Burton when asked which of his many houses was his real home.

            “Knowing I loved my books, from my own library
            He furnished me with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.            ”
            Prospero in The Tempest

    1. 340808+ up ticks,
      O2O,
      It is hard to work out just WHO is at fault in the photo
      the two book ends breathing through fabric tea strainers or the arrogant bastard in the centre displaying openly the way things ARE & will continue to be , ongoing.

      https://youtu.be/LoKe5SjcjhU

      1. Got it! For me, a reasonable distance is 14 inches, otherwise I feel that my personal space has been invaded. So no more masks for anyone unless they really, really like wearing them.

          1. After allowing the persecution to his death of Dennis Hutchings not one politician has a right to wear a poppy.

    2. 340808+ up ticks,
      O2O,
      I do tend to see those successfully pushing the CRT issue in schools as running a society throat cutting exercise Og,maybe this ere new reset thing needs a war
      To ” save” the pre chosen side against the other.

      Does there seem to be a program of mosques going up as churches burn down ?

      https://youtu.be/DhYvq8MjGhk

  34. Moral Test

    Moral Test….Read to the end before making a judgement…Cheers
    This test only has one question, but it’s a very important one.

    By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally.

    The test features an unlikely, completely fictional, situation in which you will have to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.
    Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line.

    The Situation:

    You are in London.
    There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding.
    This is a flood of biblical proportions.

    You are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper, and you’re caught in
    the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.

    You’re trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses crumbling and people swirling around you, some disappearing into the water.

    Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.

    The Test:

    Suddenly, you see a man in the water.

    He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris.
    You move closer… Somehow, the man looks familiar…

    You suddenly realize who it is…. It’s the Muslim Cleric, Abu Hamza, the one-eyed, hook
    handed bastard who hates non-Muslims and wants the UK to become an Islamic state!!

    You notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever.

    You have two options:

    You can save the life of Abu or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the country’s most despised, evil and horrible men!

    Now The Question And Please Give An Honest Answer

    Would you select high contrast colour film or, would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

      1. You could always take your foot off his head to allow him to breathe whilst you change film and reapply it when you’re ready.

    1. The “plant-based” potatoes are the ones that are grown in the ground for food.

      The other sort are to be found aplenty inhabiting the parliament buildings of the world.

    2. It’s labelled Vegan. The ‘plant based’ must refer to using plant alternatives to the milk and butter normally used.

      Apologies for spoiling a good story with the truth.

    2. We already know that stoopid can’t be repaired, she “should just fade away and not try to dig what we all say”.

    1. President Bliar, President Brown, President May. President Boris? No thanks, I’d rather have the idiot King Charles the Numb – lots of woke verbal nonsense but no actual power.

  41. 340808+ up ticks,

    NEVER in the history of MANKIND has a majority of the indigenous peoples had such a blinkered, three monkeyed view of IT’S party’s actions
    for the benefit of keeping THAT party in power regardless of evil consequences, ie mass rape & abuse of children, ONGOING, mass murder ONGOING, mass uncontrolled immigration ONGOING BIG TIME.

    Over 20,000 illegal migrants have landed on British soil after crossing the English Channel from France since the start of the year, zero of whom have been deported by Boris Johnson’s government.

    2. The Sunday Times claims that there are 125,000 awaiting decisions on their political asylum claims.

      The taxpayers must be paying for just about every room in every hotel in the South East

  44. Because Drax power station is importing its fuel sources like Biomass from America and Canada, and coal from Australia, Colombia, Poland, Russia and South Africa, is this wh our bills are so high.

    Just asking , that’s all.

    2. Why, Boris? Why an economic catastrophe?

      As your tax hikes and spending plans, enforced control over what we can and cannot buy are even more destructive. So please, explain why wasting hundreds of billions of pounds prevents an economic catastrophe.

    1. The “energy suppliers” are in business to make profit.They buy gas on the spot market where there is a possibility to make bigger profits.Unfortunately when the price goes up they are caught between a rock and a hard place because there is a cap on what they can charge their customers.
      When the cost price on the spot market exceeds what they are allowed to charge their customers they operate at a loss.
      How long would you run your business at a loss ?

  47. Biden presidency in crisis as Trump-backed Republican pulls off huge win in Virginia
    Democrat support collapses in first major referendum on Biden administration
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/02/virginia-governor-election-knife-edge-polls-close/

    Reading the BTL comments it seems that there are a decreasingly small group of people who seriously believe that Biden won the presidential election.

    I wonder how many Nottlers are convinced that Biden won fair and square? Of course I know nothing about US presidential elections but as with Covid, Brexit, and man-made climate change I am growing increasingly more pissed off by what the MSM and the BBC wants me to think.

    2. Have been reading of ‘late surge in Democrat votes being counted’ in elections in other parts of America where the contest is tight. Where have we heard that before?

    3. Biden wasn’t even in the race. He attended no rallies and read his broadcasts from a giant screen in his basement.

      Trump meanwhile held rallies attended by hundreds of thousands. A reliable pundit predicted that Trump would have won with 81 million votes to 68 million votes for Biden. In the event the weighting of votes for Biden in the Dominian counting machines, dumping of votes for Biden via drop boxes, multiple counting of Biden voting papers at polling stations by corrupt officials and massive abuse of mail in votes switched over 10 million votes from Trump to Biden.

    4. Recently on local BBC radio – – New trainee presenter ? Young female – – heard the actual presenter mention that in NZ a bat had won a bird competition, to which she asked ” Is a bat a bird?”.

  49. A BTL Comment:-

    Robert Spowart
    3 Nov 2021 9:59AM
    Dr Jenny Jessop suggests the creation of Walk In Primary Care Services co-located with A&E departments in hospitals.

    I’ve a better idea. How about her using her position in the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to get the GPs within her remit to do the job they are being paid to do instead of hiding behind their gold plated COVID procedures?

    1. It seems to be very patchy. We’ve no complaints about the service OH has received from our surgery this year.

      1. An acquaintance of mine recently started work as a receptionist at a multi-doctor surgery. Apparently they’re all working flat out.

      2. That is what makes it so bloody annoying. That some surgeries have done their level best to offer as close to a normal service as possible, others have used the scamdemic as a means of totally altering the Patien-Doctor relationship & process.

    2. It seems to be very patchy. We’ve no complaints about the service OH has received from our surgery this year.

  50. Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq is set to name player who called him a ‘P***’ in Parliament as pressure grows on club’s board to quit for brushing off racist slur as ‘friendly banter’
    One of Yorkshire senior players allegedly would regularly called Rafiq ‘P**i’
    Star bowler was reduced to tears by slurs by teammate whose identity is secret
    Chairman Roger Hutton will face Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee
    A spokesperson for Arla Foods told Sportsmail that they will not renew deal
    Anchor’s decision to walk away will increase the pressure on other sponsors
    Tetley’s brewery and Emerald Publishing are also talking to Yorkshire CCC

    Yesterday Health Secretary Sajid Javid called for the board to resign yesterday as he tweeted: ‘P*** is not banter. Heads should roll at Yorkshire CCC. If (the) ECB doesn’t take action it’s not fit for purpose.’ Boris Johnson’s spokesman then urged the England and Wales Cricket Board to ‘investigate this thoroughly and quickly’ and ‘take action where needed’.

    So , what are they if they are not Pakistanis?

      1. My point George , is when is Pakistani not a Pakistani , if they really are .

        We are English , and they are Pakistanis, and we as a nation use abbreviations like knob head , Aussi, Kiwi, and the rest .. So I cannot see why old baldi Sajid Javid is wading into the lingo that cricketers use … banter ..

        1. I used to know a chap who was called “Paki” by his workmates and he was a popular guy – but his background was Italian – his name was Giovanni.

          1. In 1962, on 85 Squadron we had two black airmen of slightly different hue.

            The darkest was called nicknamed, Midnight and the lighter one, 23:59. Their was no slight taken by either, as we all had nicknames.

          2. A lot of our guys and Canberras went to 85 at West Raynham in ’62 from Leeming, I missed it because I’d just got my Cpl/Tech and got posted to Germany

          3. Can’t remember it, Sparky but can remember October ’62 ‘cos of Cuba Crisis. Posted to Yatesbury in ’63 for Fitter’s Course.

            Were the Canberras back-up for the 85 Fighters – a kind of follow-through?

        2. I agree no one would ever dream of calling a Paddy an Irish republic resident some of it might be upsetting.
          Where we live we have a quarterly village magazine, last addition apparently had a photo of Al Jolson dressed in his costume (the one he made is fame and money from) and one person apparently complained. And an apology has been printed in this edition Wadda load of bolero ! If I bump into a councillor i’ll ask.

          1. Few people would want to mention the country where I was born – but they would wish to live there even less.

        4. Very few members of the government – no matter what their racial origins are – are as squalid as Squalid Jawdrip is.

    4. I fee quite sure the ‘london mayor’ would be happy if that was all he was ever called. 🤔

    5. There were always Paki shops on the corners when I ‘were’ a lad, I think that javid was brought up in one. Free labour from the family…Everyone called them that. As the original Ronnie barker and Grenville owners retired, the immigrants took over.

    6. Blimey. I was in a university theatre group with a tall, rather tanned and strikingly handsome chap; he always referred to himself as The Posh P*ki.

  57. The Welsh executive demonstrates its worldly vision.

    £14m village bypass is scrapped because of increased carbon emissions

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10157343/Row-erupts-Welsh-Governments-decision-scrap-plans-14m-Llanbedr-village-bypass.html

    It’s not that Plaid Cymru members who are complaining about the decision don’t agree with the climate change nonsense. Note this quote:

    Gwynedd Council leader Dyfrig Siencyn slammed the decision, telling the Nation Cymru news outlet: “It is clear that once again rural areas can be sacrificed on the altar of climate change where the real problem and the answers lie in our urban areas.”

    Dyfrig Siencyn is a man, btw…

    2. We are Johnson is charging ahead with bankrupting Britain when emitting LESS than 1% of global CO2 emissions.

      Fixed it for Master Grimes.

  59. The Republicans have won Viginia Goverorship. Massive blow for the Democrats and they are in the lead in New Jersey. Get ready for Trumps return to save America.

    4. I bet none of them get nicked for being on parked double yellow lines! OOOPs – no look under!!

      2. Well, yes. We knew this. When every death with covid is treated as a death *from* covid, we know it’s a lie.

    2. Only a few hundred thousand, why the excitement? /sarc

      Have they finally calculated a true of covid toll instead of their normal with covid number?

      Ehile we are at – it how come there are still waiting lists for care homes, I thought that covid had wiped out the inhabitants!

    1. I would sign it, but the answer will be as simple as ‘It’s going to save the planet so we must do it.’

      There will be no debate. These sewage all speak from the same hymn sheet.

      They simply won’t let go. It’s just a vehicle for tax hikes to impose some demented form of socialism.

  64. More boats, more freeloaders criminals murderers and rapists escaping, more bills and danger for us. Families to come yet. More in hotels doing NOTHING. Any doctors, surgeons etc – doubtful – – any with sharp knives – – YEEEEEEES

    BIGGER BONUS FOR PRITI?

    1. Priti’s contribution to the Climate Catastrophe??? – – THAT arrives on dinghies for US to pay for.

  70. For those without subscription, a very popular article

    Want to fight back against wokery? Cancel a direct debit today

    Our great institutions are in trouble now they’ve appalled their loyal supporters… and we’re voting with our wallets

    ALLISON PEARSON
    2 November 2021 • 7:00pm

    My friend Richard updated his will a couple of weeks ago. He asked for his bequest to an Oxford college to be removed. The solicitor was not surprised. “I’ve had a lot of clients doing the same thing lately,” he said. “Those universities are starting to lose serious money.”

    When I asked Richard why he had cancelled the donation to his alma mater, he sighed: “General wokery. The environment is so different to the culture that we benefitted from when we were there – the link with the past, the hope for the future. Why would I want to support an organisation that has changed so markedly to something I do not recognise or understand? It’s gone, very quickly, from a place that I loved, and which loved me, to one where I now feel deeply uncomfortable and distinctly unwelcome.”

    Whatever contortions they are obliged to perform by their professional bodies, workplaces and vigilantes on social media, I sense that a sizeable proportion of my generation has had enough. We are quietly voting with our chequebooks and our direct debits which, increasingly, we withhold from the National Trust and other formerly venerable bodies now idiotically abasing themselves before the monstrous ideological police. “Sir, I am running out of memberships to cancel,’’ complained Charlotte Mackay, wonderfully, in this paper’s Letters to the Editor. Trust me, Charlotte, you are not alone.

    Where once we would have taken pleasure in giving something back to the institution that shaped us, now we look on appalled as that same institution capitulates to rabble-rousing brats almost entirely ignorant of the achievements of the historical figures whose statues they demand be torn down. (Or removes their great works from the curriculum, to be replaced by poets who cannot rhyme.) Not to mention the growing reluctance of certain universities to admit the highly qualified offspring of their own graduates. As one female barrister put it: “I got into Cambridge from a council house and a crap comp. I gave my kids a much better education than I had, and now my university doesn’t want them on account of their ‘white privilege’. Give me strength!”

    Dozens of donors have cancelled financial gifts to the University of Edinburgh since it renamed the David Hume Tower over the philosopher’s comments on race more than 250 years ago. The presiding genius of the Scottish Enlightenment, Hume held views which now look either radical and laudably ahead of their time or discordantly ugly. An opponent of slavery, he helped his patron Lord Hertford buy a slave plantation. Guess what, human beings were as complicated and flawed back then as they are now. Edinburgh said it had to act to protect student “sensitivities”. Many alumni disagree. “Hume was cancelled in life by the Scottish universities for failing to fall in line with the religious tenets of his day,” wrote one, “so I admire him in death for having the same effect on the grandees of this new [woke] religion.”

    I suspect that graduates of Imperial College London will have a similar reaction on hearing that a building named after Thomas Henry Huxley, the great biologist and anthropologist who determined that birds descended from dinosaurs, is set to be renamed. A report by the university’s chillingly named “independent history group” has recommended that the name Huxley be excised because of his beliefs about human intelligence. The group cites Huxley’s essay of 1865, “Emancipation — Black and White”, which it says “espouses a racial hierarchy of intelligence, a belief system of ‘scientific racism’, legacies of which are still felt today”.

    You have to hand it to old Huxley. He cunningly hid his racism by being a leading voice in the movement for the abolition of slavery. Yes, some of his observations make us recoil today. But, yesterday, I looked up that self-same “offensive” essay, and here is a very different sort of paragraph: “We find girls naturally timid, prone to dependence, born conservatives; and we teach them that independence is unladylike; that blind faith is the right frame of mind; and that whatever we may be permitted, and indeed encouraged, to do to our brother, our sister is to be left to the tyranny of authority and tradition. With few insignificant exceptions, girls have been educated either to be drudges, or toys, beneath man, or a sort of angels above him… The possibility that the ideal of womanhood lies neither in the fair saint, nor in the fair sinner; that the female type of character is neither better nor worse than the male; that women are meant neither to be men’s guides nor their playthings, but their comrades, their fellows and their equals, so far as nature puts no bar to that equality, does not seem to have entered into the minds of those who have had the conduct of the education of girls.”

    Over 150 years later, I feel almost tearful with gratitude coming across an establishment figure like Thomas Henry Huxley making the case, with such fierce logic and unrepentant eloquence, for my sex to receive the same education as the male. Do you think the Imperial College London’s independent history group weigh Huxley’s remarkable early feminism in its judgment to strip his name from a beloved building?

    Of course not. The Inquisition seeks villains to burn retrospectively at the stake not human beings with the full complement of vices and virtues. They should christen Imperial’s Huxley building the Pol Pot Year Zero building, in memory of the cultural vandals who took him down, and be done with it. Come to that, how long will the college be allowed to call itself Imperial? Bit insensitive, isn’t it?

    Stephen Warren, professor of astronomy at Imperial, called the report “astonishing”, and said: “I am sorry that it has chosen to judge people from the past by the standards of today. I would say that Thomas Henry Huxley is the individual of whom Imperial can be most proud.”

    You can bet that alumni who share that opinion will be busy writing Imperial out of their wills. Such direct action can be surprisingly effective in the fightback against the woke activists. When Oriel College, Oxford, was deciding whether to appease the mob and give in to demands to take down the bust of its benefactor Cecil Rhodes, almost overnight charitable donations collapsed. Former students, who thought that a college dating back to 1326 should have the guts to stand up for its history, disinherited Oriel. Rhodes wobbled, but he did not fall. Instead, the college established new scholarships for African students using his fortune to enhance the future, not obliterate the past.

    The self-righteous young mob thinks it can get universities to grovel with the threat of being cancelled. My generation is learning to beat them at that game: we just cancel the direct debit.

    ********************************************************************

    Sir MDlep
    2 Nov 2021 7:43PM
    Well said. I have also begun to defund those who promote woke. Might I also suggest telling any woke children in the family that you have disinherited them and intend to donate to charity as you do not wish to encumber them with privilege

    ALLISON PEARSON
    COLUMNIST2 Nov 2021 7:46PM
    That made me laugh, Sir MD. I may try that with mine!

    Colin Belshaw
    2 Nov 2021 9:10PM
    Bloody brilliant, Allison!

    My story, of no significance compared to the august institutions you describe, but, nevertheless, very important to me and my alumni.

    The Camborne School of Mines (CSM).

    Established in 1888 in Cornwall, teaching the first Mining Engineering course anywhere in the world purely focused on best engineering principles and practices for the mining and recovery of metals.

    Fairly important, then . . . and now – think about the cutlery you use every time you have a meal; the car you get into to go to the shops or to work, or to collect the kids; the aircraft you board to go to work or on holiday; your skis and ski poles . . . or golf clubs, even; the power distribution system that delivers power to your house or your business or the government office you sit in . . . in fact, our whole civilisation is utterly dependent upon mining on a multitude of levels. And that’s actually the case . . . whether you like it or not!!

    And yet, Exeter University, the umbrella under which the Camborne School of Mines now sits . . . no longer want a Mining Engineering course. Oh, god, no – it’s so environmentally wrong and damaging and unfriendly. No, we won’t do this degree from now on – if we need Mining Engineers we’ll – no, you – will now have to get them from . . . Russia, or China, or India . . . and the standards the industry demanded for more than a century, many of the major mining houses still based in London, expecting excellence in both engineering and, more importantly, integrity, well . . . that loss is of now considered to be of no consequence . . . if it’s considered at all.

    Mining.

    How utterly awful.

    1. “Might I also suggest telling any woke children in the family that you have disinherited them”

      Well I did after my daughter and my son told me that “fathers are not important”. I am now looking for an heir. I expect a Nigerian prince’s widow will email me shortly and claim the prize.

      1. Latest variation on a phishing/scam email just arrived:

        Dear Sir/Madam,

        My name is John Martin. This special message is for your kind attention and timely advice. It is a privilege to represent the interest of a former first family from an oil rich country. Thirty eight years of administration was replaced, leading to chains of various oil deals and political events for the former first family and some friends.

        On a special diplomatic plan, I have been mandated to seek a well versed and astute foreign business partner for engagement into investment plans overseas. If you consider yourself or your company trustworthy and able to handle huge investment funds, please indicate in your response with your private contact details. This will activate detailed communication between us.

        As the world governments battle to find lasting solutions to the global pandemic, it is hoped that everything will return to normalcy as soon as possible.

        Awaiting your reply.

        Stay safe.

        Best regards
        John Martin

      2. In high -pitched african voice

        Hello Jerry darling, I am a Nigerian Princess, in need of a well endowed man (Yes both ways)

        Please send me your bank details, so I can Cum and see you wearing my exotic Greta’s Secret underwear

        I await your reply

        Sabrina Marilyn Jane, Godiva Jones

  71. 340808+ up ticks,

    AFGHAN MIGRANT CRISIS? BULGARIA SENDS 350 TROOPS TO TURKISH BORDER AS ILLEGAL CROSSINGS TRIPLE

    Due to security via frog / limey Channel guardians 450 + entered the United Kingdom welfare system yesterday, welfare WILL be payed via the taxpayer until such times as the newcomers are kitted out with uniforms
    befitting to the Political Protection Battalion.

    This is thought necessary due to the FACT a plague of COMMON SENSE
    could ( you never know) break out among the herd.

  72. 340808+ up ticks,

    I really do believe the Scarlet Pimpernel’s view.

    Dt,
    Press leak a ‘new low’: Australia cannot be trusted warns French ambassador

      1. 340808+ up ticks,
        Afternoon S,
        OK OK, I take it we are now going to witness a rash of Pimple nels.

  73. This will please Grizz and many here:

    “The study, by an international team of researchers, tracked 4,150 Swedish 60-year-olds for more than 16 years, and found those with the highest intakes of dairy had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease than those with low intakes. It also found no link between higher intakes of dairy and an increased risk of death.

    The study did not look at the kinds of dairy products participants consumed. Instead, their blood was analysed to measure levels of certain fatty acids (the building blocks of fat) associated with dairy.

    1. Which study was this, do you have a link? I would like to pass it on to my son who seems to have taken leave of his senses where dairy products are concerned.

        2. That report tries very hard to disprove the results of the study! I don’t think I’ll bother switching to soya and almond milk just yet.

          1. Of course it’s from the Beeb and if people attempt to eat a healthier diet, then hundreds of thousands more cows will be needed which will result in more not less methane!!!!

          2. We’ve never stopped using full fat milk, though we did have a few years with olive marge instead of butter. Neither of us eats cheese, unless it’s a few shreds on a lasagne.

          3. I tried almond milk once. It was surprisingly disgusting. I like almonds, but the milk was awful.

      2. I remember when our daughter was at Uni. She came home and told us she was now a vegitarian apart from lamb chops.. After she had had a full English breakfast cooked by yours truly, she changed her mind.The full school brainwashing had not started by then.

    2. I’m sitting here eating toast (burnt) with slabs of Lurpak butter. ! like bacon sandwiches as well with cheddar cheese. In fact I like everything that is bad for you. That’s why I’m seventy five!

          1. V. risque joke:

            “If you were a gentleman you wouldn’t make me do this…”
            If you were a lady you wouldn’t talk with your mouth full….”

      2. My lunch consisted of a Welsh rarebit, homemade bread with lashings of butter and a slabs of cheddar cheese and a sprinkling of onion & black pepper!

        1. That’s cheese and onion on toast. You need English mustard, Henderson’s relish/Worcester sauce and bechamel to make it a rarebit !

          2. I enjoy Masterchef. I’m re-watching MC professionals 2017. My memory is so bad it’s all new to me. :@(

      3. My dad had an ashtray that had the motto ” Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.”

  74. Oxford college to be renamed after budget airline tycoon who made £155m donation

    Linacre College will become Thao College, named after Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, a budget airline magnate who is Vietnam’s first self-made female
    billionaire.

    She said that the name Linacre “bears a deep history”, adding: “Thankfulness for Madam Thao’s money could be expressed in ways that did
    not erase what the donation is meant to protect.”

    Meanwhile, others felt more sympathetic with the decision, saying it was the “American way” for universities to accept large donations and
    naming an institution after the benefactor in return.

    Ohh the Ironyronny, quoting the American way for somebody from Vietnam

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/02/oxford-college-renames-155m-donation-female-billionaire/

  75. The Salisbury rail crash has always sounded a bit dodgey to me. Lots of blather about heros slamming on the brakes, leaves on the line etc. Not unexpected to hear the train went thro a red signal but surprised that it was driven by a 74 YEAR OLD. Having done a few years in the transport industry myself, I detect a slight whiff of bull manure being put out by the rail company in order to massage the story. Perhaps an ex railway professional would help out. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10158013/Driver-left-life-changing-injuries-Salisbury-train-smash-74-year-old-rail-veteran.html

    2. 74 is certainly rather old to be a train driver, but presumably there are fitness tests to be passed.

    3. Years ago I was told that after the age of forty, a person’s reaction times fall off a (metaphorical) cliff.

    1. Would you consider cutting meat and dairy products out of your diet completely…

      To replace these vital human foods with what? Ground up grasshoppers/locusts and a myriad of Big Pharma vitamin supplements containing goodness knows what? Johnson has come out with so much dangerous crap that I can’t believe anyone who has a functioning thought process could fall for his ideas. He, along with those 🤡🤡🤡 in his Cabinet, are a clear and present danger to the UK and its people. Can it be possible that >300 Tory MPs really and I mean really, believe the crap that this fraud spouts? The light those MPs can see is not the end of the tunnel but the onrushing train of electoral disaster if they continue to massage his ego and keep him in office.
      In case anyone was in doubt about my answer to the question, it is NO.

      1. They’re fine with the crap because it won’t apply to them. Murder is so much easier than martyrdom.

      2. Who said anything about replacing vital human foods?
        As has been said many times before, this sort of political hysteria always ends in camps.

      3. He doesn’t care. When the electorate eventually throw him out he will get a consultancy role with either Bezos, Soros, Gates or Zuckerdroid.

        1. I only wish that more people would come to their senses and realise that Johnson doesn’t care. It looks more and more that he’s on a globalist ego trip and pushing to see just how far he can force his ideas on the people before it all collapses.
          Zuckerdroid is excellent.

  77. 340808+ up ticks,

    Would it not be the decent thing then for him, the misses and the tory look alike party to fold up tents and take ofski ?

    Johnson Claims Modern Civilisation Is at Risk over Climate Change

    plus, via supporting / voting for the lab/lib/con coalition, no truer words have every been spoken since Ugg was in vogue.

      1. Hindenburg MkII? I know it wasn’t fuelled by hydrogen but there was plenty of the stuff to cause a disaster.

      1. I hope you’re right, Johnny, but my faith in tides turning is infinitesimally small these days.

    4. I didn’t get past the “Spirit In The Sky” cacaphony, so haven’t bothered to listen to what he said.

  81. Caroline came across this gem on the Internet today:

    “Always keep the visiting cards and business cards of people you don’t like so that if you ever hit an unoccupied parked car you can write “Sorry!” on the back and place it under the car’s windscreen wipers”

  82. Why do people believe this climate rubbish when every prediction made has never happened. They must have something wrong with them.

    1. Vested interests and Lefty Anarchists who wish to destroy Capitalism. They don’t give a shit about the climate, which there is nothing we can do about anyway.

    2. Johnny, I don’t believe that they do believe the rubbish. It’s a means to an end, and it’s the end that they believe in, the end that suits their thirst for control, power, money etc. They are all, like Johnson, frauds. Throw in a few sociopaths, megalomaniacs, psychopaths and the odd loony-tune and you have a heady mix.

    6. They’re all globalists therefore they know what the game is all about so why rock up and be bored witless listening to the same old rhetoric. How many more days of this, is there?

        1. The Scotsman was inside his house. Perhaps the pervs in the motorcade shouldn’t have invaded his privacy by recording it.

        3. “At one point when we were still on smaller country roads, …”

          A little unlikely for White House pool vehicles ?

      1. Hi Minty – why don’t you send your new admirer below, directions to the Trevi Fountain….that should do the trick….

        Edited to add: Minty attracted a new admirer wanting help to extract coins….New admirer appears to have been zapped…

      3. They treat the place as an hotel – with restaurant attached (for use when nature doesn’t provide enough…!)

        Pickles has always sat as close the the hot stove. Even walking between it and the wall. Barking (in a miaowish sort of way)…

  89. WOWSERS …..
    Wot an afternoon…..
    Firstly, if your taste is Grand Guignol, do go and see “Last Night in Soho”.
    Made you proud to be of the 60s generation.
    MB and I are now officially crumbly enough to be interesting; like Terence Stamp and Rita Tushingham.
    Spoiler alert: Professionally speaking, Diana Rigg goes out with a bang.
    We then discovered a new Bar Cafe opened only today in Colchester; it’s called Romanos and is basically 30’s decor. I spent a lot of my time there trying to decide if I could smuggle a bow-fronted 1930’s sideboard onto the bus.

    1. Perhaps Loch Ness should be renamed Loch Netzero to remind future generations what a colossal cock up the CO2 bandwagon has been…

      2. Most of them, including the armed police from transport and atomic power stations, are keeping the demonstrators safe.

  91. That’s me for the day. Cold, wet and miserable. Thank goodness for the stove.

    I’ll join you tomorrow – when the AGA man comes for the 6-month service. So the kitchen will be freezing!

    A demain.

  92. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/62607eb8bd08444973c96b916fd01bec5af1decd1665b86b3fb45cac0b6e96fd.jpg

    Friend sent a couple of links to ‘Hugo Talks’ videos – he is someone I’ve not encountered before and seems to talk a lot of sense.

    In the first video he describes media distortion over Greta Thunberg, where a poorly-attended event she was involved with got huge media attention, with ‘clever’ camera angles and cropping making it look as though attendance was vastly more than was actually the case. Still picture (rather blurry) above gives an idea of the reality of the matter.

    Second talk is about pushing LGBT agenda during a Twix advert!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFhc2vfUkXQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMllbGBQv5g

  93. Food for thought….

    We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.
    WH Auden..

  94. More idiocy from John Vidal and Peter Wadhams (Climate sceptic Paul Matthews Posted 18 AUG 2016) Note the date.

    John Vidal is probably the stupidest journalist reporting on climate change for the Guardian, which is quite an achievement given the stiff competition. It was Vidal, you may recall, who claimed that the sexual harassment allegations against Pachauri were part of a conspiracy cooked up by climate sceptics.

    Today, Vidal says that it is Time to listen to the ice scientists about the Arctic death spiral. Who are the scientists Vidal says we should listen to? Well, it turns out there’s only one quoted (distinguishing between singular and plural doesn’t seem to be one of John’s areas of expertise), and guess what, it’s Peter Wadhams again.

    Wadhams is of course notorious for his failed predictions of Arctic ice disappearance.

    In the Telegraph in 2011 Wadhams declared that “It is really showing the fall-off in ice volume is so fast that it is going to bring us to zero very quickly. 2015 is a very serious prediction and I think I am pretty much persuaded that that’s when it will happen.” This was unchallenged by the journalist, showing that unquestioning promotion of climate hype crosses the political spectrum in the media.

    The BBC told us that Arctic summers would be ice-free by 2013, quoting both Wadhams and Maslowski.

    But most remarkable is this article by John Vidal himself, Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years, published in 2012. I wonder whether John Vidal’s science skills extend as far as adding 2012 and four. If so, this might help him understand why he’s not taken seriously.

    But Vidal isn’t just a gullible idiot, he’s misleading readers with falsehoods. In his article today he claims that “Wadhams says what other scientists will not”, implying that other climate scientists agree with him but don’t want to speak out. Nothing could be further from the truth. Other climate scientists have publicly ridiculed Wadhams for his extreme views, with comments such as “ridiculous projections with no basis in physics”, “Entertaining break with Wadhams. Back to science now” and “Hasn’t Wadhams already predicted 4 of the last 0 ice-free summers?” Yet Vidal describes Wadhams as an “experienced and rational scientist”.

      2. The entire edifice of government is utterly incompetent.

        Whitehall believes you can spend yourself out of debt.
        Boris thinks you can force green on people for their own good.
        Sunak thinks high taxes make people better off .
        Patel thinks more gimmigrants are a good thing.

        It’s sodding 1984. Freedom is slavery, war is peace, ignorance is strength.

        Why can we not be rid of these useless fools?

    3. Considering the levels of government waste, forcing business to waste money on a hard left, anti market, anti capital, anti freedom situation is farcical.

      It means higher prices, less choice. At the current level fo tax – well over half the cost of goods – this is ludicrous. All on the altar of fantasy.

    4. The problem is the number of people, Boris. Stop increasing the population of the UK by 0.5% every year and that would go a long way to reducing our CO2 emissions.

    5. The problem is the number of people, Boris. Stop increasing the population of the UK by 0.5% every year and that would go a long way to reducing our CO2 emissions.

  97. Amnesty UK wants safer routes for them to come here – – – – OK – – let Amnesty
    HOUSE THEM ALL IN THEIR HOUSES
    PAY FOR THEM ALL
    FEED THEM ALL
    PAY FOR *****ING EVERYTHING FOR THEM ALL ETC ETC ETC
    Are we supposed to take in a hundred million of them??? The whole of Africa will keep coming – – for free stuff

    AMNESTY don’t have a **** brain cell – – tell them to build their OWN country – not wipe ours off the planet !!!!

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/amnesty-calls-for-asylum-overhaul-as-figures-show-20-000-migrants-attempted-dangerous-channel-crossing/ar-AAQgMYR?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

      1. TB – – the only future for me, you, Nottlers, this island and nation’s sensible people – — is despair and destruction. All those who died in both world wars keeping it free, lost their lives for NOTHING. There is NO way back from what this bunch of RRRRrSOLES AND LUNATICS ARE DOING. . . . . . I TRULY hope BJ and his pals doing this live for all eternity – screaming in agony.
        I really, honestly do. Death for them would be too nice.

    2. I honestly don’t understand how even one of them is here. The lot should be packed up and sent away. France has a duty to control this, our government a duty to stop them getting here.

      Why in the name of trousers, are these vermin not being deported? Why are they being feited and spoiled? Pack them in a shipping container, lock the door and send it back to france.

    1. Hi PM. I wouldn’t worry about it. An ‘ex-Pfizer scientist’ would be a tool in any plan, he wouldn’t know what the plan is (if any). It’s very easy to create a conspiracy theory. Just state whatever has already happened (in stages – nice) then project your theories about what is going to happen next by stating them in the same way as what has already happened.
      Why do they do it? God knows, but I wish they’d pack it in.

      1. Thank you. I have been biting my nails off here, it is all getting to me, the irrationality, the evil bonkers madness of it all, everything.

  101. Earlier tonight, I was watching telly, (through my neighbours lounge window ) when saw an advert that did not have a BAME in it

    It was a Duracell Battery advert, with a Pink Rabbit

    1. Is it Easter already? Seriously, there is a house over the road which has Xmas lights up outside! Nov 3rd. I don’t know where my Xmas stuff is after our move- something else that’s gone awol like our Hallowe’en witches hats.

          1. they are available in our supermarkets year round but exactly six months before Easter, one supermarket went further and advertised them as a special offer

    2. In the USA they are sure that Almighty God is ethnic.
      So they even named a state after him, Alabama.
      ( Allah-bamer)

      I’ll get the hijab.

        1. The Glasgow city council property in Tradeston, a former homeless services unit, has been restored to habitability over the past few days by a group of local activists frustrated at reports of visitors forced to sleep rough.

          In a statement, the Glasgow-based activists behind Baile Hoose – as they have named the enterprise – said the building now “offers sleeping space and donated food as colder weather descends on the encampments springing up in Glasgow’s parks … we are aware of activists, including Indigenous elders, who have been sleeping outside due to a lack of available shelter”.

          Calling on the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who is the MSP for Glasgow Southside, to support their action, they went on: “Given the current housing crisis in the UK, buildings should not be left empty while people in our communities are sleeping on the streets due to unaffordable, exploitative rent and opportunistic Airbnb hosts.”

          https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/03/glasgow-activists-re-open-disused-building-to-house-cop26-visitors

      2. Allah (barking O’ ) Bama

        He thinks that he is God,

        Also, he seems to have his hand up Biden’s Backside, working the lips

        Just hope God was smiling, and O’banans’s hand was there when Biden crapped in front of the Pope

    1. Patel and Johnson’s government are dead in the water, a total embarrassment and more interested in their own future than that of their constituents, who mistakenly gave them the power they continue to abuse.

      1. How, Cori, do we ensure that they are dead in the water, when there isn’t another GE until Dec 2024?

        1. Given her history as German Defence Minister and the torchlight procession of her loyal troops she organised after leaving her post for the EU I would say she is the complete Nazi.

  106. 340808+ up ticks,

    May one ask,
    Can these political overseers seriously be titled “Government”
    800 foreign welfare seekers left a free Country to come to a country under siege from it’s own “government” WHY.

    The only answer CAN BE for nefarious purpose & reasons.

    Have those current members ( my MP is a good one) the answer, could they perhaps drop “their MP” a line asking him/her/it is it the aim of “the party” to shortly bring in MANDATORY LODGERING ?

    Unbelievable you say, so was many of the actions witnessed today if told about yestermonth.

    1. I understand that in New Zealand it has been determined that vaccine rollouts and mandates are illegal. The legal argument is that the vaccine mandates and medical trials can only be carried out on a select number of people and that by logic the entire population cannot be considered a select group.

      The vaccines are in trial phase until 2023.

      As each day passes, the evilness of the government policy, its mandates and advices, is proven to be constructed misinformation.

      At last some good news from America where the Democrats have been exposed as globalist ‘swampies’ with the elections in Virginia.

      We have lived through a corporate inspired nightmare where millions have been exposed to dangerous ‘vaccines’ and civil liberties discarded by evil and ignorant politicians to their own ends.

      If the Americans can reject the authoritarian crap being promulgated by the elites, whether on faux vaccines or supposed climate change so can we!

    2. A cautious note is sounded in the article referenced:-

      If any readers would like to translate the article for us, please send the translation to lockdownsceptics@gmail.com.

      Stop Press: We’re doing some digging into this to try to corroborate it. Treat with caution until further notice.

      Stop Press 2: We trawled through the various websites of the Italian National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Statistics to try to corroborate this piece from an Italian newspaper, and it appears to be based on this report (in English) published on or before October 20th. The author of the piece is effectively stating his opinion that only those who died of Covid without comorbidities (2.9%) should be counted as a Covid death, and then extrapolates from there to suggest that the ‘real’ Covid death toll over the period in question was only 3,783. This is all contrary to the report itself and to the NIH’s detailed guidance (in Italian) on how to classify Covid deaths. It thus seems as though the article severely misrepresents the position of the NIH, but a lot seems to have been lost in translation and this is really just an opinion piece where the author is poking fun at the NIH while trying to make a point about the risks of Covid.

      By Toby Young / 3 November 2021 • 12.01

      https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/03/italian-higher-institute-of-health-adjusts-number-of-deaths-due-to-covid-alone-since-february-2020-downwards-from-over-130000-to-under-4000/

  108. 340808+ up ticks,

    Complete and highly dangerous @rseholes the Gods are angry and the world is trying to turn itself inside out via an erupting volcano at the same time they are planning on putting nuclear waste underground in Lincolnshire.

    If there was a chain reaction either through stupidity ( highly likely) or terrorism, we would ALL become land owners each sitting on a square yard
    of earth whilst rising through the stratosphere at a very fast rate of knots.

  109. We have just listened to an episode of Clue called Humph in Wonderland- a Christmas special. I laughed so hard I had tears running down my face several times and almost choked on my vino a couple of times. Have bookmarked it for Xmas. There’s also another one to look for which is The Rules of Mornington Crescent- also hilarious and also bookmarked.

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