Tuesday 9 November: The fig leaf of an ethics committee that let Oxford take Mosley millions

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  1. Morning all – Golly – am I first?

    I pinched this BTL response by P G Jones to Allison Pearson’s Nov 3rd piece:
    It has swiftly become apparent that it’s we who must make sacrifices to ‘offset’ the frictionless pleasures of the global elite:

    P G Jones

    4 Nov 2021 5:10PM

    One crisp morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
    “Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
    “What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
    “The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
    Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
    “Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
    “Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
    “Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
    “Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
    “Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tyres and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tyres and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
    “What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
    “Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
    “How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
    “Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
    “But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.

    “Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
    “What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
    “Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing – being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
    This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
    Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.

    2. It is said that an apt definition of a baby is ‘Noise and one end, and a complete lack of responsibility at the other”. With Greta it seems that both these attributes emanate from the top end….

      Morning folks.

    4. Excellent! If only it were true, the Eco-Brat might realise the stupidity of her cause.

      ‘Morning, RC.

  2. Morning all – Golly – am I first?

    I pinched this BTL response by P G Jones to Allison Pearson’s Nov 3rd piece:
    It has swiftly become apparent that it’s we who must make sacrifices to ‘offset’ the frictionless pleasures of the global elite:

    P G Jones

    4 Nov 2021 5:10PM

    One crisp morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
    “Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
    “What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
    “The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
    Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
    “Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
    “Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
    “Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
    “Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
    “Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tyres and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tyres and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
    “What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
    “Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
    “How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
    “Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
    “But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.

    “Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
    “What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
    “Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing – being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
    This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
    Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.

      1. Morning G. Well aside from my black eye making me look like a disgruntled Panda, it’s giving me no trouble at all. My ribs on the other hand have gotten worse!

        1. “Gotten”, “GOTTEN”? Are you trying to give our Grizzly palpitations, Minty?

          PS – Glad to hear that at least your black eye is not giving you any trouble.

      2. Morning G. Well aside from my black eye making me look like a disgruntled Panda, it’s giving me no trouble at all. My ribs on the other hand have gotten worse!

  5. The fig leaf of an ethics committee that let Oxford take Mosley millions

    If you don’t like the ethics committee’s ethics, then they have others.

    1. As far as I understand it, Mosley did not make his millions out of developing concentration camps. The millions are clean; it’s just the political opinions of the man that are unacceptable. Have I understood that correctly?

      I think if they went back and examined the opinions of everyone who has donated to anything, approximately 99.999999999% of them would not pass the Woke test.

  6. Poland warns of ‘armed’ attempts on its border as Germany urges EU to act. 9 November 2021.

    Poland has warned of an “armed” escalation of conflict involving migrants massed near the border with Belarus, as the global community reacted to the latest grim chapter in Europe’s migrant crisis.

    Having blocked hundreds of people from entering the country, Polish government spokesperson Piotr Muller said a further 3,000 to 4,000 migrants were gathering near the border. “We expect that there may be an escalation of this type of action on the Polish border in the near future, which will be of an armed nature,” he said.

    Poland and other EU countries have accused Belarus of trying to provoke a new refugee crisis in Europe in revenge for their criticism of Alexander Lukashenko’s brutal crackdown on opposition. The situation has been simmering for months and worsened on Monday when Belarus authorities escorted an estimated 1,000 people to the Polish border.

    I’m not in any sense a supporter of Lukashenko, who is in my view, simply a gangster. Nevertheless he has by this ploy exposed the hypocrisy and two faced pretensions of the Europeans and exposed the UK’s real policy to immigration in particular. On the one hand we have European Governments (France Germany) who constantly bleat the cause of the migrants calling on the EU to help keep them out; this to an EU who actually supports their admission. The only truthful players here are the Visigrad and Baltic States who admit to their anti-immigration policies. Where’s the UK in all this? Well they don’t bother fighting at all! They assist their admission, though this is in effect; since there is no end to their numbers, long term national suicide and not coincidentally signals the End of the West!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/09/poland-warns-of-armed-attempts-on-its-border-as-germany-urges-eu-to-act

    1. If I remember rightly, Poland is not a signatory to the UN Migration Pact.

      If you look at the photos of the invaders in the Mail, they are not only well fed, but very well equipped for camping out in a central European forest in late autumn. Who paid for all the padded boots, warm jackets, rucksacks and tents, let alone all the food and other equipment they’ve got along with them?

      1. Wasn’t it the plan for Recep Taqqiq Erdogan to decant Islamic State fighters liberated from Kurdish POW camps onto Western Europe, in order to further the cause of a neo-Ottoman Caliphate? By now, the Greeks on Lesbos have had enough, and pretty well every border between there and Dover is made pretty hard to battle through, even on board continental lorries.

        It would not surprise me if he cobbled up a deal with Lukashenko and flew them over. Not the first or the last time anyone’s invaded Poland.

  7. Good morning all!
    T’was a bit damp overnight, but dry now with an overcast sky and an almost warm 7°C in the yard.

  8. After 11 years of Tory rule, Britain is still run by a hypocritical Blairite elite. 9 November 2021.

    Who really runs Britain? The Conservative Party might keep winning elections, and the prevailing narrative is that incompetent Tory Brexiteers are running the country into the gutter. But in the nation’s quangos and regulators, at the top of our universities and cultural institutions, in the BBC and the charity sector, there is barely a conservative to be found. After 11 years of Tory rule, a soft-Left Blairite elite remains firmly in control. It is both scandalous and impressive. Despite the ejection of new Labour, Brexit, and the landslide election of a Right-wing populist government, the balance of power rests firmly with the old guard.

    TOP COMMENT BELOW THE LINE

    Hu McG8 Nov 2021 9:57PM.

    The reality is that we don’t have, and haven’t had a real conservative government since Blair and his New Labour mob left office, what we have had is new new labour, masquerading as conservatives.

    They have learned to campaign and talk as if they are conservatives, but when you look at their actions, you see left leaning liberals throughout the conservative party.

    The only thing that is ‘conservative’ that they have had to do in recent years is to support brexit, and they only did that because if they didn’t, UKIP would have killed off their majority.

    There is currently no major conservative or right of centre party in the UK, just shades of the left.

    Why write when someone else does it for you?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/08/11-years-tory-rule-britain-still-run-hypocritical-blairite-elite/

    1. As I’ve put it so often, The current Conservative Party is under the control of a Blairite New Labor Lite (American spelling deliberate) Clique that has little to do with true conservatism.
      I used to add that it is high time that the true Tories kicked them out and regained control of their party, but sadly, it may be too late for that.

      2. The turning point was May’s “nasty party” speech in 2001. I couldn’t believe when they all fell meekly into line with it.

        2. Far be it from me to defend Mrs. May, but, ironically, it was not the speech its self that caused the problem, it was the made up quotation, “We are the nasty party” that, as we say nowadays, went viral.
          Read the entire passage and it is obvious that she was decrying the skewed press depiction of the Tories.

          “You know what some people call us – the nasty party. I know that’s unfair. You know that’s unfair but it’s the people out there we need to convince – and we can only do that by avoiding behaviour and attitudes that play into the hands of our opponents.”

          Theresa May’s speech to the Tory Party Conference in October 2002

          1. Yes, but as I said in my other reply – who were the “some people” who objected to the Tories being Tories?
            It wasn’t the voters.
            It was their new bosses.

        3. I don’t think so. May was simply expressing the level of sleaze, incompetence and vindictiveness that the Major Government had sunk to by the time it was swept away by Blair’s new broom.

          Who would have thought that by the time May made that speech, Blair had already pushed out conscientious Labour, such as Frank Dobson, who got them elected, and replaced them with those, such as Alan Milburn, with the very same nasty attributes that brought Major down. Expert spin (which is what `Thatcher had started with the Saatchis) kept the public conned for a couple of elections, for fear of the bogey in the other corner.

          By 2010, the nation had turned to David Cameron’s “Caring Conservatism”, since New Labour was by then clearly the Nasty Party.

          After the 2015 election, in desperation the nation turned to Jeremy Corbyn, of all people, to save the nation. If I recall he recruited half a million Labour members, and not all of them were mischievous Tories, We all know what the fat controllers did to him once they got stuck in, so now we are back where we were. Never mind “antisemitism”, Corbyn’s cause was not helped by Momentum being hopelessly divided over Brexit, and that pretty everyone backing him in Parliament (with the possible exception of John McDonnell) was terminally thick.

          1. When May said that, the Tories had been in Opposition for four years, and Blair was half way through his wrecking programme.

        4. TBF, she was explaining that that was the perception of the Conservatives.
          Like Maggie’s “there is no such thing as society” May’s comment was cherry picked.

          1. I think she was saying what she herself thought though – they must sell out to Blair in order to survive. But the threat wasn’t what voters thought. It was what the billionaire masters and their Blairite puppets in the civil service and the establishment thought.

      1. 341380+ up ticks,
        Morning BB2,

        I have been posting along those lines especially
        since the referendum result and hearing “leave it to the tory’s”.

    3. There is nothing remotely left wing about Blair’s New Labour. They are fat cat cosy conformists who push their status quo to the point of pushing out, out of a spirit of political censorship, anyone that does not comply with their stitch-up with the global corporate lobbyists – the new aristocratic barons, rather than anyone that makes or does anything useful.

      I am not hoodwinked by their nod to select causes, such as race and gender politics in order to give the public image, the spin, of being “radical” and “cool”. Whilst I am a radical environmentalist myself, and accept scientific opinion, founded on a tradition of scepticism and peer review, that global warming is a real an imminent threat, along with a wide range of other ecological catastrophes we have brought on the world in my lifetime, these fat, cosy conformists with their deals and their huge budget transfers to select conflicts of interest, are doing the wrong thing to address these problems, and often are profoundly counterproductive.

      I do not have a degree in social science or media & political studies, so I am unqualified to pronounce which is “Left” and which is “Right”. All I know is that what we have right now is “Wrong” and want something a lot better,

      1. “Whilst I am a radical environmentalist myself, and accept scientific

        opinion, founded on a tradition of scepticism and peer review, that

        global warming is a real an imminent threat, along with a wide range of

        other ecological catastrophes we have brought on the world in my

        lifetime,…”

        These were all backed by the so called ‘science’ too…https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

        There is however evidence that the data has been altered to fit the narrative.

        1. No doubt all part and parcel of the general ethical breakdown of our professions and institutions that’s been going on for decades. Both sides spin the narrative, so there must be a lot of reading between the lines.

    4. 341380+ up ticks,
      Morning AS,

      UKIP under Batten would still have been a force to be reckoned with that was the very reason it was taken out
      via the Nec ( tory moles) / farage input, they triggered treachery fearing the UKIP party in the black financially &
      successfully building a very credible party.

    2. Mild here too, Johnny. Just off for another hour’s toil in the garden. I have almost completed putting the garden to bed. Then I can plant a few bulbs ready for the rain on Wednesday.

  12. Morning all

    SIR – Oxford University and two of its colleges, St Peter’s and Lady Margaret Hall, seek to justify willing receipt of millions of pounds of Mosley money as the donations were considered and approved by an independent committee taking “ethical and reputational issues into consideration”.

    As a boy growing up in Hackney in the 1950s I saw, and I will never forget, Mosley and his Blackshirt gangs marching through the East End spouting disgusting anti-Semitic and racist propaganda and provoking 1930s-style Nazi street fights.

    I wonder which ethical standards or issues of reputation were taken into account by the committee when approving receipt of these donations. For colleges to rely on the committee decision is a classic fig-leaf exercise.

    The Mosley name should never be allowed to reinvent or dignify itself.

    Lord Grabiner QC

    London SW1

    SIR – Is there a link between taking fascist money, speakers from Israel being banned and the anti-Semitism that is rife in universities?

    Mary Wiedman

    Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

    SIR – If, as the Royal Court theatre has claimed, it was “unconscious bias” that allowed the use of the patently Jewish name Hershel Fink for a billionaire with malign intentions in the play Rare Earth Mettle, what would “conscious” bias look like?

    Elisabeth Fraser

    Beaminster, Dorset

    SIR – As a photographer in 1956 on the Cambridge University student newspaper Varsity, I attended a packed meeting at which the speaker was Oswald Mosley. It opened to audience barracking and the waving of SS daggers and other Nazi symbols.

    Within 15 minutes, Mosley had calmed the hall, which then listened quietly to the rest of his presentation.

    My lasting feeling from this meeting was not that it should not have been allowed to take place, but rather the chilling realisation as to how rapidly a skilled orator of some charisma can turn a hostile crowd round and persuade it of the superficial reasonableness of hateful basic ideas.

    Even more so today with the widespread use of social media.

    David Compton

    Willaston, Wirral

    SIR – Many of us might agree with Professor Lawrence Goldsmith’s views on the donations from the Mosley family to a British university. What, then, are the ethics in accepting money from China in the light of its treatment of the Uyghurs?

    Janet Warwick

    Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire

    SIR – Was Sir Keir Starmer so angry about standards when, for example, his own party willingly accepted cash from Max Mosley? He stayed in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, knowing of his party’s anti-Semitism.

    Rob Mason

    Nailsea, Somerset

    Elusive booster jabs

    SIR – It is extremely annoying to hear government sources telling us that the third Covid vaccination is not being taken up by the elderly.

    Give us the opportunity. It is now well over 190 days since my second vaccination, I am 75 and I have had no correspondence from either my doctor or the NHS.

    The health service has taken its eye off a programme that was so successful initially.

    David Tombleson

    Westbury, Wiltshire

    SIR – On November 5 I noticed that the NHS app was not showing my booster jab, and that the validity of my current vaccination status expired on December 2.

    Since then the app has been updated, and my vaccine status now expires on December 8. Nothing on the booster, however.

    I am due to travel abroad in March 2022. I wonder if my vaccine status will have been updated by then or if the NHS waiting list applies also to the app.

    Bill Todd

    Twickenham, Middlesex

    SIR – NHS staff will continue to be allowed to work while unvaccinated.

    This means that an unvaccinated health worker won’t be allowed into a nightclub – presumably because of the danger of passing on the virus to healthy people out for the night – but can go into a hospital and infect sick people lying in bed and hoping to be cured. Incomprehensible.

    Linda Langer

    New Barnet, Hertfordshire

    SIR – What a pleasure to receive moral guidance from Matt Hancock, who says health workers should be required by law to be vaccinated.

    I assume he must have his shirts specially made to accommodate all that brass neck.

    Mick Oak

    Stirling

    1. I think David Compton is wrong. He seems to be saying that the audience should have continued to shout Mosley down, rather than listening and making a rational decision about what he had to say. As an undergraduate, I too attended many debates, where speakers that I despised said stuff that I absolutely disagreed with. But the idea of shouting them down so that they were not allowed to speak at all, never occurred to me.

    2. It appears that Linda Langer has bought into the narrative that non-vaccinated people are a threat to the “vaccinated” whom she declares are ‘healthy people’. My recent experience is quite the opposite as an all double “vaccinated” event ended with almost half the attendees infected. Ms Langer should really educate herself and maybe ask the question: why is a booster required by the double “vaccinated” healthy people so soon after two jabs? Little wonder that Johnson’s cabal believes that it can continue to fool many of the people into a never ending jab fest.

      1. I am double vaccinated, so if I get the lurgy, I may well be unaware of it – so I’ll spread it far and wide as I go about my daily business. If I were not thus vaccinated, the lurgy would lay me low – I would stay indoors to recover than for another fortnight o ensure that I was no danger to my fellows.

      2. The idea that we have more covid this year than last because of an unjabbed minority (given that 100% of the population was unjabbed last year) is being pushed in every country as far as I can see.
        It relies on people believing that there is a “delta variant” which is far more infectious than previous variants. But more infectious should mean less deadly as well.
        I don’t know why people can’t see that the vaccines are, to put it mildly, not delivering what was promised.

  13. Morning again

    Out of tune

    SIR – Well done to Colin Soden (Letters, November 8) for finding the origin of the NHS telephone waiting-line tune.

    I have spent many hours in the past few weeks listening to noisy, tuneless recordings on these lines and would be delighted to hear some soothing classical music.

    At a local swimming pool recently the radio was blaring out “Your sex is on fire” at 7.30am. I asked the attendants if they could play something by Mantovani instead.

    Barbara Dixon

    Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

    1. I always associate music by Mantovani as the the sort of music that is likely to be played to sooth the frayed nerves of those awaiting admission through the Pearly Gates…..

  14. The Belarus border crisis is a new low – even for Putin. 9 November 2021.

    From cyber attacks, to gas prices, to his squads of mysterious “little green men” who flooded war torn Ukraine, the Russian president knows how to destabilise his opponents.

    Characteristically, there is plausible deniability for the former KGB agent in his latest assault on the West.

    Rather than attack his enemies directly, Mr Putin is using the proxies of Iraqi migrants travelling through Belarus to the promised land of rich EU countries such as Germany.

    This is a particularly stupid and infantile piece of anti-Putin propaganda. Vlad has nothing whatsoever to do with either the immigrants or the situation on the Belarus border!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/08/belarus-border-crisis-new-low-even-putin/

      1. Putin is a living saint, who would never dream of taking advantage of the West’s weakness.

        1. Well, he’s almost certainly not the power crazed despot the West likes to portray him as.

    2. Do you get the feeling, that now in 2021, the Great and the Good are repeating history by replacing the
      word Trump, with Putin

      They do not like dissenters from their way as to how the future of the world should be controlled

  15. Here’s the full article. As always, Johnson is being pathetic.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2021/11/08/Blower0811_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqjYeQRtCUmaNTl9ge3Skvf2LZgWddHfes6e-pNqDiVg.jpg?imwidth=640

    After 11 years of Tory rule, Britain is still run by a hypocritical Blairite elite

    The quangos and BBC continue to be dominated by a soft-Left establishment that the PM is too scared to tame

    SHERELLE JACOBS
    8 November 2021 • 9:30pm

    Who really runs Britain? The Conservative Party might keep winning elections, and the prevailing narrative is that incompetent Tory Brexiteers are running the country into the gutter. But in the nation’s quangos and regulators, at the top of our universities and cultural institutions, in the BBC and the charity sector, there is barely a conservative to be found. After 11 years of Tory rule, a soft-Left Blairite elite remains firmly in control. It is both scandalous and impressive. Despite the ejection of new Labour, Brexit, and the landslide election of a Right-wing populist government, the balance of power rests firmly with the old guard.

    The evidence is everywhere. It is seemingly business as usual at the BBC, where newly appointed chair Richard Sharp defends the broadcaster’s impartiality (he insists that Auntie’s Brexit coverage was “incredibly balanced”), as the evidence to the contrary mounts and the public’s anger grows. The UK’s top universities are becoming, if anything, even more confident in their virtue-signalling hypocrisy. While Oxford vows to “decolonise” degrees, it has emerged that two of its colleges have accepted millions of pounds in donations from the Mosley family, money inherited from the notorious fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Both of the colleges in question, St Peter’s and Lady Margaret Hall, were at the time headed by paragons of the soft-Left elite, former BBC controller Mark Damazer and Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger.

    The Tories have made little progress in reining in the “Blob”. Whitehall sinks every project that insults its sensibilities – most recently the Prime Minister’s gumptious hopes to make Britain the Qatar of hydrogen. And so much for the bonfire of the quangos; in fact, their spending has tripled under the Tories.

    Though the Government likes to reassure its supporters that it knows these organisations are compromised by bias, it lacks the will to tackle the problem head on. Many Tories have long suspected that the parliamentary standards commissioner, Kathryn Stone, has been treating Brexiteers unfairly, but the Prime Minister retreated from battle last week as soon as he realised that it would be politically controversial.

    The Government has also failed to challenge the political appointments watchdog’s intervention in the recruitment process for top quango jobs. It was reported this week that the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments blocked Tory-endorsed interview panellists for the role of BBC chairman, as well board members for the British Film Institute and the Office for Students. This was justified on the basis that those put forward weren’t “independent”.

    The problem is partly that the power of the soft Left establishment is even stickier than many Brexiteers imagined. It has rigged the system by elevating “process” to an almost spiritual status, while subjectively defining the qualities candidates need to succeed.

    This includes the gold-standard ideal of “objectivity”, or “impartiality”. The meaning of these words has been reinvented for the post-modern era, from a commitment to logically revealed truth to a “balanced” positioning between extremities, which tends to mean a commitment to a socially liberal form of technocratic “centrism”. Equally, since Blair, the definition of “diversity” has been restricted to refer only to professional women and ethnic minorities, who conveniently tend towards a centre-Left worldview, rather than greater openness to the working-class or laymen.

    Clearly, to overthrow such a regime, the Tories require an argument stronger than the need to politically “rebalance” the system. Such a weak justification leaves them open to charges of nepotism. Instead they should be exposing the lies and artifice that underpin the power of this elite, and opening public bodies to democratic oversight.

    They have made some headway on a few fronts. Oliver Dowden’s move as culture secretary to set up a new board to discuss how heritage organisations can educate the public about their past, without succumbing to the anti-statue brigade – with members including Trevor Phillips, the former director of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the historian Robert Tombs – was a cleverly balanced response to an issue that the liberal Left views through a hysterical lens. Although it was attacked by the woke industrial complex, the race report the Government commissioned which found no evidence of structural racism in this country was subversively daring.

    Yet elsewhere they have shown that they have little stomach for a real fight. While they are happy to lambast the BBC’s false claims of impartiality, their threatened “showdown” with the broadcaster amounts to little more than populist rhetoric. Meanwhile, Conservatives who have managed to penetrate the quangos are inevitably almost always a “moderate”, and usually a Remainer.

    Most dispiritingly, the Government seems to think it has to work within the grain of the existing system, rather than unpick its very foundations. But it’s not good enough to replace one quango with another: as O’Sullivan’s law states, institutions that are not explicitly Right-wing will tend to become Left-wing over time.

    They could, for example, be seeking to give citizens a greater stake in the system. The National Lottery Community Fund’s regional committees, which have randomly recruited people from the electoral register before vetting them for public service, could be an alternative model for deciding quango selection panels. Members of the public could even be chosen “by lot” for secondment stints in select public roles. Such a shift would have the added advantage of challenging the elite’s reverence for “specialisation” and “expertise”. It’s a nonsense that all public roles require “expert” professionals to hold them.

    But the Tories cannot do nothing. The institutional resistance of public bodies to conservative policies will only get worse over time. Leaving these bodies in the hands of the same old figures also effectively overrules the democratic rejection of the elite old guard that Brexit embodied. The public will not put up indefinitely with being ruled by a professional elite that does not see the world like them.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/08/11-years-tory-rule-britain-still-run-hypocritical-blairite-elite/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    Gr Mo
    8 Nov 2021 9:48PM
    Is the Telegraph going to open comments on the Yorkshire Cricket race baiting nonsense? Or are the British public not allowed to express themselves, they will be told what to think on any issues of race?

    1. Sorry, Sherelle, you cannot rely upon any ‘Tory’ government to allow us to return to the Status Quo, while there is the asinine Boris and his self-serving Cabinet in power.

      We need a thorough cleaning of the Augean Stables, because there is so much shit piling up, that it will not only overwhelm the government but the electorate as well.

      We have no alternative to this pile of excrement – what do we do?

      Revolution?
      Tumbrils,?
      Guillotines / Piano wire?

      Be afraid, Boris, be very afraid.

      1. Beunos dias, Elsie

        Fue más o menos así
        Vino blanco noche viejas canciones
        Y se reía de mi
        Dulce embustera…

        From: La maldita primavera

        1. English would be good on this (mainly English) Site.

          Google translates it as:

          Good morning Elsie
          It was more or less like this
          White wine night old songs
          And she was laughing at me
          Sweet liar …
          From: The Damn Spring

          But you will tell us that that is bollux.

          So tell us in English, please.

          1. Google more or less has it right, but I was drinking red wine (nothing to with the translation)

            Every time I was in Santiago (e Chile) for a few days, we would go to a trans nightclub (the artistes were trans, not us) & every time one of them would sing that song. It was a hit throughout Latin America 20 years ago. I was always told tat the title meant The Fucking Spring. The second verse is a bit dirty.

            White wine, a beautiful night and old songs
            And I was being mocked
            By that sweet, sweet liar
            The goddamned Spring.
            What’s left of a wet dream full of lust and romance
            If I suddenly wake up
            Only to find that you’ve left?

            I feel the void you’ve left behind
            And become anxious
            It’s as if love could be painful
            And, although I don’t want to,
            I think of you against my better judgement.

            If, to fall in love once again,
            It is necessary
            For the goddamned Spring to return
            Why do I waste my time dreaming
            When an hour is enough for me to fall in love?
            The goddamned Spring threads on slowly
            It threads on slowly, and it only hurts me.

            The only thing that you’ve left me with
            Is a kiss without meaning or feeling
            A caress that didn’t feel genuine
            And some on-again and off-again shenanigans
            So, even though you may not want to,
            Think of me against your will.

            If, to fall in love once again,
            It is necessary
            For the goddamned Spring to return
            What does it matter
            If an hour is enough for me to fall in love?
            The goddamned Spring threads on slowly
            It threads on slowly, and it curses only me.

            ~ ~ ~

            Let me love you
            As if love were still alive
            So, even though it may not want to,
            It shall think of me against its will.

            What does it matter
            If an hour is enough for me to fall in love?
            The goddamned Spring threads on slowly
            It threads on slowly, and it curses only me.

            La la la la…

  17. Sir Keir Starmer: The self-styled bastion of democracy who made no fewer than 48 attempts to block Brexit

    As he accuses Boris Johnson of corruption, the Labour leader’s own history when it comes to respecting democracy should be remembered

    By Camilla Tominey, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
    8 November 2021 • 9:30pm

    It was the self-righteous rhetoric of a man keen to capitalise on the political fallout from an abominable week for the Tories.

    Accusing Boris Johnson of giving “the green light to corruption” over the Owen Paterson row, Sir Keir Starmer claimed the Prime Minister “had damaged himself, damaged his party and damaged his democracy” by trying to overturn the standards system last week.

    Yet amid all the pious hyperbole expressed in the House of Commons on Monday, Sir Keir’s own chequered history when it comes to respecting the democratic process appeared conspicuous by its absence.

    It may have been a wholly different set of circumstances, but the former shadow Brexit secretary’s claim that Mr Johnson had “led his party through the sewers” failed to take into account of how the stench of his own party’s attempts to reverse the referendum result still lingers.

    As the shadow cabinet’s resident arch remainer, Sir Keir was at the forefront of attempts to overturn the mandate that 52 per cent of the British public voted for in 2016.

    Research suggests that the Labour leader and self-styled bastion of democracy made no fewer than 48 attempts to undo the will of more than 17 million people by using every trick in the parliamentary book to block Brexit.

    After repeatedly voting against the EU Withdrawal Act, which would ensure a smooth exit from the bloc in 2017, Sir Keir spent 2018 and 2019 rebelling against every piece of leave legislation that came through the House of Commons.

    Sir Keir’s voting record on Brexit
    He voted against the Immigration Bill to end free movement as well as twice voting against the Customs Bill that gave the UK the power to make its own trade deals. He also twice voted against the Trade Bill, which set out the framework to make new trade deals.

    As well as voting against the first, second and third Meaningful Votes in 2019, that year Sir Keir also voted in favour of a second referendum with the aim of blocking Brexit on three separate occasions.

    He also tried to reverse the referendum result by supporting the Cooper-Letwin Bill, voting for the Surrender Act three times and, as Brexit reached its endgame, again tried to thwart it by repeatedly voting against the Withdrawal Agreement Bill that ensured we left with a deal in January 2020.

    Seemingly desperate to keep up ties with Brussels, that month he voted for the UK seeking full membership of the Erasmus programme and anchoring UK workers’ rights to those set by the EU.

    Siding with the likes of Jean-Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier against his own leave voters, the MP for Holborn and St Pancras tried to get the Government to publish annual assessments of impacts on businesses and consumers arising from the Northern Ireland Protocol as well as voting for the Government to have to seek approval for the objectives of negotiations with the EU. He also voted to limit Britain’s power to create laws on the Protocol.

    Seemingly not content with trying to stymy Downing Street’s negotiations, he actively tried to promote pro-EU policies by supporting a move for UK ministers to seek an agreement with Brussels to allow unaccompanied child refugees to join their relatives.

    Ignoring the electorate’s concerns about immigration, he also voted for allowing people to appeal decisions granting “settled status” to remain in the UK indefinitely, and supported a plan to limit the fees charged to EU citizens to register as UK citizens. Then he voted for Europeans who had lived in the UK for more than five years to be granted automatic citizenship without an application.

    Further attempts to keep British courts bound by EU case law
    When the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill was put before the Commons to take back control of our borders by ending free movement and bringing overall immigration numbers down, Sir Keir voted against it not once, but twice.

    The former Director of Public Prosecutions made further attempts to keep British courts bound by EU case law.

    He also twice rebelled against the Agriculture Bill, which ensured we have a post-Brexit framework for our farming subsidy regime. Furthermore, he voted against no less than 11 Statutory Instruments required for delivering Brexit.

    All of which may go some way to explaining why the latest polling suggests 41 per cent of people do not believe Sir Keir would make a good replacement Prime Minister.

    Mr Johnson may have suffered a sharp drop in his personal ratings in the wake of the sleaze scandal – but when it comes to decrying attempts to subvert the parliamentary system, history proves his political rival doesn’t really have a leg to stand on.

    1. SIR – Was Sir Keir Starmer so angry about standards when, for example, his own party willingly accepted cash from Max Mosley? He stayed in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, knowing of his party’s anti-Semitism.

      Rob Mason
      Nailsea, Somerset

  18. SIR – Oxford University and two of its colleges, St Peter’s and Lady Margaret Hall, seek to justify willing receipt of millions of pounds of Mosley money as the donations were considered and approved by an independent committee taking “ethical and reputational issues into consideration”.

    As a boy growing up in Hackney in the 1950s I saw, and I will never forget, Mosley and his Blackshirt gangs marching through the East End spouting disgusting anti-Semitic and racist propaganda and provoking 1930s-style Nazi street fights.

    I wonder which ethical standards or issues of reputation were taken into account by the committee when approving receipt of these donations. For colleges to rely on the committee decision is a classic fig-leaf exercise.

    The Mosley name should never be allowed to reinvent or dignify itself.

    Lord Grabiner QC
    London SW1

    My Lord is forgetting that Mosely was a Labour MP before shifting further to the left which makes his donations to lefty controlled Oxford colleges OK.

    1. SIR – Is there a link between taking fascist money, speakers from Israel being banned and the anti-Semitism that is rife in universities?

      Mary Wiedman
      Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

    2. BTL:

      Paul Berrow
      9 Nov 2021 12:29AM
      Moseley’s money is cleaner than Chinese money.

      Chris Kilpatrick
      9 Nov 2021 5:36AM
      @Paul Berrow

      No, no, no! The better of the two sources is China, because the money comes spotlessly clean, straight from the Chinese Laundry.

      2. If the same criteria are applied, it’s cleaner than Gates’s money, of which the University is hoovering up as much as they can!

    3. I wonder if Lord Sidcup, formerly Roderick Spode, the founder of the Black Shorts, gave money to his alma mater and if he got his lovely wife, Madeleine Basset – formerly affianced consecutively to Augustus Fink-Nottle and Bertram Wooster, to become the patron of the Sentimentalists’ Society?

    4. I wonder if Lord Sidcup, formerly Roderick Spode, the founder of the Black Shorts, gave money to his alma mater and if he got his lovely wife, Madeleine Basset – formerly affianced consecutively to Augustus Fink-Nottle and Bertram Wooster, to become the patron of the Sentimentalists’ Society?

  19. SIR – If, as the Royal Court theatre has claimed, it was “unconscious bias” that allowed the use of the patently Jewish name Hershel Fink for a billionaire with malign intentions in the play Rare Earth Mettle, what would “conscious” bias look like?

    Elisabeth Fraser
    Beaminster, Dorset

  20. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    SIR – I was fascinated to see a worker on a National Trust estate trying to blow leaves (Letters, November 7) off a woodland path while the much more effective wind replaced them.

    The noise and pollution caused by leaf-blowers would be hard enough to justify even if they did their job.

    Denis Kearney
    Lostwithiel, Cornwall

    I agree. It is the failure to pick up and dispose of the leaves that is the problem.

    2. Yo HJ

      When COP rules the world, Autumn will be banned.

      Trees will just suck the leaves back inside the branches

      COP et al will control eveything

      1. Talking of shed leaves made me search for seasonal CO₂ levels.
        I found this; (It’s the fact that most of the Earth’s land mass, and forests, are in the northern hemisphere)
        ‘ Globally, plant production is at its lowest during December. This means that plants are taking less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in December than in other months, and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide peak.’

        https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/51289/a-global-garden-plants-storing-carbon

  21. SIR – What a pleasure to receive moral guidance from Matt Hancock, who says health workers should be required by law to be vaccinated.

    I assume he must have his shirts specially made to accommodate all that brass neck.

    Mick Oak
    Stirling

  22. Good morning all. Lovely sunny start to the day.

    Am in agony – put my back out last night. I’ll not be around much.

    7. Crumbs; how did you manage that?
      It’s a cold day, snuggle up with Gus and Pickles. (But don’t follow them up trees.)

    9. Ouch,
      Good morning Bill.

      Any local physio practises? Or even an accupuncturist?

      What ever you do, take care .

      Moh has 2 stiff big toes this morning , golf shoe itis!

  24. Trump haters are silent as plot is exposed

    Allegations of collusion with Russia were baseless but cheerleaders won’t admit their grubby role
    Melanie Phillips
    Tuesday November 09 2021, 12.01am, The Times

    For most of the time that Donald Trump occupied the White House, his presidency was framed by the claim that he and his campaign team had colluded with Russia to fix his election. This was promulgated unceasingly by most of the mainstream media. For outlets such as The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and the rest, the only question was how soon this scandal would see Trump rightly ejected from the Oval Office.

    A dossier produced by the former British spy Christopher Steele served up “evidence” of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, and made salacious claims that Trump had cavorted with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel. This dossier prompted an FBI investigation of the Trump campaign that triggered an inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller. Even when this found no evidence of a Trump conspiracy with Russia, none of those who had disseminated this false claim saw fit to inquire how it had been made.

    Some people smelt a rat from the start. A number of commentators and Republican members of Congress viewed these baroque accusations as nothing other than a Democratic Party dirty trick which was being used by sympathetic elements in law enforcement and other administration circles to lever Trump out of office.

    If true, this was one of the greatest political scandals in American history. Those making this claim, however, were deemed “right wing” and “Trump enablers”, and so could be disregarded by the media and associated legions of Trump foes.

    Now, however, it looks as if these objectors were right all along. Special counsel John Durham, who was appointed in 2019 by the former US attorney-general William Barr to investigate the origins of the FBI’s probe, has started issuing indictments which may cause the whole story finally to implode.

    The narrative web is tangled but the essence is this. During the 2016 presidential election, Steele was hired by the “opposition-research” firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt about Trump. Fusion GPS was retained by the Washington-based law firm Perkins Coie on behalf of the Democratic National Committee.

    Last week Igor Danchenko, a Russian citizen who worked at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI. Danchenko, who had extensive ties to senior Russian officials, was the main source for Steele’s dossier whose claims have turned out to be fantasy.

    Durham’s indictment claims that Danchenko’s repeated lies deprived the FBI of crucial information. More explosively, the Russian is said to have hidden the extent to which he was working with Charles Dolan, a Democratic Party public relations executive with ties to Hillary Clinton.

    Dolan is revealed to have been behind several of the claims about Trump that Danchenko fed to Steele. A lawyer from Perkins Coie, Michael Sussman, has also been indicted. So there was indeed a Russian collusion plot — but it involved not an attempt by Trump to destroy Clinton, but an attempt by Clinton to destroy Trump.

    John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence, says he found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but that he saw in intelligence documents “there was collusion involving the Clinton campaign and Russians to create a dossier”. Yet the mainstream media (with the exception of The Wall Street Journal) played an essential role in pumping up the false story while refusing to acknowledge the true one. Driven by wild fury that Trump had been elected, the media threw journalistic ethics to the winds as they tried to help bring him down.

    So how will these outlets handle the fact that they are now also in the frame for colluding with an attempted coup? So far, reaction to the Durham indictments has been distinctly muted.

    In May The New York Times, apparently aware that exposure of a “media debacle” now loomed, ran a piece by Barry Meier acknowledging coyly that many of the claims in the Steele dossier “have never materialised or have been proved false”. Meier managed to report the “troubling story” that “reporters and private investigators long have had a symbiotic relationship that is hidden from the public” — without actually acknowledging that his own paper had used precisely such a relationship to aid an attempted coup against a sitting president.

    As for The Washington Post, its observation a few days ago that Durham’s allegations “cast new uncertainty on some past reporting on the dossier by news organisations, including The Washington Post” surely deserves to win the understatement of the year award.

    This scandal has a long way to run. As The Wall Street Journal comments, while the indictments treat the FBI as the duped party, “the record shows former FBI director James Comey and his investigators knew from the summer of 2016 that Clinton campaign fingerprints were all over the dossier”.

    Throughout the Trump years, anti-Trumpers kept up a barrage of overwrought accusations that the president was undermining western civilisation. These so-called tribunes of democracy never acknowledged what was obvious to some of us from the start — that whatever one might think of Trump, the onslaught upon him looked like a plot by state and political actors to sabotage an elected president through character assassination.

    Soon after Trump was elected, The Washington Post added beneath its masthead the pointed strapline: “Democracy dies in darkness”. Yes it does — and it’s the media that turned out the lights.

    3. But it’s strange that last night the BBC showed a long interview with a Democratic party official who pointed out that “there was definite collusion

      between Trump and the Russians”, and it was all due to Trump wanting to build a Trump Towers in Moscow.

      1. The Beeb lives in a different world from the rest of us. It’s no wonder we can’t believe a thing they say.

      3. I’m wary when i read articles about “Russians”,”Russian-born” or “Russian Regime”
        Its not unlike the “Russians” who donate to the Tory Party.They are individuals who would delight in seeing the end of Putin as it was he who cracked down on their activities in robbing the Government of millions.London is their bolthole.They daren’t set foot in Russia.

      4. I realise that the end of your post (Turmp Towers) is no more than a typo, Janet, but I read that as “Turnip Towers”!

    4. Here, having felled Owen Paterson (yes, I agree he was unwise, but I’d be interested to see how a government lackey or non-Conservative would be treated in the same circumstances) they are now going for one of his supporters, Daniel Kawczynski.

      1. I keep saying on this forum that we know very little about this case. It is implied – but we are not told explicitly – that he did not declare his financial interests correctly; we are not told precisely how he lobbied for the companies he advised; we hear nothing about the fact that he was clearly bullied by his investigators Bryant and Stone who came to the case with their minds already made up and so they did not interview him personally or examine any of the evidence he presented.

        Johnson clearly mishandled the case completely. He should have had enlisted the assistance of the Speaker and tried to get him to delay the vote until the full facts were available from both sides.

        That Paterson had no right to defend himself makes it clear to any fair-minded person that the current system gives an open goal to politically motivated, vindictive people – as I suspect Bryant and Stone may well be.

        I very much hope that Paterson is innocent and that he will be able to clear his name.

  25. The problem with the anti-corruption crusade. Spiked. 9 November 2021.

    Anyone reading the papers on Sunday morning could be forgiven for thinking they had just woken up in a banana republic. The Owen Paterson affair and allegations of cash-for-peerages have been treated as symbols of our apparently degraded and dilapidated democracy.

    We no longer have a ‘parliamentary government’, but ‘government as an extortion racket’, reckons the Observer. Its sister paper, the Guardian, likened Britain to a ‘corrupt regime’ and a failed state. For the Independent, the various sleaze scandals represent the ‘gravest threat’ to ‘our parliamentary system… since the Second World War’, threatening ‘a slide towards anarchy’.

    The problem is not individuals per se but the system itself. It is totally corrupt in the sense that it in no way portrays or represents the people of the UK. It is this that needs to be addressed and the only way that can be done is to Democratise Policy and Law Making. The House of Lords, which is a cess pool of corruption, must be either Abolished or Reformed. The rest needs a Swiss System with Proportional Representation and Referendums on all important matters.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/08/the-problem-with-the-anti-corruption-crusade/

    2. Lloyd George and Maundy Gregory. (With a name like that he couldn’t be anything other than a con man.)

    3. They ignore corruption by the Blair cronies and immigrants for years, until they get a white Tory in their sights, who is not even proven guilty, and then they launch a giant moral crusade. They make me sick.

  26. -4C and snow showers on the way today.Four days of snow forecast for next week.I think Winter is on the way.
    Studded tyres go on tomorrow !

      1. We used to have a deadline but now it is up to the individual.
        The problem is if i fit them too early it destroys the studs and the road surface.

        1. I was excused studs, because I would drive to Germany (where studs are banned) at least once during Winter to visit my father.
          So I had ‘deck utan dug’ on the car.

  27. Nato says it ‘stands ready’ to step in as Belarus sends thousands of migrants to EU border
    Warsaw has been urged to convene Nato to deal with the latest escalation of Minsk’s ‘hybrid war’ against the EU over sanctions

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/08/poland-ready-defend-belarus-sends-thousands-migrants-border/

    No BTL comments allowed.

    Maybe if the EU accepted no refugees from the hell holes in Africa and the Middle East then the young men who are currently trying to escape to an easier life in the West would stay in their native countries and overthrow the tyrannical regimes and rebuild their own countries rather than trying to corrupt and exploit others?

    But of course the West has given up and the immigrants will keep on coming.

        1. Indeed…if you’re of a mind to,there’s no water you can’t muddy.
          I’ll stick with the near-present.The US have been stirring the pot in Iran since the days of The Shah.

          1. Caroline’s father was the managing director of a multi-national company in Iran and so she spent some of her childhood there in the days of the Shah. But it was a very different place then.

      2. The West is afflicted with politicians who don’t know their history.
        The lesson to be learnt (Ha!) is don’t get involved in sandy hell holes; particularly where the inhabitants heartily loathe each other. All you do is unite them in the face of a perceived common enemy.
        Apart from the Crusaders bringing back silk and Arabic numerals, involvement in that area has never gone well.

      1. “Give us the tools and we shall finish the job” said Winston Churchill.

        “Give us some realistic alternatives and we shall vote for them,” say we.

        1. 341340+ up ticks,
          Morning R,
          One would like to think so, the realistic alternative was there with Mr G Batten and fellow patriots and kicked into touch.

          A stand by the decent peoples MUST be made I would say a by election being the start with the fringe party’s in contention
          boycotting in bulk the lab/lib/con anti United Kingdom coalition.

          I want personally to see Anne Marie Waters given a political shout.

    1. They say that he was irresistibly attractive to women so his wife, Beryl, kept him on a very tight rein. I wonder how many of us Nottlers are kept on a tight rein for the same reason?

  30. Now for something completely different,the Rittenhouse murder trial……….

    The prosecutors reaction to his own witness……..

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/594e69fa4e19fed8a1f70bec810523c80a9bac3e1804a639f019235c3ccafb24.png

    Video

    https://gab.com/PepeLivesMatter17/posts/107243077895105956
    Now THAT’S Awkward………
    Edit forgot this one
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/16f57a047089ad4fad06e8bda5b3561de8077bb987a6a95276d725c6842b3ab5.jpg

  31. Now for something completely different,the Rittenhouse murder trial……….

    The prosecutors reaction to his own witness……..

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/594e69fa4e19fed8a1f70bec810523c80a9bac3e1804a639f019235c3ccafb24.png

    Video

    https://gab.com/PepeLivesMatter17/posts/107243077895105956
    Now THAT’S Awkward………
    Edit forgot this one
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/16f57a047089ad4fad06e8bda5b3561de8077bb987a6a95276d725c6842b3ab5.jpg

  32. Words fail me – and her:

    NHS chief ridiculed over claims of ‘14 times as many Covid admissions as last year’

    Amanda Pritchard’s statement described as nonsense, as latest data show numbers in hospital with coronavirus are significantly lower

    By
    Laura Donnelly,
    HEALTH EDITOR
    8 November 2021 • 6:04pm

    Health chiefs have come under fire for claims that the NHS has had 14 times as many Covid-19 admissions as it did at this time last year.

    Amanda Pritchard, the head of NHS England, told Sky News on Monday: “We have had 14 times the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 than we saw this time last year and we have also had a record number of A&E attendances and indeed a record number of 999 calls.”

    Latest published data on Covid-19 hospital admissions in England show that, in fact, the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 is significantly lower than last year.

    The statistics for November 2 show 7,510 in hospital with Covid-19 in England, compared with 10,397 the same time last year.

    Christopher Snowdon, head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “Fourteen times?! How can anyone believe this? It is so wildly, off-the-scale wrong you wonder whether someone misheard her.”

    Professor Francois Balloux, director of the University College London Genetics Institute, described Ms Pritchard’s claim as “nonsense”.

    Latest official data on cases of Covid-19 in hospitals are updated daily, and published on the Government’s own Covid-19 dashboard, based on data provided by NHS England, with a lag of less than a week.

    However, health officials said Ms Pritchard had been referring to data comparing August 2021 with the year before.

    These statistics show 22,877 Covid-19 admissions in August 2021, compared with 1,629 the previous year – a 14-fold difference.

    Although more recent data is regularly published examining Covid-19 hospitalisations, they said Ms Pritchard was speaking in the context of other NHS pressures, including areas where statistics are published less frequently, and with a large lag.

    Evidence of a busy NHS
    Officials said that when asked about the state of the NHS, the health official – who has only been in the top job since August – looked back to talk about the strain on services this summer, before looking forward to winter.

    Writing for Health Service Journal on Monday, Ms Pritchard had referred to the monthly statistics for August as evidence of how busy the NHS was.

    While Covid-19 data is published much more regularly, the August data is the latest published to examine numbers of planned operations and diagnostic tests.

    In the piece, Ms Pritchard said: “The latest monthly figures show that in August, for example, diagnostic tests were up around a fifth and elective procedures up around a third compared to a year ago despite admitting 14 times more Covid patients in hospital.

    “And compared with the same period two years ago, pre-covid, GPs saw more patients overall and five per cent more cancer patients were referred for urgent treatment,” she added.

    A challenging winter
    In the piece, she expressed concern about the ability of the NHS and social care to cope this winter.

    “We all know that the next 100 days are likely to be significantly more challenging and I want every member of NHS staff to know that I recognise how difficult the coming winter is going to be. I am concerned by how stretched we – and our colleagues in social care – are, before we have even reached what are traditionally the busiest winter months,” she wrote.

    Ms Pritchard has been in charge of the NHS in England since August, when she replaced Lord Stevens, after two years as his deputy. She is the first woman to run the health service.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/08/health-officials-fire-off-the-scale-wrong-covid-admission-claims/

    Top BTL comments

    Carpe Jugulum
    8 Nov 2021 9:22PM
    Bad enough that an NHS functionary with a degree in history is being paid £200k a year to ‘run’ the NHS but when she is so utterly witless as to use outdated and irrelevant data we are entitled to query her level of competence.

    Pritchard was either deliberately lying about current pressures on the NHS or is so underqualified for the role she cannot even track data. In either case she isn’t worth £20 a year, much less £200,000.

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    damian kingsford
    8 Nov 2021 9:09PM
    Why should this be a surprise to anyone who has lived through the fantasy wonderland of statistics and behavioural engineering over the past 18 months?

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    Bob Edwards
    8 Nov 2021 9:12PM
    It is wildly inaccurate statements like this which makes me doubt anything I hear or read from senior people in the NHS, most of whom seem to have a political axe to grind.

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    Paul Linc
    8 Nov 2021 9:07PM
    Lefty, useless, overpaid liar.

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    1. I am shocked , yes, really shocked .

      It appears that people want to be what ever they want to be .

      A degree in history, yet in charge of the NHS..

      A banker Health Minister

      A fat unzipped joker Prime Minister.

      So dear Nottlrs , who would you like to be , re huge salary scale and waffley expertise ?

    4. I’d like to ask her given that the NHS is always ‘overwhelmed’ in winter what she is doing to change that.

  35. How to consolidate relationships

    I was sitting watching Match of the Day when the Mrs came into the lounge and says, “Fancy a shag, Babe?”
    I said, “After the football love”
    She said, “You do realise that you can record it?”
    I said, “Nice, you get the camcorder, I’ll come upstairs when the footy finishes”.

    My girlfriend has just asked me how many women I’ve shagged.
    I said, ‘I really don’t want to answer that love, you know I’ve had a past and I don’t want to upset you!’
    ‘C’mon’ she said, ‘I can handle it!’
    So I had to sit there and count them all, “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, you, 10, 11, 12”

    My Wife asked me to go to the Doctors about my Erection problem.
    She wasn’t pleased when I came back and gave her some Slimming Pills

    I was at a wedding reception.
    The DJ announced, “All the married men out there go and stand by the person who makes your life worth living”.
    The barman was crushed to death.

    My missus asked me to help her stop sucking her thumb, so I drew a cock on it.

    My wife was in the bathroom for hours getting ready to go out.
    When finally, the door swung open and she said, “Honestly, do I look fat in this?”
    I replied, “Yes love, but to be fair, it’s only a small bathroom.”

    7. Wonderful work absolutely brilliant. My elder sister is a quilter she use to work on repairing the tapestries’ at Hatfield House.
      My good lady has has just finished two (for our most recent grandchildren) wonderful 22 X 30 inch advent ‘calendars’ with pockets for the daily treats. But unfortunately i can not post the photographs i just don’t know how to do it.
      You name isn’t Ray by any chance is it ?

        1. There is a lady in our village who use to tech quilting and her Hubby is called Ray.
          Your good lady should be e very proud of what she has made. It’s precision engineering.

    8. Question: Do little ones in their Cot, study and appreciate what is laid over them?

      Or is it rather the Mamas and the Grandmas who think that this is entirely appropriate.

    2. Have just received my appointment for a booster! Haven’t even opened it and don’t intend to! My old man is going for his this afternoon. We have agreed to differ!

      1. Same, Sue, with me and Best Beloved – up to three jabs to date.

        My only worry is that she may die on me.

        1. Oh crikey, NTN! Try not to worry. I’m concerned for my old man, as he has several other medical issues including a heart problem. At one time he was diagnosed with Syndrome X!

          1. I may very likely follow, Sue

            Suicide maybe and more a likely an option to end it all.

            What’s to look forward to?

            Maybe I shall stop taking the Warfarin and await the fatal heart attack. Goodbye cruel world.

          2. That may be the immediate reaction, but life is worth living. People care about you and you’ve had a past which is worth remembering.

          5. Basically, and very precociously, it’s also for the world at large to try and explain to others what it was like, growing up in the 40s, 50s and 60s and how we coped, married, had children and provided for and protected the family.

            Available on Kindle at USD 5.00 and titled as, Not A Bad Life.

        1. It’s Scotland and they’re giving the booster along with the ‘flu jag! I’ve never had a ‘flu jag, even after working in home care with the council for 14 years, and I’m not about to go along with the blackmail!

    3. Two jabs -> failure, third jab required now and Javid and the creep at Education talking about more jabs next year to keep people safe. Someone please remind me of the definition of insanity?
      IMHO these politicians playing with the Nation’s health as agents of powerful international individuals are losing control of the ‘virus’, as predicted would happen by real experts if mass inoculation was used. They will compound their folly by coercing people to have more and more of the same. Continual pressure on the ‘virus’ could force it to create a variant that no “vaccine” will be able to combat -> Armageddon.

    4. Victim blaming at its finest. That person has only been in the news about 5 minutes, and I hate her already. I suppose that will be a crime tomorrow.

    5. Victim blaming at its finest. That person has only been in the news about 5 minutes, and I hate her already. I suppose that will be a crime tomorrow.

    6. What absolute lies and absolute Bolero, we have already been told that having a jab does not make any one immune from catching Covid there for it is not a vaccine. There are many people who have had serious heart problems, blood clots and strokes after having the first and second jabs and there is no help out there. This third ‘booster’ is just a an Ars* covering exercise for the failures of the original jabs now AZ is not being used,……… so why ? When the first two jabs didn’t always work they invented a variant infection.
      Now thousands of people are losing their jobs in care homes because they are refusing the jabs, so more of the elderly will die from lack of ‘Care’. Is there anything else inn our lives our political classes and civil service can EFF UP ?

    1. I have seen a couple of videos of these people getting quite violent at the Polish border, trying to get through the fencing. They should be told that any invasion of Polish soil will result in the troops opening fire.

        1. “desperate” migrants do not demand, as if it were their right or threaten people at the border withy violence because they want to get through. These sort of migrants have it in their heads that their imaginary rights trump the rights of the people they seek to usurp in their own lands. They are the enemy, not migrants.

    1. We are a cheerful lot, aren’t we!

      Looks interesting though, I shall certainly watch it later. Good morning.

      1. Morning Blackbox! The video concerns Ivermectin. The Japanese have decided it is more effective than the garbage that big pharma is forcing upon us. According to the Japanese Ivermectin both prevents and cures Covid more effectively than any of the fraudulent medication peddled upon us by big pharma. Video also explains why big Pharma is being forced upon us. The reason is pure greed by the companies signed on to by government.

        1. I think we already knew this from studies in France, India and elsewhere, but it has been suppressed everywhere. It’s good to see an inportant country like Japan deciding that this is the way to go.

          1. Yes. From Japan, not a third world hole, it is important that they have taken this step. It makes it harder for the rest of the developed world to take their unethical stand with regard to the vaccine and Ivermectin. When the subject comes up, as it inevitable will, how is our government going to justify its behaviour in banning a live saving medication?

    1. This sort of garbage shows just how out of touch with reality these sort of people are. I spent 40 years in the San Francisco/Bay Area which has the largest population of gay people in the world so inevitably I knew plenty of them. I can not ever recall going shopping with a gay person where the issue they cared about was the shop or store. Odd to say, like everyone else, their intend was on finding something they wanted to buy that appealed to them. Shock and horror, just like everyone else. Normal gay people are just as repelled by this sort of “special pleading” as anyone else. If anything they would avoid such stores for the obvious hypocrisy of dressing up the profit motive in a pretence of being gay friendly for purely venal reasons.

        1. Indeed there is, even the government that is supposed to care for the peoples welfare gives venality precedence.

          1. The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,
            public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
            tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be
            curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work
            instead of living on public assistance.” – Cicero, 55 BC

            Copied from Mr Cicero’s website:

      2. When did gay become the word people decided to use for homosexuals?

        I expect most of us know or knew a girl called Gaye when we were young and some of us will remember the Gambols cartoon in The Daily Express in the 1950s. This song which has a very pretty tune was produced in 1973 – which probably was too late for it to escape innuendos and sniggers and ruin its chances of success.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uK5YOWUHF4

          1. “Chase me, Charlie
            Chase me, Charlie
            Lost a leg o’ me drawers ….
            Chase me, Charlie
            Chase me, Charlie
            Won’t you lend me yours?”

            My parents beggared themselves to pay school fees; they really got their money’s worth.

        1. Well our parliament now have a new front runner and key man, his name is ‘Dave’ as in Only fools and Horses. But his real Name is Rod-ney.

  43. I wonder how history will look on organisations that take money from Soros and Gates? Mosley may have had the wrong beliefs but he could hardly be said to have done harm on the same scale?

    1. Too many people still think Soros and Gates are philanthropists with the good of mankind as their motive.

        1. Yeh I thought you might have – just checking. They seem pretty big, have you tried Screwfix?

        2. These are extra large https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254599638997?chn=ps&var=554337933053&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1DjRhj0ZySKGAvjc6ExQggQ70&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=554337933053_254599638997&targetid=1394813963900&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9046853&poi=&campaignid=14474725615&mkgroupid=128284775882&rlsatarget=pla-1394813963900&abcId=9300650&merchantid=115162823&gclid=CjwKCAiA1aiMBhAUEiwACw25MfF_ff5bbwG59ty5iKPHSI3W9FBQWh9QlOOYPyG0K351ED58cSIAVxoCwkAQAvD_BwE

      1. Beat me to it, sos! Nice to see you back! Sorry you didn’t have the best of times here!

        1. On a positive note; HG needed, and managed to get, two emergency dental appointments.
          That’ll teach her not to bite me.

    1. Ripper mates,…….. Well done cobbers you beauties.
      I’m a hard bustard but It actually brought tears to my eyes.
      Have a lovely summer over there.

      I must send that to Brucie i have sent him a few emails recently but had no replies perhaps his home has been surrounded and locked down …… Perhaps I shouldn’t really joke should I ?

        1. That was past Sunday (31st week) Ellie. 🙂 I know he’s been busy they had a storm and huge blackwood tree in their garden went over. The first thing he said to me was when are ya comin’ over ?

    2. I could have done without the bloke in the suit who likes the sound of his own voice – but that’s a very big crowd! Good luck to them breaking free of tyranny.

      1. That guy is one of the main instigators of resistance in Victoria. It takes a bombast full of self confidence to get this sort of thing going. He is called “The Aussie Cossack.”

      2. He seems to be the one holding it altogether, though. It is good to know that someone is taking leadership of this fiasco.

    2. You could try a cow dung poultice. Not to be sniffed at.

      Though i have heard that Epsom salts work just as well.

  47. The internet is swift and merciless………..

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00ff6ed8cb01cd1f302f373f0dc25b503c7f6995b97504a2e230f8607e9c4076.jpg

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    1. That’s the problem with shining a spotlight on one MP – others get caught in the glare.

      1. Why take down a real villain if you can find a token villain to take down without giving him the chance to present a proper defence?

      2. 341380+ up ticks,
        Afternoon AA,
        Then we need a party that will floodlight the whole current political stage.

  51. More than 240 people were involved in the operation to rescue the injured man from one of the UK’s largest cave systems
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/08/mission-rescue-man-brecon-beacons-cave-wales

    Paul Taylor, SMWCRT spokesman, said the injured caver was doing well. “He’s doing pretty good as far as I understand. He’s been talking throughout, so that’s something,” he said. Taylor said it was the longest cave rescue ever undertaken in Wales; the previous record was 41 hours.

    The teams, including doctors, had to work to secure a safe route out of the cave along which the injured man could be evacuated on a stretcher. They used a system called Cavelink to communicate inside the caves, which allows teams on the surface to transmit text messages through the rock, without cable, to a receiver underground.

    HOW CAN THAT BE?

    The caves were discovered by the SWCC in 1946, according to Natural Resources Wales, and contain streams and waterfalls. The system, whose deepest point is about 275 metres (902ft), can be accessed by cavers with a permit from the club.

    The online guide from SWCC for Ogof Ffynnon Ddu, the Cave of the Black Spring, said: “The through trip from the top to the bottom entrance remains a classic in the UK, and its approximately 61km (40 miles) of passages provide everything from huge chambers, beautiful formations, to yawning chasms and thundering river passages. The routes through the cave are too numerous to mention.”

    1. No info’ on how the idiot got himself into a situation that required rescue.

      Maybe, following the Darwin principle, he should be left to die and not put 240 other people at risk to save his stupid soul.

      1. He fell down a hole , tripped I think.

        When I was at boarding school when we had field trips on the remote North Yorkshire Moors , our school mistress used to say , ” Girls, there are lots of deep holes and caves on the moor , do not go near them , stay together do not stray”

        There were so many lead mines … and of course, cave entrances .

        1. Climbing a near vertical passage when a lump of rock gave way as he stood in it.
          Said bit of rock had probably been stood on by more than a few cavers in the past without problems.

      2. Presumably they share his interest in climbing around in the darkness, so did not regard it as a problem.

        1. Exactly.
          And was well as the satisfaction of helping out a fellow caver, who may himself be part of a rescue team, they will also have the satisfaction of putting their rescue training to good use.
          At least that’s the impression I gained from our local Mountain Rescue Team when I’ve come across them having an exercise.

      3. I get the impression that he was an experienced and well equipped caver who got unlucky.
        Those 240 “other people” will also be VERY experienced cavers and, I suspect, more than happy to put their skills to use on the basis that next time, it could be them.

        1. Hmm, Bob,carry on caving.

          Sorry if i seem cynical but you but yourself in danger in our own time and ability.

        2. Hmm, Bob,carry on caving.

          Sorry if i seem cynical but you but yourself in danger in our own time and ability.

    1. If Calais were English it would make it much easier to get to England. The Spanish have a similar issue in North Africa with migrants entering “Spanish territory”.

  53. Kamala Harris is least popular US vice-president in at least 50 years
    Disastrous ratings come after a series of stumbles, and a dwindling number of public appearances alongside President Joe Biden

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/08/kamala-harris-least-popular-vice-president-50-years-according/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-onward-journey
    BTL

    US Vice-Presidents have the reputation of being rather dim whether they are popular or unpopular!

    Dan Quayle was not cracking a joke or being ironic when he said he would have to brush up on his Latin language skills when he had to go to Latin America.

    2. I always thought that a hopeless VP was a sort of insurance policy aimed at putting off any would be POTUS assassin because of the consequences….

    3. Kamala Harris is a psychopath. She could get away with it in San Francisco as the District Attorney. But on a national stage her false persona is glaringly obvious. Her lack of any real personality and her total absence of elementary decency, or principle, shine forth like a jaundiced beacon through a fog of insincerity.

          1. I stupidly made a careless mistake with my spelling which I noticed with shame and shock an hour after having posted the above. To my astonishment no one picked it up because, as a former English teacher who has never mastered the computer keyboard and makes a multitude of typos, I am considered ‘fair game’!

  54. More scaremongering from the usual sources.

    ‘Climate change is a far bigger problem than coronavirus’: Patrick
    Vallance warns Covid poses threat for ‘two to four years’ compared to up
    to 100 years for global warming
    The climate crisis poses greater threat to humanity than Covid, according to the UK’s Chief Scientific Advisor
    Sir Patrick Vallance has warned that the challenge of global warming could last a hundred years
    He said the climate crisis will require ‘a combination of technology and behavioural change’ to tackle
    UK’s Chief Scientific Advisor was speaking to the BBC at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10180851/Patrick-Vallance-warns-climate-change-bigger-threat-Covid.html

    1. This man is really amazing, isn’t he. He seems to be an expert in so many fields and master of none of them. A self promoting buffoon.

      2. The money from all his committee meetings just keeps on rolling in.

        Thank you dear taxpayers.

    2. Though he did not specify what changes would need to be made, the Chief Scientific Advisor for Cop26 has previously supported reductions in meat eating and flying.

      In sympathy I’ve just hurled a rib-eye steak into the fridge!

      1. Yo Minty

        Chief Scientific Advisor for Cop26 has previously supported reductions in meat eaters and flyers

        Just keep taking the Convid vaccinations and the numbers of meat eaters and pilots will fall, which is the main purpose of the jabs

        The Elite WILL get their way, if we let them.

        We need Herd Immunity, from Big Pharmas, Soros, Gates, the Davos Clique, and the Flat Earthers, aka COP26 gang

    3. If this comes from the mouth/brain of a discredited idiot/nincompoop, posing as a medical advisor, I, as a normal (I think) thinking member of the human race, demand to know why he is not currently in some sort of lunatic asylum?

      1. A bigger threat than ‘climate change’ is the millions of injuries caused by the Covid vaccines. Those injuries are often irreversible and life changing. Such events are increasing and no attempt at concealing the facts by Pharma and government agencies will succeed.

        Vallance apparently knows as little about immunology and epidemiology as he does about climate.

  55. This is a subject close to my heart. I have been involved with things Tibetan since the rather pretentious age of 12. I used to know the first secretary of the Tibet Society at that age. My task was to go buy whipped cream pastries and make tea!. What this video shows is how stupid the Chinese CCP really is. Knowing that it hopefully gives people the awareness that they are not the invincible enemy that people tend to be deceived into thinking. Much of their bravado is just a stupid form of arrogance as this story clearly shows. A spectacular inability to understand the Tibetans even after oppressing them for 70 years. Do not think that this inability to understand is the exception, it is, in fact, the rule and is why they will fail in trying to dominate the world.

    How China’s new border law against India could spell doom for CCP’s rule in Tibet

    .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gdZ6d9wWPs&list=TLPQMDgxMTIwMjEYVpJodJmCNQ&index=27

    1. Afternoon Johnathan. Tibet has coloured my attitude to China for the whole of my lifetime. I have never had a good word to say about the Peoples Republic. It is an evil and monstrous entity. It’s passing would be a boon to the world!

    2. I met a couple of Tibetan ladies in Pokhara on our first visit to Nepal. They were very chatty and of course I bought something from them – they were highly amused at my attempt to squat on my haunches like they did, especially when I toppled over on my back. We also bought a Tibetan rug while we were there, from a refugee women’s workshop.

      1. We have regular Himalayan Mountain exhibitions/sales up in Ullapool quite regularly, some of the stuff they churn out is quite nice if you’re into that kind of thing but also a lot of expensive tat

      2. My sister and her husband holidayed in Nepal. He took a photograph of three ladies in traditional dress and was rather put out when they demanded some money.

        He was a salesman for Canada Life. Both rich and tight fisted.

    1. Looks like a TOTAL of 60 years.

      They will be out, by the time I click “Post as One Last Try”

    2. And in Chicago last weekend 50 people were shot – 10 died… shape of things to come here? Time to invest in Funeral Directors?

      1. I have seen a couple of video clips from funeral directors whose own perceptions are very different indeed from the official version of deaths and events. A chap with the name of John O’Looney from Milton Keynes, whom you will find on the internet, seems rather saner than his name suggests.

    3. I lived in Leyton for a year. It was common knowledge that the local 24 hr MacDonalds was where to buy drugs. Somehow plod remained unaware of this fact.

        2. That is why the Police should be subject to the same D&A regime as I was on the Railway.

        1. Hello Uncle Bill! How are you bearing up? I only just found out you’re feeling a bit sore in the dorsal area!

      3. The ice cream van used to sell them round here! Bus stop outside the High School at lunchtime, round the streets in the evening! Scots plod were blind and deaf as well!

          1. I’d forgotten that, Bob! We have a lot of Italian fish and chip/ice cream in this area. One of our oldest friends was Italian descent and didn’t speak Englsh until he was 4. His father came over to Bo’ness with his young bride, and opened an ice cream parlour, with his brother!

    4. Those blacks might just as well be living in the hell hole of their ancestors , and not in a a civilised educated country as guests of the white indigenous people .

      Send them back to their villages of machetes dugout canoes, kif , yams, plantains, green bananas and cassava and ground nut soup .

      Send back , no return , to their tribal ancestry.

      I have had enough of seeing people like that on my TV screen, hearing their voices on the radio, and knowing that large segments of our large cities have allowed these people to roam the whole of Britain causing utter mindless mayhem .

      A pox on the lot of them , because it looks like Covid hasn’t touched them iin the slightest.

  59. 341380+ up ticks,

    Tis my honest belief these governing party’s have gone through the political non return valve, there cannot surely be support in the future if there is then we as a nation have a insurmountable mental health issue.

  60. Irish Car Accident

    A farmer named Paddy had a car accident. He was hit by a truck owned bythe Eversweet Company.

    In court, the Eversweet Company’s hot-shot solicitor was questioning Paddy.
    ‘Didn’t you say to the police at the scene of the accident, ‘I’m fine?’ asked the solicitor.

    Paddy responded: ‘Well, I’ll tell you what happened. I’d just loaded my fav’rit cow, Bessie, into da… ‘

    ‘I didn’t ask for any details’, the solicitor interrupted. ‘Just answer the question.

    Did you not say, at the scene of the accident, ‘I’m fine!’?’

    Paddy said, ‘Well, I’d just got Bessie into da trailer and I was drivin’ down da road…. ‘

    The solicitor interrupted again and said,’Your Honour, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident,
    this man told the police on the scene that he was fine. Now several weeks after the accident, he is trying to sue my client.
    I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the question. ‘

    By this time, the Judge was fairly interested in Paddy’s answer and said to the solicitor:
    ‘I’d like to hear what he has to say about his favourite cow, Bessie’.

    Paddy thanked the Judge and proceeded. ‘Well as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my fav’rit cow, into de trailer
    and was drivin’ her down de road when this huge Eversweet truck and trailer came tundering tru a stop sign
    and hit me trailer right in da side. I was trown into one ditch and Bessie was trown into da udder.
    By Jaysus I was hurt, very bad like, and didn’t want to move. However, I could hear old Bessie moanin’ and groanin’. I knew
    she was in terrible pain just by her groans.

    Shortly after da accident, a policeman on a motorbike turned up. He could hear Bessie moanin’ and groanin’ too, so he went over to her.
    After he looked at her, and saw her condition, he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes.

    Den da policeman came across de road, gun still in hand, looked at me, and said, ‘How are you feelin’?’
    ‘Now, wot da fock would you say?’

  61. The night has a 1000 Xi’s….

    China’s Communist Party Central Committee is now holding its 6th Plenum, running from Nov.8 through Nov.11, where it’s expected that an ultra-rare so-called “historical resolution” will be written that will allow Xi Jinping to rule for life, after a prior 2018 constitutional amendment already effectively removed the two-term limit for the President.

      1. You’ll probably find you have a bloater after a few days, but treatment is available these days.

    4. I bet the offer doesn’t include two halves of 15 minutes each with a 30 minute break for half time…..

  63. When I look around at sea levels, the overalll weather, 2 very cool summers no predictions came true etc. I see no climate change the way these idiots make out. Where is the truth. None of it has been proved to me and without proof we must take no notice of them. They are using it to scare people so the can take more of our wealth and nothing more.

    1. Brexit – Covid – Global Warming

      The less real evidence they have of disaster the more they peddle FEAR and the more they try to suppress opposing points of view.

    2. Afternoon Johnny. I was stood at the Bus Stop yesterday and looked around. It was no different to any other November day that I have experienced in my lifetime. True it was milder than most but nothing extraordinary. The only real difference that I have noticed over the last fifty years is the lack of fog! This was once a perennial but hardly seen at all now. The reason could be seen looking down the same Street. There are no chimneys!

      1. I remember walking down the road to the post office in November 1969 when we were living in a village near Andover, and thinking how nice the weather was for November. It was mild and sunny, and there were plenty of leaves still on the trees.

        1. Wow, that must have been a very memorable event. Were you perchance wearing a stocking mask at the time?

        2. There is an entry in Pepys diary for a February in the 1660s when he mentions the warmth and the flies dancing up and down.

      2. I remember walking down the road to the post office in November 1969 when we were living in a village near Andover, and thinking how nice the weather was for November. It was mild and sunny, and there were plenty of leaves still on the trees.

      4. Inter-house hockey matches at the end of the Autumn term were killers; we always ended up boiling hot – during December.
        Obviously, this global warming/climate change malarkey has been going on for 60+ years. (Ignore the winter of ’62-’63; it doesn’t fit into pre-conceived facts.)

      5. Probably less fog because we have been burning less coal. Erm, forget I said that. Fog has diminished because the CO2 molecules have combined with the moisture in the air to form acid rain. That is also the reason we have fewer dolphins in our rivers.

    3. It is not possible to see climate change over 100 years. What they are seeing is variations in the weather. But with Auntie plastering its screens with pictures of fire and flood it has led to a state of hysteria. Fire, flood and erosion have, of course been with us since the year dot.

      1. I’m heartily sick of hearing, “since records began”. Records began around 137 years ago. The earth began approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Hey, I’m the warmest I’ve been for at least 10 minutes!

        1. Not least with Arctic sea ice. Accurate records began with the introduction of satellite technology – in 1979.

    4. Last Saturday as I enjoyed a few pints of Olde Blitzkrieg at the Fox in Hanwell I watched the canal rise by 2 meters in less than an hour. This climate thing is getting serious.

  64. Snowing heavily here.
    Climate change has arrived…it wasn’t snowing this time last year.

  66. Poland’s Belarusian border conflict is becoming violent. 9 November 2021.

    The Polish government responded to the violation of its border with military force. Twelve thousand troops are now being deployed along the border. When migrants managed to break a section of the fence near Kuznica on Monday, a rank of Polish soldiers filled the gap as a military helicopter flew low overhead in an attempt to deter the febrile group, which was chanting ‘Germany!’ It’s thought that around 7,000 of the migrants who recently entered Poland subsequently tried to make it to Germany. Another 14,000 migrants are thought to be in Belarus hoping to make the crossing.

    The Poles aren’t having any of this We are Just Looking for Somewhere to put Our Feet Up or Religion of Peace crap. They have powerful historical memories of being occupied and they are not having it again.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/poland-s-belarusian-border-conflict-is-becoming-violent

    1. The US/EU tried their Colour Revolution on Belarus.It worked in Ukraine but failed in Belarus.
      What we are seeing now is kickback and i hope to see more of it.

    1. I am beginning to think that the more cans are opened and the more worms are found therein the more MPs of all parties are going to bitterly regret the fact that they went after Owen Paterson who has always struck me as being one of the most decent people in the HoC.
      I really do hope that Owen Paterson is innocent and manages to clear his name and that Bryant and May Stone find they have met their match!

      2. I always thought he had a good handle on the Levels in Somerset problem some years back but he was shunted out of that job.

      3. Innocent or not doesn’t matter – – he “WILL” be what the govt decides – – not the truth. Truth is not any concern of govt now.

  69. The Slaphead Mekon has announced all NHS staff will have to be jabbed by next April because “They are in contact with the most vulnerable in society”
    Hmm so for the next 5 months this ISN’T essential……..
    What a farce this has NOTHING to do with public health and everything to do with forcing compliance of the Clotshot

    1. He daren’t risk mass walkouts with Winter approaching and the expected overwhelming of the NHS…..

      1. I agree but why was the earlier declaration made? Joined up thinking, cause and effect all lost on these people. If they focused on their job instead of trying to do the globalists’ bidding perhaps we might see some improvements. No time to hold one’s breath.

      2. He’ll have them in spring instead. Will they be training up a back up staff in the meantime? Sorry, I just fell off my chair laughing at the thought.

    2. Clearly Javid doesn’t have a clue about how stupid his statement makes him look. I despair at the lack of quality within our political ranks. The idea that they are there to serve the people is lost on them, self serving and positioning themselves around the trough being amply filled by the globalists is their goal.

      1. Perhaps if he worked 70 hour shifts per week on the front line of the NHS he might be enlightened. Never going to happen though is it…

    3. Let’s see…a large percentage of NHS staff are foreigners, and they have skills that ensure they can get work almost anywhere in the world. What could possibly go wrong?

      1. When you meet people socially for the first time, there is now a little fencing match where you each try to subtly discover the other person’s vaccine viewpoint.
        Quite a few medical staff remain unvaccinated.

      2. All foreigners who arrive with fake medical certificates will actually get onto UK soil – – and then vanish – – NEVER to leave – but job done !!!!! Asylum claim when found – – STAY.

    4. And can anyone tell us just how much harm these unvaccinated NHS staff have caused. If not what is the justification now? I suspect that the answer is very little to none and that this is just another example of encroachment on individual liberties by a government that is rapidly becoming a tyranny.

    6. I wonder if the article below has any effect on Convid jabs

      Islamic months and expected dates in year 1443

      According to predictions and astronomical charts, the months of the Islamic year during year 1443 – covering 2021/2022 –

      are expected to start as listed below.

      But remember that dates are subject to an official sighting of the first crescent of the new moon and can also vary by a

      day or so in different locations.

      Confirmation using the new moon is seen as particularly significant for Muharram (new year), Ramadan,

      Shawwal (whose first day is Eid al-Fitr) and Dhul-Hijjah (during which Eid al-Adha and the Hajj take place).

      Muharram (1st month) – started August 11, 2021 – start of year 1443

      Safar (2nd month) – started September 10, 2021

      Rabi al-Awwal (3rd month) – started October 9, 2021

      Rabi al-Akhar (4th month) – started November 8, 2021

      Jumada al-Awwal (5th month) – starts December 7, 2021

      Jumada Al-Thani or al-Akhirah (6th month) – starts January 6, 2022

      Rajab (7th month) – starts February 4, 2022

      Shaban (8th month) – starts March 6, 2022

      Ramadan (9th month) – starts April 4, 2022

      Shawwal (10th month) – starts May 4, 2022

      Dhu al-Qadah (11th month) – starts June 2, 2022

      Dhul al-Hijjah (12th month) – starts July 2, 2022

      Source https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/islamic-calendar-2022-muslim-holidays-14109325

    7. How very apt – I understand the cut off date by which they have to be vaccinated is 1 April – All Fools Day!

      1. Emergency coronavirus act comes up for renewal mid-March (22nd?). Or will they laugh it through again?

    8. How very apt – I understand the cut off date by which they have to be vaccinated is 1 April – All Fools Day!

  71. In the year that Lord Attenborough of Globe-trotting was born, Jane Austen was worried about climate change:

    ‘We have had a dreadful storm of wind in the forepart of this day, which has done a great deal of mischief among our trees,” wrote Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra on November 8, 1800. “An odd kind of crash startled me — in a moment afterwards it was repeated; I then went to the window, which I reached just in time to see the last of our two highly valued elms descend into the Sweep!”

    1. In 1703 there was a terrible storm which caused the Queen (Anne) to seek shelter in the cellars of whichever palace she was lurking in. Trees and church towers and steeples fell. The damage was colossal. As I said a few days ago, there is nothing new in this world.

        1. Furthermore The MSM haven’t changed much;
          ‘The great storm also coincided with the increase in English journalism, and was the first weather event to be a news story on a national scale. Special issue broadsheets were produced detailing damage to property and stories of people who had been killed.’

          1. I also love the story of Samuel Pepys burying his wheel of Parmesan cheese in his garden when the Great Fire was getting very dire. Some things you just couldn’t make up.

        2. Yes, I couldn’t recall all the details but knew it was very serious. Blimey, I love history.

          1. Weather soothsayer, ye Michael Fyshe, declared, “Oyay, oyay, tis no more than a storme, worry ye not.”

  73. That’s me for the day. Epsom Salts bath later. Hope to feel brighter on the morrow.

    A demain

    2. Mine’s the one on the right and Bill’s is the one on the left!

      (We both have ‘er ‘indoorses younger than ourselves so we should be able to cope!)

    3. I think Rachel Riley is actually under attack because of her political views regarding Corbyn and her views on the treatment of Jewish people and of course she happens to be married to a Russian.

      Anne plastic face is a vicious old cow.

      1. Women eh!
        I used to watch Countdown with my old mum when caring for her.

        Dream team Richard Whitely and Carol Vorderman

  77. MPs should be ‘visible’ and treat their parliamentary jobs as ‘primary’, says PM
    The PM’s warning came amid backlash against Tory MP Geoffrey Cox, who made substantial earnings conducting a second job in the Caribbean
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/09/mps-should-visible-treat-parliamentary-jobs-primary-says-pm/

    This article goes on to ask if MPs should be paid more.

    One of my complaints is that MPs have so little experience of doing real jobs in the real world and they are too cosily featherbedded as it is. The stupidity of their decisions often defies belief

    BTL Comment

    My second son is 26, has a first-class Masters’ degree in Computer Technology and Data Analytics from a Russell Group University and has been working in the computer business for 4 years and is doing very well financially but he is still not yet earning nearly as much as the MPs in their 20s who are not as bright and do not have comparable experience or qualifications.

    If MPs want higher salaries these should surely be based on the average salaries of people in the same age group as them. When you take into account the fact that MPs get the most generous pension scheme in the public sector and expenses beyond the dreams of avarice this would surely be more than fair to them?

    1. Perhaps they should be paid based on their independence. If they only ever follow the party line and vote according to instructions, they should be paid less than MPs who think for themselves and vote as their constituents wish.

      1. She’s just a daft puppet just following instructions, notice how she reads everything as she makes her silly statements.

      3. No she’s not! She’s just a naughty girl who deserves to have her ….er……spanked!

    3. I can’t stand Clarkson, but he’s right about her lack of knowledge and huge ego. What she needs is no-platforming.

      1. I quite like his sarcastic air of indifference. I read a couple of his books funny stuff, they both seemed to have vanished from the book shelf now probably went to a charity shop.

          1. And me! “Clarksons Farm” is well worth a watch! He’s not afraid to make a fool of himself and he isn’t daft!

        2. I don’t follow his car stuff, but I have read a couple of his books and used to read his Sunday Telegraph columns online which were well written and funny.

  79. https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/gps-doctor-crisis-nhs-staff-shortage-b965198.html
    Doctor pissed off by being called out:
    I hated the Thursday evening doorstep clapping during the pandemic; I knew exactly how things would end. The clapping was a hollow and shallow gesture — it was painful to endure. Once the immediate threat of dying had subsided and faded into something we have just “learnt to live with”, people have gone back to blaming GPs for being lazy and money-grabbing. I’ve been a GP for the last 16 years and I’m tired of it.
    If you can’t see the doctor, might as well not have a doctor. Same end result.

    1. Wow! What a whinging boot! Why on earth do these sort of self-obsessed people go into a caring profession? What did she think she was going to achieve when she clearly dislikes her patients so much?

    2. Just one ? Canada has over 300 official delegates enjoying the delights of the Glasgow love fest. That’s before accounting for the rug rats on their doom goblin pilgrimage.

      Oh, kudos to Jeremy Clarkson for his words about st Greta,.

      Edited. Spell checker doesn’t like kudos, prefers codes.

      1. Off topic Richard. Just back from Winchester, Va on I-81, so many RV’s towing cars from Quebec, heading south to Florida to escape winter, I suppose, now that the border is open. And they were not your small ones either, your actual luxie gigantic types. Is Canada (the French bit) empty now?? :-))

        1. Ah Winchester, site of a mandatory stop at the first Bojangles off 81 when we are driving south.

          It was madness at the border yesterday, there were reports of people queuing for up to six hours to drive over the border.

          We are staying put for now, Canada is demanding a negative pcr test before returning. Even the boss cannot spend enough at the Tanger outlets to save that much money and justify spending $200 on a test.

          Not just Quebecers, Ontario is losing lots of oldies as well.

    3. Just one ? Canada has over 300 official delegates enjoying the delights of the Glasgow love fest. That’s before accounting for the rug rats on their doom goblin pilgrimage.

      Oh, kudos to Jeremy Clarkson for his words about st Greta,.

      Edited. Spell checker doesn’t like kudos, prefers codes.

    4. Feck if he’s sorry. He’s put his own ego above others and considers any effort to promote his opinion more important.

    5. ‘Decision to fly was major failure of my judgement which goes against my political group’s pledges and principles. (Until I got caught)I unreservedly apologise’

  81. T’was only a matter of time for the squealing to start…

    Moscow is behind the ongoing migrant crisis on the Belarusian border, Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki has asserted, claiming that the Minsk authorities are merely tools of Russia’s alleged “neo-imperial” policy.
    The Polish prime minister pointed the finger at Russia during an extraordinary session of the country’s parliament, convened to assess the ongoing crisis on Tuesday. The border standoff, where thousands of illegal migrants are facing Polish police and military, has been staged deliberately, he claimed.

    The migrants, who are not legit refugees, have been used as “human shields” in order to “destabilize the situation in Poland, the Baltic states and the European Union” as a whole, Morawiecki alleged. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, however, is not an independent actor in the crisis, but merely a purveyor of Russia’s “neo-imperial” policy, the official went on.

    “The latest attack by Lukashenko, who became an executor, but with Putin as the director in Moscow, shows resolve in the scenario of rebuilding the Russian empire,” the PM alleged, adding that the border crisis is not only a “direct use of violence against the Polish state” but also a “staged play.”
    Earlier on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov argued that the escalating situation on the border was the fault of the EU.

    “The main responsibility for resolving the migrant crisis lies with those who made it possible for the crisis to start in the first place,” he said.

        2. Daniel Kawczinski (I may have spelled that incorrectly). Last time I spoke to him I was not impressed.

      2. Then they would bleat about the climate effect of all of the electricity generation as well as the oppression of the poor refugees.

        Good idea, they might explode.

      3. With all those scientists among them,they’d be charging their phones from it in minutes!

    2. It was the E.U that wanted open borders and Germany in particular said under Merkel that they were all welcome in their thousands. Why is Putin and Russia being blamed now that those hordes are on the move?

      1. You name it..Putin’s responsible for it.
        And if its not Putin,its “the Russians”

        2. The suit is probably full of vibrating equipment and body warmers. To soothe his aching back of course.

    1. I suppose that means we can be sure that no more boosters will be required to be fully jabbed until after 1st April 2022.
      Presumably the condition of employment after that date will be 3 jabs though.
      Given the frequency of severe side effects, and the nature of the job, there will be precious few people in the NHS who won’t have come across at least one person with severe, life changing side effects by then, I would have thought.
      Until this year, I had never personally met anyone who had suffered side effects from a medical injection other than a sore arm.

  86. JUST HEARD ON RADIO – – one of our govt about the “jab or sack” for NHS staff – – – – we MUST protect people from preventable harm – – -errrrrrrrrrr?????? – – – while thousands of NO ID foreigners are brought in at Dover and put in hotels???????????????

    Is there a single brain cell in any of our govt????

    5. My late ex mother in law always referred to the view shown above as “Morning tent poles.” edit- She was a nurse and later a district nurse.

    4. It looks amazing. We’re getting ours done and I’m comparing notes with a chum who’s looking as well. We’re both terrified of warranty, support, installation costs.

      I wish I could do it but I’ve no competency whatsoever. Small things that don’t matter I’m fine. Big important stuff and I run out of ability.

      1. Thank you. Given the photo was taken 5 years after I installed it, it did pretty well.
        I started out small scale by replacing electric storage radiators with a gas fired central heating system and it kinda grew from there!

    5. Shame I don’t live closer to you I spent many years fitting kitchens for a living.
      I’ve fitted kitchens for the rich and famous as well.

      1. I design kitchens for restaurateurs. The most recent projects for Gastrono-Me in Bury St Edmunds (all electric), and Middletons Steak House in Leicester, Peterborough and Chelmsford.

        Everything is stainless steel.

        1. I remember a Nottler telling me that the more ‘up market’ catering industry and medical people in the UK never buy SS from China. It goes rusty.

      2. Pity indeed. You may recall a company called Wrighton were among the first to introduce modern kitchen cabinets in the late 1960’s. They were expensive to the point that my father decided to make his own ‘Wrighton’ kitchen. The only thing he couldn’t replicate was the factory finish on all the doors and drawers. He had to use formica but you’d never know it wasn’t supplied by Wrighton,

        1. I fitted some of those, they had metal bars to hold them together.
          My Business partner and I moved up market with Mele, Optimat and Poggenpol mainly in the north west London area.

  90. You won’t read this on the Beeb…

    “As it turns out, even some of the experts at the NIH oppose Dr. Anthony Fauci’s push for mass forced vaccination that President Biden recently codified by expanding his vaccine mandate to affect some 80MM working Americans – including health-care workers, who must choose to either accept the jab, or leave their jobs, despite a shortage of medical workers.

    WSJ reported Tuesday that vaccine mandates are sparking debates and controversy within the NIH, which has scheduled a Dec. 1 live-streamed roundtable session over “the ethics of mandates”. The seminar is one of four ethics debates to be held this year. These debates will be accessible to all of the NIH’s 20K staff, along with patients and the public.

    The Dec. 1 ethics debate was set up after a senior infectious-disease researcher pushed back against the growing drive for mandates. Dr. Matthew Memoli, who runs the clinical studies unit within the Dr. Fauci-controlled NIAID, both opposes vaccine mandates and has declined the vaccine himself, arguing that jabs should be reserved for the vulnerable, the elderly and obese Americans.

    Memoli, who has served at the agency for 16 years and recently received an NIH director’s award, even pushed back against the mandates in an email to Dr. Fauci.

    “I think the way we are using the vaccines is wrong,” he said to Dr. Fauci in an email on July 30.

    Memoli argues that “blanket vaccination of people at low risk of severe illness could hamper the development of more-robust immunity gained across a population from infection,” per the WSJ.

    1. arguing that jabs should be reserved for the vulnerable, the elderly and obese Americans.

      Obese? Aren’t most Americans obese?

    3. Memoli argues that “blanket vaccination of people at low risk of severe illness could hamper the development of more-robust immunity
      gained across a population from infection,” per the WSJ.

      “Guidelines for New Therapy and Human Experimentation”.

      It is all here

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

    4. Memoli argues that “blanket vaccination of people at low risk of severe illness could hamper the development of more-robust immunity
      gained across a population from infection,” per the WSJ.

      “Guidelines for New Therapy and Human Experimentation”.

      It is all here

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

    5. Memoli argues that “blanket vaccination of people at low risk of severe illness could hamper the development of more-robust immunity
      gained across a population from infection,” per the WSJ.

      “Guidelines for New Therapy and Human Experimentation”.

      It is all here

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

  91. Good night all.

    No cooking tonight – sandwiches with juicy steak (from yesterday), coleslaw, bitter salad leaves, multi-seeded bread.
    A custard tart with plenty of raspberries.

    1. I was going to do cod fillets with potatoes au gratin and asparagus. Too tired so made us a couple of cheeseburgers in wonderful ciabatta rolls. Went down a treat and will make the fish tomorrow.

    2. I cooked up the remainder of the roast chicken carcass from Sunday’s roast , left over sprouts carrots etc for few hours last night , oh yes and the remnants of the sage and onion stuffing , sieved everything when it was cold , removed all the bones , added a stock cube and had quite a tasty thick soup for lunch , and buttered toast .

      I could have made some dumplings , but had a fairly busy morning doing other bits and pieces.

      This evening , we all ate a Thai style curry , simply really and rice and poppadums .. then freshly stewed apple/ blackberries and custard.

      1. I roast a chicken on a thick base of onion and garlic slices. Scrape that out after roasting and simmer with the carcass. Yummy stock.

        1. I bung a peeled onion and garlic cloves inside a small chicken. If I do Cornish game hens I put in half a lemon and some onion. Yum.

      1. Now that Winter is approaching, I recommend Bratwurst with Grünkohl (kale) & plenty of strong mustard.

  94. I find it very worrying that Biden is attempting to force through vaccine mandates and that this is mirrored by the pronouncements of the slap head plonker posing as our Health Secretary who has visited the same on health care workers, many of whom have worked diligently whilst unvaccinated for the past two years.

    There is irrefutable evidence that the vaccines not only do not work but that they are harmful with myriad adverse reactions and incipient harms. Evidence of serious harm is being suppressed by the authorities in cahoots with the Pharma industry.

    It is apparent that everyone is on the take, hospitals paid for by the Covid numbers reported, GPs by the numbers of poor fools agreeing to vaccine dose after dose, Pharma by the exorbitant costs of their poisons etc., and politicians by their habitual grifting with Pharma suppliers and the future promise of fabulous wealth dispensed by those they favour.

    The lies about vaccine effectiveness now depend upon the unscientific notion that asymptomatic carriers of the virus are able to transmit it to others. If this were the case we now have a population composed of Typhoid Marys aka Covid Marys. Perhaps we have.

    I thought for some time that the patently idiotic US policy on vaccination mandates was just another attempt at societal division by a demented but tyrannical prat in the White House whose puppet master is Obama. In fact the actual puppet master I now realise is Bezos, one of the most evil people on the planet. Obama, Soros and Gates are merely second tier monsters compared with the number one Satanist.

    I have long thought that we are in a war with a spiritual measure. It is, frankly, neither a contest about vaccinated and unvaccinated, a contrived battle, but a contest between good and evil, between God and Satan.

    God wins.

    1. All in all, it makes one wonder, What else is included in the jab you get?

      A little implant that makes you compliant to any following orders, No, no, tell me it isn’t true.

      That’s why I resist any Jabs. Are you stupid, or what?

    1. I’ve sadly seen my seismic vessel and all the oil rigs in the North Sea swamped with hundreds of thousands of birds blown westwards from Europe into the North Sea during stormy weather. The Filipino crew tried to rescue as many as they could. Waxwings, crossbills, eagle owls. and all sorts of birds one rarely sees in the UK. The crew made lots of little bird cages for the surviving birds and released them back in Aberdeen. For some reason, robins were the best survivors.

      1. There weren’t many small birds where I lived in NC because of all the birds of prey. Hummingbirds being the exception. Since being on the south coast, I have seen many different birds, MH bought me an old Observer Book of Birds which has helped. We have a blackbird which I have named Beaky and one particular Magpie who has a limp. Not kidding- I have nicknamed him/her Hoppy. But there are many other birds which I love to see.

        1. My brother, Lotl, also lived in N Carolina (Yadkinville) and loved the humming=bird population.

          He always made sure that they had, not only the plants to pollinate but had the necessary sugar to fly on to the next plant – he cared

          1. I had feeders too and was surprised to notice how territorial the little birds are. There was one ruby throated, named Erik the Red, who would chase away any other birds that came to “his” feeder.

        2. My bother, Lotl, also lived in N Carolina (Yadkinville) and loved the humming=bird population.

          He always made sure that they had, not only the plants to pollinate but had the necessary sugar to fly on to the next plant – he cared

  97. 341380+ up ticks,

    breitbart,
    Britain’s Border Force is refusing to turn migrant boats back to France in direct opposition to the policy laid out by Home Secretary Priti Patel, as another twenty illegal migrants were brought ashore on Tuesday morning.

    In stark contrast to the migrant situation in Poland, where border authorities are currently preventing thousands of Middle Eastern migrants from breaking into their country from Belarus, the UK’s Border Force is continuing to ferry illegals onto British soil.

    Disband them at the earliest possible moment.

    1. This policy is contra to the government’s first instruction, “Defence of The Realm”.

      Are they in breach of their first responsibility?

      If so, are we responsible for overturning the (ha ha) government?

      Come one, come all, take arms to overturn this traitorous government.

  98. This is an extract from an article written by a frontline nurse.

    “ Informed consent is the bedrock of good clinical practice. You document that consent has been obtained for every procedure. How would you obtain informed consent from someone who you know has had no choice but to be vaccinated else they’ll lose their job? How do you consent a child who has been told that if they don’t have the vaccine they wont be able to go to a football match or out for dinner? Plenty of adults have been vaccinated because of the potential risk to their freedoms rather than any potential health benefits. This is ethically wrong and scientifically unsubstantiated”.

  99. Goodnight, One and all. If we’re going to discuss kitchens then I’m out out of here.

    I shall manage my own. God bless, one and all.

  100. Yo All and Good Morning

    It is an ABCBTLD (All Been Changed Below The Line Day) in the Land of the Daily Twitograph

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