Wednesday 10 November: Patients will fear going to hospital while NHS staff remain unvaccinated

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  7. I also put this on TCW.
    https://mailchi.mp/reformparty.uk/huge-campaign-day-in-bexley?e=f533e6d9f5
    The Tories are keeping the election in Old Bexley and Sidcup on 2nd December rather quiet. They simply expect their anointed nonentity to slip into Brokenshire’s vacant slippers.
    Anyone living in SE London or Kent (or even Essex) minded to help bring an alternative narrative would be welcome.
    Reform are bringing Dr. David Bull down to lead the canvassing this week as well as Richard Tice – both eminently decent men.
    The more the merrier.

    1. 341418+ up ticks,
      Morning Lim,
      The David chap left Batten / UKIP disagreeing with the Batten / Robinson link.

      The Richard reform party acted as a tory (ino) top up group, excellent hill marchers.

      IMO the teacher in hiding ( Batley) issue had only Anne Marie Waters fighting his corner in the face of heavy muslim opposition.

      Whoever stands other than the toxic trio should get full
      overwhelming backing.

    2. James Brokenshire’s memory is tainted by his massive misjudgment (to put it nicely) over Roger Scruton shortly before the latter’s death.

    3. The more they and ‘For Britain’ get together, the less vote-splitting to allow the greasy shits in, the better.

    1. Depressingly no! The Elites have captured all these things for personal adornment! The House of Lords is the same!

    2. Yo Citroen

      But how would the Wokists be able to blow up all our improper (to them) statues, without Mr Nobel’s invention

  10. Big Media is turning into Big Brother. Spiked 10 November 2021.

    The report makes for a disturbing read. Even its title sends a shiver down the spine: The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles. ‘Nudge’ is the word behavioural scientists use because they know ‘social engineering’ might prove a tad controversial. ‘We just want to nudge you towards cleaner, healthier ways of living’ sounds better than ‘We want to re-engineer your thoughts and habits to bring them into line with what we consider to be correct moral behaviour’. The politics of nudge has been around for years now, theorised over in books like Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein and promoted as policy by the Royal Academy’s scarily titled discussion group, the Social Brain Project. (George Orwell called – he wants his storyline back.) But this latest report from the ‘nudge unit’, as the Behavioural Insights Team is often aptly referred to, significantly ups the ante in the game of nudge. For here we have an actual mass broadcaster – Sky – putting its name to a proposal to beam the ideology of nudge into TVs up and down the land, in order to reprogramme the populace and subtly encourage us to change our allegedly reckless ways.

    This is of course Post-facto, it already occurs. Black Man – White Woman on the Ads. Mixed Race Families. The preponderance of ethnicities. Even the programmes have little morality tales for your instruction. There are probably more but I wouldn’t know because I don’t watch them. This actually seems to be the future. If you don’t want your Brain Washed:Don’t Watch!

    Aside from this we seem to be entering a phase where reality itself in the Public Sphere has been abandoned; Lies abound; particularly in Foreign Relations where anything, no matter how preposterous or absurd is touted in the MSM as the truth. The Elites don’t even seem to get their act together. You can read alternate versions on the same page. Such a system must eventually collapse under its own contradictions à la USSR but don’t get your hopes up yet. With the appropriate support measures, Censorship, Coercion and Concentration Re-education Camps it can be made to run a while yet!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/09/big-media-is-turning-into-big-brother/

    1. They’ve always done that. The Archers was started in order to get information to farmers. Orwell wrote 1984 from what he observed at the BBC!

    3. Hi Minty, the blitz of adverts for ‘smart meters’ is a prime example of nudging the masses. I have noticed in the last few weeks a whole new raft of said adverts.
      I still do not have a smart meter and have no intention to get one, whatever bullcarp their adverts preach.

  11. Will woke rewrites end traditional pantomime?
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/opinion/2021/11/09/TELEMMGLPICT000277139266_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqNvLtDx75wZSR0MSb26ou_2Okz75bEWdW3CpTA5dFee4.jpeg?imwidth=960

    The dame game: John Inman as Widow Twankey in Aladdin at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal

    SIR – The sad wokes at Scottish Ballet are making “subtle but important” changes to its production of The Nutcracker (report, November 6) to ensure that the Chinese characters are not culturally inappropriate. Pantomime Wishy-Washys should watch their backs.

    Dave Alsop
    Churchdown, Gloucestershire

    2. Do I take it then that the stereotypical British woman, so admirably lampooned by Matt Lucas with the character Vicky Pollard, is now culturally inappropriate?

  12. About time too…

    SIR – In a brave statement, Volvo, the Swedish car maker, has said that the greenhouse gas emissions from the production of electric cars can be 
70 per cent higher than the petrol equivalent, and it can take up to nine years of driving to cancel out the production emissions. This new transparency and honesty by Volvo is to be welcomed.

    Can we now have similar honesty from the wind turbine industry? How many years will it take to cancel out the production and erection emissions? It could at the same time let the public know how many birds and bats have been slaughtered by its “green” turbines.

    Clark Cross
    Linlithgow, West Lothian

    1. Cancelling out erection emissions – Now that’s a hard one.

      Morning Michael et al….

      PS Volvo is now owned by the Chinese….

    1. But the vaccinated can carry and pass on the virus. What is the difference?

      . Its all about control and nothing else.

    2. My recent experience shows that the double “vaccinated” are the real threat as many of them believe that they enjoy immunity but do not believe that they it’s possible for them to be super-spreaders. I know that several of those who were infected at the event that led to my infection suffered worse symptoms than I did. The “vaccines” are failing in their primary advertised role i.e. protecting people. What other role they were designed for is up for debate.
      The impact of “boosters” doesn’t bear thinking about. That the charlatans have to threaten people with the ‘loss’ of Christmas to induce take-up is all that thinking people need to know.

    4. It never once occurred to me to worry about the health or vaccination
      status of any of the staff but then, i don’t watch BBC news.

      I have been to my local hospital more than a dozen times in the last year. After three months i stopped wearing a mask. No one ever questioned it. The only times i wore one was in the Oncology Unit. Those people have enough problems.

      I didn’t even wear one when i was admitted to the Acute Unit.

    5. I’m fairly sure that infection rates through e.g. MRSA had already caused some patients to think twice. The added ‘bonus’ of complete and utter isolation from all family and friends, as a potential one way trip to hospital looms during these covid-restricted times, is no doubt linked to the increase in the number of deaths at home.

    2. Not universally popular, but some like it:

      Matthew Biddlecombe
      4 HRS AGO
      Who on earth has designed this new layout? It looks dreadful and more that a three year old is behind the new look. Just awful!

      Firsthorse Home
      26 MIN AGO
      It’s called change, old boy… Maybe deliberately designed to deter folk like you from posting endless drivel…

      ‘Morning, BoB.

    3. Not universally popular, but some like it:

      Matthew Biddlecombe
      4 HRS AGO
      Who on earth has designed this new layout? It looks dreadful and more that a three year old is behind the new look. Just awful!

      Firsthorse Home
      26 MIN AGO
      It’s called change, old boy… Maybe deliberately designed to deter folk like you from posting endless drivel…

      ‘Morning, BoB.

  17. Amanda Pritchard is still in her NHS role – it doesn’t add up

    The NHS chief has made misleading claims about the number of Covid patients – if the stats were accurate the NHS would have collapsed

    ALLISON PEARSON
    9 November 2021 • 7:28pm

    It’s lucky Pritchard’s not running an organisation with a budget of £150 billion a year or anything
    It’s lucky Pritchard’s not running an organisation with a budget of £150 billion a year or anything CREDIT: Yui Mok/PA
    Can someone please explain why Amanda Pritchard has not resigned? Or, better still, been sacked? Urging people to book their booster jabs because the health service “is running hot”, the head of NHS England told Sky News on Monday: “We have had 14 times the number of people in hospital with Covid 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.”

    It’s hard to overstate what complete and utter rubbish Pritchard was talking, yet it was happily broadcast – first by Sky, and later by ITV News. If her claim that there were 14 times as many Covid patients in hospital as in the same week in November 2020 were correct, then there would currently be 150,000 beds occupied by people sick with the virus. Which would be rather tricky as it seems NHS England only has around 140,000 beds.

    Does Pritchard, who succeeded Sir Simon Stevens in August, even know how many beds the hospitals, of which she is allegedly in charge, actually have? “If what she said was true, the NHS would have collapsed,” points out a very irritated senior source in NHS England who describes his boss’s use of data as “criminally irresponsible – it should be reported to the Information Commissioner’s office”.

    As Pritchard would have known, had she consulted her organisation’s own dashboard, there are currently just over 7,000 Covid patients in hospital. On the same day last year, there were 10,500, so there are fewer patients, not more. At the start of October, there were twice as many as that time in 2020.

    Fantastic news, you might think. Not if you are an NHS apparatchik with a vested interest in feeding the narrative that an “overwhelmed” NHS must be protected, not from its own incompetence but from members of the public who will insist on getting ill and trying to see a doctor. How frightfully inconsiderate! Please stay at home, ladies and gentlemen, and die quietly. Your call is important to us; just don’t expect anyone to answer the phone after 8.03am.

    https://cf.eip.telegraph.co.uk/illustrator-embed/content/273b9e8a922eddd67ea6963b745a7f2ff266a1b2/1636408467467.jpg

    Neither would the news do anything to advance the NHS’s case that it needs another few billion simply to be able to offer a 10-hour waiting time in A&E (do take sandwiches and bring your own catheter). Nor would it have the desired effect of frightening the public into getting their boosters.

    Even if coercion were the endgame, pretending that hospital admissions are surging makes no sense. Surely, it only serves to undermine confidence that the vaccination programme is working when we know that thousands of vulnerable people have been protected from severe symptoms, and thus kept out of hospital, by having their jabs. Many readers I hear from would be only too glad to have their booster. Chance would be a fine thing.

    No, I’m afraid I’m of the view there are only two possible interpretations of Pritchard’s “Fourteen times the number of people with Covid in hospital” claim. Either she was deliberately misrepresenting the data on live television to alarm the viewing public, as part of another propaganda stunt by the Government’s Behavioural Insights Team (the Nudge Unit), or she has no clue what is going on in her own health service. Lucky she’s not running an organisation with a budget of £150 billion a year or anything.

    Later, in an attempt to extricate the boss from an almighty hole, NHS England “clarified” that Pritchard had been talking about “hospital admissions in August 2021, the most recent set of published monthly figures, which were 22,877 compared with 1,629 in August last year”.

    Excuse me? The daily hospital admissions are updated on the dashboard every single afternoon. If your humble columnist can email her source for the very latest figure – it was 688 yesterday, some being admitted unwell with the virus, other patients going in for other conditions and being “diagnosed” with Covid after a positive test – then the head of NHS England can hardly claim that the “most recent set of figures” come from August. Sorry, Amanda, they don’t.

    I have to say what really annoys me, and my lovely editor, Victoria, is that we are held to the highest standards of accuracy. If we tried an Amanda Pritchard and published arrant nonsense about Covid on these pages we would soon be explaining ourselves to IPSO, the independent press standards organisation. Before you could say misleading information, Queen Vic and I would be sitting on a pavement outside Telegraph Towers with a dog on a rope, caterwauling the greatest hits of George Michael, dependent on a few spare coppers dropped into a hat by passing strangers. That’s what happens to journalists who make it up as they go along.

    After The Telegraph exclusively revealed that more than 11,000 poor souls caught Covid in hospital and died after being admitted for other ailments, you can see why the head of NHS England might want to keep the focus on a waning pandemic by exaggerating the numbers. No amount of trying to put the blame unfairly on staff who don’t wish to get vaccinated can hide the NHS’s dirty secret. Infection control in many hospitals is simply appalling. (You can’t even open the windows!) As veteran doctors have told me, in previous epidemics they had fever hospitals for the infectious and it was business as usual in the rest of the service.

    Once the Covid Cloak of Unaccountability falls away, there will be no place to hide the shocking neglect that cost so many lives. No wonder Ms Pritchard is allowed to circulate misleading information that suggests hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid patients.

    Once more: why isn’t she sacked?

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

    Leanne Hunter
    11 HRS AGO
    A brilliant piece Allison. This is probably one of the most honest pieces I have read on this whole Covid debacle. This is what real journalism looks like and I thank you for holding these people to account for spreading misinformation, fear and lies. They do not realise the damage they are doing to the reputation of Public Health in this country.
    I would like to know what the heck is going on, because it sure as hell isn’t science or emergency response and recovery. What I would love to know is how much these people have vested in stocks and shares for digital passports and vaccines. They have manipulated data and scientific facts from outset. I don’t believe any of this propaganda is for the common good. It is demoralising and out of control. There has to be a deeper and more sinister reason for it all. It’s either greed, ineptitude, or something darker all together. Why else exaggerate the risk, and the data, to make things appear worse than they are? Why are we being manipulated by SPI-B? Why are deaths within 28 days of a positive test still classed as Covid deaths – we are conducting autopsies now aren’t we? Why are we still testing healthy people? Why are we ignoring natural immunity? Why are we pushing non-steralising vaccines on the covid recovered when they weren’t hospitalised with natural infection? Why are psychologists managing a pandemic? Why did we ditch our emergency management plans for continuous lockdowns where we isolated healthy people? Why is no one talking about false positives on the PCR tests? Why doesn’t anyone mention the Yellow Card System? I’ve had enough of it. None of it makes any sense.
    Thanks for your amazing journalism Allison. You’re one of the good ones and the reason I subscribed to the DT. Keep fighting the good fight.

    Andrew Bernard
    12 HRS AGO
    You have to wonder who appointed her, the most basic of interviews would have identified an utterly useless, innumerate statist. Her job should be to get value for money for taxpayers, not act as a Trade Union. The NHS is unfixable in its present form with hopeless management like Amanda leading it. You have to blame the Conservatives, why can’t they get anything right?

  18. SIR – I started watching Coronation Street, Emmerdale and EastEnders when they began. I stopped watching EastEnders years ago and now I am going to stop watching Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

    The latest “big specials” in both were ludicrous, with ridiculous plots and wooden acting, and they are getting too political. I know about global warming but do not need it rammed down my throat every time I watch a soap. I used to love the characters but am no longer interested in the actors or the dreadful storylines.

    Sue Drysdale
    Warlingham, Surrey

    I’m surprised she even started watching these soaps, but I do understand her rejection of the ‘global warming’ reference in almost everything now. Even the local news has to have something about it. The media is besotted with the subject, which shows how far they are out of touch. Note to editors: People like me will give up if you piss them off. I thought viewing figures were important??

    1. Morning, HJ.

      Have you spotted the Sainsbury’s advert for vegetarian food, “…to help the Planet.” I think Tesco is also in on the act. Perhaps they’ll disappear when CRAP26 disbands.

      1. Yes, unfortunately. And a bank that offers energy advice – believe it or not. We record more and more of our intended viewing so as to skip the bluddy things. This also saves us the trouble of working out in each case the (ludicrous) BAME percentage…sometimes 100%.

        ‘Morning Korky.

        1. Having given up the ‘pleasures’ of livestream tv about four years ago, I have missed out on much of the wokeness that surrounds us. This is not a bad thing!

      2. Yes, unfortunately. And a bank that offers energy advice – believe it or not. We record more and more of our intended viewing so as to skip the bluddy things. This also saves us the trouble of working out in each case the (ludicrous) BAME percentage…sometimes 100%.

        ‘Morning Korky.

      3. Morning Korky. I read the other day that Sainsburys, Waitrose, Tesco and one other supermarket have all agreed to subtly nudge their customers to eat less meat. Sorry I can’t provide the evidence/link, I was so disgusted that I shut the article down and can’t remember now where I found it.

          1. I’m not sure that it is. Certainly compared with the 1950’s.

            Though factory bred you can buy very large chickens for under £5.

            Not that i do but if people are budgeting or on a low income it is still a lot cheaper than going to KFC.

          2. I recall when roast beef or lamb was the cheaper option and a chicken was a special treat for high days and holidays.

          3. On my weekly shop I buy a cooked chicken for my folks. It used to be an uncooked chicken but my mum got fed up with the palaver and at a fiver a go it’s not a bad deal.

          4. I’m not sure that it is. Certainly compared with the 1950’s.

            Though factory bred you can buy very large chickens for under £5.

            Not that i do but if people are budgeting or on a low income it is still a lot cheaper than going to KFC.

        4. Waitrose recently introduced a range of vegan meals under the title “Plant Life”. Some of them are very good, others are distinctly yucky.

    2. The 10 o’clock news on BBC news channel spent over 20 minutes warning us that we were all doomed by global warming. From outer space to the depths of the ocean floor it is all going horribly wrong and it’s our fault!

      1. I’m surprised that you stuck it for 20 minutes, HP. I admire your fortitude. My limit for turning it off rarely exceeds 20 seconds.

  19. No comments allowed on the get-rich-quick scam by the filthy little ****

    Michael Vaughan shows we are now living in a ‘guilty until proven guilty’ Orwellian state

    Hang out the ex-England captain to dry over a couple of unsubstantiated claims? It’s just not cricket

    ALLISON PEARSON
    10 November 2021 • 5:00am

    Michael Vaughan will need every ounce of that gritty, Yorkshire-opening-batsman mentality to win the day
    Ihave never met Michael Vaughan, but I have admired him from afar. Instinctively, you sense he’s a good guy. The kind you want in your trench when the enemy opens fire. When he took over from Nasser Hussain as England captain, an interviewer remarked that Vaughan was “somebody who looks as though he is having too much fun with the virtues to bother with the vices”. He does have a wry Northern humour – dry Southerners can’t always tell whether it’s meant to be funny or not – but you also detect a sternness that makes him so formidable. The Eccles-born lad inherited cricketing genes from the maternal side. Johnny Tyldesley, the most gifted of his forebears, was called “an elegant right-handed stroke player whose chivalrous manner concealed a ruthless and belligerent approach”. It’s a pretty good description of his great-great nephew who powered his country to its first Ashes victory in 18 years. Howzat for class?

    “Character is the big issue,” said Vaughan explaining his winning approach. “If you have character you have half a chance. There will be days when we don’t do well, but it’s how you wake up the next morning that counts.”

    That Michael Paul Vaughan – Virgil (after the older Tracy brother in Thunderbirds) to his mates – is a national hero was not open to question until a week ago when an allegation of racism was made against him. In a notably distressed, soul-searching column for this newspaper, Vaughan admitted that his name appeared in the Azeem Rafiq report in which the former Yorkshire player alleged that he had suffered appalling discrimination at the club.

    Rafiq claimed that, back in 2009, when Vaughan was still a player, he said to Rafiq and other British Asian players that there are “too many of you lot, we need to do something about it”. Vaughan categorically denies he ever said those words. Rafiq claimed that the comment was addressed to him, Adil Rashid and Ajmal Shahzad (who says he didn’t hear it). “To Michael Vaughan, this was classified as banter. To me, it is racism. It is because of my race, colour, ethnic origin, that Michael Vaughan made the comments that he did.”

    Vaughan says the effect of that accusation was “like being struck over the head with a brick”. While acknowledging that those were very different times (“All players in that period are now looking back on things that were said and admit they would not say them now”) and conceding that Yorkshire had handled the situation “terribly”, he pointed out that, until the night before the inquiry, he had heard nothing about the alleged offence – not at the time it was supposed to have taken place, nor at any stage over the next 11 years.

    Any fair person would surely concede that a person should not be hung out to dry on the basis of a couple of unsubstantiated asides made over a decade ago. It’s just not cricket. In English, that phrase means to do something that is unjust or plain wrong. But that England, the England of quaint, time-honoured notions such as fair play and innocent until proven guilty is fast disappearing. Justice is turned on its head. We have entered a new, frightening, Orwellian era of guilty until proven guilty.

    The BBC was the first to pass judgment on Vaughan (just as it pulled the trapdoor on the innocent DJ Paul Gambaccini during Operation Yewtree). It immediately stood him down from The Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show on BBC Radio 5 Live. I’d love to have seen Phil Tufnell’s face after that particular umpire’s decision.

    This is how it goes. Famous person is accused of racism. Famous person’s employers and colleagues, while finding it hard to believe said allegations, nonetheless act to distance themselves from the accused lest they be tarred with the same brush. The more the famous person struggles to clear their name – even grovelling for inadvertently hurting the feelings of their accuser – the worse it gets. In the kangaroo court of political correctness, there must be no imputation that the accuser has any but the purest motives. For the accuser is automatically afforded the protected status of “victim”. Better for the famous person to stop struggling and accept their fate.

    I am not saying, by the way, that there was no racism or other hateful behaviour at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. By all accounts, it was a school of brutal hard knocks in which a player with any perceived weakness could expect to be mercilessly ribbed and far worse. Batsman and bowler Gary Ballance has said he deeply regrets “calling Rafiq a ‘P—’ in my younger years”. (The player is also accused of referring to all non-white people as “Kevin”.) Other team members point out that Ballance was one of Rafiq’s best friends and was invited to his wedding.

    “Cricket is facing a reckoning,” thundered Cindy Butts, chair of the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, on Radio 4. Hang on, should we really be so quick to damn an entire sport? A sport which, when Britain entered the Iraq War in 2003, boasted a man who was born a Shia Muslim as captain of the England team. Might Nasser Hussain leading his country with distinction for 45 Test matches not even slightly mitigate the charge that cricket is “institutionally racist”?

    And what of Shahzad? The former England fast bowler, who was a team-mate of Rafiq at Yorkshire, says: “I’ve never experienced racism myself in cricket. You never want to hear the things that Rafiq said he experienced. I can only go off my own experiences. The people, the backroom staff, the environment were brilliant and I’ve still got very good friends from that time. I can only speak highly of Yorkshire and the guys who were involved. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be the man I am now.”

    Shahzad makes a critical point that has been overlooked in the past week’s hysterical rush to judgment: “As a South Asian community, we cannot say that the pathways are closed or there’s racism out there. I think that’s a very easy place to go and it’s actually a very bad place to go.”

    He’s right to be worried, I think. The Woke Inquisition will not usher in a brave new colour-blind world of social harmony. It’s far more likely to promote mutual suspicion and segregation, driving a wedge between communities where hardly any existed. If we carry on picking off people like Michael Vaughan, we will surely achieve the equal-opportunities Nirvana where no white person ever says anything accidentally offensive to a non-white person – because they will avoid their company, increasingly sticking to their own kind and treating them with mistrust lest a slip of the tongue or a stupid joke ends up in a disciplinary hearing. I ask you, who wants to live in that paranoid, grievance-ridden, litigious, sanctimonious, humourless, fearful society?

    One of our greatest batsmen finds himself, once again, at the crease. This time, he is batting to save his reputation. His opponents are trawling through his Twitter account, gloating over a single word out of place. He will need every ounce of that gritty, Yorkshire-opening-batsman mentality to win the day. You led your country 51 times, Michael Vaughan, against some of the toughest players on the planet; you’ve got this. Like that young captain of England said many years ago: “If you have character you have half a chance.” Don’t forget. There are millions of us who are willing you on. We don’t accept that you’re guilty until you’re proven guilty. It’s just not cricket. And it’s just not us.

    1. BBC misjudgment

      SIR – It seems the BBC continues to act as both judge and jury, given its suspension of Michael Vaughan as a result of historical allegations made by Azeem Rafiq (Letters, November 9).

      Accusations against Sir Cliff Richard, Paul Gambaccini and Aled Jones previously led to a campaign to give anonymity to the accused until they are charged, giving them the same protection as their accusers. The BBC seems to have learnt nothing from earlier misjudgments.

      Geoff Pringle
      Long Sutton, Somerset

      1. The BBC learned nothing, probably because they don’t regard them as misjudgments, but as shots fired against The Enemy, aka straight white English men.

      2. The BBC learned nothing, probably because they don’t regard them as misjudgments, but as shots fired against The Enemy, aka straight white English men.

    2. Rafiq claimed that, back in 2009, when Vaughan was still a player, he said to Rafiq and other British Asian players that there are “too many of you lot, we need to do something about it”.

      Do I believe Rafiq? No! I wouldn’t believe a Pakistani if they told me it was today! They lie just to keep in practice!

    3. I think we may be heading for all white people being banned from all sporting teams and forced to form their own exclusively white teams so that they cannot cause racial offence to any other members of their teams.

    4. I take it that the Paki, Rafiq, must have been born in Yorkshire, in order to be eligible to play for Yorkshire or has that rule gone by the board for fear of ‘racism’?

      Whether he was born in Yorkshire or not, by virtue of his name and parentage, he is still a Paki.

    5. I’m confused. If you’re living in Yorkshire, then surely you count yourself as British.

      Racism has settled in the past few years until the Left weaponised it for advantage. Then everyone who didn’t approve of massive, uncontrolled immigration was made an enemy and labelled racist.

      The majority rebelled at this and thought it stupid. I find it odd that a Yorkshire cricket team should contain so many asians. It’s hardly ‘from Yorkshire’ if those people do not identify themselves as being ‘from Yorkshire’.

  23. Well said, Judith Woods!

    Could laughable eco-hypocrites get any more ridiculous?

    Listening to billionaires, celebrities and corporate lobbyists haranguing us about the need to reduce and re-use is a little hard to stomach

    JUDITH WOODS
    9 November 2021 • 5:38pm
    Judith Woods

    It’s probably heretical of me to cast aspersions at the Great, the Good and the Green as they heroically enter their second week of anti-fossil fuel frottage at Glasgow’s Cop26. But I can’t help thinking that when it comes to fooling all of the people all of the time, there ain’t no fraud like an eco-fraud.

    For a start, I hope the global elite haven’t left their 400 jets idling on the tarmac. Although even if those resource-guzzling Gulfstreams are spewing out CO2, any environmental impact would surely be eclipsed by the sheer volume of hot air being generated by the climate change consiglieri? Frankly, if extreme weather incidents don’t get them, these high net worth eco-warriors are in real and present danger of succumbing to severe complications arising from their competitive Messiah Complexes.

    As they dine, drink and make dire predictions about the impending apocalypse, their hypocritical message is clear; do as we say, not as we do. Take the Green leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, Cllr Phelim Mac Cafferty, who insisted on taking a plane to Cop26 where he made a speech on cutting carbon emissions and then appeared at Greta Thunberg’s protest march, calling for world leaders to stop temperatures rising. Seriously?

    After Mr Green was caught red-handed by his local newspaper, he described his decision to fly as “a major failure of my judgement which goes against my political group’s pledges and principles and I unreservedly apologise.” Apparently he wasn’t convinced the train network would be reliable. And his presence was obviously crucial. I wearily suspect that a free pass to pollute is these days considered to be a politician’s perk but as egregious errors go, Mac Cafferty’s tone-deaf arrogance is right up there with bolshy Insulate Britain activists many of whose own homes aren’t actually heat-proofed.

    Listening to billionaires, royalty, celebrities and corporate lobbyists haranguing us about the need to reduce and re-use is a little hard to stomach when scientists are urging governments to “constrain luxury carbon consumption”.

    Back in 2019 a slew of luvvies including Jude Law and Benedict Cumberbatch wrote an open letter answering charges of eco-hypocrisy: “We live high carbon lives and the industries that we are part of have huge carbon footprints. Like you – and everyone else – we are stuck in this fossil fuel economy and without systemic change, our lifestyles will keep on causing climate and ecological harm.”

    It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the self-serving sanctimony. It’s not my fault guv’nor, it’s the lack of “systemic” change. If that all sounds very convenient, then that’s because it is. The eco warriors, whether they’re hobnobbing in Glasgow or gluing themselves to the M25, have convinced themselves that the problem is so great their own behaviour is by the by. The upshot is a movement where the only rule for membership is spouting the right well-meaning guff, while your actions – and your hypocrisy – barely matter at all.

    This sophistry might suit our Cop26 overlords, but if they want us underlings to recognise the error of our ways and fall into line, then they need to show us some deeds as well as words.

    1. Would those eco non-hypocrites, sitting at home tending their vegetables in their woolies, recycling and conserving and keeping their own demands on the planet right down, be listened to? I doubt they’d even be noticed.

        1. Thanks for asking.

          My crown fell out after last Saturday’s concert. I wrote a long letter to my NHS registered dentist explaining in detail why I had lost confidence in him. This resulted with a long conversation with his receptionist inviting me to go back and let him stick it back in, and also to talk about what I had written. I declined and asked for a referral.

          No NHS dentist is taking new patients. I knew that Bupa was accepting NHS referrals, but they told the receptionist that their only NHS-standard dentist had left the practice, so they were only taking on private patients now.

          In the end, I blagged my second opinion to stick it back in for £30, or I would simply use the cement I bought in Boots and hope for the best. It’s been in a few hours and held so far. I still have to take the denture plate out to eat, and singing is uncomfortable, but at least I hope it’s bought time to see me through the Christmas concerts.

          I have put myself on the NHS waiting list at my second opinion’s practice, but was told that it might be at least six months and probably a lot longer. Dead man’s shoes – as one leaves, they take one more off the waiting list.

          Nothing yet back from the NHS complaints officer or my MP.

          For everyone’s amusement (and as a PS to avoid boring busy peeps) here is that letter:

          ————————

          Following my final appointment to fit a denture plate, following the replacement of a failed bridge with a new post crown and the unsuccessful re-use of the modified old bridge, I have to report that the post crown over UR1 has now fallen out after being loose for some time.

          The denture plate looked fine cosmetically, but without the crown, it cannot be held in place. I have never been able to eat with it, since my lower teeth foul the plate, rendering my back teeth inoperative. However, I can eat without it, since the old crowns over the premolars are working well, and the molars are holding up. It must affect my digestion though, and I have had a flare-up in the last week of irritable bowel syndrome.

          As regards singing (which is my primary occupation now, and I am much in demand locally as a tenor, both solo and choral), I had had to modify my technique with the plate, but find the dryness under the plate interferes with voice production during a long concert. I have also been worried when singing one particularly vigorous piece (‘The Lea Shore’ by Coleridge-Taylor) at a concert on 31st October, which required fortissimo accented consonants that could carry across a hall. I have not tried to sing at concert standard since my crown fell out late on 6th November. At least I got home from the concert on that evening. I find that Polygrip gives me a couple of hours at most, which is not really enough for a long concert, nor even a long rehearsal. I know I can look quite scary now to an audience when I attempt to smile, but they can always put that down to NHS dentistry. My next booking is another Requiem for Remembrance, and then a run of Christmas concerts at Stanbrook Abbey, where I have been asked to perform a solo. Tickets for these have already nearly sold out.

          Dr A*** at our last meeting told me that he had reached the limits to what he could do for me, so I see little point in returning to him to put right what is now a big problem.

          My gut feeling all along was that the post, the core and the crown should have been three separate operations, probably requiring three different cements, in order to secure the tooth for a reasonable time. The old bridge (using that technique) lasted 25 years (as any properly made and installed unit should), and a similar life span would see me out.

          Commonsense suggests that the strongest and least flexible bond should be between the root canal and the post. Ideally they should fuse into one another. Least strong and most flexible, the bond between the crown and the core. This allows for normal movement and absorption of forces whilst eating, settlement and changes in the mouth over years. If there is to be a failure, better there, since caps are easily replaced. in between, the bond between the core and the post. Better this bond fails than the root is fractured. Surely though this is taught to trainee dentists in their first year?

          When I first came, I had hoped that there would be sufficient strength in the root of UL2 to take a new marginally thicker post to fit snugly into the hole enlarged over the weeks when the bridge was loose. If the post in UR1 was similarly secured, then this might have given the option of rebuilding the bridgework, avoiding the need for implant(s). In theory, this could have been done on the NHS.

          Another option, potentially costing more, removable crowns could have been put over UL2 and UR1 with a single tooth denture over UL1, giving the option of putting an implant into UL1 (with or without a bone graft) and then either using it to anchor a 3-unit bridge reinforced by the existing cores of UL2 and UR1, or a single tooth crown and permanent crowns over UL2 and UR1. With a separate core, these could simply be the existing crowns. Implant surgery would of course not be covered under the NHS, unless my mouth was sufficiently deformed not to allow the use of a plate without compromising the bite so badly, it became impossible to eat with it in. Therefore I would still be left with a one-tooth denture plate under the NHS.

          The least desirable and most expensive option was to extract the roots of UL2 and UR1, place implants there, and then a 3-tooth bridge, supported on both sides. This is one of the options suggested to me by my second opinion, along with the single implant and two crowns.

          I was prepared to go along with Dr A***’s simpler (and cheaper) approach of a one-tooth post crown and a cantilever bridge using the old, failed unit. I had to rely on confidence in his qualifications and expertise, but it seems that I was mistaken, since the repairs to all three front teeth failed very quickly.

          I was concerned after my second opinion advised me that, under no circumstances, should the remnants of UL2 above the gum line be ground down, since that would have a serious effect on the stability of any future post crown, necessitating more expensive implants to avoid a denture plate. Yet this was done by Dr A*** in order to make the plate fit somewhat, even though the bite is still not right.

          I think the way forward now is a referral to another practice (possibly Bupa in Worcester, which has been used by the NHS in the past, but only accepts referrals rather than direct approach by patients) with a specialist in post crowns and a record of successful treatment, and I would be grateful if you would put this in hand or explain why this cannot be done within the NHS, so I can have this out with the clinical commissioners.

          With best regards
          Jeremy Morfey

          2. Oh dear. Still more trouble. But at least you can still sing and eat but not both at the same time.

    2. There’s certainly never been a case of a tope attack. They’re the ones in danger unfortunately, in some parts they are called ‘soupfin’ sharks.

      1. Good morning MM..

        Here I am , really puzzled .. glad you are here and up and about … How far up the Thames does sea water reach, I mean Tope are not fresh water fish.

        I am appalled that so many people kill these large fish .

        3. As Aeneas points out, the Thames is tidal up to Teddington Lock. Some marine fish are more tolerant than others to fresh water, Belle. The river is obviously more salty the closer to the sea. The brackish water will support many salt and freshwater species. I’ve seen mullet and flounder right up to Richmond where it’s almost totally salt free. Here on the Tamar I’m right at the end of the tidal river with Gunnislake weir a stone’s throw away through the woods. We get bass and mullet right up to the weir.
          Just imagine the Baltic Sea which is almost all brackish water and contains fresh and saltwater fish.

        4. Tope are protected in our waters, Belle. Some come ashore commercially but only as accidental bycatch. Anglers are obliged to release them if caught.

  29. As they morph together #CovidGreeniacClownWorld

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  32. Magic Vagina
    Paddy, a quite handsome lad, is sitting on a train across from a busty blonde who is wearing a tiny mini skirt.
    Despite his efforts, he is unable to stop staring at the top of her thighs. To his delight, he then realises she has gone without underwear.
    The blonde realises he is staring and inquires, “Are you looking at my vagina?”
    “Yes, I’m sorry,” Paddy replies and promises to avert his eyes.

    “It’s quite all right,” replies the woman, “It’s very talented, watch this, I’ll make it blow a kiss to you.” Sure enough the vagina blows him a kiss.

    Paddy, who is completely absorbed, inquires what else the wonder vagina can do. “I can also make it wink,” says the woman. Paddy stares in amazement as the vagina winks at him.

    “Come and sit next to me,” suggests the woman, patting the seat.

    Paddy moves over and she smiles and asks, “Would you like to stick a couple of fingers in?”

    Stunned, Paddy replies, “You’re fooking kidding me—you mean it can whistle, too?”

    1. Good morning Tom

      Er , okay . I suspect you were longing to tell us that one .

      It ws a bit ripe, but actually rather amusing re the Paddy theme.

      I wonder if Asians and Blacks have a similar sense of ribaldry amongst each other ?

      1. ‘Funny’ to them, is ruining the name and reputation of someone who called a ( usually BAME)
        effnic,by a non-offensive Banter Word

        And they can call us whatever they want

      2. It has been saved, Maggie, for the current situation, where I’m trawling through the dregs of the Joke Book until I run out about late January, early February next year.

  33. If the people afraid of going to hospital because staff are unvaccinated were to stay at home, that would keep many hundreds of thousands of paranoid, ignorant and likely hyperchondriac folk away from the NHS making life easier for the rest of us.

  34. A small story from Glasgow, via Christian Concern;

    “While the international climate change conference COP26 was taking place in Glasgow this week, the Tron church displayed a banner proclaiming: “The world’s most urgent need is churches preaching Christ crucified not climate change”. Rev. Dr William Philip, the church’s minister, says that within 48 hours the banner had been torn down. He explains the thought behind the banner for Premier: The most urgent need is for the world to realise that its priorities are all wrong.”

    There shall be no opposition to the new religion!

    1. Just had some cleric on Radio 2 wittering about going to Glasgow and climate change – perhaps she should stick to religion … oh, wait!

      1. As someone posted under Baker’s tweet; (paraphrased) It’s all very well being ‘shocked’ (again) but when are you and your colleagues actually going to do something about this outrage?

      2. Steve Baker was a politician for whom I had some respect and indeed, I would have liked him to have been the PM. As is sadly the case, I became disillusioned in him as I thought he sold out in accepting Johnson’s very flawed Brexit too easily when he should have fought more vigorously.

        Maybe it is time for me to reconsider?

        1. He is still one of the few dissenting voices. And remember he turned down a government job offered by BJ.

    4. PETER WABY – 1st Sea Lord of Sookholme Docks
      @waby_peter
      Replying to
      @PoppyLegion
      and
      @RockerProg
      Rubbish. Everyone of them is a person of colour, why?
      This is not recognising nothing of our diversity. Another shit advert that speeds up the opportunity to divide us.

      We are many colours, creeds and races, but you chose one colour in your woke agenda

      1. What was that one old white man doing serving the dinner? He didn’t seem to belong in that family.

        1. If he was grandpa or otherwise head of the household he should have been at the head of the table ready to carve the turkey. The younger ones should have been doing the fetching and carrying.

          BTW. I have no problem with adverts of black people promoting remembrance of our armed forces. Black viewers are more likely to listen.

          Quite a few black people have served our country with distinction. Colour Sergeant Johnson Beharry being a prime example.

          The old white guy in the background looks odd and out of place.

          3. I am always delighted when another Nottler quotes Milton!

            When I was a schoolmaster I got lumbered with running the Allhallows Cross Country Running Team. At home matches I had to organise a group of about 30 pupils who stood about, often in the rain, the cold, the snow, the hail or the blizzard around the remoter points of the nearby countryside indicating where the competing runners next had to go in their procession around the labyrinthine course which resembled the tortures that Caliban had to suffer at the hands of Prospero’s spirits.

            A member of My Upper Sixth English Set who frequently helped marking the course wrote an amusing account of the rigours and tribulations of the X-C Course Marker. He concluded with: They also serve who only stand and point!

        3. He is symbolic of the new order where the whites will not only be enslaved to the blacks but they will feel this is right and proper and what they deserve.

      2. Poème à mon frère blanc (Poem to my white brother) Léopold Sédar SENGHOR

        Dear White brother,

        When I was born, I was black,
        When I grew up, I was black,
        When I’m in the sun, I’m black,
        When I’m sick, I’m black,
        When I die, I’ll be black.
        While you white man,

        When you were born, you were pink,
        When you grew up, you were white,
        When you go to the sun, you are red,
        When you’re cold, you’re blue,
        When you’re scared, you’re green,
        When you’re sick, you’re yellow,
        When you die, you will be grey.
        So, of us two,
        Who is the coloured man?

        1. But I like it!

          I am rereading my large collection of P.G. Wodehouse novels at the moment. The world he created may never have existed but it invokes a very comforting faux nostalgia which gives one a temporary haven and respite from this foul world that the politicians have created for us.

          Am I right in thinking that you have taken to heart the title of Lawrence Durrell’s autobiographical account of his time in Cyprus in the 1950s? It was called Bitter Lemons.

      3. Nope! Jerusalem is the proper English National Anthem. And Winchester our true Capital.

  36. CowboyJoe
    @PeterCu79022033
    ·
    12h
    Replying to
    @PoppyLegion
    Support our veterans, but this is awful.
    Royal British Legion
    @PoppyLegion
    ·
    58m
    Hello. Please could you clarify what you find awful about this?

    1. Blue Streak
      @Streakyblue1951
      ·
      12h
      Replying to
      @PoppyLegion
      This video is totally inappropriate and alienating.
      Royal British Legion
      @PoppyLegion
      ·
      1h
      Hello. Please could you clarify why you consider this to be so inappropriate and alienating?

      ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–
      I will not ever donate again, to the RBL, I will donate to https://www.ssafa.org.uk/support-us/our-national-campaigns/be-there?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgaLnicKN9AIVmZhmAh1ZBAHKEAAYASAAEgI-QfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

      That is me telling them .

      1. True_Belle
        @True_Belle
        ·
        14s
        Replying to
        @PoppyLegion
        My late parents didn’t risk their lives in WW2 for such a WOKE campaign like this . Nor did my Grandfathers who fought in WW1. You have wronged several generations by your selfish insensitive campaign. You have ruined the old RBL legacy at a stroke .

        1. Have just watched it on YouTube! What a disgusting bit of hypocrisy. No wonder you are so furious! 😘

          1. I don’t know why I am furious but I am .

            Many people work their guts out fund raising for the RBL, our veterans are being trodden on and our brave aunts , uncles fathers and grandfathers as well as our mothers , my husband and me (ex RN) have been totally dissed by the current RBL campaign , they have distorted history in the name of Wokedom .

          2. Belle, which youtube video are we watching? (I feel as if I am a terrier jumping up and down at people’s legs….)

          4. Thank you, Belle. I am deeply, deeply offended by that. I will never donate to the RBL again. My hackles were up from the start, the pointing finger. HOW DARE THEY. How dare they exploit Remembrance Day for their Woke political common purpose.

            Edit – addition of ‘common’.

          5. On a more positive note.
            Perhaps it will hammer home to all the incomers the debt that they owe to our armed forces, without whose efforts and sacrifices might well have meant that the Germans would have won and NO bames would have been welcomed.

          6. Not a chance, sos! They’re too busy scamming our pathetic establishment with their fake, confected racist outrage!

          10. Dream on, Sos, their only interest is in a Western European Caliphate and our unctuous leaders are handing it to them on OUR plate.

          11. BLM propaganda campaign. I’m not joining in.

            I shall do my remembrance every day, as I’ve always done.

            Remembering my Father (1895 – 1955) who fought in both world wars. Remembering my Mother (1903 – 1980) who kept the home-fires burning, and weeping for what we have become.

          13. As I’ve remarked to the RBL, We don’t need a black woman to remind us of those who gave their lives, so that we may live ours in what used to be freedom but today is verging upon Nazi tyranny.

          14. I read recently that the RBL have appointed a diversity manager. Other than shooting themselves in the foot, I can see no reason why such a post exists. After all, HM Forces welcome volunteers of any race or creed.

          15. Sue – what are we watching? I donated to the RBL yesterday – I heard a few years ago there had been infiltration by Common Purpose.

          16. What are we watching pm? Brainwashing! Every advert, every news story, every day, every minute! We are being told what, and how to think!
            Well not me and the Nottlers, pal!

          18. Oh so sorry pm! That wasn’t aimed at you! I was raging at the unaccountable “they”!
            A million apologies!

          20. I am furious too with what I saw (after Belle gave me the link!) – I did see something last night, briefly, not the same, but from the RBL – informing us about Remembrance Sunday – I regarded
            it as something akin to historical appropriation – and entirely inappropriate – 8 guys in uniform, 5 of them black. It started off with the white guy, in charge but felt like he was taking a back seat, then three black guys, one after the other (greater impact when they do it like that), another white guy then two blacks then one white guy. All the white men seemed to have less prominence, quieter voices. I will never donate to RBL again. I wonder where our money is really going. I know blacks served in WWll, I know that, and should be reflected on Remembrance Day, but it was under British leadership, and that is not reflected in these promotional videos. I was angry, livid.

            To everyone: Call me racist if you like, I don’t care. My reply is so what? what if I am? I no longer care. I do not like this society that has evolved, that has been thrust upon me and for which I did not ask. I want my tribe, people who understand and share our culture, our history, our beliefs and values and our life struggles.

          21. Well, I am livid too. That jabbing finger did it for me right at the start. These incomers are welcome to join in but not takeover as if it is their history, their day of Remembrance, as if we were only onlookers.

          23. You can find it on YouTube, Johnathan. Royal British Legion “Let’s take just two minutes…”

    2. But 50 000 will just feed you for a week by the end of the year, is what they forgot to mention.

  38. EU red tape chokes plan to plant English oaks in Northern Ireland for Platinum Jubilee
    ‘Crazy’ plant health rules under Northern Ireland Protocol ban 21 species of trees from Britain crossing the Irish Sea border
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/09/eu-red-tape-chokes-plan-plant-english-oaks-northern-ireland/

    The EU wants to blame the UK if the UK finds itself with no option other than invoking Article 16.

    When a personal relationship has run its course and both sides want to get out of it but don’t want to make the final decision they try to push the other side into making the final fatal move. This is a cowardly ploy but one to which many resort.

    By the same logic the EU and the UK both know that the Irish Protocol cannot and must not endure so the EU, which always plays dirty, will continue to be as provocative as possible until Boris Johnson finds the resolve to do what is necessary and tell the EU in strong Anglo-Saxon terms where to stuff its deliberately provocative protocol. The EU will then claim that it was the UK that was at fault and all the filthy traitors in Britain who tried to stop Brexit will take the EU’s side.

    2. I suggest, Richard, that, in order to get the EU to invoke article 16, we ignore the ban and plant 1,000,000 magic oaks (Quercus incomprehensible) along the border to provide an effective barrier to banshees and leprechauns from infiltrating from the south.

  40. The government is to give more money to victims of the Windrush scandal, which saw hundreds of people wrongly threatened with deportation.

    Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that the minimum payment will rise from £250 to £10,000, and the maximum from £10,000 to £100,000.

    The figure will be higher still in “exceptional” circumstances, with money coming through quicker than before.

    The Windrush scandal mainly affected UK citizens originally from the Caribbean.

    They were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971, but thousands were children who had travelled on their parents’ passports.

    Because of this, many were unable to prove they had the right to live in the country when “hostile environment” immigration policies – demanding the showing of documentation – began in 2012, under then Home Secretary Theresa May. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55300494

    2. The taxpayer is expected to pay for their and their parent’s not completing the appropriate bureaucracy.

      1. The paperwork for entry to the UK were held in an office in SE England.

        Lease was up and the contents i.e. proof of entry, was disposed of somehow.

        Home Office failed to ascertain what they had and just destroyed “the evidence”

        1. And just how hard would it have been for them to provide the evidence again?

          This whole exercise is an utter scam, to donate lots of money for what in the vast majority of cases can hardly be worth £100, let alone £10,000 minimum and potentially a lot more, according to new proposals.

          1. Do you have your passport from 50 years ago, with the entry etc stamps in it? I sure don’t as I assume that the government has even the tiniest level of competence in recoding my residential status and acting accordingly.

          2. Yes. I kept all my old passports.
            I’m sorry, I don’t have a lot of sympathy here; particularly as so many of the offspring being expelled had criminal records.

          3. My beef is the utter uselessness of government and the snivel service.
            Why should the citizenry have to save all the idiot communications from that bunch of idiots for 50 years, just in case someone was idiot enough to lose their records? God give me strength! And they think they get the elite in the CS.
            ARGH!

          5. Do they compete to out-useless each other? Is world-class incompetence required for promotion?
            Dear God, you couldn’t even make it up.

          6. It’s the nearest thing to perpetual motion found by man.
            crapincrapoutcrapincrapoutcrapincrapout….Boris Johnson rinse and repeat

    3. I, for one, will be happy to travel in the seclusion of my own gas-guzzling, CO2 emitting vehicle, safe from the fetid, covid-saturated air, on a train, bus or aeroplane.

    1. Johnson is taking the train up to Glasgow. Things are thought to be not going well at Cop 26. Probably our PM’s demands are just too much for other countries and if the PM asks the UK population, as he should have done, he will get the same response.

  45. Is the narrative coming apart? We’ve had the head of the NHS being rightly pilloried for misreporting/misrepresenting covid figures and the following popped up a couple of days ago: an allegation from a former ONS statistician that the ONS has misreported data.

    Further, Javid has had to relax his mandatory jab order on NHS staff for the purely political reason that if 10% of staff walked out/were sacked then the NHS would collapse and both he and Johnson would be unlikely to survive the fall-out. Covid has been politicised by the serial incompetents that inhabit our government and all decisions have been political e.g. “vaccines” that do not work but that give the incompetents the chance to enforce controls on the people’s rights and freedoms, lockdowns, masks etc. The Country is literally leaderless, the buffoon has been exposed for what he is, a fraud.

    https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1457804989569634308

    1. Leaderless, and yet lurching inexorably towards digital currency and social credit digital serfdom.

    2. ‘Afternoon, Korky, “The Country is literally leaderless, the buffoon has been exposed for what he is, a fraud.”

      It is in fact being led (by the nose) by the Jolly Green Covid Monster and there are fools out there who believe its spastic utterances.

  46. Having watched virtually no TV for a week or so, yesterday evening I watched a video and then switched to GBNews to see what was going on there.

    To my astonishment I found Edwina Currie both amusing and sensible and far better than her debating opponent Ken Livingstone who, she reminded us, tried to escape paying tax on his outside earnings when he was an MP.

    I also saw a rapper called Zuby who is a thoroughly delightful, amusing and intelligent man in spite of the fact that he has a First Class Oxford University degree in political science.

    Zuby keeps very fit and, in order to highlight the absurdity of trans athletes competing in female events, he decided to self-identify as a woman and then managed to beat the British Women’s national record in a weightlifting event! Zuby is also not at all impressed by the government’s bullying policies on Covid.

    1. Zuby is great value on Twit, too, where he fully exploits his black privilege. Very good man.

    2. Morning Rastus. I watch GB News online but not last night so missed the line up. GBN is shaping up to be a channel well worth watching. Certainly head and shoulders above the rest. But then, that wouldn’t be difficult, would it, since the rest of them prattle on to their own little in crowd of whacked out London elitists and not the normal people of this country.

  47. Good morning to all. Very gloomy day here, lights on, it may as well be nearing the end of sunset for all the lack of sun outside.

    Who noticed any particular “fear” of hospital staff while Covid was supposedly rampaging through the country. I cannot recall any complaints of that nature, can anyone else? This really seems to be on the unintelligent level of monkey see, monkey do. The Americans, Australians and the female Xi Jinping in New Zealand are sacking hospital staff so we ape them even though it is an incredibly moronic thing to do. It’s behaviour that makes government appear to be an even greater bunch of clowns than they already are along with their stupid net zero ambitions to destroy the country. I really hope that fool Johnson is very near to the end of his time as PM and that someone conservative will be the next Prime Minister. Liz Truss would do, can’t think of anyone else, any suggestions? They all seem to be insipid grey individuals completely without spines.

    1. “It’s behaviour that makes government appear to be an even greater bunch of clowns than they already are”
      Hmmm
      It’s behaviour that makes it look like government are obeying order from elsewhere may be more like it
      ‘Morning Jonathan

      1. Actually I don’t believe government is: obeying order from elsewhere.” It is far more plausible that it is a negative feedback loop amongst an elite that in closing in on itself is producing more and more stupid decisions because the loop has closed and is degenerating. The person to read about this is Ilya Prigogine, a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, who, on a philosophical level, talked about Self Organizing Systems which do not automatically self-organize for the good. For an entirely philosophical explanation of Prigogine’s ideas I cannot recommend enough, the book: “The Self Organizing Universe” by Erich Jantsch. A man I had the enormous privilege of knowing when I lived in Berkeley.

        Ilya Prigogine
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine

        Erich Jantsch
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Jantsch

  48. WooHoo
    Multiple letters from the council this morning from an original demand for £5500 down to £1200,still some confusopoly to sort out but I can breath again
    Result

    2. Morning Rik. How did they come up with a figure of £5500 owing to them in the first place? Or didn’t they bother to explain? Anyway, £1200 sounds a hell of a lot better!

      1. £5500 full tax for multiple occupancy of a studio,now less single person discount and CT relief and boy,am I relieved

        1. Tell them you’re a bame, or some other over-protected minority, and that you are going to sue them for the distress they have caused, unless they cancel the debt altogether.

          2. They should have sent you timely bills – not left it for years and expect you to pay in a lump sum. I hope you’re going to pay in instalments.

    3. And completely indifferent to all the strain on you that they have caused, no doubt! Good news though.

  49. Celebrate with some Laffs

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b3b7faddda1aeae55e6fae91ddcab0075f85ddeaf807575c8f7416965c607031.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8e0a314cba5b4e3e5a1658a38d353bbdae0b3aec348afd90715c5ab3928dfc6e.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/79d57f3b3878d9edf13728d9da7f3da560e26a86b19f4c8a36609ea082b95148.jpg

    One for Bill

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5e4efdadea07bf30ed72c453ea81301b3ffeb95b554661b046c0288749f7d185.jpg

    1. (Edit: Arghh! Disqus put my reply in the wrong place.)
      I had my say on Sarah Vine’s duplicity on the DM – amazingly, it got printed!

    1. I suspect that a lot of the people who are anti Vax in the NHS know that it’s not really a ‘vaccine’.

      2. 341418+ up ticks,
        Afternoon RE,
        As with lab/lib/con supporter / voters they know they are giving consent to wrongs uns.

        By having the jab they are giving carte blanche to those politico’s many have, rightly so, NO trust in.

    1. Saw this in the free rag. Very poor show indeed. But it’s already more than ten years since the Foreign Office thought it was funny to leak a recording of them making jokes about a visiting head of state. This lot are probably future civil servants, because nobody in the real world would employ them.

  58. An interesting aspect of Toy Boy’s “compulsory third vaccination” – as from 15 December – is that the UK “booster” does not appear on the covid-passport. So a British person over 65 will not be allowed to go on a train or to a restaurant.

    Call me a cynic, but I think these “rules” are less about health and far more about stopping travel.

    2. Not just travel – ‘no jab no job’ for NHS and care workers here, and gradually more and more restrictions on who can do what.

  59. BTL comment on Daily Sceptic today.

    Hester

    21 minutes ago

    If I had the yellow fever injection, the Polio injection, Typhoid
    injection all of which I have had and then subsequently found I had
    caught the disease I would rightly conclude the vaccine did not immunise
    me.

    Note that the terminology around the Covid vaccine does not ever have
    the word immunisation attached to it by any Politician, advisor etc,
    because it does not provide immunity.

    Therefore the product is pointless, if its just a symptoms reducer then
    it is effectively an injectable equivalent of Lemsip, only unlike Lemsip
    it has the added risk of serious illness or death.

    Javid is clearly on a Government and I believe Western Governments
    sponsored death programme by firstly throwing the elderly out of
    hospital to die with Covid in care homes, then isolating those elderly
    still alive and subjecting them to nealry 2 years of solitary
    confinement. then stuffing their elderly bodies with an experimental
    product that killed many of them, but obviously this has not been enough
    now they must face the prospect of inadequate care as Javid reverses
    all the understanding of what a vaccine is supposed to do, in that if
    you are vaccinated you are immune to the disease, but now this is not
    the case, the vaccine does not confer immunity but if everyone who comes
    into contact with an elderly person has the non immunity providing
    product somehow the elderly person who also has had the vaccine cannot
    catch Covid. Explain the cock eyed logic behind that Mr Javid.

    So in short the Elderly will once again be subjected to more abuse by
    this Government I suppose the more that die the less state pension that
    has to be paid out, the less burden on the NHS, meanwhile people who
    earn a pittance caring for the elderly lose their jobs, to be replaced
    by who exactly?, and the Pharma guys and thd their investors continue to
    get rich off the suffering of the elderly.

    In summary the vaccines do not work, they are a failure. The Covid
    virus is now endemic and as the Nordics classify it, it is like Flu.
    However there are multi billion Industries that have popped up around
    keeping Covid alive, Pharma, testing, PPE, all with the sticky fingers
    of Governments across the world over it. But even though the results of
    the effectiveness of the vaccines or lack there of are obvious for even
    the most ignorant to see, this Government is determined to lead every
    Man, woman and child over a cliff in order to demonstrate its ability to
    dominate and control every citizen,

    1. Johnson did say he was going to sort out the social care problem. I guess none of us thought he would do it like this. And that is how and why he is getting away with it. One can understand why Cummings abandoned ship at the very onset.

    2. To my shame, I hadn’t noticed the absence of the term “immunisation” in this issue. It’s very telling.

  60. TechScape: what to expect from the online safety bill. 10 November 2021.

    For users, three new criminal sanctions will be brought for the offences of: sending messages or posts that “convey a threat of serious harm”; posting misinformation – “false communications” – intended to cause non-trivial emotional, psychological or physical harm; and sending posts or messages intended to cause harm without reasonable excuse.

    These three definitions are of course matters of opinion and the opinion that counts is Ofcom’s. One of the most depressing aspects of the Modern World is that belief in Free Speech itself has been obliterated. That people should be able to say what they please has been replaced by you can say what you like as long as I approve. Contrast this with only fifty years ago. The very idea that you should be silenced for saying anything would have been treated with amazement. It was something they did in the Soviet Union or Communist China. In fact that was one of the essential differences between these Totalitarian States and the Free West! That was the world’s saving grace; there was somewhere to go to escape Tyranny. No longer. It has cast its pall over the whole Earth.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/10/techscape-online-safety-bill-ofcom

  61. TechScape: what to expect from the online safety bill. 10 November 2021.

    For users, three new criminal sanctions will be brought for the offences of: sending messages or posts that “convey a threat of serious harm”; posting misinformation – “false communications” – intended to cause non-trivial emotional, psychological or physical harm; and sending posts or messages intended to cause harm without reasonable excuse.

    These three definitions are of course matters of opinion and the opinion that counts is Ofcom’s. One of the most depressing aspects of the Modern World is that belief in Free Speech itself has been obliterated. That people should be able to say what they please has been replaced by you can say what you like as long as I approve. Contrast this with only fifty years ago. The very idea that you should be silenced for saying anything would have been treated with amazement. It was something they did in the Soviet Union or Communist China. In fact that was one of the essential differences between these Totalitarian States and the Free West! That was the world’s saving grace; there was somewhere to go to escape Tyranny. No longer. It has cast its pall over the whole Earth.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/10/techscape-online-safety-bill-ofcom

    2. Humpty Dumpty had the gall
      Humpty Dumpty had to tell all
      All the Gov’t’s enforcers
      And all the Gov’t’s men
      Beat up Humpty
      So he never spoke again…

      1. These jokes are beginning to remind me of ones that were circulating among citizens in Germany shortly after the Nazis gained power, “Lord please strike me dumb, so that I won’t end up in Dachau”

    3. It seems that the right to freedom of expression mentioned in human rights act has been confined to the dustbin. Unlike the right to family life which is protected ferociously when we wish to deport foreign criminals.

    1. First they came for the old people…………. the ones who were left after the care home scandal last year.

      1. Got to keep that fear level up. I will not give in. This is a war between truth and fear, good and evil. I intend to be on the right side of history. I will earn my wings.

    3. I did like this BTL – It’s quite an achievement to be interviewed by Kay Burley and still be the biggest turnip out of the pair of them.

      1. The comparison of adjectives and adverbs used to be well taught when Shakespeare warned us that we should be on our guard against the envy of foreigners’ from less happier lands!

    4. Why don’t they just ban everyone going anywhere! How did so many people survive past 65 in this most dangerous world previously?

    5. Heard the PoS on the radio news when he admitted that the efficacy from two jabs wanes away and that people must have the ‘booster’. Now, any person who took the two jabs on the promise of immunity, freedom regained and normality restored must think, “They lied then, they’ve lied since and there’s an excellent chance that they’re lying now. Why should I believe this liar?”
      The fact is that there will never be freedom and normality for as long as the sheep bare their arms for a basically useless, and more importantly, dangerous potion. The unthinking herd will do for the rest of us.
      Edit: just thinking about which scientific paper highlighted the 65+ demographic for special consideration.

      “It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain.

      1. I think a lot of people who had the first two will think twice before having another. There is a lot more information now about the harms that have been caused.

    6. Look here, Spamhead Slammer. Do you ever READ the garbage you speak? Try doing that – then you’ll see what a wazzock you are.

  66. Merkel appeals to Putin to intervene in Belarus border crisis. 10 November 2021.

    The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has asked Vladimir Putin to intervene in the crisis on the Belarus-Poland border in an appeal to Minsk’s key foreign sponsor.

    In a phone call, Merkel told Putin that the “use of migrants by the Belarusian regime was inhuman and unacceptable and asked [Putin] to influence the regime in Minsk”, said the chancellor’s spokesperson, Steffen Seibert.

    I’m not sure that Vlad actually controls this moron. He has certainly embarrassed him a couple of times with his antics. In fact I think that this is one of the very few times that I have seen the Russian President miscalculate. I understand why he took Lukashenko under his wing but it was like picking up a snake. He’s as likely to bite you as anyone else!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/10/polish-pm-blames-vladimir-putin-for-belarus-border-crisis

    1. Putin has a good memory.The appeal will fall on deaf ears.As Lavrov said yesterday..It wasn’t Russia or Belarus who caused the chaos in the Middle East that created the migrant crisis.Poland is a member of NATO.

  67. Does anyone here know about the redevelopment of the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham? It seems that the entire site is to be demolished to make way for a huge housing estate, much as Earls Court was in London.

    Birmingham City Council, which built it, was forced to sell it off to pay legal fees after dinnerladies successfully sued the council for £1 billion, because they weren’t getting paid as much as dustmen, and this was deemed sex discrimination. It bankrupted the city, forcing the sale of its municipal buildings to corporate interests. Lloyds Investment Group, who snatched up this bargain sold it on to Blackstone, an American corporation specialising in turning sold-off public assets into hugely profitable real estate.

    Of course thousands of job are to be created, so that makes it ok with the authorities.

    I have no idea where Crufts will be held in future. St Pauls Cathedral, maybe, or will they flog that off too to the Americans once the CofE goes under?

      2. Thanks for that. It seems that it is the car parking around the halls that is to be built on, rather than the exhibition centre itself.

        If car parking is adequately catered for there under the new proposals (and only detailed examination of the plans will reveal this), then it seems quite a good idea to build a large suburb that side of Brum, with easy access to transport links north and south. The other issue is over any expansion of Birmingham International Airport, and whether this interferes with the quality of life of those thinking of moving there.

        It then raises the issue of transport policy in general in the 2030s and beyond, when it may be prohibitively expensive to get anywhere, but taking the pressure off the roads, railways and air paths.

    2. I worked for a short while in Soho for Edward D Mills & Partners. Mills’ practice were the architects for the NEC and he was also a pedigree pig farmer based in Lingfield.

      The fees for the project, several millions, skimmed past the small office and wended their way into his farm account. We had about four or five chaps working on the NEC whereas Arup engineers had over twenty staff doing the actual work. The services engineer, Matthew Hall, were so slovenly that the roof mounted air conditioning units arrived so late that they had to be dropped in place by helicopter.

    1. I wish I had known this parody when I studied Philip Larkin’s poetry with my Sixth Form.

      They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad.
      They read you Peter Rabbit, too.
      They give you all the treats they had
      And add some extra, just for you.

      They were tucked up when they were small,
      (Pink perfume, blue tobacco-smoke),
      By those whose kiss healed any fall,
      Whose laughter doubled any joke.

      Man hands on happiness to man.
      It deepens like a coastal shelf.
      So love your parents all you can
      And have some cheerful kids yourself.

      – Adrian Mitchell

      1. Having always enjoyed my own feeble jokes (even if no one else did) I used to say to my pupils that the drowning man in Stevie Smith’s poem was clearly an enthusiast of the poet’s work and left them to work out why for themselves.

          1. The ones I taught did.

            I have the complete collection of the William stories and have read and reread them.

          2. Nobody heard him, the dead man,
            But still he lay moaning:
            I was much further out than you thought
            And not waving but drowning.

            Poor chap, he always loved Larkin’
            And now he’s dead
            It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
            They said.

            Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
            (Still the dead one lay moaning)
            I was much too far out all my life
            And not waving but drowning.

  70. 2 Jabs plus Covid-19

    My wife and I (both over 80) have received many ‘nudges’ by NHS letter, texts & phone calls from our GP Surgery and the Main Stream Media to have Covid Booster jabs. We both had our first two jabs in January and April but then both caught Covid in early September – albeit mildly – I wouldn’t even have known I had it if I hadn’t taken a lateral flow test just for curiosity.

    Looking through the ‘nudging’ letters from the NHS, nowhere does it mention the probably tens of thousands of folk who, like us, are double-jabbed but then caught the disease.

    One reads everywhere that natural immunity resulting from infection is ‘far better and longer-lasting than that obtained from vaccination’ because infection primes the T and B cells of the immune system to react to ALL the viral antigens, not just the spike proteins that are the target of the so-called vaccines.

    Why are we being pressed to (potentially) put ourselves at risk of increasingly reported adverse side effects, or even interference with our naturally-acquired immune states?

    I write as one who has a university degree in Microbiology (during which I handled live Anthrax and Syphilis pathogens) as well as a PhD in Experimental Pathology.

    Where can we have a voice nationally, instead of just saying No locally?

      1. Me to my MSP, a Tory.
        “It has now become a legal requirement for citizens to carry and present a “Vaccination Passport” when attending certain places and events.
        There are some medical exemptions.
        I have seen nothing to suggest that there can be exemption on religious grounds. … … …
        I would like the Scottish government to extend exemptions to conscientious objectors. Could you please ask them to do this?”

        Reply from MSP
        “Thank you for writing to me about your objections to the Covid vaccination.
        I am sorry to say I am not able to help on this occasion.
        To do so would be to undermine public confidence in the efficacy of the vaccination programme. You have a right to refuse the vaccine, but with that right comes the responsibility to bear the consequences of choosing not to protect yourselves and others. One of those consequences is that you will not be allowed to attend events that require certification.
        Best Wishes        “

        1. That sounds very much like a standard reply! I’m pretty sure I’ve seen one before. How can an ineffective vaccine, taken by you, protect others??

        2. That sounds very much like a standard reply! I’m pretty sure I’ve seen one before. How can an ineffective vaccine, taken by you, protect others??

    2. Worth sending an edited version to the papers; good to have someone with credentials asking intelligent questions.

      1. I am always amazed at the expertise to be found amongst our little band of brothers (and sisters, of course).

  71. Speccie lunchtime briefing

    Older people whose levels of anxiety and depression worsened during the pandemic experienced short-term memory loss equivalent to six years of natural ageing, according to a study by Exeter University and King’s College London.

    For NoTTLers who haven’t had an additional six years of natural ageing in sherry casks made of the finest oak…

    http://i4.cmail19.com/ei/j/8F/169/858/csimport/Screenshot2021-11-10at10.05.43.100554.png
    ‘Welcome – who’d like to kick off?’

      1. That didn’t take long to vanish did it??
        It was film of Dan’s thugs invading a doctors surgery and seizing patient’s records
        looking for the unvaxxed no doubt

  73. OT – a brief note to Nottlers in France – or any who happen to have a French e-mail account.

    There is a scam being operated. Your inbox may contain an e-mail from “police federale” or “federale.fr” or federale@francemel.fr” purporting to be from the head of French Interpol. Proper official looking French govt heading etc.

    The attachment accuses you of offences involving paedophilia and pornography.

    DO NOT OPEN the mails. Treat them as spam. An Interpol website tells you to report these mails to your “local police authority”. I haven’t troubled the local plod. They prolly don’t know where France is….

    EDITED. You may be able to put a filter in place to stop them coming.

  74. EU could deploy new military force without asking permission of all member states
    Plans would strip member states of their veto on sending common forces to crisis hotspots
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/10/eu-could-deploy-new-military-force-without-asking-permission/

    This could well lead to a scramble to the EXIT door until the EU has returned to its original 6 member states: Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. Mind you, I’m not sure that there is going to be much future for Italy in it.

    My mother-in-law – who grew up in the Netherlands which was occupied by the Germans and has never forgiven them – always argued that the EU would destroy itself by trying to expand too quickly.

    1. Europe is in danger,” the EU’s foreign policy chief said in the document, “All the threats we face are intensifying and the capacity of individual member states to cope is insufficient and declining.

      Yes from the EU!

      1. Yes, but once that law’s passed, the troops could also be used to keep recalcitrant countries in line.

        1. With a violent reaction from such as the Poles.

          Question: if Macron’s EU army invaded Poland or any other member of the alliance would NATO be obliged to support Poland and attack the countries who provided the forces for Macron’s army?

      3. He is, and I suspect always has been, completely incapable of telling the truth.

        When he bragged that he had bedded 30 women did he expect his wife to make a similar claim?

        1. Stupid little f***er. His wife ony married him because, according to her, he was the best looking man in the room.

          Doesn’t say much, does it?

  79. Prince Harry: I predicted the Capitol coup. 10 November 2021

    For today the exiled royal has revealed that he predicted the January 6 attack on the US Capitol building. Speaking at a panel on misinformation – a subject close to Harry’s heart – the erstwhile aristo claimed that he presciently predicted the riots in Washington DC and that he had tried to warn Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, about the attempted ‘coup.’ The dilettante Duke told attendees that ‘Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January 6 when I warned him his platform was allowing a coup to be staged – that email was sent the day before.’

    And it’s not just the future on which Harry is musing. Having been appointed to the Aspen Institute’s Orwell-esque ‘Commission on Information Disorder,’ the good Commissioner is now in a mood to reflect on recent history. He told the misinformation panel that: ‘the term Megxit was or is a misogynistic term,’ asserting that it was ‘created by a troll’ – a claim for which he did not offer any evidence. Something of an information disorder, one might suggest.

    A “coup” without one armed member! What a clown! His departure was undoubtedly an unforeseen break for the country!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/prince-harry-i-predicted-the-capitol-coup

    1. Poor Harry. So far gone and there is no hope.

      Can’t wait for when ‘she’ has no use for the idiot.

      Hopefully in years to come it will show young men with uncontrollable hard ons that there are people to be avoided.

      1. Have we a retired bookie on the Nottlers’ Forum?

        If so what odds would be given on Harry’s marriage to Migraine lasting more than five years?

        What odds would he/she give on Nut Nuts staying with the Bonker Plonker for more than six months after he is deposed as prime minister and leader of the Con Party?

        Hard to tell in these cases – nobody predicted that the Beckhams’ marriage would last for long and yet they are still together after more than 20 years.

        1. Most divorces are initiated by women. Victoria Beckham comes from a stable family and is very determined and family oriented.

        2. It will last, as Nutmeg only has Harry for the Royal connection. If that is taken away, “Haz” is out.

    3. A lot of commentators have suggested he is thick. His latest pronouncements appear to back them up.

  80. Prince Harry: I predicted the Capitol coup. 10 November 2021

    For today the exiled royal has revealed that he predicted the January 6 attack on the US Capitol building. Speaking at a panel on misinformation – a subject close to Harry’s heart – the erstwhile aristo claimed that he presciently predicted the riots in Washington DC and that he had tried to warn Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, about the attempted ‘coup.’ The dilettante Duke told attendees that ‘Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January 6 when I warned him his platform was allowing a coup to be staged – that email was sent the day before.’

    And it’s not just the future on which Harry is musing. Having been appointed to the Aspen Institute’s Orwell-esque ‘Commission on Information Disorder,’ the good Commissioner is now in a mood to reflect on recent history. He told the misinformation panel that: ‘the term Megxit was or is a misogynistic term,’ asserting that it was ‘created by a troll’ – a claim for which he did not offer any evidence. Something of an information disorder, one might suggest.

    A “coup” without one armed member! What a clown! His departure was undoubtedly an unforeseen break for the country!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/prince-harry-i-predicted-the-capitol-coup

    1. Poisonous, sanctimonious little tossers. They were down in the Balkans in 2015, supplying migrants with free phone charging and anything else they could to help get them into Europe.

        1. It would be appallingly inhumane to drop the desperate migrants off in Germany to trudge all the way to the Channel ports after all.

          1. Keep bringing them till every UK hotel is permanently full of freeloading, paying nothing, doing nothing, contributing nothing but their personal waste – – then the EU forces can march in, drag us out of our homes, dispose of us – – and all of whoever got here just moves in.

          1. And we STILL don’t do anything about them when they get here (with RNLF/Border force help).

            SINK THEIR DINGHIES!

    2. Dear oh dear. Whatever happened to the Shengen Agreement!!!!!

      How funny that – the EU loathing the UK so much, the two contenders were speaking, er, English!!

        1. The last boxes were made about a mile from here, at an engineering works in Denny. Unfortunately the yard was destroyed by a suspicious fire a couple of years ago!

    5. They are putting out a consultation to save some of them. We (as a parish council) were consulted and wanted to keep the one that’s on our patch.

    7. The K6 illustrated comprised precisely 100 separate parts. It was designed by the great architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. I know because I measured one and listed the castings and the bronze pins securing the bits.

    8. I was surprised by how many were in use in North Yorkshire when we were there a few weeks ago, especially around the Kirbymoorside area. I thought they had all been recalled. Difficulty with getting a mobile signal, I suppose.

  83. https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/10/i-will-not-be-tricked-into-having-yet-another-jab-so-i-can-travel/

    Just when I thought we were finally done with all the audacity, a fresh
    plate of it is served. Less than a year after the vaccine drive
    launched, being double-jabbed isn’t good enough anymore. Syringes at the
    ready, Health Secretary Sajid Javid is already making thinly-veiled
    threats about not “enjoying Christmas” again, unless “we all come
    together and play our part” in the booster regime.

    1. We Whities need to make veiled threats about disruption to the Festivals of other Religions

      The preachings of every Imam, in every Mosque in UK should be recorded, to ensure no hate speeches againt Etthnic Brits. If they are

      made prosecution MUST follow

      1. I think EVERY sermon/exhortation in any religious building in the UK should be in ENGLISH (or Welsh in Wales or Welsh chapels). I don’t know if the Wee Frees or other Scots denominations have sermons, but if they do, Gaelic would be permitted if desired.

        1. Certainly in what was once the Church of England. The leftie, political rubbish spouted in the pulpit would astonish yer man in the street.

          1. Having suffered yet another “climate change” sermon on Sunday, it was a relief today to have one about the lepers who were healed 🙂

          3. The Wednesday Eucharist is BCP. I go for the beauty of the words. Sometimes we don’t even have a sermon, it depends on who takes the service. Sundays I go for the magnificent choir as it’s the modern version (I don’t see why I should vouvoyer mon père). We seem to have more wokery on Sundays than mid-week.

          4. Perhaps Sundays are more in favour of those who prefer the label of Christian than tha practice?

          5. Or maybe we get the priests that the other churches who are put off by wokery reject? I can tell you that it doesn’t go down well in our congregation.

      2. Few weeks ago, BBC radio – Sun early evening “Eastern Air!??? – – discussed the grooming gangs abusing underage English girls – – Thhe result? – – ALL the fault of the authorities who should be protecting them – – – NOT the SCABBY, SLIMY, GREASY, BLACKHEAD FILLED,UGLY PERVERTS WHO ARE DOING IT.

        Last week one topic was more immigration to here – – a text was sent to the show asking why, because it would make it even MORE overcrowded. – Never read, never discussed. They never thought whiteys listened.
        Planning our destruction – – on our own radio stations !!!!!!!!

      3. I agree – but do you really believe we have anyone in the PTB capable of doing what you suggest?

    2. They’ve been working up to it for several weeks now, softening up the sheep for further restrictions.

    3. Given the predicted rise in power bills, I doubt many pensioners will have spare cash for theatres and restaurants.

  85. Evening, all. Patients, in my experience, fear going into hospital because they think they’ll come out with infections (and/or Covid) if they come out at all. It has nothing to do with the vax status of the staff.

      2. Why do you keep ont calling Conway, who spells the name as Conway, Conwy, Especially as Conway doesn’t even live in Conwy?

          3. Yes, but the place is – if you want that why don’t youcall yourself Conwy.

            By the way, am going to Wales next week.

          12. You are correct with the first assumption, but not with the second. Remember, MOH and I met Phizzee at a very pleasurable afternoon/evening.

  86. That’s me for the day. A bit more mobile, thank God. Also just enjoyed a fascinating lecture live from the British School at Rome on Roman books. These monthly (sometime more frequent) events have helped keep us sane these last 20 months.

    Sweep coming tomorrow – so will be up betimes. Have a jolly evening.

    A demain.

    4. We’ve had the sweep and now, happily, use the wood-burner.

      I put every log into the shelter so I’m happy to burn logs.

    1. Poor chap had accidentally locked himself out of the house after a bath and hoped the police would help him get back home.

    2. Excellent!
      Weegie Plod can be a tad assertive now and again, and don’t agree to breaking the law!

          1. We love our bus passes; the only downside is waiting for de bus. Most of the drivers are very nice.

          3. Firstborn has four buses a day, two northbound, two southbound. The stop is either the other side of the river, or 4 miles up the road.

          4. That’s why I had to learn to drive in USA. If you live out of a town, there is no public transport! A car is the only way to get around.

          5. It’s much the same here unless you live in one of the “conurbations” – Shrewsbury, for example. Even then, you can’t always get to outlying areas like Ellesmere very easily. If you live out in the sticks, like me, your only hope is to get a bus to Shrewsbury and then try to reach places from there. A ten mile journey would take about three hours and if you left it later in the day, you wouldn’t be able to get back because the return bus would have left before your outward bus arrived. Trains are slightly better, but don’t think about coming home late at night because there will be no connections. It annoys me considerably to hear pontifications about leaving the car at home.

          6. I only use the bus if I meet my friends in Gloucester. Drive to friend’s house & go into town together on the bus. It’s more than two years since I last used it in London.

          12. No choice- don’t want or need the expense of a car, although we can both drive, I have a NC license. We have printed out a timetable which does help; why it took us this long to do it….? Been a weird year.

          13. I used to go into Cambridge twice a week on the guided bus, but covid & the pig’s ear they.ve made of the timetable have put paid to that.

          14. Where I live, Lotl, we have NO public service transport – use your petroleum driven CO2 emitter.

            Yep, Here I go.

        1. Erm, in many places – such as adverts (like this). Not really, but …

          edit probably enough to keep the woke satisfied. After all, that’s all that seems to matter nowadays, d*mn them.

          1. We don’t usually head to “town” in the afternoon. Today we had to.

            It was very disconcerting to note that in a place that 10 years ago hardly saw bames that they are now in a majority after lunch.
            Lots and lots of children too.

          3. I don’t mind so much if they are polite, and smile etc. What I don’t like is coming across Bs with the “what youse lookin’ at – you wanna fight?” in their eyes.

          4. I’ve noticed that over the years that we’ve been here that “they” have become much pushier and more aggressive in the shops. Where once they were polite they now jump queues, push through lines and are generally more assertive. It’s probably my racism but I find it somewhat unpleasant.

        2. We may have a ‘numerical’ majority, however, we have lost all our rights and protection, from what has been known
          for a millenium as, Common Law.

          We are the only ones prosecuted for ‘Hate Crimes’ etc

          3. Hi Olt

            Early this morning I found tweet from the RBLwhich upset me for the rest of the day .. I also entered into a click bait discussion with the RBL which must have been attended to by a Millenial .

            I was quite distressed with the balance and discussion that the RBL Twitter campaign advertised . Their argument and response to me was like a red rag to a bull .

            If any one cares to examine the RBL campaign Tweet , I will oblige and repost it it .

            It contains diversity examples at it’s very worst .

          4. I was in our local Lidl and the RBL person on the Poppy Stall was a man, in a Skirt with a Dirk in his sock

            The RBL are now Wokist.and not for me.

            St Dunstans, Sally Army, Cancer Reseach and the local Air Ambulance get our money.

            and of course we stopped £20,000 to the NT Wink Wink)

    3. I don’t need to click the link, I noticed exactly the same thing myself a couple of weeks ago. And note the stereotyping of the elderly white man!

  92. Another off topic, this time from BA

    You may be impacted by our improvements this week

    Improvement = worse.

  93. There are some thick shits about, Gawd protect me.
    The public transport around Oslo are whining that nobody is using it, they will have to cut services, so unGreen… yet the same political pygmies are the ones who, not 5 minutes ago, were saying “Don’t, whatever you do, use pulic transport – it’s a death sentence!”
    And now the shitfaces are surprised that nobody is using the buses and metro.
    Lord, where do these idiots come from?

    1. Oscar has been sneezing lately – perhaps he’s caught Covid and that’s why he’s so grumpy.

        1. Could be; he’s been digging up and eating some seeds I sowed the other day. It can’t be kennel cough because there’s no snot.

      3. Sorry to hear that Stephen. No matter the age, it’s always sad to lose someone you care about. My thoughts are with you and your wife.

    1. She either has tailored shorts or hairy legs and Velcro, to stop her showing her thighs + uvver bitz

  98. 341418+ up ticks,

    May one ask could this have any serious affect on the voting pattern as we have by elections coming up,

    Dt,
    Record 1,000 migrants cross Channel in one day

    1. I shouldn’t worry about all the extra potential votes for Labour, the Conservative Party in power are doing their utmost to give away the next General Election…

    3. The Illegals’ vow?

      I will not cease from Mid-East Flight,
      Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:
      Till we have built Jerusalem,
      In England’s green & pleasant Land.

  99. In tonight’s BBC Six O’Clock News it was reported that the drought induced by anthropogenic global warming was forcing South Africans to root up trees because they were soaking up too much drinking water.

    There comes a point where we must make our mind up whether we wish to prioritise saving the human race or protecting the planet.

    We need the trees to suck up the H20, absorb the CO2 and turn them through photosynthesis into plant sugars and oxygen.

    Any kid who has attended school and not bunked off playing at being an activist will be aware of the photosynthesis equation:

    6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2

    4. Funny how the planet has got greener as CO2 levels have risen a tiny bit then.
      That story has a whiff of Attenborough’s walruses flying over cliffs (or whatever it was) about it.

  100. If any of you are remotely interested…just watched an excellent lecture on You Tube about the discovery of Richard III’s remains. It’s called The Death of Richard III: CSI Meets History. Was so good and very interesting. The Professor giving the talk is somewhat large and therefor rather breathy. Bloody good stuff though.

      1. I can’t do links but just go on You Tube and put in Richard III and I am certain it will come up.

      1. Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this Sunne of York…
        Shakespeare’s Tudor propaganda and he and Thomas More were largely to blame for all the lies told about the last Plantagenet King of England.
        Sorry, I could gold medal talking about Richard III; one of my interests and passions.

        How are you Plum? Hope your sore ankle (?) is improved.

          1. Am sorry to hear that. Bloody NHS are no use to anyone except for raking in the ££££ for nothing.

  101. Labour and SNP MPs criticised for ‘drinking heavily’ on flight to visit troops

    Defence Secretary will complain to party leaders after politicians’ behaviour risked ‘undermining respect for Parliament’

    Sorry after I read this, SWMBO, on her Birthdate Anniversary, has had to dial 999, to get First Respnders to stop my hysterical laughter
    at the above headline

    If he could even think this, I have a Bridge to sell him

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/10/labour-snp-mps-criticised-drinking-heavily-official-flight-gibraltar/

    1. “Ben Wallace said the MPs showed “a lack of respect for the enduring work of our Armed Forces” and risked “undermining respect for Parliament” after drinking on a plane carrying MPs, defence staff and members of the public.”

      Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ………..and a million times ha! “Respect for Parliament” ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…………..and another million times…….I knew Ministers are regarded as being out of touch but this must be one of the best this year.

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/10/labour-snp-mps-criticised-drinking-heavily-official-flight-gibraltar/

    1. Had my first home grown paw paw a few weeks ago, have to say I was not impressed!! We have several trees but only one bore fruit this year.

  104. ITV News

    Boris Johnson “I genuinely believe that the UK is not remotely a corrupt country…..

    Nothing wrong with the country Boris…..

    1. The very idea that an individual can be paid as a full time representative member of the UK parliament but have another well paid job based in the Caribbean puts the accepted behaviour of our ‘honourable members’ beyond the pail. Corruption or deceit, call it what you will, these MPs who have considerable outside interests are not giving their constituents value for money and ripping off the taxpayer.

      1. I see it differently – having two jobs is fine. But the outside job should support the Parliamentary work, not leach off it.
        So working p/t as a doctor or a post man would be good, but getting lobbying jobs because he is an MP and able to use influence, would be bad.

        1. It’s a bit of a conundrum really I think. Because didn’t Owen Paterson’s involvement with a certain company bring home to him the fact that there were carcinogens in our milk? And he brought tha5 to the attention of TPTB?

          Accepting an outside job whilst an MP must make it hellishly difficult to avoid lobbying. Not particularly on their behalf but overall?

          1. Good points. But nobody’s going to complain if you’re moonlighting as a postman and shine a light on issues affecting the postal service. Perhaps the difference is if you’re paid for lobbying, or if you’re paid for doing a job. A murky area, I agree.
            I do two jobs, and one definitely feeds the other. A Parliamentarian needs up-to-date experience outside the Westminster bubble, otherwise they are so out of touch.

      2. There is, apparently, no obligation for an MP to attend parliament at all.
        It would be interesting to know if the Sinn Fein MPs who don’t attend parliament get paid. I bet they do.

        1. I think that I saw at the time of the expenses scandal that they were claiming allowances on London accommodation.

    2. It used not to be, but then they imported a lot of people for whom corruption is a cultural norm.

  105. What to do. Plumber says the cold tap on my bathroom wash basin is fine and not leaking but there’s definitely water escaping underneath.

      1. Possibly. Just spoke to the plumber again and he thinks it’s worth replacing the “trap” as well as checking all the joints again.

    5. Tie a piece of tissue paper around the bottom of the tap if it stay’s dry move it down wards until it gets wet, obviously the leak will be above it.
      Now Place a square of paper under the trap after the first experiment Sue.

  106. This feckless Tory Government has charted a course to absolute failure
    Time is running out to end the drift, and prove to Conservatives there is a point to this administration
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/10/feckless-tory-government-has-charted-course-absolute-failure/

    BTL

    I think it would have helped the Conservatives if from the very start Johnson had kept his key promises:

    i) To have no Brexit deal that kept a border in the Irish Sea;

    ii) To look at the way the BBC is funded and sort it out;

    iii) To stop the persecution and prosecution of British army veterans from the conflict in N Ireland;

    iv) To halt the flow of illegal immigrants into Britain;

    v) To protect our fishermen and get a proper deal for the financial sector;

    vi) To show the EU that Britain would go for WTO trade terms if necessary.

    These are all thing the electorate thought the Conservative government was pledged to doing.

    Instead of keeping his promises Johnson has become a fanatical environmentalist determined to wreck the British economy without telling us before the election that this would be his priority.

    1. I think we knew at the time that Boris was elected Conservative leader that he wasn’t exactly big on keeping promises. But the old hypocrisy was still operating that meant that nobody could publicly criticise him for abandoning his ex wives and his children to have affairs and run off with a younger woman.

      2. That often happens to me too! I log in in the evening just in time to see people saying good bye for the day!

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