Sunday 6 February: Loyal Conservative voters feel taken for fools by this reckless Prime Minister

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  2. Hate to say it, but taking the title at face value maybe the PM is correct to take loyal Tories for fools.
    Anyone still loyal to this socialising cabal under the banner of conservatism is indeed sixpence short IMO.

  3. ‘Partygate’: Johnson’s removal is now inevitable, warns loyalist. 6 January 2022.

    On Saturday night, Johnson moved to shore up his operation at No 10 – which was rocked by the resignations of five of his key aides last week – by the appointment of the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Steve Barclay, as his chief of staff and Guto Harri, who worked for him when Johnson was mayor of London, as his director of communications.

    Johnson is hanging in there by his toenails in the hope that the War the Globalists are fostering with Russia will come to fruition and he can pose as the country’s saviour.

    PS. Guto Harri is the moron who knelt in praise of BLM on GBTV and was subsequently shown the door! What such a man is doing in the Conservative Party I leave to your imaginations!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/05/partygate-johnsons-removal-is-now-inevitable-warns-loyalist

  4. ‘Partygate’: Johnson’s removal is now inevitable, warns loyalist. 6 January 2022.

    On Saturday night, Johnson moved to shore up his operation at No 10 – which was rocked by the resignations of five of his key aides last week – by the appointment of the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Steve Barclay, as his chief of staff and Guto Harri, who worked for him when Johnson was mayor of London, as his director of communications.

    Johnson is hanging in there by his toenails in the hope that the War the Globalists are fostering with Russia will come to fruition and he can pose as the country’s saviour.

    PS. Guto Harri is the moron who knelt in praise of BLM on GBTV and was subsequently shown the door! What such a man is doing in the Conservative Party I leave to your imaginations!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/05/partygate-johnsons-removal-is-now-inevitable-warns-loyalist

    1. What the Debt Monster Sunak is doing as a possible contender for the leadership of the Conservative Party is beyond my imagination.

    2. What the Debt Monster Sunak is doing as a possible contender for the leadership of the Conservative Party is beyond my imagination.

      1. IIRC, back when he was posting, Hat appeared very pro the “vaccine” and Israel’s stance. Much as I like Hat I do not think he could offer a truly independent view unless the changing circumstances have widened his view to accept warts and all.

          1. He is certainly a very patriotic Israeli and I believe has been a front line fighter in various actions against his Arab/Muslim neighbours.
            I don’t see him as Mossad though.

        2. Hat had not been well and had had family problems. He felt he was was wasting time on Nottle defending his view. He always sends his regards.
          He has passed on most of his blogs to other people.

    2. Morning all.
      There are still so many people in our country who won’t have a bad word said against the so called ‘vaccine’.
      One of my BiLs included, although I had the first two which set off heart problems he is still insisting to be safe I should have had the booster. My personal experience is had I had the booster I wouldn’t be writing this now.
      Mind you at nearly 87 he’d argue the hind legs off a group of donkey’s.
      I think it’s time the truth came out.
      And I am ‘speaking’ from my own personal experience.
      Doctors are withholding diagnosis when it suits the current adgenda. And therefore some patients with heart problems as a result of these injections are not being attended to. Using the excuse of being overwhelmed by covid cases. But what and which covid cases are they talking about ?

      1. Yesterday I spoke to my neighbour who had suffered a stroke after each Pfizer jab. He had decided that he would not take the booster but for reassurance he did ask for advice from the surgeon who removed the large clot from a vein in his neck. The surgeon wouldn’t give a decision one way or the other and basically said it was down to personal choice. After TWO STROKES! Where’s the pressure coming from?

        If anyone believes that the ‘elites’ have risked this serum then I have that mythical bridge in my portfolio of items for sale.

        1. That’s more or less what happened to me. After speaking with my GP around 3 months ago asking the same question. He said that it was probably better I didn’t have the booster. I had another conversation with him just before Christmas asked him the same question. His response was that it was entirely my own choice. But frankly I’d already made that.
          I August last year my second visit to A&E I asked one of the doctors if he thought that my problems had been caused by the Covid injections, his answer was yes.
          I read that just before all this started the government had employed around 6 new regional directors into the NHS.
          Salaries of around 250 k.
          It’s becoming pretty obvious why they were set up. It’s inorder to reduce the growing cost of and treatment for NHS patients. As in
          FOAD.

    3. Gosh, Zelenko doesn’t hold back, does he. When I first heard him, I thought he was odd-looking with a funny name, but having listened to him talk, I think he is a good man. He is a scientist who is also actively connected to the moral and spiritual side of life – something that used to be normal in Britain, but is not any longer.

  7. Good morning. A damp and miserable start to the day after a wet night. 2°C in the yard

    A good question and supportive BTL Response. Indeed where do people like us go?:-

    SIR – I joined the Conservative Party several years ago. I made modest donations to it and voted for Boris Johnson in the leadership elections.

    I have no interest in parties, suitcases full of wine or the delivery (or ambush) of birthday cakes. These events are very minor compared with the numerous crises that we face.

    My membership has expired, and the reason I won’t be renewing it is that the current Conservative administration is now so far from the low-tax, low-regulation and small-state principles that are the cornerstones of a truly conservative party.

    Where do people like me go?

    Nigel Clegg
    Colyton, Devon

    Myros Booster
    1 HR AGO
    Nigel Clegg- Where do people like us who want a small state, low tax and free society go to? Well we have no one to vote for other than small fringe parties who receive no media attention and only stand in a handful of seats around the country.
    We are basically homeless politically.
    You can only vote for one of the 5 socialist, high tax, high debt, big state parties.

    1. If anyone bothered to look at the result of the Southend West by-election held on Thursday, they will have noticed that fringe alternatives to the Conservative candidate, despite the absence of mainstream parties, amassed a trifling number of votes. Even if only one of them had stood and all the votes cast for fringe rivals passed to the one, it would still have been a hopelessly small percentage. Anna Firth’s nearest rival was Jason Pilley of the Psychedelic Movement with 512 votes. Spoilt ballot papers amounted to almost twice that,

      Full by-election results:
      Anna Firth (Conservative Party) – 12,792 (86.10% of vote)
      Jason Pilley (Psychedelic Movement) – 512 (3.45%)
      Steve Laws (UKIP) – 400 (2.69%)
      Catherine Blaiklock (English Democrats) – 320 (2.15%)
      Jayda Fransen (Independent) – 299 (2.01%)
      Ben Downton (Heritage Party) – 236 (1.59%)
      Christopher Anderson (Freedom Alliance) – 161 (1.08%)
      Graham Moore (English Constitution Party) – 86 (0.58%)
      Olga Childs (Independent) – 52 (0.35%)
      Turnout: 14,858 (24% of the electorate of 66,462, if spoilt ballot papers are added)

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-60254176

  8. Good morning, Gentlefolk, a howling wind and driving rain here in damp and overcast mid-Suffolk.

    1. Not that different here in Derbyshire.
      The DT advised me, when I got up to do the tea, that I’d slept through the most horrendous 5 minute downpour in the small hours!

    3. Entirely similar on the Costa Clyde; I decided against golf as conditions on the coast are ‘challenging’.

  9. Morning all, I read that Johnson has promised his MPs to return to Conservative ways in order to survive as PM.
    I would like to see action not words, he can start with scrapping the NI rise, move on to Net Zero being abandoned, delivering a true Brexit and sorting out the illegals crossing the channel.
    He can make a start on the rest, HS2 etc next month.
    Get it all done and perhaps I will consider you and your party next time round. To be honest giving my support to a man who lies as easily as he breathes is not likely because I don’t think for a moment he can change his character or policies.

    1. Meaning that he’s been been caught out being a total and useless AH and needs to be replaced ASAP.
      But please not by another Wokey Dopey.

        1. Probably Nobody who has been in the lime light. We only really need a team in number ten to control the civil service.

    2. ‘Morning Oldie. Well said, Sir! I have nothing to add to that, apart from thinking that your post has the makings of letter to the DT.

      It might also counter the ridiculous comments from some greasy, out of touch Tory MPs yesterday who have said that there is huge support in the party for Johnson. Stuff the party; it’s the electorate which decides whether they get back in again with any kind of useful majority while Johnson is at the helm.

      1. Morning HJ, letters to the DT or anywhere else has little effect I’m afraid.
        I plan to make my views heard in May when the local elections take place.
        That is the only thing politicians take notice of, the thought of losing their place at the feeding trough, large ones at Westminster or smaller ones at local council offices.
        A pity that a few local councillors who do their best at a local level will be caught up in the crossfire but if it has to be…..

      2. If North Shropshire, which is real “pin a blue rosette on a donkey” country, put two fingers up, there are going to be quite a few seats changing hands unless the problem is addressed. I don’t think for one moment the Party has the faintest inkling how disaffected people are; they almost guaranteed a loss by their choice of a totally unsuitable candidate for a rural constituency. He’d have gone down a bomb in an urban multi-culti area.

    3. Does he actually give a toss about Britain?

      Does his entry in Who’s Who record any other other interests and hobbies other than fornicating?

    4. He’s due a new mistress. Just make sure she’ a ‘climate denier’ and enjoys snuggling in front of a roaring coal fire after a long, hot bath.
      Oh, and drives around a lot in a gas guzzling SUV.

      1. Oh no, I believe in climate change, I just don’t believe mankind can influence it in any way. A much better aim would be to address the need to tackle pollution, all forms of pollution.
        Can you still get tin baths that can be placed in front of coal fires, now that brings back a few memories, none however with a mistress covered in soap bubbles!

  10. Olympic chiefs say Vladimir Putin walking around the opening ceremony without a mask ‘isn’t their responsibility’ 5 February 2022.

    Olympic chiefs have denied they were responsible for allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to flounce around the Olympic opening ceremony without a mask.

    Putin, it was revealed, was invited by the Chinese Government rather than Olympic chiefs and was not on their guest list.

    A source said Putin declined the offer to join every other person in the VIP box and the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in masking up.

    Mr Cool!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10480027/Olympic-chiefs-say-Putin-walking-opening-ceremony-without-mask-isnt-responsibility.html#comments

  11. Olympic chiefs say Vladimir Putin walking around the opening ceremony without a mask ‘isn’t their responsibility’ 5 February 2022.

    Olympic chiefs have denied they were responsible for allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to flounce around the Olympic opening ceremony without a mask.

    Putin, it was revealed, was invited by the Chinese Government rather than Olympic chiefs and was not on their guest list.

    A source said Putin declined the offer to join every other person in the VIP box and the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in masking up.

    Mr Cool!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10480027/Olympic-chiefs-say-Putin-walking-opening-ceremony-without-mask-isnt-responsibility.html#comments

  12. Morning all

    Loyal Conservative voters feel taken for fools by this reckless Prime Minister

    SIR – Many of your correspondents are forgiving of the Prime Minister because he won an 80-seat majority for the Conservative Party.

    However, voters who see that he has broken his election promises – by increasing National Insurance, for example, or failing to take advantage of Brexit to deregulate – will feel that they have been taken for fools, and the Conservatives’ greatest electoral asset will become its greatest liability.

    I see no hope at present for Boris Johnson: he doesn’t want to listen to anyone other than his coterie of wealthy cronies, he has forgotten about all the “little people” who got him where he is, and all he cares about is self-preservation.

    We are now being presented with expensive, poorly thought-through and tokenistic policies on everything from energy to Ukraine to levelling up. Mr Johnson clearly thinks that gimmicks are enough to assuage people’s anger.

    Sadly, he has proved to be merely a combination of Nero and Toad of Toad Hall – undeserving of our support.

    Alastair MacMillan

    Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire

    SIR – I joined the Conservative Party several years ago. I made modest donations to it and voted for Boris Johnson in the leadership elections.

    I have no interest in parties, suitcases full of wine or the delivery (or ambush) of birthday cakes. These events are very minor compared with the numerous crises that we face.

    My membership has expired, and the reason I won’t be renewing it is that the current Conservative administration is now so far from the low-tax, low-regulation and small-state principles that are the cornerstones of a truly conservative party.

    Where do people like me go?

    Nigel Clegg

    Colyton, Devon

    SIR – Thanks to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak we have gone straight back to the 1970s. Funnily enough, I don’t think anybody imagined they were voting for that in December 2019.

    As for the Bank of England Governor, Andrew Bailey, urging people not to ask for large pay rises (report, February 4) as their bills soar: what choice do they have?

    John Solomon

    Andover, Hampshire

    SIR – Since when was the redistribution of privately earned wealth a small-c conservative value?

    When individual freedom, individual property rights, constitutional liberty and free-market competition return to the Tory manifesto, I might consider voting for the party again.

    I have abstained since Margaret Thatcher.

    Roger Brady

    Wurtulla, Queensland, Australia

    1. ‘Morning Epi. Alastair MacMillan says that Johnson has a tokenistic policy on energy. That’s news to me, as I wasn’t aware that he had any policy at all, that is apart from bankrupting the country by spouting greenie drivel which, a few years ago, would have had the men in white coats carting him off to the local loony bin.

  14. Morning again

    Accession memories

    SIR – On February 6 1952, my primary school class had just started joining in with a popular radio programme for schools called Music and Movement, when it suddenly stopped and a voice said there was to be a statement from Buckingham Palace.

    It was the announcement of the death of King George VI. As five-year-olds we were puzzled, but this historic event was soon explained to us. Naturally our favourite programme did not resume, being replaced by suitably solemn music.

    My father, an officer in the RAF, then wore a black armband during court mourning, which was repeated a year later when Queen Mary, our new Queen’s grandmother, died.

    C L Wallace

    Shrivenham, Oxfordshire

    SIR – On February 6 1952 I was attending a religious instruction lesson.

    Our teacher passed on the message that the King had died. I felt I should ask whether the Queen Mother would become the Queen Grandmother.

    The teacher found my question impertinent.

    Roger Fowle

    Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire

    SIR – I do hope that the Queen appreciates the irony of everyone having a day off in order to celebrate her extraordinary hard work, commitment and service.

    Mike Forlan

    Hayling Island, Hampshire

  15. Loyal Conservative voters feel taken for fools by this reckless Prime Minister

    Loyal voters taken for fools, now who would have thunk that

  16. Good morning, all. Rain.

    I remember exactly the moment when we were told about the King’s death. On the football field at my prep school. Pacy (a dim boy) immediately said, “That’ll mean new stamps” – and was cuffed for his pains by the headmaster, Major Hogg.

          2. The odd thing was, Pacy wasn’t a smartarse. He was simply very, very dim – and the news of the King’s death filtered through the mush in his cranium as “new stamps”…!!

          7. In BTL comments on The Grimes, the word “dim” is not allowed!!!

            Tricky when referring to the effects of reductions in electricity supply!!

  17. ‘Biden promised to restore trust, but trust is in short supply’. 6 February 2022.

    The Associated Press has aired its grievances with President Biden’s administration after reporters were accused of being ‘disloyal’ for asking probing questions.

    During several encounters last week, when the administration was asked for evidence to back up dramatic claims about national security developments, it simply retorted: ‘You’ll have to trust us on that.’

    The Biden administration appears to be becoming more hostile and wary of reporters that in the past were ‘friendly’ toward Democratic administrations.

    It’s pretty obvious that trust in the system among the thinking population is almost extinct. One of the best guides to this are online comments sections where 77 Brigade are reduced to perpetual moaning about the number of “Russian Bots” posting their views . This has been so in the Mail for some time but I notice that it has now spread to the Telegraph. So much so that one was Top Comment below the line yesterday. How it achieved such a position I leave to Nottlers imagination!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10481485/AP-turns-Biden-administration-questioned-loyalties-reporters-asked-tough-questions.html

    1. Trust a liar? Not on your nelly…

      “Restore trust”, you’ve got to be kidding! Here’s just some of his tall
      stories: He’s claimed to have: 1. Marched for Civil Rights. He didn’t.
      2. Graduated at the top of his law class. He didn’t (76 of 85) 3.
      Attended college on a full academic scholarship. He didn’t. 4. Graduated
      with three degrees. He didn’t. He graduated with one. 5. Immediately
      opposed the Iraq War. He didn’t. 6. The Obama administration did not put
      illegal alien children in cages. They did. 7. He was shot at in Iraq.
      He wasn’t. 8. He was arrested in South Africa. He wasn’t. 9. He was a
      coalminer. He wasn’t. 10. That 120 million, later 200 million, Americans
      had died from Covid-19. That’s crazy. 11. That Trump called the US
      military suckers and losers. That’s a lie. 12. That he never stole
      another man’s wife. He did. 13. That the laptop wasn’t Hunter’s. It was.
      14. That he got more votes than Trump. He didn’t. The election was
      rigged. To quote Obama, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f-things
      up”.

  18. ‘Biden promised to restore trust, but trust is in short supply’. 6 February 2022.

    The Associated Press has aired its grievances with President Biden’s administration after reporters were accused of being ‘disloyal’ for asking probing questions.

    During several encounters last week, when the administration was asked for evidence to back up dramatic claims about national security developments, it simply retorted: ‘You’ll have to trust us on that.’

    The Biden administration appears to be becoming more hostile and wary of reporters that in the past were ‘friendly’ toward Democratic administrations.

    It’s pretty obvious that trust in the system among the thinking population is almost extinct. One of the best guides to this are online comments sections where 77 Brigade are reduced to perpetual moaning about the number of “Russian Bots” posting their views . This has been so in the Mail for some time but I notice that it has now spread to the Telegraph. So much so that one was Top Comment below the line yesterday. How it achieved such a position I leave to Nottlers imagination!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10481485/AP-turns-Biden-administration-questioned-loyalties-reporters-asked-tough-questions.html

  19. What did the Romans ever do for us?

    What we owe Rome

    SIR – Writing as an archaeologist, Peter Saunders (Letters, January 30) assures us that the Roman occupation of Britain was a disaster for the Britons, who “suffered military and economic exploitation”, and whose “traditional life was trashed”. Abandonment of Britain by the Empire in AD 410, he concludes, resulted exclusively from the weakness of Roman civil administration.

    In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. The Roman way of life had become so firmly embedded in British society that the educated classes continued speaking and writing in Latin for a century or more after the legions’ departure. British kings adopted Roman names (Constantine, Gerontius, Ambrosius, Patricius, Paternus and, yes, Arthur), while the Christian Church imported from Rome became established throughout the land.

    The powerful Roman military and naval presence in Britannia was there to protect the diocese from the recurring threat of barbarian invasion – the prevailing factor in the collapse of Roman Britain, which is ignored by Mr Saunders. In 367 the Picts advanced so far south as to lay siege to London, before being destroyed by an expeditionary force despatched by the Roman Emperor at Trier.

    Well after 410, Irish slavers abducted thousands of helpless Britons, as we know from St Patrick’s distressing account. More than a generation after 410, representatives of the Britons sent a piteous appeal to Aetius, the Roman commander-in-chief in Gaul, begging him to despatch a force to repel the invaders and restore order in Britain. Later still in the century, the Britons sent a powerful army and navy to Gaul to assist pro-Roman forces in countering a threat from the Goths.

    Britons had good reason to regret the demise of Roman rule, and virtually all relevant evidence indicates that they did.

    Nikolai Tolstoy

    Southmoor, Berkshire

    1. Mr Tolstoy is generally correct here but one of the main reasons for the Roman Withdrawal was the unwillingness of the British Landowners to finance the Presence of the Legions!

      1. I’m currently reading “The Making of Oliver Cromwell”.

        For such a godly lot – convinced that they were Right (but Repulsive) – they did spend an awful lot of time obsessing over money and setting up committees.
        Many of their righteous soldiers seemed as moved by money as theology.

    2. That Tolstoy bloke! He’ll be telling us next that the British Empire was a good thing.

  20. 335016+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,
    Sunday 6 February: Loyal Conservative voters feel taken for fools by this reckless Prime Minister

    WHAT, they were taken for fools with major, and they have been proving it via the wretch cameron / clegg, treacherous treasa, ever since,

    The party before the country farce of the close shop voting pattern, must vote tory (ino) to keep out lab has cost this Country, and a great many GOOD peoples dearly whilst keeping the lab/lib/con political top rankers well happy.

    On reflection they have as a joint effort consented to the continuation of killings, paedophile rape & abuse, the mass uncontrolled ONGOING immigration,

    Many of us were tagged knuckle dragging, fruitcakes, but listen up we were never ever treacherous knuckle dragging fruitcakes.

  21. I notice in the Mail, that HM has apparently said that Camilla will become Queen.
    This tends to confirm my impression that since the Duke of Edinburgh died, the Queen has become a mouthpiece for Charles.
    I do not wish to start casting stones at Camilla, but I think it is highly inappropriate for the head of the Church of England to have as his Queen the woman with whom he cheated on his wife, in thought and deed, from the start of their marriage. This is hypocrisy worthy of Henry VIII.
    It’s not to do with them as people, it’s to do with the Church, and Charles will, out of pure selfishness and conceit, damage what little remnant of credibility the Church of England still possesses.

    1. Morning BB2. One wonders how much pressure Her Maj. is under to conform to what is essentially a Charles Idea! It would be quite easy to cajole an old woman who has lost her main protection with the loss of the D ofE last year. In fact one suspects that was the reason it was never brought up before!

    2. Charles has already given indication that he will be defender of faith rather than the faith, a subtle difference and one which I think will lead to the disassociation of the Church and the Crown.
      Just one more nail in the coffin of Britain as it was.
      When the 2022 census figures are published people are in for a very nasty shock.

      1. The Prince of Wales own words.

        “No, I didn’t describe myself as a defender: I said I would rather be
        seen as ‘Defender of Faith’, all those years ago, because, as I tried to
        describe, I mind about the inclusion of other people’s faiths and their
        freedom to worship in this country. And it’s always seemed to me that,
        while at the same time being Defender of The Faith, you can also be
        protector of faiths. It was very interesting that 20 years or more after
        I mentioned this – which has been frequently misinterpreted – the
        Queen, in her Jubilee address to the faith leaders, said that as far as
        the role of the Church of England is concerned, it is not to defend
        Anglicanism to the exclusion of other religions. Instead, the Church has
        a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country. I
        think in that sense she was confirming what I was really trying to say –
        perhaps not very well – all those years ago. And so I think you have to
        see it as both. You have to come from your own Christian standpoint –
        in the case I have as Defender of the Faith – and ensuring that other
        people’s faiths can also be practised.”

        1. …and therefore allow the Imams free reign to incite hatred and to radicalise those of very weak will, to carry out terror attacks resulting in innocent people being murdered and injured.

          Islam is one ‘faith‘ ideology that should be declared illegal.

          1. I agree. The Religion of Peace has proved anything but.

            The Srebrenica massacre was seen as a bad thing.

            I can find nothing about why Radovan and Ratlik did what they did but from what i have read about how muslims behave they probably had it coming to them.

          2. The Religion of Peace used Srebrenica as a UN protected base of operations, causing terror and death over many months before the Serbs finally took matters into their own hands.

            ‘War is hell’ may only be a tagline to the political midgets but it is a stark reality to the participants.

        3. A mealy-mouthed squirm from Charles who had possibly not expected his mother’s ignorant subjects to pick up on the unspoken message. Most other faiths are of little concern but there is one exception which can behave illegally and unacceptably with impunity.

          1. If the role of the Church of England is not to defend Anglicanism to the exclusion of other religions, it’s dead! There is one “faith” (ie ideology) which will defend itself against (and destroy) all other religions.

      2. Really? how depressing. I had hoped that the coterie of aristocrats would manage to rein Charles in on that one.
        I suppose we will be treated to the nauseating spectacle of a multi-faith coronation with a gurning imam putting the crown on Charles’s head, while the BBC tells us how diversity has built Britain.
        The old Britain is gone, and Charles will be posing as King of God knows what. At some point, there will be another civil war (it is inevitable given the rise of a faith that tells its followers not to make friends with those of other faiths), and the new Britain will rise out of the ashes of that.

      3. I recall at the Headmaster’s sixth form leaving talk in 1962, he started going on about ‘faith’. It was amusing even then…

    3. Prince Charles made his marriage vows while in a relationship with Camilla. This continued as adultery. his marriage vows were void. He knew that he was not going to keep them, even as he uttered the words.
      When becoming Monarch the chosen one has to swear an oath. As HM the Queen did in 1953:
      Archbishop. Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, and of your Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?
      Queen. I solemnly promise so to do.
      Archbishop. Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?
      Queen. I will.
      Archbishop. Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?
      Queen. All this I promise to do.
      Then the Queen arising out of her Chair, supported as before, the Sword of State being carried before her, shall go to the Altar, and make her solemn Oath in the sight of all the people to observe the premisses: laying her right hand upon the Holy Gospel in the great Bible (which was before carried in the procession and is now brought from the Altar by the Arch-bishop, and tendered to her as she kneels upon the steps), and saying these words:
      The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.      yes

      Does anyone imagine that a man who cannot keep his word in marriage, who cannot be faithful, will keep his Coronation Oath, no matter how much it is watered down to suit his proclivities?

      1. Many kings have done that before him, but the difference is that they have not then divorced, damaged their children, married their mistress and forced the country to accept her as Queen.
        The first was sad; for the second, Charles is blameworthy. But the last is a step too far, and one that I can’t accept. He is competent in many things, but he will never be my King. I’m not that interested in William the Woke either. Both of them are more interested in virtue-signalling photo opportunities with dark skinned people than they are in defending Britain.

      2. It’s a long time since the Archbishop of Canterbury had anything to do with The Church of England and Christianity.

      3. As one of the more well known relationship specialists Esther Perel that gives talks on U Tube says, monogamy today means one person at a time.

      4. Charles was not in a relationship with Camilla when he married. He only took up with her again after Diana had first destroyed their marriage by having an affair.

      5. What evidence do you have that Charles committed adultery when married to Diana and what evidence do you have that Diana didn’t?

        1. It’s not about the behaviour of Diana. It’s about the behaviour of Charles. Whether the actual words “forsaking all others” are included or not, that is what marriage is. The behaviour of one partner is not a licence for the other. “Mental reservations” are not honest.

          1. Using your attitude everyone who ever went back on any vow would be permanently debarred.
            I refer you to Matthew 5:28. King James Version

    6. I am not a religious person but I thought all this was settled in the early 1500s by Henry VIII. He had six wives and each was his Queen. Why can’t Camilla be Charles’s Queen?

      1. Because making Camilla Queen is a loud and clear signal that Charles does not think they did anything wrong, and this is incompatible with being head of a Church that teaches that adultery is wrong.
        Henry VIII is hardly a spiritual role model. He got away with it because he was nearly an absolute monarch. Charles will get away with it because the media, who always encourage everything bad, will let him.

        1. That same religion that declares that Marriage is a union between a man and a woman yet appears to be softening its approach to the oxymoron called Gay Marriage.

          1. It’s not the religion, it’s the Church management. The Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has not changed.
            Gay “marriage” is a fad of a dying civilisation that won’t last long.

          2. As I see it the Church management is representative of the religion. There are probably many people who consider themselves as Christians who do not attend Church and, I would think, the Archbishop of Canterbury particularly represents and speaks for the religion.

            In my view these are the very people who should be upholding the traditions and morals of the established Church.

            What’s that saying, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. And that’s what the Church management has done – nothing.

          3. Well, as a church-going member of the C of E, obviously Welby doesn’t speak for me. I don’t think he speaks for many others either, and the proof is that the independent Anglican churches are flourishing, while the ones under Welby’s control are dying.
            Welby represents the Mr Global, not the people. And his regime is keen on selling off churches and getting their hands on all that lovely money – which has roused the biggest backlash from C of E members, probably since the nineteenth century.

        2. Surely it was because of Henry that divorce is acceptable and so the Church of England was born as we protested against the Church of Rome.
          I am not, as you will have gathered, an expert on the church but it does appear to me that people pick and choose which bits to agree with. I was brought up with Christian values and abide by them. We have been married for nearly 54 years and have not, and never could, commit adultery. We brought our children up the same way and they have been married for 31 and 21 years respectively.
          As far as the Church of Rome is concerned they preach celibacy but I doubt all their priests and Popes have remained celibate all their lives.
          Where does that leave religion? I believe our Christian way of life should continue but it is and always has been under attack from both successive ABCs and governments.

          1. Henry VIII’s role in the Church of England is overestimated. The whole of northern Europe was going protestant at the time; it is highly unlikely that England would have bucked the trend and stayed with Rome.
            Henry’s behaviour has never been taken as a role model for what is acceptable in the Church of England. I don’t know if they do marriage ceremonies for divorced people in church nowadays, but they certainly didn’t until recently.

            In any case, there are two issues here. One is the divorce and re-marriage – that is much more simple, and if that were the only factor, I doubt anyone would have anything against Camilla becoming Queen, especially as Diana is dead.

            The really controversial thing is Charles’s adultery, and that he was in a relationship with Camilla before he married Diana. Again, Henry VIII did this, and expected to make his next woman Queen, but as I already pointed out, Henry’s behaviour has never been either consistent with Christianity or the behaviour that the Church of England expects from its members.
            It beggars belief that in the twenty-first century, a King of England expects to get away with the same.

          2. “Beggars belief”?

            While I (and my generation) take your point, BB2, I think that most people neither know nor care.

          3. In my experience, cheating is the one thing that people still find unacceptable (people who aren’t doing it, of course).

          5. True, but he will be one day. I don’t see the building of a republican wave – the foreign billionaires have no need to get rid of a King who will serve their interests so well.

          6. As I have implied, I don’t think recent Arch Bishops of Canterbury have much to do with Christianity or the Church of England.

          7. True, but that can be reversed. It has been proposed that the foreign branches of the C of E should have a say in appointing the Archbishop of Canterbury.
            Cue, much fluttering in the liberal dovecotes. All those narsty, Gospel-following African Christians might upset the liberal status quo!

          8. Royalty has “put it about” since time immemorial.

            What evidence do you have that Charles committed adultery when married to Diana and what evidence do you have that Diana didn’t?
            Plenty of people keep in touch with people they trust without necessarily sleeping with them.
            All the evidence suggests to me that Diana was a schemer and as far as I’m concerned Camilla will make a far better Queen than ever Diana would have.
            Diana has been sanctified thanks to the actions of Blair.

          9. Kindly read what I wrote…
            It’s not a blame game between Charles and Diana.
            It’s not about Charles committing adultery – that is between him and God.

            It’s not about whether Camilla will make a good Queen or not.
            It’s not about whether Diana would have made a good Queen or not.

            It’s “Because making Camilla Queen is a loud and clear public signal that Charles does not think they did anything wrong, and this is incompatible with being head of a Church that teaches that adultery is wrong.”

          10. I read what you wrote and I completely disagree.

            Your holier than thou approach strikes me as being exactly the type of stance that Christ was speaking of when he made the comment about casting stones.

            As I wrote: What evidence do you have that Charles committed adultery when married to Diana and what evidence do you have that Diana didn’t?
            The fact that Charles had a relationship with Camilla before he married Diana is neither here nor there.

          11. As far as I remember, Charles admitted it, and followed up with the lame excuse that Diana had done it first. As I said in my original post, I’m not interested in re-hashing the whole Charles-Diana-Camilla thing; we all know what happened, and it’s past history.

            I take exception to the insults in your post. You haven’t even addressed the specific point I made, but have introduced one red herring after another. I’ve several times said that I have nothing against Camilla.

          12. Your point is that Charles should not be head of the Church and your reason is the claimed adultery.

            My comments are not red herrings when the whole of your argument relates to the adultery and I disagree.

            What insults?

          13. “It’s not about Charles committing adultery – that is between him and God.”

            There’s no point carrying on this conversation – I’ve made my point clear and if you were interested, you’d read it.

          15. The current head of the C of E is the Queen and she has said that Camilla will be Queen Consort. Nothing to do with Charles.

          16. I think that’s a bit disingenuous, though it’s clearly the official line that we are meant to follow.

          19. I should have thought with 21st century morals, the King of England would expect to be able to get away with hypocrisy and adultery! I do challenge you statement that it is highly unlikely that England would have bucked the trend and stayed with Rome. Henry was a devout Catholic (it’s why he was granted the title Fidei Defensor by the Pope). His daughter Mary tried hard to restore the country to Rome, aided by the Spanish (who did seem to buck the trend).

          20. Henry was a devout protector of Henry’s interests!
            It’s the difference between sinning, but knowing it’s sin, and sinning while having lost the concept that you’ve done anything wrong at all. The church is meaningless when we have reached the latter state.

    7. That’ll be the Charles who ‘identifies’ as ‘defender of faiths.’ Including the cult of the rag heads, groomers and letter-box costumes which is incompatible with civilised societies.

    8. Don’t get your knickers in a twist. The Queen has said that Camilla will be Queen Consort, which is the norm for the wife of the King

      Furthermore, you’re wrong on Charles, seemingly being taken for a ride by Diana’s manipulations. He only took up with Camilla after Diana had first cuckolded him by having an affair.

      1. Please read what I wrote, not what you think I wrote.
        In Christianity, thoughts also count, not just deeds.

    9. On the other hand – marriage with Diana was an arranged one, and she did her bit by producing the heir and the spare, before going off the rails. It was clearly not a marriage made in heaven. Camilla was always Charles’ soulmate and they should have married in the first place. She has been loyally by his side now for many years.

      1. Of course they should have married in the first place, but they didn’t. Head of the Church of England is one of the very few jobs where it matters whether you abide by Christian rules or not. Even adultery is not straw that breaks the camel’s back, if you repent. An orgy of public wallowing is the last thing anyone wants or needs; actions speak louder than words, and the simple action of Camilla remaining one step back from the crown would have showed silent, graceful repentance of the whole situation and regret that it happened on the part of both of them. Ironically, as they flout the rules, the consequences of doing so are coming back to bite them, in the form of the Harry circus.

    10. Charles wants to be defender of the faithS. The CofE is not safe in his hands, making an honest woman of his mistress or no.

      1. I can’t accept as any kind of spiritual leader, a man who cynically waited until he thought public opinion had come round in his favour to get what he intended to have all along. And by the way, you do realise, that Camilla’s popularity isn’t organic? it’s a carefully planned PR campaign. The curtain slipped when Meghan gave caught the headlines on the same day Camilla gave a speech – her team were furious because they had planned for Camilla to get favourable headlines. I have nothing against her, but I don’t like being manipulated as those two are doing.

        1. I can’t accept Charles as a spiritual leader regardless of his sex life; he has no conviction, no spirituality, he’s far too “woke”.

          1. The one is an indicator of the other though. At this point, I stay with the church of England purely for the sake of my local church. If Welby succeeds in selling them off (and I don’t believe he will retire until he has achieved that), then few people will stay, I think. It is telling that nobody looks to the Church leadership for spiritual advice these days.

          2. There would be no point in looking to the Church leadership for anything – and that includes leadership!

      1. The problem is where does it stop?
        There are so many splits in society that a form of civil war is on the horizon.
        London black knife gangs writ large.

    2. We should infiltrate their demonstrations with placards saying “Covid Scam” “Stop the great reset” “Pandemic of Lies” etc, and then watch the police find an excuse for removing only those protesters.

    3. 335016+ up ticks,

      S,
      That has been building for a long time and cannot be far
      off of fruition

      1. They are all clearly severely deranged and should all be locked up in secure units ….. with no heating in their cells, and lighting to their cells only provided when the wind is blowing enough to leave a surplus in the national grid … No candles allowed: They won’t want candles as the manufacture and transporting of them must surely be against their eco-loon priorities. if they want candles, they can make their own out of any fats they can get hold of. Oh, forgot, they are probably vegan so won’t want to use any animal fats for candles.

  24. https://www.gbnews.uk/news/refugee-hotel-rooms-not-good-value-for-money-says-afghanistan-evacuee/220440
    What he says is true of course, but the poor sap doesn’t understand yet that there aren’t enough flats to go round.
    In 2015, when Merkel’s millions came to Germany, one of them asked my companion where to buy fresh spinach. I pointed him to the frozen section, which he took as an insult. I took it as an insult that he expected to be able to buy fresh spinach at five times the price, on my money. But I was aware, that he hadn’t yet realised that he would have to lower his standard of living and eat frozen spinach like the rest of the population on what he is likely to be able to earn in Germany. All these migrants think the grass is greener and everything is available in the west.

    1. That greener grass was a problem at reunification of Germany, too. The Ossies expected to instantly receive the same living standard as the Wessies, and were peeved when it didn’t happen overnight.
      At least Kohl gave then 1:1 for Dmarks, otherwise their savings would have been destroyed.

      1. The Ossies also regard the Wessies as stupid liberals who are so destroyed by decades of soft living that they don’t recognise the threat of authoritarianism when it rears its ugly head, and to a certain extent they are right.

        1. Good morning BB2,
          Probably explains why Merkel was able to dictate for so long. The Germans have long been know for their love of authority.
          Back in the 1970s, while visiting Germany, I was dropped off in Munich early one morning. When I needed to cross a virtually traffic free main road, rather than wait for the crossing lights to turn green, I walked across. Filthy looks from the others waiting to cross, and horrified reaction when I later returned to the hosting German family. Apparently, I was lucky not to have been arrested!

          1. People do that, but you have to check whether there’s a police car around first. Nowadays they have a little sign on the crossings saying “Set an example to the children”
            Yes, they are far too trusting of authority, and ready to obey orders. That is why Germany has so many covid restrictions, and why flu hasn’t yet returned to the country (which would signal that covid is over) – they’re all too obediently obeying lockdown!
            But freedom-loving Germans have a good movement going – the equivalent of our Stand in the Park – it is very well organised, and is getting neighbours in touch with one another, which will help to strengthen the populace.

          2. What a patronising message. In the same vein as all the psychological warfare convid scare messages.

          1. My limo arrives 11.30 am Tuesday for the drive through covid test. Then isolate until 8 am Friday. My Birthday treat appears to be getting my kit off in front of strangers. Again.

    3. Vile, ungrateful waste of oxygen. If it’s that bad, he can **** off back where he came from to see if he can get the food and accommodation he demands. Has he any real idea of the impact of the unsustainable costs his lot incur on over-pressed, ordinary tax payers whose incomes are being severely squeezed. While most of us are facing real energy cost hardships, he will have no worries about his luxury accommodation staying warm.

  25. A woman calls the police to report her husband is missing.
    The police arrive and ask for a description. She tells them he’s 6 foot 2 inches tall, blonde wavy hair and has a smile that makes everybody love him.
    The police then go to the next door neighbour to verify this report and the woman next door tells the police,
    “You can’t believe her. He’s 5 foot 4 inches tall, has no hair and he wears a perpetual frown on his face.”
    The neighbour then goes and asks the woman why she gave the police such a false report.
    She replies, “Just because I reported him missing, doesn’t mean I wanted him back!”

    1. Only one problem, he is another of the brainwashed: “Everyone – well, almost everyone – agrees that climate change is a serious issue and one that needs to be addressed.”

    3. For poor/mean NOTTLers:

      Why the cost of net zero is too high for the country – and for Boris too

      As we head further and further into crisis, the question of whether the end goal justifies the means is looming large

      By Matthew Lynn 6 February 2022 • 5:00am

      Johnson once described a net-zero world in which a hydrogen-cooked breakfast would be the norm, but the universe had other plans

      Giant windmills across the North Sea would feed cheap, reliable electricity into the grid. Energy-efficient boilers would heat perfectly insulated homes to a pleasant temperature, even through the depths of winter.

      Electric cars would hum along the roads, consuming a fraction of the power of their petrol predecessors; high-speed trains would whisk us off on holiday, while the newspapers would be full of stories of democratising reforms within the old petrostates as their oil revenues dwindled away.

      Or, as Boris Johnson himself put it in 2020: “You cook breakfast using hydrogen power before getting in your electric car, having charged it overnight from batteries made in the Midlands. Around you, the air is cleaner; trucks, trains, ships and planes run on hydrogen or synthetic fuel.”

      In some parallel universe, the UK, along with most of Europe, would by this year have been well on the way to hitting its net-zero targets, with clean, cheap and renewable energy replacing fossil fuels, at lower cost and with greater security. Johnson, along with other leaders from around the world, would be basking in approval for rescuing the planet, while delivering a better quality of life.

      The trouble is, in this universe it is not quite working out as planned. Instead, we are entering an increasingly dystopian world of soaring gas prices, energy shortages, fuel poverty, warnings of blackouts and school closures and, perhaps worst of all, we are being held to ransom by Russia’s President Putin, manipulating the energy market as he threatens to invade Ukraine. We are in the middle of an unfolding energy crisis the likes of which Europe has not witnessed since the 1970s.

      Everyone – well, almost everyone – agrees that climate change is a serious issue and one that needs to be addressed.

      “Humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change,” we were warned by Johnson last year. “It’s one minute to midnight on that Doomsday Clock, and we need to act now.” And yet it is also becoming abundantly clear that the speed of that transition is becoming increasingly expensive. It is creating a cost of living crisis that is only going to get worse. It is tearing apart political structures. And, perhaps most of all, it has undermined energy security, handing vast geopolitical power to a newly aggressive Russia.

      We need to start asking whether net zero is still worth it – or whether, at the very least we need to start slowing it down. And, more urgently, whether it will be his commitment to net zero – to “keep that promise to the letter” – that brings Johnson down. It may have seemed the right thing to do 12 months ago. But the world has changed fundamentally since then – and, before long, government policy has to change as well.

      “Even if we are just the second or third country in the world to hit net zero, it would make a huge difference to how much this is going to cost us, both financially and politically,” says David Davis, the former Brexit minister.

      “It is the obsession with being the world leader that is really costing us,” he adds.

      Brutal shock

      It might have been widely expected, but the lifting of the energy price cap on Thursday will still have come as a brutal shock to millions of households. At a single stroke, the energy regulator Ofgem raised the price cap by 54 per cent – and with it, the average yearly household bill soared to £1,971: an increase of £700.

      The Chancellor Rishi Sunak stepped in with a package of measures to support the most vulnerable, including council tax rebates, and loans to energy providers. But it is still going to hit middle England in the pocket. Already, there are tales of extra blankets being bought, heating being turned off and food budgets shaved to deal with the fallout.

      Even worse, on the same day, the Bank of England pushed up interest rates for the second time in two months, with more to come, increasing mortgage bills. The Bank forecast that inflation would hit an alarming 7.2 per cent this year, well ahead of wages rising at 4 per cent annually, meaning real living standards are now falling at some of the fastest rates on record.

      And yet there are plenty more steep price rises just down the line, all of them imposed by the Government. The rising cost of energy will very soon be feeding into the cost of everything else we buy, from food, to services, to leisure.

      One estimate last week calculated that switching to heat pumps to keep the house warm, and installing chargers for the electric car to get around, would cost the average household £35,000 – or significantly more than the median after-tax household income of £30,800. In effect, 14 months of earnings are going to be eaten up by switching from one form of power that worked perfectly well to another one that still isn’t proven.

      And with inflation spiralling, those costs will prove even higher. Looming over everything, a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine that would send energy costs through the roof: within days of the tanks rolling across the frozens steppes of Eastern Europe, the 54 per cent increase in the energy price cap might seem relatively modest.

      Cause and effect

      There is a common thread linking all the different aspects of the cost of living crisis: a poorly-planned, over-rushed drive to eliminate all carbon emissions as quickly as possible, and by 2050 at the latest. “The Ukraine crisis has highlighted the fact that we have not taken energy security seriously enough,” says Clive Moffatt, who chaired the UK Energy Security Group from 2017 to 2019, and has advised on energy for 30 years. “A lot of the risks in the supply of gas are down to the fact that most governments, including our own, have not thought about the issue as much as they need to.”

      Very true. In fact, Europe’s energy crisis, including the UK’s, has been more than a decade in the making.

      Rewind 10 years, and governments around the world were just starting to take climate change seriously, with the likes of Japan, Korea, Canada and New Zealand setting themselves the ambitious target of “net-zero” economies. In effect, that meant phasing out oil and coal, and relying instead on green energies such as wind and solar power.

      In the UK, it meant a vast investment in wind turbines, most located offshore, where the gales are most reliable. There are now more than 11,000 turbines in operation, and on a good day they account for 24 per cent of our electricity consumption.

      Along the way, however, we forgot an important detail. We don’t just need the power to be green. We need it to be reliable as well – and, come to think of it, preferably not too expensive. And the wind, as anyone who has ever tried flying a kite will tell you, is not quite that. It is a variable and unpredictable source of energy: great when a force niner is blowing in from the east, not so good on a still day.

      Only last week, the Government published data showing that power generation from wind farms fell by 30 per cent between July and September last year, as air speeds dropped to their lowest level so far this century.

      That might be a one-off, but it dramatically highlights just how variable wind is compared with traditional forms of power; a gas field or oil well can produce roughly the same amount year after year until it runs out, and so can a nuclear plant.

      As Moffatt and others argued to the Government, there was nothing wrong with switching to renewable energy sources. But it meant we needed to make sure there was a back-up source of power. The only really practical one was gas.

      And yet, instead of ensuring there was plenty of capacity, the UK dangerously ran down its supplies. We actively discouraged investment in the North Sea, where there is still plenty of gas, and which still accounts for 40 per cent of the UK’s energy needs.

      Energy giants such as Shell decided it was no longer worth the flak, with leaders in Edinburgh and London competing to demonise them. Britain could have opened up new gas fields with only modest levels of investment, and if necessary kept them as backup if renewables ran low. Just last week, the European Commission deemed natural gas and nuclear plants “green energy” as long as they meet certain targets. And yet Britain has pressed on with the total elimination of gas as a practical energy source.

      Just as seriously, we effectively banned fracking, on the basis of a few wild conspiracy theories about earthquakes, and fracking’s impact on unborn babies (most of which make the anti-Covid vaccination sites look like a model of scientific rigour), even though there are vast reserves of shale gas in the north of England. In the US, where fracking went ahead, and which doesn’t seem to have been destroyed by earthquakes yet, gas prices have barely risen this year.

      We ran down nuclear energy because we decided it wasn’t green enough – which, along with Germany’s decision to decommission its plants, left France as the only serious nuclear player left in Europe. Perhaps worst of all, we allowed storage facilities to be run down, so we have miniscule reserves of gas.

      We assumed that we could always import liquified natural gas, shipped in from Qatar on huge container fleets to plug any gaps in demand. In effect, the UK created a power system that was greener, reasonably cost effective on a good day – but very, very fragile.

      We are seeing the impact of that now. Gas prices have soared right across Europe, rising five-fold in the space of a year. There are plenty of reasons for that.

      The pandemic created rising demand across the world as the economy locked down then bounced back. But the major one is Russia, Europe’s major supplier of gas, with huge pipelines feeding into the continent, and while that energy is still flowing it is not as plentiful as it was.

      True, the UK does not buy much gas directly from Russia. But we do buy lots of gas on the global market, and that price is set by what Russia is doing. If it does invade Ukraine, the gas supplies may be cut off completely. At that point, it may be impossible to keep the electricity running.

      High price to pay

      Energy costs, and the dependence on a volatile gas market, are just one part of the story. The Government is driving to eliminate carbon emissions at a far faster rate than most major economies. The catch is this: it means pioneering new technologies when they are still being developed, and before mass manufacturing means that costs have come down.

      We are forcing families to switch to electric cars with gimmicks such as London’s £12.50 a day charge for older vehicles. But everyone knows electric vehicles will be dramatically cheaper in just five years’ time, as batteries develop, and new types of cables mean expensive upgrades to domestic fuse boxes won’t be needed, and as giants such as Toyota and Volkswagen bring new models into production.

      Already, the cheapest electric car for sale today comes in at under £20,000, and is expected to drop to under £10,000 later this year with the arrival of the Citroën Ami; a recent report claimed that by 2027, electric cars will be cheaper to produce than models with petrol and diesel engines (although questions are now arising as to how green electric cars are really (see story, left).

      Meanwhile, the Government is busy demanding that gas boilers be phased out, replaced mainly by expensive and unreliable heat pumps, when new technologies such as hydrogen may well make them obsolete as soon as we have spent the tens of billions necessary to install them across the country. Pushing the target out by just two or three years would make it much cheaper to hit.

      “When it becomes a real hot potato politically is when people realise the rising cost of energy is partly down to government policy,” warns Davis. Unfortunately, that point is very close.

      If the UK developed new gas fields in the North Sea, had half a dozen nuclear plants ready to switch on, or fracking sites up and running, the energy price charts would be as dull as they were for most of the last 20 years. Net zero may have started out as a laudable enough aim.

      But it was designed at a very different time. In the last year, inflation has started to take off, making the cost unaffordable for many families. And, combined with our own failure to take energy security seriously, it ended up playing straight into the hands of Vladimir Putin. The whole of Europe is now, in effect, dependent on the Russian autocrat to keep the lights switched on. And now that he has that power, he is not likely to surrender without a struggle.

      So how do we get out of this mess? “In the short term, there is not a lot we can do about it,” warns Moffatt. Power plants can’t be built at the click of a finger, and neither can storage facilities, and the blunt truth is we have no way of knowing for sure how much power wind will generate.

      In the medium-term, however, we could do more. We could rebuild our reserves, putting more storage in place at only modest cost. We could open new fields in the North Sea. We could restart nuclear, and allow one or two fracking fields to open; the Government made a modest start on that last week, with support for a Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk.

      Perhaps most of all, we could accept that getting to net zero will be a little slower, and that if Germany or Canada gets there first… well, that’s fine. In the meantime, we will have to hope the winter stays as mild as it has been so far, and that the Beast from the East is geopolitical, rather than meteorological. If there is a February cold snap, such as the one we experienced in 2018, there could easily be rolling power cuts and shortages.

      The last time that happened, in the early 1970s, it effectively finished the career of a former Tory prime minister. If it happens again, it might finish Boris Johnson – and in truth, like Edward Heath, he will only have himself to blame.

      How green is your electric car really?

      By Paul Hudson, Motoring Editor

      The wholesale adoption of electric cars (EVs) has been presented as a panacea, a point of view that appears to have gained traction with the Government, with a ban on the sale of all new solely petrol or diesel cars in force by 2030.

      It’s clear that battery-electric vehicles (or BEVs, to distinguish them from hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars) offer significant advantages over “conventional” petrol or diesel cars in terms of CO2 emissions – but they still produce harmful particulates, just not any of the better-known ones.

      These non-exhaust emissions (NEE) are particles released into the air from brake wear and the tyres’ friction with the road surface, along with dust and debris kicked into the air by passing vehicles. The impact of these particles, like pollution from the exhausts of internal combustion engine (ICE) cars, becomes more acute in heavily populated areas.

      As petrol and diesel engines get cleaner every year, and with sales of EVs rising, this kind of non-exhaust gunk represents a growing proportion of particulate matter on our roads.

      The main concerns are particles called PM2. 5 (less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter), which can penetrate deep into lungs. But there are other ways in which your green car isn’t quite so green. The batteries of electric vehicles contain rare elements, extracted from the Earth’s crust.

      Lithium-ion is the current default battery chemistry for EVs, and there remain huge question marks over the mining of these elements in places such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. As well as the elements themselves, there’s also a CO2 cost to mining them.

      Many mines employ energy-intensive rock-crushing machines during the extraction process, while some processes involve coal-fired furnaces. Then there’s the generation of the electricity needed to power an electric car.

      On a good day, renewables can provide getting on for half of the UK’s electricity generation, but there are still huge concerns about how suppliers and the National Grid will manage ever-increasing demand from consumers plugging in electric cars. In addition, it requires a lot of energy to produce a new car, irrespective of its motive source.

      A 2021 study by Volvo revealed that manufacturing an electric car generates up to 70 per cent more carbon emissions compared with an ICE one.”

      1. Thanks. A typical Tory; only realises the scam when he’s been mugged by it. Still believes in the green and covid frauds. Or to be charitable, perhaps the editors inserted those references, because otherwise they would have fallen foul of their masters.

      2. “…We are forcing families to switch to electric cars with gimmicks such as London’s £12.50 a day charge for older vehicles. But everyone knows electric vehicles will be dramatically cheaper in just five years’ time, as batteries develop, and new types of cables mean expensive upgrades to domestic fuse boxes …”
        What utter bollox! New type of cables – knitted from unicorn manes, perhaps? And the rare earths needed for effective batteries are a) pretty well all owned by China, and b), being rare earths, are not in plentiful supply, so as they get used up, will get fabulously expensive!
        Who wrote this shit?

      3. ““Humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change,” we were warned by Johnson last year. “It’s one minute to midnight on that
        Doomsday Clock, and we need to act now.”        ” Strange, I seem to recall this being said in the 1970s, only then it was the Great Ice Age they were panicking about. Plus ça change …

      4. ““Humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change,” we were warned by Johnson last year. “It’s one minute to midnight on that
        Doomsday Clock, and we need to act now.”        ” Strange, I seem to recall this being said in the 1970s, only then it was the Great Ice Age they were panicking about. Plus ça change …

  30. OT – we take the DT on a Saturday. Some months ago, I noticed an article by a woman moaning about her newly acquired single status, and having to bring up two children alone etc etc. I treated it as a one off example of how some women can feel hard done by.

    To my amazement, this woman has a full page EVERY Saturday in which she expatiates about how difficult it is to find a decent chap and about her views on “dating”, sex and other matters.

    To say that she is a self-obsessed sex maniac would be too generous.

    As a mere male, I can tell her that she is exactly the sort of woman from whom any chap looking for love and companionship would run 100 miles – very fast.

    I now have every sympathy with her former husband – and stunned that he put up with her as long as he did.

    Glad to get that off my chest. Oh, she also claims to be an “influencer”…..hah, hah hah….{:¬))

  32. Just over 48 years ago, on 12 November, 1973, I stood before a Justice of the Peace and swore allegiance to the Crown. I have never rescinded that oath since.

    While ever Her Majesty the Queen reigns my allegiance to the Crown shall not waver. Her Majesty has been my Queen for all my life, except for the first 50 weeks of it; this is something that I find quite astonishing.

    However (there had to be a “however”), I cannot honestly say that my allegiance to the Crown will continue to remain after Her Majesty’s death.

      1. Whether there was or wasn’t is not the question. If HM’s descendants devalue the Crown’s high standards — an excellence that she always strove to maintain — then I shall not hesitate to rescind that oath of allegiance.

  35. ‘Morning All

    Got your one suitcase packed folks??

    Because I don’t think there’s a single NoTTLer that isn’t going to jail if the Online Harms Bill passes……….

    “Under changes to the draft legislation

    announced yesterday, the Government has also added three new criminal

    offences to deal with internet trolls.

    The worst offenders could be jailed for up to five years for threatening to kill MPs and celebrities.

    Spreading Covid-19 disinformation would also be covered under a crime of sending a false communication.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10478581/Online-Safety-Bill-force-web-giants-protect-users-fraud-hate-crimes.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
    “Covid disinformation” you say,every blasted fact,every conspiracy theory revealed on line has later turned out to be TRUE.
    Laughable the MSM is exempt from this act and as we have seen we now have a bought and paid for Minitrue in action
    The only thing I’m surprised about is they haven’t included criticism of the Greenscam as well…….
    Edit
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00af65d40e2769e4680805740d09892193513a27a3bc96342c06f84dbd4f2923.jpg

    1. Greenscam – that is likely to be included, if only in the small print. At least we should be warm in our cells without the worry of home -heating costs.

  37. 335016+ up ticks,

    Party before children / Country welfare still very,very evident,

    UK Rape Gangs: Authorities Still ‘Victim-Blaming’, Areas Downplay Abuse to Avoid Rochdale-Like Reputation

  38. Convoy !!

    A RCMP officer true to his oath

    https://www.brighteon.com/98b7905b-8863-4994-a52f-b7ff33ef5395

    The Pastor

    https://files.catbox.moe/6j1rid.mp4

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bd477498177cc5c130519b4314114a8aebfe01b075941e8a1e07120696eb317e.png

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c305bfc49a7c1a480ed78bd0a889af6ef839922fac07147d44ac7ae00e1c1eb0.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6caf584a73255274d8ddae263ec03ec0e7dd93964c271ef8e02079a90f0dbcaf.png

    https://twitter.com/LFCNewsMedia/status/1490047924621004806?s=20&t=J4KVWPhU55m7mthSKqZvow

    https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1490038362509561856?s=21

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea8f57e8ad2ba3019767620bdfcd2965be46559bdfeb4b168710975ce479ff37.jpg

      1. My respect for the truckets and supporters just increased.
        My respect for Canadian law and government vanished at the same time.

    2. The police leant on an organisation to stop protests. Was a crime committed? Was there violence, property destruction or fraud? No. The state was just told no. Thus the state decided that fascism was a lot easier than listening to the protesters.

    3. The Ottawa Police endorsing fraud and theft.

      Gone the same way as GoFundMe lack of trust and no more business.

    1. 335016+ up ticks,

      O2O,
      The electorate are on par with the Light Brigade as in
      Four decades ago they took up the walk, trot , then a canter,before breaking into a Country annihilating full gallop.

    2. Phew……..
      Thankyou for confirming what a lot of people thought they already knew.
      I hope it’s not a back handed way of trying to get sympathy for him. Co’s it’s a failure.
      In reality (born in the USA) like many others in the current cabinet, he has no consanguinity with this nation or it’s established culture whatsoever. So What could possibly have gone or could go wrong ?
      Take care fair Lady……

    2. I suspect if he spent any time on a golf course the green staff would take care of his impressions.
      As in repairing the divot.

  44. Good morning. I have been ruminating over the relationship between the PRC and the globalists, and on the face of it it seems to me that what has been hitherto a cosy mutual admiration is not fated to last.

    So I was interested to see a note this morning on Cairns News about the parliament building in Canberra, currently beseiged by 100,000 protesters with a heavily armed government goon squad posturing aggressively and “finding” loaded weapons in protest organisers vehicles. It is said that the building was constructed in the early 80’s specifically as the NWO HQ.

    It would perhaps explain the totally bizarre events down under that Mr Global wants to site himself on the continent away from the global centres of population. If so our smiling friends in the CCP would hardly welcome a new and poisonous regime of megalomiania in their sphere of influence. I post my piece with the Cairns News item.

    https://cairnsnews.org/2022/02/06/__trashed-4/

    https://www.tarableu.com/an-educated-guess-mr-global-and-the-prc/

      1. Yes quite right. A typo…..1iqA3M7QSbNScQOT30J4WHm-vNm5Q8bKdVU25gD5EPCvyMZJgHvHINKswxko2KQWmWKHxeQep1DcHQv2kd5wee4ouqsG7GGvp2XfnXQ71wEUMY14sE19SqG2STFZshSvI8MEJlIA&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT2eSjE8-kFdJj16YwfU5RNhXSHeaMhzhLwJRTXKWxr4mWvgV54EpMsAll9FBq4ecFUVptF_e22f8LDIClJ2rzut8ek2yspMbKfxw7bVqy84YhDSg1w23TWaa8TuDOWCca1V

        1. The typo is irrelevant about which I do not care.

          I’m interested in the number…

    2. It was said a few years ago that all the globalist billionaires had their nuclear bunkers in New Zealand.

  45. Good morning. I have been ruminating over the relationship between the PRC and the globalists, and on the face of it it seems to me that what has been hitherto a cosy mutual admiration is not fated to last.

    So I was interested to see a note this morning on Cairns News about the parliament building in Canberra, currently beseiged by 100,000 protesters with a heavily armed government goon squad posturing aggressively and “finding” loaded weapons in protest organisers vehicles. It is said that the building was constructed in the early 80’s specifically as the NWO HQ.

    It would perhaps explain the totally bizarre events down under that Mr Global wants to site himself on the continent away from the global centres of population. If so our smiling friends in the CCP would hardly welcome a new and poisonous regime of megalomiania in their sphere of influence. I post my piece with the Cairns News item.

    https://cairnsnews.org/2022/02/06/__trashed-4/

    https://www.tarableu.com/an-educated-guess-mr-global-and-the-prc/

  46. Action, not words, is needed to resolve the crisis in Northern Ireland
    Just how much of a risk to NI’s place in the UK should Unionist politicians be expected to take?
    Kate Hoey: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2022/02/06/action-not-words-needed-resolve-crisis-northern-ireland/

    On Wednesday night before retiring to bed with a mild dose of Covid I heard the excellent news that the Northern Ireland Agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, had decided that customs checks between UK and Northern Ireland put in place since Brexit would cease at midnight.

    Today, full of beans and over Covid I have discovered from Kate Hoey’s article that as usual fudge has prevailed and Poots’s decisive action has been reversed :

    A High Court judge confirmed that inspections on goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain must continue, pending the outcome of a full hearing in March. It is very unusual for a Justice at a preliminary hearing to order a remedy supporting the applicant.

    If Johnson does not resolve this he must be placed in the stocks and publicly bombarded with rotting vegetables – he is beneath contempt.

    BTL

    Is it not time for Northern Ireland to do what Ian Smith did over 56 years ago – make a Unilateral Declaration of Independence?

    If Boris Johnson is incapable of invoking Article 16 immediately he must leave Downing Street immediately. The sovereignty of the United Kingdom and its borders is of far greater importance than a few squalid people and their insensitive, contemptuous parties.

    1. Rastus,
      What you see everyday in the MSM is a version of reality; although in the North Mr Blair declared peace in our time, the struggle continues throughout the island of Ireland. Less visible than previously, but there are bomb alerts often.
      Plenty of areas where people will stop and stare at you if your vehicle has UK mainland number plates.

  47. A clear out of socialist/communist swine you say…….

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/52171aefb3d64daed4edfae754a26f8cf7e949cb4b72662e900dccc669e57a57.jpg

    A new dawn you say………

    New head of communications
    Guto Harri

    Writing in GQ.

    Then there is the BBC. Cards on the table, I was happily employed there for
    18 years and I think the Beeb is one of the best things about Britain.
    I’d be astonished if the Boris Johnson I knew and worked for wanted to
    destroy it. The BBC is not faultless and it’s mishandled some big
    decisions recently, but briefing a serious newspaper that the licence
    fee would be abolished and the corporation “whacked” was reckless,
    irresponsible and an act of self-harm for a self-declared one nation
    government that’s meant to be focused on other things.
    Plus ca change…………

  48. Apologies if this has been posted earlier.
    The comments are fairly supportive of Thompson and Davies.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10481379/British-Cycling-faces-revolt-athletes-blast-trans-policy.html

    I am reminded of one of the best distance cyclists Britain has produced, who could mix it with the men and win; Beryl Reid

    Perhaps cycling should get rid of male/female distinctions for a while and see how the results pan out and if they go as I would expect then there should be three categories, Male, Female and other.

    EDIT: OOPS: wrong Beryl

    I couldn’t recall her surname and Reid stuck in my mind and when I googled beryl reid and cyclist it came up with images

    https://www.google.com/search?q=beryl+reid+cyclist&rlz=1C1CHBF_frFR975FR975&oq=beryl+Reid+&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0i512j46i512l2j0i512l3j46i512l2.6020j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    2. If you listen carefully you will hear the sound of “Cold War Warrior” veterans exploding…!!!!!

      What on earth has possessed our ‘leaders’ we seem to have lost our collective minds?

      FFS……!!!!!!!

    4. Probably Canadas contribution to nato, after all we don’t have soldiers or guns to offer.

    1. Jess Philips MP is encouraging everyone to get HIV tested in National HIV testing week beginning 7th February. Promoted by the Terrence Higgins Trust.

      Make of that what you will but it was the case that only promiscuous people needed testing.

      1. There was supposed to be only a dash of HIV in the Wu Flu make up to make it more transmissible, might they have got the quantities wrong.

  53. For discussion………

    This is very interesting.
    Allegedly…………

    GOVERNMENT UK LIMITED is owned by Laird James Coutts. A Scottish Laird is gentry, a large landowner, like lord in England. BORISJOHNSON LIMITED is owned by David Coutts (David Coutts is listed as Director and the only person registered with this company). Coutts is also a private bank.

    Not sure how this scam works, but everything and everyone is a corporation. Corporations can’t make laws and neither can banks!!! It looks to me like they are all owned by the banks – literally and metaphorically.

    It seems all MPs are registered as limited companies including Jeremy Corbyn and Green MP Caroline Lucas (who promotes the WEF agenda Build Back Better).

    https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/05522373

    https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC633471/persons-with-significant-control

  54. What If?

    What if everything we’ve ever been taught about everything is a lie. What if all of it, or at least much of it, is an inversion of the truth?

    This one question is a vital part of our spiritual awakening as we come home to the truth that we’ve been programmed to believe what we’ve always been told to believe. Whether that programming comes from societal beliefs, education, television, or religion, we’ve all been programmed to believe a carefully crafted narrative.

    Then something nudges us to begin questioning everything.

    This nudge, what I refer to as an awaking experience, is different for every person. It almost always involves the loss or death of something or someone. The loss of freedom and our entire concept of normal that came with Covid created a mass awakening for humanity. This is one of the “gifts of Covid” I often refer to.

    It was the catalyst for the greatest awakening this planet has ever seen. (Stay tuned for another book with this title after I finish my Metatron’s Cube book now in final editing.)

    Waking up, moving beyond the matrix of fear, opens our eyes to what has been played out behind the scenes. Waking up and seeing it all isn’t an easy process. Disbelieving what we’ve always believed and questioning everything can bring us to our knees and feel like a punch in the gut. This is often referred to as a spiritual 2×4 to the back of the head and forces our third eye open to see the whole picture.

    How many people are really ready for that?

    Awakening and transitioning into our best selves is messy and painful. The ahas can be thrilling, and keep us moving forward, but the process of letting go of everything we are not, isn’t a walk in the park. It requires the destruction of everything we used to cling to as reality. It is confusing, frustrating, scary, and liberating.

    There is grief, anger, and tears.

    The body reacts with what appears to be illness and now what is called ascension flu. It manifests are headaches, body aches, tummy aches, and more as the body lets go of old beliefs and recalibrates itself with higher vibrations. We lose friends who don’t understand us and family who think we’ve lost our minds. The love and light we experience are beyond words, and the sadness of letting go is real.

    Don’t let anyone tell you what you are feeling isn’t real and that you should stop being so emotional.

    Emotions are energy in motion. Hold yourself in compassion through all of it – through the big emotional mess. Let the tears flow, allow yourself to feel anger, let the shadows surface, process the pain…. and then let it subside. On the other side, as you emerge into who you really are, there is peace.

    And, as the rest of humanity begins waking up and questioning everything, be there for them remembering how it was for you.

    The inversion is being exposed in perfect divine timing, allowing humanity to adjust to each exposure for an awakening that is as gentle and chaos-free as possible. And, awakening is a jolting experience as light exposes the darkness. It will feel painful and seem chaotic for those who don’t understand the process of breaking down and reconstruction as a necessary cycle of life.

    All things end and from the compost, new life is created.

    Your role, as one who has already begun your personal awakening and reconstruction process, is to hold the light up for others as they face their dark night of the soul and begin processing their own lives, and the collective human story. No matter what and how it happens, stay loving. Reach out your hand in love and help the rest through their awakening process.

    As always, Get Bold, Be Fearless and Live Free!

    XO,
    Victoria Reynolds
    Not sure who this is

          3. One of many expressions Australians like to disown.
            Also, give us another coldie mate, i’m as dry as a dead dingo’s donger. 🍺
            Much preferred is, i’m as dry as a pommie towel.

    3. “…the body lets go of old beliefs and recalibrates itself with higher vibrations.”

      ???

    4. The simple reality is most people do not want to wake up. Comically, these are usually the ones calling themselves ‘woke’.

  55. Finally Reiner Fuellmich’s model proceeding the Grand Jury before Public Opinion has opened after momths of preparation. It is doing what the AG of the US should be doing, and what judicial systems around the world should be replicating. This is a link to the first day of opening statements. The proceedings were delayed and open about 5 mins into the tape. It is profoundly shocking even for those of us who a pretty familiar with much of the material.

    Use this link and replace the DOT.s

    ‹https://wwwDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=ELTFNkCdzjA

    2. I admire their efforts, but it without legal standing – and no state managed court will ever permit such – they’re just talking.

      1. Words have power. And these have certainly got the power to accelerate the arrival before national courts of Fauci, Gates and their pshycopathic confreres. You may say that a convoy means nothing, but that is helping change at a fundamental level.

    3. Carrie has just had enough of running the country, being a mother, making cakes and walking the dog!

    6. The fault is hers. There need be almost no pressure if he had made the most of Brexit and got on with cutting taxes and regulation. We wouldn’t then give a stuff. As it is, he has created absolute chaos, left the country in a mess, spread nonsense and taxed us into poverty. The man has gone against everything he has ever written about, and I put that down to her, because these are her policies from her own playbook.

      1. Much as I despise Carrie Johnson and the influence she has on her husband surely the fault is Boris Johnson’s rather than hers?

        He was chosen to lead the Conservative Party and lead the country. He was not chosen to become the uxorious vassal of his wife. He is pathetic; his wife is scheming and manipulative and the scheming and manipulative will always prey upon and exploit the weak and pathetic.

        Those who have studied Shakespeare’s tragedies will have reflected that the tragic hero is undone by a ‘vicious mole of nature’ – a fault within himself rather than simply by a malignant fate. Othello’s vicious mole is jealousy; Hamlet’s is indecisiveness; Macbeth’s is ambition; King Lear’s is vanity. The tragedy of Antony is caused by the fact that he allows himself to become a strumpet’s fool whose judgement is overwhelmed by his subservient lust for his mistress, Cleopatra.

        Boris Johnson seems to possess many of the fatal flaws of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes but he lacks their stature and he fails to arouse our sympathy or our empathy. He is faltering and flatulent buffoon – he is no hero.

        But is it entirely fair to blame his wife for his inadequacies?

    7. She is a manipulative gaslighter, now when it becomes obvious she asks for sympathy without any suggestion she is at fault..

  57. Could an uprising succeed against the Taliban? 6 February 2022.

    Those I have spoken to who are plotting to dislodge the Taliban know that they need to look beyond the fighting phase, so they do not repeat the mistakes of the US-led intervention. They know too that the government led by Ashraf Ghani, who fled as Kabul collapsed last August, was seen as corrupt, and they need to have a plan for a different kind of government. They will need help in this. The west could soon be asked whether it will support an Afghan insurgency. And this could involve a reconstruction plan for the whole country.

    In other words more of the same that has failed repeatedly! You have to wonder how the people who write this tosh in the western MSM square it with their conscience? Do they ever lie awake at night and think of the dreadful things that their lies bring about or do they just look at their bank balances and think another day another dollar? At the moment they are fostering a War in Central Europe that should it go the wrong way well may be the end of us all. That would be Poetic Justice of some kind though as always the innocents would still suffer the most!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-an-uprising-succeed-against-the-taliban-

    1. The most important thing, after a successful conclusion of a war etc, is to win the Peace

      Something that Bliar and Co totally ignored after the Gulf Conflict

  58. Does anyone know how long covid isolation is expected to last? Prime Minister dipstick has been in hiding for eleven days now,

    At least we have one politician fighting back, not one of ours unfortunately but Florida governor DeSantis is raising serious questions about the gofundme money being withheld.

    1. You must go directly to the place where you will isolate and stay there for 10 days.
      This is mandatory and starts the day you arrive in Canada. If you test
      positive in Canada (for example, when you arrive or on your Day-8 test),
      you must isolate for 10 days starting on the date you took that test.

      Quarantine or isolation – Travel restrictions in Canada

    2. From what I have heard, his cowardice is such that he could well claim to still be testing positive when the prescribed isolation term is over.

  63. Change is good” said Boris.
    “Can’t argue with that” say the UK public “but now we’ve used all of
    ours to pay the gas bill”
    “Take these” said Boris, proffering £4.5 billion worth of unsuitable
    PPE, “you can burn these to keep warm, sod the climate change activists
    and clean air fetishists and when you’ve used it all up, I will have
    miles of red tape for you to burn.”
    “Thanks” replied the UK public, “have this P45 in exchange”

    If only Carlsberg did happy endings.

  64. A Groaner

    Four men are in the hospital waiting room because their wives are having babies.

    A nurse approaches the first guy and says, “Congratulations! You’re the father of twins.”

    “That’s odd,” answers the man. “I work for the Minnesota Twins!”

    A nurse then yells the second man, “Congratulations! You’re the father of triplets!”

    “That’s weird,” answers the second man. “I work for the 3M company!”

    A nurse goes up to the third man saying, “Congratulations! You’re the father of quadruplets.”

    “That’s strange,” he answers. “I work for the Four Seasons hotel !”

    The last man begins groaning and banging his head against the wall. “What’s wrong?” the others ask.
    “I work for 7 Up!”

  65. A Groaner

    Four men are in the hospital waiting room because their wives are having babies.

    A nurse approaches the first guy and says, “Congratulations! You’re the father of twins.”

    “That’s odd,” answers the man. “I work for the Minnesota Twins!”

    A nurse then yells the second man, “Congratulations! You’re the father of triplets!”

    “That’s weird,” answers the second man. “I work for the 3M company!”

    A nurse goes up to the third man saying, “Congratulations! You’re the father of quadruplets.”

    “That’s strange,” he answers. “I work for the Four Seasons hotel !”

    The last man begins groaning and banging his head against the wall. “What’s wrong?” the others ask.
    “I work for 7 Up!”

    1. “And I can assure her that I did my best to scupper her kingdom’s bid for freedom from the tyrannical grasp of the EU.”

      I wonder if the truth will ever come out about Evila May’s very peculiar father and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death in a car crash.

      1. I just looked that up. There is a lot of adding two and two together and possibly making five, but all the same, her past is far more unusual than was ever commented on in the media. It might have made a difference to people’s decisions about whether to vote for May had they known the simple facts and coincidence.
        As an aside, if your surname is Brazier, why on earth would you call your daughter Theresa?

      1. Sunny on the snow, so energised by the bright light & fresh air; got a troubling bit of building done and ready for paint. Relaxing, so it was. Tried to post photos, but the file size too big, apparently.

          2. These days a good long uninterrupted sit down is far more welcome than an afternoon of rumpy pumpy.

        2. It’s surprising how that extra hour of daylight perks you up.
          I can feel my mood lifting; soon I’ll be as cheerful as Eeyore.

          1. The rain and gale have been so dispiriting that I drew the curtains early just to shut out the miserable sight ….

          2. Light all the lights.

            It’s what i do to defeat SAD.

            Trouble is my doorbell doesn’t stop ringing.

            Perhaps i should stop using red L.E.D’s.

    2. That’s good to hear. I woke up early, sorted the laundry out, walked myself to the gym with the great beast, he waited while I oggled a lovely bottom and on my return he scrabbled over the counter when I’d finished (he is something of a guest star).

      We walked home, got the dinner on, fed the troops and when I sat down with my book I promptly fell fast asleep.

    1. At least that would be one civil servant working from home.

      As for the rest of them, the department for health civil servants have decided they are only going to be in the office four days a month.

      Sounds like France.

      1. The French have been pushed into WFH and don’t seem to be quite as enthusiastic about it as the British.

        Given the choice between the NHS and the French system, give me the French 99/100 times.

  70. Well, we had a Jubilee tree planting at 2.30 – in between the very heavy showers, followed by a slightly odd service in the church. Pelting down again.

    Four of us at church were alive in 1952….half alive today.

          4. Finally joined Arsebook, as Mother’s care home posts videos and pictures daily of what’s going on – the parlour games, snaps of residents, and so on. Including the celebration of Mother’s birthday a couple of weeks ago.
            It all looks rather gentle and nice; Mother seems to be improving now she has proper food and someone to make sure she eats and drinks, and some light excercise and lots of social contact to provide some mental stimulation.

          6. Yes; it seems to have turned out well. The florist SWMBO uses to send flowers to Mother said that the care home is where she would like to end up, that it has the reputation of being the best in the area.
            That was reflected in their website, that was set up to attract people in – as opposed to another we looked at, that had no website, couldn’t manage to send photos by email, and didn’t seem to have much for the inmates residents to do.
            It’s a major relief, TBH.
            https://www.parksidehousepenarth.co.uk/ – could almost stay there meself.

          7. That’s a very useful tip then.

            Consult the florists because they will know two obvious things.
            Whether birthdays etc are celebrated and how many deaths are occurring.

          8. We had the same thing with Elderly Chum. So many of us were trying to keep the show on the road.
            However hard everyone tried, nothing beats someone being there all the time, making sure they eat and drink properly and take their medication regularly.
            Her skin looks better and she now walks short distances with just a stick.

          9. Excellent! Well done, your gang. But, you’re right – Mother forgets to eat, and just stops. With her having meals at home, she was basically neither eating nor drinking, and the care vists did b-all about it, just cleared the plate away and set up the next. Now, they check carefully that she’s getting enough

      1. There were a handful. I think children are into “games” on their sodding phones/pods/pads….

        I’d say the average age of the modelling folk was 65.

        1. HS2 excavators have found a large Roman cemetery where some 10% of the bodies had been decapitated. They said the bodies would be treated with respect. ‘More than the Romans did’, I thought – then the next thought was, ‘I wonder if they realise the Romans kept slaves’.

  72. Fruit salad with Carnation anyone?

    Moh’s mum used to serve this up for Sunday tea time .. late 1960s with tinned pears or peaches .. Tinned salmon with salad, green stuff grown in Moh’s father’s green house . Bless her , she did very well considering all circumstances .

    It was a steep learning curve for me . My parents were overseas, but my relatives used to have potted beef, buttered pikelets , cheese celery , radishes and home made fruit cake .

    https://twitter.com/SeasonDeeper/status/1490007151170965514

          3. One of my children absolutely adored that stuff.
            The only food of that ilk that I really enjoy is Crème Brûlé

      3. Milk jelly. You used to be able to get packets of powder to make it; dead easy.
        It’s a B to make from milk and jelly cubes; get the milk temperature wrong and you have a nasty pink/orange/purple curdled gunk.

        1. THANK YOU! I have always wondered why I haven’t been successful making it. I loved milk jelly, but have never managed to reproduce it how they did it at my school.

          2. Thank you Phizzee, that sounds interesting. Their cookie refusal dialogue is a nightmare though.

    2. There’s a coincidence, I have just been chopping up a melon,a pineapple and some strawberries. Not necessarily for a fruit salad, but I might just do that. No Carnation though, and I haven’t even tasted it for more than 50 years.

      1. I have moved onto Connie Onnie

        What is the purpose of condensed milk?It provides a concentrated creaminess and sweet, milky flavor to whatever you put it in,
        without all the excess moisture that you get from regular old milk. That makes it perfect for creamy things that you want to set to a
        near-solid, like key lime pie, fudge, frozen margarita pie, or caramel.

        It used to be in toothpaste(ish) tubes in 24 Hour Ration Packs

          4. Survivalists have made military style rations popular. Though i don’t think you could get or want to eat the originals.

        2. Connie Onnie! That takes me back. I was dog-sitting for a fellow student in the late sixties. His Scouser neighbour brought round a mug of coffee with condensed milk in it. It was the first time I’d ever heard of “Connie Onnie”.

        3. Sadly, replace in ration packs by “Non dairy whitener*” which had a habit of coagulating into something like frog spawn. I used to take a little bag of Marvel on exercise.

          *Never saw the insides of a cow!

    4. At Tidworth Military Hospital they fed the babies on Carnation milk – it made mine have projectile vomiting.

          4. I don’t think any of our children had that.
            HG was very fortunate to be able to feed them until they moved on to solids.
            She was also lucky that they were slightly late developers as far as their milk teeth were concerned.
            };-O

          5. It’s all depending. Some have a better start than others. Not necessarily anyone’s fault. War time babies had to learn how to open a tin !

          6. Boob.
            And powdered milk – no idea of the brand, and it’s certainly not SMA in Norway.

          7. It is a big brand. Some of the Brands were found to be mildly toxic at one time.

            I was the youngest of six so i was passed around from boob to boob.

            Which probably explains quite a lot.

      1. I spent 2 years plus having it in tea and on cornflakes. When I returned to England, I was amazed at the taste of real milk!

    6. Sunday Tea. Tinned Salmon. Salt, pepper and vinegar.

      Lettuce, tomato, cucumber with salad cream. Bread and butter and a pot of Tea.

      Followed by tinned fruit and tinned cream.

      If you were lucky……. Trifle.

      I wouldn’t turn my nose up that now.

      1. Same up North. No salt with the tinned salmon (just the white pepper and vinegar), and the slices of cucumber were always swimming in a dish of vinegar. The tinned fruit (in our house) was invariably metallic-tasting mandarin oranges.

        Trifle was OK but it always had the same bloody tinned oranges and too much cheap sherry sloshed into it.

        2. There is so much that that i could say. But i won’t. Don’t want to diss your Northerner relatives that didn’t have a clue.

          Saying that. If i were sat at table…i wouldn’t have complained.

          1. I still cringe whenever I think about it. What made it worse was that it was not even malt vinegar, but something weird known as “non-brewed condiment”.

    9. Looking again at that picture i suggest it is a piss take.

      The cloth, the board presentation. So Instagram friendly.

        1. My mother had a way of dealing with that sort of problem. “I’ll have that,” she’d say….

  73. Confucius did NOT say…

    Man with no garden often looks forlorn!

    Bird with no beak was born to succeed!

    Man, who wants pretty nurse, must be patient.

    Lady who goes camping must beware of evil intent.

    Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.

    Man who runs in front of car gets tired; man who runs behind car gets exhausted.

    Man who eats many prunes gets good run for money.

    War does not determine who is right, it determines who is left.

    Man who drives like hell is bound to get there.

    Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.

    Man who lives in glasshouse should change clothes in basement.

    “ A lion will not cheat on his wife, but a Tiger Wood!”

  74. Interesting snippet from yer France. You will know that they insist on effing covid passports to do anything or go anywhere.

    Well – election coming up. Toy Boy desperate to get a second term…

    So – “It will not be necessary to preset a covid passport in order to vote”.

    Quelle surprise….

        1. There’s a very Leftie Frenchman that we have seen at the night markets over the years and he’s been setting out his stall for Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the proper market recently. Normally at this time of year he’s putting out union leaflets or marching, he extremely anti-vax.

          Most people seem to avoid him like the plague but since we often have space at the table when it’s only HG and me he often joins us and is happy to chat.

          He doesn’t have a good word for Macron.

          1. He wouldn’t. But most French don’t have a good word for Mélenchon – a loquacious rabble-rouser.

            One just HOPES that the Gaullists and centre right will unite – instead of dividing (à la Gauche) – and that Mme Pécresse gets to be number two in Round One – and defeats Toy Boy soundly in the run off.

            Sadly, I do not hold out much hope. There are always far too many round one candidates – splitting votes and letting the “wrong” person through.

          3. Many of us would like to see a proper Conservative Party emerge but too many people enter politics for self-aggrandisement rather than in order to do any good.

    5. He and Trudeau are in the image of Blair. Cynical, mendacious, superior.
      I feel the urge to profanity whenever I they speak.

        1. I can tell you don’t hold them in high regard.
          You hide it well but I’m quite perceptive.

      3. IMHO Those three and Obama all went through training somewhere arranged by the NWO. And probably Cameron and several Australian politicians and Fanny Annie in NZ. None of them have ever represented the people who voted for them. Oh hang on there’s another more recent who comes to mind. And I’m not being rude. BJ.

        1. I’m not sure there some sort of onanist finishing school, more a merry go round of after office jobs where the same people keep getting the same trough jobs where they all have nice cosy backroom chats where the tax payer foots a multi billion dollar waste of money and they get a nice bung out of it.

          They’re all corrupt. All bent and one day there will be a reckoning.

          1. Blair had no interest in politics at Cambridge. His potential was spotted as were the spies.

    6. He and Trudeau are in the image of Blair. Cynical, mendacious, superior.
      I feel the urge to profanity whenever I they speak.

  75. Bloomin’ Heck. The last time I had to practically head horizontally into the wind was on Blackpool front, Autumn 2003.
    Oh well, at least I got some fresh air into my lungs – and saw a rainbow.

          1. You could have put a ‘trigger’ warning in front of that film. We only had a black and white telly !

      1. Fly low ye carrion crow
        And seize my body for the dead I owe
        And drop me high into the depths below
        For the things I’ve seen no one else should know…

    2. If it was a substitute for one of the new woke creations I would be all in favour.
      Given how the UK offers homes to the world it could be called ALMS Day.
      All Lives Matter Sovereign’s Day.

    3. No. It’s just another excuse for people who provide the essential services we all pay for to have another indulgent day in front of Netflix.

    6. ‘Permanent’? How about a permanent Bank Holiday in honour of Queen Victoria? Or all of the other British monarchs?

          1. Indeed we do, just wait for it to warm up a bit.

            Traditionally it is when flowers and veg can be planted out.

    7. Just the one to celebrate the reign of the current monarch. While I’ve booked the days up to off, I couldn’t get the warqueen to as well.

  77. Last comment about Sculthorpe – especially for former soldiers and airmen (and sailors)

    There is a special form of military nomenclature for stores.

    For example: “Cases, wooden, packing.”

    The MR has always been a tad doubtful about this…so I was delighted to be able to show her a metal container from the 1950s still labelled:

    “Box, tool, mechanics.”

    For an hour, this morning, I was right back in my childhood and adolescence spent on RAF stations……..

    1. Drawers, cellular, airmen for the use of.

      Is one I remember though I wanted to find: Hangars – aircraft, next to Hangers – clothes.

  78. Right – I am off. Just had 20 min Zoom with fave GD. We did have a larf – after the MR had explained to her that, in the past, there were TWO forms of “You” in English – YOU = formal (cf: vous; usted) THEE = informal (cf: tu and yer Spanish one – no spicka). I can still learn summat new at 81.

    Brilliant day. All sorts of memories.

    Have a smooth evening

    A demain

          3. I had a word with Cook – “Thou has’t misled me,” saith I.

            She explained that t’was I wot had misunderstood.

            Thou art correct – I beg thy parding.

            What I had not gleaned was that “thy”, “thine” and “thou” were all singular. You know?

          10. Tha’ reight, lad.

            In Chesterfield we have thee, thy and thine but not “thou”. “Thou art” is rendered as thar; “thou what?” is, invariably, tha’ what?

          11. Proper English. The “you” takes a case, so the understanding is improved, as well as the listener knowing how many people might be involved.

          12. Aren’t they equivalent to the German “du” and “ihr” (singular/plural respectively)?

          13. Get back in thy box, Woman!!!

            You are right. I was muddled. Now there’s a surprise…

          14. Completely understandable. I live in constant terror of embarrassing myself at software meetings in front of sharp young things with facts that my brain has conjured out of thin air.

          15. You wouldn’t Thou the Queen, too familiar, even if there is only one of her. Hence “Your Majesty” not “Thy Majesty”.
            So, you also covers the formal Sie, as well.

          17. Scandi version of Sie is De. Mostly fallen out of use, but I keep practising in case Kong Harald drops by to shoot the breeze and enjoy a glass of Firstborn’s shine.
            Just saying.

        2. No, he’s right. It worked like the tu/vous system in French where the second person singular (tu) is the equivalent of thou. The plural of thou was ye (you). The second person singular was used for intimacy (ie addressing God the Father). It’s one reason why it annoys me so much that the modern translation doesn’t recognise this intimate relationship.

      3. Jennie, a childhood friend of mine (who is our Henry’s godmother) when she was a little girl thought that God was called Hereward because she said in her prayers each night:

        Our Father, which art in heaven, Hereward be thy name ……

      4. Jennie, a childhood friend of mine (who is our Henry’s godmother) when she was a little girl thought that God was called Hereward because she said in her prayers each night:

        Our Father, which art in heaven, Hereward be thy name ……

  79. Bbc one now, The Queen: 70 glorious years.
    Very left loaded in places.
    Her Maj looked very nervous when she was taken into the cage of a coal mine white suited hard hat and all.

    2. In places? The BBC can’t manage a series about something they hate so fervently without poisoning it.

      1. The over importance of the feature on the miner’s strike didn’t mention that Wilson and Callaghan closed more pits than Thatcher. But that sort of information is not available on their adgenda.

        1. Agreed – too easy to find nonsense theories, like Covid and Net-Zero and Climate Change.

    4. For a brief moment this morning, I thought she was the ex-queen. A BBC Radio 4 news bulletin began “Prince Charles has paid tribute to The Queen…” before going on to report on the Duchess of Cornwall as Consort.

        1. I remarked after church that I thought it would be a case of “après elle le déluge”. General opinion was Camilla was the best thing to have happened to Charles.

          1. I expect there are lot’s of people who are very active behind the scenes Conners who have manipulated certain aspects of the Royal House hold.
            I just feel that there are far too many people in the UK now who do not support our culture and won’t care when ER passes on.
            She’s been brilliant.
            Except I just hope that she doesn’t knight Blair. She needs to watch the film The Ghost Writer. 😊

    5. For a brief moment this morning, I thought she was the ex-queen. A BBC Radio 4 news bulletin began “Prince Charles has paid tribute to The Queen…” before going on to report on the Duchess of Cornwall as Consort.

    6. I too noticed the left-loaded, Lenny Henry, Slob Geldof and Attenborough to name but a few, Eddy.

  80. Am I alone in being pestered by an advertisement at the top of the Nottlers’ page for:

    Abandoned Properties for Sale
    Trendy clothes for older woman
    Abandoned Homes for Sale
    Dresses for Women over 65
    Part time jobs for retirees.

    I don’t know how to get rid of it and the ad blocker seems to have no effect.

    Is there any kind Nottler with the same problem who can give me some advice?

    1. Which adblocker are you using?

      Usually, if you right click on it, go to inspect you’ll find the ‘name’ of the object. With that you can usually construct a block

      1. Did I remember correctly that you said you use a Pi Hole?
        I have an adblocker too, but it doesn’t catch this one.

        1. I do use pihole and ublock (for youtube adverts). The div id is called ad-container, which is a nice simple name.

          I think…. ###ad-container will work if you add a custom rule.

          1. Meh. That’s like having clothes you have to hand wash.
            Does the Pi Hole live up to its promise?

          2. Yes, but it’s a DNS level blocker.

            Thus it can block http://www.ad-dumper.com but it can’t block ads that come from the domain without blocking the domain.

            Thus while it could block youtube.com it can’t block youtube.com/ads because that’s an URL, not a domain.

      2. Rastus uses the same as me: Adblock Plus. It is normally successful at blocking things, but not this.

        I’ve looked into it and from what I’ve read it looks as if the only ones who might be able to turn these wretched things off are the Nottler admins.

          1. Enabling more filters is what did it – click on the ABP icon, then on “Block element on this website” and then highlight the ad box. I did this for both the top and the bottom ad boxes, reloaded the page and no more ads. Had to do the same on Rastus’s computer.

      1. On my pad, without useful adblocker, there’s lots of picture links to clickbait sites, all with a picture of a woman with lots of cleavage and the title “The worlds most beautiful woman” or similar crud.

        1. I have no idea why it thinks I’m interested in electronic payments and last minute hotels. But I did check my google shadow profile a few years ago, and it thought I was a thirty something man. :-/

        2. I get the same inane drivel all the time. If I click on the cross (top right hand corner) to delete them, they just send back more of the same idiocy each time I refresh or log on.

      4. This morning, I was invited to get a lift to replace the stairs, this apparently being a big thing in Firstborn’s local town – a place that has 1 small hotel & bar, a supermarket, a bakery, a filling station, an ironmonger and a farmer’s co-op shop and an antique shop. Where this lift shop is, I don’t know.

      5. The wardrobe thing is obviously something to do with me, although I’m not over 65 – not even 60 at this stage!
        It’s the “abandoned properties for sale” that gets me – why does Google think that we want to do up an abandoned property when it also thinks that we are an elderly, retired old lady?

          2. I probably did it wrongly. I am running some software tests on something that MUST work very soon, and have no patience with or head-space for other people’s software!

      6. Just found how to do it on Adblock+:
        Click on the Adblock logo on the tool bar. A menu drops down.
        There’s a choice to block an element. Have the ad showing, click on the “block element” then on the ad.
        Now, it seems to be gone!

    5. I do thoroughly recommend uBlock Origin. Adblock+ I found let some things through. I am never going to click on an advert and I remember 20 years ago one comp site became so saturated with them the only way to read the content was to block them.

    6. I use Ghostery with Chrome, and never see them on the laptop. On the phone, it’s a different matter. But the ads are the price we pay for Disqus’ free version. The ‘Pro’ version would cost $105 per month, and I’m basically a cheapskate…

      1. You cheapskate? Now that is something i would watch given how we were talking about homemade Go karts earlier.

        Castor cups and a plank was all i could manage to pinch.

    7. Click on the eye thing – top right-hand corner
      Block
      reason – irrelevant
      click submit.

          2. All the birds of the air fell a sighing and a sobbing
            When they heard of the death of poor Cock Robin.

          3. So Cock Robin joins Felix Randal (A Level Eng Lit)

            Felix Randal
            BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS:

            Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead then? my duty all ended,
            Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome
            Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it, and some
            Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended?

            Sickness broke him. Impatient, he cursed at first, but mended
            Being anointed and all; though a heavenlier heart began some
            Months earlier, since I had our sweet reprieve and ransom
            Tendered to him. Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended!

            This seeing the sick endears them to us, us too it endears.
            My tongue had taught thee comfort, touch had quenched thy tears,
            Thy tears that touched my heart, child, Felix, poor Felix Randal;

            How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,
            When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,
            Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!

          4. Never done Hopkins but have often thought about giving him a try.
            edit- I do vaguely recall a few words of a poem….Cliffs of fall…….hold them cheap….who ne’er hung there. Summat like that.

    2. I had a pedal go cart.

      It was great, like a low slung four wheel much more stable bicycle.

    3. Yep. We had an alley behind our house (known as ‘the backs’), about 2 or 300 yards long. My brother and I tied the cart to the back of his bike with some washing line and took turns towing each other round, at the highest speed we could manage.

      It’s where I learned to drive.

      1. These things is also where I learned how much it hurts to slide across the road surface…

          2. Yes, I used to get those after the occasional mishap when standing on my bike’s crossbar.

        2. Tell me about it. Some of the worst injuries I had as a child were when I fell off my scooter and scraped along the pavement. None of the pavements were level anyway.

          1. For me it was falling off a horse onto a road – gravel scrapes, ouch! Similar injuries from falling off bicycles, but I tended to be off road for a lot of that.

        1. My mum had two prams, one was black for general use and the other racing green for special deployment.

          I took the wheels from the black pram. Steering was a central bent tube with a rubber grip and bearing donated by a friend’s father who worked at Stothert & Pitt.

    6. A four person go kart steered with the pilots feet on tha axle. You even had advertising ! How posh are you !!!

    7. In the All Ireland Soap Box Trophy of 1956, I was third out of one hundred plus …

      However, I won the Seaboard and Western Airlines Trophy (a magnificent silver cup) for Best Constructed car … it was aerodynamically streamlined …

      In 1979, I re-presented the S&WA Cup as a Crews’ Prize for the Gareloch OD Class at the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club.

    1. Don’t get all floretted about it when you are in your bath with the rabbits and goats. Or did i watch the film backwards?

    3. We were tested and proved to be positive for Covid on 4th February and have already thrown off the symptoms. However, this means that by using the UK recording system we have 28 days – i.e until 4th March in which to die in order to be recorded as having died of Covid.

      1. Some women actually get a thrill whilst being shackled to a steel frame from which they cannot escape without a release agent.

      2. Amazing! Alan and I have been arguing about it for weeks! He said it was cgi and I said it was real! What an incredible feat – Alan is now even more impressed!

  87. Evening, all. Happy Platinum Jubilee to Her Majesty. We toasted her health with fizz after church this morning. It was a good service because the RAFAC members were renewing their promises and we had banners and marching. Secondly, because they share their Squadron number with the Dambusters, we had rousing music, God Is Our Strength and Refuge and other eminently singable hymns like I Vow To Thee My Country and a reading of High Flight. I thought for a moment, they’d got hold of my funeral order of service!

    1. Yo Conners

      It warms the cockles of my heart. to hear that.

      Regretably, to many ‘residents’ in (not of) UK, she is a nonentity

      I saw her (not met) in the 50’s when Nobutalad, outside the Council House in Coventry and then she was at the dedication of
      892 Naval Air (Phantom) Squadron at HMS Heron on 31 March 1969

      1. We also sang the National Anthem with gusto. We did have the help of a 24-strong choir, but even so … 🙂 I saw HM at The Royal Show in the eighties. She passed right by me, but on the other side of the barrier. I was surprised how petite she was.

        1. I remember seeing HM in 1956, when she visited Gloucester. She was standing in an open jeep, and lots of schoolkids lined up to see her drive through the Park.

          1. I saw her and many others of the Royal Family at the 900th anniversary service of Westminster Abbey; a school friend’s dad was a chorister and had two spare tickets. I was in the second row of the aisle going down- if you know what I mean.

          2. That’s just jogged my memory – I formed part of a “guard of honour” of lots of scouts and brownies in the fifties when HM was driven past standing in an open Landrover in a local park (Mary Stevens, Stourbridge).

        2. I always keep a bottle of Gusto handy- same as the can of Glee.
          HM is 5′ 2″ and I am 5′ 4″ – I am taller but she is greater.

  88. Apart from some replies, there sems to have been no posts on here for TWO hours, why

    Are you all elsewhere

    3. I was watching MANON DES SOURCES, OLT. Then I went to bed at 10 pm and woke up at 2 am. So, unable to sleep, I am now up (at 3 am) searching YouTube for some foreign language films available on YouTube to watch in February after my own collection of DVDs have been seen. March will see me back to watching silent film classics.

  89. Good evening. As the Reiner Fuellmich Grand Jury model proceeding gets under way I have just re-read an address given last October by the great Catholic Archbishop Vigano, which is a model of what one would have hoped to have seen spread wide by the churches. Sadly they have proved as corrupt and pusillanimous as the whore politicians. It is time for Gates, Fauci, Schwab and the rest to face the music and for those of our fellow citizens who remain firmly blinkered to get with the programme. We must not miss the tide.

    https://www.tarableu.com/turin-speech-of-archbishop-vigano/

  90. Carrie Johnson is NOT the first lady of this land. That is HM The Queen. Why don’t the MSM understand this simple fact?

    1. They understand all right, they are just winding us up – especially as they know we don’t like her.

      1. I suspect you’re right; she has her agenda and seems to be determined to make dopey Boris obey. It’s all so sad for this our country.

        1. Much as I despise Carrie Johnson and the influence she has on her husband surely the fault is Boris Johnson’s rather than hers?

          He was chosen to lead the Conservative Party and lead the country. He was not chosen to become the uxorious vassal of his wife. He is pathetic. Yes, his wife is scheming and manipulative and as you would expect the scheming and manipulative woman will always prey upon and exploit the weak and pathetic man. But it is up to Boris Johnson not to have his judgement weakened by his wife.

          1. I agree to an extent but would not underestimate the scheming manipulations of Boris himself. As to Boris Johnson’s judgement I reckon on the evidence so far, this is wobbly at best if not lacking entirely.

          2. Agreed Richard, but under his filibustering surface he’s just another useless classic political creep. With nothing to offer. So far he’s failed at everything he has come into contact with. Which seems to be the norm in British politics. Perhaps the civil service are too influential, as we have seen on our TV screens in Yes Minister and House of Cards. Perhaps these programmes were
            more realistic than we could have realised.
            I don’t trust anyone in politics anymore they don’t seem to take on board public opinion, in fact it’s become rather obvious that they simply shun it. They should not be allowed to dictate.

          3. “Perhaps the Civil Service are too influential…..”

            Yes, they certainly have been.

            The Sue Gray report points out that various civil servants smuggled booze into No 10 in a suitcase, and spent Friday evenings

            drinking in the back garden.

            Not a word of criticism about those members of the civil service, it’s all Boris’ fault !!

          4. If they react to public opinion they the call it ‘populist’ which, naively, we thought voting was for.

          6. I agree with you wholeheartedly but if Johnson goes we will be back in the EU in short time.
            The country is in a mess and short of having David Frost or Steve Baker as PM we’re stuffed.

    2. And the infamous Jack Straw described the even more infamous Tony Blair as the Head of State.

      1. Yup. Just reading the comments as opposed to commenting.

        Here goes: Johnson is toast. There are just too many mishaps, barefaced lies and deceits in his ‘legacy’.

        Johnson inhabits some parallel universe where he bestrides Whitehall and Parliament Street as an Emperor, throwing billions at the supposed solutions to his problems, problems of his own creation. Daft git.

        Sunak, meanwhile, is clutching the dagger which will shortly find its way between Johnson’s shoulder blades.

        But remember that Sunak is a world bankers’ place man and his election would consign all but the unfathomably wealthy (like him) to the dust bin of history.

        Choices eh?

        1. Have a look at Peter Hitchens (Mail) assessment of where we are now and could be heading in the future.
          I have to agree with him whole heartedly. But we really do need to get rid off Johnson, and also becareful what we wish for.

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