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Today’s letters (visible only to DT subscribers) are here.
Morning everyone.
Morning, Minty.
Yo and Good morning to you all
Good morning and a very good Yo to you too, OLT.
Good morning folks,
I think it would be a nice blue sky start if the aeroplane contrails hadn’t coated it with lines of light grey mist.
Maybe they are releasing the monkey pox or something
Good morning, Bob3.
Even the BTL comments in the Daily Wail suggest a high degree of scepticism.
Good morning, Annie.
The West is running out of time to save Ukraine’s grain and prevent catastrophe
The great reset plan in action if you ask me.
I read somewhere a league table of wheat production/exports which suggested that both Russia and the Ukraine come right at the bottom of the world’s countries. Can this report be trusted? I have no idea, but these days I am sceptical about most “news”.
Morning folks.
Have just checked the weather forecast and today it’s ideal for making Sods. So once I’ve shifted a ton of top soil, removed the last few recalcitrant weeds, I plan to rake over the plot, firm it up and sow my seed. Operation Broad Sward…..
Hope Danny Bhoy turns up! My dad had a wonderful shaggy dog joke about ‘green side up!’
‘Morning to you!
Morning Sue. Do you mean to say I have to check every grass seed so that the green tip is the right way up when I sow it?
The joke certainly involved turves!
Good morning, Sue Mac. What really amuses me about WHERE EAGLES DARE is that – to reveal nothing to any Germans who might be listening in – the broadcast from the Allied HQ (Michael Hordern as Broadsword) to the operations field team leader (Richard Burton as Danny Boy) is all in this code. But once contact is made the following conversation reveals the Allies’ plans in some considerable detail.
Artistic license?
Vladimir Putin is still flooding social media with dangerous lies. 21 may 2022.
In this opaque landscape of truth and lies, it is crucial for the West to counter Russian disinformation head on. The British Government has taken the lead on this, with the Counter Disinformation Unit working with tech firms to remove posts relating to Ukraine making false claims about the conflict. The new Online Safety Bill similarly enhances the UK’s resilience; intentionally falsifying data is now a criminal offence. Clear strategy at home, coupled with enhanced cooperation abroad through the Five Eyes Intelligence Network and working with EU partners will be crucial in the coming months. The public also has a role to play, questioning unverified information online, or reporting posts they suspect to be untrue.
TOP COMMENT BELOW THE LINE.
Derek Robinson7
The west would never lie, I suppose? In any war truth is the first victim and it’s not just one side that does it. Think back to WW1 and the British propaganda unleashed against the Germans who were said to eat babies. We’ve all seen the posters. The British establishment was happy to lie through its teeth to bring in the recruits and boost the cannon fodder. Or more recently think weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or the lack thereof. A lie so blatant it was embarrassing. The west lies as much as anyone else, Mr. Buckland, so don’t pretend the USA and its minions are all angels.
99% of the lying being done in this war is by and in the West to its own people!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/20/vladimir-putin-still-flooding-social-media-dangerous-lies/
It would be a turn up for the books if thousands of people reported the above article as ‘suspecting it to be untrue’….
When the PTB are challenged they accuse those with different views from their own as being perpetrators of fake news.
And it is not just about the news of wars in Easten Europe. There have been so many lies about Covid from the government and the MSM, so much cancellation on social media of those with ‘unacceptable’ views no matter how well qualified they are and so much suppression of the information about the fatal effects of the Covid vaccines that many of us now think that is the PTB who are the main pushers of fake news.
A Monkey Pox on them.
All we need is the top men’s laydees to design a clothing range for patriotic wives and daughters.
So you’re saying (© Cathy Whatsername), Annie, that Carrie has ordered a length of Lincoln Green for Boris’ new outfit, with a raffish red feather to wear in his cap? Lol.
Magda Goebbels produced suitable fashions for patriotic German laydees.
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Annie, in the top photo, which one is Julie Andrews? (There are two laydees carrying a guitar). Lol.
352744+ up ticks,
Morning AS,
In this opaque landscape of truth and lies, it is crucial for the West to counter Russian disinformation head on. The British Government
has taken the lead on this,
Nobody but nobody is going to successfully challenge the United .Kingdom overseers for being CHIEF porky spreaders.
Patrick Lancaster has blown more than a few holes in the West’s pro-Ukraine propaganda.
https://youtu.be/XykxIFiDbiY
Vladimir Putin is still flooding social media with dangerous lies. 21 may 2022.
In this opaque landscape of truth and lies, it is crucial for the West to counter Russian disinformation head on. The British Government has taken the lead on this, with the Counter Disinformation Unit working with tech firms to remove posts relating to Ukraine making false claims about the conflict. The new Online Safety Bill similarly enhances the UK’s resilience; intentionally falsifying data is now a criminal offence. Clear strategy at home, coupled with enhanced cooperation abroad through the Five Eyes Intelligence Network and working with EU partners will be crucial in the coming months. The public also has a role to play, questioning unverified information online, or reporting posts they suspect to be untrue.
TOP COMMENT BELOW THE LINE.
Derek Robinson7
The west would never lie, I suppose? In any war truth is the first victim and it’s not just one side that does it. Think back to WW1 and the British propaganda unleashed against the Germans who were said to eat babies. We’ve all seen the posters. The British establishment was happy to lie through its teeth to bring in the recruits and boost the cannon fodder. Or more recently think weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or the lack thereof. A lie so blatant it was embarrassing. The west lies as much as anyone else, Mr. Buckland, so don’t pretend the USA and its minions are all angels.
99% of the lying being done in this war is by and in the West to its own people!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/20/vladimir-putin-still-flooding-social-media-dangerous-lies/
Good Moaning.
V. happy lawn at Allan Towers.
On the reverse side of the coin – v. happy weeds as well.
Ditto. For once I managed to get the weed and feed stuff down just before le deluge. The moss is now in its death throes (until next year). The beds sre still like concrete however…
‘Moaning, Annie.
The bits of my “garden” that I still have to get round to sorting out have done their usual “not so much a garden gone wild, more a garden got stark raving bloody berserk” act for the summer.
‘Morning, Peeps. A sunny start and a promising 11°C here. It’s looking good for our Men’s Group walk, followed by a pub lunch.
The first of today’s letters;
SIR – The destruction, loss of life and war crimes we have witnessed in Ukraine over the past few months are appalling. But these will all pale into relative insignificance if the grain currently stored in that country is not moved to where it is needed, and this year’s harvest rots in the fields (“How Putin’s war could reap a bitter global harvest”, report, May 20).
Maintaining the status quo simply allows Vladimir Putin to inflict devastation akin to that of a nuclear attack without crossing the Rubicon.
We have, at most, a few weeks to act. The time for talking and hand-wringing has long since passed. Every person on the planet with an ounce of humanity can see the imperative of shipping that grain.
We need to do whatever it takes, now. The logistical challenge is monumental. Only the military (in reality, Nato) has the command and control to achieve such an operation, and, if necessary, defend it.
If good people do nothing evil will prevail, with consequences that we have not witnessed since 1945. Twenty-first century history will turn on the decisions our leaders make in the next few days.
Patrick Loxdale
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire
With Johnson swanning around yet another factory yesterday I do wonder whether he realises how serious the grain situation is.
Good morning, everyone. Baking today; tomorrow my next door neighbours will be over for a light lunch.
Reading the above letters, Elsie I hope you have plenty of flour power!
Good morning to you!
I have stocked up on self raising flour – an essential product for baking – but at the same time I bought a packet of plain flower. Can anyone on here recommend what I can use it for? Similarly, I am unsure whether to buy salted or unsalted butter when I go shopping. I tend to buy salted, but what is the difference. These are serious questions, which NoTTLers may be able to help me with (Grizzly, are you reading this post?). But please don’t tell me to look it up on Google – I am far too busy for that! Lol.
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Plain flour (the less flowery variety as spotted by Sue) may be used to make batter for coating/deep frying, for suet puddings (steak and
kidneycarrot), hot water crust pastry, doughnuts and similar. I use unsalted butter for baking, and everything else. If recipe needs it, add salt. Once you use unsalted butter you will soon be able to taste the difference. With salted butter you are not in control of the recipe – assuming we ever are, but that is philosophy, not baking.Any recipe that requires self-raising flour may be made with plain flour by adding appropriate amount of baking powder.
The Be-Ro Book of baking recipes is ideal and is the only book of baking recipes you will ever need.
Hope this helps.
It does, HP. Thank you so much.
Plain flour (the less flowery variety as spotted by Sue) may be used to make batter for coating/deep frying, for suet puddings (steak and
kidneycarrot), hot water crust pastry, doughnuts and similar. I use unsalted butter for baking, and everything else. If recipe needs it, add salt. Once you use unsalted butter you will soon be able to taste the difference. With salted butter you are not in control of the recipe – assuming we ever are, but that is philosophy, not baking.Any recipe that requires self-raising flour may be made with plain flour by adding appropriate amount of baking powder.
The Be-Ro Book of baking recipes is ideal and is the only book of baking recipes you will ever need.
Hope this helps.
Personally Elsie I use plain flour for coating mince before browning when making Shepherds Pie or Spagbol.
The difference between salted butter and unsalted butter believe it or not is salt :o)
Is that really so, Spikey? Do you suggest that I store the self-raising flour in a lower shelf than plain flour? Lol.
Is that really so, Spikey? Do you suggest that I store the self-raising flour in a lower shelf than plain flour? Lol.
Plain flour is OK for pancakes:)
Also for gravy, cheese sauce etc.
Salted butter best for most things
Unsalted butter best for the bin, unless you’re French
Oui, c’est vrai. Mais, d’être écossais, c’est d’être français.
Thank you, Stormy. Your post is very helpful.
Unsalted butter is bland and empty. Think ‘Lurpak’.. But I leave cooking it to the cooks…
unsalted is handy for cakes…
unsalted is handy for cakes…
The remaining ‘save the grain’ letters:
SIR – The US and Royal Navies have vessels in the Gulf to ensure the supply of oil. We should put vessels in the Black Sea to ensure the supply of grain from Ukraine.
Robert Ashton
Shrewsbury
SIR – In view of Vladimir Putin’s threat to choke off a significant portion of the world’s grain supply, is there not a humanitarian case for Ukraine urgently to invite the United Nations to put a peace-keeping force into Odesa?
Air Cdre Michael Allisstone (retd)
Former Chief Staff Officer (Logistics), Ministry of Defence
Chichester, West Sussex
SIR – Could the UN not organise something similar to the Berlin Airlift to get the grain out of Ukraine to safety and then to hungry nations, not least those of Africa?
Is it too much to ask this colossally costly organisation to pull out every stop to run lorries from Poland? Are the Russians going to be allowed to destroy food destined for the rest of the world, including nations who are not involved in this revolting war?
Richard Newman
Wetherby, West Yorkshire
Could the UN organise anything? I suggest it can only be NATO, given the UN’s current ‘rabbits in the headlights’ stance.
Sadly, as my Telegraph subscription has expired, I can not comment BTL as I used to do, but can someone PLEASE correct Tom Hunn’s comment?
And here is the REAL top 10 for 2022 wheat production:-
BoB, those figures were taken from a NTTL post, yesterday which ran uncorrected. I was merely looking for a rebuttal to the Letters headline.
Good morning my friends.
We have an internet connection but it is intermittent. I shall look in later if I can do so.
Good morning, Richard and Caroline. Enjoy your day.
Good morning.
Are you getting the boat sorted out?
SIR – There has rightly been criticism of the Bank of England’s weak efforts to control inflation (Letters, May 18).
Ironically, the Bank’s staff are personally largely immune to the effects of inflation, being members of one of the most generous index-linked pension schemes in the country. Bank of England pensions are linked to growth in the retail prices index, so no matter how high inflation soars employees’ financial security is completely protected.
Given that the Bank’s remit is to keep inflation down to 2 per cent, perhaps the interests of their directors and staff should be aligned with those of the rest of the country by capping their pension inflation increases at that same 2 per cent. This might bring a sense of urgency to their handling of the crisis.
Vincent Phillips
Naburn, North Yorkshire
If only…
850 billion reasons we are in a period of Zimbabwefication..
SIR – The film of Far from the Madding Crowd, shown recently on BBC Two, was a great delight, but I shudder every time I see an actor trying to use a scythe.
The blade should slide along the ground, and never lifted in the air in a “chopping” motion, which is dangerous and does not produce the desired result of an even swath.
There are many other aspects of haymaking and harvesting-by-hand that my very 19th-century farm upbringing taught me, some of which date back to medieval times. I’m sure there must be authorities – or even very old men like myself – who could put film-makers right, to the greater enjoyment of all.
Brian Slater
Ellesmere, Shropshire
I saw the recent ‘Mk2’ version but felt that the original (Terence Stamp, Julie Christie etc, 1963) was the better one and closer to Hardy’s novel.
SIR – I’m the Conservative county councillor for St Margaret’s and Westgate Division in Ipswich. There are a high percentage of narrow, terraced Victorian streets in my patch.
Most households have at least one car that has to be parked half-way up the pavement on each side of the road – otherwise there wouldn’t be enough room for single-file traffic to pass. There are no passing places because the cars are tightly parked on both sides of the road (on the pavement), so cars meet head on and both drivers refuse to reverse. It’s tense.
However, try banning pavement parking and the roads would be impassable (“Pavement parking should be scrapped or net zero drive will fail”, report, May 18). Tell people they can’t park in the streets near their home and there will be riots (in Ipswich at least).
Who has the right effectively to tell hard-working, tax-paying voters that they shouldn’t own a car? If the Tories try this they can watch their voters desert them en masse. The impact of partygate will be as nothing to this.
Debbie Richards
Ipswich, Suffolk
The ‘ban everything’ party has already made a good start with net zero!
A fine BTL on this subject from Biddlecombe:
Matthew Biddlecombe
1 HR AGO
Re letter:- Debbie Richards
“Who has the right effectively to tell hard-working, tax-paying voters that they shouldn’t own a car? If the Tories try this they can watch their voters desert them en masse. The impact of Partygate will be as nothing to this.”
That last paragraph sums up exactly the situation as it currently stands. I’ve been a big critic of Boris Johnson and Partygate; I think it was extremely insensitive bearing in mind the number of people who were not allowed to be with dying relatives because of Covid rules. However, I never saw it as a “capital” offence and didn’t think it was a resigning matter, anymore than I think Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner should fall on their sword.
It is the way that Conservative principles and philosophy are being destroyed that should worry them. Like many others, I knew Johnson was looked upon as a figure of fun, but I truly believed that, underneath all the buffoonery, there was a true Conservative even though I didn’t vote Conservative in 2019. I’m glad I didn’t! I voted for Theresa May in 2017 because I thought she was a true Conservative (“Brexit means Brexit” and “a no deal is better than a bad deal”) but I discovered to my cost that I was wrong. That cost Conservatives my vote the last time around, and it will do so in 2024.
The public rejected big government back in 2010 when we finally saw the back of New Labour and there doesn’t appear to be any desire out there to see it return. Will Nigel Farage come riding to our rescue? Somehow, I doubt it. I think he may feel that his legacy of getting a referendum over our EU membership has been destroyed, and in any case my guess is that he’s rather enjoying life out of front-line politics.
So what happens next? I really do not know.
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Ahem…Starmer and Rayner fell on their knees, Matthew, and didn’t they look bluddy silly!
More accurate would be:-
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Aaaarrrrgh!
Labour’s unsuitability for office summed up in one picture.
TBF, Angie was trying to distract Bozza.
More accurate would be:-
My voting re May and Johnson reflects M Biddlecombe’s efforts except that In 2019 I spoiled my ballot, such was the paucity of parties to vote for.
Johnson’s desire to act the buffoon and be liked by all rang a warning bell inside me. That bell informed me that Johnson was untrustworthy and so, from my perspective, that has turned out to be the case. I can’t claim that I knew clearly what prompted the uneasy feeling that Johnson was untrustworthy, I just felt that there was something wrong. It is now becoming clear that Johnson et al are destroying the Conservative party with their attempts to destroy of our innate freedoms and rights etc. The Tories need to make a 180 degree change of direction but where is the real leader to even try to achieve that, yet alone, succeed?
SIR – There is disparity between the treatment of people fleeing the war in Ukraine and the measures put in place to welcome refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and other countries who are seeking safety in the UK.
This is why we have written to Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, and Michael Gove, the Levelling Up Secretary. The Government must ensure that all refugees are given the support they need, including secure housing, access to employment and vital support services. It must also address concerns over the Homes for Ukraine scheme – with extra funding for councils to vet hosts effectively and provide access for Ukrainian families to specialist trauma-informed services.
Finally, we remain concerned about the potential for vulnerable children to be assessed mistakenly as adults and sent to Rwanda. To achieve the Prime Minster’s vision of a “global Britain”, the UK must play its part in welcoming all those fleeing persecution and war, and needing protection.
Lynn Perry
CEO, Barnardo’s
Sir Peter Wanless
CEO, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Gwen Hines
CEO, Save the Children UK
Melanie Armstrong
CEO, Action for Children
Rose Caldwell
CEO, Plan International UK
Jo Revill
CEO, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Philip Ishola
CEO, Love146 UK
If I had the time today I would like to find out the salaries of these people, I’m sure it would be a breathtaking sum. And how much is the taxpayer forking out every year for this lot? The BTL posters are distinctly unimpressed:
Simon Bell
6 HRS AGO
Todays bleeding heart multi signature letter says: “The Government must ensure that all refugees are given the support they need, including secure housing, access to employment and vital support services.”
What a shame that those of us born here don’t benefit from this same generosity. Maybe the signatories could let me know which country I should turn up in to secure these things for myself?
Tom Hunn
6 HRS AGO
I would say, Simon, that the ‘refugees’ are neither refugees nor ‘asylum seekers’ they are nothing more or less than illegal immigrants, who have left perfectly ‘safe’ countries to enter the UK illegally in order to suck on the British Taxpayer.
Semper Faemina
49 MIN AGO
Treatment of Refugees
“ The Government must ensure that all refugees are given the support they need, including secure housing, access to employment and vital support services.”
All the signatories are well-remunerated, vested-interesteds. Cloud cuckoo land doesn’t cut it…
Joe Greaves
26 MIN AGO
I’m very happy that we help genuine refugees.
But the vast majority of the current arrivals, are nothing of the sort.
Good morning Hugh
Nice to know that fruit and vegetable pickers will once more be plentiful, and not a single gooseberry/ strawberry / pea /bean/ redcurrant / cabbage / asparagus will go to waste.
Will Africans and bods from the ME be familiar with the clever invention by Thomas Crapper , or our standards of cleanliness , and understand we do not discard rubbish in the street . Will they be safe motorists ( I always worry, because my mother was killed by one of them when her car was written off in SA)
Will they be told not to gob in our streets , will they be health checked for TB and other diseases we have not seen for nearly a century . Will they be told not to eye up British females and boys .
Will some one dare to ask them WHY ARE YOU HERE ?
No.
Next.
Some of these organisations have been involved in dubious, even evil, stuff. See Orkney witch hunt for an example.
They’re criminals who endanger the country and the people. Get rid of them. Don’t even bother landing. Get a Hercules transporter, pack it with gimmigrants, open the transport door at 10,000 feet.
If these Lefty, tax payer funded wasters want to help, they can bog off to Rwanda.
Good morning all.
Dry and 7½°C outside with an overcast sky and slightly damp roads.
A dry day forecast so I plan doing a bit on the wall today.
Re refugees, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
It is a great pity that the TRUE figures on what every country in the world offers to such individuals cannot be made available.
At a minimum to include the cost to the taxpayers of the housing, health care, education, subsistance, clothing, heating, transport, welfare support eg translators etc. and how long that support will last.
That might wake up all the do-gooders as to why the UK appears to be such a draw. I suspect that the return on investment after paying a people smuggler must be very high.
Au contraire, the do-gooders would be THRILLED to know that they are “giving” the illegals all those things. “Sacrifices start at home”…etc etc
I’m sure it would, but at least it might make them shut up.
Nah – they’d brag and boast even more.
Then they can make the sacrifices. There should be an option for people to pay for illegals if they want them. If they do, then they pay say, £1000 more tax a month. The more people who duck out of paying ‘their fair share’ the more the rest pay.
The damned useless Left have got to be hurt – by paying for their own folly themselves.
352744+ up ticks
Morning Each,
My belief is the british government
are finding it hard to find a strain of concrete piecing wheat.
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Cross it with dandelions.
352744+ up ticks,
Morning Anne,
H/S say no, the chance of drowning in bed is to great.
Good morning, all. Sort of sunny outside. Breezy, though.
How are you feeling, Bill?
Still here, thank you.
More importantly, are you able to open tins of cat food?
(Message received from Gus and Pickles.)
Aahhh!! Fear not. They came in from a night on the tiles – ate six sachets and a handful of crunchies – and are now occupying the furniture….
‘Morning All
The internet’s been Monkeying (Pox) around……….
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You can almost taste the cynicism out there………..
I think I’d rather not, thanks!
Oddly enough, this morning when walking Oscar I met a neighbouring couple walking their dog. Both walkers were eating bananas! Clearly, it’s reached North Shropshire 🙂
Fox News guest calls out network as ‘party of hate’ for spreading ‘Great Replacement’ theory. 21 May 2022.
The tension was palpable on Thursday after a liberal Fox News guest pointed out how the network has regularly aired content echoing or directly referencing “great replacement” ideology, a white supremacist conspiracy theory. A screed believed to be written by suspected Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron references the theory.
On a recent episode of The Faulkner Focus, Democratic political adviser Kristal Knight was asked about recent comments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who said he’s going to start voting Republican because the Democrats have become the “party of hate.”
She responded that she felt the GOP and their conservative allies are the true party of hate, noting that top Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson often explicitly mention the racist theory, which posits that elites are trying to replace white hegemony by encouraging immigration.
If I began to entertain any doubts about this “theory” I would simply look at the television adverts and the Cross Channel Traffic for factual confirmation!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-news-guest-great-replacement-theory-b2083962.html
I note the last bastions of white supremacy tv advertising,funeral plans and burglar alarms have fallen to the dindus
Not that I was planning on buying either product but now they’re certainly off the list
‘Morning Minty
I was watching a Morse repeat last night. The sequences were bracketed by one of those ads for ‘care co’ or something like it. The voiceover was done by a woman with the most appalling smarmy voice, she sounded like a parody of someone pretending to be ‘sympathetic’. How her commentary was released to be used, heaven knows…
In short, she sounded like Patricia Hewitt.
It’s starting to dawn on marketeers that the enforced di-worse-ity is failing. Product sales are falling – more than in other periods of economic recession. Comically, they don’t seem to know why.
Well, my tinfoil hat tells me that the Buffalo killer may have been put up to it by those supporting “great replacement”. We have surely by now become aware that those supporting the NWO and the great replacement would not hesitate to do anything at all to continue their work.
Ahem
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Has Mr ‘Wise’ looked in a mirror recently? Who pays his bills? Who does all the work? Who pays the vast majority of taxes?
It’s long past time he was taken out, beaten soundly and then reminded who his master is. There’s a reason this doens’t happen in Switzerland: if some MP got uppity, the people would sack him, summarily.
It isn’t a theory. The Left want to destroy cultures. When these demented liberals have finally eradicated all the white folk who will pay their welfare?
Fox News guest calls out network as ‘party of hate’ for spreading ‘Great Replacement’ theory. 21 May 2022.
The tension was palpable on Thursday after a liberal Fox News guest pointed out how the network has regularly aired content echoing or directly referencing “great replacement” ideology, a white supremacist conspiracy theory. A screed believed to be written by suspected Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron references the theory.
On a recent episode of The Faulkner Focus, Democratic political adviser Kristal Knight was asked about recent comments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who said he’s going to start voting Republican because the Democrats have become the “party of hate.”
She responded that she felt the GOP and their conservative allies are the true party of hate, noting that top Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson often explicitly mention the racist theory, which posits that elites are trying to replace white hegemony by encouraging immigration.
If I began to entertain any doubts about this “theory” I would simply look at the television adverts and the Cross Channel Traffic for factual confirmation!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-news-guest-great-replacement-theory-b2083962.html
Laff
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I enjoyed reading the inscription on the gravestone of the blues singer:
“I didn’t wake up this morning.”
🎶I woke up this morning
Feeling so sick I thought I was dead
I felt sick in my stomach
And I felt sick in my head
So I rolled over on my pillow
And I threw up all over the bed🎶
The Goodies’ Sick Man Blues
If it was wrong to blame Corona Virus on our Chinese brothers then surely it is also wrong to blame this new pox upon our Simian cousins?
Good morning to you with the salt in your hair and the the wind in your sails ..
Hope you are loving your sea time where the flying fish swim .
Back to the Monkey pox scare … Nig nogs bring bush meat back to the UK to consume , they regard chimp meat as a delicacy.. It appears anything goes in the migrant community , our country doesn’t appear to be as strong minded as Australia re customs and contraband .
Illegally imported meat smells of the same Bat Wuhan plague that took us all down to hell and economic disaster .
Are we also importing more than our share of economic migrants who are gay?
Are we also importing more than our share of economic migrants who are gay?
Only when they face deportation…
‘Morning Belle
Article about Suez may interest you
https://going-postal.com/2022/05/air-drop-to-suez/
Brilliant , thank you Rik ,
I have saved that article . I don’t suppose alot of people knew about Peter.
Great bloke too.
Pity about his woke, wet son, Justin Webb. Different material altogether.
Memories. One of my Battery Commanders dropped at Suez and ended up with a metal plate in his head. We called him ‘Tin head’ of course. I was his technical assistant, observer and radio man. One time, during a live firing exercise on Salisbury Plain, a helicopter landed in front of our concrete observation post and dropped a large amount of teargas. The wind from the blades drove it into the open bunker and, before I could react, he grabbed my gas mask, which I had placed by my right hand, put it on and fled outside. I never cried so much in my life. It is nasty stuff that teargas. He did apologise afterwards. I don’t suppose he is still with us. A good man.
FOAD!!!!
https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1527521228688445442?s=21
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The future for our grandchildren……
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“Imagine the compliance” is chilling.
First test it on cats.
Testers must be naked.
SIR – I’m the Conservative county councillor for St Margaret’s and Westgate Division in Ipswich. There are a high percentage of narrow, terraced, Victorian streets in my patch.
Most households have at least one car that has to be parked half-way up the pavement on each side of the road – otherwise there wouldn’t be enough room for single-file traffic to pass. There are no passing places because the cars are tightly parked on both sides of the road (on the pavement), so cars meet head on and both drivers refuse to reverse. It’s tense.
However, try banning pavement parking and the roads would be impassable (“Pavement parking should be scrapped or net zero drive will fail”, report, May 18). Tell people they can’t park in the streets near their home and there will be riots (in Ipswich at least).
Who has the right effectively to tell hard-working, tax-paying voters that they shouldn’t own a car? If the Tories try this they can watch their voters desert them en masse. The impact of partygate will be as nothing to this.
Debbie Richards
Ipswich, Suffolk
Well, if there ever was clear evidence of politician who was not fit for purpose, then it is you, Debbie. Are you really too stupid to not know that legislation has been in existence for more than a century prohibiting the driving of, and leaving, motor vehicles on footpaths. Your vacuous clamour to retain the vote of the motorist is misguided to say the least.
Consider this scenario: a mother pushing a baby-carrying contraption (pram, pushchair, call it what you will) finds her progress blocked by the imposition of a motor vehicle, parked on the pavement by an utterly selfish motorist. Her only route along the road is to push her carriage into the middle of the road and risk being struck by some lout in a speeding car!
Also consider that an infirm elderly couple, using walking sticks, also need to progress along that street. They too are required to put their life in jeopardy as the result of the idiot who self-regardedly blocked their free right of way along a footpath.
What do you say to the relatives of those killed for no other reason that you thought it is perfectly acceptable for someone to park their car on a footpath, even if The Highways and Road Traffic Acts, both of which were passed by politicians, prohibit such a selfish act.
If you want your voting public have some place safe to park their cars, build them a garage block on some land not too far away from their homes. That’s how it used to work before motorists became too self-centred, and too bone idle to walk more than a few yards to their vehicles.
I can remember at least two”parking garages” in Edinburgh, in the late 50s. Gone now, of course.
I grew up in a road with a block of garages at the end so it’s nothing new.
352744+ up ticks,
breitbart,
Not Taking Back Control: Brexit Betrayal as UK Allows Record Migrant Numbers
When I think of the miles tramped by many of us in the genuine UKIP setting up the Brexit vote, then see the Brexit victory squandered by the lab/lib/con, party before Country brigade sickens one of decency through & through.
Why there are so many voting the next generation coming through into a future that is inclusive of incarceration, rhetorical restriction, opposition to the overseers will NOT be tolerated, is beyond me.
Thought provoking !
As far as we know, only Liam Halligan, a commentator for GB news, has been showing any concern about this.
All the other outlets of the MSM are ignoring this problem.
We think that Britain is sleep walking into an expensive disaster.
https://americanconservatives.com/2022/05/the-approaching-food-crisis-will-be-a-disaster-for-humanity/
No doubt Black Lives in $Multi-Million Gaffs will matter.
Thought provoking !
As far as we know, only Liam Halligan, a commentator for GB news, has been showing concern about this.
All the other outlets of the MSM are ignoring this problem.
We think that Britain is sleep walking into an expensive disaster.
https://americanconservatives.com/2022/05/the-approaching-food-crisis-will-be-a-disaster-for-humanity/
First trans peer a step closer as hereditary candidate claims seat
Another lefty plot – if they can’t rid the uper house of hereditary by legislation they’ll resort to biology.
Commented:-
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1527925310309670912
If it’s hereditary I wonder if the title passes first down the male line?
If it has a brother the title should pass to the brother, although no doubt the change to the succession for the Crown will have altered that.
The full madness from the Daily Telegraph and note, no BTL comments allowed:-
No comments you say? There’s a surprise…
I cancelled my sub a fortnight ago and now they won’t leave me alone!
Will she waltz into the HoL?
Whatever it is, it isn’t a woman.
We all know that, but try telling the leaders of this excuse for a country that.
He wants to have his cake and eat it.
Good morning
further to Stephen’s post from yesterday evening…
https://twitter.com/wmiddelkoop/status/1527854169415110658
Good morning, everyone. Just walked the dog for an hour in the forest. Bright sunshine, rhododendrons are in full bloom and the ferns are already 5ft high.
Good morning. A bit grey here but i’m hopeful.
Grey here too, though less windy than yesterday.
Morning, Delboy.
Sounds a great start to a Saturday! 🙂
Here, first real rain since last autumn. Dark, too.
Good morning DB
Fine morning here as well.
We have a scarecrow competition in the village based on the Jubillee celebrations . https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/03c3c5434d9d1ff05080c86aa4843db47250af0c75945c906bad1b7eb6c9ed1f.jpg
Excellent!
Tell hubby to get off that bench before he is picked as the winner.
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So do we, but it hasn’t started yet.
Speaking of rhododendrons, I spent last weekend at friend Dianne’s 70th bash, at Northmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset. The house was a superb venue, there were thirty-odd guests, and the weather was kind. But the gardens were something else. Here are just two examples…
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Not rhododendrons, but at a garden near me:
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“Ain’t that the truth files” Laff
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Fortunately, I like most here, live in an area where that vulgar sign would not be displayed, for both reasons.
It’s a good job, then, that we have this forum to let off steam and have a laugh.
I see that Mrs Murrell has been “having talks” with the deputy leader of the political wing of the IRA. They discussed the NI Protocol and prospects for the formation of the NI Executive.
What on earth has Northern Ireland got to do with Mrs Murrell?
Just asking.
Morning Bill, I’m guessing she’s seeking advice on how to use terrorism to achieve your objective
Good day to you, young Sir. You may be very close to the truth…..
The backlash has apparently given her the Kung Flu, making her unavailable to answer questions on her fawning stupidity.
At first glance I read that as the fornication of the NI Executive. Freud would have a field day.
She’s MSP for Glasgow Southside.
Add the fact that she has a visceral loathing of the English and all is explained.
Both Nationalists. Both Socialists. Need I say more?
And one connected to murderers.
Preparing the way for the Federal Republic of Ireland and Scotland. You heard it here first.
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I’m still sulking after my miserable fail of yesterday! 😒
Back on song with a birdie 3.
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Thanks. Sheer luck, as always.
Took me 5 today.
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Good morning all, I was perusing FB last night when I noticed a post from friends of mine saying ‘only 1 day to go until we’re married’. A much rearranged event that I had lost track of. So I’m scrubbed and polished and will be heading to Troon for the happy occasion.
I’m blaming my admin screw-up on my new phone…better double check for other forthcoming events.
Plus ca change………..
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Tells you all you need to know about monkey pox before the hoax gets going.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox
No mention of the main method of transmission – gay sexual perversion. Should call it the BBC pox.
https://twitter.com/Metzyco1/status/1527700575437086721
Same old same old !
Tw@ter response:-
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1527947337099882496
You’ve elected – through corruption, fraud and theft – a man used to corruption, squalor, waste and inefficiency who sees public money as his own. What did you expect?
Turn London into the world’s biggest lido and walk away.
Bring back the GLC,this is only the third “mayor”of London.
London was a better,happier and safer place in those days.
Sent by Sonny Boy. Should we be worried?
https://capx.co/why-a-tax-break-for-boomers-might-be-just-what-the-housing-market-needs/
“Why a tax break for Boomers might be just what the housing market needs
Mention the term ‘baby boomer’ and it conjures various responses, ranging from a blank, jargon-weary expression to vociferous fury at a generation now alleged by some to be blocking economic progress by sitting on generational wealth in homes ‘over-sized’ for their needs.
‘We’ve earned it!’ might be a reasonable ‘boomer’ response. Yet even they might pull back from demanding a major concession from the Treasury. However, such a thing just might be what’s needed to address the issue diagnosed by the boomers’ harshest critics – the sclerotic turnover of homes in later life. If we really want to get the property market moving, could it be time for the Chancellor to throw the boomers a bone, in the form of a Stamp Duty exemption when downsizing?
At a time of a cost-of-living crisis, exacerbated for many by paying rent due to the inability to get onto the property ladder, a move likely to benefit the already well-off may seem political insanity. But is it sound economics? One of the main reasons young families can’t get onto the property ladder is the extent of demand for family homes. In a situation of constrained supply with often a dozen bidders for the same property, the pressure on price is one-way only – up!
A major driver of constrained supply is boomers who do not need all the space in their now ‘empty nest’, but see no good reason to move. For those who might consider the benefits of amenities and culture closer to a city centre, the barrier presented by Stamp Duty becomes significant. Why pay tens of thousands of pounds for the upheaval of moving?
If we believe increased downsizing would free up supply for younger buyers, we must recognise that present incentives are stacked roof-high in the opposite direction. Indeed, one 2017 report on described stamp duty as ‘suffocating’ the housing market by stopping older people moving into age-appropriate housing, and preventing younger people getting on the housing ladder.
As things stand, even baby boomers’ children would think twice about encouraging their parents to downsize (if they could even brave †he conversation), when reflecting on their future inheritance taking a £50k+ dent due to Stamp Duty. After all, their own children probably don’t complain (quite the opposite!) about granny still being in granny’s house, since it’s full of treats and sleeps them all at Christmas. Also, boomers’ offspring will likely will see the proceeds or even have the house gifted to them by particularly savvy Inheritance Tax planners, meaning the status quo has a good deal of attraction.
All of which means more needs to be done if we want real change in a housing market which currently price out young families.
Isn’t it time, then, for the Chancellor to consider tax relief for downsizers? We know baby boomers are generally asset-rich and cash-poor: if you’ve lived in your home for 20-30 years, you’ll have paid comparatively little stamp duty, so psychologically adjusting to today’s tax bill is a hurdle. Getting older homeowners moving, and the market moving with them, will free up homes but also cash – and as they cash in, perhaps they will share that much needed capital with their family.
We should also remember that baby boomers are not immune to the cost of living crisis. For those with limited means, retirement limits their ability to earn their way through the crisis. They will feel the increases in electricity prices, and the inflationary impacts on property maintenance, especially in a larger property. They too may be put in a position to downsize if Stamp Duty is eased, and they will likely need the money that this generates.
For those fearing a sudden hole in the Treasury’s Stamp Duty revenue, bear in mind that incentivising downsizing would unlock tax-generating transactions elsewhere in the chain, as well as stimulating spending on home improvements.
It’s also fair to say that many older people will still opt to stay where they are, particularly given the working landscape we now see post-pandemic. Twenty-first century baby boomers have not sealed off the top floors and holed themselves up in the kitchen with a single electric heater. They do not all suddenly ‘retire’, and many segue nicely into ‘consultancy work’ and repurposing two family bedrooms for a study each works very nicely indeed.
If government policy particularly in the fiscal arena is to incentivise desired behaviours and penalise others, surely it should create a nudge in the direction of downsizing for those who wish to take it? Especially knowing that doing so will likely have positive knock-on effects for young families and for the housing market as a whole.”
That’s the problem though. Government policy should not be to force people to change their lifestyles. Government is there to provide the very basics of public services. Beyond that, it has no role. It should not – must not – be permitted to use tax strategy to force a particular way of life.
Spot on.
The government is trying to nudge people to behave as it wants them to – again. This time it’s a carrot, soon to be a stick?
Has he got his eye on you moving from Allan Towers?
Imagine a world where traffic lights, telemetry devices, burglar alarms, telecare alarms and pendants, dialysis machines, monitoring devices, phones in lifts, fax machines, payment terminals and ATMs don’t work.
Many of us already use mobile phones for speech and text over the internet so we can dispense with the old obsolescent landline public switched telephone network (PSTN). But how will other services that use the PSTN be affected? Is the Government being as optimistic about saving the planet with net zero as forcing gigabit fibre on the UK’s communication infrastructure on an even earlier deadline.
One solution is to move to Voip before it happens or one can just wait to be contacted by your phone provider.
In 2025, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is being switched off by BT Openreach, which means everyone, including businesses, currently using PSTN-based services will need to move to another service before then.
https://www.gamma.co.uk/solutions/landline-replacement-pstn/#:~:text=Prepare%20for%20the%20PSTN%20switch%20off&text=In%202025%2C%20the%20Public%20Switched,to%20another%20service%20before%20then.
Many services that rely on the PSTN will be affected. For example, traffic lights, telemetry devices, burglar alarms, telecare alarms and pendants, dialysis machines, monitoring devices, phones in lifts, fax machines, payment terminals and ATMs.
https://www.futureofvoice.co.uk/faqs/
I can imagine – indeed, lived in – such a world. It used to be called the 1950’s.
If none of the traffic lights worked, the traffic would flow more freely!
Golden Future….
Why England should leave the UK to embrace a golden future
PETER HITCHENS
https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/182998/why-england-should-leave-the-uk-to-embrace-a-golden-future
Sometimes it makes sense. The SNP are whinging, whinging swine who foul up, waste money then blame England. The Welsh assembly has decided to be a communist republic, Ireland is too complicated to work out, but could probably be solved by a slap to all involved.
England leaving the UK would really up up Queen Nic’s nose.
The BBC is celebrating a successful evacuation of more than 2000 Ukrainian troops, who managed to reach the safety of a Russian controlled closed camp after craftily discarding all their arms and ammunition so as not to attract suspicion. They are happy to report that they are now much safer away from the constant bombardment and rocket attacks on the Azovstal ironworks. This is another blow for the fascist tyrant, Putin. Britain’s continued supply of arms and money is necessary for the unceasing success of the Ukrainian struggle. Make sure you pay your TV licence fee – or you will be treated like the evil Russians. You have been warned!
“Russian forces take full control of Axovstal plant”.
https://rumble.com/v15janr-russian-forces-take-full-control-of-azovstal-plant.html
“The last group of Ukrainian fighters at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol has now surrendered, the Russian Defense Ministry says, bringing the number of those to have capitulated to 2,439. RT’s Igor Zhdanov brings us latest”.
So that’ll be 2,439 dead Ukrainian soldiers.
Just in case you didn’t see it late yesterday, here’s a link to Friday evening’s edition of BBC East Midlands Today. Wind forward to 10m 40s for a short school report. The feature is just 3½ minutes long. You have until 7pm tonight to watch it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0017hsv/east-midlands-today-evening-news-20052022
Listen to the endless repetition of the ‘D’-word…
It’s done such wonders for this country. Drugs, rape, assault, paedophilia… such diversity of criminality.
“Digger”?
Darkie?
Protect yourself from Monkey Pox – switch off the News!
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Shouldn’t be any problem diagnosing this one!
That won’t stop them producing a pcr test for hypochondriacs.
Lockdown in the Zoo.
Good day, Our Susan. Have you risked buying tickets for what looks like a pretty “diverse” Porm season?
Good day, Bill! Not yet, no. Can’t be doing with all the digital faffing but I may yet buy a few seat tickets. I have my booking for the autumn season at the Wigmore Hall but they’re much more civilised and my tickets are the old fashioned kind, collected at the box office.
Nor a pcr test for hypocrites.
Gay is he?
He doesn’t look terribly happy.
All the more reason for them to stay in Africa.
No more ferrying them across – keep them in France. A clear example of why we should treat the problems there, never, ever let it – the people carrying it – move around the world.
Well spotted, Minty
World has just ten weeks’ worth of wheat left after Ukraine war
The world has just 10 weeks’ worth of wheat stockpiled after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted supplies from the “breadbasket of Europe”.
The UN has been warned that global wheat inventories have fallen to their lowest level since 2008 as food supplies are rocked by a “one-in-a-generation occurrence”.
Official government estimates put world wheat inventories at 33pc of annual consumption, but stocks may have slumped to as low as 20pc, according to agricultural data firm Gro Intelligence. It estimates that there are only 10 weeks of global wheat supply left in stockpiles.
Russia and Ukraine account for around a quarter of the world’s wheat exports and the West fears Mr Putin is trying to weaponise food supplies. Russia is on track for a strong wheat harvest this year, cementing Mr Putin’s control over the staple grain as bad weather spoils production in Europe and the US.
Get your Weetabix in Nottlers!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/05/20/world-has-just-ten-weeks-worth-wheat-left-ukraine-war/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr
Don’t tell them about the wheat prairies on my doorstep here in southern Sweden.
Good job I’m wheat intolerant…
352744+ up ticks,
Afternoon AS,
May one ask can the United kingdoms political brig ade be trusted to use their loaf wisely?
If you use Unleaded E10 petrol, just siphon some off and use it to make your porridge!
352744+ up ticks,
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RED is the colour of my party flag
In the morning when we rise
In the morning when we rise
That’s the time, that’s the time
I love the best.
Do the lab/lib/con members / voters realise when they achieve our affiliated members
stance with the chinks that PT is at 6 am 24/7 for ALL.
EU and UK Academics Collaborated with China’s Military on Thousands of Next-Gen Projects: Report
Operation Chariot succeeded because it was unthinkable. 21 May 2022.
More importantly, the St Nazaire raid was intended to show Britain’s allies, enemies and indeed her own people that she was not finished yet. It is easy now to forget how poorly Britain’s war seemed to be going in early 1942. After two years of non-stop defeats and disasters, the rampages of the Axis powers across the globe appeared unstoppable. The USSR seemed likely to be forced out of the war before the USA could get into it, and Singapore’s tame surrender a few weeks earlier had made it look as if British troops could not, and perhaps would not, fight. Chariot was as much a media event as an operation of war, designed to capture the headlines. It worked: ‘Splendid success: scene of blazing destruction,’ trumpeted the Times the next day. The world of communications and spin is one which Whittell, himself an experienced journalist, knows well; and this is the section of his book that sings, even as it reminds us that war is always, as Clausewitz famously wrote, a deeply political act.
It was all in vain. Their courage and sacrifice was wasted. They and the country they served were betrayed as they are being sold out now.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/operation-chariot-succeeded-because-it-was-unthinkable
The grain in Ukraine
Falls mainly down the drain!
N.O.Flowerday
Ape takes an analytical approach to scientist seeking palliative treatment for Monkeypox:
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https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a7f669564b6c6bf1e10b88871844127ffd80b7c84fa32c9998fc0707843eea80.png Troops in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment make sure they are looking their best before the Major General’s Review of Trooping the Colour. Today’s event on Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, is a prelude to the Queen’s Birthday Parade on June 2, when celebrations for the Platinum Jubilee begin. The soldiers were photographed in the kit room of their barracks in Knightsbridge.
For the information of the muppet writing this “report”: there are TWO mounted regiments in the household cavalry. One is the Royal Horseguards (the “Blues and Royals”) who wear a dark blue tunic; and the other is the Lifeguards (pictured here) who wear a red tunic. What happened to the days when reporters and editors at the Daily Telegraph checked their facts before publishing?
Sorry, Grizz – you are out of date:
In 1945, following the end of the Second World War, the 1st and 2nd Household Cavalry Regiments were reformed as the Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards respectively. Along with these changes, each regiment provided one mounted squadron each for ceremonial duties in London. These two squadrons were grouped as the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.
I based what I said above, Billy, on the advice of two friends who were both former Lifeguards. They have always assured me that not only are the two regiments (Blues & Royals and Lifeguards) still fiercely independent, but they also still each retain their separate identities (and uniforms), notwithstanding the new information you have just provided.
The regiments may still exist as separate entities – but the squadron provided by each combine to form the HCMR.
Gotcha!
Those lads (if they ARE lads, of course – apologies if they are otherwise) do look about 14!!
I’m not suggesting you are old Bill, but it used to be said that we were getting old when the police started looking young.
I have recently begun wondering how come the Catholic priests are so young.
“You are old, Father William….”
“In my youth,” said the sage,” I took to the law
And argued each point with my wife
And the muscular strength that it gave to my jaw
Has lasted the whole of my life.”
Blooming Poppy
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Can you smoke its products?
Yes.
Shirley not?
That’s a beauty, Phizz.
It looks like a good year for poppies.
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Mine (apart from one orange and a couple of yellow ones) aren’t out yet.
Which NOTTLers took in Ukrainian refugees again?
https://twitter.com/TheFreds/status/1527974761577447426
What an exceedingly unpleasant man – and the “refugee”, too.
To the title Von der Leyen and Biden have already evoked coming hunger in the US and the EU so it seems that they are intent on not preventing it.
And they can then blame Putin.
At some point these people will be strung up, but I don’t think we are there yet.
From bad to worse.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10840119/Labor-Anthony-Albanese-previously-backed-remove-Queen-head-state-in.html
How much more dim can the ozzies get?
Bad year on the climate front.
Anthony Albanese? What party is he? The Cosa Nostra?
Might be an improvement? [The cosy nostril, that is]
Poor working-class, “single” mother, hard done by – typical woke leftie.
More on this in the DT today.
Australia crying out for change, says poll favourite.
THE narrow favourite to become Australia’s new prime minister gave a tearful speech as he called on voters to put an end to almost a decade of conservative rule in today’s elections.
Anthony Albanese, the opposition Labor leader, is tipped to win the general election despite Scott Morrison’s Liberal-led ruling coalition narrowing the gap in recent weeks.
Labor has a two-party preferred lead of 53-47, which would allow it to form a majority government if the figures were duplicated today, according to the latest Newspoll, commissioned by The Weekend Australian.
The party got an unexpected boost yesterday after a leak alleged the government rejected a proposal to double Australian aid spending in the Pacific to counter Chinese influence, because it was too expensive. This year, it emerged Beijing had struck a controversial security pact with the Solomon Islands.
Mr Morrison yesterday brushed off the leak and the polls, saying: “What I’ve demonstrated over these last three years – not everybody’s agreed with me and not everybody likes me – but that’s not the point.”
If successful, Mr Albanese, 59, would cap a career working up from a parliamentary researcher to deputy prime minister in the Rudd government.
During his speech in Adelaide, he fought back tears as he recalled his working-class childhood growing up in a Sydney council house with a single mother on a disability support pension – a background he has regularly cited as an inspiration for his Left-leaning politics.
“It says a lot about this country that someone from those beginnings can stand before you today, hoping to be elected prime minister of this country tomorrow,” he said.
What I’d like to know is this: Why does Australia have a (putative) two-party system that seems to be a choice of Left-wing and … er … Left-wing?
In the UK both Labor [sic] and Liberal would be on the Left side of the pendulum. Don’t the Aussies want anything central of a bit more to the Right?
Also, why do the Aussies seem hell-bent on becoming a plastic version of the Yanks: spelling ‘Labor’ in such a retarded way and adopting the Dollar as their currency?
Grow some, Ockers, and retain your independence!
I was surprised by how willingly they took to the Covid restrictions and how vicious the government was in enforcing them.
I suspect there is also a tendency for most Aussies to regard themselves as working class and err to be socialist as a result.
The bit that gets my goat is this:
If it was in my power, I would ban anyone from entering politics as a career until they were at least 40 and had worked in the private sector for at least 20 years, or if they worked in the public sector it should be at the “coal face”, front line medics, Services, police, road workers etc..
I couldn’t agree more.
There should be minimum and maximum age requirements, also extensive experience outside politics and political administration, including in non-govt / private industry before you can even sign up for election.
League 1 Play-off Final at Wembley – Wycombe v Sunderland. Wycombe players went down on one knee before kick-off, Sunderland players remained standing.
Come on the Black Cats!
Well good on the makems, but as a Geordie I can’t support them!
Would you support the Smoggies?
Well, I met my old man in Thornaby….
Why aye, bonny lass (just practising my Geordie – there’s not much demand for it in leafy Surrey)…
Well good on the makems, but as a Geordie I can’t support them!
Work-shy Britain is in the throes of an existential crisis. 21 May 2022.
There was a time when what you did for a living was about something more than simply the money you earned. It was one of the things that gave a sense of personal identity, purpose and context to your life. Children were asked what they “wanted to be” when they grew up because that was thought to be one of the key sources of a sense of self.
You may be thinking that this was just a middle class indulgence: that only those from affluent, educated families had the luxury of choosing an occupation. But working class life also conferred a strong sense of shared identity through work: the brotherhood of coal miners and the shipbuilders of the Clyde made that very clear when their industries were being shut down.
The rewards of working at the lower level are now so marginal that it is hardly worth the effort. Better to sign on and get something on the side. If you have children (the high immigrant birth rate is not accidental) your income would be reduced so do nothing at all!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/21/work-shy-britain-grip-existential-crisis/
“Children were asked what they “wanted to be” when they grew up”.
Nobody ever asked me…..no pressure.
So, what do you want to be when you grow up, Plum?
A sherry taster.
I don’t intend to grow up…..Geoff
Good answer, Plum.
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I’m too old to grow up now. Old dogs, new tricks, that kind of thing.
It took me a long time to accept the aging process….slowing down is anathema to me.
I’m a Sagitarian sign of speed and fire
Crab, me.
I hate slowing down. But I’m about all used up, TBH. Maybe, like an old lightbulb, there’ll be a sudden burst of light before BLINK! and I’m done.
I’m hoping it will be painless…..a big ask.
Not for a long time, I hope, Plum.
In any case, an opportunity to catch up with old friends in Valhall!
https://youtu.be/GxOSqSUgNzE
Me too, Plum…
(It was an open goal…)
Peter Plum eh?
The problem that the UK has created for itself is that the marginal benefits are so low for the effort involved.
Why work when 40 hours labour might only leave you a few quid better off?
A rather productive morning.
One small mix of concrete done and used to fill the void between the concrete blocks and the stone facing of the wall, then a load of mortar mixed and the wall advanced a small amount!
And I’ve just had a very enjoyable dinner of steak & onion pie with potato wedges and mushy peas.
I feel very tearful after reading that,but I have heard similar stories so many times ..
No one in the NHS cares sufficienty enough .
GP’s only treat little bits of us .. They don’t diagnose the whole by going through bits and pieces . They study their computors and say here we are that’s it , when all we want to do is discuss our real pain and anxieties . and our symptons .
A phone call diagnosis is not good enough.
“There is no other system in the world, for instance, which has a universal system for rating hospitals and therefore for making useful comparisons.”
How typical of the NHS. They can compare hospitals (Whoop de doo), but not cure people. Maybe that’s the advantage of a huge administration?
This capability is sustained by an army of clerks and statisticians compiling statistics on every aspect of everything. When I worked in the NHS Accounts department there was a monthly delivery of statistics to the office. The stack of A4 paper, each a spreadsheet in tiny print, was 2 inches thick and was immediately filed uread.
When I was an internal auditor in one of the big banks I once looked at what was being produced by the printing machines and asked who was receiving all the reams of paper and then asking the recipients what they did with all the reports produced.
I doubt that even 10% of the guff was even looked at, let alone examined and anomalies followed up. What was even more annoying was that a lot of the recipients didn’t even know the reports were available and were either binned before receipt or merely filed. The waste was appalling and the work was pointless.
Many of the reports were “compliance” requirements, ie done to show they had been done.
Doctor, 85, who lied about his age to land an NHS job faces jail after he admitted the manslaughter of a patient, 48, who died during a routine bone marrow sample procedure
Dr Isyaka Mamman behind botched bone marrow test on Shahida Parveen
The doctor, 85, had given false dates to appear under age 65, GMC had heard
Ms Parveen, 48, collapsed and died and police launched a probe into events
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10839031/NHS-doctor-lied-age-land-job-faces-jail-admitting-manslaughter.html
Oh how sad.
And nobody thought to check his identity papers, which would have his DoB on it… all those administrtors not bothering to administrate, like the medics not bothering to medic. Bah!
Thanks for posting.
I was going to treat myself to a D.Telegraph today….
£3.50 for a friggin’ newspaper …..WTF!
Fear not – you can read about the self-obsessed divorcee and her dating “problems”.
Didn’t you know, it’s inflation caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
…and I thought it was Brexit or Covid…!
Follow Grizz’s example and subscribe to Pressreader.com (£27 per month). Telegraph and lots of mags availavable to read cover to cover….
Check – my library offers a free subscription to Pressreader
After the nation clapping them and some blithering idiot giving it a medal, this Godzilla of health care will never be able to be reformed. So, it needs broken up and sold off. There will be no other way to improve it, let alone fix it.
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The economy is in tatters, society is fragmenting, the lights are about to go out and food is about to run out and still there are those BLT who think that Johnson’s parties-that-weren’t-parties are a crime against humanity.
There are many justifications for running the fat oaf out of town but this isn’t one of them.
Nobody gives a tom tit about either cake or curry,we care that these bastards KNEW the virus was no real threat as shown by their actions yet stlll locked us down tried to mandatory jab us and destroyed the economy anyway
May they all burn in hell
I had a “conversation” a while ago with a newcomer to Nottle who would not be persuaded that the Government and its experts made an utter mess of it all.
I’m willing to help them reach that location.
Who gives a FK…?
” Imagine the verdict of history if we had destabilised the leadership of Ukraine’s main international ally just as it was invaded,…”
Actually, being any kind of ally at all to the Ukraine has plunged the UK into a desperately dangerous situation. As a prominent member of NATO we are the catspaw of the USA and at the mercy of any insanity perpetrated by Turkey.
We should have been robust in our rejection of any assistance to the Ukraine by word or deed. We might have been inclined to offer mediation with a view to bringing about an end the Russian incursion. Instead we supplied, arms, medical aid, and money to the Ukraine government, a bunch of reckless touregs whom we might reasonably despise in any normal Universe.
Good afternoon, We,- none of us who have enjoyed the measured intelligence of our glorious media for the last two years, – can readily be convinced that there is a real threat of monkeypox loose upon the world. Robt. Malone puts it succinctly:
“In my opinion, based on currently available information, Monkeypox is a virus and disease which is endemic in Africa, emerges sporadically after
transmission into humans from animal hosts, and is typically spread by close human contact. It is readily controlled by classical public health measures. It does not have a high mortality rate. Unless there has been some genetic alteration, either through evolution or intentional genetic manipulation, it is not a significant biothreat, and has never been considered a high threat pathogen in the past”
The real monkeys are in the WHO and the pox which threatens us is the corruption of Mr Schwab and his globalist friends.
Nottlers may find this timely summary of the Virus Outrage useful – Rappoport has been an expert on the US public health cartel since, as my dear father used to say, Pontius was a pilot….
https://www.tarableu.com/as-the-war-narrative-pushers-fail-lets-recap-on-the-virus/
If I were to put a slight caveat on this, it is the fact that this time it appears to have manifested itself in a group that don’t worry too much about sexually transmitted diseases. I hope the world has learned the lessons of HIV.
What, is the group you refer to a group called certain (minority) Africans? They don’t care what they inflict upon a civilised world – just look at that awful “Dr” Shola Mos-Shogga. Or George Floyd’s black (and now multi-property owning) opportunists? Or many of the others who are just trouble – both inside and outside Africa.
No.
They might contribute, but by and large they kept it to Africa.
It’s gay, swinging, fuckwahatever’savailable males and to a lesser extent females.
Full-blown panic on the cbc. They have given up on claims that there is no known cure but are now hyping the entire population is susceptible to monkeypox.
Let me guess mask mandates and travel restrictions for the peasants, meanwhile Trudeau will be maskless and strutting his fancy dress socks at Davos.
Surely Turdeau, liking it up the arse, is more likely to be infected than most? Or have I misunderstood?
OT – funny thing. Neighbour has a tiny plot – about 25 yards by 25 yards. He grows unusual plants. He has a website but really depends on word of mouth.
Last night a beeboid gardening prog mentioned a variety called “Persicaria”. Neighbour grows them. By bedtime last night he had sold £400 worth!!
Right chuffed.
You do know that you can get ointment for persicaria? Just saying.
Japanese Knotweed is lethal and spreads like mad , Bill.
Different animal, Mags.
There are many varieties of Persicaria.
It may not be good for your garden, but it is certainly not lethal!
https://www.grit.com/food/how-to-prepare-cook-japanese-knotwood-zm0z1811zcoo/
Do you smoke it or snort it, Bill ?
Apart from tobacco, I have never smoked ANYTHING. Or snorted. And I gave tobacco up on 23 October 1968.
OT – I have felt grotty for the last six weeks, and have had very serious nosebleeds two or three times a week.
I had assumed that this was a side effect of blood thinning tablets. It fact it was CAUSED by the blood thinner tablets
Stopped them yesterday – feeling brighter today than for, er, six weeks.
Sounds like the dosage was too high. Sue the Doctor.
Nah – he was doing his best.
He has my sympathy, dealing with such a cantankerous an old fogey must be a real challenge.
I changed doctors a few years ago, from a nice, really good-looking young lady with no patient-handling skills whatever to a late middle-aged Danish lady who knew how to manage cantankerous old gits like me. Went with her when she changed practice, as well. She was damned good.
“She was” – is she no longer damned good?
Returned to Denmark, sadly. A bit too far for a consultation.
We have recently “fallen on our feet” here.
Our very good GP retired, was replaced by a younger man who was also good, but his wife didn’t settle so he returned to Belgium.
The other doctors in the practice were unable to take on new patients but the receptionist pointed us in the direction of a recent arrival, a young woman.
It turns out that she’s half English! She’s from one of the best medical schools in France, is incredibly proactive and takes her time to see each patient for as long as necessary.
I seldom see the doctor, HG is a more frequent visitor, but when I do, I get a very thorough MoT.
To get an appointment one phones her mobile number, usually she answers but if not ,she returns the call as soon as she’s free, ALWAYS on the same day, and the longest I’ve for an appointment is a few days, but only because I said it wasn’t urgent. HG was seen same day when she had a problem.
NHS? Pah!
Did you check with the medics? Stopping that kind of medication can have unfortunate side-effects…
Of course. I told Dr Excellent (who saved my life in Aug 2020) and he agreed.
I only lasted about a week on those aceinhibitor drugs. Minor side effects like falling over persuaded them that they had overdone this blood pressure reduction thing.
You’ve had the equivalent of being bled without the presence of a ‘doctor’!
Leeches R us?
Good to hear, Bill. KBO.
I know from experience, Bill, that if I stopped my warfarin, I would have another massive heart attack (Myocardial Infarction MCI) that would probably kill me.
I sometimes wonder if now is the time.
It isn’t, Tom.
Children as young as three months old may be racially biased, council claims
Poster shared by Islington Council says that ‘by five, white children are strongly biased in favour of whiteness’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/21/children-young-three-months-old-may-racially-biased-council/
Islington council, so I’m not surprised they are propounding this tripe. It would be funny if it weren’t so evil.
Tw@ter comment made:-
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1528051746135842816
We are tribal and the liberal @rseholes just keep fostering discord as a matter of course..
It’s the same Islington that Jeremy Corbyn obviously wanted to be seen shagging a black woman in…well it was the vogue at that time to have “a spade chick on your arm” – quote told me by someone who was (very unhappily) married to one.
It’s the same Islington that Jeremy Corbyn obviously wanted to be seen shagging a black woman in…well it was the vogue at that time to have “a spade chick on your arm” – quote told me by someone who was (very unhappily) married to one.
It’s the same Islington that Jeremy Corbyn obviously wanted to be seen shagging a black woman in…well it was the vogue at that time to have “a spade chick on your arm” – quote told me by someone who was (very unhappily) married to one.
I’m waiting for the Islington poster that says that ‘by five, Black children are strongly biased in favour of Blackness.’ Note, I even capitalised the ‘b’ word, which is something that is never accorded to those beginning with ‘
Wsorry, w’It would be interesting to hear what perverted test they use to determine racial bias in a three month old.
And, if that is the case, black children won’t be biased in favour of blackness though, will they?
Ah well, racism only works one way.
I had this conversation last weekend. Friend (and ex-partner) Dianne’s youngest has an Asian girlfriend. At D’s birthday weekend, he said he was reluctant to attend, since all us ‘old, Brexit supporting racists’ wouldn’t be able to refrain from asking his GF ‘where she came from’. The answer, dear reader, is Bradford. A lovely girl, who frankly deserves better. So all his family have met, and liked, her. Her family refuse to meet him. Who are the racists in this situation, I wonder?
HAPPY HOUR –
Do you ever ask yourselves NoTTlers WTF are we doing here….?
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Not watching tv
Growing Trombetti.
Indulging in a déjà vu Groundhog Day, every day, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
More like Ground-down Day every day…. 🙁
Every day. Frankly, I’ve created a monster that would do Mary Shelley proud. But it seems to play an important part in many Nottler’s lives. So that’s OK with me.
It does, and I suspect you’re a lifeline to many.
On this planet or on Nottl? I never ask myself what I’m doing on Nottl 🙂
This seems a good idea, after all we’ve got lots of spare kit and a really healthy economy, so there should be no problems? [/sarc]
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Well, we could get rid of the tanks that don’t work.
And they can use weapons that aren’t steam driven? Is the US OK with giving away high tech defence equipment? Is Russia threatening Moldova?
It’s the trans Nistrians that are the problem. They mulled over their diversity inclinations and decided against being too ethnic. Putin it simply they are rushin to be different.
What about the cis Nistrians?
Are Nistrians commonly trans? Asking for a friend.
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We can’t even stop a cross-channel invasion and Truss is proposing that we give away weapons?
Can they even point to Moldova on a map?
There is something very ironic about Ms Truss, but I strive to avoid personal remarks.
Don’t give them weapons. Sell them. If we can sell weapons to practically any nation in the middle east selling to Moldova is irrelevant.
Re cakegate – that Carrion has been VERY, VERY quiet lately.
I do hope she is not repenting at leisure….
She was living up to her nickname of ‘Carrie Antoinette’ by saying ‘let them eat cake’.
“Marry in Hastings, repent at St Leonards.”
She’s been found out and is hiding at Rebekah Vardy’s house.
I do hope that she is – but leisure to be taken away from that bint.
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That’s why your car comes back from a service with dents in it.
Bit of an unfair test. To the dog that ball may as well be in slow motion.
Heck, they’re brains are designed to trace fast moving objects.
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Shocking that the chap isn’t WEARING that mask.
He’s wearing it as a bracelet.
Initially, I thought it was a very dim policeman trying to arrest the stone for loitering.
The Jocks had a purple patch in that part of the 14th century due to England being ruled by a useless and clueless clown in Edward II. Had that idiot’s much more intelligent father (Edward I) or son (Edward III) been in charge, then there would have been a far different story to tell.
Edward II: the ineffectual Charles Philip Arthur George of the 14th century.
Apparently, Edward II was a keen gardener, being especially fond of red hot pokers:-
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About right for the SNP! 700 years too late, long after anyone has noticed, probably cost hundreds of millions.
Only 1645 counts in my book – and 1707 when they sold Scotland to England.
Where’s Philip (The Little Chef!)?
I’ve just made my first ever pink gin and I’m disappointed that it’s not pink. More of a rusty orange! It is quite delicious though.
Comfort food tonight for supper. Lamb’s liver and bacon in onion gravy with colcannon and mushy peas! Yum!
I thought you only ate a meal at lunchtine……..
I think he regards each meal as the “one a day”….!!
I do. Sunday to Friday. Unfortunately Saturday supper is the Swedish equivalent of the Sunday roast in the UK. I have to follow tradition and have my one meal at suppertime on a Saturday.
You make your own Angustura? Cool…{:¬))
I’m a bitter man! 😛
Did you leave the bitters in or out.? Liked a pinkers when we ran out of tonic.
Just iced gin and angostura bitters. I didn’t know you could have a pink gin without the bitters.
Gordon’s make pink Gin. Not sure if it has any bitters. Just berries to colour it.
3 or 4 drops of bitters. You can swirl them round the glass and then pour them out, or leave them in .In depends on your taste. When you orderd a Pinka you would be asked, in or out by the steward.
Gin & angostura? Or tonic added??
Lemonade and angostura is good – takes away the sweetness.
No tonic nor ice, Paul.
In that case, I’d want the gin at least to have been in the fridge first. WArm spirits don’t do it for me, unless they are malts.
I keep gin in the fridge. Except it just ran out. 18yo Ledaig is safely in the cupboard.
I always keep my gin in the freezer, Paul.
I’d keep vodka in the freezer, but gin in’t fridge – gin is supposed to taste of something, and freezing it would kill that. Imho.
Nah! It still tastes very well. I don’t use vodka for anything. The only other spirits I drink (all unchilled) are malt whisky, cognac, armagnac, calvados and tequila.
I like spiced rum. Warm. Limoncello from the fridge – although a few years ago, we had several bottled from the freezer north of Turin – the barman boozed, would open a bottle and drink about a 1/3, then give the rest to Firstborn & me… Hic!
But vodka is good to give an alcoholic burst to other flavours.
Any whisky, Paul, is best left OUT of the fridge and is best with either sparkling water or soda – no ice.
All the ice does is kill the smell, which is OK if you like the taste but not the ‘bouquet.’
That explains your ‘rusty orange’, Griz.
Without tonic (or water) , you will not experience the characteristic, ‘Pink Gin’ colour …
Thanks, Lacoste. I’m now off to make another one, this time with some Fever Tree tonic.
Report: Yup, that’s more of a pink. I have to say, I’m a convert!
Good, Griz; however in my sailing days, I much preferred gin & tonic …
Cheers!
Lamb’s liver is already like pate so you may as well eat it raw !
Did you use angostura bitters in the gin? I bet you made it wrong.
I don’t cook the lamb’s liver, I simply warm it through in the gravy.
For the pink gin, I keep both the Hendrick’s gin and the glass I drink it from in the freezer. I swirled a few drops of angostura bitters around the glass before adding the gin. Was that wrong enough?
It certainly was. Though Hendrick’s is very good you are supposed to use a sweet Gin like Plymouth for a pink Gin. Be told !!!
Sweet?? ukk. Dry gin is better.
Yes. It is in many ways. But not with bitters. To make a pink Gin one has to follow the sailor tradition or it’s just….not the real McCoy.
I stand corrected.
I would sit down if i were you !
He’s wearing a truss – no, not her.
Agreed – and with the Angostura ‘out’
BA used to offer Tanqueray or Gordons.
I liked the Tanqueray.
I knew I had become a genuine frequent flyer when the stewardesses on the Athens run started to ask: ” your usual?”
Excellent. Strangely enough i got similar on Ryanair to Malta.
I think that some medium, rather than very short “runs” have the same crews.
Or the same frame of mind.
As i would have the same seat each time i met the same people. Ended up being invited to their home for supper.
We can’t all afford private jets like you…
I’m told!
I just saw this as a precis of something in the Express (but I don’t have a link). It makes me hopping mad!
Royal family ‘open up their homes’ to Ukrainian refugees
The Royal Family has joined thousands of Britons offering refuge to Ukrainians almost three months after Russia invaded their country.
As well as making extensive cash donations and publicly supporting charity appeals, members of the Royal Family are understood to be providing accommodation for refugees from the East European nation.
But the identity of the royals involved and those they are helping remains unclear. Members of the Royal Family are working behind the scenes on a number of projects and want to keep their contribution private.
Buckingham Palace, which in March said the Royal Household was looking at a number of ways to offer practical help and support to Ukrainians, has declined to elaborate.
Virtue signalling hypocrites – how about the veterans in this country, who have fought and often been traumatised in wars our ridiculous governments have taken us into??? We have nothing – I repeat NOTHING – to do with the Ukraine.
The Tower of London?
But do you think we can really believe it?
IMO people who offer strangers a place in their home are stark staring mad.
It will be a grace and favour, not one of their homes, that’s for sure. It isn’t as though they are short of property.
Either way, they didn’t shout about it, and until someone leaked it, who knew?
“Homes” are rather different for the Royals. It’s not where they live themselves – but I find the whole thing so distasteful. They are not helping their own people.
“Homes” are rather different for the Royals. It’s not where they live themselves – but I find the whole thing so distasteful. They are not helping their own people.
That no one was told about it is important though.
Odd thing – modern names for things. Apparently women over the age of 16 likes to be address as “Ms” As do molder women who work under their maiden name rather than a married on.
In the recent Wagathong (sic) both parties were referred to – and referred to each other – as Mrs Vardy or Mrs Rooney.
However, both the DT and The Grimes call each Ms Vardy or Ms Rooney.
I just wonder sometimes what is going on….
They weaponise their married names and want to look on trend with the Ms’s. They are both as bad as each other.
No – Vardy is 1000 times worse.
In 2014, whilst working as a nightclub promoter, Vardy met the footballer Jamie Vardy.[13][14] They married on 25 May 2016 at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire.[15] Vardy has five children: a daughter, Megan (born 2005); a son, Taylor (born 2010), with footballer Luke Foster; and daughter Sofia (born 2014), son Finlay (born 2017) and daughter Olivia Grace (born 2019) with current husband Jamie Vardy. She is also stepmother to Jamie’s daughter, Ella, from a previous relationship.[16] Vardy’s father, Carlos Miranda, was born in Madeira, making Vardy half-Portuguese.
She has been around abit .
Clucking bell. I didn’t have that energy when I was her age.
Nice venue, Peckforton Castle – not cheap!
There is quite a lot of backing to phase out Mrs and Miss and just have one title (Ms) for yer married and unmarried women like wot males have.
That’s me for this very much better day. It is quite a change to feel relatively normal.
Have a jolly evening.
A demain.
Normal….WTF is that…?
How would Bill kno?
Normal for Norfolk.
Good news.
Strewth, Bill, I wish I could start to feel better but that’s (shitty) life.
Who’d have thunk it……
Father-of-two leaves wife for Ukrainian refugee who moved in to family home.
A FATHER-of-two has left his partner of ten years to pursue a new life with a Ukrainian refugee the couple hosted in their home.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1613888/ukraine-news-tony-garnett-sofiia-karkadym-bradford-yorkshire-refugee-partner-ten-years
I never understood the term ‘Feckless’ because he probably isn’t right now….
Mid life crisis seems to be happening earlier and earlier.
Not so sure, Phil. There are a few in these Surrey parts who have chosen to have a midlife crisis in their 70s and 80s. At least I had the decency to pass a bike test and buy a 600 Hornet when I reached 50…
I wanted to have a mid life crisis but I just ended up getting angry.
I suggested to the Warqueen that i trade her in for a younger model. She looked me up and down and said the only younger model who’d have me is a Lego model.
There are some fantastic Lego models out there these days!
I got a Lego set from my son (aged 6) one Xmas – apparently he overheard me telling my wife that I wanted it
It’s a serious business – bricking it!
I was just thinking of digging out my train set from 66 years ago and putting it on display…
Lego Technix set for 6-y.o nephew went down a treat!
Strict instructions to let Daddy play with it as well.
I got a Lego set from my son (aged 6) one Xmas – apparently he overheard me telling my wife that I wanted it
I just think that people now treat relationships and marriage as if they were on an extended holiday then decided they wanted to go home.
They expend too much effort and money on the wedding and never consider the marriage.
One thousand up-votes, Conners.
It is all about the wedding today. There doesn’t seem to be a word in French for ‘wedding’. It is all about the marriage, everything happens within that word, it is not separate. Having said that, most French people we met in France had embarked upon their second marriage and were surprised to find we were still on our first. However, we did not have a ‘wedding’ as such. But we did have a marriage, and here we still are, nearly 42 years later.
Great to hear PM
La noce is what they use for the ceremony (civil at the mairie first and religious afterwards if the couple want). We didn’t have a big wedding, either, but our marriage lasted 42 years.
Oh, I so agree, Connors. A niece and her fiancé spent over £60,000 on their wedding and then parted within a year – what a waste, of both money, effort and life.
I had mine in my 40’s. Is this all there is? Is there nothing more? Then i packed my overnight bag and went. Party party party. Then came to my senses.
This evening?
Well done…
Are you Peggy Lee? I always hated that song.
I didn’t like it either. So bleak and without hope, no spirituality.
Partner or wife? There is a difference.
And his wife/partner thought they had found a cheap au pair…
Australian election 2022: Labor’s Anthony Albanese claims victory over Scott Morrison
Mr Albanese says Australians have ‘voted for change’ as he is set to lead the first Labor government in nearly a decade
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/05/21/vote-us-migrant-boats-will-come-says-australias-liberal-last/
It’ll be just as bad…
Worse.
It’s the revenge of the electorate for a very heavy handed pro-Covid measures government. The Labour Party will I sure revenge itself on the electorate for daring to trust them with power…
It is Ardern in trousers.
Ah, the Garden of Ardern – lots of poisonous snakes….
It shouldn’t matter who is in office. That person could be a demented communist, a tax and waste spendaholic and as soono as they lift a finger we, the public say no, you’ll only be permitted to spend this much, on this thing and nothing more.
A budget, if offereed can be refused in part or in whole and sent back until it contains policies we want. Any law can be repealed and stopped at any point, for any reason and should MPs get uppity and think to hide legislation – bang. Foreiture of income and prison for a period of time we set.
That, folks, is a democracy. It’s something we’re not familiar with in this country – or most western nations.
Is that loose change?
To brighten the lives of “older” NoTTLers – my mate Henri – aged 71 – at 11,168 ft – all his own unaided work…..
A great guy – fit, and funny and always interested in anything new. A wonderful friend.
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Is he married?
If he’s French forget it….
He is married to the girl he met on day one at primary school
Presumably they didn’t hit it off immediately, met later and then fell in lurve.
Good for them, heart-warming.
Henri tells me that even at age 7 he knew that Thérèse was the one for him!
HG and I were 17, positively ancient by that measure!
His teacher? The French do have form for that.
Ah, welcome back, molamola. When I posted about my looking at old films you suggested I watch THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1920 version). As I had not seen the much later (1992) one with Daniel Day Lewis as Hawkeye nor read the book, I found it to be really interesting with the untrustworthy Huron scout leading the two sisters astray. Then I remembered that as a youngster I watched a 39 episode TV series called Hawkeye and the last of the Mohicans with John Hart as Hawkeye and Lon Chaney Junior as Chingachcook the Mohican (not called that name in the 1920 film), all 39 episodes of which are available on YouTube. I am currently watching a few episodes every evening after my main YouTube film and so far have seen just under half of them. The very first episode is a cut-down 30 minute version of the film you recommended and follows the historical events pretty closely.
But every other episode is pure fiction and resembles very much the Long Ranger series, where the masked man (with his Indian friend Tonto) rides into a different town every week and manages to discover who the real baddy is and brings justice to an incorrectly accused victim. Great fun, so thanks for the recommendation.
You’re very welcome, Elsie.
I’ve not seen the film but the music is one of the best tunes I’ve ever heard especially when played on the bagpipes or uillean pipes
I remember watching Hawkeye and Chingachgook when I was nobbut a nipper.
“Hawkeye: the first of the long rifles, with his blood brother, Chingachgook: the last of the mohicans.”
In the 1920 film, Grizzly, (good morning, by the way) the last Mohican was not called Chingachcook but something like Silver Eagle. In the TV series I vividly remember noticing that in one episode the background music was identical to that used for NO HIDING PLACE with Raymond Francis as Detective boss Lockhart. I have yet to see that episode, although there was a hint of it for an extremely brief moment in Episode 1. I shall report back if and when I see the episode in question.
Good morning, Auntie Elsie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k21P8Zu5uCY
Is he married?
If he’s French forget it….
Cool!
Must have been hard work carrying that up unaided.
It’s a cross he has to bear, Bob.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/015c5e8b8cf81b7359f2f3152dccc8244fb9e0e056c9d620eda7ceda366ff0be.jpg “Gladly”, my cross-eyed bear.
You beat me to it! 😂
Wiki on pink gin.
A typical pink gin is one part gin and one dash of angostura bitters.
Though there are no major variations of pink gin, many bartenders vary the amount of angostura bitters used. Typically the drink is topped up with iced water, rarely without water.
A bartender may ask customers whether they want it “in or out”,
upon which the bartender swirls the angostura bitters around the glass
before either leaving it in, or pouring it out (leaving only a residue),
and then adding the gin.
It is also common for pink gin to be served as ‘pink gin and
tonic’, typically consisting of 4 dashes of angostura bitters and 2
shots of gin, which is then topped up with tonic water. This is served in a highball glass over ice, and then can be garnished with lemon.[7]
Cedric Charles Dickens (great-grandson of Charles Dickens) records in Drinking With Dickens
that a ‘Burnt Pink Gin’ consists of 1 tsp Angostura set afire by
heating over a flame and then poured into a large tot of dry gin, adding
cold water to taste.[8]
Henri doesn’t need the use of a hypobaric chamber.
Evening, all. The headline letter writer should stop drinking the Bbc Koolade and start looking at the bigger picture world-wide.
Joy.
Monkeypox in Oslo now.
And what has Oslo got a lot of?
Socialists and greens.
Os
Loos.
I woner how long before the arrival of Poli-Pox?
I have quite a few of those in my garden. Oops, I misread your post, I thought you were saying Holly-Hocks. Lolo.
I woner how long before the arrival of Poli-Pox?
It is sure getting around.
Two of our doctors have found they were in contact with a patient with MP on Tuesaday and have been told they have to isolate for a month.
talking of inflation – a short while ago….
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BTL:
John Willis
When I read ‘religiously and ethnically diverse’ it’s code for ‘get as far away as you can’.
Dub Ster
When anyone holds up areas like Luton and Watford as ‘British multicultural’ success stories, then I’m sorry but you’ve totally missed the point. Those places are neither representative of Britain, nor British culture. They’re places where white British people are often in the minority, traditional British culture is at the bottom of the pile and crime rates are often much higher than the rest of the country.
Whilst the planet hosts many different people’s and cultures – many that deserve respect, it is the British culture that is under threat and if the future of the Tories is to encourage more overseas cultures to settle Britain and push out the native cultural norms, then they certainly won’t be winning a majority anytime soon.
Jimmy Boy
I used to live in Milton Keynes and liked it. It’s still better than most British towns but I’m afraid it’s gone downhill over the last 20 years along with the rest of the country, for the same reasons. I know I’m supposed to celebrate it but I’m afraid that flies in the face of experience.
Canute Turner
I’ve no idea what it’s like to live there, but the never ending series of roundabouts as one tries to drive through the place can cause mild PTSD.
Do people still make jokes about the roundabouts in MK? Jesus!
I miscounted several times when driving through unfamiliar parts of the wretched place.
NEVER turn off into an estate, thinking there’s a quick way through. There isn’t. You have to go round.
Wait until you’ve gone round them a time or two, three four or maybe more times…. they go on forever.
Yo pm
Watch out for the cows!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/nintchdbpict000076250598-e1485163999781.jpg?w=660
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2681266/milton-keynes-concrete-cows-where-are-they/
There are also herd of these in Rouen on a roundabout, as one exits for the route to the south.
WTF else is there to do in MK???
I had to drive through Milton Keynes on a trip to Buckingham last year. The roundabouts are one thing but far worse is the speed of those approaching the roundabouts. It is a nightmare and no joke.
I worked for a time with the original planners of Milton Keynes. They envisaged a Roman style grid of roads as if a net were dropped over a rolling landscape. Regrettably, the top of the hill was levelled in order to provide the modern Central Area and the rest is history. Just repetitive, lacking spatial identity and boring.
Do people still make jokes about the roundabouts in MK? Jesus!
Goodnight, all.
Good night, Conners – and Oscar.
Yo Elsie
Are you aiming to be FILO? First In Last Out
You got it in one, OLT.
I’m still here as well, Elsie.
Good night to you and all gentle NoTTLing folk and may God Bless you.
Just for a change to get away from the old ‘Pale, stale and male composers’ never let it be said that Nottl wasn’t open to diversity:
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPSeFQiJT14&t=1085s
Well done Sue!
Are you referring to the turves?
Surprisingly perhaps, track 8 is a tango with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra…
Good night, everyone. Sleep well.
Good night.
Night night, Elsie.
Just before bed, a picture of The Wall as it was in March:-
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Now one of today’s pictures. The concrete base has been extended and the big slab that formed the end of the lower part of the wall is now top centre of the picture:-
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Looking along the work done:-
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A bit of rock, at least 1cwt, waiting to be lifted into place.
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And a slightly small bit waiting to be cemented in as one of the top slabs.
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I mentioned shifting the rock pile t’other day, this is that rock pile. Laid out along the top wall ready for use.
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And a good night to all.
Good night, BoB.
Excellent progress, BoB.
Facing the wall off with stone is making it very slow progress though.
It’s progress, though, BoB. Remember that
Rome was notyour wall will not be… built in a day. Lol.That is such a deep looking slope, it is a miracle you have been able to do anything .
Congratulations for having the determination and energy to do what looks an impossible task.
Morning Maggie!
That slope is exactly why I’m putting the walls in to give the garden a little bit of level space.
Hats off to you Bob, that is great work!
Goodnight all.
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Good morning all – Sunday’s new page is here.