Monday 30 May: Who will burst the Whitehall bubble that is home to 100 genders?

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  5. Negative views of Russia mainly limited to western liberal democracies, poll shows. 30 May 2022.

    The sharp polarisation between mainly western liberal democracies and the rest of the world in perceptions of Russia has been laid bare in an annual global poll of attitudes towards democracy.

    Within Europe, 55% of those surveyed for the Alliance for Democracies said they were in favour of cutting economic ties with Russia due to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, whereas in Asia there was a majority against, and in Latin America opinion was evenly split.

    Negative views of Russia are largely confined to Europe and other liberal democracies. Positive views of Russia have been retained in China, Indonesia, Egypt, Vietnam, Algeria, Morocco, Malaysia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

    The presumption here; since anything else would render the comparisons invalid, is that Europe is composed of Liberal Democracies and everywhere else is a backward hellhole. The actuality is that, with a very few exceptions, they are liberal tyrannies that serve the Political Elites and their globalist cronies. The EU itself is profoundly anti-democratic. None of its leaders that you see pontificating on the evil of Vladimir Putin has ever received a single vote from a European Citizen! Contrast this with the Russian Presidents staggering domestic popularity. The foofaraw about Russia is typical. When the attacks on Libya and Iraq were conceived silence reigned while Ukraine, the most corrupt state in the European Continent, is suddenly lauded as a model of Western Governance.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/30/negative-views-of-russia-mainly-limited-to-western-liberal-democracies-poll-shows

    1. I agree completely, Minty. Also, I really like your use of the word “foofaraw”, a word I have heard in ages. (Memo to self: must look up its derivation.)

    2. Although this is published in the Guardian, I think it’s accurate for once. Russia is generally well seen throughout Africa.

      1. Morning BB. I noted that they omitted Africa. Lol. Nevertheless the list looks ominous for the success of any sanctions!

  6. Good morning, everyone. Back after a relaxing weekend. Enjoy the sunny – hereabouts at least – day.

  7. Heard a report on the radio about powers cuts next winter for 6 million homes, because of the war with Russia.
    Or are they just warming us up for the next stage of the Great Reset

      2. I went back to my wardrobe and added a vest, lace up shoes and a winter fleece to my outfit!

  8. 352856+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Get bloody real, gropey, touch upping, shirt tail lifting, daisy chain forming political cretins are their finer points.

    It may come as a shock to many but it is NOT yet mandatory to vote either for lab/lib/con ie the close shop, treacherous, coalition.

    I am really ,really sure the likes of Anne Marie Waters / Tommy Robinson would like to be given the chance of having a few words in parliament a few home truths from them would raise the odour of instant shite to an unbearable level.

    People power works as the referendum
    proved right up until the party before Country voting idiots took a hand, we are
    witnessing their handiwork.

    Monday 30 May: Who will burst the Whitehall bubble that is home to 100 genders?

  9. ‘Morning, Peeps. A heady 10°C here and bright sunshine.

    Today’s leading letter – and plenty more where that came from:

    SIR – The emphasis of the Whitehall Civil Service on identity politics and its recognition of 100 genders, which may need employees to spend “up to 20 per cent of their time” working on such matters (report, May 28), has left me almost speechless, a very rare position for me.

    Perhaps the Civil Service could compile a dictionary of the names of these genders, together with definitions, so that I, and all other taxpayers, can know where the time is going that should be spent helping to carry out government business.

    It reminds me of the fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes and I wonder if there is anyone as brave as the boy in the tale, prepared to burst this bubble and get the civil servants doing the job they are paid for.

    Gail Brown
    Kidderminster, Worcestershire

    The waste of time, effort and expense by our pathetic Snivel Service is beyond polite description!

    1. The BTLs are predictable:

      Angus Long
      6 HRS AGO
      100 genders
      Well I can think of 2.
      But the fact the Snivel Service is wasting scarce resources, time and money on “training” staff on these numerous ficticious genders is a disgrace.
      But then it’s so much easier to waste time on claptrap like this than actually knuckle down and deliver their primary remits.

      1. There are three genders – masculine, feminine and neuter. There are two sexes – male and female.

    2. Morning, Hugh J.

      Gail Brown specifically mentions the Whitehall Civil Service’s waste of resources with regards to this gender nonsense: I await with bated breath the waste that will accumulate – including recruitment of “suitably experienced” directors, department heads, manager’s etc. – when it is rolled out to local government. Will we see a precept added to ensure the people pay their due? We must have the “best” people recruited, it’s in our best interests, is it not?

  10. SIR – Do I really want to read the pros and cons of a woman having a penis (“Stella Creasy: ‘J K Rowling is wrong – a woman can have a penis’  ”, Comment, May 28)?

    It horrifies me to think young people are having to deal with all this “stuff” being thrust upon them. While we are trying to work out how to address ourselves, Vladimir Putin will be on our doorstep.

    I know it’s not fashionable, but isn’t it about time we woke up and got a grip?

    Bob Pinfold
    Newark, Nottinghamshire

    Sorry, Bob; this wokery carp is a most extreme form of virtue-signalling, and no one in Whitehall – or Westminster, come to that – has the backbone to order these idiots to STFU.

    2. Of course a woman can have a penis, it just won’t be hers though.
      Bob is a bit of a ckirp himself

    4. I wonder if Colchester Girls’ High School is proud of its former pupil?
      Maybe they should have sacked the biology mistress.

  11. 352856+ up ticks,

    Dt,
    UK opens door to world’s top graduates in post-Brexit immigration push
    Students from prestigious universities to get two-year visas as No 10 looks beyond the EU to attract talented workers.

    I take it some use can be made regarding their parents / grandparents, great grandparents, when they follow on.

    Owing to the support continuing to be given by the electorate to the mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella, lab/lib/con coalition, the bloody door was NEVER SHUT.

    1. The door is NEVER OPEN, thanks to the likes of paid by us Civil Rights people, when we try to extradite crooks and terrorists out of UK and back to their own countries

      1. 352856+ up ticks,

        Morning OLT,
        That is another issue that is condoned by the party supporter / voter at election time it is NOT a new happening been going on since the first illegal / crook set up shop here.

  12. Another piece of idiocy in a never-ending stream of the stuff. We must be a laughing stock around the world:

    SIR – You report that the Civil Service has told staff not to say “crazy” as it might upset people with mental health problems.

    I trust that they have also been told not to say “stupid” as this might upset most Civil Service policy makers.

    Ray Cantrell
    Colchester, Essex

  13. Partygate is really about leadership, lies and the death of trust. Jonathan Sumption. 30 May 2022.

    Partygate is not about parties. It never has been. It is about personal integrity and standards in public life. The Prime Minister can put the parties, the booze, the vomiting and all the rest of it behind him. What he cannot put behind him is the sort of person that he is.

    Three points stand out from this grubby saga.

    First, the Prime Minister personally decided to criminalise almost all social contact, and then behaved as if this did not apply to him or those around him. It really does not matter whether he thought that his parties were allowed by the regulations. Their rationale was that unnecessary human contact was so dangerous that it must be forbidden by law. He cannot have believed a word of it himself. Otherwise, he would surely not have exposed himself or his staff to this supposedly mortal danger, whether it was technically permitted by the regulations or not. He made his own risk assessment, while denying the rest of us the right to make ours.

    Secondly, the Prime Minister has persistently tried to hide behind his subordinates. No one told him, he has said, that this kind of behaviour was not on. It speaks volumes about his moral values that he needed to be told.

    This sort of special pleading is a cowardly reversal of ordinary lines of responsibility. Junior staff took their lead from him. They assumed, as Sue Gray points out, that if he was there it must be OK. More senior staff had their doubts. But their only concern was that it would look bad if it got out (“a comms risk”). At the time they congratulated themselves that they had “got away with it.” Sue Gray goes out of her way to point out that their attitudes were not typical of the rest of Whitehall. We are entitled to ask what was different about Downing Street. The answer is that its occupants knew that the Prime Minister would share their instincts. Under a more exacting boss, they would have feared for their jobs.

    Thirdly, and worst of all, the Prime Minister has denied in statements to Parliament that parties occurred, when we now know that they happened regularly in his presence. Weasel words about whether these were “work events” are beside the point. If these statements were not outright lies, they were at the very least half-truths, calculated to mislead. By convention, misleading Parliament is a resignation matter.

    All political systems depend on integrity. That means more than just observing the rules. It requires a sense of honour and decency, a reliable instinct about how public men and women should behave.

    It calls for an instinctive recognition that there are many things which they should not do even if they legally can. Public trust in politics depends on this. Britain’s unwritten constitution is uniquely dependent on the personal standards of ministers. It is based on conventions not laws, on values not rules. Precisely because politicians can “get away with” so much, their personal integrity matters even more than it does in other political systems.

    This is why we cannot just “move on”. We have at the heart of our political order a man who does not care a fig for basic constitutional values, provided that he can stay in power. He is supported by politicians who care more about defending him than about protecting our political system.

    This is exceptionally serious. Political values once flouted with impunity cannot easily be restored. Conventions once broken disappear. We will feel the effects long after we have seen the back of Boris Johnson.

    Yes, we are in the midst of an international crisis, as his defenders never cease to tell us. But at such a time it is more than ever important that we should be led by people of transparent stature and integrity, whom we can implicitly trust.

    I think that; even regardless of Johnson, trust has pretty well evaporated among the thinking voters. This doesn’t hinder them as much a one might hope, since the alternative isn’t really an alternative and, as Covid has shown us, they can compel our obedience. The only bright spot, if it could be called that, is that the system is now so rotten that there is a real possibility of its total collapse!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/29/partygate-really-leadership-lies-death-trust/

    2. It’s all part of Blair’s grand strategy to force us back into the remains of the EU. Every report about politics, economics and defence needs to be read with this in mind.

    3. The danger is that they do a quick hatchet job and install Jeremy Hunt before anyone has the time to ask, “And what precisely are Mr Hunt’s connections to the WEF?”

    4. “He made his own risk assessment, while denying the rest of us the right to make ours.” Well said, Lord Sumption, and applies to all the ‘elites’.

  14. Well, I was a dutiful husband and sat with the MR as she watched the highlights of the Monaco Grad Prix. For the life of me, I could not make head nor tail of it. All the cars looked the same. The camera would show one group – presumably the leading cars – then another group. The commentary was incomprehensible.

    When I was nobbut a lad, British cars were green (British Racing Green); Ferrari were bright red, Mercedes silver – and there were large numbers so one could actually identify a particular driver.

    Couple of nice crashes. Other than that….pity local boy somehow lost the lead.

    Did Cur Loathesome take part? Put a driver in a crap car and it shows how crap he is…..

    1. It’s the Monaco grand prix. It’s always processional because today’s GP cars are far too big and wide for the road circuit.

      1. So you’re saying (© Cathy Newman), Mr Garfunkel, that you have to qualify as a GP before you are allowed to enter the race? Lol. PS – Is this a job you can do from home?

    2. Let me explain Grand Prix racing to you, Bill. A lot of cars line up at the starting point. When the race starts they rush forward and go round and round the track until they reach the point where they started, then they go round again, and again, and again, and again, and again, etc. Then someone stands out and waves a chequered flag at which point they all slow down and stop. The first three past the chequered flag then stand on a strange podium with uneven steps, and the one on the middle (highest) step shakes a bottle of champagne, pops the cork and sprays the contents all over the other two. A good waste of champagne and of petrol. In future races, when all the cars will be electric, the one who completes the most laps before their battery runs flat will be declared the winner. Well, at least that’s how I understand the rules. Lol.

  15. Oh dear, the DT has upset Sgt Bilko:

    SIR – Charles Moore (“It’s not healthy for our broadcast media to linger in the Gray zone any longer,” Comment, May 28) accuses me of being a “propagandist” for pursuing what he describes as the “hysteria” over a “Westminster spat” on the Today programme on the morning after Sue Gray’s report was published. His choice of words is telling.

    Even the Government’s own spokesmen do not seek to dismiss so airily the revelation that there were a series of “gatherings” inside Downing Street that broke the Covid rules which had been made inside Downing Street – gatherings the Prime Minister repeatedly insisted had not taken place.

    It is part of my job to test and challenge the arguments made by politicians. That is what I sought to do when interviewing the Prime Minister’s chief of staff (as, incidentally, I also did when interviewing Labour’s Lisa Nandy about the behaviour of her leader on the same day).

    I made a mistake when interviewing Steve Barclay when I described the death of Emanuel Gomes who, as The Telegraph reported last week, “died with coronavirus symptoms in April 2020 after he continued working as a cleaner at the Ministry of Justice, despite feeling ill, for fear of having his pay cut”.

    I said that he had worked in Downing Street and not in Whitehall. As soon as my mistake was pointed out to me I issued a correction and an apology and repeated it the following day on air.

    I don’t apologise, however, for vigorously pursuing answers to questions about whether the Prime Minister – or, indeed, anyone else – has told the truth.

    That is journalism not propaganda. Unlike, you might think, using a newspaper column to excuse the behaviour of your old friends and to attack those who dare to question their actions.

    Nick Robinson
    Presenter, Today
    BBC Radio 4
    London W1

    For the BTL posters this is a red rag to a bull:

    Cuthbert Thomasson
    2 MIN AGO
    Re the letter from the bbc’s own Nick Robinson proclaiming ” It is part of my job to test and challenge the arguments made by politicians “…
    Is it, sir, indeed?
    Scientific truth is objective, taken as true once confirmed by mathematical proof.
    Such as Newton’s theory of gravity.
    True and testable by observation until it was found wanting in some respects to do with the speed of light .
    Then superceded by Einstein’s musings that time itself is relative and by way of implication changed everything.
    Science changed , the way it always has and did
    Until the bbc proclaimed its Climate Catastrophy cod science as ” settled”
    ” It is part of my job to test and challenge the arguments made by politicians “…
    But from such a ” settled ” stance it is only scientific illiteracy in action.
    Beautifully consistant with the bbc’s zealous doomsday cod science religious bigotry
    When did anyone ever hear this paragon of honest inquiry ” challange” any argument meant to establish the supremacy of speculative quack models over all life and everything ?
    Such as enforcing the real catastrophies of Lockdown and Net Zero, based on nothing more than parisan unverified assumptions ?
    More mythology than anything matching Einstein’s conception of natural philosophy .
    Quite simply never.
    That is the true measure of his quest to “test and challenge the arguments made by politicians “…
    In fact, he serves the opposite purpose, he only ever challanges truth that would threaten the rule or expose the fraud of” settled” bbc cod science.
    Having listened to Today for years, I can attest that as an unarguable fact.
    The matter of his being a crude and blatantly biased bbc propagandist is settled,by his record.

    Steve Jones
    5 HRS AGO
    This from the sanctimonious Nick Robinson:
    ” It is part of my job to test and challenge the arguments made by politicians”.
    What a pity you and your type don’t do that with anything remotely resembling balance.

    Peter Hollander
    1 HR AGO
    Compare Nick Robinson’s 3 second “apology” on air with the amount of time spent airing a false claim to smear Downing Street. If there were honesty, the day’s top story should have been BBC apologises for fake news and Nick Robinson made to utter many apologies on air and to resign as he expects Boris should for lying to the public. Instead we get the usual justification from him without any contrition… the default BBC position on falsehoods.

    Dominic Savage
    55 MIN AGO
    Nick Robinson is on the ropes! This is superb and well done the DT. He’s angry. You’ve got him where you want him.
    Charles Moore correctly and gently observed his well known weakness of not guarding his flagrant bias and galactic ego (the journalistic equivalent of a jab) and Robinson has lost his composure completely and is swinging wildly, but not landing anything.
    Keep it up chaps! He’ll box himself to exhaustion now: nothing matters to Nick more than Nick. He’s all over the shop – flailing like a amateur. He doesn’t know whether to sulk or swing. He’ll make a catastrophic error within a month and be immediately taken off air for an unscheduled and unending holiday.
    Great stuff! He’s rattled, he’s tired, he’s on the ropes and he knows it. Keep at him – he’ll do the rest.

    Jimbo Jones
    2 HRS AGO
    The BBC is never wrong, are you, Nick?

    1. I love the ‘parisan unverified assumptions’ in Cuthbert’s BTL comment.

    2. Robinson: “As soon as my mistake was pointed out to me I issued a correction and an apology and repeated it the following day on air.”
      He writes this as though implying that his apology was omitted from Moore’s article. It wasn’t:

      Robinson had to issue a correction and apology for his errors (though it included no apology to the Gomes family, or to Barclay, whom he had put in a false position, or to ministers and officials who, he had implied, might have contributed to Mr Gomes’s death). On BBC Sounds, Today’s mention of Mr Gomes has been edited out.

  16. SIR – With so many distractions pushing us off course, the need to return to our core values must be a priority. We need gut conservatism.

    So, can I suggest we:

    – lower and reform taxation;

    – reduce the size of the state;

    – prioritise food and energy security;

    – invest further in our Armed Forces;

    – increase productivity;

    – overhaul a bureaucratic NHS;

    – set aims, not unachievable targets;

    – and do even more to get people off welfare and into work.

    We are living in challenging times, but opportunities beckon if we have the courage to take them.

    If we don’t act, I see another path for our country; one I fear would be divisive and ruinous.

    Richard Drax MP (Con)
    London SW1

    I do hope his ‘letter is in’ with the ’22…

    1. …if we have the courage to take them.

      We have the courage, given the chance, but sadly, the PM and his acolytes have as much backbone as amoebae.

      …I fear would be divisive and ruinous.

      R Drax MP appears to have forgotten the word ‘more’ before divisive.If he doesn’t believe that Johnson & Co haven’t already created division and ruin, then he hasn’t been paying attention.

  17. SIR – The only government handout I want is the Government’s hand out of my pocket.

    David Saunders
    Sidmouth, Devon

    Very good, Mr Saunders, but probably not in our lifetime, if ever. Johnson and Sunny have found the spending tap and cannot turn it off, even if they wanted to. Generations to come will be paying for their profligacy.

  18. SIR – I decided to watch again the BBC series W1A. We pay our licence fee, have iPlayer and Britbox but it wasn’t available on either of those two platforms. However it is available on Amazon Prime for a fee.

    Why is that ? It is not the cost but the principle I object to.

    Sandy Williamson-Noble
    Stamford, Lincolnshire

    Simply because it was the finest piece of anti-BBC satire we have seen for many a year and, as such, was just too close to home. And to see ‘BBC’ and ‘principle’ in the same letter was a grave and very obvious error, Mr Sandy Double-Barrelled!

      1. Glad you enjoyed it. It portrays the BBC staff as a bunch of PC, time-wasting lefties. Pretty accurate, I would say. And it was filmed in the BBC offices, too. No wonder they sold it to Amazon!

        1. Former Beeboid colleagues told me that it was treated by management as a training film.

  19. Good morning all.
    As the living room is occupied by eldest daughter I’m sat up in bed on the laptop.
    Another bright & sunny start with 6½°C outside.

        1. It’s on its way to you!. Raining now here. I don’t think their models work any more, certainly for my coastal area. All the resources are going into ‘climate change’, the poor old Michael Fish style weather forecaster never gets to see any research money any more…

        2. It’s on its way to you!. Raining now here! I don’t think their models work any more, certainly for my coastal area.

  20. SIR – I have allowed my garden to develop into a natural woodland glade (Letters, May 28). It is now full of beer cans, contraceptives, discarded food cartons and dog-poo bags.

    Malcolm Allen
    Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

    More fool you, Mr A, for listening to greenie preaching.

      1. I think so too. A response to the winner of the Chelsea Flower Show. Which is now a woke virtue signalling mob.

        1. I caught a bit of Chelsea a few days ago. Apart from Monty Don all the usual suspects featured each sporting those elliptical RHS badges; the execrable Joe Swift (remember his rhomboid shaped allotment scheme), Carol Klein with her toothy grin and Armani clobber, Rachel de Thame now old and podgy, and the latest generation of garden experts all too ghastly to watch.

          Temporary garden ‘installations’ costing millions serve no useful purpose and us plebs are not allowed inside the ropes to experience the alleged wonders. It has become a tool for an elitist cabal of prancing back scratchers.

        2. Chelsea was just plain bloody preachy.
          Why can’t we just enjoy flowers without fatuous chunks of over-wrought wood or constant references to mental health? There was one garden that was like a graveyard.
          Quite frankly, if children’s mental health is such a problem nowadays, maybe the PTB should be asking themselves what has changed.

  21. SIR – I hope all heads of schools and their staff are taking this opportunity to teach all their pupils the national anthem? Hands up!

    Helen Cann
    Poundbury, Dorset

    Yes, they are. Three of our four grandchildren (the fourth starts school later this year) can all recite the first verse. However, my request for the other five verses was met with very blank looks! I suggested that they ask their respective teachers for the missing verses…their grandmother was less than impressed!

    1. Nobody sings more than one verse of ‘God save the Queen’ because it’s so boring that they would fall asleep before the end.

      2. Quite so, A. Personally I think the tune is awful, but I think we are stuck with it.

    2. This is the verse the little darlings should be taught:

      “O Lord our God arise,

      Scatter our enemies,

      And make them fall!

      Confound their politics,

      Frustrate their knavish tricks,

      On Thee our hopes we fix,

      God save us all!”

  22. A Primary Teacher explains to her class that she is a Labour Supporter.
    She asks her students to raise their hands if they too are Labour Supporters.
    Everyone in the class raises their hand except one little girl..
    The teacher looks at the girl with surprise and says, ‘Mary, why didn’t you raise your hand?’
    ‘Because I’m not a Labour Supporter’, she replied.
    The teacher, still shocked, asked, ‘Well, if you are not a Labour Supporter, then who are you a Supporter of?’
    ‘I am a Conservative Supporter, and proud of it ,’ Mary replied.
    The teacher could not believe her ears. ‘Mary, why, pray tell, are you a Conservative Supporter?’
    ‘Because my mum is a Conservative Supporter, and my dad is a Conservative Supporter, so I’m a Conservative Supporters too!’
    ‘Well,’ said the teacher in an obviously annoyed tone, ‘that is no reason for you to be a Conservative Supporter.
    You don’t have to be just like your parents all of the time… What if your mum was a lay-about and your dad was a useless no brained waster, what would you be then?’
    ‘Then’, Mary smiled, ‘I’d be a Labour Supporter!’

    1. Primary teachers, and secondary too, do not have ‘students’: they have pupils.

  23. Vladimir Putin ‘losing his sight’ and ‘given three years to live by doctors’. 30 may 2022.

    Vladimir Putin has been given a maximum of three years to live by doctors, according to a Russian intelligence source.

    The FSB officer said the Russian president, 69, “has a severe form of rapidly progressing cancer.”

    And he added: “He has no more than two to three years to stay alive.”

    The spy said the disease means Putin is also losing his sight.

    He revealed: “We are told he is suffering from headaches and when he appears on TV he needs pieces of paper with everything written in huge letters to read what he’s going to say.

    He also has Parkinson’s Disease; Acute Coprophilia, Paranoia and the Great Spotted Leprosy!

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/vladimir-putin-losing-sight-given-27090195

    1. Are we still awaiting an in-depth diagnosis of Biden’s ailments? So much going on, I can’t keep up.

    2. I just googled Christopher Steele (to check the name/spelling) and up popped a link to this very story. It was only a thought in the back of my mind…

      Good morning!

    1. Almost as untidy as a collared dove’s. You’d have thought they would have tidied it up a bit. People might be watching.

          3. They’re doing the wing flapping and it makes me laugh when they tip up!

  29. Well, one advantage of mistakenly getting up over an hour too early is that today’s loaf is made! Off to the bottle bank to see what I can find.

    2. If you take them out carefully, there will be lots of dregs left and you can build up several glasses worth..

    1. And Thatcher! Don’t forget her! The Herald are blaming her again today!!🙄

        1. There was a young lady from Tottenham
          Who had no manners, or had forgotten ’em;
          At tea at the Vicar’s
          She whipped off her knickers
          Because she said she felt hot in ’em.

          1. There was a young lady from Ryde
            Who ate some green apples and died
            She’s greatly lamented
            For the apples fermented
            And made cider inside her inside.

          2. There was a young man called Gandhi
            Went into the bar for a shandy,
            With his own loin cloth
            He wiped off the froth
            And the barman said, “Blimey, that’s handy.”

            I love limericks and can recite many….you have been warned.

          3. I only know a few – learnt from my mother!

            There was a young lady from Osset
            Went into a railway closet

            But when she got there

            She had nothing but air

            Which wasn’t a pennyworth, was it!

          4. There was a young lady from Bude
            Who went on the stage in the nude
            A man at the front shouted “Cor what a c**t”
            Right out loud, just like that
            F**kin’ rude!

          5. Mary had a little lamb
            She kept it in a bucket
            Every time the lamb jumped out
            The bulldog tried to work the rest out yourself

          6. Polite or rude?
            There was an old man from Leeds
            Who swallowed a packet of seeds;
            Great tufts of grass
            Shot out of his a**e
            And his co** was all covered with weeds.

            So there;-)

          1. She was only the butchers daughter but she’d lie on her back and say “fillet”

      2. She was only the Town Clerks’s daughter,
        but she let the Borough Surveyor.

    2. ‘Happy Hour’ … Bah, Humbug!
      Bash Street Kids … Bah, Humbug!
      Pooh’s Bathmat … Bah, Humbug!
      Wordle … Bah, Humbug!
      Tennis … Bah, Humbug!
      Sherry … Bah, Humbug!
      Constant whingeing about other people’s preferences whilst operating Groundhog Day, every day … Bah, Humbug!

      2. I have a never-downvote-on-NOTTL rule, but you’re testing it exceedingly Grizzly….

        1. It seems to me that you’re saying is this: it is au fait for certain NoTTLers to have a sly, sideway ‘pop’ at others’ posts, but under no circumstances may the one being ‘popped’ at defend themselves by replying in kind?

          Please explain this: why may some NoTTLers say anything they wish, without censure; but others have to watch what they say in reply? Why are you in so much favour of such an uneven playing field?

          1. I think Plum jokes a lot, and I certainly don’t take her comment about bread-making as anything other than banter.

      3. I like Plum’s ascerbic nature. The type of woman who is fun to be with. Like in Mapp & Lucia.

  35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIYfiRyPi3o

    One of the more honest programmes the BBC use to broadcast.
    Watch the followup as well it certainly tries to emphasises all the wrong doings and lying continually taking place in all of our government departments.

    Subject: Fwd: Watch “The Blog: How the civil service beat Boris” on YouTube

    —it seems that it is the Civil Service which runs the country and not the Government. Shades of ‘Yes, Prime Minister’!

    See – A Very British Democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIYfiRyPi3o

    What a load of scum bags.

  37. Pound faces ‘existential crisis’ over ‘confusing’ Bank of England strategy – live updates. 30 May 2022.

    The pound is facing an “existential crisis” and is likely to weaken further during this year, one of Wall Street’s top banks has warned.

    Bank of America says sterling “finds itself in an increasingly invidious position” for reasons including “increasingly challenging” Bank of England communication.

    Kamal Sharma, a London-based foreign exchange strategist for the lender, said the outlook for the pound was “grim”.

    The pound has fallen about 6.6pc this year in dollar terms, leaving it as one of the worst performers among the world’s major currencies. Only the Norwegian krone, Swedish krona and Japanese yen have fallen further.

    Perhaps Vlad will loan us a few Roubles?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/05/30/oil-hits-120-per-barrel-shanghai-reopens-live-updates/

    1. They’re all working hard to get us back into the EU…Mavericks are so inconvenient for world government.

          1. The British politicians will like that.

            They always enjoy giving away taxpayers’ money to foreigners.

    2. Nothing “confusing” about it at all.
      They printed too much paper money, and have trashed the currency!
      Is Jeremy Hunt the mug who’s been tasked with taking us back into the EU under the pretence that a collapsed pound necessitates the joining of an authoritarian technocracy?

  38. Laffs,god knows we need them…..

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    Edit,forgot this one………..
    https://twitter.com/slhzdh/status/1530725194880253953?s=20&t=u8zh4oyRMFrVyr6-l5P2Dg

    1. Re the non-sick frying pan one – I found I had an unused non-stick roasting tin so I thought I’d use it on Saturday for the big joint of pork. It took OH some work with white spirit to get the label off.

  39. Well, who could possibly have foreseen this outcome?

    Arrival of Over 33,000 Migrants Leaves Ireland ‘Struggling’ to Find Doctors

    ‘Having taken an almost completely open borders approach to migrants since the very beginning of the current crisis, Ireland has long since
    started to see the wheels come off of its humanitarian response, with ruling politicians in the country being secretly warned recently that they were risking the country’s “social cohesion” by not reversing course.’

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/05/30/arrival-of-over-33000-migrants-leaves-ireland-struggling-to-find-doctors/

        1. I thought he had some sort of job-share. Can’t imagine him sitting at home doing the crossword…!!

          1. Googling him shows that he is no longer Taioseach (Prime Minister), but Tanaiste (Deputy Head of Government). So he is the tennis-net rather than the teapot.

    2. Do you mean the migrants weren’t all doctors themselves? I’m gobsmacked!

  40. Good afternoon, NoTTLers,

    I have just become acquainted with the blogs of Frank Wright, there is some food for thought in much of what he writes. Today’s:

    Defeminisation
    Women have been liberated from womanhood
    How feminine is feminism? It cannot and does not defend the most basic facts of womanhood. It is a movement destroying itself over the colonisation of the female by men, which it promotes. The fact that feminism is promoting the replacement of women by men is both astonishing and illustrative of the endpoint of Liberal individualism. This leads in all cases to strange paradoxes which destroy meaningful categories in the service of some extreme identity group. Black identity is about whiteness, rainbow rights are about the attitudes of normal people, feminism is about men.

    https://frankwright.substack.com/p/defeminisation?s=r

    1. Someone give him a square black piece of cloth and a loaded revolver please.

  47. Partygate

    The whole saga reminds me of an old film

    Carrie On Regardless

    Barbara Windsor as Carrie

    Sid James as Johnson

    Hattie Jacques as Ms Gray

    Kenneth Williams as Policeman

    1. We’d be doing a darn sight better if they were the team running the country!

  48. Gender, expression and toilets.

    The English language is wonderful, the way that you say

    the same sentence can be have two comletely different meanings

    “I feel like a woman” ie you are expressing how you see your gender.

    “I feel like a woman” ie as a man, you are expressing a sexual urge

    Both statements fit the noitice on the door and you are welcome to enter

  49. Blood test in France

    It would be similar (almost) in an NHS Hospital

    Your Blood Test booked for 0700

    Blood taken at 1354 hours.

    Car park charges mounting all the time

    Results given when your surgery gets round to telling you

    1. France – in my experience. Blood test at 8 am – results available at 2.30 pm.

      1. Slightly off topic. X-Rays – NHS several weeks. Private Dentist – Instantaneous.

        1. Went to see the dermatologist this morning at the Spire hospital. Inspected, gave me the op code to use for booking. Rang BUPA to get an authorisation code. Booked in to Spire for next Monday morning… Glad I’m still paying my BUPA sub though. Hospital charge is £795 for the session, before they do anything, consultant, biopsy charges etc. on top of that.

        2. Went to see the dermatologist this morning at the Spire hospital. Inspected, gave me the op code to use for booking. Rang BUPA to get an authorisation code. Booked in to Spire for next Monday morning… Glad I’m still paying my BUPA sub though. Hospital charge is £795 for the session, before they do anything, consultant, biopsy charges etc. on top of that.

        3. Crowns almost instant at the private dentist now too. No more taking a cast and sending it away to a lab. She waives a wand around in my mouth and the computer builds a picture and produces a perfectly fitting crown within an hour. Harry Potter couldn’t do better.

          2. We can just send Prince Charles down to one, save a big Fortune on the cost of a Coronation, when anything happens HM

    2. ECG four and a half weeks ago; results? No bloody idea- not one thing have I heard! Suppose it’s encouraging…

      1. That’s apalling. They can see right there and then whether the ECG is OK or not. Why don’t they just say so?

      2. When OH had an ECG prior to his hernia op last October, the nurse showed him the print-out there and then.

    3. I don’t know where in France you are, but here I see the Doctor get told I need a test and am given a chit. I visit the Blood test place and almost always offered a time and date to suit me, generally I choose the following morning.
      The test is done usually on the dot, but never more than 15 min after the due time.
      My results are sent to me and my GP by 4pm the same day.
      If there is serious problem the GP calls me to discus it, otherwise I wait until the follow up appointment.
      In my experience th French system makes the NHS look like a bad joke.

  51. DVLA claims it’s ‘a great place to work’. 30 May 2022.

    Which government agency has performed the worst in this pandemic? It’s a difficult question to answer. The Passport Office has its critics; delays at HMRC have meant tax rebates have gone months overdue. But for Steerpike’s money, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is hard to beat. In March, the Times revealed that more than half the staff there – 3,400 civil servants – had done no work on full pay for significant periods of the pandemic. Managers even boasted to undercover reporters that they had watched Netflix at the expense of the public, all while thousands waited for their driving applications to be processed.

    Like the Robber Barons of the Middle Ages all these Agencies and Ministries have in essence become fiefdoms that protect their management and staff from the central government. They are actually the real rulers of the UK, since if they disapprove of any policy, as for example immigration, it will simply not happen. They have not yet become absolutely pro-active but one can see that a Labour Government might form an alliance with them and institute changes that no voter would ever consider.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dvla-claim-they-re-a-great-place-to-work-

  52. This place is a hoot sometimes! You may recall we got Xmas hampers from the trustees and office staff. “Helga” from the office has just been round with two mini bottles of Prosecco so we can celebrate HM’s Jubilee….one Rose and one white. Nice gesture- not that we need much encouragement to party ;-))
    PS and there are red, white and blue ribbons round the necks of the bottles! Hooray.

  53. This place is a hoot sometimes! You may recall we got Xmas hampers from the trustees and office staff. “Helga” from the office has just been round with two mini bottles of Prosecco so we can celebrate HM’s Jubilee….one Rose and one white. Nice gesture- not that we need much encouragement to party ;-))
    PS and there are red, white and blue ribbons round the necks of the bottles! Hooray.

  55. 352856+ up ticks,

    I do receive a number of
    “comment unavailable ” post, what is the point when the comment can be revealed to all & sundry without overtaxing the gray matter.
    ,Maybe some sort of rhetorical dodgy handshake is in play, could it be thus ?

      1. 352856+ up ticks,

        Afternoon BB2 could very well be, then again the same peoples are seemingly going into pimpernel mode.

    2. 352856 + up ticks,

      O2O,
      To prove a point.
      jdgarfunkle • 33 minutes ago
      I remember when this song was my generation talking about the previous generation. Wish it still was!

      The Purple Gang – Granny Takes A Trip

      1. Yes, it is jdgarfunkle’s comments that are available or otherwise for me too.

    3. Could they be posts from people who have blocked you? I don’t get any “comment unavailable” posts but then I have nobody blocked.

    4. I get this too, ogga, but from only one person – and sometimes his comment is available, and sometimes it is not; this can be within the space of 10 minutes, even when I am logged in as poppiesmum. When I am not logged in and just reading comments, all of them are available. Weird.

    1. I couldn’t open that……….. presumably because the African counties refused to endorse the WHO’s proposals, we have a reprieve?

      Your connection is not secure

      The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security.

      http://www.onenation.org.au uses security technology that is outdated and vulnerable to attack. An attacker could easily reveal information which you thought to be safe. The website administrator will need to fix the server first before you can visit the site.

      Error code: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY

      1. “WHO Forced into Humiliating Backdown
        Stephen Andrew Mirani May 30, 2022
        Brilliant news out of Geneva today!

        As most of you know, the World Health Assembly has spent the past 7 days considering Biden’s 13 controversial amendments to the International Health Regulations.

        Official delegates from wealthy developed nations like Australia, the UK, and the US spoke in strong support of the amendments and urged other states to join them in signing away their countries’ sovereignty.

        The first sign, however, that things might not be going the globalists’ way, came on Wednesday, the 25th of May, which just happened to also be Africa Day.

        Botswana read a statement on behalf of its 47 AFRO members, saying they would be collectively withholding their support for the ‘reforms’, which many African members were very concerned about.

        Multiple other countries also said they had reservations over the changes and would not be supporting them either.

        These included Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran and Malaysia. Brazil in particular said it would exit WHO altogether, rather than allow its population to be made subject to the new amendments.

        In the end, the WHO and its wealthy nation supporters were forced to back down.

        They have not given up though – far from it. Instead, they did what they always do and ‘pivoted’.

        At their request, a new working group was convened to make “technical recommendations on the proposed amendments” which will be re-submitted along with the Pandemic Treaty, at the 77th Health Assembly meeting in 2024.

        There has also been lots of pushback from Republicans in the US, with a number of them introducing new bills giving the US Congress/Senate powers to override any WHO mandates or directives issued as part of any international agreements.

        One, called the ‘No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act’ has 15 co-sponsors and was introduced to the Senate on Thursday by Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who said “The sovereignty of the United States is not negotiable”.

        Here in Australia, we need to keep the pressure up on our own parliaments, both Federal AND State, up the ante, and don’t ever look sideways.

        Just brace for the digital ID now, and as the Federal Parliament reboots we need to push back at all costs on that from this week moving forwards.“

          1. I didn’t get that message, I clicked on the link and got straight in, otherwise I would have added a warning.

        2. They saw that hat of yours with the corks on strings round the brim. Another Bruce, they cried.

    2. Much as I’d rather fewer of them turned up on our doorstep, between this and GAFCON, I’m growing rather fond of the Global South. As the West crumbles, they’re growing bolder and believe their time has come.

    3. Great news!
      Rescued by China, Russia, Iran, Malaysia, the African nations, Brazil and India….!
      I suppose China told its Belt and Road nations to vote against.
      While Australia, the US and UK spoke strongly in favour of one world government tyranny.
      Tell me again, who are the smartest people on the planet?
      Now we have the same battle again in two years from now. They only have to win once, we have to fight them back again and again.

      Incidentally, China seems to have observed the billionaires’ takeover in the West, and determined that no Chinese billionaire will ever be more powerful than the state, whereas we were sold out to the ultra-rich during the nineteenth century.

    4. It seems that Mr Schwab has not got his representatives into quite as many governments as he would like!

      1. I read that few of the Western Heads of government showed up at Davos this year. Schwab’s WEF has become both toxic and Schwab himself a figure of fun.

        The UK sent Alok Sharma whoever he or she is.

        2. He’s the climate change bod who organised Con26 and got tearful when he made his speech.

        4. Reports indicate that Schwab’s WEF membership has fallen recently. Previous members developing cold feet as developments unfold, perhaps?

          3. That was my thinking re Johnson back in 2020 and I commented on that. Now…

        6. There were two others as well from the UK. One was an investment banker, and the other was similar, hedge funds perhaps.

    5. As time passes the real deadly impact of the serum will be exposed. Currently the number of deaths is frightening and stupid excuses for the rising death toll will become ever more unbelievable. Johnson lit the fuse on this fiasco in the UK and his problems when it blows up in his face will make ‘Partygate’ look like a vicar’s tea-party. Can we expect a resignation shortly?

      2. Johnson’s handling of the fake pandemic is catching up with him as more and more scientific evidence comes to light.

        If the Covid lockdowns, dismantling of our civil liberties and wrecking of our economy does not do for him then his pathetic Green New Deal Build Back Better Net Zero bollocks should seal his fate.

        As someone remarked if you put a clown in charge of a Palace, the Palace soon becomes a Circus.

      3. So much for the ‘safe and effective’ jabs………..

        “Coronavirus (COVID-19) was the third leading cause of death in
        April 2022 for both England (accounting for 6.1% of all deaths) and
        Wales (5.7% of all deaths); it was the sixth leading cause in March
        2022.

        The proportion of deaths due to COVID-19 (of all deaths that
        involved COVID-19) increased between March and April 2022 in England
        (from 63.0% to 64.2%) and Wales (from 64.3% to 65.1%).”

      5. A resignation will allow Johnson to steal away into the night unless it is over the ‘vaccine’ injuries. Perhaps ‘Partygate’ is a contrived job to allow that to happen before the true SHTF. How would we know otherwise? Just look at the Ukraine fiasco, most of the country thinks Putin is the devil incarnate and Zelensky a knight in shining armour.

    7. Well, who (hah!) would have thought it, Africa saving us from our own treacherous government.

  57. Al-Beeb’s weather forecast for today shows showers from 7PM. Presently it is raining stair rods here in N Essex. Yesterday, and now today, their forecasts have been rubbish. Good job I covered my little bit of pointing work. No complaint about the rain, it’s making the garden look very good: it’s the failure of the forecasting that stops me from planning what to do.

      1. Mine are tightly in bud like that but they don’t usually open till later on in June and it’s not been very warm here yet. Nice varigated one – mine’s plain green.

          2. I’ve resorted to comfort food now. Just had a dark rye ryvita, slathered with french butter.

        2. I have the green also. Two standards. The buds form then die. There is some yellowing to the leaves too. I don’t know what’s going on.

          1. Apparently in the wild they grow near watercourses. Do they need more water?

          2. I know the roots don’t like being in water. I will give them a heavy prune after the season.

          3. I never prune mine apart from the dead wood. I just pick off the yellowing leaves.

          4. They probably need more water – they do need a lot. Also a bigger pot and fresh compost might help. I also have a problem with aphids when they are over-wintering in the conservatory and they suck the life out of the buds. But I got a few more flowers last year than usual and it’s laden with buds this time.

            It’s over 25 years old.

          6. Lovely. Mine are single stem standards. I will prune them later in the year as i don’t like them leggy. I gave my neighbours two of the same when they got married. Theirs are doing better than mine ! I also gave them some of my wisteria cuttings. They grew them up an arch in the garden and when they flower it really does look like a wedding arch.

    2. I need some rain to wash away the pigeon poo on my balcony at home. There were two of them sitting there yesterday using it as a toilet.

    3. I don’t know where you live or which particular forecast you saw but today’s predictions were pretty accurate, especially for a day of sunshine and showers, always a bit tricky with high potential for egg-on-face.

      1. North Essex; I checked the forecast for my post-code last evening and this morning. Sunny intervals was the forecast early this morning, seen little of that but much threatening cloud that has finally made good its threat.

    4. The normal BBC weather forecast for the East Coast shows Narridge, then ‘Ull

      Nowt betwixt them for a very largs holiday area

      1. That clear liquid stuff that helps vines grow that then produce grapes which in turn become ‘medicine’ after clever human intervention. Quality of the ‘medicine’ depends on the depth of one’s pockets and a little know-how.

  58. I’m siting in Television Centre and in the background there’s the sound of a choir singing I Vow to Thee My Country. It’s a strange place to work sometimes. One minute they’re arguinng that all things white are horrid, horrid, horrid and then Mr Dalek is wearing a Union Jack pinny and this…

    3. “I vow to thee, my country
      All earthly things above
      Entire and whole and perfect
      The service of my love      ”

      But it’s of course the EU they’re singing it to.

        1. We let them take it, Plum, because the vast majority of the country was scared of a playground-style taunt. And when they saw they could get away with that, they made it a crime.

          2. Me too, Plum. He died in 1969 but he could see the direction in which things were going.

    4. Why are white things horrible? Surely that’s racist?

      I honestly don’t understand why the BBC didn’t make the most of it’s funding model to present both sides fo the debate rather than keep a partisan line. It’s no one to challenge it. That’s *why* it is paid for how it is, so it can say that Putin isn’t evil, and explain the reality of the Ukraine war and make it clear that the EU is part of the problem.

      1. It goes against its original charter ” to educate and inform” – now it’s just woke propaganda.

  59. …….
    reduce the size of the state;

    Messers Drakeford and Krankie are trying hard to reduce the size of UK, with England paying for it all of course

    1. They need to grow the state to grow their powerbase. To grow their powerbase they have to push an anti England agenda and create a client state. That is best done by telling the poorest, least able that the evil English hate them and want to make them poorer and lo! they get more power, make things worse and the cycle continues.

      The only people who benefit are the statists.

  60. While there is something of a furore in the UK about the shambles at the Liverpool-Eintracht match, the pepper-spraying and the tear gassing of UK fans, there do not seem to be any complaints from the German side. Perhaps only UK fans were held outside until after the official start time?
    I’d have thought that most fans would obtain their tickets through official channels, although there have been many accusations of ticket fraud. Accusations raised by the French. (These days tickets mostly seem to be electronic and QR in order to obviate fraud.). So what went on, really?

      1. Hmm? Have I not been paying attention? I do know that there were two teams involved…

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  62. Grasshoppers on the dinner menu for young pupils

    Primary schools in Wales are taking part in a project to try and encourage children to ditch meat for insects to help cut down on land use

    ome primary school children will be fed insects in their school dinner this week as part of a project to try and convince Britons to

    ditch meat and start eating insects.

    Crickets and grasshoppers have long been touted as a protein source which could help replace meat in the food web, helping cut down on land use and greenhouse gas emissions.

    Absolutely no problem, as long as all the instigators of the diet sit down and eat similar food every day it is on the menu….

    No if, No Buts, they sit in the ;dining room and tuck in with the kids, forever

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/30/grasshoppers-dinner-menu-young-pupils/

    3. I sure hope the parents kick up a gigantic fuss and insist on proper food for their children.

    4. I sure hope the parents kick up a gigantic fuss and insist on proper food for their children.

      1. Maggots, like snails when cleaned out properly on flour and meal are edible. Maggots look just like headless prawns anyway.

          1. I understand but when you are starving you will try anything. One of the reasons there are so many cats in the back streets of Malta. It is also why the older generation trap and eat the birdies.

          2. They may have been starving during the war but I don’t believe they are now. The killing of our migrant songbirds in Malta and Gozo as well as other places is despicable.

            Do they eat the cats as well or just not bother having them spayed?

          3. It is said in Malta never buy a rabbit without a head. The ears give it away. Though the shooting is disgraceful it is part of their culture. Catching birds on glue sticks is normally to have the birds in aviary in their homes. The birds often have the run of the house. Which i might add is better than what caged birds in the UK get. We in our own country are unable to stop kosher, halal, circumcision or genital mutilation.

          4. I don’t like caged birds anywhere.
            Nor do I agree with religious slaughter or mutilation.

          5. As far as the caged birds are concerned they put them in a smaller cage on the balconies where they sing to each other. At night they bring the cages in often to an aviary. They let them fly around the house too. Not something i would do but who am i to criticise another cultures mores.

            I am not keen on religious slaughter either but it is here to stay.

    6. We were offered grasshoppers in Uganda. We declined. They are looked on as a delicacy there. I still wasn’t tempted.

      2. Honey sweet and crunchy. It may have been rude to decline unless you were at a food stall.

    7. It amazes me that subsistence farmers in Africa when they have suffered the devastation of a swarm of locusts then ask how will i feed my children? There is a bountiful protein source all around you ! Just wok ’em.

      1. I think they do eat them, but they are not the same as a crop that can be stored year round.

        1. They can dry them and ground them. Then make a paste and fry. Add water and you get soup.

    8. IIRC, last year the EU cleared meal worms as safe for human consumption. Rumours abound about multi-billionaires investing in insect protein as a replacement for meat for the masses. Incidentally, multi-billionaires are rumoured to be investors in a form of bio-milk for babies just as ‘Formula’ has disappeared from the shelves in the USA after a government agency shut down the largest production plant. There are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences, © Steve Bannon.

      1. If they pass their larval sell by date you can store them in the fridge as pupae. Remove from the fridge for a few days and voila, crispy beetles.

    1. Just be thankful that you don’t have to work with, live with or have in your family someone who suffer from these delusions!

    2. I am wondering whether those who declare women can be born with a penis , are unaware of the function of our female clitoris .. and wondering whether those who keep hammering on about penis this that and the other , suffer from penis envy or whether even they are clueless about the clever little thing women possess which is capable of giving ourselves so much pleasure .

      I feel so frustrated not being able to comment on the wider DT comments columns and why were the moderators so uptight and frigid enough to ban me .

      3. Many years ago I read that the total mass of clitoral tissue could be as much as 2 kilograms. Lots of nerve endings throughout the body. Please, no tip of the iceberg jokes.

    6. Miss Creasy forgets that the trans people are attention seekers, egotists. They will no more support feminism than a loo brush is a good pencil.

      As for her, when it is against the rules to bring a child into the HoC that too is your ego and something you shouldn’t have done.

      Perhaps you’ll fit right in with the trans brigade. All of you selfish, lazy and arrogant together.

  65. 352856+ up ticks,

    They, the overseers their supporter / voters
    talk, act, as if the Country is already lost to the decent indigenous that is not the case, just yet.

    breitbart,

    Britons Last: Boris Govt Stifles Opportunities for Aspiring Middle Class with More Visas for Foreign Graduates

    The majority vote dictates they should be last they are backing mass uncontrolled immigration party’s who’s target is foreign rule for the United Kingdom, look how many are in the political hierarchy currently, also with a koran in play and howdo halal on the parliamentary canteen menu.

  66. A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck Shropshire on Monday afternoon, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said.

    The BGS said the quake happened at around 3.36pm at a depth of 7 km.

    “BGS has received numerous reports that this event has been felt by residents in Shropshire and surrounding counties,” they said in a statement.

    Residents in the area reported feeling tremors with some saying their houses had been shaken.

    https://news.sky.com/story/shropshire-earthquake-3-8-magnitude-quake-hits-uk-near-shrewsbury-12624352

        1. You’re really cetacean a high standard for the “not fish” puns Bilty

    3. D-Day – the greatest maritime invasion in history – liberated France and banished the Bosch.

      The French prefer to think that this was a achieved by General De Gaul – solo …

    4. If anyone in the Govt had a brain, they would remove APD on long haul flights and watch holiday-makers jet off to friendlier climes on holiday.

      Sadly, no one in our Govt has a brain

  73. https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/30/bill-gates-opposes-covid-vaccine-mandates-and-passports-at-davos/

    Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates voiced opposition
    to vaccine mandates and passes during a panel discussion at the World
    Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos earlier this month.

    During a panel titled “Preparing for the Next Pandemic”,
    the Microsoft co-founder said that when it comes to vaccine mandates
    and passes, “If you have breakthrough infections, what’s the point?

    1. Sounds as though he is trying to distance himself from a product that everyone can see has failed.

      1. Yes – bb2, my thoughts too. He is feeling hot under the collar and back pedalling like mad. Next it will be “I always said if you have breakthrough infections…” He is building up his alibi.

        1. I wonder at what point it will occur to Gates that he’s the fall guy when the SHTF?

        2. He must be lying

          If he told the truth, as Dr Kelly did about WMD, he would be dead

      1. To safeguard our future, the likes of Mr Gates should be cryogenically preserved , so that future generations use his knowledge

        Then, turn him off

    1. Yes, utility companies call and then want to go through a security check. It’s a type of psychological control. Nowadays I fight back and ask them to identify themselves.

  75. Watching Stumpy Steyn and the segment on the small village in Yorkshire that is going to overrun by young Muslim males. Already, and I read this last week, the Muslim Council of Britain, why is there even such a sodding thing, has already advised against women wearing short skirts & etc.
    This is beyond any sense. Get these buggers out of the UK and somehow, make this bloody government do something that makes sense. And indeed, do something that the electorate wants you to do!
    I have absolutely had it with this lot of toss pots…
    Bring me my bow of burning gold, bring me my arrows of desire….and I know what I would use them for!
    God, am I angry- see if you can guess.

    1. I have (far too slowly) come to the conclusion that Boris – and several of his appointed Cabinet Ministers – are as thick as two planks …

      1. I don’t think there is one functioning brain cell in all of Westminster.

        1. Just one (spy) cell, it is called House of Commons and full of Traitors

      2. I think they are out and out traitors. All in the name of self-advancement.

        1. Watchout, you LBGTQWERTers.

          They will not debate and declare Woke is right and best

      3. It’s intentional. The state is actively, wilfully flooding the country with immigrants out of spite.

        1. These muslim men are given assisted passage here to perform a job for government. This is a job which, in the final analysis, government feels it cannot depend upon HM’s Armed Forces to perform when it comes to the crunch, as it will.

          1. I think if government is hoping Muslim criminals will fight for this coutry then they’re deluded. Considering the prison population they’re vastly more likely to be rapists and murderers.

          2. I think muslims will be more than happy to cut the throats of the infidel population of this country. That includes ultimately our politicians. Islam is set on world conquest, whatever it takes.

        2. 352856+ up ticks,
          Evening W,
          By gosh & golly I do believe you have it in one.

      5. They are clever in looking after their own financial interests and in exploiting their positions in government in order to obtain favours from those they promote.

        They are stupid to the extent that they take us all for fools. We are not all fools and a great number of us will seek to see them behind bars for malfeasance in public office and gross abuse of trust.

        Their WEF and WHO allegiances and internationally coordinated ‘lockstep’ response to the fake pandemic, combined with their blatantly obvious graft by which they profited from the PPE shambles, is merely for starters.

        The damage caused by their infatuation with Bill Gates’ money tree, buying his vaccines and facilitating his mega Pharma interests remains the grossest and most iniquitous of their actions.

        I expect the immense damage to public
        health caused by mandatory lockdowns, mandatory social distancing, mandatory wearing of face masks and coerced vaccinations will result in numerous court actions. These will hopefully bring the Fat Turk and his minions, justly and finally, to justice.

        The vaccination programme is proven to be of no health benefit whatsoever. In reality the vaccines have proven to be extremely harmful. Many died on vaccination, others shortly after and many more after a few weeks ongoing receiving the poisonous jabs. It is yet to be seen the long term damage caused by these rushed jabs, none of which had been rigorously tested as convention demands.

        In essence we have witnessed a toxic government promoting and profiting from a toxic jab. I hope the proponents of this diabolical outrage meet with justice for their sins.

        1. Time for an Arab holocaust and a final solution.

          A choice – leave now or be hunted down, interned and if you won’t be deported, you and your lawyers will be shot.

    2. I know all about life in little settled Yorkshire villages .

      Yorkshire folk are shrewd, closely linked, wise , sometimes more Conservative than the Southern shower.

      North Yorkshire folk have culture , traditions , and are sniffy about those who bring foreigners up the A1.

      The church bell ringers , domino players , cricket players , horse racing fraternity , farmers and Country Fete organisers must be fuming right now.

      1. I reckon half of Johnson’s cabinet do not swear on the Holy Bible but on some Muslim or else some Hindu book. Other abominable texts are available.

        I just wish we had a written Constitution as in the States. As matters stand any Foreigner can ‘swear’ on a book whose message to its followers is to destroy us.

        I regret that we have lost our right to carry a gun. Who will defend us from the murderous hordes? Not a bunch of limp wristed ‘men’ and obese ‘women’ pretending to be Police officers surely, when they are seen dressing up in the rainbow colours of queers and bending the knee to black terrorists.

      2. I reckon half of Johnson’s cabinet do not swear on the Holy Bible but on some Muslim or else some Hindu book. Other abominable texts are available.

        I just wish we had a written Constitution as in the States. As matters stand any Foreigner can ‘swear’ on a book whose message to its followers is to destroy us.

        I regret that we have lost our right to carry a gun. Who will defend us from the murderous hordes? Not a bunch of limp wristed ‘men’ and obese ‘women’ pretending to be Police officers surely, when they are seen dressing up in the rainbow colours of queers and bending the knee to black terrorists.

    1. “Goodbye” (sometimes written “Good-Bye”) is a song by American composer and arranger Gordon Jenkins, published in 1935. It became well known as the closing theme song of the Benny Goodman orchestra.

      Jenkins had written the song when working with the Isham Jones orchestra, and Jones allegedly rejected it as it was “too sad”. Music critic Alec Wilder described “Goodbye” as “as sad a song I know” and Leonard Feather called it among his “top ten songs it would be hardest to tire of hearing”.[1]

      Jenkins’ son, the sportswriter Bruce Jenkins, wrote a biography of his father entitled Goodbye: In Search of Gordon Jenkins. While researching the biography, Jenkins interviewed the singer Martha Tilton, who had performed with the Benny Goodman orchestra. Tilton revealed that the song was written by Jenkins after the death of his first wife in childbirth

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_(Gordon_Jenkins_song)

  78. Being Brave

    Back in 1967, I was in the RN.

    Male homosexuality ceased to be illegal.

    In the crewroom we joked: “When will it become compulsoryi in the UK”

    Answer 2022

    1. I looked at my cucumber plants growing furiously today. Sadly, the flowers are all male, blooming gays get everywhere!

      1. I haven’t really given much thought to male and female cucumber flowers .. I mean , do I need educating , and how can one tell?

        1. One has a cucumber, but not the one you’d think (and no, they are not trans!).

        2. The female flower will have a tiny cue at its base. I read that leaving the male flowers on the plant can cause the cue to be bitter, however, I am not an expert in this area!

          1. Next year, try to get an F1 hybrid – only female flowers. The variety Femspot produces good long cucumbers.

          3. Yes, sorry about that. I realised after I’d posted it that I could have worded it better!

  81. That’s a 5 mile or so walk with daughter done, three pints consumed in two pubs, and me off to bed. Good night all.

      1. Silly boy.
        Three pints total. Then again, there were two of us so 6 pints, yes.

        2. Many Happy Returns for today, Robert. I trust you’ll be celebrating!

    1. One of my favourites (I sing it on demand at parties, though my part’s the witch, hehe); I do like Czech music. Thanks.

  83. Just back from ‘openmic’. I was locked out (accidentally apparently) on returning home, music was great, but a small audience. Well done the Nottlers!

  84. How appropriate that such a series of relatively minor infringements of the futile and repressive Covid regulations imposed by Johnson should see the demise of Johnson himself, its instigator. Good fucking riddance. Take your ‘Trollope’ with you.

    1. The way you wrote that made me think he really had gone!

      A political heart attack would be one way out. I’m sure there’s a cardiologist out there prepared to tell him ‘retire or die’ for a suitable consideration.

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