Wednesday 8 June: Boris Johnson must see the end of the road for him as Prime Minister

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  2. Good Morning Folks,

    Damp start here.
    Dog minding for a couple of weeks so posts might make even less sense than normal

  3. Boris Johnson must see the end of the road for him as Prime Minister

    The more that the forces of globalism and the mainstream media do a Trump on Boris, the more that I want to support him.
    Even though he has been useless on most of the important stuff.
    He is at least better than having a Trudeau, Macron, Biden or Jacinda imposed on us.

      1. It really comes to something, doesn’t it, when someone as truly awful as Bliar is actually (and I admit this reluctantly as I loathe the man for what he did to the UK) better than Trudeau, Macron and Arden.

        1. Only because he came earlier!

          Blair was Charles’s Prime Minister – I remember thinking at the time that they are a similar age, and both came from privileged backgrounds, that that accounted for their loopy lefty politics. Charles seemed to have a special link with Blair that he hadn’t had with any other Prime Minister before that. I didn’t know then about the malign WEF club to which they both belonged.

        2. I’m convinced that the types of ‘leaders’ Obama included, that have emerged from almost nowhere over the past few decades have all been specially selected and schooled at some stage. It’s far too much of a coincidence they have worked their way to the top. NWO have been behind this. Even as far as rigging their elections.

    2. “He is at least better than having a Trudeau, Macron, Biden or Jacinda imposed on us.”

      It’s notable that 50% of those named are either French or have froggy names.

    3. I fear we will soon be led by a prime minister similar to Trudeau, Ardern or Macron.

  4. Minimum pricing for alcohol has been an utter failure. Spiked. 8 June 2022.

    Pushed out under embargo on Monday, the latest chapter in Scotland’s official evaluation of minimum-unit pricing for alcohol (MUP) should be the final nail in the coffin of the SNP’s flagship health policy.

    MUP has cost Scottish consumers £270million since it was introduced in 2018. And we knew from previous research that it has had no impact on crime and no impact on alcohol-related accident-and-emergency admissions. There has been no fall in alcohol-related hospital admissions since it was introduced. Alcohol-specific deaths reached a nine-year high in 2020. Scotland’s alcohol-specific death rate that year was 50 per cent higher than England’s.

    You would have thought that Prohibition would have killed off once and for always the idea of preventing people from drinking. Of course in the States it turned the Mafia into a billion dollar corporation that plagued the country and corrupted its politics for the next fifty years.

    I’m pretty sure that even if you could do it; that it would be a bad idea. Liquor lubricates social interaction. It relieves stress. It is relaxing. Banning it would add immeasurably to the pressures of daily life.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/07/minimum-pricing-for-alcohol-has-been-an-utter-failure/

      2. Also cutting back on rent. Presumably more are now living on the streets.

    2. In Scotland we get adverts for offers on wine, from wine companies and lots of them from supermarkets. The Law in Scotland does not just cover “minimum pricing” which sees a bottle of wine sold in England for £4.99 but sold for £5.49 in Scotland, but also special offers. It is illegal to offer a discount on a purchase of 6 bottles of wine in Scotland. It is not illegal to advertise reduced prices and special offers. It is irritating to see and hear adverts that can be of no benefit although you may be interested in the product advertised (unlike 99% of the adverts we see, around half of which we do not understand, either what is being sold or on what terms e.g mobile phones, but I digress).

      1. Time to revive the Reevers; only this time with crates of 6 special offer wines, rather than driving sheep and cattle ragged with re-crossing the borders.

      2. Is it illegal for Scots to import wine, beer and spirits from south of the border?

        I think they’d be canny enough to recognise the difference between English and Scottish pricing.

        1. No. We do import from elsewhere in the UK. We have Majestic in Berwick, ND John in Wales, Wine Society in London, Great Wines in Bath, gin in the kitchen, where was I…? (All good until the split and the border posts go up with Customs Duty on haggis, black pudding, smokies and butteries.)

          1. Thank you for the clarification, Horace.

            I can see a temenduous boost in the English off-licence trade.

    3. Sturgeon has never actually had a job, has she? Student politics, politics –

      If she had to work for a living and provide tangible results she’d be utterly lost. She has absolutely no idea of economics whatsoever.

    1. People are not drawing the right conclusion though – they rightly see that Boris is a cheating fat git – but they aren’t putting two and two together and asking themselves why nobody in 10 Downing St was scared of the Worst Plague Since The Black Death.

      1. …but they aren’t putting two and two together and asking themselves why
        nobody in 10 Downing St was scared of the Worst Plague Since The Black
        Death.

        In my somewhat humble opinion the reason is linked back to the ‘scare’ stories and misinformation from SAGE & Co. My reasoning is based on what many of my small circle of family, friends and acquaintances say and do. The majority of that circle are ‘true’ believers in the “virus” and the “vaccines”. Literally, they will not hear a word against either and I have given up trying to explain what independent doctors, scientists and the alternative media have, and continue, to reveal.

        Any sniffle, sneeze, chill and it’s CV-19 and those who hoarded LFT kits are straight into testing and others into self imposed isolation for a few days. CV-19 has become, due solely to the propaganda, the go-to illness for many, many people, including those whom I know are very bright in many areas of their lives but have somehow been captured by the scare factor.

        1. Most of my circle are true believers as well. I don’t know how to free them from their shackles before the next round of the scam starts up again in the autumn.

          1. My friends are true believers too except for when she heard about weddings being cancelled because of the track and trace app. That app was deleted faster than you can say…’i have principals but’…

          2. That made me laugh! I don’t know why anyone installed that app in the first place. Did they feel that they weren’t being controlled enough by the Government that always has their best interests at heart?

          3. They are nice people.

            They got rid of their dishwasher. They are metered. They buy organic. Eats little red meat. Uses shops that sell larder items loose to cut down on packaging. Avoids plastic. Showers briefly. You getting the picture?

            I can’t be bothered with all that nonsense. When i found out our council only manages to recycle 18% of what we put in our recycle bins the scales fell from my eyes.

          4. And great, happy that they’re happy to live that way. It’s important that the market exists to allow them to – but I’d bet they’d forgotten that their lifestyle can ONLY exist because of free market capitalism.

            On recycling – It’s not a managing – it’s laziness. Which is why I fill our recycling bin every month. Everything goes in there.

          5. And great, happy that they’re happy to live that way. It’s important that the market exists to allow them to – but I’d bet they’d forgotten that their lifestyle can ONLY exist because of free market capitalism.

            On recycling – It’s not a managing – it’s laziness. Which is why I fill our recycling bin every month. Everything goes in there.

          6. I asked someone why they put so much faith in a digital app. They didn’t really know beyond platitiudes about ‘government’ and ‘health’.

            I said ‘Righty, I’m off to create an app that has you on my doorstep in your knickers”‘ Aside from laughing, she didn’t seem to understand the fundamental problem: she was blindly obeying a device with no understanding of what it did or how it worked.

        2. It would be interesting to see how getting Covid has actually affected Nottlers.

          Have those who are unvaccinated who have had Covid in the last 12 months had is more or less mildly than those who have had Covid and yet been triple jabbed?

          Caroline and I are unjabbed. We both had Covid very mildly in February.

          Anyone else want to declare?

          1. I had the two AZ jabs because I had my trip to Kenya already booked. It was postponed twice. I did need to show the vax pass for that. I declined the booster and won’t be having any more. I take vit D3 and vitC and have not been ill at all. I had a bug in January 2020 which could have been covid. The cough lasted several weeks but I had no other ill effects.

          2. Similarly, I had the two AZ jabs as I wanted to attend musical events. Instead of downloading the app I just took an image of the two letters and corresponding ‘certificates’ and showed them at the venue to the puzzled Kung Flu ‘marshals’. I helpfully reminded them that the object of the exercise was to show I had the two jabs required to enter the venue NOT download some dodgy HMG/NHS app.

            Coincidentally, I’m sure, after attending my first gig in Glasgow for two years – King King at the O2 Academy – I contracted a head cold which lasted for three days but have had no other illness.

            Like you, I believe the ‘booster’ is a step too far. I was sent a letter offering me a flu jab – my first – and informing me that whilst there I may be ‘offered’ a booster. I ignored their kind offer on both jabs and within a fortnight I was sent a further letter informing me that I was now a ‘priority case’ for the booster.

            Now that a second data dump from Pfizer has finally been released, I am pleased that I was so sceptical of their ‘offer’. To think that these snakeoil salesmen wanted to hide the data for half a century.

            I’ll stick to my daily dose of Vit D and C, whilst taking in the ozone, either down the beach or on the golf course…with some of my bunker shots it becomes difficult to separate the two

          3. For Kenya the certificate (printed and on app) was a requirement and it also had to be uploaded to a global health surveillance website. Very dystopian- to obtain a QR code. Also a negative pcr test. Apart from all that hassle, the trip was great.

          4. We suspect that MB had it in January/February 2020. He had chesty problems and had to pause when climbing the stairs. Presumably I must, by virtue of close proximity, have had covid in some form or other.
            Maybe we’re being paranoid, but a fortnight after his jab, MB had more than climbing 16 steps to worry about. I also had an annoying cough. For MB’s sake on the medical records, we had the second jab, but since then have turned down any offers of boosters.
            I am fine (fingers crossed) and MB has reached as good as he’s going to get.

          5. I suspect that many people have had Covid without knowing it.

            Before I got it Caroline was just a bit off colour for a day or two. She rejected my suggestion that she had Covid and it was only when I had a slight temperature that we called in the nurse who gave us both the test which showed that we both had Covid. Funnily enough the diaI registered very slightly for me but quite highly for Caroline. who had Covid even more mildly than I.

          6. Being in close proximity is not necessarily a sure means of infection. When I had my ‘flu bout, MOH didn’t get even a sniffle.

          7. I have commented on the mild infection I had back in late October, early November, last year. My obvious symptoms were identical to those suffered by the person who infected me, and who subsequently tested positive, but did not make me feel particularly ill. The latter person, double jabbed, was very ill and bedridden for several days. The infection most certainly came from the party I mention in my reply to Ndovu.

          8. Morning all.

            I may have had covid January 2020 very mildly but did go to bed for a few days, most unlike me. Neither Alf nor I have had the gene therapy and will not for as long as we have the choice. A “vaccine” cannot be produced within 8/9 months of an alleged, new p, disease which was an utter scam anyway from start to … finish? The whole thing has been a complete scam.

          9. Early 2020 I had what I first assumed was ‘flu,did the usual,hot toddies parecetamol etc but it knocked me sideways and my breathing became so bad I went to A&E got first dose of steroids and ordered to my GP the next day.Full course of steroids and antibiotics(bacterial bronchitus)
            I was unpleasantly ill for 3 weeks,in retrospect it was almost certainly convid
            I am unjabbed and will remain so under all and any circumstances,try and force it and you will be met with something longer and sharper than a needle!!
            Doing my own research I am on a regime of vitC&D Quercetin and Zinc I have had no further problems since

          10. I am unjabbed (and will remain so). Back in February 2019 I went down with a particularly bad bout of ‘flu that put me in bed for a week, left me wheezy and which ticked ALL the boxes for Covid (although it hadn’t been announced as being here then). I reckon I have natural immunity (but I still take Vit C and Zinc, plus Vit D).

        3. When I told my friend (with whom I went to Kenya) that I was having no boosters she accused me of believing dodgy websites. I changed the subject and we had a great trip. But all my friends are believers in this crap. I seem to be the only one who hasn’t been ill as well.

          1. I’m aware of numerous people who have been jabbed, especially with the booster, who are complaining of being repeatedly unwell. This same group are members of a club that on at least two occasions, one a party and the second a group short holiday, have resulted in a high number of “CV-19” cases. I am barred from membership, thankfully, as I have not been jabbed.

      2. The other question not being asked are just who exactly has been leaking these stories and what is their reason for doing so?

      3. Another wrong conclusion:

        The boss of Jet2 blames Brexit for airline chaos.

        Yet Amsterdam has had worse delays than any airport in Britain.

        ….but we mustn’t criticise the Europeans, must we?

    2. I saw a good advertisement for beer on Monday in Dartmouth Devon. Dartmore brewery.
      Jail Ale, Best kept behind bars.

    1. My flabber has been totally gasted by that first link!

      Real estate in virtual worlds — sometimes called the metaverse — is going for millions of dollars in some cases.

      The most expensive spots are near where lots of users congregate — for instance, someone recently paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg’s neighbor in a virtual world called the Sandbox.

      But even proponents are warning would-be investors that this is risky business.

      The Metaverse is an imaginary universe created by computer nerds.

      1. Mine too!
        Facebook have bet the house on the Metaverse, but I can’t see it ever becoming mainstream. Maybe I am wrong, but I can’t see it appealing to anyone except a few teenagers.

        1. I’m not interested but i can see it has a future. The telling words that i read was ‘ to access the demographic’.

          I believe it will expand rapidly.

          I wonder how all these greeniacs will react when they realise just how much energy will be consumed.

  8. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    The Letters page contains 30 today, with every one of them about Johnson and the state of his government. Of these, the vast majority are critical of his conduct and the policies being pursued – or not being pursued, as the case may be. I cannot recall for many a year such a dire situation, and if the Letters Editor’s choice is representative then things are every bit as bad as they portray. Yesterday Johnson went for yet another stupid and demeaning stunt by filming a cabinet meeting. One wonders just how low this bumbling fool, the Fred Scuttle of politics, can sink…

    1. Yo HJ

      We all laughed with Fred Scuttle

      I do not find Johnson even funny enough to laugh at him

    2. Morning all.
      Speaking or writing of which, a loose cannon like Johnson, needs tying down or pitching over the side into oblivion.
      His misses isn’t going to be too pleased
      when he’s out of a job.
      Self inflicted woe.

      1. When Boris Johnson goes how long will Carrie stay by his side?

        When Migraine Markle discovers that Harry is no longer going to be a good financial and social asset then how long will she stay?

        I wonder if Ladbrokes will offer odds on which of the two female rats will leave the sinking ship first.

        (Many of us were very cynical about the marriage between Posh Spice and David Beckham and thought it would never last but we were wrong: they are still together after two decade of not entirely unadulterated wedded bliss!)

    3. If Boris Johnson wants to leave behind any sort of positive legacy he must ensure that he is succeeded by Lord Frost who is the only person on the Conservative horizon who is likely to complete Johnson’s half-done and bungled Brexit.

      He must facilitate Lord Frost’s entry to the House of Commons as quickly as possible so that he is eligible to run in the elections for party leader. Johnson must then tell his fellow MPs and the electorate that he has decided to stand down as PM because Brexit is more important to the country’s future than his own career and ambitions and there are still several outstanding unfulfilled manifesto promises which only David Frost is capable of addressing.

      But has Boris Johnson the courage, the honesty, the integrity, the humility and the decency to resign with dignity because if he has not his legacy will be a shambles and Britain will be back in the EU?

  9. Two men drowned in liquid pig feed when rules were not followed. 8 June 2022.

    A food waste recycling company has been found guilty of corporate manslaughter after two workers drowned in a tanker of semi-liquid pig feed. Dad-to-be Nathan Walker, 19, and his colleague Gavin Rawson, 35, were working at Greenfeeds Ltd when they were overcome by toxic fumes.

    Deep sh*t?

    Two men drowned in liquid pig feed when rules were not followed (msn.com)

    1. Quite a shocking story of negligence by the company management.

      A food waste recycling company has been found guilty of corporate manslaughter after two workers drowned in a tanker of semi-liquid pig feed. Dad-to-be Nathan Walker, 19, and his colleague Gavin Rawson, 35, were working at Greenfeeds Ltd when they were overcome by toxic fumes.

      The two men, who were yard workers at the firm’s base, were found face down in the liquid inside the tank on the afternoon of December 22, 2016. They were pronounced dead at the scene at Church Farm, on Normanton Lane, Normanton, Leics.

      Following a six-week trial at Leicester Crown Court, the company was found guilty of two counts of corporate manslaughter. The firm’s directors, Ian Leivers, 59, and his wife Gillian, 60, of Newark, Notts., were also convicted over the deaths alongside employee Stewart Brown, 69.

      Mr Leivers was found guilty of breaching health and safety rules while his wife was convicted of two counts of gross negligence manslaughter. She was also convicted of health and safety breaches.

      Brown, of Mansfield, Notts., was found guilty of health and safety breaches but was cleared of two counts of gross negligence manslaughter. Jurors heard the company produced bio-fuel and pig feed from recycled products which were then delivered using road haulage tankers.

      On the afternoon of the tragedy Mr Walker had climbed into a tanker to clean it with a power washer so that it could be emptied of pig feed. Tragically, he got into difficulties and when he shouted for help, Mr Rawson dashed over to help.

      He selflessly climbed inside the tanker and tried to haul Mr Walker to safety but both men became overcome by the fumes and drowned in the liquid. Both men were pulled from the tanker after a saw was used to cut holes in the side of it.

      Read more at:-

      https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/two-men-drowned-liquid-pig-7179168

      3. A company I used to visit in the 80s when I was inspecting stainless tanks made for the nuclear industry suffered the loss of one of it’s employees who went into a tank to clean it not knowing Argon gas had accumulated in the bottom following a test.. Unfortunately he died and the guy who went in to try and drag him out was very lucky to escape with his life. I was there immediately following the incident. I believe the company was fined.

    2. What a senseless waste of two lives. And having sat through H&S prosecutions, as well as civil cases for damages, I find it difficult to understand how such a case could take no less than 6 weeks to complete.

      1. I notice that the deaths occurred in December 2016, 5½ bloody years ago.
        How the hell has it been allowed to drag on for so long?

        1. ‘Morning, BoB, it seems so much dross is in the judicial system, being handled by seemingly incompetant people and very biased Judges and JPs, that cases drag on like this one, probably in the hope that they’ll go away. Mostly, they don’t.

        2. ‘Morning, BoB, it seems so much dross is in the judicial system, being handled by seemingly incompetant people and very biased Judges and JPs, that cases drag on like this one, probably in the hope that they’ll go away. Mostly, they don’t.

    3. msn.com – what a horrible flickering page and no clue as to where the pig-sh1t story is.

  10. Good morning all.
    An bright overcast start after last night’s heavy rain, thankfully now paused until this afternoon, and an almost warm 10½°C on the yard thermometer.

    I’m not going to be on for long as I need to be out of the house by 9ish. Off to Derby for meeting with stepson’s consultant and then, hopefully, take him out for a couple of hours.

  12. Good morning all

    Blustery day , weather is as indecisive as our PM . The wind would be in his sails .

    Moh off to play golf on a different course 30 miles away, dressed for all seasons ,he will probably need his waterproofs.

      2. Happy birthday to a Nottler who banishes the ‘bleus’ with an ‘a’ of a day, everyday.

      5. Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Bleau! Hope you have a fantastic day! 🍾🎉🎂

    9. Happy birthday Bleau and hope you celebrate in style. Will raise a glass to you later….well, not too late ;-))

  14. Just a few of what are, in my view, the more meaningful letters:

    SIR – Mr Johnson has some fiercely loyal supporters who, no matter how he behaves, stand resolute in their allegiance to him.

    But to most of the electorate it is unacceptable that at the very top of government there appears to be a moral vacuum. Too many important issues are at stake in our country and the world for this to continue.

    The Prime Minister should only make policies and decisions with the focus on the country he serves, not with the sole aim of serving himself. For this reason we must have new leadership.

    Caroline Wildman
    Buckland, Oxfordshire

    The final paragraph says it all.

    * * *

    SIR – The Prime Minister was willing on Monday night to offer tax cuts to save his skin, but has hitherto been unwilling to do so to help the electorate.

    Charlie Bladon
    Cattistock, Dorset

    Yes, just another wild suggestion, made solely for the purposes of self-preservation.  He seems to treat his ‘job’- the highest office in the land – as some kind of plaything.

    * * *

    SIR – The vote by Conservative MPs reflects the view in the country. Partygate was a smokescreen behind which MPs showed their concern at the Government’s direction of travel.

    Both MPs and Conservative voters wonder why none of the policies in the Conservative manifesto have been implemented. If Mr Johnson is to survive as PM there are obvious things he needs to do.

    1 Complete the exit from the EU, getting rid of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

    2 Stop the National Insurance rise and reduce taxes, to encourage investment.

    3 Get rid of the net-zero target and use all the facilities we have to reduce energy costs.

    4 Erase wokery from the public services and get civil servants back in their offices.

    5 Reform the NHS.

    These are basic Conservative policies, and if the Government is seen to be acting to put them into practice it will win an election in 2024, whether Mr Johnson is still PM or not.

    George Kelly
    Buckingham

    Only one minor problem, George Kelly – in that sea of faces around an absurdly crowded cabinet room, I struggle to see anyone who can rightly claim to be a proper Conservative.  Ergo, we are doomed.

    And finally…

    SIR – On July 25 2019 you published a letter of mine stating that I would always check to see whether a future employee had cleaned their shoes.

    It saddens me to say that, in the case of Boris Johnson, my instincts were correct.

    Mick Kelly
    Salisbury, Wiltshire

    Quite so, Mick Kelly.  Johnson’s appearance usually makes a sack of horse manure look smart!

    1. Caroline Wildman writes about the moral vacuum at the top of Government.

      She obviously doesn’t remember the cynical moral vacuum in the Blair governments which have caused such damage to Britain.

      1. We’ve had a moral vacuum in government since November, 1990.
        An 11 year interlude between mendacious post WWII governments.

    2. Interesting comments and I agree with all said. But we need another Kelly to enact the process. Ned Kelly.

        1. We went to Melbourne jail where he was hung, it’s quite eerie when you can stand along side the actual spot where they dropped him. And they have a death mask. Ugly ferker he was.

    3. Johnson cannot be trusted to put anything of consequence from the Tory’s election manifesto in to place; it is becoming clear that he has an alternative manifesto which he will attempt to deliver e.g. Net Zero and mass immigration. Self preservation has to be his #1 priority and he has, for the moment, hoodwinked a sufficient number of his MPs into believing his rhetoric. June 23rd will, hopefully, show that the conservative electorate are waking up to the fraud they have placed in No 10.
      Johnson is not alone, presently there is a dearth of trustworthy MPs in the HoC. UK, we have a problem.

    5. Tax cuts are not enough. Taxes need to be scrapped. Those on energy, fuel and food. Abandon VAT. Be radical. Reduce corporation tax to 5%. Make income tax 15%. Scrap NI – but set up a pension scheme – reverse Brown’s tax theft. Adopt the blasted Singaporean tax code!

  15. Allison Pearson in today’s DT:

    COMMENT

    My love affair with Boris is over

    The Prime Minister has brought about his downfall by showing a high-handed disregard for his biggest supporters

    ALLISON PEARSON 7 June 2022 • 7:00pm

    Now this is not the end. But it is, perhaps, the beginning of the end. After the Remarkably Little Confidence (and Barely Disguised Despair) vote, the Prime Minister is badly wounded. All the precedents look terrible for him. Boris Johnson’s team briefed beforehand that he would be OK if he performed better than Theresa May in her confidence vote of 2018. He did considerably worse, with 41 per cent of his own MPs wanting him to go.

    Just six months after she won her vote, May was forced out of office because people had cottoned onto the fact she was offering Brino (Brexit in name only). Johnson is a much better dissembler than May but, with slowly dawning horror, Tory voters have realised that the man who was once their hero is Cino – Conservative in name only. No wonder people are upset. We thought we were voting for Winston Churchill and we got the shifty offspring of Edward Heath and Greta Thunberg.

    “It’s all a Remainer plot!”, cry the Back Boris supporters. If it were, it could easily be swatted away. But it’s far more serious than that. If you close your eyes and smile, you may still be able to recall the euphoria of the night of December 13 2019. We were so damn chuffed, weren’t we? Johnson had slain the Corbynbeast and secured the biggest Tory majority for more than 30 years. Basking in popular affection, entrusted with the hopes of millions, he had a golden opportunity to write a glorious chapter in the history books, and he squandered it. Apart from Brexit, for what exactly will the Johnson premiership be remembered? Exorbitant Ottoman-brothel wallpaper and hosting “work gatherings” in Number 10 at a time when ordinary people risked arrest if they defied the rules to answer an SOS from an elderly parent.

    Although, to be fair, this personal tragedy for the Prime Minister is not down to Partygate. Those boos outside St Paul’s Cathedral were not about booze. Not primarily anyway. To find out why 148 Conservative MPs voted as they did on Monday night, let’s travel up the M1 and turn off onto the A642 for Wakefield. The town is preparing for a by-election on June 23 (there will be one in Tiverton and Honiton on the same day, but we’ll come to that). Robert, a Telegraph reader who is canvassing for the Conservatives, reports that things are absolutely dire on the doorstep. Campaigners are coming up against thousands of people who voted Tory just two-and-a-half years ago and who all say the same thing. “They won’t vote Boris,” says Robert. “There’s a feeling the Conservative vote will simply not turn out because of Boris. It’s grim.”

    The Tories have a strong candidate in Nadeem Ahmed. Wakefield born and bred, Ahmed is a popular and respected councillor who could pick up enough votes to hold the narrowish majority of 3,358, which his party won in this traditional Labour seat in the Red Wall landslide. Robert says there is little enthusiasm for Labour or their candidate who has been parachuted into the Yorkshire constituency. So the Tories should hold Wakefield? Yes. But Boris.

    “My subjective view,” says Robert, “is that if we had a Conservative leader with Conservative policies, we’d do alright.” Unfortunately, voters are telling Robert and his fellow door-knockers that they “don’t recognise the Government as Conservative”. Who knew that Tory voters were upset their government wasn’t showing any sign of being Conservative?

    Well, there’s me and pretty much anyone else who doesn’t work in the Westminster echo chamber and who gets their feedback from actual people or from the splendid, below-the-line comments of Telegraph readers, not small focus groups or electoral models. For months, I have been hearing from lifelong Conservatives (members and donors) who say they will never vote Tory again until that “charlatan/buffoon/Net Zero numpty/green socialist/habitual liar” (take your pick of angry epithets) is removed. The Westminster village may get excited about the threat to the PM from Tory rebels; trust me, it’s as nothing compared to the rancid disillusionment of Tory voters.

    Hell hath no fury like a diehard Conservative scorned. We may be about to witness that fury’s full force. The True Blue seat of Tiverton and Honiton has a by-election on the same day as Wakefield. Connoisseurs of dramatic irony will note that June 23 2022 is exactly six years since the UK voted to leave the European Union. Tiverton overwhelmingly backed Leave. Yet, there is now a strong possibility that the constituency will seek to punish Johnson, the very politician who, summoning up all his guile and courage, snatched the Brexit ball from a scrum of Establishment Remainers and drove it over the line. And here we get to the nub of the matter. Downing Street likes to threaten that, if the party deposes a proven winner like Johnson, it will end up with a Labour or Lab/LibDem/SNP coalition government. Ah, but what if the PM is now more liability than asset?

    In 2019, Neil “tractor porn” Parish held Tiverton and Honiton with a majority of 24,239. It should be a safe seat, right? But Boris. If the Liberal Democrats take Tiverton and Honiton (just as they won Chesham and Amersham a year ago when dismayed Tory voters sat on their hands), there will be 291 Conservative MPs who, come the general election, will be defending seats that are even less safe. Traditional shire Tories are often called the “red trouser” brigade. Well, it’ll be the brown trouser brigade with the bowel-loosening prospect of an extinction-level event like that.

    While the prime minister is merrily churning out quasi-socialist policies to shore up the Red Wall, most of his own MPs are at risk of being buried as the Blue Wall comes tumbling down.

    “Boris should go,” says one of the formidable Conservative women in The Rantypants Club, a WhatsApp group I belong to. ”You ask the reason why? It’s because we don’t love him any more.” 

    “He’s Left-wing economically, sticking with the green stuff in the middle of an energy crisis FGS and busy incinerating his own majority,” says another Mrs Rantypants, who campaigned passionately for Brexit. “I’m totally fed up with Boris and Desperately seeking a Susan.”

    I suppose that all the women in our group, once fervent Boris fans, feel a bit like a long-suffering wife with a faithless husband. He takes your adoration and loyalty for granted, then rubs your nose in his infidelities with policies you hate. He tells you not to worry your silly little head when you fret that he’s not the man you voted for. Just look at Boris addressing his Cabinet on Tuesday. No sincere apology for things he got wrong. No commitment to swerve right and be the sensible, low-tax government we crave. Not a sign of humility. What he said was the Tory party “needs to draw a line under the issues our opponents want to talk about”.

    It’s not your opponents, matey. It’s your supporters! This attempt to brazen out Monday night’s shocking result, to insist that all they have to do is “get on with the job” and “deliver on the people’s priorities” when they have been making such a deplorable hash of that job and have ignored the people’s priorities – runaway immigration, punitive rises in National Insurance at a time of hardship, reform of the NHS, the ruinous commitment to Net Zero – would be laughable if things weren’t so desperate. 

    Whatever the Back Boris lot may allege, there is no need for any character assassination of the prime minister. Boris is his own best assassin. He has brought about his downfall by showing a high-handed disregard for those who loved him best. 

    So why do I feel torn? And I know I’m not alone in that feeling. Millions of Conservatives are desperately sad that their most entertaining and energetic performer has come to this sorry pass. Much as I am disappointed in the prime minister, and increasingly angry at the casual disrespect he shows Tory voters, I loathe his enemies more. (His enemies are my enemies.) After all the party shenanigans, after the shameless waywardness with the truth, after policies which are anathema to any right-thinking person, part of me still wants to defend him. At his best, Boris Johnson championed our creed like no other and spread the gospel far and wide.

    But this can’t go on. It really can’t. (Does anyone seriously believe it can?) Ministers may still be too paralysed, whether through fear or loyalty, to act, but facts must be faced. The British people are hardly likely to support a party when 41 per cent of its own MPs don’t trust the leader.

    If the two by-election results are as bad as we fear, the prime minister could resign and give a colleague two years to regain the confidence of the electorate. No individual is more important than the survival of the party he serves. If Boris were to make an honourable exit, he would do much to restore the enormous affection and respect which has been lost.

    So, here we are, at the beginning of the end. Desperately seeking a Susan, or a Penny or a Mark or a Tom or a Kemi. Not a personality. We need someone of character who gets things done. In 2019, Conservatives played their Joker, and won. Now, we need to find an ace up the sleeve, and win again.

    * * *

    Some of the BTL posters are not holding back:

    Helen Andrews13 HRS AGO

    Boris was the PM who gave us hope after the duplicitous and depressing May. He had a huge majority to make a difference and sort out all the things we felt so helpless about – our borders, the BBC, the NHS etc etc. OK, it was an ‘anyone but Corbyn’ election, but Boris could have done anything he wanted because we all gave him the benefit of the doubt and wanted his team to do what was required.

    So what did he do?

    Shacked up with a greener than green who filled his head with anything and everything to p off as many people as possible, made sure he ditched the brains of the outfit (who didn’t care if no one liked him, he just wanted to sort out the Blob), then lost Frost, one of the few real conservatives.

    So much Boris could have done, he could have been one of the greats. So much he has done that just makes him look a fool and makes us worry about the fabric of our country becoming more unrecognisable by the day.

    But his biggest mistake (or was it planned) is to have made the political environment ready for the Remainers to take us back into Europe.

    Shame on you, Boris.

    William Christie10 HRS AGO

    I care about the chief rule maker being a serial rule breaker – if you can’t follow the rules you make then you have no authority. I also care that I voted for brave change and for a leader who might make the most of Brexit and some of the advantages it offered. He had the majority to do some great things. Instead we have left of centre policies and a government driving a green agenda through far too quickly in a time of great economic fragility putting the UK economy at a great disadvantage and hammering hard working people trying to get on in life. Green agenda needs addressing, but in a realistic timeframe. Please go Boris! For the sake of the people. You’ve lost my vote after 30 years of loyal Conservative support. If you’ve lost me you’ve lost a hell of a lot of swing voters and a good majority of usual loyalists like me.

    1. “…the shifty offspring of Edward Heath and Greta Thunberg…”

      Brilliant!

    2. People still think that Carrie is responsible for Net Zero, and if she goes, everything will be alright.
      This is utterly short-sighted and unrealistic.
      Net Zero was started by Boris’s WEF-follower predecessors.
      It’s a WEF policy.
      The most important question of all isn’t being asked: How can we get a Prime Minister who will break away from the WEF great reset agenda?

    3. “We thought we were voting for Winston Churchill”

      I didn’t vote for him and his party in 2019 and have never trusted him an inch. How anyone could compare Johnson with Churchill is beyond me.

    4. Where government consistently goes wrong is in thinking it is the unit that can make people’s lives better. It can’t. never does. The dead hand of the state ruins everything.

      Let’s say there’s a bloke in Wakefield who thinks ‘I really want to make hats.’ Those silly pineapple ones Astoc women wear. He can’t. He faces an uphill battle of regulation, tax and costs to do so. He can’t just buy some material from ‘somewhere’ and get on with it. Even if he doesn’t start a company, he faces heavy import duties and taxes.

      Our hatter is stuffed, his idea dying on an altar of waste. Now here comes government! A giant juggernaut of inefficiency and cost! We’ll help you! Shout MPs (for their own publicity). Here’s a grant! Oh, it’s a loan really. Oh, and here’s the thirty page form. And are you employing women? What about ethnics? What are you paying them? Where is your diversity commitment? No money for you, I’m afraid. Oh, and we’re watching you now. We’ll have a quarter of your profits directly, and then another 30% if you dare pay yourself a salary.

      Our hatter is dead before he starts and the state sees nothing wrong with this. That is why it is dysfunctional. It creates all these schemes for headlines, but really, it’s only intent is to get the headline. Never to achieve anything because MPs know that people don’t want or need them. In fact, they want to be left alone with low taxes and small government.

      The sad thing is that a lot of people want big government – because it gives them other people’s money. That that same big government is also keeping them poor and dependent has – infuriatingly – them calling for ever bigger government to get ever more of other people’s money. The poor remain poor, the worker gets shafted, more people drop out of work and so the spiral continues, with the state pushing more into the economy to ‘do something’.

      1. Reagan was so right when he said, “The most terrifying nine words are, ‘ I’m from the government and I’m here to help‘.”

    5. Johnson’s a globalist enacting globalist policies e.g. green nonsense and erosion of people’s innate rights. Those remaining conservative somnambulists are are a clear and present danger to those of us who were awake and those who have since woken up. The voters of Wakefield and Totnes have to reject Johnson and the party he claims to represent. Certainly there’s a problem finding a replacement who will govern both for the people and the Country but a huge rejection of Johnson and his policies should act as a warning to any potential leader of the Conservative party who feels inclined to emulate him. Johnson failed to learn from May’s rapid fall from grace, the next leader cannot fail to do so.

  16. The latest from Coalition For Marriage (C4M):

    POLL SHOWS BRITS HAVE ‘DISTORTED IMPRESSION’ OF LGBT NUMBERS

    Dear marriage supporter,

    A poll has found that Brits think there are over eight times more lesbian, gay and bisexual people than there actually are, suggesting that over-representation in the media and public life may be skewing the public’s perceptions of the population.

    The YouGov poll, which asked 1,800 people how large they thought different minority groups were, found that the public think 10% of people are bisexual and 15% are gay or lesbian. In reality, according to the latest official statistics, the actual proportions are 1.3% and 1.8% respectively, figures which are eight times smaller than the public’s estimates.

    The poll followed a similar poll in America, which found much the same thing – the public hugely overestimate the size of minority groups.

    Currently, around 3.1% of UK over-16s identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual. The proportion has been steadily increasing in recent years, particularly among young people, which researchers have suggested is driven mainly by the rise of identity politics and other sociopolitical factors.

    It is still nowhere near as high as public misperceptions would put it, however. Both the massive overestimates and the growth of LGBT identities are undoubtedly a result, in part, of the preoccupation in the media, government and public life with LGBT issues and themes. Schools and family entertainment companies like Disney push LGBT concepts and narratives on ever-younger children.

    Conservative MP Sir John Hayes said: “This distorted impression created by much of the broadcast and online media is so out of tune with the facts as to befuddle people about the true character of Britain… Media preoccupations with minorities are skewing the facts.”

    A big danger of such false impressions is that people who support traditional marriage are intimidated to keep quiet about their views because they believe they are in a tiny minority. They are not.

    At C4M, we are committed to standing up for what vast numbers still think: marriage is between one man and one woman for life.

    * * *

    We Nottlers already knew this, but it’s good to see it confirmed!

    1. Fundamentally,, I’m a libertarian. I believe in freedom from. When I am told to accept something, I don’t want to. However, your choices are your own.

      It is that fundamental freedom from others that continually attacks my life. I’m forced to accept gay marriage because someone else wanted it. Why should I? You’ve had legal parity, get on with it. Why do you get the right to change something centuries old just to suit you?

      Same for gays – fine, do what you want. As long as you are with another consenting adult, all power to your elbow – but you cannot force me to accept your way of life nor you mine. The fundamentals of freedom rest in leaving one another alone rather than domineeringly demanding that others change to suit us.

    2. I can report that the perception that 100% of the occupants of my cottage are fat and old are correctly estimated. The same proportion of retired bearded morris dancers is also adequately represented by the facts.

  17. 353053+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Wednesday 8 June: Boris Johnson must see the end of the road for him as Prime Minister

    Going back on my posting history where I said the wretch cameron was the launch tier of a three stage semi re entry eu missile, may the treacherous was the second tier after her placement farce, leadsome,gove,johnson ALL playing their part, treacherous treasa confirmed her true stance with the nine month delay passing the baton on to the turkish delight who I then mistakenly pegged as the pilot for the brussels return, I was not to far of course seeing he has done his bit.

    Them old lab/lib/con supporting / voting boys sure can pick em, cottagers, treacherous traitors, strongly alledged paedophile dabbles,
    confirmed (dover) illegal replacement units, AND they ALL still find support from the herd.

  18. Good Moaning.
    Please pray for me.
    Today we have four viewings. Not only do I have to be unnaturally tidy, but, worse still, I have to be NICE to people.
    Aaarrgghhhhh …… quadruple gin with my home made Earl Grey syrup at 6.0ish, methinks.

    1. Morning Anne. Most of them will be coming to case the joint so they can come back later and pinch your furniture!

      1. As we will have to down size, I might surreptitiously point out which items need to go.

    2. Don’t forget, bread in warm oven and coffee percolating on hob. Everyone knows it is a trick, but it works an deeper level than mere intelligence.

      3. I was decanting my homemade elderflower cordial during the visit. The aroma wafts a treat.
        The girlies tend to be bowled over by my playroom; I leave out the sewing machine and make sure there is some really attractive material on the table beside it. Plus, ever so negligently, a couple of my needlepoint efforts stacked up against the shelves – one artfully unfinished.

      4. I bought my cottage at auction. The gangster who’d bought next door took little chunks out of the ceiling upstairs, did a whoopsy and didn’t flush, leaving an air of decay that would put off bidders.

        When my father raised the bid from £42k immediately to £45k, the villain who had already bought next door for £44k smelt a rat, and thought is was the seller trying to pull a fast one by jumping up the bidding, so he let it go. It didn’t dawn on him that he was against an independent bidder who wanted to live there.

    4. House viewings? Apparently people can’t imagine a room unless it’s painted white. They can’t imagine a room with their life in it.

      I said to the idiot agent person – that’s silly. Why complain about a table when it won’t be there? The chap, to his credit did say ‘The less people have to do to imagine themselves in a place, the easier it is to sell.’ Which I thought was diplomacy writ large.

      1. When we bought our house, there was a couple being shown round at the same time. You could see the utter dismay on their faces as they looked round. I saw the rooms with rugs that I didn’t yet own, lined with bookshelves and my pictures…I made an offer on it as quickly as I could. I don’t think anyone else even got the chance to view it!

        1. Ours had been on the market for four months when we came to view it and they were thinking of letting it out. We put in our offer and never looked back. The nooks and crannies and plenty of room for books sold it to me – the en suite shower did too.

          1. Our current home had been on the market for well over a year. They eventually dropped the price considerably to a realistic level.
            When I viewed, I commented that I had driven past every day on the school run (we lived in a different village). The man asked why on earth I hadn’t viewed beef.
            So tempting to point out that the state of the place guaranteed no sale at the previous over-pricing. It wasn’t just untidy, it was filthy and in a very poor state of repair.

          3. It took a lot of work! The garden wasn’t much better, neglected and infested with bindweed, and lots of old rubbish. However, our then young children had great fun making ramps for their bikes and little tractors with all the old planks of wood and bricks.

      2. It Always makes me laugh when people on the TV programmes walk in and say ooohh it’s lovey and light in here. And every bulb including lamps in the house are switched on.

      3. I have to admit that Allan Towers is High Victorian – in size and spirit.
        That tends to scare away the lovers of minimalism.

          1. 🙂
            I did say Allan Towers is High Victorian.
            I think we have one less plant in the sittingroom!

          3. Not cluttered, just a home. Unlike modern, grey shells devoid of personality.

      4. When I bought this house I had to look beyond the garishly coloured ceilings, orange large flowered wallpaper, orange (“Harvest Gold”) bathroom suite and lack of panelled doors (replaced by reeded glass), plus the bricked up grates to see that it was a house that could be restored to its former traditional glory.

    5. I could get worse Anne it might be someone you know being nosey. It happens. It’s better to let the agents show them round with an appointment schedule.
      Go out for the day. 😊

      1. We have a mixture; some we show round, others the agents do the job. So far, it’s working well.
        (Apart from Spartie thinking he’s Cerberus.)

        1. Where does Sparied)e get his other two heads? Or is it, like Dotty, the barking is equivalent to three (headed) dogs?

    6. At least you’re not being belted out into the snow, as I was when selling my mother’s house due to covid restrictions.

      Enjoy the gin.

    8. 4 viewings … today, goodheavens , you really must have a des res.

      Actually houses are selling like hotcakes .. with in a day even .

      Down here the few that are on the market , vanish off the page with in hours , a few stick around a week or so then sell.. and poor owners find they have nowhere to go when a sale happens quickly… as what happened to us 22 years ago when a couple from Essex bought our old house in a day .. in the Wimborne area ..

      Good luck Anne ,

      1. Ta ever so. One down; and she was definitely someone who ‘got’ Allan Towers.
        After a couple of whinging bummers last week, it is nice to have people to whom you would happily pass the torch.

    1. There’s a strange doublespeak goes on whereby they’re globalists when they’re oppressing the plebs but nationalists when they’re being anticolonial colonialists.

  23. ‘Morning All

    WooHoo!! At last a return on our savings and what a return 50% bonus after 4 years!!

    Save £50 a month for 4 years and get a £1200 bonus!!

    Oh Wait……

    Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis has urged millions of people in the

    UK to check if they can get £1,200 payment from a little-known bank

    account. According to Martin, the account is ‘unbeatable’.

    But if

    you want to open one, you’ll have to fit the criteria. You’ll need to

    be on Universal Credit or benefits, and have less than £6,000 saved.

    Help to Save is a type of savings account available to low income workers

    claiming Universal Credit or Working Tax Credit. It is run by the

    Government and offers a bonus of 50p for every £1 you save – this means

    you’re getting a 50% return on your money.

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/martin-lewis-says-unbeatable-bank-24163833
    Such largesse,I wonder where this generousity comes from,our taxes of course………

    1. Printing money causes inflation.
      Printing money causes inflation.
      Printing money causes inflation.
      Not Putin, not any virus, not reckless consumers, not acts of God.
      Printing money causes inflation.
      And the Bank of England and the politicians KNOW it. But they still do it.

      At the end of the scheme, the 1200 payment will probably buy you a coffee.

    2. Printing money causes inflation.
      Printing money causes inflation.
      Printing money causes inflation.
      Not Putin, not any virus, not reckless consumers, not acts of God.
      Printing money causes inflation.
      And the Bank of England and the politicians KNOW it. But they still do it.

      At the end of the scheme, the 1200 payment will probably buy you a coffee.

    1. A two-minute portion of that vastly important speech, on Twatter, is colossally insufficient. It needs to be broadcast, far and wide, on a much more accessible platform. I’d love to know where to find it in its entirety.

        1. Thanks for that, appreciated. I have to confess, I thought it was an MP at first; it didn’t dawn on me that it was Bob Moran speaking.

        1. Just shows the government is our enemy. It does not do what we want it do do but does what it wants to do all the time.

          1. Government is in harness to its donors and the WEF. The population is to be exploited and milked to satisfy their demands.

  27. Great comment btl the TCW piece calling for Boris to be toppled.

    Julian Flood • 38 minutes ago

    As
    a politician it is possible to deny reality and get away with it until
    the time comes when it becomes suddenly not possible. It may be that we
    are reaching that latter time.

    The lies told about the EU endured
    for decades, the same with the compromised ‘science’ of global warming.
    The referendum, resisted before and after the fact by our political and
    (particularly) civil service class, was the first break in the dam. The
    coming economic crash could provide the incentive for more.

    Here
    are the facts. By adhering slavishly to the Net Zero agenda we are
    heading to a very unpleasant future: low productivity, high prices and
    reduced employment, a full-on Depression. Savings are being debauched by
    policies that seem to have been designed to damage the thrift of
    lifetimes while reckless and profligate schemes plod on untouched by
    discipline or reality. Does HS2 ring a bell? Search the records of
    Hinkley C and the worldwide slow-motion disaster that is the EPR
    building programme. Then try to understand why in the light of that
    information this administration is doing its damnedest to push ahead
    with Sizewell C and, no doubt if they get away with it, the next batch
    of these ill-designed and almost unbuildable non-solutions to our
    looming energy crisis. Follow the rapidly escalating costs of keeping
    the Grid balanced (£1,000,000,000 a year at the last count), check the
    subsidies paid to big landowners with their solar blights and wind
    turbine subsidy leeching. Try to grasp the scale of taxes, imposts and
    deductions paid by our industry while India and China build ever bigger
    coal-fired power stations and use their low energy costs to tear our
    industries to shreds.

    Just look at the numbers behind the dash for
    electric vehicles and work through them: you will then understand that
    we do not have the generating capacity to charge those vehicles while
    keeping our lights on and our population in work. And when you’ve
    recovered from that, check out the even more stupid plan (from a
    selection of stupidities which would only appear sensible to someone
    with a degree in the History of English Theatre) to convert home heating
    to heat pumps. Johnson famously doesn’t like work, but it seems that
    no-one else in the Cabinet does either, not if it involves sums or
    science or engineering.

    There’s the reality. The UK economy is going to crash and it will take a lifetime to recover.

    There is an escape route.

    Under
    the Midlands there is a huge shale gas reserve. It could power our
    renaissance for one hundred years. A crash programme would bring the
    Hodder-Bowland shale into large scale production in five years and
    cheap, low carbon electricity production could then power us out of
    depression. Getting there will hurt. It will require political courage
    to go for it now it before the riots begin, but it will happen.

    So who is there with the education, the STEM-literacy, the determination to seize the opportunity?

    Damn few. Let’s see them step forward.

    2. Gosh, cant possibly imagine what happened here. “A man” being about the only clue. Looking for a snackbar maybe, should have gone to specsavers.

    3. Rushing to see the film The Lady of Heaven perhaps?

      That story has almost vanished from the MSM, funny that…

  29. Yo All

    Just back from the toothwright and it was painful
    She had a quick look round at my molars (Examination) £39.00

    Hole where filling was lost from ‘tidied’ up, (No needles needed) Hole filled: £99.00

    Total £138.00, that was the bit that hurt.

    She did want me to have an X-Ray. I declined, did not want to sell the house to pay for it

    1. I pay £30 a month for Denplan. Covers all works, 4 hygienist appointments a year and X-rays except Lab work.

      1. Yo Fizz

        Can you send me toothwrights details

        Getting my disguise ready

      2. I do similar – £25 per month now – a rise of nearly £4 over last year. I see the hygenist twice and the dentist twice now (used to be annually). the new dentist was happy to see me twice so I’ll go along with that that. He took x rays last time I went but I’ve had no other treatment for a long time.

          2. My teeth got into a bit o a state at one point. He had a lot of catching up to do.

      3. I used to fly out to Turkey and have the work done twice as well and at a fraction of the cost. The work my dentist in Marmaris did for me in 2006 is still in place and I have needed nothing else done since then.

        1. I think you can purchase Denplan from anywhere but it is the inhouse insurance of my dentist. Your dentist may use a different insurer.
          My dentist graded my teeth and the condition they are in and gives it a score A to D normally. The better your teeth are the less per month you pay. I would think all private dentists would offer this service.

          You then just have your treatments and swan out without paying.

          I think i got all that right but speak to your dentist. If you are having regular work done i’m sure you could work out what savings or not you would make. Mine paid for itself in the first year as i had a root canal and crown fitted. It cost me £100 for the lot. Normal price between £500 and £700.

    2. An advantage of living where dentistry is not covered by the health service. People either have costs covered by dental insurance or alternatively they have no teeth!

      1. I hope so…..

        As long as I keep my backside pointing at the roof panels, we will be OK……..

          1. Yo vw

            Definitely sunshine….

            I use Fartleberries to raise the wind for SWMBO to dry the washing on the Rotary Drier

  31. One person reportedly killed as car is driven into crowd in Berlin. 8 June 2022.

    A car has been driven into a crowd of people in western Berlin, killing one person, the newspaper Das Bild has reported.
    A spokesperson for the German capital’s fire service told Reuters about 30 people had been injured.

    “A man is believed to have driven into a group of people. It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act,” police said, adding that he was being held at the scene.

    The incident took place on Wednesday near the scene of a fatal attack on 19 December 2016, when Anis Amri, a refused Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, hijacked a truck, killed the driver and then ploughed it into a crowded Christmas market, killing 11 more people and injuring dozens of others.

    The Germans are even slower to “Fess up than we are. If I remember correctly it took around a month to admit that the original guy was a Muzzie!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/car-driven-into-crowd-berlin

    1. It’s a small improvement that they’re admitting to the existence of the driver. We usually get, “a car drove into”.

    2. I’m slow today…!

      As usual, no discussion on the driver. Surely a ‘Far Right’ white Christian activist, no doubt.

  32. The NHS has been told to cut “diversity and inclusion” jobs as a landmark report set out plans for the biggest shake-up of management in a generation.

    The Health Secretary called for “urgent” action to improve the quality of leadership in the health service, as part of a war on “waste and wokery” amid record NHS spending.

    Action Stations, Action Stations, Actions Stations

    Airborne Porcine Squadron Incoming

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/08/nhs-cut-diversity-inclusion-jobs-management-shakeup/

    1. A comprehensive shake-up is long, long overdue.

      Teach the managers about e-mail and letter-writing using their own, out-of-date computers (operating on Windows XP) and reduce (get rid of) the secretarial (gossipy female) class at a stroke. It will also make the ‘manager’ more aware and more careful of what they write.

    2. “The Health Secretary called for…”
      That’s the easy part, now how are you going to make it happen in the face of a determined Blob and no more money because your predecessors have run the fiat currency into the ground?

    3. Get rid of the eq and div act. Get rid of race relations. Just repeal them.

  33. Why I left the left. Spiked 8 June 2022.

    The egalitarian, pro-worker left is gone and it’s not coming back.

    Better late than never I suppose. That the writer is Canadian probably explains the delay. The left in the UK; best exemplified by the Labour Party, abandoned the White Working Class twenty years ago. The Tory Party has now followed them into the realms of Marxist Ideology. It’s not going to end well!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/08/why-i-left-the-left/

    1. Ah the NDP who sold their soul in an effort to remain relevant and are now propping up that Trudeau regime.

      Their latest idea to help bring inflation under control is to impose a windfall profit tax on all successful companies. Taxes raised will be handed out as grants to everyone.

      This is on top of a retroactive bank profit tax that Trudeau announced earlier this year.

      1. As has been ably demonstrated for years, increase tax and see revenue income drop.

        When will these wonks learn basic economics?

        1. If the treasury was remotely interested in economics it wouldn’t be the Treasury.

      2. As Ayn Rand explained, socialism works by bleeding the productive class until production necessarily ceases. The weird thing is that the leeches fail to see that they’re kiiling the host and expect the blood supply to be endless.

        1. Ayn Rand, one of my favourite authoresses.

          The ‘Equalisation of Opportunity’ bill.

        2. Ayn Rand, one of my favourite authoresses.

          The ‘Equalisation of Opportunity’ bill.

        3. Thanks for that, Sue. Shamefully my experience and knowledge of Ayn Rand is somewhat depleted. I intend to rectify that.

          2. George, books to look for, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead – although written in the 1950s they both illustrate the intense damage caused by Socialism and are equally cogent today.

  34. Price of UK petrol makes biggest daily jump in 17 years. 8 June 2022.

    The price of petrol at UK forecourts has made its biggest daily jump in 17 years, as the cost of filling a family car with the fuel threatens to exceed £100 for the first time.

    A litre of petrol cost an average of 180.73p on Tuesday, according to the data firm Experian Catalist – up an astonishing 2.23p compared with the previous day.

    A similar increase on Wednesday would break the £100 barrier for the average cost of filling a tank for a 55-litre family car.

    Some forecourts are already selling petrol above £2 a litre, including a BP garage on the A1 near Sunderland, which is charging 202.9p.

    Vlad must be laughing himself sick!

    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jun/08/price-of-uk-petrol-makes-biggest-daily-jump-in-17-years

  35. Students training to be next generation of forensic crime scene investigators (at Exeter University) have been given a trigger warning they may see images of death in case they find it ‘offensive or traumatising’.

    It declares: ‘The content of Forensic Science contains images, depictions and descriptions of murder, sexual assault, self-harm, violence and death that some students may find offensive and/or traumatising.

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/06/08/11/58823375-10895991-The_Forensic_Science_course_at_Exeter_is_run_by_Dr_Katie_Solomon-a-127_1654682401781.jpg

    The Forensic Science course at Exeter is run by Dr Katie Solomon, Dopey looking bint, ain’t she?

    1. I imagine the university has to provide such and both faculty and student are rolling their eyes in dismay.

      It’s all to do with insurance. Where before someone complaining would have been told ‘what did you expect to see? Grow up, you stupid child’ Now they have an ambulance chasing lawyer offering them six figures from university pockets.

    1. See the way she’s looking at you? That’s how a Lion looks at Deer. You’re a consumable, and will be thrown away when she’s used you up.’

  37. 353053+ up ticks,

    Following the current voting pattern as in the close shop it will be nearer allah than any United Kingdom patriotism,

    AwakenWithJP
    @AwakenWithJP

    Enes Kanter FREEDOM
    @EnesKanter

    Charlie Kirk
    @charliekirk11

    Tucker Carlson
    Steve Bannon.

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    2h
    What a patriotic PM would do is address the nation & say & do the following:

    1) Admit that the World is under assault by tyrannical Globalist forces.
    2) Assert the national will to resist it.
    3) Reject & reverse damaging policies – climate change legislation, mass immigration, control by international bodies, UN, WHO etc.
    4) Fully implement Brexit.
    5) Announce a national survival plan to make us as self sufficient as possible in food & energy.
    6) Form international alliances, eg for trade & cooperation, with likeminded nations.

    Do what Churchill did in 1940: tell the nation it faces an existential threat, & be honest about the hardships & dangers we will face to resist & overcome it.

    All that would take a great leader, & there isn’t one.

    1. The predominant religion in Armenia is Christian, so it is less likely that the perpetrator is Muslim.

      1. The predominant religion in England is Christian but we have plenty of Muslim terrorists.

        1. Not all Muslim’s are terrorists but it does seem that all terrorists are muslims.

  39. Now don’t all faint but this is true. MH had a letter a couple of weeks ago to go for an abdominal aortic screening- he has several invitations over the months but we have cancelled. I emailed them to say that again we would be cancelling as we had enough hospital appointments to deal with. The lady emailed me back and asked that as we were dealing with hospital visits whether my husband had had a scan recently. Well yes, so I replied and gave her the date, time and where it was done. Their Consultant radiologist viewed his scan and there is no sign of an abdominal aneurysm.
    Efficiency and common sense from this lady and it will save them time and money and us too as we won’t have to waste time cancelling.
    Why can’t all of the NHS display the sense of this lady?
    Also, I shall be phoning my hospital this afternoon as I have heard nothing.

    1. Great. The AO screening is very straightforward but good to get out of the way via a previous scan.
      Keep at ’em.

    2. Excellent news for you both and thank goodness for someone who used her common sense. (Which is not as common as you might think!). Good luck with your phone call.

      1. Quite a few of them in patient facing roles should be fired. I have witnessed their callousness myself. Doctors, Nurses, Medics, Ambulance, Porters and Cleaners all seem fine. It’s the Admin and Receptionists who are the worst.

        It’s lucky you and Alf are driving later in the month. Looks like the possible strikes are going to impact travel over most of the country.

    3. That’s good. Did you mention difficulty and expense in all these hospital visits? In my area there is a free minibus. Plus i believe there is a scheme where you can claim your expenses back. If so, try these kind souls for help and advice…NHS Patient Liason Service relative to where you live.

      1. I do have a phone number for a car service but it’s not free and I prefer the kindness and friendship of our local cabbies- right now anyway. They are all so nice and it’s not that expensive thus far.
        I do bear in mind all the helpful advice I get here which is good to know and to refer to.

  40. In 1954 food rationing in the UK came to an end. Nine years after the end of WW2. As wheat was still being grown in Canada and the USA, as Argentina and Uruguay still produced beef, as Australia and New Zealand still produced lamb, and had done without interruption, there was surely no shortage? The German U-Boats had stopped sinking merchant shipping nine years previously, why did it take so long?
    Was it that the UK was so broke that no one could afford anything? Was the post-war Labour government completely incompetent? Were food supplies being prioritised to the poor starving Europeans who had started the war?Were the British people being hoodwinked and manipulated yet again?
    Is this going to happen again? Fuel coupons, food rationing?
    (NB The population of the UK is now 50% greater than it was in 1939.)

    1. My mother’s opinion was that the socialists kept rationing because they wanted to control people.

    1. Thank you ogga.
      A must read for everyone especially those who continue with wear them.
      I read an article some time ago that a group of surgeons operated without masks and post op infection were lower with that group than those carried out by mask surgeons.

      1. When you tell a mask-wearer that the air they’re breathing in comes round the edge of the mask, you can see the information bouncing off their brain.

        1. I think if they’ve been wearing them for 2+ years year brains have long since been shrunken to the size of a pea.

          1. Saw a lass get off the train just now, then carefully fit her mask whilst standing on the platform. Sigh…

    1. Four from the right third row back.

      edit; 6th from the right fourth row back.
      when i enlarged the pic some of them dropped orf.

      Arrrggghhh. 6th from the right and 3 rows back !!!

      1. That’s David Wood who became a doctor when he grew up.

        But I am in that row – the tallest and the best looking one! (Recollections and opinions may vary on that!)

      2. John Dean, the little pipsqueak at the end of the row, was a Devon champion squash player and the Ist XV scrum half. He became the youngest brigadier of his generation in the British Army. He was probably the most popular boy in the school.

        1. Actually librarians are very nice….unless you return a book with a banana squashed inside- yes, that happened. Made the kid’s mother pay for a replacement.

          2. Haven’t read any Terry Pratchett books.
            I had a sign on my desk- one side said “The Library Goddess is in.” The other side said, ” The Library Dragon is in.” I rotated it depending on my mood;-)

            I have a signed copy of The Library Dragon by Carmen Agra Deedy which was given to me by a 5th grade teacher. She wrote inside, ” To (school’s name) very own Library Dragon.” It is a treasured possession which my ex was trying to throw out.
            Also, a student gave me a bag which has Library Goddess on it- for some reason, MH loves this bag and has no qualms about being seen in public with it. Mind you, at 6′ 4″ not many would mess with him ;-))

      3. It is the House Matron seated on the extreme left. It was her job to trifle with hosiery (as A.J. Wentworth put it) and sign chits for the school shop so that the cost could be added to the bill. Actually she was not very strict and we all learnt how to forge her signature when we wanted to get something from the tuck shop which required a chit.

        The housemaster and I never saw eye to eye about anything. His wife looked nicer than she actually was.

        Seated on the extreme right was the House Tutor, Ted Crowe. He was a very good cricketer. I remember he hit the best straight six I have ever seen. It cleared the trees, it cleared the road and it cleared the house on the other side of the road and landed in the playing field beyond the house. The bowler was very fast and had been promoted to the First XI when still of Junior Colts age and needed taking down a peg or two.

        Where is Rastus – If it helps I am in between between Ian Clark and Robert Aish!)

        Middle row 8 from the left

        1. The Master in the middle looks like he needs a pee. Lucky for him there is a handy receptacle in front of him.

          And before you posted i edited. I did guess who you were. You can ask me how if you dare. :@)

          1. That’s The Slug – the housemaster who failed to teach me very much Physics (though I did get the “O” level) and tanned my backside from time to time for general delinquency.

      1. Good afternoon Alf

        Actually it would be quite amusing to see fellow Nottlers in group photos when they were adolescents so that we can see if we can identify them.

        Have you a photo of yourself aged 15 in a group of boys?

        2. Good afternoon to you Rastus.
          No I don’t have a group photo at that age. I left school on 26th July 1961, four days before my 15th birthday.

        3. We didn’t have group photos at my BS Comp
          The photographer couldn’t get insurance.

        4. The one we did do I had to go in the middle, as I was taller and broader than everyone else.

          The middle row was stood on benches, I was standing on the floor.

        5. I refuse to let any Nottlers see me at either primary or grammar schools. I was the tallest girl at primary but am still the same height now- 5′ 4″. At primary school, before a brace etc I had sticky out teeth and my nickname was Harold Hare. (Don’t even go there Phizzee!!)
          Thanks to Kings College Dental School, my teeth were sorted so Harold is long gone.
          Some of the photos of any of us when we were younger are cringe worthy.

          1. I was 6’2″ at the age of 14 and that was it – I stopped growing upwards.

            I am now actually shrinking and am barely over 6 foot now and no longer considered tall.

            I am reminded of this exchange between Charmian, Iras and the Soothsayer: in Antony and Cleptara:

            IRAS.
            Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?

            CHARMIAN.
            Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than I, where
            would you choose it?

            IRAS.
            Not in my husband’s nose.

      1. You call yourself a copper !.. We know he is tall. We know he is in row 3 because of his age and he probably had light hair then although his time on Mianda makes that clue dodgy. After several edits which are time stamped you will find that i was first. So there ! I now expect to be promoted to head the Met.

    5. So that’s you to the left of a lad and one just behind who have just spotted the school nurse in her undies up at her window to the left of them?

    6. Third row 6th from the right. Inbetween boy with glasses and boy with dark hair. Boy directly behind your shoulder appears to be looking to the right.

    7. Third row 6th from the right. Inbetween boy with glasses and boy with dark hair. Boy directly behind your shoulder appears to be looking to the right.

      2. Well, at least you are not at either end of the front row – unless there is something you haven’t told us 🙂

  43. The nightmare of Sir Keir Starmer and Ian Blackford (with strings pulled in Edinburgh), possibly in a wider “rainbow” woke
    coalition, is as egregious a political situation as anyone could dareimagine.
    Charles Foster Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

    Scotland will demand and get “Indpendence” Referendum

    SNP will push through provisions for England to legally and compulsory support independent Ecosse finacially, ad infinitum

    Labour and SNP will put us back in EU

    End of UK/England

    I am glad I am old

  44. https://odysee.com/@Wilhelm.Strasse:1/Bob.Moran:1

    Afternoon all. This Bob Moran interview is just wonderful and not just because he says everything I have been saying ever since the scamdemic started. He says it all so calmly and clearly. I think sosraboc put it on some while ago but my iPad is playing silly buggers and would not let me comment, hence I’ve reposted. It is brilliant.

  45. Absolute squall going on here! Yet I can see blue sky! Glad I brought the outdoor cushions in yesterday. Grrr- where has summer gone?
    Called the Frankenstein dept and no-one there- had to leave a message, which I did in my best Margot Ledbetter voice.

    2. Keep ringing Lottie, fill up there message tape if necessary, get yourself top of the list of annoying patients.

  46. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d9785b8b40bf434f4e62ff8f08aa13f5321d600c1d3f93158778839aaf1ba38e.jpg Where’s Philip?
    I made the best “hot-dog” without question today. An Argentine Choripanes. I halved and toasted a home-made bread cob (roll, bun, bap, etc),then fried a small thinly-sliced onion until caramelised before adding a splash of balsamic vinegar. I then quartered, lengthways, a raw cooking chorizo and grilled it on all sides until slightly charred. I then made a chimichurri sauce (chopped red chilli, teaspoonful of dried oregano, salt, black pepper, steeped in red wine vinegar before adding four finely chopped cloves of garlic, a chopped head of fresh flat-leaf parsley, and extra-virgin olive oil). All assembled together and eaten like a hamburger, it was a flavour (and texture) sensation. You must try it. 👍🏻

    1. Nice!
      When do you open your first hot-dog joint? I’d like to be at the opening party!

    2. Looks good, I made a roast chicken and chorizo salad with sliced seasoned and roasted sweet potato. I never like the look of chorizo until it’s cooked. I fry slices and use the oil that comes from them to cook other things.

      1. I don’t know what it is but those links of raw chorizo do not look or taste like the slices of chorizo you get in packs. There is not so much oil in the raw links and only a soupçon of paprika. It tastes, smells and feels like a different product.

        1. Yes the amount of oil varies a lot. I used to get links of baby chorizos which were wonderful, but can’t get them here anymore.

        2. That is probably what put me off.

          🎵 You say chorizo and i say choritho……..🎵

          2. I advised my brother to open an Italian-style restaurant in Sydney. I told him he should call it “Bruce Ketter“. The correct, and only acceptable way to an Italian, of pronouncing Bruschetta!

          4. It is not an ingredient i like much. A bit too pervasive for me. And cooking in the oil of it just makes me want to eat something else. Probably one of the only things i tend to avoid. I can eat a little as charcuterie no problem but i don’t want it any where else in my food. Like garlic a light touch is needed. I have eaten Merguez and enjoyed them but i don’t like too much spice. Subtle is me !

    3. Excellent.

      I do understand those flavour combinations but i will just have a small green salad thanks………….

      1. I am going to finish my salad from last night- it was enormous so I brought home what I couldn’t eat- yummy too.

        1. Perhaps with a delicately poached egg, some light cure smoked salmon and a blanket of home made Hollandaise. Sort of luncheon i enjoy in the Summer months. :@)

          Though given what this Summer is like we will all need hearty stews !

    4. Good heavens Grizzly ,

      Will any one ask you for a kiss, if they do, they will have to love garlic and onions 🤣🤣🤣🙂😉

      2. As someone once advised: garlic is an excellent ingredient, but you have to ensure that everyone eats it.

  47. 353053+ up ticks,

    Twitter post,

    This is the results of decades of lab / lib ‘con mass uncontrolled immigration ( ongoing) paedophile umbrella coalition party, WHY would one support & vote for such ?

    AAS_UK
    “Birmingham will not tolerate the disrespect of our prophet (pbuh). There will outcomes from your actions. You will have repercussions for your actions. We have been trained from birth that we must defend the honour of our prophet & we will lay our life on the line. chilling.

    1. They only talk so big because our politicians cower and give in to them, so they know that the police and establishment are on their side.

      1. 353053) up ticks,

        Afternoon BB2,

        Seems to me that the politico’s are giving the majority electorate what they want eventually, that being islamic rule, if indigenous people power was used in a pro United Kingdom beneficial manner the problem would NOT exists.

        Children, instead of running the gauntlet would have a childhood etc,etc, I do honestly consider the electorate currently to be very, very dangerous.

      2. They get away with it all the time. And I am told my husband cannot be in the waiting room when am being sliced. One set of rules for them and another set for us.

  49. I just received this email from UKIP (I am still on their mailing list, it seems)

    “The fishermen of Whitby and along the Northeast coast are very concerned with the die off (Mass Mortality) of marine species including Crabs and Lobsters on which their livelihoods depend. DEFRA has ruled out chemical pollution as a causative agent but speculate that it has been caused by an ‘algal bloom’. However, the fishermen were not happy with this explanation and commissioned a report from Marine Pollution Research and Consultancy to investigate the veracity of DEFRA’s explanation and examine other more probable causative agents.

    The results of this investigation are damning, as DEFRA and its associated agencies were sitting on evidence leading to the inference that their explanation was knowingly false and intended to hide the true cause of the Mass Mortality of marine species; this evidence was not voluntarily forthcoming but had been extracted by means of Freedom of Information requests.

    So, what is the basis of DEFRA’s claim of an algal bloom as the causative agent? Have water temperatures been unduly high, encouraging such growth? No, they have not. Has DEFRA obtained water samples which substantiate their claim? No, they have not. No, DEFRA has produced an evidence free explanation for the Mass Mortality intended to mislead as to the true cause.

    The government as part of their levelling up agenda decided to create Freeports including the Teesside port of Middlesbrough, an old industrial town. These Freeports will require harbour access for deep draught vessels, the government fondly hopes; hence the river Tees has been dredged of millions of tonnes of spoil accumulated over very many years. Unfortunately, this spoil once dredged and dumped at sea exposed the marine life to highly toxic chemicals including Pyridine which had been sequestered in the riverbed from industrial outflows.

    The government and DEFRA have tried to hide the truth which is that Pyridine concentrations in some marine species in the Northeast are 80 times higher than in Penzance. However, democracy cannot truly function if the people are kept in ignorance and decisions are taken behind closed doors by people who may not be best qualified to reach them.

    The UK Independence Party would abolish DEFRA and ensure that our native Fishing industry was very substantially revitalised.

    John Gartside
    UK Independence Party Spokesman for Fishing”

    I suppose the populations will recover in time, particularly if there are no fishermen left to fish them. It seems this generation will have to forego the joys of Whitby crab. Another tradition gone.

    1. Defra also recently reported on some coastal towns and villages would need to be relocated because of rising sea levels. which have barely risen in the last 200 years.
      It is ongoing erosion that is the problem and virtually nothing can be done about that as it has gone on for millennia.
      Look at how they have responded to the Somerset levels situation.
      Look at how they have responded to the dredging of rivers and ditches.
      Look at how they have responded to the need for more reservoirs.
      They should all be taken out and shot as agents of a foreign power.
      The E.U

      1. Comically government was forbidden from dredging and building reservoirs by the EU. We have left the EU, so why are they refusing to change our water management policies?

        Same reason they’re keeping aligned with EU tax policy and regulatory frameworks: to ruin Brexit by making us de facto still members.

    3. Ah! DEFRA! A ministerial department supported by 32 quangos! Another disastrous invention of the Blair creature.

    4. The same applies to our beautiful rivers , now polluted with toxins and weed .. thanks to outflows and huge housing estates and drainage systems .. no cares , no one tests the water , and the EA are next to useless .

    5. 353053+ up ticks,

      Evening BB2,

      Was it from ben the dodgy builder he is very active lately,
      they contacted me but stopped when I ask had they paid out the finance owing to Richard Braine after they lost the court case>

      NOW seen as a tory (ino) asset.

  50. Just had a letter from my hospital and they are “pleased ” to offer me an appointment on Monday 20th. Again, it bloody says about the person picking me up- NO, sorry he will be in the waiting room. Sod all this nonsense- I want my husband nearby; last time it took a huge nurse to help me up the hallway. I will not be bullied like this and I will not be told that my husband cannot be nearby when they are slicing at my face.
    Most of the stupid restrictions have been lifted in this country and yet the NHS is behaving like some sort of totalitarian regime. Well, they can get royally stuffed.
    Make me angry and reap the consequences!
    And boy, am I angry.

    1. So so sorry to read about all the NHS palavar you are being confronted with .

      A friend rang me this morning .. she lives in a village not far from Wimborne , she told me she has an appt in R Bournemouth H tomorrow with cardiac bods , she has had to arrange transport to get there early .. she questioned why couldn’t the clinic have been in Poole or even in the little cottage hospital in Wimborne .. I couldn’t answer that , and she lives too far from me to offer her a lift , other wise I would have .

      Something isn’t right , The NHS is suiting itself by centralising everything and by not being very flexible .

      How on earth can people get from here to there , huge distances are involved .. and some one I know had to go to Salisbury for a back operation .. that is from Dorset to Wiltshire … wrong wrong wrong.

      1. The NHS has become a law unto itself. We, the patients, are the very least of their concern. Well, they won’t intimidate me- just let them try!

      2. As we get older 95% will encounter health problems, and the other 5% will be dead already.
        Here’s my advice to youngsters: never smoke, don’t touch drugs, avoid sugar and drink as little alcohol as humanely possible. Then put some money in a jamjar for a rainy day, because this is a country dominated by an outdated and failing socialistic medical system, and it sure as hell is going to rain, and rain.

        As for your friend, suggest tactfully that she should find a Bed&Breakfast establishment not too far from the hospital and stay the night before the appointment.

    2. A word to the wise:
      However uncomfortable or traumatic it seems alone, it is better to get it done than wait until it gets worse.

      1. Yes, I sort of agree but no, he is my husband and I want him there. It really is not their choice. Sorry Sos but I am going to do this my way and as I wish. I will not be bullied.
        I can be formidable and will be so if provoked.

        1. I agree that it shouldn’t be the way that it is, but which outcome would your husband prefer?

          1. Me to be OK and to be there, in the waiting room, to support me. Has said so and will be there.

    3. The NHS doesn’t give a stuff because it doesn’t have to. It is paid regardless of the service it provides. Thus it behaves – as you say – like a dictatorship., thinking it is being gracious and kind allowing you to use it.

      The solution is to control it and only pay it once it does the work. Suddenly it is servant, not master. Suddenly it isn’t allowing you to use it’s service, you are expecting them.

  51. Today has been very stressful. I thought I had my day to myself whilst Moh was away playing golf .

    The weather turned out to be appalling first thing .. stair rods , wind , more rain thunder and the rest .

    A large dish that the birds splash around in overflowed, the blossom on the elderberry tree is all over the garden , very battered , roses blown around , and the noise of the wind was quite fierce .. if I were on a sailing ship , I doubt whether the ship would have survived the gale .

    There was a sunny weather window at 12 … so I put the dogs in the car to take them to the heath for a run .. I thought I would give PMQs a miss .

    The weather held off as the dogs galloped around .. the younger one was very frisky , the older one concentrated on eating rabbit dropping .. the youngster investigated a series of rabbit burrows , I called him away , and he stayed put, bad dog .. he then rolled his neck, back, neck, back , side of his shoulders in the stinkiest pile of fox poo.. I couldn’t stop him .. I shouted ar him and he kept doing it and he growled at me

    The front side and back of him was thick with grey and black tar like oily poo .

    I managed to get his lead on around his neck .. and thought this is not just a usual pooh encounter , it was a major incident .

    Bunged him in the dog crate in the rear of the car, and put the older one in the passenger side .

    The river would have been too fast … and my double sink and stuff in the kitchen would not have coped with the density of the muck, neither would I.

    Moh would have said , well why did you not control him and stop him. Moh was away golfing .

    Dear readers , I took him to my dog groomer , yes , I did, and I burst into tears when she said yes she would clean him up and make him smell nice .

    I took the older one home , did a bit of shopping locally , and went back to pick him up.

    She said she had never had to deal with such a mess , and my little chap had rolled so much , the gunk had actually got into his ears , inside ..and his glorious head of hair was a mass of black gluey gunk .

    Bless her , one clean dog , clean collar , gave her a genuine hug of appreciation and a generous handful of dosh .

    I am still exhausted , fell asleep , then Moh appeared after having a brilliant away game of golf .

    1. Have you considered taking the dogs where there is less fox shit and more husbands?
      Askin’ for a friend… :@)

    2. My Oscar did that again today. Fortunately not on the epic faecal scale as yours. Even better, it was MOH’s turn to do the showering. I did get the worst off at the quarry lake, much to the amusement of a class of 10 year olds having canoe lessons.

      1. Why do they do it ?

        My older dog has never ever in his 14 years rolled , but he will nibble horse or cow poo.

        The younger dog takes great pleasure in a good roll, in fact he will roll on a slug or even worms in the garden .

        Why oh why?

        1. The short answer is I don’t know, Belle. Oscar will partake of pony poo and loves to roll in carrion, moles being his favourite.
          If we knew why, it wouldn’t be so enigmatic and annoying. That’s dogs though.

    3. Oh dear……..glad you had a chance to get him cleaned up at the dog-groomer’s.

      I had a bit of stress here, too – we were busy in the garden, and then got a phone call from the lady who asked us to do her swift walk and talk in Cirencester on Sunday. We’d asked if we could borrow one or two of the items on her display board, for our events here in a few weeks’ time, to help people with identification.

      She very kindly came over and brought the whole lot of laminated posters and said we could keep them as she has another set. Then she sat down and talked………and talked………and talked…….. in the end I had to get myself some lunch and a bit of respite. When I said to OH later that she was completely overpowering and would take over if he let her, he hadn’t noticed that at all……. but he was very tired and is now asleep.

      1. Oh my goodness , incessant chatter can be so exhausting , especially when you just want to get on with stuff .

        On a very serious note, the absence of swallows and housemartins is being noted ..

        Nothing skimming over the water meadows or even the marshes .

        No screaming swifts either .. a pair appeared then vanished .

        Tragedy is unfolding sadly .

        1. She hardly gave either of us the chance of a word in edgeways – and when we did manage to – she didn’t listen but carried on……….

          Our two pairs of swifts are busy incubating their eggs – though the young pair has kicked one out of the nest – it does happen quite often, especially with first time breeders. They don’t fly around much when the weather is grey as it has been until today – but the younger birds are arriving now, and they will be the ones in the screaming parties later in July.

          He’s up now and just brought me a cuppa…..

          5. There is a huge swallow pre-migration roost in a reed bed in Clumber Park, Notts, every September. For a number of years a hobby would coincide his arrival at dusk to swoop and attempt to catch his supper. It made a thrilling spectacle to see it working at close quarters.

          7. Well – they arrive here in early May and leave in August, if that’s what you mean by late – I’d rather the hobby didn’t find them. On Sunday in Cirencester, we saw a group of martins – they scattered when a red kite appeared.

          8. Our swifts, at least the first ones I see or hear, are later than that. Perhaps their nesting is earlier than here.

          9. Tthe ones you hear in June and July are the second wave – the the young ones from last year. They are looking for nesting sites if they have a mate but they won’t breed till next year. They always return to the same nest.

          10. I didn’t see your comment to respond ..

            What are they feeding on, do you have lots of flying insects for them to feed on ?

          11. They fly very high – they seem to find enough to keep going on. A lot of them arrive here via Chew Valley Lakes and very likely go there to feed as well – there are always plenty of insects there.
            The mate has just returned to box 3 – always one on the nest now – but it’s dark outside and still they manage to find the small hole and never miss.

        2. We are seeing a multitude of little birdies tweeting away in the hawthorns. I do stand shotgun though. Whenever the magpies come in to feed on the babies…i am ready. Bam ! That’s an air pistol not a shotgun !

      2. I know three people that speak like machine guns. I avoid getting into convo with them. Sadly one of them is my dog groomer. I took her out to a pub lunch when we first met and she spoke continuously. Even managing to do so while eating.
        I find people like this………….once they have said everything they want to say to you have nothing else to say and aren’t interested in your thoughts or opinions. I may be wrong.

        2. Spot on .. it is their narcissism sadly .

          When are you off on your travels again, Pip.

          Did you have a deluge roday .. wild weather eh?

        3. No – they hardly draw breath long enough to listen to what we have to say. It’s all about themselves.

    5. What brand of dogling..? . Cavaliers love rolling in it but I never realised other breeds did the same.

    6. If there is no handy dog-groomer available, and the contamination isn’t too extensive, tomato ketchup usually shifts it.

    1. R.I.P Desmond Swayne. So sorry to hear of his untimely heart attack. Condolences to the family.

      2. I think I met him once. Bit of a wet liberal lefty type, and he wanders about down your way, in the New Forest.

    1. He was tasered three times. He still managed to get up and jump over the barrier. Neighbours said he had mental health problems.

      His problems were too many drugs.

      1. Good evening Phizzee. Think of the savings on ‘community care’ and the crimes he would have undoubtedly committed.

        1. Good evening. I have no idea why this happened. Have you walked over those bridges? Not easy to throw yourself over. I just don’t know.

          1. Apart from his family, the virtue signallers and assorted left wing NWO fans, who cares? All I see is savings on benefits and prison space.

    3. He was obviously inspired by a character in ‘The Bourne Identity’ film.

    1. Par Four for me …
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    2. Lucky three today.
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    1. Good evening True Belle,
      The filthy savages also won’t have to worry about heating costs or fares which rise because of rocketing fuel prices. if they are denied adequate heating when winter kicks in, they will simply pull the race card and up goes the thermostat.
      We are thinking of staying overnight at a Heathrow hotel before our upcoming 9am flight to Canada – it’s either that or leave home at 3am. Fairly sure some of the hotels round Heathrow are part blocked by invaders, and can’t find the list of them.

      1. See my recent comment top of the page ..

        We are now experiencing groups of them not in the village but in our small towns , they huddle together , and no wonder we are suspicious and angry .

        1. Early? Early? What’s that? I follow Pop Larkin’s rules- if I want a drink I have one.

    3. Oh blah. People terrified about a shimmy. People outraged about 1pence on a pint of beer. No wonder no one actually buys print media anymore.

    5. From a satirical song I wrote many years ago called Women’s Lib’s Destroying My Libido about a male victim of the Feminists’ movement. Caroline reminds everybody that I wrote this long before I met her!

      Women’s Lib’s destroying my libido.
      I don’t know if I’ll get it back again.
      At first my wife had headaches every time we went to bed –
      In retrospect that wasn’t so germane:
      Her headaches soon gave way to a voracious appetite,
      Demanding that the earth moved twice a day;
      I lost two stone; my hair fell out; I grew extremely pale –
      I felt inadequate in every way.

    2. Who is that sour-faced old bat in a red dress sitting in front of Mr Swayne? I must say I don’t much like the look of her.

      And wasn’t Squalid Jawdrop one of Carrie Symonds’s lovers before she hitched up with Boris Johnson?

  62. I’ve just heard Peter Cardwell, the political editor on Talkradio, rubbish a commenter re Net Zero policies who said nothing would change because of the WEF. He stated that the WEF had no influence over individual nations policies, and merely held similar views! When I picked myself up off the floor, I wondered how stupid these people think we are? Follow the money!

          1. End the UK’s membership of the World Health Organisation

            Far from being “dedicated to the wellbeing of all people and guided by
            science” as it claims, we believe the World Health Organisation (WHO)
            has shown it serves the pharmaceutical industry and not the interests of
            the people. We call upon the UK to withdraw from the WHO without delay.

            It’s already passed 9,000 signatures in only one day.

    3. Done. 8559. 7:35pm. As you say, it won’t do any good even if it attracted 1 million names but they can’t then pretend they thought everyone loved the WHO.

  64. Anyone else having trouble getting GB News? Adverts fine but nothing else.

      1. Correction: just after writing the above, ‘phone has changed to just showing GBN logo.

    1. Just to repeat an obvious and old quote…. today’s expert is often tomorrow’s fool.

      1. ‘The Science’ doesn’t exist.

        I am a scientist – chemistry and physics.

        Scientists – by definition – are a bunch of peer-reviewing sceptics.

        ‘T was ever so.

    1. Shhh! You’re not supposed to mention the link between monkeypox and gay/bisexual men.

    2. The Joys Of Reality, which we are not allowed to say

      90%+ people in UK are heterosexual
      70%+ are Christians or have their ethics
      80%ish, are ‘British’ which does not reflect on colour
      Muslims Rule OK
      Wokeristas Rule OK
      Immigrants have a Taxi Service into UK

      The Perlice dance in uniform to Woke Rainbow Music. We the taxpayers are shite to them
      Convid is a scam
      WEF etc are looking to take conrol
      Mr Welby will soon be an Imam
      etc

      1. March of the Mahdi.. the movement of the Muslim across Europe

        I have a book that belonged to my father , probably fifty or more years old .

    1. Aviation fuel , heating fuel .. coal , oil.. we will be reduced to the status of Venezuala .. once a rich oil producing country , like us .

      1. We’re being ripped off TB, most of our fuel arrives by sea as crude from the middle east and is processed at our coastal refineries.
        The government are making it up.
        Typical of the lying bastards.

      2. Oddly enough, Belle, Venezuela still has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. One wonders why they’re in such dire straits. Maybe it’s because they have the left wing government and because they do have all that oil. These things are not just coincidental.

      1. They’d prefer lockaways in concentration camps, I’m sure, the fascist bastards.

      2. IF there were to be a genuine fuel shortage, I could understand some sort of rationing (Not that it would be fair – the usual suspects would have unrestricted access) but there is NEVER any justification for lockdown in the event of fuel shortages.

  69. What a lovely day we had. Drove to Dartmouth again. This time booked with a nice lady in a kiosk ( I detected her Cape Town accent, had a chat) for the train took the ferry across boarded the steam train to Paignton (waddan unfortunate tip now) went there for family holiday as a youngster.
    Walked around, got wet in a down pour. Got the train back to lovely Dartmouth, found a really nice café restaurant off the main drag…..3 o’clock cuppa a pot of real lose tea and Devon cream scones and jam. Absolutely delicious. Short walk and back on the park and ride. If you haven’t been to Dartmouth you should, it’s a lovely place to be. But of course very very hilly.
    Now looking out across the hills above Salcombe from the balcony. With my second glass of 🍷🍷breathing in the sea air.

    1. Paignton shows how an unsympathetic council can completely ruin a town. The sea-front is ghastly now – I don’t know what posessed them (except a few brown envelopes perhaps). Did you get to Torquay – it’s so much nicer, nowadays?

      And Dartmouth is lovely – I’ll never forget a dinner once at The Carved Angel. Pretty expensive, but what a treat it was (this was nearly 30 years ago).

      1. We were going to move on to Torquay HL we found a bus stop but there was no information on display regarding a time table. There was a web address for a mobile but they wanted to make a charge for the time table information that really could have been displayed on the bustop. After paying 30p to use a sea front WC. We made the decision to fur cough. But your right about the sea front it’s an horrible mess. And two new ugly hotels are being built with around 2 hundred rooms. Good luck with that paint town.
        Oh well…… 😊

      2. Has Torquay (I used to visit with my Devon relatives years ago) still got its palm trees on the front?

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    2. Like me; two unfortunate choices, Bob!

      I’m glad you’ve joined the ‘box nutters’ 🙂

    3. Nearly in two – just plumped for the wrong alternative

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  71. 353053+ up ticks,

    Could the lab/lib/con coalition party’s
    activities be somehow linked to this in a joint effort ?
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  72. Blimey, Mother’s house has been on the market since 19:00 today, already 15 viewings booked!

    1. Wow that sounds impressive.

      We just sold our house in four days. Only four viewings but two made offers.

      1. What did you do to get the sale? We’re fiddling with our kitchen and painting – is that enough?

        1. I cut the grass, the boss cleaned and polished inside, apart from that very little. Other places are staged and look sterile with almost no furniture, we ignored the agents idea to follow the crowd and left the house looking lived in.

          We had the inside of the house painted about a year ago, the place looks clean but not stinky new paint fresh.

          Just a couple of issues from the building inspection and once they are fixed, contracts are final – none of this nothing is fixed until closing rubbish.

    3. That is wonderful! Hope it all goes well- fingers firmly crossed here- well until needed for other purposes ;-))

    4. Very glad for you – house selling can be stressful at the best of times, so that looks very positive. You also have a great advantage in not having an upper chain.

    5. Very glad for you – house selling can be stressful at the best of times, so that looks very positive. You also have a great advantage in not having an upper chain.

    6. Last Apr I had an offer for my mother’s house over the asking price before anyone had seen it. Amazing, and that’s what they paid.

    7. Its not a done deal until the money’s in the bank.

      I went to Canada in 1989 with a lawyer’s confirmation of a substantial (£20,000) gain.

      It never materialised.

      How do you sue a lawyer?

    8. Fingers crossed for a speedy sale.
      We were surprised at how quickly mother-in-law’s clean & well-maintained but very outdated house sold last summer. We went with the agent who suggested the higher (by nearly 20%) price and had 3 viewings and an offer at asking price within days. (Another viewer put in an offer but hadn’t sold their own house.) Completion would have been swift if the solicitors handling the probate hadn’t been incompetent. First, they ‘forgot’ to apply for probate, then we were passed off to an even worse handler. At the outset, I wanted to use a different solicitor but was over-ruled (fair enough, not my family) by MH and his brother because Ch******** had been their parents’ solicitor for 40+ years.
      The buyers were sufficiently keen that they completed their own sale and moved into rented until we could proceed.
      Thank goodness I managed to persuade the brothers to use the estate agents’ very efficient conveyancers for the sale. Possibly, the ‘family’ solicitors were miffed that we didn’t use them for the conveyancing.

    1. Welby is a tedious and boring old fart. The guy who gave the sermon in St. Paul’s was far better. Time for Welby to sod off.
      Listening to Percy Grainger Handel in the Strand- great stuff.

        1. We like them too but I am in a Percy Grainger mood- Children’s March now.

      2. Great fun. Grainger was a friend and protege of Grieg.

        He was featured (acted) in Ken Russell’s film about Delius and portrayed as a mischievous fun loving colleague as he took the wheelchair bound Delius on high speed travels through the garden.

  75. Heyup all.
    I’m just off to bed!
    Stepson has improved compared to last time I saw him and we went out for just under 3 hours with a trip to Ashbourne and a bit of shopping for him.

  76. While posting on here i have just been overhearing the Great British Sewing Bee, on in the other room.
    So apparently as I heard it, one contestant wasn’t sure of the size of the crotch area,
    So they just had to gusset

  77. Goodnight chums- am knackered which is a word my friend in GA has embraced with delight and used it to me in an email! She also likes cockwomble….
    Sweet dreams Y’all and may tomorrow be a happy one for us all.
    X

    1. Desmond Swayne is good value, one of the few. He even managed to raise a smile from the hag a row or two in front of him, dressed in Post Office red, who previously strained to sell our country down the river.

  79. Evening, all. Busy day for me this Tuesday (church, riding and a rehearsal), so I may not be very compos mentis with my posts!

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