Tuesday 14 June: A PM determined to create more farmland while covering it in housing

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  1. Good morrow Gentle NoTTLers one and all. I managed six hours sleep last night, which was a blessing.

    Go on and have a great day.

  3. Sir Mick Jagger tests positive for Covid

    “I can’t get no Ivermectin”

    Morning Folks

    Edited to shorten the thread!

    1. Better still to use the Royal Navy to prevent illegal immigrants to enter the UK in the first place. Or perhaps, put these immigrants in jails on subsistence rations rather than in hotels with everything they wish for. What brings them to our shores is the attraction of an easy life full of un-earned benefits paid for by us. If this approach is ever implemented (not likely) the attraction of the UK would cease within a very short time.

      1. Why TF can we not just drag them back to France and dump them on the beach they came from?

        1. What on earth are the French doing , kicking vulnerable asylum seekers out of France , allowing them to risk their lives for an expensive trip across the Channel in a rubber boat?

          I mean , that is downright cruelty , so why haven’t Labour picked up on that, especially po faced twerp Yvette Cooper?

          1. Yvette Cooper’s house is already full of ‘refugees’. You’d think she’d make that very point.

      2. The Border Force and RN should prevent them entering English waters. If the little boats get into difficulties ,the Lifeboats should take them back to France legally. France should also forbid such frail boats setting sale from their shores.

  7. EU ‘will restart legal action’ against UK over Northern Ireland Protocol
    Brussels threatens to take Westminster to court again over plans to override parts of the post-Brexit deal

    The penultimate paragraph by the moaning US states, “”Transatlantic peace, security and prosperity are best served by a strong UK and strong EU and the closest possible partnership between the two.”

    To which I’ve said BTL “Ha ha. No partnership is possible while we have to endure snide actions from the EU and while we allow ourselves to be under the jurisdiction of the ECJ, the EHRC and we don’t repeal the Human Rights Act.

    That Johnson allows this to continue , just illustrates and heightens the level of his incompetence.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/13/eu-will-restart-legal-action-against-uk-northern-ireland-protocol/

    1. This farce has gone on long enough.
      If the EU begins legal action, Boris should respond by tearing up the NI agreement in its entirety and tell the EU to keep its nose out of British affairs.

      1. While matching tariff for tariff on Cars, Wine, Cheese, fruit & veg.

        Laugh that off, yer bar stewards.

        1. And the purpose of that, Tom, is presumably to stop us buying EU goods. Matching tariff for tariff is an unlikely step for this so-called Government of ours. But it is easily in our power to stop buying EU goods, except in extenuating circumstances. This is what I have been doing since June 2016.

      2. Couldn’t agree more, Bob.

        However, a globalist PM dealing with a globalist cabal in Brussels doesn’t give me much hope in a good outcome for the UK. I want to be wrong.

  8. He was seen unable to stand still, seeming to sway back and forth as he listened to the recipient accept the prize. 14 June 2022.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cb29e2b9a9d19d1275221c1a0ec547a7d2548182b00ba88232b996a80e3f537d.jpg

    Questions have again been asked about Vladimir Putin’s health after the despot was seen visibly shaking as he presented a medal at the weekend.

    At the weekend Putin presented the State Prize of the Russian Federation to filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov at the Kremlin.

    He was seen unable to stand still, seeming to sway back and forth as he listened to the recipient accept the prize.

    Well I can’t see it. There is some leg movement but anyone who has ever stood at a lectern for any length of time will know how stressful it is. He looks pretty good as well. A lot better than Biden and Johnson as a matter of fact.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-seen-shaking-uncontrollably-27220775

    1. If you’re blue, and you don’t know where to go to
      Why don’t you go where fascist sit, Putin on the Blitz
      Different types of wear a day coat, pants with stripes and cutaway coat
      Perfect fits, Putin’ on the Blitz
      Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
      Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper (super-duper)
      Come, let’s mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mitts
      Putin on the Blitz….

  9. Roll up roll up, get your new victimhood status here. Even white women and some white men are eligible.

    Question long Covid and everyone dies!

    Of course, white “long-haulers” understand that in order to truly mainstream their new identity, they need to involve nonwhites, who are still at the top of the victimhood pyramid. Hence Politico reporting that “people of color have a higher prevalence of long Covid” and the CDC declaring that “health inequities may put some people from racial or ethnic minority groups at greater risk for developing post-COVID conditions.”

    And in the U.K., the University of Westminster is paying “people from Arab, Black, or South Asian backgrounds” to say they have long Covid. A £35 ($43) shopping voucher is being offered to all people of color who’ll “share their long Covid experiences.”

    Gee, I wonder if that’ll produce skewed results?

    Behold the birth of an entirely new identity that’ll be a boon to victimhood-seeking whites who’ll now have something more powerful than “a joke killed me,” but less high-effort than “I’m a tranny,” to wield in their quest for “remarkable access to people and power” via protected identity-group status.

    Express doubts about long Covid? You’re a genocidal sexist racist, because, like trannyism, long Covid is not “a biological reality” but “a wider identity.” Under ADA, failure to acknowledge long Covid will become illegal. And start counting down to “long Covid denial” becoming a bannable offense on social media.

    Get ready to welcome your new long Covid overlords. And even with their fatigue and small penises, expect a vigorous reaming as Covid shifts from disease to social construct.

    https://www.takimag.com/article/calamity-of-so-long-covid/

    1. The terms ‘Long Covid/Long Haul Covid’ appeared in 2020, it seems. However, have the terms been hijacked? There is an alternative view. Along with ‘Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS)’ are LC/LHC being used as a smokescreen to hide the side-effects of the various jabs?
      Naomi Wolf is at the forefront of the analysis of the released Pfizer documents.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3f70e2a31f008031796e7c13d424247ac86fb9c62365571bac14c255f5a94ebd.png

    3. Well, how about if we just give ADA the sack? Would that not help us return to normality, whatever it used to be?

      2. ‘Morning, Horace, is that the same Ada that prompts my explosion to the Long Covid article as, “Fcuking Ada!”

    4. “…people from Arab, Black, or South Asian backgrounds…”

      …the parts of the world where there is a high incidence of thalassaemia and sickle-cell anaemia, making them more vulnerable to a blood-related illness such as Covid-19.

  10. Welcome to the catwalk! BBC ditches desks in revamp of flagship news bulletins. 14 June 2022.

    BBC newsreaders will leave their desks and roam a studio “catwalk” as part of a multi-million pound revamp of the flagship bulletins.

    The makeover is designed to make the news “more enjoyable” for viewers, according to Huw Edwards, who launched the new look with Monday’s News at Ten.

    I’d settle for the truth from a Garden Shed!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/13/welcome-catwalk-bbc-ditches-desks-revamp-flagship-news-bulletins/

    2. Because lies and propaganda given out by someone strutting down a catwalk are so much more enjoyable…!

    4. How long will it be before there’s a complaint that disabled people are discriminated against and there will be a presenter using an electric wheelchair, probably a Bame?

        1. They certainly have them on nature programmes, but I’ve yet to see one as a news presenter, presumably they can read an autocue.

      2. I can only think of Frank Gardner and they don’t wheel him in as often as they used to. He’s not a presenter but I think he’s still the security guy.

        1. I thought he had retired, he was good and his spinal damage was caused whilst doing his job for the BBC, so if anyone deserved it at the BBC it would be him.

    5. I see that the BTL comments have mushroomed, mostly negative, certainly since I made mine:

      Well that’ll ensure impartiality, lack of bias and a reduction in wokery.

      …and that A Allen chap has a lot to say.

    6. All the garden sheds in the South of England are packed with illegal immigrants, honestly!

    7. I hope the set isn’t too sturdy, so as to deter journos from leaning on the nearest wall. Not sure why hugely overpaid presenters are required anyway, given that 95% of the time spent on a typical ‘news’ item consists of pointless video clips, numbers projected on brickwork or children’s scruffy footwear….

  12. Good morning all.
    Another lovely start to the day and, being back home, I can report that the temperature outside is a tad over 8°C.

    1. Well, it was a tad over 18’c here this morning. Too flippin’ hot, too flippin’ early.

      1. It’s not written in English, therefore it needs a translation from someone who is fluent in Retardese [a.k.a. “American”].

        2. Not necessarily American. It’s how young people speak nowadays. It is expressive.

          2. Who needs to let off steam?
            I will listen to you if you pay me 25 dollars an hour.
            However, if you are going to start crying, the price goes up to 40 dollars.

          3. Right!
            That makes a bit more sense!
            I take it they are also offering a nappy changing service?

          5. Well I guess a lot of Shakespearean dialogue was thought to be illiterate in its day!

          6. Young people, nowadays, ape the constant stream of American slang they pick up from television, films and social media. Their ability to express themselves, clearly and succinctly, in standard English has been depleted. To them, it is seen as “cool” to speak a retarded Americanese.

          7. Too harsh. It’s not just Americanisms, it’s just young people speak. English is an evolving language. You would not understand half of what my children say, but I don’t think their ability to express themselves is any less than that of previous generations.

          8. “English is a devolving language.” The language of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, the Brontes and Dickens has deteriorated into foul-mouthed and aggressive gibberish and it is getting worse daily. Just listen to the lyrics of any (c)rap “song”. I’m not being too harsh, I am being realistic. Young people, today, compared with their predecessors are as thick as pigshit.

          9. You need to get in touch with more of them! Rap != mainstream young people language.

          11. You won’t believe me when I tell you that you are completely out of touch….educated young people don’t say “innit.”

  14. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – Boris Johnson’s “grow for Britain” plan (Letters, June 13) is all well and good – except for the fact that here in Kent, for example, large areas of perfectly good agricultural land are being continually torn up for housing.

    Surely this must stop if we are to create more farmland. But then, under Mr Johnson, we do not have joined-up government.

    Stan Kirby
    East Malling, Kent

    Not only housing but solar ‘farms’ too. There is a picture of Johnson wandering aimlessly in a field, pretending to harvest something or other. Seeing this bumbling, blundering incompetent this early in the day is just too much. Why is he still here? His so-called ‘food strategy’ is just a half-baked distraction and will soon disappear from the headlines.

  15. SIR – It seems the Civil Service is getting back to normal after Covid.

    HM Courts & Tribunals Service, whose responsibilities include issuing a grant of probate when someone dies, has updated its PA1P probate application form. This version has an extra six pages containing 13 “equality and diversity” questions about the applicant’s main language, religion, ethnicity, mental and physical health, sexual orientation, sex and gender.

    Although answering the questions is optional, sadly there is no box to tick that says: “Mind your own business and do some proper work.”

    David Price
    Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

    Well said, David Price!

    2. Just another example of an encroaching state machine pushing for nonsense it has no reason to collect.

  16. SIR – Those who have defended the plan to deport Channel migrants to Rwanda are in the right. There is no other measure that will undercut the traffickers as effectively and put an end to the dangerous and criminal small-boat crossings as quickly.

    The United States has long implemented comparable policies in the Straits of Florida. Australia uses off-shore processing to dissuade illegal migrants. Many other countries have similar programmes.

    The UN refugee agency UNHCR, which has backed legal action to block the policy (report, June 13), has a long history of blurring the distinction between Convention refugees – people fleeing persecution, for whom it has a responsibility – and economic migrants, who do not fall under its purview.

    Brunson McKinley
    Former Director General, International Organisation for Migration
    Geneva, Switzerland

    Note the final paragraph…would someone like to point this out to the C of E bishops as they make further fools of themselves?

    1. Maybe we should go and displace the population of Rwanda, the climate is nice and no heating required. Migration should be a two way deal if we are to believe the do-gooders, after all we would be fleeing political persecution..

    2. The first mistake was letting them land here in the first place.
      The second was not towing them back
      The third was not destroying the boats
      The fourth was not removing legal aid from gimmigrant issues.
      The fifth was publicising the Rwanda removals.
      The sixth was not using military transports
      The seventh not packing them in so much they couldn’t breathe.

      All avoidable.

  17. Hmm. Picked up from Going Postal:-

    Herring Gull • an hour ago
    Which country?
    1st in Europe in proven recoverable uranium ore reserves;
    2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in titanium ore reserves;
    2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of world reserves);
    The 2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
    2nd place in Europe in mercury ore reserves;
    3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in terms of shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
    4th place in the world in terms of the total value of natural resources;
    7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)

    The answer of course is The Ukraine.
    Which explains the gradual push of “Western” influence, (in reality read that as US influence) Eastward since the fall of the USSR, particularly the CIA orchestrated Maidan Revolution and events since 2016 and even earlier.

    1. The Russians need the uranium mines so they have somewhere to send their political prisoners.

      2. Cheap to run as they won’t need light bulbs (because everything glows in the dark).

  18. Good Moaning … warm and sunny – AGAIN.
    We’re all dooooooooomed.

    Wonderful BTL comment on the new Beeb propag news studio.

    “Can you guess which window the famine in Ethiopia is in? Yes, it’s in the round window.

    Where is Brian Cant when you need him!”

    1. Play School: a children’s television series by the BBC which ran from 21 April 1964 until 11 March 1988.
      Just about sums up how the BBC see the intelligence of their average viewer.

      1. Remember this one from Playschool. Jemima was the one who wasn’t Humpty nor Big or Little Ted.

        “Oh Jemima, look at your uncle Jim,

        He’s in the duck pond learning how to swim.

        First he does the breaststroke, then he does the side,

        Now he’s under water swimming against the tide.

        Oh Jemima, look at your uncle Jim,

        Out in the corrider, water, soap and vim.

        First he kneels on his left knee, then he kneels on his right,

        Then he kneels on a bar of soap and whizzes out of sight!”

        1. No 😏
          Then again I do remember a number of children’s programmes as my daughter would often ask me why I wasn’t paying attention when she(we) sat watching them.
          My excuse anyway.

    2. A desperately needed new studio. It’s been yonks since they built the last one. The eye-watering cost is immaterial. A prestigious and impressive background to the News is imperative as it enhances their credibility and, indeed, demands, that we believe what they say.

      1. You’re having a laugh! Television Centre, built around 1960, had been recently kitted out with the latest HD kit and was much in demand from independent producers. The site value for London housing development was greater, so it had to go.

        The current blue-lit extension to Broadcasting House is a vortex that sucks in the goodness from around the world, never to see the light of day again. The open plan hot-desking behind the news desk at BH might explain why so little serious journalism gets through – mostly it’s the same three stories regurgitated every ten minutes for days on end. “What’s coming up” and “What you have just been watching” are handy little tricks to get three times the air time from the same news item.

        I think more serious news is transmitted from a bunker in Kharkiv.

  19. SIR – In the name of humanity, we as a Christian country cannot allow our Government to deport refugees to Rwanda.

    We would never forgive ourselves, nor would we deserve to be forgiven by others, if we were to use innocent people as pawns to solve the refugee problem. I implore the Government to stop this action now.

    Diana Sharp
    Chirnside, Berwickshire

    I wonder what her solution would be to stop economic migrants illegally breaking in to our country in their thousands? They are neither “innocent” nor “refugees”.

    The BTL posters are not impressed:

    DAVID DAVIES 2 HRS AGO

    Diana Sharp says, “We would never forgive ourselves, nor would we deserve to be forgiven by others, if we were to use innocent people as pawns to solve the refugee problem. I implore the Government to stop this action now.”

    Diana, I’ve already forgiven myself for supporting the Rwanda scheme. They’re not “innocent people”, they show a total disregard for our laws by entering the UK illegally having left a SAFE COUNTRY to get to the land of milk and honey.

    Enough of your hand wringing, instead why don’t you ask yourself why Britain’s public should have to fund these economic migrants.

    Jimbo Jones2 HRS AGO

    Diana Sharp, people coming from France are not refugees. They had safe refuge in France, and probably in other countries they passed through. They are illegal economic migrants.

    J McMenemy
    1 HR AGO
    Diana Sharp letter.
    Why should the English listen to someone living in Scotland about accepting refugees? They have been immune to the huge swathes of newcomers.
    When 37% of Edinburgh is inhabited by people born abroad, as in London , and when the Scots start taking their fair share of both genuine asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, that is when we might listen to them.
    For a start, maybe Chirnside in Berwickshire (population approx 1440) could offer to house the 1500 illegals who were meant to go to Linton on Ouse?

    1. Someone in the comments suggested that ‘our Diana’ may have been editor of the gurudian in a former life!

      1. Good morning Horace
        Does wee Krankee consider the English to be immigrants?

        1. Actually, no. The figures are for the foreign born. The immigrants from the EU seldom present any more problems than we natives. Those from Albania and Pakistan present the greatest problems as assessed from “news” stories.
          I don’t think that government statistics may be relied upon for anything. If the government printed a calendar, I’d double check what day it was really.

      2. Inbreeding mostly. Those cities are also heavily welfare dependent due to, well, welfare! It’s inevitable they would attract the parasite class.

    3. Idiots like the muddle-headed Prince of Wales are happy to criticise the government’s attempt to deal with the very serious problem of illegal immigration but have no solutions to offer themselves.

      I would have more respect for the Buffoon Prince if he was capable of admitting that there should be no action taken to stop illegal immigration and that he would personally provide all the facilities on his own land and pay for all the costs of housing, feeding and providing social security and health care for illegal immigrants and their descendants himself from his own vast resources rather than relying on the tax payer.

      In my view a country’s population density should be a determining factor as to where immigrants and refugees should go. England is the most densely populated country in Europe and the UK as a whole is second only to Holland.

      There should be demonstrations outside Highgrove when Charles is at home with banners proclaiming:

      YOU WANT THEM : YOU PAY FOR THEM

      2. What on earth are the French doing , kicking vulnerable asylum seekers out of France , allowing them to risk their lives for an expensive trip across the Channel in a rubber boat?

        I mean , that is downright cruelty . #Labour are you listening

    4. The dinghy dross are criminal immigrants who have no right to be here. They are not refugees, they are not economic migrants, they are just criminals.

    1. It’s race – baiting. This country is one of the most tolerant in the world but in the last few years these differences have been emphasised- why? My feeling is that It’s deliberate to cause dissent and division. Then they can claim racism.

      1. Good morning, Ndovu

        I am sure that the main objective of Black Lives Matter is to stir up inter-racial hatred just as some Muslim philosophy advocates and justifies the slaying of infidels.

      2. Have you seen the recent Lenny Henry race bait on TV Ellie ?
        He asks how this country has truly absorbed his culture.
        Errm …..
        Ask the family of PC Blakelock and all the other victims of London knife crimes Lenny………oh what was that, nothing to see move on ?

        1. PC Blakelock and all the other victims of London knife crimes are the culture this twerp wants us to absorb.

          1. Unwittingly we already have.
            That large TV cook with the sunglasses glued to her head made a programme with her daughter, fair enough, but she kept referring to going back to her roots, while she was enjoying the Caribbean sunshine. Her roots were and are a few thousand miles east of there.
            I do find it rather strange that those sort of ‘bill board’ people never really or actually identify themselves as African.
            They never seem to address these, the true facts.

          2. Especially as they don’t specify which part of, or country in Africa they identfy with, just “Africa”. How conveniently vague.

          3. Of course T, never a mention of the historical facts. Just blame white people it’s so easy to avoid the truth. It will always be racist for a non blec to point out these known facts to them.

      3. Emphasised precisely by those people wanting to create division and conflict. We had made so much progress and the Left drag us backward.

    2. It’s race – baiting. This country is one of the most tolerant in the world but in the last few years these differences have been emphasised- why? My feeling is that It’s deliberate to cause dissent and division. Then they can claim racism.

    3. Dear unfunny leftie comedian. I am no longer surprised at the lack of black and brown faces when we are remembering our war dead or celebrating our history. It’s because you all have a fucking chip on your shoulder and need to grow up.

      1. I don’t know what he really wants to say. Black folk are poorer? They don’t go to events? Well, why’s that? Why do they stab one another?

    4. Lenny Henry used to be very jolly – was it his break up with his wife Dawn French which embittered him and turned him into a racist pillock?

    5. Would it be impertinent of me to ask the reason why any black faces would appear at Glasto?

  22. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9b2fe541cceb8fbba93b73aeaa346985e66ba53aeaeb6781aad1666b6f7dcbdc.png Good grief, Matt. Are you being purposely provocative? You’ll have all the anally-retentive, who still cling to the false notion that to purposely split an infinitive is somehow a crime against standard English! Fowler proved that it isn’t way back in 1908 but, curiously, the myth perpetuates, especially among those who really ought to know better.

    1. It won’t be the grammatically correct way of looking at it, but I’ve always taken the view that if not splitting one makes the sentence/phrase read awkwardly then split it!

      1. Grammar is the attempt to codify the internal workings of a language which ensure comprehensibility. I’m right with you there; ignore those who treat grammar as rules to be slavishly followed!

          1. Quite, I was taught never to start a sentnce with “and”, “but”, or “because” etc. Until (see what I did?) a respected “plain English” professional told me that you can, depending on the context of the piece being written. But (ha ha) also that you had to know the rule before you broke it.

          2. Quite, I was taught never to start a sentnce with “and”, “but”, or “because” etc. Until (see what I did?) a respected “plain English” professional told me that you can, depending on the context of the piece being written. But (ha ha) also that you had to know the rule before you broke it.

    2. I regard “purposely” as an Americanism. Matt means “deliberately”. (See also using “likely” as an adverb.)

      1. Both the OED and Chambers regard “purposely” as standard English. Chambers, in particular, always describes when a word is an Americanism; e.g. it explains that missile is pronounced “mis’ īl” in standard English but “mis’l” in (N Am).

    3. If Fowler says that it is OK to split the infinitive then who am I to foolishly object?

  23. 353209+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Tuesday 14 June: A PM determined to create more farmland while covering it in housing

    The present voting pattern and accompanying imbecilic majority of the electorate despite the damage done to decent people and Country.
    will no doubt continue.
    Odious fire sadly must be fought with odious fire coming down to the level of the overseers / supporters.

    Any building for foreign illegal immigrants & other foreign system nonsubscribers to be mandatory housed in tower blocks each block
    with a resident police force.

    Containment, NOT wandering the country.

    Cut iellegal incomers welfare to the very minimum NO multiple, wives, husbands etc,etc,

    The indigenous start digging & planting as with farmers , farming as your grandmothers did some time ago in another war effort, make no mistake we ARE at war.

    Farming in such as manner is far more acceptable to fear & famine and eventually killing for food. because in my book that is what is planned

    Thirty plus years ago our presents stance as a nation if foreseen would never,ever have been believed

    Death via the ballot booth certainly found favour by a majority of the electorate, the only time they stepped out of line to benefit the nation was the referendum.

  25. Russia’s rouble is now stronger than before the war – western sanctions are partly to blame. 14 June 2022.

    In the days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the west imposed sanctions, the rouble collapsed. The number of roubles to one US dollar quickly fell from about 78 to 138 – a huge move in the world of forex (foreign exchange), and terrifying for those with their wealth in the Russian currency.

    Since then, sanctions have tightened and the war shows no signs of reaching an end, but something unexpected has happened to the rouble. Many commentators had thought it would continue weakening, but instead it is now stronger than when the war began. The US dollar is now worth 57 roubles, the best exchange rate in about four years.

    As the UK and US economies tank! Lol!

    https://theconversation.com/russias-rouble-is-now-stronger-than-before-the-war-western-sanctions-are-partly-to-blame-184700

    1. It’s not a surprise to anyone with their eyes open! Russia temporarily pegged the rouble to gold, which gave a clear signal. They also forced customers for their oil to buy in roubles, which helped to support their currency.

    2. During the twelve years of sanctions, Southern Rhodesia made twenty years of economic progress.

      1. And in a couple of decades after independence Mugabe destroyed everything that evil whitey had done and bankrupted the country!

      2. Then Mugabe was allowed to enrich himself and his cronies and totally fcuked it.

      3. Then Mugabe was allowed to enrich himself and his cronies and totally fcuked it.

  26. Morning all 😊.
    Not quite sure how this useless government is going to create farmland when they are allowing thousands of new homes to be built.
    How Green and Great is that Boreus. And how does this madness alleviate the rising carbon emissions ? Oh yes someone planted a few trees. That’ll do the trick.

    1. Planting trees reduces farmland. I used to be all for it, but now it’s time to produce more food.

      1. I’m still for it, in the right places (and with the right trees for those places, working with their nature). Till the fields, but leave the hedges. I was surrounded in East Yorkshire by huge flat fields devoid of weeds, insects and aesthetics.

    3. It’s a typical example of contradictory policies. The state is the only group that has this absurd attitude that 2 and 2 can equal 60.

        1. I’m tired of the prattling fool. He’s been a successful standup comic and TV presenter. Clearly that’s on his ability which I respect. If he has faced challenge by virtue of his skin colour, that’s wrong – full stop.

          1. I agree he seems to have lost the proverbial Plot but that’s not something that happens by accident.
            He once lived with his now ex wife Dawn French over looking the Fowey estuary in Cornwall

    2. Hmmm

      But no one listens when we complain that all TV advertising has been taken over by black people , and our culture us being hiacked by blacks .. Funny thing really that most pop singers who appear at Glastonbury are black, the rappy obnoxious and anti white kind .

      1. People do – sales fall. The Warqueen doesn’t like taking the train because you always get a gang of thugs walking the train leering at people and she said that they’re mostly blacks. That’s because of a few bad apples – not all black folk obviously, but when there’s a consistent attitude. Mostly, I think because blacks are told they’re so important and given such a high profile and the immature, yobbish ones carry that about with them. Sadly, there’s a generation of spoiled brats coming up.

        1. Who, hopefully, will get the thrashing they deserve, somewhere down the line.

  28. Remind me: which swivel-eyed globalist, which free-market head-banger, said the following? “This a is a rich country, we can import all our food.”

  29. ‘Morning All

    I note more comments on the “Blackwashing” in advertising and puzzlement at the reasons

    Meet ESG which is rapidly being made compulsory for all companies,no loans from the big bankers if you don’t comply……….

    https://i0.wp.com/marketbusinessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ESG.jpg?w=976&ssl=1

    Quickest,most visible and easiest way to prove your “commitment to diverity” Blackwash your advertising…….

    Surprise,surprise one of the main drivers of ESG?? Greeniacs……

    https://citywireselector.com/news/esg-and-carbon-data-is-becoming-extraordinarily-expensive/a1557367

    https://rollcall.com/2021/06/16/house-passes-esg-climate-disclosure-rules-for-public-companies/

      1. Indeed BB but most people have never heard of it,it’s the perfect WEF control tool

        1. People are so thick, they never realise that the next lot of dictators aren’t going to come along talking about murdering people they deem to be undesirable and locking people up in concentration camps and making themselves hugely wealthy.
          It’s ALWAYS going to be about our safety!

          1. The thug gets bored, but the real tyrant is one who thinks he is doing good and helping you. he does not rest.

            The state simply has too much money if it’s able to fiddle with our lives and companies to this extent. It really has too much of our money. Reduce the money by 70% and it cannot meddle so much.

          2. That’s what a fiat currency does – enables them to print as much as they like, and enrich themselves with it.
            Shortly to reach the end of the road, to be replaced with another solution to keep the plebs under control.

    2. All the corruption, bribery and conflict are caused by the other things. These are not roles for the state to interfere with. They are there to provide essential, shared services. Nothing else. This nonsense is the problem with big government. It makes everything worse.

    3. Most of these are valid concerns but are made toxic, perhaps deliberately, by the others. Furthermore, having concerns are not quite the same as dealing with them properly. Many of the accepted remedies are profoundly counterproductive, yet few who wish to keep their jobs dare challenge conventional thinking.

  30. Yesterday……..Paul McCartney’s 80th birthday not a word from our MSM. One of finest musicians this country has ever known.

  31. First off, THANK YOU EVERYONE for your concern. I’m ok, just a little
    shaken up, but l’ll be ok. For those of you who don’t know what
    happened, I was robbed this afternoon at the petrol station. I gathered
    myself together, my hands were still shaking, I was dizzy and I honestly
    think I was in shock. My money was gone. I called the police, they were
    fantastic and called for medical assistance as my blood pressure was
    through the roof. The police asked me if I knew who did it, and I told
    them “Yes, it was pump number 2.”
    Nicked comment

      1. Can the state be described as psychotic, or merely inept? It continues to follow a big state, Left wing, pro EU policy on everything. None of these policies help the UK in anyway. Big state, high tax, wasteful policies that are utterly contradictory are now the norm, and the entire system of government is not fit for purpose.

          1. Of course, I’m just astonished people read my rambling rantings, let alone want to use them!

        2. I wonder, especially with woke lunacies that seem to be much worse under Conservative administrations, if there are those deliberately undermining the reputation of our national institutions with the malicious intent of destroying the entire concept of public service. This then forces the public to turn to the only option left open to them – that run by the oligarchy for their own self-advancement. “There is no alternative” so we are told.

          1. The state has always been run for the benefit of the state. It knows no other way. The difference is decades ago it didn’t have the money to meddle as it does now. Officialdom set about changing that to get it’s own agenda through and Blair was happy to massive expand it as it gave him a voting bloc.

            The solution is simple: the government simply votes in a reduction of 50% and sacking for anyone cutting front line services but it won’t because the civil service provides the podium for big government headlines.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFDvMiBKeM

            While meant as a parody, it is all too true. Cut off the head of the hydra and burn the stump – cut off the funding, kill the beast, solve 80% of the problems the country has.

      1. Indigenous Peoples are distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced. The land and natural resources on which they depend are inextricably linked to their identities, cultures, livelihoods, as well as their physical and spiritual well-being. They often subscribe to their customary leaders and organizations for representation that are distinct or separate from those of the mainstream society or culture. Many Indigenous Peoples still maintain a language distinct from the official language or languages of the country or region in which they reside; however, many have also lost their languages or on the precipice of extinction due to eviction from their lands and/or relocation to other territories, and in. They speak more than 4,000 of the world’s languages, though some estimates indicate that more than half of the world’s languages are at risk of becoming extinct by 2100.

        https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/indigenouspeoples

        1. Someone gave the official figures on here last week. They are supposedly much smaller than are generally supposed! The problem is that they are contradicted by the evidence of my own eyes. I therefore don’t believe them.

          2. No, it’s unusual – but around our way it’s mostly Poles who are demographically completely different.

            The frustrating thing is I know a lot of black fellows. One’s a kitchen fitter, another a plasterer. great chaps. What really made me sad was my plasterer having to use his middle name for work.

    2. Economically they do nothing, contribute nothing and consume everything. Socially they commit most crimes – especially the worst kind such as rape, paedophilia and murder. Tens of millions is poured into black boys attainment and yet all they seem to attain is knives to stab one another.

      The problems cannot be solved by government: the state wants welfare dependency, it wants massive debt, it wants unemployment, it wants single parent families. If it didn’t, why does it continually enforce all those things?

      if we truly want to help the poor we’ve got to end massive uncontrolled immigration. We’ve got to stop funding single parent families. We’ve got to stop giving people a house. We’ve got to expect blacks to succeed on their own – but Lefties don’t like that as then they lose a nice, cushy little victim class to profit from.

    4. That probably assumes that the other 75% protect their own culture. Unfortunately, great swathes of the great and good are happy to let us morph into an islamic republic with a rap beat. Vile, but London is already converted.

    1. What’s the point of wearing snow camo to stand against a blue sky? Same for the black headset, cross body weapon and sunglasses. Just makes a headshot easier. Ah, but when you realise they’re there to intimidate the perspective changes. The Swiss have a lot of guns. In reality, these henchmen wouldn’t stand a chance.

      1. It’s why the ancient Britons covered themselves with woad. Plenty of blue sky in Britain.

    2. How long before this chap, Neil Oliver, R Tice, L Fox and other like minded people get together and form a ‘Shadow Cabinet’

      By all means add suitable names to the list.

      1. 353209+ up ticks,

        Morning S,
        My dvice is be aware of ex brexit party members that were swayed by farage be very,very aware of farage.

        My selection for what has been & will MOST definitely be needed in the very near future
        Is them that are proven to front up to the muslim problem such as, Anne Marie Waters / Tommy Robinson.

      2. I am suspicious of both Neil Oliver and Richard Tice….. Neil Oliver may well be a ‘pied piper’ leading us into the arms of a one world government just as Russell Brand may be doing with younger people, there is a ‘leader’ available for different groups of people…. Richard Tice made a comment I think to the effect that he was in favour of ‘immigration’. Controlled opposition, all of them?

    4. I’ve said this many times before, if Putin is so bad why hasn’t he wiped these people out, he’s got nothing to lose the gain for the rest of the world would be enormous.

    1. Boris Johnson is not planning to cut taxes for households until inflation is brought under control, meaning action is unlikely before next year.

      Downing Street and the Treasury fear soaring prices could “spiral”, even further if a tax cut is adopted soon to help with the cost of living.

      Both the Bank of England and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development predict inflation will only start dropping next year.

      It means that pressure to bring forward a planned income tax cut and reverse the increase in National Insurance

      is being resisted for now. Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, has refused to

      promise personal tax cuts in his autumn Budget, only going as far as

      pledging help for businesses.

      Conservative MPs demanding tax cuts rejected the Prime Minister’s

      position on Monday, warning that the slowing economy showed the

      importance of new measures to kick-start growth.

      The UK economy shrunk by 0.3 per cent in April, the Office for National Statistics said on Monday – the second successive drop in GDP, following a 0.1 per cent fall in March.

      The news fuelled fears that the UK economy could be heading into recession, just at the same time that prices are soaring – a phenomenon known as “stagflation”.

      That poses a major economic challenge, because traditionally the policy moves to curb increasing prices are the opposite of those adopted to overcome stuttering growth.

      Discussing calls to cut tax, Mr Johnson told LBC on Monday: “Yes, of

      course I understand that we need to bear down on taxation and we

      certainly will.”

      But he said there was an “inflationary spike that we’ve got to get through right now, looking after people as we go through that. And that is what we’re going to do”.

      It is one of the first times Mr Johnson has explicitly linked the

      timing of major tax cuts to inflation, reflecting changes in his

      thinking after briefings with leading UK economists.

      Further explaining the Prime Minister’s thinking, a senior Government

      source told The Telegraph: “The more you spend, inflation spirals.

      We’ve got to be responsible.

      “That is a huge issue. We can’t do anything that inflames that

      further. That’s why everything we’re focused on is about growing the

      economy.”

      The cost of living crunch is due to intensify in the coming weeks as petrol prices continue to rise, recently hitting £100 to fill up an average family car’s tank.

      Interest rates are expected to rise to a 13-year high on Thursday, when the Bank of England decides on rates – creating new mortgage pressure.

      The impact of the 1.25 per cent National Insurance rise is still only just being felt, having come into effect in April.

      On Monday, it was announced that David Buttress, the founder of the Just Eat food delivery service, has been appointed the Government’s new “cost of living tsar”, to help convince businesses to give families more cheap deals.

      The Bank of England forecasts that inflation will peak at 10.2 per

      cent in the fourth quarter of 2022, before falling to 9.3 per cent in

      the first quarter of 2023 and 6.7 per cent in the second quarter. The

      OECD, an international body, has similar predictions for the UK.

      But there is no guarantee that rising prices, triggered by supply

      issues from Covid lockdown and exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of

      Ukraine, will not continue for longer than forecast. Previous Bank of

      England forecasts predicted inflation would be falling this year.

      David Davis, the Tory MP and former Brexit secretary, rejected the

      argument that tax cuts should wait until inflation has started to fall.

      Mr Davis told The Telegraph: “There’s this strange new argument

      coming out that somehow taxation is a way of defeating inflation. High

      tax does not defeat inflation – it makes the impact of it more miserable

      for the ordinary family.

      “Secondly, we will be facing stagflation, not inflation. The best way

      to deal with that is to get the growth rate up, which is another

      argument for lower taxes. Tax cuts should come before the spike in

      inflation.”

      The Prime Minister repeatedly talked up his determination to cut

      taxes last week, as he sought the support of Tory MPs ahead of a confidence vote in his leadership.

      In a letter to all Conservative MPs ahead of the vote, Mr Johnson

      said “you cannot tax your way into growth” and “we will of course devote

      all our energy to reducing … the tax bill”.

      He made similar comments in a face-to-face address to the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers. Mr Johnson ended up winning the no confidence ballot of Tory MPs by 211 votes to 148 votes.

      The Prime Minister then used a reset speech on Thursday to call the tax burden – set to hit its highest point in 70 years – an “aberration”, saying he wanted a reduction “sooner” rather than “later”.

      Yet Mr Johnson has declined to name a single new tax cut he is considering.

      ‘Isn’t the big tax rise bound to make things worse?’

      Sir John Redwood, the Tory MP and former Welsh secretary, argued in
      the House of Commons that a tax cut could help those whose incomes have
      been undercut by rising prices.

      Sir John asked: “Why is the UK Government the only advanced country
      government making a big increase in the tax burden and next at exactly
      the same time when there is very necessary monetary tightening to
      control the inflation, and a huge hit to net incomes from that inflation
      itself? Isn’t the big tax rise bound to make things worse and slow the
      economy too much?”

      Separately Anthony Mangnall, the Tory MP for Totnes, warned that low pay was driving fishermen out of business.

      He said: “Right now, fishermen in Brixham are deciding to lay up
      their vessels because of average takings per day of £32 for their entire
      day’s work. If we do not step in now, our fishermen across the United
      Kingdom will lay up.”

      No new decisions on taxation are expected until the Budget this Autumn.

      Government ministers note that the increase in the National Insurance
      thresholds will kick in next month, in a policy that will reduce tax
      bills for millions of households.

      Reform UK pledge to cut taxes

      Meanwhile, Reform UK, which is led by Richard Tice and was originally
      founded as the Brexit Party, announced a stimulus plan on Monday which
      it said would provide a £74 billion economic stimulus.

      Accusing Mr Sunak of a “Corbyn solution” and “classic socialist
      measures”, Reform pledged to cut income tax for Britons earning less
      than £20,000 per year, scrap VAT on energy bills, drop “green”
      environmental levies and reduce fuel duty by 20p per litre.

      While the Brexit Party stood down in 317 Tory-won seats at the 2019 general election, Reform is fielding candidates at both the Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton by-elections next week.

      1. Ho ho.
        Boris has the situation under control, eh? Who’d a thunk it?
        CBDCs nowhere to be seen.
        Boris will of course look surprised when he suddenly discovers that the Treasury just happens to have one ready to launch in order to save us.
        Because they really, really have our best interests at heart.

      3. Cancel all taxes except VAT which can be raised to any amount now we have left the EU – unless we secretly signed up to continuing alignment.

        1. Only the self-serving megarich would then be able to afford anything. Pretty wretched for the rest of us, but then we are told over and over that our lives don’t matter.

        2. No, scrap VAT and replace it with a local sales tax. Abolish council tax and business rates. That 15% tax – only increased via referendum requiring 75% turnout – goes to the local council.

      4. Drop taxes – wouldn’t that fuel yet more demand that is not being met by more production, therefore simple supply & demand will push inflation even higher, so that even with the lower taxes only select people would be able to afford the little that is available. The loser is the Government. It won’t drop spending, so it will borrow or print more, pushing the value of money down, and further fuelling inflation.

        The best way to kick start the economy is to direct spending away from the consumer and towards investment in productive capacity. Only then we can have the means to profit from a drop in taxes.

        1. Then the government must lose and be prevented from printing more money. That’s the root of the problem.

          In reality people save more during high inflationary times as they need the income for later. They pay down debt. So many things could be done so much more simply than they are.

      5. Much obliged Phizzee.

        I just don’t understand the attitude of ‘we can’t cut taxes, we need the money’ with ‘the economy is contracting, let’s hike taxes’. It is utterly moronic. Truly, the attitude of fools. Cutting taxes gives people more money to spend and as people spend money better than government ever can, that fuels demand. Yes, inflation is caused by rising prices but in reality people act perversely to protect themselves and so will stick most of it in the bank.

        Big government wants inflation to erode the debt. It wants low interest rates so it can keep borrowing.

        The state is wrong. it thinks it is right, but it isn’t. The solution, as always, is markets. Cut taxes, shred the state. Keep cutting until it hasn’t got enough to do something and then cut again, as it obviously wasn’t needed.

  36. Wry Laff

    “If you fancy a holiday in Rwanda, apparently there are some cracking last minute deals on flights.”

    1. It’s a good place to go and see the mountain gorillas, but a lot more expensive than Uganda.

  37. 1981 & 2005 – Two Interesting Years

    Interesting Year 1981
    1. Prince Charles got married.
    2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe.
    3. Australia lost the Ashes.
    4. The Pope died.

    Interesting Year 2005
    1. Prince Charles got married.
    2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe.
    3. Australia lost the Ashes.
    4. The Pope died.

    Lesson to be learned:
    The next time Charles gets married, someone should warn the Pope.

    2. Charlie should get married again – Elton John would be overjoyed to sing ‘Candle in the Whatsit’ at his and Charlies union and we could have a new Pope too.

        1. Do you remember the old party game of Hokus Pokus which was meant to break the ice at parties for young people?

          The boys went to one end of the room and shouted out HOKUS; the girls at the other end of the room replied by shouting out POKUS.

        2. Of course Mother Theresa dies at about the same time as the Princess of Wails and they were thinking of bringing out another version of the song called: Sandals in the Bin.

    5. Two of the four leading cast members of ‘Father Ted’ died on my birthday.

    1. Politicians should not be able to act without our agreement. Not a penny spent, no laws passed without our permission. Now, the ‘our’ has to also change to remove the rent seekers and wasters to return the country to those actually paying for it.

  39. ‘…I took my son out for his first pint.

    Got him a Fosters. He didn’t like it, so I drank it

    Then I got him Carlsberg. He didn’t like it, so I had it.

    It was the same with both Guinness and Cider.

    By the time we got onto whisky, I could hardly push the pram.’

    2. This is a true story.
      Watching a fishing dhow coming into harbour, a number of Pakistani crew jumping around sorting out the rigging. One fell into the water, I pointed this out to a colleague (not Brit) his answer was “don’t worry we can always get another one” the crewman did get rescued, but I was never sure how serious the comment was.
      Ps, good job you weren’t there, you would probably put a second class UK stamp on the envelope.

      1. Long time ago I heard of a ship being hauled on to a beach for breaking IIRC. Probably in Pakistan or Bangladesh, but curiously it might have been in the Gulf. The foreign crew were standing together on the sands watching the process when a cable snapped and snaked towards them. At least one man was decapitated, which resulted in administrative problems as he did not have a visa and was simply waiting to board another vessel.

    3. This is a true story.
      Watching a fishing dhow coming into harbour, a number of Pakistani crew jumping around sorting out the rigging. One fell into the water, I pointed this out to a colleague (not Brit) his answer was “don’t worry we can always get another one” the crewman did get rescued, but I was never sure how serious the comment was.

  41. Further to the comment earlier re the government’s policy on agricultural land which seems to be more government Bull Shite. and bare faced lies.
    Fears sun could be setting on St Albans Green Belt. Herts Advertiser.

    https://images.cm.archant.co.uk/resource/responsive-image/9033912/article-lead-image/lg/1/view-3.jpg

    Is the sun setting on St Albans’ Green Belt? This site, on 11 acres of arable land dividing Park Street from St Stephen’s, is threatened by 95 homes. – Credit: Paul King

    A proposed Green Belt housing scheme on land just outside of St Albans has received a fresh push by developers.

    Plans have been submitted for 95 homes on 11 acres of arable land dividing Park Street from St Stephen’s. Situated south of the old M10 roundabout – opposite the BP garage – the land has long since been regarded as an important separator of the two communities.

    Although a decision by St Albans district council (SADC) is pending, M Scott Properties have submitted fresh documents to attempt to address the numerous and widespread concerns from both residents and statutory authorities, leading to an extension for comments and objections.

    Paul King, who established pressure group Greenbelt to fight such developments, said: “This land has never been on the council’s list of sites for development, due to its value in meeting the objectives of the Green Belt and avoiding the coalescence of communities. If this application is successful it will drive a coach and horses through the Local Plan and see the sun set across, not just this, but other similar Green Belt spaces around St Albans.”

    Similar applications have been made elsewhere in the district, including Chiswell Green and northern St Albans, with campaign groups Keep Chiswell Green and CLASH fighting similar battles against development.

    Paul added: “The developers and land owners are in it to make money, and have little care for the community and the environment that will be left behind. We are reliant on the resoluteness of the planning department to uphold the local plan, albeit quite dated, along with the local politicians. It is very disappointing that our local MP has refused to support our campaign and very much hope that the district councillors will be more in touch with the community’s views.”

    Watling Street resident Chris Martin said: “One day we will come to a point when we realise that we have gone too far in destroying our green spaces, we may have already reached that point but do not yet realise it. The Green Belt will never be reclaimed and more housing doesn’t just house more people, it encourages more people to be housed, and so the decline continues.”

    Anyone concerned about the development can email Paul on greenbelt@gmx.com, search Facebook for Greenbelt St Albans, and also object by July 4 via SADC’s planning portal, searching for planning application 5/2022/0267.

    St Albans News

    1. There is no shortage of housing and no real reason to build these homes, there are several other projects in different pipe lines surrounding St Albans. It’s just corporate greed and that frankly is what is destroying the planet.

      1. Not just St. Albans. Here on the Watford/Harrow Middlesex corridor, the proposals are frightening. And they will keep on, and on.

        1. My thoughts have always been that eventually as has been already done in Barnet (now the London Borough of) Herts, the rest of South Herts will also become part of the London area.
          They’ve already claimed most of inside the M25.
          It’s sickening that greed always seems to take the precedent.

    2. The state would like to cover that in houses – or trees. Trees are for net zero, but houses would let them house gimmigrants.

      I hate them, these useless, gormless bureaucrats.

      1. So do I wibbers. I posted a couple of weeks ago that between them all last year they took home nearly 132 million in expenses. Thieving habitual and pathological lying useless gormless bureaucrats.

  42. I must get on now the garden is in partial shade again, I’m building two raised troughs on legs from 5 pallets to grow veg in. Can’t be bending over to tend to them and pick them later. Including netting covers to keep the greedy pigeons and squirrels off the produce.
    Squirrels have already eaten all of my Gooseberries.

  43. An email from UKIP. I highlighted in bold a particularly interesting sentence

    “Those of you who, like me, live in the Southwest of England will today have witnessed the joyful declaration of the BBC that money (that’s your tax money) is being doled out to wildlife organisations to create a corridor of forest from the Forest of Dean up to the Wyre Forest.

    Acres and acres of grass which could feed cattle and sheep to feed you, wool to clothe you and leather to shoe you will be planted with inedible trees.

    A local farmer told me the other day that he would be £40,000 a year better off if he sold his beef cattle and planted trees claiming the ELMS (Environmental Land Management System) subsidies.

    It seems that George Eustace, the Minister, and DEFRA have not noticed that there is a world shortage of food on the horizon as they dish out “Public Money” for “Public Good”.

    What is Public Good you may ask? Well, it seems that DEFRA & our useless Government think it is good for the public to go hungry so long as there are trees being planted. You could also ask what “Public Money” is – it’s your money! So, they are using your money to make food scarce and prices rise.

    And out in the real world there is a war going on. The Russians have bombed the Ukrainian ports and mined the seas around them. So, there is no wheat coming out of Ukraine. The competition for Canadian hard wheat used for bread making will be fierce and I dread to think what it will cost.

    So, you can forget Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding for Sunday Lunch – it is more likely to be roast bark and whatever veg you can grow yourself. Yorkshire pudding will be off the menu – the cost of flour will make that a luxury.

    Never mind you will have all those nice trees to look at!

    Now you know why farmers call the Minister Useless Eustace.

    Pat Bryant
    UK Independence Party Spokeswoman for Food and Rural Affairs”

    I don’t think it is by accident that the government is making farmers better off if they pull land out of food production. It’s part of the great reset, and necessary to create the conditions for the CBDC.

    2. What Mr Bryant doesn’t mention is that this is all part of the EU agenda. He would be better off asking why we have not completely diverged from the idiotic EU’s policies and why a government department is still so fanatically wedded to implementing them.

      I’d also raise that this is a government looking to ‘re-wild’ and yet builds hateful eyesores that kill birds and bats.

    3. 353209+ up ticks,

      Afternoon BB2,
      Who is now in charge of that new department formed in 2019 / 20 the treachery department, could it be Ben (dover) walker the dodgy builder?

  44. It’s me!

    Jem Barnett
    3 HRS AGO
    “Why is it always ‘the Government’s’ responsibility to curb prices?”
    Well it isn’t, they could get out of the way. The problem is that they’ve interfered in the energy market and in doing so they have distorted it and obscured price signals.
    They are banning things like fracking for purely ideological reasons, and then shoving money into the bonfire that is renewables.
    The best option would be for them to stop doing both those things and GET OUT OF THE WAY. When will these arrogant fools learn that trying to centrally administer complex markets is beyond their capabilities. Get out of the way and let the market operate — it will quickly bring down energy prices by bringing forth new gas and oil supply, and over time it will sort the winners from the losers in the renewable sector, and allocate capital efficiently to bring about leaps forward in the efficiency of the ones with legs.

    Well, it isn’t, but may as well be. Government must GET OUT OF THE WAY!

  46. At risk of kicking off pish fun, can anyone tell me why haddock is dyed yellow.

    1. Because they didn’t clean their teeth with pepsodent.

      Hoping that’s a UK memory, not an irrelevant Canadian one.

          2. No doubt they have all been destoyed. But the one I remember was with real people not with crap Yank cartoons.

          3. Yes. Must be 1955 or after as ITV didn’t start until then, I think.
            First TV ad was for Gibbs SR toothpaste wasn’t it.

  47. The Astronomer Royal has said that alien civilisations may already have transitioned from flesh and blood to machines or robots.

    The silly arse needs a one way ticket back to Golgafrinchan.

    2. It would make sense for a spacefaring race to do that. Vastly more durable, components easier to replace, injury largely irrelevant, upgrades no bother.

      But don’t worry. We’ll never progress. The Left won’t let us.

        1. Fascist authoritarians who are desperately limited to using nothing but force, with no practical purpose who would starve unless they consumed the work of others… hmm, yes. Describes statist Lefties to a T!

    1. She is a stuttering mess, and she lies as fast as a dog trots. She’s as incompetent as the geriatric fools pretending to run the country. It’s insulting to try and pass this off as a legitimate government.

  49. A bald headed Glaswegian SNP MP has just stood up in the HoC to apologise for some sexual misconduct in 2016 with someone 17 years his junior.
    He apologised profusely to all and sundry but as far I am aware he is not resigning.

      1. No excuse but drink does cloud judgement. She…if it was a she should just have given him a slap.

          1. I suppose that the reason why the men who get hauled up for sexual offences are generally very ugly and unattractive both physically and mentally is that their only hope of getting the sexual attention they crave is to ignore what the objects of their lust actually want.. Good looking chaps with pleasant personalities usually do not need to force their foul sexual attentions on unwilling people.

            Of course the other side of the coin is that some people claim to be the victims of sexual molestation when it is completely untrue. I remember a case in the papers a few years ago when a completely repulsive looking woman claimed to have been raped by several men – some poor sods were even taken to court but the truth came out that she was lying. Just one look at her should have convinced a fair minded jury that no man in his right mind would want to touch her.

          2. Oh dear.
            Rape is a crime of violence, and has little to do with physical attraction.

  50. It certainly puts truth to the phrase ‘over my dead body’.

    According to Giles Brandreth (and he should know) Tony Blair had to wait until the Duke of Edinburgh died before he could get his knighthood.

    Follow me for more gossip. :@)

    1. The Duke of Edinburgh’s judgement was very much better than his sons’.

    2. I wonder how much pressure HM was subjected to by her odious government and some of her family. I will never give Blair any title nor his scheming wife.

      1. Perhaps HMQ gave him the title so the public could despise Satan and his wife even more than they already do.

        1. My husband is no Royalist but he said today that he would rather see Prince Andrew at the Garter ceremony than Blair. To quote- he said that Andrew has not been convicted of anything and fought in the Falklands war. Blair is a war criminal.

          1. Exactly. Andrew has been convicted in the court of public opinion after trial by media.

          2. The sheer nasty vindictiveness of both Prince Charles and Prince William in ostracising Andrew and going along with the court of public opinion and the MSM’s anti Andrew vendetta disqualifies them both from being kings in my view.

          3. We need to start a campaign, in earnest, to have The Princess Royal installed as the new Queen when Her Majesty eventually dies. I know it is what Philip would have wanted. Either Anne II or Elizabeth III have a good ring to them.

          4. Mr T, I was brought up to include everyone at social gatherings.
            To exclude a former member of Her Majesty’s armed forces from a church service is wrong.

          5. Prince Andrew also risked his life in the Falklands. His helio was one of the decoys to draw the exocets away from the convoy.

            I do think he’s an arrogant prick but what else would we expect from ‘Top Guns’.

          6. I think his biggest crime is being stupid. He is not the sharpest blade in the drawer but he did serve. Blair did nothing as consecutive governments have also not done.

    3. Afternoon Phizzee. There must have been some pay off as well. Blair didn’t stump up the cash for Andrews little debacle by any chance?

    5. Seeing the Queen on her own at the Duke’s funeral, due to restrictions all of them were ignoring in private, and then I am almost certain Charles and William plus Government, because Blair was “blocking” other honours to political placemen, all putting pressure on her to grant him
      a) a knighthood
      and
      b) that knighthood
      which was the ultimate insult to the Duke’s memory, makes my blood boil.

  51. Garlands has informed me she is unwell. Arthritis among other things.

    I have on behalf of all sent her a Bokay of Flahs ©Bill Thomas.

      1. I know how the lady feels. It is debilitating and wears you down.
        I walked Dolly around the park today and didn’t have to stop. No pain but i was a bit unsteady and had to be careful.

        An improvement for me at least.

        1. Are you doing physiotherapy to build up your strength, or do you have to be careful about that?

          1. No. It’s a slow process. Especially without any support from the hospital, the GP or the DWP. I’ll be okay though. If the worst comes to the worst i have the money for a private operation.

    3. I hope she recovers soon, Phizzee. Being in pain is miserable. Best wishes to her. The bouquet is a nice gesture. xx

    4. Oh dear, poor Garlands. So sorry to hear this. Send her love and cuddles from Alf and me please.

      1. I have to admit to a little preening here. But i thought most Nottler’s like to be informed about other Nottler’s.

        1. Absolutely, it’s called “The Nottler Spirit” don’t you know!! We do care about everyone here, even if our comments become a little sporadic from time to time ;-))

    6. Please send her my best wishes.
      It’s painful and I’m convinced it has been exacerbated by the vaccinations.

    8. Thank you, Pip! Poor Garlands – please send her my best wishes.

      I take it that means she won’t be coming out to play?

    1. If I remember correctly the fired prosecutor was investigating corruption in the company that was paying his son a monthly fee of $35,000?

  53. “This is a rich country, we can import all our food.” Margaret Beckett, when Min of Ag and Fish or whatever it was called that year.

  54. 353209+ up ticks.

    Finally the hol is recognised for what it is anthony charlie lynton will be it’s common denominator, I believe he is to lord it over parks / toilets
    & quick release garters & panterloons.

    he has, no doubt about it turned knighthoods into Shitehoods.

    This pile of piss taking shite cannot be topped , but the bog man & the hol needs topping & toppling in that order.

    Ps Lord Pearson take friends and leave, pronto.

    PICS: Iraq War Architect Blair Receives England’s Highest Knighthood
    Former Labour prime minister Anthony Charles Lynton Blair has been formally invested as a member of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, England’s oldest and most prestigious order of knights, despite well over a million people signing a petition asking for the honour to be rescinded.

    1. The petition was just a game.
      It got a million signatures because the Daily Mail promoted it. They will never promote anything to do with vaccine side effects or other relevant things.
      It was so that the peasants could let off steam before the vile Blair got his Knighthood.

  55. Shortly I am off the wasteland aka Asda…we need milk and liquid refreshment.
    I have been rather unwell the last two days but feel optimistic that I can manage this.
    Upon return I will inform y’all of a package that came in the mail today- you couldn’t make it up:-(

    1. Stick a leg of lamb down ya knickers when no one is watching. They don’t prosecute shoplifters any more. If ya can’t beat them…join them.

      2. Got a small one in the freezer. I may be many things- rude, unkind etc but I have never stolen.
        And how do you know I wear knickers? ;-))))

        1. Shoplifters are known to wear those big bloomers with the elastic round the legs (they can carry more in them). Some men on here might remember them as cutting the blood supply off at your wrist

          1. I refuse to go into detail but I have never worn bloomers like that! My piano teacher did though…..hmmm.

  56. When I took on the responsibility of a veterans group 20+ years ago , I was in my early fifties and the Army/ RAF/ RN and Royal Marine veterans were in their mid sixties early seventies .. the members are alot older now , we have all stuck together , and grieved and applauded , but the numbers have now dwindled to about 14 from a base of 90+ who lunched regulary every 2 months . WE have all got older together .

    Old age can be cruel, by heavens all governments are even crueler to the elderly , as are the utility companies , banks , DVLA, NHS and rail companies .

    Today was a sunny happy day .. we were down a few people .. DVLA and NHS appts , but all that were present agreed that the Queen’s Jubilee was super , could have done with out the Americanisation of the concert , and the Notting Hill type of festival was rather boring and unecessary.

    Hey ho , opinions matter , don’t they.. but I Will not go into the conversation had by all about Boris and the Chancellor and appalling mess they are making .. and as for the boat people , well a couple of very elderly Normany veterans who have tagged on to our group who also served in the middle East later on in the late forties early 1950’s had much to say about the shambles that are now so apparent .

    No largesse shown by governments to English/ Welsh/ Scottish / Irish elderly service men , but oh by Gawd , loads of dosh showered on those foreigners who used to battle against us etc etc who now DEMAND to be fed and watered housed and educated in this country .

    1. They hate us and wish us dead, Belle. Remember that the next time they ask for your vote.

    3. And, Maggie, you betcha bippy those same gimmegrunts will end up fighting against us in their New Caliphate Army.

      Maybe we need to get in first…

  57. Just been to shop for some groceries. It seems to me that where prices have risen they’ve done so by 10-12%. Of course the £sterling tanking at the moment doesn’t improve things. 🙁

    1. Aye. 2 packs of 6 sausages £6 instead of 5. Chicken £8 instead of 6. Sadly, it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

      And it will get better than the entire bunch of wasteful statists are hanged and that wretched sewage Blair and Mandelson’s decapitated heads sit on spikes outside the Commons.

      1. London Bridge is more traditional. That way the seagulls benefit and the remains drop into the river and don’t have to be cleaned off the pavement.

      2. Fresh chickens are £11 at our local butchers and they haven’t grown much since they came out of the egg

  59. Pig farmer ‘got away with murder’ after dumping wife in septic tank 40 years ago, court hears. 14 June 2022.

    David Venables, 89, went to police in May 1982 claiming his wife Brenda had disappeared after becoming depressed because she could not have children.

    But Worcester Crown Court was told Mr Venables – who was aged 48 at the time – had in fact killed his wife because he “wanted her out of the way” so he could rekindle his long-standing affair with nurse, Lorraine Styles, who had been a carer for his elderly mother.

    Mr Venables is accused of disposing of his wife’s body in the “perfect hiding place”, a septic tank in a secluded and overgrown corner of his sprawling farm in Kempsey, Worcestershire.

    Surprising. One would have thought that as a pig farmer he would have known that they go into frenzies when faced with fresh blood and would have devoured the whole body in a couple of hours!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/13/pig-farmer-david-venables-got-away-murder-dumping-wife-septic/

    1. Remains like finger and toe bones are very much a giveaway. Maybe the yank was a better solution – after all, free accommodation courtesy if Her Majesty now.

  60. 3
    353209_ up ticks,

    PICS: Iraq War Architect Blair Receives England’s Highest Knighthood

    A step nearer the throne,
    He peeps over ALL public park toilet doors.

    Heard he is coming out at the order of the garters ceremony in a pink twinset, the fat turk & gruesome starmer has troubles with the sugar plum fairy now picking up speed

    1. Possibly the greatest scoundrel ever to get a knighthood, and that’s saying something.

      1. 353209+ up ticks,

        Evening FA,
        Your going back to your schooldays over your head hero.

        Peers, lords etc,etc. old mature loos had holes drilled through’ walls & they wern’t short cuts for fly’s

    1. Early in our relationship the Warqueen asked that and I told her – ‘Would someone with significant bionics still be human? Would they still feel human?’ Other times have been ‘designing new forms of armour using silk, carbon fibre and ceramics’. Another one was Would a human in a robot body bother exercising’.

      To her great credit, she always engages. I’m sure she thinks I am crackers and why can’t I think of normal things but it usually something bonkers – like harnessing dog tail wagging for energy generation.

        1. Need to watch your nuts if the bionics are into heavy metal. And your bolts, or whatever.

      2. How does one feel human? Other than applying one’s hands to the warm, softer parts of her body, that is.

  62. Illegal immigrants get a RNLI escorted dinghy from France to Dover, coach to London and then flown to Rwanda.

    Why are the do gooders complaining? That’s luxury compared to Easyjet.

          1. The RNLI got rid of all those that might have considered such a thing. No more money from me.

      2. What would happen if the British towed them into French waters and continued until they were challenged/stopped by a French vessel and the British sank the dinghy and headed for home? Would the French let them drown in their own waters I wonder

        1. In response to your last sentence (without reference to the previous) the French did – not so long ago. AND then blamed the UK, even though the 27 who drowned, drowned in French waters. Well, they would, wouldn’t they.

  63. II have just emailed this to the DT Letters. I doubt if they will publish it though they did publish one of mine last week:

    Sir,

    The current amendment to the Northern Ireland Protocol does not alter the pernicious fact that the EU still has a malign presence in the UK’s sovereign territory.

    But there is a perfectly legal escape clause for both sides : Article 16. We must not forget that the EU has already invoked it – it is now the turn of the UK to do so but without the subsequent humiliating retraction the EU had to make.

    Percival Wratt-Strangler

    1. Ah, THAT kind of success. For a moment I though we were being told they’d all successfully become doctors, lawyers, engineers etc.

      1. On the figures quoted nearly 95% are being accepted and no doubt most of them will be applying for dependants to join them.

    2. You are a genius, sweetie! … x
      Mine’s a par Four.
      Wordle 360 4/6

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    4. Yup, luck was on my side today too.
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    2. David Davis would be an excellent stop-gap until David Frost can resign from the House of Lords, become an MP and then leader of the Conservative Party and then prime minister.

      I fear that too many vindictively inadequate members of the current cabinet will do their best to stop him.

      1. The Conservative Party would die of ennui during DD’s interim ‘leadership’ – however short …

        1. I think you might be getting him mixed up with someone else, Maggie. David Davis was only a back-bench MP with no cabinet responsibilities in 1990, having only been in the job for three years. He was inspired by Mrs Thatcher when he started out and has given lectures since in her honour.

          https://www.daviddavismp.com/david-davis-mp-delivers-the-fifth-annual-margaret-thatcher-centre-lecture/

          Under no circumstances would a die-hard Thatcherist have taken part in her downfall.

    2. I watched it in the US and thought it got a bit tedious but I kept watching because of the lovely costumes. The women’s dresses were so beautiful especially the 1920s ones.

  68. ‘Night All

    Laffs

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    1. Then she’s welcome to have halfa dozen stay with her. Same for the rest. After she’s assaulted, would she still feel the same wa or would she grow upand realilse she lives in an incredibly privileged bubble?

      1. TBH I’ve got to the stage with these people, that I wouldn’t really care if she’s assaulted. Lots of people are assaulted or kiled because of her stance, and she doesn’t care about those people.

    2. Fleeing from danger isn’t illegal. What is illegal is entering the UK without permission from France, where these people were not in danger.

      1. “Permission from France”? France encourages them – what more permission do they need from France? :o)

        Without permission to leave from France and then to expect to be allowed to arrive in the UK, yes – and so they shoud be turned back, not picked up by our ridiculous Border Farce and Lifeboat people (who of course won’t be availabe to save anyone from the UK who might need saving in the water at the same same).

        If the RNLI exists to save people from danger, that should not incude criminals deliberately entering our waterspace.

          1. The comma means everything… eats leaves and shoots… shall we eat Grandma?
            ;-))

          2. If I had meant the permission was required from France, I would have written “…entering this country, without permission from France”.

          3. ‘Twould still appear that permission was still required from French authorities.

            Try, “Leaving France and entering this country illegally.”

          4. “What is illegal is entering the UK, without permission, from France, where these people were not in danger”.

            No ambiguity.

          7. I know – I did do a smiley, after my initial comment.

            But what you say is so true – AND the fact that we send boats out to meet them and greet them and bring them here shows that our goernment couldn’t care less about us. After all, it’s only our hard-earned txaes that pay for all of this – and their MP salaries/perks/expenses

    1. “Who’s going to be the woman today? You with the tits – you were yesterday so that isn’t fair”

      2. “We are heading back to the dark ages .”

        Yes indeed, Maggie – Led by Lilly-livered Luddites without inspiration, integrity or soul …

    3. Does any Nottler remember the tv show ‘Ogg and Ugg’? Or am I having a senior moment?

  73. Now here’s the tale I promised before I went to Asda….not sure how long I am going to be able to keep going tonight.
    Forgive me if I am wrong but isn’t test and trace over? Wasn’t it a waste of some millions of £££?
    Today, in the mail came a package for MH which was a test and trace kit. He has had 5 covid swabs which we assume to be negative as no-one ever told us otherwise.
    So why this now? It is in the cupboard, unopened- what a bloody farce this country has become. It seems that MH will not be having any more surgeries in the near future so why would that be needed?
    Give me bloody strength.

    1. Delayed in the post.
      Keep it for years, then you can donate it to your local history museum of weird artifacts from 2021/2.
      Or experiment to see what it turns up if you swab a melon, or tapwater… ;-))
      I wouldn’t worry. Bureaucratic incompetence. It’s the biggest side-effect of Covid.

      1. I did wonder- it’s all such a sodding farce.
        Was good today me- navigated the dreaded Asda and the hunt was good and the gods were pleased. Have eaten a small piece of cod and Brussels with some cheese and parsley sauce. MH will be having his dinner later. He prefers to eat later.

    2. Sell it on ebay. Plenty of mugs still terrified of covid and feel the need to test themselves every five minutes.

      1. MH has other ideas…. that is if a politician of any persuasion comes to the door… he has announced where said package is going to be inserted.
        Think Basil Fawlty and the giant garden gnome;-)

    4. The government have to get rid of the £billions of surplus stock what better way than to continue issuing it to the public rather than a giant bonfire that would appear on the front page of The Guardian!

    5. Over here they have announced plans for a fifth(?) round of vaccinations in the fall.

      Same old crap, just a refresher because the original vaccine has limited effectiveness.

    1. Aren’t they wonderful? I have watched live-cam of bald eagles feeding their eaglets, and wonder how they get the cameras in position for such shots, how clever their nests are! Do ospreys use the same nest again, do you know?

      1. Google tells me:
        Nesting behaviour: Like bald eagles, ospreys often reuse old nests, adding new material to them each season. Ospreys prefer nests near water, especially in large trees, but will also nest on artificial platforms.

        1. I don’t know much about ospreys, apart from some odd places where they build nests. We see bald eagles quite a lot as we overlook the Potomac river, and as our house is on top of a cliff, we get quite a good look at them. But I have not seen a nest nearby.

          1. I watched them rearrange the branches in their nest the other day .. amazing .

            Last night there were 3 magpies loitering around , but the Osprey parents were standing guard .. great respect ..

          4. It will have to be tomorrow, Maggie, I am no good with technical stuff, which getting my pics onto this site comes under the heading of “difficult stuff” so will get Jack to help in the morning.

          6. At the other end of the spectrum, Ann: technical stuff is easy, but this social stuff? Friendships? Getting on with people? I am hopeless.

          7. Rubbish- you are a great friend to me and others on here. Socially, I can be quite shy depending on the amount of Pinot imbibed;-))
            No, having been in front of classes and in the library for years I am comfortable with kids….adults- hmm-
            I really do think it depends on the circumstances.

          8. Being an introvert (with distinctions and oak leaves), it helps to observe with the eyes rather than the mouth how other people have it, and thus to try to be supportive – and, crap knows, we all need support these days.
            Turns out, that ability aso makes me a really good line manager. Paying attention to colleagues cares and ambitions, and encouraging them as best one can is a successful strategy? Who knew?

    2. Thank you Belle! The 3 osplets at the Loch of the Lowes are huge and looking like dinosaurs!

    2. All respect to the lads and lasses that made it happen – with the boots on the ground, and on the decks.
      I’ll raise a glass to those who didn’t come home, and to those who were badly hurt.
      Cheers!
      See all Y’all in Valhall! Mine’s a pint of Thatchers Katy, BTW!
      https://youtu.be/BxoxCJLkWjw

      1. I’ll never forget the documentary with Simon Weston, himself horribly burned, talking about his mates on the Sir Galahad who were worse than him, begging him to shoot them, it hurt so much. They died of burns later.
        That’s the reality of war. Anyone who wants it is a mad dog that should be shot immediately.

  76. From the DT letters:
    SIR – As Hamish de Bretton-Gordon says (Letters, June 11), the nuclear threat from Russia is now real and very dangerous. If our deterrence strategy fails, it will require the most urgent reaction.

    In order to survive a full pre-emptive attack, we will have to retaliate with overwhelming force within half an hour of detecting Russian weapons. During this time the Prime Minister must, among other things, approve immediate use of our intercontinental nuclear weapons.

    Capt Brian Whittingham RN (retd)
    Dorchester

    Stupid old fool. If there is a pre-emptive strike, retaliation won’t stop the huge destruction that will result in the UK.

    And note two things:
    1. Russia is huge, and well spread out. Where would the UKs beesting be applied?
    2. Russians are used to hardship, and have a society that is better suited to survival with loss of power and water supplies, food distribution, and dare I say it, Iphones. Russians are hardy, and their less developed society is less vulnerable.
    Don’t count on nuclear retaliation to prevent annihilation.

    1. “In order to survive a full pre-emptive attack” – we wouldn’t survive it.

      “we will have to retaliate with overwhelming force within half an hour of detecting Russian weapons” – by then it will be too late – retaliating will do nothing to prevent the attack.

      The man was a Captain in the RN? Bloody fool.

      1. Cdr Brian Whittingham from MoD(PE) was appointed to manage the UOR programme, supported by Lt Cdr John Miller from directorgeneral aircraft (navy). The two Sea King HAS2s to receive the Project LAST embodiment — codified as mod number 666 — were XV650, diverted from the repair programme at RNAS Culdrose, and XV704, taken up from MoD(PE). Both arrived at the Yeovil plant in late May for conversion.

        The Searchwater installation was suitably repackaged for the Sea King

  77. Google Chromecast playing on t’telly: Big organ music… much better than broadcast drivel.

  78. I’m mostly enjoying Spring watch although the hyperbole gets to me.
    I was interested to hear Iolo raving about 15 varieties of orchid where he is.

    Yes, I realise that he’s a lot further North, but in my garden I get at least 20 varieties and almost certainly more

  79. 6 hours without scoring from open play! 6 bluddy hours! This is the England football team! The kneeling tossers and their cretinous coach are a disgrace! Are you watching sos?

    1. I’m watching Spring watch at the moment, but from the rubbish I’ve seen of England so far, I’m not surprised.

      Perhaps the best pitch needs a better team?

      }:-O

      1. I’m watching Google Chromecast. Russian choirs. Sublime.
        Oktavists singing ” Do not reject me in my old age”.

          1. Deflect all you like darling! He’s always been a loser! Hamilton is not!

    2. I take back my comment on the England cricket team well most of it. Thanks to Bairstow and Stokes they won the test but no thanks to that prat Root, out for 3, why people praise him I don’t know, one minute he’s making 170 odd and the next innings 3. Inconsistent and was a crap captain too
      Evening Sue!
      PS the only way the England football team should take the knee is in the groin
      Off to t’pit now g’night

      2. Spikey pet! I predicted 3-0 a few days ago! The silly b@stards really don’t get it! Oh good heavens !

  80. I went out a few minutes ago to collect something from the clothes line and disturbed a fox stalking a hare.
    I doubt it could have caught him, a very big adult male, but it means the leverets will probably be in danger

      2. A friend of mine had an Airedale terrier. One evening he spotted it having a tug of war with a fox over the dog’s rubber chewy toy.
        The Airedale did manage to dispatch a fox cub that had ventured into his back garden (which incidentally was a home for a badger set – in South London).

          3. I’m not surprised they were very comfortable there being fed peanuts by the owner – relaxing on their Settees….

  81. I see that the WHO are planning to rename monkeypox to something less racist, apparently south American monkeys were stigmatized by being associated with the latest pandemic.

  83. https://youtu.be/BPMlupU5dw8
    And that’s for me today.
    Lots of organisation done to empty Mother’s house. Hard work, both telephonically, and emotionally, so I’ll bid Ye a good night, and a new fight in the morning.

    3. Grime thorpe. Where there’s muck there’s brass. And what Brass.! Thanks for posting.

      Earlier today I too was emptying MiL’s bungalow. Spent an hour deadheading 35 rosebushes in the garden. Once again she is incarcerated in a ‘Covid outbreak’ nursing home, No visits allowed but I did manage to get a “Red Cross parcel” taken in for her (Radio times, Crisps, peanuts and chocolate bars).

      We hope she will be allowed day release in a fortnight….

        1. Sadly no. Day release is only for a couple of hours between prescription pain relief medication.

          1. Sorry to read that.
            The long slow withdrawal is almost as bad for the family as it is for the individual.
            Good luck

          2. My husband still complains that I was not allowed to speak to my beloved uncle on the phone because ” of covid rules.” He is right in that I should have pursued it but we had so much else going on.
            Sod this government for all they have put everyone through. Shameful.

          3. Phone?? What fuckwit thinks that disease virus spreads through a copper cable, for God’s sake.
            The world is full of sadists. Why do so few speak out?

          4. When the Nazis came for the communists,
            I remained silent;
            I was not a communist.

            When they locked up the social democrats,
            I remained silent;
            I was not a social democrat.

            When they came for the trade unionists,
            I did not speak out;
            I was not a trade unionist.

            When they came for the Jews,
            I remained silent;
            I was not a Jew.

            When they came for me,
            there was no one left to speak out.

            Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
            habe ich geschwiegen;
            ich war ja kein Kommunist.

            Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
            habe ich geschwiegen;
            ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

            Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
            habe ich nicht protestiert;
            ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

            Als sie die Juden holten,
            habe ich geschwiegen;
            ich war ja kein Jude.

            Als sie mich holten,
            gab es keinen mehr,
            der protestieren konnte.[1]

            Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller
            (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a Protestant pastor and social activist.

          5. Because she couldn’t be bothered to get off her fat arse and waddle down to his room is why. He died 2 days later- alone.

          7. We have all been through it- he really was all, from the older generation, that I had left. Nobody here but us chickens now.
            Bless you Paul for your kind comments. And you say you can’t socialise….

          10. Take it easy, Ann.
            Plenty zeds.
            And don’t forget the safety-valve to blow off some stress. Loved ones, Nottl, even a swift dose of alcohol, and let it out.
            Bottling up is the curse of the Northern European: Think Italian (like my secret genes- I love being Sicilian!). It’s good for the soul, but be sure to be cross at the right person, otherwise horses heads may be delivered by DHL…
            ;-))

          11. I know the feeling, Ann, I’m the youngest of nine and 8 of those, and my parents, have all gone.

            It ain’t ‘alf lonely here.

          12. My Father died of cancer alone back in autumn 1997, because:
            – Mother couldn’t stand to be with him whilst he croaked (I can understand that), and
            – I was flying back from Norway, arriving about four hours too late.
            I regret that daily, To take that last journey alone, well…
            So, I have some understanding, Ann. It’s a regret it’s not easy to be quit. I learned from it. Don’t be too far away from where you might be needed.
            BTW, his end was assisted by doctors with injections. I believe, although nobody said. It was a good thing, he had very low pain threshold, and was in severe pain much of the time.

  84. On open letter to the England football manager:
    Dear Mr. Southgate,
    May I humbly suggest that instead of training your team in synchronised knee-bending that you might consider training them to play football.

      1. Be my guest.
        I’ve never had one printed although I have appeared in the humour books on unpublished letters a few times.

    2. I had to turn it off they are pathetic.
      But it doesn’t help when the opposition keep rolling around feigning injury at the slightest contact. And the gullible ref handing yellow cards to the home team.
      You have to wonder if it’s possible that pre match instructions have been issued to the officials. But having suggested that, it wasn’t really necessary. Our players don’t seem to have a clue.

      1. You clearly missed the England team doing exactly the same, even Harry Kane, which I must admit surprised me in that it was so blatant,

        1. I use to be a great football (Spurs) fan.
          I’ve totally lost interest in it all now. Sadly I can’t see me changing my opinion in the near future.

          2. Hmm, Norfolk Born and Bred, as a kid I supported Norwich City, then I grew up and realised it wasn’t a sport anymore but a business that was ripping off the fans and they were too dull to see it.

            No more wendyball – just contempt.

          3. Gedorrff…..
            I’m talking about the 60s.
            The first game I went to was a floodlit match against Man City.
            Bert Trautman was in goal for City.

      2. Yep, but the referee is French so no excuse to give the Frog an excuse to penalise you. You know it makes sense, but sense is in short supply in the England team.

        On the day that the much maligned England Cricket Team thrashed New Zealand we have to witness this pathetic reversal football-wise courtesy of Woke Southgate.

        The message has to be ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ and Southgate has succeeded in spades.

      1. When he was being a football manager instead of a politician he was.

        He reminds me of a Formula 1 driver, can’t recall his name.

          4. I can’t help you any more. You have your silly ideas and..well..most of us don’t!

          5. I lost the plot here. If about Lewis Hamilton he is a superb FI driver. He has a car this year which is not as good for technical reasons as those he has driven previously.

            I disagree with Hamilton’s bending the knee to to the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd nonsense. BLM has long been exposed as a US Democrat Party scam. Lewis Hamilton should by now have ‘educated’ himself as to the facts.

          7. I’m with you on all of that! I just get very sick of people saying “it’s all about the car” ! Hamilton is a superb driver! A bit of a whinger, though!

    4. Absolutely. Also stop picking players on the virtue of the relative darkness of their skin and accompanying silliness of their expensive hairstyles. There are many more intelligent players than those you pick, many of a whiter hue.

      Call them ‘Caramac’ or even ‘Off-White’ coloured if you need an excuse for their selection.

  85. 4, yes 4, to Hungary.

    The fourth goal was an absolute object lesson in “triangle passing”.

    Great build up and England were made to look like a Sunday league team
    Puskas must be rocking in Heaven

  86. So what was I up to over the weekend?
    Well, on Friday, I first drove to Colsterworth to pick up an auction purchase. Always a good excuse to get away for a couple of days!
    At the auctioneers I saw these which they take round various WW2 events:-
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00b9bd517cf2a9ba74ec7cf28d0453721438a5706c110b47e70e07ab6a7464b5.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9fe52158bdd6425fbd0d42ad6557aebf29e23cb152ffff6bce14dadcb858467c.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8775b7848b1b971a86278064b44fe39b5e7b438a52d6618e93214e3d48d85bf4.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/49823fc8552ab0fd53d4999f9e05adee9d5e2bfddb241dbba99475e9d714e903.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b6e05a2bcf003933a054bc63bdf17238b4930a3dac68bb810f059b1d38974925.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/db993cbc1071c416588c73b2824ffe48562a54401e2d21f4a1b96141f2b5fdd8.jpg

      2. He bought the second one from the top, Ann. It was a bargain at only three shillings and thruppence! Lol.

      1. The last one is British, a Daimler Armoured Car of WW2 vintage and the bluey-grey field gun is possibly French or German.

  87. Carrying on, I had brief stops in Bourne and Spalding for a bit of shopping.
    Took these couple of photos in Spalding:-
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e8701569ee410c27d990eb1bd876d2791f9b7b93f5b1adfbdddb4baf92f8dfb3.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a4ebbe32fa4e3139ea075e61820ade402b92a6464a302da877591e850ea8c18.jpg

    Carried on towards Skegness and, looking at the map, I decided to try my luck parking right down the sea lane at Friskney. Arrived and parked up on the edge of the old RAF Wainfleet bombing range.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d581d6044714723eb6848d3c5cf0ecdea253d16c2dca015438f66723fee50cc.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/91d91ed2324ba5d927255015acb439620a295e03449ff84ff0287be08908e30a.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2ecf6c5c99e529bc294a79fb4b2efe516504deecca2c75aeabf9313aca3723e2.jpg

    Prepared myself a meal of smoked mackerel & salad and then walked up the road to have a couple of pints in the Barley Mow pub at the A52 junction, passing the old Control Tower for the range, now an Air B&B (!!!) en route.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/538de5e4f0cb71b89d27fe772408f7e6d0a1ebe057758b85126413e3212b1149.jpg

    And, after walking 2 miles to the pub, the bloody thing was shut for the week so had to walk all the way back without a pint!!

    However, after a mug of tea I sat and took in how quiet & peaceful it was before turning in for a very restful night.

    1. What a bugger about the beer, Bob, but beautiful open countryside to be in.
      Do you kip on the floor of the van, and isn’t it cold?

      1. 3/4″ ply sheet covered with a couple of carpets, a thick mattress, couple of ex-BR Sleeper blankets with an ex-army Arctic sleeping bag. VERY snug.

  88. Goodnight all. I’m off to bed!

    I plan having a run to Bakewell tomorrow, but hope to get some more photos uploaded sometime.

      1. Bakewell PUDDINGS Madam, if you please!

        Bakewell Tarts are a sickly imitation!

  89. Goodnight Y’all- am off to sleep- I hope. Thanks for the support and humour.
    If you hear snoring…..it’s my husband….:-)))

  90. Well well. I used my usual first word and look what happened
    Wordle 360 1/6

    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  93. 353209+ up ticks,

    Former Head of French Pro-Migrant NGO Sentenced For Human Trafficking
    The former head of a French NGO has been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of trafficking in human beings

    priti johnson, getting a bit tight around the collar is it ? they’ll be coming to take you’s away,away.

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