Sunday 26 June: Conservatives must face the fact that their biggest problem is now Boris Johnson

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  2. Morning, Geoff and all.

    Another fine start to the day here and as a bonus it appears that there was some rain overnight: I was out picking loganberries at 6 and the bush seemed rather too wet for a dew and I then noticed that a covered area had pools of water laying on it, so, it must have rained. IIRC the forecast was no rain until this coming Thursday. Every little helps, as the boring ad keeps reminding us. Berries are currently cooking slowly in preparation for being turned into jelly later.

    1. Morning, KtK. It did rain briefly at about 10.00.
      I had to rush out and rescue the rack of free books at the gate.

        1. I’ll have to look.
          My criteria are “Have I glanced at it since c. 1990? Am I likely to do so? Do I know remember whodunnit?”
          Three Nos and it’s out.

    3. After their heated argument, she sent him away grovelling. An hour later he was back, with a pound of freshly picked grovels.
      Ho Hum.

      © J Stuart Brown joke book 1969.

  3. Morning all,

    Boris vows to continue as PM at the next election:

    https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-prime-minister-confident-he-will-win-next-general-election-and-eyeing-up-third-term-12640465

    despite the illegal Tory policy of housing immigrants in Napier barracks:

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/home-secretary-priti-patel-breaks-27328651

    and sending them for a Rwandan holiday break rather than accommodating them in UK hotels:

    https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2022/02/18/number-of-migrants-in-hotels-nearly-quadruples-in-one-year-to-just-under-40000-costing-taxpayers-1-7-billion-per-year

    1. Has Obergruppenführer Schwab, he who believes he will direct the Fourth Industrial Revolution Fourth Reich, given Johnson his blessing to carry on? In the current state of the World it matters not what the people want but rather what self-appointed elitists want.

  6. Good moaning. Aaaarrgghhhh …. can’t get rid of Matt’s yesterday cartoon.
    Will try again with a new posting.

  8. Woman fury as neighbours ignore son asking for help after finding cat dead. 26 June 2022.

    Marina lives in a nice detached house located in a quiet residential area with her husband and until last year, with her beloved cat.

    Marina explained the two gardens are separated by a very thin fence and “you can hear everything”.

    “When I found out, through another neighbour, that they heard him scream and ask for help without knowing what had happened, I was furious.

    “How could they sit in their garden, listening to my son crying and screaming, and not come to see what was going on?
    “Or ask if he needed help with anything?

    “Especially as they knew he was on his own. I would have done the same if it was their son screaming on the other side.”

    Several questions spring to mind when reading this Feline Tragedy. What was the cat’s name? How old is the son? Why is he alone at home while his mother is on holiday? How stupid is the Mother? Why is it in a National Newspaper?

    https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1630787/woman-fury-neighbour-nightmare-ignore-son-asking-for-help-dead-cat-exclusive

    1. The neighbours are well out of it. Turn the music up Deirdrie, the neighbour is having a fit.

  11. West must not sell out Ukraine, says Liz Truss in swipe at Emmanuel Macron. 26 June 2022.

    Ms Truss and Mr Kuleba wrote: “To get peace and protect our way of life, Ukraine and the free world need to stay strong and united. We must ignore the defeatist voices who insist people are beginning to tire and who propose to sell out Ukraine for a quick end to the unrelenting horror.”

    Ah yes! The “Free world”! Ukraine will fit right in there. It has just abolished the opposition and imprisoned its leaders. The view of Ukraine as a country united in a love of Freedom and Democracy is a creation of the CIA and the MSM. In truth it is desperately divided not unlike Vietnam when the Americans came to its aid. This is all suppressed of course as it was then. It was only later that we found out that the South Vietnamese government was utterly corrupt and not worth the expenditure of one American life. We should certainly not be wagering our own futures on supporting such a regime.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/25/west-must-not-sell-ukraine-says-liz-truss-swipe-emmanuel-macron/

        2. Truss at conference overjoyed about pig sperm. I wish i hadn’t seen that.

          Good morning, Minty.

  12. Conservatives must face the fact that their biggest problem is now Boris Johnson

    No it isn’t, the biggest problem for the Conservatives is they are no longer Conservatives.
    We really need to have the debate about who they replace Boris with and how things would be done differently, okay Boris is weak and has succumbed to the great reset agenda, climate change scam, wokism, population change, their silence over the grooming gang report is deafening, a half measure Brexit, but at least he resisted the worst of the dystopian covid measures that were imposed on most of the free world.

    Our main problem is those politicians that support all the anti Conservative and anti British measures I have listed are the ones that want to replace him want to go faster with that agenda.

    Do they really think that the electorate are just going to be pacified with Boris’s head on a plate over some made up non stories that were leaked to the press by his enemies when they give us a Biden or a Macron or a Trudeau as his replacement?

    Although there are plenty that would, I suppose.

    1. The torys would take us back into the EU thats why they are against Johnson.

      2. 353 495) up ticks,

        Morning JN,

        Totally agree with one additive, johnson inclusive.

      3. ‘Morning, Johnny, in my experience, backward steps are usually a BIG mistake, no matter who takes them.

        1. Just think how many lemming lives would be spared if they learnt to walk backwards…

      4. ‘Morning, Johnny, in my experience, backward steps are usually a BIG mistake, no matter who takes them.

      5. Good morning Johnny

        I am afraid that Johnson never wanted Britain to leave the EU but saw a way of advancing his own political ambitions by pretending to embrace the Brexit cause.

        Why did he agree to the NI Protocol? Why did he allow EU fishing boats to continue to plunder British waters up to 6 miles from the UK’s shoreline? Why are we still signed up to the ECHR? Why has so little been done to get rid of EU regulations? Why is there still VAT on fuel?

        I am afraid that if the British people still have the will to escape the EU they need another political party and a leader who is totally committed to Brexit unlike either the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson and any of his potential replacements.

        But do the British care a jot about Brexit any more? It was deeply depressing that the Tiverton by election saw a thumping victory for the most pro-EU party – the Lib Dems – while the only party committed to Brexit – the Reform Party – was obliterated.

        1. The Reform party will never be a major player, they are just another Thatcherite party the same as the Tories and Labour, and even the LibTards are.

          Most of our economic problems stem from Thatcherism but the ruling classes can’t see it or just don’t want to believe it because they personally tend to be winners from Thatcherite policies.

          “The premise is simple: Lower taxes, simpler taxes will create faster growth.
          That will mean higher wage growth and more tax revenues over time to invest
          in healthcare and other public services. International examples like Australia,
          Singapore and the US provide the evidence.”

          See how they give themselves away by classing three countries with huge poverty problems as successful. They also say they need tax revenues to invest in services which is utterly preposterous as taxes don’t fund services, spending funds taxation.

          “Britain’s reputation as stable, low tax nation no longer accurate ”

          It never was accurate.

          “Largely by stealth, taxes have been steadily rising for last 25 years; rising to highest for 50 years”

          Twenty-five years? More like 35 years but if they say that they implicate the Tories they are basing themselves on. Twenty-five years ago was 1997 the year Blair came to power. Both Thatcher and Major increased indirect taxation.

          “Over last decade Tory govt presided over 400 + tax rises, increasing regulation & declining growth”

          Well that’s exactly what the electorate voted for because the right-wing press told them it was necessary.

          “Bank of England QE debt: refinance internally as 75 year “Corona” bond @ 0.5% pa”

          QE isn’t debt. It’s an asset swap. There’s no need to ‘refinance’ it, it was simply created by changing a few spreadsheet numbers which can just as easily be changed again.

          “Removes refinance risk in credit markets & reduces interest rate risk”

          What does?

          “• Lift higher rate tax threshold to £70,000 from £50,000 today; flat 40% tax
          rate above £70,000
          • Lift Capital Gains Tax threshold to £20,000 from £12,300, with single 20%
          flat rate above
          • Free up 1.2 million SME’s from paying Corporation tax (over 80% of
          companies) by lifting minimum threshold to £100,000. Raise rate thereafter
          from 19% to 20%
          • Cut employers NI from 13.8% to 10% under £70,000”

          Pure status quo tinkering. Just like the other parties do. Aren’t you called REFORM??

          “Reduce & simplify residential stamp duty: 0% below £750k, 2% on £750k –
          £1.5m, & 4% above, will stimulate economic activity & construction”

          More status quo tinkering.

          “Abolish business rates for small & medium firms, offset with online Delivery
          Tax at 3%, will create fairer playing field for High Street and physical versus
          online businesses ”

          The high street model is dead. We’ve changed the way we shop in the internet age. You’ll never make us take a step backwards over this. Also business rates keep a lid on commercial rents. This basically proposes making the whole country an enterprise zone and well i’m sure you’ve seen the rents in those.

    2. Conservatism is the politics of the Gold Standard not a fiat economy. Conservatism should be left in the past. It’s because of ideology based on the premise of conservatism that the last 12 years have been so rubbish economically. Sad thing is on the social side they are very liberal, but they pretend at being conservatives on the economy.

  13. Conservatives must face the fact that their biggest problem is now Boris Johnson

    No it isn’t, the biggest problem for the Conservatives is they are no longer Conservatives.
    We really need to have the debate about who they replace Boris with and how things would be done differently, okay Boris is weak and has succumbed to the great reset agenda, climate change scam, wokism, population change, their silence over the grooming gang report is deafening, a half measure Brexit, but at least he resisted the worst of the dystopian covid measures that were imposed on most of the free world.

    Our main problem is those politicians that support all the anti Conservative and anti British measures I have listed are the ones that want to replace him want to go faster with that agenda.

    Do they really think that the electorate are just going to be pacified with Boris’s head on a plate over some made up non stories that were leaked to the press by his enemies when they give us a Biden or a Macron or a Trudeau as his replacement?

    Although there are plenty that would, I suppose.

  14. Good morrow, GentleNoTTLers all. Clear blue sky – for now – I wish you a happy Sunday.

      1. ‘Morning, Paul. Still in Mid-Suffolk for now but packing like an eejit and looking for transport quotes.

  15. The divided West is enfeebled by declinism and despair. 25 June 2022.

    Yet if we look frankly at ourselves we have little reason to be confident. In the USA, Canada, Australasia, and not least Britain we see a political class that has lost its bearings. We are floundering economically and have little idea of how to provide the energy that is the basis of all modern civilisation. Do we still offer the hopeful vision that brought millions of ordinary people to thrust aside the Iron Curtain in the 1980s? Some brave people in Hong Kong and Russia still look to us. But intellectuals and universities across the Western world lead a chorus of denigration of our history and values. In their own version of Newspeak, rationality is imperialism, equality is oppression, and free speech is persecution. This is not an entirely new phenomenon, but its extent is new. So above all is the capitulation of those in authority.

    The political elites have led us up the Garden Path with their Marxist Fantasies and now find that it is a cul-de-sac from which there is no escape.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/25/divided-west-enfeebled-declinism-despair/

  16. Had a fabulous evening yesterday. Made a four course Italian meal, sat outside to eat, wine by Second Son (birthday present), followed by SS sharing his first-ever purchase of whisky (Johnnie Walker Black Label) with the rest of us whilst we sat there, talking about news and music, illustrated by bursts of Youtube on the phone.
    I’m amazed how knowledgeable the lads are about what’s going on in the world… I’m sure I wasn’t so well informed at that age.
    Best evening for many years, that was.

    3. Sounds perfect Obs.
      Similar to times when all of our family get together. Middle son and I have already planned our home made seafood extravaganza for his 40th birthday when we all travel to Rock for a week in August. Including an evening meal across the harbour at Rick Stein’s restaurant. Glad his Erin doors is paying for that. We thought we might have a father and sons four ball at St Enodoch GC but not at 120 pounds each per round. There are other options. 🏌⛳

    4. Paul, belated birthday wishes. Coincidentally I know a Brit who has sort of returned from Norway to live in UK after retirement, and his living standard there is much higher than in England, and with vastly better healthcare.

      1. Thanks, Tim.
        We have no intention of returning. It’s bad enough going over in a week’s time to clear Mother’s house. All assuming striking airline workers allow air travel at all, of course.

    5. According to most people my father’s age the young have no brains and no idea at all and are generally not clued up.

      My experience is more akin to yours Paul.

      They’ve been brought up with the internet in their lives. My daughter was using it as soon as she could read and write which was before 4 years old.

      1. My opinion is that young people are vastly more clued-up than when I was that age. They know so much more about so much more, it’s scary. The only way I can out-compete them is on the basis that age gives experience.

  17. 353496+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Conservatives must face the fact that their biggest problem is now Boris Johnson,

    Okaay, a few more facts would not go amiss like the whole party political content is overflowing with lies,deceit, nepotism regarding the wifey squeeze in your face treachery via DOVER and a 100% shortfall in the political true Conservative politico.

    The odious coalition has ALL fronts covered reset / replace is
    making / taking ground daily.

    The new money spinning scam must surely be legalising illegal drug taking, seemingly the political branch of the mafia is coming out to play
    eventually after a teething period it will be a complementary jab in junior school ( the hooker) leading to a daily dose of dope ongoing.

    The electorate REFUSE TO ACCEPT their party whether it be
    lab / lib/con are first & foremost the creators of many major problems operating today, followed up by the rhetorical answer to those problems
    NEVER acted on, NEVER.

    The ideal world is surely in the making via the majority voter as in ” ger your daily drug dose ( pure stuff you can trust) in the town drug depot
    along with your food allotment & your orders for the day.”

    There will be nothing more warmly comfortable than a current lab/lib/con supporter / voter sitting back on the pile of shite he/she/ it has deposited via the polling booth.

  18. ‘Morning, Peeps. Nice drop of rain yesterday evening but nothing like enough.

    The charge sheet is long and ugly:

    SIR – It was interesting to watch the new MP for Tiverton, Richard Foord, followed by Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, on television on Friday.

    Mr Foord gave Boris Johnson both barrels, effectively calling him a liar and announcing: “The Lib Dems are coming.”

    Hmm. I may not live long enough for that. The Clegg/Cameron farrago was enough for me.

    Meanwhile, the smug Sir Ed was at pains to tell viewers that this result was not a “protest vote,” which it obviously was.

    This country is in the throes of what could be a long and difficult haul. We have had a succession of governments that have sat on their hands during relative good times, and are now discovering that there is not – and has never been – a contingency plan.

    We have saddled ourselves with enormous debt, taxed workers and pensioners beyond reasonable bounds, taken in countless numbers of illegal immigrants, allowed unions to rule the roost, depleted our military to unacceptably low levels and let our police forces operate only from offices and cars. The solution? Find a PM with a plan. Might be tricky, that one.

    Trevor Anderson
    Tunbridge Wells, Kent

    1. Whilst I concur with all of this, the problem I have always had with the rantings of “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells” is that there seems no answer to all this other than to recite the psalms hoping that God will provide.

      It is too much even of God to ask for some marshal to ride in and making everything good again. Look what they did to him when somebody tried that! The best we can do is to make a start. Without a sense of national morale, we cannot even do that, which is why we must appeal to the profiteers to make better use of the loot their opportunism has extracted from the situation than to blow it on status symbols, big cars yachts and private planes in the Bahamas, and cocaine parties at home.

      The Kardashians (who have set themselves up as cultural role models) have a great deal to answer for, and I for one feel I owe them not one jot of respect.

      1. Jezza, come on man, just find yourself a woman.

        (then you will really have something to grumble about)

    2. “Irresponsible governments have saddled the CountryWe have saddled ourselves with enormous debt, taxed workers and
      pensioners beyond reasonable bounds, taken in countless numbers of
      illegal immigrants, allowed unions to rule the roost, depleted our
      military to unacceptably low levels and let our police forces operate
      only from offices and cars.”

      That’s more accurate, Mr Anderson.

    3. This is what 22,000 deluded voters supported. Presumably they can all afford their ‘revised’ energy bills.
      I’m assuming that Mr. Davey hasn’t suddenly caught a major dose of common sense.

      “With the General Election just a few months away, Energy Secretary Ed Davey outlined the five laws his party – the Liberal Democrats – is planning to propose for a greener Britain.

      He told ELN his idea is to go “a bit further than we’ve been able to in the Coalition with our Conservative colleagues”.

      They proposals are: a Nature Bill, Green Transport Bill, Zero Waste Bill, Green Homes Bill and Zero Carbon Britain Bill.

      Mr Davey said: “We want a programme for Government so we can – whether it’s in Coalition negotiations or as an active Opposition – make sure we’re championing this agenda. It’s something that we fought for in this Government and we’ll continue to fight for after the election.”

      1. Davey has the dubious distinction of being an even bigger waste of oxygen than Boris, and even more scientifically illiterate.

        1. Remember the odious Ed Davey took over from the disgraced and imprisoned Chris Huhne as minister for the environment. Davey was just as mentally deranged as Huhne : even the Liberals do not like him – he lost a leadership election to Jo Swinson – a woman who lost her parliamentary seat just as Nick Clegg had done.

          Under Davey Net Zero would not be just Zero degrees Centigrade – it would be Zero degrees Fahrenheit (= – 17.8 c) which is a damned sight colder!

      2. Ah yes, Eid Davey, the virtue-signaling clown who said he would fast for the mohamaden month long jamboree a couple of years ago. As you are no doubt aware, during their jamboree mohamadens choose not to eat between dawn and dusk for reasons that escape me – especially in northern climes where, unlike their more equatorial haunts the daylight lasts much longer in Summer – and Eid joined in…for the first day, i.e. he missed out on one lunch.

        I’m unaware of how many mohamden voters rushed to the ballot box to support his gallant – lack of – effort.

        1. Always a cheering thought when your surgeon or bus driver is a mohammedan.
          Hungry and dehydrated; good time to wield a scalpel or manoeuvre the No.9 along the High Street.

    4. My comment on TCW yesterday https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/today-tiverton-tomorrow-the-world/

      Sir Ed Davey, how come you were knighted .. who did you grovel to?

      Since you were knighted , your head has a slight tilt, and you look as if you have been slurping wine from a straw .

      Listen , you can fool some of the people some of the time , but you can’t fool them all of the time .

      Ask Cyril, no hang on , Jeremy will do, oh drat Clegg will answer truthfully won’t he , unless he is too shagged out.

      1. Clogg committed the cardinal error of putting the Lib Dims into power, albeit by coalition. Until then each and every Lib Dim MP wannabe could promise the Earth to their constituency without fear of actually having to make good on their lies.

        Suddenly, in 2010, they were sharing the hot seat and having to make good on their, often contradictory, promises.

        That Sir Eid is celebrating that he can still fit all of his MPs in one minibus is almost as hollow as they were found to be 12 years ago.

    3. What is the problem with Disqus and Firefox? I’ve just written a comment and added a link, hit return to add a blank line and the whole comment is deleted. There are other bothersome problems with Firefox so I’ll have to re-think what browser to make default. Pissed off of N Essex!

  21. Russia on brink of default as debt deadline looms. 2 June 2022

    Russia has seemed on an inevitable path to default since sanctions were first imposed by the US and EU following the invasion of Ukraine. These restricted the country’s access to the international banking networks which would process payments from Russia to investors around the world.

    Being a little “economical” with the truth there! In essence they’ve stolen Russia’s Foreign Reserves so they can’t pay, though like most of these “sanctions” it’s proving a double edged sword. The interest on US Treasury Bonds continues to climb as investors decline to buy them because of the risk of their being appropriated at the whim of the US Government.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61929926

    1. Yep. Russia goes to the bank with a bag of money and finds that the big front door is closed. If I were a Russian finance minister I’d get some nice vouchers printed and post them to the bond holders. Or maybe just send a cheque.

  22. I see from the Telegaffe today that the moron Charles wants “Transatlantic Slavery” taught to school pupils so that they can understand it as well as the Holocaust!? I wonder if his plans include telling the little dears how much money Britain spent eradicating that trade and, more importantly, how many of the Royal Navy died combatting slavery. I wonder if he will include Barbary slavers, Arabs and the black slavers who sold their captives to the trade?? The man has always been a bit stupid but it seems he’s getting much, much worse.

        1. The two heirs are treading a very dangerous path.
          I do not expect them to travel the globe slagging off the country they are supposed to be representing.

        2. I think Annie should step to the plate, she seems to be the only one with grounded commonsense.

      2. Yes, the republican movement must be feeling very pleased with his support for their cause!

        ‘Moaning, Annie.

      3. I wish that Charles and William had the honesty to admit that, like Harry, they want out. They like the wealth and the luxury but they despise Britain and the British people.

        Why don’t they just emigrate to the Bahamas?

      1. And all they do is moan about it as if its whities fault.
        Mind you taking note of the average content of media coverage now including nearly all TV advertising it seems that slavery has and is being revisited.

    3. In other news the EU is looking to spend €20 million to buy a bigger house for its UN ambassador in New York, so he/she can “host bigger parties” and the cretin Boris is about to give even more of our money to support Ukraine by way of bank guarantees!

    4. Well said, SB, we are obviously on the same wavelength when it comes to his selective memory!

    5. I doubt if wokey Charlie will want to play hard ball and even discuss the real and historic facts of the slavery trade and the capture of young white children by the Moore sailors, the youngsters who were taken to Alhambra where thousands were kept in caves until used by the leaders of the region of peace. And when discarded were fed to the prides of captured African Lions.
      He’ll give that one a swerve.

    6. How many committed monarchists is he turning into republicans? I am beginning to think that that is the bumbling old fart’s intention.

      Talking of bumbling old farts – another one, Boris Johnson, has used a similar technique, By promising to get Brexit done and then failing in every way actually to do so he is ensuring that Britain will soon be back in the EU and there will never again be a chance to escape. But that was always the Mendacious Flatulent Fornicator’s intention.

  23. I see from the Telegaffe today that the moron Charles wants “Transatlantic Slavery” taught to school pupils so that they can understand it as well as the Holocaust!? I wonder if his plans include telling the little dears how much money Britain spent eradicating that trade and, more importantly, how many of the Royal Navy died combatting slavery. I wonder if he will include Barbary slavers, Arabs and the black slavers who sold their captives to the trade?? The man has always been a bit stupid but it seems he’s getting much, much worse.

  24. SIR – I wouldn’t have voted for the Tories this week – not because of the way the Government has handled Covid, the economy or immigration, but because it has been sitting out the culture wars.

    The toppling and vandalising of statues, the NHS refusing to talk about “women”, the rewriting of history in schools and universities, national institutions falling over themselves to claim they’re the racist beneficiaries of slavery and colonialism – all of this, and much more, on the Government’s watch, with barely a squeak from a minister.

    It’s time the Tories put the small c back into “conservative”.

    Paul Stephenson
    Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Ain, France

    And another thing…when Charles recently expressed regret about slavery, he failed to give any credit for GB’s role in stamping out the evil trade, the tireless efforts of William Wilberforce which resulted in the passing of the Slave Trade Act 1807 and, above all, the Royal Navy’s part in disrupting the slave trade for the next 50-odd years by means of the West Africa Squadron. Apart from seizing some 1,600 slave ships and freeing 150,000 slaves in the process, many RN sailors lost their lives through a combination of rampant disease caught from handling the slaves and the risks involved in such a lengthy and dangerous campaign. Their job was to disrupt the trade of slaves to the USA and the West Indies. The RN was instrumental in this task.

    It’s a pity that Charles prefers virtue-signalling to facts. Frankly he isn’t fit to wear the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet (not that he earned it in the first place, of course).

    1. Well put – that issue [Charles on slavery] also raised my blood pressure this morning! See below!!

      1. I nearly blew a fuse when I saw his stupid and naive comments in yesterday’s Times. He’s fast becoming a serious obstacle to the survival of our monarchy.

  25. Morning all 😃.
    I appears that all over Britain that massive and extremely expensive alterations have and are being made to household and commercial gas supplies. And it’s costing millions. And they are blaming Putin for the recent price hikes.

    1. 353495+ up ticks,

      Morning RE,

      If that be the case which of the lab/lib/con coalition party has his name on their membership list.

      1. Sorry ogga I Don’t understand ?

        My predictive text has a mind it’s own.
        I’ll try again.

        1. 353495+ up ticks,
          RE ,
          The way I see it is that the commodity in question is Putins / Russia’s to do with as they please.

          NO accommodation was ever made to counteract what is happening.
          Giant windmills were / are
          ineffectual but good investment, the wretch camerons father in law will agree on that.

          1. Although i agree……
            I was always led to believe that our gas came from Norway in pipelines under the North sea.
            And there is no way our gas suppliers would even think of paying for al this work that is being done. So they wacked the price up and blamed someone else for the price rises. There is no known shortage.
            Except Bore-us has been trying to talk up ground source heat pumps. if so why are they bothering spending millions on these alterations that left alone didn’t and hadn’t caused any problems until they started to fiddle about with the pipe lines under the roads.

          2. 353495 + up ticks,

            RE,
            How right you are but it does not alter the fact that Putin’s
            gas belongs to Putin to do with as he pleases.
            lab/lib/con are high profile political scammers who will use anyone / thing to successfully scam.
            Many things currently are not as they are shown such as the london bus could very well have India on the tyres but no way will it be carrying nellie with the big belly to Delhi.

    2. If that twat had attempted to do that with some of the hefty female officers of my day, that smug smirk would have been wiped off his face the very same moment that his bollocks were ripped from his scrotum.

      1. It diminishes respect for the authority of the police, as does dancing with the jerks who block the roads and driving round with rainbow flags on the car. How can one respect a farce that behaves in that way? The police should be friendly (as they are in Norway) but not your friend – at least, when on duty.

          1. Would that have been tolerated if it was a white bloke?
            She should have given one warning, then arrested him, with whatever violence was necessary, for obstruction, at best, maybe adding sexual assault. Let the smaller stuff slide, and they try bigger things.

          2. I would like to see a couple of actors, a black woman dressed as a police officer and a white man similarly attired to the black scumboy, doing that in the street and see how the media react.

      2. Childish behaviour, best to ignore it.
        And for all we know he could have been a fellow police constable.
        (we all have our prejudices, and I disapprove of the change from ‘constable’ to ‘officer’)

        2. Any “fellow police constable” acting in that way in public would be immediately suspended from duty on a disciplinary charge. His dismissal and (forfeiture of pension rights) would soon follow.

        1. That would never have happened back in the days of common-sense. Captain Sir Percy Sillitoe (who championed police women) had an effective stratagem that worked against gangsters and morons. He would send in a heavy squad to hit them hard. Any officer taken to court for heavy-handed tactics (and few were) and he himself appeared in the witness box to justify his actions. The world was a better (and safer) place back then.

  31. BBC diversity training focuses on developing ‘trans brand’

    BBC staff have been told there are more than 150 genders and to develop their “trans brand” by declaring their pronouns on email signoffs.

    What? A poxy 150? Well it is only June (soon to be renamed Juan/Juanita); just wait until next month, the number will surely have doubled … if not tripled.

    1. The logical end point of this continuous expansion will be their telling us there is an infinite number of genders – a different one for every individual who has ever lived

  32. Par 4 today

    Wordle 372 4/6

    ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  33. Morniin’ all. More DT misdirection in the title.
    The problem is that they have not found a leader of character since they stabbed Thatcher in the back.
    Unless they address that problem they will give us Hunt or Starmer, shower of sh1t that they are.

    3. Good morning Grizzly and everyone.
      Cute little dog, and fyi Jeneda Benally is a musician (bassist) aged 41 who as a teenager was inspired by Guns ‘n Roses. Jeneda is of native american stock and you can find her stuff on youtube and elsewhere. Also she has been involved in activist stuff for minorities.
      Like about 100% of the world’s human and animal population, she didn’t choose her parents, and she is gurning for the photo.

      1. Good afternoon, Tim. My comment was tongue-in-cheek about the absurdity of such a contest.

  36. An inclusive NHS

    “People from ethnic minority communities have worse experiences of healthcare than other patients and that must change.”

    The Messenger review underlines the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion to an NHS-wide culture that combats discrimination for the good of its staff and patients.

    Saffron Cordery
    Interim chief executive, NHS Providers

    Matthew Taylor
    Chief executive, NHS Confederation
    London SW1

    Query from me

    Is that because ethnic minorities are being treated by their own kind , who treat them like mud?

      1. Having to sit in the same room as whities and be treated by white doctors and nurses. not in bourkas. It must be awful for the effniks.

    3. Well if they get worse healthcare experiences than I do they must get no treatment at all!

    1. Straight off the top of my head:

      There is an old twerp called Whitty
      Who’s declared our waters are shitty
      He’s urged, with a shitload of fact,
      That companies clean up their act.
      They won’t, and so more’s the pity.

    2. 353495+ up ticks,

      Morning TB,

      The state of our rivers,
      Is on par with the state of the governing party;s
      lab/lib/con as in FULL OF SHITE, the majority electorate
      should therefore find them acceptable.

  38. Timid west must draw a line in the sea and break Putin’s criminal food blockade. 26 June 2022.

    Is the west really powerless to stop this crime without making humiliating concessions? No, say analysts Bryan Clark and Bill Schneider of Washington’s Hudson Institute. If Biden and allies such as the UK were a little bolder, they suggested in an online discussion, Russia might be deterred from blocking Ukraine’s grain.

    Specifically, enhanced deterrence at sea could be achieved using long-range unmanned aerial systems such as US-made Gray Eagle strike drones, recently promised to Kyiv. The advanced drones, to be commanded by Ukrainians but operated remotely by contractors, carry Hellfire missiles and would enable Ukraine “to detect, track and locate Russian surface ships and if necessary sink them”, Schneider said.

    All this is predicated on the assumption that the Russians will simply say, “Oh well it’s the Ukrainians.”

    There will come a point where the difference between NATO Forces and NATO Weaponry will no longer matter and then we will be at War!

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/timid-west-ukraine-line-in-sea-break-vladimir-putin-criminal-blockade

    1. The advanced drones, to be commanded by Ukrainians but operated remotely by American contractors? Fixed it, I think.

    2. The advanced drones, to be commanded by Ukrainians but operated remotely by American contractors? Fixed it, I think.

      1. Close

        The advanced drones, to be commanded by Ukrainians but operated remotely by American armed forces contracted as mercenaries? Fixed it, I think.

        1. A fine fix. I was in agreement with the ‘correction’ from Still Bleau but your answer refines the point.

    3. We are pretty much there. Happily, for now, the Russians are being circumspect and careful. Just as they were when one of their planes was shot down over Syria by the Turks.

    1. Just how did Greta get to Glasto? Flapped her gums and shot across land and sea with emissions from the rear like a moon rocket returning to base.

    1. Possible Oscar nomination for the last one unglued? Glad to see the plod wasn’t at all concerned!

  41. Tickets for Glastonbury 2022 will cost £280 + £5 booking fee. Every effort was made to keep this increase on the 2020 ticket price of £265 as low as possible, despite inflation and the impact of two forced cancellations.

    Both UK and International ticket balances will be payable in the first week of March 2022, when you will also be able to add car park tickets and cancellation protection to your booking (see CANCELLATIONS & LOST TICKETS for more information).

    It was possible to use the online form to request a full deposit refund (with no administration charges) up to 31st December 2021. Tickets which are cancelled after 31st December 2021, or for which the balance has not been paid by 7th March 2022, will be charged an administration fee of £25 per ticket and refunded £25 per ticket.

    Everyone, aged 13 or over, who wishes to attend the Festival must be registered before they can pay a deposit. Glastonbury registration is now supported on all major mobile operating systems. Click here to submit your registration.

    Attempting to book tickets online using multiple browser tabs can confuse the ticket sales process and cause your transaction to fail. We strongly advise that you use just one browser tab when trying to book tickets, in order to avoid possible problems with your transaction.

    Postage and packing is charged per order – rather than per ticket – when paying your ticket balance. https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/tickets/

    WHAT’S INCLUDED?
    Tickets to Glastonbury Festival Include:
    – Entry to the Festival, with over 3,000 performances across more than 100 stages
    – Five nights camping (with no early entry fees)
    – Free programme
    – Free miniguide
    – Free mobile phone charging
    – Free on-site newspaper
    – Free mobile app
    – Free firewood
    – Kidzfield, where all entertainment, rides and activities are free of charge
    – Support for Oxfam, Greenpeace, WaterAid and hundreds of other worthy causes (£2m given annually in recent years)
    – Funds to improve the Festival’s infrastructure and environmental impact

    ONLY SEE TICKETS ARE AUTHORISED TO SELL TICKETS FOR THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL

    No other site or agency will be allocated tickets. If you miss out on tickets when they go on sale, please bear in mind that any cancellations will be made available for resale at face value via the Festival’s authorised ticket agency, See Tickets.

    All tickets for the Festival are individually personalised to the named ticket holder and are strictly non-transferable. Security checks are carried out on arrival, and only the specified ticket holder will be admitted to the Festival.

    Seems like great fun and good value ..Glad the sun was shining for them all.

    1. “All tickets for the Festival are individually personalised to the named
      ticket holder and are strictly non-transferable. Security checks are
      carried out on arrival, and only the specified ticket holder will be
      admitted to the Festival.”
      Backed up with a massive security fence,not so “open borders” then…….
      Yet the tossers don’t want the same rules at OUR borders
      ‘Morning T_B

      2. Some unfortunate old lady was reported a day or so ago as having done that, as she could only get a dentists appointment for severe toothache sometime in the autumn… so she used pliers.

        1. I read that one too – fortunately my teeth are all still intact and the ones I grew. I do however, have to pay £25 per month for my dental check ups and hygenist.

          1. My dentist will in ordinary times sees me once in six months. The hygienist once in three months. They will both make more time for me if i have a problem and i pay £30 a month for complete cover excepting Lab work. He’s good too.

    3. Somehow ‘cancellation protection’ doesn’t chime with Glasto’s hippie origins.

  42. At least 17 people have been found dead in a nightclub in East London, local media report. Cause of deaths not known. BBC

    Jellied eels? Eastern Cape province: Do they have jellied eels in South Africa?

      2. Maybe. Prohibition kills. It’s effing insane to treat drugs as as criminal issue rather than a social one.

  43. The Prince of Wales accepted a suitcase containing a million euros in cash from a former Qatari prime minister, the Sunday Times has reported.
    The paper says this was one of three cash donations from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim totalling three million euros.

    “I have done nothing wrong” Said the Prince. “I told him to put it with the other 35 suitcases I received this week as donations to my charities.” “Your Order of the Garter will be posted to you the day after mummy snuffs it.”

    3. Is this a joke, spoof, or is it true?
      No link and it’s too much like Andy for me to tell whether tongue is in cheek (or the typographical equivalent).

  44. 353495+ up ticks,

    O2O,

    Is it only me who thinks that this duo of dopey downvoters are really a
    pointer to an honest post by agreeing to disagree ?

      1. 353495+ up ticks,
        Afternoon N,
        It is my belief the pair are PIE
        book keepers, for certain one is a paedophile fan.
        When you attract them you know you are posting truful comments.

          3. 353495+ up ticks,
            Afternoon N,
            I believe it to be a dithering daily trannie, a touch
            mentally unstable, male in the morning, female in the afternoon, evening ,not sure
            up until sleep overtakes.

          5. 353495+ up ticks,N,

            N,
            By all means but it does not bother me in the least just another truth denier with nothing to say, sad really.

  46. Is that a dagger I see before me…..?

    Boris must deliver before ministers plunge the knife in.
    Michael Howard has called for Boris to resign for the good of the Party….

    1. Perhaps Bozza isn’t taking any notice because he knows he’s not the worse tory by a long way.

    2. Boris has already decided he’s won the 2024 election and says he’ll go for a turd term. Oh sorry, third.

  48. I’m not one for flights of fancy, I hold no truck with esp, clairvoyance , ley lines, dowsing, homeopathy , fortune telling or any other of the myriad diversions of whimsy that engage folk, life happens, you can have some control but inevitably serendipity or chance will trip or reward you .

    Odd thing happened yesterday, we’re off in the tin tent in Devon and we’d decided to visit Greenways, Agatha Christie’s place near Brixham, as we arrived my mobile burst into life with a call from an unknown mobile number, as I was negotiating the Honda Tank into a tiny parking spot in the Greenway car park at the time I ignored it especially as I’ve been receiving a few nuisance calls recently. Duly parked we wandered down to the Cafe for a quick cuppa only to come face to face with my cousin Andy and his Wife whom we have not seen for 3 or 4 years They live in Gloucester and are down here in an AirBnB about 5 miles from our campsite. They didn’t know we were here and we hadn’t posted anything on social media . Spookily on the way down to Greenways SWMBO said it was time we gave Andy and Chris a call as we hadn’t seen them for a while, oh and the missed call on my mobile, that was Andy, while waiting for Chris to “freshen up” and get the teas he thought he’d give his cousin a quick shout to pass the time.

    2. I am not one for flights of fancy either but things do happen.
      My late brother was a classical musician and composer but he had a soft spot for the Beach Boys, the harmonies, I think, and his favourite song was Good Vibrations.
      When I was having my surgery Monday, the surgeon had the radio on and it was very quiet and I was shaking. Then Good Vibrations came on and I said aloud, my little brother is here. Was rather comforting even though it sounds daft.

  49. I’m not one for flights of fancy, I hold no truck with esp, clairvoyance , ley lines, dowsing, homeopathy , fortune telling or any other of the myriad diversions of whimsy that engage folk, life happens, you can have some control but inevitably serendipity or chance will trip or reward you .

    Odd thing happened yesterday, we’re off in the tin tent in Devon and we’d decided to visit Greenways, Agatha Christie’s place near Brixham, as we arrived my mobile burst into life with a call from an unknown mobile number, as I was negotiating the Honda Tank into a tiny parking spot in the Greenway car park at the time I ignored it especially as I’ve been receiving a few nuisance calls recently. Duly parked we wandered down to the Cafe for a quick cuppa only to come face to face with my cousin Andy and his Wife whom we have not seen for 3 or 4 years They live in Gloucester and are down here in an AirBnB about 5 miles from our campsite. They didn’t know we were here and we hadn’t posted anything on social media . Spookily on the way down to Greenways SWMBO said it was time we gave Andy and Chris a call as we hadn’t seen them for a while, oh and the missed call on my mobile, that was Andy, while waiting for Chris to “freshen up” and get the teas he thought he’d give his cousin a quick shout to pass the time.

  50. Nick Cohen, as mad as ever. If he were to say simply that the Conservatives should take responsibility for the failures of Brexit he’d be correct. However, the first three paragraphs give him away. For the likes of Cohen a successful Brexit would still be a failure. Some of the content of this makes Paul Mason sound reasonable.

    Stab-in-the-back: the nasty old myth that Brexiters are exploiting to explain away the disaster

    Lord Frost and others are reinventing a tactic used by the beaten German generals in 1918

    Nick Cohen

    The mediocrity of Lord “Frosty” Frost isn’t ordinary. There is an epic quality to his failings. The parochialism of his nationalism and irresponsibility of his conspiracy theories have allowed one paunchy man to embody the entire collapse of modern conservatism into know-nothing paranoia.

    No serious person outside the ruling elite doubts that Frost and Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit heightened the misery of millions. They have raised inflation, cut the national wealth and diverted the energy of Britain’s rulers away from the economic crisis into needless disputes with our neighbours.

    Extremist movements face their greatest danger when their supporters realise all hope is gone. Failure brings the risk that the faithful will think again and walk away. Conservatives might now move from nationalism to patriotism, and contemplate the compromises the UK must make to repair the damage they have caused.
    . . .

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/25/stab-in-the-back-nasty-old-myth-brexiters-exploiting-to-explain-away-the-disaster

    1. No wonder the Grauniad is always after donations – surely no one is going to pay to read carp like that!?

      2. The Guardian have plenty of money. The pleas for donations are just for show. There is a news bureau called something like guardian.com, based in the US, iirc, that gets donations from Open Borders and the rest of the usual suspects.

    4. “… hard Brexit”? So soft we hardly noticed. Our Customs people made a shambles at the border, which they need not have done.
      Apart from that nothing much has changed, except that NI has become an EU enclave (or exclave?). It’s hardly Brexit at all.

  51. Can you imagine a UK politician speaking like this?

    Spain says deadly migrant rush ‘attack’ on its territory

    The Spanish prime minister on Saturday described a deadly migrant rush on the enclave of Melilla from Morocco as an attack on Spain’s “territorial integrity”, as human rights activists demanded an investigation.

    At least 18 African migrants died in the latest drama on the doors of the European Union, when around 2,000 mostly sub-Saharan African migrants approached the Moroccan border with the tiny territory at dawn on Friday. Moroccan officials said 18 migrants had died during the rush or succumbed to their injuries, some of which came from falling from the top of the barrier. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the incident was a “violent and organised attack by mafias who traffic in human beings, against a Spanish territory”.

    Sanchez said earlier this month that “Spain will not tolerate any use of the tragedy of illegal immigration as a means of pressure.”

    . . .

    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/spain-says-deadly-migrant-rush-attack-on-its-territory/news-story/f4af2c4314b8067906fac6aa9edbdce6

      1. Open up the gates and allow them in, it is the humane thing to do.

        Sorry, I got carried away with my role as a border force sookesmanperson

    2. Our ‘politicians’ are mealy-mouthed cowards who want this country to assimilate the hordes of the world.

      1. When i wrote to my MP about illegal migration he told me that; The United Kingdom has a proud record of helping those fleeing persecution oppression and tyranny from a round the world. The rest of his reply was even more absolute BS, he went on to mention the control of illegal entry. They have no control over their precedent and morbid resistance of habitual lying how can they control immigration ?
        That’s absolute bolero and why i will never vote for him again.
        They don’t have a clue do they.

    3. I was talking to my old mate Brucie in Oz earlier today he told me that a few Somalian migrants had been robbing the supermarkets in Cowes on Philip Island all planned because they knew the police presence is sparse in such a normally peaceful environment. So the just walked in stole what they wanted including bottles of booze and walked out. Probably arrived from the mainland Victoria because they knew they would not be challenged. Next time………..

  52. The state we’re in. Parents are being denied access to teaching materials by schools hiding behind copyright law and the Freedom of Information Act.

    Peers seek to avoid school ‘indoctrination’ from hidden diversity materials

    Parents say they are being denied access to contentious resources on areas such as race, transgender and sex education, often because external inclusion companies provide them.

    Some families have reported headteachers citing an exemption under the Freedom of Information Act as to why they cannot see what is being taught to their children because it could “prejudice the commercial interests” of diversity groups. Now, crossbench peers have tabled an amendment to the Schools Bill, the government’s flagship reform legislation currently going through Parliament, to close the “very big loophole” and avoid pupils being “indoctrinated”.

    The amendment says: “Where parents request it, schools must allow parents to view all curriculum materials used in schools, including those provided by external third-party charitable and commercial providers.” It adds that “schools must not withhold curriculum materials from parental view”, but can limit access to the school premises to satisfy concerns about commercial confidentiality.

    A source close to Nadhim Zahawi, education secretary, said ministers are “very supportive of the idea of parents having access to the curriculum and materials” and support the “thrust” of the amendment. However, ministers are meeting peers this week to assess whether schools can be reminded of their transparency duties without needing to change the law. Government guidance on relationships and sex education makes clear that parents should have visibility of what is being taught to their children, such as the books used in lessons.

    The Labour peer Baroness Morris of Yardley, a former education secretary, told the Lords last week: “It is in the area of contested facts and difficult things to teach that schools are most likely to turn to outside organisations to help.”

    She added: “Whether we like it or not, we live at a time when there are lots of curriculum areas in which facts are not facts, and what we all assumed was appropriate to pass on to the next generation is now being contested. It is critical that giving ideas and words to the next generation is done with care, openness and the support of all the adults possible.”

    Lord Sandhurst, a Conservative peer who tabled the amendment with Baroness Morris, added: “It is very important that parents should know what is being taught and, in particular, whether their children are in fact being indoctrinated … the content must be accurate and balanced.”

    The Lords said that in one case, a parent of a primary school pupil asked her child’s school to ask to view curriculum papers for relationships and sex education, only for the headteacher to decline as they were exempt under Freedom of Information laws.

    In another case the peers cited, a school asked an organisation to deliver their sex education papers, but the organisation said: “This is our intellectual property – it can’t be photocopied and shown to a third party,” and parents were considered a third party.

    Similar concerns have been raised about trans groups telling teachers that gender can be self-identified and single-sex spaces should be opened up to trans pupils. Brighton and Hove City Council was accused last year of withholding its contentious school “racial literacy training” from parents, which claimed children as young as seven are not “racially innocent” because they view “white at the top of the hierarchy”.

    A Department for Education spokesman said: “It’s right that parents should have access to the curriculum and resources schools use with their children, especially in sensitive subjects such as [relationships, sex and health education]. We welcome this challenge from peers and, as with all issues raised in the House, the department and ministers will consider whether further action is required.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/25/schools-may-forced-share-learning-materials-parents-proposed/

    1. I’m slowly coming round to Zahawi – I think he might have more traditional views than most of his department.

    2. Commercial confidentialilty? It’s a school! Everyone working there is a public employee. AS long as the information is limited to the child there’s nothing to do.

      The simplea nswer is school vouchers. Close the department for education. Parent takes a voucher along to a school. School accepts the voucher and claims the cost from the Treasury to spend as it wants to. Mor eimportantly, the parent is now the customer.

      If the parent decides, with half a dozen other parents to home school (still the best academic outcome for children) then they can, hiring tutors collectively. The solution to all the problems is to get the state out of education.

    3. Photocopy the material at home; most people have a printer. (Do schools still use printed material?)
      Access online material via your child’s computer if the site is blocking you.
      But the main point is that parents should not have to resort to subterfuge to see this stuff.

    4. The bigger problem is the Data Protection Act. It was not intended stop people knowing the phone numbers of the other people in the Bridge Club.
      Many clubs and associations are terrified of giving out information.
      However, it suits the government and councils and the NHS, indeed all publicly funded bodies, to be able to block information any subject at all. Simply asking for information sets off alarm bells and the information is blocked.
      It is a fact* that the Information commissioners consider that a commercial contract is deemed out of date after six months and there is no reason under the Act why the info should not be made available.
      Of course, the onus is on the questioner to report the blockage to the Information commissioner, have their office look at etc etc while Hell freezes over…

      * from real life experience.

  53. Blowing a howling gale here and we’ve had a few short and squally showers. Went out for a few minutes in between showers to do a bit of dead-heading and check the tomato plants were all staked up. Didn’t stay out long.

    1. I’ve had to close our three sun umbrellas, the largest that serve s a table for 6, took off earlier.
      We played children’s cricket earlier, tennis ball version, when my eldest and his two children (youngest in a seat on the back of his) arrived on their bikes. I had to put the dog in doors she kept stealing the ball. Hows that………..

  55. FOUR members of a fascist cell – including three from Keighley – who committed offences fuelled by right-wing extremism have been jailed for a total of more than 30 years. The group made pistol parts on a 3D printer, encouraged terrorism and celebrated extreme right-wing attacks around the world. Examination by a specialist confirmed that despite being incomplete, the weapons could have proved lethal if fully assembled.

    After the sentencing, Temporary Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Craig – head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East – said: “We work tirelessly to identify individuals who have an extremist mindset and threaten the safety and unity of our diverse communities.

    “Anyone found to be engaging in terrorist activity, or violent extremism in any form, can expect to be identified and put before the courts.” Unless they is ‘YooNoHoos’ !

    Keighley – an outpost of Bradford. Bradford – an Asian enclave in the North of England.

    2. Right-wing fascists, eh?
      The firearms parts were unlikely to be pressure-containing, and if they were, would most likely hav ebeen lethal to the operator, not the intended shootee.

    3. Our old friend, The Anarchists Cookbook will be in there somewhere. This is just another one of those fake prosecutions to distract attention from the reality of Islamic Terrorism!

    4. “Temporary Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Craig – head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East – said: “We work tirelessly to identify individuals who have an extremist mindset and threaten the safety and unity of our diverse communities.”

      Unless the terrorists are Islamic, BAME or Black. LGBTXYZ and XR might also be exempt, by virtue of diversity. Pah, bluddy Police Farce!

    5. Feck off government. You’ve created an unsafe environment filled with criminals. We didn’t want them, you forced them on us.

      You also didn’t stick up for us when we needed you to, you insult us at every opportunity and you don’t uphold the law equally. As for diverse – bug off. No one wanted it, why should we tolerate the mutilation, the stabbings, the drugs, the violence, the paedophilia? You want to work tirelessly? Do you job. It’d make a change.

    6. My brother had toy pistols when he was young.
      Can these 3D printed guns fire caps?

      2. I had a brace of pistols when I was a child. They fired caps and made a satisfying “bang!” with the smell of cordite.

    7. “…the weapons could have proved lethal if fully assembled”
      Well, I would not like to pull the trigger on home made gun made from extruded plastic on a cheap 3D printer from Comet. The young white men involved seem to have been a nuisance more than a real danger. They “posted videos including the Christchurch mosque mass murder”… presumably copied from TV news programmes.
      The photos do them no favours. They look young, soft, and not quite the full shilling. Now about the infiltrator, an “undercover police officer”, what part did he play? Was he an agent provocateur? In the US the legal people cannot get a prosecution if the police engaged in entrapment. Did this police officer lead them on, provide the 3D printer, and show them how to work it? Did he provide the computer program needed to create pistol parts?
      Despite being of a nervous disposition I cannot imagine any of these boys, jointly or severally, being able to upset me much, unless they left chewing gum on a bus seat.
      Now that the gang has been caught we might all sleep easy and feel safe visiting the theatre, cinema and so forth.
      However, just one wee question. How is it that the security services catch right wing gangs, but when an atrocity is carried out by a muslim he was acting on his own, without the support or knowledge of any other people whatsoever? Hmmm?

      https://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/20232699.keighley-fascist-cell-members-jailed/

      1. If Stacey had claimed to be a tranny seeking a replacement “weapon” no doubt the case would have collapsed.

  56. FOUR members of a fascist cell – including three from Keighley – who committed offences fuelled by right-wing extremism have been jailed for a total of more than 30 years. The group made pistol parts on a 3D printer, encouraged terrorism and celebrated extreme right-wing attacks around the world. Examination by a specialist confirmed that despite being incomplete, the weapons could have proved lethal if fully assembled.

    After the sentencing, Temporary Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Craig – head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East – said: “We work tirelessly to identify individuals who have an extremist mindset and threaten the safety and unity of our diverse communities.

    “Anyone found to be engaging in terrorist activity, or violent extremism in any form, can expect to be identified and put before the courts.” Unless they is ‘YooNoHoos’ !

    Keighley – an outpost of Bradford. Bradford – an Asian enclave in the North of England.

  57. UK joins ban on imports of Russian gold. 26 June 2022.

    The UK, US, Canada and Japan will ban imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit Moscow’s ability to fund the war in Ukraine.

    What is to stop the rest of the world buying it? The Arabs and India in particular can’t get enough of the stuff. The amount it raises for Russia (£B12.6) in 2021 is a paltry amount. Even if they don’t sell it, it will remain in their possession! This looks like another, “You are going to be really sorry when I shoot myself in the foot Vlad!”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61941589

  58. UK joins ban on imports of Russian gold. 26 June 2022.

    The UK, US, Canada and Japan will ban imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit Moscow’s ability to fund the war in Ukraine.

    What is to stop the rest of the world buying it? The Arabs and India in particular can’t get enough of the stuff. The amount it raises for Russia (£B12.6) in 2021 is a paltry amount. Even if they don’t sell it, it will remain in their possession! This looks like another, “You are going to be really sorry when I shoot myself in the foot Vlad!”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61941589

    3. Mmm nice.. Bluefin Tuna, endangered but tasty. Try it before they become extinct.

  60. The West Yorkshire Police Service has revealed that five schoolboys have been arrested and charged with several offences against the race relations and offensive words acts. They were reported to have been overheard claiming that they had caught several polliwogs and were keeping them in buckets. The Chief Constable for Racial Crime and Hurty Words said that it will not be tolerated here in the North. We will demand the severest punishment, including long terms in prison as an example to others. The polliwogs have not yet been identified.

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1QIR1UB8OpvbRIk3yLnggAHaGF?w=231&h=190&c=7&r=0&o=5&dpr=1.01&pid=1.7

    1. Typical Police Farce – wouldn’t know a polliwog from a Slammer.

      I do give up – in fact, I gave up long ago on the imbecilic Police Farce – not fit for purpose.

  62. G7 summit in the shadow of Ukraine war. 26 June 2022.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/948eeaf6fd3be7303a4718933613539c5b83065a9d6e911b9b2275558857754b.jpg

    At least 18,000 police officers and a 16-kilometer long (10-mile) security fence will be in place to ensure no demonstrators can disturb the idyll. Guests will be flown in by helicopter. Germany’s federal government and the state of Bavaria have budgeted €180 million ($190 million) for security alone.

    Just look at them. The senile, the perverts and the simply unhinged. The woman on the end! Remind me. Who ever voted for her?

    https://www.dw.com/en/g7-summit-in-the-shadow-of-ukraine-war/a-62254199

    3. They’ve invited an Indian representative in the hope that India can be persuaded to turn against Russia. Hopefully they’ll be disappointed. It isn’t in India’s best interest.

  63. “East London nightclub deaths: At least 22 people found dead”

    I wondered why there wasn’t more on the news about this. Turns out it’s East London in Eastern Cape Province, SA.
    I have a cousin living in SA – from what she says, this probably isn’t that remarkable

  64. The Tories need to address the real reason they were defeated in Devon
    If they don’t they will rapidly find that there is no such thing as a safe rural constituency – whoever their leader is

    JAMIE BLACKETT : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/26/tories-need-address-real-reason-defeated-devon/

    Leading BTL:

    I am afraid the cat is out of the bag: Boris Johnson never believed in Brexit he just saw that espousing Brexit would help him win the election.

    Because he didn’t believe in Brexit he agreed to the NI Protocol; he agreed to EU fishing boats plundering UK’s fishing waters; the ECHR is still overruling British courts; there is still VAT on fuel. Johnson has no intention of addressing these problems and taking any advantage from Brexit.

    1. I would add that the reason why Johnson refused to make any sort of deal with the Brexit Party before the last election was that even with a handful of Brexit MPs he would be under constant pressure to do a proper Brexit. As we can see more clearly each day Boris never had any intention of doing a proper Brexit – his election victory was based on a lie.

      Absurdly Nigel Farage weakly agreed not to stand Brexit Party candidates against sitting Remainer Conservative MPs and demanded no quid pro quo. With several Remainer Conservative MPs thus holding their seats Johnson was confident that he would retain a comfortable number of Conservative MPs who were more than happy to let him procrastinate and even obstruct Britain leaving the EU properly.

        1. Sadly I’m not so sure.

          There’s no signs that anyone knows what to do now and has a coherent view of the future economy.

          If Labour get in the press will attack them and they will act similar to the coalition government and try to get debt down to get the papers off their backs and to be seen to be doing the right thing (it’s not).

          It’s very much got to the point where elections are pointless.

          1. I fear you are right. Although it’s a “joke”, that no matter who you vote for, the government always gets in, it’s not funny at all to be in such a situation.

          7. Probably the same as they said in the sixties.

            “Sorry to leave it all in such a mess old c0ck”

          8. Labour? Get the debt *down*? Oh! I see, a funny!

            Current debt interest is over 100 billion. The only thing we need to do now is radically cut state spending – 30-40% would be a start.

            Gvernment at all levels is awash with private money. That must change as the more it takes, the more damage it does the more it wastes.

          9. What’s private money?

            Money is a creature of the state.

            You still think governments have no money except what they take from us. Your thinking is bad. It is spending that gives us the money to pay taxes (in aggregate).

            Taxes are used to ensure demand for the currency. Basically to stop a barter economy. You can only pay UK taxes in Pounds, not in gold, not in Euros or Dollars, only Pounds. So to be able to pay taxes you must sell your labour, or produced goods, for Pounds. Secondly taxes mute aggregate demand. This stops you having too much to spend and so contributing too much to inflation. Lastly they are used to alter behaviour. Under the Gold Standard your thinking is correct, but in a fiat economy things are different.

    2. Boris Johnson can “get away with things that mere mortals can’t seem to”, the former prime minister David Cameron has said, while suggesting there has been an “arms race” between politicians and the media to outwit one another.

      Johnson’s team have significantly changed relationships with the media – hiring personal photographers on to the No 10 staff who often snap key events instead of photographers from media organisations.

      Johnson has also used taped clips to make announcements – including most recently the announcement of no new restrictions before Christmas – instead of appearing at a press conference or in front of MPs.

      “I think there has been a bit of an arms race in a way,” Cameron said. “Politicians have tooled up with special advisers and the spin doctors, and the media have tooled up by even more aggressive ‘gotcha’ interviews to get that magic moment.

      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/24/boris-johnson-can-get-away-with-things-others-cant-david-cameron

  65. Bugger. Seems like the barbie planned for supper is cancelled… it’s raining.

      1. For me, yes, but not for the barbie.
        In any case, standing in the rain tending to a barbie isn’t much fun!

        2. When sitting in the rain, resist the temptation to wipe your eyebrows. The second you do, they lose their waterproofness and all the water then runs down your forehead and into your eyes.

  66. Just watched Paul McCartney singing the old Beatles songs at Glastonbury.

    That’s the second time John Lennon’s been murdered.

    2. I did get told yesterday on that subject ‘bollocks’ so will let you take the flack this time 🙄😉

    3. I watched about five minutes of it yesterday evening. His voice has gone in the same way as Elton John has lost his voice. People seemed to enjoy the show judging by the numbers.

      (I admit I was never a Beatles fan nor a Paul McCartney fan).

  67. https://twitter.com/mcrstuart/status/1540979647248273408

    The PM is talking about his plans for a third term as leader… what do you think?’

    I think we will all die of cold / become bankrupt / immobile , no fuel/ trains cars or buses or even an aircraft to escape on .

    We will become victims .. Boris and Sunak are behaving like the Sheriff of Nottingham and his cohorts , and the King will sit in his palace kowtowing to all the countries of the Commonwealth .. denigrating our white status in the world .

  68. Glastonbury – 250,000 simpletons distracted for a day or two. UKs replacement for mental institutes.

    1. Look Ped , we need distractions ..

      I will make myself very unpopular when I say that bods who watch Wimbledon are swivel eyed idiots .

    1. The Roman Catholic Church should bear her in mind when they next run a recruitment campaign and they want to stress the advantages of total celibacy?

      1. I don’t have a problem with obese people. It’s just too difficult to get to know them because they are so preoccupied with eating non-stop. And i draw the line at people speaking with their mouth full ! Plus, i have some rather delicate furniture i wouldn’t want the fat bastards to sit on.

  71. Ghislaine Maxwell is placed on SUICIDE WATCH and may seek to delay her Tuesday sentencing for aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls: Prosecutors want her to spend at least 30 years in prison
    DM: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10953801/Ghislaine-Maxwell-placed-suicide-watch-solitary-confinement.html#newcomment

    BTL

    Astonishing that she was a trafficker who had no clients. How did she make any money out of such a business? Maybe a few of the people who used the services she provided would like to come forward and be named?

    And when we remember that Epstein conveniently ‘committed suicide’ to stop clients’ names being named we can understand why both Prince Andrew and Julian Assange have no desire to face the American Injustice system?

    1. “Astonishing that she was a trafficker who had no clients.”
      Well it is not that astonishing. In this country we have muslim pimps who debauch and rape little white girls, but who do not have any clients. The lack of arrests by the police is a good indicator.

    1. It would be interesting to have some totally dispassionate statistics on life expectancies over the ages, as residents of Africa and slaves across the Atlantic.

      Africa is still at the bottom today and will have been even worse in NA slave trading times.
      I would not be at all surprised if slaves on average lived longer than they would have done in Africa and their descendants certainly will have.

      1. I often wonder who were the first peoples born and bred on those Caribbean islands I have never seen this mentioned. Who where there when they were taken to the Caribbean more than 200 years ago. And just imagine if thousands of people now stopped taking holidays in these places, because they are fed up to the eyeballs with their infernal moaning. Usually by the members of the race who don’t actually live there.

          1. We never hear from the natives, only the suposedly ‘oppressed’. As I’ve said many times, always moaning.

      2. Slavery Assisted Rescue. I need help creating expressions suitable for acronyms.

  74. “Alexa…Alexa, can I speak to my dad?”
    “Hang on a minute … did you know he passed a way?
    “No, which way did he go?”
    “He’s a way with the fairies”
    “Alexa… you mean he’s come out?”
    “Well, not exactly… he’s kind of come in…but you can speak to him”
    “Dad…are you there?”
    “Yes my love…but you must speak more loudly…I am a long way away”
    “Dad..why in heaven’s name haven’t you been to see us?”
    “Well love…it’s one hell of a story”
    “You mean Dad, that you are really saying that you are …er..dead?”
    “That’s about it, love – when Alexa puts you on the line…you’re dead..right!”

        1. Our offspring and their ‘partners’ introduced it. And it only comes on if they are all visiting at the same time.
          I must admit i usually manage to switch it off when no one is looking.

  75. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a50fb82e99d45889d1529baf98136529634b90692001d494e76bd1325e600210.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9c232841a44704db83aefe39530e365cdb0df2a939dd25ecced9bc853d1a0820.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2b9da38ffea60e8f5d0ae93658de550be0d684afd65ea39ca0e19e968d1c7f28.jpg It’s the fourth consecutive day, here, of cloudless skies and a temperature of 27ºC … trouble is, I can’t drag myself away from the cricket!

    Earlier I was alerted to a family party of white storks riding a thermal overhead. I managed to get a few shots but they were quite high. A bit different from yesterday when one of the resident red kites flew low over the garden.

      1. Thanks, Paul. Seeing a family part of five was quite wonderful, but by the time I’d grabbed the camera they had soared a lot higher.

    4. I love red kites! There is a red kite centre near here between Doune and Dunblane, and we occasionally see them above the motorway. Truly stunning birds and the size of them is amazing! Wonderful photos, Grizz!

      1. There is a red kite centre near here between Doune and Dunblane.
        We went there a few years ago, but now have regular flight above our garden from the local variety.
        The crows don’t like their presence.

        1. Red kite at night, shepherd on watch
          Red kite in the morning, shepherd still yawning…
          ;-))

        2. They are scarily large! Our crows don’t like the buzzards which fly about here!

          1. 4 ft wing span. I use to catch garden nuscience rats and drown them in the water butt and put the dead bodies on the shed roof and by day break the kites had tidied up.

      3. One swooped down just in front of my car to take some roadkill on the side of the M40 when I was driving back home.

  76. I intend to buy a carpet cleaning machine tomorrow , nothing too heavy and expensive , but my carpets do need some TLC , have any of you got an recommendations .. I don’t want to hire one , my 14 year old dog sometimes decides to cock his leg indoors ..

    Having a carpet cleaning company in will be so expensive , so a machine of our own could be a good investment .

        1. And if you follow the instructions to the letter, it’s easy to use, cleans brilliantly, and sucks out the dirty water so well that carpets and furniture dry very quickly.

          3. We are similar downstairs, but we have a number of rugs and large Persian and other carpets.

    2. You mean, a machine that washes the carpet with soapy water, then sucks it out?

    3. We have a Vax vacuum cleaner but I’m not terribly impressed with it – the battery doesn’t last more than 20 minutes or so, and the long flexible bit is very flimsy. I tend to get the old one out to do things like the stairs.

    4. Carpet cleaning companies aren’t that expensive, and they’ll probably do a better job than you (no offence meant). You’ll also have to find space to keep anything you buy for the sake of using it maybe once a year, if that.

    1. That’s us both splendid today, sweetie ! … x

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    2. I failed today 🙁 I had the last four .etters right but guessed the wrong first letter four times.

      2. I do that often.

        Wordle 372 5/6

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    3. A little birdie for me.
      Wordle 372 3/6

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      1. 353595+ up ticks,

        S,
        Funny that I was thinking along the lines of what % in the pound was being creamed “turk to uke you got my acc. number”

    2. Well considering the wastrel was going to spend 150k on a treehouse for his toddler , and has spent £850 per roll of gold patterned wall paper , Boris knows the value of nothing .

      2. 3353495+up ticks,

        Evening TB,
        But he evaluates the strength of the party membership accurately enough & knows them to be strong in the party loving kiss X and mightily weak in the head.

      1. 353495+up ticks,

        Evening S E,
        They have had enough practise these last four decades taking their supporter / member / voters to the cleaners again,again,& again.

  79. Logging off. Gotta go to the bank. and I will only do that after I’ve removed the history, Ccleaner has cleared all the shiite and I’ve turned the VPN off. Later – maybe.

  80. Here’s the story of the poor sod who had all his tackle removed. He’s now suing the clinic which mutilated him.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10953157/Man-suing-NHS-trans-surgery-regrets-bravely-waived-anonymity-share-ordeal.html

    ‘My first thought as I came round was Oh God! What have I
    done?’: Man suing the NHS over trans surgery he bitterly regrets has
    bravely waived anonymity to share his ordeal
    Ritchie Herron, 35, says life has been unbearable since surgery four years ago
    His case first emerged after he shared experience on Twitter under pseudonym
    He claims NHS failed to take mental health crisis into account before procedure

    1. Of course it’s the government’s fault. They are encouraging us not to take responsibility for our own actions. If a woman accidentally gets pregnant the NHS will pick up the tab for an abortion and don’t you dare think that having or not having Covid gene therapy is a decision you should take for your self!

    2. Is he an adult? Was he of sound mind? I think these people have to go through a process of therapy prior to mutilation so either the hospital screwed up or hes a good actor.

      Either way, he accepts he is mentally ill. Now, let’s stop treating trans people as special and deserving of favour and look on them as sick people in need of help.

    3. Bit rich of Ritchie to say the NHS didn’t have adequate safeguards when the majority of the trans lobby accuse anyone trying to push back against this onslaught of gender identity rights of bigotry if they try to take anything but an encouraging stance

      1. Same as putting on fluffy coat would’t make me a dog, nor will surgery change the fact that they’re mentally ill.

        We must stop pandering to them, silence all their abuse and simply remind them that they’re ill. Nothing more, nothing less.

    4. He had 5 years of therapy and consented to the operation. He doesn’t have a (third) leg to stand on.

        1. No probably not, but five years is more than the two years counselling they usually get, and he’s complaining he wasn’t counselled enough.

          2. I don’t believe the NHS would even try to brainwash someone into a procedure they don’t much want to do in the first place. He would have needed to fully consent to the operation. It was his decision. He’s made what in hindsight was a poor decision and is looking to apportion the blame for it onto someone else. To claim he wasn’t counselled enough is stupid when he’s had far more than average and willingly described his counselling as a ‘lifeline’.

    1. That bloke’s audition though. Bit rubbish. No blood, no bruising, nothing on the ground.

      Beat him round the head to shut him up.

        1. This is an old account, on further investigation. Oberstleutnant is still in limbo after they didn’t understand I wasn’t being hateful, just requesting the female deputy of the Liebour party dress appropriately for work, and not flash her fanny at Boris.

          1. My account was suspended for months in 2020 – just because I was unable to give them a phone number because my phone was dead and I hadn’t replaced it. Even when I did it still took them months to reinstate it. I don’t tweet a great deal but it annoyed me to find I couldn’t.

  82. HAPPY HOUR – Glastonbury ….

    Great to see so many young people enjoying themselves….

    Logistical maestro who organised plenty of loos deserves
    special praise.

  83. “Polio, an incurable infectious disease which mainly affects children, was declared eradicated in the UK in 2003. Now, the wild virus circulates only in Pakistan and Afghanistan thanks to widespread vaccination campaigns. ”

    Bit mean, haven’t those two countries got enough on their plates without giving them polio too?

    1. It always used to be referred to as “Infantile Paralysis”; in a similar way that Tuberculosis was called “Consumption”.

        1. Great word, I wonder how many other words start with four consonants?

          There are plenty with 4 or more consecutively within the word, but as the opening letters?

    2. Is polio the cover for any outbreak of Guillain Barre syndrome, an adverse effect associated with the vaccine?

  84. I remember when the DT’s use of language was superior to other papers’.

    “People can self-identify themselves in over 150 ways, and increasing!”

    Either ‘self’ or ‘themselves’ is redundant in the above; what is increasing – people?

    1. Until about 12 years ago DT journalists were expected to follow the sage advice in Simon Heffer’s style guidebook (published by the DT). Both Heffer and his style guidebook were then discarded and the deplorable standards have been rapidly deteriorating ever since.

      1. Good evening, Grizzly

        I am sure you would have been a great asset to my English department when I was teaching. By contrast I doubt very much whether I would ever have been much of an asset to the police force!

        1. Good evening, Rastus. You would have probably had me standing in a corner of the classroom with a notice around my neck advising your pupils, “This is NOT how we speak!” 🤣

          I’m sure that your physical stature would have been a wonderful presence on my beat. 👍🏻

    2. “Presently, people can self-identify in over 150 ways; this number is increasing!”

          2. These two conditions are:

            Causal?
            Coincident?
            Coexistent?
            Compromised?
            Mutually exclusive?
            Psychological drivel?
            Rubbish?
            They are not ‘full stop’ …

          3. err, I think we are at crossed purposes here.
            Had I written:
            … are.
            the emphasis would not have been clear.

            Which clearly it wasn’t
            }:-((

  85. All Boris is saying in interviews … “Look at what this government has done ”

    We are looking .. and Boris should feel ashamed that he is treating the British tax payer as a cash cow .

    He and his sidekicks are throwing money away like water ..

    1. Two words, second ……. all.
      Unless he’s including the sum of more than One Million illegal migrants he’s let in.

      Not only throwing money away TB and all other Nottlers but taking it home as well. Last year alone those greedy repulsive slime bags took home more than 132 million in…… Wait for it…….’Expenses’.

      1. Come on, be fare (sic), that’s a mere £200k+ each, a mere bagatelle (/sarc)

        1. I get yer drift Sos 😉. But the average UK pension is around 8 grand a year. It probably cost that much to keep a happy domestic dog. This country due to these arsehole political people has reach rock bottom.
          It needs a revolution.

    2. He has been warmongering today. I can not support someone who openly promotes all out war in Europe. The Russians were provoked into Donbas and Boris is poking the bear on a wider scale. I fear that Vlad might strike once he’s consolidated his gains.

      1. My fear is that the West will strike with a false flag somewhere in UK-raine and blame it on Putin.

        1. One thing is certain, there is no one trying to deescalate the crisis (apart from the Pres of Indonesia).

    3. Indeed, look what the government has done: continued to import third world dross that will be a drain on our finances, destroyed the economy with lockdowns and furloughs, actively sabotaged a successful Brexit, caused rampant inflation and a cost of living crisis, taxed us out of existence, is well on the way to putting the lights out and has refused to frack to take advantage of our much needed natural resources. There are more “achievements” but I think that gives you some idea.

  86. Oslo ‘terror suspect refuses to answer police questions’ – stalling investigation into gay bar attack that left two dead and 21 injured before Pride parade
    Police have been unable to probe the suspected terrorist attack on an Oslo gay bar as their suspect won’t talk
    Zaniar Matapour, 42, has refused to take part in recorded questioning as he fears ‘manipulation’ by police
    The Iran-born suspected terrorist has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, PTSD and ‘delusions’
    Two were killed and 21 injured after Matapour ‘shot at gay bar’ before Oslo Pride in apparent terrorist attack
    Oslo LGBT+ events cancelled – but thousands gather in streets to defy hatred despite ‘extraordinary’ threat

    My bold. Could it possibly, just possibly, have anything to do with his religious beliefs?

    1. Curious that when white people go on the rampage they’re facists but any non-white on the rampage is mentally ill.

    2. Curious that when white people go on the rampage they’re facists but any non-white on the rampage is mentally ill.

    3. And through THEIR latterly invented ‘Mental health issues’ (From reading the same book) they are spreading their disgusting medieval beliefs around the western world. They need to be stopped. PDQ.

    4. 353495+ up ticks,

      S,
      Surely not, the koran lies between the dispatch boxes in parliament and they swear ( oaths ) by it.

      * NOT BLOODY MANY BENNY “

  88. Evening, all. I beg to differ with the headline letter-writer; the Conservatives’ biggest problem is that they are no longer conservative. It appears that people have decided that if they are going to get Lib Dem policies, they might as well vote Lib Dem.

    1. Evening Conners.
      I think the electorate need to face the long established and increasingly obvious facts. All of our politicians are ‘king useless. They never get anything right and never really achieved anything at all.

      1. They need to understand that if voting changed anything it would have been outlawed!

    2. But it’s right and fair that you work and someone else benefit from your effort. That’s a good thing.

      It is also right that you pay a lot for energy as green is good and creates jobs (in the state, paid for from tax, really doing nothing but draining the economy).

      Comedy moment – tax revenues are down, despite the NI hike. No, you morons. Tax revenues are down *because* of the NI hike.

        2. Funny you should bring up the Laffer curve. Do you know the optimum point of tax to gain maximum revenue?

          You’re probably thinking about 25-30%. It’s actually 72%.

  89. Here are a few photos of my clematis for Phizzee:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cb48c31fe0b4a6404c9cee8860934577b3ced60c8cf97fa454a9c0bd1d8ee5a9.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b3363873872117401f1c44029b6b0b6faf1930af49504244115ec0ae522f2d82.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f8197a81ff62cf6958b7da98e1736331a30dd5fdb5e29b347d6bdf7490af1a47.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b8b8b931ce1b181f1262519a07bfefdd1dc04faa5923760a5abf5cbd6caec786.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4fd4df2b4b85157fae62b0cf28386c98f1dcb46389bbfad6fdcd915e4a8d5c5e.jpg

    They are Comtesse de Bouchard (pink, on the arch), Dorothy Walton (the striped pink on the other side of the arch), General Sikorski and Polish Spirit (the two purple ones), Voluceau (the deep red one) and John Howells and Warsaw Nike (on the obelisk with the hanging basket).

  90. Going to bed soon-am very disconsolate tonight.
    I am so fed up with being lied to all the time. Doctors and, especially, the government. No-one tells the truth anymore.
    Sweet dreams Y’all.

  92. 353495+ up ticks,

    Post
    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    10h
    And how about teaching students about the mass murders carried out for ideological motives by Communist regimes?

    And how about teaching the truth about ALL slavery from the beginning of human history up to the present day?

    If Charles succeeds it will be the end of the Windsors, & William doesn’t seem much better.

    Slave trade history ‘should be taught as widely as Holocaust’, says Prince Charles — LBC

    The Prince of Wales believes the slave trade should be taught as widely and as

    https://gettr.com/post/p1ftwx32b9a

    2. Do they teach about the Holocaust? I gained my knowledge from reading and from history channels on TV. It was never part of our curriculum.

      Like others I am annoyed that Prince Charles, an over privileged nobody and as thick as two short planks, has the temerity to pronounce on anything much. I question who educated him and more to the point what he was taught.

      An informed education seems to have bypassed him, despite the place gifted him at Trinity College Cambridge and his ‘watchers’ who included Glyn Daniel and other eminent educationalists.

      The Monarchy is doomed if this prat assumes the throne. His first idiot son William the Woke is truly a chip off the old block and just as hapless.

  94. Australians are going to fly the Aboriginal flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge, alongside the Australian national flag and the flag of NSW.

    Fair enough, but would anyone like to have a stab at breaking down estimates for the costs of everything involved in this project and see if you can get anywhere near the £14M that it is going to cost?

  95. If the new Tory Party chairman wants to find out why they lost in Devon, here are a few suggestions for people they should invite to their focus group.

    Beef farmers who are on the brink of suicide because Tory politicians go around telling people to eat less meat, while you can fly to the Costa del Sol for 11 quid.

    Regenerative dairy farmers who are annoyed by a Tory Party that talks green but allows processors to penalise free range herds for producing too much milk from grass in spring.

    People who have never heated their homes with fossil fuels, because they wear three layers of woollen clothing into May, and are worried because they have been told they have to spend a fortune to insulate their homes. (The same goes for restrictions on log-burning stoves.)

    Conservationists who have battled in vain to save the last remaining lapwing and curlew nests this spring from badgers, gulls and other ubiquitous but protected fauna.

    Hunting people who are still criminalised by an illiberal law that even Tony Blair regretted, who say that David Cameron would have repealed it by now with an 80-seat majority and think that Exmoor-bred Johnson has been captured by the “antis”.

    People who rely on their cars, because there is no public transport, and are angry that fuel tax has not been reduced.

    Anyone whose car has been damaged by a pothole recently.

    Butchers who are being driven out of business because local abattoirs are regulated out of existence.

    Young farm workers’ families who cannot afford to live in the countryside for lack of affordable homes while farmers have planning permissions refused.

    Doctors and nutritionists despairing that the globalist anti-meat, pro-carbohydrate agenda is driving obesity, diabetes, dementia and mental health crises.

    The list is endless, and this is without even considering the large cohort of business people who feel let down by Brexit, because it has contributed to their companies being short of staff, or because they see the rural economy being wiped out once again by one-sided free-trade agreements.

    There are solutions to all these problems. Some of them are not too difficult, while others require political bravery during the culture wars. But unless the Conservative Party takes the trouble to understand them, and makes real progress in solving them, they will rapidly find that there is no such thing as a safe rural constituency, whoever their leader is.

    Jamie Blackett’s new book, Land of Milk and Honey, Digressions of a Rural Dissident, is out now

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/26/tories-need-address-real-reason-defeated-devon/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-onward-journey

  97. NHS dementia care ‘was set up for white people’

    It uses a ‘totally inadequate’ system designed decades ago for a mostly white British population, an Alzheimer’s Society review says

    The BTLs say it all

  98. Why the Tories lost in Wakefield

    Map of the Week: The Rhubarb Triangle
    Mark Easton | 18:01 UK time, Thursday, 25 February 2010

    Jubilation today in Yorkshire’s Rhubarb Triangle with the news that the region has been granted Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status by the European Commission.

    Yes, Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb, the inconceivably-pink vegetable, traditionally grown and harvested by candlelight in “forcing sheds”, has joined the ranks of champagne and Parma ham on a list of Europe’s specially-protected food and drink.

    Boris didn’t appreciate that chunky pink sticks were not about him .. and that is why the seat was lost .. another Muzzie Tory candidate would not have known the long history of Rhubarb growing https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2010/02/the_rhubarb_triangle.html

  100. I just can’t understand how millions of Shell customers get entirely green electricity Is there a fossil fuel filter on the grid that traps the oil and only lets through eco-lecky?

  101. My son can charge his EV entirely from the 240 volt solar panels on his roof at home which is good because there are not many charge points at his work place and if he is lucky enough to find a plug-in from one of the suppliers on site he will have to use one of three different payment methods: a smart phone app, a QR code or an RFID card.

      1. Yes, but owning an EV and working from home he can do moonlighting! ☺️

  102. The Tory party has no choice in the current circumstances.
    The electorate, on the other hand, does – it makes you cross!

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