Tuesday 23 August: No wonder it’s hard to ring a hospital on a number that’s not connected

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  4. We appear to be getting a lot of anti privatised services at the moment, people are complaining that they don’t work in the public interest.

    Well that might be so in some aspects, but there again, what publicly owned service works in the public interest?

    1. 355313+ up ticks,

      Morning B3,

      Do they not recognise the fact that neither do any of the governing party’s or what now passes for governments ?

  5. Today we remember the tragedy of slavery, but the culture war that denies Britain’s past continue. 23 August 2022.

    This culture war is the symptom of a selective history about enslavement that has defined how we view this issue in Britain. Frequently we hear the paternalist account of Britain’s role in the slave trade, which focuses on the country’s contribution to ending slavery and the navy’s role in rescuing enslaved people after 1807. Britain would rather be remembered as a saviour and emancipator than a perpetrator. As a result, we hear far less about other parts of its history, such as how, in the scramble to colonise parts of Africa in the 19th century, abolitionist arguments helped to justify imperial expansion.

    Aside from the usual Sophistry and Conflation this article is riddled with factual errors about the Slave Trade. Britain both as a Country and Empire was never involved. Slavery was actually illegal in the UK! The Trade itself was due to the activities of private individuals and consortiums acting outside its boundaries. Its abolition and suppression on the other hand was State Policy!

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/23/world-remember-slavery-britain-imperial-history

    1. The desendants of slaves should thank Britain for all it did to end it and should offfer Britain reperations to offset the cost to our people.

      1. I’ve yet to spot a steady stream of descendants travelling eastward from the Caribbean or the US to reconnect with their ancestral homes.

  6. BTL@DTletters

    Mavis Giggleswade
    5 HRS AGO
    Charity begins at home, and there are many worthwhile potential recipients. Oxfam has too many highly remunerated managers, too many badly behaved functionaries, too many politically motivated opinions. It can go whistle. The RNLI runs a taxi service, staffed by volunteers, to ferry illegal aliens to this country, and then expects the general tax paying population to pay for the results. Go whistle, RNLI. Big charities are conning millions of pounds out of kindly souls to further their political aims, almost always left-leaning. Give only to local charities in your area. And stop giving money to India, China and Pakistan, and any other country that hates us.

    3. Sending money is just like pouring it down the drain. We’ve given billions over the years via charity and aid yet have not seen one jot of improvent.

      1. Exactly what I growl at the TV when yet another advert comes on wanting my money for Africans.

    4. This is wot I posted BTL:

      Robert Stanforth’s letter led to a spot of research.

      Here are the population figures for the countries he mentioned:

      Ethiopia: 1970: 28 million 2020: 115 million

      Kenya: 1970: 11 million 2020: 53 million

      Somalia: 1970: 3.5 million 2020: 16 million

  9. It’s time to scrap GCSEs and A-levels. Tony Blair. 23 August 2022.

    To ensure the basics are not neglected, the national curriculum should be slimmed down with a focus on minimum proficiencies for numeracy, literacy, science and digital skills. Designed, maintained and kept up to date by a non-political body, it should be compulsory for all schools.

    Within this new system, Ofsted should be reformed so as to be a better guarantor of standards and a crucial source of information for parents. A simple pass/fail system to weed out unsafe or consistently poorly led schools should be supplemented with clear, detailed one-page summaries of strengths and weaknesses of each school that would allow parents to make more informed choices.

    Is this Education, Education, Education. Part Deux? Lol!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/23/time-scrap-gcses-a-levels/

  11. Good morning, all. Cloudy and dull here in N Essex. Light rain over night by the look of the patio.

    If Stephen Bannon and his experts on the War Room are anywhere near correct we, and the incoming PM, are in for a very rough ride. Although USA centric Bannon and his team do discuss events from around the Globe.
    A projection of 18.6% inflation in the UK due to the rise in energy costs should highlight to all, except the dumbest of ‘green’ cultists, the lunacy of ‘Net Zero’ and the disastrous impact this policy is going to have. The incoming PM has to perform a 180 degree turn on energy policy: although too late in the short term the future energy security of the UK has to be re-created and protected. Destroying all those coal powered generating plants doesn’t look too smart now, does it? Continuing with this WEF driven agenda will, as planned, ensure a disaster for the UK and a terminal position for the CINO party.

    War Room on Natural Gas Pricing, Inflation and Their Impact on the USA, UK and Europe

    1. Just remember that currently, 3% of the world’s energy requirement is supplied by wind and solar. In other words, it is not even a marginal supplier for most of the world. Here, where we are further down the road to insanity, our wind turbines don’t deliver when the power is needed the most!

  14. When rail drivers are being paid over £60.000 per year they should not have the right to strike.

    1. That’s a good idea.

      There should be an income cap on striking – anyone earning more than twice the average wage should not be allowed to strike.

      1. Well, OK, but who is going to make the coffee, with the barristers withholding their services?

      1. If they did go on strike how could you tell? No more attending ‘rainbow’ parades with their gaily decorated cars and no more macaroni(sic) dancing. Save the exchequer £billions.

  15. ‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on. 23 August 2022.

    Even for people unfamiliar with the details of World War II, the battle’s ferocity and consequence give the word Stalingrad an “electric charge”, as British historian Dominic Sandbrook put it on the podcast The Rest is History.

    There were two other pivotal moments in 1942, the year the Second World War’s dynamic shifted in the Allies’ favour. The British turned the tide for the Western Allies against Nazi Germany when Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s forces smashed Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in October-November. The US turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Midway in June. But neither El Alamein nor Midway quite carries the electrifying resonance of Stalingrad.

    Stalingrad was very probably the most terrible and ferocious battle in World History with repercussions to match. Alamein was of course nothing of the kind though Midway was certainly its equal in that after it was done Japan was similarly doomed.

    https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220823-they-would-have-preferred-hell-the-battle-of-stalingrad-80-years-on

    1. There’s a channel from a guy called TIK on YT who has created probably the biggest analysis of the battle over the last two years. He has just got to the stage where the army is surrounded and there is an attempt by Manstein to break the encirclement. He has used all available sources and his work is beyond impressive. His other analysis- on economics of the Weimar Republic and AH’s pseudo-economics are also impressive. His last piece on Stalingrad was to question the notion that Paulus could break out- easily said but very difficult given his disposition and fuel shortage etc.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3HAuWbSCWI

    2. That Stalingrad was a bloodbath is not in dispute and it caused irreparable damage to the German Army that had implications for the direction of the War in Russia. However, although on terms of scale Alamein was small in comparison to Stalingrad, if Alamein had been lost and Rommel had made it to the Delta and the Suez Canal then the oil fields of the Middle East would have been at serious risk. Oil, or rather the lack of it, was a serious problem for Nazi Germany.
      In addition, what would have been the impact on Turkey of the Germans being successful in the Middle East? Churchill’s decision to send much of the successful (against the Italians) Eighth Army to help Greece was a political decision to show that Britain would support its allies, not a military one. If Turkey wouldn’t join with the Allies then keeping that country neutral was the best option. The decision to support Greece stopped the Eighth Army from completing the defeat of Italy in North Africa and allowed Rommel to appear in that theatre. Grand strategy is a difficult art!

    3. If I was ever going to write and alt-history book it would be premised on Germany using their 3 million men and assorted arms to strike South for the Middle East and Africa rather than East to Russia
      I suspect the world would look very different……….

  16. ‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on. 23 August 2022.

    Even for people unfamiliar with the details of World War II, the battle’s ferocity and consequence give the word Stalingrad an “electric charge”, as British historian Dominic Sandbrook put it on the podcast The Rest is History.

    There were two other pivotal moments in 1942, the year the Second World War’s dynamic shifted in the Allies’ favour. The British turned the tide for the Western Allies against Nazi Germany when Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s forces smashed Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in October-November. The US turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Midway in June. But neither El Alamein nor Midway quite carries the electrifying resonance of Stalingrad.

    Stalingrad was very probably the most terrible and ferocious battle in World History with repercussions to match. Alamein was of course nothing of the kind though Midway was certainly its equal in that after it was done Japan was similarly doomed.

    https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220823-they-would-have-preferred-hell-the-battle-of-stalingrad-80-years-on

  17. ‘Morning, Peeps. A dull start, max 20°C forecast. Just right for some extreme gardening.

    SIR – Ofgem is set to allow energy companies to extract huge amounts of money from British consumers. It could do us all a big favour if it forced these companies to give a breakdown of where this money actually goes.

    Of gas supplies to Britain since 2019, about 40 to 48 per cent came from British North Sea fields and 35 to 40 per cent from Norwegian fields (the balance from liquid natural gas shipped from Qatar). The mechanics of extraction from the North Sea haven’t changed over this period – same routine maintenance, same labour force, same pumps. Apart from, say, a 10 per cent increase in these areas, the extraction and pumping costs into the gas network are exactly the same.

    Yet under Ofgem’s so-called price cap (due to be virtually doubled in October and then doubled again in 2023), gas companies’ receipts will more than double, providing profits equal to the whole of 2019 income.

    As compulsory customers, gas consumers are entitled to ask what the gas companies are doing with their receipts. It is simply not good enough to say, “It’s the market.”

    Professor Stephen Bush
    University of Manchester

    Fat chance, Prof; Ofgem has either gone AWOL or has taken a vow of silence. It is just another useless regulator, providing jobs for the boys (and girls, I expect) with nothing in return. The government seems content not to expect anything better.

    1. Yes indeed. Production, processing and distribution costs have not risen over the last five years other than by any wage increases to staff? That applies to oil, gas and electricity. So why are we paying up to 100% more?

  18. ‘Morning, Peeps. A dull start, max 20°C forecast. Just right for some extreme gardening.

    SIR – Ofgem is set to allow energy companies to extract huge amounts of money from British consumers. It could do us all a big favour if it forced these companies to give a breakdown of where this money actually goes.

    Of gas supplies to Britain since 2019, about 40 to 48 per cent came from British North Sea fields and 35 to 40 per cent from Norwegian fields (the balance from liquid natural gas shipped from Qatar). The mechanics of extraction from the North Sea haven’t changed over this period – same routine maintenance, same labour force, same pumps. Apart from, say, a 10 per cent increase in these areas, the extraction and pumping costs into the gas network are exactly the same.

    Yet under Ofgem’s so-called price cap (due to be virtually doubled in October and then doubled again in 2023), gas companies’ receipts will more than double, providing profits equal to the whole of 2019 income.

    As compulsory customers, gas consumers are entitled to ask what the gas companies are doing with their receipts. It is simply not good enough to say, “It’s the market.”

    Professor Stephen Bush
    University of Manchester

    Fat chance, Prof; Ofgem has either gone AWOL or has taken a vow of silence. It is just another useless regulator, providing jobs for the boys (and girls, I expect) with nothing in return The government seems content not to expect anything better.

    1. I think it’s the sort of behaviour that use of that ‘spice’ drug induces. ‘I can fly, see!’

    2. I think it’s the sort of behaviour that use of that ‘spice’ drug induces. ‘I can fly, see!’

  20. All the so-called “watchdogs” – every outfit with “Of” in its name – appear to exist to promote and justify the actions of the companies they are supposed to control. None of them acts on behalf of the “consumer” as was the original intention.

    If only there HAD been a bonfire of the quangos.

  21. SIR – The hiatus in government is not something of which we should be proud. It is now over six weeks since Boris Johnson resigned the leadership of the Conservative Party and we are still two weeks from knowing who his successor will be.

    A crisis of great magnitude is hanging over the country, but a severely emasculated Government is currently unable to propose any substantive response to the surge in energy costs.

    A group (160,000 we are told) of thoroughly unrepresentative individuals is currently picking the next prime minister. Neither of our major political parties did the nation any favours when they decided not only to widen the electorate for leadership elections but also to extend the period of time for this operation. Had the system of electing the leader still been confined to Conservative MPs, the matter would have been concluded before the summer recess.

    When teaching A-level politics, I used to put the case for the unwritten British constitution being flexible. Clearly this is not so at the moment. The 1922 Committee should have let Conservative MPs decide the matter. The failure to do so has resulted in an ineffective Government and a downright embarrassing situation.

    Andrew Moth
    St Ives, Cornwall

    I couldn’t agree more, Mr Moth. That it should take a political party eight weeks to find a new leader is beyond my understanding. That it should take even four weeks when we face a whole series of mostly political strikes, and a very serious situation developing for power rationing over winter, defies all logic. Furthermore, the longer this charade continues, with a totally rudderless government acting as if nothing is amiss, the greater will be the damage to the party.

      1. Agreed, but Mr Moth overlooks the fact that Westminster – and it’s satellite wannabes – are on their summer breaks. Westminster will then effectively be closed for business until the nonsense of the party conference ‘season’ is over.

        Hence the current levels of puerile nonsense in the #ScumMedia as the ‘silly season’ continues as per every other year.

        P.S. As no actual members of the electorate are involved, this farce could have been completed as soon as – if not before – the number of ‘participants’ was reduced to two. The TV ‘debates’ are akin to a retarded ‘reality’ show in which no one cares who participates, never mind who wins. The only people who appear to give a fig are the same ratings/sales-chasing #ScumMedia who set up the conflict in the first place.

    2. “Unwritten”? well we have the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, for example. But as these have been and are honoured in their breach, what difference would it make to have one document?

      Edit: any new document would be against the population (agreed MC was for the nobles but still applies to all), and any little bits that weren’t would be “distinguished” by subsequent actions of the PTB. Our constitution is written, to an extent – just not in one document.

  22. 355313+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Tuesday 23 August: No wonder it’s hard to ring a hospital on a number that’s not connected

    Could it be that the pressure built up from the worlds largest peoples “entry faucet” operating with government consent via Dungeness / Dover, and the mass uncontrolled immigration coalition lab/lib/con supported for decades via the polling booth.

    Ask yourself what’s the good of an efficient phone / contact service when NO back up action can be taken ? much kinder to pull the plug.

    The full consequences of voting for the BEST of the WORST has yet to be realised, we are witnessing this mode of voting in action, this is as good as it gets, it will IMO get worse until at long last, enlightenment.

    1. A link to a new NHS web page was put up on FB last night. It is designed to give guidance and to provide access for the Ukes to NHS facilities. Perhaps I should look at a change citizenship if I fall ill.

      1. 355313+ up ticks,

        Morning KP,

        Good thinking, can also be applied to any indigenous wishing to learn to read ( education)
        looking for four square regular meals
        ( incarceration) seeking a sheltering roof (accommodation).

  23. Money for Ukraine refugee hosts ‘should be doubled’. 23 August 2022.

    Lord Harrington, the refugees minister, told The Telegraph that he expects around a quarter of the 25,000 households hosting refugees to pull out after six months – meaning new homes will have to be found.

    He has asked the Treasury for funding to double the “thank you” payment of £350 a month to £700, after some families warned they can no longer afford to house Ukrainians because of soaring energy bills.

    As a UK taxpayer and resident whatever you do don’t expect any help from these people !

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/08/22/money-ukraine-refugee-hosts-should-doubled/

    1. That’s just cash to the host. On top is the full range of benees, health, education etc etc. The gov is just so generous with other peoples money.

    2. That’s more than the state pension – £614.68 per calendar month. Dump your granny and take in 4 or 5 gimmigrants. They will all fit in the same space.

  24. No news that I can see in the Telegraph that the oily Dr Fauci is stepping down. Of course, Robert Kennedy Jr’s book ” The Real Anthony Fauci” lays bare this man’s career- beyond jaw-dropping as he has been active- for 50 odd years but as lawyer Robert Barnes mentioned nearly a year ago: “He’s radioactive.” He also said if he was the good doctor, he would resign PDQ and go somewhere with no extradition treaty with the USA- he suggested Brazil. Here’s a guy yesterday pulling no punches.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoV67z_WFzo

  25. Ordinary people doing and seeing extraordinary things – and all without trigger warnings and safe spaces!

    Fred Lee, Royal Navy stoker involved in D-Day and the liberation of Burma – obituary

    Lee became an apprentice boilermaker and when he volunteered for the Navy in 1943, aged 17½, the recruiter suggested he become a stoker

    By
    Telegraph Obituaries
    21 August 2022 • 1:53pm

    Stoker Fred Lee, who has died aged 95, is believed to have been one of the youngest naval ratings to participate in Operation Neptune, the Normandy landings of June 1944.

    On D-Day, June 6 1944, Lee was a junior stoker in the frigate Nith, the headquarters ship of Captain John W Farquhar as Senior Officer Assault Group, and of the 231st Infantry Brigade. H-Hour was 0725 on Jig section of Gold Beach, near Le Hamel-Asnelles, when the brigade made an accurate and timely landing.

    Lee, coming off watch and on to the upperdeck at 0800, recalled seeing a dead British soldier floating nearby. Standing orders were not to recover bodies from the sea, but Lee remembered seeing the soldier’s pay book floating out of his pocket and thinking how alike it was to his own.

    Shortly afterwards Nith became the control ship of southbound shipping off Courseulles-sur-Mer, and to distinguish her, Nith’s funnel and bridge were painted bright orange. On the night of 23-24 June Nith was attacked by one of Germany’s so-called wonder weapons, the Mistel, or mistletoe, a small, pilot-controlled aircraft mounted above a large explosives-carrying drone.

    There was a huge explosion and hot shrapnel sliced through the air as Nith was near-missed on the starboard side. Lee helped recover the dead and injured, counting himself lucky that he had volunteered for a watch on the port side, otherwise he might have been among the nine dead and 27 wounded.

    Nith was towed back to Whites shipyard at Cowes, and by August 2 she was repaired and back on station off Normandy. There, Lee recalled seeing another wonder weapon, a German one-man submarine, moored to a British minesweeper aft of Nith. The boat still contained the dead pilot in its cockpit, with a shell hole clearly visible through the bubble canopy.

    In March 1945, Nith sailed for the Far East: she was at the liberation of Burma and on May 6 1945 was the first British ship to berth alongside in Rangoon. There, when Lee asked what the ping-ping noise he could hear was, he was told there were still Japanese snipers hidden in the harbour cranes and to keep his head down.

    On VJ-Day Nith was at Cochin (now Kochi) in India, when “the main brace was spliced and the ship fairly vibrated with the noise of singing and cheering. Every rocket, signal cartridge, and Very light in the ship was set off in a terrific fireworks display.”

    In Nith over the next few months, Lee visited Bangkok, Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia), and Singapore, and spent Christmas 1945 in Saigon, before returning to England in March 1946.

    Alfred Lee was born on July 30 1926 in Richmond, Surrey, where after leaving school aged 14 his first job was pushing a milk cart round the town.

    Later, he became an apprentice boilermaker and when he volunteered for the Navy in 1943, aged 17½, the recruiter suggested he become a stoker. He needed his parents’ permission, and his mother was reluctant as she already had three sons in the war, but later the local papers ran the story that the four boys were fighting for King and country.

    Lee’s initial naval training was at Butlin’s holiday camp at Ingoldmells near Skegness, known in wartime as the stone frigate HMS Royal Arthur, before he joined the newly built River-class frigate Nith. Lee was demobbed in 1947, returning home to marry his childhood sweetheart.

    Postwar Lee worked as a transport for RMC, a ready-mix concrete company. He never spoke about his war until questioned by a granddaughter for her school project in 2001, and he returned to Normandy for the first time in 2003.

    In 2016 he was appointed to the Légion d’honneur, and in June this year he paid his last visit to Normandy.

    Lee married Joyce Osborne in 1947, she predeceased him, and he is survived by two daughters and a son. All the Lee brothers survived the war.

    Stoker Fred Lee, born July 30 1926, died July 28 2022

    * * *
    Gratifying to learn that all four sons survived the war.

  27. It’s time to scrap GCSEs and A-levels
    They should be replaced with a broader new qualification and an exam styled on the International Baccalaureate

    Tony Blair : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/23/time-scrap-gcses-a-levels/

    BTL

    It is an outrage that the Daily Telegraph employs a mass murderer like Blair to write articles for it – especially on the subject of education when this vindictively spiteful man did his best to destroy education and encourage young people to get helplessly in debt doing useless degrees. The very first thing he did on coming to power was to scrap the assisted places scheme which enabled children from poor backgrounds to benefit from private schools when their local comp was inadequate for their needs.

  28. 355313+ up ticks,

    Winter of Discontent: Gas Crisis to Leave Over Half of Germans Living Paycheque to Paycheque at Best

    Would it be right for an Englishman to ask in these times of self inflicted troubles “where will any of our pay cheques come from”,

    Maybe party funds ?

    1. Although not too bad at tennis, he sets a bad example to the young with his grimacing and pumping, and is totally devoid of charm.

  31. 9 year old girl shot dead at home in Knotty Ash Liverpool late last night, Murderer walked away leaving a man and woman injured. Death penalty needs to be reconsidered in this diverse, disturbed world.

  32. Richard Stanforth of Oxfam tells us that in East Africa one person is dying every 48 seconds – I thought you could only die once, that person is unlucky

    2. Hey Dean. What are those bozos — who continue to pull this chump’s strings and dangle him on the world stage — smoking, Man? Who’s carrying the briefcase, Dude? The same wacko string-pullers?

      1. Hey, Beatnik, it’s the Man, Dude. The Man’s in charge and the stumblebum is the stooge controlled by Deep State bozos on the take from the CCP and selling everyone else down that Big River, hombre.

    3. Please don’t mock – he is obviously the best the Democrats have to offer. Why else would they elect him leader?

  34. Good morning all

    Still drizzly and gloomy and 17c.

    Footage appears to show an NHS worker charging their hybrid SUV car through a hospital window.

    Uploaded to TikTik by user @estella_illumaxx, the video shows the white Porsche Cayenna e-Hybrid by the window of the Halley Stewart ear, nose and throat clinic at the Harpenden War Memorial Hospital in Hertfordshire.

    A caption on the video says: ‘Window charger NHS electri[k] car.’

    A charging cable can be seen going from the car through the window of the clinic.

    The other end of the cable is plugged into a common three-pin socket inside the clinic.

    Charging the car from empty to full like this would take around six hours.

    The Porsche costs around £80,000 and is one of the most luxurious SUVs on the market.

    The car can run on electricity alone, but it also has a V6 engine and produces more than 300 horsepower in total.

    It is unclear whether the person charging their vehicle through the hospital was given permission to do this.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/nhs-worker-seen-charging-luxury-porsche-through-hospital-window/ar-AA10XapT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f503075726c8424589faf36c1a68f671

    1. Highly unlikely to be a nurse with such a vehicle. Very probably an overpaid member of ‘Management’

      1. No doubt why the driver is described as an ‘NHS worker’, rather than someone useful like a doctor, nurse or cleaner.

    2. Just a poor auxiliary nurse trying to make ends meet and feed her family of 24, half of whom have recently arrived from Uganda. Give her the clap!

  35. 1295 illegals crossed the Channel yesterday . Yes, that is right .. they landed on the South Coast of Britain yesterday.

    That doesn’t include those arriving in lorries .

    2. Perhaps they could all be given work to provide energy in place of gas if we make a great big pedal power machine.

  36. SIR – I am often asked: “What was your name?”
    I enjoy a tease by asking, “Do you mean my maiden name, previous to my current name?”
    Fay Pearson

    This gets on my wick too. I usually just reply “When?”

    1. Good moaning, Stormy.
      I think that may indicate lack of attention or possibly early onset senility; your name had already been forgotten.
      Of course, the non-teaching of English grammar doesn’t help matters.

  37. Do any of you know about this ?

    Promotions of unhealthy foods restricted from October 2022
    Following consultation with industry, the government will restrict unhealthy food promotions in stores from October 2022.

    Restrictions will apply to medium and large retailers
    Measures form a key part of the government’s strategy to tackle obesity and get the nation fit and healthy
    Promotions on food and drinks high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) in retailers will be restricted from October 2022, the government has confirmed today (Wednesday 21 July 2021).

    Regulations will be laid in Parliament that will require medium and large businesses, including those with 50 or more employees, to phase out their offering of multibuy promotions such as ‘buy one get one free’ or ‘3 for 2’ offers on HFSS products.

    Less healthy promotions will also no longer be featured in key locations, such as checkouts, store entrances, aisle ends and their online equivalents. Free refills of sugary soft drinks will also be prohibited in the eating-out sector.

    Today’s announcement follows consultation with industry. The government has considered industry’s feedback and has made the decision to extend the implementation date of this policy – from April 2022 to October 2022 – to allow businesses enough time to prepare for these restrictions.

    The government will continue to work with businesses, trade associations and local authorities to ensure they are supported in implementing the new requirements ahead of them coming into force. This will include sharing draft guidance with industry and local authorities to provide further clarity on how these restrictions will need to be implemented in practice.

    As part of the regulations, the government will provide local authorities with the option of issuing civil penalties for non-compliance with the promotions restrictions.

    These measures will support people in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and improve the nation’s health. Over 25 years, these measures are estimated to accrue combined health benefits of approximately £60 million, according to the value that society places on changes in the quality and length of people’s lives as a result of fewer cases of obesity. They will make supermarkets and other retailers places where the healthier choice is the easy choice for everyone and support people to lead healthier lives.

    Public Health Minister Jo Churchill .

    Local village shops are sorting themselves out , but the take aways one sees in towns , burger/ chicken /kebab/ curry / pizza etc etc continue to have queues of customers..

    So what a load of nonsense Nanny government spits out

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/promotions-of-unhealthy-foods-restricted-from-october-2022?fbclid=IwAR3X8R5V2qQG40fUm0NP-7elruajtePsen0JmSYgwQQ5DlBWJb79Clwjxx0

    3. The deals are always on the cr*p food. I’d prefer them to offer buy one, get one free on fillet steak, apples, rhubarb, gooseberries, butter, milk….

    4. 355313+ up ticks,

      Morning TB,

      “They want to see a fitter healthier Nation” I’m having trouble with, I do believe that an obease body can retain life, living on it’s fat for longer than a normal size person.

      They probably have a department loaded with graph drawing bods working on the best way to slim down a Nation is via a final shower campaign.

      It’s an historic remake.

    5. You will wear what we tell you, you will eat what we tell you you will submit to injections when we tell you and you will vote for whosoever we tell you. You will support whichever wars we send your husbands and sons to. You will not say hurty words or criticise those ‘educating’ your children or the controlling authorities. It is all for your health and mental well being.

        1. You’re also part of mankind, even as a woman.

          I get your point, Stormy, but others, looking to expunge all traces of sex, make me mad.

        2. So, you are a transgender denier! Women can be husbands. Report to your local police station immediately (it’s the one near the town hall flying a rainbow flag) and report for re-education and genitalia re-assignment. It is for your own good.

    7. ‘Morning! There might be a shred of logic to this if the same people preaching about unhealthy food weren’t actively promoting processed vegan muck and insects.

    8. For goodness sake, is there anything these authoritarian fascists won’t regulate?

      I do honestly wish they’d shove their heads up their own backsides.

    9. There a just a few simple pieces of advice that would make an impact on the populations ill-health:

      Stop eating processed food (that’s essentially anything with a host of ingredients/numbers listed as ingredients that you don’t know what they are)
      Use only butter, lard, coconut oil or olive oil.
      Cut out as much sugar as is bearable.
      Cook and eat fresh meat, vegetables & fruit.
      Try and confine eating to a 6-8 hour window and don’t eat anything 3 hours before bedtime.

  39. ‘Morning All

    They ain’t giving up folks

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/07f34b0889bce27241cd591dba723bfcedc06f5584559245fa422ac2ce08fee9.png

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1560226429064855553?s=20&t=PmploUv21x5y4dWuSjsk4A

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/aafaf516cd59cf574bc2568593dc5322e248346f832d4046249cbea20c9cedca.jpg

    https://twitter.com/mattgubba/status/1561818400741117956?s=21&t=9DIBV6O7qibvnjnCaByOFA

    https://twitter.com/Underdogsbiteup/status/1560834445426425859

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/efccf0761c0e0816818882218b8a668d0829337b0980c62ecb64576ae4ae2fc7.jpg

    3. OK then Swab, you first. Oh, and we’ll also put a tracker on your bank accounts – and empty them. Your homes will also be repossessed and made property of ‘the state’. You’ll be given a generous stipend, of course – as long as you live how we permit you to. And we won’t tell you when we change the rules, and those rules will get ever more onerous.

      Not so keen on it now, are you? Tough. You don’t get a choice in how you live. That’s the future you wanted for others, you’re going to live in it yourself.

    1. Not just cancers, Rik. The list of illnesses, diseases, ailments and conditions caused by this Frankenstein “food” is comprehensive.

      1. Hey, Beatnik, it is reckoned that the arrival of these fats in the diet in the 19th century is one of the early markers for “Diseases of Civilisation” Dude.

  42. Having installed multiple bird feeders in the garden to encourage various species, we have enjoyed a summer of birdsong and the company of a wide variety of birds, all welcome except the pigeons. However, recent visits from a sparrow hawk have cleared the area. Yesterday’s visit was bold as brass, she collected an unsuspecting sparrow from a shrub which was less than 3 feet from the house. I was about 20 feet away. Before I could scare her off she had flown off with the sparrow in her talons. Now, the feeders are untouched and the garden is quiet. A pigeon hawk, if such a thing existed, would be very welcome!

      2. I don’t think a merlin would go into an enclosed garden and certainly not next to a building.

        1. An Eagle for an Emperor; a Gyrfalcon for a King; a Peregrine for a Prince; a Merlin for a Lady; a Goshawk for a Yeoman; a Sparrowhawk for a Priest; a Kestrel for a Knave.

    2. Our neighbourhood sparrows have annihilated five house martin families. I wish we had a sparrow hawk or two.

  43. Coal-rich Poland laments reliance on Russia as home supplies run short. 23 August 2022.

    His hunt for fuel is a consequence of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that has left Poland, one of the last bastions of coal production in the EU, dealing with an abrupt and unprecedented coal shortage.

    Poland’s government, never slow to be hawkish towards Moscow, eagerly responded to the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine by banning imports of Russian coal.

    But in doing so it also cut one of the country’s main sources of domestic coal supply. While Poland is a big coal producer, most are of low quality and used mainly in power stations. Russia supplied about two-fifths of the coal burned by Polish households.

    The dearth has left Poland struggling to find substitutes from faraway producers such as Colombia and South Africa. The price of coal in Poland has tripled from an average price of just under 1,000 zlotys ($208) per tonne last year to more than 3,000 zlotys per tonne.

    The Russians are really suffering!

    https://www.ft.com/content/4ef0336e-c1b9-4c28-a6c0-6f412fa8f195

    1. And greeniac tyrants continue to insist we should rely on interconnectors rather than local supplies.

  44. For Britons who—given the chance—would vote to Make Britain Sane Again, the current leadership convulsions within the Tory Party have brought into sharp relief a stark reality: They have gradually been disenfranchised, no longer having any political party to truly represent them. The British political class and media are currently obsessing about the party’s search for a replacement for Boris Johnson. The shortlist has narrowed to a runoff between ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. The most salient thing to note about these candidates is that neither seems to think in terms much deeper or broader than the latest thing the BBC-dominated MSM has to say on any given subject.

    My bold
    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-fatal-flaw-of-western-liberalism/

    1. If you hold the shell to your ear n Dover Beach you’ll need a babelfish to understand the voices of those on the water.

    2. If you hold the shell to your ear n Dover Beach you’ll need a babelfish to understand the voices of those on the water.

  46. Right now in America if you dress up pedestrian or subpar output in the trappings of diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE), your output becomes not just good but the best. When you read about how failing hospitals are pushing their commitment to DIE even as their patients literally die, there’s a tendency to put the hearse before the horse. We look at the situation and think, “An outrage! The new racial apartheid is forcing fine institutions to lower standards!”

    All the things he writes about are starting to appear in the UK

    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-apartheid-turns/

      1. In the bottom right hand corner there’s an X to click which closes that window and takes you to the article.

  47. Well over a thousand illegal immigrants were brought to the South of England by our Border Force and RNLI yesterday.
    Our Home Office and their agencies are grossly negligent. The law should be that any illegal immigrant arriving in the UK must not be allowed UK citizenship. At their arrival point into the UK they should be taken for a thorough check on finger prints, DNA and other checks as required. Those coming hidden in lorries and caravans should be treated likewise. Workers in the Home Office and their agencies should be checked regularly to ensure they are not under duress from external threats to falsify documents. At the moment the Home secretary appears feckless. Rwanda is not the solution. These immigrants are criminals and should be treated as such, not mollycoddled

    2. Anyone, anyone at all arriving in a rubber boat across the channel without a passport should be immediately turned round and sent back. No exceptions.

  48. Yesterday our village idiot announced that there is no business case for developing gas resources on the Canadian East Coast (they have lots, they just need a terminal from which they can load the ships).

    Instead of LNG, our beloved leader is talking with the German Chancellor about building a gazillion wind turbines to power clean Hydrogen production.

    Putin must be peeing himself with worry about such hairbrained schemes.

  49. Will YOUR pension rise with inflation? Public sector will get full hike and state pension could hit £10,800 – but others will see caps or NO rise at all
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/pensions/article-11134891/Will-pension-rise-inflation-increases-capped-frozen.html

    Everyone thought that Brown’s raid on private pensions was because he was a Socialist and he wanted to nurture the big state.

    But we have now had more and more raids by the Conservatives and after 12 years of faux Tory rule the gulf of pension apartheid is even wider and deeper.

  50. Will YOUR pension rise with inflation? Public sector will get full hike and state pension could hit £10,800 – but others will see caps or NO rise at all
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/pensions/article-11134891/Will-pension-rise-inflation-increases-capped-frozen.html

    Everyone thought that Brown’s raid on private pensions was because he was a Socialist and he wanted to nurture the big state.

    But we have now had more and more raids by the Conservatives and after 12 years of faux Tory rule the gulf of pension apartheid is even wider and deeper.

  52. Agree wholeheartedly:

    SIR – It is commendable that Liz Truss has spotted the problem that the lifetime allowance causes for doctors’ pensions (“Truss: I’ll halt NHS doctor exodus”, report, August 21).
    I hope she will resist the temptation to create yet another special exemption. Please just keep it simple and remove this complex and unnecessary restriction on pension saving completely. Inflation is only going to make it worse.
    Richard Devitt
    Withycombe, Somerset

  53. That Range Rover crash – here’s the drive who “lost control”

    Iraqi-born jewellery store manager Rida Al Mousawi,

      3. Self inflicted. No sympathy except for the poor sod charging his car up and the ones who had to clean the bits up.

    3. He had indulged his habit in a shisha cafe

      I googled Shisha Cafe.. they are as commonplace as tattoo parlours .

      So not only does the UK have mosques , halal meat , wailing from the muezim, but also has so many drug ridden shisha cafes.

    4. Looking at the slowed down section of the video on the Mail page, the bloody thing was already upside down as it went through the fence!!

  55. We’re at pandemic levels of death. Why is no one talking about it? 23 August 2022.

    It doesn’t make sense

    What’s worrying doctors is just how unexpected these deaths are. We’ve just been through a pandemic with a virus that killed off the most medically vulnerable. The elderly were 70 times more likely to be killed by it. So given that, you might expect deaths to be displaced: people who probably would have died this year from old age and natural causes, dying a year or two earlier because of Covid. Shouldn’t we be seeing lower-than-average numbers of deaths?

    Shock News. Spectator journalist achieves sentience!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/we-re-at-pandemic-levels-of-death-why-is-no-one-talking-about-it-

    2. For the past two years, there have been next to no serious cases of flu for reasons yet to be explained, Covid and lockdowns seemed to almost completely suppress it.

      It’s far more likely that many deaths from RTIs that were not Covid were counted as such on the basis of the wretched PCR test.

      Australia acts as an early warning system for the northern hemisphere because it gets its flu season six months before us. They’ve just had their worst flu season in five years.

      So get your marvellous Covid vaccination to stay safe and avoid putting pressure on NHS hospitals which will be full of flu patients (as they were in most winters before Covid).

      1. Around this area there is a noticeable lack of ‘flu vaccines.

        Many chemists claim that they have been unable to source supplies.

        I wonder whether the extra deaths from ‘flu this winter will be put down to Covid.

        They wouldn’t, would they?

          2. I do have a blood test coming up. I shall have blood taken but, like you Ann, I will not have anything injected into me.

          5. I feel that way too. Today I was driving behind a bus with a giant advertisement on it saying “protect your child from cancer, take them for the HPV jab”
            I shouted out loud, Stop bloody jabbing kids!

      2. The explanation is: the normal 25,000 to 28,000 flu deaths per year were recorded as Covid deaths.

  56. 355313+ up ticks,

    May one say,

    Must say the number of new invader / party members is on a climbing daily roll, the rush is to be expected with the winter break ( once known as Christmas) rapidly approaches.

    Maybe this “government” will relent on making the invaders invaders face the arduous task of crossing the English Channel and permit them to use the tunnel rail service in winter months.

    Getting a good meal on the train & party cards issued will save a great deal of time prior tp arrival.

  57. Jim Cantwell – on Ar5ebook

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/92c4649ab384e3505bca293622c6c8d1348fa8859a6b3904a982950bdd9636a2.jpg
    ·
    This machine is required to move 500 tons of earth/ ore which will be refined into one lithium car battery. It burns 900-1000 gallons of fuel in a 12 hour shift.
    Lithium is refined from ore using sulfuric acid. The proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass is estimated to require up to 75 semi loads of sulfuric acid a day! The acid does not turn into unicorn food like AOC believes.
    A battery in an electric car, lets say an average Tesla, is made of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic, etc…… averaging 750-1,000 pounds
    of minerals, that had to be mined and processed into a battery that merely stores electricity….. Electricity which is generated by oil, gas, coal, nuclear, or water (and a tiny fraction of wind and solar)….
    That is the truth, about the lie, of “green” energy.
    There’s nothing green about the green new deal. You people better learn how to vote or this nonsense will continue to flow down on top of you from the throne of government you put these people on.”

    1. “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” — quote often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin.

          1. Ah, that would be the Watney’s river. Close to water and full of shit and other noxious chemicals. 🤮

  59. We always thought that one day house prices would fall in value, level down in line with everything else.
    Nobody thought that everything else would go up in value to level up with house prices, making them look cheap.

    2. I saw the excellent film “La Reine Margot” some time ago when attending the French Institute in Edinburgh. They’d arranged a special showing in a local cinema. Wonderful film, and the sub plot of a Catholic and a Huguenot becoming friends was more striking than the main story, whatever that was.
      some of the Huguenots who fled Europe at that time arrived in my own wee village of Newhaven on Forth.

      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110963/

  61. Wills and Kate are upping sticks and “moving house” says the Royal Press
    Secretary.

    Except when you dig a little, they’re keeping their Kensington Palace
    ‘apartment’; 12 bedrooms, 5 reception rooms, a gym, 3 kitchens and a
    private courtyard garden.
    Keeping Anmer Hall near Sandringham; 10 bedrooms with 150 acres of
    parkland.
    Keeping Tam-Na-Ghar cottage on the 50,000-acre Balmoral estate.
    And gaining Adelaide Cottage, nestled in the 17 acre Windsor Castle
    estate which sits in the 5,000 acre Windsor Great Park.

    All the time while the royal slaphead is banging on about conservation
    and climate change he’s running a succession of mansions, driving around
    in Land Rovers or Range Rovers, taking over entire jets for private
    flights, etc.

    The joke here is that the royal hypocrite seems genuinely delusional in
    his belief that he’s the ‘new generation’ of royalty, doing things
    differently. He’s certainly doing things more ostentatiously!

          2. I don’t think Harry looks anything like Hewitt. He has a very Windsor look about him, he has a look of Charles, the DofE, Andrew and also Elizabeth the Queen Mother. There is a likeness between Willam and the King of Spain, I saw them once sitting next to each other and their profiles were identical. Goodness knows what the RF gets up to with its breeding programme.

          3. I always thought Harry had more Spencer than Windsor in his general appearance, saw a photo of the Earl Spencer a while ago and thought the similarities were quite obvious.

          4. For me, I see it in the eyes and eyebrows and nose, and his cheeks are those of the Queen Mother. I can understand why you think he looks like a Spencer, though. It is strange how so many ancestral glimpses can be seen in one face; it is the same with one’s own children and grandchildren.

      2. People who will be expected to take the bus to work while he takes private jets in the new world order.

      1. No. And he looks like someone who works in a bank. Also, You would think that someone in the family could tie a Windsor.

      2. I think that ‘glaikit’ is the word for George! Charlotte looks like the Queen and Louis….well a real dead ringer for Andrew!

          2. I’ve been saying that ever since the whole shitstorm started.

            And, given the corruption within the American Legal System, I don’t blame Andrew for refusing to go there in the slightest!

          4. Me neither! They say that Ghislaine Maxwell must be the only person in prison for trafficking….to nobody! Nobody (Clinton etc) has been investigated! American justice huh?

          5. The process is the punishment.
            There is, all too often, a presumption of guilt which leads directly to the plea bargaining we see so often where a person who is probably innocent agrees to plead guilty to a much lesser charge rather than spend months or even years fighting the case in front of a jury.

          6. Regardless of the fact that she was legal he wanted to fuck young women. He also expected through his dubious connections they would be available.

          7. Dunno about Scotland, but in England & Wales it is an offence to pay for er, personal services if that person is under 18 yrs old.

    5. They have squandered the frugal example set by the Queen. Much of her moral authority derived from her having served in the war, and her father. But let’s face it, her husband was up to his neck in this stuff his entire life.
      Charles’s contempt for poor white people is becoming more and more obvious, and William’s no different.

  62. Dolly rolled in fox poo today. I put her in the shower. Closed the door and walked away. That’ll teach her. A little bit of waterboarding for the little minx!

  63. That’s me for today. Checking out early – soldier neighbour coming round shortly for a glass of medicine and instructions on watering the greenhouse.

    Packing tomorrow. All ought to go smoothly….. Have a spiffing evening.

    A demain.

  64. ‘Night All

    Oof,well at least it doesn’t cause heart attacks like everything else………

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    Edit
    For anyone that missed it Bob Moran the best “Dark Humour” on the planet.many I hadn’t seen before…
    https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/brilliantly-difficult-film?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=63014cf9b9220767af5fa059&ss_email_id=63014dc4198e4b5e2559079f&ss_campaign_name=%E2%80%98Brilliantly+Difficult%E2%80%99+documentary&ss_campaign_sent_date=2022-08-20T21%3A10%3A59Z

  65. Just turned an advert for Water Aid off.
    After 60:years of pouring £billions into Africa they still want more from whitey. I’m surprised they’d accept money from such a racist nation. However some mugs will continue to cough up and support Mercedes Benz and Swiss Banks.

    1. I don’t give anything for Africa any more. So many billions sent there, and stolen. Nothing has changed.

      2. I don’t give anything anymore unless its local animal charity. Not the sally army and that always used to be something I would support back in the pre-diversity day. I am even unsure about the Poppy Appeal, I understood that had been Common Purposed. I have hardened my heart. Charity begins, and ends, at home.

        1. I only give to Alzheimers Scotland and even then I insist it goes to the local support group

    2. There was an article that stipulated that starving people were the most motivated workers – lower pay meaning it encourages wealth creation.

      We did it, yet Africa hasn’t. Therefore the problem is Africa. Instead of improving their lot, they give up and flunk on us. Thus if Africa doesn’t have the will or interest to improve it’s world then it doesn’t deserve our money as it will *never* improve.

    3. I get annoyed at the advert which says ‘this poor little girl has to walk 6 miles to get water’ – why don’t they just move to where the water is?

      1. I think ‘why don’t they build the wells themselves?’ Do they not have JCBs there? Or are they so comically corrupt that they prefer to spend the money on guns than infrastructure? If the latter, oh well. Perhaps fewer of them would be a good thing?

  66. That poor little girl- 9 years old. It’s no use the police mouthing platitudes after the event. Instead of learning the sodding macarena, get these thugs off our streets. Another little life lost – far too many of late.

      1. Got to grab them first.
        Maybe ownership of pistols should be made illegal in Britain… oh!

    3. BBC1 6pm news managed to work into its report ‘deprivation leads to crime’…

    1. Just like the illegal immigrants arriving in the UK – once they have sampled our welfare state they bring the rest of their family to gobble up the goodies.

    2. Not just flora but fauna are also suffering the effects of a drier than normal summer. Because there is water available in what passes as a ‘garden’, a badger now visits most nights. It will insist on eating the bird food, but I try to put out stale bread and a dish of dry dog food. The trouble with feeding a wild animal is that sooner or later its whole family will turn up.

  69. I just saw this – about premium bond winners – apart from Martin Lewis, most of the people shown were POC. What the heck are we allowing to happen – these people came in and are now taking over thanks to the MSM and BBC etc. etc.

    https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1659155/premium-bonds-nsi-unclaimed-prizes-how-to-check?utm_source=express_newsletter&utm_campaign=money_newsletter2&utm_medium=email&pure360.trackingid=2ee9f558-38a2-4a7d-8d5d-1cc446bd1603

  70. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, dodged jail time in a plea agreement following his May DUI arrest.

    Pelosi pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and causing injury on Tuesday, for which he technically received five days in jail – except that Judge Joseph Solga, a Gavin Newsom appointee, gave Pelosi credit for two days of actual time served and two days for ‘conduct’ credits.

    The remaining day will be covered by an 8-hour work program.
    Pelosi – who allegedly had a drug in his system and addressed officers with slurred speech before trying to slide them a ‘police courtesy card’ – will also have to participate in a 90-day drunk driving program, install an ignition interlock device on his vehicle(s), pay restitution of $1,700, and will be on probation for three years.

    1. ‘participate in a 90-day drunk driving program’…isn’t California wonderful…they even teach people how to drive while drunk!

      1. .,..and they cannot even spell programme.

        Oops, too many letters for our comprehenaion.

    2. Surprising. I thought that the Dem autocracy would have completely cancelled all charges.

  71. Modern drag performers [sic] entertaining infants in school are little different from pantomime dames. At least, that’s how this BBC report presents it. There’s no evenhandedness here. It’s presented almost entirely as a defence of them. The protestors are the bad guys and they have form, according to the section titled ‘Who is behind the protests?’. Put your teacups away before you read that bit.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-62639419

        1. Yeah, right. I’ll stand up and tell the truth, even if it gets me cancelled – with a shotgun – at 78, do I care? So long as the truth gets out.

  73. 355313+ up ticks,

    How about while the rodent fraternity solicitors, and other legal tramps thieves etc,etc, are on indefinite time strike why not trigger Rwanda and start to drain this Country of illegals, and any lab/lib/con member/politico’s who wish to join them.

    That strike could prove very beneficial to the Country as a whole..

    1. It’s cheaper, junior barristers who are on strike, the gimmegrants only employ the very best and most expensive lawyers.

    2. I’d bet as soon as the intent was raised suddenly the crooks would all leap back to work to ensure the tsunami of filth continues.

  74. Quote of the day

    ‘Britain has a bold new plan for dealing with a winter energy crisis: “hope for good weather”.’

    – Sam Ashworth-Hayes

    1. Ah, but if we get a warm winter, it will because of climate change. If we get a cold winter, it will be because of climate change.

      1. Now now, you’re exposing the hypocrisy of the Left there.

        This was the intent all along. I don’t understand people’s surprise. The climate change act was written in specifically to make energy unaffordably expensive with the sole intent of driving down use.

        1. “…with the sole intent of driving down use.”

          More like with the sole intent of driving us into bankrupcy.

    2. There’s a bright Ashworth-Hayes on the radio
      Gas price is as high as an elephant’s eye
      And it looks like it’s climbing clear up to the sky

      Oh, what a wonderful warnin’
      Oh, what a fateful day
      I’ve got a sinking feelin’
      Everyone’s not goin’ to pay….

    1. Must admit to thinking about Plum, it does seem a long time since we heard from her, best wishes to her, if she see this.

      1. I have been thinking the same , Jill.

        It is ages since she was last on her .

        Poor Plum must have been really knocked for six by this blinking virus , I do hope she is on the mend .

        1. It was the virus, then. I was not sure, all I have seen here, was that she was in hospital.

          1. I think Lacoste posted that she wouldn’t be posting for a while. Her daughter and daughter’s partner were there caring for her.
            Hopefully she knows that we are all thinking about her and hoping she soon returns.
            Hope she doesn’t run out of sherry;-)

          3. Oh dear. Am sorry to hear that. From what we read from Plum here, it may well come back. I do miss her.

          4. You and me both – her Happy Hour always gave us a few laughs….get well soon, Plum

    2. I spoke to her just now – 20.05 – clydesider.

      She is recovering very slowly. It has affected her sense of smell, taste – and memory.

      I have advised her of the large number of good wishes for her speedy recovery on here.

      She has NO desire to get back to computers in the near future: “they tell me what to do”.

      She is trying, slowly, to get back to normal.

      I don’t expect her return to us Nottlrs in the near future.

      1. That’s a great pity.
        Next time you speak to her please give her my best wishes, I know I’m not alone in that.

      2. I am so sorry to hear that. lacoste. I hope she has some good friends around, to help her get back to normal, please give her our sincere best wishes next time you are in touch.

      3. That’s very sad for her, Lacoste. Please pass on my best wishes and tell her she is much missed. 🌹

      4. Just a thought:

        Many Nottlers, including me, are extremely sceptical of the virus and the efficacy of the vaccines, I can’t recall Plum’s thoughts on it but I hope she doesn’t feel she can’t return because of an element of “we told you so”.

        We have friends who have been taking pride in their adherence to the vaccine regime, having recently boasted that they had taken their fourth jab.

        Oops, they’ve just contracted Covid and there’s a chance they will have passed it on to us, we shall see.

        1. I don’t think we’d think any the worse of her if she had had the jabs – not sure if she’s ever mentioned them one way or the other.

          1. Neither do I, but people sometimes fear that the group will turn on them.

            You might have the hide of an elephant, I certainly do, but not everyone does!

        2. I would guess that she is simply exhausted. Like the after effect of a bad flu.
          My son and daughter in law in NC both had the jabs and two boosters; they both got “covid”.
          Now here, in the Home for Deranged Gentlefolk. both the office staff are fully jabbed and boostered- they have both been off with “covid”.
          Here at Lake Lodge- no way are we having anymore of this nonsense.
          Plum knows we are not judgmental- at least I hope she does.

          3. I’m pretty sure that Plum is perfectly happy with her own decisions and will say “pooh” to anybody judging her. It’s nobody’s business whether she did or didn’t have the jabs. Many of us on here didn’t and others did. I think if anyone did any judging it was the jabbees judging the non-jabbed.

        3. Just a fourth jab? They are lining up the fifth jab over here. Not only will we supposedly be protected against the two year old variant, we will be getting the year old variant as well.

          Can you imagine being given a flu jab for the two years agoflu variant?

          Bloody autocorrect – flu not ago.

          3. I have learnt from the politicians how to tell a lie while, at the same time, telling the truth.

            A student asked me if I had had the jabs. I replied, quite truthfully, that I was not going to have the Third jab but I omitted to mention that I hadn’t had the First or the Second.

        4. Had they not noticed that Dr Rat Anthony Fauci has retired or more correctly scarpered?

          Reason: The fucker is about to be fingered by a reconstituted Congress after the mid-terms in the USA. His orange suit is ready, Size: S RAT BODY.

    1. The channel crisis is not a crisis, it is deliberate. The state machine is perfectly happy with the number of criminal immigrants arriving and intends, full to bring ever more in. That’s the strategy, and it is very coherent. This is what they want.

      It’s sheer, unadulterated spite. I suggest they be housed with the management of Home office officials. A couple of hundred to a house.

    2. 355313+ up ticks,

      evening TB,
      The party that designed and triggered the Brexit exit called for years for controlled immigration ALL the while the electorate majority supported mass uncontrolled immigration party”s.

      We are witnessing the odious consequences of that unchanged voting pattern.

      What decent foreign felon could resist to rape/ abuse & plunder whilst receiving unearned welfare ?

  77. I do hope that all those hotels which volunteered/agreed contracts to take in gimmegrants are bankrupted by the rising energy costs.

    1. Oh how we laffed,of course their contracts will be topped up to keep their pets happy

      Pubs and restaurants on the other hand……

      “More than 70% of pubs do not expect to survive winter as energy costs soar

      Independent brewers and pub operators warn of ‘doomsday scenario’ unless government takes urgent action”
      Guardian.lost the link

  78. I don’t suppose they have a clue as to the answers given by the gimmegrants. if any, but I would like the Home Office to answer a few questions:

    What skills do the gimmegrants claim to have?
    What qualifications do they claim to have?
    What experience in their claimed expertise do they have?
    Why do they need to claim asylum in the UK rather than France or any other of the countries they have passed through?

    MPs should be, but are not, asking questions such as these.

    1. I will answer for the MP’s
      They are good with a knife.
      They haven’t had their brains scrambled at university.
      See answer number one
      France and the other countries already have their quota of Westerner replacements

    2. They will all be gay and in danger of being put to death back home. No further discussion required and very difficult to disprove.

      1. “They will all be gay…”

        Suffice to say that there are plenty of flat rooves around. Make the most of it, you idealogic fools.

        1. The excuse will do until they establish a ‘family life’. Everyone knows that all who land here will remain here and never be returned.

          1. It’s ‘coz you’re such a raving leftie that you haven’t been cancelled.
            Only right thinking people get the big 0

          2. You don’t have to be too far right either, I am at zero upvotes and have been for years.

  83. “Oozing charm from every pore, he oiled his way around the floor.”

    I do not like Sunak at all. Don’t like Surgical Appliance much and it should have been done and dusted weeks ago.

    Am also having an early night- we have a guy coming to look at the bathroom ceiling tomorrow morning and must be up and alert.
    Try and behave you ‘orrible lot ;-))
    See y’all tomorrow.

    2. “We have a guy coming to look at the bathroom ceiling tomorrow morning and must be up and alert.”

      Who is he?

      The only ceiling guy I know is Michelangelo, Lotty …

    5. My Fair Lady of the Lake

      But you could argue that at least Sunak is not a ruder pest from Budapest.

  84. I think that I am taking after uncle Bill but without the needed ladder. While standing on level ground I somehow managed to trip up and plant my nose on the only paving stone in the area.

    This packing for the big downsize move is harder on the bod than I thought.

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