Monday 29 August: Why should taxpayers have to foot the heating bills of those not at risk?

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591 thoughts on “Monday 29 August: Why should taxpayers have to foot the heating bills of those not at risk?”

    1. Good morning!

      Ha! I’ll not find out personally as I don’t lisren to the MSM, but I suspect I know the answer.

  6. 355474+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Monday 29 August: Why should taxpayers have to foot the heating bills of those not at risk?

    By the same token ” Why should taxpayers have to foot the heating / hotel bills of those illegals slipping & sliding down carpeted warm corridors on the journey to four square a day, laid on.

    Should that not come from mass, government controlled immigration, coalition party lab/lib/con/current ukip funds ?

    1. Morning, all. Some blue here with plenty of fluffy white clouds and no discernible breeze.

      NZ’s PM is one seriously unhinged and rabid person (I deliberately didn’t write human being, for reasons that are obvious). On a medical/technical point, how would the people poisoning the water regulate the dose to each person? For the already jabbed sheeples this would mean continual boosters. Time the NZ people put this woman out of their country’s misery.

      1. I don’t think she has a clue about anything practical, but it’s worrying that her delusions of power lead her into this sort of idea, especially as the UK politicians have given the go-ahead to mass medication via fluoride in the drinking water.

        1. I think Arden ‘jumped the shark’ when she insisted to the NZ voters that the only true source of information would come from the government.

      2. Any chance she could break a leg? Unless she is future breeding stock, that means an instant bullet to the brain.

        1. Depends on the severity of the break. Some geldings have recovered from broken legs and gone on to a successful career, while some stallions and mares have had to be put down.

    2. Such an excellent idea.

      Let’s get it into pets and farm livestock, thence into watercourses for fish, insects, birds and other wild creatures where new viruses can adapt, evolve and create mayhem in the world. I’m sure they can control the dosages administered, they can can’t they?

    4. Hmm – most popular news in Montebello.
      1. Violent Death
      2. Gun Crime
      3. Gun Crime
      4. Gun Crime

      Think I’ll give Montebello a miss if I’m every going that way

  8. The Tories are in denial about the existential crisis facing Britain. TCW. 28 August 2022.

    WHILE the Conservative Party indulges itself with a mammoth election bore lasting an extraordinary eight weeks – a process that any sane organisation could have arranged over perhaps three weeks in this digital age – Britain faces its greatest crisis, I would argue, since the Second World War. The crisis is not just energy and cost of living, self-inflicted as that is. It is far, far more.

    The challenge is economic, cultural, institutional, societal and constitutional. In essence it is becoming existential and will be resolvable only with leadership showing philosophical compass, honesty, integrity and sheer determination.

    Unfortunately, the Conservative Party and the apparatus around it seems in utter denial at the scale of the challenge ahead. It is as if all would be normal if it wasn’t for that beastly chap Putin. But that is completely to misunderstand the scale of the problem, for while the war in Ukraine has undoubtedly made matters worse, the root cause of our woes lies with our governing class.

    Well they are hardly going to admit their responsibility since this might lead, not only to loss of office, but criminal prosecution! The unpleasant truth here is that there is no way out in the normal sense. What is needed is the complete replacement of a Political Class that has led us to this debacle. That can only come about through a complete collapse and it is not guaranteed. It is more than likely that rule by this gang of Globalist Shills will continue.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-challenge-facing-the-new-leader-for-britain-is-existential/

    1. Any thoughts on this question, Nottlers?

      Why have the PTB decided to accelerate the obvious slow managed decline of our society?

      My view, for what it’s worth: the intelligence agencies have detected a growing shift in the people’s concerns re their governments. For example, Trump being elected, Brexit and the growing discontent with the EU and its machinations. Something had to be done to circumvent the people naturally taking back power through new, untainted by corruption, politicians.

  9. Why should taxpayers have to foot the heating bills of those not at risk?

    All part of the plan to shoo in a social credit system.

    No compliance no energy supply

    1. Our social credit system is not based on virtue, but rather on the identity group that is most protected.

  10. 355474+ up ticks,

    Needs urgent answering,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    12h
    Are there statisticians out there correlating by country the deaths related to how many of the population were vaccinated, & related to which brands of vaccine were taken?

    Autopsies not being done must be for one, or both, of two reasons:

    1) There are to many dead people & the system is overwhelmed.
    2) The authorities already know the reason & don’t want it on record.
    English Citizen
    @AnonUKCitizen

    ·
    19h
    Dr. Roger Hodkinson: More people are dying unexpectedly with no cause than are dying from strokes, heart attacks and diabetes. IT’S NEVER EVER HAPPENED BEFORE

    https://gettr.com/post/p1onw4df4e8

      1. 355474+ up ticks,

        Morning A ,
        In these current times of uncertainty you are sure of this are you ?

  11. Sound leadership and high morale will help us prosper. 28 August 2022.

    We must acknowledge that these are worrying times. It is many years since the country has seen so many troubling events at once: a major war in Europe, a bout of high inflation, a wave of strikes and an energy crisis. The important thing is not to make our problems worse. Sound leadership, wise policy and high morale can help our ancient, stable nation overcome these problems, survive and prosper.

    On this website, in one of the last articles he will write as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson tells readers of The Mail on Sunday why they should not be downhearted. It is typical of him that he should take this optimistic view even as he is compelled to leave the job he loved so much.

    Yes, things will be tough, sometimes painful. But we will get through. He acknowledges the grave blow struck at our civilisation by the tyrant and pariah Vladimir Putin. He points out that the Russian invasion of Ukraine upset the recovery from the pandemic that was by then under way. But he is confident of Putin’s defeat by the courageous and dogged people of Ukraine, strongly supported by the major Western nations, including ours. And he is equally sure that the recovery will resume.

    He is well aware of the rise in fuel costs, but he is confident that, whoever his successor is, mechanisms are in place to soften the impact on those in need. And he sets out the large programmes already under way to reduce this country’s reliance on gas.

    In this he is very much in step with his likely successor, Liz Truss. In fact his Government, with its record of decisive action on the vaccine and on furlough during the coronavirus crisis, has shown in detail that it can respond with speed and skill to new developments. In the same way, it showed that it was able to take resolute and decisive action to end what seemed like the insoluble problem of Brexit, slicing through the verbiage and technicalities and fulfilling the wishes of the British people by taking the UK out of the EU.

    Though it is sometimes baffling to reflect that a Prime Minister with so many successes to his credit has been forced to resign, we can at least take pleasure in the fact that the election to replace him has been orderly, civil and thorough. We can take comfort in the fact that our governing party is both experienced and successful, and that the arrival of a new leader in Downing Street will take place smoothly and efficiently.

    You might not think this if you listened only to the BBC and the other Left-wing media, and to the small army of wounded pundits who have been prophesying doom since Brexit and feel cheated that no such doom has yet arrived. The metropolitan chattering classes seem determined to make a drama out of a crisis, spreading despondency and fear of worse to come.

    Perhaps they think that, if they promote such a state of mind, it might help the Labour Party at the next Election. Maybe so. But it will undoubtedly do damage to the country. Confidence is itself a major weapon against economic uncertainty, sustaining demand and keeping the wheels of the nation turning, and anyone with any serious concern for this country should be doing what he or she can to sustain and increase such confidence. We must not talk ourselves into a recession.

    On the contrary, we should acknowledge the achievements of our outgoing, proudly boosterish Prime Minister – who has so often done so much to cheer us all up and make Britain feel good about itself.

    And, as he would do, we must talk ourselves into recovery and progress towards the renewal and strengthening of enterprise, prosperity and freedom which we all desire.

    I thought that this deserved to be preserved in its entirety in the Nottl Archives! Even I; hardened cynic that I am, can scarcely believe it! For sheer sycophancy, mendacity and self-delusion it beats anything else I’ve read. It’s really more suited to a North Korean readership than the UK.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11153283/MAIL-SUNDAY-COMMENT-Sound-leadership-high-morale-help-prosper.html

    1. Not very balanced is it… tens of thousands of independent small business’ gone to the wall and more to come. Some of them have been trading for four generations. Thank you Dear Leader.

      Good morning.

      1. Boris confidently predicted that the country will emerge from this crisis stronger and better off. So if the economy is flagging, all that needs to be done is throw the country into financial Armageddon and, hey presto, an economic miracle results. Not sure what he’s been drinking on his hols but I think I might need some soon.

          2. ‘Morning pet! The sitting room is under siege as the old Baxi is removed and the new log burner is installed! The cats are hiding in the wardrobe in our room! The whole chimney breast (which I’ve always hated) is disappearing as I type!!

          4. They’ve found some beautiful sandstone at the back of the chamber! James has wire brushed and PVA’d it and it looks great! The guys are really tidy and charming!

        2. Bore-us is an absolute nightmare and a W⚓.
          But it’s all we have, those who hope to replace him could be even worse.
          How did this happen to our country?

  12. All this working from home malarkey isn’t such a good idea now that people at home will be paying £ thousands for all the energy they use

      1. Allegations of sex with minors

        In 2001, it was revealed that Cohn-Bendit had authored a 1976 article in
        the cultural-political magazine das da, in which he graphically
        described engaging in sexual activities with children under his care at a
        Frankfurt kindergarten.[6] Decades later, Cohn-Bendit claimed the described activities were not based on true events and were an “obnoxious provocation”.[7]

        Wiki

        1. Obnoxious provocation?
          The fact that the pervert still breathes is an obnoxious provocation.

      2. Exactly.
        The Left, not only in Germany but also here in the UK, supported paedophilia as a means of breaking down “The Family” which it correctly viewed, and still does view, as an essential building block of the Western Society it wishes to destroy.

  14. D-day tribute or theme park? Battle rages over Normandy plan. 29 August 2022.

    “We the children, grandchildren and loved ones of the American, British and Canadian soldiers who faced the enemy fire wish to register our firm opposition to the envisaged Hommage aux Héros theme park,” it reads. “We are appalled that their memory should be treated as a tourist attraction … the eagerness of the promoters for a ‘wow factor’ is absolutely objectionable.

    Thank God that these men cannot see us now! Their sacrifices were in vain!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/d-day-tribute-or-theme-park-battle-rages-over-normandy-plan

      1. What a great idea to sort out the energy crisis this winter!

        Get the tourists onto generator treadmills with uniformed curators yelling “Schneller! Schneller!” and shooting those that do not keep up. The fatties can power the biofuel heating systems.

        Welcome to the house of fun.

        2. Hmm, has the author been scrolling through this parish? That’s a suggestion I made on Nottle about a week ago.

          1. Great ideas often get plagiarised. Don’t think it’s the last time someone has this idea, nor yours the first!

        3. The remaining part of the old Northallerton prison has a treadmill on view for tourists to enjoy. If you look up Northallerton Prison Treadmill on the internet you will find a Northern Echo article on it. It also gives the origin of why Prison wardens are called “Screws” – when the people on he treadmill appeared to be getting it too easy the prison warden turned a screw to make it harder for them.

      2. Auschwitz has already been ‘done’.
        Acres of car and coach parks; scent of burgers wafting over the site; ‘interpretation’ centre…..

    2. Being rescued. Something else that the French hierarchy have never been able to forgive the English and the allies for.
      I think they really rather liked the nazi occupation, similar to Napoleon’s efforts.
      Let them eat not cake, but snails 🐌 and frogs 🐸.

    3. I have to admit to being in two minds on this one.

      Properly done it could open the eyes of a generation of people who have no idea of what went on and make them appreciate those young men who died or were wounded and traumatized a lot more.

      Tacky or woke and it would be an insult.

    4. How they have been betrayed, and then some, by their own people. It makes such a mockery of our Remembrance Day, just another opportunity for a display of virtue. ‘The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.’

        1. Our younger cocker wakes us up far too early 6am , I think the birds awaken him , but he is all action to be let out into the garden , the older dog is not so intense and excitable .. the thing is there are things one has to do when getting out of bed before going into the garden , slippers, loo , jacket etc.

          Younger dog is 9 years old, still behaves like a pup. , ollder dog 14 years .

      2. Poppie is also still asleep, lying on the bed. So am I (but obvs I am not asleep, at least I don’t think so!). She doesn’t start thinking about a walk until 10.30-ish and is quite happy to wait. I know that because she scuttles off when she sees her harness and lead, but she is a-raring-to-go once it on.

        1. Oscar is a reluctant walker. He treats the morning constitutional as something that has to be endured! Kadi on the other hand is always keen. He reminds me more an more of the old boy I lost April last year. He’s even started bonking his bed (something Charlie did on a regular basis, despite having had his baby-makers removed a long time ago).

          1. Made me laugh… thanks, Conners! They are such characters. At the same time every evening Poppie goes into the conservatory, we hear her scrabbling on the sofa and then she comes charging out at the double to implore poppiesdad to duff her up, which involves a bit of a rough and tumble with him on the sofa, she loves it. Dinner was an hour later this evening, 20 minutes past the normal time she was reminding me that I was late, and where was it?

          2. Oscar does that if I’m late with his tea – he has to take Loxicom so I divide his meals for him to take it in the evening. He goes into the kitchen, stares at the place I prepare his food and barks loudly.

  16. Started with a birdie today

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      Wordle 436 3/6

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  17. Morning all 😃
    I take it from the headline it points towards people like greedy politicians and Lords who already have claimed and will claim more millions in personal expenses each year.

  18. HMS Prince of Wales breaks down shortly after leaving Portsmouth. 29 August 2022.

    The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has broken down less than 24 hours after setting sail for a “landmark mission” to the United States.

    The £3 billion warship remained anchored off the southeast of the Isle of Wight on Sunday night after it encountered an “emerging mechanical issue”.

    It’s somehow heartening to see that these two jerry built carriers for the Globalist Navy are faring no better than their national counterparts. One of the oddities of Societal Decline is that it spreads like cancer throughout the entire system. Nothing is safe from its pernicious grasp. In this particular case the Ministry of Defence, which like nearly all British State institutions is now utterly useless.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/28/hms-prince-wales-breaks-shortly-leaving-portsmouth/

    1. For a lady of her size, Dawn French was not that bad looking. Given the chance I would not have said no!

        2. Hmm. Used to run the Fowey Branch a couple of times a year on the inspection trains!
          A beautiful run!

          1. The harbour boat trip is worth a go as well. Daphne du Mauria’s home is in the banks of the estuary.

        3. I think she sold it, having realised for most of the year it doesn’t get any sun…

    2. To my knowledge, enny Henry has some daft opinions but I haven’t seen him actively try to use authority to get his own way.

      Am I wrong? I don’t care if someone says something stupid (I do it all the time). I care if effort is made to use force to make someone conform to their perpsective.

  21. Grant Shapps: I did my own research to help block Christmas Covid lockdown. 29 August 2022.

    Grant Shapps has claimed he had to do his own research to counter Sage scientists and help block plans for a Covid lockdown last Christmas.

    Mr Shapps, the Transport Secretary, told The Telegraph he made his own spreadsheets based on international data and sometimes presented his findings at Cabinet and Covid-O ministerial meetings to bolster resistance to further restrictions.

    He said this proved effective in countering pressure for a potential lockdown last Christmas in response to the threat from the omicron variant.

    “Wozzn’t me Guv! Honest!” Squeak. Squeak!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/08/28/grant-shapps-did-research-help-block-christmas-covid-lockdown/

    1. So incredible that lockdown was ever implemented, given that they were all against it!

    1. Was she inside one of the bags ? Not much difference between her and a pile of unwanted items.

    2. I would suggest that she had them removed from all government buildings, since those working there had to pass daily by evidence of their failed, squalid policies.

  23. Only 38 arrested at Nottinghill carnival. Including Drugs weapons and sexual assault.
    Seems as if the police weren’t keeping an eye on proceedings.

          1. I’ll repeat a post I made the other day, because the NtN link covers my fat cats.
            An interesting link re Public Sector pensions.
            What it really hides is the huge amounts paid to the fat cats

            https://www.civilservant.org.uk/information-pensions.html

            All CS people get tarred by the fat cats’ pensions.
            The “pot” issue may be somewhat misleading as I believe it refers to the amount of money needed to produce the income/benefits and is a standardised calculation, when they die the “pot” goes too, there isn’t a huge windfall for their estates.

          2. Yes, that’s the other element. There’s nothing ever returned to the tax payer.

            The insulting thing is that a chap on defined contribution can’t put more into his pension. The state has set a limit – as otherwise ! Horror! People would use pension to not pay tax!

          3. My private pension pays the tax that both combined, are deemed to owe. No pension should be taxed.

          5. If you take a pay out from an annuity is’t taxed if it’s above your annual allowance. Plus you would have already paid tax on the earrings you paid in. There is no escape from the tax man’s claws. Unless your mega rich of course.

          6. It used to be that all contributions were tax free but you paid tax on your pension that was, in a lot of instances, lowertgan the tax you had paid on your earnings.
            I think it was Brown who put a stop to that in the first of his damaging budgets but other chancellors have followed his retrogressive policy.

          7. Where I take issue with the article I linked to is the comment that they would be paid far more in the private sector and they don’t get private sector benefits. Virtually all benefits are heavily taxed and most civil servants would never get close to equivalent positions in the private sector because if they foul up they seldom get fired, in the private sector they would be AND also be very unlikely to be promoted out of jobs into new ones.

          8. It’s funny – they continually say things like this but never actually leave the CS. I imagine if they did they’d leap into a crony job arranged carefully with a govenrment supplier where effectively they’d just be a fixer. They don’t really know how to ‘do’ anything. At best these people are middle management.

            Perhaps that could be a reality TV show: Civil service companies, where senior civil servants are told to make, market and sell a product. They would, of course, all flop.

        2. Any details of how much these represent for inflation-proof pensions payable at the age of 65 with 50% of pension continued to be paid to the surviving spouse?

          1. Others have commented on that aspect, Richard. I’m not sure I understand the reasoning.

        3. It’s not even as if they need pensions. Once retired they get on the merry go round of sinecures.

          1. I used to know a (successful and hard working) guy who worked in retail. So many freebies and edible samples that at one stage he could save almost all his salary.

        4. Imagine the tax penalty you’d have to pay on that if you were an ordinary pleb

    1. Thank you, much obliged. I wouldn’t deny them a pension of any sort, but the pension caps are absurd. Why can’t you keep putting your own money into your own pension? The state seems to think everything we earn is it’s by default.

      In addition, public sector workers have no risks. They face no consequences for failure. At the top, failure is rewarded with a pay rise and shuffling off to another department. They pay no financial penalties. When they write an appalling contract with no failure clauses, they get a back hander to keep paying the supplier.

      With no risks, no consequences and no ability to be sacked they are simpy not deserving of the levels of pay they receive, let alone the automatic honours they get.

    2. Have we any actuaries on this forum?

      What inflation-proof pension would £1m buy for a self-employed man aged 65 working in the private sector with half the pension continuing on his death for his wife?

      2. Good Morning Rastus , and everyone.

        Coffee break.

        There are online calculators available for annuities, but AFAIK you will not find anything that is inflation proof. Our masters have access to pensions that increase according to CPI or some such measure, and that particularly applies to Bank of England employees; although responsible for keeping inflation at or below 2% (hah!) they hedge their bets by awarding themselves final salary pensions.

        If you keep an eye on Telegraph Money pages, there is a journalist who is puzzled that most public sector schemes are currently far more generous than anything available to the UK private sector, with the exception of Judges (who are barristers with a near-sinecure).

        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/pensions-retirement/financial-planning/how-increase-pension-uk-inflation-make-last-longer-2022/

      1. That is James, the Scottish one! The other one is Peter, and he’s Swedish! They are charming and very tidy!

    3. Not OT at all, Sue. Everyone should be attending to their chimneys and winter fuel supplies.

    2. “Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s top climate official, said that the nation was
      experiencing a “serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the
      decade”.”

      Good to read that in a moslem state a ‘top official’ has the name of a popular alcoholic beverage which is produced in a Catholic country (Spain).

      1. ‘top official’ has the name of a popular alcoholic beverage which is produced in a Catholic country (Spain).
        That’s the only interesting part about it.
        Do they want us to send them some more money ?

          1. They should have improved it, I’m reasonably confident there would have been plenty of litter to clear up when they arrived!

  29. “SIR – My wife and I ordered cod and chips at a well-known pub chain in Newbury. I chose garden peas, my wife mushy peas.
    When the waitress arrived with our order, before she said anything, I pointed to where my wife was sitting and said, “Mushy peas,” to be met with, “Amazing,” from the waitress”

    This chap headed off something restaurants should address in training their waiters. When I used to run a restaurant I forbade the waiting staff from ‘auctioning’ food. When they took an order they were told to note at which seat the person who had chosen each dish was sitting so that when they took the food out they could place it in front of that person without asking.

    It’s not rocket science but I think it marks out a good restaurant. I wish all restaurants would do it.

    1. The best example of a great waiter I have ever experience was aboard the RMS Pendenis Castle. There must have been at least 8 of us around a table in the bar. And after we were nearly finished our first drinks, the waiter came across and and as joke someone said “Same again waiter”. Without batting an eyelid he returned with a large tray of drinks and set them down infront of each of us.
      Now that was really ‘amazing’ 👏

    2. Nobody instructs in service any more. Doing it well is a hard skill to acquire, and nowadays it’s seen as “plonk the dinner in front of someone”.
      Was out in Oslo at a fiercely expensive pizza restaurant, in May. Service was appalling – the waitress clearly hadn’t bee trained and mentored. Complained to the maitre d, stressing that the training, not the lassie was at fault. Eventually, they sent vouchers as compensation, but we haven’t been back. No excuse for such treatment of a young person – or my wallet!

  30. The warqueen has ceased dying her hair blonde. While she *Is* a blonde, it was turning platinum. I dread the day when grey hair is found.

    We, however, are off to the shops, which has become a palava as with her wanting to come along so does Mongo and Ozzie.

    Mongo won’t stop bouncing around and Ozzie still thinks every car journey is taking him back to the shelter. I might, in fact put my foot down and say no. A shop with her along takes hours as she gets ideas about ‘asparagus’ whereas with two basket toters it’s done in 20.

    (And we get to play ‘the boys are back in town’ on the way).

      3. We get some decent tunes on the wireless. Usually Junior makes a playlist. The time we had ‘Baby Shark’ on loop was the exception.

    2. I stopped colouring my hair years ago and it’s now chin length silver blonde- natural. My husband likes it a lot. There is some grey but it’s well hidden. Hope it stays that way 😉
      Happy shopping ;-)))

      1. My hair was dark – I kept it that way for years, but gave up colouring it in 2005 when we spent five weeks in South America. It gradually became lighter in colour until it reached its present shade of white, with just the odd darker streak.

        1. I remember thinking that the Disney cartoon character, Cruella de Ville, looked very much like Cherie Blair and I thought that Cherie should have copied Cruella and had the hair on one side of her parting snow white and the other side jet black.

          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9b73c052ad1816f0df341cf5efd242439c84d1160919a3e0062325d520c75075.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/329c225c361ae3e3e904ee6fe3009336633e43f8b00fcaa69bbaf7658d1650eb.jpg

    3. My hair, what remains of it, is as white as snow but Caroline has not a single grey hair and has never resorted to the bottle.

      I had fair hair as a young man but it went much darker before going grey and then white; as the years have passed Caroline’s hair has got much darker as mine did.

      1. As a child i was a carrot top. Thankfully as i got older it faded to auburn reddish brown. My freckles disappear in Winter too.

      2. My hair has just gone.. although, like most chaps, its actually just migrated to my nose and ears.

        1. Grown up through your hairline, as a farmer used to say to me.
          Didn’t notice in Penarth this summer. Maybe I should get me to Specsavers?

          1. Its actually receeded as you suggest but doesnt seem to have changed much in recent years. Less wear on the headboard prolly!

      3. As a kid in Nigeria, I had white hair – sun and swimming-pool chlorine, I think.
        Now I’m the same, but bugger-all sun and no chlorine. Did I get younger suddenly?

      4. Mine is grey to the front, but I still retain the dark brown on the back of my head!
        The DT has her hair dyed auburn every few months which is a shame as, when we were in Wales, she’d not had her hair done for several months and the “pepper & salt” colouring that came through looked rather nice.

    4. Do not be around for the grey hair moment. Be away on a six-month sabbatical. Make it a year if the offending hair is not from her head 🙂

    5. Took the boys to a Jazz concert this morning; it was the first time the newbie had travelled in my car, so I didn’t know what to expect when I strapped him in, but he was fine. Ditto for the concert. Both got lots of comments.

  31. I was just thinking about how we help those poor people flooded out in Pakistan.

    Then I thought about all those thousands of impounded inflatable dinghies we have in storage.

    What he we airlifted them all out to them?

    2. Their god has not been kind to them but I’m sure they understand its all part of his master plan. Inshallah..

    3. Only as long as the ‘scientists, doctors and engineers’ from albania go with them.

  33. Dedicated to the party! Picture emerges of Michael Gove, 55, clubbing AGAIN – this time pouring himself a drink in an Ibiza bar – after bizarre video of him raving in Scotland

    Former Conservative minister Michael Gove has been photographed partying at a dance venue in Ibiza, after writing a recent article suggesting his frontbench career in politics is at an end.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11155361/Picture-emerges-Michael-Gove-55-clubbing-pouring-drink-Ibiza-bar.html

    I find it astonishing that Gove has to resort to this sort of thing when searching for ‘a piece of skirt’ (as they saying used to be)

    I would have thought that he had a wide enough base of social contacts without the need to make such a ridiculous spectacle of himself.

      1. When some of us were boys on the cusp of manhood we pruriently used to rate girls’ attractiveness on a 1 to 10 scale.

        If women did the same for men I should imagine that for sexual attractiveness Gove would be lucky to score more than 1.

        1. We (girls and boys) used to refer to one bagers and two baggers.
          1 bagger – would be ‘one would if s/he wore a paper bag on his/her head’
          2 bagger – in case one bag came off

    2. Most of them hate him though?
      Seriously, he has spent his whole life in politics, trying to climb the greasy pole. When I saw him at university, I don’t think he had a life outside politics. It’s not impossible that he has no genuine friends now. Many of us spent our teenage years studying, but Gove then dedicated himself to the greasy pole. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that he might try to recapture some of the youth he never had.

    1. He used to write excellent articles for the Spectator to which I used to subscribe.

      He used to be a prison doctor, spent some of his life in sub-Saharan Africa and trained as a psychiatrist. He is a very lucid and clear-headed man who must, I imagine, be feared and loathed by the woke.

      He has broken cover – he is called Anthony Malcolm Daniels and here he is.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZyS9p-lXLM

      1. I have long been a fan. I too remember his Spectator articles; I believe he lives in France, or at least spends considerable time here.

    2. Much obliged sos. I find the sustainablility police this seasons HR. They achieve very little but at great expense. They have no targets, no achievable goals, no practical function, no useful purpose. They don’t contribute to projects, they don’t help, they’ve no expertise, use or worth. They’re just there, bandwagoning on a buzzword.

      1. It’s everywhere now.
        Internal audit was bad enough, but now there’s “Compliance” everywhere.
        Herds of box tickers creating boxes to tick for other box tickers so they can be checked.
        Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em, little fleas have smaller fleas and so ad infinitum.

        1. Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em, 

          We have box tickers, insects have tick boxers

    3. bloviate

      verbINFORMAL•US

      gerund or present participle: bloviating

      talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way.

    4. bloviate

      verbINFORMAL•US

      gerund or present participle: bloviating

      talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way.

  35. Just had this from a friend ………

    https://welovetrump.com/2022/08/28/alert-pope-francis-orders-all-church-funds-to-be-sent-to-vatican-by-september-30th/?utm_source=newsletter_randy

    What do you make of this…is the collapse/global reset finally here…what happens to our money in banks, do we take it out now? I know the Chinese have stopped people taking out their money and they are closing EV charging points…i said it wouldn’t be long before it came to us. Is everyone prepared – my guess is no.:*(

    1. It’s just not possible to do so. The Vatican has assets tied up for ten, fifty years. Heck, their fund managers are practically generational.

    2. Could Trump, dare I say it, be the ‘redeemer personality’ identified in the clip ‘After Skool’ earlier?

    3. So when it all goes tits up in September the Pope can say:
      “See, I told you so!”

  36. Wordle 436 4/6

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    1. Got a three on me Wordle (posted earlier) but you beat me on the Quordle..
      Daily Quordle 217
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      🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
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      1. Me too on Wordle. Got so close though but still stared at it for ages before the penny dropped!
        Wordle 436 3/6

        ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
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    2. A good day
      Daily Quordle 217
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    3. Wordle 436 3/6

      ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
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      Just about to do quordle.

      1. Daily Quordle 217
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        ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩

        Took a while, grandson visited, and cut the grass. And I’ve deleted the last green box in error.

        1. Probably best, in that case to copy and paste the title (in italics or quotation marks) before asking the question. I’m sure that someone here may well answer the question.

          2. Although I have a subscription to the DT, I haven’t bothered, nor had the interest, to follow the article.

    1. Oxygen is next on the list.

      The government is already thinking of ways to eliminate it.

    2. Good for them – I just wish our sheeple would learn to fight back, before we’re overwhelmed.

    3. Seeing northern European men fighting like that gives me goose pimples. We are at war.

  40. Well,well,well just a coincidence of course……..

    “Allesley Hotel ordered to remove asylum seekers after planning breach”

    https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/allesley-hotel-ordered-remove-asylum-21398122

    “Coventry fire: Multiple engines and air ambulance rush to huge hotel blaze: ‘Avoid area’

    Smoke appears to be filling the air as firefighters rush to extinguish

    the blaze at the Allesley Hotel on Birmingham Road, Allesley. Four

    engines are currently on site. There are reports of slow traffic from

    Rectory Lane to Lion Fields Avenue. West Midlands Fire Service has urged

    residents to avoid the area.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1661852/coventry-fire-birmingham-road-allesley-hotel-air-ambulance-engines-blaze

  41. I’ve seen over the past week at least half a dozen programmes where tips are being given to lower energy consumption and thus, bills.
    e.g Lowering the thermostat by two or three degrees, wearing a jumper in the winter using microwave instead if oven, not filling the kettle to make one cup of coffee. All common sense but when the Govt made similar suggestions last winter it was pilloried fir talking down to people.

    1. I wouldn’t mind all these “helpful” tips in how we are to save money while we freeze, if the government wasn’t sending trillions ££ over seas. Pakistan will be next. Cue the begging adverts and charity sites about where to send money.

      1. But every pound you donate will be doubled by the government, that will make a real difference! Oh, that is your money as well?

        How about some of those supernrich Muslim countries sending aid? They could even move some of the flood water back to some God forsaken desert.

        1. Actually deserts are beautiful places and have a very diverse ecosystem.
          As for ‘Super rich’ Middle East countries, I couldn’t agree more.

          1. Really enjoyed my time (not so very long) in the Libyan Sahara. Agree with you, Andrew!

      2. I seem to recall that Pakistan had major flood several years ago and complained that the west was not giving them any sympathy and more importantly ‘aid’.
        Might I suggest that they hold their hand out to somewhere like Saudi Arabia – but then again, even the Saudis don’t really like or trust them

        1. But isn’t this an annual thing? Monsoon season? Or am I mixed up? There are many other countries that could offer aid but it always seems to be the UK.

          1. Bangladesh (is maybe your memory jogger) formally know as East Pakistan until both sides fell out and had a war.

          4. And the Bangla Muslims, who Bangladesh isn’t keen on, (Rohingya) are offending the Burmese, yet the Burmese are at fault, of course.

          5. Burmese did right. Kicked ’em out, as we should, now, the whole lot of ’em and make practising Islam agin’ the law.

          6. Only in the western msm I think.
            Bash Burma (or as the bbc call it, Myanmar) by the leftwing press, without looking at the big picture.

          10. It is monsoon season and can result in extensive flooding.
            The Arabian Sea gets some very powerful ones evey so often: Look up Cyclonic Storm Gonu (2007) it nearly killed me.

          11. So, grow rice. That’s all the sympathy you get from me. I guess your ancestors knew a little about the monsoon. Hell, we learnt about in geography in school.

            Always the helpless, begging hand out. Eff orff.

          12. The problem is, like Africa, these countries have relied on handout from us in the west for so long, they have never developed an independent financial infrastructure.
            As you said, grow rice and after hundreds of years one would think they would have an infrastructure that could cope: like Japan for instance.

          1. I think that was their problem. A country viewed as morally corrupt by most civilised nations and so, totaly ignored.

      3. Watch the planes arriving from Pakistan, full of chancers claiming they’ve been flooded out, lost everything, and seeking refuge with relatives in the UK.

    2. Batch cooking is an easy way to save money on bills. Make a chilli con carne with lots of veg in it then freeze in one person portion size and then use the micro. Same goes for curry and stews. I have a pressure king pro that will make a stew in 20 mins.

      I don’t listen to any advice from the government. I make my own choices.

      1. Me too. Made a big pot of tomato basil soup and have just put the remains into 3 tubs. Will freeze it for another day/s. And I still have 3 tubs of homemade chicken stock in the freezer for another recipe.
        We do not listen to a word that any of these oiks say. Liars and charlatans all of them.

        1. If you have a slow cooker big enough do a whole chicken. The stock you are left with is superb.

      2. In addition to batch-cooking, we buy in bulk as well. Not all of the bulk-bought products lend themselves to batch-cooking, but it’s less expensive in the long term and means less time spent shopping. Win win! Venison, scallops, steaks, hake, chicken thighs, etc etc. Oh, and pork pies!

        1. I bought a whole sirloin recently. As it was frozen i cut it into steaks on the bandsaw. Vac packed and into the freezer. I won’t be buying steaks for a long time.

          2. :@)

            30 seconds a side in a very hot skillet. Then rest.
            The whole sirloin cost £80 but i got at least 50 steaks from it.
            I bought half a dozen Cahors Malbec. Let me know when you are nearby and i will treat you both.

          4. The Malbec, French, please, not Argentinian – it’s crap, not even really good enough for cooking with.

          6. I cook with wine….sometimes I even put it in the food. Hic.
            PS you are dead right about Argentinian wine- like paint stripper.

          9. We’ll have to agree to disagree, I’ve yet to find a decent Argentinian, however, where might ‘Mendoza’ be found. Remember, Anne, I shall hold you responsible if it doesn’t pass muster.

      3. I’m a great one for cook one/freeze one.
        There is a downside; now that we’re trying to clear the freezers, we ended up eating braised ox cheek during the heat wave. Somehow, it didn’t have the same vibe as eating it on a dank February evening.

        2. Ashes visited recently. It was a very hot day. We went for a carvery and had roast beef !

    3. They really do think that we are idiots don’t they?

      Thw proof is in a car user manual. They used to give tips on changing the oil or adjusting tappets, now they tell you not to drink the battery acid.

    4. I know someone who’s decided to lower her electricity use by switching off her television. That helps in other ways too. I watch a lot less than I used to.

        1. Not sad, Wibbles, it is in their nature and upbringing – as is our English upbringing and way of life.

  43. Boris Johnson: Don’t give up on green energy
    Prime Minister insists UK can still pursue Net Zero while taking sting out of heating bills

    Charles Hymas: DT Headline

    What a insensitive and senseless pillock the bumbling bonker still is:

    Green energy has given up on us!

    2. Apparently Trudeau is saying that we cannot invest in northern defense because of our commitment to net zero investments. That is despite the NATO leader talking about the threat from Russia.

      Can anyone recommend a good Russian phrase book?

      2. Oh look the village idiot has just announced $100 millon for 2SLGBTQI+ causes.

        We might be metaphorically fu**ed by the Russians but at least we can go out in style.

      3. Ironically Putin is staunchy capitalist. Yes, he’s corrupt, but he is, at least a capitalist. When he invades Canada Canadians can breathe a sigh of relief as capitalism and markets reassert themselves and Trudeau, hoping for communism finds himself somewhere in Siberia.

    3. They bang us over the head with this on a daily basis. But I’ve never seen so much new housing being built in all my life.

      1. Carte blanche for the developers (all crooks) and the gimmegrunts won’t afford them. Would you relish living next door to those diseased savages?

        1. I’ll bet many politicians and councillors have made a few bob aiding developer’s.

    1. That’s the irony of the ‘progressive’ Left. They’re trying to force society backward. That’s what doublethink hypocrisy gets you.

    2. Just our civilisation, Grizzly. The human race will stagger on and develop a new one.

      1. Indeed. It is similar to how houses that were built (of stone, mainly) two, three, four and even five hundred years ago are still standing strongly; while many modern buildings, that were erected under a library of building regs, are in a sorry state of disrepair after just a few decades.

        My secondary school was built in 1957. It was demolished in 1992!
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/61ed6ba3074cbd4e7ee1f3f580ce51f79354927d7636ee3eda9ccf9289c6b1ad.png

        1. Firstborn’s (wooden) house was built around 1750 (not just before teatime, either), and still stands. Older than the US of A.

        3. We lived in a farmhouse built c. 1580.
          It had no foundations; it stood on the earth.
          Every summer the central beam dried and split; every winter the beam absorbed the damp and the crack closed.
          And 400 + years, the house still stood.

        4. Our student’s house was built in 1583; our main house somewhere between that time and 1684. Like Anne Allan’s farmhouse, there are no foundations. As time has moved on, modern comforts have been put in but the basic structure is still the same.

        5. Harold hill Grammar wax of the same vintage and lasted just as long.

          Just another housing estate now.

      1. Unfortunately they befell the same downfall we are heading into.
        Let the enemy in the gates and no matter how sophisticated one’s society is, the Barbarians will destroy all.

    5. Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
      The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
      A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire,
      And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire;
      A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread
      The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.

      I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire,
      And for to fight the Frenchman I did not much desire;
      But I did bash their baggonets because they came arrayed
      To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made,
      Where you and I went down the lane with ale-mugs in our hands,
      The night we went to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands.

      His sins they were forgiven him; or why do flowers run
      Behind him; and the hedges all strengthening in the sun?
      The wild thing went from left to right and knew not which was which,
      But the wild rose was above him when they found him in the ditch.
      God pardon us, nor harden us; we did not see so clear
      The night we went to Bannockburn by way of Brighton Pier.

      My friends, we will not go again or ape an ancient rage,
      Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age,
      But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth,
      And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death;
      For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
      Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

      G K Chesterton

      1. Oh I do like that one – it’s like so many of my journeys! I have quoted it in some of my geocaching logs, but I’m not sure anyone noticed.

        1. Learned at my Father’s knee – many, many years ago. I like Chesterton, Masefield and Belloc.

      3. To the tune of “Men of Harlech”.

        “Romans came across the Channel
        All dressed up in tin and flannel;
        Half a pint of woad per man’ll
        Send them back again …..”

  48. 355474+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    56m
    “There are no practical replacements for oil, coal & gas”.

    Anyone with an average IQ should have been able to see this coming.

    The politicians that have created this crisis are either pure evil or monumentally ignorant & stupid.

    previewImg
    What Will Be The Real World Consequences Of Europe’s Coming Energy Crisis?

    ZeroHedge – On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone
    drops to zero

    https://gettr.com/post/p1otdgh0c97

    1. ‘Deoch an doris’.

      Scottish: ‘One for the door’.

      English equivalent: ‘One for the Road’ …

      2. Thank you, lacoste, I’ll try and remember that. I’m so English, I just say it the way it sounds.

      3. Is dat coz dey falls over as they leave the door, long before they get as far as the road?

  50. The only tattoos worth having are the Military ones.
    Highlights from Edinburgh on now, kicking off with massed pipes and drums, wonderful stuff!

      1. And the rifle drill team – v clever an all that, shame their uniforms make them look like the Nigerian police force.

      1. HG knows that when I head off to the oven that that is the music I want as the coffin heads through the curtains.

        Ideally with the members of the congregation, all four of them, shouting “Oi!” at the appropriate moment.

        “Back to Barracks”

        1. As RAF apprentices we used to march to work and back behind a pipe band twice a day. If they played the Bear you could hear the ‘Oi’ miles away and I often wonder whether there are ex-apprentices in the audience shouting ‘Oi’.

      2. A good rendition this evening, but I prefer it televised as they march down the street away from the castle.

    2. She looks so hard. Why are they still bleating on? I thought they wanted privacy and quiet.

      2. And why the strenuous reminding always of her black identity? I’ve always thought her more on the white side, colour and features.

        1. She has an agenda and is possibly a plant. There is a movement afoot to bring down our Royal Family. For all those who bang on about HM of late and Prince Charles and would prefer an elected president. Be careful what you wish for.
          Our worst nightmare should be someone like Blair, Major or some other brain dead nonentity running this country. President Boris and First Lady Carrie?
          With a hereditary monarchy you takes yer chances and most of them are not too bad. All politicians are crap and the worst ones would go for the top position.

          1. A President would not be running the country. That is the USA model of a Republic. A better option is one closer to home – the Republic of Ireland, where the President is a figurehead, rather like the monarch in the UK.

          2. Then why change it? I like having a Royal Family and an elected head of state would not draw in the tourism ££ that the Royals and the rituals do.

          3. My opinion is that the accident of birth is not a good method of selecting a Head of State.

          4. But 60 years of training, rather than climbing the greasy pole on the off-chance, has a lot to be said for it.

          6. I have to, sadly agree, Ann, but for how long will we have to endure Charles, Willum and their woke ways?

            I can only hope that Great Grandma will have had a sobering effect on young George.

          7. Also, once the heir is monarch they are supposed to keep the old mush closed. Charles has waited a long time to be King- I don’t think, well I hope he doesn’t, want to blow it.

    5. Not all, Anne. Just about right. What fool authorised that picture?

      Open to our febrile misinterpretation. And, No I wouldn’t, even if you paid me!

  53. Well chaps! This is the result of the chaos today …like phoenix from the ashes….the new wood burner!! It’s been lit and is hot! And, in case you’re wondering, the plasterer is coming on Thursday! We are delighted with it!

      1. Very nice Sue – but surely you’re not going to plaster over that lovely wallpaper?

        2. We’re going to frame it! David, the Swede thought it had been hung upside down!

        1. The guys were excellent and great fun! A Scotsman and a Swede! Arrived at 8.30 and left at 5.30! Cleaned up and tidied everything and they only stopped for 20 minutes. 30+ bags of rubble.

    2. Make sure you have windows open when you first use it, the heat will cure the paint and it will give off smelly fumes

        2. Wot?
          The loch and all the mountains?
          I hadn’t realised that the Queen was a Nottler, although to be fair, she is fairly sensible, most of the time…

      1. I used to do that up here – why is it that every decent view in Scotland is spoiled by telephone or electricity wires (ok I could photoshop them out)

          1. I always find the expression “wind turbines” makes them sound far more efficient and powerful than the actually are.

            “Glorified wind mills” strikes me as more accurate.

        1. Look to the left of your picture, just over the telegraph pole; it’s trying to pounce on the potential thundercloud…

          1. When I look there immediately above the pole I see a dark haired guy with sunglasses on looking down but no bear

    1. With a bit of luck, the light ahead might be the headlight of a fast approaching train.

      DuuuuuK – NOW.

  57. I was watching a regular builder’s rant on YouTube about the problems of filling cavity walls with insulation.
    I couldn’t understand why someone improving the insulation of their property might have to install trickle vents in their windows if they didn’t already have them and also saw 1″ off the bottom of their internal doors.

    Apparently it’s down to updated building regulations now in force that require the incorporation of approved Mechanical Extract Ventilation (MEV) in all new builds, home extensions and improvements:

    https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/advice/building-regulations-part-f

    This must surely be factored into any heating upgrade survey so that the extra heating requirement can be assessed due to the additional heating losses incurred through forced air ventilation. Another cost in assessing the sizing and cost of heat pump installations.

    1. The best way is to close all doors and compartmentalise. Just as we did when we had frost on the inside of our windows.

      1. The question is what is the best way to do what?

        Is it the best way to heat your home?
        Is is the best way to insulate your home?
        Is it the best way to feel comfortable in your home?
        Is it the best way to avoid/meet authoritarian building regs?
        Is it the best way to avoid getting double glazing?
        Is it the best way to erase frost graffiti on your windows?
        Is it the best way to make your home float in a flood?
        😉

    2. Stick with old, tried and tested methods, Angie, it’ll all be proven to be useless by 2030, along with EVs, Wind and Solar Power supply.

      Just another Boris Fcuck up.

      1. Politicians are more interested in their careers than in the well-being of the electorate.

        1. It’ll be interesting to see how much the parliamentary expenses increases along with the huge increases in energy payments.
          The 640 scumbags will be filling their pockets again.

          2. Okay more than I thought. 🤔 10 more that spend their lives doing absolutely eff all.

          4. I might have mentioned this before, I have an old friend who’s daughter works for a politician. He won’t tell me who. But she writes all his letters and speeches.
            Tough life eh.
            And around 500 quid a day plus expenses.

          5. Her or him?

            I’m reminded of the joke where the politician is reading his prepared speech, just getting to the crescendo and turns the page and sees:

            “You’re on your own now, you bastard, I’ve resigned”

      2. 355474+ up ticks,

        S,
        No thinking on my part, certain all the way,
        They are placing the dots to be finally joined at a near future date.

        When you have 48% of the electorate openly declare their preference to be docile pack mules for brussels then you don’t think you have troubles
        they are fully in your face, they are of the calibre that would have their grannies on the game quicker than a Tommy Robinson stitch up

    2. Next move on the cards us to make over 60s pay for prescriptions. That’ll wipe out at least a million.

      1. 355474+ up ticks,

        Evening RE,
        I don’t find it strange at all in believing the sport of archery has had I believe a massive
        membership upturn, with long bows a “must have “Christmas item.

  61. Goodnight and .God bless, Gentlefolks. I think I see opportunity ahead. I’ll elucidate as time progresses.

  62. I’ve been busy today in the garden, v tired 😫 I’m orff up the wooden hill.
    Night all.

    2. Well I have just finished mowing the lawn for the last time before moving!

      No more three hours driving the beast up and down, no more spending a fortune on ten litres of fuel every week, it is all over!

        1. Sit at the golf course and watch the professional grass cutters in action.

          Actually a good question, we don’t have a clue what we will do. If I ever get my new passport, we could wave to you when we drive down to Hilton Head.

          1. Take up indoor bowls as the outdoor season is coming to an end once October is here. Outdoor bowls is best though – start in April/May. A great game, when you’re Playing you forget about everything.

    1. Are you going to give us the answer?

      I asked one lefties how much of my money did she have the right to spend?

      1. All of it of course!

        Yours is theirs, theirs is theirs, and they spend it as they see fit, the bastards
        Silly boy…

        1. She couldn’t bring herself to say that though. All of it is only good for rich bankers.

        1. I was going to make a joke about martial law but Marshall’s are a Scottish chicken company….

        3. The government play book is 1984 and the chickens have been reading Animal Farm: we are all doomed.
          Bloody George Orwell has a lot to answer for. What worries me is that the government may read some of his other stuff.

          1. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act….”
            Ain’t that the truth.

          2. He, like Kipling must have had Malice aforethought or see the future as something they could not possibly comprehend; because their writings have become reality in so many ways.

    2. The monkey pox didn’t work nor did nuclear fallout (Ukraine war) so give the poor bastards a break. They need to find something that will continue the fear factor for the great unwashed.

      1. They’re banging on about climate change on the Beeb news now – floods in Pakistan & drought in Spain………

        1. And knowing the Beeb: Polar bears in the Antarctic and Penguins in the Arctic suffering.
          A sad reflection of either their journalistic knowledge or a target audience that they think is illiterate.

        2. The BBC were rattling on about the Rhine but failed to notice the previously submerged stones carved with the dates of much earlier low level events exposed by the present low waters.

        1. NHS:
          The main symptoms of bird flu can appear very quickly and include: a very high temperature or feeling hot or shivery aching muscles headache a cough or shortness of breath

          2. Ah but this is extra-terrestrial Martian bird-flu. If you catch it you turn green. Sorry, can’t take this stuff seriously now!

  66. Going to bed; I can hear the sighs of relief 😉
    Having a washing machine delivered tomorrow morning and no doubt a lot of other stuff this week.
    Take care and sleep well y’all.

  67. As we shiver this winter and resort to eating grubs for sustenance, spare a thought for our globalist leaders and their masters. The idiots in the west sanctioned Russia and are now begging for fossil fuels around the globe.

    On the plus side, the dollar (petrodollar) is about to loose its status as the world reserve currency. Russia will accept only roubles for oil, coal and gas. The Saudis and Chinese will also refuse to accept dollars and start demanding payment in gold. God knows what the Indians will demand to trade in.

    So endeth the WEF plan for a worldwide digital currency based on the dollar. It could not have happened to a nastier more malevolent and evil set of globalist swine.

    1. We live in Brittany and have two wood burners which will keep us warm this winter.

      Bretons burn woods to keep warm. Nothing to do with the gold standard.

  68. Bollocks!
    Went to upvote Fallick Alec’s picture and got white screened!

    I’m off to bed. Goodnight all.

  69. 355474+ up ticks,

    Another UK Health Service Trust Caught Erasing ‘Mothers’ for ‘Birthing People’
    Yet another National Health Service (NHS) trust has been caught erasing mothers in favour of woke “Birthing people” language, as the governing Conservative Party continues to allow far-left ideologues to take over all levels of the state unchecked

    It is what coalitions do.

      1. Quite. The problem comes when a woman dressed as a man gives birth and the wokerati declare that a man has given birth. The’re all nuts.

    1. A price worth paying he says. The devastation of Western economies to support a war that is none of our business is not worth the cost im(v)ho.

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