Tuesday 6 September: With Liz Truss as leader, the Conservatives have an opportunity to return to first principles

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  3. Good morning all. A dull and misty start after last night’s rain. 11°C
    I was woken at 11 by a single massive thunderclap followed by an absolute downpour.

  5. ‘Morning All

    “WELCOME to sanctions-hit Russia – where heating bills and fuel prices are a fraction of those in Britain.

    Food costs are also coming down every month and Vladimir Putin’s people are partying as if there is no war.”

    “six months on, while we are paying the price for the invasion with a

    crippling cost-of-living crisis, locals in Moscow are upbeat.

    It is not surprising. Despite claims they would face a severe food

    shortage, shoppers in Pyaterochka, Russia’s answer to Tesco, load their

    trolleys high with groceries half the price of ours.”

    “Life is carrying on as normal, nightclubs are bursting, bars are full and river boats are crammed with revellers.”

    What Russian propaganda outlet is this from? Oh, it’s the Sun.

    Take that Putin………..

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19698308/russia-uk-prices-sanctions-food/

    Meanwhile the scam is getting exposed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rexlF27PmyQ

  6. Have the police given up on fighting crime? Spiked 6 September 2022.

    Sometimes you don’t need to rely solely on research and statistics. You can see the evidence with your own eyes. Preventive foot patrols have always been the key to effective, intelligence-led community policing. But when was the last time any of us saw a constable walking the beat on our local streets? The fact that I couldn’t answer that question prompted me to do a Twitter poll on the subject. Nearly two-thirds of the 5,000 respondents said that, for them, it was more than five years ago.

    It’s easy to dismiss these appalling failures as the consequence of a lack of funding. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. For a wider explanation, we might look to a report published last week by the Policy Exchange think-tank. The report, written by a retired detective chief inspector once responsible for tackling gang and street crime, confirms what some of us have long known: by deviating sharply from the ‘Peelian’ principles that were its historical mission, the force has seriously lost its way.

    Yes but why has it lost its way and why has every other state institution gone the same way? The answer, as it must be, is the same for them all. Over the last twenty years the Elites have carried out in accordance with their Cultural Marxist beliefs a process of Affirmative Action. This has never been admitted openly of course but disguised as the search for equality and diversity; one can see it in job advertisements, public appointments etc. This has encouraged the employment of racial, ethnic and social minorities at the expense of the indigenous white population. Its effect has been greater than simple socialist preference since, as in the police, those adhering to the old standards have simply given up in disgust at this blatant favouritism and gone elsewhere. The result is this dysfunctional State animated by a Marxist bureaucracy where being a member of a minority will trump any superior ability. There is no way out of this in the conventional sense. No Prime Minister of any persuasion is going to sort it out. Like the old Soviet Union, of which the present day UK is now a fair doctrinal facsimile, only Total Collapse will bring it to an end!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/05/have-the-police-given-up-on-fighting-crime/

  7. Have the police given up on fighting crime? Spiked 6 September 2022.

    Sometimes you don’t need to rely solely on research and statistics. You can see the evidence with your own eyes. Preventive foot patrols have always been the key to effective, intelligence-led community policing. But when was the last time any of us saw a constable walking the beat on our local streets? The fact that I couldn’t answer that question prompted me to do a Twitter poll on the subject. Nearly two-thirds of the 5,000 respondents said that, for them, it was more than five years ago.

    It’s easy to dismiss these appalling failures as the consequence of a lack of funding. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. For a wider explanation, we might look to a report published last week by the Policy Exchange think-tank. The report, written by a retired detective chief inspector once responsible for tackling gang and street crime, confirms what some of us have long known: by deviating sharply from the ‘Peelian’ principles that were its historical mission, the force has seriously lost its way.

    Yes but why has it lost its way and why has every other state institution gone the same way? The answer, as it must be, is the same for them all. Over the last twenty years the Elites have carried out in accordance with their Cultural Marxist beliefs a process of Affirmative Action. This has never been admitted openly of course but disguised as the search for equality and diversity; one can see it in job advertisements, public appointments etc. This has encouraged the employment of racial, ethnic and social minorities at the expense of the indigenous white population. Its effect has been greater than simple socialist preference since, as in the police, those adhering to the old standards have simply given up in disgust at this blatant favouritism and gone elsewhere. The result is this dysfunctional State animated by a Marxist bureaucracy where being a member of a minority will trump any superior ability. There is no way out of this in the conventional sense. No Prime Minister of any persuasion is going to sort it out. Like the old Soviet Union, of which the present day UK is now a fair doctrinal facsimile, only Total Collapse will bring it to an end!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/05/have-the-police-given-up-on-fighting-crime/

  8. Have the police given up on fighting crime? Spiked 6 September 2022.

    Sometimes you don’t need to rely solely on research and statistics. You can see the evidence with your own eyes. Preventive foot patrols have always been the key to effective, intelligence-led community policing. But when was the last time any of us saw a constable walking the beat on our local streets? The fact that I couldn’t answer that question prompted me to do a Twitter poll on the subject. Nearly two-thirds of the 5,000 respondents said that, for them, it was more than five years ago.

    It’s easy to dismiss these appalling failures as the consequence of a lack of funding. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. For a wider explanation, we might look to a report published last week by the Policy Exchange think-tank. The report, written by a retired detective chief inspector once responsible for tackling gang and street crime, confirms what some of us have long known: by deviating sharply from the ‘Peelian’ principles that were its historical mission, the force has seriously lost its way.

    Yes but why has it lost its way and why has every other state institution gone the same way? The answer, as it must be, is the same for them all. Over the last twenty years the Elites have carried out in accordance with their Cultural Marxist beliefs a process of Affirmative Action. This has never been admitted openly of course but disguised as the search for equality and diversity; one can see it in job advertisements, public appointments etc. This has encouraged the employment of racial, ethnic and social minorities at the expense of the indigenous white population. Its effect has been greater than simple socialist preference since, as in the police, those adhering to the old standards have simply given up in disgust at this blatant favouritism and gone elsewhere. The result is this dysfunctional State animated by a Marxist bureaucracy where being a member of a minority will trump any superior ability. There is no way out of this in the conventional sense. No Prime Minister of any persuasion is going to sort it out. Like the old Soviet Union, of which the present day UK is now a fair doctrinal facsimile, only Total Collapse will bring it to an end!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/05/have-the-police-given-up-on-fighting-crime/

  10. Lots in the Terriblegraph to get stick in to today. How about this, from the Business Pages?

    “Sure, the UK needs more affordable homes to buy as well as to rent. But the only way to make that happen is to start building more, especially on the outskirts of the major cities where people actually want to live so there are plenty of properties available either to buy or rent depending on individual circumstances.”

    Or, we could stop importing millions of immigrants (illegal and otherwise)?

    I found out the other day that you only need to live here for about 3 years to be able to clIm a UK passport. How bonkers is that?

      1. Ahh that’s beyond my technical know-how (i get it on Pressreader, free from our council as part of library services)

        But it’s on page 23 and headed “ Bri­tain is head­ing for a Euro-style rental catas­tro­phe”, by Matthew Lynn.

        Business Comment section.

          1. If it doesn’t upset anyone, I’ll post it in parts.

            “In Ireland, foreign exchange students are forced to live in tents because of the shortage of homes to rent. In Sweden, the market has just about collapsed. And Berlin has been forced by the constitutional court to end a catastrophic experiment in price controls. Right across Europe, there are horror stories emerging of housing disasters as Left-leaning governments intervene with controls, restrictions and price caps on anyone foolish enough to risk letting out a property.
            We might think that this is only happening on the other side of the English Channel or the Irish Sea. But the trouble is, we are stumbling towards a Euro-style rental catastrophe in the UK as well. The Government has spent five years waging a war on landlords. The predictable result? Many of them are pulling out of the market, sending prices soaring, and creating intense supply shortages. In a country made up of as many renters as homeowners that matters more than ever. In truth, we urgently need to build more homes, both to buy and rent – but the war on landlords is going to backfire spectacularly. In Ireland, there are now only 851 properties to rent across the whole country. There are reports of long queues forming outside the occasional place that does come on to the market. In Sweden, people now often have to wait 10 years or more just to find somewhere to live, double the average waiting time a decade ago. Meanwhile in Berlin, a much hyped experiment in rent controls has been brought to an end by the courts after prices soared out of control. The explanation? Greedy landlords? Exploitative mortgage companies? Well, not exactly. It turns out to be a grimly similar story right across the Continent. Government and councils have kept trying to control the market. Here’s the problem, however. The UK is hurtling in the same direction, with depressingly similar results.

            (To be continued)

          2. Over the last five years the Government has waged an unrelenting war on private landlords. We have imposed a series of higher and higher taxes. Mortgage interest can no longer be set against rent, unless the property is owned by a limited company, and with mortgage rates rising rapidly that is going to matter more and more over the next few years. A higher rate of capital gains tax is charged if an apartment is sold. Even worse, the Government has steadily increased the rights of tenants, made evictions harder and imposed an endless series of extra responsibilities on landlords from making sure environmental standards are met, to acting as informal immigration police by forcing them to check the residency status of tenants. Of course, everyone agrees that landlords should keep properties in good condition, and should treat tenants fairly, but many of the extra rules and regulations simply add to the costs while creating no discernible benefits for anyone except for the small army of officials and pen-pushers tasked with enforcing them. We have not quite got to the stage of full-scale rent controls – although brain-dead populists such as the London Mayor Sadiq Khan have been calling for them – but it surely can’t be far away. The state has been using every other power available to make renting out a property as difficult as possible, and to chip away at whatever slim profits might be made by doing so.

          3. The results have been depressingly predictable. There is increasing evidence that private landlords are selling up and quitting the market in droves. According to the estate agent Chestertons, the number of properties available to rent in London fell by 38pc last year – a figure it perfectly accurately describes as “staggering” – while the number of tenant inquiries has grown by 60pc. With that kind of imbalance between supply and demand, it is hardly surprising that overall rents are up by 20pc over the last year alone in the capital, and are still rising by an estimated three percent a month. Nationally, rents are rising by more than 10pc annually, some of the fastest rates in a quarter of a century. Meanwhile, students heading off to university this autumn may well find there is nowhere to live: in Manchester, for example, Savills reports a 10pc drop in supply over the last year, and soaring prices. Region by region it is the same story. There is nothing on the market and what little there is has become brutally expensive.

          4. That will hurt even more than it did in the past. Whether for better or worse, the UK is now a nation of renters as well as property owners. Overall, 19pc of us are dependent on the private rented sector for somewhere to live, compared with 65pc who own their own homes, and 17pc in public sector housing. In a country where net immigration runs at more than 500,000 people a year, where there are more than two million people at university, more than 600,000 of them from abroad, and countless short-term workers, that is not going to change any time soon.
            In reality, we need a vibrant, high quality private rental industry, in just the same way we need factories, power plants, broadband connections, supermarkets and all the other stuff that keeps daily life ticking over. Declaring war on landlords is as senseless and short-sighted as declaring war on any other vital sector of the economy. Sure, the UK needs more affordable homes to buy as well as to rent. But the only way to make that happen is to start building more, especially on the outskirts of the major cities where people actually want to live so there are plenty of properties available either to buy or rent depending on individual circumstances.
            Plenty of our European neighbours offer grim warnings of what happens when the government tries to fix prices and control the market.
            The last thing the UK should be doing is going down the same road – it will only end in disaster.“

            END

          5. Yes. I’m getting concerned about the effect that unnecessary Government regulation will have on my single rental property and wonder if it will be worth keeping on.

          6. I have one but will hopefully shortly be in the position of putting my kids in it to pay the rent. My other half is a gas engineer and does BTL gas safety certificates amongst other things, and has said that his clients are selling up (others are delaying having their safety certificates done as they aren’t getting the rental income in)

      2. Ahh that’s beyond my technical know-how (i get it on Pressreader, free from our council as part of library services)

        But it’s on page 23 and headed “ Bri­tain is head­ing for a Euro-style rental catas­tro­phe”, by Matthew Lynn.

        Business Comment section.

    2. Here in the sticks they are building on farm land. Quite apart from the increased albedo and creation of hotspots (the county has declared a “climate emergency”), how are they going to feed everybody?

  12. ‘Morning, Peeps. Another storm at bedtime, and the arrival of some more of our ‘missing’ rainfall – hooray!

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – I joined the Conservatives in May 1981, when Margaret Thatcher’s first administration was at its nadir.

    The core tenets of Thatcherism – sound money, personal responsibility, strong defence, the rule of law and the creation of a property-owning democracy – chimed with my deeply held personal credo, which I still hold.

    The Johnson Government’s lockdowns, idolatry of the NHS and higher taxes caused me to leave the party last autumn. Minutes after Liz Truss’s election I rejoined, elated by the prospect of a prime minister who favours a small state, individual liberty and free enterprise. I also believe Ms Truss shares Mrs Thatcher’s qualities of determination and stamina, and will not allow the Civil Service or ineffective ministers to blindside her. Conservatives: we have our party back.

    Philip Duly
    Haslemere, Surrey

    Of all those in the frame for the top job Liz Truss appealed to me more than the rest. She seems to have done a generally good job at the FCO, keeping her head down and getting on with the aftermath of Brexit. Lazy she isn’t.
    However, I do not like all this ‘deliver’ nonsense; it makes her sound like a postman! I had hoped that we would be allowed to grow up and move away from government-by-slogan. We had enough of that from May and Johnson. We are not children!

  13. Oh dear God. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has gone full on Stonewall over “Gender Dysphoria” and is recommending hysterectomy and genital mutilation before any attempt at psychiatric treatment.

    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bd95e82-14d4-4e09-9ccb-f4c7cdc53f9e_696x68.png

    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe64309e-54e9-415a-81ad-c9275b4a84e5_342x97.png

    Full article by Graham Linehan here:-
    https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/all-eyes-on-the-royal-college-of

    And RCOG paper here:-
    https://www.rcog.org.uk/media/fdqfteon/care-of-trans-and-gender-diverse-adults-peer-review-draft.pdf

    1. That’s pure politics – they believe that being “gender diverse” is not an illness, and therefore no treatment is needed. Somehow they reconcile this view with expensive operations on the NHS.

      1. Diverse seems to have become a characteristic in itself. Someone in work tother week said of a poster we were designing to advertise a clinic that it needed ‘more diverse legs’. (Most were white)
        Well legs in themselves aren’t diverse are they? He should have said ‘a more diverse range of legs’

        1. Oh, I don’t know – thick ones, fat ones, thin one, ones with varicose veins, ugly ones, beautiful ones …

    2. Listened to an Interesting podcast yesterday(Josh Slocombe’s Disaffected) and he rightly pointed out that if you turned up at a doctor’s saying you had the phantom limb problem, they wouldn’t immediately chop your arm/leg off, they’d treat your mental condition- and why is this any different?

      1. … turning up at the doctor…
        Well, there’s a phantom memory, right there.

        I think we should all identify as people who can turn up at the doctor. Let’s see what the NHS do with that.

        1. It is actually body integrity identity disorder but i was in a hurry to get to work and couldn’t think of the term

    3. I can only conclude that The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is deeply transphobic and wants to castrate all those sad men who say they are women. “If that’s what they want – then off with their balls – that’ll learn them” is their motto.

  14. Morning, all. Rain overnight rattled so hard against the bedroom window it woke me up. Bright here at the moment.

    I am proud of our work to back the police, reform our immigration system and protect our country.

    What a load of bullshit. Patel has backed the police into becoming a ‘woke’ rainbow decorated, dancing farce that stood idly by when BLM/ANTIFA were on the rampage but went in hard when decent peaceful people demonstrated against government over-reach. As for immigration reform and protecting our Country? The continual flow of the Third World across the Channel is testament to the very opposite. If these dreamland inhabiting and totally ineffective politicians had an iota of self respect and humility they would close the current chapter on their failed dismal careers and quietly slink away into oblivion. Shameless!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/be52ac31bae746963c2b146f5cc189cb0808e75c9cb19eded35eee1caa410184.png

    1. ‘Morning, Korky. You are right; coming from probably our most useless Home Secretary in recent years it really is a load of BS. Like Johnson she seems to be living in some kind of fantasy land, where abject failure is actually a roaring success. To paraphrase Mark Steyn – the police are into everything except crime.

  15. The second thing to catch my eye was a depressing letter in today’s Terriblegraph.

    “ SIR – In M&S in Carlisle last week, I held open a door for a middle-aged lady, who responded: “I’m perfectly capable of opening a door, young man.” I savoured the compliment, being old enough to have been her father, but on reflection I wondered if it was sarcasm.”

    Mr Tracey (the letter writer) has impeccable manners; the middle-aged woman, not so much. The correct response to anyone displaying manners is “thank you very much”. It’s really not that difficult to say. And, furthermore (this directed at the grumpy impolite woman for who. mr Tracey held the door open), it’s not all about you. I’m fed up of people NOT holding doors open and having them slam back in my face. It’s basic civilised behaviour and the fact you cannot see that speaks volumes about you – you are clearly unthinking and too focused on yourself and not enough on other people,

    1. ‘Morning, Mir. Another letter on this subject:

      SIR – When my wife and I have boarded crowded Tube trains recently, young men and women of all nationalities have rushed to offer her their seats.

      John Coen
      Cheam, Surrey

      During our last visit to London Mrs HJ and I were struggling a bit with suitcases on a flight of stairs on the Underground. A young chap, possibly French from his accent, offered to help. In no time at all Mrs HJ’s case was at the top of the steps and he came back for mine. It was a simple act of kindness that stuck in my mind.

      1. I had similar in Lille with the Eurostar on the return journey (there’s quite a rush to get up the steps and along the corridors to Border Farce and still catch the connection to Londinistan).

    4. A good (sarcastic) reply by Mr Tracey after receiving the “young man” compliment might have been: “I’m sorry if my courtesy has offended you, old woman”.

  16. My last rant (apologies) is a headline on the front page, which concerns Truss being urged to appoint Mordant as her “deputy” PM. That will go down well /sarc.

      1. I was too cross to read the article this morning but i’ve just been into it and it’s “allies” of the woman:

        “ One senior Tory figure who is set to be in Ms Truss’s first Cabinet said: “It’s the sort of title you can use as a political title. Bringing Penny in would be popular with the members and the party.””

  17. Multi-sig begging letter on behalf of Africa I see:-

    East Africa emergency
    SIR – Why must 37 million people on the brink of famine wait while the international community procrastinates over the fast-deteriorating humanitarian emergency in East Africa?

    We are calling on the new Prime Minister urgently to step up the British response. During the worst drought in 40 years, people are taking desperate measures to survive failed harvests, livestock deaths, water shortages and extreme hunger. Every day more lives are lost. Yet the British Government has been missing in action.

    The humanitarian response in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan must address the symptoms and the underlying causes. The climate crisis has been a major factor in five successive failed rainy seasons. Rocketing food prices are in part due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and to Africa’s reliance on imports. The food system is broken, and we must act now to avoid further deaths.

    As faith-based international development organisations, we are moved to act out of compassion and solidarity. Through the generosity of many thousands of supporters, we are doing all we can to help communities in the region. However, local institutions, from faith-based groups to voluntary networks, are overwhelmed and under-resourced. It is time to ratchet up humanitarian assistance and restore the 0.7 per cent aid budget, ensuring that funds reach local NGOs working with vulnerable communities.

    The Prime Minister has a responsibility to work with Britain’s international partners to break the cycle of catastrophic food insecurity in East Africa.

    Christine Allen
    Director, Cafod
    Paul Anticoni
    Chief Executive, World Jewish Relief
    Patrick Watt
    Chief Executive Officer, Christian Aid
    Mark Sheard
    Chief Executive Officer, World Vision UK
    Tufail Hussain
    UK Director, Islamic Relief Worldwide

    A few BTL Comments:-

    Jimbo Jones
    3 MIN AGO
    I thought Africa didn’t want our racist white money?
    African solutions to African problems.
    Anyway, we are already chucking lorry loads of cash at Africa, with 15 billion in overseas ‘aid’

    Will Mington
    15 MIN AGO
    “The Prime Minister has a responsibility to work with Britain’s international partners to break the cycle of catastrophic food insecurity in East Africa.”
    By reminding the leaders of those countries that they need the rule of law and property rights. Unless and until they sort out those two fundamentals their populations will continue to starve.

    Perigo Minas
    31 MIN AGO
    Africa has some of the most fertile farmland in the world. That it does not use it properly is their problem, not mine.

    Tracy Campbell
    20 MIN AGO
    Wasn’t Zimbabwe the bread basket of Africa until decades of the monster Mugabe turned it into the basket case of Africa?

    2. And another set of BTL Comments:-

      RV

      Richard Vine
      2 HRS AGO
      Whilst I have every sympathy for those suffering from famine in East Africa, I can’t help remembering that Zimbawe was once known as the Breadbasket of Africa until they murdered all the white farmers, including my best school friend Alan Dunn.

      Richard Bayliss
      1 HR AGO
      One way they could stop the famine is to stop breeding. Have they tried that?

      Steve Jones
      1 HR AGO
      Interesting comment Richard – I have just finished reading a relevant story about Korea and the world population, the opening is below FYI – it goes on to say where most of this extraordinary global population growth will come from – no guessing necessary of course……………
      “South Korea’s population will shrink to 38 million in 2070, down from roughly 52 million this year, according to Statistics Korea, Monday.
      The demographic trend in Asia’s fourth-largest economy is in stark contrast to the world population that will increase to 10.3 billion from 7.97 billion during the cited period. The global population estimate is based on the “World Population Prospects: The 2022 Revision” published by the United Nations”.

      tom frederick
      1 HR AGO
      And in Kenya Colonel Ted Loden MC – RIP

      Edwin Pugh
      29 MIN AGO
      Droughts and famines are nothing unusual and to lay the current one at the door of the climate crisis without offering a shred of evidence borders on the ridiculous.
      Even the Met. Office are hard pushed to link it climate change. A recent paper by Lott and Stott contains this telling piece – “Initial research based on the three models suggests that human influence is to blame for between 24% and 99% of the increased risk of the dry conditions seen during the long rains season.”
      Perhaps the writers of the letter might care to explain the climate crisis that killed 10 million in India between 1876 and 1878 or the Chinese famine of 1949 to 1951 that killed 45 million. There are others too – https://www.ranker.com/list/the-worst-droughts-and-famines-in-history/drake-bird?page=2

      Richard Vine
      28 MIN AGO
      Rainfall in Zim these last 5 years is well within standard variation.

      Perigo Minas
      22 MIN AGO
      Parts of Uganda apparently have thirty feet of topsoil.

      1. How much money has been sent there over the years via charidee and aid only to see not one jot of improvement.

      2. “Parts of Uganda apparently have thirty feet of topsoil” – so, plenty of space to bury them easily.

    3. Dought and famine are not the result of climate change. They are part of a normal cycle of weather. Overpopulation is the cause of the famine.

    4. I’d rather help them build their economies so that Open Society does not ship them all here than carry on sending money to have Ukrainians killed by Russians.

      But I know that “helping” them means bribing their corrupt politicians to provide kickbacks to ours.

      And anyway, we’ll carry on sending money to the Z-Man until Putin runs out of ammo, or Ukraine runs out of live bodies.

      The real business to be in is dingy sales in a Calais street market – but maybe Dover would also be a future market. And I bet the French would be as efficient at blocking a reverse tide as they have been at encouraging this one.

    5. We had cheap food and good international trade links. The elites stopped all that, because it was lifting poor people out of extreme poverty. Now they’re trying to guilt-trip us about it.

    6. The last time this came up, I sent the following to the DTel;

      “Richard Stanforth, Oxfam’s senior policy adviser, draws our attention to the plight of drought-stricken Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. In 2002, the populations of these countries were, respectively, 70.1 million, 33.8 million and 9.5 million. They are now 121.0 million, 56.3 million and 16.8 million. I merely observe and report.”

      Not published, natch.

    7. I’m sick of these charideeees expecting the U.K. to help the whole world out. We are the most generous country in our charity and I wasn’t aware that the 0.7% of GDP for foreign aid had been abandoned. If it has good riddance. We should go back to how it used to be, I.E., send help when a disaster strikes. (Nobody is going to help the U.K. when disaster strikes us!).

  18. Liz Truss has just two months to save broken Britain from terminal decline. 6 September 2022.

    But that is likely to be wishful thinking. The only hope for the Conservative Party – and the country – is that Truss can rapidly show that she is not merely a competent damage controller but a game-changing leader. The crisis this winter is likely to be so severe that the new PM has at most two months before unforgiving voters judge whether she could be a second Iron Lady or is only fit for scrap.

    So it’s all over then!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/05/liz-truss-has-just-two-months-save-broken-britain-terminal-decline/

    1. Shame on the media for going along with the narrative and pretending it’s 1980.
      If they had a shred of journalistic integrity, they’d be asking “What are your connections with the WEF? How many members of your Cabinet have WEF or Bilderberg connections?”

  19. SIR – Liz Truss offers us an opportunity to restart. It is important that she creates a new Cabinet from all the best people in her party. No one invited to join should turn down the offer.

    We need significant new policies and a new ethos that moves us on from the Johnson era.

    Donald MacKenzie
    Inverness

    Unfortunately the DT headlines today that Frost has turned down two jobs. It doesn’t say what they were, mind you. Nevertheless, I do hope that his talents will be put to good use. If he could be given free rein to give the EU a hard time…

    1. Yes, that is a worrying development since he seems to be the only conservatively oriented person in Westminster. Certainly the only one that has stuck his head above the parapet.

    2. Lord Frost, the former Brexit negotiator, will not be in Liz Truss’s first Cabinet after turning down two roles that were offered to him, The Telegraph understands.

      The ex-diplomat was sounded out about the role of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, once occupied by Michael Gove, but rejected it because Ms Truss wants the job to be far more narrowly focused than in Mr Gove’s time.

      Ms Truss’s team also raised the possibility of making Lord Frost the Leader of the House of Lords, but he told them he would be the wrong person for the job because it should go to someone who has been a peer for much longer than his two years.

      Although he indicated that he would be happy to serve in a Truss Cabinet if offered a job to which he felt he was suited, there has been no contact between the two sides in the past week.

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/05/lord-frost-wont-first-liz-truss-cabinet-rejecting-two-roles/

      1. Thanks, just seen. Chancellor of the Duchy etc is without portfolio, so he could end up with something or nothing. Besides, we need him in the Commons, not the Lords, which in many cases is just an expensive and overcrowded rest home for failed politicians. Not his style at all. Unfortunately his peerage is a bit of a hindrance if he wants to make a difference.

  20. The Conservatives have the opportunity to return to first principles.

    With Liz Truss.

    God help us.

    Quickly, please. I know You created Heaven and Earth. But this time its urgent.

  21. Morning all! Won’t be here much today as we’re off to Hexham shortly to visit old friends for a couple of days. Back Friday sometime. Got trains to catch.

    3. Not a bad run.
      Cross Country Cheltenham to Newcastle one presumes, then the local service up the Tyne Valley.

  22. 355739 + up ticks,

    Morning Each

    Tuesday 6 September: With Liz Truss as leader, the Conservatives have an opportunity to return to first principles

    Tuesday 6 September: With Liz Truss as leader, the Conservatives have an opportunity to return to first principles, are we seriously talking of this
    current in-house odious gathering ?

    Surely this MUST entail first installing a Conservative Party I have a feeling another clutch of wishful thinking will terminate these Isles totally.
    this is NOT a doom & gloom post but actual factual in your face FACTS.

    I personally believe tthat the decent indienous peoples of this nation are via the current lab/lib/con current ukip coalition party being steered & kettled

    along the road to repress,replace,reset, the real sad thing is it it with their own misguided voting consent.

    NO party name especially a counterfeit party name voting is worth the past / current suffering we have witnessed / are witnessing,

  23. 355739 + up ticks,

    Morning Each

    Tuesday 6 September: With Liz Truss as leader, the Conservatives have an opportunity to return to first principles

    Tuesday 6 September: With Liz Truss as leader, the Conservatives have an opportunity to return to first principles, are we seriously talking of this
    current in-house odious gathering ?

    Surely this MUST entail first installing a Conservative Party I have a feeling another clutch of wishful thinking will terminate these Isles totally.
    this is NOT a doom & gloom post but actual factual in your face FACTS.

    I personally believe tthat the decent indienous peoples of this nation are via the current lab/lib/con current ukip coalition party being steered & kettled

    along the road to repress,replace,re the real sad thing is it it with their own misguided voting consent.

    NO party name especially a counterfeit party name voting is worth the past / current suffering we have witnessed / are witnessing,

          1. His daughter might remember his real name. After he left her behind in a pub whist bathing in his own glory.

    2. Pathetic far – left gutter press, diatribe, not fit to clean my walking boots with.

    3. Pathetic far – left gutter press, diatribe, not fit to clean my walking boots with.

    4. Not a good picture eh.
      The political columnist was on TV the other day and suggested having Liz Truss as PM was the return of Thatcherism or words to that effect.
      Mind you he’s rather a nasty piece of a work. Similar to what’s Usually left after a dog squat.

  26. Good morning from little 16th century cottage in Baconsthorpe ( very low ceilings )
    It was wet during the night but I hope it’ll be dry for the 4 hours walking and picnic planned.
    Shall be visiting Cromer in a few days and Holt but am more local today.

    1. Don’t forget to call in On BT who is not that far away.

      When our Henry was at UEA he and a group of his friends went and spent a weekend in a b&b in Cromer. I thought it was a bizarre thing for students to do but they had a very good time there.

    2. Don’t forget to call in On BT who is not that far away.

      When our Henry was at UEA he and a group of his friends went and spent a weekend in a b&b in Cromer. I thought it was a bizarre thing for students to do but they had a very good time there.

    3. Sounds nice, Ethel. And those pesky Vikings will no doubt appreciate your taking a break from their ongoing slaughter!

    4. Sounds nice, Ethel. And those pesky Vikings will no doubt appreciate your taking a break from their ongoing slaughter!

  27. SIR – Having four prime ministers in six years says a lot about the way we elect and remove them from office.

    As a Conservative Party member I am embarrassed by the process through which Ms Truss was selected. She did not receive the majority backing of her MPs. The final selection was left up to just a fraction of the population – mostly white, middle-class and middle-aged. Ms Truss told those people what they wanted to hear, rather than addressing the hard choices to be made. I worry about the future of our party and our country.

    Lt-Col Jeremy Prescott
    Southsea, Hampshire

    “She did not receive the majority backing of her MPs”.  And why do you think that was, Col Prescott?  Could it be that many tribal and ambitious Tory MPs voted for someone who would give them a job, rather than the best person to be PM?  The process of choosing a new leader who just happens to be in line for PM is far from perfect, but it is currently the only one we have.

    1. The BTL posters are not impressed by Col Precott either:

      AC Long7 HRS AGO

      Letter by Jeremy Prescott is nonsense in my view.

      Not being a member of the conservative party I had no say in who was elected. But that’s the way it is.

      We don’t have a president. Our system is based on electing Mps. and the party with the most governs. The PM is elected by the party not the public.

      It’s the same with Labour, the party elects the leader.

      That’s our democratic system. Like it or loathe it. End of.

      Michael West57 MIN AGO

      Cool. Prescott criticises the Conservative Party election process as being majority white and middle class.

      Isn’t that exactly what Britain is, despite what the TV adverts try to tell us.

    3. If you are still a serving officer why didn’t you have the gutts to take a large group of armed regulars into the house of commons and HoL and clear the place out ? It seemed the only option available. These people are glued to the benches.
      It would have solved a myriad of previous and ongoing issues.

  28. SIR – There is much speculation about what the new PM will do to help combat rising energy bills, predicted to reach over £4,000 a year in January.

    One thing is certain: not every home requires support. It should be reserved for those whose current energy bills are greater than, say, 10 per cent of their income after tax. Broadly speaking this would limit support to homes whose annual income is less than £45,000.

    Anyone earning this amount will either be on PAYE or fill in a tax return. It is easy, therefore, either to exclude high earners from receiving support or to recover it via the tax system later.

    It would be an outrage for the taxpayer to help the wealthy pay bills.

    Peter Munro
    Stoke Trister, Somerset

    I take your point, Mr Munro, but I certainly don’t agree with £45,000 as your definition of ‘wealthy’!

      1. How is it that people don’t understand this? It means another load of useless snivel serpents to operate this kind of system. Eeejits.

        Morning Phizzpop. How are you after your little session yesterday? You looked really well. Holidays (and drinking) suit you!

        1. Good morning. Not all those pics were taken on the same day. I had a G&T in Compass lounge. A rather stunning Raspberry cocktail in Peppi’s. Then another G&T with my supper of mussels. Not much really.
          Getting some nice colour on my face and my hair is turning blond !

          2. Thanks. Went to Valletta today for a calamari lunch. Treated myself to some colognes and bought nicknacks for the neighbours.

    2. It might seem an easier prospect to solve the war rather than wrangle with these ever increasingly complex schemes to flatten energy bills.

    3. No need for complications (which will require a whole new government department to oversee it). Just scrap the green levy and remove VAT.

  29. SIR – Boris Johnson blames Tony Blair and Nick Clegg for the failure to develop British civil nuclear power (report, September 2), but it is the Tory party that must bear most of the blame.

    In 1979 David Howell, then the energy secretary, announced a programme to build several pressurised-water reactors. He visited the National Nuclear Corporation, where I was an engineer, to assure us that the programme would go ahead. I asked Mr Howell why we should believe him and got a waffly reply about “political authority”. The first and only station to go ahead was Sizewell B, and only after a five-year public inquiry during which the legal profession was greatly enriched but expertise in the technology was advanced not one iota.

    The remaining stations fell victim to privatisation, the “dash for gas”, the scientific illiteracy of politicians of all parties, lawyers, the ignorance of most of the British middle classes and the media’s spreading of alarm where none was due (every BBC programme on nuclear power began with the mushroom cloud of a bomb test).

    So my colleagues and I found careers elsewhere, slipped into retirement and some died of old age. Until very recently no new young blood was recruited into the industry.

    David MacDonald
    Manningtree, Essex

    I agree. Our current predicament is as a result of decades of short-termism, and thus neglect, of such a vital aspect of our national prosperity. Cheap (relatively speaking) gas proved to be an irresistible temptation to our short-sighted politicians where market forces were bound to leave us high and dry one day. Europe relying on plentiful and affordable fuel from a hostile nation was bound to end in tears sooner or later. With our own nuclear stations the output is ours, and nobody else’s. We threw away all that world-leading knowledge and experience, and getting it back will take some doing.

    1. In the 50s Britain actually had more nuclear power available for use than the rest of the world put together.
      Another monumental political cock up.
      If it works don’t break it up or try and fix it.
      No bottle politics.

  30. I think we need two Govenments – one elected on a three yearly cycle to deal with short term issues and a separately elected one, elected every ten years to deal with long term projects

    1. Morning Stormy. We need a Swiss style system where most decisions are made by plebiscites!

        1. Yes Stephen I know what you mean. The Swiss people have proved capable of understanding the most complex issues and arriving at sensible decisions. With some education we should be able to do the same. The alternative is more of what we have now!

        2. Yes Stephen I know what you mean. The Swiss people have proved capable of understanding the most complex issues and arriving at sensible decisions. With some education we should be able to do the same. The alternative is more of what we have now!

    2. I was brought up to believe that the House of Lords was there to provide the latter function. No more, of course.

      1. In the days of hereditaries, that is what the HoL did; the lords had a longer view and a stake in the well-being of this country.
        Unlike all too many of the greasers and chancers who are nowadays nobbled (I wish!).

      2. Blair replaced the people who were there to do that with place men who had no interest in the country and particularly the countryside.

  31. Opec and allies to cut oil output in October; gas prices jump after Russia pipeline closure – as it happened. 6 September 2022.

    Opec+ to cut oil production by 100,000 barrels per day.

    Just in: oil cartel Opec and its allies, including Russia, has decided to cut oil output by 100,000 barrels per day in October.

    The Opec+ group has decided to reverse the 100,000 barrels/day increase it agreed a month ago – which was itself a snub to calls from the White House for a larger increase.

    The move is an attempt to support oil prices, after Brent crude dropped below $100/barrel in August, on fears that major economies were falling into recession, hitting demang for energy.

    Brent has now extended its earlier gains, up 3.75% to $96.60 per barrel.

    This is one in the eye for the G7 that is trying to price cap Russian oil. It must not be forgotten that the majority of the world is not hostile to Putin or his proxy war with the United States Dollar Hegemony He has a lot of friends out there though they are rather shy of saying so openly!

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/sep/05/euro-low-sterling-gas-prices-russia-shutdown-opec-markets-business-live?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-6315f6d58f08a26ca746c248#block-6315f6d58f08a26ca746c248

  32. Opec and allies to cut oil output in October; gas prices jump after Russia pipeline closure – as it happened. 6 September 2022.

    Opec+ to cut oil production by 100,000 barrels per day.

    Just in: oil cartel Opec and its allies, including Russia, has decided to cut oil output by 100,000 barrels per day in October.

    The Opec+ group has decided to reverse the 100,000 barrels/day increase it agreed a month ago – which was itself a snub to calls from the White House for a larger increase.

    The move is an attempt to support oil prices, after Brent crude dropped below $100/barrel in August, on fears that major economies were falling into recession, hitting demang for energy.

    Brent has now extended its earlier gains, up 3.75% to $96.60 per barrel.

    This is one in the eye for the G7 that is trying to price cap Russian oil. It must not be forgotten that the majority of the world is not hostile to Putin or his proxy war with the United States Dollar Hegemony He has a lot of friends out there though they are rather shy of saying so openly!

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/sep/05/euro-low-sterling-gas-prices-russia-shutdown-opec-markets-business-live?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-6315f6d58f08a26ca746c248#block-6315f6d58f08a26ca746c248

    3. I thought dick had retired.
      I suppose this could lead to more time wasting at football games.

      1. ‘Morning, Bill. Not that good, surely?

        I shall have to rely on your assessment, ‘cos in Janus Towers it went off as soon as he started. He is just another fantasist who will now try to justify his ignominious time in No10.

        1. I am afraid the MR LIKES the Toad programme – and so the wireless was on.

          When she taught up the road at Gresham’s, as part of her many duties, she ran the school Debating Society. There was a very cocky, garrulous lad (a very good debater) who was adept at coming out with the same sort of BS that BPAPM did this morning. We remined ourselves that he was just like that boy!!

          1. As you probably know Christo went to two conferences at The Hague representing the Gresham’s team at the Model United Nations.

            (Miss Truss and Bumptious Boris must have been horrible Sixth Formers.)

      2. Because that is what he is. Some of us grew up when we left full time education, others went into party politics.

    2. The people who got Brexit done, the people who delivered the fastest vaccine roll out in Europe and never forget 70 per cent of the entire population got a dose within six months, faster than any comparable country. That is government for you, that is this Conservative government.

      How we wish!

      1. Blimey…I must pay more attention to the triumphs of this government! There was I, thinking that Brexit is nowhere near ‘done’ where we are still entangled with the EUSSR and, for that privilege, still handing over shedloads of cash…

        1. A proper Brexit would have been worth all the pain and misery. I am beginning to wonder if the bungled mess Boris Johnson intentionally created was worth the candle.

          (Talking of dildos candles – with the cost of electrickery soaring we shall need the phallically waxy ones this winter.)

      2. The people who did everything the country didn’t need and now will have to pay out to cover the costs for decades.
        Not the first PM in our life times to have worn a crown. ‘King Useless.

      4. Everything he touched turned to excrement.

        Brexit was bungled – the EU still calls the shots in Northern Ireland – which is part of the United Kingdom – and British fishermen still do not have exclusive rights to UK fishing waters; it will not be long before the gene therapy will be acknowledged as being the lethal poison injection it is turning out to be; Johnson, the narcissist, was hoping to get the sort of kudos Thatcher got in the Falklands, Blair failed to get in Iraq and Eden failed to get in Egypt at the price of wrecking the lives of ordinary people in Britain.

    1. Wake-up, Bridgen. These ‘projects’ are predisposed to shovel ever increasing amounts of taxpayers’ money to the developers’ bank accounts. The costs are set to rise inexorably for as long as the contracts are supported by the government.

      1. 355739+ up ticks,

        Morning KtK,

        And as long as these odious type governments continued to find support via the majority vote .
        This electorate ain’t going to change its spots. tis locked into a voting death dive.

    1. Is Truss a peripatetic midwife as well as a whale-bone corset to relieve lower back pain and hernias?

    3. The Government is ready to launch the CBDC, which is the solution to everything because “We can now transfer money directly to your bank account.”

        1. Indeed.
          “the government that is powerful enough to give you what you want is powerful enough to take away everything you have”

    4. Hyperinflation will have taken hold by then, as the war worth paying for rages on. The lecee bills will be the last of our worries.

    1. Typical I’d say of a Nasty piece of work.
      It was never really really explained how Mr Sunaks wife became a multi millionaire. I’m afraid having known a few I’ve never found rich people very amiable or socially accommodating.
      Perhaps that’s why he wasn’t elected.

  39. Rather a poignant letter:-

    Pocket-sized history
    SIR – On the subject of ticket pockets (Letters, September 5), I once attended an open-air concert at Chartwell with a Second World War theme.

    For my costume, I purchased an Army officer’s uniform from a second-hand shop in Sydenham. In the ticket pocket was a ticket for the Haymarket Theatre, row 7, seats 27-28, dated Tuesday December 6 1942.

    Paul Penrose
    Ruan Minor, Cornwall

  40. Morning all 😃
    Another thunder storm over night.
    Peace on earth today ?
    New leader.
    Don’t get yer hopes up.
    Early doors though. Except for the currently ignored massive house building program UK, she might be guided by public opinion. So let’s keep the pressure up.

      1. Tory MPs pretending to be pleased in the hopes that they will get a ministerial position ‘on the payroll’.

        1. I remember my history master at Blundell’s: very old, very entertaining, very civilised and very wise. He always used to use the expression weeping and wailing and gerr -nashing of teeth.

          I always wished that he, rather than the humourless, plain chap called The Slug who taught Physics, had been my housemaster.

  42. 355739+ up ticks,

    I do believe the most odious issue to tackle first & foremost is the illegal English Chanel crosser,that to me is the most urgent prime problem.

    .Many of the peoples have accepted the fact the political overseers are trying to erase many of us via experimentation, that’s not new it has happened before ( never again only lasts so long).

    Prepare for the worst but by the same token we could very well have a very mild winter as in GOOD SAILING WEATHER.

    ‘

    1. The UK government is in a position to tell would be illegal immigrants that there are no places to house them and the country cannot afford to support them. Our country is full up and there is no shame in turning these criminals away. Legislation should be provided without delay to make this legal.

      1. 355739+ up ticks,

        Morning CS,

        The political overseers must be stooped from buying
        illegal immigrants via welfare as future party boosters.

        1. Good afternoon Bob – It’s the taxpayer’s money they are grabbing and the government makes it easy for them to do so. I’m still on the drugs I got many years ago.

  43. Twice recently I’ve had to contact EDF over moving to the Dower House. I have never dealt with them before, but if their call service is anything to go by, they are onto a winner. They employ sensible English women who know their job and don’t sound like robots.
    The one I spoke to this morning was a Geordie with a delightful sense of humour.

    2. Is that the Sales team?
      Once you’ve signed the contract it will be
      *Press 1 to be connected to someone who doesn’t speak English
      *Press 2 to be connected to someone in India who despises British people
      *Press 3 for the eighth circle of hell
      *Press 4 to listen to irritating music for half an hour
      *Press 5 to hear these menu options again

      1. No, a nice human being. She actually took the readings and even a cynical old bat like me felt that things would actually be sorted.

  44. I often listen to “Popmaster” on Ken Bruce’s Radio 2 programme, although I’m nothing like as good as Mrs B at answering the questions! I’m at a loss to understand why anyone would choose “one hit wonders” as a bonus topic – by definition these are people you are very unlikely to have even heard of – today’s list were no exception!

  45. A comment on the DT Letters page has revealed that the Australian vessel bringing LNG to the UK has off loaded the LNG into storage in the EU [Holland possibly] I thought Milford Haven could have dealt with that cargo.

      3. I didn’t understand a word of what they were saying, but if they are a pop group why shouldn’t they all be black?
        Forcing them to have whites on board is no different from forcing whites who would rather not associate with them to do so.

  47. Smell the Coffee?

    I am not sure what the question is but to what is Thérèse Coffey the answer.

    I know nothing about her – but maybe she will be excellent as deputy PM and Health Minister – anyone Nottler on this Forum any opinions?

    1. I knew her at university, and don’t like or trust her an inch. Her voting record is basically supporting any bad WEF policy. She’s still in the Cabinet because she doesn’t threaten anyone (my opinion).

      1. Whatever you can accuse her of being, you certainly cannot accuse her of being physically good-looking – as most Nottlers are!

        1. Through my life, I have learned not to trust plain girls who hang around good-looking popular people. I admit that that’s a large generalisation.

          6. I think there is something perverse about people who are attracted to unattractive people.

          7. I think it is possible that they are insecure and/or use the unattractive as a foil to display their own physical ‘attractiveness’.

          11. Could be but it can be like the Ugly Bug Ball here in the Home for Deranged Gentlefolk 😉

    4. Rather pretentious spelling of her first name. Registered as born in Ince, near Billinge/Wigan, as Theresa Anne Coffey – mother’s surname George. Catholic, supports Liverpool. single – no partner. Sister Clare Marie born 1967. Thomas Coffey married Alice T George in Wrexham 1966. Parents not listed on Wikipedia entry. Against same-sex marriage, campaigned for knighthood for Kenny Dalglish.

  48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkgtYjGAiBg
    Latest video from maneco64, with a couple of interesting points. Firstly, his solution for the UK’s woes – smaller government – which will never happen and secondly, the gold price in Shanghai.
    Those sneaky Chinese are having the temerity to buy gold higher than the artificially low price fixed by the British and the Americans. Result, gold flowing to Shanghai.

    1. BRICS will rise and the sun will set on the empire of the US. Unlike The Great Reset, that’s the natural order of things?

      1. They are taking advantage of the turmoil to push the great fascist reset though to distract people’s attention from the collapse of the fiat currency. If people realised how they’ve been swindled, they might figure out who to blame.

  49. The Boris Legacy: May’s Brexit, Blair’s Borders, Klaus’s Climate Policy

    https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/09/GettyImages-1241583631-e1662215364763-640×481.jpg

    by JACK MONTGOMERY6 Sep 2022

    https://twitter.com/BreitbartLondon/status/1566026972601278464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1566026972601278464%7Ctwgr%5E2aaf306235ad3a7747942c245805a3ca9fbdbab0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Feurope%2F2022%2F09%2F06%2Fboris-legacy-mays-brexit-blairs-borders-klauss-climate-policy%2F

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/09/06/boris-legacy-mays-brexit-blairs-borders-klauss-climate-policy/

    1. If someone shoots me and misses, do I not have the right to punish them for attempted murder?

      2. It is rather unreasonable of us to expect the Russians not to hold grudges…
        I do hate all this international stirring and manipulating by the super-rich.

        1. Exactly – it would be entirely unreasonable to suppose that Russia will not remember the countries that supplied money, state of the art weapons [or as close as we get to that] and who knows what else to their enemy!

    1. Hope you have a wonderful time, Jules! I have a very old/school/good friend who lives in Hexham! Give her a wave, would you?

      2. Last time I went to Hexham (lovely abbey, by the way), it absolutely hoyed it down. The rain was bouncing off the picnic tables and I was trying to get the dogs (not this pair) to take shelter while we watched the racing.

        1. It hoys it down quite often if my big sisters Guide camp was anything to go by, back in 1965! When we went to pick her up the whole pack smelt like wet dog and damp bell-tents! I never joined the Guides!

      1. A few bricks are beginning to budge under the strain but when the dam breaks there will be a flood which should drown many members of the PTB.

        The dam will break but will those responsible pay the price?

        1. Has Johnson eased himself out of the firing line? He has passed the baton, or should that be the poisoned chalice, to someone who clearly wants it and now Truss has the choice: sweep away all of Johnson’s CV-19 detritus and make a clean start or continue in the same vein as Johnson and fail.
          The rowing back on lockdowns has commenced and not too far down the road the issue of the “vaccine” will raise its head. Hiding bodies and the many other “vaccine” affected people is not going to be an easy task. Perhaps that is the reason for continuing the programme: a sudden halt and the growing number of early deaths across age groups; the heart problems; the neurological problems etc start to fall. That would be quite a signal and could point to the game being up.

    3. In Germany, it was on record that not one child in this age group died of covid. Yet they were terrifying them witless in the primary schools, and wanted to jab them!

    1. Cincinnatus. Not exactly a champion of the plebs, although a paradigm of selfless service to the State. Why do you mention him?

        2. Thank you. Clearly as delusional as a man can get. Why not Napoleon? (I know why. Cincinnatus is a classical and superior reference befitting an educated insane person. Napoleon is just for ordinary nutters.)

        4. As with any myth or legend, the story of the heroic Cincinnatus served a useful purpose by rallying the citizens of the fledgling Republic together as one, demonstrating that a loyal citizen must place the matters of the state over his own self-interest.

          https://www.worldhistory.org/Cincinnatus/

          1. An odd choice for Fataturk to use – as he has certainly never put matters of state above his own self interest!

    2. I always thought James I (VI of Scotland) was King of England as well. The Act of Union came later, didn’t it?

      1. Yes. Anne was the last Queen of England and, separately, Scotland. The Act of Union 1707 made her Queen of Great Britain.

  57. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0440524d00eab5785ac48cef58886a68b1d6510a291380ce2ad305ae12bda095.jpg
    “I’m showing this famous, magnificent ancient sculptural group to make a specific point about composition.

    What distinguishes classical sculpture especially Hellenistic bronzes and good Roman marbles, from a great deal of 20th and 21st century sculpture, is not just its devotion to beauty – but its internal music. The forms in truly great sculpture have a rhythm!

    Their creators were rigorously trained not just in anatomy, but in composition and proportion. They were aware of the fact that, as human beings, we resonate with certain sacred geometries which we find in the natural world and in certain forms of architecture – especially classical buildings, which deliberately incorporate the proportions of the human body.

    We really should not need to overtly state the things I’ve stated above. They should be part of our aesthetic and cultural education – but we now live in a dark age in which we merely shuffle with uncertain steps in the shadows and ruins of our once-great civilisation.

    We have blinded ourselves to excellence in the arts and we tolerate shocking levels of mediocrity and vulgar, cynically manufactured trash.

    I heartily encourage you to study the finest classical sculpture and to measure it up against what is claimed to be “sculpture” today.

    I also encourage you to let out huge belly-laughs in museums and art galleries when you encounter the more ridiculous “installations”. They are often manifestations of the least-talented and most pretentious anti-artists which dwell amongst us. I implore you to speak out against mediocrity!!

    Tune-in to excellence! Be elitist! Indulge and devour only the very best in the arts! – Be guided by the very best writers and curators.”
    – the late Jonathan Myles-Lea (+August 2021)

  58. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0440524d00eab5785ac48cef58886a68b1d6510a291380ce2ad305ae12bda095.jpg
    “I’m showing this famous, magnificent ancient sculptural group to make a specific point about composition.

    What distinguishes classical sculpture especially Hellenistic bronzes and good Roman marbles, from a great deal of 20th and 21st century sculpture, is not just its devotion to beauty – but its internal music. The forms in truly great sculpture have a rhythm!

    Their creators were rigorously trained not just in anatomy, but in composition and proportion. They were aware of the fact that, as human beings, we resonate with certain sacred geometries which we find in the natural world and in certain forms of architecture – especially classical buildings, which deliberately incorporate the proportions of the human body.

    We really should not need to overtly state the things I’ve stated above. They should be part of our aesthetic and cultural education – but we now live in a dark age in which we merely shuffle with uncertain steps in the shadows and ruins of our once-great civilisation.

    We have blinded ourselves to excellence in the arts and we tolerate shocking levels of mediocrity and vulgar, cynically manufactured trash.

    I heartily encourage you to study the finest classical sculpture and to measure it up against what is claimed to be “sculpture” today.

    I also encourage you to let out huge belly-laughs in museums and art galleries when you encounter the more ridiculous “installations”. They are often manifestations of the least-talented and most pretentious anti-artists which dwell amongst us. I implore you to speak out against mediocrity!!

    Tune-in to excellence! Be elitist! Indulge and devour only the very best in the arts! – Be guided by the very best writers and curators.”
    – the late Jonathan Myles-Lea (+August 2021)

    1. I believe that the authorities should allow the speculators to burn.

      I often wonder if Soros and his ilk could have been wiped out if the Government had had the guts to revalue sterling and fix it until the short sellers had been squeezed to death by margin calls.

      It would certainly have damaged the economy, but I wonder if it would have been any worse than the rest of the ERM debacle. It might also have saved the world from Soros’s malign influence and that most certainly would have been worth the temporary pain.

  60. Good afternoon all,

    How do you reckon Liz Truss could fund the energy price cap fix up until the next election?

    a) Taxation
    b) Fiscal loosening
    c) Allow energy providers to delay repaying Government price cap fixing loans by upping later consumer bills.

    d) Or do you like Sir Kier Starmer’s idea of raiding the coffers of the energy providers themselves?

    Cost your solution hopefully somewhere in the range £40 billion to £120 billion
    Don’t be afraid to exceed your estimate to around the Gordon Brown job limit of around £500 billion.

    2. Will Adultera Truss be an iron lady?

      It will be interesting to see what the MSM’s view will be from their use of connotation and denotation.

      A person who refuses to budge is:

      if you approve of him/her firm:
      if you are less than impressed he /she is inflexible;
      if you disapprove of his/her refusal to budge he/she is obstinate;
      and if he/she is beyond all reason then he/she is pig-headed.

      Each word has the same denotation but the connotations vary – as The Queen’s recollections varied from those of the Duchess of Cambridge!

      What connotations will come with the words with which we Nottlers discuss her?

    3. Why not limit the prices of electricity and gas per kWh to what they are today? Let the privately owned utilities suffer a dent in their profits. They have had decades to make arrangements for their UK energy businesses to be self-sufficient. Instead they went for the cheapest supply options because they were the most profitable retail options. That included importing from elsewhere, a course that all multinational corporations will follow if they are allowed to. Just too bad for the people of the UK who only exist for these businesses as a source of income.

      PS. When push comes to shove does anyone in the UK really believe that EDF, owned by the French government, will not cut off supplies to the UK?

      2. If you enlarge the photograph of Liz Truss there is evidence of photoshopping around her silhouette if you know what you are looking for – a faint line about 1 mm wide from the plant at her shoulder down to the top of her leg, also the front of her body. Also around the Queen, but less noticeable.

  62. Rapper, stage name Mad Itch, was expecting his first child by one of his girlfriends is shot dead by Met police
    “He wouldn’t have been involved in anything that would cause the police to chase him. I knew him and he was straight.’ Now his child is going to have no father. It breaks my heart. ‘He had nothing to do with gangs or anything like that.’ He din’t do nuffin!
    https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HNRkcPcYU8eJerxjheQ_HA–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/9vvKKhWI0mOw_LxjYZnTow–~B/aD04MDA7dz0xMjAwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/evening_standard_239/fdf24b8b5712342e4251a88cabdf8c9f

      1. Talking about itches: we have midges in the garden which bite like buggery but I have found a spray called Jungle Formula and it works pretty well.

        Reminds me of a song from The Tempest which Stephano, the drunken butler, sings:

        The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I,
        The gunner, and his mate,
        Loved Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery,
        But none of us cared for Kate;
        For she has a tongue with a tang,
        Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
        She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch;
        Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch.
        Then, to sea, boys, and let her go hang!

        (There was a girl called Kate in the group the last time I studied the play(about 40 years ago!) with an “A” level class. She was a very pretty and very popular girl but the other pupils could not resist teasing her!)

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e82c1b5951c0ad75f9c9ae0aabbceeb7f3f7cd252d0d688d2a289d9f6441f4b0.jpg

  63. Interesting article on China:
    https://dnyuz.com/2022/09/05/the-chinese-public-doesnt-know-what-the-rules-are-anymore/
    “…a grim joke that circulated on China’s internet during the Shanghai lockdown: The unluckiest devil in 2022 China, it went, is the person who “lives in Shanghai, invests in stocks, works in real estate, and has a partner in after-school tutoring. His parents have chronic illnesses, his child is walking from remote schooling straight into the college entrance exam, and he bought a pre-sold apartment from Evergrande. Listening to the government, he did not stock up on groceries, and under its encouragement, he now awaits the birth of his third child.”

    I suppose their problems are roughly the same as ours; caught up in the end of a long economic cycle and the collapse of fiat currencies, and the government diverting their attention from all of this and corruption with authoritarian measures. At least they can reasonably expect to come out on top during the next cycle.

  65. Afternoon, all. For the headline to be true, Truss would have to be a proper conservative, wouldn’t she? I don’t think her history supports that.

        2. You’d be surprised where in the human female anatomy a FUD is, according to the Doric (as spoken in North Banffshire).

    3. The Greeks will be enjoying some schadenfreude.
      I’ve thinking that this could bring down the Euro for over a year now, each time it looked closer a new distraction was conjured up.

  67. To take my mind off the horrors of politics today – time for a rant.

    Defibrillators.

    Four years ago, a group of Limp Dumb villagers decided that there was a “pressing need” for a defibrillator. Money was raised and a site made available. Then, not to be outdone, a similar group of people in the next village – all of 1½ miles away, decided that they too needed on.

    The total cost to those who chipped in was – for the two villages – north of £6,000.

    Now they are in place. The sponsors have to have “annual training” and the machine needs an “annual check”. More continuing expense,

    All very well meant, I am sure.

    But, as I understand it, unless you have your heart attack within a few yards of the fixed defibrillator – tough.

    Round here are lots of very agreeable walks and bridleways. Mostly older people make use of them. The sort who might be more likely to have a heart attack.

    But….if you are a couple of miles away. Tough luck.

    To my ill-educated and cynical mind, the whole thing is a ginormous scam – aimed at gullible Limp Dumbs/Woke folk/do gooders…..

    There, I feel better now.

    3. Well said.
      They are virtue signalling with knobs on.
      And – says this cynical old bat; I bet they inflict all sorts of checks on anyone who volunteers to be involved.
      Just in case some old goat gets excited by a Triumph Doreen bra.

    4. There is a defibrillator about a mile west of Ardfern on the north west coast of Scotland, on Loch Craignish, which is sited opposite the cemetery!

      1. Which reminds me – above Svolvær in Lofoten is a “classic” rock climb up a feature called the goat. At the summit are two rock pinnacles [horns!] – it is apparently traditional to jump from one to the other to finish [to encourage you the abseil bolts are on the pinnacle that you don’t finish on!]. What is a bit off-putting is that directly below you, as you contemplate this foolhardiness, is the local cemetery. As one wag put it – if you do fall off, cross your arms and legs and you’ll screw yourself neatly into the ground!

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPN75h-uCI4

  68. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/62f51ffe133ace5f0eaa67e6ab167bd9966e14821ca2d394febba94d70b2eb03.png OK, Nottlers. Time to pick your brains. I’m not a rabid Greeniac, but I do hate waste; I like to recycle. Despite my best efforts – and the constant preaching about the wasteful West etc….. – I cannot get anywhere with giving 6 dining chairs to charity.
    We will not have room for them in the Dower House.
    We bought them in 1984, just before all the fire regs. were introduced. All I can say is that, after countless drunken dinners illuminated by candle light, we’ve never managed to set fire to them.
    I strongly object to taking them down to the tip; it is absolutely disgusting when there are people who would welcome them.
    Any suggestions?

    1. Take them to your nearest auction house, you might be pleasantly surprised by the result.
      We have been selling stuff that way for over a year now and whilst some things get a pittance some can be staggering.

      1. Nope. Auction people have already been round Allan Towers and won’t touch them. As the auctioneer said, young people preach about recycling/saving the planet etc… but won’t buy or revamp old furniture.

        1. Put them outside on the pavement with a sign on them saying £50 O.N.O. They’ll be stolen within the hour.

          9. Take them down the High St and give one each to a busker, a tramp, a beggar, an old dear with heavy shopping and a PCSO to save her sore feet…then scarper.

        2. Young people setting up home used to always be on the look out for bargains and hand-me downs. When Caroline and I bought our house in Brittany we had hardly any furniture and no chairs. Now we have so much we can hardly move but if we lived anywhere near Allan Towers Caroline would be round to collect them!.

        3. I’m surprised they won’t put them into a general sale, I guess they can’t be bothered to list them.
          If there is another auctioneer try them, perhaps if you put a few other lots together they might be tempted.
          If they don’t sell they will tip them.

          Unless you are very anti the Sally army they take almost anything in our experience.

          As to auctioneers, our guy turned his nose up at something that made over £150 on the day, so they aren’t always correct.
          Another lot that was estimated at 20-30 made 500!!!

          1. If the soft furnishings don’t have a fire sfe label, no organisation will touch them, not even the Sally Army. I believe it’s illegal.

          5. A piece of “brown”:
            I look at what the insurers say I should insure it for and I look at what it would fetch at auction and I wonder why I bother;
            it’s a genuine late 18th century Sheraton secretaire bookcase, gilded handles on the doors and drawer, secret drawers and even still has the key.
            On a good day, with a following wind, it might be worth a tenth of what it was valued at when I inherited it 40 odd years ago.

            Ikea on the other hand…

        4. Mother’s big teak sideboard was unsellable… auction price for a similar one was £50! So, guess what happened to taht lovely piece?

          1. My mother has a very nice (although not my taste – v grand and old fashioned) dining table and six chairs taking up her entire spare bedroom. She’s hanging onto them ‘for the grandchildren’ although my sister and I have said they wouldn’t go near them with a bargpole.

        5. I bought a whole load of furniture from The British Heart Foundation, good quality and cheap. They deliver so might collect.

    3. Same with a lot of Mother’s furniture. Perfectly good, hardly worn furniture broken up and skipped. Heartbreaking, and so wasteful.
      Æneas has the right idea. Freecycle.

    4. Put them outside the gate and put a sign on them- £5 each. They’ll be gone by morning but you won’t get a penny ;-))

    6. There are freecycle sites on the t’internet and on FB. If you’ve got the tech you can post a picture and I bet someone will snap them up.

    9. The fire regs are going to be a problem, or lack of compliance. Try eBay or gumtree. I’m sure there’s someone out there willing and able to reupholster to the regs. Good luck.

  71. Long, tiring and very frustrating day at work, but it’s sunny and dry, so cut the grass when I got home. That’s better, the garden looks better with the lawn “lowered” like that. Now, in favourite sofa with a glass of cheap (relatively, taht is) French red. Bliss!
    G’day, cobbers all. How’s it hanging?

        1. Have you tried Guinness 0.0 ? I have it on excellent authority that you can’t taste the difference. You can have a cold beer and use a chainsaw.

    1. I have never liked circuses and have gone right off zoos that contain any animals other than invertebrates.
      Edit; The lady did have a nice rapport with Chimpy though.

  73. The word delivered is being misused.

    We are going to hear that wretched word millions of times .

    Liz Truss plans to scrap environmental rule blamed for slowing down new homes
    Exclusive: Tory leadership contender plans to axe ‘nutrient neutrality’ requirement, brought in after European court ruling in 2018.
    Liz Truss wants to ditch an environmental rule blamed for slowing down the construction of more than 100,000 homes if she becomes prime minister, The Telegraph can reveal.

    The Foreign Secretary (Prime Minister ) is planning to scrap the “nutrient neutrality” requirement, brought in after a European Court of Justice ruling in 2018.

    The rule requires developers to detail the impact in terms of pollution of their proposals on rivers and wetlands and to promise mitigation measures, such as the creation of new wetlands, to secure planning permission.

    But critics argue that tit has slowed construction, over-exaggerated environmental impacts and created uncertainty, exacerbating the housing crisis.

    In March, the Home Builders Federation conducted an analysis that found 120,000 homes were being delayed. Some 74 local planning authorities are bound by the rule, which is ordered by Natural England, part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

    A Truss campaign source told The Telegraph: “Our current system of planning is too bureaucratic, too slow, and too complex. We would reform the planning system and cut red tape that prevents local communities from building the houses they want.

    “We would remove Brussels red tape, such as nutrient neutrality, that has stalled housing projects without delivering on what it is designed to address

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/08/19/liz-truss-plans-scrap-environmental-rule-blamed-slowing-house/?fbclid=IwAR2o9WEdG37VlGS6Hrp4EKXIPxClshD2nX1pSDVjgo4-Bx4n8ycfwpnVil0

    ( I am rapidly becoming a Nimby)

    1. In the pockets of the housebuilders. And so they continue to wreak havoc in our land to accommodate incomers.
      Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

    2. So they only roll back the fake environment laws when it enables them to make a lot of money and bring in more migrants? Surprise, surprise.

    4. While you’re at it, Liz, Leave the ECHR, repeal the Human rights Act (and re-instate the Treason Act) and start the mega-deportations of at least a million illegals.

          3. She wanted to be seen as a traditional Conservative leader until such time as she became the leader on the Non-Conservative Conservative Party.

          4. Just as Boris Johnson wanted to be seen as a Brexiteer until he had banked his majority and then he caved in on N. Ireland and fishing and refused to do anything to extricate Britain from the EU red tape.

          5. I don’t think Truss will do anything about Northern Ireland or fishing. On her praise of Johnson in her speech she said he had got Brexit done.

          6. Just as Boris Johnson wanted to be seen as a Brexiteer until he had banked his majority and then he caved in on N. Ireland and fishing and refused to do anything to extricate Britain from the EU red tape.

  75. That’s me for today. A nice three mile walk this morning to buy half a dozen eggs. On the way, there were about 50 bantams in the road – they had escaped from a large field. I told the farmer’s wife. “We know,” she said…

    Then attacking the Albertine rose – it is one that fights back. We both carry scars. We have already had a lot of useful windfall apples. Today, I started picking – for winter keeping – the Grenadier, always the first.

    Time for the beetroot juice apero.

    A demain.

    2. They won’t accept a Genadier under 6 foot…

      (The Army can’t be bothered to dig them up!)

  76. It will be interesting to see what happens when all the western governments have harvested the money tree to reduce power bills. If a commodity is in short supply, Rising prices should reduce demand to balance the equation. Now, as no more gas is being made available in the short term, what will be the effect of more money chasing a limited supply of gas. Answers on a ballon, I’ll get the nitrous oxide..

          1. I meant to tell you, King Stephen, that our daughter made a Toy Story cake for the boys second birthday, and found a topper online which said “Twinfinity and beyond”!

  79. 355739+ up ticks,

    Is the new hydra head taking evasive action in the English Channel ?

    We the peoples were really in the last chance hotel in regards to the 2019 GE. We actually purchased treachery at £25 a pop in support of johnson and to the cost of decent Country loving patriots.

    with the result of the 2019 GE, decency integrity and patriotism were erased from United Kingdom governing politics, the lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition won the day at the cost of freedom & trust.

    This new hydra head must surely be the final nail to be driven in, the angle of descent will now steepen rapidly is my belief.

    Them there boosters are hitting the beach as we type , grateful lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition party boosters that is.

    You got to hand ir to the politico who triggered the biggest scam ever to come out of scamland

    Vote tory(ino) keep ot lan (ino)
    Vote lab (ino) keep out tory (ino)

    1. As our grandson found on his first week of jury service when he was released each day due to the strike.

  81. SIR – Why does Cambridge not produce prime ministers anymore?

    Stephen M Ferguson
    London SW1

    Probably, Stevie, because Cambridge has long been known as a hive of scum and villainy … not to mention a loathsome grotto of Commie traitors.

  82. Iain Duncan Smith has turned down a position in Liz Truss government, he wishes to remain on the back benches.

  83. “Unleash the potential of the UK”?

    I do not wish to be harsh. However. During the reign of Queen Victoria the UK became the most powerful country on the planet with “an Empire on which the sun never set”.
    Since then it has been pretty well downhill all the way and that downward plunge has accelerated under the present Monarch. We are looking into a near future where businesses close, unemployment rockets, poverty gets a widespread grip, and people die of cold and hunger. All we need is another Charles Dickens to record it.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb9BfnZWIAY-XXn?format=jpg&name=900×900

      1. God help us – and the NHS – mind you the NHS needs a damn good blow through and get rid of all the diversity managers and their ilk plus most of the managers in non-jobs.

      2. God help us – and the NHS – mind you the NHS needs a damn good blow through and get rid of all the diversity managers and their ilk plus most of the managers in non-jobs.

    4. ‘As if increase of appetite had grown
      By what it fed on: and yet, within a month–
      Let me not think on’t – Obesity, thy name is woman!’

      (With apols to William S)

  86. Well I had to go back to bed this morning wasn’t feeling too good.
    I had a GP appointment this arvo. What a lovely young lady.
    Came home and cooked an aubergine arrabiaca (spl). I think that’s what it’s called. A few extras, like garden tommies and a sturdy courgette. It was delicious.
    And because of my close involvement with apples recently, making zyder we had home made apple crumble. Wait for it……with vanilla ice cream and double cream. Rustic yes, but probably the best tasting desert in the world.
    I feel a doze coming on. 😴

    1. What a nice post Eddy. A welcome break from all this political BS which won’t change a single thing. Sleep well.

      1. I do thank-you and I must admit two glasses of La Vielle Ferne 13.5 is leading the way to an early night.
        I’ve just been scrapping the baking dish with a spoon dipped in double cream 😋 😉

        1. Good man yourself! I am dealing, reluctantly, with some Pinot Grigio. Hard task but someone’s got to do it.

          1. When we lived in a caravan in Gladstone QLD as I left work one day I asked Erin what we were having for dinner. Spag boll she replied. I called into a drive through on the way home. Picked up a bottle Rouge Homme. By Redmans.
            25 years later I mentioned it to my wine connessures sister and BiL who were members of the wine society.
            That, not the year, wine came top of a 20 product wine tasting. I paid 2 dollars.

    2. Granted….. well it sort of ties in with Sunak’s situation. Both have very wealthy other halves, but there’s no explanation on how they became so wealthy.

      1. Sunak’s wife’s family has a software outsourcing business. No mystery, it’s very lucrative.

      2. Schapps had several alias selling courses on how to get rich. He initially denied this and then had to come clean.

        When some sap paid they were told to sell courses on how to get rich. And BoJo thought he was of good standing to be a government minister. What an absolute shower of shit. It’s all over for the Tories for another decade after the next election.

        2. I won’t be voting again unless Liz can pull some rabbits out of various hats. Otherwise- they can all get stuffed.

        3. He became very rich not long after being housing minister. His constituency then became filled new developments.

    2. They don’t like it up ’em…erm. :@(

      I hope more and more parents create a lot of noise over this.

    4. OMG. Why on earth weren’t the parents shouting Swinney down. There is Joe way that material should be used. It’s totally inappropriate for all age groups let alone 12 year olds. Talk about corrupting our children. Getting them ready for Islamic practices?

      1. The imagery of dipping a banana in Nutella is off. Dipping the banana in Vegemite would be a closer analogy just as any Australian refers to poofs as ‘Vegemite Drillers’.

    3. If Liz Truss doesn’t take action to stop the illegals, the Uniparty will win the next election, and Liz will get to give speeches over the internet at 50 grand a pop.
      I doubt any of them will see a problem with that.

  91. Kwasi Kwarteng is Chancellor, James Cleverly is Foreign Secretary and Suella Braverman will run Home Office.

    … and you thought the Black and White Minstrel Show was dead.

  93. Interesting developments in the USA re the FBI botched raid on Trump’s home. There will be a Special Master and no documents seized in the raid may be used by the Department of Justice Investigative team. Documents apparently included personal Tax and Attorney Client privilege papers.

    Sekulow Brothers’ site on Rumble has the expert legal opinion under the Salem banner. The DoJ is truly incompetent by all accounts.

    1. The raid was requested by the President, apparently. Lots of memes about skullduggery not being investigated doing the rounds.

    2. This segment of the War Room is worth a watch (from 1:10 in). Legal expert Mike Davis explains the law around what an ex-President is capable of doing with documents. Davis quotes chapter and verse along with precedents and claims that the DOJ etc should have known these legal standpoints. In another interview Davis claims that if the DOJ/Biden administration pursue their accusations and use ‘tame’ judges to further their case the Supreme Court will have to intervene as the whole charade will become a Constitutional issue.

      Mike Davis on War Room

  94. Goodnight, all. It’s hammering down again here and definitely getting cooler. I’m off because I’ve got a very busy day tomorrow.

  95. Good night, everyone. I hope to complete my break tomorrow and leave for home in the afternoon. Back to some kind of normality on Thursday after a refreshing 10-day break.

    1. Very similar to my own thoughts. Its become a very dangerous game and our glorious leaders don’t realise the fact.

    2. Very similar to my own thoughts. Its become a very dangerous game and our glorious leaders don’t realise the fact.

  97. Well you have to hand it to Truss, she’s playing a blinder.

    At least the cabinet is no longer male, pale and stale, it’s diverse, perverse and worse.

    1. At least they won’t be able to blame white men if and when it goes pear shaped…

  98. Off to bed to rest my poor old beaten-up body. Taken a large shot of Whyte and MacKay to help the sleeping and dull any pain while I read until the kindle drops.

    Goodnight Gentlefolk and God bless you, one and all. Not Tiny Tim but Big Tom speaking.

  100. Breaking News, Truss has announced a new cunning plan to cut illegal cross channel migration.

    From not on immigrants will only be allowed to come ashore barefoot on stony beaches

  103. 355739+ up ticks,

    Start as you mean to continue, no mention of the illegal invasion force crossing the English Channel daily and that is telling me that the illegals will find in trusty a sate pair of hands.

    Not every ones cup of coffee is coffee, suggesting pensioners should pay NI
    I wager that would be as popular as plague.

    1. Clever woman. She obviously dodged the jabs.

      It could have been worse: just look at Biden’s choice in America, a long haired fat bloke in a dress.

    2. Grattis på födelsedagen, Araminta. Hope it’s a lovely day. 🎂🥂I’ll raise a glass to you (of water!) from the sand dunes at Falsterbo (where I’m spending the day).

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