Thursday 2 March: A lockdown imposed by panicked politicians deaf to legitimate dissent

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Engineering at its Finest

    Quality Engineering
    This one is well worth the time to read it…….It made my day; I hope it makes yours too! You don’t have to be an engineer to appreciate this story. It is typical in Industry and Government too!

    A toothpaste factory had a problem. They sometimes shipped empty boxes without the tube inside. This challenged their perceived quality with the buyers and distributors. Understanding how important the relationship with them was, the CEO of the company assembled his top people. They decided to hire an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem. The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP, and third-parties selected. Six months (and $8 million) later they had a fantastic solution – on time, on budget, and high quality. Everyone in the project was pleased.

    They solved the problem by using a high-tech precision scale that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box weighed less than it should. The line would stop, someone would walk over, remove the defective box, and then press another button to re-start the line. As a result of the new package monitoring process, no empty boxes were being shipped out of the factory.

    With no more customer complaints, the CEO felt the $8 million was well spent. He then reviewed the line statistics report and discovered the number of empty boxes picked up by the scale in the first week was consistent with projections, however, the next three weeks were zero! The estimated rate should have been at least a dozen boxes a day. He had the engineers check the equipment, they verified the report as accurate.

    Puzzled, the CEO went down to the factory floor, viewed the part of the line where the precision scale was installed, and observed just ahead of the new $8 million dollar solution sat a $20 desk fan blowing the empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. He asked the line supervisor what that was about.

    “Oh, that,” the supervisor replied, “Bert, the kid from maintenance, put it there because he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang.”

    1. Brilliant. A lot of my time is spent trying to spot the fan solution instead of the $8 million solution!

    3. That’s strange. He doesn’t look at all like a monster……………………….

    1. The cabal in Westminster are planning to pass the ball of lockdown and further repression to the Gates/CCP controlled WHO. They believe that their decision will absolve them of blame when the WHO attempt to close down the World again.
      The release of the ‘lockdown’ information couldn’t have come at a better time re the WHO’s power grab.
      Sunak is untrustworthy and anything he promises or does must be viewed in that light.
      This tweet highlights what we are up against.

      https://twitter.com/WUTMSpain/status/1630688850652590080

      1. It seems that HMG has no intention of having a debate in the HoC about passing all decision making about the nation’s health over to a bunch of megalomaniacs, the WHO.

        I think MPs are unable to debate anyThing any more – they just can’t make decisions having got used to the EU deciding most things and now are happy for the WHO to declare a scamdemic whenever it pleases them, enforce more lockdowns, mask wearing, more experimental gene therapies and anything else they can think of. Is Andrew Bridgen the only MP to even question all this?

        Why is there not a WHO research group jumping up and down about this, especially with all the WhatsApp messages being exposed? And even in the MSM there is talk of “disaster” in the same breath as lockdowns.

        1. If there is to be no debate and no vote on a transfer of sovereignty to an international NGO, how will the transfer be authorised? Is the jumped up pipsqueak, Sunak, going to blithely sign away the people’s innate rights? What will be Charlie Windsor’s input?
          I foresee both constitutional problems and public unrest on this matter.
          The USA is gearing up to fight Biden’s involvement with this. That the latter and Sunak want this arrangement is proof positive that it isn’t going to be good for the people. Gates et al. will enrich themselves further from big Pharma’s involvement.

  7. Up to a third of overseas aid budget used for housing refugees in UK, MPs report. 2 Februarry 2023.

    Select committee accuses government of wilfully obscuring facts around ‘unsustainable’ trend

    As much as a third of the heavily cut UK overseas aid budget is now being spent on housing refugees in the UK, the international development select committee says in a report today.

    Describing the trend as unsustainable and unprecedented, the committee also finds UK aid spending per refugee has almost tripled, increasing from £6,700 in 2019 to £21,700 in 2021, according to the most recent three years of figures.

    The select committee says it has been a political choice by the government to spend so much of the aid budget on refugees in the UK, and insists it is not required to do so by international rules defining legitimate aid.

    It’s unsustainable because there is literally no end in sight either to the numbers or the payments. It’s the politics of madness. People witter on about Russia and China but our end is already here!

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/02/overseas-aid-budget-uk-select-committee-report-housing-refugees

    1. There is always the opportunity of mimicing the type of housing facility used by Germany in the 1930s – 1940s

    2. For anyone who believes that this wretched government is importing the ‘refugees’ on humanitarian grounds, there’s a cut-price bridge sale happening in London anytime soon.

      1. Now you mention it, MB is planning a water feature for the Dower House garden.
        A gnome with a fishing rod would be the finishing touch.

    3. “Heavily cut .. aid budget” – absolute bolleaux – we are still chucking away billions that we don’t have and achieving pretty much the square root of nothing! If the pinko bedwetting virtue signallers would try, for once, to face reality, they would realise that we need to stop all foreign aid except for real emergencies!

          2. Article in the DM today about how to spot a controlling, manipulative narcissist. Meghan ticks all the boxes, As mentioned by several BTL’s.

  10. 371719+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Thursday 2 March: A lockdown imposed by panicked politicians deaf to legitimate dissent

    Read,
    Thursday 2 March: A lockdown imposed by treacherous covert agenda politicians deaf to legitimate dissent as has been the way these past nigh on forty years.

    The only near panic on their, the politico’s behalf was the collateral damage in deaths and serious injuries yet to be fully realised, the follow on will be the blame game.

    With the local elections on the horizon I truly do not expect any change in the voting pattern, the only change will be in the governing parties carrying a heavier load of more sinister, life as we knew it, changing baggage.

  11. Morning all, I’m glad to see the DT has caught up with Nottlers who saw this for what is was, and still is at times.
    I agree with all the following apart from the very last sentence, “free press” my arse, they are as much part of the problem as Hand On Cock is!

    Untruth after untruth was peddled to justify the great lockdown disaster

    Allister Heath 1 March 2023 • 9:00pm
    6–8 minutes

    It is just a question of time before our jittery, ultra-globalised world is hit by the next lethal pandemic. Nobody knows when it will strike, or what the Next Big One will be – an entirely new pathogen, perhaps, rather than bird flu or the Marburg virus – but I’m certain of one thing: Britain won’t be ready. We will run out of hospital and testing capacity. Our politicians will panic, dig out their catastrophically flawed Covid playbooks, and seek to terrorise us into another lockdown, guaranteeing our final moral and financial degradation.

    Let’s face it: Whitehall has learned almost nothing from the fiasco of 2020-22. There has been no proper cost-benefit analysis of lockdown. We haven’t engaged in a genuine inquest, our institutions haven’t been reformed, and the official inquiry will take too long and risks being captured by an establishment desperate to defend its legacy. Sir Keir Starmer, favourite to be our next prime minister, was at one with the Government and Matt Hancock on lockdowns – his only criticism was that he wanted more of the same, faster.

    This is why The Telegraph’s Lockdown Files are so important, and so clearly in the public interest. Given officialdom’s glacial progress, the free press has a duty to release information, accelerate debate and hold power to account.

    One question in particular that should trouble all of us is why so many of the claims made during the pandemic turned out not to be true. How much of this was genuine error or science not having caught up yet with a novel virus, and how much was it propaganda to make life easier for politicians, or to allow officials to save face? Why weren’t incorrect conclusions quickly rectified when the facts became clearer? We need to know.

    Why, for example, were we often told that the virus “doesn’t discriminate” while of course the old and very ill were the ones really at risk? It was obvious very early on – from the cruise ships that suffered early outbreaks, for instance, or from Italy – that fatality rates were massively age-contingent. Children were exceptionally safe.

    Or take the origins of the virus. Those who sought to explore whether it might have originated in a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan were demonised, ridiculed or cancelled. Now, the director of the FBI has concluded that this is the most likely explanation. This begs a crucial question: would we have followed China’s methods – lockdown and extreme social control – had we imagined the Beijing authorities were covering up a Chernobyl-style disaster? Might we not have gone for a more voluntarist, Swedish style approach? Where are the profuse apologies from all those who tarred supporters of the lab leak hypothesis as “racist”, “Trumpites” or “conspiracy theorists”?

    In some cases, at least at first, the experts really didn’t know: in the virus’s earliest days, its mortality rate was unclear. It was also plausible that it might spread via touch, hence the hand-washing campaign launched in March 2020. Three years on, a seminal meta-analysis by the Cochrane Library suggests that hand-washing does in fact cut the number of infections by 14 per cent, but only enough to slow spread down slightly in an exponential growth situation.

    There was also some justification at first for believing that the virus could be caught outside – but it soon became evident that this was in fact extremely unlikely, with the fresh air immediately diluting and dispersing the virus. When did the Government find out, and why didn’t it scrap all restrictions on outside gatherings early on? Many independent analysts realised pretty quickly that Covid was caught via airborne transmission, or aerosols, and that these were only really effective indoors. Yet a great many people were so scared by official pronouncements that they even washed their shopping. It was deemed dangerous to ask questions.

    What about masks? It is obviously true that a high-tech contraption able to filter out all particles would help greatly. In the real world, however, masks as they actually exist and are worn by fallible humans (including, ludicrously, children) were for show: the government encouraged people to wear useless (and often filthy or badly fastened) cloth garments that did nothing to stop the virus. Basic surgical face masks were useless, too. In theory, N95 masks are more effective, and can protect some individuals under certain conditions.

    In practice, however, the Cochrane meta-review is devastating: it finds, having analysed all available studies and randomised trials, that they do “not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers”. The authorities’ and scientific establishment’s decision to massively downplay the role of natural immunity in reducing the disease’s severity was another grave distortion of the truth. Yet the Lancet has now published a meta-review of 65 studies that finds that natural immunity (acquired as a result of catching Covid) protects as well as two vaccine shots. There were good reasons for people to get vaccinated: there was no need for officialdom to exaggerate the case.

    Crucially, the principal beneficiary of a vaccine is the person who is vaccinated: they are much less likely to die (especially if they are elderly or otherwise at elevated risk), and the illness is likely to be a lot less severe. It was never likely that vaccines would eliminate, or even drastically reduce, transmission: there are plenty of “breakthrough infections”, usually with much milder symptoms. The case for vaccine passports was always thus extremely weak – and in my view, massively outweighed by the loss in liberty.

    Covid saw endless politicians, bureaucrats, public health officials, scientists, professional journal editors, Twitter activists, Left-wing broadcasters and especially big tech firms transmogrify into authoritarian censors. They thought that “following the science” meant that their role was to amplify whatever the public health establishment’s most risk-averse current consensus was, rather than to pursue the truth independently. They convinced themselves that dissidents were heartless, paranoid freaks. They went on a terrifying power and ego trip.

    The lesson is clear. Even in a crisis, free speech and open inquiry must be nurtured: elite groupthink is too often wrong, and must at all times be scrutinised. Long live the free press.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/01/untruth-untruth-peddled-justify-great-lockdown-disaster/

    1. It’ll come to nothing.

      Remember the DT’s “revelations” about MPs’ expenses? Lotsa faux outrage – regulators and watchdogs and auditors appointed. But it STILL goes on as before – millions stolen from taxpayers by greedy bastards.

    2. All of the above means very little as long as the writer makes no attempt to analyse the origin of the billions of pounds that were sloshing around in ALL of the areas that he mentions – science, politics, media etc.

    3. ‘Morning VVOF

      I’m not buying it either this is the second line of defence trying to blame incompetence rather than the evil and malice of reality.Midozalam anybody??

      “Unfortunately, though, to use your metaphor, this story is most

      definitely not designed to burst the dam wall. Rather, it is designed to

      prevent the cracks getting any bigger, at least for a bit longer, by

      stuffing them with papier-mâché. Far from giving the enquiring reader a

      clearer idea of what happened during the ‘pandemic’, it actually fills

      his or her head with distracting irrelevances.

      There is nothing

      our corrupt, mendacious and hopeless compromised political class would

      like more than for you to think that Covid was all about cock up not

      conspiracy. That’s why the clownish Matt Hancock makes such a convenient

      fall guy. No one takes him seriously – especially not after his

      appearance on a TV game show, which was no doubt pre-planned as part of

      the strategy. The quid quo pro for Hancock’s agreeing to play the

      sacrificial lamb, I would guess, is that the story be focused on his

      bumbling incompetence rather than on his role as Midazolam Matt, serial

      killer of the elderly.”

      https://delingpole.substack.com/p/the-telegraphs-lockdown-files-leak

      Bob Moran ain’t buying it either

      https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1631006427014746164
      It’s the same strategy as NOW it’s a “lab leak from China” to hide Fauchi and the American involvement
      Distract,distract,distract…………..

      1. I take Bobs’s point.
        However, if Johnny Foreigner wishes to behave like an authoritarian idiot, that’s his problem.
        We are dealing with THIS country. We have quite enough on our plates within these shores.
        Returning to a well hashed subject, Britain abolished slavery and the slave trade within its own empire.
        It left the US and other countries to sort out the practice in their own time. (Some are still to tackle the matter.)

    4. Long live the free press.

      What?
      If the press had been truly free, responsible and doing its job, as it likes to claim, then the ‘scamdemic’ would have been exposed and over in short order.
      Good try but no cigar.

      Edit: on re-read found one errant apostrophe!

      1. It was the media who coined such expressions as ‘covid denier’, ‘covidiot’ and ‘grannie killer’.
        Never forget. Never forgive.

    5. BTL:

      Carpe Jugulum
      10 HRS AGO
      The now infamous Ferguson projections that suggested an approaching apocalypse were absolutely nothing short of scientifically illiterate nonsense.
      His hysterical model assumed that there would be no existing immunity as SARS-CoV-2 was a ‘new’ virus whilst conveniently forgetting it was STILL a coronavirus related to common cold coronaviruses that we get hit with every single year. Existing immunity given by cross-reactive T-cells from previous infections wasn’t a possibility IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE RACING CERTAINTY! That fact was proven within weeks when we could see the overwhelming majority of people infected defeated the infection with ease.
      The sad fact is that there were virologists far more knowledgeable than Ferguson ( BSc Physics ) who were ignored.

      Mr R M Bellamy
      9 HRS AGO
      No mention of the elephant in the room, the Great Barrington Declaration? How an international group of knowledgeable epidemiologists were ignored in favour of a failed modeller (Ferguson) and the ‘nudge unit’ that centred around a card-carrying communist expert in behavioural studies?
      Why?

      1. And Ferguson is still the “go to” source for the MSM.
        Scientific literacy has no place in project fear don’t you know. I could understand an initial overreaction until evidence presented itself to Johnson and his advisers but the truth that became apparent did not suit their agenda.
        Lying, cheating, murderous bar stewards, the lot of them, and still people can’t or won’t see the truth.

        1. Science degrees:
          “In 1978, during Nicolae Ceaușescu’s state visit to the United Kingdom, The Royal Institute of Chemistry admitted Elena Ceaușescu into membership as a Fellow.’
          That was in addition to all the degrees awarded to the harridan by other universities.

    6. “Whitehall has learned almost nothing from the fiasco of 2020-22.”
      I beg to differ.
      Whitehall learnt that the GBP are largely a bunch of sheep who would feel thoroughly at home in the old GDR.
      They will try it again, and despite 50+ years of government mendacity, the vast majority of the British Sheep will unquestioningly comply.

    7. It’s getting there slowly and painfully. Acknowledgement of the vaccine deaths and harms still to come, though. Then acceptance that the whole thing was orchestrated for nefarious purposes.

    8. It’s getting there slowly and painfully. Acknowledgement of the vaccine deaths and harms still to come, though. Then acceptance that the whole thing was orchestrated for nefarious purposes.

  12. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5d62fc9275c39a5df8a88d263b5aec1818aa93838fab22e5870209714862a858.png Brian Wooller is one of many who thinks that overtaking on the inside is known as “undertaking”. It is not.

    If a track athlete runs past another in a race, it matters not which side he overtakes on. The OED says: overtake v/tr catch up with and pass while travelling in the same direction. It also says: undertake v/tr bind oneself to perform, make oneself responsible for, engage in, enter upon (work, an enterprise, a responsibility). An undertaker is someone who manages funerals.

    Those who insist on perpetuating the puerile use of this facile modern slang should take heed of this: Anyone routinely overtaking another vehicle on the inside, on a motorway, will soon be requiring the services of an undertaker.

      1. I disagree with you wholeheartedly. I think it is just another case of ‘convenient’ and lazy slang being adopted. My initial opinion still holds good. An athlete running past a competitor, no matter which side he passes on, still overtakes him.
        If we do not keep hold of good, proper, unambiguous Standard English, then me might as well capitulate to the increasing (now universal) use of grunting gibberish that is taking over.

  14. ‘Morning All

    Medley Time

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    1. Within the world of journalism cogitation seems to have become a rare commodity.

    2. What a brilliant strategist Coughlin is! He should have been advising Napoleon and Hitler when they decided to strike the heart of Russia.

    3. So, Coughlin on one side, UK Column with military and intelligence experience in its ranks on the other. Who is more likely to be nearer the truth? Hmmm.

  16. At the moment I am re-reading Michael Dobbs’ excellent “House of Cards trilogy, a supposedly fictional account of the political intrigue and shenanigans of our elected representatives in the Houses of Parliament, these stories were first published in 1989.

    Mr, now Lord Dobbs’ had served as an advisor to Margaret Thatcher and latterly as Conservative Party Chief of Staff during the mid 1980s.

    Reading them again now, in light of the current and most recent scandalous chicanery of this government, I find Dobbs’ observations to be spookily prescient?
    As a striking example in the 2nd book; “To Play The King”, Dobbs’ introductory note to Chapter 4 reads:

    “His Royal mind progresses by a series of afterthoughts. He treads the tightrope that stretches between the Constitution and his conscience with the blinding sense of purpose of a pilchard”

    The Windsor Framework anyone?

    Have you noticed that you never see Michael Dobbs and Mystic Meg in the same room?

    1. This job advert doesn’t make sense. The salary is far too small for what is described.
      Are we sure it’s genuine?

  19. A slightly late Good Morning to all.
    A bright overcast start with patches of blue and a mere 1°C outside.

    A small success with ERNIE today with £150 for me and £50 for the DT.

    2. Well, Islam does mean submission to the will of god, the plod may as well get down and throw his ass in the air with the rest of the goat herders.

      1. 371719+ up ticks,

        Morning Kp,

        “To the will of God”, OR ELSE, admittedly the copper would be more use as a bike park.

      2. We have a different God and a different teaching. If they can be allowed to have theirs in our country, we should jolly well allowed to have ours in our country. But our law prevails. If they don’t like it…

  22. Good morning, chums. Late on parade today, I fear. (But I enjoyed the extra snooze.)

  24. Good morning Nottlers, a crisp, clear start to the day (currently 3°C). I’m off out to walking football…I may be some time.

        1. I always knew Dolly was a dumb blonde. It took Harry to teach her what to do with a ball.

  25. Morning, all. A bit late with the greeting; so much to comment on. Sunshine here now after a light frost.

    Ditto the UK Government. Here and elsewhere the cabal know that they are on the hook and no amount of wriggling will free them, hence the attempt to give authority/responsibility to the WHO. We see you!

    https://twitter.com/BillEllmore/status/1631189233296633856

    1. 371719_ up ticks,

      Morning KtK,
      Methinks a complete overhaul of the electorate for starters would be more beneficial.

    2. That redhead is very attractive.

      And the government lying to people? Whodathunkit. The problem is government is deliberately deceitful for it’s own benefit and there is nothing the public can do about it to stop them – and they know this.

      Look at it – it’s a committee, called by officials. If those officials hadn’t bothered or been paid off – as is all too obvious here – then this wouldn’t have happened. That’s wrong, and utterly undemocratic.

  26. Good moaning all,

    A nice start at McPhee Towers, partly cloudy, 3℃ but with a nippy NE breeze. I’ve been absent for a couple of days getting embroiled in a couple of projects which have taken my time (and still will for a bit).

    Letters of the day come from Alexandra Seear, Roger Cousins and Chris Learmont-Hughes but I don’t hear any howls of outrage from the sheep yet.

    1. I’d like to think this is what is happening, but Kipling died in 1936, so possibly he was writing about an extinct race:

      It was not part of their blood,
      It came to them very late
      With long arrears to make good
      When the English began to hate.

      They were not easily moved,
      They were icy-willing to wait.
      Till every count should be proved,
      Ere the English began to hate.

      Their voices were even and low,
      Their eyes were level and straight.
      There was neither sign nor show,
      When the English began to hate.

      It was not preached to the crowd,
      It was not taught by the State.
      No man spoke it aloud,
      When the English began to hate.

      It was not suddenly bred,
      It will not swiftly abate,
      Through the chill years ahead,
      When Time shall count from the date
      That the English began to hate.

  27. Good moaning all,

    A nice start at McPhee Towers, partly cloudy, 3℃ but with a nippy NE breeze. I’ve been absent for a couple of days getting embroiled in a couple of projects which have taken my time (and still will for a bit).

    Letters of the day come from Alexandra Seear, Roger Cousins and Chris Learmont-Hughes but I don’t hear any howls of outrage from the sheep yet.

  28. I have pondered on the release of these apps etc….
    Much has been made of the confidentiality of the material.
    However, trust has to be earned, and British governments, particularly over the past 30 years, have betrayed that trust (arguably, it goes back even further to the ‘Common Market’ lies).
    For decades, the British ruling class has palpably NOT been on the side of this country; so although the confidentiality v. openness discussion is valid, I think the British government has lost the argument by virtue of its own mendacious actions.
    But it is a fine balance. But a balance based on the extinct notion that British governments are somehow fairer and nobler than those of benighted foreigners.

    2. Lucky peeps both of you and Clydie.
      The only win I’ve had since I inherited the bonds from my parents after my mother passed away. Is 25 quid. In over 15 years. Big sis has won several times.

          1. Fortunately, not being a catholic, methodist or islamist, I have no fundamental objection to wasting my cash by gambling…

          2. Premium Bonds are not a gamble. You get your money back whenever you want. I have had the full whack for many years. The money is safe.

      2. Premium bonds cannot be inherited. They can stay in the deceased’s name for a year but must then be cashed in. Are you sure you have them?

        1. I think that’s what happened cashed in and reestablished.
          It’s just that I didn’t have any previously.

      2. I won £1,050, my largest ever win today, which follows last month’s previous highest ever win of £550. It seems odd to me.

        2. You’re obviously getting my share; MOH’s premium bond from the fifties has not paid out a penny!

          1. I had one when I was a child and looked in dad’s newspaper every month to see if I’d won. Fat chance.

    4. I think the swine has forgotten me this month, still I’ve had £325 so far this year

    1. Grattis på födelsedagen, Garlands. Hope you are well and enjoying your day. 😊👍🏻🎂🥂

    2. Grattis på födelsedagen, Garlands. Hope you are well and enjoying your day. 😊👍🏻🎂🥂

    7. Jill is not answering phone or emails. I lost contact two months ago though the lady did send me Christmas and Birthday presents.

    9. Not been seen for quite some time, but have a great Day Garlands. 🎉🥂💐🌼

  31. Morning all 😉 😊 was sunny earlier but its still brighter.
    Politicians deaf to legitimate decent ?
    This could of course be the precise reason that they eff up everything they come into contact with. No change there. Just keep the expenses rolling in, don’t listen to any other sources of information, you 650 greedy worthless people.
    I can’t wait for the list of promises before the next election.

    1. The state is incompetent. That’s a given, these days. It’s not just the politicians, they’re figureheads of incompetent, lazy idiots. I think the state took the easy route to just ‘do nothing’ rather than doing something. The scare campaign and fear was just another tiresome power trip. They weren’t interested in explaining things, presenting real data that could be compared consistently week to week. That would have shown that their policies were not working.

      1. More excuses than action as usual.
        And of course as the opposition have the knack of, knowing everything in hindsight. And everything that goes wrong is every one else’s fault.
        That’s modern politics and the home office for you.

    2. The word ‘parliament’ derives from Norman French. We could see it as a combination of ‘parler’ and ‘mentir’. To speak, to lie.

      2. I thought its meaning was as in ‘Parley’,
        A parley refers to a discussion or conference, especially one designed to end an argument or hostilities between two groups of people. The term can be used in both past and present tense; in present tense the term is referred to as parleying.

        1. You may be right but its root is surely ‘parler’. I did type ‘could’.

          3. More true than one would think, given the behaviour of some MPs. They really are the pits.

  33. 1.2mm of rain here between 11pm and midnight. Currently 4.1C and uniformly grey…

    1. Good morning ogga.

      As I said yesterday Ben Habib is an excellent chap and John Larkin is clearly right in what he says.

      We still have the Northern Ireland Protocol but we have surrendered Article 16 which gave us an escape clause.

      Sunak is either very wicked and mendacious or he is very stupid and has been completely outwitted by the EU. But why are the MSM still lauding him?

      1. 371719+ up ticks,

        Morning R,

        May one point out Mr Batten forever said trigger art.16 now, if not sooner.

        Tricky sticky is treacherous and far from stupid, he is all the time advancing the WEF agenda.

  36. The DT Letters editor smiles on Grizzly but not on me!

    Nevertheless I have sent them this letter but have had to do so using Caroline’s email as they no longer acknowledge letters sent from mine.

    Sir,

    The EU has triumphed over Britain with the Windsor Areement as it has done with so many agreements before.

    In exchange for some illusory trading advantages the UK has lost the possibility of invoking Article 16 to escape if necessary. The EU, with its ECJ prevailing over British Law, remains the final arbiter in Northern Ireland and is still in control of a part of British sovereign territory.

    Is it not time for the Daily Telegraph and the rest of the MSM to stop praising Mr Sunak for his victory and criticising him for his surrender and being totally outwitted?

    R.C.T.

    1. My version:

      Sir,

      The EU has triumphed over Britain with the Windsor Agreement as it has done with so many agreements before due to the inadequacy and amateurishness of the British negotiating team.

      1. What annoys me so much is the snide and stupid comments on DT BTL about Lord Frost! At least the guy was sticking it to the EU before he was muzzled!

        1. I know I go on a bit and I say the same things over and over again. This is an example of why so many schoolmasters become boring old farts!

          However, as I have said many times on this forum, until the very eve of the UK leaving the EU Lord Frost was adamantly insisting that there would be no surrender of British sovereignty in Northern Ireland and that Britain would not give way on its fishing waters.

          Then Gove, shortly followed by Johnson, arrived in Brussels, and the deal was struck with total surrender on both points.

          The one caveat that was deliberately kept in the deal was Article 16 which gave an escape clause to both parties to the deal.

          Now Surrender Sunak has given this up and the UK is completely trapped. And the lunatics are still saying how clever a negotiator he is!

          1. Surrendering British sovereignty of this country to any foreign power is unconstitutional under Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights. Awareness is growing as to how successive politicians have broken our constitutional rights – it’s about time this was given more airing.

            CommonLawConstitution is a useful starting place for those who are generally interested in our constitution and our rights under it.

            https://www.commonlawconstitution.org/

  37. Mystic Rik speaks
    There is no way the ultra establishment Oakshott revelations are not part of the script,showing grotesque incompetence of our government ministers paves the way nicely for demands to give control of our public health issues to the WEF/WHO
    Remember you heard it here first……….
    Edit
    Dammit someone else has come up with exactly this scenario……….
    https://twitter.com/leebens02028826/status/1630989834251563008?s=46&t=jsYaoYdKZNkuKlRjhvxpuQ

      2. Delingpole describes it as a “nothing-burger”.

        That’s the second time i’ve heard that term this month. Yesterday on a podcast an American interviewee described the putative publishing of Ghislaine Maxwell’s “list” as a “nothing-burger”. That is, it will contain only his employees’ names. But that we are being softened up for the eventual revelation that e.g. Clinton et al are on the list (which we know anyway)

    2. And it has been deliberately released at a time when people should be scrupulously examining the Duke of Windsor Capitulation Deal to see how totally Sunak has betrayed us.

  38. Meanwhile…….

    Another ongoing massive scandal

    Greater Manchester Police accused of failing 14-year-old child sexual abuse victim

    Scarlett,

    now 18, from Greater Manchester, has waived her anonymity as a sexual

    abuse victim in the hope of helping others in her position.

    https://news.sky.com/story/greater-manchester-police-accused-of-failing-14-year-old-child-sexual-abuse-victim-12821269
    Be warned this is a brutal read,hangings would be too good for both the “Men” and the police

  39. Back from market. Chilly out. There is a parking bay with 3 spaces just by the market. I thought I’d try my luck. Yes – two spaces. Car in front o me pulled in to the bay – and DELIBERATELY took up two spaces to prevent my going in. Miserable old bastard. I forbore from letting his tyres down.

    1. As I pulled into the short stay at St Albans hospital yesterday afternoon. There was one space but it seemed if I had managed to get into it, I would not have been able to get the doors open. Three plus spaces taken up by two SUVS. I was just about to back out to try the main carpark. When a guy in a black version of our medium size estate beckoned me to take his place as he left. 😉 After my 45 minutes in the department. I came back and both the SUVS were still there. 30 mins max it says. I had to wait much longer for my appt than usual. But the outcome was much better.

    2. There’s a disabled bay in my local town which would accommodate two cars if the drivers parked on a slant. Most often, one car parks parallel to the kerb and there is no chance of anybody else squeezing in.

  40. Morning all. I see “Older and overweight patients are hampering efforts to clear NHS backlogs” according to the DT.

    Just kill us all now, that’ll do the trick.

        1. Not that anyone would guess because of my youthful appearance- and if someone disagrees, I’ll whack ’em with me stick.

    3. Not that I’m being in anyway discriminatory,
      I’ve seen quite a few nurses who could manage a bit of weight loss.
      But like a lot of our ‘overweight elderly’ they are experienced important and quite often lovely people.
      Unlike the nasty hate campaign representatives.

      1. As Littlejohn has often said, these nurses are no strangers to the Hobnob tin.

        1. The nurse that took my blood pressure was absolutely enormous. Her uniform was obviously stitched together (badly) from three others.

          1. When I had the 2nd facial surgery, the nurse was a black lady and enormous too. She was a sweetheart though and held my hand the whole time and talked to me to take my mind off it. My husband said she was there to hold me down and stop me making a run for it!

          2. Yesterday’s medical staff were great – they actually seemed to care, and were kind – as well as organised and competent.

        2. After my hip replacement operation 15 years ago I took a large box of chocolates into the reception for the lovely nurses.
          One of them came across as I came round from the operation. I picked up her accent from South Africa.
          And spoke to her in her home language. She was absolutely delighted. And came to see me on the ward a couple of times.

          1. I did that some years ago when my husband had been into the same ward many times for procedures. Took the nurses and health assistants a large box of chockies- they were very pleased.

    5. What about young overweight people? They will ultimately cost NHS (and probably other departments) much more before they snuff it.

  41. Well done Isabell Oakshot she ripped that far left bbc git Robinson to pieces on bbc radio 4.

  42. As I understand it, Miss Oakeshott signed a non-disclosure agreement. Then leaked all those messages in breach of that agreement.

    Pretty shoddy (no matter what one thinks about the poisonous people involved).

        2. Not those nasty bastards.
          My mate Bruce this morning was telling me about cardinal George Pell and his disgusting antics.
          Apparently there were two women who stood up and gave graphic accounts of his disgusting habits.
          Both met early an demise.

    2. It never fails to surprise me how indiscreet everyone in Westminster apparently is on their phones and computers.

      1. When it suits. Or when they are caught playing games during parliamentary sessions (if they bother to turn up, that is).

    3. I’m afraid that I think that ndds are often misused – they should be a means of keeping private things that would be meaningfully harmful to a country if disclosed rather than a means by which the more powerful PTB muzzle those who can’t fight back.

    4. Normally I would agree.
      However, that system is based on trust; trust that both sides are being truthful and honest.
      For decades, British governments have lied to the very people they were supposed to be supporting.
      Trust has to be earned. We no longer owe any loyalty to the British government as it currently functions.

    2. Mr. Charles Windsor-Mountbatten, by his subservience to the EU and WEF has proven himself to be unfit for the throne.

      1. I’m waiting to see what his Coronation Oath contains. There is serious doubt about his ability to be an apolitical king.

        1. Mr Nostradamus has indicated by those who translate his stuff that this king will not be coronated. He doesn’t say why. I thought the translation was confusing him with Edward Vlll, but apparently not.

  46. Todays tip;
    When I get a headache I take 2 paracetamol and keep away from children – like it says on the bottle

    1. Our mantra must be Never forget, never forgive.
      I will never forget that I was not allowed to speak to my uncle on the phone because the “nurse” wouldn’t take the phone to him, because of “covid rules.”
      Nor will I forgive these swine for the health risks they subjected us to for no reason at all, just a demonstration of power to control us.
      They are beneath contempt.

    2. And – how do those chances of dying compare with influenza, an illness that nobody cares much about?

  48. Greece train crash: Station master arrested after head-on collision kills at least 43. 2 March 2023.

    A Greek station master has been arrested following a head-on collision between two trains that ended up on the same track.

    At least 43 people were killed and more than 80 others injured after a passenger train heading north from Athens with around 350 people on board collided with a freight train heading south.

    On Wednesday afternoon, Greece’s transport minister resigned.

    UK Version. There will be an enquiry sometime next year and the Minister says he is “devastated”and his thoughts are with the families.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/01/greece-train-crash-sixteen-people-dead-dozens-injured-collision/

      1. But that is the point. On our railways lessons HAVE been learnt.
        One can accurately state that safety in any form of transport is based on a long litany of tragic lessons learnt.
        Even more tragically, as in not only this case, but the derailments at Santiago de Compostela and Spuyten Duyvil in the USA, it seems individual national administrations have to learn these lessons for themselves and are unable to look to other countries practices.

  50. Services in England for children with special needs to be ‘transformed’. 2 March 2023.

    Services for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in England are to be “transformed”, with the introduction of new national standards and thousands more specialist school places, ministers have announced.

    The long-awaited changes are being introduced to end the postcode lottery that families currently face and ensure that children and young people with Send get “high-quality, early support” wherever they live, the government says.

    God help them! I would have thought having a handicapped child would have been more than sufficient trouble for anyone.

    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/02/special-needs-services-children-england-plan

    1. They’ve promised this before – it made no difference. I had a daughter who had mild-ish (it wasn’t completely debilitating but she was on the first percentile on some speech & language cognitive functions, while on the 98th for others) autism/Aspergers. I had to pay for several therapies – I was sitting next to another mother while my daughter was having a music therapy session (they were excellent but expensive) and the mother ‘s child was getting it for nothing. Because she lived in the next authority, where they paid for that.

      Then came the “loads more money for autism” from the Government – it made not a scrap of difference.

      I had to go to SEN Tribunal (with evidence, the whole thing bl**dy expensive) twice to get her the support she needed in school.

      The government promises – the government lies.

      1. The top 9 most terrifying words in the English Language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan.

        The government can do nothing right. Look around! Incompetence is their middle name!

  51. Has anyone here seen the actual text of this Windsor Agreement – not read an assessment by the newspaper, listened to the TV, read the blah blah.gov.uk, but actually seen the text? So far as I can tell, all that’s being written about is an assessment of somebody’s (partial) evaluation, and that’s no good. I want to know what it actually says.
    Example: How do we know Art. 16 is deleted? It’s not mentioned either way in anything I have read so far. Maybe it’s been replaced by something equivalent? I’m tired of the speculation… GRR! :-((

    1. We are not at all jealous. We’re bigger than that…mutter mutter scorcher mutter buenos aires mutter mutter

    2. Good day:

      “….an awful lot of stocks and shares
      And half a street in Buenos Aires;
      Pronunciation of this place varies,
      Some people call it Buenos Aires….”
      (H Belloc)

      Tell us – what do the natives call it??

      (I have waited 70 years to ask this question of someone ACTUALLY there!!”)

      1. They call it home… 😉

        Seriously, neither of those, as I’m sure you know. Sort of like bwen-oss ay-ress, accent on the first syllable in both cases. The Argentine pronunciation is very soft – the usual Spanish disinclination to articulate anything but the splendid R. The local accent adds in even more excitement, with the “ll” coming out as a “sh”: I suspect that the Spanish I am picking up will be unintelligible elsewhere… 🤣

    1. No – they just locked people up, muzzled them and let their family members die alone (including those killed by the medics, that is). To appease Big Pharma and the Globalists.

      edit: and put our country in a position by their mismanagement whereby we and our descendants will be paying off their mistakes for decades, while they and their rich/er friends sail above it all.

  54. So what???…The rest of ’em are going to vote for it…He likes to grab the headlines.

    Boris Johnson WON’T vote for Rishi Sunak’s Northern Ireland Brexit deal saying it will not ‘take back control’ from the EU as he uses London speech to criticise successor

    Ex-PM said he would find it ‘very difficult’ to vote for the Windsor Framework
    Johnson’s intervention came as PM gathered Tory MPs at awayday in Berkshire

    By DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
    PUBLISHED: 12:35, 2 March 2023 | UPDATED: 13:20, 2 March 2023

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11812203/Boris-Johnson-attacks-Rishi-Sunaks-Brexit-deal-saying-not-control.html

      1. Strange there wasn’t a three line whip for Vaccine damage and Paki paedo grooming gang debates.

        1. Stupid boy. No one is allowed to upset slammers. And having chemicals shoved in your arm is good for you – everyone knows that…

    3. Pretty difficult for him to say, as it it was his “fantastic” “oven ready deal” that got us into this mess in the first place.

      BUT taking away out ability to walk away under Art 16 is preposterous and should be fought.

  55. After the worrying forebodings and gaps in the rental payments, I got my rental house back today, and it’s in excellent condition! The tenants left with some arrears, but not enormous compared to the rental they paid OK for six years.

      1. I may well rent it out again if I can find good private tenants that fit the area. As far as I know ASTs are still available. Obviously if the government removes these, as they are currently planning to do, then further rentals are out of the question…I might then just keep the house empty until I deem it sensible to sell. No way would I let Serco near it…

        1. When i was in Birmingham i found the best place to advertise for free was on the notice board at the University. You might try something similar with the NHS.
          I was lucky. I had a succession of well behaved English students. A couple of dozen over the years. Some even became friends.

          1. First started renting when I was still in a university post, advertising in our staff magazine. After I retired, I went more commercial!

      2. I may well rent it out again if I can find good private tenants that fit the area. As far as I know ASTs are still available. Obviously if the government removes these, as they are currently planning to do, then further rentals are out of the question…I might then just keep the house empty until I deem it sensible to sell.

      1. No, they worked for the NHS!. My suspicion is that they have been saving for a house to buy.

  56. Good day, dear NoTTLers!

    Gosh, stories like this local one make my tits twirl! “Five Hertfordshire men lure man in mosque and then assault him”.

    Well first, the assaulters were part of the Bangladeshi community, so they are Bangladeshi, (perhaps with British passports – which you can get with a packet of cereal). Not English.

    Second, they are in fact VERY not English: I can’t see five Englishmen trying to lure someone into a church to beat them up. So much for their sacred beliefs. We can’t have a schoolboy with autism who has a scuffed copy of the Koran without their whingeing and wanting atonement, but 5 muslims can use a mosque as a bait to attack someone. Great stuff.

    Third, the pathetically low sentences are par for the course when sentencing these people.

    https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/five-hertfordshire-men-lured-victim-8205307?utm_source=herts_live_newsletter&utm_campaign=breaking_daily_newsletter2&utm_medium=email

        1. I am not racist. I have one proviso. They must integrate. They can still keep their religions and cultures but they must be more flexible with us indigenous. Not treat us like the enemy in our own country !

          2. They don’t want to integrate though. They want to carry on living the lives they have, how they have but with all the benefits (literally) of this country.

            It is actually genuinely infuriating. There are hundreds of thousands of thoroughly decent immigrants living here. Jobs, families, paying their own way, contributing as best they can, not causing anyone a bother.

            The enmity must go to those small cliques who *do* cause the problems and it is always the same crowd. It is always the muslims. It is always the middle easterners with a chip on their shoulder, or the black savages who belong in chains in a cell.

          3. Yes. Many moderate Muslims and Hindus have integrated while still keeping their identity. The troublemakers are the lower order benefit fiends.

          4. Wait ’till it has to be a choice for them, and see which way many of them will swing.

            Edit: By “them” I don’t mean the Hindus.

          5. Wait ’till it has to be a choice for them, and see which way many of them will swing.

            Edit: By “them” I don’t mean the Hindus.

          6. Yes. I remember with gratitude the village pharmacist who kept an eye on Elderly Chum as she deteriorated and warned her nephew and me about his observations.

          7. But the decent muslims still often “support” the others. They don’t distance themselves from atrocities very often, polls have shown that they believe in the extension of sharia law.

            If push comes to shove you’ll see which side they chose, if it has to be a choice.

          10. We are, Lass, at heart, a very hardy nation, who believe in right and wrong and will, I believe, stand up against wrong and finally fight for right has it did in 1914 and again in 1939 and earlier (1642–1651). We are not easily roused but beware when we are.

            If it takes a civil war, so be it.

          11. When we first moved to the US, we felt it was incumbent upon us to fit in with and learn local customs, in order to settle in. “When in Rome” as the saying goes!

          16. Just so, Jill, I’ve lived in Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Australia.

            As you say, integration and learning the language is the key.

          17. Yes, but the Dutch language totally defeated me!! A year spent living outside of Den Haag and everyone wanted to practice their English!

          18. That is half the problem in Scandinavia, they all speak perfect English. As do most of the Dutch.

            I learnt most of my German in the 60s when few Germans would consider English and what I learned was mostly in the Pub just chatting to the locals.

          19. But German grammar defeated me with der, die, das and the verb at the end of the sentence – bonkers.

            That’s why I only speak ‘plat’ Deutsche and nicht ‘haupt’ Deutsche.

          22. That’s the whole point: to Islamists, this is their country. They just need “the wombs of our women” to make it completely so. We are already being flexible with them, the time will come when that is not enough for them.

          23. An Iranian guy I used to work with told me that Iran is an occupied country. He said the moslems did what all invaders do, they killed the men and raped the women.

          24. It’s true. In talking about the Shah Nameh and the miniature paintings in it yesterday. I mentioned that it was deliberately done to preserve the pre-Islamic culture of Iran. Sultan Muhammad, the principle artist, thought Islam was a tide of darkness that would snuff out Persian culture. And the author was non to enthusiastic about Islam either, Ferdowsi was regarded as a heretic.

      2. Ah, but (like that dreadful woman who race-baited Lady Susan Hussey) this is their homeland. They are from Hertfordshire men. When it suits them.

    4. The idea they can be ‘furious’ about being booted out of a property they don’t own and haven’t lived in for 2 years is beyond me.

    1. Nothing will stop the Left from their intended plan to remove all personal freedoms, rights and choices from the citizen. The state simply sees us as a tax cow.

      1. Yes we all have to work and pay the state even in retirement. We are so over taxed but few complain.

    2. The likelihood of Kong King Woke swearing that “coronation oath” is on a par with him naming Harry and Meghan as the rightful heirs to his crown.

    3. Interesting use of the word intercourse in relation to trade – cos we’ve certainly been f*cked

    4. It was precisely because of Common Law that I voted for Brexit. Few people realize that all our institutions rest on it and that when legislation becomes invalid, for one reason or another, the Common Law on that particular topic is automatically activated. The Common law can be buried under Legislative Law but automatically pops up once the Legislative constraints are removed. It is thus the bedrock upon which everything rests, our laws, our monarchy, the fundamental rights of the people, everything of any importance and little. It is the most precious bulwark against tyranny we have and the EU would have destroyed it. It was no advantage to me to vote for Brexit in terms of my financial ore personal interest and I knew it would put me in the hole, as it were, to vote for it. But, to my mind nothing is or was more important than the Common Law. And, ironically, it was living in the USA that taught me an appreciation of it because the Americans take it far more seriously than we do. And, in my opinion, the system here in England is deliberately set up in such a way to make it all but impossible for people to learn about it.

      1. Agreed, Johnathan, and Parliament hates it because Magna Carta (1215) is earlier than ANY parliament and they cannot touch or amend ir, Lovely to see then driven demented over it.

        And don’t forget the Jury system (again enshrined in Common Law.) If just one juror returns ‘Not Guilty’ because the current law is wrong, that law is up for annulment and the accused goes free, because Common Law over-rules any Parliamentary Law.

        1. Gawd, don’t let’s have any minority people on juries then…the one is bound to shriek NG because the law is wrong.

          1. Ah, at least you understand – a good grounding on the English constitution should be taught in schools – it’s not.

          2. I did Consitutional and Administrative law as part of my Bar exams (before I converted to solicitor).

      2. Me too. With Common Law the rights belong to the people. Corpus Juris (EU law, the Code Napoleon) puts all the rights with the state – nothing is allowed unless there is a statute to permit it.

  59. Johnson a bully boy, but not when it came to protecting his people from Hancock,and the like.

  60. Announcement for those in need/want of tomatoes- our local Asda has plenty and no limits as to how many you can buy. Added incentive- 25% off 6 bottles of wine.

    1. Our time has no value to bureaucrats – that is why the NHS is so careless with patients’ time and why the government is so ready to legislate that we must take public transport.

      1. Re the NHS- their time is far more important than ours. The system has become very arrogant and rude.

        1. And “We have zero tolerance towards rudeness and aggression aimed at our staff…”

          1. Yeah. well they should try being more polite to the people they are there to help. Grrrr.

        2. I was chatting with one of our close neighbours today.
          He lives most of his life in West Africa. He had the AZ jabs and hasn’t been been the same since.
          All sorts of problems with his immune system. As we both have. Conlusion we arrived at was we’ve all been duped. And early chatting with Bruce in Oz.
          Same conclusion. But despite having to pay directly for a nation health service(unlike millions of ‘brits’) He Bruce has received rapid and extremely appropriate help with his recent health issues.
          As I said, we are mostly banging our heads against a brick wall.

      2. They’ll still be using cars.
        I don’t understand how these horrible people have set us up as martyrs to carbon. When alm such emissions simply blow away with the next blast of wind.
        It’s pretty obvious which countries are the worse to contribute massively to the atmospheric carbon. China and the rest of the far East. The middle east and cities in America including the south of the continent. Even the roads in Iceland are rammed with traffic.
        But for some reason our hateful and hated politicians have chosen us as the exaggerated problem and to suffer transport martyrdom.
        But not one other country on the planet.

          1. We have more wind across our country. How can there possibly be a build up of population.
            It’s not the 1930s. Less cars less
            People and more pollution. Now far too many people millions more cars. Less pollution. We’ve already set the perfect example.
            So we are punished by our do little self important dickheads in politics. Because they don’t have to guts to point out the real causes and reasons for their self invented versions of global warming. The clueless 650 strike hard against the British people who suport them financially again.

          2. As I posted recently, Dubai has 6 lane motorways in each direction, with cars going at 85/90 mph with petrol/diesel at ridiculously low prices, shall I tell you the figure? 66p per litre.

            Yes. SIXTY SIX PENCE per litre. Diesel 72p.

            They all also run air conditioning 24/7. Every expat works over there, if the job comes to an end, so does that person’s stay and they have to leave the country.

            So no welfare, sunshine nearly all year round, occasional sand storms. There are drawbacks, I.E., Dubai has no heart to it and there are no Churches there. The cost of food is much higher but they have the most amazing shopping malls.

            All the above is to rub your noses (no, not really) but to show how bl..dy effin stupid HMG is in their determination to impose Net Zero.

          7. Meanwhile we have to put up with all the imported Islamic nonsense.
            Not only that, they use desalination plants to process seawater. The massive amounts of salt removed will either be dumped into the sea dangerously increasing the saline content.
            And they have no sewage treatment facilities and dump it in big holes in the desert. Probably use it as fertiliser on the golf courses.

          8. Bermuda has no rivers which is why the sea is clear turquoise. The houses have ridged rooves to collect rainwater but they also have desalination plants.
            A nice place to visit but I don’t think I’d like to live there.

        2. But, but, Eddy the total carbon in the atmosphere is just 0.04 % nothing to be alarmed about.

          2. Yes agreed, but what is our stupid dickhead government trying to achieve Tom?

        3. It’s about transferring the wealth of the West to the rest of the world, plus a bit of global socialism thrown in. It’s reducing the rest of us to serfdom whilst the uber-rich swan about like gods.

      3. I wish they’d legislate that we, here in the sticks, actually had public transport more than occasionally.

  62. Rod Liddle
    Unmasking the truth about Covid

    You want some tomatoes? Come up here, we’re inundated. We’ve got a tomato mountain. That’s because nobody in the north of England eats salad vegetables, yet the government keeps sending up vast lorry-loads of the stuff to stop us dying of diabetes.

    So much of what we were forbidden to say about Covid has turned out to have had considerable substance

    It’s an actual fact that nobody who lives north of Stamford, Lincs, has ever knowingly eaten cucumber. I watch the northerners sometimes in the Tesco at Chester-le-Street, shuffling hurriedly past the vegetable section, eyes averted, nervous lest a pak choi reach out and grab them. There are even tomatoes for sale in our local bakery – they’ve been placed next to the pasties and steak bakes, presumably in the hope that someone will buy one under the misapprehension that they are filled with meat and gravy. But still nobody eats salad veg up here. At least, not in bloody winter. We get through the cold season on pies and insulin.

    A few locals, meanwhile, are continuing to wear face masks – people who refuse to accept that they were misled (unwittingly at first, later not so unwittingly). The first definitive meta-study on the efficacy of masks has been produced by the Cochrane Library, which is often described as the world’s best resource for evaluating health care interventions, and which works in partnership with the WHO. The lead author of the review, Tom Jefferson of Oxford University, summed up the findings: ‘There is just no evidence that they [masks] make any difference.’

    Have you heard this reported on the BBC? Nope, me neither. I wonder if that gloriously arrogant tankie, Susan Michie – clinical psychologist and Sage adviser – is still wearing her stupid mask? I would guess that she is, because, as with most of the berserk left, hard facts play no role in her worldview. In 2021 she suggested we should wear masks indefinitely, despite the growing evidence that they were useless. She was still tweeting pictures of herself masked up on public transport in June last year. And now, faced with the truth, she will probably buy a new batch and put up another asinine tweet.

    The UK Covid inquiry is under way and I suspect it will not get to the nub of the issue, which is that, under the guidance of people like Michie, our entire economy was wrecked, children’s education stopped for 18 months and our future health seriously jeopardised as a consequence of the government’s actions.

    I had – and have – no great objections to the first lockdown, or even the requirement early on to wear a mask and rub your hands with raw alcohol every few seconds. We didn’t know what we were up against, after all. Still, given that we didn’t know what we were up against, the rapid stifling of opinions which did not accord with Michie’s point of view, and the collusion in this by the big tech social-media companies and the likes of the BBC, the police and even the bloody army is a scandal which should not go unpunished – but almost certainly will.

    So much of what we were forbidden to say, on pain of being banned from social media or sacked from our jobs, has turned out to have had considerable substance. As we now know from that Cochrane study, masks were of no use whatsoever in curtailing the spread of Covid – yet those who argued as much were silenced or vilified. Hand cleanser was of no use either, because – as we di covered towards the end of 2020 – Covid wasn’t transmitted by touching a shop counter or the handrail on a Tube escalator.

    If you had proposed in 2021 that the Covid vaccine might be a bit risky, or that there was a connection with blood-clotting, your posts would have been taken down and your ideas certainly wouldn’t have been heard on the BBC. Nonetheless, we later found out that there was a relation between the vaccine and blood-clotting (much as there is between the virus and blood-clotting, it should be said) and we are still not entirely sure of the health ramifications of taking a vaccine tested in haste. You may have noticed, by the way, that we are no longer enjoined to get the jab: except for people over 75, it seems to have disappeared from our lives.

    Opposition to lockdown was similarly samizdat-like. The suggestion that our immune systems were being compromised by lockdown isolation was a view which Twitter and Facebook considered fake news – and yet it is now commonly accepted that our greater susceptibility to flu viruses may indeed be the consequence of that long period under lock and key. You will have your own anecdotal evidence of the much greater susceptibility – I certainly do – and it shows up in the figures for hospital admissions this winter. Then there are the cancers and other serious illnesses that went undetected and will be revealed in future death stats.

    Another view which was simply not allowed was the notion that the virus had leaked from a Wuhan lab. This was ‘racist’ and ‘unhelpful’ – but it seems it was also almost certainly correct.

    My objection, though, is not that the government, or Sage, got it wrong. It was the authoritarian mindset which demanded that countervailing opinions should not even be heard and that the people voicing them should be silenced as ‘Covid deniers’. This totalitarianism was quite explicit, such as when the BBC ran a debate on herd immunity and agreed with one of the participants – Michie, natch – that it should not be ‘even-handed’. As she said: ‘I’d got prior agreement from R4 about the framing of the item. I was assured that this would not be held as an even-handed debate.’

    These people – the same ones who don’t know what a woman is and want to rewrite Roald Dahl – run our lives. They will not be gainsaid and they will stamp on you if you speak up. We need shot of them, sharpish.

    1. So much of what we were forbidden to say, on pain of being banned from social media or sacked from our jobs, has turned out to have had considerable substance.

      You could have read it here on Nottl Rod. I often wonder why we weren’t shut down. I guess its like our Ukraine opinions. Batshit Crazy Pensioners. What do they know?

      1. Batshit Crazy is like Get Mediaeval On Your Ass.
        A totally illogical expression with an obvious meaning.

      2. Not enough social reach. If nttl had had a million views and comments, it’d have been shut down quicker than you could say vaccine injuries…

    4. So where is the clamour to reinstate all those health professionals or other employees who were sacked for refusing to be experimentally jabbed with an untested gene therapy ?

      1. “When you go down in the woods today, you’ll be sure of a big surprise”…..

    5. Actually, they are brave and fearless Ukrainian soldiers disguised as evil, land-grabbing Russian bears.

    1. Less Whatsapp, more “Ooh, I want to write my biography, but i can’t write. Here, Isabel, go through all my messages and write nice things about me to endear me to the public… “

  66. Today is Dr. Seuss’s birthday- Cat in the Hat day and I wore my large red and white striped hat in the library.
    Here’s a Seuss quote for you:

    Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

    Happy Cat in the Hat day!

    1. Dangerous ground you’re treading on, tthe woke mob will probably take exception .

    2. Wow. Can’t match that.

      Wordle 621 4/6

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    3. I had a chance but blew it, made birdie though.
      Wordle 621 3/6

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  69. Just thrown all my drugs away. I watched my Father die after all the drugs i have been prescribed. I don’t wish to end my life in bruises and bleeds both inside and outside. He eventually suffered a massive bleed on his brain and my eldest sister insisted on keeping him on machines until she could take control. I hate my family.

    1. Steady on, Young Phil. While I quite understand your wish to avoid a painful and protracted end – I am not sure that getting rid of ALL the drugs is a good idea.

      Half a year ago, I was taking six different tablets a day. After a lot of reflection, I decided – like you – to get rid of them all EXCEPT for one which appears to be doing what it is supposed to do. My increasing anxiety was that the tablets variés,would react with each other and make me worse. I haven’t had any obvious consequences….yet.

      Just take time to think it over.

      1. My OH has never been on medication until his recent hospital stay and was horrified to find he had so many different things to take. They reviewed them at his six week check up and several were dropped.

    2. You should book a review with a Dr (hah!) to be sure you only take those absolutely necessary. Some will be useful, others less so…

  70. Manchester bombing report: “On any view, in the years leading up to the attack, the leadership of the mosque did not pay sufficient attention to what went on at its premises and did not have policies in place that were robust enough to prevent the politicisation of its premises, which I find occurred. It should have done. That is a lesson that all religious establishments must learn.” I guess taqiyah covers it. The authors imply that there are Christians in vestries hatching the next plot to kill as many kids as possible. The country, as we know, is lost if we can not admit that it is a particular ideology that has murder as one of its methods to achieve domination.

    1. Must be a one-eyed hook-handed approach to control that turned a blind eye to it.
      Islam, another of Satan’s gifts to the world.

    2. Don’t forget that Methodists are carrying out appalling crimes all over the World – but the hierarchy never speaks out…

      (If I am not sarcastic or facetious – I’ll go MAD)

      1. Be fair, all those Methodists have mental health problems. They can’t help the fact that John Wesley was a hate preacher and puts voices in their heads.
        /sarc

          1. So far right that they become lefties as they chase themselves up their own arses.

          2. The lefties were the far right, or more accurately, the far right Narsties were far Left. They just didn’t like communists and threw them in jail/camps.
            Popular Front of Judea vs Judean Popular Front and all that.

    3. No word about encouraging jihad or the injunction to kill the kuffar, I suppose?

  71. On a lighter note – and with a genuine request for information – at 4 pm the MR and I went for a walk through the fields. Chilly but refreshing. I had forgotten my glasses. The MR is blind as a battess (one has to be careful about referring to others in a “sensitive” way).

    Anyway, half way round the block, as it were, I saw what looked like a skylark. Not particularly high but with that characteristic quick fluttering.

    Could it have been a skylark this early in the year? And where do they go out of season when NOT skylarking about? I gather UK ones don’t migrate.

    1. We have heard skylarks on Therfield Heath (Royston, Herts) – there are loads of them – this early in the season and commented on the earliness of it.

    2. On a nice sunny day it’s probably just setting up its territory just a bit early. I’ve noticed a few species are colouring up nicely in summer plumage too.

  73. I think Zebedee just went ‘Boing’ so Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk, until the Morn’s light.

  75. That’s me for today. Busy market. Dreary weather – no sun – but dry. Nice walk. Tomorrow will also be dry – then we due some much needed rain for a few days. I checked Monday’s bonfire. Burned down to within a few inches of the ground but STILL red hot inside. What a success. AND the bonus of all that pollution. Pickles was out on his rounds and we had the inestimable joy of watching him race 50 yards across the garden to say “Hello”. Makes one go all gooey inside, that does!

    Have a jolly evening – smoked haddock for me (and Cook – I allow her to share the table with me) and part of a very nice bottle of Morrisons’ OB Soave. We noticed today that Morrisons are increasing the price of wine quite a lot. A rosé which – six months ago – was “Two for £10” is now “One for £6.25”. Must keep eye on their 25% off bargain offers.

    A demain – one hopes.

    2. My Morrisons does a Paul Mas Clairette du Languedoc at £6.50 which I love, it used to be £8.50.

    3. I find Morrisons expensive generally. I can buy virtually everything cheaper elsewhere. Admittedly, I don’t shop at Sainsburys and there is no Waitrose anywhere near me.

      1. Interesting. I keep an eye on trolley.co.uk. At the moment, Morrisons have the cheapest Yellow Tail Shiraz among the ‘big six’ supermarkets, at £6.00. So I popped in and bough a bottle. Which now seems to be empty.

        1. Check out Asda Little Bro’. 25% off 6 bottles. And they had tomatoes- as posted earlier. Lots of all Yellow Tail- AKA Kanga juice.

          1. Done. And delivered last night. Actually, I successfully obtained tomatoes and a cucumber from Amazon Fresh on Sunday. Not sure if they’ve reached the South coast yet, but they have a warehouse in Frimley, and use independent couriers, so slots are usually available at short notice. Minimum order is £20, or £40 for free delivery.

            In a perfect world, I wouldn’t patronise Jeff Bezos. But our world is far from perfect… ☹️

        2. Aldi Shiraz is cheap, and very nice. It’s cheap enough for cooking with, but also excellent for drinking.

    2. Will they remove the clouds at night? Ever noticed how the cold nights are cloudless? The clouds retain the Earths warmth during the night. Something odd with the reasoning here.

        2. Via passenger jets?
          If they are talking about it, I suspect that many trials will already have been carried out.

      1. Everything!
        This idea from Gates is beyond dangerous for the World and no western government seems to want to rein him in. Politicians appear to be in awe of him and his ideas. One has to wonder what he has that makes him so powerful in their eyes…

        1. His original idea was to spray sulphuric acid into the upper atmosphere.

          Strangely, no part of the media ever publicised the comments by aircraft manufacturers or their insurers.

    5. The Earth is in a cooling period at present. This is a proven fact and substantiated by astrophysics. The Sun is responsible for our climactic changes. This relates to its regular pulsations and the predictive positions of sun spots.

      All other theories are junk and the result of investment in Universities and programmes run by idiots seeking a living from the scam from government funding. It is just so bloody obvious, a gravy train like so much else.

  79. Quote of the day

    ‘It’s all my fault. I fully accept responsibility.’

    – Boris Johnson on checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

    1. Farting in an elevator is wrong on so many levels. (Yes, we’ve heard it before!)

  82. ‘Night All

    nicked comment

    “Let’s blame Wanksock for everything.
    Don’t blame the teachers for not going on strike until the schools re-opened.
    Don’t
    blame the media for not questioning the govt but instead demanding more
    restrictions while the media were free to come and go wherever they
    wanted.
    Don’t blame the govt and don’t blame the Prime Minister.
    Don’t blame Shitty and Vallance or Prof Pantsdown.
    Don’t blame rNHS for not going on strike as soon as they realised it was a pandemic of dangerous hype and a mild virus.
    Don’t blame the Opposition for not Opposing govt policies.
    Don’t blame the Govts for censoring everything that went against the narrative.
    Don’t blame Big Pharma for lying and cashing in or even for killing and maiming people.
    Don’t blame rNHS for jabbing people with unnecessary experimental jabs without getting informed consent.
    Don’t
    blame plod for bashing anti-lockdown protesters on the head with their
    truncheons and enforcing ridiculous but tyrannical rules.
    There is a lot more – but don’t notice the synchronicity across the globe with all the very obviously stupid and more than damaging policies…”

    1. Nobody is to blame for any of the above! Certainly nobody will be punished for anything.

    2. The way this is synchronized is a concern. Much of what is happening here – covid scares , NHS, immigration matches what has been happening in Canada.

      Some of it I can accept is because they didn’t know what they were doing and worked together to come up with rapid responses to unknown issues but come on, time for a bit of country specific thinking here. Surely your mob of dictators are not as beholding to the WEF as Canada is.

    3. And to add insult to injury, MI5 are not taking the blame for the Manchester bombing. Although they seemed to have knowledge of what actually might be happening. Perhaps they couldn’t bring themselves to upset the local community.
      It seems that the boy bomber would not have been capable of constructing the bomb.
      So who ever it was must be still out there.

  83. Sue Gray, a former civil servant, has broken the rules of impartiality; she must be sacked.

      1. Her present job?

        Regardless of time and date, she has usurped her position and is tarnished goods.

      1. And this is why I shall not vote again….What’s the point? All we will get is same old, same old. They are all corrupt liars and crooks. I despise every single one of them.

        1. We need to campaign for NOTA on the ballot paper otherwise they are stealing our vote. They hope we won’t vote as they have their place-men to get them back in. They want to disenfranchise us and not voting plays into their hands.

          1. Honestly Grumps, I won’t waste my time or energy bothering to vote. In some ways I wish I was younger and could be an activist but am not fit enough now.
            We, at Lake Lodge, have enough on our plate right now.

          2. Ann, I realise your plight and the pain and anguish you and your husband have been going through this past year,
            I wish you both a peaceful night’s sleep and hope you soon feel better.
            Good night and sleep well.

          3. Thank you. My husband is doing so much better which is super. My big problem is my skin cancer on my face which is very sore. It distresses both of us. Next week, I shall see if I can bring my appointment forward.
            We get on with it as best we can- got another handrail at the back door today. A big help.
            Anyway, enough moaning.

      2. Practically impossible. So they can do almost anything and their gold-plated pension (paid for by us) stays. It’s sickening.

        1. I remember you trying to help me out with my pension problems.
          All I ever received from those snide bustards was the pile of useless
          paper work.

  84. Evening, all. The lockdowns were unnecessary and harmful to people’s health and also the health of the economy. Heads should roll, but won’t.

      1. Knew that lockdowns were harmful to health? Pretty much everybody who thought about it – lack of exposure to pathogens due to isolation leading to weakened immune systems, lack of social interaction leading to depression and suicide, being unable to access medical care when needed leading to worse outcomes … MOH’s dementia worsened considerably because we weren’t able to go out and have a coffee and socialise.

        1. I believe the entire pandemic reaction was designed from the outset to disorientate, alienate, and subjugate people. The social distancing, mask wearing and lockdowns were devised well in advance by a globalist cabal of plotters. The proof is that other governments around the world, each headed by a globalist puppet or ‘young global
          Leader’ under the evil intent of Klaus Schwab expected to kill off most of us, were in lockstep with the push to curtail our freedoms and poison us with largely untested but under certain criteria, lethal ‘vaccines’.

          Those Globalist fuckers have not yet given up on their already lost cause. They seem emboldened by their failures and unwittingly determined to find themselves prosecuted at Nuremberg 2 for Crimes Against Humanity.

          3. I am beginning to think it won’t be a case of prosecuting, Hl, but something much more primitive that resides within the human heart for times such as these.

          4. Yes, but the PTB have taken away our arms and have technology to spy on us. It was so much more simple in the past.

          5. It is a list cause because we are awake to it. The people have power, not the politicians.

            We have a Constitution. The people are sovereign. No statutes it Acts of Parliament can override the rights we have in our Constitution and the Common Law viz. Magna Carta, whatever the politicians pretend otherwise.

          6. I know this Corri but how is it to be utilised by the public? There is no one I can think of remotely willing to stand up and rally us to work or act together. There are rumblings such as in Thetford against the 15minute rubbish but it’s not going to be enough.

            We need someone with charisma, recognisable, articulate and reasonable. Who will step up?

          7. I think this whole thing is being sincerely moved forward by people like Gates and Schwab, but I also think that the people who put them up to it (the families that own the Federal Reserve and their London friends) have only one goal, namely to manage the crash of fiat currencies and move into the next phase with them still in charge behind the scenes.
            The heads that will roll will be the public face, not theirs.

        2. Lack of Vit D. An elderly friend with dementia died at the start of the lockdowns, as soon as regular visiting stopped.

          1. I have to say I spent most of my time in the garden during first lockdown, but a lot of people didn’t have a garden.

        3. Mother went rapidly downhill when lockdown started. Now she’s in a home, with lots of personal contact, she’s much improved.

    2. It is always stupid women advocating this crap. Most appear to be Lesbians.

      It is all about restricting individual movement. The silly women should never allow its implementation even under the pretext that this is a trial experiment. The whole idea of 20 minute cities is a globalist con-trick and nobody but a globalist shill would advocate it.

    3. That’s excellent. The next meeting though, will probably have cops with tear gas having at the speakers.

    4. I lived there for a few years in the 70s – it’s gone downhill since, I can sense riots in the future

  87. Turning in, first day for months I’ve been able to take doggo for a walk. After soup for lunch trying to refill the wildlife pond. Very difficult I really struggled to pump water from five water butt’s into the pond. The pipe work was hell bent on staying the same shape it been in for around 4 years. Being Rolled up. Now need rain for completion of the top up.
    Night all.

      1. I’m lucky, I usually pass straight out when head hits the pillow, until the bathroom visit calls. Then pass out again. Rarely dream. 🤫

  89. Goodnight, all. Oscar has had a stressful day – he’s been to the groomers and then had the vet treat his eyes again. Kadi is like a different dog without all his flowing locks. I’m still waiting to get my hair cut 🙂

      1. I have someone who comes to my house to cut my hair. The problem is, she’s very busy at the moment.

  90. Good night, chums. It’s just turned 10 pm and I am off to bed. Sleep well.

  91. If we shadows have offended
    Think but this and all is mended,
    That you have but slumbered here,
    While these visions did appear,
    And this weak and idle theme
    No more yielding but a dream…….

    And so it goes. I am so sick of what is going on in this country right now.

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