Tuesday 4 April: A debate on the future of the NHS without the distortions of ideology

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  1. Morning all. Where is everyone?

    From Charles Moore, one more reason why the HoC is not fit for purpose:

    “ When he swept into office in that year, the modernising Tony Blair wanted to do away with what he saw as fusty old practices. One such was the Commons custom of sitting late. New Labour replaced this with “child-friendly” hours, which prevented late-night debate. This meant that MPS wishing to scrutinise legislation properly could no longer exploit parliamentary time to do so. A related reform made the government much freer than before to use a timetable motion, known as the “guillotine”, to end debate on a measure.

    Bad ideology took advantage of bad process. Civil servants, NGOS, quangos, politicised charities and pressure groups saw it as their job to have ready a constant supply of new measures which elaborated on legislation about rights, equality and diversity. Hard-pressed and/or inexperienced ministers could then be bamboozled into accepting with a shrug what they could not control. Thus it is that 13 years of Conservativeled government have failed to prevent the creep of officialdom and the eclipse of liberty.”

    2. A belated Good Morning, More info required. I tried to log in at around 6.55 am but my computer would not connect to the internet. So I got on with various other jobs, and here I am with my usual elevenses of decaffeinated coffee with a dash of double cream and a buttered (cold) hot cross bun. Yum, yum.

      1. I love hot cross buns. Toasted with butter or preferably raw. Mmmmmmmm. I haven’t had any luck in my attempts at making them

        1. I prefer them raw too, MIR. Mind you, I think Grizzly would disagree with us both.

  2. Good morning all. A bright start, totally clear sky with -3½°C outside.

    And I’ve won £225 off ERNIE!

      1. Oops Aeneas, you beat me to it by a full four hours! (Good morning, btw.)

    3. A days pay for all your hardwork Bob.
      I had an email last week from the lottery. You’ve won a prize.
      Don’t get excited I thought…….£4.90
      How they work that out I’ll never understand.

      1. I stopped doing the National Lottery when I found out they’d been funding Mermaids, the charity that advocates for the sterilisation of children with mental problems.

        2. I do the post code lottery. £10 a month and so far i have won £10 every month.

    4. … and he drove the fastest milk cart in the West. (Congratulations on your sizeable win and Good Morning, btw.)

    1. Fortunately, I’m spared the anxiety. I don’t have a modern smartphone. My old model hasn’t the wherewithal to install payment apps, so I still brandish either a debit or credit card, although happy to pay the contactless way. I’ve never used WhatsApp and, although I’m aware it’s a social media tool, I don’t know what its advantages are compared with other social media providers. It certainly did Matt Hancock no good. I’m similarly bemused by TikTok. I have accounts with Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. I barely use the first two, I occasionally browse Facebook, but the only one I actually post anything on is Twitter, infrequently at that. Being nearer the antediluvian end of the modernity scale has its advantages.

  6. Good Moaning.
    A little light read to kick off the day.
    The BTL comments are pure gold: very creative.
    The writers wax lyrical, so’s to speak.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/03/snp-politician-karen-adam-hate-crime-gender-laws/

    “SNP politician had innocent woman investigated for hate crime over bikini wax mix-up

    Karen Adam complained of being a victim of abuse after receiving unsolicited booking for an intimate salon appointment

    By Daniel Sanderson, Scottish Correspondent3 April 2023 • 5:12pm

    Karen Adam was one of the most vocal supporters of the plan to allow Scots to change their legal sex

    Karen Adam was one of the most vocal supporters of the plan to allow Scots to change their legal sex Credit: Fraser Bremner/PA

    A nationalist MSP caused an innocent woman to be investigated for a hate crime after she wrongly claimed opponents of Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID laws had booked her a “malicious” bikini wax.

    Karen Adam, who represents Banffshire and Buchan Coast for the SNP, complained in December that she had been a victim of abuse and intimidation after she received an unsolicited confirmation for an intimate salon appointment.

    She publicly blamed critics of self-ID laws for making a booking “focused on my genitals” at the same time that a crunch Holyrood debate on the controversial gender laws was due to take place.

    However, the Telegraph understands that it took a police probe to find out that the incident was the result of an innocent mix-up at the Edinburgh salon.

    A woman with a very similar name to Ms Adam had tried to make a genuine appointment and the MSP got the confirmation email, in what police sources confirmed was an “administrative error”.

    Critics of Ms Adam said her reaction to receiving the email, which she also wrote about at length in a national newspaper column, exposed her “absurd persecution complex” and raised doubts over whether she was clever enough to be an MSP.

    Hate crime probe

    It is understood that the woman who made the booking was phoned up by police and warned that she was at the centre of a hate crime probe, before it was established that the MSP had leapt to the wrong conclusion.

    “Karen Adam’s absurd persecution complex led her to make wild claims about what appears to be an innocent mix-up,” Marion Calder, a director with the For Women Scotland campaign group, said.

    “This no doubt caused stress for the spa and the unwitting client on the end of a serious allegation.

    “Questions must be asked about her fitness to think rationally and her ability to take ownership of mistakes, do the decent thing, apologise and correct the record.”

    Ms Adam initially made the claim that she had been harassed through the salon booking, for an extended bikini wax, eyebrow wax and lip wax, on Twitter on Dec 19.

    She warned: “I’ll find out who did this” and raised the prospect of police involvement.

    Her claim generated sympathetic coverage in some local and national newspapers and supportive responses on social media. She contacted the salon before then calling in police.

    She then devoted a significant proportion of her newspaper column, published on Dec 28, to the incident, blaming critics of the gender reforms.

    “This abuse, as predicted, does spill out into the real world,” she wrote. She claimed the incident had made her “look over my shoulder and wonder who’s obsessing” and was “triggering”.

    No crime had been committed

    Despite police establishing that no crime had been committed, Ms Adam appears to have made no effort to set the record straight.

    Ms Adam was one of the most vocal supporters of the plan to allow Scots to change their legal sex simply by signing a declaration, which was later blocked by the UK Government.

    She sat on Holyrood’s equalities committee which carried out a controversial probe into the legislation.

    She was an outspoken supporter of Humza Yousaf’s SNP leadership bid, but unlike many of the First Minister’s other Holyrood backers, was overlooked last week for a ministerial post.

    A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “On 21 December 2022, we received a report of a potential malicious booking at a beauty salon in Edinburgh. Enquiries were carried out and no criminality was identified.”

    A spokeswoman for Ms Adam said: “In December 2022, a salon – which Karen had no prior contact with – made unsolicited contact with her.

    “Following this, and before contacting Police Scotland, Karen contacted the salon and discovered her personal contact information had been provided Karen then decided to contact Police Scotland to look into the matter which she found unsettling.

    “Karen is grateful to Police Scotland for their support throughout.” “

      1. Very probably.
        After she’d taken advantage of a buckshee beauty treatment.
        Might be worth travelling as far as Loughton.

    2. Marvellous.

      I see that there is the usual tasteful BTL contribution from the Essex Department of Dirty Sniggers

      A Allan
      14 HRS AGO
      Reply to Mrs Young – view message
      They should stop fa nny ing around.

      1. This one points out how people vote for the Party Label rather than the person:-

        In Kent
        15 HRS AGO
        Check out her Wiki entry.
        Grew up in a lesbian household, with an absent deaf dad.
        Knocked up as a teenager, divorces for the first time, then marries and becomes a mormon for 20 years – 5 more kids before he has an affair and she ditches him and the religion.
        Seems to have never had a job outside of political positions. Always a bad sign..
        Big supporter of LGBT and Trans issues and seems to make vaguely supportive comments of peado sex predator undesirables.
        The best the SNP have to offer right? Basket case.

    4. Anne, I’ve nicked your ‘Wax lyrical’ comment for my own BTL comment.

      You now have 79 ‘likes’

        3. Not sure about that, I think he was part of the coven that got rid of Thatcher.

    2. A supposedly good Chancellor whose pension reforms were a mistake and which were eventually used by Brown to create a disaster that changed some of the best pension schemes in the world into the relatively poor pensions we now “enjoy” and whose boom eventually became an almighty bust.
      Over-rated in my view

    3. Tory Grandee Lord Lawson, despite being a self-described European, argues that the European Union is a threat to democracy. His incisive and insightful presentation builds on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s earlier attack on the EU’s rapacious power grab which now threatens the vital institutions of all of its members. Lawson concludes that for confirmed Europhiles such as himself, regrettably: “We must love you, but leave you.” (2013)
      He also served as chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation think tank whose aims are to challenge what it calls “extremely damaging and harmful policies” envisaged by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming. The GWPF, and some of its prominent members individually, have been characterized as practising and promoting climate change denial.

      Just two reasons to be grateful for his service.

  13. ‘Morning, Peeps. Brief visit today as I’m in Carmarthen for a couple of days for a dear friend’s wedding this afternoon. Thankfully the forecast contains no rain for once…

    SIR – We have a Government that is gripped by net zero groupthink. A net zero target for 2050 is unnecessary in a country responsible for just 1 per cent of global carbon emissions.

    It will also be very costly. Where is this money to come from? We already have a national debt of around 90 per cent of annual GDP.

    The course the Government appears to be set on is that of wealth destruction, rather than creation.

    We need a political party that is going to put the interests of ordinary people first.

    Peter Crawford
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire

    Well said, Mr Crawford. Remember this – every measure of the Nut Zero scam will cost you money, or your freedoms, or both. As for a party that will put our interests first – dream on, matey!

    1. Totally agree, our politicians and civil service are hell bent on making the UK martyrs to the inventers of climate change. They really should get out more around the world.
      And please you morons stop building housing on green belt land.

      Have a lovely time in Wales, don’t get held up at the border coming back home.

    2. Wealth destruction via ‘Net Zero’: how about forcing landlords to upgrade their properties to at least EPC ‘C’ rating over 5 years** and a similar restriction on selling a house if it doesn’t achieve the minimum ‘C’ rating? Properties becoming worthless to those who have invested their money.
      How soon before EPC ‘B’ becomes the lowest acceptable rating? So much of what this government is planning is wedge shaped.

      ** Not condoning landlords who deliberately keep their tenants in poor conditions. Some older properties will be very difficult and costly to improve e.g. those built without cavity walls.

      1. How come we normal people saw Osborne’s attack on private landlords the beginning of the end for buy-to-let, making rented property increasingly scarce and therefore unaffordable for so many?

  14. ‘Morning, Peeps. Brief visit today as I’m in Carmarthen for a couple of days for a dear friend’s wedding this afternoon. Thankfully the forecast contains no rain for once…

    SIR – We have a Government that is gripped by net zero groupthink. A net zero target for 2050 is unnecessary in a country responsible for just 1 per cent of global carbon emissions.

    It will also be very costly. Where is this money to come from? We already have a national debt of around 90 per cent of annual GDP.

    The course the Government appears to be set on is that of wealth destruction, rather than creation.

    We need a political party that is going to put the interests of ordinary people first.

    Peter Crawford
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire

    Well said, Mr Crawford. Remember – every measure of the Nut Zero scam will cost you money, or your freedom, or both. As for a party that will put our interests first, dream on, matey!

  15. Morning all 🙂😉
    Heavy frost but lovely sunshine melting it very quickly.
    A strong radio signal has been received from a planet 12 lightyears away. Better get yer passports renewed, but don’t hold your breath they won’t be in the EU.

  16. Good morning, all. Early frost and now sunny and clear.

    This excerpt from the Stew Peters’ Show reveals how politics and the rule of law in the USA are being corrupted by the current regime. Trump and his advisors are/have been under attack by the Democrats/RINOs since 2015.

    One of those senior advisors is Dr Peter Navarro, a 70+ years old 145lb man, literally ‘taken down’ by 5 FBI agents and placed in leg-irons.

    In the UK we are not seeing anything as blatant as the political harassment of Trump simply because we have no-one like him in politics. Here, the major parties are as one when it comes to the destruction of our way of life be it driven by acolytes of the WEF or the Trilateral Commission. Should a real threat to the hegemony of the current grouping arise then it’s possible that the situation could take a similar turn as has happened in the USA.

    Reform under Tice is a haven for people currently unhappy with the LibLabCon party but doesn’t pose anything like the real threat of the level MAGA does in the USA.

    Stew Peters – Peter Navarro – The Obsession With Putting Trump Behind Bars

      1. I agree – but what is your alternative other than NOTA, spoilt ballot or abstention?

  17. Morning everyone. Just managed to get through after repeated denials. GCHQ?

      2. There should be a British version of Captcha. “Tick every box witha hoodie/kebab shop/stabbing?”

    3. For users with Sky boadband it is necessary to change the default safety setting as nttl is classed as having racist and/or offensive content. Edit, and according to msm, Virgin media had a fall.

  18. Putin pushes Russian oil exports to record high. 3 April 2023.

    Vladimir Putin has pushed seaborne deliveries of Russian crude to record highs to fill Moscow’s war chest, even as the Kremlin vowed to tighten oil supplies.

    The surge in shipments came despite Russia joining the Saudi-led Opec cartel in announcing cutbacks on Sunday to the global stock of crude. Moscow said it would lower output by half a million barrels per day until June.

    Oil prices climbed more than 6pc on Monday after surprise production cuts led by Saudi Arabia that risk causing pain for motorists at the pumps and stoking inflation.

    I don’t think that the Sanctions are going to plan.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/03/oil-prices-opec-saudi-production-cuts/

    1. I’m probably being a bit of a reble, but IMHO the world really does need someone like Vlad to bring the globall elite to book.
      Before it’s too late.

    2. This is because gormless Western governments are incompetent and don’t care what the cost is because someone else has to pay.

  20. Good morning all ,

    Cold and frosty morning here , sunny blue sky.

    Pair of hedgehogs were trundling along in the garden last night , the dogs got quite excited when they scented them.

    My birthday garden wild life camera isn’t functioning properly yet.. it needs setting up correctly.

    1. I’m dead jealous.
      We had visiting hedgehogs at Allan Towers.
      Then our neighbour got a puppy and blocked off the hole under the fence. When the dog was larger, I asked him to remove the block, but nothing was done.
      We have brought the hedgehog house to our new abode; fingers crossed.

  21. ‘Morning All

    Medley Time

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    2. I wouldn’t call google an information tool any more.

      The idea of burning down the houses of those who seek to destroy our way of life appeals. Now all we need is to make sure they’re inside.

      1. It’s the atheist point of view, surely?
        If Christian, one can always ask oneself what would Jesus do.

  22. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    No Sacrifice

    A man asked a waiter to take a bottle of Merlot to an unusually attractive woman sitting alone at a table in a cosy little restaurant.

    So the waiter took the Merlot to the woman and said, ‘This is from the gentleman who is seated over there’ – and indicated the sender with a nod of his head.

    She stared at the wine coolly for a few seconds, not looking at the man, then decided to send a reply to him by a note. The waiter, who was lingering nearby for a response, took the note from her and conveyed it to the gentleman.

    The note read: ‘For me to accept this bottle, you need to have a Mercedes in your garage, a million dollars in the bank and 7 inches in your pants’.

    After reading the note, the man decided to compose one of his own in return. He folded the note, handed it to the waiter and instructed him to deliver it to the lady.

    It read: ‘Just to let you know things aren’t always what they appear to be, I have a Ferrari Maranello, BMW Z8, Mercedes CL600, and a Porsche Turbo in my several garages; I have beautiful homes in Aspen and Miami , and a 10,000 acre ranch in Louisiana. There is over twenty million dollars in my bank account. But, not even for a woman as beautiful as you, would I cut off three inches. Just send the wine back.’

  23. Crisis averted.
    Firstborn’s tiny cat went out last night, and didn’t come back. Search last night and first thing this morning showed no trace, but second search revealed a tiny meow from the barn. Cat grabbed and brought back to the house for warming, feeding and cuddling. Firstborn loves his wee cat (as do we all – huge personality in small furry package) and was distraught at the thought he might be gone – now joy, as the cat’s back!
    Relief…
    There are all kinds of creatures out there that would like to snack on a small cat – including eagles – so the danger to him is noticeable.

    2. Cats and curiosity……fatal combination. Over the last 47 years I have spent hours and hours looking for missing cats. They get into sheds and garages and are shut in. The worst was Pluto in the late 1980s. She was missing for a week. We had given up all hope. Then, on the eighth evening I opened the front door about 10 pm, and there she was. Fit and healthy!!

      1. A lady near me had a cat which went missing – turned up at her door 3 years later
        She swears that when she said “And where have YOU been” the cat replied “Out!”

    3. Calls to mind a Benny Hill song, What a World:

      Three old maids had a she cat
      They kept her indoors everyday
      Kept her away from the he cats
      Thought she’d like it better that way
      Then one old maid went and got married
      Next morning she hastened to write
      A note to the others which simply said
      “Let Kitty out tonight!”

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

      This is well worth a listen. Benny Hill is often underrated.

    4. Calls to mind a Benny Hill song, What a World:

      Three old maids had a she cat
      They kept her indoors everyday
      Kept her away from the he cats
      Thought she’d like it better that way
      Then one old maid went and got married
      Next morning she hastened to write
      A note to the others which simply said
      “Let Kitty out tonight!”

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

      This is well worth a listen. Benny Hill is often underrated.

    1. Another globalist quangocrat funded from public money for something we neither want or need. This is why they push all this drivel. The after office jobs.

    4. Why do pictures of this foul woman always make her look quite pretty when, in truth, she looks foul?

    6. I think he is confused. His grandmother and great aunt had a passion for horses. I think he has inherited a warped version of it – she is easily mistaken for a scrawny nag.

    7. William and Kate are utterly shameless.
      Perhaps they think they are popular enough to get away with openly siding with the likes of Ardern.
      They’re not.

  25. I would appreciate if someone would explain why remoaners constantly blame Brexit when EU law is enacted – nutcase zero, the hike in corporation tax, the suing of employers for hurty feeling, heck, name any law passed in the last decade and they’re all EU laws.

    Remoaners keep whinging, but they’re getting what they wanted. I just wonder how they’ll react when the state doesn’t give them what they want after they’ve voted for it. Will they realise then how wrong they were? Ah, of course not. They’ll blame the other side.

  26. Guy goes into see the doctor who turns out to be a lady. She asks him what’s wrong to which he replies “It’s embarrassing, you’ll only laugh”. The lady doctor assures him that she would never laugh whatever the circumstances, she’d seen everything before. “It’s my willie” he said. “Ok” said the doc “let’s have a look”. He drops his pants and shows her his willie which is the size of an AAA battery. The doc bursts out laughing. “I knew you’d laugh” said the guy. The doc apologises profusely and asks him what’s wrong with it. The doc collapses when he replies ” It’s swollen”

  27. As I was about to trip over my feet just now (and would have blamed one of the cats), I reflected that when referring to old people breaking limbs we say: “He had a fall” not “He fell over”.

    We all know that. But why do we use that form of words, I wonder?

    2. Perhaps “he fell over” implies it was all his own doing where “he had a fall” could also mean he was pushed?

      1. “He had a fall” does suggest influences outside the oldie’s control. (Passive voice, if I remember my grammar correctly.)
        Whether cats under feet, curled rug or a bout of dizziness, the fallee has been felled by malign agents.

        1. Indeed, O Pushy One – but I still ponder why we don’t say “He fell over”.

          1. And the expression might imply that the fall was beyond the control of the individual, as in a loss of balance due to an ear problem, or muscular weakness.

          3. I think poppiesmum has a point; it does suggest a lack of control over one’s life.
            Like people saying “Bless” whenever an oldie speaks.

      2. I don’t think so. “He had a fall” has a specific meaning – that an old person suffered some accident or medical condition that caused him to fall over. No third party involvement.

          3. I know no one called Grace – apart from Grace Fairbrother, of course (you are too young…)

          6. Grace Archer (also Fairbrother) is a fictional character from the BBC’s long-running radio soap, The Archers. She was one of the original characters and was played by Monica Gray and then Ysanne Churchman. The episode depicting her death was broadcast by the BBC on 22 September 1955, the same evening as the launch of ITV, so as to distract from it.

            The Rsoles at the BBC are purely malevolent – and have been for more than 70 years.

        1. Thanx!
          Edit: but seriously, it could be part of a bell curve of perceived ‘individual responsibility’ set against age of the individual
          A toddler has a fall, a teenager crashes his/her bike, an adult plummets off a ladder, a pensioner has a fall.

          2. Come September you may visit yonder orchard and I will lend thee a basket for some Bramleys.

    4. Because it makes them sound old, there is a sinister undercurrent there, inference of a stroke or TIA in the background, so that we perceive them the person, differently. Differently in that younger people perceive them to be over the hill and their opinions not worthwhile. Especially when one has had ‘a fall’. When I fell over and fractured my ankle three years ago I very determinedly said at A&E ‘I fell over’. Which I did.

    5. Good morning, Bill

      Murderers say ‘the knife went in‘ rather than ‘I stabbed him‘!

      Perhaps as a society we always try to diminish personal responsibility?

    6. Good morning, Bill

      Murderers say ‘the knife went in‘ rather than ‘I stabbed him‘!

      Perhaps as a society we always try to diminish personal responsibility?

    1. One thing we know about big government is it doesn’t like accepting responsibility. If the accuser isn’t present then it doesn’t have to answer his questions, just waffle around the truth to state it’s own emotional response.

    2. Good Morning, Tom

      The dismissal of Bridgen’s well-reasoned and well backed up arguments and the Parliamentary boycott of his speech were a disgrace.

      Will the absent MPs run and hide when everything that Bridgen said about the need to be wary about the Covid gene therapy turns out to be both wise and true or will they remain totally unperturbed?

      Talking of Boycotts Geoffrey was shunned by the BBC and the MSM for being a wife beater when he was nothing of the sort and the claims against him were fabrications just as the claims of racism against Michael Vaughan were not true.

      Why are great cricket players from Yorkshire vilified?

  31. Yo and Good Moaning All

    Sanity may be rearing its’ Ugly Head, in the Swimming World

    In a move that goes further in higher-level competition than swimming’s international governing body, Fina – which has excluded
    transgender athletes from women’s competition if they have gone through male puberty – Swim England will simply have two categories: ‘open’ and ‘female’.

    There will no longer be a specific ‘male’ category.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/swimming/2023/04/03/swim-england-transgender-policy-open-category/

      1. How so

        The females are Willyless
        The Willy Waving Wimmen will wace against men,

        1. Female doesn’t appear to be sufficiently restricted under this ruling, all they’ve done is called male “open” they don’t appear to have banned transexuals from female competition completely.

          Trannies of either variety should be placed in a separate competition, rather like paralympic competitors.

      2. I disagree. When all the trannies start to get routinely thrashed by real male athletes, they’ll soon shut up and, hopefully, piss off.

        1. The reason they don’t enter male competitions is they already know they’ll be thrashed.
          The vast majority of these creatures were already competing as men and spotted an easy option.

          The banning must be for female competitions.
          Have you or have you ever had testicles? Sorry you’re a bloke.
          Have you or have you ever had a penis? Sorry you’re a bloke.
          Have you or have you ever had a prostate? Sorry you’re a bloke.

          There might be females competing as males in individual, as opposed to team sports, but I doubt there will be other than a very, very tiny number.

    2. 373000+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      My honest belief Og is that without the continuing help of the local council / police etc
      the pakistani paedophile pollution would never have got such an odious grip on places like rotherham, bear in mind these peoples are in place via the ballot booth.

    3. No, this isn’t true. The government did act. The state machine did everything it could to discredit the victims of pakistani muslim paedophile rape and protect the perpetrators.

      Labour forced them on us, after all. They were Labour councils which ignored the criminality. Labour who said ‘the victims of mechanised rape should ‘shut up in the name of diversity’.

      Labour forced pakistani paedophile muslims on us and Labour covered it up.

      1. 373000+ up ticks,

        Afternoon W,

        Lab (ino) laid the footings of the
        take-down of a Nation, then the tories
        ( ino)started to construct via the repress,replace, RESET campaign & with the peoples support winning on all fronts

  33. Apropos the “fall” thread I peddled below – I remember years and years ago, an article about popular clichés used by reporters (in the days when there WERE reporters – not teenage scribblers who simply reproduce press releases and call it news).

    “Firemen wearing breathing apparatus”

    “Women carrying shopping bags”

    “Donning lifejackets”

    “Pronounced dead at the scene”

    Please do add your own favourites….

    3. “Suffered a fatal accident, from which they have died”

      Daily on the Radio News , in 1950s

    4. “Suffered a fatal accident, from which they have died”

      Daily on the Radio News , in 1950s

    7. “An everyday story of country folk”

      After I and many, many others had written to the BBC to say that we had always lived in the countryside and none of the broadcast events had ever happened to anyone we knew, they changed the tagline to “a contemporary drama in a rural setting”. Cowards…and I stopped listening.

    8. Slam-dunk………
      A debate on the future of the NHS without the distortions of ideology.

  35. I was sat on the bench means that somebody placed me on the bench rather than I was sitting or seated on the bench of my own volition; in the same way there is a difference between I was stood in the corner and I was standing in the corner. It is all down to the difference between the transitive and intransitive use of the verb.

    Caroline was very pleased with herself when she managed to explain to her class the difference between I was lying on the grass and I was laid on the grass!

          4. Are you coming back at all? Would love to see you again in the Summer. Tine is visiting on the 18th May.

          5. I’ll be back at some point. Timing sort of depends on whether I getthe English SiM card which is apparently in transit. Will saunter along to sing to you when I return. 🙂🙂

    3. That brings back happy memories of the horror on my Russian tutor’s face when mt supervision partner, a stolid Yorkshirewoman, insisted that “I was sat” was the usual form of the verb. It was, to her! Messed up his explanation of Russian tenses, and unsettled him for the rest of the term. 🤣

    4. Lady Mondegreens.

      “The word Mondegreen, meaning a mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric, was coined by the writer Sylvia Wright.

      As a child she had heard the Scottish ballad “The Bonny Earl of Murray” and had believed that one stanza went like this:

      Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands

      Oh where hae you been?

      They hae slay the Earl of Murray,

      And Lady Mondegreen.

      Poor Lady Mondegreen, thought Sylvia Wright. A tragic heroine dying with her liege; how poetic. When it turned out, some years later, that what they had actually done was slay the Earl of Murray and lay him on the green, Wright was so distraught by the sudden disappearance of her heroine that she memorialized her with a neologism.”

  36. I was sat on the bench means that somebody placed me on the bench rather than I was sitting or seated on the bench of my own volition; in the same way there is a difference between I was stood in the corner and I was standing in the corner. It is all down to the difference between the transitive and intransitive use of the verb.

    Caroline was very pleased with herself when she managed to explain to her class the difference between I was lying on the grass and I was laid on the grass!

      2. If it had been a white one it would be (a) far less horny, and (b) paying reparations to the black one.

    2. February £525
      March £1,050
      April £0
      Bugger, I was beginning to see a pattern.

  41. Prince William has revealed that he is “honoured” to hand over a very important royal job to New Zealand’s former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. The news was announced via the official Twitter account for Earthshot Prize, with the Prince and Princess of Wales’s official page sharing the news.

    The official tweet read: “We’re delighted to welcome Jacinda Ardern to The Earthshot Prize Board of Trustees.

    “Her lifelong commitment to sustainable development and climate action align powerfully with our ambition to protect and restore our planet by 2030. We’re honoured she joins us in this new role!”

    William shared the post, with the words: “It is an honour to welcome Jacinda Ardern to the Earthshot Prize team.

    https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/breaking-william-appoints-jacinda-adrern-to-senior-role-in-his-climate-action-project/

      1. It didn’t take them five minutes after the Queen’s death to show their politics.

    3. Will he ever become King, Charles may be the last we have if they go on like this.

    4. Wokery will put the final nail in the monarchy’s coffin.

      I do not approve of the new King and I was never a great fan of Diana, the Princess of Wales, but in many ways their older son is shaping up to be just as clueless and stupid as his younger brother.

      1. We have a street party arranged, if it’s not raining I’ll only be there for the drinks, snacks and chats.
        Since the departure of his mother ‘the crown’ has lost its sparkle.

    5. Wokery will put the final nail in the monarchy’s coffin.

      I do not approve of the new King and I was never a great fan of Diana, the Princess of Wales, but in many ways their older son is shaping up to be just as clueless and stupid as his younger brother.

    7. Well, that’s a pretty open declaration of where William stands.
      Pretty much removes hope that the Windsors might improve in the next generation.
      They must go.

      1. A pity the institution of royalty is being ruined by the current incumbents.
        After Her Majesty’s excellent leadership, ably assisted by the Duke of Edinburgh, the current lot are useless, even malevolent. Such a shame Anne wasn’t born first. On such coincidences do these things hinge.

    1. I was also born in the Sudan but my body and the rest of me are English even though I am married to a Dutch woman and I live in France!

        1. And I’ll bet my house they all get better treatment for health issues than British pensioners. Who have supported the NHS since it began.

      2. English? Your ancestors were surely Norman and you have honoured them by returning to the land of their birth.

        1. No, Tim, the word ‘Norman’ is a corruption of ‘Norse men’ who beat the crap out of the Gauls and the Franks around 886 and declared themselves Dukes of Normandy.

          William ‘The Bastard’ was, in fact, the 7th Duke of Normandy. His mother was Herleva de Falaise but never married his father Robert II (6th Duke of Normandy.

          All this is contained in my family tree, a copy of which I can send you if you have PowerPoint.

          1. Thanks, but Rastus’ ancestor was a Sir Tracey from Normandy, so although ethnically a Norse man, the ancient knight was born in or had been a resident of what is now Normandy. And Rastus like sailing, so there has to be some maritime DNA.

    3. And in a reply to the inquisitive journalist Omar said “well iol be jayzzus”.

      2. I’m with wibbling here, we already have it. And the psyops campaign is being ramped up with the so-called “alert” coming on 23rd April. Unfortunately Alf and I are away when this happens. I’d be interested to know what Nottlers think is going to happen after the alert sounds. I’m thinking there will be an instruction – to STAY INDOORS AT ALL COSTS. (On pain of death!). Will they be sending up drones to check the streets?

        How will TPTB know if this test is “successful”?
        It seems ridiculous that it’s “to warn us of danger of death or flooding”. If it’s a nuclear alert it’ll be too late. What else is there that could mean instant/imminent death?

        What is the real purpose?

        I am extremely suspicious of this alert.

        1. We’re away that weekend too – depending on what time of day it comes, we might be on the train – it might be defening even if we manage to turn our own phones off.

          2. To terrify the children just before they go to bed.
            WHO thought that one up?

          3. It is such an intrusion. It’s like the government has taken up permanent residence in your pocket or bag.

          4. Terrifying people this way is a lot cheaper than paying for 3 years worth TV and radio advertisements.
            PsyOps phase 2.

        2. I disabled the emergency alerts. If there’s a catastrophic event and I know about it, there’s little I can really do about it. Telling me is pointless.

          What it really seems for is a system of spreading fear. Keep people frightened and obedient so eventually the emergency becomes mundane and pointless and merely government dictat.

        3. I’m going to turn off the volume on my phone. Can’t find anywhere to disable emergency alerts.

        4. The ‘Stay Indoors’ will probably come later, and will probably be related the the climate change scam hoax. Such as ’30 C today, stay indoors. Heavy fines for offenders.’ It will be headed ‘Climate Change Warning’ to put the fear of God into the believers. Also the 30 c is sufficiently high enough to worry the faithful, and sufficiently high enough for it to occur several times throughout a good summer here, but not sufficiently high enough for it never to recur again. Endless opportunity. With this first alert on 23 April, we are just being primed for fear, being groomed, as it were. The seed is being planted

          2. The seeds were sown in 2020 and swallowed hook line and sinker by seemingly the majority of the country. We know of only one other person who did not partake of the clot shots. People just stopped thinking altogether. When we had polio vaccines nobody was told to stay at home, wear a mask, social distance etc etc. nobody had to have multiple boosters. And, in the past, as soon as a vaccine resulted in injury the vaccine was stopped/tweaked. Same with all the other childhood vaccines. Occasionally there were two or three injections. But there have been more serious adverse events since the experimental gene therapy injections than in the whole of the previous 50 years.

      3. Yes that’s exactly what I thought Tom. If these bastards get away with this we’re all done and dusted.

  44. I must leave for a while. A funeral. The lady “fell over” and died two days later. A mere 88.

    1. My dear aunt fell over aged 88. She didn’t survive that either. What was she given to “make her comfortable”?

      1. That sounds very sinister indeed and you are probably right. We are on to them, now.

        1. I didn’t know then about Midazolam, and “end of life care”. My aunt was an intelligent woman who had outlived both her children. Maybe she presented as depressed and lonely. But she had just had a fall, not some life-threatening illness. She had a good sense of humour and I still miss her.

      2. My OH’s dear old Aunty Ella who was 93, fell over the day we visited her a fortnight ago, went to hospital for a week, then was discharged with no care package in place and died that night. It’s her funeral today.
        She wasn’t pushed, and we had left when she fell!

  45. Just a suggestion – Why not combine the nationwide emergency alarm with the coronation of Charlie III? He could even initiate it from Westminster Abbey, that way he won’t be the only one crapping himself an a throne that day.

    https://www.climatechange.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/s.newsweek.com1005princecharles-379997c7aa8fb02407736011d841dcadf4aec178-768×512.jpg
    https://ultimate-survival-training.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/nuclear-explosion-explosion-wallpaper-300×266.jpg

  46. Imagine the outcry in the UK
    https://www.takimag.com/article/hey-uncle-sam-stop-paying-people-for-not-working/
    USA

    A policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of people have not returned to the workplace in the post-COVID-19 era. The labor force participation rate among employable adults is near a record low today. There are at least 2 million to 4 million employable adults who could and should be working but aren’t.
    Very few people with even minimal skills can credibly say they can’t find a job. Employers report some 10 million job openings. Small business owners say their biggest problem is finding competent workers.
    There are many explanations for why so many people aren’t working — fear of COVID-19, the skills mismatch, more people taking early retirement, and so on. But a major factor is that the federal government is back to doing what it did in the 1970s and 1980s. The welfare state today is paying people not to work — even a single hour.

  47. Bloody good “proper” village funeral. 120 in the church. Burial in the churchyard. The lady was married in our church 65 years ago. Gorgeous sunshine, too.

    1. As the grouping is “centre-right” I expect it will be covered but with an adverse slant against the EPP

    2. Wonder how much the tats cost? Where is the father? Of course, if the landlord doesn’t bring the property up to acceptable standards the property will be unusable and maybe unsellable. Or the owners may simply move out of leasing the place. There will be another “crackdown” on landlords and everyone will have to depend on the state for their living accommodation. Yay, result. The state gains more control.

    3. Where are the fathers? Why aren’t they taking responsibility for the welfare of their children?

        1. I was responding to wibbling’s comment. However, looking at one of the photos, it is obvious that two of the children are mixed-race and two aren’t.

          1. Means nothing.
            I used to work with a blonde 6 foot Dutch man whose mother was Indonesian. See my reply to wibbling.

          3. No. You are just making an insulting assumption, that’s all. Three of the children have dark curly hair (curl chart here: https://www.allure.com/gallery/curl-hair-type-guide), one has straight blonde hair. None of them are very dark skinned.
            There is obviously a small amount of African blood in their ancestry, but that genetic mix among the children is entirely compatible with one parent being mixed race.

          4. I doubt it. In any case, my original comment was not about how many fathers there were, it was about the lack of parental responsibility from him or them.

          5. Her financial setup is another matter altogether, but there is nothing in the article to suggest that her children have multiple fathers and it is just mischief making to say that they do (and I realise that wibbling was the first one to make this ignorant slur).

    4. Sorry, I missed the part about three different fathers – can you point me to it?

        1. BS.

          Good thing you haven’t seen my four – same parents, three different skin tones, three different eye colours, three different hair colours.

    1. Guilty of ruining the ‘Democrats’ campaign.
      His prosecution is on a par with all those MPs who didn’t turn up for the Andrew Brigden debate of vaccine harm.

      1. I doubt that it particularly affects the Democrats, but it certainly distracts the Republicans.
        It only needs a few of the charges to either stick or at least look to be underhand dealing with the tax people and Republicans, being far more respectful of the law, will be put off. And unless a different candidate gets “the ticket” they’re going to be wary.
        Not necessarily to vote Democrat but not to vote for Trump. Either approach could put another Democratic shyster into the White House.

  54. 37300 + up ticks,

    Dt,

    Will Donald Trump join Al Capone and Mick Jagger in the famous mugshots gallery?
    Those who know the reality TV star turned quintessential political showman believe he will have carefully weighed up the pros and cons

    As with many of the United Kingdoms far right,racist, fruitcakes.

    Eventually there should be a regular days holiday to compensate their treacherous persecution.

    1. If they wanted to sabotage Trump’s re-election campaign, they should really have arrested DeSantis, as it seems to be making Trump more popular.

  55. You may recall me saying that I was supposed to have an appointment on Fri 14th of this month as a follow up for my skin cancer. I called the bloody hospital twice to try and have it moved earlier- they couldn’t or wouldn’t do it.
    Today I received a letter telling me it has been pushed back to the end of September! I could well be dead by then….like the NHS cares.
    Tomorrow I shall call and tell them it’s unacceptable and try and demand some action….pause for maniacal laughter.
    Meanwhile, waiting to hear from my husband about when he might be home; I used to be able to g with him but they are all sniffy about that now.
    Sorry to moan again but the lump is getting bigger and more painful, envy of the world…..ha bloody ha.
    I really understand what poor Eddy has been going through and I am truly pleased for those of you who have decent care in your necks of the woods.
    Thank god for Pinot.

    1. How good is your acting?
      Turn up at the hospital screaming with pain and writhing, complaining about the lump.
      Don’t stop screaming until you’ve been seen.
      At the very least you might get some better pain relief.

      1. I have two stage credits….I played Hi Tee, a poor but honest Chinese fisherman in a primary school play and sang The Sandman in Hansel and Gretel.

          3. No need for a bag over the head, just claim to be straight off the dinghy from Calais.

          4. No need for a bag over the head, just claim to be straight off the dinghy from Calais.

          5. No need for a bag over the head, just claim to be straight off the dinghy from Calais.

    2. LotL – I am so sorry to hear this, you must be feeling quite desperate. Contact your MP – does he have a ‘surgery’ – contact your local newspaper, tv, anything that bring it to people’s attention. Contact the hospital and tell them that you are going to do this.

      1. It has occurred to me. Will try calling the hospital tomorrow and see if I can get anywhere. Doubt it.

        1. Oh Lottie. So sorry for you.

          Ring the hospital first thing in the morning and, after asking for the extension number, ask to be put through to the CEO’s office or the CEO’s personal assistant. Don’t do it later. Good luck.

    4. So sorry you’re having so much hassle.
      As I have said a couple of times before email the CEO. Here is the link and it will open on NHS Chiefs https://www.ceoemail.com/uk-nhs-chiefs.php If you have trouble writing the letter I’m more than happy to offer you my assistance.
      No disrespect to the appointment clerks but they are at the bottom and you will only get as far as a supervisor.
      If you start at the top you will, in my experience, get very near the top of the ladder and almost instant action.
      As I say, I offer my assistance.

      1. I had cause to write to a CEO and yes, you are correct. Go to the top. I received instant attention and action.

        1. It’s so simple and effective that I think some don’t think it can work. I know the CEO is unlikely to see it the their PA will farm it out to the head medic of the department with the instruction to keep this away from the boss.

          2. Not happened in my experience Bill. The last thing they want is the press to get wind of it. Bad for their sacred cow image.

          4. I am always polite and get rid of any emotion and stick to the facts.
            As a solicitor you may not be aware of that approach.:-))

          6. I give email writing lessons and my rate are very reasonable compared with solicitors fees. {:^))

      2. I contacted the COO of Barclays Retail Banking in the UK through ceoemail.com.
        They called me before I could make a coffee after pressing “send”.

      3. Thanks for that Alf. I’m also having a nightmare with the NHS.
        I’ve made a note of that contact address. If I don’t get any action through my GP surgery I’ll will make contact with them and try to arrange a transfer to a cardiology department that has the long term interest of the long suffering patients in mind.

          1. And a deliberately organised nightmare.
            One thing in particular stands out for me that I will really hammer them with.
            In the letter a had yesterday, it emphasis that the longer a proposed catheter ablation takes to be administered the likelihood of long term effect is reduced.
            Realistically when I first went to A&E
            When the afib had come back they should have put me on the waiting list straight away. But they didn’t. I went back to normal for a couple of months until I had the second covid jab. An obvious cause of the problem.
            But no waiting list.
            If I have to wait until next year it will be nearly three years gone by.
            It seems to be against the advised clinical practice guidelines.

          2. As stated, I can only wish you the best of luck. My husband is incensed by my latest outcome and will be supporting me all the way when I call the pathetic excuse of a hospital.
            The NHS is a national disgrace.

    5. Good God, Ann! What kind of half-arsed outfit is that?
      I’m both horrified, and deeply sorry, that they are treating you in such an offhand manner. Can you contact the PALS and see if they can at least get it reinstated to 14th?

      1. PALS have been very helpful with my problems. You can email them. Three times with three different NHS areas PALS replied by return.
        They’ll give you the help and information you asked for. And advice. Don’t give up Ann, that’s what the NHS wants you to do.
        Just keep the pressure up.
        I’ve copied the email reply from last week and type a three page letter and passed it all on to my local GP practice. I’ll give it until Thursday and get on to them about it.
        After all it’s their responsibility to ensure that their patients are treated with respect.

    7. Thats ridiculous and that’s not even the treatment. Canadas system is really bad but suspected cancer patients are seen very quickly/ Just don’t try and get a less critical issue dealt with, as we are finding out, new hips can take for ever.

    8. Prepare a packed lunch, a folding chair and a legible placard that explains the situation.
      Travel to the hospital early on a weekday, find a good spot near the entrance and hang the placard (loosely) around your neck. Sit when tired, eat when hungry. If anyone takes any notice, say you are waiting for the local paper/ radio station to interview you.
      PS and a book.

    9. Prepare a packed lunch, a folding chair and a legible placard that explains the situation.
      Travel to the hospital early on a weekday, find a good spot near the entrance and hang the placard (loosely) around your neck. Sit when tired, eat when hungry. If anyone takes any notice, say you are waiting for the local paper/ radio station to interview you.
      PS and a book.

  57. Ha bloody ha.
    I read an article about the launch of this yesterday. The Bavarian government said that side effects are very, very rare, but they wanted to look after everyone, so they were launching the hotline. I thought to myself, Bet it’s innundated.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04de319f72c30ec9c74dd003f2eae748d380372fe986086819577f4af8dcb24a.jpg
    Tomorrow’s misinformationnews: Trump-supporting anti-vaxxers are calling the hotline with fake injuries.

  59. Par Four today.

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    1. Me too.

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  60. Barrister ‘proud’ to prosecute Just Stop Oil activists who shut Dartford Crossing
    Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker found guilty of causing ‘significant nuisance’ to public
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/04/just-stop-oil-activists-guilty-dartford-crossing-prison/

    A barrister has proclaimed how “proud” he is following the prosecution of two Just Stop Oil protesters as lawyers refuse to take on cases concerning climate change activists.

    Morgan Trowland, 40, and Marcus Decker, 34, were convicted of causing a public nuisance after they caused the closure of the Dartford Crossing by scaling a bridge.

    Adam King, who secured the guilty verdicts following a trial at Basildon Crown Court, told afterwards how he had carried out a “public service” by taking on the case.

    It comes weeks after more than 100 eminent lawyers pledged to sign a “declaration of conscience”, meaning they may not prosecute eco-protesters hauled before the courts. High-profile lawyers including Joylon Maugham KC and Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC were among the signatories.

    But Mr King asserted the move was “bad for justice”.

    Good for you, Mr. King. It is an obvious jibe against those virtue-signalling lawyers who said that they would not prosecute protesters.

          1. I don’t know whether the ban on commenting on ongoing cases applies to after the verdict or after sentence is passed.

    2. Wasn’t aware that lawyers could pick ‘n choose who they prosecute / defend.

      1. They cannot, though not one of the 120 signatories is a prosecutor, so it’s just virtue-signalling.

  62. That’s me gone for today. A lovely, spring-like day. Loadsa sunshine. 38ºC in the greenhouse. Cats relishing being out in the sun – chasing, biffing, rolling about, racing. Wonderful to watch. More seeds sown. No more Sun until Thursday – chizz, chizz.

    Have a splendid evening.

    A demain….DV.

  63. Change.org
    Last week, BBC’s Newsnight revealed that Boris Johnson’s honours list has not yet been approved because authorities are raising questions about some of the names on the list.

    Over 245,000 people have signed this petition calling for the Prime Minister to block any attempt by Boris Johnson to put his own father forward for an award. Will you add your name now?

  65. Busy morning , tip visit, then garden centre, lovely local one , family owned .

    Roads are busy with Easter hol traffic , lovely Spring weather .. Moh dug the garden , yards of couch grass weed and ground elder .. Well done to him, and I fed the roses and azaleas.. Our garden is mostly lawn , surrounded by hedge and overlooked by trees from the next driveway which leads up to a small holding and a couple of bungalows ..

    Small holding of quite a few acres has a few horses .. it borders the ag land which is worked and owned by a land owner who owns the villages and coastline and ag land in this area .

    The lambs have grown , and the sheep are grazing , white blobs in the fields all around here .. and baaing is a sweet sort of music .. Lambs around here are born early before Christmas .

  67. Another par here

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    1. “According to a “high-ranking European diplomat”, the motto developed at meetings of European and NATO politicians: “Don’t talk about Nord Stream.” The heads of state and government see “little benefit” in “digging too deep and an uncomfortable one to find answer. The diplomat said some colleagues felt they “did rather not address the possibility of Ukraine or allies being involved.” “We are unwilling to share suspicions that may inadvertently anger a friendly government that may have been involved in the Nord Stream bombing.” In the absence of any concrete evidence, there was an “embarrassed silence”. “It’s like a dead body at a family reunion,” the European diplomat told the newspaper, resorting to a grim analogy.”
      (my bold)

    3. She should be strapped to a cinema seat and forced to watch all of the Carry On films back to back. Then she should be forcibly fed a ‘large sausage’.

    6. “I think the lack of response has certainly made me feel again, a little bit disappointed.” That’s the way to do it. They only do it to get a reaction, and mostly these silly corporates oblige. I wonder what is missing from these activist-type people’s lives that makes them behave in the way that they do?

      1. Self discipline, education, self respect, respect for others, common courtesy, a sense of right and wrong, demonstrated boundaries of your rights against those of others – physical and ideological.

        They are toddlers in large bodies, unable to distinguish that the world does not revolve around them because their parents have never said ‘What you are doing is wrong/that is not yours/you cannot have your own way.’

  71. My husband is home. Again I must sing the praises of our local cab company. Simply wonderful people.
    He has appetite and is glad to be home and will have some dinner soon.
    Thank god today is over and again, thank you for your kind remarks.

    1. Can’t say I blame them, it’s never going to work. There are far too many complications.

      1. Electric cars, like a digital currency and enforced id papers are nothing to do with safety or the environment. They are about control.

    2. 500? Is that all? You could get 50,000 in there. As for oppressive: they’re criminals! They’ve no right to be here. They are persona non grata. That we don’t shoot them as soon as they land should be considered mercy!

    3. I stayed on the Bibby Stockholm in 2014 when it was in Lerwick harbour. I was aware that it had been used for “refugees” in the Netherlands but it was far from “oppressive.” It was very modern, the rooms were all ensuite with modern fittings. If it was good enough for workers on the Shetland Gas Project, then it’s good enough for “refugees.”

    5. Some are, some are not. I am getting the little corgi doggy motif. I preferred the birdie. After all, it is Twitter, not Barking.

    8. It’s the logo of Dogecoin. Elon Musk swapped it for the Twit bird to make some point, or as a joke, I think.

  75. That’s me off to bed.
    Looks like the sound card on my PC is knackered, I’ve had to have the speakers plugged into the laptop to listen to the radio today.

    G’night all.

  76. I am sure folk are sick of me ranting about gimmigrants but this bloke takes the biscuit:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/04/racist-uk-daniel-kebede-neu-union-teachers-strike/

    He, and all his ilk need to go. He has not one iota of Briton in him. He has no respect for the great country he lives in, not a single shared prinicple. He’s a parasite who brings nothing but division. If he isn’t paying obeisance to this wonderful nation of white heroes then he should be asked to leave. If he gets uppity, kicked out. The same must go for hundreds of thousands of other bitter, racist gimmigrants wanting to do us in while living off the backs of the predominantly white tax payer.

    So yes, I am racist. I’m sick of whinging, spoiled, bitter foreign Lefties whinging about the greatest nation and people on the planet.

    1. How long can we go on being the greatest nation and people on the planet while the politicians of all the parties are actively trying to destroy us?

      1. Britain will always be Britain as long as a Briton remains. When we’ve been eradicated, and all that’s left are bitter, foreign whinging Lefties they’ll get a sudden shock as to who pays their bills – and how tolerant we were.

        1. Colonialists always go home, in the end. But this most likely will not be in our lifetime. Once again the (English) ploughman will plod his weary way homeward in the dusk. Because this is our land, where our tribe belongs. We understand it, viscerally.

          1. Good to know, Mum, that you remember Gray’s Elegy.

            I had to learn the whole of it by heart when I was under 10.

          2. That would be difficult at 10, because one has to not only understand it, but to experience and feel it as well – with every fibre of one’s being. Gray’s Elegy is one such, Kipling’s ‘The Beginnings’ is another. Like you, I sat through tedious hours of ‘this sort of thing’, but now I am so grateful that I did, and wish that I had sat through more (and paid more attention).

          4. Thank you, Tom – I will try again tomorrow, it keeps telling me to ‘repair my download’ and the instructions keep sending me in circles, I arrive back where I started. I will have another attempt tomorrow and possibly try on the applemac computer, I have an iPad. Night night.

        2. There’ll always be an England
          And England shall be free,
          If England means as much to you
          As England means to me.

          If only.

          1. Well, they are trying to build on all the fields of grain and destroy the country lanes with traffic.

      2. I think when the currency collapse happens, a lot of people will leave (including native Britons), the ones who are integrated will stay and suffer with the natives, and the ones who aren’t integrated will try to take over the areas where they live and declare Kosovo-style independence. The divide-and-conquer response of the UN will probably be the same.

    2. Some how all of this constant moaning by so many ‘Bames’ not my choice of a descriptive word. Never stop moaning they must hate it here so much. Just pack your bags and clear off.

    3. I think all the laws passed over the years about “racial” crimes have caused resentment towards gimmegrunts and blacks. I too am heartily sick of their whining and accusations of racism. Any crime involving a white vs black is treated as a hate crime in the part of whitey it seems. It makes me so angry when I think of the Pakistani rape gangs and the complicit authorities and how thenDPP (cur sneer “1% of women have a penis” smarmer) managed not to prosecute any of the perps.

    4. The Bames are similar to circling pirannahs .

      Some are superb , but many of them are blood sucking vitupertive lumps , bearing huge inferiority complexes . They hate whitey.. end of .

  77. Well I’ve had a busy day gardening. I had to sit in the sun and rest most of the time. My condition makes extremely breathless.
    I had to sit in side for an hours sleep.
    But I’m off to bed now for the catchup. Yawning.
    Night all.

  78. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/04/seize-property-build-wind-solar-farms-jp-morgan/

    No comments allowed, obviously. I suggest his home, then Khan’s. Then Lucas’ Kier’s, Boris’, Goldsmith. And his bank’s. Ram the wind farm right in the centre of London after taking everything they value. Then remove all subsidy from it so the owners are paying full whack for installation, maintenance and upkeep while getting no sales because their energy is just too expensive.

    Of course, he meant ‘other people’s’ property. Not his of course. And he will ‘invest’ in the windmills and get a massive kick back from the tax payer. I hate these people and want them to hang.

  80. Am off to bed- worn out.
    Plans of action discussed tonight and will take place in the later day tomorrow. We are both exhausted.
    Thank you all again for your support and helpful suggestions. ( Nearly wrote “suggestive comments” )
    Sleep well Y’all.

  81. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk.

    I shall be back at some-time in the morning with another story to amuse you.

  82. Evening, all. Been to a service of Tenebrae this evening. It was so dark I couldn’t read the words to the hymns! I had to hum the tune instead.

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