Dominic Raab failed to show the leadership qualities that make a successful bossSunday 23 April:

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Presents From Santa
    A little girl is queuing to see Santa. When it’s her turn, she climbs up on Santa’s lap. Santa asks,

    “What would you like Santa to bring you for Christmas?”

    The little girl replies, “I want a Barbie and GI Joe.”

    Santa looks at the little girl and says, “I thought Barbie comes with Ken.”

    “No,” said the little girl. “She comes with GI Joe. She fakes with Ken!”

  6. Good Morning Folks,

    Unseasonably cold and wet start here, just right for the London marathon protesters.

        1. Given the lack of medical care – even safe pain killers – until relatively recently, apparently you can add 10 years to age of death.
          Still would make Billy only 62, but possibly he burnt himself out.

    1. Yesterday I convinced five people to turn off their alert function. I only wish that I’d been as successful with the jab. For the attempting the latter I received a mixture of strange looks, silence or caustic replies.

  9. Dominic Raab failed to show the leadership qualities that make a successful boss

    Sounds like a bit of a lame excuse for getting rid of a government Minister, they are not running a business are they?

  12. Dominic Raab complained that the bar for taking offence and feeling bullied has been set far too low

    Which got me wondering if that is why our leaders are so short in stature these days.

  13. Suella Braverman ready to defy judges on migrants. 23 April 2023.

    Suella Braverman has signalled that she is prepared to ignore European judges to start deportation flights to Rwanda, as she readies to face down her critics this week.

    The Home Secretary said proposed new powers for ministers to disregard temporary injunctions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) were “crucial” to delivering Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop migrant boats from crossing the Channel.

    Believe it when you see it!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/22/suella-braverman-ready-defy-eu-judges-on-migrants/

    1. If it happens at all it will be with token numbers so that they can claim that they’re doing something. We see them and we distrust them!

        1. What isn’t a scam that emanates from the current political class? What can be believed from so many that have been exposed as liars? The political class is totally out of control and has assumed that they are the masters.

          After posting I found this item. Proof positive that the problem of scamming and lying has become endemic.

          Daily Sceptic – Britain Facing Five Waves of Covid Annually

  14. Suella Braverman ready to defy judges on migrants. 23 April 2023.

    Suella Braverman has signalled that she is prepared to ignore European judges to start deportation flights to Rwanda, as she readies to face down her critics this week.

    The Home Secretary said proposed new powers for ministers to disregard temporary injunctions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) were “crucial” to delivering Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop migrant boats from crossing the Channel.

    Believe it when you see it!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/22/suella-braverman-ready-defy-eu-judges-on-migrants/

  15. With all that is happening with the SNP I wonder why the mainstream media haven’t gone to town on them like they did with Boris and cakegate?

    With Boris it was 24/7 coverage and led every news bulletin, but the SNP story appears to be getting very low key treatment, for some reason.

  16. Morning, all Y’all.
    Drizzle, and creaky shoulders from much manual heavy work yesterday – culminating in several pints in the hot sun! A Good Day, so it was.

  17. Picture of Tilda Swinton in the Telegraph today.
    Who names their child after a diacritical mark?

    3. Why name a diacritical mark after a warrior – Matilda?

      Tilde (with an ‘e’ ) was used in Medieval Latin manuscripts in an abridged word over a preceding letter to indicate a missing -n-

      Tilda (with an ‘a’) is Estonian, a diminutive of Matilda – “battle-mighty”

    4. Matilda Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death
      by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9ad78d1fbeac59e60523694267298e291d542e45b4a0c6d3ff108229456040fd.jpg

      Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,
      It made one Gasp and Stretch one’s Eyes;
      Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,
      Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth,
      Attempted to Believe Matilda:
      The effort very nearly killed her,
      And would have done so, had not She
      Discovered this Infirmity.
      For once, towards the Close of Day,
      Matilda, growing tired of play,
      And finding she was left alone,
      Went tiptoe to the Telephone
      And summoned the Immediate Aid
      Of London’s Noble Fire-Brigade.
      Within an hour the Gallant Band
      Were pouring in on every hand,
      From Putney, Hackney Downs, and Bow.
      With Courage high and Hearts a-glow,
      They galloped, roaring through the Town,
      ‘Matilda’s House is Burning Down!’
      Inspired by British Cheers and Loud
      Proceeding from the Frenzied Crowd,
      They ran their ladders through a score
      Of windows on the Ball Room Floor;
      And took Peculiar Pains to Souse
      The Pictures up and down the House,
      Until Matilda’s Aunt succeeded
      In showing them they were not needed;
      And even then she had to pay
      To get the Men to go away.
      It happened that a few Weeks later
      Her Aunt was off to the Theatre
      To see that Interesting Play
      The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.
      She had refused to take her Niece
      To hear this Entertaining Piece:
      A Deprivation Just and Wise
      To Punish her for Telling Lies.
      That Night a Fire did break out —
      You should have heard Matilda Shout!
      You should have heard her Scream and Bawl,
      And throw the window up and call
      To People passing in the Street —
      (The rapidly increasing Heat
      Encouraging her to obtain
      Their confidence) — but all in vain!
      For every time she shouted ‘Fire!’
      They only answered ‘Little Liar!’
      And therefore when her Aunt returned,
      Matilda, and the House, were Burned.

  19. 373787+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Dominic Raab failed to show the leadership qualities that make a successful boss / shownSunday 23 April:

    That can only be true if the true aim of those politico’s concerned was clearly known.

    On one hand I say good riddance long may this ersatz tory (ino)
    party tears itself to bits but it clearly shows the underlying strength of that political contingent laying down the foundation stones ie
    repress, replace, RESET, WEF/NWO

    A classic case of triggered treachery was Gerard Batten UKIP leader his successful run for one year as leader was NOT to be tolerated, the covert tories within the nec ( still operating) saw that it wasn’t.

    1. Morning Bilty.
      That reminds me of when I was sleeping in a dorm in a backpackers’ hostel in Oz. One of the blokes woke everyone up at about 3am saying the rain was coming in when his friend in the bunk above him had swamped his bed. 🤣

  22. Hoi!
    The bread on me bacon sarnie looks like someone took a bite out of the side.
    Second-hand breakfast? That’s not on!

  24. I’m sure I don’t need to bring this to the attention of Nottlers:
    Britain suffers cancer crisis after pandemic prioritised Covid
    Operations were cancelled on a scale seen almost nowhere else in Western Europe with deaths from some types of the disease tripling
    Cancer operations fell more in Britain than almost anywhere else in Western Europe during the pandemic’s first year, international research shows.
    The study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows how efforts to “protect the NHS” from Covid meant cancer operations were reduced on a far greater scale than in other countries.
    Deaths from some types of cancer tripled during the pandemic.
    A leading cancer expert said the situation was “catastrophic” amid record waiting times for treatment.
    The international study, which compares 25 OECD nations, examined four common procedures for treatment of cancer and other health conditions in 2019 and 2020.
    It shows that for each of them Britain reduced surgery levels on a scale seen by almost no other country in Western Europe.
    The research also highlights a previous study which showed that every four-week delay in surgery for cancer increased the risk of death by about 7 per cent.
    In total, the number of prostate cancer operations fell by more than 40 per cent in 2020, against an OECD average of 16.6 per cent.
    https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/22/britain-cancelled-more-cancer-surgery-than-europe-lockdown/

    1. That is dreadful.

      I fear that the only way that they are going to get out of the mess is triage, which will be unfortunate for those abandoned to their fate, but in the longer term it will save more lives.

      What they won’t do is stop the “nice to have” things, gender reassignment, gastric bands, cosmetic surgery, tattoo removal, surrogacy for homosexuals, etc and put those resources towards cancer treatments and other life threatening diseases.

      1. The son of a friend of SWMBOs works in a admin in a large childrens hospital.
        Basically, they closed 3 wards and most operating theatres at the worst stage of COVID, to stack dead bodies in.
        So, lots of kids didn’t get treatment, and are now dead from their original complaint.
        Good one, NHS.

        The response to the article by a NHS spokeperson says the usual blah about how everyone is working so hard… so why are the outcomes so shite? Could it be that they are working hard at doing the wrong things? Not working effectively, just hard? That’s like most things I see in the UK, everyone works hard yet the place barely functions.

        1. When it is good it can be outstanding, unfortunately the bad now outweighs the good by a huge margin.

          Hancock, Whitty, Fergusson et al have blood on their hands.

          1. Problem is, the quality is not a normal distribution, but one skewed towards the lower end, so the average outcome is pretty bad.

        2. It seems that many virtual brick walls have been built and still are being worked on. No matter what you try to do here, there is always something or someone in the way.
          I suspect this attitude had something to do with Raab having to resign. The people who should have been obeying, were instead being awkward. As they had been trained.
          There are not many places you can phone now and get straight through without some sort of lecture on your personal behaviour. This is especially noticeably at GP practices.
          “THEY DON’T LIKE IT UP ‘EM”!
          Mr Mainwaring.

      2. Anyone who goes to a private clinic for cosmetic surgery or gastric band etc should be made to return to that surgery when it goes wrong. The NHS has to fix the consequences of botched operations done on the cheap.

    2. Good morning Oberstleunant,
      Corporate manslaughter?
      My childhood friend was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer last year. Thankfully, it was not during the height of the scamdemic ‘save our NHS’ nonsense. After the mastectomy, it was confirmed the cancer was stage 1, and, apart from annual checks and drugs for 5 years, her surgeon was confident that all was well.
      Fast forward a 2 months, further scans, biopsies and tests, she is told there is cancer in 3 of her vertebrae. These were not present on any of the earlier scans.
      Her oncologist told her that although it is very rare, cancer can spread from a stage 1 primary.
      I wonder if the build-up of toxic spike proteins from the jabs has anything to do with this rather rapid spread.

      1. Oh, lord, Mum. I’m sorry for the both of you. Who knows what the spike proteins can cause? Just glad I stayed away from them.
        My mate’s lovely Malay wife died just recently when breast cancer spread to the brain. It’s hard to even write about it, so I cannot imagine what it must be like to be the widower.

        1. My condolences to your and your friend.
          We all have to go some time but if we could choose the cause, I would prefer a sudden unexpected heart attack. That’s what took my dear Dad in his 50s. No long suffering, though it was a very hard shock for the family.

    3. There seems to have been a mighty effort to push people aside from treatment Obs.
      And after all the heart attack etc and strokes, lots of other niggling complaints seem to be emerging in people of our age group.
      I might be ‘mistaken’ but it seems as if our immune systems have been somehow undermined.
      And the 🆘️ BIG ALARM ⏰ job this afternoon. I think I’ll turn off and give it a swerve.

        1. Like I have mentioned many times, FOAD seems to be the case at the moment. Service doesn’t come into it.
          I’m convinced that the government have set up the seven regional directors, brought in around 4 years ago. To bring the NHS to its knees.
          Many doctors and nurses have already moved to the private sector. That’s one of the most obvious reasons why we can’t get any health care when we need it.

        2. The company our eldest works for is based in the states. And the manufacturing was until the last few years based in Hertfordshire. Now it’s in Budapest.
          There are many other examples of British manufacturing that has been shifted. And of course unemployment levels have risen.

      2. No idea if it will work but I have turned off alerts. Just in case, my phone will be put under a cushion. Might avoid being startled!

    4. My BiL has cancer and he has been receiving gold standard treatment. Honestly, my sister has been absolutely fulsome in her praise for the way he has been looked after over the past year.

      1. Excellent news! Glad to hear it, Stormy. Got to be some good news somewhere.

    5. I was diagnosed with skin cancer a couple of weeks ago.

      At the moment, it is a growth on my lower back about the size of a new penny. When I scratch it, it bleeds profusely, and it itches a little when I can contort myself in the mirror to get a plaster on it. However, it is slow-growing and can be left for a few months without issue. It does need to be cut out though, since eventually it will get more serious.

      The question is – how long should I put off this non-urgent operation before it becomes life-threatening? Also, since I am not in a protected category and officially a burden on society because I am a pensioner living alone, does my life matter anyway?

      1. Don’t put it off!
        Healthcare shouldn’t be rationed according to whoever is deemed most worthy today.

        1. It should be rationed to those who’ve PAID into the system.

          For others a payment MUST be demanded before any treatment.

      2. There’s only one answer, Jeremy: Do it as soon as you possibly can, if not sooner.
        In the worst case, you’ll be rid of some itching and need fewer plasters – in the best case, you’ll prolong your life noticeably.

      1. Morning, Oberst and thank you. I am shortly to be 87 and I am very fit and am still playing bowls to a good standard in the 1st team. I am a very lucky man.

      1. Morning, Alec. Daughter-in-Law’s birthday lunch so cereal and no toast for breakfast

  26. Morning all on St George’s day 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😉
    I expect there will be many excuses around the country for not celebrating this, the day of the patron Saint of England.
    Grey again and not warm and still windy.
    And a bit of a unessesary dig at Raab, I wonder, what are the real facts regarding his resignation. We certainly cannot be expected to believe what journalists have to say. They only make most of their stories up.
    I doubt if the truth will ever be known. Lying is one of the most important aspects of a successful career in politics and Whitehall.

    1. If the DT is true, then the ambassador to Spain will undoubtedly give an explanation Eddy.

      1. Why on earth hasn’t Fishi reprimanded the chinless wonder, posing as an ambassador? It’s way past time he did!

      2. Is he allowed to speak from his own knowledge or read previously arranged wording.

    1. As she describes it, it looks far more like the process of bringing in socialism.
      Swap the word socialism for the word capitalism and it looks the same, except capitalism produces prosperity, socialism eventually eats its supporters.

  29. Was there comment on this recently?
    Vladimir Putin is preparing to attack the UK
    The deployment of his spy ships is chilling. Britain is far from ready to counter whatever he has planned
    https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/20/vladimir-putin-is-preparing-to-attack-the-uk/
    What drivel.
    Russian ships, submarines and aircraft have been harassing UK terrirorial waters since before I was born.
    Why would they need ships to find wind-farms? And cables, pipelines and the like? These are marked on published maps and charts!
    What a fucking idiot this “journalist” is – and the editor for publishing it.

    2. Morning Oberst I commented on it. They are getting a little desperate with the Anti-Vlad propaganda! They are of course trying to urge us forward into a NATO confrontation and it’s not working!

    3. With “covid” the government, such as it is, and the MSM unearthed a deep seam of fear within the British people. They mined it with all their tools e.g. SAGE & its Independent bastard offspring etc. and continue to do so.
      Masks are now rare but haven’t been completely abandoned: I did see a lone driver masked up last week along with two members of the audience in a London theatre and several shoppers in my local Lidl.

    4. Spot on. Its just another stupid scare and Hate Vlad tactic dreamed up by the person of your description. 😊

    7. Why on earth would he bother?
      We have Westminster and Whitehall ruining this country without his help.

  30. Police in England on alert for polling day rage over voter ID rules

    Police forces have been alerted to the risk of a spike in disputes and confrontations at the forthcoming local elections, amid concern that new voter ID rules will provoke rows in polling booths across England.

    Polling station staff are being trained to de-escalate heated situations expected to arise next month, when many more people than usual are likely to be turned away as a result of new identity checks.

    I received my polling card the other day. Bizarrely the acceptable means of photographic identification (21) are sealed inside the card. It took me five minutes to break in!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/23/police-in-england-on-alert-for-polling-day-rage-over-voter-id-rules

    1. Across England ? I suspect they already know the area’s to target.
      The panic buttons will be screeching as all the previously elected crooks try another tactic.

    2. Why would reasonable people object to showing ID? I’ve always been amazed the polling staff took my word for who I am.
      Anyone kicking up a fuss must have something to hide … fraud.

      1. The NHS does not demand ID, so why should a couple of townhallers on overtime have the right to demand ID?

        The policy is all about humiliating Mr Rashid and Mr R.Ashid and Mrs Rashid and Mrs Rashid and their niece Ms Rashid and Mr Ra Shid, and their poorly neighbour Ras Hid.

        1. But Tim, Mr Rashid will have already completed and returned postal votes for the entire family anyway. They won’t be showing ID at the polling station.

    3. Does this mean you now have to PROVE you’re fresh off the boats at Dover?

      No elections in London I think?

    4. I received as letter from the local MP Jess Phillips warning about voter ID and how she objects to its introduction. There are no elections in this city this year!

  31. Well? Is anyone still alive in the UK? Or are you all now deaf? Deaf or dead?

    Cry GOD for Harry, England and Saint George!

        2. When I was at prep school I had to learn all the Kings and Queens of England with their dates from William I to Elizabeth II. I used the rhyme to help:

          Willy, Willy, Harry, Stee
          Harry, Dick John, Harry III
          One, Two, Three Neds, Richard Two
          Harry IV, V, VI then who?
          Edward IV, V, Dick the Bad,
          Harrys twain and Ned the Lad,
          Mary, Bessie, James the Vain
          Charlie, Charlie, James again.
          William and Mary, Anna Gloria
          Four Georges, William and Victoria
          Then an Edward, George Vth
          Another Edward, George VIth
          Bess , then Chas her wokish son
          And then the kingdom’s dead and done.

          and for the Royal Houses: No Plan Like Yours To Study History Wisely.

          1. That misses out two of the Houses:-
            No Plan Like Yours To Study OUR History SO Wisely.

            Norman
            Plantagenet
            Lancashire
            Yorkshire
            Tudor
            Stuart
            Orange
            Hannover
            Saxe-Coburg
            Windsor

  32. Cancer treatment in In UK

    Is a resignation in the offing?

    With the NHS, Quangoes and similar entities, if you fail to do your job properly, you do not resign:- you just get promoted.

    Now if you are a Government Minister, who tries to get Snivel Serpent to do their jobs properly and in doing so they get Hurty
    Feelings, the Minister will be sacked/have to resign.

    In UK the Woke Tail wags the dog

  33. Cancer treatment in In UK

    Is a resignation in the offing?

    With the NHS, Quangoes and similar entities, if you fail to do your job properly, you do not resign:- you just get promoted.

    Now if you are a Government Minister, who tries to get Snivel Serpent to do their jobs properly and in doing so they get Hurty
    Feelings, the Minister will be sacked/have to resign.

    In UK the Woke Tail wags the dog

  34. + Happy St George’s Day to everyone+
    Interesting letter about Sir P G Wodehouse; the correspondent Mr N Ghaleigh has caused some mirth in the comments because of his job description, “Senior Lecturer in Climate Law”. It’s genuine, but surprise surprise, he is currently WFH, sorry, on Research Leave.

  35. There is an answer to Dr Heather J Williams Prestatyn, Denbighshire.

    To paraphrase on old joke

    The quickest and easiest way to get to Stratford-upon-Avon is not start the journey in Prestatyn

    1. Sunny Prestatyn : Philip Larkin

      Come To Sunny Prestatyn
      Laughed the girl on the poster,
      Kneeling up on the sand
      In tautened white satin.
      Behind her, a hunk of coast, a
      Hotel with palms
      Seemed to expand from her thighs and
      Spread breast-lifting arms.

      She was slapped up one day in March.
      A couple of weeks, and her face
      Was snaggle-toothed and boss-eyed;
      Huge tits and a fissured crotch
      Were scored well in, and the space
      Between her legs held scrawls
      That set her fairly astride
      A tuberous cock and balls

      Autographed Titch Thomas, while
      Someone had used a knife
      Or something to stab right through
      The moustached lips of her smile.
      She was too good for this life.
      Very soon, a great transverse tear
      Left only a hand and some blue.
      Now Fight Cancer is there.

      1. I’ve never taken a holiday at Prestatyn, but I did a few times at nearby Rhyl. Probably at the very time the esteemed Hull librarian was composing his poetry.

  36. Surely this country could do better for such a momentous occasion and produce British-made bears.

    British made Brides for Princes would be a better start!

    1. The UK likely does make bears, but will people pay what it costs? Likely not. Hence, the Chinese bears, as the retailer doesn’t want to end up with a huge stock of expensive bears when the Coronation is over.

  37. It is Shakespeare’s birthday – as well, of course… But he has been bowdlerised or cancelled – so that’s that.

  38. Good morning all! A bit late after getting somewhat distracted!
    A dull morning, somewhat damp after overnight rain, with 5°C outside.

  39. Happy St George’s Day. BBC Radio 4 are celebrating it with a programme about growing Jewish food in Kentish farms, an appeal for Punchdrunk Enrichment, a charity which teaches indoctrinates children in the principles of anti-racism then a thirty eight minute memorial service for Stephen Lawrence, an innocent bléck boy murdered by a gang of white savages on the streets of London followed by something about cultural quarters in UK towns and cities – and all that’s before 9am UK time. Later there is will be a programme with Wirsty Kark about the poor prisoners in Abu Graib and an in depth discussion on the Shakespeare play about cross dressers and unrequited love in the Adriatic. The Government is doing its part in broadcasting a nation wide ‘false’ alarm about a nuclear threat on this most auspicious day in England’s culture. . . . . . and you wonder why I constantly whinge about the BBC and its hateful output!

    1. And the marathon is packed with people who could be described as stretching their English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 hearts of oak🌳 connections.

    2. Even my racecard yesterday had a full page about Stephen Lawrence Day. I felt rather sorry for the girl whose parents had sponsored a race for her birthday that she was mentioned on the page opposite.

  40. The British Isles are in a state of blockade.

    All trade and all correspondence with the British Isles is forbidden.

    Every British subject, of whatever state or condition he may be … will be made a prisoner of war.

    All warehouses, all merchandise, all property, of whatever nature it might be, belonging to a subject of England will be declared a valid prize …

    No ship coming directly from England or the English colonies, or having been there there since the publication of the present decree, will be received in any port.

    At the moment I’m reading (amongst others) Andrew Roberts biography of Napoleon . I thought that Nottlers might be interested in the above list of Sanctions that the Emperor instigated against the UK in 1806. They bear an uncanny resemblance to the present ones against Russia. Particularly the seizure of private property.

    It’s worth noting Robert’s comments further on.

    Although Napoleon believed that the Berlin Decrees would be popular with French businessmen, who he hoped would pick up the trade that previously went to Britain, he was soon disabused by the reports from his own chambers of commerce. As early as December that of Bordeaux reported a dangerous downturn of business. International trade simply wasn’t the zero-sum game that, with his crude Colbertism, Napoleon assumed it to be. By March 1807 he had to authorize special industrial loans from the reserve funds to offset the crises that were resulting.

    Sound familiar? All this of course resulted in the UK becoming the “Workshop of the World” and the greatest Empire the world has ever seen!

    Andrew Roberts. Napoleon the Great (pp. 427-428). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.

  41. Stricken £3.2BILLION Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales is reduced to acting as a scrap yard to keep sister ship Queen Elizabeth afloat. 23 April 2023.

    Britain’s £3.2 billion aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been reduced to acting as a scrap-yard. Essential pieces of equipment are being ripped out of the stricken warship, a move that raises questions over its long-term future.

    The UK’s second carrier has been in dry dock since breaking down off Portsmouth in August 2022.

    Now Navy top brass have begun stripping the carrier – a process known as ‘cannibalisation’ – which will render HMS Prince of Wales inoperable for much longer. Lift chains, which allow fighter jets to be raised from below deck, electrical systems and sections of the ship’s gas turbines have been taken out.

    Flog it off to the Ukies. One of the things about states in decline is that eventually nothing works. We are pretty much there!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12003445/Stricken-3-2BN-Royal-Navy-aircraft-carrier-HMS-Prince-Wales-reduced-acting-scrap-yard.html

      1. But his works will live for ever – they are eternal and immortal.

        As John Donne put it in one of his Holy Sonnets:

        One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
        And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

  45. ‘Morning All

    Medley Time

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    1. Japanese Schoolchildren
      Rik:
      I have just returned from 2 weeks in Japan and smiled at your third photo, of Japanese schoolchildren, neatly turned out and sitting in rows.

      While there, I met an old Japanese academic friend who had run the London Marathon twice, (in 2 hours 40 minutes each time), but now, at 59, is the Japanese National indoor Bowls Champion.

      We talked about education and he said that Japanese schools don’t employ Cleaners. The students are organised into gangs who do ALL the cleaning of their classrooms, corridors, offices, even the toilets, in rotation. It teaches them to respect cleanliness in all places, and that’s why the streets and shops and public places are so clean and litter-free. In restaurants we got used to removing our shoes and placing them in lockers on entry. Stockinged feet are great at keeping floors polished!

      The only piece of litter I saw (in Hiroshima, actually) was probably dropped by a visitor to Japan, which has only recently allowed tourists to enter after stringent lock-down of the whole country.

      Japan is now being swamped by Tourism. Our plane to Tokyo was completely full – in all classes – on the 13 hour 40 minute flight. But on returning to Heathrow Airport I was grimly reminded how grubby the floors were. I hope Japan doesn’t go the same way.

    1. I can’t help thinking that the brazen occupation of numerous cathedrals, football grounds and other public spaces by Muslims is a similar type of protection racket, “try to stop it and feel the consequences.”

      1. Its called normalisation of deviance in many worlds, where unacceptable practices become the normal as those who should stop them, do not.

    3. I came across the pilot episode of the old children’s Gerry Anderson puppet show from 1967, Captain Scarlet, t’other day.
      One of the characters in it was the “World President” who ran the “World Government”.

      Did Gerry Anderson know more, back then, then he was letting on?

      1. Probably!
        I know that the concept of world government was floating round European university campuses in the late 60s/early 70s. Probably from the same source.

        1. Gosh sorry, yes thanks pet! It’s wonderful! And it does work on the PC! 💕

  49. Good morning all

    Sunny , cloudy, mild 11 c.

    Son no 1 ran his 5K Weymouth Park run yesterday , his best time yet.. 19.51 minutes .. He has been running for a year and has lost nearly 4 stone in weight .. he was a chunky lad , not hugely obese , just chunky , cheeky and 54 years old .

    He has competed in 10k races , and now wants to gear up for a marathon .

    My lockdown hip injury is dictating my life sadly.. I am a tortoise living in a family of hares .

    https://twitter.com/GregJ1966/status/1650048528536817664

    1. Quite fast! I do 80km jogging a month and manage just under 6min per Km. It gets me away from the increasingly mad world for a short period and I mull over things I have to do.

      3. Unfortunately I can’t run anymore thanks to joint replacements. Normally, during the summer season, I swim over 200 Km, peaking at 80 a month, very easy paddling. One particularly good summer a few years ago I topped 200 miles. I lose a bit of blubber but maintain my weight as the muscle builds.
        The rest of the year there’s the reverse, blubber reappears but the weight stays the same. Garden work helps maintain some level of fitness and regular walking to keep up daily “steps” also helps

        1. I enjoy garden work and fine summer weather keeps me away from the biscuit tin as a bonus. My app tells me I do just over 1000km a year, but like you my weight varies very little unless I get stuck into a garden project.

          1. I suspect your app may even be underestimating your distances.

            HG and I have the advantage of a long drive which we try to walk up and down daily for an hour, on top of any other walking we may do. We got into the drive habit during the pandemic idiocy when we were not allowed out and about. There is usually a lot of bird song to accompany us so it’s very pleasant.

    2. Well, it’s my favourite day of the year. I put on some running gear,
      wrap myself in a foil blanket, sit in various pubs round London &
      have random strangers buy me drinks…. :@)

  50. Dominic Rabb has no control over the hiring, disciplinary processes, line management of any civil servant. No MP does.

    When one of my boys screws up I can talk to them to set down the process to improve the problem. Rabb can’t. The civil service blunders on, doing whatever it wants, however it wants. However MPs can be affected by civil service complaints which seems grossly unfair.

    1. 373787+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      To keep the rotation going then lab/lib/con /coalition support and votes is / are essential.

  52. DT just now:-

    ‘Diane Abbott has lost the Labour whip after suggesting Jewish people do not suffer racism.
    The MP is set to face an investigation by the party into a letter she wrote about racism for The Observer newspaper.
    This is a breaking story. More to follow.’

    But, but, she was the worst Chancellor that we never had…

    1. At some level you despair at the crass stupidity of that woman. Then you remember the anti semitism Labour were investigated for and it’s clear they’ve not changed. On top of that is poured the morass of their voting base – the welfare dependent muslim immigrant and the confluence of fact becomes painful to acknowledge.

    2. 1) Diane Abbot has claimed Brexit was triggered by racists who did
      not like seeing people who look ‘foreign’ on their streets. She Branded
      Brexiters “Stupid and Racist”
      2) She said Brexit supporters had attacked ethnic minority voters afterwards but has no evidence to back this up

      2) Said when people spoke about immigrants, often included people like
      her from ethnic minority backgrounds who had been British for
      generations (Her Parents are Jamaican, she has been brought up
      traditionally Jamaican. Her loyalties are clearly biased towards West
      Indian people).
      3) “London shouldn’t have another white middle ages mayor”
      4) “Blonde, blue-eyed Finnish girls” are unsuitable as nurses because they had “never met a black person before”
      5) Abbott tweeted “White people love playing ‘divide and rule’ We should not play their game” in 2012

      6) Abbott suggested that taxi drivers discriminate on racial grounds,
      tweeting that she was “Dubious of black people claiming they’ve never
      experienced racism. Ever tried hailing a taxi I always wonder?”
      7)
      Abbott captures a central political fact, which is that white people in
      western societies have benefited from their histories of colonial
      exploitation. .She used the hashtag “tactics as old as colonialism.”

      8) “West Indian mothers would go to the wall for their children”,
      suggesting others would not, Andrew Neil responded: “So black mums love
      their kids more than white mums, do they?” She could not bring herself
      to say mothers of every race love their children just as much.
      9)
      The MP was investigated by the Committee on Standards and Privileges in
      2004 when it emerged she had failed to declare earnings of £17,300 for
      appearances on The Week.
      10) Has a charity that helps black children only in education and spent 29K of its 35K budget on a party for Parliament.

      11) Missing a Brexit Vote claiming she has a migraine. We don’t believe her.

      12) Another racist attack on white people. More so men, again. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/769246/diane-abbott-labour-racist-attacks-radicalisation-white-men-sky-sophy-ridge

      Where does it stop, every time she opens her mouth she does every other party a favour

      Clearly a racist and a hypocrite.

      1. When I started to watch the London marathon earlier this morning. I considered that to be outrageously racist. Even an hour or more in, all the cameras were focusing on were the ladies from Africa and the men from Africa. What about the people who have paid to run in it and donated so much money to their choices of charities.

        1. I recorded my record time with the marathon today. 7 minutes…. then i switched it off.

        2. MB has been watching it; from the snippets I heard, the interviews were with ‘heroic’ muslims who train while thirsty and famished.
          Tough shiite; you choose to follow that belief system.

        3. The son of one of my friends ran in it. He’s white, so I doubt he got any coverage.

      2. Or not terribly bright.
        Like a cushion, she bears the imprint of whoever last sat on her. I would imagine her social circle is somewhat self-selecting.

  53. Dominic Raab is just the latest culprit – the public have lost faith in all politicians. 23 April 2023.

    There are plenty of decent people at Westminster. It is not exclusively populated by venal and self-serving villains who are in it only for themselves. But it is not hard to understand why so many of the public have become so thoroughly alienated. The Policy Institute of King’s College London has published new research into how voters view their politicians in countries around the world. The findings about the UK are bleak. Fewer than one in four of us has confidence in either the government or parliament and fewer than one in seven has confidence in the political parties. That’s a historic low. We were once a country that had a lot of reverence for its democratic institutions. We are now much less trusting of politics than many of our European neighbours. Confidence has plunged heavily among millennials. Gen Z are reaching adulthood with dismal levels of trust.

    It sounds impossible but this is quite untrue and I can prove it. When Batley Man offended the local Imam and his followers by obeying the law and teaching as the Law instructed not one; out of six hundred members of Parliament, could be found to defend him. Even now he hides out like some medieval heretic afraid for his life.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/23/dominic-raab-is-just-the-latest-culprit-the-public-have-lost-faith-in-all-politicians

  55. I read that the JWK’s latest wife’s ex-husband is to be present next week. The affairs of the three of them re what my late favourite aunt would ave called, “A bit farmyardy.”

      2. Joseph William Kennedy (May 30, 1916 – May 5, 1957) was an American chemist who was a co-discoverer of plutonium.
        In February 1940, Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan produced plutonium-239 through the bombardment of uranium. In their experiments bombarding uranium with deuterons, they observed the creation of neptunium, element 93, which then underwent beta-decay to form a new element, plutonium, with 94 protons. I thought everyone knew that. 🙂

          1. No. I used my made-up acronym after I had described the bloke as the Joke Woke King about a dozen times.

            You don’t have to read the rubbish I post, Tom.

    3. The coronation may have to be delayed or altered as they can’t find a way to get the crown past his ears without serious damage.

    1. Then they would go hungry by their own free will.
      As they are spiritually starving today…

  58. Twitter message from our ‘esteemed’ PM:
    UK Prime Minister
    10 Downing Street
    Apr 22
    Wherever you are, this Sunday at 3pm you’re getting the Emergency Alert.
    You will receive a message on the home screen of your mobile phone, along with a sound and vibration for up to ten seconds. You don’t need to take any action.

    The best response ever, from ‘Alan’. He should be a Nottler:

    Three years ago you told us all there was an emergency and that we must stay home. In the beginning I believed you. But within 6 weeks it became apparent it was a tissue of lies. Despite the evidence from proper scientists, not the charlatans at Imperial College, that the virus was a minimal risk to the under 70s and even to healthy elderly people, you persisted with draconian lockdowns, masks which didn’t and don’t work, vaccines which are neither safe nor effective, and you banished effective cheap treatments to the margins, sentencing many people to an early and unnecessary death. You made these unsafe vaccines mandatory for care workers, forcing 40,000 people out of the sector, and tried to do the same to NHS workers. Your public health experts manipulated statistics to justify further lockdowns. You now refuse to investigate the genuine epidemic of excess deaths and refuse to properly investigate vaccine adverse event reports. You printed vast amounts of money to give away in furlough payments, causing the current inflation catastrophe.

    If you ever shout “EMERGENCY” again, I won’t believe a word of it. All your credibility and all of my trust has gone. You can shove your emergency alert. I’ll be out with my family and my phone will be switched off at home with the battery out. I’ll use my 5 senses to decide if there’s an emergency. And if there is one, it’s most likely that government caused it anyway.

    2. Great post from Alan.

      I don’t like the hectoring tone of Sunak’s message. “Wherever you are (no escape for you, peasant!) this Sunday at 3pm you’re getting (no choice in the matter)…”

      I would have expected something along the lines of “A message will be sent out to all those who have not set their phones to opt out”

      1. I’m unplugging mine and taking the battery out as well. I hope it leaves no trace of this alert on the my device.

        2. I wonder if it’ll queue up to be delivered later when you turn your phone on? I’d suggest that the emergency alert is sent, regardless of config. However it being displayed is controlled by the device.

      2. I have just remembered, I have a UK phone somewhere. I think that I will go for the alert. If it replies with location, it could really upset their apple cart.

        1. But it would be interesting to know whether UK phones abroad will get it!
          My guess is not.

          1. Interesting question for Sos, Ped and HC. And anyone else risking living outside the UKSSR…!

          2. I will be turning mine off. No other action. If it rings, it rings. The b*stards know where you are anyway..

          3. I have turned mine on specially.
            I’m curious to see if it works.
            Normally it’s off 99.9% of the time.
            In some of the Brit predominant Dordogneshire towns and villages I suspect there might be some very bemused French folk.

      3. I can’t find the setting on my Android phone.
        Today it will simply not be switched on; like roughly 5 days out of every 7.

        1. I have been looking on my phone all week for an emergency alert setting- there wasn’t one. One has mysteriously appeared today. Funny that.
          Will be turning off phone.

        2. Mine is under settings (the white cog in blue circle), Then Apps and notifications and then ‘Advanced’ in the drop down and under emergency alerts.

          Or… you could search for it?

      4. He’s using ‘command’ language – imperatives rather than discussion – to lend authority to his.. authoritarianism.

    3. Seb Lee on Twitter says it is the swipe that is important in this exercise, it is that which is wanted, in all conversations and output it gets dropped in so we are subliminally prepared to swipe it eg ‘ministers are concerned it will cause accidents as people in cars swipe their phones’ and he gives other similar examples.

      Seb Lee @TheCoronaCure_
      “So here’s my summary of thoughts:
      – they want you to subconsciously think there’s an imminent emergency
      – they want your compliance
      – they want data points (who complied, where they were when it happened)
      – they want your fingerprint

      Having gone through all of this today…

      I am pretty sure the best course of action for your safety is to not respond as required.
      The good news is there seems to be 2 very simple ways to avoid it:
      1. Turn off your phone before the time of the event.
      2. Put your phone into aeroplane mode.”

      1. Is there an event of sufficient magnitude that warrants the state sending out a noxious alert that the citizen could actually do anything about?

        1. Exactly. And the state simply doesn’t care about our safety, or missing children (Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oxford etc), that is evidenced by the vaccines, the masks and lockdowns, so what is it really all about? Why has it spent 28 million of taxpayers cash on this?

      1. Too busy educating her child privately – then standing bail for him when he attacked people he worked with (at a job she had wangled for him).

        1. I have sympathy for her over her son.
          I agree that, as a socialist, she should have stuck to her guns and sent him to Bog Lane Comp.
          However, it would seem that he does have ‘mental issues’ and no amount of education, whether private or state would have stopped his condition developing. I suspect, given where he lives and the surrounding culture, that his mental condition was not helped by illegal drugs – especially cannabis when he was a teenager.

          1. What was his mother doing during these drug abuses? Where was his father? Or is it a sterotypical black family?

          2. Father – no idea as to whereabouts, which does conform to stereotype.
            All parents with adult children are aware that their sprogs have done things that would horrify them; helicopter parents do a no better job of raising responsible adults than parents who cross their fingers and accept that the apron strings have to be loosened.

        2. Worked with?
          Woked with more likely, I don’t see him as a grafter somehow, but another grifter, yes!

      2. Entirely agree, Bob. She’s been off her shaft for quite some time now and it’s cruel to expect her to continue to perform in public like some bizarre creature of curiosity for the amusement of hoi polloi like us. She should be put out to grass….as should many NoTTLers.

      3. Entirely agree, Bob. She’s been off her shaft for quite some time now and it’s cruel to expect her to continue to perform in public like some bizarre creature of curiosity for the amusement of hoi polloi like us. She should be put out to grass….as should many NoTTLers.

    2. On being told she was having the whip taken away from her, she replied “I can’t remember where I put it”.

    3. Always had the feeling she felt she could say anything she liked, without there ever being consequences.

        1. Precisely.
          I don’t agree with Abacus, but she has every right to hold an option.

          3. We all hold opinions that are offensive to someone – and possibly wrong.
            It’s if we actively involve ourselves in crimes that kill or maim people that action should be taken.
            (And yes, shouting ‘Fire’ in an enclosed public space can cause death and injury.)

          5. I occasionally get comments removed from the Daily Fail with the excuse that there has been complaints. Almost every time there were more up-ticks than down-ticks. Now they are not even bothering to publish most of them. My up-votes are about ten times the down-votes. The back-room morons don’t like the truth – but what paper does nowadays?

    4. Sir Keir deftly confirms that British Jews are racists, snobs and snowflakes. As for removing the whip, that always goes down well with people of African descent.

      First time I have ever agreed with Ms Abbott, and I like the expression ‘points of difference’, from the same stable, I mean source, as ‘people of colour’.

  60. The ‘Green’ Frogs are demonstrating to protect the environment:

    A69 CASTRES-TOULOUSE MOTORWAY: DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST AN ANTI-ECOLOGICAL PROJECT

    On Friday, hundreds of activists from various regions, including New Aquitaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, set up marquees and tents, set up tables, a bar and a canteen on an area equivalent to ten football pitches. Until then, the dispute had cantered in the village of Vendine, in Haute-Garonne, on the edge of the Tarn, where opponents had settled in tents hung on large plane trees to avoid the attack. slaughter. On October 26, 2014, the body of a 21-year-old environmental activist was found on the Sivens dam site (Tarn), about sixty kilometers from Saïx, after clashes between opponents and the police. All in the name of peaceful co-existence with nature.
    https://www.challenges.fr/assets/img/2023/04/22/cover-r4x3w1200-6443d0b185abc-000-33cy6bx.jpg

      1. Ah – that’s what is meant by a “road block”.

        Don’t let Robert know ….!

          1. Don’t be rude to our BoB!!! You have never seen him wield a jack-hammer nor heard him sing after a couple of pints!

      2. In the UK if the greeniacs did that plod would probably help. If anyone else did they’d destroy the wall, beat the protestors to a pulp and jail them.

        1. I wonder what they would do if a passer-by joined one of those incredibly tedious Stop Oil glue protests with a banner reading “Stop Illegal Immigration.”

        2. Plod would mix the mortar for them; and probably apply it as well, so the snowflakes didn’t dirty their hands.

          1. And have lots of bottles of expensive, eco-friendly water for them to sip.. (in that infuriatingly juvenile way the woke do it. Slowly unscrew the cap, just a tiny sip slowly screw cap on. Repeat every ten minutes…..) AAARRRGGGHHH.

          2. I know entirely what you mean, Bill, and find it equally excruciating. The very antithesis of how a decent medicine bottle ought to be treated come yardarm time.

    1. Very funny.

      When i lower myself to look in the lower fridge i run the danger of being goosed by one or the other doggies. I always wear pants under my dressing gown now.

      1. In NC my Golden, Henry, used to goose me after my shower when I was drying my feet on the side of the tub. I began closing the bathroom door- doesn’t matter, Golden Retrievers can open doors and gates.

        1. Mongo’s attitude toward doors is to lean on them. I can tell where he’s tried to go by the drool. Even her scariness has got used to checking before turning.

  64. 8 just don’t understand the objections to an emergency alert on St Georges day. I would have thought that it was very relevant to scream Emergency today as a way of drawing attention to the threat on the English way if life.

    Wear your alert with pride, it’s the only honest warning that you will get.

    1. Afternoon Richard. England in the sense that Nottlers and their generation understand it is finished. It is no more. As to the alert there is of course no sensible reason for it in its present form. It would only announce one Nuclear Attack and would then be redundant. Its future must lie in a series of control measures and by definition these would be decided by the politicians. Even the voluntary aspect is an illusion since a software update would soon take care of that.

      1. Our phone alert system has a much more down to earth use,. It is used b6 the police to send out alerts when a young child goes missing. Maybe once or twice a month we get an alert and that will normally be followed by a “Child found, thank you” message a few hours later.

    2. Afternoon Richard. England in the sense that Nottlers and their generation understand it is finished. It is no more. As to the alert there is of course no sensible reason for it in its present form. It would only announce one Nuclear Attack and would then be redundant. Its future must lie in a series of control measures and by definition these would be decided by the politicians. Even the voluntary aspect is an illusion since a software update would soon take care of that.

    4. It is a data gathering/surveillance exercise. It’s all in the swipe. I bought my phone for my convenience, not for that of the Government to nudge and control whenever it wishes to do so.

      1. It doesn’t need an alert for that.

        Our blessed government were found to have tracked phone location records during the covid craze. All for statistical purposes of course!

      2. No, PM – it really isn’t. Mobile phones, from the GSM days, have always had the facility to receive broadcast messages. What is now happening is somewhat more sophisticated, and is restricted to relatively late-model phones, but it’s one way traffic. When you acknowledge the alert, it goes away.

        As Richard says, phone use is already monitored by Big Tech and Big Gov. How, for example, do you suppose Google Maps knows where the traffic holdups are? Phone movements are tracked in real time. Perhaps it’s a small price to pay for convenience. Perhaps not.

        1. Just why, though? Why? As govt for years has done nothing in the interests of its people and much to deliberately cause harm – what is this all about then?

          1. The gov’t and many therein are slaves to WEF, Mum, and their aim is to destroy any and every sovereign nation.

          2. Yes, I realise that and it is doing it in all sorts of ways – death of our nation by a thousand cuts – at least track&trace had a purpose for govt but this alarm stuff I cannot see the point for govt except more fear mongering – so thus this test one is to prime us to be alarmed and fearful when we next hear it? We are to live in a state of fear then to be controlled more easily. It is obvious that the Nudge Unit is behind all this.

          3. You’ve got it, Mum, fear-mongering is the objective, as any alert of national danger will be far, far too late for the plebs to do anything to obviate the danger.

    1. Aiding and abetting the enemy? What are border farce for if they don’t defend our borders and send these criminals back?

      1. 373787+ up ticks,

        Afternoon W,
        ” What are border farce for ?” obviously they are for the WEF / NWO, treachery indeed.

    2. Which is why this alert nonsense is just that. If this asinine govt really wanted the people to be safe & etc they would do something about all these men arriving in the hundreds on a daily basis.
      They don’t care and this alert is another monitoring and controlling mechanism.

      1. Agreed. And they WANT the invasion of these awful people. They aid and abet it. To hell with those born and bred here and who are – dare I say it – not bames?

  68. Right. The fatal hour approaches fellow Nottlers. Will Vlad nuke London? Will the zombies emerge from their graves? Will the Muzzies go crazy and start hacking down the unbelievers? Probably all three!

      2. I’m in France – I shall probably hear it too – from the millions of phones going off in the UK.

      1. So the ‘siren’ which was predicted in the Telegraph to be dangerous to nearing aid users, turned out to be quieter than my bedside alarm clock.

          1. Just tap “OK”, and it went away. I don’t particularly welcome this extra intrusion into our lives by the Government, but some of the reactions to it are hysterical. I’m probably on a list somewhere, merely for having signed umpteen petitions. That, and standing in the Borough elections for UKIP. GeeCeeAitchQueue prolly has a Geoff Graham department. But the idea that our response to the alert is being monitored for compliance, is fanciful at best.

          3. Entirely true, Geoff, but we are all having a damp Sunday afternoon fun cussing the Government. Isn’t that what NoTTLers is for?

        1. Very delayed.

          Nothing in this part of Sussex, either on our ‘phones or i-pads.

          Perhaps Sussex is expendable?

        1. I hope you have your small suitcase packed and ready – for the order to proceed immediately to your nearest railway station….

        3. So, what did you get? Any text, or did the phone just shudder a bit overdramatically?

          1. It vibrated, and let out a quiet, half-hearted tone. I was hoping for something ear-splitting. Alexa makes more noise at 6.00 am.

            There was a message on the screen, saying it was a test, and inviting me to press ‘OK’ – whereupon it went away and I got my phone back.

    5. My phone didn’t go off. Now i feel unwanted and hurt. I need a safe space. Where’s me compo?

      1. Me neither Phizzee. i wonder if it’s because I have my location switched off as well!

      1. If you’re in France, it wouldn’t. As I understand it, the alert is broadcast from cell towers. In the UK. So the message isn’t sent to millions of individual phone numbers; it’s every phone connected to a particular cell tower.

    2. I’m rather ignorant in these matters, but aren’t burner phones the drug dealers’ preferred gadget?

      1. How could you possibly know that??? We NoTTLers are going to have to disown you forthwith!

    1. I just have a real mobile phone that is switched off most of the time . I have had it years.

    2. I turned my alerts off, but Dad didn’t. But neither of us has received anything.

        1. No worries i was previously a bit circumspect on the subject but have decided to come out, as it were…

  74. 10/10 for the government working to its usual high standards.
    It would uprear (sic) that the early warning didn’t.

    1. It doesn’t work on older phones. I’m hardly at the cutting edge, my Galaxy S20 is 2 years old – the latest iteration is the S23. But I got the half hearted alert.

      Annoyingly, I think I’m going to have to get to one of our churches to clear the message. The tablet which runs the card payment app is, to all intents and purposes, a phone. I fully expect the alert will have disabled it. The two larger churches have 4G routers, and they shouldn’t be affected. Hopefully 🙄

  75. There are times when words fail me.

    “Shivdayal Sharma, 82, died immediately after being struck by a flying cow which was hit and flung 100 feet into the air by an express train.

    Sharma had been urinating on the track in the region of Alwar, India, when the freak incident occurred.

    Another man had been standing nearby the tracks and only narrowly avoided being struck by the flying animal…….”

    1. I thought so and had my phone off- turned it on again and the alert came on. Turned it off again, back on and alert again. It seems it won’t stop until you press OK which I don’t plan on doing.
      I am mad as hell about this. All we get in this country now is lies and more lies.

      2. Yo, Big Sis.

        Just hit OK. No-one is monitoring your behaviour. Yet. The alert is broadcast to all, rather than individual phones. In the same way that the BBC doesn’t know who’s watching. It’s a one-way street. The phone’s operating system has been designed in such a way that you have to acknowledge the alert to get functionality back.

        It’s bloody annoying, but the alternative is discarding the phone. Which would be an over reaction.

        1. Yes, I know but it makes me mad. This govt can’t get the NHS working, people are having to wait months for appointments, illegals are flocking in everyday but they can spend millions on an intrusive message to our phones which are our property, not the govt’s.
          Remember how successful Track and Trace was?
          Imbeciles, all of them.
          I shall now retreat to my book about the Jacobite rebellions which seem totally sane right now.

      3. Mine hasn’t. I couldn’t find how to switch off the alarm; maybe my grandson did it for me or it’s just magic.

  78. If the Government had wanted to send an alarm to all mobile phones they should have outsourced it to Nigerian scammers. Would have worked then.

  83. We are recording it but there is a lovely film on channel 5. Ladies in Lavender. Judi Dench Maggie Smith.

    1. A feel good film. If you like that then…Mrs Harris goes to Paris. Enchanted April. My house in Umbria.

  84. Watching the women’s rugby; the French are giving a masterclass in attacking and counter-attacking rugby. A pleasure to watch.

  85. 373787+ up ticks,

    What amazes me is that peoples support / vote for this corbyn plaything, this model for the elephant in the room, a very shite party.

    Sad thing is for decent peoples their partners in the coalition are no better the only difference being that the tory (ino) party are also a shite party but with a touch of class.

    Far-Left Labour MP Diane Abbott Suspended for Saying Jews and White People Don’t Experience Racism

    1. Abbott is categorically a complete moron. She’s an innumerate fool who wouldn’t be in this country is not forced on us.

      However, what she said is here:

      https://i0.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/abbot-letter-to-observer.jpg?w=676&ssl=1

      This isn’t that they don’t. It is that prejudice is not racism. Her clumsy attempt at saying only blacks experience racism is utterly stupid, as befits Abbott (look at how blacks are treated in the media vs reality, the stabbings, the rapes, the family abandonment, the massive amounts of cash poured into black areas and black schooling at the expense of white boys, mainly) but she is trying to distinguish racism from prejudice.

      It is clumsy. It is ill-thought through (for a politician), but she isn’t saying they don’t experience racism.

      Nor is saying that Diane Abbot is a hypocritical, innumerate, arrogant diversity hire only in post because of the race replacement demographic of her constituency.

  86. It was a lovely sunny start to the day, put washing to dry on the line .

    Moh and I drove to B+Q in Weymouth at 12.30 , had a few bits and pieces to buy.

    Lots of families were walking on the rather breezy beach , there were a couple of small tankers anchored in the bay , and a glorious large yacht tacking along with the wind in her sails , and the sky looked thundery and heavy.. the sea was green and blue but the waves were gently rolling , not rushing as they were the other day.

    B+Q backs onto Weymouth station , and a diesel train had arrived , we could see it as I parked the car, probably from Bristol , don’t know .

    Anway by the time we had finished getting our odds and ends , we heard sirens , and when we passed the station in the car , the police were on foot searching the area .. there is alwas some trouble with yobbery , such a shame really.

    As we motored back home along the seafront , it was good to see families together , the sandy beach is lovely , no matter what the weather .

    I was driving , and we noticed the famous White horse engraved on the hillside going out of Weymouth which was looking green grey, horrible a few weeks ago , had been cleaned up and was now looking fresh and positive.

    Anyhow , this climate of ours is incredible .. because from the Warmwell roundabout onwards home , it started to rain lightly , and by the time we got home there were huge puddles on the road and the drying washing I left on the line was now soaking wet.

    The alert was nothing more than a squeak by the way.

    1. I holidayed in Weymouth as a child. My Grandmother had a house in Great George St. I always liked to watch the tractor combing the beach early every morning. Mesmerising.

      1. Phizzee

        It is still a bucket and spade resort , and has a lovely beach .

        Years ago when the boys were little , I used to pack a flask of tomato soup and homemade bacon butties , and a banana for each , and they would enjoy a few hours on a wintry beach , or take them rockpooling down to Osmington , years before the cliff crumbled etc.

        I am glad you have nice memories .

        1. Thank you. My memories are reinforced by the wonderful food my Grandmother cooked. Breakfast a 9am on the dot. Cereal followed by 2 chipolata. 1 bacon, 1 fried egg. Toast and a pot of tea.
          Lunch. 1pm on the dot. On a Thursday there would be a crystal bowl full of hand picked crab with salads. I had never eaten such food. Supper would often be ham from the bone and hot buttery new potatoes.

          All served at a linen covered table.

          1. Our sons still rhapsodise over the crab sandwiches we ate beside Weymouth harbour.

          5. For someone who goes to market and buys knock off cheeses you don’t surprise me in the slightest.

          6. I don’t like crab. Especially when it has grit in it. You should get out more…!!

          7. Crab doesn’t have grit. Obviously the crab you had was badly ‘picked’ and you had bits of shell. That’s what you get from buying knock off produce.

          8. I’d never even think of buying fish and seafood except from a very reliable supplier. The crab I had was in a pub. Once and once only.

          5. Actually, in person (unless it was a double) she is very pleasant!! Despite everything…

        4. You have a very ‘no-nonsense, don’t-mess-wiv-me mate’ look about you, even then!

      3. I went on family holidays to Weymouth as well. I remember you could go out a long way from the beach and still be in shallow water.

      4. I got a parking ticket in Weymouth at 8:10 am on Easter Sunday morning in 1995 and swore i would never go back there and i never have. Take that, Weymouth!!!

    2. The alert wasn’t as loud as I expected but I’d disabled our phones. Other people’s phones on the train went off.

      1. I thought it would have a message attached ..I couldn’t even find out who had phoned .

        I guess you had a great time .

        The outdoor camera picked up a lovely shot of the vole/mouse and hedgehog together last night . They seemed to have cooperated with each other , so sweetly.

  88. Emergency alert test UK: phone alarm sounds early for some users but others don’t receive it – live updates. 23 April 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/155d2325209294be7fe0239768993c9bdea6bbd1b14e8a5073c4d484fb61003d.png

    We have effectively completed the test of the UK-wide Emergency Alerts system, the biggest public communications exercise of its kind ever done. We are working with mobile network operators to review the outcome and any lessons learned.”

    What an absolute shower!

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/live/2023/apr/23/emergency-alert-test-uk-phone-alarms-sound-live-updates

  89. Emergency alert test UK: phone alarm sounds early for some users but others don’t receive it – live updates. 23 April 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/155d2325209294be7fe0239768993c9bdea6bbd1b14e8a5073c4d484fb61003d.png

    We have effectively completed the test of the UK-wide Emergency Alerts system, the biggest public communications exercise of its kind ever done. We are working with mobile network operators to review the outcome and any lessons learned.”

    What an absolute shower!

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/live/2023/apr/23/emergency-alert-test-uk-phone-alarms-sound-live-updates

  90. A friggin’ Bogie Five today.

    Wordle 673 5/6
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    1. Managed a par.

      Wordle 673 4/6

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    2. Par 4 today.

      Wordle 673 4/6

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  91. Alerted by sos, I looked at the last 20 minutes of the women’s 6N France v Wales.

    They play a different style of rugby to the men – can’t put my finger on it, but is isn’t the same. Lighter players, more open play?

    Interesting, anyway. And a nice big crowd. Screechy ref – and I thought the TMO “interference” was pointless. Six of one and half a dozen etc. These “handbag” events happen in many matches and are best quickly forgotten.

      1. Oh. perhaps it has been removed by the poster on Twitter. I don’t know why they do that with perfectly innocuous posts.

        1. No, it’s still there and worked for me. My phone was quiet but then I switched off all alerts, all notifications and all sounds, plus I always have roaming data off and put it in airplane mode too, just for good measure!

          1. My phone is an iphone 5s which is obsolete these days, probably too old to receive these alerts. Well that suits me just fine, i won’t be changing it any time soon in order to take part in the government game. Both of ours were in ‘plane mode and switched off, too. Both of them are pay-as-you-go so the roaming data is always off, it certainly runs away with your credit. Sometimes I don’t look at it for days, I use it only for making and receiving texts and phone calls.

    4. Several went off around us while we were on the train but it was a bit of a damp squib.

    5. I was in Church. Proceedings were paused at one minute to three. Three lots of phones went off at separate times. On different networks I suppose.

    6. I left my phone at home (in a room well away from the dogs in case it went off and frightened them). When I got back and checked there was no sign of a notification (I had left in on airplane mode).

      1. Yes, ours were in aeroplane mode too, and switched off. I also think my phone is too old as well to receive alarms.. It’s an iphone 5s which is, I think obsolete these days. Well, it’s simply going to get even more obsolete regardless. I won’t be changing it any time soon in order to play the government game.

    1. It has been suggested that it’s actually a recording of your tummy-grumblings followed by an all clear-out.

      1. Seriously, as an infant, living in London from 1942 onwards, I was frightened silly by the sound. My poor mother had to try to comfort me until the “Warning” stopped. To this day, it send shivers down my spine.

        1. I’m not surprised, it does similarly for me and I didn’t even live through it.
          I can’t recall whether they put such siren warnings out during the cold war.

          3. Not about that!

            I commented on the girly rugby – thanks to you, I wasted 20 minutes…I must have missed the exciting bits..

          4. I placed a hex on it.
            The first half was absolutely superb, think Wales during the Edwards, Barry John era.
            Then after half time the wind went to almost gale force in Wales’s favour, which spoiled the spectacle.

          5. I might even watch the England match next week. It’s at HQ – hope the stands are full.

            The referee is: Aimee Barrett-Theron so clearly nothing to do with France…!!

            My neighbour in Laure was a Madame Theron….As French as French…

          6. Unless I can persuade my in-laws that it’s worth watching I won’t be able to see it unfortunately.
            I’m hoping to record it, but the system doesn’t seem to allow me to set it up so far forward.

          8. Thank you.
            I will experiment then and see if I can set it up.
            It’s the free sat that appears to be the problem.

    2. I used to hear these practice warnings as a child. They always sounded at the same time each week. I quite enjoyed it.

        1. No, the nearest bombs dropped were a couple of miles out of town. The planes flew high to avoid the hills and didn’t risk descending to hit the town.

          1. Our house was destroyed 14 days before I was born. I arrived with shock and trauma and other conditions which took years of treatment – all because of the bombing. Aged 2, I spent three months in hospital. Parents were NOT allowed to visit – as it might “upset the children”….

            I do not ask for any sympathy and, as one does (or, at least did in my younger days) got on with things without moaning.

            Perhaps it is one of the reasons that I do not feel any fellow feeling with people who claim they have been “bullied” – amongst other groups of self-obsessed wanqueurs.

          2. 3 months without your mother? There must have been marxists employed in the health industry even during WWII!

          3. Mother told me that when I was TORN from her arms, she saw that my little fists contained lumps of her pullover…

          4. It was standard practice; when I was in hospital, aged 6, my parents weren’t allowed to visit (and rules were extremely strict for the patient!).

          5. When I was in hospital, aged 6, having had my tonsils out, my mother dropped a postcard in each day, and I still have them. I don’t remember having any visitors a few years later either, aged 10, when I had my appendix out.

      2. When my parents lived in Kent for a brief year or so , the sound of the Dungeness fog horn was eerie and forbidding , and very frequent .

  97. The ECHR is misusing its powers – Britain has nothing to fear by defying it

    Any real threat to the rule of law comes not from our Parliament, but a group of zealots in the judicial office at Strasbourg

    MARTIN HOWE • 22nd April 2023

    We learn this week the government will amend its Illegal Immigration Bill to allow the Home Secretary to disregard interim rulings from the European Court of Human Rights when deciding to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda or other safe countries. Needless to say, this has provoked protests from the usual crowd of Left-leaning and Europhile lawyers, with the former Lord Chief Justice Thomas claiming that this is “a symbolic breach of the rule of law”.

    There is indeed a threat to the rule of law, but it comes from a completely different direction.

    The large-scale arrival of migrants across the Channel has led to a complete breakdown of the UK’s ability to enforce our laws about who is and who is not allowed to come and live here. Many of those who cross are economic migrants and not genuine refugees at all. Even those who originally had a claim to be refugees when they left their country of origin should have claimed refuge in the first safe country they reached, and not in the UK after passing through France and other countries as well.

    But at the moment, our legal and administrative systems are incapable of removing migrants from the UK, even where all appeals have been exhausted and they have been found to have no right to be here. The migrants and the people traffickers know this, which is why they keep on coming despite the dangers of the journey.

    Last year, the government introduced its plan to remove illegal migrants to Rwanda where their claims to refugee status would be considered in a safe environment, but where they would not have access to the economic benefits of living in the UK. Our courts carefully considered the legalities of this plan, and all courts up to the Supreme Court refused to grant an interim injunction to a group of migrants to stop them being put on a plane to Rwanda.

    But on the very same day our Supreme Court ruled, the Strasbourg Court granted what was widely reported as being an interim “injunction” or “order” against them being put on the plane. It is now being claimed that the UK would be in breach of international law if it were to go ahead with a removal in the face of such an interim “order”.

    The reality is different. The European Convention on Human Rights does not confer any jurisdiction on the Court to make interim rulings which are binding on States. Article 46(1) expressly states only that final judgments of the Court are binding.

    The Court in fact acted under Rule 39 of its Rules of Procedure, which states that it may “indicate” – not “order”, or “injunct” – interim measures which it thinks should be taken in a case. As a matter of principle, such rules govern the procedure by which a court exercises its jurisdiction, and cannot expand its jurisdiction. This principle is reinforced by the fact that Convention which defines the Court’s jurisdiction is agreed by all the member States, but the procedural rules are simply made by the Court itself.

    So both the wording of Rule 39 and the powers under which it was made mean that such “indications” are recommendations only, and are not binding in international law. This was the accepted position for many years, until in a case in 2005 the Court adopted a backdoor argument that interim measures are binding because failing to implement them would interfere with an applicant’s right to apply to the Court.

    This expansive ruling is just one of the many ways in which the Strasbourg Court over the years has expanded its own powers and the scope of human rights law through legally dubious or downright indefensible “interpretations” of the Convention.

    The Convention says that its members are obliged to secure the rights to everyone in their own jurisdictions, not elsewhere. The Convention contains no asylum rights at all. This was not an oversight but a deliberate decision when drafting it, because asylum rights were dealt with separately in the Geneva Refugees Convention negotiated at the same time by very much the same group of countries.

    But this has not stopped Strasbourg from creating asylum rights which are not present in the text of the Convention. The Court’s case law has increasingly held States responsible for what might happen outside their own territory when criminals are extradited or migrants are removed.

    The Convention was drafted after the War with the laudable aim of protecting basic rights against the risk of countries sliding back into totalitarianism. But the Strasbourg Court has transformed it into something completely different, by acting effectively as a law-making body rather than sticking to its allotted task of interpreting the text which was agreed by the founding states.

    So the real threat to the rule of law in this scenario comes not from the very limited and justifiable amendment to the government’s Bill, but from a group of zealots in the judicial office at Strasbourg. They see it as no part of their duty to respect the limited nature of the jurisdiction which was conferred on them by States via the democratic process.

    The government should have no hesitation in defying the Court’s unjustifiable misuse of its powers to block the Rwanda scheme. But we should also think for the longer term why on earth we need to remain part of this broken and unreformable court system.

    Martin Howe KC is chairman of Lawyers For Britain

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/04/22/the-echr-is-misusing-powers-britain-has-nothing-to-fear/

    1. They’ll send law enforcement people made up from the 46 member states. I know they’ll do a grand job!!

    2. Why are they (pretending) to send them to Rwanda? I will cost us billion and continue being a heavy debt for many decades. They come from France and should go back to France. The Frogs are deliberately dumping their unwanted parasites on the British – and this idiotic government is helping them.

      1. 373787+ up ticks,

        Evening P,

        I do believe it has little to do with idiocy
        but 100 % to do with treachery.

    3. It is not a matter of jurisdiction. We, the public commanded our servants to remove us from the EU. Our civil service and officials continue to enforce EU rules and this EU court – and yes, before people say otherwise it is a condition of membership and so it is part of the EU in all but name – continues to force it’s rulings – from the eurocracy – on the public.

      We instructed the state to bring us out. It continues to fight us.

  98. Just gets betterer and betterer…Sleezy even by SNP standards

    Senior SNP minister handed secret £33,000 top up to salary

    Angus Robertson, former Westminster leader, received a wage hike after SNP won 56 out of 59 seats in 2015 general election

    By Simon Johnson, SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR
    23 April 2023 • 5:02pm

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/04/23/TELEMMGLPICT000332636206_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI.jpeg?imwidth=680
    The SNP’s Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson lost his Moray seat to Douglas Ross, the Scottish Tory leader, in the 2017 general election

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/23/senior-snp-minister-secret-33k-top-up-salary/

    1. Archetypical socialism in action, gravy for the entrenched, taken from the fools who support it..

  100. That’s me for today. Chilly – despite odd bits of sunshine. Then rain. Great excitement tomorrow, men are coming to install a new oil tank. The existing one, metal, was built in to the garage in 1975. Perfectly legal then – now a definite no-no! So they start outside – and the return next week
    to do the inside pipework and, finally, cut up and remove the old tank. So i am expecting endless problems and, finally, that neither the CH nor the AGA have any oil arriving…!

    Have jolly evening.

    A demain.

    1. It’s been very cold and damp here, too, Bill. I’ve had to have the Rayburn going full blast.

    1. They do seem to be raking up old history – why can’t they just celebrate his life?

  103. Long shot here – a long time ago you used to be able to get a soft cheese with walnuts on it called Rambol from Tescos.

    https://www.marks-cheese-counter.co.uk/product/rambol/

    Does anyone know where that can be bought? The Warqueen loves it and I’ve not been able to find it except in small boutique places and then in microscopic quantities where I’d like to get half a kilo/kilo for her (it’d last about a day).

      1. Much ob, out of stock at the moment. There’s a 2kg one that would be really nice for her but it’s a long shot.

    4. Try this Wibbs….
      The Cheese Shop Hartington.

      Hartington Cheese and Wine Co.
      Buxton Derbyshire.

      I don’t have an email but we had some wonderful Sage Derby and Guinness Cheddar from them a year or so ago.
      PS- they did stock many other cheeses.

    5. I used to get this when we were in France – it was delicious with a baguette at lunchtime, a glass of white wine and a view of the Pyrénées (Pyrénées Orientales). Sigh…. longer sigh………….
      https://epiceriecorner.co.uk/products/fromage-rondele-noix-de-dordogne-125g?variant=41239668162724&currency=GBP&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwrpOiBhBVEiwA_473dABd2f4iCdG8NrvDjeC6sYxAuCjOAGzFM3Dbot3RT6_LCy2Eb1DrEhoC0DsQAvD_BwE

  104. Evening, all. Been a foul day, weather-wise, but a very enjoyable day otherwise. Was able to go back to my usual church because the problem rector was away and the retired clergyman who took over made the service so meaningful. All the choir took communion for once. After the service we all went back to the churchwarden’s house for coffee and cake (and lots of chat). It was so uplifting; not just the service, but the comradeship. Afterwards I went to a planthunters’ fair and managed to dodge most of the downpours, but they didn’t have what I went for and they’d sold out of almond trees. I did get a tree peony and met two of my neighbours for more chat.

    2. Two services of Morning Prayer here. The Reader who conducted both services is in his eighties, and is patronising and boring in equal measure.

      I confess that I spent the second identical, waffling sermon, on the DT website. Since three of our four churches now have t’internet (for card payments), life at the organ console has improved.

      2. Are you saying that you console yourself because you have a mighty fine organ?

        Asking on behalf of the lady Nottlers, at least one of witch , oops one of which, is already sniffing around?

      3. The organist sent an email during the service, so he said, and one of the choir was doing the crossword!

        1. Of our four churches, the two tiny ones were always fine for mobile reception. Not so the two larger ones.

          St Laurence, Seale, is across the road from where I lived, when I was Verger. There’s a good Vodafone signal, so my 4G router is now in the church, and enabling card payments. Also Wi-Fi Calling, and browsing the web.

          St John the Baptist, Puttenham, was more challenging. BT quoted £300 to do a survey to quote for installing broadband. It wasn’t taken up. So I put a 4G router in the bell chamber, added an external antenna in the opening closest to a cell tower, and had a full signal. Sent this down to ground floor level via the mains wiring and two Powerline adaptors. Total cost around £150.

          Across the parish, we’ve taken around £1,250 in card payments since last August.

          Better still, it’s useful to be online in all four of our churches. I can surf the web, especially NoTTL, when I’m bored… 😱

  105. Slightly off topic
    There was an earlier thread on walnut cheeses.
    A former Nottle regular was keen on truffles and I enjoy a summer truffle cheese, which reminded me of him.
    Has anyone heard from Harry Kobeans recently?

    1. Last popped in on Friday 7th April & said he’d been down under. Before that, 20th February, and 6th February. So fairly infrequently over the last few months.

    2. Last popped in on Friday 7th April & said he’d been down under. Before that, 20th February, and 6th February. So fairly infrequently over the last few months.

  106. Well that got a bit damp.
    Went up to the village for a pint in the King’s Head and the Barley Mow with eldest daughter. A light spotting of rain going up and the same as we went over the fields to the Barley Mow.
    Coming out of there however, it was chucking it down and we got wet!!

    Off to bed now, so g’night all.

  109. Not done much today, but my condition makes me tired.
    So I’m off to bed.
    I really enjoyed the film I watched this afternoon, Ladies in Lavender 2004.
    Good night all.

    1. Goodnight Eddy. I’ve had a tiring day also- got a lot done but pain makes it more wearing. Hope you feel better tomorrow.
      Tomorrow is another day.

    1. Yo ogga

      Please do not call them ‘arseholes’ as without that bit of your body you would die, very quickly.

      I think “Woke Politician” is far more apt

      1. 373832+ up ticks,

        Morning OLT,
        I will meet you halfway “woke politicians” is far to genteel so shall we settle on “treacherous rear exit politico’s”

  112. Saturday saw the highest number of arrivals by small boat across the Channel this year. Home Office figures, released yesterday, showed 497 migrants reached Dover on Saturday, just over the high of 492 seen on April 5.

    As a yearly high of 500 cross the English Channel in a single day… Migrants will now have the right to claim legal aid to fund their battle against deportation flights
    ‘Irregular’ migrants entitled to legal aid if they claim life at risk in home nation
    Ministers also agreed to look at introducing more ‘safe and legal routes’ into UK

    It means 5,546 small boat migrants have crossed from northern France since the beginning of January.

    Mrs Braverman said on Friday that ‘myself and the Prime Minister are absolutely committed to stopping the boats once and for all’.

    1. “‘Irregular’ migrants entitled to legal aid if they claim life at risk in home nation”

      Even though they left France, a safe country, before coming here? Our lives are becoming more “life at risk in home nation” as their numbers increase. Very odd, isn’t it, Maggie?

    2. Yo T_B

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

      Says it all

      (Sorry I missed na A out

    3. Yo T_B

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      Says it all

      (Sorry I missed na A out

    4. Stopping the boats is all very well, but if they have put in place alternative means of crossing that are open to any who may, then they will probably make the immigration problem worse.

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