Tuesday 25 April: The emergency phone alert has the hallmarks of another costly failure

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Where are We?

    Two tourists were driving through Louisiana. As they were approaching Natchitoches, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the town’s name.

    They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch.

    As they stood at the counter, one tourist asked the blonde employee, “Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us?

    Would you please pronounce where we are… very slowly?”

    The blonde girl leaned over the counter and said, “Burrrrrrrr, gerrrrrrr, Kiiiiing…”

      1. My American friends all have a robust sense of humour- they need it to put up with me!

    2. We pulled into a burger joint and I ordered two Whoppers and fries.
      “YOU WANT WHAT” ? Was the reply on the speaker. I said it again. Same answer YOU WANT WHAT ?
      I slightly changed my accent to order, Two Waaaarrrpppuurrs and fries.
      As we drove through to collect our order the spotty youths looked at us as if we were aliens.
      New England. Loved it.

  2. Good morning all.
    A bright and sunny start with a rather chilly -3°C outside.

    1. A road to Damascus moment. May he not be the first post-covid. May he give others courage to see likewise.

    2. In his mind I’m sure what he has said makes sense. That it is clearly word salad deceit is par for the course for this pathetically weak, disingenuous liar.

      They’re all the same. All Left wing, big state, spendaholic socialists continually deny the evidence of their own actions. They havee to. Facing up to their failure would have the cognitive dissonance they exist in explode their heads.

  8. Sudan reveals the dangerous incompetence of the British state. Spiked. 25 April 2023.

    Just as in Afghanistan, people are being left and high and dry by useless officials and politicians.

    This all paints an utterly dismal portrait of the British state and the condition of its civil service. It shows Whitehall’s institutional dysfunction, its incompetence and, most worrying of all, civil servants’ lack of any real sense of public duty. This is a crisis in which British citizens’ lives are at stake. And yet Foreign Office staff seem unable to rise to meet their needs. Last week, Dominic Raab had to step down as a minister after he had supposedly ‘bullied’ civil servants by being too critical of their work during his time at the Foreign Office. No doubt many Brits in Sudan right now are thinking he hadn’t been critical enough.

    You only have to look at it! It’s falling to pieces! Nothing works. The NHS. The Police. The Civil Service. It’s political class are decadent and corrupt cowards. Now it looks as though it has spread to the military. This is what thirty years of Socialism has brought!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/24/sudan-reveals-the-dangerous-incompetence-of-the-british-state/

    1. Good morning Minty

      Much as I thought the Sudan was a reasonable country , compared to West African countries in the old days. Sudan gained Independence in 1955 and Nigeria 1960, as for the others I cannot remember.

      WHY have we dished British passports out like confetti.. BBC interviewed a Sudanese with a Scottish accent tearfully asking for his swaddled family to be evacuated frpm Khartoum..

      If everyone has a passport , their entitlement will mean disaster for us .

    2. Good morning Minty and everyone.
      Here is Lord Moore’s view on the situation:

      “I sometimes think that the dominant thought of all public services nowadays is the safety and convenience of their employees.”
      Sometimes?

    3. The state exists for itself. To perpetuate, expand and consume. Service provision is a side issue. It has an agenda, and that agenda must be promoted above all else.

      Personally (hobby horse incoming!) it all comes down to tax. Too much money allows for decisions that are antithetical to common sense, permits these ivoriy towers and leaves management far too much time to waste. As Yes Minister said ‘I want a job where there is achievement rather than just activity’.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epWZ5KW1aLM

    1. If government were to build an ark it would take so long to decide on the wood, choose the nails and then they’d order too few – through a sub contractor, then the wrong type of nails. Throughout there’d be proclamations of doom endlessly – wasting the budget for building the ark which would be so full of lies no one would believe them.Despite the rain, government building regulations wouldn’t change and they’d demand ever more people were brought into the area and call anyone questioning their stupidity a waycist to shut down debate.

      After 8 years and the building site only just having delivered the logs, let alone started construction and thoroughly underwater, government would proclaim the project a huge success, failed by third party suppliers and a lack of taxation to ‘combat climate change’ while MPs swan off on the floating planks.

  11. The enemy within? Ukraine’s Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church faces scrutiny. 25 April 2023.

    Father Mykola Danylevych, the spokesperson for Ukraine’s Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church, answered the phone before quickly hanging up. “I told you to call me on an encrypted line!” Danylevych, like his fellow high-ranking clergymen at the church, are in a state of paranoia and panic – their church, the biggest in Ukraine, is under threat.

    He may be in a panic; he’s definitely not paranoid. The Ukie Government is out to get him and destroy the Russian Orthodox Church in pretty much the same way that Henry VIII destroyed the Catholic Church in England five centuries ago, and for much the same reasons. It’s a hotbed of opposition to their policies.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/25/the-enemy-within-ukraines-moscow-affiliated-orthodox-church-faces-scrutiny

  12. France confirmed it had rescued a “significant” number of people from European countries including the UK, while Germany said it had also ferried home Britons.

    Ministers had warned earlier they could not promise to rescue up to 4,000 British citizens and residents in the country, including 70 NHS doctors trapped by fighting.

    Any evacuation from Port Sudan would need some UK nationals to make the potentially difficult 500-mile drive from the capital, Khartoum.

    There is also the option of sending further military planes to fly people out of the country. Those trapped include more than 70 NHS doctors and their families, according to a doctors’ group.

    The Sudanese Junior Doctors Association UK said it was concerned for the safety of the doctors and their spouses and children.

    A statement said: “We are aware of 71 Sudanese NHS doctors who are currently trapped in Sudan because of the ongoing conflict.

    “These are UK citizens or residents and a mixture of consultants and junior doctors. The situation is worsening and they need immediate evacuation from this war zone.”

    Dr Taissir Idris, a consultant paediatrician in Stoke on Trent and deputy secretary general of the Sudan Doctors’ Union UK, said nationals from EU countries were being told to assemble for evacuation, but so far UK nationals she was in contact with had not heard anything.

    Alert messages sent by the Irish department of foreign affairs advised Irish and EU nationals that they could join separate Dutch and Swedish airlifts. Citizens were told they would take one piece of luggage and no pets.

    Dr Idris said the UK response seemed late by comparison.

    She said: “In comparison with others there’s a delay, because people still did not get any directions yet.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/24/britain-lags-behind-world-rushes-evacuate-citizens-sudan/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    70 Sudanese NHS Doctors what are they doing out there , NHS DOCTORS..

    2. I would like to know how many Sudanese doctors there who are employed in the whole of the NHS and what proportion of those are/were in Sudan when fighting started.

      Do they all return to Sudan for Ramadan or something?

      1. Yes. Eid. They clearly do not read newspapers – or they would have known that there was a civil war going on at the VERY TIME they flew out to “celebrate”… So not very bright “doctors”..

        1. I wonder how many arrived in the UK and were given permission to stay having fled Sudan because it was too dangerous, except for holidays, naturally

    3. 373881+ up ticks,

      Morning TB,
      Seeing as our political overseers are in close contact with the peoples smugglers
      (Calais / Dover express) could they be of use ?

  13. France confirmed it had rescued a “significant” number of people from European countries including the UK, while Germany said it had also ferried home Britons.

    Ministers had warned earlier they could not promise to rescue up to 4,000 British citizens and residents in the country, including 70 NHS doctors trapped by fighting.

    Any evacuation from Port Sudan would need some UK nationals to make the potentially difficult 500-mile drive from the capital, Khartoum.

    There is also the option of sending further military planes to fly people out of the country. Those trapped include more than 70 NHS doctors and their families, according to a doctors’ group.

    The Sudanese Junior Doctors Association UK said it was concerned for the safety of the doctors and their spouses and children.

    A statement said: “We are aware of 71 Sudanese NHS doctors who are currently trapped in Sudan because of the ongoing conflict.

    “These are UK citizens or residents and a mixture of consultants and junior doctors. The situation is worsening and they need immediate evacuation from this war zone.”

    Dr Taissir Idris, a consultant paediatrician in Stoke on Trent and deputy secretary general of the Sudan Doctors’ Union UK, said nationals from EU countries were being told to assemble for evacuation, but so far UK nationals she was in contact with had not heard anything.

    Alert messages sent by the Irish department of foreign affairs advised Irish and EU nationals that they could join separate Dutch and Swedish airlifts. Citizens were told they would take one piece of luggage and no pets.

    Dr Idris said the UK response seemed late by comparison.

    She said: “In comparison with others there’s a delay, because people still did not get any directions yet.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/24/britain-lags-behind-world-rushes-evacuate-citizens-sudan/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    70 Sudanese NHS Doctors what are they doing out there , NHS DOCTORS..

  14. 373881+up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Dt

    Britain and EU vow to protect wind farms from Putin’s sabotage
    Western leaders discuss drone task force to protect crucial North Sea infrastructure

    I don’t believe old Ivan has any worries there, given a short space of time as with the United Kingdom electorate majority, they will self destruct.

    The one success they are having currently ( pun intended)is on being a steady scam financial return ask camerons pop in law.

    Their maintenance on land must be horrific as for offshore regular maintenance I would say nigh on impossible without helicopter attendance, bad enough seeing the ups&downs of a rig supply boat.

    Be better in the long run if we made them an appeasement gift
    ( we are good at appeasing) to Ivan giving him the daily mounting upkeep cost and us the satisfaction of a scam destruct.

    Listened to a brace of party top rankers lib/dems / greens,
    ed daily promising MORE money mills and the greens leader who was so electrifyingly interesting I done a ten minute noddy, these people ARE making headway, with them as leaders I do believe prayers five times a day will be welcomed.

  15. Drinking cow urine is known to be harmful – so why do people consume it every day in India? 25 April 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/87ed65640c435d5a11a84e2d112a59b4587527b66c652941e66557829c883c17.png

    It was a surprise how many Indians were shocked by the study’s findings – drinking cow urine was found to be significantly harmful to human health.

    The research carried out by the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) discovered urine samples from healthy cows contained 14 types of harmful bacteria. Escherichia coli, which causes stomach infections, was most commonly detected.

    Cow urine has long been purported as having a host of health-giving benefits by those who practise ‘Ayurveda’, an alternative, holistic medicine system that derives its teachings from Hindu scriptures and can trace back its roots in India more than 2,000 years.

    I feel faint. No comment

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/cow-urine-drink-india-ayurveda-medicine-harmful/

    1. Same reason they worship cows. Same reason there isn’t sewagerage outside of cities. Same reason they have a caste system. It’s a developing nation.

    6. I don’t know how true the statement is about cow pee having harmful bacteria but i do know big pharma doesn’t want anyone medicating themselves with things they don’t sell.

      1. I wouldn’t call them freaks so much as just ill. When you see a child crawling about on all fours pretending to be a dog you smile and think, ahh, how cool! If that child then remains thinking they’re a dog into their adulthood, insisting on eating from a bowl, of being walked – then they’re ill.

  17. Good morning all,

    A sunny start to the day at McPhee Towers but it’ll cloud over a bit by early afternoon. Just 3℃ at the moment and with the wind persistently NNE, it’s not forecast to get into double figures – again. This is the last week of April for heaven’s sake.

    Yesterday I posted that the 30-year average April top temperature to 2020 was 13.75℃ but we have seen that on only one or two days so far this April. I tried to find out what the recordings at the nearest Met Office weather station have been so far this month. Not available as far as I can see. Is it because they need the time to massage the data to fit the narrative, one wonders?

    From the letters:

    SIR – Sam Ashworth-Hayes (Comment, April 21) observes that soon there will be “relatively fewer young people” to pay for state pensions. One solution is to produce more of our own children.

    There’s no need for the Government to intrude on private decisions about having children. It could start simply by surveying all state actions in areas such as employment, education, housing and taxation, which currently deter couples from having children. If the state won’t support childbearing, it should at least be neutral.

    David J Critchley
    Buckingham

    Well, no shit, Sherlock. The tax and benefit system should have been altered to encourage family formation the instant the birth-rate fell below 2.1 babies per woman. That was several decades ago. Instead TPTB have gone all out to import migrants. It’s almost as if they want to replace us. They wouldn’t be doing that, would they?

    1. The state machine hates – fervently – the nuclear family. Every action has made efforts to undermine that institution. The family needs nothing form the state. it produces rounded, rational, decent law abiding, working children.

      The immigrant, however… is an endless source of demand for welfare, police, social services… it is the bureaucrats dream.

  18. Good morning all,

    A sunny start to the day at McPhee Towers but it’ll cloud over a bit by early afternoon. Just 3℃ at the moment and with the wind persistently NNE, it’s not forecast to get into double figures – again. This is the last week of April for heaven’s sake.

    Yesterday I posted that the 30-year average April top temperature to 2020 was 13.75℃ but we have seen that on only one or two days so far this April. I tried to find out what the recordings at the nearest Met Office weather station have been so far this month. Not available as far as I can see. Is it because they need the time to massage the data to fit the narrative, one wonders?

    From the letters:

    SIR – Sam Ashworth-Hayes (Comment, April 21) observes that soon there will be “relatively fewer young people” to pay for state pensions. One solution is to produce more of our own children.

    There’s no need for the Government to intrude on private decisions about having children. It could start simply by surveying all state actions in areas such as employment, education, housing and taxation, which currently deter couples from having children. If the state won’t support childbearing, it should at least be neutral.

    David J Critchley
    Buckingham

    Well, no shit, Sherlock. The tax and benefit system should have been altered to encourage family formation the instant the birth-rate fell below 2.1 babies per woman. That was several decades ago. Instead TPTB have gone all out to import migrants. It’s almost as if they want to replace us. They wouldn’t be doing that, would they?

    2. Yes, but in his mind he didn’t force people to get vaccinated. That this is simply verbal sleight of hand is irrelevant to him. He cannot confront his own hypocrisy. Lefties can’t.

      1. 373881+ up ticks

        Morning W,
        As with the current lab/lib/ con coalition supporter /member / voter.

        1. He doesn’t think he’s lying though. Technically he probably isn’t. It is the deceit, the fraud of language. The BBC does the same, it lies by omission.

    3. How can anyone with the slightest amount of common sense, or any sense of morality have voted for a useless turd like him ?

      1. 373881+ up ticks,

        Morning RE,

        Any lab/lib/con coalition majority supporter / voter can answer you better than I, they are well practised.

      2. According to polls, 38% of Scots would still vote for the SNP.
        There is a very big argument against the universal franchise, and it’s getting bigger.

    4. This is the most repulsive so-called political “leader” ever visited upon a Western so-called democracy in my lifetime.

  21. Bonjour tout le monde as they say somewhere else.
    To the title: I turned mine off because I am sick of the tracking and tracing and compliance expected – pure bloody-mindedness, probably futile and marking me as a potential threat to the nation – or just an idiot.
    But I am sick of it all. Really fed up.
    Just let me get on with my life and stop looking over my effing shoulder.

    1. Yep.

      What people want is to be left alone. The state can’t allow that.

      I’d like to elaborate. I’ll be 44 in May. In the 30 years of my adult life absolutely nothing has improved. Most things have got much worse. The country has been forced backward. Taxes are soaring and services appalling. The state is bigger and more damaging than ever. Our culure is being overrun by ignorant, stupid Lefties.

      The one light for the future was Brexit and the state, encouraged by a remoaner government has fought, relentlessly to overturn and undo that. Every single thing is worse now than it was 30 years ago. Heck, even 20 years ago. A complete waste of majorities in every respect. Even the petty, simple things – such as taking direct debits and standing orders on weekends and bank holidays! has been scuppered. Regulation and authoritarianism cripples everything and the nation is suffocating under taxation, chained by red tape., held under by a massive welfare class, an abhorrent government inhabited by imposters, back stabbing stooges, morons (Abbott), fools (the majority) and liars (the rest).

      Point at anything – anything – and the dead hand of corrupt, useless big government either already does or wants to control it – all for our own good, of course. Or the cheeldren. The excuse of the tyrant throughout history.

      I’m beyond hatred. Beyond resignation. I’m angry. They have all got to go. From Westminster to Whitehall to council offices – every last one dragged out, collar, chained and whipped to learn their damned place – under our boot.

      2. Most of us here are a lot older – the changes we’ve seen in our lives even greater.
        The major one I see is the loss of freedom.
        When I was a child I walked to school along a busy road and nobody worried. Children don’t do that now. I made my own amusements indoors or outside. I was self reliant.

        1. From age 11 I went up to London Bridge on the train every school day. Can you imagine some soppy parent allowing that now?
          In CT my young son used to put his wellies on and go down into the woods to play in the stream with his pal Peter. Again, it probably wouldn’t happen now.

          1. We spent last weekend with family. Two boys aged 12 and 10. Lovely boys. They did disappear outside for quite some time but also spent a lot of time watching cartoons on telly. They play the piano too. It’s a different kind of childhood I guess.

          2. It’s the way they use phones and damned screens that gets me. Though my beloved grand-daughter rarely touches her phone.

          3. The elder one played games on an ipad type screen for a while. The younger one is a happy soul who just sat and played the piano with no prompting. I didn’t notice either of them reading for pleasure.

          5. So did I. My mother (it was said) wouldn’t have noticed if the house was on fire till the pages of her book curled up. I still have her books here.

          6. I walked 3 miles to my junior school, along a busy road and over a canal. Children were expected to be sensible and self-reliant.

      1. One wonders what other absolute wastes of money are being organised by the Civil Service?

        They now have complete liberty to spend whatever they want, because any minister who objects

        can be eliminated by complaints of bullying.

        1. It is the endless parade of utterly pointless and useless rubbish that we’re showered with. The online harms bill, windmills, net zero, 15 minute cities – no one wants these things. They make our lives worse. What’s needed are far simpler, far less intrusive things such as removing the regulation over checkouts. Preferring British farms over foreign ones.

          The state has shown it has absolutely no interest in doing what the public want over the real issues of immigration, welfare and crime yet it does nothing over the small things either. For this, it has more people in each department than IB and HP combined employ globally. The agenda is all it bothers with – it’s own agenda.

      2. Can we get a refund if we didn’t get it. I won’t know if we are going to be flooded out or a wildfire is on its way.

    3. I turned ours off but we had just boarded the train in Sheffield so they were going off all around us. A minute early. And then a few minutes later again.

          2. One of the finest jokes ever – only beaten by the current bunch of buffoons running the country.

  23. Morning all 🙂😉
    Not quite what we expected from the doom and gloom weather forecasters.
    No severe widespread frost or snow. Just a lovely sunny morning the air filled with bird song. But after the earlier rubbish bin collections.
    And yes another costly failure from our useless government.
    It reminds me of a joke Ronnie Scott use to tell about the wonders of travelling and old fashioned British B&B. Regarding messy breakfasts.
    Punch line “How can you eff up cornflakes”?
    Just ask our politicians and Whitehall.
    Everything they come into contact with.

    1. This is why the Left especially keep trying to change the name for things. Orwell got it right early on: if you can remove the words you don’t like from society, you can force society to think as you want them to.

      1. Go back 150 years.
        “Must a name mean something?” Alice asks Humpty Dumpty, only to get this answer: “When I use a word… it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

    1. One of the “risks” is that the Town Hall might mysteriously burn to the ground…..

    2. Wadda loada bolero.
      These council people are absolutely stupid. Couldn’t run a bath.

    3. Despite council’s beliefs they really have no ability to stop people doing what we want to. It is our own consent that gives them that power.

      1. There you are wrong, Wibbles. Since the Plague huge swathes of formerly normal, sensible people – who would, as you suggest, do what they want without asking – have been conditioned to follow “instructions”. If some toe-rag at the Town Hall tells them they CAN’T – then they won’t. And they won’t argue, either.

        1. Yep, but it is that consent that has us controlled. However, as you say there is a clique of people happy to obey. I hadn’t thought people were so weak until covid exposed it. Realising most everyone around you is a lemming like drone was quite disturbing.

          1. It was a repeat of the Diana hysteria.
            I became a stranger in my own country.
            Still am, I suspect.

    4. Despite council’s beliefs they really have no ability to stop people doing what we want to. It is our own consent that gives them that power.

      1. Two young women were fined during the pandemic for drinking takeaway coffee. In the Polices opinion that constituted a picnic.

        The fines were later waived.

    6. Don’t worry. The Great British Sheep have spent three years demonstrating how comfortable they are with living in the GDR Mark II.

  27. Britain and EU vow to protect wind farms from Putin’s sabotage. 25 April 2023.

    Britain is joining forces with the European Union to protect offshore wind farms and pipelines from Vladimir Putin in a new security pact.

    The proposals include joint patrols using drones, as well as sharing information and intelligence to protect power supplies across the Continent from the Russian President.

    It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that this sudden concern (this is the second article in a week) for North Sea wind farms, is preparation for a False Flag attack. They are of course already protected, not just by the military resources of NATO but by their position in one of the world’s seas at the centre of States hostile to Russia. Ironically one of the justifications given here is the attack on the Nord Stream pipeline last year which was an American operation, though I don’t suppose that they would be averse to another. You also have to ask yourself why Russia would be interested in such a project. No conceivable plan would make any significant difference to the supply of electricity (when there’s no wind they shut down anyway) to European customers and it would cause Putin immense political and diplomatic difficulties.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/24/britain-and-eu-vow-protect-wind-farms-from-putins-sabotage/

    2. Windmills are pointless, expensive and ecologically and environmentally damaging. If Putin were to destroy them what would we do? Pootle border farce out there to fire pea shooters at him?

        1. Which would no doubt be late as a committee of 80,000 people would be involved in drafting the redraft of the drafted redraft.

          2. And ensure that the “Chair” was completely unqualified or the job. (cf John Lewis)…

          3. Ensure, I think, rather than check. It goes without saying that govt appointments are not done on merit, but to tick a box.

      2. …and tell him that, “Mr Putin, you are now officially classified as a very naughty boy.”

  28. Britain and EU vow to protect wind farms from Putin’s sabotage. 25 April 2023.

    Britain is joining forces with the European Union to protect offshore wind farms and pipelines from Vladimir Putin in a new security pact.

    The proposals include joint patrols using drones, as well as sharing information and intelligence to protect power supplies across the Continent from the Russian President.

    It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that this sudden concern (this is the second article in a week) for North Sea wind farms, is preparation for a False Flag attack. They are of course already protected, not just by the military resources of NATO but by their position in one of the world’s seas at the centre of States hostile to Russia. Ironically one of the justifications given here is the attack on the Nord Stream pipeline last year which was an American operation, though I don’t suppose that they would be averse to another. You also have to ask yourself why Russia would be interested in such a project. No conceivable plan would make any significant difference to the supply of electricity (when there’s no wind they shut down anyway) to European customers and it would cause them immense political and diplomatic difficulties.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/24/britain-and-eu-vow-protect-wind-farms-from-putins-sabotage/

  29. Good morning, all. Sunny after an early light frost. Garden beckons.

    Over five weeks ago I wrote to my MP re Andrew Bridgen’s treatment at the hands of his fellow MPs. To date no reply although his auto-response states 10 days as the target response time.
    This morning I’ve sent this rather long missive to the candidates standing for election in my local council ward. I’m wondering what response, if any, I will receive.

    Dear Candidates,

    On 20/04/2023, I received the last of the candidates’ election addresses. Now that I can see what you individually stand for I feel able to contact all three of you.

    Let me introduce myself: I am a member of one of the first families to be housed on Shrub End estate and I attended both Kingsford Schools before going on to Earls Colne Grammar School. Of my 74 years I have spent 60 within the ward and of course I have seen many changes: some good, some not so good and some downright awful.

    In the 1960s my father was a Labour councillor for the ward and as a teenager I was involved in his election work e.g. canvassing and helping in the election day committee room. Much later I assisted the then recently formed Liberal Democrats for a few years.

    Today I am politically homeless.

    Reading your individual addresses and looking at your websites it is clear that there is not a lot to choose between all three of you: basically, you all claim to want the best for Shrub End and its inhabitants. That’s how it should be.

    However, the point of my communication is not about what you are claiming to want to achieve but to discover each individual’s position on a matter that is becoming an important talking point and was brought to the attention of council members earlier this year.

    Link to 2 minute video and Daily Gazette article:
    Colchester Council Interrupted By Climate Change Protestors

    I was not an attendee at that protest and I am not affiliated to any group; I am a concerned member of the public who demands open and honest debate on issues that impact on people’s lives.

    The matter I am referring to first reared its head in Oxford and other locations are attempting to follow suit, including Thetford. The issue is known variously as 15 Minute Neighbourhoods, 20 Minute Cities/Towns, Sustainability and possibly other names of which I am not familiar. All have been described as improving access to everything, or almost everything, one needs to live a happy life unencumbered by having to travel, especially travelling by car, motorcycle or other personal fossil-fuelled vehicles.

    The preamble to these ideas publicises the so-called benefits but in my opinion hides the fact that it is the thin end of a very large wedge that will lead to control of people’s lives by restricting their lifestyle choices. As I understand it the idea is of international, non-governmental i.e. unelected origin but nevertheless is being instituted by some local administrations here in the UK.

    Discussions on the idea have raised concerns about it being in violation of long-standing statutes and common law that form the basis of our constitution.

    As I have not found a mention in your your electoral addresses of 15 Minute Neighbourhoods etc. and as I am being asked to support your candidacy, I think that I deserve to know where you stand on this issue.

    In my opinion you cannot be an advocate of democracy and support this idea. The people of Thetford were not consulted about having this idea foisted on them. The result was a very angry electorate and the local and county councils having to meet the people and explain themselves. It is worth remembering that elected officials are there to do the people’s bidding; elected officials are most emphatically, NOT, the people’s masters.

    Simply put, any advocate of 15 Minute Neighbourhoods etc. should have the moral strength to make a case for it and then put it to the electorate. Attempts to slip the idea through by political prestidigitation is not in any shape or form, democratic.

    Kind Regards,

    3. I wrote this to my MP at the end of March about Net Zero, the Climate Change Act (Repeal it), and Agenda 21/2030:

      Dear Mr Malthouse,

      A report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph caught my eye.

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/30/households-face-net-zero-penalty-gas-bills/

      I have been intending to write to you for some while on the subject of Net Zero and you may recall I have written to you before on the subject of Climate Change.

      It is now that the effects of Net Zero policies are being felt in rising energy costs and rising food costs. We are told that we must get rid of our gas boilers, install expensive, ineffective heat pumps and get rid of our log-burners. In seven years we will no longer be permitted to buy new internal-combustion engine cars.

      The implications of this wrong-headed policy for all of us are extremely serious. Those of us who have taken the time to do the research can see through it and we know that it is based on a lie. Climate change is entirely natural and has been going on for some four-and-half billion years. It is neither because of CO2 nor anything else mankind has done. Mankind can do nothing about it except adapt when it happens.

      We know too that the origins of this Great Lie can be traced to the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation which provided the money to get it all started. The motive is power and control. It is way past time for a proper discussion on what we are doing to ourselves with this politically-driven nonsense.

      In the first instance the proposed bans on internal combustion engine vehicles, gas boilers and wood-burning stoves are the height of folly and they must be abandoned. Second, the Climate Change Act (2008) must be repealed. Third we must exploit the energy resources which we have under our very feet and under our seas. That means ‘fracking’ for shale gas, continuing to extract North Sea oil and gas and re-starting the coal industry. At the same time we must go ahead with a network of small modular nuclear reactors which will replace the laughable ‘renewables’ of wind-power and solar-power which are completely unreliable and very far from being environmentally-friendly. That way we could easily have energy independence in the longer run.

      You may or may not know this: The Sun is entering a ‘Grand Solar Minimum’ and for the next 35 years or so we are going to experience colder conditions – right at the time we are been told to abandon efficient heating systems for inefficient ones. We may see winters as cold as those in the Little Ice Age when the Thames froze and ice-fairs were held. Whether that happens or not, it is going to get colder for a while. That is virtually certain because the energy our planet receives from the Sun will be temporarily reduced. How the ‘climate-change industry’ will choose to spin it should be intriguing since the IPCC has pointedly ignored the work of the astro-physicists who talk and write about it.

      To the politics: What this means for me is that I can never cast my vote for any candidate for any public office who believes in the lie of man-made climate change and supports the folly of policies to combat it. Neither will the growing numbers who have been awakening. You will probably be aware of the risings against Khan’s expanded ULEZ, low-traffic neighbourhoods, 15-minute cities and 20-minute communities with the associated restrictions on free vehicular movement. We know this comes from the United Nations Agenda 21/2030 and the World Economic Forum. We do not want it. Any of it.

      Your sincerely, etc

      And here is the reply I received yesterday:

      Dear Mr McPhee

      Thank you for your mail.

      The overwhelming consensus of international climate change scientists is that climate change is happening. This is one of the most serious issues we face. The Government it taking the threat of climate change very seriously and working to reduce our emission

      With best wishes

      Kit Malthouse

      Member of Parliament for North West Hampshire
      House of Commons | Westminster | London SW1A 0AA
      Tel 020 7219 4620

      A totally unthinking, standard response which can be shot to pieces with ease. Really I think it’s a waste of time engaging with them but I will reply thanking him for taking the time (30 seconds?) to reply to me. I’ll provide him with some hard information and include a couple of quotes from UN luminaries:

      “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialised nations collapse?
      Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?….”

      Maurice Strong, UN IPCC founder and Canadian communist, 2012.

      “One must free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. (What we are doing) has almost nothing to do with the climate. We must state clearly that we use climate policy de facto to redistribute the World’s wealth….”

      “Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with protecting the environment. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which redistribution of the World’’s resources will be negotiated…”

      Dr Ottoman Edenhofer ( Co-chairman, UN IUPCC Working Group III) 2018

      I’ll then finish it with the re-statement that people are getting wise to this and the political parties and the ‘climate establishment’ will have a price to pay for what is being done to us and our livelihoods. We know about UN Agenda 21/2030, the WEF and its so-called Great Reset which will be met with the Great Reject. The government, which is supposed to be our servant, is on a collision course with the people. Since he is not in government he has a chance to be on the right side of history. Will he take it?

      I seriously doubt that he will.

      1. Well said and deserving of more than the standard response from someone who clearly hasn’t given the issue much thought. Amazing how the majority in the HoC follow the scam and will not countenance any other arguments.

        1. As a parish councillor I keep getting invitations to attend events on “the climate emergency”. All have a fee to be paid. I studiously avoid them. Needless to say, County is fully signed up to the “emergency”.

      2. Ask him what part humans and industry played in the warming of the earth which ended the last ice age

        2. The Ice Age hasn’t ended, Alec. That’s the common misconception. The ice has retreated because we’re in a warm inter-glacial period, the Holocene, which is one of 40-odd so far in the Pleistocene Ice Age which itself is a sub-division of the Quaternary Glaciation which began 34 million years ago. Prior to that the Earth had no ice-caps. Another Glaciation will happen, it’s only a question of when. In about 85,000 years is one train of thought but if the Younger Dryas is anything to go by it may be considerably sooner and unpredictable. No amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere will stop it. Hope that’s cheered you up.

          I will ask him, nonetheless. Should be fun.

        3. The Ice Age hasn’t ended, Alec. That’s the common misconception. The ice has retreated because we’re in a warm inter-glacial period, the Holocene, which is one of 40-odd so far in the Pleistocene Ice Age which itself is a sub-division of the Quaternary Glaciation which began 34 million years ago. Prior to that the Earth had no ice-caps. Another Glaciation will happen, it’s only a question of when. In about 85,000 years is one train of thought but if the Younger Dryas is anything to go by it may be considerably sooner and unpredictable. No amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere will stop it. Hope that’s cheered you up.

          I will ask him, nonetheless. Should be fun.

      3. A rather curt and arogant reply, which is not unusual for people who live solely off the public purse. And any Bungs available.
        Ask him why the UK has been chosen to become climate change martyrs when the vast majority of other countries around the world don’t appear to give a damn.

      4. Of course climate change is happening! The only disagreement is the cause, and how to mitigate the effects!

      5. You might wish to send him this Fiscal:

        Climate Change and You

        The climate ‘science’ is wrong. CO2 being 0.04% of the atmosphere is a cause for good, as it is essential for plant life.

        The atmosphere is 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen. The remaining 1% are various trace elements of which CO2 is but a small part.

        The greatest cause of any change in the Earth’s climate, is due to the cyclical nature of the Sun’s phases, which may lead to vast differences between ice ages and continual heatwaves

        Check https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/challenging-net-zero-with-science/

        Please feel free to copy and paste this anywhere appropriate.

  30. We are probably on verge of a new world war. 25 April 2023.

    An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the world was probably on the verge of a new world war and the risks of a nuclear confrontation were rising.

    “The world is sick and is quite probably is on the verge of a new world war,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, told a conference in Moscow.

    He said such a new world war was not inevitable but the risks of a nuclear confrontation were growing and more serious than concerns about climate change.

    I think that I agree with Medvedev here though I’m struck by his use of the word sick. I think that it is probably true if polities and their ideologies can become so. The West is certainly sick. Terminal by the looks of it. Decadent, Corrupt, morally Vile. It has none of those qualities that animated it in my youth. It has abandoned Freedom and Democracy for Tyranny and Authoritarianism.

    One suspects that the cure, if there is one, will be very bad indeed!

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ally-we-are-probably-verge-new-world-war-2023-04-25/

  31. We are probably on verge of a new world war. 25 April 2023.

    An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the world was probably on the verge of a new world war and the risks of a nuclear confrontation were rising.

    “The world is sick and is quite probably is on the verge of a new world war,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, told a conference in Moscow.

    He said such a new world war was not inevitable but the risks of a nuclear confrontation were growing and more serious than concerns about climate change.

    I think that I agree with Medvedev here though I’m struck by his use of the word sick. I think that it is probably true if polities and their ideologies can become so. The West is certainly sick. Terminal by the looks of it. Decadent, Corrupt, morally Vile. It has none of those qualities that animated it in my youth. It has abandoned Freedom and Democracy for Tyranny and Authoritarianism.

    One suspects that the cure, if there is one, will be very bad indeed!

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ally-we-are-probably-verge-new-world-war-2023-04-25/

      1. It could all just be based on some journalists sounding off in the Polish media. Probably paid by the Russians to stir up trouble in the European paradise!

  33. Don’t worry if you didn’t get the ‘Emergency’ call. It was just a way of transferring money from some politicians and civil servants to their mates. It has been declared only a partial success so it will be repeated in the near future to enable the rest of the money to be released.
    – Keep paying your taxes – you know the country depends on you. –

  34. Completely OT. I have a confession. I have had a lifelong addiction to Airfix kits. Not actually assembled any since my younger son was in his 20s. We did it together. Anyway, the MR and I watch with interest the “Hornby” series on Yesterday TV. The MR is impressed by the enthusiasm and attention to detail shown by the people who work for Hornby (and its various diivisions).

    In the most recent prog, there was a clip of the company taking delivery of a Hawker Hunter for their museum. To my astonishment, it bore the markings of 63 Squadron – which was based at RAF Waterbeach in the 1950s – where I lived (my Dad was in the RAF). I can remember when 63 Sqn received the Hunters (to replace Meteor Mk 8s), and the envious looks from 56 Sqn personnel!

    I almost certainly saw the aircraft which Hornby’s now own… Still a stunningly good-looking aeroplane. The only down side is that it was 65 years ago…..

    2. Don’t climb aboard to see if you still know how to fly it. You are both priceless relics.

    3. The first one I made was the Westland Lysander. e had them all hanging from the celling at school The Head Master was a Lancaster Bomber Navigator and a great man.

      1. Those were the days, JN. My best form master, and history and French teacher, had fought all the way to Berlin from Normandy. An inspiring teacher.

        1. Just as politicians should do something else before becoming politicians it would not be a bad idea for teachers to spend a few years working in other jobs before becoming teachers.

    4. Yo Bill

      Hunter T8’s and GA11’s, at HMS Fulmar(RNAS Lossiemouth) were the first aircraft that I worked on.

      2. As a QWI on 79 Sqn we used to be tasked to take part in FAC-controlled fire-power demonstrations on Salisbury Plain. The gun pack was loaded with 4 x 120 rounds of HE/AP with which we would obliterate the tank hulks. The vibration and smell in the cockpit was unforgetable.

        This was The Sport of Kings, not horse-racing.

    7. I used to love making Airfix models. Can you still buy thrm? I thought they went under.

        2. I couldn’t find one in any shops today so I looked on line and I’ve ordered a Spitfire, a Hurricane, a Tiger Moth and a Harrier. V excited 🙂

        2. I made lots when I was a child; I used to have them hanging from the ceiling. I expect my mother threw them out, like so much of my stuff.

        1. No. That was our ‘Red Air’ airframe for combat training. It was a conspicuity trial. We also had one painted yellow.

        2. No. That was our ‘Red Air’ airframe for combat training. It was a conspicuity trial. We also had one painted yellow.

        3. No. That was our ‘Red Air’ airframe for combat training. It was a conspicuity trial. We also had one painted yellow.

      2. The only time I worked on Hunters was during training at Halton and helping with the restoration of an early Hunter at the Highland Aviation Museum at Inverness Airport

  35. Good morning, chums. Late on parade today. Had an uncomfortable night’s sleep so got up and surfed the net. Will read Sir Jasper’s joke, then back to bed.

    1. You could try Bach ‘Rescue Night’. Most nights it works for me and I have no idea why, and I have had many, many nights of poor sleep when I’ve eventually had to get up for a couple of hours and finally get some peace as dawn is breaking. I still have the occasional bad night, but nothing like I used to get. Its active ingredients are ‘flower essences’; glycerine and water.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cd14711a9f13d65711081c76dbfa3ff87fbbf7d1c85dc524061db5fc17e39004.jpg

        1. Certainly seems to work on footballers – one touch of the magic sponge and they are right as rain.

  36. Sudan latest news: Britain will work to end bloodshed, vows Rishi Sunak
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/25/sudan-conflict-evacuation-news-live-fighting-ceasefire/

    The truth that dare not speak its name is that had the benign British colonial system remained in the Sudan long after 1956 it would have been far better for the ordinary people and there would not have been the gross spilling of blood, the endless civil war, the genocide, and the collapse of the country’s infrastructure.

    Some years after my father had retired from the Sudan Political Service he was told by his old African colleagues: “The only thing you did wrong was to leave us.”

  41. Here on War Room is James Roguski exposing what the WHO/WHA are not just proposing but are currently putting into effect. Asking our globalist government to steer well away from this takeover is a complete waste of time.
    The only spark of hope is the longstanding pitiful record of UK governments’ involvement with huge databases and computing systems.

    War Room – WHO/WHA Takeover

    2. I took my command post and one of our drones to RAF Coningsby in the 1970s. They said that thing can’t fly. Here is one taking off. It reached 480 mph in 1.8 seconds. After 2 seconds the rocket booster dropped off and the drone continued on its course with a turbo-jet engine. It returned to a pre-set location and was guided back on the last leg by radar and recovered by parachute and landing bags, stripped of its reconnaissance film and returned to a mobile workshop for refurbishment. At half a million each they were not cheap but the best of their type at the times. The most I controlled was 32. An interesting interlude in my career.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/28135cd16e7622e2a635ea15bd3ef75b5024b058fccd47504902f882a72b0fe9.jpg

  43. If Five ants rented a house with five other ants……..would they became tenants.

        2. Critical Race Theory books, Gender Theory books etc. The Nazis had the right idea.

    8. If it was full of Nottler women they’d be termagants.

      I’ll see you later lads, if I get away.

  44. 373881+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    1h
    And there you have it, Boris didn’t want to win the Referendum, he didn’t expect to, & the Tories had “no plan” when Leave did win.

    .They could have read my book Road to Freedom (2014) & figured it out from there. Instead we had to wait for Mrs May to take office & then ask the EU if they had a plan we could use.

    If I could see how to leave the EU & what needed to be done the Govnt with its thousands of civil servants surely could have.

    Instead we had a ‘Not Realling Leaving Deal’ & are now in the EU’s waiting room waiting to go back in.

    That will probably happen under the next Labour govnt & the Tories will try & win votes off of that & the following election.

    ‘We’ve got no plan. What will we do?’: Boris Johnson ‘shock at Brexit result’ revealed in new book – The Independent,

    New book also claims future PM cried when Michael Gove stood against him for Tory leadership

    apple.news
    https://gettr.com/post/p2fc8zt7ea2

  45. ‘Morning All

    Tucker Medley

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  46. Why can’t tv companies offer handsets in different colours? I’ve got so many different remote controls, phones etc a the same size and all black, I always pick up the wrong one.

    1. When you are building your Airfix kit this weekend – use some of the Humbrol enamel to colour-code your remote controls.

        1. “To my deafness I’m accustomed,
          To my dentures I’m resigned,
          I can manage my bifocals,
          But Oh how I miss my mind.”

  47. Rest of the medley

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    https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0664/0900/5283/products/spod-1061669220-2-1.png?v=1677280376

    https://i.imgflip.com/7ja0v2.jpg

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    1. Surely those police officers are aiding and abetting a crime – obstruction of the carriageway under the Highways Act 1980. So the police officers are themselves committing an offence.

    2. I note that the perlice said (proudly) that “No arrests were made” among the eco-terrorists.

        1. The PTB have instructed the perlice to ignore such obvious crimes. The PTB are on the side of the eco-terrorists.

    4. And the police wonder why they are increasingly held in complete contempt!

  50. Joe Biden finally announced on Tuesday what he has been dancing around for months – that he will seek a second term in office.
    The 80-year-old has thrown his hat into the ring despite mounting questions about his age – which will be 86 at the end of his second term – dire polls, and concern from his own party over whether he is the best candidate.
    Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours,’ Biden said in a Twitter video on Tuesday morning.
    That’s why I’m running for re-election as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12008431/Biden-80-finally-confirms-running-2024.html

    Gawd help America if the senile old crook should win and “finish the job”; the total destruction of white and law-abiding America.

    1. I wonder if he is exempt from some sorts of prosecution as long as he is the president and if he is no longer in that position he might have to spend the rest of his days in prison.

      1. He works on the crocodile eats you last basis.
        He wants to be remembered by the eventually dominant non-whites as the man who destroyed the white hegemony.

    2. Finish the job? Does he mean bringing in the WEF “you will own nothing and you will be happy” job? More likely he’ll finish the country.

  52. Morning, all! Well, I’m finally packing to come back to England. A tortuous journey from Montevideo via Asunción and Sao Paolo (if it works 🤣), costing a bomb, as the affordable options all go through the fascist states of America, but hey ho; that’s life! A couple of boarding cards still up in the air – this will be an adventure! 🤣🤣

    4. When we were leaving Bolivia en route to Sao Paulo and Madrid and home, there was a mini riot going on at the airport……. we got out by the skin of our teeth. Hope you’ve got your Yellow Fever vax certificate with you……..

    7. Hope you enjoy the journey! Be lovely if you could post a few piccies – always wanted to go to Asunción, for some reason.

      1. They wouldn’t help much, I’m afraid! 🤣 It will be dark throughout my time in Asunción.

        Hopefully…

  53. Thank goodness my washing’s dry, otherwise this morning would have done serious damage to my blood pressure.
    I had to go to the bank to transfer money.
    As various bints floated around vacuously asking people “Can I help you” (“I doubt it but you MAY try”) I and an assortment of the Colchester population grew roots standing in a queue in what appeared to be a suburban sitting room c. 1955; temple to dignified capitalism it was not.
    Two out of the three tills were in use, and one of those was monopolised by some foreigner and her minder trying to sort out her account. Showing epic self control, I did not reply to clip board girl “get behind that bloody till and help customers”.
    But I did have my say.
    I did ask one of the floaters if the 3rd till could be used but I got the usual “we’re short of staff” excuse. So, exactly the same as the situation as when MB and I were last there some 3 weeks ago.
    When I reached the till, the girl was lovely and helpful. Putting aside the technicalities of transferring money – the conversation was on these lines:
    Me: Do you have meetings with your manager?
    Clerk: We sometimes see him pass through.
    Me: Suggest to him that there should be a third person flexible enough to take over the empty till when it’s busy. This situation is unfair on you.
    Clerk; (wry smile)
    End of rant

    1. My bank removed all the tellers. I asked the floater how i was supposed to withdraw my money from a flex saver account that doesn’t come with an ATM card. He said i would have to travel to the next town and withdraw it there.

      I went home and withdrew all my funds online to another bank. I left 9pence in the account.

    3. My bank is similar, except that they only have one working teller plus a floater who directs you to the ATM machine in the corner. When he or she drifts over I say, “I need to do X and I can’t do it on the machine”.

      1. Yup. I had a similar conversation with one of the floaters.
        Her smile became very fixed.

    2. It was Fujitsu that designed the horizon accounting system for the Post Office. It didn’t work either.

    3. Isn’t Fujitsu the company that produced a carp computer program that caused postmasters to be gaoled or commit suicide?

    4. I have worked with Infosys and their almost illiterate consultants in France.

      Every procedure they wrote, I had to re-write in sensible and concise English.

  55. ‘Why can’t they let kids be kids anymore?’: Police force is branded ‘ridiculous’ for warning families that their children could be punished for playing FOOTBALL in the street in antisocial behaviour clampdown

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12010913/Police-force-branded-ridiculous-letter-warning-against-kids-playing-FOOTBALL-street.html

    Using a little lateral thinking.
    Carry a football in the car and if stopped by ecoloons place the ball near them and call the police to arrest them for anti-social behaviour

    1. Takes a bit of reading but I agree with the writer so far. I need to go out so will read the rest later.

  57. Afternoon, all. Just popping in while I wait for the chap to come and see why I can’t wind my clock up. The chains seem to have seized solid. As for the headline; the government has the reverse Midas touch – everything it gets involved with doesn’t work and costs a fortune.

      1. It is an edible chew toy but i thought it looked like a sex toy…not that i would know about such things…

        1. Thank you, Philip.

          Since Dolly is a bitch, I doubt she’d have any use for a sex toy other than to chew it.

  59. Steerpike
    Doubts raised over Diane Abbott’s Observer excuse
    25 April 2023, 12:07pm

    Oh dear. It seems that Diane Abbott’s antisemitism apology – dashed off on Sunday morning in a failed last-ditch attempt to stave off her suspension – has backfired somewhat spectacularly. The Jewish Chronicle has today published an article which calls into question Abbott’s account of how her letter downplaying racism against Jewish people came to be published by the Observer.

    The former Shadow Home Secretary claimed that an initial draft of her letter was sent erroneously to the newspaper. But the JC says that Abbott’s letter was sent to the Observer twice from the MP’s own email account a week before it was published. The letter was identical each time it was sent, three hours apart, and the suspended Labour MP reportedly made no efforts to revise it in the seven days after it was sent.

    As the JC points out, the fact that it was sent from her own email address – not from one controlled by an aide – suggests that she was entirely in control of the process. The newspaper added that the first time the email was sent ‘Abbott received an automatic reply asking her to send it again but this time with the addition of a postal address. She did this, leaving the text of the letter unchanged.’

    The MP did not respond to the Chronicle’s request for comment. Mr S is sure it won’t be the last…

    *****************************

    Jolly Radical
    2 hours ago
    Leave the mad old bat alone. Anyone who drinks rum from a can on the Tube at lunchtime is ok with me.

    1. According to Diane Abbott, 157% of black people have experienced racism before, compared to only 9 out of 7 Jews.

      1. And Police Scotland have framed her son…

        Lamb found in back of car with £10,000 worth of heroin and cocaine

        Police discovered the animal next to the drugs and a bag of chips after pulling over a vehicle on the M74 motorway in Scotland

        By Max Stephens
        25 April 2023 • 2:08pm

        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/04/25/TELEMMGLPICT000333290064_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqK1tukRlqIDWRtuJiq3z9qQqPrCVCrlF5dB30-BKu_cs.jpeg?imwidth=680
        The lamb, drugs and portion of chips were discovered by officers near Glasgow on Saturday.

        The lamb has been provisionally named as Peter Murrell of no fixed abode.

          1. I’m delighted the lamb didn’t meet its intended end. I’m guessing that’s why they didn’t mention the race/creed/colour/proclivities of those arrested!

    2. The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that there is ‘a huge biological risk’ associated with the occupation of a central public health lab as fighters stormed the building.

      What possible legitimate reason could there be for holding these samples in a Third World State?

      1. Pandemic preparations?

        If it worked for Covid think how much more frightened people will be made to be over something they can really believe is bad for them across all ages and degrees of underlying health.

        And also consider how much more likely it is that States will sign over the sought after powers for WHO control.

      2. The U.S has a thousand laboratory across Africa. Doing things that are illegal on American soil. Guess what they are cooking up.

    4. I have no doubt that Gates & Co are rubbing their grubby little paws together in unconfined glee. The mileage they can get out of this! It will be milked until it is as dry as a bone.

    5. I have no doubt that Gates & Co are rubbing their grubby little paws together in unconfined glee. The mileage they can get out of this! It will be milked until it is as dry as a bone.

  61. Britain will consign Putin and his energy war to the dustbin of history. Grant Shapps. 25 April 2023

    Indeed, they seem intent on helping Putin’s use of energy as a weapon of war against the West.

    Reaching our goal – much like those marathon runners reaching the home straight of The Mall – requires thorough planning, careful preparation, sheer commitment. As I know from my own marathon runs, simply willing the desired outcome is not enough.

    And that is why Energy Bill, being introduced in the House of Commons today, is so vital to our national story.

    This significant legislation lays the foundations of our future energy security.

    We’re screwed! If I were thirty years younger I’d apply for asylum in Russia!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/25/britain-will-overcome-putin-energy-war/

    2. “And we are on our way to developing the lions [sic] share of all of Europe’s Carbon Capture and storage – a potential British export business for the next 200 years.”

      !!!! WTF !!!!

      1. That’s easy.

        We dig up lots of coal and then charge people for us to bury it again as carbon credits.

        1. Probably best to burn it in a power station first then bury the remaining soot. Much less space will be needed that way.

          Don’t worry though. Trudeau has announced that he is serious about developing nuclear power stations. Based on other promises, that will see nothing dome this century.

          1. Millennium dome?
            Sorry, open goal, irresistible.
            As to your point, it only works if you don’t tell them!

        2. It looks like another piece of pointless target-based legislation which fails to solve the real problem.

          1. Grammar isn’t the problem };-))
            It’s what you have correctly identified.
            They, “the elites”, really do think we proles are stupid.

    3. Dear Vlad, My grandma and grandad went through a lot to get out of Russia. Also, I’m shit at learning languages. Will you let me in? Probably not.

      2. Caroline would certainly agree with the lyrics of this Belafonte song!

        Man Smart – Woman Smarter : Song by Harry Belafonte

        I say let us put man and a woman together
        To find out which one is smarter
        Some say man but I say no
        The woman got the man de day should know
        And not me but the people they say
        That the man are leading the women astray
        But I say, that the women of today
        Smarter than the man in every way
        That’s right de woman is uh smarter
        That’s right de woman is uh smarter
        That’s right de woman is uh smarter, that’s right, that’s right
        Ah, ever since the world began
        Woman was always teaching man
        And if you listen to my bid attentively
        I goin’ tell you how she smarter than he
        And not me but the people they say
        That the man are leading the women astray
        But I say, that the women of today
        Smarter than the man in every way
        Garden of Eden was very nice
        Adam never work in paradise
        Eve meet snake, paradise gone
        She make Adam work from that day on
        And not me but the people they say
        That the man are leading the women astray
        But I say, that the women of today
        Smarter than the man in every way
        That’s right the woman is uh smarter
        That’s right the woman is uh smarter
        That’s right the woman is uh smarter, that’s right, that’s right
        Samson was the strongest man long ago
        No one could a beat him, as we all know
        Until he loved Deliah, Lila said
        All of the strength is in the hair of your head
        And not me but the people they say
        That the man are leading the women astray
        But I say, that the women of today
        Smarter than the man in every way
        That’s right the woman is uh smarter
        That’s right the woman is uh smarter
        That’s right the woman is uh smarter, that’s right, that’s right
        Ah you meet a girl at a ballroom dance
        Thinking that you would stand a chance
        Take her home, thinking she’s alone
        Open the door you find her mama home
        And not me but the people they say
        That the man are leading the women astray
        But I say, that the women of today
        Smarter than the man in every way
        Oh yes, smarter

    2. Now that does make me sad. Loved his voice, loved his songs. Top bloke.
      RIP, Harry – and thanks!

    5. That’s sad. A great singer. He also launched Nana Mouskouri’s career in the US by inviting her to tour with him.

  65. Bogey 5 today

    Wordle 675 5/6

    ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
    ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
    ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    1. Par 4 for me – after the 6 yesterday!

      Wordle 675 4/6

      ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
      🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      1. Another wee Birdie Three for me.

        Wordle 675 3/6
        ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
        ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

        1. Oh that good.

          I failed. After quickly getting three of the letters correct, I worked through many possible words before running out of tries.

          I managed quordle though.

    2. Double bogie for me, too many choices.

      Wordle 675 6/6

      ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

          1. I can’t seem to cut and paste the results directly into nttl so I have to do a screen shot and attach it to my post.

          2. Ah – I am unable to “cut and paste”. I have to save any illustration then add as a jpeg. That’s despite Disurse telling me I can drag and post.

          3. RT, if you go into ‘Guess Distribution’
            you will find a ‘share‘ option. Press it.
            It will say ‘results copied to clipboard.

            Thereafter, if you go in to your result, Press ‘Microsoft Logo’ and ‘V’ simultaneously: up comes your chart!

            My apologies for earlier drafts.

        2. I was lucky, my last successful try was the only word left with the letters available.

  66. Hello dear NoTTLers. Apologies if this has already been shown but I have been rather taken up by sad events recently and have not been online here, and this is important:

    YOUR RESPONSE IS VERY IMPORTANT. (You might have to cut and paste the link below)

    https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/paper/2023/the-digital-pound-consultation-paper

    The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
    Consultation Paper
    http://www.bankofengland.co.uk

    Did anyone know this was out for public consultation?
    Consultation closes 7 June.
    You can choose (example only) to insert into each box the following:

    “I overwhelmingly do not agree with the introduction of CBDC in any circumstances. It is surveillance via people’s bank account and I did not vote for this”
    Or whatever you choose.

    Please share widely.

          1. Yes. Having comprehensively f*ked up the fiat pound by over-printing it, they have diagnosed that the problem was all the troublesome plebs spending cash over which the central banks do not have complete control (Fatty Carstens is actually on video saying words to this effect).
            Raising and lowering interest rates is such a blunt instrument – if they could only control our spending directly, then all would be well.
            So next time they f*k upthere is a totally unavoidable recession, the programmable money will stop us spending, or encourage us to spend by disappearing at the end of the month.
            Put your trust in central bankers – you know it makes sense.

    4. I’ve completed it, telling them they could mitigate the effects by not introducing it in the first place. Sorry to hear you’ve experienced some sad events. May I send you a virtual hug?

        1. We Nottlers are a family; we may not always agree, but we look out for and support each other.

    5. Done. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. I’m sorry to hear you’ve had to deal with life’s sad events recently.

        1. Sorry to hear you’re having a sad time, Hertslass. Sending you good wishes and happy thoughts, and a virtual hug to add to the rest of the Nottler ones! Have a peaceful evening.🌷

        2. I can empathise, Lass, and all I can do, from a far distance, is to send love and hugs.

          I remember how you, among others, rallied around me, at my darkest moments. I can only reciprocate.

    8. Done – there didn’t seem to be a way to save my answers.

      So sorry to hear things have been difficult and you’ve had sad events.

      Virtual hug from me too………xx

    11. It takes a while to go through the answers but I hope the that woke thief who reads my responses chokes on his artificial muesli and that his blow-jobbing partner bites his knob off!

        1. If you go to the link and start the questionnaire you will find that it is very extensive.
          I am assuming that somebody will actually read the replies, yes I know that’s unlikely.
          I responded with my view that it’s an utter scam and explained why.

    12. “It is an instrument of totalitarian control and must not be implemented”

    13. Really sorry you have been having a difficult time Tine , I hope things are a bit easier now .

      Times slips by so quickly, life is all about stops and starts , pitch and toss.

      Sending kind wishes to you and a warm hug .

    1. I wonder if the UK will manage to get back into the EU before Holland, France, Austria and others manage to get out of it?

      A pretty close run thing, I should imagine.

  69. I see that Trudeaus lie about not forcing vaccinations has been mentioned already.

    The latest in the trudeau foundation scandal is that the parliamentary inquiry into Chinese funding will not be allowed to call anyone called Trudeau to testify. This despite blackface trudeaus brother working at the foundation and was the one who negotiated the Chinese donation (well, the one that we know about).

    In other news this lopsided gnome is the Canadian transport minister.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e35ccc893d29ac6ce1bc76c40d299800784867fc10c7e4cc968325486aa472c2.jpg

    Oh we laugh so much at the benefits of diversity hiring.

    2. Ah ha!! So that’s the Honourable Omar Abracadabra, magic carpet salesman to the gentry. He looks trustworthy.

  70. From https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/25/sudan-conflict-evacuation-news-live-fighting-ceasefire/
    The Defence Secretary said: “As of 11am this morning the processing centre, the reception team of Border Force and Foreign Office, were now up and running on the airfield in Sudan.”
    He added: “We now have approximately 120 British forces at the airfield supporting the delivery of the evacuation of nationals and dual nationals through the airport.
    What does that lot mean? 120 forces? Why would Boarder Farce be in Khartoum?

    2. They are being proactive, going out looking for business rather than waiting for the migrants to arrive in dinghies.

    3. They can get organised when they want to but when it comes to getting rid of the vermin invading the country – suddenly that’s impossible and requires a court order, thousands of judges and lawyers.

  71. Well, the email I sent to my local council candidates at 08:45 this morning was responded to at 09:52 by the LibDem, Samuel McCarthy. With what he understands of the issues surrounding the idea he’s wary of 15 minute etc. neighbourhoods. He claims to be a liberal in the sense that the Labour people believe he’s an alt right libertarian. That’s a good start.

    2. He may be “wary” – but remember that Little Clegg (another Limp Dumb) was dead against university fees….so could eaily change his mind once elected….

      They are all lying bastards.

    3. I have never seen such utter bilge as someone on the Wail whinging about ‘stupid libertarians wanting their low tax utopia!’ Well.. yes. We don’t want a bit state socialist government that takes vast amounts of our moeney. How evil!

  72. That’s me for this sunny afternoon – though chilly wind. The much vaunted long night of sharp sub-zero frost has been replaced by “possible minimum of 2ºC”

    Will still put some bubble wrap in the greenhouse.

    Have a jolly evening.

    A demain

    1. Sleet & snow here all day. Ugh. Thank goodness we haven’t changed the cars to summer tyres just yet.

  74. Looking at the headline today – Dido Harding wasn’t running the Emergency Alert thing, was she?
    Let’s just hope they put her in charge of the CBDC – it’s our only hope.

  75. https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/25/middle-aged-man-hiding-toilets-dressed-schoolgirl/

    A middle-aged man was found hiding in a female school toilet dressed as a schoolgirl in Peru.

    Staff at the Rosa de America School in Huancayo were forced to call the police after the suspect was discovered by cleaners.

    Images
    of the 42-year-old César Walter Solís Calero wearing similar uniforms
    from other schools were allegedly uncovered after a search of his phone.

    He was escorted out of the school, which teaches children aged three to 18, under a barrage of verbal abuse by outraged parents.

  76. I am appalled at the prospect of Joe Biden running in the 2024 election.
    He – and family members – are corrupt and incompetent. His deputy is crap.

    He is no friend of Britain – nor of Ireland – despite his recent jamboree in Dublin and Mayo laid on heavily to secure his domestic Irish Presidential vote.

    Firmly, I am backing Trump for the future of the USA, the Dollar, the European continent, some allies in South America – and our few remaining and vulnerable friends in the East.

    1. I agree re Biden, disagree re Trump.
      The best chance of a poor lot is DeSantis;
      Trump would lose to Biden, DeSantis would slaughter Biden

      1. Roger Stone says DeSantis is disloyal and funded by the same people funding the RINOs. He should know having been an advisor and confidante to Nixon, Reagan and Trump.

        Check out ‘The Stone Zone’ on Rumble or Lindell News.

    1. I like to think the people who felt scared were the same ones who were terrified of Covid. Hopefully fewer than that. You could at least, as I did, turn the emergency alert off.

      1. These people want to feel the thrill of the fear, in a perverse way they enjoy it.

        We turned ours off. It is government overreach, my phone is for my convenience, not the government’s convenience. It seldom accompanies me when I am out and about, and frequently at home the battery has run down. We also have a poor signal which flicks in and out. We prefer the landline.

        1. I use mine as a camera or mini computer – never for calls. It stays at home and we use the landline.

          1. I only use my mobile as a phone and the occasional photo, ditto my husband. Never for googling or commenting here. We don’t use our landline at all- don’t even give the number out.

      2. Nobody on the train on Sunday was bothered – but they hadn’t bothered to disable it beforehand either.

    2. She has an excellent point about 3 users who didn’t get an alert being part of the overall plan to guage reactions.

  79. I am being horrid thinking this , but were all those 70 odd NHS Sudanese doctors out there doing FGM ops on girls / spare part ops , and that sort of thing?

    2. Oh goodness me, I never thought of that. From what is going on around the world, I would say yes.

    1. I have a sneaking suspicion that this might be a false flag, and that something worse has happened in the background…

        1. I’m probably wrong, but to me it seems that this one is an open goal. People as rich as the hi risk anus’s are an easy target.
          Why would they bother, and given their wealth and the probability it is independently managed, why should they even know about it?
          I would be looking out for announcements over the next few days that are being released under this smokescreen.
          Sudan, Ukraine, EU/Brexit, pandemics and the like
          Something is afoot.

    2. Well that’s quite good news, given that the phone alerts didn’t work properly and they are allegedly implementing the CBDC.

    1. Why do the papers play these tranny freaks at their game by using “she” instead of “he”? This is a man pretending to be a woman.

      2. Validation.
        The more they are accepted, the easier it becomes.
        I’m sure you have noticed how the reporting concentrates on the “hard” cases: the one in a million genuinely transexual who gets persecuted, as opposed to the “women’s changing room get a sexual thrill” perverts who should be exposed for what they are; perverts

        1. People like this are simply trying to cheat at sports. And the other ones who are sexual predators, trying to get into women’s knickers.

          There are the more genuine ones who are simply deranged or mentally ill. I had a tranny customer at work years ago who I got to know quite well. He had a chip on his shoulder but was otherwise fairly harmless.

          Edit: He did have his Adam’s apple removed – I don’t know about the other bits – I didn’t ask!

          1. Cheating?
            I’m not sure.
            They are certainly taking advantage of the rules/laws, but is it really cheating?
            For me?, probably not, but the real the issue is that the rules/laws are utterly wrong.

          3. I had an American girlfriend who said to one eejit trying to get into her knickers, “I’ve already got one arsehole in there, I don’t need another.”

      3. For those that haven’t read it, here’s the (incomprehensible) headline: “ Woman sexually abused by her father discovers they will be released from jail identifying as a woman ”

  84. A profitable day! I weighed in:-
    380kg of scrap iron
    25kg of copper
    9kg of brass
    9kg of aluminium
    59kg of lead

    And received £257.32!
    Well chuffed!

    Now I’m off to bed.
    G’night all.

      2. Collected over the past 5 years, a lot of it from the place Dr. Daughter & her boyfriend are doing up.

  85. I am also going to bed- been a tiring couple of days so an earlier night won’t be unwelcome.

    1. Thanks for sharing that link. He speaks in our language “you won’t hear this in the mainstream media” – people all over the world are catching on.

    5. Grattis på födelsedagen, Old Bean. Hope it’s a good ‘un. 😊🎂🥂👍🏻

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