Friday 2 June: Time to abolish unfair inheritance tax and demonstrate that Global Britain means business

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492 thoughts on “Friday 2 June: Time to abolish unfair inheritance tax and demonstrate that Global Britain means business

  1. Good morning all. 11C cloudy less wind. Sun foecast for this afternoon.

  2. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    (H)armless Fun

    A very successful lawyer parked his brand-new Lexus in front of his office, ready to show it off to his colleagues.

    As he got out, a truck passed too close and completely tore off the door on the driver’s side. The lawyer immediately grabbed his cell phone, dialled 911, and within minutes a policeman pulled up.

    Before the officer had a chance to ask any questions, the lawyer started screaming hysterically. His Lexus, which he had just picked up the day before, was now completely ruined and would never be the same, no matter what the body shop did to it.

    When the lawyer finally wound down from his ranting and raving, the officer shook his head in disgust and disbelief. “I can’t believe how materialistic you lawyers are,” he said. “You are so focused on your possessions that you don’t notice anything else.”

    “How can you say such a thing?” asked the lawyer.

    The cop replied, “Don’t you know that your left arm is missing from the elbow down? It must have been torn off when the truck hit you!”

    “My God!” screamed the lawyer. “Where’s my Rolex?!”

  3. Time to abolish unfair inheritance tax and demonstrate that Global Britain means business

    All taxation is unfair, especially when government just wastes what they take.
    The thing about inheritance tax and why the Left love it is that it forces every generation to start off again with a clean slate, well for those people that haven’t got huge fortunes, what is a couple of million in inheritance tax if that still leaves many millions to pass on assuming they haven’t found ways around it.
    If the little people were allowed to generationaly amass large sums within their family then they wouldn’t be so dependent on government and would have their own independence, this would pose a threat to their hegemony.

    1. Inheritance tax affects neither the poor or the rich
      The poor don’t have anything worth taxing
      The rich have tax avoidance schemes (trusts etc)
      As per usual it’s the bugger in the middle that gets screwed
      ‘Morning Bob

  4. Good morning all.
    A cool 6½°C outside today but at least it’s dry!

    I plan to go to t’Lad’s in Derby this morning and get rid of those cabinets this morning.

    A BTL comment:-

    Anastasias Revenge
    6 HRS AGO
    D M Jones “It is long past time for Global Britain to demonstrate that it is open, outward-looking and confident on the world stage”
    Open – currently Whitehall and MP’s are trying to hide Whats App messages like crazy
    Outward-looking – meanwhile the main “news” event of the past week has been the smoke and mirrors around a TV “celeb” with a plastic smile.
    Confident – how could we be? We can say we are “leading the world” until we are blue in the face, but in reality we are (and we are not alone here) a busted flush, in debt up to our eyeballs and unable or unwilling to protect our own people from minority pressure groups and invasion by migrant.

    1. After getting rid of those cabinets at t’Lad’s in Derby, try moving on to London, BoB. I believe there is a cabinet worth getting rid of at No 10 Downing Street. Lol.

        1. Yes indeed, Sir Jasper. See my first post of the day (about half an hour ago) for full details.

  5. Pleasure boat at centre of police investigation into Bournemouth beach tragedy. 2 June 2023.

    A restored pleasure cruiser is at the centre of a criminal investigation into a tragedy involving the deaths of two children on Bournemouth beach, it has been revealed.

    The Dorset Belle has been impounded by police after a man in his 40s, described as being “on the water” at the time, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.

    What was the big mystery? What was all the palaver about?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/01/bournemouth-beach-pier-deaths-pleasure-boat-police/

    1. They usually only do this if there is some sort of racial or religious aspect to the story.
      For some reason .

        1. The trollery on facebook keep saying that it is because they don’t want whomever did this to have his court case affected and he / she might get off on a technicality.

          But they appear very selective with this approach, I note the Labour MP that has been suspended has had the allegations against him broadcast all over the mainstream media.

          1. I note that the ‘papers claim that Mr Schofield started grooming his target when he was between 12

            and 15 (reports vary).

            I should have thought that this was illegal but Plod don’t appear to be taking an interest.

          2. One would have thought that obfuscation and sophistry would hardly do much for the prosecution.

    2. Gosh, a complete surprise. A boat involved, who woulda thought it. Unless it was the second recorded case of walking on water, I guess the arrested one had a boat between his feet and the oggin.

    3. The Dorset Belle has been impounded by police

      Anyone heard from Maggie today?

    4. The former GP and chief medical officer, who also ran to assist the rescue effort, said that the lifeguards were forced to hold back crowds of people trying to take pictures on their phones.

      What’s the world coming to?

    1. I’ve never won a penny on the premium bonds my parents left me.
      My elder rich sister has.

    2. Congratulations, BoB. Ernie must have heard that it was your birthday yesterday.

  6. Good morning, all on this 70th anniversary of Coronation Day. That was a cold wet day, too!

      1. We had a friend whose birthday was 6th. June.
        She said she never had warm dry weather on that day.

        1. In the past, whenever I’ve heard people moaning about how cold and wet is has been in early June, I refer them to the weather on the period leading up to and after D-Day.

          1. Aah, D-Day, just thirteen days after I was born, so I didn’t get to go and do my bit.

            In fact all it would have been was another dirty nappy.

    1. Good morning, Bill. Was it really Coronation Day 70 years ago? I thought it was less than a month ago? Mind you, if I subscribe (for £39) to the Daily Telegraph for the next year, it does promise on its site to keep me up to date and tell me when the Coronation is and what happens. I already know that: Charles goes to Westminster Abbey on May the 6th and they place a Crown on his head. Lol.

  7. Oof!
    Another BTL Comment on Global Britain:-

    Trevor Anderson
    17 MIN AGO
    DM Jones: “It is long past time for Global Britain to demonstrate that it is open, outward-looking and confident on the world stage by following suit.”
    Global Britain? Introverted, self-serving, insular Britain being managed into penury by inept, incompetent, smiling assassins stealing our money with a plethora of taxes and insane, bankruptcy making projects (eg: Lockdown, Net Zero, HS2, Immigration) without a coherent, cohesive plan that will continue until another Thatcher comes along. Not much hope on that then.
    Thirteen years of waste and shambolic government by so-called Tories has achieved nothing but a greater and ever growing national debt and sending much of the population into social deprivation. GDP currently equals 96% of our £2.5 trillion debt – recession beckons – which is why Hunt looks for more ways to rob us of what little wealth we may have.
    Labour will be even worse. Spoilt for choice? Sarcastic laugh!

    1. Mr Anderson forgot to mention the billions in armaments sent to Zelensky to help him persuade Vlad to start WW III.

  8. Putin’s War Ignites Backlash Against US Dollar Across the World. 2 June 2023.

    All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar.

    Brazil and China recently struck a deal to settle trade in their local currencies, seeking to bypass the greenback in the process. India and Malaysia in April signed an accord to ramp up usage of the rupee in cross-border business. Even perennial US ally France is starting to complete transactions in yuan.

    It’s pretty obvious that the Proxy War against Russia has no support in the Global South. Most of these people have direct experience of the US Hegemony so they know what Vlad is up against. The seizure of Russia’s assets must have put the wind up most of them. This, it might be pointed out, has been done even though the US is not directly involved in hostilities. Under such a system who could guarantee that their deposits would be safe if they got into trouble? The Dollar Hegemony is not going to vanish overnight but it’s already in serious trouble. .

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-02/putin-s-war-ignites-backlash-against-dollar-across-the-world#xj4y7vzkg

    1. I’d disagree that the trouble in Ukraine ‘ignited’ a backlash against the US dollar, but rather that the sanctions imposed by the US and her minions (including the UK) has hastened plans by the BRICS to bring in an alternative asset-backed currency. India and China have purchased the oil/gas/coal which was barred from sale to the ‘West’, with India then selling it on to western countries, and I’m sure neither side of the trade wants to aid the US financial system by using the dollar as currency.

      The seizure of Russian assets, i.e. theft, is bad enough but the sale of US LNG to Germany at a 40% mark-up in comparison to the LNG previously supplied through Nordstream compounds the chicanery of the US business model. How many other customers are being overcharged?

      The fact that the proxy war continues suits the US, especially Sniffer Joe and his crackhead son, as the cover up on their shady deals keeps getting kicked down the road, not to mention questions on why there were so many US biolabs in Ukraine. Still, as long as they keep making out that Putin is the bogeyman, our supine political class and their sidekick media will keep shouting for war…whilst bravely staying home to mind the country.

      1. Pedant alert- LNG is stored and shipped cryogenically. It is not shipped in pipelines (except for very very short cryogenic ones between storage vessels and ships).

        1. Every day is a skool day. It doesn’t change my point that fuels supplied by Russia are now sanctioned and that the US have stepped into the breech with a 40% mark up. I don’t think this is necessarily a Biden administration decision, as Trump had previously highlighted to the Germans the folly of putting all their fuel supplies in one basket (to mangle a metaphor). The US don’t like competition, especially when they are losing.

          1. I remember Trump watning Germany about gas supplies at some international meeting. The German delegation al smirked and laughed at him. Well, they’re not laughing now.

  9. Phillip Schofield: I am not a groomer. 2 June 2023.

    Phillip Schofield has said he is “not a groomer” as he gave his first interviews since he resigned from ITV over an affair with a much younger colleague.

    The disgraced TV presenter said he is “utterly broken and ashamed” over the dalliance he had with the younger man, but denies grooming him.

    Oh yes you are!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/01/phillip-schofield-says-he-is-not-a-groomer/

      1. Phizzee, a recent Press photo of the boy sitting on the sofa between Schofield and Willougby shows

        how star struck he was, and appears to insinuate that both were involved in his grooming.

    1. And the disloyalty and damage to his family does not even get a mention.. I guess morality and marriage vows are all so last century..

    2. My groom gave a rather good speech at our wedding and I have been asked to get on my hind legs and groom a bit for some of my friends who had tied the noose on themselves.

      My enthusiasm for horses was rather diminished when I fell off one into a bed of nettles at the age of 7 so I didn’t do any stable grooming.

    3. I find Schofield’s sudden humility hilarious. He was flying high coming out – despite betraying his wife, is children, showing himself as an oath breaking bag of effluent but we were all supposed to be pleased for him. Why? The man is gay. Why must we care about that? But he made it about himself, stuff those he had hurt.

      Now we find he’s been fiddling an underage on set lackey, heaping insult to injury and he wants to be seen as a hero? Cretin!

  10. 372855+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Friday 2 June: Time to abolish unfair inheritance tax and demonstrate that Global Britain means business

    NOT just yet, surely one would be right in saying that would mean going forward lets say, in a RESET manner, am I the only one that believes there is a reckoning regarding politico / pharmercutical top rankers, to be had first & foremost.

    Nothing but nothing can be sorted until the spiked deaths (meant in two senses) and the seriously injured are explained fully and ALL written contacts between politico’s / pharmes/ politico’s displayed openly.

    Whatever name the political overseers of these Isles are operating under currently if they sound like the mafia, seem like the mafia, take action like the mafia, then you bloody dummies THEY ARE THE BLOODY MAFIA.

    There is just NO point in going forward in a progressive manner
    ALL the while the samo political infrastructure is in place for the simple reason it is on par with supporting the Boss – Also known as the capomandamento , capocrimine, rappresentante , don, or godfather, (PMs ?)

    You surely can’t get more diverse than that

    1. Friday 2 June: Time to abolish unfair inheritance tax and demonstrate that Global Britain means business

      How is it possible that politicos can utter the highlighted words above and at the same time plan and are determined to adhere to what they have enshrined in law (see my comment re The Highwire). Unless of course their business is the destruction of the UK and the reduction of the remaining population in 2050 to being barely able to survive. My comment re their mental state stands.

      1. They’re liars, Korky.. They don’t care about Britain. Their entire intent is to run the country down to nothing for their own ends for the next non-job.

        If they cared about business they wouldn’t flicker over inheritance tax and would scrap it, but they’d be looking at import and export duties to scrap those as much as possible, then capital gains and finally, business rates then corporation tax would be radically reduced.

        But no. The only interest is in tax harmonisation to ensure we are not competitive at any level. The language they use is ‘tax competition is a race to the bottom. This is a good thing. Low taxes are a positive thing. Small government is a good thing. Only big, lumpen, obese state believes in ta harmonisation.

      1. Thank you!
        I now have a mental impression of him in the back seat shagging a slag he’d just picked up.

        1. He would have paid for it and claimed it on his expenses.
          No wonder they got rid of Elizabeth Filkin.

        2. I knew a bloke once who seemed dignified, but also slightly louche.

          Then when there was some condensation, a mutual acquaintance noticed the outline of footprints on his windscreen.

  11. Russia accuses Apple of ‘close cooperation’ with US spy agencies in espionage plot. 2 June 2023.

    Russian security services have accused Apple of cooperating with US espionage agencies in a plot to hack iPhones using ‘invisible iMessages’ carrying spyware.

    Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software.

    ‘The FSB has uncovered an intelligence action of the American special services using Apple mobile devices,’ the FSB said in a statement.

    I’m rather surprised at this. Either the Russians are extraordinarily naïve or they are simply running a bit of propaganda! I assume that all phones are monitored and tracked as all emails are read and all computers are hacked.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12150103/Russia-accuses-Apple-close-cooperation-spy-agencies.html

    1. There was a time when Apple was using a chipset that was rumoured to be difficult to hack; Apple conveniently switched to a different manufacturer.

      Back in the late 1990s or early 2000s (IIRC) the USA obliged all US chipmakers to instal a backdoor. Of course, that works both ways.

    2. There was a time when Apple was using a chipset that was rumoured to be difficult to hack; Apple conveniently switched to a different manufacturer.

      Back in the late 1990s or early 2000s (IIRC) the USA obliged all US chipmakers to instal a backdoor. Of course, that works both ways.

  12. Morning, all. Overcast and breezy. I haven’t tested the temperature but a good guess is chilly.

    From The Highwire: the plan for the destruction of the UK. This isn’t a conspiracy theory, this is enshrined in law.
    Where are all the thousands of ‘green’ jobs coming from if the whole economy is shutdown? Starmer is a fraud like so many politicians and his plan to close down oil and gas extraction is a step along the road to disaster. The people intent on imposing this nightmare are beyond mentally ill and need to be removed from power. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8afe2b0c7a48f541221634165e4846acde388dedb200b58b6b72416a735cbe7a.png

      1. I added the link in the comment – The Highwire, a weekly show hosted by Del Bigtree. This diagram is from their resident investigative reporter Jefferey Jaxen.

        1. They don’t state the source of this information. I don’t dispute it, the government is insane; but being able to confirm where the data comes from is vital.

  13. Another BTL Comment:-

    Edwin Pugh
    54 MIN AGO
    “Almost half of Nato’s members are former Soviet states nursing a grudge against their previous colonists while obtuse Western governments are nothing but pawns in this war against Russia. Diplomatic solutions for the Russian invasion of Ukraine bypassed in favour of beating the war drums pushed Russia out into the cold and into the arms of the CCP, and by proxy, Iran. This consequential realignment was obvious to anyone not brainwashed by official propaganda on the conflict. Instead of weakening Russia, Nato and its Western puppets have short-sightedly strengthened it, and by doing so unleashed a powerful new enemy alliance.”
    Something for you to mull over with your morning cereals. From this article in TCW –
    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/woke-west-watches-as-russia-and-china-rape-africa/

    1. Nearly everyone I know think that Vlad is the problem.
      And the Same old story everything our political classes come into contact with they eff it up and big time.
      Nobody at their many meetings has ever stood up and said “What happens if we make a mess of this”?

      1. President Putin may be a problem, but it was diplomacy that made it worse.

        As a youngster I was taught that a (senior) Civil Servant should be able to see both sides of the story. Flip the tortilla, see the whole of the moon, watch out for that bird hiding behind a Black Swan. Meanwhile, the EU created an External Action Service.
        And you mentioned your cold symptoms. I recently suffered from another hit similar to a ‘flu-type virus; much worse than a summer cold.

        1. A well respected Ex british general and Lord’s explanation right at the start of the Ukraine Russia conflict. Seemed to sum it all up in terms of NATO’s position. He’s never been seen on our TV screens since.
          Probably because he knew and still knows exactly what is going on.

          I have never heard of a single person in politics who has suffered from any side effects of covid injections.
          But lost three friends. My elder BiL has been suffering from heart problems since they have had every injection available. But will never admit they may have been duped.
          I therefore suggest that none of the jabs at Parliament etc had the same content in their jabs as the rest of us had.

    2. Many happy returns for yesterday.
      June is often the best month, in your case it even starts well.

    1. Correction: REAL Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

    1. Happy Birthday Bob. I expect you will spend it hoisting big rocks about the place.

    2. In case you missed yesterdays post Happy Birthday Bob – hope you had a good day

    3. Ooh, Happy Birthday, dear Bob!! Singing lustily in exactly the right direction (even my voice won’t shake the foundations of the Great Wall of Bonsall… 🤣🤣). Have a great day!

      K x

      1. Nothing – but NOTHING – can shake the Great Wall of Bonsall.
        Now visible from outer space.

    4. Happy birthday Bob, hope you find time between your many chores to sit down with a beer…or two.

  14. Good Moaning.
    70 years ago today, we were freezing in a field near Guildford (no, I have no idea why we were in deepest Surrey; I never thought to ask my parents as I assumed all their decisions were mad). I have vague memories of watching a coronation procession through the town centre while trying to stave off hypothermia.
    What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?

      1. I’ve got a nice photograph of children including friends in fancy dress. Although it wasn’t on the actual day of the coronation.
        Because it wasn’t raining and we were at my uncles house in Hendon watching it on TV. It must have been the weekend after. Street Party as well.

        1. In the photo I’m wearing a raincoat and a paper hat. I remember being there. I was not quite five and went with family friends of my aunt.

    1. Gosh is it really 70 years. I remember sobbing my little heart out on the Coronation float in our little Lincolnshire village, didn’t like it at all. Of course also the traditional viewing on our neighbour’s telly, we didn’t have one our self of course (another year before I brought my selected school friends round to watch Andy Pandy on ours…). I remember an awful lot of that day in 1953 despite being a little four year old.
      Not a mention of these events on the news this morning, wonder why. They could take a day’s break from the other sleaze things.

      1. I was in Tripoli in February 1952 and aged 5½ when my mother told me that the King was dead. I burst into tears.

        1. Heartless little bu88ers that we were, we thought the news was rather exciting.
          A chance to crow over fellow pupils who hadn’t caught up with the news.

    1. Haven’t seen Clydie for some time 🤔

      Have a good day, happy birthday.

    2. Happy Birthday Clydesider,

      I hope all is well with you up there in North Yorkshire, and you are now a little bit more mobile .

  15. 372855+ up ticks,

    I can quite easily believe that many a military need franchise for british cannon fodder going into combat, has already been divvied up among the political top rankers & friends & publicans.

    Post
    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    12h
    Here’s a stunning idea from the imbeciles that govern Europe: Let the Ukraine into Nato while it is at war with Russia.

    That way we can immediately be launched into WWIII – since an attack on a Nato member atomatically mesns the other members must go its defence.

    Watching our ‘leaders’ at work constantly raises the question, are they just stupid or plain evil?

    Ogga1 input, the latter.

    NATO squabbles over speedy accession of Ukraine as decisive summit looms – Reuters,

    1. Someone ‘in the know’ as it were, should write a book, How the political morons have ruined the world.

      1. 372855+ up ticks,

        Morning RE,

        Gerard Batten wrote the “road to freedom” in 2014.

        He, as many of us were tagged as far right fruitcake racist.

        So far right would have been more apt.

    2. NATO is finished. Where NATO has extended to countries bordering Russia the Russians have simply placed their own military and missiles to cover accession countries.

      Whilst a few lunatics in the UK and US believe that by arming Ukraine and encouraging it to take the fight to Russia is a plan, this has backfired. Russia is stronger than ever and Ukraine and the cumulative west weaker.

      There are now many reports that arms given to Ukraine are turning up on the black market. We knew Ukraine to be the most corrupt country in Europe so this should be no surprise to anyone.

  16. Nicked Rant

    We all
    know that the real scandal is the unnecessary lockdowns, the midazolam
    murders, the unsafe and ineffective jabs, the coercion, the suppression
    and censorship and where the fuck did £450billion go? And…then the
    inflation and devaluation that has ensued as a consequence of their
    actions.

    Will any of this be investigated and exposed? Even a mention or acknowledgement? No

    No…let’s all just talk about Boris’s emails

    Blatant theatre, blatant deflection and the masses suck it all up.
    ‘Bout right………

    1. Spot on, but you didn’t mention the massivly important speeding ticket.

  17. Morning all 🙂😉
    Not worth mentioning the weather conditions out side its crap again.
    But tomorrow be assured its going to be ‘another sleepy, dusty delta day’. Bobbie Gentry told me.
    And yes you stupid idiot politicians abolish inheritance tax. It’s not all about you. It stinks.
    You know it makes sense……oh hang on, they don’t understand sensible do they ?

    1. Ooooh …… I think I’ll just have another coffee.
      I’m in no mood to get banned today.

    2. Time to move on? An absolute giveaway that they all have something to hide.
      As in the jabs for all the political’s probably contained clear sterile liquid.

    3. 372855+ up ticks,

      Morning KtK,
      Truly on reading their twatolgy triggers an internal mantra of the Zulus of, kill,kill,kill, within me.

    4. The people wanting to avoid an enquiry will be the ones carrying it out. They never, ever find fault or responsibility. That’s the point of a public enquiry.

  18. Quite frankly, Bad Cess to all of them.
    The West for being stupid wet farts.
    The Russians and Chinese for storing up future problems – though I don’t blame them for their smash and grab raid.
    And Africa for not knowing when it was relatively well off. It couldn’t wait to kick out the evil, colonialist British; now we can sit back and watch far more ruthless countries take over.
    However, a British government with a spine and a love of this country wouldn’t go amiss. (Watches Gloster Old Spots zip past the window.)

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/woke-west-watches-as-russia-and-china-rape-africa/

  19. Good morning all,

    Cloudy again over McPhee Towers but forecast to be sunny befoe midday. Wind still Nor’-East, 11℃ with a ‘high’ of 18℃ later.

    Sometimes you read something so utterly stupid it just takes your breath away. Here we have someone called Danielle Sheridan who is supposed to be the Gatesograph’s Defence Editor:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/01/royal-navy-drone-launch-aircraft-carrier-upgrade/

    Does she know anything about defence at all? A ten-year-old schoolboy could have written a better article.

    1. Good Morning Fiscal and everyone.

      As I started to motor through the article I collided with the word ‘ordinance’.

      A pit stop on Gurgle revealed that Ms Sheridan read English Literature & History at the University of Leeds and afterwards earned an MA in Print Journalism at Cardiff University.

      I struggled to understand the article.

      My conclusion was that Con Coughlin must be away on a cellar inspection and wine tasting course, either in Turkey or the Ukraine.

      1. I marvelled at a Colonel being ‘the head of carrier strike and maritime aviation within the Royal Navy’s Develop Directorate’ (sic). An Army Colonel? Or an RM Colonel? Either way what would he possibly know about ‘cat and trap’ aircrafts (sic) operation?

      2. I marvelled at a Colonel being ‘the head of carrier strike and maritime aviation within the Royal Navy’s Develop Directorate’ (sic). An Army Colonel? Or an RM Colonel? Either way what would he possibly know about ‘cat and trap’ aircrafts (sic) operation?

    2. The first 3 paragraphs are the same thing, said different ways!

      “looking at a demonstrable progression that spreads out the financial cost and incrementally improves capability.” The damned thing doesn’t work and we’re spending the money on the officers do, so there’s nothing left for war fighting.

      The carriers were appalling when first specced. When they were delivered, late and broken they were not suitable for the aircraft we had or the aircraft of the future. They were a vanity project to buy votes for Scottish constituencies, a complete waste of money and utterly inadequate.

      All because Brown wanted some votes.

      1. They should have been ‘Cat and Trap’ ships from the off and we should have bought the F35C, not the F35B. Complete inter-operability with the USN then.

    1. I can’t imagine Joseph.

      However I do find it a great coincidence that it is the small nations in the EU that are being ordered to reduce their livestock.

      Fortunately France and Germany aren’t required by Brussels to reduce their farming sector.

      Phew ! That’s alright then.

      1. Good job we’re out of Yoorup! Oh, hang on, isn’t our government trying re-wild us? It’s almost as if there were a higher authority than the EU.

        1. As I have said here before it will be a race against time to see if UK can rejoin the EU before several other countries leave it.

      2. This should lead to the Netherlands leaving the EU which would probably mark the end of the EU and good riddance.

        (It is only recently that I became fully aware of what an extremely grotty and nasty man Rutte is.)

        1. I wouldn’t have thought that the Dutch were very keen on mass starvation.

          It didn’t do so well in the winter of 1944/45, and they couldn’t all have forgotten that surely?

          1. My mother-in-law lost her teeth at an early age because of malnuitrition during the war.

          2. I’m sure she wasn’t the only one.

            Yet the Dutch government is keen for their nation to be unable to feed itself??

          3. We have a Dutch friend who lost all his teeth at the age of 15.
            He was a toddler at the time of that 44/45 winter and he can just about remember the deprivation. His parents were farmers, so imagine what it was like in the towns.

          4. Rutte, with his crude and insulting description of the UK has clearly forgotten that this insignificant little country was instrumental in liberating his country in WWII and via the aptly name Operation Manna saved over a million Dutch citizens from starving to death at the hands of his German friends.

      3. Well, Rutte is one of Schwab’s Young Global Leaderts, so that might explain it.

    2. So much for the cost of living crisis. When they have taken away vast resources for the production of food, there are going to be shortages. The Dutch gov plans to take 11000 farms out if production.

        1. Rich people will continue to eat filet steak and lobster. Everyone else will eat bugs. Do keep up !

          1. I watched the story recently about the german who had invited applications from men who wished to be eaten. The surprising fact was that he got more than one reply. Anyway, the lucky respondent did indeed get to share his meat and two veg before bleeding to death. I always knew the Germans were a bit odd when it came to sex.

    3. That is absolutely disgusting. What next paddy, horses ? dogs ? people ?
      It makes one wonder if BSE and other animal diseases were introduced by stealth.

    1. Denial Hannan was a very broken reed when it came to Brexit – all oral underpants and string-vested commitment to it!

      Far too specious, far too smarmy, far too ineffective.

      1. I think Hannan is generous toward the EU by taking an overly balanced view.

  20. ‘Morning, Peeps. Back home late last night after a spell of grandchild-minding. It was enjoyable but exhausting at the same time…

    SIR – How refreshing it was to watch Jeremy Paxman’s departure after 29 years as the host of University Challenge. There were none of the usual tears you get with today’s celebrities – no self-indulgent presentation or “how I will miss my viewers” – just a simple “I’ll be watching it with you”.

    Few people impress one anymore, but he does.

    Gordon Black
    Chalford Hill, Gloucestershire

    I couldn’t agree more, Mr Black. Thankfully Paxo was not part of, or subjected to, some effusive and OTT ‘speech’ at the end of his final UC programme, in stark contrast to the type of send-off usually inflicted upon the viewer by so many media luvvies on such occasions. And as a bonus I managed to clock up a magnificent (for me) four correct answers ahead of those remarkably young and knowledgeable students from Durham and Bristol!

  21. From the BTLs:

    Steve Jones
    7 HRS AGO
    Oh look, not at a letters comment but wonderful news for the RAF I thought it essential to break the letters page protocol this one time and post this.
    They are the feature story on the opening page of the Fox News web site in the US – right now in fact. What exceptional work it is to achieve such a high profile ……here’s the headline:
    “United Kingdom’s RAF filtering out ‘useless white male pilots’ in diversity push: report”
    Congratulations to all those who made this happen……..I’m sure you are all so proud………..and I’m sure the good people of the UK are proud of you too………or perhaps not!!

    * * *

    I’m so glad that none of this ghastly rubbish spoilt my hugely enjoyable 39 years in the RAFVR. Nevertheless, people like Wigston (now thankfully on his way out but no doubt to be followed by another openly one-way racist ‘diversity worshipper’) should never have reached the most senior positions in what was once a fine service.

    I wonder what Biggles would say??

    1. Yes I did wonder how he weedled his way into the top job, Thankfully I’m out too

    2. A friend of mine who was a bibliophile managed to amass a complete collection of first editions of W.E. John’s Biggles books. He passed on some of his old ones to my sons when he was able to replace them with a first edition.

  22. SIR – The interview of Kathleen Stock by Ed Balls on Good Morning Britain (Comment, May 31) was a typical example of an over-bearing and patronising male interviewer constantly interrupting and talking over a mild-mannered, much more intelligent female.

    It was most unedifying.

    Victoria Bremner
    Bristol

    Fortunately I missed it – as I would any programme that included Balls, the juvenile and lightweight serial house-flipper. Memo to all broadcasters – if Balls is on them I am off.

    A fitting BTL:

    David Carpenter
    2 HRS AGO
    On the one hand there was Ed ‘out of his depth’ Balls, Riz ‘look at ME’ Posnett and a few hundred baying students, some of whom didn’t appear to be quite sure what the issue was.
    On the other was Professor Stock who with her intellect, courage, quiet dignity and possession of the facts was winning the argument hands down.

  23. Upgraded Royal Navy aircraft carriers could soon launch drones. 2 June 2023.

    The Royal Navy plans to adapt aircraft carriers to launch drones as part of its “future maritime vision”.

    The Navy confirmed it was looking at how it can introduce a new way of sending aircraft off the flight decks of both aircraft carriers, rather than relying on the ramp for jets to take off.

    The new aircraft launch and recovery systems would “open up” the flight deck to a broader range of aircrafts and drones.

    What a farce. One of them is already in dock. They have no escorts. They should never have been built. They talk about the Russian Armed Forces but they at least have them!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/01/royal-navy-drone-launch-aircraft-carrier-upgrade/

  24. Re the sea tragedy at Bournemouth ..

    The comments are thus … https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23562613.bournemouth-beach-dorset-belle-guarded-police-poole/

    “Has this tragedy been caused by unusual weather conditions of an east to north easterly strong breeze creating a heavy swell. I would say usually for this time of year the wind is coming in the opposite direction of south west.”

    “And presumably blowing swimmers on the eastern side of the pier towards it. The landing stage on the eastern side of the pier is currently the only one usable since Bournemouth Council allowed the western side to fall in to disrepair over many years.”

    1. An excellent speech, but this video is at least five years old (no matter that it has just been posted on YouTube again).

  25. SIR – I feel for Chris McLaughlin (Letters May 31). A man pulling a suitcase on wheels pushed past me in a crowded Waterloo Station. I landed flat on my face and no one came to my aid.

    Margaret Scattergood
    Knowle, Warwickshire

    My younger son , nearly fifty years old , was caught in a crowd crush at London bridge station before Christmas , he tumbled down the station stairs , breaking his ankle in 2 places and cracked his fibula.
    Someone helped him , no ambulances , a taxi took him to St Thomas’s Hospital . He had to pay for his taxi … he was in agony . He was given A+E treatment .. a bed for the night , then his partner had to drive from Worthing .. ULEZ fee to pay , took Mike back to Worthing , a month later he had an operation , pins and plates , and poor chap is still receiving physiotherapy.

    1. An old friend of ours was run into by an old lady in our village. She was walking along the footpath past a parking bay, when the car mounted the pavement and smashed her ankles and feet against a wall. The old girl who was driving denies any responsibility. What happened to forensic science in this incident.
      She has had to have similar surgery to your son, as you described TB, metal pins etc.
      Now she needs her husband and a frame to get around.

    2. Slightly surprised at the first case. A year or so back I tripped by the ticket gate line at Waterloo – no damage to me whatsoever but a whole load of people suddenly appeared me asking if I was OK. I can’t imagine she was totally ignored.

      1. I think that there is some anxiety, nowadays, for men about doing anything in connection with an unknown female. Fears of threats of assault, rape etc etc.

        1. Some years ago now, I was heading into Walmart in the NC town in which I lived. A black woman came out with 2 bags of groceries and fell over. I rushed over to help her and she screamed at me to get away, don’t come near me and that type of thing. I guess she thought I was going to steal her shopping. So, I left her and went into the store.
          She’d gone by the time I came out. It’s hard sometimes to know when help will be appreciated.

    1. We had a Sea Eagle and chicks near us, their location was secret but you could watch the nest on a live TV link to a nearby visitor centre, it was fascinating viewing.
      On a local note the blackbird I reported the other day feeding a chick which was larger than itself has two chicks now and, as someone suggested, they are cuckoo chicks. I’ve also spotted the lazy gits feeding themselves from the seeds I spread on the grass every morning

    1. That happens to me – nothing there but you trip, stumble and fall. In my case I’m too weak to get up by myself and I’m aware that I drink too much. We have yellow emergency cords all over the place and, because I was high up in the building, I’ve been given a wrist red button which serves the same purpose but I’m loath to press it, as it generally means being hauled away to the awful Dumfries Royal Infirmary, 25 miles away. and they know nothing, do nothing and then discharge me.

  26. Take a deep breath…

    Migrants barricade London hotel after being denied private rooms

    Asylum seekers say they will sleep on the pavement outside Pimlico Comfort Inn in protest against being treated ‘like animals’

    By Charles Hymas • 1 June 2023 • 8:48pm

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    Migrants are staging a pavement protest after deciding the hotel they have been transferred to was nothing like the “nice” accommodation they saw on Google Maps.

    Instead of the single rooms with en suite bathrooms that they had in their Essex hotel, they found they were being forced to share – four to a single room with two bunk beds and a “smelly” toilet – in a hotel in central London. On Thursday, the 25 migrants refused to return to their rooms in the Comfort Inn in Pimlico and instead decamped to the pavement. They say they will sleep there with their blankets, duvets, cushions and suitcases until they get single rooms.

    A 27-year-old Iranian said: “Two square metres is not enough for sleeping four people. And when you go to the toilet, the smell damages you.”

    A 21-year-old Channel migrant from Iran said: “They said we’re going to move you [from Park Hotel] to another, better place. They gave us this postcode. When we checked on Google Maps, we said, oh this is very nice. But when you get in, it’s like a jail. And they treat you very, very bad. They treat you like an animal. We didn’t come to a better life. We came to save our lives. If the Iranian government take me, they’re going to hang me because I fought for freedom. I’m Kurdish. Too many people in my family, too many people in my nationality, they’re hanged. We’ll stay [on the street] until the Home Office does something for us. We can stay even for one month. It’s alright.”

    A 26-year-old from east Africa who crossed the Channel on a small boat said they had been given private rooms in their hotel in Ilford. “We are not kids, everybody had a private room. We need a private room. How do you live with four men?” he said.

    Last night the migrants – most of whom said they had been in Britain for more than a year – barricaded the entrance to the Pimlico hotel with their bags and suitcases, and used a marker pen as an improvised bolt to “lock” the front door. The migrants – from Iraq, Iran, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Bangladesh – have stuck protest posters at the hotel entrance and on traffic lights that declare: “Help us,” “This is a prison, not a hotel,” “Inhuman conditions, dirty rooms” and “Homeless by the Home Office”.

    Their transfer is part of an attempt by the Home Office to reduce the £6 million-a-day cost of housing some 50,000 asylum seekers in hotels. Ministers are understood to be pressing for increased use of shared rooms amid concerns that people smuggling gangs are exploiting the lure of hotel accommodation and a chance to see London’s tourist attractions.

    Asylum seekers housed in hotels are free to come and go and receive £45 a week, or £9.10 a week if they get bed and board. Some 400 hotels have been commissioned to date, causing controversy, as some have been four-star country estates or the main tourist hotels in city centres.

    “We are trying to drive down the costs and number of hotels by various mechanisms,” said a government source. “You see on TikTok, you get the people smugglers saying you will get your own hotel place and you get the sights. We are trying to cut down on the costs. If they say they don’t want to go to the accommodation that they are offered, we can withdraw support.”

    Sources said the migrants had mixed accommodation in Essex with some in single rooms and some sharing. The protest has sparked a backlash from other local hoteliers who say that it has led to tourists cancelling bookings and is disrupting the lives of local residents.

    Bernard Desira, the director of the nearby Luna Simone Hotel, said he had had two cancellations because people were “scared” to come to the area. “It’s not fair for the tourists seeing what’s happening there,” he said, but added that housing four migrants to a room was “unfair and unhealthy”.

    In an attempt to reduce hotel costs, ministers have so far drawn up plans to house migrants in two disused RAF camps, a former prison site, army barracks and a barge, but face legal action over most of the schemes. A Home Office spokesman said the accommodation offered to asylum seekers on a no choice basis was “of a decent standard and meets all legal and contractual requirements”.

    Mark Davies, Head of Communications and Campaigns at the Refugee Council, said: “It’s important that men, women and children who have fled war and persecution can access safe, dignified and secure accommodation while in the UK asylum system.

    “But instead of providing refugees and people seeking asylum with appropriate support and access to suitable housing, the Government continues to accommodate an increasing number of people seeking asylum in places that are entirely unsuitable to their needs, such as crowded hotels, where they have to share rooms with people they don’t know for extended periods of time and are unable to put down roots and thrive in their new communities.”

    The Comfort Inn declined to comment.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/01/migrants-asylum-seekers-london-hotel-pimlico-protest

    “We didn’t come to a better life.”

    A large majority of the British people would like a better life, Abdul. Who told you that the streets were paved with gold?

    As for the creep from the Refugee Council – the Serious Crime Act 2007, sections 44 to 46, deals with ‘encouraging or assisting an offence’. In a braver UK, the CPS would be interested…

    3,000 comments BTL, many of them incandescent.

    1. Serves you bloody-well right you scrounging bunch of no-hope Arabs. Stay in your own country and WORK to make it a better place, instead of trekking half way round the world to sponge off our good nature and benefits.

    2. If they were truly refugees fleeing persecution they would be happy for anything given to them. They are housed, kept warm and fed. It is typical of Arabs and Africans to complain that the charity you have given them is not enough.

    3. Well, Mark Davies, “Head of Communications and Campaigns at the Refugee Council”, if you’re so concerned, why don’t you have a few of these people move in with you?

      1. The Press claims that the British government gives them sim cards.

        I assume that this is so they can summon their friends??

    4. Accomodate them in internment camps before deporting their sorry asses (other beasts of burden are available) to Central Africa.

      1. Secure internment camps where they will be photographed, DNAed, fingerprinted and, should they claim to be minors, x-rayed to determine age.
        Then investigated to ensure they are who they say they are before allowing them out is even contemplated.

  27. Ireland’s mooted cow massacre is a warning to net zero Britain

    The Irish government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 dairy cows to meet its climate targets. It’s madness

    JAMIE BLACKETT • 2 June 2023 • 6:00am

    The collateral damage of net zero is now getting uncomfortably close to home. First Dutch farmers were threatened with compulsory purchases to satisfy EU emissions targets, fomenting a new revolt in the process. Now it’s Ireland’s turn, where the government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 cows to meet its climate targets. The scheme would be a bit like voluntary redundancy, with farmers offered financial inducements to give up their cows.

    British beef and dairy farmers are now very jittery. It seems increasingly clear that there is an eco-modernist agenda to do away with conventional meat altogether. It’s not just the Extinction Rebellion mob, either; many of the world’s politicians are on board.

    It’s very fortunate we’re out of the EU or we could be facing the same pressure from Brussels. Now, we can only hope that Rishi Sunak, who represents a heavily rural constituency in the Yorkshire Dales, understands what’s at stake for farming communities.

    Spending vast sums of taxpayer’s money on destroying productive animals would be a perfect summation of the net zero madness infecting the West. The Irish Department of Agriculture has said that the report was just a “modelling document”, but no sane government would even get to the point of including such a plan in “a deliberative process”. Why? Because it is irrational.

    Dutch and Irish politicians have failed to recognise that regenerative farming techniques allow livestock farmers to help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. The technology needed to measure soil carbon accurately has recently been developed by a British company, Ecometric. The results are startling. Some British livestock farmers are now being paid for the net carbon sequestered into the soils after the methane from their burping cows has been accounted for. It would mean changing the way we farm to embrace holistic methods; mainly replacing cereal-based cattle diets with grass, but it can be done.

    And we should be embracing the energy-creating capacity of cows. Tallow from British cattle is already being turned into biodiesel – a one tonne animal produces enough for around 180 litres. And thanks to Somerset-based start-up, Biofactory, new anaerobic technology is already available to turn the methane in their manure into usable electricity and heat. The manure itself is converted by this process into a more nutritious digestate that can substantially reduce the need for harmful artificial fertiliser. My own dairy farm is investing in these new green technologies and we hope to be carbon neutral and net exporters of energy in just a few years.

    Wreaking havoc on livestock farming families in the name of climate science is also very short-sighted. By the time, if ever, lab food technology, which uses huge amounts of energy currently, is efficient enough to replace the edible fats and proteins from animals, we will probably be using hydrogen technology instead of fossil fuels, and no one will be remotely worried about carbon.

    If there are any in Britain minded to follow the Dutch and Irish examples, they should think again. Farming needs to become greener, but through harnessing new technology rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/02/irelands-mooted-cow-massacre-warning-to-net-zero-britain

    It is one of the great failings of livestock farming that biodigesters are not installed on more farms than they are right now. Spreading raw manure on fields is one of the most anti-social activities imaginable, it upsets many rural folk and is responsible for many serious river pollution incidents. Indeed, the way we handle all waste, particularly household and commercial, is a national disgrace. Waste should be regarded as a resource.

    However, Blackett pays too much heed to the carbon sequestration nonsense. These things should be done for their own worth, not to meet arbitrary targets set by the ignorant and the deluded.

    1. …that Rishi Sunak, who represents a heavily rural constituency in the Yorkshire Dales, understands what’s at stake for farming communities.

      Pissing into the wind. Please excuse my crude expression but I am fed up to the back teeth with these journalists attempting to place the likes on Sunak in a good light.
      Sunak was ‘placed’, or rather imposed, to do a job, not a job for the British people but for the globalists. He will be long gone when the proverbial hits the fan.
      Last year I came across a UK government document, can’t remember where, offering farmers early retirement. Make of that what you will!
      Shouldn’t be difficult to search for the document, unless of course they’ve got cold feet and hidden it away for the duration of the Dutch farmers set-to with Rutte and the EU.
      Many of the misanthropic “Honourable Members” are hoping to destroy everything we hold dear, including our ability to feed ourselves. However, as with the “vaccines” too many people remain believing that their government could not possibly behave in such an awful manner.

  28. Ireland’s mooted cow massacre is a warning to net zero Britain

    The Irish government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 dairy cows to meet its climate targets. It’s madness

    JAMIE BLACKETT • 2 June 2023 • 6:00am

    The collateral damage of net zero is now getting uncomfortably close to home. First Dutch farmers were threatened with compulsory purchases to satisfy EU emissions targets, fomenting a new revolt in the process. Now it’s Ireland’s turn, where the government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 cows to meet its climate targets. The scheme would be a bit like voluntary redundancy, with farmers offered financial inducements to give up their cows.

    British beef and dairy farmers are now very jittery. It seems increasingly clear that there is an eco-modernist agenda to do away with conventional meat altogether. It’s not just the Extinction Rebellion mob, either; many of the world’s politicians are on board.

    It’s very fortunate we’re out of the EU or we could be facing the same pressure from Brussels. Now, we can only hope that Rishi Sunak, who represents a heavily rural constituency in the Yorkshire Dales, understands what’s at stake for farming communities.

    Spending vast sums of taxpayer’s money on destroying productive animals would be a perfect summation of the net zero madness infecting the West. The Irish Department of Agriculture has said that the report was just a “modelling document”, but no sane government would even get to the point of including such a plan in “a deliberative process”. Why? Because it is irrational.

    Dutch and Irish politicians have failed to recognise that regenerative farming techniques allow livestock farmers to help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. The technology needed to measure soil carbon accurately has recently been developed by a British company, Ecometric. The results are startling. Some British livestock farmers are now being paid for the net carbon sequestered into the soils after the methane from their burping cows has been accounted for. It would mean changing the way we farm to embrace holistic methods; mainly replacing cereal-based cattle diets with grass, but it can be done.

    And we should be embracing the energy-creating capacity of cows. Tallow from British cattle is already being turned into biodiesel – a one tonne animal produces enough for around 180 litres. And thanks to Somerset-based start-up, Biofactory, new anaerobic technology is already available to turn the methane in their manure into usable electricity and heat. The manure itself is converted by this process into a more nutritious digestate that can substantially reduce the need for harmful artificial fertiliser. My own dairy farm is investing in these new green technologies and we hope to be carbon neutral and net exporters of energy in just a few years.

    Wreaking havoc on livestock farming families in the name of climate science is also very short-sighted. By the time, if ever, lab food technology, which uses huge amounts of energy currently, is efficient enough to replace the edible fats and proteins from animals, we will probably be using hydrogen technology instead of fossil fuels, and no one will be remotely worried about carbon.

    If there are any in Britain minded to follow the Dutch and Irish examples, they should think again. Farming needs to become greener, but through harnessing new technology rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/02/irelands-mooted-cow-massacre-warning-to-net-zero-britain

    It is one of the great failings of livestock farming that biodigesters are not installed on more farms than they are right now. Spreading raw manure on fields is one of the most anti-social activities imaginable, it upsets many rural folk and is responsible for many serious river pollution incidents. Indeed, the way we handle all waste, particularly household and commercial, is a national disgrace. Waste should be regarded as a resource.

    However, Blackett pays too much heed to the carbon sequestration nonsense. These things should be done for their own worth, not to meet arbitrary targets set by the ignorant and the deluded.

  29. 372855+ up ticks,

    https://twitter.com › Jamie_Blackett › status,

    First they came for the cows

    4 hours ago — Ireland’s mooted cow massacre is a warning to net zero Britain … at plans to cull around 200,000 dairy cows to meet its climate targets.

    Why don’t paddy just hand their cows over to India letting them have a decent lifestyle.

    ALL paddys efforts will be in vain because in a very short space of time the chinky chaps will erase any of pats workings regarding net zero.

  30. Good morning (just), chums. As posted last night, I got up in the middle of the night and finished watching a 3 hour Taiwanese film called A TOUCH OF ZEN (1969). It really was good, so I then did a few more odd jobs before switching off my alarm clock and retiring once again to bed. Up in time for elevenses and then on to sorting out some gremlins with my bank account (“Please hold, your account is important to us”). So now to look at Sir Jasper’s joke of the day, followed by dealing with my emails. Enjoy your day, NoTTLers.

    1. This would explain exactly why our totally useless government has been spending millions employing regional directors and paying them over 7 million pounds over the past four years to bring the NHS to it’s knees.
      And of course why there has been such a spike in private health care in the same period of time.

    2. “Most Americans didn’t even live until age 65.” Really? And even if true, what was life expectancy at age 65?

  31. I’ve just spent another hour replying the to hospital complaints department. I can’t see any favourable out come, but it might help others going thorough similar experiences and make the people in charge realise their dreadful mistakes.

    1. Sorry to be so negative but of course it will not make a difference. They have a whole department tasked with avoiding blame and responsibility.

      They probably get bonuses based on the number of complaints successfully obstructed.

      1. I agree actually, but I couldn’t just let it go. I’ve been so disappointed even disgusted with some of the treatment or more correctly, faffing about with letters and phone calls effectively non treatment. They had clear open options to book me in at one point a year in advance. Last November at worse 6 months, but they only booked the appointment in April this year and from what I can gather I could still be waiting another five months.
        They have no excuses and I’ve told them that I won’t accept covid as an excuse. Because if they try that one it will emphasise the possibility that the jabs have caused the backlog of treatment.
        Fingers crossed the reluctant cardiologist won’t be involved with the operation.👹

    1. The chap on the bike (stolen, presumably).

      The traffic seems to be driving on the right. So where was this happy incident filmed? And when?

      1. Grr don’t mention stolen bikes to me.

        As an update to Saturday’s theft, when I couldn’t get through to Plod but instead had to fill in an on-line form, Plod finally got in touch on Wednesday with another form (replicating 90% of the information already provided) plus an invitation to let them know how much i was suffering, as a victim.

        I wasn’t very polite about Plod in my “Victim Statement”.

        They must think we are stupid. They know that we know that they are not interested in solving crime. We know that they know that we know that they are not interested in solving crime. And yet the dance continues.

    1. People like him just thrive on the publicity. Doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad.

    2. Looks like a run of the mill down-and outer. He wouldn’t ‘influence’ me one jot or tittle.

  32. One thing I cannot understand , so please be patient with me ..

    Illegals arriving in the UK with no passports or ID .. and if they are accepted for British citizenship , do they understand they will not be allowed back into EU countries with out visa’s or the countries they originated from..

    I don’t know how the system works , do you . and those who land in Eire , but want to come to England , what then ?

    1. There are no barriers to undocumented migrants, only for law-abiding people with passports.

      1. The Press also states that they can refuse to be checked for Covid or any other infectious diseases.

        1. This country was clear of things like TB and polio untll quite recently. wherever did they come from?

  33. Cheese company ‘castrates’ Dorset’s Cerne Abbas Giant

    A CHEESEMAKER has been accused of ‘emasculating’ Dorset’s Cerne Giant by censoring the naked figure’s famous appendage on its packaging.

    The Oxford Cheese Company has been slammed for featuring an image of the giant on its ‘Cerne Abbas Man vintage cheddar’ – minus the figure’s oversized phallus.

    The manufacturer has been accused of censoring the giant’s manhood to avoid causing offence among the ‘woke.’

    At 180ft, the Cerne Giant is Britain’s largest, and possibly best-known, chalk hill figure.

    Various theories abound the club-wielding giant and his mysteriously large appendage. Many believe the carving is an ancient fertility symbol, whilst others say it depicts the Greco-Roman hero Hercules.

    In 2021, after extensive scientific analysis, National Trust archaeologists concluded the giant was probably first constructed in the late Saxon period.

    Now, in 2023, the omission of the giant’s genitalia from cheese packaging has sparked outrage.

    Vic Irvine, head brewer at Cerne Abbas Brewery was left “apoplectic” after discovering the famous landmark had been castrated – and believes the giant has been ‘watered down’ to spare the blushes of the easily-offended.

    “He has been emasculated,” Mr Irvine said. “I think (the cheese manufacturers) are terrible rotters for taking our giant and taking his penis off him.

    “I feel as if it were my own one that was taken off – it’s terrible.”

    The brewery’s own product imagery features the giant in all his naked glory. Mr Irvine said the company is “strongly proud” of Dorset’s heritage. “To deface a national monument to sell some smelly old cheese is a disgrace,” he added.

    Asked whether he thinks the cheese manufacturer should apologise over the ‘cock-up,’ the head brewer said: “I just want them to stop doing it – and for God sake I hope they don’t send us any cheese because we won’t eat it.

    “It’s just terrible I don’t know why they’re doing it – if you’re going to use the giant, use the giant – don’t take his appendage off him.

    “It’s watering it down in case they upset people – it’s not on. An erect penis is an erect penis.”

    The Oxford Cheese Company has been contacted for comment.

    https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23562157.cheese-company-castrates-dorsets-cerne-abbas-giant/

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12147877/Fury-cheese-company-depicts-famous-Cerne-Abbas-Giant-without-oversized-phallus.html

    1. If I had a Nationwide account, I’d close it immediately.

      Bloody stupid virtue-signallers who just want to make money out of us.

    2. Every time I go to the cash machine Santander tells me we’re proud to support Pride.

      1. I’m proud not to support pride month but am proud to proclaim that I am heterosexual.

  34. Good afternoon Nottlers, a fine morning on the golf course with the sun shining and a gentle breeze from the shore. That’s me warmed up before the ‘big’ game this evening; a few of us walking footballers against the Ayr United Ladies walking football team. They have a cup match coming up and wanted a friendly before the match, to keep themselves sharp. There will be NO swapping shirts after the game.

        1. Thinking of sport, it looks as if hockey matches don’t start with a bully off.
          (It’s either being on here or painting bedroom walls; decisions, decisions.)

          1. Well, I am off to jolly old Asda for my sins.
            Weather gorgeous again and supposed to be even nicer over weekend.
            The physio is here and is getting a lecture on chilli plants. Poor man;-)

      1. No running, no tackling, and only three touches. I still come off the pitch as if we’ve played extra time and penalties. A sense of humour is essential.

  35. Pride month (God, a whole month of rainbows) did not start well in Ottawa. Apparently parents kept their kids away from school to protest against pride celebrations. One scholarship reported over 60% didn’t turn up.

    Not quite the overwhelming success that they expected.

    1. You can count on me not to turn up at any of their indoctrination sessions over here. Besides, I have never found cavorting coppers a pretty sight…

    2. Red and yellow and pink and blue…. I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, you can sing one too.

      1. I’d rather bloody not, thank you Ann. I’ve always been suspicious of their motives since someone went and Sunk The Rainbow Warrior.

      1. We all know the renewable energy nonsense is a great scam; the scammers know it, the government knows it. we all know it; but does the Idiot King know it?

      1. Cripes. I could have written the script (CV?) for her.
        But only if I was so bored that I felt the urge to research Welsh quangos and all sinecures west of the Severn.

        1. It is becoming tiresome. At least we will know where to raid when the time comes

    1. A leech on public of the U.K.
      Never contributed to the exchequer. Lived in a cocoon and sucked on the teat of the poor.

  36. Good afternoon all,

    I took MOH out yesterday in the electric car as I have now sussed out why all purely electric cars are so unreliable. I have taken measures to avoid the flat 12 volt battery syndrome in my EV.

    I bought the EV last year on the basis of Government pressure to end internal combustion engined (ICE) cars and after seeing rave reviews about this partcular EV’s driveability and performance. It still only costs
    7p per mile to run on overnight charged electricity but unless you understand how an EV handles its electrical energy you will not be able to drive it reliably on the road.

    Toyota and Subaru are two of the top names for reliability in ICE vehicles but this reviewer was not even able get into this EV that is the basis of these two marques. He was only given the car the previous day for a test review.

    This video was supposed to be another one of these rave views about one the latest EVs on the market but instead he found that he couldn’t even open the driver’s door. He female partner however does work out how to get into the vehicle which turns out to have a flat 12 volt battery:

    https://youtu.be/scnQuiWFxdU

        1. Hence the expression of someone looking ” goatish.” And goats were often featured in satanic rituals.

  37. 372855+ up ticks,
    Listening to the news leaves me to believing that the information gathering net used by the covid inquiry
    is having net mesh enlarged.

    What is really needed if so, is an outer ring of proven patriots encircling the politico suspects should be put in place.

    As for this enquiry taking years then we must surely use the same strategies that was used regarding Tommy Robinson feet, from being outside Belmarsh free to doing time in Belmarsh incarcerated was the most amazing fleet of foot action ever witnessed, and he never caused any ones death,far from it.

    1. The enquiry is intended as a massive and very expensive cover up which will take years and years to come to any conclusion. Nobody will be any the wiser but the taxpayers are paying.

      1. 372855+ up ticks,

        Evening N,
        If there is not genuine interim reports on a regular basis I’m
        afraid this odious issue could very well be the straw.
        Being political deceitful is one thing when death & serious injury , enforced incarceration
        / isolation, then that is a totally different ballgame
        If it is seen as a cover up then it would not surprise me to see reprisals, let us pray this will not be the case

  38. Good afternoon all.

    I played hooky yesterday and spend the day at Bath & West and spent a lot of time wandering the cattle line.
    Talking to one farmer there – sells his milk to ARLA – suppliers to many supermarkets own brands and owners of the Cravendale Label.
    ARLA claims to be owned by a consortium of 9.700 farmers – but only 2,100 of those are British. No info as to where the rest come from.
    So scene set.
    Farmer tells me that recently he had some calves which he need to register on the Cattle Movement site (BCMs) and found he was unable to do it.
    Eventually he gets through to the help line who ask him if he is under contract to ARLA. He confirms that is so. BCMS tell him that ARLA have reached an agreement with BCMS that farmers under contract to them will not be able to register any stock – and will have to do it via ARLA.
    No consultation with the Farmer – it seems that they have just taken over the accounts.
    Further more ARLA, under the guise of being able to calculate the carbon footprint of the milk, are demanding that the Farmers provide data on all of their land, what is grown on it, what the pasture is and how long it has been in place and what other crops are grown or other animals kept.

    Maybe I am overly suspicious but this looks to me like data acquisition which can be used to manipulate the price of milk to their own ends and possibly dive some farmers off the land.
    If they are sufficiently in hock to the bank and the milk price drops bank calls in the loans – ARLA tells the banks they will run the farms.

    I would love to get a contract lawyer to go over the farmers’ contracts and see if this is hidden in the small print.

    Suggestions?

    Discuss please.

    1. What do you make of the plan to cull Irish cattle?

      What about Muller – are they Irish or Northern Irish?

      Arla looks pretty dodgy. Are the rest of the contracted farmers Irish?

    2. One for Mr Thomas or Jennifer SP. Possibly worth looking at the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, Sections 10 or 13.
      (je ne suis pas un lawyer)

    3. ARLA are Dansk. Nothing more nor less and only interested in boosting their profits. Tell me it’s true, HertsLass, I know you have affiliations, only Dansk, and not necessarily ARLA

  39. Thank you to all for the birthday wishes!
    Though I must confess I always try to ignore the day!

    Got rid of the cabinets at t’Lad’s, tanking the van up in Wirksworth en route, took 100 litres!!
    Came back via Ripley, first via Anchor Supplies where I picked up a beret and RE badge for a tenner, then to the Co-op for a bit of shopping for tonight’s meal.
    I’m doing boiled tatties with sausage rolls and salad and have done something with chopped celery, chives, a chopped clove of garlic, nuts and a large dollop of mayonnaise. Should taste ok.

    1. Sorry Bob, I missed that! Hope you had a lovely day and many belated happy returns.

    2. Happy Birthday, Bob! ‘Tis the start of your Birthday weekend! Live dangerously! 🎉🎂🥳🎉🍡🍷🍷🍷🎉

      1. Thank you m’dear, but I try to ignore birthdays!
        I feel as if I’ve had too many!

  40. Hard to say who had the most fun 😉 I almost wish I’d stayed home to watch physio putting husband through the mill. Supermarket was fairly OK and well stocked with nerve tonic so I don’t have to go out next week.
    He had to climb up and down stairs a few times, had his BP and temp tested; then he had do some bending exercises in the kitchen. Since I have been home he’s been boasting/moaning about his exploits.
    Chuckles;-)))
    Physio has signed him off as he thinks he’s doing well enough.

      1. Jack comes down the 3 steps into the lower hallway, but cannot climb back up .. I am rarely away for more than 2 hours .. so they know .. and how do they know when I am due home ?

  41. A Golfer was involved in a terrible car crash and was rushed to hospital.
    Just before he was put under, the Surgeon popped in to see him.
    “I have some good news and some bad news.”
    The Surgeon tells him.
    “The bad news is that I have to remove your right arm!”
    “Oh God no,” the man cries.
    “My Golfing is over.
    Please Doc, what’s the good news?”
    “The good news is, I have another one to replace it with, but it’s a woman’s arm and I’ll need your permission before go ahead with the transplant.”
    “Go for it Doc, as long as I can play Golf again.”
    The operation went well and a year later the man was out on the Golf Course when he bumped into the Surgeon.
    “Hi, how’s the new arm?” The surgeon asks.
    “Just great,” the Golfer replies.
    “I’m playing the best Golf of my life.
    My new arm has a much finer touch and my Putting has really improved.”
    “That’s great.”
    “Not only that, My handwriting has improved, learned how to sew my own clothes and even taken up painting landscapes in watercolors.”
    “That’s unbelievable, I’m glad to hear the transplant was such a great success.
    Are you having any side effects?”
    “Well, just two really,” the Golfer told him.
    “I have trouble Parallel Parking and every time I have an erection I get a headache!”

      1. I do! How are you today Ann?
        BTW there’s another punchline which says ‘ Every time I go for a pee it won’t let go’

        1. Same old, same old. No respite from the pain. A week today is the biopsy.

  42. Off topic
    Just as I started my afternoon swim the heavens opened and I “enjoyed” an almighty hailstorm with lots of thunder to accompany the deluge. I could feel the surface temperature of the water slowly dropping as I completed my lengths.
    Is there a technical term for such a weather event?

    1. Anything over normal is now called ‘an extreme weather event’ and absolute proof of global warming. Summer has become a heatwave this year even though its cold at night.

      1. Cold? Cold?? Below zero last night! Had to get up & close the window! Brr!

      2. Colder than two olympic swimming pools, with air pressure higher than three London buses, and across an area bigger than several dozen soccer fields.

      3. Heatwave? Ha, Ha, try telling that to the shivering Scots.

        Someone, Anyone, Just get me out of exile, Gawd, depressing isn’t in it.

    2. A Summer Squall – familiar to sailors.

      Characterised by a sharp change in wind direction, darkened sky, gale-force wind and precipitation and lasting several minutes. At the end, the wind reverts to the original direction.

      ‘Managing’ a squall can be vital when yacht racing.

        1. You may have not noticed the change of wind direction. srb; it is the ‘stuff’ of yacht racing.

          1. Down at water level in the pool I notice even the slightest changes.
            I agree that when sailing, and I only sailed dinghies, that one has to be very aware of sudden wind alterations.
            Not keen on capsizing.

    1. I rather hoped that Lady Justice Hallett would resign and leave the bastards to stew in their own juice.

      1. If it applies to the Government people, why shouldn’t it apply to the opposition people AND those in the civil service, NHS and House of Lords and Pharmaceutical companies and particularly all members of SAGE and COBRA. I’ll bet there were some very interesting discussions there.
        Ignoring the fact that if it did it would ensure the enquiry lasted decades.

    2. That could equally apply to our latest fiasco where Trudeau asked an old family friend to investigate chinese interference in our elections.

      Twice parliament has voted for one thing and Trudeau has said no, he will not do as instructed because there is nothing to see.

      1. Trudeau is the epitome of all that is wrong with modern politicians.
        In 100 years he will be the case study in universities, assuming any survive that long

      1. No idea.
        I assumed that the general populace were loving the way that she was nailing the politicians.

      2. Something to do with the various super injunctions that Mr & Mrs Murrell have issued.

  43. Par Four today; my new bait isn’t very catching!

    Wordle 713 4/6
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    ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
    🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    1. Sue Edison to lacoste 5 hours ago:
      I’ll be sitting in the Wigmore Hall at 5 pm today so here is my Friday wordle effort. A par four.

      Wordle 713 4/6
      ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
      ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. Par today after yesterday’s fiasco.
      Wordle 713 4/6

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

    1. What else is going on?
      The WHO, an organisation which plans to an overarching control of pandemic measures in every country, has now acquired a North Korean committee member.
      And then there’s the usual list of HS2, Nut Zero, immigration number fudging …..

    2. Afternoon Oberst. The BBC are going full bore. He appears in an interview looking suitably chastened. I think he refused makeup!

    1. Good looking lass, doing good things, Anne. Does she resemble her Gran? ;-))

      1. Modesty forbids.
        But the cases she deals with – those horrific skin conditions where children’s skin peels off at every bandage change – would be beyond what I could cope with.

          1. I can quite happily cope with madness – the more baroque, the better.
            But I really could not do what Rebecca does; it would finish me.

    2. Graeme Souness was on BBC Breakfast about a week ago. He is swimming the English Channel in support of DEBRA. I donated to his cause. Good luck to your grand-daughter and the other nurses when they do their sky-diving (sooner them than me!)
      Edit: grand-daughter, not daughter.

    3. Graeme Souness was on BBC Breakfast about a week ago. He is swimming the English Channel in support of DEBRA. I donated to his cause. Good luck to your grand-daughter and the other nurses when they do their sky-diving (sooner them than me!)
      Edit: grand-daughter, not daughter.

    4. I tried that charity parachute jump once. We spent every weekend for about a month huddled in some god forsaken hanger, waiting for the rain and wind to die down so that we could jump.

      The jump became reality when I jumped off the plane and I saw the plane wheels shooting upwards in front of me.

      1. Our elder son did a parachute jump when he first went to university.
        They spent weeks practising; reality hit him as he dangled his legs over the edge of the plane.

  44. Afternoon folks. Here at Bradford on Avon there has been a reinactment of War and Peace as dozens of keen hire boaters battle for the rights to use the lock!

    Odd weather today. Very cold first thing – four layers of clothing and woolly hat t-shirt and shorts this afternoon……

    Now moored for the night with a glass or three of medicine. Will post some pictures when I get in front of my PC

    1. I’ve only ever visited Bradford-on-Avon once and I refreshed at a lovely tea-room where all the waitresses wore starched black-and-white 18th century uniforms while serving delicious tea and cakes.

      1. That’s the advantage of being a policeman, you know where all the fanciest brothels are located.

        1. I wish. In Chesterfield, in the 1960s, the only cheap ‘women’ on offer were to be found in the Crown & Cushion and the Cathedral Vaults (known locally as the ‘Pretty Windows’). ‘Half-Crown Dot’ (Dot Vaughan) was as gruesome as she was cheap (allegedly) and Sarah Marshall would sell you one of her daughters for half an hour and she would lay you out with a swift uppercut of you didn’t pay up promptly, as many a chancer discovered to his cost. Apparently, many old-time coppers gave Sarah a wide berth. I didn’t commence my duty until the 1970s but these legends persisted.

          1. We had Queenie who plied her trade up and down Mersea Road (where the barracks used to be) well past retirement age.
            We assumed she loved her work …. or maybe the British Army contained a good few Wayne Rooneys.

          2. In Bolsover there was a single woman, aged around 40, not very bright, who frequently got taken advantage of by her numerous punters. The locals named her ‘Buttercup’.

          3. There used to be inns in more rural locations, larger villages mainly, where the landlord was quite happy to rent one of his rooms out to one of his regulars for an hour or so.

          4. Chatsworth House has long been a ‘knocking shop’ for many a high-ranked Royal female. The old Duke of Devonshire used to guarantee discretion when they entertained men friends who were more exciting in bed than their royal spouses were. Problem was, there was always a local constable on duty there who had to swear to keep his gob shut. Sometimes they forgot to!

          5. It’s that kind of verbal history, passed down the generations, that makes many jobs more interesting.

          6. My first posting was in Verden Aller in 1975. Sometime in 1976, I was enjoying a beer in a fine establishment called the Gilde Eck when a middle aged woman and a younger woman (her daughter as it turned out) came and spoke to me: “Hallo dahlink, are you a scaley?*
            I immediately realised that this was the legendary Half Litre Annie about whom I had been warned on arrival. She had apparently been doing her bit for Anglo-German relations since 1945 and was keen on introducing her daughter to the trade.
            I made my excuses and legged it next door to the Kupfer Kaenchen, another hostelry of note.

            *Member of the fine Royal Corps Of Signals.

      2. Some years ago I too have taken tea in the same tearoom. Alas it is no longer a tearoom but an Italian restaurant

      3. It’s a good place, George, I lived just up the road in Corsham for a while and often visited. It has the single cell on the bridge and a tiny 12th C church which will hold about 4 at a squeeze.

  45. That’s me gone. Hope tomorrow is warmer. Fed up with this cold weather. And a cold. And a hole in my back.

    Cheesed off.

    A demain.

    1. Once out of the shelter of hedges and walls, it was perishing when I walked Spartie this afternoon. A really bitter, lazy wind.
      Like you, I am thoroughly pissed off with this.
      Is your back improving?

      1. Hate to say this Anne, but it has been very warm , too warm to take the dogs out , which I will do later , after Springwatch , and hopefully may see some Nightjars later.

          1. I will only do about 15mts sun , and that is me , unless I am busy in the garden . I don’t want a return of skin scares . Melanoma’s aren’t pleasant .

          2. A rather warm and sunny 30C here today.

            A bit too hot for golf but I managed.

          3. Thank you.
            It was indeed a brave decision to stay out in the sun for about three and a half hours. Foolish as well because I walked round the course rather than succumbing to the luxury of a little golf cart to ride in.

            Personally I don’t see why I cannot drive my mini round the course, it is the same size as their buggies.

  46. For those who are interested in Battle of Britain Air Aces, ‘Spitfire Paddy’ [Wing Commander Brendan Eamonn Fergus Finucane, DSO, DFC & Two Bars (16 October 1920 – 15 July 1942)] is on PBS America this evening at 7.30pm.

    1. Ironic that the teenager calls himself Mizzy, which sounds like it could be a dimunitive of ‘Mischling’.

    2. A white youth doing this wouldn’t be given the indulgent treatment that this piece of excrement is getting.

    1. It might be correct.

      A lesbian loving her as a woman
      A woman loving her as a man
      A man loving her as a woman
      a goat shagging it as a whatever…

    1. I’m too tired, Bob.

      Today I’ve been in BoB mode; ripping up damaged outside floor screeding and removing the panels and tiles from a long-out-of-use shower unit. The resultant pile of concrete and old tiles now needs to be taken to the skip. Time for a nice mug of tea.

      Over the next few days I shall fill holes in, drink tea, replaster ,drink tea, then paint walls and drink tea. All while the sun continues to shine.

    2. What is the point of that utterly useless four-eyed Paki pseudo-copper?

      In my day a few swift uppercuts would have been administered. Personally, I would have also given one to that four-eyed imbecile (as most of my former colleagues would have too).

      1. “What is the point of that utterly useless four-eyed Paki pseudo-copper?”

        Doesn’t he demonstrate part of the problem (and across the country) which is that there are too few officers of the required physical status?

        1. The very opposite of the standard of man demanded by Captain Sir Percy Sillitoe KBE.

      1. Fuck diversity. White supremacy is strength an’ don’ you forget it, boy.

    3. What a bunch of useless plonkers.. Hit dem niggers hard. let ’em know they is uppity.

    1. Seen the movie and read the book- Oliver Sacks?? Not sure but both good.

  47. I’m off to bed. I hope to be getting the last bit of log sawing and stacking done tomorrow.

    G’night all.

  48. In bed early – busy day today getting ready for the first outdoor event of the season tomorrow.

  49. Philip Schofield, Philip Schofield, Philip Schofieldm.
    Enough already. DILLIGAF?

    1. Totally agree. A tedious distraction. If the ptb gave a fuck about liars guilty of sexual misdemeanours with the underaged, they’d release Epstein’s client list.

      1. I expect he now understands what the meeja put Prince Andrew through. I wouldn’t be surprised if he made judgemental comments about his interview.

        1. However much truth there is and there is not in the slurs against Prince Andrew I find that the sheer petty nastiness towards him displayed by his brother, The Idiot King, is unforgivably vindictive and nasty.

          1. I agree with your summation of the nature of the Idiot King.

            I differ in that I believe Prince Andrew was also a privileged idiot, undoubtedly indulged by our former Queen Elizabeth yet a loose cannon, unable to keep
            his counsel (his mouth shut) on his many overseas trips at our expense as some sort of UK Trade Envoy.

            The clips I have seen of him when pontificating to Saudis about trade are excruciatingly embarrassing.

          2. I have no affection for Andrew either. But his elder brother’s pompous odiousness prend le biscuit.

          3. The Royals are all as bad as each other. We are unable to influence them. They will carry on with their reckless policies until bitten.

            I could do without the lot of them, but that is just me. I now hate everything the present Idiot King stands for. The man is a Cretin.

    2. Fortunately the BBC is making soothing comments about Schofield and “the agony he is going through”

      Nothing about the child he groomed, apparently with the (unknowing?) assistance of ITV.

  50. There is a sort of poetic justice in the exposure of the demented faux President Biden haplessly getting lost on stage and falling flat on his face as at the recent Air Force Academy ceremony.

    When President Trump carefully and tentatively negotiated a slippery steel ramp after an event Biden was the first to ridicule him with claims that he was more agile and athletic than President Trump. I believe there is an intrinsic natural justice at work in our world. Time and again we recite the phrase “how the mighty are fallen”.

    I am hopeful that the tables are turning and the globalist tyranny exposed for all to see.

    Ukraine is an obvious example of the gross incompetence of the US and UK administrations in supporting the proxy war with our own depleted resources at a time when we in the UK are heading towards recession and our people are having a hard time meeting everyday expenses and mortgage repayments.

    Despite the obvious weaknesses of our economy, as is the case in the US, we are freely admitting and funding hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, housing the scroungers in expensive hotels (thus blighting our tourist and hospitality industry, as though Covid lockdowns were not measures enough to kill it completely) and making life intolerable for our native population affected.

    These events and government actions are nothing whatever to do with conflicts around the world. This importation of young men of fighting age is clearly a deliberate and globally driven policy in which our government is complicit.

    Sunak and his cabal do not represent us. They are acting under direction from the WHO and WEF and represent their own selfish interests and their globalist puppet masters. I remain hopeful that eventually these creatures will be exposed for their crimes and brought to justice. There is only so much that can be concealed from the people in our Age of Instant Communication.

  51. A final thought about the war in Ukraine. The US had sought regime change in Russia and the Ukrainians under Zelensky claimed they would defeat Russia.

    As ever the precise opposite is more likely. The Russians will take over yet more territory and take Kiev. The Russians will not go all the way to take the former Polish territory of Ukraine (Silesia) but will replace Zelensky with a leader less inclined to become a puppet of the west.

    As Obama, the architect of all that is wrong in both US domestic and foreign policy, stated “Joe Biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy decision”.

    NATO is dead in the water. Thank God.

  52. Exclusive: Ministers had ‘chilling’ secret unit to curb lockdown dissent
    Critics of Covid restrictions targeted by counter-disinformation team at the heart of the Government

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/02/counter-disinformation-unit-government-covid-lockdown/

    We knew all this already but at least the DT is printing the story. And of course Net Zero and the great climate cons must not be debated and discussed properly just as Covid jab damage and rape gangs of foreign ethnicity are off the agenda for proper consideration.

    A Percival Wrattstarngler BTL:

    We must not criticise Sunak because he is not white. Indeed, one of the principal reasons the globalists put him in place was because they knew that criticism of him could be dismissed as racism.

  53. Now I’m also going to bed and read, hopefully to fall asleep until the morning’s light..

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