Tuesday 31 October: The Covid inquiry is destined to be a drawn-out tale of sound and fury

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  3. The Covid inquiry is destined to be a drawn-out tale of sound and fury

    Well they couldn’t have timed it better really, what with all the troubles in the Middle East.

    1. At least you are having a covid whitewash. Canada allowed Teresa Tam, the chief medical officer to do her own analysis of her actions during the covid panic.

      Needless to say, the review was in favour of her actions and she received a nice big increase in salary.

  4. The Covid inquiry is destined to be a drawn-out tale of sound and fury

    Well they couldn’t have timed it better really, what with all the troubles in the Middle East.

  5. Good morning, chums. Looks like Geoff is up early again today – still not yet adjusted to GMT?

    2. I am just so glad to have got back to normal. I seem to have so much more time in the day – and I’m not so tired when I get up, either.

  6. Sunak tells police to prepare for terror attack as tensions rise over Israel-Hamas war. 31 October 2023.

    The Prime Minister chaired an emergency meeting of Cobra on Monday at which ministers, police chiefs and security officials assessed the “accelerated” threat of domestic terrorism and the risk of public disorder.

    He has asked police and security agencies to ensure they are taking steps to prepare for public disorder and terrorist attacks by war-gaming scenarios in “table top” exercises. Ministers are concerned that rising community tensions could see a single incident spiral into wider violence.

    Mr Sunak has also ordered all government departments to review their links to external organisations to ensure no funds are going to any individuals or bodies that have “expressed sympathy” with terrorism.

    This is of course a total denial of reality. One hundred thousand (now reduced to 50,000 in the MSM) supporters of Hamas paraded through the street of the capital only last weekend. Half the Labour party support them. It makes ostriches look sensible! This said what else can they do? The multicultural policies of the last twenty years have come home to roost with a vengeance. The Government, such as it is, presides over a nation utterly divided! The enemy is within the gates. No wonder there are no comments allowed!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/30/sunak-tells-police-to-prepare-for-terror-attack/

          2. Local councils. passport office, home office, benefits office, airports. Everywhere really.

    3. No doubt plod and the security services are all saying ‘right, gotta lookk out for the Far Righty Whitey lads. Ignore the brown fellas with bombs who kill people looking for Alan’s snack bar, they’re no problem, it’s the ‘Far right!’ we’ve got to watch for.’

    4. A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

      I have seen this attributed to Cicero, but maybe not!?

  7. Johnson was PM over Covid He led the government against the people to lock us up.and turn the police on us . Never forget it was all done on Johnsons watch. He was the only one who could have stopped it and controled the responce.

    1. I don’t think he was given a choice. The idea that the PM is some sort of authority is long gone. I think there was a panicked response and they took advice and the advice was all round ‘Terror!’ and that’s what politicians ran with.

      Over time it became clear that it was hogwash and the decisions increasingly political in nature – that the calculations kept changing and no paper published week to week comparable data is the biggest indicator of the hoax. Same reason politicians keep fiddling the economic figures.

        1. Probably. What saved them, I seem to remember, was that their constitution doesn’t allow their government to do such a thing.

  8. We have had six and a half inches of rain in October in my part of Sussex (by the sea).

    1. If the rain could hold off for a couple of hours, just to let the bed linen softrinse blow away I’d be very grateful.

  9. Good morning, all. Misty and damp.

    Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Englandistan. The Ayatollah Khan has moved into No 10 Downing Street. The Police are now the Religious Police. All females over 6 years of age must report to police stations to receive their islamic dress. And then go to their nearest mosque to be flogged.

    1. Good morning Mr T and everyone.
      You jest. Young females would not be required to cover up, apart of course from a plain headscarf, until they start to menstruate. An Iranian teenager Armita Geravand died about a week ago, reportedly in a vegetative state, after being injured in the Tehran Metro. For the sin of not wearing a head covering, FEMALE members of the Mohammedan Police beat her severely.

      1. A variation on mothers and aunts holding down a screaming girl child while an old crone mutilates her with a rusty razor blade.
        Women tend to cooperate in their own degradation.

      2. I should add that the Archbishop of Canterbury has welcomed the islamic takeover. “Got rid of those pesky Christians at last,” he added.

      3. Re the cover-up; the last time I took the No 3 bus to Westminster from Crystal Palace there was a letter box clad muslim with a young girl who couldn’t have been more than seven or eight. She was wearing a long skirt and long sleeves (although, oddly enough, not a veil). Sometimes I was the only indigenous person on that bus!

  11. 378259+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Tuesday 31 October: The Covid inquiry is destined to be a drawn-out tale of sound and fury

    The mass gullible are still running support for the governing
    political overseeing, kapo cartel.

    We really are being dictated to via a criminal order infesting parliament supported by mass, lemming like dangerous fools again,again,& again.

    NO opposition party to oppose any inquiry findings that carry a strong odour of Billingsgate in their conclusion.

    My personal belief is peoples lives were forfeited on the altar of, at best criminal negligence, at worst
    corporate murder / manslaughter in the mass distribution, in many cases blackmail jab or job of an untried vaccine that had NO back- up history.

      1. ‘Moaning Anne. Once upon a time I was a fan of The Sky at Night, when Patrick Moore was in the driving seat. I hardly ever missed an episode. Then this breathless and over-excited presenter came along and after a couple of episodes I gave up and never went back. She would even look out of place as a Blue Peter presenter. Another fine programme salughtered on the altar of ‘diversity’.

  13. Russian losses ‘pass 300,000’ amid ‘major’ eastern offensive. 31 October 2023.

    The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces on Tuesday said the Russian military had lost 300,810 personnel in combat.

    As well as high numbers of casualties among its soldiers, Ukraine claims Russia has lost more than 5,000 tanks.

    I have no idea whether this is true or not but question whether Ukraine knows either. They could of course tell us what their own losses are. They certainly know those, but refuse to say. The much vaunted Counter attack seems to have died the death. This war has now gone onto the back burner. Gaza and Israel occupy the thoughts of our leaders to the exclusion of almost everything else.

    PS. Despite the invitation to join the comments section there isn’t one!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/31/ukraine-russia-war-news-latest-bakhmut-live/

    1. Kursk writ large!

      How many tanks did Russia lose in Kursk?

      Some 70,000 Red Army and 57,000 Wehrmacht soldiers were dead or wounded, while 1,600 Soviet and 300 German tanks were destroyed. This discrepancy is all the more striking if we remember that attacking forces tend to take greater losses than entrenched defenders.13 Jul 2018

        2. I had to look at the article to check. 🤣 No, as it happens, but I wouldn’t have been surprised.

          And I pity the other residents and staff. We opera singers, on the whole, are not the sort of people who should be allowed run around naked…

        1. I do feel sorry for him. I don’t think a prison sentence was the right thing to do. He had not long lost his mother.

          1. Yes. Poor man. It does say he is getting the help he needs there, mind. And having a bow and arrows in a loony bin doesn’t feel like a great idea…

    2. More exciting than a visit from the therapy dog.
      Will do wonders for the old biddies’ recent memories.

    4. He tried to kill a police officer but the bow string broke. He should be charged with attempted murder and locked up in a loony bin for life.
      Who ordered the closure of most of the UKs mental institutions and why? We need more prisons and more secure places for the growing number of mentally deranged ‘visitors’ and increasing tribes of interbred offspring from the ‘diversity-improvement’ quota currently prowling the streets and by-ways of Britain . . . and a great number of politicians too!

        1. The state legislated that you’re not allowed to know if a paedophile lives in your road. Chances are they did the same to the mentally ill.

          It’s idiotic to expect untrained people to care for someone when they have no idea what they’re doing, the needs of the individual or even if they’re there! That ignores the time commitment, the cost involved.

  15. Good morning, all. Mixed bag weather-wise here, flaming sunrise earlier followed by broken overcast now.

    Who is giving the orders to do this?

    Sunak expressing concerns re terrorist attacks, coming from a PM who is allowing ever growing numbers of unvetted young men to invade our Country, that is rich. If the PM – not in my name – is responsible then this act is small beer re terrorism, compared to his reckless importation of tens of thousands of unknowns.

    Odd goings on, first a glitch for a few minutes followed by tweets not appearing although the script is present. Now working – DISQUS?

    Disappeared again!

    https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1719254029996380663
    https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1719254784396403187

    2. Good morning Korky

      Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi made his toughest remarks yet on Wednesday, saying the current war was not just aimed at fighting Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, “but also an attempt to push the civilian inhabitants to … migrate to Egypt.” He warned this could wreck peace in the region.

      Jordan’s King Abdullah II gave a similar message a day earlier, saying, “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt.”

      Their refusal is rooted in fear that Israel wants to force a permanent expulsion of Palestinians into their countries and nullify Palestinian demands for statehood. El-Sissi also said a mass exodus would risk bringing militants into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, from where they might launch attacks on Israel, endangering the two countries’ 40-year-old peace treaty. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-egypt-and-other-arab-nations-are-hesitant-to-take-in-palestinian-refugees

      Dare I say doesn’t this apply to us as well, if we had acted with caution , we wouldn’t have a drug problem, knife problem and areas of the UK and our great cities that are non indigenous hell holes .

      2. Spot on Belle. Most every problem we have comes from massive uncontrolled gimmigration.

        Scrap welfare and get rid of them.

    5. Korky, the green shuttered premises (IIRC) is a Pharmacy that belongs to a law-abiding qualified pharmacist, who happens to be a muslim.

  16. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e33dcdc60beeb915f88ca7a6047c868ac98308f47d222b2c46ad04aa3d9d735a.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9d2f72e7baa32a854b112219273c307f6091be1f566a6792348b6b48e258d261.png The halfwits running the DT these days cannot get the captions correct on their photographs.

    The tie knot labelled “Full-Windsor” is the Four-in-hand. The knot labelled as “Half-Windsor” is the Full-Windsor. The knot labelled “Four-in-hand” is the Half-Windsor. The only correctly labelled knot is the Prince Albert.

    On the rare occasions I wear a tie (like yesterday) I invariably use the superior Half-Windsor because of its neat symmetry without being too fat.

    1. The other week I was on the train and the young lad opposite, presumably going somewhere formal, was trying to put on a tie. He was sat with his mobile open at a page of instructions, following it to the letter, and after the fourth attempt managed to get something presentable. Guess they don’t train them in such things these days…. As for me, I am not sure what you would call my attempts, the main issue I have is trying to do up the button of the collar of the shirt which always seems to be a size too small.

      1. I know what you mean re the top button. I used to work alongside a former gunnery RSM from the Royal Artillery who insisted on wearing his tie as a simple four-in-hand. He liked its simplicity and thought that other knots were “too big and poncy”.

        1. Remember John Betjeman struggled with his bow tie when he went to the golf club dance with Miss Joan Hunter Dunn? When I went to my first black tie do my mother had to tie my tie for me and she did so by standing behind me with her arms and hands around my neck looking at the mirror. I can now tie a bow tie without too much trouble.

          The scent of the conifers, sound of the bath,
          The view from my bedroom of moss-dappled path,
          As I struggle with double-end evening tie,
          For we dance at the Golf Club, my victor and I.

          Mind you I don’t go to many black tie dos nowadays

      2. ‘Shirt too small’ etc – they always seem to shrink in the wardrobe, especially if not worn frequently. Inexplicably my No1 uniform also suffered from the same problem…

      3. Oh, and never think about bow ties. I got a cheap one for a black tie dinner once and totally failed to put it on by myself. Chickened out in the end and put a nice normal tie on.

        1. I don’t use a mirror initially, I just imagine I’m tying a shoe lace.
          It works a treat and then all I have to do is minor adjustments

          1. I have some ready-tied bow ties, but I also have the real thing and I can tie them (just as I can a hunting tie).

        3. Useful knack, being able to tie those things. Half my male friends used to pop round before May Balls. 🤣

    2. G.O.K. I haven’t tied a tie since I left school. And that looked like a green piece of string with house colour stripes running through it.

    3. An article in the DT about the decline of fax was accompanied by a picture of redundant telex machines.

      1. There are examples of this idiocy every day in the DT. Reporting is abysmal and editing is non-existent.

    4. Hey Beatnik, wearing a tie, to you, is like getting a job, Dude. Ridin’ those rails, Bro’ is a career that demands a travellin’ man’s gear, Hombre.

      2. Hey, Dean. Bo’s gotta aspire to some social climbin’ some times; riding the bogie under a caboose ain’t my idea of club class, Hombre.

        I was just trying to coax a yard-rat into upgrading my usual ride to steerage, Bro.

    6. I always wore a half Windsor. My eldest brother, ex RAF, taught me how to tie it when I went to Grammar School and had to wear a tie for the first time.

      1. I wear a tie when wearing a dinner jacket and when going to weddings and funerals. Standards dear boy !

  17. Lost Nottl there for about ten minutes but oddly enough still received a notification from Korky!

    2. Had the same here: site could not be reached. It’s happened a number of times recently, usually for seconds as opposed to this break of minutes.

      They’re out to get us!

    2. I’ve nothing against an electric car. For me it’d be fine. However, they’re not remotely green. When electricity starts to get really expensive due to diktat they’ll be unaffordable. Our roads also can’t cope with their huge weight (that said, most are the same as your average school Mum SUV.

      1. There’s huge coal fired power station that was due to close- in Kansas but it is being kept open to supply the energy hungry EV battery plant that is being built. You could not make it up!

          4. https://dominiquerizzo.com/whats-so-special-about-minni-di-virgini-from-catania/ Hi, Katy.

            The sweetmeat that Philip mentioned are not the same as mine. Mine are Minni di Virgini (as described in my response above). There are countless variations on the recipe (but all breast-shaped).

            Mine are made from a disc of lemon cake sitting on a disc of marzipan. A teaspoonful of morello-cherry jam is placed in the centre of the cake. This is covered with a dome of vanilla crême patissière. A few chopped pistachio nuts are sprinkled on the crême pat before the whole delicacy is covered with a dome of more marzipan. Finally it is topped with a glacé cherry.

            It is beyond delicious. I use some silicon marshmallow moulds to make mine (upside down).

          5. I’m just impressed that you manage to confect such marvels whilst upside down. 😉

            Seriously, those sound amazing! What an interesting and fiddly recipe!

          6. Doing things upside down is a life skill: it helps if one is a bit eccentric!
            Overhead welding is an interesting life skill, especially of you enjoy a shower of sparks and molten metal running down your back!😳

          8. No. they are Minni di virgini (virgin’s tits). Traditionally made on Feb 5 every year, in Sicily, to commemorate the feast of St Agatha, a young teenage girl who was brutally raped and had her breasts cut off by the invading Moors.

          10. You seem to have had rather a lot of cherries – is this why you are now a carnivore?

    2. That’ll be me shortly, I have to dress the duvet for the winter and am hoping for company.

      1. We changed duvet covers yesterday. We have an enormous bed with an enormous duvet.

        The secret is to turn the thing inside out and place the corners of the duvet in the inverted corners of the duvet cover and hold them there while it is rolled on rather like a durex.

        1. I have closable pins for the two corners and one in the centre – supposed to make it easier – the test is coming.

      2. I don’t need to change my duvet for winter. I just have to give it a good shake (it’s down rather than feather; lightweight and cool in summer/warm in winter).

    3. The rest are young housewives from Blackpool and Morecambe areas who attempted to put sheets on the line when the wind was coming from the west.

  20. WOMEN died in an earthquake in Afghanistan because they were afraid to leave their homes without their hijabs, it has emerged.

    Earlier this month, several dozen women were trapped under rubble in the Zinda Jan district of Herat province and died after they delayed their escape from collapsing buildings for fear of defying the Taliban’s laws on head coverings, a female rescuer said on condition of anonymity.

    She said the hijab law and another Taliban directive which forbids men from mixing with women who are strangers led to a larger female death toll. It meant male rescuers were reluctant to save women whom they did not know, she added.

    More than 2,000 people died when a 6.3-magnitude quake hit western Afghanistan on Oct 7, destroying villages. UN relief agencies said 90 per cent of the victims in Herat were women and children.

    “Most of the patients were women and children because they were at home when the earthquake hit,” Dr Qasem Sadat, a health official at Herat province, said.

    Jaime Nadal, the Afghanistan representative for the UN Population Fund, said there would have been no “gender dimension” to the death toll if the quake had happened at night. It meant men were mainly at work while women were home.

    An earthquake survivor of Naib Rafi village in Zinda Jan district, where 1,294 people died and 1,688 were injured, said her husband and three daughters were killed. She said her daughters “turned back midway looking for hijab and then our house collapsed”. A man whose wife was killed after racing into her home to retrieve her hijab said: “Had I not sent her back inside the house to get her hijab she would have been alive,” he said.

    At a hospital in Herat, doctors said female patients were denied treatment by male doctors. UN officials said women were deprived of aid because of the absence of an identity card and the necessity of a male escort.

      1. Bring them over here, where they will be safe from earthquakes?

        I despair. But you know it will happen.

        1. It’s not safe from earthquakes over here. I’ve experienced four in the last thirty years or so. Colchester, if I recall, was shaken and buildings destroyed by an earthquake in the 19th century.

  21. Good morrow, Gentlefolk. today’s story (better late than never)

    The Art of Negotiation

    After being away on business, Rich thought it would be nice to bring his wife a little gift.

    “How about some perfume?” he asked the cosmetics clerk. She showed him a bottle costing $50.00.

    “That’s a bit much,” said Rich, so she returned with a smaller bottle for $30.00.

    “That’s still quite a bit,” Rich groused.

    Growing annoyed, the clerk brought out a tiny $15.00 bottle.

    “What I mean,” said Rich, “is I’d like to see something really cheap.”

    So she handed him a mirror.

    1. When buying my Mother perfume I said ‘the big one looks gaudy, the small one is pokey. I’ll go for the one in the middle.

  22. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0d44652f763c152e22adb6b5bbfa53f41690aab4da1432053823f44494cd2d84.png
    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mistakes-were-made/
    Apparently a book recently published by Rachel Reeves, Starmer’s shadow chancellor, had several sections which were simply cut and pasted from somewhere else!

    Plagiarize,
    Let no one else’s work evade your eyes,
    Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
    So don’t shade your eyes,
    But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize…
    Only be sure always to call it please, “research”.

    [Tom Lehrer]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlfXirQF3A

  23. Good day all,

    A misty, moisty morning here at McPhee Towers. Wind Sou’-West, 9℃ > 12℃. Rain tonight.

    Here’s something which might interest some people. A podcast series in which the Academic Agent reads Britains’ Blunder; an objective study of the Second World War, its cause, conduct and consequence by Peter H Nichols, published in 1949. The AA is right when he says a copy of this work is very hard to obtain although it can be viewed in university libraries. Has it been suppressed in the way that Solzhenitsyn’s “200 Years Together” has been? Could be. AA says that, as he reads, he will have to do a certain amount of redaction to avoid falling foul of YouTube. It’s up to you whether you bother with it or not but I’m certainly listening.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a8d9d7650036b2ae7ecfa51b28e7dd20b78219772d64b9d39a74781adacadac2.png

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwm8F101NM8&t=3657s

    AA revealed the generation gap when he says the original price was 6d. You can see on the cover that it was 6 shillings.

  24. Good morning all.
    A tad above 5°C this morning and wet with the rain due to give way to fog & mist.

  25. 2378259+ up ticks,

    Facts,

    Wide Awake Media
    @wideawake_media
    German MEP, Christine Anderson, on the pre-planned totalitarian power grab that was sold to us as a “pandemic”:

    “It pretty soon occurred to me [that] this has nothing to do with public health… They simply wanted to see how far would the people allow them to take away their fundamental rights. And that’s what I’m fighting.”

    “I do not want a government to literally have so much power and control over people that [at the] flip of a switch, their life is pretty much over… Future totalitarian regimes no longer require electrified barbed wire fences. All they need is a phone,
    a QR code, a digital ID, and then they can do with you whatever they want, and that is scary.”

    https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1718578670858551510?s=20

    1. My advice to Ms Anderson is, don’t go anywhere alone from now on.
      We had a Dr Kelly a few years ago. And Robin Cooke in 2005.
      Both obviously knew too much.

  26. Good morning dear Nottlers

    I have had a problem loading this page for a few days .

    This morning , one click and I am here .. so strange and annoying .

    We have had mini monsoons here for a few days , cloud bursts that last minutes , but wow what a deluge ,

    The cloud formations are amazing and very Equatorial . https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

    1. At the moment, fingers crossed; it’s clear with a bright blue sky. Clouds that there are are fluffy and drifting.

      Another couple of hours of this would be most welcome to help the washing to air. It won’t dry, but it might help a bit.

      2. I love the houses with rubbish in the front garden; bursting black bags, broken plastic toys, rotting garden bags ….. and a notice by the letter box saying “No Junk Mail”.

  28. Morning all 😊🙂
    Not looking to good out there today, and far worse to come.
    Covid inquiry a slow process. A well practiced event by our mistake ridden hierarchy. And we are paying for this, yet another debacle.
    I think most honest people have come to the same conclusion. Who ever set all this dreadful nonsense up in the first place should already be in jail for life.

    1. What Mr Fox said. I would encourage them to leave.

      You know, it’s actually disgusting as there is a sect of muslim that isn’t a vicious death cult and set about selling poppies for Remembrance. Why? Because they live here, this is their home and they respect our cultures and traditions.

      1. 378259+ up ticks,

        Morning W,
        Many of us live here but have to suffer under the repeated lab/lib/con voting pattern.

        Innocent collateral damage,
        shit happens no matter what.

  30. Police ‘fail to investigate hate speech against white people’. 31 October 2023.

    Police are failing to investigate cases of hate speech against white people, a report by a free market think tank has said.

    The study by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) said free speech was being stifled by a surge in the number of hate crime investigations.

    It meant that people who spoke out on controversial issues such as transgender rights or were critical of homosexuality or Islam risked being investigated by police on the basis that their comments were harmful.

    The Police, like most British Institutions. are now beyond recovery. They exist only to provide a fig leaf behind which a completely discredited Political Elite can hide.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/31/police-fail-hate-speech-against-white-people-iea-report/

    1. Hate speech is a nonsense. There is speech and sometimes that offends other people. That’s the consequence of freedom. The problem is, the state created these nonsense laws with the express intent of controlling what white natives could say to protect muslim especially. Big fat state never imagined they would have to apply the other way around.

      1. Totally agree hate speech is a nonsense and, as a consequence, we have then”Online Safety Bill” going further and more loss of freedom for everyone except the favoured few).

      2. I dont think there should be a separate crime of hate speech, but words which amount to incitement, provocation, coercion, threats, blackmail or which seek to create alarm, panic, disorder or distress do merit being policed. Merely voicing opinions which others dislike should not amount to a crime.

        1. There are already laws to prevent incitement to violence, blackmail or seeking to create panic (I think the government should be done over that last re the convid scam), etc. None of which requires a subjective judgement of being “offended”.

  31. Good morning all. Sunny but cold here in West Sussex. Rain is predicted so I suppose the sun wont last to long. Hope that all are well.

    One of the most powerful speeches I have heard in a long time. Strongly recommend that people listen until the end.

    Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Envoy to the UN delivers a strong message.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REcIBkbSX8s

    1. The UN is a globalist, Left wing organisation. It doesn’t care about muslim terrorism.

      It is a proponent of socialism enforced by climate change, massive uncontrolled immigration, economic costs or boundaries. It is simply a bigger version of the hated EU.

      2. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4470e5022fd663f2767a51489c68618465d521119adba7738f941eec0b94f17c.png

        Attributed to Albert Einstein.

        The British government has allowed more and more Muslims to settle in Britain hoping that they will integrate. And when they don’t integrate they invite more to come – and when the new arrivals don’t integrate they invite some more to come – and when these don’t integrate they invite some more and so on and so on.

        The evidence suggests that Muslims will never integrate and have no wish to do so – indeed they want Sharia Law to take over from British Common Law. But why should the government look at evidence they don’t want to see?

        “In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.” Unfortunately we have an Idiot King and an idiot government who are completely blind and completely mad.

      3. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4470e5022fd663f2767a51489c68618465d521119adba7738f941eec0b94f17c.png

        Attributed to Albert Einstein.

        The British government has allowed more and more Muslims to settle in Britain hoping that they will integrate. And when they don’t integrate they invite more to come – and when the new arrivals don’t integrate they invite some more to come – and when these don’t integrate they invite some more and so on and so on.

        The evidence suggests that Muslims will never integrate and have no wish to do so – indeed they want Sharia Law to take over from British Common Law. But why should the government look at evidence they don’t want to see?

        “In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.” Unfortunately we have an Idiot King and an idiot government who are completely blind and completely mad.

      3. They don’t deal with vermin – unless it’s Foxy Woxy of course (but that’s more about hatred for the people than love of the animal).

    1. I don’t know what they expected. Bringing violent thugs into the country was always a stupid idea. This is why we’ve been banging on to stop massive uncontrolled gimmigration.

      1. Doesn’t murder imply intent? This just looks like an accident, much like the chap who had his neck broken in a scrum.

      2. That looks quite deliberate to me. There is a double movement of Petgrave’s left boot in the face/neck of Johnson. No accident.

      4. Can’t really make much out. Anyway, isn’t this the sort of thing that happens in most ice hockey games?

      5. Isn”t the whole point of the game to be the most violent, dangerous and ruthless team game in the world?

    4. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12691371/NHL-Sean-Avery-Matt-Petgrave-absolutely-Adam-Johnson.html

      Ex-NHL player Sean Avery says he believes Matt Petgrave was ‘absolutely’ trying to make contact with Adam Johnson – but did not wake up and think ‘I’m gonna murder somebody today’
      Sheffield Steelers player Petgrave, 31, fatally cut Johnson’s throat with his blade in what’s been described as a ‘freak accident’
      Former Canadian hockey star Sean Avery has suggested the kick from Petgrave that killed Johnson was intentional

  35. I liked this comment on the DT letters page .

    DAVID DAVIES
    4 MIN AGO
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/30/sunak-tells-police-to-prepare-for-terror-attack/
    Prime Minister Sunak told Police to prepare for a terrorist attack. No comments allowed, of course.

    Meanwhile the Polish Prime Minister probably said to his Police,
    “Aren’t you glad we didn’t invite thousands of terrorist sympathisers from around the world to come and live here, funded by our tax payers, while they plan their attacks on us?”

  36. Off topic

    Eddie Jones has resigned as Australia’s rugby head coach.
    A great proponent of thugby, I’m not sorry he’s gone.

      1. They don’t miss a trick, they’ve learnt a lot and gained much experience after taking over Spain for more than 300 years.

          4. Here I am again Bill.
            I was going to say earlier that there was a couple of progs about 4 years ago.
            Blood and Gold. Simon Sebag Montifeorie excellent viewing. Check it out.
            Dispite when they arrived, If I remember correctly he said it took 300 years to get the slammers out of Spain……now keeping back again.
            It was back when the so called Barbery pirates use to sail around the south coast of the UK Ireland and Wales. Stealing young children to take back to Alhambra. For the use of. When they had finish with the young children they would then feed them to their caged pet lions. Not much has changed in that respect.
            Another eye appointment in about 3 weeks. Not sure what the gain is. They already know what the problem is.

        1. One of my comments BTL on The Grimes yesterday received a thumb from J R M. Not sure whether that is a good thing!

          1. Even those of whom we disapprove and with whom we often disagree are occasionally right.

            I would have some respect for JRM if he resigned from the Conservative Party because it no longer represents his views at all – but he has not enough lead in his pencil to do so!

  38. With reference to my first comment this morning – interesting that what I said happened while the JWK was in East Efrica…grovelling to the Mau Mau.

    1. BBC Breakfast this morning had a news item on the ‘Freedom Fighters’ of the Mau Mau, who were the victims of British atrocities. Needless to say, the reporter was a black woman.

      1. No doubt the black woman resides in this country but wants ‘reparations’, for whatever, for the country she’s abandoned.

        1. No, I think she is Kenyan – Anne Soy, BBC Senior Africa Correspondent and Deputy to the Africa Editor based in Nairobi.

    2. When I was a boy I was told that the Mau Mau were bloody and ruthless people and if the whites didn’t kill them then they would themselves be slaughtered by the Mau Mau.

      Accounts are now different – it was the whites who were the villains and the Mau Mau who were the innocent victims.

      Reminds me of today when the Jews are portrayed as the villains and Hamas terrorists are the innocent victims.

      1. My father’s sister, Vera, was murdered in her bed by a black intruder in Nairobi and his niece-in-law (his nephew’s wife) was murdered in Rhodesia Zimbabwe.

        1. Such awful stories. I have been told similar by a friend who came home from South Africa recently because she didn’t feel safe. No doubt they will be labelled “fake news” these days. Reminds me a bit of the film Guns At Batasi – the silly old Labour politician wouldn’t believe her pet black could do anything wrong. She got a rude awakening once he seized power.

      2. My brother in law was a white Kenyan district police officer. He told me horrific stories about the Mau Mau. They would do the most dreadful things to people, boil children alive amongst other horrors. They also practiced cannibalism by eating the genitals of their male white victims who were mutilated alive. The idea was to make adherent become beyond the pale of normal human discourse and relationships so that they would see only the Mau Mau as their refuge and their kin. No one should apologize to them because all of them should have been exterminated long ago. What is particularly awful is that Jomo Kenyatta fully approved of them.

        2. And what is the betting that The Idiot King will grovel and apologise for the British treatment of the Mau Mau when he goes to Kenya.

          BTW – Am I alone in still calling the place Keen ya rather than Ken ya?

          6. Probably.

            I guess I’m biased and have only met people who work in the wildlife and safari industry but they are invariably Christian, polite and knowledgable about wildlfe and they are good company. On my last trip I went solo and never felt under threat as an elderly white woman travelling on my own.

  39. House of lies in Central London at inquiry ?
    How much is this acting costing the tax payer’s?

        1. I went for a Doppler test to see if I’m suitable for support hose to try to combat my oedema this morning. It took ten minutes when I was in the consulting room to find out why I was there! I could have told her, but she disappeared. I did get the test done (twice because the first time the cuffs weren’t tight enough) and then was measured for my hosiery. It was rather like being measured for my bespoke hunting boots, except I didn’t have to have my feet drawn round.

  40. Confit guinea fowl with Mr Grizz’s Aramgnac prunes (ta muchly) today. Doctor said i need to go on a low fat diet.

  41. There is a report in The Grimes that slammer support for LIebour has fallen from 80% to 4%.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if they put up slammer candidates in slammer enclaves and we ended up with 100 slammer MPs.

          1. Almost all in the Passport Office Phizzee.

            I wonder why it’s so important for slammers to get a job in the Passport Office?

    2. It’s bound to happen sooner or later – an Islamic political party in the UK putting up candidates. In the meantime, Muslims are content enough to infiltrate the Labour party to progress their aims.

    3. All they need is the balance of power in a hung parliament, even as few as 20 would give them influence out of all proportion to their numbers.

  42. Zelenskyy aide on corruption in Ukraine: ‘People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow’
    One aide said officials were told, ‘Don’t buy anything. Don’t take any vacations. Just sit at your desk, be quiet, and work,’ to avoid seeming corrupt

    An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government has suffered “reputational damage” on the world stage for its sluggish efforts to battle corruption.

    TIME senior correspondent Simon Shuster wrote about his experience following Zelenskyy and his team back to Ukraine after they visited the U.S. in September to appeal for aid, noting in Washington they had faced “insistent calls for Zelensky to fight corruption inside his own government, and the fading enthusiasm for a war with no end in sight.”

    Shuster reported that similarly grim sentiment appears among the public as well, as those with the money available “sometimes bribe their way out of service” and that such cases “became so widespread by the end of the summer that on Aug. 11 Zelensky fired the heads of the draft offices in every region of the country.”

    “The decision was intended to signal his commitment to fighting graft. But the move backfired, according to the senior military officer, as recruitment nearly ground to a halt without leadership,” Shuster wrote. “The fired officials also proved difficult to replace, in part because the reputation of the draft offices had been tainted.”
    “Who wants that job?” an officer asked the reporter rhetorically. “It’s like putting a sign on your back that says: corrupt.”

    As a key source of aid for Ukraine’s war effort, Shuster noted that the White House “prepared a list of anti-corruption reforms for the Ukrainians to undertake.”

    “These were not suggestions,” one of Zelenskyy’s close aides said, but, rather, “conditions.’”

    Shuster wrote that Zelenskyy fired his Minister of Defense, Oleksiy Reznikov, a member of his inner circle, as a means to address American corruption concerns, after Reznikov was suspected of corrupt behavior in his ministry.

    Two presidential advisers claimed Reznikov had not been personally involved, “But he failed to keep order within his ministry,” one said, noting the ministry had been over-paying for critical supplies, including eggs

    “Don’t buy anything. Don’t take any vacations. Just sit at your desk, be quiet, and work,” one staffer said, summarizing how officials had been warned to not only avoid corruption, but even the appearance of personal enrichment.
    “Amid all the pressure to root out corruption, I assumed, perhaps naively, that officials in Ukraine would think twice before taking a bribe or pocketing state funds. But when I made this point to a top presidential adviser in early October, he asked me to turn off my audio recorder, so he could speak more freely,” Shuster wrote.

    “Simon, you’re mistaken,” an aide said. “People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow.””

    The same official claimed that the Defense Minister’s firing did not have the desires effect because it took so long to occur.

    Another advisor similarly noted that by the time of Zelenskyy’s crackdown, “it was too late,” as the “reputational damage was done.”

    The TIME correspondent observed that even Ukrainian soldiers at the front have begun “making off-color jokes about ‘Reznikov’s eggs,’ a new metaphor for corruption.”
    “When I asked Zelenskyy about the problem, he acknowledged its gravity and the threat it poses to Ukraine’s morale and its relationships with foreign partners. Fighting corruption, he assured me, is among his top priorities,” Shuster wrote. “He also suggested that some foreign allies have an incentive to exaggerate the problem, because it gives them an excuse to cut off financial support.”

    “It’s not right,” Zelenskyy told him, “for them to cover up their failure to help Ukraine by tossing out these accusations.”

    For more Culture, Media, Education, Opinion, and channel coverage, visit foxnews.com/media

  43. Election Countdown: America on the Edge

    The rise of Donald Trump changed American politics, and his influence has lasted despite his defeat in 2020. Running as outsider he is tilting at a political and governmental Establishment in the language of battle, as if the future of America were at stake. And that is precisely what his opponents say, too: that another Trump term would be a disaster.

    James Naughtie gets behind the rhetoric of the campaign to explore the arguments about a democracy – the great American experiment – that both sides say is now itself on the ballot.

    Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, predicts disaster if he were to win again; but his agitator-in-chief Steve Bannon says that nothing less than a revolution from his ‘populist nationalist’ movement will save the country. These are arguments from both on the Right and among liberals that stir memories of the great American disruption of the 19th century, the Civil War. Although few would predict an outcome on that scale, there is a steep rise in violence across the political divide, and the programme hears of alarm about how violent rhetoric is having consequences in the streets.

    Trump himself is facing four criminal trials, and the severe financial consequences of a fraud judgement in New York, yet seems on course to claim the Republican nomination for president for the third time. If he were convicted of any of the 91 charges he faces before the election, would he still run? And if he did, how would American voters react to the prospect they never faced before, of a president judged to be a criminal?

    Election day is a year away on November 5th. The atmosphere is already hot and raw, and in this programme we hear how, on both sides, it’s expected to become even more fevered before the first votes are cast. Already, it’s a contest for the presidency like we’ve never seen before.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rybx

    This started with a recording of a crude phone call to the wife of a Republican (allegedly): “Why is your husband such a pig? Because he’s a deep-state prick. Because he doesn’t represent the people. We’re gonna be up your arse non-stop. You’re gonna be f**ked and molested like you can’t imagine.”

    Naughtie: “It’s from the forces that have changed American politics.”

    From an unattributed ‘female law scholar’: “I fear we’re about to lose our democracy.”

    Naughtie: “Here is the unapologetic voice of the insurgency, Steve Bannon, the agitator-in-chief for what he calls ‘populist nationalism’.”

    Bannon: “It ends when we take complete control of the Senate, the House and the White House, get rid of the administrative state, deconstruct the deep state and allow the American citizens to take power in their own country. It’s a grass roots movement, a bit like Brexit.”

    Naughtie: “He’s the perpetual iconoclast. There isn’t anything he doesn’t want to pull down and throw away.”

    An unattributed Democrat Congresswoman: “It’s up to the voters to decide whether they want this democracy or not.”

    Bannon’s apparently dangerous message seemed to boil down to the shrinking of the Federal administration and the delegation of powers to the states, to ‘make Washington smaller, America bigger’. How is that authoritarian? Isn’t that what he meant by ‘grass roots’?

    Naughtie’s tone was often strident, fearful, disbelieving, sometimes bordering on anger. Phrases such as ‘Republican authoritarian movement’, ‘like Putin’, ‘to radicalise America from the right’ were scattered throughout. He didn’t like Trump’s use of the phrase ‘poisoning the nation’s blood’ in respect of immigration.

    And that’s the point. This was more about TDS, including the Republicans’ accusation of Trump’s criminal trials as ‘Democrat lawfare’ intended to knock him out of the race. Democrats and black politicians were wheeled on to talk about white supremacy and racism, right-wing corruption, irrationalism, ‘rich men carving it up for themselves’. One said: “Trump would normally be regarded as another deranged huckster but it’s amazing how he’s struck a chord with so many millions of people.”

    Well, how indeedy, boy! At no point did this programme ask why so many Americans voted for Trump the first time around. Corruption was mentioned. Steel dossier? No. That would require the impugning of the Clintons and the Bidens. The USA was turning rotten before 2016.

    Corruption of course means Ukraine. There was clear indignation about the idea that the Republicans might consider abandoning NATO because US citizens ‘might not be interested in European wars’. John Bolton thought that withdrawal would be a real possibility under Trump.

    For all its noise and fearmongering, this was an insubstantial programme that simply demonstrated that the BBC is as much a political body as a broadcasting corporation. At no point did anyone ask “How did it come to this?” And, yes, just to hammer home the point about how dangerous Bannon and Trump are, it featured the day that the USA was apparently in danger of falling to a man in fancy dress.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a62fb41f5e75c0db46431c2a30991edc96c7bf22082dd49230f30f998e69d2af.jpg

    2. The best thing that can be said about this BBC journalist is that he is not like a delicious cream-filled cake – he is NOT naughty but nice he is Naughtie and Nasty.

        1. He’s right………..it’s coming down the road.

          Probably by the end of 2024 discussions will have started

    3. Naughtie sounds like the clown who appears on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show, this particular short-of-a-brain waffler was going on yesterday about how the idea of destroying all the corrupt entities and starting again was a bad move.

      Biden’s doing such a great job? Depends which side you’re on and how much of an elite you feel you are. Ordinary Dems are being downtrodden as much as Republicans. All planned with the stolen election as the starting pistol.

  44. If the UN had any credibility, integrity and any interest in the internal security and happiness of its member states should it not make a clear judgement that all Muslim refugees should be taken in by Muslim countries and all Christian refugees taken in by Christian countries?

    The enemy within: the adder in the bosom, the sleeping fire in the bedding are images which have been understood for centuries. As Chaucer wrote in The Merchant’s Tale:

    O perilous fyr, that in the bedstraw bredeth!
    O famulier foo, that his servyce bedeth!
    O servant traytour, false hoomly hewe,
    Lyk to the naddre in bosom sly untrewe,
    God shilde us alle from youre aqueyntaunce!

      1. Destroy all the mosques and lock up the bottom uppers and then deport them when they block the road.

        The fact of the matter is that we shall not do that and our culture and civilisation will last no longer than another 50 years at most.

        1. If all these unaccompanied males are permitted to bring in a wife and any sisters they have, it may well be quicker than that.

          1. Granny and grand dad, aunts and uncle from all their different wives families. Could easily be 50 per migrant.

    1. We had a cloudburst just before I took the dogs out with me to post a letter. I waited until it had stopped. Then, the sun came out! The roads were still flooded, though.

    2. What I want to know is does she get her allocation of virgins in paradise, or is she one of the virgins?

      1. They have two beds in my bedroom and they chop and change. Harry likes to sleep on his back with his legs in the air. Dolly decided she wanted his bed so just laid across him. Only his head was showing.

        1. My two have a bed each in my bedroom, too. They start off in one and then change over. The other morning they were both in the same (the smaller of the two!) one.

  50. Alley Oop, Les Frog Plod.
    Any chance we could have some here?

    “Woman in full veil who threatened ‘to blow herself up’ shot by police
    Authorities investigate incident in Paris after woman ‘made threats’ at train station and allegedly shouted ‘Allahu akbar’”

    1. Did they discover when they lifted the veil that she/he/it had unfeminine accoutrements?

    2. Of course, in the UK plod would have suggested she wait until rush hour and argued it was better for ‘communidy’ relations.

  52. 378259+ up ticks,

    Listen up,

    Dt,
    Islamism is a failed ideology. Muslims must embrace the West
    Those who came here to escape tyranny are now cheering the tyrants they left behind

    More like

    Islamism is a far from failed ideology. Muslims have no intentions of embracing the West
    Those who came here under the guise of escaping tyranny are now cheering the tyrants they left behind

    We are, as a matter of fact, carrying out, via the lab/lib/con coalition the biggest nationwide ASP to breast clasping campaign ever known to mankind.

      1. “Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), based in Washington DC.”

    2. Of course they don’t come to escape tyranny. That’s the taqiyya line. They come to conquer.

      3. According to 1066 and All That when Caesar came to Britain and said Veni, Vidi, Vici the woad-painted Ancient Britons were so demoralised to think they were being described as weeny, weedy and weaky that they did not put up any resistance at all.

        As far as the current Muslim invasion is concerned I fear that the Modern Britons are just as weeny, weedy and weaky as their forbears were.

        1. Even the lowly individuals are fully signed up to dedication to the Umma and establishment of the caliphate.

          1. Indeed. Remember that 70% of “moderate” slammers said that they thought the London bombings (7/7) were perfectly justified – though, natch, they would not have done it themselves…(sarc)

  54. Back in 2016 I tackled my GP about the adverse effects that the drugs he prescribed were having on me. He argued that by now all these drugs together should have made my.blood pressure much lower and accused me of not taking the medication.

    At the time I was using ECG waveform analysis software that measured the critical heart waveform intervals during the PQRST interval from an ECG recorder.
    Little did I know at the time that I was actually experiencing the onset of Torsades de Pointes (TdP) about which I placed today a BingAI query on the significance of the Qtc interval:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9f63d275f0291a1c50d70dfdf2cc7c42ca2959fca685934aaa289e1100d19d40.jpg

    Last week I reviewed my historic ECG from 2016 and the answers from BingAI stongly suggested that I indeed was at the point of experiencing TdP through drug elongation of the Qtc interval:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1831fc9ee8295ed4410dde0f931d09c82303fa2aa09af450bba3469fc821927f.jpg

    1. So is that still the case now or has it been resolved? I seem to remember that you had an emergency admission to hospital a few years ago.

      1. The hospital cardiologist took an ECG as part of my annual checkup last week and confirmed that it was fine.

        I have been reviewing my own ECG findings following medication over the years and using the new BingAI have discovered more about the implications of aberrant intervals in the heart waveform and the potential harmful effects that may ensue.

        I did my own ECG report from my latest multilead ECG monitor https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3ded1c74c561c5c5e7bcefd9d1a38419796b2681584c11c5e0bb37c3b88fe324.jpg and there were no heart interval issues except for a suspected low beat from the medication I am now on:
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/57f440ea7486879dc8023ba825bee8c56f27c71eb45b39d7d4b45a567a1d8a6a.jpg so I wasn’t worried about the cardiologists findings.

    2. Didn’t understand that lot.
      What is TdP, QTC interval, & PQRST interval, and what’s the significance?
      And, I actually have some sympathy with the GP: In my case of spontaneously having blue-screen moments, the specialists gave up as they couldn’t come with anything useful, and passed the problem to the GP. Poor lady, being a generalist… the answer seemed to be ChatGPT (in Weegie, since I don’t know the terminology in English), seemed to come with some useful suggestions that pointed towards stress as the major cause.
      3 weeks off work, and the problem is much resolved, although not 100%.
      Chalk one up to AI!

      1. I have no sympathy for the GP.

        The GP involved was routinely giving me ECGs during a previous course of treatment and I didn’t question his mastery of the interpretation of the resulting traces.

        I have now passed rigorous assessements after on-line training and tests and achieved 80% score at basic ECG interpretation. I admit I only got 40% at the advanced level but that’s looks good enough for a doctor to blag his way out of ignorance of the subject.

        With ChatGPT, BingAI and Google’s Bard the trick is to be able frame AI ‘prompts’ with enough previous knowledge of the subject to be to make sense of the answeer.

        3. Exactamente.
          The Magic Flute did nothing for them, but they enjoyed – and chirruped along – to H.M.S. Pinafore.
          Even the Queen of the Night giving it some wellie had no effect.

    1. Colleagues ‘kindly’ stuck a beware of the bull sticker on my office door. I’m fairly sure they’re referring to my temperament, star sign and nature…. but it could be the other.

  59. Afternoon, all. I am here early because the racing at Bangor was off due to a waterlogged course. I am also on the main machine for a change because I have finally managed to assemble the kit to turn the bike into a static bike. I have managed five minutes so far, largely because a) I have not been able to do much exercise at all recently and b) my right knee was giving me problems trying to bend it. I hope that it will loosen up and become less painful in due course. Hopefully I shall eventually be able to watch videos on the computer screen while I pedal. I feel quite pleased with myself. I have managed most things on my “to do” list. As for the headline, the inquiry (I nearly typed iniquity!) is designed to be long drawn out and signify nothing.

    2. Having something to watch while on an exercise bike makes all the difference. Boring as hell otherwise.

      1. I have had another session (slightly longer this time) and have worked out that I shall be able to read while pedalling. In the meantime I took to reciting some ritual I need to be word perfect in by Sunday. If I can remember it while I’m pedalling, chances are, reciting it for real will be a doddle 🙂

        1. In which case strap yourself in. We wouldn’t want you fudging or free wheeling !
          To be honest you will not have a problem. If you dragged the bike in too you could give others a chance to meet Jesus sur la bicyclette.

          I really am so sorry but at this time of night i can’t help myself. :@(

          1. Thankfully, the bike is stable, which is more than can be said of it when I was riding it on the road! I am so glad that a) I managed to get it assembled after first time failure and b) I can now get some exercise at last. Who knows, I might even shed some of those excess pounds to make my knees and hip less painful? I am contemplating getting a fitbit or equivalent so I can see what calories I’ve burned and how my heart rate is. Don’t, however, expect me to become a lycra lout any time soon.

  61. I see that the gallant police farce in Birmingham is treating the release of mice in a Macdo as a “public nuisance offence” and not a terror related crime.

    Aren’t we just soooo lucky to have such people?

    2. Colour: Brown
      Beard? ; Yes
      Muslim: ding ding ding!

      Bingo, you win the get out of criminal activity card!

    2. We are 750 ft asl and get flooded because the doombrain council and backhander bribes (sorry I mean builder promised funding of “community” projects which never happened, though the funds mysteriously got paid to councillors’ pet eco, green, net zero projects) have altered the road layout and permitted building of over 1000 new homes in a way such that the Victorian road drain and sewage system can no longer cope, and backs up into our property.

    3. #Me too. I am at the top of a hill, ca 800ft up, but nonetheless the road floods either side of my property, due to drainage issues. It will only get worse as the surrounding countryside is concreted over.

    1. as in “Amphetamines (including speed) are a group of stimulant drugs used to stay awake, energised and alert.”….?

          4. Aw, Muffin the Mule was owned by a lovely lady called Sally McNally. Sally liked to raise her invoices to look as if Muffin had done them himself, which I found rather charming.

          6. The only muffin i have had in the last 20 years was toasted.

            Katie does look nice in a bikini too. Hush my mouth !

          11. I used to own a Muffin puppet when I was a child. It would probably be worth a fortune now. Alas, it was a victim (like so many of my possessions) of my mother’s purges. No wonder I’m a hoarder.

          12. I am a hoarder too, Conway. Our sons during the summer, at a family do, asked me if I would consider going through my stuff and discarding some of it, to save them the bother when the time comes. The thing is – I understand, but I cannot do it. Everything I hoard (save) is precious to me. All my books, videos, cds and the rest are part of me and mean something to me. It’s not as though we can’t move from room to room, it is all more or less tidy – I told them that when I’m gone just to get a skip and throw it all in, if they don’t have to make emotional decisions about stuff it should be a fairly quick process. They already know what to keep, I have a few pieces of inherited jewellery, a few pieces of furniture and that’s it. They will probably keep the portraits and few ornaments. I seem to have gone off topic, it must be my empty wine glass that is the problem.

          13. I know. I am leaving the problem to my heir (who is also a hoarder, so it may not be as much a problem as all that!).

          14. If you were to tell me how upset you were i would throw rotten eggs at them if you wish. Just give me a list !

  64. That’s me gone – a dreary day, really. Managed to clear out on side of the greenhouse and remove the tomato frames. In a few days will plant out the winter broccoli and kale in the greenhouse. The seeds were sown on 14 Sept – so they are nice and healthy young plants. Also winter salads. Nothing like fresh, home-grown salad (eh, Grizz) in the middle of winter!

    Have a jolly evening. There was a US-made prog about Rommel on PSBAmerica the other evening. Guess what? The success at El Alamein was entirely due to the Yanks…! Who’d have thought it?

    A demain.

    3. In the US they bought real estate rather than invest in black neighbourhoods.
      I believe it stood for Buy Large Mansions.

  66. God help us all.

    A tiny, and I mean tiny, church near us has been warned to lock its doors and only allow known people in, in case of attacks by?
    Who knows, they didn’t say!

    The things one learns; apparently we have a hostel for failed asylum seekers around the corner, who knew?
    Explains why there are so many young men of various hues congregating in the open spaces.

    2. And PS

      This little church welcomes all comers, whatever their church background, their colour, or their creed.

        1. Quite.
          But knowing many of those involved, there is no way that they wouldn’t welcome the “stranger”.
          I hope it never comes back to bite them.

    3. “apparently we have a hostel for failed asylum seekers around the corner, who knew?”

      A high cliff would be more useful.

  68. The BBC is enjoying the tales of No. 10 during lockdown. Evan Davies and his guests were laughing at the chaos of it all on this evening’s PM. Johnson is, of course, being crucified, particularly about Cummings, but it is Bonjo’s question “Why destroy the economy for people who will die anyway?’ that has really raised their hackles over the last day or so. He was correct to ask the question, though it could have been more tactfully put.

    It was apparent early on that he was reluctant to lockdown but folded. I don’t suppose the wretched enquiry will explore this ruinously expensive scandal. It appears to be a hatchet job on Johnson and the Tories (not difficult, admittedly). We can expect many interviews with tearful members of the public condemning him for his heartlessness even though his instincts were right.

    1. But, but without malpractice, very few would have died of flu AND the economy could have been saved. The destruction was intended.

    2. He was the Origami prime minister.

      He folded like paper on the Northern Ireland Protocol; he folded like paper on UK fishermen’s waters; he folded like paper to his wife on green matters; he folded like paper on illegal immigration; he folded like paper when confronted with opposition to his Covid policy.

      1. Big mixing bowl of sweeties ready & waiting! Including my favourite salt ammoniac liquorice…

        2. I have a large authentic scythe in one of our sheds. And probably a hood somewhere. I might walk slowly up and down our street, but keeping quiet.

          1. I always got on very well with my grandmother-in-law.
            The thing that totally broke the ice with us was the day I found the two-handed scythe in her barn.
            I set it, honed it, and then scythed her orchard, clearing up the cuttings. It looked as if it had been mown by a lawnmower.
            The trick is in the sharpening.
            The thing that surprised her was that I look like and sound like a total “townie”.

          2. Cool!
            The other secret is in the motion – else you’re cutting the ground, rocks and the like, and the edge doesn’t last.

          4. I have looked in that, a ballpeen ? But it was too fussy. I used a file and a carborundum stone.

          5. When I was a student I had a monk’s habit and, as it was warm, I used to wear it when the weather was cold. One Halloween I went to visit a friend wearing it. He nearly had a heart attack when he opened the door!

          6. Ha ha. 🤗
            I have friends in Canada and they send me photos of grandchildren dressed for Halloween. Over enthusiastic I’d call it. And probably very costly.

    4. We have two sidelights in our front entrance frame and also the door. For quite a few years I’ve had a torch handy at this time of year and if or when they ring the door bell. I grab the torch and put it under my chin and put my face up against the glass.
      Not a Treat but the Trick works every time.

      2. To get to my place they have to negotiate an unlit, unmade drive even to get to the gate. Then they have 102′ of unlit pathway, closely bordered by menacing shrubs. Few are foolhardy, or even hardy, enough to attempt it!

        1. Only the younger families in our cul-de-sac ‘celebrate’ Halloween. There seems to be an even mix now.

          1. Soon. Another opportunity to come last…
            Looking forward to getting the Redhawk back in action.

  71. Wordlers.

    Too many choices.

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  72. David Proctor
    2 MIN AGO
    Just been listening to some moron on the local BBC bemoaning the fact that his demented 84 year old mother passed away in a care home during Covid. Any sympathy one might have is reduced by him not recognising that being demented at 84 puts you in the zone in any event. Covid was surely a mercy.

    This only applies if the sufferer knows they have dementia, and it troubles them.
    Mother has dementia, now to the extent that she doesn’t recognise her family as her family, but otherwise seems quite content in her care home (£600/week). A friend suggested that she could be relieved of life to her benefit, at which I really disagreed: At what point do you decide someone no longer has any value being alive, and does them in with State sanction? When they retire? When they become unemployed? Where would it stop. In any case, Mother has no pain, no distress, so, since it’s her money, why shouldn’t she keep going?

    Edit: I recall a post here on Nottl, where the poster wrote about (Mother?) being not a burden, but an opportunity that allowed her family to show unconditional love for her, as she had shown when they were small. (something like that). It was very moving, and a point to note.

      2. No.
        It’s her money being spent, not mine.
        I’d rather have Mother than thousands of pounds of inheritance – even though I never really knew her, being packed off to school aged 8 and never really living at home after that.

        1. I’m not referring to the money aspect, but rather the extra inconveniences that you have; travel, administration, chasing documents, ensuring the care home does for her what you wish.
          I’m delighted you still get pleasure from her occasional company, but her being unaware can’t help.

          1. It’s hard work, but I’d not wish her any harm. From any cause. Hell, after her comes me & (half)brother. Never had many relatives, so the very few left are sort-of precious.

    2. My mother (fully compos mentis but physically wrecked, said that life was very sweet when the end was in sight. That broke my heart.

      1. Dad said similarly, as he was on his way out.
        That was 1997. Still miss him, and his wisdom.

    3. Yes it all depends on their state of mind. My sister had dementia and was in a Scottish care home near to Lacoste’s local pub. A nice place and free!

      My sister though, at least half of the time, seemed to be in a waking nightmare. When visiting she would very occasionally say, “Hello, Max.” Those moments didn’t last long. 5 years and what a relief when she died, drugged up to the eyeballs, for me, and I hope her, in November 2019.

        1. If there is no one to let us know, it’s very difficult. I think I will have to write down instructions (and passwords) for when I shuffle off this mortal coil.

      2. So sorry to hear about your sister , Mm.

        So we know how Lacoste is?

        Same for Moh’s mother , nearly 4 years in care , just so painful to watch , she was in her nineties when we lost her .

        So many younger people in their sixties are being diagnosed , and succumb far too quickly ..

        What happened to BSE, that mad cow disease that had crossed over to people , we are living in strange times , and actually feel quite fearful of the future .

        1. Sorry about your MiL. No, I’ve heard nothing of Lacoste here for a while. A shame, especially as he was the go between for plumtart. No news on Lotl either as far as I’m aware.

        2. I think Lacoste said his wrist was very painful with gout, so he’s probaly avoiding using a keyboard at the moment. I hope he will be back. We seem to be losing quite a few of our regulars.

      3. Dementia is such a cruel disease, in that it robs a person of their memories and personality. Sometimes there appears to be some spark of recognition, but mainly they have gone.

        1. It’s the slow death Jules – I wish they’d find a cure. It’s my only charity now – Alzheimers Scotland

      4. My late wife had dementia (Alzheimers), I looked after her for years before it became too much and my health was suffering,It was terrible for me to put her in a care home but to be honest it was better for both of us. I could visit when I wanted and take her out in the car. At first she often asked when are we going home but we got through that. She was happy enough in the home and so well cared for – then came effin Covid. Could only see her through her bedroom window, not allowed in to give her a hug. She went downhill quite fast and I was able to visit and be with her during her final 2 weeks and family came up to visit too. The cost at first was horrendous (£1100 a week) until her savings had diminished to the minimum level (aided by a bit of financial jiggery-pokery by me) then they took her pension and gave her back £20 a week for essentials. The money didn’t matter, it was her care that was important. It was awful to watch her waste away, confused and looking scared stiff – something that I’ll never get out of my mind. She’s at peace now!

        1. Oh, man. That was hard reading, Alec.
          Mother was OK at home until Covid, and all visits stopped. After that, she went downhill quite quickly, similarly to your poor wife.

        2. I remember your anguish when the Covid regs were introduced. As you say, it is her care that was the most important and of course you, as her beloved husband, were – and should have remained – part of that. No wonder she went downhill quickly.

          1. Yes Caroline, I couldn’t even go near her on her 80th birthday – I was able to see her through an open external door but not allowed any nearer although she was surrounded by the staff in her special chair. I have photos to look back on but it’s upsetting to do so.

        3. MOH had vascular dementia and I coped (just about) at home until the last three weeks. I didn’t realise what a toll it was taking on my health until I was free of the stress (MOH fell downstairs and was taken into hospital, then sent to a care home).

          1. Yes , caring for someone close can affect your health without you realising – but it’s what we do for as long as we can – then let the professionals take over. A hard decision but one which benefits both.

          2. Indeed. I finally admitted I could no longer cope when MOH was transferred to a local home. The nurse who was there when I said it told me I was right; I would not be able to cope with how things had deteriorated and even carers coming in wouldn’t have been sufficient.

          3. Yes I had the option of bringing carers in but I considered it my duty and indeed my wish to look after her and that would have just been a stop gap, a vacancy occurred in what was considered the best care home in the north of Scotland so I made the decision. The care home, since the old manager retired and most of the staff left, has gone downhill, now mostly agency staff as it is NHS. I’m glad she’s not in there now

          4. I really didn’t have much say in the matter; MOH fell downstairs, was admitted to hospital, then it was the hospital’s decision about the home. With covid I was denied access due to “quarantine”.

  73. David Proctor
    2 MIN AGO
    Just been listening to some moron on the local BBC bemoaning the fact that his demented 84 year old mother passed away in a care home during Covid. Any sympathy one might have is reduced by him not recognising that being demented at 84 puts you in the zone in any event. Covid was surely a mercy.

    This only applies if the sufferer knows they have dementia, and it troubles them.
    Mother has dementia, now to the extent that she doesn’t recognise her family as her family, but otherwise seems quite content in her care home (£600/week). A friend suggested that she could be relieved of life to her benefit, at which I really disagreed: At what point do you decide someone no longer has any value being alive, and does them in with State sanction? When they retire? When they become unemployed? Where would it stop. In any case, Mother has no pain, no distress, so, since it’s her money, why shouldn’t she keep going?

    Edit: I recall a post here on Nottl, where the poster wrote about (Mother?) being not a burden, but an opportunity that allowed her family to show unconditional love for her, as she had shown when they were small. (something like that). It was very moving, and a point to note.

  74. Here’s one for you.
    Someobe left the kitchen scissors out (wonder who that might have been…) and I threw them gently at the sink, to wash them.
    Because I’m a klutz, hey overshot the sink and vanished into the corner of the worktop. Irritated, I went to get them and do the sink bit properly, but they’d gone! Like, through a wormhole in the space-time continuum! I searched diligently for 15 minutes, and finally found them hooked in the wire that provides the under-cupboard lights! But, man, I couldn’t find the buggers… wormhole… was a bit rattled, to be honest.

    2. Better than me – I threw a pair into the sink and they landed point first, puncturing the thin metal of the sink basin! Cue soldering a halfpenny on to seal the hole. I often wonder what the people who bought the house from us thought about it 🙂

      1. I have a similar hole in the sink which appeared when my children were teenagers – it is patched with epoxy putty.

  75. Well , what an afternoon .

    Moh and I ventured into Poole this afternoon , we needed new batteries for our phones , mine hasn’t been charging properly , it is an Apple i 6.. very old but comfortable to hold and take pics etc and chat to relatives in SA etc.

    Moh’s is a Huweii or how ever you spell it .. £39 to replace his and £29 for mine .. we had to wait an hour , it was raining so we paid our first visit ever to a Greggs eaterie in Falkland Square .. We had a foul latte coffee , and an equally foul tasting pastry , I left half of my drink and pastry.

    I could taste the fat in the 3 bites of the pastry I bit into .. and can still remember the sensation on my tongue .. yet there were people digging in and consuming like no tomorrow . Moh munched happily , he said he was hungry .

    Yeugh .

    Raining heavily here now .

    Pip was left on his own , and greeted us waggily when we arrived home . He has his tooth op tomorrow , so no nibbles before bedtime .

    2. I keep telling you, Margaret, animal fats are healthy, delicious and nutritious. Only Frankenstein oils and fats are bad for you and taste disgusting. You need to eat more butter, lard, tallow and suet for health.

      1. We have never been into a Greggs , let alone ever eaten a Gregg’s so called delicacy .

        I take your point Grizzly, yes Frankenstein oils and fats is the right description .

        1. I make scrummy sausage rolls. Home-made sausage meat and home-made butter puff pastry. You would love them.

      2. Because of a fatty liver (alcohol consumption) and a stone in my gall bladder the Doctor recommended a low fat diet. I didn’t bother to correct her.

        1. I would have done. Your doctor is evidently clueless about fat consumption. She should have advised a low SUGAR diet.

    3. Never been one to eat pasties and such unless I’ve made them. I like to know what’s in ’em, Belle. Best of luck with Pip, Oscar had the dental treatment 3 months ago. A small incisor out and a good polish and descale all under general anaesthetic. It was lovely to get him home where he perked up after a few hours.

        3. And what a time to do it, on such a sensitive subject, I’ll get me hair shirt on after self-flagellating.

      2. Pip also needs an incisor removed , it is wobbly and his gum is swollen ,and his teeth could do with a good polish, scrape and clean .

        How much was Oscar’s bill, MM, I hope the insurance pays up for Pip , or at least part of it .

    5. Funny, I had my first Greggs sausage roll last Saturday. I was really looking forward to it, I thought it was a national institution….

      It was sloppily disgusting.

    1. I cannot tell what you and other men
      Think of this life; but, for my single self,
      I had as lief not be as live to be
      In awe of such a thing as I myself.
      Julius Caesar

      I’m in awe of her!

    2. How wonderful, I wish I could have seen that, live. Dame Judy is one of my all time favourites.

    3. I once had the honour of opening a door in a pub* to Dame Judi. It was shortly after a time when my best man living in the US had spoken some lines from Shakespeare with Tom Hanks. I thought I would give it a go there and then. But the only lines I could remember were from Hamlet: “It will cost you a groaning to take off my edge!’. Being a Gentleman I remained silent!

      *https://www.foxandhounds.org.uk

    4. And then she married me. I repeated that to the Warqueen on one of our dates.

      What a lothario I am!

  77. October 31st. The very last day of my favourite 10 months.

    I hate, loathe and detest November and December! Roll on January, when each successive day has more daylight.

    1. How odd, Grizz! My husband said this morning that he absolutely hates November! We’ve been together for 45 years! Who knew?🙄

      1. No sun — no moon!
        No morn — no noon —
        No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.

        No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
        No comfortable feel in any member —

        No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
        No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! —

        November!

        Thomas Hood.

        2. Ah but it did give us Guy Fawkes – the only sane man ever to enter Parliament and just look what happened to him….

        3. Alright, it’s Halloween, but I could have left it until tomorrow; I’ve just picked the last of my apples. No fruit indeed!

          1. Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more, Lewis no more, Skye no more.
            Bathgate no more, Linwood no more, Methil no more, Irvine no more …

      2. Late autumn here is miserable, until the snow comes and once the leaves have fallen. I reckon it as it’s own, dismal, season, so we get 5 seasons here in Southern Norway.

      3. I’m not terribly keen on November, but more because it’s packed with things I have to do and learn and the weather is vile. Still, it is one month nearer Christmas, which I really love. I’m a big kid at heart 🙂

      4. I am not awfully keen on January, the month of my birth. It seems to go on for ever, every year.

          1. Not a lot to which to look forward on the immediate horizon. And the days start to lengthen oh so slowly.

        2. I like January because it means I don’t have to put up with Xmas and New Year for another 11 months – yep I’m a miserable git!

          1. I am feeling the same way too, now! Bah, humbug! It must be my age…. All more hassle and expense than it is worth. Nature missed a trick, she should have arranged for us to hibernate over the winter months, so much more sensible. We could have had our eating festivities in September and then settled down under woolly, furry throws for a long cosy winter snooze.

    2. How odd, Grizz! My husband said this morning that he absolutely hates November! We’ve been together for 45 years! Who knew?🙄

    4. I love every Month of the year.There is alwys something of interest. Nov & Dec is the high spot of the shooting season.

          3. I get delicious black pudding over here but they refuse to put lumps of pork back fat in it!

    5. It never used to bother me but these days, I find I get mid-winter blues. I find myself checking sunrise/sunset charts most days. Must be old age.

    1. I find it strange that the natural order for secret squirrels is to not only bug but also listen in on all phone, email, whattsup doc et al but leave these places as sanctuary.

  79. Interesting.
    The Israelis are taking responsibility for this. It suggests that they’ve hit at least one nail on the head.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12693827/More-50-killed-Israeli-strike-Gazas-Jabalia-refugee-camp-Palestinian-health-officials-claim.html
    My emphasis:

    In a statement, the IDF said: ‘A short while ago, IDF fighter jets, acting on ISA intelligence, killed Ibrahim Biari, the Commander of Hamas’ Central Jabaliya Battalion. Biari was one of the leaders responsible for sending ‘Nukbha’ terrorist operatives to Israel to carry out the murderous terror attack on October 7th.’
    Buildings have been levelled in the densely-populated neighbourhood, opening up huge sinkholes, with residents likening it to an earthquake and saying that the ground began to collapse around them.
    Pictures show apocalyptic scenes, with scores of distraught onlookers gathered around two vast craters which some clambered into as they desperately searched for any survivors.

    It looks like they may have hit a major underground command centre.

    2. They’ll get a lot of sink holes because the ground underneath has been tunnelled so much

    3. It seems to me that the plan is to obliterate Gaza so that the surviving inhabitants have no option but to relocate away from Gaza. The question is which if any of the Muslim countries will accept the refugees?

        1. Scotland seems to be first in the queue but I guess any new arrivals will drift south….

      3. Thery should all be taken in by Jorden as that is their homeland but of courseJorden will not have any.

    2. It was apocalyptic in north Cambridge this afternoon, truly torrential rain, hail, lightening, thunder. The roads were flooding, all in the space of 20 minutes. When we got home, half an hour or so later, eight miles south of Cambridge, it was obvious there had been no rain there at all.

      1. Hardly a cloud in the sky all day today, been chain sawing logs all day in the sweltering heat (well warm anyway)

  84. Starmer must confront Labour’s Islamist problem

    Those making common cause with Hamas are the terrorists’ useful idiots – or worse

    CHARLES MOORE • 30 October 2023 • 7:17pm

    Much talk about Sir Keir Starmer’s risk of a Labour split over Israel and Gaza; less thought, so far, about what it might mean for this country if he were to back away from his initial support for Israel and his unqualified condemnation of Hamas.

    After winning his party’s leadership, Sir Keir addressed Labour’s “Jewish problem”, facing down the Corbynite hard Left. He did it well. But Labour, like many British institutions, also has a Muslim problem. This he has not yet faced.

    The problem is a remarkable inability to distinguish between Muslims who are in politics because they wish to be good, active citizens of this country and those who follow a sectarian and sometimes extreme approach. Both types are active in the Labour Party.

    Not only Labour is at fault here. You can see it in the way bodies like the police or the Crown Prosecution Service have naively engaged with supporters of Hamas, such as Muhammad Sawalha or Mohammed Kozbar (deputy secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain), regarding them, incredibly, as agents of moderation.

    The pogroms of October 7 were the greatest atrocities committed in the entire 75-year-story of the state of Israel. They were committed by Hamas (and smaller associates). In its founding Covenant, Hamas denounces the Jews as Nazis, calls for their elimination from the Holy Land and uses the word “jihad” in a context which (whatever Metropolitan Police “experts” might think) unquestionably means violence.

    It also lauds terrorism in the name of Islam, invoking Muslim scripture: “Verily ye are stronger than they, by reason of the terror cast into their breasts from Allah.” The Covenant is a virulently racist document.

    Those who marched in London and other British cities in the wake of the massacres knew this, or were in position to know this, yet the whole of their anger was directed against those attempting to fight back against the mass murderers. Therefore, those marching were either Hamas supporters or Hamas tolerators (or utter ignoramuses). They had nothing to say about the monstrous crimes just inflicted, except, in some cases, to support them.

    Current calls for a ceasefire should be seen in this light. Although many will feel genuine compassion for the people of Gaza, they must surely know that a ceasefire at this point would give massive advantage to Hamas and, in effect, remove from Israel its right of self-defence.

    This means that if Sir Keir now backs down, he will have shown that his leadership dare not confront the faction in his party which, at best, excuses Hamas and, at worst, supports it. That would be terrible for a party which expects to govern after the next election. It would be seen to be appeasing, for electoral advantage or because of weak leadership, the deadliest terror group currently operating in the world. Such a party could not unite the nation, nor uphold the rule of law.

    Probably most Muslims in this country are more pro-Palestinian than the rest of the population. That opinion is legitimate. But Muslim anti-Semitism is also a serious problem. If Labour thinks that the price of corralling “the Muslim vote” is to equivocate over atrocities and present Israel as the aggressor, not the victim, its claim to have banished anti-Semitism will be laughable. Its aim of community cohesion will founder.

    It is dismaying that the main Labour politicians challenging Sir Keir on this point are both mayors, Sadiq Khan for London and Andy Burnham for Greater Manchester. They appear to believe electoral success in their cities depends on appeasing Islamist rage. If they are right, the outlook for future civil peace is grim. If Sir Keir shows enough courage, he will probably prove them wrong.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/30/anti-semitism-starmer-labour-party-islamism

    Latest:
    Pro-Palestine protesters mobbed Sir Keir Starmer’s car as he left a central London venue where he had delivered a speech on the Israel-Hamas war. The Labour leader faced shouts of “shame”, “you’re a disgrace” and “ceasefire now” as he got into the vehicle outside Chatham House.
    Police officers pushed protesters aside, but some ran at the car and drummed on the windows. After the police cleared a path for the vehicle, protesters ran after it up the road.

    Sir Keir had used the speech to defend his position on the ceasefire issue amid a Labour revolt. He has called for “humanitarian pauses” in the fighting to allow more aid into Gaza and to allow people to flee but he is resisting calls from some Labour MPs and shadow ministers for a full ceasefire. He said a ceasefire would only “embolden” Hamas.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/10/31/rishi-sunak-latest-news-tories-labour-keir-starmer-live

    Anas Sarwar has said Sir Keir Starmer “hurt” Muslim communities by suggesting Israel had a right to withhold water and energy from the people of Gaza. The Scottish Labour leader said Sir Keir accepted his remarks were “hurtful” and insisted they did not represent his “position” on the crisis.

    Speaking to LBC in the first days of the conflict, Keir Starmer appeared to say that Israel had a “right” to restrict water and aid to Gaza. Asked what a “proportionate” response would be, he said that responsibility “lies with Hamas,” adding that Israel “has the right to defend herself”. He later clarified these comments saying Israel had a “right to self-defence”, but shouldn’t withhold humanitarian aid.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/31/keir-starmer-comments-israel-hurt-muslims-anas-sarwar

    1. Starmer is a member of the Trilateral Commission of Rockefeller and Kissinger origin and as such should never be trusted to represent the people of the UK. He is a repulsive diminutive globalist shill.

      1. Too few people are aware of Starmer’s affiliations and to whom he looks for influence in his policy making. Nothing is as it seems in government at all levels e.g. the move to “sustainability” at county and borough/district council levels.

        What exactly does “sustainability” mean in the context that it is used by councillors and officials? Reducing access to ICE vehicles creating opportunities to tie people down to their localities, for a start? In the case of the C40 cities, restrictions across a gamut of items that currently are taken for granted e.g. travel on roads and in the air, food, clothing etc.

        For “sustainability” read authoritarian control and the end of freedom to run your lives as you see fit.

  86. 378258 + up ticks,

    Wide Awake Media

    @wideawake_media

    “[The mRNA-based Covid “vaccines”] were designed—intentionally—to harm, maim and kill, and to reduce human fertility.”

    Former vice president at Pfizer, Dr. Mike Yeadon, speaking outside the UK Parliament on Friday the 20th of October, shortly after the recent excess deaths debate.

  87. 378258+ up ticks,

    David Morgan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #StayFree
    @david_r_morgan
    We have a grand total of 650 MPs in Parliament. Yet only ONE has had the courage to stand up for the vaccine-injured. His name is Andrew Bridgen.

    He’s had his name dragged through the mud by the media and his colleagues. He was ousted from his Party, severely hurting his chances of re-election.

    And despite being vaccinated himself, he’s put all that aside and taken a stand against the pharmaceutical companies, the UK Government, and the media, to demand answers for the people he serves.

    Andrew, we thank you for all you have done so far. It’s a pity that your fellow MPs have thrown you under the bus, but nonetheless, we are behind you all the way.

    https://x.com/david_r_morgan/status/1719107263103696986?s=20

    1. Christopher Chope, a Conservative backbencher, is sponsoring a Private Members’ Bill in the House of Commons to provide compensation to those suffering disablement following Covid-19 vaccination and to the next-of-kin of those who have died. David Morgan is, therefore, incorrect in his assertion that Andrew Bridgen is the only MP to stand up for these people.

      Covid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments Bill
      Private Members’ Bill (Presentation Bill)
      Originated in the House of Commons, Session 2022-23

      Last updated: 31 October 2023 at 14:50

      Long title

      A Bill to place a duty on the Secretary of State to make provision about financial assistance to persons who have suffered disablement following vaccination against Covid-19 and to the next of kin of persons who have died shortly after vaccination against Covid-19; to require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the merits of a no-fault compensation scheme to provide such financial assistance, on whether there should be any upper limit on the financial assistance available, on the criteria for eligibility and on whether payment should be made in all cases where there is no other reasonable cause for the death or disablement suffered; and for connected purposes.

      Sponsor
      Sir Christopher Chope
      Conservative
      Christchurch

      https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3222

    1. Not soppy at all, Belle. It’s open of my favourite pieces by John Barry. Sleep well.

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