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Morning GG
395075+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Seemingly enlightenment is on its way at long,long last.
https://x.com/Steve_Laws_/status/1847701443752366544
Illegal immigrants, shirley
Good morning all. 13C Cloudy.
Morning Johnny dreich and windy – bad storm predicted for later (orange warning)
By the sound of it , the storm will be 'cracking the flags!'
https://x.com/JohnRentoul/status/1847644379231449316
Good morning, chums. And thank you, Geoff, for today's NoTTLe site. Last night I went to bed at 8 pm, then up at around 10.30 pm and was up all night. In the end I decided not to bother going back to bed but switched on the heating and the radio and listened all through the night.
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395075+ up ticks,
May one ask will this be inclusive of the indigenous ?
Dt,
Millions to be handed health-monitoring smart watches by NHS
Devices to track blood pressure and cancer recovery to be given out under 10-year plan to save health service
Morning everyone
Morning All – you early birds
Today's Tale of Crossed Wires
A husband called home at noon one day and a five-year-old boy answered. "Put your mother on the phone, Son,” he said.
“She’s in the bedroom with her boyfriend,” said the boy.
“Right!” said the husband. “Get my rifle from the closet and shoot the both of them in the head!”
The boy put the phone down. The husband heard foot-steps going down the hallway, then two shots rang out. The boy picked up the phone and said, “Okay, I did it. What will I do now?”
“Push the bodies under the bed out of sight,” he instructed.
Minutes later, the boy returned. “I did what you said and now I’m all covered in blood!” he protested.
“Go out to the pool and wash the blood off,” said the man.
“What pool?” the boy asked.
After a moment of silence, the man said, “Is this 479 5821?”
395075+ up ticks,
https://x.com/AgainBraine/status/1847761548724273523
Britain must confront the new Axis of Evil. 20 October 2024.
View the world through the filter of the Labour Government’s proclamations, and you could be forgiven for thinking we live in peaceful times. Sir Keir Starmer appears to be utterly focused on domestic political management, with defence relegated to a secondary consideration when remembered at all.
Look across the Channel, however, and the scale of the threat facing Britain could not be clearer. A full battalion of North Korean soldiers is reportedly set to be deployed to Ukraine in support of Russia’s invasion, providing much needed manpower as the conflict grinds on.
Despite the rhetoric and the addition of a battalion of North Koreans Russia poses no real threat to the UK. The plain fact is, as we can see with Ukraine, that it is no match for NATO. This is essentially, as one can see from the use of Britain, a scaremongering exercise to distract the people from the migrant threat that is all too real.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/10/19/north-korea-ukraine-russia-budget-defence-spending/
Problem is, NATO have given away much of the necessary weapons and ammunition to Ukraine already – and (according to Aftenposten yesterday) much raw materials needed for replenishing them come from, er… Russia and China!
Not so clever, was it, to allow the "enemy" to have an armlock on critical supply chain. Oops…
Problem is, NATO have given away much of the necessary weapons and ammunition to Ukraine already – and (according to Aftenposten yesterday) much raw materials needed for replenishing them come from, er… Russia and China!
Not so clever, was it, to allow the "enemy" to have an armlock on critical supply chain. Oops…
395075+ up ticks,
Currently seems pointless unless it's for the weather alone, all civilised countries are in much the same odious mess.
Could go to north korea or china they have much more organised political criminality, having been at it far longer than our cretinous upstarts.
Dt,
Britain is gloomy, poor and highly taxed. Young people are packing their bags
A demographic crisis is brewing as emigration from the UK’s rainy isles ramps up
We left in 1998.
Thirteen years before me.
Good morning, everyone.
Morning, Delboy.
Good Morning, one and all
It pisseth in Wilts
Let's hope
https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fa262df99-529e-4a6f-aadd-cf2daf7aaccd.jpg?crop=1999%2C1333%2C0%2C0&resize=1137
What was the quickest way for Elon Musk's lifelong democrat mother & friends to suddenly switch to voting for Trump?
Walk down the street in New York and be punched in the face for no reason, followed by no police action whatsoever.
Walk down the street in ANY Democrat run city more like.
What was the quickest way for Elon Musk's lifelong democrat mother & friends to suddenly switch to voting for Trump?
Walk down the street in New York and be punched in the face for no reason, followed by no police action whatsoever.
Fun Fact: On 6 Jul 2010 President Obama emphatically rejects Prime Minister Netanyahu proposed military operation to snuff out & eradicate Hamas in case it disrupts peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Obama Another weirdo iinterferring I know best AH.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2024/10/19/TELEMMGLPICT000398472130_17293604742410.jpeg?imwidth=640
A day at the races.
A bit late to rob from Alex Salmond.
Talking of black holes:
(This is King Lear's most vehement outburst of mysogyny)
Behold yond simp’ring dame,
Whose face between her forks presages snow,
That minces virtue and does shake the head
To hear of pleasure’s name.
The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to ’t with a more riotous
appetite.
Down from the waist they are centaurs,
Though women all above.
But to the girdle do the gods inherit;
Beneath is all the fiend’s. There’s hell,
There’s darkness, there is the sulphurous pit;
Burning,scalding, stench, consumption!
Fie, fie, fie, pah, pah!
Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary to sweeten my imagination.
More like rob the poor to throw money at Net Zero, Climate Crisis in Africa and Ukraine, to name but 3!!
395075+ up ticks,
And a mighty roar was heard from the lab/lib/con party ,members & voters "we'll ave em,we'll ave em",
https://x.com/EuropeInvasionn/status/1847657217870200882
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Why ask – just DO IT
Act first and negotiate later.
395075+ up ticks,
A true sample of the countries governance in full plunder mode.
https://x.com/PeachRodger/status/1843358969374687712
There, their or they're?
I used to set my junior classes spelling questions such as:
I hear that Prince William, the heir to the throne (who is a vigorous opponent of hare coursing) was here yesterday, is losing his hair.
We're going down to the brook where the the otters were playing by the weir so we must wear waterproof clothes and buy some fishing gear from the hardware shop.
There you have it: the trouble with immigration from the Middle East is that they're bringing their religion from there with them.
Interesting, Rastus. But surely you left the underlined words blank? Also, why not underline and leave blank "We're (going down)" and "their (religion)"? [I don't mean to sound superior, Richard, it's just my perfectionism showing.]
Interesting, Rastus. But surely you left the underlined words blank? Also, why not underline and leave blank "We're (going down)" and "their (religion)"? [I don't mean to sound superior, Richard, it's just my perfectionism showing.]
Why can't the general election be declared null and void?
We need a system to prevent charlatans gaining power on a tissue of lies.
Good morning, all. Gloomy day. Damp and chilly….
Morning, Bill.
Crappy here too – hope that cheers you up
Why the EU cannot rely on Assad to solve its migration woes. 19 October 2024.
There was a time, back when the calamity that befell their land moved the world to pity and horror, that those forced to flee Syria’s civil war could expect a sympathetic welcome.
Those days are long past. More than 13 years into a grinding, half-forgotten conflict that has killed more than half a million people, Syria’s refugees are more likely to encounter weariness, irritation and outright hostility than sympathy.
This would be the Assad that used to be pro-West and the Syria that pursued a moderate line in the Middle East? The Assad and his wife that came to the UK on a State visit? The Syria that we undermined and then armed its Jihadist opposition to overthrow the Government? The Syria where we faked all the Chemical Attacks and then blamed them for it? Now they won’t help us? Don’t they have a sense of humour?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/19/why-eu-cannot-rely-on-assad-solve-migration-woes-syria/
The Assad who was a British trained ophthalmologist, whose beautiful wife was brought up here? We stupidly made an enemy of him.
Indeed! All non-Islamic religions were safe in Syria under his regime.
"The World Council of Churches (WCC) held a consultation in Aleppo, Syria in 1997 to discuss a proposal for a common date for Easter." Happy days!
The mention of Aleppo makes me think of what Othello got up to there:
Set you down this,
And say besides that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by th’ throat the circumcised dog
And smote him thus.
Stand by for a spot of the Scottish Play.
"A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap
And munched and munched and munched. “Give
me,” quoth I.
“Aroint thee, witch,” the rump-fed runnion cries.
Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ th’ Tiger;
But in a sieve I’ll thither sail,
And, like a rat without a tail,
I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do."
The mention of Aleppo makes me think of what Othello got up to there:
Set you down this,
And say besides that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by th’ throat the circumcised dog
And smote him thus.
Another classic example of how our politicians act so stupidly.
And how completely they lack any judgement – but the fatal combination of lack of judgement with no instinct is catastrophic.
The biggest problem is they all live and work in the same environment and breath the same air. They remind me of a pack of hounds.
Trained for one purpose only. The Destruction of a fairly self sufficiant species.
The thing about packs of hounds is that it's in their genes. That's what they do. The only training they need is to have the "Golden Thread" to the huntsman.
Stupid is as stupid does.
At the height of the conflict, Dr. Daughter was doing the Ophthalmology part of the basic training and was being supervised by a lot of his former colleagues who, without exception, found it VERY hard to believe the "official narrative" that was being promoted.
If Syria’s refugees were Christians we might feel sympathy but western governments facilitated the slaughter of Syria’s Christian population, who’d been protected by Assad.
The UK and the West in general have systematically backed the wrong side in the Middle East for as long as I can remember. And we have backed the wrong side in the Ukraine too and are far too ambivalent about the conflict between Israel and Islam which Israel must win or
we are lost forever.
Why the EU cannot rely on Assad to solve its migration woes. 19 October 2024.
There was a time, back when the calamity that befell their land moved the world to pity and horror, that those forced to flee Syria’s civil war could expect a sympathetic welcome.
Those days are long past. More than 13 years into a grinding, half-forgotten conflict that has killed more than half a million people, Syria’s refugees are more likely to encounter weariness, irritation and outright hostility than sympathy.
This would be the Assad that used to be pro-West and the Syria that pursued a moderate line in the Middle East? The Assad and his wife that came to the UK on a State visit? The Syria that we undermined and then armed its Jihadist opposition to overthrow the Government? The Syria where we faked all the Chemical Attacks and then blamed them for it? Now they won’t help us? Don’t they have a sense of humour?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/19/why-eu-cannot-rely-on-assad-solve-migration-woes-syria/
Morning, all Y'all.
Foggy (unusual for here), damp and barely light. Hibernation beginning to look like a good idea.
Dark and wet here. Not cold though.
When I got up this morning it was dark (again). I'm not good in a morning at the best of times, but when it's dark that REALLY puts a dampener on it.
Well, that went well.
Made SWMBO breakfast: Coffee, croissant, jams and butter. It just ended on the floor by her being clumsy – the whole lot, except the coffee. Crockery in bits, jam upside down, spoon vanished under the furniture… nuts! So, no brekker.
🙁
OUCH!
That sounds a bit of a bugger.
It was a nice breakfast, too. Even looked good.
Console yourself that the thought was there.
Oh dear…..Good start to the day.
Is that because you didn't give her a proper breakfast of a fry-up and a big steaming mug of tea, Paul?😉
She wanted the croissant. Not my choice. In any case, a fry-up needs eaten at the table, not in bed, as otherwise you get eggy drips on the covers!
Is that because you didn't give her a proper breakfast of a fry-up and a big steaming mug of tea, Paul?😉
Didn't you prepare her grapefruit properly?
He probably doesn’t have one of these, Belle!
https://www.lakeland.co.uk/16419/lakeland-grapefruit-knife
I'd forgotten about them.
You should have woken her up before setting it on her lap.
Good morning all.
A dull start to the day. Heavy overcast with a light wind and just starting to rain when I got up. 7½°C on the Yard Thermometer.
I’m at mum and dad’s, flicking through their Sunday Mail. There is a lot of stuff about the One Direction singer who died last week in Argentina. Obviously my mum and dad had never heard of him; I had, but was never “into” the group and only had a passing interest because I knew the lead singer was from Wolverhampton.
So it is quite sad reading about him. He sounded messed up and lonely. Quote: “a lonely soul who didn’t know how to be alone”.
I say this only because when it’s 25/26/27 I was out of control, for the same reasons – unhappy in my own skin, unable to be on my own. I was lucky. I recognised the problem and took my two years out, deliberately putting myself in periods of isolation to learn to accept myself for who I was, and learn to be comfortable in my own company.
It worked, and I came back to the UK when I was 30 and the rest is history.
So I am never quick to judge. The guy didn’t stand a chance, finding success so young.
Very brave of you, Mir! 👏🏻
As a child I spent a lot of time alone and it never bothered me. I like company but seldom feel lonely.
Good morning J
I hope the person who supplied him with drugs meets his own hell on earth..
Drug dealers are evil murderers.
" Drug dealers are evil murderers." And so are drug addicts. It's the demand that encourages the supply.
Addicts also often the dealers.
Same here. As the eldest in a house full of siblings, I craved solitude.
as the youngest (and unwanted) I got too much of it
I was effectively an only child, owing to the large age gap between me and my older brother. I was an "accident" 🙂
The gap was 10 and 12 years, 2 sisters and dad was in the navy – I was an accident too and was constantly reminded of it
as the youngest (and unwanted) I got too much of it
Those who don't like their own company are probably right.
I'm the same. I'm quite sociable, but I'm happy with my own company – particularly if I've got a dog and a book!
His fame and fortune came too early and he was unable to handle it.
I have never heard of him and it on about him day after day. Why is this,?
Neither have I. We can't be the only Nottlers never to have heard of him.
Whenever I 'flick through' a newspaper, I quickly ignore any page that features any gurning talent-free nonentity on it. They simply do not occupy a nanosecond of my time.
I've almost stop watching the news on TV the reporters appear to be in competition to see who can wave their arms and hands around so much.
Not forgetting the nodding before speaking
Well done, you. The bloke should have had a dog, you're never alone when you have a dog.
I have two and i'm getting a third in the new year. They keep me sane.
Another chihuahua?
Have you discussed this matter with boss? She might have a viewpoint.
People and dogs do as i tell them. Or one gets fed to the other !
He was with his girlfriend, I believe, although she must have gone shopping as it is reported that he had a couple of escorts around for the afternoon. Pity that abuse of intoxication substances does not do much good is not a headline message.
Good morning, all. Overcast, dry and breezy here in N Essex.
The World we live in?
Has to be a spoof of the trans/identify movement but as it's alleged to be in California, who knows?
https://x.com/LarryDJonesJr/status/1847759084050579741
How that policeman kept his pistol in his holster I'll never know!!! Credit it to him though.
Omg what a state the world is in right now.
Excellent – It must have been scripted though.
The Energy Secretary should heed the argument for an alternative to pylons
Letters to the Editor 20 October 2024 12:02am BST
SIR – As a frequent visitor to South Norfolk, I am hugely encouraged to read that there is a potentially cheaper alternative to the dreadful pylon proposals (“Miliband ‘wastes cash’ on net-zero pylon blight”, report, October 13).
However, a more financially significant factor in favour of the underground alternative will be the reduced costs of the inevitable legal challenges to the installation of the pylons. You only have to look to HS2 to see how much of the original budget was spent on legal battles before a single spade went in the ground.
This is not a “tough decision” for the Government to take. But it does require Ed Miliband, as Energy Secretary, to listen.
Ian MacGregor
London N2
It requires Morbidly Mad Miliband to resign or be sacked.
The alternative is to make them unnecessary by not filling the southern North Sea with wind turbines.
Morning all,
Today in Free Speech Clive Matelas writes that Islam will be the dominant factor in Britain by 2040 – just 16 years from now – unless we do something to stem the tide. This is an important debate, no matter whether you agree or disagree, so please read the article and leave a comment, letting us know what you think.
freespeechbacklash.com
" …unless we do something to stem the tide."
The only tide-stemming that I've noticed in the past two decades, is a lot of harrumphing and tut-tutting in newspapers and on social media. I'm guessing that the harrumphers and tut-tutters — who maintain that "something must be done" are hoping it will all go away.
Meantime the most deleterious socialist government in modern history has been voted into power.
We're finished as a democracy, Grizzly. Just my opinion. Only have to recall how we a) voted in Johnson and b) listened to Gove and c) believed Fergusons stats although he was previously ot and completely wrong on f&m when thousands of perfectly healthy animals were culled (killed) and d) allowed ourselves to be locked down on and off at Johnson's whim whilst wearing masks and e) have dangerous vaccines for a terrible disease that was no more than a common cold for the vast vast majority of us. I could possibly go on to z)….have a good day, lots of love, Kate.
An intelligent electorate would write en masse to the political party of our choice, and tell them, categorically, that we have no confidence, whatsoever, in any of the candidates proposed and that, if they insist on keeping those inept candidates, no one will vote for them.
Trouble is, they know that the gormless electorate would never gang together in such an effective manner.
[[You too. 😘]
Thxx…Baron and I agreed years ago that we needed to man the barricades, and also that it wouldn’t happen. The English take a good while to get riled. One of my ancestors injured at Peterloo. My grandmother didn’t know whether to be proud, dismissive or just confused..:-)
The Beginnings: Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
‘Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.
It will never happen Grizz, and if it did would it count? Voting system rigged, here and America, to say nothing of Europe. Democracy is a scam.
That’s because it is not a democracy, Katy. It is nothing more than an elective oligarchy, which is something quite different.
Let them eat cake, Grizz….
It took us all by surprise. We decided that we were not going to wear a mask as you did not have to, after I read the government rules about it all. and with Mrs Ns medical experience decided we would extend our refusal to have flu jabs to Covid jabs. We could not believe how excited all the people were to be having boosters. Its was not easy to see so many taking the wrong course of action. It was not pleasant for us being the only people not wearing masks in the supermarkets etc being tut tuted at and unpleasant passing comments. I could not belive how few of us there were.
Exactly Johnny. I was a minority in my own family..imagine how that’s gone post-vaccine and the effect on me. What grinds my gears as much as anything (apart from the huge amounts of public money, just disappeared down the drain and elsewhere)…is that those who worked in eg supermarkets, refuse collection just carried on but no recognition. Johnson is an absolute buffoon imo, and he looks to be trying to wriggle back into uk politics. That really would be the final nail in my political/voting coffin.
We never wore a mask – the mesh size compared to a virus, even carried on a water droplet was the decider.
Nobody had the vaccine, as we were initially told that Covis was like 'flu, and we don't get vaccinated for that (me not since I was persuaded decades ago, had flu vax, and was sicker than a dog for a week. Never felt so bad – wasn't going there again). Started with Vitamin D3, which I have kept up, and not even had a cold since.
True Grizz, but as we say in Sunderland, Nil Desperandum – we can and should form a mass movement to stem the tide, something FSB will continue to advocate.
The one individual that has done something to push back against islam is likely to be jailed after his court hearing in a week. TR seems to have been lying low in a foreign land for a while but has a rally in London on the 26th and must return soon. I suspect he will be taken from the arrivals gate direct to a place of incarceration. The judiciary are still under orders to stamp out any right wing protest after Southport.
The impact will be similar to a slow motion plague of locusts. Tree cutters but not tree planters.
Morning Tom
I planted this as a comment on your article.
Good morning .
I leapt through your article .. I attended Church of England schools , my era, post war baby boomers were provided with a traditional homelife and education .
The Church of England in recent years has failed badly, and younger generations have been swayed by happy clappy fads that have arrived from America.
Renaissance is a French word meaning “rebirth.” It refers to a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom.
Are we now in the wilderness , have we lost our roots , yes , because we have accepted so many unbelievers into the UK .. a misogynist sect of baying authoritarian males ?
What best defines the Renaissance?
: the transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century, and marked by a humanistic revival of classical influence expressed in a flowering of the arts and literature and by the beginnings of modern science.
Islam has grown , and it has grown fiercer and nastier , there is no escape from the massive extreme worldwide wailings from the Muezzin.
Thanks Belle. I replied.
It was a Civic Service in church this morning; the vicar referred, in the sermon, to "church politics" and added she was a member of the Synod, so she knew what she was talking about!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7c63a764d003a05f0a719fafb9705c79dd81616dce24d8ed2912e57a6a304c89.png Why is it the case that each time this gumption-free eighth-wit buffoon attempts to indulge in normal human activities (eating a bacon sandwich, riding a bike) he looks like he is about to throw up?
Is there no-one in the socialist hemisphere who can teach him how to wear a helmet?
Having said that, knowing his ancestry, it's possibly the only 'helmet cover' he has!
Thanks for the picture, it's put me straight off my breakfast.
Thanks for the picture, it's put me straight off my breakfast.
He looks/walks/talks like the idiot he is, Grizzly. Unfortunately there are even bigger idiots in power to put into legislation his idiotic green agenda, and we all be the poorer and colder for it. To say nothing of the idiots who voted in this lousy government. Good morning btw x
Indeed, Katy. Good morning. 😘
Does he walk swinging the same-side arm as the leg?
He's got a sidearm?
Edited in a "-" for clarity…
😉
Wasn’t complaining O, just alarmed that authorities might allow someone so irresponsible to own one 😆
Especially since they've made sure we can't own one.
Quite.
Vine wears a cycle helmet with at least two cameras.
He's very proud of his captives..
He appears to be totally uncomfortable with the concentration he needs to ride a bike.
When I was a youngster I could ride my bike with my hands off of the handlebar. A few mishaps before mastering the technique but I was a kid trying things out: I wonder if this specimen ever did anything the least bit adventurous such as riding no-hands on a bike?
I recall being warned that, “Look Mum, no hands” would become, “Look Mum, no teeth” if I tried that.
That reminds me of a joke about a German mother with two sons climbing in the Alps.
Swiss Alps?
Possibly. The bottom line of the joke was, “Look Ma, no Hans!”
My gravel embedded knees bear the scars to this day.
When I was a youngster I was similar. My younger brother was given a fixed-wheel bike and I only attempted to ride the damn thing once. Going downhill at quite a lick the continuously-rotating pedals threw my feet off. I slid off the saddle and I landed — hard — on the crossbar with my crotch!
I couldn't even see where I was going since my eyes were watering so profusely. That bloody bike only had a front brake and I was reluctant to use that since I didn't want to be thrown over the handlebars.
I know I should solemnly sympathise, Grizz, but somehow can't!
At least you survived.
🤣
My father had a fixed-wheel drop handlebar bike – not that he was a keen cyclist – he used a sit-up-and-beg straight handlebar bike for going to work. Occasionally I got to ride the fixed wheel when I was big enough and it was a different beast to a geared machine. I never mastered using the fixed wheel as part of the braking system.
I can top that. Riding no hands standing on the pedals.
Then i got stopped and told off by plod who said how incredibly dangerous it was. Spoilsports !
I converted my racing bike with " Cow Horn " handle bars and spring forks so wr could dirt track cycle. Great fun.
Something Jews and Muslims have – or rather don't have – in common?
Something Jews and Muslims have – or rather don't have – in common?
Miliband is unfortunate , his gurning facial features don't do him any favours .
He has an unusual background, education and family history , and quite strangely his socialist leanings are mean , tight and inflexible .
I believe the world he inhabits inside his skin is joyless and as he is a violinist , one can hear the scratchy strings of utter misery being played out .
He is from a different era , and must have absorbed the Marxist teachings of his Jewish Polish father .
I thought it's his wife who is the violinist.
There are always strings attached…
Raindrops keep falling on my Ed
Elegance personified
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0955b20c04f2f8453472d10f6158e44aa65f838445d05fd8cce77aaa724eef18.jpg
I can confidently say that MB ate his bacon roll this morning with considerably more aplomb.
And that included ignoring large eyes gazing up at him proclaiming "I'm starving….."
We have two similar ginger ones: “Call that food?”
Leave a bacon roll around here – or, more usually a chicken sandwich – and it'll go. Doesn't matter who gets it, you'll never know but you can guarantee a human is racing a dog.
Why were you on the floor again?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8b017332091aeeab87a748fd2a54a7878080640ea2a0f66d9b654b5319cdcb84.png
That's the one!
Not content with his puppachino, Kadi wanted my coffee this afternoon. He didn't get it.
One small accident away from solving a huge problem. Doesn't have to be fatal. Loss of a limb would suffice. Just enough to keep the wretched, stupid, moronic Marxist waster away from public office.
Always wore gloves when cycling, and used a weatherproof bag fixed to a frame above the rear wheel, with papers, jacket, tools etc. Better balance etc, and simpler than panniers.
MMorning all 🙂😊
Dark and grey rain later. What's new.
Second attempt to view the site, I dozed off again earlier.
Same old story.
Unavoidably we have another whole bunch of politicians who appear to have been, like angry dogs straining at the leash and not being at all interested in public opinion or probably their own advisory services in the fields they are supposed to be dealing with. And are going ahead with only which they think is right and are determined by their own ego's to eff up every single thing they come into contact with.
Which as we have all learnt from past governments is the normal process.
I expect in the future Millipede will be waving his arms around at what was once open country side and saying about all the objects spoiling the views, I did that.
Good morning , mild temperature 14c.. Wet , slightly breezy, no real wind sound yet .
We are listening to the Wes Streeting character, who speaks just like the robotic Rachel Reeves.
Is medicating the population the answer to getting people back to work .. how dystopian .. and perhaps there could be an answer .. after all, many young nursing staff are horrifically overweight .
Britain has become an unhappier place to live , and new communities feast like millionaires on takeaways , eating out , snacking , rewarding themselves with treats , food delivered and static entertainment.
We used to get a pizza delivered on a Thursday night, because by that time of the week, we couldn't be arsed to cook, and it meant that the cooking rota was imbalanced. Now there's only the two of us, down from four, we are less timetabled than before, and try to cook alternate nights, or call a "grabbit" – grab whtever from the fridge and eat it.
But – very few restaurant visits now, and no home deliveries.
One regular visit is Numedalskro – across the valley from Firstborn's farm, with a superb young French chef and his gorgeous Norwegian girlfriend. The food is absolutely topp, and some ingredients come from Firstborn, too!
https://numedalkro.com/
Try a homemade pizza sometime, the difference to a bought one is huge.
Firstborn makes superb Italian pizza piccante – to die for, and worth buying proper wine to accompany.
Good Morning Folks,
Grey start here no stormy weather yet.
Blowing a hooly here.
Breezy here but nothing out of the ordinary. It was sunny this afternoon after the rain stopped.
Good morning all,
Wet and windy at Castle McPhee as we secure the turrets for the passing of Storm Wotsisname.
Well, well, would you Adam and Eve it. PaybyPhone is owned by Volkswagen Financial Services. Not only are they ripping car buyers off with their PCPs, they're dipping their fingers into our bank accounts when we park their products to do the weekly shop.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/advice/the-problem-with-parking-apps/
It's disappointing to read the comments. So many idiots, lining themselves up to be digital serfs.
Personally, I dislike these things and will not use them. If I can't pay by coin (my preference) or card, I'll leave a note on the dash-board saying 'sorry, tried to pay but I can't – no phone' and argue about it later if necessary. I've recently won an argument against a local DC over one of their PCNs which I refused to pay. Everyone should do the same.
Morning Fiscal and all.
We are fortunate in being able to have home delivery of bulk items from a choice of supermarkets for just a £1 delivery charge (the cost of which is more than offset by buying items we use regularly when they are discounted. A 10 min (free for the moment) bus ride into town for fresh produce & meats etc . No need to use the car or pay for parking..
We're basically the same. Our fesh produce comes from farm shops or the Saturday market, not supermarkets. I hadn't considered getting the non-food stuff delivered because it's an activity that gets us out and the parking is free at Waitrose or Marks anyway.
A friend uses Morrisons Home Delivery Premium SuperSave Extra Helpful Smart Service for Savvy Customers (whatever) and it costs £50 per year, but he has quit driving, saving £££, and it would be a long slog by bus.
One of the reasons why I don't bother too much with shopping in town.
If I can't carry it comfortably when walking or on the bus, I don't go there.
You never know what payment method has been adopted by the carpark and I'm not in the mood to find out.
Can't be arsed.
Before covid, we used to wander around the shops before doing the food shopping, but now no more. There's fewer parking spaces, the allowed durations are shorter, everybody has their hand (app) out for money, it's just too unpleasant now. So, we stay at home & have another coffee. And spend quite a bit less, too.
Och, ah wisnae in toon five meenits when – bang went saxpence!
Och, ah wisnae in toon five meenits when – bang went saxpence!
I don't use my phone to make any payments and certainly not parking apps. I only go into town when I have to, and then in the afternoon as it's free after 2pm in one car park. Locally it's free parking.
If you think the Parking Apps are a pain in the arse, then try using the parking phone lines.
https://x.com/RedWallPleb/status/1847905945180872959
Someone I know who works in a hospital not too far from a major London airport told me a similar tale of women turning up, giving birth, getting all the treatment available then catching a flight home without paying a penny. She was not best pleased, but couldn't do anything about it.
Well, that's all the dead leaves raked up, collected and disposed of, and the garden tidied. Utterly knackered as a result (I didn't know that I am so unfit), and I granted myself double ration of coffee, as all this effort was without the energy-giving sunshine that we had last weeked – makes it so easy to get on with it, rather than sit on one's fat arse and moan.
Now I'll do the sitting and moaning bit.
Join the club. As I tootle through my favourite poems, even John Betjeman is making me tearful
I know what you mean, Anne.
Almost anything makes me tear up just now, doesn't have to be horrendous. Watched Sarah Millican on YT last night, the show where she bashes those who bullied her when she was young, and it made me so sad I had to find a handkerchief. Poor lass, treated like that.
Her revenge was sweet, though, but you could tell from her voice that it had left scars.
I started reading Stanley Tucci's new book last night and it cheered me up no end. Well written, funny and informative.
'What i ate in one year'. On Amazon for £10.
He is certainly knowledgeable about food. Especially Italian food.
He also survived mouth cancer where he couldn't eat anything for a year. (fed through a tube in his stomach.
I was enjoying it so much i didn't want to put it down but i can't read with my eyes closed.
Get the butler or valet to read it to you.
5 bags of garden waste – the demon hedge! – went to the tip at half 10. One big crate to go and then the stump to be sorted out. I'll do the last bag tomorrow as stupidly you have to book to use something you pay for.
Jeremy Clarkson has had an urgent heart operation after a 'sudden deterioration' in his health.
The 64-year-old former Top Gear host was 'maybe' days away from death when he underwent two hour surgery with Clarkson admitting: 'Crikey, that was close.'
He started to feel unwell after swimming in the Indian Ocean while on an 'small island' on holiday and later found it difficult to climb a flight of stairs. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13979979/jeremy-clarkson-health-update-procedure-deterioration.html
He is looking a bit tubby round the middle nowadays! Glad they sorted him out!
If he's tubby I'm spherical. I must do something about it as my weight affects damned near everything. I'll never be little, but heck, 5 kilos would help.
Eat less. Much less. You'll be amazed.
Cut down on the carbs.
Have you ever tried going low-carb? (Atkins, keto, paleo, carnivore.) Seems to be particularly effective for men. Lots of enthusiasts amongst Nottlers if you needed encouragement.
The thing that surprised me most was stopping feeling hungry all the time.
I found I was getting a bit porky round the waist a year or so ago so I cut down on the carbs ( but not out completely) and I lost weight. I don't know how much as I never weigh myself but clothes became looser. Today I had the carbs – a bowl of muesli with extra dried fruit and nuts, top of the (whole) milk, and for lunch an apple and a few grapes. Dinner will be roast pork with crackling and veg. I don't feel hungry until it's dinner time. I also feel better than I used to. Whole milk, butter, plenty of eggs and meat but very little bread and hardly any potatoes. I might eat more when it's roasty season………
However affable he is, and however much he jokes about his battles with petty minded officialdom, those constant fights do take their toll.
Good Moaning.
The grey day rather matches my mood.
I've been going through my "Commonplace Book" file.
Does the West still have any politicians who could quote a fairly obscure piece of poetry after a national disaster?
Or speech writers literate enough to know such pieces even exist?
Lines from this poem were quoted in Reagan's speech after the Challenger disaster.
(And, looking at the state of this and similar countries, what waste of a talented young man's life.)
John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922 – 1941)
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
Exquisite.
He didn't even reach the age of 20.
I do remember Reagan quoting that poem.
Thank you for posting 'High Flight'.
Wiki: "Owing to its cheerful description of flying and its symbolic descriptions of transcending Earth, High Flight is beloved by many aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force and has to be recited from memory by fourth class cadets at the United States Air Force Academy, where it can be seen on display in the Cadet Field House."
I am going to have that read at my funeral. It was read at the recent funeral of a WW2 veteran (90 missions in Wellingtons and Pathfinder Mosquitoes). Captures the essence for me.
Jenrick is making spurious promises to repeal the Climate Change Act in the Telegraph this morning. Of course, he is lying. "The Blob" will thwart any attempt to repeal their primary means to rob, steal and disenfranchise the British people. He knows damn well that any attempt to repeal it will fail, so will any attempt to "stop the boats"
We are lied to daily by these wasters.
The day when both the Cons and Lab have accomplished a thorough clear out of their dead wood is the day I'll take seriously anything at all they've got to say. Jenrick, Sunak, Cleverly, Johnson, et al are just one half of the problem. Neither party has any intention of telling anyone anything truthful.
They have their own agenda not ours.
Basically that's it. We're just like bit players in their little drama. When government starts doing what it's paid to do then I'll get interested in what they have to say.
They'd have to come up with the goods before I even considered believing what they say!
One might enquire why the tosser went along with the net zero farrago for all the years he was "in gumment".
'Morning All
Wibbers,WIBBERS……..
https://x.com/theXofficially/status/1847848215640519081
Yep, we have done that. Today Mongo decided he wanted to play at mudslides, so dropped to his tummy and slid down the hill. Of course, because this looked like Fun, Lucy did the same. Oscar looked at me, looked at the Warqueen and decided to just sit there.
Told you he was brighter than the rest.
Ha…you’ve been reading Catch-22 haven’t you. In Millibollix case it’s a brain implant.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1847909500839194999
The "Awkward" files get star billing
https://x.com/LozzaFox/status/1845723969913065791
Random medley
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How environmentally sound. Not.
I once knew a dyslexic pimp who bought a warehouse.
That t shirt is nicely tight. Makes the text easier to read.
Thank you, Paul 🙂 unfortunately, fits the cut of my jib. Usually ‘slow to chide swift to bless’. No idea what finally moved the off switch.
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Collect Rewards and Climate Points on your George Soros Climate Change Act Loyalty Card!
You might even be rewarded with a beautiful peerage like George Soros’ employee Lord Adair Turner!
George Soros wanted the Climate Change Act way back in 2005 and his friend Tony Blair supplied it to George Soros’ order with the promise of future riches.
Tony Blair received many years of consultancy work from George Soros worth $millions. David Miliband who arranged the Climate Change Act in 2006/7 received the now million dollar CEO position in a New York charity heavily financed by George Soros. David Cameron who was extremely enthusiastic about the Climate Change Act and encouraged his Conservative Party to vote for it received a directorship of a George Soros financed organisation.
George Soros’ friends and contacts were placed on the Climate Change Committee and the Energy Transitions Commission. Soros' 'ally' Lord Adair Turner was appointed the first chairman of the Climate Change Committee by Soros' friend Gordon Brown and then chairman of the Energy Transitions Commission from 2016. Lord Adair Turner has therefore managed Britain’s transition to Net Zero since 2008 except for an interval when he worked personally for George Soros as chairman of George Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking….
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9963050/Lord-Turner-forms-unlikely-alliance-with-Soros.html
David Miliband who arranged the Climate Change Act recruited Bryony Worthington from Friends of the Earth to help write the legislation. Bryony Worthington was running the Friends of the Earth Big Ask campaign which was about limiting carbon output by law. Friends of the Earth are part financed by George Soros through Open Society and Bryony Worthington was given a peerage as Baroness Worthington and sent to the House of Lords by George Soros’ friend David Cameron. Lord Turner was given a peerage by George Soros’ friend Tony Blair in 2005 just in time to promote the Climate Change Act 2008 in the Lords which George Soros wanted.
So collect climate points on your George Soros Climate Change Act Loyalty Card and you might be rewarded with a beautiful peerage too!
Can I claim private jet air miles with them, Polly?
From my mate in Bristol – he buys eco-leccy. His meter is warning him …
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RED ALERT!! Start up the emergency hamster!
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Our solar is generating 81w today. More than I thought it would!
The windmills are at 50% of their max capacity – and it's blowing a gale in the channel. They're just utterly, completely useless.
The dawgs are probably providing more!
Winds too strong for the turbines to cope with.
https://telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/newsletters/Matt/2024/october/IMG_5831.jpg
Milioaf wants the pylons as they're quicker and get him what he wants. He doens't care about the environmental damage. He's a demented socialist, for goodness sake. The green agenda is absolutely nothing, not a thing to do with ecology or the environment. Milioaf doesn't care. All he wants is his monuments to be slapped up so once the damage is done they're there.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Soros' Budget is on October 30!
Now it turns out that Rachel Reeves visited New York in August and had talks with Soros Fund Management and George Soros' close friend and WEF operative Mark Carney. Also, by random coincidence, Reeves also had talks with George Soros' favourite private equity fund Carlyle which employed John Major and which bought QinetiQ at deeply cut price from George Soros' close friend and operative Tony Blair for star client George Soros' benefit. Vast profits followed on resale. A useful $7.5 billion of taxpayer money was dropped into the deal at the last moment which was never heard about again. I wonder what is being lined up for the next cut price sale to Carlyle and how much money goes with it?
So the ventriloquist on budget day looks likely to be Permanent Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Soros as usual with Rachel Reeves as his obedient dummy!
We already knew that. Do you have any new news for us dummies on NoTTLers, Polly?
Hello Mr Citroen, always a pleasure to hear from you!
To be fair, having it all in one short paragraph is a useful reminder.
I'd forgotten about John Major.
He's eminently forgettable.
The stabby-stabby gets everywhere. An Afghan bloke in his 20s stabbed in Oslo at 18:48 last night died this morning. Police have made two arrests, not from the "known criminal gangs", and are apparently Iranian and Syrian.
That was turned around quickly! Good work, detectives!
https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1847927748355858680
Moosecegenation.
Piebald? ah yes, it's balls are 3.142" dia
https://twitter.com/oJARDINEo/status/1847635638855622948
Given Labour's funding stream I think it unlikely anything too harsh would ever be likely to happen to him.
I imagine they're waiting for people to forget about him and the muslim scum at the airport and then quietly let them off, while really going for the police officers.
They could put one of his "pledge tombstones" underneath every one of them. That way people could at least be reminded of how utterly futile the man is when they're out walking trying to work up the energy to stay warm.
It is, oddly, a bad idea to move about to stay warm. You need to keep that heat contained once generated if you do. Besides, there's a point where significant cold – 12-14'c is bad for property.
I just want the lie to end. It will, inevitably when during a black out politicians get hanged but it's got to happen sooner. Energy should cost 4p, regardless. No standing charges, just 4p. Maybe 5p at the outside. Imagine the boom in industry then. We'd go from the most expensive energy in the world to the cheapest.
However, one thing must happen: politicians should pay the highest rate going and be forbidden from putting it on expenses, as they do.
The expenses thing is especially gaulling. We’re all in it together, you know…
They could put one of his "pledge tombstones" underneath every one of them. That way people could at least be reminded of how utterly futile the man is when they're out walking trying to work up the energy to stay warm.
Morning all. Gloomy day. Video. Another example of Farages stupidity. He didn't have to come out and say he supported Tommy but he could have spoken to him in private. Now, in his arrogance, he has lost thousands of votes for Reform.
Tommy Robinson Rips Into Farage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0f2tywpJZE&t=187s
Mandelson accused of politicising Oxford chancellor race
Labour grandee gets help of undergraduates in battle to be university’s ceremonial head
Ethan Croft
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Peter Mandelson – Mandelson accused of 'appealing to tribal loyalties' in Oxford chancellor race
Lord Mandelson is one of 38 candidates to replace Lord Patten as Oxford University’s chancellor Credit: Getty I
Peter Mandelson has been accused of “appealing to tribal loyalties” in the race to be the next chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Undergraduate students associated with Oxford’s Labour Club have been campaigning for Lord Mandelson to become the ceremonial head of the university.
Some Labour MPs who are alumni of the university have also been helping to drum up support for the former Cabinet minister, The Telegraph understands.
Undergraduates are not eligible to vote in the election of the new chancellor, which takes place in the week of Oct 28. More than 250,000 graduates are technically eligible to vote, along with academics at the university, if they have registered to vote online.
In their efforts to elect Lord Mandelson, student activists have tried to sign up graduates to vote in order to “make the race more representative” and Labour-friendly. Some have tried to persuade their tutors to support Lord Mandelson.
Labour-supporting undergraduates have also been involved in helping the party grandee to plan events that seek to boost his profile at the university. He has no full-time campaigning team.
Oxford University
There is a hotly-contested race to become the University of Oxford’s next chancellor Credit: AFP/Henry Nicholls
But some dons have expressed their displeasure at the 70-year old accepting help from current students to influence the race. On senior academic said: “At a university of all places, Lord Mandelson should be promoting his cause by the strength of his reasons, not by appealing to tribal loyalties.”
Another don said: “The chancellor of Oxford should be above party politics and should strive to represent the whole university. It’s to be hoped that an electorate as experienced and informed as Oxford’s MAs will see through his immature behaviour and vote for a better candidate who understands the chancellor’s role.”
Another said: “It’s so naff for 20-year-olds to be hassling people and asking them to vote. I think it is highly counter-productive.”
Lord Mandelson has said he would draw on his “political links with the new Government to advocate for Oxford and the university sector.”
One student supporting Lord Mandelson said: “What I’ve been doing is reaching out to people, letting them know that this election is happening because it’s almost always been a Conservative chancellor, but we want people to know that this one is different. It’s online and we can make sure it’s more representative.”
Another said: “There are a lot of Labour MPs who were at Oxford, who were previously involved in Labour student politics, who have reached out to the campaign because they want it to be a Labour result.”
Lord Mandelson told The Telegraph: “I have been a two-term chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University and I therefore know how to support a university but, as an alumnus myself, I also know Oxford University is a global university and I have the international connections and networks to help it remain so.
“I welcome the support of people of all political persuasions and none, and I hope everyone who can will cast a vote in this election.”
Lord Patten at Oxford University
The role has been held by a number of prominent Conservative politicians including Lord Patten, the outgoing chancellor Credit: Getty Images/Leon Neal
Candidates for the chancellorship have not traditionally campaigned in the past, instead being elected at a ceremonial gathering of the electorate. But this year’s election is the first to be held online.
Other politicians running for the position include William Hague, the former foreign secretary, who has received an endorsement from the Oxford University Conservative Association.
In all, 38 candidates have successfully submitted applications to stand in the election. Janet Royall, a Labour peer and former cabinet colleague of Lord Mandelson, is also running for the position.
The Oxford chancellor role has often been held by former Conservative politicians including Lord Patten, who is the outgoing chancellor, and Harold Macmillan, the former prime minister, who served in the role from 1960 to 1986.
Roy Jenkins, once a Labour cabinet minister, held the position when he was an SDP and later Liberal Democrat politician.
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Comment by Steve Sidaway.
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Steve Sidaway
2 hrs ago
He has the unspoken advantage of being LGBTQ+IA&£::V*_!
Dressing like a mediaeval drag queen will be a bonus.
As will having his train held by a peasant.
Comment by Steve Davies.
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Steve Davies
3 hrs ago
If he gets to be the Oxford Chancellor then Oxford. Will be doomed.
Comment by John Steed.
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John Steed
13 hrs ago
Why are slimy creeps like him not satisfied to just retire and get out of the way of decent and normal people? He's just odious.
Comment by Night Owl.
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Night Owl
15 hrs ago
Mandelson is just another suffering from the disease of socialism which creates its own hierarchies, different but, no better than the existing. People like him climb the greasy pole of self advancement to live in the Farmhouse with all the other pigs
What's the difference ?
That 'man' is an arrrsehole in every possible meaning of the word
Sham Pain "Socialist".
Ugh, if they have the smallest amount of self-respect, they won't go with that slimeball.
The world would be improved hugely by flogging, flaying, beating and then chaining the screaming remains of Blair and mandelson and Neather in a sewer just below the tide mark so they're either straining for air or swallowing sewage. They're evil, and no punishment is sufficient.
395075+ up ticks,
As they are gaining strength on every incoming tide will not be long before we witness it in the UK, we have endured black-outs before in 39/45.
As you pass the graveyard listen to the fallens discontent with the indigenous action todate.
We really are heading for a united HOWLING at your local boneyard with what is to come.
https://x.com/PeteJacksonGMP/status/1847946435557232936
We trained 'soldiers' to stop this sort of thing. A failure of the softly softly approach to warfare.
There's a headline I'd rather not have read:
"Cyclist Sir Chris Hoy announces his cancer is terminal"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4dr9xdxgro
With a change of lifestyle he could survive ten years. Extremely healthy eating, and treatment.
https://x.com/True_Belle/status/1847961530819588220
Wind has picked up, stronger bursts, can hear it !
Here's a turnaround for you.
The province of BC has an election yesterday, in the previous election the conservatives were wiped out and won no seats in the legislature but there was hope of a massive reset.
Provisional results give the lefties 46 seats, the conservatives 45 seats and the treehuggers just 2 seats. Acouple of seats are still up in the air pending recounts but even as it stands the backlash against the left is astounding.
Still not enough to destroy the Left. Why do people vote for such insane ideology?
The slow implosion of the EU project. Spiked. 20 October 2024.
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, while accepting Brexit on paper, clearly agrees with this elite consensus. His government is looking for a major reset in UK-EU relations. He sees deeper trade ties with Brussels, and closer alignment with EU rules, as critical to kickstarting economic growth. He even sees closer collaboration with Europe as the solution to the migration crisis in the English Channel. Ahead of a recent meeting with Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, Starmer said it was more important than ever to be ‘in lockstep’ with Brussels.
But this starry-eyed view of the EU seems to be a delusion confined to Britain’s ruling class. Over on the continent, even ardent Europhiles are sounding the alarm about the EU’s mounting problems. French president Emmanuel Macron warned earlier this month that the EU faces a ‘mortal’ threat from economic decline. The staunchly pro-EU governments of Germany and Poland are defying EU diktats on migration and asylum. Meanwhile, European voters are turning en masse towards populist, Eurosceptic parties. The EU settlement on migration, on Net Zero and on the economy is coming under strain like never before.
This thing is and always has been the absolute enemy of Freedom and Democracy. If I could I would nuke Brussels and think it a worthwhile sacrifice.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/10/19/the-slow-implosion-of-the-eu-project/
The EU was always intended to destroy freedom and democracy. You can spot a europhiliac when they refuse to read articles that disagree with their mindset. They physically cannot cope with the truth.
How is shackling Britain to an economic disaster zone in Britain's best interests?
Silly. Britain's best interests don't matter. TTK will be able to strut his stuff and look important (and probably hoover up more freebies if he can).
Somebody to buy him Y-fronts.
That's about the measure of the man.
EU?
All down to Germany whether it succeeds in becoming USofE or dissolves.
Unfortunately time is running out fast.
They need to urgently implement 27 statewide unified tax collection. Germany would rather stick pins in their eye than see their tax-euro distributed to Italy.
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Then lurking around the corner are Muslim Interactiv.. who are openly flexing their muscles.
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Muslim Interaktiv considered by German security and intelligence to be affiliated with Hizb ur-Tahrir, an organization banned in 2003 for promoting the killing of Jews.
I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really hope this chancer Raheem Boateng gains traction across Europe including UK.
Better confront now, than in twenty years time.
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Daily Sceptic reporting ties between Germany and Wuhan pre-2020 and the vast profits made post 2020 by Mainz-based BioNTech, which have kept the town from becoming bankrupt
In fact the UK with the Conservatives has been spearheading the solution to unwanted immigration.
Sir Kier has been to the EU only to discover that the right wing solutions in the EU to unsupportable immigration is to find gullible non-EU countries to which to deport people who arrive in boats and across leaky borders.
Can anyone think of a country like that?
One of my fellow Friends of the Wigmore Hall is an historian who studied at Oxford under AJP Taylor. When discussing this topic at one of the Friends events, he summed it up with, “Of course the EU was never meant to be democratic”.
Indeed. You only have to look at their reaction when the people (damn them!) voted against what the EU wanted. They were either ignored or made to vote again until they came up with the "right" answer.
You would have thought after the French Revolution, the French at least would have learned a lesson about an out of touch, untouchable ruling class….?
https://order-order.com/2024/10/20/streeting-labour-working-really-hard-to-leave-country-better-than-they-found-it/#comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJPW2Ft_GlM
The sad thing is this child actually believes that twaddle.
"We are determined to earn your trust through wot we deliver even unpopular choices. We don’t need more govt by gimmick more soundbites.. I will now proceed to spout lots of sound-good slogans.. such as better place and all that.
If that fails then I'll revert back to starting my own vigilante org to push non-Labours under trains. First up.. you lot."
His definition of "in a better state than we found it" differs from mine.
He’ll be richer and we’ll be poorer. Job done!
Latest great wheezes from Liebour – free smart watches to help monitor health and save the NHS, and allowing the DWP direct access to people's bank accounts to "recover incorrect or fraudulent payments" without having to go to the courts! Naturally there would never be any errors by DWP or mission creep!
Free smart watches, eh? Give the government all your intimate health data.
well, that's not creepy at all is it…
I thought they had a billion plus "black hole".
Common sounding little chap.
Not to disagree with you, but try listening to it twice over, one realises that he is a profoundly dishonest tw*t….unlike you or me. {:^}}
It would be laughable if it weren't so destructive.
There have been some thickoes in government in recent times. Lammy is the champion of them all.
I had better not say what I think.
Nor I guess should anyone else.
Perhaps that's the whole idea.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that I need to publish and be damned (at least it will be warm in prison!).
Reparations are a simple case of we failed to provide for ourselves so we want steal what you’ve got. I’ve come to the conclusion that all forms of socialism boil down to one foundational principle. Theft.
Indeed.
Theft and envy. You've achieved, we don't like that, we want to bring you down and steal what you've built up.
We, the indigenous, whose roots go back centuries and more, want to hear our history and achievements (which are many) celebrated. We don't want any Johnny-come-latelies who have no connection to our land ripping us off.
Just got back from here, St. Martin's, sometimes St Martin's-on-the-walls, in Wareham. Slightly disappointing due to the scaffolding and the poured concrete replacement floor, but with the Medieval wall paintings still very interesting.
The church is reputed to have been founded by Saint Aldhelm in the 7th century. It is thought that this earlier building was destroyed by King Canute in 1015. The present building dates from about AD 1030. Anglo-Saxon features include a tall, narrow nave and chancel, late Anglo-Saxon wall-arcading in the north west aisle and traces of a Saxon door. The building has been altered and expanded over the years but the nave and a tiny window in the north side of the chancel are original features. On the north wall of the chancel are 12th-century frescoes depicting Saint Martin on horseback, escorted by attendants, dividing his cloak and giving one half to a naked beggar.
On one of the walls a number of red stars have been painted, possibly representing plague deaths in the 17th century.
During the Great Fire of Wareham in 1762, the church was used as a temporary refuge for those who had lost their homes. Later the church fell into disuse but at the beginning of the 20th century a programme of restoration began and the church was rededicated on 23rd November 1936.
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Gosh. Thank you. Wish it was nearer.
Someone's had the lead away?
Union Jack gone too?
Yes, I think the pole was getting in the way of the repairs.
It is a relic of another age , and just up the road from me .
Wareham https://visitwareham.com/warehams-amazing-history/
Lovely! Lucky you, Belle – it looks the kind of simple Church that's been around so long that the emotion has soaked into the fabric of the building, and can be felt when you enter, as there's no loud decoration to mask it.
Thanks Belle, I'll save that for Ron in the week.
Wes Streeting may consider fining patients who miss NHS appointments. 20 October 2024.
Wes Streeting has refused to rule out introducing fines for patients missing NHS appointments in the future.
The Health Secretary suggested he could be convinced to implement fines for no-shows if his plans to reform the NHS do not fix the number of people missing appointments.
I missed an NHS appointment last week. Even though I attended the second appointment the first has yet to make an appearance. It is probably my suspicious nature that I am doubtful that the first was ever dispatched.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/20/wes-streeting-missed-nhs-appointments-fines-patients-post/
No excuse. Pay the fine.
I did it once receive two letters informing me of NHS appointments, one for the following month and one for the previous month. The guy I spoke to at the hospital was actually very apologetic and corrected their records.
Admin costs borne by taxpayers, as now, set to quadruple. Most will likely ignore the notices.
Will they get fined when they cancel the appointment while you're waiting in the waiting room forty minutes after the appointed time, having travelled for an hour to get there? Asking for a family member.
Or when you have told them you can't make the appointment, have had that confirmed, and have asked to have the appointment rescheduled and then you get told you've missed the (original) appointment that you cancelled.
Anybody heard of this lot before?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-publicly-owned-national-energy-system-operator-to-pave-the-way-to-a-clean-energy-future
A newly formed, "New publicly owned National Energy System Operator to pave the way to a clean energy future."
"National Energy System Operator will support the UK’s energy security, help to keep bills down in the long term, and accelerate the government’s clean power mission."
I think these will be the bods who shut down our power to save us from ourselves.
Millipede's gofer?
NESO – bit too close to Gestapo for my liking.
No Energy System Options?
Closer to the reality, I fear.
Another brainless Quango.
Something bad for us, that's for sure.
Not only that, they'll make themselves a fortune at our expense.
Yet another quango with a whole load more bloody bureaucrats being paid enormous salaries for doing … what? Sod bloody all. When will HMG get it into their heads that ‘there is no money’.
It means they'll give us all a box of matches each. Means tested of course.
The BBC is speculating who may take over as leader of Hamas after the assassination of Yahya Sinwar. Two Hamas officials told the BBC that Khalil al-Hayya, Sinwar's deputy and the group's most senior official outside Gaza, is considered a strong candidate. (Note that they have direct communication with Hamas officials).
The leader of the BBC's Palestine supporters, Jerimi Al Bowen, is also being considered but he refuses to leave his hideaway in the Five Star hotel in the centre of Jerusalem. The Israeli assassination teams won't dare bomb my hidey-hole as it would disrupt the transfer of brown envelopes and gold bars from my HQ to the other supporters masquerading as business and entertainment celebrities. I am safe here, Said Jerimi.
Yahya Sinwar? Couldn't help but think of this Rolling Stones album:-
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Yahya Sinwar? Couldn't help but think of this Rolling Stones album:-
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I always thought JB was Jewish, can't think why.
So did I, but there is nothing about it on his wikipedia page, so I guess not. He is a hereditary BBC journalist though, and married to one too – so probably never stepped out of the bubble in his life.
I checked there too…must have put two n two together and made five ‘Middle East Correspondent’, carried that on for years. Probably others I’ve misunderstood:-)
Why? Who cares who runs a terrorist group half way round the world? This is not newsworthy in Britain.
Since their tentacles reach here and there are loads of sleepers just awaiting the adhan, I think it does. We need to know who needs taking out!
Giving them the oxygen of publicity only encourages them
We need to take out el Beebera as well.
Watching That’s TV. Saw the Likely Lads earlier and now Rising Damp. A ‘trigger’ warning before each one means it’s really worth watching. Absolute laugh a minute.
"Likely Lads" Trigger: Dialogue may be incomprehensible {:¬))
Make a damned sight more sense than any of the Liebore ministers.
What are you talking about?
Sue M can translate Geordie. (The first time I went to Newcastle, I really couldn’t understand understand what people were saying.)
I know what you mean. My Mum's tribe were from umpteen miles north of Newcastle. However, Idiot boy Uncle Bill can't even understand Norfukk despite having lived there since before the icebergs melted.
Ha…I can still speak broad Yorkshire to my husband – he can mimic me, but not understand me. Ever thus :-DD
Tha' what? 😉
Today it’s ‘Yerwot’…ulookin’atme….😈
Na then, flower.
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I worked in Geordieland for a while. Way aye, man; gan canny!
I first met a Geordie lad when I was about seven.
I couldn't understand a word; I thought he was a Polish refugee from the camp up the road.
I can understand them. They don't speak mouthy-southy gibberish, such as 'larf'; 'parth', 'grarse', 'girarffe' and 'barth'.
One of our Nottler's accent makes Elizabeth II sound common. Can't say who though because they might run me over in their Citroen.
I say, old chap. Top hole, what?
You Bitch!! Stop trying to wind me up. I will never forgive you for that remark. You will be trashed by something that I need to tell you but have yet to think of.
You were totally beguiled by my cousin, Anne Glenconner's appearance on the Irish Poofter Special show. There are far, far funnier stories to be told and my lips are sealed.
Sod orff.
Anne Glenconner is your cousin? I have two of her books, "Whatever Next" and "Lady In Waiting". They are both excellent reads.
I have Lady in Waiting.
https://twitter.com/eyesareopen78/status/1847684930114834484
https://x.com/kingkapoor72/status/1848003157831393617
Pretty sure I upticked/left a message a while ago, Sue. Comms been bad here, very strong winds but little rain (so far). Very mild weather too.
Afternoon, all. On earlier because I went to a local garden this afternoon (the weather brightened up and I was looking forward to glorying in the autumn colours now the leaves have turned), only to find it was closed. I had a coffee in a dog friendly cafe on the way back and Kadi had a puppachino, but it didn't take as long as wandering round the gardens, hence I'm at a bit of a loose end. I don't fancy doing much in the garden because the ground is so wet. All I've done is gather up the fig leaves (but I know tomorrow they'll be as bad as ever).
The energy secretary is a leftie and a fanatic. There are no sane arguments that would cut any ice.
Transgender darts player to take women’s spot at this year’s World Darts Championship
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/darts/2024/10/20/transgender-noa-lynn-van-leuven-world-championship-spot/
One should be careful when handling darts as one could get a little prick.
Afternoon all. The renewal for my Telegraph subs has dropped in my inbox – just the basic digital sub plus a separate one for the puzzles site. They want £199 and an extra £49 for the puzzles. Who are they trying to kid? With the latest changes in the website it is hard to find news stories and I only tend to spend five or ten minutes, reading the letters and BTL comments and a few of the news stories and that is about it. another20 minutes to do the cryptic and quick crosswords. On the blower tomorrow I think, hopefully a request to cancel will produce something rather better.
My sub cost £25 in May – and I think there have been cheaper ones since then.
I've read a few articles FOC this weekend.
I look at the front page on the Telegraph website. I don't bother going any deeper. I stopped reading the DT several years ago actually. I suppose I'm an imposter here. I stopped reading the Telegraph shortly after Jason Seiken took over editorial control of digital media for Telegraph Media Group. I don't read any British mainstream media anymore and I don't watch any television. I bypass the Telegraph firewall to access the Telegraph crossword puzzles which ended up being the only thing worth buying the paper for.
I don't read the DT either. Haven't done for a long time. I consider myself nearly a founder member 🙂
I haven't read the Telegraph for years either – since they went all wokey-dopey. I found the alternative media for commentary in about 2015 and haven't looked back! Found the independent financial commenters for financial news.
I look at the front page on the Telegraph website. I don't bother going any deeper. I stopped reading the DT several years ago actually. I suppose I'm an imposter here. I stopped reading the Telegraph shortly after Jason Seiken took over editorial control of digital media for Telegraph Media Group. I don't read any British mainstream media anymore and I don't watch any television. I bypass the Telegraph firewall to access the Telegraph crossword puzzles which ended up being the only thing worth buying the paper for.
I look at the front page on the Telegraph website. I don't bother going any deeper. I stopped reading the DT several years ago actually. I suppose I'm an imposter here. I stopped reading the Telegraph shortly after Jason Seiken took over editorial control of digital media for Telegraph Media Group. I don't read any British mainstream media anymore and I don't watch any television. I bypass the Telegraph firewall to access the Telegraph crossword puzzles which ended up being the only thing worth buying the paper for.
https://dailytelegraph.pressreader.com/the-daily-telegraph
I've used this 'virtual newspaper' version of the DT (And ST) for years and it is still only £26 per month (84p a day for the real paper on screen).
I can read the pressreader version for free via my local library (as many can).
I live in Sweden so I have no choice.
I think that anyone in the UK who belongs to a county-council or city library can use their membership to access Pressreader for free. The only problem that I have found is that the access to Pressreader expires after a couple of months but it is easy to sign out and then sign back in again which re-instates the access for another couple of months. The variety of newspapers and magazines is excellent although I suspect that it depends on what one’s library subscribes to. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b18a8281bc67b03d140a8c4bc674715a1a4f6b9afcad794d79281cfd5f509272.jpg
What's a library?
Take a leaf out of lacoste's book (one above) and try Wordle and/or Spelling Bee…foc…
I do Spelling Bee most days. It gives some insight into American spelling. For example we spell Chapatti whereas they spell Chapati (from a recent one).
Usually they don't double consonants, I've found.
Me2, and Wordle. For me, just fun. Husband, daughter both very competitive, start doing Wordle/Spelling Bee as soon as they see it, to be the first, quite funny 😀
Yes both games can be addictive. I have achieved Spelling Bee on one occasion but I now stop at Genius otherwise I would be searching Chambers Dictionary all day. (Today 37 Words and 224 Points but it was comparatively easy to solve).
He’s very similar, stops at Genius. My mum was the same with crosswords, would spend hours hunting down clues. I generally slope off after ten minutes, back to drawing board:-D
Tomato or Tomateo, Eh?
I recall George W Bush adding the letter ‘E’ to the word POTATO in a children’s classroom. Even the kids thought he was an illiterate prat.
Don't renew. Just wait. Eventually they'll reduce it. I waited 3 weeks last year and got the subscription for £19 (for the year). And ignore it if they say 'final offer'. There's always another one.
Unreliable Birdie Three!
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Well done, par today.
Wordle 1,219 4/6
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Not much luck here. Rushed fourth line when I should have taken more care.
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Well done. Par for me.
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Good stuff Rene, boring boring here….
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You are not an imposter. We are happy to take in migrants from other media.
Just be aware some Nottlers have very strong opinions about coloured loo paper, recipes, knitting and jam making and you're home free.
Or jam recipes for knitted bog-roll covers.
You dope, Grizzly :-DDD (said in the nicest possible way, as ever with a Yorkshire accent…)
😊
I grew up with it and used to buy it every day years ago. No deliveries here so we used to only buy the Saturday one. Stopped buying that earlier this year.
Yo Conners
It was the Daily Morseograph when I started to get it.
Dah dit dah!
Just back from the New Forest. Had lunch with my sister, niece and their husbands. First time in 15 years.
Lunch was very nice.
Some horrendous family news though which always seems to accompany these events.
My eldest brother's son Tom has been diagnosed and has begun treatment for Non Hodgkins lymphoma and it's terminal. He's only 30.
Turns out after my brother's divorce his wife then bought a one bedroom flat where she is now nursing him. To cap it all they are within walking distance of me.
Any advice on how i can help or support them would be gratefully received.
That must have put a downer on lunch. He's young for something like that.
We had some bad news earlier on – one of our stalwarts in the hedgehog hospital team died today. She was the main carer for about 10 years.
It's always the same hence the break to preserve my sanity.
There does seem to be a huge rise in cancer rates. Obviously nothing to do with ……..
Sorry about your friend.
She'd had cancer in the past……….. but in the last year or two more of a turbo cancer – kidneys etc…… so who knows what could have caused it.
Sorry for your loss x
Well…if it was me Phizzee..I'd buy a nice card 'thinking of you' type of thing, sign it, put a handwritten note inside with your details and 'be good to hear from you, anything I can do etc'…or whatever you choose. Doesn't mean they'll message or call you (been there) but you'll know in your heart you tried and rest easier in your mind. Hope this helps a little, Kate x
Good suggestion. When my brother's wife died I sent him a condolence message along with my contact details and told him to get in touch if he needed anything. Never heard a word.
All you can do is make the effort, Conway – good for you, did the right thing 🙂
Ball's in his court.
I wasn't on poor terms with that part of the family but the family did fracture when my father died. They wouldn't have difficulty with me turning up on their doorstep.
Thanks for your suggestion but i think a bit more is required. Might be a good first step though.
Definitely personal call in that case, I would. With flowers 🙂
That is out-and-out shit news, Phizz. I might have some soggy suggestions at a later date but, your being a profoundly good man, hang off for the time being and your words of wisdom will be so much more valuable once you are less devastated and massively pissed off.
Very good advice. This does need a bit of thinking about.
Oh, man, Phizzee. That's terrible. Poor lad, only 30. Now I'm all at sea.
I'd ask "Is there anything I can do to be useful?" – might be a lift to medical appointments, shopping, cleaning, whatever. It all helps, and takes away a bit of stress.
Maybe to sit and share a bottle of port with him. That would be really hard work, that, but valuable to t'Lad. I remember doing that with my Dad, in his last months.
Thank you. I did think that the least i could do was be there sometimes so his mum had a break.
Bill's advice is sound. Experience talking.
There's the two of them who need support, but be aware that, if you're involved, you will need support too.
This kind of thing is really hard work, emotionally, so you too need to take care.
Yes. I will contact the relevant charities and support groups and see what they say.
Good idea, although I didn't get much joy. I hope you'll fare better.
Bill's advice is sound. Experience talking.
There's the two of them who need support, but be aware that, if you're involved, you will need support too.
This kind of thing is really hard work, emotionally, so you too need to take care.
Let him know that he can always "unload" stuff to you. Being able to do that can be a great help. I remember the tremendous support from people I didn't know when my younger son was diagnosed.
Thank you. I think i have to prepare myself. I'm not the strongest of characters.
Sure you are, man. You just don't know it yet.
Don't forget, NoTTL are here for you, so you can lean on us. We have your back.
I agree with Paul; I think you are stronger than you give yourself credit for. Nottlers will be behind you (usually telling you where you're going wrong <g>).
Thank you. I know i can help but i i have difficulty where disfiguring illnesses are concerned.
You are doing yourself down.
I can say that, having met you, you are one of very few people with whom I would discuss personal matters.
What dreadful news for you.
As Bill T says ‘if you let them know you’re there for anything they might need and they only have to ask’.
I can’t imagine how I would have reacted.
I only learned today they are living in the same town as me. I will sort something out.
Good man yourself, Phizzee.
We'll be thinking of you and sending positive vibes!
Sorry to hear this Phil. For what it’s worth……
1) Sleep on it
2) Without knowing the intricacies of your personal relationships it’s difficult to advise.
3) Bill's comments, based on personal experience, are sound.
4) Get together with some NoTTLers for lunch in the week.
Thats very hard to take news. Sorry to hear about it for you.
My brother, also called Philip, was diagnosed with a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma around four years ago. It was in his thorax and he told me it was the size of an orange. He successfully followed a course of radiotherapy and (I think) chemotherapy which successfully shrank it down to insignificance. He reports that all his check-ups since have proved negative and he feels better than he has done in years.
Sorry to hear about your nephew.
That's very positive, Grizz.
It's one of the better cancers to have (I know that's not a great thing to say, but it has v good survival rates). There has been some great effective treatments developed for it esp recently – CAR T therapy, i think is one advancement. Lots online to inform. The family need support from professionals. Is there a Maggie's House near you? Macmillan Nurse. Blood Cancer UK is worth a look for info and support. It can go into remission and when it can return there is treatment for it again. A horrible illness is always upsetting. Maybe the family can join a group to talk to others with it and get advice on what to do. Have a friend with it and they are still living a full life five years on from diagnosis. I would definitely find people who know about it for info and support as there is so much info out there about it.
Check out Gordon Michelle on Facebook. It is a long shot but desperate times call for desperate (innovative) measures. I will see if I can find a link. If I do I will post it here.
Edit: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566989721459 The lady does invite direct messaging for assistance. Anecdotally there have been amazing results with Ivermectin, even at late stages. No wonder TPTB didn't want us to get our hands on this stuff.
Starmer removing all those portraits from number 10 got me wondering
https://www.islamicity.org/20587/islams-prohibition-of-drawing-images-and-erecting-statues/#:~:text=Islam%20prohibits%20drawing%20images%20and%20erecting%20statues%20of,%28Islamic%20jurisprudence%29%20as%20%E2%80%98%20aqidah%20%28Islamic%20belief%20system%29.
He's replaced them with daubs, but they're still images (of a sort). The article misses the point about Christ's humanity (the whole point was he took on human form and lived and suffered as a human to save humanity).
Would Lord Alli object though
We are our own support group aren't we…Thank goodness for Geoff.
If anybody should be in the House of Lords, it's Geoff. None of those other shysters, cheaters, thieves and liars.
I wouldn't wish that on him. I would like to see Geoff in the archetypal thatched rose cottage having tea and cake with mole and ratty.
My imagination has Geoff as well-dressed and ironed, not ratty.
;-))
Geoff is too honest for the HoL.
I thought that just after I posted it. You are 100% correct – also, he gets stuff done without cheating or being sly.
We are a close knit family. Indeed, thank goodness for Geoff.
I don't expect much but some advice would be good from people who are acquainted with it. I can always ignore the advice.
Thankyou – it's always a shock when someone you know is no more. Annie broke the news an she could hardly speak.
That's me for today. It remained gloomy and wet until about half an hour ago, when the sun unexpectedly came out. So I spent the day indoors. Made a loaf – then just, er, loafed and read.
Have a spiffing evening.
A demain
Jabbed?
I think so. I remember her giving me a look when I said I wasn't having any boosters.
The scheme should be backed if it goes after the right kind of fraudsters i.e. the professionals who can be deported after their illegally gained assets have been seized. However, one suspects it'll still be the easier targets.
Wedge – thin end of….
Why do I feel this is an ominous move?
It won't be used to catch asylum seekers going on holiday back to the war-torn countries from which they fled, paying tickets with benefits money, because they are a protected class.
Because you're old, suspicious, been fooled before…like most of us…
Because it very deffo isn't for our benefit.
What happens if the benefits fraudster (deliberately) doesn't keep any money in his/her bank account?
There will have to be an account somewhere. Benefits are not paid by cash or cheques anymore!
Yeah – in Nigeria/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Albania.
Rule No.1 then – payment to a UK bank a/c. It's all Greek to me 😀 I'd like to know the rules, and the scams.
Payment to UK bank account then immediate transfer to bank in Nigeria/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Albania.
UK banks should be able to put a hold on that, if flagged by Benefits Office.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if many of the ordinary staff have been identifying foreign/immigrant fraud for years only to be told to shut up for the sake of diversity.
That has a ring of truth about it.
I’ll join you in that bet, William.
These days many of the ordinary staff are indeed diversity……
In theory, yes, but by the time the potential fraud is spotted, it’s probably years down the line. No possibility of clawing anything back.
I’d probably set up a Rewards Scheme, on a whiteboard…see who can claw back/stop the largest amount month by month. Similar to the sort of thing in private company Sales offices length and breadth of country. ‘Computer says no’…which show was that? :-DD
Very good question. Hopefully Benefits Office staff learning all the time, and also background computer checks (bank a/c etc) keeping a step in front. Be interesting to see some stats, Aeneas.
Assets can be seized?
HMRC can already take money direct from people’s salaries. They say that I owe them but shouldn’t try to pay by transfer myself as the danger of sending the money to the wrong department is too great and letting them take it via PAYE is safer. In my case, I think that’s correct. (They’re claiming a share of the interest on my savings. It’s taxable income.)
I doubt many of the fraudsters have jobs.
By my calculations these new powers will claw back LESS THAN FIVE PER CENT of the official estimate benefit fraud over the NEXT FIVE YEARS ((£1,6bn÷ (7.3×5)
With all the new civil servants it will need, however, the cost will considerably outweigh the savings.
One thing to be said for the UK in 1900 was that benefit fraud was infinitessimally small (or zero).
If they know much is claimed fraudulently, then do they grant benefits in the first place?
I have to sign off now. Any replies will be tomorrow. Thanks for the kind words and advice.
Take care, Phil. xx
Sleep well, man.
Wes Streeting has just featured on BBC News planning on overhaul of the NHS involving staff, doctors and patients.
Keeping patients out of hospital. by using Fitbit type wrist devices to identify symptoms is likely to fraught with difficulties because in my experience medical professionals are dismissive of any instrumentarion figures from patient worn devices.
Doctors much prefer office derived measurements that can be interpreted as the patient requiring drugs.
He was on GBN similarly, Angie. Don't think Chopper believed him any more than I did.
The fitbit thingy probably has a more sinister application involving the CBDC.
If you don't move enough – only 9,999 steps today – you're put on the Liverpool Pathway.
Rapidly. They're supplied by Mossad… 💥
VG!!!
Or, no chocolate éclairs for you this year. And you can forget that juicy steak you were planning on having at the weekend….. but yes, report to your local ‘assisted dying’ pod is more likely….. I am glad that I am the age that I am, but I am curious to see how it all pans out. Will our compatriots find the nation’s spine that has been mislaid for the last 75 years and do the necessary?
Yes, it might be fitted round your ankle!
Where’s the money coming from to buy these gadgets? Another money tree farm?
The Government has arranged for extra borrowing rights for the Treasury.
That’s alright then! Anyone in government at all worried about already out of control borrowing? Or how Joe Public is going to afford to pay it back when Joe is being taxed until the pips squeak?
Fun Fact: Between 2014 and 2020 the EU provided €2.2 billion in bilateral aid & external assistance to the Palestinian Authorities. Not to be outdone.. the European Development Partners consisting of Norway and Switzerland threw in an additional €1.18 billion. (Source – the EU).
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Picture says a 1000 words and all that..
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's wife is spotted seemingly holding a $32,000 Hermes Birkin bag in the tunnel leading to his secret lair..
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Sir Keir asks if it was the 30 Black Box or 35 Togo range.. Asking for a friend.
Apparently the shiny dangly padlock is a giveaway.
Sir Keir asks if it was the 30 Black Box or 35 Togo range.. Asking for a friend.
Ugly looking bitch, ain't she?
They get countless millions of dollars from the UN and the CCP too and I think the House of Saud chips in. They have more than enough money for their people to live well. All cultures are not equal.
Might she have bought it on a trip to London?
Well, that was enjoyable!
Repairing a problem with the chop-saw and I heard voices and found t'Lad had arrived with a couple of mates, out on a walk.So I ended up being reluctantly dragged down to Cromford for a couple pints in The Boat!
Was it the chop-saw that had the problem or was it a different problem resolved with the chop-saw…………..?
The safety shield has shed a screw that, luckily, I found.
Once I worked out how it worked, t'were a mere 20 minutes to sort out.
Bloody thing could do with replacing though, it's got a bearing or two knackered and it makes a horrendous noise!
Him Indoors often seems to think buying a replacement worse than the old'un he already has.:-)
He's probably right. I replaced my satnav with a newer version of the one I had because TomTom kept telling me my current device couldn't be updated. Damned new one blanks out the screen when it gives you instructions – whoever thought that not being able to see the map when you needed to make a change of direction was a good thing? Worse, it also precedes the directions with chevrons that flash across the blank screen. Distracting or what? I hate it. I have thought about sending it back, but I no longer have the box. I'll get a Garmin, I think, but I'll try it out first!
Satnav? Is that the map thing in his car…I was really think of carpentry/woodwork stuff..hammers, chisels and the like..he's had many half a century or more, complains bitterly (some) new replacements made of soap…(what ?), won't buy them.
Yes, but mine isn't built in. As I drive alone (except for Kadi who is rubbish at map-reading <g>) I need a navigator who can talk to me. The Garmin in the motorhome is fine, if a bit "bongy" – it keeps telling me the speed limit is about to change, or there's a side wind, or there's a sharp bend and each time it bongs to attract my attention.
Doggie navigation depends on a full bladder? I used to have a lovely pooch who always tried to leave a trail but used to run out of ammo.
My setter used to take ages squeezing out the last drop when we got to the end of the walk. He wouldn't move until he'd managed it 🙂
You do know that was canine Pee-mail….!
Read and decide whether to leave a reply.
Our Garmin does the same… the built in one in the new car (which is now 10 years old) has a softer, less bossy voice, but it too is now 10 years old. It will get you there but it may well be via Lands' End.
I’m rubbish at map reading too:-) Bit annoying when he goes off track ‘to see what’s there’, gets lost….an hour later finally back on motorway, dogs legs all crossed.
The only good thing about this new one is that I could change the voice. I ditched "Malcolm" who came as standard for "Serena". I find female voices easier to listen to.
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow – especially if it means going down the pub!
Oh noes! The shame…
You heard voices? Are you channelling your inner Joan of Arc?
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I chuckled for ages over that one!
Look at these Clowns:
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They can't be footballers standing in a wall 'cos none of them have got balls.
DT article:
White Britons dying at higher rate than ethnic minorities
White people in Britain are dying at higher rates than ethnic minorities because of their drinking and smoking habits.
Analysis from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) of mortality rates by ethnicity across towns, cities and villages found that in almost all cases white Britons were dying in higher numbers, despite on average being more affluent.
The only exception can be found among people from Bangladeshi backgrounds in smaller towns and cities who die at slightly higher rates than white Britons.
Were white people more likely to get the jab ?
As one might expect, that line of questioning figures prominently in the comments
Of course. They don’t jab the boat people and many blacks refused. Not that I blame them. I met plenty of nice black people on the anti-lockdown marches. Tommy attracts them as well.
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As the government might say – "Who cares?"
What an appalling piece of victim blaming.
Close the pubs! Close the breweries!
Drinking and smoking habits? I think it is due to something else entirely different from the given.
I see government ministers are going to oversee the HS2 project.
In my experience there is nothing like a manager several levels higher than needed micromanaging a project to ensure it falls spectacularly on its arse.
And with this bunch of insufferable cretins anything is possible.
Government ministers, eh? What a fantastic idea – their experience working in politics, trade unions, charities and the public sector will really ensure a speedy and efficient delivery of a functioning railway.
What could possibly go wrong?
It will be quicker to list what won’t.
They seem to have deliberately selected every single thing they know will cause as many problems and as much trouble as possible.
What do they know about:
– Massive capital projects
– Managing large contracts
– Managing several large contractors
– the business of building railways
and the niceties of:
– Scope creep
– Change control, – Change boards & change orders, project change requests
– CTRs
– Interface management
– Technology
– Tunnelling
– Electricity
Oh, fuck, I can't be bothered.
What do they know about running anything? They haven't a clue how to run the country. In fact, I think they'd be hard-pushed to run a bath.
I suspect buff envelopes may be in the equation somewhere.
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They lend books! Yea, yea – what are books? Great RAFA Conference this weekend, by the way.
Good. I didn't go, but I hope to hear all about it when we meet. We haven't had a library for over a year and there is little prospect of one returning (the county is broke).
Such a shame they don't have Police Pigs…
https://x.com/real_eire/status/1848006849225797667 Edit: Typo
Coming to a town near you.
If only. Our Plod runs away. And out useless politicians would most likely prostrate themselves apologetically for “offending” our “peaceful” friends
Unfair on the dogs, really.
They've probably been in worse situations, Conway, trained for it. The real problems will arise if/when(?) firearms appear/are used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojULkWEUsPs
Good.
Such a shame they don't have Police Pigs…
https://x.com/real_eire/status/1848006849225797667 Edit: Typo
Oh, boy, she can really blow:
https://x.com/Timcast/status/1847439431877251320
One of the best dinners in a very long time. I'll remember this for ever.
SWMBO roasted a leg of lamb, with potatoes, boiled sprouts & carrots. Home-made blackberry crumble for pudding with custard. Man, she's a great cook!
Both lads here, and Second Son brought over a bottle of special whisky: Johnnie Walker double Black Label – smooth & superb!
Bottle of good Chianti to wash the meat down with.
Excellent conversation – Firstborn just back from a training course in Range Officer certification, lots of interesting stuff to tell.
Just wonderful. I am truly blessed.
You're making me jealous!
Doesn't happen so often, so when it does, a moment to treasure.
I was going to cook lamb steaks with all the trimmings today, but then I forgot to take the lamb out of the freezer 🙁
Very much my style, Conway 🙂
We always put what we want defrosted to cook in the fridge.
It saves a lot of hassle.
That was my intention, but I forgot to do it.
Sounds lovely Obs.
Number two's family came in to see us this arvo, no dinner but its lovely to catch up with them both and see the grandchildren. Dispite having to tidy up after them.
Ah, Grandkids. One has the ambition, but for both lads, there’s currently no lady in sight.
One lives in hope.
It's a wonderful world, Paul, if you can just keep your distance from news stories about politics and politicians. Life's too short for that.
Something pleasant and relaxing.
And that's me off for an early night.
Good night all.
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BBC Antiques roadshow coming form Cromford !
Will Bob feature?
Only if he's an antique 🙂
Having a mug of tea, Steph?
Think that's a Turner painting, Bob…the Thames at night :-)?
Monet did several paintings of the Thames, KJ.
Thanks, lacoste – I usually associate him with his garden, thought it might be Turner because of the river traffic. You are correct, Monet 🙂
On the Monet I'd say!
Thanks Stephen 😍 😊
On the Monet I'd say!
Just been out into the garden to pick outdoor tomatoes for my lunch tomorrow by the light of my mobile phone! They keep on ripening, though the cold will surely finish the plants off soon.
I just threw the last plant away today. It had one VERY green small tomato on it. I've brought the tomato in to ripen it, hopefully. This year has been a disaster in the veg garden.
Have you not got any bubble wrap to hand ?
Hadn’t thought of that! – I usually just bring them to ripen indoors
Put it in a brown paper bag, in a drawer. Don't forget about it 😀
Just one snag – I don't have a brown paper bag.
Newspaper?
I have the RAF News.
Try it…doesn't work can make a paper 'plane? :-))
Scarce food and stifling homes: sputtering grid pushes Cuba nearer collapse
Three power cuts in a weekend born of state’s penury have caused nationwide struggles and shortages
The problem is that the Cuban government has run out of money. This has made power cuts of up to 20 hours a day a regular experience across the island, as the state struggles to buy enough fuel on the global markets for its five main thermoelectric power plants.
The lack of money has led to water shortages as pumps and pipes fail, rubbish piling up on street corners as collections are cut, and hunger as food prices soar.
Cuba blames its six-decade embargo by the US for its penurious state. On Friday, Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s president, referred to “the cruellest blockade”. Others, such as the respected economist Pedro Monreal, contest this, asserting that one of the world’s last centrally planned communist states has moved from sclerotic to moribund. “It is a bankruptcy caused by internal decisions,” he wrote online.
But it was a call made by the government on Thursday for all nonessential workers in its vast bureaucracy to go home and save energy that heralded this latest crisis, one unprecedented except in times when the island receives direct hit from hurricanes.
The move did not save the electrical grid, which collapsed just after 11am on Friday. The main generating station, in Matanzas, went offline. Only those who had personal generators had light.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/20/scarce-food-and-stifling-homes-sputtering-grid-pushes-cuba-nearer-collapse
Shades of things to come !
My thought exactly! Coming to us in short order.
Some of my stuff was successful, others not – but that was more down to my skill than the weather. One thing, the apple trees are normally v good at shedding tiny apples in summer, but this year they didn’t – so the harvest was masses of small /tiny apples. More rain, I suppose.
After two late nights I think I'll be turning in soon.
I've got to get our car to the local garage by 8:30 am to have two new front tyres fitted.
And walk home and back later to collect it.
Little Britain.
Yes! Thanks Aeneas 🙂
from Coffee House, the Spectator
Labour can’t help Kamala Harris
Lee Cohen19 October 2024, 7:34am
The news that Labour is sending volunteers to assist Kamala Harris’s campaign is an outrage. In what world is it acceptable for a foreign political entity to interfere in the democratic process of a sovereign nation? If the Tories were shipping off their operatives to help Donald Trump, the shrieking harpies would be crying foul, calling election interference. But it favours Kamala Harris, suddenly, the lines of legality and ethics are blurred, if not outright erased.
I don’t like it, clearly, but in some ways it’s laughable
Inarticulate, policy-challenged Kamala Harris has bumbled her way through high-stakes interviews, fumbled crucial debates, and remains woefully underqualified in foreign affairs. Her rise to prominence seems to stem from the Democratic establishment’s desperation to support her as their only option against Trump. It is undeniable the candidate thought unelectable just months ago needs all the assistance she can get.
But let’s not pretend this is a standard political exchange. While political volunteering abroad isn’t unheard of, this is an organised hit squad, sent by a political party in power, aimed squarely at influencing the outcome of a presidential election in a foreign country. Labour’s intervention here isn’t some harmless cultural exchange, it’s a direct attempt to manipulate the future of America’s highest office.
The hypocrisy is staggering. From Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden, and now Kamala Harris, the left has endlessly accused Donald Trump of collaborating with foreign powers – Russia, in particular. They pursued years-long investigations into alleged interference, branding Trump a traitor for supposed conspiracies with foreign adversaries. Yet, open interference by the British governing party in this election is now deemed acceptable? Where is the outrage now?
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Moreover, this isn’t just unethical – it could be illegal. Foreign nationals participating in American political campaigns in such a direct manner risks violating US election laws. While the volunteers are not supposed to be paid, who is underwriting their travel and other expenses? Has the generous Lord Alli offered to pay?
The stakes of this election are immense. Key states like Virginia and Pennsylvania are in play, yet Labour volunteers are being sent to sway voters – not out of genuine concern for American democracy, but to protect their ideological allies. Should Trump win, the bilateral relationship could be severely strained. Will these Labour activists take responsibility for the potential diplomatic fallout?
I don’t like it, clearly, but in some ways it’s laughable. The world knows the Labour party didn’t win through persuasion or vision. It failed miserably in inspiring British voters, who instead turned out in droves to punish the Tories for their own incompetence. The irony is rich when you consider the Labour organiser’s rallying cry to volunteers to come to Kamala’s aid: ‘Let’s show those Yanks how to win elections!’ What are they going to say on the doorstep?
Rather than campaigning in Nevada and Virginia, Labour volunteers should stay home and fix their own broken politics. The last thing America needs is guidance from a party that is experiencing such a jaw-dropping plunge in popularity so soon after election. This ridiculous ploy could potentially further strain the bilateral partnership at a time when its strength and solidarity are critical to opposing the ever-expanding ambitions of the enemies of the West. It is irresponsible and alarming.
The blind leading the blind.
If the blind lead the blind they shall both fall in to the ditch. So says the Good Book. We can but hope.
The Day of the Triffids. that's about all we need now.
I'm sure Trump would welcome these Labour volunteers to support Harris if they are as convincing as Starmer's cabinet crew.
The weather improved late afternoon, clear sky, still breezy and we realised we had too many warm clothes on after we got in the car to take Pip for a good run ..
We met several other dog walkers who also commented how strange the weather was , so warm , the air and the breeze .
On the way home , we saw masses of roe deer , and I mean probably 100+ grazing in a field near home , sometimes an animal will slip through the hedgerow and crash bang , that's it ..more deer are taking risks , and the council are not so quick retrieving corpses these days, that the animals lay on the side of the road , bloating then eaten by corvids or anything else feral. and within a week the remains are ribs and big bones.
Nature takes care of everything .
We came home and prepared an easy supper of chicken breasts flattened and basted with a Thai spice mixture and lime juice , little bit of oil in a large frying pan , lid on , turned the meat a couple of times in the pan , cooked in ten minutes , prepared mixed salad , half a prepared grapefruit for starters , and pud was a tiny tub of Hagen Das ice cream each..
Then settled down to watch Country File … no mention of farmers being encouraged to turn their acres into solar farms !!
Hmm. Road kill venison??
Politicians used to kiss babies?
https://x.com/RaheemKassam/status/1848062770865913900
Isn't this one alleged to have kissed Babes….?
It beats eating plastic chicken dinners that will be served at the functions he is attending.
I saw this earlier, thanks Sue 🙂
Apparently an Oregon Forestry service official has been suspended for the terrible crime of recruiting staff on merit!
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/us-news/top-oregon-official-put-on-leave-for-allegedly-prioritizing-qualified-job-candidates-over-gender-identity/
Well, chums, it's almost 10 pm. So I will wish you all Good Night. Sleep well, and I hope to see you all refreshed tomorrow morning.
Goodnight, Elsie. Sleep well.
How many people go straight to Comments? There is an article by Iain Duncan Smith about Ms Kemi Badenoch where the BTL warriors are braver than me.
BTL Graham Leighton: "Badenoch fully supported mass immigration in 2018. Badenoch a Nigerian immigrant whose first language is not even English its Nigerian Yoruba. How many votes will Nigerian Badenoch get for the Tories from people who have had enough of mass 3rd world immigration.?
D Day Sunak said he would control mass immigration then added 250,000 Indians in 2023. – How many Nigerians do you want.? "
Best of all, IDS writes "I am supporting Kemi because I believe she has the right attributes: …" He believes, therefore he is uncertain.
Edit, the link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/20/kemi-badenoch-has-shown-shes-fearless-conservatives-need/
Oh my goodness ..
Tory leadership is sunk , isn't it?
Sun
ak by name and nature.I agree with IDS; Kemi is an engineer with guts, determination and clout.
I find your prejudices shallow, distasteful and ill-found, tim5165.
My impression of Nigerian women is that they are usually forthright successful and are not timid .
How good Kemi is immaterial at the moment, because I just want Sir Keef, Lammy Reeves and Mrs Balls to quiver with fright when confronted with the directness of questioning and answers from Kemi ..because she has a higher IQ and a proud Nigerian status .. and far more superior than the other dumbass ethnics.
Badenoch is Michael Gove's sock puppet. Gove was grown in a plastic Petra dish at Porton Down and contained in an airtight isolation unit until some fool in the Tory Party unleashed the slime monster into the atmosphere.
Not my prejudices. I was astounded that Sir Duncan-Smith fell in the trap of using the word 'believe', which, like 'think' implies doubt. The comment I quoted is the second 'most liked'. No idea if Badenoch is bilingual, but I wonder if she talks with her children in Yoruba. My limited experience of the Nigerian population in the UK is that the people are aspirational and hard working.
I would support Kemi rather than Jenrick any time. And, just to be clear, I’m against the illegal gimmegrants. Also against giving these people automatic rights to claim asylum here, granted by this AH Labour government.
Iain Duncan Smith
Kemi has shown she’s fearless. That’s exactly what our party needs
Iain Duncan Smith 20 October 2024 5:00pm BST
As the ballots go out to members, I feel it is important to explain why I have chosen to vote for Kemi Badenoch to be the Conservative Party’s next leader. I respect Robert Jenrick as a politician, but when I considered the scale of the challenge facing the Conservatives and the threat we now face from a determined Reform Party, I decided to support Kemi Badenoch.
Let me explain.
First, any new leader will have to face up to the scale of the challenge – the biggest I can recall in my political lifetime. The stark truth is that millions of Conservative voters deserted us in July, either by staying at home or voting for Reform. They became so disappointed in the Conservative government that their primary goal was to remove us from power.
Yet, they didn’t vote for Keir Starmer’s Labour. Labour polled only 33% of the vote, the lowest share of any party forming a post-war majority government.
It’s no wonder that our voters deserted us. In government, we began to look like a rabble, unwilling to be led and characterised by infighting amongst senior ministers. It cost us dearly, which is why we must take the Reform Party very seriously.
Of course, the pandemic derailed the post-2019 programme of government. The extreme measures taken during the outbreak dramatically damaged our economy. Then, Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine added to the cost of living crisis, high interest rates, and high taxes.
On top of all that, immigration soared. A Conservative government, frustrated by the UK courts and seemingly unable to get a grip on illegal migration, appeared to have lost control of our borders, while the scale of legal immigration also raised concerns.
I have heard it said during this leadership campaign that all we need to do is remind the voting public of our great past successes, and by doing so, show them the error of their ways in supporting Reform. This is the electoral equivalent of hiding our heads under a warm blanket; relying on ‘buyer’s remorse’ by those who deserted us won’t bring Conservative voters back.
No, whoever we pick to lead our Party must, through personality and determination, call out our mistakes while taking the fight to Labour.
I believe Kemi has those traits. How ironic, then, that she is now being criticised as too aggressive. Aggression is a key part of opposition: when tempered and controlled, it enables a leader to lead the attack on a failing Labour government.
I know how difficult it is to lead in opposition. With little money and limited resources, the leader must be able to take the fight to the government. That is the first phase of earning the right to be heard, and from there, developing a renewed policy platform that Conservatives can rally behind.
Kemi has shown that she is not afraid to come under attack for the things she believes. For example, she stood up to the trans lobby and fashionable opinions on sex and gender. By taking a principled position, she saw off the Scottish government’s self-ID legislation and, I believe, courageously changed the tone of the entire debate. Even Labour has had to accept that it’s wrong to give children puberty blockers and that we must protect single-sex spaces.
Being opposition leader is a hard and often lonely occupation. Whoever is elected leader deserves our full support. Party politicians too often expect instantaneous results and let their frustrations lead to more infighting. My colleagues need to refrain from such instincts and get behind the new leader.
I am supporting Kemi because I believe she has the right attributes: integrity, courage, and the ability to grow in stature as opposition leader. At this time, faced by such huge challenges to our way of life, internally and externally, the leader will need to show Conservatives are competent, reach out to those who left us by speaking with common sense and most of all, fight every day to protect our country and our values of family, taking personal responsibility and above all, freedom.
I believe Kemi can do that.
"While the scale of legal immigration also raised concerns".
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Understatement of the century
https://x.com/M_Z_W_K/status/1848020587341402415 Have I repeated this , again and again?
395075+ up ticks,
Pillow ponder,
Life for the offenders is not good enough what would be far better is that all the guilty parties families are deported same day the guilty verdict comes in.
You leave the families in place you condemn innocent
lives being open to revenge attacks.
Also commence giving heavy time to fit the crime of cover up merchants, as in council members / police / mps etc,etc.
Robert Jenrick: Grooming gangs should face whole life sentences
Tory leadership contender also proposes automatic deportations for any non-British offender involved
Should ? for real effect hand on bible in a full house of commons, WILL FACE FULL LIFE SENTENCES.
Where British is redefined as from a family with a forebear resident in the UK in 1950.
https://x.com/TheNorfolkLion/status/1847665229267701947
Being a Tory voter is like being in an abusive relationship. You get beaten up every day and your trusted partner tells you that everything will get better and you swallow it until you get another split lip and another good hard beating.
After 14 years of of it, you just say, fuck you cuntyface, I'm off and I'm not coming back. Fuck off….forever.
Far too polite.
And I voted Ukip in 2015.
We watched the final of the Young Musicians – three very talented young men. The two pianists both played Rachmaninov no2.
I have the recordings of Cyril Smith who having performed Rach 3, possibly the most difficult of all Racmaninov’s Piano Concertos was complimented by Rachmaninov as having performed the best interpretation.
Unfortunately Cyril Smith subsequently suffered a cerebral thrombosis and lost the use of his left side, as a pianist, of his left hand.
Cyril Smith continued to perform duets with his wife Phyllis Sellick who was a favourite of Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music. Several eminent composers of the time wrote dedicated pieces for their performances.
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The BBC has been banging on all day about the weather. It was another named storm, described by one R4 newsreader, in tones like those used by the presenters of 1950s childrens' programmes, as a 'weather bomb'. It wasn't even deserving of that over-hyped label. It was an unremarkable Atlantic depression of the kind that wouldn't have been considered newsworthy even in the 1990s.
Here in NN8 we had a dampish morning then at about 1:30, the passing cold front gave us a brief squall (it was quite a good one admittedly) and then a bright and breezy afternoon. Very simply, ordinary autumn weather.
Here it was the sort of weather I associate with the equinox. Windy.
I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
Winds have been strong here. Otherwise a sunny day after a dull, damp start.
We have an accumulation of rainwater which causes the bridges between Essex (where I live) and Suffolk to be flooded over the River Stour crossing points.
This inconveniences thousands of people but nothing is ever done by the Water Board (does it still function or even exist?) and the wretched Environment Agency.
We have a secure Waterworks Station at nearby Sturmer yet every year a few inches of rain cause localised flooding at important road links over the River Stour.
Isn't Windy a New Zealand Girl?
Bloody wind blew all the fallen leaves back all over the lawn, then added the last few in the trees. Bugger!
Have been and still am. horribly sick. Bed-ridden. I'll try talking later. Best wishes to all.
Oh no…I hope you'll feel better tomorrow.
Thank you, Jules, but I’m afraid it’s not to be!
Hope you recover shortly. There are a few bugs going around at this time of year.
Thank you, Corri
Take care, Tom. Grab more zeds, if you can.
Goodnight, all.
Back to bed!
And now, to cap it all. my 'phone doesn't work!
And now, to cap it all. my 'phone doesn't work!
Maybe, back to bed is the only option. Talk later, much later! If at all.
Maybe, back to bed is the only option. Talk later, much later! If at all.
Take a few well-earned zeds until it's properly light, Tom.
Will do, Paul.
Good morning, all – Monday’s new page is here .
Good morning Geoff.
Thank you Geoff.