Wednesday 25 June: Keir Starmer has failed to show leadership over the Middle East conflict

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562 thoughts on “Wednesday 25 June: Keir Starmer has failed to show leadership over the Middle East conflict”

    1. Bathroom fitter arrived on the dot of 08:00 and straight to work. Poles certainly have good skill and good work habits!

    2. That's not even funny, it's a simple statement of truth. No dole scroungers will ever leave, it's all the people with get up and go who are getting up and going.

      2. Which is why welfare must be revoked for any immigrant for a minimum of ten years – including NHS treatment.

    3. To those who praise this cartoon, I ask how many of these sea-going vessels actually produce the fish for our dinner?

  4. Good morning Geoff and all NoTTLers. With all the doom and gloom around at the moment I thought I'd inject a small amount of humour this morning about little boys.

    While a little boy was away at school, his cat died. Worried about how he would take the news when he got home, his mother consoled him and said: “Don’t worry, darling. Tiger is in Heaven with God now.”
    The boy looked at her and said: “What’s God gonna do with a dead cat?”

    A small boy came running out of the bathroom in tears. “What’s the matter, son?” asked his father. “I dropped my toothbrush in the toilet.”
    “Okay, don’t worry, but we’d better throw it out.” So the father fished the toothbrush out of the toilet and put it in the garbage.
    When he returned, the boy was holding another toothbrush. “Isn’t that my toothbrush?” asked the father.
    “Yes,” said the boy, “and we’d better throw this one out, too, because it fell in the toilet four days ago.”

    1. Only a couple of weeks ago, Labour was splashing billions here, billions there, and billions everywhere on infrastructure projects with prices bumped up for their contractor favourites such as Serco, and their costs piled onto the Council Tax and small business overheads. Loadsamoney!

      If you are Labour, only "hard decisions" are made when they affect those who cannot care for themselves, and therefore cannot defend themselves against extortion, rather than profit from it.

      This is why "caring conservatism" rings more true with the Left than "Labour Change".

    2. It depends on your idea of working.

      If the intent is high employment, high wages, moderate inflation(from supply and demand), cheap energy, genuine economic growth and small, efficient government then no, Labour isn't. But the socialist Tories weren't either.

      From Labour's communist perspective they are doing what they set out to do, as the EU and it's hangers on demanded: high crime, surveillance, intrusion, crushing taxation, economic collapse, societal and cultural abuse, recession, unemployment, debt and chaos – which simply must be, from their actions their intent everything's going fine.

      I honestly believe Starmer is intent on doing so much damage we are forced to the IMF and from there back to the EU. That's why the merry go round of troughers are pushed into the roles as heads of these organisations. They're not competent, it's just ensuring the 'right' decisions are made to further the hegmony.

    3. What's comes round etc. I remember the tory election poster so well from the
      past.

    1. God knows how we survived in Nigeria in the summer before the rains came. Regularly +43C, loads sunshine, dry, dust, humidity, and no aircon.

    2. God knows how we survived in Nigeria in the summer before the rains came. Regularly +43C, loads sunshine, dry, dust, humidity, and no aircon.

  8. 408202 +up ticks,

    Morning Each,
    Wednesday 25 June: Keir Starmer has failed to show leadership over the Middle East conflict

    The WEF / NWO find no fault in his pursuit of handing the indigenous peoples their
    collective arse's on a plate.

    TO THINK OTHERWISE MAKES YOU A SUPPORTER.

    1. Stoma would be the one not picked for either team. Even for an end of term knockabout between school houses.
      All those foreigners seem to understand English.

          1. I think GM's the women above the one in yellow.
            The photo was taken at the official State reception, I believe.

    1. They're planning to start a new Ministry of Industrial Strategy with a million civil serpents working in it?

    2. Like the food security strategy which set about destroying food production an the energy strategy which set about destroying energy, this one sets about destroying industry.

      It's all 'tractor production is up, comrades!' down the communist, command economy nonsense.

    3. This is just a sample of the crap she is bragging about.

      The UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 2025: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-uks-modern-industrial-strategy-2025

      The Clean Energy Industries Sector Plan doubles down on the UK’s existing strengths in frontier clean energy industries with the biggest growth opportunities.
      The Plan’s ambition is to make us a global leader by 2035, doubling investment levels across our frontier clean energy industries to over £30 billion per year and creating good jobs across the country.

      £30 billion per year on wind farms and solar panels? Madness!

  12. UK Legislation
    12h
    1/No 10 gags military chiefs at events where a minister is present
    2/‘Deeply worried’ ex-MI6 chief claims Labour putting national security at risk

    Richard Dearlove 'deeply worried' about UK defence policy

    Sir Keir Starmer’s Government represents a threat to national security, former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove has claimed, branding the policies of senior figures, including Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, “mad” and “deeply worrying”.

    3/He also highlighted concerns over Labour’s energy policy, calling it “a vital part of national security”

    4/ he also criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer for neglecting domestic issues in favour of overseas travel.

    “When Thatcher came into office, she focused on domestic problems first

    THIS GOVT IS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT

    2. Yet remember it was May who pushed net zero into law in the dying days of her parliament. It must be repealed.

      So many things are wrong with this country that it's beyond a joke. Plod don't enforce the law, the criminal behaves with impunity, the savage kills and the state protects them and jails those fighting against it. The waster is rewarded, the feckless given freebies while the worker, the contributor is punished with vicious taxes and intrusion, all to take and take but the appeal process is months long yet the oppression instantaneous.

      Wherever you look, there's a foreigner, lounging about, doing nothing, sloping along wearing a hoodie or mask in broad daylight, gangs of weed puffing eastern Europeans hover near a van to attack women and children – it's a vile society the Left have forced on us and then, and then they lie about it all.

      1. And it seems Lucy Connolly has been transferred, by a group of prison officers, to a notoriously tough area of her prison and deprived of privileges! Don't try to tell me that this isn't politically motivated. See Allison Pearson's article for full details – I can't get to it online – sorry.
        Edit – the article has already been posted here, below. Many thanks!

  13. Good morning, chums. And thanks, Geoff, for todays' new NoTTLe page. Today's Wordle was a Bogey (Thanks to GGGG for the golfing term.)

    Wordle 1,467 5/6

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    1. Good morning Elsie and all
      Yes, today the lines go faster than the letter pool
      Wordle 1,467 5/6

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    2. Absolutely Spot on, but they have no money to pay for tickets, only enough to pay the ferry man.
      We are being Absolutely stitched up left right and centre by our useless pile of political morons but why is it happening what is the purpose and what will be the outcome. Because as we brits are funding this, we want to know.

      1. 408202+up ticks,

        Morning RE,

        World government, digitally run from the leaders home or in “mirander’s” case the
        park public toilet.

      2. I don't want the savage to pay to leave. I want to see them herded on to an army transport plane with zip ties around their wrists and to see that plane come back empty for the next lot.

        I want the gun boats in the channel to come back for more ammunition. I want to see the ones here dealt with properly – regularly searched, welfare cut off, carrying a knife? Jail. Repeat offender? Drug trafficker? Rapist? Money launderer? Paint spraying whinger? Dropped in a deep, dark cell and forgotten about forever.

        2. That’s what the Russians did off the coast of Somalia a few years ago. Machine gunned the robbers who tried to steal from the passing ships.
          How well that work.

      3. I don't want the savage to pay to leave. I want to see them herded on to an army transport plane with zip ties around their wrists and to see that plane come back empty for the next lot.

        I want the gun boats in the channel to come back for more ammunition. I want to see the ones here dealt with properly – regularly searched, welfare cut off, carrying a knife? Jail. Repeat offender? Drug trafficker? Rapist? Money launderer? Paint spraying whinger? Dropped in a deep, dark cell and forgotten about forever.

    3. The state has no intention o interest in removing the criminals Their focus is on making sure more of the violent savages arrive and are lauded with freebies from the working white.

      1. In the 1980s, I cleared the airspace of low-flying RAF jets above my home with a tinfoil kite, with a nice long glittery tail that upset the radar of fly-by-wire, and best steered well clear of.

        It seems that today's defence of the realm depends crucially on avoiding graffiti.

  17. It looks like no-one else plans to comment on this site, so I will return to the music channel I enjoy listening to and perhaps return to this page later today.

    2. Omg this is something that represents our country world wide.
      It just about sums our current government up.

    3. He'll never read that, you have incorporated complex words and phrases such as; the, as, on, of. Be more precise. Simplify it.

    1. The offices will be full of potted plants because it is recommended to have plants in the room where you sleep.

    1. I woke up at 5, had a short walk round the garden, came back inside refreshed, opened a window to alleviate stuffiness in the house and went straight back to sleep! (miracle). Now late for work!

  21. Good morning all.
    A damp 18½°C this morning with a very light, but pleasantly refreshing drizzle this morning.

  22. Good morning, all. Grey ad dreary. Weather similar. "Problem" continues – now 54 hours with no abating. I dare no take Loperamide beause it will bung me up without destroying the virus/bacteria.

    The GP surgery has devised a cunning plan in collaboration with the electricity board. Traffic lights on the round about leading to the cul-de-sc where the building is situated. Adds an extra hour to the five minute journey….in both directions. Neat, eh?

    1. Are you drinking water?
      It's probably the last thing you wish to do, but the combination of fluid loss and heat is not a good thing.
      Oh, and ask a pharmacist about more suitable medication. They know as much as a GP (a mythical creature rumoured to be lurking in sandy holes on golf courses).

      1. Over the past years I have noticed that medication is dished out to suit the symptoms. But almost every human body will have not quite the same reaction to the given drug. You have to work on it again and again. They only dish it out.
        It's happend to me at least twice after my A&E visits. But they have never followed up with further investigation regarding how its all working together.
        Read the package content on reactions for and against.

      2. Water and salts, as well. A teaspoon of salt in a litre of water is not too bad but don't over do it.

    2. Are you drinking water?
      It' probably the last thing you wish to do, but the combination of fluid loss and heat is not a good thing.
      Oh, and ask a pharmacist about more suitable medication. They know as much as a GP (a mythical creature rumoured to be lurking in sandy holes on golf courses).

    3. Oh dear, through the eye of a needle perchance?
      Or is it pebble-dashing?

    4. Have you tried cammomlie tea? It won't 'stop' the runs, but it can help settle the stomach. Yoghurt is also helpful as it's a good 'food' but also easy to absorb from it.

      I know it's useless to say but if just food poisoning the more you go, the better as it's your body getting rid. Also, having been there, get some sterile gauze pads and soak them in water for the clean up, rather than toilet paper. It's softer and won't scratch, causing other irritation.

    1. Collar and chain the lot of them, then flog them, throw them over the side.

      Clean up the pollution.

    2. I trust you realize these are the same fanatics in charge of Iran. This is to do with the defeat and martyrdom of Ali at the battle of Karbala and thus the victimhood of Shia Islam, the underdogs and nutters led by the Ayatollah Khomeini. And this lot believe this

      "It is narrated in the hadith that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until you fight the Jews, until a Jew will hide behind a rock or a tree, and the rock or tree will say: ‘O Muslim, O slave of Allah, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him – except the gharqad (a kind of thorny tree).’ "

      And that is why they are building atom bombs, to kill every Jew because when they are all dead the Mahdi, the Saviour will come, that is the "hour" spoken of in the hadith. But they can't destroy just Israel, it is every Jew, so they will then go on to threaten the world until it is Judenfrei.

      1. 408202+ up ticks,

        Morning JR and thanks for your input,
        courtesy of welfare they look physically well
        as any army should.

  24. Morning folks…

    Awake at 3:45 am with nothing better to do I did a trawl of the internet and began to notice a few amusing names amongst the Noms de plume such as:

    Acacia Wood
    Muff Marauder
    Aufur Fuksak

  25. Morning All 🙂😊
    Lovely sunny start but much cooler, that will upset the warmistststs.
    Our current 'prime minister' is only keeping his position because of his past achievements….. Which generally suggests that he doesn't really belong in that position.

    1. Let us be honest. The person holding honorific "Prime Minister" is nothing of the sort.
      He is really the WEF's Regional Manager for the United Kingdom.

      2. He is really the WEF's Regional Manager, Representative for the United Kingdom.

  26. A woman in Nepal has died from a new variant of covid. Where did I put those masks?

    1. People we know who have been travelling recently seem to have caught flu like illness. They feel they have caught it on aircraft.

      1. Frequent after effect of air travel.
        Air conditioning with dry, recycled air and cooped up in metal tube with passengers from all over the world harbouring unfamiliar germs and viruses.

        1. And of course if you do wear a mask you can’t have a drink or something to eat.

        2. If anyone here wants to prevent such lurgies, I can thoroughly recommend a reasonably priced mask called the Humidiflyer. (Available online; an Aussie invented it.)

          Basically recycles the moisture in your own breath, meaning that your mucous membranas don't dry out and crack, letting the multifarious germs in.

          You don't need to wear it all the time.

          As a professional singer, I found it a lifeline. (No performance, no pay.) And ohhhh how I long for the days when I was given side-eye for wearing it on flights!

    3. I still see people wearing masks. I ask them to cover their noses as well.

      One bloke was wearing it only over his nose. I despair sometimes at how weak and pathetic people are.

  27. Allison Pearson
    The mistreatment of Lucy Connolly in prison is deeply sinister

    She says she’s been manhandled, bruised and starved yet was jailed for a single tweet – we are truly living in Starmer’s Stasi Britain

    It comes to something when a senior British politician has to visit a person in prison, not only to show his support but to try to protect her against further harm. Yet that is exactly what happened when Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK, met Lucy Connolly at HMP Peterborough on Tuesday morning. I had informed Tice that, last Thursday, Lucy says she was manhandled by up to six prison officers to a wing which houses the most volatile and dangerous prisoners.

    “Five days after the incident, the bruises from the handcuffs on Lucy’s wrists are still significant – yellow. It was obviously horrible what she went through,” Tice told me just after he emerged from the jail. “On Thursday, she was mistreated without provocation. Full force was used with no justification. She was starved of food, with no lunch or dinner, after the incident. She was denied enhanced accommodation to which she was entitled and they gave her, frankly, the Nutters Wild Wing – full of druggies and violent offenders.”

    Previously, Tice has been outspoken on the case of the Northampton childminder jailed for an exorbitant 31 months after posting one horrible tweet on the evening of the Southport massacre of little girls. Demonised as “Tory councillor’s racist wife”, Connolly became Sir Keir Starmer’s “political prisoner”, insisted Tice. She was made an example of to deter others from speaking out on illegal migration, and to distract from the Government’s own failure to provide information that they held about mass murderer Axel Rudakubana which experts say could have prevented the riots that Lucy Connolly was accused of inciting. Tice’s hour-long meeting in jail with a “calm, thoughtful, impressive”, although clearly shaken Lucy, confirmed his suspicions.

    “Lucy was gobsmacked by the way they treated her,” Tice reported. “You have to think it’s politically motivated. I think the next few weeks before her release are going to be very challenging. I think it would suit the authorities to provoke a violent reaction from Lucy. I told her to be very careful.”

    When I started writing about Lucy Connolly’s case it was hard to imagine it getting any darker – well, it just did. Here we have a political leader, likely to play a senior role in this country’s next government, insinuating that the state – via prison officials – might try to silence and compromise a woman whom many think should never have been sent to jail in the first place.

    Let’s take a look at the context, shall we? Early last week, Connolly moved from HMP Drake Hall in Staffordshire, returning to Peterborough prison (where she was first held on remand from August 12). She wanted to be nearer to her husband Ray, their 12-year-old daughter Holly, other family members and friends, so they could visit her more often. Lucy was placed on the induction unit until a space became available on the enhanced wing (as a prisoner of good character, she is entitled to better accommodation and some privileges including, believe it or not, a highly desirable TV remote control).

    Lucy was led to believe that a room would be free on Tuesday, and she was glad to spot her name on a board next to H1/E1. That was rubbed out last Wednesday, but Lucy didn’t have any cause for concern until, that is, an officer told her they were putting her on A1; a wing that is known, and not affectionately, as The Bronx because it’s full of druggies, “spiceheads”, and is the scene of frequent fights.

    “But why?” Lucy asked. “I’m not going there. Sorry, I won’t go.” (Her suspicion deepened when she was told the previous tenant of the cell they had earmarked for her was a woman who had died just a couple of days before.)

    Shortly after, according to Lucy, she was on her way back from the gym when a group of officers – five or six of them – sprang out of nowhere and accosted her. “You are no better than anyone else here, you’re going to A1, Lucy,” one said. Lucy was petrified. She started crying, lent back against a wall and slid to the ground. Officers used restraining methods on her that are supposed to be reserved for violent or abusive prisoners not polite, co-operative childminders. They bent her over forwards with her arms bent sharply back. Her hands were tightly handcuffed. “I was in excruciating pain,” Lucy told Ray on the phone later. “I thought, ‘What the hell are they going to do to me?’”

    She was manhandled up three flights of stairs with officers wearing body cameras shouting at her all the way. She was dumped in a filthy cell with what looked like excrement on the walls (an officer insisted it was coffee). While Lucy lay on the floor sobbing, some of the wing’s veterans began to rally to her aid, approaching her door and calling out, “Lucy, we know who you are, don’t worry, you’ll be fine here.”

    “Lucy, don’t let the bastards get to you.”

    One “Bronx” toughie arrived with a radio for Lucy, and yelled at an officer to open the door and give it to her. He did so without demur.

    A shattered Connolly was told that she was on 23-hour lockdown. That means being confined to her boiling-hot, stultifying, curtain-less cell for 23 hours a day. “You’ve got 15 minutes’ exercise,” an officer said. “I’ve got an hour,” Lucy replied, asking to see a copy of the prison rules.

    “Why the f— have they put you here on this wing, Lucy?” her neighbour in the next cell demanded. “We’re the ones they can’t do nothing with.”

    The 42-year-old was given 14 days on Basics – no TV, no privileges. She can’t even go down to the canteen to have her meals – food is brought to her cell. “You got 14 days on Basics, Lucy, that’s insane”, one of the Bronx girls marvelled. Funny how the asylum inmates are saner than the warders, isn’t it?

    Later that traumatic day, when Ray spoke to Lucy, she was sobbing uncontrollably. He did his best to calm her down. Ray, whose immune system is compromised by bone marrow failure, told me he hasn’t been able to cry since the Connollys lost their toddler son Harry in 2011 as a result of gross medical negligence. As he tried to soothe his frightened wife, Ray put a hand up to his eye and was surprised to feel tears.

    Ray Connolly: ‘I don’t know who is pulling the strings, but something funny is going on in the way my wife is treated by the prison service’
    If Ray thought Lucy was exaggerating the physical aggression officers used on her, when he visited on Sunday he was shocked by the livid bruises – circles of yellow, black and blue – around her wrists. The handcuffs were on so tight they had a struggle to get them off.

    As Lucy’s quietly adoring husband, he feels immense frustration and a sense of profound helplessness. “It’s so unfair, Allison, why are they doing this to her?”

    A very good question, Raymond. Except Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, approved the prosecution of Lucy, who should have got bail and then community service for a first-time offence committed online and swiftly deleted. Lord Hermer, bear in mind, was not minded to seek to increase lenient sentences given to sex offenders. Because Northampton housewives who collect Emma Bridgewater china, pose more of a threat to the public, obviously.

    Why was a woman of previously exemplary character, well-liked by many prison officers and prisoners whom she has helped and befriended, treated by HMP Peterborough as if she was a knife-wielding maniac? Meanwhile Rudakubana, who slaughtered three little girls, is allowed access to a kettle and boiling water he can allegedly throw over prison officers; no kettle for naughty Lucy Connolly.

    Lucy was told that the managers were “in a bad mood” that day because a girl had died, and there would have to be an investigation. The real explanation may be far more sinister, I think.

    Richard Tice is surely right. With just two months till her release date on August 21 (Lucy will have served 40 per cent of her sentence), it feels like the authorities want to provoke a violent reaction from their infamous inmate, as if to vindicate their cruel treatment of her. Or maybe to give them a reason to justify draconian conditions attached to her being freed? They need Lucy Connolly to stay demonised, to be the “far-Right” thug Starmer imprinted on the public imagination, the Myra Hindley of Twitter – how else are they going to explain the fact that Lucy has been denied the basic human rights afforded to every heinous and scary jailbird?

    Since November, Lucy has been entitled to apply for temporary leave on licence with Holly who is struggling without her mummy, and has been suspended several times from school where she vents her distress. (Ray, bless him, is struggling with a daughter going through puberty who becomes a teenager in a few weeks.) Despite repeated requests, and well-argued letters to the governor, Lucy has not been granted ROTL (Release on Temporary Licence) or home detention curfew wearing a tag. How can a woman of previously impeccable character, a childminder with glowing references from several immigrant parents who committed one “hate crime”, be denied those elements of rehabilitation normally considered so essential in a civilised society?

    Many within the system are uncomfortably aware that Lucy is being shockingly mistreated. According to Ray, one woman prison officer expressed distress about what was done to her on Thursday. Lucy’s probation officer said he was under the impression that, by now, Lucy and another woman scheduled for release, had been signed off as “Open” – living in a house on their own, getting ROTL to aid reintegration with their families, even allowed to have a small job in a caff or a charity shop. Again, according to Ray, the probation officer said he was concerned to discover that the Offender Management Unit at Peterborough had “knocked that plan on the head”. The reason given for forbidding Lucy a chance to enjoy the normal conditions leading up to release was “media interest”.

    Ian Acheson, the prisons expert, told me on a previous occasion that a prisoner’s notoriety should not have any impact on their right to temporary leave, or rehabilitation. But it’s not Lucy that justice officials are trying to protect from “media interest”, is it? Lucy is perfectly capable of eloquently telling her story to the press and the public, and that’s what they are afraid of. “I think they would keep me in here for a hundred years if they could, Allison,” Lucy said to me, half joking, half despairing. My fears for her grow by the hour.

    Huge thanks, then, are owed to Richard Tice for using his political power to protect Starmer’s political prisoner. Tice says he talked to HMP Peterborough’s head of security who had met Lucy earlier. “He reassured me that he would fully review the footage of Thursday’s incident, and Lucy’s complaint, and deal with it properly.”

    Tice adds: “If they have ‘lost’ the bodycam footage, or any of that funny business, then I will escalate the complaint and meet the governor.”

    Earlier today, Lucy told Ray on the phone that she had been refused the enhanced wing because she had failed security checks.

    Truly, we are living through what George Orwell wrote. Lie after obfuscation after lie so the rotten system protects itself at any cost. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

    “Lucy has had a two-tier prison experience – why has she not had ROTL when so many others have?” Ray Connolly says. “I don’t know who is pulling the strings, but something funny is going on in the way my wife is treated by the prison service.

    “I am horrified by some of the things Lucy has told me. It’s strange, because Lucy just likes to get along with everyone and mother the young ones. As a family we are so thankful to Richard Tice for going to check on her safety – I feel reassured that someone like him is looking out for her.”

    What an indictment of Starmer’s Stasi Britain. Normal people like the Connollys have to rely on principled public officials to take a stand and protect them against an increasingly authoritarian state, which turns a blind eye to frankly racist Pakistani rape gangs (to protect its voter base); who got away with destroying the lives of tens of thousands of white girls, while harshly punishing a basically decent white woman who, in her sorrow and her rage, lashed out in a “racist” tweet.

    Tomorrow, an indefatigable Richard Tice will present “Lucy’s Bill” to Parliament – a “backstop” against harsh sentences which would allow members of the public to mount appeals against punishment they feel is too severe. It would permit a second opinion in cases where “judges get it wrong” and prevent people like Lucy being sent to jail. The House of Cowards and Clowns will reject it, of course they will, but they are on borrowed time. The British people have had enough.

    And Lucy Connolly knows it. “My case is about so much more than me,” she says. Yes, it is. Keep calm, Lucy, don’t let them provoke you. Keep reading your book in the Bronx and don’t give them the satisfaction of seeing you wound up. You’re so nearly home. Nearly home.

    Finally, a message for governor Mark Bennett and the staff of Peterborough prison: you really wouldn’t want any further harm to come to Lucy Connolly between now and her release, trust me. We see you.

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

    Anthony Smith
    13 hrs ago
    I’m very sorry for what is happening to Lucy Connelly, but it should leave nobody in any doubt that the Establishment is collectively meting out a disgraceful, harsh punishment on this woman as a warning to the rest of us.

    If they could lock people up for having voted for Brexit they would.

    Stevie Gee
    13 hrs ago
    Reply to Anthony Smith – view message
    This Parliament is Satanic.

    This PM is the most amoral man I have ever seen.

    This civil service are Gauleiters. 50% of them should be fired on the first day of a Reform government – basically, anyone working from home, or who has either promoted or held a DEI role.

    Every single senior police officer in the country should be sacked, with the roles awarded only to police officers who can complete the Royal Marines assault course.

    1. The prophetic text coming true about leftie progressives..

      If they could kill us, they would. David Starkey
      I think they are misguided, they think we are evil. Nigel Farage
      Tory Scum. Angela Rayner
      Police are pathetic and a menace, and should be disbanded. Peter Hitchens

    2. The prophetic text coming true about leftie progressives..

      If they could kill us, they would. David Starkey
      I think they are misguided, they think we are evil. Nigel Farage
      Tory Scum. Angela Rayner
      Police are pathetic and a menace, and should be disbanded. Peter Hitchens

    3. The prophetic text coming true about leftie progressives..

      If they could kill us, they would. David Starkey
      I think they are misguided, they think we are evil. Nigel Farage
      Tory Scum. Angela Rayner
      Police are pathetic and a menace, and should be disbanded. Peter Hitchens

    4. It is simply a punishment beating by fascists. Starrmer is simply another bitter little communist, desperate to crush his political opponents.

  28. Good Morning!

    Taking a break from the daily outrage and the sheer lunacy of life in the globalist asylum, grumpy old git Graham Bedford treats us, in his Another one bites the dust , to list of the things once important to him but now, in the wisdom of his years, no longer have appeal. Now GB loves comments, so please get cracking lads and lasses and make his day by telling what things in your life have bitten the dust.

    And another thing, has anyone seen Araminta Smade on here lately?

    freespeechbacklash.com

    1. Araminta commented a few days ago that s/he was suffering from a lot of ill health and would be taking a break from commenting.

    1. Our U.K. homeland is already under attack from the government and limp dumbs predominantly and a media that is controlled by those who do not have our indigenous population interest at heart.

      1. Too late will the media realise what's going to happen and suddeny the access, the posh lunches, the interviews won't be as important as eating.

        Then, when the money finally stops – say, 3 months before the food does and the diversity ferals cannot steal anything they'll just go door to door taking – well, they do that already.

        The Left must be stopped. This debt tax waste cycle must be undone. Markets must be allowed to work. Communism, socialism, Left wingery must be halted. farmers must be left alone to grow food. Immigration must be halted and deportation made compulsory for those not of worth. Welfare must be halted. Don't work, don't eat. We've got to recover the country from the grave the hard Left are forcing us into.

    2. The secrets are slowly dribbling out.
      But we live here starmer we already know what you and you political colleagues have been upto for years.

    3. Civil War? We've may have already started, the first evidence of a beginning could be The Blade Runners in London. David Betz

    4. It's already been attacked, you loathesome maggot. The Southport stabbings. July the 7th. The Ariana Grande concert. The hordes of pakistani paedophile child rapists, the mob of utter wasters blithering on about palestine. The road blocking criminals and their worthless ranting. The romanian child rapists in Ireland and here. The pikey scum getting away with tents and caravans selling drugs.

      You forced these violent savages on us. You prevented the security services stopping them. 30,000 muslim are watched by the state – here, in this country. They shouldn't even be here to cause us trouble at all but no! You wanted to silence dissent and commit genocide on this country to pollute it with foreigners and called it 'diversity'. Yet when the 'diversity' move in, white folk move out. They don't want the crime, the gang fights, the drugs. The diversity move in, whites move out.

      White flight is very real but because you keep paying these feckless, violent vermin to breed they keep doing so and ever more of this country is overrun with the pollution of foreigners, gabbling in their own languages, having their own shops, their own enclaves. You caused the problem. You waned to exterminate this beautiful country and our society in your own, disgusting, socialist ideal.

      1. 408202+ up ticks,

        Morning W,

        One must say you are giving loathsome maggots unwarranted bad press when comparing them to politico’s who are rated a country mile ahead.

  32. It has already started in both Northern Ireland and the Republic.

    Politicians throughout the UK (and the EU) refused to listen to Enoch Powell and we are now reaping the harvest and the rivers will soon be flowing with blood.

    1. It was here first with Southport, but Starmer happily locked up someone fighting back because he's a a socialist, and that's what fascists do: crush their enemies.

      With the farming taxes and desperation to stop farmers farming under the pretence of 'green' we are heading for starvation, especially if food imports are halted. A bad growing season in Morocco had us run out of salads. Imagine if that's bread. All under the hoax of 'climate change'.

      They really do want 'the great leap forward', with mass starvation, poverty and societal collapse. Lefties seem to want communism. We're a few steps from Mao's China.

      1. Starmer is no socialist, as anyone on the Left can tell you. He waves the red flag when it is good for business, but clearly does not believe in universal State benevolence. He has his favourites: hardworking corporate executives or Muslim career criminals, and he has his bogeys, such as the farmers, the pensioners and Lefties.

        1. He clearly believes in universal State malevolence towards ordinary white British people.

          1. I disagree. Starmer is totally against the principle of universality, His malevolence is selective.

  33. Very best wishes for a Happy Birthday, corimmobile! Have a wonderful day! 🥂🍾🎂🍺

  36. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/25/mass-migration-town-ons-falling-birth-rate/

    It is a mistake to think we need more people. We do not. THis country needs far, far fewer people. It DOES NOT need immigrants. We are a high techm high health society. That means we need a large educated professional class and a smaller service industry to feed it.
    Massive uncontrolled gimmigration has been a complete disaster, by suppressing wages, hiking welfare and making housing expensive.

    Not to mention the obvious crime, violence and thuggery the foreigner brings with him.

    2. The trouble is that we have failed to use that high tech, instead we have decided to use cheap labour because our politicians are to dim wited to think beyond the early 20th century. Look at how the Koreans and Japanese use tech and you realize that our lot really are behind a century in innovation.

      1. They use it for crime prevention though. The Left aren't bothered about crime – it's committed by their clients (the diversity) against their enemies (the white, nuclear family), after all.

        No, the Left want to use technology to control what decent people can do, to monitor what they spend money on, to remove freedoms, choice, opportunity, to silence dissent. The reason they're so slow and incompetent is because they have to lie about their real goal continually so it's accepted by the masses.

    3. They are importing people who only know how to consume in the most part. But we are not going to be great manufacturing centre during the next economic cycle and the main application of tech will be to keep the plebs under control.
      Seriously, it is increasingly difficult to find software jobs that aren't either building the digital control grid or building Soma (computer games).

      1. The state has a massive hard on for 'AI', what it means is face recognition. It's spending a fortune on training for such but the database is almost always white folk. The why is obvious, as they want to tax people more. As with all such nonsense it's never about crime prevention the criminals hide their faces – their hands give away what they are – and the muslim get away with it anyway, so it's simply about surveillance to control the Left's enemy: the law abiding citizen.

  37. 408202+ up ticks,

    British jets to carry nuclear warheads
    Return to Cold War era as new defence strategy warns: We must prepare for threat to the UK

    Dt,

    A fighter jet is seen moving at speed in a blue sky
    Britain will buy 12 F-35A fighter planes which will be capable of delivering tactical nuclear bombs, just what the elderly need on a cold winters night.

    British fighter jets are to carry nuclear warheads for the first time since the Cold War era, after a deal with the US…

    2. Britain supplies ejector seats, rear fuselage, active interceptor systems, targeting lasers and weapon release cables, mainly through British Aerospace, amounting to 15% of the value of the F-35, and is the largest supplier of spare parts for the jet after the US

    1. When the legally applicable definition of Islamophobia emerges the drafters of its wording should be prosecuted for anti-Semitism.

      And the Jews must be supported by Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and those of all other faiths who can see that they are being discriminated against by Starmer and his Islamophile colleagues.

    1. 4th rate PM of country he wants to make second rate so he is not in the front row but in the third row from the bottom.

      In fact he has been kindly treated by the person who decided who was placed where back – he should have been placed in the back row.

    2. Is that him behind Zelenskyy? Why isn't he next to Trump to pick up papers etc like the good lackey that he is? When he's not stabbing someone in the back, that is.

      1. They're mostly irrelevant chancers who are undemocratically installed by jailing/proscribing the party the public want.

  40. Morning all. Back again after dealing with the heat and recovering after. It's back again on Sunday. Capitulated and brought air conditioner but it wont be here before Sunday. So another three days of torture coming up.

    With regard to todays letter in the Telegraph. Der Starmerfuhrer has been a failure at everything other than selling off our assets which he seems to be able to do with great efficiency. I do wish both he and Harmer the anti British sadist would both meet with a fatal accident. I'm sure that the UK would be overjoyed if that eventuality took place.

    1. If you have an electric fan try putting it on a gentle breeze setting behind a bowl of ice cubes with the air blowing towards you, you may be pleasantly surprised by how effective it is at cooling a small space.

      1. Hi Sos . I lay on my side with the fan at the bottom of the bed watching movies. I habitually collect movies but then don't watch them! . I haven't tried the ice cube thing. No rational reason why I haven't. I will try it this time round. Actually I read about using zip locks with frozen water. The rational is that you can freeze more thus make it last longer.

        1. I woke up after a nap on Sunday and couldn't cool down, so I put a freezer pack on my head with some string to hold it there.

          Looked absurd, but it cooled my head which tells the rest of your body to stop worrying – as you lose most of your heat through your extremities.

          1. The neck is the place to cool. The blood going into your head can be cooled by an ice pack or damp towel around the neck.

    2. Run a cold water bath and lie in it for 5 to 10 minutes.
      Leave water in so you can repeat the process through the day.

    3. Sell? I thought we were paying people a fortune (of our tax money) to be given them.

    1. Labour do like to keep it in the family. After all, can't have the wrong decision found, can we?

          1. There’s a certain comfort for them in opening their mouths. What comes out of those mouths is to them wonderful, whatever it is.

    1. I am a bit sad and keep a laminated list of things to do in various circs in the car. That way I don't panic and can just see it.

      It also helps that all three dogs are very good natured and, generally do as they're told. There's different commands for emergency stay 'Hold' and simply 'I'm going over here 'Stay'.

      It's not perfect, as when Lucy was nipped by a crab while swimming her first instinct was to get away from it, especially as it came toward her and she bolted, trailing blood with her which had wet sand get in it.

      1. I thought of you the other day when a big soppy Newfie decided to cuedle up to me instead of following its owner across the road.

        Nearly got run over trying to persuade it to go, but it was worth it for the cuddle.

    2. We have 2 areas around Colchester where you do not take dogs during the summer because of the adder problem; Pods' Wood near Tiptree and Fingringhoe Wick.

      1. I have friends who live in Tiptree, Annie, and their dog had nasty snake bite which nearly killed him (the dog).

  44. Covid vaccine figures updated after a year – and the death toll is nearly 3,000
    June 25, 2025 Kathy Gyngell: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covid-vaccine-figures-updated-after-a-year-and-the-death-toll-is-nearly-3000/

    Who are today's refuseniks – are they those who refused to take the jabs or those who now refuse to admit the damage the jabs have caused?

    BTL from Martin Ashford

    They are knowingly harming and killing their own citizens. They are doing this whilst taxing their citizens into poverty, whilst simultaneously welcoming legal and illegal immigration (approaching close to a million/year). British women are being incentivised to live as a state tax-paying machine, relegating motherhood, while millions of women from different cultures have no other role to play other than being a mother – the direction of travel clearly being the replacement of the British people (a mathematical certainty). They continue to spend our money on whatever they want, but certainly not on what we want; we are literally paying for our own death and the slow, painful, death of our loved ones. Our children are being targeted for state brainwashing and physical mutilation.

    This is treason and the British people must treat it as such.

    1. Last week, we had a couple of scary mornings when MB was gasping for breath in the heat and humidity (in Essex, one of the driest counties in Britain).
      His heart attack struck two weeks after his convid jab.

      1. Invest in a dehumidifier. I keep one in my bedroom. Makes breathing and sleeping much more comfortable. You even get used to the steady whoosh of air.

        1. Sonny Boy Snr donated a fan. Since then, MB has been OK; open windows and removing covers. I suspect he didn't think it through; heat = not snuggling down. Although the noise wouldn't bother him – obvs.

    2. It's a shocker, isn't it! And the only one that was withdrawn was the AZ one. I dodged a bullet there as I had two of those, just because it was going to be mandated for travel. I've had many others for that reason but I'm not having any more, knowing what I know now – but it just seemed part of normal life till the covid nonsense.

      My OH had two Pfizer ones and a booster in 2021. A year later he was in hospital having a triple by pass. We'll never know if that was the cause or just bad luck but he was very fit and still playing tennis and table tennis at 79. He had his 80th birthday in hospital.

        1. Yes, thank you. I'm a short term thinker (like the government).
          Will get back to you nearer the time.

          3. I’ve never been much of a co op shopper but i did use to meet my mum there years ago. That’s long gone.

    3. Key people
      Debbie White
      (group chair) In March 2020, White took on an unpaid role to advise on the set up of a UK-wide network of testing centres as part of the UK Government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic
      Shirine Khoury-Haq
      (group chief executive) she was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and is of Arabic and Turkish heritage.
      Matt Hood
      (Food Managing Director) No data. probably gay goy.

  46. Another threesome after a blank start.
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  47. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/25/nato-summit-trump-ukraine-war-zelensky-starmer/

    My Dutch brother-in-law tells me that although Rutte was in power in the Netherlands for many years he became widely despised as, like the current prime minister if the UK, he cared far more for immigrants and the WEF than for his own indigenous people.

    It is not surprising that he was made the Secretary General of NATO – not surprising but it may prove disastrous.

    1. Of course. He went from EU waster to head of NATO specifically to ensure the continuation of the EU project.

  48. What are the statistics for sickness leave for aircraft workers (I don't know what they are called – used to be stewards and stewardesses)? I'll bet it's considerably lower absence than in the NHS, civil service and local government.

    1. I think you could be right.
      Also, apart from working for private companies, they have probably built up a resistance to lurgies.
      Think how small children suffer from frequent snottiness and malaise when first going to nursery and school. And the first term at university is notorious for coughs, chest infections, serial colds etc….

  49. Response received from Government today, which says: just p!ss off you pathetic little nonentity, we shall continue to do as we, not you or the people of this country, want.

    "Dear xxxxxx,

    The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “Hold a UK referendum before joining any defence and security pact with the EU.”.

    Government responded:

    The UK and the EU agreed a Security and Defence Partnership at the UK-EU Summit to strengthen our continent’s security. The UK retains full sovereign control over how it engages with EU initiatives.

    The Government would like to thank the members of the public that have engaged with this issue at this once-in-a-generation moment for the collective security of our country and continent. Global instability, Russian aggression, climate change and rapid technological disruption are all contributing to a more challenging security landscape that requires all of Europe to work cooperatively to safeguard our security.

    NATO is, and will remain, the cornerstone of Europe’s collective defence. But the European Union (EU) has an important role to play. The Government has been committed since coming to power to strengthening the UK’s security and defence relationship with the European Union, as part of the wider EU ‘Reset’ which was set out in its election manifesto. As a first step in strengthening our security and defence relationship, the UK and the EU agreed a Security and Defence Partnership (SDP) at the UK-EU Summit on 19 May in London.

    The SDP sets the framework for a new era of cooperation between the UK and the EU across a broad range of issues that were not covered by the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The Government looks forward to working closely with EU partners to implement the SDP in ways that strengthen our long-term security and prosperity. The SDP has been designed to complement our core bilateral security partnerships and to support the Government’s NATO First policy, recognising that NATO remains the cornerstone of Euro-Atlantic Security. A renewed defence and security relationship between the UK and the EU makes Europe safer and ensures the interests of the British people and British industry continue to be represented at the highest level across our continent, through increased regular engagement with EU leaders.

    While the SDP is ambitious and creates a strong basis for strengthening UK-EU cooperation, the UK retains full sovereign control over where and how it engages with EU initiatives and how it brings the EU into our national activities. The EU, similarly, has full control over its decision-making. All future cooperation enabled by the SDP will be in-line with our respective decision-making processes whilst strengthening the security of our shared continent at this generational moment for our collective security.

    We thank you for engaging on this issue.

    Ministry of Defence"

    1. The EU is a direct and obvious threat to our security, namely it is not processing and returning criminal immigrants.

      EU nations are poor thanks to protectionist policies. It's aim is socialism and control. The nations of Europe have not kept up their own defence spending and do not have effective military industries as we do. Only Germany and Belgium are close.

      We do not need them. They need us. That's why Starmer chained us to them. And they're lying. The EU has been given the ability to direct our military: it wanted to over Ukraine. The US – Trump – said no to the EU.

      There is no 'ambition'. It's a farce designed to chain us to the hated EU.

      2. I recall that when Little Bear Fond of Lying was German Defence Minister, she bought ships that are not seaworthy, planes that don't fly and broom handles for guns.

        2. Yes, she went the way of so many useless, incompetent people -kicked upstairs.

    2. That looks like an artificially created image, especially the figure in the white shoes. Medieval artists used to make more important people appear bigger than the minions. We're regressing.

    1. The enemy is within: at Westminster, Whitehall and infesting many formerly proud English industrial cities.
      For further confirmation, place an order with Deliveroo or Just Eat.

    2. War on British soil – is that civil war? R, I & NK are not the main threat.

  52. From the DT's comments. Well, it made me larf.

    "I remember when at college the 'rag mag' contained a list of legitimate uses for the 'F' word.
    The only one I clearly remember was:-
    The Mayor of Hiroshima "what the F was that"."

  55. Morning all.

    Putting my latest Android tablet through its paces today.
    It is specified as an internet protocol IEEE802.11 with an 'ax' suffix and shows connectivity with the dual band (2.4MHz/5MHz) BT Homehub2 at either WiFi4 protocol at the lower speed or WiFi5 at the higher speed dependending on the received signal level.

    It does look as though it stays connected to the initial WiFi band after the first connection to the single SSID identification of the BT router.

    It seems my old WiFi4 tablet may be faced with successfully connecting to WiFi5 at a low 5MHz signal level which then disconnects after neighbours start crowding the WiFi spectra.

    1. Wifi naming conventions are a pain in the bottom as folk think wifi7 is mega super fast but sommetimes 6 is faster. Then we have 6E which is even megaererer. Except when it isn't.

      Congestion is a real problem. You can change the channel you use for connectivity on most devices, and some are even clever enough to do this on their own.

      Being honest, if you're web browsing or playing the occasional game wifi4, or ac is fine. If you're doing 'work' then reliability is more important than speed. If you need both speed and reliability, plug in a cable (the family complain at me saying this as the Warqueen has a tendency to work on big spreadsheets on her laptop and screen, then scream blue murder when the signal drops out because someone has walked past with their phone.

      Keep me posted on the Android tablet. I considered one but have always used iPads.

      1. I use a Microsoft Surface PC – all the MS apps, plus touchscreen & keyboard + mousepad & separate mouse. It's what a PC should be: Thin, light, flexible, powerful.

  56. Morning all.

    Putting my latest Android tablet through its paces today.
    It is specified as an internet protocol IEEE802.11 with an 'ax' suffix and shows connectivity with the dual band (2.4MHz/5MHz) BT Homehub2 at either WiFi4 protocol at the lower speed or WiFi5 at the higher speed dependending on the received signal level.

    It does look as though it stays connected to the initial WiFi band after the first connection to the single SSID identification of the BT router.

    It seems my old WiFi4 tablet may be faced with successfully connecting to WiFi5 at a low 5MHz signal level which then disconnects after neighbours start crowding the WiFi spectra.

  57. No, she really did send German troops in to military exercises with broom handles not guns.

  58. Jake Wallis Simons
    Zohran Mamdani offers a terrifying glimpse into the future of Left-wing politics
    Wherever you look, a small number of idiot progressives are trying to gain power over the heads of the silent majority

    Related Topics
    New York City, Democrats, Israel, Trump's America, Donald Trump
    25 June 2025 11:23am BST

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2025/06/25/TELEMMGLPICT000429975039_17508447573780_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?imwidth=1920
    Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City Zohran Mamdani Credit: Heather Khalifa/AP

    If it can happen in New York, it can happen anywhere. Last night, Democrats in the second most Jewish place on Earth, home to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Woody Allen and pastrami on rye, elected a Corbynite mayoral candidate who has defended the slogan “globalise the intifada”.

    Zohran Mamdani, the proud 33-year-old socialist who was born in Uganda and worked as a rap music producer before turning to politics, pulled off a traumatic political upset when he beat the former state governor and moderate frontrunner Andrew Cuomo to win the nomination.

    Until recently, Mamdani, who only became an American citizen in 2018, was all but unknown to most New Yorkers. After all, this was the city of mayor Eric Adams, the pugnacious supporter of Israel whose popularity only collapsed after he was indicted on federal charges including bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations last year, all of which he denies. In hard-Left circles, however, the Mamdani was fast becoming a poster boy.

    The photogenic son of a professor of post-colonial studies at Columbia University ran on a platform of free universal childcare, free buses, a rent freeze and – you guessed it – condemning the Middle East’s only democracy, which he has lavishly accused of “genocide”.

    Predictably enough, the emetic Mamdani campaign has been fuelled by umpteen vacuous TikTok videos, together with endorsements from the usual coalition of socialist dinosaurs like Bernie Sanders and airhead celebrities like model and activist Emily Ratajkowski and comedian Bowen Yang (who once put his name to a “queers for Palestine” letter). “This is not just about New York, this is about the Democratic Party,” Ratajkowski said in a video with Mamdani. “It’s about the hope that we have that there is a belief that people can win elections, and not just money.” Pass the sick bag.

    Here was yet another expression of the unifying power of Palestine on the Left, which has somehow become the meeting-point of narcissistic progressive posturing, eyepopping sexual experimentation, race radicalism, petulant teenage rebellion, climate fanaticism, Cold-War era anti-capitalism, and amongst some the venomous cause of global jihad and the sheer hatred of Jews.

    With the murder of two Israeli diplomats in Washington DC in May, the adolescent rage turned deadly. With the invasion of RAF Brize Norton this month, it crept in the direction of terror. And on both sides of the Atlantic, from Leicester South to Manhattan, it is becoming increasingly political.

    There is no shortage of irony here. As one Jewish-American writer put it: “I hope this puts to rest the notion that Jews control politics. We couldn’t even elect a non-antisemite in the most Jewish city in America.”

    Clearly, if you thought the Democrats had begun to learn the lessons of their drubbing by Donald Trump last year, you were wrong. There could have been no louder howl of American rage at the ultra-progressive agenda than the 2024 presidential election.

    New York, that most liberal of cities, has turned itself into a battleground for the soul of the Democrats. Partly, of course, this is generational: many of Mamdani’s voters were young zealots who took on the old guard and crucified them. But in the bigger picture, it is a battle between the ideologues and the pragmatists. And the ideologues are winning.

    Wherever you look in the West, the same pattern is playing out. A small number of hardened Islamists and their fellow travellers are reaching for the levers of power over the heads of the bovine silent majority. With the moderates on their own side unable to muster anything other than appeasement, the tide is turning by increments.

    History is not always written by the masses. It can be written by the fanatics. With our democratic traditions unable to compensate for the rampant radicalism and apathy muting our immune systems, we are watching our societies slip away.

    1. There was also a death in the tunnel as well. I imagine the diversity, in trying to rip out the copper cable tore a high voltage line and got electrocuted.

      It was a shame it was only one. Why, in the name of God did the hard Left force these verminous sewage on us?

      1. Why oh why do we allow irresponsible railway companies to use such high voltages? I blame privatisation.

        1. 😂

          I blame faaar right fascist racist hWite supremacist bigoted thugs, personally

    1. She could have reversed her approval and complained about the tweet, to say it was inappropriate. She didn't. She supported it. She did so because she is muslim and dependent on the slammer vote. As a result, she saw nothing wrong with the mechanised rape of children by pakistani muslim paedophile rapists.

    2. Well, I suppose expecting her to actually read tweets before she approves them is a step too far.

    3. If she didn't mean it, why did she like and repost it?

      The post she responded to was from a spoof account apparently used by someone pretending to be Owen Jones.
      I'd like to see the original post by "Areeq" that the spoofer was responding to.

    2. The Warqueen wasn't happy and said it was horrible this year. Bad atmosphere, too many diversity not knowing how to behave, shouting and screaming, chavs in badly fitted suits.

    1. I have boycotted the Coop for years. Their “ethics” don’t accord with mine.

  65. Afternoon all. I am just having a breather after going shopping. Everything fags me out these days and the heat doesn’t help.

    Starmer couldn’t lead a dog, let alone a country.

    1. I'm very similar with age, Conway. Take a Feroglobin tablet (or the liquid version) daily, has helped. And an afternoon rest, off now…maybe try that? x

          1. All great here, thanks! Dancing with attractive men, painting away, battling with the imperfect subjunctive. You know how it is… 🤣🤣

            How about you? x

          2. Men, painting…sounds good to me (no imperfect subjunctive in English, who knew…possibly in Yarkshire tho’) Haven’t been painting a long time, hoping to go back to basics – drawing – but something’s stopping me…can’t figure out why I don’t start. One of my favourite artists is Victor Koulbak, silverpoint master (I’ve done a lot of that in the past, but it’s a long term thing)…maybe I’ll just try good old pencil….hmm…xxxx

          3. If you’re anything like me, it will be the dreaded perfectionism. Just get a pencil and some paper and start. Commit to one drawing a day. Doesn’t have to be any good!!

            All the best with it x x

          4. Yes, going to try…each day I procrastinate, something needs my attention (dog etc) I heave a sigh of relief and think ‘I’ll get back to it’ (but then don’t). Have to make a start, no matter how poor the result. Thanks for good wishes, appreciated x x

      1. At one time, could see them in fitting rooms, a size 16 thinking they were really a 12…every seam busting a gut…:-DDD

      2. I suspect Lord Ali provided the new spectacles. The spectacle herself must be excruciatingly uncomfortable in a dress at the very least three sizes too small.

  68. Fustercluck!!

    Social breakdown and welfarism
    More than 40 per cent of children of GCSE age live in lone parent households in Southwark, Lambeth, Islington, Lewisham, Hackney, Knowsley, Blackpool, Liverpool and Greenwich. There are whole groups for whom this is the norm: 63 per cent of kids from a Caribbean background were in lone parent households in 2021.

    And many two adult households are re-formed. In 2023, 46 per cent of first-born children aged 14 years old did not live with both natural parents – roughly twice the rate of the 1970s.

    Children are much more likely to have a smartphone than live with their biological father. Sometimes people split up. Sometimes that’s better than not doing. But the dramatic growth in the number of families that split is a huge change.

    And it has lifelong consequences that start early. Among 5–10 year olds, 6 per cent of children with married parents experienced diagnosable mental health issues compared to 12 per cent of children with cohabiting parents and 18 per cent of children raised by a lone parent. Similar trends are apparent for school attainment, interaction with the criminal justice system and so on.

    Social breakdown interacts with welfarism, with arrows running in both directions: lone parent households are more likely to require welfare, and the welfare state incentivises social breakdown – the benefits system creates a strong couple penalty for those in work, which creates a strong incentive to live apart.

    The scale of the welfare problem is breathtaking. There are nearly half a million people living in households where no one has ever worked – this has doubled since winter 2020. There are almost one million young people not in education, employment or training. Around one in ten working age adults are not in work because they are unemployed or long term sick.

    4.1 million people in England and Wales are on an incapacity or disability benefit – that’s one in seven adults in the North East and Wales: the big thing driving up working age claims is the growth of various forms of mental disorder and fragility. We’ve gone from 2 per cent of 16 year olds claiming in 2002, to 8 per cent in 2023. That’s about two kids in every average classroom.

    Historically, people have (unsurprisingly) got sicker as they age, but 16 year olds are now as likely to be claiming to be sick as 50 year olds. An ONS breakdown found that in 2022, nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of those aged 16 to 34 cited either mental illness or “depression, bad nerves or anxiety” as their reason for being long term sick.

    The cost of this is accelerating – real terms spending on sickness and disability benefits is forecast to grow to £100 bn by the end of this parliament, up from £50 billion in 2008.

    Despite this, the present government has abandoned plans to tighten the Work Capability Assessment, which means 400,000 more people will be signed off as unfit to work. Despite promises of reform, the OBR notes that welfare spending will continue to rise overall, and since the Spring Statement the government has also announced plans to spend a further £3.5 billion a year removing the two-child cap on benefits.

    The Mental Health Culture, together with the shift to a smartphone-based childhood, is likely to accelerate this. Well-meaning people have created a culture in which young people are constantly prompted to worry about their mental health.

    Social breakdown and welfarism have a kind of momentum too. When I was in government, DWP officials used to say claims are contagious. People copy what those around them are doing. In many parts of the UK we are now several generations into self-reinforcing cycles of deprivation and dysfunction.

    Full article here:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/08/these-are-the-things-destroying-britain/?recomm_id=c98ca758-12e9-4eaa-9801-9be61b26766b

    1. Marriage only gets a side-mention. The most important statistic there is that over 90% of unmarried parents will split up before their child is 16.
      And still they carry on hammering nails into the corpse of marriage.

  69. Nilnine
    7m
    They behave like there are no electoral consequences. And they may be right.
    They've already voted for huge societal changes on abortion and euthanasia without so much as a manifesto or public consultation.

    So why not a vote on electoral "reform" to lock out Reform? Approved parties, candidate lists, minimum seats for established parties, the opportunities are endless to gerrymander elections when you've got a 170 majority and a politicised Lords that wants to protect their existing parties.

    Bulls**t Detector
    34m
    Reform really should raise a Point of Order about the continuing lies that Labour trot out at every opportunity, saying that under Reform people will have to pay to see a GP. They know very well that is not the policy, but they will go on telling the lie for the life of the government.

    No to EU
    Bulls**t Detector
    2m
    They've told a variation of that lie in every general election I can remember. "Only 24 hours to save the NHS" etc. When in fact Labour governments have been responsible for more privatisation in the NHS than any other.

    1. In the socialist, rich, paradise of the Kingdom of Norway, you have to pay to see your GP, who is self-employed and a member of a practice. Unless in a category such as chronically sick, pensioner, that king of thing. You have to pay for outpatient care, and prescriptions, too, up to an annual limit.
      It reduces the casual attendance that overwhelms the service (people who visit the Doctor to come in out of the rain), and helps with health service costs.

      1. Think I remember Peta saying similar in France? GPs (and Vets) working out of a spare room in their home?

        1. GPs used to see patients in their own living room, furnished as a surgery, or the patient's bedroom.

          1. Our GP was like that, when I was a child. He was fantastic – Dr. Banyard. He would also come out after hours…

          2. Same here (Dr Tweddell and Dr Barnett). The latter was a woman, the former had really cold hands!

          3. I remember it well, we got ours 70-odd years ago. Evening surgery, everyone waited sitting on wooden benches until he ate his supper. I can see him now, bursting out of the open door to the rest of his house, and hear him saying ‘good evening’ and also the metal clegs on his shoes on the slate floor. He raised the funding for the local hospital. (And also brought me into the world.) A mensch, as they say.

          4. Ii remember Dr Crawford’s front room surgery in Bath. He always greeted me as “the boy with the tummy”. He had been the anaesthetist at my operation in RUH to remove an intestinal cyst.

            Dr Crawford would come to our house if called no matter what time of day. Apart from the vicar, he was one of a very few persons with a fancy motor car in those times. He was an old fashioned and much appreciated Family Doctor.

      2. As our doctor says:

        "You can tell whether somebody who comes to the surgery is ill or not by whether he or she is on a salary or is self-employed."

        1. I am on a salary but I am private sector. So I have to be very ill indeed to go to a doctor. Maybe public sector employees take more time off. For a fact, those not working seem to be in abundance on my infrequent visits to my doctors,

          When I was a doctor’s receptionist, many many years ago, we had surgery 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm first come – first served for people who worked who were taken ill in the day.

          The doctor would not see people who he knew did not work. They were required to make appointments.

          The usual suspects would arrive at 6:59 pm on a Friday to get the whole family treated. I used to lock the doors early.

  70. Strategic Defence Review Specifically Mentioned Security of Brize Norton Airbase

    Seeing as no journalist actually read the Strategic Defence Review they will not have seen that RAF Brize Norton’s operational security was specifically mentioned in it. Making the events there last week ever more farcical…

    It reads quite clearly:

    “The changing nature of the threat to UK and allied security (Chapter 2) means that RAF logistic support arrangements must be more resilient to disruption and military assault, requiring a different approach to fighting from air bases, and deeper, more dispersed stockpiles of munitions, spare parts, and fuel. The RAF is already sharpening its approach through ‘Agile Combat Employment’: the ability to disperse and operate aircraft from many locations across NATO’s area of operations. This must be accelerated, including through planning for the use of UK commercial airfields in times of crisis (Chapter 6). Particular attention should be given to contingency planning for RAF Brize Norton, the main hub in the UK for much of what the RAF delivers globally.“

    17 days later Palestine Action broke into the base and caused an alleged £25 million of criminal damage. Labour’s response was to initiate yet another review. At today’s DPMQs Rayner and Labour MP Calvin Bailey attacked Richard Tice for going after – the base commander. Claiming that was worse than the attack itself…

    She said:

    “My honourable and gallant friend speaks with great authenticity and authority on this matter and the attack on the RAF Brize Norton was disgraceful but what was even more disgraceful is Reform blaming the commanding officer and accomplished woman. But we shouldn’t expect anything better from the party of the Putin apologist.”

    There has been surprisingly little distribution of blame for the massive unforgivable security breach. In the old days a defence minister or two would see their head on the line…

    25 June 2025 @ 13:30

      1. So her experience is personnel (twice, under different names) media, recruitment, programmes and plans etc. So no real experience – how appropriate for the job . I'm just surprised that she seems to be indigenous.

          1. True. But, to be fair, most personnel in the Ryal Air Force never get anywhere near an aeroplane.

          2. Unless you work on them and then it's the opposite
            How are you today Bill?

        2. I watched a video last night of Royal Marine training. Four women were conspicuous in the line up. As soon as the exercises began they disappeared and then popped up at the end at the very end when everyone was lined up. I assume they were there, in the exercises, but so far behind the men it would be embarrassing to show them struggling. No doubt that would cause them alarm and distress and they could sue for being humiliated and discriminated against. The poor lambs!

      2. Stick to the base and never fly of course
        And you'll be well promoted in the Royal Air Force

        I am sure that Gilbert and Sullivan could have warmed to this theme

        2. The current Chief of Air Staff is an engineering officer, not aircrew, and that is one of the best changes that the RAF has made in decades.

    2. Yes , I was also amazed to hear that .

      However the Labour mantra is anti misogynist behaviour , isn't it ?

      With the line up of witches on the front bench , everyone is in trouble .

    2. We used to have to add leap seconds to our navigation systems as the Earth's rotation was slowing fractionally in a year. Now the rotation is speeding up fractionally they will remove the occasional leap second. It could easily be just a natural to and fro phenomenon.

    1. Not very happy with Trump. I think imposing a cease fire on Israel is a grave mistake. Israel should be left free to batter the Iranian regime until they are so badly damaged that regime chance is a certainty. As it stands Iran is still in the grip of the Mullahs and thousands of innocent people will pay the price with their lives. This cease fire has more to do with Trumps self image as peacemaker than it does with creating a lasting solution.

      1. I would that Israel held such power but it is evident that Iran has greater military force at its disposal than Israel.

        The size of the country and its factory capacity determine wars. Iran is a vast country of just under 100 millions with extensive technologies whereas Israel is comparatively minute with much less industrial capacity.

        Israel needed a cessation of the conflict likely because President Trump refused to sanction more support or commit US forces against Iran. That fact and for its very survival.

      2. I would that Israel held such power but it is evident that Iran has greater military force at its disposal than Israel.

        The size of the country and its factory capacity determine wars. Iran is a vast country of just under 100 millions with extensive technologies whereas Israel is comparatively minute with much less industrial capacity.

        Israel needed a cessation of the conflict likely because President Trump refused to sanction more support or commit US forces against Iran. That fact and for its very survival.

      3. I want peace but not at any price .Israel needs to be on side.I think Trump is playing spot on.

    2. Phileas Fogg
      4 hrs ago
      While the government of Tajikistan – a predominantly Muslim country – tries to fight Islamism, the UK government tries to promote it under the guise of human rights. Strange times we live in.

    2. Funnily enough I saw a car this morning with a decal on the back window that showed a dog like that.

  76. Migrant can stay in UK because he does not want to shave
    Tajik man wins appeal after arguing he could be arrested and have his facial hair forcibly removed if deported
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/00fde72a3b8d5d62

    BTL

    Next thing we hear will be that a rapist escapes deportation because there are not enough white girls for him to prey on in his native country.

    2. That is so ridiculous it's the equivalent of granting asylum because the miscreant likes Cornish Pasties!

      1. Yes, but it's true. my bold.

        From Wiki:
        Beards are discouraged by the government for most men in Tajikistan in a stated effort to battle radicalism. Only clean-shaven men can apply for a passport. Beards are often forcibly shaved off by police officers.

        Almost a self-admission that he's a danger to the UK

      2. Well we did have one that was allowed to stay because his kid only liked chicken nuggets.

        1. Hi Conway. I had forgotten bout that. So Cornish pasties as an excuse are totally viable!

  77. 408202+ up ticks,

    " Sneak in" they were picked up by treacherous employees of the realm given
    succour via what passes as a government
    well over and above the indigenous peoples.

    That is how we politico's treat our guest's inclusive of rapist, abusers, terrorists etc,etc, this is seen by many peoples as hanging the Countries bare arse over the white clift's of Dover with a tub of Vaseline on the beach.

    https://x.com/AMDWaters/status/1937802196030050543

        1. Handsome boy. I was gifted one, many years ago, she was quite a bruiser – unaware of her size.

          1. He's had better haircuts. But i needed all the length off because of the heat.

            He does grow a very nice bib and tucker.

      1. You can actually walk a mile doing U turns, but of course you don't actually get anywhere!

  80. No mention so far of the racist English cricket team beating India.
    Well done boys (whoops) players you were up against it.

    2. I thought the idea was to loop a rope under the ship, tie one end to their ankles, make them walk the plank and drag them beneath the vessel in order that the barnacles on the ship’s hull would scrape their skin before they appear drowned on the other side.

      Billy Budd springs to mind.

        1. Thank you Conners. Very hot so relaxing under a canopy in the garden Champers later.

          Yes, in the story Billy Budd was keel hauled after accidentally causing the death of a ship’s officer, a fate too good for the wretches in the cartoon photograph.

          1. Shades of Maggie May – the proper version not the Rod Stewart song with the same name.

  82. The Daily Mail has been publishing stories in the last few months about women prison officers having sex with inmates.

    Also stories about prison officers being attacked with either boiling water or oil.

    Now we hear that prison officers have been abusing and giving rough treatment to Lucy Connelly, besides what we heard about Tommy's treatment.

    Why are not the BBC and other journalists interviewing or even doorstepping the people supposedly in charge of these institutions?

    Not to mention the forced radicalisation to Islam by gangs of muslims actually in prison.

    1. The state always picks on those least likely/able to fight back.

      A better Q is why prisoners are allowed near dangerous materials such as boiling water. Why are they allowed kettles in their cells?

      1. Given that the Southport murderer of little girls was allowed a kettle in his cell i ask the same question.

        Bread, water and beatings are the order of the day.

    2. I wonder what is the attraction of the job? Spending every single day locked up with criminals, some of the very worst type. I could never do it.

      1. Used to be, many prison officers were ex-services, and many were tough as nails – needed in high security prisons.

        And male prisons and male staff and female prisons had female staff so fraternizing was not a thing – especially as that was the era when homosexual acts were illegal.

      2. Used to be, many prison officers were ex-services, and many were tough as nails – needed in high security prisons.

        And male prisons and male staff and female prisons had female staff so fraternizing was not a thing – especially as that was the era when homosexual acts were illegal.

      3. I think the job has changed. An Uncle of mine was a probation officer. We have a Nottler who was a Court Usher.

        I don’t believe people in those professions are valued anymore.

  83. Just tottered 100 yards to inspect the trombetti. All doing well – leaves turned to face the sun.

    I feel weak as a kitten – though quite why we say that, I don't know. At 6 weeks, when they arrived, G & P were very STRONG!!

    1. Dehydration and lack of food will have that effect. Sit, drink sugar water with salt in it.

  84. This is why I love history. Snippet from the introduction to the book I'm now reading ("Six Kings and the Making of the English State") explaining the interesting details to be drawn from supposedly dry mediaeval records.

    " …. and we know that Edward I threw his daughter Princess Elizabeth's coronet into the fire in a fury in Ipswich in 1297."

    "Aw Wight, Princess?" as his cockney subjects might have said.

    Let's face it, anyone with children can sympathise; we've all been there. Though not necessarily to Ipswich.

  85. Afternoon all!

    Today my fingers are a bit orange, which makes a nice change from the blue of recent times.

    One of my teachers just saw them, nodded sagely, and said "Painting sunsets again, eh?".

    I had to admit that this time it was messing around with turmeric. Been making a ginger and turmeric syrup for use with my water kefir. I nibble the bits of ginger afterwards to freshen my breath when dancing, and have discovered that the syrup makes a great nightcap when enriched with a glug or three of whisky. 😈

    1. 'Afternoon K…my dog has turmeric in her food for limp which I think may be arthritis or poss rheumatism, it's really helped her – more than expensive drugs from vet. I also drink it in hot milk at bedtime, for good sleep – similarly to Indian children, who call it 'Golden Milk'. (Have to say, I like the idea of a glug or three of whisky, too :-))

        1. It’s only for milder ailments, sorry it doesn’t do for you to any degree. Hope you manage on steroids 🤞

    2. I take turmeric to dispel a feeling of lethargy.
      I started taking it after a debilitating flu session. After 18 months, left it off for several weeks and discovered it did actually still work rather being a placebo.
      Probably time give it another break, but I can't be bothered to cope with the expected tiredness. Which then leads to wondering if it's become a psychological dependence.

      1. Does it have negative effects when taken long term? Can’t see why you’d stop, if not.

        And I think that many medicaments are a shifting mixture of actual effect and placebo; it’s a complicated but fascinating phenomenon.

    3. Is that a blend or a single malt? I once had a drop of Le Alzana (I think) – it was very good!

      1. Single malt with anything other than a drop of water? What sort of heathen do you take me for?? 🤣🤣🤣

        1. Nice one, I’m a Macallan man myself, although nowadays even a bog standard bottle is about £60!!

          1. Very contemplative, Macallan. Nice.

            Myself, I’m an Ardbeg girl. Seductively smoky but not full on kipper.

          2. I'm not a big fan of the Islay malts – I find Laphroaig (never sure of the spelling!) and Lagavulin a bit too peaty for my liking – but I dont really know Ardbeg so, as you say, may not be quite as 'earthy'…….sounds like a nice alternative!

          3. Worth a try; it’s smoother than both of those. Feels like interesting conversation rather than blasting your eardrums off.

  86. Well that’ll be a waste of time; had a call back in response to yesterday’s e consult. We recommend physio. I’ve had physio, it didn’t help and the current problem has developed recently. We recommend physio because they can refer you to various options. No doubt like the pain clinic which offered me “mindfulness” which understandably didn’t help either. I have an appointment to keep in the loop but it will just waste my time and theirs until they discharge me in six months time like last time. If I had had any sense I would have demanded an interpreter and gone to the front of the queue and got something done.

      1. I remember using that to treat injuries in horses. Cheap as chips, and worked. Now, of course, superseded by much more expensive patented formulae that work no better but make load$a do$h for Big Vet Pharma.

    2. Whilst I don't know the source of your pain, Conway (and not asking unless you want to say)…I suffered back pain for many years, tried all sorts of pain killers, physios etc. Answer for me was yoga. Interestingly, to me anyway, was discovering many physios use yoga moves to try to alleviate pain. (Btw also went to one of those chaps who're supposed to re-align skeleton or similar…never again, very painful and no remedy.) Good luck, Kate x

      1. I have severe degeneration in my sacroiliac joint. It’s painful but now I am having pins and needles in the leg on that side, which is unpleasant and I have pain down the side of my leg as well. Given the problem with my SIJ I can’t see that physio will help. When I had a steroid injection in the joint it was wonderful- pain free! Then on doctor’s advice I restarted the physio, I was crippled within three days. No surprise I don’t think physio will work.

        1. Makes a lot of sense, thanks for explanation. Can you have extended steroid injections, at a lower level…I hope you get sorted soon, no fun living with constant pain, for me it just filled my head all day every day. It’s still worst when trying to sleep.

        2. I saw a physio at the Spire while my C3 in my neck had been scanned . Physios are clueless.

          Please do your own research .

          Yoga as daft as it seems…helps.

          The steroids only work for a while !

        3. Try Acupuncture. Some years ago the local hospital Physios had a talk on the subject by a guy treating Royal Marines. So persuasive was his lecture that a number of them went on a training course to practice acupuncture.

        1. Thanks anne…didn’t work for me pain-wise although it did something in that it made me cry for about an hour …bit odd ! but Conway may like to try. Constant pain is awful to live with, hope he finds something to ease it.

  88. Forgot to mention that on Sunday I didn’t get the chance to tell my MP what I thought of her; unlike last year she didn’t turn up. Probably keeping her head down to avoid the justifiable flak.

  89. Gosh, The Donald is getting hard to listen to, judging by his NATO speech. He sure puts the brag in braggadocio.

    1. Presumably Hainault in East London and not Hainault in Belgium? Google AI tells me, " While Hainault in East London is sometimes associated with Queen Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III, the name actually predates her and is derived from the Old English "Higna Holt," meaning "wood belonging to a religious community". The name was altered over time due to a mistaken association with the Queen". Even in the 14th century, Queen Philippa preferred her summer castle in Knaresborough.

      1. Thank you. I always assumed the name was linked to Mrs. Edward III.
        Now I must look up Havering-atte-Bower.

    2. A Woman! Without her, man is a savage.

      or, if you prefer:

      A woman without her man is a savage!

    3. Bad/ careless headlining of an article by Bethan Bell and Lucy Manning of BBC News:

      A man has been found guilty of murdering 14-year-old schoolboy Daniel Anjorin with a samurai sword in Hainault last year.

  91. Today, at home:
    Sun up 03:56 Sun down 22:44
    Tomorrow:
    Sun up 03:57 sun down 22:44
    A minute shorter day… the nights are drawing in!

  92. Wordle No. 1,467 3/6

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    Snug for Birdie Three?

        1. Thanks very much 4G.

          I just plucked a bottle of Cremant de Limoux from the wine fridge. Carol likes orange juice with it so am saving the Mumm, Dry Monopole and better stuff for another occasion.

    2. A par for me.

      Wordle 1,467 4/6

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    3. Well done, another slightly odd word…. just a par here…

      Wordle 1,467 4/6

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    4. Well done. Back from the pub but no excuses as I wordled this morning. Dodgy to say the least.

      Wordle 1,467 6/6

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  93. For those wondering what the green goblin was doing in the UK meeting with the Idiot King and our idiot Prime Minister I have a probable explanation.

    During WWII the French General deGaulle was given refuge in London and allowed to form his government in exile. Similarly the Ethiopian Royal family were afforded exile in Bath. The upper echelons of the Polish aristocracy and army were given refuge in London and many settled in South Kensington.

    It is apparent that Zelensky, having lost the war, is scrabbling to obtain as much money from his supposed allies in order to secure his own financial future and that of his henchmen. He is in England to obtain his own protective exile under the pretext that he will form a government in exile and eventually return in triumph to Ukraine after the Russians are defeated by the west.

    With the clowns running this country I expect his wishes will be granted. Expect Zelensky and his entourage to be gifted some palatial residence in Belgravia so as to be close to Harrods’ for his wife’s shopping needs and Mayfair for his own.

    1. I would have thought the nasty little runt had already creamed off enough loot [and enough houses]?

          1. As others have noted Zelensky, despite his spoils, is a dead man walking.

            Over a million of his countrymen have died under his watch yet he is seen to be feathering his own nest. The man is pure evil, as are his backers, and deserves all that is about to be visited on hm.

            Zelensky cannot avoid the wrath of God.

      2. Trump despises the brat. He is beloved by Starmer and the Idiot King and will be given 24 hour armed protection at our expense. He will travel in the manner of Khan himself with bullet proof vehicles and in luxury.

        He will holiday in his properties in Florida and Tuscany and elsewhere but wherever he is he will fear that some disgruntled Ukrainian will shoot him.

        Thank you so much for your good wishes.

        1. 🎵Happy Birthday🎵 🥂🍾🍰🎁 and may you have many more happy returns of this day.

        1. Do you mean his wealth, or the number of grand pianos, Bill? (asking for a friend)

      2. The very thought of that little man playing a Bosendorfer with his little man is something to behold. He would have to stand on the piano stool to reach the keys.

    6. One of those silly nuggets of totally useless information.
      Napoleon III sent the last years of his life in exile; in Chiselhurst.

  94. He's a lot tougher than his predecessor.

    President Donald Trump has left the Netherlands to return to Washington D.C.

    He was on the ground less than 24 hours but crammed in a dinner with world leaders, breakfast with Dutch royalty, meetings with NATO President Mark Rutte and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

    He capped off his time with a 45-minute press conference where he defended his air strike against Iran.

  95. Pretty much everyone here knows that the WHO is not the innocent, well-meaning, unbiased body it pretends to be, but here are the details. The Australian Medical Professionals' Society has published an investigation that crosses the ts and dots the is on WHO corruption. It really is just a pharma industry branch.
    https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/whos-directing-global-health-policy?publication_id=746475&post_id=166817068&isFreemail=true&r=28gmek&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

  96. Michael Deacon
    Britain must wake up to the enemy within – or this country is finished
    Weekly hate marches and open terror-sympathising have become the norm – and many of the worst culprits are British born and bred

    Michael Deacon
    Columnist & Assistant Editor

    25 June 2025 4:12pm BST

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2025/06/25/TELEMMGLPICT000429521854_17508547088310_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqsJd23Ms-x58Er9At2FK0T7wCcSD2rf48r5yUJKQk45g.jpeg?imwidth=1920
    Labour MP Zarah Sultana at a pro-Palestine march. On social media, she has claimed: ‘We are all Palestine Action’ Credit: PA Wire
    It’s not often you see communists taking a stand for free speech and civil liberties. But in the eyes of the Morning Star, it seems, drastic times call for drastic measures. In a scandalised editorial this week, it thundered that the Home Secretary’s decision to outlaw Palestine Action as a terrorist group is “a dangerous assault on our freedoms”.

    Ah, yes. The ancient and inviolable freedom of every patriotic Englishman to break into his own country’s military bases and cause tens of millions of pounds’ worth of damage to our aircraft. Thanks for the reminder, Comrades. I bet the Soviet Union was always cheerfully tolerant of any gangs of intruders caught ramming crowbars into the engine of a Lavochkin La-7. “Come on, give the traitorous saboteurs a break,” Stalin would chuckle indulgently. “They’re just exercising their democratic right to peaceful protest!”

    I’m sorry to confess, however, that I don’t share the Great Leader’s easygoing equanimity. Because I agree with our Government that what Palestine Action did at RAF Brize Norton last Friday was a terrorist act. And frankly, instead of wailing about how mean and horrid Yvette Cooper is, these Israel-hating headbangers should be grateful they’re alive. Break into most countries’ airbases, and within two seconds you’ll be riddled with more holes than a porcupine’s underpants.

    Palestine Action, though, shouldn’t be the only object of our contempt. If anything, we should be even more disgusted by the people who condone them. Not just the ones screeching and raving outside Parliament – but the ones screeching and raving inside it, too. Because, incredible as it may seem, Palestine Action has been defended by numerous sitting MPs.

    Jeremy Corbyn claims that banning the group represents “a draconian assault on democratic right to protest”. Kim Johnson, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, calls it “a dangerous attack on civil liberties”. Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East, seems to think these crowbar-wielding thugs are “non-violent”.

    Most mind-boggling of all, however, is the attitude of Zarah Sultana, the suspended Labour MP for Coventry South – who, on Tuesday, proudly proclaimed: “We are all Palestine Action.”

    “We”? Who’s “we”? I don’t know about you, but I for one have never been accused in court of assaulting police officers with a sledgehammer. Nor have I smashed up a Jewish-owned business in north London. Or posted a photo of a handgun on Instagram, with the caption: “Resist! By any means necessary”. And, to the best of my recollection, I’ve never sabotaged any RAF planes, either.

    Still, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the past week’s events. Because for some time now it’s been clear that the anti-Israel Left is growing ever more extreme. What started with the weekly hate marches has mutated into something truly unhinged.

    In the past few days alone, we’ve seen protesters in London flying Iranian flags, and brandishing placards that praise the Ayatollah for being on “the right side of history”. We’ve seen loons from “Queers for Palestine” (I know it sounds like a spoof, but they’re real) disrupting an LGBTQIA+ parade in Cardiff, because they preposterously accuse Pride Cymru of having “ties to the Israeli war machine”. This weekend, meanwhile, Glastonbury will welcome the anti-Israel rap group Kneecap, even though one member has been charged with a terror offence after allegedly displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah. Oh, and the same festival is also due to host a talk by an activist for guess who: Palestine Action.

    We often talk about this fanaticism as a problem we’ve “imported”. But the truth is, all too many of today’s militant monomaniacs were born in Britain. Numberless hordes of them are white, middle-class – and so deranged with loathing for what they call “Zionists”, they’ll even cheer an attack on an RAF base.

    At best, these people have lost their marbles. But at worst, they’re becoming a threat to national security. For the sake of our future, Britain must wake up to the enemy within – or this country is finished.

    Good on the Home Secretary, therefore, for cracking down on Palestine Action. Its supporters may be horrified by the thought of getting locked up with members of Isil and al-Qaeda. Still, I’m sure they’d get used to it. They can while away the long winter evenings in prison together, arguing about which of them hates our country the most.

    3. MD is getting angrier and more frustrated by the day.
      This has led to his articles become wittier and sharper.

  97. That's me for today. Another dies non.Thank goodness for books.

    Have a spiffing evening (being glad you are not me!!)

    A demain – the MR will do the market run. I have to be within 30 seconds of a loo….

    (And thanks to all for advice)

    1. Night Bill. My go-to for the trots is Kaolin and Morphine. If you can still get it. You get a bloody good night's sleep, a slowing of evacuation and very sweet dreams.

      1. Once upon a time that was mine, too. But I am shit scared of bunging myself up – ABOVE where the germ is – and ending up with the runs AND constipation….

        1. The kaolin sucks in the Germans and the morphine soothes the soul. You would only get constipated if you kept on, and on, taking it. What is not to like?

  98. These warplanes that can carry nuclear weapons that we are buying, I assume we do not make any of the parts?

  101. Had a visit from the 'Avon Lady' a few minutes ago. She asked me if i had looked at her catalogue.

    I told her we live in a street where on the lamp posts say no hawkers or circulars. I even have one in brass next my front door. I also throw that stuff in the bin.

    She looked nice and completely clueless as to people not wishing to be disturbed..

    She did disturb me. And the dogs who had settled now oh fuck it

    1. Ah bless her, she's just trying to earn a few bob, dont be mean to her….. – did she ding dong?

        1. D'ye know Stephen, I had the great Leslie Phillips in mind when I posted that – I can remember him in Carry on Nurse as Doctor Bell – the nurses would say 'Doctor Bell' and he'd go 'Ding Dong, carry on……' Legend!!

      3. There are many elderly and very elderly in my street. Some with mobility issues. This is why we are a designated no cold caller zone. People who ignore that tend to get a flea in their ear from me.

      2. We use to have regular visits from Jehova witnesses. I disliked them intently, because they built their HQ along the Ridgeway in Mill Hill. The wonderful wooded area that belonged to the demolished mansion was our playground where I grew up.

    3. Good lord. I didn't realise they still existed.
      (Or maybe they took one look at me and decided I was a lost cause.)

        1. The "Face of Glamour" these days seems to have morphed into 'Tattooed Lard.'…

  103. Why don't the Tories state the reason why we have had 14 years of a Conservative government . Throw  that question  into the  Labour front bench , and see the reaction .
    It is because during that period , the Labour party were unelectable , the British public knew better than to vote for Labour !

    1. And why did they spend all of their time allowing the invasion to carry on regardless. If they had stopped it our country would now be a lot safer and they would still be in office now.

      1. The invasion really gathered momentum during the Blair and Brown years , they walked in , hitched lifts made excuses , after all they were Commonwealth people .. yeah, and then the wars , yep another story , oh yes and the crisis in Europe , and so it went on , but now they are coming in , unstoppable on boats , the public has woken up , because violence and murder has increased .

        1. But not one person in government or opposition has ever bothered to explain what is happening and why TB. Not even Farage and all of them will know why it has been happening.

          1. I have a theory , a daft theory ..

            The government are panicking because baby boomers are reaching old age .

            Have you noticed care in the community , mostly African men and women as carers of elderly , you see them pushing wheelchairs , escorting elderly people / disabled youngsters etc etc, why because they all speak beautiful English .. they are easy to train and are eager to work to send money back to Africa .

            Arabs don't do that sort of thing , they are more into security roles , they don't speak good English, Pakistanis don't do stuff unless they are doctors etc , Indians similar , they are not hands on carers .

            Nigerians , Kenyans , Malawi etc seem to make good nurses , carers in the community and can communicate .. our legacy left over from colonial days .

    2. Strictly speaking, 9 years of the Tories and 5 year coalition

  104. Off topic
    That's a relief, the thunderstorms have passed.
    We were warned about likely hailstones, bigger than golf balls, and very high winds but so far apart from flash bangs and a bit of rain no real problems.

    Being a miserable sod I can't help hoping that if the hail appeared it wrecked a few solar farms, hideous and unnecessary things tat (sic) they are.

    2. A Close call Sos, I remember a few years ago hearing from our friends who live at Upper Fern Tree Gully near Melbourne. That one of their cars was written off by huge golf ball size hail stones, it might be why they never invested in solar panels.

  105. The media seems to have become bored with Iran, except for the BBC which quotes sources saying the attacks have just made a few holes in the ground while the brave towelheads have moved their uranium experiments to other secret sites.

    ID cards are the next subject on the media agenda, notably with respect to immigration. It's currently on The Moral Maze. I listened to the intro and then switched off. New Giles Fraser fulminated splendidly while Jonathon Sumption, making his debut, was much more controlled and concise in describing the idea as 'abhorrent'.

    I would take great exception to a recent arrival, hired by Starmer's regime, dressed up in a state uniform, obviously not a native speaker of English, telling me to show my papers proving I have a right to be in my country…

      1. Well, yes, but Mad Max & Co would undoubtedly extend it way beyond airports and ferry terminals and into every corner of life.

  107. Oil Vey!

    The WSJ reports that European energy giant Shell is in early stage talks to acquire the other European energy giant, BP, in what would be the largest oil deal in a generation, and one of the largest merger deals of all time.

    The Journal writes that while talks between company reps are active, BP is considering the approach carefully as the resulting company would be one of the biggest energy companies in the world; acquiring BP would put Shell on firmer footing to challenge larger competitors such as ZeroHedge favorite Exxon Mobil and Chevron, and would be a landmark combination of two so-called supermajor oil companies.

    A Shell spokesman told the WSJ that “we are sharply focused on capturing the value in Shell through continuing to focus on performance, discipline and simplification.”

    Please no Crude BTL comments….

    1. I recall there being "Shell Mex & BP" petrol stations in the post WWII period. Also National Benzole of course.

      1. Marilyn Monroe was stunning wasnt she? Such a terrible shame what happened to her……

  109. Another BTL Nom de plume that I came across seconds ago in the DT…

    Mike Rotchburns

  111. How mass migration will transform your town
    Plunging birth rate will leave many urban areas reliant on immigration

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/25/mass-migration-town-ons-falling-birth-rate/

    Without international migration, the population of England would fall from 57.1 million to 54.6 million, according to the projections. This figure also includes zero movement between England and Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

    How did we cope after the WW2.

    We coped !

    1. It would be no bad thing it the population fell; we can't feed ourselves as it is.

    2. A normal animal population confronted with a top heavy elderly group would just let the oldies die through lack of food. The plan in the UK (other countries available) is replacement by more fecund/multi-wife foreign immigrants. This doesn't fix anything, it just changes ethnic demographics.

    3. Nobody is "reliant" on immigration. We must be reliant upon ourselves! Who cares if the population falls? That would be a GOOD thing.
      But government will carry on pushing immigration until not one hated white person remains in these islands.

  112. I'm orrf to bed now, it's been a busy day for the one legged pirate. 🤗 😴 Good night all Nottlers.

  113. The DT has a review of the World's unfriendliest cities

    Beckford Burger
    1 HR AGO
    The writers haven't been to Hull, then.
    I spent a week there about 15 years ago. The highest number of benefits claimants in the universe and the pubs are jam-packed all day long with drunken, doped, chain-smoking tattoed pierced stinking neanderthals. And the guys are no better.
    There was a near riot when White Lighting Cider, the aperetif of choice coming in at 2 quid for a 3 litre bottle, decided to reduce the alcohol content from 15% to 9%.
    Due to rising sea levels, it'll be submerged in about 250 years, by which time the locals, who have already evolved gills, will have slithered up the evolutionary scale and become fish.

    2. Around 6 years ago when one of my sisters and hubby had to move back to the UK from Spain. She had problems with the heat.
      They found a home at the right price not far away from Hull.
      There was a golf course close by which suited BiL. But planning consent was given to build new homes in the fields at the end of their back garden. She mentioned several times that there were quite a lot of strange people living nearby.
      They have lived in North Norfolk now for several years and reasons.

    2. Funny how none of us are surprised that a foreign government might want to break up the UK, but many people still have trouble processing that Tony Blair deliberately acted to cause the same.

      The SNP does actually garner a LOT of interest outside the British isles. When there was the vote (2014?) separatist parties across Europe were waiting with baited breath hoping for a leave vote. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that some of them went a bit further with their support too!

    1. I went with some friends who wanted to get a dog; they didn't get one, but I came away with a dog that looked at me and said, "take me!".

    2. At the end of the video, the cat's expression says "Well, what are we waiting for? Take me home!"

      We got chosen by a cat when I was a child – just turned up one day and demanded to be let in through the kitchen window. A wonderful cat. I still miss him.

    1. Good Night Conners – and Kadi and Winston. And dog number three? Has (s)he a name?

    2. Good Night Conners – and Kadi and Winston. And dog number three? Has (s)he a name?

  117. I could not sleep so played some Elgar and pondered. I read nothing supportive of President Trump n the BBC but instead constant ridicule. This contrasts with the support the BBC showed to the evil and incompetent Joe Biden who could do nothing wrong despite being bad news for the world.

    The recent bombings of Iranian nuclear installations by the Trump administration is reportedly a failure whereas the immediate and leaked negative reporting from the Pentagon suggests some collusion between the Pentagon and Press in order to undermine President Trump.

    Trump seems to me to have inherited an administration committed to seeing him fail in his every endeavour.

    The truth is that Khameini was hiding in a bunker in fear of his life whereas on his reappearance he will find himself in a different country to the one he ruled over with a rod of iron and instead will be in fear of his people.

    Everyone thinks in terms of the apparent victors of wars yet few look at its implications. The victors often become the losers as Great Britain found after WWII.

    Germany profited from geopolitical considerations (to ensure that Germany remained peaceful by assisting them in rebuilding their industries) whereas Great Britain was obliged by contrast to press on regardless with crippling debt having to pay for the war and make do with aged war damaged industries and factories.

    Great Britain has always been poorly served by its political class and deep state. The same people and their successors are now actively destroying our country and must be stopped.

    1. What a "cheerful" final post to go to sleep on, corimmobile. But so true.

    2. What a "cheerful" final post to go to sleep on, corimmobile. But so true.

    3. Did the BBC report that Iranian bombs destroyed the Israeli stock exchange?
      There is so much dishonesty around all war reporting.
      Doc Malik (who is religious but explicitly does not belong to any organised religion- I read between the lines that he may be an ex muslim – he is a good man anyway) has published a piece on his substack which probably represents the view of many ordinary Iranians.

  118. Well, chums, it's time for me to bow out. I went to bed for an hour's snooze, only to wake up just a few minutes ago. I got Wordle in six (a Double Bogey) which I will report on when I arise at around (hopefully) 7 am. I hope you all sleep well and join me at around that time.

    1. They give two short planks a bad name. All infected by the stupidity virus that’s sweeping the world.

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