Wednesday 6 August: Jeremy Corbyn is right to stick up for Britain’s allotment holders

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  1. Good morning Geoff and Chums. A Birdie for today's Wordle.

    Wordle 1,509 3/6

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          1. We are at 101,000. 11 years old. Our previous Honda had done 180,000; if we hadn't been travelling up and down through France we would have kept it, but the distances between assistance, if anything goes wrong, are vast. We sold it for a couple of hundred pounds – complete service history, oil changes, the lot. I was so sad to see her go. The 'new' Honda (diesel this time) I don't feel the same towards but we will keep it until it needs sellotaping together.

        2. No problem for another 60.000 at least. I did a quarter of a million miles in my 1990 Mazda 626 petrol.

  5. Good morning all.
    A pleasant but somewhat cooler start to the day with the initial cloud cover rapidly clearing and the sun shining.
    A tad over 12°C on the thermometer with yesterday's maximum only reaching 18½°C.

  6. 410880+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Face it, if there is to be any serious fight back the route must be via JAW JAW not WAR WAR,and MUST be centered around food and the production of.
    I care very little for peoples opinion in regards to how we got this nation into such a horrendous state when I say it was due mainly down to treacherous misuse via the polling stations, when witnessing the engineered
    downfall taking place over the last four decades.

    The time has come the hungry Walrus said……….. https://x.com/NoFarmsNoFoods/status/1952845838880817222

      1. Tell me, Maggie, exactly what he is cooking? It looks like a chicken, but then it also seems to have a human head, which he touches just before licking his lips. (Good morning, btw.)

        1. When I lived in SA it was bad enough seeing sheep heads boiling in cooking pots.

    2. Didn't the Soviet have a catastrophic famine? ChatGPT says (my bold):

      The Great Famine in Soviet Russia—most notably the **Holodomor** in Ukraine (1932–1933)—was primarily caused by a combination of **Soviet policies under Joseph Stalin** and environmental factors. Here are the main causes:

      ### **1. Forced Collectivization (1929–early 1930s)**

      * Stalin aimed to consolidate individual peasant farms into large, state-run collective farms (**kolkhozes**).

      * This process was often violent, with resistance from peasants leading to mass arrests, executions, and deportations.

      * Peasants slaughtered livestock and hid grain rather than surrender it to the state, causing a drop in agricultural productivity.

      ### **2. Grain Requisition Quotas**

      * The state imposed **unrealistically high grain procurement quotas** on Ukraine and other grain-producing regions.

      * Local officials took almost all grain, including seed grain and reserves, leaving peasants with nothing to eat.

      * Even during famine, the USSR continued exporting grain abroad to fund industrialization.

      ### **3. Punitive Measures**

      * Villages that didn’t meet quotas were **blacklisted**—cut off from supplies and trade.

      * Internal borders were closed to prevent starving peasants from fleeing to cities or other regions in search of food.

      * Anyone caught taking even small amounts of grain from the fields could be executed or imprisoned under the “**Law of Spikelets**.”

      ### **4. Political Motivation (particularly in Ukraine)**

      * Many scholars view the Holodomor as a **deliberate act of terror** by Stalin to crush Ukrainian nationalism and resistance to Soviet rule.

      * While famine affected multiple regions (including parts of Russia and Kazakhstan), Ukraine suffered disproportionately, with millions dying.

      ### **5. Environmental Factors (Secondary Role)**

      * Some regions faced **droughts and poor harvests**, which worsened the food shortage—but these were **not the primary cause**.

      * Similar conditions in earlier or later years didn’t cause famine of the same scale.

      ### **Death Toll**

      * Estimated **3.5 to 7 million people died**, with around 3–4 million in Ukraine alone.

      In summary, while natural factors played a role, the **famine was largely man-made**, driven by Soviet economic policies, forced collectivization, and deliberate political repression.

    1. ‘Morning Jules! If you see my message to you from last night, don’t worry! The little thing is fine this morning!I phoned my daughter and after weighing the hog I gave it metacam, removed its ticks and cleaned its paw with Hibiscrub! It’s eaten and pooed well, so I’ll try and get it to a shelter as the SPCA seem to be overwhelmed!

        1. Thank you! I’m always delighted that any injured creature (and I’ve had many!) gets through the night!

    1. My 29-year-old nephew has green fingers. Anything he touches flowers within weeks, whereas I have the Claw of Death, and has to be really tough to survive my gardening effort. He lives in North London, not far from Corbyn's Islington, in a flat belonging to his mother. He is allowed a few square feet in her flower bed to grow things, but is eager to develop his horticultural skills. I find it very heartening that someone of his generation is so interested in horticulture, which would otherwise be a dying tradition amid old blokes in their seventies like Jeremy Corbyn.

      He is eager to get himself an allotment, but has been told that there is a ten year waiting list even to be considered. Is this how we should be treating young people who could actually do some good for the country? Is building homes for migrants all that matters?

      Furthermore, when I was in my 20s, there was such a thing as "County Farms" whereby young farmers could rent land economically and develop their skills with a view one day of biting the bullet and buying land freehold or coming into an inheritance as their parents retire and hand over the family farm. After Local Government reorganisation by the Heath Government, and then under Wilson, these were cut back in favour of social spending. Under Thatcher, young farmers were expected to play the market without any public subsidy or support, and many just gave up at that point. Today, land in the countryside is for building on, not for growing food.

      1. My 38 year old son is very green-fingered, even though the only have a big balcony at their high-rise apartment in central Toronto. He would love to have a garden, but there is no way they could afford such a home.
        I caught the gardening 'bug' from my dear old Mum, he caught it from me, and both his young children are very keen; the children are looking forward to helping Grandma in the garden when they come to stay.
        Our neighbours have a big garden and also an allotment in our village. We regularly see them and their teenage/early 20s offspring going to/from the allotment.

    4. The fact that the Idiot King once employed this bizarre, mentally deranged weirdo as a tutor for his sons tells us that Charles III, like King Lear 'hath ever but slenderly known himself'.

    2. And who is doing the exploiting in Kenya? No prizes for guessing, and I bet it won't be any Europeans or from any civilised Western nation.

    3. To assist in the prosecution of services personnel who are reported to have left numerous illegitimate children behind, after serving in Kenya.

    1. Gender confusion (where there is conflict between sex and social expectations of that sex) exists, and should be recognised as such. It does create unease among those who like the world to be reliable and not constantly shifting and changing shape, and this unease is not a crime, but a feeling to be appreciated and respected. In return, those feeling unease could appreciate and respect that gender confusion, like any affliction, does not prevent someone making a positive contribution in many ways unrelated to gender.

      Sex is quite a different thing – a biological rather than a social construct. Men and women, boys and girls, are quite distinct, based on one being outward and the other being inward. It is natural and this duality has existed for as long as there has been light and dark in the universe. It should not be equated with gender, other than the natural expression of that sex according to the demands of living. Only when these are social should gender be brought in.

  15. Rick B
    Consequences.
    A politician who doesn't suffer consequences is a politician who will sell you out again.
    The reason we have Keir Starmer is because Blair got away alive.

  16. Good Morning!

    In The House That Jack Built Graham Cunninhgham looks at whether the West has become excessively ‘feminised’, to the point of dystopia, and if the gradual feminisation of our culture is a good thing, a bad thing or somewhere in between. What do you think?

    In Secrecy and Power: The Constitutional Dangers of Super-Injunctions , we discuss the dangers, obvious and hidden, of these potentially tyrannical legal instruments now being used by government, as in their Afghan people smuggling racket that brought us Taliban fighters. What else is being hidden under these sinister legal devices?

    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 14.2%; Solar, 9.8%: Wind 49.5%; Imports, 9.7%; Biomass, 2.5%; Nuclear 11.9% and Miscellaneous, 2.3%.

    1. As the Warqueen told me she said at a tribunal (I imagine she paraphrased) : I don't care what's between their legs. They're [bleep].

      There is a problem with certain hard Left 'feminists' wanting a leg up. That tarnishes the efforts and ability of those women who have worked their way to the top.

      1. Do you mean that? I see no evidence of "Job done" when it comes to cutting immigration, despite the best intentions of some fairly radical and some less radical politicians who assure us they know what they are doing.

        As for cutting benefits; how would they then pay the Council Tax?

          1. First we must define "indigenous". All we have on census forms is "British White", but I refuse to be categorised by putative skin colour. As an Englishman, I identify as "Born in Middlesex, raised in Surrey, now long settled in Worcestershire". My parents were born in Surrey and South Wales and died in South Australia and North London.

            Then, there are two sides to emigration. Yes, they have to go from somewhere, but they also have to go to somewhere. Where? How does one define this?

            I remember the tangle we got in with Shamima Begum. My understanding was that she renounced her British citizenship on turning 18 in favour of her declared loyalty for the "Islamic State", a prospective caliphate that was defeated in battle by Kurdish separatists loyal to an unrecognised regime spanning Iraq and Syria, and which later fell in with Damascus. Therefore by conquest, her rightful citizenship is that of Syria, and she is their problem. However, some claim she is British because she was born here, and others claim she is Bangladeshi, because her parents came from there before they settled in Britain. Yet, she herself has never lived there, nor owes any allegiance to Bangladesh.

            How would you define someone like Freddie Mercury? He was born in Tanzania whose parents were of Indian heritage, but descended from Zoroastrians fleeing Persia, when it was over-run by Muslims. He grew up in Middlesex, and is widely regarded as a British cultural icon.

          2. Values and principles matter more than where you were born. My Nigerian chum had elocution lessons. His wife is getting rid of her very yellow and orange dresses for the muddy brown hues of the Cotswold's so she will be part of the community there and guess what? Someone said it was a terrible shame as they were lovely colours to see but because her community dresses and behaves a certain way she is adapting to it – FOR THEM.

            That's the sort of immigrant we want, one that vanishes into society and adopts our laws and mores. Not a bunch of pakistanis in leather jackets stinking of smoke or wearing pyjamas and those funny kitchen hats.

            When in Rome.

          3. Another couple of characters to define:

            Barack Obama, born in Hawaii to a mother from the American mid-west and a Kenyan father. He became US President.

            Prince Archie of Sussex. Sixth-in-line to the British throne. On his father's side (presuming that Prince Harry was indeed the natural son of the current King) lies a long history of Germans, but ultimately descended from a Scottish King. Then there are the Spencers, who are English. On his mother's side, whilst the noble Duchess, late of Montecito, makes a big play to Oprah Winfrey about her blackness, she is in fact more closely related to the ancient English King Edward III through her father's line than is her royal husband. Prince Archie has only known California and speaks with a broad American accent. Is he British?

            Edit – here's another to ponder:

            The longest-serving female presenter of the long running BBC children's show 'Blue Peter' was born in London to parents who settled from Bangladesh before she was born. Is she British? If not, what should be done about Charlie Brooker, who comes from Reading?

          4. If one was born in a fruit box, would thaat make you an apple?
            But – good points, Jeremy. I’ll think on’t as I wield my paint roller.

        2. The problem appears to be that native Britons find it easier to live on benefits rather than find a job. Immigration has been used to fill these jobs. Cut benefits and people will have to find a job to live. Cutting immigration at the same time would reduce the ready supply of employees. Smaller workforce, employers have to pay higher wages – Supply and Demand. More incentive for people to come off the dole.

          Benefits should be for those who really need them, not a lifestyle choice.

          1. I'm told that the job market is very difficult at the moment and people can't find jobs. The million unskilled young men who don't speak English as a native language aren't going to find jobs.

          3. Exactly. It’s not fair on us and it’s making them promises that aren’t tenable because the government is about to run out of money. Those in charge must know that. The only reason they can be carrying on with the invasion is to provoke a civil war behind which they will hide their destruction of the pound and their imposition of digital serfdom.

          4. They will not want jobs as cleaners or in hospitality either. They haven't travelled across the world to remain poor. There are far more lucrative off-radar enterprises to engage in whilst claiming every benefit on offer.

          5. Even with a job as a cleaner they will be sending money home. Especially if getting extra benefits, working two jobs or if the second fake European passport scam is still going. So they will count as rich at home.

          6. Yesterday, for half an hour or so, I sat in a coffee shop on Colchester High Street.
            I lost count of the number of Deliveroo/Uber Eats etc… deliverers coursing down the road. Many of them wearing masks.

          7. They are everywhere in the city where I work too. What is wrong with people nowadays…
            I do know of two families where they eat from these food delivery services or go out to restaurants every night. Families. With children. Both of them not short of money.
            In one of them, the children (primary school age) have already worked out how to order the food for themselves. But know nothing about cooking.

          8. I have never ordered food from these sort of places, I never will. I wouldn't know how to do it, and I don't want to know. The whole concept is ahorrent.

          9. I agree, and nearly getting run over by the delivery bikes whilst walking in the city doesn’t predispose me in their favour !

          10. They don't want proper jobs, not while they can get all the handouts while working 'under the radar, delivering food and similar jobs.

          11. "Find a job to live" … Easier said than done. Plenty of jobs for volunteers that pay nothing, but can one live or even pay the Council Tax or inflated food prices? Who would pay a frail 70-year-old a living wage, if he or she has to have a lie down every few hours, and hardly presents a dynamic hardworking image to prospective clients?

            If the choice was Dole, Destitution or Prison (and there aren't enough places in these for criminals, let alone vagrants who cannot pay their taxes), which would you choose?

            If there are incentives to be made, it should be for the nurturing of niches which can make a modest living, and that these should not be being killed off by over-regulation and punitive demands on time and money by officials and their lawyers.

          12. My caveat was “Benefits should be for those who really need them, not a lifestyle choice”.

          13. And that's the problem. It's easier to live on welfare than it is to work. Thus let's… scrap council tax. Let's make energy vastly cheaper by scrapping the 'climate change' tax scam.

            I own a small business and I did employ (well, technically was employed by) a 70 year old woman. She worked 4 to 5 hours a day and did an amazing job. Would I replace her? I'd like to, but I can't. Onerous employment laws are simply too dangerous for me to do so. The state actively fights my hiring people because if I offer zero hours I'm criticised and likely still have a host of other costs to bear. I can't make them a contractor.

            Find me a sharp minded person willing to work from 9ish -1ish (as that's when we allow phone calls) and deal with anyone from a multi million pound CEO shouting at them to a timid octogenarian struggling with a cable 'sticking out' with the same aplomb. I pay well, we have a profit sharing scheme based on time served, we offer part share ownership and have as many holidays as you want – we don't track it. We don't monitor sick leave or appointments because it's bloody boring. But such largesse gets abused by certain groups. We also had one temp woman complain about the office cat (who prowls from office to office) and another about the dogs (my three and solicitor man's comedic red setter).

            We just expect folk to fit in without having to regulate or manage them because we are too busy to manage people and faff about with org charts and other BS. We all work to get paid and the more paperwork and 'procedures' we have the less we get paid.

            But the state hates that. It hates that we're flexible and self motivating. it wants someone to 'be responsible' as if the cost of such is zero.

            Cut taxes, scrap acres of legislation. Shred the state – literally, shut the damned thing down. No one notices when they go on strike so most are unnecessary.

        3. I think Mr Aeneas is referring to 'if these two things were done, the majority of problems would begin to dissipate.

          I'd add 'cut taxes and scrap legislation' as you have to cut tax to make it worthwhile working so people do. You have to cut welfare so folk choose to work because welfare is not viable. You have to cut regulation to allow business to create jobs and open up new markets.

          All these things have to be done at the same time. Truss tried it, but it also requires cutting spending on government costs while supporting those looking for work, so the upfront costs are a bit higher but the long term costs are dramatically lower as more tax revenue comes in from a wider pool.

          At the moment the state has the floodgates wide open, desperately trying to drain the economy of all productive value but the lake is dry due to tax and waste. If the state cut back (by about… 70-80%) then the lake would fil up again and more tax revenue would trickle out. But such basic economics principle is beyond the cretinous fools in Whitehall and westminster.

    2. Malvern Hills Further Education College is still languishing, abandoned and on the market. The 'For Sale' board was vandalised last week.

      "Market forces" favours immigration to provide cheap labour, rather than to train up natives who are stung for all sorts of charges simply because they are rooted to the community.

      1. Yet "cheap unskilled labour" is rapidly being displaced by technology and mechanisation. Machines don't need anyone to grow food for them… plug them into the wall, and away it goes.
        Example: The project I am on has a totally unmanned production facility from the start, and the main platform will have control transferred to an onshore control room once it has "shaken down". Lots of self-administering equipment, minimal need for control room operators, no need for feild operators, many fewer helicopter flights, so a serious reduction in the needs for crew. Not manning-up with unskilled folk who can't even speak the fucking language, let alone write it!

        1. Technology will always require upskilling. I watch a drain unblocker usinng a micro camera – almost a little spider with a pin cam on the end. It can carry the hose – which can cut through tree roots – to the point of need. The whole thing is barely 3cm around. He's a solid working class chap, just using to him, obvious tech but it's incredibly advanced compared to the rods and force we used last decade.

          1. Malvern was once a world leader in advanced technology, developing radar and the TV remote to name but two devices. Its college should be training up the next generation of innovators.

        2. Any contingency plans for platform boarding by people intent on theft of equipment or sabotage?
          Just asking on behalf of a friend.

    3. We are not reliant on migration. We didn't need it at all. Our birth rate was falling as a response to our changing society.

      The state wanted to pump up GDP – at the expense of GDP per capita and Blair and Andrew Neather raped the country with useless foreigners to get a voting block.

    4. Recently I have been dealing with a lot of call centres. The only two where I spoke to a native English speaker were the only government ones! Mostly, it's a question of adjusting one's ear to whatever thick foreign accent is on the other end of the line, and praying that they don't hate English people enough to scupper my request.

    1. It's comical that HMRC are now trying to apply the tax theft retrospectively after it raised nothing and cost them money.

  19. Morning, all Y'all.
    Late on parade – overslept as a result of a day painting above my head REALLY taking it out of me. Riht shoulder almost immobile, it's so stiff.
    Applying strong coffee internally, to hopefully get things functioning again.

  21. 410880+ up ticks,

    For starters there must be a very serious KIT CHECK
    regarding these pair of top ranker's, they might satisfy
    the needs of the tribal voters but leave a great deal to be desired among decent folk.

    Surely the transportation of rent boys & paedophiles
    is morally illegal to say the least ?

    This is NOT a stupid action it is a delay, ALLOW ANOTHER DAY action, ongoing.
    https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1952980284749561947

    1. Starmer couldn't negotiate his way out of a room with an open door. We have had incompetent prime ministers before but he is also evil.

      1. He didn't want to. The officials didn't care. It's not their money. There's no responsibility or penalty for those involved so they just don't give a stuff.

    2. Not one will be returned. It was obvious Starmer would dump all the costs on us. The wretched man works for the hated EU, after all.

      The only method that will work is when the ones here are crammed into shipping containers and dumped and any more invaders aare met with a gun.

      Are we going to take the entire middle east? All of africa? That's billions of people.

      1. 410880+ up ticks,

        Morning W,
        Seemingly so, many indigenous refuse to accept what is taking place, and will NOT accept it until
        the knock on the door with their mandatory movement orders.

      2. No, I suspect that he is answerable to some alien power and that the entire hierarchy of the Uniparty are subject to some sort of most secret superinjunction that makes the Afghan coverup look like a joke.

      1. 410880+ up ticks,

        Morning BB2,
        We surely must be nearing the point of peoples “arrest on sight
        warrant” being issued under the mass health & safety of a nation act.
        If there is NO such charge make one up, the proven eu ers would recognise that.

    5. In other words, every single one of those dangerous cockroaches (the invaders and the cheese-eating-surrender-monkey frog authorities) will use one or more of those 'excuses' so that virtually none are removed. As the poster states, even if the full 50 were kicked out each week, it is still only a very small percentage of arrival numbers for each week.
      Edit: As Lisa commented below that tweet, "Only a complete moron would accept this deal!" And starmer is …… I rest my case.

      1. 410880+ up ticks,

        Morning MIB,

        “starmer is” the apple of the
        WEF / NWO / eu / eye

    6. Judging by the type, that is the Grauniad.
      If so, the disillusionment is very deep and wide.

  22. Some expensive eggs: businesses have been offered £9,500 private breakfasts with ‘an influential Labour figure’ as part of sponsorship packages, a Times investigation has found. Other packages include a parliamentary panel event with key policy makers for £11,750 and a Westminster drinks reception for £21,500 to £30,000. The Labour Infrastructure Forum, which has been flogging these events, but is not affiliated with the Labour party, declined to disclose which companies have sponsored events.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f89cf76a49a9d9038a7c88b0c936519bf369c806d8dfab7bd8a65fd2e4fbedcd.png
    Keir Starmer enjoys a fry up in the Duke of Gloucester Barracks. Hopefully it cost them a little less than £9,500.

    1. Is Starmfuherer asking "I have people cut my food up for me, I'm that lazy. Who cuts up your food?"

      The bloke next to him is thinking "One good thrust an it'd all be over."

      The chap at the far end is wondering why this new robot can't hold a knife.

    2. Yo and Good Moaning all, from a chilly, but sunny C d S

      Not many 'Pongoes" (soldiers) in sight at the Barracks: looks as though what personnel remain of the Royal Navy have gathered there though

      1. I wonder if those servicemen were ordered to be there? I can't imagine many would have volunteered, unless it was to witness the lies and hypocrisy in person.

      1. All Left Wing leaders eventually end up in Military Uniform accompanied by a slashed peak cap.

          3. You are that MAD magazine character and I claim my five bob postal order, Annie.

  23. Niesr’s economic model is highly respected globally and used by organisations such as the Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. Its president, Sir Paul Tucker, is the former deputy governor of the Bank of England.

    Both of whom are consistently, repeatedly completely wrong.

    Keynes wasn't an economist. He was an activist. There's vastly more than a 51bn hole in the government books. We're borrowing 100bn more every month. Most of it to pay back debt. The only option Thieves Reeves the moronic woman has is to close multiple government departments and pointless quangos along with real cuts to welfare – multiple tens of billions.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/06/reeves-facing-50bn-black-hole-as-tax-pressure-mounts/

    1. No country with a debt to GDP ratio as high as ours currently is has ever come back from that – the currency has always collapsed. I think Reeves' tears were when someone explained that to her, and told her that she's not allowed to resign. Doctored her CV to try and prove she could do the job, too stupid to realise that she was being set up as the fall guy.

      1. But but but. We are a rich country and need to take in all the illegals as we are rich and they come from poor countries. I know because some woman with pink hair and no education thinks it and says it when interviewed about her “activism” on telly

    2. To add insult to injury, that eye-watering debt is rocketing up with the billions that the invasion is costing us all, as well as the
      life-long funding for millions of unemployable, over-breeding legal parasites that have been here for many decades.

      1. Over-breeding and frequently in-breeding.
        That practice alone is costing you and me, via the NHS and social services, countless £millions.

    3. Labour will confiscate personal wealth before they cut spending. It will take the IMF or a revolution to cut benefits in any significant way. Otherwise, the fate of the Weimar republic looms – who doesn't remember the old German stamps with huge numbers of DM's overprinted that we used to get in foreign stamp packets back in the days when stamp collecting was popular. All we would need then is a handy Austrian…

    4. I am a Christian, even if your King and the Archbishop of Canterbury are not…..

      1. Which Archbishop of Canterbury? As far as I am aware the position is still vacant.

      1. 419880+up ticks,

        Morning LIR,
        Dare I say, a bloody very good, that needs answering ASAP question.

      1. A very old comment – used to be popular among us car crazy types back in the '60's. Except we were a bit more precise, suggesting resleeving rather than reboring – resleeving tightens things up, so to speak.

    2. Signed.
      Another innocent victim of the takeover and unacceptable bias in every sphere of our lives.
      Why on earth is there a Muslim representative of the National Education Union at Preston College?
      Is there a Christian or Jewish or any other such representative?

      And the poor teacher was only putting his post on his private, personal page. Either one of his farcebook 'friends' dobbed him in or every farcebook post automatically scanned for certain words?
      Maybe, possibly not so far down the line, we will need to develop our own Nottlers 'secret' language like the 'Underground Railroad' system used by escaped slaves used in North America.

        2. A valid term here, used to describe white youths who are part of black gangs. Usually dealing gangs.

  27. Morning all 🙂😊
    Sunny no wind, nice day.
    Nice of you to jump on to a needed bandwagon Mr Corbyn. Now get stuck in. And stop talking about it.

  28. First bag of small brash up the hill dragged up to the oil-drum incinerator and tipped so in for a mug of tea.
    Several more bags full to sort, so will probably not be burning today.

    1. it sounds like your plot is something of a Tardis. Always more heavy work. But cheaper than going to the gym with must-have gym clothing.

      1. Our younger son was amazed at how much it cost his now ex-wife to dress properly for running around the local roads.
        The shoes he could understand; it was all the extra gubbins. The list – and spending – was non stop.

        1. We're just thankful our younger son is shot of his ex-wife after less than 3 years of marriage (and within 6 months of them buying their 1st house – the deposit for which she and hers contributed peanuts towards, but she still walked away with half the £48,00 equity.) It was a complete break, no maintenance, no future liabilities. Thankfully, no child involved.
          We all got on well, but I never fully trusted her to be faithful.
          Turned out our son had been heavily subsidising her spendthrift, drinking, holidaying-with-friends lifestyle; after the divorce, he was easily able to take on the extra mortgage payments to cover her 'free' settlement!
          While it destroyed him at the time, long-term he is so much better off, and not just financially. His new lady, and mother of his nearly 2 year old child, is wonderful, responsible and trustworthy.

    2. If it were possible to fence your estate, you could delegate ground clearance to a sow and her piglets.

    1. 410880+ up ticks,

      O2O,
      No results for " What British corporations" now have foreign oversea owners,"

      1. 410880+ up ticks,

        Morning Bob,

        It existed long enough for me to copy it, then disappeared.

          2. Morning Kate! Just catching up with things – have seen your calendar order….. will get it ready for posting out tomorrow when the post lady is down by the pub. Saves getting the car out………

          3. Morning Ndovu x….no rush, calendar is for ‘hog crazy one – it’ll be part of present 🙂 have a lovely day, sun shining on the righteous here (for now).

          4. It's nice here at the moment………piano tuner is tuning our ancient piano – there was a damaged string but he says it's very near the end of its life. I don't play but i love to hear J play.
            He's up the ladder now picking the high up greengages I couldn't reach yesterday. I've taken up most of the room in the freezer already.

          5. Now cloudy here…big internet speed upgrade, everything crossed I can keep up with it…….eeek….

          6. It's the first order through the new website……… will have to get used to the system. You want it posted to Maiya? Will arrive a bit early?

          7. She won’t care….she loves the photos/hogs generally, and the calendar part is very useful for school/other dates. If you can leave another couple of weeks before posting, that will be great, Ndovu – many thanks. PS new website worked perfectly!

          8. Excellent! It’s a bit different but seems to be ok. Annie’s been selling quite a lot of our draw tickets that way.

          10. Don’t know head or heels today, Alec…sorry if I didn’t reply (or maybe I did, can’t see it)…upgrade time here, quicker to send you a pigeon …x

          13. Excellent, thanks Sue. I suspect similar strain used for racers (do they still do that?) once had one come down in the garden, crackered so I fed and watered it, phoned the number/ref on its leg band – owner didn’t want it back, useless to him…kept it for a while until it flew away. Not keen on animal sport myself – horses, dogs etc…strangely never cats :-D….anyhow, upgrade ongoing, plenty cursing….

          15. You fibber Alec :-DDDD….just speaking about Scotland – have a friend strong SNP supporter when I last saw him, more angry than anything at how the SNP have ‘thrown everything away, and they had it all in their hands’…no wonder Nicky has bunked off to her friend Val’s.

    2. Signed.
      Not that it will do any good, but at least the traitors that currently hold power can't say they didn't know about our feelings.
      When numbers are high enough to be 'considered' for debate, there will be some sort of lying, mealy-mouthed response.

    3. Repeal the Online Safety Act is tantalisingly close to half a million
      497,937 signatures

      I don't see that calling a general election will do any good. We will just get Farage imposing the agenda rather than Starmer.

      1. None of them do. Lies, weasel words, denials, twisting of facts, and more lies is the usual 'response.'
        But it costs nothing to keep trying.

  32. How on earth does a YouTube page get accepted on this blog?

    I am attempting to post the 1955 recording of Jim Lowe's minor hit of; "Close the Door (They're Coming in the Window)" which seems particularly apt with the current illegal migration problem?

    1. Can't help you on that, but it certainly sounds appropriate – and add in major leaks in the roof.

          1. Thank you!

            I had a vague recollection from my childhood, I think it was played on Saturday's Junior Choice?

            Happier times!

          2. I remember it! The kids were all singing it at school……. not sure what it was that was coming in the window……..

        1. 410880+ up ticks,

          Morning SG,
          I posted very same some two / three weeks back.

          Dare I say
          "great minds"

      1. "Hurst" means a hillock – with or without wood. Or sandbank. Or the frame of a pair or millstones.

        Just saying – for general edification

    3. Rolls Royce is still British and make jet engines.
      Rolls Royce cars are built in Crewe by BMW but they lease the name from the main company.

  38. Starmfuhrer wants to ban encryption – except government, of course.

    https://dailysceptic.org/2025/08/05/eu-revives-plan-to-ban-private-messaging/

    Comment here is interesting:

    varmint
    2 hours ago
    There was a time when we were all free to go about our business until perhaps criminality was suspected and then the authorities would investigate that. But now the citizen is to be forced into compliance with all government agendas through monitoring. So we are all now to be “suspected” until it can be shown we are not up to anything the government does not approve of. ——-But government are not just looking for the drug dealers and pedo’s, they want to check all our behaviours. They want to monitor our carbon output, our consumption, our travel, food choices, financial activity, our social media posts, and now private messages, because the only way to do that is to watch everyone ALL OF THE TIME.

    Mr Varmint wrongly assumes government is remotely bothered about criminals. It clearly couldn't care less. The point of mass surveillance and control is just that: control. The states wants to limit your freedoms, to control what you eat, where you go, when you go there.

    That's the sole and singular point of this fiasco. Government has created the problem through massive unwanted criminal gimmigration. It now pretends that pushing in mass surveillance will 'help' that problem: where the simplest is just to stop the damned dindu getting here at all.

    2. We have moved from thousands of years of common law and the rights and freedoms accorded to us under that system, to Napoleonic law in the space of 50 years. Thanks, Bliar.

    3. That’s why they are so keen on EU law; the code napoleon means everything is forbidden unless the state passes a law to allow it. It’s a fascist’s wet dream.

  39. Good Moaning.
    Muslim when it suits him.

    A wealthy recruitment boss who threatened to gang rape and set alight a Virgin Atlantic stewardess has been jailed for 15 months.

    Salman Iftikhar, 37, was staying in first class with his wife and three children when he unleashed a vile tirade on Angie Walsh at 39,000 feet during a flight from London Heathrow to Lahore.

    The father, who had been binging on champagne, hurled death threats and racist abuse at cabin crew on the eight hour flight after he was told to stop helping himself to ice from the onboard bar.

  40. Withholding facts about suspects risks endangering the British public

    Now even the Home Secretary has called on the police to be more transparent about the ethnicity and immigration status of offenders

    Joshua Rozenberg
    5th August 2025, 6:00pm BST

    How much does the public need to know about the background of suspected criminals?

    On Sunday, the shadow home secretary Chris Philp called on the Government to ensure that the immigration status and nationality of all offenders was published "for each crime and as quarterly totals". Otherwise, he said, "we risk a repeat of the rape gang scandal where horrendous crimes were covered up because of the identity of the perpetrators".

    Philp's reference to "each crime" suggests he was referring to convicted offenders. But what happened with the grooming gangs was a scandal because allegations were not prosecuted or even investigated.

    The Conservative MP was responding to concerns that Warwickshire Police had not revealed the background of two men accused of involvement in the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton. In contrast to the earlier cases, those defendants were promptly charged.

    It's reported that the accused are asylum seekers from Afghanistan. But Warwickshire Police, following national guidelines, have not confirmed that.

    On Monday, Nigel Farage accused the police of a "cover-up" after officers reportedly advised local councillors not to disclose that the suspects were asylum seekers for fear of "inflaming community tensions". The Reform UK leader argued that police forces should release the name, address and immigration status of people after they were charged with a crime.

    Not to be outdone, the Home Secretary said on Tuesday that police guidance needed to be changed. Asked if she thought the immigration status and ethnicity of suspects should be disclosed, Yvette Cooper told the BBC: "We do want to see more transparency in cases. We think local people do need to have more information."

    She had asked the Law Commission to speed up its review of the restrictions on prejudicing criminal trials.

    In March, the Government's independent law reform advisers responded with a brief consultation paper, focusing on an aspect of its current inquiry into contempt of court liability. Final recommendations are expected in the autumn.

    After Axel Rudakubana murdered three young girls at a dance class in Southport in July 2024, Merseyside police disclosed that he had been born in Cardiff. But confirmation that the suspect was a British national‡ did little to ease the growing but false belief that the massacre at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class was the work of an asylum-seeker.

    Reporters told the Law Commission that the widespread public disorder that followed was an indirect result of contempt laws. By constraining the information that public authorities could disclose, the law helped create an information vacuum into which misinformation, disinformation and counter-narratives could spread unchecked.

    That, said the Law Commission, raised the question of whether there should be contempt of court liability for those who risk prejudicing a criminal trial by releasing information in the interests of public safety or national security.

    Changing the law would provide a defence for the police. But it might also make it harder for the defendant to receive a fair trial. For example, publishing information about a defendant's past misconduct – even, for example, that the accused had entered the UK illegally – might in some cases be prejudicial.

    In practice, though, juries are expected to ignore whatever they may remember from the time of arrest. If a retrial is ordered in a notorious case, the second jury may be told that a previous jury had failed to agree. And if extremely prejudicial material has been published, the Law Commission suggested that a defendant could be tried by judge alone.

    It should be possible for incontrovertible facts about suspects – such as nationality – to be published at the time of an arrest without, as the law puts it, a "substantial risk that the course of justice… will be seriously impeded or prejudiced".

    As the Home Secretary recalled, Scotland Yard had announced in May that several individuals arrested under the National Security Act were Iranian nationals. Their immigration status was disclosed by the Crown Prosecution Service when three of them were charged, Cooper added.

    But good reasons must be shown for publishing anything about a suspect that is not necessary to avoid confusion with someone of a similar name. Some people are arrested but not charged while others are charged but not convicted.

    And there is a risk that merely reporting an individual's immigration status or nationality may be positively misleading. More important in assessing the threat to the public in terrorist cases is the suspect's religion – though this is not something a defendant can be required to disclose.

    As so often, there is a balance to be struck. If the police have to announce every suspect's nationality, immigration status, ethnicity and religion, cases will take longer to process and prejudice will be more likely. Far from deterring public disorder, it may provoke it.

    But there are times when the police need to level with the public. In those circumstances they should not be too frightened of being found in contempt of court.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/withholding-facts-about-suspects-risks-endangering-public

    ‡ 'Orses'n'stables…

    1. If they are going to publish details it might be a good idea also to present the "status" of both parents and I mean real parents as opposed to carers or foster parents.

    2. When they fail to state that the offender is white, we know exactly what they are hiding.

    3. That reply from Pixie is just a way of saying “no, but we’ll feed you a load of rubbish so you think you’re being kept informed”.

  42. The British state must trust its people

    The answer to the UK's travails is not increased monitoring of social media by a Whitehall 'spy' unit

    Telegraph View
    5th August 2025 7:33pm BST

    It is curious to see how the ability of Britain's executive to govern the country waxes and wanes. When it comes to releasing prisoners early to avoid overcrowding, the Government finds the levers of power at its fingertips.

    When the discussion is around the disclosure of the nationality and immigration status of suspects, however, the best that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper can apparently offer is to ask "the Law Commission to accelerate its review".

    A cynic might think that this non-committal approach indicates a Government more comfortable with maintaining a tight grip on the flow of information in controversial cases, rather than in trusting the public to behave responsibly when given access to the truth.

    As the Southport riots among other events demonstrated, however, the maintenance of an official information vacuum creates room for rumours and misinformation to spread, sometimes with tragic consequences. And as we have seen, also, with the attempts to cover up the grooming gangs scandal, and the mass airlift of Afghans into Britain, that the long-term effect of this approach is to utterly destroy trust in the state institutions engaging in these efforts.

    This is all the more so given the apparent willingness of agencies to release information when it can assist in shaping a narrative. When a car crashed into crowds in Liverpool earlier this year, Merseyside Police decided to disclose that the arrested man was a white British national. Indeed, this same willingness means that non-disclosure of available information is now taken by some as an indication of a non-white British background.

    It is understandable that Britain's politicians are ill at ease with the country that they have helped to create, and its attendant social strains and tensions. It is true, also, that a lack of trust in the public has marked both Labour and Conservative governments; while the Tories are now demanding an official investigation into the Whitehall "spy" unit monitoring social media sentiment over migrant hotels, it should be remembered that this same unit was established under a Conservative government, and deployed to monitor critics of its lockdown policies.

    Ultimately, however, the principles of democratic government demand that citizens are kept informed and that the state acts with their consent, rather than attempting to reshape public opinion to its liking.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/08/05/british-state-must-trust-its-people

    What was notable about the Liverpool case was that it was thought necessary to disclose anything about the driver at all. 'Pedestrian struck by car', accidental or deliberate, is a sad fact of life. The use of a vehicle as an indiscriminate murder weapon is a more recent development.

  43. Lisa Nandy: I won’t watch new MasterChef series with Gregg Wallace
    Culture Secretary says she is ‘appalled’ by conduct of sacked presenters
     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/06/lisa-nandy-wont-watch-new-masterchef-gregg-wallace/

    BTL

    Pots and Kettles!

    And I am appalled by the government of which you are a member.

    It is, without doubt, the most incompetent and nastiest government Britain has ever had and it is fueled by class-hatred, spite and envy. It seems determined to destroy Britain demographically, destroy Britain economically, destroy Britain socially, destroy free speech and destroy democracy.

    2. Lisa Nandy
      I happened to turn on Today this morning (spit!) and caught Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport of the UK being interviewed about the two football clubs that are in peril of going bust. She waxed lyrical about football clubs being a sort of National Treasure, affection for them being passed from generation to generation, and they should not be allowed to die. Bit of a difference from Farms, which ARE a National Treasure and WERE being passed from farmer to offspring until the current lot decided that they should be thinned out.
      On yesterday’s radio someone spouting about Premium Bonds completely missed their unique Special Feature – that unlike all other lotteries I am aware of, you can get ALL of your stake money back without any deductions. Prizes are also tax free: pretty important if you have £10,000 worth and are a Higher Rate taxpayer.

      AFTERTHOUGHT: Hope the Blob don't read this Blog – I wouldn't want them getting ideas about taxing Premium Bond prizes.

      1. See how people take their money out of them, if the government does think it’s a good idea to tax them

      2. Meanwhile government is thinking of new taxes to destroy the viability of horse racing. Nearly as many people go racing as go to football matches (it’s the second most popular spectator sport) and it is genuinely diverse. You have Dukes and the working class in attendance, but like everything Labour don’t understand that and just see it as “toffs” having a good time.

    4. Actually.. she said..
      "I won’t watch new mastewchef sthewiesth with Gwegg Waooace
      cuotuwe sthecwetawy sthaysth sthhe isth ‘appaooed’ by conduct of sthacked pwesentewsth"

    1. Good grief – get your priorities in order. Judges FIRST. They do the damage. Lawyers are mere accessories.

      1. For reasons I'll put down to government censorship, I can't find the video of a somewhat tipsy Hacker telling the Oxford Dons over the Fitz Walter dinner that 'Judges! It's politicians who make the laws, you don't want to give your doctory honourates to a judge!'

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2X0E8xIjOI

      3. G&P say, "Leave our Daddy out of this". Or they would if they could be arsed to wake up and take notice.

    2. Well, he’a not dangerous to the judge. Just teenage girls. And who, honestly, cares about them? Not the Labour party, that’s for aure

  45. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/06/reeves-facing-50bn-black-hole-as-tax-pressure-mounts/

    Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East, said: “The Government needs to grasp the necessary nettle of redistribution, rather than again choosing the path of unpopular cuts. UK billionaire wealth has more than doubled since 2010 and a wealth tax of 2pc on assets over £10m could raise £24bn a year.

    “It’s popular with the public, as well as with an ever increasing number of Labour MPs and would help to avoid decisions similar to the catastrophic winter fuel allowance cuts and disability benefit cuts.”

    Wanker.

    Socialism does not, never has, and never will work.

    1. I will never have a fortune, and I know nobody in that situation. I wouldn't even want the responsibility of such a fortune.
      But these extremely wealthy people are often the ones who have taken great risks to build businesses, which in turn supports a myriad of suppliers, and between them they employ vast numbers of people. They have lifted more people out of poverty than any socialist regime ever has.

        1. I sometimes imagine what I would do if I won a fortune on the lottery – not that I have ever played. I’d give plenty to our sons, a good amount in some sort of trusts for the grandchildren, and money to a number of small local charities and to hospices. I would probably donate a large sum to son in Canada for his medical research lab; that would help to secure his future and save him from a few rounds of grant applications.

        2. And I would keep enough money to buy/renovate/build a smaller home nearer to our son & his family in Leeds. Homes there, especially as, in the area they are in/want to move to, are more expensive than here.

    3. Watch those who have money and can, flee the country. It will make the seventies look sane.

    1. Starmer's going to beetle off to EC, then we'll have Rayner …and then the pips will squeak. We're out-numbered.

      1. There are surely more of us than there are of them. There’s only 650 MPs and not all of them are Labour/Lib Dem.

      1. On the contrary, the NSDAP was a Socialist Party based on the Fascist principal which was formulated by Italian Socialists who feared Marx's "Class Struggle" would damage Italy's recent reunification.
        As a result of that fear they formulated a Socialist system where National Unity was encouraged in place of Marx's ideas.
        The Right Wing epithet is pure Soviet Agitprop dating back to the street battles with the Soviet supported and Bolshevist inspired Spartakusbund during the post WW1 Weimar era in Germany.

      2. Why? The Nazis weren't right wing. They were the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.

          1. The modern Left use 'right wing' as a slur, trying to imply that the Nazis were right wing. They were not.

            But the Left are desperate to control the narrative. The article on fascism is locked because Lefties kept editing the truth of massive state intervention being 'right wing'. Utterly in spite of the truth that right minded people do not look to the state to achieve their political goals, Lefties still call fascism 'right wing' when it is blatantly Leftist.

        2. AH stands for something more objectionable than the leader of a proscribed party.

          1. Yes, he did, but the same attitudes – rhetoric, statism – not patriotism, poverty and state reliance (created by the Allies after WW1), a profound bigotry and intolerance of others – all weapons used to manipulate people to say 'the German government is going to solve all your problems. All you have to do is kill foreigners to achieve it.

            We're reaching the same problems here, today.

      3. Errr… the Nazi party, or the national socialists, were ardently Left wing.

        Can you imagine a right minded person thinking 'I know, I'm a bit bored. I'll invade Poland.'?

        Certainly when I find myself a a loose end my default is to have a nap and watch some TV. Lefties in contrast seem to think 'How can I make everyone else even more miserable?'

        1. And who is pushing the agenda to build, build, build? Loosening the regs and importing more and more to find room for?

      1. In the year running up to the 2015 general election, Ed Miliband (Labour leader at the time, don't forget) proposed an energy price cap. In the autumn of 2014, Gloria del Piero, Labour MP for Ashfield, stood in front of Nottingham City Hall and gave a brief interview to BBC East Midlands TV.

        "It's a great idea," she said, "but why wait? My message to David Cameron is 'Do it now!' He's the prime minister. He can do anything!"

        The phrase 'supreme executive power' came to mind immediately and I made the unfortunate association between it and Gloria…

          4. O Sybilli, si ergo
            Fortibus es in ero
            O nobili, demis trux
            Sevatis enim causen dux

          6. Having progressed from the church youth club with some records and disco equipment, I and some friends went on to run a mobile disco. My role was keeping the techy stuff running, rather than being DJ (I could clear a dance floor in ten seconds), but I did manage to keep a succession of sic transits on the road. The best was a twin wheel variety, into which I transplanted an ex-Police Granada 3.0 V6 engine.

            Oh, the fun at traffic lights, when spotty yoofs drew alongside with their jacked-up 1.6 Capris. I believe the phrase 'street sleeper' is appropriate…

          7. That must have been a diesel Mk.1 with the elongated and squared off snout that used the same model engine as a Fordson Major tractor.
            The 3 litre V6 was also fitted into a lot of Police Mk1s as standard.

      2. King Arthur was/is the Once and Future King who is supposed to come to Britain’s aid when there is supreme danger. Where the bloody hell is he?

        1. And why isn’t Drake sounding his drum? Lord knows the invasion is constant. At least the Spaniards were Christians.

      3. "Excalibur is the mythical sword of King Arthur that may possess magical powers or be associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain."

        Let's find it, set it in the most strong cement and then offer it to the Idiot King and see if he can get it out!

    1. For the first time on BBC News yesterday I heard Justin Rowlatt say that the UK extreme weather at the beginning of the week was not due to global warming.

      I checked back to see the date when we were forced to leave New England Bay CC camp site when it was too dangerous to stay during hurricane Gordon – it was well over a decade ago!

    2. Nothing at all to do with the fact they are difficult to retrofit, expensive to run (and you need electricity), not quickly responsive to changes in temperature and cost an arm and a leg to virtue signal. Oh and did I mention the difficulty of finding a good maintenance team?

  50. POLL: Brits Still Overwhelmingly Support Taking Back Control in Brexit Vindication

    Research by YouGov for Queen Mary University finds Brits support retaining sovereignty in all aspects of decision making as opposed to handing part of all of it to supranational institutions. Brexit vindicated…

    20 areas of lawmaking and regulation were put to 4,534 British adults who were asked to choose a preference from (a): This policy should be decided by UK governments alone, (b): UK governments should voluntarily seek, but not be bound by, agreements with other countries on this policy, (c) UK governments should be required to follow decisions made by international institutions on this policy. You’d never guess the results…

    On every single area Brits backed option A. That includes “Refusing border entry to citizens of other countries who have been in prison for a year or more” (67%), “Providing tax incentives for companies to operate in Britain rather than overseas” (60%), “Controlling Britain’s fishing waters” (55%), and recent policies including “Abolishing the non-dom tax status” (54%). Brits say the choices should not be voluntarily outsourced to international institutions. Something for the Tories to ponder in their ongoing ECHR review…

    StuckInUK4Now
    1h
    As a writer for the Telegraph opines, the reason the unending drip-drip-drip of 5oros-funded opinion polls purport to show majorities against British independence from the Brussels empire is because the honest question isn't posed:
    "They weren’t asked ‘Do you wish to rejoin the EU at the cost of £10bn a year and the replacement of the pound with the euro?’"

    3. Every so often the recorded voice on the 220 bus route throws a wobbler and announces every stop as Queen Mary University. Queen Mary University is in Mile End Road, E1 and the 220 runs between Wandsworth and Willesden Junction. Strange.

      1. When I was there, it was called Queen Mary College, University of London.
        That was a few years ago.

    4. When he was in Opposition Starmer was clamouring for another Brexit referendum.

      Now that he is in power why doesn't he go for it

        2. And back in 1957, that dialogue was considering a bit daring. But I remember Bogarde being thought to be a bit "bent" as we used to say.

          Sat my "O" levels in '57, then on to double maths and physics in the 6th. Talk about long ago in a universe far, far away.

    4. My mother used to refer to her mammary support system as a bust bodice.

      This is a term which is seldom used today.

  52. Reform is dangerously close to appearing more Left-wing than the Tories
    A raft of new hires raises questions around where the party actually stands on the most important issues of the day
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/06/has-reform-proven-its-more-left-wing-than-the-tories/

    BTL

    Farage lost the plot when he took Zia Yusuf 's money and appointed him as Reform Party chairman.

    Rupert Lowe was making his name with his contributions to debates in the House of Commons as the most focused and sensible member of the House of Commons so Farage, egged on by jealousy and Yusuf, then turned on Lowe and kicked him out of the party.

    Farage is not the answer to the UK's disastrous shift to the left.

    2. Under this comment which had 6 upvotes and 10 downvotes at the time I wrote:

      Whenever I make any criticism of Nigel Farage in my comments under articles in the Daily Telegraph I get more down votes than up votes.

      I find it rather shocking that readers of what used to be an intelligent newspaper can be so blindly fawning and uncritical of a politician who has so clearly lost his way.

          3. I'm sure they join in:

            'Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble'

          4. I will let that one go and attend your funeral after all the Nottler ladies tear you to dog chew size pieces for their doggies.

    3. I've given up recording the #Red Flags against Farage.
      He's either been neutered by Mi5 & HopeNotHate.. or he's playing a blinder by fooling everyone to seize power, then becomes a full on hardliner deporter once in No10. I'll put my money on the former.

      The default position currently stands at 'Multi-decade civil war'.. so may as well support Advance UK.

    4. Yes, today’s Lotus Eaters podcast was discussing this and why Farage old want to tack to the left of the CONs and Liebour.

  55. Afternoon all. Having a lazy day today after yesterday’s packed schedule.

    I suppose, on the law of averages, Jeremy Corbyn should get something right occasionally .

  56. Gosh – it is warm out. Did some potting on in the greenhouse and have to have a sit down to cool off.

    1. Wilco, just watching Robert Palmer atm. Have an idea what it'll be about, Scot friend already bemoaning it….

    3. Progressives.. unstitching the fabric of Ireland, Scotland.. then Wales.
      Picking off the smaller countries first with the lower populations.

      Sinn Féin? Plaid Cymru? Cybernat? Oh the irony.. they hate their respective country.

      1. He is the shadow home secretary.

        Next time he goes into the Channel to look at what's going on he should take Mrs Balls, the actual home secretary, with him so that she can see the sheer futility of her migration scheme for herself.

    1. It's their own effing black hole due to their complacent insistance of allowing this disgracful invasion to continue. There is no other way to describe what they are doing but as COMPLETELY STUPID !

    1. And me as well. It seems that although the food had arrived in Gaza previously, it was probably tampered with and or destroyed. Today on the news they said that several trucks loaded with food had overturned. Fell into a crater ??? The chances of that happening are a million to one on each truck. The lies flood out as has always happened…..same results from the same sort of people. But the Israelis have been blamed all along for everything.

      1. "The leader of the Anglican church in the Holy Land has urged Christians to “speak out in the face of injustices” – including the “horrifying’ current arrangements for food aid in Gaza” – as he called for a permanent ceasefire to end the war.

        The Most Revd Hosam Naoum, the Archbishop in Jerusalem, was addressing the General Synod in July. He said that at that time, hospitals were being bombed in Gaza, medical supplies were in short supply and that there was a ‘horrifying’ system of food distribution, comparable to the dystopian series The Hunger Games, with three sites open one hour a day for two million people.

        Calling for a restoration of humanitarian supplies including food and medicine, under UN supervision, Archbishop Hosam said there should be no targeting of civilians, especially emergency workers and medical staff.

        There is a lot of propaganda on all sides, but this chap is on the ground and doesn't work for either Hamas or the Israelis. He doesn't expand on who is responsible for food not being delivered.

        1. He is probably as reliant on reports coming out of Gaza as the rest of the world.
          Being a Christian makes him want to assist his fellow man.
          The fact he doesn't expand on who is responsible and the fact he is a Christian in Israel allows outsiders to conclude he would not dare blame the Israelis, and to protect himself from assassination, he won't come out and blame Hamas directly.

          1. There are Christians in Gaza, I doubt he is relying on the BBC. There has been appalling behaviour on both sides, as well as good people trying to bring the situation to lasting stability.

          2. He’s not going to rock the boat, their life is difficult enough already.
            If you believe anything that Hamas declare, other than kill the Jews, you need to rethink

          3. We aren’t talking about what Hamas says though.

            The blind belief in Israel is a baby boomer thing, not shared to the same extent by later generations.

          5. It does puzzle me though that some people supporting both sides demonstrate a level of emotional involvement with the middle east that is on a par with what would be expected towards their own countries.

          6. Sorry, I totally and utterly disagree.
            The whole discourse in Gaza is being driven by the Hamas terrorists.
            They kill, they lie, they harm their own people for propaganda purposes.

            And I’m beginning to believe that you’ve swallowed the bait, hook line and sinker.

          8. Thank you.
            I feel very strongly about the narrative.
            I would bet good money that Hamas has/had strongholds, control centres, tunnels and firing points under every Christian church and the Anglican hospital; and that they were firing from them in the hope that the Israelis would attack them and kill Christians, the sick, and children.

          10. Given that your “evidence” comes from Hamas, I know you’ve utterly lost the plot.
            Let me guess:
            You think it’s the Rothschilds and the bankers behind it all and absolutely nothing to do with Iran or Islamists.

          12. I’ve read enough of your: Rothschild, it’s the bankers, new cryptocurrency posts to realise that most of your views should not be taken seriously either.

          13. Now that’s odd, when did I last make a post that mentioned the Rothschilds?
            Also, why are you being so aggressive in support of a country that isn’t your own? Genuine question.
            PS I’ll bet my understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is far greater than yours…

          14. 1. I don’t know, but you’ve done it often enough that it has stuck in my mind.

            2. I support any country that isn’t falling over itself to succumb to the Muslim hordes. I particularly object to countries and people who believe that it’s acceptable to not just wipe Israel from the map but to kill its peoples as well.

            3. I’m sure you do. But does it ever occur to you that perhaps, just maybe, that your “understanding” swamps your reasoning? There might be lots of “advanced” countries that might be susceptible but there equally might just be 7 billion people who refuse.

          15. I haven’t actually. It’s in your head.

            My post about Gaza was non partisan, as you would realise if you read it with a cool head. I haven’t changed my view that I don’t know enough to have a valid opinion and any opinion I would have would be just feelings and the result of reading strongly biased or fake stories.

            CBDC has already failed in multiple countries. Tokenisation on a blockchain is a threat. But why do I waste my breath, I can write a comment on tokenisation and you will read “Rothschild.”

        2. The Anglican church in Jerusalem is Arab and notorious for telling porkies. It may be that they are as gullible themselves as the westerners who believe them but I'd take their account of what's happening in Gaza with a very large pinch of salt.

          1. The World Council of Churches was something both my father and my father-in-law abominated.

            My father went as far as to say it was the creation of Satan himself.

        3. If hospitals are being bombed, are they storing munitions, or being used as sniper positions or gun emplacements?

  64. Just back from lunch at the village pub. There's a 'new' bitter on tap from Cheddar Ales.

    Gorge Best (4%)

    1. Buy my coal, I'll re-bury it and you can pretend you've captured and stored some carbon.

      That'll be £5 a pound.

    2. For all that tarmac and the dust behind it, that huge, grotesque, pointless machine they could have just planted trees.

    1. This suggests that the Police force is currently.. by my reckoning.. roughly 50% captured by progressive activists.
      I noticed TR said most of The Met high fived him when he was in jail.
      The other 50% spat in his food & thrashed him to within an inch of his life in solitary.

  68. Wordle No. 1,509 3/6

    ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
    ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Wordle 6 Aug 2025

    A dirge for Birdie Three?

    1. I thought you'd breeze this one given your starter words!
      I managed to choose right second out of three options so cant really complain – just the par……

      Wordle 1,509 4/6

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

    2. Well done. Still par for me.

      Wordle 1,509 4/6

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

      2. Well done.
        Wordle 1,509 4/6

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

  69. Lord Trumpmedecine
    3h
    " Built on what we've done in our first year"?
    The square root of fvck-all would be better than what they've created. Below is a simulation of what they've built in a year: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fc4ed980003a410df0776d1fbbf4743ad0c895fe6c35dd3c6beb2b10818b17dd.png
    Robert jones
    3h
    Funny that a while back they were trumpeting the nonsensical 22 billion deficit Left by the previous Tory government , remember this if true would have been after 22 years in power , this lot has managed to double that amount in just about 12 months , forgot about that did you Keir?
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4b36589efe2a183a90ace620a57a4b4e15771b9c97bc4c3117d35951f48c8072.png
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c29bb55d7ff3a4cae15d7217020087367a8108f3e3341f16c3a92b2f457cb9c9.png
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9dd9cc413203eedcf98b3583a843b3b918ffc399b7c92717ee9e23eed69962f3.png

          1. There’s a forum of global ‘hierarchy’ set up who are in charge of the destruction of established cultures.

    1. I am a shareholder in two community pubs. Wages costs are making viability tricky, even with the help of volunteers.

    4. Pubs closing down will please Labour's Muslim supporters, so why should Labour provide support for Landlords?

      1. It is also part of the WEF plan to destroy all independent businesses so only Corporations are left.

  73. I've just see T. Robinson on Facebook talking about the recent incident that accesses him of an attack. I can't pass it on I don't have a means, but if a Nottler can I strongly advise you to watch it. He talks about cctv footage that the accusers are not willing to make public. He was himself attacked out of the blue, but because he defended himself in the end they are blaming him of course.
    I've said this many times, I am not a Fan but in this case I believe he has a genuine argument.
    But evidence is being withheld.

        1. Nor mine; but I reckon I would get on with him – I’m not pretentious and I value what he is doing.

    2. Very similar to the story Hertslass has highlighted below about the police officer who released the cctv images of the Manchester airport Paki thugs! He’s to be disciplined!! 😳

    3. Yes, I saw that video yesterday. He claims self-defence and that CCTV evidence will prove this. Also he contacted the police immediately after the event and that he informed them that he would be arriving in Luton Airport instead of Manchester in order to speak to police. Also he was released immediately on police bail without being charged.

      I also am not a fan of his, but if he is telling the truth it will be very difficult to prosecute or obtain a conviction.

      1. On the contrary, if they want to they will make sure the CCTV evidence is not available.

        1. It’s not unknown for evidence to go missing even in ordinary cases. Disclosure often takes up a lot of time chasing up.

    4. Yes, I saw that video yesterday. He claims self-defence and that CCTV evidence will prove this. Also he contacted the police immediately after the event and that he informed them that he would be arriving in Luton Airport instead of Manchester in order to speak to police. Also he was released immediately on police bail without being charged.

      I also am not a fan of his, but if he is telling the truth it will be very difficult to prosecute or obtain a conviction.

    5. It was completely obvious that someone had attacked him, only the papers tried to spin it otherwise.

  74. Here we go 5 news going into one about alcohol usage.
    Under pressure from the invading force ?

  75. Said earlier I was having a lazy day, but in fact I have been working in the garden, moving furniture and preparing the base for an extra coal bunker which should be delivered tomorrow. Should sleep well tonight!

    1. Presumably you can receive half a dozen illegals to stay in the new coal bunker…{:¬))

          1. I do have a coal bunker. I may eventually have a woodpile, too. At the moment, I have 150kg of coal in sacks which won’t fit in to the existing one so I’ve bought another to take the overspill.

        1. 1 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
          2 He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
          3 But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
          4 For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

          5 When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
          6 He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
          7 But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
          8 For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

          9 When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
          10 They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
          11 'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
          12 For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

          13 Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
          14 For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away;
          15 But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale —
          16 The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

          17 Man, a bear in most relations — worm and savage otherwise, —
          18 Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
          19 Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
          20 To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.

          21 Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
          22 To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
          23 Mirth obscene diverts his anger — Doubt and Pity oft perplex
          24 Him in dealing with an issue — to the scandal of The Sex!

          25 But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
          26 Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same,
          27 And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
          28 The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

          29 She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
          30 May not deal in doubt or pity — must not swerve for fact or jest.
          31 These be purely male diversions — not in these her honour dwells.
          32 She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.

          33 She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
          34 As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
          35 And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unchained to claim
          36 Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.

          37 She is wedded to convictions — in default of grosser ties;
          38 Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies! —
          39 He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
          40 Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.

          41 Unprovoked and awful charges — even so the she-bear fights,
          42 Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons — even so the cobra bites,
          43 Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
          44 And the victim writhes in anguish — like the Jesuit with the squaw!

          45 So it cames that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
          46 With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
          47 Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
          48 To some God of Abstract Justice — which no woman understands.

          49 And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
          50 Must command but may not govern — shall enthral but not enslave him.
          51 And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
          52 That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.

          https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/female.html

    1. Not sure what the political thinking is behind the establishment keep going after him.
      It's not as if he has a meaningful political following, to upset or disillusion.
      They just give him more publicity.
      Perhaps they think it is a morale booster for the Left.

      1. He generates enormous support and has run a series of well ordered protests. The state realises he has the following and influence to be a great danger to itself. Without any recent major crimes to chase him for, they look for minor issues to keep him harassed.

    2. Tweets are dangerous. Someone could get hurty feelings and we can’t have that.

    3. Try and find his Facebook comments look at early posts today there might be a link.

  79. That's me for today. An agreeably relaxed one. An hour in the garden. Seeds sown for winter salads (and broccoli). An hour ironing – our wonderful cleaning lady – who has "done for us" for 37 years – is poorly. Market tomorrow.

    Have a spiffing evening.

    A demain.

      1. I have just been to see her, The Envy of the World is not doing her any favours. A doctor DID make a home visit but told her that she should get over it in four or five days…. He gave her a tablet which
        immediately made her sick…. so she stopped taking it. She and her husband are of the class and generation who never want to “trouble the doctor”. I have urged them to get in touch with our local GP outfit – if only to check that the vertigo is not a symptom of something serious.

        1. Rest is the best thing for vertigo unless it's caused by a virus. Even then, a period of rest won't go amiss.

  80. Back online after a paint-a-thon, followed by a pint of cider and a long zed… man, am I unfit, and as a result, really stiff and creaky! I'll take it easy tomorrow, need a bit of recovery after that lot.
    Unfortunately, still a lot left to do 🙁

    1. No matter how hard you work, it seems to me there is always "still a lot left to do"!

    2. Tomorrow I'd do a pint-a-thon, followed by a small amount of painting, you'll feel better!

      Coincidentally, I'm doing some external painting tomoz (I bloody hate painting!!) but I'm restricting myself to two hours or I know what the payback will be….. uuuuurrrrgggghhhhh………

      Perhaps we can compare notes tomorrow night!

      1. Works for me. I'm outside, so very weather-dependent, and planning to take it easy as a result of today's efforts.
        However, much revived by Firstborn's curry…

  81. Nobody seems to be posting at the moment so I think I'll jump in…..

    What with Jeremy and his new Jezbollah party, and Rupert Lowe with Restore (is it?), the political landscape seems to be fragmenting more and more.

    Given the vagaries of the last election – 20% of the vote delivering a massive majority for Labour – does anybody else think it's time for some sort of Proportional Representation??

    1. In my view that would make matters even worse.
      We'd never get proper government with so many groups trading off.
      Look at the damage the Conservative LibDem coalition caused, PR would be 10 times more awful.

      1. I dont know – would it deliver an even worse result than the last election? I cant believe so….

        1. Can you even start to contemplate how much worse Miliband would be with Green/LibDem support?
          Or how much Muslimification would take place in exchange for their support?
          I shudder to think.

          1. I dont disagree and I always was very wary of PR but….but….

            I mean, 20% of the vote and a huge Commons majority, really?? It seems to me FPTP is buggered, so what is/can be the alternative??

          2. The Lib/Lab/Con uni-party ganging up and conspiring with the Greens to keep out sane and sensible parties as "faaar riiiight".

  82. Wherever these Satanists go trouble follows.

    How plans for a £2.5million 'mega mosque' in a Lake District town with just 11 Muslims is threatening a new explosion of racial tension

    1. And please don't try to tell me that Islam is a race.
      It's like saying that Christianity is a race.
      It isn't.

    2. I posted on this last week – it's doctors and other ranks (about 40, I understand) at the Furness General Hospital (in Barrow) that complained they had nowhere to worship. It's at Dalton, near Barrow and it's a blot on the landscape…. although to be fair, Barrow is a bit of a blot on the landscape itself….

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3877ba16dcb3aa8aa7386f283a315eb7ef821d9a41c264edc05300c71522b3df.png
      Wordsworth will be spinning in his daffodils…..

        1. To be honest, Sos, I'm up in the Lakes and there really arent that many ethnics to be seen anywhere!

          I wonder if they intend this to be a beacon to attract other RoPers to continue their colonisation of our green and pleasant land…..

          PS It was waved through by the planning committee – wouldnt you just f*cking know it???

          1. They are now a protected species, whereas the truth is that they are mink, grey squirrels and muntjac, taking over the native ‘s habitat.

        1. Chance would be a fine thing!

          There’s a certain irony here as well as I’m fairly sure a ‘Warthog’ would be haram…….

    3. I posted on this last week – it's doctors and other ranks (about 40, I understand) at the Furness General Hospital (in Barrow) that complained they had nowhere to worship. It's at Dalton, near Barrow and it's a blot on the landscape…. although to be fair, Barrow is a bit of a blot on the landscape itself….

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3877ba16dcb3aa8aa7386f283a315eb7ef821d9a41c264edc05300c71522b3df.png
      Wordsworth will be spinning in his daffodils…..

    1. Please, please, please let it be a minority female, harassing a younger white woman.
      Ideally demonstrating how much bigger and better her men are.

      1. Possibly.
        It might be fun to place some bets.
        The knives appear to be out for Munchetty at the moment, but who knows?

  85. Sorry, but whoever wrote this lives in a parallel universe.

    Thylane Blondeau shows off her svelte physique in a high-leg swimsuit as she soaks up the sun in Saint Tropez
    The 24-year-old model, who is dubbed 'most beautiful girl in the world',

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14975921/Thylane-Blondeau-svelte-physique-swimsuit-Saint-Tropez.html
    There must be millions of better looking/more attractive women.
    I think HG is more attractive, and she's in her mid 70's

          1. Odd that.
            Are they still visible?
            I was injected in three spots for the same reason and wondered if they were tattoos, but as I can't see them I've assumed they're only visible to the equipment to align the "shots" and they disappear over time.

          2. Yes, they’re visible and they’ve gone that horrible old sailor greeny black colour! Fortunately they are pretty small!

    2. I'm not sure about the 'most beautiful girl in the world' but I certainly wouldnt crawl over her to get to you……..

      1. I'm realistic, you'd jump like Bob Beamon to avoid me to get to her.

        But then again I suspect the same would apply to any female you saw, even Angela Rayner

        1. Dont tell anybody but I do have a little bit of a 'thing' for our Angie – I mean who doesnt like a bit of rough??

    4. Not to say she is the most beautiful by any means, but Sydney Sweeney is much better looking.

  86. Just enjoying a brief interlude of aural paradise – a Purcell medley sung by Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky. It helps me leave the cares of the world behind.

  87. Popping Orff now, another hospital appointment tmz. Knee this time…..what would they do with out us all 🤔🤗 good night all Nottlers 😴

  88. Was thinking on the way home from work about Neil Kinnock calling for tax increases.

    It’s easy to call for tax rises when you have a guaranteed, tax-free pension.

    1. Perhaps he is in a state of mourning Glenys. Or he could just be a complete bastard.

      1. Probably both. She only died a couple years back and they had been married a long time (50+ years). Believe me, it takes a long time to recover.

        1. I am aware of the process. And i still haven't recovered from my mother's death in a car crash 40 years ago. Mostly because Princess Diana's death is continually brought up in the news.

          Harry like the Kinnocks are privileged. I have to get on with it.

          1. My poor mother was also killed 40 years ago in a car crash , 40 years yesterday ..

            She was driving out to post letters and collect letters from the mail box , and a youth driving collided with her car.. just outside Johannesburg.. because my father's birthday would have been tomorrow , and cards always arrive early , he was working .

            I heard of her death nearly 4 days after she was killed , we weren't on the phone because BT had problems with our phone line .

            My aunt wrote to me to tell me the terrible news .

            My sisters, when they were here in May discussed her death and told me her neck was broken , instantaneous . The family didn't know where she was for 12 hours!

            I know how you feel Phizzee. I was 38 years old when I lost her .

          2. We understand each other.

            In my case i was phoned by my sister at 10pm on a Sunday night. I will never forgive the bitch for that. She only lives 5 miles away.

          5. I keep reliving it. The crash was described to me. She hit the windscreen with such force it broke her face. No airbags then.

            The very worst part was the viewing. You see in films where the deceased looks at peace. It was nothing like that and i am still haunted. No make up. No teeth. Just a net veil.

            This was arranged by the sister that phoned me.

    2. I remember Kinnock in the Thatcher era. Only time I have had any sympathy (well not really). He was being interviewed about canvassing, and he commented that it was vary hard for Labour candidates to talk about the working class, when they knocked on doors and the person who answered promptly told them how they now owned their council house, and there was a Jag parked out front. Moving on up, one might say.

      1. I remember him being knocked over by a wave felling him on a beach. Just a pity he wasn't dragged out with the undertow.

  89. That's the small brash sorted and ready for burning. About 7 or 8 mini-bags worth stacked up ready to load into the oil drum.
    I need to go into Matlock tomorrow and to Stoke on Friday.
    And with that, I'm off to bed.
    Good night all.

    1. She's great – I really like her 'No Brainer with Angela Rayner' stuff – very funny!

  92. This was also a great listen. American free-speech attorney suing Ofcom for breaching First Amendment rights. The Capitalist podcast.

    “…“So what I'd say is 2018 called, it wants its ideas back. This stuff is really, the Online Safety Act is designed for the world as it was 10 years ago. It's designed for a political environment in the United States, which as it was 8 to 10 years ago.

    And what we're looking at now is a very different landscape. So Joe Biden, I'll give you an example. Joe Biden obviously was no great friend of free speech in his administration.

    I mean, if he was awake, right? He was no great friend of free speech. And the people who worked for him certainly weren't friends of free speech.

    And so there's a sub-department of the Department of Justice called the Office of Justice Assistance. And what they do is they administer the UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty procedures. So if a foreign government has a ruling or a judgment or wants to enforce a criminal penalty, they have to go through first the State Department and then second the OJA in order to get a notice of some criminal proceedings served on an American citizen….””

    From The Capitalist: Will the UK be sued over the Online Safety Act?, 6 Aug 2025
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-capitalist/id1220313938?i=1000720898733&r=477
    This material may be protected by copyright.

    1. I reckon the Leftards must be in a bit of a state. Because they are usually the ones protesting (against the evil Tories) and in their brain (note deliberate use of singular) they are good, so how can people not love them? I bet they are quietly beginning to panic.

  94. 410880+ up ticks,

    Pillow Ponder,

    In my book we are calling for an early General Election
    without being fully prepared.

    I do see us as putting rhetorical ego building before
    down to earth ( pun intended) common sense.
    We badly need a back up party for when the political
    "light brigade" lookalike Reform go charging in, and achieve a pyrrhic victory with little meaningful content.

    Farming MUST IMHO be the hard core of our coming
    political battle.
    https://x.com/NoFarmsNoFoods/status/1953169372643803400

    1. Nah. I'm on board for all out civil war. Why vote for any party when all they do is self interest.

      1. Civil wars are the most horrid wars. Give Reform a go, and if they fail us, then by all means.

        1. I have unfortunately reached the understanding that Reform will fail us. Because, Zia Yusuf.

      2. 410947+ up ticks,

        Morning Pip,
        Jaw Jaw not war War, orphan makers cannot be the first option
        IMHO we need a safety net party in readiness to cover any discrepancies going forward with
        Reform UK.

  96. Got back from a night out with friends, Sat down and promptly fell asleep. So a belated Good Night all; see you tomorrow morning.

  97. Wow! Decided to have a quick go at Wordle before bed – and I got an EAGLE!!! More details tomorrow.

      1. Huge! and absolutely fabulous to watch. Each village has a group of Bonfire Boys (don't know if such a terribly masculine name is permitted any more) and they parade in costume – some of the costume are ancient ones with birds' heads and other traditional motifs. Old Celtic traditions, no longer carried out as religion (I think).
        Sussex is an odd place – between the gin-and-Jag gravel drives, there is a lot of darker stuff like witchcraft.

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