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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/09/10/letters-science-justify-latest-theft-basic-civil-liberties/
Morning GG
Good morning, everyone.
‘Morning, Peeps.
Very well said, Jeremy Parr:
SIR – I am more scared of the Government’s handling of Covid-19 than I am of the virus itself.
What is the point of imposing random measures to protect the health of the nation if in so doing the nation itself is destroyed both socially and economically?
Jeremy Parr
Suckley, Worcestershire
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Morning HJ,
Does not Jeremy question what these governance parties have been doing especially for the last three decades, & doing successfully as we are witnessing.
Ashley Banjo has issued a blanket condemnation of all those complaining about Diversity’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ (‘BGT’) contribution, describing them as ‘racist’ without, presumably, having seen what any of the complainants might have said to justify their complaint.
My submission asked for ‘balance’ in that if it is acceptable to honour an American career-criminal, who had taken nearly four times the potential lethal dose of
Fentanyl and had other barbiturates in his system, and died while being arrested, then surely it is proper for BGT to commemorate totally innocent
people who have died in this country. These would include victims of the Birmingham stabbings, the Reading Three, Manchester Arena bombing, London Bridge attacks and many, many, more.
However, should this be adopted, and each victim is given the same amount of air time as Floyd, I foresee a problem as there would then be no time on the programme for anything else for the foreseeable future.
Morning all
SIR – The announcement on Wednesday that households may only meet in numbers of up to six persons must surely and finally explode the myth that the Government’s removal of our liberty is being “led by the science”.
What scientific evidence is there that six persons is safe, whereas seven persons leads to the NHS becoming overwhelmed – which, after all, was the only rationale for the emergency measures in the first place?
If this information exists, please let us have it, otherwise we are entitled to assume that this is another off-the-cuff decision taken with the cavalier approach to our diminishing freedom that we have come to associate with this benighted administration.
Dr Kevin McBride MRCGP
Warminster, Wiltshire
SIR – Does it really matter if some of us aged over 70 die a few years early? Those who don’t want to take the risk can isolate themselves.
Personally, at 76, my main concern is that my grandchildren lead normal lives, with a full education, sports, extra-curricular activities and, most importantly, normal socialising with their peers – and grandparents.
Mary Evans
Repton, Derbyshire
Three score years and ten is more than enough….
The First Minister for Wales this morning said that infections in Wales had reached 20 per 100,000 and that was why further restrictions were being put in place. If and when this figure dropped then the restriction might be eased.
But what is special about the number 20? Why not 19 which is a prime number and so stronger than 20? Or 101 a number that carries some resonance from literature? Or even more appropriately, the number 666, the number of the Beast? Science is one thing and politics another. Numerology is neither. Numerology is fun, and interesting, yet few in the Western world now base their daily decisions regarding life and the Universe on it.
Three cheers for that!
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Morning Epi,
Methinks Doc Kev wants to get his head round the fact that these governance party’s politico’s are ALL round heads & this is NOT a cavalier approach but an organised campaign.
Where is Grizzly this morning .. he could have penned this letter, couldn’t he .
SIR – When I joined the police 27 years ago I had to memorise the nine principles of policing, which haven’t changed since the time of Robert Peel. None of them refers to enforcing government public health policy.
One could suggest that it comes under the duty to protect life but, by that argument, police officers should therefore also be preventing people from driving cars, riding motorcycles, smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol and eating fatty foods, all of which are more likely to kill you than Covid-19.
Graham Low
Malpas, Cheshire
SIR – Lady Hale’s pronouncement that she “finds it quite shocking that so many of my colleagues belong to the Garrick” would be comical were it not so sinister.
Although I am not a member of the Garrick Club, I can assure her that when men congregate in such clubs they talk of many things – but rarely, in my experience, do these amount to arcane conspiracies against women.
What is unequivocally sinister is the declared intent to assign the state control over the private arrangements of private persons. The Government’s commitment to civil liberties is not so assured as to preclude a very real fear that the next step will be to acquire statutory powers to prohibit things that occur within our homes. As a historian of the Soviet Union, I do not need to guess how that will transpire.
Nikolai Tolstoy
Southmoor, Berkshire
Morning Epi,
I was about to put Mr Tolstoy’s letter up for comment.
I would like to know whether The Garrick accepts women who think they are men.
It seems only fair, if men are now to be allowed into our prisons, our hospital wards, our toilets, our fitting rooms, our changing rooms, that there should be some quid pro quo.
What a wonderful can of worms.
Another question for The Garrick – Does it allow male members who think they are women (despite their male members!)?
Does that lead to wondering about Members of Parliament?
I’m not at all clubbable (except in the sense of Shillelagh), so I don’t give a rats what happens to the Garrick, or other similar institutions. I particularly don’t want to be part of the snobbishness of “exclusive”.
Which is the point, ignored by the letter writer, that Lady Hale was making. Not that her colleagues are men, but that they are men from one extremely exclusive section of society. Lady Hale attended a girls high school and was the first from that school to achieve a place at Cambridge.
No longer to be Trusted?
SIR – At a time when the National Trust (Letters, September 10) is losing income and members, making hundreds of staff – including skilled curators – redundant, and cannot open many of its properties – or offers a very restricted experience in those that it does – it is good to know that it has its priorities in order.
The “VLearning” team is still functioning and can offer me, as a volunteer, a virtual course in “everyday inclusion” to help “raise awareness of my unintended biases”.
It clearly knows what members and volunteers find more important than attracting visitors to its properties.
Alan Rainsley
Brazacott, Cornwall
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Happy birthday Peddy
Good morning, Belle & thank you very much. What a nice surprise!
All the best to you on this special day, Peddy. I trust that Missy celebrated by bringing you a cuppa to your bedroom this morning!
‘Morning, Elsie & thank you. She insisted I got up at 07.30 to open the salmon.
Happy birthday.
At least that was after daylight appeared, and she is your cat.
I’ve recently had a house-breaking cat who comes and jumps on my bed during the hours of darkness – I think I’ve now got it excluded… but time will tell.
You can say that again!
Excellent!
What you might call a Volltreffer!
Stolen for use on Mother-in-law.
Happy birthday, peddy. Have a great day …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k37QvhAyA2Y
Thanks, Issy.
SIR – In St Margaret’s church in Westminster there is plaque commemorating Sir Walter Raleigh who, even in his own lifetime, was a controversial character. The last line says: “Reader – should you reflect on his errors, remember his many virtues; and that he was mortal.”
Perhaps this should be put on every statue in the country, and let that be an end to all this revisionist nonsense.
Timothy Morgan-Owen
Melbourne, Derbyshire
Good morning, all.
It has never been truer. “They wants ter make yer flesh creep”.
I despair.
Good morning all.
The sun squinted over the horizon rosy pink to greet me on this auspicious day, then quickly turned to orange as her full disc appeared.
Just sipping a glass of my favourite fizz – Veuve Cliquot – before tucking in to papaya, followed by smoked salmon & scrambled egg.
Happy Birthday to you. Happy birthday dere peddy. Happy birthday to you!
Thank you, Minty & good morning.
Good morning Peddy! Wishing you a very happy birthday! Hope it’s a jolly one! 🎉🍾🎂
Thanks, Sue. It’s starting right.
It certainly sounds that way!
A breakfast fit for a birthday, enjoy both
Thanks, Sos.
Have a good day. I hope that MIssy remembered.
Thanks, Bill.
She looked over my shoulder as I wrote smoked salmon & she’s waiting at my feet now.
My favourite breakfast, I love papaya.. with a squirt of lime juice, Moh sprinkles salt on his half.
I bought a box of fresh Turkish figs the other day , We will have a couple of those each with our Weetabix.
Have you tried baking figs with sherry & a sliver of feta tucked into each?
That sounds delicious Peddy, but Moh is very very fussy with food , and wouldn’t entertain feta or anything other than a traditional cheese.
I have foody desires , and if I even indulge myself with a small pot of marinaded herring from Waitrose deli counter , all hell is let loose!
You can use stilton or another blue cheese instead of feta, even better to my taste.
And wrap the fig in Parma before baking. Put the Stilton on after baking or it all melts.
Both good, we bake the figs and then grill the cheese; we also use a different wine, but the result is delicious.
That’s very true. A dolcelatte, for instance, but I think Rocquefort would be rather a stretch.
We’ve used Rocquefort and it’s been fine. Possibly because we get very rich ripe figs locally, both dark and green.
If I were to use Rocquefort, I think I would give the figs a boost with a dab of honey. The fresh figs we get here are usually not up to much.
In Dorset I used to grow my own.
I’ve never tried ‘Rocquefort’ but I absolutely adore Roquefort. 😄
Gotcha!
Oddly enough that was what I wrote originally and then changed it to copy pdv’s spelling rather than check my instincts.
Figs and blue cheese … yum and double yum.
He sounds like a control freak.
Do you binge secretly?
Yep!
Good for you! I recommend the 2 types of Herringstip in Lidl.
Lidl have large tubs of marinated herrings; saves all the hassle of driving to IKEA.
Morning, Maggie.
Now thar’s a proper breakfast! Happy Birthday Peddy!
Thanks, Ashes.
Happy Birthday, fellow Virgo.
Without us, the world would grind to a halt …. er …. um …..
‘Morning, Anne, & thank you. One perseveres.
KBO.
I was always upset at being a Virgo, a nice brave Leo seemed much more exciting.
But now that I see the company that I have as a virgo, well it is an honour.
Happy Birthday, Peddy. Have a lovely and lively celebration this evening!
Thanks, pm.
A squeeze of lime on the papaya?? Mmm… Lecker!
Nein, papaya pur.
Where’s the party……
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I’m taking friends to out favourite Turkish restaurant tonight, then it’s Dinner for One with grilled lobster tails & English fizz, followed by chocolate fondant with thick cream tomorrow night, while I take in whatever they’ve made of the Final Night of the Proms.
Did you catch Beethoven’s 7th last night? Any good?
No Peddy, I gave the proms a miss last night.
Enjoy your lobster….and your special day. x
Thanks, Plum.
So did I, but I might catch it on i-player. The 7th is one of my faves.
Beethoven’s 7th is a magical work.
It’s all I could listen to in lockdown. Kept returning to von Karajan’s interpretation with the Berlin Philharmonic. Hope this version is wonderful.
Bon appetit, Peddy.
Je te remercie pour ta pensé gentile, Elsie.
Happy birthday, Peddy! Have a magic day celebrating yourself!
Tack så hemskt mycket, Paul.
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Morning Each,
When one can view the situation from outside of the ” party first & foremost in ALL issues” box then the mud begins to thin as in, the science of war, divide & conquer, feed the ovis with fearful covid fodder
until suitably subdued and more susceptible to the leadership of those applying the science of war.
There surely has to be a positive to the overseers negative actions.
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Good morning all
My friend, who is poorly, and I were discussing the shortcomings of the NHS the other evening and sent me this, this morning. I think yes minister was before its time or maybe things haven’t changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAk448volww
Very prescient.
Something to ponder on when we all listen to the latest episode of “Project Fear, the never ending saga” written, produced and delivered by our Political pygmies.
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If age just shows up, it might at least bring a bottle of something nice to drink – the bastard!
Have you forgotten where you left the bottle opener again Obs ? 😃
Sings (badly)
Screw caps and boxes with taps…
These are a few of my favourite things!
Can you sing ……”was i a line man for the county, did i ride the main road” ? 😎
Sometimes I sits and thinks; sometimes I just sits.
‘Morning, Rastus.
Is it always the same thoughts which go through your head?
Good morning, Peddy
Come on old chap : pots and kettles – you are obsessed with giving us each night the details of your evening meal!
But not every night, e.g. not last night, but if you want to know, it was tagliatelle alla puttanesca.
And when you can’t tell the difference is the time it all goes pear shaped.
I’m another year older Tmz. (Virgo’s, a good time around Christmas.)
A four ball Nine holes with the boys in the morning, home for family lunch Moroccan chicken.
No candles on the cake, too much of a fire risk.
You can’t better a Virgo, perfection itself. 😊
Another year for me next week, Battle of Britain day.
We have three in our immediate family.
A few years ago we were at a gathering of friends for a lunch time celebration. We were bid to sit where we like liked around the four tables set out. out of the 8 people on our table only one was not a Virgo.
No prior knowledge given. Some one said, it’s your birthday next week, to one lady and then it all came out. And no other Virgo’s in the room.
I should have had a word with Father when he was alive, perhaps the previous Christmas had very little on the tv!
That would explain it.
My mother said they’d had too much to drink on Boxing Day! Gee, thanks, ma! TMI!
For tomorrow.
https://youtu.be/BOQ-BNL4lk4
Happy Birthday, Eddy. You, peddy, me all pedantic Virgos 🙂
And our Annie’s on Sunday.
When’s yours, Con?
A couple of days ago. It was a day to forget, not celebrate, unfortunately 🙁
Belated Happy Returns then, Con. Sorry it was a bad day, albeit still date unknown!
Many Happy Returns, Eddy!
I’m sure today’s anniversary has been mentioned previously but this reminds me that evil has walked amongst us before and continues to even today.
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The MR was away. She phoned me and said, “Turn on the TV”. I did – just as the second tower was struck.
Do you remember the third lower building going down quite a long time after the others, it wasn’t struck at all ?????
I have absolutely no doubt that it is being celebrated in certain Muslim communities as we write. And, that if those communities could organise a similar atrocity they would not hesitate to do so.
Their ‘attacks’ are far more subtle now. Subterfuge.
They may well be, but I guarantee that if they could pull off a big one, they would.
They send in people with “mental ishoos”….
By the boat load Bill fasands of ’em not Zulus,………..we lose !
And we allow excursions across the channel!
We sat around the office waiting for news of our workmates from the New York office. We had quite a few clients in the world trade centre and it was quite likely that someone would have been there. It took several hours before we were able to announce that everyone was safe.
Then came the problem of getting everyone home, we had dozens of consultants and sales reps working over the border or on the other side of the country.
I was working in Ostfriesland. I was all set to take the nurses out for a birthday drink after work, but the news came through at lunchtime. Of course, the celebration fell out.
Saw that, live, on TV. WAs home early (don’t remember why), just collected Firstborn from school and turned on the TV to see that horror. Took a while to comprehend wtf was going on. Still can see some images in my mind – especially the “Falling man” in flight, recently reprised on Nottl a few days ago.
That image has stayed with me also. Wake up in a cold sweat, still. He had no choice but some people were killed on the ground by falling bodies.
I had just returned home with the shopping and tuned into the lunchtime news. The first plane had hit the tower when the second plane came into view and hit the remaining tower.
We each have our memories of that awful day.
My wife and i had just been arranging the funeral of her dear lovely father, on our way home we dropped into a local pub restaurant for a bite to eat. Still unaware of the happenings in the world, when we eventually arrived home it was of course all over the news as it was happening.
Liberty veiled in dust.
Morning all……..talking of civil liberties have you seen this.
Police State
Bishop Guy Leven-Torres
9th September 2020
The former monarchy of the United Kingdom is now all but gone, replaced instead by a Marxist “Vichy” style government of Occupation. We have not left the Euro Soviet but have instead become an occupied country, under the dogmatic and increasingly vicious regime in Brussels and Berlin. The Yellow Vests in France were crushed by the armed paramilitary Eurogend force and Macron, the supposedly elected President of the French Republic is now reliant upon drafted in EU forces, to ensure he remains in power. The French Generals are furious with him. His own bodyguard, provided by the French State are totally disaffected. None of this news is reported in the BBC or any other “MSM broadcaster. I have my own “intelligence” network from which to gain real news of rapidly declining state of affairs.
The Royal Family of the former UK, is in my humble opinion under house arrest and Britain is run by a Lieutenant Colonel in charge of a Psychological warfare unit currently spying on every one of us. This formation is known as 77 Brigade and its activities and personnel are normally anathema to traditional British Army’s reluctance to become involved in politics, since its oath is to the Monarch, not Quislings like Johnson and his “adviser” Cummings, a well known member of a Marxist think tank only a short while ago. The reason Cummings disappeared at the beginning of the “Lockdown” was because he went to see his handlers in the North of England to gain advice. I believe Brian Gerrish of UK Column, may know something about all this.
The above situation and information is what I have managed to extract from the sources and and what I can observe, with a dash of common-sense and familiarity with other historical examples. We are being “played”, in the guise of a mass Covid “Pandemic” in a huge psychological military style operation, designed to transform this country into a Communist entity, so long feared by all of us and long warned of by the likes of Orwell and Aldous Huxley, even Samuel Butler, who wrote of such a dystopia in his work “Erewhon”, where people were imprisoned for having the common cold.
Wikipedia states….
“The greater part of the book consists of a description of Erewhon. The nature of this nation is intended to be ambiguous. At first glance, Erewhon appears to be a Utopia, yet it soon becomes clear that this is far from the case. Yet for all the failings of Erewhon, it is also clearly not a dystopia, such as that depicted in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver’s Travels (1726), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time. It can also be compared to the William Morris novel, News from Nowhere.
Erewhon satirises various aspects of Victorian society, including criminal punishment, religion and anthropocentrism. For example, according to Erewhonian law, offenders are treated as if they were ill, whereas ill people are looked upon as criminals. Another feature of Erewhon is the absence of machines; this is due to the widely shared perception by the Erewhonians that they are potentially dangerous. This last aspect of Erewhon reveals the influence of Charles Darwin’s evolution theory; Butler had read On the Origin of Species soon after it was published in 1859.”
We currently exist in “Erewhon” where healthy individuals, for the first time in British history are illegally locked into the homes and their daily activities regulated and spied upon by statisticians and rogue military and Police formations. The traitor and Quisling Johnson, a former student of Classical history like myself, is simply a reprisal of his former predecessor Treason May, playing for time, to take us to a point where we are firmly locked into the awful Police State, that is the actuality of the European Union Soviet.
In short the appearance of friction and delay over Britain’s Brexit, is simply another scam, now made doubly worse by a massive “psyop” played out before us, as the puppet administration in Westminster wages a war of confusion by imposing a series of conflicting rules that are designed to coax us all into behaving like obedient sheep, with rewards for good behaviour by the compliant and nasty fines for those of a more independent frame of mind, like this writer.
These new conditions of daily existence are changed daily to further confuse and divide all of us against each other but above all intimidate. The Illegal “lockdown” has murdered 50,000 plus old folk, and last week alone there were 1000 suicides. The imposition of new rules from Monday will have further harmful consequences for all of us. The “Government” are guilty under the laws of tortious liability and offences against the person but also under the Principles of Nuremberg. The Police are now openly attacking and assaulting innocent members of the public who refuse to comply by not donning dangerous face muzzles that lower our immunity and actually make us more open to infection.
Lack of oxygen in such conditions makes us more compliable and are psychologically dehumanising, as is the ridiculous isolationism of “Social Distancing” that destroys our basic need for human touch and well being. By stifling the emotions, we also become depressed and can die from such impositions. Johnson and his thugs are guilty of the worst crimes once seen in the USSR and former Third Reich. Our economy is also ruined from stats I have.
This Unit responsible, is known as The Behavioural Insights Team. In reality is a common feature of all former Communist countries, and now in the former United Kingdom.
It is a shocking abuse of the role of a supposedly elected Executive and reverses entirely the concept of sui juris or individuality, once favoured by our Common Law system, now inverted by this office of state, that is more in keeping with Nazi Germany, than our once proud Monarchy. The “BIT” unit is actually corporate law- anathema to our traditions. In short we are run by an inflated Europeanised left leaning Civil Service that has more loyalty to Berlin and keeping us within the confines of the increasingly nasty tyrannical EU.
I left this comment on YouTube today…..
It’ll be guns next. I predict EU troops will be on our streets shortly. Eurogendfor- EU’s paramilitary goon squad. They did this in France against the Yellow Vests. This is going to get very nasty. Boris the Buffoon is just like Treason May- empty promises and scams. We have not left the EU Soviet but signed up to the EU “Defence” force. Our old Army is but a shadow of what we once had, when I was in it. It can barely muster 55, 0000 soldiers now and the RAF and RN are a joke. Cummings his “Advisor” is actually a Marxist and why is a Psychological warfare like 77 Brigade spying on us all? These activities are pure Treason.
Guy
The TV play Stockers Copper might have been included.
Having read that, although we already suspected, but seeing it all put together in print, it is unnerving to say the least – it is like waking up from a truly bad dream, the atmosphere of which one cannot shake off. All too plausible under present circumstances around us. Especially as the Queen and entourage have returned to her property for ‘three weeks’ at Sandringham for a vague reason, she could equally as well have returned to Windsor.
One might think that the Bishop needs a bit of medical advice…{:¬))
Yes we Know! Well More or Less!
I expect someone will be ‘having a word’ with the bishop, if they haven’t done already.
I wonder if someone will bash the bishop.
They mitre as well
They will take him to see the Man with the White Cat @Geoff Graham.
“I have my own intelligence network” – yeah, right – like Joan of Arc and her “voices”…..
https://twitter.com/MoggMentum/status/1304327264453222405
Good morning dear NotTLers. Some good news:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1334213/brexit-news-brexit-trade-deal-japan-eu-trade-deal-talks
And without demanding our fish as well!
Radio 4 / World Service catch-phrase of the week reference the EU withdrawal agreement:
Boris Johnson is flagrantly breaking an international law.
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Whoever persuaded him to introduce 6Max knew exactly what they were doing – undermining his already poorly regarded judgement. Next step – Boris must go (and be replaced by a remainer). The Tory party is still heavily infiltrated by EU lovers and enemies of the people. The opposition is even worse.
While I’m at it – Remember Twin Towers and the murdering scum who are still ensconced amongst us.
Good morning all. Does anyone know what the Rees-Mogg family will be doing on Monday? Will Jacob have to take three children to the East wing and his wife take three to the West?
‘Morning, JK.
Large families are exempt from the new legislation.
How many degrees of consanguinity? Places like Bradford, Blackburn, Rotherham et al can have as many as 200 in one place as they are nearly all interrelated.
I’ve no idea, Ped. Here, it’s just me & the cat.
That’s a relief then.
I hope that this ‘Rule of six’ and the proposed Covid marshalls on our streets will be a tipping point and people will start to push back. I’m not particularly hopeful based on the bovine obedience we have seen so far.
I’m not particularly hopefully based…
What a wonderful expression!Maybe I’ve had a drop too much of the Cliquot?
Second bottle?
2nd glass. I have to go to W/rose later.
Oops!
Shurely shome mishtake? 🙂
A touch of the Widow, peddy?
Provided it’s not a
blackwidow of colour, of course…the proposed
Covid marshallsStasi on our streetsMorning JK.
Apparently another ‘expert’ on TV this week stated that children and even babies are included in the maximum 6. This might seriously effect some people with young children at family gathering, our current holiday plans. say for instance a booking for 6 adults made weeks ago and now with one small child on board. What do they do now ? Cancel the trip and lose their money, or leave someone behind ?
I have even seen people on TV within certain communities with 10 or more children. Most of the time the father has already vanished but that’s another story. I expect our wonderful government might book them into hotels in separate rooms if they can’t cope. But hang on a mo……….
Just kill the excess. More covid deaths.
J R-M is among the top Tories keeping very quiet at the moment.
The current Cabinet of second raters should be worried.
On subject of the theft of civil liberties look at this.
Further outrage and total distain for the people of this country by the elected government.
Another day, another migrant hotel exposed by the fearless activists of Britain First.
This time they visited the Cedar Court Hotel in Wakefield, a huge luxury hotel used completely for housing illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense.
The Britain First team managed to enter the hotel and film dozens of migrants inside.
Please watch the report below then share on social media:
Please share the following link on social media:
https://www.britainfirst.org/migrant_hotels_britain_first_exposes_the_cedar_court_hotel_in_wakefield
Yours sincerely,
The Mercure Leeds Parkway Hotel, Otley Road, Leeds is also being used for migrants.
All rooms booked, no reservations, bookings being taken. All faciities, including swimming pool and gymn reserved for the migrants – rooms at £56.00/night
People will criticise groups like Britain First and castigate them as “Far Right Fascists”, (a contradiction in terms in its self!) but if the Government are refusing to respond to the legitimate concerns of the people, is it surprising that the people’s response is to resort to the help of the more activist groups?
They usually call them tattooed skin head racists.
Even if they are, their opinions still need to be taken note of and discussed instead of being shouted down and banned.
Although i had seen this from my original email I tried to look at the clip from this link but it didn’t work for me, have ‘The They’ removed it ?
Couldn’t open it.
To brighten my morning, I have just looked up Madman Halfcock. His only medical experience appears to be that he is married to an Osteopath – and has dyslexia.
And he hoped, once, to lead the Conservative Party. Well, he has achieved that – leading it into oblivion.
Ah, so we can really have ixs number of people to party!
https://twitter.com/simondolan/status/1304342247245320193
Wlliamson’s my bet. A superb Minister of Education. He did for schools….
I would still want Owen Paterson as PM and Nigel Farage, John Redwood and Richard Drax in the government.
John Redwood would make a good Chancellor. I am also keen on Steve Baker. Another consideration should be giving ministerial positions to MPs from “Red Wall” seats.
He could have meant sixteen, of course…
I suspect that, once 31/13/20 is past, BJ would be out on his ear.
I would love to see what sort of correspondence Conservative MPs are getting.
Is that like the clock striking thirteen?
Has this year been extended, Anne?
Seems long enough already….
Moonshot testing plan ‘could send 28 million into needless self-isolation’. 10 September 2020 • 7:36pm
On Wednesday, Mr Johnson committed to carrying out 10 million daily Covid-19 tests – equivalent to testing every resident once a week – under Operation Moonshot.
The strategy, costing £100 million, was defended by Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary (see video below), in the face of guffaws in the Commons over his insistence that the programme – promising to produce results in 20 to 90 minutes and still requiring untested technology – was feasible.
Morning everyone. We are venturing into the realms of utter barminess here. If they opened every hospital and medical centre in the country for the tests the queues would stretch for miles! It would require an army of samplers, and all this, seven days a week, with no end in sight! And what if the tests returned false positives; which let’s face it, is not beyond the realms of possibility? Are we to shut down everything until we get a perfect response? All this for a virus whose fatality rate is less than the Common Cold? The next stage on from this must be organised mobs running to the coast and hurling themselves into the ocean to drown!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/10/moonshot-testing-plan-could-send-28-million-needless-self-isolation/
3423600+ up ticks,
Morning AS,
I gotta feeling we are being set up for the ultimate treacherous let down regarding the long farewell.
Lots of false positives in present testing. Just not mentioned very much. Still complete silence on disposition of those tested positive – are any people ill?
Hospital in Somerset apologises for killing 50 people with Covid-19. Among the possible reasons they include” “the need to move staff between wards to provide safe staffing levels,”. Weasel words. Staff in hospitals, work in various places because it suits the hours that they wish to work. A nurse may work in two or three wards to meet his/her contracted hours. Hospital HR departments are all about work/life balance and being “people friendly” far more than they are about managerial efficiency. This approach is rife.
The risks of having people working in different wards, surgical, medical and maternity in the course of every week, sometimes on the same day, should be obvious. Wearing the same uniform in a medical ward in the morning then working in a surgical ward after lunch is a sure way to transfer infections. The nurse travels to work in that uniform and travels home in it. Same uniform next day?
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/hospital-apologises-unreservedly-nearly-50-203523424.html
“Operation Moonshot” a cross between moonshine and bullshit.
Moonshine is good … hic!
Imagine the traffic queues and bus queues. Where’s the carparking? Where’s a data system that can cope with that kind of load? Shit, they useless bastards can’t even get an ordinary NHS data system to function.
What an utter joke.
That’s about 833,000 tests an hour, or 13,888 a minute, or 232 a second, assuming 12 hours a day operation.
Even the British Army would struggle with logistics like that – and all for 63,5 deaths per 100.000 head of population, so 0,006%. And that’s with dodgy statistics, too, so likely smaller than that – and rate falling.
People do not understand the effects of very large numbers.
It’s why they are so unconcerned about the national debt, the numbers of immigrants, the costs of the green blob and climate nonsense and the inability to generate sufficient electricty for the country’s green needs etc etc.; what does a million or a billion or a trillion actually mean? They haven’t a clue.
Thats why I like to break it down to values that one can grasp.
Years ago, they used to “press” people to death under stones, adding a large stone at a time.
There are times that I would like a few politicians “pressed” under one pound coins, add one at a time and count them out.
Once one politcian has been squashed to the point that they resign from public life, start on another.
At over 9 tons for only one million pounds we should get through quite a few politicians.
Televise it, and it might get through to the general public just how huge the amounts being squandered by politicians actually are.
To use your time analogy, at one coin a second we could get many 12 hour days of TV.
63.5 in 100,000 is 0.063% (to 3 decimals) not 0.006% [To put it in values that one can grasp: 63.5 in 100 = 63.5%, 63.5 in 1,000 = 6.35%, 63.5 in 10,000 = 0.635%, 63.5 in 100,000 = 0.0635% and 63.5 in 1,000,000 = 0.00635%] It’s still a small proportion, but higher by a factor of 10. Even if you allow that the figures are (inevitably) something short of 100% accurate we are, certainly, looking at 0.03 – 0.05% of population and that’s quite high for one disease outbreak.
All those zeroes… need to get the specs off and face close to the screen to check the fat finger problem.
:-((
It seems that AntiFa are as thick as two short planks on a number of levels.
https://twitter.com/tjerubbaal/status/1304344965498142720
You have to wonder about the mentality of both of these children.
First one spits at the officer, then the other posts the entire video, including the incriminating section on Soshul Meejah as if assault by spitting is normal behaviour, but is more concerned about having her friend detained by a female police officer.
A pity the second child was not arrested for attempted obstructing a police officer in the execution of his duty.
‘No, dear. I didn’t “assume your gender”. I know full well that you are an “it”. As are all weirdos — and members of the uneducated — who have never been in touch with reality.’
Dear? Don’t you call me dear you mysoge.. midge .. oh whatever, I am retreating to my safe space.
Midge is good. Nothing annoys like one (or a cloud of them).
I had attempted another abortive attempt at misogynist but the spelling abuser decided otherwise.
One good thing about the approaching winter is that midges, mosquitos, horse flies, deer flies and other sundry pests will disappear.
The other problem is Griz, that due to peer pressure the uneducated have been brainwashed by the educated far left.
They are such easy targets.
It seems that the National Trust remains a hotbed of LGBTQWERTY. Didn’t they learn anything from the lanyard and badge fiasco at Felbrigg Hall in 2017?
Myopic National Trust
SIR – At a time when the National Trust (Letters, September 10) is losing income and members, making hundreds of staff – including skilled curators – redundant, and cannot open many of its properties – or offers a very restricted experience in those that it does – it is good to know that it has its priorities in order.
The “VLearning” team is still functioning and can offer me, as a volunteer, a virtual course in “everyday inclusion” to help “raise awareness of my unintended biases”.
It clearly knows what members and volunteers find more important than attracting visitors to its properties.
Alan Rainsley
Brazacott, Cornwall
I was very disappointed when I watched a video of the VJ Day service from church; the rector who, I always thought, was a level headed chap started off by saying how diverse the FE army was, how many languages they spoke and now they and their descendants were living in multi-cultural areas here. It’s an infection worse than Covid for killing off our culture.
323600+ up ticks,
All this wave / fear business these governance politico’s are racking up
in pursuit of bringing down the Nation via covid 19 is taking the eye from a very real major fear, that being the crest of every wave daily we have an invasion barge followed by a succession of daily barges on never ending waves,
If continued we as a Country will ALL be in the wave business, and that is waving good by to a Nation.
WHY ARE THESE POLITICAL OVERSEERS IMPORTING POTENTIAL
ANTI UK FIGHTERS / CRIMINALS under the umbrella of decent illegal
immigrants guilty of trespassing.
‘Morning again,
I get the impression that Allison Pearson isn’t awfully keen on the government’s handling of Covid, nor the latest diktat from Handycock:
I despair I really do. The powers of the wretched Coronabeast are waning fast. “It has burnt through the dry grass, mainly those who would have died anyway in the next few months, and now it is infecting younger age groups but not harming them,” says a scientist friend. Admissions are only a fraction of the level compared to peak of the pandemic despite warnings of a second wave rolling across Europe. “Covid has gone from our wards, has been for weeks” reports the head nurse at one of the UK’s largest hospitals, “I can’t understand what the Government are going on about.”
Boy, are they going on. And on. England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van Tam – a Chieftain tank in human form – was deployed this week to warn that the public has “relaxed too much”. Relaxed? How much generalised anxiety, cyclists wearing masks, children instructed not to turn around in classrooms, empty trains, cancelled holidays, people solemnly washing groceries in Covid-free areas and all the other pointless pantomime of panic would be sufficient for the Professor? The nation’s a complete basket case and he wants us to keep weaving.
And then there’s Matt Hancock. Like Private Frazer in Dad’s Army, our Secretary of State for Health has a lip-smacking relish for doom. As children settle back in the classroom after almost six months without friends or lessons and young people prepare for university, Matt had a few uplifting words to give them the confidence they so desperately need: “Don’t kill your gran!”
I can’t believe he actually said that. Either Hancock doesn’t understand the science or he is wilfully misinterpreting the data to keep the population as terrified as possible. Yes, there were almost 3,000 new “cases” on two successive days this week. But PCR tests, like all medical tests, are not perfect and can be unreliable. Covid “cases” sound alarming, but a case can be anyone with a few remnants of virus on a swab test who presents zero risk. ICUs are still, in the main, eerie ghost towns. Corona deaths are down to a handful a day out of a population of 66 million. Basically, I have more chance of marrying Brad Pitt than you have of dying from Covid19.
As Dr Carl Heneghan, the director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University, protests, “The norms of clinical reasoning are going out of the window. A PRC test does not equal Covid19, but in some definitions it does.” The Office for National Statistics has resorted to paying people a staggering £450 to have a series of nasal swabs. Those volunteers were never ill. They are among the silent millions who probably had corona without noticing and have boosted community immunity, making us all safer.
This news should be a cause for cautious celebration. Just a small glass of Harvey’s Bristol, Marjorie. Yet the remorseless campaign of fear to which the British people have been subjected since March refuses to let up. However infectious Covid19 may be, it is a mere amateur compared to the contagion of dread which has insinuated its way into our lives like a noxious gas. According to a recent poll, the British public believes the death toll from the virus is 100 times higher than it actually is. Forget Keep Calm and Carry On. That defiantly bloody-minded, worse-things-happen-at-sea, cheer-up-love-it-may-never-happen nation we all felt glad to belong to is now an unrecognisable land of paranoia and paralysis.
I asked my followers on Twitter a question: “How many people do you know who have been so scared by government behavioural psychologists that they are unlikely to resume a normal life even as Covid recedes?” The replies came thick and furious:
Sebastian: “My mother-in-law – 70, ex mayor of her town, strong woman, will hardly leave the house now. Her friends are the same and all their social groups have disbanded.”
Lisa: “My sister still requires her husband to strip off at the door after work and get straight in the shower.”
Sara: “I know someone whose mother even sleeps with her mask and gloves on. Her blood pressure went to 240. She’s killing herself!”
Valerie: “Friends don’t read the Sunday papers until Wednesday. And all post and parcels are left for 3 days before opening.”
Elsa: “My neighbour goes to her own shed in her own garden with mask and gloves on. I wish I were joking.”
Danny: “My mother is panic-stricken. So much so my father has bought a treadmill for the house so she can have some kind of walk.”
Hannah: “I’ve not seen my mum in over six months. She only leaves the house at night.”
Jason: “My in-laws won’t come out of their house. My boys have all but given up on ever seeing them again. They sit and await a vaccine that is never coming.”
Barrie: “I know people in their twenties who haven’t left their house since March.”
Alex: “My mum is still washing everything, not hugged my daughter since the end of February until Thursday when I made her. She may have held her breath for the entire 5 seconds non-face-to-face hug.”
What the hell have Hancock and the shroud-wavers on SAGE done to us? I really identified with Josiah who joked, “I spent the first month of lockdown persuading my parents to take Covid seriously. And the last 3 months trying to persuade them not to take it seriously!”
That’s it, exactly. Fear, like a coffee stain on a cream sofa, is a bugger to get out. Those of us who try to do what Matt Hancock should be doing – offering encouraging facts, persuading needlessly timid people it’s OK to venture out, are often met with incomprehension, even hostility. So successful is the psychological warfare that victims don’t even realise they’ve been brainwashed. Yet was this horrifying obsessive behaviour planned deliberately?
On the 22nd of March, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) produced a paper for the Government which must rank as one of the most successful and most damaging documents in our history. Options for Increasing Adherence to Social Distancing Measures laid out ways of bringing about behavioural change in the public to get us to comply with Covid19 restrictions.
The Number 1 recommendation was “Provide clear, precise, credible guidance about specific behaviours’’. You can’t argue with that. It was at Number 2 that things began to take a darker turn. “Use media to increase sense of personal threat,” it said. When I first read that sentence I reeled back. It felt entirely un-English, more akin to Stalinism.
But that’s exactly what those behavioural experts did. Instead of relying on people’s good sense and altruism (which proved to be remarkably strong) SAGE said: “The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging.”
Scaremongering headlines of a notably apocalyptic nature duly began to appear. “Coronavirus: I’m digging graves for people who are still living,” ran the ghoulish caption under a photograph of parallel muddy trenches in a field in east London. On TV, Government adverts thundered “everyone is equally at risk”. (Yet, we already knew that the average age of the fatalities in Italy was 82.5).
Tactics that a nation would use against its enemies were turned against our own families and friends. In a hard-hitting interview for this week’s Planet Normal podcast, the former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption told me that some members of SAGE have since admitted “this was perhaps overdone” but the use of fear was deliberate policy.
“What you have to remember is that when societies lose their liberty it is not because liberty has been crushed under the boot of some tyrant, it’s usually because they’ve been frightened into giving it up voluntarily. And that is what happened. Fear is the number one instrument of every despot. I dare say the intentions of this Government are benign. But their methods have not been.”
Who can doubt the good lord’s judgment in this case? Or the malign effect of Matt “We’re doomed!” Hancock, our very own tinpot dictator who accentuates the negative to keep people in mortal fear and achieve what exactly? What’s the strategy, Matt? The destruction of our economy is pretty much guaranteed if you continue to lock down entire regions at the first Atchoo! Other countries are not in the grip of this existential madness. They view the hysterical spasms of our previously phlegmatic nation with amused disbelief.
Once upon a time we were Blighty not Frighty. We have to get a grip and summon that spirit again or there will be damage without end. If you know someone who is still really scared please let me know. People are going to need help to be unafraid. A lot of help. The Government’s behavioural scientists must put into reverse the disproportionate campaign with which they stole the people’s reason. Here’s one idea: “Use the media to increase the sense of personal safety.”
I’ll go first. The contagion of fear now poses a far bigger threat to our national health than Covid-19. You probably won’t kill your gran if you see her, but not seeing her might just kill her. In my view, you are safe to resume your life. While it is reasonable to be scared of the dark; it’s a tragedy to be afraid of the light.
Moria migrants: Germany, France will take in 400 children from Greece’s refugee camp. 11 September 2020.
Berlin and Paris said they plan to move 400 minors from the Greek migrant camp destroyed in a blaze. Angela Merkel said she hoped other EU nations would assume a “shared responsibility” and accept some of the minors.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to a deal that would allow 400 unaccompanied minors from the Greek migrant camp to move to other parts of the European Union, Merkel confirmed on Thursday.
The migrants actually burned down this camp themselves to precipitate this reaction. The “unaccompanied minors” is a ploy. Human Rights legislation will ensure that their parents follow as night follows day.
https://www.dw.com/en/moria-migrants-germany-france-will-take-in-400-children-from-greeces-refugee-camp/a-54882965
Leave the buggers out there in the cold. If they don’t like it, then they shouldn’t have burned the place down.
Seems Wee Krankie has once again proved she is a far shrewder political operator than the hapless BoJo, by exempting children under the age of twelve from the farcical “group-of-six” rules being introduced from Monday in England and Wales. Let me be clear, I don’t believe this move on her part is motivated by anything other than political opportunism – she has attempted to introduce far more intrusive and restrictive legislation on a variety of matters. But, whatever her motives, it works out well for families here in Scotland, who will at least be able to spend some time together over the Festive Season, and will without doubt increase support for the SNP in the minds of the Scottish electorate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8720105/Cabinet-war-rule-six-minister-committee-argued-against-stringent-ban.html
oris Johnson has led a fascist coup against the United Kingdom.
If that sounds like an exaggeration, just ask yourself how you’d have felt a year ago — or even six months ago — if you’d been told a British government was planning to institute a 10pm curfew, ban gatherings of more than six people, impose daily immunity tests before you were allowed to go about your business, employ Stasi-like volunteer ‘marshals’ to ensure public compliance and warning that it might even have to cancel Christmas?
Your first reaction would have been: “Impossible. This is the kind of thing that excitable foreigners engage in. Never the phlegmatic, rational British – and certainly, never, ever, EVER so long as there’s a Conservative government in power.”
Your second reaction would have been: “Oh, I get it. It’s a joke, right? You’re telling me the plotline of some new dystopian graphic novel on the lines of Watchmen currently being adapted for Amazon Prime or Netflix, yeah?”
I still can’t quite believe it myself. ……………………
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/10/boris-johnson-has-led-a-fascist-coup-against-the-united-kingdom/
Oris Johnson = Boris Johnson with no Balls.
Reminds me of the song Miss Otis Regrets. This version is surprisingly good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw1tN0Sm4Rw
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So far this month, not including those intercepted on Friday, 822 people have crossed from France on small boats.
From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54114373
Wonder how bad it would be if we didn’t have a clandestine channel threat commander
How a rush for Mediterranean gas threatens to push Greece and Turkey into war. 11 September 2020.
An increasingly fractious standoff over access to gas reserves has transformed a dispute between Turkey and Greece that was once primarily over Cyprus into one that now ensnares Libya, Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, and feeds into other political issues in the Mediterranean and has raised fears of a naval conflict between the two Nato allies in the Aegean Sea.
The crisis has been deepening in recent months with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, leading those inside the EU opposing Turkey’s increasingly military foreign policy and saying Turkey can no longer be seen as partner in the Mediterranean. He has offered French military support to the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, including the possible sale of 18 Rafale jets.
Erdogan is looking for a War and those who seek it usually eventually find it. This is all the world needs; just a little nudge to set things off and everyone will jump on the bandwagon. There is a whole raft of unresolved issues left over from 70 years of American Hegemony that those who feel they’ve been cheated or slighted would like to set straight. Assuming the big guys decide not to play this one will probably draw down the Curtain on Europe as a centre of World Power and relegate it to the fringes of Political and Religious barbarism.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/mediterranean-gas-greece-turkey-dispute-nato
The Middle East doing what it does best; beating the crap out of each other.
Throw in a spot of Byronic romanticism over Greece, French arrogance ….. deja vu all over again.
But Shirey, natural gas will soon be worthless coz we’ll all be using solar and wind.
It is also reported that Turkey has been delivering arms to Tripoli in North Lebanon. Furthermore, it’s increasing its presence in western Libya having delivered thousands of mercenaries, some of them associated with ISIS. Today it is reported that Turkey has arrested five journalists for naming people in Libya who are Turkish intelligence agents.
Turkey is trying to establish an exclusive maritime zone between Libya and Turkey.
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In slightly better news, that terrorist organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Erdogan is one of the principal proponents, is in turmoil because Egypt has found and arrested its leader (although the MB is banned in Egypt). Turkey hosts many criminals from the MB and Hamas. It also hosts TV stations which broadcast subversion to other countries in the Middle East, especially Egypt.
But what does Erdogan care? He has neutered the opposition in Turkey and sits happily in his new palace which is 30 times bigger than the White House. When asked why he needs such a big palace he said that it will increase the prestige of Turkey! To most normal people it reduces Turkey to a dangerous laughingstock!
You have to laugh at the naivety of these fools! “Confused” you say? If they hadn’t spent the last few months with their heads up their backsides, they may have noticed that the rest of us are sick of being preached at!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/54114028
Morning Sue – Steve Baker MP got a rare interview on BBC Radio 4 News this morning. He is against the newest lockdown rules but supports the prospect of a No Deal Brexit.
Wow! Two “wrong thinks!”
He is also two-faced. He was dead against Treason’s WA – then voted for it.
Boris Johnson and Jacob Grease Smog voted for May’s surrender WA. Richard Drax did too but he then apologised vehemently for having done so.
But I thought that Steve Baker and Mark Francois had not voted for the May Surrender WA. However, Baker seems to have gone very rotten since the election which infuriated and disappointed me as I had once rated him highly.
Which brings us back, once again to the basic problem; the very people who stand for public office are the very people who should be prevented from doing so.
Wishing to do so is a sign of egotistical madness.
That’s the Swedish attitude – it is fatal to promote yourself.
Tall poppy syndrome – Janteloven over here – don’t think you are anything special.
Alltid lagom.
Happy Birthday Peddy, have a good won.
Thanks, Harry.
Thanks, Harry.
Happy Birthday Peddy – have a great day
Thanks, Spikey.
Happy Birthday, Peddy!
Do you have a celebratory menu lined up?
Thanks, Sue.
Just had a breakfast that would have had Lucullus drooling, with perfect scrambled egg. For tonight & tomorrow night, please see my opening post.
Happy birthday, have a great day.
Thanks, Eddy.
It’s mine tomorrow.
Queen Mary’s Hampstead 1946.
Not under bush on the heath…… 😉
But your conception?
I never got round to asking…..well one doesn’t eh Bob.
Happy Birthday. I’m sure Missy’s spoiling you.
Thanks, John.
Missy tasted & approved the smoked salmon I had at breakfast.
Did you see Rik’s late post?
Devonian in Kent • 12 hours ago
We wish our resident pedantic peddy a very happy birthday, on this otherwise sombre anniversary.
Rik-Redux Mod Devonian in Kent • 10 hours ago
Peddy’s birthday you say…………….
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No, I missed that, but thanks for reposting it.
Happy birthday Peddy! Doing anything special today?
Asante minge sana, Ndovu.
Please see my opening post.
‘It’s unbearable’: Lesbos refugees sleep on streets after devastating fire, 11 September 2020.
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Plumes of smoke rise above the ashes and twisted metal. In many parts this is all that remains of Europe’s largest refugee camp.
Just a few days ago, the Moria camp in Lesbos was home to thousands of children and their families. Now all that is left are the smoldering ruins and jagged outlines of scorched tents.
Lol! This report is fantasy by omission. No mention here that they set fire to the camp themselves in an attempt to be moved to the mainland where they can hike to Germany or the UK. That they escaped with all their stuff because they packed before they torched the living accommodation. This is only the latest and the worst of these fires. They have been a regular occurrence during its existence. The lives of the indigenous inhabitants of the island must be a living hell!
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/11/its-unbearable-lesbos-refugees-sleep-on-streets-after-devastating-fire
“Now dear, could you put your phone down out of sight, please? Now bow your head and spread your hand over your face, and act like you have just been told your grannie has died. Oh, that’s good! Hold it there!”
“Cameras over there …. ☛ …. hold up that baby …. make it cry … camera, lights, action ……
Bit like the chap who murdered both his parents then asked for clemency because he was an orphan.
If they hadn’t burned the camp, they could be sleeping indoors.
An excellent example of a coonflagration, the burning down of their own homes to show that BLM.
My anti Boris the Buffoon prescription.
https://youtu.be/Ybg3ogZw2ag
Remarkably talented musicians. Worth checking their versions of ‘Sgt Pepper’ and ‘White’ albums.
There is a program which shows the length they go to trying to faithfully reproduce the original sound.
Seeing them in concert is on my to-do list.
Dutch with English subtitles, worth looking at.
https://youtu.be/B5aD87iJikg
Excellent.
That’s fabulous, thank you. Never heard of them.
Most of the morning, both our planes have been practicing low level attacks on a civil population – in readiness for the “War of Halfcock’s Virus” when England rises….
Are you sure it’s not practice to put up a token resistance to the Chinese – a sort of Halfcock’s Han Hour?
Definitely not – they are back again – clearly looking out for places where trouble-makers live….
Better hide the trombetti Bill. They’re a bit of a give away as to who lives there. :-))
No problem, I know the answer if you live on the coast.
https://youtu.be/q0vvYHuA10U
We (I mean MOH) look after the wellbeing of a bed-bound elderly lady with no relatives. We live a considerable distance away. Yesterday evening around 10:00 pm we received a call from her to say that the bed-time carer had not called and her patio doors were wide open. It transpires the carer scheduled for 9:00 pm turned up at 6:00 pm. Did not close the patio door. Left the phone out of reach ( she managed to hook the BT cable and drag the phone to her bedside) and left her without a blanket. The care company could not provide a carer to go to her home and settle the woman for the night. Eventually the police responded at around 12:30 a.m and secured the premises. Her next carer was due at 9:00 am this morning. Formal complaints have been made to the company with a copy to the Care Quality Commission. An appointment is being sought with an alternative provider.
That’s really bad. Was it the carer’s bingo night?
When I was in 3 different hospitals 2 years ago, my call button was frequently left out of reach.
Accidentally on purpose?
Exacto. Luckily I have a very loud bellow.
Respect to YOH, Stephen.
It’s compassionate people like her care for my mother, as volunteers, doing the dull stuff like shopping, taking out the rubbish, and so on. Good on her.
It seems to have finally dawned on the EU and the UK “negotiators” that the EU needs our products, that is financial services, more than we need anything that they produce. Previous UK Governments have driven manufacturing overseas, to China and elsewhere. The EU, run by agricultural France and industrial Germany, have worked the system, created rules, regulations, taxes and tariffs that favour France and Germany. No need to to bend the rules when you can change them, and French and German businesses have been enormously helped by this arrangement. However, this only continues to work if you have a market for whatever you produce. We can buy agricultural products from many countries, From the Americas and from the countries of the Commonwealth.
Farewell, President butter, camembert cheese, and French plonk generally. The setting up of a trade deal with Japan means that we will easily be able to import even more cars, TVs, electronic bobbins and other stuff. So if that does not cause the EU negotiators sleepless nights, nothing will. Farewell German cars…and other stuff. The Germans have moved a lot of manufacturing abroad (China) and items labelled Braun and Bosch are no longer made in Germany. We can buy Chinese copies if we choose.
I have banged on about this since early 2016. We hold the cards and can walk, or skip, away as we please. The EU are bound by their own treaties to protect the EU members (well, to protect France and Germany, the others not so much) which greatly restricts their options. We are looking to expand and build, whereas the EU are going to be desperate to avoid a recession.
I’ve left Covid-19 out of this as it is political and so instantly reversible.
Keep banging on, Horace! We need a bit of optimistic news
Well said, that man!
We don’t buy EU wine. There are plenty of other countries producing stuff as good and often better.
Today, I was treated to Cotswold Brie.
British first. Commonwealth second. Rest of the world, third. EU fourth. China firmly last.
The UK needs to get more heavy industry such as steel production and less determination to get emissions down to zero.
This loss of wildlife is a disaster of our own making.
Judith Woods. DT, 11/09/20
What is the most dangerous animal on the planet? Any child reared on the inimitable Steve Backshall’s Deadly 60 series on CBBC will come up with any number of candidates: the black mamba, the hippopotamus, the great white shark.
Then, when they’re told the most destructive creature alive is humanity, you can see the emotions – confusion, indignation, realisation – flicker across their wide-eyed faces, and it’s impossible not to feel humbled and saddened at the damage inflicted by mankind on the world they will inherit.
Unlike the wolf eel or the polar bear, our species doesn’t honour its apical position in the food chain, killing to eat and no more.
Humans recklessly destroy habitats for agriculture, pollute the overfished seas, poach endangered animals for medicine or pelts and commodify wild creatures as pets, to be traded for pleasure or slaughtered as a delicacy.
Adults know this. Yet it still came as a terrible blow to learn that global wildlife is in “freefall”, according to a damning report published by the World Wildlife Fund.
From elephants in Africa to Arctic skuas in Orkney, populations of wild mammals, birds and fish have plunged by two thirds over the past 50 years.
This isn’t about worthy if niche conservation projects to protect snow leopards or persuade the last few pandas to breed – this decline affects all living things.
We urgently need to alter the wasteful way we consume the earth’s resources. But first we need a new mindset. Enter the nearest we have to an ecological guardian, Sir David Attenborough, who has sounded a clarion call for a new consensus.
“Above all, it will require a change in perspective,” he says. “A change from viewing nature as something that’s optional or ‘nice to have’ to the single greatest ally we have in restoring balance to our world.”
His message is clear: all is not lost. Yet. But without dramatic intervention, the consequences will be catastrophic for us and generations to come.
We do need to take action. I could write a prescription. Working out what to do is not the problem. The problem is about taking action. Big Business does not want to, as it is working for them, so why change*. The billions of the poor will not stop insisting that they must get what we have.
*Well Pringles are going to make some slight changes to their tube. Our recycling bins have notices forbidding Pringles from being disposed of therein.
Stop overpopulating. Breed less.
And leave covid-19 to its own devices.
I don’t believe anything from WWF. They and Attenborough are fully signed up to the global warming scam.
That may well be true; however, the rest of Judith Woods’ excellent report is bang on the money and verifiable.
All manner of wildlife that is necessary for the balance of nature is being destroyed, randomly, by man’s arrogance. No other form of wildlife pollutes its own environment like mankind does.
It’s time we woke up!
I’m afraid this is yet another subject over which I (and most others) have no control. It is not I who is deforesting here, there and everywhere, not I discarding plastic into the sea, not I killing animals for fun (although I do eat meat and fish). I wear leather shoes sometimes, I drive a car sometimes, I do not cycle on the roads as I’d be too dangerous, and I enjoy my standard of living. On the other hand I do not join in ER with their destructive cult activities nor riot like BLM supporters, also destroyers of property So I can’t do anything about what’s going on. The only thing I can do is write to my MP, which I have done many times, to the point where he has not answered my last couple of missives.
I read somewhere, cannot remember where, that since the creation of Earth as we know it 99.7% of all living things have become extinct.
The sobering thought the author gleaned from that was that by being alive we have a direct line back to the beginning of the universe l
I know some of us are old, but that stretches the imagination somewhat.
323600+ up ticks,
G,
“What is the most dangerous animal on the planet”
Any child reared on the SB, deadly 60 series & living within the rotherham area would surely come up with the great big policeman.
Point of fact being especially over the last 20 years and what has been revealed I would much rather entrust children to the Tommy Robinsons of this Country rather than the forces of law, would you not agree ?
Apols if this has already been posted:
“On Friday morning, American traders awoke to some surprisingly positive trade news out of Great Britain. A trade deal with Japan had been agreed to in principle, which would – if finally ratified by both countries – allow 99% of the UK’s exports to Japan to cross the border tariff-free.
What’s more, the deal even gave Johnson the opportunity to gloat, as Reuters reported the digital and data provisions in the agreement went “far beyond” those in the EU’s trade deal with Japan.”
My heart is broken.
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I have never been even remotely impressed by Andrew (call me Lord) Adonis.
He bats for both sides, nasty creep that he is.
Meinst Du er ist vom anderen Ufer?
Me neither! A revolting, remaining whinger who clearly believes his own bu*****t! Nothing original has ever crossed this creeps lips.
I hope you are being ironic. Good riddance if you ask me.
With friends like that you most definitely need any enemies do you.
Morning all!
The sponsored ads I’m seeing above the comments today seem to have big boobs as their theme! I still receive the weekly e-mailed newsletter from the church I no longer attend and the latest one contains this gem.
“Fifteen women are released from Bronzefield Prison every week, so we’d like to give them home-sewn facemasks so that they can travel on public transport. These take only an hour or so to make from ready cut kits.
We have already managed to make up 60 masks (and we are thankful for all who have made them!) but more are always welcome”.
Do they make them from mail-bags?
Good morning, Our Susan.
There are more big boobs, daily, in the modern version of The Daily Telegraph than there ever were on page 3 of The Sun.
Just read any report in the paper for clarification.
Good morning, Sue.
You can get rid of those ads with adblocker.
Big boobs? Why would you want to block those?
Keeps the page tidy and the drool off my keyboard.
They can be a bit of a handful…..(if you are lucky).
The champagne glass is said to represent the perfect tit – I’m more of a pint mug man myself
I use the Firefox Ad Blocker plus. Works very well.
Man speaks sense!
https://youtu.be/JVbw4m–NaA
Why are so few of our politicians as lucid and clear-headed as Jordan Peterson?
I was listening to Talk Radio this morning: Julia Hartley Brewer had a guest who made the point that Boris Johnson knew that the WA was a disaster as far as Northern Ireland was concerned and that he should have acted immediately to rectify the situation.
He had over a month to act and, said the guest, the time to have done this was between the general election on 12th December when he had acquired his large parliamentary majority and 23rd January when the treaty was sugned. But the consequence of Johnson not doing so is that the whole thing has blown up in his face and, except for Ian Duncan Smith, all the craven former nominally still alive leaders of the Non-Conservative Party: May, Cameron, Howard, Hague and Major, are united against him.
The problem of course goes back to the fact which many of us here were fuming about before the election i.e. that Boris Johnson did not give any serious details about what was in the WA and avoided being grilled on the matter by Andrew Neil. The MSM – being largely pro-remain – failed completely in its duty to inform by drawing the attention to the WA’s serious flaws.
You’ve forgotten to say who would have done the grilling. Not like you, Rastus. 😉
From the DT just now:-
‘A further 9 people, who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 29,648.
Patients were aged between 79 and 88 years old and all had known underlying health conditions.
Date of death ranges from September 8 to 10 2020.’
So, let’s get this straight. 9 people, over a space of 3 days, all of whom had underlying health conditions, the youngest of whom was just 2 years below average UK life expectancy and the oldest was 7 years beyond it, have died.
And for this I am forced to wear a mask in public enclosed spaces, if I holiday abroad there is every possibility I will have to go into quarantine for a fortnight on my return and there is every possibility that Christmas is going to be cancelled?
I think someone has lost all sense of proportion.
Well said, Sir! The whole thing is completely bonkers.
Oh no!!
The R rate has risen above one.
HELP!!!
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/r-value-uk-above-1-a4545546.html
And when one reads the article it is clear that in reality the key figures of hospitalisations, transfers to ICU and deaths are hardly changing, because if they were then that fact would have been mentioned.
“They” have decided to (try to) frighten us with infection rates. All we should be concerned about are the deaths from Covid19 but we will never know because “they” have muddled all the figures up.
Agreed
Just as Dr John Lee says the the R number is irrelevant and it’s all to do with T-cells, whatever they are.
I should have added.
I had my reply to my post prepared and posted just as you replied.
I see the troublemaker is at it again.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1334211/brexit-news-gina-miller-boris-johnson-eu-sanctions-internal-market-bill-international-law
https://twitter.com/uk_sov/status/1304145758376124416?s=20
“Slovakia is the last member state of the European Union without a mosque. In 2000, a dispute about the building of an Islamic center in Bratislava erupted: the capital’s mayor refused such attempts of the Slovak Islamic Waqfs Foundation.
On 30 November 2016, Slovakia passed legislation to effectively block Islam from gaining official status as a religion in the country. Slovakia is the only country within the European Union without any mosque.”
Brilliant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Slovakia#:~:text=Slovakia%20is%20the%20last%20member,the%20Slovak%20Islamic%20Waqfs%20Foundation.
If only the rest of the civilised world had the brains and the balls to follow suit.
We should destroy all the mosques in Britain until we have reached the position where there are no more mosques in Britain than there are churches in the Middle East.
Qatar has, “granted legal status to Catholic, Anglican, Greek and other Eastern Orthodox, Coptic, and Indian Christian churches”. Israel is the great Middle East exception of course.
I shan’t hold my breath on Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Iran following suit.
One to record…
Tonight 8pm BBC 4 – Proms:
Sheku and Isata Kenneh-Mason.
Barber, Bridge and Rachmaninov
plus Beethoven’s cello sonata.
Hope peddy has set the recorder before engaging in
birthday celebrations….
I don’t have a working recorder & I’m out with friends tonight.
Now that is one immigrant family I am happy to see here.
Dozens of exhausted migrants including families and young children wait for Border Force officers on side of road in Kent as around 200 people cross English Channel in a day taking yearly total above 6,000
At least 73 suspected migrants landed on Kent shores and 40 migrants were picked up by Border Force today
Large Iraqi family of five including two children aged six and seven dodged Border Force to reach Kingsdown
Another group of Asian migrants also made it to shore at Folkestone this morning after Channel crossing
Staggering 826 migrants have arrived over six days in September, and 6,000 have crossed into UK this year
By JACK WRIGHT FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:13, 11 September 2020 | UPDATED: 15:16, 11 September 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8722239/Dozens-migrants-inflatable-dinghies-land-beaches-Kent-40-arrive-Dover.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR2aBcL5eECJzLiF9xeFvCEYugpENTZu9G2EScF553zY_I8Pq6EZXQOxC3c
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Polly – Please stop displaying this pornographic picture. It causes much offence.
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We will now be the ‘exhausted’ ones, working to keep this lot in luxury for the rest of their lives.
I had a visit from another ‘tradesman’ offering to trim my front shrubs. He just happened to be doing a neighbour’s garden in the next few days. I told him I liked my shrubs as they are, many have vicious thorns to keep people at bay. He didn’t argue (like most do). He switched tactic: “What about the back garden? Is there any trimming to do there?” Actually there is, quite a lot in fact, but I said no. His last try: “I’m a tree surgeon as well, you know.” He made as if to show m photos on his phone. Me, “Oh really? I’m a dental surgeon.” End of the discussion.
My brother bought a chain saw and started with tree surgery when he was made redundant some 15 years ago. Knew nowt about it. Fell out of a tree, and gave up. Daft bugger.
My father bought me an electric chainsaw one Christmas. I don’t know why; I never asked for one. After I had unwrapped the present he told me a cautionary tale about a bloke whose throat was slashed when the chain snapped. I never took the thing out of its box & several years later gave it to a neighbour.
Erk!
:-((
Like any tool, maintain it and treat it with respect, and it won’t bite.
Beer after cutting, not before.
…………………………………………………….
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He’s right behind you!
You are surely not suggesting Mr Gates is shafting the Prime Minister are you Polly?
Be careful Boris. Where has the puppeteer put his hand?
Afternoon All
We will,we will…….
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It’s fantastic how well the “woke” pick their martyrs,first George Floyd and now this guy……………
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And the Australian and English cricket teams are being criticised by Michael Holding for not kneeling in reverence to Black Lives Matter before their cricket match.
How much longer before decent people who never dreamt of becoming racists do become racists?
If BLM want apartheid why not let them have it? And if Lewis Hamilton would prefer to drive a car built and designed by black engineers and manufacturers and serviced by exclusively black people in the Pit Stops then let us encourage him to resign from his position with the hideously white Mercedes Team?
If the black wheel changers took the wheels of his car he’d be left high and dry and out of the race. Bring it on Lewis you dimwit.
The same must be said of the criminal Flloyd.
https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1304444009759354885
This is a confusion over genuine Conservativism and the farce we’re lumbered with now.
The state agrees, totally on top down, high tax, hard Left ‘green’ energy, massive uncontrolled gimmigration, appeasement of the weirdo, the disruptive and the mentally ill and the silencing of the law abiding, honest, the fleecing of the worker, the rewarding of the shirker, paying people to breed and hunting down the wealth creators. The state refuses to cut taxes or reduce it’s scale nor say to the layabout with 5 kids – pay for yourself.
Now, thanks to 20 years of oppression, big state control and the utter removal of responsibility and integrity people have become lazy, arrogant and feckless. After all, if you’re rewarded for failure why would you bother trying?
This is why people – the massive majority – have chosen slavery. They like it. It’s less for them to bother with and someone else to blame.
https://video.parler.com/rw/nF/rwnFbLdk445O.mp4
Mans best friend!.
The police dog had the right idea.
BAM
That dog is Raciss! – Black Arses Matter!
Good doggy!
On yet another bleak news day cheer yourselves up with some animal photographs
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/funny-animal-photos-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards-2020-finalists-a4545246.html
Bear of colour at the pole:
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And the Moon is made of green cheese …
I can’t hear a word he’s saying….
Don’t care what he’s saying.
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Never thought I’d say this, but Mrs Murrell seems to have a better grip on what s going on in her country than anyone in Westminster does about England.
Whatever your opinion of Mrs. Murrell, DO NOT EVER refer to my country as a “poxy country” again.
Sorry, Duncan. Thoughtless of me.
OK, Bill, apology accepted, let’s forget it.
You are generous.
It was comments such as those referring to Scots as “sw*****s” that prompted my departure from the DT.
How is Murrell pronounced. Is the emphasis on the U or the E?
COW
In the last couple of years we have had several students from Scotland – mostly from Glenalmond College – on our French courses and I must say we have found them amongst the most pleasant young people you could ever hope to meet.
She waits to see what Boris is doing, then steals his thunder.
And avoids his blunders!
That wouldn’t be difficult.
Sorry Uncle Bill, but until you have to deal with her cretinous stupidity and bovine intractability on a daily basis please don’t tell me that she has her finger on the pulse. She is a Marxist moron.
I only suggested by comparison.
Johnson is all those things, too – but has no grip on the Cabinet, the Party or the country.
Watching Tipping Point.
Question: Until 1974 King Constantine ll was king of which European country.
Contestant 1 – France
Contestant 2 – Germany
*£$/#@&&@**
From which fossil fuel is petrol obtained from
1. Gas
2. Coal
Heaven preserve us and I guess they’re in their 40/50’s.
South Africa has coal-to-gasoline refineries back in the embargo days.
God knows where I picked it up from, but I’ve a report from a South African university on the use of “Producer Gas” for driving motor vehicles dating back to WW2.
DTStory
Michael Holding criticises England and Australia’s ‘lame’ and ‘flimsy’ reasons for not taking a knee
Australia captain Aaron Finch said players would not take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter because cricket is a game for everyone
Why should they?
Black Wanqueurs Matter.
Let’s have an alternative:
Stand up and be counted, all lives matter.
Good for Finch and the rest of the Aussies. Thought the England players showed submission last match, but maybe not this time? If so, about time too. Would like to think footballers will see sense also – we’ll find out tomorrow – but it has gone on far too long and very likely wouldn’t have happened at all had fans been present to voice their disapproval.
Every time BLM demand that people ‘take the knee’ people should unfurl graphic pictures of the victims of black crime.
Why don’t they all declare themselves white then they can realise how hard they have to work to become privileged.
It would be nice if their response were more robust, e.g. “all f******g n*****s can f**k off”
I think, if you paraphrase what the bloke did say, that that is what he meant.
Back from the horsepiddle – breathing test completed. The technician said that I did “very well”, though in this day and age I don’t imagine they would be allowed to say, “Well, that was a waste of my time and yours”…!!
About to try a new find – a rosé from Bordeaux – thanks to the Spectator wine club.
A demain.
Completely and utterly off topic, but extraordinarily pertinent to today.
For some reason, known only to itself, my Nottle page suddenly transferred me to dictionary.com
The word of the day, appropriately, is “ineffable.”
https://www.dictionary.com/
Anagrams as FINAL BEEF
It also translates to a word used to describe a UK citizen who doesn’t wear a mask or ignores social distancing measures: ‘fineable’.
Re boat people
Take a look at the earning requirements for “real” people coming from the EU rather than illegal gimmegrants.
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Brexit/Hopes-dashed-for-Britons-Brexit-family-rights?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=a718b715fc-NewsletterAugust312020_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9b5fbe85b4-a718b715fc-357910569
Now take a look at how quickly you can meet the requirements to traffic illegal gimmegrants across the channel:
https://youtu.be/0NVUSOm8Mps
News from France – Today’s prime ministerial address.
The french government has decided that they will follow the science and the advice given by scientists. This means that the self-isolation period for Covid 19 should be no more than seven days.
I think Boris ought to change his scientists.
We’ve known almost from the start that Boris dies not employ scientists in the sense that we think of them. The motley crew he listens to are mathematicians and statisticians. The real scientists are those with medical and research experience.
Ferguson and his ilk use ‘modelling’ like climate change wonks do and come up with all the wrong answers. If you feed cr*p into a computer it can only churn out cr*p as we all know.
He’s have done better with Mystic Meg or a Petulengro.
GIGO – garbage in, garbage out.
One of the important things I’ve learnt today is that a Dubonnet stopper fits a Cliquot bottle perfectly. The contents have remained tip-top fizzy all day.
You recorked it?
I couldn’t drink it all this morning because I had to go shopping later, & I didn’t want to let it go flat.
There is no point in having stoppers in this household.
Us neither. Even taps on wine boxes are close to redundant.
And I’m the only one that drinks… :-((
Proms 8pm BBC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKWEgr_c9tA
Now there is a real role model for black youth.
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1304470274918711296
Oh look, another Bame getting off virtually Scot-free.
Now that’s what I call being Shatti upon.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8722025/Mother-two-stole-train-passengers-suitcase-containing-76-000-worth-designer-clothes.html
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I have no idea where this is ..
May the dear Lord preserve us and save us!
It may have been photoshopped on to the jacket, Belle.
…….. but the sign of things to come.
The worst aspect is that the jacket is in deliveroo green.
I don’t think so – it follows the creases in the material.
Too much Veuve Cliquot Peddy! It’s very fake!
No, I’ve been driving, but I’m home now & about to have some more to finish the bottle. I’m taking a taxi tonight.
What we must ask ourselves, Sue, is what would be on the back of that jacket otherwise?
Hope you have a fantastic night! It could be any old hi-viz jacket. Thousands around the place. Any old company from Asda to Zoopla. They all wear them.
Thanks. I hope it’s not too wild; I have to take the car in for service & MOT tomorrow morning.
Wimpy Wazzock?
Belated Happy Birthday greetings, Peddy !
Thanks, Lacoste.
Belated? The night is yet young!
£30k a pop, no qualifications needed but being built like a HW boxer or an enjoyment of being punched in the face will be a desired quality.
£30k per annum? Do we assume that these Covid Kapos will be around for at least a year?
What a waste of public money.
Hello Belle
That photo was poster March/April time but pertinent never the less.
The tossing has already been carried out, by Blair the tosser, I thought.
Hancock is a hancunt but the reality is that the HoC is a gathering of jumped up popinjays who add absolutely nothing to the debate because none of them have the scientific or numerical skills to cross examine the Minister, and challenge what is being put out.
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”?
Apart from Uncle Bill, obvs…
Hancock is a rabbit caught in the headlights of an oncoming vehicle viz. the pent up anger of the citizenry.
Hancock is rooted to the spot and merely recites the garbage he has been fed by medicos whose financial interests align with pharmaceutical companies which firms manufacture vaccines as their principal source of income.
This entire lockdown nonsense is a cover up for the incompetence and poor decision making of this faux Tory government of spineless idiots.
Johnson fudged this badly but May is the author of the folly.
Of course Eire could become part of the UK with its own devolved pretendy parliament.
Problem solved.
};-O
The other solution is for the EU to implode, either because other member states leave or the Euro blows up.
Both…
As I suggested this morning the time for Boris to have sorted out the Northern Ireland problem was between 12th December, the date of the general election in which he won a substantial majority, and 23rd January on which he signed the treaty. Boris Johnson knew that the WA was a disaster as far as Northern Ireland was concerned and he should have acted immediately to rectify the situation.
He had over a month to act – but he didn’t do so and the consequence is that the whole thing has blown up in his face and, except for Ian Duncan Smith, all the craven former leaders of the Non-Conservative Party who are still alive: May, Cameron, Howard, Hague and Major, are united against him.
It would also have been useful if Johnson had been more ruthless in deselecting remainer Conservative MPs before the election. This abject failure may well cost him and the country dear.
Ten years ago I did work for a couple of Danish millionaire landowners. They denied any knowledge of Schleswig-Holstein.
SIR – I used to meet my friends in the pub on Friday night. Now I haven’t seen them for six months.
I went to meetings of three societies, which have not met for the same length of time. I am awaiting treatment for medical conditions, which is on hold until the Covid panic is over.
I am 86. I used to think that losing the will to live was just a figure of speech, but now I know how it feels.
Alan Shaw
Halifax, West Yorkshire
https://twitter.com/HHepplewhite/status/1304501803719983104
That silly little shit Mayor Khan has as ever missed the point. Our history goes back five thousand years and more. Our capital city is London.
The notion that we should allow our monuments and parks and street names to be altered to reflect the disaster which was the Windrush generation which brought drugs and knife crime to our country, the Muslim invasion with its silent killing machine and the countless mafiosi style criminals from Eastern Europe and Africa is risible.
Khan is a racist and totally unfit to represent Londoners. Even with London flight I reckon the indigenous still outnumber the scum he represents.
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Much better than Garrison’s usual offerings.
https://twitter.com/SimonJonesNews/status/1304508633124876290
The French are offloading them onto us. They are presumably assisting with the provision of boats.
Cheap at half the price and it especially annoys the English!
The French are a nation of peasants led by a Metropolitan elite based in Paris and its wealthier suburbs. The peasantry are inefficient farmers and winemakers making good stuff. They have benefited greatly from the Common Agricultural Policy in much the same way as the Germans have benefited from the quid pro quo of the EU Internal Market.
Without UK contributions this ‘natural’ order of things is closed. The EU have a large budget hole to fill and will apparently resort to the most base tactics and bribery to keep the UK on the hook for their self interest and profligacy.
We expect Boris Johnson to stick to his promises and get us out of the corrupt EU. No half measures but a simple ‘get lost’ to the bastards whose dictates have enslaved us for decades.
Sounds like they just managed to beat the ‘Rule Of Six’
They’ve got some way to go to beat the Guinness Book of Records figure of 338,226 personnel reaching Britain from France in just nine days in 1940
Ah, but they had a darned sight more boats…
Well there were a lot more of them and the new border force in France was actively trying to stop them with lethal force I might add!
And had something to offer this country.
323600+ up ticks,
A bitter pill to swallow, see channel 91.
323600+ up ticks,
Will this apply also to illegals or solely the indigenous peoples ?
https://twitter.com/GerardBattenUK/status/1304501025169182720
James Delingpole is correct. We have had a fascist coup.
323600+ up ticks,
Evening GG,
It did not need Deli to enlighten me to what was coming down the line, leaving us now with the overseers cramming in whatever they can before the sh!te really does hit the fan.
Two samples are HS2 & the Dover campaign.
HAPPY HOUR – Well, that went tits up didn’t it…….?
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Yes indeed; long, long ago, sweetie ! … x
Shocking – none is wearing a mask and they are too close together. £100 fine twice for each person.
…& they number more than 6.
Eeek – best gaol them.
Hideously white.
“Scientists Have Discovered a New Form of Matter Called “Excitonium” – No it isn’t composed of an assortment of humans in a rubber dinghy….
323600+ ue ticks,
Evening S,
Me thinking it was wotser.
First Covid Marshal volunteer:
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No prizes for guessing which direction it is likely to be heading in.
Lots of skits about BLM and XR?
(Innocent face)
Then you WOKE up….
I really am off, now.
The makers of that bilge had a Studio in Victoria Street in Cambridge where I lived for ten years, twenty six years ago.
It is all very well painting politicians as figures of fun. In truth, as we have witnessed over several decades, politicians are mostly venal and utterly joyless individuals. Their exploits and corruption should be unremittingly exposed with searching documentaries, not trivialised with grotesque puppets.
Gawd, I’ve done it again (erased original post re. Spitting Image)
H’mmm …. laugh a minute – not. Think of all those hurtie feelings, especially amongst those sporting a deep tan.
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Evening, all. My condolences to LotL on the loss of her uncle. I only caught her parting comment and I haven’t had time to read the early ones yet, but I send her all good thoughts.
Good night all.
Thanks for all the birthday greetings; it has been a most enjoyable day & evening.
Night night, Peddy.
A belated happy birthday, peddy.
Thank you, Conway.
So glad you enjoyed yourself today, Peddy.
Happy belated birthday! Sorry I’m late on parade today!
Thanks, Jill.
One for my French friends. Ah! If I had such a trainer all the time.
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…J’aurais un endroit pour garer mon vélo!
Who will save Victor?
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…‘Leicester… Lancashire… Caerphilly… It’s working its way though the cheeses!’
HardSoft cheeseThat twat Lineker is on TV boasting about “his” refugee.
I will be delighted if Linekunt Towers suffers a coonflagration.
Like Greek refugee camps.
Indeed.
It might wipe the smirk from his gob if the refugee he accepts has an extended family of 50+ all of whom then get foisted upon him and as he volunteered, naturally he can pay for their upkeep.
If he wants to take on one of these gimmigrants then he should take on a hundred. After all, he wants unlimited immigration for us, but limits what he will accept. He restricts what he will pay out, but forces the rest of us to pay for an unlimited amount.
Therefore, we should set what he will take in – that’s what he wants for us.
It will have been very carefully vetted. Probably a brain surgeon, or one of those engineers….
Certainly very carefully vetted.
My money is on a pretty young girl saved from sex-slavery.
Or a young lad who just happened to be a fairly talented footballer in Syria.
Well – what a coincidence! No vetting there, just a handy footballer on board the dinghy.
I hope his fucking refugee slits Lineker’s throat with his sharpest kitchen knife.
Not bluntest?
Max Hastings tells us at the end of a long dissertation about Boros Johnson………….
”If the Johnson family had stuck to showbusiness like the Osmonds, Marx Brothers or von Trapp family, the world would be a better place. Yet the Tories, in their terror, have elevated a cavorting charlatan to the steps of Downing Street, and they should expect to pay a full forfeit when voters get the message. If the price of Johnson proves to be Corbyn, blame will rest with the Conservative party, which is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people – who will not find it funny for long.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-johnson-prime-minister-tory-party-britain
”Who will not find it funny for long”… great forecast Max…. you got it !
The date of Max Hasting’s article is Mon 24 Jun 2019 …
323600 + up ticks,
Evening PP,
They are interchangeable on account they are a coalition and have been for years.
We need the Non voters to participate if we have another GE because the current electorate sure as sh!te help get us to where we find ourselves today.
There were many calling for johnson for PM on account he makes people laugh
Goodnight, everyone.
Just been quoted £3000 for a tooth implant. My Denplan insurance doesn’t cover any of it.
They can whistle.
Now apparently for the first time….so can I.
That’s similar to what I paid. Worth it though, as I have nice front teeth for the first time in my life.
This one is on the side not in front. I shall just eat softer food.
Glad you got your smile back. 🙂
I’m having a second attempt at a front tooth implant. The first failed due to a bone infection – ‘one in a thousand chance’ the dentist said. Still, the second attempt is free…
Quarantine notwithstanding, consider Portugal. A friend had an implant there, combined with a holiday, for considerably less than she would have paid in Blighty.
Norwegians go to Hungary for teeth.
Fairy Nuff.
Also there is Turkey and Bulgaria…..
In 2006 my dentist in Marmaris Turkey did the following work for me:
6 crowns
2 Bridges
An extraction
A deep filling.
Total cost 1,200 €
It still looks as if I have a full head of good teeth and all the work he did is still in place.
When you are next sailing down the Solent would you mind giving me a lift to Marmaris? 🙂
Phizzee, my sympathy to you .
That is what I paid last year , it broke me completely and Denplan treated me like the insurance companies treat aged pets ..
2 of my back molars still ache despite the expensive treatment.
I can’t understand why teeth treatment costs so much.. I can get my car fixed and up and running for peanuts !
The training and skill level to fix a car is somewhat less, and if it goes wrong, you aren’t left in crippling pain. Also, the sale of new cars subsidises the workshops.
I paid £1850 a few year ago.
My D-in-L is having hers done in Budapest; they are cheaper and the clinic has a special arrangement with a nearby hotel. She has had rather longer than usual for the ‘roots’ to grow in because Covid has interrupted the course of treatment. She hopes to go in October.
Can you tell me where in Budapest pls?
There’s Gold in them thar Fills!
I had three gold crowns replaced with the white ones. I got about £130 from a jeweller in Hatton Garden for the dental gold.
Night All
No cats or dogs to hand,this’ll do
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“That’s proctologic my dear Watson!”
For anyone who enjoys singe malt Speyside whisky, Lidl’s are currently offering Ben Bracken at £16.49 per bottle…then again it might not be everyone’s cup of tea……
Its no Speyside; its from Islay …
There are three Ben Bracken labels, including Highland, Speyside and Islay….
From whisky.com:
“Maybe you already got to know a release that is called Ben Bracken. It is specially bottled for supermarkets and it is – a Tamnavulin!”
No thanks. I’ve rather been spoiled by 18 y.o. Ledaig, from Tobermory. I can make a bottle last a year or so. Would that were true of Yellow Tail Shiraz…
Hardys (no apostrophe) do some of my favourite Shirazes Geoff – Hardys Crest for example …
Charles is on fire.
Un grande fuoco !
Good morning all – Saturday’s new page is here.