Friday 16 June: The unedifying spectacle of the Conservatives’ civil war over Boris Johnson

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Was She Worth It?

    These three guys go to a prostitute’s place to get some action.

    They line up outside her room and go in one at a time. The first guy goes in, then emerges a half hour later with a big smile on his face.

    “How was she?” his buddies ask.

    “She’s great!” he replies. “I gave her a hundred dollars, then she put some whip-cream on my dick and ate it all up! It was awesome!”

    So the second guy goes in. A half hour later, he too emerges with a big smile on his face.

    “How was she?” his buddies ask.

    “She’s great!” he replies. “I gave her a hundred and fifty dollars, then she put some whip-cream on my dick, put some chocolate sauce on that, and then she ate it all up! It was incredible!”

    So the third guy goes in. A half hour later, he emerges with a look on his face that can only be described as puzzled shame.

    “How was she?” his buddies ask.

    “Horrible!” he replies
    .
    “What are you talking about?” his buddies ask. “What happened?”

    “Well, I gave her two hundred dollars, then she put some whip-cream on my dick, put some chocolate sauce on that, and then she put some bananas and chopped peanuts on there, and she topped it off with a cherry.”

    “Wow!” his buddies reply. “What’s so horrible about that?”

    “Well,” he replies. “It looked so good to me I ate the fuckin’ thing myself!”

  3. Good morning.
    Here’s a clip (about ten minutes) from a conversation between four US/Canadian conservatives (Timcast).
    Ranges from kids rebelling against pride month in schools, to conservatives having more children than liberals, and people who suffer from Affluenza. Quite uplifting!
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/ee-DHQWoGRE/

  6. Another positive piece of news; Nigerians are still fighting back against their CBDC. Good for them! We should watch and learn.

    The people in Nigeria resisted the eNaira from the moment it was introduced – they used cash or even Bitcoin bought at a premium rather than their central bank’s digital currency.
    Now they’ve arrested the governor of the central bank.
    https://davidicke.com/2023/06/15/nigerias-central-bank-governor-suspended-and-arrested-after-waging-all-out-war-on-cash/

  7. US military chief says Ukraine offensive a ‘very difficult fight’. 16 June 2023.

    “Ukraine has begun their attack, and they are making steady progress. This is a very difficult fight. It’s a very violent fight, and it will likely take a considerable amount of time at a high cost,” US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.

    Milley, speaking after a meeting of the US-led Contact Group of some 50 countries that give military aid to Ukraine, said it was far too early “to put any estimates” on how long the Ukrainian counteroffensive could last.

    Nothing here about “sweeping Russia’s conscripts” aside. This is going to be a bloodbath and it’s going to be mostly Ukie blood. This is in Al Jazeera. I can find no mention of it in the UK. MSM!

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/16/us-military-chief-says-ukraine-offensive-a-very-difficult-fight

    1. I hear that our verified broadcaster has produced the true figures of Russian casualties. It must be true, they said so!

      1. I heard part of that report on ‘Today’. Pure speculation, not news. Shabby stuff by the BBC.

    2. It’s nonsense. The Ukrainian army has almost no reserves left. They are defeated but refuse to give up because their Washington masters refuse to recognize that America has been defeated by Russia.

  8. The unedifying spectacle of the Conservatives’ civil war over Boris Johnson

    The whole thing appears contrived to me, soap opera diversion politics.

    3. Agree completely. Nobody outside the Westminster bubble is interested in this nonsense.

      1. Thank you – as a non-subscriber it will not be read by me (unless I visit the public library!)

        1. SIR – I have just traversed 30 miles of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over three of the year’s hottest days.

          This
          would not have been possible without the people of all ages who
          volunteer for the Canal and River Trust, who assist at challenges such
          as the Bingley Five Rise lock system.

          Opening and closing lock
          gates and swing bridges is hard labour, but the running of the canal
          system – one of Britain’s unheralded national treasures – is totally
          dependent on these volunteers. During my trip, I met only one paid
          employee.

          Stephen O’Loughlin
          Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

    4. It’s a very good demolition of Biden – nobody can do this kind of thing as well as Tucker Carlson..
      But we always knew that Biden would be thrown to the wolves at some point. I still reserve judgment about exactly what Carlson’s up to!

      1. The parallels between the way Mark Steyn and Tucker Carlson were treated in the UK and the US respectively are evident in the treatment of Trump and Johnson .

    7. Apologies. I posted this further up without being aware that you had already done so. Still doesn’t hurt having it up twice. I notice that You Tube has censored it.

      1. No worries Johnathan. I’m glad TC has the courage to say what needs to be said in the absence of a feee press.

  10. Nottingham attack suspect comes from ‘hard-working’ Christian family. 16 June 2023.

    Valdo Calocane’s parents, originally from West Africa, settled in Welsh town where neighbours described him as ‘polite and intelligent’.

    Locals in the quiet community where the family settled described them as devout Christians, respectful and extremely hard working.

    The children attended the Sir Thomas Picton High School, which recently became Haverfordwest High School, where they all shone academically.

    His younger brother of Valdo studied computer science at Cambridge University and his sister who is still at school was described as studious and gifted.

    Triple murderer gets character references.

    No Comments allowed!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/15/nottingham-attack-suspect-named-valdo-calocane/

      1. Yes Bob. I noticed the “commemoration” on the news last night had a Black Minister and an Imam leading the services! I’m sure it was just a coincidence!

    2. This kind of glorifying is extremely insulting to all of us, not just the murder victims.
      Note the fresh attempt to smear Christians. Who’s behind these “Christian” inspired murders – two in as many weeks?

      1. Talking of the murder victims; we have now reached the mawkish stage.
        How would the media fill pages and broadcasting time without these incidents?

        1. It was running at full tilt yesterday. The establishment was using the poor bereaved families for a ghastly performance of blame-free “unity.”

          1. I presume if a family member truthfully said:
            “Actually I want to rip his head off and stuff his bollox in his bloodied mouth; then I’ll get really nasty,” the media wouldn’t broadcast it.

          2. Presumed correctly, Anne, though I’d do it the other way round, rip the bollox off and stuff ’em before slow decapitation, with a rusty blunt knife and a chopper for the vertebrae.

            Hell’s bells, I wouldn’t want to hurt unnecessarily – he lied.

    5. Good morning, Minty

      Before seeing your post I posted a very similar one half an hour ago.

      I wonder if Valdo’s problems with drugs and mental health had anything to do with conversion to Islam and if that is the case would the MSM do its best to hush it up. I suspect that many of us here have lost all faith in the veracity of the MSM.

  11. Morning all. An excellent opinion piece from David Frost today, under the letters (“The Remain establishment has finally got its way”.

    End sentence: “Our problems weren’t caused by partygate or Truss. They still need to be tackled. Killing off those who stood for change doesn’t stop is needing it.”

        1. Thank you William, Links are always good and much appreciated, not only by me.

      2. Below the letters sorry here it is:

        It seems incredible that I have to write these words, but as a parliamentarian I must now be careful what I say about Parliament’s Privileges Committee. In its forthcoming “Special Report”, it promises action against those engaging in “formal or informal attack, or ‘undermining’” of its work. I think they have forgotten this is a free country.
        So, tiptoeing carefully around the committee’s strong sense of self-regard, what may one say about its report into Boris Johnson?
        No one, I think, can accuse me of overlooking Boris’s faults. After all, I had my own serious disagreements about lockdown policy – including a worry that the culture in No10 had become divorced from the country at large. I resigned from Cabinet as a result – the only minister to protest against lockdown with their job.
        So I believe I have every right to say that I find the committee’s report vindictive and the proposal to withdraw Boris’s parliamentary pass unnecessary and childish.
        I’ve always said that Boris could have handled partygate better: by being clearer with Parliament sooner and dealing with those who enabled the lax culture to flourish. But he has paid the price for getting that wrong by losing his job.
        Reading the committee’s report, one is impressed not so much by the quantity of material as by the apparent readiness to put the worst possible construction on everything and by the pearl-clutching at the criticism in return. But, in the end, this report does not change anything. Opinion in the Commons is such that MPS will vote it through. Boris is gone as an MP. The more important question is what this shows about our politics today.
        Much of our establishment had a nervous breakdown after the Brexit referendum. Many tried to reverse the result in 2018-19, trashing the constitution as they did so. Only Boris could cut through the mess. Even so, much of the parliamentary party only got behind him because, after the European elections in 2019, they feared extinction. I vividly remember the disdain and suspicion with which we were all regarded when Boris came into office in 2019, not just by the Civil Service but by all too many of our own parliamentarians.
        Boris went on to win that election by 80 seats. He did so by showing supreme strength of purpose over Brexit. That included depriving 21 MPS of the Conservative whip. It’s instructive to consider how generously he subsequently treated many of them, given that they tried to destroy his government. Some stood down or stood against the Tory party, but six are now my Conservative colleagues in the Lords and four are still Tory MPS.
        But Boris was not forgiven for getting us out of the EU. He faced vilification from all sides: to take one example, have we all forgotten Keir Starmer calling Covid delta the “Johnson variant”? And when the opportunity arose, he was driven from office.
        Then there was a further nervous collapse under Liz Truss: she, too, was forced to recant and then resign, seemingly as an alternative to actually dealing with the country’s problems. And now, again, an effort has been made to kill Boris off politically for good.
        Both Boris and Truss were authors of their own misfortune. If they had governed more effectively, they would still be in power. They didn’t realise how much they were disliked and how quickly mistakes would be seized upon. But they were both correct on one important thing: in seeing Brexit as a moment for change – as part of the solution, not part of the problem.
        Unfortunately change now seems to be off the agenda. The dominant wish in the Government, in Parliament, in the Civil Service, in the broader state apparatus, is to go back to normal – to how things once were, just with Britain outside the EU rather than in it. Don’t try to change anything much. Don’t modernise any processes. Don’t attempt to deal with our underlying economic problems.
        Indeed, everyone seems much happier not governing and instead outsourcing decisions to supposedly neutral technocratic bodies: the Lords Appointments Commission, the PM’S various independent advisers, the Bank of England, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and many more. But, as with the Privileges Committee, if you think these people are doing bad jobs, unless you want to be called “careless of our institutions” or “Trumpian”, better keep your thoughts to yourself.
        Well, if the Government is happy operating in the minimal discretion zone left it by the quango state, so be it. But real life has a habit of re-asserting itself. Britain’s problems haven’t gone away. Naturam expellas furca, as Horace’s tag has it: you can drive nature out with a pitchfork, but she will be back in triumph before you know it. Inflation is setting in. Interest rates are back up, and who knows what horrors lurk in the markets. The migrants are still coming. And we have just discovered that our electricity grid isn’t reliable in the summer, let alone the winter.
        Our problems weren’t caused by partygate or Truss. They still need to be tackled. Killing off those who stood for change doesn’t stop us needing it.

  12. Morning all. An excellent opinion piece from David Frost today, under the letters (“The Remain establishment has finally got its way”.

    End sentence: “Our problems weren’t caused by partygate or Truss. They still need to be tackled. Killing off those who stood for change doesn’t stop is needing it.”

  13. 373400+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    And so it drags on, ALL grist to the repress,replace,RESET mill,
    shortly a period of johnson burning effigies combatting “we want boris back” whilst the boats still come in daily and the RESET wagon gains two more wheels.

    The usual mugs are, I am pretty certain , perched, waiting to show they want more of the same, not only wanting but begging for it via the polling booth.

    These two, maybe three, by-elections could be such game changers if common sense, resulting in common good for ALL peoples was shown in fully supporting the fringe parties on at least these two maybe three occasions.

      1. Please, Stephen, elucidate, I can guess what the initials stand for, but can make no sense of the context.

          1. Thank both you, Stephen, and Richard, that does somewhat put it in a better context.

            I still wonder which one of Richard’s translation of BJ applies.

          2. Thank both you, Stephen, and Richard, that does somewhat put it in a better context.

            I still wonder which one of Richard’s translation of BJ applies.

        2. Good morning, Tom

          Acronyms change when language changes. When I was a child a BJ was something one did when sitting on a lavatory but now a BJ is something that Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski engaged in.

    1. Wouldn’t it be marvellous if The Idiot King got rid of all his cars and ripped all the heating out of every one of his residences and cleared much of the gardens at Highgrove in order to install wind turbines and solar panels so that he could give the people of Tetbury some free electrickery when the wind was blowing and when the sun was shining?

      1. He could stand on a rotatable pedestal attached to a generator, with those ears when the wind blew he could supply the area with free electricity

    2. Wouldn’t it be marvellous if The Idiot King got rid of all his cars and ripped all the heating out of every one of his residences and cleared much of the gardens at Highgrove in order to install wind turbines and solar panels so that he could give the people of Tetbury some free electrickery when the wind was blowing and when the sun was shining?

    3. Hence they are trying to stop us by getting is all banned and making it too expensive

  16. Good morning all.
    9½°C outside and it’s yet another beautiful morning with a clear blue sky!

    1. But the conclusion that will be drawn is that the government leadership put workers at Nr 10 at risk, instead of the correct conclusion which is that they were running a dictatorship on the rest of us just to keep us occupied while they printed the huge wave of new debt needed to keep the currency afloat.

    2. IIRC correctly ‘masking’ was introduced in July 2020, a time of year when respiratory viruses are barely noticeable or non-existent: that is of course if people still believe that SARS-COV-02 was an airborne respiratory virus (See Dr David Martin’s recent speech at the EU conference or Karen Kingston’s substack etc. that challenge the person to person airborne virus spread hypothesis). Further support for the Martin/Kingston explanation is the later declaration from the USA’s CDC that the PCR ‘test’ could not distinguish between flu and CV-19: so what was it that was causing all those ‘cases that were published to keep the fear factor high?
      Either way, the imposition of masks was a ‘ramp up the fear and extend control measure for the plebs to adhere to’, thought up by whoever was organising the agenda.

    1. 373400+ up ticks,

      Morning Anne,

      Politico’s / Colchester / glasshouse springs promptly to mind.

    2. Just like everything to do with Westminster and Whitehall, it stinks of hypocrisy and habitual lying.

    1. The Left, hating dissent, set about destroying them. When that failed it went for the people speaking. It’s their same, tired playbook repeated countless times throughout history.

    2. I don’t recall any of that at Lewisham.
      But I doubt that if in our lifetime there will be and end to this leftard idiocracy and smouldering underlying violence. It’s being stoked up by the invasion of illegals.
      If labour get in, they’ll release all 100 plus thousand of them. Provide them with accommodation and hand them a vote for life.

  21. Good morning all,

    No change at the McPhee ranch. Sunny, wind East, 25℃ today.

    Lots of Gatesograph letters exercised about the Johnson story. We all need to remember that this is pantomime, a side show. It’s set up as a distraction and I wouldn’t mind betting that Johnson was told to resign by his WEF/Globalist controllers and masters with a ‘don’t worry, we’ll see you alright. You can make a shed-load once you’re out’.

    He won’t be back.

    “Look here, here, not over there, there’s nothing to see there, look here!”

  22. Nottingham attack suspect comes from ‘hard-working’ Christian family
    Valdo Calocane’s parents, originally from West Africa, settled in Welsh town where neighbours described him as ‘polite and intelligent’

    This article is desperate to convince us that 30 year old Valdo is a decent chap from a hard-working Christian family in Wales. However it seems he has not been living with his hardworking family in Wales for 10 years and in these ten years he may have not only become a druggie but he also could have converted to Islam.

    Valdo is thought to have left the area more than a decade ago to study, but he only completed his three-year mechanical engineering degree last summer at the age of 30. He did not attend last year’s graduation ceremony.

    The article concludes with:

    Valdo is believed to have been living in a property close to where the attack on Barnaby and Grace took place until around September last year when he and other tenants were evicted following a police raid.

    One local resident claimed there was always a strong smell of cannabis coming from the house and the landlord finally lost patience and placed the property up for sale.

    It is not clear where he moved to after that but it is thought he may have been sleeping rough or staying with friends.

    While he did not have a criminal record, it is understood he was known to police, and had been struggling with mental health issues in recent months.

    It is becoming increasing hard to believe anything one hears in the MSM.

    1. Any invented excuse eh.
      Does anyone know what he’s has been reading recently ?
      Nobody would do what he did if they hadn’t been previously influenced.

      1. Cannabis. Triggers paranoia; if you’re unlucky, full-blown schizophrenia..
        (Broods on princeling lurking in La La Land.)

    3. The blighter was probably spliffed up to his eyeballs .

      Then he splattered , drugged up idiots are ruining society.

      A drugged up individual drove into my mother’s car, she was killed when she was sixty in 1986, in SA.

      There are many many drugged up drivers on British roads , walk down any road and catch a whiff of the stuff.

      Youngsters do not understand that drug taking effects sperm and even babies in the womb .

      I reckon that is why so many children have emotional problems and other such defects.

      1. But very important that everyone sticks to the new mandatory 20 mph limit. Rather than Plod actually get the dangerous drivers.

  23. 373400+ up ticks,

    Ever been” had” again,again & again,

    Facts,

    Post
    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    10h
    Ha, ha, ha! Who was the last Tory big-wig to have a conservative idea? Unfair to single out Boris. The whole point of the Tory party is to dupe conservative voters in order to stay in power – & they have been bloody good at it.

    Of course Boris never believed in Brexit. It was obvious to all of us UKIP MEPs when we met the official Leave campaign in 2016 that they were about preserving the Tory party not about winning for Leave. Even Farage said so.

    Boris’ strategy was to fight, lose, go down as a ‘noble loser’, & have the Tory voters on his side for the future. But like Cameron he miscsaculated & Leave won against all the odds.

    The Referendum was achieved by the UKIP electoral threat & won by UKIP’s campaign. An historic victory..

    ‘He used the Conservatives!’: Boris Johnson’s ex-girlfriend Petronella Wyatt claims ex-PM has ‘never had a Tory idea’ – LBC,
    Translate post
    ‘He used the Conservatives!’: Boris Johnson’s ex-girlfriend Petronella Wyatt claims ex-PM has ‘
    ‘He used the Conservatives!’: Boris Johnson’s ex-girlfriend Petronella Wyatt claims ex-PM has ‘

    Boris Johnson is not a true Tory and only used the Conservative party to get into power, his ex-girlfriend Petronella Wyatt has told LBC.

    1. 373400+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      Check my old posts, the wretch camerons fall back plan he never thought he would have to use.

      I it was likened to an eu boomerang missile, first stage the wretch cameron initiated blastoff,

      Tier two treacherous treasa and her nine month delay

      Tier three I was left wondering who was to pilot the final approach to brussels , well the dishonour will not now be johnsons, it is all down to the sunak chap supported by treacherous, dangerous fools.

      1. One thing for certain is that political integrity in all political parties is dead .

        The Nudge Unit was established in the Cabinet Office in 2010 by David Cameron’s government to apply behavioural science to public policy. Now owned partly by the Cabinet Office, by Nesta and by employees, it has operations across the world.

        The Behavioural Insights team, popularly known as the “Nudge Unit”, is playing a big role in helping the government formulate its response to coronavirus.

        The Nudge Unit is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care in crafting the government response. The most visible manifestation of its influence to date is in the communication around hand-washing and face touching – in particular the use of disgust as an incentive to wash hands and the suggestion of singing Happy Birthday to ensure hands are washed for the requisite 20 seconds.

        1. “Happy Deathday to you
          Happy Deathday to you
          Happy Deathday dear virus
          Happy Death day to you!”

    2. Boris lost me entirely when he started backing the lunatic ideas of his wife, net zero, electric cars etc. He is as conservative as Tony Blair and just as destructive to this country. Johnsons exile is not to be regretted. I would not like to see his hands on the levers of power ever again.

      1. I began to seriously wonder when he backed HS2.
        But his rejection of a 1,000 years history of struggle for freedom and equality under the law decided me that he was no Conservative – or historian.
        The Nut Zero crap merely confirmed my opinion.
        But I still think ‘kangaroo court’ is the right name for the self-righteous committee busy bodies. The chairman was quite happy to go along with the lie that her husband could be a candidate on an all female shortlist for a safe Labour seat.

    4. We see that clearly now but the damage has been done and it will take generations to put it right if that is even possible.

      1. 373400+ up ticks,

        Morning FM,
        It could be clearly seen mounting daily these past forty years, post Thatcher.
        The anthony charlie lynton aka the bog man PM openly triggered the revealing of what was to be by lifting the mass uncontrolled immigration latch, the lab/lib/con coalition political top rankers, supporters / members / voters have never looked back in anger to view the carnage in their wake, has always been the party before Country regardless of consequence.

  24. Morning all 🙂😊
    Lovely day again who needs to go abroad 😉
    Sunday Fathers day looks like it’s going to be a bit of a disaster. Rain forecast and our three sons have been planning a family and friends BBQ. Might have to get the marquee out.

    Conservatives in a civil war. Although it’s a bit far fetched to suggest there in anything civil about Westminster. A longest, long term day of reckoning might be more suitable.
    I would imagine all the others who have habitually and pathologically been lying for decades are stirring it up in case Boris splits on them. What I say is come on Boris ! But don’t get me wrong I’m not a fan. I would just like to see the punishment for ‘misleading’ the public shared out to where it truly belongs.

    1. Blair, is of course, untouchable.
      Both Johnson and Blair are responsible for untimely deaths, but who achieved the higher total?

      1. Yep Blair and his cronies lied to the world and their lies killed thousands of people.
        Not just let them eat a few harmless cakes and drank some wine.
        All politicians are liars.
        They would never get that sort of long-term employment if they were honest.

  25. Bee-eaters make historic return to breeding site in Norfolk
    “Bee-eaters are a species found commonly in the southern Mediterranean and northern Africa”

    Here we go again – more migrants seeking beenefits…….

        1. Just a thought, if bees were able to buy honey would they get points on their Nectar card?

    2. It’s proof of climate change, don’t ya know. Pretty soon we will have toucans and macaws flying around the country. Just stop oil, it will save us all!

  26. Good morning to all. Sunny day in West Sussex but a cooler day, which I am thoroughly thankful for. Hope that all of you are well?
    Here is Tucker Carlson’s latest broadcast it is sarcasm upon sarcasm, highly enjoyable.
    Ep 4 Wannabe Dictator
    https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson

    1. The chap with the drill in your first picture served his apprenticeship by going round the Durex factory with a pin.

    1. In such a ghastly situation, I hope I would have the courage not to take part in a big government PR campaign.

  29. In the Grand Coven of May, Harman and Sturgeon who will be be named Hecate?

      1. In the Scottish play the scenes involving The Three Weird Sisters they are one joined by a fourth witch, Hecate. Some think that this addition of Hecate was not written by Shakespeare.

        When the divorce has been finalised Migraine might return to the boards. She would be a shoe – in for the role of one of the Weird Sisters especially if she had some hormone treatment and grew a beard.

  30. I inadvertently switched for a few minutes to a TV channel where Piers Morgan and a panel were discussing the Boris Johnson mendacity judgement.

    On this panel was Sir Anthony Seldon – biographer of Boris Johnson, former headmaster of Wellington College, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University and stop-gap head of Epsom College.

    Am I alone in finding him extremely difficult to like?

      1. I’d like to hear Bill’s views on him.

        We had a French teacher from Wellington College with us for some extra help from Caroline a few years ago and Seldon was held in far too much sycophantic esteem in my view. He was respected by some of his staff like a leader of a cult.

        1. “I’d like to hear Bill’s views on him.”

          From yesterday’s column: “Seldon is an extremely unpleasant little man. Arse-licker; name dropper…”

        2. Obnoxious; arse-licker; name-dropper…..and those are just his good points.

  33. The former head of Britain’s police watchdog was today charged with child sex offences including the alleged rape of a girl under the age of 16 in the 1980s.

    Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) director general Michael Lockwood stepped down from the £190k-a-year role in December after the allegations emerged.

    Today the Crown Prosecution Service authorised nine charges for alleged sex offences. Lockwood will appear at Hull Magistrates’ Court on June 28.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12202111/Ex-chief-police-watchdog-charged-sex-offences-including-rape-young-girl.html

    1. Skeletons in cupboards.
      One wonders how these offences can be proven after so long.

      1. Confiscate laptops and other devices. Look at history. You get a good idea of what someone is like from that. If you find lots of porn and other stuff you then have a basis for questioning.

        Most people are convicted by their own admissions.

    2. Is there nobody without a back story that they are paid huge amounts to expose, but doesn’t? Is there nobody with honesty and integrity in any form of government?

    3. I’m surprised that Common Purpose didn’t manage to keep it under wraps until after he retired.

      Never mind, I’m sure that there will be a technical reason why he doesn’t stand trial.

  34. One for LotL and other users of taxis
    https://www.takimag.com/article/conversations-with-cabbies/

    Many a foreign correspondent, sent to an obscure country of which he knows nothing but which has suddenly drawn the world’s attention to itself by a terrible but soon-to-be-forgotten crisis, has based his report from the country on what the taxi driver told him on the way from the airport to the country’s one five-star hotel, at whose bar he will soon be sitting.

    1. That white haired clot who was one of the BBC’s most prominent foreign correspondants once broadcast an interview in the 90s which was just a conversation between himself and an Algerian taxi driver, who was clearly taking the p.

      Venerated BBC correspondent: Are those the hills where the terrorists are hiding out?
      Taxi-driver: Oh yes! Thousands of them!

      Aryul!

    1. That is fairly surprising, as the one thing we know about Markle is that she’s a pretty hard worker. She managed to keep her lifestyle blog going.

        1. She had loads to say though – OK, it was all pretty unoriginal, but she was never short of words.
          I wonder whether they wanted specific content from her, eg political, that she couldn’t deliver. Or perhaps she made enemies in the company.

      2. Easier to hire someone to do a lifestyle blog than it is to get someone to write and prepare something most of which probably cannot be delegated.

    1. And football fans were branded as racists for throwing bananas onto the pitch and making monkey noises!

      1. I just wish the PTB had the guts to do it and against the XR and stop oil eco-loons.

  37. At work and playing on my phone because the IT has gone belly up and I can’t log in to the laptop. IT Support are on to it but in the meantime…

  38. We’ve got rain! Real rain!
    First time in about six weeks!

    I love summer rain.

      1. I did spray the box trees against box moth this morning, without checking the weather forecast. It didn’t feel like rain!

  39. Boris Johnson today awarded his dog Dilyn the animal VC for services
    above and beyond. A visibly irate and thwarted long serving number 10
    cat, Larry, announced he would be appealing to the House of Lords
    Advisory Commission on the grounds that Dilyn was just a mongrel with no
    pedigree or class .

    Are you reading this Nadine ?

    1. Frankly, the Dorries woman bleating about not getting her Damehood inn the face of anti democratic witch hunts, a tax crippled economy, an anti democratic farce forcing chaining to the EU, the ego of government departments fighting Brexit, the energy crisis , itsef a huge driver of crippling inflation that is making people genuinely poorer is sickening.

      Amongst all my hyperbole of frustrated verbiage, this really, honestly annoys me.

      1. You can make out a good case for her not deserving it, BUT there is an even better case for half the crooks and cronies who do make the cut for not deserving it either!

  40. Royal Canine Hospice Care: Providing love and compassion for your dog’s
    final hours with utmost professionalism and piece of mind to you the
    client. Available to collect your beloved animal day or night
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    1. I am dreading having the discussion with Junior that – assuming no ill health – Mongo may be gone before his 14th birthday. We got Mongo at just after 10 weeks, as Marion is fastidious about the mother and the puppies going to good homes and the health of the pups. How do I tell him that his best friend isn’t going to be there in 6 or 7 years time?

      Wiggy gave me 13 years of his life and saw 5 moves around the country. When I lost him a bit of me went too.

      2. Charlie was with me for seventeen years. It left a big hole when I had to have him put to sleep because he was terminally ill. I still miss him.

  43. An old man dies and goes to heaven, he arrives at the pearly gates and
    goes up to St Peter, and St Peter says to him “excuse me sir while I
    check your Lie Clock”, the old man asks “Lie Clock?”, St Peter explains
    “well everyone has a Lie Clock, for each lie you tell you have to wait
    one minute to get into heaven, here’s Abraham Lincoln’s for example, his
    only moved twice so he only had to wait two minutes, and Stephen
    Hawking’s never moved at all so he got straight in”, the old man says
    “oh I see now, right well before you check mine I want to see Boris
    Johnson’s” St Peter replies “oh it’s in Jesus’s office, he’s using it as
    a ceiling fan”

  44. As well as fighting Russia, Ukrainians are battling corruption at home. 16 June 2023.

    So, alongside any reconstruction conference is a discussion, of varying degrees of frankness, about the conditions the west can set to help Ukraine kick the corruption habit. This is not of passing interest to a cadre of US officials who have spent considerable time trying to reform Ukraine, including Joe Biden. He told Brookings in 2015: “The corruption is so endemic and so deep and so consequential, it’s really, really, really, really hard to get it out of the system.”

    He was a lot nimbler then! He just managed to dodge the bolt of lightning that almost skewered him!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/as-well-as-fighting-russia-ukrainians-are-battling-corruption-at-home

    1. Joe Biden tried to reform corruption in Ukraine?

      Ah, so that’s why they call him the Big Guy is it?

    2. The western powers are themselves so corrupt, by what criteria do they judge others?

  45. OMG am I having problems today, my PC has informed me that it’s been updated since I last used it. I had a fantastic 4 minute video clip of Carol (love her or not) Vorderman speaking about members of Parliament cheating lying and embezzlement of public money.
    I cannot post it for some unknown reason. But if anyone else can find it and post it watch it.
    The information she speaks of was released under the cover of Harry going to court. It’s not appeared in the media or mentioned in the national news papers.
    Our ozzie friends are arriving tmz I’ve been instructed by Erin to try and cut the back grass.
    The roller has come off the electric mower and the petrol mower won’t start.
    Banging my head against a brick wall is my recent occupation.
    And part of this is still waiting for a reply from the hospital re my appointment and my email complaints about the dire ‘service’ and supposed health care.
    Blame it on the doctors strike…..

      1. Not actually true as a headline. The tories have given vast amounts of private wealth earned to the poor – well, to the loafers. A massive uplift in welfare, a huge expansion in welfare generally.

        In return, taxes are higher than ever. What Vorderman may be referring to is the endless loopholes in the tax code that are – rightly – exploited to reduce tax. Then of course there’s the obvious problem with socialist government: they take so much that money simply moves away from them faster than they can steal it.

        As for corruption – Mandelson? As for government department corruption, what does she expect? Government departments are obese and corpulent. Corruption, because it is someone else’s money is inevitable. The only thing to do is to cut them down to size and starve them.

        These are exactly the same policies Labour carried out from 97-2013. The wealth divide turned into a chasm despite the state’s grasping theft. The poor got poorer and trapped on welfare – mostly because of Brown’s tax and waste redistributive policies.

        Socialism does not work. Never has, never will.

        1. Agree, the woman is just another socialist. It is typical of some women, the state as mother that splurges other peoples money. The state as father is better, it teaches the kids responsibility.

          1. I don’t mind her opinion but it’s not true! She’s not being honest. I understand she’s a Labour supporter but pretending there is any difference is laughable.

          2. I*’m not suggesting that there bis a difference between the two parties. I’m referring to her attitude about money.

      2. That’s the one we’ll done Phiz. I don’t care much for her but I think she’s right about this one. It needs to be out there.

    3. Hate their bloody updates they destroy things. have a lot of pictures that I can’t open due to one of their updates. They are supposed to improve the performance of your computer. Absolute nonsense, they impose garbage on you and destroy what is not theirs.

      1. Small wonder, Johnathan that I’ve stuck with WIN 7 professional.

        No updates, no support and the local nerd or geek can do a better job.

        1. Both my computers are relatively new and thus I’m inflicted with Win 11. What gets me is that they constantly fiddle with things that used to be quite straightforward, you understood intuitively. Now they are user unfriendly. The simple act of finding things has become complicated. Favorites are a nightmare. Videos are classified by date when you don’t want them to be. Making folders is a pain. You don’t use your computer now, you battle with it. So many things that used to be obvious are no longer so. Settings, apps etc. no improvement, used to be easy, not anymore and, it seems, that they have made things so complicated that you just give up and tolerate the nonsense. It is incredibly annoying that they obviously make changes where changes are not needed just because some geek things its “cool”. I think it was Win 7 that was the last good version. The rest are trash.

      2. Since an ‘up date’ 4 – 5 years ago I have not been able to download any photographs from my phone.
        And it would cost me about 150 pounds for someone to sort it out.

  46. Bonjour, tout le monde

    Another day -another swim. Helluva gale last night. Calm and flat today. Went shopping for food for rest of hols. My dear, the Prices….!!
    Many things – such as veg – three times what one would pay in Blighty. Plonk (I mean plonk) is over €2 a bottle.

    And bog standard petrol = €2 a litre…..

    Must away, Cook is calling that lunch is ready.

      1. “And if the darkness and corruption leave
        some vestige of the files that once you had
        better by far to forget and smile
        than that you should whistleblow
        and then be dead…”

        (With apols to Christina Rossetti)

    3. It’s that fetid old turd who should be in court, not Clump.
      Oh hang on, someone at the front door……..

        1. Long way to go yet Grizz.🏏
          I hope our boys do their best, it’s all we can ask.

      1. If you think you saw what I saw, I’m not nuts. Badly phrased to say the least.

  51. 373400+ up ticks.

    Dt,
    Nobody comes out of the Boris Johnson affair well

    Seeing as none of the treacherous deceitful political tripe were fit to govern on entry, why would they ?

          6. Much better! They look quite normal….apart from the bells on sticks….🙄

        3. Shrill, strident, vacuum-headed, gob-shite harridans in over-loud quadrophonic sound?

          Nej tack!

          1. Now, come on Mr. Grizz, tell us what you really think!😘 And I agree with everything you say..and much more besides!

  55. The heat is getting to me. I’ve just written to my energy supplier:

    “Thank you for sending me my Electricity Bill for 16th May 2023 to 15th June 2023. It contains a couple of estimates:
    1) Your (My) Estimated cost for electricity for a year £1237.03
    2) Estimated Annual Usage 3440.4 kWh

    Plus the following information:

    Current rate 47.80p/kWh
    Standing charge: £196.88/ year
    5%VAT

    I would be grateful if you would kindly show me your workings that lead to the estimated cost of electricity of £1237.03 for a year.

    Many thanks.

    1. Curiously, I got a gas bill out of the blue today. Not due for another 3 weeks. I shall ignore it and send them the readings as usual at the end of the quarter.

  58. Gosh it is hot. We may forgo our afternoon swim as we have neighbours coming round at 6 for an apero.

    We have been coming to this flat for ten years and are on very good terms with the owners though we have never met. Their sister has the flat next door. So it is like a second home. Last night, as I went to bed, I touched the wall-mounted lamp to see whether it was adjustable. Half of it immediate fell off. The glue holding it to the wall base had dried out and it was held in place by a pathetic thin metal staple. There are no tools in the flat. So I have had to e-mail the owners and explain what needs to be done. Don’t half feel a fule….

      1. I am certain they won’t – but it may make them chary about letting to clumsy 82 year olds…

    2. I was happily munching on my lunch today when one of my composite veneers fell off. Immediately dashed over to my dentist and was lucky she had time to look at it straight away and having established that there is no other damage and the x-ray looks fine, she will attach a new veneer next Wednesday. If only the NHS was as efficient as a private dentist?

      1. Imagine my disgust when I was an adolescent with a proud family name when suddenly people started calling their daughters Tracy.

        If we had had a daughter we would have called her Emily Alice after my paternal grandmother Emily Alice Tracey – we certainly would not have called her Tracy Tracey.

        1. I know a couple of women called Tracy – they are not particularly young, so it must have been popular some years ago.

  60. OT – a new plan not thought through (aka very French). From 1 July all passengers on buses in the region will HAVE to have a rechargeable card with enough dosh on it to buy an electronic ticket on the bus – €1.50 in Nice – €2.50 outside the town. Great idea to prevent the current endless delays while a dozen people board and buy a ticket for cash.

    However.

    Cards can only be obtained at the bus company shops – of which there is ONE in Nice (population just under 1 million). And, once bought, can only be recharged at – you’ve guessed it – one of the bus companies shops.

    As the lady in the tourist office said when the MR went in to enquire, “They haven’t thought this through.” You will still be able to pay in cash but, as a disincentive, that fare is €4…..

    Glad we leave before then…

      1. Yes. BUT – you still have to go through the same rigmarole. This IS France, you know!!

    2. It seems that London has got it right on this one, just present any bank card and Bobs Abduls your uncle.

    3. So, the fares are rising to 4 euros then.
      Personally I would pay that for anonymity.

    4. When I was in Aix I seem to recall buying a carnet de tickets at the tourist centre.

  61. Listened to Classic FM on the radio earlier whilst driving the car , after visiting a wonderful raggle taggeldy old fashioned nursery which has old fashioned garden plants to dream of .. on the way there , I have to pass one of the hugest dairy farms which is always upsetting , modern dairy techniques are so different .

    The music I listened to on this hot afternoon , as I passed along the local lanes ,( now the cow parsley has died off and the grasses on the verges are sucked dry of moisture , looking brown and dishevelled and unfriendly to butterflies and insects ), was beautiful .. and lingering, a reminder of gentle moments many decades ago , when one felt a deeper belonging and arousals .. this is what music does , yes or no?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w

    Anna Fedorova plays this beautifully, and if I were a proper pianist , I would be the same .

    1. You are channeling Lady Catherine de Burgh from Pride and Prejudice.

      ” I never learned to play the piano but, if I had, I would be a proficient. “

      1. I played when I was at school and before I got married , and wanted to continue with my grades afterwards , sadly other things got in the way .

        Are you feeling a little better today re pain relief .. Won’t your surgery prescribe tramadol or something similar?

        1. Nothing at all from pharmacy or info from hospitals re biopsy or MRI. Held off without paracetamol until 3 hoping the other stuff would arrive. I am not surprised it hasn’t arrived.

          1. As a pain killer the Radiology dept at the Royal Surrey told me to take 2 Nurofen plus and 1 Paracetamol at the same time. Really helped me. Perhaps you can try that?

          2. I believe that codeine is what is supposed to be arriving here. I don’t like taking pills or strong meds anyway so will keep it low key. Thanks for the input though. Noted.

          3. One of the problems with ibuprofen and tramadol is that they contain polyethylene glycol, which is not as benign as we’ve been given to believe. Morphine/codeine is at least a known quantity?

          5. Tramadol and Diclofenac 1 x 50 mg each, sort out my back pain when it’s at screaming level.

          6. I am prescribed co-codamol. I don’t like taking it very often because it can be addictive, but it’s effective at making me sleep!

    2. Ah – Skeggie – where a “local man” raped a local woman but is causing problems because he doesn’t speak English.

      Hope he has his own personal fan..

    1. The people of Portland should realise that their local council and their MP don’t care what they think whatever they may say to the contrary.

      1. Except when it comes to paying their taxes to finance the ruination of their country.

    2. I know we have some old forces personnel on NOTTL. Any of you have the knowledge to attach limpet mines to the hulks? Or possibly know anyone who wishes to brush up on their skills?

    1. Call me a bastard but why would the parent of a murdered child say hold no hate?

      It’s a sign of how deeply brainwashed the general population are. The man whose son was murdered on London Bridge a couple of years ago expressed similar views. It’s unnatural, inhuman actually. Revenge is one of the most basic human emotions.

      1. There is a bit of a backlash on Twitt against the speeches yesterday. I agree, they are rather creepy and unnatural. I can’t help wondering if the families were pressured into saying what they did.
        The authorities clearly want to suppress any “hate” that might arise out of three brutal murders, but if a controlling spouse forced their victim not to be angry about violent attacks on them, then we’d have no hesitation in calling it abuse. Why is it different when a controlling government does it to a population?

      2. That is why we have armed forces who will ill to defend us , no matter which way or how .

        The general population is now soft in the head , and do not have the fight in them only the fear and the flight .

    2. Call me a bastard but why would the parent of a murdered child say hold no hate?

      It’s a sign of how deeply brainwashed the general population are. The man whose son was murdered on London Bridge a couple of years ago expressed similar views. It’s unnatural, inhuman actually. Revenge is one of the most basic human emotions.

      1. Buffoon Previously Posing as Prime Minister.

        Do keep up, Tom – I was using this three years ago (omitting the first “P”)

        1. I’d rather not try to keep up with a person’s personal wishes ,on expecting everyone to keep up with their own wishes.

  68. Can anyone with engineering experience tell me why all 300 metre wind turbines turn at the same speed?

    2. Something to do with the grid phase, which is fixed. They can alter the vane angle if the wind speed changes to add more or less power to the grid.
      Well, that’s what they’d have you believe…..🙄

    3. The generator has to turn at the frequency of the power supply it has to produce, the rotational speed of the blades is multiplied by the gearbox to turn the generator AFAIK. They are fitted with a governor to achieve this

        1. Not if you take into account manufacturing costs and subsidies – if something needs a subsidy then it’s not cost effective

    1. Another half a million a day to look after more of these illegal invaders.
      The government and Whitehall are a very dangerous joke.
      Enough is enough. Perhaps 3 years ago.

  70. Signing off, now. Bottles to open, balcony blinds to lower. Chums arrive in 40 minutes.

    Have a jolly evening contemplating the hosepipe ban.

    A demain.

  72. Bogey Five again.

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    1. A three today. Done on my phone this morning while I waited for the IT bods to reconnect me on the laptop.

      Wordle 727 3/6

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    2. Par for me.
      Wordle 727 4/6

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  73. Oh dear.
    All jokes about cheap screws are totally predictable.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-this-wickess-gerald-ratner-moment/

    “Is this Wickes’s Gerald Ratner moment?

    Stephen Daisley16 June 2023, 5:04pm

    Big businesses are increasingly torn between activist leadership and a customer base that just wants to stump up its cash and be on its way. Customers’ patience is wearing thin. The latest company seemingly eager to pick a fight with its clientele is DIY chain Wickes.

    A video dug up by campaigner James Esses shows the shop’s chief operating officer Fraser Longden taking part in a panel at PinkNews’s Trans+ Summit. The discussion, which took place last month, was entitled ‘The Role of Senior Leaders in Trans+ Inclusion’. So far, so corporate. At least it was until Longden was asked whether Wickes had received any backlash for its stance. He told the panel:

    ‘I just decided to ignore it, right, because I wasn’t doing what we were doing at Wickes for them… I don’t think I’m ever going to change some of the bigots out there’s mind. I’m never going to win that argument with them. So we were doing it to show support to the community and hopefully to try and get more people to be curious, in where most of the population are, which is this sort of slightly ignorant, but mostly kind position…’

    It’s a bold customer-retention strategy. But Longden wasn’t finished there:

    ‘I’m just not prepared to spend time as an organisation or as an individual putting effort into that ten per cent at the bottom because I’m not gonna win, I’m not gonna change their mind, and it’s just going to be soul-destroying… They’re just not worth the airspace. I didn’t respond to one email.’

    He went on to discuss the DIY retailer’s attitude towards a potential boycott. It was essentially a shrug of the shoulders, only wordier:

    ‘The people who are sort of going, “Oh, we’re gonna boycott you”, and we’ve had a few of those and stuff, they’re not. You know, they need a tin of paint, they’re going to go the nearest place to them next time they need one.’

    He expanded on this by drawing a contrast between the vast majority and the truly reprobate:

    ‘The other ten per cent, at the other end — and I’m making up the numbers of ten per cent — you know, they’re just hot air. They will go and buy a tin of paint in the nearest place to them. That might have been us before, it might not have been us after afterwards. Equally, if they do come in and buy that tin of paint and behave in that way, then they’re not welcome in our stores.’

    I asked Wickes if Longden was speaking for the company with his remarks, and if Wickes considers ‘most of the population’ to be ‘slightly ignorant’ and gender-critical people ‘bigots’. In particular, was the company really saying that customers who disagree with its stance on trans issues were ‘not welcome in our stores’? A spokeswoman told me:

    ‘At Wickes we are proud to be an inclusive home improvement employer and support the LGBTQ+ community in its entirety. We are committed to building a workplace and culture where all colleagues can feel at home.’

    That seems like a pretty clear answer.

    Longden is Wickes’ former head of human resources. Of course he is. Time was when HR managers were content to look busy by visiting their petty, pointless tyrannies on their employees. Now all of us have been added to the company Slack and told to be mindful of our micro-aggressions.

    The corporate world’s embrace of the LGBT movement should make us pause to ask where that movement has gone wrong. But its embrace by HR managers is an even more troubling phenomenon, a real ‘are we the baddies?’ moment.

    It’s nice that Wickes wants to be inclusive, but calling people ignorant and bigots is not the way to go about it. Telling customers you don’t want their money is pretty exclusive, not to mention the worst spot of retail comms since Gerald Ratner confessed that his company’s products were ‘total crap’.

    My theory is that people with non-jobs who invent non-priorities in response to non-problems are just unhappy with their careers. It’s not easy to admit your job is mundane when you’re bursting with idealism and want to make a difference. But the answer is not to turn an entire company into a platform for you to cosplay like you work at Greenpeace. The answer is to find a different job.

    If you’re in the paint-flogging business, stick to flogging paint. And if your customers object to being scolded and disdained, it’s not because they’re bigots but because they don’t want a sermon on gender identity every time they buy emulsion. Those customers include some of us who belong to that alphabet-soup identity group you claim to be offering your allyship.

    Wickes is far from alone in refusing to stick to the day job. US retail giant Target can’t decide whether to stock LGBT-themed products up front or hide them in the back. Bud Light even tried to market itself to followers of Dylan Mulvaney. Surprisingly enough, men who like to chug a cold one while talking Rugers, rotors and running backs weren’t keen on sharing a cultural milieu with Pride, pronouns and privilege-checking.

    Sermonising is an opportunity for high-income executives with high-status views to pronounce anathema on people with much lower incomes and lower-status attitudes. The educated middle-classes have found a new way to sneer at the hairdressers, the taxi drivers and the till workers — and a progressive way at that.”

    1. It’s not his job to pass judgement on his customers. One person’s money is just as good as another’s. His shareholders might take a different view of his opinion.

    3. I’m educated middle-class and Wickes won’t get my cash, even if they were close.

    2. It doesnt matter. The state wants this and will force it. This is why they’re destroying the currency.

    1. Oh, very clear – time to take him away to an old folk’s home – and shoot him – a kindness to him and the world.

    1. Well, you’re dead mean, you! I think his writing is very entertaining!

      1. If you like the smell of his flatulence, good luck; I’m sure there is plenty still to come for you to enjoy and be entertained by..

    2. I won’t be reading it- he’s to blame for the state this country is in- he and his cohorts- Whitty et al.

      1. In part, yes.
        But the real ploughing in of the salt occurred under Blair and the wrecking crew.

        1. I was particularly referring to the covid nonsense because of which many people have truly suffered serious consequences.

          2. PS
            Thatcher’s government was to blame for the legislation that most of the covid restrictions mutated from:
            Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984
            A sensible piece of law used by shysters for things it was never intended to cover.

    1. He lives in Buckinghamshire in a mansion similar to Chequers. With a 10 ft high brick wall right around the grounds and 24/7/365 armed guards that we pay for.

      1. Ffs. I’d rather pay for Ginge to be protected than that POS. And yes, I am aware I am being too kind about Bliar.

    2. Everyone ignores that Labour impported a good ten million welfare shoppers and that they immediately sat on welfare and started breeding at a rate 5 times that of the locals. Now services are in pieces and the country collapsing and the state continues pushing an ever more Left wing rationing service crippling agenda.

      We are, quite simply; overrun. Yes, some immigrants came here to work, which is great. They’re very welcome – BUT – every job they do is a local on welfare. When half to 70% of the job applicants we get are Indians (living here) thats pushing hundreds of locals on to benefits, which mean higher taxes which create unemployment.

      It was clear that after Brexit the importing of the invading horde was simple revenge. Before that deck stacking for votes. It is disgusting. The home office should be disbanded. It is clearly a fifth column.

      1. I would be very interested to discover what qualifications all the dingasites are claiming to have.

        1. They’ve no economic utility whatsoever. They turn up, claim bennies and sell drugs.

          1. I suspect some will have qualifications, but why they could not apply legally is a different question.

          2. If they have a Police record in their own country they are not allowed in legally.

            So they come across the Channel in small boats, are given a four star hotel, free medical and dental, given a

            new sim card and clothes (from Primark), and are given a cigarette allowance every week.

            Who said crime doesn’t pay?

  78. Oh bugger.
    ~Good evening all.
    Did my 1st post this morning at 7:30ish which appears not to have taken and then Disqusting appeared to go tits up for the day.
    Not just Nottl, but Going Postal and every other site with Disqus.
    Then, after being told by Snotsicle on Tw@ter it was working ok, tried it on my alternative browser and found it was working, so reloaded my usual browser and Bingo! It worked!
    Anyway, it was 9½°C this morning and is now 19½°!

  79. Well i am at Stansted picking up my daughter who has been away with friends. The flights may be cheap but shirt stay parking is £10 for 30 minutes. Making Heathrow look cheap.

    1. It’s probably cheaper to drive around the perimeter until she tells you where to pick her up.
      The buses to the hire car area are frequent, she could get off and you could pull up and collect her.

      1. All good advice for next month when i have to repeat the process for my son – thank you.

        It’s a real slog from Richmond upon Thames!!!

        1. Be sure he knows to only text you when he’s standing outside the terminal at the pick-up bay.

      2. That’s what we used to do at Stansted – rip-off merchants of the first water,

    3. There are buses to outside places where I believe relatives can pick up passengers. Our neighbours do something like that all the time.

    4. Just watched a heartwarming reunion of a granny (Polish?) and her four [English] grandchildren. Smiles and tears all round. Ahhh!

    5. Stansted is a crap airport. I had to pay £25 to drop off my passengers because there were too may cars queuing to pay and get out of the drop-off area, so I went over the 15 minute time limit, which would have cost £7. I appealed, but was told in so many words to get stuffed.
      The facilities in the airport are crap, as well.

    1. If you want to progress your career way above your actual merit, transgender.

      It works for sport, US military, the civil service, the church, any woke company, TV, advertising, everything.
      You’re absolutely fireproof and if you don’t get what you want, claim prejudice.

    2. Revd Canon Dr Rachel Mann has been appointed Archdeacon of Bolton and Salford,
      close, but no cigar
      Strapon and Selfdick. more like
      It will no doubt soon be given a bishoprick

      1. But is she/he/it acceptable to churchgoers who do not accept female priests? I’m confused.

    4. All the shops in town seem to be covering their windows with rainbow flags. A great incentive not to buy anything. I object to supporting “celebrate a perversion” week.

      1. The hanging rainbow banners are very Third Reich? The ideology may be different but the banners are displayed in exactly the same way.

        1. Third Reich had the best uniforms, great banners, excellent weapons but a cr*p business plan. The multicoloured weirdos have a long way to travel.

        2. Exactly what I thought!
          Flags of an ideology, not a country. Central London looks very, very scary.

  84. Team effort we managed to cut the lawn rear garden. Supposedly prior to rain that’s destined to ruin Father’s day Sunday.
    We are both absolutely knackered so much so I’m going have to have another glass of to disguise reality.

  85. The loathsome and vindictive report from the Privileges Committee, chaired by the hideous Harriet Harman, is disgraceful – but only to be expected, given its members.

    History will screw their reputations; Boris will enjoy a popular esteem!

    1. I have worked with several joke engineers. The last one was a Software Architect too!

  87. I thought tomorrow we would be doing part of the sixth corporal works of mercy again (or fifth depending on the list you look at) but just had the phonecall no one wants and the next action will be the seventh ( go bury the dead). Alas, the brother in law we visited earlier in the week is no more.

    5. Sorry to hear that, eric. At least you got to see him one last time. Requiescat in pace et lux perpetua luceat eis.

      1. When my mother died in March, my younger brother was visiting her and before leaving he said, ‘See you tomorrow’, she replied, ‘No you won’t’ and died two hours later. When leaving on Tuesday my wife said, ‘See you Saturday’, he said ‘Maybe’. Spooky.

          1. Agreed. With mother, my elder brother was going away for a few days respite and I was taking over care, he said, ‘don’t you die while I’m away’ and she replied, ‘I’m too stubborn to die’. But the message changed a fortnight or so later.

          3. I think your situation is a little different and that what what brought me from being a lurker here to a poster. You have long and depressive periods of the ‘black dog’ being around from which you have, thankfully, thus far been able to step back from. What Conway is referring to is when people are at death’s door and they know that no matter what they do, or how hard they fight, there is no way back. I hope you are able to continue taking that step back.

          4. I try, Eric, but sometimes it feels hopeless and it’s easier to say/think, “Why bother.”

          5. Thank you, Eric, but at moments like this I take Winston’s advice and just KBO.

        3. My mother told my brother that she was going to go to sleep. She closed her eyes and never woke up again.

        4. So Sad, Eric, I lost my brother in Dec 2019 and damn, I still miss him so I can empathise.

          I’m currently not too bothered as, being the youngest of 9 at 79, I shan’t be long before I join them.

        5. Apparently after my grandma died, they discovered she had cancelled all her appointments following the day she died (in her sleep).

  88. Evening, all. Not quite so hot tonight, but it was scorchio earlier on. Surprisingly, given the heat, Oscar decided he wanted to leave the coolness of the kitchen tiles and come out for a walk! We didn’t go far; just up the back drive and back (dodging Dwr Cymru vehicles that were everywhere, investigating manholes). It was short enough not to distress the dogs, but gave them a change of scenery and a chance for a sniff. As it’s a dirt track, there was no problem with hot pavements. Watching the civil war in the so-called Con party is an unedifying spectacle. When I was studying British Constitution in the sixties, the thing most often said about the Cons was that they presented a united front (even when there was division behind the scenes).

  89. Given the busy day I don’t think it’s too early to turn in.
    I’m just watching an old Doc Martin ITV3 half an hour should do it.
    Good night all.
    😴
    The ozzies here arrive tmz.

  90. Well, despite the heat I got a small start made on digging out for the next and probably final section of Bob’s Folly.
    Dug out about 10 bucket loads in two sessions and plan doing a bit more tomorrow.

    Had a lovely cold bath to cool down after the 2nd session so off to be now!
    G’night all.

  91. OK I’ve had my three things today. Login problems at work, tooth veneer fell off and now I’ve had to log in to Disqus even though I never logged out! Grrr! Just back from a lovely concert at the Wigmore.

      1. Handel mezzo arias from Ariodante, Hercules, Xerxes, Floridante, Ottone, Arianna in Creta and Teseo. Ann Hallenberg and The Mozartists (period instrument ensemble).

  92. Here is my housekeeping schedule:
    Do the absolute minimum until someone is coming over- then clean like a crazy person 😉

    2. That has always been my plan, fine when I was younger but now I am old I don’t have the energy to cram it all in, I have to start a few days earlier than I used to. And I was exhausted regardless.

    6. Can’t argue with that!! But then I have a hard time remembering where I have put stuff out of sight for the visit!!

      1. I worked with a woman who said “I don’t do housework it makes you ugly”. She was quite an attractive woman.

  93. Signing off Y’all, worn out and need to get to supermarket tomorrow before next week’s hospital stuff.
    Wishing you all good sleep and sweet dreams.

  95. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk. I may see you all in the morn’s first light but then again, I may just sleep on.

  96. Good night, chums. A hot and sticky day for me today, but lots of jobs finished including washing three lots of clothes. And I watched PATTON – Lust for Glory, which was just shy of 3 hours. So I am ready for bed. Sleep well, and see you all tomorrow.

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