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Good morning Geoff and all readers. First again?
Today's Tale
A woman wanted to reach her husband on his mobile phone, but discovered that she had run out of credit, so she asked her son to use his own phone to pass across an urgent message to his daddy who was on site.
After Junior had called, he got back to mummy to inform her that there was a lady who picked up daddy‘s phone all three times that he tried reaching dad on his mobile.
Women!!
She waited impatiently for her husband to return from work and upon seeing him in the driveway she rushed out and gave him a hard slap then slapped him again for good measure.
The neighbours rushed around to find out what was the cause of the commotion.
The woman asked Junior to tell everybody what the lady said to him when he called.
The lad said: “The subscriber you have dialled is not available at present. Please try again later”….!!
Good morning Geoff and all readers. First again?
Today's Tale
A woman wanted to reach her husband on his mobile phone, but discovered that she had run out of credit, so she asked her son to use his own phone to pass across an urgent message to his daddy who was on site.
After Junior had called, he got back to mummy to inform her that there was a lady who picked up daddy‘s phone all three times that he tried reaching dad on his mobile.
Women!!
She waited impatiently for her husband to return from work and upon seeing him in the driveway she rushed out and gave him a hard slap then slapped him again for good measure.
The neighbours rushed around to find out what was the cause of the commotion.
The woman asked Junior to tell everybody what the lady said to him when he called.
The lad said: “The subscriber you have dialled is not available at present. Please try again later”… .!!
Tipping point reached:
“MORE than half of Britons receive more in benefits than they contribute in taxes, official figures show.
A total of 52.6pc of people lived in households that received more from the state than they paid to the Treasury last year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures underscore the challenge facing Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves as they try to tackle a ballooning sickness benefit bill and pressures from an ageing population.
The analysis, which shows a decrease from 53.6pc the previous year and covers the 12 months to March 2023, factors in both cash benefits and the use of public services such as the NHS, schools and free childcare.
Working-age people are typically net contributors to the state – meaning they pay more in direct and indirect taxes than they receive in benefits and public services. Even among this group, 45.3pc received more from the state than they paid in taxes, although this partially reflects benefits relating to education and childcare.
Meanwhile, pensioners are overwhelmingly classed as net recipients, with 85.3pc receiving more from the Government than they contribute. The findings have been released as Britain struggles with stagnant growth, faltering public services and a tax burden heading towards a post-war high, inflicting ever greater pain on workers. These pressures are only poised to intensify as the population ages and more people become so-called net recipients in retirement, with the number of over-85s to double by 2045 to 3.1m. The ONS said that it was the richest households that saw the biggest rise in cash benefits in the 12 months to March 2023. The fifth highest earners received 7.2pc more in handouts than the year before because of the impact of cost of living payments and rising disability benefits. Meanwhile, those on the lowest incomes had a 0.5pc drop.
The ONS said: “Disability benefits in the UK have been increasing since before the pandemic with an increased number of claimants. Spending on disability related benefits is now more in line with other OECD countries, where previously the UK spend was lower.”
The finding comes as sickness and disability benefits are set to hit £100bn by the end of the decade, sparking concern among ministers. The ONS’S analysis also suggests that despite the cost of living crisis, Britain is becoming increasingly equal in terms of income, with inequality at a 10-year low.
This in part reflects the fact that high earners have seen their incomes grow at a far slower pace than low-paid workers in recent years, fuelled by increases in the minimum wage.
Separate research by the ONS found that the number of high earners in the UK with 1.5 times the median wage has fallen to the lowest level since 1997.”
I thought that was the aim of Blair and Brown, to get everyone dependent on the state.
Yet they keep on blowing money around like there's no tomorrow. I got an email recently from some chirpy little arts graduate inviting me to take part in training sessions because I edit a "community newsletter"
In other words, there's no money for winter fuel payments, but there's money to ensure that nobody circulates unapproved opinions.
I wrote back with my opinions on this offer.
Broon used to boast that 9 in 10 families were on his tax credits. Not is. They payments were for the information you furnished the government on your familial and financial situation. I would rather starve.
Pensioners, let it be said, have usually paid in more to the system than they are now receiving. Pensions are not a benefit unless the recipient has rocked up here as a dependent of a new arrival. Anyway, "Britons" covers a multitude of sins.
Tipping point reached:
“MORE than half of Britons receive more in benefits than they contribute in taxes, official figures show.
A total of 52.6pc of people lived in households that received more from the state than they paid to the Treasury last year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures underscore the challenge facing Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves as they try to tackle a ballooning sickness benefit bill and pressures from an ageing population.
The analysis, which shows a decrease from 53.6pc the previous year and covers the 12 months to March 2023, factors in both cash benefits and the use of public services such as the NHS, schools and free childcare.
Working-age people are typically net contributors to the state – meaning they pay more in direct and indirect taxes than they receive in benefits and public services. Even among this group, 45.3pc received more from the state than they paid in taxes, although this partially reflects benefits relating to education and childcare.
Meanwhile, pensioners are overwhelmingly classed as net recipients, with 85.3pc receiving more from the Government than they contribute. The findings have been released as Britain struggles with stagnant growth, faltering public services and a tax burden heading towards a post-war high, inflicting ever greater pain on workers. These pressures are only poised to intensify as the population ages and more people become so-called net recipients in retirement, with the number of over-85s to double by 2045 to 3.1m. The ONS said that it was the richest households that saw the biggest rise in cash benefits in the 12 months to March 2023. The fifth highest earners received 7.2pc more in handouts than the year before because of the impact of cost of living payments and rising disability benefits. Meanwhile, those on the lowest incomes had a 0.5pc drop.
The ONS said: “Disability benefits in the UK have been increasing since before the pandemic with an increased number of claimants. Spending on disability related benefits is now more in line with other OECD countries, where previously the UK spend was lower.”
The finding comes as sickness and disability benefits are set to hit £100bn by the end of the decade, sparking concern among ministers. The ONS’S analysis also suggests that despite the cost of living crisis, Britain is becoming increasingly equal in terms of income, with inequality at a 10-year low.
This in part reflects the fact that high earners have seen their incomes grow at a far slower pace than low-paid workers in recent years, fuelled by increases in the minimum wage.
Separate research by the ONS found that the number of high earners in the UK with 1.5 times the median wage has fallen to the lowest level since 1997.”
Good Morning All. 3C dry.
Morning Johnny, heavy rain, windy and 8C
Cold and sunny just now.
Freezing rain earlier on, so I came in from up the "garden".
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1869813090679763061
I don’t know who James Melville is. But he forgot to mention State Rage, imprisoning people for “hurty” words.
Response on X-Tw@ter:-
People like James Melville are the problem! Their "old school liberal" values are what has led Britain to this point and now they're wringing their hands and saying they never meant it like that, and something must be done.
Time for this old one to have another outing? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ee1fc6427c96d5e3379788558e4fa4b3fb9a12b95ef5b6919bce4036d3e43cba.jpg
Time for this old one to have another outing? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ee1fc6427c96d5e3379788558e4fa4b3fb9a12b95ef5b6919bce4036d3e43cba.jpg
This grey horror is Stoma's role model.
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov.
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Well Mr Melville, what you are seeing is the inevitable outcome of following the desires of the liberal left to their logical conclusions.
You quoted John Smith, but what the left gave us in the UK was Blair and his wrecking crew, and the vast majority of today's problems can see their origins in Blair's firm foundations. Everything Blair and his team touched eventually turned to a poison in Britain's systems, institutions and throughout our immigrant dominated woke society. Blair led to the Tory and Lib Dem wasted years and allowed what we now have to take power in the way it has.
In addition your liberal left is the cause of the orgy of dictators which spawned the WEF.
Blame yourself and people like you.
Good morning, chums. And thanks, Geoff, for Friday's NoTTLe site.
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Good Morning Folks,
Cold frosty start here
That horrific trial in France of the man that drugged his wife and let over 80 men rape her, is getting huge coverage here and sparking debates all over the mainstream media about the behaviour of men in general, cue more powers taken by government to interfere in all our lives, a chance for politicians to spout their virtue and show their empathy for this poor women and heap scorn on all these evil men that took part.
But why did they wait for this unusual weird case when our powers that be have been silent over the behaviour of men due to the child grooming gang scandals in towns and cities all over our country that has been going on for decades.
They could have done something years ago to save all these young girls from similar abuse.
I wonder why they didn't.
The way the Mail has been positively drooling over this horrific case is utterly disgusting.
The Grimes is just as bad – five pages today.
I am ignoring all of it. These days, my eyes just skate over most of the Mail, as it all comes under the headings of “propaganda” or “degrading news”
M. Pelicot was not a peaceful person.
But, apparently, some of his customers were.
Is there something they want to hide? This happened in France, after all.
Morning everyone.
'Morning Minty.
No journalist should face threats for doing their job. 20 December 2024.
A free press is the cornerstone of a free country, and the treatment of journalists exposes the true character of any society. In that context it is both appalling and predictable that Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president from 2008 to 2012 and current deputy head of its security council, has branded the editors of The Times as “legitimate military targets.
They sort of lost me there in the first paragraph. The UK is not a Free Country and as might be expected in such an environment there is no Free Press. Where are the MSM’s objections to the recent Show Trials? The imprisonment of Tommy Robinson? Thought Crime? The Online Harms bill? The truth is that they are complicit in the UK Police State.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/12/20/disgraceful-threats-russia-putin-free-press-journalism/
Agree totally
Well said AS
They aren't doing their job, that's the point.
Good morning all.
A cloudy start to the day which appears to have kept the temperature above freezing.
Current temperature outside is 3.2°C with a maximum of 6.4° and minimum of 2° recorded by the new Yard Thermometer.
Morning, all Y'all, from a dark Penarth.
Glamorous Glamorgan, look you.
Good morning, everyone. Off to Cornwall later, for the w/e.
Hope you get some reasonable weather and excellent fish.
Is it wise to mention fish so early in the bay?
Since you mention it…yes.
Today i start the prep for the lunch i'm doing for friends on Sunday. First job the smoked salmon and cream cheese for the croustardes.
I will be topping those with salmon trout caviar with a surprise in the bottom Finger limes !
We have a couple of friends for Sunday lunch.
Their tastes are more traditional, so we're having melon, boiled gammon with parsley sauce and blackberry and apple crumble.
I wouldn't turn my nose up at that. Sounds nice.
As you know i’m a showoff. I like to do showstoppers when entertaining. I would not just boil the ham but then when cold glaze and roast again.
With my beef Welly this Sunday even it will be wearing a pastry doily.
Get you.
The husband is fairly stuffy when it comes to food.
When we stayed with them up in London some years ago, he sulked like fury
because the cafe where had breakfast didn't do a trad. fry-up.
We just let him starve.
Known as Phizzee's prostate examination treats?
Oh for the want of a comma…
Apart from not liking smoked salmon anyway, I'd definitely be put off by the surprise in the bottom finger limes!
Oh cod. He did that on porpoise.
I know I know. Its a mammal.
A brill comment.
Fin ally you like one.
You're a dab hand at this game.
Dock a couple of points for that one BB2!
Shore it is.
I doubt if Delboy has the necessary Hitchhikers' Guide to go to Cornwall for fish in that way.
But he probably knows the answer is 42.
Are you going to the Looe ?
399088+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
The UKs political leading S(tool) has just delivered the biggest slap in the kisser to both English decent peoples and
President Elect D Trump
in employing / sending a raging wooley woofter to the USA to represent the remains of the United Kingdom.
https://x.com/SandraWeeden/status/1869990663875395739
https://x.com/AvonandsomerRob/status/1869737813006295145
Shameless Progressive Liberals & MSN lie through their teeth on just about everything.
Joe Biden senile from day 1 as mental decline hidden from voters for 4 years by 'cover-up'
Shameless Progressive Liberals & MSN lie through their teeth on just about everything.
Joe Biden senile from day 1 as mental decline hidden from voters for 4 years by 'cover-up'
399088+ up ticks,
Starmer: No regrets about decisions I’ve made
Asked by committee of MPs whether there is anything he would have done differently, PM says: ‘No. We had to do tough stuff’
Should read,
Starmer: No regrets about decisions I’ve made
Asked by committee of MPs whether there is anything he would have done differently, PM says: ‘No. We had to do tough stuff’
and act as a seamless continuation to the tory (ino) party reign
.
ALL governing political elites covered, ALL WEF / NWO / RESET
projects proceeding successfully and the standing covert army still getting topped up daily.
No regrets for him maybe. Plenty for everyone else.
399088+ up ticks,
Morning Siadc,
Successfully the RESET way.
We wouldn't mind tough economies if they were actually being made. We wouldn't mind cracking down on anti-social behaviour if that's what they were actually doing.
But that's not what's happening. What we're seeing are spiteful attacks on people deemed to be useless eaters or enemies of the state and wholesale destruction of the economy.
The most telling line from "Freezing at Christmas" is 'while Keir Starmer's warm'
399088+ up ticks,
Morning BB2 ,
Agree fully.
Good morning, all. Pink sky. Touch of frost.
Pink Sky..Ah, that's to salute the new Ambassador!
Morning M.T and all….
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Ah, a croquembouche.
Good Moaning.
Only another couple of days and the nights start drawing out.
399088+ up ticks,
Tis my belief that due to our continuing abuse of the country via the polling stations when selecting a governing party, we in England are on course for banning Christmas totally and celebrating eid, your local amam will confirm this.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1869870016591503628
Deport them all to Syria, Afghanistan or Iran, their choice.
Water cannon. Simple.
Filled with pig's urine, naturally.
Hard to collect but worth the effort.
I disagree. There are countless people who are more than capable of taking the piss.
Oink oink…..That’s irrationally streaky of you
Grizz 🤔
🤣Especially for a smoked-back man, Eddy.
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Or liquified pig shit.
399088+ up ticks
Morning BT,
Grapeshot getting to be preferable.
Watercannon. Simple.Today at Free Speech we have something a bit out of the ordinary, an article submitted by a reader and as a treat for animal lovers, on Factory Farming in UK. It’s not something FSB would have thought of itself, but it is a subject that arouses strong feelings, and many have mixed feeling on the issue. Your opinion on the article is therefore of special interest.
Our Christmas treat today is a lovely short story of St. Francis of Assisi’s visit to a small Italian village – T he Christmas as Greccio – to celebrate the nativity. It has a special treat at the end, the most beautiful Gregorian chant, Adoro Te Devote, certain to uplift the soul.
freespeechbacklash.com
I wonder if he is as good at concocting cocktails?
Used old milk bottles as a shaker.
And a rag head.
Well, I did plan a run to Stoke to see Step-son, but after a bit of a more disturbed night than usual, I might just go back to bed and head over there tomorrow.
Take care of yourself, Bob.
Well, I did go back to bed for a couple of hours and then did a couple of hours up behind the sheds where I’m hoping to plant some fruit bushes.
Great to see that Sir Keir has picked a man of integrity, honesty, morality and probity to represent our country as our Ambassador to the USA.
As soon as Musk suggested a huge donation to Reform it was inevitable that a crony-catcher would be sent to seek out favours.
…and a woman of integrity to be in charge of Corruption.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/3130348/The-scandals-that-brought-Peter-Mandelson-down-twice-before.html
The scandals that brought Peter Mandelson down twice before
Peter Mandelson's two previous spells in the Cabinet both ended with him reluctantly penning a resignation letter to Tony Blair and leaving Downing Street under a dark cloud.
By Nick Allen and John Bingham
03 October 2008 • 5:55pm
Them Yanks are going to love his fish, chips and guacamole.
Never mind a loose ring…
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Starmer is just maintaining the high* standards that we expect from the Labour party.
*As in "this fish is high"
SIR – I received a request from the Royal Mail to pay for an item for which the sender did not pay postage. My inquiries indicate that this is a Christmas card without a stamp. The fee for delivery is £5.
I will not be taking delivery of the card but will instead donate £5 to charity. I wonder how many other such items pile up at Royal Mail premises, and what they do with them.
Mike Whitfield
Mr W misses the point. If there were not a high charge for undelivered items, no one would bother buying stamps.
Good morning Stormy ,
10 days ago I took a pile of cards to my local post office and the cards were measured and stamped by the bod behind the desk , 2nd class post.
One of those cards was a card for my son who lives on the IOW . A few days ago I had a text message from Mike to say he had had a message from the Royal Mail telling him they had a card with insufficient postage stamp .. and stated he owed them £1.50..
He texted me and said "Mum , did you forget to put a stamp on your card ?" ..
I was a bit concerned because my postage bill was £13 + for a handful of cards , 2nd class..
I have heard similar stories from other people .
Is there a Christmas scam going on?
What do the PO do with items like that where nobody pays the excess? The items aren't theirs so how can they legally dispose of them?
Доброе утро, товарищи,
Light cloud cover over a light frost at Castle McPhee, wind South-West, 3℃. going up to 8℃, rain this afternoon.
There's an excellent new podcast on UK Column in which Charles Malet talks to James Lindsay about the communist revolution we are experiencing and the concept of the Woke Right which is the reactioinary rise of neo-fascism, just as the original fascism was a response to communism. He finishes up with Lindsay talking about the new film he was involved in, 'Beneath Sheeps Clothing'.
Speaking of sheep's clothing: I had always thought that Orwell chose 1984 as the title for his most famous work because it was a reversal of the year he wrote it, 1948. That's what I was told at school. No. He chose '1984' because it is the year that would be a century on from the founding of the Fabian Society. Orwell was warning the World specifically about the Fabians. Why did I not realise this before?
It is especially portentious because we have a Fabian regime in Westminster now.
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https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/repel-the-cult-of-woke
399088+ up ticks,
ALL working out well and successfully for the S(tool) and party then, not a pothole in sight on the road to RESET.
The councils buckling under Labour’s ‘broken’ asylum system
Local authorities on the brink of internal civil war as social housing waiting lists soar
Statistics are racist.. everybody knows that. Especially in Norway.
Pop pickers.. straight in last year at Number 1 and stayed there it's..
Somali men aged 15-24 are charged with 2,120 crimes for every 1,000 individuals. Approx 2.1 offences each every year.
Iranian males there are 1,741 charges per 1,000.
Ethiopians it is 1,439 per 1,000.
No charts for UK Pop Pickers.. the Home Office doesn't keep records.
Funny, they are usually so careful to collect information about one's ethnicity etc.
The statistics are there and Patrick Chrystis at GB News asked the Blob to release them. The Blob refused to do so saying that it would take too much time and money to do so. Patrick Chrystis said that GBNews would to pay for this. The Blob still refused.
It seems more than likely that a significant number of illegal immigrants are criminals – why else would the statistics not have been freely released as they are released in other countries such as Denmark?
Lies, damned lies and statistics! But withholding statistics is in effect also a lie because it deliberately obscures the truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrvmY5s2mo The BBC have banned this spoof. It has reached No 1 without their help.
I wonder why.
They were talking about Christmas number ones on Toady this morning, no mention of the above.
There was a brief mention but the BBC spokesperson/thing said it was the BBCs prerogative as to what it chooses to broadcast.
In other words, we broadcast only that which we approve of.
Honesty for once.
Good effort Sir Starmer & the Granny Harmers – keep buying it!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrvmY5s2mo The BBC have banned this spoof. It has reached No 1 without their help.
I wonder why.
This is from today's DT
"A spending Bill backed by Donald Trump failed in the US House of Representatives on Thursday as dozens of Republicans defied the president-elect.
The move leaves Congress with no clear plan to avert a fast-approaching government shutdown that could disrupt Christmas travel.'
It is completely wrong. Mr Trump asked Republican reps to block the bill. An appalling (or perhaps deliberate?) mistake!
Correction . It seems there were two bills – the second one was indeed backed by Mr Trump it was reduced from the first bill (1500 pages) to about 170 pages…
"A spending Bill…"?? Not in this house…{:¬))
Wait to you see the price of Lem Sips these days!
Hope the MR is soon over her bout!
Trump opposed a plan which was full of Democrat-backed woke spending. Musk has proposed that there should be legislation to require online publication of all these bills at least 7 days before a vote (some are 1500 page composites available less than 24 hours before a vote).
Keir Starmer's government is set to give local authorities more powers to seize land and pay the owners less in a so-called 'bulldozer blitz' to build 1.5million new homes.
The Times reports that local authorities will be given the power to take control of brownfield land without handing over 'excessive' amounts of money in a bid to grow Britain's housing stock.
Currently, government bodies have to pay 'hope values' when they issue compulsory purchase orders, which reflect beliefs on what the land would be worth with the requisite planning permission.
These are said to sometimes significantly drive up prices, leading to major delays as owners haggle over values.
Reforms introduced earlier this year allowed councils to apply for permission to use compulsory purchase orders without hope values.
But these new reforms would allow for councils to do this without needing to consult the government, and would likely include urban sites with potential for housing and land allocated for homes by local plans but yet to be developed.
Matthew Pennycook, the housing minister, told the newspaper the reforms 'will make the process faster and more efficient, enabling more land value to be captured and then invested in schemes for public benefit'.
A government spokesperson said that in a consultation on the changes there was 'an appetite amongst some town and community councils for a more proactive approach' to compulsory purchase.
'The government is concerned there is a significant amount of suitable land available for housing which is currently lying vacant or underutilised and not coming forward for development,' they added.
Earlier this month, Sir Keir said he would prioritise 'human beings wanting to have a house' over the environment.
Asked on a visit to a construction site in Cambridgeshire whether environmental concerns would stand in the way of building, he said: 'The starting point is local plans, and that's really important for councils to develop the plan according to the target, taking into account local need and working with developers.
'But are we going to push it through if those plans don't work? Yes we absolutely are.
'Are we going to push away the planning rules and make them clearer, as we have done today, get away the blockers that are stopping the houses being built? Yes, we are absolutely intent.
'For years, we have had not enough houses being built. That means that individuals and families don't have the security that they want.
'We are determined to break through that, to do what's necessary.
'Of course we want to get the balance right with nature and the environment, but if it comes to a human being wanting to have a house for them and their family, that has to be the top priority.'
Cornwall councillor Jenny Cruse said Labour's proposed target was 'undemocratic', arguing the priority should be bringing 2,700 empty homes back into use before building new homes on unspoiled land.
She said: 'Angela Rayner is mad if she thinks this will work, she hasn't got a clue. What they are proposing isn't democratic, it doesn't align with our local plan.
'I can't believe how worried and stressed people are about this, we are being totally disregarded.
'People really care about our area but I don't think Angela Rayner even knows where Cornwall is.
'They are saying to us it doesn't matter what local communities think, we are going to make the decision anyway and people don't matter.
'This is a Marxist plot and I can't believe we have sleepwalked into this. It's not about being a NIMBY, it's that everything they are doing is flying in the face of democracy.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14212299/Keir-Starmers-government-councils-powers-seize-land-pay-owners-bulldozer-blitz-bid-build-1-5m-new-homes.html
How 'deliberately loose' will be the drafting of these reforms? These Labour politicians have so far shown themselves to be totally untrustworthy and we should be concerned with anything that they propose: will large gardens be declared "brownfield" land?
Given they want to build on the green belt, you betcha. There have been one or two properties built in gardens round here.
It should not be forgotten that many solar power stations count as brownfield land.
They do once they've been built.
Meanwhile we (local council) have been told we now have a responsibility to preserve and ENHANCE (it used just to be preserve) diversity (ie plant and animal, not the sort the govt loves) of habitat. Something of a disconnect here, methinks.
Good morning, all. Light frost early on, bright with a light breeze forecast for the daylight hours.
Presaging the doom of most urban areas, whether large or small, as we receive "our share" of Rayner's diversity?
Droll sense of humour in the original and those comments I picked from BTL.
"They" are sincere in their desire to destroy English/British culture.
https://x.com/astor_charlie/status/1869747891297722522
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Reading the comments…..
Imagine the furore if some called a male police dog a biatch !!!!!
What happens if there is a financial crisis deep enough to interfere with the payment of benefits or the supply of food to supermarkets for a couple of weeks?
The background is being set by all the propaganda circulating on social media demonising white people so that many people from other countries genuinely believe that white people are responsible for all the evils of the world, and that they enslaved their ancestors.
I went to Mogadishu this morning. It used to be my local market town.
British Defense Minister John Healey..
"We are considering sending our brave troops to Ukraine. However, let me make this clear.. as a committed Labour Trotskyite we are still bound to hate & defund all aspects of the British Army unless they happen to be Muslim or women."
https://x.com/DannyWittenberg/status/1869473032999424313
Deploying the British Army "for training purpose" to the charnel house in Ukraine is the lamest of all lame reasons this shower could decide on. What will they train to do? Bury their fellow soldiers, or what remains of them, after the Russians do their bit?
If the BA is deployed abroad who will remain to guard our precious islands????
We see you, plotting and conniving Labour government for what you are. Nothing you have done or plan to do will improve the lot of the bulk of the population.
That'll be KIEV, then.
British Defense Minister John Healey..
We do not have a DefenSe minister, it is DefenCe, ( he also looks after deGate)
Not entirely sure that Mr Trump will see Slimeball Mandelson in the same light as Cur Ikea Slammer does. But at least the grotesquely fat woman at present playing the part will be sent home.
Mandelson is rumoured to have got up to all sorts of things in the US. He may represent Starmer and Charles, he certainly doesn't represent me and I doubt he will be much use to British expats in the US.
I think Mandy will be perfectly willing to bend and think of Great Britain.
He'll be fine if the embassy moves to San Francisco.
Sturdy girl: https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.UxH4n5qYxcoVyb9eK6lquAHaKQ?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain
Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce, Lady Roxburgh. I see she has Angela Rayner's taste in clothes. Does Lord Alli buy her wardrobe too?
Seriously; is that really what has been representing Blighty in the USA?
Is this a shepherd's warning? Bournville sunrise (from daughter's front room): https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f736e6ff84fadb991711d44c0b12376f84082186317fa8b041a5373cf60b3403.jpg
Just another electric car doing what they are designed to do.
It is a sign of a world shortage of cocoa.
My theory is that Starmer/Labour are trying to monopolise the world's supply of Horlicks …
Morning all 🙂😊
The legendary Mr Frost has been out and about over night. But bright.
Last evening we had our local U3a, Christmas party. Well attended, I hadn't realised it was a Scottish theme. My kilt and tammy were at the dry cleaners. But many people seem to have enjoyed the almost riotous different forms of group dancing.
Our council tax system is being run by the same type of far left haters as those in government. We need to get rid of them.
Short of joining the resistance and taking to the hills, bugger all one can do, Eddy.
We have a Monarchy Bill they can see what this AH government are up to. In the past the king would have called them in and put them to rights or else. There is no excuse for allowing this hate filled bureaucracy to be taking place.
These nasty people in todays politics show absolutely no respect for the people of this country. As monarch KC should get his docile finger out and do something.
The JWK is the last person who would dare rock any boats. And Woke Willie is in the same mould.
The JWK is the last person who would dare rock any boats. And Woke Willie is in the same mould.
Interesting if it can be made to work…
"Gov. Glenn Youngkin said this week: “Commonwealth Fusion Systems plans on building the world’s first grid scale commercial fusion power plant in the world, full stop, and it’s going to be right here in the commonwealth of Virginia.”
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), founded in 2018 in Cambridge, Mass., plans to build a fusion power plant in Chesterfield County's James River Industrial Park. The facility, set to produce 400 megawatts of electricity to power 150,000 homes, could be operational by the early 2030s.
Fusion power, replicating the sun’s energy production, offers a cleaner alternative to traditional fission. The 25-acre project highlights Virginia’s role in advancing energy solutions amid surging demand from energy-intensive data centers supporting big tech."
A wonderful theory, I hope they remember to devise an off switch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCGH8eU-_lA
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The climate scaremongers: Mad Ed’s lies come back to haunt him
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-mad-eds-lies-come-back-to-haunt-him/
Being caught out in a lie is water off a duck's back!
BTL
The trouble with the undemocratic Left mindset is that using lies is a perfectly acceptable and essential way of imposing their ideology.
Starmer, Reeves and Miliband all realised that lies were necessary to get into power and without power they could not do what they wanted to do so lying was entirely justified.
And here he is enjoying a sandwich!
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Oh Joy!!!
Fortunately, it blocks me unless I pay or disable adblock.
They report the same stuff as the Times and Telegraph, just with shorter words and more tits and house prices.
Off topic.
A long comment from the man in charge of Risk Audit's Stop Press.
It resonated with me.
I got as far as the "journey" and gave up.
In this case it's worth persevering, I think.
Trigger warning, it ends with another "journey" comment.
Edit for missing word.
In this case it's worth persevering, I think.
Trigger warning, it ends with another "journey" comment.
Edit for missing word.
Certainly got a grip on the jargon.
He’s been doing it for a long time and perhaps preaching to the choir.
I like his daily news brief.
Ffs are you trying to raise my blood pressure? I have spent all day (all week) updating my strategy and terms of reference to satisfy the demands of the IIA and CIIA and no, I won’t be auditing “culture” (risk, organisational, conduct or otherwise); nor will i be auditing DEI or any of the other carp they now require me to; nor am i auditing “in the public interest”. I am not a communist and you cannot make me. I would rather retire (which I will, before i am next required to have a bunch of inexperienced children tell me what i “should” be doing, in the name of “quality improvement”.
Believe it or not, I rather suspect that this man is on your side.
The mere fact that you are obliged to do so is what he is getting at. There are better approaches than the box ticking.
As to “inexperienced children” I also suspect he’s more experienced than you are too.
He will be. I’ve only been doing it 30 years!
You’ve done less penal service than I did. I trust you’re near retirement.
I came back into it accidentally, when banks were getting into deep problems post “big bang” . I had worked in an “Inspection department”, which in those days was recognised as a route to better positions, as opposed to the dead-end it eventually became.
I moved from there to Front and Back office and thence what was effectively the Treasurer position.
I then went into money broking, was made redundant, and a bank main board director that I knew wanted someone in their audit department who actually had an understanding of trading, settlements, accounting and the various products and markets: I also had a fairly good background in equity and capital markets. I doubt there were half a dozen in the City with a similar back ground, as I am not an accountant.
It was interesting work, even though I didn’t actually enjoy it. The international travel was the redeeming feature
Oh dear. The MR has gone down with 'flu. As the world's worst nurse, I shall struggle….
The uptick is a vote of confidence in you, and a good wish for the MR!
Thank you. I really am worse than useless.
No!…. just that she's seldom incapable.
Needs must, Bill. You can do it.
Stop doing yourself down.
Moi? Just telling it as it is…
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Our best wishes for a speedy recovery! and keep her plied with hot drinks!
edit: speedy, not seedy!
She is pretty seedy right now!!
Our best wishes for a speedy recovery! and keep her plied with hot drinks!
edit: speedy, not seedy!
Please give Carolyn our very best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Sorry to hear that news Bill.
I am sure she will feel better in a few days time , especially with your tender care .
Make some of your delicious bread , and keep the kettle boiling . Start one of your super duper jigsaws ..
Good luck.
Follow her instructions to the letter and all should be well..
Of course you could take her to the Christmas service on Sunday to pass it on.
We've picked up a lurgy most years from attending that one or the carol service.
Follow whatever instructions the patient issues and tell nurse Gus and doctor Pickles that mummy needs comforting. Hope Carolyn is soon feeling better. Spare her the routine inflicted on each new patient at the Acute Medical Unit at St Mary's. On arrival, four swabs are taken. One up each nostril, one in the groin and one up your *rse! Most of us submitted with a sigh but one person – a dead ringer for the Vicky Pollard character in Little Britain – objected quite strongly. It was done anyway of course.
I hope the swab was used in the order you have written, Sue…
Heyup Sue.
I don't supposed that you got there in person, but did you manage to listen to last night's Wigmore concert?
It was excellent!
Schütz – The Christmas Story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025v43
No, I'm there again tomorrow evening though. I've missed all the carol services at Barts but been a bit Christmassed-out at the Wig. I don't think I realised when I booked that every concert in December would have a Christmas theme.
Sorry to hear that, Bill. Chicken bone broth will help and keep her hydrated.
Sorry to hear that, Bill. Dose her with Vit C + zinc and Vit D.
Poor lass. What awful timing.
Bloody thoughtless!
Inconvenient.
I hope it's a short cold rather than flu.
Either way, a speedy recovery to her.
You spoil him!
https://thegreatyorkshireshop.co.uk/blogs/news/yorkshireman-thomas-crapper-the-inventor-of-the-modern-toilet#:~:text=In%201861%2C%20Crapper%20patented%20his,elements%20of%20a%20modern%20toilet.
Phew , the smell from sewerage farms .
When the UK population was 50 Million bods .. septic tanks , old closets , outside loos, or one lavvy per home , no such thing as disposable nappies, harsh lavvy paper and an old fashioned waste system .. no showers , one bath per household etc etc …
There are probably now 80million poohers and poppers in the UK now,
Around here in the very rural areas , people still have septic tanks ..
What does the daft bint Rayner think about her proposal/ demands that a million+ new homes are required , 2 lavvy's per home , etc .. where does she think poop ends up ..
Infrastructure should be sorted first .
Our village has grown hugely in the 25 years we have lived here , our water pressure is terrible now .. The new estate has a few social homes , daft mothers block the drains with disposable nappies and other gunk .. causing huge problems elsewhere .
Our river Frome runs into Poole harbour .. leachate or whatever you call it has ruined the breeding areas in our river for salmon and trout , and of course run off from our fields , especially this year when the maize crop harvest was delayed by bad weather and the crops were finally retrieved in late October .. mud mud mud .. our poor chalk river .
Rayner hasn't a clue .. where is she going to get all the skilled trade from and the blinking bricks .. there is a shortage of bricks .. some homes have been built with white looking blocks in Weymouth .. hideous , horrible buildings .
Oh dear not good TB.
It's hard to imagine our country with a further 1.5 million new homes.
Perhaps someone should persuade our pointless and useless government to think again.
Couldn't they just live in trees. After all, most of them have only recently come down from there. Is there a further treatment plan for your Afib?
The doc gave me a prescription for Digoxin which brings the pulse rate down, but I need to monitor it in case it drops too low.
And I have an ECG booked Jan 3rd.
The only other option is A&E which is my worst nightmare. Been there done that.
I'm on a low dose of Digoxin too. I could see in the hospital (being hooked up to a monitor all the time there) that my pulse was down to the 70s and 80s at night and hovered around 100 when I was inactive during the day. An improvement on the 160+ when admitted.
NURSE……
Yo LD
"Lessons learned…."
Clichés perhaps, but understandable when looking at his target audience.
Sir Keir Starmer is expected to nominate his former top adviser Sue Gray for a seat in the House of Lords.
The former civil servant, who sprang to fame with her 2022 report into the Partygate scandal, is expected to be among a raft of new Labour peerages to be announced on Thursday.
It comes only two months after she left her role as the prime minister's chief of staff in October, amid internal rows over her influence.
She was then appointed to a newly-created nations and regions role in No 10, but it was confirmed last month she would not be taking up that position.
A number of Conservatives will also be appointed to the upper chamber as part of the announcements on Thursday.
Labour said in 2022 that it planned to abolish the 805-member Lords, replacing it with a "new, reformed upper chamber".
Sir Keir Starmer is expected to nominate his former top adviser Sue Gray for a seat in the House of Lords.
The former civil servant, who sprang to fame with her 2022 report into the Partygate scandal, is expected to be among a raft of new Labour peerages to be announced on Thursday.
It comes only two months after she left her role as the prime minister's chief of staff in October, amid internal rows over her influence.
She was then appointed to a newly-created nations and regions role in No 10, but it was confirmed last month she would not be taking up that position.
A number of Conservatives will also be appointed to the upper chamber as part of the announcements on Thursday.
But this was watered down before July's election, with Labour committing to consult on plans for an alternative second chamber, whilst immediately axing the 92 places for hereditary peers and introducing a retirement age of 80.
The party also vowed to introduce new rules on participation, and a new process to make it easier to remove "disgraced" peers.
According to The Sun, external newspaper, Ms Gray is set to be among 30 new Labour peers nominated by the prime minister this week.
Sir Keir will reportedly justify the extra appointments on the basis that Labour has a smaller presence in the upper chamber than in the House of Commons.
The Conservatives have the most peers, with 273, whilst Labour has 187 and the Liberal Democrats have 78.
There are also 184 "crossbench" peers who are not aligned to any party.
Scum rising to the top?
Back later chaps! Meeting friends for coffee.
That's me for now .
Son no 1 has just left the house in running kit ..
HE is running to Dorchester .. 12 miles , then catching the train home ..
His route is across country , along rural lanes .. He has a Strava link .. which I am meant to track .. he is speeding along ..
I am so shocked that he has still got the strength and energy .. he has his father's genes .. Moh stopped running long distances five years ago .
Me? I am the tortoise !
Just posted on FSD at the top of the Today page is a new poll, on whether you would participate in a council tax strike, the beginning of a campaign we hope to spread in the New Year against the attack on local democracy and the planned massive rises in council tax in April.
Please vote, as I'd like to gauge opinion. It'll only take a few ticks. (A recent opoll indicated that 89% approved of a campaign against council tax rises).
https://www.freespeechbacklash.com/daily-gossip/friday-20-december
And just wait for the government to bring in a Bill to seize houses where council tax is not paid and give them to illegals.
They’d like to do that no doubt, but if thousands did it?
Look at what Trudope did to the protesting truckers in Canada.
Lots of room for dindus in that case. The ejected could have a tent somewhere.
Multicultural/open borders Notice of road closure on 6 Jan … please do NOT park between 9:30 and 15:00. Two pages REQUIRED. Grrrrrrrhhhhhh ….
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We could save a small fortune by not translating anything into foreign languages (I don't class Welsh and Gaelic as foreign in this context).
Not bad:
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Pelicot – What is the case all about? BBC
From 2011 to 2020, Dominique Pelicot plied his wife with tranquilising drugs and sleeping pills without her knowledge, crushed them into powder and added them to her food and drink.
Gisèle Pelicot suffered memory loss and blackouts because of the drugs and she has spoken of 10 years of her life that have been lost.
He was eventually caught because a security guard reported him to police for taking photographs under women's skirts in a supermarket.
"I thought we were a close couple," she once told the court. Instead, her husband was going on a notorious but now banned website called http://Coco.fr to invite local men to their home to have sex with her while she was comatose.
"I was sacrificed on the altar of vice," Gisèle Pelicot said early in the trial.
Caught taking up-skirt photos – How can a person be drugged and raped between 50 and 100 times over a period of nine years and not know anything about it? Did the daughter and daughters-in-law not know what was going on? The men deserve their sentences but there is something odd about this evil case.
Dunno.. perhaps ask Lily Phillips what's it like after 50.. then after 100.
They have power alright Bill, but what do we do, just submit?
You tell me.
No easy answer Bill. But FSB hopes to participate in the creation of a mass movement.
It's an outrage..
Τԝо men hаve beеn ᴄha𝚛ɡеԁ оᴠe𝚛 a figh𝚝 ᴡіth pоliᴄе a𝚝 Mаnᴄhes𝚝e𝚛 Αirpо𝚛𝚝 ᴡhіϲh հарреոeԁ bе𝚏о𝚛e an оf𝚏іcеr ԝаs filmed ѕtampiոg оո а suѕрeϲt'ѕ հeаd.
B𝚛о𝚝hе𝚛s Mоհammed Αmааᴢ, 20, аոԁ Μυhammed Аmаaԁ, 25, havе beеn ϲharɡed ԝi𝚝h аssaυl𝚝, 𝚝he Ϲrоᴡո P𝚛оsеᴄυtіоn Տe𝚛ᴠіᴄe (ϹΡЅ) saіԁ.
The ϹPS ѕаid nо cha𝚛ɡеs ԝе𝚛e beіnց b𝚛оᴜɡհ𝚝 аgаіոs𝚝 аny роliᴄе о𝚏𝚏icе𝚛s iոᴠоlvеԁ іո 𝚝հе іոсіdеnt iո Ϳᴜly.
Now, can we drop the Reform private prosecution.. then find the lads Not Guilty with appearances on Strictly & Dr Who.
Reaction to Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US?
A tale of two tier justice..
Peter Mandelson escaped punishment after being condemned as the first minister to breach new tough standards of integrity in public life by not declaring his £373,000 home loan from his fellow MP, Geoffrey Robinson.
Tommy Robinson conspired with others to obtain a mortgage by misrepresentation from the Abbey and Halifax building societies.
Same crime. One given a peerage.. the other jailed.
Best Comment so far..
Trump, Nigel and Elon in the blue corner: TwoTier, Manky and Turnip in the red corner. Any odds?
Sometimes when doing Codeword my poor eyesight gives me amusement. Just done a Sunday Times one, which seemed to leave me with the word DOLEUP. Almost ready to look up if this was a slang word I was unfamiliar with, when I noticed that the number of the 4th letter was the same as the third, leaving me, after correction, with the word DOLLOP.
That's me away until this evening – playing at the local care home Xmas party – should be great
Have a ball! 🙂
But keep it down – we don't want another balls-up!
I'm sure your Christmas music will be better than the new No 1 – Sir Starmer and the Pillocks' version of Cold This Christmas which the BBC refuses to play!
When you make your international tour of care homes we hope you will visit Brittany and do a gig for our local care home'sinmastes!
Naturally Richard
You're a Saint.
Have a fantastic time, Spikey! You’re a star!!⭐️
https://www.facebook.com/isleviewhome/videos/1360451638274867/?
Brilliant stuff, pet! 😘
They seemed to enjoy themselves Sue 😘
Loved the Santa! Seemed very young!
Community service and suspended prison sentence, no doubt, and that assumes they will be found guilty, which I would not bet on if they get lucky with the make-up of the jury.
Hah the threat of a private prosecution by Reform has finally jolted them into action the political damage of that outweighs the local "community cohesion"
Usless swine
The officers were never going to get charged no matter how hard the powers that be wished mud to stick. Starmer of all people is surely aware of the Criminal Law Act, 1967, S3.
Starmer was DPP – he had minions to do the legwork.
It’s not as if he hasn’t any experience in this area is it.
Fashion victims.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1869791052162572425 Are they eating our dogs and cats as well?
Imagine if Donald Trump had suggested “locals” were eating pets in the States
Oh. He did, and the Libtards had s meltdown.
https://x.com/TonyAngelUK/status/1870072617081942285
https://x.com/xaravien007/status/1869847045777064382
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1869892284046569976
Nearly everything could come back to haunt him. Given that the publicly disgraced has lived his entire life in a murky shadow then you'd have thought taking on such a public role might be a bit foolish.
He obviously believes he’s ‘untouchable’! Release the Epstein list!
What does Mandelson's husband think about his new job?
I hate that term. His husband. Her wife. Ffs.
I love it, you know exactly what is being conveyed – C*** sucking Ar** bandits.. Cuts out the swear words.
https://x.com/astagrondal/status/1870039738255589586
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869986946031988780
Yes, bleddy populists. Pain in the behind aren't they Friedrich?
Whoever is the German Chancellor and whichever party/coalition thinks they have 'control' will eventually have to face the beast from the East. Attempting to throw the German people under the bus of islamic jihad for a few years of relative peace isn't going to save Germany or other European nations with a similar problem.
Time for the Germans, English, French etc. to rediscover their militaristic backbone and deal with the jihadist menace in their midst by imposing repatriation of those advocating the takeover of the country they were allowed into. That menace also includes the politicians responsible for this mess, all of whom must be publicly censured for their deeds.
Where are we to find another Charles Martel? Or King John III Sobieski?
It's not going to happen.
Manchester airport brothers are charged with assaulting police officers – while the cops are CLEARED – six months after viral video of fracas sparked protests.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
And about time too!
One of those stories they couldn't bury in the end, so they were forced to admit the obvious in the end.
I surprised they cleared the cop who did the head-stamping. The perp asked for it of course……
I said he’d be cleared the day I saw the video. He’s carrying a gun at his side and one across his chest, note. He had to take some sort of action to prevent the immediate commission of a crime, i.e. the serious further assault on fellow officers. As an armed officer he risks losing his weapons if he tries to catch hold of that guy. Recent violence indicated his own weapons could have been taken from him and used by the offenders on the police and other members of the public. All he has left is his feet and application of reasonable force to stop further violence. That level of violence was always fully justified, which is the point of my other post about what the law says.
The scandal here is that it took so long to make what was a very straightforward decision. It was I’m afraid to have to suspect, the dead hand of politics interfering where it ought’nt to have. The thing we keep hearing about – “the optics”. Senior officers, politicians, hangers-on, activists and all the rest wanting to rinse their hands like Pilate to placate a “constituency” when their first duty was protection of the public.
When the science is finally settled, will it mean we're all dead?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14213125/scientist-reveals-deadly-mirror-bacteria.html
The comments on that article won't load. It's an interesting game that's being played here. Bacteria don't need to be artificially created since they exist in nature and where they find a weakened host, will grow and can be deadly. Bacteria can be plucked out of infected tissue and grown independently in a petri dish. No-one has ever thus proven the existence of viral pathogens. The pretty convid graphics are a stylised representation of the nature of infected tissue. The nature of the infected tissue does not prove the cause. Virology is purely theoretical. It's on a par with witchcraft.
I'm an interested observer, but with very little real knowledge of the subject
The comments at the bottom of the article, past the videos loaded for me, perhaps being in France helps.
Too late, the UK is already infested with baccilus politicus and leftis lethalis . . . we are doomed!
Because Reed works for charity, I suppose.
‘Works’??
Slaps own wrist, saying, “my bad”.
She tries hard, but she's out of her depth.
Hasn't quite grasped the gig of the Long March of the progressive liberal.
I guess it must be hard to get an overview when one is inside it…
Actions Kemi… actions please. We've already got enough words from Tories to stock the British Library, few of which ever seemed to amount to anything.
She is useless – like all the Tory MPs. Her pathetic performance at PMQs lets Slammer off the hook each week. She really must STOP reading her "throwaway adlibs"… Indeed stop reading all her bloody questions and replies.
The patient had a bowl of soup and some bread and butter for lunch. G & P studiously avoiding her….
See! You are good at nursing after all.
I still smoke. Probably £20 a day. I know most of it is tax. I also keep being offered knock off cigarettes from incomers.
High tax creates black markets. Which supports criminal gangs who don't just stop at selling fags.
I am also in receipt of zero benefits.
My choice. People should mind their own business. Don't be a 'Karen' Karen.
We can still get cigarettes up on the reserve for about $20 for a carton.
No tax and poor quality helps keep the price down.
Afternoon, all. There is a reason for my appearing so early (and disappearing in short order thereafter); I'm off racing to Woolly Bags (Dunstall Park) to see one of my fillies run. She will probably be better next year.
The whole tax system is in need of reform; the Singapore tax code is one slim volume. Thanks to Gordon Brown, ours is about four volumes.
The Mighty Thor, the God of War,
Went for a ride on his filly,
"I'm Thor"! he cried,
The horse replied, "Well put the thaddle on, thilly".
Go Wolves!!!
He should try it; he wouldn't last ten minutes.
Screams "photo op" to me. I am such a cynic.
I doubt he would have got different treatment from the police if he had kicked off like that in Pakistan either.
He would have got worse.
They would have shot him.
He should consider himself lucky. But he won't.
What is the betting that there will be mass slammer protests about the criminal charges against the innocent Manchester Two? And that NOT ONE of the protesters will be arrested, let alone banged up.
And – should the Two be convicted – grounds will be found on appeal to acquit them with stainless characters.
You read it here first.
You read it here first ? No, it is written in every judges instructions on page one. It has to be read out loud in the presence of a Diversity and Integration Officer before every trial.
9 to 5 on?
I used to run up the hills (quality running, according to my long distance running Swedish friend) when I walked the dog, but now my knees are so bad I struggle even to walk up the hills 🙁
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b746a25f2b5cf1a722703b0b7e9aa7cb9da17f97f9ac1eedf98f706852b2b451.png Any hungry Muzzies among you? Don't worry, I have enough to feed you. You'll have to enjoy eating pork though.
Just had a productive morning making some decent English sausage meat from some good quality 25% fat pork.
1 kg Yorkshire breakfast pork sausage meat; and 1·5 kg East Midlands' pork-and-tomato sausage meat (my favourite).
Tomorrow I'll bake some sausage rolls with some and then stuff whatever is left over into some hog's casings to make sausages.
I seared a 1kg fillet of beef.
Made the gluten free pancakes.
Steamed and squeezed the spinach.
Made the duxelle.
Mixed miso with the Pommery moutarde.
Made the prune (yours BTW) and chestnut pork stuffing.
Also made the smoked salmon mousse for the croustardes.
Moved furniture. Set up big table in the conservatory.
Veg prep and Welly assembly tomorrow.
I'm crackered. After all that this morning i didn't feel like lunch. So i turned the Armagnac that the prunes were in into cocktails. Cheers ! hic…
Holy Smoke.
Sainsbury was the ninth level of hell this morning. What on earth will it be like next week?
They were using the old ploy of playing faster music to get people to rush round and buy more.
The music sounded seasonal until you realised they were playing jazzed up versions; probably muzak churned out for that very purpose.
Ocado delivery today for Sunday. Tesco delivery on the 29th for NYE. You won't see me in any supermarket !
You mad woman you !
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Ooh…Nice frock.
You know me and sparkly togs.
You're a brave woman, Anne. I tried to park in the local supermarket so I could hobble into town to pay a bill. Everywhere was full, so I dread to think what the store was like.
The music at work has gone all jazzy and poppy. Earlier we had Bing Crosby, which just about suits where my heart rate needs to be.
The amusing feature of Christmas supermarket shopping in White City is the number of overweight hijabs pushing trollies piled high with seasonal carbs. If they outlaw Christianity, they'll have to find another excuse for their excesses. Pre-conquest, Persians celebrated the winter solstice festival of Yuletide on 21 December. Many in London still do. I suppose some make believe exploit of Mohamet can be invented. Mohamet, the icing on the fruitcake of Mecca & Medina! Enjoy!
Use the proper terms, catamite/sodomite and lesbian lover.
It was very common, at one time, to acquire a mortgage through saying you were self-employed. I bet they had to comb his records to find something…anything. The mortgage racket encouraged people who couldn't afford it to take out loans in multifarious ways. Not sure it's a crime what TR did (from my understanding of what he was hooked for) or rather a morally criminal mortgage system endorsed by those who really stood to gain from hawking sub-prime.
I remember reading at the time that, after raiding his home and confiscating his personal documentation, they did have to trawl through his affairs in a fishing exercise to find something to charge him with.
This is not Molyneux! It's up the road and to the right.
I know. I used to play hockey on the grass pitches in the middle! We used to get changed at Aldersley Stadium.we used to go quite a bit when we were younger, as my mum and uncle (and aunty) were quite into it. Now, just my aunty really (who went to Haydock today)
My Bobby Dazzler was a non-runner – unsuitable ground, I think.
Ditto.
I think M Trump may not care for the Brazilian boyfriend. Certainly not wish to shake any of his body parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7iLc7XhU8E
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My sister and her husband took our father for a holiday at a French Chateau. Dad wasn’t able to explain bacon and eggs to the French staff. They understood the fried egg bit but not the bacon. Still. It could have been worse if he had been in Germany. They would have served him fruit with his egg and beans.
Lard or lardons would get you bacon, but nowadays, they probably say "bacon" – ouch! says the Academie Francaise.
Yesterday, Tesco's had very good offers for vegetables. Most things – sprouts, parsnips, carrot etc going for 15p a kilo. Large cauliflower for 30p.
My domestic staff stocked up.
And now she’s got ‘flu! You work that poor woman too hard!
She wouldn't have it any other way!
He sent her to Market on her own as well as he was having a morning in bed. Just like a teenager !
I take advantage of these offers. Make up lots of cauliflower cheese and freeze in portions. Same with carrots. Peel and chop, blanch and freeze. Cabbage too.
I know some on Nottle sneer at microwaves but if you batch blanch and portion it only takes minutes to prepare a 30p Lee.
I bought carrots, sprouts and parsnips today in Morrisons for 10 p per bag. Quite big bags.
Ha! And you believe her…?🙄
I read that as a pastry Dolly!
My Beef Wellington is not done doggy style !!!
How could I not?
No, but did he do his job well? Um …
Don’t put it past someone in USA to do just that if the “ambassador” (I use the term loosely) ever wants to upset the apple cart.
Oh I hope so!
Dad didn’t speak any French. He barely spoke any English. Couldn’t read or write either. If he didn’t have his teeth in no one could understand him.
He also never learned sign language !
Did he ever do his job well? Do activists ever do their job well? All they do is serve their own marginal interests at the expense of others, I usually find.
Dolly Parton?
She’s got horse sense at least.
The smoked salmon is very mild. The finger limes and the caviar add the ‘pop’.
I am doing canapes.
They are being served Champagne with them. (courtesy from Alf and VW)
They WILL say….oh how lovely !
A plus tard, mes amis (no, that horse isn't running; this is a flat meeting).
We could save a large fortune by not pandering, or giving benefits to certain sectors of our society, full stop.
When you need a good lawyer!
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I have also been cooking with beef today, but mine was at the opposite end of the beefy spectrum to your fillet, both in depth of flavour and texture.
I have twice pressure-cooked some oxtail in a beef stock with onions, garlic, celery salt, black pepper, and thyme. After the first cooking (1 hour) I removed all the excess rendered fat from the top. After the second hour of pressure cooking all the meat had dropped cleanly off the bones. I separated the contents of the pot into three containers: one for the stock, the second for the lean chunks of beef, and the third for the bits of beef still covered in a soft gelatinous connective tissue. I processed the contents of the third container with a little of the stock using a stick-blender. I then placed the contents of all three containers back into the pan and mixed them thoroughly. The ensuing chunky oxtail soup is intensely and deliciously beefy.
My yield is four hearty 400ml servings, all now in sealed plastic pots in the freezer.
Sounds delicious. Why after 2 hours of pressure cooking do you still have noticeable connective tissue? In my pressure king pro that all melts.
Also…how did you get the fat off if it was still warm?
The reason i am doing fillet Welly is because three of my guests don’t have any teeth !
To get the flavour given that fillet doesn’t have any i have roasted some beef bones with the marrow. Added beef broth. Hendersons and Marmite plus a red wine reduction. Might even throw a sprig of Rosemary at it but i don’t want to over do it !!!
I wasn’t criticising the Welly, it is necessary (de rigueur) to use fillet for that. Roasted beef bones and marrow are a superb combination.
The connective tissue didn’t completely melt (it jellified) because my old pressure cooker has a seal problem (I need a new one). I can only use it on setting 2 since the seal leaks on high pressure. I shall buy a modern Instant Pot in the New Year.
I let the cooker cool down after the first cooking and left it overnight in a cold place so the fat set.
So early in the morning here in Los Angeles and on the web the day just about finishing. The weather in California in December much warmer than I expected.
A glaring Par Four!
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Well done, cori!
I thought that I could jump to the answer, I was wrong
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Another wrong choice and another bollocking bogey for me!!!
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Late on parade here. Lovely couple of hours at 5 o'clock club at the local
Very early this morning had a blinder on Wordle, after my usual first word.
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Good stuff, mola -excellent result!
Luck, pure and simple, plus knowing what words have been previous solutions and therefore of no use.
Wow; early morning should be verboten, mola!
I'm sure this has probably been covered already but, from the DT article on the honours list:
Sir Keir has nominated 30 Labour peers. The Prime Minister has argued that the extra appointments are needed because Labour –which won the July election – has fewer seats in the Upper House than the Tories.
Defending the 30 appointments, a Labour source said: “The Tories stuffed the House of Lords, creating a serious imbalance in the chamber. This needs to be corrected to drive through the government’s plan for change and deliver on our mandate from the British people.
“We are committed to an overdue programme of reform and have already laid legislation to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the Lords.”
So openly admitting to gerrymandering the HoL?
Married to the self-important telly bloke Adam Boulton.
Oh for cripes sake, you are all so insidiously up your own duff and nauseating…you erstwhile starry, starry doyennes of the airwaves…I haven't the first fucking clue who Anji Hunter is/was nor Adam Boulton, and even less interest. Do us all a huge big favour and disappear back up your own arseholes.
I hadn't heard of the Anji one either, Citroen. But AB is an unmissable, ocean-going c*nt.
Naughty!
I hadn't heard of him, but that is an advantage of not owning a TV set I suspect!
Given who you replied to, I think that was uncalled for, perhaps it should have appeared under a different poster
I agree with the general sentiment
To be fair Citroen, she was pretty much Head of PR for Blair's Government(s) and regularly described as "the most influential non-elected person in Downing Street".
So a bit of a player whether you like her or not…..
You should have rung.
That would have been a sensible step
Then trade fell off?
Well, in my humble opinion bad timing but I had to finish it as someone else I know started it…..
3 hours of oven cleaning and it's a shinning example from top to bottom. I shall be watching very carefully over the shoulders during the Christmas period. Or just be on duty myself.
Now to cook our Friday cod and oven chips with minty peas. No messing.
Get staff, Eddy. So much less work!
I'm staff Bill 🤗
Get an oven cleaning person in to do it next time. Worth every pound. But congrats on doing the awful job yourself. You deservedly should feel glowing pride. It's a horrible job.
Make sure you know the relevant facts before you gob off!
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Seem legit.
From the DT's Parliamentary sketch writer
Boiled Kier:
"As if to compound this, Emily Thornberry had to remind him to include women on his list of things he wanted to protect under the new regime in Syria.
The biggest exception to this fast-emerging rule, and runaway winner of “suck-up of the week”, was the oleaginous Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, chairman of the defence select committee. He began by thanking the PM for “his service to the nation” as if he were a bomb disposal dog, or a Chindit or one of those people who delivered soup during the Captain Tom times.
Dhesi’s question was scarcely audible; by this point, he was so far up Oinky’s bottom that he could see Hamish Falconer’s feet.
Labour did a pretty good job of filleting the PM but they were veritable chefs de partie compared to Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee chairman Alistair Carmichael. The Lib Dem fixed Oinky with a look of pure contempt and began, in his sonorous Scottish bass-baritone, “in the long run we’re all dead” – the PM looked as if he wished he were – “so I’d like to talk about inheritance tax”.
It was like watching someone make a Starmer-flavoured stock, every question reducing the PM further down to the little man he actually is: “Who were the targets of these changes?”, “Was the Prime Minister happy with the super-rich continuing to shield money in land?”, “Would he encourage the Chancellor to meet with the farming unions?” Each one met a wobble of the cheeks, a stammer and a lie.
Finally, as Sir Keir tried to crack a joke about managing Rachel Reeves’s diary, Mr Carmichael caught him absolutely in his sights and reminded him, with a grimace, that a lot of people didn’t find this funny.
Reduced down to his protoplasmic jelly, Sir Keir stopped smiling.
A bomb disposal dog would be of infinitely more use and serve the country better.
Oh, not a pair of steps?
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Calm down, dear!
That's me for today. Have to organise some sort of meal.
Have a jolly evening
A demain.
Your home made bread. Cheese. Kiwi fruit.
That's any thought of lunch ruined. They just swore in a gaggle of new ministers in Trudeaus non government and in the post ceremony q&a, they are all saying how we should forget differences and get behind Trudeau.
Really?
The little turd still hasn't said anything to Canadians, he appeared at two liberal Christmas parties but is saying nothing.
Partners have pulled the plug, early election '25 looking on the cards. Poilievre strength to strength.
Good grief, the BBC news is gushing about Mandelson.
For me, he is so revolting that if I was a Muslim I would eat pig's vomit rather than be associated with him.
I can send you a recipe for that.
I gather the BBC are saying that some George Michael record [which they have been playing a lot!] is "Christmas number 1" rather than this …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrvmY5s2mo&t=4s which they refuse to play at all! Slimy gits.
Off topic
I agree re flaunting one's wealth, but that does not make robbing the individual any less objectionable.
Is she arguing that it should be open season on anyone who wears or carries something worth a weeks wages?
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/influencer-birkin-bag-stolen-oxford-street-london-sympathy-b1201001.html?lid=2j7lzctl6346&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_campaign=News_email_2024-12-20&utm_term=ES_News_Daily_CDP&empar=a5a4791040899364e61ef9f1d5449150a9c0012b4e500bdb121b158033542c2a
Didn't read the whole thing. Hopefully, the flaunters will attract the majority of thieves and the granny who has saved for the grandkids' presents will benefit. But, no, the bastard thieves will always be there for any opportunity.
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Well planted and cared for it may flower.
Where's Maria?
– I wonder if a serving British Ambassador to the USA has ever been arrested in the USA.
Hopefully it won't be long.
Making the insidious degenerate Mandelson the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States is a clear indication of just how much respect Starmer has for the British people and President Trump, and of course Mandelson will have diplomatic immunity when the Epstein lists come out.
I was thinking more of incitement to hatred after all those nasty things he said about Trump, it could have incited the assassination attempts
It’s like a bunch of 5th formers waving V signs and shouting ‘nah nah nah nah nah’ at the headmaster!
Absolutely pathetic!
Ding ding ding…we have a winner! Thanks GQ.
Can't the Yanks declare him persona non grata, strip him of his diplomatic status and prosecute? I'd love to see that happen.
I would eat so much popcorn I’d put a stone on.
GBN are saying that The Donald has described Mandy as “an absolute moron”.
I think it was his spokesman rather than Himself! I doubt Trump would stoop to the slithering ones level!
Either way, it's correct.
Lord Mandelson, a key planner in Sir Keir Starmer's preparations for the next election, said that for much of his life he did not believe it would ever be possible to marry Reinaldo.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12683067/Kate-Garraway-Derek-Draper-guests-wedding-Lord-Mandelson-ties-knot-new-husband-Reinaldo-Avila-da-Silva-27-years-Tony-Blair-Marylebone-service.html
But the peer, who served as Secretary of State between 1999 and 2001, has opened up about how different it feels to be married – and that he was not aware of the 'emotional comfort and strength' it would bring.
The couple met through friends almost 30 years ago when Mandelson was in the middle of planning for the general election. Da Silva, who speaks seven languages, was studying Japanese at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies.
Reflecting on his nuptials in a column for The Times, Lord Mandelson talked about coming from a generation of men who lived their early adult lives between the point that homosexuality was legalised in 1967 and the introduction of gay marriage in 2014.
'My choice, as someone who was gay and with a high profile, was not to make my personal life and sexuality a secret, but to try to keep it private rather than in the public eye,' he said.
Lord Mandelson felt like the right thing to do at the time but spoke about how it caused 'endless problems and real distress', divluging how his sexuality was 'weaponised' by political rivals and the media.
This culminated in the News of the World ignoring his pleas not to publish a front page with the headline 'Labour's gay campaign chief' during the 1987 general election.
After the fallout, John Smith wrote a letter to him at Labour Campaign HQ, which he still has, urging him to get on with the job because the 'rest of the world doesn't care'.
But the rightful indifference the public had towards Lord Mandelson's sexuality did not stop his political rival in the Hartlepool parliamentary selection putting a photocopy of the News of the World article through the doors of party members. Yet Mandelson went on to beat him three to one.
Lord Mandelson also recalled how Matthew Parris, the former Tory MP and broadcaster, publicly revealed he was among the gay members in Tony Blair's Cabinet on Newsnight in November 1998.
He said he felt 'both indifferent and angry'. It was around this time that his life 'had just taken a remarkable turn for the better with Reinaldo entering it' and they were openly living together in Notting Hill, west London.
The insatiable interest of the 1990s press meant Lord Mandelson went to Brussels to become EU trade commissioner to leave behind the 'hostile environment' he and his partner were living in.
Lord Mandelson has married his long-term partner at a wedding attended by guests including Kate Garraway, her husband Derek Draper and former prime minister Tony Blair.
The Labour grandee, 70, said he was 'delighted' to tie the knot with Reinaldo Avila da Silva, 51, at the Old Marylebone Town Hall in London yesterday after 27 years together.
The newlyweds, who met via mutual friends in 1996, beamed as wedding guests threw confetti over them as they walked out of the ceremony.
After a decade in exile, following Gordon Brown's eviction from Downing Street at the 2010 General Election, Mandelson has now returned to the public eye.
At Labour's Party Conference, Tony Blair's old Business Secretary, who was nicknamed the 'Prince of Darkness' was in the front row.
Mandelson was forced to resign twice in controversial circumstances from Blair's Cabinet.
He was embroiled in further controversy over his friendship to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who used to call him 'Petie'.
At the end of his column in The Times, Mandelson said that his attempts to retain privacy have been a 'failure'.
'So I am delighted to make it a glorious failure, by declaring our love publicly through marriage,' he added.
It is not marriage. It has been recognised in law which was what most sane homosexuals wanted.
Gay couples who pretend otherwise and then procure children are living a fantasy.
When writing about Blair and his government in a song 24 years ago I described Peter Mandelson as Glib and Oily.
I borrowed the epithets from Cordelia who said:
”If for I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not…”
saying that she, unlike her sisters Goneril and Reagan, does not have that dangerous dark art of manipulating words.
I think the epithets still are very apt for Mandelson who was, if you remember, described as The Prince of Darkness.
Correct. More precisely:
"On hearing the news, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Chris LaCivita called Mandelson an “absolute moron” and said he should “stay home”.
Well James, I don't want him to stay home, I want him to go to US and try to serve, because I just ordered some (more) popcorn 😆😆
You ole cynic. Get a big carton and we can share 🤭
You bet, Mr G. See you later x
Quite accurate description …..
How perceptive!
Naked bottoms would be as amusing but more appropriate.
I've just heard the 7 o'clock news on Radio 2 – they really majored on George Michael being Christmas no.1 (for the second year running apparently…).
What a loathsome bunch of leftie effing toerags……
George Michael scores the Beeb's top trumps by being gay, a druggie and dead.
One of my nephews, aged just 44, is in York Hospital with Afib. He’s not being allowed out until his heart rate comes down. Just had a chat with his dad and also got a call from my GP, who’s pleased that St Mary’s admitted me. Says he couldn’t understand why Charing Cross hadn’t. He also approves of the meds. There are items that he wasn’t able to prescribe until the hospital had done their tests. He’s set up repeat prescriptions for me.
Good to know, Sue, as expected. Do as you're told…whilst having a fab Christmas.
How lucky you are to have a GP who cares for his patients, is going above and beyond (from what you have written here), and is actually doing his job. certainly not the 'norm' in the last 5 years.
I hope everything works out for you with the new meds, and that your nephew's condition stabilises.
Having said that, I am so glad I changed GP practice after my previous excellent GP retired early at the end of 2020. He was the only reason I stayed there. The new place is so much better, with a simple online app to explain a problem, and on both occasions I have needed to see a GP this year, I had a very prompt call from a GP. (Phone call on one, which was entirely appropriate) and a F2F appointment for another issue recently. (Lovely receptionists take calls for those unable to access the online app.)
One of my nephews, aged just 44, is in York Hospital with Afib. He’s not being allowed out until his heart rate comes down. Just had a chat with his dad and also got a call from my GP, who’s pleased that St Mary’s admitted me. Says he couldn’t understand why Charing Cross hadn’t. He also approves of the meds. There are items that he wasn’t able to prescribe until the hospital had done their tests. He’s set up repeat prescriptions for me.
Bleurgh!🤮
That man is as smooth as lava .
What has happened to the plump middle aged gay labour MP called Nick Brown , and what is his secret..
LABOUR were made aware of multiple allegations of criminality against former Chief Whip Nick Brown but did not alert the police.
The veteran Newcastle MP was suspended from Labour in 2022 over allegations that were never made public.
But The Sun understands Labour made no contact with police despite the serious nature of the complaints.
Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood told Times Radio: “Nick Brown’s case has resolved itself because he has stepped down.”
She defended Labour’s internal complaints process that uses outside legal advice, as previously “the public might be concerned that people are letting their friends off the hook and we are not in the business of doing that.”
Asked if she was confident the party had done all they should have done in regard to Mr Brown, she insisted: “Absolutely.”
Brown resigned in 2023 and now sits as an independent.
He said in December he would not fight the next election.
Mr Brown still receives a tax-payer funded salary of £86,584.
She added it is for complainants to decide “if they wish to go to the police”.
Asked if she was confident the party had done all they should have done in regard to Mr Brown, she insisted: “Absolutely.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27459255/labour-not-alert-police-nick-brown-allegations/
Of a mind, Sue 🙄😅
If she just gave a genuine promise to cancel this Inheritance Tax change, she would get many tens
of thousands of votes.
The fact that neither she, nor any member of the Tories, have done so just means that she is happy
for it to continue.
He would be wise to steer clear of fanatical Muslims who might think about throwing him off the top of a building!
No. A “vehicle” didn’t.
https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1870185944319422739
Cover up goes code red for the Christmas period
Winter holidays, surely, Bob?
Sadly, a madman ramming a Christmas market seems to have become something of a tradition. No prizes for guessing why.
Obv the solution is.. block the roads to try to stop this happening during the holiday season.
Then continue as if nothing untoward is really happening.
My post below shows a fine, but chilling example of this.
Not another bloody Amish nutter driving the buggy with bladed hub caps!
Exactly Sue.
Just X-Tw@ted a correction:-
It's always a sodding muslim. The state lies, lies and lies to suppress the facts then they get out and the hard Left throw a hissy fit and do everything to spin it but it's always, always a muslim.
Saudi Arabian apparently.
Very very, naughty vehicle …
Wot, all of its own accord? Was it a self drive hire?
love the latest nickname for 2TK, who has said “he has no regrets about the decisions he has made in the past six months and would do nothing differently”
Tin-ear Kier.
Tinea is ringworm.
Tinea pedis is athlete's foot……
I did not know that. The things you learn from fellow NOTTLers!
Thicko Kier.
Communications are vital. One would think in this age of electronic magic that talking to a doctor would be a simple thing.
Ha. Mine passes message through receptionist 'go to A&E'.
100% Correct! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ac2407c0584ae3ba6adb7ba4d2e4ffc5fb0ea02c57c476fdf9092e93a856f8a7.jpg?w=600&h=473
A Congesswoman upset that a Woke Porkfest has been aborted lste-term. Good. https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1869898279716049128
Spare us from these narcissistic nightmares, please, oh Lord.
Give her a broom and a costume and she could be good for Halloween.
I'm not sure she is a she. Might be Trans Masculine Non-Binary Paedo.
So difficult nowadays to work these things out.
But i do know a total cunt when i see one.
The greater the number that meltdown, the fewer there are to bother Trump, Musk, Vance….
What the fuck is that? Some Trans panto dame?
Good, pleased to read that from your perspective and I hope your nephew is treated similarly well..
Oh bugger. Sorry to post a dampener:-
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1870189548547821933
They're at it again.
It's happened afore, Ndovu..why wasn't security up to it?
Complacency.
Stupidity!
“Wir schaffen das”.
Still, 11 is a good haul. Makes our Islamist nutters look positively amateur.
One killed and 60 – 80 hurt, according to the DT.
Yeh…you do it if you want to………
You are Angela Merkel and I claim my 500 euros.
What does one say? An eye for an eye? No. Let's go for a whole body. For everyone one decent German they kill, execute 100 of them. If they won't learn, go for 200.
Islamophobia? How about simply disgust and hatred?
I hesitate to point this out, but reprisals were what the narsties did in WW2.
"The car crashed through barriers protecting the market in Magdeburg and drove straight into shoppers, eyewitnesses reported."
Would it be impolite to ask why barriers are now needed for Christmas Markets?
You are Yaxley Lennon and i claim minimum security.
Weren't they protected by the diversity barriers? The ones I've seen are pretty robust.
Rembrandt Square Amsterdam. The concrete barriers clustered around lampposts were originally spaced out at intervals alongside the kerb, making vehicle access to the cafe terraces very difficult for any potential jihadi to carry out a similar manoeuvre. This was about 6 years ago. The pavement at this point is a drop-down so access by a speeding vehicle would be relatively easy. Made perfect sense at the time.
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Now, for inexplicable reasons, the barriers have been moved into clusters around lampposts, making such access easier. This was about 3 years ago. Imagine a vehicle coming along the street facing the camera at speed, ploughing into the tables of the 3 Sisters pub, on the left of the image. There could be over 100 people sat around the tables, covered with glasses and crockery with the potential to cause some serious death and injury in any such attack.
I have been in many of the cafes/bars along this street many times and now choose my seating with this in mind. What a state of affairs.
Similar pavement terraces extend the whole length of the square for over 100 yards, so the potential for mayhem is incalculable. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1703e0e31ac6892a7299e051a2e99f7e2961c2053fe684c95959728036fb994b.jpg
Rembrandt Square Amsterdam. The concrete barriers clustered around lampposts were originally spaced out at intervals alongside the kerb, making vehicle access to the cafe terraces very difficult for any potential jihadi to carry out a similar manoeuvre. This was about 6 years ago. The pavement at this point is a drop-down so access by a speeding vehicle would be relatively easy. Made perfect sense at the time.
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Now, for inexplicable reasons, the barriers have been moved into clusters around lampposts, making such access easier. This was about 3 years ago. Imagine a vehicle coming along the street facing the camera at speed, ploughing into the tables of the 3 Sisters pub, on the left of the image. There could be over 100 people sat around the tables, covered with glasses and crockery with the potential to cause some serious death and injury in any such attack.
I have been in many of the cafes/bars along this street many times and now choose my seating with this in mind. What a state of affairs.
Similar pavement terraces extend the whole length of the square for over 100 yards, so the potential for mayhem is incalculable. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1703e0e31ac6892a7299e051a2e99f7e2961c2053fe684c95959728036fb994b.jpg
Just wait until they have control of SUV sized flying drones. I expect Hunter Biden has lots of contracts lined up.
No wonder they don't take us seriously.
There will be only three of us here eating Christmas lunch ..
Moh had to check in with his Cepac people this morning , he had to take his machine and himself to the Cepac office. Quite strangely , once his machine is turned on at night , his breathing is monitored .. and his sleep pattern appears on their computer, how I don't know.
I was wondering whether the machine is similar to Alexa?
I guess that's what it's for…… to monitor his sleep and breathing. I wouldn't want an Alexa but at least this thing is serving a purpose.
Likely just connected to internet, Belle. Hopefully, someone on night shift checking and raising alert if any problems. Similar type of software to Alexa.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e3395ddce9b2cc19cf0aa1de9a10940d3f513fcd8e5461f94c776748c771c049.png
Orient tar didn't arrive on time.
Has there been a drop in the price of gold?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/445c45466bcd32035a2f413b7389dca96d8448ba5a9b584c2c9d2eaffc247a20.jpg
Ain't that the truth.
I expect that some in the media will reel off a list of terrorist attacks in Europe over the last half-century or so, featuring the Irish (both sides), ETA, the Sicilian mafia, various pro-Palestinian groups, neo-fascists, left-wing anarchists, Anders Brevik and more and will tell us "It's nothing new, you know. Singling out Christmas market pavement-raiders is Islamophobic and will only encourage more division."
The big difference is European governments didn't import PIRA, UVF, ETA, Red Brigades, etc, etc.
Media whores. They also protect paedophiles and rapists. When it suits.
8:23 pm
At least 11 dead, says report
At least 11 people have been killed, German outlet Bild reported, citing their own information.
(So an hour ahead of us)
What a murderous, evil savage to deliberately slaughter and injure innocent people, especially at an event linked to a Christian festival. Though, of course, that is the main reason for targeting such an event.
Lots of brownie points for him thanks to his cult.
Many internet 'theories' about that now, anne. All lead back to America. How are we to know?
Not sure my grammar tonight.
Long time since I read it, Rastus…but Lear always seemed to me to be a very modern man, got to keep your women in line you know! Personally, I think DT and JDV more than a match for Mandelson, but we'll see 🙂
Nothing personal, Belle…but pass the sick bag will you? Cheers, Kate x
Our surgery has brought in an online triage system. I haven't yet looked at it, but OH had a go and got nowhere with it. Apparently the phone lines are still available in the mornings but a friend said this morning that they're always engaged and you can't get through. I don't know how elderly people are supposed to cope with it. We used to be able to just phone or call in and make an appointment.
Our receptionists will also help an elderly or hard of hearing person to make an appointment at the front desk.
The practice responded to lots of negative feedback on the old system from patients and also staff, by changing to the current online app earlier this year.
Other surgeries in the area have carried on using whatever inadequate systems they have in spite of negative feedback.
They are probably tied in to paying for their crap systems.
Possibly, but in the case of the nearest one to mine, and the other one owned by the same corporation, they have been using these failed systems for a lot of years, so I would guess they would have had a chance to change, but it was too much effort – or they really despise their patients.
I think they want to put people off, and push them towards 111 or A&E, while still being paid the capitation fee.
Sounds like followed in our surgery footsteps. Phone and told 'you are nnnth in the queue, currently xxxx minutes to wait'. They're an effing disgrace. One saving grace is ability to order repeat prescriptions online, which can then be delivered as opposed to collected. Few years ago, I had a tick bite resulting in 'bullet' circle which usually means antibiotics for possible Lyme.. Phoned surgery soon as it opened, told to go to A&E. Triage, waited three hours for prescription, pharmacy another 40 minutes. Now, I'd actually just go to A&E straightaway. Surgery must have asked me ten times to go for covid/flu jabs – course they get paid for each one of those…..
I lost count of the texts, emails and paper letters I got about jabs. Last night at the hedgehog do, people were talking about how they had their jabs and then went down with flu or covid, or whatever. I just said – I'm not having any of them – I had my last jab for anything in 2021 after all the harms became apparent. And I haven't been ill.
I take vit D3, and since I started, no colds or flu – no jabs, either.
Good to hear, Ndovu x. Ours luckily just texts, deleted. I have sciatica badly at the moment, can’t sit without a pillow ..doh…everyone went to panto without me but all caught cold so usual winter stuff doing the rounds. And now of course I’ve caught from them 🤪
Oh dear……… sciatica is horrible – I well remember what it was like for a week or two before my elder son was born. So painful I had to crawl upstairs and could barely walk on the level. Gone as soon as he was born.
Ow! Sympathies, KJ.
Thanks Paul, appreciate that..Kate x
Enormous sympathies KJ. It should gradually fade away after about one month. Ibuprofen & paracetamol? Walking and gentle exercise is supposed to be good, to improve circulation.
the NHS has some short videos which demonstrate useful exercises.
Thanks Tim 😊 I found a couple of good ones last time online – Dr Charlie Johnson. His videos were free at that time but not now. Came across him by accident, someone made a remark Bob n Brad no help but CJ was. My husband bought me a chair, a special cushion, took me to physios..nothing helped. CJ exercises took a few weeks to take effect…gainin’ on it now😄
I got a poster through about looking after your health – first thing was "get the jab". Oh the irony!
Well said, corimmobile…Planet of the Apes written with HoP in mind.
So many Western politicians and MSM reporters will be grappling with the question: How fast can we bury the Magdeburg attack down the same Memory Hole we buried the Paris, Nice, 7/7 bombings and dozens of other mass murders? How hard should we play the Islamophobia and Misinformation strategies?
Stop reading my mind!
I saw a report that said Syrian…. well, it's obviously someone from that direction, a sandy, desserty eastern part of the world. It's what they do.
Yes – I give the vits a break during the summer, but take D3, K2 and Vit C from October to March. I did have a two day runny nose at the beginning of November, but that's all.
And that is me off to bed.
Hopefully, a run to Stoke tomorrow.
TTFN All.
Goodnight from me, as well.
Yo B o B
Take the van, it will be quicker
Rearrange into a well known phrase or saying:-
Off
Bugger
I understand what you are saying PM.
But don’t tell anyone but I rather enjoy it. I also do all the washing up by had as well. And usually clean the windows and the kitchen work tops and hob.
Aha! Well, I have a few jobs for you here, too, then! Actually for some reason I really like cleaning the hob, there was an excellent product and a joy to use that went by the name of Easy-Do, and it really was, but unfortunately it just isn’t available any more 😩.
Right, I don't want any of you giving muslims mean looks, OK.
They're the real victims here.
Or pointing out that islam is a cult.
I'm popping off as well, strange how after quite a short time 9 pm begins to feel like 10 pm
And I use to turn in around 11.
Night all 😴
This video released an hour before the attack in Germany.
Threats to pantos, for goodness sake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dii039qtqd4
I’ve had it before, a few years ago. Did exercises, thought gone for good…nope! doing exercises again 🙄 it’s a trapped nerve, I think, due to piriformis muscle weakness.
Ouuuuuch! Get well soon x
Thanks Kathie, feeling a bit easier this morning, not as bad as last time because I started exercises straightaway x
Well done, you! May your industry be rewarded by the sciatica buggering off pdq x
🤣 excellent comment thanks for cheer up m’dear 🥰🤩 x it’s not as bad so far today thxx
Leyt on again!
Isn't Leyt on buzzard a town in Bedfordshire?
A 50 year old doctor from Saudi Arabia apparently. Patrick Christys says that’s been stated by German authorities.
Did the Polizei shoot the bastard?
No, they’ve arrested him.
And on a more positive note, I've just watched "A Christmas Carol" (the real one, with Alastair Sim) on YouTube.
I think it's become one of my Desert Island Films.
Evening, all. Back home now. The filly ran well, but in my view (bearing in mind I am only a spectator) she should have won. Beaten a neck, I think, a fast finisher. To his credit the jockey did admit that he was too far out of his ground, but he was riding to instructions from the assistant trainer. As I intimated earlier, she should be better next year.
Post of the year 2024!
It is indeed, but Leyton Orient are a football team from League 1
I no longer know what the leagues signify. In my day, division 1 was the top echelon but now they have premier, championship and such leagues to confuse the casual viewer.
Anyone who charges an ebike in their home is crackers!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623938dq6no
'LFB said the e-bike had been converted from a conventional pedal cycle by having a battery pack fitted to it, and was being charged at the time of the fire'.
I didn't bother reading the whole article. The charger was likely a knock off too.
I have an E-Bike. A real one. The battery is also a real one as is the charger. Both are kept outside.
From the video it looks like they have outside space and even a balcony.
Anyone who charges an ebike in their home is crackers!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623938dq6no
Islamophobia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMYwgnfKAE
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Sounds about right.
We don't want him back here anyway!
Definitely not, presumably still with same chap..something about a mortgage?
He can't "marry" Reinaldo anyway. Best he can do is enter a civil partnership and pretend. We need to start calling out the social engineering.
100 % agree. It is like being at primary school and looking at the dress up box. Then choosing something for life. It's all make believe.
This post appeared 10 minutes ago as a BTL on the letters page. It puts the problem we have succinctly l
Lestat Black
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Islam is an ideology, a belief system, not a race or ethnicity; it is an inferior ideology. It is a simplistic, violent creed – a Medieval idiot’s guide to life, if you will. It appeals to the lowest common denominator; it is the refuge of the dim-witted, mentally weak, and wilfully ignorant. It attracts violent, insecure, and sadistic men to its creed, because it allows them to feel virtuous whilst expressing the basest elements of their nature.
Islam is an all-encompassing totalitarian, theocratic belief structure which dictates every aspect of life. It revels in violence and bloodlust. If you are not a Muslim you are an enemy of Islam, plain and simple. It is militaristic, expansionary, and devoid of any enlightened ideals. It crushes all dissent. It is a cultural cancer.
It makes half the population (women) second class citizens (or outright property); it imposes a positive feedback loop of circular idiocy; a bland mono-culture of arbitrary chauvinistic rules backed with the threat of violence; it seems to be in constant conflict with every other ideology on the planet; it has the explicit goal of dominating and subverting all other societies and belief systems. Given free rein, it nearly always creeps towards some form of Totalitarian Theocracy.
If our government does not rapidly re-secularise our politics, public spaces and the education system; end Islamic immigration, ban mosque-building, all Islamic 'charities' (vehicles for the spread of Islam), and remove all traces of Sharia, then I fear it is just a matter of time before a full-blown sectarian civil war occurs. Wherever the cancer of Islam spreads and gains a foothold, conflict and bloodshed inevitably follows.
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They don't like the truth being disseminated.
Just keep reposting with subtle changes. Under different names and VPN.
"… dictates every aspect of life." Yes, even how to take a shit.
Another BTL to the deleted truth.
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All are horrified, few are shocked, none is surprised.
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Too late. Way too late.
OUCH!!
Night All
https://x.com/BurnsideWasTosh/status/1870188051793633282
Pity.
That's me for today. Bed & zeds. See all Y'all tomorrow!
Goodnight, Paul.
Tch. We need to wait until investigations are complete to find out whether or not it was "terror related". Apparently there are many other possibilities that do not implicate our peaceful guests.
I think that is done in a much more sneaky way.
Very easy to check up though!
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Thanks.
399088+ up ticks,
Pillow ponder,
Yes tis the car that did it, guilty as sin, in the main tis the black cars that go rogue, these driverless vehicles have been highly suss from the outset.
https://x.com/masternugg76814/status/1870225866585731204
"The knife went in"
399088+ up ticks,
O2O,
Do the herd realise just how important the islamic vote is, do the peoples realise that if we keep rhetorically / physically upsetting these muslim chaps we are never going to get RESET in place
Well, chums, that's me off to bed. Good night, sleep well, and I'll see you all tomorrow.
https://x.com/GilesRocholl/status/1870151350882812002
BBC
"Analysis: Establishing the motive will be a first priority
published at 23:42
Frank Gardner
Security correspondent"
Just fuck off, Frank.
Look in the koran, Frank.
Of the bullets which hit Gardner in his torso (others passed through his shoulder and leg) one hit his spinal nerves and he was left partially paralysed in the legs and since then has used a wheelchair.
They missed !!!
Goodnight, all.
Good night.
Um…why am i awake?
Keir Starmer woke you up.
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I see the media have just skipped the usual lies and gone straight to pure propaganda.
Muslim murderer 'writes' fake note and it's spewed all over the press. Still a muslim killing people.
Good morning, all – Saturday’s new page is here .
Thank you Geoff and good morning.