Friday 21 January: Boris Johnson remains the best leader to head the Government and fight the next election

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  2. Boris Johnson remains the best leader to head the Government and fight the next election

    I wonder, who else is there?

    1. Perhaps the Conservatives should have a different kind of leadership election.
      Instead of putting letters in to the 1922 committee, they should shove a different woman under Boris’s nose.
      I can’t believe that I could ever have become so cynical, but I do think that in his case, the sanctity of family life does not mean an awful lot and is doomed anyway, and if he hadn’t been PM, I don’t believe he would ever have married Carrie at all.

      1. Precisely my reaction.
        If I remember rightly, the Sacrificial Virgin wedding took place just before one of the global boondoggles.

        1. Was she after his gruesomely unattractive body or after the position and kudos that being the PM’s paramour/mistress/wife would give her?

          I cannot believe that their marriage will last when Boris is no longer PM but I may be wrong. I was completely wrong about the Beckhams and thought that the marriage would collapse when David Beckham had affairs with other women or when he stopped playing Kevball. I was also wrong about tattoos which I thought would quickly fall out of favour and the business to be in was a treatment which eradicated body graffiti leaving not a trace behind.

    2. Exacto, Bob3. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. And don’t forget that at long last Boris is starting to row back on lockdowns, masks, etc.

      1. No movement on the net zero crap, I’m sorry to say. Until then he can stuff his head up a dead bear’s bum.

        ‘Morning, Elsie.

        1. Morning, Hugh. One problem at a time, though. I’m sure he will move on net zero when the sh1t hits the fan in April. (But will it be April 2022 or April 2050?)

      2. I did read t’other day that, whilst seeking further opinion about the 2nd lockdown, he was bounced into taking action because some tw@ leaked the then latest scaremongering predictions to the MEEJAH, who then, of course ramped up the pressure for the lockdown.

      3. He has a lot more to do to get back on course.

        Here are some things he might start with : invoke Article 16 and remove the border in the Irish Sea; enforce National borders properly and solve problem of illegal immigration; give our fisherfolk back their fishing grounds; jettison the ECHR and make sure that the ECJ has no further influence in British legal matters; have no Covid passports and remove restrictions on the unvaccinated; scrap any mandates on Covid vaccinations; sort out how and if the BBC is funded; net zero policy scrapped so ordinary people are not financially crippled and the economy is not destroyed; army veterans form the N. Ireland conflicts be no longer persecuted and prosecuted.

        That’s for starters.

    2. That second one really rings true! So many times I’ve been about to put the phone down when they’ve finally answered it!

    1. Brilliant! We had a cat who knocked a book off the bed head, and my old man got a black eye!
      Edit : Good Morning all! Blooming chilly here!

    2. Brilliant! We had a cat who knocked a book off the bed head, and my old man got a black eye!
      Edit : Good Morning all! Blooming chilly here!

  8. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    SIR – “Do the Tories really care about people like us?” asks Allister Heath. In view of the damage that net-zero costs are inflicting upon us, the answer can only be no, they don’t care.

    The Government is pursuing extremist green goals on the back of those who cannot afford it. The policy will impoverish many who are just getting by. The Government is actively discouraging the exploration of Britain’s natural resources, resulting in higher prices as energy has to be imported. It is artificially inflating energy prices to pay for unreliable wind power. It plans to destroy our ability to heat our homes effectively and cheaply. This is not conservatism, it is virtue-signalling elitism.

    If the Conservatives think that tinkering with VAT on fuel or tweaking national insurance or even replacing the Prime Minister will save them from electoral defeat, they are deluding themselves. They need to reverse the strategic disaster that they’ve tied themselves to and ditch net zero.

    Phil Coutie
    Exeter, Devon

    I couldn’t agree more, Mr Coutie. Much damage has already been done, but there is a lot more in the pipeline if the Liberal Greenie remains in No 10 – and it won’t be gas…

  10. HSBC is probably only the first to deter small charity accounts. No doubt the banks will continue to waste large sums on vacuous adverts, telling us they are here to support us. Oh the irony:

    HSBC fees force charities to close accounts

    SIR – I ran an HSBC account (Letters, January 20) for a small charity that supports people while they work towards the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. There were no fees or interest until November 1 2021, when HSBC imposed a monthly fee of £5 and charges for every transaction. We had a small lump sum, which would soon have disappeared into bank coffers.

    We decided to close the account. I presented the forms on December 8 and it was finally closed on January 7. I was warned by the bank teller that it might take a while, not only because of festive bank holidays but also as a result of “a big backlog of other account closures”. What a surprise.

    We have found somewhere more hospitable for the money.

    Sue Cole
    Malvern Wells, Worcestershire

    SIR – I am the treasurer of a small village charity, which for many years had a free HSBC account with telephone banking facilities.

    In August 2021 HSBC said that from November 1 there would be a £5 monthly charge, along with other fees if we wanted to pay money in or out. On November 1, when I tried to use the telephone banking facilities, I was told by the recorded voice that our details were no longer recognised, and it took me until December 23 to get them reinstated after many visits to branches.

    HSBC states that it is “confident that our offer remains very competitive”. As far as I am aware it is the only bank that is charging small charities for an account, yet we cannot consider switching to a different one because at the moment none of them are opening charity accounts.

    Alan Brown
    Northampton

    SIR – Due to Covid our monthly meetings (on the Thames) have not taken place – meaning we have had no income.

    How can HSBC justify the £5 charge when the account has always been in credit? I too might resort to keeping the society’s money in a tin (Letters, January 15).

    Margaret Webster
    Treasurer, River Thames Society
    London SW6

    1. That’s HSBC, whose response to first the Referendum – and then the result – was to institute a series of adverts not-so-subtly decrying this country and the idea that we might be better off running things for ourselves. Their current one takes a swipe at borders which are apparently “good for some things.”

      Why anyone but a Remainer would have their money with them, Heaven knows.

      1. I still have an internet current account with them (it has very little in it) and a savings account that pays next to no interest. At least they don’t charge me for having the account. i originally set them up (with a £100 incentive donation from HSBC) to keep monies I raised for a charity separate from my own funds. I certainly wouldn’t open a new account with them!

  11. Morning all, brrrr it’s cold out there.
    Apologies to our Scandinavian, Canadian Nottlers who knows what “cold” is.

  12. Headline in today’s DT:

    Scrap the unreliable daily Covid data updates before people become addicted to them, say experts

    Call to phase out statistics comes as it emerges that up to 70pc of virus patients in hospital being primarily treated for other problems

    * * *

    Oh dear, it looks as though Project Fear 2 has run out of steam. I have a better idea; publish accurate figures for hospitalisations due solely to Covid. Not sufficiently frightening? Never mind, I expect a new variant will be found shortly…to be filed on the shelf marked ‘Fiction’ along with all the other rubbish Covid stats.

    1. The measures that they have taken have prolonged the virus. They should have left well alone as they do with flu and the common cold.

    1. Unfortunately, the Limp Dims and their “freeze your arse off” policies are anything but funny.

  14. UK sends 30 elite troops and 2,000 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine amid fears of Russian invasion. 21 January 2022.

    A group of around 30 elite British troops has arrived in Ukraine to help train the Ukrainian armed forces on new anti-tank weapons gifted by the UK amid fears of an imminent, new Russian invasion, Sky News understands.

    The members of the Ranger Regiment – part of the army’s newly-formed Special Operations Brigade – flew out on military planes that also airlifted a total of some 2,000 anti-tank missile launchers to the country during the course of this week.

    British surveillance aircraft have also been spotted as part of a quiet but notable build-up of support to Ukraine’s military by the UK.

    Thus do wars begin from limited meddling.

    https://news.sky.com/story/russia-invasion-fears-as-britain-sends-2-000-anti-tank-weapons-to-ukraine-12520950

    2. To win a war you need overwhelming firepower.

      Just what these idiots think they will accomplish i have no idea. Except to give the authorities the ability to blame the other side and ramp up the rhetoric.

      Good morning.

      1. Morning Phizz. It’s worth bearing in mind that these morons have presided over the self-created Covid chaos. I have seen no evidence that they know any more about Geopolitics or War! This move is simply stoking the fire!

    3. As I posted yesterday, our troops will be prime targets, and rightly so. It is none of our business. In an identity parade could a committee composed of Liz Truss and Ben Wallace tell a Ukrainian from a Russian?

  15. Good morning all. A brightening morning, dry and with a -3°C in the yard.
    Woken up by contractors exploring the sewer that runs down the road fitting a flow meter as part of a survey.

      1. A neighbour was a Public Health Inspector. One day, there was a problem with the drainage in the village hall. Neighbour lifted the manhole covers. “That may be shit to you, but it’s meat and drink to me…!!”

    3. When the Chinese lock up a group of people considered a menace to society they are roundly condemned.

      When the Aussies do it…..

    4. Look at her eyes, the eyes says a lot about a person.
      Her eyes tells me all I need to know about her.
      Where have I seen eyes like that….. I know, a Commissioner of a UK police force.

    5. Those two red markings on her left collar look similar to SS, or do I have too vivid an imagination?

      1. She’ll be having lampshades made from the tattooed skin of dead ‘patients‘ inmates of her death camps.

    11. Wellcamp.

      ‘Yeah, marketing say. It’s a camp where you go to get well. ‘

      ‘No, says everyone else. It’s a camp you’re taken to against your will so the state can control you.’ Lefties never change. Are they all demented psychopathic genocidal maniacs?

  17. Good morning all.

    Michael Lee Aday died last night. He was 74.

    R.I.P Meatloaf.

    Thanks for all the great songs.

      1. That might be downstairs then. They have all the best musicians.
        Upstairs has Mary Poppins.

    1. ‘Totally agree – I am fed up to the back teeth of hearing about “mental health” – stop bloody whining and get on with it! And that goes for all the members of the royal family too!

      1. I have a 44 year old son struggling with his mental health.
        New job with the same company but was doing the old job as well until they recruited someone.
        6 months on still doing 2 jobs, 10/11 hour days +preparation at the weekends – 2 weeks ago
        he fell apart.

        Despite a basic being well above the PM’s they have still to find that person – Engineer + 15+ industry experience and the tricky bit is having commercial background / acumen.

        Mental health is important when you or a relative/friend has it – you can ignore the reality when it is somebody you do not know.

        1. I think the point of the piece was the trivialisation, not that genuine mental health problems don’t matter. It sounds as though your son is struggling because he’s over-worked.

        2. We have our share of it in my family, and I suffered for more than a decade from poor gut health, one of the symptoms of which is depression. But at the end of the day, you just have to get on with it. The modern tendency to wallow in diagnoses and special status is not at all constructive. I am related to a wallower.
          I am sure this last part doesn’t apply to your son, though.
          I’ve done the two jobs thing myself, and it can only be sustained for about six months. But as an engineer, your son is in a position to dictate a little bit. Younger people don’t accept crap from management any more. He needs to start pushing back a bit and set limits on what he will accept from his employer, or go freelance (at least you get paid for two jobs then), or go to another employer. If you feel trapped in your current job, you just update your skills and get something else.
          A friend who works at a start-up says that millennials go to their manager and say, I don’t like the job I’m doing at the moment, can you find something better for me? and instead of laughing them out of the room, the managers take it seriously!
          Things have changed a lot in the work place in the last ten years or so.

  21. Spiked

    Regardless of where one stands on vaccination, barring unvaccinated

    MPs from the Bundestag is an indictment of German parliamentary

    politics. This rule does not serve a public-health purpose. It serves a

    political purpose – to exclude, literally and symbolically, political

    opponents from the democratic process.

    What this means for the AfD remains to be seen. But there’s little doubt that the credibility of the new government is already damaged in the eyes of many.

    Rest here

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/21/germany-is-excluding-the-unvaccinated-from-democracy/
    We may think we have won a small victory here in the UK but Covid Fascism is still full speed ahead in Europe and many other countries,this ain’t over!!
    See Savage Jabber and his mandates for details!!

  22. Liz Truss threatens Putin. This woman cannot control her own department, cannot deal with deliberate French and Dutch intransigence, and their deliberate delays and obstruction of normal trade at our borders. and does not reply to letter from citizens.
    Nor, I would guess does she understand what she says.
    In her speech, Ms Truss said President Putin must “desist and step back from Ukraine before he makes a massive strategic mistake”.
    ““The Kremlin haven’t learnt the lessons of history,” she said. “They dream of recreating the Soviet Union, or a kind of greater Russia, carving up territory based on ethnicity and language. They claim they want stability while they work to threaten and destabilise others.”
    And she warned that an invasion would “only lead to a terrible quagmire and loss of life, as we know from the Soviet-Afghan war and conflict in Chechnya”.”

    1.”The Kremlin haven’t learnt the lessons of history”… Oh, I think that they have. Read what Putin says about the Soviet Union.
    2. “…carving up territory based on ethnicity and language…” Actually, ethnicity and language are, along with culture, history and religion, the foundation of a homogenous peaceful country, as the UK used to be.
    3. …“an invasion would only lead to a terrible quagmire and loss of life, as we know from the Soviet-Afghan war...” This is possibly the stupidest thing ever said by a UK government minister in the last 100 years. However, it is quite true, and it underlines the fact that when the Soviets left Afghanistan we moved in and got another thrashing, spending hundreds of British lives, and an untold fortune in money, not just for nothing but to make things worse.

    And now MsTruss, despite the clear and undeniable stupidity of getting embroiled in what is, more or less, somebody else’s civil war, you seem Hell-bent on joining in. Has nobody ever mentioned Yugoslavia to you? Has that horrid mess – that we did not stay out of – never flowed past your consciousness?
    You want to set up your own bloody imbroglio, uninvited, unwanted,costly, and worse than pointless, with no happy ending possible?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60078959

  23. Last week the CEO of an insurance firm in Indiana reported a 40% increase in deaths in the age group 18 – 64 yo. Here are additional unprecedented death rates from the USA that deserve an explanation. Is a similar increase being recorded here but being covered-up?

    Drawn from this week’s episode of The Highwire.

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    2. I wonder how many of the deaths can be attributed to BLM? Black on black murders appear to have risen sharply as have traffic accidents and drug overdoses.
      I’m sure there are vaccine deaths too.

    1. Can’t have people realising the tsunami surge of illegal immigrants, can we? No, but you want to know if I’ve got central heating – so you can destroy it – don’t you?

    1. ‘_ only about 4 or 5 months to go!’

      In 5 months we start the downward slope …!!

      Good morning, VOM.

      1. I always think the summer is over by the time the school summer hols start. The nights are drawing in, the weather goes off, etc…Feb to mid June are the golden months.

  27. Just been out to dispose of the ENORMOUS rat that the boys left on the doormat. Not much frost but ice on the road.

    2. Good morning Bill

      My goodness, was the rat really a whopper , brave cats . I hope they weren’t bitten in the the capture and killing , best check them over x

      1. They are fine, Maggie – thank you. Had a huge breakfast. Gus now sleeping it off; pickles out on the hunt again.

          2. I was stopped from putting my shot rat in the compost yesterday by the missus, so I flung it into the woods across the road.

    3. Ah, the gifts cats bring you!

      Battle cat brings much the same, although he goes after slightly larger prey: cows, for example.

  28. 334449+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Friday 21 January: Boris Johnson remains the best leader to head the Government and fight the next election,

    This is really going the tax the brain cell of the electorate especially those
    that are in shite shuffling mode, AKA shite graders, the best of the worst
    nasal gripers.

    “Boris Johnson remains the best leader to head the Government” now that really is a statement to create an aura of fear for the future, one must ask will the foreign DOVER plus other entry points potential
    troop / voters in a couple of years make a difference and swing it for
    johnson, or as many sane peoples would have it, have johnson swing.

    Tis NOT yet mandatory to support / vote for a segment of the lab/lib/con
    mass uncontrolled / gov.controlled, illegal immigration, paedophile umbrella close shop coalition, not a lot of peoples seem to know that.

    1. Swayne’s a total pillock. Never heard of the bloke.

      Office space I can understand. A small staff is also acceptable to take phone calls and manage a diary. Hang on, what’re my office costs – the barn five of us work from is costing about £500-1000 per month including bills and depending on who’s here and what needs doing (we had another fibre line put in and if Hilary’s in then the costs double as for some reason she puts the heating on in Winter).

      Our company overlord is a dreadfully efficient tyrant and criminal mastermind who manages all our diaries and tells me where I need to be, when and has tickets and transport magically arrive. Her costs each month are less than 2000. I can’t pay her any more as she won’t take it and prefers to give the money to charity.

      All told, it seems a sensible amount would be what Mr Hollobone is costing, Mr Redwood at the top end. What these fools waste another £170,000 of our money on is incomprehensible.

    1. Scientists listening to recordings found in the rubble believe that what Sir Alec Douglas-Home actually said was,
      “We declare war on rush hour”….

  32. 34449+ up ticks,

    Now there’s a question prior to casting another vote,

    Barry Byrne
    @ByrneBarry
    Trying to make sense of a government that thinks it more sensible to replace a gas boiler than stop an invasion of an incompatible culture.

    1. Good morning ogga

      As you know we often agree with each other but there are times when we disagree and we are both prepared to say why we disagree. But who is this Robert Stapleford who down-votes your posts without saying why? It is my view that Jennifer S-P – our former phantom down-voter – has transed and now returns to annoy us with a new pseudonym.

      1. 334449+ up ticks,

        Afternoon R,

        Could very well be, maybe closer to home, it matters not to me, if it wants to make a typed comment all well & good if not that is it’s prerogative.

  34. Good morning all
    A bright, sunny and frosty morning in Woking.
    I have sent this to my MP this morning.

    My despair deepens by the day.

    We have a shambles of a government who can’t control illegal immigration nor teachers unions and masks and some idiot thinks it’s a good idea to sent ‘30 Elite Troops and a number of missiles to the Ukraine’.

    What on earth is going on. Is everyone in Whitehall dead from the neck up? It’s none of our business. If the U.K. and the EU continue to poke the bear, don’t be surprised if it bites back.

    1. If Russia actually does invade in force what is NATO/EU going to do?
      Short of actions that might easily lead to all out war I don’t think there is actually all that much they can do militarily.
      I also greatly fear that this Western diversion could encourage China to take Taiwan.

      There are potential flashpoints everywhere; we are living in dangerous times and our leaders are incompetent at best and down right dangerous at worst.

      1. I recall a friend of mine who operated in defence circles, saying, back in the time when David Owen was foreign secretary that, despite all the missiles, submarines, MAD, etc, the most likely future scenario was a conventional land war with the USSR…At that time we didn’t really count China.

        1. The problem with a conventional land war will be numbers.
          “They” can afford far more dead than “we” can AND they don’t appear to care as much about the sanctity of life.
          I very much doubt the UK as it now stands could even start to feed itself, let alone produce sufficient armaments and fighting troops to survive a war of attrition.

          1. Just conscript all the illegal immigrants but don’t arm them, until at the front line and then only 5 bullets and no bayonet.

      2. The world was less dangerous when Donald Trump was President. The Democrats always find excuses to go to war.

    2. I doubt anyone in Whitehall is dead from the neck up when it comes to remembering the details of their bank balances.

    2. I have borrowed this from within the tweet above:

      A combination of The Trusted News Initiative & Gates funding I was struggling to understand The Guardian’s tabloid style pro vaccine stance, a paper I had previously trusted to show a fair sided argument on topics, until I learned they had received £15 million from Gate foundation

      All the MSM outlets in France are heavily dependent upon state subsidy and since the ‘pandemic’ started the government has increased the money it gives them to guarantee that they keep on side.

      The French MSM is ruthless and no matter how distinguished a scientist is they will vilify or cancel him/her if he/she should dare to question the government’s orthodoxy.

    2. Yer Hindus are almost as much trouble as the slammers – except that they don’t kill so many people who offend them.

      2. Yer Hindu Nehru helped Chinese PLA troops rampage through Tibet by providing rice etc. Not the brightest log on the fire.

    3. A non-story. Indian Kit Kats’ having Hindu gods on wrappers is akin to U.K. Kit Kats’ having Jesus Christ on, something many here would object to.

    1. We have “learned to live with it”. The government has no intention eradicating the threat presented by the six million or so people who would dance at our funerals.

  39. We’ve got a new telly!

    OH decided we need a modern one with internet so he went out and bought one – it arrived late yesterday afternoon, and the young chap showed us how to sign up for ‘catch-up’, etc.

    He wore a mask. we said – “You don’t need to wear that here” and he said that he’s self-employed so if he catches anything and has to stay home he doesn’t get paid. I didn’t have the heart to tell him they are useless.

    1. And that nasty, dusky little Wykemist and his bumptious Etonian albino boss swear they will go after the self-employed as soon as they start making any money again just as Macron will emmerder the unvaccinated.

  41. Good Moaning.
    While slurping buckets of rocket fuel, I pondered on why the past two years have annoyed me so much.
    In the course of my life, I have either caught or rebuffed measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella and polio; plus God knows how many variants of cold and flu viruses. I’ve had accidents, broken bones, two big operations …..
    My father was diagnosed with pulmonary TB when I was 13 months old, so he’d been breathing mycobacterium tuberculosis over me for a year plus.
    Oh, and as my parents lived in London during the war, it could be said that H!tler was trying to bump me off while I was still in utero.
    No wonder my scorn for the masked, sanitiser obsessed fearties is incandescent.

    1. You and me both, O Pushy One.

      Looking back over 81 years (the first four of which were spent with me being very ill a lot of the time) I wonder ho on earth I have managed to survive.

      1. It did provide us with some good things, indirectly. I believe Alan Simpson and Ray Galton met in a TB recovery hospital. Where would we have been without Hancock, etc.

      2. Like our very dear Anne you have learned how to push back against the slings and arrows! Weak and wimpish wokery does not build strong character!

    2. Yep. I survived meningococcal septicaemia when aged 24, as well as all the regular ailments. A cousin who was in her 80s and had Alzheimer’s has died and the funeral is to be held in the village church at Middlesmoor in Upper Nidderdale, my mum’s family’s home village. I asked one of my brothers if I could beg a lift, as it’s pretty much impossible to get there by public transport. The answer is yes but you must take a lateral flow test. For what purpose? If I’m not sick, I’m not sick and anyway, both brother and his wife are triple jabbed. Yet they test themselves constantly.

      2. People seem to be obsessed with the damned things. I did one before Christmas before visiting a friend recovering from surgery, at her request. I donated the rest of the box to my n-d-n who wanted to make sure she was clear before coming out of isolation as she and her new chap both had it over Christmas.

        Why can’t we just stay at home if we’re ill and live as normal when we’re not?

      4. My beloved father was bravely philosophical and he remained cheerful throughout his last few years when he was ill. He used to quote Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar who wondered why we should fear it seeing that “……. Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come .”

    3. I have been lucky to have avoided any very dire respiratory diseases but I had a stroke over 10 years ago but it was very minor and did little lasting damage. However I have had various bits of me taken out: tonsils, appendix, gall bladder, and right hip replaced with titanium, teeth replaced by composite, and a trimmed miniscus. I have an enlarged benign prostate which needs to have an eye kept on it and I am obese (according to the BMI table) without being morbidly so – but otherwise I am in the rudest of rude health!

      2. OH has had some old-man troubles over the last year, but is in good health. I’ve had two doses of breast cancer but recovered and am in good health. I’ve never had any chest infections.

    4. I’ve had all the childhood horrors too ending with a bout of glandular fever when I was 16. No surgeries and the only time I’ve been in hospital was to give birth and after miscarriages. Apart from an arthritic knee I am healthy and haven’t had a cold for over 5 years.
      Oh and guess what? Email today telling me to go for a booster. Deleted- I should coco.

    5. I think most of us have been through the wringer, chopped up and had various devices installed into us. I’m not clapping for the NHS, but a lot of doctors, surgeons and nurses have been very good to me.
      As for the mask wearers and ones that shun human contact, I find them very depressing.

      1. I’ve been fairly fortunate healthwise. Other than 3 broken bones, head of rt radius, fibula and a bone in my wrist, a multitude of sprains and gradual wearing out of the main joints, my heart attack 2¼y ago was my first major medical event needing medical attention.

      2. I have been fairly lucky so far (famous last words!). I avoided all childhood illnesses bar whooping cough (caught in hospital when I went in to have my tonsils out). Said tonsils caused a lot of problems with sore throats and hearing loss until their removal, so I missed a lot of school until I was six. Thereafter, I just had the occasional cold and cough. I did have violent reactions to insect bites, though, proving my immune system was working well. Until I fell off Coolio and broke a couple of ribs, I’d had no injuries other than grazes, either, despite climbing trees and riding horses and a bike. I’ve struggled to get my arthritis and SIJ fixed since I had a recent fall in the garden, but that’s Covid for you.

          1. He’s the Connemara. I posted a photo of him a while back. He had his name over the stable door.

          5. He’s come on in leaps and bounds (although I avoid jumping!) since he arrived at the stables with only two gears (stop and go flat out!), unable to bend as he’d only ever hunted. Now he does dressage tests and makes a nice shape, although he struggles with self carriage. I ride him in a Hackamore as that seems to make him more relaxed.

          6. “struggles with self carriage.” A bit like me on the way back from the pub Monday night.

    6. When I was born the doctor told my mother that I would not survive and that she should expect me to die very soon.. He was wrong.

  43. 334449+ up ticks,

    Through people power bring their next general election forward to the 22/1/2022, or suffer.

    Austrian Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly To Introduce Mandatory Vaccination for All Adults

      2. Judging from the caption behind the woman at right, it’s the Boulder shooting (ten killed) from last March. Carried out by an ITMA (It’s That Muslim Again), but not a ‘British’ one on that occasion.

        1. So I discovered when I looked into it, I had forgotten about the Boulder shooting. There are so many ITMAs in action that atrocities blend into each other.
          Either way, it appears that it’s a fake, even though I could easily see some woke commentator making just such a comment.

    2. I don’t think he was “Arabic”. Arab, perhaps. But then, of course, the septics are higgerent.

    3. That is a new low.
      He wasn’t remotely morally white either, as he comes from a culture that is steeped in slave trading, whereas white people are the only ones who have tried to eradicate slavery!

      1. It doesn’t count if we are the ones from whom the cultural appropriation is taking place….

          1. Indeed so. But equally, I don’t totally trust fact checkers either. They certainly have a hidden agenda.

    2. Reports that Melton Mowbray’s prime industry is involved with famine relief in Afghanistan are greatly exaggerated.

  48. Phew! Six bags filled and back in for a mug of tea and finger-warm!
    Where I’m working gets very little sunlight because of the mill buildings opposite, so is very slow to warm up.

    And a bit of a shit-storm building up with the Girl Guides:-

    Girlguiding scandal: The cops get involved
    …and target the women raising the alarm

    In November last year, The Daily Mail revealed that a trans identified male in a senior role at Girlguidling had been posting disturbing photos of himself on social media.

    Since 2017 Girlguiding has had a ‘trans inclusive’ policy. It allows boys who believe themselves to be girls to be members. Even more alarmingly, it allows intact adult males to be Girlguiding volunteers if they ‘identify as female’ (or claim to).

    https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F004ee271-57bd-458b-9d2e-cf4ee02dc0fd_695x181.png

    https://twitter.com/4WPub/status/1484167276869959686

    https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/monica-sulley-the-cops-step-in

    2. My personal experience of trans women is that they are obsessed with sex, constantly making innuendoes in a most unfeminine way.

        1. I do remember that fellow who climbed Everest in the 1950s and then decided he was female and had himself hacked about.. He died a few months ago, by which time he’d got married… to a woman… So I assume eventually he got over his psychiatric issues. Too late to recover his bits of course…

          1. All the trans women I have come across identify as lesbians, i.e. they are looking for a woman.

          1. Where do you think the scenes from Crocodile Dundee originated?
            BT was well known for his touchy feely approach to life.

          4. I think the caption is more modern than the clip.

            I had assumed that both exist now, transvestites and transgenders. The latter are more recent, possibly because women dressing up as men are not quite so obviously “different” as men dressing up as women.

          5. “I think the caption is more modern than the clip.”

            Indeed, but ‘transvestite’ has fallen out of use.

          7. Few do – ‘transgender’, or even ‘trans’, now applies to it all.

            One has become the other, as it were…

          8. Transvestitism still exists. It is mainly straight men dressing in women’s clothes for kinks/kicks.
            Transgenderism is a man trapped in a lesbian fantasy.

          9. When those who like to dress in the other sex’s clothing decided to go farther and get surgery and hormone treatment.

      4. I can’t say I’ve ever come across any in my personal life. They have to be mentally ill. No way can drugs, hormones or cosmetic surgery change you from one sex to another.

        1. In my opinion, it is a psychiatric condition, or a combination of conditions, probably with a physical basis.
          PM mentioned the prevalence of trans women in university IT departments, and there is a known link with autism. Recent research on autism has shown that symptoms can be switched on and off in some autistic mice and people by changing the bacteria in the gut. Poor gut bacteria -> autism. I would like to see similar research into gender dysphoria. But this will never happen as long as it is owned by the political movement.
          Transwomen that I personally have known have been narcissistic, controlling, depressives. The political trans movement, plus feminism, gives such individuals the opportunity to control their surroundings by forcing people they know to accept them as women. Most of them are still interested in cars, computers and sex, but they are able to carry this off as feminine because of feminism.
          There are a lot of feminists on mumsnet, and they are very against the trans political agenda, but from a feminist point of view like JK Rowling. Some of them are trans-widows, and they often refer to autogynephilia which means sexual arousal at the thought of himself as a woman. Thankfully, my personal experience does not extend this far.
          Of course, any research into any possible physical origins of sexual attraction, and the idea that it could be changed by physical changes in the body, would be strictly verboten by the LBGTs.

    3. I remember seeing Lord Cranley Onslow on Question Time, must have been 20 years ago, and he made a comment that is pertinent today.

      At the beginning of the 20th Century the CofE was in favour of fox hunting and against buggery. At the beginning of the 21st Century the CofE are against fox hunting and in favour of buggery.

    4. OK, enough’s enough. Time is well overdue for someone with balls and whiskers (i.e. a proper XY male) to take charge and declare that anyone who is not satisfied with what they were born as shall be sectioned under the Mental Health Act for their, and everyone else’s, safety. Trannyism is a brain disease in the same way the veganism is. Sufferers should be pitied and given treatment to assist their recovery.

      Any so-called “normal” man or woman not liking this policy (e.g. Pinko, Liberal, Leftys) should be flogged.

      Yeah. I know. I’m a pussy!

    5. The writing was on the wall when they removed “God” from the oath. What a woke-fest 🙁

  49. 334449+ up ticks,

    Let that sink in, otherwise suffer ……. silently, cut out the vote & whinge element

    Very,very, true fact,
    ·
    The only way to keep Britain out of the EU long-term is for a populist, patriotic political party to hold power in Westminster.

  50. The globalists virus narrative is collapsing, and as a result we shall see the war that has been going on for two years against us moved to a new phase of fomenting of international conflict. Distraction from domestic woes by war is an ancient ploy, but it is now being attempted in a milieu where the population knows better than to rely on the vapourings of either the government or the media. Without the internet, I think we would have been at war in the Ukraine in 2016 but the massive rejection of the narrative being sold then prevented it.

    The aggression now in Ukraine comes from those who persist in trying to move NATO right on to the Russian eastern border. No different from the Bay of Pigs. JFK would have taken Putin’s position, and would have been sensible to do so. Biden and his masters are about to find out that Putin is not bluffing, and they are fine about that – war as an engine of profit will perhaps have more to recommend it for them than dosing a reluctant population with immune disorders.

    https://www.tarableu.com/the-lie-of-russian-aggression/

    1. No plan survives contact with the enemy. It is also critical to have a fallback position and an exit route.

      Where are the globalist forces going to fallback to…Brussels?

      1. Given the UK’s recent experiences with expeditionary forces, the “Old Contemptibles”, Dunkirk and Afghanistan, I don’t think we should venture out too far, particularly as I very much doubt that the current civilian population would be in any hurry to enlist to replace them. The Falklands was a one off and almost certainly a lot closer run thing than the Jingoists might like to believe.

  51. I see the Daily Fail is busy keeping Project Fear going, although they know no real facts.

    https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-10426153/Bat-Hell-singer-Meat-Loaf-dies-74.html

    Then they publish this as part of the story.

    US singer Meat Loaf, who was known for hits including Bat Out Of Hell, has died at the age of 74 after selling more than 100million albums worldwide and starring in 65 movies – with reports suggesting he contracted Covid-19. The singer, whose real name was Marvin Lee Aday, died with his wife Deborah at his side – and while no cause or other details were given by his family, he had suffered numerous health scares over the years. Meat Loaf had an extraordinary career over six decades with the Bat Out Of Hell trilogy among his most popular musical offerings. Sources told TMZ that Meat Loaf was supposed to be attending a business dinner this week for a reality a TV show he was involved with called ‘I’d Do Anything for Love…But I Won’t Do That’, named after his song, but it was cancelled after he ‘became seriously ill’ with coronavirus. It is not known whether the singer was vaccinated. His hits included the near ten-minute title track from Bat Out Of Hell, Paradise By The Dashboard Light from the same album, and I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) from 1993 album Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell. The single I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) reached number one in 28 countries and earned him a Grammy award. The rocker also played the role of Eddie in the 1975 musical film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Among those paying tribute to Meat Loaf today were singer Cher, who said she had ‘so much fun’ when she worked with him, and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber who said the ‘vaults of heaven will be ringing with rock’

    Must keep the fear going eh boys! You bunch of cruds

    1. You found a right one there. No idea who she is, but her accent isn’t from Bogoff Comprehensive.

    3. The speakers for that presentation were Klaus Schwab, Freeke Heijman, Dambisa Moyo & Ngaire Woods. I think this is Freeke Heijman?

        1. Global economic governance. Well that’s a disaster in itself. Governments have one responsibility- to their own nations. That is whom they serve.

          2. Yes. The other female on that panel is…

            “Dambisa Felicia Moyo is a Zambian-born economist and author, known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. She serves on the boards of Chevron Corporation, Condé Nast and the 3M Company.”

            What a shower!

          3. Yes. The other female on that panel is…

            “Dambisa Felicia Moyo is a Zambian-born economist and author, known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. She serves on the boards of Chevron Corporation, Condé Nast and the 3M Company.”

            What a shower!

      2. Sooo… she’s a parasite?

        Wasn’t ‘Quantum’ the name of the Bond villain in that Daniel Craig film?

    4. The speakers for that presentation were Klaus Schwab, Freeke Heijman, Dambisa Moyo & Ngaire Woods. I think this is Freeke Heijman?

    5. Governments don’t lead. They merely waste. A country where the government is harshly controlled by the public is a better country.

      Collar and chain them, teach the useless whelps to walk at heel. These people are servants, nothing more.

  55. Don’t panic Mr. Mainwaring!
    Coincidence? Couple of days after the announcement of eased restrictions, today I have had both a text and an email telling me to get a booster. Keep it going- on and on and on…..

      1. An automated system. Your number has been shared with the telecoms companies. All legal under the Coronavirus Act.

          1. That is why i say it is automated. No one was working that day from where they pretend they come from.

    3. I have had three today I put it down to my visit to my GP surgery on Tuesday.
      They’ve found out at last that I actually still exist.

    1. I always say that men are form Mars and Women from Venus. Because women are tempestuous surrounded by furious storms of acidic heat… and no one wants to live with that!

        1. It all depends on the clothes they wear and if they sit down to pee.
          And of course don’t leave the seat up.

    2. And some women are like Australia: everyone knows where it is but nobody wants to go there!

  57. Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church’s
    morals, kept sticking her nose into other people’s business. Several
    members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared
    her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when
    she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw
    his old pickup parked in front of the town’s only bar one afternoon. She
    emphatically told George (and several others) that everyone seeing it
    there would know what he was doing. George, a man of few words, stared
    at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn’t explain,
    defend, or deny. He said nothing. Later that evening, George quietly
    parked his pickup in front of Mildred’s house… walked home… and left it
    there all night. You gotta love George.

      1. Mildred and her ilk making assumptions because of where a vehicle was parked.

        Him leaving it outside her house was silent revenge.

  59. OH has spent the last few hours playing with his new toy – it’s warmer in here than in the computer room so he’s been doing his online Swedish lessons on the new telly.

    I’ve now finished the marmalade and put it in jars, having done the chopping up bit yesterday.

    1. Will having the new telly with internet improve your download speeds for Iplayer and other streaming?

      1. We hadn’t tried using iplayer for so long that we never bothered checking, but two years ago BT forced us to have their router and fibre connection. So it’s much better than it used to be though the connection is sometimes iffy. Last night for instance, it kept dropping out. But mostly it’s fairly steady now.

        We should be able to use it and the ITV catch-up now with this telly.

        1. That’s good. It will give you more choice.

          When streaming if you have other things going on in the background it can make it drop out.

          2. Iplayer do live programmes. That would be an easy way to stream your first live broadcast and see if it works before going mad and signing up to Netflix/Prime.

      1. He’s always had an interest in languages, and has been learning Swedish for a couple of years.

      1. I’ve just been looking at the criteria, and I think they are a bit out of date – they don’t take vaxx apartheid into account.

      1. If only Phizz, it’s more like a 6 year old child trying to reassemble a skeleton that’s been in the ground for a thousand years.

    2. In an often anguished 19-minute televised speech, Gates said: “We made a terrible mistake. We wanted to protect people against a dangerous virus. But it turns out the virus is much less dangerous than we thought. And the vaccine is far more dangerous than anyone imagined.”

      “These vaccines—Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca—they’re killing people left and right—and they’re injuring some people very badly,” Gates continued, waving his hands in the air at times for dramatic effect.,

      Whoops” Does Mr Gates know more than we even suspect?

          1. Good afternoon, Minty. They will never apologise. They will just tell more lies to confuse the issue.

      2. This is almost unbelievable, but slightly inevitable many people including my self have said there was something very dark underlying in this covid out break. I didn’t expect the get the slightest whiff of the truth in my life time.

    1. I guess there are so many more women that men in the 90+ category because in these days where women have no longer had a dozen chidlren before they’re 40, we tend to live longer than men?

      1. Yes – for quite some time females have a higher projected life-span than males, and few women die in childbirth or from exhaustion now.

        Have you totted up the numbers? They bear no comparison to the garbage on the beeb every night.

      2. My paternal grandparents had eleven children. My grandfather, a vigorous and active young doctor, died of kidney stones at the age of 45; my grandmother lived to the age of 89.

        1. I think the stats back up women living longer than men, whether it feels like it or not 🙂

      4. Going back to the 1970s, there were nearly double the number of patients on a female geriatric ward to the number of old boys on the men’s ward.

  64. From The Grimes:

    “Sajid Javid has said that he will continue to wear a facemask when shopping because the prevalence of coronavirus is still “quite high”.”

    Somehow, I don’t see the spamhead slammer “shopping”. Popping out for 20 players and a Mars Bar? Nah – he has staff to do that…

    2. The last time that pratt went to the shops he would have been seated in is mothers trolley.

    3. But as far as being effective against Covid is concerned, masks are about as effective as a punctured condom.

      1. ‘Evening, Richard, please see my response to George (Grizzly) apropos the use(lessness) of masks.

    1. Oh now I get it,………. they are letting all these thousands of people into the UK every month so they will have somewhere to charge all their new cars. I thought they’d come here to find a jobs and work. 😃😏

  66. The catastrophe of the Covid models. Spiked. 21 january 2022.

    This belated admission of Omicron’s ‘mildness’ changed the game. Less than a week earlier, the same team at Imperial College, led by Professor Neil Ferguson, had said they could find ‘no evidence… of Omicron having different severity from Delta’. On the day before that, the chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, had appeared on television telling the nation that ‘there are several things [about Omicron] we don’t know but all the things we do know are bad’.

    It’s one of the strangest things about this affair that even when Ferguson was revealed to be a Mountebank and Fraud of the first order, that the PTB still continued (and still do) to believe the lies that he peddled. He should of course be prosecuted and sent to prison for his part in this Gigantic Hoax but he will almost certainly get away with it because of his proximity in guilt to the politicians!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/21/the-catastrophe-of-the-covid-models/

    1. It seems indisputable that Ferguson has lied.

      But what is his motivation for lying? Is he corrupt – and if so who is paying him? Or is it sheer arrogant hubris and does he suffer, as many people in public life do, from Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

      1. Afternoon Richard. I researched him when he first came to prominence and I have no doubts that he’s a Sociopath. Even very early on when he was still a student there are signs of his psycopathy!

        1. I wonder what his cut is and if he has declared it on his self assessment form for the Tax office.

      4. In Ferguson’s case, I am quite ready to believe that it is a mixture of greed and incompetence!

    2. A virus can easily enter the respiratory tract via the tear duct, which empties into the nasal passage. Ever since this farrago began I have warned that wearing a flimsy mask is pointless: even more so if the eyes are not protected.

      1. This, oft repeated wisdom, is my take on the use (lessness) of masks is, “You are aware that the nasty little Covid bug is much, much smaller than the smallest mesh on any mask and will easily penetrate (or be exhaled) in the same way that a fart penetrates knickers?

        ‘Evening, George

        1. ‘Evening, Tom.

          Wearing a face-nappy to protect you from getting the virus is as effective as standing in a tennis court as protection from being shot with a shotgun by someone standing outside the court.

    3. Glasses steam up at the wrong moment and you walk into one of Australia’s many creatures that can kill you?
      No thanks.

      3. With my sunnies on and riding my dirt bike in the Bush I ran into the middle of a orb spider’s web. Nasty experience. Nearly as bad as when stuck in a wheel rut I chopped a 6ft brown snake in half a few days later.
        Still the sunnies keep the blowies out of yer eyes mate. 🤠😎

          1. The tail end would have been okay. And you’re right I only had hat shorts and a tee shirt on at the time. And I was alone. Short straw job On my way to Brewarrena (spl) to collect a bag of salt to cure the hides.

    3. Bob’s ‘We Are’ nicked and posted to Ar5ebook with the caveat, “Because it’s truth, I don’t know how long it’ll last:”

    1. I am no great fan of Prince Andrew’s and for all I know he is the scumbag he is painted to be. But I think that the way his brother and his nephew have ganged up on him makes me despise the first two heirs to the British throne: they are vindictive and nasty and should stand by other family members not exploit their misfortune.

      I never thought I would become a republican at the age of 75!

      1. I agree family should support each other but Andrew Windsor’s behaviour has long been beyond the pail.

        1. That’s ‘Beyond the pale’ the pale being a fence – the other pail is useful for shit.

          Oh, OK, I see what you mean.

  71. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6fb82d6ff55689338f0e556a028dc56f7a0156143824a2cfdfd05cd66216b909.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4edacbbf72ad4303fa0159056e52fd648434cbebb9cd1600d8af03151e78d7ba.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c97f41033a74fbaf84c8cd854c0b0f91e30f1a53aaa205dfcdb794dfca62d06d.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1ee55437f1cfe42887bf462f6348b985c42949e5264dd9f863a0b6a9e9624845.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/583e580217ec3d0fba6fea3907fc6fc25aaa6ff48fae79ef396eafdf7c1b6602.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5c708bac39db4057bbe4827694baa49e7d4e941199c8d415874f5b6d2794abc3.jpg I’m just back in from having taken a speculative ride out to my favourite small lake that is hidden from general view in the middle of private farmland. I have carte blanche permission from the landowner to visit and take photographs on his land.

    Since most lakes and ponds in the area are ice-bound I didn’t really expect to see anything except, perhaps, for the odd duck, goose or whooper swan. I pulled up on a lane around 100 yards from the lake and scanned the area. All I initially noticed were a group of hooded crows, magpies and rooks taking a drink from an unfrozen area of the lake. I was then stunned to see a stunning adult white-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla sitting among the crows.

    I quickly reached for my camera, checked the lens, aperture and shutter speed, then warily opened the driver’s door so as not to alert the eagle to my presence. I fired off the first few snaps resting the lens between the car’s door and window frame. Since it didn’t react, I slowly stood up and took another barrage of hand-held shots before it took off and flew up and down the lake. It then rose higher before disappearing over the north-east horizon.

    Talk about being in the right place at the right time. In the three-or-four minutes it was available to me, I took no fewer than 192 snaps, a few of which are appended here.

    White-tailed eagle is quite common in the area (I’ve had one over the garden) but to get reasonably close to a stationary one is rare.

      1. Thanks, Wibbs. They could have been much better if I’d been able to approach the bird closer and have the camera and lens combination on my tripod. But I suppose for a handheld camera, at a great distance, they’re not half bad record shots.

        1. Given that all of my photos are blurred and messy due to my hands shaking, I tihnk they are glorious.

    3. Well done Grizz that’s terrific, when ever I’ve had ‘a chance’ to photograph wild life I’m either twirly or too late.
      But I’ve got a photograph of a Gems Bok in the Kruger tying to get its huge horned head through the window of our 1960s Vauxhall velux. Somewhere 🤔

      1. Thanks Eddy. Nearest I’ve ever come to an animal’s head through the window was when I stayed on a farm, back in the mid-80s, in Devon. One of the horses had a habit of poking his head through the kitchen window in an attempt to grab a loaf. I wish I’d had a camera back then.

        1. Animals are such fun. I’ll try to find my one. I think there were some lions close by in another.

    5. Very nice, Grizz. As you say, a lot of good photos are the result of being in the right place at the right time.

    6. Excellent pictures, Grizz! Superb!
      SWMBO takes nice shots at Firstborn’s farm, and uses them to make greetings cards and calendars. Have you thought of that – pastoral pictures of Skåne would make a nice calendar.
      Firstborn gets Golden Eagles on the farm. Magnificent birds, absolutely huge, and they stay too far away to be snapped – SWMBO never has her long lens handy when the eagles are around, more’s the pity.

      1. Thanks, Paul.
        We also get golden eagles as well as the white-tailed. It’s always a matter of luck to be there at the right time. I’ve visited the lake dozens of times in the autumn with not a bird of any variety in sight. Today I was lucky.

          2. That should keep his cockles warm. It’s how trolls get their kicks.

            He has not been able to give a single coherent argument that staying in the E.U was a good thing. But then…that’s Lib Dems for you…always late for a bandwagon.

      1. Yep, me too, Philip at age 18 and in Pounds, shillings and pence.

        You not only had to get the round right (same again) but the monetary total as well.

        1. Yep. I did new money. I was underage but i looked older. Also the village bobby turned a blind eye to the lock-ins if you behaved.

          1. I can’t think of anyone. Not anyone i would trust to have real Conservative values.

            Maybe Suella Braverman but haven’t seen her for ages. Happens to be my missing in action MP.

          2. I’d go for Penny Mordaunt. She has actually worked in real jobs. My prediction is David Frost.

  74. Just had a visit from the BBC man to ask why I haven’t got a TV licence. I said I didn’t want one. He asked me why and I told him.
    We then had a 5 minute chat about rugby and he left.

    1. You may have inadvertently told him you watch the six nations.

      The rule is you do not engage in conversation with them at all.

      1. As long as he didn’t sign anything: one never should, irrespective of the provenance of the door to door salesman.

      3. Well, Delboy won’t be able to watch it on the BBC as they have lost the broadcasting rights to other businesses that are obviously paying more..

    1. The whips have different functions but one of them is certainly to act like heavies and corral the sheep.

      This new influx aren’t even trying to find their feet before they start bleating.

      1. Absolutely Phizzee! I made a comment on the DT yesterday about these pathetic creatures who really need to get a proper job, not being financed from the public purse! One comment said I should be ashamed of my remark! I expect he worked for a ‘charity’!

        1. I don’t do shame and i don’t do embarrassment. For some inexplicable reason some people still like me.

        3. I am of the view that those who work in the public sector have been on paid holiday for two years. I know that there are places that noe hac=ve three year backlog of admin work. The law courts are now years behind also.

          1. I really worry about the future for business, admin, transport and anything else run by local authorities. The amount of litter around the roads, the roads and drainage problems, the verges and overhanging trees, the local parks overgrown and full of glass, dog poo bags in trees and roads, bottles and other crap. And still the useless administration are about to let loose a cooncil tax explosion! For what? A pathetically reduced ‘service’.
            Sorry to whinge! I’m away to slit ma wrists…

        4. My new Limp Dim MP makes a lot of noise (i e she’s always in the local papers spouting on about something or other), but I can’t see that she’s made any difference whatsoever.

    3. He read John Effingdale MP’s memo which said that the rules did NOT apply to “important people”.

    4. He probably assumed that everyone is as dishonest as he is, and wouldn’t pay any attention to them.

    1. No – to be honest I never expected much from Moron, Rancid, Whine etc but I was disappointed by Brady and Kelly.

      1. But no real surprise apart from Andrew Neil. A really ghastly,talentless bunch, particularly Whine!

          3. I believe he lost his temper because of technical/ audio/ continuity glitches in the early days of GB News – After all, the Beeb has had a hundred years to perfect these technical minutia.

            A great pity; he was my favourite political journalist for decades, Sue.

          4. Me too. I was very disappointed to lose his political insight and gravitas. He knew what he was talking about, and was able to actually sustain an argument, unlike so many of the journalistic lightweights around.
            Gosh!I sound like my father!!

          6. Maybe not such a bad thing…they bung in the good stuff and hope it comes out all right…

          8. Good evening Geoff
            He really sounds like a man with real mental health problems.
            Wonder if he’s converted to RoP..

          11. I am absolutely gobsmacked about his opinion. “Selfish” unvaxxed etc. etc. I’d like to punch him in the face. Who does he think he is. Ignorant bar steward. Wonder if he’s feeling just a little foolish now that restrictions are being eased? And Alf has just read a post that HMG is “pausing” mandatory jabs for NHS staff. About bl..dy time. Just shows what little common sense these people have, sacking staff, but only after they helped the NHS through winter illnesses. “They” are unbelievable. However I don’t put it beyond the realms of possibility that some other “emergency” pops up shortly so that they can reimpose their controls one way or another.

  78. 334449+ up ticks,

    The similarity of the political class and assoc. replacing decent peoples with felonious foreign soldiers is surely along the lines the Mafia operate on.

    May one ask with some urgency has there ever been made a sample check regarding sanity & health in mind & limb of the voting herd ?

    Migrant Coverup: Home Office to Stop Publishing Daily Illegal Migrant Figures

  79. That’s me gone for yet another day – one fewer….. (I am a realist). It was very agreeable – sunny though not warm. The MR’s scan went off OK – nothing wrong. (It was required because a “doctor” bodged a simple “lady’s” test. A relief, none the less.

    Two mile walk this arvo. No white eagles – but a kestrel hovering about ten feet above the road..

    Have a jolly evening planning your invasion route to The Ukraine. (Will post a very interesting article about that immediately after this – your homework.

    Jigsaw puzzle fair at Fakenham church tomorrow. Yippee!

    A demain

    1. One more day! Glad the MR test is sorted.

      Can i borrow your bike? I have some supplies to get to Ukraine in a hurry.

      1. Lovely Mags.

        The MR wishes that a NURSE had done the test rather that a useless “doctor”.

  80. Article by Cherman bloke – Wolfgang Münchau – in The Spectator – a great deal of sense, I thought:

    If Russia were to invade Ukraine, would Germany side with the Russians? For most of our post-war history, that would have been an absurd question, but things are changing fast in Europe. In the wake of recent events, it would not be irrational for Vladimir Putin to bet that if push came to shove, he could count on German neutrality — or even support.

    The Ukraine crisis continues apace, with up to 100,000 Russian troops now gathered near its border. The obvious question is: what would happen if Putin were to invade? It would split the EU, exposing its energy dependence on Russia, ruin what is left of transatlantic relations and force Germany to choose sides. Officials in Kiev are convinced that this choice has already been made and that Germany is actively colluding with Russia, as witnessed by the construction of the massive Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

    This new pipeline — built, but not yet approved — can transport 150 million cubic litres of gas from Russia to Germany every day. It also allows Russia to do what it likes in Ukraine without worrying about interrupting supply to Europe’s gas markets. In Kiev, it stands to reason that the Russian threat intensified soon after the 760-mile pipeline was completed. But in Germany, there is denial — and no sense of crisis.

    The general tone in the German media is one of bewilderment that foreigners even take an interest in this pipeline. One of the few journalists who has raised concerns is the Swiss Mathieu von Rohr at Der Spiegel, who argues that the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) has a ‘Russia problem’. That is a polite way of putting it. It’s more the case that parts of the party — former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, for sure — are firmly on Team Putin. Christine Lambrecht, Germany’s Defence Minister, is one of the countless other SPD politicians who insist that Nord Stream 2 has nothing to do with politics.

    If Russia did move against Ukraine — or any Nato member — one of the obvious forms of retaliation would be economic. Excluding Russia from the Swift system of international money transfer would be one of the very few effective tools at the EU’s disposal. So it has been intriguing to see Friedrich Merz, the likely next leader of Germany’s opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), declare that such a move should not be contemplated.

    Ganging up against Moscow in this way ‘could be an atomic bomb for the capital markets and also for goods and services’, Merz said. ‘We should leave Swift untouched.’ Merz may not be in power, but Olaf Scholz, Germany’s new Chancellor, probably agrees with him. In German politics, not upsetting Russia is a strategy that enjoys bipartisan support.

    The Americans too are notably sanguine on the issue. The US Senate recently fell five votes short on even administering a slap on the wrist to Russia over Nord Stream 2: those opposed said that doing so would break ties with Germany. So America is silent, and the Europeans are likely to block any additional sanctions that go against their own interests. Putin has nothing to fear, then, at least in terms of financial repercussions. This sends a message: that the West (and Germany in particular) now regards Ukraine and Belarus as part of the Russian geopolitical sphere. And if Putin were to invade? It would be a ‘local border dispute’, as one German diplomat put it.

    The question Europeans have to ask is that, if Putin starts to gobble up parts of Ukraine, where will he stop? Will he close the Suwalki gap, the land border between Poland and the Baltic states? In the south, he might try to cut a bridge to Transnistria, the Russian-speaking eastern province of Moldova. This would isolate the Baltic states from the rest of the EU and give Russia total control over the Black Sea.

    If the West were serious about stopping Putin’s expansionism, Germany would be having a public debate about what they are going to do. Instead, we hear only what is not going to happen. We have a public commitment by Joe Biden that the US would not, under any circumstances, deploy troops. Germany tells us that it would not, under any circumstances, exclude Russia from the Swift payment system.

    The signal that the West, therefore — and Germany in particular — is sending to Russia is that Ukraine and Belarus are already considered part of Russia’s sphere of influence. Eastern Europe is becoming once again a major source of geopolitical tension. Russian troops are not only moving towards the border with Ukraine, there are also movements into Belarus, fairly evenly spread through the country. Russia has medium-range nuclear missiles stationed in Kaliningrad which can reach Berlin, yet the Germans are now talking about removing themselves from America’s nuclear umbrella. It’s an odd decision. Is Putin really such a reliable ally?

    It is easy to forget that the post-1989 political order in Europe is extremely fragile. Nato expansion to eastern Europe — and high-speed economic liberalisation — was always a high-risk strategy. It gave rise to systems of unstable crony capitalism, which in turn led to the rise of authoritarian regimes. Russia has now reasserted itself as the main European power, an astonishing feat, given the country’s slight economic weight. Its economy is about the size of Spain’s — but no European country has managed to make such strategic use of its economic power. Russia is in the ascendant, and the western-led order is in retreat.

    1. Eastern Europe is the Russian border. Of course Russia wants an overview, casting a supervisory eye on its neighbours. A circumstance that Finland has lived with since WW2. Is the Black Sea a Russian lake? Well, why not? the Russians go there on holiday. Rather Russia than Turkey.

      1. You mean rather majority Christian than Muslim which is what has got the Wests skirts aflutter.

    2. In the great scheme of things, who has beaten Germany harder, Russia or USA?
      The USA might return to pick up the pieces, but why should they? Russia would happily play scorched earth across Germany long before the Yanks could even properly mobilise and that assumes it wouldn’t go nuclear very quickly when Germany would still lose out.
      Russia is an unnatural ally.

      1. On the Channel coast in 48 hours. (72 hours if the observe Belgian traffic law and don’t drive HGVs on a Sunday).

        They’d sort out the illegals OK.

      2. Europe has been leeching off the US for defence ever since WWII. I doubt America would be that bothered again.

        1. Agreed.
          The problem is that if China, Russia, Iran etc etc decide America is no longer bothered, all Hell will be let loose.

          2. He’s been a professional politician for 50+ years.
            Oops, sorree
            He’s been a professional politician parasite for 50+ years.

    4. I wonder if the modern day equivalents of Molotov and Ribbentrop are high-fiving themselves somewhere?

      Poland, be afraid, very afraid.

    5. Wasn’t Putin stationed in East Berlin for years? He probably knows how to handle the Germans.

  81. Finally found my appetite Nottlers…..the sherry helps!

    I fancy a cheese and bacon sarnie…….any help from our Gourmet NoTTlers welcome

        1. That’s what I wanted to hear.
          Now I claim unfair dismissal, bullying, sexism, ageism, racism…

    2. Melt the cheese, like a toasted cheese and then put the bacon in. You could even add some thinly sliced tomato.

    3. No cheese , try a banana, .. toast a couple of slices of bread lightly, microwave a banana for a minute or so, butter the toast , spread soft banana on the toast , squidge of mustard, and pop your grilled bacon in between the toast and banana, bung toasted sandwich back under the grill just to warm up , and voila , a tasty treat for Plum.. and I hope you will report back how delicious it is.

      1. Hi Belle, always appreciate your culinary skills..
        I had banana on wholemeal toast with peanut crunchie butter for breakfast…
        I love strong Cheddar cheese in sauces with Broccolli etc.
        Just looking for simple recipes which are quick and easy…

        1. For breakfast I have one slice of home made granary wholemeal toast with crunchy PNB and a smearing of marmite.
          And another slice with cherry jam.

    5. Marmite & thickly sliced cucumber sandwiches.
      Salty, strong flavour, cold & wet. Lots of contrasts, easy to make.

    6. Grate some cheddar add a smidgen of Coleman’s mustard and mash doesn’t with and small amount of milk until you have a thick paste.
      Toast 2 slices of bread and spread the paste on the toast and pop under the grille until the cheese us bubbling and brown in top. Sprinkle with cayenne pepper and eat.
      A sort of Welsh rarebit. Delicious.

      Edit. Smidgen for smitten.

    7. Grate some cheddar add a smidgen of Coleman’s mustard and mash doesn’t with and small amount of milk until you have a thick paste.
      Toast 2 slices of bread and spread the paste on the toast and pop under the grille until the cheese us bubbling and brown in top. Sprinkle with cayenne pepper and eat.
      A sort of Welsh rarebit. Delicious.

      Edit. Smidgen for smitten.

    8. Nothing to do with cheese or bacon, but I had an enjoyable dinner last night when the OH finished the curry from the night before. It was a tin of Morrisons’ Best Scottish sardines with lemon, garlic and chilli in olive oil. Peeled the lid back and mashed the contents with a fork. Toasted (under the grill) a large slice of sourdough bread (homegrown) and spread the sardine mix evenly. Some coarse black pepper and Worcestershire sauce and then back under the grill until it was almost bubbling. I ate it daintily with knife and fork. Just describing it now is making me salivate like Herr Oberst.

          1. Quite. In fairness, my former neighbours, who I would in normal times have spent the day with, deposited a full, traditional Christmas dinner on my doorstep in the evening. It was much appreciated. If not tastier…

    9. My favourite and frequent brekkie, sweetie … x

      Scrambled egg, two slices of smoked salmon (sprinkled with Cayenne pepper) and wholemeal toast – with a cafetierre of strong ‘French-inspired’ coffee …

  82. Evening, all. If the headline is true, what a sorry state Westminster is in. On a personal note, I have been channelling my inner Bob of Bonsall; I had some sandstone ashlars to move (they were stopping Charlie from digging under the fence, but Oscar seems disinclined to dig, so they were superfluous) to create a border for the new seating area I am creating where I once had a shrubbery. I also moved a pear (a Beurre Hardi) that had become pot-bound and which I had been intending to move for several seasons, but always missed the window of dormancy, and planted it in one of the redundant veg plots. I moved one of the huge containers (of which I have four – two others have already been moved to their permanent locations) to fill the gap where the stones had been removed and half filled one of the others with leaf mould from the front path. I feel absolutely banjaxed now! I opened a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon and have nearly finished it! I may be sloping off after I’ve stoked the Rayburn to have a soak in a Radox bath.

      1. I foolishly set myself several things I needed to accomplish today (I had a similar list yesterday, which I managed). The light was fading as I grappled with the Beurre Hardi to remove it from its pot, but I was determined I would finish the last of the tasks and NOT be defeated by an effing pear tree! I am my own worst enemy 🙁

          1. I went to Asda- nearly killed me. Still can stay home tomorrow and set myself a list of jobs that I won’t get done;-)

          2. I was still the only bare-faced shopper in Morrisons, untill I spotted another as I was waiting at the till to pay.

          3. I really don’t understand their thinking. In 6 days time they won’t be mandated to wear a mask, or to even to pretend they are exempt.

          4. There were more masked people in Asda today than I have seen for ages. Don’t understand it at all.

          6. Next time you go into town, grab either a bunch of asparagus or a tin of asparagus , and some huge cooked prawns or even a ready made prawn cocktail.. Cook your asparagus , cool off, do the toastie thing and pop some prawn cocktail on the toast with the asparagus spears .. yummy.

          7. Smoked salmon as the wrapper, salmon terrine within and a layer of asparagus in the centre. very easy. Mary Berry.

          9. I always advised people who were worried by daunting tasks to spend a couple of minutes to write down everything on a list, no matter how trivial, to complete what needed to be done.
            Cross them out as they were completed.

            Great for morale and it focusses on what still needs to be done.

            There are many much more complex approaches, depending on the task, but that basic approach works well.
            I’m so old that we still used critical path analysis!

          10. I am a great list-maker. It makes me prioritise and gives me a great deal of satisfaction when I can tick items off.

    2. Spent the afternoon with elderly chum’s niece – who has become a good friend. We did get some paperwork sorted …. among other things like gossiping, drinking wine, gossiping, nibbling on cheesey comestibles, gossiping ….. you get the picture.

      1. I have been trying to throw away items that are no longer useful (like my cross country rugby shirt whose collar had disintegrated and a pair of underpants that were more hole than material – why on earth did I not ditch them before?).

          1. I suppose I am anally retentive 🙂 I am very bad at getting rid of stuff. I have become better since MOH passed on. What does that say?

          2. I’d like to say that I’m quite good at throwing stuff out, but Alan would disagree. He says he’s better at clearing out. However, his wardrobe, drawers, car and garage and shed tell a completely different tale!

          3. Surplus stuff used to be stashed in the loft. Now I can’t do ladders, that isn’t an option. I parted with a shedload of stuff when I moved from a 3-bed, 2-recep detached house to a 1-bed, 1 recep retirement bungalow in late 2020. I still have too much stuff, despite much of my collection of tools being passed on to worthy recipients.

            Most Mondays (bin days) will see a bag of stuff outside for kerbside recycling. But if it’s too large, they’ll leave it. So I’ve worked out that Tesco / M&S at The Meadows (Sandhurst) have a recycling area, and it’s a short walk from Blackwater Station. Which is next door to an Aldi branch. Win win…

      1. So many people in the chain for the paperwork. So many people in the chain that signed it off. Does that make me a racist? Apparently so.

        Shame we can’t export our fish so easily.

    2. 334449+ up ticks,

      Evening TB,

      The deciding factor is “are they lab/lib/con member / voters”, it does make a difference.

    1. They are now aware of multiple lawsuits including a suit lodged at The Hague.

      Expect a lot of backtracking and arse covering in the weeks ahead.

      1. 334449+ up ticks,

        Evening C,
        It will be timed right up to the forget, dream time ( voting in a party of even some small amount of integrity) two days before the next GE, In my book the odious trio can count on the majority electorate doing the right by them thing, a clear two days firebreak is all that is needed, to see then home and dry…. again.

        1. Nope. I reckon the game is up for the pseudo science.

          It only takes 5% of the voting population to switch things and we likely have about 20% non-vaccinated and retaining cognitive abilities. This is particularly so if we include those duped into taking two jabs but rendering themselves ‘unvaccinated’ by sensibly refusing the booster jab.

  87. I noticed that the American Elites had planted a juror in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. Probably will be judged a mistrial and the wench walks free with her little black book intacto.

        2. No need for Billy boy, White house flight logs show him making frequent trips to the island.
          Allegedly that is.

        1. There is a little book that each UK Prime Minister is made aware of which is why not a single one of them have been able to follow through on manifesto promises.

          1. If he was anything like me…my friend and I caused an explosion in the chem lab when we were in the 2nd year. Method for experiment said to heat the test tube and then cool off rapidly. The two geniuses decided that running the test tube under the cold tap was the thing to do….
            A very loud bang, smoke, steam and a trip to the Head’s office 🙁

            Now you know why I went into Lit and Librarianship!

          2. Oh LotL! I got my only detention in a Chemistry lesson, with my naughty pal Josie, for putting a bung into a flask too tight, having been warned not to! The resulting explosion of nitric acid over our tights, skirts and blouses burnt lots of nasty little holes everywhere! These were completely ignored by our scary Headmistress who gave us an hours detention!

          3. I think we were still smoking slightly from the boom when we were sent to her so she didn’t detain us;-)
            Thinking about it though, we had science overalls but no safety glasses.

          9. Oh goodie- MH is several months younger than I; can I deduct those months from my age?

          1. Just a bairn…
            Edit: Oddly enough…the people from Falkirk (where I nearly live!) are called ‘bairns’

          5. Just a bairn…
            Edit: Oddly enough…the people from Falkirk (where I nearly live!) are called ‘bairns’

      3. I was 18. July 2nd, the day after I left school, I went to France to stay with a penpal.

    8. I was a 24-year-old post-grad student in TCD, Dublin.

      I spent a lot of time sailing, riding and hunting.

      When supervising chemistry undergrads on winter Saturday mornings, I wore a long white coat to conceal my riding gear …

      The Bray Harriers meet was at 2 p.m.

      1. “I wore a long white coat to hide my riding gear” – that brings back memories! I used to attend parents’ evenings in my riding gear because I’d just come from a riding lesson. At least I was smartly turned out 🙂

        1. #1: I never say no, Maggie …

          #2: In Argyll and Clyde – 100 yards from the Clyde shore 🙂 !

          2. I wish we’d popped into the Ardencaple when I was with my daughter walking along the Clyde after visiting my sister in the care home in Helensborough.

          2. How’s he doing BTW? I know there was some Rep/Dem/Biden/Trump feathers flying both sides of the pond a year or two back.

          5. We met in ‘62 both aged 15. Didn’t start going out until ‘64 and married in ‘68.

    13. 1st year at grammar school in shorts and a cap. Uniform jacket was a hand-me-down , from a different bloody school!

      2. You were lucky, my school insisted on the correct uniform or no sent home.

        My parents just about went broke first year when they had to buy a whole uniform, exclusive supplier prices as well.

        1. The school must have been too polite to do that, but some of the other boys weren’t so kind.

        2. My sister started junior school in 1960 and the school uniform blazer cost £18. The fees for a term ( of 3 ) were £18

        3. Same here- Wolfe and Scott in Dulwich did all the uniforms for all the girls’ schools. My mother made my blouses, skirts but the rest had to be bought and, even in those days, it wasn’t cheap.

          2. My mother was a widow so she applied for a grant for my school uniform. They only wanted to know how much she owed not how much she earned- as she was careful and had no debts she got nothing.

    15. Cher’s maternal grandmother Lynda became a mother at 13, and was 33 when Cher was born. Good genes.

    2. ha! I do hope this is true.
      Keep the pressure up on the barstewards.
      Germany and Austria are both due to bring in mandatory vaxxing for medical staff in the next few weeks – If NHS staff can be unvaxxed they may just have solved their recruitment problem.

    3. Just wanting to see what they can get away with. Hopefully Germany and Austria will feel some wrath from its citizens.

  90. Apparently someone has registered the domain name inlizwetruss.com in the last couple of weeks.

  91. Watching Doc Martin. ITV

    Not a fan but if you can’t find a bona NHS doctor, Doc Marten is your man!

    Good night….sleep well NoTTlers x

    1. Our GP is Norwegian and he’s called Martin! Obvs we call him Doc M….! Eh…you know the rest!

      1. Wadda coincidence, ours is from Norway. 🇧🇻 when I first met him it was very cold and I had my woollen hat on with the Norwegian flag on the front. He was most impressed.
        I still find it difficult to understand what he’s saying. 😕 🤔

        1. Ours is a wonderful doc, apart from him disappearing for a couple of years! He phones both of us about once every 3 months!

          1. He’s clearly not the same sort of GP as ours. You tell him something and he waves his arms around and smiles a lot and nothing else happens.

        2. “… difficult to understand what he’s saying”
          Then perhaps you should remove your woollen hat first?

      2. I think ours operates out of the International Space Station. I think she only sees a patient every 2 years.

        1. I have no idea what mine is like – I’ve never seen any of them at the practice. They are just voices on the telephone. They could be anybody!

          1. You’re as young as you feel, Sos. Some days I feel 20; on other days I feel 120! Lol.

      2. Burns Night on 25th; I shall have a wee dram then to toast my Scots blood and my late uncle who always delivered the toast to the “Great Chieftain O’ the Pudding Race.”
        He decided he was going to sing it one year- he never disclosed how that went and, now, it’s too late to ask him.

      3. Cheers Geoff, thanks for everything you do. 🥃 mine’s Glenfiddich.
        I’ve not been able to get Nottlers on my phone for months.
        Our PC went up the creek and we had to change a lot of passwords. It led to good fortune.

      4. Cheers, Geoff. After all my exertions (I also had a go at mending a chair – at least I’ve stabilised it!), I downed a whole bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon!

      5. Cheers, Geoff. After all my exertions (I also had a go at mending a chair – at least I’ve stabilised it!), I downed a whole bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon!

      6. I know who at least two of them are but i am sworn to secrecy. If you send me the dregs of the bottle i will keep …

        sorry. There is an avalanche of emails i have to attend to.

  95. 334449+ up ticks,

    Coming ? you mean they are NOT in residence, Can they claim back welfare / rent allowance.

    Taliban Delegation Coming to Europe for Talks with U.S., UK, EU Next Week

  96. Eddie Izzard showcased her eye-catching sense of style in a fuchsia pink coat and stiletto heeled boots as she headed out for a stroll in London’s Chinatown on Friday.

    The trans comedian, 59, appeared to be engrossed in the music playing from her AirPods as she embarked on the outing.

    Eddie recently starred in the Netflix crime drama Stay Close opposite James Nesbitt, in the series based on Harlan Coben’s bestselling crime novels.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10427909/Eddie-Izzard-59-opts-eye-catching-fuchsia-pink-coat-stroll-Chinatown.html

    I thought she was a HE?

    2. You can be whatever you want these days, as long as you don’t have to go out to work for a living.

      1. Family lore tells that I scared the sh*t out of my parents one late evening. Had been doing A Midsummer Night’s Dream at school. I had gone to bed, but was obviously dreaming. My dad told me that the door to the TV room opened, I walked in and announced in ringing tones, “I am Titania Queen of the Fairies.”
        Then I turned round and left. Presumably to a stunned silence. I must have been sleep walking but had no recollection of it and I don’t think it ever happened again.

    8. He used to be a him in heels and lippy. Then a they and then decided to be a them and then came out as Labour party supporter. I think it should stand for mayor of London. Now that would be funny.

    9. I think Jordan Peterson summed up this diversity crap.

      You simply cannot legislate for people’s likes and dislikes. The entire imposition of diversity targets was designed by the Elites in order to divide us. It has worked pretty well up till now with almost all of our institutions, hospitals, universities, local and district councils, schools, CEOs of major industries etc., buying into the nonsense.

      Places in universities and all other positions should be awarded on the basis of talent and ability to do the job, not on the basis of a person’s skin colour or tone.

    1. 334449+ up ticks,

      O2O, and that is just an odious taste currently of what the ANTI Blighty action has been these last near four decades,
      The political trash & supporting minions have done a real number on the United Kingdom, mass illegal foreign element, mass foreign paedophilia actions, mass killings, mass,mass, mass odious.

      Mass rape of a fair Country via the lab/lib/con coalition
      and joint current memberships.

      1. 334449+ up ticks,

        Evening C,

        Power / wonga predators, with the electorate feeding & giving them succour.

    1. He’s preparing the ground for a U-turn on firing NHS Staffords who would rather be fired than get jabbed, having only just realised that to fire them all on the first of April would create absolute mayhem in the NHS

      1. Morning 😃
        Mayhem is the general idea Elsie, about 12 – 18 months ago out of nowhere the government employed around 6 brand new senior management staff on massive salaries. They have been employed to bring the NHS to its knees. This will eventually mean health insurance for almost everyone in the country. Talking of knees it’s already possible to have surgery in the private sector but not on the NHS. But many of the surgeons for many years have been able to hop over the fence and back because of their skills. But the problem is now if a patient in likely to have complications. There’s no chance of having an op at a private hospital, because they don’t have access to emergency care. So if patients can afford to pay and are free from other health risks, they can sell something or dig into their pension fund and get a fix. But if you can’t arrange any of these alternatives, then it’s FOAD. Eff off and die 💀 All neatly organised by the afore mentioned regional management teams.
        Happy days eh.

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