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Morning GG
Good morrow, Gentlefolk. today’s story
Lottery Winner
Sammy Cohen, having luckily survived the Holocaust as a young man, moved to England and worked hard as a tailor for many years, just barely making a living.
One weekend he decided to buy a National Lottery ticket, and was thrilled when he won 10 million pounds!
He gave up work and had a wonderful country home built, with a swimming pool, ballroom, marble columns, statues and chandeliers… He invited all his friends to a sumptuous housewarming party.
At one end of the ballroom there was something on the wall covered up and Sammy got everyone together to see it unveiled. He pulled a cord and there was a gasp of horror as a life-size portrait of Adolf Hitler was revealed!
“Sammy, for God’s sake!” they said, “This money must have lost you your sanity! How can you, a Jewish person, have a picture of Hitler on the wall?”
Sammy grinned, pulled up his sleeve, pointed to his forearm and said, “Who do you think gave me the winning lottery numbers?”
That’s a very good one, Sir Jasper. (Good morning, btw.)
Jewish humour ala Mel Brookes!
Humour with a piercing bite.
Ironic guffaws. Good morning, Tom.
Morning everyone,
Good morning, Minty.
Good morning, chums.
Good Morning Folks,
Another dark damp start here
Splits over Israel raise fresh questions about Labour’s fitness to govern
People have doubts about Labour’s fitness to govern?
Surprising, isn’t it Bob3? (Good morning, btw.)
Not really.
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: London Calling, London Calling… Here is the BBC News read by Lord Haw-Haw
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12677745/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-London-Calling-London-Calling-BBC-News-read-Lord-Haw-Haw.html
Curses; beat me to it!
Excellent.
He didn’t mention cyclist riding two abreast stopping our tanks from reaching our ports on time to be shipped to France.
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Morning Each,
Letters: Splits over Israel raise fresh questions about Labour’s fitness to govern
This is a letter in jest surely, they were UNFIT to govern the second the park toilet cottaging ghoul lifted the latch on mass morally illegal immigration.
If more proof is needed regarding this political shower of SHITE check out the JAY report and the 16 plus year cover up.
Their sister governing parties fare no better within the coalition.
Whereas John Smith, Neil Kinnock and Michael Foot were the best prime ministers we never had.
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DW,
John Smith (RIP) well thought of by many,
Micheal Foot, acceptable.
neil kinnock?
Your labour slip is really showing.
You don’t get sarcasm, do you?
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Morning DW
Why do you ask, are toy doing some sort of survey ?
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Morning DW,
Why do you ask, are you doing a survey ?
I’ll grant you John Smith at a pinch, but the others? Michael Foot may have written against appeasing the Natsis and opposed the EEC, but he was leader of CND and rabidly left wing. As for Kinnock, he was only interested in feathering his nest in the EU (and the dynasty lives on).
‘There is ‘a very clear link between terrorism and migration’, Hungary’s PM says as EU discusses asylum rules reform.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12677065/Terrorism-migration-Hungary-PM-EU-asylum-rules-reform.html
Lot of fuss about AI at the moment on the MSM, when you hear that government wants to keep us safe, one instinctively knows that means taking away more of our freedoms.
I’m not that worried about artificial intelligence myself it cannot be more harmful than the intelligence shown by our governing classes.
They are concerned because they haven’t worked out how AI can be bribed.
AI is programmed by our governing classes.
yep. The input data was manipulated very early on when they realised that letting AI learn from unedited data resulted in AI being….racist!
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Morning B3,
You mean you spotted some ?
Given the correct and honest information, Robots would make a far better job of running the country than Westminster and Whitehall do.
Think of the savings on expenses alone.
I don’t know whether to rejoice or despair:
My son, Christo, is a design engineer who designs robots; my son, Henry, was awarded a distinction in his M.Sc in Computer Science and Data Analytics and writes AI computer programmes!
Stuck in the middle.
AI is good for private sector profitability and productivity.
However, Mr and Mrs Sunak’s main family fortune is invested outside the UK, in India; Infosys is a firm which does a lot of manual data entry operations and employs circa 335,000 people. AI today is capable of removing 300,000 jobs from that organisation. Now look at the potential effect on public sector paper pushers in the UK.
Nottlers such as BB2, Wibbling (and the War Queen) understand a zillion times more about AI than I do, but generally mass unemployment can be tricky for politicians. (one reason why WW3 is an option)
Good morning, all. Very misty. Rain in the night.
No news I see.
Seems like the online safety Bill has done its job..
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Nice one doc,
https://x.com/CartlandDavid/status/1717074871769772499?s=20
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So very bloody true,
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There’s no middle ground!
Our future is ours to make?
Or our future is theirs to dictate?
You go one way or the other.
To make no decision is not just your refusal to decide.
It is your rejection of your very right to decide.
The nightmare scenario cannot be allowed to happen.
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ANDREW BRIDGEN – ALL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM VOTE FOR THIS REFERENDUM NOW – LINK BELOW
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Good Moaning.
Rats …. Harry and Dolly obviously woke Phizzee earlier than Spartie woke me.
But then, neither of us are morning people.
Sorry. I’ll leave Littlejohn to you in future. :@)
:-). I think NOTTLERs had more or less sketched out the same scenario.
I was woken just now by Jessie. She’s found the bedroom.
Are Harry and Dolly that couple who live in America? 😉😄
Arghhh !
🤭😉
Here they are.
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He looks a bit like Noel Edmonds.
Who would be the more affronted: Noel Edmonds or Harry Connick Jr?
Not sure, Noel has moved to NZ.
I worked in his house early 70s just as he started on Top Of The Pops.
A decent likeable chap with a good sense of humour.
China is going to support Iran
https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1717589182158446601
WW3 shaping up nicely, says Satan.
I didn’t think China liked muslims very much.
When they are 10,000 miles away and a useful tool for destroying the west ….. then they are flavour of the month.
I have just made the same point before having seen yours!
I have added that once Islam has destroyed the West China will wipe out Islam.
Yeah…bloody Aussies !
I think they are happy to do business with them as long as they don’t start making problems inside China. And Iran has oil…
O+I+L.
The forty-niners?
They like them as long as they don’t come to China. They are very useful as a force to destroy other civilisations and when they have wiped out the West China will wipe them out!
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Not long to go now,
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When the political war breaks out there will be two factions:
1. Right-wing patriots, veterans, ex-coppers, squaddies etc
2. Muslims, socialists, remoaners, illegals and wokies (many of which suffer malnutrition from veganism and ranadan).
Who will win?
truth will our for sure.
I belong to neither faction.
Good morning Jeremy and everyone.
Honest of you to admit your pacifism, and scepticism and moral fortitude. However, when the revolution comes the danger is that people with similar beliefs might be classed as ‘useless eaters’.
One of my favourite choral pieces is Elgar’s ‘The Music Makers’, a setting of poem by Arthur O’Shaughnessy which begins
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wand’ring by lone sea-breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
World losers and world foresakers on whom the pale moon gleams,
Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world, forever it seems.”
Good morning, all. Overcast with a light mist hanging between the trees.
Picked up a snippet of this video on this week’s The Highwire and I decided to find the complete video. It’s short but puts Geneva on the spot re WHO, GAVI etc and their desire for World control.
Pascal Najadi Exposes Geneva
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Good morning all.
A dull and misty start this morning with 4°C on the Yard Thermometer.
From the BTL comments, it appears that Common Purpose is beginning to attract attention at last:-
When I was studying in the Soviet Union, everybody knew we were being watched and listened to. It only seems to be dawning on people now that it’s been happening in this country, too.
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Dt,
The Covid inquiry isn’t interested in the truth about lockdown
Recent hearings suggest a striking lack of curiosity about whether shutting down was a good decision
Does this mean we need another inquiry board to check out the initial inquiry board if so we are trying to run in treacle.
Why not use the peoples jury system 12 common sense ordinary folk given the gathered reliable evidence sitting in judgement.
They lied from the word go, so as what normally happens in British politics those responsible for the continuous mal-administration are lying and just covering their backsides and leaving one hell of a mess behind them.
Next on the lies adgenda ?
More lying.
Morning all 🙂😊
Grey and misty, I suppose that means misty
and murky.
Our boys had two goldfish by the same name.and another called Michael.
Of course labour are not fit for government.
Their deputy said they would build 150 thousand new affordable houses (just to rub it in) with an emphasis on greenbelt. And the next day her boss told us 1.5 million new houses. How is this going to work ? Apparently already many councils have failed to get their monetary houses in order and are going into bankruptcy.
Hardly surprising given the fact that so many people now, make no contributions at all, towards their keep. Free loaders, hundreds of thousands of them out there.
Government’s and Whitehall are to blame.
Useless idiots.
Good morning Eddy
And this?
https://twitter.com/howbeef/status/1717740093861957855
Why?
A blank et.
That’s the key sentence. Hundreds of thousands of people make no contribution. but i isn’t hundreds of thousands. It’s tens of millions.
I was trying to be kind.
The sooner the house of cards collapses, the better and the least painful. If it drags on ten years more, the remedies and rebuilding will be awful, not just painful.
The best example of how useless our political classes are was Yes Minister and Yes Prime minister and of course the UK original House of Cards.
“Everyone has their price Mattie”.
A student in the U.S for his science project posed the question ‘Should this dangerous chemical be banned?’
It is responsible for the deaths of 1000’s of Americans every year by ingestion.
It is a constituent of acid rain.
In gaseous form it can cause severe burns.
86% of the student body agreed it should be banned.
The chemical is Dihydrogen Monoxide.
I agree. 8 billion creatures on this planet are largely made up of this stuff, and are profoundly toxic to life.
“Ugly bags of mostly water”.
©The Silicon lifeform in Star Trek.
Just goes to show how wet students are these days…
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: S.T. Coleridge]
People are dumb. Students especially.
The Washington Post 26 years ago.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/10/21/dihydrogen-monoxide-unrecognized-killer/ee85631a-c426-42c4-bda7-ed63db993106/
I was paraphrasing !
Good day all,
Another day in clown world. Bucketing down outside, wind in the South, 9℃ > 12℃ today.
David Frost is on to the pointlessness of the Covid enquiry which will not ask the right questions and the incompetence of the lawyers which takes one’s breath away.
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We don’t need an enquiry. We need a full-blown criminal investigation.
Absolutely correct.
What we really need is a military tribunal as in the Film A Few Good Men.
The ‘They’….. “can’t handle the truth”.
The lying bastards.
Yet…. the Colonel was right. Some people do not want to know the truth. If you read comment threads you get endless whinging rants about ‘da wich’ or pensioners, or baby boomers, or businesses, or energy companies, or supermarkets.
People are ignorant. They *like* being ignorant. Ignorance gets them the ability to pretend the problem is ‘something else’. Not their laziness, their lack of work at school, their poor qualifications, their greed, their disinterest in saving, the government (oh so often the fault is government), that they don’t understand how complex systems work because they just not bright enough (and this includes me much of the time). Their inability to put 2+2 together and come back with 4.
Worse are those (the guardian is especially good at this) prefer to stop the blame at the first point, such as ‘there are not enough houses.’ But refuses, abjectly to do the next few whys:
Why’s that?
Well there’s too many people in the country
Why’s that?
Massive uncontrolled immigration coupled with overly generous welfare
Why’s that?
Because our birth rate was falling to accommodate our new service based economy and Labour wanted a voting block it could rely upon
Why’s that?
So that the entrenching of a massive state machine to deal with unskilled welfare dependent immigration could be justified.
The Left never, ever go back enough to the root cause. They like saying ‘waaagh, Torweees!, Waaaagh!’ – replace Left for idiots and any subject and you’ve got a huge problem of uneducated, ignorant children who prefer not to look at reality as it is, preferring their sugar coated topping.
I see the value of ignorance. It leads to contentment. It’s the knowing which upsets and annoys.
I was given the excuse that a particular town needed all the extra housing because it had an ageing population. Nobody ever considered that in that case, the inhabitants would be dying off and housing would become available.
The inquiry is designed to put officialdom in the clear. It’s decision is already made, but it is, in that tiresome statist way going through the farce.
It’s pointless:
It will find nothing.
No one will be held accountable
Any recommendations will be ignored
The same will happen again.
It will cost hundreds of millions
Every single government inquiry in my memory goes through the same farce.
As a lawyer friend said to me when I repeated some of the stupid things said by one of our legal trainees at work, “What you have to understand is that you don’t have to be intelligent to be a lawyer”.
Oi…!!
We make an exception in your case…
I used that fact to my great advantage when I would invariably to run rings around them in court. I once had a barrister on the rack; his face was puce and he was raging as I ridiculed his feeble efforts, at discrediting my evidence, from the witness box. Eventually the judge intervened to save the hapless barrister from further torture. He said, “I think it may be time to move on, Mr Goldthorpe, since it is clear to me, and to the jury, that the officer has your measure!”
Put me in a witness box and my innate sadism kicks in.
Excellent!
Afternoon, Paul. If your evidence is watertight and you remain truthful, then no lawyer on this planet can find holes in it. In desperation they inevitably try to attack the person.
Big mistake. Huge.
I met a friend in town this afternoon. I didn’t recognise her until she spoke to me; she was masked up to the eyeballs. “I’ve had Covid” she told me, “so I’m taking no chances. It’s highly contagious”. Funny, when I had it, MOH didn’t catch it. End of conversation!
Breaking News – book reviewers are calling Rachel Reeves new book a must read plagiary turner
I see what you did there!
Her veneer of common sense and competency is a complete fraud.
The person who created this meme is being a little defeatist, I think.
Hearty laughter is the right response!
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Serves them right for succumbing to such idiocies in the first place.
What Mr McPhee said!
Okay You can’t cedar meat for the trees. Pining for originality.
Oakay, you got in fir-st.
Ash usual.🌳🌿
I don’t be-leaf it!
Barking mad, I’d say!
Branching out, eh?
A budding comedian, eh?
I’ve just twigged what you said
Leaf it out …………..
This is vegan food for those who yearn for meat. Surely the point of veganism is not only to shun animal products but also attempts to mimic them.
I have argued that very point with a good number of vegans but they are all far too brain-damaged to comprehend it.
Not enough protein in the diet.
The idiots think (I use that term loosely) that they can supplement the proteins, vitamins and minerals — that are not present in their weeds — with pills. This leads me to two further questions:
1. What clown thinks that the chemical pseudo-nutrients in pills are a substantial replacement for natural nutrition? The body simply cannot assimilate or absorb them the same way as they can naturally-digested vitamins.
2. Why put yourself on an unnatural (for the species) diet that simply does not provide the necessary nutrients that your body needs? To me this is akin to suicide.
I wish they would all hurry up.
The only cognitive dissonance they observe is that of being both sentimental about animals and a meat eater and to some extent they have a point. I can acknowledge that pigs are lovely intelligent creatures and still enjoy pork sausages because I don’t have to see the animal being slaughtered, let alone do it myself.
For some reason which I can’t work out, Safari will not take me to the DT website so I have to use Firefox. I cannot copy and paste a link from Firefox into a comments box so I have to take and post a screen-shot. Are any of you Mac-brained compu-wizzards who might be able to give me a clue?
You may need to update your Mac’s version of Safari.
Annoyingly Apple bake it in to a whole OS update. Why, I don’t really know.
Already running Sonoma 14.0 so probably done.
I’d start by clearing your browser cache on Safari completely.
However, I don’t use Safari at all on my Mac. I just use Firefox. Grab version 120 now, get yourself disqus auto expander, ublock origin as extensions and thank me in the morning!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disqus-auto-expander/
I’ve found weird combinations of login and apps can muck around with Disqus. The problem is, Disqus wants to re-write the link for tracking purposes – this is a deep intrusion of privacy, but disqus doesn’t care. If you have extensions that interfere with javascript (such as tamper monkey or url cleaning extensions (as I do) – it will simply not let you do it. Safari may have that sort of feature turned on as part of it’s privacy controls.
Apple make a big song and dance over stopping other sites tracking you but grab a whole heap of data for themselves.
Good tip. Cleared all history – fixed.
Send a bearer with a cleft stick to post the link, Bwana.
Tucker on banning the Ukrainian orthodox church, and America’s role in wiping out Christianity in other countries.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1717662135172595719
Why is nobody talking about Acapulco? Please, no jokey links to old songs – the city has just been destroyed by a Category 5 hurricane which struck without warning, and was not predicted by any models.
Can directed energy weapons make a normal storm turn into a hurricane? Crazy question, but we live in crazy times.
Where could Ukraine possibly have got that idea?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_Barracks_of_Dachau_Concentration_Camp
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Morning BB2,
Could it be that God has an armoury?
I think that is correct, ogga, and the huge efforts that Mr Global makes to wipe out Christianity show its strength and how much they fear it.
It is incredibly sad to see the usual suspects – the blacks – immediately set about stealing and looting. What is wrong with them?
They seem to have an ongoing hate worm in their heads. I suppose it goes all the way back to slave trading.
But there were thousands of others traded before Africans were even considered as slaves. Perhaps that’s part of the problem.
When they came for the priests…
Climate change of course
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12675611/Horror-aftermath-Acapulco-Tropical-paradise-Otis-hurricane.html
From earlier in the article:
These morons blame their models for being wrong here but still believe that they MUST be correct re climate change. Too stupid to see the contradictions and cognitive dissonance.
edit for typo
We also have El Nìno affecting things in the Pacific. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/watch-el-niño-replace-la-niña-first-half-2023
Serious question: is there anyone on here able to explain the mechanism that takes atmospheric warmth and deposits it into the ocean depths only to then allow this warmth to rise – convection currents – and affect weather patterns e.g. hurricanes?
To my simple mind heat travelling downwards to the depths only to then rise is counterintuitive. Perhaps the journalist didn’t correctly report what was said?
No chance that heat from the Earth’s molten core is involved, then?
Let’s face it, when he can’t spell his own name there’s little hope.
McNoddy
Conveniently forgetting the huge underwater volcano near Tonga last year, which NASA said could raise the ocean temperature by up to one degree.
This latest report on hurricanes in the eastern Pacific is dated 1 Oct but it shows normal activity in the region. I cant find any data on this site looking back a week or two but I’m sure it would have tracked Otis. I watch the Atlantic side if I’m headed that way or out of interest and it is a good source of info (if you are interested). Why is it not on the news! Probably, the brewing war and the steaming US fleet have more pulling power.
A far away country of which we know little…
…and wish to know less.
Look what happened last time that observation was made!
Far more important things fill the DT columns. ” Millennials and Gen Z swap gravy for ketchup at Christmas dinner”…. I now feel fully informed. Haven’t posted a link, dont want to waste anyone’s life.
Read the Daily Wail yesterday. No news, just similar guff, plus descriptions of the life & opinions of pretty ladies.
Acapulco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF1_LDdls7I
Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
The persecution of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine is because its supreme Patriarch is the Patriarch of Moscow and always has been. It reminds the Ukrainian fanatics that their pretense of being something other than Russian is false. The church therefore makes the ideal scapegoat to deflect from the ills inflicted on Ukraine by its present fascist regime.
Would the song be Loco In Acapulco by The Four Tops?
Acapulco. Prime real estate like Lahaina in Hawaii. They do like their beach front properties don’t ‘they’…
If I lived in Mawgan Porth, I might consider painting my roof blue…
Dalrymple on the boss taking responsibility.
https://www.takimag.com/article/chiefs-and-bottom-feeders/
What he hasn’t discussed is the way it is now so very easy for the bottom feeders to get their superiors fired by making accusations of anything that contravenes the woke agenda.
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Still putting the party before the Country are we ?
https://youtu.be/ouDGrDXWH5I?si=Vmh6wegtLfMRC9hI
Good morning all.
It rained all night , and still raining now .. but the colour green looks amazing .
Wet wet wet. 12c
Bright and sunny now here.
Got up at 0700 to walk the Springer. Heavy rain. Put on full wet kit – wellies and waterproof trousers etc. Left at 0720, walked for an hour – not a drop of rain fell. English weather.
Amy Mek
@AmyMek
One of Belgium’s bravest politicians, Filip Dewinter:
“If you have majorities of Islamic believers in a city, or in a country, it’s over and out for the democracy – because Islam is anti-democratic – Islam is a theocracy, committed to Allah, committed to their own religion, but not committed to democracy.
So the real danger of our democracy is Islam, not right-wing, conservative, patriotic parties.
We are defending democracy against the threat of Islam, not the other way around.”
See the full interview here: http://youtu.be/vYz-je9S574
Remember: “Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.
Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called “religious rights.”
When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to “the reasonable” Muslim demands for their “religious rights,” they also get the other components under the table. Here’s how it works…
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness.
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.
They will push for the introduction of halal food (clean by Islamic standards – it is actually nothing more than a Sharia money-making scheme to support jihad ), thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply.
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris — car-burnings, riots). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Mohammed cartoons, Quran burnings).
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting and violence, jihad militia formations, killings, and church, synagogue, and temple burnings will occur often, etc.
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide.
100% will usher in the peace of “Dar-es-Salaam” — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim
Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Islamic supremacists then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.
“Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel. — Leon Uris, “The Haj”
It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.
(Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.)
So, what percentage do you think your country is at? Unfortunately, each of your countries welcomes illegal migrants, so none of us truly know the sheer numbers of Jihadis in our communities.
Amy Mek
@AmyMek
One of Belgium’s bravest politicians, Filip Dewinter:
“If you have majorities of Islamic believers in a city, or in a country, it’s over and out for the democracy – because Islam is anti-democratic – Islam is a theocracy, committed to Allah, committed to their own religion, but not committed to democracy.
So the real danger of our democracy is Islam, not right-wing, conservative, patriotic parties.
We are defending democracy against the threat of Islam, not the other way around.”
See the full interview here: http://youtu.be/vYz-je9S574
Remember: “Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.
Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called “religious rights.”
When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to “the reasonable” Muslim demands for their “religious rights,” they also get the other components under the table. Here’s how it works…
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness.
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.
They will push for the introduction of halal food (clean by Islamic standards – it is actually nothing more than a Sharia money-making scheme to support jihad ), thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply.
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris — car-burnings, riots). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Mohammed cartoons, Quran burnings).
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting and violence, jihad militia formations, killings, and church, synagogue, and temple burnings will occur often, etc.
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide.
100% will usher in the peace of “Dar-es-Salaam” — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim
Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Islamic supremacists then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.
“Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel. — Leon Uris, “The Haj”
It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.
(Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.)
So, what percentage do you think your country is at? Unfortunately, each of your countries welcomes illegal migrants, so none of us truly know the sheer numbers of Jihadis in our communities.
That’s him done for.
The distressing thing is that this sort of information has been available for a long time but STILL people do not see the threat.
None so blind ……
The shallow response from the terminally tolerant is usually, “but I have a friend who’s Muslim” or “but I know a Muslim and”…
I had a similar response from a retired clergyman who’d spent some time with a muslim family out east. I pointed out taqiyya and kitman and various injunctions about the kuffar in the koran, but he wasn’t convinced.
The real reason for the Srebrenica massacre. We are locking up the wrong people.
Google now refuses to find it but the UN has since admitted that there was no attempted genocide in Bosnia. It was as real as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The US government decided that it was in its interests to break up Yugoslavia. NATO, that (in)famous peace-keeper, bombed the hell out of Belgrade, deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. The same establishment has the gall to wag its collective finger at Israel and spout crap about “a proportionate response”.
Asterix the Gaul?
Drat! Corrected. Gall gall gall.
378158+ up ticks,
Morning TB,
Courtesy of the lab/lib/con coalition party current member / voters we will know shortly.
What’s the point of democracy when people won’t vote for your preferences, ogga? It’s not worth having if people are too stupid not to vote in ways you approve of.
378158+up ticks,
Afternoon DW,
Within this Country and its remnants of free speech do you have a problem with my stance on the electorate & the voting majority ?
You are entitled to view the majority of people with disdain.
378158+ up ticks,
DW,
I was really concerned about having your permission
As we are witnessing, the majority voter has landed this nation in dire straights this is inclusive of my family
and that is what I take issue with.
What is to be done with these voters? How are they to be prevented from voting as they do?
378158+ up ticks,
DW,
I really am the last one you should ask I have only a smattering of Arabic, suggest you should ask your party leader,kneel.
As you well know, many millions who don’t speak Arabic also vote the wrong way. Please note that I do not and never have been a member of any political party.
378158+ up ticks
DW,
For all I know you could be a top ranker in the lab party
But I will take your word on the issue, that’s the type of bloke I am.
Imshi.
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Afternoon NtN,
Is that said in anger?
More in despair.
Whatever percentage it is, it’s FAR too high.
On a lighter note , you have to read this .
https://twitter.com/OpenskiesX/status/1717732409842758054
If only it were true.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/10/26/austria-australia-airport-counter/
Shame! Good story, though!!
I do wonder if anyone ever really travelled 200 miles from London to the village of Stamford Bridge near York when they intended to go to Chelsea football ground but that too is a nice funny (if implausible) story.
True story. I once booked a hotel in Talmont (France) and on arrival discovered that there were TWO villages called Talmont…..
Visitors to Firstborn’s farm ignored my driving instructions knowing better, and went to the other Rollag, about 40mins drive and a mountain ridge away.
People intending to go to Rufford Park in Nottinghamshire have been known to catch the train to Rufford in Lancashire, near Southport.
Morning Sue. Harold Hardrada made that mistake and look what happened to him!
Lost on penalties.
While we were staying at a B&B in Crick the owner, on hearing that we lived near Crich, told us that he’d been asked more than once where the tram museum was. It’s in Crich, some 70 miles away!!
Don’t get me started on the time i got Cobham and Chobham mixed up…
I worked for a year in a Student Union travel office. I don’t think the manager much appreciated me pointing out that she was directing students wanting Stansted Airport to Stanstead Abbotts.
The racecourse is at Bangor on Dee. Brough Scott (when he was a jockey) once went to Bangor near Conwy and wondered why there was no racecourse.
Very heavy dew. Still misty in the village – but thick fog a couple of miles away. The MR just gone out on her bike to collect Jerusalem (if that word is sill allowed) artichokes from a neighbour whose garden is overwhelmed with them.
Palestine soup on the menu followed by strong wind?
And a Hamas dip.
a Hamasandwich washed down with orange jews
And a Jaffa cake.
Hope you don’t have a sensitive stomach.
Bright and sunny here now after a grey and damp start. Washing on, ready to hang out.
The letters regarding letters sent home by schoolchildren reminds me of one I received when I was 9 from my Dad who was in the Merchant navy – it was signed with his full signature as Captain of the ship – I often wondered which official organisation received a letter signed ‘Love Dad’
Funny how Gaza can “run low on food” but not on rockets, guns, ammunition etc…
I just don’t understand it… (sarc)
No way in from Egypt?
The Gaza strip has a long coastline.
Big fat Hamas leader sitting in mansion in Doha: “Food shortage, what food shortage”?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/634232e09fd47c729ec449158ed7a003b6a73af0ada1f093526b92aa3725cde4.png
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/27/nigel-farage-dismisses-report-natwest-debanking-whitewash/
If the government does not intervene then it is failing in its duty and encouraging large corporations to lie brazenly to the public.
Here is a chance for Labour (which it probably will not take because it lacks the integrity and the courage to do so)
Labour should claim that though the party does not agree with Mr Farage’s views his rights as a British citizen and the treatment he has received from NatWest have implications for all of us and that the Labour Party, when it is in government, will take immediate action against the directors of NatWest and the law firm it employs.
Such a decisive move by Starmer would certainly be of very grave concern to the pathetic Mr Sunak!
BTL (Ratty)
This is beyond disgraceful.
In the interests of openness regarding a company owned 40% by the taxpayer:
i) The Board of Nat West should be dismissed;
ii) The Law firm Travers Smith should be closed down and all its partners debarred from ever practising law again.
Fear not, Richard – lessons will be learned…..!
Just posted something on this above, i was so incensed i posted before i read anything posted here today.
Actually, if I remember rightly (which I may not do) it was Travers Smith’s lawyers who acted for Maxwell, who stripped his employees’ pension funds… Just saying.
Edit: or Travers Smith Braithwaite, as they were called at the time. Also edit – “acted for”.
Plenty of remarks BTL on the lines of “Why don’t you do something? You’re in government!” He’s not, of course, having returned to the backbenches but is probably the ‘wrong sort’ for the type of government we have at the moment. Perhaps he said something indiscreet in a cabinet meeting and was forced out.
The only quibble I would have with this article is his qualification in respect of the BNP and the EDL. The former definitely was ‘racist’ by the modern definition; the latter pointed out the dangers of Islam, although undoubtedly includes members of the former. However, it isn’t necessary to refer to either in this way to warn of the police’s highly selective policing.
Carpe Jugulum
I was a police officer for thirty years and despair at what passes for police officers these days. Police radios are equipped with an emergency button that overrides ALL other transmissions. That facility was supposed to be used when you needed urgent assistance and really was a last resort. Colleagues who are still serving now tell me that they are being used several times every shift by woefully unprepared younger officers who should never have been recruited in the first place.
The very, very simple fact, never admitted by the woke garbage now infesting senior ranks, is that policing is an inherently aggressive occupation that relies on an underlying threat of violence. Not once in thirty years did I arrest a villain who complied with arrest instructions out of a sense of social obligation. They complied because they were confident bad things followed on from non-compliance. Far too many of today’s recruits lack the aggression, and confidence, to confront a gang of yobs. It is far easier to ignore offences and avoid confrontation.
That basic reality is now ignored by recruiters and we have officers incapable of carrying out basic patrol duties. Meanwhile the capable thieftakers paper their bedrooms with tactical complaint notices crested by defence lawyers and never get promoted.
The answer is to go back to recruiting officers who are confident, capable and comfortable in confrontation, note woke lettuces who fold in fear of violence. The next step is to make arrest and detection records THE primary factors in promotion decisions.
Perhaps then we could return to functional policing.
“This one-sided policing risks alienating millions of people”.
Far too late.
Autumn Hunting (formerly known as “Cub Hunting” until it was renamed to avoid association with fluffy little cubs – they are, in fact, fully grown and quite capable of marauding the countryside) has been underway already in some parts of the country (depending on the crops/state of the ground etc). It’s only on 1st November that Opening Meets take place. I agree that the police “service” has been emasculated by pandering to the “none shall be refused and we’ll drop the standards to be inclusive” brigade.
378158+ up ticks,
Listen up, Could be witnessing our saviours in chatmode
https://youtu.be/q9pe9dvyiT4?si=IgDY2cPJvHYeyEQ5
Fascinating Twitt thread on the end of the Ming dynasty
Over-printed fiat money, years of prosperity leading to complacency and lack of innovation, eunochs having a lot of power….
https://twitter.com/YeeEhren/status/1717550429163360672
edit: isn’t it odd, how the very rich are always so obsessed with stopping those around them from reproducing…
Oh dear the over enthusiastic BBC again
https://th.bing.com/th?id=ORMS.72df0d608c5d69f01d26372c0c01afbd&pid=Wdp&w=300&h=156&qlt=90&c=1&rs=1&dpr=1&p=0
A date for the diary… Asia’s first Gay Games will be held in Hong Kong, in what organizers hope will stoke public debate and awareness of LGBT rights in one of Asia’s leading financial hubs. The Games will open on Nov 3 and run till Nov 11.
100 metre mincing?
Pole vault might be interesting.
Are the Poles taking part?
Only if their name is Walter.
I see what you did there!!
Muff diving.
Ridiculous. First I’ve heard that gay athletes can’t compete in normal games. Why must they always make such a parade out of their sexual preferences?
Because we (the normal) need to be reminded they are “special”.
Who will compete under which gender or will there be 57 varieties of each event to satisfy all known perversions?
The 57 varieties will produce sporting soupermen, -women and -non-binaries.
I don’t really know, but I think the relay team need to look before accepting any batons…
And can only be exchanged within the box.
Close:
‘BBC staff have been sniffing in toilets’
Tw@ter comment:-
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1717935827144061222
Has he only just noticed? Where has he been for the last few decades?
It appears to have missed the salacious daily mail but the latest on beloved Trudeau is that his wife has re-partnered.
Having an affair and shacking up with someone else is apparently too common for our masters – so the other couples divorce petition mentions that she has re-partnered.
Even with posh wording, it still looks good on him!
She is pre-owned, though!
New “partner” male or female (or other…!)??
Male, rich doctor living in Ottawa.
But still bestest friends with Trudope, of course….
Trudeau looks as though he is married to his mirror. Those boyish good looks haven’t lasted all too well – it’s a long time since visiting female politicians and royals were knocked sideways by his toothpaste commercial smile.
Well he wouldn’t be poor, or middling, would he? Women like those never go downwards…
Never raced or rallied, Ahemm.. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/670b2138758e19e10ab10c513120fc9239665f9153e54cfee6998cf974e0d2e2.jpg
Was that photo taken at first light? It looks like the crack of dawn.
How tacky.
During a rail strike my father gave a lift to one of the office girls in his open AC. She hopped over the door and put her high heel straight through the seat cushion. That was the last time she had hèr leg over in his car.
Blimey!
‘Fraid mine’s just an old Ford.
I’ve got an Aygo – what does that make me (apart from poor)? 🙂
Adulterous hussey has gone out of fashion then. Bet Turdy’s a tart as well.
I am reading a report in City AM., an on-line newspaper that Alistair Heath used to edit before he moved to the Terriblegraph.
Quote: “An internal review into the conduct of former Natwest boss Dame Alison Rose has concluded the CEO made an “honest mistake” when she leaked confidential information about Nigel Farage’s finances to the BBC.”
I’m sorry, but this is hogwash. Even the office cat at a UK regulated bank knows about data confidentiality and GDPR. If Dame Alison didn’t know what she was doing was wrong, she wasn’t a fit and proper person to run the bank. If she did know, she broke the rules and it wasn’t an honest mistake.
But she has got away with it.
Like Boris got away with telling TfL to pull an advert from the side of a bus because it offended Stonewall, and Neil Ferguson gets away with wildly exaggerated models and the SAGE “scientists” got away with damaging masking and lockdown rules…if you push the agenda, you can get away with murder.
Don’t get me started on Matt Halfcock who still hasn’t been properly investigated for his behaviour, decisions, contracts etc.
Hancock will be thrown to the dogs eventually, it’s only a matter of time. He’s the sort of odious little lickspittle that they always get rid of in the end.
I do hope you are right!
Yes, but sometimes the end is too late…
…and they are with deadly vaccines.
And they did!
Well look at Neil Ferguson – not judging a book by its rather ugly cover but by the content. When have his predictions actually been correct? Empirically (so “scientifically?”) he should be dismissed as a charlatan.
Nurse: “Ooh I’m sorry, I didn’t realise that you inject a vein, not an artery”…
Let us hope that she and Nat West have not got away with it.
Let us hope that for once politicians intervene and punish the directors of Nat West, Coutts and the Rose woman.
That woman – unlike the flower from which she stole her name – would not smell as sweet by any other name – she would always stink like an open sewer.
A Rose by any other name is a scheming lawbreaker.
Daily Sceptic is reporting Nat West share price drop…
Numerous people have posted this picture on Twitter/X. Istanbul in 2023. Amazing how many numbskulls are responding with “but it’s Turkey not London” or similar.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3bed18e5bed77bc2764c643d5b6931c5ac76dd29e10f398f3ddc37ec7309d03e.jpg
It’s yer cultural relativism, innit? It’s odd how cultural relativism is acceptable in some places but not others. You’d think it would have universal applicability but, in the jarringly dissonant way it works, some cultures are viewed through absolutist eyes.
How are they going to know if someone is a Jew, unless they enter wearing obviously Jewish garments?
There is a Jewish look. Think Mike and Bernie Winters. However yes, many would have to be wearing the yellow badge or at least orthodox clothing. The orthodox ladies wear wigs and they’re meant to look like wigs, so it’s very obvious.
I thought the orthodox women kept very much to their own communities. I used to see them when I lived in Stamford Hill, decades ago.
And yes, there is a Jewish look beyond the dress (in SH, the boys looked like pasty-faced bespeckled miniature men in their suits.
When I lived in Bushey, there were many too, not that orthodox, but you could tell them by their features – and, I’m afraid, every now and then by their behaviour. I really don’t like to sound disparaging, because I know several lovely people who are jewish, but in an area where there is a community some do seem to look down their noses at other people: it’s not endearing. I knew several people who would not work for them because of the high-handed/rude way in which they were treated.
Edit; I have no doubt it would be similar with other people who were the “RICH” in a community, but it doesn’t look good.
Back in the 80s when I worked in the children’s department in Selfridges, the wig ladies were always very much in evidence at sale time. The buyer was greatly amused by this but happy that they bought so much. When the wealty Arabs turned up, her focus was on party dresses of the over-the-top synthetic confection variety becasue those were guaranteed to sell well with that demographic.
I lived in Kensington for most of my early life, near Kensington Palace. When the Palace gardens-adjoining Royal Garden Hotel was sold to Arabs, the clientele changed. Rich Arabs, dripping in gold like over-decorated Christmas trees, thronged.
I heard from someone who had connection there, that these gold-draped rich people used to use curtains to wipe their *rses on, and left the rooms in a state that practically needed fumigation, let alone deep-cleaning.
You could take the Arab out of the desert, but…….all the gold in the world doesn’t do vice versa.
EDIT: perhaps the same can be said morally and behaviourally about some of the people who have been forced upon us by successive governments. I shall not be sad when Tony Blair gets his karma.
Oh, they shat on the carpets in the changing rooms in Selfridges too. Commonly an extended family would emerge from limousines in Duke Street and the oldest grandmas would sit on the floor at the foot of the escalators while the rest piled their shopping on the floor around her. The rich ones have adjusted more now but back then they were ostentatiously wealthy but still behaving like desert nomads.
It’ll take more than a generation or two of money to change their stone-age outlook.
The same can be said for others, welcomed into our formerly lovely country by the disgusting Blair and his political descendants.
You could have left out “of money” from your first sentence. Second and third generations are still mediaeval in their mindset.
Where do they park their camels?
Horrible, uneducated, thick people. I wouldn’t give them yard-room.
That’s interesting. My late sister worked there as a cookery demonstrator for Prestige many moons ago.
I doubt she would have been anywhere near the wigs…but she might have met Our Susan.
In the early 1970s I shared a house in Fulham with a friend who was Jewish. He was fair haired and blue-eyed and didn’t look remotely Jewish.
He came from a rich family and his marriage was quite an event held in the parents’ very grand garden in Gerard’s Cross with a rabbi officiating, a cantor singing, a tabernacle, a broken glass and all the trimmings!
When he first started going out with his future wife he told her that he would never be able to marry her because she was not Jewish. “No problem,” she said “I shall convert to Judaïsme” and she went to all the necessary classes and jumped through all the hoops. She had brown eyes, a tawny complexion and dark hair and looked far more Jewish than her husband even though she was not.
They have been married now for 50 years.
Good for them.
Apparently, a several times Great-Grandmother was born in a shtetel in the Ukraine during Tsarist times and after emigrating to the UK with her parents, married outside of the religion.
Or wearing a yamulka or a kippah.
I guess the Turks have given up wanting to join the sinking ship EU then. Can’t imagine there are that many Jews in Istanbul, it seems like superfluous spite. Of course, if you can also put up signs saying “Muslims not allowed” then everyone could just let their prejudices hang out.
Of course Christopher Marlowe wrote The Jew of Malta,a play about a Jewish merchant, Barabas.
The Jews have always been singled out. The brilliant Tom Lehrer came from a secular Jewish family and his song about National Brotherhood week is brilliant. Here is one of its verses.
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.
and here is the song itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY
I don’t hate the Jews. We have a Jewish bus driver and he’s most helpful and pleasant.
I have never hated the Jews indeed, as the cliché has it, some of my best friends are Jews.
I think Tom Lehrer was pointing fun at the mindless hordes of anti-semites.
It annoys me when people are told “everybody does [whatever]”. All too often I don’t; eg I never loved Diana Wales or wanted the Irish to win all our best races 🙂
I would love to put up a sign “Muslims Not Allowed”! The cover of my latest British Horse magazine has a smug looking muzzie woman dressed in islamic clothing on it (it isn’t Sheika Hissa). It offends me deeply.
Watch your front door, Conwy.
Never mind Ukraine, Gaza, Islamification, Transsexualism, Global Warming and Vaccine-Induced Global Depopulation, I’m more concerned about hoodies. This harmless garment appendage has its place. It’s handy to cover the head and ears when cold or wet. What grinds my gears, though, is wearing the covering indoors or outdoors on warm sunny days. It’s very much the preserve of young men although they have little appreciation of how it appears to others. Do they know they look utterly dorky in presenting a sullen adolescence they should have grown out of by now? Have they no concerns about impeded hearing and restricted peripheral vision? Perhaps it’s the look of unapproachable furtiveness which excites them. All I know is that, when I’m Prime Minister, I will proscribe them unless the weather is inclement.
David, they don’t understand impeded, peripheral, unapproachable, inclement or proscribed. Kool innit.
I feel the same about young people (in particular) who wear hats/caps/beanies indoors.
As I’m not particularly young, I hope I’m excused when I simply forget to remove my hat once indoors. Blame it on my age.
I know someone who wears a cap indoors and it looks odd but in her case it’s excusable because the poor woman is losing her hair.
Excellent excuse.
There is no reason why women should not wear a hat indoors. HMQE2 did so at lunch in the Mansion House in her Silver Jubilee year. Men who wear hats indoors, on the other hand (unless they are Jewish) …
I should have made it clear that it was males at whom my wrath is aimed!
Young people often don’t know much at all, but having just started on the road of learning anything they think they have the answers. I was one myself. A rabid socialist at 17.
But you’re better now!
I can honestly say I have never been attracted by socialism (despite the fact that my family were all left wing), even as a youngster. It’s only as I’ve got older and more experienced, however, that I began to appreciate how little I did know!
The biggest problem is, they think they know everything and don’t have much respect for the older generation.
And spend too much time with a mobile phone in their faces.
Keeping one’s wits about one is important when walking the streets so as to avoid oncomers staring into their telephones instead of looking where they’re going. I’m still unaccustomed to people using hands-free telephones when they’re out and about. They sound as if they’re talking to themselves.
They probably are.
There was a young girl wearing one (with the hood up) in the queue in front of me this morning. She seemed polite and pleasant, though.
I have one – had it for 11 years or so – nice and warm on a chilly day. I don’t keep the hood up when I’m slouching around though. Mine says “Save our Rhino” on the front.
Gardening calls. Somehow the sun has made a watery appearance. Back later.
What has Norfolk done to warrant this meagre ration of sunlight? This part of Hertfordshire has been rewarded with some lovely sunny autumn weather the past few days, including right now.
Herts is Trumps!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmdJGm5GWwU
It has its good points.
Bishop’s Stortford.
https://a.cdn-hotels.com/gdcs/production189/d783/5b8cf295-aed7-40c6-ba9b-2dac6bc94773.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=800&h=533&q=medium
Knebworth House.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Knebworth_W_front.JPG
Hatfield House.
https://a.cdn-hotels.com/gdcs/production142/d1718/e0ac3f0b-d9fa-46e0-a37c-e643d5a565e8.jpg
Hitchin.
https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_1742-Hitchin-High-Street.jpg
Hertford.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/02/07/14/24444712-0-image-a-41_1581087317114.jpg
And Hurricanes hardly happen there – just as they do not in Hereford or Hampshire!
He must have been aware of Mr Ray (mond) Wilson a lecturer. And a friend of mine.
Our Christo outside St Albans Cathedral at his graduation from the University of Hertfordshire:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/58a1f2731ed02c51ebe6bfd567fd219dca6beec964e5e2601b858545702a167c.png
That is where I studied computer science, it wasn’t a university in those days and mainly peddled useful hnc and hnd courses.
Not quite todays standard for computer training, there were about twenty of us sharing a small Elliot 803 for practical work.
When I was driving down to Essex in my student days I used to breast the rise to Bishop’s Stortford and know that it was going to be flat all the way (bearing in mind I’ve spent most of my life near the Welsh Mountains).
Twas sunny here too – washing dried, went shopping about 4pm, and while in was in Morrisons, there was a downpour – but it had stopped before I came out.
Looks like it is about to rain here
Techies – does anyone have any experience with using Tails OS? Any tips?
You need a heads up
Move to the Isle of Man?
Hope I can manage to install it on a USB stick without such drastic measures.
I wanted to ask you though, how long do Cavalo Nero plants last? Will they overwinter and do a second summer, or will they go into flower next year?
They are delicious, just as you said – and my children are getting trained to go out into the garden to seek food for lunch!
They will over winter . We sowed this years crop on 4 April. They last and last.
Just remember to cut just the leaves you need – NOT the whole head!
We’ve been harvesting from them since August. But are they biennials?
No – annuals. Long-lasting., They go to seed by Easter.
Thanks!
Yo all
From sunny Benidorm
We are here for a fortnight
Lovely weather and “All Inclusive” at Hotel
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As you will see I found Instant Sunshine’s song about Herts and posted it for you under one of your posts.
They also wrote a very good song about Spanish holidays. It is in my repertoire but I can’t find a version to play on the Internet. Here is the first verse:
We’ve all been on a holiday to Spain,
And next year we shall all go there again
Not one of us could tell a cold gazpacho from paella
But we all had a lovely time.
Indeed you did, Richard, and that was much appreciated at the time when you posted it as a Birthday treat.
Your birthday wishes to us all are a lovely NoTTL reminder of what a very special forum this is.
Some familiar faces.
Which one is Mrs A Allan?
Dunno Bill 🤔
‘Oodatlot?
The cast of Benidorm.
I spent my 21st birthday in Benidorm three days celebrating. And a few beers. Well quite a few infact.
Loved it, but it’s changed quite a lot since then.
Have a great time.
Excellent! Enjoy!
A still autumn afternoon. Mist gone. Watery sun. Trombetti harvest……
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As you commented the other day I have, in my time, eaten a few pies. Do trombetti go well in meat pies?
They are a universal vegetable. Purée for infants; soup; salads; omelettes or just as a vegetable to accompany meat pies!
What intrigued us about them was the way that one could cut off sufficient for whatever meal one was using it for, and the cut would self seal, keeping it fresh to be used even many days later with no need for refrigeration..
Quite. Glad you gave in and tried! Given your dislike of courgettes!
I like small courgettes, it’s the bigger ones that are too like marrow that I dislike.
They’re too big for pies.
Arabic for infidel?
Only after we had taken them in, cleaned and wrapped for winter did I think I could have made a word!
They are by far the best we have ever had.
I am impressed by your trombetti frames. I tried similar this year with pallets for my squashes, but it didn’t work. They grew nicely up the pallets, then came a hailstorm that knocked them back, and they never really produced much. Very disappointing. Was thinking I should just let them run along the ground next year – but then they’d be eaten by slugs!
Growing on the ground is OK in Italy or the south of France but not in northern climes.
My frame is permanent – I replace the soil each year. The uprights go 12 inches into the ground and are supported by iron pickets at each corner.
Bill, where is Ben (and the Little Weed)? 🤣
Is that Hebrew in support of Israel, Bill?
See my reply to sos an hour ago!!
That says ‘jihad’! I have spoken to Mossad!
That’s not how you spell HELP.
Just been in Sainsbury’s Barnstaple.
What a nightmare.
Bigger than Heathrow, with twice as many people in it. All with trollies and moving at microspeed. Can’t see the labels over the aisles. Only wanted a bag of soft mints, so fuck it, back out in car now.
Just at the moment, want to be home. Fewer people, and most things work. No TV showing shite episodes of prehistoric MASH at ear-splitting volume.
Back to Norway tomorrow, thank God.
Shudda gone to the filling station.
I envey you Obs, I had a bit of a mare earlier this afternoon trying get to hospital for blood tests. It usually take 15 minutes to get there, it took forty. More roads closed, its been going on for months. When I managed to park first half hour free.
I walked into phlebotomy department and every seat of around 60 plus were taken. I came home and phoned the surgery to go somewhere else. 17th of next month.
It was one of those journeys were I felt I wished I was somewhere else.
I’ve never been involved with so many morons on our roads, narrow country lanes. Even confronted by a large van coming towards me on a one way street.Effing and blinding at me.
It might be a bit chilly in your neck of the woods. But I think sanity is more emphasised.
At least you can escape to sanity. Spare a thought for us poor beggars who are stuck with it 🙁
Did you come across the broad-beamed, bouncy, beautiful, brown as a berry, bumpkin belle from Barnstaple blocking up the aisles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuomL35vs-M
I would not have thought that the population of North Devon was sufficient to support such a vast supermarket. Plymouth or Exeter, sure, but Barnstaple?
MASH, as with Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Big Bang Theory, and other popular US tv comedies of decades past are broadcast in the UK on a permanent rotation basis. As soon as the final episode airs, it’s straight back to the very first one.
As it happens, Google Maps tells me that Barnstaple and its environs support Asda and Tesco Superstores, a Tesco Extra and Tesco Express, a Sainsbury’s, an Iceland and Iceland Food Warehouse, three Lidls, an Aldi, a Marks & Spencer supermarket, a Co-op and a Londis. They’re spoilt for choice.
What? No Waitrose or Morrisons?
Dear God… Wall-to-wall tv shite 🙁
I beg to differ. I think they are excellent examples of the genre. Just a few days ago I saw an episode of Friends I’ve seen several times before. It still made me laugh. They are beautifully constructed, scripted and acted sitcoms.
Boris Johnson reveals he is joining GB News. 27 October 2023.
Boris Johnson has revealed he is getting his own programme on GB News – the oatest Tory politician to join the right-wing TV channel as a presenter.
In a video posted on X, the troublesome former PM said he was “excited” to sign up to the “remarkable” new channel – boasting that the show would allow him to share his “unvarnished views” on politics.
“Unvarnished views” i.e. Blatant Lies!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-gb-news-presenter-b2437198.html
That’s the final nail in that outfit’s coffin.
My thought exactly Bill!
The saddest words: What might have been?
Getting rid of Mark Steyn was the beginning of the end.
Indeed. It was nice while it lasted!
Clearly it needed to be cancelled.
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KENT : Is this the promised end?
EDGAR: Or image of that horror?
[King Lear: Act V]
You are right, Rastus! Shakespeare does have words for most situations!
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If he puts out content like this, I hope he gets plenty of airtime:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12680473/BORIS-JOHNSON-stop-equating-hamas-israel.html
Afternoon (just about) all. Anybody who entertains the idea of Labour being even remotely fit to govern has clearly had his head in the sand and his ears blocked since 1945.
As someone posted on here a few days ago, Conners, some people live and learn but most just live.
The electorate consists of those born before 2006, the great majority of whom were born after 1945. I don’t know when political memories first become established in growing minds, but current affairs don’t have much impact on the under 10s, so even those born in 1945 wouldn’t be very aware of the political scene until 1955. I was born in 1956 so my awareness of what happened before 1966 is mostly derived from history rather than direct knowledge. It wasn’t until the late 1960s that I had much of a real time perception of political news. In effect, before 1970 was either before I was born, a baby, a toddler or a child before becoming a teenager in 1969. Most of the electorate are younger than me so had neither head nor ears until even later. If asked for the median age of those eligible to vote in the UK, I’d say it was those born after roughly 1975. Would it be about right to say that 18-48 year olds are approximately the same in number as those aged 49 and older? I might very well be under-representing younger adults. Maybe the advent of the Thatcher administration in 1979 marks the 50/50 dividing line of the electorate.
378158+ up ticks,
I do believe these governing overseers are openly acting out TREASON on many fronts.
Tess Summers 🏴🇮🇪
@tesssummers98
Lefty woman on GBNews just accusing Ben Habib of ‘dogwhistle’ ie racist talk for warning about taking in refugees from Gaza. He warned that they’d been indoctrinated by Hamas since childhood to hate the West, which is why other Arab countries won’t take them. The racist jibe was pretty stupid as Ben’s father was born in Pakistan. But then lefty do-gooders like her are so naive and so dumb
https://x.com/tesssummers98/status/1717795543160705296?s=20
Another lady the like of whom we are never to see again:
Pippa Latour Doyle MBE, SOE agent, was born on April 8, 1921. She died on October 7, 2023, aged 102
Had it not been for the ingenuity of the Special Operations Executive’s technical branch and her own presence of mind, the 23-year-old Phyllis “Pippa” Latour, believed to have been the last surviving female agent in SOE’s F (France) Section, would probably not have lived to see VE Day.
She had parachuted into Normandy in the early hours of May 2, 1944, a few weeks before D-Day, to join the “Scientist” circuit of the Maquis, the French Resistance, as their wireless operator — or in SOE slang, “pianist”. The role of the Maquis was to gather intelligence on the Wehrmacht and targeting information for the Allied air forces, and then switch to active sabotage when the invasion began. Everything therefore relied on the wireless operator’s ability to send Morse code messages back to London and to remain undetected.
Knowing that the invasion was coming, but not precisely where or when, the Germans were on heightened alert. All civilian movement was potentially suspect and spot checks were frequent. Latour, her French sufficiently fluent and her looks youthful and Gallic enough to pass for une jeune fille normande, went about the Scientist area — some 40 square miles — by bicycle, passing as a soap-seller. One day, she and others were rounded up in a routine sweep and taken to the local gendarmerie for questioning. The SOE’s technical branch had miniaturised the tools of her trade, however: “I always carried knitting because my codes were on a piece of silk,” she recalled in an interview years later. “I had about 2,000 I could use. When I used a code I would just pinprick it to indicate it had gone. I wrapped the piece of silk around a knitting needle to insert it in a flat shoe lace which I used to tie my hair up.”
At the gendarmerie, “a female soldier made us take our clothes off to see if we were hiding anything. She was looking suspiciously at my hair so I just pulled my lace off and shook my head. That seemed to satisfy her. I tied my hair back up with the lace. It was a nerve-racking moment.”
It was one of several searches, but each time her childlike gaieté somehow got her through. Yet it had almost prevented her joining the SOE in the first place.
Phyllis Ada Latour was born in 1921 aboard ship in Durban, South Africa. Her father, Philippe, a French doctor, was on his way to the Belgian Congo. Her mother was English, but soon after reaching the Congo, with tribal war raging, her father sent them back to South Africa. He was killed not long afterwards.
When Latour was three her mother remarried. “My stepfather was well off, and a racing driver. The men would do circuits and they would often let their wives race against each other. When my mother drove, the choke stuck and she couldn’t control the car. She hit a barrier, the car burst into flames, and she died.”
Her father’s cousin became her guardian, and she went to live with his family in the Congo. “They were really the only parents I knew. When I was seven my ‘new’ mother went riding as she always did. The horse came back without her … When they found her she was dead.”
Latour was initially educated at home and then in Nairobi, Kenya, before in 1939 going to secretarial college in England. When war broke out she volunteered for the Women’s Royal Naval Service, who naturally enough given her secretarial skills put her to administrative work. Wanting something more active, in 1941 she transferred to the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) to train as a mechanic. There, her language skill was recognised and in 1943 she and a dozen others were sent for what was coyly known as special training: “It was unusual training — not what I expected, and very hard.”
Initially the SOE selectors were far from convinced she was the right material, an interim report describing her as “a naive, ingenuous girl with a love of excitement, full of a confident optimism in which judgment plays no part … She is no more than a child in her gestures, behaviour and outlook and has no grasp of the realities of life. Quite unsuitable.” Or, as a female agent-turned-trainer remarked, “cheerful little scatterbrain … uncontrolled and stubborn”.
Eventually, though, “They told me they wanted me to become a member of the SOE. They said I could have three days to think about it. I told them I didn’t need three; I’d take the job now.”
Then began her real training. She already knew Morse code, but needed to speed up her key-work, and also to become handy with weapons. The SOE also employed a number of “old lags” to teach “tradecraft”. Latour increased her climbing ability thanks to a cat-burglar, and learnt to pick locks courtesy of a former peterman.
On April 30, 1944, the BBC broadcast the coded message “Le vin rouge est meilleur” (“Red wine is better”), notifying “Scientist” that Latour — codename “Genevieve” — would be landing. Two days after dropping into France she sent a message — the first of 135. By 1944, sending was the “pianist’s” most vulnerable moment. The high-frequency wirelesses needed to send on high power, with long antennae, and the Germans had developed an effective system of direction-finding (DF) by triangulation. “They were about an hour and a half behind me each time I transmitted. Each message might take me about half an hour so I didn’t have much time. It was an awful problem for me so I had to ask for one of the three DF near me to be taken out. They threw a grenade at it. A German woman and two small children died. I knew I was responsible for their deaths. It was a horrible feeling.”
Come the invasion, she had 17 wireless sets hidden in various farms, and was often living rough in woods and barns and always short of food. Her work only ended when the Americans overran the Scientist area. She returned to England in October, whereupon SOE proposed returning her to the WAAF, in which she now held the rank of Section Officer.
Latour protested. Her debrief report said “Tons of guts. Wants to go on with the work, provided it’s dangerous enough.” So she was re-briefed to drop behind the lines into Germany, but the mission was abandoned because of the rapid Allied advance after the crossing of the Rhine in March. She was instead discharged soon after VE Day, and appointed MBE (Military).
Subsequently she married Patrick Doyle, an Australian engineer, and lived in Kenya, Fiji and Australia. They divorced in the 1970s, and she brought up their four children in New Zealand on little money. In 2014, along with other Normandy veterans, she was appointed a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur by the French government.
Latour remained loath to talk of her experiences, always conscious of the death she had brought to French civilians in consequence of the Allied bombing, and that 12 of her 38 fellow F Section female agents were executed by the Germans.
Good Lord. What a life.
And – like so many of that generation – completely self-effacing and modest about it all.
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Great Britons, in fact.
To have done all that knowing that to be caught would mean brutal interrogation, torture and summary execution takes some courage. RIP, dear lady.
Respect. Stupendously courageous lady.
Endless gratitude from this old bugger. Thanks, Pippa. Raising a glass…
Elon Musk calls Humza Yousaf a ‘blatant racist’ over ‘whites fill all top roles in Scotland’ speech. 27 October 2023.
Elon Musk has called Humza Yousaf a “blatant racist” in response to video footage of a speech the First Minister gave decrying the lack of prominent non-white people in Scotland.
The world’s richest man took to his X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, to launch the attack on Mr Yousaf after viewing a post that contained a clip from the 2020 speech.
Mr Yousaf, who was then Scottish justice secretary, took part in a Holyrood debate on challenging racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May that year. The footage has since been used to claim he is bigoted.
If I can’t have Vlad for Prime Minister I will settle for Elon!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/27/elon-musk-appears-to-call-humza-yousaf-a-blatant-racist/
Same old story once they get their feet under the table the destructive nature kicks in. How long will it take before our political idiots realise what is actually going on.
After they have been voted out.
No wonder they banned fire arms.
And Blair removed the death penalty for treason.
Since he was about to commit it.
It was a purely cosmetic exercise as no judge would have handed down such a sentence. There would have been no point as human rights legislation had already effectively outlawed death penalties. The UK’s membership of the European Council made the country subject to verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg which applies the European Convention on Human Rights to its member states, since incorporated into UK legislation by the Human Rights Act. The Convention, to which the UK is a signatory, forbids death penalties. Any death sentence would have been subject to appeal and overturned, either in Strasbourg or, nowadays, in the UK. Besides, I cannot imagine anybody being appointed to the judiciary in this day and age with an appetite for death penalties. They simply wouldn’t get the job.
In that case, there was absolutely no need to remove it, was there?
Why does it take the whole of parliament, both Commons and Lords, several readings of a Bill, as well as acquiring Royal Assent, before a law can be made …. yet one bloke can abolish such a law at whim?
There was neither a need to remove it nor to keep it. It was a legal dust bunny. it was removed to tidy up, not to make any material difference.
Strange then that they chose that one to tidy up when there are so many arcane laws still in force.
That’s why he’s still alive.
And Piracy on the high seas.
I can’t see that happening. Their crooks manage to keep that shiite Kahnt in the driving seat. While he’s been wrecking our capital city..
They know; they just think the crocodile will devour them last.
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Peter Godwin.
Godwin’s Law? 🙂
‘For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be British’
From the policing of the pro-Palestine protests to Nigel Farage’s debanking – we reveal this week’s biggest discussion topics.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/27/telegraph-readers-palestine-protest-police-israel-un-farage/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr
BTL
The woke are ashamed of what Britain was; I am proud of what Britain used to be.
The woke also seem to loathe Britain as it is now – and here we are in agreement.
Britain has become a loathsome place in the last 30 years since the Conservatives turned on Thatcher and allowed the pathetic Mr Major to prepare the ground for the ruinous decade of Blair’s premiership which has resulted in the total moral collapse of Britain.
I feel for our parents and grandparents generations. Many gave their lives to keep our country safe from attack and invasion. But our brave ancestors have been to badly let down by politics and the c evil service. Our country is no longer safe for the future of our own grandchildren. Politicians should be put in jail. But of course the jails are full.
Sod the site rules. I’m posting some hard core:
You are just a pawn.
Success, it made Phizzee rock hard.
That reminds me of an advert for a ton of hard core which was erroneously eagerly accepted by a responder who was most disappointed when the truck delivered it.
When a friend and I constructed a concrete base for my garden shed I told my friends that I need some hard core but unfortunately had no copies of Playboy or Playgirl. Lol.
That’s me gone for this day of three halves. Fog; gloom and sun. In equal parts. Picked all the remaining outdoor tomatoes to store and let ripen.
We both used the new step ladder and were agreeably surprised by its stability. Wish I had had it before…(sighs..)
Looks like a fine day tomorrow. So more autumn clearance awaits.
Have a spiffing evening.
A demain.
It may just be my natural pessimism, but the Gaza conflict has gone ominously quiet.
I fear a big bang this weekend.
Latest news on Twitt says heavy bombing and gunfire from Gaza. 🙁
From or into?
Either way, there is relatively little appearing on MSM as far as I can tell.
Boredom – battle fatigue setting in. Much better to concentrate on the vile language used by the Cabinet Secretary…
Financelot
@FinanceLancelot
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BREAKING: Senior Israeli Officials are stating that “Tonight is the Night” and that the Full-Scale Invasion of the Gaza Strip will begin in the coming hours.
It’s appeared in the Guardian just a moment ago.
Big bang this weekend it is.
Stock market crash on Monday, blamed on Middle East?
Or Liz Truss? Or global warming? Or Windrush? Or …?
I expect the Israelis are he’ll bent on destroying the Hamas underground net-work.
The power and comms have gone off. Wonder how that happened! I suppose the only realistic tactic is to occupy the Strip, and then patiently strangle Hamas of their resources before flushing them out. I dont hold much hope for the hostages.
Agree re hostages.
Either way I fear Hamas will do something grotesque, film it and publish it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12681083/Israeli-warplanes-unleash-airstrikes-unprecedented-scale-Gaza-Hamas-claims-communications-internet-cut-IDF.html
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Did he trade up from a Bantam?
End UK membership of the WHO petition.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/648609?s=35
Prolly won’t do any good, but let’s see how far we can get it…
Already signed, yonks ago.
Signed last week but tweeted it again. Numbers seem to be going up well.
They won’t accept my second signature!
Hopefully that is a good thing, as it suggests they can stop “bots”
16592 now
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/27/protesters-jihad-may-not-be-arrested-met-palestine-march/
The police are out looking for Christian women who are praying for peace and are leaving the murderous jihadists alone!
Have they no self-respect? Have they no shame?
If that doesn’t hammer home how badly we have been infiltrated by people who hate everything we stand for, nothing will.
Diversity at its finest /sarc
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12680861/kidnap-gang-south-wales-cardiff-fortune-lawson-arnold-fumumeye.html
Demon Monsters.
Sickening.
And the police said it took 3 years to bring these sickos to justice. They include one who was given a 6 year sentence. Presumably since he has already been in custody for 3 years, then with “good behaviour” he will be released 24 hours after arriving at jail.
Monkeys behave better than them.
I’m getting a bit fed up with racial discrimination…. An e-mail exchange I’m in the middle of with Age Concern. Starts at the bottom.
‘Hi A..,
Thanks for the note, and I’m pleased that Age Concern is committed to celebrating the diversity of all old people hence my question, when is White History Month? Because if there isn’t going to be one then that would seem to be discrimination on the grounds of colour, wouldn’t it?
Regards
David
Sent from my Galaxy
From: Campaigns
Date: 27/10/2023 11:55 (GMT+00:00)
To: D……..@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Reflecting on Black History Month
Dear Mr W,
Thank you for your email. Black History Month is a time to celebrate the significant contributions from people of African and African-Caribbean heritage have made, over the centuries, to shaping the dynamic and diverse country we are today.
However, Age UK is committed to celebrating the diversity of all older people, and to support everyone to overcome the barriers to their full inclusion and participation in society. You can read more about our commitment on our website here – https://www.ageuk.org.uk/about-us/people/our-commitment-to-equality-diversity-and-inclusion/
Kind regards,
A.. …..
Supporter Engagement
7th Floor
One America SQ
17 Crosswall
London
EC3N 2LB
From: David W….
Dear Mr Farmer,
Thanks for this. When are you planning on having a White History Month?
Regards
David
From: Paul Farmer, Age UK
Sent: 26 October 2023 10:18
To: d………@hotmail.com
Subject: Reflecting on Black History Month
Age UK Campaigns
Dear Mr W…..,
I wanted to share an article I’ve written about Black History Month with you.
I’ve taken this time to reflect on how older Black people are still disproportionately affected by the challenges of later life. I, and all of Age UK, are committed to addressing the particular difficulties older Black people face – including campaigning to reform the failing Windrush Compensation Scheme.
Of course it’s also important to celebrate the wonderful ways Black people have shaped our society.
I have really enjoyed hearing about some amazing events Local Age UKs are involved in across the country. For example, in Bradford, nearly one thousand students performed for older people in their community to recognise Black artists such as Sister Sledge, Beverley Knight and Heather Small; and in Tameside, older people in the area participated in a ‘Black Girl Magic’ exercise class with an all-Black female soundtrack!
I hope you will continue to work with us to celebrate the contributions of all older people and ensure they get the support they need, not only during Black History Month but throughout the entire year.
Best wishes,
Paul Farmer
Chief Executive
Age Concern’
Their argument of course is that we have to overdo it now to make up for not doing it at all before.
Which completely ignores the sound reasons that people of Sub-Saharan African heritage have never featured in the history of the once civilised world.
They never documented their own history because they had no written language of their own. Their achievements weren’t documented by others because they didn’t achieve very much.
The Black History of Europe is largely fabricated. Very 1984.
How to reply without answering the question.
How to reply without even acknowledging the point.
Very sad.
So, I wasn’t aware that the Windrush arrivals were taking a cut in standards, living conditions and lifestyle in travelling to live in the UK, and so needed compensation for that. In fact, were they kidnapped into slavery back then in the 1950s? How appalling!
/sarc
What about the Pilgrim Fathers? Do they get compo?
I got so fed up earlier in the year being told by the Yacht Association, the Institute of Advanced Motorists, the ICAEW etc that they were ”celebrating” Pride Month and so must I. No. Leave me alone. Leave me out of this.
Off for a walk to Cromford & back with eldest daughter so will sing off now.
G’night all.
Open mic night, then?
No, unfortunately.
Listened to a rather pleasant duo though over an excellent couple of pints of Titanic Plum Porter though.
Cromford was featured on Scrape in the country bbc today.
Aka Escape to the Country.
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Errrm. Oh dear.
A successful stag night.
Radio 4, PM.
Evan Davies: “We’ll talk to Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate which campaigns against racism and extremism.”
Lowles: “I think we are entering a really dangerous time…my fear is that the polarisation of the debate will be exploited by hardliners on both sides and the consequences of what is happening in the Middle East will have a quite a long tail in the UK.
“It’s led to anger and violence and is being exploited by both sides to further divisions in communities. It’s being used by the Islamist extremist die to say ‘We can’t trust British society, this is what they’re like, the West is joining up with Israel against Muslims’. On the other side it’s weaponised by the political right saying ‘This proves multi-culturalism has failed and Muslims can’t co-exist in Western society.
“I’m fearful for those people who being threatened and attacked online and the impact it’s going to have on community relations.” [Who is being threatened?]
When asked by Evans if the ‘progressive cause/Left’ should be clearer in its denouncement of the events of Oct 7th, Lowles said: ‘Yes, and I don’t think they’re unwittingly falling into it [the anti-Semitism] but some of them are consciously doing so and openly supporting what Hamas did…there is a dangerous thread running through elements of the progressive Left.”
Lowles was a member of HMG’s Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group for 10 years [hatred of, not by…]: “After Lee Rigby’s murder and the 2017 attacks there was a conscious effort to de-escalate tensions…this time, the government must be mindful of its rhetoric and should reach out to all communities…things may get worse over the next few weeks and the authorities have to be ahead of the game. I’m not seeing any of this happening now.”
Lowles is either speaking with a forked tongue or is dangerously naive.
Hope not Hate are a vile organisation, full of hate themselves. Oh, the irony.
Some real hate on Any Questions? this evening when Dan Hannan opined that it would be very wrong to attempt to call a cease fire with an organisation that holds hostages. A woman in the audience had interrupted him earlier and went off again in a big way. David Blunkett told her “We feel your pain.”
Perhaps someone somewhere will analyse the recording and discover what the heckler said…
After my frought afternoon I’m going to indulge in a wee dram in an hour and popping off to bed.
Goeie nag almal.
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Par at Wordle today.
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Only just made it. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/146bf7cfa8c5680081609d7f7c0f7ffab25f63a52aeef7e4dcec825869a7c47b.jpg
I’ve had a phew of those.
Same here
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Three for me.
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Well done, Sue.
Me too (don’t know how to show the colours).
#metoo.
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Here’s the BBC at its best. It’s another Peter Bone report. Here’s the news page with the link top right:
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Read the report here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67232381
What do you see?
Picture of a Muslim woman but quote by a white man. Misleading, certainly.
An attempt in the article to show balance but all the pictures bar one show people in the same café. Lazy interviewers!
I see that nobody says we don’t have enough info one way or the other.
None of them care if he’s guilty or innocent.
Because that’s what MPs do: they “deliver more shops, especially clothes and children’s retailers”. Whenever I feel dismayed by the local poor choice of clothing retailers, I ask my MP to deliver one. It’s their business nous, you see. Entrepreneurs fail time and time again to see the opportunities available to them. I’m glad MPs know how to fill gaps in the market.
I understand the car/tree episode having just written my car off in collision with tree. – Stress!
Poll on Youtube.
‘Is it acceptable to protest by holding up the traffic?”.
So far, 90% no, 10% yes.
Perhaps so, but traffic-disrupting protestors are 10 times more virtuous than their complainants so, by my reckoning, that makes 90% no, 100% yes.
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Hoi! You been spyin’ or suffin’?
Perhaps it’s a good idea he didn’t try killing that snake draped over the sofa!
Been there. Done that!☹️
I haven’t swatted a floater but I’ve tried wiping them off my glasses!
I clap at them in a Mick Jagger-like impersonation. “Not fade away.”
Well, now we know. Had England snuck past South Africa last weekend, they would not be troubling the All Blacks tomorrow night.
Another busy day for me. Good night, chums, I’ll be back tomorrow.
Night night, Elsie.
378158+ up ticks,
Pillow ponder,
leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ reposted
Ben Pile
@clim8resistance
A reminder of the refreshing perspective that this man will bring to the channel:
* Banning boilers.
* Banning cars.
* Lockdowns. Lockdowns. Lockdowns.
* Squandering an 80 seat majority on his & his wife’s Net Zero fetish.
* Taking Europe closer to WWIII and counselling against diplomacy.
YOU CAN GET THAT ON ANY OTHER “NEWS CHANNEL”.
BBC Radio 4 hasn’t lost me as I’ve very rarely listened to it. It would be better to say it’s never gained me.
Goodnight, all.
And good night from 😴 me.
I too am saying, Goodnight and God Bless, Gentlefolk.
Good morning, all – Saturday’s new page is here.
‘morning, Geoff, and thank you.
Good morning and thank you.