Friday 5 November: The Paterson case exposes government inability to think three moves ahead

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  6. The Paterson case exposes government inability to think three moves ahead

    I disagree they are always three moves ahead, just that we do not know what it is yet.

    In just two weeks we have seen two Leave politicians leave Politics, one under the knife, one hounded out by what looks like a set piece trial by media.

    1. I agree, there is a strong whiff of getting rid of the opposition about this resignation.

    2. There was already a limited company in the UK called Meta. Guess they will soon have to kowtow to the Yanks.

    1. Hmmm! There must have been some real pressure exerted there! Nothing hurts like the truth! Morning Rik.

      1. It was his talent for ridicule,Minty,nothing these sanctimonious bullies hate more than being laffed at
        ‘morning

        1. I think judging by other events there’s a clearing of the decks of dissenting voices in preparation for the Great Climate Change Reset!

    2. Hmmm! There must have been some real pressure exerted there! Nothing hurts like the truth! Morning Rik.

  10. Russian source for Steele’s Trump dossier arrested by US authorities. Luke Harding. 5 November 2021.

    A Russian analyst who was the main source for Christopher Steele’s dossier on Donald Trump and Moscow has been arrested by US authorities, the justice department said on Thursday.

    Igor Danchenko now faces charges as part of the investigation by John Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration to examine the origins of the FBI’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

    Danchenko collected much of the intelligence behind Steele’s dossier during three trips to Russia in summer and autumn 2016. He was the chief source behind its most incendiary allegation: that Trump was compromised during a trip to Moscow in November 2013 for the Miss Universe beauty pageant.

    The most satisfying aspect of the Steele Report that I can recall, is that it never received the slightest credence on Nottl. Despite all the hype in the MSM (not a little of it from the author of this piece) it received no endorsement whatsoever.

    Harding of course has considerable form on anything to do with Russia. He was one of the authors of the article that “broke” the story that first set out the Blueprint for the Skripal business and from which the Official Account has not varied one iota since it was written six days after the supposed attack. Even here one is still struck by Harding’s reluctance in the face of Danchenko’s actual arrest, to accept that the whole report is as fake as a Labour Party manifesto. Fighting to the last in fact. He reiterates all Steele’s accusations and disparages its critics. This partly because they are both disseminators of lies but almost certainly know each other by reason of serving the same masters if not being actual friends.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/04/trump-russia-steele-dossier-igor-danchenko

  11. RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The hypocrisy on show at Cop26 could spell Last Orders for Boris Johnson

    Now we know what was really bothering Boris Johnson when he spoke of the ticking clock standing at ‘one minute to midnight’.

    He was worried about missing Last Orders at the Garrick Club.

    Presumably, that’s why he took a private plane back to London from the Cop26 summit in Glasgow on Tuesday night to join fellow Tories and compadres from Her Majesty’s Daily Telegraph for a convivial gentlemen’s dinner.

    If he’d let the train take the strain, Boris wouldn’t have arrived at Euston Station until 11.30pm.

    Given the permanent gridlock in Central London these days, even with a police escort he’d almost certainly never have made it to the Covent Garden club in time for a nightcap.

    Late night revellers and theatre-goers heading for the Tube could have been treated to the sight of our dishevelled Prime Minister clambering out of the back of his official limo and running up the steps shouting: ‘Large gin and tonic, Giovanni’ before the shutters came down in the cocktail bar.

    So to be on the safe side, Boris chartered an executive jet and landed at Stansted airport at 7.16pm. A couple of gas-guzzling Range Rovers were waiting on the Tarmac to whisk him to the Garrick, no doubt with Blues and Twos blazing.

    By the time the Daily Mirror tracked him down at 8.45pm, both SUVs were parked outside the club.
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10167311/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-hypocrisy-Cop26-spell-Orders-Boris-Johnson.html

    1. Meanwhile Fat Cat Banker champion Andrew Bailey was gloating this morning that his refusal to put up interest rates while inflation is at 5% (cooked to 3.1% to keep pensions down) was going to make poor people suffer for the next two years with planned inflation. Meanwhile, even the Co-op Bank is making a healthy profit and the bonus pot for bankers is as hefty as ever.

      And they forced the resignation of Owen Paterson for just £100k. Scapegoat, anyone?

      1. … “even the Co-op Bank is making a healthy profit” ….
        Clucking Bell, I didn’t realise the Crystal Methodist had spent that much on drugs and rent boys.

    2. Boris doesn’t care. He will pocket his payment and move on happily.
      The globalists don’t care, because they already own the next Conservative leader, and probably the one after that too.

    3. “The hypocrisy on show at Cop26 could spell Last Orders for Boris Johnson.”

      Let’s hope so. He should be using his very limited ability to deal with problems in this country, never mind pontificating on greenie matters where the intended audience isn’t even there. Drop the carp and try putting this country first for once.

      ‘Morning, C1. I can’t be alone in being bloody annoyed by our idiotic and incompetent PM, despite venting my spleen (very briefly) on Farage yesterday evening!

      1. He has ensured that the replacement PM most of us woulf like, Owen Patterson, has has had to resign.

          1. Exactly what I thought.
            We have been fed so many lies – particularly during the past 18 months – that every bit of news needs handling with a pair of very long tongs.

        2. I trust in the ensuing bye-election, OLT, that Paterson will stand as an Independent and reduce the Conservative majority to 79 – or would that be 78?

          1. There are three Conservative by-elections in the offing. (Sorry, wasn’t meaning to use a pun.)

          2. I don’t think so. He said he was going to concentrate on his work to combat suicides. I just hope we don’t get the unpleasant Graeme Currie or the Green Duncan Wotsisname, both of whom have declared their intention to stand. This is “pin the blue rosette on a donkey and vote for it” country – agricultural and deep blue, but we live in interesting times. The Green did get elected as a councillor in Oswestry, I think it was.

    1. Yo all

      Well look at her predecessor at Leicester East Keith Vaz

      If there is a by-election, parking and transport systems to the Polling Booths will not be stretched,

      Mr Rashid of Postal Votes Unlimited, has voting rights for all

    2. Yo all

      Well look at her predecessor at Leicester East Keith Vaz

      If there is a by-election, parking and transport systems to the Polling Booths will not be stretched,

      Mr Rashid of Postal Votes Unlimited, has voting rights for all

    3. There is a huge financial benefit if she makes it to the next election and then gets booted out.

    5. As soon as her actions were presented her constituents should have had the opportunity to sack her. She is an employee, after all.

    1. I have to admit to a frisson of joy before I realised that it could not sadly be true!

      1. My thought too. But guess what, it’s forbidden for the proles. Whether the excuse is rich people living there, or a nature reserve to protect birds or anything else, the result is always the same.

        1. Morning BB. Ransome wrote about it in the twenties and I would suppose that access was much easier then!

  18. Morning all

    SIR – Yesterday’s U-turn on addressing the parliamentary standards issue is indicative of a government that seems unable to think through problems. Is there no one in Downing Street capable of making at least three sound moves in a game of chess?

    Terry Smith

    London NW11

    SIR – The last couple of days have done nothing to reassure me that the Government is actually in control.

    Wednesday’s debate on the suspension of Owen Paterson and the standards watchdog succeeded in dividing the Conservative Party and angering all opposition groups. It was ill-timed and unnecessary.

    Even Jacob Rees-Mogg, despite his linguistic acrobatics at business questions, failed to ameliorate the situation.

    With the resignation of the MP at the centre of the debacle, it is clear that these ill-considered political shenanigans were engaged in by people who not only should have known better, but also seem to have forgotten that our nation is facing some of the most challenging problems since 1939.

    William Beeston

    Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

    SIR – Paid lobbying is always going to create conflicts of interest. However that should not stop legislators reviewing a standards system that puts too much power in one person’s hands.

    I cannot help feeling that the Left of politics in this country has control of all kinds of unelected but nonetheless politically influential organisations.

    Howard M Tolman

    Sudbury, Suffolk

    SIR – The Prime Minister has been using football analogies recently. In his handling of the Owen Paterson case I believe he scored an own goal.

    Simon Morpuss

    Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

    SIR – The proper question in Owen Paterson’s case is: Was Kathryn Stone out to get him (“Tories win standards vote but rival parties vow to boycott new watchdog”, report, November 4)?

    She admitted that she had made up her mind about the case at an early stage. Surely this discredits her investigation? As a former police prosecutor and judicial office holder, the idea of the prosecutor also acting as judge appears to me entirely absurd. There is also no right of appeal, regardless of whatever failings appear.

    The system is gravely flawed, and this should have been recognised by Parliament before Mr Paterson’s case so grotesquely illuminated it.

    John Twitchen

    Leigh-on-Sea, Essex

    SIR – Mr Paterson is accused of lobbying on behalf of two companies, who paid him fees that he declared, about carcinogenic meat and milk.

    As a cancer sufferer, I was dismayed by the portrayal on ITV’s News at Ten, which assumed he was wrong, the watchdog was right, and implied the Tories were trying to change the rules to protect a fellow member. It never mentioned why he was lobbying, or that he made good progress in getting these products removed from the food chain, and that there was no financial gain for the companies concerned.

    Kathryn Stone appears to have judged him guilty before even starting her investigation, while another MP, Labour’s Stephen Doughty, who solicited a class-C drug, gets a slap on the wrist.

    Guy Russell

    London W5

    SIR – MPs should have only one job: serving their constituents. They should not hold any other paid employment or position that could distract them from their role.

    Chris Pepper

    Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire

    SIR – Politicians, like vampires and rats, do not like bright light.

    Stuart Mariner

    Salisbury, Wilts

    1. Ah, Mr Beeston, surely you may have meant, “our nation is facing some of the most challenging self-inflicted problems since 1939“?

      1. I know William and used to work for him. He’s a died in the wool Tory. How many others feel the same?

    2. I am not sure, Mr Russell, that there was NO gain for the companies. Owen’s argument is centred on the “public interest” plea which enables an MP to bring up matters even if the companies paying him do benefit from the intervention.

  19. The din in dinner

    SIR – Restaurant critics overlook one important aspect of dining out: the trend for hard floors, with no carpets or curtains, means that it is often impossible to have a conversation. This should be reflected in the rating.

    John Carlisle

    Lowdham, Nottinghamshire

    1. It would be much nicer if the title made sense of to who’s talking and what about without the title case, colloquialisms and icons. Can people not read?

  21. 340921+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Friday 5 November: The Paterson case exposes government inability to think three moves ahead

    Do not ever think that, they have always been and still are very active as an eu asset and as being so are highly successful in thinking three moves ahead.

    A well run political syndicate that regularly reveal’s acts of treachery / corruption
    offering up a sacrificial political goat occasionally to pacify their supporters.

  22. Good morning from a dry, bright and bloody cold Derbyshire!
    -2½°C in the yard and the first frost of the winter.

  23. SIR – MPs should have only one job: serving their constituents. They should not hold any other paid employment or position that could distract them from their role.

    Chris Pepper
    Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire

    I would go further than that: no one should be standing for Parliament until they have held down a proper job for a period of time. Better still, one that involved running their own business – and preferably one that employed others.

    Oh well, we can but dream…

    1. I have never agreed with this idea – we need MPs who are in touch with the real world. They’ve always had other jobs. Banning them from other work will just perpetuate the professional politicos.

      The problem with requiring them to have run their own business can be summed up in two words; Jeremy Hunt.

      2. They must be removed. Just drive them into the sodding sea. They’ve no right to be here.

    4. Apparently Disney have changed the name of Slave 1 – Boba Fett’s ship to ‘[something else]’.

      Disney, it seems have never read 1984, where Winston Smith’s job was to re-write history to better suit the party line.

      It seems every act of questioning, every ‘why’, every ‘how’? is now a threat to the state that must be met by those too weak to stand on their own and who look for absolution on their righteousness not internally, but to the machinery itself.

  27. SIR – Between midday Monday and midday Tuesday, the wind contribution to electricity supplies collapsed by 90 per cent.

    Since demand was quite high, the spot price for electricity rose to £4,000 per MWh – almost 100 times the normal level – because fossil-fuel generators were able to satisfy the demand. The cost of balancing the grid also reached a new daily high.

    Despite this unequivocal evidence that renewables cannot supply the electricity that our society needs, our Government continues to drive us towards a zero-fossil fuel future. Are the Cop26 delegates unable to understand this evidence – or do they see blackouts as a suitable punishment for the Industrial Revolution?

    Paul Spare
    Davenham, Cheshire

    The truth is, Mr Spare, they are besotted with greenie carp and cannot see beyond the ends of their noses.

    1. I think there is an element of wanting to punish the industrialised nations. They are religious fanatics, the most dangerous type of people.

    2. There’s an advert about visiting america ‘except during periods of blackout’ – planned blackout periods. For a resource you’re no doubt forced to pay for.

      What else are you forced to pay for even if you don’t use the product? Ah yes. Taxation. The state is making energy another tax, to be refused even if you need it and unavailable when big state decides yet still paid for.

      Does no one else find this abusive? If government won’t provide infrastructure (in terms of energy, fair laws and mobility (by not removing the green fools) nor security (of energy supply and border defences; what is it for and why can we not be rid of it?

  28. SIR – Direct debits are not being increasingly withheld from the National Trust (Allison Pearson, Features, November 3).

    In fact, a new member joins every 23 seconds, and membership retention in 2020 was 84 per cent, compared with 85 per cent in a non-Covid year.

    We have had a record-breaking summer in member recruitment, and last year online donations broke all records, up 383 per cent on the previous one.

    Sharon Pickford
    Director of Support and Revenue
    National Trust
    Swindon, Wiltshire

    So everything in the NT garden is rosy then? Somehow I doubt it. It would not surprise me if the figures have been massaged in some way. Their saving grace has been the ‘staycation’, which is likely to come to an end very soon.

      1. Income seems to have reduced but then she was careful to say 2020. ” Other income” is the only increase.

  29. SIR – Restaurant critics overlook one important aspect of dining out: the trend for hard floors, with no carpets or curtains, means that it is often impossible to have a conversation. This should be reflected in the rating.

    John Carlisle
    Lowdham, Nottinghamshire

    And the insistence of some diners to hold conversations at the tops of their voices doesn’t help either.

    1. Having lunch in a garden centre cafe means lots of background noise and it’s impossible to have a conversation.

      1. Why are diners called ‘a cover’?

        What has a hard floor to do with not talking? It’s more likely some nutcase EU cleanliness standards.

      1. On one occasion we were seated in a pub with friends, and being blasted by a wall-mounted speaker above our heads. Polite requests to the staff yo turn it down didn’t work, so we pulled out a connector at the back (no damage) and received a round of applause from the other diners nearby. I don’t think the staff even noticed.

  30. NHS staff should wear a vaccine status badge
    SIR – Is it not about time that “our NHS” gave us some respect? Now that we have been told that mandatory vaccinations for NHS staff are not expected until spring (report, November 4), patients should be allowed to choose not to be treated 
by an unvaccinated practitioner. A simple badge to indicate the fully vaccinated would be a good start. The unions will no doubt be apoplectic at the idea, but patients have rights too.

    Phil Page
    London N21

    Mr Page obviously hasn’t heard that the vaccinated can also carry the virus…

        1. Actually, there are businesses that will give companies secret reports on people such as employees and job applicants. If you were an anarchist as a child, or have spent convictions, your employer can find out. This information will be made available to them and may follow you for the rest of your life. No tattoo necessary.

          1. This was officially legalised and made compulsory under rules setting up the Criminal Records Bureau a while ago. Originally created to report on criminal records, it became Disclosure & Barring Service, allowing any malicious hearsay to end up on your record and blacklisting its target for life, with no effective right to appeal,

          2. Everything is digitalised these days. Including the fetters that people are so eagerly installing on their phones…

    2. When medically trained people that work in the NHS do not want the Vaxx and others are forced to or lose their jobs then what sort of signal is that sending out?

    3. Maybe he is just resisting by “reductio ad absurdum”? (Although in our insane world that is difficult.)

    1. The sacrifices of these men in the cause of Freedom and Democracy has been made worthless by people not fit to lick their boots!

      2. 340920+ up ticks,
        Morning OLT,
        They also died in the trying and deserve recognition, the same applies.

    1. Good morning, Bill. Yesterday I finished the last of the MR’s jar of lemon curd which I bought some months ago at your local church fair. Absolutely delicious and just as good as Anne Allan’s home-made lemon curd. My regards to both of you (and also to Annie).

    5. An opportunity to remember the good old days when Britain only had to worry about a few radical Catholicists.

    1. That sign is far too large; a couple of Post It notes would have conveyed the message more clearly.
      PS TB, I thought there was a ‘no selfie’ rule, except for kittens and canines?

  34. Huw Edwards ‘being spoken to’ by BBC after he objected to ‘censorship’ of historic painting.

    Newsreader could be taken to task over impartiality after he criticised ‘decolonising’ gallery for removing portrait of Sir Thomas Picton

    The above statement has been made by the Biased Broadcasting Commission

    Re-arrange into well known phrase or saying
    Kettle Black calling Pot The

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/04/huw-edwards-spoken-bbc-objected-censorship-historic-painting/

    1. Your link only mentions it in BTL comments. The article mentions people having the experimental injections before the end of the summer holidays.

    1. With some, bought in pizzas, you cannot tell the difference between the box and its’ contents

      1. I have seen a notice on a paint stripper warning people not to use it as a hairdryer.
        And that was a good thirty years ago.

      2. It’s insurance costs. When nasty people burned their tongues on hot coffee they sue the provider for millions and win.

        It’s a complete lack of common sense and responsibiliity.

        1. Well, the hot coffee thing is a story much misrepresented. McDonalds’s offered a free second cup of coffee. However, they were serving the coffee at a temperature near boiling point. This meant that customers had to wait some time before they could drink and finish the first cup, so there were few takers for a refill. The coffee served at the drivethrough side was similar. The woman concerned spilled near-boiling coffee.
          A great marketing swizz from MaDonald’s, too bad it produced a well-deserved backlash.

          1. I don’t think it was a MacDonald’s, but a small local burger joint that advertised “The Hottest Coffee In Town”. Not only did they serve the coffee at a dangerous temperature for a “Drive Through”, but they had already been warned that their cups were faulty in that if you squeezed the lower third, the waxed cardboard base had a tendency to pop out of place, dumping the entire contents via the base.

            Admittedly, placing a hot drink between your legs is a stupid move, but I’d say the burger joint was at least two thirds to blame.

          2. Thank you for that. It’s funny how a combination of sensational journalism and poor memory distorts things!

    3. That says it all, Rik.

      [In its defence, I will say that the cardboard boxes are sometimes tastier and more nutritious than the contents.]

  37. Fact of Life.

    An incrementally stupid species (i.e. humans, who are progressively becoming stupider by the second) will elect cumulatively more stupid politicians to lead them, leading directly to more and more stupid decisions, which make life successively more unbearable.

    When I was born, just 70 years ago, the world’s population stood at 2,500,000,000 mostly intelligent beings (though a deterioration in intelligence was palpable even then).

    The planet now comprises a whopping 7,900,000,000, mainly stupid, imbeciles. All countries are led by power-crazed, educationally-subnormal zealots, who have more and more weapons of annihilation stockpiling in their cretinous possession. Just one wrong move, at any given moment, from any of them …

    Can you see where this is going?

      2. Or even a zero population of all life forms?

        Lemmings to a cliff. Moths to a naked flame. Get the picture?

    4. Have you not seen Idiocracy?

      The problem we have is that our civil service, the administration of most governments consists of those with intelligence but no experience. They’ve never run a business, never existed without an expenses account. They go from cushy state job to cushier state job parrotting the party line, promoting those same things they felt important as teenagers at Oxford and Cambridge surrounded by people equally bereft of experience or competence.

      Then those same sort of incompetents – the truly greedy and arrogant – seek to become MPs and because they too lack any worthwhile experience or existence outside of the state they think they state is the centre of the world and cannot change that attitude. If the box is all you’ve ever known, the box becomes your world.

  38. 340921+ up ticks,

    Regarding the Paterson issue,

    Boris Johnson has a curious way of mobilising his troops. Like a blue-rosetted Grand old Duke of York, ( nige) he’ll whip and cajole them to the top of the hill before marching them down again – or, more often than not, leaving them stranded there.

    1. Good morning, Ogga

      If there were any decent Conservatives somebody would be organising a plan to depose Johnson asap and somebody being prepared to run as a stalking horse. I seem to remember John Redwood ran as a stalking horse against the ridiculous adulterer John Major. Maybe he could be persuaded to run again?

      1. 340921+ up ticks,

        Morning R,
        🎵
        They shoot horses don’t they ?

        I would like to see ALL signs appertaining to these lab/lib/con party’s & their political
        recent past / present politico’s given the kiss X of political death & eradicated via the polling booth.

        An established fringe party hit with a tsunami of support and solid backing, my personal choice in combating our major
        dangerous woes is Anne Marie Waters.

      1. 340921+ up ticks,
        Morning Anne,
        Must be getting very tight with a majority of the electorate under there, plus.

        Getting a slap,slap,slap, in the kisser once again, again,again, they must surely be punchy by now.

  39. I cannot see why those Pakistanis are so touchy .

    The Aussies call us Poms , we call New Zealanders . Kiwis.. For goodness sake , why has Yorkshire cricket become so Woke . I guess YCC are being sponsored by Southern Asians , I expect that is the truth.

    1. The British comedy film, Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987) set in Bradford, had a teenaged male Pakistani character in the cast who routinely referred to himself as a ‘Paki’ without batting an eyelid.

    2. Tajikistan, Tajiks; Kurdistan, Kurds; Kazakhstan, Kazakhs, Uzbekistan, Uzbeks, Afghanistan….
      You get the drift?

    3. Although the individual concerned seems to have raised the issue, it is the spring loaded machinery of the perpetually offended that has upped the tempo to fever pitch. Sadly, few institutions are able to resist the pressure of the screeching mob.

      1. Funny thing, I’d have thought that if the P— did not like being called a P—, he’d have warned the b—— who called him a P— not to do it. If the b—— persisted, I’d have expected the P— to have punched the b—— on the nose?
        It is Yorkshire?

        1. He burst into tears and contemplated doing himself in – not the profile of someone who would stand up for himself – cowardly even.

          2. Freddie Trueman once got on his knees in front of me and looked imploringly into my eyes.

            What actually happened was, he tripped up over a step going into a bank just as I was going out. He fell on his knees, looked up at me and mouthed ” You b*s*ard”. or something similar. I never met him again.

    4. I think all white people should be banned from playing cricket with non-whites because of the danger of one of the players causing offence to a non-white player. However, they should not be stopped from playing in all white teams just as non-whites should not be stopped from playing in all non-white teams.

      This seems as if it would be a very positive way of stamping out the cancer of racism which is bound to continue if people of different races mingle together on the playing field. If this works out well they should then ban all teams with a mixture of races from playing, football, rugby, badminton and curling.

        1. Mayor Khan is trying to catch up with the dream of apartheid by wanting publicly funded blocks of flats constructed exclusively for Muslims.

      2. Yesterday I had lunch with my Indian chum who was born and brought up in Malawi (Nyasaland to us old farts).
        Apart from some hairy experiences that we have read about, but few have experienced, she told me that in the last few years, they were very circumspect – the point of complete silence – when their African servants were around.

      3. If that was applied to football there would be no football at all in England and France and half the other European teams.

    5. I was at university with a tall, very dishy tanned gentleman.
      He actually referred to himself as The Posh P*ki.

      1. One of the trainees at Chase Manhattan called himself the Tacky P*ki. He went on to become a partner at Lazards

    6. Back in the 1980’s I used to work in the stockrooms and buying offices at Selfridges where there were a number of gujarati speaking Indian guys who would often bring in very popular bags of homemade dried spicy food which was shared with their English colleagues and cheerfully referred to as “Paki food”. No-one was offended and all were friends.

    7. The word is taken as an insult when the hearer is losing the argument. He was born in Pakistan – what other sobriquet would he prefer, Stani? No, too many other Stanis, could be confusing, especially in Yorkshire nowadays.

  40. Especially for Plum (Mostly American but it might help with the DIY)

    Tools For DIY Explained

    For those of you who are considering DIY work here is a list of tools and their uses. For those of you who are experienced DIYers you will no doubt recognise them…….

    DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
    WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, ‘Oh sh*t’
    DROP SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
    PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
    BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
    HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle… It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
    VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
    OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting on fire various flammable objects in your shop. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.
    TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
    HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
    BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminium sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.
    TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
    PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
    STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
    PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 pence part.
    HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.
    HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
    UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.
    BASTARD TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling ‘Bastard’ at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

    1. Thanks Nanny….I got lost somewhere between OXYACETYLENE TORCH: and a
      TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST:

      Did you see my reply re. amp size?

    2. Perfect. MB has been searching high and low for his adjustable spanners.
      I love rubbing salt into the wound.

        1. Don’t confuse him (and me) with such technicalities.
          I hope he gets it right or it will be a case of ‘apres lui, le deluge’.

    3. I always follow the three golden rules of DIY:-

      Rule 1 – Always use the right tool for the job.
      Rule 2 – A hammer is always the right tool.
      Rule 3 – Any tool can be used as a hammer.

  41. 340921+ up ticks,

    Seems to me the genuine Gods are making a showing at cop 26 in regards to ALL things climate, they are in control, the politico’s & co should heed the fact that fireballs via a God angered can be directed.

    Pictured: Fireball hits Earth’s atmosphere, bringing spectacular Northern Lights to southern England
    Aurora Borealis could be visible again overnight on Thursday, as solar storm of unusual magnitude continues to buffet the planet

    1. God works in mysterious ways. I am hoping the Glaswegians get snowed in, cannot fly out due to severe winter weather. Meanwhile, back on La Palma…..

  42. Jacob Rees Mogg has been advised to change his first name to Judas.

    Boris Johnson is hardly a leader so he won’t be calling himself Satan but is pondering whether Beelzebub, Moloch or Belial would be the most appropriate name.

    1. It is better to Reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

      Lucifer. Paradise Lost. John Milton.

    2. It is better to Reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

      Lucifer. Paradise Lost. John Milton.

      1. The great debate in Pandemonium, Hell’s parliament, in Paradise Lost Book II is one of my favourite parts of Milton’s great epic poem.

        1. I really must re-read it.
          After a 50 year hiatus, I will bring a very different perspective to my understanding of it.

  43. Morning all.

    I take issue with “The Paterson case exposes government inability to think three moves ahead”.

    The Paterson case exposes government inability to think. I

  44. Good morning all! Cold but sunny. I see the Aurora Borealis was visible in Southern England last night. Must be climate catastrophe along with tree limbs on the train tracks after the storm the other night, the tragedy of global warming. It’s half a second to midnight. Meanwhile our “Green” hypocrite lard arse in number 10 took a private jet to get to London from Glasgow yesterday so he could go on a booze up with his pals. “Do as I tell you, not what I do.”

    1. ‘Half a second to midnight’? Fret not, the clocks went back an hour last weekend. 😉

  45. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3e3dcef194598bd20a17135ec43bbcbff67cc9bd6da8060c81a2410144b3d25c.png What utter bollocks is this? I was shown how to use my handcuffs (and my staff) when I joined. I didn’t need any “refresher” training thereafter. Of course, in my day we didn’t possess tasers or CS-gas canisters; just bucketfuls of common sense.

    My ratchet handcuffs were ‘state-of-the-art’ at the time. If you needed to handcuff yourself to a prisoner then you could double-lock the cuff on your own wrist, but only single-lock the cuff on the prisoner’s wrist. That meant that if he misbehaved, you could simply tighten his cuff by a latch, or two, in an attempt to keep him quiet. Usually, though, it had the opposite effect as his screams would get louder the more it was tightened.

    1. Why risk your wrist? Most cars have a convenient hook & eye that can be used for towing when necessary.

      1. It is the only effective way of conveying single prisoners into a court; or when taking them to a remand centre or prison, when they need to be accompanied by the presenting officer.

    2. My dear, think of the scrotes’ Human Rites.
      Heaven forbid that a hofficer who hadn’t undergone his annual training would cuff or electrocute them.
      The lawyers with special expertise in that field would be over the force like a rash – smallpox springs to mind.

          3. I believe it’s a Lammyfication of history, as per his ‘celebrity’ Mastermind debacle. 😉

        1. Me neither. But, apparently, almost our entire media and political elite believe that Biden got an all-time record (and far more than Obama) 81 million votes.

    2. Don’t worry, Biden is dismissing the results as irrelevant. That AOC creature is screeching that the problem is that the dems haven’t moved far enough left.

      You would have really thought that alarm bells would be ringing across the US after those results but they can’t even make up stories about gross cheating – no reports of voting machines taliies being sent to foreign countries for improvement, no phone calls to governors demanding that votes be found.

  48. 340921+ upticks,

    This along with the mask is a headstart on the FULL burka, only headbangers would disagree.

    Council of Europe ‘Freedom Is in Hijab’ Twitter Campaign Dropped After French Backlash

      1. 340921+ up ticks,
        Morning SE,
        So, we could apply those sayings to the three governance party’s.

    1. He may have been dumped by Sky News Australia but he would be an excellent addition to GBNews.

      1. I posted that earlier this week the difference between the two speeches is his was off the cuff and seemingly totally honest and her’s was completely read from a script. What doe that suggest. Lies, lies and more damn lies.
        And why don’t those idiots who have now traveled to Glasgow go and find somewhere else to stir up their troubled woes instead of the UK. There are plenty of other places they can go that are predominately as suggested, causing climate change. Why do they come here to breath out their carbon emissions.

  50. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10167793/Virginia-Trioli-interview-ABC-host-interviews-Professor-Nigel-Curtis-Covid-vaccine.html

    Children’s doctor reveals he wouldn’t give his own kids
    the Covid-19 vaccine just yet – leading ABC host to ask if he’s
    ‘fuelling vaccine hesitancy’

    The US has granted emergency approval for the Pfizer vaccine for ages 5 to 11

    It came after a study of 3,100 kids found no serious side effects from taking jab

    Pfizer has applied for use in that age group in Australia and process is under way

    But Professor Nigel Curtis says bigger trials are needed to get more data first

    1. No serious side effects? Utter nonsense. The numbers are small but more children have died in the UK since they started jabbing children from 12.

      1. I read a list earlier on (on my phone) on a site called ‘Notonthebeeb’ but couldn’t paste the link from there. I tried later on my laptop but it wouldn’t accept my browser so that was that.

        A lot of fit, young sportspeople have fallen victim to myocarditis recently and several have dropped dead on the sports pitches.

    2. Ah, there isn’t any response one can give to the use of candles for arousal that doesn’t stray into playground smut!

      1. I remember this very old joke from my schooldays which I have modestly put behind a spoiler.

        When there was a power cut in Sussex and the whole of the Brighton area was cut off from the electrical supply the Headmistress of Roedean telephoned the electricity board and said:

        “Please send along some of your men with their tools ready as my girls are fed up with having to use candles.”

  52. Why is Mermaids promoting breast binding at events for young people? 5 November 2021.

    The blog about the residential weekend was written by Mermaids’ own Digital Enhancement Manager, who was humbled to ‘meet trans children and their families’ at the event.

    The highlight for me was our binder safety session, where trans masc and non-binary young people were able to learn how to properly measure and fit their binders, before going off to try them on. Watching them come back into the room, grinning from ear to ear, was witnessing gender euphoria in action and it made my queer heart soar.

    This is a horrifying revelation. Binding is never completely safe. Breast tissue is not meant to be compressed, and the practice can cause problems that range from chest and shoulder pains and shortness of breath to dizziness, respiratory infections and fractured ribs. One large study found that over 97 per cent of women surveyed reported at least one negative outcome from breast binding.

    If you should ever have had any doubts that these people are paedophiles masquerading as normal concerned human beings, this should have cured you!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-mermaids-promoting-breast-binding-at-events-for-young-people-

  53. Apropos nothing at all, there was a reference the other day in The Grimes (once a great newspaper of record) to an historical event before JC.

    “The events took place between 2000 and 2200 BC…”

    In the days of sub-editors, to say nothing of educated reporters, that would have read correctly, “Between 2200 and 2000 BC.”

    I weep, sometimes, for what has been lost.

    2. They could hardly have taken place between ten o’clock and eight o’clock unless they happened overnight.

  54. Open windows when friends visit to cut Covid risk, says new campaign
    Government video advises people to let in fresh air for 10 minutes an hour as ventilating rooms reduces virus particles in the air
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/05/open-windows-friends-visit-cut-covid-risk-says-new-campaign/

    Open your windows to let in fresh air to beat Covid-19, but keep them closed as part of insulating your house to cut down on CO2 emissions to beat Climate Change.

    Hmm, I’d like to do both, but which one is better? There’s only one way to find out – FIGHT!

  55. Terrifying moment woman is chased by two bears in the alley outside her home in Romanian town. 5 November 2021.

    https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2021/11/05/8597019964150430699/640x360_MP4_8597019964150430699.mp4

    The woman, who has not been named, can be seen going through a gate connecting her home to the alley in front of her house and walking off and out of shot in the same direction the bears went.

    A few seconds later, however, she can be seen running back to the gate and quickly heading back inside, being careful to close the gate behind her.

    The mother bear and her cub can then be seen coming back into shot, with the mother bear getting up on her hind legs and placing her front paws on the woman’s fence before taking a good look over it and sniffing the air.

    They only wanted to play! Lol!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10168641/Terrifying-moment-woman-chased-two-bears-alley-outside-home-Romanian-town-Video.html

    3. I remember a clip bought once for a BBC programme that showed a bear entering someone’s house by an open door from the garden and walking calmly across the kitchen to open the fridge door and help itself to some snacks. Not all bears have very little brain!

  57. https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/04/why-boris-has-gone-gaga-for-build-back-better/

    In what follows I am not dismissing this personal dimension but think
    that it needs to be viewed in a broader context. Johnson may bend to
    Carrie’s will behind closed doors, but this cannot explain why the whole
    Tory Party has painted itself green.

    The real explanation for this turn lies across the Atlantic. To
    understand this, you need to get into the minds of the post-Trump
    American liberal establishment. Trump drove these people crazy –
    literally, crazy. He challenged their power, which they thought
    unchallengeable. He also did it in a way designed to get under their
    skin. It drove them around the bend.

    1. BTL comment:

      AN other lockdown sceptic

      16 hours ago

      I think its far simpler –

      The climate change cult is simply a massive massive transfer
      of power and money from the serfs (anyone worth less than multiple
      millions) to the technocratic elite/billionaires

      Comrade Johnson is the ultimate political opportunist

      He sees an opportunity here for him to be elevated to ‘world king’ (he stated as a child that he wanted to be such)

      This elevation is conditional on him being perceived as the biggest
      zealot in the cult in order to con the masses into submission

      Comrade Johnson’s reward, he hopes, will not only be status but also lots and lots of money post office

      I suspect/hope that the masses are awakening to the con.

    3. That piece just makes me think “controlled opposition.” The green agenda isn’t just one arm of policy that can be indulged in to placate the Americans. It’s a full blown, totalitarian system of government that affects everyone’s lives in all kinds of ways.

      1. It’s by Toby Young who is still a ‘friend’ of Boris. He’s being hammered in the comments below on the DS.

  58. Do as you’re told!

    Samuel White is a young man. Perhaps the GMC though it could intimidate him by presenting him as an inexperienced idealist. Its justification for the ban (underlined) is another example of the official doublespeak of the age.

    Doctor banned from social media in ‘masks do nothing’ row takes his case to High Court

    Freedom of expression battle after GP appeals against conditions imposed on him following video in which he complained about Covid ‘lies’

    By Telegraph Reporters • 4 November 2021 • 9:53pm

    A GP banned from discussing the pandemic on social media due to his claims “masks do nothing” has taken the General Medical Council (GMC) to the High Court in a freedom of expression row.

    Dr Samuel White is appealing against interim conditions imposed on his registration with the GMC following complaints about a video he posted to Instagram and Twitter in June.

    In a seven-minute clip, he discussed why he could no longer work in his previous roles because of the “lies” around the NHS and government approach to the pandemic which were “so vast” he could no longer “stomach or tolerate” them, the court was told.

    He also raised concerns about the safety of the Covid-19 vaccine, testing methods and claimed “masks do nothing”.

    Dr White, a partner at Denmead Practice in Hampshire until his resignation in February, has brought his High Court challenge against the GMC in a bid to quash restrictions imposed on him, which include barring him from sharing his views relating to the pandemic on social media.

    His barrister, Francis Hoar, told a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice on Thursday: “This is a claim about freedom of expression of a doctor, in particular his freedom to engage in medical, scientific and political debate and discussion.”

    The court was told Dr White’s video triggered complaints that it allegedly contained misinformation and the GMC referred him to its Interim Orders Tribunal to consider restrictions on his practice.

    In August, the tribunal concluded Dr White’s way of sharing his views “may have a real impact on patient safety”, adding any doctor had a “responsibility” to provide “sufficient and balanced information about Covid-19 to allow any potential patients and other members of the public to assess the potential risks and benefits of any treatment or preventive measures under consideration and then make an informed choice”.

    It found Dr White allegedly shared information to a “wide and possibly uninformed audience” and did not give an opportunity for “a holistic [sic] consideration of Covid-19, its implications and possible treatments”.

    As a result, Dr White was made subject to the conditions that he must not share views on the Covid-19 pandemic and “its associated aspects” on social media and must remove existing posts on the subject.

    In written arguments, Mr Hoar said Dr White, now a locum GP, had an “unblemished career”, with beliefs informed by “libertarian principles”.

    He told the court the restrictions would last for a maximum of 18 months and were “effectively a ban” and a “severe imposition” on his freedom of expression.

    “The conditions are imposed in vague and unparticularised terms and restrict his speech even over matters outside medicine science more generally, rendering him unable to take part in free and democratic discourse in forums in which an ordinary citizen is most able to contribute to it,” Mr Hoar said.

    He argued Dr White’s views were “supported by large bodies of scientific and medical opinion” and had been “statements of fact and opinions about pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions in response to the pandemic”.

    The tribunal, in its allegedly “flawed” decision, had “erred” in “failing to accord sufficient respect for Dr White’s right to freedom of expression”, Mr Hoar claimed.

    He added the tribunal also “erred in asserting an ability to determine matters of scientific and medical debate” and failed to explain why Dr White’s statements allegedly expressed “misinformation”.

    Alexis Hearnden, for the GMC, said in written arguments that there were “multiple” complaints about Dr White’s video, including from “members of the medical profession”.

    She said Dr White’s views “ran firmly against” a national public health programme that was pro-vaccine and encouraged mask-wearing in certain settings.

    She said the tribunal had not made findings of fact nor decided that Dr White’s statements were “false”, but had identified “a risk” that members of the public might be influenced by Dr White “to take steps which run contrary to the prevailing public health advice”.

    The tribunal had recognised “serious concerns” raised that he was “using some language that echoed conspiracy theories about the pandemic”, she added.

    Ms Hearnden said the conditions did not prevent Dr White practising medicine nor expressing his views privately and that they were “justified” by a “legitimate aim of pursuing public safety and for the protection of health”.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/04/doctor-banned-social-media-masks-do-nothing-row-takes-case-high

    1. “Ms Hearnden said the conditions did not prevent Dr White practising
      medicine nor expressing his views privately and that they were
      “justified” by a “legitimate aim of pursuing public safety and for the
      protection of health”.

      So they want him to stop expressing his views because it goes against the official propaganda.

    4. “Provide sufficient and balanced information about Covid-19 to allow any potential patients and other members of the public to assess the potential risks and benefits of any treatment or preventive measures under consideration and then make an informed choice”. Given the complete absence in the NHS vax promo leaflets of any factual information that would allow an informed choice to be made, that’s laughable, no? They’re criticising him for not doing what they forbid being done.

    5. This is very worrying. The GMC should be promoting research and dissent. In fact, it shouldn’t even be involved. The choice and option should be with the individual to make the choice on how to live as it suits them.

    1. I had a long chat with my old mate Brucie in Victoria last Sunday, I sent him this link below, I don’t think he’s been able to see it. It’s too close to home for comfort.
      https://youtu.be/6OwaM8exIko
      It seems almost everyone in the whole state hates the prem.

          1. We had them here in some restaurants during the summer, but I just pretended to wave my phone at them and they were put away after July.

    2. Sounds a bit like my idea of nationalising all the holiday camps and interning all the remainer and woke trolls.

      I jest of course. It is a bit disturbing to see a politician trying to legislate for such a thing even if it is just intended as a quarantine facility.

      1. I had this argument with some pro-government fool on TCW about four months ago, about plans for a giant quarantine facility in New York. It seems that camps are absolutely fine as long as the government calls them quarantine facilities.

      3. Tad unfair – on the holiday camps.

        Give all the remoaners and Lefties, the greens one of those ferry things and some seeds. Float it out to sea then destroy the engines.

  60. Afternoon all.
    Has any one else had a notification from Gas companies who insist in carrying out ‘Essential surveys’ on home gas supplies and pipe work ?
    I am very suspicious that it is a disguised ploy to try and move the meters from the positions they have been in often since the houses were built. To an outside wall for easy access. 99% of the meters slighted under the stair cases have caused no problems what so ever. But in recent years due to certain self inflicted nation wide circumstances, people have been bridging domestic gas and electricity meters and have caused many ongoing and often dangerous problems, not to mention the stealing of energy.
    I suspect that the companies will try to make huge charges for this because in most cases it involves buried pipe work both internally and externally. And huge labour costs will be involved.
    Personally I read both our meters monthly and submit the details to the company on line. Never had a problem, but i can see that the jobsworths could easily find fault through their box ticking and make unnecessary demands regarding alterations. Which in most circumstances are quite clearly inappropriate.

      1. We have no option for our heating and had to have a brand new boiler installed just be fore last Christmas.
        Our water company wanted to install a water meter well over two years ago. I simply asked if it was compulsory but they didn’t seem to know. As there are only wt two of us living in a 4 bed we decided to have it done but i suspect because it wasn’t going to be cost effective for the company to carry out the work. I had to badger them to get it done. Our water bills have now halved.

        1. Ours seem to be going up quite a lot and with only two of us here it might be worth our while to have one.

          1. We had ours done before we went to France, for several months of the year we weren’t using it but we would have been paying full water rates. It did make a lot of difference having a meter.

        2. We had a water mete4 installed soon after moving to where we are now and it made a huge difference. Knocked about 30% off the bill. There are just two of us and we always shower not bath.

          2. I always bath, not shower (and my demented MOH used to leave the taps running), so I shan’t be having a water meter fitted any time soon.

  61. 340921+ up ticks,

    DO NOT pursue further if of a weak / nervous disposition.

    Criminally insane, may one ask will he still have a vote ?

    breitbart,
    He had previously admitted to sexually abusing 78 corpses at two hospital morgues in the county of Kent over a period of 12 years, reports the BBC. Fuller had filmed many of the abuses. A date has not yet been set for his sentencing, though given the extent of his crimes he could be jailed for the rest of his life without parole.

    2. 78 corpses at two hospital morgues in the county of Kent over a period of 12 years,

      6 and a bit a year, over 12 years, is that a good average?

      1. Apparently sex therapists reckon that if you have sex less than 10 times a year then you need help. On that basis the bloke in Kent needs to up his game.

      2. 340921+ up ticks,
        Afternoon OLT,
        If necrophilia had any vote winning value
        the lab/lib/con coalition would have a department covering it.
        I do believe that the dead have been used
        via the polling booth before.

        Number ten could throw more light on it I would think seeing as these governance party’s have been carrying out the same exercise
        over the decades only difference being the victims were living &, aka the electorate.

  62. Climate Derangement Syndrome. Spiked. 5 november 2021.

    We will see ‘the collapse of our society’, says Hallam. And like all the best mad prophets, he knows exactly what will happen next. ‘A gang of boys will break into your house demanding food. They will see your mother, your sister, your girlfriend, and they will gang rape her on the kitchen table. They will force you to watch, laughing at you. At the end, they will accuse you of enjoying it. They’ll take a cigarette and burn out your eyes with it. You will not be able to see anything again. This is the reality of climate change.’

    Substitute Islam for Climate Change pal and I’ll send you a few quid!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/05/climate-derangement-syndrome/

  63. The BBC’s coverage of the ‘Yorkshire Pákí’ spat is provoking racial hatred – against the Brits (can I say that?). There must be some underlying reason. Has one of the committee been teasing a gay TV reporter? Or refused the offer of a gay-date? It has to be something very serious like that.

    1. UK – welcomes immigrants, gives free lives, immigrants want changes, get them, our govt hands our country to them, threatens us. Welcomes more of them.

      1. We welcome migrants who come here *legally*. Who apply *legally*. Who have something we want, who will contribute to this society. Who will work. Who have skills we want. Who aren’t illiterate, violent alien Africans or Middle easterners with nothing who arrive in a boat and demand this country feed, clothe and house them. House them in a shipping container and feed them pig slurry, then close it up and get rid of them.

      2. I don’t think i have ever heard or seen a group of migrants stand together anywhere and thank the people of this country for anything what so ever. All most of them seem to do is along with taking all they are given for granted, they’ll find something to moan about.

      4. I think like most Lefties they’re desperate to create a victim of anyone to make themselves feel better.

    3. Sounds a bit like that business last week when the BBC were upset because lesbians objected to having sex with trans women who still had their bits attached. Apparently the lesbians are sticking to their guns over that one and I can’t say I blame them either.

      1. Ah yes the old chestnut of ‘You’re transphobic if you as a normal man won’t have sex with a man in a dress.’ Bozhe Moi!

    4. Dear life. I don’t care. Life’s not nice, it’s not fair. Ask them to stop, tell them you find it offensive. Of course, that means you have to naturalise and leave behind any cultural affiliation.

    5. It’s completely dopey wokey and so stupid, it’s not racist to call some one from Australia an Ozzie not calling a person from NZ a Kiwi.

    1. But they *don’t* cross the channel. They get part way then call for the ferry service. The coastguard and RNLI MUST never bring them here. Return them to france, destroy the boat, shoot the feckers if they get uppity. Take guns with you. Handcuff them, push them into the sea. They’re flipping sewage. Don’t bring them here. We shouldn’t be processing them, shouldn’t be feeding them. What we should at most ever do is take off the life jacket and kicking them overboard.

      Get. Rid. Of. Them.

      2. THEY are being allowed here to DESTROY US. Nothing else. They are being brought here and put in hotels and looked after – totally ??????? – MILLIONS WILL COME. – – – NONE are being stopped – – – or deported. Our so-called govt are clearly part of the plan to destroy the white British.

    1. Actions, consequences.

      We have no reason whatsoever to take on Eritreans. They have nothing we want, and are illegal economic migrants.

  66. If @BorisJohnson puts himself first – even before a 95 year old National treasure how is he going to put the planet and the people of the U.K. first?

    https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1455806297832673284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1455806297832673284%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indy100.com%2Fpolitics%2Fboris-johnson-david-attenborough-cnn-b1950443

    What/who do you think should come first:

    a) Boris Johnson ?
    b) David Attenborough ?
    c) the planet ?
    d) the people of the U.K. ?

    1. I suppose one does become a “National Treasure” if one has spent enough years on the gravy train. Does it refer to the amount of riches he has accumulated from licence-payer largesse?

      2. I have met him briefly (years ago); nice man, extremely well organised. He used to mention overpopulation as being an issue, but strangely has gone silent about that aspect of the world crisis.

    2. The 95 year old National treasure should be reburied where it came from – along with the other brain dead dinosaurs.

    3. d). The people. Sadly The National Treasure has caught Climate Derangement Syndrome and is doomed.

    4. It’s D, and then C as part of that, but as for the witch hunt against him.. I cannot be bothered. Attenborough is a fit, healthy man.

      Boris forgot. Oh well, he’s not perfect. As if we didn’t flipping well already know. Move on.

      1. So it’s either the planet or the U.K. population that gets it!
        The problem is they are not mutually exclusive.

  69. BTL@DTletters

    Angus Long
    5 Nov 2021 1:37PM
    I’m not offended by:

    • 1970’s comedy shows
    • Classic Disney cartoons
    • Classic literature
    • James Bond being a straight, white, womanising man
    • Male & female Public toilets
    • Old statues
    • Old street names
    • Children being called boys and girls
    • Christmas
    • Easter

    What I am offended by is:

    • Coppers sharing photos of murder victims on SM
    • Coppers who abuse their position to commit vile crimes
    • Morticians who violate the dead
    • Child killers being released from prison
    • MP’s being paid vast sums of money by lobbyists
    • Traffic congestion resulting from largely unused cycles lanes
    • Eco activists blocking motorways causing delays and congestion
    • Hypocritical MP’s and celebrates preaching climate change
    • No accountability from senior public servants
    • The inability to deport foreign criminals
    • Vandals and thieves being fined less than a typical parking infringement.

    I just plea for an establishment that will put more, effort resources and money in tackling the second list over the first.

    1. David Jones
      5 Nov 2021 12:54AM
      Fishing, again!

      Our fishermen were well and truly traduced earlier this year by Mr Boris Johnson and his merry men, and here’s how.

      We know that maritime nations have an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of maritime waters in which to fish. Yes, exclusive! And the French, with their dependencies overseas, have the biggest EEZ in the world, a vast 4,500,000 square miles of it, of which their European waters are about 134,000 square miles. Still, they and other EEZ owners (Dutch, Belgians, Germans, etc) continue to take thousands and thousands of tons of fish yearly from our own Sovereign UK EEZ (about 300,000 square miles) because, unbelievably weakly and irresponsibly, Mr Johnson agreed to it this year. (Worth noting that in 2018 two million tonnes of fish and shellfish were taken from UK waters, two-thirds of them by non-UK boats.)

      And as if this madness were not enough, he also agreed to the gradual 5-year transfer back to the UK the right to fish one quarter of those thousands of tons of our own fish! What, a quarter? What about the other three-quarters, Mr Johnson? Did you make this up? Do you lead in any sense the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

      A bit like the NHS, HS2, Smart Motorways, not to mention Smart Meters, Windmills, Heatpumps, and our getting greener, older, and a lot unhappier and colder, he seems to have well and truly lost his sense of purpose and his integrity.

      Oh, for a Conservative government who would accomplish a true Brexit!

      1. We won’t be allowed to have one of those until the WEF new world order falls apart, and I’m not convinced that that will happen in my lifetime.

      2. Hold up, CV2 – no mention of Electric Vehicles (the Green way) and the inability of our current electric supply to service them.

    2. That doesn’t count, you know that Citroen.
      In our village magazine last quarters edition, apparently there was photo of (I must have missed it) Al Jolson. And some one (one person) complained, this quarter there is an apology inside the front cover.

      1. Anti-semites should be deported. (yes, Miss Patel, well spotted, that word is similar, but different to, ‘imported’)
        Al Jolson achieved wonders for people of colour and for Jewish performing artists.

      2. Anti-semites should be deported. (yes, Miss Patel, well spotted, that word is similar, but different to, ‘imported’)
        Al Jolson achieved wonders for people of colour and for Jewish performing artists.

    1. Johnny, I am sceptical, but it is worth mentioning that many people who recover from NHS hospitalisation will have scarred lung tissue. (so I have heard via a medic).

        1. I thought that, fairly early on, it was discovered that ventilators were actually killing the patients and not saving them.

          1. and what else have they been wrong about ? Why wont the NHS staff have jabs, What do they know about the vaccine .?

          2. ‘Evening, Johnny, “What do they know about the vaccine .?”

            Basically, that it does nothing and may be used, now or in the future, to give you an implant so small, but able to allow you be tracked by Big Bro’ for the rest of your life.

          3. They probably know the “vaccines” are not what they purport to be and are extremely wise in not having them. And I understand now that NHS staff will not be mandated to have t(em until at least until next spring. Not sure about care home employees. According to our d-i-l staff will lose their jobs if not jabbed by 13th November. Maybe HMG has realised dismissing NHS staff now would be putting the NHS under more pressure with the expected autumn/winter influx of patients.

            In any case mandatory jabs are an abomination, against the Nuremberg Code, and I thought were illegal.

          4. Not enough people stand up for their rights. Most are just sheep and that is just what governments want. Johnson has no humanity.

    1. People over the age of 80 initially show a good response to the vaccine, with a 73% reduction in relative risk of disease at one to two months out from vaccination. However this drops to only 50% at two to four months, and by six months there is no benefit whatsoever. Even for the middle aged (50-64 years), who have better functioning immune systems and who should therefore respond more strongly to the vaccines, the vaccines are completely ineffective at preventing symptomatic disease by the four to six months mark. The only group for whom the vaccines are more than 50% effective by the four month mark is people under the age of 50 (for whom effectiveness at four to six months is 51%).

      The more you read of this article the more useless vaccination appears!

      1. I have to say, I do not fancy having a jab every four or five months when I’m 80, even if it is safe, which I am not persuaded about. Each to their own, though.
        More rational perhaps, would be a jab at about the beginning of November, that would carry you through to the end of the flu/covid season in March.

      2. Dr Rushworth is always a good read and very sensible – I signed up for his emails and also those of Dr Kendrick.

  72. Just back from W/rose. The cahier was a profoundly deaf lady who can speak & lip-reads, but not in these days of face masks. I usually drop my mask to say thank-you & goodbye. She’s pleasant, but always looks a bit non-plussed. Today I thought, “Go for it!” & I signed ‘Thank You & Goodbye’. My reward was a glorious smile which spread all over her face & her eyes sparkled.

    3. That must have made her day!
      Surrounded by people all day, and no communication possible is desperately lonely – much worse than being on your own.

  73. A nice looking young man was murdered by these lumps of pure filth

    https://twitter.com/True_Belle/status/1456639619219525646

    Aizaz Khan, 26, and 21-year-old Arbaz Khan, both of Yew Tree Avenue, Bradford, and the 16-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, will all stand trial accused of murdering Mr Tordoff.

    Two other men Amaad Shakiel, 20, of Leaventhorpe Lane, Bradford, and 22-year-old Adam Qayum, of Avenel Road, Bradford, will also go on trial accused of Mr Tordoff’s murder.

    2. The killers know that what theyve done ensures they NEVER get sent back, claims they will be punished and persecuted – – so – – stay here and on our taxes – – ensure OUR DEATHS AND THIS BECOMES THEIR COUNTRY – – and our govt waves in every one of them coming. ALL ON PURPOSE. Say goodbye to Britain.

  74. 3.11.21 was busy for migrant crossings. The Rnli were being called out constantly to help bf as their vessels were @ full capacity most times. 899 migrants crossed the channel, numbers incl confirmed beach landings. In 2 days 1,311 migrants made the journey to Dover.

  75. Well, today is proving to be interesting.

    1. I have just made three fruitless phone calls to my local hospital, trying to reply to a missed phone call from a clinic.

    So far, I have had a recorded message telling me that the voice mail box is full, so I couldn’t even leave a message

    On my second try, I got a different message, dated 1st. October explaining that the clinic will be open again on 4th. October.

    On my third try, I was put through to the ‘right’ clinic, to be met with an eerie silence.

    2. Let’s be charitable and say that MB is not one of life’s natural plumbers.

    First, MB couldn’t find the adjustable spanners. Unfortunately – as it turned out – I did. While holding down the dismantled tap to stop the water spout drenching the bathroom ceiling, and watching him crawl around trying to find the shut off valve, I thought “Well, at least I’m not slaving over a hot ironing board”.

    There is now an emergency call on our plumber’s phone.”

    3. I’m now debating whether I dare take Spartie for a walk without falling face first in a puddle or tripping over my own feet.

    2. You’re not alone. Just about everything I have picked up today has fallen to the floor, I open cupboards and something falls out ( I have deliberately not opened any china cupboards), I took the remaining two outside cushions upstairs to our black hole storage area and left a trail of leafy debris up the stairs. I am just sitting quietly for now. MH wants to go to the pub in a bit so who knows what lies in store….

      3. Go to the pub, but it might be dangerous to carry anything, so you can’t go to the bar & get drings. Oh, dear! MH will have to pay! What a bummer… ;-))

    3. If you know a reasonably competent plumber, ask him/her to install some lever ball valves (red or blue as appropriate).

      1. That would be a problem here – the expensive taps are marked with a red or a blue dot. But the levers could not be removed and switched to fit the original plumbing. WE know that hot = cold…but have to tell everyone who comes here…!

        1. I have taps that are not in the right order, so to speak (hot on the left and cold on the right). I always struggle when I go to other people’s (ie those who have the normal set up) houses to remember which is which, especially if it isn’t marked in big print or vivid colour.

          2. It wasn’t my plumber, it was the plumber of the people who owned the house before us. Just about everything was a bodge.

          3. The people, from whom we bought this house ALWAYS used skilled labour

            Plumbing: Colonoscopy operator

            Decorating: Cake Icer

            Fencing: Sports master
            Carpets: Turfing specialist
            Electrics: Model railway enthusiast
            Garden JCB Digger Driver
            Windows: Computer programmer

        2. Not sure that I explained properly; a lever ball valve is an on/off device with a handle which can be turned through 90 degrees in order to open or close the water supply. Can be inserted into a line of pipe, and you often see them close to a washing machine water supply. After a lever ball valve is installed, you can quickly and easily turn off the water (isolate the supply) if there is some sort of leak WITHOUT HAVING TO SEARCH FRANTICALLY for the stopcock. Ball valves with a slot for a screwdriver head are not as convenient.

          2. You did. I knew. My (unexplained) beef was that expensive taps cannot be reversed. They appear to be glued together in the factory. Two very competent plumbers tried and failed.

          2. One mistake, and one learns pretty damn fast, when a jet of superheated steam blasts the back of your hands.

          3. Frio and Caliente in Spanish – one of the first things I was told when I first arrived in Argentina.

    4. I really feel for your husband. Having to cope with the leak; and a wife and a dog….and – possibly – a plumber….

    5. No response from the clinic? On a Friday afternoon? The place must have burned down. Can’t think of any other reason.

          2. Had a talk on Monday by a chap who was a Chinook pilot in the Falklands War. He showed us pictures of the Atlantic Conveyor with the Harriers, Chinooks and other helicopters packed in like sardines.

    8. Now for something serious

      As the majority of us Nottlers are not in the first flush of youth, getting to the house stopcock, can be difficult.

      There is a remote one that you can have fitted and it is as easy to use as switching the light on/off

      One example is below

      Surestop Remote Pushfit Stopcock 15mm

      https://www.toolstation.com/surestop-remote-pushfit-stopcock/p80370?store=LU&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&mkwid=s_dc&pcrid=515847200312&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=Cj0KCQjwrJOMBhCZARIsAGEd4VG4P4kESnbga4CyC6VIBqvEJyFIPRkVyfcUBx1aC_U_6ndXTwQYkf0aAj5REALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

      1. I’ve bookmarked that for future reference. My stopcock is fairly easily accessible, but does require me to get down on my knees to reach it. There may well come a time when I can’t do that (or if I can, I can’t get up again!). Before I ring the plumber and ask him to fit one, however, I need to recover from paying £21k for my new conservatory.

        1. Conners, I too would like to bookmark that for future reference. Can you tell me, a person with limited understanding of computerology, in simple terms how to do that, please?

          2. I have an iMac and a Microsoft laptop. I can see “Bookmarks” on the former, but not on the latter. Can you help me, poppiesmum?

          4. I wish I could! If you can see ‘Bookmarks’ on your iMac, I would just bring up the article you wish to save as bookmarked, so that the article’s web address shows in the address banner at the top of the page (so that your system knows what it is saving) and then click on ‘bookmark’; then follow any instructions to save it as such which it may then present to you. About Microsoft I have no idea now, it is 12 years since I last used MS. ‘Bookmark’ is probably under one of the tab menus across the top of your page. Bring up the article you wish to save, then try the menus and see what is on offer, then click on it.

            I use an iPad for every day stuff, the bookmark facility sits under a square with an arrow from the middle upwards, top right of the page. Alternatively you could use google with the question “how do I bookmark an article on a Microsoft laptop’ – it would help if you gave the serial number as well.

            Sorry I cannot be of more help…

          5. You could do what Phizee suggests or simply right click on the URL in the navigation bar and copy it then paste it into a text file or Word document and then, when you need it, copy again and paste into the navigation bar. What I do is put the mouse pointer on the left hand side of the navigation bar and drag it onto the desktop (whence I can decide where the short cut will permanently reside), making sure that no windows are in the way (reduce them in size or minimise them). It should appear as an icon with an arrow to indicate it’s a short cut. Hope this helps. I should say that I run Windows 7 and have limited experience with a Mac (or, come to that, Win10).

  77. Countdown to a showdown:
    In a war of words at TV’s cosiest quiz, Anne Robinson is accused of being overbearing and overpaid – and so infuriated by Rachel Riley she may even quit. Now Team Cruella hits back, writes ALISON BOSHOFF

    The show couldn’t be cosier — the televisual equivalent of a sit down with a nice cup of tea and a custard cream. However Countdown, which started in 1982, has been struck by a ‘toxic’ feud which is providing plenty of off-screen drama.

    Countdown’s new host, Anne Robinson, 77, is said to be at daggers drawn with her younger female counterparts Rachel Riley, 35, and Susie Dent, 56.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10167547/Countdown-Anne-Robinson-infuriated-Rachel-Riley-quit-writes-ALISON-BOSHOFF.html

    I used to enjoy Countdown until Anne Robinson took the chair. Her snide comments
    are a turn off…

    1. This deeply unpleasant woman has become a multi millionaire courtesy of BBC Licence Fee payers!

      1. It appears to be a current trend.

        Victoria Coren – Only Connect
        Fiona Bruce – Question Time

        …..Miriam Margolyes

        Time to butt out….’Ladies’…?

          1. Ms Coren-Mitchell ….she’s too far up herself ….the show’s not about you dahling!

            I don’t find her remotely funny.

  78. Afternoon, all. Am here early because I had to be ready to take a phone call about my pain issues (the main issue is I want something done about it, not just advice on how to live with it), so I got everything done early and am now at a loose end. As for the headline, three moves ahead? Most of the time they seem incapable of thinking even one move ahead!

    1. They can barely move their bowels without needing an international conference on the subject.

  79. Yorkshire County Cricket Club has appointed Lord Kamlesh Patel of Bradford as their new chair, replacing Roger (Hurty) Hutton who resigned over the club’s response to the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal. Non-executive directors Hanif Malik and Stephen Willis also quit.

    It won’t satisfy the BBC until all the board members (and players) are Pecki, Pak*, Pucki, Pocki, or whatever they are called nowadays.

    2. He would have got the job, if it was just put to a vote by those living in Yorkshire, Mr Rashid told me

    4. No doubt he will turn a blind eye to tampered balls .. when the team is replaced by people of another religion .

      Is he related to Pritti Patel?

      He is Indian , so that will upset the P####s

      1. Hmm, I understood that only those BORN in Yorkshire could play for Yorkshire.

        Has that been written out of the qualifications?

    5. We’re not surprised.

      Mayor Sadik Khan has demanded social housing only for Muslims.

      Next ploy is sport clubs purely for Muslims.

          1. They’ve been trying it on ever since they got here. Kuffars (that’s us) have no rights and as dhimmis in a muslim country they also have to pay the tax known as jizya.

  80. Just listening to the Delingpod with Gerard Celente.
    It is hilarious (if you are not offended by bad language) – he doesn’t hold back with his opinions.
    Only a few minutes in, but an interesting view on the whole corona affair.

    https://delingpole.podbean.com/e/gerald-celente/

    “Boris Johnson – how can you look up to a dopey little piece of sh*t like that?”

  81. ‘Russian diplomat’, suspected spy, found dead in Berlin after apparent fall from embassy complex

    Russia has reportedly refused permission for Germany to carry out an post-mortem, describing the death as a ‘tragic accident’

    This article has the makings of an Agatha Christie series, well if she were no dead as well

    Read to the end!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/05/russian-diplomat-suspected-spy-found-dead-berlin-apparent-fall/

    1. Strange story..he allegedly fell out of a window(the building appears to be 3 or 4 storeys high) but was found by the German police although the compound boundary railings appear to be about 12 feet from the building.

      2. The same happened to the guys that opposed the new Oslo airport – early 90’s. “fell” out of the window in Copenhagen. Right. Fell.

  82. 340921+ up ticks,

    Brexit leader as seen through the eyes of the fat turk & the tory (ino) party
    that is much nearer the truth.

    A tory ( ino) coxswain to the core.

    A new daily record has been hit for illegal boat migrants crossing the English Channel, with Brexit leader Nigel Farage warning the United Kingdom should stop waiting for France to solve the migrant crisis and start getting tough like Australia.

    Many of the electorate are doing their bit they are writing to their MPs as they have been doing for decades, now many of the MPs are, wait for it,
    incoming migrants.

  83. Giant effigies of ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock with his lover and Guy Fawkes with Covid19 vaccine needles in his arms will burn tonight in Lewes as November 5th celebrations return after the pandemic

    Effigies will burn tonight in Lewes as country’s biggest bonfire celebrations return after last year`s was stopped by lockdown
    Lewes is famed for its topical and often controversial bonfire effigies it has burned over the years
    In 2018 Boris Johnson was portrayed holding an axe and Theresa May’s severed head before being set alight

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/05/16/50108903-10169881-A_glum_Matt_Hancock_is_seen_sitting_on_a_rock_while_hugging_a_na-a-63_1636130849019.jpg

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/05/16/50108045-10169881-A_giant_effigy_of_Guy_Fawkes_wearing_a_face_mask_with_vaccine_ne-a-62_1636130849018.jpg

      1. Presumably he said that when the governments were still pretending that the vaxx was to protect the elderly, rather than being rolled out every five months to everyone in the population.

      2. Pfizer shares up $3.83 at $47.69,

        If there is a news blackout, I am seeing nothing in our news.

  86. A German business connection was telling me how he got the booster jab, but his phone was too old to get the covid passport. Laughing, he pulled a card with a QR code out of his wallet, and said “I had to get this card instead!” as though that was so hilariously old fashioned. He is apparently going to buy a new phone, so that the app can be installed.

    I said nothing, because I was at a customer site but I was thinking “and just like that, Europeans accepted authoritarian government.”

          1. I think it would have been a shock to anyone.
            Visited the place in 2006, with Firstborn’s school trip from Norway. Glad I went, hated the whole expeience.

          2. What got me was the visitor centre – very municipal – and the visitors chowing down on burgers and the usual motorway carp.
            FGS – could they really not manage to forgo stuffing their faces for a couple of hours?
            Particularly in such a setting.

          3. Junior is too young to appreciate what such a visit would mean, but we talk about history and the horrific changes we’re going through as a society. His teachers have ‘spoken’ to me about the Arabs and blacks selling other blacks into slavery. I asked why they weren’t teaching the facts.

          4. Similarly, Paul, after a pissy weekend in Munich for Oktoberfest, en route for home, we deviated (at my request) and visited Dachau.

            Four very quiet and sober piss-artists.

    3. “…just like that, Europeans accepted authoritarian government.”
      Much like most in the UK and the rest of the “free” world – who have been free so long that they have forgotten what it is like to not be free.
      Norway still remembers what it’s like to be governed by nazis, Makes the buggers difficult to manage, but hey… who’s complaining?

  87. A couple of people have requested pics of the conservatory and Oscar. I don’t have any recent ones of Oscar, but I did take a couple of snaps of the start of the conservatory rebuild – see attached. Unfortunately, I didn’t carry on as it was very cold. I snapped the empty space where the old one had been removed and the frame being put in place:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/099576b3bcb3261a1d3dce205467648ab94cb8748bbdd872cd90baedfdd70299.jpg t

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/45e3c46eee38af7e9035f5a7e6b6d2195ce4bec1e5e852d41f247fff37ed3ffb.jpg

      1. Will take a photo of the conservatory now it’s nearly finished (one window insert was the wrong size and a replacement has had to be ordered; plus two panes were clear when they should have been frosted. They will be finished off when the insulation is put in the ceiling). This is a pic of Oscar a few moments ago. There is no sound, so you can’t hear him snoring.

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/437e72985e38a4345152c372d20d164e40e90a2a2e263103ad1728ea5f8b4ed5.jpg

          1. They’re letting off fireworks now. He’s been up and about (but doesn’t seem spooked by them).

          2. Ah… forgot 5th November. We have fireworks on New Year. About 13:00 on 31st to 15:00 on 1st, with different levels of volume.

          4. Spartie totally indifferent.
            Currently snoozing after a mega cardboard box shredding session.

          5. Mongo makes himself as small as he can and sits on me. However, as he is huge, he is really sitting across the entire sofa.

    2. Not enough clutter, mate. Needs to be filled with plants, empty shelves and remarkably uncomfortable and expensive chairs… at least, following my Mother’s model.

      1. No doubt it will be. Minimalist, I ain’t! The shelves will be full of books and I want to get a chaise longue in there to lounge on while I’m reading.

          2. Your “clutter” is different… better organised, and less cluttering… just like mine…

    3. Looks great, Conway! Enjoy that lovely space!
      How is Oscar? I wanted to say last night that kidney and liver stuff is very much an older dog thing. Try not to worry and enjoy the challenge that is Oscar!

      1. It will be a useable space at last (it was so cold in winter and hot in summer I just used it as a dumping ground for stuff that wouldn’t fit elsewhere). I intend to turn it into a reading room.

          2. The older I get, the more I can only deal with only one thing at a time.
            I’d like to shoot the gogglebox and listen to music, but SWMBO likes the moving pictures. So, I’m doomed.
            Oh, well.
            But I love the simple music – like the link – a plain church with simple music, speaks right to my heart, so it does.

          3. MOH couldn’t stand silence; if not yacking away, then it was switching the TV on. I used to shut my book when I was subjected to the bbc at full volume (and that didn’t go down well).

      2. Sorry, I didn’t reply re Oscar. He is still drinking a lot (but he always has since I got him). He’s had the first two halves of his antibiotic today, so it’s early days. He’s still on Loxicon every day. I have to ring the vet when he’s finished the course of tablets (the Loxicon is liquid).

  89. MPs in the dark about Beijing’s threats. 5 November 2021.

    Loughton questioned Home Office minister Kit Malthouse about ‘reports of red notices having been issued by the Chinese Government against British Parliamentarians.’ Malthouse did not directly address Loughton’s claims about such reports, instead telling his fellow Tory that ‘we continue to monitor the effectiveness of existing safeguards and will not hesitate to recommend further reforms to Interpol as necessary.’

    I’m the last person to sympathise with the Chinese Government but if it was me I’d have Red Notices out on all of them. LOL!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/mps-in-the-dark-about-beijing-s-threats

  92. With 500 illegals arriving every sodding day, many with God knows what diseases and ailments – no wonder the NHS (clap for it) is overwhelmed.

  93. That’s me for the day. I know my plaice – I am having it for supper.

    Have a jolly evening.

    A demain

    2. Careful, fish will be the next no-no on the green agenda, but don’t worry, I won’t tell a sole.

      1. Me too. Normal service has returned in the BBC canteen. Haddock today, with very chunky chips. It was good.

        1. All at BBC licensees’ expense??? That’s why we all hate you so much and want to abolish you, Sue!

          2. We all know that – just teasing – and drooling about haddock and chips cooked by someone else {:^))

          3. Bluey, Bingo, Bandit! Instant happiness for children, and a discreet dose of Australian culture.

  94. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/cressida-dick-sarah-everard-met-officers-shame-b964528.html
    Good God above! What kind of sick bastards do they employ in the met?
    “Pcs Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Jamie Lewis, 33, who were assigned to guard the crime scene, this week admitted sharing pictures of the sisters’ bloodied bodies with colleagues and civilians via WhatsApp. They face lengthy prison sentences after pleading guilty to misconduct in a public office.”
    Never mind the opportunity to compromise an investigation and prosecution… I’m speechless..

    1. How many of the immigrant culture flooding the UK but hating us and our culture – – know of people of their culture, with drug gangs here, grooming gangs etc etc – – and would they actually arrest them.??

      1. Time to imprison them in an offshore camp and carefully investigate each and every one – throwing out all those who don’t meet up with our cultural requirements.

        Then let’s start on the Mosque adherents.

    2. We said that at the time.
      What the hull were they thinking? How on earth did they think anyone would want such pictures? What circles do they mix in?

      2. The mother of those girls is a church minister and she was very dignified when she complained about what they had done to her daughters. It’s a shocking story.

        1. The mothers of those PCs must be spending hours throwing up in the toilets at the actions of their off-spring.

    3. Do you remember the film Marathon Man? There was a scene where the baddie was questioning the goody and asking him repeatedly “Is it safe?”.
      Well, I have news for you: the UK isn’t safe. I apologise sincerely for saying this, but if two female Londoners believed that they would be OK dancing around on their own in the middle of the night in a wild area of a park, they were tragically mistaken.

  95. Got an email from the local GP surgery. The poor devils seem snowed under and would prefer we didn’t need to see a doctor. Locally, we all think it’s a crappy surgery.
    “Once in a generation pressure on the NHS and general practice

    4th November 2021

    Dear Patients

    At Tamar Valley Health GP practice we pride ourselves in providing the best possible patient care, even when the circumstances are making this challenging.
    We will always strive to give you, our patients access to the healthcare you need when you need it. We demonstrated this dedication from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic where Tamar Valley Health staff and partners made the decision to keep the practice doors open and to continue to see patients face to face throughout the pandemic, this was while many other organisations closed theirs.

    Right now the pressures on the NHS are undeniably huge and relentless, am I am sure you will have seen the concerning headlines in the media, and this is unfortunately true for Tamar Valley Health GP practice. Every week we are battling staff shortages because of COVID self-isolation and illness, some weeks we have lost nearly 100 hours of clinician time. On the other hand we are seeing a gigantic increase in demand for appointments because of the backlog of work caused by the COVID pandemic.

    Our staff are being fantastic, they are making a massive effort ensuring we can provide you with the healthcare you need. They have been working enormous amounts of additional hours to support our patients every day, and extra to provide a local, convenient COVID and influenza vaccination centre at the Callington Town Hall.

    We take every day over 500 telephone calls, provide daily over 250 GP appointments, many of those face to face, over 400 clinician appointments, we dispense over 1,000 prescription medicines, and deal with 100s of patient questions. We are very proud of our winter vaccination program, so far we have done over 6,700 vaccinations of COVID and influenza this season with another 7,000 to be done.

    I write this plea to you our patients because we are genuinely heading into one of the toughest winters for the NHS that we have seen in over a generation. We are seeing the pressures of pent-up demand for appointments, COVID backlog of delayed work, and the unavoidable staff shortages.
    This means that we will need to ask you our patients to support the practice and our staff, so we can meet the healthcare needs of all our patients where possible over this winter season:

    1. Please wherever possible use digital ways to access us as it frees up time for those who need to and can only access us by phone. For example, you can now order your prescription online from our dispensaries/pharmacy, book appointments, see blood test results.

    2. We have e-consultation tool, accessed from our website that you can use any time of day to contact us about non-urgent health issues

    3. All our patients can use the Livi video consultation app to access NHS doctors from 18:00 to 22:00 on weekdays, and 08:00 to 16:00 on Weekends (Link)

    4. If you are housebound and you need a visit from our healthcare team please ensure you contact us before 1pm so we can help meet your request

    5. Remember we have a broad clinical team who are very experienced and capable who can help with your health needs from mental health practitioners, physiotherapists, nurse practitioners, pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, and health care assistants

    6. Lastly, it is important to stress that our staff are very happy to help you get the healthcare you need. They are NOT there to be hurt or abused by anyone. We have a very strict zero tolerance policy, and if our staff face aggression and abuse, we will not hesitate to refuse treatment and remove patients from our practice.

    Thank you for taking your time to read this, your understanding and helping us support you and our staff.”

    Their website is utterly useless.

    1. “heading into one of the toughest winters for the NHS ” .????? . . Anything to do wth thousands – growing monthly – of non-English-speaking migrants getting time-and-cash-consuming treatment paid for by US, the English taxpayer – – who then, CANNOT get treatment because the migrant has took up hours of (translator AND appointment ) time and NHS cash??? – – which WILL – now – carry on – – funded by us???
      The non-contributing time/cash-consuming migrant does NOT care for OUR lack of treatment. Only that WE pay for what THEY get.

      ” if our staff face aggression and abuse, we will not hesitate to refuse treatment and remove patients from our practice.” – – –
      – – – for only the white? UK – angry at having to pay for anyone who turns up from anywhere on the planet?

    2. Pressures on the NHS are huge and relentless.

      Stop hiring diversity managers and I will stop laughing. Until then, the problem is your own. Imagine if we cut off 40% of your funding. What would your bean counters cut? The endless administration, or the medical provision?

    3. Sounds like the Tamar Health Practice has been sold down the river – bloody self-serving little twats.

  96. A BTL comment on the earlier Speccie link regarding the abuse of “Trans” children:-

    Bob of Bonsall • a few seconds ago
    The founder of Mermaids arranged for her son to be dosed up on puberty blockers and female hormones from an early age.
    Then, for his 16th birthday, took him to Thailand to be castrated and surgically mutilated to imitate a young girl.

    Munchhausen’s Syndrome By Proxy?

      1. There is a documented case of a pair of twins where the boy had a mishap and his penis was badly damaged and removed as a tiny baby. The parents brought him up as a girl. Eventually he committed suicide.

        1. I remember the programme; Canada if I remember rightly.. The parents had him circumcised and – to put it politely – the surgeon was not good at his job.

    2. Why, in God’s name, would you do that to a child – any child – let alone your own?

      Those parents should be taken out, the father castrated and the mother to have her ovaries ripped out with cooking tongs. No anaesthetics in either case.

  98. Not only in America:

    “According to PILF’s research, there were more than 25,975 deceased registrants on Michigan’s voter rolls as of August.
    Of that total: 23,663 registrants have been dead for five years or more; 17,479 registrants have been dead for at least a decade; and 3,956 registrants have been dead for at least 20 years.
    PILF discovered two deceased registrants, who, if they were alive today, would be 100 and 108 years old, respectively.
    PILF President J. Christian Adams said his organization filed suit to protect electoral integrity.”

    PILF = Public Interest Law Firm

  99. On the radio a few minutes ago – presenter telling us all about Guy Fawkes, – Glad we had a young immigrant Somali woman here to explain it.

      1. Poor old Guy. The only sane man ever to enter Parliament and look what happened to him…..

          4. He should have waited, til December

            Gunpowder would have been cheaper, after Bonfire Night

        2. I mentioned that up the pub- the only man who had the right idea about the govt. Got a small smattering of applause 🙁 Sad innit.

    2. A good start.

      People are sick and tired of the state. The police are the force of that state.

      1. The police do what they do with our consent. I withdrew my consent several months ago. I hate what they have become.

        1. You and Me both, Sue, I’ll just tell ’em to eff orf ‘cos they and their masters are in for a good kicking.

          I just wish I was young enough to get out there and start kicking – really hard.

          2. I phoned them one morning about 3 months ago, at 6 in the morning, to tell them that there was an intruder and a dog, in our shed. The ‘responder’ asked if it was an emergency and if it wasn’t, would I please hang up and clear the line! My daughter, the twins, and I were alone in the house!
            It turned out to be a local junkie, with a jar full of poppy heads and cigarette papers in a jar! My daughter and I caught her and she was finally ‘apprehended’ a week later, having done at least 20 properties!

    3. Things are coming to the boil.
      Polly must have put the kettle on.
      Suki must have taken it off again.
      It’s just too late for tea!

        1. A very rich bechamel works a treat! Plus a lot of nutmeg and bay leaf.
          You’d be very welcome anytime!

        2. A very rich bechamel works a treat! Plus a lot of nutmeg and bay leaf.
          You’d be very welcome anytime!

    2. I did some mince & onions yesterday for when the S@H & DT got home from work, topped off with leftover mashed potatoes & veg with slices of cheese on top to make a cottage pie.
      More than a bit moreish!

  102. Complacency? More like a shocking lack of judgment.

    What a shame Barry Sheerman hasn’t yet entertained us by making comparisons between the Leadsom Amendment and the Enabling Act.

    The Tories are behaving like a tired government in its dying days

    The Paterson debacle has again shown a dangerous complacency in Boris Johnson’s administration

    FRASER NELSON

    Boris Johnson recently hosted a dinner in No 10 for Tory MPs past and present who, like him, entered Parliament in 2001. To his surprise, David Cameron accepted the invitation. As they all sat down for dinner, the ever-competitive Prime Minister thought he’d have a bit of fun at his predecessor’s expense. He was about to launch a window-sill insulation scheme, he said – and he thought he’d call it “Greensill.”

    When Cameron’s turn to speak came, he said that he ran No 10 in the glory days when there was food on the shelves and Tories who actually cut taxes. A decent joke. But Boris’s was better.

    No one forgets a lobbying scandal. Cameron won two elections, he transformed both welfare and secondary schooling. But he will spend the rest of his days tainted by his lobbying for the now-collapsed Greensill. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Stephen Byers and Neil Hamilton all ended up with similar stains on their reputations. When Owen Paterson accepted £9,300 a month from corporates – far more than his MP’s salary – scandal was sure to follow. A scandal now magnified several times over by No 10’s ineptitude, with career-ending effect.

    Like so many political misjudgments, this started with an attempt at decency. Johnson likes to stand by his friends and allies even (perhaps especially) when that means taking fire. When Priti Patel’s former civil servants were accusing her of bullying, he asked MPs to “form a square around the Prittster” to defend her.

    He thinks Paterson was wrongly accused of breaking lobbying rules by a biased Westminster sleaze watchdog – one who was, once, out to get him. He felt a particular sympathy for Paterson whose wife had taken her own life as this investigation dragged on. His majority meant the Tories could change the rules, which would create a fuss. But then again: so what?

    It is not clear how much thought was given to all of this. It seems to have followed the Richard Branson logic of “Screw it: let’s do it” – or, as Jacob Rees-Mogg later put it, “Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.” Various Tory MPs pleaded with the whips not to go through with this madness. Whatever the details of the case, they said, people would just see a Tory caught with his snout in the trough, then let off the hook by his fellow Conservatives. How could they vote for what would be seen, by the public, as a stitch-up?

    As with the National Insurance tax rise, the Conservatives were given no time to think – or rebel. They were given their orders and obeyed, knowing it would be another Charge of the Light Brigade. It was bound to fail. And even the attempt would cause permanent damage, making it easier to cast Tories as cheats and liars: dodging sleaze rules, reneging on manifesto pledges. They were doing it because a Westminster victory was guaranteed: they are up against a Labour Party so inept as to be a danger only to itself. Sir Keir Starmer actually had the votes to defeat the Government over the Paterson affair, but failed to organise his own troops on time. Only public outcry forced No 10 to change its mind.

    Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely – and a majority of 80 gives the Prime Minister the kind of power that turns a brain fart into law within 24 hours. There is pitifully little scrutiny or questioning. No one to point out that this demented plan would fail because all parties needed to agree any changes to a parliamentary watchdog. No one to point out that, like the expenses scandal, this isn’t about the technicalities but a wider principle. About trust in politics.

    Most of the expenses transgressions were within the rules. The helipad maintenance, the moat-dredging and even the sleazy video – all were approved by the relevant authorities, bought at the taxpayers’ expense. Perfectly legal, but still outrageous. The distinction between the two was lost on politicians so settled in the Westminster bubble that they could not see how all of this looked to people outside it. Back then, Johnson – as Mayor of London – was one of those who grasped this at once. He still teases Michael Gove about the “financial origins” of his £331 Chinon chair.

    I am among Paterson’s admirers: he is a man of energy and tenacity. But on this issue, his judgment failed him. The rules might have permitted him to double his salary by shilling for corporates, but should he have done so? To accept £100,000 a year for advising any corporation was always going to raise questions about where his loyalty lay. The Prime Minister ought to have known this. As he wrote in these pages at the time, the expenses scandal showed that “the public is utterly fed up with politicians who seem to be actuated by their financial circumstances”. True then, and true now.

    Much of this is classic overcorrection in No 10. This time last year, what the Prime Minister thought was seen as an almost peripheral issue in a machine run by Dominic Cummings. Now, what he says is enacted at once – even if it’s sure to end in disaster. Mark Spencer, the Chief Whip, assured Downing Street that the mission to save Paterson would be fine. Even the Tory party machine was not consulted.

    So within the space of a few weeks, the Prime Minister went from needling Cameron about lobbying scandals to plunging the Tories into a scandal of his own. Had he sought advice, he would have told Paterson to take his punishment quietly and be back by Christmas. The watchdog could have been reformed a few months later, in consultation with Labour, at a time when neither party would have anyone under investigation. The Johnsonian impulse, this time, ended up crushing the man he intended to help.

    Thoughtlessness, arrogance, complacency, being tone deaf to public opinion – in the past few days, the Tories have exhibited the traits of an exhausted government in its dying days. And that’s before the inflation that the Bank of England now expects to eat away any rise in wages for the next two years (if it doesn’t tip the economy into another crash). The difference from the 1990s is that there is no Tony Blair to capitalise on these errors. But now, as then, it’s becoming easier to see how a Tory government ends.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/04/tories-behaving-like-tired-government-dying-days/

    1. I’m still waiting for the promised Tory government. We’ve had non-stop Blair since 1997.

    3. Am I being disingenuous, in thinking that the treatment given to Mr Paterson,is inpart to take the heat of Acidhead Webbe

    4. BTL Comment:-

      Robert Spowart
      6 Nov 2021 7:47AM
      ” He thinks Paterson was wrongly accused of breaking lobbying rules by a biased Westminster sleaze watchdog…..”

      And in that he is quite correct. Yes, Patterson was skating on thin ice, but the issue he raised, carcinogens in milk, was more important that petty rule breaking.

  103. Happy to report that we are back safe and relatively sound from the pub. Some nice conversation with some chums and a new bloke who was great company.
    No, I didn’t spill anything and didn’t disgrace myself in any way…always a first time for everything ;-))

      1. I do try to behave but it alien to my nature 😉 Keep up your comments- they are well received.

  105. Is it now time to reassess Kirk Douglas’s legacy?

    He was the hero of Hollywood, but, according to a new memoir, the actor sexually assaulted Natalie Wood when she was a teenager

    I will confess now

    I called someone from Wales Taffy and have crossed the road, at a Pelican crossing, when it was on Red, for pedestrians.

    Both of these things happened 50 years ago, but,:I await the knock on the door, from XR’s protectors, aka Perlice

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2021/11/05/now-time-reassess-kirk-douglass-legacy/

  111. Flanders and Swann fans… there is a video on You Tube of the only live concert they did. Well worth a view although it is in NYC. Also a John Amis documentary about them. I love those guys.

  112. Watched BBC Four Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park 1969 ish. Now Linda Ronstadt in Old Grey Whistle Test from the seventies.

    Fabulous voices, great bands and a trip back in time to better days.

    1. Have you seen the Linda Ronstadt documentary that shows her illness. Apparently she is suffering from suffering from Progressive supranuclear palsy and now cannot sing a note.
      Very sad viewing.

    2. Morning Geoff. I’m off in a couple of hours to a full day’s rehearsal of Paul Carr’s Four New Seasons.

  114. 340989+ up ticks,

    Due to the actions taken theses past near four decades, shortly the question of border controls will be at the forefront.

    Not quite what the electorate wanted although you would have thought otherwise when regarding the voting pattern.

    Tis my belief we are not far from seeing turf wars, with a death penalty
    meted out for crossing a “border” into other peoples “turf”

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