Friday 8 July: The Tories must take control of Boris Johnson – not let him stay and cause more damage

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  4. Derek Chauvin sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for murder of George Floyd. 8 July 2022.

    Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for the murder of George Floyd.

    The sentence means Chauvin, 46, will leave a state prison where he has been kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day for the past 15 months and be allowed to move to a federal prison.

    Judge Paul Magnuson told Chauvin during the civil rights violation sentencing that to “put your knee on another person’s neck until they’re deceased is wrong”.

    “And for that you must be substantially punished.”

    Chauvin may be guilty of Criminal Negligence even Manslaughter at a push. He did not commit murder and does not deserve 21 Years in gaol!

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-sentencing-b2118165.html

      1. So Anne, Prince Andrew’s legal advisers were very wise when they insisted that he mustn’t go to the USA for any reason..

        1. I think so. The timing was perfect; bring the case to ahead just before the Platinum Jubilee.
          The man is a total twonk, but there is a difference from being arrogant, greedy and stupid and actually availing yourself of underage girls.
          My only hope is that Andrew’s ‘victim’ is stripped of every cent by the girls she subsequently recruited.

    2. Yep that’s a disgraceful Leftist show trial worthy of 1930s Soviet Russia . It was used to intimidate all police officers by implying they could be next .. 2 years for criminal negligence was the right sentence

  5. 354078+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Friday 8 July: The Tories must take control of Boris Johnson – not let him stay and cause more damage

    Boris Johnson’s long goodbye leaves UK in ‘state of paralysis’
    Senior Tories implore Prime Minister to appoint a caretaker leader immediately to avoid months of political uncertainty

    But surely treachery has proven to be their bag so to stay would not surprise a great many people,plus keeping in mind this is and has been for decades a political phony (ino) set up.

    If a count is made inhouse then the ayes he goes will lose by a narrow margin, when a count is taken
    common sense loses out, by a narrow margin on many an occasion.

  7. The Tories must take control of Boris Johnson – not let him stay and cause more damage

    The damage has all been self inflicted and all based on unimportant trivia.
    As everyone will realise when all of a sudden breaking lockdown rules and sleaze is forgotten about until another populist leader emerges.

      1. 354038 + up ticks,

        Morning B3,

        Without doubt, tell you one thing on the weapons front them harrows hurt.

    2. There was a reason why the GBP were disarmed. Now only a select group of public employees and criminals have effective guns.

      1. 354038 + up ticks…..

        Morning Anne,
        “effective guns” could very well be
        countered by selective targets, lets not go there that has got to be the very last resort…
        The politico’s / phony party cannot stand up to death via polling booth..

      2. There are guns are kept in armouries. Out and about they are carried in star marked police cars. It would take a while to arm the public. We could bring them in from NI, it there was no EU customer barrier…
        However the use of PAVA would allow police to subdue a large crowd very quickly (apart from the screaming, of course.). PAVA and tasers are now used almost routinely upon very little provocation*.

        *Sheku Bayoh was killed by the police 7 years ago. An Inquiry is in process to whitewash the police. Mr Bayoh was under the influence of drugs, but was not threatening anyone. After the police accosted him, he was dead.

  10. ‘Morning All

    The question is WHY the Dutch government wants to halt farming and at who’s behest……….

    Sky news Aus gives us the who,it’s the WEF/NWO

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAm1dww6SdA

    As for the why?? Here you go

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/13fa1e59ee2c970f961fe69d46c5425e313a4888e007b082444aab5f0b8dea83.png

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c7204e9f9dbdb520ff20b8f0ff074916600e018737ce93e188f5695b368bf8e6.png
    Megacities for the bug eating serfs ruled by elites from their country estates….
    Welcome to the future

          1. Worser! No one gets rescued. I am mixed up, memory failing. European society had failed, ruin and devastation abounded. Misery all round. The sleek planes arrive from New Zealand, a country saved by its isolation and which had progressed dramatically. May have been a film. Alexander Korda, maybe.

    2. The scary thing is that they want the farmland in the Netherland – what are they planning to build on it, apart from bug factories?
      It is said that they don’t want people in the countryside – do they plan to herd everyone in central Europe into this giant concentration camp while the countryside “re-wilds?”

    3. But But isn’t the sea level supposed to be rising?
      Why would they build it there?

    4. The reset coming to us all. Its all part of the plan, higher prices on fuel and food.Elections that do nothing less cars and travel, the list is endless to remove even more of our freedoms and living in dictatorships. look at what we have lost already.

    5. Any political party’s name that contains any of the words: “People’s”, “Democratic”, “Social” or “Republic” should have all its members corralled together on a distant islet and nuked!

    6. Oh yes, remove nitrogen from the soil! Don’t these cretins realise that leafy crops require nitrogen to be able to grow? Just as root crops require phosphorus and flowers and fruit require potassium. NPK fertilisers cover all aspects of healthy crop growing.

  11. I have served before. Now I hope to answer the call as prime minister. 8 July 2022.

    Boris Johnson delivered us Brexit, rolled out the most successful vaccine programme in Europe and led the world on Ukraine. But the last weeks have shown it is right he now steps aside. We should not forget these achievements. We must build on them.

    But we also need a change. This nation needs a clean start and a government that will make trust, service and an unrelenting focus on the cost of living crisis its guiding principles.

    That is what the British people deserve and it is what we will be judged on. It cannot be achieved without a clean start – unsullied by the events of the past, but also with proven experience and leadership.

    So I’m putting myself up as your Globalist Candidate for Prime Minister. No lie is too small. No betrayal too gross.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/07/tom-tugendhat-have-served-now-hope-answer-call-prime-minister/

      1. I’ve just read the article from four years ago, when Theresa May was PM and before we had left the EU. Mordaunt was International Development Secretary, having just taken the brief from Priti Patel, who did some illicit extracurricula activity during her holidays in Israel.

        It seems that Mordaunt was not saying much other than she was doing her job. International Development is largely about stroking kittens. Her audience as Blackadder writer Richard Curtis, who is not himself that distant from the Richmond-on-Thames wing of the BBC. She was ticking enough boxes to keep him on board without committing her department to anything.

        What I find more revealing is an early backer of Penny Mordaunt is my own MP, Harriett Baldwin. I have always considered my MP to be a bear of little brain, who issues departmental platitudes and does earnest sincerity very well. I often challenge her, and get gracious letters thanking me for making her day and saying absolutely nothing. Harriett Baldwin’s majority is well over 20,000 to the dismay of radicals in Great Malvern, who are at their wit’s end to get anything to stick on her.

      3. Oh dear.
        Why does everything cost £x trillion? The test of sustainability should be that it costs less? (Based on end to end costings.)

      4. Oh dear.
        Why does everything cost £x trillion? The test of sustainability should be that it costs less? (Based on end to end costings.)

      5. Ah, Jeremy Rhyming Slang – let’s hope he never gets near any position of power again!

    3. Just about every article on Bojo claims that he delivered us Brexit, rolled out the most successful vaccine programme ever and did a magnificent job on the Ukraine (my local paper was no exception). All totally untrue!

  12. “I Want Somebody Good – And I Mean Very Good – To Plant That Gun.”

    R.I.P James Caan.

  13. Taking “we are well and truly Fu@ed” to new levels:

    “Dating Website Match.Com Has Option For 31 Genders”

    What are you today?

    If you can have a good morning!

      1. I can just imagine the postings: “Emperor wishes to meet attractive Southern Cockhopper for a Royal threesome…..”

  14. 354038+ up ticks,

    Why indeed ,

    ·

    354038+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    7h
    Police officer gets 21 year sentence for causing the death of a drug crazed violent career criminal high on drugs after passing forged banknotes, & while using a police approved restraining proceedure, after spending several minutes trying to get the suspect to submit to peaceful arrest.

    Why would any US police office try to arrest & restrain a violent criminal again if this can be the outcome?

    previewImg
    Derek Chauvin gets 21 years in jail for violating George Floyd’s civil rights — Sky News

    Derek Chauvin has been given a 21-year jail sentence for violating George Floyd’s civil rights.

    1. Just to remind everyone, as the Beeb has done in every report, DC is white. I nearly forgot…

        1. Good morning DB

          The weather is so dry, even golf course greens are suffering , so how do bowling greens maintain their lush green appearance .

          1. We have an automatic watering system. We find the local evaporation rate from a website in Poole, make some calculations and wind up with the number of minutes of watering the green should have. We set this on the controller and the water comes on at 3a.m.

    1. Except there’s nothing liberal or progressive about the liberal progressives.

      Comically they’ll make sure they never have to live in the communist hell they create.

      1. A tiny place called Powerstock…a few houses, two pubs and a fascinating church. We awake to birdsong, hens and ducks, all competing to be the loudest.

        ‘Morning, Belle.

      2. A tiny place called Powerstock…a few houses, two pubs and a fascinating church. We awake to birdsong, hens and ducks, all competing to be the loudest.

        ‘Morning, Belle.

  19. SIR – Who is actually running our country at the moment? Is anyone?

    I certainly hope that our police, security services and Armed Forces are on full alert to protect us from those who would see us as being vulnerable, and wish us harm, while there is a breakdown of authority among our ruling classes.

    Ted Shorter
    Tonbridge, Kent

    Simple answer, Ted; the Snivel Serpents, as always.

    1. Mr Shorter, no one has run the country for decades. The state machine rolls on regardless doing untold damage. If you think politicians do, you’re incredibly naïve.

  20. SIR – Who is actually running our country at the moment? Is anyone?

    I certainly hope that our police, security services and Armed Forces are on full alert to protect us from those who would see us as being vulnerable, and wish us harm, while there is a breakdown of authority among our ruling classes.

    Ted Shorter
    Tonbridge, Kent

    Simple answer, Ted; the Snivel Serpents, as always.

    2. They were embarrassed, ashamed and wanted revenge. No doubt to demand she stop being racist on television by telling the truth.

      It’s insulting. The senior officers should show humility and accept their failings.

    1. Well, she is still sick as a parrot that she’ll NEVER get to live at No 10….whatever happens.

      1. I can’t think why anyone would want to live there.
        A dark, dingy terrace house locked in a claustrophobic cul-de-sac.
        And that’s before you get to 400 people milling around.

  25. Good morning all. A VERY bright start to the day with clear skies and 12°C outside.
    I think it is going to get a lot warmer today.

    1. Clear blue sky and sunshine all the way today. I have a lunch reservation at an Italian restaurant by the beach. Hat, sunglasses and shorts. Maybe a cocktail or three.

          1. Did you know that the pop band The Beautiful South came from Hull and picked their name as an ironic piss-take? Their previous incarnation as The Housemartins had a No 1 album entitled London 0, Hull 4.

  26. 354038+ up tick,

    Send in the Clowns: Britain Faces Gallery of Fools,
    Flyweights, and Fake Conservatives as Next Prime
    Minister

    On reflection these are the very same peoples in the main, supporters members, that castigated those in the party that fought for won & triggered the referendum.we were forever the fruitcakes & via the ex leader the farage chap VILE peoples at that.

    Two party system in play now no need for manifesto’s
    aka fodder for fools, the choice is between right/wrong

    The party of the right is still in construct whereas the party of the wrong is still well supported & still importing potential troops, paedophiles, nhs patients,,assorted felons daily.

  27. The number of people to reach the UK in small boats this year reached more than 13,100 after another 248 were intercepted in the English Channel on Wednesday, according to government figures.

    Five boats were picked up on Wednesday carrying the 248 migrants, after 40 people made the crossing on Tuesday.

    One group were brought ashore by lifeboat on the beach at Dungeness after dark.

    It takes the official total so far this year to 13,103 in nearly 400 boats.

    In just two days this week 403 people have been picked up by the authorities attempting the 21-mile wide crossing.

    According to government figures 28,526 people made the journey in 2021 – compared to 8,410 who arrived in 2020.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10991577/Number-migrants-crossing-Channel-tops-13-000-248-tried-UK-yesterday.html

    1. Yo T_B

      intercepted i?

      I think you mean transfered to their pre-booked on going connection.

      The position of those boats can be tracked from the moment they enter the water.

      That is when this fiasco should be stopped, the boats should be made unserviceable then, on safety grounds (see below)

      Little is said about what happens to the boats, when the honoured guests disembark: The boats should be holed beyond repair,
      placed aboard the ‘rescue craf’t. together with the outboard engine.and ‘driver’, then brought to Ingerland for dispossl

      The driver should be prosecuted for putting lives passenger lines “at Risk”: if it is decreed that there is no risk, they should not have been ‘rescued.

        1. Let me guess – this is yet more of our money for the French to direct their economic migrants to our shores?

    3. We do not have a housing shortage, we have a people surplus and immigration, whether via legal means or rubber boats, is not helping at all.

  28. The first bit of a VERY disturbing article from Graham Linehan’s site on the way the Plastic Surgery Industry is targeting the mentally vulnerable via Soshul Meejah:-

    Plastic surgery and the rewiring of the human brain
    “As we are becoming increasingly alienated, people with something to sell will swoop in and use our alienation against us.” by Mandy Stadtmiller

    Plastic surgery is skyrocketing. The bimbofication aesthetic is exploding. Supernormal stimuli—exaggerated versions of already stimulating triggers, such as extremely unnatural breast size—is now just considered savvy marketing. Just how evil is the marketing? This is a recent press release celebrating the 83% rise in plastic surgery bookings in 2021. Even though the article mentions “ZOOM dysmorphia” as being the “major patient motivator,” the press release celebrates this rise as being a “Self-Improvement Surge”—as if the industry wasn’t actively and openly preying on vulnerable people whose perception of self is acutely distorted already.

    https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/plastic-surgery-and-the-rewiring

    The press release referred to in that extract is here:-
    https://www.aafprs.org/Media/Press_Releases/2021%20Survey%20Results.aspx

  29. SIR – What damage might Mr Johnson be capable of if he stays as Prime Minister while a new leader is chosen?

    Theresa May, in her final days in office, set up an Office for Tackling Injustices, which fell by the wayside without any money being wasted once Mr Johnson took over.

    How much money might he be able to waste over the next two months on grand schemes to secure his “legacy”?

    Julian Gall
    Godalming, Surrey

    Quite so, Mr Gall – like Bliar’s extended farewell tour and the Maybot’s enshrining of ‘net zero by 2050’ in legislation. All very galling, in fact.

    2. SIR – Whoever gets the job, will they immediately scrap the stupid net-zero scheme? We never voted for it.

      C P Fish
      Chippenham, Wiltshire

      I can’t think of a more popular move, provided of course that a proper energy policy, using our own abundant resources, is put in place right away.

      1. Anyone who actually removes all the thousands of money absorbing scroungers would be popular.
        As Bore-us promised.
        And stands up to and defies the Brussels mafia and European Union and its fake human rights courts.

      1. Yes, that fits. After all, he was a bluddy useless Foreign Secretary (as Zahari-Ratcliffe will testify!)

    4. Considering HS2, the climate change nonsense, the boiler scrappage, the electric cars, inflation at nigh 15%, crushing taxes, unaffordable energy (due to taxes) fuel ditto, a tide of filth pouring across the channel on a daily basis enforced by the state, a massive tax hike to business planned, a food shortage due to Leftist green agenda I really don’t know what more he could do.

  30. Morning all😃
    What does the minister for leveling out actually do ? All The irony -ing ?

      1. And I expect another minister who’s stuffing expenses into their bank account.

    2. They are the one charged with wasting tax payers money and trying to force socialism. ‘Levelling up’ was just a marketing term for specific headlines.

      When some oaf – I forget who – said ‘government is better placed to spend tax payers money to achieve social mobility results’ it was obvious they were just morons, liars and thieves.

    2. Yo, Mr Effort.

      When I first saw that photograph I thought it was Rastus in his Château.

    5. Just read the article and it would appear that the comments have all been removed.

    1. The BBC does not lie. It just doesn’t tell the whole truth and carefully controls who can present that truth, while preventing an alternative view being heard.

    3. I haven’t watched QT for years. Was that pile of excitement (spl) on last night.
      What an absolute scum bag he is.

    1. Crumbs, I’ve heard of having friends in high places, but that’s name dropping without actually dropping a name.

  34. SIR – It’s all very well Michelle Donelan, the 48-hour education secretary, promising to give to charity the staggering £17,000 pay-off to which she is apparently entitled, 
but surely the right thing to do would be to refuse to take our money in the first place.

    Lady Thomas
    London NW7

    Those MPs who were promoted and then resigned might do themselves some good by collectively deciding to refuse such ludicrous payments. It’s almost as though the rules are designed to encourage early resignation….oh wait….

    1. Fancy writing a letter and SIGNING it that way…..

      Reminds me of people who go on telly and introduce themselves as “Barry Snot OBE”….

      1. I had a colleague who signed her cheques with her name and “BA (Hons)” after it. I always wondered why she didn’t have the cheques printed that way in the first place so she’d only have to sign her name if she wanted her degree to get an airing.

  35. I think that BTL’s Martin Selves should have his own column in the DT:

    Martin Selves
    JUST NOW
    The Daily Mail are saying the toppling of Boris was a huge mistake, and everyone will come to regret it. They have sacked the most popular and charismatic leader since Maggie. He started off as the Dream Leader for sure.
    Boris became a disappointment, with a stalled Brexit, unlimited immigration and his devotion to Net Zero and Green became clear. He became a liability imho, and the advantages of Brexit were not coming home, and it seemed to many his Green agenda was on the fast burner.
    Nigel Farage believed if Boris “remained” the next GE was lost. Nigel is normally right, he is uncannily accurate in his foresight, and we must take this seriously. All the “Gates” were hurting Boris badly, and his floppy Brexit caused disillusionment on top. He was shedding votes and loyalty in the Party. he was on a slippery slope, driven in large part by the Activist MSM who wanted his head. 2 by elections showed how far Boris had fallen, and the Party were getting worried. 42% voted against him just a short time ago.
    So I believe Farage is almost certainly right, and the Conservatives have done the right thing. Instead of the disaster looming, they have an opportunity.

    1. Instead of the disaster looming, they have an opportunity.

      Which they will foul up completely and utterly.

      1. They *had* an opportunity with Boris’ majority. The entire country could have been reset on a course utterly at variance from the statist, Left wing, big government one and toward a meritocratic, market driven, low tax democracy.

        But the state – and his wife, it seems, wanted more of the same and Boris wouldn’t fight them. Worse, he was happy taking backhanders from lobbyists with an agenda.

    2. Remember that when Boris first became PM a top member of the BBC stated that they were determined that Johnson would be

      the last ever Conservative Prime Minister of Britain.

      They will fight tooth and nail for the next Tory leader to be a leftie Remainer.

    3. I remember Shami Charakbalti’s face when the Conservatives won. It was of someone seeing their doom. Of knowing that they were wrong in their every thought. Of seeing their demented vision of statist authoritarianism crumble in front of them.

      And then Boris continued providing exactly what they wanted anyway.

      3. Who were the Tory MPs who signed the multi-signature letter in the DT about becoming energy secure by revamping our oil/coal/gas industries?

    5. Of the two types that might have supported Boris, there were those of the modern generation who took against him for some evasive statements over drunken fumbling and party gate, and those of the old school who really didn’t care about those matters but took against him for net zero, Channel invaders and Ukraine warmongering. So not much support remained for poor Boris. A bit like Trump, there is just too much woke in the world to get any true Conservative values over the line. I might turn off the radio today and go and enjoy the sunshine, notwithstanding the health warning of the longest heatwave of all time about to develop. Otherwise known as summer.

    6. Hi there, Big Bum

      Where I take issue with Martin Selves is when he says: “Nigel Farage believed if Boris “remained” the next GE was lost. Nigel is normally right, he is uncannily accurate in his foresight, and we must take this seriously.”

      Nigel Farage is proving on GB News that he is an excellent journalist but he got it very wrong indeed by withdrawing his Brexit Party candidates in 2019 from contesting seats held by Remainer Conservative MPs. The result is that the HoC is still stuffed with remainers. Farage got absolutely no quid pro quo and we shall probably be paying a very high price for this.

      Many of us here said at the time that Boris Johnson needed a strong pro Brexit force such as The Brexit Party to stop him from watering down Brexit: a smaller majority in the HoC with the Brexit Party holding the balance of power would have made all the difference and prevented the shameful and humiliating return to the EU which the PTB, MSM. WEF are now so eager to see.

  36. I don’t know why they bother with all the politicking. We’ll be lumbered with a Left wing, big state remoaner who’ll be out for himself. They’ll fervently believe the lies of climate change, high taxes and NHS. The country will continue to decline, services will provide ever less value and cost ever more money. Idiots will continue to call for higher taxes, businesses will be seen as simply a cash cow, remoaners emboldened.

    Our culture and society will be eroded by a spiteful, bitter state determined to destroy what they hate so much.

  37. Successor will be elected as soon as possible, says 1922 treasurer.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/

    BTL

    Of course the masochistically suicidal Conservative Party wants to choose a new leader before there is a chance for Lord Frost to quit the House of Lords, win a seat in the House of Commons, become party leader and prime minister and save them.

    No, the Conservative Party does not want a credible, principled leader : suicide and total annihilation is what they want!

    2. Not actually total annihilation Rastus, but they would like to be ruled by Brussels so that they could get all the advantages, such as a tax free

      pension, generous allowances and tax free shopping whilst having plenty of time to get on with the important things in life, such as making money.

    3. The Reform Party and UKIP must join up and get a good manifesto prepared for the next General Election particularly if there is a Remainer chosen as Prime Minister.
      I don’t think Nigel Farage will withdraw his forces as he did for the 2019 election.

      1. I approve of much of what Nigel Farage says but when it came to the crunch he gave in and let Boris Johnson walk all over him without securing any quid pro quo.

        The consequence of this craven surrender is that we have been lumbered with a useless and weak Brexit which the PTB, MSM and disgusting former conservatives such as Major, May, and Heselslime are determined to destroy so that we can be taken back into the EU.

        1. I think Tony Blair is hovering in the background too. Cameron who spelt out what leaving the EU meant for the UK and was in effect a “clean break”, was what we voted for. He should have stayed on as a PM to ensure a “clean break” was the result but he ran away.

  38. Before you go Bore-us, please make an effort to explain how your policies are and have been even remotely Green.

    1. This is what infuriates me most about the left wing green agenda. It is not remotely green. It is just a shambolic attempt to permanently destroy our way of life. Windmills are ecological nightmares and horribly polluting, utterly inefficient. Solar panels require great globs of toxic chemicals. Batteries are dangerous beyond measure as we’ve seen with fires. Gas, coal and what not are not ideal by any means, but they’re what we have. Surely better to make use of the existing infrastructure to research genuinely next generation fuels than continue with a backward and destructive agenda for short term propaganda?

      1. I’ve said this so many times that it’s not Green in any shape or form to allow house building to take place in our countryside. Most of the people who are destined to move in would have had a previous carbon foot print close to zero.
        It would be far less harmful to the environment if they stayed in their own countries and the west delivered the materials so they could build their own homes. But then they wouldn’t have the monetary and all the other benefits.

        1. Building houses on green fields is exceptionally non-green. In the first place, it creates urban hot-spots and secondly it concretes over grass and removes trees which, by photosynthesis, remove CO2 from the atmosphere (while housing people who breathe out CO2 24/7/365).

          1. Someone has to stop this invasion and the free loading and subsequent population growth. Politicians are mainly brain dead.

  39. Last week the Warqueen completed her forensic accounting course. It adds more letters after her name. I think she’s up to 36 at the moment. She’s planning a doctorate next year.

    I, however, did the hoovering. and got my MH (Hoov) qualification.

    1. I hope she makes a good job of the decorating 🤭 are you sure it’s a hoover and not just a generic term for a vacuum cleaner ? 😉

    2. Does anybody remember what it was that was bent in the middle like a one-stringed fiddle?

      3. There once was a young man from Kent………….. I’m, sure you know the rest.

        2. There was a young man in the choir
          Whose p***s rose higher and higher,
          Till it reached such a height
          It was quite out of sight….
          But of course you know I’m a liar.

          Been a while since I’ve lowered the tone here ;-))

      4. There once was a young man from Kent………….. I’m, sure you know the rest.

  41. What Vladimir Putin Is Really Thinking. 8 July 2022.

    Here is what I have gleaned from these meetings: Two events of the recent past apparently preordained contemporary events in Ukraine. The harsh anti-Russian course of Maidan from 2013 to 2014, with a pronounced Russophobia towards the Russian-speaking population, including in Crimea, left no doubt that Russia would lose its naval base in Sevastopol and access to the waters around Crimea in general. Victoria Nuland not only openly represented, but also symbolized the United States as the main force behind the anti-government protests. Since Maidan was obviously anti-Russian in nature, Washington’s position was perceived as hostile to Moscow. And the fact that the guarantors of the settlement of the situation, represented by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland, could not guarantee anything was interpreted in Moscow as an attempted direct deception of Putin himself.

    Moreover, there is information that, allegedly, President Barack Obama personally called Putin at that time and proposed cooperation. Obama was supposed to direct the protesters away from the Maidan, and Putin was to suggest to Yanukovych that he take armed law enforcement officers to the barracks. New elections of the President of Ukraine are to be held in the fall of 2014. As you know, this did not happen. And Obama never called Putin back. He didn’t even apologize, to say that everything had gone wrong, sorry, old man. He simply never called back and that was the end of it.

    This is an overly long, detailed but, so far as I can discern, truthful account of Vlad’s motives and aspirations. If you have the time, a worthwhile read when one considers the juvenile propaganda in the Western MSM!.

    https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-vladimir-putin-really-thinking-203422

  42. What Vladimir Putin Is Really Thinking. 8 July 2022.

    Here is what I have gleaned from these meetings: Two events of the recent past apparently preordained contemporary events in Ukraine. The harsh anti-Russian course of Maidan from 2013 to 2014, with a pronounced Russophobia towards the Russian-speaking population, including in Crimea, left no doubt that Russia would lose its naval base in Sevastopol and access to the waters around Crimea in general. Victoria Nuland not only openly represented, but also symbolized the United States as the main force behind the anti-government protests. Since Maidan was obviously anti-Russian in nature, Washington’s position was perceived as hostile to Moscow. And the fact that the guarantors of the settlement of the situation, represented by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland, could not guarantee anything was interpreted in Moscow as an attempted direct deception of Putin himself.

    Moreover, there is information that, allegedly, President Barack Obama personally called Putin at that time and proposed cooperation. Obama was supposed to direct the protesters away from the Maidan, and Putin was to suggest to Yanukovych that he take armed law enforcement officers to the barracks. New elections of the President of Ukraine are to be held in the fall of 2014. As you know, this did not happen. And Obama never called Putin back. He didn’t even apologize, to say that everything had gone wrong, sorry, old man. He simply never called back and that was the end of it.

    This is an overly long, detailed but, so far as I can discern, truthful account of Vlad’s motives and aspirations. If you have the time, a worthwhile read when one considers the juvenile propaganda in the Western MSM!.

    https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-vladimir-putin-really-thinking-203422

  43. Angela Rayner, Shadow Chancellor, was on Radio 4 Today programme this morning. She mentioned high interest rates twice. Interest rates have been at their lowest for years. It is Inflation which is sky high. I would have thought the Shadow Chancellor would have known that.

      1. Whoops. I now realise she is the Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster. Does that involve financial work? Anyway she should know that High inflation is the problem. Thanks for correcting me.

  44. The US supreme court poses a real threat to Americans’ democracy

    Peering through the mists of time, the current right-wingnut majority of the US supreme court believe they can divine the original ideas of some very dead white men. On that flimsy basis, they rule by fiat. They order states to remove sensible gun safety measures. Then they deny women reproductive rights by pretending that states can do whatever they want. They say that presidents cannot limit carbon emissions to tackle the climate crisis. And now they are ready to change the way we elect presidents.

    The founders didn’t explicitly give the supreme court the powers this particular bunch of rightwing radicals has assumed for themselves. They didn’t say there should be only nine of them, or that they should serve until they die.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/07/the-us-supreme-court-poses-a-real-threat-to-americans-democracy

    Just a couple of extracts but you get the drift. The writer rather misses the point: the Supreme Court is by its very nature subject to politicking because its members are chosen by politicians. Has there never been a time when judges selected during a Democrat presidency provoked controversy? The Supreme Court can be dangerous because it leads to judge-made law. We have experienced that here twice since 2016.

    Shouldn’t Mr Wolffe complain about the arrangements rather than the personnel?

    4. That would be a good start and I’m sure that each and every one will be taking in an illegal in the interests of diversity.

  47. Its forecast to be hot with a warning . Anyone would think it was July or August.

      1. I want to move to the Stornoway. Highest temp ever was 26’c. Still far too hot but still.

  49. Lord Heseltine has said that “if Boris goes, Brexit goes”, urging the next Conservative Party leader to renew ties with Brussels.

    The former deputy prime minister said Boris Johnson’s departure will likely lead to a shake-up in relations with the European Union, because Brexit was the key policy he nurtured.

    Lord Heseltine also warned that “extreme anti-Europeanism and Right-wingism” would be a “suicide course” for the Tories.

    “I’m absolutely clear that we need a deputy prime minister to act in the interregnum before a new prime minister is chosen,” Lord Heseltine told Sky News.

    “It’s quite obvious that Boris Johnson, if he were allowed to stay, is going to try to procure a range of policies that will bolster his position. So that’s unthinkable.

    “The critical thing here is that Boris is associated with one major policy, and that is Brexit. I coined the phrase: ‘If Boris goes, Brexit goes.

    ’https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/07/lord-michael-heseltine-boris-goes-brexit-goes/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3CItm8XQGt-0IcWS90cfWz3QDuLsBtEVQ74F4BzMYB38u0mnE9fUo4m5k#Echobox=1657189726-1

      1. Oh come on. A public hanging is much more fun. Especially with a “short drop”.

    3. Afternoon all.

      “Extreme anti-Europeanism and Right-wingism” would be a “suicide course” for the Tories” (which is bilge) didn’t seem too much like a suicide course when the Tories won the 2019 general election! Talking out of his A&se again.

  50. Welcome to the FSU’s weekly newsletter, our round-up of the free speech news of the week. As with all our work, this newsletter depends on the support of our members and donors, so if you’re not already a paying member please sign up today or encourage a friend to join, and help us turn the tide against cancel culture.

    TRANS – When Ideology Meets Reality: register for our July speakeasy event!

    We are delighted to announce that at our next Online Speakeasy, on Tuesday 12th July at 6.30pm BST, we will be joined by Helen Joyce. Helen is a long-time staff writer for The Economist. Her book, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, was published by OneWorld in July 2021 and became an immediate bestseller, named by the Times, Spectator and Observer as one of their books of the year. In early 2022 Helen took a leave of absence from the Economist, with the editor-in-chief’s blessing, to work with start-up human-rights organisation Sex Matters, which campaigns for clarity about the two sexes, male and female, in law and in life. Helen will be interviewed by Dr Jan Macvarish, the FSU’s Education and Events Director. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.

    FSU opinion poll suggests little public appetite for new Hate Crime Bill in Northern Ireland

    Following Judge Desmond Marrinan’s Independent Review of Hate Crime legislation in Northern Ireland, the Department of Justice set up a public consultation process to “inform the development of a Hate Crime Bill”, as the Belfast News Letter put it this week. The formal consultation period ended on 28th March, although policy makers surely must take into account the findings from a new opinion poll carried out by LucidTalk on behalf of the Free Speech Union. (Our first opinion poll!) The headline news is that there’s little public appetite for a Hate Bill in Northern Ireland, and considerable anxiety that it would have a chilling effect on free speech: 81% of respondents said they have not been a victim of a hate crime in the last 12 months; 79% felt that some people being offended some of the time is a price worth paying for freedom of speech, and when asked whether they think people being too easily offended is a problem in Northern Ireland, only 10% said it isn’t a problem, with 44% thinking that it’s a major problem.

    Just as concerning is the finding that the Bill would likely exacerbate sectarian tensions, with a striking difference being revealed in the attitude of nationalists and unionists towards the proposed legislation: 85% of Sinn Féin voters supported more severe punishment for crimes motivated by hatred of a victim’s protected characteristics, compared to just 44% of DUP voters; 90% of DUP respondents felt less free to express their personal beliefs than they were 10 years ago, compared to just 43% of Sinn Féin voters, and 85% of Sinn Féin voters supported more severe punishment for crimes motivated by hatred of a victim’s protected characteristics compared to just 44% of DUP voters. What’s particularly worrying is that the Bill would make sectarianism a hate crime – and DUP voters think they’re much more likely to get into trouble for saying something which is misinterpreted as ‘hate speech’ (83%) than Sinn Féin voters (35%).

    Reflecting on the significance of the poll’s findings, FSU General Secretary Toby Young said: “Supporters of the second largest political party in Northern Ireland – the DUP – are concerned that a Hate Crime and Public Order (NI) Bill will penalise them for expressing their political views more severely than it will penalise their opponents.” On the basis of these findings, he added, “legislators must ask themselves whether it is advisable to further exacerbate sectarian tensions by passing legislation that will leave one side in the conflict between nationalists and unionists feeling particularly aggrieved. Far from reducing sectarian tensions, this Bill is likely to add fuel to the fire.”

    You can see our press release about the NI poll here and read the full report here.

    The FSU’s forthcoming Regional Speakeasies

    Some of you may already have come along to our in-person meet-ups in pubs and bars, where members can socialise while exploring free speech issues. The Oxford Speakeasy took place on Wednesday 7th June, with our guest for the night being Lecturer in Philosophy at St Hilda’s College, Dr. Roger Teichmann, who talked about “the dangers of groupthink” with a packed room of members and guests. During the remainder of July, we’ll be hosting regional Speakeasies in Manchester (14th July – now fully booked), Cardiff (14th July), Birmingham (20th July), Edinburgh (21st July) and Brighton (27th July). You can check out the dates of these in the new Events section of our website, with more details emailed to all members separately to the newsletter. Details of venues and speakers are not advertised to the general public and will be emailed to members with Eventbrite links so they can sign up for the nearest event to them. Members are, however, welcome to bring guests – particularly those likely to join the FSU!

    Employment Tribunal finds for Maya Forstater in landmark free speech ruling

    Maya Forstater won her Employment Tribunal claim that she was unfairly discriminated against by her employer because of her gender-critical beliefs. Sociologists have long pointed out that categorisation is an inherently political act, and in a context where battles between gender critical feminists and transactivists have become mainstream news, it’s certainly interesting to examine media reportage of this legal victory with an eye to the way different outlets chose to describe Ms Forstater. “The tax expert” over which the Telegraph, Times, Mail and Evening Standard enthused, for instance, became but a humble “researcher” in the rather less fulsome coverage the case received in the Guardian and Pink News.

    Ms Forstater lost her job at the thinktank The Centre for Global Development (CGD) after posting a series of tweets in which she set out her ‘gender critical’ beliefs, namely, that someone’s sex is biological and immutable and cannot be conflated with their gender identity. If this position is at all controversial, it’s because it is opposed to the view held by trans activists that sex is fluid – a social construct, just like gender. The FSU takes no position on Ms Forstater’s gender critical philosophy, but it has consistently defended her right to hold, and to publicly articulate, that philosophy. It’s in that sense that the tribunal’s decision may be said to constitute a landmark ruling for free speech and freedom of expression – or, as Jo Bartosch put it a little more partially (but with no less accuracy) for Spiked, “one in the eye for the censorious trans activists who consider freedom of speech a threat”.

    As Sarah Phillimore pointed out in the Critic, “It’s been a long road to victory for Maya Forstater.” (Ms Forstater herself wrote last year for UnHerd about the battle that ensued after she was sacked for “tweeting about the difference between sex and gender identity”). It was in a test case at an Employment Tribunal back in 2019 that Maya first attempted to establish that her tweets should be protected under the 2010 Equality Act. Employment judge James Tayler ruled against Maya, saying that such views – that sex is binary and immutable – were not “worthy of respect in a democratic society” (Critic). Undeterred, in 2021 Forstater appealed this judgement in the Employment Appeal Tribunal, where High Court judge Mr Justice Choudhury ruled that the judgment handed down by the original tribunal had “erred in law” and promptly sent the case back to the tribunal to decide whether the claim had been proved on the facts. The significance of that ruling was wide-ranging, because Mr Justice Choudhury carefully enunciated the proper parameters for the exercise of free speech in a democratic society, making clear that the fact that a belief or statement has the potential to “offend, shock, or disturb” a section of society was not enough for it to be deprived of protection under the Equality Act, which designates “religion or belief” as a protected characteristic.

    Maya’s original case then went back to the Employment Tribunal so it could be reconsidered in light of the fact that gender critical beliefs are protected. This week, the tribunal ruled that Maya’s employer had breached employment law by discriminating against Forstater in virtue of her possession of certain protected characteristic, i.e., her gender critical beliefs.

    Importantly, the tribunal ruled that Forstater was entitled to criticise those holding an opposite view to her – i.e., a trans rights activist view – and that she had done so legitimately, adding that “mocking or satirising the opposing view is part of the common currency of debate”. (Times). In a statement published following the judgment, Ms Forstater pointed out that her case “matters for everyone who believes in the importance of truth and free speech”. We are all “free to believe whatever we wish”, she added. “What we are not free to do is compel others to believe the same thing, to silence those who disagree with us or to force others to deny reality.”

    Free Speech Union challenges chief constables over Lady of Heaven failures

    On 3rd June, The Lady of Heaven, an independent film about the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed, was released in cinemas across the UK, including at venues owned by Cineworld, Showcase and Vue and immediately prompted noisy protests. The Bolton Council of Mosques called the film “blasphemous”, the Muslim Council of Britain described the film as “divisive”, and the UK Muslim website 5Pillars called the film “pure, unadulterated filth”. Cinemas in Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Bolton, Blackburn, Birmingham and Stratford were targeted by aggressive protests from some Muslims demanding the film not be screened. Cineworld subsequently pulled The Lady of Heaven from all its venues, and, shortly after, Showcase followed suit.

    The FSU has now written to four chief constables about their failure to uphold people’s right to see The Lady of Heaven, as well as the right of cinemas to show it. We’ve published one of them on our website – to the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, John Robins QPM, concerning the protests in Bradford and Leeds (which were among the most intimidating in the country). The others we’ve written to are the chief constables of South Yorkshire Police, West Midlands Police and Greater Manchester Police.

    There are serious legal issues at stake here, and the letter is well worth a read. In brief, for the reasons set out in detail in the letter, we believe these police forces failed to meet their lawful obligations to police the protests proportionately, and thereby secure the right of local people to see the film, as well as the right of the film’s producers to show their film, and the right of Cineworld and Showcase to screen the film. Specifically, we believe that the de facto censorship imposed by the mobs outside the cinemas breached the Article 10 rights of the cinema chains, who wished to show the film, and of the cinema-goers, who wished to see the film.

    We further believe it would be open to those parties to bring proceedings against these police forces under section 7 of the Human Rights Act and we will provide such assistance as we deem reasonable to any party that seeks our help in bringing such proceedings. In advance of any pre-action letter under the pre-action protocol for judicial review, which will trigger a duty of candour, we have requested a response from the chief constables to a series of questions no later than 13th July.

    Lady of Honour cancellations – a request for information from our readers

    In addition to the letters sent to the four chief constables, the FSU is seeking to understand the legal ramifications of the cancellation of screenings of The Lady of Heaven from the perspective of both consumers and cinema companies. With that in mind, we would like to know whether any of our members, supporters and friends were affected by the protests in Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Bolton, Blackburn, Birmingham or Stratford. Do please get in touch if you or any family members were prevented from seeing the film as a result of the protests, whether that’s because your local cinema cancelled it, because you felt intimidated, or because protestors blocked you from getting in to see it. We’re also keen to hear from members who may have been prevented from screening the film, whether that’s because of direct threats and intimidation or more subtle forms of indirect, moral pressure, either at local community events or as employees of cinema companies. You can reach our case team at help@freespeechunion.org, or drop us an initial direct message via Twitter (@SpeechUnion), Facebook (@SpeechUnion), LinkedIn (Free Speech Union) or Instagram (@FreeSpeechUnion).

    NCHIs – a request for members in Greater London to get in touch

    We’d also like to reiterate our call for members to come forward if they’ve had a non-crime hate incident (or NCHI) placed on their record by the Metropolitan Police, or if they’re worried that they might have had one placed on their record. The FSU’s Chief Legal Counsel, Dr Bryn Harris, is particularly keen to get hold of information on this topic, so do please ask around friends, colleagues and family members. The Met’s jurisdiction, by the way, covers the 32 boroughs within Greater London, excluding the City of London. You can find a map here.

    Of course, if you think you might have received an NCHI from a force other than the Met, then do also get in touch via the same channels as above. The FSU’s FAQs on how to find out if you have an NCHI recorded against your name is here.

    Online Safety Bill – the first ‘priority harm’ is announced

    One of (many) problematic aspects to the Online Safety Bill ­– which we fear will survive the changing of the guard in Downing Street – is the way it will induce big social media companies to remove so-called ‘legal but harmful’ content from their platforms. Exactly what that type of content will look like has so far been anyone’s guess. That’s because the Bill requires the Secretary of State to bring forward secondary legislation in the form of a statutory instrument that will identify “priority harms” that providers will then be under a particular obligation to protect its users from. In other words, it is in this secondary legislation, and not the Bill itself, that the ‘legal but harmful’ content will be identified. We got a glimpse of what to expect this week after the Government announced “state-backed misinformation” would be included in the list of priority harms. (Guardian, Reuters).

    Explaining this, Nadine Dorries said, “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” has “yet again shown how readily Russia can and will weaponise social media to spread disinformation and lies” and that “we cannot allow foreign states or their puppets to use the internet to conduct hostile online warfare unimpeded”. Maybe so, but to understand why the government’s announcement is a cause for concern, it’s necessary to understand the regulatory mechanisms that will kick in once specific priority harms like this have been identified.

    After the Statutory Instrument has identified what ‘legal but harmful’ content it wants big social media companies to address, it will then be up to those companies to stipulate in their terms and conditions how they intend to identify and deal with that content. In other words, the practical, day-to-day technical work of defining what state-backed misinformation looks like will be down to Big Tech’s proprietary, almost entirely black-boxed algorithmic content moderation systems (on this point, see section three of our recent briefing paper on the Online Safety Bill here).

    As FSU General Secretary Toby Young pointed out to the Epoch Times, the difficulty will come when trying to identify what content is ‘misinformation’ and whether it is ‘state-backed’ or not. For instance, would British Government propaganda wildly overestimating the risk of asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 fall foul of this new rule? It seems unlikely. So what will social media companies be expected to block? Toby suspects that, “like other rules prohibiting online misinformation, it will be invoked selectively to censor opinions the authorities disapprove of.”

    Bill of Rights – the FSU publishes its new briefing document

    Like the Online Safety Bill, we don’t know the fate of the Government’s proposed new Bill of Rights. Nevertheless, for those who wish to know more about this Bill, we’ve published a briefing document by Karolien Celie, the FSU’s Legal Officer.

    We’re pleased that the Government has taken up several of the suggestions we made in our response to the Bill of Rights consultation and welcome the emphasis on free speech. However, we question whether the Bill will be able to uphold the paramount importance of freedom of expression if it grants too many exceptions to the application of this principle, and if it grants effective immunity to legislation, whereby the courts will be prevented from scrutinising it to see if it is compatible with this pre-eminent right.

    You can read the briefing here.

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  51. Boris has said that now he is no longer Prime minister he is looking
    forward to spending more time with his children. So if anyone has any
    idea who they are…please let him know.

    1. Why is he having a wedding party at Chequers, they could use any hotel .

      Hang on , probably not , hotels are full of Muzzies.

      1. It’s been arranged for ages……..invites have already gone out …….. they should have had it a while ago!

      3. There’s always Park Lane. Only very wealthy muzzies in those 5 star hotels, shirley?

  53. It’s not all bad news: I didn’t know this excrement had snuffed it last month.

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/07/07/19/60002759-10991483-image-m-50_1657217826657.jpg

    Kent Bruce Bruce Kent was Vice-President of CND, supporter of the IRA and Palestine terrorists (anti-Jewish Roman Catholic ex Priest), a Vice-President of Pax Christi, and Emeritus President of the Movement for the Abolition of War. His septic remains now contaminating some corner of an English churchyard. Better than burying him at sea, I suppose. Good riddance.

      1. I thought it was quite impressive but apparently was funded by/taken over by loonies!

      2. On the stones is apparently;

        On the stones are ten instructions:

        1 Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
        2 Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
        3 Unite humanity with a living new language.
        4 Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
        5 Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
        6 Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
        7 Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
        8 Balance personal rights with social duties.
        9 Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
        10 Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

        https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nobody-knows-how-to-interpret-this-doomsday-stonehenge-in-georgia-5592082/

        1. Looks like the ‘instructions’ are in Hebrew script.

          Don’t tell me that they are going to blame the Jews again, when, in fact, it’s the Islamic ideology – more bloody semites to vent your spleen against.

        2. There are not going to be any “nations”, just one melting pot.

  56. Wow and wow again .

    This is what a £200,000 interior makeover looks like! Boris and Carrie Johnson are ridiculed for their taste as invoice reveals how they decked out Number 10 in ‘granny chic’ – with £15,000 sofas, £2,250 gold wallpaper and a £3,675 drinks trolley
    Boris and Carrie Johnson’s Downing Street renovations cost over £200,000, invoice says
    The No11 flat makeover included a £7,000 rug and a £3,675 drinks trolley as well as a £500 kitchen table cloth
    Couple were quickly mocked for their taste online, with many social media users tweeting their dismay

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10994233/Boris-Carries-home-makeover-couple-spent-200-000-renovating-Downing-Street-flat.html

    Well, what do you think?

    2. Some of the individual items are quite good. However the combinations are dreadful, a bit like a sound test at the London Symphony Orchestra with all the instruments playing different tunes loudly and simultaneously.
      Moreover, I could have done much the same for a quarter of the price, in better taste and still pocketed a decent fee.

    3. More money (other people’s of course) than sense. They ridiculed Theresa May for her ‘John Lewis’ taste.

    1. Good Lord! How much work has she had done? She used to look fairly normal….scary..but normal!

      2. What rather surprises me is that women who get this stuff done all look very much the same. I suppose that plastic surgeons work to templates but why would anyone want that?

      1. Baroness Mone. Founder of Ultima Bras! She was a little bit rounder when she set up the business!

    2. I wrote to all the Christian Church leaders a few years ago. I suggested that all church bells be rung on the morning of All Saints Day as reminder that we are a Christian country. Some did not reply. Those that did reply said that they would not do it.

      We are in worse state now. Evil is abroad in the land. The Adversary is in a very strong position.

        1. We will need another two divisions, many bombs and many ships to remove them, as Spain did – but that will require either strong leadership or a popular revilution.

          Take your pick next Prime Minister.

  60. Longest heatwave in four years is on its way. 8 July 2022.

    Heatwave health alerts have been issued as the Met Office predicted the longest hot spell in four years could begin on Sunday.

    A period of hot weather starting this weekend could last for more than a week, making it the longest since a 15-day heatwave in 2018, forecasters said.

    Four years! Well that’s almost like; well, four years ago. How will we manage? I’m sure it’s Global Warming; or something like that anyway.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/07/heath-alert-issued-uk-set-bake-week-long-heatwave/

    1. I believe it used be called summer in the olden days. Bring it on, I am fed up with chilly, gloomy weather.

        1. Gosh! It’s the prophet of doom! Well done Minty! I’ve just put the washing out…!!

          1. Speak for yourself. I shall not be wearing thick woolies for a while now.

          3. Not even a fleecy lined Liberty bodice?
            (Oooh, look; Uncle Bill’s gorn a funny colour.)

      2. My plants are doing well. But of course it’s not green, although they are, because i have to water them all. Next problem around the corner maybe…… water shortages ?

        1. There’s a thought – future wars may well be fought over water – See what the chinks are doing with the Mekong and how it effects those down-river.

          Instead of heat pumps, maybe investment in desalination plants could be the answer but, given our current population levels how many will WEF have to eliminate before the oceans run dry.

          Instead of the Blue Planet, are we destined to become the shi**y brown planet – like the Middle East?

          1. I think the problem with desalination is the amount of a salt left over.
            Remember Gadhafi, he had a pipeline constructed that ran from deep and huge aquifers the Sudanese border to his towns and cities. But during the lessons he was taught before he was stabbed up the back side, Nato aircraft bombed the pipelines.
            But there are plenty of golf courses in Dubai. The fairways and greens are rather prominent from the air.

    2. When I look at the sixteen day forecast for here, while the temps may go up a bit, most days appear very cloudy.

    3. From the denizens of the Absolute Gospel truth aka The BBC:

      “Some places are likely to see their highest temperature of the year so far.”
      Scotland could see highs of 23C in the next few days.
      The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.
      In England, there were 2,500 excess deaths in the summer of 2020 as a result of hot weather, while heat-related deaths in the UK could treble in 30 years, the British Red Cross predicts.

      1. We know all about heat waves up here. There is a monument in Strathbogle commemorating the great heatwave of 1767, when the temperature in the glen reached 71˚ F.

    4. From the denizens of the Absolute Gospel truth aka The BBC:

      “Some places are likely to see their highest temperature of the year so far.”
      Scotland could see highs of 23C in the next few days.
      The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.
      In England, there were 2,500 excess deaths in the summer of 2020 as a result of hot weather, while heat-related deaths in the UK could treble in 30 years, the British Red Cross predicts.

    5. How many of these scaremongers can remember what it was like in 1976? 1989 & 90 were quite warm as well.

  63. Well! Here’s a huge shock! Cur and the ginger growler have been cleared of wrongdoing!!

    1. Just wondering how much they ‘paid’ for that! What an absolute joke!

      1. I see they’re looking to replace the Civic Centre! Must be worth a bob or two….especially the seahorses!

    3. This might explain why:-

      Joy Allen is a British Labour Party politician and former police officer who currently serves as the Durham Police and Crime Commissioner. Joy was elected on 8 May 2021. Before that she held many positions as a councillor in Durham County Council.

    1. Yo sos

      Infected patients become ‘ghost-like’, often developing deep-set eyes and expressionless faces. This is usually accompanied by bleeding from
      multiple orifices — including the nose, gums, eyes and vagina.

      Well, it will not effect mafes/men/those ie without vaginas then, unless of course they have recatorgised thie sex to be a woman

      1. Stanley Johnson was ahead of his time .. look at the subjects he wrote about .

        Books and other writing
        He has published a number of books dealing with environmental issues and nine novels, including The Commissioner, which was made into a 1998 film starring John Hurt. In 1962 he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry.

        The Marburg Virus (1982, Heinemann) ISBN 0-434-37704-X

        His 2015 novel The Virus is a thriller about the rise of a mysterious virus and the fight to stop a deadly pandemic[23]

        He has written a memoir, Stanley I Presume, which was published in March 2009.[24]

        For a time, starting on 26 May 2005, he wrote a weekly column for the G2 section of The Guardian, and continues to write for various newspapers and magazines, often on environmental topics.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Johnson_(writer)

        1. Try “I am Pilgrim” by Terry Hayes, a variant of smallpox is the method chosen by the villain.

      1. Unlike in WW2 (when the Germans were being beastly to us), this Government’s message is “Don’t Keep Calm, Lose Your Head and Panic”.

        1. Our successive government’s haven’t had a clue on how to administer a successful society. Since that idiot Major was shoe horned in by Heseltine (probably of German heritage) and his mates our social structure and long established culture have crashed.

    1. The greater the crimes, like this, the lesser the punishment for the perpetrators.
      History will be repeated, unfortunately and scandalously.

  68. 354038+ up ticks,

    May I say as a long term member of the genuine UKIP
    the party that via common sense and an urgent craving for freedom & independence constructed & triggered the referendum along with other souls of the same mindset
    a mix ed bag of lab/lib/con supporters having a flash of patriotism soon to wear off in returning to the lab/lib/con pro eu coalition party.

    I’m pointing out that the genuine UKIP had over their years right up to the Gerard Batten leadership NO HAND in the downfall of a decent nation just coming to completion, that is ALL the handiwork of the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella coalition party / members & voters.

    If ALL your misguided energies had gone to build on patriotism.with integrity & common sense we would, have once again been global leaders, YOU have paved the way for us to be suffering bleeders.

    2. Reply left on Lammy’s tweet:

      “I find it difficult to understand any knowledge you might have regarding decency, honesty and integrity. Consider PC Blakelock.”

    3. Chief Constable of Durham is a female too, Jo Farrell. No doubt hoping for a New Year’s honour if Starmer and his lefties win the next election.

  70. 354038+ up ticks,

    Just got a message over the satellite a white bulldog gone missing in Louth Lincolnshire.

  72. I think my email account has been hacked I’ve spent two hours on line conversing in type with Virgin media and they can’t do anything for around 5 days.
    Oh well nearly three and time for tea.

    1. Ditch Virgin, try BT/EE. Follow the links, how to keep your number when changing.

        1. It seems that all the other networks have to go through BT in order to operate.

          1. BT owns the lines and infrastructure – a bit like the railways where Network Rail runs the actually rail lines and the franchises just use them.

          2. Our local area was one of the first in the county to have fibre optic cables laid below ground. NTL were responsible for that. But Virgin Media must have bought out the operating rights and typically of a British operation they have become stroppy and greedy and effed it all up.
            Branson needs his wealthy arse kicked.

      2. I’ve tried everything even twice changing passwords, I can’t log in to an up-to-date version. It’s such a PIA 🤬
        I’ve had a full Norton security scan and updated all the programs.
        I’m definitely going to dump them this time we have had so many problems with them over the past two years. And its almost impossible to contact customer service. And they seem always to suggest we have a problem with our connections. Then suggest we buy a new Router. They put the price up by 20 pounds a month as well.

        1. I use ‘Three’ with a 4G Router for my home internet, no landlines required and have just renewed my contract £14 a month unlimited.
          My cell phone is on EE at a similar price.
          I always phone and ask for the best price they can offer.

          1. I’ve just switched fromVM at 42,75 per month, (broadband only) to the Three 4g router for £15 per month. And it’s faster!

  73. I’m beginning to fear that Brexit will be crushed

    Ultra-Remainers are on the war path, and this Tory chaos is giving their case a new lease of life

    SHERELLE JACOBS • 8 July 2022 • 6:00am

    “Know thyself, know thy enemies. A thousand battles, a thousand victories”. So goes the warning of the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. With the implosion of Boris Johnson, the Brexit war threatens to start anew. Tory Leavers must accept their vulnerability. The Prime Minister who ended the last battle by getting a Brexit deal done has just fallen in ignominious circumstances. Meanwhile, Remainers – who will never give up the fight – scent weakness.

    While Andrew Adonis rallies against a “revolution which devours its children”, Michael Heseltine has declared that “if Boris goes, Brexit goes”. It might be tempting to dismiss all this as the hopeful rantings of bitter men. After all, Sir Keir Starmer has been at pains to reassure voters in recent days that Labour will not take Britain back into the European Union.

    But even if the leader of the Opposition – a Remainer who voted six times against a Brexit deal – is genuine, he is powerless to stop the rejuvenation of the Remainer campaign. As support for Brexit in the polls has seeped away in recent months, in part because of the chaos that has gripped the Government, ultra-Remainers have been on manoeuvres. With the fall of Johnson, they think their time has almost come.

    Over the next two years, they will likely proceed with a calculated mixture of boldness and caution. Already the public is being relentlessly bombarded with misinformation, which erroneously links every ill facing Britain with the decision to leave the EU. As the Tory party is distracted by internal dramas, negative Brexit sentiment will mount. This is already starting to happen, as critics in the business world become blunter in their criticisms – from the aviation industry to the CBI.

    Meanwhile, some Tory MPs have been discreetly arguing in favour of a softer Brexit. Indeed, while the removal of the PM was by no means a Remainer plot, some of his internal enemies were motivated by a desire for greater alignment with EU rules – or at least by their opposition to what they consider to be an excessively aggressive attitude towards fixing the Northern Ireland protocol.

    There is also the small matter of Boris Johnson himself. He is not just yet another defenestrated Conservative prime minister. He is the fallen Brexit saviour. His re-negotiation of Theresa May’s deal, in defiance of his critics, invested him with a heroic mythos.

    At his best – in all his defiance and optimism – he embodied a new era of buccaneering populism. His rare aura stirred millions across the country, from Wolverhampton to County Durham, to put their faith in the Conservatives for the first time. Put simply, the Tories have not just been compelled to sacrifice a leader. They have had to burn their fallen prophet at the stake. And there is no clear replacement.

    This is a grave situation for the Conservatives. The fact is that Brexit is a leap of faith. Amid widespread elite scepticism and renewed Remainer resistance, the project will fail unless the Tories can find a leader who believes in it enough to drive it forward. A leader who understands that Brexit – which fuses free market economics and sovereign populism – exemplifies the political Third Way that Tony Blair strove for but never found.

    In truth, Conservative fealty to the Brexit cause has been disintegrating even under Boris Johnson, as the Blob has sapped the Government’s will. HMRC’s upgrade of its UK customs system has been a shambles. The country continues to emulate EU regulations on everything from food to carbon border taxes. Whitehall has also become bolder in its resistance to Government directives. Big business seems to be on the war path against regulatory reforms that would increase competition, such as those floated for the chemical substance sector. Northern Ireland remains a running sore.

    The great fear is that the Tory party now elects a closet Remainer who does not have the conviction to take all this on. That Brexit dies with a whimper, smothered by bureaucratic inertia and then finally strangled after the next election. If Brexiteers want to avoid this fate, they must think like war strategists once again. That means confronting the extent of their current weakness, and taking their opponents seriously.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/08/beginning-fear-brexit-will-crushed/

    I hope that the threats are overstated but the Leave camp must be on its guard throughout the election campaign. Lord Frost could have considerable influence here, working behind the scenes with an ERG Mk 2.

    1. The Left hate it, the remoaners hate it, the state hates it, MPs hate it. Tough. The country voted to leave the EU. They’ve tried for 6 miserable years to do this country down – as we knew they would.

      Sadly, there’s no winning – except for mass sackings for incompetence and radical cuts to state spending followed by an end to immigration and tax cuts. You know, things that would solve every problem facing this country and the precise opposite of what the oaf Boris and his cabal have been forcing through.

    2. Those of you living in the South East will have been fascinated by the great praise on BBC TV of Tom Tugendhat, a determined Remainer.

      They even went out into the street to find a number of people fulsome in their approval.

      Interestingly, not a single person shown disapproved or had any doubts.

      If the BBC is this keen on the man, he must be a danger to Britain’s future.

      1. The BBC will be very helpful in the next few weeks. If it likes ’em, they’re wrong’uns.

    3. If Brexit goes we will know that democracy is not only dead, but well and truly buried with a stake through its heart.

  74. Boris and Carrie Johnson’s wedding party will no longer be held at Chequers and has been moved to a different venue.

    Sources claimed yesterday that the long-awaited celebration was one of the reasons the Prime Minister is determined to cling on as caretaker Tory leader.

    A Government source told the BBC that “nothing had been 100 per cent firmed up” anyway and an alternative location will now be used.

    One Conservative source told the Mirror on Thursday: “It beggars belief that even after all the criticism Johnson has faced regarding integrity and probity, one of the reasons he is staying is to have his wedding party at Chequers.

    “It’s a national asset, not his personal home. The Johnsons should do the decent thing and find a different venue. And Boris should do the decent thing and leave No 10 immediately”.

    The news came only hours after the new Education Secretary James Cleverly said a new prime minister should let the couple have their wedding party at Chequers even if Mr Johnson is gone by then.

    The new Education Secretary was asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme if Mr Johnson should still have the celebration at the prime minister’s country house in July if it is in someone else’s hands by then.

    Mr Cleverly said: “I think that if that is done by that point in time, I suspect that it would be a rather generous action of the new prime minister to allow that to go ahead.

    “Private functions like that do not impose a burden on the public purse…

    “I think it’s churlish to be negative about two people who want to celebrate their marriage and their love for each other.”

    A No 10 spokesman said: “The PM has a strong sense of duty and will continue to serve his country until a new leader is in place, solely to continue his obligation to the public.”

    Chequers boasts a heated indoor swimming pool in the Orangery, a putting green and extensive 1,500-acre lawns.

    It was donated to the nation in 1917 by Lord and Lady Lee of Fareham as a “place of rest and recreation for prime ministers” because those coming to power increasingly lacked their own country estates.

    It was built in 1565 and costs taxpayers almost £1 million a year. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/08/boris-carrie-johnsons-wedding-party-will-no-longer-held-chequers/

    2. Isn’t it traditonal to have the wedding, the wedding party and then the children?

      2. MH and I lived together for a while; then had our wedding followed by a lovely meal. We both have children but are too old to have any together.
        Suits us fine.

        1. Our wedding party 25 years ago this month was here, in the garden on the hottest day of that year….. 1997.

          1. Many congratulations! We shall make it four years in October- hopefully. Married that is- we have been together for nine years.

          3. Ours was on the last day of August 1974 the party/reception was in a large pub that was later flattened and is now under the M25.

      3. That is sooo last millennium! Everybody knows you need to have kids first so they can be bridesmaids/ring carrier/page boys or whatever. And you have to have a hugely expensive hen night/stag night (now usually a week long holiday) followed by the wedding and then the honeymoon, with kids looked after by grandparents.

        1. Followed – quite frequently – by an unpleasant divorce.

          (An old solicitor writes…)

        2. Quickly followed by the divorce – that’s how I’ve seen it.

          £60,000 on the wedding and a divorce a year later.

    3. In fairness he hasn’t had the chance to be at a party for some time………oh hang on a mo 🤔

    4. f
      f
      “… solely to continue his obligation to the public”? Where was that obligation when it came to actually doing the things in the manifesto he was elected on?

  75. How did potential candidates for the Conservative Party leadership vote at the 2016 EU referendum?

    Wallace: Remain
    Sunak: Leave
    Hunt: Remain

    Truss: Remain
    Tugendhat: Remain
    Mordaunt: Leave
    Shapps: Remain
    Braverman: Leave
    Javid: Remain
    Baker: Leave
    Kwarteng: Leave

    Source: BBC

    2. Plenty of choice once you eliminate Sunak, Mordaunt, Braverman, Baker and Kwarteng, then.

    3. 354038+up[ ticks,

      Evening JN,

      Good post, appreciated, and well worth remembering.,

    4. Wallace: Remain
      Sunak: Leave
      Hunt: Remain
      Truss: Remain
      Tugendhat: Remain
      Mordaunt: Leave
      Shapps: Remain
      Braverman: Leave
      Javid: Remain
      Baker: Leave
      Kwarteng: Leave

      Doesn’t leave much, Johnny.

  76. I see the new broom at the Met Perlice Farce is, er, an old Met hand….

    He’ll sort out the sleaze…..!!! Know what I mean?

      1. 354038+ up ticks,
        Evening Tom tom,
        Tell me is that some form of English?

        It seems a quite common trait this days but is still a tad offensive to those of us who read and write correct English

        1. “.…who read and write correct English.”
          Which, of course you excuse yourself from.

          Not even a fulI stop after ‘English.’

          I doubt you know how to write Cockney dialect.

          3. 354038+ up ticks,
            NtN,

            One has to wonder who, with his lack of understanding , is sad.

            For greater understanding check your shaving mirror.

  77. Gosh – I am just soooooo relieved that Cur Ikea and Angie Gobshyte have been cleared. The case was causing me sleepless nights.

    1. They love to seen and filmed rubbing in their invented differences.
      All part of the adgenda.

    2. Hey, you bloody idiots, you’re now in England and we speak English. If you don’t like it or can’t do it, I suggest you return to those countries who understand and speak your version of gibberish.

  79. Replacing the Prime Minister must not take months

    There are pressing issues for the Government to address. His successor needs to be in place within days, not weeks

    TELEGRAPH VIEW • 7 July 2022 • 10:00pm

    “Them’s the breaks,” said Boris Johnson as he announced his decision to stand down as Conservative Party leader and resign as prime minister when a replacement is chosen. It was a characteristically unapologetic reflection on an extraordinary few days that have seen the politician who won an 80-seat majority in December 2019 with the biggest share of the vote for the party since 1979 pushed out of office.

    He follows his immediate two predecessors, Theresa May and David Cameron, in leaving before his intended time. But his departure to some extent echoes Margaret Thatcher’s in 1990 in that the coup de grace was delivered by the Cabinet, many of whom either refused any longer to serve under his premiership or told him he could not continue. Ironically, this included Nadhim Zahawi, the man he had only the previous day appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

    A frenetic morning in Downing Street led to the confirmation that Mr Johnson had finally conceded that his days were numbered, with another visit from Sir Graham Brady, bearer of the black spot from the backbenchers, the clincher. He told Mr Johnson that another no confidence vote would be held next week and this time he would lose. Mr Johnson said he would remain as Prime Minister until the new leader is chosen.

    However, this could take two months. Mr Johnson himself has indicated he might remain in post until October, something many in his own party find unacceptable given the circumstances of his departure. He has lost the confidence of his MPs and while he has recast his Cabinet after a spate of resignations – even bringing back ministers he previously sacked – he cannot be allowed to limp on as a lame duck for such a long time.

    The Government has many important issues to face and decisions to make, such as pay settlements in the public sector at a time of rampant inflation. There is also the threat of a summer of strikes to contend with. Is it seriously being suggested that Mr Johnson is in any position of authority to deal with these matters?

    It is critical, therefore, that the process to find a new leader of the party is accelerated. The 1922 committee executive will announce a timetable next week that must not emulate the last one in 2019 which took eight weeks. To whittle down the field from the outset, a candidate should have the backing of 15 per cent of the parliamentary party, or 54 MPs, which means only serious contenders could take part. In 2019 just eight supporters were needed, and there were six rounds of voting over seven days.

    That should be reduced to no more than three rounds, conducted on the same day if possible, to produce two contenders who will go before the party membership for a final ballot. This process can take weeks as each candidate sets out their stall.

    Mrs May announced that she was stepping down on May 24, 2019 but Boris Johnson was not installed as the new leader and Prime Minister until July 23 – itself a full month after the final two candidates (the other being Jeremy Hunt) – had been chosen by MPs. They spent that time on hustings events around the country. These should be curtailed if not abandoned. The final two contenders can set out their positions in a personal manifesto sent to every party member and a vote held within a few days of their receipt.

    There is no obvious reason why it cannot be completed by the end of July. Indeed, it is to the advantage of both the system of governance and the party that it happens sooner than that. As the pollster John Curtice points out, the longer Mr Johnson remains in office the greater the damage inflicted on the standing of the Tories in the polls.

    If it is not possible to speed up this process then thought should be given to a caretaker prime minister whereby a senior Cabinet minister assumes the reins of office from the Queen while the leadership poll is conducted. That would put the individual in a strong position to take over permanently assuming they wished to stand.

    Another alternative would be for the final two candidates to agree a coronation and obviate the need for the party in the country to vote. Mrs May was elected unopposed in 2016 after Andrea Leadsom dropped out so there is a precedent.

    Whatever the party decides to do next, it needs to do it quickly. The country will not understand or forgive a protracted leadership contest in the middle of an economic crisis and with a threat of a wider war in Europe ever present. Mr Johnson said these were the reasons why he was reluctant to stand down and he considered it “eccentric” that he was being forced to do so by MPs who owed him their seats.

    He was right to say there are pressing issues for the Government to address. That is why his successor needs to be in place within days, not weeks – and certainly not months.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2022/07/07/replacing-prime-minister-must-not-take-months/

    2. Ahem, Ex PM, “Those were the breaks.”

      Do you find English difficult or are you planning a permanent USA ‘break’ in order to live with your WEF masters under their philanthropic umbrella?

  80. Where there’s muck….

    “This year, the price of fertiliser has increased from £150 per tonne to £1,000 per tonne,”

      3. It would be so satisfying to lock these devils in a cold concrete cellar and feed them grass and grubs. 🐛🪱

    2. The veggies and vegans wont be happy if they can’t get their favourite green foods. And they wont be able to get it if all the farm animals are wiped out. There wont be any manure………..oh hang on. We once found out that some garlic from china was grown using human sewage………I grow my own now.

      1. IIRC processed human waste has been used in the UK for about 50 years, or more. One water company used to spread it on fields from specialised trailers, bearing the brand name Cinagro.

        1. I think you’re right, and until we gathered the huge benefits of gimmegration, over prescription of drugs and new, previously eradicated, diseases, there should not have been a problem.

        2. The ‘night soil carts’ were once a regular occurence in England, in days of yore.

        3. I know, I once collect a truck load for my sister and BiL in the early 70s for tha rear garden of their new home in Hertfordshire. It was like fibre board. And soon after they’d spread it and dug it in they had tomato plants growing every where.

  81. Tin hats to the ready.
    https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/assassination-shinzo-abe-could-change-japan-constitution-b1011166.html

    Yet the attack’s most lasting impact likely to go beyond this for it comes two days before Japan goes to the polls in an Upper House election seen by many as vote on one of Abe’s signature policies: revision of the constitution.

    However, his most “ardent desire,” as he declared while in office, was to open Japan’s Constitution for revision. The document has famously remained untouched since promulgated under US occupation in 1947 and is seen by many arch-conservatives as a foreign imposition. The biggest debates focus on Article 9 in which the country renounced war as a sovereign right. The “Peace Article” has been substantially reinterpreted since initially set forth, and Japan’s Self Defence Force ranks as the ninth strongest in the world by budgetary expenditure. Yet Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as recent sabre-rattling by China over Taiwan have raised concerns that Japan needs to have first-strike capacity. Abe was unable to push this through while in office, though he laid the critical groundwork for it. It may be that his sudden death gets it across the line.

        2. Only ONE service – that would (a) sort them out and (b) shorten the match by hours…. Wimbledon could be over in three days….

    1. An impressive birdie three for me also

      Wordle 384 3/6

      ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. #MeToo sweetie – very impressive ! … x

      Wordle 384 3/6
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    3. Wordle 384 4/6

      ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
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    4. Ah, did it on the work laptop today but forgot to copy to the phone. Scored 4 but I looked on a site that gives a clue. Is that cheating. I guess so ☹️.

      1. No guess about it, it’s a “yes”

        My guess, on the other hand, is that working within the BBC has adverse reactions …

    5. Wordle 384 6/6

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      needed the full six today 🙁

    6. A foul five.
      Wordle 384 5/6

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  84. Evening, all. As Hovis (the Clydesdale who “writes” an amusing blog in Horse and Hound) put the dilemma about choosing Bojo’s successor: “Again, let’s be honest here, choosing between the rest of them (of any party) is like choosing which stressage* test you do – you don’t like any of them as an option, they all involve dubious moves with questionable motives and inevitably, half way around you will wish you’d picked the other one…”

    *=dressage

  85. Evening, all. As Hovis (the Clydesdale who “writes” an amusing blog in Horse and Hound) put the dilemma about choosing Bojo’s successor: “Again, let’s be honest here, choosing between the rest of them (of any party) is like choosing which stressage* test you do – you don’t like any of them as an option, they all involve dubious moves with questionable motives and inevitably, half way around you will wish you’d picked the other one…”

    *=dressage

  86. Evening, all. As Hovis (the Clydesdale who “writes” an amusing blog in Horse and Hound) put the dilemma about choosing Bojo’s successor: “Again, let’s be honest here, choosing between the rest of them (of any party) is like choosing which stressage* test you do – you don’t like any of them as an option, they all involve dubious moves with questionable motives and inevitably, half way around you will wish you’d picked the other one…”

    *=dressage

  87. Tennis .. oh dear ..

    28c ,, rather warm here at home . Dogs are puffing and panting .. younger dog (9years ) has been for a nice swim in the ford of the River Frome ..

    Older dog , Jack 14yrs is feeling the heat ..

    Moh has an afternoon golf match .. oooh he really loves the heat aand the sun .. 10 minutes is enough for me .. even in my younger fitter days , the heat has been avoided .. Our DNA’s are different I think .

    Dishi Rishi wants to be PM .. the Muzzies will hate that .

    4. You know how that white cream “cheese” called Philadelphia has absolutely no flavour whatsoever. Well, I put a whole tub of it into the food processor with an equal weight of grated cheddar cheese and whizzed them together until smooth. You still end up with a cream cheese but with a sensationally strong flavour.

      1. When I want a cream cheese, I look for the stuff produced by local cheese dairies such as Peak Dairies from Tideswell.

        1. I would if I lived in the UK … but I don’t. Cream cheese over here is inedible. I used to like the Stilton produced in Hartington, until I discovered the far superior version made at Colston Bassett in Notts.

    2. 354038+ up ticks,

      Evening P,

      I totally despair at the odious coalition being seen as the be all & end ALL
      ( which must be coming shortly) within the voting circus, with the coalitions past atrocious record and evil actions
      still finding support, calling for more of the sane.
      Whoever comes up with a pill to cure dangerous stupidity will find a ready market within the lab/lib/con coalition member / voters.

      .With no credible fall back opposition
      party even being considered.

  91. I am sorry about this but- our dear mate Ashish is an Indian and Hindu. He is a lovely bloke. However, I do not want an Indian, Pakistani or Iraqi as Prime Minister of this country. Surely the PM should be a British male or female?
    Maybe I am too confused about all this but it seems that these people get preferment nowadays.

    2. I just want the best person for the job.
      Unfortunately we don’t discover if they are any good until it’s too late

        1. One can only hope and pray that someone completely unknown, an honest and a true Tory – will emerge from the woodworm and romp home – leading the country to pleasant, sunlit uplands…..

          And then I woke up

        2. Dross.
          But if we only get dross, let’s hope it’s the creme de la dross

          1. “…creme de la dross Truss……….”

            Be glad you live in yer France. At least Toy Boy is straight and true…

        3. My list © Johnny Norfolk, with amendments.

          Wallace: Remain
          Sunak: Leave
          Hunt: Remain
          Truss: Remain
          Tugendhat: Remain
          Mordaunt: Leave
          Shapps: Remain
          Braverman: Leave
          Javid: Remain
          Baker: Leave
          Kwarteng: Leave

    3. To be fair for what is coming our way with the great reset dystopia and I don’t think that someone from an ethnic minority would get away with it.
      Hunt would be my choice, he has the eyes for it.

      1. He lurves China and worships its totalitarian system.

        Just the man …………….. NOT

          1. Try reading the ‘Hunt Balls’ over on The Slog and see if you still think he is the man for the job….

  92. That’s me for this day of far too much sun. Grrr.

    How glad I am that the Carrion “wedding fest” at Chequers was all a terrible misunderstanding and that they never had ANY plan of doing it…..

    I wonder if the BPAFPM will have to be lured away from his NEXT doxy whom he’ll be shagging as Carrion’s servants (slaves??) are pouring the canapés….

    Have a jolly evening – we are having supper OUTDOORS….

    A demain

      1. Are you suggesting that this was planned in advance?

        You cynical you! (fellow cynic that is)

          1. I’m all agog
            For Mr Mogg
            He’s tall and very posh;
            Not sure he’d be a good PM
            But he’s got a load of dosh.

          2. I’m all agog
            For Mr Mogg
            He’s very polite
            And Erudite
            And he’s fathered countless Sprogs!

          3. I’m not agog
            For Mr Mogg
            A busted flush
            Straight down the bog
            Is smarmy, slimy, Mr Mogg

          11. I’m all agog
            For Mr Mogg
            He’s very polite
            And Erudite
            And he’s fathered countless Sprogs!

  94. Cheesed off….never mind the cost of cheese…

    Why butter is so expensive in …https://inews.co.uk ›
    The price of Lurpak spreadable butter has skyrocketed in UK supermarkets, with some selling 1kg tubs for more than £9.

          3. Candy is dandy
            But liquor is quicker.

            Dorothy Parker.

            Edit- see Sos below. Bugger.

          6. I think that most people might well attribute it to her.

            She was the absolute master/mistress of the acerbic one-liner.

          7. Indeed.

            Life is a glorious cycle of song
            A medley of extemporanea;
            And love is a thing that can never go wrong…
            And I am Marie of Romania.

            Now that is Dorothy Parker!!

    4. Spreadable tends to contain plant based oils. Not great for your well-being.

  95. Sir Keir Starmer has threatened to table a motion of no confidence in Boris Johnson if he clings on to power inside No 10.

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labour-call-vote-no-confidence-boris-johnson-process-explained-prime-minister-1730477&ved=2ahUKEwjaw6as9un4AhUTaMAKHS5UA2oQFnoECC4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2mhFbNgs2AAJNSUvpnoSG8

    Sir Kier doesn’t want a cling-on as PM – there are just too many on the starboard bow.

    https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/08/keir-says-lets-get-on-with-a-general-election-and-labour-is-ready-for-one-16967719/

    3. Good night, Conners – and Oscar. I’m off too. Not to read a book but to sleep.

          1. I thought Kathleen Ferrier had recorded it which would have been my first choice but It’s not on youtube or on my LP recording of ‘The World of Kathleen Ferrier’…

          3. Indeed she did. It is one of a dozen songs on ‘The World of KF’. I also have the 1951 recoding of her in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

          4. Indeed she did. It is one of a dozen songs on ‘The World of KF’. I also have the 1951 recoding of her in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

          5. The Keel Row was our school song. We sang it at Prizegiving which was held at the City Hall in Newcastle!
            Oh the memories!

          8. Another beautifully sung but lacking the “earthiness” of real dialect songs.

          12. The version above is too BBC-ised. This version suggests some Geordie working person wa involved.

    2. Come here me little Jacky
      Now aw’ve smoked mi backy
      Have a bit o’ cracky
      Till the boat comes in

      Hunter Biden for PM

  98. Isn’t it traditional for slightly warmer weather to spark off riots in our vibrant cities?

    1. Plenty of time. This spell looks set for a couple of weeks or more.

  99. EXCLUSIVE: All-American family! Harry and Meghan are seen with son Archie, 3, waving mini stars and stripes and enjoying sweet treats during their surprise visit to traditional 4th of July parade in trendy Jackson Hole

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10995241/Harry-Meghan-seen-attending-4th-July-parade-little-Archie.html

    A very beautiful child , just like his sister..

    Moh commented .. ” Well there was a rumour the children were born out of surrogates “

    1. Trust them to be different . Most babies these days are born out of wedlock!

    2. “ The notoriously-private Duke and Duchess of Sussex …” says the article! What a hoot.

  100. He thinks public life has changed ‘for the worse’ in his half-century in Parliament. “There have always been bounders of one kind or another. But now I think there are far more people who have gone into politics with the aim of getting into a job in government, and they have on the whole been rather poor material. There are one or two who’ve got ability and integrity. I think the leader of those is the Chancellor. But I think you could make a better cabinet, a smaller cabinet, and a cabinet principally of people who had not been career politicians all their lives.”

    Norman Tebbit in the DT, 2nd April

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/02/norman-tebbit-many-people-politics-today-rather-poor-material/

  101. Well,well well,not an organised coup at all………..

    Duplicitous little shit. readyforrishi.com was registered back in DECEMBER!

    Domain:readyforrishi.com
    Registrar:GoDaddy.com, LLC
    Registered On:2021-12-23
    Expires On:2023-12-23
    Updated On:2021-12-23
    By the way Bill Gates flew in today………..Just saying

    1. We are destined to have an Indian, Pakistani or Iraqi PM…. it is unavoidable. Never mind the so called reset- it is the take over of this land by foreigners.
      Thank god for Vivaldi which I am listening to.

          1. My father’s mother would, in extreme circumstances, “Go to France!”

  103. For Sos-

    Advice to Husbands.

    To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup,
    When you are wrong admit it-
    When you are right- shut up!

    Ogden Nash.

    Goodnight Y’all. Still very tired but have done more today than other days….every day in every way & etc

    1. Younger niece’s marriage, from 2019, has just gone tits up. Compatibility, apparently. He was as dynamic as an acutaary on mogadon, and she is mercurial. Oh, man. Poor lass.

    1. 354038+ up ticks,
      O2O,

      Maybe the durham police need a heavy coating of looking at.

      1. The Durham Police Commissioner is a Labour Counsellor who was supported by Starmer.

      2. One wonders if that is explainable in good, old-fahioned English.

        …”a heavy coating of looking it.”

        What on earth can that mean? Paint often might get a heavy coating but ‘looking at’ hardly requires any coating but, then, I’m only English. Maybe the author’s first language is Swahili.

        1. 354038+ up ticks,
          NtN,

          This Chatham boy has ordered many a beer in swahili, is that any help ?

          2. 354038+ up ticks,
            you would not reign long in Chatham with that type of patter.

    1. Beautiful locomotive.
      Wish I could have had a chance to work the footplate… sigh

  106. Good night and God bless to all our more sensible NoTTLers. Until the morning’s light.

  107. Morning all 🙂 sun’s up 🌞
    I’ll have a cuppa and probably doze off again.

    1. Good morning Eddy.
      I’ve been awake since 4 and, after sitting up in bed with the DT & a mug of tea each, have come downstairs to let the DT get a bit more sleep.
      Too warm upstairs to get comfortable and it’s 12½°C outside.

      1. As I predicted, I dozed off again and just made two cuppas at a more acceptable time for Erin.
        And let the dog out and fed her.

    2. 354073+ up ticks,

      Morning RE,
      Had to give olly the blackbird & rab the robin an early doors shout.

        1. 354038+ up ticks,
          RE,
          Every comment, I find him/her/it a good gauge that honest comments are receiving his seal of disapproval, the down tick, you know you are on target and they are hurting.

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