Friday 8 September: What are true Conservatives supposed to do at the next general election?

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  3. What are true Conservatives supposed to do at the next general election?

    What are true Lefties and Liberals supposed to do?

    Nobody will get what they voted for, unless they wanted more world government dystopia and totalitarianism

    1. Morning Bob. I think that we have to accept that we now live in a disguised totalitarian tyranny and just do our best to survive.

      2. 375975+ up ticks,

        Morning AS,

        IMHO young / old folk alike really must become blade runners, walkers, crawlers, because for the decent submission is not an option as we truly know.

        The imaginary water we are currently standing in is getting daily hotter, and that ain’t down to global warming.

  5. Good morning all! The twins have been up since 5.40am! I’m knackered already! Very misty and warm today. Probably going to be scorchio!

  6. Good morning all! The twins have been up since 5.40am! I’m knackered already! Very misty and warm today. Probably going to be scorchio!

  7. ‘Morning Herr Oberst, Geoff and Peeps,

    Having just about survived yet another sticky night those of us in Janus Towers can look forward to a marginally less sticky day of 28°C as opposed to yesterday’s gut-busting 30°. Whoopee…

    Thr BBC is gleeful this morning – our world-beating installation of 11,500 bird and bat choppers is a fine example to other countries. So fine in fact that they are looking to emulate our fantastic success by installing their own. I just hope that someone with even half a brain takes a look at our magnificent energy system this morning before they spend billions on “the many times cheaper” wind energy. At the moment our wind generation is meeting a cracking 0.89% of demand, and is being beaten by coal – yes, coal – at 1.89% of demand. High-fives and bonuses all round? I don’t think so.

    1. Morning Hugh. That BBC. I’m getting quite paranoid about it. I only watch the headlines but somehow they manage to get the propaganda into them.

    2. Update: Wind has now sunk to just 0.45% of demand, and coal is a magnificent 3.02%.

      I’m beginning to think that Net Zero wasn’t supposed to affect wind turbines!

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  9. RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: No heat pump? Put your thermals on, you’re nicked
    Under new legislation, which sailed through its third reading in the Commons this week, homeowners and landlords whose properties don’t meet Net Zero targets could be fined £15,000 and jailed for up to a year. Yep, you could end up behind bars if you fail to fit a heat pump.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12493679/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-No-heat-pump-thermals-youre-nicked.html

    1. There’s no way this old Cotswold cottage can be made compliant. We have no gas supply and they’re making new oil fired boilers illegal in three years’ time.

      1. Then it will be demolished. There will be a cell waiting for you in the nearest 15 minute open prison.

      3. I wonder whether listed buildings will be allowed exemptions.

        Doubtless when the time comes to sell, you’ll be expected to demolish it and rebuild it to make it compliant.

        We have a similar problem here. It will require very major refurbishment. Perhaps I should cover the south facing fields with solar panels. It would be as ugly as all get out, but zealots won’t care.

    3. It’s all turning out a bit like the James Bond film Spectre. 🐙
      I wonder when C will fall from broken window. And the crash into London Bridge will happen.

  11. Ukraine could break through rest of Russia’s defensive lines by end of the year. 8 September 2023.

    Ukrainian forces could break through the rest of Russia’s defensive lines by the end of the year, a top US intelligence analyst has said.

    Kyiv’s troops have a “realistic possibility” of driving through the third and final trench system, Trent Maul, director of analysis for Washington’s Defence Intelligence Agency told the Economist.

    This would give Ukrainian forces an open route to the sea where they could drive a wedge between Russia’s occupying forces, a key goal of the counter-offensive.

    It will all be over by Christmas. Where have I heard that before? They are grasping at straws here. The Ukies are calling up the blind and lame.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/07/ukraine-could-break-russia-lines-end-year-counter-offensive/

    3. The Americans are getting cold feet having watched the destruction of their armaments and caring little for the human cost. Put simply the State Department and Pentagon misjudged the military strength and productive capacity of Russia. Their attention turns now to the presidential election.

      The US government will seek some sort of deal with Russia whereby Ukraine can be said to have fought bravely whilst aid money and armaments are reduced. Russia will be cautious as they have good reason to mistrust the Biden administration. Russia will never allow Ukraine to enter NATO.

      We can expect a gradual cessation of hostilities followed by several years of ‘negotiations’ before the proxy war comes to an end.

  12. Daily I search the DT for a detailed report on the provisions of Energy Bill passed on the 5th of September, and daily I am disappointed. Have I missed it or has the DT meekly capitulated in the face of one of the most illiberal bills of modern times?

    Meanwhile, I note that fewer than half of the Commons could be arsed to turn up and vote, which is a disgrace, although that is nothing out of the ordinary these days. The vote was 280 for and 19 against. The latter deserve a special mention for sticking their heads above the parapet:

    Scott Benton, Philip Hollobone, Philip Davies, Richard Drax, Ian Duncan Smith, Craig Macknlay, Karl McCartney, John Redwood, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Henry Smith and Desmond Swayne (plus 8 DUP and 1 Reclaim).

    This is almost a repeat of Milliprat’s original bill, although this time the penalties for disobeying its provisions include imprisonment and/or massive fines. Just imagine that! Fortunately our prisons are grossly overcrowded and are already in the early throes of collapse…like everything else.

  13. Daily I search the DT for a detailed report on the provisions of Energy Bill passed on the 5th of September, and daily I am disappointed. Have I missed it or has the DT meekly capitulated in the face of one of the most illiberal bills of modern times?

    Meanwhile, I note that less than half of the Commons could be arsed to turn up and vote, which is a disgrace, although that is nothing out of the ordinary these days. The vote was 280 for and 19 against. The latter deserve a special mention for sticking their heads above the parapet:

    Scott Benton, Philip Hollobone, Philip Davies, Richard Drax, Ian Duncan Smith, Craig Macknlay, Karl McCartney, John Redwood, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Henry Smith and Desmond Swayne.

    This is almost a repeat of Milliprat’s original bill, although this time the penalties for disobeying its provisions include imprisonment. Just imagine that! Fortunately our prisons are grossly overcrowded and are already in the early throes of collapse…

  14. Daily I search the DT for a detailed report on the provisions of Energy Bill passed on the 5th of September, and daily I am disappointed. Have I missed it or has the DT meekly capitulated in the face of one of the most illiberal bills of modern times?

    Meanwhile, I note that less than half of the Commons could be arsed to turn up and vote, which is a disgrace, although that is nothing out of the ordinary these days. The vote was 280 for and 19 against. The latter deserve a special mention for sticking their heads above the parapet:

    Scott Benton, Philip Hollobone, Philip Davies, Richard Drax, Ian Duncan Smith, Craig Macknlay, Karl McCartney, John Redwood, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Henry Smith and Desmond Swayne.

    This is almost a repeat of Milliprat’s original bill, although this time the penalties for disobeying its provisions include imprisonment. Just imagine that! Fortunately our prisons are grossly overcrowded and are already in the early throes of collapse…

  15. Good morning, all. Another bright start with 29 degrees forecast as this afternoon’s high. Off to the coast to meet some social club acquaintances and picnic on the beach.

    Meanwhile back at the ranch…

    Here’s the latest wheeze to alleviate the possibility of the World boiling us all to death. Frankly, denuding the planet of trees and foliage doesn’t seem a great idea to me.
    Note who is one of the investors: no surprise there. Del Bigtree (The Highwire) has a short rant about stupid ideas and who is keen to fund them.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d2ceb387ee06569437a34df15289e0a57f55ec6f77c4401ed7b987309b82408d.png
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e2805390f50cfc6310902a270cc9dcf94270cc498e407daf94c5336d18747a25.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6193f362346cf0363e2d2c22bf41fd044956af5d4d874aa7a44ea09c63799153.png

    The Quaternary epoch, far right, is where we are currently, apologies for the shot being clipped but I have to stop the video to allow me to snapshot the page and the black area automatically pops up.

    1. Let’s understand the reality of how this con trick works.

      It is roughly the equivalent of my digging up coal to sell to you so that you can give it back to me free so that I bury it back in the original hole to offset your private jet’s carbon footprints.

      Rinse through the moneylaundromat and repeat.

    2. I suppose that burying trees would be done with JCBs or similar excavators…….which are powered by fossil fuels.

      Hmmmmm !

      1. My thought exactly. In addition, where will these immense excavations take place and how will the felled trees be transported to the burial sites. These “thinkers” truly are mad.

    3. Why does the Quaternary Period have the lowest average CO2 levels in the history of the Earth? I’ll venture to suggest that, since the Cambrian explosion, the very large proportion of the atmosphere which was CO2 now resides in all the planet’s life forms and their remnants for an undefined period after death. This includes sedimentary rock such as chalk and limestone. Truly CO2 is the very stuff of life.

  16. ‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms. 8 September 2023.

    No new offshore windfarms will go ahead in the UK after the latest government auction, in what critics have called the biggest clean energy policy failure in almost a decade.

    Britain’s offshore wind industry suffered a blow after ministers failed to heed warnings from some of the world’s biggest renewable energy developers that the annual auction was set too low to reflect their soaring costs. No energy companies submitted bids for offshore wind projects, the government confirmed on Friday morning.

    The three biggest offshore wind developers in the UK – SSE, ScottishPower and the Swedish company Vattenfall – were forced to sit out the bidding after ministers refused to increase the maximum price for the auction despite a 40% increase in the cost of manufacturing and installing turbines because of inflation.

    I’m not sure that I understand the double-speak here but I think that this means that the government failed to fix the price high enough to tempt these people. A strange take on auctions where the bidders usually set the price.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/biggest-clean-energy-disaster-in-years-uk-auction-secures-no-offshore-windfarms

    1. Something else that our useless government have effed up.

      Perhaps treadmills are the answer we have enough operatives.

    2. This was featured on ‘Today’ with a big chief from Scottish Power bemoaning the failure. Like many executives, he spoke in code but he effectively confirmed that the strike price was too low even as he exhorted the government to ‘change the rules’ to help provide more ‘cheap and secure energy’.

  17. 375975+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Friday 8 September: What are true Conservatives supposed to do at the next general election?

    What they should have done decades ago instead of endangering us ALL with taking the party before Country route.

    Mass support a brace of decent, credible people as in
    Fox / Bridgen via RECLAIM.

    As witnessed, continuing to support / vote tory (ino) has succeeded in getting peoples killed / maimed for life / children
    defiled via shipped in paedophilia activist / flooding the Country with miscreants of ALL nations, ALL done with peoples support and under, with royal seal, via WEF / NWO.

    In point of fact YOU have, for donkeys years , like the donkeys you are, been supporting / voting for the RESET man.

    Do the decent peoples of this nation a beneficial favour, kiss the lab/lib/con/ current ukip, X, goodbye.

  18. Good morning all,

    Hazy skies over McPhee Towers. Wind in the Sou’-West , 18℃ with 28℃ forecast again. The dominant high pressure over the Baltic is beginning to move and dissipate so change is on the way.

    So what ARE true conservatives going to do at the forthcoming general election? What DO you do when you undertsand that private organisations known as political parties are at the root of the problem because they are all subject to entryism, corruption and control by hidden powers? Furthermore, they all practice the Party Manifesto Trick whereby the voter is deemed to have supported every aspect of the party’s manifesto so the winning party will claim it embodies the ‘will of the people’, a claim which is nothing short of fraudulent.

    It is tempting top vote for the ReformUK candidate but I have to confess there is something about its leader, Richard Tice, which I find a bit dodgy. His oratory will not set the heather alight anyway. The SDP? Left on economics, right on patriotism, society and culture? At least its leader, William Clouston, comes across as a thoroughly decent, thoughtful and articulate fellow. I can see how it could attract votes but it’s barely making a dent in the support for major parties.

    Don’t expect a saviour to emerge. Any saviour will in any case suffer from the Caesar complex. It is up to us all to save ourselves. That means voting for an independent candidate if there is a serious one among the fringe jokers, simply spoiling the ballot paper with a suitable ‘None of the Above’ message or not attending a polling station at all. If there is no one to vote for at least we can erode their claimed democratic legitimacy (what a laugh) by making the turn-out as low as possible.

    1. I see absolutely no point in voting for any of the tiny parties. True they’ll prolly get lots of votes but no MPs. I shall attend and spoil my paper (not that that will do much good, either).

      One feels a gathering despair.

      2. Bill, one could vote for the (tiny) party that reflects your feelings.

        Even if he/she doesn’t get a large number of votes you will prevent him losing his deposit.

    2. I have just sent this to the Electoral Commission.

      Please include another box on every ballot paper that says

      “None of the Above”.

      It will ensure voters have a real choice. The votes must be counted and announced with the results of votes for candidates and printed in the press.

      This would give a true indication of the democratic support, or not, for the mainstream candidates and help overcome the ‘democratic deficit’.

      I’ll let you know if I hear from them.

      1. I would also add an addendum, if NOTA gets the most votes then the seat should remain vacant and be administered by an apolitical town clerk as town clerks used to function.

        1. Unfortunately councils no longer have Town Clerks, who were solicitors, but have CEOs who tend to ce Charletans. :-))

    3. I miss TV that had the depth and nuance of Babylon 5. I found high definition versions recently but they’re horribly over saturated.

  21. Morning all 🙂😊
    Light cloud to start. Much less humid.
    What a relief.
    And the real Conservatives are ?
    Let’s be honest, most people who are in politics are there for themselves and what they can get from it.
    Westminster including the Lords and Whitehall cost the country billions. But they never do what they are paid for. Keeping the country in order and keeping up with public opinion.
    Out of hundreds of them involved not a single person has been able to explain why our country has been invaded by pointless scrounging layabouts.
    I have not a kind word to say about the political classes. They epitomise stupidity and uselessness.

    1. Our country has been invaded by pointless scrounging layabouts because those layabouts know they will get something for nothing, and nobody will do a thing to stop them taking..

      1. Precisely.
        But our other useless layabouts could have stopped it.
        Now we have another proven DH who nobody out side of his lined up group of money grabbing divots have voted for.

        1. There are a lot more of us than there are of them. Yes, they’re savages but when plod realise this whole policing by consent thing has been eroded by 25 years of Left wing wokery they’ll go away too.

          And then we can start killing off the politicians. I suggest starting with that cretinous oaf, Miliband. That prat was on Radio 4 this morning demanding ever more waste be poured into unreliables – ignoring that without massive subsidy they don’t get built. Let’s try an experiment: no industry gets subsidy of any sort. It then sells at market rates. We could call this newfangled concept ‘markets’.

          1. Yes, there are more of us, but the native population is also older, unarmed, includes women and children, and is unprepared. The migrants who depend on benefits are predominantly young, male, fit and used to carrying weapons.

    2. It’s pure spite. They are doing solely what they want. They lie, cheat and steal for 4 miserable years while we, the tax payer have to put up with their blatant stupidity, malice and arrogance.

      So few MPs are remotely competent that it’d bee easier to take one out every week and have them shot, just to keep the rest in line.

      1. Totally agree.
        I wrote to my mp regarding the invasion shortly after it started.
        His reply was something like. The United Kingdom has always had record for compassion and accepted desperate refugees from war torn countries blah blah blah.
        Hello political idiot, these people have not come from such places they’ve all come here via Europe. And are nothing but economic migrants. Which could be interpreted as thieves.
        As a result our crime rate has risen enormously.

        1. Yep, they simply don’t care. To them it’s not a problem. The money is infinite, they’re never affected and solving the problem properly involves leaving many globalist institutions that they’re wedded to for their next non-jobs.

        2. There is a helluva difference between giving refuge to Huguenots and Poles with useful skills and their western values, and boatloads of rootless thugs who have deliberately ‘mislaid’ any form of identification.

          1. The massive problem we now have is robbery and terrorism.
            I can’t believe our politicians are so stupid and have let them in.

  23. Good morning all.

    Have to be quick because my doctor ordered a spirometry test because I have wheezing, and shortness of breath , so travelling to nearest hospital .

    Yes I know..

    Post Covid stuff from last year when I went down with it last March 2022, lasting 6 weeks .. despite the jabs .

    Moh has to also have one because of his newly diagnosed heart murmur .

    We are both going to hell in a handcart .

    1. Ah well at least the recent hot weather has acclimatised you!

      Hope you both get better soon!

    2. Chin up TB eventually you will get over it. 😊🙂
      Did you watch the new TV programme with Mel Geldthingy and Martin Clunes ? Set in Dorset and he took his spaniel for a lovely walk. I thought of you.

    3. Try to think of something else that isn’t your breathing. Play a game of solitaire or chess on your phone, write a shopping list, count backward from 100. It’s to distract your brain from the wheezing.

      I appreciate that’s all incredibly difficult as survival will over write the rational but keeping your brain occupied may help.

    1. Gender is not ‘given’ at birth, it is defined. A child is either male or female. There’s no inbetween. No other choices. If it has a willy, it’s a boy. If it doesn’t, it’s a girl.

        1. I think anyone who thinks their gender is different to their biological sex is odd. It’s like a short person thinking he’s tall or a tubby bugger like me thinking he’s thin. It’s a deceit to make you feel better, a fantasy but the reality remains.

        2. Ahem. You are speaking their speak. That ridiculous alternative definition only appeared in common use about ten years ago. Previously, gender was understood to mean the same as sex, when used about people.
          An alternative meaning was probably dreamt up in the 1960s by the same people who created gender theory out of the backs of their necks, but I do not accept the right of marxist academics to manipulate the language, which belongs to all of us.

  25. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story (Albeit late today)

    Use What You Find
    A bear and a rabbit were crapping in the woods.

    The bear turned to the rabbit and asked, “Do you have trouble with crap sticking to your fur?”

    The rabbit replied, “No, I don’t.” So, the bear picked up the rabbit and wiped his butt with him.

  26. Morning all, with the bathroom out of action we’ve been pootling to the gym and showering although the shower there has really anaemic slow – more being dribbled on, but the water is warm and available.

    We had two bathroom people in yesterday both who seemed really capable (which is annoying as I wanted the one bloke to be hopeless). Both suggested replacing the immersion heater with an unvented cylinder or, putting a combi in. The poor gym shower reminded me of the huge need for a decent wash – has anyone any experience of an unvented cylinder? I believe the trade name is ‘megaflow/megaflo’ ? It’s designed to get heat at mains pressure, which is good around here.

    Would gardener folk be able to recommend a good weedkiller? I’ve a small patio that hasn’t been concreted in and I’m happy to spray with weedol, but I’d like something a bit more nuclear, that can cover a wider area.

      2. Rosate is brilliant Elsie – Amazon sell it. A 5 ltr bottle will last years as it’s diluted 200 ml to 10 Ltr water. It’s expensive but worth it. It was recommended to me by a landscape gardener

      1. I bought a hedge trimmer and lots of people said ‘why don’t you get someone in?’ with that nervous trepidation, imagining something akin to the Chainsaw Massacre films.

        1. I LOVE hedge trimmers!! Such satisfaction. Nary a drop of blood over the years.

          Maybe I’m doing it wrong.

    3. Previously had Vaillant combination boilers for 30+ years with a 32kWh capacity.Instant hot water whenever required. Currently have a Megaflo unit that a) takes up a lot of space and b) needs the boiler to run for a few hours each morning and a few hours each evening to keep the water in the tank up to temperature. If your property is a reasonable size I’d recommend a combination boiler…

      Weedkiller Resolva will do the job on the patio (It will also kill grass).

      1. As there’s no gas here the connection would need to be made. I think from the megaflow that you can have ones that use an immersion heater? There is already a tank in the bathroom.

        I’m also tempted by the boiiler – but the cost isn’t low. Combi inc. connection we’re looking at £6000 (I am plucking that from the air – the real quote might be lower: new boiler, + connection + pipes (as everything is electric).. The megaflow will go where the current tank is.

        Do you get a decent hot water pressure out of it?

          1. I have. There’s one at the moment. My concern is that while it’s ok at the moment, while the water is warm (ish), when I nudge the temp just a bit, there’s a notable drop in pressure. It’s not much, but it is some.

            In mid winter, that’s going to be a lot. I had an electric shower at my old flat in Beccles and while ‘only’ 5kW it was useless in winter.

            I like hot showers. They’re a way to unwind and relax. The Warqueen loves them, our rainfall shower at our old place was glorious. I think that’s what we’re looking for again.

        2. Answer yes: I believe it is dependent on the incoming mains pressure. If it is too high a simple pressure reducing valve can be fitted at a suitable point on the incoming cold water mains. My boiler also has a pressure safety release valve. Hope this helps.

    4. Previously had Vaillant combination boilers for 30+ years with a 32kWh capacity.Instant hot water whenever required. Currently have a Megaflo unit that a) takes up a lot of space and b) needs the boiler to run for a few hours each morning and a few hours each evening to keep the water in the tank up to temperature. If your property is a reasonable size I’d recommend a combination boiler…

      Weedkiller Resolva will do the job on the patio (It will also kill grass).

  27. My word if we have much more of this weather there will be a hosepipe ban.
    Still no new reservoirs being built for our now over populated Island.
    Oh yes I remember now, the Brussels mafia banned that. But have sent hundreds of thousands of new residents to the UK.

    1. DEFRA refuse all new reservoirs as they insist on remaining chained to the EU water directive. In fact, as almost all their law comes form the EU abandoning it would see the department closed down. This, in my view would be a good thing.

      1. Environmental Affairs ?
        They don’t give a tinkers cuss for the environment. House building is wrecking our environment.

  28. Good moaning everyone.

    The Energy Bill had its third reading yesterday. I thought I’d find out how the votes went.

    Turns out 351 were working from home as 299 voted for, 19 against. How bloody disgusting is that. These people are unspeakable . I shall be writing to my MP to find out if he voted and, if so, how.

    Edit: Sorry, figures incorrect. 280 for, 19 against. But still 351 were …. Where exactly?

    1. Labour abstained, I think. They knew it would pass, and they plan to hold their hands up later when everyone is angry and say they had nothing to do with it.

      1. They are missing a big trick here, of course. If they’d come out against it they could have created absolute havoc in the HoC.

        Just goes to prove yet again they’re all tarred with the same brush.

    2. I think you will find they all have a standard answer. As my neighbour discovered when he wrote to our pm and asked him why he didn’t vote on a matter earlier this year.
      He wasn’t in the house that day.
      And I also think that you will find the majority of them have rented accommodation in London. Which the public pays for, in claimed expenses.
      Ours lives only 40 minutes from Westminster an hour at most. He has a rented property in London costing around 3.500 pounds per month plus power and other etcetera’s.
      He says it saves him time. But obviously not on voting days !
      This is regarded as ‘working from home’.
      As we all know they are only in for what they can get out of it.
      And keep feigning ìinterest.

      1. I made a suggestion to my former political donkey that Chelsea Barracks be retained under public ownership and refurbished to provide accommodation for non-London MPs to a similar standard to that enjoyed by members of the Armed Forces.
        He did not reply to my letter.

        1. Brilliant suggestion. If there is a “solution” bet your bottom dollar they find the most expensive.

      2. That’s a thought. Does my MP have a flat in London? I’ll try to find out because, presuming he lives in Woking where I live, there is no excuse. Trains very frequent to Waterloo and just half an hour journey.

  30. Good Moaning.
    Budgieham Palace is still standing and probably in better nick than its London counterpart.

  31. Morning all,

    Today is World EV Day.

    https://www.worldevday.org/about-wevd

    The whole idea that driving an electric car will save the planet is futile – particularly when you realise that wind farms to power EVs are stopping the winds from cooling the planet down whilst killing thr birds that use them for their own transport.

    1. A lot of stuff here.

      https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fenergy-security-bill-factsheets%2Fenergy-security-bill-factsheet-power-to-review-the-energy-performance-of-buildings-regulations-energy-certificates&data=05%7C01%7C%7Ccc86165cb31c4d2fe73a08dbaeb9f4c8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638295885924206718%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GuzeNK%2FYfVbYTXMEeErgau3RUQ13lVeQLVCeR3GzosY%3D&reserved=0

    2. Its because people can not believe that a democratic government would ever suggest such laws that these measures are swept in without much scrutiny. Now its too late, similar with the online harms bill. I remember driving across Easy Germany to Berlin, they logged your time in and out and calculated the average speed. Those mad idiotic commies we thought, how terrible to live under such a regime. Now there is an ave speed check in our village.

    3. Let there be some clarity. Appliances with smart functions must be capable of being responsive to those carrying out load control. This, I presume, will be applicable to new appliances at some time in the future. Does the legislation require that existing appliances must be converted to have those smart functions or, failing that, replaced by appliances which do have them? It’s not clear, especially the Secretary of State having regard to the desirability of incorporating such functions. Will the SoS make a decision on a whim or after an exhaustive analysis of the implications of making such a decision? The vagueness suggests that worries about onerous obligations being placed on householders will be dismissed as fearmongering for the time being, only to be told at some time down the line that these obligations were made plain at the outset in the legislation and should come as no surprise to anybody.

      2. You can rest assured they are not doing this for us but to reach the Net Zero targets agreed outside our Parliament.

        You will find ICE vehicles made obsolete because of the cost of fuel if you can even get it and refurbished white goods being banned for health and safety reasons.

      3. 100% in agreement (although if I survive until 2050 I will be 97 and far too old to give a flying f….!)

    1. While we were sailing around the Med we met a professor of Economics at London University and we told him that we were less confident of the value of our second son’s degree in Philosophy and Politics at UEA than we were in his older brother’s degree in Aerospace Engineering. He replied that we should not worry because it was good course at a reputable university and it would have taught him to think and we shall always need people who are capable of thinking clearly!

      Sure enough, he went into the computer business on graduating with his B.A. and after two years he decided to do a special external M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Data Analytics at York University.

      The combination of doing an Arts B.A. followed by an M.Sc worked well – he passed out top of his year with a Distinction and is now in a very good job.

      2. Our younger son is possibly the only person in the UK with a B.A. hons degree in geography (from a Russell Group university) and ending up as a principal design engineer (so far). On completing his geography course, or rather two thirds of the way through, he realised that “it’s not going to get me a proper job, is it?” He did finish he geography degree course and started an engineering course at the same university which lasted 4 years. He did not have science, nor maths ‘A’ levels but he did get a 2.1 engineering degree – he said that over those 4 years the university library had become his prison.

        1. Henry was living in Lancaster where his fiancée, Jessica, – with whom he lives – was studying for her Ph.D in Mathematics.

          As well as studying for her doctorate Jess was also working for Lancaster University and doing some lecturing to the undergraduates. Henry had a day job in computers and so they were able to encourage each other to keep their noses to the grindstone – and this has paid off.

        2. My niece did a geography degree at Oxford in the 1970s and then went to work With Blackwell’s Bookshop and became skilled with computers. Blackwell’s sent her over to their branch in the USA where she installed their computer system.

  34. Thank goodness Musk has eventually woken up about Ukraine. They would be delighted to have WW3 kick off.

    Elon Musk admits preventing Ukrainian attack on Russia by refusing access to Starlink ‘to avoid being complicit in a major act of war’ – but furious Kyiv says his ‘big ego’ led to civilians being killed
    Musk says he refused Kyiv’s request to activate Starlink satellites over Crimea
    He refutes claim that he cut the connection, however, saying it was not active

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12495419/Elon-Musk-admits-preventing-Ukrainian-attack-Russia-refusing-access-Starlink.html

    4. Musk appears to be mad as a box of frogs, and I would imagine is rather wearing company.
      But he is also a smart cookie.

  35. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7e1d143a509e3a93af0b7299192e514aea100da796eac9f5c3b88554d2974375.png
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/08/the-public-isnt-being-told-the-full-truth-about-the-climate/

    BTL (Percival Wrattstrangler)

    Of course if somebody discovered a way of producing completely clean energy at a very cheap cost in an easily transportable form (such as liquid) which could be used to power cars, lorries, industrial and agricultural machinery, electricity power stations and domestic and business heating then this discovery would have to be suppressed because it would be the very last thing the exploitative, quack environmental vested interests would want. Indeed the person who discovered it would have to be silenced, bought off or even assassinated by the PTB!

    And while we are on the subject, conspiracy theorists still believe that The Idiot King played a part in the ‘murder’ of his first wife. I doubt very much if this is true – but if it is he might have some useful contacts to help get rid of the person(s) who can expose the great energy fraud.

  36. Just back from penultimate visit to the sea. High tide just turning. Three quarters of a mile of gorgeous sandy beach. Fourteen people. Bliss.

    Now lunch and a Breton beer. Then sorting the packing.

  37. They just cannot help lying:

    New Zealand appealed Canadian restrictions on the import of NZ dairy produce. The appeal court ruled that NZ is right, under the free trade deal, Canada must stop blocking the imports.

    The official Canadian response on the government web site and in a speech by some no name minister –Canada wins in trade dispute ruling.

    This is the government that wants to bring in a ministry of truth to veto misinformation. God help us.

        1. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/68dd539c8be68ff11de371a5e2dbb34d0ef9c8502a50de73a1fbcd5ee0d0aa4b.jpg I’m OK where I am, thank you. My palæolithic diet (meat only) is going well. Yesterday I had some cold roast pork, a piece of veal brawn, and a couple of slices of my delicious home-made pork brawn.

          I didn’t boil a pig’s head (where to source one?) so I used some pork shoulder and made the jelly from trotters. A hard-boiled egg and a small spoonful of Branston piccalilli completed the meal. Nowt to eat again today and tomorrow it will be barbecued pork spare ribs (juicy belly ribs).

          3. I reckon any politico could supply such a head (more reliable than a real pig’s head since real pigs are far more intelligent).

          4. I wish I could buy real brawn – I used to be able to get it but now the butchers up here don’t seem to make it any more – maybe since the mad cow disease?

          5. I can get both pig’s and veal brawn here. The pig’s is especially delicious. The veal brawn is minced up too fine and just so-so.

          9. I’ve not bought any yet but my local shop sells it. I normally just poach mine in gravy but I wondered if you had a better way.

          10. I like a little colour on mine so 30 seconds a side in a hot pan with a little butter. Put that on a warm plate. Add fine dice shallots to the pan and saute for a minute then deglaze with anything to hand. Brandy, red wine, Marsala whatever. Add a little more butter and then whisk.

          12. It should also be sliced quite thin. There is also a thin membrane that needs peeling off. Not nice to eat and if you don’t remove it the liver curls up.

          13. 👍🏻 I normally eat lamb’s liver which cooks through to a tender nice pink just by immersing it for 5 minutes in a pan of hot gravy.

        3. Thank you for that, Sue. Very few know how/why the war started. That brave woman enlightens us all.

  38. ‘Smoked salmon offensive’ nets Labour £6m in donations.

    ‘Thanks to Keir Starmer’s leadership, the party saw significant financial growth throughout 2022’

    LABOUR has raked in a record £6.4 million in private donations in three months as business leaders fill its coffers ahead of the next election.

    Official figures show that the party made more from individual benefactors between April and June this year than it did in the whole of 2022.

    The donations come after Sir Keir Starmer embarked on a corporate charm offensive dubbed the “smoked salmon and scrambled eggs offensive”.

    Despite the huge rise in revenues, Labour’s donations were still outstripped by the Tories, who took in £2.4million more in the latest quarter.

    The party has raised just shy of £8 million from private benefactors this year. Its bank balance has been dramatically improved by contributions from Baron Sainsbury of Turville, the former supermarket chain chairman.

    A long-standing Labour donor, he cut off support while Jeremy Corbyn was leader but has now returned and given £5million over the past two years. He donated £3million in the latest quarter alone, which helped the party to record takings of £6.4million from private benefactors over a three-month period.

    A Labour spokesman said: “Thanks to Keir Starmer’s leadership, the Labour Party saw significant financial growth throughout 2022, and our finances have gone from strength to strength this year as we set out our five missions to transform Britain.”

    Sir Keir has been working to reduce his party’s reliance on funding from the unions, with whom he has clashed on key policies. Figures released by the Electoral Commission yesterday show that Labour made £7.5million in overall donations in the second quarter of this year.

    OK, then, let me get this right. Business leaders are throwing money at Labour? Big business is another word for capitalism. Therefore capitalists are throwing money at socialists? Am I going mad or has the world gone mad?

    1. It brings us back to Starmer being a member of the Trilateral Commission. The bankers [sic] club founded by David Rockefeller.

  40. I went to the Proms yesterday evening. My last visit for this season. The main work was the Mozart Requiem and for the plainsong items which opened and closed the concert, the treble soloist was a 13 year old black kid called Malakai Bayoh. He sang very nicely and would be a great asset to any cathedral choir but I can’t get over the nagging realisation that the drive for minority representation means that having been chosen from a relatively small pool, he’s still the best of the rest and not the best overall.

    1. How fortunate you were there to hear this prodigy.

      I assume that there was a majority of people who looked like him in the audience….

      1. Oh of course (not)! Mind, among a group of twenty-something young people sitting near me was a girl of oriental origin with a black boyfriend. Not a combination I’ve ever seen before.

    5. That is the sad thing about ‘affirmative action’; a genuinely talented black will always labour under that suspicion.
      Mozart’s Requiem is literally music to die for.

  41. Re the escaped slammer “soldier”:

    “Met will examine whether prisoner was helped by Wandsworth guards”

    You don’t say. Slammer prison warders? Shock, horror.

    1. Is there a Right of Information Service which can tell us what percentage of prison guards in the UK are followers of the Islamic faith?

    2. He must have been helped, how else could any one strap them selves to the underside of a truck.
      The police must be really struggling at the Mo, they still haven’t reached a conclusion or the reason for Sara Sharif death near Woking Last month.

      1. She fell down the stairs and broke her neck repeatedly.

        You can tell the Police really hate these cases where Paki child abuse happens. It becomes more and more difficult to make excuses for a 15th century culture in the modern age.

          3. Erm…I think we’ve met. Obviously you are such a fine fellow i was being kind.

            Speaking of which, at a recent lunch Geoff was very late. As he began to explain why, i just told him to sit down and be quiet. As several others began to stand to make room for him i told the lot of them that the music had stopped and they could all sit down again.

            That will teach them for moving a table and spilling my drink !!!

      2. Somebody posted a horrible clip on this site a couple of days ago of a large black woman in a phone box. She may not have been a Muslim but she was certainly a fundamentalist.

    1. Hang on – your ONT has a light on it?

      Fibre might be a government target, that’s why all the companies said ‘fibre broadband!’ when they meant VDSL. It was met by the demands of the public.

      Have you no internet access? Can you get to google? BBC? (These sites are good as they’ve multiple in and out routes).

      Failing that, go to start, then type CMD (you’re looking for a command prompt)
      Then select that. You’ll see a black box with a C:> prompt.
      Type in there ping 8.8.8.8 (These are google’s DNS servers)
      If you don’t get a reply, you’re not connected. If you do, you are.

      But! Connection is not the same as domain resolution (the conversion of bbc.co.uk to it’s address. Try those in the short and let me know?

      1. It’s a real pity there isn’t a NottL Village. Problem solving and practical solutions would be so much easier!!!

      2. Many thanks for your comments wibbling,

        The fault was reported yesterday and logged as such after phoning 0800 800 151.

        The green ONT lights were still on as usual but the Smart Hub 2 light had gone red. As we are going away for a week tomorrow I have arranged for a home visit the following Saturday for fault resoluton.

        In the meantime BT sent me a EE Mimi Hub with unlimited data today with unlimited data extended to both BT data SIMs I have.

        I don’t have the time today to go any further with ping diagnostics.

      1. It all started when he was aged 15 and was in the same class in school as Brigitte’s daughter!

        Brigitte was 24 years older than he was but as there were no laws against teachers having affairs with school children in France at the time and the age of sexual consent is 15 there were no legal problems as there would have been in the UK.

        But from what we gather he is very fond of his wife who has become a mother figure but sexually his preference is now for men.

          1. Of course there was a time when the three most prominent European leaders were the Three Ms – the pro-creatively unproductive trio of Merkel, Macron and Barrenness May.

  44. Newly discovered dinosaur prompts rethink of bird evolution. 8 September 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/09ae0ab7796a167adef36c9e91c0d90fdf6d3cca7daeb698abfd8d0f08edbd7e.jpg

    A newly discovered dinosaur may have been a flightless roadrunner which has prompted a rethink of the evolution of birds, scientists have found.

    The “bizarre” fossil found in China has helped fill a 30-million-year “gap” in the evolutionary history of birds.

    Chinese scientists say the previously unknown species was a “high-speed runner” which lived in a “swamp-like” environment.

    I’m pretty sure that I spotted one of these the other day on the neighbours bird table but I couldn’t find my binoculars.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/08/newly-discovered-dinosaur-prompts-rethink-bird-evolution/

    1. “Chinese scientists say the previously unknown species was a “high-speed runner” which lived in a “swamp-like” environment.”

      I know 650 people exactly like that.

    3. From the comments I see that there’s still a number of people who don’t go along with evolutionary change. What else could account for the fossil record?

    1. I recall seeing one in a church in Vienna. The corpse still had flesh on its bones, though it was rotten. A horrible sight.

    2. But will it allow disadvantaged minorities, such as Vampires, to break through the glass sealing?

  46. Douglas Murray for Prime Minister/Pope/World Dictator.
    In this item, he’s out-Rodded Liddle.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-delicious-schadenfreude-of-burning-man/

    The delicious schadenfreude of Burning Man

    If any readers are having those September, back-to-work blues perhaps I might offer them a sure-fire palliative? Just go online and watch videos of this year’s Burning Man.

    For anyone who doesn’t know, Burning Man is a week-long festival of music and ‘self-expression’ which takes place in the Nevada desert. It is especially popular among libertarians and Silicon Valley types. Think Glastonbury, if you must. Like the Somerset atrocity, it is a place where people pay huge sums of money to take drugs and imagine that they have had some unique insight into the world. Often they come away believing that if only all of life could be like this, the world would be cleaner and kindlier. Naturally each year they leave behind a toxic wasteland which requires hundreds of workers to tidy up after them. But I digress.

    If Glastonbury can occasionally be a washout, it can never have been anything like this year’s event in Nevada. Because last week there was particularly extreme flooding in the area. Two months’ worth of rain fell in just 24 hours. All of which reduced the desert Nirvana to something more closely resembling Verdun. No sooner had festival-goers started to arrive than the deluge came. Attendees were ordered to ‘shelter in place’ and ‘preserve resources’. With tens of thousands more people still due to arrive, the camp’s gates were locked.

    Even in a good year Burning Man has its difficulties. Thanks to the fact that the nearest city is almost 100 miles away and that temperatures frequently reach more than 100°F, the festival suggests what attendees should bring. The list includes lip balm, toilet paper, fire extinguishers and a ‘poop bucket’ in case rain makes the portaloos overflow. Indeed, the website proposes a five-gallon bucket with lid and liners for such an eventuality.

    And here we might break off for a moment. Because I would regard this advice alone to be some kind of warning sign.

    I like to think that I am a pleasant enough house-guest. Often when going to stay with friends I ask if there is anything I can bring that my hosts don’t have in their neck of the woods. When visiting friends in Scotland, for example, I might offer to take with me some fresh fruits or vegetables. When visiting friends in Norfolk, it might be someone not related to them. But if ever my hosts suggested I should bring my own poop bucket, I would find a way to escape the event: call in sick, cite a spot of ‘the old trouble’ or remind them that getting out of London is always so difficult.

    Because whatever your idea of fun might be, it cannot possibly include a scenario in which you carry a bucket of your own stools. Even the most ardent readers’ letters will not persuade me otherwise. On this matter I am strict.

    Yet the people at Burning Man clearly adhere to a different standard. The talented comedian Chris Rock was one of the early attendees this year and pointed out that from the very start there was no one who could either clean or empty the portable toilets. One TikToker showed himself trudging ankle-deep through the mud to a portaloo only to find more mud inside it than outside. As the gates were closed it soon became impossible to get generators or supplies to the festival-goers. Rock reportedly plodded through more than five miles of mud until he managed to wave down a car that rescued him. Not everyone was so lucky.

    There is probably a German word for it. Scatenfreude, perhaps. But as viewers of the documentary Fyre will know, there really are few pastimes so satisfying as contemplating an event which we were not invited to and which costs lots of money to attend, only for it to turn into an eye-watering disaster.

    The 2017 Fyre festival was meant to be the greatest, most luxurious and exclusive party of the century. It turned out to be a fraudulent and incompetent catastrophe, with attendees put up in refugee tents as they realised they had been had and planned their escape routes.

    Of course it is even better if there is video of such an event – and there are plenty of videos of this year’s Burning Man. While the CEO said that there was no need to panic, others called on the government to declare a state of emergency. With 70,000 people still stuck at the site the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rejected reports that it had been deployed to the festival. Online rumours circulated that there had been outbreaks of both Ebola and cannibalism.

    Both were strongly denied. The organisers pointed out that there hadn’t been an outbreak of Ebola in the US since 2014. Even so, these are not the sort of denials that a festival PR department enjoys having to put out. Any more than it is pleasant to have to deny the breakdown of all norms right up to the point of cannibalism. At the time of writing a plan known as ‘Exodus’ has been put in place to depopulate the area.

    Gloating and envy are ugly, ignoble instincts which should probably be resisted. Nonetheless, they might be justified by reiterating that Burning Man, like Glastonbury, is always full of people who seem to think they have found some great new awareness of the human condition and who labour under the delusion that the festival is an inspiring example of what the whole world could be like.

    While sitting behind deeply protected, carefully patrolled borders they dream of a borderless world. For a few days they imagine living in a beautifully curated agrarian idyll and dream of extending the limits of consciousness and understanding. Only for the mudslide of reality to make its inexorable entrance. “

    1. I listen to Rod Liddle on Friday mornings on Talk Radio, with Mike Graham. As I have ‘matured’, so has he! He is very funny and, most of the time, spot on!

    2. Often they come away believing that if only all of life could be like this, the world would be cleaner and kindlier.

      Like Mad Max you mean?

      The participants see themselves as counter-culture. What they are blind to is the fact that it will be dog eat dog in their brave new world. That 9 to 5 working culture they so despise is the thing protecting them from being either slaves or dinner.

    3. It is an ‘example of what the whole world could be like’. What the whole world could look like when it has succumbed to the Net Zero fantasy and the Greens have plunged us all back to the Stone Age.

    4. Delicious: “I like to think that I am a pleasant enough house-guest. Often when going to stay with friends I ask if there is anything I can bring that my hosts don’t have in their neck of the woods. When visiting friends in Scotland, for example, I might offer to take with me some fresh fruits or vegetables. When visiting friends in Norfolk, it might be someone not related to them“

      1. Funny but safe.
        I would like to see him make a joke about trafficked children’s organs from Africa and Asia in the Borough of Newham and see how many laughs he gets.

    5. I have only ever attended one such music “festival” and thank goodness I got paid for doing so. I worked two 12-hour shifts (1600hrs–0400hrs) at the Brandside Festival, outside Buxton, in July 1974, patrolling the perimeter of the area in case of crime. I remember that Rod Stewart was one of the headline acts but, in any case, I’m not a fan.

      It was dirty, noisy, and tedious. The only good side was that were were billeted at the nearby catering college and the breakfasts they served there were epic. It certainly put me off ever wanting to attend one as a paying customer.

  47. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c782acf72eab689f3e356f87a43dd24c7378b97520581b61b47ab70a3de0ae08.png
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/09/08/rishi-sunak-news-live-tory-starmer-india-g20-bharat-latest/

    Sunak has sold out on everything.

    He won’t leave the ECHR to stop the boats; he won’t make it illegal for schoolchildren to change sex without parents’ consent; he sold out Northern Ireland to the EU with The Great Windsor Surrender and now he is not going ahead with the Indian Trade Deal.

    We don’t need to be very clever to work out why he is holding back on the India deal – with this in place it would be more tricky for Starmer as he would have to unravel it when he wins the election and takes UK back into the EU.

    So Sunak has sold out the Conservative Party and Brexit to Starmer’s Labour Party and by delaying the India deal he is doing his best to help Starmer win!

    And still the supine Conservative Party MPs haven’t the guts to get rid of him NOW.

    1. Apparently lots of drivers are using fake plates and some sort of reflective coverage that stops cameras from reading the numbers.

  52. Elon Musk ‘committed evil’ with Starlink order, says Ukrainian official. 8 September 2023

    A senior Ukrainian official has accused Elon Musk of “committing evil” after a new biography revealed details about how the business magnate ordered his Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off near the Crimean coast last year to hobble a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian warships.

    In a statement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which Musk owns, the Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak wrote that Musk’s interference led to the deaths of civilians, calling them “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

    “By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian fleet via Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities. As a result, civilians, and children are being killed,” Podolyak wrote.

    Elon did not turn off the Starlink Network. It was already off. He simply refused to turn it on which would have made him an active accomplice to the Ukie Attack. That the Ukies are unable to tell the truth about this is all too typical of them. Most of their propaganda accusations hang on a similar hazy relationship with the facts. The abduction of the children, the Mass Graves, the Atrocities, none would pass muster were it not for the support of the West and their lackeys in the MSM.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/08/elon-musk-committed-evil-starlink-order-ukrainehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/08/elon-musk-committed-evil-starlink-order-ukraine

  53. Late yesterday evening we had a couple of unwelcome visitors. Two large Hornets invited themselves in from garden and proceeded to fly in and out of the chandelier. Fortunately the long attachment on the hand held vacuum cleaner did the job and gathered them safely in. Unfortunately Hornets are tough bastards and even though they were safely ensconced surrounded by whirling detritus they were determined not to shuffle off their mortal coils. Eventual the vacuum was emptied into the garden waste bin which this morning, I opened very cautiously. The Hornets didn’t reappear so I guess they were pretty hung over!

    1. We get a lot of them around here, it’s an unusual year that we don’t get a nest in one or more of the chimneys. Generally, if you leave them alone they’ll ignore you.
      If you do need to kill them they are really tough sob’s and need to be squashed hard.

      It is surprising how long they can last if trapped somewhere

  54. It’s the Village Show tomorrow. We are promised 30c heat and the possibility of a thunderstorm…..For the first hour I shall be inside the beer tent helping to bar keep. I reckon I’m going to be very busy if the storm doesn’t arrive!

    1. We’re going to set up tomorrow for the last outdoor event of the season on Sunday. Hopefully it will stay dry for both days.

    2. We have a bowls club mixed pair’s competition tomorrow lasting 20 ends. Might be cut short.

      2. Hello Alf. This year I won the Club Singles Championship and lost in the Pairs Final. This at the age of 87. There will have to be a Public Enquiry to find out how this was allowed to happen! 😇

        1. Congratulations Delboy. I’ve never won any championships but really enjoy playing. vw is the star bowler. Hasn’t won anything this year but Ladies Champion two previous years an Ladies Pairs Champion last year as well.

          1. Abdallah Zekri, vice president of the French Council for Muslim Worship, said the abaya ‘has never been a religious symbol anyway’.
            Instead, he said the ban was yet another example of politicians using dress favouring women and girls to attack some five million Muslims living in France.

            If that’s the case, why do Muslim men require their women to wear it? It is a very clear statement that the wearer is almost certainly a Muslim.
            As always, once their numbers are great enough they insist that society changes to suit them.

    2. “Gabriel Attal, Minister of National Education and Youth of France, has also shown support for the headteacher for following the government protocol.”

      No one here shows support for the Batley teacher…

      1. Apparently the Muslim making the death threats in France is being held in custody while investigations take place.

        The bastards threatening the Batley teacher are left scot-free, not even prosecuted for hate crimes and the Batley teacher knows that there is a significant risk that the threats will be carried out.

  57. Well, that’s me for a couple of days. Car packed as far as we can today. It is WONDERFUL having the car three feet from the front door and all the living accommodation we have occupied on the same level. Makes packing a doddle. In Cap d’Ail everything has to carried down from the third floor in a rickety lift, then by hand down 22 steps then carried along 20 yards of carpark…. And done quietly so as not to disturb other residents. Here the house next door is empty.

    Now to beach for last and final paddle. We did a mile and a half walk about 4 pm…. Beach busier Friday, I suppose.

    So have a lovely couple of days being boiled.

    A dimanche soir ou lundi

  58. Nothing on the BBC at the time about the violent and destructive racial riots in France in July. This is the blueprint for the UK and US and explains the allowance of Africans, Muslims and other undesirables coming into our countries.

    The game plan is to cause societal chaos, strip you of energy independence and cut off the food supply. Covid was a deliberate weapon and the US and Fauci were complicit. All of these things are deliberate, from the eye watering sums spent on Covid, lockdowns and poisonous vaccines to the open borders encouraging mass immigration of people with different religions and cultures to the host nations.

    Our greatest threat is a domestic threat. Witness the latest acts of Parliament to inhibit free speech and interfere with our ability to travel freely. Boatloads of immigrants are intended to destabilise our country and destroy our culture.

    People need to wake up.

    1. Sunak is very much involved in the implementing the WEF plan.

      He has been told that he must get the UK back into the EU and the best way to achieve this is by losing the next election and getting Starmer to do it.

      He has already yielded completely to the EU over Northern Ireland with his Windsor Surrender deal, he refuses to stop the illegal immigration and resolutely refuses to take the UK out of the ECHR. And he knows that by not going ahead with curbs on transgender nonsense he will lose thousands of Conservative votes making a Starmer Labour victory even more certain.

      And he now is not only helping Labour win the election but his block on the India trade deal until after the election will make it much easier for Starmer to rejoin the EU without having to disentangle the Indian deal.

      The most depressing thing about his multiple betrayals is that none of the Conservative Party MPs seem to be aware that he is a traitor to the UK and the Conservative Party and he should be expelled from both the country and the party.

        1. But Tice….. I did not like his comments on the ‘vaccine’ nor Ukraine. He sounded as though he were one with ‘the blob’. After that I stopped listening to him. He has a close relationship with Isobel Oakeshott who is supportive of Midazolam Matt (Hancock) in his dealings with the elderly in residential accommodation during the ‘covid’ fiasco. This does not mean that I will be voting lib/lab/con/green either. Not any of them ever again.

          1. I think Isobel Oakshott gained Matt Hancock’s trust, and then having seen the WhatsApp messages and published them, showed him up for the criminal he is.

          3. That must have been after the clip I saw supporting him, and soundly berating those who thought he could be involved in such a crime. Actually, now you mention it, I do vaguely recall the WhatsApp messages fuss – so much has happened recently. I still don’t trust Tice, though.

          4. He foolishly allowed Isobel full access so she could write his biography – and she took him to the cleaners – more fool him!

    1. The Mail’s league table – the first new university ranking of British universities in 15 years – focusses on the issues of acute concern to today’s students and their families.
      The 12 ranking measures incorporate graduates’ success in the jobs market and the salaries they go on to earn, and the extent of student support including the effectiveness of signposting for mental health and welfare services.
      The ranking is the only one to assess the fairness of university admissions policies, measured by the proportion of first generation students – those whose parents did not go to university – admitted to each institution.

      If the process really was “fair” the university should not be given any information other than academic results.

      1. I was the first person in my family to go to university (in 1967). I don’t think the entrance criteria were manipulated – at least I hope not or my degree is worthless!

  61. I’m having a run up to the Settle-Carlisle line tomorrow for a few days so spent the day getting the van sorted & kit packed.
    Not really a great deal to do to get it ready, but I’m sat here sweating with the heat and will be going for a cold bath soon!

  63. Archæological (fossil) records have proved that for 4½ million years, since early hominids split from the great apes, the human species was a meat eater. Agriculture and animal husbandry was only introduced 10,000 years ago by the ancient Egyptians. This means that humans were solely meat-eaters, by natural selection, for 99·6% of their existence as a species.

    This recent conversion to eating grains and vegetable matter, by a species whose digestive tract is that of a carnivore, was the precursor to all the nasty diseases of civilisation. That conversion also turned a strong and powerful being into an ever-increasingly weaker and more stupid animal. The latest manifestation of this acceleratingly enfeebled creature is the vegan: a cult of deteriorating brain-power that is given succour by its deliberate and insidious brainwashing by the World Economic Forum and its supporters.

    It is no coincidence that those who eschew the eating of meat, fish, eggs and dairy products have demonstrably smaller brains and a reduced capacity to reason coherently. Vegans need to supplement their diet with a compendium of supplements, all of which have been proven incapable of being absorbed by the body in the same way as the natural vitamins and minerals found in meat are readily assimilated. It is found that babies suckled by vegan mothers have milk deficient in choline, a critical nutrient for brain function. This means that their babies are at a greater risk of developing heart disease, liver disease and neurological dysfunction.

    This excellent video — essential viewing for those who really worry about how the powers-that-be are intent on exerting more and more control over you and your diet — explains why veganism is an evil fad and how the WEF, and its acolytes and stooges, is hell-bent on imposing it on all of us.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UZ9wYNrSXM&list=WL&index=53

    1. I very much doubt that you’re correct that they were solely meat eaters.

      They would have been opportunist feeders, certainly eating fruits, and some plants and seasonally. I also suspect that a significant part of their diet was carrion and insects. Call it meat if you wish, but its equivalent would probably kill you nowadays.

      1. Certainly for a part of human history we were hunter/gatherers, so for that duration we ate nuts and berries as well as carrion. I’ve done extensive research on this subject in litt and online and the fossil record shows that for vastly the longest proportion of human history our predecessors were carnivores.

        1. Agreed, but never solely carnivores.
          The fossil record, to all intents and purposes revolves around the skulls, jaws and teeth.
          Conclusions are drawn from that. I doubt that “our” teeth are much changed from at least a million years ago and thus my tendency is to conclude we are essentially omnivorous with a preference for meat.

          When I studied anthropology in the late 60’s early 70’s we were taught all sorts of science as settled facts.

          As time has gone by most of those irrefutable facts have turned out to be wrong.

        2. I think our dentition indicates that humans have always eaten meat, but not solely meat, as we have

          molars for chewing tough shoots and roots and vegetables. Carnivores have sharp canines, but also spikey molars rather than flat ones, and their incisors are much smaller than ours.

        1. In their historic range: Grizzly bears are omnivorous and 75% of the food they eat is plant-based such as fruits, roots, grasses and nuts. Grizzly bears also eat fish, small mammals like rodents, and even scavenge larger prey like elk and moose.

  64. Can’t see anyone else’s results, so standing in for Lacoste.

    Eagle today.

    Wordle 811 2/6

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    1. Impressive! I made hard work of it today.

      Wordle 811 5/6

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  66. Evening, all. Tory voters should find an independent candidate (or UKIP, they have conservative policies). If need be, help them to fund the deposit and leaflets, then offer to deliver the leaflets. The answer lies in your own hands.

    1. 375975_ up ticks,

      Evening C,

      ALL the good peoples left when Batten / Braine were treacherously taken down what remains is tory (ino) MK 2

      Learn from recent history.

        1. 375992+ up ticks,

          Morning C,

          The proof of the pudding has been sampled and found extremely wanting,
          As it stands an offshoot of the tory (ino) party, ask the nec.

    2. 375975+ up ticks,

      C,

      ALL current tory (ino) voters should find some form of confessional booth and seek some reason for these last 4 decades of input.

  68. BBC news is leading again with something called ‘climate change’. “We’re just not reducing our emissions fast enough” says Justin Rowlatt breathlessly. This follows the announcement by the UN that the ‘climate is breaking down’.

    The more I hear this nonsense, the more angry and helpless I feel. The Energy Act with its compulsory smart meters and £15,000 fines is monstrous but who in the media is speaking out? How can so many MPs be taken in by it? Ours is Peter Bone, the nearest thing to a trouble-maker that the Conservative Party has had in recent times, but he voted in favour so a missive to him will be pointless. Writing to an MP who voted against is a waste of time as they are required to refer correspondents to their own MPs.

    How do we get out of this prison that is being built around us?

  69. I fear that this appalling creature will simply slink away from it all – no term, no fine, punishment of any kind.

    SNP try to block release of evidence Nicola Sturgeon gave to Salmond inquiry
    Scottish Government takes legal action in bid to suppress information given during 2019 investigation that was heavily redacted
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/08/snp-scotland-nicola-sturgeon-alex-salmond-evidence-block

    Meanwhile, the Bombay Bogshite is stirring it up again.

    Ireland will unite in my lifetime – and must protect its British minority, says Leo Varadkar
    Remarks come as polls show Sinn Fein extending its lead over Irish premier’s party
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/08/leo-varadkar-ireland-unite-in-my-lifetime-british-minority

    2. Morning all.

      Re SNP: Don’t government say to us “no need to worry if you have nothing to hide”.

  70. Goodnight, all. I’ve had a busy week (and a few disasters; a stone flew up and cracked my windscreen – it took ages to even start to get the insurance company’s repairers to arrange a date – then my mobile phone died; I bought a new one only to find the SIM doesn’t fit …).

    1. My rear windscreen shattered a couple of years ago – mid 2020 actually so in between lockdows – and the repair was done very quickly and efficiently for £50.

      EE sent me a new sim a while ago – it took me ages to figure out how to activate it.

      1. The excess was £100! Perhaps it would have been cheaper if I’d had it done privately. I now have a new SIM but all my contacts and messages have been lost. Plus I’m having a bit of a challenge working the new phone.

  72. Good morning all! It’s 5.51am and the twins are awake and starting the day with milk and Party Ring biscuits! I know….but I don’t care!

    1. Well i’m off to walk my poor old dog, which will take a lot longer than it should. Enjoy the chaos!

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