Monday 11 July: The Tory leadership contest gives the party a chance to unite – and restore its integrity

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  2. Mornin’ all.
    The title. More Torygraph excrement.
    I used to pay to read that paper.
    What a state of affairs.

  3. Mornin’ all.
    The title. More Torygraph excrement.
    I used to pay to read that paper.
    What a state of affairs.

  4. … but I do love that a Russian girl has won at the Wombles – not that I pay too much attention to any sports at the moment. It just shows what a sham all of this cancellation nonsense is.

    1. Good morning, It’s also cheering that Novaxx Djokovic won the Men’s title.

      1. I’m that removed that I wasn’t aware.
        Thanks.
        Yes. Very gratifying. Am I being petty?
        Maybe but we need to take what comfort we can as we trundle along.

        1. The only tennis I saw was the final set of Novaxx win; as I was down my local for a quiet pint and they were showing it.

          I did chuckle.

    2. Good morning, It’s also cheering that Novaxx Djokovic won the Men’s title.

  6. Morning all. Lets hope they carry out the manifesto and not their own agenda, like Johnson did.

  7. Breaking News – Latest list of candidates for PM

    Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub

  8. ‘Morning, Peeps.  A pleasant 16°C here for now, but a forecast of a distinctly unpleasant 25° later.

    SIR – Good to see all the prospective candidates for PM proposing tax cuts galore, but what were some of them doing during Boris Johnson’s reign? Happily accepting a minister’s salary while rubber-stamping policies that represented the exact opposite.

    Philip Hall
    Petersfield, Hampshire

    Oh dear, Mr Hall seems to be unaware of the principle of ‘collective responsibility’!

    1. As habitual and pathological liars, they’ll promise the earth, only to be able to ….for unseen circumstances, renage as usual.
      I wouldn’t give any of them the steam off…….
      If any of them were any good at the job we would not be in so much doo doo.

    2. Sadly, ‘collective responsibility’ within the modern day politician’s view extends to whatever the current “leader” is proposing. Change of “leader” and a 180 degrees turn in policy will see the majority, if not all, of the very same politicians supporting the new policy. Chameleons and shameless opportunists inhabit the political sphere: with very few exceptions it’s a job and no longer a calling to serve the people.

  9. SIR – Suella Braverman seems to me to have the right stuff: conviction, principle, true conservatism. Above all, she supports Brexit.

    Kevin Platt
    Walsall, Staffordshire

    Yes, she certainly does seem to have all the right attributes…

  10. SIR – Vera Lynn’s daughter is campaigning against real fur for bearskin caps for the Foot Guard. This fur is sourced from Canadian bears which are culled in their considerable thousands to maintain a healthy bear population.

    Faux fur is a product with a greater carbon footprint and has been shown not to perform as well as the natural fur of a bear. What happens when a bear gets wet? It shakes it off!

    Guardsmen favour natural fur – and they are the ones that have to wear it.

    A H W Izod
    Edenbridge, Kent

    Vera Lynn’s daughter, of all people…

        1. I use to cycle past Vera Lynn’s home in Hendon on my way to school and back.
          I think it’s recently been put on the market.
          But never saw her.

  11. SIR – It is a vital national interest that Sizewell C receives planning consent in short order.

    Irrespective of the turbulence at Westminster, the Government should ensure a prompt decision. With any further vacillation, there is a real risk that the newly nationalised EDF will get cold feet and walk away from the project. This would fatally undermine Britain’s energy strategy at a key moment for both security of supply and the reduction of carbon emissions.

    Set to deliver 3.2 gigawatts of ultra-low-carbon electricity by the early 2030s – equivalent to 7 per cent of national demand – Sizewell C will be critical to providing a reliable, clean power supply, as all but one of the country’s existing reactors are being retired this decade. It will create an independent source of energy for Britain, as well as high-skilled, well-paid employment for generations to come on the East Anglian coastline.

    The Government must not be distracted from its recently set course of reinvigorating nuclear power as the environmentally friendly base for this country’s future energy needs.

    Dr John Law
    Founder, Clean Energy Revolution
    Felixstowe, Suffolk

    It’s about 15 years too late, but we have to start somewhere and the need has never been greater.

    1. Some BTL comments on this subject:

      Frederick Hanniffy32 MIN AGO

      Nearly all, if not all, of the prospective Prime Minister candidates are promising tax cuts. How about cutting the net zero project which will not make one ha’p’orth of difference in achieving if the rest of the world is not doing the same thing in the same timeframe. It may even save the paying public a lot of money as well.

      Echo Fish3 HRS AGO

      Apart from the steam turbines. Sadly we entered the 1990’s with two major suppliers of such equipment, who with orders placed by the Central Electricity Generating Board, were able to deliver for our domestic and export markets and help our balance of payments handsomely.

      By 2010 our embrace of EU directives had seen our generation market sold off and placed in the hands of the private sector, and our steam turbines manufacturers moved to France and Germany.

      The mighty Parsons works in Newcastle Upon Tyne is now more like a car park than the export engine it once was. Trafford park is now a shopping centre. Ironically, prior to Parsons sale to Siemens it had become part of Rolls Royce who sold it.

      Ten years ago we had the chance to grab the skills still left to build the key components and keep them alive in the UK, but the Government and Civil Service were not interested, so bar one UK manufacturer who produces fine turbines below 44mw, at this moment we may have to import this most vital of parts.

      Shame, we could have provided many, many youngsters with a good career going forwards.

      ANDREW SCOLEY51 MIN AGO

      Given where we are now I would suggest get cracking on Sizewell C and instigate the roll out of the Mini Reactors too. We’re going to need both.

      1. The state doesn’t think like that. It’s perspective is that spending is good, thus spending creates jobs. It doesn’t consider markets or need, just ‘spending’.

        That and the obsession with climate change – a gravy train in all but name – means a complete lack of real jobs, an erosion of technology and waste.

    2. This project was initiated 10 years ago, and if it goes ahead will be online in 2034. I don’t understand “newly nationalised EDF”. Nationalised by the French, or us?
      It will take 12 years to build it. Earlier this year we contributed £100m to the cost.
      Calder Hall took around 3 years back in the days when we did things ourselves.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_Hall_Nuclear_power_station
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizewell_C_nuclear_power_station

  12. Good morning all.
    10½°C outside and yet another cloudless start to the day.

      1. I think I’ll be having a bath of cold water standing by for when I start shifting the last lot of concrete ballast up the garden!

        1. The present state of our garden already resembles the finest reinforced concrete!

          1. My chunk of Derbyshire hillside is a cross between a building site and a wilderness.

        2. Don’t forget to syphon your bath water onto your plants. Circa 1976.
          I even grew celery that year.

          3. Whilst you can syphon over a hill, the outlet must always be below the water level of the inlet side.

  13. SIR – Who would have imagined that Wimbledon could have produced a men’s finalist so unlikeable that we were all cheering for Novak Djokovic?

    Cliff Brooker
    Hastings, East Sussex

    Quite so, Mr Brooker.  However, I had a duty to attend to and wasn’t sorry to have missed it.  Besides, watching a couple of generally unpleasant millionaires trying to annihilate each other by every means possible doesn’t really appeal.

     SIR – I was heartened by Elena Rybakina’s mild celebrations upon winning the championship.

    You don’t have to leap, fall to the ground or kiss the turf. Well played.

    Rupert Behrendt
    Bingley, West Yorkshire

    Wot? No screaming/grunting/fist-pumping/racket-smashing?  I obviously missed a rare treat!

    1. Why did the camera have to keep zooming in on the ranter every time he went into one?

      At least Wimbledon was a failure for the forces of globalism and the great reset.

      1. I don’t understand why they didn’t kick him out. Surely that AH broke nearly every on court rule in the book.
        If not someone needs to get on with rewriting.

    2. Perhaps next year Wimbledon (the management) in general might attempt to restore its integrity.
      No chance of getting a reaction from the political classes, in general they have never had any recognised.

      1. The beginning of the end was when Nastasse, Connors and McEnroe were allowed to get away with unsporting, ungentlemanly and yobbish behaviour.

        Professional sport is, if you think about it, an oxymoron.

        1. Totally agree Richard, but most of the younger people I pass my opinion on to don’t agree. I bet they agree with their contemporaries.

    1. A second morning 🌄 all 😊
      Cheer up Bill it’s just a warm up for the water shortage. 💧
      And more price increases because of.

  16. 254135+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    TEGRAPH LETTERS

    Monday 11 July: The Tory leadership contest gives the party a chance to unite – and restore its integrity,

    Surely this was first said post major after he gave curry a seeing to, then post, the wretch cameron after he displayed his animal husbandry talents regarding pigs head on platter, and quite clearly by terribly treacherous treasa by her nine month pregnant pause allowing her eu controllers to regroup.

    Now the turkish delight who is up to G in the spell & meaning of process regarding
    integrity, others as in deceit, lying,etc were to follow.

    The idiots political market place is being set out, the proven political in house gypsies,
    tramps & thieves are at it once more shouting their wares, inflation has surely hit the promises, vows & pledges department
    all to be swallowed in the usual party first fashion.
    Did I not hear before ” We won the referendum now leave it to the tory (ino) party”.

    For what we are about to receive ongoing via these political overseers, nobody on Gods green planet deserves.

    1. It doesn’t matter what they do. They’re all liars and thieves. Not a one has the faintest clue how to resolve the current financial mess created by decades of QE and borrowing.

      Well. They might have the clue, but they’ve no interest in implementing the necessary.

      Go away Stapleford

  17. Headline in the DT:

    First Tory leadership debate set to be hosted by Sky News

    Nadhim Zahawi is the first contender to say he will take part, as broadcaster says it is a chance to ‘reinvigorate the trust of voters’

    * * *

    It should called The Parading of Soundbites. And Burley is hosting, so that is the second of two excellent reasons why I will avoid it!

    1. Given that it’s only their fellow Tory MPs who have a vote in this, why precisely are they being inflicted upon the rest of us ?

  18. Morning Folks

    I’ve just read the interview with Penny Mordaunt in the DT. From what she says, I like the cut of her jib. It seems to me at least, she is head and shoulders above the rest of the field.

    1. Useless woman. Fat slapper. Known as Penny Dormant – like BPAPM, she lacks the ability to concentrate on detail.

      1. Thank you for the heads up…..The UK is in a truly parlous state looking at the contenders on offer….

        1. Back in the day I would have and certainly without the benefit of 4 pints in the NAAFI.

  21. Another headline from the DT, and the BTL posters are not holding back:

    Ditching net zero would be electoral suicide for Conservatives

    Tory leadership hopefuls must recognise that environmental protection is popular with the public

    I decided not to put up the article as it is so predictably asinine, containing as it does every conceivable greenie buzzword and phrase.  Far more convincing, and educational, are some of the BTL posts:

    Rational Agent11 HRS AGO

    Let’s just take your arguments one at a time.

    – You say that the doubling of our energy bills is because of our dependence on fossil fuels. No. It is because you and your eco-loon friends banned fracking, smashed the windows at BP and Shell until they dropped investment in the North Sea, and closed our gas storage facility so we are beholden to a madman with nuclear weapons.

    – We could knock 25% of people’s electricity bills tomorrow by scrapping the green surcharges that are subsidizing the uneconomic wind and solar installations.

    – Africans cutting down forests in the Congo Basin has got zero to do with “climate change”. By all means stop them cutting down trees and killing wildlife, but it has very little to do with your net zero targets.

    – The UK has cut its carbon emissions by 50% since 2010 by exporting them. You still drive a car made of steel, use a washing machine made of steel and watch TV. But we don’t make them. They are made in China using coal power, but you think we have cut emissions. Either you are dense or you are a hypocrite. I suspect both.

    – COP26 was not a test for Global Britain. It was a virtue signalling love-fest for people who think like you. And they all flew in on private jets to attend it.

    -The bubble you live in must be shockingly small if you think that dropping these grotesque acts of national self-harm will hurt the Tories election chances. When people are very cold and hungry this winter you will hear their voices loud enough.

    Edwin Pugh6 HRS AGO

    “Energy insecurity and the consequent doubling of our energy bills is directly linked to our continued dependence on fossil fuels, a dependence which is also destabilising the climate. The answer is to accelerate the transition to clean green energy. Just look at the numbers: money invested in energy efficiency provides much larger returns than money invested in new energy capacity.” So says Zac Goldsmith in an article where he claims that ditching net zero will cost the Tories votes.

    Let’s look at just some of the numbers as Zac doesn’t. Net balancing costs were £506m in 2015. The system pressures have pushed the net cost in 2020 to £1.3Bn, 67% higher than 2019 (£794m). This figure will continue to rise as more and more intermittent generation is brought in. This forms part of your electricity bill and current government policy is to go for more and more unreliable sources too.

    Further, wind and solar power still supply only 3% of the UK’s total energy consumption. Subsidies for renewables were expected to cost £12 billion in 2021/22. This actually understates the reality because it does not include all of the indirect costs involved in grid balancing and so on, meaning the true cost is probably over £15 billion.

    He concludes by saying, ” …. tackling climate change and the environment was cited as the second most important issue behind the NHS.” However, polls such as these are totally meaningless. Most people always say they want things like Net Zero, more nurses, more police, etc etc. However, when push comes to shove, nobody wants to pay the bill. This is true of net zero. Support disappears when people are asked if they are prepared to pay £2000 a year to fund it.

    John Law44 MIN AGO

    Right. We need to do both. Electrification of heating (heat pumps), transport (EVs) and industry will mean 2-3 times existing demand by 2050. Gov is working on 96GW, up from 40GW today, of which 25%, so 24GW, envisaged to come from nuclear power. Sizewell B @ 1.2GW, Hinkley C @ 3.2 GW and Sizewell C @ 3.2 GW would get us back to ~8GW by 2033, the level of the past decade, but much more needed. Hence the “Great British Nuclear” plan for 8 new reactors, one per year, to be started for the remainder of this decade. Rolls’ SMR, at 470MW, is a large small modular reactor, so much bigger than its naval forerunner. I have great hopes for it, and faith in RR, but history teaches that any new reactor model experiences delays and cost overruns. Hope not here, but would be unwise to place all eggs in this single basket. Sizewell C is an exact replica of Hinkley C, so is “shovel-ready”: we would be foolish to turn it down now, when it is set to go and all plans are in place. The lessons of the past, repeatedly shown to us, are: we need to build out a large reactor fleet for energy security and independence (particularly against/to smooth expanding intermittent renewables and lower carbon emissions); and replication cuts costs (as the French experienced in their roll-out of 56 reactors in the 1970s/80s). The UK supply-chain and skills base has now been rebuilt with first-of-a-kind HPC: time to take advantage by continued roll-out.

    1. Goldsmith is a scientifically illiterate moron – the fact that the DT has printed this article reflects badly on them too!

      2. Rather he is heavily invested in green, and thus sees an awful lot of tax payers money flow into his accounts.

        It’s abject corruption: the civil service mandarin or MP is lobbied by rich people to build windmills.
        The tax payer stumps up the cost.
        MP /mandarin gets a kick back from the lobbyist
        The mandarin writes an obscenity of a contract that guarantees a fixed price return – regardless of what the wind farm produces. Worse, it locks that return to the cost of energy – they make a profit no matter what.
        The tax payer is lumbered with the bill for that profit.
        The lobbyist gets all the profit, mostly in to tax free shelters.

        What Goldsmith is really saying is “Keep the racket going.”

        He knows it’s a lie. We know it’s a lie. The state knows it’s a lie. The mandarin is happy as he’s trousers a hundred grand and a six figure pension for life. The lobbyist is troughing away on tens of millions a year at least, the tax payer is sent the bill for both.

        And greeniacs – usually naïve, immature, spoiled Lefties – demand this continue.

  22. The shift to negative interest rates comprised the central bankers’ most audacious move. After all, what is a negative interest rate but a tax on capital – taxation without representation, no less? There appeared to be no limit on how far central bankers might go to enforce their policies. If hoarding thwarted their negative interest-rate policy, then it was time to abolish cash.24 The ‘paper currency’, wrote Kenneth Rogoff in his 2016 book The Curse of Cash, ‘has become a major impediment to the smooth functioning of the global financial system.’ What the former IMF chief economist meant was that the existence of banknotes impeded the central bankers’ ability to engage in radical monetary experiments.

    A cashless world, Rogoff admitted, would look different to the one we were used to. Beggars would have to be provided with debit card readers (as was already the case in progressive Sweden). Cheques would lie around uncashed – an alternative form of hoarding. People would file their taxes early (as reportedly occurred in Wörgl in the 1930s). There were some drawbacks, for sure. The poor and disadvantaged who lacked bank accounts would have to be coerced into the world of electronic payments. Many people would lose their livelihoods as the underground, cash-in-hand economy dried up.

    The proposals to abolish cash fulfilled Keynes’s comment on Gesell’s stamped money scheme, that it would produce the ‘extension of the traditional functions of government’. In a cashless world, the state would be able to record every transaction over the course of a person’s life, from a child’s first purchase of tooth-destroying sweets onwards. Rogoff envisaged a day when all cash would be digitized and every citizen had a bank account with the central bank. A few years later, central banks started to examine the issue of digital currencies – money issued by central banks without any physical manifestation. Needless to say, this idea originated in authoritarian China.

    ‘Money,’ wrote Friedrich Hayek, ‘is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man.’ As Dostoyevsky put it, ‘money is coined liberty.’ Cash allows people to make transactions discreetly, even if that discretion is sometimes abused. It’s true that financial payments by cheque, card and electronic transfer already account for most transactions. But a cashless world would destroy the last vestiges of privacy, creating a ‘digital panopticon’ overseen by a single watchman, in this case the central bank (and, no doubt, intelligence agencies too), surveying all, judging whether transactions met some arbitrary notion of the public good. Since this threat to individual privacy and liberty was not comprehended by the monetary policymakers’ model, it could safely be ignored.

    By some weird paradox though the world is going to the dogs at Warp Factor 10 there is very little to write about. This is partly due to the media being politically controlled since adverse news has to be kept out of the Public Eye but one also suspects that there is a natural vacancy of opinion in totalitarian systems since large parts of the population are prevented by various methods (suppressing the Internet for one) from joining political debate. This is why I’ve posted the above. It’s an extract from my recently purchased copy of Edward Chancellor’s, The Price of Time and covers some of the points made on Nottl about digitising cash. Such a system; despite the assurances about its inhabitants being poor and happy, (a patent absurdity) it will be a monstrous tyranny where most of the population will be powerless slaves.

    1. Negative interest rates… sort of 11% inflation and 1.5% interest? An effective 9.5% tax on our incomes? Government wants this high tax policy. If it didn’t, it would think about cutting taxes and reducing the size of the state machine.

      1. If HMRC had any integrity it would allow you to deduct the rate of inflation from the interest you get from your bank savings account.

        If, for example, the rate of inflation is 5% and you receive 5% in bank interest this should not be eligible for tax; and if you have bank interest of just 2% when the rate of inflation is 10% you should be able to get a refund from the government otherwise what they are doing is nothing more than sheer theft.

        1. A tax rebate would be very welcome, but we all know that this is what inflation is – another tax, one insidiously designed to undermine the value of currency.

  23. 354135+ up ticks,

    Exclusive: Liz Truss launches leadership bid with tax cut challenge to Rishi Sunak
    Foreign Secretary pledges to reduce taxation ‘from day one’ as PM, putting her in direct contrast with former chancellor

    Will the peoples trust truss ? will sunak the Hindu do ?
    The answer makes very little difference as the nation is accelerating in it’s demise mode, due very much to this lab/lib/con controlled coalition party.

    There is NO mosque type build on any opposition party to combat what we are most definitely going to receive.

    1. I followed you up to your last sentence, Ogga. When these people talk about tax cuts they mean a penny here, a penny there – countered with a 2p rise somewhere else. They’ve no interest in radical tax reform.

      1. 354135+ up ticks,

        Morning W,
        The mosque building was /is ascending
        while building on a party to combat the lab/lib/con anti United Kingdom coalition party is NON existing.

        1. ‘Morning, DB. I think down here we need the immediate creation of a Minister for Drought…worked like a charm last time.

  25. Good letter about Fishi Rishi in The Grimes today. Chap sounds like a NoTTLer.

    Sir, Matthew Parris says that “the very last thing Britain needs now is another show pony”. Quite so.
    He then, bizarrely, throws his weight behind Rishi Sunak. Does he not know a show-pony when he sees one?
    No chancellor in my lifetime has been more sedulous at self-promotion.
    I have lost count of the number of carefully staged photos of Sunak working in his shirtsleeves, pulling pints,
    waiting at restaurants, filling up the family car, etc.
    His Achilles’ heel is his vanity. That alone should disqualify him as a serious candidate to succeed his equally vain next-door neighbour.

    David Robson
    Oxford

    1. Sunak has a problem in that he is immediately disliked. He’s foreign (despite being born next door), bright, and a banker. To get over that he tries to appear as a man of the people and fails – because he isn’t one. However, to be a politician you have to appeal to Joe Public who – let’s be honest – is easily fooled.

    2. Morning Bill, apparently he was filling someone elses car just for the photo. That says it all

    3. “Manners makyth Man”

      Mr Sunak obviously has taken this to heart from the days when he was head boy of the school founded by William of Wykeham which has this as its motto!

      1. On that theme do any Nottlers remember their school mottos?

        I thought that the motto of Blundell’s – Pro Patria Populoque – was a bit pretentious but not as bad as Eton’s Floreat Etona.

        Any other offers?

        [I saw a bit of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie on the TV the other night with Maggie Smith in the eponymous role. The motto of the school in which Miss Brodie taught was that a woman of virtue was above the price of rubies which, of course, prompted the question: What does Ruby charge?]

          1. That brings back memories. I didn’t know that the words to the hymn are from a poem by Rudyard Kipling:

            Non Nobis Domine!

            Non nobis Domine! —
             Not unto us, O Lord!
            The Praise or Glory be
             Of any deed or word;
            For in Thy Judgment lies
             To crown or bring to nought
            All knowledge or device
             That Man has reached or wrought.

            And we confess our blame—
             How all too high we hold
            That noise which men call Fame,
             That dross which men call Gold.
            For these we undergo
             Our hot and godless days,
            But in our hearts we know
             Not unto us the Praise.

            O Power by Whom we live—
             Creator, Judge, and Friend,
            Upholdingly forgive
             Nor fail us at the end:
            But grant us well to see
             In all our piteous ways—
            Non nobis Domine!—
             Not unto us the Praise!

          2. Oh gosh – that got me reading that to the tune…….
            At our last year reunion in 2019 we did have a rendition of that!

        2. Bungay Grammar School, as was:

          Clarior usta rogo – Brilliance from the flames. The school burnt down at some dim and distant past but was rebuilt.

        4. Ex Hoc Metallo Virtutem was mine – I think it mean ‘out of ***** comes virtue’ I can’t remember the *****, might be ‘courage’
          Quarry bank High School, Allerton, Liverpool

  27. The Capitol riot was not an attempted coup. Spiked 11 July 2022.

    Former GOP congressman Joe Walsh went even further, declaring after one hearing that: ‘It was proven today that Donald Trump intended to lead an armed insurrection. He… wanted to take the Capitol, and he wanted to go to the Capitol with them to be installed again as king.’ Intense stuff, and Walsh and Hogg were not alone. Hashtags and slogans ranging from the simple #CassidyHutchinson to ‘We almost lost our country’ flashed around Twitter and Facebook – sometimes trending – for days.

    That they didn’t possess any arms is a pretty good indicator of this being preposterous bull. It would have been the first unarmed coup in history. The real purpose of this ridiculous charade is to get Trump on legal charges that will prevent his standing in the next Presidential Election.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/07/10/the-capitol-riot-was-not-an-attempted-coup/

      1. Joe was and still is a great member of the brilliant Eagles band, but not so convincing as a solo artist.

        1. Joe was a member of The James Gang well before he joined The Eagles. His best performances came then and when he went solo with songs like Life’s Been Good and Rocky Mountain Way. On this particular video he looked “high” or “pissed” (or both!).

          1. I think he use to inhale.
            But he’s pretty handy on the guitar.
            I’ve been a fan from the start. I love songs that have a good story.
            But Desperado needed another verse. I wrote one but I haven’t seen it for ages. It buried amongst all my music books. It’s nice to see Glen Frey’s son with the band.

          2. Joe is Pete Townshend’s favourite guitarist. The wonderfully intuitive dual-guitarship Joe had with Don Felder was superb. I saw them, back in 1996 at the old Wembley Stadium during their Hell Freezes Over tour. Marvellous.

    2. The word democrat has become synonymous with dishonest. Look at our Liberal Democrat Party, look at all the tyrannical states that have the word Democrat in their titles.

      In the US the word Democratic has become synonymous with mendacity.

  28. My TV encounter with Alastair Campbell showed everything that is wrong with the Left
    They claim to be empathetic yet have zero interest in how other people think
    Tim Stanley: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/11/tv-encounter-alastair-campbell-showed-everything-wrong-left/

    Alastair Campbell was Blair’s Cummings but Campbell was very much nastier than Cummings and he was – as Blair’s chief executive officer and leading agent – one of the key architects of Britain’s annihilation.

    If he insulted Stanley look at his behaviour towards Douglas Murrey!

    https://metro.co.uk/video/alastair-campbell-walks-piers-morgans-row-2724711/

  30. There is a suggestion that the UK electorate will only continue to support a green agenda under a new leadership.
    As the temperatures drop the reality will become clear that the black stuff is in fact quite green:

    Over the years, rich countries have invested heavily in clean energy. Now they are in a mad rush for alternative sources of oil and gas and even ramping up use of coal – once painted negatively as “dirty energy”. Germany, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands have planned to revive old coal plants, while the Netherlands may reopen an onshore abandoned gas field.

    https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/dirty-coal-gets-clean-nuke-power-has-no-fault-any-more-either-455846

    1. 354135+ up ticks,

      Morning AO’E

      We could be on to two winners in winter by burning lab/lib/con politico’s, current supporter / voters
      at the stake in the grounds of old peoples homes.

      “Chuck another politico on the fire granny”,

      Poetic justice methinks,

      1. Morning ogga1,

        You haven’t mentioned the importance of the polling booths for a change.
        They may well be needed this winter as firewood which is quite acceptable as a biofuel under the current boiler upgrade scheme.

        1. 354135+ up ticks,

          AO’E,
          I do believe my wonderous idea is
          anti freezable by being feasible, we kick of with 650 polos, then we have a good percentage of the 48% who still wish to be foreign captives.

          Warning, leave the greens to lasts to season.

    2. Another side to the green story (scam) a la Netherlands. Because the CO2 scam appears to be losing (has lost) credibility, nitrogen is now the bête noir, despite plants, trees and people needing it to breathe.

      It just confirms how twisted is ‘green logic’.

  31. Good morning all

    Fine blue sky , no sign of contrails . 23c

    Moh playing golf , another competition .

    I am listening to the new chancellor being interviewed by Kay Burley .

    He is rather irritating to listen to, ( not in a nasty way.) he doesn’t mind public scrutiny, sadly he has a faltering delivery when speaking , too full of errs and umms, thankfully he isn’t glib and full of himself , but he is determined to succeed as PM.. Baghdad comes to no 10 !!!!

      1. A tax avoider is surely just what we need as chancellor? Someone who understands how disgustingly high taxes are?

    2. TB, you should have listened to the speech by Sir Keir Starmer on Sky.

      Absolutely no interruptions, we were even shown the full standing ovation at the end

      .A full twenty minutes of his belief in Labour policy.

      Hope that Sky management is suitably rewarded.

    1. Back now – and I’m glad you’ve continued to be naughty, on a variety of subjects.

        2. No, it is real- the council were told to change the wording so as not to cause offence.

          1. Who “told” the council? Can’t imagine our local council reacting to anything said by a human being.

          2. I would presume that they changed it to, “In Loving Memory of Huw Davies who used to sit here and shout,”Fuck Off!’ at the seagulls.”
            Less clumsy and so less offensive to pedants.

  37. I think I’ve just discovered how we end up with such terrible PMs in recent years. The 1922 committee seem to be stuck in a long narrow rut. Leading to a cliff edge.

      1. It’s because they lie so easily and readily.
        I was taken in by Bliar himself. At the time anything seemed better than John Major. Another useless POS.

        1. The demonisation of the Tories under and after Major was another time when the MEEJAH put it’s full effort into destroying the Party.

        1. I see her face when I look in the mirror and I hear her words when I open my mouth.

          2. Well – I do have her genes….. but I think the dead live on in the memories of those who knew them. Others, more widely known for their art, literature or music, live on in their works.

        1. One is so rarely surprised by events that way.
          Just disappointed.
          Arternoon, Ann. How you today?

          1. Not too bad, thanks. Wound seems to be healing OK. The weather certainly helps my mood.
            You must be worn out! Been through it and it’s exhausting physically and emotionally. And surprising what you find or can’t find, come to that. Will relate a story to that effect later.

      3. Some years ago I looked in the mirror and I had become my father. Quite recently, I looked again and my grandfather looked back.
        From where the sun now stands, I will look no more forever.

      1. I tried to borrow that at the library, but the librarian told me that she did not like me and I could clear off.

  39. https://twitter.com/Chris_G_Pearson/status/1546178451798986753

    Is this the reason there are so many hungry children .

    Location and tattoo prices in the UK
    Tattoo costs in the UK vary massively depending on the area or location in which the tattoo artist is based. This is because the artist or studio will adjust their rates accordingly to suit the average prices for the area.

    Take the north-south divide for instance. In London, hourly rates tend to be around £150, however, in Leeds, you’d be looking to pay between £80 – £100 an hour for a good tattoo. The average daily rate in the north of England is around £500 and in the south, it can be anywhere between £600 – £800.

    1. I really can’t see why people want to deface themselves in this way. they don’t look too good on old wrinkly skin – those most of those are small ones done when the skin was young. Imagine what these huge ones will look like in years to come!

      1. I met an old sailor and he had wrinkly skin. His small maritime oriented tattoos were entirely illegible, even on close inspection.

      1. One looks like she has been swimming in the La Brea Tar Pits and the other looks like Raquel just spotted a pterosaur.

      1. Yes – we had a very good day – not too much traffic on the M5 and lots of people turned up for the Open Day, which was only confirmed when Mark checked the weather forcasts – last year was wet.

        1. Glad you enjoyed it, N. We love our local NGS and Hospice garden openings, the next batch are three within walking distance of home.

    1. Heatwave

      Don’t go out, take water with you if you do.
      Wear a hat, remove your winter coms,
      Have a shower, open windows only at night.

      2. A mouldy sausage?

        I’m for a government of national unity. Linda Lusardi, Liz Hurley. PM and Chancellor. I’d watch every PMQs going.

        1. He’ll get away with it, his working for the global wreckers known as the elite.
          You’ll see, He’ll be team mates with Blair and call me Dave and all the other destroyers.

    1. I was coming out of Oxford circus station. And a guy sitting out side shouted any change mate ?
      Nah I said still in the 6 bed detached with two acres in Harpingyarr two Beemers in the garage. 3 youngsters at St George’s. Working hard 250 k a year.
      How about you mate any change ?

          1. Like the Big Issue sellers – In Inverness I saw a Romanian woman who had been selling them get picked up in a top of the range Range Rover

          2. Not likely. When in my first job as a waiter. HMRC estimated my tips and taxed me £10 a week. Wether i got any tips or not. They could do the same with beggars.

          7. When I was a trainee Hotel Manager we used to compete for the customer who regularly left 6d (2½p) at breakfast. It made no difference though, the Irish ‘boss’ of the dining room collected all the tips and shared them out at the end of the week. She kept half and we shared the rest. She called it a tronc system which, in French, can be a box pierced with a slit, where offerings are placed in a church or chapel or just a box.

          8. I am familiar with the tronc.

            I once worked in a Greek Taverna where we were limited to £2 a night in tips. The thieving boss skimmed off the rest. That was in 1980.
            The last place i worked as a waiter they called it a pourboire. He didn’t steal the tips but we were taxed on them.

            In a large 5 star hotel the tips can become enormous so i understand there is an admin cost, but to take half is just thievery.

            Antonio Carluccio was one of the worst. He said the staff should be paying him for the privilege of working in his establishment.

          9. £2 a night in tips? – We only got £1 10/- a week in wages. Some people don’t know when they are well off!. 😀 😀 😀

          10. £5.50 for a straight 7 hour shift. No breaks. On Tuesday nights i ran the kitchen and front of house on my own until 9.30 pm when his fat lazy wife would make an appearance. Because of the stress i missed charging a table for a bottle of wine. He made me come in and work the Saturday for nothing.

        4. How odd of God to choose the Jews!

          But not as as odd as those who choose a Jewish God and spurn the Jews.

    2. We are also being told that we are about to follow New Zealand in measuring and taxing climate polluting cow farts.

      You think that food prices are high now?

    1. Coffee IS a diuretic. It will remove water from your body. However, unless you’re eating the beans there’s more water going in than out.

      Having had a blood clot and getting to the point of 30% lung capacity, it is no fun. For anyone who suspects such, take half an aspirin and see if you feel better. If you do, call the doctor – fast. No, sod that. Call an ambulance.

  49. Warqueen comes out of her office for a bit. We pass on the landing. Normally the best survival tactic is to avoid her glare, look at the floor and hide.

    However she comes out and says ‘Why are you breathing like Darth Vader?’ I realise I am, an asthmatic steam train. I’m going to crack open a bottom of oxygen and sit in an ice bath.

  50. Making clearing progress, but slowly. Stopped for lunch, a cider would go nicely with the sandwich… but there’s only wine! Oh, well.

  51. “Alienation is the precise and correctly applied word for describing the major social problem in Britain today. People feel alienated by society. In some intellectual circles it is treated almost as a new phenomenon. It has, however, been with us for years. What I believe is true is that today it is more widespread, more pervasive than ever before. Let me right at the outset define what I mean by alienation. It is the cry of men who feel themselves the victims of blind economic forces beyond their control. It’s the frustration of ordinary people excluded from the processes of decision-making. The feeling of despair and hopelessness that pervades people who feel with justification that they have no real say in shaping or determining their own destinies.”

    From a speech made yesterday?

    https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_167194_smxx.pdf

    2. Durkheim: alienation and anomie. It was about at least in the late sixties when I was studying sociology.

      1. I’ve never looked at this, and just had to look up anomie. Interestingly, when I was in Ireland in the early 70s discussing the Troubles, I used the example of solidarity and interdependence as something that should suggest that maybe there should no be fighting. I’d arrived at the notion of solidarity on my own. I’d also seen the flaws called car bombs. It was, on reflection, friction caused by the clash of mechanical and organic solidarity, and simultaneously a clash of two societies separately bound by mechanical solidarity.

  52. A local bar in North Yorkshire was so sure that its barman was the strongest man in the village that they offered a standing £1000 bet.
    The barman would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran out and challenge any man to squeeze out another drop.
    Weightlifters, arm wrestlers, they all tried and lost the bet.
    Then one day, a scrawny little man, (if he stood sideways you would not see him) wearing scratched glasses, a ten year old polyester suit, walked in and said, “I’d like to take on the bet.”
    After the laughter had died down, the barman said, “Okay”, grabbed the lemon and squeezed away.
    Then he handed the wrinkled remains of the Lemon Rind to the little man.
    But the Crowd’s laughter turned to total silence….as the man clenched his little fist around the lemon….six drops fell into the glass.
    As the barman paid the 1000 Quid bet, he asked “What do you do for a living?
    Are you a lumberjack, a metal worker,
    a weight-lifter, or what?”
    The little man quietly replied:
    “I’m a Tax man.
    (sorry, I know it’s clean)

    1. I shall send that to my chums.

      I know a tax inspector. On a holiday together folk asked what he did. He said he was a civil servant. He and I share similar attitudes toward tax. His because the tax code is such a mess that no one gets what they want and that if taxes were lower, they would, provable raise more revenue from more people.

      The problem is politicians can’t sell lower taxes on the rich because people are stupid and treasury officials like complexity because it keeps them in a job.

    2. ‘six drops fell into the glass’ Couldn’t have been a real taxman – a real taxman would have got half a pint and some!

  53. 354135+ up ticks,

    What Changed? Conservative Party Leadership Challengers Suddenly Promising ‘Red Meat’ Tax Cuts

    What Changed? Conservative Party Leadership Challengers Suddenly Promising ‘Red Meat’ Tax Cuts

    I cannot understand how a Hindu chap like sunak can promise red meat on any issues being that ALL cow are seen as being secrete, excepting for treacherous treasa..

  54. Electric aircraft severely damaged in test flight over Cranfield

    An electrically powered aircraft had to carry out a forced landing after its battery was switched off as part of a flight test, a report said.

    The modified Piper PA-46-350P was undertaking “experimental” tests when it “suffered a loss of power to the electrical motors”, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said…the report also said the experiment team “had a high workload and there was pressure on them to achieve a long duration demonstration flight by the end of May 2021”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-62086128

    Well, I suppose the Wright brothers had a few teething problems as well…

    1. Ran out of flex and pulled the plug out of the socket.
      Happens to me every time I hoover (prior to blowing it up which is my other talent).

  55. Phew!! Knackered and the sweat is dripping off me!
    That’s the last of the concrete ballast taken up the “garden” to beside the mixer ready for use. 18 x 20kg (approx) bags filled and hoiked up onto the woodstack and lugged up the path.

    I’m off for a cold bath!!

    1. I fully understand the sentiment, however just remember that cold water has your skin has nerves retract from the surface which when they hit hot air will make you sweat more.

      Warm water has the responders closer to the surface, so when you get out and into hot air you’re already at temp so sweat less.

      Frankly, my best advice would be to stay in the water. I’ve always wanted to design a bath that has heating/cooling loops around the outside to keep the water either hot or cold, depending. However I’ve also wanted a bath that was 7 foot long and 4 foot wide and deep, so I could lay in it.

    3. 28°C in the shade here, I may have to turn the fan heater off. It is always cold in my ancient longere (Breton farmhouse). Don’t like the cold!

      1. Our house stays cool in the summer and cool in the winter until it has warmed up.

        1. Mine is cool in the height of summer and bluddy freezing in winter. It warms up in the early hours because the thick stone walls act as a heat reservoir. I suspect yours does too.

  57. I see that Untrussworthy has promised to promote “Conservative core values”.

    That adulteress would not recognise a “core value” if it jumped up and bit her on the nose.

    1. Hire car, pre-purchase tank and a half, drive off and siphon fuel to jerry can, return for the full tank, siphon, return for other half, siphon that and return hire car paying for a full tank.

      Simple, just be sure you have enough jerry cans.

    2. Interesting. Our daughter is coming over from (dirt cheap diesel and petrol) Dubai on Sunday and has been trying to hi Rena car. Apparently they are like gold dust. Alf finally sourced one from a small local company. She had been trying to lease a car for a year but no-one’s doing that long a lease.

          1. The price of second hand cars is rising. She might get back more than she paid for it ! At the very least she will cover her cost outlay.

  60. Reports are coming in that the Moggster is mulling over the idea of throwing his deerstalker into the ring

    1. I’m not sure that he would make a good PM though I think he would better than many of the other contestants.

      However, I think he would be an excellent deputy PM to David Frost.

      1. I think Smogg is a better candidate than the present rabble. I believe he might find his backbone if given the chance. Your friend, Frost, doesn’t look like he is going to risk it.

  61. Weather eh? Just had an email from my mate in GA- they haven’t had any rain for close to 3 weeks and had 6 inches yesterday. She said her weeds are now flourishing.

        1. Thanks Tom. I always assume people know all the US state abbreviations. Shouldn’t really. She’s north Metro Atlanta, not far from where I used to live.

          1. That’s OK, Ann, I’ve been in the USA several times, mainly AZ, CA, NC, FL and VA.

          3. Ohio is OH. My daughter in law did her masters and PhD at Ohio State.
            There isn’t an NA– there’s NV, Nevada; NE, Nebraska and NH, New Hampshire.
            It is confusing though especially with the O, I and M states.

          9. Funnily enough, I have some idea through doing (attempting!) cryptic crosswords.
            The same with chemical symbols that I could never remember at school.

          11. I always have to look them up. They appear from time to time in crossword clues.

  62. Good afternoon. Watching the Telegraph prosing abut how the Tory party can restore its integrity reminds me of those jolly tales, from Henry Fielding and others, of brothel madams’ ingenious ways to restore the virginity of their ladies of horizontal refreshment.

    I post here a thoughtful analysis of the Russian perspective by Paul Craig Roberts and others. Let the propaganda witter on, but it’s in its death spiral.

    https://tarableu.substack.com/p/the-russian-perspective?sd=p

    1. It’s truly astonishing how he got elected. The man is clearly ill. Almost classic histrionic personality disorder.

      Corruption, fraud, theft, criminals, thieves, weirdos.

      1. There was a time not so long ago he would have resigned but now he is celebrated. No wonder the country is in trouble.

        1. What a challenge for Labour and the LimpDums; how do they find candidates even more pervy than him?

    2. Safety advice for Mr. Wallis.
      You shouldn’t wear heels when driving.
      Or, now it’s summer, strappy sandals.

          2. The was a young Vicar from Tring
            Who thought a lot about God
            And such things.
            But his one earthly desire was a boy from the choir
            With buttocks like jelly on springs!

          5. I thought Yanks called jam “jelly”. Isn’t “Jell-O” a proprietary brand of jelly full of artificial flavours and colours?

    3. This “man” should not be an MP. It is not that he’s a transvestite but that he is deeply neurotic and unstable!

      1. Good afternoon, Grizzly

        Have you really shaved off your beard?

        The Tasteys seem to be more like Jacob than Esau but we do not resort to wigs, toupees, or merkins or even a hairy goat’s skin.

        My son Christo, who is getting married in ten days time has just shaved off his beard, which is a good thing as it was a pretty feeble beard. I wore a beard for six months in my 40s but it was not a great success even though our boxer, Rumpole liked chewing it when he was a puppy; however I had a moustache when I was at university and it has been with me most of the time since then.

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9d0de24ffaff974e6315dc881b3d56146e7bf21b5c68be48163c360de2c410d9.jpg

      2. The sight of this chap in high heels, wig and a tight leather mini skirt must have terrified the witness who must have wondered if it was a wind up. But the MP must be a cat lover, having crashed his Merc avoiding a cat, so all is forgiven. And if you believe that…..

  64. Essay title for “A” level General Paper:

    “The Twentieth Century was the century in which people were given freedom and liberty; the Twenty First Century is the century in which these things will be taken away.”

    Discuss

      1. One of the things that I find strange is that so few “A” level students – even those heading for A* grades – are actually encouraged to think.

    2. “It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries.”

      Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

      “Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.”

      Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

      It is far too warm to think clearly … but if it is our duty to resist them , how can we do so ?

      2. 354135+ up ticks,

        Afternoon TB,

        By building a party of resistance, it has to happen eventually, sooner
        done bloodless than later & having the blood bank crash through
        public demands.

    3. Discuss? OK.

      The generations that lived between the start and midway through the 20th century possessed physical and moral strength coupled with monumental fortitude. They looked after their own and fought with vigour to safeguard the family, the tribe, the neighbourhood and the country, especially from those insurgents who wished malice and ill-will against the nation and its inhabitants.

      Unfortunately these good people did not instil the same virtues or backbone into their offspring and successive generations, who got softer and more stupid as time passed. An undefended insurgence of those with Left-wing tendencies malevolence infiltrated every single corner of society spreading their vile gospel of hate and brainwashing the ingenuous populace. The loss of all “privileges” that are taken for granted by a free society is directly the fault of those modern generations who, by their own vacuousness, failed to grasp the message of history and who were cluelessly mesmerised by those with malign intent.

      I give way to the next in the queue who wishes to continue this discussion.

    5. 354135+ up ticks,

      Afternoon R,
      Many odious issues in the United Kingdom that plague us now going back decades have been with the peoples majority consent obviously not learning from recent history and evil actions portrayed again & again.
      They suffer the equivalent to the Stockholm syndrome under the illusion that the party politico loves them as he/her/it loves them the party / politico’s, proven by the kiss X of consent again & again.
      Modern political history in the United Kingdom should bring forth a maths lesson, aside from the current lab/lib/con imbecilic majority voter there are still a good many
      common sense peoples who know that, forget the mass clapping take to mass slapping, a good slap has solved many a problem.
      With the same problems abroad things have gone far worse seemingly soon to have a body count.

  66. Mohammed is now the most popular boys name in the United Kingdom.

    Co-incidentally, Mohammed is also the most unpopular boys name in the United Kingdom.

        2. Yep, which is all the Old Testament dietary laws were actually about. Written way before refridgeration and it wuz bluddy hot. (Somehow – I don’t know how – spellcheck has been switched off for Disqus and Twitter on my work laptop so I can rite anyfing without it complaining, correcting or substituting…)

    3. First two. Bottom right isn’t pessimism, it’s optimism. And will never happen. It’ll just get hotter and hotter and hotter.

      Not cider, but certainly lots of cold water.

  71. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e1c87da1f7cef76735a08d55d0e4ceb4bc11ca206f801cd2d790d9ce930e38c6.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9a74fefd97062081bf97a856eb8aad13960b247bccb76ad71225cbbf511dd970.png I’ve just baked the most delicious and intensely-flavoured bread cob I’ve yet tasted. To make it involves quite a bit of faff and time, but for those who have those commodities aplenty, I suggest that your time will not be wasted. This bread is not a sourdough. It’s flavour is as intense as a sourdough but without the sourness: it is the most “bready” bread and is so moreish. The nearest I can compare it with is a good French pain de campagne. Yes, it takes a bit if planning (the preferment takes three days to mature) and you bake it the day after kneading it. The wait is worth it though. It may become my “standard” loaf from now on. I hope at least one of you tries it.

    2. Looks bloomin’ good Grizzly – careful on the butter though! It’ll be £50 a microgram by the end of the week!

      1. I’ll have to use something cheaper then. A mix of extra-virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar as a dip, maybe?

        I’m looking forward, four-or-five days hence, to see how it toasts.

    3. Grizz, did you use semolina to line the bread basket. I need to buy some more flour is too fine to be able to stop the pre bake sticking to it.

      1. No, Eddy. I just used the same strong white bread flour as in the recipe. I might try semolina next time (I always use it when making pizzas).

        1. I gave up making my sour dough it alway became stuck in the long or round basket. And usually flopped onto the baking tray losing its shape.

        1. I have a collection of cat flaps that suit the weather. My Deutsche Bundesbank catflap (made from an old moneybag) is best in the sun, and the wickerwork one suits too. Lots of ventilation.

    5. Looks and sounds good, but I’m hooked on my sourdough, which is quite finicky but burned into my brain after 18 months of making it. I’ve also moved from the dutch oven to Pyrex bowls.

  72. UK weather: ‘Extreme heat’ alert for Sunday as Met Office warns of life-threatening conditions. 11 July 2022.

    A spokesman for Southern Water, which manages the water supply in the coastal south-east of England, said: “When the weather hots up, we all use more water and we can see our daily demand jump by hundreds of millions of litres.

    “Drier weather means less rainfall too, and this year we have experienced long periods. The places that we extract water from to supply our customers, like groundwater, rivers and reservoirs, will be lower.

    The mind boggles!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/11/uk-weather-heatwave-2022-hosepipe-ban-hottest-temperatures/

    1. The Kennet & Avon Canal has a number of restrictions on the navigation. Locks are being locked from 4:00pm until 10:00 am to limit the number of single boat passages (it is a wide beam canal so two narrowboats can share. The top pound is several miles long and without a fair amount of rainfall in spring /early summer it becomes too shallow to navigate. Just as well my boat is on the River Wey….

      1. I have walked the length of the River Wey and Godalming Navigations (not all at once, natch). Whereabouts are you?

          2. “Well, Crondell Send Ripley!”. – Four settlements in close proximity in Surrey!

    2. Instead of building thousands of houses and HS2 route , the should have thought of a N/S water pipe line and more reservoirs . idiots .

        1. All part of the water management system – for Spain. This is the root of EU incompetence: their regulations are blanket, not local. Pan national policies are idiotic.

          1. And meanwhile our perminately self obsessed political idiot’s have no apparent concepts of the obvious problems they have caused.

        2. Meanwhile rubbing in the irony by shoving hundreds of thousands of consumers across the water in rubber boats.

      2. I was musing this – if climate change was really a rational thesis then we would be building homes appropriate to the impending chaos. Namely, thick walls – 2 foot or more, painted white, covered with solar panels to protect from the heat and cold. Big gardens simply because you’d need them to grow food and store water.

        Instead they keep building cramped, small, thin walled houses. The state keeps importing tens of millions of additional mouths to feed.

        1. Some of the new housing estates have terrible narrow windows , and they don’t seem to have top openings either the space.. Too much concrete everywhere .

          The TV has just announced it is 42c in Southampton .

          1. Alexa tells me it is 28 inside. She’s lying, of course. I put a quiche in the oven for lunch and I couldn’t tell if the oven was on as it was no hotter inside it than in the kitchen.

      1. Serving the over populated Midlands.
        Many people who traditionally only wash in running water.

        1. We’ve had another dry winter and spring in Northants. Four of the last six years have been below average, two of them by 30%.

          2. Indeed. And after the great floods of 2007 and 2012, wetter summers as well.

          3. Indeed. And after the great floods of 2007 and 2012, wetter summers as well.

          4. Since the massive unprecedented, unwarranted increase in population I can’t imagine what would happen in this country if we had a drought similar to 1976.

    4. UK to be hit by life-threatening 100F heatwave on Sunday: Met Office warns it could be too hot to work or travel and says deadly heat could leave homes ‘without water, gas or power’ in ‘tinderbox Britain’

      Temperatures will hit 33C (91F) today and tomorrow, 29C (84F) on Wednesday and 28C (82F) on Thursday
      Forecasters say this weekend could see 36C (97F) with some even predicting a staggering 43C (109F)
      UK’s hottest day of 2022 so far was June 17 when Santon Downham in Norfolk got up to 32.7C (90.8F)
      Met Office says highest temperature ever recorded was 38.7C (101.6F) in Cambridge on July 15, 2019
      Level Three heat-health alert from UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) runs from today until Friday

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002227/UK-heatwave-travel-Rail-tracks-set-alight-spark-ignites-timber.html

    5. Now we get the illiterate stating the bleedin’ obvious but back in the summer of ’76, I remember notices asking folk in York to refrain from trying to cool themselves by jumping into the River Ouse from Ouse Bridge because there really were people doing it and it really was dangerous.

      2. The Ouse is close to twenty feet deep under Ouse Bridge at normal river levels. In summer there’s no dangerous currents. It’s not tidal. Only danger really is people with an inability to swim or not looking out for boats.

        1. As I recall it was the boats that were the problem. A bit of a fashion developed and people thought it was fun to jump. I can’t swim so I was never tempted :-))

          1. More boats on the Thames and people swim in that every day. I’m like you, I swim like a brick so I’ve never been tempted either.

            A strong swimmer with good spatial awareness though will be fine diving from Ouse bridge. Plenty of water below, the drop to the water is about fifteen feet from memory, the currents are placid too, but yes it’s a heavily used waterway so you have to time your jump right.

    7. What gibberish. Long periods – menstruation? Rivers are lower – than what? Mountain tops?

  73. Graham Norton is married! £24m presenter ties the knot with partner in lavish wedding in Cork Dreary Fail headline.

    I believe they had puff pastry in place of the usual wedding cake. His husband’s name and birthplace have not been revealed – but he is almost certainly a Cock-ney lad from the sound of it.

    1. “a Cockney lad from the sound of it” – so born within the sound of Bow Locks?

    2. How old fashioned I must be. When I read that headline, I wondered who the lucky lady was…..

      Oh well…

      1. How often have ‘lucky ladies’ found out too late that when they married their husband was still in the closet?

  74. ‘Coming soon to a town near you!’

    No mention of eco-madness and China…

    Sri Lanka’s tragedy is a lesson to us all

    It is painful to see the mess it is now in, brought to its knees by an economic crisis

    TELEGRAPH VIEW • 11 July 2022 • 6:00am

    Sri Lanka is no stranger to calamities both political and natural. The long and brutal civil war with Tamil separatists cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Sri Lanka’s coast was hit by the tsunami triggered by the Boxing Day earthquake in the Indian Ocean 2004, killing thousands more.

    But the economic collapse that has overwhelmed the country in recent months has resulted in the worst crisis since independence in 1948. It has led to a breakdown in law and order, which at the weekend saw a mob setting fire to the home of the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe. Both he and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa are in hiding and have agreed to resign to facilitate a “peaceful transition of power”.

    Galloping inflation partly caused by economic mismanagement, combined with the knock-on impact of the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine on food and energy prices, have brought Sri Lanka to the edge of bankruptcy. The central bank recently defaulted on the national debt for the first time, requiring an intervention by the International Monetary Fund which has yet to be settled. In the meantime, Sri Lanka cannot get credit for imports and there are shortages of food, fuel, medicines and other essential commodities.

    Much of the blame attaches to the Rajapaksa family, Sri Lanka’s most powerful political dynasty, whose members have been accused of corruption and incompetence.

    Many British people will have visited Sri Lanka and enjoyed its history and welcoming people. There is also a sizeable expatriate community in the UK. It is painful to see the mess it is now in, brought to its knees by an economic crisis that should be a salutary lesson to us all.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/11/sri-lankas-tragedy-lesson-us/

    1. If they had kept the name Ceylon, and remained a British colony – none of this would have happened and they would be happy and prosperous.

      1. And we’d still have tea chests to use when moving house, and to collect woodworm.

        1. I still have three tea chests (in fact, two of them are supporting the board on which this computer rests).

    2. BTL are calling out the utter bollox of this article and pointing out the real reason
      Insane Greeniac policies!!
      No fertilizer,no pesticides
      No rice to eat or tea to export
      UN/WEF nitrogen policies coming to EVERY country they can impose it on
      It’s a death spiral unless we stop them somehow…………

    3. Didn’t they mention the stupid policies of no fertiliser and no pesticides? What a surprise that yields dropped!

    1. Very. Par 4 for me today.
      Wordle 387 4/6

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        1. The winning word is the same for everyone – every twenty-four hours, Bill.

          You should give it a go; its a rejuvenating daily challenge – without ladders!

          2. I spent most of a day trying to find out what to do. Baffled.

            I just stick with The Times cryptic (an hour), the Spectator ditto (two hours) – and the Times “baby” cryptic (15 mins) – which – at her advanced age – the MR has learned to do every day.

    3. #MeToo, sweetie ! … x

      Wordle 387 3/6
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      🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    4. An odd par 4 for me.

      Wordle 387 4/6

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      1. Ditto

        Wordle 387 4/6

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    1. The protests don’t get a single mention on the BBC website. Being TV (and Licence) free, I had to ask my brother today if he had seen any mention of the Dutch protests on the MSM. “Nothing” came the reply.

        1. Unofficial censorship by the MSM. I believe Nigel Farage had a report and interview on GB News.

  77. Earlier on, before the sun moved round to shine on the yard thermometer, it was 24°C out there and 16° in the pantry.

          1. Given that there is next to bugger all to water up the garden and besides that, it’s a good 10′ at least above the level of the bathroom, no.

          2. Pump. Bucket. Where is your initiative, Robert?? And you a Sapper, too…. Tsk, tsk…

          3. If I ever get so far as to actually plant things up there, I have my plans!

    3. Where are the photos of your work, Robert?. We have been waiting all day…{:¬))

  78. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002457/Who-earth-Rehman-Chishti-People-left-baffled-unknown-bids-Tory-leadership.html

    What on earth?

    ‘Who on earth is Rehman Chishti?’: People left baffled as relative unknown who arrived in UK unable to speak a word of English before becoming a barrister announces his unlikely bid for Tory leadership
    Mr Chishti raised eyebrows in Westminster by becoming the 11th Tory candidate
    Critics have insisted that the field in the leadership battle is already too crowded
    Politician was confronted outside Parliament by anti-Brexit activist Steve Bray

    Mr Rahman described arriving in Britain from Pakistan in 1984, aged six, unable to speak English. He has already joined the candidates in promising lower taxes – but wants to spend more on mental health services

      1. Parliamentary candidate and councillor
        At the 2005 general election, Chishti stood as the Labour Party candidate for the Horsham constituency.[16] He later joined the Conservative Party, and was selected as the candidate for the marginal seat of Gillingham and Rainham, whose predecessor seat of Gillingham had been held by Labour by less than 300 votes in 2005.

        Chishti was elected as a Labour member for Gillingham North ward on Medway Council in 2003. At the following council election in 2007, he was elected to represent Rainham Central ward as a Conservative. Having become the Conservative MP for the area in 2010, he was re-elected as a councillor for Rainham Central in 2011 and 2015. He stood down at the 2019 council election.[17][18][19][20][21][22] He was appointed to the Medway Council’s Cabinet in 2007 as the Member for Community Safety and Enforcement, becoming the youngest Cabinet Member in Medway’s history.[23] He also served as an Adviser to Francis Maude (against whom Chishti had stood in Horsham in 2005) on diversity when Maude was Chairman of the Conservative Party in 2006.[24]

          3. You wouldn’t believe how many in positions of power on Councils and in Whitehall.

          5. This one, Bill?

            A Poem for Black History Month (October 2020)

            In the matter of racial comparisons
            The media shouts to the moon,
            About all the historic achievements
            Of the Redskin, Spic and the Coon.

            Yet strangely, when strolling museums,
            The white man’s creations stand thick;
            But all we can find of those others
            Is a blanket, a bowl and a stick.

            No telephones, timeclocks or engines,
            No lights that go on with a flick.
            No aeroplanes, rockets or radios.
            Just a blanket, a bowl and a stick.

            Not one Sioux Indian submarine,
            No African ice cream to lick,
            Not a single Mexican x-ray machine,
            It’s a blanket, a bowl and a stick.

            So, remember when history’s the subject,
            And revisionists are up to their tricks,
            The evidence tells quite another tale,
            Of a blanket, a bowl and a stick.

            A poem by A. Wyatt Mann

          3. Worthy Oriental Gentleman – nowt wrong with that.

            In fact, we should consider calling our illegals, as the Americans called the Italians – WOPs which stood for With Out Papers.

    4. He popped up in the news today.
      I’m reasonably informed on British political – and especially Conservative – matters, but I’d never heard of him.
      As I listened to him hitting every bullsh!t bingo target, I realised why he’d never registered. The interview was painful.

      1. Did English blokes ever spend all their time, when at home, wearing a suit and tie?
        If the answer is “yes”, then why?

          1. Standards of what? Why on earth would anyone wish to spend all their time at home dressed like a dog’s dinner (with shoes on too). Sounds a bit anally-retentive (not to say pretentious) to me.

          5. The country was a far better place to live in when people had high standards. (There is such a thing as low standards).

            But wearing a suit in the house doesn’t signify high standards; it signifies an inability to relax, pompousness, pretentiousness, as well as being puffed-up, hidebound and full of oneself. In a nutshell it is simply not normal.

          8. It is an irrebuttable (unassailable) presumption of fact that one is what one eats.

            Ergo, someone who routinely eats lumpy, dense, stodgy items (such as bread pudding, for example) naturally becomes lumpy, dense and stodgy, especially in their head. We are, indeed, what we eat.

          1. I could hardly believe all those old and younger chaps in jackets and ties in that heat at Wimbledon yesterday. An Over staged all round draw in one Upman’s ship, In what ever occurs heat wise,
            why ?
            “I say do know who I am” ?…….err not really you over heated daft old sod.

        3. When my father came home from work his suite and tie went back into the wardrobe pdq. He spent most of his spare time in productive gardening.

      2. Looks EXACTLY like my Mum and Dad in the evening, after dinner. Father enjoying his pipe; Mother finishing the Daily Telegraph croseword (sic)

  80. Just in from half an hour’s watering. The well is holding out, bless its 50ft heart. Clouded over and pleasantly cooler. Rather frustrating to see that it is raining about 20 miles north – over the sea.

    So far we have definitely lost one well-established hydrangea. Tough. Keeping the well for stuff we eat…

  81. Yet more Met Office scares.

    UK to be hit by life-threatening 100F heatwave on Sunday: Met Office warns it could be too hot to work or travel and says deadly heat could leave homes ‘without water, gas or power’ in ‘tinderbox Britain’

    Funny how 100ºF sound so much hotter and MUCH more dangerous than 38ºC.

    1. Keep windows and curtains closed that face the sun. Only open windows or doors to the shade. Drink dry Martini’s.

      1. “Drink dry Martini’s.” Does that mean, make a bucket of Martinis and drink it dry?

        1. Dean Martin saw an ad which read “Drink Canada Dry”. So he went, and he did”.

  83. I’m launching my bid for leadership of the Conservative Party with my eco-friendly immigration policy (two birds with one stone and all that).

    The UK reception point will still be in Rwanda but rather than cross the Channel in dinghies and then be flown there, those seeking to live here will be required to stay in the dinghies and paddle/motor direct to Africa.

    That will save the carbon emissions from the flights as well as the carbon footprint from the Border Farce and RNLI boats. It will also demonstrate a real desire to move here.

    (hoping that the human rights lawyers don’t realise that Rwanda is land-locked)

  84. Brilliant – you have to larf and larf and larf:

    “https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002219/Thats-not-cricket-Indian-police-break-fake-league.html”

  85. I made the mistake of watching one of the videos – Untrussworthy.

    DIRE – UTTERLY DIRE

      1. There is a contest for the leadership of what used to be know nas the Conservative Party. The fuckwit contenders have prepared promotional videos – to show you just how utterly unsuitable every single one is.

        THAT is what I was on about.

          1. He was my Godfather’s grandfather.

            Just saying.

            (I thought that “Untrussworthy” was a sufficient clue – to anyone who follows politics…{:¬)))…)

  86. So – what a future. SEVEN of the candidates are black. Most NOT born in Engerland.

    A takeover or a takeover?

    Thank God I am old

  87. Filing cabinet had to be opened by locksmith. In it, found the service record of Fusilier 21038416, Royal Fusiliers, aka my Father! I never knew that!

    1. 2103? National Serviceman during the ’50s?
      Mine begins 2414 from 1968.

    2. These original documents can be worth a lot of money. As with other stuff from the attic.

  89. That’s me for today. Looking forward to supper in the garden (again) but nicely cooler. Hake with home grown veg and salad.

    I had a new experience at lunchtime (Gosh, I hear you all cry). A huge (3 inch) slug appeared on the terrace just as we were starting lunch. From the dregs of my memory came a story about slugs and salt. I grabbed the salt cellar and poured salt over the beast. Blimey – within three minutes it was “late” and in ten the corpse was being removed by helpful ants.

    Anyway – have a jolly evening honing your promotional video.

    A demain.

    1. You should be careful of doing that. Those slugs can explode and decorate your lunch.

    2. Make a slug pub by pouring beer into a container and sinking it into the soil with the lid off. Remember only to use Foster’s or Bud, as these ‘beers’ are no good for drinking.

  93. Guy goes to visit his wife in hospital and at the side of this corridor is a man looking very glum. The guys stops and asks him what’s the matter . The man replied “I’ve just been told I have the worst case of piles the consultant has ever seen” The guy says “Is that why you’re sitting on a giant bean bag?” The man replied “I am NOT sitting on a bean bag!”

        1. How strange i posted that from my Mobile phone and it vanished, hence the repeat lower down.

          1. They didn’t show in the first attempt nor did the entire post, not sure what happened. I’m having a lot of annoying problems with my devices.
            My email has been hacked. It’s almost impossible to get virgin to do anything about it.

  95. Mark Steyn has just interviewed Lord Frost on GB News. Quite good. Hopefully online later.

    1. No! She has been photographed with Bill Gates, several times, and Bill Gates has written the foreword to her book. She is WEF/NWO through and through.

      1. I spoke to her when she visited our batallion on Ex in Kenya. She came across very well but I will rethink in light of what you’ve said.

        1. It is really difficult, there is a reason for all of them why you wouldn’t want to see any one of them PM, some more than others. What we need is a complete clear-out of the system, an Oliver Cromwell to walk in, or better still a latter day Guy Fawkes (added entertainment value).

    2. Fat slapper. Not called Penny Dormant for nothing. Unable to grasp ANY detail…Useless. In spades.

      1. She says trans women are real women. Don’t let her get anywhere near the levers of power!

  97. This heat is taking its toll on me, I’m obviously not anywhere near as fit as I used to be.
    I’m off for a lay down. I hope I’m not going to be longer than intend to be. 🤔🥴

    1. Two of the worst things to be suffered in a heatwave: a hangover, which I don’t have, and a filthy cold, which I do. It developed rather suddenly this afternoon, with a banging headache, rasping throat and a ripping cough. ********.

      1. Could be covid. Take care WS.
        I think I have caught a cold from my two and half year old lovely grand daughter. She’s been showing how to blow raspberries. She couldn’t quite pronounce it properly, but I got the gist. And so did I. 😉

      2. You would be well advised to turn the filthy cold into a hangover.
        I would recommend large whiskies, cloves and lemon juice …

        Phizz would prob recommend loads of dry martinis; Grizz would probably add Angostura …

      5. Covid 99 – you’ll be dead by the weekend.

        We really appreciated your great knowledge of railways.

        The buffers are in sight…. Farewell 2-6-4…

        (Just joking…possibly)

        1. You’re all heart!

          During the 18 months of the madness, I had nothing more than a couple of slight colds. Ironic…

        2. If that doesnt get you, heat warning Amber, level 3, extreme danger to life, do not leave the building, will certainly extinguish all known life forms over pensionable age. You have been warned by Big Brother and Auntie).

        1. There’s a lot of it about….

          Hope you’re feeling better soon. A good night’s sleep works wonders.

        2. Everywhere is so dusty and dry, and the harvest is being gathered in , quite early really..

          The heathland is smothered in heather flowering , many shades of pink and purple .. but tinder dry .

          Surprisingly not many bees either.

          Relax and take it easy,

          Moh was away playing golf first thing , and didn’t return untill 3pm, he is still full of energy , and I feel really drained , I have never ever coped with the heat even when I was super fit . He played golf yesterday as well ..

          He looks so brown and I am not , we are from different planets .

  98. Grahame Linehan’s weekly update contains a few disturbing bits, especially his entry for Sunday highlighting an increase in the decline of the Church of England:-

    A Week in the War on Women: Monday 4th July – Sunday 10th July

    Monday 4th July – Leave Them Kids Alone
    WOMEN’S RIGHTS NETWORK: Vulnerable girls in the state’s care could be forced to share accommodation with teenage boys if they claim to ‘identify as female’.
    The Ministry of Justice Youth Custody Service (YCS) will allow the children and young people in secure children’s homes and training centres to ‘self declare’ their own gender. They will consequently be placed in a unit appropriate to their ‘acquired gender’ rather than their biological sex.

    The policy, which will be implemented by the autumn, could allow boys aged 16 or 17 to ‘identify as female’ and, therefore, be accommodated in the same units as girls as young as thirteen.

    “Girls entering the children and young people’s secure estate already tend to have multiple and complex difficulties, including high levels of mental health difficulties (generally resulting from prolonged and/or pervasive experiences of sexual abuse/adversity), significant self-harm risks and many are neuro-diverse.”

    Tuesday 5th July – These Are Not Our Crimes
    SOUTH WALES ARGUS: A trans-identified male paedophile is back in prison for the third time after breaching his sexual harm prevention order.
    Joshua Harvey is a paedophile who was jailed in 2018 for five counts of attempting to incite a girl to engage in sexual activity. In 2020, only weeks after his release from prison on licence, he was found approaching young children and ‘bragging about being a paedophile’. He also approached two teenage girls in a shop with sexually suggestive comments, making them feel intimidated and uncomfortable. On that occasion, he admitted two breaches of his sexual harm prevention order and was jailed for two years.
    This week Harvey was again in court, having been found in possession of an illicit electronic device. He admitted breaching his sexual harm prevention order and was sentenced to 24 weeks imprisonment.

    This report of the case in the South Wales Argus never mentions Harvey’s real name or sex and readers are left with the impression that this recidivist sex offender is a woman called Leah.
    https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/20254021.caerphilly-paedophile-jailed-breaching-sexual-harm-order/

    Wednesday 6th July – Leave Them Kids Alone
    THE TELEGRAPH: Allison Pearson writes about the ‘trans hype’ that is pervading schools, harming pupils and keeping parents in the dark about their own children.

    “At a London girls’ secondary school, a new teacher was given a printed form to help him navigate parents’ evening. The form had three columns. In the first was the student’s name. In the second was the pupil’s preferred non-binary (invariably male) name, if she (they/them) had one, which a lot did. The third column was the one that made the teacher sweat. It indicated whether the parents of the girl knew she had adopted a new name and gender at school which, it turned out, many mums and dads did not. Under no circumstances was he to tell them.”

    Pearson describes how the pernicious ‘cult’ of gender ideology is spreading through classrooms, persuading alarming numbers of children that they can choose to be a different sex or none at all. Of course, those worst affected are girls, especially girls with autism, who are vulnerable or have suffered past trauma and rocketing numbers of adolescent females are seeking treatment at gender clinics. It is, says Pearson, a sad fact that girls suffering from anorexia are separated in hospitals because they encourage each other’s condition. The same is happening with gender in schools.

    She also discusses the teachers who are ‘useful idiots’ for the ‘increasingly militant trans cause’ and happily cheer on the pupils changing their names and pronouns. Other teachers look on in horror as impressionable teenagers are pushed down a pathway to synthetic hormones and life-altering surgery but they are often too frightened to speak up for fear of being branded a bigot, so are intimidated into silence or feel compelled to leave the profession altogether.

    Parents are frequently kept in the dark about their children’s new ‘identity’ in case they are ‘transphobic’ or ‘unsupportive’ ie have misgivings about their child being turned into a life-long medical patient.

    “The Government needs to conduct a full review into what schools are teaching children on sex and gender and compel them to show the material to parents. Oh, and schools must disclose if Sophie is called Sam at school. This is urgent. Our daughters’ lives depend on it.”

    Thursday 7th July – The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen In Berlin
    REDUXX: A German university cancelled a lecture on human biology after complaints from trans activists.
    https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1545132845764599808

    Biologist Marie-Luise Vollbrecht is a former teacher and research assistant and is currently a PhD candidate at Berlin’s Humboldt University. Last week she was scheduled to give a presentation on the evolution of biological sex at a multidisciplinary event, The Long Night of the Sciences, which is held annually at scientific institutions across Germany. The purpose of this event is to ‘answer to fake news, conspiracy theories and fatal errors’ through science.

    Vollbrecht’s lecture drew upon her research in neurobiology and animal physiology. It was intended to explain why there are only two sexes from a biological point of view and why they should be separated from debates about social gender roles.

    Trans activists launched a vitriolic campaign against her, claiming that her scientific research is ‘hostile to queer and trans people’ and that she personally is ‘transphobic’. The General Students’ Committee emailed the organizers of the event demanding that Vollbrecht’s lecture be cancelled.

    A group of university students who call themselves The Working Group of Critical Lawyers, the AKJ, called for a protest demonstration. They commandeered the university’s email server to message the student body in order to swell numbers.

    Bowing to increasing pressure from students, the university decided to cancel Vollbrecht’s lecture.

    Nevertheless, the trans activists still held their protest. They displayed a banner which read, “No platform for anti-feminism, transphobia, right-wing ideology, and unscientific views. Fuck off.”

    8th July – “Administrative Error”
    At 6pm on Friday, the LGB Alliance tweeted that they will be running a stand and attending a fringe event at the forthcoming Lib Dem conference in September.
    https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1545452708009762816

    Only an hour later the Liberal Democrat CEO, Mike Dixon, responded to the LGB Alliance to contradict their announcement.
    https://twitter.com/mikedixn/status/1545468040711651329

    He said that he had ‘checked with the team’ (between 6pm and 7pm on a Friday evening) and there had been an ‘administrative error’.

    A UK charity dedicated solely to supporting the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people has been ‘disinvited’ from attending the Liberal Democrat conference.

    According to the information contained on the Electoral Commission database, in the years 2013 – 2019 a company called Ferring Pharmaceuticals donated at total of £1,439,258.27 to the Liberal Democrats.

    Ferring Pharmaceuticals manufactures and markets Triptorelin which, sold under the brand name Decapeptyl and others, is used in gender clinics as a puberty blocker.

    Sunday 9th July – The New Religion
    THE TELEGRAPH: The Church of England’s Bishop in Europe has claimed that there is ‘no official definition’ of a woman.
    Church of England officials are currently engaged in a project entitled Living in Love and Faith which is intended to explore issues of identity, sexuality and relationships within the Church. A lay member of the Synod submitted a written question to the General Synod, the Church of England’s legislative body, asking, “What is the Church of England’s definition of a woman?”

    The Bishop in Europe, Dr Robert Innes, replied, “There is no official definition”.

    He continued, “Until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought to be self-evident, as reflected in the marriage liturgy. The LLF project however has begun to explore the marriage complexities associated with gender identity and points to the need for additional care and thought to be given in understanding our commonalities and differences as people made in the image of God.”

    According to its own website, “Church of England ministers can not carry out or bless same-sex marriages”. If sex is so unclear and without official definition, how does the church ascertain which couples aren’t welcome to wed?

    Furthermore, the Church of England’s General Synod barred females from being ordained until 1992 and from becoming bishops until as recently as 2014. It certainly seems able to recognise an ‘official definition’ of woman when knowing which sex to discriminate against.

    https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/a-week-in-the-war-on-women-monday-fd2

  99. You know , I expect all the muzzies will JOIN the Tory party so that they will be able to vote to get a Muzzie in power , and I daresay all the Hindu ‘s and others will do the same .

    I have a good mind to join , just to have the ability to vote !

    1. 354135+ up ticks,

      Evening TB,
      Leave it to the electorate
      majority as with the referendum call being, “we won now leave it to the tory’s (ino)”
      The muslims are currently in chrysalis form within the host party, ( the original latch lifters)cannot be long now when the time to devour the host and emerge is upon us, thanks to the the sell out via the death wish coalition.

        1. He’s thinking of a parasitical larva inside a host body – which will pupate and then burst forth fully formed, after devouring the host (ie indigenous English people). Actually he could be right.

          3. Alien is a great film!

            However it was pitched as Jaws in space, and Peter Benchley has since become an advocate of shark protection. Don’t get me wrong, I’m terrified of the buggers but they hunted by morons.

            In fact, every man hunting an animal is a moron. (and yes, I know man is an animal – I’ve often suggested that these ‘hunners’ be hunted to see how they like it. )

    3. As Mohammed was the most popular boy’s name in UK recently, we had better get used to slammers holding political power.

      1. No one else drawing a correlation between the number of foreigners in cabinet and the expansion of corruption, fraud and theft in government?

        How about between welfare fraud and muslim numbers? Or blacks and drugs and stabbings?

        ‘Di-worse-ity’ has brought nothing but misery.

  103. Going back to bed- have been there since early evening. No cold symptoms but feel nauseous and worn out.
    See you tomorrow.

    3. Hope you feel better, Lotl, take care, all will be better tomorrow…don’t we all hope!

    1. Apologies Belle but “nearly a billion has been wasted on criminal gimmigrants this year alone. “

    1. Rrightly so. Have you seen the amount HMRC take when you don’t make efforts to avoid it? It’s more than 80%. 80.

      They can feck off. Make it 15% and we can talk, until then, do one. All you are is jealous, bitter and envious. You want to punish people who make more than you.

      You want to raise revenue? Bring cash home? Have that money earned here, spent here? Cut taxes.

      The Warqueen was equally as dismissive but less waffly, as she just scoffed and sneered.

    2. The same all over.

      If they would make it no benefits of any kind for the first year legally in the country, it might cut down on the number of migrants. Whilst at it, cut benefits so that working is worthwhile.

      There, fixed half of the world’s problems

    3. A large number of those people have a non-job that is funded from the public purse!

      3. My mother was the wire mother. In a family of 6 children and two parents working full time (my father worked 7 days a week) there wasn’t much love and affection to go around. I was mostly brought up by my elder sister who i believed until the age of 10 that she was my mother. She left home and later married and i was lost. The only physical contact from my parents was when i was being punished.

  108. “Mo Farah is not my real name and my life story was fake, says Olympic champion.”
    So a slammer not being entirely truthful, gosh what a surprise.

    1. So his knighthood is invalid then (seeing as it was conferred on someone who doesn’t exist).

  110. Evening, all. Didn’t manage to get the swimming pool up (it was muggy, rather than sunny and I was busy doing other things), so finger still intact at the moment 🙂 I doubt the Tory party wants to restore integrity, to be honest. They seem happy to be part of the united sleaze conglomeration.

      1. The PCC meeting went on and on (new rector and a very full house didn’t help brevity) so I was late getting home. Good night.

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