Monday 13 September: Excessive patient demand means GPs can no longer prop up the NHS

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  1. Pope urges Hungary to ‘extend its arms to everyone’ in veiled Orbán critique. 13 September 2021.

    Pope Francis has urged Hungary to “extend its arms towards everyone” in an apparent veiled critique of Viktor Orbán’s anti-migrant policies, as the pontiff began a four-day visit to central Europe in his first big international outing since undergoing intestinal surgery in July.

    Francis, 84, appeared in good form during his visit to Budapest, presiding over a lengthy mass and standing as he waved to crowds from his open-sided popemobile. He used a golf cart to avoid walking long distances indoors and confessed at one point that he had to sit because “I’m not 15 any more”. But otherwise he kept up the typical gruelling pace of a papal trip.

    Morning everyone. I understand that they are having trouble fitting all those “refugees” into the Vatican!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/12/pope-urges-hungary-to-extend-its-arms-to-everyone-in-veiled-orban-critique

    1. He’ll have a shock when he wakes up one morning to find St. Peter’s has been converted into a mosque.

      1. 338800+ up ticks,
        Morning A,
        No more so than the multitudes supporting the lab / lib / con / green coalition, after the head is replaced then replacing the haft via the polling booth asking,
        ” whos Country is it any more”

      2. Perhaps that is the real reason in keeping the muslims out. He doesn’t want to see St Peter’s burned down to the rock.

    2. Once a few thousand ‘refugees’ are camped out in the Vatican, someone might actually hear (and act) if he’s feeling unwell.

    4. This current Pope is looking very much like an agent of the Adversary. He is a supporter of open borders. He is crushing, even forbidding, traditional Catholic practices.

    5. Jorge Mario Beergoglio Alias Pop(sic) Francis, one time pub bouncer and floor sweeper, is an immigrant from a family of immigrants (they just keep swapping countries). The Roman Catholic Church has lost its way. Once upon a time it would have defended its faith against the murdering heathens, now it prays for them and invites them in. If you deliberately welcome plague, pox and pestilence into your household, don’t be surprised if you catch something nasty.

    1. 338800+ up ticks,
      Morning C,
      Lest we forget via the three monkeys there are a couple of contenders for that title keeping in mind the brexit group last outing.

    2. If the government minister says we are not getting vaccine passports, we are getting vaccine passports.

  4. The Graun and their ilk can’t miss a trick. They make me sick

    Emma Raducanu victory sparks debate over multiculturalism in the UK
    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/sep/12/emma-raducanu-victory-sparks-debate-over-multiculturalism-in-the-uk

    Patrick O’Flynn
    Emma Raducanu’s amazing triumph does not belong to the left
    12 September 2021, 4:59pm

    Emma Raducanu’s amazing triumph does not belong to the left

    It didn’t take long for the open-borders brigade to try and politicise the magnificent feat of British teenager Emma Raducanu in winning the US Open women’s singles.

    Rather than just revelling in the general outbreak of joy in the country, or praising the astonishing maturity of Emma’s performance, the usual blue-tick suspects piled onto Twitter within minutes of her victory to argue, or imply, that the fact Emma was born in another country (she moved here from Canada aged two) proved that immigration in all its guises is always a good thing.

    Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera stated the case plainly: ‘Half Romanian, half Chinese. Born in Canada, brought up in the UK. Immigration enriches us, and always has done.’

    For Actor Adil Ray the teen prodigy’s win was a victory against mysterious and unspecified ‘haters’. He tweeted: ‘Emma Raducanu the immigrant from a Romanian, Chinese, Canadian family grand slams the haters. This is the Britain we love.’

    Then there was David Schneider, taking a moment’s respite from his Brexit rants to note: ‘Bloody immigrants! Coming over here, making it from qualifying to win the US Open without dropping a set.’

    Our old friend Alastair Campbell took things even further, suggesting that Emma’s win ought to lead to the Government abandoning attempts to bolster border controls and using it to attack Home Secretary Priti Patel – herself a daughter of immigrants who has made a career in high-level UK public service.

    Campbell tweeted: ‘Isn’t it great to be from a country where a child born in Canada to Romanian and Chinese parents can come to Britain aged two and become a GB national heroine within 16 years? Let’s try and keep the country that way shall we @pritipatel ?’

    This degree of oversimplification would be laughable coming from self-righteous sixth-formers. To see it emanating from the mouths of a supposed intellectual elite is frankly bizarre, though not surprising seeing as the very same thing happened when Somalia-born Sir Mo Farah was winning Olympic gold medals for Britain. Even to gently point out that Sir Mo’s achievement trajectory was hardly typical of the cohort of Somalian migrants as a whole was to invite opprobrium.

    It should not need stating that immigrants are just people. Some go on to do great things for their adopted countries, some do terrible damage. Most, like most of the rest of us, just get by and generally do their best. As a phenomenon mass migration needs managing and controlling, impacting as it does on a wide range of public policy issues from social and cultural cohesion to pressure on public services and labour market conditions.

    No doubt Ms Patel does want to keep the talent stream Campbell referred to open. But she also has to worry about a country where a child born in Libya can come to Britain aged 17, get permission to stay having claimed asylum, be convicted six times for 15 crimes as a young man and then go on to commit mass murder in a park in Reading aged 25.

    As Home Secretary she must give due weight to findings such as those of the House of Commons Library in July last year about the number of foreign nationals doing time in prisons in England and Wales.

    As of March 2020, there were more than 9,000 foreign nationals accounting for 11 per cent of the entire prison population, including almost 1,000 Albanians, 835 Poles and 806 Romanians. None of these guys had been put away for making a positive contribution to Britain, but instead for victimising law-abiding citizens. Yet whenever Ms Patel attempts to deport foreign national prisoners, left-wing campaigners and liberal human rights lawyers do their utmost to thwart her.

    So no, Ms Raducanu’s amazing triumph does not make a case for the Government attempting to stop illegal entry into the UK via the south coast dinghies or even to restore the free movement that led to wage compression in working class jobs after EU enlargement 15 years ago.

    It certainly does, however, make a case for the merits of our multi-racial society where anyone from any ethnic background can make the most of their talents on national or international stages. Almost all of us support that ideal.

    Isn’t it curious that under the Left’s definition of who counts as a foreigner, encompassing British citizens who arrived in the UK as toddlers, there is another amazing success story to be celebrated? But I predict that Hell will freeze over before Mr Campbell ever tweets: ‘Isn’t it great to be from a country where a child with Turkish heritage born in America to liberal intellectuals can come to Britain, aged three months, and become a Brexit hero and UK prime minister half a century later?”

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/emma-raducanu-s-amazing-triumph-does-not-belong-to-the-left

    1. BTL on Freddy Grey’s Speccie article

      There Wolf • 20 hours ago
      It all started going downhill when journalists became activists and tweet compilers.

      Saying “outrage on social media” sounds so much more dramatic than “four people wrote an angry letter to the Guardian”.

      I’m exaggerating of course, the Guardian doesn’t have four paying customers.

      Captain Detterling • 18 hours ago • edited
      Well played, Miss Raducanu: a wonderful achievement. But more importantly, well done to Mr Campbell, to whose shining humanity and compassion she obviously owes so much.

      As it’s obviously very important to Mr Campbell that we keep conflating a managed immigration policy with uncontrolled illegal immigration and an incurious asylum system, I would like to join him in hailing the resourcefulness of Miss Raducanu for paddling single-handedly across the Atlantic in an empty maple syrup barrel, her sole possession – and a reminder of the vicious Canadian civil war she was fleeing – a single blood-stained snow-shoe to be used as an oar, and the implement with which she subsequently taught herself to play tennis.

      Of course, in terrible old dreary racist Britain, this was the only way she could escape the disadvantages of being cursed with married parents in gainful employment, a devoted, stable upbringing, an education and a Christian faith.

      1. Strange how they appear to be almost completely ignoring the British player who won two titles at the US Open. Both the men’s and the mixed doubles. Presumably he’s insufficiently diverse and alphabet soup.

          1. Male, white, heterosexual British born and bred with two white parents; apparently Christian.

            Absolutely nothing going for him and plenty for the woke to hate.

    3. ‘Morning, C1. My blood pressure knows better than to allow me anywhere near the poisonous tripe printed by this country-hating leftie rag. The sooner it goes bust, the better.

    4. “Brexit hero and UK prime minister half a century later” In some people’s eyes perhaps.
      Did she really not lose a set, that’s amazing.

    5. Latest immigration tick-box just added:

      What is your athletic status*?………………………………………………………..

      *If ‘none’ start training by running back home – hop it!

    6. “It certainly does, however, make a case for the merits of our multi-racial society where anyone from any ethnic background can make the most of their talents on national or international stages. Almost all of us support that ideal.”
      Well actually, if you look arounfd the world, there do not seem to be any countries where anyone can walk in and be treated as a citizen. Almost all countries have more pride and discretion that that. In fact they make it very difficult indeed. Only in the UK, led astray by corrupt politicians and insane theorists, are the natives betrayed, ignored and undermined so carelessly and easily.

    8. As I pointed out here yesterday, Paul Mason can be added to the list of apologists for mass immigration exploiting Raducanu’s triumph.

  5. Boris Johnson’s tax disaster condemns Britain to years of decline. 12 September 2021

    Like many erstwhile Conservative supporters, I was both dumbfounded and dismayed by last week’s tax increase – sorry, new health and social care levy. Yet this threatens to be just the beginning. Demographic factors alone will ensure massive increases in the demands on the NHS and the care industry. Unless these services are fundamentally reformed, under this Government’s approach, the result will be even higher taxes and a slide into an even more statist Britain. We need to be clear about how we got here and what the alternatives are for the future.

    Alternatives? Is that a choice between Catastrophe and Calamity? Boris has finally revealed himself in all his Hideous Glory. He’s a Socialist in a Conservative disguise. Ever since the election Jeremy Corbyn has lurked inside that body like some Alien implant awaiting its moment to break out and slaughter the poor innocent dupes who voted for it!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/09/12/boris-johnsons-tax-disaster-condemns-britain-years-decline/

    1. 338800+ up ticks,
      Morning AS,

      Agreed,
      They are and have been for at least three decades an expanding, with the greens, coalition.

      The “poor dupes” imo have taken the odious thing BACK
      on board after every landing / take off giving “it” succour all the way these last 30 plus years.

      Peoples do not have to go far back to see written verbals
      saying ” make boris Pm he makes us laugh, plus post
      referendum, victory, now leave it to the tory’s”

      This now ex long term UKIP member ( fruitcake) asks
      ” Post 24/6/2016 went the day well did it “

  8. I understand from a quick look through yesterday’s later comments that it’s Anne Allen’s birthday.

    I am therefore belting out “Happy Birthday dear Anne” at the not-inconsiderable top of my voice. That should wake up a few people between East Yorkshire and Colchester!

    Hope you have a lovely day, Anne.

  9. SIR – In 2001, I was the first immigration liaison officer to be deployed to the Balkans to help prevent illegal migration using that route. Debriefings suggested that many migrants making their way to the Channel, and then to Britain, had paid for their journeys using funds derived from benefits or working illegally, remitted by relatives who had already made the journey successfully.

    The irony that we are paying the French to stop people travelling as well as paying the smugglers and traffickers is not lost on me. In addition, many who arrive will be defended by legal representatives paid with public funds.

    Tom Attwood
    Turvey, Bedfordshire

    1. An unpleasant chap called Hammond has started up this ‘charity’ and appointed himself as Chief Executive. One way or another, he’s obviously expecting to make the bulk of his income from the taxpayer.

      SIR – The CEO of the charity Human Rights at Sea says Border Force staff could be legally pursued by the families of any migrants drowned in the Channel during pushback operations (report, September 12).

      In other words, those trying to enter the country illegally can take legal action against the legal action of a force authorised by the British Government.

      George Kelly
      Buckingham

    2. Good morning, Deux Chevaux,

      Does anyone seriously believe that our politicians are not doing their very best to overwhelm Britain with people we cannot afford to support? Is it because they are corrupt, filled with hatred for the indigenous people or just plain stupid?

      1. 338800+ up ticks,
        Morning R,
        Never stupid, treacherous yes, far from stupid, does not put their continuing supporters in a good light to say the least.

        It is the plague of reset and the only vaccine is to be found in the polling booth marked X.

    1. Here in Colchester we have a similar site, Grimes Dyke. A pre-Roman earthworks to the south and south west of the modern town. The eastern end of the Dyke leads to the site of a Romano-British town on a large area called The Gosbecks. This large site is protected but housing is encroaching up to its eastern border.The march of bricks and concrete appears unstoppable as plans for housing on the local tennis courts at Shrub End, when examined, showed a much greater incursion on an area of the very large recreation ground that was provided for the large post WWII council estate where I was brought up. Shrub End recreation ground is very large and an obvious target for developers.

      1. Happy memories are there for me, my first boyfriend and early artistic experience.
        Is the dentist still there, next door?

        1. Yes, there is still a dental practice – the one we use.
          Years ago, a friend and her then husband lived in the flat above.
          They were asked to leave when their washing machine flooded, soaked the room below and the X-Ray machine fell off the wall.

    2. Grattis på födelsedagen, Nursey.

      I would have (of?) baked and sent you a cake but I couldn’t find enough flour to bake one big enough to hold all the candles. Does having (yet another) birthday ensure that you are excused step-scrubbing and bedpan-sluicing duties for 24 hours?

      Hugs from Sweden. 😊Hope you have a lovely day, 😘👍🏻🎂🥂🐻

    4. Jolly Happy Birthday Anne! Hope it’s a wonderful day for you and that you make the most of it! 🎂🍾🎉
      ps. How’s the bramble jelly?

      1. The bramble jelly is the biz. Mingey amount of liquid from the rose hips; we will see what transpires.

          1. Rose Hip jelly done. Tastes just like the syrup we were give as littlies.
            Very chuffed. I’ve put it in small pots as it’s pretty intense.

        1. After years of using the stairs to teach the grandchildren to count, I can now nip up and down them in the dark (16 steps, if you’re interested).
          I remember things rather falling apart once we got to 10; now they’re all better at maffs than I am.

  13. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4f34dadf9ee88efc57cbcd3fa836cb9bb371ffaa05052be474b72fff355a8ae4.png What a weird wanqueur you are, Wilson. You call for a Damehood to be bestowed upon a little foreign girl who beat some other little foreign girls at lawn ping-pong!

    “Sir Lester Piggott” has a better ring to it; but despite being a champion jockey and Derby winner umpteen times each as well as one of the best jockeys in history and serial winner for HM the Queen, he still goes punished for being clumsy with a tax return.

    Priorities, in the UK, went tits-up decades ago, and the exponentially-increasing stupidity of the species sees to it that they shall continue to do so.

    1. Well said, Grizz. On top of huge financial reward, endless paid endorsements and media worship, does she really need a worthless ‘honour’ on top of all this? Contrast this load of steaming BS with the person who tirelessly organised our local hospital friends for decades by spending at least day a week, year in year out, playing a leading role in the raising of funds for hospital equipment and the running of a social care day centre which provided a lifeline for the lonely…

      2. Morning, Hugh.

        Priorities have gone the same way as meritocracy. Both discarded in the New World Order.

    2. Morning Grizz. What decent person would want to join this convocation of Criminals and Fraudsters?

        1. Morning Bill

          What do you think of this is allabout then?

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      2. Ayup, Maggie.

        She’s not beaten me at Whiff-whaff. I was station champion before she was born! :•)

    4. Gee, Grizz, she just won a tournament, is apparently in line for £millions in sponsorship, and you’d deny her a Damehood for winning a second-class tournament. Where were the Williams girls – now they are good with a racquet. In any case, doesn’t putting your trousers on in the mornings count for a gong in the UK these days?

      2. Especially if you don’t need to sit down to put your trousers on; ©Sir Terry Wogan, late of this parish.

    5. Miss Raducanu is amazing, but as far as I can tell, the young champion should be entitled to citizenship in Canada, Romania and PR China, as well as the United Kingdom. At eighteen, it’s someone else’s problem, but if she has relations in China, she will need to tread carefully.

    6. I understand that Lawn ping-pong sounds better, but the US Open is fought on clay.

      I’m not sure but I think Wimblingdon is the only grass-court championship.

      1. There are lots of grass court championships, but only Wombletown of the “big four” is.

        The New York/US Open surface is technically “hard” made from a substance called Laykold.

      2. The official name of the sport is Lawn Tennis (despite the fact that lesser — moronic — nations can’t play on grass). It is administered in the UK by the Lawn Tennis Association. The official title of Wimbledon is the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. The international administrator of the sport began, in 1913, as The International Lawn Tennis Federation, the “Lawn” only dropped in 1977 due to a huge increase in idiots running the show who think that a major championship is a “grand slam”.

        I would dispute that any lawn tennis match is “fought”. Contested, maybe, but tip-tapping a ball back and forth over a net is not fighting.

      4. US Open is not on clay. The French Open is on clay. The US Open is played on Laykold while the Australian Open is played on GreenSet, both acrylic-topped hard court surfaces.

          2. I can’t identify which one from the photo but one of them is the father of one of our former students who was a very affable chap. Apparently the group made very little money out of the song.

            In fact the song was covered in America by Randy Edelman who writes film music. This song could be dedicated to our Birthday Girl:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2fQs_avDlw

    7. Ken Dodd, IIRC, was lax with his tax. But he became a “sir” eventually. I think at the time of the tax incident he claimed “he didn’t understand” or some such!

      1. Precisely. Piggott was just as confused by tax matters as Dodd was but still remain punished. Double standards.

    8. Um, Lester was hardly “clumsy with a tax return”! He was getting “presents” from owners and not declaring them – to the tune of quite a large amount of dosh. Then there were the stallion nominations (worth a fortune).

  14. 338800+up ticks,
    Morning Each,
    In their quest for power through reset they have opened the anti flood valve fully by way of DOVER, rhetorical chaff, smoke / mirrors ALL in play, a never ending line of peoples, patients, felons, potential troops on the march.

    YOUR MP / candidate within the lab/lib/con/ green coalition ALL awaiting
    to air their input.

    If the peoples cannot see / or refuse to see an orchestrated campaign of
    social destruction via the polling booth selection & selection has had
    deadly consequences in the past, then the country as a whole has a very,very, big mental health problem & that alone is getting topped up daily.

    Monday 13 September: Excessive patient demand means GPs can no longer prop up the NHS

  15. Mao 2.0? How Xi Jinping is remaking China with a crackdown on everything. 13 September 2021.

    Inside, elite Chinese officials gather here to study party history and political doctrine, at the core of which are the ideas of the country’s leader: the increasingly powerful Xi Jinping.

    Since taking charge in 2012, Mr Xi has pushed the party and its ideology to the heart of Chinese society, cracking down on anything that might pose a challenge, including by jailing political rivals and silencing dissent.

    It’s quite clear that Xi has become unhinged by power and sees himself as Mao come again. That makes two mental defectives at the head of the world’s two most powerful nations! What could possibly go wrong?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/09/12/mao-20-xi-jinping-remaking-china-crackdown-everything/

    1. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely ..”
      We are certainly seeing this now!
      I can’t believe the level of corruption in Washington, it’s endemic.

      1. Morning Rose. I suspect that most of it here is hidden. Since those carrying it out also control the investigatory machinery it is unlikely that it will be exposed.

      2. Eisenhower warned against it in 1961, he called it “The Military/Industrial Complex”. It is the driving force behind America and why it is constantly at war. And, when it isn’t, it is busily making enemies in order to justify its existence. A perfect example is the constant demonization of Russia. Gorbachev actually offered to become part of NATO. But, in doing so, it would rob the American of a major excuse to continue The Military/Industrial Complex, so they refused and went on a programme of vilification against Russia that continues to this day. Of course, the real enemy is China, but until recently the USA was making a tidy living from that relationship, so Russia was used to deflect the reality that the USA was cavorting with the real enemy. Russia has no intention of trying to outdo America or go to war with it. With an economy not much larger than Italy it is plainly absurd. But the The Military/Industrial Complex must have its excuses in order to survive and, in the process, it has corrupted the American system from top to bottom. It was Trumps defiance of this system, the Swamp, that insured he would never have a second term. He was far to dangerous to this system.

        1. Indeed.
          Putin is quite phlegmatic & tolerant, all things considered – I’m sure he understands what is going on.

    2. As I said yesterday, Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Xi is apparently fearful of actually leaving China because of opposition to him in the military and elsewhere. Apart from a brief trip to Burma, he hasn’t left the country for almost two years.
      https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/ChanakyaCode/growing-dissent-against-chinese-president-xi-jinping/

      And

      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-09/xi-jinping-hasn-t-set-foot-outside-china-for-600-days

  17. Cat News.

    Pickles slept in his usual place (rather than in a ball in a basket). Ate a normal breakfast – did and enormous wee and then went out for a normal sitting on – then disappeared into the garden – shrugging his shoulders and hinting that he didn’t know what all the fuss had been about. Phew! Cats, eh?

    Thanks to all for your encouragement.

    1. Perhaps he had a migraine?
      Do cats have migraine?
      That’s what I do …try & doze or sleep & stay very still until the pain eases off a bit.

  19. SIR – When a rare 4,000-year-old log coffin was found by chance under a pond at Tetney golf club near Grimsby (report, September 10), archaeologists from the University of Sheffield working on an excavation nearby were able to take the immediate action necessary to preserve it.

    Sadly, they won’t be around to help in future, as the archaeology department is being peremptorily closed by the university authorities.

    Frances Soar
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire

    Perhaps they should dig deep for funds….

    5. So how many millions does Frances Soar suggest that we fork out for how many years on the off-chance that another 4000 year old coffin will be found?

  20. Cut public spending before any more tax rises, demands Sajid Javid. Sajid Javid said on Sunday there should be no new tax rises before the next election after a grassroots backlash over last week’s tax raid. The Health Secretary said that cuts to public spending should be considered before any new tax increases if more money had to be found in the coming years.

    That him for the back benches.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/12/no-tax-rises-next-election-demands-sajid-javid/

          1. If she still has trouble she can take the cake to any BBC station reception – there are thousands of puffs in the vicinity willing and eager for a quick blow job.

  21. Travellers at the mercy of Covid test providers
    SIR – President Macron allows us to enter France with evidence of double vaccination and a sworn “statement of honour” that we have not suffered Covid symptoms in the previous 48 hours or been in contact with a known Covid case in the previous 14 days.

    However, to get back into our own country, where we were vaccinated, our Government requires evidence of a test in France before returning and a test on day two after our return to England.

    At least the French test is at a fair fixed price, whereas the British day-two test is at whatever outrageous price the testing company thinks it can get away with.

    If only our own Government had the same trust in us as demonstrated by the French. One has to wonder who is profiting from this practice, which is completely out of line with much of Europe.

    Ruth Gregory
    Bunbury, Cheshire

    It’s to discourage you from travelling, Ruth – do keep up.

          2. Apparently there was a shock horror story the other day – a van arrived and the chap was selling fish and ships…. Residents up in arms… Then found that, as he was on the public highway, there was nothing they could do to stop him.

          3. If he has enough customers to make any money and is only there for an hour or two, it cannot be considered a nuisance.

          4. But, but — in yer Frinton there are RULES. No hawkers, no traders, no circulars, no caravans, no campers (that’d do for you) – just The Shop. And The Restaurant.

            Apparently.

          9. The original scrawl was on a British Rail poster advertising:

            Harwich for the Continent under which some wag had written:

            Eastbourne for the incontinent.

          10. Odd how such things disappear into the mists of time.

            I’ve always thought of it as having been Frinton, although Eastbourne would certainly qualify as the butt (ho ho) of the humour.

          11. ‘Morning, Sos, my ‘mists of time’ go back to the days of British Rail so, “He knows, you know.” if you can remember that catchphrase but I’ve forgotten who it belonged to.

    2. …and of course, those evidential rules regarding French tests, UK test on day 2 and quarantine, also apply to the dinghy wallahs and are rigourously enforced.

  22. Abimael Guzmán, Marxist megalomaniac and former philosophy professor whose Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) movement inflicted a reign of terror on Peru – obituary. 13 September 2021.

    Abimael Guzmán, who has died in prison aged 86, very nearly became the Pol Pot of Peru.

    When he was captured in his upper middle-class hideout in Lima in 1992, it was far from certain that the government would prevail over Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the Maoist guerrilla movement that Guzmán had created and led. By the time of his capture, Sendero had terrorised the country and caused a civil war in which 70,000 people died. Peru seemed at the time to be facing the Apocalypse.

    Guzmán, like some other communist leaders, succeeded in creating a cult of personality without appearing to have much personality. Yet by some mysterious means his pronouncements, invariably couched in the dullest of dull langue de bois, seemed able to infect the minds of thousands of young followers and destroy their critical faculties entirely.

    Aside from the latter observation which applies equally well to Cultural Marxism in the UK and US, Guzman has something else in common with most other Marxist revolutionaries. He himself did not come from the “oppressed masses” that he spoke for. The reason for this strange anomaly is that the oppressed masses are usually too busy working for a living to indulge in philosophical debates, hence paradoxically all Marxist revolutionary movements are instigated by the idle scions of the Middle Classes! This also explains the collapse of Mao’s Cultural Revolution; as soon as the students were drafted from the cities to the fields and acquainted with the reality of work their enthusiasm for it faded into nothingness.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/12/abimael-guzman-philosophy-professor-marxist-megalomaniac-whose/

    1. It was the middle classes that started and ran the French Revolution.
      Never p!ss off the middle class; that’s why Johnson is ducking and diving.

  23. I note that the perpetually offended, Monaco living, impoverished multi-millionaire bame “driver” proved that blacks DO have thicker skulls yesterday when a car landed on his and he walked away. At least he lived to kneel again….

    By the way, am I alone in thinking it odd that the chap who nearly killed him didn’t bother to see whether he was alive or dead, but sauntered off to the pits?

        1. As Monday is a bit of a nonny day when it comes to celebrating, we’re doing so later in the week.
          On Wednesday, MB and I are going for a posh afternoon tea at a local restaurant.
          On Sunday, the family are taking us out to lunch.
          We should have been out with a couple of chums last Saturday, but they have been smut with a hefty cold, so we’ve postponed for a week or so.
          With all these extra birthdays, I’m beginning to feel like the Queen.

          1. Sounds as though you have a sparkling birthday week ahead of you.
            It looks very enjoyable and we’re sure you will.

  24. The Nursing Home
    One evening a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home and leaves her, hoping she will be well cared for. The next morning, the nurses bathe her, feed her a tasty breakfast, and sit her in a chair at a window overlooking a lovely flower garden. She seems OK, but after a while she slowly starts to lean over sideways in her chair. Two attentive nurses immediately rush up to catch her and straighten her up. Again she seems OK, but after a while she starts to tilt to the other side. The nurses rush back and once more bring her back upright. This goes on all morning. Later the family arrives to see how the old woman is adjusting to her new home.
    “So Ma, how is it here? Are they treating you all right?”
    “It’s pretty nice,” she replies. “Except they won’t let me fart!”

  27. Good Morning! Another fun week!

    We will shoot you! Thousands of armed men drafted in from other countries* will roam the streets of Glasgow. We will beat you up! We have stopped all traffic, searched houses and closed roads. We brook no opposition! We will not have objectors. We will smash protestors!

    How has it come to this? How, in the name of God, did our government think that any of this was the right thing to do? Surely if this was required to hold a conference, no decent human beings would hold the conference?

    *Confirmed by our MSP.

    https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/54EB/production/_120493712_cop26firearmrehearsal0909_frame_44447.jpg

        1. “The conference venue itself will become United Nations territory, guarded by armed UN personnel.”

          2. Why so much weaponry, I wonder? There wasn’t this level of excitement for the G8, or even my birthday…
            Are they expecting armed revolt? And, won’t it go down well if one of these fascists has a negligent discharge and shoots some innocent passer-by? Or, just decides to blow someone away for the hell of it, much as a cop looked like he was about to do in Australia recently.

          3. If a passer-by is shot they won’t be innocent, will they? Any enquiry will not be held for many years (current average 6+) and anyone involved will have retired.

          6. Reduce the population? – – They’d have to shoot a thousand a day – AND more – just to cover the immigrants that are here AND breeding faster than us.

          8. Well, God help us! Scotplod couldn’t be bothered to log an emergency call about a car accident. It was 3 days before the occupants were found. The guy had been dead since the accident and his girlfriend died 4 days after they found her. Unbelievably incompetent. And political.

        2. Is it me, or does Louise Skelton look like another Polder Defence Wall box ticker in high Police Office?

        3. Police Scotland invited the media to watch training at the Scottish Police College at Jackton near East Kilbride.
          The college’s chief firearms instructor Chief Inspector Colin McLellan said: “I would encourage members of the public to approach the officers and speak to them as normal police officers, first and foremost. “They are there to ensure public safety.”

          Hmmmm……and he said it all with a straight face…….

          3. Counter Terrorism Specialist Firearms Officers. Their SIG MCX machine guns have a range of over quarter of a mile. Some full metal jacket bullets will go through pretty much anything in the way of building materials, cars etc. Any use of these weapons in Glasgow will probably result in a massacre.
            However, available ammunition includes hollow point/expanding bullets, commonly known as dumdum. They mushroom when they hit their target and do enormous damage. Following the impact they lose much of their energy and so don’t carry on through the target. unlike full metal bullets. Because they cause truly terrible injuries these types of bullets are banned from use by military forces, so the Army may not use them in warfare. They are used by our police.

            This is what is going to be going on in Glasgow.

            For information on types of ammunition see;
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-point_bullet
            https://www.sigsauer.com/10mm-180gr-elitevcrown-jhp.html
            https://www.sigsauer.com/300blk-125gr-elite-match-grade-otm-1.html

          4. Expanding ammunition isn’t so effective against body armour, but very good against flesh.
            I have some in .30-06 calibre for hunting. Effective, it is.

    2. 338800+ up ticks,

      Morning HP,
      “How has it come to this? How, in the name of God, did our government think that any of this was the right thing to do?”

      Via the voting pattern & the polling booth, a simple kiss
      X gives consent, continuing the romance via having Stockholm syndrome seals jocks fate.

      Maybe bring back Johnie Stark.

    3. Because we have imported thousands of people who belong to a different religion , many of whom have come ashore in semi rigid boats or courtsey of the RNLI .

      Good morning HP.

      1. ” Because we have imported thousands ” – – and are STILL doing so – while they breed more than we do. live off our taxes, demand WE change to THEIR ways, RAPE our girls etc etc. – wonder what the end result will be ????

    4. The Government must truly believe that its environmental policies are so out of kilter with the view of the majority of its population that an armed force is needed to protect delegates to a conference. One could conclude that what the global elite dictate, the world will get. Hope attendees dont forget to bring a warm coat to Scotland in winter.

      1. The Tour of Britain spectators yesterday were wrapped up well. Overcoats, scarves and hats. Aberdeenshire in late summer.

      1. 338800+ up ticks,
        Morning M,
        If only, NO that is the in-house COMPULSORY reset dress code, 100% halal as will be the parliamentary canteen menu.

        The treason laws will be brought back for any found to be carrying a pigs trotter in their pocket.

      2. Truly appalling, especially since, in order to get there, these women are probably more intelligent than the thugs that forced them into these disgusting tents.

          1. If you think that women in an Islamic society have a choice about what they teach their children, think again. I grew up in an Islamic society and know better than that. Apart from the threat of divorce there is also the threat of Sharia which, if you are teaching your children the “wrong” thing could end in your death. When you have zero rights it is almost impossible to fight back or deviate from the norm without serious consequences.

          2. This is a common belief in the West. The truth in my experience is a bit more complex. There is no logic, but women cleave to the very system that gives them few rights. They choose to wear islamic clothes and follow the religion.

      2. That song was one of the nicest things from about 2012. Music’s gone downhill rapidly since then.
        All the lyrics are so wet, woke, whiney and teenagerish now.

  31. Do not promote BBC journalist who defended helicopter over Cliff Richard’s home, Tim Davie told

    Candidate for top news job defended decision to fly helicopter over Sir Cliff Richard’s house

    The BBC’s director general has been warned he risks undermining the Corporation’s impartiality and high editorial standards if he appoints a
    journalist who supported the decision to send a helicopter over Sir Cliff Richard’s house as its head of news.

    impartiality and high editorial standards : You are ‘aving a larf

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/12/do-not-promote-tainted-journalist-bbcs-tim-davie-told/

    1. Thank you for today’s ear worm!
      And I’d just checked the weather forecast to see if was worth hanging out the washing.

  34. Not everything in the Guardian is mad. This is a proper and sensible review of the BBC’s documentary ‘9/11: Inside the President’s War Room’.

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/31/911-inside-the-presidents-war-room-review-astonishing-and-petrifying
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000z8p5/911-inside-the-presidents-war-room

    If you haven’t seen it, set aside some time tonight. Bush comes across as a better president than he is given credit for…until the very end.

    1. I shudder to think how Biden would handle such a situation.
      I wonder if he (or for that matter any President) is ever required to war-game.

      1. Both the programme and the review are refreshingly free of typical BBC/Guardian opinion. You won’t be tainted by them!

      2. I’m honestly surprised that people still watch the TV. Haven’t done it for years and it certainly isn’t any loss. Brought a 39in computer monitor and watch exactly what I want, free from propaganda in programmes and adverts. If you do that there is an embarrassment of choices, including news that isn’t incessant propaganda from the left, Sky Australia, for example.

          1. Yes. If you don’t use a TV, a passive activity, you have to search around and in doing so you find things you would otherwise miss. End result, far better informed.

    4. I watched that programme on Saturday. I’m still not sure whether it was the same programme I had watched some years ago on a documentary channel: if not, then very similar as it was a unique day for films, videos and photographs.
      After the horror of the events, what I found disturbing was the unpreparedness of the US Air Force to get fighter cover up to protect Bush and his entourage in Air Force One.

      Evil stalked the World on 9/11 and continues to this day.

  35. A letter in the Telegraph, from a retired border official, suggests that the large sums these illegal immigrants are paying to the people smugglers are sourced from the money sent to them from relatives in UK who are claiming benefits . . .!!

    1. I made a BTL comment with reference to this letter.

      It strikes me that our politicians are all corrupt and filled with hatred for the indigenous people. Is is possible that they could actually be so damned, plain stupid not to know what is going on?

  36. 338800+ up ticks,

    Lest we forget,
    These issues are GUARANTEED with a lab/lib/con coalition vote so YOUR support is still very necessary for more of the same.

    YOUR vote means you do NOT suffer alone for your Judas kiss X, you
    can have your kids . grand-kids suffer also.

    11:25SEREN HUGHES

    Residents frightened for their children
    One resident told our reporter at the scene that they were frightened for their children and grandchildren.

    They said: “Can you see how many bullet holes in this bloody close here where we live over the years? It’s frightening when you’ve got your kids and your grandkids here. It really worries you. It’s just madness.”

    1. So more testing of healthy people to divine whether they’re going to get sick? Have they tried chicken entrails? Maybe even treat people who actually ARE sick?

    2. So the blood test shows you have cancer – and the NHS (clap) does SFA to treat you. Ever.

      Ain’t Britain wonderful?

  40. Is China about to invade Taiwan? Spiked 13 September 2021.

    Finally, we must remember that war is not a wholly rational enterprise. That means it may come when we least expect it. Analysts believe the CCP would have to undertake one or two months of obvious preparations before being ready to invade, giving the rest of the world clear warning of its intentions. But let’s not forget the surprising speed of the fall of Kabul – all the warning in the world might not be enough.

    The West is in disarray and demoralised so if not now when? . Let me say if I woke up tomorrow and they were going at it, I for one wouldn’t be in the least surprised.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/13/is-china-about-to-invade-taiwan/

  41. Daily Fail on a returned bracelet of an airman betrayed to the Germans and murdered:

    The bracelet, which is engraved with his
    name, service number and RAF wings,
    was initially unearthed by a local girl
    watering flowers in July 2918.

    How far sighted of them. They usually haven’t a clue what’s happening today.

    1. I too have a small invasion of butterflies and day moths. They love the mint and the pink flower (forgotten its name). There is about forty of different sorts there at the moment.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ad240e16a0dca85b335f8ef0a65b8044d590193a4163f131a2d00fafe71200ec.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bf3a7a8f85cbaab7f9eb3807d77c78925b13c0d3cfd0c7b76167b08dcb3ae6b2.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b010612fed324103a4bce3d03a8ace58f5377ec7026589ccfdf55ea0dbd3d774.jpg

      1. The top one is a very tatty Painted Lady, second a Small Tortoiseshell, and the bottom ones are Peacocks on Sedum – Autumn Joy.

        2. Yes, sedum. I sedum here, I sedum there, I sedum flutterbys everywhere.

          The small tortoiseshell is probably on chives.

  43. Afternoon all.
    Well I made it,……….
    What a wonderful birthday that was, thank you all for you best wishes. 🤗 Very much appreciated.
    We had an informal drop in for snacks, nibbly bits and drinks from midday, which went on until around 4:30 pm, the only problem was every time our door bell rang our Lab started barking, 🎵 happy bark day to you🎵. I suspect many of you know what dogs think of ‘space invaders’, one of our neighbours brought their little dog as well and funnily enough they both seemed rather too interested in the contents of the plates of food and other nibbles, four staring eyes at various stations of the large round table. Weather was kind and we manged to stay out side until dinner. Opinions, hypothesis, folk law, medical conditions and old jokes abounded, the good thing about telling old jokes is not many people remember the punchlines. But much laughter was present. Around 4:30 our immediate family started to arrive with their children and briefly football took place on the lawn. The over lap was smooth as the other oldies went home. The age variation at some stage was 83 and half years. We have two grandchildren who are both just over 18mths. For dinner after our youngest arrived he was working yesterday was lamb tagine (supplied by a company in Harpenden Called Cook) and several accompanying dishes, it was delicious. All gone, as our grand children have started to say after they have finished the food. A tad noisy for the old boy i must say, as out family gatherings usually are, but the family joke on birthdays is to have a large chocolate (Eric) caterpillar for a cake. There was a maximum amount of candles in the space available, grandad was applauded for managing to blow them all out in one go. And party poppers especially selected on a shopping trip by our six year old grad son. Grandad allowed him to take some home with him………..😉
    It was all quite on the western front by 8:15 pm and poor old grandad set about the washing up our dishwasher is broken. Worn out after a memorable day, I was sound asleep in bed before 10 pm. And finished tidying and washing up dozens of glasses this morning. All Done now ! 😉

    And Well done (British) Emma Raducanu, now will the MSM leave the young lady alone.

    I’m adding this as they deserve mention, it saved us both a lot of time and effort. https://www.cookfood.net/shops/Harpenden

    1. That sounded like such good fun and very English.

      Cook are very useful for providing nice food for a larger party. Though i do tend to do it myself mostly.

      We have an outlet at our local garden centre.

      Glad you all had a good time.

  48. https://www.takimag.com/article/living-in-isolation/
    Interesting article about the elites and their perceived reality. I particularly liked the final quotation:

    Another option was articulated by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to
    William Stephens Smith. “And what country can preserve its liberties if
    their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve
    the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them
    right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives
    lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
    time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural
    manure.”

  49. While the threat of “vaccine passports” has been put on hold is welcome, the decision throws up a question or two and these questions, IMO, add weight to the argument against the tyrannical idea.
    If, as the government likes to state, we remain in the grip of a deadly pandemic with variants popping up here, there and everywhere and infectious people are on the loose, did they abandon, as they like to claim, one of their main courses of action to stop infection? The “passport” was the method that would seriously curtail the spread of covid and save lives, they claimed. An idea based on medical need, they cried.

    However, the decision to abandon the “passport” idea was clearly political for a number reasons, one being that a number of Tory MPs were against the idea and the threat of defeat for Johnson could not be allowed to mature, secondly, Johnson’s recent U-turn on NI has seen his rating drop below that of the missing-in-action Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer’s. Now that really is a bummer of an achievement.

    So, how can this government of liars really hope to resurrect the “vaccine passport” as a medical necessity after dropping it for clearly political reasons in the middle of, what they continue to proclaim, is a killer pandemic. IMO Johnson has shot himself in the foot with this clearly political decision at this time. Of course, when the need arises to bring back the “passport” idea, it is, after all, the main plank of their plan to grab control of every facet of our lives, they will concoct some spin and focus on the medical benefits. Though, as time moves on and more lies and spin are exposed it will be a hard sell. Heaven forbid, the Labour Party may even find their spine and Starmer may wake up from his self-hibernation and begin to oppose: that’s when the Tory rebels on this issue must stand against Johnson and all that he is attempting to do.

          2. We’ve been looking at the idea. However, most other countries make it difficult for people to come in.

    2. 338800+ up ticks,
      Afternoon KtK,
      I beg to differ if I may,there are NO tory (ino) rebels as such, just different grades of political sh!te.

      The politico’s are with each odious issue using the decent element of the public as a test piece, all the time inching towards their real goal, reset.

      They lost a great deal of ground on the 24/6/2016 but with continuing support have certainly made up for it.

    3. The Royal Albert Hall and BBC Radio 3 demanded vaccine passports – sorry, “Covid Certification” – for entry to the Proms this summer, which is why I didn’t go.

      Starmer is a member of the Trilateral Commission. He wants our enslavement.

        1. Yes, back at work. Apparently I was supposed to register the test online as well as returning it and I didn’t do that so it was lost. I seriously thought that having known where to send it, they’d know who’d returned the darned thing. It was numbered after all. Anyway, they conceded that it was probably only a cold and I could just stay at home.

      1. I’m certain that they have the seasonal flu, misattributed as some form of covid again, waiting in the wings. I despair at doctors who do not speak out on this blatant distortion of the facts.

    5. Most D Fail readers won’t know any of them. None of them have huge rears and overinflated ‘airbags’ – and wearing skimpy, nude bikinis.

        1. Flook, who vaguely resembled a furry pig walking on his hind legs, was a creature from the age of the dinosaurs. His place has been taken by Boris and imitated by most of the top politicians of today.

  51. The private role Andy Murray played in the rise of Emma Raducanu. 13 September.

    “He is very fond of her and thrilled by her progress,” one source close to Britain’s two tennis superstars told Telegraph Sport, adding that messages had been exchanged.

    Is there anyone apart from myself who hasn’t played a part in this young woman’s rise to fame and fortune? This said I have presentiment about her. She has beauty, intelligence, ability, loving parents and the best wishes of the World. Such not unusually attract the attention of Jealous Gods and there is about her the aura of Outraged Fortune.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2021/09/13/private-role-andy-murray-played-rise-emma-raducanu/

    1. I once threw a tennis ball at the back of her head…I think that is what inspired her to buy a tennis bat…

    2. Emma Raducanu is a breath of fresh air with the world at her feet.
      A refreshing change from todays teenagers….’Life is just soooo unfair…….’

      1. Afternoon Plum – There were two youngsters on Country File last night who are farm workers as well as team members their relevant UK Sheep Dog trials. They were a credit to their parents and to their UK countries. There are some good ones as well. It was good to see them and their intelligent and loyal sheep dogs.

          3. What do you call a singer in a churchyard wearing a raincoat?
            Can’t remember how to hide the answer!!

          7. Oh, that’s brilliant! Thank you!
            Simon is home (well he’s here, as their new house isn’t ready yet) so there are now 4 adults, 2 X year olds, 2 large dogs and 2 cats rubbing along together!!😱 I’ve got to say it’s pretty chaotic – a shower seat in the shower (obvs) a perching stool in the kitchen and a 4 footed walking stick at the top, and bottom of the stairs! A giant playpen and abundant toys everywhere, and washing coming out of the doors! I’m not the greatest house proud wife in the world, but even I could cry when I survey the devastation!
            Never mind, he’s able to do more every day and the twins are getting to know him again. It’s not going to be easy, but Simon will have to get on with it.

          20. What do you call a man with a tree on his head?

            Edward [“Head-Wood”]

            What do you call a man with three trees on his head?

            Edward Woodward [“Head-Wood-Wood-Wood”]

          26. I have paid lots of money to send Facebark/Twatter stalkers to hunt you down. They will find you….

          27. You were an FB friend – and, you know where I live!
            If you e-mail me from a working address, I can send you some more. 🙂

          29. What do you call a man with dried leaves on his feet and a black bird on his head?

            Jack Russell, I bet you thought Russell Crowe

    2. Don’t laugh, it’s just another rapper/pop star getting a tattoo. It doesn’t hurt, they don’t feel a thing.

  57. Whose side are you on? Moment police stop DRIVER trying clear M25 by dragging away eco-activist – as motorists are forced to wait FOUR hours for officers to move-on climate mob blocking five junctions
    Police asked by drivers why they weren’t moving protesters but stopping drivers trying to unblock roads
    Demonstrators from Insulate Britain cause chaos at five junctions of M25 around London this morning
    It took up to four hours to arrest the activists with 60 arrested for illegally obstructing the highway

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9984953/Motorists-clash-Insulate-Britain-climate-activists-blocking-M25.html

    But the politicians are not on the public’s side either which is why they want Cressida Dick to have nearly three more years in the job.

    1. 338800+ up ticks,
      Afternoon R,
      Not only the politicians but many of the peoples are not on the peoples side either.

  58. 338800+ up ticks,
    Could a case be made for accessory to murder via priti / johnson regarding the DOVER invasion campaign & the welfare of children.

    Question asked, would this young girl be dead if our coastline was being properly policed ?

    Are these politico’s immune to any sort of justice for dangerous, treacherous wrongdoings they have taken ?

    breitbart,
    Afghan Accused of Raping and Murdering Child Entered Britain on Migrant Boat: Report

  61. Where Al-Beeb Leftard “Comics” go to die…………..
    Unbeatable: A dire early afternoon game show hosted by Jason Manafort formerly an Al-Beeb favourite,god knows what sins he has committed to be exiled to this purgatory(snigger)
    Amid the attempted gurning cheerfulness and endless repeated lines we get the flashes of reality in the expression as the camera pans away……
    “Oh God Kill Me Now”
    “Arghhh No,No,No”

  62. Keeping bathtime flowing

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16122724/boris-johnson-lockdown-speech-travel-masks-lockdown/

    This video appeared on BBC News at 1

    This struck a chord with me as only in the last few days did I find out why my holiday home boiler was failing to deliver hot water through one of the taps.

    I was beginning to think that the hot water flow turbine in the boiler was starting to seize up and was preparing to schedule a service call to the maintence guy.

    However I discovered that because I changed the tap concerned with this suspected fault perhaps it was the tap that was causing the problem.

    Well it turned out that in order to save water an aerating ‘bubbler’ was installed in the tap which was constricting the hot water flow through the boiler.

    I removed the bubbler and hot water started flowing again:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4b6f5f04f0a6645ae6774c0f2e8c25dea9f7458e0ad6485fb39d514ada2dde89.jpg

    This shows that trying to save water could well result in your combi boiler not providing hot bath water and calling British Gas to fix the boiler will not necessarily provide the solution.

  63. This little snippet was on last night’s BBC1 news:

    Leading trade unions say more than 600,000 jobs could be at risk if the UK fails to mee its climate change targets as quickly as other countries. The TUC conference warned jobs could be moved to competing nations with superior green infrastructure.

    The government has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 and says it’s currently considering an independent report into the future of green jobs.

    And how many jobs have already been exported because of loony green policies? There’s a good deal of new employment to be created here by building and maintaining a robust and secure energy infrastructure, irrespective of the technology.

    Does anyone care anymore what the trade unions have to say about anything?

    “Green jobs my arse!” said Jim Royle…

      1. “That’s because, as the Taxpayers’ Alliance reveals today in its Public Sector Trade Union Rich List, Frances O’Grady, the TUC general secretary, has refused to share in the financial strain of her members, instead taking a pay rise and seeing her total remuneration rise to £167,229 last year.” The Grimestoday.

    2. The ‘green jobs’ have already been exported to Germany and Denmark, which countries manufacture the components of the wind turbines.

      China will corner the market in rare earths and metals needed for the batteries to power the proposed electric vehicles. They have already bought Africa and have recently been gifted Afghanistan by an evil criminal fool in the White House.

      The solar panels are manufactured in China and will accordingly have a short shelf life.

      Meanwhile Germany is building coal fired power plants using Lignite otherwise known as brown coal. The Chinese are doing the same at pace using coal imported from Australia.

      I have no confidence whatever in our useless government to direct anything, let alone formulate and prosecute a sustainable energy policy.

  64. Follow the Science they say…………

    Until of course the science (JCVI) contradicts the orders of your NWO superiors

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/000abfacdb5d57e55d107da131ca21839c691e159773588dfe94c8b0d7cd5238.jpg
    Clotshots for 12/15 year olds,hanging is too good for these swine!!
    Edit
    I thought this charlatan had been sacked from sage!!!!!!!!!!
    “Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme levels of immunity in the UK were falling behind some European countries that had inoculated teenagers faster than us.

    His comments came as the prime minister was expected to address the country on Tuesday to underline how vaccinations would be a central part of the response to coronavirus in the coming months.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/13/vaccinating-teenagers-against-covid-is-priority-says-uk-epidemiologist
    Another one for the lampposts!!

  65. 338800+ up ticks,
    May one ask,
    Will there be any ceremony when Mein Kampt joins the koran between the dispatch boxes in parliament, taking the place of the bible ?

  66. Extinction Rebellion must be stopped

    The internet and the social media have made it far too easy to whip up a mob on to the streets

    NORMAN TEBBIT
    13 September 2021 • 12:38pm

    The newspapers have been full of stories of various groups, not least “Extinction Rebellion” blocking roads and vandalising property in major city centres day after day.

    Other members of the “Woke” element of society have joined in the fun of vandalism and obstruction, providing a vivid illustration of the American experience during the long depressions of the inter-war years when many industrial and commercial buildings were vacant and unused. The authorities soon observed that if a broken window or other vandalism of such buildings was not rapidly repaired it would encourage more and more people to join in the vandalism.

    All this has been facilitated by the extent to which the internet and the social media have made it easier to whip up a mob on to the streets. That vandalism is not just a matter of the attacks on the historic right of citizens to use the Queen’s highway to go about his or her lawful business. There is also the vandalism of statues or monuments of great British historical figures including Drake, Nelson, Queen Victoria, Churchill and the like, in retaliation for their exploits in the creation, expansion and defence of this Kingdom and the British Empire.

    It is true that some of them profited from the horrific slave trade of five hundred or so years ago. But even that, though highly disquieting, is not, in itself, necessarily proof of racism. Slavery, after all, was not confined to Africa. When the Normans invaded England in 1066, William The Conqueror commissioned the writing of The Doomsday Book cataloguing the assets of the lands he had seized. There we can still read today the catalogue of land, farmed or wild, forests, buildings, ploughs, houses, monasteries, abbeys, churches and of freemen, serfs and slaves, here in England a thousand years ago.

    In the early years of that Norman dynasty what the English people wanted above all other things was a competent Monarch and stability of the law by which he governed. That was achieved only for short periods at a time until after that gang of bolshie barons and knights drafted that foundation of English liberties, the Magna Carta and forced it upon King John in 1215.

    As Prime Minister Boris Johnson surveys the United Kingdom a thousand years on in this 21st century he would do well to see that it is stability which the country needs to run business’, provide security at home and defence against outside intrusion on our affairs. He in turn might wish for some stability in the nature and number of problems he faces. Hopefully the vaccination programme will keep the Covid threat at bay, but influenza may well emerge to attack the elderly unless the NHS is able to carry through another vaccination programme before the coming winter.

    Sadly there is no short term prospect of a competent administration in Washington and there are dangers of instability in both Germany and France. Here at home the poisonous fruits of devolution (as opposed to the benefits of delegation) threaten the very existence of the United Kingdom.

    Last week I returned to Westminster and took my seat in the House of Lords for the first time since spring 2020. It seemed rather strange especially as the rules of procedure had been changed; perhaps to ease the problems of a hybrid chamber with some participants in the chamber and some taking part “virtually” from their homes or offices. To cope with that the Speaker had to be given far greater powers to decide who should be called to speak. Before then there had been a very informal system in which if more than one Peer sought to address the House, the back-bench Peers decided the matter with cries of “not you”; “ not him”; “ Fred Bloggins” or the like.

    Although that sounds chaotic and ill-mannered, amongst a group of people who know (and often respect) each other, it worked pretty well. I do not think that the new way works nearly as well as our old ways and I hope that we will change back again before long.

    Whatever the procedure the big news of last week was the Chancellor’s hefty National Insurance increase which went down like the proverbial lead balloon. The protests centered on the fact that there had been nothing quite like it since the times of the immediate post Second World War period. In many ways that was to be expected since the country has just emerged from the war against the covid virus and after the initial expressions of horror most Conservatives in both the Commons and Lords seemed to accept that.

    They accepted too that the bulk of the money raised would go to the National Health Service, but in an exchange outside the chamber of The Lords, I warned the Chancellor that before parting with the money to the NHS he should make absolutely sure that it would go to the front line where patients are treated by medically qualified staff. I am sure that he was as well aware of that as I was, but the very next morning the national newspapers and broadcasters made it clear that the bulk of the money would be blown on recruiting more new medically unqualified staff and raising the pay of others who would never get near to treating a patient.

    The Daily Telegraph reported that the NHS had recruited 42 new bureaucrats on salaries of up to £270,000. There are it seems, more than 400 NHS managers who are paid more than the Prime Minister (and less likely to lose their jobs in the next five years) and less than half of NHS staff are medically qualified.

    Although the news-pages and readers’ letters in the newspapers are not short of personal accounts of patients not receiving the treatment which they needed, I have every reason to be grateful for treatment which has saved my life more than once. That minority of the staff of the NHS who do treat patients carry that deadweight of bureaucracy on their shoulders.

    I still stand by my belief that the NHS needs a very widespread cull of these highly paid bureaucrats, who do not contribute to patient treatment and their replacement by a far smaller cadre of middle ranking officers from the armed services.

    ***

    Regular readers of this column will also know of the high regard I have for the canine species and I noted a news story in The Daily Telegraph of Tuesday 31 August telling of recent research by scientists from Queen’s University, Belfast. The scientists had established that even untrained dogs can detect the scent of a human about to suffer an epileptic seizure. Those dogs would then make eye contact with their owner and give an intensive stare, or bark, as a warning of the impending seizure.

    In my advanced old age and rather poor health I now need the help of carers. Regretfully I have concluded that as I am unlikely to have a long life ahead of me it would be unfair to recruit a dog to assist my human carers. What a shame!

    1. I broadly agree. However, I have seen former officers in the NHS and they are useless. The NHS had a big recruiting drive for managers from business and many were recruited. An expensive business. It was a failure.
      What is needed is for managers to be cleared out. Matrons and equipment buyers, that’s it.

    2. I always liked Norman Tebbit. Pity he never made PM, but after the IRA dropped the hotel on his wife, he honourably focused on looking after her instead. What a loss to the nation!

    3. Norman Tebbit 1977:

      Inside Britain there is a … threat from the Marxist collectivist totalitarians. … Just to state that fact is to be accused of ‘union-bashing’. … Such people are to be found in the Conservative, Liberal and Labour Parties. Their politics may be different but such people share the morality of Laval and Pétain … they are willing not only to tolerate evil, but to excuse it.

      …and he was excoriated for his views. Nothing changes in British politics.

  67. How many people in China have been vaccinated? What age range? How are the Chinese progressing this? They started it so it would be interesting to know if they intend to wipe out their citizens with vaccination.

      1. They are now encouraging families of 3-4 children.
        Presumably confident they will in future have all convenient access necessary to farmlands & crop production in the USA.

      1. All these doctors surgeons and scientists that came from Calais have dropped down the ladder sice they got here – The good news is that here they get to rob wealthier people – AND get free heathcare too. Yippee. – – and every dinghy brings us even more. !!!!!

    2. Look on the bright side, if it wasn’t for the bastards stabbing and shooting each other our doctors and surgeons would be nowhere near as expert in dealing with such trauma as they are now.
      Twenty years ago many of the victims who now survive would have died.

      Now, of course, the question is whether that actually is a good thing…

      1. Same thing with gunshot woulds in Belfast during the ’70/’80s. Surgeons there became expert at rebuilding shattered knees, ankles & elbows.

    3. And I used to worry about foreigners hacking into my computer. I didn’t realise what they meant when they said “Beware of hackers”, when I bought my new ‘puter. Silly me!

    4. Ah, the biter bit. The Asian youngsters don’t sound too nice either, but perhaps they had good reason to be angry.

      1. Looking further down it appears to be a quick bit of Shariah law administered to the black lad’s left hand.

    5. This happened in the Tower Hamlets area of East London. According to locals, a group of young black males had been coming to the area and robbing bengali and asian boys with machetes.

      I thought they would have picked on easier targets.ie belgali and asian boys WITHOUT machetes

      Runs and hides

    2. I did try to open it but for some reason it crashed my laptop and I’ve only just got everything back.

      Now I have to go and scratch up an early tea as we have another hedgehog talk this evening.

    3. Deutsche Welle is lefty, BBC type shiite.
      The factual part is interesting, but…
      “The Greens perform best in urban areas with a young, well-educated population” – I think they mean “brainwashed” rather than “well-educated.”

      2. Like the “well-educated” remainers rather than the “uneducated” leavers (who had experience of what a proper education was without going to “uni” and worked in the real world).

  70. Don’t waste your time on here, get yourself across to BBC Radio 4 where there is a 30 minute recruitment programme for the cause of the down trodden Taliban.

    I kid you not!

      3. A comment and response from Arrse that might interest you:-

        Aphra said:
        And Glasgow in the 30’s, as detailed in McArthur and Long’s ‘No Mean City’, a fictionalised account of the razor gangs prevalent in the Gorbals. There’s nothing new about violent gangs, only their weapons of choice seems to change.

        The difference is that the Glasgow Police went after them with a level of brutality that would shock modern cops. The courts and Barlinnie Prison – and occasionally the public executioner – would then finish the job.

        The problem of razor gangs wasn’t solved, but it was contained. If nothing else, society certainly used to have the last word.

        1. It was Captain Sir Percy Sillitoe, who cut his teeth in Rhodesia, who was then recruited as Chief Constable of Chesterfield, then progressed to Sheffield where he sorted out their razor gangs before being recruited to Glasgow to do the same there. He, and his men, didn’t beat about the bush. I’ve got his autobiography, Cloak Without Dagger and it is uncompromising. Sillitoe end up as head of MI5.

  72. That’s me gone. Made a loaf this morning – and picked 5 lbs of tomatoes. Quite a nice day in the end – sunny. Lunch in the garden once more. And great relief at Pickles being Pickles again.

    I’ll join you tomorrow – in the rain. Have a jolly evening drinking wisely.

    A demain.

    1. Just a thought about the cats, did they both have an adverse reaction to the treatment, rather than one being poisoned?

        1. It was the timing that made me wonder.
          We have friends who have a pair of cats of similar ages to yours and they tend to “get” whatever is going around a few days apart.

  73. 338800+ up ticks,
    May one ask, will responsible parents be in agreement with jabbing their children on account of having an uninterrupted school year ?

    Heavens forbid but the school year could very well be interrupted permanently with tears if things go tits up.

    Do the herd STILL have trust in the political fraternity to the extent of, in the main, an unnecessary no history jab entering their children’s mainframe?

    1. I heard the jabs for 12 – 15 yr olds will be done at schools – the kids will feel under more pressure to have it with their pals there – and not with their parents there. It gets nastier and nastier.

      1. We had the BCG jab at school. I don’t recall any peer pressure, but then we trusted our elders back in those days.

        2. I didn’t have the BCG. I was an early rebel. I walked out of school twice on my first two days at Infants School. All the way home. By myself. Crossing parkland and two main roads. I would have been walking out still if two older girls hadn’t snitched on me.

      2. 338800+ up ticks,
        Evening W,
        I would have thought if that was the case a recorded
        letter of objection to the school head would not go amiss.

  76. Parents and doctors slam government over decision to vaccinate all over-12s but to give CHILDREN – not parents – the final say on whether they get Covid jab or not

    DM Story

    The government is fully aware of peer group pressure.

    They know that children who decide they do not want the vaccine will be told they are unclean by their contemporaries and bullied into changing their minds OR ELSE.

    The government is quite happy to live with this in order to get its own way at any cost.

    Pigs’ putrid excrement smells wholesome compared with the rotting stink emanating from Downing Street and the House of Commons.

        1. It can’t come soon enough. I would give my life for children to live their lives in peace and freedom.

          1. Peace and Freedom? – certainly NEVER going to be here with all the fanatics that are being deliberately brought in. THAT religion doesn’t know what it is. They want this country and everything WE have worked for, paid for and been taxed for – now the only thing they DON’T want is US.

      1. Or of giving informed consent. Even grow-ups cannot give informed consent as so much of what has happened, so many facts, have either been hidden or played down.

      2. They can decide to have an experimental medical treatment, but not buy a beer or smoke, or have another experimental medical treatment (puberty blockers).

    4. Now government has found out how easy it is to “nudge” the citizenry to do the “right” thing, expect ever-increasing instances of its use.

      2. I am fed up with the constant nudging. It hoodwinks you for a while, but then you get used to the stink that emanates from the nudge unit.

    5. Now government has found out how easy it is to “nudge” the citizenry to do the “right” thing, expect ever-increasing instances of its use.

    6. It could go the other way of course. But then, young people are easily led into believing things like climate change and CRT.

      1. Diesel would be safer than petrol, especially if you have a diesel engine.

        And btw, some Israelis are recommending HBOT for slowing down early stages of dementia; I can’t recall details of your diagnosis, but hyperbaric oxygen therapy is supposed to be helpful for circulation difficulties.
        I heard about HBOT from a real Doctor.

        1. Thank you. I have heard of that therapy. Unfortunately none of the specialist departments at my General Hospital are contactable.

          5. My system told me it was sent.

            In answer to your question…No.

            I thank you for your suggestion.

            I have now been put on Ramipril and lercanipitine because the Amlipidine wasn’t working. The swelling in my leg has not improved with the change of drugs.

            I have many blood tests booked and also i have to monitor my BP and pulse pretty much continuously.

            I’m thinking of taking Bill Thomas’ advice and ignoring them. I am not that old and i am not that ill… I could be the President of the United States !

            I did manage to walk Dolly yesterday. Not able to do an Abba comeback though.

    2. My favourite political journalist, Andrew Neil, has resigned as Chairman of GB News.

      It is understandable that Andrew – aged 72 and who married Susan Nilsson, a Swedish Engineer, Environmental consultant and Director of Communications, in 2015 – and now lives in France, has reviewed his many journalistic commitments.

      The good news is that Andrew will be a frequent contributor – without fear or favour – on his new channel.

      “Gum bi do rathad ag èirigh air do bheulaibh”!

      1. He was on tonight with NF but didn’t look too well. He discussed Chinese attempt at gaining power in the world and how they are targeting our Universities with money. He suggested the West must take the threat seriously and take necessary action to lessen Chines power.

      1. Just endless blah blah.
        I’m staying away from the news – it won’t affect the result. I’ll find out tomorrow.

          1. I don’t know what I would do without Nottle. It is an oasis of sanity in an increasingly mad world. Even though everyone (nearly everyone) is bonkers.

  80. No doubt the likes of Lineker and Caliph Khan think we’re a dreadful country because of this…

    Rochdale grooming gang member, 51, who got girl, 13, pregnant, complains about having ‘no rights’ and ‘surviving’ on benefits at tribunal to deport him back to Pakistan
    Adil Khan, 51, also said the Home Office had taken his driving licence from him
    Khan and former taxi driver Qari Abdul Rauf, 52, are to be sent back to Pakistan
    Both men are appealing against decision to deport them following legal battle

      1. Sometime – – they are going to be grabbed – took out onto the Pennines – -and never seen again.

        2. Has there ever been an audit of the care homes in that part of the world. (Rochdale etc)? We know that the police and especially care home staff and social workers were negligent, if not complicit, in the grooming and rape of young children. Has anyone accounted for all the children that went into care, and determined what happened to them? Where they are now?
          The perpetrators were capable of murder, they set the lives of these children at naught. How many children were murdered?

      2. I’m sorry.
        Where the Hell were her father and brothers when it was happening?

        I would execute the bastard but as I say, where were they?

          1. Possibly…
            But if they weren’t, they bloody well should have been.

            What kind of father is so distanced from his daughter that he is taking SFA interest in her well-being?

          2. I don’t know the specifics of this case, but in part you are echoing the excuse that the police and other ‘authorities’ hid behind at the time.

          3. It’s not an excuse; it’s actually a legitimate question.
            And as to the police and other ‘authorities’, what the Hell were they doing?

            I cannot believe (actually I can) that parents who had even the slightest interest in their daughter’s welfare would not have been aware that there were problems.

            What has happened is that new UK political correctness and with find ’em, feel ’em, fuck ’em, forget ’em fathering has created this appalling dystopia we now inhabit.

          4. I think you may have misunderstood my posting. Yours is a legitimate question. The ‘authorities’ were doing SFA and made disparagingly dismissive excuses as to why they ignored the victims’ claims. I’m sure that some of the victims’ parents were neglectful to an extent that you and I couldn’t contemplate – but that doesn’t exonerate the’authorities’.

          5. Apologies.

            My view is that there is an underclass which most of us can’t even begin to understand; one which takes not the slightest interest in their off-spring except as sources of housing and money.

          7. Many of these girls were fathered by men with the same morals as those who are raping them today.

    2. No rights? Surviving? – – how much has he paid since he got here and started having sex with underage girls?????

      1. Just take a helicopter trip over somewhere like the Ramlat Āl Wahībah and push him out! never to be seen again. Then deport all his family – sorry, just dreaming about justice: it would never happen, we have lost the plot.

    5. A post I put up on Arrse in response to someone else on the same topic:-

      ExREME.TECH said:
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk
      Rochdale grooming gang member complains about ‘surviving’ on benefits
      Khan and former taxi driver Qari Abdul Rauf, 52, have been told they are to be sent back to Pakistan for the public good after they were part of a gang convicted of a catalogue of serious sex offences.
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk http://www.dailymail.co.uk

      This is one occasion where a De Lisle conversion of a Lee Enfield No.4 could be of some use.
      https://youtu.be/Iv6C5GjUPt8

      Someone else then came back with a modern version of the Welrod:-

      Nah, if you want to cull the herd properly, you use a vet gun. More specifically THIS vet gun:
      https://youtu.be/o7tP9s4mm5I

      1. TBF, she denied it right up until she was sentenced, whereas the other women plead guilty (and ignorance of the benefits system – allegedly).

    5. There’s no interest in resolving benefit fraud. It would be unpopular and with a wafer thin majority, the state is frightened to…haaaannngggg on.

  84. ‘Night All

    A random medly

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    2. Just think of all those poor people that have slagged me off on facebook, kicked me out of groups, called me a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, just for saying that the election was stolen, how are they going to feel?

        1. If the mainstream media admits this, then they will have to talk about why they didn’t report the dodgy doings at the time. No great investigative journalists on the trail, eh?
          They will have to stop living on the idea that they are noble truth-seekers, which they’ve been doing ever since Watergate.
          They would also have to explain the small matters of why they didn’t notice the Hunter Biden stories, or that Joe has dementia.
          They won’t do it – they prefer the their alternative world view.

  89. 338800+ up ticks,

    Andrew Neil quits
    Manipulating , controlling could it be shades of the take down of the real UKIP under Gerard Batten, the right components have moved into place.

    2. Are Gove’s ambitions to substitute Boris getting the better of him again?
      Someone pushing him back into place?

    3. He was just as obnoxious then as he is now. He used to get cheap laughs with jokes about sex.
      The standard of speaking at debates was high though, and people didn’t mince their words. I’m sure a lot was said that would have the wokes in a tizzy now.

  93. Evening, all. Just back from the Parochial Church Council meeting, which is why I’m late arriving. “Excessive patient demand”, eh? Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with those hundreds of thousands we are transporting to Dover ready to make use of the services paid for by us, could it? No, sirree.

    1. We’ve got such excessive patient demand in a local small town that the GP clinic has decided to work mornings only.

      All staff go home at 1 o’clock.

      I can’t discover whether they are all on full pay.

  95. Greetings fellow insomniacs.
    An excellent comment in this letter:-

    Thomas Guy’s statue
    SIR – Thomas Guy’s statue in the courtyard of Guy’s Hospital should stay. Thomas Guy was a philanthropist who endowed this famous hospital and thus benefited the training of medical staff and treatment of countless patients. His Christian philosophy guided his generosity. We should celebrate this and not degrade it due to a tenuous link to slavery.

    As a Guy’s-trained nurse, I am beyond sad about this situation. A minority view has prevailed when the majority of people who responded to the consultation voted for the statue to remain in its original position. Why then have a consultation?

    History is not for us to like or dislike: it is there for us to learn from, not change or destroy.

    Ann Shanahan
    Lindfield, West Sussex

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